text_chunks:
Hiresh Haridas (born 26 May 1976 in Malacca), better known by his stage name <mask>, is a singer-songwriter from Malaysia who does mostly English songs. He is known for songs such as "Walk Away", "Cintaku Pergi", "Hey Waley" and "Superfine". He is of Malayali descent. In July 2015, he rebranded himself as just <mask>monu" was a part of his "coming-of-age" process. He is among a small number of Malaysian artists who have consistently performed as an opening act for internationally acclaimed acts touring in Malaysia, such as Alicia Keys, Prodigy, Pussycat Dolls and Black Eoas. He also has a notable following in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. Career

2003–2008: Breakthrough
<mask>u released his debut album, Monumental, in 2003 under Dhanosh Records, after taking four years to complete.The album impressed critics and fans with hit singles "Walk Away", "Like This", "Pirivu" and "It's You That Matters". The album earned him seven Anugerah Industri Muzik nominations in 2004, of which he won three awards (Best Male Vocals, Best New English Artist, Best Engineering for an Album). "It's You That Matters" was remade in Mandarin by Evonne Hsu, titled "Wǒ yào qīng qīng wèi nǐ chàng shǒu gē" (, "I Wanna Sing a Song For You"). <mask>u subsequently released a repackaged album under Sony BMG entitled Monumental – The Journey Continues in December 2004 which included "Kiranya Tiada Lagi" (the Malay version of "Walk Away") and the chart topping hit "Hey Waley". Universal Music Malaysia took an interest in <mask>u and, in 2007, collaborated with him to release his third Malaysian English album entitled Superfine, with a gala live outdoor concert at The Curve, Kota Damansara. Over 5,000 fans, representatives from the media and members of the local corporate and music fraternities attended. Among the singles from Superfine were "Superfine" (the title track) and "The Way It Makes You Move".2008–2013
<mask> made his directorial debut on his second music video for "The Way It Makes You Move", the second single from the album "Superfine". This earned him a nomination in the 2008 AIM Awards under the ‘Best Music Video’ Award category. <mask> launched his first fully Bahasa Melayu album, titled Harapan in 2009, for which he gained the award for Best Engineered Album in the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik held that year. This album, which was published exclusively on his own online record label R Records, consists of twelve tracks with a various mixture of Samba, Latin and many more Afro-Latin themes. This album featured collaborations with other homegrown names such as Noryn Aziz, Hunny Madu, Caprice, Adeep from Fabulous Cats and Mawar Berduri from Ahli Fiqir. In 2010, <mask>u released his first Tamil language single "Theendathey", which gained him popularity among Malaysia's Tamil community. Following the success of "Theendathey", <mask>u followed suit with establishing vocal group ‘Ashtaka’ and a full-length LP titled Ashtaka that serviced the Indian music industry throughout 2012.Entrepreneur
<mask> set up his own record label ‘R Records’; his own commercial recording studio called Shugar; and a video production house called Shpice to cater to artists/musicians/agencies who need audio/video production services. He then set up R Talents, which he is currently managing himself as well as artists such as sports announcer Roshan (Football Overload), TV host and radio personality Phat Fabes, Ashtaka, Beauty Queen, Nigerian rapper King Stunna and DJ Nadine Ann Thomas and indie singer-songwriter, Ain Zulkifly. 2015: Re-branding as Resh
In July 2015, he rebranded himself as "Resh", complete with a new image. <mask> cites that the name <mask>u is a part of "coming-of-age" process. He collaborated with Timbaland's protege Jim Beanz of Sunset Entertainment Group to produce his new EP "Who Am I". The album features six tracks and the first single of the album; "Half The Man" was released in October 2015. The track shot to No.1 on Hitz FM's Malaysian English Top 10 (or MET10) charts within its first week of release. Discography

Filmography

Accolades

Raaga Radio Awards
The awards show is organised by radio station THR Raaga. Nominated for Most Popular Artiste at the Raaga Radio Awards held at Stadium Putra on 9 October 2010. Anugerah Planet Muzik
 Nominated for Best Artiste Award at the Anugerah Planet Muzik Awards 2009, held in Jakarta on 18 July 2009. Anugerah Industri Muzik
 Awarded Best Engineered Album for Harapan at the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2009, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 2 May 2009. Nominated for Best Music Video Awards for "Oh Anok-Anok" at the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2009, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 2 May 2009. Nominated for Best Pop Album Awards for Harapan at the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2009, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 2 May 2009.Nominated for Best Male Vocal in A Song for "Doa Untuk Dia" at the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2009, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 2 May 2009. Nominated for Best Male Vocal in A Song for "Sayu" at the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2009,e held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 2 May 2009. Nominated for Best Engineered Album Awards for Harapan at the 16th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2009, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 2 May 2009. Nominated for Best Music Video Awards for "The Way It Makes You Move" at the 15th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2008, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 3 May 2008. Awarded Best Male Vocalist Award for the Superfine LP at the 14th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2007, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 28 April 2007. Nominated for Best Male Vocalist, Best Local English Album and Best Album Cover Awards for Superfine at the 14th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2007, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 28 April 2007. Nominated for Best Male Vocalist, Best Local English Album and Best Album Cover Awards for Superfine at the 14th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2007, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 28 April 2007.Awarded Best Vocal Performance in an Album (Male) Award for Monumental at the 11th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2004, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 24 April 2004. Awarded Best New Local English Artiste Award for Monumental at the 11th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2004, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 24 April 2004. Awarded Best Engineered Album for Monumental at the 11th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2004, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 24 April 2004. Nominated for Best Vocal Performance in an Album (Male) Award, Best New English Artist; Best Local English Album; Best Engineered Album, Best Music Video (two nominations) and Best Album Cover Awards for Monumental at the 11th Anugerah Industri Muzik Awards Malaysia 2004, held at The Putra World Trade Centre on 24 April 2004. Hitz.fm Malaysian Top Ten Awards
 Nominated for Best Live Act Award category in the Hitz.fm Malaysian Top Ten Awards 2006. Won Best Pop/Dance Award 2005 Hitz FM Malaysian English Top 10 Awards 2005 for "It's You That Matters". Also nominated in Best Pop/Dance Award category for "Like This" in the Hitz.fm Malaysian Top Ten Awards 2005.Also nominated in the Best Urban Award category for ‘Walkaway’ in the Hitz.fm Malaysian Top Ten Awards 2005. Won the following two Best Music Video Awards 2005 at the 10th Malaysian Video Awards 2005 for Monumental -The Journey Continues: Silver Award for "Kiranya Tiada Lagi" and Bronze Award for "Hey Waley". Malaysian Video Awards
 Won the following two Best Music Video Awards 2005 at the 10th Malaysian Video Awards 2005 for Monumental - The Journey Continues. Finalist for Best Music Video Award for "Like This" Music Video at the 9th Malaysian Video Awards [MVA] held on 17 September 2004 at Budaba Kuala Lumpur. Awarded "gold" for "Walk Away (Slow Jam Jam)" Music Video at the 8th Malaysian Video Awards held at Orange Club on 12 September 2003. Awarded joint "silver" for "Cintaku Pergi" Music Video at the 8th Malaysian Video Awards [MVA] held on 12 September 2003. Anugerah Era
 Nominated for "Artist Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik" (Best English Artist) at Anugerah Era 2005.Nominated for "Artist Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik" (Best English Artist) at Anugerah Era 2004. Nominated for "Artist Inggeris Tempatan Terbaik" (Best English Artist) at Anugerah Era 2003. Anugerah Juara Lagu
 Nominated For TV3 Juara Lagu 2004 Award for "Cintaku Pergi" music video. Other awards
 Nominated as best dressed celebrity at the ‘MIFA 2004’ Malaysian International Fashion Awards

Other activities
 2004 – 2005 ‘Hotlink’ ambassador
 2005 – 2006 Celebrity partner for United Nations’ UNDP SGP PTF
 2008 – Donates his Winnings of RM 38,000.00 on the popular TV show Deal or No Deal towards a charitable Soup Kitchen; producer & voice behind NTV7's anniversary campaign song; one of the many artiste involved in MAFU (Malaysian Artiste for Unity) song titled ‘Here in My Home’
 2004 to 2012 – Celebrity Model for Designers Daniel Cho of KWAN, Key Ng and Bon Zainal for M.I.F.A (Malaysian International Fashion Awards)
 2009 – WWF's Earth Hour Ambassador; involved in the latest Kementerian Belia Dan Sukan Campaign Theme Song and Music Video
 2010 to 2012 – Involved in PEMANDU's campaign for Government Transformation Program
 2012 – Perform for King's Coronation at Dataran Merdeka

References

External links
Official website
 Reshmonu goes global, NST Online, 2 May 2013
 Reshmonu Artis Malaysia Pertama Diterima Rakam Album Bersama Jim Beanz, ohbulan! 24 April 2013
 Reshmonu Bakal Terbit Album di Amerika Syarikat, gua.com.my, 24 April 2013
 Reshmonu bakal kerjasama dengan Jim Beanz, penerbit terkenal Amerika Syarikat, Trekselebriti, 23 April 2013

1976 births
Living people
Malaysian male singer-songwriters
Malaysian singer-songwriters
Malaysian people of Indian descent
Malaysian people of Malayali descent
Malayali people
Malay-language singers
English-language singers from Malaysia
Malaysian rhythm and blues singers
Malaysian soul singers
Malaysian hip hop singers

masks: Reshmonu Reshsh Reshmon Reshmon Reshmon Reshmonu Reshmonu Reshmon Reshmon Reshmonu Resh Reshmon


text_chunks:
<mask> (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker   as a Wall Street executive investment banker, he represented Connecticut in the  from 1952   of the <mask> family, he was the father of former Vice President and President , and the paternal grandfather of former Texas Governor and President  and former Florida Governor

Born in Columbus, Ohio, <mask> graduated from Yale College and served as an artillery officer during World War I. After the war, he worked for several companies, becoming a minor partner of the A. Harriman & Co. investment bank in 1931. He served in several high-ranking United States Golf Association offices, including president of that organization. <mask> settled in Connecticut in 1925. <mask> won election to the Senate in a 1952 special election, narrowly defeating Democratic nominee Abraham Ribicoff. In the Senate, <mask> staunchly supported President Dwight D. Eisenhower and helped enact legislation to create the Interstate Highway System. <mask> won re-election in 1956 but declined to seek re-election in 1962, retiring from the Senate the following year.Early life
<mask> was born in Columbus, Ohio, to <mask> <mask> and Flora Sheldon <mask>. <mask> was a railroad middle manager, then a steel company president and, during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination of and assistance to major weapons contractors. <mask> attended St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, from 1908–1913. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale College, where his paternal grandfather, Rev. James Smith <mask> (class of 1844), and his maternal uncle Robert E. Sheldon Jr. (class of 1904) had matriculated. Three subsequent generations of the <mask> family have been Yale alumni. <mask> was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity and Skull and Bones secret society.George H. W<mask> was also a member of the society, as is his son, George W<mask>. George H. W<mask> and <mask> were, however, not members of Zeta Psi, and were members, instead, of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. According to Skull and Bones lore, <mask> was among a group of Bonesmen who dug up and removed the skull of Geronimo from his grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1918. According to historian David L. Miller, the Bonesmen probably dug up somebody at Fort Sill, but not Geronimo. <mask> was a cheerleader, played varsity golf
and baseball, and was president of the Yale Glee Club. After graduation, <mask> served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917–1919) during World War I. He received intelligence training at Verdun, France, and was briefly assigned to a staff of French officers.Alternating between intelligence and artillery, he came under fire in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Business career
After his discharge in 1919, <mask> went to work for the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Louis, Missouri. The <mask> family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1923, where <mask> briefly worked for the Hupp Products Company. In November 1923, he became president of sales for Stedman Products in South Braintree, Massachusetts. During this time, he lived in a Victorian house at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts, where his son, George H. W<mask>, was born. In 1924, <mask> became vice-president of the investment bank A. Harriman & Co. where his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker was president. <mask>'s Yale classmates and fellow Bonesmen E. Roland Harriman and Knight Woolley also worked with the company.In 1925, he joined the United States Rubber Company of New York City as manager of the foreign division, and moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1931, he became a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which was created through the 1931 amalgamation of A. Harriman & Co with Brown Bros. & Co., (a merchant bank founded in Philadelphia in 1818) and with Harriman Brothers & Co. (established in New York City in 1927). He was an avid golfer, and in 1935 was named head of the USGA. From 1944–1956, <mask> was a member of the Yale Corporation, the principal governing body of Yale University. He was on the board of directors of CBS, having been introduced to chairman William S. Paley around 1932 by his close friend and colleague W. Averell Harriman, who became a major Democratic Party power broker. Union Banking Corporation
<mask> was a founder and one of seven directors (including W. Averell Harriman) of the Union Banking Corporation (holding a single share out of 4,000 as a director), an investment bank that operated as a clearing house for many assets and enterprises held by German steel magnate Fritz Thyssen, an early supporter and financier of the Nazi Party. In July 1942, the bank was suspected of holding gold on behalf of Nazi leaders.A subsequent government investigation disproved those allegations but confirmed the Thyssens' control, and in October 1942 the United States seized the bank under the Trading with the Enemy Act and held the assets for the duration of World War II. Journalist Duncan Campbell pointed out documents showing that <mask> was a director and shareholder of a number of companies involved with Thyssen. <mask> was the director of the Union Banking Corporation that "represented Thyssen's US interests", continuing to work for the bank after America's entry into World War II. Historian Herbert Parmet agrees with the assessment that <mask> was not a Nazi sympathizer. Political life
<mask> was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first nationwide campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947. He was also an early supporter of the United Negro College Fund, serving as chairman of the Connecticut branch in 1951.From 1947–1950, he served as Connecticut Republican finance chairman, and was the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1950. A columnist in Boston said that <mask> "is coming on to be known as President Truman's Harry Hopkins. Nobody knows Mr. <mask> and he hasn't a Chinaman's chance." (Harry Hopkins had been one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's closest advisors.) <mask>'s ties with Planned Parenthood also hurt him in strongly-Catholic Connecticut, and were the basis of a last-minute campaign in churches by <mask>'s opponents; the family vigorously denied the connection, but <mask> lost to Sen. William Burnett Benton by only 1,000 votes. <mask> sought a rematch with Sen. Benton in 1952, but withdrew as the party turned to William Purtell. The death of Senator Brien McMahon later that year, however, created a vacancy and this time the Republicans  He defeated the Democratic nominee, Abraham Ribicoff, and was elected to the Senate.A staunch supporter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he served until January 1963. He was re-elected in 1956 with 55% of the vote over Democrat Thomas J. Dodd (later U.S. Senator from Connecticut and father of Christopher J. Dodd), and decided not to run for another term in 1962. He was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, and during his tenure supported the Polaris submarine project (built by Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, Connecticut), the establishment of the Peace Corps, and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On December 2, 1954, <mask> was part of the large (67–22) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy after McCarthy had taken on the U.S. Army and the Eisenhower administration. During the debate leading to the censure, <mask> said that McCarthy has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line."Eisenhower later included <mask> on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. In terms of issues, <mask> often agreed with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. According to Theodore H. White's book about the 1964 presidential election, <mask> and Rockefeller were longtime friends. <mask> favored a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket for 1960, and was presumed to support Rockefeller's 1964 presidential candidacy until the latter's remarriage in 1963. He then publicly denounced Rockefeller for divorcing his first wife and marrying a woman with whom Rockefeller had been having an affair while married to his first wife. <mask> then very publicly endorsed his former Senate colleague Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was also the older brother of one of <mask>'s protegés, former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge. Another of Senator <mask>'s major legislative interests was flood and hurricane protection.He drafted the Bush Hurricane Survey Act (Public Law 71), enabling U.S. Army engineers to develop a new program of community protection against tidal flooding. <mask> and Representative John W. McCormack, the Democratic House Majority Leader, co-sponsored the Bush-McCormack Act (Public Law 685), which expedited the construction of local flood protection works. Personal life

<mask> married Dorothy Wear Walker (1901–1992) on August 6, 1921, in Kennebunkport, Maine. They had five children:   George  Nancy  Jonathan  and William "Bucky"

<mask> founded the Yale Glee Club Associates, an alumni group, in 1937. As was his father-in-law, he was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928–1935. He was a multi-year club champion of the Round Hill Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was on the committee set up by New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. to help create the New York Mets. He was a member of the American Legion and the 40 & 8 Society.<mask> maintained homes in New York City; Long Island; and Greenwich, Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; and a secluded island off the Connecticut coast, Fishers Island. He died of cancer in 1972 at age 77 at Memorial Hospital in  and was interred at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut. Business Plot
In July 2007, Scott Horton, an American attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict, had an article published in Harper's Magazine claiming that <mask> was involved in the 1934 Business Plot, a failed plan by some of America's wealthy to trick Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler into helping them overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Writings
<mask>'s articles include:
 "Timely Monetary Policy," Banking, June 1955 and July 1955
 "To Preserve Peace Let's Show the Russians How Strong We Are!" Reader's Digest, July 1959
 "Politics Is Your Business," Chamber of Commerce, State of New York, Bulletin, May 1960

See also
 List of members of the American Legion

References

Further reading
 The <mask> Papers are at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. The Greenwich Library Oral History Project has interviews with <mask> Jr. and Mary Walker. There is material by and about <mask> in the History of the Class of 1917 Yale College (1919) and the supplementary class albums.John Atlee Kouwenhoven, Partners in Banking: An Historical Portrait of a Great Private Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman (1968). Obituaries are in the Washington Post, October 9, 1972; the New York Times, October 9, 1972; the Hartford Courant, October 9, 1972; and Yale Alumni Magazine, December 1972. <mask> <mask>. Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 9: 1971–1975. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Darwin Payne, Initiative in Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc., 1880–1978. New York: Simon and Schuster (1979).External links

University of Connecticut's profile of <mask>

|-

1895 births
1972 deaths
American bankers
American chief executives of financial services companies
American Episcopalians
United States Army personnel of World War I
American birth control activists
<mask> family
Businesspeople from Massachusetts
Businesspeople from Columbus, Ohio
Deaths from cancer in New York (state)
Connecticut Republicans
Deaths from lung cancer
Politicians from Braintree, Massachusetts
Politicians from Columbus, Ohio
Businesspeople from Greenwich, Connecticut
People from Milton, Massachusetts
United States senators from Connecticut
United States Army officers
Yale Bulldogs football players
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. people
Military personnel from Connecticut
St. George's School, Newport alumni
Fathers of presidents of the United States
Fathers of vice presidents of the United States
20th-century American politicians
Yale College alumni

masks:
Prescott Sheldon Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Samuel Prescott
Bush
Bush
Samuel Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
. Bush
. Bush
. Bush
George Bush
Prescott Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Prescott
. Bush
Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Prescott Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush
Prescott Sheldon
Bush
Prescott Bush
Bush


text_chunks:
<mask> FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as <mask>, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. Early and family life
Born at Napier House, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Bate was the daughter of Police Superintendent <mask> (born in Co. Wexford, Ireland) and his wife Elizabeth Fraser Whitehill. She had an older sister and a younger brother. She had little formal education and once commented that her education "was only briefly interrupted by school". When she was 34 her brother broke his leg and she spent around 18 months looking after her parents. She was later disinherited by her parents in order to provide a dowry for her brother to marry a wealthy woman.Career
In 1898, at the age of nineteen, Bate got a job at the Natural History Museum in London, sorting bird skins in the Department of Zoology's Bird Room and later preparing fossils. She was probably the first woman to be employed as a scientist by the museum. There she remained for fifty years and studied ornithology, palaeontology, geology and anatomy. She was a piece-worker, paid by the number of fossils she prepared. In 1901 <mask>has cypriotes, later described in a paper for the Royal Society.While in Cyprus she also observed—and trapped, shot and skinned—living mammals and birds and prepared a number of other papers, including descriptions of the Cyprus Spiny Mouse (Acomys nesiotes) and a subspecies of the Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes cypriotes). She later undertook expeditions to many other Mediterranean islands, including Crete, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, and the Balearic Islands, publishing work on their prehistoric fauna. In the Balearics in 1909, she discovered Myotragus balearicus, a previously unknown species of the subfamily Caprinae. On the plateau of Kat, in eastern Crete, she found remains of the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus. In Crete, she got to know the archaeologists then excavating Knossos and other sites on the island, who were throwing light on the Minoan civilisation, such as Arthur Evans. Finding herself sexually harassed by the British Vice-Consul in Majorca, Bate commented: "I do hate old men who try to make love to one and ought not to in their official positions." According to The Daily Telegraph –

In the late 1920s Bate travelled to the British ruled Palestine.She was in her late 40s and well respected. <mask> had been invited by Dorothy Garrod, who later became Cambridge University's first female professor and who had been put in charge of an excavation in Haifa by the British military governor. In Bethlehem <mask> and Elinor Wight Gardner discovered an extinct elephant species, an early horse and a prehistoric giant tortoise. They also discovered evidence that animals had been hunted by Bethlehem's first human inhabitants. In the 1930s Bate studied the animal bones Garrod had excavated in the Mount Carmel caves, which contained a succession of Upper Pleistocene levels. Instead of just inferring climatic conditions from the presence or absence of cold- or -warm loving animals, she was an early pioneer of the approach to take large samples of fauna of a succession of archaeological strata. These provided a series of plots.Bate worked on the basis that alterations in the frequency of species of animal hunted by early man reflected naturally occurring changes. This work made her an early pioneer of archaeozoology, especially in the field of climatic interpretation. Bate also worked alongside the archaeologist Professor Dorothy Garrod in the Caves of Nahal Me’arot, where excavations had commenced in 1928. She was the first to study the faunas of the area, her stated research aim being the reconstruction of the natural history of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) fauna of the Levant region. Being aware of the fossils and the numerous human occupations her study of the Carmel Caves was pioneering. She described several new species, and identified several species that had previously not been known to have existed in this area in the Pleistocene. She constructed one of the first quantitative curves of faunal succession, and in reference to ancient climate she identified a faunal break between primitive and modern mammal communities during the Middle of the Ice Age.Bate identified the shifts from deer to gazelle dominance as rooted in changes of regional vegetation and paleoclimates. She was also the first to identify a Canis familiaris to have lived in the Ice Age, based on a skull that had been found. Decades later more remains of Natufian dogs were found. Her pioneering research was published in 1937, when Bate and Garrod published The Stone Age of Mount Carmel volume 1, part 2: Palaeontology, the Fossil Fauna of the Wady el-Mughara Caves, interpreting the Mount Carmel excavations. Among other finds, they reported remains of the hippopotamus. Bate also worked with Percy R. Lowe on fossil ostriches in China. She compared the relative proportions of Gazella and Dama remains.Later life, death, legacy

Many archaeologists and anthropologists relied on her expertise in identifying fossil bones, including Louis Leakey, Charles McBurney, and John Desmond Clark. During the Second World War, Bate transferred from the Natural History Museum's department of geology in London to its zoological branch at Tring, and in 1948, a few months short of her seventieth birthday, she was appointed officer-in-charge there. Although suffering from cancer, she died of a heart attack on 13 January 1951, and as a Christian Scientist was cremated. Her personal papers were destroyed in a house fire shortly after her death. On her desk at Tring was a list of 'Papers to write'. By the last in the list she had written Swan Song. Her estate at death amounted to £15,369.In 2005, a '<mask>e facsimile' was created at the Natural History Museum as part of a project to develop notable gallery characters to patrol its display cases. Along with those of Carl Linnaeus, Mary Anning, and William Smith, the exhibit tells stories and anecdotes of her life and discoveries. In her biography Discovering <mask>: the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter <mask>e, Karolyn Shindler describes Bate as "witty, acerbic, clever and courageous". Shindler is also the author of the biography in the 2004 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography. Selected publications
A short account of a bone cave in the Carboniferous limestone of the Wye valley,  Geological Magazine, new series, 4th decade, 8 (1901), pp. 101–6
Preliminary Note on the Discovery of a Pigmy Elephant in the Pleistocene of Cyprus (1902–1903)
Further Note on the Remains of Elephas cypriotes from a Cave-Deposit in Cyprus (1905)
On Elephant Remains from Crete, with Description of Elephas creticus (1907)Excavation of a Mousterian rock-shelter at Devil's Tower, Gibraltar (with Dorothy Garrod, L. H. D. Buxton, and G. M. Smith, 1928)A Note on the Fauna of the Athlit Caves (1932)The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, volume 1, part 2: Palaeontology, the Fossil Fauna of the Wady el-Mughara Caves (with Professor Dorothy Garrod, 1937)

Honours
1940: Wollaston Fund of the Geological Society
1940: Elected fellow of the Geological Society
6 December 2017: a Blue Plaque was erected on Bate's birthplace, by the Carmarthen Civic Society. Portrait
A watercolour portrait of Bate as a young woman, drawn by her sister, is at the Natural History Museum.In it she wears a black dress trimmed with white lace, and a large pink rose. Footnotes

References
Shindler, Karolyn: Discovering <mask>: the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter <mask> (London, Harper Collins, 2005, 390pp, 48 black and white plates) Miss D. M. A. <mask> (Obituary) in Nature, London, 167, pp. 301–302.Miss <mask>, obituary in The Times, 23 January 1951
Nicholas, Anna: Goats from a Small Island'' (London, Summersdale, 2009, 320pp,

External links
BBC Radio 4 programme on Bate, in the Natural History Heroes series. 1878 births
1951 deaths
British archaeologists
British palaeontologists
People from Carmarthen
Employees of the Natural History Museum, London
Fellows of the Geological Society of London
Women paleontologists
British women archaeologists
Welsh palaeontologists

masks:
Dorothea Minola Alice Bate
Dorothy Bate
Henry Reginald Bate
Batep
Bates
Bates
Dorothea Bat
Dorothea
Dorothea Bat
Dorothea
Dorothea Bate
Bate
Dorothea Bate


text_chunks:
<mask> (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ;  – ), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in 1937, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art. Life and work

<mask> was born in Pécs and grew up in Piešťany (Slovakia) and Budapest, where, in 1925, he took up medical studies at Eötvös Loránd University. In 1927, he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy. In 1928/1929, he enrolled at Sándor Bortnyik's private art school called Műhely (lit. "Workshop", in existence until 1938), then widely recognized as Budapest's centre of Bauhaus studies. Cash-strapped, the műhely could not offer all that the Bauhaus offered.Instead it concentrated on applied graphic art and typographical design. In 1929, he painted his Blue Study and Green Study. In 1930, he married his fellow student Claire Spinner (1908–1990). Together they had two sons, Andre and Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was also an artist and used the professional name 'Yvaral'. In Budapest, he worked for a ball-bearings company in accounting and designing advertising posters. <mask> became a graphic designer and a poster artist during the 1930s combining patterns and organic images with each other.Vasarely left Hungary and settled in Paris in 1930. He worked as a graphic artist and as a creative consultant at the advertising agencies Havas, Draeger, and Devambez (1930–1935). His interactions with other artists during this time were limited. He thought of opening an institution modelled after Sándor Bortnyik's műhely and developed some teaching material for it. Having lived mostly in cheap hotels, he settled in 1942/1944 in Saint-Céré in the Lot département. After the Second World War, he opened an atelier in Arcueil, a suburb about 10 kilometres from the centre of Paris (in the Val-de-Marne département of the Île-de-France). In 1961, he finally settled in Annet-sur-Marne (in the Seine-et-Marne département).Vasarely eventually went on to produce art and sculpture using optical illusion. Over the next three decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art, working in various materials but using a minimal number of forms and colours:
 1929–1944: Early graphics: Vasarely experimented with textural effects, perspective, shadow and light. His early graphic period resulted in works such as Zebras (1937), Chess Board (1935), and Girl-power (1934). 1944–1947: Les Fausses Routes – On the wrong track: During this period, Vasarely experimented with cubistic, futuristic, expressionistic, symbolistic and surrealistic paintings without developing a unique style. Afterwards, he said he was on the wrong track. He exhibited his works in the gallery of Denise René (1946) and the gallery René Breteau (1947). Writing the introduction to the catalogue, Jacques Prévert placed Vasarely among the surrealists.Prévert creates the term imaginoires (images + noir, black) to describe the paintings. Self Portrait (1941) and The Blind Man (1946) are associated with this period. 1947–1951: Developing geometric abstract art (optical art): Finally, Vasarely found his own style. The overlapping developments are named after their geographical heritage. Denfert refers to the works influenced by the white tiled walls of the Paris Denfert – Rochereau metro station. Ellipsoid pebbles and shells found during a vacation in 1947 at the Breton coast at Belle Île inspired him to the Belles-Isles works. Since 1948, Vasarely usually spent his summer months in Gordes in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.There, the cubic houses led him to the composition of the group of works labelled Gordes/Cristal. He worked on the problem of empty and filled spaces on a flat surface as well as the stereoscopic view. 1951–1955: Kinetic images, black-white photographies: From his Gordes works he developed his kinematic images, superimposed acrylic glass panes create dynamic, moving impressions depending on the viewpoint. In the black-white period he combined the frames into a single pane by transposing photographies in two colours. Tribute to Malevitch, a ceramic wall picture of  adorns the University of Caracas, Venezuela which he co-designed in 1954 with the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, is a major work of this period. Kinetic art flourished and works by <mask>, Calder, Duchamp, Man Ray, Soto, Tinguely were exhibited at the Denise René gallery under the title Le Mouvement (the motion). Vasarely published his Yellow Manifest.Building on the research of constructivist and Bauhaus pioneers, he postulated that visual kinetics (plastique cinétique) relied on the perception of the viewer who is considered the sole creator, playing with optical illusions. 1955–1965: Folklore planétaire, permutations, and serial art: On 2 March 1959, Vasarely patented his method of unités plastiques. Permutations of geometric forms are cut out of a coloured square and rearranged. He worked with a strictly defined palette of colours and forms (three reds, three greens, three blues, two violets, two yellows, black, white, gray; three circles, two squares, two rhomboids, two long rectangles, one triangle, two dissected circles, six ellipses) which he later enlarged and numbered. Out of this plastic alphabet, he started serial art, an endless permutation of forms and colours worked out by his assistants. (The creative process is produced by standardized tools and impersonal actors which questions the uniqueness of a work of art.) In 1963, Vasarely presented his palette to the public under the name of Folklore planetaire.1965–: Hommage à l'hexagone, Vega: The Tribute to the hexagon series consists of endless transformations of indentations and relief adding color variations, creating a perpetual mobile of optical illusion. In 1965 <mask> was included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Responsive Eye, created under the direction of William C. Seitz. His Vega series plays with spherical swelling grids creating an optical illusion of volume. In October 1967, designer Will Burtin invited Vasarely to make a presentation to Burtin's Vision '67 conference, held at New York University. On 5 June 1970, Vasarely opened his first dedicated museum with over 500 works in a renaissance palace in Gordes (closed in 1996). A second major undertaking was the Foundation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, a museum housed in a distinct structure specially designed by Vasarely. It was inaugurated in 1976 by French president Georges Pompidou, two years after his death.Sadly the museum is now in a state of disrepair, several of the pieces on display have been damaged by water leaking from the ceiling. Also, in 1976 his large kinematic object Georges Pompidou was installed in the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Vasarely Museum located at his birthplace in Pécs, Hungary, was established with a large donation of works by <mask>. In the same decade, he took a stab at industrial design with a 500-piece run of the upscale Suomi tableware by Timo Sarpaneva that Vasarely decorated for the German Rosenthal porcelain maker's Studio Linie. In 1982, 154 specially created serigraphs were taken into space by the cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien on board the French-Soviet spacecraft Salyut 7 and later sold for the benefit of UNESCO. In 1987, the second Hungarian Vasarely museum was established in Zichy Palace in Budapest with more than 400 works. He died age 90 in Paris on 15 March 1997. Legacy

A new Vasarely exhibit was mounted in Paris at Musée en Herbe in 2012.In 2019, a temporary exhibition of <mask>'s work entitled Le Partage des Formes was displayed in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Awards

 1964: Guggenheim Prize
 1970: French Chevalier de L'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur
 Art Critics Prize, Brussels
 Gold Medal at the Milan Triennial

Museums
 1970–1996: Vasarely Museum in the Saint-Firmin Palace in Gordes, Vaucluse, France (closed in 1996)
 1976: Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
 1976: Vasarely Museum, Pécs, Hungary
 1987: Vasarely Museum, Zichy Palace, Óbuda, Budapest, Hungary

See also
 Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel
 M. C. Escher

References
Citations

Further reading

External links

 Association Vasarely
 Victor Vasarely profile and video documentary at the Central European Art Database
 Vasarely Museum, Zichy Palace, Budapest
 Online petition to save Museum Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, France (Archived on 16 Apr 2009)
 Fondation Vasarely 3D Project
 Victor Vasarely
 Tate Victor Vasarely

1906 births
1997 deaths
Hungarian painters
French people of Hungarian descent
Modern painters
Hungarian contemporary artists
People from Pécs
Victor Vasarely
20th-century French painters
20th-century male artists
French male painters
Op art

masks:
Victor Vasarely
Vasarely
Vasarely
Vasarely
Vasarely
Vasarely
Vasarely


text_chunks:
Jean-<mask> (May 19, 1797 – June 1849) was a French physician and anatomist who was a native of Orléans. Within 20 years, along with the artist Nicolas Henri Jacob, he created the comprehensive anatomy textbook Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme. Family
As a son of a haberdasher <mask> and his wife Madeleine Marthe Delaboulaye, Bourgery grew up in Orléans. Education and work
Bourgery started his studies in medicine in 1813 in Paris. In 1815, he also attended lectures of the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. After passing the entrance examination, Bourgery worked as a clinical intern for one year (1817) with René Laennec at the Hôpital Necker and two years (1818-1820) with Guillaume Dupuytren at the Hôtel Dieu. Nonetheless, Bourgery did not complete his medical education due to financial issues.Instead, he worked for several years as a health officer (French: Officier de Santé) in a copper foundry in Romilly-sur-Seine (Aube), where he was actively involved in chemistry, chemical engineering and also participate in the establishment of a copper sulfate factory. In 1827, Bourgery came back to Paris intending to entirely focus on anatomy. On August 27 of the same year, he submitted his dissertation and received his doctorate in medicine. In 1829, he published a textbook of surgery (French: Traité de petite surgery), which was quite successful and later was translated into English (1834) and German (1836) languages. During this time, Bourgery's role model and mentor was the anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. From 1830, together with the painter and illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob, Bourgery worked on the planning of his most important work Traité complet de l'anatomy de l'homme. It took nearly 20 years of teamwork to complete this masterpiece.From 1840 on, he had been writing scientific papers (often provided with lithographs), which were then published by the Academy of Sciences in Paris. In addition, Bourgery also took part in the production of anatomical models made of paper stucco or papier-mâché for the Félix Thibert Anatomy Museum. Bourgery repeatedly sought career opportunities in the academy. He applied for a number of different positions, such as a professor at the Museum of Natural History, membership of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1843), or the chair of anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1846). Despite his expertise and high profile, Bourgery was unable to gain a foothold in the academic world. With a certain bitterness, he expresses this shortly before his death: "I watched how all the others were preferred over me, whether they wanted or not. Since I had so much to say about science and I had studied so intensely, I thought there had to be someplace for me there, but there wasn’t.Academies, faculties, colleges – wherever I introduced myself, there were others who were much more successful than me." Jean-<mask>y died at the age of 52 after completing his work, supposedly as a result of a cholera epidemics in Paris. Legacy

The anatomical treatise Traité complet de l'anatomie de l 'homme by Bourgery and Jacob (Paris 1831 to 1854), a large-format textbook and illustrated atlas, is considered a masterpiece of anatomical imaging, made both in black and white and in color (hand-colored). Bourgery was not limited in this ambitious project to the mere compilation of existing material. He supported his findings by autopsy and produced even original anatomical preparations. He dealt with aspects of morphology that had previously been neglected; he developed a number of new methods and research approaches, which he described systematically and in detail. Bourgery strived to be up-to-date.Thus, he received numerous first observations, especially in the fields of the nervous system anatomy, embryology, and organogenesis. Metaphysically, he saw himself as a traveller in search of a universal structure, the secret of which he hoped to unravel through persistent research of the supreme anatomical discipline– far more than just a comprehensive collection of morphological findings. Bourgery did extracurricular research and was occasionally supported by well-known scientists, such as Mathieu Orfila, François Magendie, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and others. Anatomy
The Complete Treatise on the Human Anatomy (French: Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme) is an atlas of anatomy published from 1831 to 1854 in Paris by J.M. Bourgery and N.H. Jacob comprises eight volumes with 2108 pages of text containing 725 panels with 3750 individual images. The first five volumes are dedicated to descriptive anatomy, two volumes deal with surgical anatomy and theory, and the last volume focuses on the general anatomy and philosophy of anatomy. These eight volumes are written in encyclopedic manner and do not refer to the footage.Each volume of text is assigned with an illustrated volume with lithographed picture panels and accompanying text. Autopsies
Bourgery was assisted by medical staff and surgeons during autopsies and preparations of original anatomical samples needed as templates for drawings. His most important collaborator was Ludwig Moritz Hirschfeld (1816-1876). Claude Bernard also provided contributions and also appeared as editor of the second edition. Illustration

Bourgery paid great attention to the quality of the illustrations because they were meant to be "drawn to nature". Nicolas Henri Jacob was already established and later honored as a draftsman; he mastered lithographic techniques and also knew the subject of medical science quite well. He drew and lithographed 512 of 725 plates and 2196 illustrations out of 3750.There have been also other students and artists who collaborated with him, among which are Charlotte A. Hublier, Jean Baptiste Léveillé, Edmond Pochet, and others. The natural appearance and coloring, the deliberately used ideal-typical model organism, should increase the usefulness of imaging. All panels that had been made with lithography were invented by Alois Senefelder. The procedure allowed a much more accurate drawing and gave a better haptic impression of the anatomical structures than in woodcut or copper engraving possible. Initially, the lithograph produced only black-and-white images with gray gradation, which were then colored with a brush or stencils by hand. Only the second edition was printed in color with the lithograph in colors. Reception
The first edition was published by C. A. Delaunay in Paris.Subscribers received from 1831 to 1840 a total of 70 deliveries, each composed of eight panels and eight sheets accompanying the text. At that time, a black-and-white copy cost about 800 francs and a colored copy 1600 francs. The high price obviously was an obstacle for the spread of the work. From 1833 to 1837 a partial edition in English was released followed by a second edition in 1866-1871. The monumental work of Bourgery and Jacob received an award and the highest praise from critics and experts. Although this work was "designed as an iconography of the human anatomy", it was almost forgotten around 1900. Illustrations from Bourgery’s atlas of anatomy became a compulsory component of the popular science bestseller by Fritz Kahn in 1920s and 1967-1979 in Germany, as well as from 1943 in the US.Increasingly, modern anatomical publications referred to works of Bourgery. In 2005, a facsimile reprint of the entire atlas of anatomy (i.e., all eight illustrated volumes) was published in a volume with updated anatomical nomenclature. Awards

 Around 1820, Bourgery was awarded a prize of the Paris medical faculty and a gold medal from the hospital administration for his work as an assistant doctor. Prix Monthyon 1843 (with Jacob)
 Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor

Quotes
"Because the technology of lithography today makes it possible to publish a substantial number of illustrated works without incurring too high costs, physicians would greatly benefit if they were given all the work involved in anatomy. However, to extract the most significant benefit from this kind of work, the medical expertise presented therein must not only be up-to-date but also presented in all its areas of application. ... First of all, the newly designed illustrations of such a work must be drawn from nature, but refer to the previously published and widely known illustrations. It is a challenge that Monsieur Jacob and I set ourselves.We will spare no effort to bring our immense work to an honorable conclusion". Vol. 1, p. 1-2

“As de Maistre said, there is a mystery at the beginning of all sciences. To complete the sentence of this great thinker, one should say: At the beginning and the end of all sciences is a mystery, or even moreover: science is nothing but a mystery... A seemingly obvious idea is only a glimmer of light between two abysses ...” Vol. 3, p. 33

“Now that I'm about to finish my life's work, the entire material of which is at my disposal, and since what I've come close to what I set out to do, the public may realize that I did not fail with my intention.” Vol. 8, p. 3

Works

  Traité de petite chirurgie. Paris 1829
 Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire.(with <mask> Bourgery), 8 Bände, Paris 1831–1854
 Reprint: Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick (ed. ): Atlas of Anatomy. Taschen-Verlag, Köln 2005, . Traité de petite chirurgie. Paris 1829
 Anatomie élémentaire en 20 planches etc. Avec texte explicative, formant un manuel complet d’anatomie physiologique (with Nicolas Henri Jacob). Paris 1834–1842, Folio
 Des annexes du foetus et de leur développement.Habil., Paris 1846
 (scientific contributions). Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences (1836–1848), Gazette médicale de Paris (1847–1848)
 Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (with <mask> <mask>, Claude Bernard and with a help of Ludovic Hirschfeld), 10 Volumes, second edition, Paris 1866–1871

Literature

 J. M. Bourgery, N. H. Jacob: Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery. The complete colored Plates of 1831–1854. Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick: Atlas der Anatomie und Chirurgie von J. M. Bourgery und N. H. Jacob. Ein Monumentalwerk des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dreisprachig (f/e/d), Faksimile-Reprint 726 handkolorierte Lithografien, Großformat.Taschen, Köln 2005,
 Natalie J. Lauer: Der Kontrakt des Zeichners mit der Medizin. Ästhetik und Wissenschaft im Bildatlas Bourgery & Jacob. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013,
 Reinhard Hildebrand: Bourgery und Jacob, Hirschfeld und Léveillé – über Meisterwerke der anatomischen Ikonographie zur Blütezeit der Lithographie. In: Anatomischer Anzeiger Jena 158 (1985) 363–372
 August Hirsch (Hrsg. ): Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Bd. 1, München 1962, S. 657
 M. Prevost, Roman d’Amat (eds.): Dictionnaire de Biographie française. Bd. 31, Paris 1951, S. 1481
 Archives Biographique Français 76, 78

References

French anatomists
1797 births
1849 deaths
19th-century French physicians
People from Orléans
French medical writers
19th-century French writers
French male writers

masks:
Baptiste Marc Bourgery
Marc Claude Bourgery
Marc Bourger
Jean Marc
Jean Marc
Bourgery


text_chunks:
Paul Donald Wight II (born February 8, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as an in-ring performer, and as a commentator for its web television show, AEW Dark: Elevation, under his real name of Paul Wight. He is best known for his tenure with WWE (formerly the World Wrestling Federation) from 1999 to 2021 under the ring name (The) <mask>, and his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1995 to 1999 as The Giant. Wight began his career in 1994. In 1995 he signed with WCW, where, due to his very large frame, he was known by the ring name The Giant (and was initially introduced as "the son of André the Giant"). In early 1999, he left WCW to join the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Between WWF/WWE and WCW, he is a seven-time world champion, having held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWF/WWE Championship twice, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship twice and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once, making him the only wrestler who has won all four titles.He is also an 11-time world tag team champion, holding the WWF/World, WWE and WCW World Tag Team Championships multiple times with various partners. Having also won the Intercontinental, United States and Hardcore championships, he is the 24th Triple Crown and 12th Grand Slam winner in WWE history. He also won the 60-man battle royal at World War 3 and the 30-man André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31. He has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WCW and WWF/WWE since 1995, including the 2000 edition of WWE's premier annual event, WrestleMania. Outside of professional wrestling, Wight has appeared in feature films and television series such as Jingle All the Way, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Enterprise, and two USA Network's comedy-dramas Royal Pains, Psych and the action-drama Burn Notice. He had lead roles in the WWE Studios comedy film Knucklehead and the Netflix sitcom The Big Show Show. Early life
Wight was born February 8, 1972 in Aiken, South Carolina.He was born with acromegaly, a disease of the endocrine system that causes accelerated growth. By the age of twelve, he was  tall, weighed , and had chest hair. In 1991, as a member of the Wichita State University basketball team at age 19, he was listed at . He underwent successful surgery in the early 1990s on his pituitary gland, which halted the growth. His shoe size is 22 5E, his ring size is 22, and his chest is  in circumference. In 2005, he leased a bus and hired a bus driver because of the practical problems his size presents to air travel and car rental. He played basketball and American football in high school at Wyman King Academy in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina.He was a standout center for the basketball team and a tight end for the football team. He quit football after his freshman year because of disputes with the coach. He continued to support the team by joining the cheerleading squad as a sophomore, partly from spite. He later called it "the greatest experience of my life... Everybody else was riding a bus with sweaty equipment, and I'm in a van with seven cheerleaders who are all learning about life". The van was driven by "a mom who was deaf in her right ear and chain-smoked". He played basketball at Wichita State University. Before that, he attended Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, where his basketball averages of 14 points and 6.5 rebounds earned him all-conference honors and helped the team win the Western Division of the Oklahoma Bi-State Conference.He also attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 1992 to 1993, was a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Cougars basketball team, and is a member of the Xi Beta chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. During his one year at SIUE, he scored 39 points for the Cougars in limited action. Professional wrestling career

Early career (1994–1995)

After school, Wight worked various jobs including bouncing, bounty hunting, and answering phone calls. Through doing the latter for a karaoke company, he met Danny Bonaduce in a live microphone amateur contest on his morning radio show. Bonaduce introduced Wight to his friend, Hulk Hogan. They had an informal basketball game, as part of a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion for an upcoming show at the Rosemont Horizon. Hogan liked how Wight worked the crowd and recommended him to World Championship Wrestling's vice president, Eric Bischoff.Wight went to the Horizon show, and was invited into the locker room, where he met Ric Flair, Arn Anderson (his boyhood hero) and Paul Orndorff. He later met Bischoff there and came to a deal. Wight had previously wrestled one match: on December 3, 1994, at a World Wrestling Association show in Clementon, New Jersey, he lost by countout to WWA Heavyweight Champion Frank Finnegan. Wight had earlier attempted to inquire about joining the WWF, also at the Horizon, during an autograph session. Promoter and scout Bob Collins turned him away after he admitted he had no experience. He paid Larry Sharpe's Monster Factory $5,000, but due to Sharpe's gout at the time, he was only very minimally trained (Johnny Polo taught him the collar-and-elbow lockup). While there, he made an audition tape and gave it to Mike Chioda, whom he had met in a Philadelphia bar.Chioda forwarded it to Pat Patterson, who did not bother watching it because he assumed Wight was another wrestler, Kurrgan. Only when he saw The Giant debut in WCW did Patterson realize his mistake, to Vince McMahon's displeasure. World Championship Wrestling

WCW World Heavyweight Champion (1995–1996)
In 1995, Wight signed with WCW, first appearing at Slamboree, and was then billed as the son of André the Giant (although this was later dropped) and accordingly used the ring name The Giant as a member of Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom stable. Wight made his professional in-ring debut at Halloween Havoc against Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. He won the match after Hogan's manager, Jimmy Hart, purposely got Hogan disqualified and then turned on him. The next night The Giant showed up on WCW Monday Nitro wearing the championship belt; Hart, who became The Giant's manager, revealed that he had put a stipulation in the contract for the match that if Hogan lost via disqualification, he would lose his championship. WCW responded by nullifying the title change due to the circumstances surrounding it and the championship was vacated.The Giant then entered the sixty-man battle royal contested for the vacant championship at World War 3 in November 1995. He was one of the final six combatants, being eliminated simultaneously with Sting and Lex Luger by Hogan. The Giant did not leave the ring upon being eliminated and pulled Hogan underneath the ropes while Randy Savage was eliminating the One Man Gang from the match. The referee did not see The Giant's actions, only that Hogan was on the floor, and thus awarded the match and the title to Savage. The Giant teamed with Ric Flair to defeat Hogan and Savage at Clash of the Champions XXXII, but was defeated by Hogan in a cage match at SuperBrawl VI. After a short feud with Loch Ness, The Giant regained the World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Flair. After Hogan formed the New World Order (nWo), he defeated The Giant for the title at Hog Wild following interference from Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.New World Order (1996–1999)

The Giant joined the nWo 23 days later, citing Ted DiBiase's money as his primary motivation, feuding with Lex Luger and the Four Horsemen. After winning the battle royal at World War 3, Giant asked Hogan for a World Heavyweight Championship title match. For this, he was thrown out of the nWo on December 30. He fought against the nWo along with Sting and Luger, winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship twice. In 1997, The Giant began a feud with nWo member Nash, who constantly dodged the Giant, including no-showing their scheduled match at Starrcade. In 1998, at Souled Out, the two finally met in the ring, with Nash accidentally injuring The Giant's neck when he botched his signature jackknife powerbomb finisher. The botch was worked into a storyline, according to which Nash had intentionally dropped the Giant on his head in order to break his neck.When Nash left the nWo and formed his own stable, the nWo Wolfpac, The Giant rejoined the original nWo to oppose Nash and his allies. While back with the nWo, The Giant won two more Tag Team Championships, once with Sting as an unwilling partner (as the match was signed before The Giant returned to the nWo) and once with Scott Hall. In the interim between those two reigns, he lost his half of the titles to Sting in a singles match where only the winner would remain champion and could choose a new partner. On the October 12, 1998 episode of Nitro, Bill Goldberg defeated The Giant in a no-disqualification match. In a show of strength, Goldberg executed a delayed vertical suplex before executing the Jackhammer on The Giant. After the nWo Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac stables merged again in January 1999, Hogan declared that there was only room for one "giant" in the group, forcing Giant and Nash to wrestle for that spot. Nash defeated Giant following a run-in by Scott Hall and Eric Bischoff.The Giant was then attacked by the entire nWo. On the "Building An Army" episode of the Monday Night War feature from the WWE Network, Wight stated that he was making a fraction of what the main eventers were making and his salary was not increased after he requested it be by Eric Bischoff; as a result, Wight allowed his WCW contract to expire on February 8, 1999, his 27th birthday. World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment

The Corporation (1999–2000)

Wight signed a ten-year contract with the World Wrestling Federation on February 9, 1999, debuting under the name of Paul Wight as a member of Vince McMahon's stable, The Corporation, at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House. During McMahon's cage match against Stone Cold Steve Austin, Wight tore through the canvas from underneath the ring and attacked Austin, establishing himself as a heel. After he threw Austin into the side of the cage, the cage broke, causing Austin to fall outside to the floor, resulting in Austin winning the match. Wight subsequently served as McMahon's enforcer. Renamed as <mask> <mask>, he made his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania XV, facing Mankind for the right to referee the main event between Austin and The Corporation's WWF Champion The Rock.However, <mask> incapacitated Mankind and was disqualified in the process, losing the match. After the match, McMahon slapped him, so he punched McMahon, turning face and leaving The Corporation. After being defeated by Mankind in a Boiler Room Brawl, they formed a stable with Test, and Ken Shamrock known as The Union, who fought against the Corporation and later The Corporate Ministry. On the June 7 episode of Raw, <mask> faced The Undertaker for the WWF Championship, which ended by referee stoppage and Undertaker retained his title. <mask> later turned heel once again by teaming with Undertaker, wrestling against X-Pac and Kane at SummerSlam, and they won the WWF Tag Team Championship twice. After The Undertaker was sidelined with injuries, <mask> turned face once again and began a feud with the <mask> Boss Man around the death of <mask>'s father (in reality, Wight's father had died years before). During his feud, they taped a segment where <mask> Boss Man invaded the funeral and used a chain to steal the coffin.<mask> then took on <mask> Man, Prince Albert, Mideon and Viscera at Survivor Series in a 4-on-1 elimination match. His feud was poorly received, winning the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Worst Feud Award and he won the match after <mask> Man was counted out. Later that night, <mask> participated in a Triple Threat match against The Rock and the WWF Champion, Triple H, winning the title. At that point, WWF looked for something new and fresh, so they gave the title to <mask>. Despite <mask> retaining the title at Armageddon against <mask> Man, he lost the title against Triple H on the January 3, 2000 episode of Raw. Trying to regain the title, <mask> participated in the Royal Rumble match where he was last eliminated by The Rock. They started a storyline where <mask> turned heel once again by producing a videotape that showed The Rock's feet striking the ground first, leading to a match with The Rock at No Way Out, with the WrestleMania title shot on the line.At No Way Out, <mask> defeated The Rock when Shane McMahon interfered, knocking out The Rock with a chair shot. The Rock was desperate to reclaim his title shot and eventually agreed to a match with <mask> on the March 13 episode of Raw – if he won, the WrestleMania title match would become a Triple Threat match, and if he lost, he would retire from the WWF. Shane McMahon, now actively supporting <mask>'s bid to become champion, appointed himself as the special guest referee. However, The Rock defeated <mask> when Vince McMahon assaulted Shane and donned the referee shirt, personally making the three count. On the March 20 episode of Raw, Triple H defended the title against The Rock and <mask> on the condition that the match would not take place at WrestleMania 2000, pinning <mask>. Linda McMahon stated this match would not occur at WrestleMania as Triple H would defend the title there in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match, with Mick Foley as the fourth man. <mask> was the first man eliminated from the match at WrestleMania after the other three competitors worked together against him.WWF Champion (2000–2003)
After WrestleMania, <mask> turned face again and took on a comical gimmick where he began mimicking other wrestlers, lampooning Rikishi as <mask>hi, The Berzerker as Shonan the Barbarian, and Val Venis as The <mask>bowski. He defeated Kurt Angle at Backlash dressed like Hulk Hogan as the Showster, complete with skullcap/wig and yellow tights. <mask> began feuding with Shane McMahon after Shane voiced his disapproval of <mask>'s antics. At Judgment Day, Shane defeated <mask> in a Falls Count Anywhere match following interference from <mask> Man, Bull Buchanan, Test, and Albert. <mask> returned two months later, apparently intending to gain revenge on Shane. Instead, he turned heel again and attacked The Undertaker and sided with Shane once more, forming a short-lived stable known as "The Conspiracy" with Shane, Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle, and Edge and Christian. After The Undertaker threw <mask> off a stage through a table on the August 7, 2000, episode of Raw, he was removed from WWF television for the remainder of the year.<mask> was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, a WWF developmental territory, to lose weight and improve his cardiovascular fitness. <mask> returned at the Royal Rumble, but was eliminated by The Rock. Angered by his quick elimination, <mask> proceeded to chokeslam The Rock through the broadcast table before leaving the arena. He then began competing for the WWF Hardcore Championship and at No Way Out, <mask> defeated Raven to win the championship. He would lose the title to Raven on the March 19 episode of Raw. <mask> lost to Kane in a Triple Threat

masks:
Big Show
The Big
Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big
Big Show
Big
Big Show
Big Boss
Big Boss
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Boss
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Showkis
Big Show
Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Boss
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show


text_chunks:
 match for the Hardcore Championship that also included Raven at WrestleMania X-Seven. Throughout The Invasion, <mask> remained loyal to the WWF.He faced Shane McMahon, the on-screen owner of WCW, in a Last Man Standing match at Backlash and was defeated following interference from Test. He turned face again soon after. <mask> was also part of the victorious Team WWF at Survivor Series, though he was the first man eliminated. Shortly after WrestleMania X8, <mask> was drafted to the Raw brand. On the April 22 episode of Raw, <mask> turned heel again when he chokeslammed Stone Cold Steve Austin during a tag team match against X-Pac and Scott Hall, joining the nWo in the process. At Judgment Day, <mask> and Ric Flair were defeated by Austin in a Handicap match. The stable disbanded after Kevin Nash was injured.After the nWo disbanded, <mask> achieved little success on Raw, losing matches against Jeff Hardy, Booker T, and the Dudley Boyz. In October, <mask> was traded to the SmackDown! brand, immediately challenging Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship. During this time, <mask> adopted a new attire, donning black jeans and taking on a new hairstyle and facial hair. <mask> won the WWE Championship by defeating Lesnar at Survivor Series, ending Lesnar's undefeated streak with help from Paul Heyman. He lost the title to Kurt Angle a month later at Armageddon. Then SmackDown!general manager Stephanie McMahon announced that <mask> would wrestle Chris Benoit on the December 26 episode of SmackDown! in a match to determine who would face Angle at the Royal Rumble. He lost to Benoit after Benoit pinned him. After the match, Benoit was brutally attacked by <mask> and Angle. At the Royal Rumble, <mask> lost a Royal Rumble qualifying match to Brock Lesnar. He then began feuding with The Undertaker, after <mask> threw him off the stage, injuring his neck, leading to <mask> and his partner A-Train losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XIX. He renewed his feud with Lesnar, wrestling him four times for the WWE Championship (including a Stretcher match at Judgment Day), but was unsuccessful in his attempt to regain the title.On the June 12 episode of SmackDown!, Lesnar superplexed <mask> off the ropes and the ring imploded, two ring posts moved and three rows of ropes came down. The referee called for the event physician Dr. Burke, EMTs, medics, trainers, and even more referees. This kept the title in Lesnar's hands and both went to the hospital. On the June 26 episode of SmackDown!, <mask>, Shelton Benjamin, and Charlie Haas defeated Mr. America (a disguised Hulk Hogan), Lesnar, and Angle in a six-man tag team match when <mask> pinned Mr. America. This was Hogan's last appearance as Mr. America. For several months afterwards, WWE hyped up <mask> as the man who retired Hogan. United States Champion (2003–2005)
At No Mercy, <mask> defeated Eddie Guerrero for the WWE United States Championship.He then allied with then-WWE Champion Brock Lesnar. He was eliminated by Chris Benoit at the Royal Rumble. <mask> abandoned a departing Lesnar immediately before WrestleMania XX. At WrestleMania XX, <mask> lost the United States Championship to John Cena. On the April 15, 2004 episode of SmackDown!, <mask> promised to quit if he failed to defeat Eddie Guerrero that night. He lost to Guerrero after Guerrero performed a Frog Splash, and, believing that Torrie Wilson had laughed at him for losing, upended her car and threatened to throw her off a ledge. Then General Manager of SmackDown!Kurt Angle ascended the ledge to try to talk some reason into <mask>, but he chokeslammed Angle off the ledge, kayfabe concussing him and breaking his leg, as well as causing the back of Angle's head to bleed. After the show, <mask> was neither seen nor heard from on WWE television for months as he had knee surgery on April 24. In August, <mask> was reinstated by new General Manager Theodore Long, as he interfered during a Lumberjack match between Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle on the September 9 episode of SmackDown!. <mask> had a choice to face either Guerrero or Angle at No Mercy, choosing to fight Angle, turning face in the process. <mask> defeated Angle at No Mercy. In the weeks before the match, he claimed to have "lost his dignity" when Angle tranquilized him in the middle of the ring using a dart gun and shaved his head on the fifth anniversary episode of SmackDown!. At No Way Out, he faced John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) for the WWE Championship in the first-ever Barbed Wire Steel Cage match.He chokeslammed JBL through the ring and broke the lock on the door but JBL crawled from under the canvas and won. <mask> attacked JBL but The Cabinet attacked <mask> until Batista attacked The Cabinet and John Cena attacked JBL as he crawled away. At WrestleMania 21, <mask> faced Sumo Grand Champion Akebono in a worked sumo match; the match was added to the show to attract a strong pay-per-view audience in Japan, where Akebono is considered a sporting legend. In the weeks preceding the match, <mask> pushed over a jeep driven to the ring by Luther Reigns to show that he was capable of moving the marginally heavier Akebono. <mask> lost to Akebono at WrestleMania 21. <mask> subsequently feuded with Carlito and his bodyguard, Matt Morgan, losing a match to Carlito at Judgment Day after Morgan interfered. On the June 27 episode of Raw, <mask> was drafted to the Raw brand in the 2005 WWE draft lottery; preventing him from participating in a scheduled Six-Man Elimination match for the SmackDown!Championship. He successfully pinned Gene Snitsky in a tag team match, which turned into a singles match when both men's partners brawled backstage. After squashing his scheduled opponents for several weeks, Wight returned to his rivalry with Snitsky. On the August 22 episode of Raw, he foiled Snitsky's harassment of backstage interviewer Maria. The following week, Snitsky hit <mask> with the ring bell immediately after <mask> had won a match. As a result, <mask> and Snitsky were placed in a match at Unforgiven, in which <mask> defeated Snitsky. On the September 26 episode of Raw, <mask> defeated Snitsky again in a Street Fight.Teaming with Kane (2005–2006)

On the October 17 episode of Raw, <mask> defeated Edge and was thus entered in an online opinion poll, with the winner of the poll facing John Cena and Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship at Taboo Tuesday. The poll was won by Shawn Michaels, meaning that the other two wrestlers competed for the World Tag Team Championship. At Taboo Tuesday, <mask> teamed with Kane to defeat Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the World Tag Team Championship. In the weeks preceding Survivor Series, <mask> became involved in the rivalry between the Raw and SmackDown! brands. <mask> and Kane invaded the November 11 episode of SmackDown! and, along with Edge, attacked Batista (inadvertently injuring him in the process).On the November 14 episode of Raw, <mask> and Kane defeated SmackDown! wrestlers and reigning WWE Tag Team Champions MNM in an inter-brand, non-title match. On the November 21 episode of Raw, <mask> and Kane "injured" Batista by delivering a double chokeslam onto the windshield of a car. At Survivor Series, <mask>, Kane, Carlito, Chris Masters, and team captain Shawn Michaels represented Raw in a match with Team SmackDown! (JBL, Rey Mysterio, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton, and Batista). <mask> was eliminated by Mysterio and Team SmackDown! won the match, with Orton being the sole survivor.On the November 29 SmackDown! Special, <mask> wrestled Rey Mysterio in an inter-brand promotional match, however, Kane interfered, resulting in the match being declared a no-contest. Following the match, <mask> and Kane attacked Mysterio until The Undertaker chased them from the ring. <mask> and Kane returned to SmackDown! on December 2, defeating Mysterio and JBL after JBL abandoned the match, claiming the referee had poked him in the eye. Following the match, <mask> and Kane's attempt to assault Mysterio was once again foiled, this time when Batista ran in to see them off. As a result, on the December 16 episode of SmackDown!, <mask> and Kane were booked to face Batista and Mysterio, the WWE Tag Team Champions, at Armageddon.<mask> and Kane defeated Batista and Mysterio at Armageddon. On the December 12 episode of Raw, <mask> took part in a qualifying match for a shot at the WWE Championship in an Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution. <mask> lost to his opponent, Shawn Michaels, by disqualification after Triple H hit Michaels with a chair, intentionally costing <mask> the match and the title shot. In retaliation, <mask> cost Triple H his qualifying match with Kane later that evening. On the December 26 episode of Raw, during the contract-signing for the match between <mask> and Triple H at New Year's Revolution, Triple H struck <mask> in the hand that <mask> favored when using the chokeslam with his sledgehammer. The following week, <mask> attacked Triple H while wearing a cast on his hand, using the padding provided by the cast to punch a hole in a chair held by Triple H, destroying a monitor from the broadcast table that Triple H intended to throw at him, and chasing Triple H away from the ring. At New Year's Revolution, Triple H defeated <mask> after striking him in the head with his sledgehammer and a Pedigree.Subsequently, <mask> was one of eight participants in the 2006 Road to WrestleMania Tournament, the winner of which would receive a shot at the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 22. On the February 16 episode of Raw, <mask> faced Triple H in the tournament semi-finals in a match that ended in a double count-out. As a result, <mask> and Triple H faced Rob Van Dam (the winner of the opposing semi-finals) in a Triple Threat match to determine the winner of the tournament on the February 20 episode of Raw. The match was won by Triple H after he pinned Van Dam. In the weeks following the tournament, <mask> and Kane feuded with Chris Masters and Carlito, leading to a World Tag Team Championship match being scheduled for WrestleMania 22. At WrestleMania, <mask> and Kane defeated Carlito and Masters, marking <mask>'s first victory at WrestleMania. On the following night on Raw, <mask> and Kane lost the World Tag Team Championship to Spirit Squad members Kenny and Mikey following copious interference from the other members of the Spirit Squad.They faced Spirit Squad members Johnny and Nicky in a rematch one week later, but lost via disqualification after Kane "snapped" and left the ring to attack the other members of the Spirit Squad. The ensuing feud between Kane and <mask> culminated in a match at Backlash that ended in a ruling of no-contest. ECW World Champion and departure (2006–2007)

At WWE vs. ECW Head-to-Head on June 7, <mask> joined the newly debuted ECW brand as he removed his Raw shirt to reveal an ECW shirt during a twenty-man battle royal including members of the Raw and SmackDown! rosters against members of the ECW roster. <mask> won the match for ECW by eliminating Randy Orton. <mask> then appeared at ECW One Night Stand, attacking Tajiri, Super Crazy and The Full Blooded Italians after their tag team match. On the July 4 episode of ECW, <mask> defeated Rob Van Dam to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship in Philadelphia with the assistance of ECW's Representative Paul Heyman, who declined to make the three-count for Van Dam after Van Dam performed the Five Star Frog Splash on <mask>.Heyman then instructed <mask> to chokeslam Van Dam onto a chair, before making the three-count, meaning <mask> won the title. The fans almost rioted when <mask> won the title, throwing drinks and empty cups into the ring as Heyman and <mask> celebrated, turning heel in the process. The victory made him the first ever professional wrestler to hold the WWE Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship and ECW World Heavyweight Championship. He is also the first non-ECW Original to hold the title. Over the next several weeks, Wight defeated many other wrestlers from other brands, such as Ric Flair and Kane to retain the now renamed ECW World Championship, but lost to Batista and The Undertaker by disqualification. <mask> lost to The Undertaker at The Great American Bash in the first ever Punjabi Prison match, replacing The Great Khali, who was removed by SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long and replaced with <mask> as punishment for an attack on The Undertaker shortly before the match.He also had a brief feud with Sabu, whom he defeated at SummerSlam to retain the ECW World Championship. Also at SummerSlam, <mask> was one of the "resources" used by Vince and Shane McMahon in their match against D-Generation X (D-X). He became further involved in the McMahons' feud with D-X when he teamed with Vince and Shane against Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a 3-on-2 handicap Hell in a Cell match at Unforgiven, which was won by D-X. During the match, D-X shoved Vince's head up <mask>'s buttocks in a mockery of Vince's Kiss My Ass Club. At Cyber Sunday, <mask> faced John Cena and King Booker in a Champion of Champions match. The fans voted for King Booker's World Heavyweight Championship to be on the line. However, <mask> failed to win the match, which was won by King Booker after pinning Cena following interference from Kevin Federline, who was just beginning a feud with Cena himself at the time.At Survivor Series, <mask> competed in the traditional 10-man Survivor Series tag team match which he lost after being pinned by Cena, the final survivor of the match along with Bobby Lashley. <mask> then began a feud with Lashley, who left SmackDown! to join the ECW brand to participate in the Extreme Elimination Chamber match at December to Dismember for the ECW World Championship. At December to Dismember, after busting <mask> open by breaking one of the plexiglass pods with his face, Lashley defeated <mask> to win the ECW World Championship. Following an unsuccessful rematch on the December 5 episode of ECW, <mask> took time off from the ring to heal injuries he had sustained on ECW. After two months of inactivity, Wight's contract expired on February 8, 2007. Memphis Wrestling (2007)
After a two-month departure from WWE, Wight replaced Jerry Lawler when the WWE withdrew him from a match with former nWo partner Hulk Hogan at the PMG Clash of Legends on April 27, 2007.Wight was introduced as Paul "The Great" Wight. He stated that "<mask> Show" was his slave name and that he did not want to be owned anymore. Hogan won the match after he bodyslammed Wight and pinned him following the leg drop. Return to WWE

Unified WWE Tag Team Champion (2008–2010)

On February 17, 2008 at No Way Out, <mask> made his return to WWE television, attempted to attack Rey Mysterio after his World Heavyweight Championship match with Edge but got into a physical confrontation with boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. after Mayweather came from the crowd to challenge <mask>. The confrontation ended with Mayweather breaking <mask>'s nose with a punching combination. <mask> lost to Mayweather at WrestleMania XXIV by knockout after a shot to the jaw with brass knuckles. He turned face soon after.At One Night Stand, <mask> defeated CM Punk, John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero, and Tommy Dreamer in a Singapore Cane match. During the bout, he received a black eye and deep gash along

masks:
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show
Big Show