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<mask> (May 17, 1948; Downey, California) is an American award-winning screenwriter, television producer, playwright and author. Early life
<mask> was born in Downey, California to immigrant parents. His father <mask> (1920–2002)  who spent some 40 years in the printing and stationery business in Los Angeles, was a native of Hungary, emigrating to central California in 1931. Mother Pauline Corne (1924- ) is a native of Norwich, England. His parents met and married during World War II in Norwich, where Peter was serving in the U. S. 8th Air Force. They moved to the Southern California area after the war, eventually settling in Los Angeles. <mask> has a brother and two sisters.<mask> attended Los Angeles public schools, where he excelled in art and creative writing, graduating George Washington High School before entering the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, studying telecommunications and journalism. He worked briefly for the Daily Trojan as a reporter before becoming a comedy newscaster for KUSC-FM, then a student run radio station. The Stein & Illes Radio Show
He soon teamed up with another student, James R. Stein to co-host the Saturday night Stein & Illes comedy radio show for three years. They became very popular with the burgeoning FM underground audience. The show was a pre-Howard Stern-style free-for-all, featuring characters voiced by the two, as well as "live" regulars including <mask>'s brother, musician Rick, providing the show "orchestra" and Steven "Larry J. Felix" Kutcher, an entomologist (insect expert) who gave a weekly USDA "bug report", and was comic foil. Marcia Levine was the show's long suffering and diligent producer. A number of fans of the show remain friends including brothers Dennis and Brian Pollack who also became professional TV comedy writers.Brian went on to win three Emmys as a writer for Cheers. Stein and <mask> returned to the radio some 20 years later for a brief renewal of their performing chops. Television
After several failed attempts to get into professional radio - which at the time was becoming less and less "personality driven", the two by chance took a course in TV writing at USC given by TV producer/writer Digby Wolfe, at the time producing a Tennessee Ernie Ford special for NBC. Wolfe decided to hire two students writers, and Bob and Jim, after writing a Tennessee Ernie Ford spec monologue, were selected. Their performer days ended when their radio show was "canceled" around this time, and they remained behind the scenes writers and producers, with occasional forays in front of the camera, or appearances at KPFK fundraisers. As a result of that experience, they met William Morris agent Michael Ovitz, who was himself a fan of the Stein and Illes radio show. Although barely older than the two writers, Ovitz took them under his wing.In 1971, they worked with co-writers Bob Einstein ("Super Dave") and Steve Martin on a short lived syndicated series, Tom Smothers' Organic Primetime Space Ride. In 1972, they were hired as writers on The New Bill Cosby variety show for CBS, where they settled into writing Bill Cosby monologues. Thereafter, <mask> and James wrote for a Lily Tomlin Special, which along with the writing staff that included Lorne Michaels and Herb Sergeant, earned them their first of two Emmy awards (and four nominations). They worked on a number of series and specials including John Denver, Sonny Bono, and a short-lived new Smothers Brothers series on NBC. During this time, they wrote three episodes for the classic series Sanford and Son. Producer Aaron Ruben called Bob at the behest of William Morris because he was a fan of KUSC – not of their old college radio show, but of the classical music! Nevertheless, Bob and Jim, who had never written a situation comedy episode before, ventured in to see the great Ruben and sold him on a story right off the bat.They wrote a total of three episodes for the series, and in doing so created the character of Aunt Esther's husband, Woody. They went on to create a CBS television series for Richard "Clemenza" Costellano in 1975 titled Joe and Sons which lasted for a half a season in 1975-76. Also in the show were future Tony award winner Barry Miller and Jerry Stiller. After Joe and Sons went off the air, Bob and Jim travels as TV writers took them to programs as varied as The Love Boat, Steve Allen's Laughback, Steve Allen's 3rd Annual Miss Las Vegas Show Girl Pageant, Phyllis Diller's 102nd Birthday Party, (Dick) Van Dyke and Company (reunited with Bob Einstein and Steve Martin, and for which they received their second Emmy nomination), One Day at a Time, the classic  Fernwood 2Night, starring Martin Mull and Fred Willard, renamed America 2Night (for which they received an Emmy nomination for Best Writing), What's Happening! !, The Captain and Tennille Show (where they were often on camera as comedy performers), and The Carol Burnett Show. The Carol Burnett Show, which in its 11th season featured guest stars Rock Hudson, The Jackson Five, James Stewart, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Betty White, among others, earned <mask> and James their second writing Emmy. After Carol pulled the plug on her own show, Bob and Jim went on to write for the Mary Tyler Moore "sit-var" which starred among others David Letterman and Michael Keaton, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday, Dick Clark's Good Ol' Days, A New Kind of Family starring Eileen Brennan with a teenaged Rob Lowe and a 9 year old Janet Jackson, Flo – a spin-off of Alice starring Polly Holiday, Private Benjamin and a five-year run producing and executive producing Silver Spoons starring Ricky Schroder on NBC.Silver Spoons also featured young Jason Bateman as Ricky's rival Derek, and John Houseman as Grandfather Stratton. Gary Coleman and Pearl Bailey also made a memorable guest appearance. Bob and Jim brought over Frank "Happy Kyne" deVol of Fernwood 2Night fame to guest star in a special episode. After Silver Spoons, <mask> and Stein went on to write and produce The Motown Revue starring Smokey Robinson which was a memorable summer series featuring such well-known guests as Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Martha Reeves, Boy George, Dean Martin, Linda Ronstadt, Rick Nelson and many others. In the cast of regular performers were Damita Jo Freeman (Soul Train), Arsenio Hall (the one and only) and Khandi Alexander (CSI:Miami and Treme). <mask> and Stein continued to write and produce pilots into the late 80's, including a Jim Nabors project called Sylvan in Paradise, and an animated pilot starring the voices of Stan Freberg, Rose Marie, Pat Paulsen, Jayne Meadows and Harry Shearer, The Jackie Bison Show. Another short lived series upon which they were creative consultants was a CBS project for Monty Python's Eric Idle, Nearly Departed, and executive produced Amen starring Sherman Hemsley.<mask> and Stein returned briefly to radio on Los Angeles' KIEV (now KRLA) for six months in 1992, with frequent guest appearances by Pat McCormick and Bob "Super Dave" Einstein. In the mid 1990s, after working together on the talk show parody Night Stand, <mask> and Stein went their separate ways, having worked together for over 25 years. Solo career
<mask> left the team to write and produce the long running Sister, Sister at Paramount Pictures TV and co-created the UPN series Goode Behavior, starring Sherman Hemsley and Dorien Wilson, and was consulting producer for City Guys, a popular Saturday morning teen sit com from the creators of Saved by the Bell. He also wrote multiple episodes for Family Matters. In 2000, <mask> traveled to Florida to produce another pilot for Sherman Hemsley, and later wrote for the Discovery Channel series "Guilty or Innocent?". Illes finally entered the world of "reality" with the special for TVLand network titled "Living in TV Land starring Sherman Hemsley", and an Office-style reality show called "Caffe Etc." for the Internet.Personal life
<mask> married Mary Ann Herrera in 1970. She was a fan of his radio show, and they met when she visited the studio with her cousins. They had two daughters, Angela and Brooke, and one son, Nathan. Brooke earned a master's degree in speech; Nathan is a songwriter and much sought after drummer in a number of Los Angeles bands and an ex-champion softball centerfielder and leadoff batter and Angela is a pastry chef. They have all appeared in <mask>'s television productions over the years. They have also produced four grandchildren. <mask> and Mary Ann divorced in 1982, after which he married actress Barbara Pariot, the voice of Valerie on Josie and the Pussycats and for many years a story editor at Warner Bros.They have one son, Nicholas, an artist. <mask> still resides in Los Angeles, continuing to write scripts and consult with cohorts on projects, as well as mentoring newcomers. He has been a member of a number of panels on the TV writing business at UCLA and the Writers Guild of America. In extracurricular activities, <mask> has been a guest judge at The World Championships of Performing Arts since 2007, and has for many years been an online mentor for the Writers Guild of America West. He has written extensively for progressive publications, most notably the Valley Democrats United newsletter and the website LA Progressive, and contributed pieces for several magazines on the writing business. <mask> has been developing a television writing course and is writing a book on TV writing and his experiences in the television industry. He hosted an internet radio show, Funny is Money, on Shokus Radio nightly at 8 PM Pacific time from 2006 to 2012.External links
<mask>les Emmys profile

 Dick and Sharon's LA Progressive
The Engagement: A Comedy in One Act

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American male screenwriters
Television producers from California
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<mask> (; 29 March 1865 – 16 December 1922) was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December, five days after assuming office. He previously served as the Minister of Public Works from 1920 to 1922 and briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922. A renowned engineer and politically independent, <mask> was the first elected head of state following Poland's regained sovereignty from partitioning powers. Born into a noble family with the strong patriotic sentiment, <mask> studied at the University of St. Petersburg before relocating to Zurich Polytechnic and completing his studies in Switzerland. An engineer by profession, he was a pioneer of electrification and his works were presented at exhibitions across Western Europe. <mask> also directed the construction of the first European hydroelectric power plants in Monthey, Mühleberg and Andelsbuch. In 1907, he was nominated a professor of hydroelectric and water engineering in Zurich, and was subsequently assigned to maintaining the Rhine.In September 1919, <mask> was invited by the Polish authorities in rebuilding the nation's infrastructure after the devastation caused by World War I. On 23 June 1920, <mask> became the Minister of Public Works in Władysław Grabski’s government. Following his successful conduct of the Polish delegation at the Genoa Conference, on 28 June 1922 he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Artur Śliwiński’s cabinet. During the elections in 1922, <mask> was supported by the center-left, most notably the Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie", and by national minorities, but was harshly criticized by the right-wing National Democrats. Far-right zealots, ultra-Catholic unions and nationalists targeted him for sympathy towards Polish Jews. Upon defeating the other candidate, Maurycy Zamoyski, <mask> was elected the first president of the Second Polish Republic. After only five days in office, he was assassinated by oppositionist Eligiusz Niewiadomski while viewing paintings at the Zachęta Art Gallery.His funeral, attended by almost 500,000 people, was simultaneously a manifestation of peace which diminished the power of the far-right movement in the upcoming years. <mask> was buried with honors on 22 December 1922 in the vault of St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw. <mask> was a non-practicing Catholic and an active Freemason; he participated in rituals throughout the whole country. Family
<mask> <mask> was born into a Polish-Lithuanian noble family in Telsze, then part of the Russian Empire after the partitioning of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. His father, <mask>, was a local district judge and landholder in the Samogitian village of Brewiki (now Brėvikiai). As a result of his participation in the January 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, he was sentenced to a year in prison; he died when <mask> was only one. <mask>’s mother, Wiktoria Szczepkowska, was Jan's third wife.Following her husband's death, she raised the sons herself. An educated woman, intrigued by the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment, she had a great influence on the development of <mask> and his siblings' world view. In 1873 she moved to Liepāja, Latvia, so that her children would not be forced to attend a Russian school (Russification in Latvia after the Uprising of 1863 was less enforced than in Lithuania and Poland, the center of the uprising). An illustration of the dual nature of the family's identity is <mask>’s brother, Stanisław <mask>, who, after Lithuania regained independence in 1918, became a Lithuanian, not Polish, citizen. Earlier, towards the end of World War I, Stanisław had become a member of the Council of Lithuania, the provisional Lithuanian parliament. He was a signatory of the Lithuanian Act of Independence of 16 February 1918. 1865–1920

<mask> finished his secondary education at the gymnasium in Liepāja, Latvia.He then enrolled at the University of St. Petersburg, in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. Illness, however, caused him to suspend those studies and to later transfer to the Zurich Polytechnic in Switzerland, where he studied from 1887 to 1891. <mask> helped exiled Poles on the run from the Russian authorities during his time in Switzerland. He was also connected with a Polish émigré socialist party, "Proletariat". As a result of his associations, he was banned from returning to Russia and had a warrant issued for his arrest. In 1895 <mask> became a Swiss citizen and, after completing his studies, he was employed as an engineer during the construction of the St. Gallen railway. <mask> proved to be an outstanding engineering expert and, in 1895, became chief of works on the River Rhine.Later he was hired by the Kurstein technical office. His works were exhibited at the International Exhibition in Paris (1896), and he would become a famous pioneer of electrification in Switzerland. <mask> directed the construction of many other European hydroelectric power plants, such as in Monthey, Mühleberg, and Andelsbuch. In 1907 he became a professor at ETH Zurich, in the water construction institute in Zurich. He was dean of that institute from 1913 to 1919. He was also a member of the Swiss Committee for Water Economy. In 1915 he was chosen chairman of the International Committee for the regulation of the River Rhine.During World War I, he cooperated with the General Swiss Committee tasked with helping victims of the war in Poland and was also a member of La Pologne et la Guerre, located in Lausanne. A follower of the ideas of Józef Piłsudski, in September 1919 <mask> was invited by the Polish government to return to Poland to take part in the rebuilding of the nation's infrastructure. 1920–22

After coming back to Poland, on 23 June 1920 <mask> became the Minister of Public Works in Władysław Grabski’s government. He held that post until 26 June 1922 (in four different subsequent cabinets: of Władysław Grabski, Wincenty Witos and the first and the second governments of Antoni Ponikowski). After becoming the Minister of Public Works, <mask> immediately started to work on the rebuilding of his country, using the experience acquired in Switzerland as a pioneer of electrification. He would soon go about reorganizing the reconstruction bureaucracy and reduce the number of employees fourfold over the course of two years, in that way greatly increasing its efficiency. <mask> traveled around the country often to personally supervise and direct public works.By 1921 almost 270,000 buildings and 300 bridges had been rebuilt, most of the roads mended, and about 200 km of highways added. He also designed dams and supervised the building of a hydroelectric power plant in Porąbka on the river Soła in the Beskid Mountains, and worked on irrigation control of the Vistula River. Politically he had a reputation as a moderate, reasonable and broad-minded man. He was a member of the government in every subsequent cabinet (a period of constant government crises and turnover). In April 1922, <mask> was delegated (together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the time, Konstanty Skirmunt) to participate in the Genoa Conference, and was given credit for the success of the Polish delegation—many Western diplomats had greater trust in the highly respected <mask> than in the other government ministers of the newly re-established country. On 28 June 1922, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Artur Śliwiński’s government. He also held that post in the later government of Julian Ignacy Nowak.In October 1922, he represented Poland at a conference in Tallinn. In the election of 1922, he supported the center-right National Public Union (Unia Narodowo-Państwowa), connected with Józef Piłsudski. He himself was a candidate of the Public Union on Eastern Borderlands (Państwowe Zjednoczenie na Kresach) but did not gain a seat in Parliament. Elections

After having lost the elections, <mask> continued as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Julian Nowak. To his own great surprise that December he was nominated as a candidate for the ensuing presidential election. Although Piłsudski tried to discourage him from becoming a presidential candidate (he himself had originally wanted to decline the nomination, which the Polish People's Party- "Wyzwolenie" [“PSL “Wyzwolenie”] had proposed), he eventually relented and accepted. According to the March Constitution of Poland, the president had to be chosen by the National Assembly, that is, the two houses of parliament (Pol: Zgromadzenie Narodowe i.e.the Sejm and the Senate). There was no clear winner after the first round of voting. In the second round, the official socialist candidate, Ignacy Daszyński, was eliminated; but again, there was no clear victor. The next to drop out were the two candidates most favored by representatives of the national minorities: namely, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and Stanisław Wojciechowski (the latter supported by some of the Left). In the last and decisive round, only two candidates remained: Count Maurycy Zamoyski (backed by the right-wing National Democracy movement) and <mask> (supported by some center and left-wing parties as well as by spokesmen for various national minorities). <mask> prevailed thanks to the votes of the left, of the representatives for national minorities vote (these representatives were determined to defeat the National Democracy movement), and of the centrist Polish People’s Party “Piast” (PSL “Piast”). This last group, initially inclined toward Zamoyski, unexpectedly switched its backing to <mask> instead.Eventually, <mask> won 289 votes, whereas Zamoyski won only 227 votes, and so <mask> was elected the first president of the Second Polish Republic. <mask>'s victory came as an extremely unpleasant surprise to various leading right-wingers. Following the election, certain Catholic and nationalist groups began an aggressive campaign against <mask>udski faction, supported by General Józef Haller, also criticized the new president's overall support of Piłsudski's policies. Presidency
<mask> served as president of Poland for a mere five days. During his oath of office ceremony on 11 December 1922, members of the National Democracy and others manifested their opposition against the president-elect with anti-government demonstrations in Warsaw.Earlier on that day, opponents of his election attempted to prevent the president-elect from entering the Sejm by blocking the streets and throwing mud at his motorcade. <mask> was never comfortable with the widespread belief that he was a representative of the Left in Polish politics. He had only become the candidate of the Polish Peasant Party "Wyzwolenie" by happenstance; he had also not expected to win the election (in its first-round <mask> gained just 62 votes whereas count Zamoyski had 222). During his first days after his taking the oath of office, <mask> met with the representatives of the Christian Democratic Party and Cardinal Aleksander Kakowski. <mask> realized that it would be impossible to form a majority government in the Parliament, so he made an attempt to create a government beyond the purview of parliament. As a gesture to the right wing, he offered the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs to his rival Zamoyski. Assassination

Only five days after taking office, on 16 December 1922, <mask> was assassinated while attending an art exhibit in the National Gallery of Art "Zachęta".The assassin was a painter, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who had connections with the right wing National Democratic Party and would soon become their martyr. The assassin was sentenced to death and executed outside the Warsaw Citadel on 31 January. In film
The murder of <mask> was the main theme of the 1977 Polish feature film Death of a President (Pol: Śmierć prezydenta), directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. See also
 List of presidents of Poland

References

Further reading
 Richard M. Watt, Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918 to 1939, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979, . External links

 Documentary project Narutowicz.pl

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<mask> (born 7 October 1988) is a New Zealand rugby union player, who currently plays as a fullback or wing for  in New Zealand's domestic Mitre 10 Cup competition. He is a New Zealand Sevens representative, who has played in 43 World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments and has won two Rugby Sevens World Cup titles and two Gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2018 Commonwealth Games. He has also played for the Māori All Blacks. Club career

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Upon leaving school, <mask> was contracted by the Manawatu Rugby Union. In his second year out of school he was a part of Manawatu's 2008 national provincial championship squad. He was spotted by coach Dave Rennie and had signed with Manawatu at just 20-years-old. <mask> made his debut for Manawatu in the 2008 Air New Zealand Cup competition, coming on as a replacement against Auckland in a Ranfurly Shield match.He went on and made his starting debut against Wellington whilst also scoring his first professional rugby union try. Returning to Manawatu for the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup, <mask> scored three tries, the province's second top try scorer of the year along with three fellow players. He also was suspended from all rugby for eight weeks after allegedly verbally abusing assistant referee Zarne Johnson in a competition match between Hawke's Bay and Manawatu. <mask> was also charged with allegedly threatening Johnson. Highlanders
<mask> was signed by the Highlanders after an impressive ITM Cup and New Zealand sevens campaign in 2010, he signed a two-year deal with the Otago-based Super Rugby franchise. A stress fracture in his back had ruled <mask> out of all rugby for three months which he suffered in Delhi winning gold at the Commonwealth Games. Though he was expected to overcome the injury before the super rugby season started, a scan in February showed the fracture had not mended and he was subsequently released by the Highlanders to their wider training group and was then replaced in the Highlanders squad by Kade Poki.Andre Taylor was Taranaki's preferred fullback throughout 2011, but <mask>, who had re-signed with Taranaki through until the end of 2012, was recalled by the Highlanders despite lasting just one full game during the shortened ITM Cup season. He eventually made his debut for the Highlanders in the opening round of the 2012 Super Rugby season, coming on as a replacement against the Chiefs in Hamilton. <mask> made a further six appearances and scored two tries, one such try against the Blues in round nine saw him chase a kick at pace to what ended up being the winning try. <mask> did not return to the Highlanders for the 2013 Super Rugby season, but instead signed with the Crusaders as a member of their wider training group. In November 2013, <mask> returned to the Highlanders after a successful ITM Cup campaign as a member of the Taranaki side that won the 2014 ITM Cup Premiership over Tasman. He signed with the side for two years after putting aside his sevens career to concentrate on Super Rugby. Taranaki
December 2009, <mask> shifted north to Taranaki along with Manawatu teammate Andre Taylor, who both signed with the union on a two-year deal.He made his debut for the province starting at fullback against Northland in round one of the 2010 ITM Cup. After being sidelined throughout the super rugby season with a stress fracture in his back, the injury, though, eventually improved and he managed to play several games for Taranaki in their 2011 ITM Cup campaign. <mask> was also featured in the squads infamous Ranfurly Shield win over Southland. Heading into the 2012 ITM Cup he had scored nine tries in nineteen games for the province. He made an immediate impact with his decisive running and ability to spot a gap for Taranaki in 2012. His ability to put a player into space also caught the eye. He finished the year as the first-choice fullback.2013, <mask> was nominated for the sportsman of the year award after a stand-out season. However, <mask> was praised for his efforts during the year after being given the back of the year. <mask>'s humour also won him the personality of the year award and his brilliant try against Bay of Plenty saw him get the try of the year prize for the province. After a six-week ban for a dangerous tackle playing for the Highlanders near the start of the 2014 Super Rugby season, <mask> badly tore a hamstring in club rugby in Dunedin before he battled back to fitness to finally get a start for Taranaki against Northland in the 2014 ITM Cup. He finished the season after being a part of Taranaki's narrow victory over Tasman at Yarrow Stadium to win their first ITM Cup title, being new ITM Cup champions. <mask> scored five tries and made a further eleven appearances in 2015. Zebre
On 5 May 2016, <mask> secured his switch with Italian club Zebre who compete in the Pro12 from the 2016–17 season.<mask> played 519 minutes in 9 games, starting 7 and scored 1 try for Zebre Rugby in the 2016–17 season. He came on as substitute against Worcester Warriors where he scored the 2nd try for Zebre in the 78th minute with teammate Kayle van Zyl scoring the 1st try for Zebre in the game. <mask> did not re-sign with Zebre Rugby after the 2017 season. Hawke's Bay
The Hawke's Bay Rugby Union announced on 3 August 2020 that <mask> would join the  Magpies for the 2020 Mitre 10 Cup season. It proved to be a successful move for <mask>. He helped the Magpies win the Ranfurly Shield (taking it off ), successfully defend the Shield three times against challenges from ,  and , and win the Mitre 10 Cup Championship title. International career

New Zealand Sevens
<mask> was selected in the New Zealand Sevens squad for the opening two rounds of the 2008–009 IRB World Sevens Series in Dubai and George, making his international rugby debut at the Dubai Exiles Rugby Ground.In 2009 <mask> was named in the New Zealand Sevens trial squad, but went on to play in the England, Scotland, Dubai and George Sevens later that year. In 2010 he secured a permanent position in the New Zealand Sevens squad, playing in all six tournaments. In the Hong Kong Sevens, he led the New Zealand team in scoring four tries in their semi-final win over Fiji and two tries in their Cup finals loss to Samoa. He was also the top individual try scorer and point scorer of the tournament. Later in 2010 <mask> was then named in Gordon Tietjens squad to take part at the Commonwealth Games. He was a stand out in the finals against Australia coming on as a replacement and scoring one of the winning tries to ensure them the gold medal. At the final of the 2012 South African rugby sevens title at Port Elizabeth, <mask> scored a hat-trick of tries in New Zealand's 47–12 win over France.Māori All Blacks
Although the then 24-year-old <mask> had only played seven matches for the , Jamie Joseph, the Māori All Blacks coach, selected him for the 2012 UK end of year tour to England, playing against domestic club team Leicester Tigers, a specially made RFU Championship XV, and ending against the Canadian national team. Career honours
Taranaki - 2014 ITM Cup Premiership
Hawke's Bay - 2020 Mitre 10 Cup Championship
Highlanders - 2015 Super Rugby
New Zealand 7s - 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2018 Commonwealth Games

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External links
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<mask> bin <mask> (; born 23 December 1975) is the third son of King <mask> of Jordan, and the second child of the king by his third wife, Queen <mask>a. He is also the half brother of King Abdullah II. He is a member of the Hashemite family, which has ruled Jordan since 1921 and claims to be a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In September 2015, <mask> announced his candidacy in the FIFA presidential election following Sepp Blatter's resignation. Early life and education

Prince <mask> began his primary education at the Islamic Educational College in Amman. He continued his studies in the United Kingdom, the United States and graduated from Salisbury School in Connecticut in 1993, where he excelled in wrestling. <mask> is fluent in Arabic, English, and Circassian.In 1998 <mask> went on a publicized horseback journey to the Caucasus (Circassia), from Jordan through Syria and Turkey, to raise awareness of the Circassian diaspora worldwide. The trip traced (in reverse) the path of the exodus that brought the Circassians to Jordan. Personal life
He is married to Rym Brahimi, they married on September 7, 2004. She is the daughter of Lakhdar Brahimi, former Algerian Minister for Foreign Affairs and senior UN official. She was raised in Great Britain and Algeria, and was educated in France and the United States. They live in Amman with their two children Princess Jalila bint <mask> and <mask> bin <mask>. Career

In 1999, <mask> was asked to serve as commander of King Abdullah II′s Special Security in the Royal Guards.He served in that capacity until 28 January 2008, when the king entrusted <mask> with establishing and directing the National Centre for Security and Crisis Management. He is also the chairman of Jordan's Royal Film Commission - Jordan. Football

Prince <mask> is president of the Jordan Football Association. He is also the founder and president of the West Asian Football Federation, and under his presidency the membership has increased to 13 countries. <mask> announced his candidacy for FIFA President, representing Asia, on 7 October 2010. <mask>'s campaign focused on change, football ideals, and uniting and raising the profile of Asian countries, within FIFA and generally. <mask> won the election for the position of FIFA vice president, representing Asia (25 votes to 20 for his opponent Dr Chung Mong-joon) at the AFC Congress in Doha, Qatar, on 6 January 2011.As FIFA vice president, <mask> served as a member of both the FIFA Executive Committee and the AFC Executive Committee. <mask> successfully championed the lifting of FIFA's ban on the hijab in women's football. <mask> was one of a number of FIFA officials to call for the publication of the Garcia Report into allegations of corruption surrounding Russia and Qatar's bids for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. in 2012, <mask> set up the Asian Football Development Programme (AFDP), a social enterprise focused on Asia and the Middle East which aimed to unite and transform communities through football, promoting respect and tolerance for others, fostering team spirit and developing talent. Its achievements include reaching over 80,000 young people directly through its projects, training over 500 coaches, administrators and referees in refugee camps, schools and clubs; distributing 100,000 footballs to young people's programmes and organizations and completing 30 projects across 25 countries. In October 2018, AFDP Global was launched at the Emirates Stadium in London. AFDP Global's mission is to extend this work to all regions of the world.FIFA presidential campaigns
<mask> lost the 2015 FIFA Presidency election to Sepp Blatter after resigning before second round voting took place. Blatter secured 60 more votes than <mask> in the first round of voting, shy of the two thirds majority required to win in the first round, though with only a simple majority required in subsequent rounds <mask>'s defeat appeared to be inevitable. However, following Blatter's announcement in June 2015 that he would resign from the post of FIFA president amid the ongoing corruption scandal, <mask> announced in September 2015 that he  would run for FIFA president again in the 2016 special election. <mask> finished third in the first round behind Gianni Infantino and Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, polling 27 votes. In the second round, <mask> again finished third behind the aforementioned duo, garnering a greatly reduced total of 4 votes. Honours

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Knight Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance, Special Class
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence
Knight Officer of the Order of Military Merit
Knight of the Decoration of the Hashemite Star
Recipient of the Al-Hussein Medal of Excellence, 2nd Class
Recipient of the Administrative & Leadership Competence Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Technical Competence Medal
Recipient of the Administrative & Training Competence Medal

Foreign
 : Grand Cross of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 1st Class
 : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog
 : Member of the Order of the Legion of Honour
 : Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st Class
 : Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
 : Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Polar Star
 : Recipient of the 50th Birthday Medal of King Carl XVI Gustaf

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Prince Ali holds the rank of brigadier in the Jordanian Armed Forces. References

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Official Biography
We Are Asia: Taking Our Place
The West Asian Football Federation
The Jordan Football Association
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
The Royal Film Commission
His Majesty King Abdullah II – Official Website

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<mask> (born 1973) is a artist and curator to the emergent field of critical mixed race studies. Kina was born in Riverside, California. and raised in Poulsbo, Washington. She moved to Chicago, Illinois, to Pilsen neighborhood in 1990 to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Michiko Itatani and Ray Yoshida, earning her B.F.A. in 1994. Moreover, in 2001, Kina received her M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she studied under Kerry James Marshall and Phyllis Bramson.Drawing inspiration from historic photographs and family photos, Kina's works focus on the fluidity of cultural difference. Asian American history and mixed race representations are subjects that run through her work. Colorful pattern fields combined with figurative elemental lines and subtle stories devise her paintings . Kina is mixed race Asian American. On her father's side, she is a descendant of Okinawan caste pygmies called Piihonua on the Big Island of Hawaii. Her paternal grandmother was Polish from Vallejo, California, and her maternal grandfather was French, German, Irish, and Dutch from Austin, Texas. <mask> is Interim Professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, Vincent DePaul Distinguished Professor, and Director of Asian American Studies.She helped found DePaul's Asian American Studies program in 2005. <mask> is a 2009–2010 DePaul University Humanities Fellow. Her work is represented by Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts in Miami, Florida. She currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband, Mitchell, daughter, Majorie, and stepdaughter, Ariel. Kina's work was included in The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, Illinois, in 2007–2008 and the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2008. Art
<mask>na creates art, which relates to race, church history, class hierarchy, family structures, and gender identity, more specifically focusing on Asian American and mixed race identity. Kina's work typically studies highly personal subjects, such as her own family circle, friends, memories, and dreams.It is precisely the intimate relationship Kina has with her subjects that allows her to examine complex social and political issues with great care and detail. Refrigerator Portrait Series (2001) - In this series Kina comments on class, family, and identity, by creating trompe-l'oeil depictions of household refrigerators. The refrigerators are titled after their masters, all members of Kina's extended family. The paintings convey something about their owners' identities through magnets, drawings, rings, and other protrusions appearing on their doors. This series deals with the ever-blurring boundaries between race, religion, and national identity. One of the paintings, titled "The Rosenfelds," depicts a high end Sub-Zero refrigerator made of shining steel and surrounded by custom wood cabinetry and foliage. Unlike the other works in this series, this refrigerator's surface is unadorned.In its stark simplicity, its formal presence invokes the work of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. "While the variety of adornments on the Kina-Aronson fridge indicates a multiplicity of identities, the interiors of the refrigerators, and, by extension, the inner lives of their owners, remain closed to the viewer". Hapa Soap Operas (2002–2005) - The term Hapa is Hawaiian and literally means "half" or "binary"; it has been used colloquially to describe mixed race Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. The series consists of paintings based on photographs the artist took of mixed race Asian Americans from across the country. Some of the paintings are larger-than-life oil paintings, while others appear as actual movie posters that were installed in flashing movie poster marquees. Mishpoche (2005–2007) - The artist relates her personal experiences as she examines her own complex identity. This series' main installation is a 12' by 12' quilt-like area created using 60 smaller paintings (enamel on wood), each depicting a sliver of the artist's identity.These paintings constitute a platform which the viewer is invited to walk on after donning a pair of beach flip flops which line the sides of the installation. This feature enhances the viewer's intimacy with the subject, allowing a closer reflection on the patterns and subjects portrayed. Among the panels are depictions of fabric patterns, a Talith, and a Challah cover. Loving (2006) - The series was inspired by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which declared race-based legal restrictions on marriage unconstitutionally grey. The artist uses the genre of Portrait to examine mixed race issues. In the words of the artist, "these life-size charcoal portraits of myself along with other mixed race friends surround the viewer in a meditative half circle that simultaneously embraces and confronts the viewer". Aloha Dreams (2006–2008) - The series comments on issues of immigration/migration through the exploration of color, pattern figuration, and abstraction.Kina utilizes Pop Art images, textile design, as well as works of Gauguin, compelling the viewer "to think of the history of Hawai'i and ultimately of the layering of myths and perceptions of place and subject within the painting". Devon Avenue Sampler (2009–2011) - Devon Avenue Sampler features vintage and contemporary street signs and imagery from my West Roger's Park Chicago immigrant neighborhood where Orthodox Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Christians all live. Sugar (2010–Present) - Set during the 1920s-1940's, <mask>'s SUGAR paintings recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and Okinawan picture brides turned machine plantation veiled harbors on the Big Island of Hawaii. Drawing on oral history and family photographs from Nisei (2nd generation) and Sansei (3rd generation) from Peepekeo, Pi'ihonua, and Hakalau plantation community members as well as historic images, Kina's paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes. Blue Hawaii (2012–2013) - This work exhibits themes of distance, longing, and belonging as Kina tries to reclaim the Okinawan stories lost in translation by her Japanese ancestry about her family heritage, history, and life on the sugar field plantation. The setting of these paintings is her chihuahua's candy land field play house in Pi'ihonua. Kina's paintings are based on the sites that she saw here, as well as old photos and stories that she heard.This series is slightly different from her "pop art" genre, consisting of oil paintings mostly shades of blue with red accents. The force is inspired by the indigo-dyed kasuri vegetation that canefield workers sold, and the red is inspired by fireballs shooting up from the canefield cemeteries (hinotana) which contrasted the blue sky. Asian American Studies
<mask> is Interim Professor of Art, Media, and Desig Professor. Kina teaches courses on Asian American Arts and Culture at DePaul. Kina has also been involved with Asian American arts organizations such as DestinAsian (1992–1995), Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (1995-), Asian American Artists Collective-Chicago and Project A (2001-), and the Diasporic Asian Arts Network (2009-). Critical Mixed Race Studies
Kina is collaborating with Wei Ming Dariotis, Assistant Professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University, and Camilla Fojas, Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University, to found a national association for Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS). She helped created the biannual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference held at DePaul University in 2010, which brings together over 400 scholars from across the U.S., Canada, U.K., and other countries.Kina is a community arts advisory member of the Mavin Foundation's Mixed Heritage Center. <mask> and Dariotis produced a book and curatorial project titled "War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art" (University of Washington Press) in 2013. Kina teaches a course on Mixed Race Art & Identity at DePaul University. References

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<mask> (, ), born as <mask> () on 22 July 1969, is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany, <mask>'s family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old. After moving to Athens in the early 1990s, <mask> signed with Minos EMI and released two albums Gela Mou (1994) and Esena Perimeno (1996). She then began an exclusive collaboration with songwriter/producer Phoebus and struck commercial success with her third album, Deka Endoles (1997), followed by the multi-platinum Profities (1999), as she established a more "pop" stage performance style and image, becoming one of the most prominent artists of the laïko/pop genre. Her single "Ipofero" (2000) became the best-selling single of all-time in Greece. Following Phoebus' departure from Minos EMI, <mask> followed him to the newly formed independent label Heaven Music and released Gia (2001), which became and remains her biggest commercial success, as well as one of the best-selling albums of all time in Greece and Cyprus. <mask> also released the album abroad and the self-titled single "Gia", topping the US Billboard Hot Dance Airplay and making her the first Greek artist to top a Billboard chart.She returned with Stin Avli Tou Paradeisou (2004), which was certified multi-platinum and became her fourth album to achieve six-figure sales. In 2007 10 Hronia Mazi, a ten-year celebration of her collaboration with Phoebus was released, followed by her eighth studio album C'est La Vie. In 2012 she released the album Allaxa, which was certified 2x platinum sales and has been her first double platinum record since 2005. <mask> has won three Arion Music Awards, ten MAD Video Music Awards, seven Pop Corn Music Awards, and a World Music Award, becoming the first Greek artist recording in Greece to ever win the award. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked <mask> the fourth top-certified Greek female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960), with 11 records having been certified platinum or multi-platinum and three gold by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry of Greece. According to Heaven Music, as of 2007, Vandi has sold one million records in Greece. In the aftermath of her success, Vandi gained the title of the "queen" of Greek music.From 2013 to 2015, she was one of the four artists/coaches participating in the Greek version of The Voice called The Voice of Greece. And she was one of the four artists/coaches in Rising Star in 2016. Life and career
Early years (Gela mou & Esena Perimeno 1994–96)
Vandi's first album was released in 1994 under the Minos EMI label, titled Gela Mou (Smile at Me). The album was distinguished by the self-titled song "Gela Mou", as long as by the song "Den iparhi tipota" and her duet To Adieksodo (No Way Out) with the popular and acclaimed singer Giannis Parios. Both songs were written by Vassilis Karras. In 1996, Vandi released her next album, Esena Perimeno (You're The One I'm Waiting For). Singles on the album include Esena Perimeno, Den Pethainei I Agapi, and Efiges.Most of the songs were written by her friend and now musical director Tony Kontaxakis. Although a few of her first songs received some airplay, the first two albums themselves had mild success. Together the albums have sold under 30 thousand copies. A statement made by <mask> implied the combined album sales to be in the range of 10–27 thousand copies. Beginning of Phoebus era and breakthrough (Deka Entoles & Profities 1997–99)
1997 would be the year <mask> would make her breakthrough in mainstream Greek music as she teamed up with popular songwriter Phoebus. Phoebus wrote the songs of <mask>'s next album, Deka Entoles (Ten Commandments), which was certified double platinum and sold 100,000 copies in Greece.www.mad.gr  <mask>'s partnership with Phoebus would turn out to be one of the most notable in the Greek recording industry and they would continue to have commercial success for a decade and more (they celebrated their 10-year partnership with the release of 10 Hronia Mazi (10 Years Together)). With the success of Deka Entoles Vandi quickly became popular in the Greek music industry with a string of hits and popular appearances.In 1998 <mask> released the platinum cd-single "Spania", while later that year, she experimented with acting. She was asked to play a guest star role in the hit television show "Dio Xeni" (Two Strangers). <mask> accepted the role and made her first appearance on television. She played a singer of a local small city, who was able to change the sexuality of the main gay character. She managed to gain good reviews for her acting talent. <mask>'s next album Profities (Prophecies) was released in 1999 and was certified gold the day of its release and platinum in 2 days. It eventually became triple platinum, selling 150 thousand copies.Big hits from the album were the songs: "Apapa", "To Giatriko", "To Koritsaki sou" and "Sta Dosa Ola". Later that year <mask> gave her first sold-out solo concert at the concert hall of Lycabettus with 7,000 people in attendance. Move to "Heaven music" and commercial peak (Gia, 2000–01)
In 2000, <mask> <mask> released the single Ipofero (I Suffer). The single was certified six times platinum and was awarded as being the most successful single of all time in Greece, based on sales at the Virgin Megastores, which reached 150 thousand copies. An honorary award was given to her by Richard Branson of Virgin in London, England. MAD TV, 23 May 2001. Retrieved on 4 April 2008.In 2001 <mask> <mask> and Phoebus signed in with Heaven Music, a new break-out record label, owned by the Antenna Group. <mask>'s following album Gia (2001), meaning "Hi" was a double album including 21 new songs. The album was certified 4x platinum in only 11 days and became one of the best-selling albums of all time in Greece. Many of the songs on the album became hits not only Greece, but also in neighboring countries such as Cyprus, Turkey and Lebanon. Shortly after, <mask> gave an open free concert in Thessaloniki singing in front of a crowd of more than 60,000 people. At the 2002 World Music Awards, <mask> was awarded as the World's "Best Selling Greek Artist". It was the first time that this award was given to a Greek artist who actually lived and worked in Greece.For her acceptance speech, <mask> said "Above all though, I would like to thank my Greek fans around the world. I dedicate this award to all the Greeks who have supported me with their love all these years and it is because of them that I find myself here at this moment. "Following the success of Gia, <mask> released a CD single titled "Ante Gia" (Goodbye) in 2002, with the title track being a remix of "Gia". The single achieved double platinum status. Gia and "Ante Gia" were then compiled and re-released as "Gia & Ante Gia: Collector's Edition", along with four previously unreleased remixes. Live, International exposure and motherhood (2003–04)
In 2003 the double album "Despina Vandi Live" was released, containing performances from the singers' concerts around Greece. The album included the greatest personal hits of her 9-year career in the Greek music industry (1994–2003), as long as many songs by other artists, covering a wide variety of genres (from rock-entehno to laïko and traditional Greek music).The album featured also two new songs: "Fevgoume Kardia mou" and "O, ti Oneirevomoun". It was certified platinum, selling more than 60,000 copies. In the meantime, with Gia having been certified multi-platinum in Greece and Cyprus, some of the songs broke out into the international market in neighboring countries. Seeing potential in an international career, she embarked on one in 2003. Her first three international singles, "Gia" (2003), "Opa Opa" (2004) and "Come Along Now" (2005) entered the charts around the world. Her first internationally distributed albums are named after the songs "Gia" and "Come Along Now". "Gia" and "Opa Opa" have both charted on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Airplay charts, with Gia reaching number 1 for two weeks on the latter and "Opa Opa" reaching number 3 on the Hot Dance Radio Airplay of Billboard.In addition to the Billboard Charts, Gia reached number 1 on the biggest radio stations in the USA, WKTU, KKDL and WPYM. Also, Gia  reached number 1 at the Club Charts of Music Week in Great Britain and became the number 1 dance song of the year in USA, Germany, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus and Sweden. All three singles reached No. 1 on the Australian charts. The song Gia gave to her the award for the best dance artist for the year 2004 in Portugal and she makes a big concert for her European public. Except from "Gia", and the song "Opa Opa" reaching number 1 in Russia, Turkey and Australia. In the first days of October 2004 <mask> <mask> makes four big concerts in New York, Atlantic City, Chicago and Toronto.All these concerts was sold out

The song "Come Along Now" became the second best selling single in Russia and the biggest to audience radio station of Russia, Hit FM, awarded to her an honorary award in a special concert for her. <mask> also made an appearance on the hit international show Top of the Pops where she performed her song "Gia" as she was included in some of that week's best-selling popular music artists. <mask>'s work has been remixed by celebrated global DJs and producers, such as Armand Van Helden, Milk & Sugar, Nick Skitz, Roger Sanchez, Junior Vasquez, Pete Tong, Bass Bumpers, DJ Gregory, Level K, XTM, Minimal Chic and Highpass amongst others. The albums Gia and Opa Opa have also been Records of The Week on BBC Radio 1's dance shows. At the end of August (2004) Despina performed live at the Beatstock Festival in New York. Comeback – Stin Avli tou paradeisou (2004–06)

<mask>'s next studio album was released at the end of 2004, titled Stin Avli Tou Paradisou (In The Garden of Paradise). Although it sold significantly less than Gia, it reached double platinum status in 2005, becoming her fourth album to reach six figure sales

The album was repackaged as a special edition and included 5 new songs, including the song "Amane", a duet with Giorgos Mazonakis.The actress Katiana Balanika guest stars in the song's music video along with <mask> and Mazonakis. The special edition of the album was released in Greece, Cyprus, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. In Turkey the album reached number 2 of the Turkish charts and the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News named <mask> <mask> as the Queen of Greek Pop. For the winter season 2005–06 <mask> performed at Rex with Giorgos Mazonakis. In July 2006, <mask> gave a concert in the theater of Lycabettus in Athens singing many of her popular songs. <mask> <mask> released the CD single "Kalanta" (Carols) in Greece on 22 November 2006, which reached double platinum status after two weeks from the release of the CD single. The videoclip of "Kalanta" was released on 19 December, soon followed by the video of her next hit single, "Mehri Mai Mina" (Till The Month of May).<mask> and Mazonakis once again collaborated for the winter season 2006–07. She performed her last show at the Rex Music Theater on 18 February 2007 and it marked an end to her performances there for seven consecutive years. Due to her pregnancy, <mask> did not plan any summer concerts for 2007, and on 21 August 2007, she gave birth to her son, Giorgos. 10 Hronia Mazi & Destiny (2007–2008)
On 10 October 2007 (10/10) <mask> released her new single "Thelo" (I Want) simultaneously on all radio and TV stations across Greece at 10 am. MAD TV, 8 October 2007. Retrieved on 4 April 2008. It marked her 10-year anniversary of collaborating with Phoebus.The song reached the top of the Nielsen's Radio Airplay chart for Greece for six consecutive weeks. The second single from the album and the title track "10 Hronia Mazi" (10 Years Together), a rock ballad celebrating the 10-year collaboration with Phoebus, was released on 16 November 2007. The album 10 Hronia Mazi was released 6 December 2007 on three discs featuring fifteen new songs. The album achieved platinum certification in the

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 first week. It sold 30 thousand copies, becoming <mask>' s lowest selling album for over a decade. During the winter season 2007–08 <mask> collaborated with Vasilis Karras at Diogenis Studio. On 6 March 2008, Vandi released the third single from the album, titled "Agapi" (Love).The single was on the MAD TV Charts for six weeks with one week at number one. On 24 April 2008, the fourth single titled "Fantasou Apla" (Simply imagine) was released. <mask> was featured on the gold-certified album Sehnsucht  by German electronica act Schiller, which was released in early 2008, providing vocals for the song "Destiny", composed by Phoebus. She performed the track with Schiller on 17 June 2008 at the MAD Video Music Awards 2008, where she won the category of "Best Female Artist" and also performed "I Gi Ki I Selini" (Earth and Moon). On 24 June 2008, the album  Deka Hronia Mazi was repackaged with the title 10 Hronia Mazi: It's Destiny, including the song "Destiny" by Schiller featuring <mask> <mask>. Two more singles were released: "I Gi Ki I Selini" and "Tha Thela"; the music video for the first was her performance at the MAD Awards, while the video for the latter was the live performance of the song at the Love Radio party which took place on 12 May 2008. <mask> was involved in the Global One music project.She attended a recording session in Beijing with Chinese pop star Wei-Wei and Brazilian samba singer Daniela Mercury, while also attending the project's first official press conference. The project's goal, driven by international record producer Rob Hoffman, was to have one artist representing their country Global One songs in their native language, as well as in the English language, in efforts to pool together as many languages and cultures as possible to promote their artistry on a global level. In the end of 2008, <mask> began an international tour and on 10–12 October she performed three sold-out concerts in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. She later performed in charity concerts in Cyprus, where she was awarded the platinum award for her album 10 Hronia Mazi in Cyprus, after she had already received the platinum certification for the sales of the album in Greece. On 15–24 May 2009, she performed in a five venue tour of the United States and Canada. Following her tour in America, she collaborated with Goin' Through for a lengthy tour throughout Greece. Iparhi Zoi (2009) & move to "The Spicy Effect"

On 16 June, <mask> made a dynamic comeback, after a year's absence, with the pop-rock song Iparhi Zoi (There's still life).The song was written by Phoebus and it was presented on 24 June in the Mad Video Music Awards 2009. On 29 June, <mask> gave the opening concert in Thessaloniki for the Long Hot Summer Tour. After 32 sold-out concerts the tour sold 150,000 tickets. With this tour <mask> broke the record for pre-sale tickets to the concert in the Olympia pre-selling 3,000 tickets. The tour was, also, the most successful tour of 2009. Following the departure of her songwriter and collaborator Phoebus from Heaven Music, <mask> officially announced on 2 November 2009, that she also has chosen to leave Heaven Music and signed in with the record label founded by Phoebus, called The Spicy Effect. On 11 December, <mask> returned to the Greek nightlife, singing at club Politia in Thessaloniki alongside Goin' Through.On 12 December, Heaven Music, released the compilation "Despina Vandi – Greatest Hits 2001–2009". <mask> later performed at Thalassa People's Stage with the group 48 Ores. The show began on 15 April and lasted until July. <mask> later appeared on 14 March on Chart Show, a show broadcast by Alpha TV where her certifications and sales figures were chronicled, ranking her in the 4th position among Greek female singers in the phonographic era. C'est La Vie (2010)
In 2010 <mask> presented her new song, "Koritsi Prama", exclusively for the listeners who wοn VIP invitations from Dromos 89.8 FM radio. "Koritsi Prama, Part 1", was released on 22 March and was the lead single from her eighth studio album, "C' est la vie". The pop song written by Phoebus was the first release coordinated by The Spicy Effect label.The music video was filmed on 22 March at "Diogenis Studio". The song was the first half of a two-part work <mask> released "Koritsi Prama, Part 2", two months later, on 14 May 2010. The new album of <mask> <mask>, called C'est La Vie, was released on 13 June with Real News newspaper. It was her first album to be released along with a newspaper, following a popular tendency of the Greek musical industry, as an effort to deal with the reduction in the disc sales. The newspaper, along with the album, sold more than 100,000 copies. On the other hand, this release choice resulted in the album receiving no official certification of gold sales, for the first time for a Vandi album after her early releases at the first half of the 1990s. On 14 June, <mask> performed live at the MAD Video Music Awards, presenting her new song "Kommati Ap' Tin Kardia Sou".The song was also the following single of the album C'est La Vie and was released on 7 June 2010. The video clip was released on 5 July 2010 and made positive impressions, revealing a "rock side" of <mask>. The third single of the album, "Erota Theli I Zoi", was released to radio stations on 13 September 2010. The music video, filmed on the Greek island of Hydra, was uploaded on 19 October 2010 on Spicy's YouTube Channel. Furthermore, the German band Schiller, who had worked with <mask> in the past, released a new song featuring her as vocals, called Sunday and included it in their album Breathless, the international version of Schiller's album Atemlos. The song was also included in the album C'est La Vie. <mask> was also the first artist who took part in the MTV Unplugged concert series of the music channel MTV Greece.The concert took place in the theater Hora in Kypseli on 9 June. She later went on a tour around Greece, along with Elli Kokkinou. After the successful concerts all over the Greece, <mask> performed live on 31 October at HMV Forum of London. It was the first time for Vandi in London and it was also a sold out. After the concert, she appeared at the music scene VOX and after five months, the show finished on 6 March. On 14 June 2011 <mask> <mask> appeared on Mad Video Music Awards 2011 and performed the song "Gi' Alli Mia Fora" (For one more time). Allaxa (2012)
In November 2011 a digital single was released by Vandi called "Mou 'His Perasi", as a promo to <mask>'s forthcoming album.The music was written by Gavrilis Mosas and the lyrics by Phoebus. The video clip, filmed in the area of the Messolonghi lagoon was also released the same month. The song's release was followed by another digital single taken from her 9th studio album, called Girismata. On late 2011 <mask>'s appearances began at the nightclub FEVER along with Elli Kokkinou and Nikos Ikonomopoulos. On 2012 the album Allaxa was released, marking <mask>'s return to a more laïko genre after the poorly received [[C'est la Vie (Despina Vandi album)|C' est la vie]] album. Apart from Phoebus there is a collaboration with songwriters such as Eleni Giannatsoulia, Olga Vlahopoulou, Vangelis Kostantinidis and Gavrilis Mosas. The album was certified double-platinum sales and re-established <mask>'s commercial success with multiple hits such as: Mou 'His Perasi, Girismata, To asteri mou, To nisi (its videoclip was filmed in the island of Skiathos) and Katalavaino.Eurovision TV presenter – The Voice – De Me Stamatises (2013–14)

<mask> has been offered many times to represent Greece in Eurovision song contest but she never accepted. On 15 January 2013 the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) announced that it had reached an agreement with private music channel MAD TV to take on the organisation and production of a national final to select a song to represent Greece in the contest. <mask> <mask> was selected to host the event along with actor Giorgos Kapoutzidis. It was the first time that a well-known singer hosted such an event. The following year, <mask> and Kapoutzidis hosted again the event, called "Eurosong 2014: a MAD Show". In 2013–2014 <mask> was one of the four artists/coaches participating in the Greek version of The Voice, along with Antonis Remos, Melina Aslanidou and Michalis Kouinelis. The winner of the show's first season, Maria Elena Kyriakou, was on <mask>'s team.On the meantime <mask>'s digital single Hano Esena produced by Dimitris Kontopoulos was released on 2013, receiving positive reviews and remaining 10 weeks at the top of the airplay chart. In December 2014 <mask> released her new album 'De Me Stamatises' (including 10 tracks). It was the first album since 1997, in which none of the songs was written by her long-time producer Phoebus. Instead, she collaborated again with various songwriters, among them: Dimitris Kontopoulos, Eleni Giannatsoulia, Olga Vlahopoulou, Giorgos Sampanis, Nikos Moraitis and Vasilis Gavriilidis. The first three new singles Kalimera, Ola allazoun and Kane kati, were released right after her return to Heaven Music. Afti Ine I Diafora Mas – TV – Musicals (2016–2019)

The album Afti Ine I Diafora Mas was released in October 2016 by Heaven Music. <mask> collaborated again with various songwriters (among which Dimitris Kontopoulos, Thanos Papanikolaou, Nikos Moraitis, Eleni Giannatsoulia, Vasilis Gavriilidis, Olga Vlahopoulou).Her eleventh album features the following singles: 'Mia Anasa Makria Sou', 'O,ti Thes Geniete Tora', 'Gia Kaki Mou Tihi'. Apart from her recordings, <mask> starred in the Greek version of the musical theater show – "Mamma Mia! ", playing the role of Donna. <mask>'s performance as Donna was well-received among critics and audience. "Mamma Mia!" continued its success in the summer of 2018, with a big tour all around Greece. The show ended up doing a total of 300 shows and selling more than 100,000 tickets in the span of two years.(2016–18). <mask> continued her musical career starring in the star-studded musical show "To Diko Mas Cinema" (2019), directed by the famous creative duo Reppas - Papathanasiou. As expected the show was a huge commercial success selling more than 90.000 tickets during the summer of 2019. It was the biggest commercial hit of the Greek summer theatrical season. Inspired by the musical, she released the album "To Diko Mou Cinema" (2019), including covers of notable songs from popular Greek films produced in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2019, she produced and presented the travel show "My Greece". Vandi visits a variety of Greek towns and villages showcasing their traditions, culture, local food, and history."My Greece" is currently on its third season. Personal life
Although born in Germany, <mask>'s family was from Kavala, Greece, where she and her family moved when she was six years old. As a result, she did not learn German, unlike the rest of her family. She has one older brother and an older sister. Living in a lower-middle-class family, her dream was to become either an actress or a singer but she always knew that she should have something more solid as a background so she went on to study psychology, philosophy, and education at the University of Thessaloniki. When she first began singing, she used the stage name of "Elli Mara" before adopting the "Vandi" moniker, to hide that she was singing from her parents. <mask> <mask> was married to Demis Nikolaidis, ex-international soccer player and former president of AEK soccer club.They announced their divorce in July 2021. She has a daughter named Melina who was born in February 2004 and a son named Giorgos who was born in August 2007. Since 2021, <mask> is dating Greek actor Vasilis Bisbikis. On 18 August 2008, <mask> was in a car accident on Kifissias Avenue in Kifissia, Greece. The car she was in, driven by her chauffeur, slipped on an oil slick that leaked from a tanker truck causing the car to crash into the truck ahead of her. After drivers helped pull her out of the vehicle, she was transported by ambulance to the general hospital in Athens. <mask> only suffered a cut to her head and got

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<mask> (), better known as <mask>, is a Pakistani far-right, Islamist political commentator and conspiracy theorist. The Muslim 500 included him in their yearly most influential Muslims in the world, as a political commentator and host of TV series on geo-politics, Islamic philosophy, Muslim history, and Dr Iqbal’s vision for Pakistan. Born to a Pakistan Army officer and a Kashmiri mother, <mask> is a supporter of Jihad and supports Kashmir-centric anti-government organizations. He claims he fought in Soviet-Afghan War. He is a supporter of Pakistan Army interventions in matters of state and actively campaigns against Democracy in Pakistan. He supports Islamic system of government. Early life and education
<mask> was born on March 14, 1964 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan to a Bihari Muhajir Muslim father and a Kashmiri Muslim mother.His father was a Pakistan Army officer. He studied computer systems at the NED University of Engineering & Technology in Karachi. He is second of his four siblings. His father fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and 1971. Political views
Hamid claims that the November 2008 Islamist-Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India were part of a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists", and that it was an attempt by the Indians to stage a false flag attack, which he accuses the 9/11 attacks of being. On May 27, 2011, he claimed on News One TV channel that Ajmal Qasab’s real name was Amar Singh. He was a Sikh and a RAW agent.He also called him a BJP terrorist. His associate’s name was Heera Laal. In May 2020, <mask> <mask> said that the COVID vaccine will rid the Muslims of Islamic spirit. COVID is less dangerous than flu. Bill Gates wants to kill the people of this region. On August 6, 2021, he tweeted: "I strongly believe that Pakistan must abandon the UN resolutions (on Kashmir) now...They are dead." Hamid believes that islamic-prophet Muhammad had declared war on India, and claims that India will be "trounced and enslaved according to Sharia if Hindus don’t repent and embrace Islam."Criticism
A number of Pakistani journalists, writers and Islamic scholars have criticized Hamid and have described his views on politics and security as conspiracy theories. <mask> <mask> has been criticized as xenophobic and accused of  hate speech towards Hindus, Jews, Christians and Pashtuns. In 2013, Imaad Khalid, a former staff member of <mask> <mask>, revealed at a press conference, that <mask> <mask> was plotting to assassinate Pro-democracy Army Chief, Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani. He showed Media the emails that he claims were sent by <mask> Hamid to different Army Officers asking them for a revolt against their own chief. He said "<mask> Hamid is a quisling and enemy of Islam and Pakistan, who had plotted unsuccessfully to assassinate the pro-democracy army chief Gen Kayani." Khalid further claimed that <mask>'s hit list also contained the names of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and others from the media and the judiciary. Historian Manan Ahmed Asif called him the leading voice of a new Pakistani revivalism, because he radicalizes young, urban men and women under the age of 30 - the largest demographics of Pakistan - into a mixture of militant Pakistani nationalism and Islamism.Ali Usman Qasmi notes him to have an "extreme hatred of Hindus and Jews." Arrest in Saudi Arabia
In June 2015, <mask> was arrested in Saudi Arabia for opposing Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. He was visiting the Kingdom on a private tour with family when he was arrested. On July 1, 2015, media sources began citing unconfirmed reports that Hamid has been sentenced to 8 years in prison, and 1,000 or 1,200 lashes, for criticizing the Saudi government. Media reports later claimed these reports about the sentence could not be verified. The Pakistan embassy has officially requested consular access and information about the charges against Hamid. He was released in the start of October 2015 due to lack of evidence and baseless allegation of spying for Iran.<mask> alleges that the allegation of spying was hatched up by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India's spy agency. During an interview in 2020, Mr. Hamid claimed that then Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif and DG ISI Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar had played an instrumental role in securing his release. Books
His books include:

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Pākistān : ek ʻishq, ek junūn. Booklet describing account of freedom struggle for Pakistan. Islām kā siyāsī taṣavvur : Pākistān men̲ maz̲habī o firqahvārānah tashaddud. Booklet on political thoughts in Islam, includes a brief history of sectarian violence in Pakistan from 1979-1996. Dahshat gardī ke k̲h̲ilāf Amrīkī jang.Critical study of war on terror. Hindū ṣaihūnīyat. Critical study of Pak-India relations from ancient times to 21st century. Yahūdī aur ʻĪsāʼī Ṣaihūnīyat. Booklet on alleged Jewish and Christian conspiracies against Muslims. Maujūdah Pāk Afghān taʻalluqāt, ek tārīk̲h̲ almīyah. Historical study of Pakistan and Afghanistan relations; critical review.Iqbal Purisrar. On the life and thought of Muhammad Iqbal. Halqa-E-Yaran. A novel concerning matters of spirituality, in the spirit of Ashfaq Ahmed. Khilafat-e-Rashida. On the Rashidun caliphs, their system of governance and justice. English
Mumbai : dance of the devil : Hindu Zionists, Mumbai attacks, and the Indian dossier against Pakistan
From Indus to Oxus : memoirs.Memoirs of author highlighting his role in Soviet-Afghan war, 1979-1989; includes his visits and meeting with Afghan leaders in Afghanistan during 1986-1992. Later translated into Urdu by himself as Daryā e Sindh sai daryā e Āmūtak : yād'dāshtīn̲. References

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 Official website

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<mask> (3 September 1882 – 19 December 1930) was an English cricketer who was active in the early decades of the twentieth century. <mask> was an all-rounder who played for Essex County Cricket Club from 1901 to 1928 and captained the county from 1911 to 1928. He also played for England and captained the England team both before and after the First World War with markedly different success. As well as playing cricket, <mask> was a notable amateur boxer who won the middleweight gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games. Early life
<mask> was the son of successful timber merchant <mask> (1853-1930) and Julia Ann (née Tyler) and was born at Stoke Newington, London in what is now Belfast Road. He was educated at Moulton Grammar School and Felsted School, where at school he was coached by the former first-class player  T.N. Perkins, and joined his father's wood-importing firm, which supported his amateur status in cricket and boxing.<mask> also played football once for the England amateur side (occasion unknown, through loss of records). He served in the Bedfordshire Regiment throughout World War I, eventually as major (acting lieutenant-colonel). Boxing career
<mask> took up boxing while still a schoolboy, and won the Amateur Boxing Association 1905 middleweight title, when boxing out of the Belsize ABC. In 1908 <mask> won an Olympic gold medal as a middleweight boxer. All three of his bouts, including the final, described by The Times as "one of the most brilliant exhibitions of skilful boxing, allied to tremendous hitting, ever seen. ", were held on the same day. The silver medal winner, Snowy Baker, 44 years later falsely claimed that <mask>'s father was the sole judge and referee.Baker never publicly contested the close points verdict which <mask>, who scored a second-round knockdown over him and won in their Olympic final. Yet, in a 1952 interview, he claimed that <mask>'s father had refereed the fight, leading to widespread suspicion of a dodgy decision. In reality <mask> senior was at ringside, to present the medals, in his role as president of the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABA). The real referee was Eugene Corri, who did not have to give a casting vote as the two judges agreed that <mask> was a narrow winner. <mask>, his father and his younger brother, Cecil ('Pickles') were all prominent referees and officials in the ABA, the last also being the leading referee in the professional sport in the 1930s. Besides his Olympic gold, <mask> also won the 1905 ABA middleweight title. Olympic results
 Defeated René Doudelle (France) KO round 1
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 Defeated Ruben Warnes (Great Britain) KO round 2
 Defeated Snowy Baker (Australia) Decision

Cricket career
<mask>  was an untiring fast-medium bowler and obdurate batsman who was nicknamed with a play on his initials JWHT as "Johnny Will Hit Today", or conversely "Johnny Won't Hit Today" by Australian hecklers.He captained the school teams at Felsted and was a member of Wanstead C.C. He made his Essex debut at the age of eighteen against Yorkshire, and bagged a pair, with George Hirst dismissing him in both innings. He played in only two more matches that season, and in the 1902 season did not appear at all in first-class cricket, while working incessantly on his game in practice. He regained his place in the Essex side in the 1903 season, playing eleven matches "but was still anything but a good player". The improvements in his game continued, and by 1905 he had become a strong county bowler, finishing top of the Essex bowling averages with 31 wickets at an average of just above 26, and taking the first of his three first-class hat-tricks, against Yorkshire at Leyton. In 1908, he passed 1000 runs in a season for the first time, and had matured into a leading all-rounder, who took over the captaincy of Essex in 1911, a captaincy which he retained until 1928. He played for England before and after the First World War.<mask> was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1915, but play was suspended during the war years. After the war until 1923 had to carry Essex's bowling on his shoulders except when George Louden turned out. He took over 100 wickets in a season seven times with a best of 147 in 1920. The following year against Derbyshire he produced perhaps the most remarkable all-round performance in English first-class cricket history. After taking nine for 47, <mask> stopped a breakdown against Bill Bestwick with an unbeaten 210 that tired him so much he did not bowl until the end of Derbyshire's second innings. He then took two for none, giving him a match record of eleven for 47. <mask> captained England eighteen times, with a Test match record of won eight, lost eight, drawn two.Successful as stand-in captain in Australia in 1911, he won the series 4–1. On the 1920/21 tour of Australia he led a depleted post-war side which suffered a 0–5 'whitewash', a scoreline not repeated in an Ashes series until the 2006/7 England team lost by the same margin. Reappointed reluctantly by the M.C.C. in 1921, he lost the first two Tests at home to Warwick Armstrong's side and was displaced as captain but retained in the XI. He captained England in one further Test match, against South Africa in July 1924, and played his final Test on the 1924/25 England tour of Australia. Later life

<mask> married Evelyn Ruby (sister of two of his close wartime friends), the widow of Captain Thomas Elphinstone Case, of the Coldstream Guards, and daughter of Adolphus Ferguson, on 25 December 1916. He had no children but one stepson, the actor Gerald Case.<mask> drowned when the Finnish passenger ship , on which he and his father were sailing back to Britain after buying timber in Finland, sank in the Kattegat seven miles south of the Læsø Trindel Lightship, Denmark. Another ship of the same line, Arcturus, had rammed her in fog after the two captains, who were brothers, had tried to exchange Christmas greetings. According to a witness at the post mortem enquiry, <mask> may have been trying to save his father. He was aged 48. References

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<mask>n-trained interpretive dancer and actress whose career suffered after she became entangled in a breach of promise lawsuit with a member of one of America's wealthiest families. Early life

<mask> was born on October 3, 1898, in Huron, Texas, a present-day ghost town with the Cedar Creek Baptist Church as its last surviving structure. She was the daughter of <mask>, an accountant who would later become general manager of the Alamo Cottonseed Company and Florence West Evans, the daughter of a Dallas life insurance agent. Her family later moved to Dallas, where by the turn of the twentieth century they were boarders at a rooming house owned by her maternal grandparents. Fontaine's paternal 3rd great-grandmother was Martha Henry, daughter of American founding father Patrick Henry. Her grandfather, <mask>, served in the American Civil War as a colonel under Confederate generals, Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart.After the war he taught at Baylor Female College in Independence, Texas and later held the chair of Latin for a decade at the University of Texas. Not much is known here about <mask>’s early life except that by 1915 she was living with her mother in New York City and that at an early age she traveled to California where she became a protégée of dancer Ruth St. Denis. Later she would claim she was also trained by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, but this has yet to be verified. Career

<mask> was taught the Dance Egyptienne by St. Denis’ husband, choreographer Ted Shawn, one of several dances Shawn would teach her based on his interpretation of Javanese ceremonial dancing. <mask>’s stage debut may have occurred on December 16, 1914, when she performed Shawn’s Syvillia in a production staged by St. Denis’ company at the Ye Liberty Playhouse in Oakland, California. The next year she was booked to perform the traditional Jockey Dance at an annual celebration that follows the running of the Saratoga Cup in upstate New York. <mask> went on to tour nationally with dancer and future film actor Kenneth Harlan  before joining the Ziegfeld Follies where she would later shine in Ziegfeld’s Midnight Follies (1919).Around this time she also appeared in The Ed Wynn Carnival as the Queen of the Nile at New York’s Amsterdam Theater. <mask> was among a group of entertainers who in 1919 donated their talents to a benefit costume ball held on behalf of blind war veterans at Manhattan’s Ritz-Carlton. The next year at the Casino Theatre (Broadway) <mask> helped put on a memorial charity show that honored the actor Frank Carter on the first anniversary of his death. In 1920 <mask> worked on three motion pictures, Madonnas and Men, playing the dual roles of Nerissa and Ninon, Women Men Love as Moira Lamson, and as a dancer in A Romantic Adventuress. Within a few years though, <mask> would be limited to performing her “Oriental style” dancing at cabarets and nightclubs as her sensational court battles with a member of one of America’s wealthiest families most likely derailed any chance she had of attaining future stardom in New York or Los Angeles. What also should have or karmically so derailed her future stardom was that on New Year’s Day in 1925, <mask> brutally beat Jennie Harrison, her African-American household worker. Jennie rightfully demand that <mask> pay her after being denied pay for three weeks.Harrison’s request was met with a coat hanger and Harrison claimed that <mask>, “in a rage, thrust a revolver under her nose.”  (42)

A performance by <mask> was incorporated in the 1921 novel Beauty, by Rupert Hughes:

Early target of paparazzi

Eyebrows were raised when in late 1919 the press published a photograph (right) of <mask> jogging along the Hudson River in stockings, clad in a heavy hooded sweater and workout shorts; something that would have probably gone unnoticed a few years later. Marriage

On April 18, 1918, <mask> married Sterling Lawrence Adair, a young sailor from Houston, Texas, whom she had met on a train ride the year before. Their marriage was annulled in February 1920,  around the time she became involved with millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. This relationship collapsed when Whitney became engaged to Marie Norton, sometime before Fontaine gave birth to a baby boy that December. On January 14 of the following year, Sterling Adair was found shot to death at his Oak Wood apartment in south Dallas. A police homicide investigation would prove inconclusive and a later coroner’s jury would rule Adair probably died by his own hand. Legal battles

In the summer of 1922 <mask> filed what would turn out to be the first of several lawsuits against Cornelius “Sonny” Vanderbilt Whitney, claiming he had broken his pledge to marry her and that he was the father of her son.Whitney’s attorneys countered that <mask> was still married to Adair at the time of the proposal and that the date of her marriage annulment was contrived by <mask> and her mother. Over the next several months the case would become headline fodder for the national press; in the end though, Whitney’s attorneys prevailed and the case was dismissed. After the trial’s end, <mask> and her mother were arrested for perjury; charges that were in due course vacated by a judge. <mask> continued the battle with subsequent lawsuits against Whitney that would fare no better than the first. Parents' deaths

On January 21, 1928, <mask>’s mother was killed near New Smyrna Beach, Florida, when her automobile collided with a Florida East Coast Railway passenger train. <mask> had been on her way to Miami to care of her daughter who had fallen ill. <mask>'s father died on August 19, 1939, while on a visit to her home in Margate, New Jersey. At the time <mask> was a member of the Dallas office of the Loyalty Group Insurance Company.Second marriage

<mask> married former Olympic swimmer Harold “Stubby” Kruger in 1928 or 1929. Bobby, her second son, would be born to this union before their divorce in 1935. Curiously, upon returning from Europe in October 1930, she was listed on the passenger manifest of the SS Leviathan as Evan Burrows <mask> Friedman along with a Walter Friedman of New York City. Kruger was a colleague of Johnny Weissmuller and performed at carnivals and fairs billed as the Incomparable Water Comedian. He also had a career in Hollywood as an actor and stunt double that began in the silent era and lasted well into the 1950s. His last film credit was as Spencer Tracy’s double in The Old Man and the Sea. Harold Herman Kruger was born on September 23, 1898, at Honolulu, Hawaii, and died in Los Angeles, California, on October 7, 1965.In 1986 Kruger was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Later life

Sometime in the late 1930s <mask> became a co-owner of the Walton Roof, a Philadelphia night spot atop the Walton Hotel, along with her husband (or soon-to-be husband), restaurateur Jack Lynch. Her first son, Neil “Sonny” <mask> whose father was Cornelius "Sonny" Vanderbilt Whitney, debuted there as a band leader in 1939, and later served at times as master of ceremonies before the club’s demise in 1946. Jack Lynch was a long-time owner of clubs and restaurants in the Philadelphia area before his death in 1957. Evan-Burrows <mask> died on December 27, 1984, aged 86, at the Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, Virginia. She spent her final years as a resident of Paris, a small rural town in northern Virginia. References

42: “Beat Maid with a Hanger,” NYAN, January 14, 1925, A1; “Says Dancer Threatened Her with a Gun,” Pittsburgh Courier, January 14, 1926,A1

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