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<mask> () (137–226), courtesy name Weiyan, also known by his Vietnamese name Sĩ Nhiếp, was a Chinese military general, politician, and warlord who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty and early Three Kingdoms period of China. He served as the Administrator of Jiaozhi Commandery in present-day northern Vietnam. The third-century historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) is a major source of Chinese traditions concerning <mask>'s life. He promoted Buddhism throughout his life. After his death, the Vietnamese attached many legends to him and honoured him as King Sĩ (Vietnamese: Sĩ Vương) in some temples. Family background and early life
<mask> was in the sixth generation from his ancestors who migrated to northern Vietnam, born in Jiao Province, but his ancestral home was around present-day Tai'an, Shandong. His ancestors moved to Jiao Province when Wang Mang usurped the throne and established the Xin dynasty (9–23) with himself as its emperor.<mask>'s father, <mask> (士賜), served as the Administrator of Rinan Commandery (日南郡) during the reign of Emperor Huan () of the Eastern Han dynasty. The <mask> family was one of the elite families of Han Chinese origin who later emigrated to present-day Vietnam and played a major role in developing Vietnamese civilisation. In his youth, <mask> studied the Zuo Zhuan under the tutelage of one Liu Tao (劉陶) from Yingchuan Commandery (潁川郡). Later, he was nominated as a xiaolian (civil service candidate) and served in the Han central government as a Gentleman of Writing (尚書郎) but was later dismissed because of "official reasons". After his father's death, he was nominated as a maocai (茂才) and was appointed as the Prefect of Wu County (巫縣; present-day Wushan County, Chongqing). In 187, the Han central government reassigned him to be the Administrator (太守) of Jiaozhi Commandery (交趾郡) in Jiao Province. As a warlord in Jiao Province
Around the time, Zhu Fu (朱符) had been appointed by the Han government to serve as the Inspector of Jiao Province.However, the locals in Jiao Province rebelled and killed him after he attempted to extract heavier taxes from them. The Han government then sent Zhang Jin (張津) to replace him, but Zhang Jin was later murdered by his subordinate Ou Jing (區景). When Liu Biao, the Governor of Jing Province, heard about this, he appointed Lai Gong (賴恭) as the new Inspector of Jiao Province without authorisation from the Han central government. At the same time, he also sent his subordinate Wu Ju (吳巨) to replace the deceased <mask> (史璜) as the Administrator of Cangwu Commandery (蒼梧郡). To counter Liu Biao's attempts to extend his influence into Jiao Province, the Han central government issued an imperial decree appointing <mask> as General of the Household Who Pacifies the South (綏南中郎將) and putting him in charge of the seven commanderies in Jiao Province. After <mask>e sent his subordinate Zhang Min (張旻) to thank the Han central government and pay tribute, the Han central government further promoted him to General Who Stabilises Distant Lands (安遠將軍), in addition to enfeoffing him as the Marquis of Longdu Village (龍度亭侯). Around the time, the Han Empire was in a state of chaos, as various warlords fought for power and territories in northern and central China.Jiao Province, being a remote province in southern China, was not caught up in the chaos. <mask> was effectively a warlord in control of Jiao Province even though he was still a nominal subject of the Han Empire. <mask>'s younger brothers also held important positions in Jiao Province: <mask> (士壹), <mask> (士䵋) and <mask> (士武) were respectively the Administrators of Hepu (合浦), Jiuzhen (九真) and Nanhai (南海) commanderies in Jiao Province. In 210, Wu Ju got into conflict with Lai Gong and forced him out of Jiao Province. Sun Quan, the warlord who controlled the territories in the Jiangdong region bordering Jiao Province, appointed his subordinate Bu Zhi as the Inspector of Jiao Province to replace Lai Gong. <mask> led his followers to submit to Bu Zhi's governorship, but Wu Ju refused and secretly plotted to assassinate Bu Zhi. However, Bu Zhi sensed Wu Ju's intentions and managed to outwit and kill him.Sun Quan later appointed <mask> as General of the Left (左將軍) to honour him. At the same time, the warlord Cao Cao, who controlled the Han central government, wanted to gain <mask>'s support as an ally against Sun Quan, so he conferred the nine bestowments and other honours on <mask> in the name of Emperor Xian (the figurehead Han emperor under Cao Cao's control). As a vassal of Eastern Wu
In the years after the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in 220, Sun Quan declared himself king and established the kingdom (later empire) of Eastern Wu. <mask> pledged loyalty to Sun Quan and sent one of his sons, <mask> (士廞), as a hostage to Sun Quan to ensure his allegiance towards Wu. He also regularly sent tribute to Sun Quan. During the conflict between Wu and its ally-turned-rival state Shu Han, <mask> sided with Wu and instigated Yong Kai (雍闓), a local tribal chief in Shu territory, to rebel against Shu rule and defect to Wu. In recognition of <mask>'s efforts in inducing Yong Kai to defect, Sun Quan appointed <mask> as General of the Guards (衛將軍) and awarded him the title "Marquis of Longbian" (龍編侯).<mask> died of illness in 226 around the age of 89. Family

<mask> had at least five sons (in decreasing order of seniority): <mask> (士廞), <mask> (士祗), <mask> (士徽), <mask> (士幹) and <mask> (士頌). After <mask>e died in 226, his third son <mask> succeeded him as the Administrator of Jiaozhi Commandery (交趾郡) under the Eastern Wu regime. Around the time, the Wu emperor Sun Quan wanted to split Jiao Province and create another province, Guang Province (廣州): Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen (九真) and Rinan (日南) commanderies would remain part of Jiao Province; Cangwu (蒼梧), Nanhai (南海), Yulin (鬱林) and Hepu (合浦) commanderies would form the new Guang Province. Sun Quan then appointed Dai Liang (戴良) and Lü Dai as the Inspectors of Jiao and Guang provinces respectively. <mask> (陳時), a close aide of Sun Quan, was to replace <mask> as the Administrator of Jiaozhi Commandery. In 227, when <mask> learnt about the new arrangements, he refused to comply and rebelled against Wu rule by sending his troops to block Dai Liang and <mask> from entering Jiao Province.At the time, Huan Lin (桓鄰), one of <mask>'s subordinates, begged his superior to obey the order and surrender his governorship of Jiaozhi Commandery to <mask>. However, <mask> refused and had Huan Lin flogged to death. Huan Lin's nephew, Huan Fa (桓發), started a mutiny against <mask> and engaged him in a battle that lasted a few months. They made peace after that. In the meantime, after learning of <mask>'s rebellion, Sun Quan ordered Lü Dai, the Inspector of Guang Province, to lead troops to recapture Jiaozhi Commandery. Lü Dai, who was close to <mask>'s cousin <mask> (士匡; a son of <mask>'s brother <mask> 士壹), sent <mask> to persuade <mask> to surrender by promising that he would be spared if he did so. <mask> and his brothers then opened the gates of Jiaozhi Commandery and surrendered to Lü Dai.The following day, Lü Dai lured the <mask> brothers into a trap during a banquet, had them arrested and then read out a list of <mask>'s crimes. He then executed all of them and sent their heads to Sun Quan, who was in Wuchang (武昌; present-day Ezhou, Hubei) at the time. <mask>'s brothers, <mask> (士壹) and <mask> (士䵋), along with their families, were spared from death but reduced to the status of commoners. Some years later, <mask> and <mask> were executed for committing crimes. Earlier in the 220s, <mask> had sent his eldest son, <mask> (士廞), as a hostage to Sun Quan to ensure the Wu emperor of his allegiance towards him. <mask>n thus avoided ending up like <mask> and his other brothers, who were executed by Lü Dai in 227. Like the rest of the <mask> family who survived (e.g.his uncles <mask> and <mask> 士䵋), he was reduced to the status of a commoner after his brothers' deaths. He died of illness some time later and had no son to succeed him. Worship of "King Sĩ", Sĩ Tiếp in Vietnam
<mask>e ruled Vietnam as an autonomous warlord for forty years and was posthumously deified by later Vietnamese monarchs. In the words of Stephen O'Harrow, <mask>e was essentially "the first Vietnamese." According to Holmgren, <mask>e's rule "is one of the milestones in the development and fusion of two new social groups in Tongking - a sinicised Vietnamese group and a vietnamised Chinese group. The latter gradually came to identify with the interests of the delta rather than with the Chinese empire". Taylor (1983) also believed his imperial appointments gave formal legitimacy to "the emergence of a regional ruling class with strong ties to the local society".It is apparent from events following his death that he "presided over an aberrant regional power arrangement based on great Han-Viet families that could field private armies". From the Chinese's view, <mask>e stood as a "frontier guardian"; from the Vietnamese side, he was the head of a regional ruling-class society. It was relatively easy for people to shift back and forth between these two perspectives. Thus, the man of Chinese or mixed ancestry playing a mixed role or, in some cases, an unambiguous Vietnamese role is a common figure in early Vietnamese history. "He was the first of many such people to emerge as strong regional leaders who nurtured the local society in the context of Chinese civilization". The people who emerged as Vietnamese leaders during this time were of mixed ancestry: most of their families had already been in Vietnam for several generations; they undoubtedly spoke Vietnamese; and their political outlook was based on the regional interests of Vietnamese society. <mask>e is still honoured in some Vietnamese temples today as "King Si" ().The Vietnamese history Việt Điện U Linh Tập (;  1400) adds significantly to the traditions of the Chinese records with local Vietnamese traditions. See also
 Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

References

 Chen, Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi). Pei, Songzhi (5th century). Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu). Sima, Guang (1084). Zizhi Tongjian.137 births
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<mask> "<mask>" <mask> (born April 10, 1944) is an American television producer of the television shows MacGyver, Entertainment Tonight, and America's Funniest Home Videos. He runs an eponymous production company called Vin Di Bona Productions. In 2010, <mask> launched a second business, FishBowl Worldwide Media, an independent production company developing properties for film, television, digital platforms and brands. Early life
A native of Cranston, Rhode Island, <mask> began his career in the entertainment industry as a singer, under the stage name Johnny Lindy (the last name was taken from the Cranston area restaurant owned by his parents and where <mask>a worked as a pre-teen); releasing two records by the age of 16, which became hits regionally. However <mask> turned his aspirations to making film and television in 1962, later saying "Guys who sang romantic ballads were up a creek without a paddle. So I adapted." Personal life
In 2006, <mask> married Erica Gerard, a television production executive he had known from his days at CBS.He has a daughter, <mask> <mask> Swartz and a step-daughter, Jamie Goldstein. Education
He received an education at Emerson College in Boston, where he served as manager of WECB, the campus radio station. <mask> met his first wife, Gina, with whom he has a daughter, Cara. After graduating from Emerson in 1966 and earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in film at UCLA, he worked for nine years at Boston's then-NBC affiliate, WBZ-TV (channel 4; now a CBS-owned station). Career
After he left WBZ-TV, <mask> moved with his family to Los Angeles. <mask> did not find a job for about eight months but finally became employed at CBS directing and producing documentaries, which earned him four Emmys and a Peabody Award. <mask> is considered one of the pioneers of reality TV, thanks to Battle of the Network Stars, which <mask>a produced in 1976.By the 1980s, <mask> had become a producer for the syndicated newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight and later served as a producer for one season on the ABC series MacGyver; he was also a director for the American Music Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards and produced taped segments for the 36th Annual Emmy Awards, among others. He also produced a short lived children's cartoon titled Tea Time with Space Dinosaur. <mask>'s first two television series creations were spawned from Japanese programs. <mask>a developed the ABC series Animal Crack-Ups, based on a popular Tokyo Broadcasting System game show called Waku Waku. America's Funniest Home Videos was inspired by another Tokyo Broadcasting System series, the variety show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan. America's Funniest Home Videos, currently in its  year and the longest-running primetime entertainment show on ABC, reached a milestone 600 episodes in 2017. The show eventually led to three spinoffs, America's Funniest People, the short-lived World's Funniest Videos, and Videos After Dark; along with similar home video shows Show Me The Funny for Fox Family Channel (later ABC Family, now Freeform) and the syndicated series That's Funny.<mask> also produced several made-for-TV movies and a Showtime series, Sherman Oaks. In 1991, <mask> secured the rights to produce a revival of Candid Camera; Allen Funt, who owned the rights to the show and agreed to the deal mainly because he needed the money, later spoke out against the revival in his 1994 autobiography. Funt stated that <mask>a had overused product placement and that neither he nor his choice of host, Dom DeLuise, grasped the concept of the show. <mask> was chair for The Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors for four years. Having served for many years on the board of trustees for his alma mater, Emerson College, he is now the Board's vice-chairman. He is also chairman of Emerson's 2013 fund-raising committee and donated one million dollars to kick-start the effort. <mask> received the 2,346th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, August 23, 2007.In 2009, objects from America's Funniest Home Videos were accepted into the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, including the camcorder used to shoot the first winning video in 1989. <mask> <mask> is executive producer of Upload with Shaquille O'Neal, which features the basketball superstar and TNT NBA analyst Shaquille O'Neal. The show consists of O'Neal and friends rounding up the week's online video clips, as well as creating their own viral videos and commenting on and parodying current pop culture stories. The TruTV show also counts executive producers Bruce Gersh, Susan Levison, attorney-executive producer Ellen Stiefler, and writer-executive producer Yahlin Chang among its staff. <mask> <mask> is bringing Dr. Mimi Guarneri's  book The Heart Speaks to television at ABC as a weekly medical television drama with Sony Pictures Television. Controversy
In 1992, Arleen Sorkin, who is white, was fired as co-host from the television show America's Funniest People by <mask>. In response, Sorkin filed a lawsuit against <mask>, claiming that she was dismissed from the show due to her race, after ABC Chairman Dan Burke had suggested to <mask>a that Sorkin be replaced by an African-American or a person of another ethnic minority.Sorkin sought $450,000 for lost earnings and an additional unspecified amount for harm to her professional reputation and emotional injury. Sorkin additionally claimed that after she denounced the move as unfair, <mask> changed plans and hired new cohost Tawny Kitaen, who is also white. In an interview for Ben Shapiro's Primetime Propaganda, <mask> was asked if the accusation by many conservatives that "Hollywood is a leftist town" and leftist political perspectives dominate scripted television shows was accurate. <mask> responded that it is "probably accurate, and I'm happy about it." This was a double-barreled question, however, because it asked if Hollywood is a politically left-wing town and if leftist ideologies dominate scripted shows. Shapiro used <mask>'s answer as evidence in his book that producers, executives and writers in the entertainment industry discriminate against conservatives and are using television to promote a socialist political agenda. <mask> responded by accusing "Shapiro of misrepresentation, saying he never revealed his political agenda."In March 2019, DiBona's two production companies, Vin Di Bona Entertainment, Inc. and Fishbowl Worldwide Media, Inc., along with individual defendant Phil Shafran, were sued for sexual harassment, sexual assault, and retaliation by three former female employees. The lawsuit, Case No. 19STCV09487 is pending in Los Angeles Superior Court. References

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 Vin Di Bona Productions

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<mask> (born March 31, 1980) is an American attorney and journalist who is the chief legal correspondent for MSNBC and host of The Beat with <mask>. The show premiered on July 24, 2017, and became the "longest-running" show at "MSNBC’s 6 p.m. hour in network history" in 2021, beating "CNN in total viewers" and performing better against Fox News "than any other show before it." In January 2021, The Beat was No. 1 at 6pm in ratings, averaging 2.6 million viewers a night and topping CNN and FOX News. The Beats ratings mark "MSNBC's best rating ever for the time slot" (Forbes). The Beat was nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Interview,

<mask>'s show has become one of the most viewed shows online, with 13 million monthly YouTube viewers, the most of any MSNBC show, according to the Daily Beast. Beat reports are some of the most watched MSNBC segments online.Columbia Journalism Review dubbed <mask> "a remarkably effective interviewer", while New York Times columnist Peter Wehner called him "an outstanding interviewer, among the best on television". Early life and education
<mask> is Jewish, the son of an Israeli immigrant. His grandparents were Holocaust survivors. <mask> attended Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington, and the University of Michigan where he graduated with an A.B. degree in political science. After college, he moved to Washington, D.C. and worked for Senator Maria Cantwell. He then joined Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign, working the Iowa caucus and as California deputy political director.When Kerry failed to win the presidency, <mask> went on to earn a J.D. degree from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and interned at New York County Defender Services, a Manhattan public defender's office. <mask> worked for First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams at Cahill Gordon & Reindel from 2009 to 2013. He also began writing political columns for various news outlets like The Nation, The Atlantic, Reuters, and Politico. MSNBC took note and asked him to serve as a guest host. In April 2015, <mask> was named their chief legal correspondent. Media career

2015–2018
<mask> is a legal analyst for NBC News as well as MSNBC's chief legal correspondent, covering the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Supreme Court.He has won an Emmy Award for his Supreme Court coverage. <mask> reported that the firing of FBI Director James Comey could trigger an investigation into obstruction of justice on May 9, 2017 - the day Comey was fired - quoting a former FBI official who told him the firing raised potential obstruction. A probe was announced on May 18, 2017, which included an obstruction investigation. <mask> reported President Trump's actions toward Ukraine provided a potential case of impeachment for "bribery" in October. The next month, top Democrats began making the bribery case for the first time, showing "Democrats agreed with the MSNBC host," according to Mediaite. Republican Congressman Ratcliffe also cited a bribery segment from The Beat during an impeachment hearing. A few months into the Mueller probe, on August 29, 2017, <mask> broke the story that a state investigator was exploring jurisdiction to charge potential defendants in the Mueller probe with state crimes, meaning a conviction would not be eligible for a presidential pardon.Politico followed up on the report the next day, and New York State prosecutors ultimately did file separate charges against Paul Manafort in March 2019. 2019
<mask> interviewed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in Feb. 2019 about whether Trump asked him to interfere in the Mueller probe, and <mask> later reported that Lewandowski's response was false. In a 2019 congressional hearing, Lewandowski was questioned about that false answer. <mask> broke the story of police repeatedly tasing a Virginia man until he died in police custody, an investigative report that led to an FBI investigation of the officers' conduct. On the night of the 2018 midterm elections, <mask> broke a story live on MSNBC that Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee "intend to request President Trump's tax returns." In April 2019, United States House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal carried out that plan, formally requesting Trump's tax returns. The Beat with <mask> has featured newsworthy interviews, such as Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who talked to <mask> after receiving the first pardon of Donald Trump's administration; Eric Holder, Kamala Harris, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, Dave Chappelle, Meek Mill, Ken Starr, and a range of witnesses in the Mueller probe, including Steve Bannon, whose The Beat interview was his first ever appearance on MSNBC.<mask> has drawn attention for his interviewing skills. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Live Interview" for interviewing four key witnesses in the Mueller probe at once. In November 2019, Columbia Journalism Review stated <mask> is "a remarkably effective interviewer", adding "his veins appear to contain ice water; he betrays no emotion at all" during intense exchanges. The New York Times columnist Peter Wehner, a former White House official in GOP administrations, said in February 2019, "<mask> is an outstanding interviewer, among the best on television." 2020
In June 2020, conservative commentator Tiana Lowe wrote "<mask> on MSNBC" runs a "good straight news hour," contrasting The Beat to other news programs. Mediaite wrote The Beat is a "thought-provoking" and "idiosyncratic show" that "avoids the singular focus on Trump's misdeeds that consumes some other hosts", adding <mask>'s interviewing style uses "the facts of the story and logical reasoning [not] partisan cheap shots" for "fascinating" exchanges. Director Lee Daniels got emotional in a 2019 interview about his life and career with <mask>, saying it was the only time he would ever "cry on television".<mask> previously served as the host of The Point, a Sunday evening MSNBC program; a cohost of MSNBC's show The Cycle; and a substitute host for other MSNBC shows, such as The Rachel Maddow Show and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. <mask> was also a correspondent for The Nation, where his writing focused on law, politics, organizing, civil rights, and technology; and he's been published in The Atlantic, Reuters and Politico, and several books. <mask> also wrote a report about Organizing for America. <mask> regularly uses hip hop lyrics to explain political or legal scenarios. A Vanity Fair article about MSNBC dubbed him the "secret fourth Beastie Boy", writing he is "shockingly smart and well read". Apple Music launched a music show hosted by <mask>, Nevuary Radio, in 2019. Personal life
<mask> lives in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.He is divorced from Drew Grant, a pop culture reporter at The New York Observer. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association. References

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<mask> (June 20, 1870 – September 9, 1922) was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1898 during the Spanish–American War and the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross during World War I. Early years
<mask> was born June 20, 1870, in Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia. Military service
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on August 10, 1892, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received the Medal of Honor "for gallantry in action" in signalling the gunfire support vessel  while exposed to heavy enemy fire at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on June 14, 1898. Throughout his 26-year career as a Marine, <mask> participated in every campaign the Marines were involved in during his enlistment and he was the holder of several awards for valor. The campaigns he participated in include The West Indies Campaign, The Spanish–American War, the Philippine–American War, Cuban Campaign, Battle of Vera Cruz (1914) and, World War I.

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During the morning of June 14, 1898, Companies "C" and "D" of Lt. Col Robert W. <mask>'s Marine Battalion and approximately fifty Cubans moved through the hills to seize Cuzco Well, the main water supply for the Spanish garrison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The  moved east along the shore ready to furnish naval gunfire support upon call.The Spanish soon discovered the movement and their main body near the Well was alerted. The Marines and Cubans occupied the hill which overlooked the enemy's position, but were immediately subjected to heavy long-range rifle fire. Captain George F. Elliott (later Commandant of the Marine Corps), who had succeeded to command of the Marine Detachment, signaled the Dolphin to shell the Spanish position; but because the sender was not clearly visible, the message was misinterpreted, and the vessel began dropping shells on a small detachment of Marines who were en route to join the fight. The problem of directing the fire of the USS Dolphin was solved by Sergeant <mask> who heroically placed himself in plain sight of the vessel, but in danger of falling shells as well as a brisk enemy fire, and signaled for the bombardment to be stopped. War correspondent and author Stephen Crane, who was with the Marines there, later described the scene in his war tale "Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo":

When Sergeant <mask> finished this message, the ship answered. <mask> then picked up his M1895 Lee Navy rifle and resumed his place on the firing line. The Dolphin shifted her fire and by 2:00 p.m. the Spaniards had begun to retreat.For his gallant and selfless conduct during this action, <mask> received the Medal of Honor. Philippine–American War
During the Philippine–American War, he served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the Samaran campaign from October 26, 1901, to March 26, 1902. He participated in a battle at the Sohoton Cliffs, where he played a decisive role laying down covering fire for the advancing Marines with an M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun, and in Waller's March across Samar under the command of Major Littleton W. T. Waller. Veracruz

<mask> served on expeditionary duty in Mexico (April 21, 1914 – November 23, 1914). During the Veracruz Campaign of 1914, <mask> was again cited for valor during the assault of that city, for which the Secretary of the Navy commendation says of his performance:

He was continually exposed to fire during the first two days of the operation and showed coolness, bravery, and judgment in the prompt manner in which he performed his duties. World War I
<mask> sailed to France as one of the Battalion Sergeants Major of the 6th Marine Regiment in 1917. The Battle of Belleau Wood was the opening battle of the War for him and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Navy Cross for assisting in the delivery of ammunition, over a road swept by enemy artillery and machine gun fire, to Boureches.He earned these decorations on June 6, 1918, when "he volunteered and assisted in taking a truckload of ammunition and material into Bouresches, France, over a road swept by artillery and machine-gun fire, thereby relieving a critical situation." He was further awarded the 2d Division Citation, and his regiment was awarded the French fourragère of the croix de guerre. In addition to Belleau Wood he participated in every battle that was fought by the Marines in France until October 16, 1918, including the Toulon Sector at Verdun, the Aisne-Marne Offensive (popularly known as the Battle of Soissons), the Marbache Sector near Pont-a-Mousoon, the St. Mihiel Offensive, the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive Sector. Retirement and death
He retired November 20, 1918 and after requesting to come back, was recalled from July 26, 1920 – September 15, 1920. He died in St. Louis, Missouri on September 9, 1922, at the age of 52 and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Jennings, Missouri. Honors and awards

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 Medal of Honor
 Distinguished Service Cross
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Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: June 20, 1870, Charleston, W. Virginia Accredited to: Pennsylvania.G.O. No. 5: December 4, 13, 1898. Other Navy award: Navy Cross. Citation:

In action during the battle of Cuzco, Cuba, 14 June 1898. Distinguishing himself during this action, <mask> signaled the U.S.S. Dolphin on 3 different occasions while exposed to a heavy fire from the enemy.Navy Cross citation
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The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Sergeant Major <mask> <mask> (MCSN: 68644), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the Headquarters Company, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action at Bouresches, France, 6 June 1918. Sergeant Major <mask> volunteered and assisted in taking a truck load of ammunition and material into Bouresches, France, over a road swept by artillery and machine-gun fire, thereby relieving a critical situation. Distinguished Service Cross citation
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Sergeant Major <mask> <mask> (MCSN: 68644), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the Headquarters Company, Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F., in action at Bouresches, France, 6 June 1918. Sergeant Major <mask> volunteered and assisted in taking a truck load of ammunition and material into Bouresches, France, over a road swept by artillery and machine-gun fire, thereby relieving a critical situation. Other honors
In addition to his military medals the United States Navy named a Gleaves-class destroyer  in his honor. The ship was completed and launched on May 3, 1942, and was sponsored by <mask>'s niece.The ship earned four battle stars for actions during World War II. The Liberty ship SS <mask><mask> was also named after him. See also

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<mask> (c.1745–1825) was a farmer, bailiff and estate steward who contributed through his inventions and published writings to the British Agricultural Revolution. He designed a number of improved agricultural machines and implements, and actively promoted more efficient farming techniques. His experiments and publications were widely discussed during his lifetime and continued to attract attention in the years following his death. Biography

<mask> was born around 1745 though his geographical origins are unknown. One nineteenth-century source claimed that he was Scottish by birth but no confirmation of this has been found. According to his own brief remarks, he was raised in the countryside and was 'strongly attached to rural pursuits' from an early age. The earliest record of him is of his marriage in Grove, Nottinghamshire on 25 February 1781 to Sarah Freeman, the daughter of a Nottinghamshire farmer.He was employed at this time as estate steward to Anthony Eyre, owner of several estates in the English Midlands. Over the years that followed <mask> and Sarah were to have five sons and three daughters, many of whom died at an early age: only his second son (<mask>, who became a farmer in the Spalding area of Lincolnshire) is known to have had issue. <mask>’s interest in new agricultural practices led him to undertake a series of crop trials from 1783 onwards, and these convinced him of the superiority of seed-drilling over the traditional broadcast method of sowing. As early as 1787 he was developing his own version of a drill-plough and he announced plans in that year for a book describing it; but his employer’s death in 1788 and his subsequent move to Brothertoft in Lincolnshire as bailiff to Major John Cartwright (political reformer) delayed this project. While acting as bailiff and later as estate steward to Cartwright, <mask> conducted further trials on his own farm as well as Cartwright's. Cartwright combined an active political career with a keen interest in agricultural improvement, and the collaboration between the two men over a period of fifteen years or so proved beneficial to both. It also brought <mask> into contact with their close neighbour Sir Joseph Banks, who later described <mask> as 'an honest man and an ingenious one', and with the agriculturist Arthur Young, who visited Cartwright's farm, saw some of <mask>'s inventions and remained in correspondence with him, obtaining a number of submissions from <mask> for publication in his Annals of Agriculture.It was during this period of his life that <mask> published his two books, The Theory and Practice of the Drill Husbandry and Minutes in Agriculture. When Cartwright sold his estate in the mid-1800s <mask> moved to take up a tenancy of his own on the recently drained Lincolnshire West Fen, residing first in Stickney and subsequently in the newly established township of Carrington, where he ran a predominantly arable farm. A series of family bereavements (including in late 1816 his wife Sarah) combined with the agricultural recession that followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars brought about a marked decline in his fortunes. He appears never to have tried to patent any of his inventions and it seems unlikely that he earned much if anything from his published works. There is some indication from his final work (see below) that he may also have lost money when several Boston banks collapsed during 1814 and 1815. His final published work was something of a departure from his usual topics: a polemical pamphlet that appeared in 1816 (A Dissertation on the Real Cause and Effectual Cure of the Present National Distress) in which he strongly criticised the political establishment of his day and set out his proposals for reforms to the public finances and the banking system. The Dissertation is, however, above all a plea for proper recognition of working farmers, the ‘miserable drudges of agriculture’ who (<mask> asserts) are ‘the very basis of national prosperity’, in contrast to what he saw as the vested interest of the landowning class.In 1821, at the age of 75 and close to retirement, <mask> married a 22-year-old widow (Elizabeth Scargal née Dowse). They had a son and a daughter, both of whom died as children. <mask> died at his home in Boston on 8 April 1825 and was buried at Stickney Parish Church in Lincolnshire. Work

<mask>’s best-known work, The Theory and Practice of the Drill Husbandry, was first published in August 1794 and was reissued in March 1802. The book begins by providing evidence from his own crop trials in favour of the seed drill, claiming yield increases of up to 20% over the traditional method of broadcast sowing. The book then gives detailed instructions, accompanied by illustrations, for the construction of <mask>'s own drill machines (in two versions), a drill plough and two other devices (an expanding horse-hoe and scuffle). He had previously (in 1788) sought and failed to obtain a commendation for his drill from the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, and in a much-disputed claim accused one of the Society's members, James Cooke, of having stolen his design.It is known from Arthur Young's comments that not only Major Cartwright but at least one other Lincolnshire farmer used <mask>'s design, but it is unclear how many others adopted it. The expanding horse-hoe had moveable shares that, unlike its main rivals, could be adjusted to suit the differing distances at which seed had been drilled. <mask>'s cheap and practicable drill plough was adopted by Arthur Young who in turn commended it to the Board of Agriculture and several others. <mask>'s second book, Minutes in Agriculture, appeared in August 1804 (with a reissue in June 1810). His stated intention was to settle the issue of which varieties of grass were most suitable for graziers to use, and his book contained advice on this accompanied by illustrations and dried grass specimens. The more theoretical botanical sections of the work were derivative and on publication attracted largely hostile comment (though later commentators recognised the usefulness of the practical recommendations). But <mask> also added details in his book about the construction and use of a variety of farming implements.These included his own designs for a horse-drawn thistle cutter, sward-dresser and compound roller, and (less well-received because of doubts about its practicality) his own version of a tree transplanter. Moreover, he added his voice to those of fellow improvers by calling for the removal of 'obstacles that oppose the promoting, improving and extending' of agriculture, and he castigates 'gentlemen of landed property' for ignoring the proper management of their land. <mask>'s other published writings span the years 1798–1816 and chiefly take the form of essays and letters in agricultural journals, covering a variety of topics from potato cultivation to his plans to design a workable reaping machine (in which endeavour, however, he later acknowledged he had been unsuccessful). He won a gold medal from the Board of Agriculture for two of these essays. Of broader appeal, and attracting more interest, were his "Essays on Agricultural Machines" as published in the Board of Agriculture's Communications of 1810. These covered: a new design for a dynanometer (his spelling of dynamometer) for measuring the relative resistances of ploughs or the weight needed to draw them forward; the construction of a new roller and set of harrows; the breaking of horses and oxen; and the construction of carriage wheels 'upon a new principle'. The most important of these essays, however, was "On the Mathematical Construction of a Plough" in which he offered an original and practical solution to the problem of efficient plough design with special reference to the mouldboard.It was in the course of this essay that he challenged Thomas Jefferson's claim to have discovered the mathematical principles for constructing a mould-board of least resistance. This prompted one of Jefferson's nineteenth-century admirers to vilify <mask> posthumously, though less partisan American critics subsequently declared Jefferson's design to be badly flawed. <mask>'s approach to plough construction, though it built on the work of others, particularly of John Bailey (1750–1819), earned him a place in the history of plough design. Impact

The readership for <mask>'s books during his lifetime was probably only a few hundred, though his articles in Young's Annals of Agriculture and the Board of Agriculture's Communications would certainly have reached a greater number, and reviews and cyclopedia entries would have extended knowledge of his ideas still further. Unlike many of the best-known pioneers of the Agricultural Revolution, men such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, Jethro Tull and Sir John Sinclair), <mask> had neither the wealth nor the social standing to promote his ideas, but his publications establish him as an important contributor to the development of improved and evidence-based agricultural practice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Key publications

 The Theory and Practice of the Drill Husbandry Founded Upon Philosophical Principles and Confirmed by Experience, 1st edition 1794, second edition 1802. Minutes in Agriculture, 1st edition 1804, 2nd edition 1810."Essays on Agricultural Machines", Communications to the Board of Agriculture, volume vi, part i, (London, 1810), pp. 437–468. Further reading

<mask>'s name and work appear repeatedly in nineteenth-century works on agriculture. Twentieth-century writers have tended to overlook <mask>'s contributions, but the following offer limited reference:
Beastall, T W (1978). The Agricultural Revolution in Lincolnshire, p. 190 (illustration of <mask>'s seed drill). History of Lincolnshire Committee, Lincoln. Fussell, G E (1981).The Farmer's Tools: The History of British Farm Implements, Tools and Machinery AD 1500–1900, pp. 45, 50, 68, 104–106. Orbis Publishing, London. (Originally published by Andrew Melrose Publishing, London, 1952). Keen, Bernard A (1931). The Physical Properties of the Soil, pp. 15–18.Longmans, Green & Co.

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<mask> (; 11 October 1905 – 25 February 1966) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet defector, known for writing the best-selling book I Chose Freedom, published in 1946, about the realities of life in the Soviet Union. <mask> defected to the United States during World War II, and began writing about his experiences as an official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Early life
<mask> was born on 11 October 1905, into a Ukrainian family in Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) with a non-party, revolutionary father. <mask> became an engineer specializing in metallurgy, and while studying at the Dneprodzerzhinsk Metallurgical Institute he became friends with future Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. An enthusiastic Communist Party of the Soviet Union member who joined the party in 1929, <mask> later became disillusioned by witnessing the effects of collectivization while working in the steel mills of the Donbass region in his native Ukraine, and his personal mistreatment during the Great Purge, although he ultimately managed to avoid arrest. During World War II, <mask> served as a captain in the Soviet Army until 1943, when he was posted to the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington, D.C. Defection
On 4 April 1944, <mask> abandoned his post and requested political asylum in the United States.However, the Soviet authorities demanded his immediate extradition, calling him a traitor, and ambassador Joseph E. Davies appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt directly on behalf of Joseph Stalin to have <mask> extradited. He was granted asylum, but lived under a pseudonym thereafter, fearing assassination by Soviet agents. <mask> began a relationship with an American woman, Cynthia Kuser-Earle, daughter of Anthony R. Kuser (1862–1929) and sister of New Jersey State Senator John Dryden Kuser, who was married to Brooke Astor from 1919 to 1930. Viktor and Cynthia created a family, but never married. They had two sons, Anthony and Andrew, who were obliged to live under their mother's arranged married name (Earle), and they remained unaware of their father's identity until 1965. When <mask> defected, he had a wife, Zinaida Gorlova, and a son, Valentin (born 1935), who remained in the Soviet Union. Gorlova remarried and her second husband adopted Valentin, changing his last name to that of his stepfather's to remove the stigma of his father.In spite of his new surname, Valentin was eventually publicized as the son of a "traitor to the motherland" and for various other reasons was sent to a Gulag in 1953 for five years, where the conditions of the camp drove him to the point where he tried to commit suicide in his cell. Valentin applied for political asylum in America after discovering that his half-brother Andrew lived there (the other American son, Anthony, had died in 1969). The two half-brothers were reunited in Arizona in 1992 at an emotional press conference. Valentin died in 2001 from heart failure, receiving his American citizenship on the day he died. I Chose Freedom
<mask> wrote a memoir, I Chose Freedom, a best-seller both in the US and Europe, containing extensive revelations on collectivization in the Soviet Union, the Soviet prison camp system, and the use of penal labor which came at a time of growing tension between the Soviet Union and the West. The publication of I Chose Freedom was met with vocal attacks from the Soviet Union and by international Communist parties. <mask> had made a deal prior to working with journalist Eugene Lyons, that Lyons would not receive credit, only a percentage of royalties.Trial of the Century
<mask>'s lesser-known memoir, although a best seller in Europe, I Chose Justice, published in 1950, mainly covered his "trial of the century" in France. An attack on <mask>'s character by the French Communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises resulted in him suing them for libel in a French court. The extended 1949 trial featuring hundreds of witnesses was dubbed "The Trial of the Century". The Soviet Union flew in <mask>'s former colleagues to denounce him, accusing him of being a traitor, a draft dodger, and an embezzler. His ex-wife appeared as well, accusing him of being physically abusive and sexually impotent. When a KGB officer alleged that he had been found mentally deficient, <mask> jumped to his feet and screamed, "We are not in Moscow! If you were not a witness, I'd tear your head off!".In a convincing case, <mask>'s lawyers presented witnesses who had survived the Soviet prison camp system, including Margarete Buber-Neumann,  a survivor of both Soviet and Nazi concentration camps and the widow of German Communist Heinz Neumann, who had been shot during the Great Purge. The court ultimately ruled that <mask> had been unfairly libeled, and was awarded only symbolic damages. In the view of one close observer, Alexander Werth,
Technically, <mask> won his case.... which brought worldwide attention to the cause and damaged the Communist Party in France. Although he did not receive the cost he had asked for, he did cover his trial expenses and beyond. Les Lettres Françaises appealed the verdict. A higher French court upheld the verdict but reduced the fine from 50,000 francs to 3 francs, or less than US$1, on the grounds that trial publicity had helped <mask> sell books. Later years
A social democrat since the 1940s, <mask> felt increasingly alienated from American politics, both from the anti-socialist right-wing and a decreasingly anti-communist left-wing.He later lived in Peru and New York City. His South American business ventures failed. A sympathetic biographer, Gary Kern, has suggested that the KGB played a role in the failure. Death
On 25 February 1966, <mask> was found dead from a gunshot wound to his head at his desk in his apartment in Manhattan. <mask>'s death was officially ruled a suicide, and this view is widely accepted, including by biographer Gary Kern. FBI files obtained by Kern after a six-year lawsuit show that President Lyndon B. Johnson had taken a strong interest in <mask>'s suicide and had demanded that the FBI determine if his suicide note was authentic or a Soviet fabrication. The FBI ruled that it was authentic, yet some details concerning <mask>'s last days remain questionable, and his son Andrew believes he could have been a victim of a KGB assassination.<mask> produced a documentary film in 2008, The Defector, about his father. <mask>'s decision to defect from the Soviet Union resulted in family members he left behind facing harassment, imprisonment and even death, with more than 30 relatives of <mask> being killed in the Soviet Union as a reprisal for his defection. It is known that <mask>'s location was discovered by NKVD agents in 1944, notably Mark Zborowski, and subsequently closely monitored by the NKVD and later by KGB special operations. Books
I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official (1946) Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York
I Chose Justice (1950) Charles Scribner, New York
Kravchenko Versus Moscow: The Report of the Famous Paris Case (1950) London and New York, Wingate
Kern, Gary (2007) The Kravchenko Case: One Man's War On Stalin, Enigma Books,

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<mask> is an author and professor of psychiatry with expertise in psychopharmacology. He is currently a Professor at the University of California, San Diego and serves as Honorary Fellow in psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge. He is also the chairman of Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) and Arbor Scientia Group. <mask> also serves as the Director of Psychopharmacology Services at the California Department of State Hospitals as well as the Editor-in Chief of CNS Spectrums. He is an internationally recognized authority in psychiatry having published over 500 scientific papers, edited 12 textbooks and personally written 35 text books including the two best-selling textbooks in the field of psychiatry and psychopharmacology over the past twenty years. He has contributed significantly to the field of psychopharmacology through his research in the 70s, 80s and 90s, especially in the area of serotonin, schizophrenia and depression. In addition to his many academic contributions, <mask> is known for his  2015 novel Shell Shock and his expert contribution to exposing inadequate mental health care for returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.In 2002, The International College of Neuropsychopharmacology honoured <mask> with the Lundbeck Foundation Award in Education for contributions to postgraduate education in psychiatry and neurology. Education and early career
<mask> was born in Wauseon, Ohio and raised in Bryan, Ohio. In 1973, he completed his B.S. degree from Northwestern University and received his M.D. there in 1975. In 1976, he received his Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology from the University of Chicago. Later he trained in internal medicine at the University of Chicago, in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco and in psychiatry at Stanford University.He is board certified in psychiatry. In 1981, he completed his residency in psychiatry at Stanford and became the assistant director of the Stanford Mental Health Clinical Research Center and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral Sciences at Stanford University Medical School where he worked until 1985. Career

Academic career
<mask> joined Stanford University in 1981 as an assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences and taught there till 1985 when he became an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences and pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles while working and living overseas in the UK where he taught at the Institute of Psychiatry, London as a Senior Lecturer and at the Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London also as a Senior Lecturer. He served as an honorary consultant in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London from 1985 – 1988. In 1988, he joined University of California, San Diego as professor of psychiatry and chief of psychiatry at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Hospital. Currently he is an adjunct professor at the University of California San Diego. In 2009, he was selected as an honorary senior visiting fellow by the University of Cambridge.He also directs psychopharmacology services and academic programs for the California Department of State Hospital System, where he also heads their assessment and treatment efforts to reduce violence. Career in hospitals and pharmaceutical industry
In 1981, he became the director of Movement Disorders & Psychopharmacology Research Clinic at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto and chief of the Schizophrenia Biological Research Center and served there till 1985. Simultaneously, he also worked with the Alza Corporation as director of clinical sciences, associate medical director and principal scientist from 1982 to 1985 and then joined the Merck & Co. Research Laboratories and moved overseas to their Neuroscience Research Centre outside of London in 1985, where he stayed till 1988 as the director of the Laboratory of Clinical Neuropharmacology, head of a normal volunteer research unit, and executive director of research in Parkinson’s Disease ultimately leading to the registration of Sinemet CR for this condition. He has also been a scientific consultant and member of scientific advisory boards for dozens of Pharmaceutical companies, medical information companies, and public service organizations including the state Medicaid drug utilization committee of California over the past 35 years. He also serves as a member of the scientific advisory board for the psychiatric genomics company Genomind. Works
<mask> is author of over 500 articles and book chapters and more than 1600 scientific presentations and abstracts. He has written 35 text books and edited 12 others, including the best-selling and award-winning <mask>’s Essential Psychopharmacology, now in its fourth edition and Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide, now in its seventh edition.In 2015, he published the thriller novel Shell Shock. <mask>’s interests are dedicated to producing and disseminating educational information about diseases and their treatments in psychiatry and neurology, with a special emphasis on multimedia, the internet. <mask> had a major input related to revelations about inadequate mental health care in the US Army and at Fort Hood His role was to train caregivers of wounded soldiers and ensure that the current system was appropriate. Partial bibliography
Essential Psychopharmacology. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1996. 2000. 2008.2013. 2021. Psychopharmacology of Antidepressants. Martin Dunitz Press, London and Mosby, New York, 1997. Psychopharmacology of Antipsychotics. Martin Dunitz Press, London, 1999. Essential Psychopharmacology of Depression and Bipolar Disorder.Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, 2000. Illustrated Insights – Sleep:  Excessive Sleepiness. NEI Press, Carlsbad, CA  2005. Essential Psychopharmacology:  The Prescribers Guide Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, 2005. 2006. 2009. 2011.2014. 2017. 2021. <mask>’s Illustrated:  Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York  2009. <mask>'s Self Assessment Examination in Psychiatry:  Multiple Choice Questions for Clinicians. Cambridge University Press, 2012.2016. Shell Shock: A Gus Conrad Thriller, Harley House Press, 2015. Awards and distinctions

Legacy
In 2015, Northwestern University, his alma mater, honored him by naming their annual award for the best medical student going into psychiatry the <mask> award. References

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Sir <mask> (14 November 1926 – 14 December 2016) was a British Conservative politician who served as a junior minister under Edward Heath. He was a Member of Parliament for a total of 35 years, latterly for Warwick and Leamington, which he represented for almost 30 years before he lost his seat in the Labour landslide in the 1997 general election. Early life and career
<mask> was born on 14 November 1926 in Cambridge to Hugh and <mask>. His father ran a small business. He attended Chichester High School in West Sussex but left at the age of 16 to pursue in career in journalism which he started by joining the local paper. In 1945 he joined Portsmouth Evening News, then The News of the World as a Fleet Street reporter. Finally, by 1953 he had joined the Sunday Express, going onto become Assistant News Editor under the Editor Sir John Junor.Political career
Eager to become a politician, <mask> unsuccessfully fought Peckham in 1955, losing to incumbent Freda Corbet by 13,768. He went onto serve on the Middlesex county council, becoming its youngest member. <mask> served as the Conservative council's Chief Whip, alongside his parliamentary duties, until 1965. Member of Parliament for Brentford & Chiswick: 1959–1966
<mask> was eventually successful in winning the Brentford & Chiswick by 2,919 votes in the 1959 general election. Despite only being in the House for 4 years, in 1963 <mask> played the leading role in opposing deportation of Anthony Enahoro to Nigeria where he would face charges of treason. The fact that he took on this challenge was largely due to Enahoro's arrest taking place in his constituency. For 2 months, he used all parliamentary means to persuade the Home Secretary, Henry Brooke, to not deport the Chief.<mask> claimed that Enahoro could not be deported as he would potentially face execution. Despite this, his efforts failed, and Anthony Enahoro was deported and subsequently jailed for 15 years. Other areas that <mask> took an interest in during his first parliament included sanitary concerns over the River Thames, and more radically local tax reform. Sixty Conservative MPs called for education to be funded directly by the Treasury instead of by local rates. As troubles grew for the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, <mask> was part of a group of relatively young Tory MPs in early 1963 who called for a change in leadership. Their preference was Edward Heath, the Lord Privy Seal who would subsequently become leader and Prime Minister, or Reginald Maudling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer over that of then favourite Rab Butler, or Iain Macleod. Untimely Lord Home was chosen as the successor.1963 also saw <mask> became PPS to Robert Carr, Minister for Technical Cooperation, then as an opposition whip in 1964. However, his climb in power was cut short by the Labour victory in the 1964 general election, and then <mask> losing his seat in 1966 to Labour's Michael Barnes by 607 votes. Member of Parliament for Warwick & Leamington: 1968–1997
After a brief 2 years as director for public relations for the Beecham Group, <mask> yet again found himself in the Commons as MP for Warwick & Leamington which he won with a majority of 21,922 in the 1968 Warwick and Leamington by-election. It was triggered by the death of the former Attorney General, Sir John Hobson. As the opposition spokesman on employment and productivity, and with his former boss Robert Carr who was now Shadow Minister of Labour, <mask> argued in 1969 that the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle, should hold to her ‘In Place of Strife’ white paper which proposed to restrict the powers of the trade unions. She did adhere to their advice. As a result of the Conservative Party returning to power as a result of the 1970 general election, the new Prime Minister, Edward Heath, put <mask> under Carr as Under-Secretary for Employment.He played a key role in the passage of the controversial Industrial Relations Bill. 1974 saw him moved to the Ministry of Defence as Under-Secretary of State for the Army, a post he held for a mere nine weeks due to Heath's failed re-election bid in the February 1974 snap general election which saw the Prime Minister's rival, Harold Wilson, returned to power. It was not, however, an uneventful time at the MoD since <mask> did visit the survivors of the 1974 IRA's M62 coach bombing in hospital. <mask> never returned to government, spending his time as vice-chairman of the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration between 1978 and 1979. With the Conservative victory in the 1979 general election, the new Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, sent him to Europe as part of the British delegation to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU). During his eighteen years in Europe, <mask> served from 1983 to 1986 as secretary-general of the European Democratic Group, from 1989 to 1993 as chairman of the WEU Defence Committee and finally as president of the WEU Assembly until 1997. <mask> had been an early admirer of Mrs Thatcher, evidenced by his verbal support of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which she had drawn up and introduced her maiden speech.During the Thatcher years, <mask> showed signs of being an ardent Thatcherite, indeed often being to the right of his Prime Minister on many social issues. Despite this, he demonstrated clear dissatisfaction with her leadership, which had been damaged by the resignation of Nigel Lawson and the Poll Tax, by using a football analogy in May 1990: “Do you sack the manager or don’t you? You may have a good manager but what if the team isn’t scoring goals?”. This sentiment was felt by many Tory MPs which ultimately led to her downfall. He was knighted in 1983. <mask> found himself in controversy in 1995 when a Greek Cypriot claimed that a holiday home in Northern Cyprus, which <mask> has leased for twelve years, had in fact been his property prior to the 1974 Turkish invasion. <mask> denied the man had ever owned the property.Although previously Warwick and Leamington had been considered a safe seat, the 1997 general election saw Tony Blair’s New Labour win a landslide leading the 70-year-old <mask> to losing his seat after over 35 years in parliament. Outside of parliament
Prior to the 1964 general election, <mask> published a biography of Harold Wilson, the Leader of the Opposition, entitled Harold Wilson: A critical biography. In 1981 he became the Chairman of the Wilderness Foundation UK. In 1988, he became Deputy Lieutenant for Warwickshire. He was a Freeman of the City of London and was Chairman from 1985 to 1990 for the United and Cecil Club. He was a governor Mill Hill School for three decades. Over the latter half of his career, his business interests grew which led to criticism that he was just a voice for big drug companies in the House of Commons.In 1995 it was revealed that he was the third-highest earner for MPs with outside interests with contracts worth £55,000. Political ideology and views
<mask> views could often be described as socially conservative, with him calling for tighter restrictions on pornography. He even went as far as to call for the Guardian to be prosecuted for quoting from D. H. Lawrence’s ‘explicit’ book, Lady Chatterley's Lover. Despite this, he has generally promoted press freedom as a former journalist. He believed in hanging, thought life imprisonment should mean at least 25 years, was against anti-homosexual law reform and was for curbs on abortion. He took a fairly sceptical view of mass immigration, calling for "a final halt to immigration as we know it” in 1979. He criticised the then Labour Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees, who he felt had “completely failed to grasp the problem” of illegal immigration.<mask> opposed allowing immigrant women who had British citizenship to bring in their partners. <mask>'s views on the European Union became increasingly Eurosceptic during the 1990s, especially after the Maastricht Treaty. In 1996, he warned that the EU was becoming too federalist, stating in an interview with Jane's Defence Weekly that “the $64,000 question is how we deal with the predatory attitude of the EU as it tries to take over defence…We’re not against the EU, but it doesn’t have to run everything”. This view was to become Conservative Party policy for the next two decades with the view that Britain should be “in Europe but not run by Europe". Personal life and death
<mask> was married twice, first in 1958 Anthea Higgins with whom he had three children, a son, Russell, and two daughters, Charlotte and Antonia. They divorced in 1973 following his wife's affair with her husband's fellow Conservative MP Tim Fortescue, member for Liverpool Garston, who she later married. In 1976, <mask> married again, this time to a management consultant called Catherine Amos.However, this also ended in divorce in 2011. <mask> died on the 14 December 2016 at the age of 90. References

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Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1959
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1964
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1970
Times Guide to the House of Commons, February 1974
Times Guide to the House of Commons, October 1974
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1979
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1983
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1987
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1997

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<mask> is an American lawyer and humanitarian. He serves as the 19th President and CEO of the NAACP. He had previously served as president of its Mississippi state chapter, and vice chairman of its board of directors. <mask> is the founder of the Mississippi nonprofit group One Voice Inc., which aims to improve quality of life for African Americans through public engagement. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Detroit. He attended Tougaloo College, then studied law at the South Texas College of Law, where he was awarded his JD. NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B.Du Bois, Mary White Ovington,  Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. At the NAACP, <mask> works closely with the national staff, including Tiffany Dena Loftin, the National Director of the NAACP Youth & College Division for the Association. NAACP Image Awards
At the 2020 NAACP Image Awards, hosted by BET, Rihanna accepted the President's Award from <mask>. <mask> stated that “Rihanna has not only enjoyed a groundbreaking career as an artist and musician, but has also distinguished herself as a stellar public servant. From her business achievements through Fenty, to her tremendous record as an activist and philanthropist, Rihanna epitomizes the type of character, grace, and devotion to justice that we seek to highlight in our President's Award.”

Re-envisioning of the NAACP
In a statement, the NAACP announced that President <mask> was elected President to guide "the Association through a period of re-envisioning and reinvigoration." On June 30, 2020, with Mayor Muriel Bowser's support, the NAACP announced its plans to move its headquarters from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. NPR reported, "Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the District of Columbia, said the plan is to have the NAACP move to the city's historic U Street corridor."2020 election
In an interview with GQ Magazine, <mask> expressed that the NAACP does not endorse Presidential candidates. "We don't endorse candidates or political parties. I'm going to embrace the need to increase voter turnout in the Black community, and then we allow the voters to make a determination of the options on the ballot, which of the two they're going to select," <mask> stated. On June 10, 2020, the NAACP hosted a virtual town hall with former Vice President Joe Biden. When asked about Trump, President <mask> expressed, "In my lifetime, I have not seen a single president as bad as Trump. I vacillate between whether or not it's malicious intent, incompetence, a very narrow, myopic view of the world, narcissism... We have not in my lifetime seen anyone so narrowly focused on personal ego and not what's in the best interest of public citizens. It's one thing to disagree about public policy and tax policy; it's a completely different thing to destroy the faith in our system the way he does."Jimmy Fallon interview
On June 1, 2020, President <mask> joined Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show. In the interview, Fallon apologized for wearing blackface in an old SNL sketch that had resurfaced. Jimmy Fallon expressed, "the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me and the rest of us are doing, staying silent. We need to say something, we need to keep saying something, and we need to say 'That's not OK' more than one day on Twitter." In response to the apology, <mask> noted “that was powerful, but most importantly, that's about courage ... In this time of many people searching for answers and the display of anger and hopelessness and wandering, more people need to speak about where they are with a really authentic voice. And I think you did that with the opening monologue.”  <mask> later added, "we are all born flawed, but flawed is part of the journey we are on to get to perfection.If anyone can stand up and say, 'I haven't made a mistake,' run, because that person is clearly a liar." DACA
On June 18, 2020, in Trump v. NAACP, the Supreme Court of the United States blocked the Trump administration's effort to dismantle DACA in "Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al., Petitioners v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al." The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the NAACP in a 5-to-4 decision. President Trump later wrote in a tweet that this was a "shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives." GQ Magazine reported that under <mask>'s leadership, "the nation's foremost and oldest civil rights organization landed a huge win in its Supreme Court case — Trump v. NAACP — that prevents Donald Trump's administration from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young immigrants." <mask> added, "It's a huge victory for us." On June 25, 2020, The Hill reported that the NAACP "successfully convinced the Supreme Court to rule against Trump.Its decision to defend DACA, <mask> said, came in part because of the organization's traditional role of being a voice for Black communities, including immigrants. “DACA, oftentimes people seem to think of the Latinx community, when in fact it was far more reaching than that,” <mask> said." President <mask>, expressed in a statement: "For far too long, the voices of the undocumented DACA recipients from the African Diaspora were silenced. There is no democratic dream for anyone if we don't allow our DREAMers to fully participate. This is a tremendous victory for America. Today's Supreme Court ruling in our favor is an incredible victory for justice, in the spirit of the NAACP's groundbreaking Supreme Court victory in Brown v Board of Education. We know the value of affirmative litigation to ensure that the nation lives up to its ideals.This ruling exemplifies the ways in which ensuring the Civil Rights for our community pushes the needle on social justice for the benefit of all. Although today represents an exciting victory, we won a battle; the war wages on. Trump could rescind DACA again tomorrow if he wants. The fight truly ends when Congress passes a permanent solution that protects DREAMERS, and the NAACP will continue that fight along with its allies." The Washington Post also reported that "Trump has often seemed ambivalent about DACA recipients — lauding them at some points and declaring they are “no angels” at others — but his administration has tried since September 2017 to end the program. It was implemented as an executive action by Obama in 2012 after a failed congressional attempt at comprehensive immigration reform." Justice Roberts wrote in an opinion that "the dispute before the court is not whether DHS may rescind DACA.All parties agree that it may. The dispute is instead primarily about the procedure the agency followed in doing so..."

Facebook: Stop Hate For Profit campaign
In the summer of 2020, the NAACP launched the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, targeting Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg for refusing to take down hate speech on the platform. In a live interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe, <mask> called Facebook "one of the biggest threats to democracy'. It was later revealed that The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were working with the NAACP in this campaign. President <mask> praised the couple for embodying “the kind of leadership that meets the moment." He added, "The NAACP deeply value your unwavering support to Stop Hate For Profit." In an interview with Forbes, <mask> said, "the flagrant disregard Facebook has shown in putting a stop to the hateful lies and dangerous propaganda on its platform exemplifies a lack of concern for the greater public and nullifies any notion of corporate social responsibility coming from its leadership.Any brand that claims to have the best interest of its consumers in mind should undoubtedly join the #StopHateForProfit campaign. Facebook is ultimately damaging its credibility with the American public, and any company that wants to avoid doing the same should send a message that we will no longer accept disinformation during this critical time." By July 3, over 750 advertisers joined the boycott, including Unilever, Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia, The North Face, Lululemon Athletica, Coca-Cola, Ford, Starbucks, Target, Pfizer, Microsoft, PlayStation, LEGO, Dunkin Donuts, Best Buy, Adidas, Clorox, and Walgreens. In response to these efforts, on July 1, 2020, CNBC reported that "Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with the organizers of the boycott, a spokeswoman said late Tuesday." On July 7, 2020, Members of the Stop Hate For Profit coalition met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. CNN first reported that the meeting "didn't go well". <mask> added, in an interview with The New York Times, that “Over the two years that the N.A.A.C.P.has been in conversation with Facebook, we’ve watched the dialogue blossom into nothingness,” Mr. <mask> said. “They lack this cultural sensitivity to understand that their platform is actually being used to cause harm, or they understand the harm that the platform is causing and they have chosen to take the profit as opposed to protecting the people.”

CBS Studios partnership

On July 15, 2020, The NAACP and President <mask> announced a multi-year deal with CBS Television Studios. Variety announced that "Under the deal, the two organizations will work together to develop and produce scripted, unscripted, and documentary projects for linear and streaming platforms. The partnership will be aimed toward elevating a diverse range of voices as well as increasing the visibility of Black artists. The deal includes a commitment to develop projects for CBS Television Network but also allows the selling of show to outside entities." The Hollywood Reporter added, "Included in the deal is a commitment to not only develop for CBS-owned platforms but also to third-party platforms, meaning CBS/NAACP would own content that would be supplied to other buyers like Netflix and Amazon." "In this moment of national awakening, the time has never been better to further tell stories of the African American experience,” said NAACP CEO <mask>."Programming and content have the power to shape perspectives and drive conversations around critical issues. This partnership with CBS allows us to bring compelling and important content to a broad audience." Meeting with President Biden

<mask> and others met with President Joe Biden on July 8, 2021. The meeting focused on the issue of voting rights. <mask> stated, following the meeting, that he was "encouraged" by the President's commitment to the issue. Other works

Hurricane Katrina
The Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court appointed <mask> to the Mississippi Access to Justice Commission. The Governor of Mississippi also appointed <mask> as the Chair of the Governor's Commission for Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal after his humanitarian work following Hurricane Katrina.The Guardian
On June 3, 2020, The Guardian published an op-ed by <mask> titled "In America, Black deaths are not a flaw in the system. They are the system." In the op-ed, <mask> wrote, "we are 3.5 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than white people. Although Black people are only 13% of the population, we constitute about twice that percentage of US coronavirus cases. This is not because the coronavirus seeks us by color; it is because we suffer from an underlying condition. Say its name. The condition is racism.It is manifest in a lack of opportunity; in economic inequality; in the absence of healthcare; in a biased criminal justice system and mass incarceration; in schools that scream for care; in a denial of truth; and more." This op-ed was quoted the following day by Wolf Blitzer on CNN, in a special coverage of George Floyd's memorial. "Real Facebook Oversight Board"
On 25 September 2020, <mask> was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook. COVID-19
In a piece on CNN, <mask> wrote, "it wasn't a surprise to many of us that the shortage of hospitals and health care providers serving our communities, combined with the biased assumptions that lead doctors to undertreat Black people's pain and heart attacks, would result in African Americans finding it harder to get tested and treated. And we knew that as soon as the pandemic became racialized, many Americans would no longer be willing to make sacrifices in order to address a crisis that suddenly seemed to be not about "us" but about "them."" He added, "Lives and livelihoods are at stake, most acutely in Black and brown communities -- but so is our democracy. We are seeing high levels of scarcity, with extreme unemployment numbers, while the nation's chief executive uses his bully pulpit to sow division and demonize otherness.With the elections approaching, our country could sink to a level of tribalism that leads to violence." Notes

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<mask> (19 December 1962 – 22 February 2021) was an Indian politician and tribal rights advocate, who was elected seven times as a member of Lok Sabha from Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency, in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu. He had been part of Indian National Congress (INC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at various times, and had also founded his own party Bharatiya Navshakti Party for some period. Political career
<mask> was born on 19 December 1962 to <mask>. <mask> was elected to Lok Sabha from Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1967 as Indian National Congress candidate and joined Morarji Desai's NCO faction when the party split in 1969. He lost 1971 Lok Sabha election as NCO candidate. <mask> started his career as a trade union leader in Silvassa and fought for the rights of tribal people working in different factories there. In 1985, he started Adivasi Vikas Sangathan for the tribal people.In 1989, he was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency as an independent candidate. In 1991 and 1996 he was re-elected as an Indian National Congress candidate from the same constituency. In 1998, he was again elected to the Lok Sabha as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the same constituency. In 1999 and 2004, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha as an independent and the Bharatiya Navshakti Party (BNP) candidate respectively; a party that he had formed. On 4 February 2009, he re-joined the Congress. and in 2019 he distanced himself from the Congress and was elected as an independent politician. However, in 2020, he joined the Janata Dal (United) party.Educational and community projects
In July 2003, <mask> established the Svargiya Sanjhibhai Rupjhibai Memorial Trust (SSRMT), named after his father, with the mission to improve quality of higher education in the tribal region of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. The campus spread over 50 acres of land in Silvassa comprises four college that are affiliated with Pune University; SSR College of Arts, Science and Commerce, SSR College of Pharmacy, SSR College of Education and SSR Institute of Management and Research In 2018, <mask> gave part of the SSR Memorial Trust's land for a token rent of one rupee to the local administration for establishment of the fifth college, NAMO Medical Education and Research Institute. For the Adivasi tribal people to have community function spaces he built a community hall called Adivasi Vikas Bhavan at Jawhar. Death

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On 5 July 2020, <mask> posted a video on YouTube and Twitter threatening to resign as Lok Sabha MP claiming that local administration was tormenting him. Delekar stated, "All my efforts to get justice are blocked and stonewalled by these people. They are even trying to frame me in fake cases, my supporters, the organisations I run or work for are targeted and the people in it are also hounded." <mask> can also be heard saying that BJP leaders, the bureaucracy, police, investigating agencies, and local goons "were constantly harassing him at all levels."Sachin Sawant of Congress stated that an investigating officer had allegedly even told <mask>, "He has received an order from above". On 19 September 2020 in parliament, he raised the issue of "misbehaviour" by local officials "as part of a conspiracy" claiming that on Liberation Day (2 August), he was "denied the right to address the people of the region as an MP". Abhinav <mask>, son of <mask>, stated that local administration had made things difficult for them and their supporters. He further stated that his father's supporters and tribal workers had been sacked from their jobs in a local government school because they had supported him in elections. He stated that attempts of demolishing the local university SSR College of Arts, Science and Commerce were made which his father managed to stop through a stay order from the court". Suicide
<mask> travelled to Maharashtra, to attend a court hearing of one of his supporters who was previously held in judicial custody at Silvassa sub-jail for carrying out illegal liquor smuggling in name of running a hotel. <mask> hanged himself at the Hotel Sea Green, Mumbai on 22 February 2021, leaving a 15 page suicide note.The note held politicians and administrative officials responsible for "injustice", "insult" and "bias" meted out to him, and specifically named Praful Khoda Patel. Maharashtra's Home Minister Anil Deshmukh sought "a probe into the BJP’s role in <mask>'s suicide", to check if he was being pressured by officials at the behest of the Central Government. Abhinav <mask> states that, "He knew that if he had to end his life here, the suicide note would have vanished and no case would have been registered". On 25 February 2021, Abhinav <mask> wrote to the Prime Minister requesting for justice. Abhinav demanded that Praful Patel must be removed as administrator since he was facing allegations in the case of his father's death. First Information Report
First Information Report (FIR) under Section 306 (abetment of suicide), 389 (Putting person in fear of accusation of offence, in order to commit extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) and sections of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was registered against Praful Khoda Patel, collector Sandeep Kumar Singh, former police superintendent Sharad Bhaskar Darade, deputy collector Apurva Sharma, sub-divisional officer Manasvi Jain, police inspector Manoj Patel, DNH Law Secretary Rohit P. Yadav, talathi Dilip Patel and BJP leader Fatehsinh V Chauhan who has a history of land grabbing disputes. From 18 December 2020 to 19 January 2021, <mask> had made complaints against those named in the FIR to Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, LS Speaker Om Birla, and Parlimentary Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice committee chairman Bhupender Yadav.On 12 February 2021 Sunil Kumar Singh chaired a Lok Sabha Privileges Committee hearing where <mask> announced, "If harassment to me is not stopped, then I would be left with no option but committing suicide." Hours before the FIR was registered, Anil Deshmukh  announced in the Vidhan Bhavan the creation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the suicide. During the 10 March 2021 parliamentary Zero Hour session, Vinayak Raut declared: "MVA government in Maharashtra has deputed ATS (Anti-Terrorism Squad) to probe the matter but I request the PM through this House that the local Administration, SP and Collector should be sacked and tried under IPC Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder)." On 10 March 2021, Supriya Sule and Nationalist Congress Party leader issued a memorandum signed by MPs from other parties including Shashi Tharoor of Indian National Congress, Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and members of the Shiv Sena, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Trinamool Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party to urging LS Speaker Om Birla to refer the case to the Committee of Privileges. Ongoing Street Protests
People joined a candlelight vigil marching through Zanda Chowk and Kilvani Naka in Silvassa on 26 February 2021. Local leaders present included Prabhubhai Tokiya and Daman Youth Action Committee, president Umesh Patel along with  <mask> family. Placards demanded justice for <mask> and contended that his fate was 'institutional murder'.Street protests continued daily through Silvassa and around DNH. The FIR registration resulted in the protesters demanding removal of Praful Khoda Patel. Local politicians lead protesters with black flags on 12 March against local administration program resulting in its cancellation with officials leaving under police protection. On 14 March 2021 protesters burnt effigy of Patel. The Adivassi Vikash Sangathan (AVS) tribal rights organisation that Delkar founded has announced a bandh (strike) for Monday 22 March 2021. References

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