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<mask> (born 14 March 1992) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward for Bangladesh Premier League club Saif Sporting Club and the Nigeria national team. He has been described as a complete forward who possesses pace, good positioning, natural finishing as well as the ability to provide assists. He is a "fox in the box" type of player, difficult to stop once in the penalty area. He currently holds the record for highest number of goals scored in the Nigerian Premier Football League in a single season. He is also the first player to score over 35 goals in two consecutive seasons in Nigeria. Between 2012 and 2014, he scored 39 goals in the regular league and 3 in national cup competitions, for a total of 41 goals in two seasons. He was the highest goal scorer in the 2016 CAF champions league with nine goals and was all scored in the group stage of the competition.Club career

Early career
Mfon began his youth career with Diamond Stars Academy then at Calabar (UNICEM) Rovers of the Nigeria National League, the former youth club of  Finidi George. He would go on to score 8 goals in his first season for the Rovers in 2011-2012 season, finishing as their top marksman in all competitions. Akwa United F.C
In the 2012-2013 season he transferred to Akwa United F.C., his hometown club in the Nigerian Premier Division. On 31 March 2013 few weeks after turning twenty years, he scored his first ever goal at the top level of Nigerian football. On 3 August 2013 he received the League Bloggers Award for the best player during the month of July.He would go on to complete the regular season with 16 goals to his name, among them 8 crucial away goals to help 'the Promise Keepers' escape relegation. He finished the season once more as the top marksman for his club and 3rd highest overall in the league. The performances by the then 20-year-old attracted the attention of top clubs in the league, among them two-time African champions Enyimba.Enyimba F.C

2013-2014
After surprising many with his performances during his first NPFL season, Udoh earned a transfer to two-time African Champions League winners Enyimba for an undisclosed amount. He was given the number 10 shirt and registered for both the Nigerian NPFL and African Champions League competitions. Enyimba presented the biggest opportunity for the best of Udoh to be showcased under a good club management and good technical handlers. He set a personal target of 20 goals for the season. He would go on to surpass this target, shattering the previous league record by scoring 23 goals as Enyimba finished second in the league table. He is currently the only player in the history of the Nigerian league to score more than 20 league goals in a single season. Mfon was a recipient of multiple 'player of the week' awards for scoring very vital goals and assists throughout the year.He scored a total of 6 braces throughout the campaign, including in the last game against Kano Pillars to extend Enyimba's unbeaten streak to seven games, ending the season on a high note. At the end of the season he received the golden boot for NPFL Top Scorer, award for NPFL Player of the season and the League Bloggers Player of the season. 2014-2015
Mfon scored the only goal in the 1-0 win over Bayelsa Utd to give Enyimba their first league win of the season. He would then score a trademark goal against Taraba Utd by capitalizing on lapse in communication between the defenders to give Enyimba a crucial away win. In the game against Sharks in Aba, Mfon scored a brace to bring his tally to 4 goals. Following injury, Mfon was unavailable for matches until the last few games of the season. He scored the only goal through a superb solo-run in a crucial away derby against Abia Warriors, to help Enyimba win the 2015 NPFL season with a game to spare.2016
After electing to remain with Enyimba for the 2016 season, Mfon scored a brace in the second leg of the 2016 CAF Champions league qualifying game against Vipers FC. He scored another brace in the next round of the competition against Vital'o FC in an assured 5-1 home victory in Aba. In the final qualifying round, <mask> netted a hat-trick in the first leg against Etoile du Sahel for a convincing 3-0 win in Aba. With new coach Paul Aigbogun using a different tactical approach for the NPFL, <mask> was deployed as a right-winger (RW) in league games. Combined with injuries and reduced appearances upfront he suffered his first scoring drought of his career. Incidentally, with Enyimba's elimination from the CAF Champions league, Mfon's form improved as he scored on matchdays 33 & 35. To somewhat vindicate his local form, he ended the season as the top scorer in the CAF champions league with a total of 9 goals.His feat in the continental competition led to his nomination for the award of CAF African footballer of the year at the end of 2016. 2017
Following the departure of Chinedu Udoji to Kano Pillars in December 2016, <mask> <mask> was named the captain of Enyimba F.C. On 14 September 2018, he announced his departure after seeing off his contract with the club. Akwa United
Mfon Udoh joined Akwa United for the 2018–19 NPFL season where he helped them finish fourth at the Super 6. FC Tulsa
On 14 January 2020, USL Championship side FC Tulsa announced the signing of <mask> <mask> alongside Solomon Kwambe from Lobi Stars. He made his league debut against Austin Bold but ended up making just four appearances for the American club. Return to Akwa United
Udoh rejoined his hometown club Akwa United in December 2020 and marked his return with a goal in a 2–1 loss to Heartland in the 2020–21 season.International career
In November 2014 he was called up to a friendly game between Nigerian and Ghanaian home-based teams. He made his first appearance for the national team as a 45th-minute substitute. International goals
Scores and results list Nigeria's goal tally first. Honours

Club
 Enyimba:
 Nigeria Professional Football League: Winners, 2015
 Aiteo Cup:
Winners, 2014

Individual
Nigerian Premier League Top Scorer (1): 2013-2014
Enyimba top scorer: 2013-2014
Nigerian League Bloggers (Monthly) Award (1): August 2013
NPFL Player of the Year Award (1): 2014
Nigerian League Bloggers Player of the Season: 2013-2014
CAF Champions League 2016 Top Scorer (9 goals): 2016

References

External links
Mfon Udoh at Footballdatabase

1992 births
Living people
Nigerian footballers
Nigerian Professional Football League players
Association football forwards
Enyimba F.C. players
Nigeria international footballers
FC Tulsa players
Akwa United F.C. players
Calabar Rovers F.C. players
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Nigerian expatriate footballers
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<mask>, better known as R.C. Sproul Jr., (born July 1, 1965) is an American Calvinist writer, a theologian, a former pastor, and the son of R. C. Sproul. Life
Sproul holds degrees from Grove City College (Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Literature, 1986) and Reformed Theological Seminary (Master of Arts in Theological Studies, 1991) and received his D.Min. in theology from Whitefield Theological Seminary (2001). After working with Ligonier Ministries for some years, Sproul founded Highlands Ministries (formerly Highlands Study Center) in Bristol, Virginia, in 1996. In the same year, he planted Saint Peter Presbyterian Church in Bristol and until 2001 served as its senior pastor and then until 2010 as its Associate Pastor of Education. Sproul formerly served as executive editor of Every Thought Captive, a monthly magazine published by Highlands Ministries.From 2009–10, he worked as a teacher for Veritas Press, which specializes in Christian educational texts. In 2010, Sproul was appointed a Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor of theology, philosophy, and apologetics at Ligonier Academy in both the Bible college and D.Min. programs. In 2014 he was named Rector at Reformation Bible College as well as the Chair of the Department of Theology and Philosophy. In August 2015, Sproul wrote in his personal blog that he had briefly visited the Ashley Madison website in 2014. As a result, Ligonier Ministries suspended him until July 2016. Sproul had addressed the recently announced Ashley Madison data breach in a July 22, 2015, blog entry that highlighted "the biblical truth that our sins will find us out", but without the acknowledgment made in August.On November 29, 2016, , ten days after his ecclesiastical wedding ceremony, <mask> Jr was arrested in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for drunken driving with two of his minor children in the car. He posted a $5,000 bond and was free under a "monitored conditional release." On June 2, 2017, Sproul filed a plea agreement in which he pled guilty to one felony count, 9-30-5-3(a)(2)/F6: Operating Veh. While Intox or Controlled Substance: Passenger Under 18. He was sentenced to a prison term of 1 year 183 days. Under the terms of the plea agreement his prison sentence was suspended and he was remanded to 1 year supervised probation. On December 9, 2016, days after his arrest, the board of directors of Ligonier Ministries and Reformation Bible College received and affirmed Sproul's resignation request.Ligonier Ministries posted a statement on their website on December 12, 2016, saying that Sproul resigned "for personal reasons". Early 2019 Sproul briefly worked as website manager for Bucs Dugout, SB Nation's community for Pittsburgh Pirates fans. His contract was terminated the morning after Deadspin's piece criticizing the hire. Later that year he became ordained through Logos Ministries and formed Dunamis Fellowship (details under Church allegiances). Personal Life
Sproul has been married twice. Sproul's first wife, Denise Elizabeth Sproul (née <mask>), died in 2011, age 46, of cancer. They had seven surviving children, a disabled daughter having died in 2012.On October 14, 2016, Sproul married <mask> <mask> (née Porter) in a civil ceremony. On November 19, 2016, his father R.C. Sproul Sr. officiated the church wedding ceremony. Lisa, a thrice divorced nutritionist, legally adopted the four youngest Sproul children on July 12, 2018. Combined they have twelve surviving children, eleven grandchildren and currently reside in Indiana. Church allegiances

Sproul was first ordained in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP). After a failed attempt to transfer to the Presbyterian Church in America, he was ordained in the Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly (RPCGA) in 2000.In January 2006, Sproul and the Session of Saint Peter Presbyterian Church (SPPC), its governing body, were deposed from office by the RPCGA under charges including "abuse of authority in an inexcusable manner" against several families, alleged illegal use of the ARP's tax identification number, planting a church without authority, and practicing infant communion. The SPPC Session issued a letter of apology and asked to be released from general membership in the RPCGA, and the denomination granted their request. SPPC requested pastoral oversight from the CREC, which accepted the congregation as a full member in October 2007. The Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) examined the case and accepted Sproul as an ordained minister in good standing in 2006. In 2010 Sproul transferred his ordination to the denomination Covenant Presbyterian Church (CPC). On March 27, 2019, Sproul announced, "I am a member in good standing at Pine Hills Church here in Fort Wayne. It is a part of the Federation of Evangelical Churches."The FEC is an Anabaptist denomination of Amish Mennonite origin. July 2, 2019, Sproul became ordained through Logos Ministries of Florida and formed the business entity Dunamis Fellowship. February 14, 2021, Sproul planted his newest church, Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sproul announced April 3, 2021, he would launch the Shepherd’s College, August 30, 2021, as a pastors college for training and mentoring men nationally and internationally. Publishing
Sproul has written twelve books, including When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling, Bound for Glory, Biblical Economics, Almighty Over All, Eternity in Our Hearts, and Tearing Down Strongholds. He has edited four books, including After Darkness Light: Distinctives of Reformed Theology, and contributed to several others. He was a regular columnist for World magazine, Homeschooling Today magazine and the Covenant Syndicate.For eleven years he was the editor of Tabletalk magazine, a publication of Ligonier Ministries. In Almighty Over All Sproul takes the position that God created man to have an object worthy of his wrath: "God is as delighted with his wrath as he is with all of his attributes... What I’ll do is create something worthy of my wrath, something on which I can exhibit the glory of my wrath" (p 52). Sproul goes on to state that God is the author/creator of sin: "I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that He created sin" (p 54). Books
 Money Matters, 1985. Reprinted as Dollar Signs of the Times: A Commonsense Guide to Securing Our Economic Future, 1994, and Biblical Economics: A Commonsense Guide to Our Daily Bread, 2002. Supplemented with Biblical Economics Study Guide in 2010. Almighty over All: Understanding the Sovereignty of God, 1999.Quothe the Prophet, 2000. The Brave Monk, 2000. Eternity in Our Hearts, 2002. Tearing Down Strongholds: And Defending the Truth, 2002. Bound for Glory: God's Promise for Your Family, 2003
 When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling, 2004. Believing God: Twelve Biblical Promises Christians Struggle to Accept, 2009. The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child, 2012.References

External links
R.C. Sproul Jr. - Highlands Ministries
Saint Peter Presbyterian Church
<mask>proul Jr RC Sproul's blog. Living people
American Calvinist and Reformed theologians
American Presbyterian ministers
Grove City College alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
1965 births
20th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Presbyterians from Florida
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<mask> (born 1977) is an art critic, art historian, and curator. Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she lives in New York City and Lübeck, Germany. <mask>’s essays and art reviews have been published by a variety of international art magazines and newspapers, including Kunst Bulletin, Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTPulse, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Art Collector, Chelsea Now and Art Lies, among others. She has contributed essays to various monographs, including most recently, publications by Hatje Cantz and Birkhäuser. She is a contributing editor at artcritical. In addition, she has translated several museum catalogue essays, including for the Guggenheim Museum in Venice and the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern. She is a longtime member of the International Association of Art Critics, the Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband, the College Art Association and the Verband_Deutscher_Kunsthistoriker.She has received a Kress Foundation Fellowship (2002) and an Archive- and Library Stipend from the Arp Foundation (2015). In 2016, she was a Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Critic-in-Residence at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in New Brunswick, Canada and was awarded with a publication grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds (2019). In addition, <mask> has curated many exhibitions, including at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, the Macy Art Gallery, Teacher's College, Columbia University and Jason McCoy gallery. Artists she has helped to exhibit include, Lee Krasner, Frederick Kiesler, Thomas Nozkowski, Willy Bo Richardson, Jackson Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart. <mask> has conducted over one hundred interviews with contemporary artists, ranging from Nancy Spero to Mark Dion. In 2013, she conceived of an ongoing Studio Conversation series focused on female artists of different generations and working in a large variety of media. In this context, she has released five books thus far: "New York Studio Conversations; Seventeen Women Talk About Art” (2016), "Berlin Studio Conversations - Twenty Women Talk About Art” (2017), New York Studio Conversations (Part II) (2018), and Rheinland Studio Conversations (2021).All of these were published by The Green Box, Berlin, featuring for example Katharina Grosse, Julie Mehretu, Shirin Neshat, Carolee Schneemann, Kiki Smith and more than eighty others. She has organized many panel discussions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York, and the Shirley Fiterman Art Gallery at the  Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, she has continued to engage in a public dialogue with artists, using the Zoom platform. Her teaching experience includes lectures at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Pratt Institute, New York; Hofstra University, New York; Wave Hill, New York, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada, among others. Education

<mask> attended Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA and received a B.F.A. and Master in the History of Art, Architecture and Design from Pratt Institute, New York in 2002. She currently is a PhD.Candidate at the Humboldt Universität of Berlin. Books

Rheinland Studio Conversations; Fifteen Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2021,
Los Angeles Studio Conversations; Sixteen Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2019,
New York Studio Conversations (Part II); Twenty-One Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2018,
Berlin Studio Conversations; Twenty Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2017,
New York Studio Conversations; Seventeen Women Talk About Art. 28, No.6

Patti Smith: Veil; A glimpse into Smith's work outside of Music, in: Chelsea now, Vol. 3, No. 18, March 27-April 9, 2009

Alfred Kubin, in: The Brooklyn Rail, December 2008

David Byrne; Finding the Voice of the Battery Maritime, in: The Villager, Vol.

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<mask>'Do (born 28 April 1976) is a former Cameroonian footballer and international. He was last a player/coach for both Achill Rovers and the Mayo League representative team. Club career

Cameroon
An attacking central midfielder, N'Do began his career in 1995 with Canon Yaoundé before moving to Coton Sport FC de Garoua in 1997. He won the 1998 Elite One league title with Coton Sport before leaving Africa for European football. Switzerland and France
N'Do's first European club was Swiss side Neuchâtel Xamax. He spent the 1998–99 season with Xamax, with the club finishing sixth. He then joined Racing Club Strasbourg and spent the 1999–2000 and 2000–01 seasons with the club.The club won the 2000–01 Coupe de France but were also relegated to Ligue 2 that same season. N'Do then moved to Saudi Arabia. Asia
After a season with Saudi Arabian club Al-Khaleej, N'Do moved to Chinese club Chengdu Blades, based in Sichuan province, finishing sixth out of 14 teams in the division in his only season. Ireland
N'Do's first Irish club was St Patrick's Athletic whom he joined in 2003. After a season in the League of Ireland First Division, he then signed for Dublin rivals Shelbourne in 2004 and made his debut in August against Cork City. N'Do scored the only goal for the Reds in their home leg against Odense Boldklub in the second round of the Intertoto Cup on 9 July 2006, only for the team go out of the competition 3-1 on aggregate. N'Do picked up a league winner's medal in 2006 after helping Shelbourne to their third league title in four years.In November 2006, he was voted PFAI Player of the Year by his fellow professionals for his contribution to Shels' league-winning campaign. and as a result was included in the team of the year. After completing his contracted period with Shelbourne, N'Do rejoined St Patrick's Athletic, when he signed for John McDonnell's team in December 2006. He signed for Shamrock Rovers on loan in July 2008, scoring one goal for the Hoops in a man of the match performance on 29 August. N'Do signed for Bohemians just before the beginning of the 2009 season and marked his debut for the club with a goal in a 1–0 victory over Dundalk at Oriel Park. He was named Player of the Month for March 2009 for his performances. On 15 July 2009, he scored a crucial goal in the 2010 UEFA Champions League qualifier against Red Bull Salzburg in Austria to secure a 1–1 draw for Bohemians.However N'Do and Bohs would depart that competition over the two legs, losing 2–1 on aggregate. He then added to his collection of medals on 26 September as Bohs beat Waterford United in the final of the League of Ireland Cup. He was not done yet, as a great run of form towards the end of the season helped Bohs to their second League of Ireland Premier Division title in a row, winning by four points over closest rivals Shamrock Rovers with N'Do scoring vital goals against Drogheda United and Sligo Rovers in the closing games of the season. His performances over the season were rewarded when he was once more voted on to the PFAI Team of the Year for 2009 along with teammates Brian Murphy, Conor Powell, Ken Oman, Brian Shelley and Gary Deegan. On 6 November 2009, N'Do played his last match for Bohemians against Bray Wanderers to clinch the title for the Gypsies after they won the league. Like his former manager Pat Fenlon, he is one of a rare group of players to have played for each of Dublin's "Big 4" – St. Patrick's Athletic, Shelbourne, Shamrock Rovers, and Bohemians. On 23 March 2010, N'Do signed for Sligo Rovers until the end of the season, having been a free agent after leaving Bohemians at the end of the previous season.He was voted man of the match at the 2010 FAI Cup Final, won by Sligo Rovers at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 14 November 2010. Under the guidance of new manager Paul Cooke, he continued to haunt former club St Pat's, with several man of the match performances during the 2011 season. He remained with Sligo for the 2012 season, and won the League of Ireland for his fourth time. In 2013, he won another FAI Cup medal with Sligo Rovers, helping them beat Drogheda United 3–2 with a controversial assist to Sligo playmaker Danny North. On 30 July 2014, N'Do signed for Limerick on loan as a player/coach until the end of the season and on 31 January 2015, he signed for Irish amateur club Arrow Harps as a player/coach. He played three games before he rejoined Sligo Rovers. In February 2015, he joined Achill Rovers in a coaching capacity to work with their Under-12 and -13 boy's teams, Under-12 and -14 girl's teams and their junior side.and on 9 April 2015, fan favourite N'Do was re-signed as a coach with Sligo Rovers following the sacking of manager Owen Heary, where he was appointed caretaker manager of the club alongside Gavin Dykes. On 27 March 2016, N'Do made his first appearance for his latest club Achill Rovers F.D.A.C. International career
N'Do played for the Cameroon national team after being discovered by Claude LeRoy just prior to the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and took part in three matches during that tournament. In the qualifying campaign for the 2002 FIFA World Cup he played three times but remained an unused substitute in the finals. However, he has not played for Cameroon since 2002, and has publicly expressed his unwillingness to come back. N'Do earned 21 caps while representing his country at senior level. Honours

Club
Cotonsport Garoua
Elite One: 1998

Strasbourg
Coupe de France: 2000–01

Shelbourne
League of Ireland: 2004, 2006

Bohemians
League of Ireland: 2009
League of Ireland Cup: 2009

Sligo Rovers
League of Ireland: 2012
FAI Cup: 2010, 2011, 2013
League of Ireland Cup: 2010
Setanta Sports Cup: 2014

International
Africa Cup of Nations: 2000, 2002

Individual
PFAI Players' Player of the Year: 2006

Career statistics

Club
Correct as of 7 November 2011.References

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Living people
Sportspeople from Yaoundé
Cameroonian footballers
Association football midfielders
Canon Yaoundé players
Coton Sport FC de Garoua players
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players
RC Strasbourg Alsace players
Khaleej FC players
Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. players
St Patrick's Athletic F.C. players
Shelbourne F.C. players
Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
Bohemian F.C. players
Sligo Rovers F.C. players
Limerick F.C.players
Elite One players
Swiss Super League players
Ligue 1 players
Saudi First Division League players
League of Ireland players
League of Ireland XI players
Cameroon international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
2000 African Cup of Nations players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2002 African Cup of Nations players
Cameroonian expatriate footballers
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in France
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in China
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Ireland
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate footballers in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate footballers in China
Expatriate association footballers in the Republic of Ireland
Cameroonian football managers
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<mask> (; March 19, 1864 – December 12, 1941) was an educator, a researcher of the Hebrew language and literature, a politician, one of the leaders of the Yishuv, the founder of the first Hebrew College for Teachers, one of the founders of the Hebrew Language Committee and the Israel Teachers Union, and the Zikhron Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. Biography
<mask> was born in 1864 in Jerusalem. He was named after his grandfather, a financier and meshulach, who moved from Poland to the Holy land in 1834. His father <mask> was one of the founders of the Nahalat Shiv'a neighborhood in Jerusalem and his mother Serah was the daughter of Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda, the son of Ezekiel Judah, a Rabbi and educator from Iraq. At the age of 14, <mask> started writing a newspaper,  Har Tziyon ("Mount Zion"), which was published in  one copy twice a month; he sustained it for 43 issues. He later wrote for the Hebrew newspapers Ha-Levanon, Hamagid and  Ha-Melitz. In 1885 he married Ita, the daughter of rabbi Yechiel Michel Pines.In 1890 he founded the Hebrew Language Committee together with Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who served as   chairman. Other members were rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn, Ze'ev Yavetz, Abraham Moses Luncz, rabbi Yaakov Meir (who later became the Sephardi chief rabbi), and Yechiel Michel Pines. The committee disbanded after one year, but was reestablished in 1904 when school teachers complained about the lack of Hebrew terminology. <mask> served as president until his death. In 1953 the Academy of the Hebrew language was established on the basis of the committee. In 1903 he participated with Menachem Ussishkin in the founding of the Assembly of the Land of Israel (הכנסייה הארצישראלית)—an attempt to create a representative body of the Jews in the Yishuv. This Assembly only met once but  founded the Teachers Union, the first Jewish labor union in Palestine.<mask> was the president until 1906. Like his younger brother Shlomo <mask>, <mask> was a staunch supporter of the Ottoman Empire in the years after the Young Turk Revolution. He have dozens of speeches praising the reforms of the Second Constitutional Era. In one 1909 speech he described "the unity and beauty which caused the whole people of the homeland to be brothers in one endeavor—the success of the homeland and its people and the pride of membership in one family: the Ottoman family". For both <mask> brothers the reforms represented the possibility of an Ottomanism that was compatible with the goals of Zionism. Ottoman Jews could enjoy the benefits of being citizens in a multi-ethnic Ottoman state and still maintain their distinctly Jewish cultural and social traditions. In 1913, at the time of the War of the Languages in the Yishuv, <mask> resigned from the teachers college that was sustained by the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden (Aid Society of German Jews), which supported German-language professional education in the Technion, and founded the Hebrew school for teachers.It still functions in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood of Jerusalem and is now named after its founder. In 1917 during World War I <mask>  was exiled to Damascus. After the Balfour Declaration was issued, and Mandatory Palestine established under the British Mandate for Palestine, <mask> began to support dividing Jerusalem into separate municipalities. From 1920 until 1928 he was a member of the Assembly of Representatives of Mandatory Palestine. In 1925, when the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was opened, he was invited to teach Hebrew grammar and medieval Hebrew poetry. In 1936 he was appointed as a professor of literature in the university. <mask> wrote numerous books about language, history, and medieval literature.In October 1937 his fifth son, Avinoam, was murdered in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. As a consequence of these events and the Mandatory Palestine administration's handling of Jews, <mask> and his wife wrote in 1939 a letter to the High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan in which they explained why they are returning the awards that they received from the British government:

Ita added in her letter:

<mask> died in 1941 and was buried in the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery. Several streets and educational institutions in Israel are named after him. Family
His wife Ita was the daughter of Yechiel Michel Pines, and Yosef Meyuchas was his brother in law. They had seven children: a daughter, five sons, and another daughter:

 Their second child Eliezer was an engineer, an architect, and the husband of the musician Telma <mask>. They were among the founders of the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem. Their third child Aviezer was the general secretary of the Teachers Union and one of the founders of Maccabi World Union.The sixth child Avinoam was an educator and an Oriental studies researcher. The botanical garden in the Yellin teachers college is named after him. The youngest daughter Serah Ahuva married Leo Picard, one of the most prominent geologists in Israel. <mask>'s sister Sarah was the wife of the chief justice of Hebron in the beginning of the 20th century, Yosef Mani, the grandchild of Eliyahu Mani, one of the leaders of the Iraqi Jewish community. His sister Rachel was the wife of Yehezkel Danin, one of the founders of Tel Aviv. His younger brother Shlomo <mask> was a lawyer, Ottoman nationalist, member of the Committee of Union and Progress ("Young Turks") and strong supporter of the Ottoman Constitution of 1908 that was implemented following the Young Turk Revolution. Contribution to the Hebrew language
Yellin was one of the central people in the process of the revival of the Hebrew language, and particularly active in coining neologisms.Unlike Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who liked using Arabic words for creating Hebrew neologisms, <mask> preferred using only classical Hebrew sources. He was particularly interested in Biblical Hapax legomena, the meanings of which are not always clear, and he reused them, sometimes changing their meaning. For example, he reused the word minzar, which appears in the book of Nahum, and probably means "king", to denote monastery (by association with the word nazir, monk). Other words that he created, and which became common in Modern Hebrew are words for photography (צילום), joke (בדיחה), agriculturalist (חקלאי), actor (שחקן), and others. Together with Yehuda Gur he published a complete Hebrew dictionary in 1920. See also
Education in Israel
Pro-Jerusalem Society - <mask> was a member of its leading Council

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 פירוט בני דוד ואיטה ילין באתר משפחת ריבלין
 דוד ילין, באתר האקדמיה ללשון העברית
 אמנון שפירא, מאה שנים לכתיב העברי, באתר האקדמיה ללשון העברית
 חן מלול, דוד ילין מלמד עברית בעברית, באתר הספרייה הלאומית, אפריל 2017
 'מסיבת יובל-השבעים לר' דוד ילין', דואר היום, 28 בפברואר 1934, עמ' 1. Israeli educators
Jewish grammarians
Jews of the Ottoman Empire
Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine)
Jewish National Council members
Hebrew linguists
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Officers of the Order of the White Lion

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<mask>. "<mask><mask> (born January 24, 1954) is a retired United States Army officer and the current President of Georgia Military College. <mask>'s final military assignment was as Commanding General of United States Army North, also known as the Fifth Army. Education
Originally from Columbus, Georgia, <mask>'s family moved frequently. His father, <mask><mask>, III was a serving officer in the US Army, eventually retiring as the Commander of Fifth Army. During <mask>'s early childhood, his father was stationed at the United States Military Academy. <mask> attended the SHAPE American High School at SHAPE, Belgium followed by Hargrave Military Academy, a private military boarding school in Chatham, Virginia.From there, he was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He continued his education with a master's degree in systems technology from the Naval Postgraduate School and then a master of military arts and sciences from the School of Advanced Military Studies which is part of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. <mask> has also attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University as a Senior Service College Fellow. Military career
Following a battalion command position in the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii in the mid-1990s, <mask> was sent to Haiti to work as political-military liaison in the U.S. Embassy during Operation Uphold Democracy. After his tour in Haiti, he commanded the 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, at Fort Drum, New York. He worked in the Office of the Director for Strategic Plans and Policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and later served as the executive assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. <mask> was serving as deputy director for operations, U.S. Pacific Command, Hawaii, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, when  the command's focus shifted from regional war plans to the Global War on Terrorism.In July 2002 <mask> was assigned as senior military assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz. In this position he served his boss during the preparation, execution, and follow on for the Iraq War's Operation Iraqi Freedom and other aspects of the Global War on Terrorism. From May 2004 until June 2006 <mask> served as the Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division. As the division commander, <mask> oversaw deployments by the units under his command to both Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as disaster-relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Following his command of the 82nd, <mask> was assigned as Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects and spokesperson for the Multi-National Force – Iraq, a position he held for 13 months. United States Army Combined Arms Center

<mask> was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in June 2007 and served as the Commanding General of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. As the Commanding General for the Combined Arms Center, he has responsibility for the Command and General Staff College and 17 other schools, centers, and training programs throughout the United States.NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan
<mask> assumed command of the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A)/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) on November 21, 2009. Prior to the activation of NTM-A at that time, CSTC-A was a two-star command headed by then Major General Richard Formica. Elevating the Afghan training mission to a three-star command reflected the increased priority placed on training the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) as part of President <mask>'s Afghan "Surge." <mask>'s efforts in Afghanistan received praise from figures in the military and government, including Senator Carl Levin, United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Admiral Mike Mullen. During this assignment <mask> was investigated after a subordinate claimed <mask> directed him to use psychological operations in order to influence U.S. political leaders to support the military effort in Afghanistan. Doing so would be a violation of the Smith–Mundt Act. However, an investigation cleared <mask> of wrongdoing.Dawood Military Hospital
Three U.S. military officers testified that <mask> tried to prevent the U.S. Department of Defense from investigating sub-standard conditions at an American-funded Afghan military hospital in Kabul. <mask>'s reasoning, according to Colonel Mark Fassl, was that there was "an election coming." However, Kenneth Moorefield, Deputy Inspector General for Special Plans and Operations, dismissed these allegations, claiming that there was no "attempt...to delay our investigation...or turn it off." The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoDIG) conducted an investigation into the allegations and determined that <mask> and his deputy Major General Gary S. Patton sought in 2011 to restrict contact with a team of investigators probing allegations of corruption and sub-standard patient care at Dawood National Military Hospital. The Inspector General recommended that the Secretary of the Army take appropriate action against <mask> and his immediate subordinate, Major General Patton. An Army spokesman stated that, following the investigation, <mask> "requested that he be retired, knowing that these substantiated allegations would directly prevent any future promotion or assignment to a position of importance and responsibility." United States Army North (Fifth Army)
<mask>'s final military command was United States Army North, also known as the Fifth Army, which was also his father's final military assignment.<mask> turned over command of U.S. Army North to Lieutenant General Perry L. Wiggins on September 4, 2013. Dates of rank

Awards and decorations

Other awards

 Honorary ROCK of the Year in 2008

See also

 International Security Assistance Force
 Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan
 2009 congressional delegation to Afghanistan

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United States Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
United States Army generals
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Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
Recipients of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Recipients of the Polish Army Medal
Recipients of the NATO Meritorious Service Medal
Recipients of the Homeland Security Distinguished Service Medal
Hargrave Military Academy alumni

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<mask> (ca. 1553 probably in Bergen-op-Zoom – after middle 1623 in Dresden) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer and Kapellmeister of the late Renaissance. Life and work
<mask> came to Vienna as a child with his father <mask> († after 1566); his father was "probably the best mechanic and musician" during the reign of Emperor Ferdinand I (1556-1564) and was listed as a singer in the list of court chapels under Emperor Maximilian II from 1564 to 1566. Rogier presumably lived through a time as a choirboy in Vienna and in 1564 he joined the court chapel of Archduke Charles II in Graz as a choirboy. At first Johannes de Cleve, later Annibale Padovano was in charge of this chapel. The latter advised him to further studies with Andrea Gabrieli in Venice, which he did from 1569 to 1572. After his return to Germany, he accepted the position of a tenor singer in Ansbach at the court chapel of  George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1572, where he remained until 1574.On the recommendation of Emilie of Saxony, the sister of Elector August of Saxony, <mask> took up a position as singer and musician at the Dresden court orchestra on 1 February 1575. The Elector listened to him himself, and the old Kapellmeister Antonio Scandello also tested his skills. The composer married in Dresden in 1578, and in the following years the seven sons <mask>, Tobias, Simon, Samuel, Christian, Georg and Daniel were born; four of these later also became composers. In the 1580 list of "Cantorey" he is listed as contralto with an annual salary of 144 gulden. As successor of Antonio Scandello, Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi (1544-1587) and Georg Forster, <mask> reached the position of court bandmaster of the Elector of Saxony under the regency of Christian I, Elector of Saxony on 12 December 1587, and his sons Tobias, Simon and Samuel took part in Dresden as Choir boy. Rogier himself was also able to sing countertenor, and his voice was described by  in his writing Erotematum musicae (1591) as quite high and very noble. In 1611 <mask> married for the second time, namely Sarah Petermann, the daughter of the Dresden Kapellknabeninspektor .When John Georg I of Saxony took office in 1611, the court orchestra was at first largely dismissed and then gradually rebuilt from 1612 onwards. It seems that <mask> was no longer taken into account in this rebuilding. When Elector Johann Georg travelled to Frankfurt with his entourage in 1612 for the election and coronation of Emperor Matthias, his name was not on the list of fellow travellers. Apparently <mask> had been largely relieved of his position as Kapellmeister from 1612 onwards, with a full annual salary of 300 gulden. He was replaced several times by <mask> (1613 and 1614/15), and in 1615 Heinrich Schütz succeeded him. <mask>, however, continued to be active at the Saxon court. His salary was temporarily supplemented by funds to support the choir boys who lived with him.There is also evidence of the quarterly payment of 75 gulden on Trinity Sunday 1621. When Sarah, the composer's second wife, had died and was buried in January 1623, the sermon did not mention <mask>'s death, and the author Burckhard Grossmann mentioned him in the preface to his publication "Angst der Hellen" (Fear of the Light Ones), published in 1623, as one of the living. In March 1624, however, he was no longer listed as a member of the chapel. From this the music-historical researchers conclude that the composer died after mid-1623. Importance
In view of his many years of activity as a musician at the Dresden court (1575-1612), his complete musical oeuvre is not very extensive. In contrast to his predecessors Scandello and Pinello, known as composers, he cultivated the polyphonic stile antico in sacred music as well as the new Italian madrigal style, which was articulated in short quarter and eighth notes. This style was then largely adopted by his students.With his two surviving historical compositions for Immaculate Conception and Christmas, <mask> deliberately took up the Passion of Jesus and the resurrection history of Antonio Scandello. Two other passions of his (after Matthew and Luke?) are missing. In these historical works, the literal speech of the acting individuals is set to music either unanimously or in several voices, depending on its significance, while the frame and other inner movements are set to music in several voices. In this way, the historical compositions of <mask> <mask> form an important link between the corresponding works of Antonio Scandello and Heinrich Schütz. In an inventory of the Dresden Court Church from 1666, a "Handbuchlein von der Begnis, gebuhrt, Leiden und Auferstehung Jesu Christi in schwarzes Leder gebunden" is listed, which could have served Scandello, <mask> as well as Schütz as a text template for their historical works. The 53 hymns in the second part of the Dresden hymn book of 1593 are based on simple, homophonies wisely written.In <mask>'s Introit of 1603, only the antiphon are in five voices on motet tables The antiphon is set to music in a wise manner, while the accompanying psalm texts appear in four parts in the simple Fauxbourdon movement, after which the antiphon is repeated. From 1599 to 1603 the composer's pupils were the later Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Hermann Schein and <mask>'s son <mask> (1592-1657), Leipzig Thomaskantor from 1631 to 1657; among his pupils were also his sons Christian, Daniel and <mask> as well as the later Freiberger Superintendent . Work
 Sacred works
 Der Gebreuchlichsten und vornembsten Gesenge D. Mart. Jahrhunderts. In Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte Nr. 2, 1870, . Reinhard Kade: Der Dresdener Kapellmeister Rogier <mask>, ca.1550–1619. In Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft, No. 4, Leipzig 1889, (). Joh. Frank: Die Introitus-Kompositionen von <mask> <mask>. on WorldCat</ref> Dissertation an der Universität Gießen, 1937. Helmut Federhofer: Jugendjahre und Lehrer <mask> <mask>.In Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, No. 10, 1953, . Alfred Baumgartner: Propyläen Welt der Musik – Die Komponisten – Ein Lexikon in fünf Bänden. Volume 4. Propyläen, Berlin 1989, , . M. Heinemann: Schütz’ Historienkonzeptionen: zum Projekt einer ›Empfängnishistorie‹ nach Rogier <mask>. In Musik und Kirche, No.64, 1994, . Wolfram Steude: Die Dresdner Hofkapelle zwischen Antonio Scandello und Heinrich Schütz (1580–1615). In Hans-Günter Ottenberg, Eberhard Steindorf (ed. ): Der Klang der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden. Olms, Hildesheim among others. 2001, , . References

External links

 Lebenslauf von Rogier Michael auf der Website des Heinrich-Schütz-Hauses

Renaissance composers
17th-century Franco-Flemish composers
Sacred music composers
Belgian Baroque composers
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1623 deaths

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<mask> (December 23, 1930 – February 8, 2007) was the head coach of the Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team for 27 seasons, from 1963 to 1990. He won more games than any other coach in the former Southwest Conference. Achieving success as basketball coach at a university known more for its dedication to its football team, Metcalf endeared himself to Aggie fans for his loyalty to the school and his witticisms. Although his coaching career ended on a bitter note when he was fired in a dispute with A&M athletic director John David Crow in 1990, Metcalf remained loyal to Texas A&M University. He continued to live in the College Station community and supported the Aggie basketball coaches who succeeded him. Early years
<mask><mask>, Jr. grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and attended Tulsa Central High School. He attended A&M Junior College for one year before transferring to East Texas State (now Texas A&M University-Commerce), where he was an All-American guard and led the team to three NAIA national tournaments, twice being named to the all-tournament team.In his senior year in 1955, the team won the NAIA championship;  the same year, Metcalf earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at ETSU. After graduation, Metcalf spent one year as a head coach at Cayuga (Texas) High School, posting a 33–10 record. He then joined the United States Air Force, becoming the Athletic Officer at Sembach Air Base in Germany from 1956 to 1958. As a player and coach, he amassed a 78–17 record and won the All-Germany Championship twice. Coaching career
Metcalf joined the Texas A&M University men's basketball coaching staff in 1958 as the freshman coach under Bob Rogers, who had previously coached Metcalf at East Texas State University. For the next five years, Metcalf continued in that role, before replacing Rogers as head coach in 1963. During his 26½ seasons with Texas A&M from 1963 to 1990, Metcalf won a total of 438 games, 239 of them in conference play, more than any other men's basketball coach in Southwest Conference history.His coaching record was 438–306, 239–158 in conference. Metcalf was known as "The King of Tournaments", for taking the Aggies to 74 in-season tournaments in order to ensure that the team would play at least one game each year on a neutral floor. In the 1989–90 season, the team made a record five tournament appearances. In his first season as a head coach, Metcalf's team went 18–7, winning the Southwest Conference, the Aggies' first conference championship in 41 years. Metcalf's teams won a total of six conference championships (1964, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1986) and only placed lower than fourth in the conference six times. Under Metcalf, the A&M team made five NCAA tournament appearances, including two Sweet Sixteen appearances in 1969 (when only 25 teams were invited to the tournament) and 1980. The latter team won 26 games—a school record that stood until 2006-07—beating North Carolina in double overtime in the second round of the tournament before just missing advancing to the Elite Eight with an overtime loss to eventual champion Louisville.Twenty-four of Metcalf's players earned first-team all-conference citations and John Beasley was named a first-team All-American by the Helms Foundation in 1966. Eighteen players were drafted by professional basketball leagues, including Sonny Parker, who was a 1976 first-round NBA draft pick. In 1971, the A&M men's basketball color barrier was broken when Metcalf personally convinced Mario Brown, an African-American player, to attend the school. Brown later earned second-team All-Southwest Conference honors and was selected as a team co-captain. Metcalf's success prompted the primarily football-focused student body to begin paying attention to basketball. The A&M basketball arena, G. Rollie White Coliseum, often sold out and soon became known as the "Holler House on the Brazos". Metcalf took full advantage of the noisy arena, earning a doctorate in Recreation and Resource Development from Texas A&M in 1974 with a dissertation titled "Crowd Behavior at Southwest Conference Games".The longest serving basketball coach in Southwest Conference history, Metcalf was fired after feuding with Athletic Director John David Crow midway through the 1989–1990 season. When asked by the media what happened between the two, Metcalf remarked, "I made a comment that I didn't think John David was all that bright. And I thought I was being generous." The next year the Aggies began what would grow into a fifteen-year basketball slump that included only one winning season. The team did not approach Metcalf's success until 2005, when A&M hired former UTEP coach Billy Gillispie. Gillispie reached out to Metcalf, inviting him to practices and encouraging him to attend the home games. Post-coaching career
After being relieved of his coaching duties, Metcalf worked for the A&M Center of Academic Enhancement.Until 1994, he often spoke at banquets, athletic events, and high schools, including three appearances at prison graduations, and was twice selected to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Career honors
He was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the East Texas State Athletics Hall of Fame, the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, and the Texas A&M Athletics Hall of Fame. He was also elected into Phi Kappa Phi, one of the most prestigious honor societies in academia. Metcalf had such a profound effect on Aggie basketball that during the 2006–2007 season, former Aggie coach Billy Gillispie began a tournament in his honor held in College Station, Texas, titled the Shelby Metcalf Classic. Metcalf died on February 8, 2007 from cancer. He was survived by his widow, Janis, and their daughter, Shelley Metcalf Valerius. Head coaching record

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High school basketball coaches in the United States
Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball coaches
Texas A&M–Commerce Lions men's basketball players
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<mask> (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements. Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote  300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("The Dumpling", 1880), is often considered his most famous work. Biography

Henri-René-Albert-<mask> was born on 5 August 1850 at the late 16th-century Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) department in France. He was the first son of Laure Le Poittevin and <mask>, both from prosperous bourgeois families.His mother urged his father when they married in 1846 to obtain the right to use the particule or form "<mask>assant" instead of "Maupassant" as his family name, in order to indicate noble birth. Gustave discovered a certain Jean-Baptiste Maupassant, conseiller-secrétaire to the King, who was ennobled in 1752. He then obtained from the Tribunal Civil of Rouen by decree dated 9 July 1846 the right to style himself "<mask>ant" instead of "Maupassant" and this was his surname at the birth of his son <mask> in 1850. When Maupassant was 11 and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband, who was violent towards her. After the separation, Laure Le Poittevin kept her two sons. With the father's absence, Maupassant's mother became the most influential figure in the young boy's life. She was an exceptionally well-read woman and was very fond of classical literature, particularly Shakespeare.Until the age of thirteen, <mask> lived happily with his mother, at Étretat, in the Villa des Verguies, where, between the sea and the luxuriant countryside, he grew very fond of fishing and outdoor activities. At age thirteen, his mother next placed her two sons as day boarders in a private school, the Institution Leroy-Petit, in Rouen—the Institution Robineau of Maupassant's story La Question du Latin—for classical studies. From his early education he retained a marked hostility to religion, and to judge from verses composed around this time he deplored the ecclesiastical atmosphere, its ritual and discipline. Finding the place to be unbearable, he finally got himself expelled in his penultimate year. In 1867, as he entered junior high school, Maupassant made acquaintance with Gustave Flaubert at Croisset at the insistence of his mother. Next year, in autumn, he was sent to the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen where he proved a good scholar indulging in poetry and taking a prominent part in theatricals. In October 1868, at the age of 18, he saved the famous poet Algernon Charles Swinburne from drowning off the coast of Étretat.The Franco-Prussian War broke out soon after his graduation from college in 1870; he enlisted as a volunteer. In 1871, he left Normandy and moved to Paris where he spent ten years as a clerk in the Navy Department. During this time his only recreation and relaxation was boating on the Seine on Sundays and holidays. Gustave Flaubert took him under his protection and acted as a kind of literary guardian to him, guiding his debut in journalism and literature. At Flaubert's home, he met Émile Zola and the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, as well as many of the proponents of the realist and naturalist schools. He wrote and played himself in a comedy in 1875 (with the benediction of Flaubert), "À la feuille de rose, maison turque". In 1878, he was transferred to the Ministry of Public Instruction and became a contributing editor to several leading newspapers such as Le Figaro, Gil Blas, Le Gaulois and l'Écho de Paris.He devoted his spare time to writing novels and short stories. In 1880 he published what is considered his first masterpiece, "Boule de Suif", which met with instant and tremendous success. Flaubert characterized it as "a masterpiece that will endure." This was Maupassant's first piece of short fiction set during the Franco-Prussian War, and was followed by short stories such as "Deux Amis", "Mother Savage", and "Mademoiselle Fifi". The decade from 1880 to 1891 was the most fertile period of Maupassant's life. Made famous by his first short story, he worked methodically and produced two or sometimes four volumes annually. His talent and practical business sense made him wealthy.In 1881 he published his first volume of short stories under the title of La Maison Tellier; it reached its twelfth edition within two years. In 1883 he finished his first novel, Une Vie (translated into English as A Woman's Life), 25,000 copies of which were sold in less than a year. His second novel, Bel-Ami, which came out in 1885, had thirty-seven printings in four months. His editor, Havard, commissioned him to write more stories, and Maupassant continued to produce them efficiently and frequently. At this time he wrote what many consider to be his greatest novel, Pierre et Jean. With a natural aversion to society, he loved retirement, solitude, and meditation. He traveled extensively in Algeria, Italy, England, Brittany, Sicily, Auvergne, and from each voyage brought back a new volume.He cruised on his private yacht Bel-Ami, named after his novel. This life did not prevent him from making friends among the literary celebrities of his day: Alexandre Dumas, fils had a paternal affection for him; at Aix-les-Bains he met Hippolyte Taine and became devoted to the philosopher-historian. Flaubert continued to act as his literary godfather. His friendship with the Goncourts was of short duration; his frank and practical nature reacted against the ambiance of gossip, scandal, duplicity, and invidious criticism that the two brothers had created around them in the guise of an 18th-century style salon. Maupassant was one of a fair number of 19th-century Parisians (including Charles Gounod, Alexandre Dumas, fils, and Charles Garnier) who did not care for the Eiffel Tower. He often ate lunch in the restaurant at its base, not out of preference for the food but because it was only there that he could avoid seeing its otherwise unavoidable profile. He and forty-six other Parisian literary and artistic notables attached their names to an elaborately irate letter of protest against the tower's construction, written to the Minister of Public Works.Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms, including Joseph Prunier, <mask> Valmont, and Maufrigneuse (which he used from 1881 to 1885). In his later years he developed a constant desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death and paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth. It has been suggested that his brother, Hervé, also suffered from syphilis and the disease may have been congenital. On 2 January 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat, and was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died 6 July 1893 from syphilis. Maupassant penned his own epitaph: "I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing." He is buried in Section 26 of the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris. Significance
Maupassant is considered a father of the modern short story.Literary theorist Kornelije Kvas wrote that along "with Chekhov, <mask> is the greatest master of the short story in world literature. He is not a naturalist like Zola; to him, physiological processes do not constitute the basis of human actions, although the influence of the environment is manifested in his prose. In many respects, Maupassant's naturalism is Schopenhauerian anthropological pessimism, as he is often harsh and merciless when it comes to depicting human nature. He owes most to Flaubert, from whom he learned to use a concise and measured style and to establish a distance towards the object of narration." He delighted in clever plotting, and served as a model for Somerset Maugham and O. Henry in this respect. One of his famous short stories, "The Necklace", was imitated with a twist by Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads"). Henry James's "Paste" adapts another story of his with a similar title, "The Jewels".Taking his cue from Balzac, Maupassant wrote comfortably in both the high-Realist and fantastic modes; stories and novels such as "L'Héritage" and Bel-Ami aim to recreate Third-Republic France in a realistic way, whereas many of the short stories (notably "Le Horla" and "Qui sait?") describe apparently supernatural phenomena. The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds; Maupassant was fascinated by the burgeoning discipline of psychiatry, and attended the public lectures of Jean-Martin Charcot between 1885 and 1886. Legacy

Leo Tolstoy used Maupassant as the subject for one of his essays on art: The Works of <mask> Maupassant. His stories are second only to Shakespeare in their inspiration of movie adaptations with films ranging from Stagecoach, Oyuki the Virgin and Masculine Feminine. Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography mentions him in the following text:

"I cannot at all conceive in which century of history one could haul together such inquisitive and at the same time delicate psychologists as one can in contemporary Paris: I can name as a sample – for their number is by no means small, ... or to pick out one of the stronger race, a genuine Latin to whom I am particularly attached, <mask> Maupassant." William Saroyan wrote a short story about Maupassant in his 1971 book, Letters from 74 rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody.Isaac Babel wrote a short story about him, “<mask> Maupassant.” It appears in The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel and in the story anthology You’ve Got To Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe. <mask>, in an early draft for The Questor Tapes, wrote a scene in which the android Questor employs Maupassant's theory that, "the human female will open her mind to a man to whom she has opened other channels of communications." In the script Questor copulates with a woman to obtain information that she is reluctant to impart. Due to complaints from NBC executives, this part of the script was never filmed. Michel Drach directed and co-wrote a 1982 French biographical film: <mask> Maupassant. <mask> stars as the titular character. Several of Maupassant's short stories, including "La Peur" and "The Necklace", were adapted as episodes of the 1986 Indian anthology television series Katha Sagar.Bibliography

Short stories

"A Country Excursion"
"A Coup d'État"
"A Coward"
"A Cremation"
"Abandoned"
"The Accent"
"An Adventure in Paris"
"Afloat"
"After"
"After wars"
"Alexandre"
"All Over"
"Allouma"
"An Artifice"
"At Sea"
"Babette"
"The Baroness"
"Bed 29"
"Belhomme's Beast"
"Bertha"
"Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"
"Boitelle"
"Châli"
"Coco"
"Confessing"
"The Accursed Bread"
"The Adopted Son"
"The Apparition"
"The Artist"
"The Baroness"
"The Beggar"
"The Blind Man"
"Boule de Suif" (Ball of Fat)
"The Cake"
"The Capture of Walter Schnaffs"
"The Child"
"The Christening"
"Clair de Lune"
"Cleopatra in Paris"
"Clochette"
"A Cock Crowed"
"The Colonel's Ideas"
"The Confession"
"The Corsican Bandit"
"The Cripple"
"A Crisis"
"The Dead Girl (a.k.a. "Was it a Dream?")" "A Widow"
"The Will"
"The Wolf"
"The Wooden Shoes"
"The Wreck"
"The Wrong House"
"Yvette Samoris"

Novels
 Une Vie (1883)
 Bel-Ami (1885)
 Mont-Oriol (1887)
 Pierre et Jean (1888)
 Fort comme la mort (1889)
 Notre Cœur (1890)
 L'Angelus (1910) - unfinished
 L'Âmé Éntrangère (1910) - unfinished

Short-story collections
 Les Soirées de Médan (with Zola, Huysmans et al. Contains Boule de Suif by Maupassant) (1880)
 La Maison Tellier (1881)
 Mademoiselle Fifi (1883)
 Contes de la Bécasse (1883)
Duchoux
 Miss Harriet (1884)
 Les Sœurs Rondoli (1884)
 Clair de lune (1884) (contains "Les Bijoux")
 Yvette (1884)
 Contes du jour et de la nuit (1885) (contains "La Parure" or "The Necklace")
 Monsieur Parent (1886)
 La Petite Roque (1886)
 Toine (1886)
 Le Horla (1887)
 Le Rosier de Madame Husson (1888)
 La Main gauche (1889)
 L'Inutile Beauté (1890)

Travel writing
 Au soleil (1884)
 Sur l'eau (1888)
 La Vie errante (1890)

Poetry
 Des Vers (1880) containing Nuit de Neige

References

Further reading
 Abamine, E. P. "German-French Sexual Encounters of the Franco-Prussian War Period in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant." CLA Journal 32.3 (1989): 323–334. online
 Dugan, John Raymond. Illusion and reality: a study of descriptive techniques in the works of Guy de Maupassant (Walter de Gruyter, 2014).Fagley, Robert. Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity: Illegitimacy in <mask> <mask> and <mask> (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014) online. Harris, Trevor A. Le V. Maupassant in the Hall of Mirrors: Ironies of Repetition in the Work of <mask> <mask> (Springer, 1990). Rougle, Charles. "Art and the Artist in Babel's" <mask> Maupassant"." The Russian Review 48.2 (1989): 171-180. online
 Sattar, Atia."Certain Madness: <mask> Maupassant and Hypnotism." Configurations 19.2 (2011): 213–241. regarding  both versions of his horror story “The Horla” (1886/1887). online
 Stivale, Charles J. The art of rupture: narrative desire and duplicity in the tales of <mask> Maupassant (University of Michigan Press, 1994). External links

 <mask> Maupassant timeline and stories at AsNotedIn.com
 Complete list of stories by <mask> Maupassant at Prospero's Isle.com

 Université McGill: le roman selon les romanciers Recensement et analyse des écrits non romanesques de <mask> Maupassant
 Works by <mask> Maupassant at Online Literature (HTML)
 Works by <mask> Maupassant in Ebooks
 Works by <mask> Maupassant (text, concordances and frequency list)
Maupassantiana, a French scholar's website on Maupassant and his works

 Oeuvres de Maupassant, à Athena
 <mask> <mask>'s The Jewels audiobook with video at YouTube
 <mask> <mask>'s The Jewels audiobook at Libsyn

1850 births
1893 deaths
People from Seine-Maritime
19th-century French novelists
19th-century French short story writers
French fantasy writers
French horror writers
French psychological fiction writers
French male short story writers
French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War
Légion d'honneur refusals
Lycée Henri-IV alumni
Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni
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Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery
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<mask> (born December 21, 1925), known during his recording career as <mask>The Kid" <mask> and more recently as Rev. William R<mask>, is an American preacher and former R&B and rock and roll singer and songwriter, best known for his 1955 song, "Red Hot." <mask> began recording after joining Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in the early 1950s. He recorded for various labels, including Sun, Chess, and Vee-Jay before forming his own, Tarpon Records, where he recorded Denise LaSalle and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. He has worked with blues musicians, such as Earl Hooker, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Robert Knighthawk. Life and career
<mask>, who is African American, was born in Tarpon Springs, Florida on December 21, 1925. He learned the piano in church, playing in various local bands.In 1943, he joined the United States Navy. After World War II he began resumed playing around Tampa with acts such as Ivory Mitchell, the Billy Battle Band, and Alfonso Brown Band. Following a spell in one group where the members dressed as outlaws, he picked up the nickname "<mask> Kid". <mask> received an athletic scholarship to attend Florida A&M University, but left to join the United States Air Force during the Korean War in 1952. While stationed in Greenville, Mississippi, he met bandleader Ike Turner, who recruited him into his Kings of Rhythm. Turner, a talent scout for Sun Records, arranged a session for <mask>. His first single, "No Teasing Around" / "If Lovin' Is Believing" was released in February 1954.He released another single backed by Turner on guitar before leaving his band and joining a group led by Phineas Newborn. He stayed with Sun as a songwriter, writing and recording "When It Rains, It Really Pours", later recorded by Elvis Presley, and "Red Hot", which later became a hit for both <mask> Riley and Bob Luman, and later for Robert Gordon and Link Wray, but was not a commercial success for <mask> himself. In late 1955 he joined Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, making records such as "Every Woman I Know (Crazy 'Bout Automobiles)", released a year later but with little commercial success. The song was subsequently covered in 1965 by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs on their Wooly Bully album and by Ry Cooder on his 1980 album Borderline. Soon afterwards <mask> joined Chess Records as the recording manager. On the Chess label he recorded "Holy Mackerel Baby" and a remake of "Woodchuck" which was an earlier Sun single. He also released a single with Willie Dixon's band.As a songwriter, <mask> wrote dozens of songs for artists such as Junior Wells, Willie Mabon, Wynonie Harris, and Buddy Guy. After recording for several smaller labels, he formed his own Tarpon Records in 1966, releasing Denise LaSalle's debut single as well as his own records. He also continued to play in clubs and on European blues tours. In the late 1970s, <mask> decided to dedicate himself to his religion and compose gospel music. In 2005 he was reported as having a church in Oak Park, Illinois, as Rev. William R<mask>. In 2009, Bear Family Records released a 33-track compilation album of <mask>'s Sun recordings, Red Hot: The Sun Years, Plus.The plus includes his Vee Jay and Chess singles. <mask> is inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. <mask> received the 2017 Florida Folk Heritage Award at the Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum for his contributions as a songwriter, performer, and producer. Discography

Compilations

 2009: Red Hot: The Sun Years, Plus (Bear Family Records)

Albums appearances

 1967: The Marvlus Sound of R&B & Soul (President Records)
 1997: Red Hot About the Blues (Titanic Records)
 1974: The Sun Story 1952-1968 (Sun Records)
 1976: Sun: The Roots Of Rock: Volume 3: Delta Rhythm Kings (Charly Records)
 1984: Sun Records: The Blues Years 1950-1956 (Sun Records)
 1988: Black Music Originals Vol.3 (Sun Records)
 1989: Black Music Originals Vol 4 (Sun Records)
 1991: The Ultimate Sun Blues Collection (Disky Records)
 1992: Way After Midnight (Sun Records)
 1994: The Complete Sun Singles, Vol. 1 - From The Vaults (Bear Family Records)
 1995: The Complete Sun Singles, Vol. 2 - From The Vaults (Bear Family Records)
 1998: Chicago Soul Cellar (Rare Soul Uncovered From M-Pac! Records) (Charly Records)
 2001: The Kings of Rhythm featuring Ike Turner – The Sun Sessions (Varèse Sarabande)
 2004: Vee Jay Records Chicago Hit Factory (Charly Records)
 2010: Ike Turner – That Kat Sure Could Play!

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<mask>,  (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist and author, best known for her newspaper comic strip For Better or For Worse. She was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award. Early life
Born <mask> in Collingwood, Ontario, she was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) with hopes of making a living as an artist. After working briefly in animation, most notably as an uncredited cel colorist on The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show, she married in 1969 and moved back to Ontario, where she worked as a medical artist at McMaster University for five years. <mask>'s illustrations are in storage in McMaster's medical archive. They include depictions of routine hospital happenings, such as a father smoking in the waiting room.While expecting her first child, she drew single-panel cartoons for the ceiling of her obstetrician Murray Enkin's office. Those drawings were published in her first book, David, We're Pregnant! which was published in 1973 under her then name of <mask> (and subsequently republished under the name of <mask>) and became a best seller. After her divorce, she did freelance commercial and medical art in a studio converted from a greenhouse. Hi Mom! Hi Dad!, a sequel to David, was published in 1975. Shortly thereafter, she met and married dental student <mask>.For Better or For Worse

In 1978, the <mask>s and their two children relocated to Lynn Lake, Manitoba. She was asked by Universal Press Syndicate if she was interested in doing a comic strip. She sent twenty copies of a strip called The Johnstons, based on her family "since we were the only people I knew I could draw over and over again with some consistency." Much to her surprise, the syndicate approved of the initial strips and offered her a twenty-year contract. After a six-month "work-up" period, the strip first appeared in newspapers throughout Canada under the title For Better or For Worse. The strip has been carried by about 2000 newspapers in Canada, the U.S. and 20 other countries. Many story lines draw from her family's real-life experiences.Her main characters are named after the middle names of her husband and children, with the exception of the mother, as <mask> has no middle name. Instead, she elected to name the protagonist Elly, in honor of a friend of hers who died at a young age. Her brother-in-law <mask> inspired the controversial story about Lawrence's coming out. Deanna was based on Aaron's high school sweetheart, who died in a car accident years after their relationship ended. <mask>'s niece Stephanie is developmentally handicapped and her experience is shared in recent story lines on the integration of developmentally handicapped students in April's class. Elizabeth's teaching career was based on daughter Kate's decision not to pursue a career in education, but provided <mask> with a chance to imagine how that might have turned out. The characters in For Better of For Worse have aged in "real time".On August 31, 2008, <mask> herself appeared in the Sunday strip, which was supposed to be the end of the cartoon, and announced that she would take the story back nearly 30 years to soon after its beginning, with half of the material to be new and the other half repeats. The "new" material was actually reworked versions of older strips with retouched artwork and new dialogue that was sometimes only tweaked to use modern expressions or product names in place of older ones. On seldom occasion an entire strip or a panel has been redone, such as Michael or Elizabeth spanked being turned into a "time out". One spanking strip that remained was a story arc where Michael was spanked by John for hitting another child, and it percolating into a discussion with Elly that she disagreed that spanking was the proper remedy (although she agreed with John that Michael's violent attitude had to be nipped in the bud). Other strips, such as Elly getting annoyed and then hurling something at the back of John's head (such as a coffee cup) were also censored. As the strip was a family strip, issues of throwing a hard object behind someone's back raised issues of spousal abuse. Personal life
Since the 1990s, <mask> has been notably forthcoming in her discussion of the abuse inflicted on her by her mother and her first husband, and being unprepared to be a mother to her son Aaron—topics that have also been reflected in the strip.A column by Jan Wong of The Globe and Mail, reprinted in Lunch with Jan Wong, notably portrayed <mask> as somewhat difficult and irascible. <mask> resided in the Northern Ontario town of Corbeil for many years during For Better or For Worses run. Her daughter Katie also lived in Corbeil and worked at the For Better or For Worse studio, while her son Aaron works in the television industry in Vancouver, BC. In September 2007, <mask> and <mask> announced their separation and intention to divorce. <mask> had talked about either ending For Better or For Worse or handing it off to another cartoonist, but changed her mind as a result of her split from her husband of over 30 years. In September 2008, For Better or For Worse transitioned into a unique mix of straight re-runs and strips that featured original 1980s artwork (sometimes slightly retouched) but new dialogue by <mask> to reflect societal and technological changes. In September 2015, <mask> and her daughter moved back to North Vancouver.<mask> had a close friendship with Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts. She wrote the introduction to one of the volumes of Fantagraphics Books' series The Complete Peanuts. On 13 March 2014, Library and Archives Canada announced that it had acquired material to add to its <mask> collection, including 3282 drawings, 296 watercolours, 244 photographs, about 3.5 m of textual items, and a few other objects. Hi Dad!, 1975
 Do They Ever Grow Up? Leaving Home (With Andie Parton)
 See For Better or For Worse for compilations of the comic strip

References

External links

 Official Website of For Better or For Worse
 Official Website of FBorFW character Ned Tanner
 1994 Hogan's Alley interview, conducted by Tom Heintjes
  NCS Awards
 The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum: <mask> Collection guide

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20th-century Canadian artists
21st-century Canadian artists
20th-century Canadian women artists
21st-century Canadian women artists
Canadian comic strip cartoonists
Members of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Manitoba
People from Nipissing District
Reuben Award winners
Canadian female comics artists
Female comics writers
People from Collingwood, Ontario
People from North Vancouver
Writers from Manitoba
Canadian women artists
Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni

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<mask> (born January 8, 1957) is an American businessman, investor, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and former politician. He is a former senior executive with America Online (AOL), and the founder, chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment. He is also founding member and investor in the Revolution Growth Fund, which includes investments in FedBid, Resonate Insights, Optoro and CustomInk. He is the founder and chairman of SnagFilms, which produced the documentary film Nanking. The film was honored with the 2009 News & Documentary Emmy Award. He is also an author, having published the book The Business of Happiness in 2010. Personal background
<mask> was born on January 8, 1957, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Born to a family of working-class Greek immigrant parents and grandparents who were mill workers, who worked as a waiter and a secretary. When his high school guidance counselor evaluated his skill set, the counselor concluded that young <mask> was destined to work in a grocery store. <mask> also reflects on his working-class roots that being a grocery store manager was all his dad aspired him to be. During his youth, Leonsis mowed lawns for extra money. One day when mowing, he stumbled upon mowing the lawn owned by a wealthy stockbroker and Georgetown alumnus named Jim Shannon. Impressed by Leonsis, he helped Leonsis gain admission into Georgetown University. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, before moving to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Lowell High School in 1973.In 2005, he was honored as one of Lowell High School's Distinguished Alumni for reaching the highest level of accomplishment and possessing the highest standards of integrity and character. He was first in his family to go to university where he attended Georgetown University to pursue his undergraduate studies majoring in American Studies, and graduated in 1977 at the top of his class. Also during college, <mask>, with encouragement from a mentor, Reverend Joseph Durkin, used computers and primitive punch cards to his thesis where it introduced him to the potential fortunes that were to be made in the emerging software and personal computer industries of the early 1980s. After graduating from college, he then moved back to his parents' home in Lowell and began working for Wang Laboratories as a corporate communications manager  and Harris Corp. as a marketing executive. Business career

LIST Magazine
<mask> left Harris Corporation in March 1981 when, at the age 25, he moved to Florida and began his first business venture. His first venture was publishing LIST, a technology magazine that focused on the then-new personal computing industry. He raised $1 million in seed capital with his partner Vincent Pica,.The first issue of the magazine was published in 1982, and was a huge success; $50,000 worth of copies were sold near cash registers, bookstores, and newsstands. Two years later, he sold the company to Thomson Reuters for $40 million netting him $20 million. AOL
In 1987, <mask> established the marketing communications company, Redgate Communications Corporation. When the organization was acquired by America Online (AOL) in 1994, <mask> began working with AOL as a senior executive, remaining with the company for 13 years. Under his leadership, AOL increased its membership from under 800,000 members to over 8 million, while their annual revenue increased from $100 million to $1.5 billion. He held numerous positions at AOL during his years there, completing his tenure and retiring in 2006 as the audience group's president and vice-chairman. , he serves as vice chairman emeritus of AOL.Monumental Sports & Entertainment
<mask> is the founder, majority owner, chairman and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns the NHL's Washington Capitals, NBA's Washington Wizards, NBA G League's Capital City Go-Go, WNBA's Washington Mystics, and formerly the AFL's Washington Valor and Baltimore Brigade. Monumental Sports additionally owns the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. and manages the MedStar Capitals Iceplex and George Mason University's EagleBank Arena. Formed in 2010 by a merger between Leonsis' Lincoln Holdings with Washington Sports & Entertainment, Monumental Sports & Entertainment is the only privately held company in a top-10 market to own and operate five professional sports teams and a major arena. Media
In January 2013, Monumental Sports & Entertainment launched Monumental Network, a digital platform that serves as a hub for Washington's sports and entertainment news. In 2016 a rebranded Monumental Sports Network was launched for digital, mobile and over-the-top platforms. The new Monumental Sports Network offers an OTT service that provides live streaming of Mystics, Valor and AFL Baltimore games as well as additional live events and games. Monumental and CSN Mid-Atlantic formed an advanced media partnership that not only extended CSN's exclusive media rights to the Capitals and Wizards but also saw Monumental become an equity partner in CSN.Additionally, NBC Sports Group invested in Monumental Sports Network, becoming an equity partner. Management
After purchasing the Wizards, <mask> criticized the NBA's salary cap at a luncheon with business leaders. He was fined $100,000 by the league, for "unauthorized public comments regarding the league's collective bargaining negotiations." <mask> has sought to roll-back changes to the Wizards and Capitals franchises that coincided with the opening of the Verizon Center in 1997. In 2007, he changed the Capitals team logo and its colors back to their original red, white, and blue, and in May 2011, received positive responses from media, fans, players and alumni when the Wizards unveiled a similar red, white and blue color scheme, along with uniforms reminiscent of those worn by the team under their former name, the Bullets, when they won the NBA Championship in 1978. Additionally, he had taken under consideration restoring the Bullets name to the franchise, though critics said that this would "send the wrong message" about gun violence in Washington. Washington Capitals
<mask> has owned the Washington Capitals since the spring of 1999, and in that timeframe the team has won ten Southeast Division titles, three Presidents' Trophies, recorded more than 200 consecutive sellouts at Verizon Center (now Capital One Arena), and won a Stanley Cup Championship.In the early years of his ownership, the Capitals went on to win back-to-back Southeast Division titles in 2000 and 2001, but lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Pittsburgh Penguins. In summer 2001, the Capitals traded for Jaromír Jágr and signed him to what was at the time, the largest contract in NHL history. The trade was enthusiastically well received by fans and over 300 people showed up at Dulles International Airport to greet Jágr when he arrived. After Jágr was traded in 2004, <mask> was criticized by fans. He was involved in a physical altercation with a fan, who led a mocking chant of <mask> during the game and hoisted a sign chiding him. In the altercation, Leonsis grabbed and threw the fan to the ground, which also caused a young child to fall to the ground. For his involvement in the scuffle, <mask> was fined $100,000.He also received a suspension of one week, during which he was prohibited from having any contact with the team. After the incident, <mask> personally called the fan to apologize for his actions and invited him and his family to watch a game in the owner's box. In 2009, a season ticket holder informed Leonsis of a homeless man, Scott Lovell, who spent his nights sleeping outside Verizon Center. <mask> found Lovell a part-time job as a restaurant kitchen worker and provided him with a paid and furnished apartment, a prosthetic leg and Capitals season tickets for life. In return, Lovell vowed to remain clean and sober. In 2010, journalist Damien Cox, author of the Ovechkin Project, a biography of Alexander Ovechkin, wrote that <mask> was trying to circumvent the NHL's salary cap when signing Ovechkin's contract. He also alleged that <mask> was bribing bloggers for positive coverage of the Capitals.<mask> said that Cox was angry that he did not receive the access to Ovechkin that he wanted and defended his support for the league. During the 2009–2010 season, the Capitals earned the NHL's President's Trophy as the team that finished with the most points in the league during the regular season. The 2010–2011 season marked the highest attendance in franchise history, drawing 754,309 fans. The Capitals, like other teams, have raised ticket prices in recent years. In 2011, after raising ticket prices for the fourth consecutive year while shrinking the size of beers sold at the Verizon Center, he earned the nickname "Leon$i$". In 2001, <mask> claimed to have written a computer program that prevented Pittsburgh Penguins fans (the Capitals first-round opponent) from purchasing tickets online. When asked if the actions were unfair, <mask> stated, "I don't care.I'm going to keep doing it." Again in 2009, he received criticism for preventing visiting team fans from purchasing Capitals playoff tickets. In the face of community opposition, <mask> has persisted with a plan to expand the billboards around the Verizon Center. Critics said the signage would make the arena more garish and cheapen DC's Chinatown, <mask> said it was necessary to raise an additional $20 to 30 million in annual revenue, and a sports expert explained that "an owner saddled with underperforming teams is under greater pressure to find income sources." <mask> persevered and in March 2013 construction of the new signs were announced. In 2013, <mask> received a letter about Jack Dibler, a lifelong Capitals fan who had recently been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. In response, <mask> sent Dibler a package that included a signed Alexander Ovechkin jersey and a letter inviting Dibler and his family to a game.On June 7, 2018, the Washington Capitals won the Stanley Cup Championship by defeating the Vegas Golden Knights 4 games to 1. This was the first Stanley Cup victory in the history of the Washington Capitals. Washington Wizards

<mask> became the majority owner of the Washington Wizards in June 2010, inheriting a team that had 26 wins and 56 losses during the previous season. <mask> has taken a fan-centric approach to running the franchise, by listening and responding to the concerns of Wizards supporters through his email and personal website. On May 10,

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