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<mask>. (16 July 1860 – 23 September 1933) was a United States Navy officer who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the 1914 American intervention at Veracruz. He retired from the Navy in 1924, as an admiral. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was appointed a cadet midshipman to the United States Naval Academy from the 3rd Congressional District of North Carolina, on 28 June 1878, and graduated with the Class of 1882, receiving his ensign's stripe on 1 July 1884, after the customary two-year's sea duty. <mask> advanced slowly up the promotion ladder, such advancements in those times being received on basis of seniority; he remained an ensign for ten years before becoming a lieutenant, junior grade. Detached from the cruiser , <mask> reported on board the cruiser  on 28 January 1897, and was serving in that ship at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in the spring of 1898. Spanish–American War

At that time, the United States Navy threw a blockade around Cuba.By early May 1898, Marblehead was operating off the south coast of Cuba, off the port of Cienfuegos—a cable terminus important to Spanish communications—in company with the converted yacht , the gunboat , the revenue cutter  and the collier . To sever this vital link, Captain Bowman H. McCalla, senior officer in the group, planned an operation to cut the cable at Cienfuegos, designating Lieutenant Cameron McRae Winslow as the commanding officer, with Lieutenant, (jg) <mask> as his second-in-command. Winslow accordingly gave <mask> command of the sailing launches from Marblehead. After the guns of the two warships smashed Spanish positions ashore, the boats moved in to carry out the operation. <mask>'s boat quickly snatched up the first cable and, assisted by Nashvilles boat, cut it. They soon grapneled a second cable and were in the process of cutting it, too, when the Spaniards opened a slow fire that soon grew to volley proportions, from rifles, automatic weapons and one-pounders. After a Spanish bullet felled the coxswain of <mask>'s boat, <mask> took the helm and began steering the boat seaward, directing his men to keep down between the thwarts.The Spanish fire, however wounded three more men and holed the boat in many places. After the action, <mask> had nothing but praise for his sailors and marines, commending their intelligent and cheerful work in the exhausting labor of picking up and cutting the heavy cables, working even under heavy fire until ordered to stop. The operation proved successful in another aspect. The ships gunfire decimated a large Spanish force sent to the area to contest the operation. Subsequently, <mask> delivered the prize steamer Adula to Savannah, Georgia, in July 1898, and was given command of another Spanish prize, the gunboat . Recommended for advancement in grade for his heroism at Cienfuegos in August 1898, this advancement (five numbers in grade) came finally on 11 February 1901. Post-war advancement, Medal of Honor
<mask> commanded the gunboat  from 13 April 1901 – 24 December 1903, in the Philippines, and, later, in Hong Kong.During the remainder of the 1900s, <mask> advanced to commander; among his tours of duty included a stint at the Navy Recruiting Station, Cincinnati, Ohio, and at the Mare Island Navy Yard as ordnance officer before being given command of the gunboat  in the autumn of 1910. He briefly commanded the battleship  during the assemblage the fleet in New York City before being detached for duty as Captain of the Yard at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Late in 1913, <mask> was given command of the battleship , and while in command of that ship, took part in the American intervention at Veracruz, Mexico, in April 1914. Given command of the Second Seaman Regiment, <mask> led that bluejacket landing force ashore and so distinguished himself in the fighting that followed that he received the Medal of Honor. Subsequently attending the Naval War College, <mask> served as Supervisor of Naval Auxiliary Reserves, Norfolk, and later as Commander, Squadron Three, Patrol Force, assigned defense duties out of Key West, Florida, during World War I, with  as his flagship. He was promoted to rear admiral and took command of Squadron One, Patrol Force, Atlantic Fleet, for the duration of the First World War. Flag assignments
Over the next few years, <mask> flew his flag as Commander Division 1, Cruiser Squadrons, Atlantic Fleet, and as Commandant, Sixth Naval district, headquartered at Charleston, South Carolina, before assuming command of United States Naval Forces in European Waters, with the rank of vice admiral.He was soon redesignated as Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet, however from 28 August 1922. Continued turmoil in China had occasioned the presence of substantial numbers of foreign warships in Chinese waters including the Asiatic Fleet. <mask>'s ships carried out the usual kinds of peacetime operations ever ready to perform protective service for American nationals. During his tour, however the Fleet distinguished itself in quite an unexpected fashion. A severe earthquake rocked Japan, causing heavy damage to such cities as Tokyo and Yokohama. As Secretary of the Navy <mask>. Denby reported in 1923, "One of the brightest pages in the history of the Navy has recently been written by the Asiatic Fleet in its mission of mercy to the stricken people of Japan." Admiral <mask> promptly placed his fleet at the disposal of the Japanese, immediately dispatched a division of destroyer from Chinese waters to Yokohama with medical supplies to render assistance.The ships of Destroyer Division 38, led by the destroyer , were in fact the first ships to render assistance to the city of Yokohama. All available naval vessels were laden with clothing, food, medicines, and supplies, and rushed to Japanese waters. Admiral <mask> himself arrived at Yokohama in his flagship the armored cruiser  on the afternoon of September 1923. Within two weeks' time, the United States Ambassador in Japan, Cyrus E. Woods, could cable:
I have been informed by the Foreign Office that food emergency has been met. Only problem remaining is question of distribution. This the Japanese with their organizing ability and their ability to recover from shock desire to handle themselves. It will gratify the American people to know that the prompt action of Admiral <mask> has had much to do with this.American Navy's assistance thoroughly appreciated by the men in the street as well as the Japanese government. I wish to emphasize that in this critical emergency the first assistance from the outside world since the catastrophe was brought by our Asiatic Fleet. Subsequently, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Masanao Hanihara, expressed gratitude for Admiral <mask>'s "unflagging zeal and efficiency" that led to the "prompt and gallant assistance" that enabled the situation to be brought "well under control in a short time." Retirement and death
Relieved by Admiral Thomas Washington on 11 October 1923, <mask> returned to the United States, and was placed on the retired list with the permanent rank of admiral on 23 March 1924. <mask> died at his home in Masonboro Sound, Wilmington, North Carolina on 23 September 1933. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. Awards
 Medal of Honor
 Distinguished Service Medal
 Sampson Medal
 Spanish Campaign Medal
 Mexican Service Medal
 World War I Victory Medal

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Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Navy.Born: 16 July 1860, Wilmington N.C. Accredited to: North Carolina. G.O. No. : 177, 4 December 1915. Other Navy award: Distinguished Service Medal. Citation:

For extraordinary heroism in battle, engagement of Vera Cruz, 22 April 1914, in command of the 2d Seaman Regiment.Marching his regiment across the open space in front of the Naval Academy and other buildings, Capt. <mask> unexpectedly met a heavy fire from riflemen, machineguns and 1-pounders, which caused part of his command to break and fall back, many casualties occurring amongst them at the time. His indifference to the heavy fire, to which he himself was exposed at the head of his regiment, showed him to be fearless and courageous in battle. Namesake
A  in the United States Navy, , was named in his honor, was sunk in 1946, during atomic bomb tests as part of Operation Crossroads. See also

 List of Medal of Honor recipients (Veracruz)

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 Edwin A. Anderson Collection, 1906–1963, MS 536 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy

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<mask> (6 September 1813 – 8 December 1889) was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India. He founded museums at Madras and Bangalore, a zoological garden in Madras and was instrumental in raising awareness on forest conservation and public health in India. He published a Cyclopaedia of India, several editions of which were published after 1857, translated works on health into Indian languages and wrote on a variety of subjects. Life and career
<mask> was born in  Angus, Montrose, the second son of Captain <mask> of the East India Company marine service and Susan Hume (a sister of the radical MP Joseph Hume). His elder brother was Sir <mask> (1809–1894) who was later a liberal MP for  Kincardineshire. He was educated at Montrose Academy before studying surgery at Edinburgh University and admitted Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1833. A family friend arranged his commission as an assistant surgeon in the Madras medical service in India and he set sail for India in 1834.On the way he visited Mauritius where he witnessed ecological destruction about which he had read in the works of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault. This created a lifelong interest in climate change and environmental problems. On arrival in India in 1836 he was attached to a European regiment as an assistant surgeon. He was in medical charge of European and native artillery, native cavalry, Madras and Bombay infantry divisions until 1862. He served as a staff-surgeon at Ahmednagar and at Bellary, and in 1850 he acted as government agent at Chepauk and was a paymaster dealing with Carnatic stipends. His ability with languages particularly Hindi and later Persian helped his transfer into a sepoy regiment. This led him to be posted to smaller areas and he spent the next ten years travelling around southern India.He was often sought by the government as a translator of Hindustani and Persian. In 1848 <mask> returned to Madras and he was given medical charge of the governor's bodyguard. This gave him more time to writing and other interests and he also took up additional appointments as agent to the court of the nawab of the Carnatic. From 1858 to 1861 he served on a commission to look into the debts of the nawab. In 1850, he also served as assistant assay master at the Madras mint. In 1852 he became a full surgeon and on 24 May he married Marion Matilda Agnes Gilchrist, daughter of a fellow surgeon at Madras. He served as deputy Surgeon-General in Burma and the Straits Settlements, the Andamans and the Mysore division.From 1871 to 1876 he was Surgeon-General and headed the Madras Medical Department. <mask>'s wife, Marion, would help in the proof-reading of <mask>'s encyclopaedia. At the age of seven Marion had been to St. Helena where she happened to see the body of Napoleon. <mask>, a son died in infancy at Bellary on 28 March 1864. Environmental and health
<mask> had seen environmental damage in Mauritius and was interested in the effect of climate on human health. During his travels he collected information on health and environmental issues. He published a report in 1845 titled Statistical Data for forming Troops and maintaining them in Health in different Climates and Localities and  Observations on the Means of preserving the Health of Troops by selecting Healthy Localities for their Cantonments and these made him an authority on public health.In 1849, he wrote On the Influence exercised by Trees on the Climate of a Country in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 1840 which was reprinted in 1849. Using actual data to study problems and suggest solutions he wrote such works as the Statistics of Cholera and Remarks on the Causes for which Native Soldiers of the Madras Army were discharged the Service in tho five Years from 1842-3 to 1846-7 (1850). The medical training in Edinburgh had an emphasis on the importance of water in human health. <mask> recognized that since water was finite in supply, that this was a public health problem. Based on the Mauritius experience he warned of the possibility of famine due to deforestation and wrote about the links between water and forest cover in Notes on the influence exercised by trees in inducing rain and preserving moisture (Madras Journal of Literature and Science 15(1849):402-448) as well as reports to the famine commission (The influence exercised by trees on the climate and productiveness of the Peninsula of India. Famine Commission IV.). The East India Company heeded his warnings and took up forest conservation schemes soon after 1840.This and other reports by Hugh Francis Cleghorn influenced Lord Dalhousie and led to the establishment of the Madras Forest Department. The debate on deforestation induced climate change was also held in Britain where Colonel <mask>, <mask>'s brother, lobbied for conservation measures while others like David Livingstone suggested that rainfall declines were related to geological changes. Statistical approach
<mask> widely used statistics to study the state of health of the troops. In a study of health issues that was read by his uncle Joseph Hume to the Statistical Society of London, he dismissed the belief that humans adjusted to new climates and suggested that different races had varying tolerances to climate and disease. Based on his data, he showed that Europeans fared better in the hills of India. He maintained careful records of visitors to the museum and noted how a live orangutan specimen drew large crowds. This increased support for his plan for a zoological garden and when it was established he noted that it drew more people than the British Museum, Regent's Park and Kew Gardens together.Role of women
Recognising the importance of women in matters of public health, he personally translated Dr. J. T. Conquest's Outlines of Midwifery into Urdu and arranged for translations into Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. He noted in the preface to the Kannada edition that he offered rewards for anyone undertaking translation and that he had works published in Telugu, Tamil, apart from Kannada, but had yet to find someone to translate the work into Malayalam. He noted his objective as being "to provide a text book for Native Medical Students; to improve the practice of Native Midwives; and to make known to the learned men of India, the modes followed by the people of Europe in aiding women when in natural labor as also when the labors are difficult." He also attempted to influence the government to introduce medical education in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages but failed. He worked towards encouraging European women to enter the medical service in India since he believed that women could move more freely within certain sections of Indian society. This move succeeded and in 1875, Mary Scharlieb was admitted to the Madras Medical College as its first woman applicant. Museums, natural history and orientalism

Balfour was keen on collections and education.He founded the Government Central Museum at Madras in 1850. He became the first officer in charge of the museum at Madras. By 1879 the museum was attracting 180,000 people each year and in 1886 as much as 230,000. Women visitors were encouraged on special days. He not only kept records of the visitors but also studied the response of visitors to exhibits. He noticed a marked increase in the number of visitors when a live specimen of a tiger cub and leopard was kept in the natural history section of the museum. This led him to propose a zoological garden and this led to the creation in 1856 of a small collection of animals in the People's Park which grew into the Madras Zoological Gardens.There was pressures to move the museum to the college premises but <mask> firmly believed that the museum needed to be "...open to all classes, and contains articles calculated to amuse and instruct all classes". Initially the museum displayed items of commercial value and focussed on economic geology and forestry. It later began to acquire items of archaeology and ethnology. He encouraged contributions to the museum stating that "every specimen that may be sent will be acceptable". Material could be sent free by post if marked for the museum and sent by "Banghy Dock". The Oriental and Screw Navigation Company permitted packages for the museum to be shipped free. Material flowed in at around 1000 items a month.He considered it inappropriate to charge an admission fee since the public was donating exhibits. In a letter to Oldfield of Roorkee College on 30 May 1854, <mask> wrote that "... if the Museum were limited in its objects, it would never be formed because the residents throughout the country, rendered, by the limiting, doubtful as to what would be acceptable, would refrain from sending anything and, If I attempted to be eclectic, I would lose all..." By 1853, the Museum was overflowing with more than 19,830 artefacts, mostly received from the public. <mask> believed that purchase would be needed only in the case of exceptional artefacts. In 1866 he started the Bangalore Museum in the state of Mysore. He was a secretary to the Madras Central Committee for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Paris Exhibitions of 1855 and 1868, the International Exhibition of London (1862) and the Vienna Exhibition (1872). Balfour took a special interest in languages and spent a lot of time learning local languages. In 1850 he published Gul-Dastah or The Bunch of Roses, a lithographed series of works by Persian and Hindustani poets.He also set up a Mohammedan Public Library in Madras and translated many works from Persian to English as well as English works (such as on astronomy) into Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Based on his studies, he was sceptical of the state of indigenous scientific knowledge particularly in relation to health and in his Cyclopaedia suggested that Indians were so close to subsistence that they did not have the time or means to reflect accurately on their surroundings. When Balfour resigned from his position at the museum, he sought <mask> as a suitable successor but was prevented by the Madras Government to enter into a correspondence on this. His position was then taken up by Captain Jesse Mitchell who worked as Commandant of the Madras Mounted Police. Cyclopaedia of India and other works

Balfour's collations on a variety of aspects of life in India led to the publication of The Encyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial, and Scientific, first published in 1857 with subsequent editions titled as the Cyclopaedia of India. The original work was derived from notes that he had made for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Subsequent editions incorporated research by others including Sir Dietrich Brandis and it grew into a five volume work in 1871-83.The work also was used by William Theobald in his major revision of Mason's Burmah. Some subjects needed more coverage and he produced for instance the first work on the agricultural pests of India, in which he drew inspiration from the work of Eleanor Ormerod. He wrote in the Agricultural pest of India:

<mask> continued to write about India after retiring to England in 1876. He openly held anti-colonialist sentiments which Richard Grove suggests as being linked to the radical ideas of his uncle Joseph Hume, opinions that were also expressed by his cousin Allan Octavian Hume. His elder brother <mask> (and married to A.O. Hume's sister Charlotte Isabella) also argued against salt taxes in India and suggested that they hampered growth and antagonized the population of India. Honours and memorials
Balfour left India in 1876 after 42 years there, and at his farewell was felicitated in Madras by the Hindu, Muslim and European communities with a portrait of him placed in the Government Central Museum.For his distinguished services he was given an additional annual good-service pension of £100. In 1891 the Madras University established a Balfour memorial gold medal to encourage women in medicine. Selected works
 The agricultural pests of India, and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products (1887)
 The Vydian and the Hakim, what do they know of medicine? (1875)
 Medical Hints to the People of India (1875)
 The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as also, the Forests (1862)
 Birds of Eastern and Southern Asia (1858)

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 Catalogue of the Government Central Museum (1855)
 Cholera (Are there towns or villages in India where cholera has never appeared from the period of its first outbreak in 1817?) being a series of letters from Assistant Surgeon <mask>.Fort St. George Gazette Press. (1852)
 Remarks on the Abstract Tables of the Men Discharged from the Military Service of the East India Company. (1851)
 Statistics of cholera (1849)

 Observations on the means of preserving the health of troops by selecting healthy localities for their Cantonments. London (1845)

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<mask> (born August 24, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who played his entire 18-year National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Indiana Pacers. <mask> was known for his precision three-point shooting, especially in pressure situations and most notably against the New York Knicks, for which he earned the nickname "Knick Killer." When he retired, he held the record for most career 3-point field goals made. He is currently third on the list behind Stephen Curry and Ray Allen. A five-time All-Star selection, <mask> led the league in free throw percentage five times and won a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. <mask> is widely regarded as the Pacers' greatest player of all time. His No.31 was retired by the team in 2006. Currently, he works as an NBA commentator for TNT. <mask> was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012 and named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021. Early life
<mask> was born in Riverside, California and attended Riverside Polytechnic High School. He was born with hip deformities, which prevented him from walking correctly. After a few years of continuously wearing braces on both legs, his leg strength grew enough to compensate. One of five siblings, he comes from an athletic family.His brother Darrell is a former Major League Baseball player (catcher for the California Angels); his sister Tammy played volleyball at Cal State Fullerton; and his older sister Cheryl is also a Hall of Fame basketball player. Cheryl was a member of the 1984 U.S. gold-medal-winning Olympic basketball team and is an analyst for Turner Sports. One of the family anecdotes <mask> likes to recall was when Cheryl used to beat him in games of 1-on-1 prior to his professional career. According to <mask>, they quit playing when he could finally block Cheryl's shots. <mask> says his unorthodox shooting style was developed to arc his shot over his sister's constant shot blocking. His brother, Saul, Jr., became a musician and followed in his father's footsteps in military service. College
<mask> attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received a degree in history.In the 1984–85 NCAA season he helped the UCLA Bruins to an NIT championship. In <mask>'s senior season, 1986–87, he was an All-Pac-10 selection for the second straight year, and led the Bruins to a Pacific-10 regular-season championship and the first Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament championship. The three-point field goal was added for the 1986–87 season; 69 of <mask>'s 247 field goals that year were three-pointers. One of his most memorable performances was in the January 24, 1987 game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, where he hit a  shot to put the Bruins ahead 62–59 with 10 seconds left. Another notable game was a win against defending national champion Louisville and Pervis Ellison on February 28, 1987, where <mask> scored 33 points in the second half, which is still the school record. <mask>'s final game was a loss in the second round of the 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament to Wyoming. He finished second in all-time scoring at UCLA behind only Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).As of 2009, <mask> still holds the UCLA single-season records for most league points, highest league scoring average, and most free throws. He also holds several individual game records. UCLA retired his No. 31 jersey in 2013, and he was inducted into the Pac-12 Conference Hall of Honor in 2010. NBA career

Early career (1987–1993)
<mask> was selected by the Pacers with the 11th pick in the first round of the 1987 NBA draft. Fans were initially upset that the Pacers chose <mask> over New Castle, Indiana native Steve Alford; fans watching the 1987 NBA draft booed Pacers President Donnie Walsh for the selection. <mask> wore jersey number 31 while playing for the Pacers, backing up shooting guard John Long before he became a starter.<mask> gained a respectable reputation early in his career as he led the Indiana Pacers to become a perennial playoff team. After Chuck Person was traded from the Pacers during the 1992 offseason, <mask> established himself as the Pacers' primary scoring threat. On November 28, 1992, he scored a career-high 57 points against the Charlotte Hornets in a 134–122 win at Charlotte Coliseum. In this game, <mask> hit 16 of 29 field goals, 4 of 11 3-pointers, and 21 of 23 free throws. The 57 points he scored was the second-highest total in the NBA during the 1992–93 season (only Michael Jordan's 64 against Orlando on January 16 was higher), and still stands today as the Pacers' team record. Mid-career (1993–2000)
<mask> became a household name during the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals against the Knicks, due to a phenomenal shooting performance in Game 5 on June 1, 1994, in which he scored 39 points (25 in the fourth quarter alone) in the Pacers' 93–86 victory at Madison Square Garden. <mask> made several long 3-pointers during the quarter and engaged in an animated discussion of his ongoing performance with noted Knicks fan Spike Lee, who was, as always, seated courtside.The win gave the Pacers a 3–2 series lead over the heavily favored Knicks, but they lost the next two games and the series. "Eight points in nine seconds"
On May 7, 1995, <mask> scored eight points in 8.9 seconds in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Knicks, leading the Pacers to a 107–105 victory. With 18.7 seconds remaining and the Pacers trailing 105–99, <mask> took the inbounds pass from Mark Jackson, made a 3-pointer, stole the inbounds pass from Anthony Mason, dribbled back behind the arc and tied the game with another 3, stunning the crowd at Madison Square Garden. On the ensuing possession, Knicks guard John Starks was fouled by Sam Mitchell. Starks missed both free throws, and although Patrick Ewing managed to get the offensive rebound, his shot was just a bit long and hit the back rim. <mask> got the rebound and was fouled with 7.5 seconds left. He made both free throws.Trailing by 2, New York had one last chance to win the game but failed to get a shot off, giving the Pacers a shocking 1–0 lead in the best-of-seven series. The Pacers outlasted the Knicks in seven games before losing to the Orlando Magic in the Conference Finals in seven games, just like the previous year. Near the end of the 1996 season, <mask> fell to the floor and suffered an eye injury, leaving him unable to play in the playoffs until Game 5 of the first round against the Atlanta Hawks, where he wore goggles. The Pacers lost to the Hawks and were eliminated. Around this time, <mask> hosted a talk show on WTHR called The <mask> Show. After missing the playoffs in the 1997 season, the Pacers returned to the postseason in 1998. They defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers and Knicks en route to the Eastern Conference Finals where they faced Michael Jordan and the defending champion Bulls.On May 25, 1998, the Pacers trailed Chicago 2–1 in the series and were behind 94–93 in Game 4 at home in Market Square Arena with 2.9 seconds left. <mask> got free from Jordan, caught the inbound pass from Derrick McKey, turned and made a game-winning 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds to go. The Pacers eventually pushed the series to a decisive Game 7 in Chicago, a game in which the Pacers led in the fourth quarter before fading in the final two minutes. The Bulls won 88–83 and went on to win their sixth and final championship of the Michael Jordan/Scottie Pippen era. Following Jordan's retirement, <mask> and the Pacers were considered one of the favorites in the East heading into the lockout-shortened 1999 season. After earning the #2 seed in the East, the Pacers once again met the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals. That series came to a disappointing end for Indiana, as the eighth-seeded Knicks upset the Pacers in six games.In the decisive sixth game, <mask> had one of the worst performances of his career, scoring just 8 points on 3-of-18 shooting from the field. He also missed seven of his eight 3-point attempts. NBA Finals appearance

In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Philadelphia 76ers on May 6, 2000, <mask> and teammate Jalen Rose each scored 40 points—becoming the highest-scoring pair of teammates in playoff history, in the Pacers' 108–91 victory. The Pacers won that series 4–2 and returned to the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth time in seven years. This time they finally broke through, defeating the rival Knicks 4–2. Game 6 at Madison Square Garden on June 2, 2000 was sealed by <mask>'s 34 points, with 17 coming in the fourth quarter to help Indiana clinch the series with a 93–80 victory over the Knicks. The Pacers advanced to the NBA Finals for the first and only time in franchise history, facing the Los Angeles Lakers led by Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.The Pacers lost the series 4–2 as <mask> averaged 24.3 points per game for the series. Later career and retirement (2000–2005)
The Pacers struggled the next year, falling to the 8th seed in the East. In Game 1 of the First Round of the playoffs against the 76ers, <mask> hit the game-winning three with 2.9 seconds left to secure a 79-78 victory. The eventual Eastern Conference champion 76ers took the next three games to give the Pacers a quick exit. In 2002, <mask> almost single-handedly eliminated the top seed and eventual Eastern Conference Champion New Jersey Nets in the fifth and final game of the first round of the playoffs. First, following two missed free throws from New Jersey's Richard Jefferson, <mask> sent the game into overtime by banking in a  three-pointer at the buzzer. Next, with the Pacers down by two points in the final seconds of the first overtime, <mask> drove into the lane and dunked over three Nets defenders to send the game into a second overtime.While the Pacers eventually lost to the Nets 120–109, the game added another chapter to <mask>'s legacy as a clutch performer. In the twilight of his career, <mask> deferred his leadership role to All-Star teammate Jermaine O'Neal. <mask> was an important locker-room leader for his team and served as an inspiration to his teammates who wanted to "win one [a championship] for 'Uncle Reg'". While <mask> was no longer the team's leading scorer, he remained a go-to player in crunch time to the end of his career. O'Neal's respect for <mask> was most evident on January 4, 2005, when after scoring 55 points against the Milwaukee Bucks, O'Neal agreed to be taken out of the game with 1:43 remaining to preserve <mask>'s record of 57 points. In 2005, following the lengthy suspensions of star teammates O'Neal, Stephen Jackson, and Ron Artest for a brawl with fans in Detroit, <mask> averaged nearly 20 points per game for stretches of the season. He scored 39 points against the Los Angeles Lakers on March 18 at the age of 39.In January, <mask> angrily shot down rumors that he would retire at the end of the season, saying that if he did decide to retire, he would announce it through his sister Cheryl. On February 10, Cheryl, now a sideline reporter for TNT, reported that her brother had told her the previous day that he would indeed retire. On April 11, in a game against the Toronto Raptors, <mask> passed Jerry West to move into 12th on the NBA's all-time scoring list. <mask>'s last game was on May 19, 2005, at Conseco Fieldhouse, when the Pacers lost 88–79 to the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, ending the series 4–2. In the game, <mask> led the Pacers with 27 points, making 11 out of 16 field goals including four of eight three-pointers. When he was taken out with 15.7 seconds to play, the Indianapolis crowd gave him a final standing ovation. Then-Pistons coach (and former Pacers coach) Larry Brown called an additional timeout during which the Pistons players joined in the ovation, a moment which provided closure to <mask>'s career and to a season that had been overshadowed by the brawl between the two teams.This won the 2005 Best Moment ESPY Award. Over his 18-year NBA career, <mask> made over $105 million in salary, playing in 1,389 games for the Pacers. He is one of five NBA players who spent an entire career of 18 or more seasons with a single franchise. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history. <mask> is one of only eight players to join the 50–40–90 club and has made 2,560 3-pointers in his career, which was an NBA record at the time of his retirement. His record was later broken by Ray Allen. He averaged 17.1 points, 52.6% shooting, and was 19 for 20 from free throws and was second-leading scorer behind Shaquille O'Neal in the 1994 tournament.In 1996, he averaged 11.4 points and had the second-highest total points (91). He started 5 out of the 8 games and shared the shooting guard rotation with Mitch Richmond. He did not return to the USA Team until the 2002 FIBA World Championship. The 2002 team did not win that year's championship, losing to FR Yugoslavia in the quarterfinals. The tournament marked the first time that NBA players competed against international competition and lost. <mask> was injured during the 2002 World Championships and played limited minutes. Retirement

<mask> served as the 2005 Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade Grand Marshal.Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis opened the day with the prayer "Keep these drivers safe and God bless <mask>!" before <mask> waved the green flag to start the race. In August 2005, <mask> announced his plans to join TNT as an NBA analyst; his sister, Cheryl is an NBA sideline reporter for the network. <mask> once served as guest host of the network television talk show Live with Regis and Kelly, filling in for host Regis Philbin. <mask> is currently a host on TNT's NBA coverage and also answers "<mask>'s Mailbag". <mask>'s number 31 was retired at halftime in a ceremony on March 30, 2006, at Conseco Fieldhouse. In June 2005, <mask> also became a weekly contributor to The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio, providing the show with commentary.Beginning in 2011, <mask> has worked as a TV analyst for the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship tournament. <mask> currently splits his time between residences in Malibu, California and Fishers, Indiana. <mask> previously put his  Fishers mansion, located on Geist Reservoir up for sale for $7.5 million. The listing has since been removed without <mask> selling the residence. On August 8, 2007, Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge and head coach Doc Rivers discussed with him about joining their revamped roster including Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and longtime Celtic Paul Pierce in a reserve role. On August 12, his former coach Rick Carlisle was quoted as saying "we (<mask> and I) talked about it and agreed that it was something that deserved careful consideration." On August 24, 2007, his 42nd birthday, <mask> decided against any comeback, stating: "Physically, I know I could have done it.But mentally, when you do something like this, you've either got to be all in or all out. And I've decided I'm all out." A documentary titled Winning Time: <mask> vs. the New York Knicks premiered to the public on March 14, 2010, on ESPN. <mask> announced in December 2009 that there would be a Special Premiere Movie event on Friday, Feb 26, at Conseco Fieldhouse. The documentary was directed by Peabody Award-winner Dan Klores. During his career, he performed a voice role in the Disney-animated TV series Hercules; after retirement, he appeared in a comedy role in Uncle Drew in 2018 and appeared in the seventeenth season of the American reality competition television series Hell's Kitchen as one of the guest celebrity athletes assigned to contestants to serve as culinary students. In December 2020 he was voted onto USA Cycling Board of Directors.Achievements
 <mask> played more games with the same team than all but five players in NBA history: John Stockton and Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz, Kobe Bryant with the Los Angeles Lakers, Tim Duncan with the San Antonio Spurs, and Dirk Nowitzki with the Dallas Mavericks. (On this list, only Malone played for another team, joining the Los Angeles Lakers in his final season.) Only ten other players have played in more total regular season NBA games than <mask>. Over the course of his career, <mask> scored 25,279 points (14th on all-time scoring list), with an average of 18.2 points per game. He shot .471 from the field, .395 from 3-point range and .888 from the free-throw line. <mask> made the All-NBA Third Team three times throughout his career and received his only MVP votes in 1998 and 2000. <mask> was the first Indiana Pacer to start in an NBA All-Star Game, doing so in 1995.He was also selected to the team in 1990, 1996, 1998 and 2000. <mask> retired as the all-time NBA leader in total 3-point field goals made (2,560) (broken February 10, 2011, by Ray Allen while with the Boston Celtics). <mask> led the league twice in three-point field goals made (1992–93, 1996–97). <mask> made a three-pointer in 68 consecutive games from November 15, 1996 to April 6, 1997. <mask> led the league in free throw percentage five times (, , , , )
 <mask> is one of only eight members in the 50–40–90 club of players who shot 50% or better from the field, 40% or better from three-point range, and 90% or better from the free-throw line in a single season while also achieving the NBA league minimum number of makes in each category. Larry Bird, Mark Price, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Malcolm Brogdon are the only other players to achieve this feat. <mask> ranks second all-time in 30-point playoff games against the New York Knicks, with nine, trailing only Michael Jordan, with 15.

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<mask> was a graphic designer from Cologne, Germany, known for interrelating design and scientific concepts within his exhibits. He was an influential designer, educator, and theorist in Germany and the United States. He arrived in the United States in 1939 after fleeing Nazism in Germany. In the U.S., he worked for Fortune Magazine and as an educator at Pratt Institute and the Parsons School of Design. He designed many exhibits for companies, such as Eastman Kodak, IBM, the Smithsonian, Mead Paper, Union Carbide, Herman Miller Furniture, and United States Information Agency. He received many awards and recognition for his work including a gold medal from AIGA. Many of his exhibits were reviewed in major consumer magazines, such as Newsweek and Life Magazine.He was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1974. <mask> died on January 18, 1972, in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Burtin's cause of death was mesothelioma, cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Early life in Germany

<mask> was born in Cologne, Germany, to August and Gertrud Bürtin on January 27, 1908. Burtin's education was interrupted early during World War I when German armies took over his elementary school for cavalry barracks. Burtin also never graduated high school; instead, Burtin started studying topography at Handwerkskammer Köln. After graduation, Burtin studied graphic and industrial design at the Kölner Werkschulen (Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts) in 1926.During his time studying topography and art, Burtin interned at the typesetting studio of Dr. Philippe Knöll. He worked for Knöll on exhibitions at GeSoLei in Düsseldorf. In 1927, Burtin opened his own design studio in Cologne, in which he created booklets, posters, type books, exhibitions, displays, advertising, and movies for German, French, and other clients. He had this studio from 1927 to 1938. In 1930, Burtin started teaching in Berlin, where he met art student Hilde Munk. <mask> and Munk were married in 1932 and Munk became partner in her husband's design studio, Entwurfe Bürtin, (Designs by Burtin). During the war, the Nazi Party was determined to win over the public opinion, which brought <mask> name to the party's attention, hoping that he would accept the position of Art Director and supervise creation of propaganda designs.Nazi officials began asking Burtin to work for their cause, while also trying to persuade him to divorce his Jewish wife. <mask> was able to decline early Nazi attempts to hire him. Burtin always claimed that his work schedule was already too hectic to take on another responsibility. However, in 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made an official request for Burtin to become the Ministry's Director of Design. Burtin cited his backlog of private clients in order to buy time. <mask>'s wife Hilde took advantage of this to write an urgent letter to her cousin, Max Munk, in Maryland. She asked him to sponsor the couple's immigration into the United States.Munk responded to Hilde's request by sending an affidavit. The affidavit, dated November 15, 1937, allowed <mask> and Hilde <mask> to get a U.S. visa. Meanwhile, back in Germany, <mask> was called to Berlin again, this time to meet Adolf Hitler in person. Burtin tried disqualifying himself from working in the Nazi Party by mentioning that his wife Hilde was Jewish. Unfortunately for <mask>, Hitler replied that his wife was not an issue and his first assignment would be to create an exhibit foretelling the impacts of Nazi culture. Again trying to buy time, Burtin asked for a short vacation to think it over. He was honoured, he replied, to be considered for this high-ranking post but he needed this vacation to be well rested prior to taking up his duties for the Nazi Party.<mask> and Hilde <mask> had already decided under no circumstances would they work for the Nazi Party. They were able to book passage on the Rotterdam and flee to New York City, leaving behind their personal belongings, taking only overnight bags to deceive border guards, and a sample sheet of the typeface Firmin Didot. Career in the United States

After arriving in the United States from Germany, the Burtins settled in New York City. <mask> was hired for his first job with Munk Aeronautical Laboratory, which was Hilde's cousin's Max Munk's laboratory. After working with Munk Aeronautical Laboratory, <mask> received a contract with the United States Federal Works Agency, in which he had to create one major exhibit that represented the achievements of five departments in the Federal Works Agency. The FWA required the exhibit to travel, meaning for it to be more than one-dimensional. The FWA taught Burtin how to create these types of designs in order for him to properly have this concept depicted in the exhibit.This is where <mask> first learned how to create three-dimensional designs; this technique helped him created many of his designs to come. In 1939, <mask> began teaching communication and advanced design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and later was named chairman of the Department of Visual Communication in 1959. In 1943, <mask> was drafted into the United States Army and assigned to the Office of Strategic Services. Burtin was assigned to create gun manuals for the U.S. Air Force and Army Air Force. The manual was called Gunner's Information File: Flexible Gunnery. These gun manuals were being designed for the young soldiers in training. These manual were considered extremely important because they displayed vital information for trainees on how to handle their new firearm.Burtin, very concerned with the safety of the gunman, took this project very seriously. According to RIT's biography on <mask>, <mask> stated a gunman "was engaged in serious business in which his life might depend on the swift functioning of his knowledge and equipment". Because many of these soldiers drafted were uneducated and some illiterate, this manual had to be clear, precise, and easy to understand. As World War II was ending, <mask> was recruited by the publisher of Fortune Magazine,  straight from the Army. According to the publisher, it was in the "nation's interest" to let <mask> leave the army early to work for the magazine. He was recruited for the position of the Art Director, in which he remained from 1945 to 1949. Fortune did allow Burtin to do freelance work on the side which led to his partnership with the Upjohn Company and many others, such as Eastman Kodak, IBM, the Smithsonian, Mead Paper, Union Carbide, Herman Miller Furniture, and United States Information Agency.He was the designer and consultant on many of these clients' projects. Burtin conducted his freelance work through his design studio he opened up with Hilda in New York City, named Will Burtin, Inc., in 1949. Burtin also taught advertising art briefly as a visiting instructor at Black Mountain College in 1946, part of staff roster that also included Josef and Anni Albers, Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Leo Lionni, Leo Amino, Jean Varda, and others. In 1950, <mask> also started working at the Parsons School of Design, leading AIGA to name him a director with in the Institute. United States Information Agency, 1958

Through his contacts with the OSS, Burtin was able to obtain USIA as a regular client. The most successful exhibits made for USIA was "Kalamazoo…and how it grew!" Kalamazoo was selected by USIA to represent everyday life in an average American city, to be displayed to Europe.Burtin used personal thoughts and perspectives of the average citizen from Kalamazoo in this exhibit. This exhibit was so successful many different versions were created to be displayed in different European countries, such as England and Germany. Eastman Kodak, 1960–1962

In 1962, Burtin was able to gain Eastman Kodak as another major client. Burtin's work with Eastman Kodak included new construction techniques and a unique roof design. The goal was to create the illusion that Kodak's roof was a sea of clouds adults and children could walk on. These new techniques and designs brought considerable attention to Burtin's Eastman Kodak Pavilion at the 1964–1965 World's Fair. According to The Will Burtin Papers, the pavilion included an "eighty foot high photo tower and moon deck".Due to constant dispute with Kodak, <mask>'s agreement with the company was ceased before the pavilion was officially built; the Concrete Industry Board gave Burtin a special award in 1964 for its design. Union Carbide, 1962

Union Carbide was developing uranium to make nuclear fuel; therefore the company launched a huge campaign surrounding this and requested <mask> to design "The Atom in Action". His exhibit was showcased at Union Carbide's headquarters in New York City and represented the physics of nuclear energy. The depiction of the density of atomic energy was also presented. This exhibit also became a huge successful and remained popular for many years. "The Atom in Action" was exhibited at Union Carbide headquarters for several years. Upjohn Company, 1949–1971

<mask> took the position as art director of Upjohn Company's publication Scope, while still art directing for Fortune, but did leave Fortune the same year.Scope was a magazine dedicated to conveying medical, scientific and pharmaceutical information. In 1959, Upjohn conducted a survey to see how many doctors or medical workers viewed their publication and the results were not as they would have liked. These results led Burtin to suggest one of the most notable projects he would design for Upjohn, creating a model of a human cell. "The Cell" exhibit was the first exhibit Burtin would design that demonstrated a human function as a gigantic three-dimensional visual. As explained in the book Design and Science: the Life and Work of <mask>, "The Cell demonstrated the inter relatedness of cellular function, linkage among organelles, and a vision – Burtin's vision – of a cell's physical structure." Being biology had not yet found out all the functions of a human cell, the exhibit was described as a "generalized" human cell. "The Cell" was an instant success, reaching several U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Kalamazoo, New York City, and Chicago.The exhibit also reached England. The exhibit was reviewed in Newsweek and Life Magazine and reached about 40 million people. Due to the huge success with "The Cell", Burtin went on to create many other exhibits representing biology principles for Upjohn Company, including "The Brain" and "The Chromosome", both were very successful. Burtin received many awards for his designs. He received the Art Directors Club medal in 1939, 1941, 1955 and 1958. He received the AMA award in 1958 for his exhibit of The Cell. In 1971, <mask> was awarded a gold medal from AIGA for all his successful contributions to the field of design.He was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1974. Style

Mr. Burtin's own practice had transcended the "commercial art" model prevalent in the 1950s and 60s. He went on to merge design theory with education and technology. <mask> focused on the relationship between spatial forms and their functions. With a designer's vision, he saw how molecules of a certain shape could be expressed through visual art. Examples of Burtin's work include "The Cell", "The Genes in Action", and other processes or microstructures that required a unique understanding of both art and science. His work was publicized in world press and a variety of scientific journals.Personal life
In 1930, <mask> started teaching in Berlin, where he met art student Hilde Munk. <mask> and Munk were married in 1932. <mask> and <mask> spent most of their lives dedicated to design and typography. Both worked in Burtin's design studio. The couple had one child named Carol, born on October 10, 1942. <mask> and Hilda were married from 1932 to 1960, when Hilda lost her battle to cancer. <mask> died on October 10, 1960.She was fifty years old at the time her death; <mask> and a friend stood by her side as she passed. October 10, 1960, was the same day as the Burtins' daughter, Carol, had her eighteenth birthday. <mask> was determined to hide the sad news from his daughter Carol; he had a friend call the next day, October 11, to break the news of her mother's passing. <mask> kept this a secret until he passed and it wasn't until seeing a copy of her mother's death certificate did Carol realize her father's effort to shield the sad news from her. In January 1961, Burtin remarried the graphic designer Cipe Pineles, a long time family friend. Burtin and his daughter Carol moved in with Pineles because their house had too many sad memories of Hilda Burtin. Pineles later adopted Carol in 1973, after the passing of <mask>in.<mask> died on January 18, 1972, in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Burtin's cause of death was mesothelioma, which is cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. George Klauber, a long time friend, was by Burtin's side at the time of his death. Burtin's doctor determined it was possible <mask> died of the same cancer, which was unnamed at the time of her death. Dedication
After <mask>'s death in 1972, The Cleveland Health Museum and Education Center took The Cell, Defense of Life, The Brain, and The Chromosome as permanent exhibits. A biography of <mask>, "Design and Science: The Life and Work of <mask>" was published in 2007 by Lund Humphries, in London; jointly with Ashgate Publishing, in New York. Authors: R. Roger Remington and Robert S. P. Fripp, Burtin's son-in-law.References

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<mask> (; December 18, 1915 – April 4, 1992) was a Romanian writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt, and convicted war criminal. His best known novel is God Was Born in Exile (1960). Life and career
<mask> was born in Segarcea, a small town in Dolj County, Romania. After graduating from Saint Sava High School in Bucharest, he studied Law, and then Letters at the University of Bucharest, and in parallel at universities in Italy and Austria. An associate of the far right thinker Nichifor Crainic, <mask> sat on the editorial board of his Sfarmă Piatră journal. He contributed to Gândirea and Porunca Vremii articles praising the Italian fascism of Benito Mussolini (Miracolul fascist — "The Fascist Miracle"), as well as pieces attacking authors whom the traditionalist group viewed as decadent (notably, Tudor Arghezi and Eugen Lovinescu). After Crainic took over as Minister of Propaganda in King Carol II's authoritarian government, he appointed <mask> as member of the diplomatic mission to Rome.According to his own account, <mask> shared Crainic's rejection of the Iron Guard, and, after Carol was ousted by the latter's National Legionary State government, he was recalled from office. He later left for Vienna. With Romania's siding with the Allies in August 1944 (see Romania during World War II), <mask> was taken prisoner by the Nazi authorities, and interned in the concentration camps at Karpacz and Maria Pfarr. He was liberated a year later by the British Army. Deciding not to return to an increasingly Soviet Union-dominated Romania, <mask> <mask> lived in Italy (where he became good friends with Giovanni Papini). In 1946, following a trial in absentia by the Romanian People's Tribunals, <mask> was sentenced to life in prison for facilitating the penetration of fascist ideas in Romania, and for making the case for those ideas to be implemented under the leadership of the German embassy in Bucharest. The sentence against him has never been rescinded.In 1948, <mask> moved to Argentina, where he taught at the Universidad de Buenos Aires; after March 1953, he lived in Spain, employed as a researcher in the Italic Studies field. He won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Dieu est né en exil (God was born in exile) in 1960; however, following the allegations that he had been a member of the Iron Guard, <mask> refused to receive the Prize, but the Goncourt remains attributed to him. According to some, the allegations constituted slander aimed at <mask> by the communist regime, with the purpose of blackmailing him into issuing positive remarks about the regime. His book notably attracted Jean-Paul Sartre's criticism. Other prizes received by <mask> <mask> include Medalla de Oro de Il Conciliatore, Milano (1961); Bravo para los hombres que unem en la verdad,  Madrid (1972); and the Dante Alighieri Prize, Florence (1981). He died in Collado Villalba, a municipality of Madrid. The centenary of <mask> <mask> was celebrated at the University of Alcalá (a Spanish university in Alcalá de Henares) and in several towns in Romania.Literary works

Novels
 Acolo și stelele ard, Ed. Gorjan, București, 1942. Dieu est né en exil, Fayard, Paris, 1960. Le Chevalier de la Résignation, Fayard, Paris, 1961. Les Impossibles, Fayard, Paris, 1962. La septième lettre. Le roman de Platon, Plon, Paris, 1964.Une femme pour l’Apocalypse, Éditions Julliard, Paris, 1968. El hombre de las nieblas, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1970. El viaje a San Marcos, Magisterio Español, Madrid, 1972. Short stories
 El despertar de la sombra, Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1967. Informe último sobre el Reino H, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1981. Moartea morții mele, Ed. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1999.El fin del exilio. Cuentos de juventud, Criterio Libros, Madrid, 2002. Memoirs
 Journal d’un paysan du Danube, Table Ronde, Paris, 1966. Memoriile unui fost săgetător, Ed. Vremea, București, 2015. Essays
 Presencia del mito, Escelicer, Madrid, 1956. Poesía y libertad, Madrid, Ateneo, 1959.La rebeldia de los escritores soviéticos, Rialp, Madrid, 1960. Quaderno italiano, Pisa, 1962. Giovanni Papini, Wesmael-Charlier, Paris, 1963. Juan Dacio, Diccionario de los Papas. Prefacio de Vintila Horia. Editorial Destino, Barcelona 1963. (Juan Dacio is the pseudonym of Vintila <mask>.)Platon, personaje de novela, Ateneo, Madrid, 1964. España y otros mundos, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1970. Viaje a los Centros de la Tierra, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1971. Pepi Sánchez, Prensa Española, Madrid, 1972. Mester de novelista, Prensa Española, Madrid, 1972. Encuesta detrás de lo visible, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona,1975. Introducción a la literatura del siglo XX.(Ensayo de epistemología  literaria), Gredos, Madrid, 1976. Consideraciones sobre un mundo peor, Plaza y Janés, Madrid, 1978. Literatura y disidencia, Ed. Rioduero, Madrid, 1980. Los derechos humanos y la novela del siglo XX, Magisterio Español, Madrid, 1981. Mai bine mort decât comunist, Phoenix, București, 1990. Dicționarul Papilor, Editura Saeculum I.O., 1999.Poetry
 Procesiuni, Ed. Pavel Suru, București, 1936. Cetatea cu duhuri, Ed. Pavel Suru, București, 1939. Cartea omului singur, Ed. Pavel Suru, București, 1941. A murit un Sfânt, Valle Hermoso (Argentina), 1952.Poesia romaneasca noua. Antologie, Colecția “Meșterul Manole”, Salamanca, 1956. Jurnal de copilărie, Fundația Regală Universitară Carol I, Paris, 1958. Viitor petrecut, Salamanca, 1976. Books and PhD Thesis consecrated to Vintilă Horia

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 Sanda Stolojan, Au balcon de l’exil roumain à Paris: avec Cioran, Eugène Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, <mask> <mask>…, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999. Crenguța Gânscă, <mask> <mask>. Al zecelea cerc: eseu despre o trilogie a exilului, Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2001.Marilena Rotaru, Întoarcerea lui Vintilă <mask>, Ideea, București, 2002. Cecilia Latiș, Arhitecturi paralele: Marguerite Yourcenar –Vintilă Horia, Suceava, Editura Universității din Suceava, 2003. Cecilia Latiș, Polifonii creatoare: paralelă între creația lui Marguerite Yourcenar și a lui Vintilă Horia, Suceava, Editura Universității din Suceava, 2003. Pompiliu Crăciunescu, <mask> <mask> - Translittérature et Réalité, Editura L’Homme Indivis, Veauche, Franța, 2008. Georgeta Orian, Vintilă Horia, un scriitor împotriva timpului său, Cluj-Napoca, Limes, 2008. Pompiliu Crăciunescu, <mask> <mask> - Transliteratură și Realitate, București, Curtea Veche, 2011. Sonia Elvireanu, Fața întunecată a lui Ianus – <mask> <mask>, Dumitru Țepeneag, Norman Manea, Gabriel Pleșa,  Editura Tipo Moldova, Colecția „Academica”, Iași, 2013.Nicolae Florescu, Vintilă Horia între „ieșirea din a exista și intrarea în a fi”, București, Editura Jurnalul Literar, 2014. Mihaela Albu and Dan Anghelescu, Eseistica lui Vintilă Horia – deschideri către transdisciplinaritate, Craiova, Aius, 2015. Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba: "Mircea Eliade, Vintilă Horia și un istoric răpit prin Berlinul de est"
 Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba: "Receptarea româneasca a primului scriitor străin laureat al premiului GONCOURT"
 Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba: "Vintilă Horia exilat"
 Isabela Vasiliu-Scraba: "Vintilă Horia ca istoric al filozofiei româneşti"

PhD Thesis
 Monica Nedelcu, La obra literaria de Vintila Horia. El espacio del exilio en cuatro novelas francesas (L’œuvre littéraire de Vintila Horia. L’espace de l’exil dans quatre romans français), Complutense University of Madrid, Colección Tesis Doctorales, 1989. Claudia Drăgănoiu,  La prose littéraire d’exil : <mask> <mask>, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu et L. M. Arcade (Proză literară de exil: Vintilă Horia, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu și L. M. Arcade), Strasbourg, Faculté des Lettres, University of Strasbourg, 2011. Manuela Alexe, Représentations de l’espace dans la prose de Vintilă Horia (Reprezentări ale spațiului în proza lui Vintilă Horia), Școala doctorală de studii literare și culturale, University of Bucharest, 2012.Renata-Simona Georgescu, L’image de la Roumanie chez Vintilă Horia, Petru Dumitriu et Paul Goma, Facultatea de Litere, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 2013. Alina Elena Costin, Vintilă Horia: Exil et création, Facultatea de Litere, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, 2013. Sonia Elvireanu, Fața întunecată a lui Ianus – <mask> <mask>, Dumitru Țepeneag, Norman Manea, Gabriel Pleșa, Facultatea de Istorie și Filologie, 1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia, 2013. Notes

References
Z. Ornea, Anii treizeci. Extrema dreaptă românească, Editura Fundației Culturale Române, Bucharest, 1995
 Excerpts from Wladimir Paskievici, <mask> <mask> - omul, opera și afacerea Premiului Goncourt
 Marilena Rotaru, "Întoarcerea lui Vintilă Horia (2)" (1990 interview with <mask> <mask>), on Memoria.ro
Richard Wagner, "A writer in the cold war", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 2, 2007 (available at signandsight.com on April 30, 2007)

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<mask>, MP  (Sinhala : සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස, Tamil : சஜித் பிரேமதாச; born 12 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka  and Member of Parliament for Colombo District. He is the current leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya

Premadasa is the son of <mask>, the President of Sri Lanka (1989 – 1993). He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and Mill Hill School before entering London School of Economics. He was doing his postgraduate studies at the University of Maryland when his father was assassinated in 1993. He returned to Sri Lanka and entered politics, representing the Hambantota District, having joined the United National Party. He was elected to parliament in 2000 and was appointed Deputy Minister of Health in 2001, serving until 2004.He was appointed deputy leader of the United National Party in 2011 and was appointed Cabinet Minister of Housing and Samurdhi in President Sirisena's national government in 2015. He contested the 2019 Presidential Election in November 2019 as the Presidential Candidate from United National Front, in which he polled second. In December 2019, he was appointed as the leader of the opposition and a member of the Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka). On 30 January 2020, he was selected as the leader (hence Prime Ministerial candidate) of a new UNP lead alliance. Early life and education
<mask> <mask> was born on 12 January 1967 in Colombo, to Ranasinghe <mask>, who was at the time Minister of Broadcasting and a Member of Parliament from the Colombo District and his wife Hema <mask>. He had one sister, Dulanjali. His father was elected as the President of Sri Lanka in 1989, having served as Prime Minister from 1977 to 1989.<mask> was schooled at St Thomas Preparatory College and Royal College, he sat for his ordinary (O/L) and advance level (A/L) examination at Mill Hill School, London. Premadasa won the A/L prize for politics and business studies and besides being appointed a prefect, also played in the first 11 cricket team for four years, captaining the side in 1986. A graduate of the London School of Economics (LSE) and of the University of London, his degree covered the areas of economics, politics and international relations, an education that served him in good stead later when he launched himself as a grassroots politician. He interned in the Foreign Relations Committee under Senator Larry Pressler, a Republican from South Dakota. Premadasa met many other influential senators, including John McCain and former presidential candidate John Kerry. Whilst he completing his master's degree in the United States he returned to Sri Lanka following his father's death. Early political career
<mask> entered Sri Lankan politics after the assassination of his father in 1993.Having joined his father's party the United National Party, he was appointed district organiser of the UNP for Hambantota District in 1994, where He launched several projects for poverty alleviation and housing development. He initiated the youth movement Tharuna Saviya; the People Development Foundation Jana Suwaya for poverty alleviation in Hambantota; and the Sasunata Aruna to aid Buddhist temples and Sunday schools in line with the 2600 Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi celebrations. Parliament
It was from the Hambantota district he contested the 2000 general election and entered parliament gaining 83 percent of the UNP preferential votes. He won 82 percent of the preferential votes in the 2001 general election, 84 percent in the 2004 general election, 89 percent in 2010 general election and 86% in 2015 general election. Deputy Minister of Health
He was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Health under the premiership of Ranil Wickramasinghe in 2001 and remained until 2004 when the Wickramasinghe government was dissolved by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Party leadership
For the fourth general election in a row, <mask> won the highest percentage of preferential votes out of all United National Party candidates, which was just under 90 percent of United National Party votes in the Hambantota Electoral District. <mask> was elected as the deputy leader of the United National Party in 2011 and then removed from the position in 2013.However he was reappointed on 24 September 2014. Minister of Housing and Samurdhi
Following the 2015 Presidential Election, <mask> was appointed Minister of Housing and Samurdhi in the new cabinet formed in January 2015 by President Maithripala Sirisena. As housing minister, he initiated several national housing projects for lower and middle income families. These include Gamudawa, Jalthara Green Valley residencies, Homagama Mount Clifford. As samurdhi minister, he increase the samurdhi payment by twofold. With the addition of construction to his port folio, he initiated the Shelter For All 2025 objective and provided over 65,000 houses to low income families and initiated 2500 villages. 2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Election
The United National Party didn't field a presidential candidate in both 2010 and 2015 elections and supported a common candidate.Even though they won the 2015 election and elected Maithripala Sirisena through their support, relations between the president and the UNP was shaky from the beginning. The power struggle between the president and UNP prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe led to the 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis. In the aftermath of the events, most of the UNP members publicly expressed their regret supporting a common candidate in 2015 and promised to field their own presidential candidate in 2019 elections. Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was the obvious choice for the candidacy and he reportedly expressed his intentions to run for the presidency in a meeting with other senior members. Meanwhile, several rebel MPs including Mangala Samaraweera, Harin Fernando, Ajith Perera, Harsha de Silva, Sujeewa Senasinghe wanted deputy leader <mask> as the party's candidate and organised a rally in Badulla where Premadasa openly expressed his intentions to be the UNP candidate. With the growing support for <mask> and party leader Wickremesinghe refusing to make a move, Speaker of the parliament Karu Jayasuriya released a statement signalling his intention to run for presidency to end the confusion and avoid a rift within the party. The Premadasa faction gained strong support from the fellow party members through successful rallies in Matara, Kurunegala and Matugama.He was defeated by Gotabaya Rajapaksa who campaigned on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and national security platform in which Rajapaksa received 6,924,255 votes (52.25% of the total votes) and a 1,360,016 vote majority over <mask>, who polled 41.99% of the total votes. Rajapaksa won a majority in the predominant Sinhalese areas of the island which included the districts of Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Monaragala, Ratnapura, Badulla, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Gampaha, Kandy, Matale, Polonnaruwa Colombo, Kegalle and Anuradhapura, while Premadasa gained a majority in areas dominated by Tamil and Muslim minorities, which had been effected by the civil war. Following the election <mask> stepped down from all ministerial portfolios and posts including the post of Deputy Leader of the United National Party. Leader of the opposition
On 5 December 2019, he was nominated as the leader of the opposition and was officially named by the speaker on 3 January 2020. With his appointment as Leader of Opposition, he was automatically given a seat as a Member of Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka). Prime Minister Candidate and leader of Samagi Jana Balawegaya
Premadasa was selected by his party as the Prime Minister candidate from the United National Front on 30 January 2020. He was named the leader of the alliance after a majority of party front liners backed him over its leader Ranil Wickramasinghe.He was appointed as the newly formed Samagi Jana Balawegaya led by the United National Party to contest the next Prime Ministerial election. See also
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<mask> of Metapontum (; , Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) was a Greek philosopher and early follower of Pythagoras. Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers. The discovery of irrational numbers is said to have been shocking to the Pythagoreans, and Hippasus is supposed to have drowned at sea, apparently as a punishment from the gods for divulging this. However, the few ancient sources which describe this story either do not mention Hippasus by name (e.g. Pappus) or alternatively tell that Hippasus drowned because he revealed how to construct a dodecahedron inside a sphere. The discovery of irrationality is not specifically ascribed to Hippasus by any ancient writer. Life
Little is known about the life of Hippasus.He may have lived in the late 5th century BC, about a century after the time of Pythagoras. Metapontum in Italy (Magna Graecia) is usually referred to as his birthplace, although according to Iamblichus some claim Metapontum to be his birthplace, while others the nearby city of Croton. Hippasus is recorded under the city of Sybaris in Iamblichus list of each city's Pythagoreans. He also states that Hippasus was the founder of a sect of the Pythagoreans called the Mathematici () in opposition to the Acusmatici (); but elsewhere he makes him the founder of the Acusmatici in opposition to the Mathematici. Iamblichus says about the death of Hippasus:
It is related to Hippasus that he was a Pythagorean, and that, owing to his being the first to publish and describe the sphere from the twelve pentagons, he perished at sea for his impiety, but he received credit for the discovery, though really it all belonged to HIM (for in this way they refer to Pythagoras, and they do not call him by his name). According to Iamblichus (ca. 245-325 AD, 1918 translation) in The life of Pythagoras, by Thomas Taylor
There were also two forms of philosophy, for the two genera of those that pursued it: the Acusmatici and the Mathematici.The latter are acknowledged to be Pythagoreans by the rest but the Mathematici do not admit that the Acusmatici derived their instructions from Pythagoras but from Hippasus. The philosophy of the Acusmatici consisted in auditions unaccompanied with demonstrations and a reasoning process; because it merely ordered a thing to be done in a certain way and that they should endeavor to preserve such other things as were said by him, as divine dogmas. Memory was the most valued faculty. All these auditions were of three kinds; some signifying what a thing is; others what it especially is, others what ought or ought not to be done. (p. 61)

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Aristotle  speaks of Hippasus as holding the element of fire to be the cause of all things; and Sextus Empiricus contrasts him with the Pythagoreans in this respect, that he believed the arche to be material, whereas they thought it was incorporeal, namely, number. Diogenes Laërtius tells us that Hippasus believed that "there is a definite time which the changes in the universe take to complete, and that the universe is limited and ever in motion." According to one statement, Hippasus left no writings, according to another he was the author of the Mystic Discourse, written to bring Pythagoras into disrepute.A scholium on Plato's Phaedo notes him as an early experimenter in music theory, claiming that he made use of bronze disks to discover the fundamental musical ratios, 4:3, 3:2, and 2:1. Irrational numbers
Hippasus is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers, following which he was drowned at sea. Pythagoreans preached that all numbers could be expressed as the ratio of integers, and the discovery of irrational numbers is said to have shocked them. However, the evidence linking the discovery to Hippasus is confused. Pappus merely says that the knowledge of irrational numbers originated in the Pythagorean school, and that the member who first divulged the secret perished by drowning. Iamblichus gives a series of inconsistent reports. In one story he explains how a Pythagorean was merely expelled for divulging the nature of the irrational; but he then cites the legend of the Pythagorean who drowned at sea for making known the construction of the regular dodecahedron in the sphere.In another account he tells how it was <mask> who drowned at sea for betraying the construction of the dodecahedron and taking credit for this construction himself; but in another story this same punishment is meted out to the Pythagorean who divulged knowledge of the irrational. Iamblichus clearly states that the drowning at sea was a punishment from the gods for impious behaviour. These stories are usually taken together to ascribe the discovery of irrationals to Hippasus, but whether he did or not is uncertain. In principle, the stories can be combined, since it is possible to discover irrational numbers when constructing dodecahedra. Irrationality, by infinite reciprocal subtraction, can be easily seen in the Golden ratio of the regular pentagon. Some scholars in the early 20th century credited Hippasus with the discovery of the irrationality of . Plato in his Theaetetus, describes how Theodorus of Cyrene (c. 400 BC) proved the irrationality of , , etc.up to , which implies that an earlier mathematician had already proved the irrationality of . Aristotle referred to the method for a proof of the irrationality of , and a full proof along these same lines is set out in the proposition interpolated at the end of Euclid's Book X, which suggests that the proof was certainly ancient. The method is a proof by contradiction, or reductio ad absurdum, which shows that, if the diagonal of a square is assumed to be commensurable with the side, then the same number must be both odd and even. In the hands of modern writers this combination of vague ancient reports and modern guesswork has sometimes evolved into a much more emphatic and colourful tale. Some writers have Hippasus making his discovery while on board a ship, as a result of which his Pythagorean shipmates toss him overboard; while one writer even has Pythagoras himself "to his eternal shame" sentencing Hippasus to death by drowning, for showing "that  is an irrational number." References

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<mask>'Flaherty (1821– New York, 27 December 1886), also known as William Stuart, was an Irish MP who hurriedly emigrated to the United States in 1854. In New York City he was the business partner of the actor-managers Dion Boucicault and Edwin Booth, and with them leased and managed the Winter Garden Theatre. He managed the New Park Theatre on Broadway from 1874 to 1876. Biography

Early life
A native of Knockbane, Moycullen, Galway, he was educated at Eton when Cardinal Wiseman was headmaster. O'Flaherty became the private secretary to the Duke of Newcastle, who wanted to forge an alliance between the Peelite party and that of the Irish MP's. O'Flaherty's ability was recognised by the Duke, who employed him as an emissary to Ireland, and gave him a Commissionership of Income Tax in Galway. He was active in Irish politics in the middle years of the 19th century.Described as "a man of great warmth, cleverness and inexhaustible resource", he was a friend of William Keogh and John Sadleir. In 1854 he disappeared from London and rumours were current throughout the city that warrants were out against him for forgery. Persons concerned included Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Dunkellin, Bernal Osborne and Sir William Gregory, the late Governor of Ceylon. 'William Stuart'
O'Flaherty escaped via Denmark (which had no extradition treaty with Britain) to the U.S. under the alias of 'Captain William Stuart'. To earn a living he began by writing for the papers, made some money, and began a partnership with the actor Dion Boucicault, another expatriate Irishman. Together they leased Wallack's Theatre in 1855-1856, and put on a short season at the Washington Theatre in Washington D.C.

After this they took over the Winter Garden Theatre, where Stuart was joint lessee and manager. It opened in September 1859 with John Jefferson in Boucicault's Dot, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth.Boucicault's The Octoroon opened on 8 December 8, 1859, but arguments over money and ownership of the play led to Boucicault and his wife Agnes leaving for Laura Keene's Theatre at 622-624 Broadway, and then for England. Stuart remained at the Winter Garden. He was still heavily involved in recruiting American help for a free Ireland, as a letter dated October 5, 1861 from New York to John O'Mahony, later founder of the Fenian Brotherhood makes clear:

"I would remind [the expectants] that another famine ever imperils Ireland, the result of a wet summer and harvest. If matters go on thus much longer there will be no Irish Nation for us to free. If we are to redeem our country, we must do it soon, or not at all [...]

"I now leave our cause in the hands of her patriot sons in America [...] I trust the 'Centres' throughout the States will rally round you. If they work they will get all the power required and Ireland must be free. If they fail in their duty, to God and their Country, then is Ireland doomed—doomed to become an integral part of the British Empire as Scotland, once Celtic and now Saxon—more Saxon than England herself.[I pray] that Heaven will send us labourers for the work. Edwin Booth joined Stuart as co-lessee in the management of the Winter Garden On 21 February 1863. On November 26, 1864, Booth played the lead role in the first of what became known as the “100 nights Hamlet", a record which stood for fifty-six years. The Winter Garden Theatre burned down 23 March 1867. Stuart at the time of the discovery was in his sleeping apartment in the theatre, only partially dressed, and was compelled to leave his watch and pocket-book on the table when he made his hurried exit. Stuart, who was wholly uninsured, barely escaped with his life. A performance of The Black Crook on 27 March 1867 at Niblo's Garden was given as a benefit for him.Stuart turned to writing for the New York Herald for some time, and again in partnership with Boucicault built the New Park Theatre in 1873–1874. However, Boucicault withdrew just before the theatre opened, and Stuart teamed up instead with the actor, playwright and theatre manager Charles Fechter as stage manager. The New Park Theatre opened on 13 April or 15 April 1874 with Stuart as manager, and Fechter appearing in his own play Love's Penance, an adaptation of Le médecin des enfants by Count d'Avrigny. Edwin Booth, who had been with Stuart at the Winter Garden, was fairly scathing about the whole enterprise:

"I should like to hear of Stuart's success - but I doubt it, for I fear Fechter is unlucky, & Stuart really possesses very little, if any theatrical business capacity. F's remarkable talents both as actor and as stage manager shd. ensure the success of any theatre - could he be managed; otherwise I doubt the safety of any enterprise he has to do with." Love's Penance closed on May 6, 1874, and shortly after Fechter withdrew from the management and retired.Stuart continued to run the New Park Theatre until the fall of 1876 when he sold it to Henry E. Abbey. Retirement and death
O'Flaherty/Stuart had become successful and again famous for his hospitality and parties. It was well known that there was something against him, but it was presumed that he left England being unable to pay his debts. Englishmen of great position, on their return from America, told how they had been entertained by the pleasantest and wittiest of Irishmen, Captain Stuart. He spent the large income he was making, fell into poverty, and died in New York on 27 December 1886. Justin Huntly McCarthy, M.P., wrote of him:
[John Sadleir's] lieutenants were his brother, James Sadleir, Mr. William Keogh, and Mr. <mask>'Flaherty: these men were all adventurers, and most of them swindlers. O'Flaherty became Commissioner of Income Tax.Then they broke up. John Sadleir had embezzled, swindled, forged; he ruined half Ireland with his fraudulent bank; he made use of his position under Government to embezzle public money. O’Flaherty hurried to Denmark, where there was no extradition treaty, and then to New York, where he lived under another name, a familiar figure in certain circles of New York society, famous as a diner-out, as a good story-teller, and a humourist—a sort of combination of Brillat-Savarin and the later Richelieu, with a dash of Gines de Pasamonte. See also

 Muintir Murchada
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 Murchadh an Chapail Ua Flaithbheartaigh, King of Maigh Seóla/Iar Connacht, died 1036. O'Flaherty

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External links
Samuel J. Maguire Profile of <mask>'Flaherty M.P. (Galway Library, Ireland)

Further reading
"Death of William Stuart", New-York Tribune, December 29, 1886:5, col. 5. Online at Library of Congress."William Stuart Dies Suddenly", The Sun (New York), December 29, 1886:2, col. 5. Online at Library of Congress. Untitled remembrance, The Sun (New York), December 30, 1886:2, col. 3, bottom. Online at Library of Congress. "William Stuart Buried", The Sun (New York), January 1, 1887:2, col.6. Online at Library of Congress. People educated at Eton College
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<mask> (23 January 1932 – 7 January 1964) was an English blues musician, and one of the first blues harmonica players in England. Biography
Born at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham, Buckinghamshire, he was the son of <mask>, a labourer, and his wife Margaret Mary (née Jones). He had an elder brother named Glyn, and the family is believed to have come from Wales. <mask> began his career in the early 1950s first within Steve Lane's Southern Stompers, then in 1955 formed an acoustic skiffle and blues group with Alexis Korner. He began as a banjo and 12-string guitar player before becoming a Chicago-style blues harmonica player after hearing Little Walter. Working by day as a panel beater, he ran an unsuccessful skiffle club before meeting Korner, then <mask> and Korner opened a London Rhythm and Blues club "England's Firstest and Bestest Skiffle Club", later known as the "London Blues and Barrelhouse Club". Popular with other musicians, the club hosted gigs by blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Memphis Slim.During this period <mask> and Korner worked as session musicians, and often backed Ottilie Patterson during her featured set with husband  Chris Barber's band, using amplified instruments for the first time – which did not go down well with their blues purist audience and many fellow musicians. After closing the blues club, <mask> and Korner went their separate ways, and, influenced by Muddy Waters electric sound, <mask> formed his own electric blues band. The Ealing Club and Blues Incorporated

In 1961, Chris Barber recruited <mask> and Korner to play harmonica and electric guitar in accompanying Barber's band regularly at its Wednesday and Friday night sets at the Marquee Club, a popular London jazz club. This opportunity granted <mask> and Korner some exposure to the London music scene, but the duo wished to focus more on blues and R&B. The two decided to found their own rhythm and blues group and, in a show of support, Barber offered them the intermission slot at the Marquee on Wednesday nights. Korner supplied musicians for the rhythm sections, and <mask> recruited Art Wood and Long John Baldry to be the vocalists. They named the group Blues Incorporated, and their initial performances at the Marquee were very well received.However, they realized the need for additional performance opportunities and, since most jazz and folk clubs in London were wary of electric guitars, <mask> and Korner decided to found their own club at which they could perform. In 1962 they founded the Ealing Club, which featured performances by both Blues Incorporated and other Trad jazz outfits popular in England at the time. The club proved to be a popular sensation in the burgeoning R&B scene, and attracted such far-flung admirers and future stars as Mick Jagger and Eric Burdon. Jagger was in the audience for the second night at the club and got up to sing "Got My Mojo Working". Later success

In June 1962 they recorded R&B from the Marquee, actually recorded in Decca Records' studio. After touring the UK and headlining a residency at the Marquee, by October 1962 there was musical tension in the band as some members wanted to play crowd pleasers like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs while <mask> and others members were blues purists who wanted to play what they saw as only genuine Chicago-style R&B. Following his departure from Blues Incorporated in October 1962, <mask> then formed the <mask> All-Stars in November 1962 and recorded five tracks for Pye Records, who had announced an R&B label featuring music imported from <mask>' favourite Chicago musicians ("Country Line Special", "Chicago Calling", "Preachin' the Blues", "Sweet Mary" and "Someday Baby").The original line-up was largely recruited from Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages, and featured both Long John Baldry and <mask> on vocals to give <mask> room to play harmonica. The band, later known simply as the All-Stars was subject to frequent personnel changes. After contracting pleurisy in 1963, <mask> began to drink heavily to assuage the pain while undergoing a heavy touring schedule. He died in January 1964, after collapsing during an engagement at a night club on Eel Pie Island, Twickenham in London. The official cause of death was given as endocarditis, although leukaemia is often quoted. The core band was taken over by Long John Baldry and formed the basis of his 'Hoochie Coochie Men'. In October 2014 the compilation entitled Preachin' The Blues: The <mask> Memorial Album was finally released on GVC Records (GVC2040) in Great Britain.See also
List of blues musicians
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Bibliography
 Bob Brunning, Blues: The British Connection, London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2002,  – First edition 1986 – Second edition 1995 Blues in Britain
 Bob Brunning, The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, London: Omnibus Press, 1990 and 1998,
 Martin Celmins, Peter Green – Founder of Fleetwood Mac, London: Sanctuary, 1995, foreword by B.B.King,
 Fancourt, L. (1989), British blues on record (1957–1970), Retrack Books. Dick Heckstall-Smith, The safest place in the world: A personal history of British Rhythm and blues, London: Quartet Books Limited, 1989,   – Second Edition: Blowing The Blues – Fifty Years Playing The British Blues, 2004, Clear Books,
 Christopher Hjort, Strange brew: Eric Clapton and the British blues boom, 1965–1970, foreword by John Mayall, Jawbone 2007,
 Paul Myers, Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Vancouver 2007, GreyStone Books,
 Harry Shapiro Alexis Korner: The Biography, London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997, Discography by Mark Troster,
 Schwartz, R. F. (2007), How Britain got the blues: The transmission and reception of American blues style in the United Kingdom, Ashgate, . Mike Vernon, The Blue Horizon story 1965–1970 vol.1, notes of the booklet of the Box Set (60 pages)

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