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<mask>  (October 16, 1877 – March 23, 1943) was the first Canadian-born president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1918–1943). He was responsible for building the Royal York Hotel and RMS Empress of Britain, and later helped establish Canadian Pacific Air Lines. During World War II, he co-ordinated Canadian shipping and rail transport before ill health forced him to retire. He was Chancellor of Queen's University (1919–1923) and chancellor of McGill University (1920–1943). A lifelong philanthropist, on his death he left half of his estate to charity. He left his home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile to McGill, and it is today known as Chancellor Beatty Hall. Early life

Born at Thorold, Ontario, he was the son of <mask> (1834–1913) and Harriet Minerva Powell (1844–1916).<mask>'s grandfather emigrated to Thorold from Ireland with his brother (a trained Land surveyor) in 1835, purchasing land on which they built a Grist mill, leather tannery and sawmill. By 1863, the <mask>s had purchased the Parry Sound estate to add to the timber supplies needed for their enterprises at Thorold. In order to ship the timber between their two properties they established the Georgian Bay Transit Company, which <mask> took control of in 1865, and transformed it into the Beatty Line of Steamships which later expanded to operate on the Great Lakes. <mask> was described as "a man of unusual executive ability and vision", qualities that his son, <mask>, inherited in no small dose. <mask> was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, earning his law degree from the Osgoode Hall Law School in 1898. For the next three years he articled with the Toronto law firm of McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin & Creelman. Canadian Pacific Railway, Steamships & Air Lines

<mask>'s father's steam line was bought out by the Canadian Pacific Railway for transportation across the Great Lakes and his vessels became the nucleus of the CPR's trans-Atlantic steam line, Canadian Pacific Steamships.<mask> remained as marine advisor to the CPR after his retirement in 1892, and it was through this connection that <mask> came to the attention of the CPR and was appointed as their general counsel in 1901. On the retirement of the CPR's Lord Shaughnessy in 1918, <mask> was chosen to be his successor as president and executive chief of the world's greatest transportation system, just before his 41st birthday. <mask>'s lifetime ambition had been to become a judge, and he at first refused the significant promotion. He was the first Canadian-born president of the CPR, a position he held until his death in 1943, and assumed the monumental task of managing the destiny of the great railway and steamship line. Lord Mount Stephen was seen as the organizer of the CPR; Sir William Van Horne as the builder; Lord Shaughnessy as the expander, and Sir <mask> as the modernizer. During his term as president, Beatty was involved in building the Royal York Hotel, the RMS Empress of Britain II and Canadian Pacific Airlines. <mask> saw the CPR through peak periods as well as the depression.In the boom years the CPR spent many millions in improving its enormous and diverse property holdings. <mask> was always a believer in the great future of the Canadian West, and he was an inspiration to young Canada. Contributions to education in Canada

He was best known as chancellor of McGill University, a position he held from 1921 until his death. In 1919, <mask> had been elected chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, retiring in 1923. He was elected a member of the Corporation of Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. From 1927 he served as a governor of Lower Canada College in Montreal and was chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee for the Province of Quebec. His home on Pine Avenue in the Golden Square Mile of Montreal has since been named '<mask> Hall' and is now part of McGill University.He was also an early and enthusiastic supporter and donator to Martha Allan's Montreal Repertory Theatre. Honorary degrees were conferred on him by leading universities in Canada, Ireland, Scotland and the United States. Internationally these included Trinity College, Dublin, University of St Andrews, Dartmouth College and New York University. In Canada they included: McGill University, University of Toronto, Bishop's University, McMaster University, University of Western Ontario, University of New Brunswick, Queen's University, and University of Alberta. Contributions to sports in Canada
Amateur Athletic Union of Canada president Jack Hamilton appointed Beatty chairman of the committee to oversee preparations for the Canadian delegation to the 1938 British Empire Games. World War II

On the outbreak of World War II, Beatty had the CPR "fighting fit" and he placed its full resources at the disposal of the country and the British Empire, and it delivered. From 1939 until the end of 1941, Beatty was Canadian representative for the Ministry of War Transport of the United Kingdom, charged with getting supplies to the battle zones.Later, under his direction, Canadian Pacific Air Services was organized to initiate the transatlantic ferrying of Bombers to Great Britain, a service taken over later by the Royal Air Force, first under Ferry Command, and then under Transport Command. Death
He died on March 23, 1943, in Montreal, Quebec. Honours

He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire by King George V in 1935, and in the same year he was made Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple, London. Other honours included: Knight Commander First Class of the Order of St. Olav (1924) and Knight of Grace the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1934). In 1930, <mask> and his great friend and Chief Counsel to the CPR, F.E. Meredith, were received at the White House as guests of President Herbert Hoover. In 1937, the Royal Canadian Navy honoured him with the first honorary rank it ever created, a commission as honorary captain, Montreal division of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve.Two years previously, Lord Baden-Powell presented him with the Order of the Silver Wolf, the highest honorary award possible on behalf of the Boy Scouts Association of Canada, for which he had served as president. His interest in youth training had a practical application in the constant support he gave to movements concerned with the reclamation of wayward boys, particularly the Shawbridge Boys' Farm, for which he also served as president. In 1943 the "Distinguished Civic Service Award" for 1942 in Montreal was presented posthumously to him by the City Improvement League of Montreal, one of the many projects for city betterment to which Beatty gave so generously and turned his talents towards. References

External links
 <mask> <mask> in 1931
 The <mask> family (1799-1914)
 Timeline of the Canadian Pacific Presidents and their contributions to the company
 Sir Edward Beatty Historical Plaque Fonds RG 75-63 Brock University Library Digital Repository
 <mask> Beatty at The Canadian Encyclopedia

1877 births
1943 deaths
Canadian lawyers
Canadian Pacific Railway executives
Chancellors of McGill University
Chancellors of Queen's University at Kingston
Canadian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Anglophone Quebec people
People from Montreal
University of Toronto alumni

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<mask> (June 28, 1932 – July 22, 2002) was an American painter and muralist best known for his saturated natural and urban southern California landscapes. Los Angeles artist and writer Doug Harvey notes that his paintings allow us "to see the places we overlook every day and to recognize that, in spite of its ominous industrial overtones, the city is shot through with a luminous, electric vitality and a psychological potency verging on the mythic." Described as a "master of color and composition," his "evocative, moody paintings teemed with life." Early life and education

<mask> was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and moved with his parents and brother to the suburbs of Philadelphia when the artist was seven. The New England landscapes he encountered summering in Vermont would later prove influential in his work. During his primary school years, as the U.S. engaged in World War II, he became fixated with images of military hardware and battle scenes. As young as ten years old, the artist "worked through foreshortening issues" [with wing positions in aerial dogfight drawings] and "mastered the principles of perspective."Complex perspective would become a dominant motif throughout his career. His father, a successful insurance salesman, wanted his son to follow him in a business career, but in 1950, Doolin applied to the University of Vermont with the intention of pursuing a liberal arts education. However, a teacher encouraged him to apply to Philadelphia's University of the Arts and he was awarded a full scholarship. The University of the Arts "provided him with a strong foundation and a new attitude about the value of art" and he credited the school with fostering his individual style. Travel and influences

The wide open spaces and vast scale Doolin encountered on a cross-country trip to the Rocky Mountains in his late teens opened the artist to new possibilities and experiences, and sparked three successive summers of hitchhiking excursions to Chicago and California, respectively. The latter two trips enabled him to assimilate both the natural beauty of Yosemite and the colorful and sometimes gritty cityscapes of San Francisco. In 1954, stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, Doolin enjoyed his first taste of Europe.This included visits to Munich's Haus der Kunst and Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Discharged from the army in 1957, <mask> moved to New York and worked as a freelance commercial artist in advertising for the next four years, creating art in his limited spare time. Despite the cultural stimulation New York offered, <mask> was unsatisfied professionally and artistically, and took on extra work to save money for an extended trip to Europe in 1961. <mask> subsequently embarked on what might best be described as a cultural pilgrimage to some of the major art and historical centers of Europe. The artist was particularly influenced by works of Dutch and Italian Renaissance masters and contemporary abstract artists. Re-energized, <mask> settled into a rented a house on the island of Rhodes and painted, inspired by the mosaics he had viewed throughout southern Europe, and most notably, Ravenna, Italy. His work during this period featured jewel-like patterns and bright colors.The "frontal structure" and "flattened space" of these smaller paintings would become enduring influences in his later work. While in Greece, Doolin met and later married Leslie Edwards, a young Australian woman. The artist, returning to New York stimulated by his marriage and extended stay in Europe, was now "fiercely determined to be a painter." Artificial landscapes

Returning to New York, <mask> again worked as a commercial artist, painting in his spare time. Inspired by Al Held and other Hard-Edge painters, he began working on a series of "geometric abstract paintings that would become known as Artificial Landscapes." These landscapes dealt with man-made as opposed to natural environments, and "related directly to the streetscapes of his [Greenwich Village] neighborhood - road signs, building walls, darkened doorways, and billboards from the semi-industrial area close to the docks." These works were "often divided horizontally and compartmentalized into blocks of geometric patterns to reflect the flat, bold forms within the urban landscape."The artist achieved a greater sense of artificiality using "harsh, inorganic colors absent from nature." In 1965, at the suggestion of his wife, the couple and their two sons moved to her native Melbourne, where the artist took a teaching position and where in 1966, at Gallery A, he secured his first solo exhibition. The critical response was largely unfavorable. <mask> fared much better in Sydney, a city at that time more receptive to the New York-inspired aesthetic of the period, with a well-received exhibition of his Artificial Landscapes at Central Street Gallery in 1967. Wanting to further his education in order to secure a better teaching position in the future, the <mask> family moved to Los Angeles shortly after his Sydney show, and <mask> soon enrolled in the MFA program at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1968, he was asked to participate in The Field, the inaugural exhibition for the reopening of the National Gallery of Victoria. He sent three new paintings which were highly praised by several critics, and subsequently acquired by Australia's three principle art museums.In 1969, he began painting a new series of "luminous and ethereal" Artificial Landscapes with a "minimalist aesthetic" known as the Arch Series. Central Street Gallery contacted <mask> in 1970 to mount a second show, and he sent nine of his new Artificial Landscapes. This show was an unqualified critical and financial success. Western landscapes

In Los Angeles, <mask>'s work became more representational, following his desire to create "more 'traditional' illusionistic paintings from direct observation." The artist spent much of his two years at UCLA "painting illusionistically -- observed reality, dreams, fantasies, and memories." The following year, he became an instructor at the university while furthering his exploration of illusionistic painting. Photorealism and Conceptual Art had emerged to become two of the dominant styles during this period, and both of these movements influenced the artist's epic work Shopping Mall.<mask> spent four years (1973–77) working on this piece, "a large-scale, detailed aerial view of the intersection of Arizona Avenue and Third Street in Santa Monica -- which established his reputation as an important contemporary interpreter of the Western landscape." The artist "spent the first two years sketching and photographing the site from every possible rooftop vantage point, then constructed a highly detailed diagonal composition of a busy intersection." The painting was the principle work of a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in 1977, garnering enthusiastic reviews. The piece was then sent on a national tour of Australia in 1978, with stops in seven cities. In 1980, on the heels of this latest success and the dissolution of his marriage, <mask> was awarded a three-year Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, which allowed the artist to relocate to a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert to paint. "The austere beauty of the desert had fascinated him since his hitchhiking trips west in the 1950s" and he found inspiration for his art during this period by drawing on the unique elements of the desert landscape. He returned to the urban environment of Los Angeles in 1983, and by the 1990s he had begun documenting the city, painting many of his best known works.In his signature rendering of "negative social spaces -- bus stops, empty billboards, the dry trough of the L.A. River, the concrete islands between freeway onramps," the artist achieved an unlikely marriage between the "lurid sublimity of California landscape tradition" and "postindustrial apocalyptic melancholy.". Collections, awards and reputation

Doolin's art work is included in many public and corporate collections and is also represented in numerous books on America." He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1981, 1986, and 1992. Throughout his career, Doolin struggled against "the L.A. art establishment's prejudice against pictorialism and regionalism," but he eventually earned the respect of critics, collectors and fellow artists. Australian writer Peter Carey noted that Doolin was a "risk-taker, [whose] choice of subject matter was often unfashionable." Upon Doolin's death, artist Carl Cheng described him as a West Coast Edward Hopper, capturing "both the beauty and the alienation of our time in Los Angeles." After his masterful, incandescent painting Psychic headlined the traveling exhibition "Representing L.A.," (2000–2002) and the San Jose Museum of Art held a retrospective of his work in 2001, his reputation as a major Los Angeles artist solidified.References

External links
<mask> biography & selected exhibitions

1932 births
2002 deaths
American contemporary artists
University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni

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<mask> ARIBA (24 February 1914 – 16 March 2005) was a British architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life. Upbringing and influences

<mask> was born in London in 1914, and spent his childhood in Mill Hill in Barnet. His parents were socialists, adherents of the Fabian Society, which promoted the idea of the evolution of Britain into a socialist state. His Scottish grandfather was a Presbyterian free church minister, a descendant of the ministers <mask> and <mask>, but his parents sent him to the Friends School Saffron Walden (1925–1931), a Quaker school, probably because of their socialist beliefs. There, he became committed to the Quaker ideals, which laid the foundation for his views on society, man's place in it, and on architecture. Education
During the 1930s, <mask> studied architecture for five years at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London under the direction of Thornton White. At the time, White's curriculum required the study of classical architecture before students were free to follow their own ideas.One of his fellow students was Gordon Cullen who would become a well-known architectural illustrator, urban designer and theorist. Cullen advocated the improvement of urban settlements through an understanding and analysis of their picturesque qualities. This approach was profoundly influential on <mask>, who insisted in his work that the context and landscaping of his buildings be carefully integrated. Career

After qualifying as an architect <mask> began work with the design team for Welwyn Garden City under the leadership of Louis de Soissons. He studied town planning and this interest broadened his approach to architecture, in particular about how buildings related physically and socially to their setting. In 1936 he became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Before the outbreak of World War II, <mask> travelled to Sweden.He was attracted there partly by his admiration for the work of the Functionalist Swedish architects Gunnar Asplund, Sven Markelius and Sigurd Lewerentz and partly by the country's adoption of the social welfare model. In Sweden the political will was reflected in the national architecture and these two factors coincided with his own humanist beliefs. He would go on to make an important contribution to the architectural landscape of both his adopted country and to that of England. In Sweden, England and Canada, he was responsible for the design of numerous innovative buildings reflecting his particular ideology. They include:
 Gyttorp, Nora Municipality, Sweden, 1945 to 1955, housing project for a factory town. Ski hotel at Borgafjall (1948–50)
 Shopping, the first purpose-built enclosed shopping centre in the world in Luleå, Sweden opened in October 1955 in the small town of Luleå in the far north of Sweden. (By the above definition "Shopping" in Luleå was actually the first shopping centre in the world, and Southdale in Minnesota, United States came second in October 1956.)The Brittgården residential area at Tibro, Sweden, 1956 to 1959
 Svappavaara, Kiruna Municipality, Sweden, 1962, a housing project for a copper mine above the Arctic Circle (this project influenced the design of the northern town of Fermont, Quebec). Esperanza terraced housing area, Landskrona, Scania, Sweden, around 1968. Built up 1969-70. Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 1969. Resolute, Nunavut
 Eaglestone grid square, at Milton Keynes, from 1972 to 1976. The Byker redevelopment, at Newcastle upon Tyne, from 1969 to 1982. The Nya Bruket area in Sandviken, Sweden, 1973 to 1978.The Stockholm University Library (opened in 1983), as well as several other buildings on the university campus including:
 Aula Magna, the university's main auditorium
 Ekerö centrum (Tappström) in Ekerö Municipality outside Stockholm, 1983 to 1989. The Vasaterminalen bus terminal in Stockholm, together with Bengt Ahlqvist and Anders Tengbom
 The London Ark, Hammersmith, London, 1990. Greenwich Millennium Village, London, from 2000 to 2005. <mask> was best known in Great Britain for his Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle upon Tyne and The London Ark, a commercial project in Hammersmith, London. However, it was his achievement in designing the winning scheme in a 1997 competition to develop the Millennium Community at Greenwich (Greenwich Millennium Village), London that brought his work to the widespread attention of his compatriot Britons. This recognition came late in a productive, long and important career. Death and legacy
On his death in 2005, Councillor Peter Arnold, leader of Newcastle City Council said of Erskine that he "was one of the twentieth century's greatest architects and in Newcastle's Byker estate he gave the city one of Europe's finest post Second World War new housing communities.His approach was so different from everything happening around that time as he put the focus on social regeneration and the interests of local people, rather than just bricks and mortar. He built Byker Wall Estate around the community. Local people were fully involved in the design and rather than clearing properties and moving people elsewhere, the community was able to remain together.”

<mask> founded his own company in Sweden in 1939. In 2000 he invited his long-time collaborator Johannes Tovatt into a partnership, naming the company Erskine Tovatt Arkitekter AB. It was <mask>'s will that on his death his name be removed from the company. Therefore, his legacy lives on in the company called Tovatt Architects and Planners in Drottningholm outside Stockholm. <mask>ine Nordic Foundation, endowed by proceeds from the Wolf Prize in Arts, which he was awarded that year.Beginning in 1988, the foundation has awarded a bi-annual prize of US$10,000 and a medal designed by <mask>, for any person, group or organisation that "has contributed to the construction of buildings or community structures of innovative social, ecological and aesthetic character. The contribution must respect functional and economical aspects, and be to the advantage of the less privileged". <mask> wrote the preface to the English translation of Jan Gehl's influential book Life Between Buildings, published in 1986. In 1987 he was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/8) with <mask> in 1997 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library. Personal life
He met his wife Ruth at the Quaker school in Saffron Walden in the early 1930s. They were married in Stockholm in 1939 and had four children.Ruth died in 1988. He is survived by his children: Jane Kristina, Karin Elizabeth, Patrick Jon and Suzanne. References

External links

 <mask>ine page at Great Buildings Online
 Oral history interview with <mask> (in 14 parts – follow links from part 1). This material is only available in the UK. 1914 births
2005 deaths
Architects from London
Swedish architects
Postmodern architects
Housing in Sweden
British expatriates in Sweden
Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
British urban planners
Alumni of the University of Westminster
Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal
Wolf Prize in Arts laureates
People educated at Friends School Saffron Walden
People from Mill Hill
Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal
British Quakers
Honorary Members of the Royal Academy

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Ralph Erskine
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<mask> is an American writer, musician, and radio talk show host. He is married and lives in Los Angeles with his two sons. Once a resident of Massachusetts, he is now a Los Angeles Weekly columnist, <mask> is the host of KTLK-AM 1150's  "Southern California Live with <mask>". <mask> is also a regular on KFI-AM640. Early life
<mask> received a Series 7 stockbroker's license in 1977, and was employed by his father. He did not like it and the family business ended in 1984, when he refused to keep it going. With the onset of punk rock in the 1970s in Boston, Massachusetts, <mask> was the guitarist, singer, leader of the Thrills,  and relocated to New York City in 1982.He returned to Boston in 1983 to form the Blackjacks, a more guitar oriented hard rock/punk band. Later he formed the comical performance/parody act, The Swinging Erudites. After six years of ups and downs, he relocated to California and has been in Los Angeles ever since. Music career

Thrills
In Boston, during the late 1970s through 1982 he was the guitarist-singer-leader of Thrills (later City Thrills) and included band members Barb Kitson (died 2005) on vocals, <mask> on guitar and vocals, Merle Allin on bass and vocals, Michael Collins on drums and Sean McDonough on guitar was added in 1980. City Thrills relocated to New York in 1982, but things did not gel in the Big Apple. <mask> went back to Boston in 1983 to form the BlackJacks. They had their first gig in December 1977 and drew 36 people.The set was 15 songs and 29 minutes long. They released one single on Decibel Records in 1979, "I'll Be the Heartbreaker" with "Hey (Not Another Face in the Crowd)" on the B-side. Their single "Don't Come Back" was off the compilation album, N.A.F.I.T.C. Original Boston Punk 1977-1981, which was recorded live at the Metro Theatre in 1981. They recorded the EP "City Thrills" in 1981 on Star Rhythm Records. Thrills toured throughout New England with the likes of The Ramones, <mask>, The Cars and U2. Blackjacks
After City Thrills broke up in 1983, <mask> returned to Boston and formed the Blackjacks with Whitey and drummer, Jeff Erna (original drummer, Dropkick Murphys).The band then hired their roadie, Rafe Mabry, to play guitar. The Blackjacks were more a rock band, with influences from 1950s rock and roll, 1960s pop and psych, 1970s punk, blues and garage rock. The band released "Basic Blackjacks" in June 1984, and "Dreaming of Saturday Again" was a local hit. “Dressed In Black" made #1 on WBCN's local countdown, and a top 20 college radio track in the rest of the nation. This, with a video of "Dreaming of Saturday Again" got moderate play on local music video channel V-66. In July 1989, the band played its last gig at The Rat. After the break up of The Blackjacks, <mask> became a standup comic with a guitar, which he said "shot his credibility to pieces".Swinging Erudites
Swinging Erudites, was a side novelty project <mask> formed with Sonny Columbus (James Ryan of Boston's Rat’s Hoodoo BBQ). The band was made up of  Suzie Sasumi (Suzie Kerr-Wright Suzie Kerr Wright ) vocals, Meg A. Bux (Meg Lyons) vocals, Greg Yourbassist (Greg Urbaitis) on Bass, Pterry Dactyl (Garry Cook) on drums, Brother Cleve (Bob Toomey) on keyboards/accordion (1st ½), Sandy Beach (Sandy Grant) on keyboards (2nd ½). Swinging Erudites "Walk with an Erection" became a hit and was also heard and liked by Susanna Hoffs. Producer
In 1984 and 85, <mask> produced all songs (except “Saturday Night Again” and “Thayer Street”, produced by Jonathan Paley) on both Boston's own Dogmatics LP’s Thayer Street and Everybody Does It. <mask> <mask> and Boo Burns in 2010, formed the two alumni of the Imminent Disaster Blues Band (and more than 50 other bands between them) recruited ace guitarist Jordan Shapiro (Eddie Spaghetti) drummer Dave Bach (The Afflicted, Adam Sandler) and musical director Paul Ill (Linda Perry, Wayne Kramer, Juliette Lewis). The band tracked four originals and the singer's own solo effort "Shut Up Already". Among The Imminent Disaster Blues Band and The Wasted Knights.In 2013 he also formed and fronted and formed “JOHNNY ANGEL WENDELL AND THE FABULOUS KNUCKERHOLES” and now perform Mr AW's songs. The group's philosophy is that they aren't a group and whoever shows up to play is in fact a group member. Hence their former name "The Ramshackle Orchestra". The core of what passes for the band is percussionist Brock Avery (Marshall Crenshaw, Wayne Kramer), occasionally joined by Danny Frankel (Lou Reed). Bass is generally the ubiquitous Robbie Rist (legendary child actor and prodigy). Guitars are Mark Pritchard (Possum Dixon, El Vez), Chris Lawrence (Mike Ness) and horns are Scott Gilman (Foreigner). Solo career
In 2011, <mask> went back into the studio to record 12 songs for a new CD titled "IT!!".The topics and sound are not the same as his youth, but he remained true to himself while channeling the early 1960s artists (Moby Grape, The Left Banke, The Beatles and The Byrds). He said "From out of nowhere, all of these ideas for tunes kept popping into my brain so, IT!! was born. They're all little snapshots about stuff. I want to make this poetic statement. Lyrically the ideas came from every and anywhere - song by song". <mask> played all the stringed instruments except steel (Boo Burns).All the horns and most of the keys were by Scott Gilman, who also engineered and mixed. Brock Avery played drums, JG from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones played keyboards, while Mary Powers and Julie Christiansen sang. Media

Film
The Great Intervention (2011) - a Steve Moramarco film, in which <mask> played a club booker who goes off on musician Steve Moramarco, after he plays a show with zero attendees. Writings
February 2015, <mask> released his first ever novel "Looking For Lady Dee", a punk rock mystery which tells his story juxtaposed against the disappearance of his band's fan, Lady Dee. March 2018, he released In This Darkness, I Disappear. This time a lot heavier on the mystery with a heaping helping of weirdness to boot. With a look back at the desolate state of the 1980s as part backdrop married to one of the more twisted murder mysteries yet penned.Both can be found on Amazon. He has also been a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, Bay Guardian and LA Weekly. Radio
SFBG Online, launched a show on April 29, 2010, with <mask> appearing twice a week. He has also been a show host on KFI 640 in Los Angeles, KIFR-FM and Green960 in the Bay Area. A regular on Fox News Radio as fill in for the late Alan Colmes and for the recently retired John Gibson. He was a regular weekend host on the Air America affiliate KTLK in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2013. KTLK became KEIB where <mask> hosted "Southern California Live With <mask> from 2013 to April, 2019./ref>

Solo recording
IT!! was released for download on October 25, 2011, followed by a CD released on April 3, 2012. IT!! was produced by <mask> and Scott Gilman, mixed and engineered by Gilman. Solo singles
His first solo single, "My Lesbian Friend" was released on January 20, 2013. It featured Brock Avery on drums. The B-side had "Vamanos A Panama" (with Dicky Barrett, JG and Scott Gilman)and "No Fun in the Modern World",(with Keith Morris and Ross The Boss) the latter dedicated to the late Jeff Sugarman.His second single released June 2013  “SHE” is a romping three song pop vinyl record about ecstasy, heartache and despair. Side A “She Wrecked Me”,  is a Sour-pussed TEX MEX sound about the perils of Poison Roses, Bubonic Plague like wimmens and the "Horizontal Ballet." Side B “She Won’t Be Lonely For Long”, is a power pop tune with a sorta pre-punk intro features Brock Avery on drums again. All songs on the single were written by <mask>. Discography
 1981 “N.A.F.I.T.C. Original Boston Punk, 1977-1981” Bacchus Archives
 1981 “City Thrills” Star Rhythm Records
 1984 “Basic Blackjacks”  EP Homestead Records
 1984  “Dress in Black”   LP  Throbbing Lobster
 2011 “IT! !”  CD and download X & Z Records
 2013 "SHE" vinyl record and download X & Z Records

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Living people
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American rock songwriters
American rock singers
American male writers
Writers from Los Angeles
1956 births
Jewish American musicians
Singer-songwriters from California
Jews in punk rock
Guitarists from Los Angeles
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American Jews
American male singer-songwriters

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<mask> MBE  (born 1945) is a Northern Irish photographer and artist. Life and work
<mask> was born in 1945 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges of Art, the latter in England. He lives and works in Portadown, County Armagh in Northern Ireland. Employing primarily the medium of photography, he manipulates his negatives and reworks his prints with paints, inks, toners and dyes. In addition to photography, he also uses video, and printmaking techniques. <mask>'s works are a response to political, social and religious concerns.He is perhaps best known for his works investigating the Orange Order in series such as: Drumming; The Walk, the Platform and the Field and The Birches. <mask> was awarded an MBE in 2002. He is an academician of the Royal Ulster Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He won the Academy's Conor Prize in 1988 and the Gold Medal in 1995 and 2008. The Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast held a major exhibition of his work (<mask>: Selected Works 1980–2000) in 2001. In 2008, the exhibition History, Locality, Allegiance, curated by Peter Richards at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, brought together a comprehensive selection of past works, with a particular focus on his video works. His exhibition <mask>: Drift, curated by Dr Riann Coulter, Curator of the F.E.McWilliam Gallery & Studio and Feargal O'Malley, Curator at the University of Ulster, explored a related though distinct area, tracing the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who settled in Craigavon, Northern Ireland in 1979. In preparation for this exhibition, <mask> rekindled his friendship with Ka Fue Lay, who was a teenager when he settled in Craigavon in 1979 and now lives in Salisbury, England. <mask> made a video in which Ka Fue Lay discusses his life in Vietnam, displays family photographs and fondly recalls his time in Craigavon. The exhibition also includes <mask>'s black and white photographs of Craigavon from the late 1970s and early 1980s, contemporary images that he created by scratching, painting and bleaching photographic prints, and recent work including large colour photographs of Moyraverty. <mask>'s exhibition Before, in Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, 2017, revealed an excerpt from an extensive but little-seen body of archival photographs that <mask> made in the 1970s and 80s in Northern Ireland. The images document the activities and characters that populated <mask>'s daily life; the urban development of his hometown of Craigavon; and the constant and pervasive presence of the political conflict. For the artist these photographs functioned as a type of preliminary 'sketchbook', shaping the distinctive style and thematics he would later become known for.Viewed together as an exhibition they represent <mask>'s significant contribution to the tradition of Northern Irish documentary practice. Books about <mask> and his work include Marking the North by Brian McAvera (1989), <mask>: Selected Works by Aidan Dunne (2001), <mask>: Walk, by Jürgen Schneider (2004), and Luxus by Glenn Patterson (2007). Photoworks
A typical image from the Northern Irish works of <mask> is Walk X from 1985. It is a silver gelatin print. In it we see dead centre, splitting the image, a uniformed police officer with a peaked cap. He is in profile, staring tight-lipped at the parade, feet apart in a rooted stance, symbol of law-and-order but also unusually for the North, of impartiality, indicated by his dead centre stance. From the left a huge Lambeg drum, strapped to its unseen owner's chest, juts out across the body; but it has been rendered semi-transparent so that the outline shape of the police officer can still be seen.On one level this drum functions as a musical instrument, the rhythmic 'keeper of the beat'. But the unhinged arm, wielder of a timpani-like drum-stick, indicates not only the wardrum call, but also the potential of the drum-stick as a weapon. On another level the drum is like a Jasper Johns target with its concentric circles of black, white, black and white again for the heart of the target. The paradox is that the police officer who has often been seen, in the eyes of Catholics, as the defender of the Protestant tradition, has now become a target for his own loyalist people (the police being a largely Protestant force). Videoworks
Sloan's video work includes a 44-minute video of an 8 mm looped film fragment of The Little Rascals,(1930s), which destroys itself and catches fire. This was shown in the Gastag in Munich and in Toskanische Saulenhalle, Augsburg, Germany, 2004 as part of his installation Stadium. Gavin Weston in the Sunday Times describes it when first exhibited in the Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast: "...a noisy trundling projector surrounded by four large prints at which one strains to peer through the blacked-out gloom.Staring back in time and this dingy light are the eyes of Adolf Hitler, bolstered by images of the Werner March/ Albert Speer – designed stadium that hosted the Berlin Olympics of 1936. There is no further direct reference to Jesse Owens, the Führer's gravest embarrassment, but flickering through this laden environment, archive footage of white children allowing a black child to draw the short straw, serves as an indicator". The video work Walk (28 minutes, 2004. ), has been shown in Berlin and Augsburg, Germany; Belfast, Portadown and Dublin, Ireland; Pretoria, South Africa; Bialystok, Poland; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France, and Damascus, Syria. Susan McKay describes the video in the Irish Times: Walk shows, in slow, plodding motion, an Orange walk (as the parades are properly known to those who take part in them). The marchers appeared to disappear into a mirror, and the sound was distorted so that drumbeats sounded out suddenly like shots, and voices were slowed down to groans. In the end, the last shiny black shoe has marched into the mirror leaving an empty street.It is a melancholy piece". Other video works include Drumcree (2001) and Fishtank (2006) Ka Fue Lay. (2014). Publications
Lippard, Lucy R. (1985). <mask>, <mask> in Divisions, Crossroads, Turns of Mind; Some New Irish Art. Ireland America Arts Exchange Inc., Wisconsin and Williams College Museum of Art, US
McAvera, Brian (1986). <mask>, <mask> in Directions Out – An investigation into a selection of artists whose work has been formed by the post 1969 situation in Northern Ireland.Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery. Mirfenderesky, Jamshid (1988). <mask>, <mask> in Ulster Art in the 80s. Dublin: RHA Gallagher Gallery. McAvera, Brian (1989). <mask>, <mask> in Art, Politics and Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.McGonagle, Declan; James Odling-Smee; Gerry Burns (1989). <mask>: Walls. Derry: Orchard Gallery. McAvera, Brian (1989). Marking The North-The Work of <mask>. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. Watkins, Jonathan; Burns, Gerry; Strather, Martin (1991).<mask>, <mask> in Kunst Europa. H. Schmidt. Hutchinson, John (1990) <mask>, <mask> in A New Tradition: Irish Art of the Eighties. Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery. Mellor, David; Wood, Nancy (1992). <mask>, <mask> in I-D Nationale. Edinburgh: Portfolio.Roberts, John (1992). <mask>, <mask> in Selected Errors, Writings on Art and Politics, 1981–1990. London: Pluto Press. O'Toole, Finton (1995). <mask>, <mask> in Lie of the Land. Dublin: Gallery of Photography. Kelly, Liam (1996).<mask>, <mask> in Thinking Long – Contemporary Art In The North Of Ireland. Dublin: Gandon Editions. Schneider, Jürgen (1996) <mask> Sloan. Poland: Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych. Kelly, Liam (1996). <mask>, <mask> in Paul Brennan and Catherine de Saint Phalle (eds), Désirs d'Irlande. Paris, France: Actes Sud.Williams, Val (1997). <mask>, <mask> in On The Bright Side Of Life: Zeitgenössische Britische Fotografie. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst. Buckman, David (1998). <mask>, <mask> in The Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945. Samson. McCabe, Martin (1999).<mask>, <mask> in Revealing Views. London: Royal Festival Hall. MacKillop, James (1999) <mask>, <mask> in Contemporary Irish cinema. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. Brady, Ciaran (2000). <mask>, <mask> in Encyclopedia of Ireland. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Kiang, Tanya; McCabe, Martin; Wilson, Michael (2001).<mask>, <mask> in W. J. McCormack (ed. ), Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Oxford: Blackwell. Dunne, Aidan (2001). <mask>: Selected Works 1980–2000. Belfast: Ormeau Baths Gallery. Clancy, Martin (2002).<mask>, <mask> in Brian Lalor (ed. ), The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. Graham, Colin (2003). <mask>, <mask> in Allen, Nicholas; Kelly, Aaron (eds) The Cities of Belfast. Dublin: Four Courts Press. Schneider, Jürgen (2004).<mask>: Walk. Augsburg, Germany: Kulturbüro der Stadt. Tipton, Gemma (2005). <mask>, <mask> in Space: Architecture for Art. Dublin: Circa. Graham, Colin (2005). <mask>, <mask> in Cotter, Lucy (ed.), Third Text . "Every Passer-by a Culprit? ", Kala Press/Black Umbrella. Alcobia-Murphy, Shane (2005). <mask>, <mask> in Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland: The Place of Art/The Art of Place. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. McAvera, Brian (2006).<mask>, <mask> in Icons of the North: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art. Belfast: Golden Thread Gallery. Gallagher, William (2006). <mask>, <mask> in The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland – volume 2, 1989–1999. Limerick, Ireland: University of Limerick Press. Alcobia-Murphy, Shane (2006). <mask>, <mask> in Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry.Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. Szabó, Carmen (2007). <mask>, <mask> in Clearing the Ground. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Patterson, Glenn (2007). Luxus. Portadown: Millennium Court Arts Centre.Richards, Peter (2008). <mask>, <mask> in Contemporary Art: Northern Ireland. China, Museum of the Heilongjiang Daily
McGonagle, Declan (2008). <mask>, <mask> in A Shout in the Street: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Golden Thread Gallery. Brady, Sara and Walsh, Fintan, eds (2009). Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture.Basingstoke, England: Palgrave,
<mask>, <mask> and Donnelly, Ann, eds (2009). My country is where I am, Craigavon: Arts Development: Craigavon Borough Council,
Long, Declan (2009), Visual Art and the Conflict in Northern Ireland, Troubles Archive Essays. Belfast: Arts Council of Northern Ireland,
Graham, Colin (2009), Visual Culture in Britain, Volume 10, Issue 2. Oxfordshire, England: Routledge,
Kennedy, Brian (2010). <mask>, <mask> in A View From Napoleon's Nose, Kaohsiung, Taiwan:  Kao Yuan Arts Centre,
McGonagle, Declan (2010). <mask>, <mask> in A shout in the street: Reflections on another way of looking, Wasafiri, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge,
Maigron, Maryline, Salati, Marie-Odile, eds (2010). <mask>, <mask> in La Surface: accidents et altérations, Éditions de l'université de Savoie, Paris, France,
Carville, Justin (2011), <mask>, <mask> in Photography and Ireland, Reaktion Books, London, England.Graham, Colin (2013), <mask>, <mask> in Northern Ireland: 30 years of Photography, Belfast Exposed/The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Barber, Fionna (2013), <mask>, <mask> in Art in Ireland since 1910, Reaktion Books, London, England,
Johnston, Sandra (2013), <mask>, <mask> in "Beyond Reasonable Doubt", LIT Verlag,
Sverakova, Slavka (2014), <mask>, <mask> in "The Faraway Nearby", F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Northern Ireland,
Bosi, Lorenzo, Demetriou, Chares, Malthaner, Stefan, eds (2014), <mask>, <mask> in  Dynamics of Political Violence, Ashgate Publishing, England,
Marshall, Catherine and Murray, Peter, eds (2014), <mask>, <mask> in Art and Architecture of Ireland, Volume V, Twentieth Century, Royal Irish Academy/Yale University Press, 2014,
<mask>: Drift. Banbridge, Northern Ireland: F E McWilliam Gallery, 2014. . With essays by Carville, Justin and Grant, Ken. Bevan, Sara (2015), <mask>, <mask> in Art from Contemporary Conflict, Imperial War Museum, London,
Atkinson, Craig (ed.) (2016), "Northern Ireland One: <mask> Sloan", series of three publications. Café Royal Books, Southport, England
Hickey, Ciara (2017), "<mask>: Before", published by Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2017,
Long, Declan, (2017), <mask>, <mask> in "Ghost-haunted land: Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland", Oxford University Press,
Murray, Ann, (2018),  <mask>, <mask> in "Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War", Routledge,
Legg, George, (2018), Sloan, Victor in "Northern Ireland and the Politics of boredom", Manchester University Press, England,
Muschter, Gabriele and Warnke, Uwe (2019), Victor Sloan in "Of People and Walls: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall", Lukas Verlag für Kunst und Geistesgeschichte,

Notable exhibitions

EV+A, Exhibition of Visual Art, City Gallery of Art, Limerick, 1981
Independent Artists, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, 1984
Views From Ulster, Touring exhibition curated by Colin Osman, Creative Camera, London. Ulster Museum, Belfast, 2017–2018.Aleppo, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland, 2017
Crossing Lines, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland and F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, Northern Ireland 2018–19. Troubles Art, Nerve Visual Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, 2019. Of people and walls – 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany, 2019–2020. Island Life, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, part of Bristol Photography Festival, 2021. Portrait of Northern Ireland: neither an elegy nor a manifesto, Centenary exhibition, Curated by Shan McAnena, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2021. Collections
<mask>'s work is held in the following public collections:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Imperial War Museum, London
Ulster Museum, Belfast.The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
State Art Collection, Ireland
Dublin City University
Ulster Television Collection, Belfast
Lamar Dodd Arts Centre, Georgia, United States
National Media Museum, Bradford, England
The Northern Ireland Collection, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Museum of International Contemporary Art, Salvador, Brazil
Department of Finance and Personnel, Northern Ireland
North West Arts Trust
Royal Ulster Academy of Arts
National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick. References

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1945 births
Living people
People from Dungannon
People from Portadown
Multimedia artists from Northern Ireland
Photographers from Northern Ireland
Alumni of Ulster University
People educated at the Royal School Dungannon
Alumni of Leeds Arts University
Political artists
Irish contemporary artists
British contemporary artists
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Members of the Royal Ulster Academy

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<mask> is a writer from Cote d'Ivoire. Childhood
He is the son of Soma Denbie (said Mamadou Koné) and Kahou Sirima (known Karidia Koulibali). <mask> was born in May 1953 in the small village of Tangora in the circle of Banfora, today Burkina Faso. Grandson of Dan Kalmo whose big brother, the legendary warlord Fanhikroi, an opponent of colonial rule, was assassinated on the road leading from Banfora to Bobo Dioulasso, <mask>ne learn very early sense of honor by his father who, exasperated by the abuses of the French settlers and the new leaders in their pay, chose to immigrate to the Ayamé region Basse, Côte d'Ivoire, where he created plantations of coffee and cocoa with his family. It is Kongodjan, settling near Ayame, <mask>ne grew up with his brothers and sisters. In his article entitled "Childhood : it was the time of dreams and hope," he describes his childhood as follows: "The year [ my children ] were those of dreams and happiness, intense happiness that even children felt, I think. Africa was victorious.She moved inexorably towards independence. Forced labor was abolished, colonial brutality had ceased in most countries1. Quickly, the imagination of the young Amadou is forged by the stories of mythical ancestral heroes that he told his father and those of the heroes of modern Africa that came to him : "My father told me the story of my grandfather Fanhikroi [... ] and he told me the epic men of honor in African history, the saga of the great cultivateurs2. With the radio that had invaded the African villages, and with the help of his big brother teacher Tiémoko Kone <mask> Kone discovers the political agenda of Africa and its new hero : "In the evening, after dinner, we listened the radio and my brother translated and commented on the news. For me, this news was another story, another epic populated living heroes I heard the voice on the radio. These figures promise a bright future for Africa and there was no reason to doubt their parole1 "

School and education
<mask> Koné was an outstanding school and university courses. From the age of seven, and the insistence of his brother Tiémoko teacher (who insisted that his brothers and half-brothers are in school), he left the idyllic Kongodjan to follow it in all positions.Between 1958 and 1963, Amadou frequent succession of public schools, Aboisso of Yassap, Katiola and finally Akounougbé primary schools. After primary school, he enrolled in the modern school of Grand-Bassam between 1963 and 1968 and second in class at the grammar school in Abidjan where he prepares and succeeded brilliantly bachelor's A Series philosophy in 1971. The Department of Modern Literature at the National University of Côte d'Ivoire, now University of Cocody that welcomes in September 1971, is still remembered him as a particularly gifted student and worker. In June 1974, he obtained a degree in modern literature and African Studies option grant for the preparation of a third cycle doctorate in France. His choice fell on the city of Limoges due to Professor Jean-Marie Grassin he had as a professor of comparative literature African mission in Abidjan in his year license a few years ago. <mask> Koné spent his first year at Limoges in the preparation of a master on the question of authenticity in literature and theater black African. The following year, he enrolled in the DEA François Rabelais University of Tours and the University of Limoges.In its third year, it supports a PhD graduate of the influence of the heroic story of the African novel in French and English under the direction of Jean-Marie Grassin. While studying at Limoges, <mask> <mask> met Mary Lee Martin, an American student whom he married in 1978. Upon his return to Côte d'Ivoire in October 1977, <mask> <mask> is recruited in the Department of Modern Literature at the National University of Côte d'Ivoire as a lecturer. He teaches African literature and the relationship between oral literature and African literature written and French nineteenth-century novel. In 1980, he was included on the list of suitable lecturers professors of African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAM). After defending his doctoral thesis state in Limoges always under the direction of Jean -Marie Grassin, it is on the list of lecturers of CAM in 1988. In 1990, he left the University of Abidjan for Germany, thanks to a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.In 1992, he arrived in the United States and began a new career as associate professor and then full professor of French and Francophone African Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans. Since 1997, <mask> <mask> teaches literature, culture and African history at Georgetown University. Research and academic publications
The teaching and research of <mask> Koné interested in all areas of literature and African culture (novels, plays, films). He studied the style of some novelists such as Ahmadou Kourouma, Saïdou Bokoum, Cheikh Hamidou Kane. His further research is devoted to genres of African oral literature, heroic tales, epic and initiation, and their influence on the modern novel. His work on the influence of oral tradition on the novel continue to influence African researchers literary studies. Research works
Anthology of Ivorian literature, published in collaboration with Gérard D. Lezou and Joseph Mlanhoro, Abidjan, Ceda, 1983.Oral narrative novel study on avatars of the heroic tradition in the African novel, Abidjan, Ceda, 1985. Oral texts in the modern novel in West Africa, Frankfurt Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 1993. African lights, new about the African literature and film, New Orleans, University Press of the South, Inc., 1997. Creole prospects. Louisiana, Caribbean and Haiti, with prof. Jean -Max Guieu, New Orleans, University Press of New World, 2007. Creative work
Apart from his career as a professor and researcher, <mask> <mask> had a long career as a writer. He is strongly influenced by the context of his childhood.References

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External links
http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP2202ak.html

Living people
Ivorian writers
Ivorian emigrants to the United States
Tulane University faculty
Georgetown University faculty
1953 births
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Ivorian male writers

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<mask> (February 15, 1969 – July 2, 1994) was a Cuban amateur boxer, who competed from 1986 to 1994. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a Gold medal in the men's super heavyweight (+91 kg). A natural heavyweight, he was Olympic champion (Barcelona 1992), three times world champion (Moscow 1989, Sydney 1991, and Tampere 1993), and five times Cuban national champion. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for Outstanding Boxer at the 1992 Olympic Games. <mask> was at his prime, looking forward to win many forthcoming events, considered by some boxing experts to be the world's second-best fighter after Félix Savón (who competed one weight division below), and being one of the favourites of the 1995 Pan American Games and 1996 Olympics, but died in a car accident. At the time of his death, age 25, he had 250 fights, with a record of 238 victories, and 12 losses. Early years
<mask> was born in Jovellanos, Matanzas, on February 15, 1969.Before his first birthday, the family came to live in Old Havana and shortly thereafter they moved to the El Palenque neighborhood (La Lisa), next to the La Lisa bridge. He was 14 when he took up boxing, and soon participated in the National School Games. Career
In 1984, Cuba's long-time Olympic heavyweight Teófilo Stevenson, although retaining physical strength and staying in shape, and even aspiring to win the fourth gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games (which Cuba ultimately boycotted,) already needed to pass the torch and find a suitable alternate for the Cuban National Boxing Team. Raúl Fernández's promotional transfer to the Orbeín Quesada training center, headquarters of the National Athletic Selection, played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent consecration of Balado. Regarding the Balado's ascent to the national team, Alcides Sagarra pointed out: "Raúl spoke with me of the boy and without any hesitation I agreed to get him trained in the 'Finca.' He began to show progress and very soon his was something more than just learning. He was always willing to help in the sparrings, and he didn't care about the name of the opponent in front of him."Cuban sport officials questioned the decision to include <mask> as the Cuban representative in the superheavyweight class to compete at the 1989 World Championships in Moscow, but he proved the critics wrong and won the event. References

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<mask>o Partial Record (Amateur Boxing Results)
Amateur career of <mask> (in Spanish) compiled by Pedro Cabrera Isidrón of the Cuban Olympics Committee. Last updated: September 17, 2008

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Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
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<mask> (born 1970 in Ravensburg) is a German-Croatian theatre director and author. Life and work

From 1996 to 2001 <mask> was a member of the Hamburg art group Akademie Isotrop with the artists Jonathan Meese, Abel Auer, Roberto Ohrt, Helena Huneke, Birgit Megerle and Andre Butzer. At the same time <mask> studied directing with Jürgen Flimm at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, graduating in 2001. Her work – which encompasses aspects of fine art, theatre, and performance – has been described in the German-language press as gonzo-theater, with reference to the work of Hunter S. Thompson. In 2006 she founded the Fleetstreet theatre in Hamburg, which she ran until 2010. From 2013 to 2016 she was one of the four house directors at the Cologne National Theatre Schauspiel Köln. She received the 2009 Rolf Mares Theatre Award for her staging of Der Fall Esra, based on the legal case that resulted in the ban on the author Maxim Biller's novel Esra.<mask>'s staging of Antigone, the first play by Slavoj Žižek, is set to premiere in September 2019 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Work on Internet Activism
<mask> has often made work with and about Internet activists such as Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In 2012 her play Assassinate Assange premiered in Hamburg, and was subsequently shown in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Since then <mask> has visited Assange regularly in London and has taken part in many panel discussions on the subject of his imprisonment, as well as contributing articles and interviews to various publications, including Der Spiegel, Monopol, and Interview. In 2015 <mask> wrote and directed the interactive multimedia project Supernerds, which dealt with digital mass surveillance, whistleblowing and digital dissidents. Supernerds was co-produced by the national television and radio channel WDR, Schauspiel Köln, and the producers Gebrueder Beetz, and included an online gaming component. The premiere of the piece took place simultaneously on German television, radio, online, and in the theatre in Cologne.The audiences of each show became part of the story, being subjected to examples of hacking and surveillance on their smartphones and laptops. The piece was based on interviews that <mask> conducted with whistleblowers, human rights lawyers, hackers, and internet activists such as Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers), the NSA Whistleblowers Bill Binney, Thomas Drake, and Jesselyn Radack. As part of the project, and also subsequently, <mask> visited Edward Snowden in Moscow. From 2015 to 2017 <mask> hosted an irregular series of conversations with Internet activists at Berlin's Volksbühne during Frank Castorf's last two seasons as artistic director. <mask> is a member of the DiEM25 Advisory Panel. Writing
A selection of <mask>'s interviews with Internet activists was published in the book Supernerds – Conversations with Heroes by Alexander Verlag Berlin in German and English. In 2018 she co-authored Women, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks together with Sarah Harrison and Renata Ávila.She writes regularly for the German newspaper Der Freitag. Personal life
<mask> lives between Berlin and Dubrovnik with the German actor Malte Sundermann, their two children, and her son from her marriage to the painter <mask>. <mask> is of Croatian descent. Ein Exzess des Moments at Schauspiel Köln
 2013 Assassinate Assange – Reloaded at Schauspiel Köln
 2014 Brain and Beauty. Eine Suche nach dem Gesicht der Zukunft at Schauspiel Köln
2015 Supernerds at Schauspiel Köln
2016 Silk Road, Ein Ausflug auf die tote Seitenstraße des Darknet at Schauspiel Köln
2019 Antigone by Slavoj Žižek at Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

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Publications

 <mask>,  "Legenden: Lunch mit dem Staatsfeind", in Der Spiegel, H. 28 2011, S. 104–106. <mask>, "Sind Nerds die neue Avantgarde? ", in Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben February 2014, S. 70–73.<mask>, "Inside Julian Assange", Interview Germany, H. 5 2014, S. 91–97. <mask>, "Interview mit Joseph Farrell", in REVUE – Magazine for the Next Society, H. 15 2014, S. 42–49. <mask>, <mask> (2015). Supernerds - Conversations with Heroes. Alexander Verlag.  .
Ávila, Renata; Harrison, Sarah; <mask>, <mask> (2017). Women, Whistleblowing, WikiLeaks: A Conversation. OR Books. .External links

 Fleetstreet Hamburg
Homepage of Akademie Isotrop
 Interview with Dare Magazin
 Interview with Sandra and Kerstin Grether for Intro
 Interview about Berghain Boogie Woogie with Tagesspiegel Berlin
 Essay by <mask> about meeting Julian Assange
 Frieze Magazine blog about Assassinate Assange
 Panel Discussion between <mask>, Jacob Appelbaum, Jennifer Robinson, and Joseph Farrell about Assassinate Assange on Youtube
 Interview with WDR for Assassinate Assange – Reloaded
<mask> at Barbarella Agency
OR Books author's page
Alexander Verlag author's page
<mask> on Twitter

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German documentary film directors
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<mask> (before 1160 in the former region of Artois, today Pas-de-Calais - 17 December 1219, possibly at Adrianople) was a French crusader and trouvère poet who became a senior official and finally regent of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Alternative spellings of his name include Cono, Coesnes, Quenes, Conain, and Quenon. Life
Probably born before 1160, he was the fifth son of <mask>thune, hereditary Lord of Béthune and Advocate of the Abbey of Saint-Vaast at Arras in today's Pas-de-Calais, who died on the Third Crusade at the siege of Acre in 1191, and his wife Alice, daughter of Hugues III, Count of Saint-Pol. His four elder brothers were:
<mask>éthune, who succeeded his father as Lord of Béthune and Advocate of Arras;
<mask>éthune, who succeeded his brother as Lord of Béthune and Advocate of Arras;
<mask>éthune, Count of Aumale and companion of King Richard I of England; and
 <mask>éthune, Bishop and secular ruler of Cambrai. Conon was educated by his cousin, the noted poet Hugues III d'Oisy, Castellan of Cambrai, who taught him the art of poetry. It is probable, from comments made in one of his poems, that <mask> appeared before the French court at the occasion of the marriage of King Philippe Auguste with Isabelle of Hainaut in 1180 and sang his songs before <mask>, noted for her connection to the poet <mask>es. He was however embarrassed, as he recorded wryly in the poem Mout me semont Amors ke je m'envoise, by his Artesian accent.After having taken part in the Third Crusade to Palestine, <mask> <mask>thune went with his brother Guillaume on the Fourth Crusade in 1203, accompanying the knights of Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainaut. At the outset he was chosen as one of six knights to command all transport and supplies and when the army arrived at Constantinople he was appointed its spokesman in negotiations with the Byzantines. His rhetorical ability, wisdom and chivalry were praised by fellow Crusader Geoffroi <mask>, who said of Conon: Bon chevalier et sage estoit et bien eloquens (A good knight and a wise one he was, and most eloquent). After the diverted Crusade's capture of Constantinople in 1204, Conon held a number of important positions in the Latin Empire under Baldwin (now emperor Baldwin I),  the successor to the Byzantine Empire established by the Crusaders and centered on Constantinople. Awarded the senior title of protovestiarius, inherited from the Byzantine court, sometime in 1205, he played a key role in Baldwin's reconciliation with Boniface of Montferrat before the Battle of Adrianople against the Bulgarians, in which Baldwin was captured and later put to death. In 1209, he supervised the signing of the Treaty of Sapienza on the emperor's behalf. Conon then served Baldwin's brother emperor Henry of Flanders until his death in 1217, followed by Baldwin's sister Yolanda of Flanders, during which time he defended the city of Adrianople and was raised to the higher rank of sevastokrator.On the death of Yolanda in 1219, her son Robert of Courtenay became emperor but was far away in France. In his absence, the barons of the Empire elected Conon to serve as regent (baiulus) but he died shortly after. Landholdings
He had various lands in France, as seigneur or as tenant. He was seigneur of Bergues near Dunkirk in 1202 and also of two villages (Rulliacum and Camissiacum) where in that year he freed the inhabitants, almost certainly to raise funds for crusading. These holdings he left in the charge of his nephew, Robert VII, Lord of Béthune while he was away. Family
Though the name of his wife is unknown, a son is recorded: <mask> <mask>éthune, called The Strong, who was alive in 1238. Another possible son, or nephew, Baldwin of Béthune, succeeded Theodore Branas as Lord of Adrianople; as the lordship was hereditary it is assumed that Baldwin married an otherwise unattested daughter of Branas.Baldwin also held the court title of Caesar, likewise adopted from Byzantine practice. Poetry
Only 14 works of poetry attributed to <mask> <mask> have survived; one of these, only attributed in Trouvère MS C (Bern 389) is a jeu-parti in which <mask> is neither of the named participants. A total of 17 manuscripts contain at least one of the remaining thirteen attributed works, but three of these have alternative attributions in more reliable sources, resulting in an accepted number of 10 songs. <mask>'s poetry was written to be sung and many of his poems survive with musical notation. The majority of his poems are courtly love songs, but two of them are chansons de croisade or crusade songs in which the poet-lover deplores his approaching departure from his beloved but nevertheless accepts the "noble calling" of crusader. <mask> <mask> also shows himself at times to be ironic or satirical, and in one of his crusade poems he rails with vehemence against financial abuses by those collecting funds for the crusaders. Some think he married Anne of Paris after composing a poem for her.The ten works edited by Wallensköld (1968) as authentically by Conon are:

Chançon legiere a entendre

Si voiremant con cele don je chant

Mout me semont Amors que je m'envoise

Ahi! Amors, com dure departie

Bien me deüsse targier

Se raige et derverie

Belle doce Dame chiere

Tant ai amé c'or me convient haïr

L'autrier un jor aprés la Saint Denise

L'autrier avint en cel autre païs

References
 His name first appears in the written record in 1180. Sources

Hasenohr, Geneviève and Michel Zink, eds. Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: Le Moyen Age. Collection: La Pochothèque. Paris: Fayard, 1964. Van Tricht, F (2014) The Byzantino-Latin Principality of Adrianople and the Challenge of Feudalism (1204/6–ca.1227/28): Empire, Venice, and Local Autonomy, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol.68 (2014), pp. 325–342, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University

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<mask> <mask>'s chanson Ai! amours, com dure departie

1150s births
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12th-century French composers
13th-century French composers
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Christians of the Fourth Crusade
Regents of the Latin Empire
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Guillaume II de B
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Jean de B
Conon
Marie de Champagne
Chrétien de Troy
Conon
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Conon
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<mask> (7 December 1884 – 25 June 1957) was an Australian medical practitioner, radiotherapist, toxicologist and natural historian. He founded the North Queensland Naturalist Club in 1932, whose herbarium grew into the now heritage-listed Flecker Botanical Gardens in Cairns, Queensland. He identified the deadly box jellyfish, Chironex fleckeri. Early life
<mask> was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1884. North Queensland Naturalist Club
From the early 1930s there were community calls for the establishment of a formal botanical garden within the recreation reserve in Cairns. Momentum came largely from Dr <mask> and the North Queensland Naturalist Club, which he founded in 1932. <mask> was a radiologist with a strong interest in natural history, especially toxic plants and animals.He undertook valuable work on the Queensland Finger Cherry and the Tar Tree and identified the deadly box jelly, Chironex fleckeri. From 1935 he contributed a weekly column to the Cairns Post on behalf of the Naturalist Club, in which he publicly advocated the establishment of a botanic garden at the recreation reserve. In 1933, with encouragement from the Queensland Government Botanist, Cyril White, <mask> established the North Queensland Naturalists' Club Herbarium in the grounds of the Cairns City Council's nursery in the recreation reserve. The club's collection grew from around 1,600 specimens in 1937 to about 5,000 in 1950 and an estimated final collection size of around 10,680 specimens. The collection proved popular with visitors, enhancing their experiences of the gardens. Until 1949 specimens were housed at the gardens in a storeroom supplied and erected by the Cairns City Council, then the collection was moved to the former Kuranda Barracks on the Cairns Esplanade. It returned briefly to the Cairns Botanic Gardens from 1967 to 1971, but is now fully incorporated in the general collection at the CSIRO Division of Forest Research at Atherton.In 1934–35 a significant advance was made with around 25 acres (10 hectares) of the reserve on the lower slopes of Mt Islay cleared of heavy undergrowth and planted with young trees. The mayor of Cairns advised that the reserve would be planted with "permanent trees which are noteworthy for their ornamentation and their regularity of design, planted at pre-determined distances, so that they will provide permanent avenues of great beauty." Trees and shrubs of a less "permanent" nature were to be removed and relocated to other parts of the reserve allowing for the development of avenues lined with pine, acacia, palms, Poinciana and others. This project continued until 1940 when part of the recreation reserve (suburban section 74, north of the council nursery) was converted to a Quarry Reserve for war purposes and part of the 1930s gardens work was destroyed by quarrying. It appears that oil palms, poincianas, hoop pines, two rubber trees, a Dillenia, a Schizolobium, an Indian mango, a Wongi plum, a Terminalia and a Malay Apple were planted during this period by Les Wright. Box jellyfish Chironex fleckeri
On 20 January 1955, a 5-year-old boy died after being stung in shallow water at Cardwell. Flecker found three types of jellyfish there, one of which was unidentified.It was a box-shaped jellyfish with groups of tentacles arising from each corner. <mask> sent it to Dr Ronald Southcott in Adelaide. On 29 December 1955 Southcott published a paper introducing it as a new genus and species of lethal box jellyfish. Named in his honour
Ronald Southcott named the box jellyfish Chironex fleckeri, the name being derived from the Greek cheiro ("hand"), and the Latin nex ("murderer"), and fleckeri in honour of its discoverer. In 1971 the Cairns City Council named its new garden the Flecker Botanic Gardens to commemorate Dr <mask>'s contribution to botany. (The name has since been applied to the whole of the recreation reserve). At this time there was a collection of over 100 different species of native orchids growing on a line of palms, and over 100 species of palms including oil palms and royal palms in the area facing Collins Avenue.North of this area and facing McCormack Street was a densely wooded area containing earlier plantings. After 1966 this area was cleared of lantana and undergrowth and pathways established. Among the plantings at this time were coffee, tea, cocoa, turmeric, ginger, curry leaf and other medicinal plants including Taraktogenos from Burma. The largest tree in this area at this time was the Samanea saman or Rain Tree from South America, and well advanced were two Hevea brasiliensis, a source of rubber, ready for tapping. A "fine specimen" of breadfruit was growing in front of the curator's office in 1973. In 1974 the Flecker Botanic Gardens was listed in the International Directory of Botanical Gardens, following an invitation received from the Association of Botanical Gardens (now The Botanic Gardens Conservation International) in Edinburgh. At this period the gardens held an amazing variety and quantity of ferns, some of which were exceptionally rare.Flecker Botanic Gardens remains a member of this Association. In 1982 new entrance gates were erected at the 1971 Flecker Botanic Gardens to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the North Queensland Naturalists' Club. Flecker Botanic Gardens continues its important botanic role, extending its collection of endangered species from the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area and providing assistance to both national and international scientific work. The garden maintains national and international memberships such as the Royal Australian Institute of Parks and Recreation, and Botanic Gardens Conservation International, and is noted nationally and internationally for its collections of palms, gingers and aroids. References

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1884 births
1957 deaths
Articles incorporating text from the Queensland Heritage Register
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Hugo Flecker
Hugo Flecker
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<mask> (born 1 June 1984) is a Beninese professional footballer who most recently played for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği. He is a Benin international, having represented the nation at the 2008, 2010 and 2019 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. Sessègnon plays a variety of positions as a forward, a winger and as a midfield offensive playmaker. He is Benin's all-time top scorer and appearance maker with 24 international goals in 83 matches. Club career

Early career
Sessègnon began his career in Cotonou with Benin Premier League side Requins de l'Atlantique, which means the Sharks of the Atlantic in French. After spending only a year in the club's senior team, he moved to France to join Créteil, based in the Parisian suburbs, where he joined fellow international Noël Séka. Sessègnon made his debut on the opening match day of the 2004–05 Ligue 2 season against Stade Reims as a substitute in a 2–1 defeat.He scored his first goals on 14 January 2005, a brace in a span of four minutes, in a 3–0 win over Gueugnon. Though Créteil finished in 15th position, Sessègnon was labelled a revelation as he was the primary bright spot in helping the club escape relegation. Le Mans
Keen on a move to Ligue 1, Sessègnon signed a three-year deal with Le Mans on 19 May 2006. He made his debut for the club in a league match against Troyes, appearing as a substitute in a 2–2 draw. After featuring as a substitute in his first five appearances, and receiving a straight red card in a match against Sedan, he earned his first start on 4 November 2006 against Auxerre. Two weeks later, he scored his first career goal for Le Mans in a 1–1 draw with Rennes. Initially used as a holding midfielder at Le Mans, Sessègnon was given a more advanced role for the 2007–08 season, often starting on the right side of the midfield or as an attacker.In this new role, he scored both goals in the club's 3–2 defeat to giants Lyon on 1 September 2007. He scored again the following week in a 1–0 victory over Valenciennes. Sessègnon also helped the club reach the semi-finals of the Coupe de la Ligue that season although they lost to Lens in a thrilling 5–4 defeat in extra time, Sessègnon playing the entire 120 minutes. Paris Saint-Germain

Due to his success at Le Mans, Sessègnon was scouted by larger clubs such as Premier League sides Arsenal and Newcastle United. However, he remained in France by signing a four-year deal with Paris Saint Germain. The fee was said to be in the range of €8–10 million. Sessègnon made his league debut with the club on 16 August 2008, starting in the 1–0 win against Bordeaux.The following match day, he scored his first goal for PSG in a 1–1 draw with Sochaux. On 13 December 2008, Sessègnon scored his third career brace against Auxerre in a 2–1 victory. For his positive performances, he was named the UNFP Player of the Month for December. Sessègnon also appeared in nine matches in the UEFA Cup, scoring one goal against Dutch club Twente. Several clubs contacted PSG in the off-season to discuss Sessègnon's availability, with Premier League clubs Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Everton and Manchester City being the primary suitors. Taking advantage of the considerable interest in him, Sessègnon issued a public demand on 23 June that his parent club give him a pay raise, stating, "I think I am one of the best performers in the club." The firing of PSG manager Paul Le Guen also played a role in his demands, and two weeks later, Sessègnon and the club reached an agreement on a contract extension with the player set to receive a substantial pay raise.In the 2010–11 season, Sessègnon struggled to make an impact with the first team after manager Antoine Kombouaré relegated him to a substitute's role. Friction between player and manager reached its zenith in December 2010, when Sessègnon accused Kombouaré of insulting him during a one-on-one interview ahead of the team's match against Nancy on 19 December. Sessègnon subsequently confirmed his desire to leave the club in the January window and, as a sign of his intent, refused to join Paris Saint-Germain on its winter training camp in Morocco. Sunderland

2010–11 season

On 29 January 2011, Sessègnon departed Paris Saint-Germain to join English club Sunderland. He signed a three-and-a-half-year contract and the transfer fee was priced at £6 million, and made his debut on 1 February against Chelsea. He made his second start for the Black Cats in 3–2 away loss against Stoke City on 5 February 2011. His first real successful moment as a Sunderland player after a disappointing start came on 23 April, where he scored his first goal for the club in the 4–2 win over Wigan Athletic.He converted a penalty of his own making in the 73rd minute, beating Ali Al-Habsi after being tripped by Antolín Alcaraz. Sessègnon had been forced to play in an unfamiliar role as a lone striker, after injuries to strikers Danny Welbeck and Asamoah Gyan during the match. Sessègnon scored in Sunderland's home defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers, and again in the final match of the season, a 0–3 win at West Ham United. 2011–12 season

In his second season at Sunderland, Sessègnon scored his first goal of the season against Bolton Wanderers on 22 October 2011. He followed this up with an 89th-minute equaliser against Aston Villa a week later, also providing an assist and winning man of the match. On 8 February 2012, in a FA Cup fourth round replay, Sessègnon scored a dramatic late winner against Middlesbrough in the 113th minute during extra time to take Sunderland into the fifth round again Arsenal. On 4 March, he was sent-off in the match against Newcastle United for an elbow to the chest of Cheick Tioté, with Sunderland leading the Tyne-Wear derby 1–0.Newcastle went on to equalise in stoppage time. Sessègnon served a three-match ban returning to score the third goal in Sunderland's 3–1 win against Queens Park Rangers at the Stadium of Light on 24 March. Against Manchester City, although he did not score in the match, he set up two assists, one for a Sebastian Larsson opener in the 31st minute and the second for a Nicklas Bendtner header deep in the first half of injury time to make the match 2–1 for Sunderland at half time. The match finished in a 3–3 draw, with Larsson in the 55th minute scoring to put Sunderland 3–1 ahead after Sessègnon started that attack, then in the 85th minute, Mario Balotelli scored to make the score 3–2 and Aleksandar Kolarov scored Manchester City's equalising goal in the 86th. Sessègnon won the Player of the Season award for the season. 2012–13 season
On 30 August 2012, Sessègnon signed a new contract that would keep him at the Stadium of Light until 2015. In Paolo Di Canio's second match as Sunderland manager, on 14 April 2013, Sessègnon scored against Sunderland's fiercest rivals Newcastle to put Sunderland 1–0 up.Sunderland went on to win the encounter with their rivals 3–0, with Sessègnon assisting David Vaughan for the third goal. The following week, Sessègnon scored the only goal as Sunderland defeated Everton 1–0 at home. His season ended prematurely after he was sent off during Sunderland's 6–1 defeat against Aston Villa. West Bromwich Albion
On 2 September 2013, Sessègnon joined West Bromwich Albion for a club record fee of £5.5 million, rising to £6 million with extras. On 21 September, Sessègnon scored the first goal in a 3–0 win on his debut for West Bromwich Albion against Sunderland, his previous club. On 9 November, he scored against Chelsea in controversial 2–2 draw at Stamford Bridge. On 15 March 2014, Sessegnon scored the first Albion goal of a 1–2 away victory against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium, helping Pepe Mel gain his first win as head coach.Sessègnon, thus far, has been a fan favourite at the club and his substitution in matches has often lead to a negative reaction from the fans. He scored his first goal of his second season at the club against Manchester United with a well-taken strike in a 2–2 draw at The Hawthorns. After almost leaving the club at the end of the season after falling out with manager Tony Pulis over selection issues, Sessegnon would return to the first team in the 2015–16 season with consistent performances. On 18 May 2016, it was announced that Sessègnon and Victor Anichebe would leave the club. Montpellier
On 26 September 2016, Sessègnon signed for Ligue 1 side Montpellier on a two-year deal. Gençlerbirliği
On 23 January 2018, Sessègnon signed a one and a half-year contract with Süper Lig side Gençlerbirliği. Free agent
In the summer of 2021,Dijon was interested to sign <mask> Sessègnon.International career
Sessègnon made his debut for Benin on 6 June 2004 in a 2006 World Cup qualification match against Cameroon starting in the team's 2–1 loss. Sessègnon was the captain of Benin's successful 2019 Africa Cup of Nations campaign, where his side reached the quarter-finals. Style of play
Upon signing for Sunderland, manager Steve Bruce described Sessègnon as a player who "can play on the left, on the right, through the middle – he's lightning quick and he's a match-winner." Bruce also went on to say, "Stéphane's a little powerhouse with a low centre of gravity, some great dribbling skills and a good shot." Personal life
He is a distant cousin of twin brothers Ryan, who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and Steven, who plays for Fulham. Career statistics

International

International goals
Scores and results list Benin's goal tally first. Honours

Club
PSG
Coupe de France: 2009–10

International
Benin
 Ghana Four Nations Tournament (Friendly) runner-up: 2007

Individual
 Special Award for services to the national team

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<mask> (September 1721 – October 30, 1806) was an American gristmill operator and justice of the peace from Sutton, Massachusetts, who served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court (state legislature). An Anti-Federalist, he voted against the U.S. Constitution as a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention. He was angered by perceived Federalist arrogance surrounding the adoption of the Constitution and thought that it provided too much power to the national government. He supported the American Revolution and wanted to limit wealthy Bostonians' sway over state politics. Early and personal life

He was born in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, in September 1721. He was the first male birth in the town, the youngest son of Mary Grelee (or Greele) and <mask>, a farmer and tithingman. John had moved to Sutton around 1720 and soon bought a lot on which he built a gristmill for municipal use.Singletary never attended school and learned only at home; despite this, town annals published in 1970 note that he was a keen learner in later life. An earnest Baptist, he signed a petition in 1742 asking for a parcel of land to be set aside in northern Sutton for a new church. In late 1747, several dozen churchgoers, including Singletary, broke off from the First Church of Sutton and formed their own in a part of town that is now Millbury. He was elected as a ruling elder of that church on February 4, 1768. He married Mary Curtis, from Topsfield, on September 6, 1742; she died on June 28, 1798. They had nine children, six girls and three boys. All worked in offices at the church, except his youngest, also named <mask>, who town annals call a "profligate."Singletary ran his father's gristmill along Singletary Stream from 1764 to 1777. He had purchased it from his brother, Richard, and later sold it to Abraham Waters. Political career

On January 5, 1775, <mask> was elected to be a delegate of Sutton to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in Cambridge held on February 1. Later, on May 22, he was elected again, to a second congress in Watertown on May 31. He was nominated to be a justice of the peace on September 18 of that year, entering politics upon assuming the office. He and Willis Hall were elected May 19, 1777, to represent Sutton in the General Court in the coming year. In the next decade, Hall became the chair of Worcester County conventions that hoped to influence the Court; Singletary served in the House of Representatives in the 1781–82 and 1783–84 sessions, representing Sutton with Hall during the former.During the Revolutionary War, he was listed on a committee to train men in Worcester County to fight in New York and Canada, and as a legislator, he opposed eastern Massachusetts policies that, in his view, tormented western Massachusetts farmers. He was chosen on September 25, 1786, to be a delegate to a county convention in Leicester to ask for the state capital to be moved out of Boston. Many residents of western Massachusetts resented the influence of Boston elites over the state legislature, which they felt was taxing the Western region too heavily. This resentment also motivated Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising that had emerged that summer. The town of Sutton selected Singletary as part of a committee to try to mediate between active rebels and the state government, which had sent thousands of troops to suppress the uprising. The delegation managed to meet with General Benjamin Lincoln, though the rebellion continued for many months more. Constitution Ratifying Convention

Singletary is best known as a zealous, outspoken Anti-Federalist during Massachusetts's hearings on ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788.He and David Harwood became the delegates from Sutton on December 10, 1787, to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention in Boston which began on January 9 of the next year. On January 25, 1788, over two weeks into the convention, Singletary spoke against the Constitution in response to Representative Fisher Ames. He argued that the federal government's powers under the Constitution would be similar to those held by Great Britain, from which they had just won independence. He worried that the interests of the common people would not be protected and became furious with Federalists' immodesty on pushing for ratification. He insisted—breaking with some Anti-Federalists—that the national government should ensure that officials pass a religious test. Other demands included opposition to a standing army and stricter term limits to avoid life tenure. The Massachusetts Centinel reported a section of his speech:

Representative Jonathan Smith of Lanesborough responded.He cited Shays' Rebellion as justifying the need for a more centralized government, and said that the writers of the Constitution could be trusted. The Centinel quoted:

Although <mask> was not the only delegate to voice opposition, Massachusetts ratified the Constitution on February 7, 1788, with a 187–168 vote. Sutton annals write that several town members—along with other parts of the state—celebrated its ratification. Later politics and death

<mask> represented Sutton in the state senate, serving four consecutive one-year terms from 1787 to 1790. In the 1788 election, <mask> received 94% of his vote from Anti-Federalist towns in Worcester County and 4% from Federalist ones; compare this to the Federalist senator Moses Gill, also from Worcester, who received 83% from Anti-Federalist towns and 14% from Federalist ones. According to historian Jon L. Wakelyn, "It is unclear whether Singletary took part in post-1789 politics. There is some indication that he had moved to Maine."He died on October 30, 1806, at age 85. His remains are interred in the County-Bridge Cemetery, on Providence Street along Blackstone River in Millbury, Massachusetts. Notes and references
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1806 deaths
People from Sutton, Massachusetts
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Anti-Federalists
Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Massachusetts state senators
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Amos Singletary
John Singletary
Amos
Singletary
Singletary
Singletary
Singletary