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Harry J. Cargas

Harry James Cargas (June 18, 1932 – August 18, 1998) was an American scholar and author best known for his writing and research on the Holocaust, Jewish–Catholic relations, and American literature. He was a professor at Webster University for nearly three decades, and his circle of friends and collaborators included the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and sportscaster and humanitarian Bob Costas. Life and education Cargas was the son of James and Sophie Cargas of Hamtramck, Michigan. His father was a Greek immigrant and his mother was of Polish descent, and they raised their son in a working-class area near Detroit. As a young man, Cargas struggled to find a career. He quit university education four times before finishing his first degree, and he spent several years working odd jobs in factories, bars, restaurants, and trucking in both Michigan and Indiana. He also spent time in the copper mines of Montana and as an athletic director for a boys' school in New York and wrestling coach in New Jersey before finding his calling as a scholar. Cargas served in the Korean War and was a decorated combat veteran. After the war, however, he became a lifelong pacifist. His philosophy of nonviolence was influenced by the writings of Catholic mystic Thomas Merton, and Cargas published the introduction to the Japanese edition of Merton's autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain in The Queen's Work magazine while he was its editor. Cargas committed himself fully to academic life in 1963. He earned a BA and MA from the University of Michigan, and received a PhD in literature from Saint Louis University. In 1970, he joined the faculty of Webster University, where he taught until his death in 1998. He was the chair of the English department there and also taught courses in the history, art, and religion departments. Some of his course topics included the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, protest literature, Latin American literature, prison literature, and Native American literature. A lifelong proponent of good sportsmanship, Cargas also served as the athletic director for the university between 1988–1989. Cargas was a prolific writer and authored more than 2,500 articles and 32 books. He was also a frequent public speaker who lectured worldwide, as well as appearing as a regular commentator on St. Louis Public Radio for 25 years. His recognitions and awards included the Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association, the Eternal Flame Award from the Anne Frank Institute, and the Tree of Life from the Jewish National Fund. Holocaust studies and Catholic–Jewish relations Cargas was first introduced to the subject of the Holocaust when he read an excerpt from Elie Wiesel's biographical work Night in a magazine one evening. For the rest of his life after that initial intellectual encounter, much of his scholarly work revolved around the Holocaust and the relations between Jews and Catholics. His mission was to bring "historic truth to his Church" and to provoke Catholic leadership to acknowledge both its role in allowing the Holocaust to happen, as well as its inaction and silence during the war. In particular, he was horrified by the idea that almost "every Jew killed in the Holocaust was murdered by a baptized Christian." In 1979, he developed a list of 16 proposals that would lay the foundation of proper relations between Jews and Christians. These proposals included excommunicating Adolf Hitler, adding Jewish memorials to the Christian liturgical calendar, reexamining Christian theology and history in light of the Holocaust, moving Christian Sabbath to Saturday, and repenting for Christian sins against the Jewish people. Cargas labeled himself a "post-Auschwitz Catholic" and cultivated a deep friendship and intellectual partnership with the writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The two collaborated on several works, including Conversations with Elie Wiesel, Telling the Tale, Voices from the Holocaust, and A Christian Response to the Holocaust. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Cargas as one of the original members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which laid the groundwork for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He was also an executive councilman for the U.S. Holocaust Council and the only Catholic ever appointed to the Advisory Committee for Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Shortly before his death in 1998, Cargas showed his continued dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church's response to its role in the Holocaust by rejecting Vatican statements on Jewish–Catholic reconciliation as simply camouflage. In an essay in honor of Cargas after his death, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that Cargas, whom he referred to as "my buddy, Father Cargas," was "a person of historical importance for having taken into his very bones, as a Christian, the horrifying mystery of how persons could profess love of Jesus Christ, as did most Nazis, ... yet commit a crime as merciless as the extermination of Europe's Jews. Every word he writes or speaks is somehow atonement." Death Harry James Cargas died of a brain hemorrhage while being treated at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He is buried in Saint Peter Cemetery in Kirkwood, Missouri. Selected writings A Christian Response to the Holocaust (1981) When God and Man Failed (1981) Reflections of a Post-Auschwitz Christian (1989) Conversations with Elie Wiesel (1992) Voices from the Holocaust (1993) Telling the Tale: A Tribute to Elie Wiesel (1993) The Unnecessary Problem of Edith Stein (1997) Holocaust Scholars Write to the Vatican (1998) References External links . Harry Cargas interview with Walter J. Ong from the Saint Louis University Libraries' Digital Collections. Harry Cargas interview with Kurt Vonnegut from The Christian Century. Harry James Cargas Papers at Webster University Reflections on the life of Harry Cargas by Webster University faculty member Deborah Stiles. Announcement of Harry J. Cargas Endowed Scholarship. 1932 births 1998 deaths American people of Greek descent American people of Polish descent Webster University faculty People from Wayne County, Michigan People from Hamtramck, Michigan People from St. Louis County, Missouri University of Michigan alumni Saint Louis University alumni American military personnel of the Korean War American academics of English literature 20th-century American non-fiction writers

<mask> (June 18, 1932 – August 18, 1998) was an American scholar and author best known for his writing and research on the Holocaust, Jewish–Catholic relations, and American literature. He was a professor at Webster University for nearly three decades, and his circle of friends and collaborators included the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and sportscaster and humanitarian Bob Costas. Life and education <mask> was the son of <mask> and <mask> of Hamtramck, Michigan. His father was a Greek immigrant and his mother was of Polish descent, and they raised their son in a working-class area near Detroit. As a young man, <mask> struggled to find a career. He quit university education four times before finishing his first degree, and he spent several years working odd jobs in factories, bars, restaurants, and trucking in both Michigan and Indiana. He also spent time in the copper mines of Montana and as an athletic director for a boys' school in New York and wrestling coach in New Jersey before finding his calling as a scholar.<mask> served in the Korean War and was a decorated combat veteran. After the war, however, he became a lifelong pacifist. His philosophy of nonviolence was influenced by the writings of Catholic mystic Thomas Merton, and <mask> published the introduction to the Japanese edition of Merton's autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain in The Queen's Work magazine while he was its editor. <mask> committed himself fully to academic life in 1963. He earned a BA and MA from the University of Michigan, and received a PhD in literature from Saint Louis University. In 1970, he joined the faculty of Webster University, where he taught until his death in 1998. He was the chair of the English department there and also taught courses in the history, art, and religion departments.Some of his course topics included the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, protest literature, Latin American literature, prison literature, and Native American literature. A lifelong proponent of good sportsmanship, <mask> also served as the athletic director for the university between 1988–1989. <mask> was a prolific writer and authored more than 2,500 articles and 32 books. He was also a frequent public speaker who lectured worldwide, as well as appearing as a regular commentator on St. Louis Public Radio for 25 years. His recognitions and awards included the Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association, the Eternal Flame Award from the Anne Frank Institute, and the Tree of Life from the Jewish National Fund. 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These proposals included excommunicating Adolf Hitler, adding Jewish memorials to the Christian liturgical calendar, reexamining Christian theology and history in light of the Holocaust, moving Christian Sabbath to Saturday, and repenting for Christian sins against the Jewish people. <mask> labeled himself a "post-Auschwitz Catholic" and cultivated a deep friendship and intellectual partnership with the writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The two collaborated on several works, including Conversations with Elie Wiesel, Telling the Tale, Voices from the Holocaust, and A Christian Response to the Holocaust. In 1980, President <mask> appointed <mask> as one of the original members of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Council, which laid the groundwork for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He was also an executive councilman for the U.S. Holocaust Council and the only Catholic ever appointed to the Advisory Committee for Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Shortly before his death in 1998, <mask> showed his continued dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church's response to its role in the Holocaust by rejecting Vatican statements on Jewish–Catholic reconciliation as simply camouflage. In an essay in honor of <mask> after his death, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that <mask>, whom he referred to as "my buddy, <mask>," was "a person of historical importance for having taken into his very bones, as a Christian, the horrifying mystery of how persons could profess love of <mask>, as did most Nazis, ... yet commit a crime as merciless as the extermination of Europe's Jews. Every word he writes or speaks is somehow atonement." Death <mask> <mask> died of a brain hemorrhage while being treated at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.He is buried in Saint Peter Cemetery in Kirkwood, Missouri. Selected writings A Christian Response to the Holocaust (1981) When God and Man Failed (1981) Reflections of a Post-Auschwitz Christian (1989) Conversations with Elie Wiesel (1992) Voices from the Holocaust (1993) Telling the Tale: A Tribute to Elie Wiesel (1993) The Unnecessary Problem of Edith Stein (1997) Holocaust Scholars Write to the Vatican (1998) References External links . <mask> interview with Walter J. Ong from the Saint Louis University Libraries' Digital Collections. <mask> interview with Kurt Vonnegut from The Christian Century. <mask> <mask> Papers at Webster University Reflections on the life of <mask> by Webster University faculty member Deborah Stiles. Announcement of <mask> J. 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Howard Richards (academic)

Howard Richards (born June 10, 1938) is a philosopher of Social Science who works with the concepts of basic cultural structures and constitutive rules. He holds the title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, the United States, the Quaker School where he taught for thirty years. He retired from Earlham College, together with his wife Caroline Higgins in 2007, and became a Research Professor of Philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Stanford Law School, an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) from Oxford University (the UK) and a Ph.D. in Educational Planning from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. He now teaches at the University of Santiago, Chile, and has ongoing roles at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business program. He is founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management Program at Earlham. Early life Howard Richards was born in Pasadena. California, the United States, the eldest child of Kenneth F. Richards, a truck mechanic, originally from Connecticut, and his wife Donna. It was his mother's intellectual interest in philosophers such as Henri Bergson which prompted the family to break its ties with mormonism. His paternal grandparents fell into unemployment in Connecticut during the Great Depression and moved to Pasadena in 1932. It was his uncle Jack from his mother's side, who died during World War II, and especially his mother who fostered his early intellectual interest. Academic background After graduating from Redlands High School, CA, in June 1956, Richards enrolled in the same year as a Philosophy undergraduate at Yale. Being a top student, he was allowed to skip one year of the normal three-year Major in Philosophy course. Afterward, he was admitted to Stanford Law School in 1958, graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1961. Later in that year, he enrolled in graduate school at the University of California Santa Barbara, earning an M.A. in Philosophy there in 1964 with a thesis on Jean-Paul Sartre. Simultaneously he worked at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions think tank where he contributed several articles to the in-house Center Magazine. In 1965 he left for Chile, where they ultimately would settle in the town of Limache. Soon after their arrival, Howard took up the post of Dean of Studies at the Santiago College, (a college in Chile is a secondary school). While in Santiago, Howard joined the Chilean Ministry of Education as an advisor to President Eduardo Frei's Educational Reform, working on a Secondary Curriculum influenced by the ideas of the Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire In late 1970 Richards and his family left for the UK where Richards enrolled for an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) at Oxford University, simultaneously doing one on one tutorials and attending seminars by the philosophers Rom Harré and A. J. Ayer. He graduated with an honors thesis on Piaget. Back in Chile in 1972, now under president Salvador Allende, he continued to work with Freire's ideas at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación - Educational Research and Development Center) where he founded the Parents and Children Program (Programa Padres e Hijos - PHH), a Community Development combined with a Parent Education program. Richards and his family left Chile in 1974, after Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état, but not before having helped friends and colleagues escape Pinochet's DINA police. The philosophy curriculum Richards had helped develop was repealed shortly after the coup but was adopted in several other Latin American countries. In September 1974 Richards and his family returned to the USA where he started work at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Later that year he successfully defended his doctoral thesis in Philosophy at the University of California Santa Barbara, having done the preparatory work when still in Chile. While based in Richmond, he attended the Lawrence Kohlberg Summer School on Moral Education at Harvard University. Richards became a professor at Earlham College and was the founding director of its Peace and Global Studies program until 1989 and part-time Director until 2004. Between 1981 and 1985, Richards combined commitments in Richmond with those at OISE, Toronto, with the occasional stay in Quebec where their daughters were studying at a French-speaking school, he enrolled in another Ph.D. program in Education, with the first field in curriculum planning and a second field in applied psychology and moral education, at the University of Toronto's Institute for Studies in Education (UT/OISE), which he successfully completed with a doctoral thesis based on the Chilean PPH program. He also became an active contributor to the OISE-based active think-tank about the new economic paradigm known as The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC). Social engagement, research and teaching At Stanford Law School (1958–61) he co-founded the Stanford Political Union's Socialist Caucus, became involved in the Peace Movement and began volunteer work for farm labor causes. He co-founded, with Stanford radical books seller Roy Kepler, Ira Sandperl and others, the Peninsula Peace Center, effectively running it for a while. He was also editor and author of a modest journal called Utopian Papers. After graduation from law school (1961), he joined the Santa Barbara, California Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions headed by Robert Hutchins to whom he became a personal assistant, and became the first volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez' Farm Workers Association when he started organizing the FWA in Delano, California. He worked as evaluator of cultural change projects in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile He also did evaluative work on economic institutions (Economía Solidaria) in Argentina. Economic theory and Community Development together with Public Employment Programs are his more recent research areas. He is on the Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. Richards' principal teaching experience stretches from 1974 to 2007 as Professor of Philosophy and Education on the Peace and Global Studies Program (PAGS) at Earlham College. When no longer at Earlham, he taught short courses in different international locations. Starting in 2009 he became a distinguished fellow of the South African Research Chairs Initiative in Development Education (SARChI) based at the University of South Africa (UNISA) Pretoria, and then a collaborator at the Johannesburg-based Seriti Institute with Dr. Gavin Andersson. In South Africa, too, he teaches in the Executive MBA Program at the University of Cape Town. He is also co-chair of the Chilean group Repensar Ia Economía (Re-thinking the Economy). Law practice Howard Richards was the first volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, when they started to organize farm workers in Delano, in California's Central Valley. Richards specialized in Bankruptcy as a partner in the firm of Crane, Richards, and Flores after joining the Legal Aid Foundation in 1989. In 1990 he also was a voluntary attorney at the Los Angeles Free Clinic, a practice he wound up in 2004, when he moved back to Limache, Chile. Major works and ideas In his first major work, The Evaluation of Cultural Action (1984), Richards "unveils throughout the text the rationale for using an 'illuminative' approach (Parlett and Hamilton, 1974) rather than a conventional 'systems' assessment". The long dialogue with a "reasonable social scientist" gravitates around how to evaluate education and community development efforts inspired by the Brazilian adult educationist Paulo Freire's philosophy, combined with an empirical study of one such effort, namely PPH (Parents and Children Program) that flourished among peasants in the south of Chile in the 1970s and 1980s. Richards' two-volume Letters from Quebec: a Philosophy for Peace and Justice (1994) aspires to be both literary entertainment and the history of rationality in western culture and philosophy, illuminating the possibilities for transformative and humanistic action. The subtitle of volume Two of Letters from Quebec is 'Methods for Transforming the Structures of the Modern World'. Taking leads from Paulo Freire and Antonio Gramsci, the philosopher is seen - borrowing a phrase from Paulo Freire - as a 'cultural activist' who invents rationalities. Building on the premise that standards of rationality are historically constructed social norms, he went on, in Understanding the Global Economy (2004), to argue that causal explanations in economics invariably rely, as premises, on cultural norms, and particularly on constitutive rules Richards proposes to understand institutions by following out the consequences of the rules that organize them. Understanding the Global Economy reviews the principal schools of economic thought with respect to the causal explanations they offer of the phenomena of today's global economy. The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World (2008) co-authored with Joanna Swanger, applies the philosophical ideas of Richards' earlier works, particularly a concept of basic cultural structure, - where 'basic' identifies those cultural structures that govern the satisfaction of the basic needs of life - to historical case studies of Spain, Sweden, Austria, South Africa, Indonesia, Venezuela, and the World Bank. The upshot is that social democracy is not feasible with the framework provided by the constitutive rules of modernity. Social democracy can only become feasible by adopting an approach Richards and another co-author, Gavin Andersson, will later call unbounded organization. Gandhi and the Future of Economics (2011) "makes a case for incorporating Gandhi's insights into mainstream economics. Gandhi and the Future of Economics is not meant to be a research study of Gandhian economics. It is rather that kind of felicitous publication that breathes new life into a known theme, and, in doing so, brings out its implications for praxis. It does all this in dialogue with a set of contemporary thinkers and actors from the Indian sub-continent: Jawaharlal Nehru, Jayaprakash Narayan, Tariq Ali, Vandana Shiva, Amartya Sen, Arundhati Roy, Manmohan Singh." (Ivo Coelho). The Nurturing of Time Future (2012) defines itself as "a short book about everything", addressed to educated people of goodwill who see the need for paradigmatic change. It proposes a philosophy in the old-fashioned sense of articulating a synthesis of the social and natural sciences that provides an overall framework for deciding what to do. It is a 'belles lettres' exercise written in the style of Marcel Proust. Rethinking Thinking: Modernity's "Other" and the transformation of the University (2012) co-authored with Catherine Hoppers, further develops a theme found in early works – that modernity has much to learn from pre-modernity. It includes an account of how the constitutive rules of markets presupposed by economics developed in Roman Law. They are contrasted with indigenous African cultural norms. Rethinking also argues that bringing modernity's "other" into the curriculum of the university will transform the curriculum, transform research and transform community engagement. Richards' most recent book Unbounded Organizing in Community (2015), co-authored with Gavin Andersson of South Africa's Seriti Institute, offers a combination of a down to earth, practical guide to doing community organizing inspired by the Organization Workshops of Clodomir Santos de Morais, with an elementary introduction to Andersson's theory of unbounded organization. Emphasis is on practical examples and guidelines for organizers and participants. Other books and articles Richards has also published fourteen other books some in English and some in Spanish, among the latter, Richards, 1987, Ética y Economía (Ethics and Economics), and González Meyer & Richards (2012) Hacia otras Economias. Critica al paradigma dominante (Towards other Economies - Critique of the Dominant Paradigm). A list of Richards' other books, articles, conferences and speeches (e.g. Howard Richards, 1995 Nehru Lectures) can be found on HR Professor of Peace and Global Studies (up to 2010), HR Bibliography, HR website and the more recent Unbounded Organization webpage. Personal life Richards married Caroline Higgins in July 1965. They have two daughters. See also Evelin Lindner Betty Reardon Publications Notes References External links Against Foucault: Toward an Epistemology of Hope (12 Conversations). Economía Solidaria Economy of Solidarity Howard Richards Professor of Peace and Global Studies. Peace and Global Studies Program (PAGS) Earlham College Professor Richards' Video Conversations Repensar. (Rethinking the Economy - Chile). Seriti Institute Seriti Institute South Africa. The Theory of Growth Points. (see PDF for transcript). Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (scroll down to 'R'). Twelve Things We Can Do Every Day for World Peace and Justice. Unbounded Organization (with Gavin Andersson) (3 Conversations). Unbounded Organization Website. A Vision of a World without Poverty or Economic Insecurity. 1938 births Living people Writers from Pasadena, California People from Valparaíso Province American philosophers Philosophers of social science American lawyers 20th-century American non-fiction writers Writers about activism and social change Peace and conflict scholars Community development Community organizing Normative ethics Earlham College faculty Educational administration Stanford Law School faculty 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers

<mask> (born June 10, 1938) is a philosopher of Social Science who works with the concepts of basic cultural structures and constitutive rules. He holds the title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana, the United States, the Quaker School where he taught for thirty years. He retired from Earlham College, together with his wife Caroline Higgins in 2007, and became a Research Professor of Philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Stanford Law School, an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) from Oxford University (the UK) and a Ph.D. in Educational Planning from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada. He now teaches at the University of Santiago, Chile, and has ongoing roles at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business program. He is founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management Program at Earlham.Early life <mask> was born in Pasadena. California, the United States, the eldest child of Kenneth F<mask>, a truck mechanic, originally from Connecticut, and his wife Donna. It was his mother's intellectual interest in philosophers such as Henri Bergson which prompted the family to break its ties with mormonism. His paternal grandparents fell into unemployment in Connecticut during the Great Depression and moved to Pasadena in 1932. It was his uncle Jack from his mother's side, who died during World War II, and especially his mother who fostered his early intellectual interest. Academic background After graduating from Redlands High School, CA, in June 1956, <mask> enrolled in the same year as a Philosophy undergraduate at Yale. Being a top student, he was allowed to skip one year of the normal three-year Major in Philosophy course.Afterward, he was admitted to Stanford Law School in 1958, graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1961. Later in that year, he enrolled in graduate school at the University of California Santa Barbara, earning an M.A. in Philosophy there in 1964 with a thesis on Jean-Paul Sartre. Simultaneously he worked at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions think tank where he contributed several articles to the in-house Center Magazine. In 1965 he left for Chile, where they ultimately would settle in the town of Limache. Soon after their arrival, <mask> took up the post of Dean of Studies at the Santiago College, (a college in Chile is a secondary school).While in Santiago, <mask> joined the Chilean Ministry of Education as an advisor to President Eduardo Frei's Educational Reform, working on a Secondary Curriculum influenced by the ideas of the Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire In late 1970 <mask> and his family left for the UK where <mask> enrolled for an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) at Oxford University, simultaneously doing one on one tutorials and attending seminars by the philosophers Rom Harré and A. J. Ayer. He graduated with an honors thesis on Piaget. Back in Chile in 1972, now under president Salvador Allende, he continued to work with Freire's ideas at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación - Educational Research and Development Center) where he founded the Parents and Children Program (Programa Padres e Hijos - PHH), a Community Development combined with a Parent Education program. <mask> and his family left Chile in 1974, after Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état, but not before having helped friends and colleagues escape Pinochet's DINA police. The philosophy curriculum <mask> had helped develop was repealed shortly after the coup but was adopted in several other Latin American countries. In September 1974 <mask> and his family returned to the USA where he started work at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Later that year he successfully defended his doctoral thesis in Philosophy at the University of California Santa Barbara, having done the preparatory work when still in Chile.While based in Richmond, he attended the Lawrence Kohlberg Summer School on Moral Education at Harvard University. <mask> became a professor at Earlham College and was the founding director of its Peace and Global Studies program until 1989 and part-time Director until 2004. Between 1981 and 1985, <mask> combined commitments in Richmond with those at OISE, Toronto, with the occasional stay in Quebec where their daughters were studying at a French-speaking school, he enrolled in another Ph.D. program in Education, with the first field in curriculum planning and a second field in applied psychology and moral education, at the University of Toronto's Institute for Studies in Education (UT/OISE), which he successfully completed with a doctoral thesis based on the Chilean PPH program. He also became an active contributor to the OISE-based active think-tank about the new economic paradigm known as The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC). Social engagement, research and teaching At Stanford Law School (1958–61) he co-founded the Stanford Political Union's Socialist Caucus, became involved in the Peace Movement and began volunteer work for farm labor causes. He co-founded, with Stanford radical books seller Roy Kepler, Ira Sandperl and others, the Peninsula Peace Center, effectively running it for a while. He was also editor and author of a modest journal called Utopian Papers.After graduation from law school (1961), he joined the Santa Barbara, California Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions headed by Robert Hutchins to whom he became a personal assistant, and became the first volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez' Farm Workers Association when he started organizing the FWA in Delano, California. He worked as evaluator of cultural change projects in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile He also did evaluative work on economic institutions (Economía Solidaria) in Argentina. Economic theory and Community Development together with Public Employment Programs are his more recent research areas. He is on the Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), a global transdisciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation. <mask>' principal teaching experience stretches from 1974 to 2007 as Professor of Philosophy and Education on the Peace and Global Studies Program (PAGS) at Earlham College. When no longer at Earlham, he taught short courses in different international locations. Starting in 2009 he became a distinguished fellow of the South African Research Chairs Initiative in Development Education (SARChI) based at the University of South Africa (UNISA) Pretoria, and then a collaborator at the Johannesburg-based Seriti Institute with Dr. Gavin Andersson.In South Africa, too, he teaches in the Executive MBA Program at the University of Cape Town. He is also co-chair of the Chilean group Repensar Ia Economía (Re-thinking the Economy). Law practice <mask> was the first volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, when they started to organize farm workers in Delano, in California's Central Valley. <mask> specialized in Bankruptcy as a partner in the firm of Crane, Richards, and Flores after joining the Legal Aid Foundation in 1989. In 1990 he also was a voluntary attorney at the Los Angeles Free Clinic, a practice he wound up in 2004, when he moved back to Limache, Chile. Major works and ideas In his first major work, The Evaluation of Cultural Action (1984), <mask> "unveils throughout the text the rationale for using an 'illuminative' approach (Parlett and Hamilton, 1974) rather than a conventional 'systems' assessment". The long dialogue with a "reasonable social scientist" gravitates around how to evaluate education and community development efforts inspired by the Brazilian adult educationist Paulo Freire's philosophy, combined with an empirical study of one such effort, namely PPH (Parents and Children Program) that flourished among peasants in the south of Chile in the 1970s and 1980s.<mask>' two-volume Letters from Quebec: a Philosophy for Peace and Justice (1994) aspires to be both literary entertainment and the history of rationality in western culture and philosophy, illuminating the possibilities for transformative and humanistic action. The subtitle of volume Two of Letters from Quebec is 'Methods for Transforming the Structures of the Modern World'. Taking leads from Paulo Freire and Antonio Gramsci, the philosopher is seen - borrowing a phrase from Paulo Freire - as a 'cultural activist' who invents rationalities. Building on the premise that standards of rationality are historically constructed social norms, he went on, in Understanding the Global Economy (2004), to argue that causal explanations in economics invariably rely, as premises, on cultural norms, and particularly on constitutive rules <mask> proposes to understand institutions by following out the consequences of the rules that organize them. Understanding the Global Economy reviews the principal schools of economic thought with respect to the causal explanations they offer of the phenomena of today's global economy. The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World (2008) co-authored with Joanna Swanger, applies the philosophical ideas of <mask>' earlier works, particularly a concept of basic cultural structure, - where 'basic' identifies those cultural structures that govern the satisfaction of the basic needs of life - to historical case studies of Spain, Sweden, Austria, South Africa, Indonesia, Venezuela, and the World Bank. The upshot is that social democracy is not feasible with the framework provided by the constitutive rules of modernity.Social democracy can only become feasible by adopting an approach <mask> and another co-author, Gavin Andersson, will later call unbounded organization. Gandhi and the Future of Economics (2011) "makes a case for incorporating Gandhi's insights into mainstream economics. Gandhi and the Future of Economics is not meant to be a research study of Gandhian economics. It is rather that kind of felicitous publication that breathes new life into a known theme, and, in doing so, brings out its implications for praxis. It does all this in dialogue with a set of contemporary thinkers and actors from the Indian sub-continent: Jawaharlal Nehru, Jayaprakash Narayan, Tariq Ali, Vandana Shiva, Amartya Sen, Arundhati Roy, Manmohan Singh." (Ivo Coelho). The Nurturing of Time Future (2012) defines itself as "a short book about everything", addressed to educated people of goodwill who see the need for paradigmatic change.It proposes a philosophy in the old-fashioned sense of articulating a synthesis of the social and natural sciences that provides an overall framework for deciding what to do. It is a 'belles lettres' exercise written in the style of Marcel Proust. Rethinking Thinking: Modernity's "Other" and the transformation of the University (2012) co-authored with Catherine Hoppers, further develops a theme found in early works – that modernity has much to learn from pre-modernity. It includes an account of how the constitutive rules of markets presupposed by economics developed in Roman Law. They are contrasted with indigenous African cultural norms. Rethinking also argues that bringing modernity's "other" into the curriculum of the university will transform the curriculum, transform research and transform community engagement. <mask>' most recent book Unbounded Organizing in Community (2015), co-authored with Gavin Andersson of South Africa's Seriti Institute, offers a combination of a down to earth, practical guide to doing community organizing inspired by the Organization Workshops of Clodomir Santos de Morais, with an elementary introduction to Andersson's theory of unbounded organization.Emphasis is on practical examples and guidelines for organizers and participants. Other books and articles <mask> has also published fourteen other books some in English and some in Spanish, among the latter, <mask>, 1987, Ética y Economía (Ethics and Economics), and González Meyer & Richards (2012) Hacia otras Economias. Critica al paradigma dominante (Towards other Economies - Critique of the Dominant Paradigm). A list of <mask>' other books, articles, conferences and speeches (e.g. <mask>, 1995 Nehru Lectures) can be found on HR Professor of Peace and Global Studies (up to 2010), HR Bibliography, HR website and the more recent Unbounded Organization webpage. Personal life <mask> married Caroline Higgins in July 1965. They have two daughters.See also Evelin Lindner Betty Reardon Publications Notes References External links Against Foucault: Toward an Epistemology of Hope (12 Conversations). Economía Solidaria Economy of Solidarity <mask> Professor of Peace and Global Studies. Peace and Global Studies Program (PAGS) Earlham College Professor <mask>' Video Conversations Repensar. (Rethinking the Economy - Chile). Seriti Institute Seriti Institute South Africa. The Theory of Growth Points. (see PDF for transcript).Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (scroll down to 'R'). Twelve Things We Can Do Every Day for World Peace and Justice. Unbounded Organization (with Gavin Andersson) (3 Conversations). Unbounded Organization Website. A Vision of a World without Poverty or Economic Insecurity. 1938 births Living people Writers from Pasadena, California People from Valparaíso Province American philosophers Philosophers of social science American lawyers 20th-century American non-fiction writers Writers about activism and social change Peace and conflict scholars Community development Community organizing Normative ethics Earlham College faculty Educational administration Stanford Law School faculty 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers

<mask> is a philosopher who works with the concepts of cultural structures and rules. He is the Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Indiana, the United States, where he taught for thirty years. He retired from Earlham College in 2007, along with his wife, and became a Research Professor of Philosophy. He is a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada, has a PhD in Educational Planning. He is a professor at the University of Santiago, Chile, and has roles at the University of South Africa and the University of Cape Town. He co-founded the Business and Nonprofit Management Program at Earlham.<mask> was born in Pasadena. California is the eldest child of Kenneth F<mask> and his wife Donna. The family broke its ties with mormonism because of his mother's intellectual interest in philosophers such as Henri Bergson. During the Great Depression, his paternal grandparents fell into unemployment and moved to Pasadena. Jack, his uncle from his mother's side, died during World War II and his mother fostered his early intellectual interest. <mask> was a philosophy undergraduate at Yale in the same year he graduated from high school. He was allowed to skip one year of the Major in Philosophy course because he was a top student.He graduated from the law school with a Juris Doctor. degree in 1961. He went to graduate school at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 1964 there was a thesis on Jean-Paul Sartre. He worked at both the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and the Center Magazine. They settled in the town of Limache in 1965, after he left for Chile. <mask> took up the post of Dean of Studies at the Santiago College after they arrived.While in Santiago, <mask> joined the Ministry of Education as an advisor to President Eduardo Frei's Educational Reform, working on a Secondary Curriculum influenced by the ideas of the Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire. He received an honors thesis. In 1972 he continued to work with Freire's ideas at CIDE, where he founded the Parents and Children Program. After Pinochet's coup d'état in 1973, <mask> and his family left Chile and helped friends and colleagues escape. The philosophy curriculum <mask> helped develop was repealed after the coup, but was adopted in other Latin American countries. <mask> started work at Earlham College in Indiana in 1974 after he and his family returned to the USA. He defended his thesis in Philosophy at the University of California Santa Barbara, having done the work before he moved to the US.He attended a summer school at Harvard University. The founding director of Earlham College's Peace and Global Studies program from 1989 to 2004 was <mask>. Between 1981 and 1985 <mask> went to OISE, Toronto, with the occasional stay in Quebec, where his daughters were studying at a French-speaking school, and then went to another PhD program in Education. He became an active contributor to the OISE-based think-tank about the new economic paradigm known as The Transformationative Learning Centre. He became involved in the Peace movement and started volunteering for farm labor causes after graduating from the law school. He co-founded the Peninsula Peace Center with other people. He was the editor and author of a journal called Utopian Papers.He became a personal assistant to Robert Hutchins at the Santa Barbara, California Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions after graduating from law school and became the first volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez' Farm Workers Association. He did evaluative work on economic institutions in Argentina. Economic theory and community development are his current research areas. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Human DHS, a global fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity and overcome humiliation. From 1974 to 2007, <mask> was the Professor of Philosophy and Education on the Peace and Global Studies Program at Earlham College. He taught short courses in different locations when he was no longer at Earlham. In 2009, he became a distinguished fellow of the South African Research Chairs Initiative in Development Education, based at the University of South Africa.He teaches at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The group Repensar Ia Economa is co-chaired by him. <mask> was the first volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, when they started to organize farm workers in California's Central Valley. <mask> joined the Legal Aid Foundation in 1989 and became a partner in the firm of Crane, Richards, and Flores. He was a voluntary attorney at the Los Angeles Free Clinic from 1990 to 2004. In his first major work, The Evaluation of Cultural Action, <mask> "unveils throughout the text the rationale for using an 'illuminative' approach rather than a conventional'systems' assessment". The long dialogue with a "reasonable social scientist" gravitates around how to evaluate education and community development efforts inspired by the Brazilian adult educationist Paulo Freire's philosophy, combined with an empirical study of one such effort, namely PPH.The two-volume Letters from Quebec: a Philosophy for Peace and Justice aspires to be both literary entertainment and the history of rationality in western culture. The subtitle of the second volume of letters from Quebec is 'Methods for Transforming the Structures of the Modern World'. Borrowing a phrase from Paulo Freire, the philosopher is seen as a cultural activist who invents rationalities. In Understanding the Global Economy 2004, he argued that the reasons for economics to work are based on cultural norms and the consequences of those rules. The principal schools of economic thought are reviewed in Understanding the Global Economy. The concept of basic cultural structure is one of the ideas applied to The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World. The framework provided by the rules of modernity is not feasible for social democracy.<mask> and another co-author will later call for unbounded organization in order to make social democracy feasible. The case for incorporating Gandhi's insights into mainstream economics was made in Gandhi and the Future of Economics. Gandhi and the Future of Economics is not meant to be a study of Gandhian economics. The publication that breathes new life into a known theme and brings out its implications for praxis is rather that kind of felicitous publication. Nehru, Narayan, Ali, Vandana Shiva, Sen, Roy and Singh are some of the contemporary thinkers and actors from the Indian sub-continent. Ivo Coelho. The Nurturing of Time Future is a short book that is addressed to educated people of goodwill who see the need for paradigmatic change.The philosophy proposes a synthesis of the social and natural sciences that provides an overall framework for deciding what to do. The exercise is written in the style of Proust. There is a theme found in early works that modernity has much to learn from pre-modernity. An account of how the rules of markets were developed in Roman Law is included. They are compared to African culture. According to Rethinking, bringing modernity's "other" into the curriculum of the university will transform the curriculum, transform research and transform community engagement. Unbounded Organizing in Community offers a combination of a down to earth, practical guide to doing community organizing inspired by the Organization Workshops of Clodomir Santos de Morais.Guidelines for organizers and participants are emphasized. tica y Economa (Ethics and Economics) is one of the books <mask> has published in English and Spanish. The critique of the dominant paradigm is critica al paradigma dominante. <mask> has other books, articles, conferences and speeches. The 1995 Nehru Lectures can be found on the HR Professor of Peace and Global Studies website. <mask> was married in July 1965. They have two children.There are External links against Foucault: Toward an Epistemology of Hope. <mask> is the Professor of Peace and Global Studies. The Earlham College Professor <mask>' Video Conversations Repensar is part of the Peace and Global Studies Program. rethinking the economy in chile The Seriti Institute is in South Africa. There is a theory of growth points. See the PDF for the transcript.Human dignity and humiliation studies can be found here. There are twelve things we can do every day for world peace and justice. 3 Conversations with Unbounded Organization. Unbounded website. A vision of a world without poverty. Living people from Pasadena, California include philosophers, lawyers, and writers about activism and social change.

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S. Wajid Ali

S. Wajed Ali or Sheikh Wajid Ali (; 4 September 1890 – 10 June 1951) was a Bengali writer, nationalist and barrister-at-law. Early life Wajid Ali was born on 4 September 1890 in the village of Baratajpur, a village near Janai and Begampur, of Hooghly district. S. Wajed Ali's maternal grandmother hailed from the Nawabpur village in Janai of Hooghly district. Her father, who came from Mungaer, had settled in Nawabpur with a 'Jaigir' and married into the local Bengali community. Wajed Ali's three maternal uncles were 'Hafiz' in Koran and his grandfather's home atmosphere was one of religious conservatism. However, the natural beauty of Nawabpur touched him deeply as expressed in his memoirs. Wajed Ali's education began in the village 'Madrasa' or school. At this stage, in 1897 he had his first marriage, at the early age of seven, with his six-month-old cousin Ayesha (the daughter of his paternal uncle Sheikh Golam Rahman). In 1898, at the age of eight, Wajed Ali came to Shillong and started education under the tutelage of his father, S. Belayet Ali. Later, he was admitted to the English medium Mokhar School in Shillong, from where he graduated in his 'Entrance Exams' with a gold medal. This phase of his life in Shillong, Meghalaya had a lasting impression upon him. He went to Aligarh MAYO college, where he was recognised as a meritorious student. He subsequently passed his I.A. and B.A. exams from Allahabad University in 1908 and 1910 respectively. After his graduation from Allahabad, he returned to his village of Baratajpur and spent a happy family life amidst the rural idyllic surroundings. His first child, Lutfunnissa, was born at this time. He was trying hard to convince his family to allow him to go to England for further education. Finally, with the enthusiasm and recommendations of his second uncle, he succeeded in getting their permission and left for London just a couple of years before the start of World War I. Wajed Ali joined the Law school of the University of Cambridge, from where he attained his B.A. and Barrister-at-Law degrees. Career The beginnings While in Cambridge, he had fallen seriously ill and Miss Eleanor Saxby of Bristol had come forward to take care of him, and enable his subsequent recovery. From this episode started a relationship between them which culminated in his second marriage and divorce from Ayesha Begum, at the obvious displeasure of his family members back home. The year was 1915 – World War I was raging in Europe. It was at this time that S. Wajed Ali started the practice of Law in Calcutta High Court and continued till 1922. All this while, he lived with Eleanor in Mott Lane, Ripon Lane, Ripon Street etc. in Calcutta. Ill fortune struck when various factors of the failure of the family business, failing health, extravagant lifestyle – all combined to drive him to bankruptcy. He immersed himself in deep studies about the contemporary society and involved himself in the elite literary world of the time. At the advice of his friend, Pramatha Chowdhury (editor of weekly Shobuj Potro), he started writing in Bengali and began an extraordinary literary career. 1923 – 1928 In 1923, he was appointed the third presidency magistrate of Calcutta and a few days later he started living with his family in No. 1 Canal Road in Calcutta. At this period he devoted himself to his literary pursuits. He expressed himself with supreme creative excellence in the fields of prose, symbolism, story-writing, translation, travelogues, etc. His troubled marriage with Mrs. Eleanor Saxby (Nellie) came to an end in 1928, when the mother of his two sons, Ahmed and Abdullah and daughter Zeb-un-Nissa separated from him and married his younger brother S. Shamsher Ali. This turn of events drove him into a family crisis and utter loneliness. The dramatic family complications made him hurt susceptible and psychologically isolated. In the face of all these adversities, he maintained his literary stability and creativity in matters of philosophical and nationalistic pursuits. He always maintained his clarity of vision and focus in all these matters, which were close to his heart. 1929 – 1944 Having been cast into loneliness and isolation in his family life, S. Wajed Ali, amidst his otherwise busy life with the duties of his job, literary pursuits, chairmanships of various societies and organisations etc., was like a prisoner of pain on a lonely island. At this time he met a learned Burmese lady, who subsequently became his wife and life-partner, Mrs. Badrunnessa Ali. Descended from the line of Chengiz Khan, her father was the head of a Burmese royal family. When the British forces attacked Burma, most of the royal family men folk were killed in the anti-British struggle. Along with her mother and aunt, the Burmese princess Badrunnessa was brought to Calcutta as a royal war-prisoner. Unfortunately, a grave tragedy befell Mr. S. Wajed Ali's life only two years after his marriage, when on 26 October 1931, Mrs. Badrunnessa Ali died a day after the birth of her only child. Her body was buried in the 'Gobra graveyard'. An English nurse was appointed to take care of his new-born child, Sheikh Badruddin Ali (Zaib-un-Nissa was also quite young at the time). The founding of the magazine 'Gulistan' in December 1932 was an active and busy chapter of S. Wajed Ali's life. He built up around this magazine a cultural and literary circle embracing the cream of contemporary Bengali society. Its cover bore the vision behind its creation 'the pioneer of Hindu-Muslim unity'. The writer's list of 'Gulistan' bears evidence of the nobility, width of scope and seriousness of the magazine: Kazi Nazrul Islam, Dr. Mohammed Shahidullah, Kazi Abdul Wadud, Kedārnāth Chattopādhyāy, Tārāśankar Bandyopādhyāy, Pramathanāth Bishi, Buddhadeb Basu, Sajanikānta Dās (of Śanibārer Chithi fame), Kaviśekhar Kālidās Rāy, Bārindranāth Ghosh, Pabitra Gangopādhyāy, Poet Kader Nawaz, Poet Nirmal Dās, Anurupā Devī, Prabhābatī Devī Sarasvatī, Indirā Devīcaudhurāni, Manilāl Bannerjee, A. K. Jainal Abedin (Navayug), Humayun Kabir, Comrade Abdul Aziz, Phanindranāth Mukhopādhyāy, Dhīrāj Bhattacārya, Saurīndramohan Mukhopadhyāy, Abbasuddin Ahmed etc. At these heady times, S. Wajed Ali's residence at 48, Jhowtalla Road, was the usual venue for the Gulistan-centred literary evening gatherings. The contemporary elite of the intellectual, literary and art world of Calcutta were often present in those sessions. Besides being the founder of the 'Gulistan' magazine, S. Wajed Ali was also the publisher and editor of the English language magazine: 'Bulletin of the Indian Rationalistic Society'. Retirement On 31 October 1945, S. Wajed Ali retired from the position of third presidency magistrate and restarted his independent legal profession. At this time he still resided at his residence at 48, Jhowtolla Road. S. Wajed Ali was a soft-spoken person with a reserved and contemplative nature. He was a unique and distinctive personality of his time with his aristocratic bearing, wide grasp of knowledge and intellectual pursuits. Regarding his personality Syed Ali Ahsan has justifiably commented: "S. Wajed Ali possessed an exceptionally generous nature. With such a magnanimous, righteous, broad-minded and pleasing personality, he was well loved by all he came into contact with...' 'He had an extraordinary depth of perception'. While never loud nor offensive, he was amusing and extremely well informed in his discussions. He loved talking to children and often listened to their stories, keeping them amused with his special simple magical simplicity and charm. He had some unique pursuits: he loved to walk the streets and parks in Calcutta so much so that he is quoted as having said that ' I am ready to deny myself many things in my life, but I am not ready to give up my pleasure of walking..... I usually like to walk in the Maidan.'. Towards the middle of 1949, S. Wajed Ali was affected with 'cerebral thrombosis', which rendered one side of his body paralysed. He was treated by the German doctor Mr. Troy and cared for by nurses. In these difficult days, his sons looked after him regularly. His younger brother Mr. S. Shamsher Ali visited him every day. His first wife Ayesha Khatun often visited him. Finally, at 9 o' clock of Sunday, 10 June 1951, he died at his 48, Jhowtolla residence. He was buried beside the grave of his last wife Mrs. Badrunnessa Ali at Gobra graveyard in Calcutta, where he had bought the place for himself when she died in 1931, 20 years earlier. Bounded by marble railings, his tombstone bears dates of his birth and death. He is honoured every year in a festival at his birthplace of Baratajpur. Bibliography His first Bangla essay 'Otiter Bojha' was published in Shobuj-potro −1919 His short story 'Raja' was published in 'Islam Dorshon' – 1925 He was elected chairman of the 'Bongio Musholman Shahitya Shamity' −1925 He performed the presidential role in the 'Bongio Musholman Shahitya Shamity' and gave the presidential address at the fifth annual conference. -1925 31 July- Attended 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity' general meeting and read the paper 'Toruner Kaj'. -1926 December. Re-elected president of the 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity'. – 1926 'Gul-dasta '-1927 December- As chairman of the Nazrul Islam National Reception Committee, he presented the address of welcome at the Albert Hall in Calcutta. -1929 'Dorbesher Doa'- 1931 December- S. Wajed Ali founded 'pioneer illustrated magazine of Hindu-Muslim unity' – 'Gulistan' published. -1932 February – Attended as chairman the Sirajgonj held conference of the 'All-Bengal Primary Teacher's Association'. – 1935 July. Attended as president, the first annual festival of the 'Tajpur Institute' and presented the presidential address. -1935 May – Attended as president the 6th Literary Conference of the 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity' and presented the theme address. Vice-chairman. Also elected member of the 'Library Committee'. -1939 'Granada'r Sheshbir' – 1941 'Jiboner Shilpo'- 1941 'Prachya o Pratichya'- 1943 'Vobiswater bangalee'-1943 Attended as president the 'All Assam Bangla Language and Literature Conference' and presented the theme address. – 1943 'Badshahi Golpo'-1944 'Golper Mojlis'-1944 `Amar Masjid`_1944 in Weekly Bangali edited by M. Salahuddin(1912_72) Noted descendants Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, his daughter. Nafisa Ali, his granddaughter. 1890 births 1951 deaths Bengali writers Bengali-language writers Bengali novelists Aligarh Muslim University alumni Novelists from West Bengal People from Hooghly district 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Bengalis

S<mask> or Sheikh <mask> (; 4 September 1890 – 10 June 1951) was a Bengali writer, nationalist and barrister-at-law. Early life <mask> was born on 4 September 1890 in the village of Baratajpur, a village near Janai and Begampur, of Hooghly district. S<mask>'s maternal grandmother hailed from the Nawabpur village in Janai of Hooghly district. Her father, who came from Mungaer, had settled in Nawabpur with a 'Jaigir' and married into the local Bengali community. <mask>'s three maternal uncles were 'Hafiz' in Koran and his grandfather's home atmosphere was one of religious conservatism. However, the natural beauty of Nawabpur touched him deeply as expressed in his memoirs. <mask>'s education began in the village 'Madrasa' or school.At this stage, in 1897 he had his first marriage, at the early age of seven, with his six-month-old cousin Ayesha (the daughter of his paternal uncle Sheikh Golam Rahman). In 1898, at the age of eight, Wajed <mask> came to Shillong and started education under the tutelage of his father, S. Belayet <mask>. Later, he was admitted to the English medium Mokhar School in Shillong, from where he graduated in his 'Entrance Exams' with a gold medal. This phase of his life in Shillong, Meghalaya had a lasting impression upon him. He went to Aligarh MAYO college, where he was recognised as a meritorious student. He subsequently passed his I.A. and B.A.exams from Allahabad University in 1908 and 1910 respectively. After his graduation from Allahabad, he returned to his village of Baratajpur and spent a happy family life amidst the rural idyllic surroundings. His first child, Lutfunnissa, was born at this time. He was trying hard to convince his family to allow him to go to England for further education. Finally, with the enthusiasm and recommendations of his second uncle, he succeeded in getting their permission and left for London just a couple of years before the start of World War I. Wajed <mask> joined the Law school of the University of Cambridge, from where he attained his B.A. and Barrister-at-Law degrees. Career The beginnings While in Cambridge, he had fallen seriously ill and Miss <mask> of Bristol had come forward to take care of him, and enable his subsequent recovery.From this episode started a relationship between them which culminated in his second marriage and divorce from Ayesha Begum, at the obvious displeasure of his family members back home. The year was 1915 – World War I was raging in Europe. It was at this time that S. Wajed <mask> started the practice of Law in Calcutta High Court and continued till 1922. All this while, he lived with Eleanor in Mott Lane, Ripon Lane, Ripon Street etc. in Calcutta. Ill fortune struck when various factors of the failure of the family business, failing health, extravagant lifestyle – all combined to drive him to bankruptcy. He immersed himself in deep studies about the contemporary society and involved himself in the elite literary world of the time.At the advice of his friend, Pramatha Chowdhury (editor of weekly Shobuj Potro), he started writing in Bengali and began an extraordinary literary career. 1923 – 1928 In 1923, he was appointed the third presidency magistrate of Calcutta and a few days later he started living with his family in No. 1 Canal Road in Calcutta. At this period he devoted himself to his literary pursuits. He expressed himself with supreme creative excellence in the fields of prose, symbolism, story-writing, translation, travelogues, etc. His troubled marriage with Mrs. <mask> (Nellie) came to an end in 1928, when the mother of his two sons, Ahmed and Abdullah and daughter Zeb-un-Nissa separated from him and married his younger brother S. <mask> <mask>. This turn of events drove him into a family crisis and utter loneliness.The dramatic family complications made him hurt susceptible and psychologically isolated. In the face of all these adversities, he maintained his literary stability and creativity in matters of philosophical and nationalistic pursuits. He always maintained his clarity of vision and focus in all these matters, which were close to his heart. 1929 – 1944 Having been cast into loneliness and isolation in his family life, S. Wajed <mask>, amidst his otherwise busy life with the duties of his job, literary pursuits, chairmanships of various societies and organisations etc., was like a prisoner of pain on a lonely island. At this time he met a learned Burmese lady, who subsequently became his wife and life-partner, Mrs. Badrunnessa <mask>. Descended from the line of Chengiz Khan, her father was the head of a Burmese royal family. When the British forces attacked Burma, most of the royal family men folk were killed in the anti-British struggle.Along with her mother and aunt, the Burmese princess Badrunnessa was brought to Calcutta as a royal war-prisoner. Unfortunately, a grave tragedy befell Mr. S. Wajed <mask>'s life only two years after his marriage, when on 26 October 1931, Mrs. Badrunnessa <mask> died a day after the birth of her only child. Her body was buried in the 'Gobra graveyard'. An English nurse was appointed to take care of his new-born child, Sheikh Badruddin <mask> (Zaib-un-Nissa was also quite young at the time). The founding of the magazine 'Gulistan' in December 1932 was an active and busy chapter of S. Wajed <mask>'s life. He built up around this magazine a cultural and literary circle embracing the cream of contemporary Bengali society. Its cover bore the vision behind its creation 'the pioneer of Hindu-Muslim unity'.The writer's list of 'Gulistan' bears evidence of the nobility, width of scope and seriousness of the magazine: Kazi Nazrul Islam, Dr. <mask>, Kazi Abdul Wadud, Kedārnāth Chattopādhyāy, Tārāśankar Bandyopādhyāy, Pramathanāth Bishi, Buddhadeb Basu, <mask> Dās (of Śanibārer Chithi fame), Kaviśekhar Kālidās Rāy, Bārindranāth Ghosh, Pabitra Gangopādhyāy, Poet Kader Nawaz, Poet Nirmal Dās, Anurupā Devī, Prabhābatī Devī <mask>ī, Indirā Devīcaudhurāni, Manilāl Bannerjee, A. K. Jainal Abedin (Navayug), Humayun Kabir, Comrade Abdul Aziz, Phanindranāth Mukhopādhyāy, Dhīrāj Bhattacārya, <mask> Mukhopadhyāy, Abbasuddin Ahmed etc. At these heady times, S. Wajed <mask>'s residence at 48, Jhowtalla Road, was the usual venue for the Gulistan-centred literary evening gatherings. The contemporary elite of the intellectual, literary and art world of Calcutta were often present in those sessions. Besides being the founder of the 'Gulistan' magazine, S. Wajed <mask> was also the publisher and editor of the English language magazine: 'Bulletin of the Indian Rationalistic Society'. Retirement On 31 October 1945, S. Wajed <mask> retired from the position of third presidency magistrate and restarted his independent legal profession. At this time he still resided at his residence at 48, Jhowtolla Road. S. Wajed <mask> was a soft-spoken person with a reserved and contemplative nature.He was a unique and distinctive personality of his time with his aristocratic bearing, wide grasp of knowledge and intellectual pursuits. Regarding his personality <mask> Ahsan has justifiably commented: "S. Wajed <mask> possessed an exceptionally generous nature. With such a magnanimous, righteous, broad-minded and pleasing personality, he was well loved by all he came into contact with...' 'He had an extraordinary depth of perception'. While never loud nor offensive, he was amusing and extremely well informed in his discussions. He loved talking to children and often listened to their stories, keeping them amused with his special simple magical simplicity and charm. He had some unique pursuits: he loved to walk the streets and parks in Calcutta so much so that he is quoted as having said that ' I am ready to deny myself many things in my life, but I am not ready to give up my pleasure of walking..... I usually like to walk in the Maidan.'.Towards the middle of 1949, S. Wajed <mask> was affected with 'cerebral thrombosis', which rendered one side of his body paralysed. He was treated by the German doctor Mr. Troy and cared for by nurses. In these difficult days, his sons looked after him regularly. His younger brother Mr. S. <mask> <mask> visited him every day. His first wife Ayesha Khatun often visited him. Finally, at 9 o' clock of Sunday, 10 June 1951, he died at his 48, Jhowtolla residence.He was buried beside the grave of his last wife Mrs. Badrunnessa <mask> at Gobra graveyard in Calcutta, where he had bought the place for himself when she died in 1931, 20 years earlier. Bounded by marble railings, his tombstone bears dates of his birth and death. He is honoured every year in a festival at his birthplace of Baratajpur. Bibliography His first Bangla essay 'Otiter Bojha' was published in Shobuj-potro −1919 His short story 'Raja' was published in 'Islam Dorshon' – 1925 He was elected chairman of the 'Bongio Musholman Shahitya Shamity' −1925 He performed the presidential role in the 'Bongio Musholman Shahitya Shamity' and gave the presidential address at the fifth annual conference. -1925 31 July- Attended 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity' general meeting and read the paper 'Toruner Kaj'. -1926 December. Re-elected president of the 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity'.– 1926 'Gul-dasta '-1927 December- As chairman of the Nazrul Islam National Reception Committee, he presented the address of welcome at the Albert Hall in Calcutta. -1929 'Dorbesher Doa'- 1931 December- S. Wajed <mask> founded 'pioneer illustrated magazine of Hindu-Muslim unity' – 'Gulistan' published. -1932 February – Attended as chairman the Sirajgonj held conference of the 'All-Bengal Primary Teacher's Association'. – 1935 July. Attended as president, the first annual festival of the 'Tajpur Institute' and presented the presidential address. -1935 May – Attended as president the 6th Literary Conference of the 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity' and presented the theme address. Vice-chairman.Also elected member of the 'Library Committee'. -1939 'Granada'r <mask>bir' – 1941 'Jiboner Shilpo'- 1941 'Prachya o Pratichya'- 1943 'Vobiswater bangalee'-1943 Attended as president the 'All Assam Bangla Language and Literature Conference' and presented the theme address. – 1943 'Badshahi Golpo'-1944 'Golper Mojlis'-1944 `Amar Masjid`_1944 in Weekly Bangali edited by M<mask>(1912_72) Noted descendants Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, his daughter. Nafisa <mask>, his granddaughter. 1890 births 1951 deaths Bengali writers Bengali-language writers Bengali novelists Aligarh Muslim University alumni Novelists from West Bengal People from Hooghly district 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Bengalis

S<mask> was a Bengali writer, nationalist and barrister-at-law. <mask> was born on September 4, 1890 in the village of Baratajpur, a village near Janai and Begampur. S<mask>'s maternal grandmother was from the Nawabpur village. Her father, who was 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 Wajed Ali's maternal uncles were 'Hafiz' in the Koran and his grandfather's home atmosphere was religious conservatism. He was touched by the beauty of Nawabpur in his memoirs. Wajed Ali's education began in a school.He had his first marriage at the age of seven to his paternal uncle, Sheikh Golam Rahman. At the age of eight, Wajed <mask> came to Shillong and started school under the guidance of his father. He graduated with a gold medal from the English medium Mokhar School in Shillong. The phase of his life in Shillong had a lasting impression on him. He was recognised as a student of merit at Aligarh MAYO college. He passed his I.A. And B.A.There were exams from the university in the 20th century. He spent a happy family life in his village of Baratajpur after graduating from Allahabad. His first child was born at this time. He was trying to convince his family to let him go to England for further education. He left for London just a few years before the start of World War I after getting permission from his second uncle. There are two Barrister-at-Law degrees. He had fallen seriously ill in Cambridge and Miss <mask> of Bristol came forward to take care of him.His family back home disapproved of his second marriage and divorce from Ayesha Begum, which began a relationship between them which culminated in his second marriage and divorce. World War I raged in Europe in 1915. S. Wajed <mask> practiced law in Calcutta High Court until 1922. He lived with Eleanor in a number of places. In Calcutta. The failure of the family business, failing health, and extravagant lifestyle combined to drive him to bankruptcy. He was involved in the elite literary world of the time and immersed himself in deep studies about the contemporary society.The editor of weekly Shobuj Potro encouraged him to start writing in Bengali. In 1923, he was appointed the third president of Calcutta and a few days later he moved in with his family. There is a canal road in Calcutta. He devoted himself to his writing. He excelled in the fields of prose, symbolism, story-writing, translation, and travelogues. His marriage with Mrs. <mask> ended in 1928 when the mother of his two sons and daughter separated from him. He went into a family crisis after this turn of events.The dramatic family made him vulnerable. He maintained his literary stability and creativity despite all the difficulties. He kept his clarity of vision and focus close to his heart. S. Wajed <mask> was like a prisoner of pain on a lonely island because he was cast into loneliness and isolation in his family life. Mrs. Badrunnessa <mask> became his wife and life- partner at this time. Her father was the head of a royal family. Most of the royal family men were killed in the anti-British struggle.The princess Badrunnessa was brought to Calcutta with her mother and aunt. On October 26, 1931, Mrs. Badrunnessa <mask> died a day after the birth of her only child. She was buried in the Gobra graveyard. An English nurse was appointed to take care of Sheikh Badruddin <mask>, who was quite young at the time. The founding of the magazine 'Gulistan' in December 1932 was an active and busy chapter of S. Wajed <mask>'s life. A cultural and literary circle embracing the cream of contemporary Bengali society was built around this magazine. The vision behind its cover was that it was the pioneer of Hindu- Muslim unity.The writer's list of 'Gulistan' has evidence of nobility, width of scope and seriousness. The usual venue for literary evening gatherings was S. Wajed <mask>'s residence at 48 Jhowtalla Road. The elite of Calcutta's intellectual, literary and art world were present in those sessions. The publisher and editor of the English language magazine 'Bulletin of the Indian Rationalistic Society' was S. Wajed <mask>. After retiring from the position of third presidency magistrate on October 31, 1945, S. Wajed <mask> started his own legal profession. He lived at 48 Jhowtolla Road. S. Wajed <mask> was a quiet and contemplative person.He was a unique personality of his time and he had a wide grasp of knowledge. <mask> Ahsan commented on S. Wajed <mask>'s generous nature. He was well loved by all he came into contact with because of his magnanimous, righteous, broad-minded and pleasing personality. He was funny and well informed in his discussions. He liked talking to children and listening to their stories, keeping them amused. He loved to walk the streets and parks of Calcutta so much that he was willing to give up many things in order to do so. I like to walk in the Maidan.One side of S. Wajed <mask>'s body was paralyzed after he was affected withcerebral thrombosis. He was treated by a German doctor. Troy was cared for by nurses. His sons looked after him. Mr. <mask> <mask> was his brother. His first wife often visited him. He died at 9 o'clock on Sunday, June 10, 1951.He was buried next to the grave of his last wife, Mrs. Badrunnessa <mask>, at the Gobra graveyard in Calcutta. His tombstone has the dates of his birth and death on it. Every year he is honoured in a festival at his birthplace. His essay 'Otiter Bojha' was published in 1919 and his short story 'Raja' was published in 1925. Attended the general meeting and read the paper. December. The president of 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity' was re-elected.In December of 1927, he presented the address of welcome at the Albert Hall in Calcutta. The magazine 'Dorbesher Doa' was published in 1931. The Sirajgonj was the chairman of the All-Bengal Primary Teacher's Association. July 1935 The first annual festival of the 'Tajpur Institute' was attended by me as president. The 6th Literary Conference of 'Bongiyo Musholman Shahitya Samity' was held in May of 1935. The vice-chairman is the chairman.Also a member of the library committee. Attended as president of the 'All Assam Bangla Language and Literature Conference'. Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah is his daughter. Nafisa <mask> is his granddaughter. Bengali writers died in the 1890s and the 20th-century Indian novelists died in the 1951s.

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Semyon Furman

Semyon Abramovich Furman (December 1, 1920 – March 17, 1978) was a Soviet chess player and trainer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1966. Furman is best known for developing Anatoly Karpov into a World Chess Champion, but was a formidable player himself, as well as a successful coach for several other world-class players. His name is sometimes written as Semen or Semion Furman. Early life Born in Pinsk, Furman was a factory worker in Leningrad, who developed his chess skills in his spare time, and was a late bloomer by chess standards, not reaching even National Master strength until he was well into adulthood. For example, he made only an even score of 6½/13 in the All-Union Candidates-to-Masters tournament, Group 1, at Rostov-on-Don 1939. In the same event at Kalinin 1940, group 3, he was only able to score 5/11, and in the Leningrad Championship of 1940, he scored just 6½/16. His chess development was on hold during the next few years of World War II, as Leningrad was placed under siege by the Nazis, beginning in 1941. Organized chess started up again as the Second World War ended. In an All-Union Tournament of First Category players at Gorky 1945, Furman posted his first noteworthy result when he tied for first with Konstantin Klaman, at 11/15. At Tula 1945, Furman placed second with 10½/14, behind only V. Lyublinsky. In the Leningrad Championship of 1946, Furman tied for 8th-9th places, with 8½/17. In the USSR Championship semi-final (URS-ch15 sf), Leningrad 1946, Furman was unsuccessful in advancing, but made a highly respectable score of 9/18, to tie for 9th-10th places. He was moving up slowly through the incredibly deep Soviet vanguard. The year 1947 brought some rewards for Furman. He tied for first place in the All-Union Championship of the Spartak Club, with Vladimir Simagin, at 15/19, but lost the playoff match. Then, in the Leningrad Championship, he tied for 3rd-4th places, with 11/17. At the Saratov 1947 National Tournament, he scored 7/11 for a tied 2nd-3rd place. Qualifies for Soviet Championships Furman qualified from the semi-final at Sverdlovsk 1947, for his first Soviet Chess Championship at age 27. In the final, he performed exceptionally well, placing third, only half a point behind joint winners David Bronstein and Alexander Kotov, with a fine score of 11/18 (URS-ch16, Moscow 1948). In the Leningrad Championship of 1948, he tied for 7th-10th places, with 9½/17. He tied for first-third places at Vilnius 1949, the semi-final for URS-ch17, with 11½/17, qualifying again for the Soviet final. In the Leningrad Championship of 1949, he was off form with 8½/18 to tie for 11th-13th places. Then, in the Soviet final later in 1949, again in Moscow (URS-ch17), he tied for 5th-7th places with 11½/19. In the 1950 Championship of the Spartak Club, he tied for 4th-5th places, with 6/11. Then at Gorky 1950, he was unsuccessful in qualifying for the next Soviet Championship final, as he could only score 9½/15, for fourth place. In the URS-ch21 at Kiev 1954, Furman scored 10/19 to tie for 7th-9th places. He earned his first international tournament opportunity for Bucharest 1954, where he tied for 6th-7th places with a fine 10/17. He was in the middle of the field in URS-ch22 at Moscow 1955, with 10/19, in a tie for 10th-11th places. It was a similar story for URS-ch24, Moscow 1957, where he scored 10/21 for 12th place. He had a good tournament at Kiev 1957, scoring 11½/19 to tie for 2nd-5th places, behind only Tigran Petrosian. His form dropped for URS-ch25, Riga 1958, as he could only make 6/18 for 17th place. At URS-ch26, Tbilisi 1959, he was again below 50 per cent with 8/19 for 15th place. Furman gradually proved he belonged in the upper echelon of the extraordinarily deep Soviet chess elite, with many victories over top players. He placed equal fourth in the 1965 Soviet Championship. Furman was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1954. He won the Leningrad Championship in 1953, 1954, and 1957 (jointly). Grandmaster, and coach to the stars Furman did not become a Grandmaster until 1966, at age 46, after his fine first-place result at Harrachov. It was difficult in those years for all but the very top Soviet players to travel abroad to international tournaments, where titles could be earned, and Furman had few opportunities. He did play for the USSR in the 1961 European Team Championship at Oberhausen on board ten, scoring 4/7, and contributing to the overall gold medal team victory. Bronstein faced Furman in the 1948 Soviet Championship, won the game, but was impressed with Furman's skill. Bronstein wrote, in his acclaimed book The Sorcerer's Apprentice (page 102): "Later, when I recognised the logical play of Furman, I invited him to be my assistant during preparation for the match [against World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik] in 1951. Also, I took him abroad as my second to the Interzonal Tournament in Gothenburg in 1955 and the Candidates' Tournament in Amsterdam 1956." Furman had been one of the assistants to Botvinnik in his 1963 world title match against Tigran Petrosian, according to Anatoly Karpov, writing in his autobiography Karpov on Karpov. Botvinnik played many training games with Furman, to prepare for Botvinnik's 1960 and 1961 World Championship matches; these matches only became public many years afterwards, when Botvinnik published the games, which are now available on various databases. Furman and Botvinnik at that time were both members of the Trud (Trade Unions) Club. Later Furman switched to the Army Sports Club. Furman also assisted world-class players such as Viktor Korchnoi (according to both Bronstein and Karpov) and Efim Geller (according to Karpov). The site Chessmetrics.com, which endeavors to provide historical ratings for players while correcting for different methods of calculation, puts Furman's peak rating at 2708 in April, 1948, #11 in the world at that time. That is certain Grandmaster level, but, because of lack of international opportunities, Furman did not formally receive the title until eighteen years later. According to chessmetrics, his best tournament from a performance rating standpoint was Gorky 1954 (5½/6, for a 2755 performance). Trains the world champion It was in a training role that Furman first met the young Anatoly Karpov, who at age seventeen was representing the Army Sports club on the junior board at the 1968 Soviet Team Championships, held in Riga. In training, the two got along well, and Karpov made the outstanding score of 10/11. Furman was assigned to prepare Karpov (who gave his whole-hearted approval) for further competitions, such as the Soviet Junior qualifying match-tournament, Leningrad 1969, which Karpov won. This win earned Karpov the Soviet berth in the 1969 World Junior Chess Championship, held in Stockholm. Karpov also won this tournament with a dominating performance; it was the first Soviet win at that level since Boris Spassky in 1955. From this stage on, Furman worked ever more closely with Karpov, who moved from Moscow to Leningrad, switching universities as well, from Moscow State University to Leningrad State University, to be nearer to Furman. The two also became close friends, with Karpov actually assisting Furman, upon his request, for the 1969 Soviet Chess Championship, held in Moscow; Karpov had not qualified to play in it. Karpov earned the Grandmaster title at Caracas 1970. He qualified for the Soviet Championship for the first time in 1970, scoring well. Karpov drew a 1971 secret training match with Korchnoi, a world title Candidate. His rise continued, with wins at the very strong Moscow 1971, Hastings 1971-72, and San Antonio 1972 tournaments. Karpov made the Soviet national team for the 1972 Skopje Chess Olympiad as first reserve, and scored 13½/16, winning gold on his board, and helping the USSR to win the team gold. Because Furman had earlier worked with Korchnoi, Karpov was able to utilize this situation to good effect to win his vital 1974 World Chess Championship Candidates final match against Korchnoi, who had earlier fallen out with Furman over a dispute around a 1971 match against Geller. Korchnoi had wanted Furman to assist him against Geller, but Furman and Geller were teammates at the Army Club, so Furman withdrew his training services on principle, as Furman had also helped to train Geller. This made Korchnoi bitter towards Furman, and their connection ended, even though Korchnoi went on to defeat Geller. So, a full-time training spot opened up with Furman, which Karpov took. Karpov wrote that Korchnoi did not realize at the time the strength of Karpov's potential challenge to him. As Karpov built further successes, and was earning favour in the Soviet sports bureaucracy, he was able to arrange for Furman to compete with him sometimes in the same international tournaments, such as Madrid 1973, Ljubljana/Portorož 1975, and Bad Lauterberg 1977, all of which Karpov won. Furman also performed well, taking or tying for third place at all three of Madrid, Ljubljana / Portoroz, and Bad Lauterberg. Furman was awarded the Honoured Trainer of the USSR in 1973 for his work with young players. He served as trainer to the combined Soviet teams to the 1974 Nice Olympiad and the 1977 European Team Championship in Moscow. In his autobiographical book, Karpov on Karpov, published in 1991, Karpov credits Furman very extensively and deservedly with helping him scale the heights of grandmaster chess, culminating in his World Championship in 1975 and superb play for the next decade, as he dominated the game. This fine book is perhaps the most detailed work ever published on the relationship between a top chess player and his coach. The two also played a great deal of bridge together; this game became for a time something of an obsession with Furman. Bronstein, who had worked with Furman earlier, wrote "When Furman started to work with Anatoly Karpov, I was not surprised by the young grandmaster's success, showing a brilliant understanding of grandmaster strategy. It was obvious that Furman had passed on to him a lot of the knowledge acquired during his earlier years. It should also be said that Furman had very good analytical powers and was able to look deeply into the games of other grandmasters, disclosing the secrets of their success." Furman's health had not been good since the mid-1960s, however. He had survived one operation for stomach cancer, but the cancer returned, and he died at Leningrad in 1978, just before Karpov's match with Korchnoi for the World Championship. Karpov wrote that he missed Furman's help greatly during that match, which he won only narrowly (+6−5=21). Success as coach Furman may have been the most successful coach in the history of chess, although some would give that title to Mark Dvoretsky. Chess culture has traditionally and typically credited the player for chess success, with the coach recognized in a much lesser fashion, or not at all. Chess coaches were not commonly seen for top players until the post-World War II period, when competition became much stiffer. They were first developed in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern European countries; it is no coincidence that top players from these nations have dominated chess for the past sixty years. Furman, with a very significant role in Karpov's development from his late teens, building upon earlier roles with World Champion Botvinnik and world-class players such as Bronstein, Korchnoi, and Geller, may have done more than any other coach, from the early 1950s until the late 1970s, to help ensure Soviet dominance. Legacy Furman was an exceptional openings specialist, and was respected as being of virtually world-class strength with the White pieces, with which he scored most of his wins over the top players, as the game selection shows. He was sometimes referred to as "the world champion when playing White." He could not score anywhere near as well as Black, and this held back his success. While best remembered today as Karpov's trainer, Furman also made many important contributions to the success of other top players, such as Bronstein, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, and Geller. He developed several significant improvements to opening theory. He favoured the closed openings (1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3) as White, and in many of his wins over top-class rivals, his opponents were simply unable to generate counterplay, and were slowly strangled by Furman's precise, yet amorphous strategy. Karpov noted that a book on Furman's career and best games would be well received and valuable; but no one has yet taken up this challenge. Notable chess games Semyon Furman vs Efim Geller, Leningrad 1947, Queen's Gambit, Semi-Slav Defence (D46), 1-0 Furman shows the rising star Geller a few things about precise positional play, and catches him in a nifty tactic to win a piece. Semyon Furman vs Paul Keres, USSR Championship, Moscow 1948, Queen's Indian Defence (E15), 1-0 Keres was one of the world's top three players, and for Furman, the humble factory worker, wins like these meant that he had arrived near the top. Semyon Furman vs Vasily Smyslov, USSR Championship, Moscow 1949, Grunfeld Defence, Exchange Variation (D88), 1-0 Smyslov had finished second in the World Championship the year before, and would become the joint Soviet champion for 1949. Semyon Furman vs Tigran Petrosian, USSR Championship, Moscow 1949, King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation (E68), 1-0 Petrosian was just making his debut at top level; he would go on to become world champion. Semyon Furman vs Viktor Korchnoi, Leningrad 1953, English Opening (A16), 1-0 Furman would later become a coach for Korchnoi. Semyon Furman vs Ratmir Kholmov, USSR Championship, Kiev 1954, Queen's Gambit, Tarrasch Defence (D30), 1-0 Rising star Kholmov became almost unbeatable a few years later. Semyon Furman vs Boris Spassky, USSR Championship, Moscow 1955, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Rubinstein Variation (E59), 1-0 Another future World Champion learns to respect Furman's talent. Duncan Suttles vs Semyon Furman, Polanica Zdroj 1967, Van Geet Opening (A00), 0-1 Suttles was known for his unconventional opening play, but he can't disorient the veteran Furman. Semyon Furman vs David Bronstein, Leningrad vs Moscow match 1967, Queen's Gambit Declined (D50), 1-0 Furman takes care of business against one of his former charges. Semyon Furman vs Mikhail Tal, USSR Championship, Moscow 1969, Queen's Pawn Game (A40), 1-0 Former World Champion Tal sacrifices the exchange, but doesn't get enough for it. Semyon Furman vs Lev Polugaevsky, Moscow 1969, Queen's Indian Defence (E14), 1-0 The reigning Soviet champion takes one on the chin. Semyon Furman vs Leonid Stein, USSR 1971, English Opening, Symmetrical (A39), 1-0 Stein was a three-time Soviet champion, but couldn't handle Furman in this game. Ulf Andersson vs Semyon Furman, Madrid 1973, English Opening (A15), 0-1 One of the new generation of young stars gets taken care of quite expeditiously. Semyon Furman vs Svetozar Gligoric, Bad Lauterberg 1977, King's Indian Defence, Saemisch Variation (E88), 1-0 Gligoric is a world authority on the King's Indian, but his learning process is extended a bit further by Furman. Anthony Miles vs Semyon Furman, Bad Lauterberg 1977, English Opening (A16), 0-1 Furman was ill and spotting Miles 35 years, but wins anyway as Miles gets simply outclassed. Notes Further reading The Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov, by K.J. O'Connell, D.N.L. Levy, and J.B. Adams, London, Batsford 1976, Chess is My Life, by Anatoly Karpov (translated from the Russian by Ken Neat), London, Pergamon 1980 Karpov on Karpov: Memoirs of a Chess World Champion, by Anatoly Karpov (translated from the Russian by Todd Bludeau), New York, Atheneum (McMillan) 1991, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by David Bronstein and Tom Furstenberg, London, Cadogan 1995, ''Russian Silhouettes: Portraits of the Heroes of a Vanished Age (Paperback) by Genna Sosonko, Interchess BV, (Has an excellent chapter devoted to biography of Semyon Furman). External links Semen Abramovich Furman games at 365Chess.com 1920 births 1978 deaths People from Pinsk Belarusian Jews Chess grandmasters Chess coaches Soviet chess players Jewish chess players Deaths from stomach cancer 20th-century chess players

<mask> (December 1, 1920 – March 17, 1978) was a Soviet chess player and trainer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1966. <mask> is best known for developing Anatoly Karpov into a World Chess Champion, but was a formidable player himself, as well as a successful coach for several other world-class players. His name is sometimes written as Semen or <mask>. Early life Born in Pinsk, <mask> was a factory worker in Leningrad, who developed his chess skills in his spare time, and was a late bloomer by chess standards, not reaching even National Master strength until he was well into adulthood. For example, he made only an even score of 6½/13 in the All-Union Candidates-to-Masters tournament, Group 1, at Rostov-on-Don 1939. In the same event at Kalinin 1940, group 3, he was only able to score 5/11, and in the Leningrad Championship of 1940, he scored just 6½/16.His chess development was on hold during the next few years of World War II, as Leningrad was placed under siege by the Nazis, beginning in 1941. Organized chess started up again as the Second World War ended. In an All-Union Tournament of First Category players at Gorky 1945, <mask> posted his first noteworthy result when he tied for first with Konstantin Klaman, at 11/15. At Tula 1945, <mask> placed second with 10½/14, behind only V. Lyublinsky. In the Leningrad Championship of 1946, <mask> tied for 8th-9th places, with 8½/17. In the USSR Championship semi-final (URS-ch15 sf), Leningrad 1946, <mask> was unsuccessful in advancing, but made a highly respectable score of 9/18, to tie for 9th-10th places. He was moving up slowly through the incredibly deep Soviet vanguard.The year 1947 brought some rewards for <mask>. He tied for first place in the All-Union Championship of the Spartak Club, with Vladimir Simagin, at 15/19, but lost the playoff match. Then, in the Leningrad Championship, he tied for 3rd-4th places, with 11/17. At the Saratov 1947 National Tournament, he scored 7/11 for a tied 2nd-3rd place. Qualifies for Soviet Championships <mask> qualified from the semi-final at Sverdlovsk 1947, for his first Soviet Chess Championship at age 27. In the final, he performed exceptionally well, placing third, only half a point behind joint winners David Bronstein and Alexander Kotov, with a fine score of 11/18 (URS-ch16, Moscow 1948). In the Leningrad Championship of 1948, he tied for 7th-10th places, with 9½/17.He tied for first-third places at Vilnius 1949, the semi-final for URS-ch17, with 11½/17, qualifying again for the Soviet final. In the Leningrad Championship of 1949, he was off form with 8½/18 to tie for 11th-13th places. Then, in the Soviet final later in 1949, again in Moscow (URS-ch17), he tied for 5th-7th places with 11½/19. In the 1950 Championship of the Spartak Club, he tied for 4th-5th places, with 6/11. Then at Gorky 1950, he was unsuccessful in qualifying for the next Soviet Championship final, as he could only score 9½/15, for fourth place. In the URS-ch21 at Kiev 1954, <mask> scored 10/19 to tie for 7th-9th places. He earned his first international tournament opportunity for Bucharest 1954, where he tied for 6th-7th places with a fine 10/17.He was in the middle of the field in URS-ch22 at Moscow 1955, with 10/19, in a tie for 10th-11th places. It was a similar story for URS-ch24, Moscow 1957, where he scored 10/21 for 12th place. He had a good tournament at Kiev 1957, scoring 11½/19 to tie for 2nd-5th places, behind only Tigran Petrosian. His form dropped for URS-ch25, Riga 1958, as he could only make 6/18 for 17th place. At URS-ch26, Tbilisi 1959, he was again below 50 per cent with 8/19 for 15th place. <mask> gradually proved he belonged in the upper echelon of the extraordinarily deep Soviet chess elite, with many victories over top players. He placed equal fourth in the 1965 Soviet Championship.<mask> was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1954. He won the Leningrad Championship in 1953, 1954, and 1957 (jointly). Grandmaster, and coach to the stars <mask> did not become a Grandmaster until 1966, at age 46, after his fine first-place result at Harrachov. It was difficult in those years for all but the very top Soviet players to travel abroad to international tournaments, where titles could be earned, and <mask> had few opportunities. He did play for the USSR in the 1961 European Team Championship at Oberhausen on board ten, scoring 4/7, and contributing to the overall gold medal team victory. Bronstein faced <mask> in the 1948 Soviet Championship, won the game, but was impressed with <mask>'s skill. Bronstein wrote, in his acclaimed book The Sorcerer's Apprentice (page 102): "Later, when I recognised the logical play of <mask>, I invited him to be my assistant during preparation for the match [against World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik] in 1951.Also, I took him abroad as my second to the Interzonal Tournament in Gothenburg in 1955 and the Candidates' Tournament in Amsterdam 1956." <mask> had been one of the assistants to Botvinnik in his 1963 world title match against Tigran Petrosian, according to Anatoly Karpov, writing in his autobiography Karpov on Karpov. Botvinnik played many training games with <mask>, to prepare for Botvinnik's 1960 and 1961 World Championship matches; these matches only became public many years afterwards, when Botvinnik published the games, which are now available on various databases. <mask> and Botvinnik at that time were both members of the Trud (Trade Unions) Club. Later <mask> switched to the Army Sports Club. Furman also assisted world-class players such as Viktor Korchnoi (according to both Bronstein and Karpov) and Efim Geller (according to Karpov). The site Chessmetrics.com, which endeavors to provide historical ratings for players while correcting for different methods of calculation, puts <mask>'s peak rating at 2708 in April, 1948, #11 in the world at that time.That is certain Grandmaster level, but, because of lack of international opportunities, <mask> did not formally receive the title until eighteen years later. According to chessmetrics, his best tournament from a performance rating standpoint was Gorky 1954 (5½/6, for a 2755 performance). Trains the world champion It was in a training role that <mask> first met the young Anatoly Karpov, who at age seventeen was representing the Army Sports club on the junior board at the 1968 Soviet Team Championships, held in Riga. In training, the two got along well, and Karpov made the outstanding score of 10/11. <mask> was assigned to prepare Karpov (who gave his whole-hearted approval) for further competitions, such as the Soviet Junior qualifying match-tournament, Leningrad 1969, which Karpov won. This win earned Karpov the Soviet berth in the 1969 World Junior Chess Championship, held in Stockholm. Karpov also won this tournament with a dominating performance; it was the first Soviet win at that level since Boris Spassky in 1955.From this stage on, <mask> worked ever more closely with Karpov, who moved from Moscow to Leningrad, switching universities as well, from Moscow State University to Leningrad State University, to be nearer to <mask>. The two also became close friends, with Karpov actually assisting <mask>, upon his request, for the 1969 Soviet Chess Championship, held in Moscow; Karpov had not qualified to play in it. Karpov earned the Grandmaster title at Caracas 1970. He qualified for the Soviet Championship for the first time in 1970, scoring well. Karpov drew a 1971 secret training match with Korchnoi, a world title Candidate. His rise continued, with wins at the very strong Moscow 1971, Hastings 1971-72, and San Antonio 1972 tournaments. Karpov made the Soviet national team for the 1972 Skopje Chess Olympiad as first reserve, and scored 13½/16, winning gold on his board, and helping the USSR to win the team gold.Because <mask> had earlier worked with Korchnoi, Karpov was able to utilize this situation to good effect to win his vital 1974 World Chess Championship Candidates final match against Korchnoi, who had earlier fallen out with <mask> over a dispute around a 1971 match against Geller. Korchnoi had wanted <mask> to assist him against Geller, but <mask> and Geller were teammates at the Army Club, so <mask> withdrew his training services on principle, as <mask> had also helped to train Geller. This made Korchnoi bitter towards <mask>, and their connection ended, even though Korchnoi went on to defeat Geller. So, a full-time training spot opened up with <mask>, which Karpov took. Karpov wrote that Korchnoi did not realize at the time the strength of Karpov's potential challenge to him. As Karpov built further successes, and was earning favour in the Soviet sports bureaucracy, he was able to arrange for <mask> to compete with him sometimes in the same international tournaments, such as Madrid 1973, Ljubljana/Portorož 1975, and Bad Lauterberg 1977, all of which Karpov won. <mask> also performed well, taking or tying for third place at all three of Madrid, Ljubljana / Portoroz, and Bad Lauterberg.<mask> was awarded the Honoured Trainer of the USSR in 1973 for his work with young players. He served as trainer to the combined Soviet teams to the 1974 Nice Olympiad and the 1977 European Team Championship in Moscow. In his autobiographical book, Karpov on Karpov, published in 1991, Karpov credits <mask> very extensively and deservedly with helping him scale the heights of grandmaster chess, culminating in his World Championship in 1975 and superb play for the next decade, as he dominated the game. This fine book is perhaps the most detailed work ever published on the relationship between a top chess player and his coach. The two also played a great deal of bridge together; this game became for a time something of an obsession with <mask>. Bronstein, who had worked with <mask> earlier, wrote "When Furman started to work with Anatoly Karpov, I was not surprised by the young grandmaster's success, showing a brilliant understanding of grandmaster strategy. It was obvious that <mask> had passed on to him a lot of the knowledge acquired during his earlier years.It should also be said that <mask> had very good analytical powers and was able to look deeply into the games of other grandmasters, disclosing the secrets of their success." <mask>'s health had not been good since the mid-1960s, however. He had survived one operation for stomach cancer, but the cancer returned, and he died at Leningrad in 1978, just before Karpov's match with Korchnoi for the World Championship. Karpov wrote that he missed <mask>'s help greatly during that match, which he won only narrowly (+6−5=21). Success as coach <mask> may have been the most successful coach in the history of chess, although some would give that title to Mark Dvoretsky. Chess culture has traditionally and typically credited the player for chess success, with the coach recognized in a much lesser fashion, or not at all. Chess coaches were not commonly seen for top players until the post-World War II period, when competition became much stiffer.They were first developed in the Soviet Union and in other Eastern European countries; it is no coincidence that top players from these nations have dominated chess for the past sixty years. <mask>, with a very significant role in Karpov's development from his late teens, building upon earlier roles with World Champion Botvinnik and world-class players such as Bronstein, Korchnoi, and Geller, may have done more than any other coach, from the early 1950s until the late 1970s, to help ensure Soviet dominance. Legacy <mask> was an exceptional openings specialist, and was respected as being of virtually world-class strength with the White pieces, with which he scored most of his wins over the top players, as the game selection shows. He was sometimes referred to as "the world champion when playing White." He could not score anywhere near as well as Black, and this held back his success. While best remembered today as Karpov's trainer, <mask> also made many important contributions to the success of other top players, such as Bronstein, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, and Geller. He developed several significant improvements to opening theory.He favoured the closed openings (1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3) as White, and in many of his wins over top-class rivals, his opponents were simply unable to generate counterplay, and were slowly strangled by <mask>'s precise, yet amorphous strategy. Karpov noted that a book on <mask>'s career and best games would be well received and valuable; but no one has yet taken up this challenge. Notable chess games <mask> <mask> vs Efim Geller, Leningrad 1947, Queen's Gambit, Semi-Slav Defence (D46), 1-0 Furman shows the rising star Geller a few things about precise positional play, and catches him in a nifty tactic to win a piece. <mask> <mask> vs Paul Keres, USSR Championship, Moscow 1948, Queen's Indian Defence (E15), 1-0 Keres was one of the world's top three players, and for <mask>, the humble factory worker, wins like these meant that he had arrived near the top. <mask> <mask> vs Vasily Smyslov, USSR Championship, Moscow 1949, Grunfeld Defence, Exchange Variation (D88), 1-0 Smyslov had finished second in the World Championship the year before, and would become the joint Soviet champion for 1949. <mask> <mask> vs Tigran Petrosian, USSR Championship, Moscow 1949, King's Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation (E68), 1-0 Petrosian was just making his debut at top level; he would go on to become world champion. <mask> <mask> vs Viktor Korchnoi, Leningrad 1953, English Opening (A16), 1-0 <mask> would later become a coach for Korchnoi.<mask> <mask> vs Ratmir Kholmov, USSR Championship, Kiev 1954, Queen's Gambit, Tarrasch Defence (D30), 1-0 Rising star Kholmov became almost unbeatable a few years later. <mask> <mask> vs Boris Spassky, USSR Championship, Moscow 1955, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Rubinstein Variation (E59), 1-0 Another future World Champion learns to respect Furman's talent. Duncan Suttles vs <mask> <mask>, Polanica Zdroj 1967, Van Geet Opening (A00), 0-1 Suttles was known for his unconventional opening play, but he can't disorient the veteran Furman. <mask> <mask> vs David Bronstein, Leningrad vs Moscow match 1967, Queen's Gambit Declined (D50), 1-0 Furman takes care of business against one of his former charges. <mask> <mask> vs Mikhail Tal, USSR Championship, Moscow 1969, Queen's Pawn Game (A40), 1-0 Former World Champion Tal sacrifices the exchange, but doesn't get enough for it. <mask> <mask> vs Lev Polugaevsky, Moscow 1969, Queen's Indian Defence (E14), 1-0 The reigning Soviet champion takes one on the chin. <mask> <mask> vs Leonid Stein, USSR 1971, English Opening, Symmetrical (A39), 1-0 Stein was a three-time Soviet champion, but couldn't handle <mask> in this game.Ulf Andersson vs <mask> <mask>, Madrid 1973, English Opening (A15), 0-1 One of the new generation of young stars gets taken care of quite expeditiously. <mask> <mask> vs Svetozar Gligoric, Bad Lauterberg 1977, King's Indian Defence, Saemisch Variation (E88), 1-0 Gligoric is a world authority on the King's Indian, but his learning process is extended a bit further by Furman. Anthony Miles vs <mask> <mask>, Bad Lauterberg 1977, English Opening (A16), 0-1 Furman was ill and spotting Miles 35 years, but wins anyway as Miles gets simply outclassed. Notes Further reading The Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov, by K.J. O'Connell, D.N.L. Levy, and J.B. Adams, London, Batsford 1976, Chess is My Life, by Anatoly Karpov (translated from the Russian by Ken Neat), London, Pergamon 1980 Karpov on Karpov: Memoirs of a Chess World Champion, by Anatoly Karpov (translated from the Russian by Todd Bludeau), New York, Atheneum (McMillan) 1991, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by David Bronstein and Tom Furstenberg, London, Cadogan 1995, ''Russian Silhouettes: Portraits of the Heroes of a Vanished Age (Paperback) by Genna Sosonko, Interchess BV, (Has an excellent chapter devoted to biography of <mask> Furman). External links Semen Abramovich Furman games at 365Chess.com 1920 births 1978 deaths People from Pinsk Belarusian Jews Chess grandmasters Chess coaches Soviet chess players Jewish chess players Deaths from stomach cancer 20th-century chess players

The Soviet chess player and trainer <mask> was born on December 1, 1920. He was awarded the title of grandmaster in 1966. The man is best known for developing Anatoly Karpov into a World Chess Champion, but he was a formidable player as well as a successful coach for several other world-class players. He is sometimes called Semion or Semen. He was a factory worker in Pinsk who developed his chess skills in his spare time, and was a late bloomer by chess standards, not reaching even National Master strength until he was well into adulthood. He made an even score of 612/13 in the All-Union Candidates-to-Masters tournament, Group 1, at Rostov-on-Don 1939. In the same event at Kalinin 1940, group 3, he was only able to score 5/11, and in the Leningrad Championship of 1940, he scored just 612/16.During the next few years of World War II, his chess development was put on hold as the Leningrad was besieged by the Nazis. The Second World War ended and chess began again. At the All-Union Tournament of First Category players at Gorky 1945, he tied for first with Konstantin Klaman and posted his first noteworthy result. <mask> was second with 1012/14, behind V. Lyublinsky. <mask> tied for 8th-9th places in the Leningrad Championship of 1946, with 812/17. In the USSR Championship semi-final (URS-ch15 sf Leningrad), 1946, <mask> was unsuccessful in progressing, but made a respectable score of 9/18, to tie for 9th-10th places. He was moving up slowly.The year 1947 was a good one for <mask>. He and Vladimir Simagin tied for first place in the All-Union Championship of the Spartak Club, but lost in the playoffs. He tied for 3rd-4th places in the Championship. He scored 7/11 at the Saratov 1947 National Tournament, tying for 3rd place. In 1947, at the age of 27, he qualified for the first Soviet Chess Championship. He placed third in the final, only half a point behind the winners, with a score of 11/18. He tied for 7th-10th places in the Leningrad Championship in 1948.He qualified for the Soviet final with a tie for third place at Vilnius 1949. He was off form with 812/18 to tie for 11th-13th places in the 1949 Leningrad Championship. He tied for 5th-7th places in the Soviet final in Moscow in 1949. He tied for 4th-5th places in the Spartak Club Championship of 1950. He failed to qualify for the next Soviet Championship final at Gorky 1950, as he only scored 812/15 for fourth place. There was a tie for 7th-9th places in the URS-ch21 at Kiev 1954. He tied for 6th-7th places in the international tournament in Bucharest 1954.He was in the middle of the field in URS-ch22 at Moscow 1955, in a tie for 10th-11th places. He scored 10/21 for 12th place in Moscow in 1957. He tied for 2nd-5th place in the Kiev 1957 tournament with a score of 1112/19, behind only Tigran Petrosian. His form dropped for URS-ch25, as he only made 6/18 for 17th place. He was below 50 per cent at URS-ch26 in 1959 for 15th place. With many victories over top players, he proved he belonged in the upper tier of the Soviet chess elite. He was fourth in the Soviet Championship.The International Master title was awarded to <mask> in 1954. He won the Leningrad Championship three times. At the age of 46, after his first-place finish at Harrachov, he became a Grandmaster. It was difficult for all but the very top Soviet players to travel abroad to play in international tournaments where titles could be earned. He played for the USSR in the European Team Championship in 1961, scoring 4/7 and helping the gold medal team win. The 1948 Soviet Championship was won by Bronstein, but he was impressed with the skill of the opponent. "Later, when I recognised the logical play of <mask>, I invited him to be my assistant during preparation for the match against World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik in 1951."He was taken abroad as my second to the Interzonal Tournament in Gothenburg in 1955 and the Candidates' Tournament in Amsterdam in 1956. According to Anatoly Karpov, one of the assistants to Botvinnik in his world title match against Tigran Petrosian was Furman. When Botvinnik published the games, they became public, but they were only available for a few years. Both of them were members of the Trud Club. The Army Sports Club was where Furman switched to. According to both Bronstein and Karpov, Furman assisted world-class players such as Viktor Korchnoi. The site Chessmetrics.com, which tries to provide historical ratings for players while adjusting for different methods of calculation, puts Furman's peak rating at 2708 in April, 1948, #11 in the world at that time.Because of the lack of international opportunities, <mask> did not receive the title until eighteen years later. According to chessmetrics, his best tournament was Gorky 1954. At the age of seventeen, the young Anatoly Karpov was representing the Army Sports club on the junior board at the 1968 Soviet Team Championships, held in Riga. The two got along well in training, and the score was 10/11. He was assigned to prepare Karpov for the next competition, the Soviet Junior match-tournament, which he won. The 1969 World Junior Chess Championship was held in Sweden. The first Soviet win at that level since 1955 was achieved by Karpov, who won this tournament with a dominating performance.After moving from Moscow to Leningrad, Karpov switched universities from Moscow State University to Leningrad State University in order to be closer to <mask>. The two became close friends and even helped each other out at the 1969 Soviet Chess Championship held in Moscow. The Grandmaster title was earned by Karpov in 1970. He qualified for the Soviet Championship for the first time in 1970. Korchnoi was a world title Candidate. He won at the Moscow Hastings 1971-72 and San Antonio 1972 tournaments. The USSR won the team gold at the 1972 Skopje Chess Olympiad, thanks in part to the 1312/16 score of Karpov, who was the first reserve.The 1974 World Chess Championship Candidates final match between Korchnoi and Karpov was won due to the fact that Korchnoi had previously worked with <mask>. Korchnoi wanted <mask> to help him against Geller, but he withdrew his training services because he had helped to train him. Even though Korchnoi defeated Geller, their connection ended because of this. A full-time training spot opened up and was taken by Karpov. At the time, Korchnoi didn't realize the strength of Karpov's challenge. He was able to arrange for <mask> to compete with him sometimes in the same international tournaments, as he was earning favour in the Soviet sports bureaucracy. At all three of Madrid, Portoroz, and Bad Lauterberg, Furman took or tied for third place.The Honoured Trainer of the USSR was awarded to <mask> in 1973. He was the trainer for the combined Soviet teams at the 1974 Nice Olympiad and the 1977 European Team Championship. In his autobiographical book, Karpov on Karpov, published in 1991, he credits <mask> with helping him scale the heights of grandmaster chess, culminated in his World Championship in 1975 and superb play for the next decade, as he dominated the game. The relationship between a top chess player and his coach is the subject of a fine book. The two were 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 I was not surprised by the young grandmaster's success, he showed a brilliant understanding of grandmaster strategy. It was obvious that he had gotten a lot of his knowledge from him.<mask> had good analytical powers and was able to look into the games of other grandmasters, revealing the secrets of their success. Since the mid-1960s, <mask>'s health has not been good. He died of cancer just before the World Championship match between Korchnoi and Karpov, despite having survived one operation for stomach cancer. The match was close and he won only narrowly. Mark Dvoretsky may be the most successful chess coach in the history of the game, but he may not be the most successful coach in the history of chess. Chess culture usually credits the player for chess success, but the coach is not often seen as a factor in chess success. Chess coaches were not usually seen for top players until after World War II.Chess was first developed in the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries and has been dominated by players from these countries for the past sixty years. From the early 1950s to the late 1990s, <mask> may have done more than any other coach for the development of Karpov. <mask> was an exceptional openings specialist, and was respected as being of virtually world-class strength with the White pieces, with which he scored most of his wins over the top players, as the game selection shows. He was referred to as the world champion when he played White. His success was held back by the fact that he couldn't score as well as Black. Many important contributions to the success of other top players, such as Bronstein, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, and Geller, were made by <mask>, who was best remembered today as Karpov's trainer. He made improvements to opening theory.In many of his wins over top-class rivals, he preferred the closed openings and his opponents were unable to generate counterplay. No one has yet taken up the challenge of reading a book on the career and best games of Furman. In 1947, <mask> <mask> defeated the rising star Efim Geller in a chess game in which he caught him in a nifty tactic to win a piece. Keres, one of the world's top three players, was one of the reasons why the humble factory worker, <mask> <mask>, had arrived near the top. Smyslov had finished second in the World Championship the year before, and would become the joint Soviet champion in 1949. Petrosian was just making his debut at top level and would go on to become world champion. A coach for Korchnoi would later become a coach for <mask> <mask>.Ratmir Kholmov became almost unbeatable a few years later after <mask> <mask> defeated him in the USSR Championship. Another future World Champion learns to respect <mask> <mask>'s talent. Suttles was known for his unconventional opening play, but he can't disorient the veteran. The Queen's Gambit Declined match was played in 1967, and <mask> <mask> took care of business against one of his former charges. Tal sacrificed the exchange but didn't get enough for it in the Queen's Pawn Game. The reigning Soviet champion takes one on the chin. Stein was a three-time Soviet champion, but couldn't beat <mask> <mask> in this game.One of the new generation of young stars gets taken care of quickly. Svetozar Gligoric is a world authority on the King's Indian, but his learning process is extended a bit by <mask> <mask>. In the English opening of Bad Lauterberg, Anthony Miles was outclassed by <mask> <mask>, who was ill, but still won. K.J. wrote The Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov. O'Connell is a D.N.L. Chess is My Life, by Anatoly Karpov and J.B. Adams, was published in 1976. There are people who have died from stomach cancer and people who have died from 1920 births.

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Erich Walter Sternberg

Erich Walter Sternberg (, May 31, 1891, Berlin – December 15, 1974, Tel Aviv) was a German-born Israeli composer. He was one of the founders of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Biography After graduating with a law degree from Kiel University in 1918, Sternberg began studying composition with Hugo Leichtentritt and piano with H. Praetorius in Berlin. From 1925 Sternberg visited Palestine annually and moved there in 1932, along with other Jewish musicians who fled Germany prior to World War II. His life was devoted to composition and teaching of composition. In 1936 he helped Bronisław Huberman found the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and promoted the Palestine chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Sternberg married Frieda Pinner (Berlin, 1918), Ilse Tanja Wellhöner (Tel Aviv, 1936), Ella Thal (Tel-Aviv, 1949). Music career Sternberg's works in the 1920s and 1930s were expressionistic in style and reflect the influences of Hindemith and Schoenberg. He also incorporated traditional Jewish musical idioms into his use of dense polyphonic textures. Examples of this can be seen in his salient use of the augmented 2nd and cantilation motifs in the piano cycle Visions from the East, a programmatic work concerning the Jews of Eastern Europe, and in his String Quartet no.1, where he quotes both a Yiddish song, Bei a teich (‘The River’), and the formula for the prayer Shema Yisrael. In Berlin, Sternberg received praise for his compositions and many of his pieces were performed by leading ensembles and performers in that city. His String Quartet no.2 was performed by the Amar Quartet and Yishtabakh (‘Praise Ye’) by the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1929 he composed Yishtabakh, a work for Baritone soloist, SATB chorus, and chamber orchestra. The work was awarded the Engel Prize in 1946; an award Sternberg earned again in 1960. Sternberg found it difficult to overcome the trauma of displacement from his German heritage and never felt entirely comfortable in Israel. He was never offered a permanent position at the Palestine Conservatory or the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, although he occasionally taught there as a guest lecturer. In Palestine, Sternberg's compositional expression returned to nostalgic Romanticism in his large-scale orchestral works while simultaneously preserving a more modern harmonic vocabulary in his piano and chamber music compositions. For example, his symphonic variations Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael (‘The Twelve Tribes of Israel’, 1938), reflects the powerful rhetoric of late Romanticism with obvious influences from Brahms, Max Reger and Richard Strauss. The work was the first large-scale orchestral composition written in Palestine. His Capriccio for piano, a concise illustration of his style, displays a contrapuntal elaboration of two brief motifs in sonata-rondo form, with the movement's harmonic orientation stated by the two opening chords. However, even in his more radical chamber and piano works Sternberg never abandoned tonal orientation. Sternberg was critical of music critics and composers like Marc Lavry who believed that music should be communicative and thus relatively simple and comprehensible; musical compositions, he argued, should be dominated by melodies however complex. In an article published in Musica hebraica in 1938, Sternberg wrote that the composer should "go his own way and speak his own language from within, with high professional standards as his only goal". As a result, Sternberg's works do not reflect the simplicity of musical compositions in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. For example, his large-scale set of symphonic variations Yosef ve′Ehav (‘Joseph and his Brethren’, 1939) are dominated by strict contrapuntal devices which include complex fugues. After 1940, Sternberg frequently turned back to earlier scores, revising many and using material from others for new compositions. Memorable works from the 1940s and 1950s are his vocal music works. Although he composed and arranged many Israeli folk songs, his treatment of the folk idiom reveals the strong influence of Fritz Jöde's choral project and of the Gebrauchsmusik of Hindemith rather than that of the predominating folk ideology of searching for inspiration in Arabic and Mediterranean songs. For example, Sternberg's arrangement of Hora kuma (‘Rise up, Brother’) by Shalom Postolsky is a set of six variations for seven-part chorus displaying contrapuntal and canonic textures, while his choral song Ima Adama (‘Mother Earth’) features richly chromatic and modal harmony. Sternberg's compositional output includes 2 string quartets, 6 orchestral works, several works for piano, works for chorus and orchestra, works for solo singer and orchestra, and numerous songs and folksong arrangements. He also wrote incidental music for the play Amcha (Your People) by S. Aleichem in 1936 and two operas, Dr. Doolittle (1939 Jerusalem) and Pacificia, the Friendly Island (1974). Most of his compositions are part of the collection at the Archives of Israeli Music at Tel Aviv University. Awards and recognition In 1971 Sternberg received the high order of merit from the President of the German Federal Republic. See also Music of Israel References Bibliography Philip V. Bohlman: The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936–40 (Oxford, 1992), Peter Gradenwitz: The Music of Israel (Portland, OR, 1996), esp. 370 Jehoash Hirshberg: Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880–1948: a Social History (Oxford, 1995) Jehoash Hirshberg: "Erich Walter Sternberg", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 18, 2008), (subscription access) E.W. Sternberg: Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael [The Twelve Tribes of Israel], Musica hebraica (1938), 1–2 E.W. Sternberg: ‘Autobiography’, Tatzlil, vii (1967), 77–8 External links Online Biography US Premiere of Sternberg's The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1938) 1891 births 1974 deaths Israeli composers Israeli opera composers Musicians from Berlin Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine University of Kiel alumni 20th-century classical composers Male classical composers Male opera composers 20th-century male musicians

<mask> (, May 31, 1891, Berlin – December 15, 1974, Tel Aviv) was a German-born Israeli composer. He was one of the founders of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Biography After graduating with a law degree from Kiel University in 1918, <mask> began studying composition with Hugo Leichtentritt and piano with H. Praetorius in Berlin. From 1925 <mask> visited Palestine annually and moved there in 1932, along with other Jewish musicians who fled Germany prior to World War II. His life was devoted to composition and teaching of composition. In 1936 he helped Bronisław Huberman found the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and promoted the Palestine chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. <mask> married Frieda Pinner (Berlin, 1918), Ilse Tanja Wellhöner (Tel Aviv, 1936), Ella Thal (Tel-Aviv, 1949).Music career <mask>'s works in the 1920s and 1930s were expressionistic in style and reflect the influences of Hindemith and Schoenberg. He also incorporated traditional Jewish musical idioms into his use of dense polyphonic textures. Examples of this can be seen in his salient use of the augmented 2nd and cantilation motifs in the piano cycle Visions from the East, a programmatic work concerning the Jews of Eastern Europe, and in his String Quartet no.1, where he quotes both a Yiddish song, Bei a teich (‘The River’), and the formula for the prayer Shema Yisrael. In Berlin, <mask> received praise for his compositions and many of his pieces were performed by leading ensembles and performers in that city. His String Quartet no.2 was performed by the Amar Quartet and Yishtabakh (‘Praise Ye’) by the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1929 he composed Yishtabakh, a work for Baritone soloist, SATB chorus, and chamber orchestra. The work was awarded the Engel Prize in 1946; an award <mask> earned again in 1960.<mask> found it difficult to overcome the trauma of displacement from his German heritage and never felt entirely comfortable in Israel. He was never offered a permanent position at the Palestine Conservatory or the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, although he occasionally taught there as a guest lecturer. In Palestine, <mask>'s compositional expression returned to nostalgic Romanticism in his large-scale orchestral works while simultaneously preserving a more modern harmonic vocabulary in his piano and chamber music compositions. For example, his symphonic variations Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael (‘The Twelve Tribes of Israel’, 1938), reflects the powerful rhetoric of late Romanticism with obvious influences from Brahms, Max Reger and Richard Strauss. The work was the first large-scale orchestral composition written in Palestine. His Capriccio for piano, a concise illustration of his style, displays a contrapuntal elaboration of two brief motifs in sonata-rondo form, with the movement's harmonic orientation stated by the two opening chords. However, even in his more radical chamber and piano works <mask> never abandoned tonal orientation.<mask> was critical of music critics and composers like Marc Lavry who believed that music should be communicative and thus relatively simple and comprehensible; musical compositions, he argued, should be dominated by melodies however complex. In an article published in Musica hebraica in 1938, <mask> wrote that the composer should "go his own way and speak his own language from within, with high professional standards as his only goal". As a result, <mask>'s works do not reflect the simplicity of musical compositions in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. For example, his large-scale set of symphonic variations Yosef ve′Ehav (‘Joseph and his Brethren’, 1939) are dominated by strict contrapuntal devices which include complex fugues. After 1940, <mask> frequently turned back to earlier scores, revising many and using material from others for new compositions. Memorable works from the 1940s and 1950s are his vocal music works. Although he composed and arranged many Israeli folk songs, his treatment of the folk idiom reveals the strong influence of Fritz Jöde's choral project and of the Gebrauchsmusik of Hindemith rather than that of the predominating folk ideology of searching for inspiration in Arabic and Mediterranean songs.For example, <mask>'s arrangement of Hora kuma (‘Rise up, Brother’) by Shalom Postolsky is a set of six variations for seven-part chorus displaying contrapuntal and canonic textures, while his choral song Ima Adama (‘Mother Earth’) features richly chromatic and modal harmony. <mask>'s compositional output includes 2 string quartets, 6 orchestral works, several works for piano, works for chorus and orchestra, works for solo singer and orchestra, and numerous songs and folksong arrangements. He also wrote incidental music for the play Amcha (Your People) by S. Aleichem in 1936 and two operas, Dr. Doolittle (1939 Jerusalem) and Pacificia, the Friendly Island (1974). Most of his compositions are part of the collection at the Archives of Israeli Music at Tel Aviv University. Awards and recognition In 1971 <mask> received the high order of merit from the President of the German Federal Republic. See also Music of Israel References Bibliography Philip V. Bohlman: The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936–40 (Oxford, 1992), Peter Gradenwitz: The Music of Israel (Portland, OR, 1996), esp. 370 Jehoash Hirshberg: Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880–1948: a Social History (Oxford, 1995) Jehoash Hirshberg: "<mask> Sternberg", Grove Music Online ed.L. Macy (Accessed September 18, 2008), (subscription access) E.W<mask>: Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael [The Twelve Tribes of Israel], Musica hebraica (1938), 1–2 E.W<mask>: ‘Autobiography’, Tatzlil, vii (1967), 77–8 External links Online Biography US Premiere of <mask>'s The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1938) 1891 births 1974 deaths Israeli composers Israeli opera composers Musicians from Berlin Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine University of Kiel alumni 20th-century classical composers Male classical composers Male opera composers 20th-century male musicians

He was a German-born Israeli composer. He was a founding member of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. After graduating with a law degree from Kiel University in 1918, <mask> began studying composition with Hugo Leichtentritt and piano with H. Praetorius in Berlin. Along with other Jewish musicians who fled Germany prior to World War II, <mask> moved to Palestine in 1932. His life was devoted to composition. He helped found the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and promoted the Palestine chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Frieda Pinner and Ilse Tanja Wellhner were married in 1918.In the 1920s and 1930s, <mask>'s works were expressionistic in style and reflected the influences of Hindemith and Schoenberg. He incorporated traditional Jewish music into his compositions. He used the augmented 2nd and cantilation motifs in the piano cycle Visions from the East, a programmatic work concerning the Jews of Eastern Europe, and in his String Quartet no.1, where he quotes a Yiddish song. Many of his pieces were performed by leading ensemble and performers in Berlin, where he received praise for his compositions. His string quartet was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. Yishtabakh was a work for Baritone soloist, SATB chorus, and chamber orchestra. The work was awarded two times, the first in 1946 and the second in 1960.It was difficult to overcome the trauma of displacement from his German heritage and never felt comfortable in Israel. He occasionally taught as a guest lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but he was never offered a permanent position there. While preserving a more modern vocabulary in his piano and chamber music compositions, <mask> returned to nostalgic Romanticism in his large-scale orchestral works in Palestine. Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael, or The Twelve Tribes of Israel, is one of his variations and is based on the rhetoric of late Romanticism. The first large-scale orchestral composition was written in Palestine. The Capriccio for piano, a concise illustration of his style, shows a partial elaboration of two brief motifs in the form of a sonata-rondo movement. In his chamber and piano works, he never abandoned his tonal orientation.He was critical of music critics and composers who believed that music should be easy to understand and complex. The composer should "go his own way and speak his own language from within, with high professional standards as his only goal" according to an article published in 1938. The simplicity of musical compositions in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s are not reflected in the works of <mask>. The large-scale set of Yosef ve′Ehav is dominated by strict contrapuntal devices which include complex fugues. After 1940, <mask> often turned back to scores earlier, revising many and using material from others for new compositions. His vocal music works from the 1940s and 1950s are remembered. Although he composed and arranged many Israeli folk songs, his treatment of the folk idiom reveals the strong influence of the choral project and of the Gebrauchsmusik of Hindemith rather than that of the predominating folk ideology of searching for inspiration in Arabic and Mediterranean songs.A set of six variations for a seven-part chorus is displayed by the arrangement of "Rise up, Brother" by Shalom Postolsky. There are 2 string quartets, 6 orchestral works, several works for piano, works for chorus and orchestra, works for solo singer and orchestra, and numerous songs and folksong arrangements. He wrote music for two operas and a play. His compositions are in the Archives of Israeli Music at Tel Aviv University. The President of the German Federal Republic gave a high order of merit to <mask> in 1971. The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936–40 is one of the Music of Israel References. The Social History of Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine was written by Jehoash Hirshberg.L. Macy has a subscription access. The Twelve Tribes of Israel is the subject of a book by <mask>. The US premiere of The Twelve Tribes of Israel was in 1967.

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Seema Verma (born September 26, 1970) is a health policy consultant and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Trump administration.She is the founder and previous CEO of SVC, Inc., a health policy consulting firm. Education Verma received a bachelor's degree in life sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1993. She earned a Master of Public Health, with a concentration in health policy and management, from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1996. Career Early career Verma served as vice president of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, and worked at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in Washington, D.C. SVC, Inc. Verma founded health policy consulting firm SVC, Inc., in June 2001. She was president and CEO of the company, which has worked with state insurance agencies and public health agencies in preparation for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and assisted Indiana and Kentucky, as well as other states, in the design of Medicaid expansion programs under the ACA. In her work with Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, she developed Medicaid reform programs under the Section 1115 waiver process. Ethics controversy In 2014, significant ethics concerns were raised over a conflict of interest arising from Verma's dual roles as both a health care consultant for the State of Indiana and as an employee of a Hewlett-Packard division that is among Indiana's largest Medicaid vendors. As of 2011, SVC, Inc. had been awarded over $6.6 million in contracts from the State of Indiana, while Verma was concurrently employed with Hewlett-Packard, earning her over $1 million during a period when the company had secured $500 million in State of Indiana contracts. In 2016, her firm collected an additional $316,000 for work done for the State of Kentucky as a subcontractor for Hewlett-Packard, according to documents obtained by the AP through public records requests. Debra Minott, former Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Service Administration, said it was "shocking to me that she could play both sides" in reference to Verma lobbying on behalf of HP over a billing dispute with the State of Indiana. Verma, when later asked about this controversy during her Senate confirmation hearing to become CMS Administrator, responded to these allegations sourced from Secretary Minott by calling Minott a "disgruntled former employee." Richard Painter, former President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer, called Verma’s arrangement a “conflict of interest” that “clearly should not happen and is definitely improper.” Ethics experts noted this conflicted with her public duties. Trump administration On November 29, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Verma to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and the insurance markets. On March 13, 2017, the United States Senate confirmed her nomination in a 55–43 vote. She was sworn into office on the Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is, a translation and commentary of the Bhagavad Gita by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement. One of her first actions was to send a letter to the nation's governors, urging them to impose insurance premiums for Medicaid, charge Medicaid recipients for emergency room visits, and encourage recipients to obtain employment or job training as a requirement for Medicaid coverage. Verma is a harsh critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) calling it a "failure". Throughout her tenure at CMS, she led President Trump's charge to repeal and replace Obamacare. Verma made substantial cuts to the ACA Navigator program, making it more difficult for individuals to obtain coverage during open enrollment. On July 25, 2018, Verma gave a speech in San Francisco in which she criticized proposals for "Medicare for all". She stated that single-payer health care would destroy Medicare, which provides insurance for elderly people, and lead to "Medicare for None." Politico reported that Verma clashed with HHS Secretary Alex Azar over which plans will replace Obamacare, who will get credit for those efforts, and Verma's attempts to accompany the President on Air Force One instead of Azar. Verma in turn accused Azar of "sex discrimination;" these allegations were debunked after an extensive independent investigation. Reportedly, this was not the first clash Verma had with her superiors, as Verma hired a lawyer to file a claim of a "hostile work environment" against then-HHS Secretary Tom Price. The clashes extended to co-workers at CMS, as Verma was cited by her first Chief of Staff in an HHS investigative report as being "insecure" and someone who "lashes out" at subordinates. Verma quickly assigned her next Chief of Staff to Baltimore, "shutting him out" of her inner circle in Washington. Verma ultimately cycled through 5 Chiefs of Staff and 5 Medicaid directors during her term. Modern Healthcare reported that Verma's subordinate and former Medicaid director abruptly quit the agency after a disagreement "erupted" between them. This led Verma to ban the Modern Healthcare reporter from future media calls with CMS. The president of the Association of Health Care Journalists condemned this action as "bullying" and commented that "Verma seems to think she can bury inconvenient facts by threatening reporters with blacklisting." On March 2, 2020, the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced Verma's addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, she pushed Medicare career civil servant officials to finalize a plan to issue $200 cards before the November 3 election, branded with Trump's name, for Medicare recipients to use on drugs. The taxpayer-funded plan was estimated to cost $7.9 billion and draw from Medicare's trust fund. One of the priorities during her tenure as CMS administrator was to make it possible for states to implement work requirements for Medicaid. The Biden administration sought to reverse those moves. She submitted her resignation from the Trump Administration 7 days after the 2021 United States Capitol insurrection. Verma was the 3rd longest serving head of CMS, following Carolyne Davis and Bruce Vladeck. Ethics and legal investigations On August 20, 2018, Verma filed a claim requesting that taxpayers reimburse her for jewelry she alleged was stolen on a work-related trip to San Francisco. Although she requested $47,000, including a $325 claim for moisturizer, $349 for noise-cancelling headphones, and a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand gold and diamond pendant worn during meetings with President Trump, she ultimately received $2,852.40 in reimbursement. Democratic Representative Joe Kennedy III called on Verma to resign immediately, calling her actions a taxpayer "bailout for stolen goods she chose not to insure". In March 2019, Politico reported that in her role as CMS administrator, Verma approved communications subcontracts worth more than $2 million of taxpayer funds to Republican-connected communications consultants and other expenses to boost her visibility and public image, leading to federal ethics and criminal investigations. Included in the consultants' work were proposals to have Verma featured in magazines like Glamour and have her invited to prestigious events to increase her public persona. Verma made an effort to purchase awards and honors for herself using taxpayer dollars. In July 2020, the HHS Inspector General reported that Verma spent more than $5 million in taxpayer funds to do communications work, and to help raise her profile. The report, a result of a 15-month investigation, concluded that Verma violated federal contracting rules: "CMS improperly administered the contracts and created improper employer-employee relationships between CMS and the contractors". In September 2020, Democrats on four congressional committees concluded that "Congress did not intend for taxpayer dollars to be spent on handpicked communications consultants used to promote Administrator Verma's public profile and personal brand. Administrator Verma has shown reckless disregard for the public's trust. We believe she should personally reimburse the taxpayers for these inappropriate expenditures." The panel concluded that she "may have violated federal law," leading Congress to request a formal legal opinion from the Government Accountability Office. Verma spent more than $3.5 million on Republican Party-aligned consultants to promote her. These consultants were paid to help her write tweets and speeches, polish her profile, and broker meetings with companies and high-profile individual, including other members of government. Verma spent nearly $3,000 in taxpayer dollars on consulting fees for organizing a "Girl's Night" party thrown in her honor, hundreds of dollars for makeup artists, as well as $13,000 to promote herself to win awards and appear on panels. Verma's consultants aimed to place her on profile-enhancing lists, such as the Washingtonian's "Most Powerful Women in Washington" list, targeted media outlets for Verma with no clear connection to CMS initiatives (such as "Badass Women of DC"), and generated ideas for potential social events for Verma to attend, such as the Ford's Theatre Gala, Kennedy Center Honors, and Motion Picture Association events. The consultants provided her with talking points on repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017, and helped her write a 2018 opinion column under her name in the Washington Post arguing for Medicaid work requirements. Verma was often accompanied by consultants as part of her travel entourage, billing CMS up to $380 per hour. She also used consultants as drivers at a rate up to $203 per hour and hotel rooms for official travel that cost more than $500 per night, hundreds of dollars above the government per diem rate. These consultants, including one who was awaiting sentencing on a felony conviction for lying to Congress about misuse of taxpayer funds, led communications efforts on major policy initiatives and rollouts. CMS leadership provided them with access to sensitive information on proposed rule-makings, internal plans for anticipated policy roll-outs, and other potentially non-public, market-sensitive information. One of the outside consultants that Verma paid was Marcus Barlow, who had been her spokesperson at her former consulting firm SVC. He worked on three separate contracts for CMS, earning between $209–$230 an hour. According to the New York Times, this worked out to more than double the salary he would have received as a federal employee. As late as December 2020 during Verma's tenure, Barlow accompanied Verma and other CMS officials to an official function at the White House. An HHS spokesperson referred to the Congressional report as “just another reckless, politically timed, drive-by hit job on a reform-driven Trump Administration official and, by extension, on President Trump himself.” In 2021, Verma said she lost her CMS-issued cell phone two days before President Biden's inauguration, resulting in the elimination of all of its stored records. Verma then failed to complete the standard form explaining how she lost her phone, the court records state. Verma was issued a new iPhone on January 18, which she returned nine days later. Records from that phone can not be accessed because the phone was locked and Verma said she had forgotten her passcode. Post-Trump administration career Verma told reporters she had "no regrets" about her actions or tenure. Verma joined the board of directors of three healthcare firms, LifeStance Health, Lumeris and Monogram Health. She is currently offering speeches via an exclusive arrangement with Worldwide Speakers Group, discussing topics such as "Women in Leadership" and the Trump Administration "COVID Response: Lessons Learned." Advancing American Freedom Verma is on the Advisory Board for Advancing American Freedom, former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative advocacy group. The group champions policy positions such as preventing "taxpayer dollars from funding abortions domestically and globally" and "complete construction of the Trump-Pence border wall." Personal life Born in Virginia, Verma moved several times across the United States with her family, and once lived in Taiwan for five years, before settling in the greater Indianapolis area. Verma and her family live in Carmel, Indiana. References External links Biography at CMS.gov 1970 births Living people American businesswomen of Indian descent American health care chief executives American politicians of Indian descent American public health doctors American women chief executives Indiana Republicans Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni People from Indiana Trump administration personnel United States Department of Health and Human Services officials University of Maryland, College Park alumni 21st-century American women

<mask> (born September 26, 1970) is a health policy consultant and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Trump administration.She is the founder and previous CEO of SVC, Inc., a health policy consulting firm. Education Verma received a bachelor's degree in life sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1993. She earned a Master of Public Health, with a concentration in health policy and management, from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1996. Career Early career Verma served as vice president of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, and worked at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in Washington, D.C. SVC, Inc. Verma founded health policy consulting firm SVC, Inc., in June 2001. She was president and CEO of the company, which has worked with state insurance agencies and public health agencies in preparation for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and assisted Indiana and Kentucky, as well as other states, in the design of Medicaid expansion programs under the ACA. In her work with Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, she developed Medicaid reform programs under the Section 1115 waiver process. Ethics controversy In 2014, significant ethics concerns were raised over a conflict of interest arising from Verma's dual roles as both a health care consultant for the State of Indiana and as an employee of a Hewlett-Packard division that is among Indiana's largest Medicaid vendors.As of 2011, SVC, Inc. had been awarded over $6.6 million in contracts from the State of Indiana, while <mask> was concurrently employed with Hewlett-Packard, earning her over $1 million during a period when the company had secured $500 million in State of Indiana contracts. In 2016, her firm collected an additional $316,000 for work done for the State of Kentucky as a subcontractor for Hewlett-Packard, according to documents obtained by the AP through public records requests. Debra Minott, former Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Service Administration, said it was "shocking to me that she could play both sides" in reference to <mask> lobbying on behalf of HP over a billing dispute with the State of Indiana. <mask>, when later asked about this controversy during her Senate confirmation hearing to become CMS Administrator, responded to these allegations sourced from Secretary Minott by calling Minott a "disgruntled former employee." Richard Painter, former President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer, called <mask>’s arrangement a “conflict of interest” that “clearly should not happen and is definitely improper.” Ethics experts noted this conflicted with her public duties. Trump administration On November 29, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate <mask> to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and the insurance markets. On March 13, 2017, the United States Senate confirmed her nomination in a 55–43 vote.She was sworn into office on the Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is, a translation and commentary of the Bhagavad Gita by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement. One of her first actions was to send a letter to the nation's governors, urging them to impose insurance premiums for Medicaid, charge Medicaid recipients for emergency room visits, and encourage recipients to obtain employment or job training as a requirement for Medicaid coverage. Verma is a harsh critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) calling it a "failure". Throughout her tenure at CMS, she led President Trump's charge to repeal and replace Obamacare. Verma made substantial cuts to the ACA Navigator program, making it more difficult for individuals to obtain coverage during open enrollment. On July 25, 2018, Verma gave a speech in San Francisco in which she criticized proposals for "Medicare for all". She stated that single-payer health care would destroy Medicare, which provides insurance for elderly people, and lead to "Medicare for None."Politico reported that <mask> clashed with HHS Secretary Alex Azar over which plans will replace Obamacare, who will get credit for those efforts, and <mask>'s attempts to accompany the President on Air Force One instead of Azar. <mask> in turn accused Azar of "sex discrimination;" these allegations were debunked after an extensive independent investigation. Reportedly, this was not the first clash Verma had with her superiors, as Verma hired a lawyer to file a claim of a "hostile work environment" against then-HHS Secretary Tom Price. The clashes extended to co-workers at CMS, as Verma was cited by her first Chief of Staff in an HHS investigative report as being "insecure" and someone who "lashes out" at subordinates. <mask> quickly assigned her next Chief of Staff to Baltimore, "shutting him out" of her inner circle in Washington. <mask> ultimately cycled through 5 Chiefs of Staff and 5 Medicaid directors during her term. Modern Healthcare reported that <mask>'s subordinate and former Medicaid director abruptly quit the agency after a disagreement "erupted" between them.This led <mask> to ban the Modern Healthcare reporter from future media calls with CMS. The president of the Association of Health Care Journalists condemned this action as "bullying" and commented that "<mask> seems to think she can bury inconvenient facts by threatening reporters with blacklisting." On March 2, 2020, the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced <mask>'s addition to the White House Coronavirus Task Force. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, she pushed Medicare career civil servant officials to finalize a plan to issue $200 cards before the November 3 election, branded with Trump's name, for Medicare recipients to use on drugs. The taxpayer-funded plan was estimated to cost $7.9 billion and draw from Medicare's trust fund. One of the priorities during her tenure as CMS administrator was to make it possible for states to implement work requirements for Medicaid. The Biden administration sought to reverse those moves.She submitted her resignation from the Trump Administration 7 days after the 2021 United States Capitol insurrection. <mask> was the 3rd longest serving head of CMS, following Carolyne Davis and Bruce Vladeck. Ethics and legal investigations On August 20, 2018, <mask> filed a claim requesting that taxpayers reimburse her for jewelry she alleged was stolen on a work-related trip to San Francisco. Although she requested $47,000, including a $325 claim for moisturizer, $349 for noise-cancelling headphones, and a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand gold and diamond pendant worn during meetings with President Trump, she ultimately received $2,852.40 in reimbursement. Democratic Representative Joe Kennedy III called on <mask> to resign immediately, calling her actions a taxpayer "bailout for stolen goods she chose not to insure". In March 2019, Politico reported that in her role as CMS administrator, Verma approved communications subcontracts worth more than $2 million of taxpayer funds to Republican-connected communications consultants and other expenses to boost her visibility and public image, leading to federal ethics and criminal investigations. Included in the consultants' work were proposals to have <mask> featured in magazines like Glamour and have her invited to prestigious events to increase her public persona.<mask> made an effort to purchase awards and honors for herself using taxpayer dollars. In July 2020, the HHS Inspector General reported that <mask> spent more than $5 million in taxpayer funds to do communications work, and to help raise her profile. The report, a result of a 15-month investigation, concluded that <mask> violated federal contracting rules: "CMS improperly administered the contracts and created improper employer-employee relationships between CMS and the contractors". In September 2020, Democrats on four congressional committees concluded that "Congress did not intend for taxpayer dollars to be spent on handpicked communications consultants used to promote Administrator <mask>'s public profile and personal brand. Administrator <mask> has shown reckless disregard for the public's trust. We believe she should personally reimburse the taxpayers for these inappropriate expenditures." The panel concluded that she "may have violated federal law," leading Congress to request a formal legal opinion from the Government Accountability Office.<mask> spent more than $3.5 million on Republican Party-aligned consultants to promote her. These consultants were paid to help her write tweets and speeches, polish her profile, and broker meetings with companies and high-profile individual, including other members of government. <mask> spent nearly $3,000 in taxpayer dollars on consulting fees for organizing a "Girl's Night" party thrown in her honor, hundreds of dollars for makeup artists, as well as $13,000 to promote herself to win awards and appear on panels. <mask>'s consultants aimed to place her on profile-enhancing lists, such as the Washingtonian's "Most Powerful Women in Washington" list, targeted media outlets for <mask> with no clear connection to CMS initiatives (such as "Badass Women of DC"), and generated ideas for potential social events for Verma to attend, such as the Ford's Theatre Gala, Kennedy Center Honors, and Motion Picture Association events. The consultants provided her with talking points on repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017, and helped her write a 2018 opinion column under her name in the Washington Post arguing for Medicaid work requirements. <mask> was often accompanied by consultants as part of her travel entourage, billing CMS up to $380 per hour. She also used consultants as drivers at a rate up to $203 per hour and hotel rooms for official travel that cost more than $500 per night, hundreds of dollars above the government per diem rate.These consultants, including one who was awaiting sentencing on a felony conviction for lying to Congress about misuse of taxpayer funds, led communications efforts on major policy initiatives and rollouts. CMS leadership provided them with access to sensitive information on proposed rule-makings, internal plans for anticipated policy roll-outs, and other potentially non-public, market-sensitive information. One of the outside consultants that Verma paid was Marcus Barlow, who had been her spokesperson at her former consulting firm SVC. He worked on three separate contracts for CMS, earning between $209–$230 an hour. According to the New York Times, this worked out to more than double the salary he would have received as a federal employee. As late as December 2020 during Verma's tenure, Barlow accompanied Verma and other CMS officials to an official function at the White House. An HHS spokesperson referred to the Congressional report as “just another reckless, politically timed, drive-by hit job on a reform-driven Trump Administration official and, by extension, on President Trump himself.” In 2021, Verma said she lost her CMS-issued cell phone two days before President Biden's inauguration, resulting in the elimination of all of its stored records.<mask> then failed to complete the standard form explaining how she lost her phone, the court records state. <mask> was issued a new iPhone on January 18, which she returned nine days later. Records from that phone can not be accessed because the phone was locked and <mask> said she had forgotten her passcode. Post-Trump administration career <mask> told reporters she had "no regrets" about her actions or tenure. <mask> joined the board of directors of three healthcare firms, LifeStance Health, Lumeris and Monogram Health. She is currently offering speeches via an exclusive arrangement with Worldwide Speakers Group, discussing topics such as "Women in Leadership" and the Trump Administration "COVID Response: Lessons Learned." Advancing American Freedom Verma is on the Advisory Board for Advancing American Freedom, former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative advocacy group.The group champions policy positions such as preventing "taxpayer dollars from funding abortions domestically and globally" and "complete construction of the Trump-Pence border wall." Personal life Born in Virginia, <mask> moved several times across the United States with her family, and once lived in Taiwan for five years, before settling in the greater Indianapolis area. Verma and her family live in Carmel, Indiana. References External links Biography at CMS.gov 1970 births Living people American businesswomen of Indian descent American health care chief executives American politicians of Indian descent American public health doctors American women chief executives Indiana Republicans Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni People from Indiana Trump administration personnel United States Department of Health and Human Services officials University of Maryland, College Park alumni 21st-century American women

<mask> is a health policy consultant and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Trump administration. In 1993 he received a bachelor's degree in life sciences from the University of Maryland. She received a masters degree in public health policy and management from the school in 1996. Prior to founding SVC, Inc., he worked at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials in Washington, D.C. She was president and CEO of the company, which has worked with state insurance agencies and public health agencies in preparation for the implementation of theAffordable Care Act, and assisted Indiana and Kentucky, as well as other states, in the design of Medicaid expansion programs. She worked with Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky to develop Medicaid reform programs. There were ethics concerns raised about a conflict of interest arising from a dual role as a health care consultant for the State of Indiana and as an employee of a Hewlett-Packard division that is among Indiana's largest Medicaid vendors.SVC, Inc. had been awarded over $6 million in contracts from the State of Indiana, while <mask> was employed with Hewlett-Packard, earning her over $1 million during a period when the company had secured $500 million in State of Indiana contracts. According to documents obtained by the AP through public records requests, her firm collected more than $300,000 in 2016 for work done for the State of Kentucky. The former Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Service Administration said it was shocking to her that she could play both sides. During her Senate confirmation hearing to become the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, she called Secretary Minott a "disgruntled former employee" after being asked about the controversy. Richard Painter, George W. Bush's chief ethics lawyer, called the arrangement a "conflict of interest" that "clearly should not happen and is definitely improper." The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and the insurance markets. On March 13, the United States Senate confirmed her nomination.The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is also known as the Hare Krishna movement. One of her first actions was to send a letter to the nation's governors, urging them to impose insurance premiums for Medicaid, charge Medicaid recipients for emergency room visits, and encourage recipients to obtain employment or job training as a requirement for Medicaid coverage. TheACA is a failure and a harsh critic of it. She led the charge to repeal and replace the health care law. The cuts to the Navigator program made it more difficult for people to get coverage during open enroll. She criticized proposals for "Medicare for all" in a speech in San Francisco. She said that single-payer health care would destroy Medicare, which provides insurance for elderly people, and lead to "Medicare for None."According to the report, <mask> tried to accompany the President on Air Force One instead of the Secretary of HHS, who will get credit for the replacement plans. After an independent investigation, the allegations of sex discrimination were found to be false. According to reports, this was not the first clash that <mask> had with her superiors, as she hired a lawyer to file a claim of a "hostile work environment" against then-HHS Secretary Tom Price. The first Chief of Staff of the HHS said in an investigative report that <mask> was "insecure" and someone who "lashes out" at subordinates. She "shut him out" of her inner circle in Washington by assigning her next Chief of Staff to Baltimore. During her term, she had 5 Medicaid directors and 5 chiefs of staff. A disagreement "erupted" between the two and the former Medicaid director quit the agency.The Modern healthcare reporter was banned from future media calls. <mask> seems to think she can bury inconvenient facts by threatening reporters with blacklisting, according to the president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. On March 2, 2020, the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced that he had joined the White House Coronaviruses Task Force. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, she pushed Medicare career civil servant officials to finalize a plan to issue $200 cards before the election, branded with Trump's name, for Medicare recipients to use on drugs. The taxpayer-funded plan was estimated to cost $7.9 billion. She wanted to make it possible for states to implement work requirements for Medicaid. The moves were reversed by the Biden administration.She resigned from the Trump Administration 7 days after the United States Capitol insurrection. Carolyne Davis and Bruce Vladeck served as the 3rd and 3rd longest serving head of CMS, respectively. On August 20, 2018, she filed a claim for reimbursement of jewelry she said was stolen on a work trip to San Francisco. She received $2,852.40 in reimbursement, despite requesting $47,000, which included a $325 claim for moisturizer, $349 for noise-cancelling headphones, and a $5,900 gold and diamond pendant worn during meetings with President Trump. Democratic Representative Joe Kennedy III called on <mask> to resign, calling her actions a taxpayer "bailout for stolen goods she chose not to insure". In her role as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, she approved more than $2 million of taxpayer funds to Republican-linked communications consultants and other expenses to boost her visibility and public image, leading to federal ethics and criminal investigations. The work of the consultants included a proposal to have her featured in magazines and invited to prestigious events to increase her public persona.She tried to use taxpayer dollars to purchase awards for herself. In July 2020, the HHS Inspector General reported that she spent more than $5 million in taxpayer funds to raise her profile. According to the report, <mask> violated federal contracting rules by creating improper employer-employee relationships with contractors. Democrats on four congressional committees concluded in September 2020 that Congress did not intend for taxpayer dollars to be spent on communications consultants used to promote Administrator <mask>'s public profile and personal brand. The public's trust has been disrespected. She should reimburse the taxpayers for the inappropriate expenditures. Congress requested a formal legal opinion from the Government Accountability Office after the panel concluded that she may have violated federal law.More than 3.5 million dollars was spent on Republican Party-aligned consultants to promote her. She paid these consultants to help write her speeches, polish her profile, and broker meetings with companies and high-profile individuals. She spent nearly $3,000 in taxpayer dollars on consulting fees for organizing a "Girl's Night" party thrown in her honor, hundreds of dollars for makeup artists, as well as $13,000 to promote herself to win awards and appear on panels. The Washingtonian's " Most Powerful Women in Washington" list was one of the profile-enhancement lists that the consultants wanted to place her on. The consultants helped her write an opinion column for the Washington Post in which she argued for Medicaid work requirements. She was often accompanied by consultants as part of her travel itinerary, which cost her up to $380 per hour. She used consultants as drivers at a rate up to $203 per hour and hotel rooms for official travel that cost more than $500 per night, hundreds of dollars above the government per diem rate.One of these consultants, who was awaiting sentencing on a felony conviction for lying to Congress about misuse of taxpayer funds, led communications efforts on major policy initiatives. They were given access to sensitive information on proposed rule-makings, internal plans for anticipated policy roll-out, and other potentially non-public, market-sensitive information. Marcus Barlow was one of the outside consultants that she paid. He earned between $209 and $230 an hour on three separate contracts. According to the New York Times, this worked out to more than double the salary he would have received as a federal employee. Barlow was with <mask> and other officials at an official function at the White House. The Congressional report is just another reckless, politically timed, drive-by hit job on a reform-driven Trump Administration official and, by extension, on President Trump himself.The court records state that she failed to complete the standard form explaining how she lost her phone. She returned her new phone nine days after it was issued. Records from that phone can't be accessed because the phone was locked. She told reporters that she had no regrets about her time in the administration. Three healthcare firms, LifeStance Health, Lumeris and Monogram Health, have a board of directors. She is currently offering speeches via an exclusive arrangement with the Worldwide Speakers Group, discussing topics such as "Women in Leadership" and the Trump Administration "COVID Response: Lessons Learned." The Advisory Board for Advancing American Freedom is chaired by former Vice President Mike Pence.The group supports policies such as preventing taxpayer dollars from funding abortions domestically and globally, and complete construction of the Trump-Pence border wall. After living in Taiwan for five years, she settled in the greater Indianapolis area. There is a family in Carmel, Indiana. biographies at cms.gov 1970 births Living people American businesswomen of Indian descent American health care chief executives American politicians of Indian descent American public health doctors American women chief executives Indiana Republicans

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D. Woods

Wanita Denise Woodgett (born July 6, 1985), better known as by her nickname D. Woods, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Woods is the founder and CEO of Woodgrane Entertainment, but best known for her efforts on MTV's "Making The Band 3" as a finalist on season two. Career Before joining Danity Kane, Woods toured with several major recording artists such as Bow Wow, Lloyd, Avant, Snoop Dogg and Letoya Luckett as a background dancer, performed in theater festivals such as the National Black Theater Festival and Windybrow Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa off-Broadway theater productions, and interned with Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Production Company. She was hand-picked by director Chris Robinson to appear in the video "Change Clothes" by Jay-Z, where she was one of the models. D. Woods auditioned in 2005 on the second season of the MTV reality television program Making the Band 3 by Sean "Diddy" Combs. Danity Kane's first album debuted August 22, 2006, at No. 1. Danity Kane, along with the Pussycat Dolls, toured as the opening act for Christina Aguilera. In December 2006, Woods was the lead girl in Lloyd's video "You". In 2007, she made an appearance in Gorilla Zoe's album Welcome to the Zoo, on the track "You Don't Know Me". She was also featured in the film Stomp the Yard that same year. Her writing credits include multiple tracks on the platinum-selling Danity Kane album Welcome to the Dollhouse. On October 14, 2008, Combs declared Woods no longer a member of Danity Kane, as well as bandmate and then-best friend Aubrey O'Day, following a heated discussion with Combs. MTV News gauged fan reactions to the dismissals of Woods and O'Day. Fans left impassioned, long and detailed comments on the MTV News site about their discontent at the group's breakup. They cited what they felt was a lack of individuality and excitement left within the group. New members were expected to be chosen for Danity Kane as "replacements" for Woods and O'Day, but the group broke up completely early 2009 when it was reported Woods and O'Day, along with group member Shannon Bex, declined the offer to return to the series and the group. O'Day stated that she was unsure if Woods was asked back, but that she herself was not asked to return. Although Woods was fired in 2008, she was "officially" released from her Bad Boy Records contract by Combs February 26, 2009 before the final episode of Making the Band the following April. Despite this, in the April 23, 2009, finale of the series, Combs stated that all five original members would be returning if he ever decided to reunite the group. Woods said she was going to release a full-length album later in the year, in addition to a single that will be released early summer 2009. In an interview conducted after the finale show, Woods spoke with BE Entertained Magazine journalist Phonz L. Thomas. Woods was asked about an alleged rivalry between her and ex-Danity Kane member Dawn Richard. Woods replied, "I don't know if she has a problem with me . I don't know why she would have a problem. I was very disappointed by a lot of the things that she did say in the media and her different interviews. People are kind of aware of her comments and then also of course on the show, those comments were definitely going to get back to me. I was really disappointed and I don't know why she would go that route. And if it was to depict her as the victim and everybody else is the bad guy… I don't really know where all that stems from, but to me it's like she has her situation. And as you guys saw, I congratulated her as I was walking out the door! So it was like I don't have a problem and I don't know why she would have a problem… but she might, I'm not sure." Woods went on during this interview to comment, "I don't have any animosity towards any of the girls. Like things happen for a reason, it's time to move on you know, chapter ends. People are in each other's lives for a reason and a season, as they say! So there's no reason to hold any grudges. Um, however – the way that you present yourself, the actions you take, the comments that you make can lend themselves to having a 'beef' or having animosity." Woods has had two photo spreads with King Magazine. She is currently recording songs for a possible solo album that can be heard via her MySpace, and appeared in Ludacris's music video "One More Drink". She has recently appeared in Lil Wayne's new video "Prom Queen" and Young Money video "Every Girl". She also is working on film/television projects. She is currently filming a music video for her upcoming single "Legalize Me." It was later revealed that "On My Side" is the lead single with her filming the video in Los Angeles in June. However, "Legalize Me" is released as a digital single, along with a music video, under Woods' own label Woodgrane Entertainment on iTunes. Woods was a featuring artist for Canadian rapper DY (Die Young) for his second single "That's My Spot", which a music video was filmed right before Dy disappeared in Mexico in early September 2010, and has now been confirmed as missing as of November 18, 2010. On November 20, 2010, Woods took to her Twitter account after learning about the disappearance of Schab: "I'm so hurt and worried learning about DY. This news effects me no matter how long I knew him. I'm praying for DY." She went on to say...,"Last time I saw DY we were joking on set of his video (That's My Spot). The director said it's a wrap and we said our 'see ya later' to each other." In 2011, D. Woods was featured on Ray Garrison's single "Forever Gone", alongside Kyle Lucas. Later that year, she also released a "part 2" version of her song "Lady in the Street" on iTunes. The Gray Area EP that was supposed to come out in 2009 is now coming out on July 12, 2011, digitally on iTunes. In April 2012, D. Woods released a new single called "2 The Bottom". She also released the My Favorite Color EP, Volume 1, that she's been hyping up for years, in December 2012. A new single, "Gold Mine", will be released to iTunes on August 13, 2013, with the release of My Favorite Color EP, Volume 2 following sometime in the fall. Discography Mixtapes: Independence Day, Volume 1 (2009) Independence Day, Volume 2 (2010) Lady In The Street (2011) EPs: The Gray Area (2011) My Favorite Color (2012) See also Bad Boy Records References External links Official MySpace profile D.Woods Official website That Grape Juice Interviews D. Woods 1983 births Living people African-American women singer-songwriters American hip hop singers American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters Danity Kane members Musicians from Atlanta Musicians from Los Angeles Singer-songwriters from Massachusetts Participants in American reality television series People from Anaheim, California Musicians from Springfield, Massachusetts Singing talent show winners Tisch School of the Arts alumni Actors from Springfield, Massachusetts 21st-century African-American women singers Singer-songwriters from California

<mask> (born July 6, 1985), better known as by her nickname D<mask>, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. <mask> is the founder and CEO of Woodgrane Entertainment, but best known for her efforts on MTV's "Making The Band 3" as a finalist on season two. Career Before joining <mask>, <mask> toured with several major recording artists such as Bow Wow, Lloyd, Avant, <mask> and Letoya Luckett as a background dancer, performed in theater festivals such as the National Black Theater Festival and Windybrow Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa off-Broadway theater productions, and interned with Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule Production Company. She was hand-picked by director Chris Robinson to appear in the video "Change Clothes" by Jay-Z, where she was one of the models. D<mask> auditioned in 2005 on the second season of the MTV reality television program Making the Band 3 by Sean "<mask>" Combs. <mask>'s first album debuted August 22, 2006, at No. 1.<mask> Kane, along with the Pussycat Dolls, toured as the opening act for Christina Aguilera. In December 2006, <mask> was the lead girl in Lloyd's video "You". In 2007, she made an appearance in Gorilla Zoe's album Welcome to the Zoo, on the track "You Don't Know Me". She was also featured in the film Stomp the Yard that same year. Her writing credits include multiple tracks on the platinum-selling <mask> Kane album Welcome to the Dollhouse. On October 14, 2008, Combs declared <mask> no longer a member of <mask> Kane, as well as bandmate and then-best friend Aubrey O'<mask>, following a heated discussion with Combs. MTV News gauged fan reactions to the dismissals of <mask> and O'<mask>.Fans left impassioned, long and detailed comments on the MTV News site about their discontent at the group's breakup. They cited what they felt was a lack of individuality and excitement left within the group. New members were expected to be chosen for <mask> Kane as "replacements" for <mask> and <mask>, but the group broke up completely early 2009 when it was reported <mask> and <mask>, along with group member Shannon Bex, declined the offer to return to the series and the group. O'<mask> stated that she was unsure if <mask> was asked back, but that she herself was not asked to return. Although <mask> was fired in 2008, she was "officially" released from her Bad Boy Records contract by Combs February 26, 2009 before the final episode of Making the Band the following April. Despite this, in the April 23, 2009, finale of the series, Combs stated that all five original members would be returning if he ever decided to reunite the group. <mask> said she was going to release a full-length album later in the year, in addition to a single that will be released early summer 2009.In an interview conducted after the finale show, <mask> spoke with BE Entertained Magazine journalist Phonz L. Thomas. <mask> was asked about an alleged rivalry between her and ex-<mask> Kane member <mask>. <mask> replied, "I don't know if she has a problem with me . I don't know why she would have a problem. I was very disappointed by a lot of the things that she did say in the media and her different interviews. People are kind of aware of her comments and then also of course on the show, those comments were definitely going to get back to me. I was really disappointed and I don't know why she would go that route.And if it was to depict her as the victim and everybody else is the bad guy… I don't really know where all that stems from, but to me it's like she has her situation. And as you guys saw, I congratulated her as I was walking out the door! So it was like I don't have a problem and I don't know why she would have a problem… but she might, I'm not sure." <mask> went on during this interview to comment, "I don't have any animosity towards any of the girls. Like things happen for a reason, it's time to move on you know, chapter ends. People are in each other's lives for a reason and a season, as they say! So there's no reason to hold any grudges.Um, however – the way that you present yourself, the actions you take, the comments that you make can lend themselves to having a 'beef' or having animosity." <mask> has had two photo spreads with King Magazine. She is currently recording songs for a possible solo album that can be heard via her MySpace, and appeared in Ludacris's music video "One More Drink". She has recently appeared in Lil Wayne's new video "Prom Queen" and Young Money video "Every Girl". She also is working on film/television projects. She is currently filming a music video for her upcoming single "Legalize Me." It was later revealed that "On My Side" is the lead single with her filming the video in Los Angeles in June.However, "Legalize Me" is released as a digital single, along with a music video, under <mask>' own label Woodgrane Entertainment on iTunes. <mask> was a featuring artist for Canadian rapper <mask> (<mask> Young) for his second single "That's My Spot", which a music video was filmed right before Dy disappeared in Mexico in early September 2010, and has now been confirmed as missing as of November 18, 2010. On November 20, 2010, <mask> took to her Twitter account after learning about the disappearance of Schab: "I'm so hurt and worried learning about DY. This news effects me no matter how long I knew him. I'm praying for DY." She went on to say...,"Last time I saw DY we were joking on set of his video (That's My Spot). The director said it's a wrap and we said our 'see ya later' to each other."In 2011, D<mask> was featured on Ray Garrison's single "Forever Gone", alongside Kyle Lucas. Later that year, she also released a "part 2" version of her song "Lady in the Street" on iTunes. The Gray Area EP that was supposed to come out in 2009 is now coming out on July 12, 2011, digitally on iTunes. In April 2012, D<mask> released a new single called "2 The Bottom". She also released the My Favorite Color EP, Volume 1, that she's been hyping up for years, in December 2012. A new single, "Gold Mine", will be released to iTunes on August 13, 2013, with the release of My Favorite Color EP, Volume 2 following sometime in the fall. Discography Mixtapes: Independence Day, Volume 1 (2009) Independence Day, Volume 2 (2010) Lady In The Street (2011) EPs: The Gray Area (2011) My Favorite Color (2012) See also Bad Boy Records References External links Official MySpace profile <mask> Official website That Grape Juice Interviews D. <mask> 1983 births Living people African-American women singer-songwriters American hip hop singers American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters <mask> Kane members Musicians from Atlanta Musicians from Los Angeles Singer-songwriters from Massachusetts Participants in American reality television series People from Anaheim, California Musicians from Springfield, Massachusetts Singing talent show winners Tisch School of the Arts alumni Actors from Springfield, Massachusetts 21st-century African-American women singers Singer-songwriters from California

Wanita Woodgett, better known as D<mask>, is an American singer, dancer, and actress. <mask> was a finalist on the second season of MTV's "Making The Band 3." She is the founder and CEO of Woodgrane Entertainment. Before joining <mask>, <mask> toured with several major recording artists such as Bow Wow and Lloyd, as well as performing in theater festivals such as the National Black Theater Festival and the Windybrow Festival in South Africa. She was one of the models in the video "Change Clothes" by Jay-Z, which was directed by Chris Robinson. D<mask> was a contestant on the second season of MTV's Making the Band 3. <mask>'s first album was released in August of 2006 1.The Pussycat Dolls toured with <mask> Kane as the opening act. <mask> was the lead girl in Lloyd's video. She appeared on the track "You Don't Know Me" in the album Welcome to the Zoo. She was in the film Stomp the Yard. There are multiple tracks on the <mask> Kane album Welcome to the Dollhouse. On October 14, 2008, Combs declared <mask> no longer a member of <mask> Kane, as well as bandmate and then-best friend Aubrey O'<mask>, following a heated discussion. Fans of <mask> and O'<mask> were gauged by MTV News.Fans left lengthy comments on the MTV News site about their feelings about the group's break up. They felt there was a lack of individuality and excitement in the group. The group broke up in early 2009, when it was reported <mask> and <mask>, along with group member Shannon Bex, declined the offer to return to the series. O'<mask> wasn't asked to return, but she was unsure if <mask> was asked back. <mask> was released from her contract with Bad Boy Records on February 26, 2009, before the final episode of Making the Band. In the April 23, 2009, finale of the series, Combs stated that all five original members would return. In addition to a single that will be released early summer 2009, <mask> said she was going to release a full-length album later in the year.<mask> spoke with a journalist after the show. There is an alleged rivalry between <mask> and <mask>. I don't know if she has a problem with me. I don't know why she would have a problem. I was not happy with a lot of the things she said in the media. Those comments were definitely going to get back to me because people are aware of her comments. I didn't know why she would go that route.If it was to depict her as the victim and everyone else as the bad guy, I don't think that's right. I gave her a hug as I walked out the door. I don't know why she would have a problem, but I'm not sure. <mask> said, "I don't have any animosity towards any of the girls." Chapter ends and like things happen for a reason, it's time to move on. People are in each other's lives for a reason and a season. There's no reason to be angry.The way that you present yourself, the actions you take, the comments that you make can lend themselves to having a 'beef' or having animosity. King Magazine has two photo spreads with <mask>. She appeared in a music video for "One More Drink" and is currently recording songs for a possible solo album. She appeared in two Young Money videos, "Prom Queen" and "Every Girl". She is working on film and television projects. She is filming a music video. She is filming the video for "On My Side" in Los Angeles in June."Legalize Me" is a digital single and a music video under <mask>' own label Woodgrane Entertainment. <mask> was a featured artist for Canadian rapper <mask> (Die Young) for his second single "That's My Spot", which a music video was filmed right before Dy disappeared in Mexico in early September 2010, and has now been confirmed as missing as of November 18, 2010. <mask> took to her account after learning about the missing person, "I'm so hurt and worried." No matter how long I knew him, this news affects me. I'm praying for him. She said that they were joking on the set of his video. The director told us that it was a wrap and that we should see each other later.Kyle Lucas and D<mask> were featured on Ray Garrison's single "Forever Gone" in 2011. She released a second version of her song "Lady in the Street" later that year. The Gray Area EP was supposed to be released in 2009, but will be released on July 12, 2011. "2 The Bottom" was released in April of 2012 by D<mask>. My Favorite Color Volume 1 was released in December of 2012 and she has been hyping it up for years. The new single, "Gold Mine", will be released on August 13, and the second volume of My Favorite Color will be released in the fall. Discography Mixtapes: Independence Day, Volume 1 and 2, Lady In The Street, and My Favorite Color are all from Bad Boy Records.

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May Harrison

May Harrison (23 August 1890- 8 June 1959) was an English violinist and the oldest of four sisters who were classical musicians in Great Britain during the early 20th century. Each had started out as child prodigies. Information Her sisters, Beatrice (1892-1965), Monica (1897-1983) and Margaret (1899-1995) became, respectively, a cellist, mezzo-soprano, and violinist. All four were reportedly also talented pianists. May Harrison became known for her interpretations of the violin works of Bach, Brahms, Elgar, Glazunov, Grieg, Handel, and Mendelssohn while her sister, Beatrice, was praised by King George V for her outdoor recordings at the Harrison’s home at Foyle Riding in Oxted, Surrey of cello works mingled with nightingale songs. The monarch reportedly thanked her for bringing “the Empire closer together through the song of the nightingale and your cello.” According to Katherine Fountain who wrote a biographical sketch of the Harrison sisters: However much we admire the soloists of today, things will never be the same as during the lifetime of the Harrison family. They dedicated their lives to the cause of music, paving the way for a generation of women musicians. They gained the respect of the leading composers and performers of their day and set a musical precedent in the history of English music. Formative years Born in India in 1890, May Harrison was a daughter of Colonel John Harrison, an amateur flautist who was the principal at St. Thomas College of Sappers and Miners. Her sister, Beatrice, was born in 1892 in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India “in a picturesque valley of the Himalayas,” where her father worked, according to David Candlin. Their mother, a singer, had studied with Henschel and Garcia at London’s Royal College of Music. That same year, the family returned to England, where May Harrison's father was given command of The Royal Engineers Band at Chatham. May Harrison also began her violin studies in 1892 when she was just two years old. Sisters Monica and Margaret were born, respectively, at Redcliffe Square, London in 1897 and Chatham in 1899. From 1901 to 1920, May Harrison and her sisters were reared at Cornwall Gardens (with the exception of a brief interruption in 1908). Musical training and career In 1900, May Harrison vied against 3,000 male and female musicians of all ages in the Associated Board's Senior Department, taking home the Gold Medal when she was just ten years old. The next year, she was awarded a scholarship to The Royal College of Music. Her sisters, Beatrice and Margaret, were also accepted to the college, respectively in 1903 and 1904. (At the time of her enrollment, Margaret Harrison was reportedly the youngest student the college had ever accepted.) From 1902 to 1907, May Harrison trained under Madrid Symphony conductor Fernandez Arbos. In 1903, she made her formal debut at St. James Hall. The program, conducted by Henry Wood, included: Bach's Chaconne and E Major Concerto, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Cappriccioso. In the audience was violinist Fritz Kreisler. According to Katrina Fountain, "May's genius, even at the age of fifteen, became apparent to Arbos who invited her in 1906 to make her European debut with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. This was a great success and, with her mother as chaperone, she went to meet the Spanish Royal family and was presented with a gift of jewels". In 1908, the bulk of the Harrison family relocated to Berlin, Germany for two years, where Beatrice Harrison began studies at the Hochschule für Musik. Meanwhile, May Harrison left England in 1908 to pursue her own studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia with Leopold Auer. She then made her European debut in 1909 in Berlin, Germany. That same year, she replaced Fritz Kreisler at the Mendelssohn Festival in Helsingfors, Finland". Over the next decade, May and Beatrice Harrison increased their fame through performances of Johannes Brahms’ Double-Concerto for Violin and Cello. Following their initial performance of the piece under the baton of Alexander Glazunov in St. Petersburg, they then performed it nearly 60 more times for European audiences, including a concert under the baton of Sir Thomas Beecham at Hallé (Manchester) on 3 December 1914. Inspired by their performance that night, Frederick Delius returned home to pen a Double Concerto, which he then dedicated to the Harrison sisters and which they, in turn, performed in 1920. According to May Harrison's sister, Beatrice: It was a great thrill the first time I met Delius. My sister May (who is a very fine violinist) and I were playing the Double Brahms Concerto with Sir Thomas Beecham at Manchester, and after the performance a very charming looking man came forward, and when Sir Thomas introduced him we were enchanted to hear that it was Delius in the flesh. I wish I could describe our delight when he said that he thought our performance was superb, so much so that he himself was inspired to write a double concerto and dedicate it to my sister and me. And he did it! Of course we had that marvellous conductor and a splendid orchestra that evening, and we feel we can never thank them enough for helping us to inspire Delius to write his glorious Double. Many critics consider it one of the finest orchestral works". According to May Harrison's sister, Margaret: We were all very fond of Delius. We knew him from the early war years, and that was the real Delius. Our friendship really started when he wrote the Double Concerto, but May was playing Sonata No. 1 with Hamilton Harty [Aeolian Hall, London, 16 June 1915] even before we knew Delius well…. Both May and I love Sonata No. 1. I played it a lot. I played both the First and Second Sonatas to Delius who seemed to enjoy it. He always praised when one played, he was very good in that. May and Beatrice went to Grez [where Delius resided] before I did. When we went over we would always play to Delius…. May went to Grez a lot, especially later when they were doing the Third Sonata which Delius wrote for her". May Harrison also later described Delius (an a 1945 lecture for the Royal Music Association): To those who love Delius's music it holds a magic so irresistible and a beauty so individual that the sound at times can bring actual pain. The playing of Delius's music, I consider, an instinct, an improvisation on the spur of the moment, and because of this elusive quality, this intangible something, I maintain that it is practically impossible to teach that music. No composer, I think, to such an extent on his interpreters, who can make or mar to such a degree as to change the whole colour and meaning of his work; and no composer suffered more from indifferent playing than he did. Exact intonation is one of the greatest difficulties. I have seen him shudder with agony at bad intonation or insensitive phrasing; and now when I see his works so often set for examinations I feel I must offer up a prayer that Delius may be comforted for the performances that are bound to come forth!" In 1922, May Harrison relocated with her family to Foyle Riding in Oxted and Limpsfield, Surrey. According to Candlin, “Their garden was the scene of many social charity garden parties, and received visitors from all over the world to see ‘The Garden of the Nightingales'” (the location where May's sister, Beatrice, made her famed recordings of cello music with nightingale accompaniments).” In 1930, Delius dedicated his Violin Sonata, No. 3 to May Harrison. Four years later, the Harrison sisters suffered multiple losses with the 1934 deaths of their mother and, in June, Delius. Their father, who had also been in declining health then also passed away a short time later. Among the friends and colleagues made by the sisters in the musical community, in addition to Beecham, Delius, Elgar, Kreisler, and Glazunov were: Eugen d’Albert, Sir Arnold Bax, Pablo Casals, John Ireland, Zoltán Kodály, Dame Nellie Melba, Ernest John Moeran, Oskar Nedbal, Arthur Nikisch, Roger Quilter, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Felix Weingartner. Delius and others dedicated several of their compositions to various Harrison sisters over time. Their circle of friends also included the politically well connected, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, as well as George Bernard Shaw and other artists and writers. Prior to the outbreak of World War II, May Harrison’s performances were frequently heard live in Promenade Concerts and via the BBC Radio. From 1935 to 1947, she was also a member of the faculty at The Royal College of Music. Three of the sisters, -- May, Beatrice and Margaret – performed in the Delius Memorial Concert at Wigmore Hall on 29 May 1946, which helped raise funds to ease the war-related suffering of European children. Death and interment May Harrison and her sisters remained single until their deaths. Following May Harrison’s death in England on 8 June 1959, and her subsequent burial at St. Peter Churchyard cemetery in Limpsfield, Surrey, the three surviving sisters – Beatrice, Margaret and Monica – lived together in Limpsfield. Beatrice was the next to die, in Limpsfield on 10 March 1965, followed by Monica, died there on 8 December 1983 and Margaret, who died there on Christmas Eve in 1995. All three sisters were laid to rest at the same cemetery where their elder sister, May, had been interred. According to Fountain, their mother had also been laid to rest at the same cemetery in 1934. Delius also rests nearby. "On his death in June 1934 Delius was buried at Grez-sur-Loing, but he had once told Mrs. Harrison that he would like to be buried in an English churchyard. Mrs. Harrison herself died earlier that same year (and their father, already ill, died soon after), but the sisters, after consulting Jelka Delius, saw that this wish was carried out, and in May 1935 his [Delius'] body was exhumed and brought over to England to be laid to rest in Limpsfield churchyard, near to the Harrisons’ own mother's grave". References External links Candlin, David. "Beatrice Harrison and her duets with Nightingales." Limpsfield, United Kingdom: St. Peter's Limpsfield Parish News, Autumn 2015, p. 16. Delius, Frederick. Violin Sonata, No. 1 (recording of performance by May Harrison, violin). Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America, retrieved online June 12, 2018. "May Harrison" (memorial). Find A Grave: Retrieved online June 12, 2018. The Delius Society Journal (The Harrison Sisters Issue), Autumn 1985, No. 87. London, United Kingdom: The Delius Society, retrieved online June 12, 2018. The Harrison Sisters, in famous musician burials, in "St. Peter's Churchyard." Limpsfield, United Kingdom: The Limpsfield Net, retrieved online June 12, 2018. Women violinists 20th-century English women musicians 20th-century English musicians 20th-century violinists 1890 births 1959 deaths

<mask> (23 August 1890- 8 June 1959) was an English violinist and the oldest of four sisters who were classical musicians in Great Britain during the early 20th century. Each had started out as child prodigies. Information Her sisters, Beatrice (1892-1965), Monica (1897-1983) and Margaret (1899-1995) became, respectively, a cellist, mezzo-soprano, and violinist. All four were reportedly also talented pianists. <mask> became known for her interpretations of the violin works of Bach, Brahms, Elgar, Glazunov, Grieg, Handel, and Mendelssohn while her sister, Beatrice, was praised by King George V for her outdoor recordings at the <mask>’s home at Foyle Riding in Oxted, Surrey of cello works mingled with nightingale songs. The monarch reportedly thanked her for bringing “the Empire closer together through the song of the nightingale and your cello.” According to Katherine Fountain who wrote a biographical sketch of the <mask> sisters: However much we admire the soloists of today, things will never be the same as during the lifetime of the <mask> family. They dedicated their lives to the cause of music, paving the way for a generation of women musicians.They gained the respect of the leading composers and performers of their day and set a musical precedent in the history of English music. Formative years Born in India in 1890, <mask> was a daughter of Colonel <mask>, an amateur flautist who was the principal at St. Thomas College of Sappers and Miners. Her sister, Beatrice, was born in 1892 in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India “in a picturesque valley of the Himalayas,” where her father worked, according to David Candlin. Their mother, a singer, had studied with Henschel and Garcia at London’s Royal College of Music. That same year, the family returned to England, where <mask>'s father was given command of The Royal Engineers Band at Chatham. <mask> also began her violin studies in 1892 when she was just two years old. Sisters Monica and Margaret were born, respectively, at Redcliffe Square, London in 1897 and Chatham in 1899.From 1901 to 1920, <mask> and her sisters were reared at Cornwall Gardens (with the exception of a brief interruption in 1908). Musical training and career In 1900, <mask> vied against 3,000 male and female musicians of all ages in the Associated Board's Senior Department, taking home the Gold Medal when she was just ten years old. The next year, she was awarded a scholarship to The Royal College of Music. Her sisters, Beatrice and Margaret, were also accepted to the college, respectively in 1903 and 1904. (At the time of her enrollment, <mask> was reportedly the youngest student the college had ever accepted.) From 1902 to 1907, <mask> trained under Madrid Symphony conductor Fernandez Arbos. In 1903, she made her formal debut at St. James Hall.The program, conducted by Henry Wood, included: Bach's Chaconne and E Major Concerto, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Cappriccioso. In the audience was violinist Fritz Kreisler. According to Katrina Fountain, "<mask>'s genius, even at the age of fifteen, became apparent to Arbos who invited her in 1906 to make her European debut with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. This was a great success and, with her mother as chaperone, she went to meet the Spanish Royal family and was presented with a gift of jewels". In 1908, the bulk of the <mask> family relocated to Berlin, Germany for two years, where <mask> began studies at the Hochschule für Musik. Meanwhile, <mask> left England in 1908 to pursue her own studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia with Leopold Auer. She then made her European debut in 1909 in Berlin, Germany.That same year, she replaced Fritz Kreisler at the Mendelssohn Festival in Helsingfors, Finland". Over the next decade, <mask> and <mask> increased their fame through performances of Johannes Brahms’ Double-Concerto for Violin and Cello. Following their initial performance of the piece under the baton of Alexander Glazunov in St. Petersburg, they then performed it nearly 60 more times for European audiences, including a concert under the baton of Sir Thomas Beecham at Hallé (Manchester) on 3 December 1914. Inspired by their performance that night, Frederick Delius returned home to pen a Double Concerto, which he then dedicated to the <mask> sisters and which they, in turn, performed in 1920. According to <mask>'s sister, Beatrice: It was a great thrill the first time I met Delius. My sister <mask> (who is a very fine violinist) and I were playing the Double Brahms Concerto with Sir Thomas Beecham at Manchester, and after the performance a very charming looking man came forward, and when Sir Thomas introduced him we were enchanted to hear that it was Delius in the flesh. I wish I could describe our delight when he said that he thought our performance was superb, so much so that he himself was inspired to write a double concerto and dedicate it to my sister and me.And he did it! Of course we had that marvellous conductor and a splendid orchestra that evening, and we feel we can never thank them enough for helping us to inspire Delius to write his glorious Double. Many critics consider it one of the finest orchestral works". According to <mask>'s sister, Margaret: We were all very fond of Delius. We knew him from the early war years, and that was the real Delius. Our friendship really started when he wrote the Double Concerto, but <mask> was playing Sonata No. 1 with Hamilton Harty [Aeolian Hall, London, 16 June 1915] even before we knew Delius well….Both <mask> and I love Sonata No. 1. I played it a lot. I played both the First and Second Sonatas to Delius who seemed to enjoy it. He always praised when one played, he was very good in that. <mask> and Beatrice went to Grez [where Delius resided] before I did. When we went over we would always play to Delius….<mask> went to Grez a lot, especially later when they were doing the Third Sonata which Delius wrote for her". <mask> also later described Delius (an a 1945 lecture for the Royal Music Association): To those who love Delius's music it holds a magic so irresistible and a beauty so individual that the sound at times can bring actual pain. The playing of Delius's music, I consider, an instinct, an improvisation on the spur of the moment, and because of this elusive quality, this intangible something, I maintain that it is practically impossible to teach that music. No composer, I think, to such an extent on his interpreters, who can make or mar to such a degree as to change the whole colour and meaning of his work; and no composer suffered more from indifferent playing than he did. Exact intonation is one of the greatest difficulties. I have seen him shudder with agony at bad intonation or insensitive phrasing; and now when I see his works so often set for examinations I feel I must offer up a prayer that Delius may be comforted for the performances that are bound to come forth!" In 1922, <mask> relocated with her family to Foyle Riding in Oxted and Limpsfield, Surrey.According to Candlin, “Their garden was the scene of many social charity garden parties, and received visitors from all over the world to see ‘The Garden of the Nightingales'” (the location where <mask>'s sister, Beatrice, made her famed recordings of cello music with nightingale accompaniments).” In 1930, Delius dedicated his Violin Sonata, No. 3 to <mask>. Four years later, the <mask> sisters suffered multiple losses with the 1934 deaths of their mother and, in June, Delius. Their father, who had also been in declining health then also passed away a short time later. Among the friends and colleagues made by the sisters in the musical community, in addition to Beecham, Delius, Elgar, Kreisler, and Glazunov were: Eugen d’Albert, Sir Arnold Bax, Pablo Casals, John Ireland, Zoltán Kodály, Dame Nellie Melba, Ernest John Moeran, Oskar Nedbal, Arthur Nikisch, Roger Quilter, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Felix Weingartner. Delius and others dedicated several of their compositions to various <mask> sisters over time. Their circle of friends also included the politically well connected, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, as well as George Bernard Shaw and other artists and writers.Prior to the outbreak of World War II, <mask>’s performances were frequently heard live in Promenade Concerts and via the BBC Radio. From 1935 to 1947, she was also a member of the faculty at The Royal College of Music. Three of the sisters, -- <mask>, Beatrice and Margaret – performed in the Delius Memorial Concert at Wigmore Hall on 29 May 1946, which helped raise funds to ease the war-related suffering of European children. Death and interment <mask> and her sisters remained single until their deaths. Following <mask>’s death in England on 8 June 1959, and her subsequent burial at St. Peter Churchyard cemetery in Limpsfield, Surrey, the three surviving sisters – Beatrice, Margaret and Monica – lived together in Limpsfield. Beatrice was the next to die, in Limpsfield on 10 March 1965, followed by Monica, died there on 8 December 1983 and Margaret, who died there on Christmas Eve in 1995. All three sisters were laid to rest at the same cemetery where their elder sister, <mask>, had been interred.According to Fountain, their mother had also been laid to rest at the same cemetery in 1934. Delius also rests nearby. "On his death in June 1934 Delius was buried at Grez-sur-Loing, but he had once told Mrs. <mask> that he would like to be buried in an English churchyard. Mrs. <mask> herself died earlier that same year (and their father, already ill, died soon after), but the sisters, after consulting Jelka Delius, saw that this wish was carried out, and in May 1935 his [Delius'] body was exhumed and brought over to England to be laid to rest in Limpsfield churchyard, near to the <mask>s’ own mother's grave". References External links Candlin, David. "<mask> and her duets with Nightingales." Limpsfield, United Kingdom: St. Peter's Limpsfield Parish News, Autumn 2015, p. 16.Delius, Frederick. Violin Sonata, No. 1 (recording of performance by <mask>, violin). Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America, retrieved online June 12, 2018. "<mask>" (memorial). Find A Grave: Retrieved online June 12, 2018. The Delius Society Journal (The Harrison Sisters Issue), Autumn 1985, No.87. London, United Kingdom: The Delius Society, retrieved online June 12, 2018. The <mask> Sisters, in famous musician burials, in "St. Peter's Churchyard." Limpsfield, United Kingdom: The Limpsfield Net, retrieved online June 12, 2018. Women violinists 20th-century English women musicians 20th-century English musicians 20th-century violinists 1890 births 1959 deaths

<mask> was an English violinist and the oldest of four sisters who were classical musicians in Great Britain during the early 20th century. They started out as child prodigies. Monica and Margaret became cellists and violinists, respectively. According to reports, all four were talented pianists. King George V praised <mask> for her outdoor recordings at the <mask>'s home at Foyle Riding in Oxted, while she was known for her interpretations of violin works. The <mask> sisters were praised by the monarch for bringing the Empire closer together through the song of the nightingale and cello. They paved the way for a generation of women musicians by dedicating their lives to music.They set a musical precedent in the history of English music by gaining the respect of the leading composers and performers of their day. <mask> was the daughter of an amateur flautist who was the principal at St. Thomas College. According to David Candlin, her father worked in the valley of the Himalayas where her sister was born. Their mother studied at London's Royal College of Music. <mask>'s father was given command of The Royal Engineers Band at Chatham after the family returned to England. <mask> began her violin studies when she was two years old. Monica and Margaret were born in 1899 and 1897, respectively.<mask> and her sisters were reared at Cornwall Gardens from 1901 to 1920. <mask> was ten years old when she won the gold medal in the senior department of the Associated Board. She received a scholarship to The Royal College of Music. In 1903 and 1904, her sisters were accepted to the college. <mask> was the youngest student the college had ever accepted. <mask> trained under the Madrid Symphony conductor. She made her debut in 1903.The program was conducted by Henry Wood. The violinist was in the audience. <mask>'s genius, even at the age of fifteen, became apparent to Arbos who invited her in 1906 to make her European debut with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. This was a great success and, with her mother as chaperone, she went to meet the Spanish Royal family and was presented with a gift of jewels. The majority of the <mask> family relocated to Berlin, Germany in the early 20th century. <mask> left England in 1908 to study in Russia with Leopold Auer. She made her European debut in 1909.She was in charge of the festival in Helsingfors, Finland. The Double-Concerto for Violin and Cello was performed by the <mask>s over the next decade. They performed the piece many times for European audiences, including a concert under the baton of Sir Thomas Beecham in Manchester on 3 December 1914. The <mask> sisters were dedicated to by Frederick Delius after he wrote a Double Concerto in honor of them. It was great to meet Delius for the first time. When Sir Thomas introduced him, we were enchanted to hear that it was Delius in the flesh, because after the performance a very charming looking man came forward, and after the performance a very charming looking man came forward, and after the performance a very charming looking man came forward, and after When he said that he thought our performance was superb, so much so that he himself was inspired to write a double concerto and dedicate it to my sister and me, I wish I could describe our delight.He did it! We feel we can never thank the conductor and orchestra enough for helping us to inspire Delius to write his Double. It is considered one of the finest orchestral works by many critics. Margaret said that they were all fond of Delius. We knew him from the beginning of the war. <mask> was playing a song when our friendship began. Even before we knew Delius, we had 1 with Hamilton Harty.<mask> and I love the same book. 1. I played it a lot. Delius seemed to like it when I played the First and Second Sonatas to him. He was very good at praising one who played. They went to Grez before I did. We would always play to Delius.Delius wrote the Third Sonata for her and <mask> went to Grez a lot. To those who love Delius's music, it holds a magic so irresistible and a beauty so individual that the sound at times can bring actual pain. I maintain that it is almost impossible to teach Delius's music because of its elusive quality. No composer, I think, to such an extent on his interpreters, who can make or mar to such a degree as to change the whole colour and meaning of his work; and no composer suffered more from indifferent playing than he did. It is one of the greatest challenges. I offer up a prayer that Delius may be comforted for the performances that are bound to come forth because I have seen him shudder with agony when he sees his works set for exams. In 1922, <mask> and her family moved to Foyle Riding.The location where <mask>'s sister made her famed recordings of cello music with nighting was the scene of many social charity garden parties. 3 to <mask>. The <mask> sisters lost their mother and Delius in 1934. Their father, who was also in declining health, passed away a short time later. Among the friends and colleagues made by the sisters in the musical community were: Eugen d'Albert, Sir Arnold Bax, Pablo Casals, John Ireland, Zoltn Kodly. Several of Delius' compositions were dedicated to the <mask> sisters. Their circle of friends included Eleanor Roosevelt and Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Edward VII and QueenAlexandra, as well as George Bernard Shaw and other artists and writers.Prior to the outbreak of World War II, <mask>'s performances were frequently heard live in Promenade Concerts. She was a member of the faculty at The Royal College of Music from 1935 to 1947. The Delius Memorial Concert at Wigmore Hall helped raise funds to alleviate the war-related suffering of European children when three of the sisters performed. <mask> and her sisters were single until their deaths. On June 8, 1959 <mask> died in England and was buried at St. Peter Churchyard cemetery in Limpsfield. Monica died there on December 8, 1983, followed by Margaret who died there on Christmas Eve 1995. The sisters were buried at the same cemetery where <mask> was laid to rest.Fountain claims that their mother was also laid to rest at the same cemetery in 1934. Delius is nearby. Delius had told Mrs. <mask> that he wanted to be buried in an English churchyard. After consulting Jelka Delius, the sisters saw that the wish to exhume his body was carried out, and in May 1935 his body was brought over. Candlin, David. atrice <mask> had duets with Nightingales. St. Peter's Limpsfield Parish News was published in the Autumn of 2015.Delius, Frederick. There is a violin recital. <mask> recorded her performance on the violin. The video was retrieved online on June 12th. There is a memorial to <mask>. You can find a grave online. The Harrison Sisters issue of The Delius Society Journal was published in Autumn 1985.There was a score of 87. The Delius Society was retrieved online in June. The Harrison Sisters are in a churchyard. The Limpsfield Net was retrieved online on June 12. The births and deaths of women violinists in the 20th century.

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Richard Hughes (jockey)

|} |} Richard Hughes (born 11 January 1973) is a retired Irish jockey and current racehorse trainer who is based at Lambourn in Berkshire, England. Born in Dublin, he is the son of successful National Hunt trainer, Dessie Hughes. Hughes became British flat racing Champion Jockey in 2012 and retained that title in 2013, when he rode more than 200 winners in the season, and again in 2014. Riding career Hughes started pony racing aged seven, having his first win aboard Chestnut Lady in a six furlong race at Wexford. His first ride in the senior ranks was in a six furlong maiden at Naas on 19 March 1988, on a debutant called Scath Na Greine. He finished tenth. Since the end of 2013, Hughes' main provider of rides has been trainer Richard Hannon Jr., who is also his brother in law. For many years before that he rode for Hannon's father, Richard Hannon Sr. and from 2001-07 he was also retained by the owner Prince Khalid Abdullah. Hughes is 5'10" in height, very tall for a flat jockey, similar to Tony McCoy; both men have to maintain his weight significantly below natural levels, even for a jockey. His larger natural size means he cannot ride horses carrying light weights, reducing his winning opportunities. Hughes is respected for his riding style of 'nursing' horses along, getting horses to respond and run into the race without appearing to physically ride them hard. In October 2011, Hughes received a five day ban for hitting Swift Blade six times in the final furlong and a few days later got a ten day ban for hitting More Than Words too many times with the whip inside the final furlong in a race at Kempton. The ban was the first of its kind to be implemented after a change in the rules regarding horse welfare. On 13 October 2011, it was announced that Hughes was giving up his racing licence and quitting the sport out of protest at the ban. Hughes did not follow up on this threat and on 15 October 2012 he equaled Frankie Dettori's record of winning seven races in a single meeting by winning seven out of eight races at Windsor Racecourse. The following month, he claimed his first British flat racing Champion Jockey title with 172 winners over the season. In May 2013, after a long wait, he won his first British Classic on Sky Lantern in the 1,000 Guineas. He then won his second a month later on Talent in the Oaks. On 21 June 2013, he won the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on 1000 guineas winner Sky Lantern. At the end of the 2013 British flat racing Hughes was crowned Champion Jockey for the second consecutive season. His total of 208 winners made him the first jockey to ride more than 200 winners in a British flat season since Kieren Fallon in 2003. He retained the title again in 2014, before retiring and taking up training. Personal life Hughes is married to wife Lizzie and the couple have two son's and a daughter. Outside of racing he enjoys playing a lot of golf. British career wins 1996 1 1997 29 1998 53 1999 89 2000 102 2001 91 2002 126 2003 121 2004 73 2005 124 2006 113 2007 139 2008 127 2009 144 2010 192 2011 130 2012 174 2013 208 Major wins Great Britain 1,000 Guineas – (1) – Sky Lantern (2013) Cheveley Park Stakes – (2) – Indian Ink (2006), Tiggy Wiggy (2014) Coronation Stakes – (2) – Indian Ink (2007), Sky Lantern (2013) Epsom Oaks – (1) – Talent (2013) Falmouth Stakes – (1) – Music Show (2010) Haydock Sprint Cup – (1) – Tante Rose (2004) July Cup – (1) – Oasis Dream (2003) King's Stand Stakes – (2) – Piccolo (1995), Sole Power (2014) Lockinge Stakes – (2) – Paco Boy (2010), Canford Cliffs (2011) Nassau Stakes – (1) – The Fugue (2012) Nunthorpe Stakes – (2) – Oasis Dream (2003), Sole Power (2014) Queen Anne Stakes – (3) – Paco Boy (2009), Canford Cliffs (2011), Toronado (2014) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes – (1) – Olympic Glory (2013) St James's Palace Stakes – (1) – Canford Cliffs (2010) Sussex Stakes – (2) – Canford Cliffs (2010), Toronado (2013) France Critérium de Saint-Cloud – (1) – Passage of Time (2006) Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud – (1) – Youmzain (2008) Poule d'Essai des Poulains – (1) – American Post (2004) Poule d'Essai des Pouliches – (1) – Zenda (2002) Prix du Cadran – (1) – Invermark (1998) Prix de Diane – (1) – Nebraska Tornado (2003) Prix d'Ispahan – (1) – Observatory (2001) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère – (2) – American Post (2003), Olympic Glory (2012) Prix Jean Prat – (1) – Dick Turpin (2010) Prix du Moulin de Longchamp – (1) – Nebraska Tornado (2003) India Bangalore Derby – (1) – Moonlight Romance (2010 – Summer season) Indian 1,000 Guineas – (1) – Jacqueline (2009) Indian 2,000 Guineas – (4) – Smart Chieftain (1999), Autonomy (2008), Jacqueline (2009), Ocean And Beyond (2010), Pronto Pronto (2011) Indian Derby – (2) – Smart Chieftain (2000), Jacqueline (2010) Indian Oaks – (2) – Jacqueline (2010), Moonlight Romance (2011) Ireland Goffs Million – (2) – Soul City (2008), Lucky General (2009) Irish Champion Hurdle – (1) – Cockney Lad (1997) Irish 2,000 Guineas – (1) – Canford Cliffs (2010) Matron Stakes – (1) – Tadwiga (1998) Moyglare Stud Stakes – (1) – Sky Lantern (2012) Paddy Power Future Champions Novice Hurdle - (1) His Song (1997) Italy Derby Italiano – (1) – Bahamian Knight (1996) Gran Premio d'Italia – (1) – Posidonas (1995) Premio Vittorio di Capua – (1) – Mistle Cat (1996) United Arab Emirates Al Quoz Sprint – (1) - Sole Power (2015) United States Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf – (1) – Chriselliam (2013) See also List of jockeys References External links Profile – Richard Hughes BBC Sport, 23 April 2004 Hughes breaks with Abdullah to ride as freelance The Independent, 22 October 2007 Richard Hughes – Collected Articles The Guardian Richard Hughes – Statistics Racing Post People in Racing: Richard Hughes (flat) British Horseracing Authority Jockey Richard Hughes on his battle with alcoholism BBC Sport, 22 June 2012 An Irishman Abroad – Richard Hughes: Episode 27 Hughes talks to podcaster and childhood friend Jarlath Regan; SoundCloud, March 2014 1973 births Irish jockeys Living people Lester Award winners British Champion flat jockeys Irish horse trainers

|} |} <mask> (born 11 January 1973) is a retired Irish jockey and current racehorse trainer who is based at Lambourn in Berkshire, England. Born in Dublin, he is the son of successful National Hunt trainer, <mask>. <mask> became British flat racing Champion Jockey in 2012 and retained that title in 2013, when he rode more than 200 winners in the season, and again in 2014. Riding career <mask> started pony racing aged seven, having his first win aboard Chestnut Lady in a six furlong race at Wexford. His first ride in the senior ranks was in a six furlong maiden at Naas on 19 March 1988, on a debutant called Scath Na Greine. He finished tenth. Since the end of 2013, <mask>' main provider of rides has been trainer <mask>., who is also his brother in law.For many years before that he rode for Hannon's father, <mask> Sr. and from 2001-07 he was also retained by the owner Prince Khalid Abdullah. <mask> is 5'10" in height, very tall for a flat jockey, similar to Tony McCoy; both men have to maintain his weight significantly below natural levels, even for a jockey. His larger natural size means he cannot ride horses carrying light weights, reducing his winning opportunities. <mask> is respected for his riding style of 'nursing' horses along, getting horses to respond and run into the race without appearing to physically ride them hard. In October 2011, <mask> received a five day ban for hitting Swift Blade six times in the final furlong and a few days later got a ten day ban for hitting More Than Words too many times with the whip inside the final furlong in a race at Kempton. The ban was the first of its kind to be implemented after a change in the rules regarding horse welfare. On 13 October 2011, it was announced that <mask> was giving up his racing licence and quitting the sport out of protest at the ban.<mask> did not follow up on this threat and on 15 October 2012 he equaled Frankie Dettori's record of winning seven races in a single meeting by winning seven out of eight races at Windsor Racecourse. The following month, he claimed his first British flat racing Champion Jockey title with 172 winners over the season. In May 2013, after a long wait, he won his first British Classic on Sky Lantern in the 1,000 Guineas. He then won his second a month later on Talent in the Oaks. On 21 June 2013, he won the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on 1000 guineas winner Sky Lantern. At the end of the 2013 British flat racing <mask> was crowned Champion Jockey for the second consecutive season. His total of 208 winners made him the first jockey to ride more than 200 winners in a British flat season since Kieren Fallon in 2003.He retained the title again in 2014, before retiring and taking up training. Personal life <mask> is married to wife Lizzie and the couple have two son's and a daughter. Outside of racing he enjoys playing a lot of golf.

<mask> is a retired Irish jockey and current racehorse trainer who is based in England. <mask> was a successful National Hunt trainer. In 2012 <mask> became the British flat racing champion jockey, riding more than 200 winners in the season, and again in the year 2014–2018. <mask> had his first win aboard Chestnut Lady in a six furlong race at the age of seven. His first ride in the senior ranks was in a six furlong maiden at Naas on 19 March 1988, on a debutant called Scath Na Greine. He finished tenth. The main provider of rides for <mask> has been <mask>., his brother in law.He rode for Hannon's father for many years and was also retained by the owner. <mask> is very tall for a flat jockey and has to keep his weight down even for a jockey. He can't ride horses with light weights because of his larger natural size. <mask> is respected for his riding style of 'nursing' horses along, getting them to respond and run into the race without appearing to physically ride them hard. <mask> received a five day ban for hitting Swift Blade six times in the final furlong and a ten day ban for hitting More Than Words too many times with the whip in a race at Kempton. After a change in the rules regarding horse welfare, the ban was the first of its kind. On 13 October 2011, it was announced that <mask> was giving up his racing licence and quitting the sport out of protest at the ban.On October 15, 2012 <mask> equaled the record of winning seven races in a single meeting by winning seven out of eight races at Windsor. He won his first British flat racing champion jockey title the following month. After a long wait, he won his first British Classic on Sky Lantern. He won his second on Talent in the Oaks a month later. He won the Coronation Stakes on Sky Lantern. <mask> was crowned champion jockey for the second year in a row. He was the first jockey in a decade to ride more than 200 winners in a British flat season.He took up training after retiring from the title. <mask> is married to a woman who has two sons and a daughter. He likes to play a lot of golf.

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Suphi Ezgi

Mehmet Suphi Ezgi (1869 – 12 April 1962) was an Ottoman-born Turkish military physician who specialized in neurology, and a musician, musicologist and composer. He is best known for his studies of Ottoman classical music. Early life and education Mehmet Suphi was born to İsmail Zühdü and his spouse Emine in Açıktürbe quarter of Üsküdar, Istanbul, then Ottoman Empire, in 1869. His family name "Ezgi", he took after the adoption of the Surname Law in 1934, means ""melody".His father was an accounting controller at the Ministry of Post and Telegraphs of the Ottoman Government. Following the secondary education, he attended the Imperial Military Medicine School. He graduated in 1892 in the rank of Captain. Already at the age of five, he stood out while chanting in the neighborhood school. His father was an amateur singer and music instrument player, who arranged weekly musical meetings at home with music lover associates. Notable musicians of the era like Medeni Aziz Efendi, Hacı Arif Bey (1831-1885) and Kemani Tahsin joined the meetings. Mehmet Suphi attended the meetings in the beginning by singing. At the age of eleven, he received his first music lessons in violin from Kemani Tahsin, adjutant major of the Imperial Military Music Band. During his education of medicine at the boarding school, he visited Medeni Aziz Efendi on weekends for musical tuition. Military career He was appointed military physician of neurology at the 1st Battalion of the 58th Regiment in Benghazi, Libya during the 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War. He returned home in 1913. During World War I, he served in the rank of Colonel as Chief physician of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases () in Serviburnu, Beykoz, Istanbul. With the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence, he moved to Anatolia, and was appointed Chief physician of the Central Hospital of Ankara. He also served at many places as a physician. He retired from his military duty following the proclamation of Republic in 1923. He then worked for nine years as a public physician for the government and municipalities before he resigned. Music and musicology studies Ezgi played the tanbur, as well as the violin and the viola d'amore, and blew the ney. By singing, he had a special own style. He learned Western European musical notation from Hacı Arif Bey, who was his father's music teacher for qanun and the Hamparsum notation of Ottoman classical music from Rauf Yekta (1871–1935). Later, he was able to dechipher the form called the "Mute Hamparsum notation". He received music lessons for about three years from Zekai Dede (1816–1885). He took lessons for viola d'amore and then for tanbur playing from Halim Efendi, Sheikh of the Rifa`i Order lodge in Kozyatağı. Among his music teachers are also Medeni Aziz Efendi (?–1895), with him he performed fasıl during his time at the Military Medicine School, Hüseyin Fahreddin Dede (1854–1911), Sheikh of the Mevlevi Order lodge in Bahariye, Kadıköy, from him he obtained a rich repertoire of religious music, and Edgar Manas Efendi (1875–1964), from him he took lessons in western music and harmony after 1911. He composed more than 700 works in a great number of Turkish makams, however, he deemed only 165 of them worthy of publishing. His song Vatan Şarkısı ("Song of Homeland"), of which lyrics are written by poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), was harmonized by Albert Lavignac (1846–1916), academic at the Conservatoire de Paris. 28 of his songs, which are compositions based on Ottoman poet Nedîm's (c. 1681–1730) odes, were included in the operetta Lale Devri ("Tulip period") by Musahibzade Celal in 1916. He also made some modifications in the Turkish music makams, and was music teacher, teaching the likes of Kemal Batanay (1893–1981), Ercüment Berker (1920–2009), Fahri Kopuz (1882–1968), Laika Karabey (1909 -1989), Mesut Cemil, Yılmaz Öztuna (1930-2012), Ahmet Çağan and Arif Sami Toker (1926-1997). In 1932, he was appointed member of the Board for the Determination and Classification of Historical Turkish Music Works.() at Istanbul City Conservatory. It began a period in which the research and study of Turkish music gained significance importance in his life. His board mission lasted 15 years. His research works, some of the in collaboration with others, were published by the Conservatory of Istanbul between 1933 and 1953. His works of Tanbur Metodu (The Method of Tanbur") and Türk Musikisi Solfej Metodu ("Solfège Method of Turkish Music") were partly published in the Turkish Music Journal. In 1956, he published an article on the tempo in the Turkish Music in the Istanbul Institute Journal. Later years and death In his last years, he lived as an anchorite in Beykoz, Istanbul. Ezgi died on 12 April 1962, and was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery. Publications Ezgi, Suphi, Nazarî, Amelî Türk Musikisi (I-V, İstanbul 1933–1953) ("Theoretical and Practical Turkish Music") Ezgi Suphi et al., Türk Musikisi Klasiklerinden İlâhîler (I-III, İstanbul 1931–1933) ("From the Turkish Music Classics: Chants") Ezgi Suphi et al., Türk Musikisi Klasiklerinden: Bektaşî Nefesleri (IV-V, İstanbul 1933) (" From the Turkish Music Classics: Bektashi Order Music") Ezgi Suphi et al., Türk Musikisi Klasiklerinden: Mevlevî Âyinleri (VI-XVIII, İstanbul 1934–1939) ("From the Turkish Music Classics: Mevlevi Order Rituals ") Ezgi, Suphi, Hâfız Mehmed Zekâî Dede Efendi Külliyâtı (I-III, İstanbul 1940–1943) ("Repertoire of Hafız Mehmed Zekaî Dede (1816–1885)") Ezgi Suphi et al., Evc Bûselik, Mâhur Bûselik, Muhayyer Bûselik, Nevâ Bûselik, Bûselik, Hisâr Bûselik Fasılları (İstanbul 1943) ("Turkish Makam Buselik") Ezgi, Suphi, Tanbûrî Mustafa Çavuş’un 36 Şarkısı (İstanbul 1948) ("36 Songs of Tanbûrî Mustafa Çavuş (1700–1770)") Ezgi, Suphi, Türk Musikisi Klasiklerinden: Temcit-Na’t-Salât-Durak (İstanbul 1945) ("From the Turkish Music Classics: Sufism Music ") References 1869 births 1962 deaths People from Üsküdar Turkish military doctors Turkish military officers Ottoman military personnel of the Italo-Turkish War Ottoman military personnel of World War I Turkish military personnel of the Turkish War of Independence Turkish military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Tanbur players Turkish neurologists Turkish classical composers Performers of Islamic music Burials at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery

<mask> (1869 – 12 April 1962) was an Ottoman-born Turkish military physician who specialized in neurology, and a musician, musicologist and composer. He is best known for his studies of Ottoman classical music. Early life and education <mask> was born to İsmail Zühdü and his spouse Emine in Açıktürbe quarter of Üsküdar, Istanbul, then Ottoman Empire, in 1869. His family name "<mask>", he took after the adoption of the Surname Law in 1934, means ""melody".His father was an accounting controller at the Ministry of Post and Telegraphs of the Ottoman Government. Following the secondary education, he attended the Imperial Military Medicine School. He graduated in 1892 in the rank of Captain. Already at the age of five, he stood out while chanting in the neighborhood school.His father was an amateur singer and music instrument player, who arranged weekly musical meetings at home with music lover associates. Notable musicians of the era like Medeni Aziz Efendi, Hacı Arif Bey (1831-1885) and Kemani Tahsin joined the meetings. Mehmet <mask> attended the meetings in the beginning by singing. At the age of eleven, he received his first music lessons in violin from Kemani Tahsin, adjutant major of the Imperial Military Music Band. During his education of medicine at the boarding school, he visited Medeni Aziz Efendi on weekends for musical tuition. Military career He was appointed military physician of neurology at the 1st Battalion of the 58th Regiment in Benghazi, Libya during the 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War. He returned home in 1913.During World War I, he served in the rank of Colonel as Chief physician of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases () in Serviburnu, Beykoz, Istanbul. With the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence, he moved to Anatolia, and was appointed Chief physician of the Central Hospital of Ankara. He also served at many places as a physician. He retired from his military duty following the proclamation of Republic in 1923. He then worked for nine years as a public physician for the government and municipalities before he resigned. Music and musicology studies <mask> played the tanbur, as well as the violin and the viola d'amore, and blew the ney. By singing, he had a special own style.He learned Western European musical notation from Hacı Arif Bey, who was his father's music teacher for qanun and the Hamparsum notation of Ottoman classical music from Rauf Yekta (1871–1935). Later, he was able to dechipher the form called the "Mute Hamparsum notation". He received music lessons for about three years from Zekai Dede (1816–1885). He took lessons for viola d'amore and then for tanbur playing from Halim Efendi, Sheikh of the Rifa`i Order lodge in Kozyatağı. Among his music teachers are also Medeni Aziz Efendi (?–1895), with him he performed fasıl during his time at the Military Medicine School, Hüseyin Fahreddin Dede (1854–1911), Sheikh of the Mevlevi Order lodge in Bahariye, Kadıköy, from him he obtained a rich repertoire of religious music, and Edgar Manas Efendi (1875–1964), from him he took lessons in western music and harmony after 1911. He composed more than 700 works in a great number of Turkish makams, however, he deemed only 165 of them worthy of publishing. His song Vatan Şarkısı ("Song of Homeland"), of which lyrics are written by poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915), was harmonized by Albert Lavignac (1846–1916), academic at the Conservatoire de Paris.28 of his songs, which are compositions based on Ottoman poet Nedîm's (c. 1681–1730) odes, were included in the operetta Lale Devri ("Tulip period") by Musahibzade Celal in 1916. He also made some modifications in the Turkish music makams, and was music teacher, teaching the likes of Kemal Batanay (1893–1981), Ercüment Berker (1920–2009), Fahri Kopuz (1882–1968), Laika Karabey (1909 -1989), Mesut Cemil, Yılmaz Öztuna (1930-2012), Ahmet Çağan and Arif Sami Toker (1926-1997). In 1932, he was appointed member of the Board for the Determination and Classification of Historical Turkish Music Works. () at Istanbul City Conservatory. It began a period in which the research and study of Turkish music gained significance importance in his life. His board mission lasted 15 years. His research works, some of the in collaboration with others, were published by the Conservatory of Istanbul between 1933 and 1953.His works of Tanbur Metodu (The Method of Tanbur") and Türk Musikisi Solfej Metodu ("Solfège Method of Turkish Music") were partly published in the Turkish Music Journal. In 1956, he published an article on the tempo in the Turkish Music in the Istanbul Institute Journal. Later years and death In his last years, he lived as an anchorite in Beykoz, Istanbul. <mask> died on 12 April 1962, and was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

<mask> was an Ottoman-born Turkish military physician who specialized in neurology and music. He studied Ottoman classical music. <mask> was born to smail Zhd and his spouse Emine in Aktrbe quarter of skdar, Istanbul, in 1869. His father was an accounting controller at the Ministry of Post and Telegraphs of the Ottoman Government. He attended the Imperial Military Medicine School. He graduated in the rank of Captain. He was five years old when he stood out in the school.His father was an amateur singer and music instrument player, who arranged weekly musical meetings at home with music lover associates. Notable musicians of the era like Hac Arif Bey and Kemani Tahsin joined the meetings. Mehmet <mask> sang at the beginning of the meetings. The adjutant major of the Imperial Military Music Band gave him his first violin lessons at the age of eleven. He was a student at the boarding school and visited Medeni for musical tuition on weekends. He was appointed military physician of neurology at the 1st Battalion of the 58th Regiment in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. He came home in 1913.The Chief physician of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases was in the rank of Colonel during World War I. He was appointed Chief physician of the Central Hospital of Ankara at the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence. He was a physician at many places. He retired from military service in 1923. He was a public physician for nine years before he resigned. The tanbur, the violin, and the viola d'amore were played by <mask>. He had his own style by singing.His father's music teacher for qanun was Hac Arif Bey and his father's music teacher for Ottoman classical music was Rauf Yekta. He was able to remove the form called the "Mute Hamparsum notation". He got music lessons from Dede for three years. He took lessons for viola d'amore and tanbur from the Sheikh of the Rifai Order lodge. During his time at the Military Medicine School, Hseyin Fahreddin Dede performed fasl with his music teachers. Only 165 of the 700 works he composed were worthy of publishing. Albert Lavignac, an academic at the Conservatoire de Paris, harmonizes the lyrics of Vatan arks, a song written by poet Tevfik Fikret.His songs were included in the operetta Lale Devri in 1916. He taught the likes of Kemal Batanay, Ercment Berker, and Laika Karabey. He was a member of the Board for the Determination and Classification of Historical Turkish Music Works. There is an Istanbul City Conservatory. The research and study of Turkish music gained importance in his life. His board mission lasted 15 years. Between 1933 and1953, some of his research works were published by the Conservatory of Istanbul.His works were published in the Turkish Music Journal. He published an article on the Turkish Music in the Istanbul Institute Journal. His last years were spent as an anchorite in Beykoz, Istanbul. On April 12 1962, <mask> died and was buried.

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Mengistu Neway

Mengistu Neway (1919 – 30 March 1961) was an Ethiopian commander of the Imperial Guard during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. He is noted for being one of the early dissidents of the Emperor's regime and for organizing the 1960 coup attempt with his younger brother Germame Neway, for which he was sentenced to death. Mengistu and his brother were members of a well-established noble lineage called Moja, an Shewan family clan which had supplied the Ethiopian government a number of soldiers and governors for a century, but at the time of the 1960 coup had fallen out of favor. Ethiopian observers, noting that the Moja had a tradition for favoring reforms, later speculated that their coup could be explained in terms of Ethiopian lineage politics. Christopher Clapham rejects this interpretation, noting "this is at best an oversimplification, in that some Mojas remained loyal to the Emperor, while several non-Mojas were actively involved; and there has been no evidence that Mengestu and Germame took the lead because of their Moja ancestry." Clapham's opinion as on outside however reflect a peripheral and nondefinitive insight. Members of the Ethiopian nobility and even royal houses have been known to choose and to switch between feuding sides in power struggles. The Moja had been instrumental as Kingmakers in Menelik II's, Zauditu I's and Eyasu V's ascent. Eyasu's offensive and insulting attitude towards Fit. Habtegiorgis Dinegde, Minister of War, Justice, and above all husband to Woiz. Altayework Habte, one of the Moja's three principal heads was the last straw in not only Habtegiorgis but many Moja allies such as Dedj's Wordofa Chengere, Dedj. Abebe Tufa leaving the Eyasu camp. Early life Mengistu was of ethnic Amhara descent. He received his earliest education at the St. George school in Addis Ababa, a Swiss-run school which accepted its first students in September 1929. He then became a cadet in the first class of the Oletta Military Academy, which opened January 1935; this first class of cadets could not complete their education due to the advent of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. With his classmates, under the leadership of the Swedish Captain Viking Tamm, headmaster of Olette, they attempted to hold the Pass of Tarmaber against the advancing Italians after the decisive Battle of Maychew (31 March 1936), but were forced to retreat to Addis Ababa. The Oletta cadets then split up into two groups: one joined Ras Imru Haile Selassie at Gore; the other, which included Mengistu, had joined Aberra Kassa and took part in the Battle of Addis Ababa, where a bold attempt to recapture the capital failed. When Aberra appeared ready to submit to the Italians, the 20 or 30 surviving cadets left him to join the Arbegnoch led by Haile Mariam Mammo in Mulu. After Haile Mariam had been killed fighting the Italians at Gorfo, near Addis Ababa (November 1938), he made his way to Khartoum where he trained with his fellow cadets Asrate Medhin Kassa, Mered Mangesha, Aman Michael Andom and Mulugeta Bulli. After Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia, Mengistu became a colonel in the Ethiopian army, and in April 1956 he was made commander of the Imperial Bodyguard, replacing General Mulugeta Bulli. Considering his later role in the attempted 1960 coup, a number of writers have pointed out the irony that he served as executioner of at least one group of the participants in the 1943 Gojjame rebellion led by former Arbegna Belay Zelleke, and was entrusted with apprehending the conspirators in the 1951 attempt to assassinate Emperor Haile Selassie which was led by another former Arbegna Nagash Bazabeh. 1960 coup With the support of the Police Commissioner Brigadier General Tsige Dibu and the Chief of Security Colonel Werqneh Gebeyehu, on the evening of 13 December 1960, the plotters managed to take hostage several ministers and other important figures present at Guenet Leul palace in Addis Ababa while the Emperor was out of the country. The next day, units of the Imperial Bodyguard surrounded the principal military bases in the capital and took control of the radio station. The Emperor was proclaimed deposed and his son Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen was appointed in his place. However, the rest of the military and the Ethiopian Church rallied to support the Emperor, and by 19 December the coup was crushed, although 15 of the 21 notables taken hostage were killed, including Mulugeta Buli. The hostages were machine gunned in the Green Salon just before the coup leaders retreated from the Palace compound. Among the important personages executed by the Mengistu's forces were Ras Abebe Aregai, the leading anti-fascist resistance leader against the Italian occupation; Ras Seyoum Mangasha Prince of Tigray, Abba Hanna Jimma, the Emperor's confessor, almoner, and administrator of his personal household; Dejazmatch Letyibelu, a prominent resistance leader during the Italian occupation and nobleman with close ties to the Emperor; and several others. General Tsege was killed in the fighting; Colonel Werqneh committed suicide. Mengistu and Germame evaded capture until 24 December 1960 when they were surrounded by the army near Mojo. Rather than face capture, Germame committed suicide; Mengistu surrendered. He was put on trial which cause a sensation as he appeared in open court completely unrepentant. Accused of slaughtering the Emperor's loyal servants, General Mengistu is said to have replied "I did not kill His Majesty's friends, I only wiped the dirt from his eyes". It is said the Emperor was inclined to commute his death sentence to life in prison, but the powerful families of the victims of the Green Salon massacre were outraged at the idea, and the Emperor allowed the death penalty to be carried out. General Mengistu was hanged a few months later, on 30 March 1961. His second wife and widow, Woizero (Mrs.) Kefey Taffere, died in April 1999 having subsequently remarried. Woizero Kefey as a descendant of the Zagwe dynasty, was a member of the Wagshum family, which by the Imperial decree of Yikuno Amlak I are only second to the restored Solomonic Dynasty in their claims to the Imperial Throne of Ethiopia. She was a member of the upper levels of the Ethiopian aristocracy. General Mengistu is survived by his two sons, Neway Mengistu and Germame Mengistu. Notes External links 1919 births 1961 deaths Executed revolutionaries Ethiopian activists Executed Ethiopian people People executed by Ethiopia by hanging Ethiopian military personnel

<mask> (1919 – 30 March 1961) was an Ethiopian commander of the Imperial Guard during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. He is noted for being one of the early dissidents of the Emperor's regime and for organizing the 1960 coup attempt with his younger brother <mask>, for which he was sentenced to death. <mask> and his brother were members of a well-established noble lineage called Moja, an Shewan family clan which had supplied the Ethiopian government a number of soldiers and governors for a century, but at the time of the 1960 coup had fallen out of favor. Ethiopian observers, noting that the Moja had a tradition for favoring reforms, later speculated that their coup could be explained in terms of Ethiopian lineage politics. Christopher Clapham rejects this interpretation, noting "this is at best an oversimplification, in that some Mojas remained loyal to the Emperor, while several non-Mojas were actively involved; and there has been no evidence that Mengestu and Germame took the lead because of their Moja ancestry." Clapham's opinion as on outside however reflect a peripheral and nondefinitive insight. Members of the Ethiopian nobility and even royal houses have been known to choose and to switch between feuding sides in power struggles.The Moja had been instrumental as Kingmakers in Menelik II's, Zauditu I's and Eyasu V's ascent. Eyasu's offensive and insulting attitude towards Fit. Habtegiorgis Dinegde, Minister of War, Justice, and above all husband to Woiz. Altayework Habte, one of the Moja's three principal heads was the last straw in not only Habtegiorgis but many Moja allies such as Dedj's Wordofa Chengere, Dedj. Abebe Tufa leaving the Eyasu camp. Early life <mask> was of ethnic Amhara descent. He received his earliest education at the St. George school in Addis Ababa, a Swiss-run school which accepted its first students in September 1929.He then became a cadet in the first class of the Oletta Military Academy, which opened January 1935; this first class of cadets could not complete their education due to the advent of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. With his classmates, under the leadership of the Swedish Captain Viking Tamm, headmaster of Olette, they attempted to hold the Pass of Tarmaber against the advancing Italians after the decisive Battle of Maychew (31 March 1936), but were forced to retreat to Addis Ababa. The Oletta cadets then split up into two groups: one joined Ras Imru Haile Selassie at Gore; the other, which included <mask>, had joined Aberra Kassa and took part in the Battle of Addis Ababa, where a bold attempt to recapture the capital failed. When Aberra appeared ready to submit to the Italians, the 20 or 30 surviving cadets left him to join the Arbegnoch led by Haile Mariam Mammo in Mulu. After Haile Mariam had been killed fighting the Italians at Gorfo, near Addis Ababa (November 1938), he made his way to Khartoum where he trained with his fellow cadets Asrate Medhin Kassa, Mered Mangesha, Aman Michael Andom and Mulugeta Bulli. After Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia, <mask> became a colonel in the Ethiopian army, and in April 1956 he was made commander of the Imperial Bodyguard, replacing General Mulugeta Bulli. Considering his later role in the attempted 1960 coup, a number of writers have pointed out the irony that he served as executioner of at least one group of the participants in the 1943 Gojjame rebellion led by former Arbegna Belay Zelleke, and was entrusted with apprehending the conspirators in the 1951 attempt to assassinate Emperor Haile Selassie which was led by another former Arbegna Nagash Bazabeh.1960 coup With the support of the Police Commissioner Brigadier General Tsige Dibu and the Chief of Security Colonel Werqneh Gebeyehu, on the evening of 13 December 1960, the plotters managed to take hostage several ministers and other important figures present at Guenet Leul palace in Addis Ababa while the Emperor was out of the country. The next day, units of the Imperial Bodyguard surrounded the principal military bases in the capital and took control of the radio station. The Emperor was proclaimed deposed and his son Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen was appointed in his place. However, the rest of the military and the Ethiopian Church rallied to support the Emperor, and by 19 December the coup was crushed, although 15 of the 21 notables taken hostage were killed, including Mulugeta Buli. The hostages were machine gunned in the Green Salon just before the coup leaders retreated from the Palace compound. Among the important personages executed by the Mengistu's forces were Ras Abebe Aregai, the leading anti-fascist resistance leader against the Italian occupation; Ras Seyoum Mangasha Prince of Tigray, Abba Hanna Jimma, the Emperor's confessor, almoner, and administrator of his personal household; Dejazmatch Letyibelu, a prominent resistance leader during the Italian occupation and nobleman with close ties to the Emperor; and several others. General Tsege was killed in the fighting; Colonel Werqneh committed suicide.<mask> and Germame evaded capture until 24 December 1960 when they were surrounded by the army near Mojo. Rather than face capture, Germame committed suicide; <mask> surrendered. He was put on trial which cause a sensation as he appeared in open court completely unrepentant. Accused of slaughtering the Emperor's loyal servants, General <mask> is said to have replied "I did not kill His Majesty's friends, I only wiped the dirt from his eyes". It is said the Emperor was inclined to commute his death sentence to life in prison, but the powerful families of the victims of the Green Salon massacre were outraged at the idea, and the Emperor allowed the death penalty to be carried out. General <mask> was hanged a few months later, on 30 March 1961. His second wife and widow, Woizero (Mrs.) Kefey Taffere, died in April 1999 having subsequently remarried.Woizero Kefey as a descendant of the Zagwe dynasty, was a member of the Wagshum family, which by the Imperial decree of Yikuno Amlak I are only second to the restored Solomonic Dynasty in their claims to the Imperial Throne of Ethiopia. She was a member of the upper levels of the Ethiopian aristocracy. General <mask> is survived by his two sons, <mask> <mask> and Germame <mask>. Notes External links 1919 births 1961 deaths Executed revolutionaries Ethiopian activists Executed Ethiopian people People executed by Ethiopia by hanging Ethiopian military personnel

During the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the commander of the Imperial Guard was <mask>. One of the early dissidents of the Emperor's regime, he was sentenced to death for organizing the 1960 coup attempt with his younger brother <mask>. At the time of the 1960 coup, the Moja clan, which had supplied the Ethiopia government with soldiers and governors for a century, had fallen out of favor. Observers noted that the Moja had a tradition of favoring reforms and speculated that the coup was related to the tradition. "This is at best an oversimplification, in that some Mojas remained loyal to the Emperor, while several non-Mojas were actively involved, and there has been no evidence that Germame and Mengestu took the lead because of their Moja ancestry." Clapham's opinion on outside is a peripheral and nondefinitive insight. The nobility and royal houses of Ethiopia have been known to switch sides in power struggles.The Moja was involved in Menelik II's, Zauditu I's and Eyasu V's ascent. Eyasu's attitude towards Fit was offensive. The Minister of War, Justice and above all his husband, Habtegiorgis Dinegde. The last straw was Altayework Habte, one of the Moja's three principal heads. A man is leaving the Eyasu camp. Early life <mask> was of Amhara descent. He was accepted to the first students at the St. George school in September 1929.The first class of cadets in the Oletta Military Academy were unable to complete their education due to the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. They tried to hold the Pass of Tarmaber against the Italians but were forced to retreat after the Battle of Maychew. The Oletta cadets were split into two groups, one of which took part in the Battle of the capital of Ethiopia, where a bold attempt to regain the capital failed. The 20 or 30 surviving cadets left him to join the Arbegnoch led by Haile Mariam Mammo in Mulu when he appeared ready to submit to the Italians. After the death of Haile Mariam, he went to Khartoum to train with his friends Asrate Medhin Kassa, Mered Mangesha, Aman Michael Andom and Mulugeta Bulli. General Mulugeta Bulli was made commander of the Imperial Bodyguard in April of 1956, replacing Colonel <mask>, who had become a colonel in the army. Considering his later role in the attempted 1960 coup, a number of writers have pointed out the irony that he served as executioner of at least one group of the participants in the 1943 Gojjame rebellion.The coup took place on the evening of 13 December 1960, with the support of the police commissioner and the chief of security. The Imperial Bodyguard surrounded the military bases in the capital and took control of the radio station. The Emperor was deposed and his son was appointed as his replacement. The coup was crushed on December 19th, despite the fact that 15 of the 21 notables taken hostage were killed, including Mulugeta Buli. The coup leaders retreated from the Palace compound and the hostages were killed in the Green Salon. The leader of the anti-fascist resistance and the emperor's confessor were executed by the Mengistu's forces. The two men were killed in the fighting.The army surrounded Germame and <mask> on December 24, 1960. Germame committed suicide rather than face capture. He appeared in open court completely unrepentant after being put on trial. Accused of slaughtering the Emperor's loyal servants, General <mask> is said to have replied "I did not kill his friends, I only wiped the dirt from his eyes". The powerful families of the victims of the Green Salon massacre were against the death penalty and the Emperor allowed it to be carried out. General <mask> was put to death a few months later. His second wife, Mrs. Kefey Taffere, died in 1999 and subsequently remarried.The Imperial decree of Yikuno Amlak I made the Wagshum family second only to the Solomonic Dynasty in their claims to the Imperial Throne of Ethiopia. She was a member of the aristocracy. The two sons of General <mask> are <mask> and Germame. The External links include the deaths of revolutionaries and people executed by Ethiopia.

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Moctezuma II

Moctezuma Xocoyotzin ( – 29 June 1520) [moteːkʷˈsoːma ʃoːkoˈjoːtsin] ), variant spellings include Motecuhzomatzin, Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to retroactively in European sources as Moctezuma II, was the ninth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the sixth Huey Tlatoani or Emperor of the Aztec Empire (also known as Mexica Empire), reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. Through his marriage with queen Tlapalizquixochtzin of Ecatepec, one of his two wives, he was also king consort of that altepetl, though few people in Mexico knew of this political role, even in his own court. The first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. During his reign, the Aztec Empire reached its greatest size. Through warfare, Moctezuma expanded the territory as far south as Xoconosco in Chiapas and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and incorporated the Zapotec and Yopi people into the empire. He changed the previous meritocratic system of social hierarchy and widened the divide between pipiltin (nobles) and macehualtin (commoners) by prohibiting commoners from working in the royal palaces. Though two other Aztec rulers succeeded Moctezuma after his death, their reigns were short-lived and the empire quickly collapsed under them. Historical portrayals of Moctezuma have mostly been colored by his role as ruler of a defeated nation, and many sources have described him as weak-willed, superstitious, and indecisive. Depictions of his person among his contemporaries however are divided; some depict him as one of the greatest leaders Mexico had, a great conqueror who tried his best to maintain his nation together at times of crisis, while others depict him as a tyrant who wanted to take absolute control over the whole empire. His story remains one of the most well-known conquest narratives from the history of European contact with Native Americans, and he has been mentioned or portrayed in numerous works of historical fiction and popular culture. Name The Nahuatl pronunciation of his name is . It is a compound of a noun meaning "lord" and a verb meaning "to frown in anger", and so is interpreted as "he is one who frowns like a lord" or "he who is angry in a noble manner." His name glyph, shown in the upper left corner of the image from the Codex Mendoza below, was composed of a diadem (xiuhuitzolli) on straight hair with an attached earspool, a separate nosepiece, and a speech scroll. Regnal number The Aztecs did not use regnal numbers; they were given retroactively by historians to more easily distinguish him from the first Moctezuma, referred to as Moctezuma I. The Aztec chronicles called him Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, while the first was called Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina or Huehuemotecuhzoma ("Old Moctezuma"). Xocoyotzin () means "honored young one" (from "xocoyotl" [younger son] + suffix "-tzin" added to nouns or personal names when speaking about them with deference). Biography Early life Montezuma Xocoyotzin, son of Axayácatl and Izelcoatzin, daughter of Nezahualcóyotl, was the ruler of the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan whose dominions extended to the cities of Texcoco and Tlatelolco from 1502 or 1503 to 1520, upon the arrival of the Spanish. He was elected after the death of Ahuizotl, who died during the flood of 1502. He was elected military chief during Ahuízotl military campaigns. Once elected, he maintained an energetic policy even internally and implemented mechanisms to center power in his person. In order to structure his dominions, Moctezuma organized the empire in various provinces, created a solid central administration, and regulated the tax system. At the time of receiving power, the altepetl (lordships) numerically submitted were many and paid high economic burdens, but they were scattered in geographical areas that contained enemy regions such as Tlaxcala, some lordships of Xoconochco and the Purépechas, for which it focused its military apparatus on the submission of said powerful altépetl, which it did not ultimately achieve. Moctezuma was an already famous warrior by the time he became the tlatoani of Mexico, holding the high rank of tlacatecuhtli (lord of men) and/or tlacochcalcatl (person from the house of darts) in the Mexica military, and thus his election was largely influenced by his military career and religious influence as a priest. One example of a celebrated campaign in which he participated before ascending to the throne was during the last stages of the conquest of Ayotlan, during Ahuizotl's reign in the late 15th century. During this campaign, which lasted 4 years, a group of Mexica pochteca merchants were put under siege by the enemy forces. This was important because the merchants were closely related to Ahuizotl and served as military commanders and soldiers themselves when needed. To rescue the merchants, Ahuizotl sent then-prince Moctezuma with many soldiers to fight against the enemies, though the fight didn't last long, as the people of Ayotlan surrendered to the Mexica shortly after he arrived. The year in which Moctezuma was crowned is uncertain. Most historians suggest the year of 1502 to be most likely, though some have argued in favor of the year 1503. A work currently held at the Art Institute of Chicago known as the Stone of the Five Suns is an inscription written in stone representing the Five Suns and a date in the Aztec calendar, 1 crocodile 11 reed, which is the equivalent to 15 July 1503 in the Gregorian calendar. Some historians believe this to be the exact date in which the coronation took place, as it is also included in some primary sources. Other dates have been given from the same year; Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl states that the coronation took place in 24 May 1503. However, most documents say Moctezuma's coronation happened in the year 1502, and therefore most historians believe this to have been the actual date. Reign After his coronation he set up thirty-eight more provincial divisions, largely to centralize the empire. He sent out bureaucrats, accompanied by military garrisons. They made sure tax was being paid, national laws were being upheld, and served as local judges in case of disagreement. Internal policy and various events Natural disasters Moctezuma's reign began with difficulties. In the year of 1505, there was a drought that resulted in crop failure, and thus a large portion of the population of central Mexico began to starve. One of the few places in the empire that wasn't affected by this drought was Totonacapan, and many people from Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco sought refuge in this area to avoid starvation. Moctezuma and the lords of Texcoco and Tlacopan, Nezahualpilli and Totoquihuatzin, attempted their best to aid the population during the disaster, including using all available food supplies to feed the population and raising tributes for 1 year. This drought lasted 3 years. At some point the famine became so impactful that some noblemen reportedly sold their children as slaves in exchange for food to avoid starvation. Moctezuma ordered the tlacxitlan, the criminal court of Tenochtitlan (which aside from judging criminals also had the job to free "unjustified" slaves), to get those children to free them and offer food to those noblemen. Another natural disaster, though of lower intensity, occurred in the winter of 1514, when a series of dangerous snowstorms resulted in the destruction of various crops and property across Mexico. Rebellions During his reign, multiple rebellions were suppressed by use of force, and often ended with violent results. In fact, the first campaign during his reign, which was done in honor of his coronation, was the suppression of a rebellion in Nopallan (today known as Santos Reyes Nopala) and Icpatepec (a Mixtec town that no longer exists which was near Silacayoapam), both in modern-day Oaxaca. The prisoners taken during this campaign were later used as slaves or for human sacrifice. Another notable rebellion occurred in Atlixco (in modern-day Puebla), a city neighboring Tlaxcala which had previously been conquered by Ahuizotl. This rebellion would occur in 1508 in this region, which was repressed by a prince named Macuilmalinatzin. This wasn't the first conflict which occurred in this region, as its proximity with Tlaxcala and Huejotzingo would cause multiple conflicts to erupt in this area during Moctezuma's reign. Some revolts occurred as far south as Xoconochco (today known as Soconusco) and Huiztlan (today, Huixtla), far down where the Mexican-Guatemalan border is today. These territories were highly important to the empire and had been previously conquered by Ahuizotl as well, and Moctezuma had to maintain them under his control. Policies and other events during his reign During his government, he applied multiple policies that centered the government of the empire on his person, though it is difficult to tell exactly to which extent those policies were actually applied, as the records written about such policies tend to be affected by propaganda in favor of or against his person. According to Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, among Moctezuma's policies were the replacement of a large portion of his court (including most of his advisors) with people he deemed preferable, and increasing the division between the commoner and noble classes, which included the refusal to offer certain honors to various politicians and warriors for being commoners. He also prohibited any commoners or illegitimate children of the nobility from serving in his palace or in high positions of government. This was contrary to the policies of his predecessors, who did allow commoners to serve in such positions. Moctezuma's elitism can be attributed to a long conflict of interests between the nobility, merchants and warrior class. The struggle occurred as the result of the conflicting interests between the merchants and the nobility and the rivalry between the warrior class and the nobility for positions of power in the government. Moctezuma likely thought about solving this conflict by installing despotist policies that would settle it. However, it is also true that many of these elitist policies were put in place since Moctezuma did not want to "work with inferior people," and instead wanted to be served by and work with people he deemed more prestigious, both to avoid giving himself and the government a bad reputation and to work with people he trusted better. However, some of his policies also affected the nobility, as he had the intentions of reforming it into not imposing a potential threat to the government, among them the obligation to reside permanently in Tenochtitlan and abandon their homes if they lived elsewhere. Regarding his economic policies, Moctezuma's rule was largely affected by the natural disasters at the beginning of it. As mentioned before, the famine during his first years as tlatoani resulted in a temporary increase in tribute in some provinces to aid the population. Some provinces however ended up paying more tribute permanently, most likely as the result of his primary military focus shifting from territorial expansion to stabilization of the empire through the suppression of rebellions. Most of the provinces affected by this new tributary policies were in the Valley of Mexico. For example, provinces like Chalco were given an additional tribute of stone and wood twice or thrice a year for Tenochtitlan's building projects. This tributary policy eventually backfired as some of the empire's subjects grew disgruntled at Moctezuma's government and launched rebellions against him, which eventually resulted in many of these provinces, like Totonacapan (under the leadership of Chicomacatl) and Chalco and Mixquic (which were near Tenochtitlan), to form an alliance with Spain to rebel against him. The famine at the beginning of his rule also resulted in the abolishment of the huehuetlatlacolli (old serfdom) system, which was a system of serfdom in which a family agreed to maintain a tlacohtli (slave or serf) perpetually. This agreement also turned the descendants of the ones who agreed into serfs. Many of these policies were planned together with his uncle Tlilpotonqui at the beginning of his reign, while others, such as his tributary policies, were created as the result of various events, like the famine which occurred at the beginning of his rule. His policies, in general, had the purpose of centralizing the government in his person through the means of implementing policies to settle the divide between the nobily and commoners and abolishing some of the more feudal policies of his predecessors, while also making his tributary policies more severe to aid the population during natural disasters and to compensate for a less expansionist focus. Most of the policies implemented during his rule would not last long after his death, as the empire fell into Spanish control on 13 August 1521 as a result of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, one year after he died. The new Spanish authorities implemented their own laws and removed many of the political establishments done during the pre-Hispanic era, leaving just a few in place. Among the few policies that lasted were the divide between the nobility and the commoners, as members of the pre-Hispanic nobility continued to enjoy various privileges under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, such as land ownership through a system known as cacicazgo. Construction projects Moctezuma, like many of his predecessors, built a tecpan (palace) of his own. This was a particularly large palace, which was a somewhat larger than the National Palace that exists today which was built over it, being about 200 meters long and 200 meters wide. However, little archaeological evidence exists to understand what his palace looked like, but the various descriptions of it and the space it covered have helped reconstruct various features of its layout. Even so, these descriptions tend to be limited, as many writers were unable to describe it in detail. The Spanish captain Hernán Cortés, the main commander of the Spanish troops that entered Mexico in the year 1519, himself stated in his letters to the king of Spain that he would not bother describing it, claiming that it "was so marvelous that it seems to me impossible to describe its excellence." The palace had a large courtyard which opened into the central plaza of the city to the north, where Templo Mayor was. This courtyard was a place where hundreds of courtiers would hold multiple sorts of activites, including feasts and waiting for royal business to be conducted. This courtyard had around it suites of rooms which surrounded smaller courtyards and gardens. His residence had many rooms for various purposes. Aside from his own room, at the central part of the upper floor, there were two rooms beside it which were known as coacalli (guest house). One of these rooms was built for the lords of Tlacopan and Texcoco, the other two members of the Triple Alliance, who came to visit. The other room was for the lords of Colhuacan, Tenayohcan (today known as Tenayuca) and Chicuhnautlan (today, ). The exact reason why this room had this purpose remains uncertain, though a few records like Codex Mendoza say the reason was that these lords were personal friends of Moctezuma. There was also another room which became known as Casa Denegrida de Moctezuma (in Spanish, Moctezuma's Black House), a room with no windows and fully painted black which was used by Moctezuma to meditate. The upper floor had a large courtyard which was likely used as a cuicacalli, for public shows during religious rituals. The bottom floor had two rooms which were used by the government. One of them was used for Moctezuma's advisors and judges who dealt with situations of the commoners, (likely the Tlacxitlan). The other room was for the war council (likely the Tequihuacalli), where high ranking warriors planned and commanded their battles. As part of the construction of Moctezuma's palace, various projects were made which made it more prestigious by providing entertainment to the public. One of the most famous among these projects was the (House of Birds), a zoo which had multiple sorts of animals, mainly avian species, but also contained several predatory animals as well in their own section. These animals were taken care of by servants who cleaned their environments, fed them and offered them care according to their species. The species of birds held within the zoo was widely varied, holding animals like quetzals, eagles, true parrots and others, and also included water species like roseate spoonbills and various others which had their own pond. The section with animals other than birds, which was decorated with figures of gods associated with the wild, was also considerably varied, having jaguars, wolves, snakes and other smaller predatory animals. These animals were fed on hunted animals like deer, turkeys and other smaller animals. Allegedly, the dead bodies of sacrificial victims were also used to feed these animals, and after the battle known as La Noche Triste, which occurred during the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in June 1520 (during which Moctezuma died), the bodies of dead Spaniards may have been used to feed them. This place was highly prestigious, and all sorts of important people are said to had used to visit this place, including artists, craftsmen, government officials and blacksmiths. The Totocalli however was burnt and destroyed, along with many other constructions, in the year 1521 soon after the Spanish and their allies conquered Mexico, as the Spanish captain Hernán Cortés ordered for many of the buildings that formed part of the royal palaces to be burnt to demoralize the many rebellious groups that formed against them. Though Cortés himself admitted that he enjoyed the zoo, he stated that he saw it as a necessary measure in his third letter to the king of Spain Carlos I (also known as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor). Territorial expansion during his rule, military actions and foreign policy The first military campaign during his rule (as mentioned in the previous subsection), which was done in honor of his coronation, was the violent suppression of a rebellion in Nopala and Icpatepec. For this war, a force of over 60,000 soldiers from Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tepanec lands, Chalco and Xochimilco participated, and Moctezuma himself went to the frontlines. Aproximately 5100 prisoners were taken after the campaign, many of whom were given to inhabitants of Tenochtitlan and Chalco as slaves, while the rest were sacrificed in his honor in the fourth day of his coronation. After the campaign, celebrations for his coronation continued in Tenochtitlan. Moctezuma's territorial expansion however wouldn't truly begin until another rebellion was suppressed in Tlachquiauhco, where its ruler, Malinalli, was killed after trying to start the rebellion. A characteristic fact about Moctezuma's wars was that a large portion of them had the purpose of suppressing rebellions rather than conquering new territory, contrary to his predecessors, whose main focus was territorial expansion. Foreign policy At the beginning of his rule, he attempted to build diplomatic ties with Tlaxcala, Huexotzinco (today, Huejotzingo), Chollolan (Cholula), Michoacan and Metztitlán, through secretly inviting the lords of these countries to attend the celebrations for his coronation before the continuation of the flower wars, which were wars of religious nature arranged voluntarily by the parties involved with no territorial purposes, but instead to capture and sacrifice as many soldiers as possible. During this period, Mexico and Tlaxcala still weren't at war, but the tension between these nations was high, and the embassy sent for this purpose was put in a highly risky situation, for which he only chose experts in diplomacy, espionage and languages for it. Fortunately, his invitation was accepted, and Moctezuma used this opportunity to show his greatness to the lords who attended. However, due to the fact that the invitation was secret to avoid a scandal for inviting his rivals to this ceremony, Moctezuma ordered that no one should know that the lords were present, not even the rulers of Tlacopan (today known as Tacuba) and Texcoco, and the lords saw themselves often forced to pretend to be organizers to avoid confusion. Though Moctezuma would continue to hold meetings with these people, where various religious rituals were held, it didn't take long for large-scale conflicts to erupt between these nations. An important thing to note is that, contrary to popular belief, Tlaxcala wasn't Mexico's most powerful rival in the central Mexican region in this period, and it wouldn't be until the final years of pre-Hispanic Mexico in 1518—19. In the opening years of the 16th century, Huejotzingo was Mexico's actual military focus, and it proved itself to be one of the most powerful political entities until these final years, as a series of devastating wars weakened the state into being conquered by Tlaxcala. Territorial expansion The empire's expansion during Moctezuma's rule was mainly focused on the southwestern territories of Oaxaca and modern-day Guerrero. The earliest conquests in this territory were held by Moctezuma I. The first important conquest during Moctezuma's rule occurred in the year of 1504, when the city of Achiotlan (today known as San Juan Achiutla) was conquered. This war, according to some sources, was supposedly mainly caused by "a small tree which belonged to a lord of the place which grew such beautiful flowers Moctezuma's envy couldn't resist it," and when Moctezuma asked for it, the lord of the city refused to offer it, thus starting the war. After the conquest, this tree was supposedly taken to Tenochtitlan. The second conquest occurred in Zozollan, a place neighboring east of Achiutla, in 28 May 1506. This conquest had a particularly violent result, as a special sacrifice was held after the campaign where the prisoners captured in Zozollan were the victims. "The Mexicans killed many of the people from Zozola which they captured in war," according to ancient sources. In the year of 1507, the year of the New Fire Ceremony, abundant military action occurred. Among the towns which are listed to have been conquered in this year are: Tecuhtepec (from which multiple prisoners were sacrificed for the ceremony), Iztitlan, Nocheztlan (an important town northeast of Achiutla) and Tototepec. An important campaign was the conquest of Xaltepec (today known as Jaltepec) and Cuatzontlan and the suppression of the last revolt in Icpatepec, all in Oaxaca. This war started as the result of provocations given by Jaltepec against Moctezuma through killing as many Mexicas as they could find in their area, as some sort of way to challenge him, and the beginning of the revolt by Icpatepec as the result. The Xaltepeca had done this before with previous tlatoanis and other nations. Moctezuma and the recently elected ruler of Tlacopan themselves went to the fight, along with Tlacaelel's son Cihuacoatl. A large portion of the weapons and food was brought by Tlatelolco, though they were initially hesitant to do so, but were ordered by Moctezuma to offer it as a tribute to Tenochtitlan, and they received multiple rewards as the result, including the permission to rebuild their main temple (which had been partially destroyed during the Battle of Tlatelolco which occurred during Axayacatl's reign). This campaign had a highly violent result; Moctezuma ordered for all adults in the city above the age of 50 to be killed to prevent a rebellion once the cities were conquered. The conquest was done through dividing the army that was brought in 3 divisions; one from Tlacopan, one from Texcoco and one from Tenochtitlan, so that each one attacked a different city. The Tenochtitlan company attacked Jaltepec. Moctezuma came out victorious and then returned to Mexico through Chalco, where he received many honors for his victory. This war likely happened in 1511, as a war against Icpatepec is recorded to have happened again in that year. Moctezuma also conquered some of the last few Tlapanec territories of modern-day Guerrero, an area which had already been in decline since Moctezuma I began his first campaigns in the region and probably turned the Kingdom of Tlachinollan (modern-day Tlapa) into a tributary province during the rule of lord Tlaloc between 1461 and 1467 (though the kingdom wouldn't be invaded and fully conquered until the reign of Ahuizotl in 1486, along with Caltitlan, a city neighboring west of Tlapa). In between the years of 1503 and 1509, a campaign was launched against Xipetepec, and another was launched (as mentioned previously) in 1507 against Tototepec, which had previously been a territory conquered by Tlachinollan in the mid 14th century. The campaign in Xipetepec however appears to have been relatively peaceful, though the campaign against Tototepec occurred as the result of a large group of Mexica messengers sent by Moctezuma being killed after they demanded for some of the resources of the area on his behalf. During the conquest of Tototepec, two important Mexica noblemen, Ixtlilcuechahuac and Huitzilihuitzin (not to be confused with the tlatoani of this name), were killed. Another campaign was launched in 1515 to conquer Acocozpan and Tetenanco and reconquer Atlitepec, which had been previously conquered by Ahuizotl in 1493. The approximate number of military engagements during his rule before European contact was 73, achieving victory in approximately 43 sites (including territories already within the empire), making him one of the most active monarchs in pre-Hispanic Mexican history in terms of military actions. However his rule and policies suffered a very sudden interruption upon the news of the arrival of Spanish ships at the east in 1519. Texcoco crisis One of the most controversial events during his reign was the supposed overthrowal of the legitimate government of Nezahualpilli in Texcoco. Historians like Alva Ixtlilxóchitl even went as far as referring to this action as "diabolical," though while also making claims that are not seen in other chronicles and are generally not trusted by modern historians. Nezahualpilli's death The circumstances of Nezahualpilli's death are not clear, and many sources offer highly conflicting stories about the events that resulted in it. According to Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, the issue began when Moctezuma sent an embassy to Nezahualpilli reprimanding him for not sacrificing any Tlaxcalan prisoners since the last 4 years, during the war with Tlaxcala (see below), threatening him saying that he was angering the gods. Nezahualpilli replied to this embassy stating that the reason he hadn't sacrificed them is because he simply didn't want to wage war because he and his population wanted to live peacefully for the time being, as the ceremonies that would be held in the following year, 1 reed, would make war inevitable, and that soon his wishes would be granted. Eventually Nezahualpilli launched a campaign against Tlaxcala, though he did not go himself, instead sending two of his sons, Acatlemacoctzin and Tecuanehuatzin, as commanders. Moctezuma then decided to betray Nezahualpilli by sending a secret embassy to Tlaxcala telling them about the incoming army. The Tlaxcalans then began to take action against the Texcoca while they were unaware of this betrayal. The Texcoco armies were ambushed in the middle of the night. Almost none of the Texcoca survived the fight. Upon receiving the news of Moctezuma's betrayal, understanding that nothing could be done about it and fearing for the future of his people, Nezahualpilli committed suicide in his palace. This story however, as mentioned before, is not generally trusted by modern historians, and much of the information given contradicts other sources. Sources do agree however on that Nezahualpilli's last years as ruler were mainly characterized by his attempts to live a peaceful live, likely as the result of his old age. He spent his last months mostly inactive in his rule and his advisors, on his own request, took most of the government's decisions during this period. He personally assigned two men (of whom details are mostly unknown) to take control on almost all government decisions. These sources also agree that he was found dead in his palace, but the cause of his death remains uncertain. His death is recorded to have been mourned in Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, Tlacopan and even Chalco and Xochimilco, as all of these altepeme gave precious offerings, like jewelry and clothes, and sacrifices in his honor. Moctezuma himself was reported to have broken in tears upon receiving the news of his death. His death was mourned for 80 days. This was recorded as one of the largest funeral ceremonies in pre-Hispanic Mexican history. Succession crisis Elections Since Nezahualipilli died abruptly in the year 1516, he left no indication as to who his successor would be. He had six legitimate sons: Cacamatzin, Coanacochtli (later baptized as Don Pedro), Tecocoltzin (baptized as Don Hernando), Ixtlilxochitl II (baptized as Don Hernando), Yoyontzin (baptized as Don Jorge) and Tetlahuehuetzquititzin (baptized as Don Pedro), all of whom would eventually take the throne, though most of them after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. His most likely heir was Tetlahuehuetzquititzin, as he was the wealthiest among Nezahualpilli's sons, but he was considered inapt for the job. His other most likely heirs were Ixtlilxochitl, Coanacochtli and Cacamatzin, though not everyone supported them as they were considerably younger than Tetlahuehuetzquititzin, as Ixtlilxochitl was 19 years old and Cacamatzin was about 21. Moctezuma supported Cacamatzin since he was his nephew. In the end, the Texcoco council voted in favor of Moctezuma's decision, and Cacamatzin was declared tlatoani, being that he was the son of Moctezuma's sister Xocotzin and was older than his two other brothers. Though Coanacochtli felt like the decision was fair, Ixtlilxochitl disagreed with the results and protested against the council. Ixtlilxochitl argued that the reason why Moctezuma supported Cacamatzin was because he wanted to manipulate him so that he could take over Texcoco, being that he was his uncle. Coanacochtli responded that the decision was legitimate, and that even if Cacamatzin wasn't elected Ixtlilxochitl wouldn't have been elected either, as he was younger than the two. Cacamatzin stayed quiet during the whole debate. Eventually the members of the council shut down the debate to prevent a violent escalation. Though Cacamatzin was officially declared tlatoani, the coronation ceremony didn't occur that day, and Ixtlilxochitl used this as an opportunity to plan his rebellion against him. Conflicts Shortly after the election, Ixtlilxochitl began to prepare his revolt by going to Metztitlán to raise an army, threatening civil war. Cacama went to Tenochtitlan to ask Moctezuma for help. Moctezuma, understanding Ixtlilxochitl's war-like nature, decided to support Cacamatzin with his military forces should a conflict begin and to try to talk to Ixtlilxochitl into stopping the conflict, and also suggested to take Nezahualpilli's treasure to Tenochtitlan to prevent a sacking. According to Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Cacamatzin asked Moctezuma for help after Ixtlilxochitl went to Metztitlán, while other sources claim that Ixtlilxochitl went to Metztitlán because of Cacamatzin's visit to Moctezuma. Ixtlilxochitl first went to Tulancingo with 100,000 men, where he was received with many honors and recognized as the real king of Texcoco. He then accelerated his pace, possibly because he received worrying news from Texcoco, and advanced to the city of Tepeapulco, where he was also welcomed. He soon advanced to Otompan (today known as Otumba, State of Mexico), where he sent a message before his entrance in hopes of being received as a king there as well. However, the people of Otumba supported Cacamatzin and informed Ixtlilxochitl that such a demand would not be fulfilled. Ixtlilxochitl therefore sent his troops to invade the city, and after a long fight the troops began to gradually retreat and its ruler was killed. When the news of this fight were heard in Texcoco, all events, religious or not, were cancelled, soldiers were recruited, troops were sent from Tenochtitlan to the city and Cacamatzin and Coanacochtli fortified the city to avoid an invasion. He eventually reached Texcoco and placed the city under siege, while also occupying the cities of Papalotlan, Acolman, Chicuhnautlan (today known as ), Tecacman, Tzonpanco (Zumpango) and Huehuetocan in order to take every possible entrance Moctezuma could use to send his troops to Texcoco. Moctezuma however used his influence to enter the city of Texcoco and obtain access to the Acolhua cities not yet occupied by Ixtlilxochitl. Cacamatzin used this opportunity to send a commander from Iztapalapa named Xochitl to arrest Ixtlilxochitl as peacefully as possible. Moctezuma approved this decision and Xochitl was sent along with some troops. Ixtlilxochitl was quickly informed about this and, as per custom of war, informed Xochitl that he was going to fight him. A short battle occurred some time after in which Xochitl was captured and later publicly executed by burning. Once the news of this defeat were heard by Moctezuma, he ordered that no more military engagements shall be done for the moment to prevent further escalation, and that he wanted to rightfully punish Ixtlilxochitl for what he did in a more appropriate moment. In the mean time, the brothers agreed to try to reach a consensus through a peaceful debate, as Ixtlilxochitl did not want to fight either, as he claimed that he only sent the troops as a means of protest and not to actually wage war. However, this would only be done under the condition that Moctezuma wouldn't get involved by any means. The three brothers then agreed to divide the province of Acolhuacan (where Texcoco was the de facto capital) in three parts, one for each brother, and that Cacamatzin would continue to rule over Texcoco. At some point however, Ixtlilxochitl sought refuge outside of Texcoco to avoid facing a conflict with Cacamatzin. Spanish involvement This crisis would later become relevant again after the Spanish arrived at Tenochtitlan, when Cacamatzin, who initially welcomed the Spaniards when they first entered in November 1519, attempted to raise an army against them for imprisoning Moctezuma (see below) by calling for the people of Coyoacan, Tlacopan, Iztapalapa and the Matlatzinca people to enter the city, kill the Spaniards and free Moctezuma in early 1520. the Spanish captain Hernán Cortés, who was the main commander the Spanish troops who entered Mexico, decided to act and ordered Moctezuma to send someone to arrest Cacamatzin before the attack. Moctezuma suggested for Ixtlilxochitl to be sent due to the crisis, as then he could take the throne and prevent another succession crisis. He still tried to establish negotiations between the Texcoco leadership and the Spaniards, but was unable to change Cacamatzin's mind. Eventually, Moctezuma sent troops to secretly arrest Cacamatzin in his palace and send him to Mexico after he ordered for three of his commanders to be arrested for suggesting requesting Mocetzuma's permission for the attack and telling him that there was no chance of entering into negotiations with the Spaniards. Ixtlilxochitl became the likely de facto leader of Texcoco afterwards, though according to Bernardino de Sahagún it was Tecocoltzin who officially took the title of tlatoani after Cacamatzin's arrest and Ixtlilxochitl wouldn't officially become the tlatoani until a year later. Ixtlilxochitl continued fighting for the Spaniards afterwards, became a personal friend of Cortés, converted to Christianity and participated in the Spanish conquest of Honduras in 1525. His figure has remained controversial in the historical record, as some have seen him as a man who betrayed his people for his own ambition, while others have seen him as a brave warrior who fought against the tyrannical rule of Moctezuma II and liberated the peoples he subjugated with the help of Hernán Cortés. War with Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo and their allies Though the first conflicts between Mexico and Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo and their allies began during the rule of Moctezuma I in the 1450's, it was during the reign of Moctezuma II when major conflicts broke through. Battle of Atlixco Planning and preparations Aproximately in the year of 1503 (or 1507, after the conquest of Tototepec, according to historian Diego Durán), a massive battle occurred in Atlixco which was fought mainly against Huejotzingo, a kingdom which used to be one of the most powerful ones in the Valley of Mexico. The war was provoked by Moctezuma himself, who wanted to go to war against Huejotzingo because it had been many months since the last war. The local rulers of the region accepted Moctezuma's proposal to wage this war. It was declared as a flower war, and the invitation to go to war was accepted by the people of Huejotzingo, Tlaxcala, Cholula and Tliliuhquitepec, a city-state nearby. The war was arranged to occur in the plains of Atlixco. Moctezuma went to the fight along with four or five of his brothers and a two of his nephews. He named one of his brothers (or children, according to some sources), Tlacahuepan, as the main commander of the troops against the troops of Huejotzingo. He was assigned 100,000 troops to fight. Tlacahuepan decided to begin the fight by dividing the troops in three groups which would attack one after the other, the first being the troops from Texcoco, then from Tlacopan and lastly from Tenochtitlan. Battle He began by sending 200 troops to launch skirmishes against the Huexotzinca, but despite the large numbers and skirmishes, he was unable to break the enemy lines. The group of Texcoco suffered huge losses and once they were unable to fight they were put to take rest while the group from Tlacopan was sent. However, they weren't able to break the lines either. The Tenochca group then advanced and pushed to aid the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, causing multiple casualties against the Huexotzinca, but the lines were still not broken as more reinforcements arrived. Eventually, Tlacahuepan saw himself surrounded, and though he initially resisted, he finally surrendered. Though the Huexotzinca wanted to take him alive, he asked to be sacrificed there on the battlefield, and so he was killed, and then the rest of the Mexica troops retreated. The result of this battle was considered humiliating for the empire. According to primary records, about 40,000 people were killed on both sides (possibly meaning that about 20,000 died on each side). Some important Mexica noblemen were also killed during the engagement, including Huitzilihuitzin (not to be confused with the tlatoani of this name), Xalmich and Cuatacihuatl. Aftermath Regardless, multiple prisoners were taken after the fight, who were later sacrificed in Moctezuma's honor. Tlacahuepan was remembered as a hero despite the loss, and many songs were dedicated to him to be remembered through poetry. In one song called Ycuic neçahualpilli yc tlamato huexotzinco. Cuextecayotl, Quitlali cuicani Tececepouhqui (The song of Nezahualpilli when he took captives in Huexotzinco. [It tells of] the Huastec themes, it was written down by the singer Tececepouhqui), he's referred as "the golden one, the Huastec lord, the owner of the sapota skirt," in reference to the god Xipe Totec, and also states "With the flowery liquor of war, he is drunk, my nobleman, the golden one, the Huastec Lord," in reference to his Huastec heritage, using the stereotype that the Huastecs were drunkards. Anyway, the defeat was a humiliating one, and Moctezuma is said to had cried in anguish upon hearing of the death of Tlacahuepan and the massive loss of soldiers. Moctezuma himself welcomed the soldiers who survived back into Mexico, while the population that welcomed them mourned. The fact that the Huexotzinca also suffered massive casualties caused their military power to be highly weakened by this battle and various others, and so this could be seen as the beginning of the fall of Huejotzingo, as multiple military losses against Tlaxcala and Mexico in the following years eventually led to its fall, despite the victory in the fight. Other battles against Huejotzingo and its allies Various other battles ocurred in the following years between Mexico and Huejotzingo, and though none of them were as big as the Battle of Atlixco, they still caused significant losses on both sides; high losses for Mexico and significant losses for Huejotzingo. An engagement which occurred likely in the year of 1506. This fight was another flower war which was proposed by Cholula, with support from Huejotzingo, to be fought in Cuauhquechollan (today known as Huaquechula, in modern-day Puebla), near Atlixco. Though Moctezuma apparently did not want to fight as the result of the previous defeat in Atlixco, he saw no other option and prepared for the fight. In this fight, warriors from Texcoco, Tlacopan, Chalco, Xochimilco and mondern-day Tierra Caliente participated. This battle reportedly ended with 8200 Mexicas killed or captured. However, the Mexica are said to have dealt a similar number of casualties in this one-day battle. The result of this battle was indecisive, as some reported it as a victory, but it seems Moctezuma II took it as a defeat and was highly upset about it, to the point that he complained against the gods. Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc however reports that 10,000 Mexicas died in this fight, and that the Mexica were so angry about the fight that they called for reinforcements who committed a "cruel slaughter" and captured 800 more enemies. He lists the number of Huexotzinco-Cholula casualties as 5600 killed and 400 captured in one other engagement afterwards, which resulted in 8200 Mexicas killed or captured. Invasion of Tlaxcala Initial stages It was approximately in the year of 1504 or 1505 when the first large-scale conflicts between Mexico and Tlaxcala began. In this period, Moctezuma thought about placing the entire country under siege, understanding that most of it was surrounded by territories belonging to the empire. The ruler of Huejotzingo, Tecayahuatzin, sympathized with Moctezuma despite their connections with Tlaxcala and conflicts in the past, and through bribes and propaganda attempted to form an alliance with Cholula and local Otomi populations to attack Tlaxcala, though with little success. The Tlaxcalans became greatly worried about this, and began to grow suspicious of all allies they had fearing a betrayal, as Huejotzingo was one of Tlaxcala's closest states, as proven by its support at the battle of Atlixco. Moctezuma however had the disadvantage that many of his dominions surrounding Tlaxcala did not want to fight them, as many of them used to be their allies in the past even with all the promises Moctezuma made, and therefore his support was actually quite limited. One of the first battles occurred in Xiloxochitlan (today known as ), where multiple atrocities were commited. Despite this, the Tlaxcalan resistance managed to hold out, and after a great struggle the Huexotzinca armies were repelled, though during the fight the Ocotelolca commander Tizatlacatzin was killed. Many other smaller battles took place in other parts of the border, though none of them were successful. In response, Tlaxcala launched a counter-invasion against Huejotzingo, knowing that the Huexotzinca had been severely weakened by their fights with the Mexica Empire; their towns were sacked repeatedly and the entire nation was put essentially under siege, and the remains of the nation were now cornered in the region around the Popocatépetl. The Huexotzinca became greatly worried and knew they couldn't win the war alone, therefore a prince named Teayehuatl decided to send an embassy to Mexico to request for aid against the Tlaxcalans. According to historians like Durán, this embassy was sent in the year of 1507, just after the New Fire Ceremony, while others date this embassy to the year 1512. The embassy informed Moctezuma about the Tlaxcalan counter-invasion, which had been happening for over a year by this point, requesting Moctezuma to do something about the situation to expel the Tlaxcalans from their land. This was not the first time the Huexotzinca had requested aid from Mexico for similar reasons, as the first time was actually around the year of 1499, during the reign of Ahuizotl, though this previous request was denied. After consulting Nezahualpilli and the ruler of Tlacopan, Moctezuma agreed to help the Huexotzinca, despite the conflicts they had in the past, and sent a large number of soldiers to help this nation, while also allowing many of their refugees to stay in Tenochtitlan and Chalco. Late stages With the Mexica forces to support Huejotzingo, the invasion continued from the west with the main force from the towns of Cuauhquechollan, Tochimilco, Itzocan (today known as Izúcar de Matamoros), and a smaller support force from a town named Tetellan (today, Tetela de Ocampo) and from a town named Chietla. The advance was quick, but the Tlaxcalans used the territories they had captured from Huejotzingo to advance safely to Atlixco through the captured areas with little population before the Mexica-Huejotzingo forces spread. Once done, a long fight begun between the two forces. The battle lasted 20 days, and both armies suffered huge losses, as the Tlaxcalans had a famous general captured and the Mexica lost so many men that they requested for emergency reinforcements, asking for "all kinds of people in the shortest possible time." The Tlaxcalans claimed victory that fight, and the Mexica were fought into a complete standstill. The following year, Huejotzingo started to suffer a famine as the result of a lack of resources as the Tlaxcalans pushed further into their territory. The Tlaxcalans even went as far as burning down the royal palaces of Huejotzingo and stealing as much food as they could. Aproximately in the year of 1516, Huejotzingo abandoned its alliance with the empire. The devastating wars that broke out against Huejotzingo caused this nation, which had been the most powerful nation in the Valley of Puebla in the opening years of the 16th century, to become weak enough to be conquered by Tlaxcala. This was the point in which Tlaxcala became Mexico's most powerful rival in the central Mexican area. The nation which used to be their main military focus was now the subject of a nation which would later bring the killing blow to the Mexica Empire. The war between Mexico and Tlaxcala would eventually have devastating consequences, as the Tlaxcalans made a decision to form an alliance with Spain against Mexico on 23 September 1519 after a few battles proved that an alliance with this nation could help them destroy Moctezuma's reign. Contact with the Spanish First interactions with the Spanish In 1517, Moctezuma received the first reports of Europeans landing on the east coast of his empire; this was the expedition of Juan de Grijalva who had landed on San Juan de Ulúa, which although within Totonac territory was under the auspices of the Aztec Empire. Moctezuma ordered that he be kept informed of any new sightings of foreigners at the coast and posted extra watch guards to accomplish this. When Cortés arrived in 1519, Moctezuma was immediately informed and he sent emissaries to meet the newcomers; one of them was an Aztec noble named Tentlil in the Nahuatl language but referred to in the writings of Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo as "Tendile". As the Spaniards approached Tenochtitlán they made an alliance with the Tlaxcalteca, who were enemies of the Aztec Triple Alliance, and they helped instigate revolt in many towns under Aztec dominion. Moctezuma was aware of this and sent gifts to the Spaniards, probably in order to show his superiority to the Spaniards and Tlaxcalteca. On 8 November 1519, Moctezuma met Cortés on the causeway leading into Tenochtitlán and the two leaders exchanged gifts. Moctezuma gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. Cortés later melted these down for their monetary value. According to Cortés, Moctezuma immediately volunteered to cede his entire realm to Charles V, King of Spain. Though some indigenous accounts written in the 1550s partly support this notion, it is still unbelievable for several reasons. As Aztec rulers spoke an overly polite language that needed translation for his subjects to understand, it is difficult to find out what Moctezuma really said. According to an indigenous account, he said to Cortés: "You have come to sit on your seat of authority, which I have kept for a while for you, where I have been in charge for you, for your agents the rulers..." However, these words might be a polite expression that was meant to convey the exact opposite meaning, which was common in Nahua culture; Moctezuma might actually have intended these words to assert his own stature and multigenerational legitimacy. Also, according to Spanish law, the king had no right to demand that foreign peoples become his subjects, but he had every right to bring rebels to heel. Therefore, to give the Spanish the necessary legitimacy to wage war against the indigenous people, Cortés might just have said what the Spanish king needed to hear. Host and prisoner of the Spaniards Six days after their arrival, Moctezuma became a prisoner in his own house. Exactly why this happened is not clear from the extant sources. According to the Spanish, the arrest was made as a result of an attack perpetrated by a tribute collector from Nautla named Qualpopoca or Quetzalpopoca on a Spanish-Totonac garrison near the area under the command of a Spanish captain named Juan de Escalante in retaliation for the Totonac rebellion against Moctezuma which started in July 1519 after the Spanish arrived. This attack resulted in the death of many Totonacs and approximately 7 Spaniards, including Escalante. Though some Spaniards described that this was the only reason of Moctezuma's arrest, others have suspected that Escalante's death was merely used as an excuse by Cortés to imprison Moctezuma and usurp power over Mexico, under the suspicion that Cortés might have planned to imprison Moctezuma before they even met. Cortés himself admitted that he imprisoned Moctezuma primarily to avoid losing control over Mexico, understanding that nearly all of his forces were within his domains. Moctezuma claimed innocence for this incident, claiming that, though he was aware of the attack as Quetzalpopoca brought him the severed head of a Spaniard as a demonstration of his success, he never ordered it and was highly displeased by these events. Around 20 days after his arrest, Quetzalpopoca was captured, together with his son and 15 nobles who allegedly participated in the attack, and after a brief interrogation he admitted that indeed Moctezuma was innocent. He was publicly executed by burning soon after, but Moctezuma remained prisoner regardless. Despite his imprisonment, Moctezuma continued to live a somewhat confortable life, being free to perform many of his daily activities and being respected as a monarch. Cortés himself even ordered for any soldiers who disrespected him to be physically and roughly punished regardless of rank or position. However, despite still being treated as a respected monarch, he had virtually lost most of his power as emperor as the Spaniards oversaw nearly all of his activities. Moctezuma repeatedly protected the Spaniards against potential threats using the little power he had left, either under the threat of the Spanish or by his own will, such as during the succession crisis in Texcoco mentioned above, when he ordered for the ruler of Texcoco, Cacamatzin, to be arrested as he was planning to form an army to attack the Spaniards. The Aztec nobility reportedly became increasingly displeased with the large Spanish army staying in Tenochtitlán, and Moctezuma told Cortés that it would be best if they left. Shortly thereafter, in April 1520, Cortés left to fight Pánfilo de Narváez, who had landed in Mexico to arrest Cortés. During his absence, tensions between Spaniards and Aztecs exploded into the Massacre in the Great Temple, and Moctezuma became a hostage used by the Spaniards to ensure their security. Death In the subsequent battles with the Spaniards after Cortés' return, Moctezuma was killed. The details of his death are unknown, with different versions of his demise given by different sources. In his Historia, Bernal Díaz del Castillo states that on 29 June 1520, the Spanish forced Moctezuma to appear on the balcony of his palace, appealing to his countrymen to retreat. Four leaders of the Aztec army met with Moctezuma to talk, urging their countrymen to cease their constant firing upon the stronghold for a time. Díaz states: "Many of the Mexican Chieftains and Captains knew him well and at once ordered their people to be silent and not to discharge darts, stones or arrows, and four of them reached a spot where Montezuma could speak to them." Díaz alleges that the Aztecs informed Moctezuma that a relative of his had risen to the throne and ordered their attack to continue until all of the Spanish were annihilated, but expressed remorse at Moctezuma's captivity and stated that they intended to revere him even more if they could rescue him. Regardless of the earlier orders to hold fire, however, the discussion between Moctezuma and the Aztec leaders was immediately followed by an outbreak of violence. The Aztecs, disgusted by the actions of their leader, renounced Moctezuma and named his brother Cuitláhuac tlatoani in his place. In an effort to pacify his people, and undoubtedly pressured by the Spanish, Moctezuma was struck dead by a rock. Díaz gives this account: "They had hardly finished this speech when suddenly such a shower of stones and darts were discharged that (our men who were shielding him having neglected for a moment their duty, because they saw how the attack ceased while he spoke to them) he was hit by three stones, one on the head, another on the arm and another on the leg, and although they begged him to have the wounds dressed and to take food, and spoke kind words to him about it, he would not. Indeed, when we least expected it, they came to say that he was dead." Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún recorded two versions of the conquest of Mexico from the Tenochtitlán-Tlatelolco viewpoint. In Book 12 of the twelve-volume Florentine Codex, the account in Spanish and Nahuatl is accompanied by illustrations by natives. One is of the death of Moctezuma II, which the indigenous assert was due to the Spaniards. According to the Codex, the bodies of Moctezuma and Itzquauhtzin were cast out of the Palace by the Spanish; the body of Moctezuma was gathered up and cremated at Copulco. Aftermath The Spaniards were forced to flee the city and they took refuge in Tlaxcala, and signed a treaty with the natives there to conquer Tenochtitlán, offering to the Tlaxcalans control of Tenochtitlán and freedom from any kind of tribute. Moctezuma was then succeeded by his brother Cuitláhuac, who died shortly after during a smallpox epidemic. He was succeeded by his adolescent nephew, Cuauhtémoc. During the siege of the city, the sons of Moctezuma were murdered by the Aztecs, possibly because they wanted to surrender. By the following year, the Aztec Empire had fallen to an army of Spanish and their Native American allies, primarily Tlaxcalans, who were traditional enemies of the Aztecs. Contemporary depictions Bernal Díaz del Castillo The firsthand account of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés. In his first description of Moctezuma, Díaz del Castillo writes: The Great Montezuma was about forty years old, of good height, well proportioned, spare and slight, and not very dark, though of the usual Indian complexion. He did not wear his hair long but just over his ears, and he had a short black beard, well-shaped and thin. His face was rather long and cheerful, he had fine eyes, and in his appearance and manner could express geniality or, when necessary, a serious composure. He was very neat and clean, and took a bath every afternoon. He had many women as his mistresses, the daughters of chieftains, but two legitimate wives who were Caciques in their own right, and only some of his servants knew of it. He was quite free from sodomy. The clothes he wore one day he did not wear again till three or four days later. He had a guard of two hundred chieftains lodged in rooms beside his own, only some of whom were permitted to speak to him. When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people, "Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good. It was stated that he had reigned for seventeen years, and was the best king they ever had in Mexico, and that he had personally triumphed in three wars against countries he had subjugated. I have spoken of the sorrow we all felt when we saw that Montezuma was dead. We even blamed the Mercedarian friar for not having persuaded him to become a Christian." Hernán Cortés Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was recording his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación (Letters from Mexico) to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown. His prose is characterized by simple descriptions and explanations, along with frequent personal addresses to the King. In his Second Letter, Cortés describes his first encounter with Moctezuma thus:Moctezuma came to greet us and with him some two hundred lords, all barefoot and dressed in a different costume, but also very rich in their way and more so than the others. They came in two columns, pressed very close to the walls of the street, which is very wide and beautiful and so straight that you can see from one end to the other. Moctezuma came down the middle of this street with two chiefs, one on his right hand and the other on his left. And they were all dressed alike except that Moctezuma wore sandals whereas the others went barefoot; and they held his arm on either side. Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmán have pointed out the Biblical messages that Cortés seems to ascribe to Moctezuma's retelling of the legend of Quetzalcoatl as a vengeful Messiah who would return to rule over the Mexica. Pagden has written that "There is no preconquest tradition which places Quetzalcoatl in this role, and it seems possible therefore that it was elaborated by Sahagún and Motolinía from informants who themselves had partially lost contact with their traditional tribal histories". Bernardino de Sahagún The Florentine Codex, made by Bernardino de Sahagún, relied on native informants from Tlatelolco, and generally portrays Tlatelolco and Tlatelolcan rulers in a favorable light relative to those of Tenochtitlan. Moctezuma in particular is depicted unfavorably as a weak-willed, superstitious, and indulgent ruler. Historian James Lockhart suggests that the people needed to have a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat, and Moctezuma naturally fell into that role. Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc, who may have written the Crónica Mexicayotl, was possibly a grandson of Moctezuma II. It is possible that his chronicle relates mostly the genealogy of the Aztec rulers. He described Moctezuma's issue and estimates them to be nineteen – eleven sons and eight daughters. Depiction in early post-conquest literature Some of the Aztec stories about Moctezuma describe him as being fearful of the Spanish newcomers, and some sources, such as the Florentine Codex, comment that the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods and Cortés to be the returned god Quetzalcoatl. The veracity of this claim is difficult to ascertain, though some recent ethnohistorians specialising in early Spanish/Nahua relations have discarded it as post-conquest mythicalisation. Much of the idea of Cortés being seen as a deity can be traced back to the Florentine Codex, written some 50 years after the conquest. In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorical Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex (written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, "You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you," and, "You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs; may our lords come on earth." While some historians such as Warren H. Carroll consider this as evidence that Moctezuma was at least open to the possibility that the Spaniards were divinely sent based on the Quetzalcoatl legend, others such as Matthew Restall argue that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortés (if indeed he did ever give the speech as reported) may well have been meant as the exact opposite of what it was taken to mean, as politeness in Aztec culture was a way to assert dominance and show superiority. Other parties have also propagated the idea that the Native Americans believed the conquistadors to be gods, most notably the historians of the Franciscan order such as Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta. Bernardino de Sahagún, who compiled the Florentine Codex, was also a Franciscan priest. Indigenous accounts of omens and Moctezuma's beliefs Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590) includes in Book 12 of the Florentine Codex eight events said to have occurred prior to the arrival of the Spanish. These were purportedly interpreted as signs of a possible disaster, e.g. a comet, the burning of a temple, a crying ghostly woman, and others. Some speculate that the Aztecs were particularly susceptible to such ideas of doom and disaster because the particular year in which the Spanish arrived coincided with a "tying of years" ceremony at the end of a 52-year cycle in the Aztec calendar, which in Aztec belief was linked to changes, rebirth, and dangerous events. The belief of the Aztecs being rendered passive by their own superstition is referred to by Matthew Restall as part of "The Myth of Native Desolation" to which he dedicates chapter 6 in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. These legends are likely a part of the post-conquest rationalization by the Aztecs of their defeat, and serve to show Moctezuma as indecisive, vain, and superstitious, and ultimately the cause of the fall of the Aztec Empire. According to 16th-century Spanish historian Diego Durán, who was one of the most important chroniclers of the indigenous stories of the empire, Nezahualpilli was among those who informed Moctezuma of the imminent destruction of the empire by a foreign invader, warning him that omens confirming his fears will soon appear. This warning caused Moctezuma great fear and took a series of erratic decisions immediately after, such as severe punishments against his own soldiers for disappointing results after battles against the Tlaxcalans. Ethnohistorian Susan Gillespie has argued that the Nahua understanding of history as repeating itself in cycles also led to a subsequent rationalization of the events of the conquests. In this interpretation the description of Moctezuma, the final ruler of the Aztec Empire prior to the Spanish conquest, was tailored to fit the role of earlier rulers of ending dynasties—for example Quetzalcoatl, the mythical last ruler of the Toltecs. In any case it is within the realm of possibility that the description of Moctezuma in post-conquest sources was colored by his role as a monumental closing figure of Aztec history. Personal life Wives, concubines, and children Moctezuma had numerous wives and concubines by whom he fathered an enormous family, but only two women held the position of queen – Tlapalizquixochtzin and Teotlalco. His partnership with Tlapalizquixochtzin also made him a king consort of Ecatepec since she was queen of that city. Teotlalco was herself also a princess from Ecatepec and Tlapalizquixochtzin's sister, as both were daughters of Matlaccohuatl, a ruler of Ecatepec. However, Spanish accounts describe that very few people in Mexico actually knew that these two women held such positions of power, some of those who knew being a few of his close servants. Of his many wives may be named the princesses Teitlalco, Acatlan, and Miahuaxochitl, of whom the first named appears to have been the only legitimate consort. By her he left a son, Asupacaci, who fell during the Noche Triste, and a daughter, Tecuichpoch, later baptized as Isabel Moctezuma. By the Princess Acatlan were left two daughters, baptized as Maria and Mariana (also known as Leonor); the latter alone left offspring, from whom descends the Sotelo-Montezuma family. Though the exact number of his children is unknown and the names of most of them have been lost to history, according to a Spanish chronicler, by the time he was taken captive, Moctezuma had fathered 100 children and fifty of his wives and concubines were then in some stage of pregnancy, though this estimate may have been exaggerated. As Aztec culture made class distinctions between the children of senior wives, lesser wives, and concubines, not all of his children were considered equal in nobility or inheritance rights. Among his many children were Princess Isabel Moctezuma, Princess Mariana Leonor Moctezuma and sons Chimalpopoca (not to be confused with the previous huey tlatoani) and Tlaltecatzin. Activities Among the sports he practiced, he was an active hunter, and often used to hunt for deer, rabbits and various birds in a certain section of a forest (likely the Bosque de Chapultepec) that was exclusive to him and whoever he invited. It was prohibited for anyone without permission to enter, and allegedly any trespassers would be put to death. He also used to invite servants to this forest, should he order for certain animals to be hunted for him, which would often be done for the entertainment of his guests. Legacy Descendants in Mexico and the Spanish nobility Several lines of descendants exist in Mexico and Spain through Moctezuma II's son and daughters, notably Tlacahuepan Ihualicahuaca, or Pedro Moctezuma, and Tecuichpoch Ixcaxochitzin, or Isabel Moctezuma. Following the conquest, Moctezuma's daughter, Techichpotzin (or Tecuichpoch), became known as Isabel Moctezuma and was given a large estate by Cortés, who also fathered a child by her, Leonor Cortés Moctezuma, who in turn was the mother of Isabel de Tolosa Cortés de Moctezuma. Isabel married consecutively to Cuauhtémoc (the last Mexican sovereign), to a conquistador in Cortés' original group, Alonso Grado (died c. 1527), a poblador (a Spaniard who had arrived after the fall of Tenochtitlán), to Pedro Andrade Gallego (died c. 1531), and to conquistador Juan Cano de Saavedra, who survived her. She had children by the latter two, from whom descend the illustrious families of Andrade-Montezuma and Cano-Montezuma. A nephew of Moctezuma II was Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin. The grandson of Moctezuma II, Pedro's son, Ihuitemotzin, baptized as Diego Luis de Moctezuma, was brought to Spain by King Philip II. There he married Francisca de la Cueva de Valenzuela. In 1627, their son Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma was given the title Count of Moctezuma (later altered to Moctezuma de Tultengo), and thus became part of the Spanish nobility. In 1766, the holder of the title became a Grandee of Spain. In 1865 (coincidentally during the Second Mexican Empire), the title, which was held by Antonio María Moctezuma-Marcilla de Teruel y Navarro, 14th Count of Moctezuma de Tultengo, was elevated to that of a Duke, thus becoming Duke of Moctezuma, with de Tultengo again added in 1992 by Juan Carlos I. Descendants of Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma included (through an illegitimate child of his son Diego Luis) General Jerónimo Girón-Moctezuma, 3rd Marquess de las Amarilas (1741–1819), a ninth-generation descendant of Moctezuma II, who was commander of the Spanish forces at the Battle of Fort Charlotte, and his grandson, Francisco Javier Girón y Ezpeleta, 2nd Duke of Ahumada and 5th Marquess of the Amarillas who was the founder of the Guardia Civil in Spain. Other holders of Spanish noble titles that descend from the Aztec emperor include Dukes of Atrisco. Indigenous mythology and folklore Many indigenous peoples in Mexico are reported to worship deities named after the Aztec ruler, and often a part of the myth is that someday the deified Moctezuma shall return to vindicate his people. In Mexico, the contemporary Pames, Otomi, Tepehuán, Totonac, and Nahua peoples are reported to worship earth deities named after Moctezuma. His name also appears in Tzotzil Maya ritual in Zinacantán where dancers dressed as a rain god are called "Moctezumas". Hubert Howe Bancroft, writing in the 19th century (Native Races, Volume #3), speculated that the name of the historical Aztec emperor Moctezuma had been used to refer to a combination of different cultural heroes who were united under the name of a particularly salient representative of Mesoamerican identity. Symbol of indigenous leadership As a symbol of resistance against the Spanish, the name of Moctezuma has been invoked in several indigenous rebellions. One such example was the rebellion of the Virgin Cult in Chiapas in 1721, where the followers of the Virgin Mary rebelled against the Spanish after having been told by an apparition of the virgin that Moctezuma would be resuscitated to assist them against their Spanish oppressors. In the Quisteil rebellion of the Yucatec Maya in 1761, the rebel leader Jacinto Canek reportedly called himself "Little Montezuma". Portrayals and cultural references Art, music, and literature The Aztec emperor is the title character in several 18th-century operas: Motezuma (1733) by Antonio Vivaldi; Motezuma (1771) by Josef Mysliveček; Montezuma (1755) by Carl Heinrich Graun; and Montesuma (1781) by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. He is also the subject of Roger Sessions' dodecaphonic opera Montezuma (1963), and the protagonist in the modern opera La Conquista (2005) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, where his part is written in the Nahuatl language. Numerous other works of popular culture have mentioned or referred to Moctezuma: Moctezuma (spelled Montezuma) is portrayed in Lew Wallace's first novel The Fair God (1873). He is portrayed as influenced by the belief that Cortés was Quetzalcoatl returned, and as a weak and indecisive leader, saving the conquistadores from certain defeat in one battle by ordering the Aztecs to stop. The Marines' Hymn's opening line "From the Halls of Montezuma" refers to the Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Mexican–American War, 1846–1848. Montezuma is mentioned in Neil Young's song "Cortez the Killer", from the 1975 album Zuma (the title of which is also believed to derive from "Montezuma"). The song's lyrics paint a heavily romanticized portrait of Montezuma and his empire. On the facade of the Royal Palace of Madrid there is a statue of the emperor Moctezuma II, along with another of the Inca emperor Atahualpa, among the statues of the kings of the ancient kingdoms that formed Spain. In the alternate history of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy stories, where the Aztecs were conquered by an Anglo-French Empire rather than by Spain, Moctezuma II was converted to Christianity and retained his rule of Mexico as a vassal of the London-based king, and Moctezuma's descendants were still ruling in this capacity in the equivalent of the 20th century. The video game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors contains a six-chapter campaign titled "Montezuma". Other references Moctezuma River and Mount Moctezuma, a volcano in Mexico City, are named after him. Montezuma Falls in Tasmania is named after him. Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery, a brewery of Heineken International in Monterrey, Mexico, is named after Moctezuma II and his nephew, Cuauhtémoc. Montezuma Castle and Montezuma Well, 13th-century Sinagua dwellings in central Arizona, were named by 19th-century American pioneers who mistakenly thought they were built by the Aztecs. Montezuma is a playable ruler for the Aztec in several of the video games of the Civilization series. Several species of animals and plants such as Montezuma quail, Montezuma oropendola, Argyrotaenia montezumae, and Pinus montezumae have been named after him. An elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico is named Montezuma Elementary School, after him. "Montezuma's Revenge" is a colloquialism for traveler's diarrhea in visitors to Mexico. The urban legend states that Montezuma II initiated the onslaught of diarrhea on "gringo" travelers to Mexico in retribution for the slaughter and subsequent enslavement of the Aztec people by Hernán Cortés in 1521. See also Historic recurrence List of unsolved murders Moctezuma I Moctezuma's Table Montezuma's headdress Qualpopoca Emperor Notes References Further reading Primary sources Secondary sources External links A reconstructed portrait of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, based on historical sources, in a contemporary style. 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<mask>zin ( – 29 June 1520) [moteːkʷˈsoːma ʃoːkoˈjoːtsin] ), variant spellings include Motecuhzomatzin, Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to retroactively in European sources as <mask> II, was the ninth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the sixth Huey Tlatoani or Emperor of the Aztec Empire (also known as Mexica Empire), reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. Through his marriage with queen Tlapalizquixochtzin of Ecatepec, one of his two wives, he was also king consort of that altepetl, though few people in Mexico knew of this political role, even in his own court. The first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. During his reign, the Aztec Empire reached its greatest size. Through warfare, Moctezuma expanded the territory as far south as Xoconosco in Chiapas and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and incorporated the Zapotec and Yopi people into the empire. He changed the previous meritocratic system of social hierarchy and widened the divide between pipiltin (nobles) and macehualtin (commoners) by prohibiting commoners from working in the royal palaces. Though two other Aztec rulers succeeded Moctezuma after his death, their reigns were short-lived and the empire quickly collapsed under them.Historical portrayals of Moctezuma have mostly been colored by his role as ruler of a defeated nation, and many sources have described him as weak-willed, superstitious, and indecisive. Depictions of his person among his contemporaries however are divided; some depict him as one of the greatest leaders Mexico had, a great conqueror who tried his best to maintain his nation together at times of crisis, while others depict him as a tyrant who wanted to take absolute control over the whole empire. His story remains one of the most well-known conquest narratives from the history of European contact with Native Americans, and he has been mentioned or portrayed in numerous works of historical fiction and popular culture. Name The Nahuatl pronunciation of his name is . It is a compound of a noun meaning "lord" and a verb meaning "to frown in anger", and so is interpreted as "he is one who frowns like a lord" or "he who is angry in a noble manner." His name glyph, shown in the upper left corner of the image from the Codex Mendoza below, was composed of a diadem (xiuhuitzolli) on straight hair with an attached earspool, a separate nosepiece, and a speech scroll. Regnal number The Aztecs did not use regnal numbers; they were given retroactively by historians to more easily distinguish him from the first Moctezuma, referred to as Moctezuma I.The Aztec chronicles called him Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, while the first was called Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina or Huehuemotecuhzoma ("Old Moctezuma"). Xocoyotzin () means "honored young one" (from "xocoyotl" [younger son] + suffix "-tzin" added to nouns or personal names when speaking about them with deference). Biography Early life Montezuma Xocoyotzin, son of Axayácatl and Izelcoatzin, daughter of Nezahualcóyotl, was the ruler of the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan whose dominions extended to the cities of Texcoco and Tlatelolco from 1502 or 1503 to 1520, upon the arrival of the Spanish. He was elected after the death of Ahuizotl, who died during the flood of 1502. He was elected military chief during Ahuízotl military campaigns. Once elected, he maintained an energetic policy even internally and implemented mechanisms to center power in his person. In order to structure his dominions, Moctezuma organized the empire in various provinces, created a solid central administration, and regulated the tax system.At the time of receiving power, the altepetl (lordships) numerically submitted were many and paid high economic burdens, but they were scattered in geographical areas that contained enemy regions such as Tlaxcala, some lordships of Xoconochco and the Purépechas, for which it focused its military apparatus on the submission of said powerful altépetl, which it did not ultimately achieve. <mask> was an already famous warrior by the time he became the tlatoani of Mexico, holding the high rank of tlacatecuhtli (lord of men) and/or tlacochcalcatl (person from the house of darts) in the Mexica military, and thus his election was largely influenced by his military career and religious influence as a priest. One example of a celebrated campaign in which he participated before ascending to the throne was during the last stages of the conquest of Ayotlan, during Ahuizotl's reign in the late 15th century. During this campaign, which lasted 4 years, a group of Mexica pochteca merchants were put under siege by the enemy forces. This was important because the merchants were closely related to Ahuizotl and served as military commanders and soldiers themselves when needed. To rescue the merchants, Ahuizotl sent then-prince Moctezuma with many soldiers to fight against the enemies, though the fight didn't last long, as the people of Ayotlan surrendered to the Mexica shortly after he arrived. The year in which Moctezuma was crowned is uncertain.Most historians suggest the year of 1502 to be most likely, though some have argued in favor of the year 1503. A work currently held at the Art Institute of Chicago known as the Stone of the Five Suns is an inscription written in stone representing the Five Suns and a date in the Aztec calendar, 1 crocodile 11 reed, which is the equivalent to 15 July 1503 in the Gregorian calendar. Some historians believe this to be the exact date in which the coronation took place, as it is also included in some primary sources. Other dates have been given from the same year; Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl states that the coronation took place in 24 May 1503. However, most documents say <mask>'s coronation happened in the year 1502, and therefore most historians believe this to have been the actual date. Reign After his coronation he set up thirty-eight more provincial divisions, largely to centralize the empire. He sent out bureaucrats, accompanied by military garrisons.They made sure tax was being paid, national laws were being upheld, and served as local judges in case of disagreement. Internal policy and various events Natural disasters Moctezuma's reign began with difficulties. In the year of 1505, there was a drought that resulted in crop failure, and thus a large portion of the population of central Mexico began to starve. One of the few places in the empire that wasn't affected by this drought was Totonacapan, and many people from Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco sought refuge in this area to avoid starvation. <mask> and the lords of Texcoco and Tlacopan, Nezahualpilli and Totoquihuatzin, attempted their best to aid the population during the disaster, including using all available food supplies to feed the population and raising tributes for 1 year. This drought lasted 3 years. At some point the famine became so impactful that some noblemen reportedly sold their children as slaves in exchange for food to avoid starvation.Moctezuma ordered the tlacxitlan, the criminal court of Tenochtitlan (which aside from judging criminals also had the job to free "unjustified" slaves), to get those children to free them and offer food to those noblemen. Another natural disaster, though of lower intensity, occurred in the winter of 1514, when a series of dangerous snowstorms resulted in the destruction of various crops and property across Mexico. Rebellions During his reign, multiple rebellions were suppressed by use of force, and often ended with violent results. In fact, the first campaign during his reign, which was done in honor of his coronation, was the suppression of a rebellion in Nopallan (today known as Santos Reyes Nopala) and Icpatepec (a Mixtec town that no longer exists which was near Silacayoapam), both in modern-day Oaxaca. The prisoners taken during this campaign were later used as slaves or for human sacrifice. Another notable rebellion occurred in Atlixco (in modern-day Puebla), a city neighboring Tlaxcala which had previously been conquered by Ahuizotl. This rebellion would occur in 1508 in this region, which was repressed by a prince named Macuilmalinatzin.This wasn't the first conflict which occurred in this region, as its proximity with Tlaxcala and Huejotzingo would cause multiple conflicts to erupt in this area during Moctezuma's reign. Some revolts occurred as far south as Xoconochco (today known as Soconusco) and Huiztlan (today, Huixtla), far down where the Mexican-Guatemalan border is today. These territories were highly important to the empire and had been previously conquered by Ahuizotl as well, and Moctezuma had to maintain them under his control. Policies and other events during his reign During his government, he applied multiple policies that centered the government of the empire on his person, though it is difficult to tell exactly to which extent those policies were actually applied, as the records written about such policies tend to be affected by propaganda in favor of or against his person. According to Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, among Moctezuma's policies were the replacement of a large portion of his court (including most of his advisors) with people he deemed preferable, and increasing the division between the commoner and noble classes, which included the refusal to offer certain honors to various politicians and warriors for being commoners. He also prohibited any commoners or illegitimate children of the nobility from serving in his palace or in high positions of government. This was contrary to the policies of his predecessors, who did allow commoners to serve in such positions.Moctezuma's elitism can be attributed to a long conflict of interests between the nobility, merchants and warrior class. The struggle occurred as the result of the conflicting interests between the merchants and the nobility and the rivalry between the warrior class and the nobility for positions of power in the government. Moctezuma likely thought about solving this conflict by installing despotist policies that would settle it. However, it is also true that many of these elitist policies were put in place since Moctezuma did not want to "work with inferior people," and instead wanted to be served by and work with people he deemed more prestigious, both to avoid giving himself and the government a bad reputation and to work with people he trusted better. However, some of his policies also affected the nobility, as he had the intentions of reforming it into not imposing a potential threat to the government, among them the obligation to reside permanently in Tenochtitlan and abandon their homes if they lived elsewhere. Regarding his economic policies, Moctezuma's rule was largely affected by the natural disasters at the beginning of it. As mentioned before, the famine during his first years as tlatoani resulted in a temporary increase in tribute in some provinces to aid the population.Some provinces however ended up paying more tribute permanently, most likely as the result of his primary military focus shifting from territorial expansion to stabilization of the empire through the suppression of rebellions. Most of the provinces affected by this new tributary policies were in the Valley of Mexico. For example, provinces like Chalco were given an additional tribute of stone and wood twice or thrice a year for Tenochtitlan's building projects. This tributary policy eventually backfired as some of the empire's subjects grew disgruntled at <mask>'s government and launched rebellions against him, which eventually resulted in many of these provinces, like Totonacapan (under the leadership of Chicomacatl) and Chalco and Mixquic (which were near Tenochtitlan), to form an alliance with Spain to rebel against him. The famine at the beginning of his rule also resulted in the abolishment of the huehuetlatlacolli (old serfdom) system, which was a system of serfdom in which a family agreed to maintain a tlacohtli (slave or serf) perpetually. This agreement also turned the descendants of the ones who agreed into serfs. Many of these policies were planned together with his uncle Tlilpotonqui at the beginning of his reign, while others, such as his tributary policies, were created as the result of various events, like the famine which occurred at the beginning of his rule.His policies, in general, had the purpose of centralizing the government in his person through the means of implementing policies to settle the divide between the nobily and commoners and abolishing some of the more feudal policies of his predecessors, while also making his tributary policies more severe to aid the population during natural disasters and to compensate for a less expansionist focus. Most of the policies implemented during his rule would not last long after his death, as the empire fell into Spanish control on 13 August 1521 as a result of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, one year after he died. The new Spanish authorities implemented their own laws and removed many of the political establishments done during the pre-Hispanic era, leaving just a few in place. Among the few policies that lasted were the divide between the nobility and the commoners, as members of the pre-Hispanic nobility continued to enjoy various privileges under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, such as land ownership through a system known as cacicazgo. Construction projects <mask>, like many of his predecessors, built a tecpan (palace) of his own. This was a particularly large palace, which was a somewhat larger than the National Palace that exists today which was built over it, being about 200 meters long and 200 meters wide. However, little archaeological evidence exists to understand what his palace looked like, but the various descriptions of it and the space it covered have helped reconstruct various features of its layout.Even so, these descriptions tend to be limited, as many writers were unable to describe it in detail. The Spanish captain Hernán Cortés, the main commander of the Spanish troops that entered Mexico in the year 1519, himself stated in his letters to the king of Spain that he would not bother describing it, claiming that it "was so marvelous that it seems to me impossible to describe its excellence." The palace had a large courtyard which opened into the central plaza of the city to the north, where Templo Mayor was. This courtyard was a place where hundreds of courtiers would hold multiple sorts of activites, including feasts and waiting for royal business to be conducted. This courtyard had around it suites of rooms which surrounded smaller courtyards and gardens. His residence had many rooms for various purposes. Aside from his own room, at the central part of the upper floor, there were two rooms beside it which were known as coacalli (guest house).One of these rooms was built for the lords of Tlacopan and Texcoco, the other two members of the Triple Alliance, who came to visit. The other room was for the lords of Colhuacan, Tenayohcan (today known as Tenayuca) and Chicuhnautlan (today, ). The exact reason why this room had this purpose remains uncertain, though a few records like Codex Mendoza say the reason was that these lords were personal friends of Moctezuma. There was also another room which became known as Casa Denegrida de Moctezuma (in Spanish, Moctezuma's Black House), a room with no windows and fully painted black which was used by Moctezuma to meditate. The upper floor had a large courtyard which was likely used as a cuicacalli, for public shows during religious rituals. The bottom floor had two rooms which were used by the government. One of them was used for Moctezuma's advisors and judges who dealt with situations of the commoners, (likely the Tlacxitlan).The other room was for the war council (likely the Tequihuacalli), where high ranking warriors planned and commanded their battles. As part of the construction of Moctezuma's palace, various projects were made which made it more prestigious by providing entertainment to the public. One of the most famous among these projects was the (House of Birds), a zoo which had multiple sorts of animals, mainly avian species, but also contained several predatory animals as well in their own section. These animals were taken care of by servants who cleaned their environments, fed them and offered them care according to their species. The species of birds held within the zoo was widely varied, holding animals like quetzals, eagles, true parrots and others, and also included water species like roseate spoonbills and various others which had their own pond. The section with animals other than birds, which was decorated with figures of gods associated with the wild, was also considerably varied, having jaguars, wolves, snakes and other smaller predatory animals. These animals were fed on hunted animals like deer, turkeys and other smaller animals.Allegedly, the dead bodies of sacrificial victims were also used to feed these animals, and after the battle known as La Noche Triste, which occurred during the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in June 1520 (during which <mask> died), the bodies of dead Spaniards may have been used to feed them. This place was highly prestigious, and all sorts of important people are said to had used to visit this place, including artists, craftsmen, government officials and blacksmiths. The Totocalli however was burnt and destroyed, along with many other constructions, in the year 1521 soon after the Spanish and their allies conquered Mexico, as the Spanish captain Hernán Cortés ordered for many of the buildings that formed part of the royal palaces to be burnt to demoralize the many rebellious groups that formed against them. Though Cortés himself admitted that he enjoyed the zoo, he stated that he saw it as a necessary measure in his third letter to the king of Spain Carlos I (also known as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor). Territorial expansion during his rule, military actions and foreign policy The first military campaign during his rule (as mentioned in the previous subsection), which was done in honor of his coronation, was the violent suppression of a rebellion in Nopala and Icpatepec. For this war, a force of over 60,000 soldiers from Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tepanec lands, Chalco and Xochimilco participated, and <mask> himself went to the frontlines. Aproximately 5100 prisoners were taken after the campaign, many of whom were given to inhabitants of Tenochtitlan and Chalco as slaves, while the rest were sacrificed in his honor in the fourth day of his coronation.After the campaign, celebrations for his coronation continued in Tenochtitlan. <mask>'s territorial expansion however wouldn't truly begin until another rebellion was suppressed in Tlachquiauhco, where its ruler, Malinalli, was killed after trying to start the rebellion. A characteristic fact about Moctezuma's wars was that a large portion of them had the purpose of suppressing rebellions rather than conquering new territory, contrary to his predecessors, whose main focus was territorial expansion. Foreign policy At the beginning of his rule, he attempted to build diplomatic ties with Tlaxcala, Huexotzinco (today, Huejotzingo), Chollolan (Cholula), Michoacan and Metztitlán, through secretly inviting the lords of these countries to attend the celebrations for his coronation before the continuation of the flower wars, which were wars of religious nature arranged voluntarily by the parties involved with no territorial purposes, but instead to capture and sacrifice as many soldiers as possible. During this period, Mexico and Tlaxcala still weren't at war, but the tension between these nations was high, and the embassy sent for this purpose was put in a highly risky situation, for which he only chose experts in diplomacy, espionage and languages for it. Fortunately, his invitation was accepted, and Moctezuma used this opportunity to show his greatness to the lords who attended. However, due to the fact that the invitation was secret to avoid a scandal for inviting his rivals to this ceremony, Moctezuma ordered that no one should know that the lords were present, not even the rulers of Tlacopan (today known as Tacuba) and Texcoco, and the lords saw themselves often forced to pretend to be organizers to avoid confusion.Though Moctezuma would continue to hold meetings with these people, where various religious rituals were held, it didn't take long for large-scale conflicts to erupt between these nations. An important thing to note is that, contrary to popular belief, Tlaxcala wasn't Mexico's most powerful rival in the central Mexican region in this period, and it wouldn't be until the final years of pre-Hispanic Mexico in 1518—19. In the opening years of the 16th century, Huejotzingo was Mexico's actual military focus, and it proved itself to be one of the most powerful political entities until these final years, as a series of devastating wars weakened the state into being conquered by Tlaxcala. Territorial expansion The empire's expansion during Moctezuma's rule was mainly focused on the southwestern territories of Oaxaca and modern-day Guerrero. The earliest conquests in this territory were held by Moctezuma I. The first important conquest during Moctezuma's rule occurred in the year of 1504, when the city of Achiotlan (today known as San Juan Achiutla) was conquered. This war, according to some sources, was supposedly mainly caused by "a small tree which belonged to a lord of the place which grew such beautiful flowers Moctezuma's envy couldn't resist it," and when Moctezuma asked for it, the lord of the city refused to offer it, thus starting the war.After the conquest, this tree was supposedly taken to Tenochtitlan. The second conquest occurred in Zozollan, a place neighboring east of Achiutla, in 28 May 1506. This conquest had a particularly violent result, as a special sacrifice was held after the campaign where the prisoners captured in Zozollan were the victims. "The Mexicans killed many of the people from Zozola which they captured in war," according to ancient sources. In the year of 1507, the year of the New Fire Ceremony, abundant military action occurred. Among the towns which are listed to have been conquered in this year are: Tecuhtepec (from which multiple prisoners were sacrificed for the ceremony), Iztitlan, Nocheztlan (an important town northeast of Achiutla) and Tototepec. An important campaign was the conquest of Xaltepec (today known as Jaltepec) and Cuatzontlan and the suppression of the last revolt in Icpatepec, all in Oaxaca.This war started as the result of provocations given by Jaltepec against Moctezuma through killing as many Mexicas as they could find in their area, as some sort of way to challenge him, and the beginning of the revolt by Icpatepec as the result. The Xaltepeca had done this before with previous tlatoanis and other nations. Moctezuma and the recently elected ruler of Tlacopan themselves went to the fight, along with Tlacaelel's son Cihuacoatl. A large portion of the weapons and food was brought by Tlatelolco, though they were initially hesitant to do so, but were ordered by Moctezuma to offer it as a tribute to Tenochtitlan, and they received multiple rewards as the result, including the permission to rebuild their main temple (which had been partially destroyed during the Battle of Tlatelolco which occurred during Axayacatl's reign). This campaign had a highly violent result; Moctezuma ordered for all adults in the city above the age of 50 to be killed to prevent a rebellion once the cities were conquered. The conquest was done through dividing the army that was brought in 3 divisions; one from Tlacopan, one from Texcoco and one from Tenochtitlan, so that each one attacked a different city. The Tenochtitlan company attacked Jaltepec.Moctezuma came out victorious and then returned to Mexico through Chalco, where he received many honors for his victory. This war likely happened in 1511, as a war against Icpatepec is recorded to have happened again in that year. Moctezuma also conquered some of the last few Tlapanec territories of modern-day Guerrero, an area which had already been in decline since <mask> I began his first campaigns in the region and probably turned the Kingdom of Tlachinollan (modern-day Tlapa) into a tributary province during the rule of lord Tlaloc between 1461 and 1467 (though the kingdom wouldn't be invaded and fully conquered until the reign of Ahuizotl in 1486, along with Caltitlan, a city neighboring west of Tlapa). In between the years of 1503 and 1509, a campaign was launched against Xipetepec, and another was launched (as mentioned previously) in 1507 against Tototepec, which had previously been a territory conquered by Tlachinollan in the mid 14th century. The campaign in Xipetepec however appears to have been relatively peaceful, though the campaign against Tototepec occurred as the result of a large group of Mexica messengers sent by Moctezuma being killed after they demanded for some of the resources of the area on his behalf. During the conquest of Tototepec, two important Mexica noblemen, Ixtlilcuechahuac and Huitzilihuitzin (not to be confused with the tlatoani of this name), were killed. Another campaign was launched in 1515 to conquer Acocozpan and Tetenanco and reconquer Atlitepec, which had been previously conquered by Ahuizotl in 1493.The approximate number of military engagements during his rule before European contact was 73, achieving victory in approximately 43 sites (including territories already within the empire), making him one of the most active monarchs in pre-Hispanic Mexican history in terms of military actions. However his rule and policies suffered a very sudden interruption upon the news of the arrival of Spanish ships at the east in 1519. Texcoco crisis One of the most controversial events during his reign was the supposed overthrowal of the legitimate government of Nezahualpilli in Texcoco. Historians like Alva Ixtlilxóchitl even went as far as referring to this action as "diabolical," though while also making claims that are not seen in other chronicles and are generally not trusted by modern historians. Nezahualpilli's death The circumstances of Nezahualpilli's death are not clear, and many sources offer highly conflicting stories about the events that resulted in it. According to Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, the issue began when <mask> sent an embassy to Nezahualpilli reprimanding him for not sacrificing any Tlaxcalan prisoners since the last 4 years, during the war with Tlaxcala (see below), threatening him saying that he was angering the gods. Nezahualpilli replied to this embassy stating that the reason he hadn't sacrificed them is because he simply didn't want to wage war because he and his population wanted to live peacefully for the time being, as the ceremonies that would be held in the following year, 1 reed, would make war inevitable, and that soon his wishes would be granted.Eventually Nezahualpilli launched a campaign against Tlaxcala, though he did not go himself, instead sending two of his sons, Acatlemacoctzin and Tecuanehuatzin, as commanders. <mask> then decided to betray Nezahualpilli by sending a secret embassy to Tlaxcala telling them about the incoming army. The Tlaxcalans then began to take action against the Texcoca while they were unaware of this betrayal. The Texcoco armies were ambushed in the middle of the night. Almost none of the Texcoca survived the fight. Upon receiving the news of Moctezuma's betrayal, understanding that nothing could be done about it and fearing for the future of his people, Nezahualpilli committed suicide in his palace. This story however, as mentioned before, is not generally trusted by modern historians, and much of the information given contradicts other sources.Sources do agree however on that Nezahualpilli's last years as ruler were mainly characterized by his attempts to live a peaceful live, likely as the result of his old age. He spent his last months mostly inactive in his rule and his advisors, on his own request, took most of the government's decisions during this period. He personally assigned two men (of whom details are mostly unknown) to take control on almost all government decisions. These sources also agree that he was found dead in his palace, but the cause of his death remains uncertain. His death is recorded to have been mourned in Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, Tlacopan and even Chalco and Xochimilco, as all of these altepeme gave precious offerings, like jewelry and clothes, and sacrifices in his honor. <mask> himself was reported to have broken in tears upon receiving the news of his death. His death was mourned for 80 days.This was recorded as one of the largest funeral ceremonies in pre-Hispanic Mexican history. Succession crisis Elections Since Nezahualipilli died abruptly in the year 1516, he left no indication as to who his successor would be. He had six legitimate sons: Cacamatzin, Coanacochtli (later baptized as Don Pedro), Tecocoltzin (baptized as Don Hernando), Ixtlilxochitl II (baptized as Don Hernando), Yoyontzin (baptized as Don Jorge) and Tetlahuehuetzquititzin (baptized as Don Pedro), all of whom would eventually take the throne, though most of them after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. His most likely heir was Tetlahuehuetzquititzin, as he was the wealthiest among Nezahualpilli's sons, but he was considered inapt for the job. His other most likely heirs were Ixtlilxochitl, Coanacochtli and Cacamatzin, though not everyone supported them as they were considerably younger than Tetlahuehuetzquititzin, as Ixtlilxochitl was 19 years old and Cacamatzin was about 21. Moctezuma supported Cacamatzin since he was his nephew. In the end, the Texcoco council voted in favor of <mask>'s decision, and Cacamatzin was declared tlatoani, being that he was the son of <mask>'s sister Xocotzin and was older than his two other brothers.Though Coanacochtli felt like the decision was fair, Ixtlilxochitl disagreed with the results and protested against the council. Ixtlilxochitl argued that the reason why <mask> supported Cacamatzin was because he wanted to manipulate him so that he could take over Texcoco, being that he was his uncle. Coanacochtli responded that the decision was legitimate, and that even if Cacamatzin wasn't elected Ixtlilxochitl wouldn't have been elected either, as he was younger than the two. Cacamatzin stayed quiet during the whole debate. Eventually the members of the council shut down the debate to prevent a violent escalation. Though Cacamatzin was officially declared tlatoani, the coronation ceremony didn't occur that day, and Ixtlilxochitl used this as an opportunity to plan his rebellion against him. Conflicts Shortly after the election, Ixtlilxochitl began to prepare his revolt by going to Metztitlán to raise an army, threatening civil war.Cacama went to Tenochtitlan to ask Moctezuma for help. <mask>, understanding Ixtlilxochitl's war-like nature, decided to support Cacamatzin with his military forces should a conflict begin and to try to talk to Ixtlilxochitl into stopping the conflict, and also suggested to take Nezahualpilli's treasure to Tenochtitlan to prevent a sacking. According to Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Cacamatzin asked Moctezuma for help after Ixtlilxochitl went to Metztitlán, while other sources claim that Ixtlilxochitl went to Metztitlán because of Cacamatzin's visit to Moctezuma. Ixtlilxochitl first went to Tulancingo with 100,000 men, where he was received with many honors and recognized as the real king of Texcoco. He then accelerated his pace, possibly because he received worrying news from Texcoco, and advanced to the city of Tepeapulco, where he was also welcomed. He soon advanced to Otompan (today known as Otumba, State of Mexico), where he sent a message before his entrance in hopes of being received as a king there as well. However, the people of Otumba supported Cacamatzin and informed Ixtlilxochitl that such a demand would not be fulfilled.Ixtlilxochitl therefore sent his troops to invade the city, and after a long fight the troops began to gradually retreat and its ruler was killed. When the news of this fight were heard in Texcoco, all events, religious or not, were cancelled, soldiers were recruited, troops were sent from Tenochtitlan to the city and Cacamatzin and Coanacochtli fortified the city to avoid an invasion. He eventually reached Texcoco and placed the city under siege, while also occupying the cities of Papalotlan, Acolman, Chicuhnautlan (today known as ), Tecacman, Tzonpanco (Zumpango) and Huehuetocan in order to take every possible entrance Moctezuma could use to send his troops to Texcoco. Moctezuma however used his influence to enter the city of Texcoco and obtain access to the Acolhua cities not yet occupied by Ixtlilxochitl. Cacamatzin used this opportunity to send a commander from Iztapalapa named Xochitl to arrest Ixtlilxochitl as peacefully as possible. Moctezuma approved this decision and Xochitl was sent along with some troops. Ixtlilxochitl was quickly informed about this and, as per custom of war, informed Xochitl that he was going to fight him.A short battle occurred some time after in which Xochitl was captured and later publicly executed by burning. Once the news of this defeat were heard by Moctezuma, he ordered that no more military engagements shall be done for the moment to prevent further escalation, and that he wanted to rightfully punish Ixtlilxochitl for what he did in a more appropriate moment. In the mean time, the brothers agreed to try to reach a consensus through a peaceful debate, as Ixtlilxochitl did not want to fight either, as he claimed that he only sent the troops as a means of protest and not to actually wage war. However, this would only be done under the condition that Moctezuma wouldn't get involved by any means. The three brothers then agreed to divide the province of Acolhuacan (where Texcoco was the de facto capital) in three parts, one for each brother, and that Cacamatzin would continue to rule over Texcoco. At some point however, Ixtlilxochitl sought refuge outside of Texcoco to avoid facing a conflict with Cacamatzin. Spanish involvement This crisis would later become relevant again after the Spanish arrived at Tenochtitlan, when Cacamatzin, who initially welcomed the Spaniards when they first entered in November 1519, attempted to raise an army against them for imprisoning Moctezuma (see below) by calling for the people of Coyoacan, Tlacopan, Iztapalapa and the Matlatzinca people to enter the city, kill the Spaniards and free Moctezuma in early 1520. the Spanish captain Hernán Cortés, who was the main commander the Spanish troops who entered Mexico, decided to act and ordered Moctezuma to send someone to arrest Cacamatzin before the attack.Moctezuma suggested for Ixtlilxochitl to be sent due to the crisis, as then he could take the throne and prevent another succession crisis. He still tried to establish negotiations between the Texcoco leadership and the Spaniards, but was unable to change Cacamatzin's mind. Eventually, Moctezuma sent troops to secretly arrest Cacamatzin in his palace and send him to Mexico after he ordered for three of his commanders to be arrested for suggesting requesting Mocetzuma's permission for the attack and telling him that there was no chance of entering into negotiations with the Spaniards. Ixtlilxochitl became the likely de facto leader of Texcoco afterwards, though according to Bernardino de Sahagún it was Tecocoltzin who officially took the title of tlatoani after Cacamatzin's arrest and Ixtlilxochitl wouldn't officially become the tlatoani until a year later. Ixtlilxochitl continued fighting for the Spaniards afterwards, became a personal friend of Cortés, converted to Christianity and participated in the Spanish conquest of Honduras in 1525. His figure has remained controversial in the historical record, as some have seen him as a man who betrayed his people for his own ambition, while others have seen him as a brave warrior who fought against the tyrannical rule of Moctezuma II and liberated the peoples he subjugated with the help of Hernán Cortés. War with Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo and their allies Though the first conflicts between Mexico and Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo and their allies began during the rule of <mask> I in the 1450's, it was during the reign of <mask> II when major conflicts broke through.Battle of Atlixco Planning and preparations Aproximately in the year of 1503 (or 1507, after the conquest of Tototepec, according to historian Diego Durán), a massive battle occurred in Atlixco which was fought mainly against Huejotzingo, a kingdom which used to be one of the most powerful ones in the Valley of Mexico. The war was provoked by <mask> himself, who wanted to go to war against Huejotzingo because it had been many months since the last war. The local rulers of the region accepted Moctezuma's proposal to wage this war. It was declared as a flower war, and the invitation to go to war was accepted by the people of Huejotzingo, Tlaxcala, Cholula and Tliliuhquitepec, a city-state nearby. The war was arranged to occur in the plains of Atlixco. <mask> went to the fight along with four or five of his brothers and a two of his nephews. He named one of his brothers (or children, according to some sources), Tlacahuepan, as the main commander of the troops against the troops of Huejotzingo.He was assigned 100,000 troops to fight. Tlacahuepan decided to begin the fight by dividing the troops in three groups which would attack one after the other, the first being the troops from Texcoco, then from Tlacopan and lastly from Tenochtitlan. Battle He began by sending 200 troops to launch skirmishes against the Huexotzinca, but despite the large numbers and skirmishes, he was unable to break the enemy lines. The group of Texcoco suffered huge losses and once they were unable to fight they were put to take rest while the group from Tlacopan was sent. However, they weren't able to break the lines either. The Tenochca group then advanced and pushed to aid the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, causing multiple casualties against the Huexotzinca, but the lines were still not broken as more reinforcements arrived. Eventually, Tlacahuepan saw himself surrounded, and though he initially resisted, he finally surrendered.Though the Huexotzinca wanted to take him alive, he asked to be sacrificed there on the battlefield, and so he was killed, and then the rest of the Mexica troops retreated. The result of this battle was considered humiliating for the empire. According to primary records, about 40,000 people were killed on both sides (possibly meaning that about 20,000 died on each side). Some important Mexica noblemen were also killed during the engagement, including Huitzilihuitzin (not to be confused with the tlatoani of this name), Xalmich and Cuatacihuatl. Aftermath Regardless, multiple prisoners were taken after the fight, who were later sacrificed in Moctezuma's honor. Tlacahuepan was remembered as a hero despite the loss, and many songs were dedicated to him to be remembered through poetry. In one song called Ycuic neçahualpilli yc tlamato huexotzinco.Cuextecayotl, Quitlali cuicani Tececepouhqui (The song of Nezahualpilli when he took captives in Huexotzinco. [It tells of] the Huastec themes, it was written down by the singer Tececepouhqui), he's referred as "the golden one, the Huastec lord, the owner of the sapota skirt," in reference to the god Xipe Totec, and also states "With the flowery liquor of war, he is drunk, my nobleman, the golden one, the Huastec Lord," in reference to his Huastec heritage, using the stereotype that the Huastecs were drunkards. Anyway, the defeat was a humiliating one, and <mask> is said to had cried in anguish upon hearing of the death of Tlacahuepan and the massive loss of soldiers. Moctezuma himself welcomed the soldiers who survived back into Mexico, while the population that welcomed them mourned. The fact that the Huexotzinca also suffered massive casualties caused their military power to be highly weakened by this battle and various others, and so this could be seen as the beginning of the fall of Huejotzingo, as multiple military losses against Tlaxcala and Mexico in the following years eventually led to its fall, despite the victory in the fight. Other battles against Huejotzingo and its allies Various other battles ocurred in the following years between Mexico and Huejotzingo, and though none of them were as big as the Battle of Atlixco, they still caused significant losses on both sides; high losses for Mexico and significant losses for Huejotzingo. An engagement which occurred likely in the year of 1506.This fight was another flower war which was proposed by Cholula, with support from Huejotzingo, to be fought in Cuauhquechollan (today known as Huaquechula, in modern-day Puebla), near Atlixco. Though Moctezuma apparently did not want to fight as the result of the previous defeat in Atlixco, he saw no other option and prepared for the fight. In this fight, warriors from Texcoco, Tlacopan, Chalco, Xochimilco and mondern-day Tierra Caliente participated. This battle reportedly ended with 8200 Mexicas killed or captured. However, the Mexica are said to have dealt a similar number of casualties in this one-day battle. The result of this battle was indecisive, as some reported it as a victory, but it seems <mask> II took it as a defeat and was highly upset about it, to the point that he complained against the gods. Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc however reports that 10,000 Mexicas died in this fight, and that the Mexica were so angry about the fight that they called for reinforcements who committed a "cruel slaughter" and captured 800 more enemies.He lists the number of Huexotzinco-Cholula casualties as 5600 killed and 400 captured in one other engagement afterwards, which resulted in 8200 Mexicas killed or captured. Invasion of Tlaxcala Initial stages It was approximately in the year of 1504 or 1505 when the first large-scale conflicts between Mexico and Tlaxcala began. In this period, Moctezuma thought about placing the entire country under siege, understanding that most of it was surrounded by territories belonging to the empire. The ruler of Huejotzingo, Tecayahuatzin, sympathized with Moctezuma despite their connections with Tlaxcala and conflicts in the past, and through bribes and propaganda attempted to form an alliance with Cholula and local Otomi populations to attack Tlaxcala, though with little success. The Tlaxcalans became greatly worried about this, and began to grow suspicious of all allies they had fearing a betrayal, as Huejotzingo was one of Tlaxcala's closest states, as proven by its support at the battle of Atlixco. Moctezuma however had the disadvantage that many of his dominions surrounding Tlaxcala did not want to fight them, as many of them used to be their allies in the past even with all the promises Moctezuma made, and therefore his support was actually quite limited. One of the first battles occurred in Xiloxochitlan (today known as ), where multiple atrocities were commited.Despite this, the Tlaxcalan resistance managed to hold out, and after a great struggle the Huexotzinca armies were repelled, though during the fight the Ocotelolca commander Tizatlacatzin was killed. Many other smaller battles took place in other parts of the border, though none of them were successful. In response, Tlaxcala launched a counter-invasion against Huejotzingo, knowing that the Huexotzinca had been severely weakened by their fights with the Mexica Empire; their towns were sacked repeatedly and the entire nation was put essentially under siege, and the remains of the nation were now cornered in the region around the Popocatépetl. The Huexotzinca became greatly worried and knew they couldn't win the war alone, therefore a prince named Teayehuatl decided to send an embassy to Mexico to request for aid against the Tlaxcalans. According to historians like Durán, this embassy was sent in the year of 1507, just after the New Fire Ceremony, while others date this embassy to the year 1512. The embassy informed Moctezuma about the Tlaxcalan counter-invasion, which had been happening for over a year by this point, requesting Moctezuma to do something about the situation to expel the Tlaxcalans from their land. This was not the first time the Huexotzinca had requested aid from Mexico for similar reasons, as the first time was actually around the year of 1499, during the reign of Ahuizotl, though this previous request was denied.After consulting Nezahualpilli and the ruler of Tlacopan, Moctezuma agreed to help the Huexotzinca, despite the conflicts they had in the past, and sent a large number of soldiers to help this nation, while also allowing many of their refugees to stay in Tenochtitlan and Chalco. Late stages With the Mexica forces to support Huejotzingo, the invasion continued from the west with the main force from the towns of Cuauhquechollan, Tochimilco, Itzocan (today known as Izúcar de Matamoros), and a smaller support force from a town named Tetellan (today, Tetela de Ocampo) and from a town named Chietla. The advance was quick, but the Tlaxcalans used the territories they had captured from Huejotzingo to advance safely to Atlixco through the captured areas with little population before the Mexica-Huejotzingo forces spread. Once done, a long fight begun between the two forces. The battle lasted 20 days, and both armies suffered huge losses, as the Tlaxcalans had a famous general captured and the Mexica lost so many men that they requested for emergency reinforcements, asking for "all kinds of people in the shortest possible time." The Tlaxcalans claimed victory that fight, and the Mexica were fought into a complete standstill. The following year, Huejotzingo started to suffer a famine as the result of a lack of resources as the Tlaxcalans pushed further into their territory.The Tlaxcalans even went as far as burning down the royal palaces of Huejotzingo and stealing as much food as they could. Aproximately in the year of 1516, Huejotzingo abandoned its alliance with the empire. The devastating wars that broke out against Huejotzingo caused this nation, which had been the most powerful nation in the Valley of Puebla in the opening years of the 16th century, to become weak enough to be conquered by Tlaxcala. This was the point in which Tlaxcala became Mexico's most powerful rival in the central Mexican area. The nation which used to be their main military focus was now the subject of a nation which would later bring the killing blow to the Mexica Empire. The war between Mexico and Tlaxcala would eventually have devastating consequences, as the Tlaxcalans made a decision to form an alliance with Spain against Mexico on 23 September 1519 after a few battles proved that an alliance with this nation could help them destroy Moctezuma's reign. Contact with the Spanish First interactions with the Spanish In 1517, <mask> received the first reports of Europeans landing on the east coast of his empire; this was the expedition of Juan de Grijalva who had landed on San Juan de Ulúa, which although within Totonac territory was under the auspices of the Aztec Empire.Moctezuma ordered that he be kept informed of any new sightings of foreigners at the coast and posted extra watch guards to accomplish this. When Cortés arrived in 1519, <mask> was immediately informed and he sent emissaries to meet the newcomers; one of them was an Aztec noble named Tentlil in the Nahuatl language but referred to in the writings of Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo as "Tendile". As the Spaniards approached Tenochtitlán they made an alliance with the Tlaxcalteca, who were enemies of the Aztec Triple Alliance, and they helped instigate revolt in many towns under Aztec dominion. <mask> was aware of this and sent gifts to the Spaniards, probably in order to show his superiority to the Spaniards and Tlaxcalteca. On 8 November 1519, <mask> met Cortés on the causeway leading into Tenochtitlán and the two leaders exchanged gifts. Moctezuma gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver. Cortés later melted these down for their monetary value.According to Cortés, <mask> immediately volunteered to cede his entire realm to Charles V, King of Spain. Though some indigenous accounts written in the 1550s partly support this notion, it is still unbelievable for several reasons. As Aztec rulers spoke an overly polite language that needed translation for his subjects to understand, it is difficult to find out what <mask> really said. According to an indigenous account, he said to Cortés: "You have come to sit on your seat of authority, which I have kept for a while for you, where I have been in charge for you, for your agents the rulers..." However, these words might be a polite expression that was meant to convey the exact opposite meaning, which was common in Nahua culture; <mask> might actually have intended these words to assert his own stature and multigenerational legitimacy. Also, according to Spanish law, the king had no right to demand that foreign peoples become his subjects, but he had every right to bring rebels to heel. Therefore, to give the Spanish the necessary legitimacy to wage war against the indigenous people, Cortés might just have said what the Spanish king needed to hear. Host and prisoner of the Spaniards Six days after their arrival, <mask> became a prisoner in his own house.Exactly why this happened is not clear from the extant sources. According to the Spanish, the arrest was made as a result of an attack perpetrated by a tribute collector from Nautla named Qualpopoca or Quetzalpopoca on a Spanish-Totonac garrison near the area under the command of a Spanish captain named Juan de Escalante in retaliation for the Totonac rebellion against Moctezuma which started in July 1519 after the Spanish arrived. This attack resulted in the death of many Totonacs and approximately 7 Spaniards, including Escalante. Though some Spaniards described that this was the only reason of <mask>'s arrest, others have suspected that Escalante's death was merely used as an excuse by Cortés to imprison Moctezuma and usurp power over Mexico, under the suspicion that Cortés might have planned to imprison Moctezuma before they even met. Cortés himself admitted that he imprisoned Moctezuma primarily to avoid losing control over Mexico, understanding that nearly all of his forces were within his domains. <mask> claimed innocence for this incident, claiming that, though he was aware of the attack as Quetzalpopoca brought him the severed head of a Spaniard as a demonstration of his success, he never ordered it and was highly displeased by these events. Around 20 days after his arrest, Quetzalpopoca was captured, together with his son and 15 nobles who allegedly participated in the attack, and after a brief interrogation he admitted that indeed <mask> was innocent.He was publicly executed by burning soon after, but <mask> remained prisoner regardless. Despite his imprisonment, <mask> continued to live a somewhat confortable life, being free to perform many of his daily activities and being respected as a monarch. Cortés himself even ordered for any soldiers who disrespected him to be physically and roughly punished regardless of rank or position. However, despite still being treated as a respected monarch, he had virtually lost most of his power as emperor as the Spaniards oversaw nearly all of his activities. <mask> repeatedly protected the Spaniards against potential threats using the little power he had left, either under the threat of the Spanish or by his own will, such as during the succession crisis in Texcoco mentioned above, when he ordered for the ruler of Texcoco, Cacamatzin, to be arrested as he was planning to form an army to attack the Spaniards. The Aztec nobility reportedly became increasingly displeased with the large Spanish army staying in Tenochtitlán, and <mask> told Cortés that it would be best if they left. Shortly thereafter, in April 1520, Cortés left to fight Pánfilo de Narváez, who had landed in Mexico to arrest Cortés.During his absence, tensions between Spaniards and Aztecs exploded into the Massacre in the Great Temple, and <mask> became a hostage used by the Spaniards to ensure their security. Death In the subsequent battles with the Spaniards after Cortés' return, <mask> was killed. The details of his death are unknown, with different versions of his demise given by different sources. In his Historia, Bernal Díaz del Castillo states that on 29 June 1520, the Spanish forced <mask> to appear on the balcony of his palace, appealing to his countrymen to retreat. Four leaders of the Aztec army met with Moctezuma to talk, urging their countrymen to cease their constant firing upon the stronghold for a time. Díaz states: "Many of the Mexican Chieftains and Captains knew him well and at once ordered their people to be silent and not to discharge darts, stones or arrows, and four of them reached a spot where Montezuma could speak to them." Díaz alleges that the Aztecs informed Moctezuma that a relative of his had risen to the throne and ordered their attack to continue until all of the Spanish were annihilated, but expressed remorse at Moctezuma's captivity and stated that they intended to revere him even more if they could rescue him.Regardless of the earlier orders to hold fire, however, the discussion between <mask> and the Aztec leaders was immediately followed by an outbreak of violence. The Aztecs, disgusted by the actions of their leader, renounced Moctezuma and named his brother Cuitláhuac tlatoani in his place. In an effort to pacify his people, and undoubtedly pressured by the Spanish, <mask> was struck dead by a rock. Díaz gives this account: "They had hardly finished this speech when suddenly such a shower of stones and darts were discharged that (our men who were shielding him having neglected for a moment their duty, because they saw how the attack ceased while he spoke to them) he was hit by three stones, one on the head, another on the arm and another on the leg, and although they begged him to have the wounds dressed and to take food, and spoke kind words to him about it, he would not. Indeed, when we least expected it, they came to say that he was dead." Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún recorded two versions of the conquest of Mexico from the Tenochtitlán-Tlatelolco viewpoint. In Book 12 of the twelve-volume Florentine Codex, the account in Spanish and Nahuatl is accompanied by illustrations by natives.One is of the death of <mask> II, which the indigenous assert was due to the Spaniards. According to the Codex, the bodies of Moctezuma and Itzquauhtzin were cast out of the Palace by the Spanish; the body of Moctezuma was gathered up and cremated at Copulco. Aftermath The Spaniards were forced to flee the city and they took refuge in Tlaxcala, and signed a treaty with the natives there to conquer Tenochtitlán, offering to the Tlaxcalans control of Tenochtitlán and freedom from any kind of tribute. Moctezuma was then succeeded by his brother Cuitláhuac, who died shortly after during a smallpox epidemic. He was succeeded by his adolescent nephew, Cuauhtémoc. During the siege of the city, the sons of Moctezuma were murdered by the Aztecs, possibly because they wanted to surrender. By the following year, the Aztec Empire had fallen to an army of Spanish and their Native American allies, primarily Tlaxcalans, who were traditional enemies of the Aztecs.Contemporary depictions Bernal Díaz del Castillo The firsthand account of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés. In his first description of Moctezuma, Díaz del Castillo writes: The Great Montezuma was about forty years old, of good height, well proportioned, spare and slight, and not very dark, though of the usual Indian complexion. He did not wear his hair long but just over his ears, and he had a short black beard, well-shaped and thin. His face was rather long and cheerful, he had fine eyes, and in his appearance and manner could express geniality or, when necessary, a serious composure. He was very neat and clean, and took a bath every afternoon. He had many women as his mistresses, the daughters of chieftains, but two legitimate wives who were Caciques in their own right, and only some of his servants knew of it. He was quite free from sodomy.The clothes he wore one day he did not wear again till three or four days later. He had a guard of two hundred chieftains lodged in rooms beside his own, only some of whom were permitted to speak to him. When <mask> was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people, "Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good. It was stated that he had reigned for seventeen years, and was the best king they ever had in Mexico, and that he had personally triumphed in three wars against countries he had subjugated. I have spoken of the sorrow we all felt when we saw that Montezuma was dead. We even blamed the Mercedarian friar for not having persuaded him to become a Christian." Hernán Cortés Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was recording his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación (Letters from Mexico) to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown.His prose is characterized by simple descriptions and explanations, along with frequent personal addresses to the King. In his Second Letter, Cortés describes his first encounter with Moctezuma thus:Moctezuma came to greet us and with him some two hundred lords, all barefoot and dressed in a different costume, but also very rich in their way and more so than the others. They came in two columns, pressed very close to the walls of the street, which is very wide and beautiful and so straight that you can see from one end to the other. Moctezuma came down the middle of this street with two chiefs, one on his right hand and the other on his left. And they were all dressed alike except that Moctezuma wore sandals whereas the others went barefoot; and they held his arm on either side. Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmán have pointed out the Biblical messages that Cortés seems to ascribe to Moctezuma's retelling of the legend of Quetzalcoatl as a vengeful Messiah who would return to rule over the Mexica. Pagden has written that "There is no preconquest tradition which places Quetzalcoatl in this role, and it seems possible therefore that it was elaborated by Sahagún and Motolinía from informants who themselves had partially lost contact with their traditional tribal histories".Bernardino de Sahagún The Florentine Codex, made by Bernardino de Sahagún, relied on native informants from Tlatelolco, and generally portrays Tlatelolco and Tlatelolcan rulers in a favorable light relative to those of Tenochtitlan. <mask> in particular is depicted unfavorably as a weak-willed, superstitious, and indulgent ruler. Historian James Lockhart suggests that the people needed to have a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat, and Moctezuma naturally fell into that role. Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc, who may have written the Crónica Mexicayotl, was possibly a grandson of Moctezuma II. It is possible that his chronicle relates mostly the genealogy of the Aztec rulers. He described Moctezuma's issue and estimates them to be nineteen – eleven sons and eight daughters. Depiction in early post-conquest literature Some of the Aztec stories about Moctezuma describe him as being fearful of the Spanish newcomers, and some sources, such as the Florentine Codex, comment that the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods and Cortés to be the returned god Quetzalcoatl.The veracity of this claim is difficult to ascertain, though some recent ethnohistorians specialising in early Spanish/Nahua relations have discarded it as post-conquest mythicalisation. Much of the idea of Cortés being seen as a deity can be traced back to the Florentine Codex, written some 50 years after the conquest. In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorical Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex (written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, "You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you," and, "You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs; may our lords come on earth." While some historians such as Warren H. Carroll consider this as evidence that Moctezuma was at least open to the possibility that the Spaniards were divinely sent based on the Quetzalcoatl legend, others such as Matthew Restall argue that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortés (if indeed he did ever give the speech as reported) may well have been meant as the exact opposite of what it was taken to mean, as politeness in Aztec culture was a way to assert dominance and show superiority. Other parties have also propagated the idea that the Native Americans believed the conquistadors to be gods, most notably the historians of the Franciscan order such as Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta. Bernardino de Sahagún, who compiled the Florentine Codex, was also a Franciscan priest. Indigenous accounts of omens and Moctezuma's beliefs Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590) includes in Book 12 of the Florentine Codex eight events said to have occurred prior to the arrival of the Spanish.These were purportedly interpreted as signs of a possible disaster, e.g. a comet, the burning of a temple, a crying ghostly woman, and others. Some speculate that the Aztecs were particularly susceptible to such ideas of doom and disaster because the particular year in which the Spanish arrived coincided with a "tying of years" ceremony at the end of a 52-year cycle in the Aztec calendar, which in Aztec belief was linked to changes, rebirth, and dangerous events. The belief of the Aztecs being rendered passive by their own superstition is referred to by Matthew Restall as part of "The Myth of Native Desolation" to which he dedicates chapter 6 in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. These legends are likely a part of the post-conquest rationalization by the Aztecs of their defeat, and serve to show Moctezuma as indecisive, vain, and superstitious, and ultimately the cause of the fall of the Aztec Empire. According to 16th-century Spanish historian Diego Durán, who was one of the most important chroniclers of the indigenous stories of the empire, Nezahualpilli was among those who informed Moctezuma of the imminent destruction of the empire by a foreign invader, warning him that omens confirming his fears will soon appear. This warning caused Moctezuma great fear and took a series of erratic decisions immediately after, such as severe punishments against his own soldiers for disappointing results after battles against the Tlaxcalans.Ethnohistorian Susan Gillespie has argued that the Nahua understanding of history as repeating itself in cycles also led to a subsequent rationalization of the events of the conquests. In this interpretation the description of Moctezuma, the final ruler of the Aztec Empire prior to the Spanish conquest, was tailored to fit the role of earlier rulers of ending dynasties—for example Quetzalcoatl, the mythical last ruler of the Toltecs. In any case it is within the realm of possibility that the description of Moctezuma in post-conquest sources was colored by his role as a monumental closing figure of Aztec history. Personal life Wives, concubines, and children Moctezuma had numerous wives and concubines by whom he fathered an enormous family, but only two women held the position of queen – Tlapalizquixochtzin and Teotlalco. His partnership with Tlapalizquixochtzin also made him a king consort of Ecatepec since she was queen of that city. Teotlalco was herself also a princess from Ecatepec and Tlapalizquixochtzin's sister, as both were daughters of Matlaccohuatl, a ruler of Ecatepec. However, Spanish accounts describe that very few people in Mexico actually knew that these two women held such positions of power, some of those who knew being a few of his close servants.Of his many wives may be named the princesses Teitlalco, Acatlan, and Miahuaxochitl, of whom the first named appears to have been the only legitimate consort. By her he left a son, Asupacaci, who fell during the Noche Triste, and a daughter, Tecuichpoch, later baptized as Isabel Moctezuma. By the Princess Acatlan were left two daughters, baptized as Maria and Mariana (also known as Leonor); the latter alone left offspring, from whom descends the Sotelo-Montezuma family. Though the exact number of his children is unknown and the names of most of them have been lost to history, according to a Spanish chronicler, by the time he was taken captive, Moctezuma had fathered 100 children and fifty of his wives and concubines were then in some stage of pregnancy, though this estimate may have been exaggerated. As Aztec culture made class distinctions between the children of senior wives, lesser wives, and concubines, not all of his children were considered equal in nobility or inheritance rights. Among his many children were Princess <mask>, Princess Mariana Leonor Moctezuma and sons Chimalpopoca (not to be confused with the previous huey tlatoani) and Tlaltecatzin. Activities Among the sports he practiced, he was an active hunter, and often used to hunt for deer, rabbits and various birds in a certain section of a forest (likely the Bosque de Chapultepec) that was exclusive to him and whoever he invited.It was prohibited for anyone without permission to enter, and allegedly any trespassers would be put to death. He also used to invite servants to this forest, should he order for certain animals to be hunted for him, which would often be done for the entertainment of his guests. Legacy Descendants in Mexico and the Spanish nobility Several lines of descendants exist in Mexico and Spain through <mask> II's son and daughters, notably Tlacahuepan Ihualicahuaca, or <mask>, and Tecuichpoch Ixcaxochitzin, or <mask>. Following the conquest, <mask>'s daughter, Techichpotzin (or Tecuichpoch), became known as Isabel Moctezuma and was given a large estate by Cortés, who also fathered a child by her, Leonor Cortés Moctezuma, who in turn was the mother of Isabel de Tolosa Cortés <mask>. Isabel married consecutively to Cuauhtémoc (the last Mexican sovereign), to a conquistador in Cortés' original group, Alonso Grado (died c. 1527), a poblador (a Spaniard who had arrived after the fall of Tenochtitlán), to Pedro Andrade Gallego (died c. 1531), and to conquistador Juan Cano de Saavedra, who survived her. She had children by the latter two, from whom descend the illustrious families of Andrade-Montezuma and Cano-Montezuma. A nephew of <mask> II was Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin.The grandson of <mask> II, Pedro's son, Ihuitemotzin, baptized as Diego Luis de Moctezuma, was brought to Spain by King <mask>. There he married Francisca de la Cueva de Valenzuela. In 1627, their son Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma was given the title Count of Moctezuma (later altered to <mask> de Tultengo), and thus became part of the Spanish nobility. In 1766, the holder of the title became a Grandee of Spain. In 1865 (coincidentally during the Second Mexican Empire), the title, which was held by Antonio María Moctezuma-Marcilla de Teruel y Navarro, 14th Count of Moctezuma de Tultengo, was elevated to that of a Duke, thus becoming Duke of Moctezuma, with de Tultengo again added in 1992 by Juan Carlos I. Descendants of Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma included (through an illegitimate child of his son Diego Luis) General Jerónimo Girón-Moctezuma, 3rd Marquess de las Amarilas (1741–1819), a ninth-generation descendant of <mask> II, who was commander of the Spanish forces at the Battle of Fort Charlotte, and his grandson, Francisco Javier Girón y Ezpeleta, 2nd Duke of Ahumada and 5th Marquess of the Amarillas who was the founder of the Guardia Civil in Spain. Other holders of Spanish noble titles that descend from the Aztec emperor include Dukes of Atrisco. Indigenous mythology and folklore Many indigenous peoples in Mexico are reported to worship deities named after the Aztec ruler, and often a part of the myth is that someday the deified Moctezuma shall return to vindicate his people.In Mexico, the contemporary Pames, Otomi, Tepehuán, Totonac, and Nahua peoples are reported to worship earth deities named after Moctezuma. His name also appears in Tzotzil Maya ritual in Zinacantán where dancers dressed as a rain god are called "Moctezumas". Hubert Howe Bancroft, writing in the 19th century (Native Races, Volume #3), speculated that the name of the historical Aztec emperor Moctezuma had been used to refer to a combination of different cultural heroes who were united under the name of a particularly salient representative of Mesoamerican identity. Symbol of indigenous leadership As a symbol of resistance against the Spanish, the name of Moctezuma has been invoked in several indigenous rebellions. One such example was the rebellion of the Virgin Cult in Chiapas in 1721, where the followers of the Virgin Mary rebelled against the Spanish after having been told by an apparition of the virgin that Moctezuma would be resuscitated to assist them against their Spanish oppressors. In the Quisteil rebellion of the Yucatec Maya in 1761, the rebel leader Jacinto Canek reportedly called himself "Little Montezuma". Portrayals and cultural references Art, music, and literature The Aztec emperor is the title character in several 18th-century operas: Motezuma (1733) by Antonio Vivaldi; Motezuma (1771) by Josef Mysliveček; Montezuma (1755) by Carl Heinrich Graun; and Montesuma (1781) by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli.He is also the subject of Roger Sessions' dodecaphonic opera Montezuma (1963), and the protagonist in the modern opera La Conquista (2005) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero, where his part is written in the Nahuatl language. Numerous other works of popular culture have mentioned or referred to Moctezuma: Moctezuma (spelled Montezuma) is portrayed in Lew Wallace's first novel The Fair God (1873). He is portrayed as influenced by the belief that Cortés was Quetzalcoatl returned, and as a weak and indecisive leader, saving the conquistadores from certain defeat in one battle by ordering the Aztecs to stop. The Marines' Hymn's opening line "From the Halls of Montezuma" refers to the Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Mexican–American War, 1846–1848. Montezuma is mentioned in Neil Young's song "Cortez the Killer", from the 1975 album Zuma (the title of which is also believed to derive from "Montezuma"). The song's lyrics paint a heavily romanticized portrait of Montezuma and his empire. On the facade of the Royal Palace of Madrid there is a statue of the emperor Moctezuma II, along with another of the Inca emperor Atahualpa, among the statues of the kings of the ancient kingdoms that formed Spain.In the alternate history of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy stories, where the Aztecs were conquered by an Anglo-French Empire rather than by Spain, <mask> <mask> was converted to Christianity and retained his rule of Mexico as a vassal of the London-based king, and <mask>'s descendants were still ruling in this capacity in the equivalent of the 20th century. The video game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors contains a six-chapter campaign titled "Montezuma". Other references Moctezuma River and Mount Moctezuma, a volcano in Mexico City, are named after him. Montezuma Falls in Tasmania is named after him. Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery, a brewery of Heineken International in Monterrey, Mexico, is named after Moctezuma II and his nephew, Cuauhtémoc. Montezuma Castle and Montezuma Well, 13th-century Sinagua dwellings in central Arizona, were named by 19th-century American pioneers who mistakenly thought they were built by the Aztecs. Montezuma is a playable ruler for the Aztec in several of the video games of the Civilization series.Several species of animals and plants such as Montezuma quail, Montezuma oropendola, Argyrotaenia montezumae, and Pinus montezumae have been named after him. An elementary school in Albuquerque, New Mexico is named Montezuma Elementary School, after him. "Montezuma's Revenge" is a colloquialism for traveler's diarrhea in visitors to Mexico. The urban legend states that Montezuma II initiated the onslaught of diarrhea on "gringo" travelers to Mexico in retribution for the slaughter and subsequent enslavement of the Aztec people by Hernán Cortés in 1521. See also Historic recurrence List of unsolved murders Moctezuma I Moctezuma's Table Montezuma's headdress Qualpopoca Emperor Notes References Further reading Primary sources Secondary sources External links A reconstructed portrait of Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, based on historical sources, in a contemporary style. 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The variant spellings include Motecuhzomatzin, Montezuma, and Moteuczoma. Few people in Mexico knew that he was king consort of the altepetl through his marriage to Tlapalizquixochtzin of Ecatepec. During his reign, the first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. The Aztec Empire reached its largest size during his reign. As a result of warfare, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and Xoconosco were incorporated into the empire. The meritocratic system of social hierarchy was changed and the divide between nobles and commoners was widened. The Aztec empire collapsed under the rule of two other rulers.Historical portrayals of <mask> have mostly been colored by his role as ruler of a defeated nation, and many sources have described him as weak- willed, superstitious, and indecisive. Some depict him as one of the greatest leaders Mexico had, a great conqueror who tried his best to maintain his nation at times of crisis, while others depict him as a tyrant who wanted to take absolute control over the whole empire. His story remains one of the most well-known conquest narratives from the history of European contact with Native Americans, and he has been mentioned or portrayed in numerous works of historical fiction and popular culture. His name is Nahuatl. "He is one who frowns like a lord" or "he who is angry in a noble manner" are the meanings of the compound. In the upper left corner of the image is his nameglyph, which was composed of a diadem with an attached earspool, a separate nosepiece, and a speech scroll. The Aztecs did not use regnal numbers, but historians retroactively gave them to distinguish him from the first one.The Aztec chronicles referred to him as "Moctezuma Xocoyotzin", while the first was called "Moctezuma Ilhuicamina". "Xocoyotzin" means "honored young one" and is added to personal names when speaking about them. The ruler of the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan was the son of Axaycatl and Izelcoatzin. He was elected after the death of Ahuizotl. He was elected military chief. He implemented mechanisms to center power in his person after he was elected. Moctezuma created a central administration and regulated the tax system in order to structure his empire.At the time of receiving power, the numerically submitted altepetl were many and paid high economic burdens, but they were scattered in geographical areas that contained enemy regions such as Tlaxcala. By the time he became the tlatoani of Mexico, Moctezuma was already a famous warrior, holding the high rank of tlacatecuhtli (lord of men) and/or tlacochcalcatl (person from the house of darts During Ahuizotl's reign in the late 15th century, there was a celebrated campaign in which he participated before ascending to the throne. The Mexica pochteca merchants were put under siege for 4 years during this campaign. The merchants served as military commanders and soldiers themselves when needed, and this was important because they were related to Ahuizotl. The fight to rescue the merchants didn't last long as the people of Ayotlan surrendered to the Mexica after Ahuizotl arrived. The year in which Moctezuma was crowned is not certain.Most historians think that the year of 1502 is the most likely one. The Stone of the Five Suns is a work at the Art Institute of Chicago that depicts the Five Suns and a date in the Aztec calendar, 1 crocodile 11 reed, which is the equivalent of 15 July 1503 in the Gregorian calendar. Some historians believe that this is the exact date in which the coronation took place, as it is included in some primary sources. The coronation took place in May of 1503 and other dates have been given. Most historians believe that the actual date of Moctezuma's coronation was in the year 1502. He centralized the empire by setting up thirty-eight more provincial divisions. The bureaucrats were accompanied by military garrisons.They made sure tax was being paid, national laws were upheld, and served as local judges in case of disagreement. Natural disasters began with difficulties. A large portion of the population of central Mexico began to starve in the year of 1505. Many people from Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco sought refuge in Totonacapan due to the lack of food in this area. All available food supplies were used by the lords of Texcoco and Tlacopan to feed the population during the disaster. It lasted 3 years. Some noblemen sold their children as slaves in exchange for food to escape the famine.The tlacxitlan, the criminal court of Tenochtitlan, was given the job of freeing "unjustified" slaves and offering food to noblemen. A series of dangerous snowstorms in the winter of 1514 caused the destruction of crops and property in Mexico. Rebellions were often suppressed by use of force. The suppression of a rebellion in Nopallan and Icpatepec was done in honor of his ascension to the throne. The prisoners taken during this campaign were later used as slaves. Tlaxcala, a city neighboring Atlixco, had previously been conquered by Ahuizotl. The prince Macuilmalinatzin repressed the rebellion in 1508 in this region.This was not the first conflict that occurred in this area, as it was close to Tlaxcala and Huejotzingo, which caused many conflicts to erupt in this area. The Mexican-Guatemalan border was the site of some revolts as far south as Xoconochco and Huiztlan. The territories were important to the empire and had previously been conquered by Ahuizotl. He applied multiple policies that centered the government of the empire on his person, though it is difficult to tell if those policies were actually applied, as the records written about such policies tend to be affected by propaganda. The replacement of a large portion of his court (including most of his advisors) with people he deemed preferable and increasing the division between the commoner and noble classes were among the policies of Moctezuma. Commoners and illegitimate children of the nobility were not allowed to serve in his palace or in high positions of government. His predecessors allowed commoners to serve in such positions.There is a long conflict of interests between the nobility, merchants and warrior class. The struggle occurred because of the conflicting interests between the nobility and merchants and the rivalry between the warrior class and nobility for positions of power in the government. The conflict could be solved by installing policies that would settle it. In order to avoid giving himself and the government a bad reputation, many of these policies were put in place, and it's true that they were put in place since Moctezuma didn't want to work with inferior people, and instead wanted to be served by and work with The nobility were affected by some of his policies, among them the obligation to reside permanently in Tenochtitlan and abandon their homes if they lived elsewhere. Natural disasters at the beginning of his rule affected his economic policies. During his first years as tlatoani, there was a temporary increase in tribute in some provinces to aid the population.Some provinces ended up paying more tribute permanently, most likely due to his focus shifting from territorial expansion to stabilization of the empire through the suppression of rebellions. The majority of the provinces affected by this new policies were in the Valley of Mexico. Each year, Tenochtitlan would give an additional tribute to stone and wood for their building projects. The policy backfired as some of the empire's subjects grew disgruntled at the government and started rebellions against it, which eventually resulted in many of the provinces, like Totonacapan. The abolition of the huehuetlatlacolli system, which was a system of serfdom in which a family agreed to maintain a tlacohtli, was a result of the famine at the beginning of his rule. The descendants of those who agreed into the agreement were turned into serfs. At the beginning of his rule, many of these policies were planned with his uncle Tlilpotonqui, while others were created as a result of various events, like the famine which occurred at the beginning of his rule.His policies were meant to centralize the government in his person through the means of implementing policies to settle the divide between the nobily and commoners, while also making his predecessors' policies more severe to aid the less well-off. The empire fell into Spanish control on August 13, 1521, one year after he died, as a result of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Many of the political establishments done during the pre-Hispanic era were removed by the new Spanish authorities. The divide between the nobility and the commoners was one of the few policies that lasted, as members of the pre-Hispanic nobility continued to enjoy various privileges under the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Like many of his predecessors, <mask> built a tecpan of his own. The National Palace that is currently built over it is about 200 meters long and 200 meters wide, but this was a much larger palace. The various descriptions of it and the space it covered have helped reconstruct various features of its layout, but little archaeological evidence exists to understand what his palace looked like.Many writers were not able to describe it in detail. The main commander of the Spanish troops that entered Mexico in the year 1519 stated in his letters to the king of Spain that he would not bother describing it. The palace had a large courtyard which opened into the central plaza of the city. Hundreds of courtiers would gather in this courtyard for a variety of activites, including feasts and waiting for royal business to be conducted. There were suites of rooms surrounding the courtyard and smaller courtyards. His residence had many rooms. There were two rooms next to his room on the central part of the upper floor.The lords of Tlacopan and Texcoco came to visit one of the rooms that was built for them. The lords of Colhuacan were in the other room. Some records say the reason for this room being there was because these lords were friends of Moctezuma. There was a room with no windows and painted black which was used by Moctezuma to meditate. The courtyard on the upper floor was used for public shows during religious rituals. The government used two rooms on the bottom floor. One of them was used for judges who dealt with situations of the commoners.The Tequihuacalli war council was where high ranking warriors planned and commanded their battles. The construction of the palace made it more prestigious by providing entertainment to the public. One of the most famous projects was the House of Birds, a zoo which had multiple types of animals, but also had predatory animals in their own section. These animals were taken care of by servants who cleaned their environments, fed them and offered them care according to their species. quetzals, eagles, true parrots, roseate spoonbills, and others are some of the different species of birds held within the zoo. There was a section with animals other than birds that were decorated with figures of gods associated with the wild. These animals were 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217After the battle known as La Noche Triste, which occurred during the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in June 1520, the dead bodies of sacrifice victims were used to feed the animals. All sorts of important people used to visit this place, including artists, craftsmen, government officials and blacksmiths. In the year 1521, after the Spanish conquered Mexico, the captain of the Spanish navy ordered the burning of many of the buildings that were part of the royal palaces. In his third letter to the king of Spain Carlos I, the Holy Roman Emperor stated that he saw the zoo as a necessary measure. The violent suppression of a rebellion in Nopala and Icpatepec was the first military campaign of his rule. Over 60,000 soldiers from Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tepanec lands, Chalco and Xochimilco participated in the war. Many of the prisoners who were taken after the campaign were given to the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan and Chalco as slaves, while the rest were sacrificed in his honor.His coronation continued in Tenochtitlan after the campaign. The territorial expansion of Moctezuma wouldn't begin until another rebellion was suppressed in Tlachquiauhco, where the ruler was killed after trying to start a rebellion. Contrary to his predecessors, who focused on territorial expansion, Moctezuma's wars had the purpose of suppressing rebellions rather than conquering new territory. At the beginning of his rule, he tried to build diplomatic ties with the lords of Tlaxcala. The embassy sent for this purpose was put in a highly risky situation because of the high tension between Mexico and Tlaxcala, and he only chose experts in diplomacy, espionage and languages for it. Fortunately, his invitation was accepted, and he used it to show his greatness to the lords who attended. However, due to the fact that the invitation was secret to avoid a scandal for inviting his rivals to this ceremony, Moctezuma ordered that no one should know that the lords were present, not even the rulers of Tlacopan and Texcoco.It didn't take long for large-scale conflicts to erupt between these nations. Contrary to popular belief, Tlaxcala wasn't Mexico's most powerful rival in the central Mexican region until the final years of pre-Hispanic Mexico in 1518. The opening years of the 16th century saw Mexico's actual military focus, and it proved to be one of the most powerful political entities until these final years, when a series of devastating wars weakened the state into being conquered by Tlaxcala. The southwestern territories of Oaxaca and modern-day Guerrero were the focus of the empire's expansion. The first conquests in this territory were held by Moctezuma I. The city of Achiotlan was conquered in the year of 1504 and is now known as San Juan Achiutla. According to some sources, this war was caused by a small tree which belonged to a lord of the place which grew such beautiful flowers, and when Moctezuma asked for it, the lord of the city refused.This tree is said to have been taken to Tenochtitlan after the conquest. The second conquest took place east of Achiutla in Zozollan. The prisoners captured in Zozollan were the victims of a special sacrifice that was held after the conquest. According to ancient sources, the Mexicans killed many of the people from Zozola. The New Fire Ceremony took place in the year of 1507. Multiple prisoners were sacrificed for the ceremony in Iztitlan, one of the towns which was conquered in this year. The suppression of the last revolt in Icpatepec and the conquest of Xaltepec were part of an important campaign.As a result of Jaltepec killing as many Mexicas as they could find in their area, and the beginning of the revolt by Icpatepec, this war started. The previous tlatoanis and other nations had done this before. Along with Tlacaelel's son Cihuacoatl, the recently elected ruler of Tlacopan went to the fight. A large portion of the weapons and food was brought by Tlatelolco, though they were initially hesitant to do so, but were ordered by Moctezuma to offer it as a tribute to Tenochtitlan, and they received multiple rewards as a result. All adults in the city above the age of 50 were ordered to be killed in order to prevent a rebellion once the cities were conquered. The conquest was done by dividing the army into 3 divisions, one from Tlacopan, one from Texcoco and one from Tenochtitlan, so that each division attacked a different city. Jaltepec was attacked by the Tenochtitlan company.He received many honors for his victory after returning to Mexico. The war against Icpatepec is recorded to have happened again in 1511. The Kingdom of Tlachinollan is thought to have been turned on its head by the conquest of some of the last few Tlapanec territories of modern-day Guerrero. Between the years of 1503 and 1509 a campaign was launched against Xipetepec, which had previously been a territory conquered by Tlachinollan in the 14th century. The campaign in Xipetepec appears to have been relatively peaceful, though it was the result of a large group of Mexica messengers being killed after they demanded for some of the resources of the area on his behalf. Two Mexica noblemen, Ixtlilcuechahuac and Huitzilihuitzin, were killed during the conquest of Tototepec. In 1515, a new campaign was launched to conquer Acocozpan and Tetenanco, which had previously been conquered by Ahuizotl.He was one of the most active monarchs in pre-Hispanic Mexican history in terms of military actions, as he achieved victory in approximately 43 sites, including territories already within the empire. The arrival of Spanish ships at the east in 1519 interrupted his rule and policies. The overthrow of the legitimate government in Texcoco was one of the most controversial events of his reign. Historians like Alva Ixtlilxchitl referred to this action as "diabolical" and made claims that are not seen in other chronicles and are not trusted by modern historians. Many sources offer conflicting stories about the events that led to Nezahualpilli's death. During the war with Tlaxcala, <mask> sent an embassy to Nezahualpilli and reprimanded him for not sacrificing any Tlaxcalan prisoners. The reason he didn't sacrifice them was because he and his population wanted to live peacefully for the time being, as the ceremonies that would be held in the following year would show.Acatlemacoctzin and Tecuanehuatzin were sent by their father to lead the campaign against Tlaxcala. A secret embassy was sent to Tlaxcala to tell them about the incoming army. While they were unaware of the betrayal, the Tlaxcalans began to take action against the Texcoca. The Texcoco armies were attacked in the middle of the night. The Texcoca did not survive the fight. After learning of Moctezuma's betrayal, and knowing that nothing could be done about it, he committed suicide in his palace. This story is not generally trusted by modern historians, and much of the information given is contrary to other sources.Sources agree that the last years of the ruler were characterized by his attempts to live a peaceful life due to his old age. His advisors took most of the government's decisions during the last months of his rule, but he was mostly inactive. Two men were assigned to take control of almost all government decisions. According to these sources, he was found dead in his palace, but the cause of his death is not known. His death was mourned in many places, including Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, Tlacopan, and even Xochimilco, as all of these altepeme gave precious offerings, like jewelry and clothes, and sacrifice in his honor. His death was reported to have caused him to break in tears. His death was mourned for 80 days.In pre-Hispanic Mexican history, this was one of the largest funeral ceremonies. In the year 1516, he left no indication as to who his successor would be. He had six legitimate sons, one of which was Don Pedro. He was the wealthiest of the sons, but he wasn't good enough for the job. Ixtlilxochitl and Coanacochtli were the most likely heirs as they were younger than Tetlahuehuetzquititzin, but not everyone supported them. Cacamatzin was supported by <mask> since he was his nephew. The Texcoco council voted in favor of <mask>'s decision, and he was declared tlatoani because he was older than his two other brothers.Though Coanacochtli felt like the decision was fair, Ixtlilxochitl disagreed with the results and protested against the council. Ixtlilxochitl argued that the reason why <mask> supported Cacamatzin was because he wanted to manipulate him so that he could take over. Coanacochtli said the decision was legitimate and that Ixtlilxochitl wouldn't have been elected as he was younger than the two. The whole debate was quiet. The members of the council decided to stop the debate. The coronation ceremony didn't happen that day, and Ixtlilxochitl used this as an opportunity to plan his rebellion against him. After the election, Ixtlilxochitl began to prepare his revolt, threatening civil war.Cacama went to Tenochtitlan to ask for help. Should a conflict begin and to try to talk to Ixtlilxochitl into stopping the conflict, and also suggested to take Nez, Moctezuma decided to support Cacamatzin with his military forces. Other sources claim that Ixtlilxochitl went to Metztitln because Cacamatzin asked for help. He was recognized as the real king of Texcoco after he received 100,000 men in Tulancingo. He was welcomed in the city of Tepeapulco, possibly because he received worrying news from Texcoco. He went to Otompan in hopes of being received as a king there as well. The people of Otumba were in agreement that the demand wouldn't be fulfilled.After a long fight the troops began to retreat and the ruler was killed. When the news of the fight came in, all events, religious or not, were canceled, soldiers were recruited, and the city was fortified. In order to take every city, he placed the city of Texcoco under siege. In order to gain access to the Acolhua cities not yet occupied by Ixtlilxochitl, he entered the city of Texcoco. The commander from Iztapalapa was sent to arrest Ixtlilxochitl as peacefully as possible. Xochitl was sent along with some troops after the decision was approved. The custom of war is to inform Xochitl that he was going to fight him.Xochitl was publicly executed by burning after a short battle. When the news of the defeat was heard, he ordered that no more military engagements be done for the moment to prevent further escalation, and that he wanted to punish Ixtlilxochitl for what he did in a more appropriate moment. In the mean time, the brothers agreed to try to reach a consensus through a peaceful debate, as Ixtlilxochitl did not want to fight either, as he claimed that he only sent the troops as a means of protest and not to actually wage war. Under the conditions, this would only be done if Moctezuma wouldn't get involved. The three brothers decided to divide the province of Acolhuacan into three parts, one for each brother, and that Cacamatzin would continue to rule over Texcoco. Ixtlilxochitl sought refuge outside of Texcoco in order to avoid a conflict with Cacamatzin. The crisis became relevant again after the Spanish arrived at Tenochtitlan, where Cacamatzin tried to raise an army against them for imprisoning Moctezuma.Ixtlilxochitl could take the throne and prevent another succession crisis if he was sent due to the crisis. He tried to establish negotiations between the Texcoco leadership and the Spaniards, but couldn't. After he ordered for three of his commanders to be arrested and told him that there was no chance of entering into negotiations, <mask> sent troops to secretly arrest Cacamatzin in his palace and send him to Mexico. According to Bernardino de Sahagn, it was Tecocoltzin who took the title of tlatoani after Cacamatzin's arrest. During the Spanish conquest of Honduras in 1525, Ixtlilxochitl was converted to Christianity and fought for the Spaniards. His figure has remained controversial in the historical record, as some have seen him as a man who betrayed his people for his own ambition, while others have seen him as a brave warrior who fought against the rule of <mask> II and liberated the peoples he subjugated with the help The first war between Mexico and Tlaxcala began during the rule of <mask> I in the 1450's.According to historian Diego Durn, the Battle of Atlixco Planning and preparations took place in the year of 1503 after the conquest of Tototepec. The war was provoked by a man who wanted to go to war against another man. The local rulers of the region agreed to wage this war. The invitation to go to war was accepted by the people of Tliliuhquitepec, a city-state nearby. The war took place in the plains of Atlixco. Four or five of his brothers and two of his nephews went to the fight with him. According to some sources, Tlacahuepan was the main commander of the troops against the troops of Huejotzingo.100,000 troops were assigned to fight. Tlacahuepan decided to start the fight by dividing the troops into three groups, the first from Texcoco, the second from Tlacopan and the third from Tenochtitlan. Despite the large numbers and skirmishes, he was unable to break the enemy lines. While the group from Tlacopan was sent, the group from Texcoco was put to rest after they suffered huge losses. They weren't able to break the lines. The Tenochca group advanced and pushed to aid the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, causing multiple casualties, but the lines were not broken as more reinforcements arrived. Tlacahuepan eventually saw himself surrounded and surrendered.The rest of the Mexica troops retreated after he asked to be sacrificed on the battlefield, even though he wanted to be taken alive. The empire was humiliated by the result of this battle. According to primary records, about 40,000 people were killed on both sides. The Mexica noblemen who were killed during the engagement were Huitzilihuitzin, Xalmich and Cuatacihuatl. Multiple prisoners were taken after the fight, who were later sacrificed in <mask>'s honor. Despite the loss, Tlacahuepan was remembered as a hero and many songs were dedicated to him. Ycuic neahualpilli yc tlamato huexotzinco is a song.When he took captives in Huexotzinco, he used a song. "The golden one, the Huastec lord, the owner of the sapota skirt, was written down by the singer Tececepouhqui," it says. After hearing of the death of Tlacahuepan and the loss of soldiers, Moctezuma cried in anguish. The soldiers who survived back into Mexico were welcomed by the population that welcomed them. The beginning of the fall of Huejotzingo could be seen as a result of multiple military losses against Tlaxcala and Mexico, due to the fact that the Huexotzinca also suffered massive casualties. The Battle of Atlixco was the biggest battle between Mexico and Huejotzingo and caused significant losses for both sides. An engagement is likely to have taken place in the year 1506.The fight was proposed by Cholula and was to be fought in Cuauhquechollan, near Atlixco. As a result of the previous defeat in Atlixco, Moctezuma saw no other option and prepared for the fight. The warriors from Texcoco, Tlacopan, Chalco, Xochimilco and mondern-day Tierra Caliente participated in the fight. The battle ended with 8200 Mexicas dead or captured. The Mexica are said to have dealt a similar number of casualties. The result of this battle was indecisive, as some reported it as a victory, but it seems that <mask> II was upset about it, and he complained against the gods. The Mexica called 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-32178200 Mexicas were killed or captured after 400 were killed and captured in one other engagement. The first large-scale conflicts between Mexico and Tlaxcala began in the year of 1504 or 1505. Most of the country was surrounded by territories belonging to the empire, and in this period, Moctezuma thought about placing the entire country under siege. Despite their connections with Tlaxcala and conflicts in the past, the ruler of Huejotzingo, Tecayahuatzin, sympathized with Moctezuma and tried to form an alliance with local Otomi populations to attack Tlaxcala. The Tlaxcalans became suspicious of their allies and feared a betrayal, as evidenced by their support at the battle of Atlixco. Many of his dominions surrounding Tlaxcala did not want to fight them, as many of them used to be their allies in the past, and therefore his support was quite limited. Multiple atrocities were committed in one of the first battles.The Ocotelolca commander Tizatlacatzin was killed during the battle, but the Tlaxcalan resistance was able to hold out. None of the battles that took place in other parts of the border were successful. The entire nation was put under siege and the towns were sacked as a result of the fights with the Mexica Empire. The prince Teayehuatl decided to send an embassy to Mexico to request aid against the Tlaxcalans because they couldn't win the war on their own. The embassy was sent in the year of 1507 just after the New Fire Ceremony, according to historians like Durn. The embassy asked Moctezuma to expel the Tlaxcalans from their land because of the counter-invasion that had been happening for over a year. During the reign of Ahuizotl, the first time the Huexotzinca requested aid from Mexico, it was denied, though this previous request was denied before.After consulting the ruler of Tlacopan, Moctezuma agreed to help the Huexotzinca, despite the conflicts they had in the past, and sent a large number of soldiers to help this nation. The invasion continued from the west with the main force from the towns of Cuauhquechollan, Tochimilco, and Izcar de Matamoros. The Mexica-Huejotzingo forces spread after the Tlaxcalans used the territories they had captured from Huejotzingo to advance to Atlixco. The fight began between the two forces. The battle lasted 20 days and both armies suffered huge losses, as the Tlaxcalans had a famous general captured and the Mexica lost so many men that they requested for emergency reinforcements. The Mexica were fighting into a standstill after the Tlaxcalans claimed victory. As the Tlaxcalans pushed further into their territory, a lack of resources led to a famine in Huejotzingo.The Tlaxcalans burned down the royal palaces of Huejotzingo and stole as much food as they could. In the year of 1516, Huejotzingo abandoned its alliance with the empire. The most powerful nation in the Valley of Puebla in the opening years of the 16th century was conquered by Tlaxcala because of the devastating wars that broke out against Huejotzingo. Tlaxcala became Mexico's most powerful rival in the central Mexican area at this point. The nation which used to be their main military focus was now the subject of a nation which would blow up the Mexica Empire. The war between Mexico and Tlaxcala would eventually have devastating consequences, as the Tlaxcalans formed an alliance with Spain against Mexico on September 23, 1519, after a few battles proved that an alliance with this nation could help them destroy <mask>'s reign. The first reports of Europeans landing on the east coast of his empire came in 1517 when Juan de Grijalva landed on San Juan de Ula.Extra watch guards were posted at the coast to keep an eye out for foreigners. One of the Aztec nobles sent to meet the newcomers was referred to in the writings of the two men. As the Spaniards approached Tenochtitln, they formed an alliance with the Tlaxcalteca, who were enemies of the Aztec Triple Alliance. In order to show his superiority, <mask> sent gifts to the Spaniards. On November 8, 1519, the two leaders met on the causeway leading into Tenochtitln and exchanged gifts. The gift of the Aztec calendar was one disc of gold and another of silver. These were melted down for their monetary value.Charles V, King of Spain, agreed to cede his entire realm to Moctezuma. There are some indigenous accounts written in the 1550s that support this idea. It is difficult to find out what <mask> really said as Aztec rulers spoke an overly polite language. "You have come to sit on your seat of authority, which I have kept for a while for you, where I have been in charge for you, for your agents the rulers," he said. Spanish law does not allow the king to demand that foreign peoples become his subjects, but he does have the right to bring rebels to heel. To give the Spanish legitimacy to wage war against the indigenous people, the king needed to hear what Cortés had to say. After the Spaniards arrived, <mask>popoca. Approximately 7 Spaniards, including Escalante, were killed in this attack. According to some Spaniards, this was the only reason for the arrest of <mask>, but others think that Escalante's death was used as an excuse to take control of Mexico. He admitted that he imprisoned <mask> to avoid losing control over Mexico. <mask> claimed that he was unaware of the attack as he was shown the severed head of a Spaniard as a demonstration of his success, and that he never ordered it. After a brief interrogation, the man who was captured with his son and 15 nobles admitted that he was not involved in the attack.He was publicly executed, but still remained a prisoner. Despite his imprisonment, <mask> was free to perform many of his daily activities and was respected as a monarch. Any soldiers who disrespected him were ordered to be punished by being physically and roughly punished regardless of rank or position. Despite being treated as a respected monarch, he had lost most of his power as an emperor to the Spaniards. He used the little power he had left to protect the Spaniards, either under the threat of the Spanish or by his own will, such as when he ordered for the ruler of Texcoco. According to reports, the Aztec nobility became increasingly displeased with the large Spanish army staying in Tenochtitln, and Moctezuma said it would be best if they left. In April 1520, Pnfilo de Narvez landed in Mexico and was arrested.During his absence, tensions between Spaniards and Aztecs exploded into the Great Temple Massacre, and <mask> became a hostage used by the Spaniards to ensure their security. After the battles with the Spaniards, <mask> was killed. Different versions of his death have been given by different sources. On June 29, 1520, the Spanish forced Moctezuma to appear on the balcony of the palace, appealing to his countrymen to retreat. Four leaders of the Aztec army met with Moctezuma to convince him to stop firing upon the stronghold. "Many of the Mexican Chieftains and Captains knew him well and at once ordered their people to be silent and not to discharge darts, stones or arrows, and four of them reached a spot where Montezuma could speak to them." The Aztecs told Moctezuma that a relative of his had risen to the throne and ordered their attack to continue until all of the Spanish were wiped out, but expressed remorse at his captivity and stated that they intended to revere him even more.An outbreak of violence immediately followed the discussion between <mask> and the Aztec leaders. The Aztecs named Cuitlhuac tlatoani because they were disgusted by their leader's actions. <mask> was killed by a rock in an effort to appease his people. "They had barely finished this speech when suddenly such a shower of stones and darts were discharged that (our men who were shielding him having neglected for a moment their duty, because they saw how the attack ceased while he spoke to them) he was hit by three." When we least expected it, they said he was dead. The conquest of Mexico from the Tenochtitln-Tlatelolco viewpoint was recorded by a Franciscan friar. The Florentine Codex contains an account in Spanish and Nahuatl with illustrations by natives.The indigenous claim that the Spaniards were to blame for the death of Moctezuma II. The Codex states that the bodies of Itzquauhtzin and Moctezuma were thrown out of the Palace by the Spanish. The Spaniards fled the city and took refuge in Tlaxcala, where they signed a treaty with the natives to take control of Tenochtitln. Cuitlhuac died during a smallpox epidemic and was succeeded by his brother. Cuauhtémoc succeeded his uncle. The Aztecs may have killed the sons of the city because they wanted to surrender. The Aztec Empire had fallen to an army of Spanish and their Native American allies, who were traditional enemies of the Aztecs.The True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner. The Great Montezuma was about forty years old, of good height, well proportioned, spare and slight, and not very dark, though of the usual Indian complexion. He had a short black beard and his hair was just over his ears. His face was long and cheerful, he had fine eyes, and in his appearance and manner he could express a serious composure. He was clean and took a bath every day. He had many women as his mistresses, the daughters of chieftains, but two legitimate wives who were Caciques in their own right, and only some of his servants knew of it. He was free of sodomy.He didn't wear his clothes again for three or four days. He had a guard of two hundred people in his rooms and only a few of them were allowed to speak to him. "Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him or had any dealings with him, who did not mourn him as if he were our." It was stated that he had ruled for seventeen years and was the best king they had ever had in Mexico. We all felt sad when we saw that Montezuma was dead. We blamed the friar for not persuading him to become a Christian. The author of the letter from Mexico to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown was not the same as the author of the letter from Mexico to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown.His prose is characterized by simple descriptions and explanations. "<mask> came to greet us and with him some two hundred lords, all barefoot and dressed in a different costume, but also very rich in their way and more so than the others." They came in two columns, pressed very close to the walls of the street, which is very wide and beautiful, and so straight that you can see from one end to the other. There were two chiefs in the middle of the street, one on his right hand and the other on his left. They were all dressed the same, except for the fact that <mask> wore sandals and the others went barefoot. According to Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmn, the biblical message is that the Messiah would return to rule over the Mexica. There is no preconquest tradition which places Quetzalcoatl in this role, and it seems possible that it was elaborated by the people who had lost contact with their traditional tribal histories.The Florentine Codex relied on natives from Tlatelolco and depicted them in a better light than those of Tenochtitlan. <mask> is depicted as a weak- willed ruler. According to a historian, the people needed to have a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat, and <mask> fell into that role. Fernando Tezozmoc is thought to be a grandson of <mask> II. His chronicle may relate to the genealogy of the Aztec rulers. He estimated that there were nineteen sons and eight daughters in <mask>'s issue. The Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be gods and the Florentine Codex said that the Aztecs believed the Spaniards to be the returned god.Some recent ethnohistorians who specialize in early Spanish/Nahua relations have discarded the claim as post-conquest mythicalisation. The Florentine Codex, written 50 years after the conquest, is believed to have inspired the idea of being seen as a deity. The Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorical Nahuatl in the codex. Some historians think that this is proof that the Spaniards were sent based on the Quetzalcoatl legend, while others think that Moctezuma offered his throne to Cort. The historians of the Franciscan order believe that the Native Americans believed the conquistadors to be gods. The Florentine Codex was compiled by a Franciscan priest. The Florentine Codex contains eight events said to have occurred prior to the arrival of the Spanish.These were thought to be signs of a disaster. A comet, a temple burning, and a woman crying. The Aztecs are thought to have been vulnerable to such ideas of doom and disaster due to the fact that the Spanish arrived at the end of a 52 year cycle in the Aztec calendar. The belief of the Aztecs being rendered passive by their own superstition is referred to by Matthew Restall as part of "The Myth of Native Desolation" to which he dedicates chapter 6 in his book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. These legends are part of the post-conquest rationalization by the Aztecs of their defeat, and serve to show Moctezuma as indecisive, vain, and superstitious, and ultimately the cause of the fall of the Aztec Empire. Diego Durn, a Spanish historian who was one of the most important chroniclers of the indigenous stories of the empire, said that one of the people who warned Moctezuma of the impending destruction of the empire was Nezahualpilli. After this warning caused him great fear, he took a series of erratic decisions, such as severe punishments against his own soldiers for disappointing results after battles against the Tlaxcalans.The Nahua understanding of history as repeating itself in cycles led to a subsequent rationalization of the events of the conquests, according to Ethnohistorian Susan Gillespie. The description of the final ruler of the Aztec Empire prior to the Spanish conquest was tailored to fit the role of earlier rulers of ending dynasties. It is1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556 Tlapalizquixochtzin and Teotlalco were the queens of the family and had numerous wives and concubines. He was a king consort of Ecatepec because of his partnership with Tlapalizquixochtzin. Teotlalco and Tlapalizquixochtzin were both daughters of Matlaccohuatl, the ruler of Ecatepec. According to Spanish accounts, very few people in Mexico knew that these two women held such positions of power.The princesses Teitlalco, Acatlan, and Miahuaxochitl may have been the only legitimate consort of his many wives. He left a son, Asupacaci, who fell during the Noche Triste, and a daughter, Tecuichpoch, to her. The Sotelo-Montezuma family descended from the two daughters left by the Princess Acatlan. The exact number of his children is unknown and the names of most of them have been lost to history, but according to a Spanish chronicler, by the time he was taken captive, he had fathered 100 children and fifty of his wives and concubines. Not all of his children were considered equal in nobility or inheritance rights as Aztec culture made class distinctions. He had many children, including Princess Isabel, Princess Mariana Leonor, and sons Chimalpopoca. He was an active hunter and used to hunt for deer, rabbits and birds in a section of the forest that was exclusive to him and whoever he invited.Anyone who entered without permission would be put to death. He used to invite his servants to this forest if he ordered certain animals to be hunted for him, which would be done for the entertainment of his guests. The descendants of Pedro and Tlacahuepan Ihualicahuaca are from Mexico and Spain. The daughter of Moctezuma was given a large estate by the man who fathered a child with her. Alonso Grado was a Spanish conquistador who arrived after the fall of Tenochtitln. She had children from the families of Cano-Montezuma and Andrade-Montezuma. Diego was a nephew of Moctezuma II.King <mask> brought the grandson of Pedro's son to Spain. He married Francisca de la Cueva de Valenzuela. Pedro Tesifn de Moctezuma became a member of the Spanish nobility in 1627. The holder of the title became a Grandee of Spain. During the Second Mexican Empire, the title of 14th Count of Moctezuma de Tultengo was elevated to that of a Duke. The Aztec emperor's descendants include the Dukes of Atrisco. Many indigenous peoples in Mexico worship deities named after the Aztec ruler, and a part of the myth is that one day the deified Moctezuma will return to vindicate his people.The Pames, Otomi, Tepehun, and Nahua peoples are said to worship earth deities named after them. In Zinacantn, dancers dressed as a rain god are called "Moctezumas". The name of the Aztec emperor was thought to refer to a combination of different cultural heroes who were united under the same name. The name of Moctezuma is a symbol of resistance against the Spanish. In 1721, the followers of the Virgin Mary rebelled against the Spanish after they were told that the Virgin Mary would help them against their oppressors. The leader of the rebellion in the Yucatec Maya was referred to as "Little Montezuma". The Aztec emperor is the title character in several operas from the 18th century.He is the subject of two operas, one of which is written in the Nahuatl language. Lew Wallace's first novel, The Fair God (1873), contains a depiction of the character of <mask>. He is portrayed as a weak and indecisive leader who saved the conquistadores from certain defeat in one battle by ordering the Aztecs to stop. The Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico City during the Mexican–American War is referred to in the opening line of the Marines' Hymn. Neil Young mentioned "Montezuma" in his song "Cortez the Killer", which is believed to derive from "Montezuma". The song's lyrics show a very romanticized portrait of the man. There are statues of the kings of the ancient kingdoms that formed Spain on the facade of the Royal Palace of Madrid.When the Aztecs were conquered by an Anglo- French Empire rather than by Spain, the ruler of Mexico was converted to Christianity and became a vassal of the London-based king. "Montezuma" is a campaign in the video game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. The volcano in Mexico City is named after him. The falls are named after him. The brewery is named after Cuauhtémoc and his nephew, <mask> II. The 13th-century Sinagua dwellings in central Arizona were named after 19th-century American pioneers who thought they were built by the Aztecs. In the video games of the Civilization series, Montezuma is a ruler for the Aztec.Several species of animals and plants have been named after him. The school in Albuquerque, New Mexico is named after him. "Montezuma's Revenge" is a phrase used for travelers to Mexico. According to the urban legend, "gringo" travelers to Mexico in retribution for the slaughter and enslavement of the Aztec people in 1521 were subjected to an onslaught of feces. There is a list of unsolved murders, as well as a reconstructed portrait of Motecuoma Xocoyotzin, based on historical sources. 16th-century monarchs in North America, 15th-century indigenous people of the Americas, and 16th-century murdered monarchs.

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Wani () is a semi-legendary scholar who is said to have been sent to Japan by Baekje of southwestern Korea during the reign of Emperor Ōjin. He used to be associated with the introduction of the Chinese writing system to Japan. Original sources and analysis Wani is mentioned only in Japanese history books; he is not recorded in Chinese or Korean sources. The main sources of Wani's biography are the Nihon Shoki (720) and the Kojiki (712). These stories have long been questioned by scholars. Ten volumes are too much for the Analects, and more importantly, his alleged arrival predates the composition of the Thousand Character Classic (the early 6th century). Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725) considered that Wani had brought a certain book of Elementary Learning which the Kojiki had confused with the Thousand Character Classic. Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801) claimed that it was pointless to care about details because the Thousand Character Classic was mentioned just as a typical book of Elementary Learning. Some assume a different version of the Thousand Character Classic was brought but this theory has no clear basis. In short, it is not unnatural for people like Wani to have come to Japan around that time, but there is no strong evidence determining whether Wani really existed. Dating the alleged arrival of Wani is rather difficult since there are long-lasting disputes over the accuracy of these sources on early events. According to the traditional dating, it would be 285 though is considered too early by historians. Based on the reign of King Akue (阿花王; identified as King Asin 阿莘王) of Baekje, who, according to the Nihon Shoki, died in the 16th year of Emperor Ōjin's reign, it would be 405. However, this theory contradicts the description of the Kojiki, which says that Wani's arrival was during the reign of King Shōko (照古王; usually identified as King Geunchogo 近肖古王, r. 346-375) of Baekje. The Kojiki suggests that Wani arrived sometime after 372. His name is not straightforward either. The Kojiki calls him "Wani Kishi". The Nihon Shoki and most of the subsequent documents read 王仁. Although the reading Wani is irregular (the standard reading is Ō Jin or Ō Nin), these characters look like a Chinese name (the surname Wang and the personal name Ren). This leads some scholars to consider that Wani was of Chinese descent, which his descendants claim was the case. A supporting fact is that the Wang clan was powerful in China's former Lelang Commandery in northwestern Korea. After the downfall of the commandery around 313, some members of the Wang clan might have fled to Baekje, and then to Japan. A more skeptical view is that the legend of Wani was influenced by much later events: the surname Wang was selected as the most appropriate name for the ideal man of letters because in the late 6th century, several scholars surnamed Wang came to Japan from southern China via Baekje. Descendants The descendants of Wani, or more precisely, those who claimed Wani to be their ancestor, were collectively called the Kawachi no Fumi clan. They lived in Kisaichi of Kawachi Province together with their branch families. The head family had the uji "Fumi" [literature] after their duty as scribes, and similarly their branch families were given the kabane "Fuhito" [scribe]. Despite Wani's fame as a scholar, the Kawachi no Fumi clan was not so active as secretaries for administration. A rare exception was Fumi no Nemaro (文禰麻呂; ?-707). Instead of being active in civil administration, he rose to a rank unusually high for a mid-level bureaucrat for his military performances in the Jinshin War (672). Some historians consider that this was the reason why the legend of Wani was recorded in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. It is known that scribes of foreign origin had similar and mutually conflicting legends about their founders. Features common in their stories include the arrival during the reign of Emperor Ōjin, the introduction of Chinese literature and/or Confucianism, and the surname Wang. The legend of Wani was chosen with the rest of them ignored because the Kawachi no Fumi clan was relatively powerful at the time of the compilation of the history books. In 791 Wani's descendants including Fumi no Mooto (文最弟) and Takefu no Makata (武生真象) made a successful attempt to elevate their kabane or family rank. According to the Shoku Nihongi (797), their appeal was as follows: Luan (鸞) was a descendant of Emperor Gaozu of Han. Luan's descendant Wang Gou (王狗) moved to Baekje. During the reign of King Kuso of Baekje, the imperial court sent envoys to summon literati. King Kuso offered Gou's grandson Wang Ren (Wani) as a tribute. He was the founder of Fumi, Takefu and other clans. A similar story can be found in the description of the Fumi no Sukune (文宿禰) clan by the Shinsen Shōjiroku (815). Later interpretations The article of the Nihon Shoki was traditionally interpreted as the introduction of Confucianism and/or Chinese literature although not clearly stated in the history book. According to the preface to the Kokin Wakashū (905), a famous Waka poem starting with "Naniwa-zu" was traditionally attributed to Wani. At that time, the imperial throne was vacant for three years because the future Emperor Nintoku (successor to Emperor Ōjin) and his brother Crown Prince Uji no Waki Iratsuko renounced succession to the throne to crown the other. Historians and philologists are skeptical about the attribution to Wani because it cannot be found in earlier sources. From the early 10th century on, this poem was regarded as a chorus that praises Emperor Nintoku. As a result, Wani was portrayed as a sage submitting to the emperor's virtue. From the Heian period onward, references to Wani mostly involved the Naniwa-zu poem. Some commentaries to Waka poems describe Wani as a man from Silla in southeastern Korea. Although this error was corrected by Fujiwara no Norikane's Waka dōmōshō (1145–53) and Kenshō's Kokinshū jo chū (1183) with the reference to the Nihon Shoki, it survived for a long time. To solve the contradiction, Reizei Tamesuke even claimed in 1297 that Wani had been transferred from Baekje to Silla and then from Silla to Japan. A possible reason for this error is that Wani's arrival at Japan was interpreted as a result of Empress Jingū's conquest of Silla, which was recorded in the Nihon Shoki. Political exploitations Hirakata The so-called tomb of Wani is located in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. It is, however, most likely that the alleged tomb identified in the 18th century has nothing to do with Wani. The "tomb" was located in Fujisaka Village, Kawachi Province (part of the modern-day Hirakata city). It was originally a pair of stones known to local people as "Oni Tomb" (於爾墓). In other words, they were not associated with Wani. The situation changed in 1731 when the Confucian scholar Namikawa Seisho (並河誠所) visited there for the purpose of compiling a geography monograph named Gokinaishi (五畿内志). He claimed that he discovered an old document at Wada Temple of Kin'ya Village (also part of the modern Hirakata) that read the name "Oni Tomb" was the corrupt form of Wani Tomb. At his recommendation, a stonetomb was built behind the stones. It is generally considered that the "tomb" in Hirakata is Namikawa's fabrication. There is no ancient record that refers to Wani's burial site. Archaeologically speaking, there was no such custom of setting a tombstone on a mound before the introduction of Buddhism. The new myth spread as the Kokugaku movement became active. Wani was praised as a talented and faithful servant to the ancient emperors. In 1827, a monument in honor of Wani was erected near the tomb, on which his name was engraved by Prince Arisugawa. After the Meiji Restoration, a ceremony was held at the tomb in 1899 to commemorate the 1500-year anniversary of the death of Emperor Nintoku. After the annexation of Korea, another symbolic role was given to Wani in relation to modern Korea/Koreans. As part of an effort to integrate Korea into the empire, conciliatory approaches were adopted. Wani was utilized as a historical precedent for serving the emperor loyally in spite of non-Japanese root. In 1927 a society was set up in Tokyo to build a shrine for Wani. Its member included Uchida Ryōhei from the Black Dragon Society. The project for building a shrine in the site of the Wani tomb began in 1930. In 1932 the society celebrated the 1650-year anniversary of Wani's arrival there. The construction of Wani shrine started in 1940 but was never completed. In addition to Wani Shrine, a pair of monuments was built in honor of Wani in Tokyo's Ueno Park in 1939. With the disintegration of the Japanese Empire, the political role of Wani ceased to exist. Instead, Wani was targeted by Korean political exploitation. Koreans, in turn, use Wani as a symbol of ancient Korea's "cultural superiority" over Japan. Since the 1980s Korean nationals in Japan have led various events visualizing Wani's alleged arrival at Japan. President Kim Dae-jung sent a personal letter to a ceremony at the tomb in 1998, and Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil visited there in 1999. Yeongam Even though Korea has no historical records on Wani, "Doctor Wang In's Historical Sites" (Wang In is the Koreanized form of Wani, 왕인) are located in Gurim Village, Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea today. It is based on a new myth that can date back only to the early 20th century. Earlier geography books including the Taekriji (1751) never link Wani to Yeongam. The first known record that associates Wani with Yeongam is the Joseon Hwanyeo Seungnam (朝鮮寰輿勝覧; 1922–37) by Yi Byeong-yeon (이병연, 李秉延). It claims without providing any evidence that Wani was born in Yeongnam. It is known that around the same time, a Japanese monk named Aoki Keishō claimed on the basis of "oral tradition" that Yeongam was Wani's homeland. In 1932 he made a failed appeal to erect a bronze statue of Wani in Yeongam. A new myth about Wangin was publicized in South Korea in the 1970s. In 1972 the social activist Kim Changsu reported a series of essays titled "Korean spirit embodied in Japan". In the framework of Korean national history, Wani was regarded as a Korean. Upon being informed by a reader from Yeongam, Kim issued a statement identifying Yeongam as the birthplace of Wani in the next year. In spite of the weakness of the evidence, Wani's "relic site" was designated as Cultural Asset No. 20 of South Jeolla Province in 1976. The development of Wani's "historical sites" was led by the governments of South Jeolla Province and Yeongam County. The governor of South Jeolla Province was from Yeongam County. The construction was carried out from 1985 to 1987, "restoring" the "birthplace", schools where Wani allegedly studied, and others. Yeongam County started to fully exploit the old-looking new theme park as a tourist attraction because the introduction of local autonomy of 1990 forced the local government to look for its own source of revenue. For example, Youngam County began to host the annual "Wangin Culture Festival" in 1997 that was previously organized by local people under the name of "Cherry blossom festival". The exploitation was not done without opposition. In fact, it is criticized by a faction who attempts to use Buddhist monk Doseon (827–898) as the main tourism resource of Yeongam. See also Korean influence on Japanese culture Notes References Gotō Kōji 後藤耕二, Atogaki ni kaete, Den Wani bo o kaishita Daikan minkoku Zenra nandō Reigan-gun to no yūkō toshi mondai o megutte あとがきにかえて‐伝王仁墓を介した大韓民国全羅南道霊岩郡との友好都市問題をめぐって, Zainichi Chōsenjin no rekishi 在日朝鮮人の歴史, pp. 317–328頁, 1994. Kim Byeong-in 金秉仁: 王仁의 "지역 영웅화" 과정에 대한 문헌사적 검토, Hanguksa yeon-gu 韓國史研究, Vol.115, pp. 107–116, 2001 Ōishi Kazuyo 大石和世: Densetsu o tooshite hyōshō sareru Nikkan kankei 伝説を通して表象される日韓関係 (The Relations of Korea and Japan as represented by a Legend), From Fukuoka: Asia Pacific Study Reports 福岡発・アジア太平洋研究報告, Vol. 13, pp. 1–7, 2004. 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<mask> () is a semi-legendary scholar who is said to have been sent to Japan by Baekje of southwestern Korea during the reign of Emperor Ōjin. He used to be associated with the introduction of the Chinese writing system to Japan. Original sources and analysis <mask> is mentioned only in Japanese history books; he is not recorded in Chinese or Korean sources. The main sources of <mask>'s biography are the Nihon Shoki (720) and the Kojiki (712). These stories have long been questioned by scholars. Ten volumes are too much for the Analects, and more importantly, his alleged arrival predates the composition of the Thousand Character Classic (the early 6th century). Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725) considered that Wani had brought a certain book of Elementary Learning which the Kojiki had confused with the Thousand Character Classic.Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801) claimed that it was pointless to care about details because the Thousand Character Classic was mentioned just as a typical book of Elementary Learning. Some assume a different version of the Thousand Character Classic was brought but this theory has no clear basis. In short, it is not unnatural for people like Wani to have come to Japan around that time, but there is no strong evidence determining whether Wani really existed. Dating the alleged arrival of Wani is rather difficult since there are long-lasting disputes over the accuracy of these sources on early events. According to the traditional dating, it would be 285 though is considered too early by historians. Based on the reign of King Akue (阿花王; identified as King Asin 阿莘王) of Baekje, who, according to the Nihon Shoki, died in the 16th year of Emperor Ōjin's reign, it would be 405. However, this theory contradicts the description of the Kojiki, which says that Wani's arrival was during the reign of King Shōko (照古王; usually identified as King Geunchogo 近肖古王, r. 346-375) of Baekje.The Kojiki suggests that Wani arrived sometime after 372. His name is not straightforward either. The Kojiki calls him "Wani Kishi". The Nihon Shoki and most of the subsequent documents read 王仁. Although the reading Wani is irregular (the standard reading is Ō Jin or Ō Nin), these characters look like a Chinese name (the surname Wang and the personal name Ren). This leads some scholars to consider that <mask> was of Chinese descent, which his descendants claim was the case. A supporting fact is that the Wang clan was powerful in China's former Lelang Commandery in northwestern Korea.After the downfall of the commandery around 313, some members of the Wang clan might have fled to Baekje, and then to Japan. A more skeptical view is that the legend of Wani was influenced by much later events: the surname Wang was selected as the most appropriate name for the ideal man of letters because in the late 6th century, several scholars surnamed Wang came to Japan from southern China via Baekje. Descendants The descendants of Wani, or more precisely, those who claimed Wani to be their ancestor, were collectively called the Kawachi no Fumi clan. They lived in Kisaichi of Kawachi Province together with their branch families. The head family had the uji "Fumi" [literature] after their duty as scribes, and similarly their branch families were given the kabane "Fuhito" [scribe]. Despite Wani's fame as a scholar, the Kawachi no Fumi clan was not so active as secretaries for administration. A rare exception was Fumi no Nemaro (文禰麻呂; ?-707).Instead of being active in civil administration, he rose to a rank unusually high for a mid-level bureaucrat for his military performances in the Jinshin War (672). Some historians consider that this was the reason why the legend of Wani was recorded in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. It is known that scribes of foreign origin had similar and mutually conflicting legends about their founders. Features common in their stories include the arrival during the reign of Emperor Ōjin, the introduction of Chinese literature and/or Confucianism, and the surname Wang. The legend of Wani was chosen with the rest of them ignored because the Kawachi no Fumi clan was relatively powerful at the time of the compilation of the history books. In 791 Wani's descendants including Fumi no Mooto (文最弟) and Takefu no Makata (武生真象) made a successful attempt to elevate their kabane or family rank. According to the Shoku Nihongi (797), their appeal was as follows: Luan (鸞) was a descendant of Emperor Gaozu of Han.Luan's descendant Wang Gou (王狗) moved to Baekje. During the reign of King Kuso of Baekje, the imperial court sent envoys to summon literati. King Kuso offered Gou's grandson Wang Ren (Wani) as a tribute. He was the founder of Fumi, Takefu and other clans. A similar story can be found in the description of the Fumi no Sukune (文宿禰) clan by the Shinsen Shōjiroku (815). Later interpretations The article of the Nihon Shoki was traditionally interpreted as the introduction of Confucianism and/or Chinese literature although not clearly stated in the history book. According to the preface to the Kokin Wakashū (905), a famous Waka poem starting with "Naniwa-zu" was traditionally attributed to Wani.At that time, the imperial throne was vacant for three years because the future Emperor Nintoku (successor to Emperor Ōjin) and his brother Crown Prince Uji no Waki Iratsuko renounced succession to the throne to crown the other. Historians and philologists are skeptical about the attribution to Wani because it cannot be found in earlier sources. From the early 10th century on, this poem was regarded as a chorus that praises Emperor Nintoku. As a result, Wani was portrayed as a sage submitting to the emperor's virtue. From the Heian period onward, references to Wani mostly involved the Naniwa-zu poem. Some commentaries to Waka poems describe Wani as a man from Silla in southeastern Korea. Although this error was corrected by Fujiwara no Norikane's Waka dōmōshō (1145–53) and Kenshō's Kokinshū jo chū (1183) with the reference to the Nihon Shoki, it survived for a long time.To solve the contradiction, Reizei Tamesuke even claimed in 1297 that Wani had been transferred from Baekje to Silla and then from Silla to Japan. A possible reason for this error is that <mask>'s arrival at Japan was interpreted as a result of Empress Jingū's conquest of Silla, which was recorded in the Nihon Shoki. Political exploitations Hirakata The so-called tomb of Wani is located in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. It is, however, most likely that the alleged tomb identified in the 18th century has nothing to do with Wani. The "tomb" was located in Fujisaka Village, Kawachi Province (part of the modern-day Hirakata city). It was originally a pair of stones known to local people as "Oni Tomb" (於爾墓). In other words, they were not associated with Wani.The situation changed in 1731 when the Confucian scholar Namikawa Seisho (並河誠所) visited there for the purpose of compiling a geography monograph named Gokinaishi (五畿内志). He claimed that he discovered an old document at Wada Temple of Kin'ya Village (also part of the modern Hirakata) that read the name "Oni Tomb" was the corrupt form of Wani Tomb. At his recommendation, a stonetomb was built behind the stones. It is generally considered that the "tomb" in Hirakata is Namikawa's fabrication. There is no ancient record that refers to Wani's burial site. Archaeologically speaking, there was no such custom of setting a tombstone on a mound before the introduction of Buddhism. The new myth spread as the Kokugaku movement became active.Wani was praised as a talented and faithful servant to the ancient emperors. In 1827, a monument in honor of Wani was erected near the tomb, on which his name was engraved by Prince Arisugawa. After the Meiji Restoration, a ceremony was held at the tomb in 1899 to commemorate the 1500-year anniversary of the death of Emperor Nintoku. After the annexation of Korea, another symbolic role was given to Wani in relation to modern Korea/Koreans. As part of an effort to integrate Korea into the empire, conciliatory approaches were adopted. Wani was utilized as a historical precedent for serving the emperor loyally in spite of non-Japanese root. In 1927 a society was set up in Tokyo to build a shrine for Wani.Its member included Uchida Ryōhei from the Black Dragon Society. The project for building a shrine in the site of the Wani tomb began in 1930. In 1932 the society celebrated the 1650-year anniversary of Wani's arrival there. The construction of Wani shrine started in 1940 but was never completed. In addition to Wani Shrine, a pair of monuments was built in honor of Wani in Tokyo's Ueno Park in 1939. With the disintegration of the Japanese Empire, the political role of Wani ceased to exist. Instead, Wani was targeted by Korean political exploitation.Koreans, in turn, use Wani as a symbol of ancient Korea's "cultural superiority" over Japan. Since the 1980s Korean nationals in Japan have led various events visualizing Wani's alleged arrival at Japan. President Kim Dae-jung sent a personal letter to a ceremony at the tomb in 1998, and Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil visited there in 1999. Yeongam Even though Korea has no historical records on Wani, "Doctor Wang In's Historical Sites" (Wang In is the Koreanized form of Wani, 왕인) are located in Gurim Village, Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea today. It is based on a new myth that can date back only to the early 20th century. Earlier geography books including the Taekriji (1751) never link Wani to Yeongam. The first known record that associates Wani with Yeongam is the Joseon Hwanyeo Seungnam (朝鮮寰輿勝覧; 1922–37) by Yi Byeong-yeon (이병연, 李秉延).It claims without providing any evidence that <mask> was born in Yeongnam. It is known that around the same time, a Japanese monk named Aoki Keishō claimed on the basis of "oral tradition" that Yeongam was Wani's homeland. In 1932 he made a failed appeal to erect a bronze statue of Wani in Yeongam. A new myth about Wangin was publicized in South Korea in the 1970s. In 1972 the social activist Kim Changsu reported a series of essays titled "Korean spirit embodied in Japan". In the framework of Korean national history, <mask> was regarded as a Korean. Upon being informed by a reader from Yeongam, Kim issued a statement identifying Yeongam as the birthplace of Wani in the next year.In spite of the weakness of the evidence, <mask>'s "relic site" was designated as Cultural Asset No. 20 of South Jeolla Province in 1976. The development of Wani's "historical sites" was led by the governments of South Jeolla Province and Yeongam County. The governor of South Jeolla Province was from Yeongam County. The construction was carried out from 1985 to 1987, "restoring" the "birthplace", schools where Wani allegedly studied, and others. Yeongam County started to fully exploit the old-looking new theme park as a tourist attraction because the introduction of local autonomy of 1990 forced the local government to look for its own source of revenue. For example, Youngam County began to host the annual "Wangin Culture Festival" in 1997 that was previously organized by local people under the name of "Cherry blossom festival".The exploitation was not done without opposition. In fact, it is criticized by a faction who attempts to use Buddhist monk Doseon (827–898) as the main tourism resource of Yeongam. See also Korean influence on Japanese culture Notes References Gotō Kōji 後藤耕二, Atogaki ni kaete, Den Wani bo o kaishita Daikan minkoku Zenra nandō Reigan-gun to no yūkō toshi mondai o megutte あとがきにかえて‐伝王仁墓を介した大韓民国全羅南道霊岩郡との友好都市問題をめぐって, Zainichi Chōsenjin no rekishi 在日朝鮮人の歴史, pp. 317–328頁, 1994. Kim Byeong-in 金秉仁: 王仁의 "지역 영웅화" 과정에 대한 문헌사적 검토, Hanguksa yeon-gu 韓國史研究, Vol.115, pp. 107–116, 2001 Ōishi Kazuyo 大石和世: Densetsu o tooshite hyōshō sareru Nikkan kankei 伝説を通して表象される日韓関係 (The Relations of Korea and Japan as represented by a Legend), From Fukuoka: Asia Pacific Study Reports 福岡発・アジア太平洋研究報告, Vol. 13, pp.1–7, 2004. Confucianism in Japan Chinese Confucianists 5th-century Chinese people

<mask> is said to have been sent to Japan by Baekje of southwestern Korea during the reign of Emperor jin. He was associated with the introduction of the Chinese writing system to Japan. Wani is not recorded in Chinese or Korean sources. The Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki are the main sources of <mask>'s biography. These stories have been questioned before. His alleged arrival before the composition of the Thousand Character Classic is too much for the Analects. <mask>'s book of Elementary Learning was thought to have confused the Kojiki with the Thousand Character Classic.According to Motoori Norinaga, it was pointless to care about details because the Thousand Character Classic was just a book of Elementary Learning. There is a theory that a different version of the Thousand Character Classic was brought. It is not unusual for people like Wani to come to Japan around that time, but there is no evidence that Wani actually existed. Dating the alleged arrival of Wani is difficult since there are long-standing disputes over the accuracy of the sources. It would be too early by historians according to the traditional dating. King Asin of Baekje died in the 16th year of Emperor jin's reign, according to the Nihon Shoki. The description of the Kojiki says that Wani's arrival was during the reign of King Shko.<mask> arrived sometime after 372 according to the Kojiki. His name is not easy to understand. He is called "<mask> Kishi" by the Kojiki. Most of the documents read. The Wani characters look like a Chinese name, the surname Wang and the personal name Ren. <mask>'s descendants claim that he was of Chinese descent. The Wang clan was powerful in China's former Lelang Commandery.The Wang clan might have fled to Baekje after the downfall of the commandery. The legend of Wani was influenced by events that took place in the late 6th century, and the most appropriate name for the ideal man of letters was Wang. Descendants The descendants of Wani, or more precisely, those who claimed to be their ancestors, were collectively called the Kawachi no Fumi clan. They lived in Kisaichi with their families. The uji "Fumi" was given to the head family and the branch families were given the kabane "Fuhito". Wani's fame as a scholar did not make his clan active as secretaries for administration. Fumi no Nemaro was a rare exception.He rose to a high rank for his military performance in the Jinshin War because he was not active in civil administration. The legend of Wani was recorded in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. Historians of foreign origin have similar and conflicting legends about their founding fathers. The arrival during the reign of Emperor jin is one of the features common in their stories. The history books chose the legend of Wani because the Kawachi no Fumi clan was relatively powerful at the time. Fumi no Mooto and Takefu no Makata succeeded in elevating their family rank. Luan was a descendant of Emperor Gaozu of Han, according to the Shoku Nihongi.Wang Gou moved to Baekje. The imperial court summoned literati during the reign of King Kuso of Baekje. Wang Ren was offered a tribute by King Kuso. He founded Fumi, Takefu and other clans. A similar story can be found in the Shinsen Shjiroku's description of the Fumi no Sukune clan. The history book does not clearly state that the article of the Nihon Shoki was the introduction of Confucianism or Chinese literature. A famous Waka poem starting with "Naniwa-zu" was attributed to Wani according to the Kokin Wakash.When Emperor jin and his brother Crown Prince Uji no Waki Iratsuko abdicated, the throne was vacant for three years. The attribution to Wani cannot be found in earlier sources. In the early 10th century, this poem was considered to be a chorus that praises Emperor Nintoku. Wani was portrayed as submitting to the emperor's virtue. The Heian period included references to Wani. <mask> is described as a man from Silla in southeastern Korea in some commentaries. The error was corrected by Fujiwara no Norikane's Waka dmsh and Kensh's Kokinshjo ch.In 1297, Reizei Tamesuke claimed that Wani had been transferred from Baekje to Silla and then from Silla to Japan. <mask>'s arrival at Japan was thought to be a result of the conquest of Silla, which was recorded in the Nihon Shoki. The so-called tomb of Wani is located in Osaka Prefecture. Most likely, the tomb identified in the 18th century has nothing to do with Wani. The "tomb" was located in Fujisaka Village. Local people used to call it "Oni Tomb", a pair of stones. They were not associated with Wani.The situation changed in 1731 when the Confucian scholar went there for the purpose of writing a geography monograph. The corrupt form of Wani Tomb was found at the Wada Temple of Kin'ya Village. A stonetomb was built behind the stones. The "tomb" in Hirakata is a fabrication. Wani's burial site is not mentioned in an ancient record. Before Buddhism, there was no custom of setting a tombstone on a mound. As the Kokugaku movement became active, the new myth spread.Wani was a faithful servant to the emperors. Prince Arisugawa engraved Wani's name on a monument in honor of him in the 19th century. In 1899, a ceremony was held at the tomb to commemorate the 1500-year anniversary of Emperor Nintoku's death. Wani was given a symbolic role after the annexation of Korea. Conciliatory approaches were used to integrate Korea into the empire. Wani was used as a precedent for serving the emperor loyally. A shrine for Wani was built in Tokyo in 1927.Uchida was from the Black Dragon Society. The project to build a shrine in the site of the Wani tomb began in 1930. The 1650-year anniversary of Wani's arrival was celebrated in 1932 by the society. The Wani shrine was never completed. Wani Shrine and a pair of monuments were built in Tokyo's Ueno Park in 1939. The political role of Wani ceased when the Japanese Empire fell. Wani was targeted by Korean political exploitation.Wani is a symbol of ancient Korea's "cultural superiority" over Japan. Wani's alleged arrival at Japan has been lead by Korean nationals in Japan. The President sent a letter to the tomb in 1998 and the Prime Minister visited in 1999. "Doctor Wang In's Historical Sites" are located in Gurim Village, Yeongam County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. The myth dates back to the early 20th century. The Taekriji did not link Wani to Yeongam. The Joseon Hwanyeo Seungnam is the first record that associates Wani with Yeongam.There is no evidence that <mask> was born in Yeongnam. Aoki Keish, a Japanese monk, claimed on the basis of oral tradition that Yeongam was Wani's homeland. He tried to build a bronze statue of Wani in Yeongam. In the 70s there was a new myth about Wangin. Kim Changsu wrote a series of essays titled "Korean spirit embodied in Japan". <mask> was seen as a Korean in the Korean national history. Kim issued a statement after he was told that Yeongam was the birthplace of Wani in the next year.Wani's "relic site" was designated as a cultural asset despite the weakness of the evidence. In 1976, there were 20 of South Jeolla Province. South Jeolla Province and Yeongam County led the development of Wani's historical sites. The governor of South Jeolla Province was from Yeongam County. The "birthplace", schools where Wani allegedly studied, and others were rebuilt from 1985 to 1987. The introduction of local autonomy in 1990 forced the local government to look for its own source of revenue and Yeongam County started to exploit the old theme park as a tourist attraction. In 1997 Youngam County began to host the annual "Wangin Culture Festival" that was previously organized by local people under the name of "Cherry blossom festival".There was opposition to the exploitation. The main tourism resource of Yeongam is criticized by a group who tries to use a Buddhist monk. Korean influence on Japanese culture can be found in the Notes References. In 1994. Hanguksa yeon-gu, Vol.115, was written by Kim Byeong-in. The Relations of Korea and Japan as represented by a Legend was published in 2001. 13, pp.The year 2004. The 5th-century Chinese people were Confucianists.

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Stephen Gerald Breyer ( ; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton, and replaced retiring justice Harry Blackmun. Breyer is generally associated with the liberal wing of the Court. After attending Stanford University, Breyer attended the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964. After a clerkship with Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964–65, Breyer was a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School from 1967 until 1980. He specialized in administrative law, writing textbooks that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated to the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973. He also served on the First Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1994. In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer made his first attempt to systematically communicate his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a manner that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions. On January 26, 2022, American news outlets reported that Breyer intended to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the term. On January 27, Breyer and President Joe Biden officially announced Breyer's pending retirement at the White House. On February 25, 2022, Biden nominated Breyer's former law clerk, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to succeed him. Early life and education Breyer was born on August 15, 1938, in San Francisco, California, to Anne A. (née Roberts) and Irving Gerald Breyer. Breyer's paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Romania to the United States, settling in Cleveland, where Breyer's grandfather was born. Breyer was raised in a middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer who served as legal counsel to the San Francisco Board of Education. Breyer and his younger brother Charles R. Breyer, who later became a federal district judge, were active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the Eagle Scout rank. Breyer attended Lowell High School, graduating in 1955. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated regularly in high school tournaments, including against future California governor Jerry Brown and future Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe. After high school, Breyer studied philosophy at Stanford University. He graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He was then awarded a Marshall Scholarship which he used to study philosophy, politics, and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a second B.A. in 1961. He then returned to the United States to attend Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Laws degree magna cum laude. Breyer spent 8 years in the United States Army Reserve including 6 months on active duty in the Army Strategic Intelligence. He reached the rank of corporal and was honorably discharged in 1965. In 1967, Breyer married The Honourable Joanna Freda Hare, a psychologist and member of the British aristocracy, younger daughter of John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham and granddaughter of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel. They have three adult children: Chloe, an Episcopal priest; Nell; and Michael. Legal career After law school, Breyer served as a law clerk to associate justice Arthur Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1964 to 1965, and served briefly as a fact-checker for the Warren Commission. He then spent two years in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as a special assistant to its Assistant Attorney General. Breyer returned to Harvard Law School as an assistant professor in 1967. He taught at Harvard Law until 1980, and held a joint appointment at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government from 1977 to 1980. At Harvard, Breyer was known as a leading expert on administrative law. While there, he wrote two highly influential books on deregulation: Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation and Regulation and Its Reform. In 1970, Breyer wrote "The Uneasy Case for Copyright", one of the most widely cited skeptical examinations of copyright. Breyer was a visiting professor at the College of Law in Sydney, Australia, the University of Rome, and the Tulane University Law School. While teaching at Harvard, Breyer took several leaves of absence to serve in the U.S. government. He served as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973. Breyer was a special counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1974 to 1975 and served as chief counsel of the committee from 1979 to 1980. He worked closely with the chairman of the committee, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to pass the Airline Deregulation Act that closed the Civil Aeronautics Board. Judicial career U.S. Court of Appeals (1980–1994) In the last days of President Jimmy Carter's administration, on November 13, 1980, after he had been defeated for reelection, Carter nominated Breyer to the First Circuit, to a new seat established by , and the United States Senate confirmed him on December 9, 1980, by an 80–10 vote. He received his commission on December 10, 1980. From 1980 to 1994, Breyer was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; he was the court's Chief Judge from 1990 to 1994. One of his duties as chief judge was to oversee the design and construction of a new federal courthouse for Boston, beginning an avocational interest in architecture and the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Breyer served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States between 1990 and 1994 and the United States Sentencing Commission between 1985 and 1989. On the sentencing commission he played a key role in reforming federal criminal sentencing procedures, producing the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which were formulated to increase uniformity in sentencing. Supreme Court (1994–present) In 1993, President Bill Clinton considered him for the seat vacated by Byron White before ultimately appointing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But after the retirement of Harry Blackmun, Clinton nominated Breyer as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on May 17, 1994. Breyer was confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 1994, by an 87 to 9 vote, and received his commission on August 3. He was the second-longest-serving junior justice in the history of the Court, close to surpassing the record set by Associate Justice Joseph Story of 4,228 days (from February 3, 1812, to September 1, 1823); Breyer fell 29 days short of tying this record, which he would have reached on March 1, 2006, had Samuel Alito not joined the Court on January 31, 2006. Since Ginsburg's death in September 2020, Breyer has been the oldest serving justice. In 2015, Breyer broke a federal law that bans judges from hearing cases when they or their spouses or minor children have a financial interest in a company involved. His wife sold about $33,000 worth of stock in Johnson Controls a day after Breyer participated in the oral argument. This brought him back into compliance and he joined the majority in ruling in favor of the interests of a Johnson Controls subsidiary which was party to FERC v. Electric Power Supply Ass'n. Pending retirement After Democratic victories in the 2020 presidential and Senate elections, progressive activists and Democratic members of Congress called on Breyer to resign so that President Biden could nominate a younger liberal justice. In an August 2021 New York Times interview, Breyer said he wished to retire before his death, and recounted a conversation he had with Justice Antonin Scalia in which Scalia mentioned that he did not want his successor to "reverse everything I've done for the last 25 years". Breyer said that Scalia's point will "inevitably be in the psychology" of his decision to retire. In a September 2021 interview with Fox News'''s Chris Wallace, Breyer said activists calling for his resignation are "entitled to their opinion" and "I didn’t retire because I had decided on balance I wouldn’t retire". He said he took several factors into account when deciding his retirement plans, and reiterated that he did not plan to "die on the court". On January 26, 2022, news outlets reported Breyer's intention to retire from the court at the end of the 2021–22 term. Breyer confirmed his pending retirement in a White House announcement alongside Biden on January 27. On February 25, Biden announced his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former clerk of Breyer and judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to succeed Breyer on the Supreme Court. Notable rulings From the start of his tenure through the end of the 2019 term, Breyer has written a total of 520 opinions, not counting opinions relating to orders or in the "shadow docket". Abortion In 2000, Breyer wrote the majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a Nebraska law banning partial-birth abortion. On June 29, 2020, he wrote the plurality opinion in June Medical Services v. Russo. The ruling struck down Louisiana's abortion law requiring any doctor who performed abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Breyer reaffirmed the "benefits and burdens" test he had created in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which struck down a nearly identical abortion law in Texas. Census In Department of Commerce v. New York (2019), Breyer was in the 5–4 majority that ruled that the Census Bureau had not followed proper procedure in its implementation of a citizenship question. He was also one of four justices who would have held the citizenship question unconstitutional in itself. In a mostly concurring opinion, he wrote: "Yet the decision was ill considered in a number of critically important respects. The Secretary did not give adequate consideration to issues that should have been central to his judgment, such as the high likelihood of an undercount, the low likelihood that a question would yield more accurate citizenship data, and the apparent lack of any need for more accurate citizenship data to begin with. The Secretary’s failures in considering those critical issues make his decision unreasonable". On December 18, 2020, Breyer was one of three dissenters in Trump v. New York. In a 20-page dissent, he argued that the Court should not have sidestepped the case and should have ruled in favor of the challengers, who wanted the Court to block the Trump administration's last-minute attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census. The census ultimately did not exclude undocumented immigrants, due to a lack of time and the subsequent issuance of Executive Order 13986. Copyright In Eldred v. Ashcroft, decided on January 15, 2003, Breyer and Justice John Paul Stevens filed separate dissenting opinions. In his 28-page dissent, Breyer argued that the 20-year retroactive extension of existing copyright granted by the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) amounted effectively to a grant of perpetual copyright that violated the Copyright Clause of the Constitution, read in light of the First Amendment. He argued that the extension would produce a period of protection worth more than 99.8% of protection in perpetuity and that few artists would be more inclined to produce work knowing that their great-grandchildren would receive royalties. He also wrote that the fair use defense came to no avail either, as it could not help "those who wish to obtain from electronic databases material that is not there", e.g. teachers who can find from online no ideal material to be used in the class as it has been deleted. In Google v. Oracle, decided on April 5, 2021, Breyer wrote the 38-page majority opinion, holding that Google's copying of 11,500 lines of Java declaring code (0.4% of all Java code) constituted fair use because "three of these packages were ... fundamental to being able to use the Java language at all". Breyer explained, "By using the same declaring code for those packages, programmers using the Android platform can rely on the method calls that they are already familiar with to call up particular tasks (e.g., determining which of two integers is the greater); but Google's own implementing programs carry out those tasks. Without that copying, programmers would need to learn an entirely new system to call up the same tasks." Death penalty In 2015, Breyer dissented in Glossip v. Gross, which held by a 5–4 vote that prisoners challenging their executions must provide a "known and available" execution method before challenging their method of execution. In a dissent joined by Ginsburg, Breyer questioned the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. He wrote, "For the reasons I have set forth in this opinion, I believe it highly likely that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment. At the very least, the Court should call for full briefing on the basic question." In July 2020, Breyer reiterated this position, writing, "As I have previously written, the solution may be for this Court to directly examine the question whether the death penalty violates the Constitution." Environment In Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000), Breyer was in the 7–2 majority that held that people who use the North Tyger River for recreational purposes but could not do so due to pollution had standing to sue industrial polluters. On April 23, 2020, Breyer wrote the majority opinion in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. The Court ruled that the County of Maui must have a permit under the Clean Water Act in order to release groundwater pollution into the ocean. Although the ruling was less broad than the 9th Circuit's ruling, environmentalist groups saw the ruling as a win and an affirmation of the Clean Water Act. On July 31, 2020, Breyer dissented when the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, refused to lift a stay on the 9th Circuit ruling that halted construction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Sierra Club argued that the wall would harm the environment unduly, including threatening wildlife and changing the flow of water in the Sonoran Desert. Breyer wrote, "The Court’s decision to let construction continue nevertheless, I fear, may 'operat[e], in effect, as a final judgment.'" Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan joined his dissent. On March 4, 2021, Breyer dissented in United States Fish and Wildlife Serv. v. Sierra Club, Inc., joined only by Sotomayor. The case concerned the Sierra Club's request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for "draft opinions" concerning rules governing underwater structures that are used to cool industrial equipment. The Sierra Club argued that it had the right to access the documents. The majority opinion limits environmental groups' ability to obtain government documents under FOIA. Breyer wrote in his dissent, "Agency practice shows that the Draft Biological Opinion, not the Final Biological Opinion, is the document that informs the EPA of the Services’ conclusions about jeopardy and alternatives and triggers within the EPA the process of deciding what to do about those conclusions. If a Final Biological Opinion is discoverable under FOIA, as all seem to agree it is, why would a Draft Biological Opinion, embodying the same Service conclusions (and leaving the EPA with the same four choices), not be?” In Hollyfrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Association, Breyer ruled for oil refineries, joining the majority opinion, which held that oil refineries struggling financially did not need a continuous exemption every year since 2011 in order to be granted an exemption from federal renewable fuels policy. Health care Breyer has generally voted to uphold Obamacare since its passage in 2010. Breyer wrote the 7-2 majority opinion in California v. Texas, a decision on June 17, 2021, holding that Texas and other states lacked standing to sue against the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. Breyer wrote, "It is consequently not surprising that the plaintiffs cannot point to cases that support them. To the contrary, our cases have consistently spoken of the need to assert an injury that is the result of a statute’s actual or threatened enforcement, whether today or in the future." Partisan gerrymandering On April 28, 2004, Breyer dissented in Vieth v. Jubelirer, in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering is a non-justiciable claim. Breyer wrote in his dissent, "Sometimes purely political 'gerrymandering' will fail to advance any plausible democratic objective while simultaneously threatening serious democratic harm. And sometimes when that is so, courts can identify an equal protection violation and provide a remedy." In 2006, Breyer was in a 5–4 majority holding that District 23 of the 2003 Texas redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act due to vote dilution. Along with Justice John Paul Stevens, Breyer would also have ruled in favor of plaintiffs' claims that Texas's statewide plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. In June 2019, Breyer dissented in Rucho v. Common Cause, in which the Supreme Court decided 5–4 that gerrymandering is a non-justiciable claim. Voting rights Breyer wrote the majority opinion in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, which ruled that racial gerrymandering claims must be looked at district by district, and struck down four of Alabama's state Senate districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. Breyer joined Ginsburg's dissent in Shelby County v. Holder. A 5–4 majority ruled that Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Breyer joined another dissent by Ginsburg in RNC v. DNC, which overturned a lower court's extension of a voting deadline in the Wisconsin primary elections. The lower court had extended the deadline so that people who had not yet received mail-in ballots by April 7 could vote by mail in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Breyer dissented in a similar Wisconsin case in October; the petitioners had asked the court to require Wisconsin to count mail-in ballots received up to six days after Election Day, and the Court, with Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting, refused the petitioners' request to extend the deadline. Breyer joined Kagan's dissent in Brnovich v. DNC (2021), a case that upheld Arizona's ban on ballot harvesting and refusal to count out-of-precinct ballots. As the most senior dissenter, Breyer likely assigned the dissenting opinion to Kagan. Judicial philosophy In general Breyer's pragmatic approach to the law "will tend to make the law more sensible", according to Cass Sunstein, who added that Breyer's "attack on originalism is powerful and convincing". Breyer has consistently voted in favor of abortion rights,Stenberg v. Carhart, . one of the most controversial areas of the Supreme Court's docket. He has also defended the Court's use of foreign law and international law as persuasive (but not binding) authority in its decisions. Breyer is also recognized to be deferential to the interests of law enforcement and to legislative judgments in the Court's First Amendment rulings. He has demonstrated a consistent pattern of deference to Congress, voting to overturn congressional legislation at a lower rate than any other Justice since 1994. Breyer's extensive experience in administrative law is accompanied by his staunch defense of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Breyer rejects the strict interpretation of the Sixth Amendment espoused by Justice Scalia that all facts necessary to criminal punishment must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. In many other areas on the Court, too, Breyer's pragmatism was considered the intellectual counterweight to Scalia's textualist philosophy. In describing his interpretive philosophy, Breyer has sometimes noted his use of six interpretive tools: text, history, tradition, precedent, the purpose of a statute, and the consequences of competing interpretations. He has noted that only the last two differentiate him from textualists such as Scalia. Breyer argues that these sources are necessary, however, and in the former case (purpose), can in fact provide greater objectivity in legal interpretation than looking merely at what is often ambiguous statutory text. With the latter (consequences), Breyer argues that considering the impact of legal interpretations is a further way of ensuring consistency with a law's intended purpose. Active Liberty Breyer expounded his judicial philosophy in 2005 in Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution. In it, Breyer urges judges to interpret legal provisions (of the Constitution or of statutes) in light of the purpose of the text and how well the consequences of specific rulings fit those purposes. The book is considered a response to the 1997 book A Matter of Interpretation, in which Antonin Scalia emphasized adherence to the original meaning of the text alone. In Active Liberty, Breyer argues that the Framers of the Constitution sought to establish a democratic government involving the maximum liberty for its citizens. Breyer refers to Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty. The first Berlinian concept, being what most people understand by liberty, is "freedom from government coercion". Berlin termed this "negative liberty" and warned against its diminution; Breyer calls this "modern liberty". The second Berlinian concept – "positive liberty" – is the "freedom to participate in the government". In Breyer's terminology, this is the "active liberty" the judge should champion. Having established what "active liberty" is, and positing the primary importance (to the Framers) of this concept over the competing idea of "negative liberty", Breyer makes a predominantly utilitarian case for rulings that give effect to the democratic intentions of the Constitution. The book's historical premises and practical prescriptions have been challenged. For example, according to Peter Berkowitz, the reason that "[t]he primarily democratic nature of the Constitution's governmental structure has not always seemed obvious", as Breyer puts it, is "because it's not true, at least in Breyer's sense, that the Constitution elevates active liberty above modern [negative] liberty". Breyer's position "demonstrates not fidelity to the Constitution", Berkowitz argues, "but rather a determination to rewrite the Constitution's priorities". Berkowitz suggests that Breyer is also inconsistent in failing to apply this standard to the issue of abortion, instead preferring decisions "that protect women's modern liberty, which remove controversial issues from democratic discourse". Failing to answer the textualist charge that the Living Documentarian judge is a law unto himself, Berkowitz argues that Active Liberty "suggests that when necessary, instead of choosing the consequence that serves what he regards as the Constitution's leading purpose, Breyer will determine the Constitution’s leading purpose on the basis of the consequence that he prefers to vindicate". Against the last charge, Cass Sunstein has defended Breyer, noting that of the nine justices on the Rehnquist Court, Breyer had the highest percentage of votes to uphold acts of Congress and also to defer to the decision of the executive branch. However, according to Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, "Breyer concedes that a judicial approach based on 'active liberty' will not yield solutions to every constitutional debate", and that, in Breyer's words, "respecting the democratic process does not mean you abdicate your role of enforcing the limits in the Constitution, whether in the Bill of Rights or in separation of powers." To this point, and from a discussion at the New York Historical Society in March 2006, Breyer has noted that "democratic means" did not bring about an end to slavery, or the concept of "one man, one vote", which allowed corrupt and discriminatory (but democratically inspired) state laws to be overturned in favor of civil rights. Other books In 2010, Breyer published a second book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. There, Breyer argued that judges have six tools they can use to determine a legal provision's proper meaning: (1) its text; (2) its historical context; (3) precedent; (4) tradition; (5) its purpose; and (6) the consequences of potential interpretations. Textualists, like Scalia, only feel comfortable using the first four of these tools; while pragmatists, like Breyer, believe that "purpose" and "consequences" are particularly important interpretative tools. Breyer cites several watershed moments in Supreme Court history to show why the consequences of a particular ruling should always be in a judge's mind. He notes that President Jackson ignored the Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, which led to the Trail of Tears and severely weakened the Court's authority. He also cites the Dred Scott decision, an important precursor to the American Civil War. When the Court ignores the consequences of its decisions, Breyer argues, it can lead to devastating and destabilizing outcomes. In 2015, Breyer released a third book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, examining the interplay between U.S. and international law and how the realities of a globalized world need to be considered in U.S. cases. Other views In an interview on Fox News Sunday on December 12, 2010, Breyer said that based on the values and the historical record, the Founding Fathers of the United States never intended guns to go unregulated and that history supports his and the other dissenters' views in District of Columbia v. Heller. He summarized: In the wake of the controversy over Justice Samuel Alito's reaction to President Barack Obama's criticism of the Court's Citizens United v. FEC ruling in his 2010 State of the Union Address, Breyer said he would continue to attend the address: Honors Breyer was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004. In 2007, Breyer was honored with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the Boy Scouts of America. In 2018, he was named to chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury, succeeding previous chair Glenn Murcutt. In popular culture Breyer has appeared as a guest on Stephen Colbert's TV show. On the Late Show in September 2021, he discussed the Texas Heartbeat Act and his reluctance to retire. Breyer also appeared on Fareed Zakaria GPS in September 2021. He promoted his book The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics. Publications See also Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2) United States Supreme Court cases during the Rehnquist Court United States Supreme Court cases during the Roberts Court List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office References Further reading External links Stephen Breyer in Encyclopædia Britannica Issue positions and quotes at OnTheIssues Review of Stephen Breyer's Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution "Stephen Breyer, the court's necromancer", a book review of Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution in the New English Review Active Liberty' from Justice Stephen Breyer", October 20, 2005, NPR's Fresh Air "Supreme Court Justice Breyer on 'Active Liberty Part 1 of Interview, September 29, 2005, NPR's Morning Edition "Justice Breyer: The Case Against 'Originalists Part 2 of Interview, September 30, 2005, NPR's Morning Edition Justice Breyer's appearance on NPR's quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me'', March 24, 2007 WGBH Forum Network: one and a half hours with US Supreme Court Justice of Law Stephen Breyer, September 8, 2003. Description (archived) | Video. 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<mask> ( ; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1994. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton, and replaced retiring justice Harry Blackmun. Breyer is generally associated with the liberal wing of the Court. After attending Stanford University, Breyer attended the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964. After a clerkship with Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964–65, Breyer was a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School from 1967 until 1980. He specialized in administrative law, writing textbooks that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated to the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973.He also served on the First Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1994. In his 2005 book Active Liberty, <mask> made his first attempt to systematically communicate his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a manner that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions. On January 26, 2022, American news outlets reported that Breyer intended to retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the term. On January 27, Breyer and President Joe Biden officially announced Breyer's pending retirement at the White House. On February 25, 2022, Biden nominated Breyer's former law clerk, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to succeed him. Early life and education Breyer was born on August 15, 1938, in San Francisco, California, to Anne A. (née Roberts) and Irving Gerald <mask>.Breyer's paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Romania to the United States, settling in Cleveland, where Breyer's grandfather was born. Breyer was raised in a middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer who served as legal counsel to the San Francisco Board of Education. Breyer and his younger brother Charles R<mask>, who later became a federal district judge, were active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the Eagle Scout rank. Breyer attended Lowell High School, graduating in 1955. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated regularly in high school tournaments, including against future California governor Jerry Brown and future Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe. After high school, Breyer studied philosophy at Stanford University.He graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He was then awarded a Marshall Scholarship which he used to study philosophy, politics, and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving a second B.A. in 1961. He then returned to the United States to attend Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Laws degree magna cum laude. Breyer spent 8 years in the United States Army Reserve including 6 months on active duty in the Army Strategic Intelligence. He reached the rank of corporal and was honorably discharged in 1965. In 1967, Breyer married The Honourable Joanna Freda Hare, a psychologist and member of the British aristocracy, younger daughter of John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham and granddaughter of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel.They have three adult children: Chloe, an Episcopal priest; Nell; and Michael. Legal career After law school, Breyer served as a law clerk to associate justice Arthur Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1964 to 1965, and served briefly as a fact-checker for the Warren Commission. He then spent two years in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as a special assistant to its Assistant Attorney General. Breyer returned to Harvard Law School as an assistant professor in 1967. He taught at Harvard Law until 1980, and held a joint appointment at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government from 1977 to 1980. At Harvard, Breyer was known as a leading expert on administrative law. While there, he wrote two highly influential books on deregulation: Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation and Regulation and Its Reform.In 1970, Breyer wrote "The Uneasy Case for Copyright", one of the most widely cited skeptical examinations of copyright. Breyer was a visiting professor at the College of Law in Sydney, Australia, the University of Rome, and the Tulane University Law School. While teaching at Harvard, Breyer took several leaves of absence to serve in the U.S. government. He served as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973. Breyer was a special counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1974 to 1975 and served as chief counsel of the committee from 1979 to 1980. He worked closely with the chairman of the committee, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to pass the Airline Deregulation Act that closed the Civil Aeronautics Board. Judicial career U.S. Court of Appeals (1980–1994) In the last days of President Jimmy Carter's administration, on November 13, 1980, after he had been defeated for reelection, Carter nominated <mask> to the First Circuit, to a new seat established by , and the United States Senate confirmed him on December 9, 1980, by an 80–10 vote.He received his commission on December 10, 1980. From 1980 to 1994, Breyer was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; he was the court's Chief Judge from 1990 to 1994. One of his duties as chief judge was to oversee the design and construction of a new federal courthouse for Boston, beginning an avocational interest in architecture and the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Breyer served as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States between 1990 and 1994 and the United States Sentencing Commission between 1985 and 1989. On the sentencing commission he played a key role in reforming federal criminal sentencing procedures, producing the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which were formulated to increase uniformity in sentencing. Supreme Court (1994–present) In 1993, President Bill Clinton considered him for the seat vacated by Byron White before ultimately appointing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But after the retirement of Harry Blackmun, Clinton nominated Breyer as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on May 17, 1994.Breyer was confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 1994, by an 87 to 9 vote, and received his commission on August 3. He was the second-longest-serving junior justice in the history of the Court, close to surpassing the record set by Associate Justice Joseph Story of 4,228 days (from February 3, 1812, to September 1, 1823); Breyer fell 29 days short of tying this record, which he would have reached on March 1, 2006, had Samuel Alito not joined the Court on January 31, 2006. Since Ginsburg's death in September 2020, Breyer has been the oldest serving justice. In 2015, Breyer broke a federal law that bans judges from hearing cases when they or their spouses or minor children have a financial interest in a company involved. His wife sold about $33,000 worth of stock in Johnson Controls a day after Breyer participated in the oral argument. This brought him back into compliance and he joined the majority in ruling in favor of the interests of a Johnson Controls subsidiary which was party to FERC v. Electric Power Supply Ass'n. Pending retirement After Democratic victories in the 2020 presidential and Senate elections, progressive activists and Democratic members of Congress called on Breyer to resign so that President Biden could nominate a younger liberal justice.In an August 2021 New York Times interview, Breyer said he wished to retire before his death, and recounted a conversation he had with Justice Antonin Scalia in which Scalia mentioned that he did not want his successor to "reverse everything I've done for the last 25 years". Breyer said that Scalia's point will "inevitably be in the psychology" of his decision to retire. In a September 2021 interview with Fox News'''s Chris Wallace, Breyer said activists calling for his resignation are "entitled to their opinion" and "I didn’t retire because I had decided on balance I wouldn’t retire". He said he took several factors into account when deciding his retirement plans, and reiterated that he did not plan to "die on the court". On January 26, 2022, news outlets reported Breyer's intention to retire from the court at the end of the 2021–22 term. Breyer confirmed his pending retirement in a White House announcement alongside Biden on January 27. On February 25, Biden announced his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former clerk of Breyer and judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to succeed Breyer on the Supreme Court.Notable rulings From the start of his tenure through the end of the 2019 term, Breyer has written a total of 520 opinions, not counting opinions relating to orders or in the "shadow docket". Abortion In 2000, Breyer wrote the majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a Nebraska law banning partial-birth abortion. On June 29, 2020, he wrote the plurality opinion in June Medical Services v. Russo. The ruling struck down Louisiana's abortion law requiring any doctor who performed abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Breyer reaffirmed the "benefits and burdens" test he had created in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which struck down a nearly identical abortion law in Texas. Census In Department of Commerce v. New York (2019), Breyer was in the 5–4 majority that ruled that the Census Bureau had not followed proper procedure in its implementation of a citizenship question. He was also one of four justices who would have held the citizenship question unconstitutional in itself.In a mostly concurring opinion, he wrote: "Yet the decision was ill considered in a number of critically important respects. The Secretary did not give adequate consideration to issues that should have been central to his judgment, such as the high likelihood of an undercount, the low likelihood that a question would yield more accurate citizenship data, and the apparent lack of any need for more accurate citizenship data to begin with. The Secretary’s failures in considering those critical issues make his decision unreasonable". On December 18, 2020, Breyer was one of three dissenters in Trump v. New York. In a 20-page dissent, he argued that the Court should not have sidestepped the case and should have ruled in favor of the challengers, who wanted the Court to block the Trump administration's last-minute attempts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census. The census ultimately did not exclude undocumented immigrants, due to a lack of time and the subsequent issuance of Executive Order 13986. Copyright In Eldred v. Ashcroft, decided on January 15, 2003, <mask> and Justice John Paul Stevens filed separate dissenting opinions.In his 28-page dissent, Breyer argued that the 20-year retroactive extension of existing copyright granted by the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) amounted effectively to a grant of perpetual copyright that violated the Copyright Clause of the Constitution, read in light of the First Amendment. He argued that the extension would produce a period of protection worth more than 99.8% of protection in perpetuity and that few artists would be more inclined to produce work knowing that their great-grandchildren would receive royalties. He also wrote that the fair use defense came to no avail either, as it could not help "those who wish to obtain from electronic databases material that is not there", e.g. teachers who can find from online no ideal material to be used in the class as it has been deleted. In Google v. Oracle, decided on April 5, 2021, Breyer wrote the 38-page majority opinion, holding that Google's copying of 11,500 lines of Java declaring code (0.4% of all Java code) constituted fair use because "three of these packages were ... fundamental to being able to use the Java language at all". Breyer explained, "By using the same declaring code for those packages, programmers using the Android platform can rely on the method calls that they are already familiar with to call up particular tasks (e.g., determining which of two integers is the greater); but Google's own implementing programs carry out those tasks. Without that copying, programmers would need to learn an entirely new system to call up the same tasks."Death penalty In 2015, Breyer dissented in Glossip v. Gross, which held by a 5–4 vote that prisoners challenging their executions must provide a "known and available" execution method before challenging their method of execution. In a dissent joined by Ginsburg, Breyer questioned the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. He wrote, "For the reasons I have set forth in this opinion, I believe it highly likely that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment. At the very least, the Court should call for full briefing on the basic question." In July 2020, Breyer reiterated this position, writing, "As I have previously written, the solution may be for this Court to directly examine the question whether the death penalty violates the Constitution." Environment In Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000), Breyer was in the 7–2 majority that held that people who use the North Tyger River for recreational purposes but could not do so due to pollution had standing to sue industrial polluters. On April 23, 2020, Breyer wrote the majority opinion in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.The Court ruled that the County of Maui must have a permit under the Clean Water Act in order to release groundwater pollution into the ocean. Although the ruling was less broad than the 9th Circuit's ruling, environmentalist groups saw the ruling as a win and an affirmation of the Clean Water Act. On July 31, 2020, Breyer dissented when the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, refused to lift a stay on the 9th Circuit ruling that halted construction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Sierra Club argued that the wall would harm the environment unduly, including threatening wildlife and changing the flow of water in the Sonoran Desert. Breyer wrote, "The Court’s decision to let construction continue nevertheless, I fear, may 'operat[e], in effect, as a final judgment.'" Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan joined his dissent. On March 4, 2021, Breyer dissented in United States Fish and Wildlife Serv.v. Sierra Club, Inc., joined only by Sotomayor. The case concerned the Sierra Club's request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for "draft opinions" concerning rules governing underwater structures that are used to cool industrial equipment. The Sierra Club argued that it had the right to access the documents. The majority opinion limits environmental groups' ability to obtain government documents under FOIA. Breyer wrote in his dissent, "Agency practice shows that the Draft Biological Opinion, not the Final Biological Opinion, is the document that informs the EPA of the Services’ conclusions about jeopardy and alternatives and triggers within the EPA the process of deciding what to do about those conclusions. If a Final Biological Opinion is discoverable under FOIA, as all seem to agree it is, why would a Draft Biological Opinion, embodying the same Service conclusions (and leaving the EPA with the same four choices), not be?” In Hollyfrontier Cheyenne Refining v. Renewable Fuels Association, Breyer ruled for oil refineries, joining the majority opinion, which held that oil refineries struggling financially did not need a continuous exemption every year since 2011 in order to be granted an exemption from federal renewable fuels policy. Health care Breyer has generally voted to uphold Obamacare since its passage in 2010.Breyer wrote the 7-2 majority opinion in California v. Texas, a decision on June 17, 2021, holding that Texas and other states lacked standing to sue against the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. Breyer wrote, "It is consequently not surprising that the plaintiffs cannot point to cases that support them. To the contrary, our cases have consistently spoken of the need to assert an injury that is the result of a statute’s actual or threatened enforcement, whether today or in the future." Partisan gerrymandering On April 28, 2004, Breyer dissented in Vieth v. Jubelirer, in which the Court held that partisan gerrymandering is a non-justiciable claim. Breyer wrote in his dissent, "Sometimes purely political 'gerrymandering' will fail to advance any plausible democratic objective while simultaneously threatening serious democratic harm. And sometimes when that is so, courts can identify an equal protection violation and provide a remedy." In 2006, Breyer was in a 5–4 majority holding that District 23 of the 2003 Texas redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act due to vote dilution.Along with Justice John Paul Stevens, Breyer would also have ruled in favor of plaintiffs' claims that Texas's statewide plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. In June 2019, Breyer dissented in Rucho v. Common Cause, in which the Supreme Court decided 5–4 that gerrymandering is a non-justiciable claim. Voting rights Breyer wrote the majority opinion in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, which ruled that racial gerrymandering claims must be looked at district by district, and struck down four of Alabama's state Senate districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. <mask> joined Ginsburg's dissent in Shelby County v. Holder. A 5–4 majority ruled that Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Breyer joined another dissent by Ginsburg in RNC v. DNC, which overturned a lower court's extension of a voting deadline in the Wisconsin primary elections. The lower court had extended the deadline so that people who had not yet received mail-in ballots by April 7 could vote by mail in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Breyer dissented in a similar Wisconsin case in October; the petitioners had asked the court to require Wisconsin to count mail-in ballots received up to six days after Election Day, and the Court, with <mask>, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting, refused the petitioners' request to extend the deadline. Breyer joined Kagan's dissent in Brnovich v. DNC (2021), a case that upheld Arizona's ban on ballot harvesting and refusal to count out-of-precinct ballots. As the most senior dissenter, Breyer likely assigned the dissenting opinion to Kagan. Judicial philosophy In general Breyer's pragmatic approach to the law "will tend to make the law more sensible", according to Cass Sunstein, who added that Breyer's "attack on originalism is powerful and convincing". Breyer has consistently voted in favor of abortion rights,Stenberg v. Carhart, . one of the most controversial areas of the Supreme Court's docket. He has also defended the Court's use of foreign law and international law as persuasive (but not binding) authority in its decisions.Breyer is also recognized to be deferential to the interests of law enforcement and to legislative judgments in the Court's First Amendment rulings. He has demonstrated a consistent pattern of deference to Congress, voting to overturn congressional legislation at a lower rate than any other Justice since 1994. Breyer's extensive experience in administrative law is accompanied by his staunch defense of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Breyer rejects the strict interpretation of the Sixth Amendment espoused by Justice Scalia that all facts necessary to criminal punishment must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. In many other areas on the Court, too, Breyer's pragmatism was considered the intellectual counterweight to Scalia's textualist philosophy. In describing his interpretive philosophy, Breyer has sometimes noted his use of six interpretive tools: text, history, tradition, precedent, the purpose of a statute, and the consequences of competing interpretations. He has noted that only the last two differentiate him from textualists such as Scalia.Breyer argues that these sources are necessary, however, and in the former case (purpose), can in fact provide greater objectivity in legal interpretation than looking merely at what is often ambiguous statutory text. With the latter (consequences), Breyer argues that considering the impact of legal interpretations is a further way of ensuring consistency with a law's intended purpose. Active Liberty <mask> expounded his judicial philosophy in 2005 in Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution. In it, Breyer urges judges to interpret legal provisions (of the Constitution or of statutes) in light of the purpose of the text and how well the consequences of specific rulings fit those purposes. The book is considered a response to the 1997 book A Matter of Interpretation, in which Antonin Scalia emphasized adherence to the original meaning of the text alone. In Active Liberty, Breyer argues that the Framers of the Constitution sought to establish a democratic government involving the maximum liberty for its citizens. Breyer refers to Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty.The first Berlinian concept, being what most people understand by liberty, is "freedom from government coercion". Berlin termed this "negative liberty" and warned against its diminution; Breyer calls this "modern liberty". The second Berlinian concept – "positive liberty" – is the "freedom to participate in the government". In Breyer's terminology, this is the "active liberty" the judge should champion. Having established what "active liberty" is, and positing the primary importance (to the Framers) of this concept over the competing idea of "negative liberty", Breyer makes a predominantly utilitarian case for rulings that give effect to the democratic intentions of the Constitution. The book's historical premises and practical prescriptions have been challenged. For example, according to Peter Berkowitz, the reason that "[t]he primarily democratic nature of the Constitution's governmental structure has not always seemed obvious", as Breyer puts it, is "because it's not true, at least in Breyer's sense, that the Constitution elevates active liberty above modern [negative] liberty".Breyer's position "demonstrates not fidelity to the Constitution", Berkowitz argues, "but rather a determination to rewrite the Constitution's priorities". Berkowitz suggests that Breyer is also inconsistent in failing to apply this standard to the issue of abortion, instead preferring decisions "that protect women's modern liberty, which remove controversial issues from democratic discourse". Failing to answer the textualist charge that the Living Documentarian judge is a law unto himself, Berkowitz argues that Active Liberty "suggests that when necessary, instead of choosing the consequence that serves what he regards as the Constitution's leading purpose, Breyer will determine the Constitution’s leading purpose on the basis of the consequence that he prefers to vindicate". Against the last charge, Cass Sunstein has defended Breyer, noting that of the nine justices on the Rehnquist Court, Breyer had the highest percentage of votes to uphold acts of Congress and also to defer to the decision of the executive branch. However, according to Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, "Breyer concedes that a judicial approach based on 'active liberty' will not yield solutions to every constitutional debate", and that, in Breyer's words, "respecting the democratic process does not mean you abdicate your role of enforcing the limits in the Constitution, whether in the Bill of Rights or in separation of powers." To this point, and from a discussion at the New York Historical Society in March 2006, Breyer has noted that "democratic means" did not bring about an end to slavery, or the concept of "one man, one vote", which allowed corrupt and discriminatory (but democratically inspired) state laws to be overturned in favor of civil rights. Other books In 2010, Breyer published a second book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View.There, Breyer argued that judges have six tools they can use to determine a legal provision's proper meaning: (1) its text; (2) its historical context; (3) precedent; (4) tradition; (5) its purpose; and (6) the consequences of potential interpretations. Textualists, like Scalia, only feel comfortable using the first four of these tools; while pragmatists, like Breyer, believe that "purpose" and "consequences" are particularly important interpretative tools. Breyer cites several watershed moments in Supreme Court history to show why the consequences of a particular ruling should always be in a judge's mind. He notes that President Jackson ignored the Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, which led to the Trail of Tears and severely weakened the Court's authority. He also cites the Dred Scott decision, an important precursor to the American Civil War. When the Court ignores the consequences of its decisions, Breyer argues, it can lead to devastating and destabilizing outcomes. In 2015, Breyer released a third book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, examining the interplay between U.S. and international law and how the realities of a globalized world need to be considered in U.S. cases.Other views In an interview on Fox News Sunday on December 12, 2010, Breyer said that based on the values and the historical record, the Founding Fathers of the United States never intended guns to go unregulated and that history supports his and the other dissenters' views in District of Columbia v. Heller. He summarized: In the wake of the controversy over Justice Samuel Alito's reaction to President Barack Obama's criticism of the Court's Citizens United v. FEC ruling in his 2010 State of the Union Address, Breyer said he would continue to attend the address: Honors Breyer was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004. In 2007, Breyer was honored with the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the Boy Scouts of America. In 2018, he was named to chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury, succeeding previous chair Glenn Murcutt. In popular culture Breyer has appeared as a guest on <mask>'s TV show. On the Late Show in September 2021, he discussed the Texas Heartbeat Act and his reluctance to retire. Breyer also appeared on Fareed Zakaria GPS in September 2021.He promoted his book The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics. Publications See also Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2) United States Supreme Court cases during the Rehnquist Court United States Supreme Court cases during the Roberts Court List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office References Further reading External links <mask> in Encyclopædia Britannica Issue positions and quotes at OnTheIssues Review of <mask>'s Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution "<mask>er, the court's necromancer", a book review of Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution in the New English Review Active Liberty' from <mask> Breyer", October 20, 2005, NPR's Fresh Air "Supreme Court Justice Breyer on 'Active Liberty Part 1 of Interview, September 29, 2005, NPR's Morning Edition "Justice Breyer: The Case Against 'Originalists Part 2 of Interview, September 30, 2005, NPR's Morning Edition <mask>'s appearance on NPR's quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me'', March 24, 2007 WGBH Forum Network: one and a half hours with US Supreme Court Justice of Law <mask>, September 8, 2003. Description (archived) | Video. 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Since 1994, <mask> has served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He replaced retiring justice Harry Blackmun. The liberal wing of the Court is associated with Breyer. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1964, Breyer attended the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. After a clerkship with Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg, Breyer was a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School. He wrote textbooks that are still used today. Before he was nominated to the Supreme Court, he was an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.He was a member of the First Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1994. In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer made his first attempt to communicate his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a way that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions. According to American news outlets, Supreme Court Justice <mask> intended to retire at the end of the term. On January 27th, Breyer and President Joe Biden announced his retirement at the White House. Biden nominated his former law clerk, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to succeed him. On August 15, 1938, Anne A<mask> was born in San Francisco, California. They were named Roberts and Gerald.The United States was where Breyer's grandfather was born. A middle-class Jewish family was where Breyer was raised. His father worked for the San Francisco Board of Education. The Eagle Scout rank was achieved by Charles R<mask>, who later became a federal district judge. Breyer graduated from high school in 1955. He debated in high school tournaments against future California governor Jerry Brown and future Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe. After high school, he studied philosophy.He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 and was a member of the society. He received a second B.A. after studying philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford's Magdalen College. In 1961. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964 with a Bachelor of Laws degree and was a member of the Harvard Law Review. 6 months on active duty in the Army Strategic Intelligence was where Breyer spent 8 years in the United States Army Reserve. He was discharged from the army in 1965. The younger daughter of John Hare, 1st Viscount and granddaughter of Richard Hare, was married to Breyer in 1967.They have three adult children. From 1964 to 1965, Breyer worked as a law clerk to associate justice Arthur Goldberg of the U.S. Supreme Court and later as a fact-checker for the Warren Commission. He was a special assistant to the assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division. In 1967, Breyer returned to Harvard Law School as an assistant professor. He was a professor at Harvard Law from 1977 to 1980 and at the Kennedy School of Government from 1977 to 1980. At Harvard, Breyer was a leading expert on administrative law. He wrote two books on deregulation that were very influential."The Uneasy Case for Copyright" was written by Breyer in 1970. At the College of Law in Australia, the University of Rome, and the Tulane University Law School, Breyer was a visiting professor. Breyer took several leaves of absence to work in the U.S. government. He was an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. From 1974 to 1975 he was a special counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and from 1979 to 1980 he was the chief counsel of the committee. The Civil Aeronautics Board was closed due to the Airline Deregulation Act. In the last days of President Jimmy Carter's administration, on November 13, 1980, after he had been defeated for reelection, Carter nominated <mask> to the First Circuit, to a new seat established by the United States Senate.On December 10, 1980, he received his commission. From 1990 to 1994 he was the Chief Judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. One of his duties as chief judge was to oversee the design and construction of a new federal courthouse in Boston. Between 1990 and 1994 he was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States and the United States Sentencing Commission. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which were formulated to increase uniformity in sentencing, were created by him on the sentencing commission. President Bill Clinton considered him for a seat on the Supreme Court before appointing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Clinton nominated Breyer as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on May 17, 1994.He received his commission on August 3, 1994, after he was confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 1994. He was the second-longest-serving junior justice in the history of the Court, but fell short of tying the record set by Associate Justice Joseph Story, who was in office from February 3, 1812 to September 1, 1823. Breyer has been the oldest justice since Ginsburg's death. A federal law prohibits judges from hearing cases when they have a financial interest in a company. After the oral argument, his wife sold about $33,000 worth of stock in Johnson Controls. He joined the majority in ruling in favor of the interests of a Johnson Controls subsidiary. After Democratic victories in the 2020 presidential and Senate elections, progressive activists and Democratic members of Congress called on <mask> to retire so that President Biden could nominate a younger liberal justice.In an August 2021 New York Times interview, Justice Antonin Scalia said that he did not want his successor to reverse what he had done for 25 years, and that he wished to retire before his death. Scalia's point will be in the psychology of his decision to retire. In a September 2021 interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Breyer said that activists calling for his resignation are entitled to their opinion and that he wouldn't retire. He said that he did not plan to die on the court, and that he took several factors into account when deciding his retirement plans. On January 26, 2022, news outlets reported that Breyer would retire from the court at the end of the term. In a White House announcement on January 27, Breyer confirmed his retirement. Biden nominated a judge from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to succeed <mask> on the Supreme Court.Breyer has written a total of 520 opinions, not counting opinions relating to orders or in the "shadow docket". In 2000, Breyer wrote the majority opinion in the case of Stenberg v. Carhart, which struck down a Nebraska law banning partial-birth abortion. He wrote a plurality opinion on June 29, 2020. Louisiana's abortion law requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. The benefits and burdens test was created by Breyer in Whole Woman's Health. The 5–4 majority ruled that the Census Bureau had not followed proper procedure in its implementation of a citizenship question. Four justices would have held the citizenship question unconstitutional, and he was one of them.He wrote that the decision was not considered in a number of important respects. The Secretary did not give adequate consideration to issues that should have been central to his judgement, such as the high likelihood of an undercount, the low likelihood that a question would yield more accurate citizenship data, and the apparent lack of any need for more accurate citizenship data to begin with. The Secretary's failures in considering critical issues make his decision unreasonable. There were three dissenters in Trump v. New York. He argued that the Court should have ruled in favor of the challengers, who wanted the Court to block the Trump administration's last-minute attempts to exclude immigrants from the census. Due to a lack of time and the issuance of Executive Order 13986, the census did not exclude undocumented immigrants. Justice John Paul Stevens and <mask> <mask> dissented from the decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft.The Copyright Clause of the Constitution, read in light of the First Amendment, was argued to have been violated by the 20-year extension of existing copyright granted by the Copyright Term Extension Act. He argued that the extension would produce a period of protection worth more than 99.8% of protection in perpetuity and that few artists would be more inclined to produce work knowing that their great-grandchildren would receive royalties. The fair use defense could not help those who wish to obtain from electronic databases material that is not there, he wrote. There is no ideal material to use in the class because it has been deleted. The majority opinion in the case held that the copying of 11,500 lines of Java was fair use because three of them were fundamental to being able to use. By using the same declaring code for those packages, programmers using the Android platform can rely on the method calls that they are already familiar with to call up particular tasks. Without copying, programmers would need to learn 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 to call up the same tasks.In 2015, a 5–4 vote held that prisoners challenging their executions must provide a "known and available" execution method before challenging their method of execution. Breyer questioned the constitutionality of the death penalty. "For the reasons I have set forth in this opinion, I believe it highly likely that the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment," he wrote. The basic question should be briefed by the Court. "As I have previously written, the solution may be for this Court to directly examine the question whether the death penalty violates the Constitution," wrote Breyer in July 2020. The Environment In Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. held that people who use the North Tyger River for recreational purposes but could not do so due to pollution had standing to file a lawsuit. On April 23, 2020, Breyer wrote the majority opinion.The Clean Water Act requires the County of Maui to have a permit in order to release pollution into the ocean. The ruling was less broad than the 9th Circuit's ruling, but environmentalist groups thought it was a win. On July 31, 2020, the Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, refused to lift a stay on the 9th Circuit ruling that halted construction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Sierra Club argued that the wall would harm the environment, including threatening wildlife and changing the flow of water in the Sonoran Desert. The Court's decision to allow construction to continue may be seen as a final judgment. They joined his dissent. On March 4, 2021, Breyer dissented.The case was joined by only one person. The Sierra Club requested "draft opinions" on rules governing underwater structures that are used to cool industrial equipment. The Sierra Club had the right to look at the documents. Environmental groups can't get government documents under the Freedom of Information Act. The Draft Biological Opinion, not the Final Biological Opinion, is the document that informs the EPA of the Service's conclusions about jeopardy and alternatives and the process of deciding what to do about those conclusions. If a Final Biological Opinion is discoverable under the Freedom of Information Act, why would a Draft Biological Opinion not be? Since its passage in 2010, health care has generally voted to uphold the law.The majority opinion in California v. Texas held that Texas and other states didn't have standing to challenge the individual mandate in the health care law. The plaintiffs can't point to cases that support them. Our cases speak of the need to assert an injury that is the result of a statute's actual or threatened enforcement, whether today or in the future. In Vieth v. Jubelirer, the Court held that partisan gerrymandering is a non-justiciable claim. Sometimes purely political gerrymandering will fail to advance any plausible democratic objective while simultaneously threatening serious democratic harm. Sometimes courts can identify an equal protection violation and provide a remedy. The Voting Rights Act was violated by District 23 of the 2003 Texas redistricting due to vote dilution, according to a 5–4 majority held by Breyer.Along with Justice John Paul Stevens, Breyer would have ruled that Texas's statewide plan was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. In June of this year, the Supreme Court decided that gerrymandering is not a justiciable claim. In the case of Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, the majority opinion was written by Breyer and he struck down four of Alabama's state Senate districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. Ginsburg and Breyer dissented in the case. Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act was ruled unconstitutional by a majority. Ginsburg and <mask> dissented in RNC v. DNC, which overturned a lower court's extension of a voting deadline in the Wisconsin primary elections. The lower court extended the deadline so that people who had not received mail-in ballots by April 7 could vote by mail.In a Wisconsin case in October, the court refused to extend the deadline for counting mail-in ballots after the election, despite the fact that the petitioners had asked the court to do so. The case upheld Arizona's ban on ballot harvesting and refusal to count out-of-precinct ballots. As the most senior dissenter, Breyer assigned the opinion to Kagan. According to Sunstein, Breyer's pragmatic approach to the law will tend to make the law more sensible. The Supreme Court has consistently voted in favor of abortion rights. One of the most controversial areas of the Supreme Court's docket. The Court's use of foreign law and international law as persuasive authority in its decisions was defended by him.The Court's First Amendment rulings are deferential to the interests of law enforcement. He has voted to overturn congressional legislation at a lower rate than any other Justice since 1994. His defense of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines is accompanied by his extensive experience in administrative law. Justice Scalia's interpretation of the Sixth Amendment was that all facts necessary to criminal punishment must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Breyer's pragmatism was seen as the intellectual counterpoint to Scalia's philosophy. Text, history, tradition, precedent, the purpose of a statute, and the consequences of competing interpretations are some of the interpretive tools that Breyer has used. He noted that only the last two differentiate him from Scalia.The purpose of these sources is that they can provide greater objectivity in legal interpretation than looking at what is often ambiguous statutory text. Considering the impact of legal interpretations is a way of ensuring consistency with a law's intended purpose. In 2005 he wrote Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution. The purpose of the text and how well the consequences of specific rulings fit those purposes are what Breyer wants judges to consider when interpreting legal provisions. The book is a response to the 1997 book A Matter of Interpretation, in which Antonin Scalia emphasized adherence to the original meaning of the text alone. The Framers of the Constitution wanted to establish a democratic government with maximum liberty for its citizens, according to Active Liberty. The two concepts of liberty are referred to by Breyer.Most people understand "freedom from government coercion" to be the first Berlinian concept. Berlin warned against the diminution of this "negative liberty". Positive liberty is the freedom to participate in the government. The judge should champion active liberty. Having established what "active liberty" is, and positioning the primary importance of this concept over the competing idea of "negative liberty", Breyer makes a predominantly utilitarian case for rulings that give effect to the democratic intentions of the Constitution. The book's historical premises have been challenged. According to Peter Berkowitz, the reason that the Constitution's governmental structure has not always seemed obvious is because it's not true.Berkowitz argues that Breyer's position demonstrates not fidelity to the Constitution, but rather a determination to rewrite the Constitution's priorities. Berkowitz suggests that Breyer is inconsistent in failing to apply this standard to the issue of abortion, instead preferring decisions that protect women's modern liberty, which remove controversial issues from democratic discourse. Failing to answer the charge that the Living Documentarian judge is a law unto himself, Berkowitz argues that Active Liberty suggests that when necessary, instead of choosing the consequence that serves what he regards as the Constitution's leading purpose, Breyer will determine the Constitution's leading purpose. According to Sunstein, Breyer had the highest percentage of votes to uphold acts of Congress and also to defer to the decision of the executive branch. According to Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, "Breyer concedes that a judicial approach based on 'active liberty' will not yield solutions to every constitutional debate" and that, in his words, "respecting the democratic process does not mean you abdicate your role." According to a discussion at the New York Historical Society in March 2006, "democratic means" did not bring about an end to slavery or the concept of "one man, one vote". Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View was published in 2010.The six tools that judges can use to determine a legal provision's proper meaning include its text, historical context, precedent, tradition, purpose, and consequences of potential interpretations. Textualists, like Scalia, only feel comfortable using the first four of these tools, while pragmatists, like Breyer, believe that "purpose" and "consequences" are particularly important interpretative tools. The consequences of a Supreme Court ruling should always be in a judge's mind, according to Breyer. The Trail of Tears was caused by the Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, which President Jackson ignored. The Dred Scott decision was an important part of the American Civil War. It can lead to devastating and destabilizing outcomes if the Court ignores the consequences of its decisions. The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities examines the interplay between U.S. and international law and how the realities of a globalized world need to be considered in U.S. cases.The history of the United States supports the views of the other dissenters in District of Columbia v. Heller, according to an interview with Fox News Sunday on December 12, 2010. In the wake of the controversy over Justice Samuel Alito's reaction to President Barack Obama's criticism of the Court's Citizens United v. FEC ruling, he said he would continue to attend the address. The Boy Scouts of America honored Breyer with the Eagle Award. Glenn Murcutt was the previous chair of the jury. Breyer was a guest on <mask>'s show. He talked about the Texas Heartbeat Act on the Late Show. In September 2021, Breyer appeared on Fareed Zakaria.The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics was promoted. The Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States The video has a description. The United States Government Publishing Office held Supreme Court Associate Justice Nomination Hearings in July of 1994.

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Florence Jaffray Harriman

Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman (July 21, 1870 – August 31, 1967) was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and diplomat. "She led one of the suffrage parades down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk and, as minister to Norway in World War II, organized evacuation efforts while hiding in a forest from the Nazi invasion." In her ninety-second year, U.S. President John F. Kennedy honored her by awarding her the first "Citation of Merit for Distinguished Service." She often found herself in the middle of historic events. As she stated, "I think nobody can deny that I have always had through sheer luck a box seat at the America of my times." Early life and family Harriman was born Florence Jaffray Hurst on July 21, 1870, in New York City to shipping magnate F. W. J. Hurst and his wife Caroline. In 1871 she became a niece by marriage of Helen Smythe, who married her mother's brother William Phillips Jaffray (1845–1887), a New York dry goods merchant. When she was three years old, her mother, then 29, died. She and her two sisters, Caroline Elise and Ethel, were raised in and around New York City by her father and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Somerville Jaffray. Aged six, she watched her first political torchlight parade, part of the 1876 presidential campaign. "She later told of leaning over the bannister of her home at 615 Fifth Avenue, to hear visitors such as John Hay, President James A. Garfield, and President Chester A. Arthur." She was known throughout her life as "Daisy". Between 1880 and 1888, she received private lessons at the home of financier J. P. Morgan. She also attended the Misses Lockwood's Collegiate School for Girls. In 1889, at age nineteen, she married J. Borden Harriman, a New York banker, an elder cousin of future cabinet secretary, New York Governor, and diplomat W. Averell Harriman. The list of attendees at their wedding included past and future president Grover Cleveland, railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt and Edward Harriman, John Jacob Astor IV, and J. P. Morgan. They had one child, Ethel Borden Harriman, born in 1897. Ethel worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, as an actress and writer. Socialite For many years, Harriman led the life of a young society matron interested in charitable and civic activities. Her life revolved around Mount Kisco, New York (where their estate overlooked the Hudson River), Fifth Avenue in New York City, and Newport, Rhode Island. In 1903, she co-founded with Ava Lowle Willing and Helen Hay Whitney the Colony Club, New York City's first club exclusively for women. However, instead of restricting her social and civic activities to the wealthy or to members of her husband's political party (the Republican Party), she reached out to others. For example, in 1908, she led efforts by the New York chapter of the National Women's Committee to expose harsh working conditions in New York City's factories, foundries and hotels. She explained, "Should not the woman who spends the money which the employees help to provide take a special interest in their welfare, especially in that of the women wage earners?" In 1909, she created waves when, as the "wife of a banker," she "entertained one hundred members of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen at her summer home." In 1906, Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes appointed her as a member of the Board of Managers of New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, New York. Suffragist and social reformer As Harriman would later explain in her book From Pinafores to Politics, her leadership and organizing skills became increasingly directed toward the disenfranchised and impoverished. She was active in the women's suffrage movement in support of extending the vote to women, reportedly leading a parade of suffragists down Fifth Avenue. She also crusaded against unhealthy conditions in New York's tenements. Franklin D. Roosevelt later described her as "the woman who was most responsible for helping to provide milk for dependent poor children in the great city of New York." In 1912, Harriman's active support for the presidential campaign of then-New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson led to national publicity and leadership roles. She was elected as the first president of the "Women's National Wilson and Marshall Association," and organized mass meetings, and mass mailings, in support of his campaign. Upon taking office, Wilson appointed Harriman as a member of the first U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, which Congress had authorized the previous year. After 154 days of testimony, the Commission could not agree on the causes and solutions to labor-management difficulties. Harriman and Commissioner John R. Commons refused to sign the caustic report written by Commission Chair Frank P. Walsh. As Commons and Harriman wrote in their separate report (joined by a narrow majority of Commissioners), the Walsh report mistakenly focused on individual "scapegoats rather than on the system that produces the demand for scapegoats." Her husband became seriously ill in February 1913, shortly before Wilson took office. After President Wilson's appointment, Washington, D.C. became their primary residence. While serving on the Commission on Industrial Relations, she also continued to serve in New York on the Bedford Reformatory board. World War I and the Mexican Revolution Harriman, her husband and daughter found themselves in the middle of Europe as World War I erupted in the summer of 1914. Hoping that the healing waters in the Bohemian spa in Karlsbad would benefit her husband, Harriman brought her family to Europe in June 1914. After meeting with leading British and French officials while relations between the European powers deteriorated, they traveled through France to Karlsbad (then a part of Austria-Hungary), and were there when Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in late July. After leaving Karlsbad on the last train crossing the frontier through Germany to France, they eventually returned to New York on an armed British vessel, the . Her husband's health continued to deteriorate, and he died on December 1, 1914. His prolonged illness, the resulting lack of income, and the expense of maintaining several homes had consumed nearly all of his net worth. Harriman never remarried. The following year, Harriman found herself near the front lines of another war – the battle along the south side of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas, between supporters of rebel Pancho Villa and the armies of Mexican leader Venustiano Carranza. During a break in hearings on working conditions for farmworkers that she conducted in Dallas in March 1915, she accepted an offer to visit the Rio Grande area, where the United States was attempting to remain neutral as Mexican factions battled each other along the river. After watching the battle for Matamoros, Tamaulipas from Brownsville, she began to tend to the wounded and visited the smoking battlefields, before returning to Washington. Harriman increased her charitable and political activity. She turned her Mount Kisco home into a tuberculosis sanitarium. During the period of American neutrality, she became a cofounder of the Committee of Mercy, which was created to help the women and children and other European noncombatants made destitute by the war. In May 1916 she was recruited by Eleanor Roosevelt to lead a contingent of "Independent Patriotic Women of America" in a preparedness parade. After the United States declared war on Germany, she organized the American Red Cross Women's Motor Corps of the District of Columbia, and directed the Women's Motor Corps in France. From 1917 to 1919, she served as chair of the U.S. National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry. 1919 to 1937 Harriman participated in the Versailles Peace Conference, and upon her return was an advocate for American participation in the League of Nations, and worked on behalf of world peace organizations. While the Wilson Administration ended in 1921, Harriman's Democratic activism did not. Syndicated columnist William Hard described her as "a candle for the party in its darkest days." She began serving as member of the Democratic National Committee in 1920 (a position she would hold until the 1950s) and in 1922 became a founder and the first president of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Her first book, "From Pinafores to Politics," was published in 1923. She was often in the company of another widowed fixture of 1920s Washington, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. She resided in a large home known as "Uplands," on a hill off Foxhall Road northwest of Georgetown. Time magazine would report in 1934 that her "Sunday night salons have long been a Washington institution." She would invite up to 32 guests with diverse viewpoints, then referee a thorough off-the-record discussion of a single controversial issue. She enforced two ground rules: no one was ever to grow angry, and no one was to repeat what had been said. Harriman reportedly "lost most of her fortune during the Depression," and "had to eke out her income by interior decorating and real estate" (while sharing her Washington home with well-paying guests). One such cohabitant in the first year of the Roosevelt Administration was the first woman cabinet member, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. As a member of the Democratic National Committee, Harriman was also a District of Columbia delegate to the Party's conventions. In 1932, when the Convention nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harriman did not support him. According to Time, "she unfortunately held out for Newton D. Baker or Melvin Traylor." In her own words, this would cause "the triumphant members of the Roosevelt-before-the-Convention inner clique" to have "a little grey mark against me." However, "after Roosevelt's nomination she hastened to repair her mistake," and became one of Roosevelt's strongest supporters at the 1936 Convention. Diplomacy and World War II Early in his second term, Roosevelt scrambled many of his diplomatic assignments. Norway, the fourth nation to grant woman suffrage (after New Zealand, Australia and Finland), was considered "an obvious post for a woman diplomat." Thus, in 1937, Harriman was appointed as the United States' Minister to Norway. (Her precise title was "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" for Norway.) At the time of her appointment, she could hardly have known that this role would soon require her to draw on her experience in helping refugees in the previous World War. Consequently, increasing tension in Europe and the imminent death of Turkish reformer Atatürk, compelled her to advise Secretary of State Hull to install Ismet Inonu as President of Turkey to assure a protectionist ally in the region. In 1940, Germany invaded Norway with little warning, causing Harriman and the rest of the American legation in Norway to join certain members of the Norwegian royal family and other refugees seeking protection hundreds of kilometers away in Sweden. In the chaos and bombardment, America suffered its first military casualty when Captain Robert M. Losey, a U.S. military attaché assisting the evacuation while observing the war, was killed in a Luftwaffe attack on Dombås. The rest of the American legation ultimately arrived safely in Sweden. Harriman is credited with arranging for the safety of other Americans and several members of the Norwegian royal family -- Crown Princess Märtha and her children Ragnhild, Astrid and Harald. She returned to the Nordic countries to complete the evacuation of current and future U.S. citizens through Finland on the United States Army transport in August 1940. In January 1941, she officially left her position, became a vice-chair of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and testified in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in favor of the Lend-Lease Act. Her service in Norway, and the harrowing escape, became the subject of her next book, "Mission to the North," published in 1941. In July 1942, King Haakon VII of Norway (then in exile) conferred upon Harriman the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav. After the United States entered World War II, Harriman continued to write on causes important to her, and wrote the foreword to the English-language edition booklet of Natalia Zarembina "Oswiecim, Camp of Death," originally published in occupied Poland in 1942 by the PPS WRN. It was one of the first publications on the Holocaust and Auschwitz Concentration Camp in English language, published in New York City in March 1944 before the camp's liberation by Soviet troops. And despite her decades of involvement in the Democratic Party, she joined a bipartisan (but unsuccessful) effort to persuade Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the 1940 election, Wendell Willkie, to run for Governor of New York in 1942. In 1952, she campaigned on behalf of her cousin by marriage, W. Averell Harriman, in his unsuccessful run for the Democratic nomination for President. She served as the 3rd Vice President of the Board of Directors of the National Conference On Citizenship in 1960. Voting rights in the District of Columbia Harriman lived in the District of Columbia at the time of every presidential election since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, but the District received no electoral votes for most of her life, so she effectively could not vote in presidential elections for several decades. In 1955, at age 84, Harriman led a parade through the capital to protest "taxation without representation" in the District of Columbia. That year, she wrote in a New York Times letter to the editor that "the time has come for another Boston tea party" to end the disenfranchisement of the District's residents. The adoption of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961 gave three electoral votes to the District, so in 1964, at age 94, Harriman cast her first vote in a presidential election – for Lyndon Johnson. In 1956, Life Magazine reported that, even at age 86, she continued to host dinners for twenty-two guests nearly every Sunday night. Citation of Merit Harriman received a Citation of Merit for Distinguished Service, presented by President Kennedy on April 18, 1963 (when she was 92 years old). It states: In her illustrious career in public service, Mrs. Harriman has made singular and lasting contributions to the cause of peace and freedom. . . . In all of her endeavors, Mrs. Harriman has exemplified the spirit of selflessness, courage and service to the Nation, reflecting the highest credit on herself and on this country. She has, indeed, earned the esteem and admiration of her countrymen and the enduring gratitude of this Republic. Death and descendants Harriman died at her home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1967. Her daughter died on July 4, 1953, at age 55. Her granddaughter, Phyllis Russell Marcy Darling, of Eugene, Oregon, died on December 18, 2007, at age 88. Her grandson, Charles Howland Russell, of Carmel Valley, California, died on May 13, 1981, at age 60. Published works Harriman, Florence Jaffray Hurst, Examples of Welfare Work in the Cotton Industry: Conditions and Progress : New England and the South, New York: Woman's Dept., National Civic Federation (1910) Harriman, Mrs. J. Borden, From Pinafores to Politics, New York: H. Holt and Company (1923) Harriman, Florence Jaffray, Mission to the North, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1941) Harriman, Florence Jaffray Hurst, Norway Does Not Yield; The Story of the First Year, New York: American Friends of German Freedom (1941) Zarembina, Natalia, and Harriman, Florence Jaffray Hurst, Oswiecim, Camp of Death (Underground Report), New York, N.Y.: "Poland fights," Polish Labor Group (1944) Harriman, Florence Jaffray Hurst, The Reminiscences of Mrs. Florence Jaffray Harriman (1972) See also List of suffragists and suffragettes List of peace activists Timeline of women's suffrage References External links 1870 births 1967 deaths American humanitarians Women humanitarians History of labor relations in the United States American women in politics New York (state) Democrats American women ambassadors Ambassadors of the United States Ambassadors of the United States to Norway American women civilians in World War II American suffragists American socialites American pacifists Writers from New York City Washington, D.C. 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<mask> "Daisy<mask> (July 21, 1870 – August 31, 1967) was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and diplomat. "She led one of the suffrage parades down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk and, as minister to Norway in World War II, organized evacuation efforts while hiding in a forest from the Nazi invasion." In her ninety-second year, U.S. President John F. Kennedy honored her by awarding her the first "Citation of Merit for Distinguished Service." She often found herself in the middle of historic events. As she stated, "I think nobody can deny that I have always had through sheer luck a box seat at the America of my times." Early life and family Harriman was born <mask> on July 21, 1870, in New York City to shipping magnate F. W. J. Hurst and his wife Caroline. In 1871 she became a niece by marriage of Helen Smythe, who married her mother's brother <mask> (1845–1887), a New York dry goods merchant.When she was three years old, her mother, then 29, died. She and her two sisters, Caroline Elise and Ethel, were raised in and around New York City by her father and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Somerville <mask>. Aged six, she watched her first political torchlight parade, part of the 1876 presidential campaign. "She later told of leaning over the bannister of her home at 615 Fifth Avenue, to hear visitors such as John Hay, President James A. Garfield, and President Chester A. Arthur." She was known throughout her life as "Daisy". Between 1880 and 1888, she received private lessons at the home of financier J. P. Morgan.She also attended the Misses Lockwood's Collegiate School for Girls. In 1889, at age nineteen, she married J. Borden <mask>, a New York banker, an elder cousin of future cabinet secretary, New York Governor, and diplomat W. Averell <mask>. The list of attendees at their wedding included past and future president Grover Cleveland, railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt and <mask>, John Jacob Astor IV, and J. P. Morgan. They had one child, Ethel Borden <mask>, born in 1897. Ethel worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, as an actress and writer. Socialite For many years, Harriman led the life of a young society matron interested in charitable and civic activities. Her life revolved around Mount Kisco, New York (where their estate overlooked the Hudson River), Fifth Avenue in New York City, and Newport, Rhode Island.In 1903, she co-founded with Ava Lowle Willing and Helen Hay Whitney the Colony Club, New York City's first club exclusively for women. However, instead of restricting her social and civic activities to the wealthy or to members of her husband's political party (the Republican Party), she reached out to others. For example, in 1908, she led efforts by the New York chapter of the National Women's Committee to expose harsh working conditions in New York City's factories, foundries and hotels. She explained, "Should not the woman who spends the money which the employees help to provide take a special interest in their welfare, especially in that of the women wage earners?" In 1909, she created waves when, as the "wife of a banker," she "entertained one hundred members of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen at her summer home." In 1906, Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes appointed her as a member of the Board of Managers of New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, New York. Suffragist and social reformer As Harriman would later explain in her book From Pinafores to Politics, her leadership and organizing skills became increasingly directed toward the disenfranchised and impoverished.She was active in the women's suffrage movement in support of extending the vote to women, reportedly leading a parade of suffragists down Fifth Avenue. She also crusaded against unhealthy conditions in New York's tenements. Franklin D. Roosevelt later described her as "the woman who was most responsible for helping to provide milk for dependent poor children in the great city of New York." In 1912, Harriman's active support for the presidential campaign of then-New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson led to national publicity and leadership roles. She was elected as the first president of the "Women's National Wilson and Marshall Association," and organized mass meetings, and mass mailings, in support of his campaign. Upon taking office, Wilson appointed Harriman as a member of the first U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, which Congress had authorized the previous year. After 154 days of testimony, the Commission could not agree on the causes and solutions to labor-management difficulties.Harriman and Commissioner John R. Commons refused to sign the caustic report written by Commission Chair Frank P. Walsh. As Commons and Harriman wrote in their separate report (joined by a narrow majority of Commissioners), the Walsh report mistakenly focused on individual "scapegoats rather than on the system that produces the demand for scapegoats." Her husband became seriously ill in February 1913, shortly before Wilson took office. After President Wilson's appointment, Washington, D.C. became their primary residence. While serving on the Commission on Industrial Relations, she also continued to serve in New York on the Bedford Reformatory board. World War I and the Mexican Revolution Harriman, her husband and daughter found themselves in the middle of Europe as World War I erupted in the summer of 1914. Hoping that the healing waters in the Bohemian spa in Karlsbad would benefit her husband, Harriman brought her family to Europe in June 1914.After meeting with leading British and French officials while relations between the European powers deteriorated, they traveled through France to Karlsbad (then a part of Austria-Hungary), and were there when Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in late July. After leaving Karlsbad on the last train crossing the frontier through Germany to France, they eventually returned to New York on an armed British vessel, the . Her husband's health continued to deteriorate, and he died on December 1, 1914. His prolonged illness, the resulting lack of income, and the expense of maintaining several homes had consumed nearly all of his net worth. Harriman never remarried. The following year, Harriman found herself near the front lines of another war – the battle along the south side of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas, between supporters of rebel Pancho Villa and the armies of Mexican leader Venustiano Carranza. During a break in hearings on working conditions for farmworkers that she conducted in Dallas in March 1915, she accepted an offer to visit the Rio Grande area, where the United States was attempting to remain neutral as Mexican factions battled each other along the river.After watching the battle for Matamoros, Tamaulipas from Brownsville, she began to tend to the wounded and visited the smoking battlefields, before returning to Washington. Harriman increased her charitable and political activity. She turned her Mount Kisco home into a tuberculosis sanitarium. During the period of American neutrality, she became a cofounder of the Committee of Mercy, which was created to help the women and children and other European noncombatants made destitute by the war. In May 1916 she was recruited by Eleanor Roosevelt to lead a contingent of "Independent Patriotic Women of America" in a preparedness parade. After the United States declared war on Germany, she organized the American Red Cross Women's Motor Corps of the District of Columbia, and directed the Women's Motor Corps in France. From 1917 to 1919, she served as chair of the U.S. National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry.1919 to 1937 Harriman participated in the Versailles Peace Conference, and upon her return was an advocate for American participation in the League of Nations, and worked on behalf of world peace organizations. While the Wilson Administration ended in 1921, Harriman's Democratic activism did not. Syndicated columnist William Hard described her as "a candle for the party in its darkest days." She began serving as member of the Democratic National Committee in 1920 (a position she would hold until the 1950s) and in 1922 became a founder and the first president of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Her first book, "From Pinafores to Politics," was published in 1923. She was often in the company of another widowed fixture of 1920s Washington, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. She resided in a large home known as "Uplands," on a hill off Foxhall Road northwest of Georgetown.Time magazine would report in 1934 that her "Sunday night salons have long been a Washington institution." She would invite up to 32 guests with diverse viewpoints, then referee a thorough off-the-record discussion of a single controversial issue. She enforced two ground rules: no one was ever to grow angry, and no one was to repeat what had been said. Harriman reportedly "lost most of her fortune during the Depression," and "had to eke out her income by interior decorating and real estate" (while sharing her Washington home with well-paying guests). One such cohabitant in the first year of the Roosevelt Administration was the first woman cabinet member, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. As a member of the Democratic National Committee, Harriman was also a District of Columbia delegate to the Party's conventions. In 1932, when the Convention nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harriman did not support him.According to Time, "she unfortunately held out for Newton D. Baker or Melvin Traylor." In her own words, this would cause "the triumphant members of the Roosevelt-before-the-Convention inner clique" to have "a little grey mark against me." However, "after Roosevelt's nomination she hastened to repair her mistake," and became one of Roosevelt's strongest supporters at the 1936 Convention. Diplomacy and World War II Early in his second term, Roosevelt scrambled many of his diplomatic assignments. Norway, the fourth nation to grant woman suffrage (after New Zealand, Australia and Finland), was considered "an obvious post for a woman diplomat." Thus, in 1937, Harriman was appointed as the United States' Minister to Norway. (Her precise title was "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" for Norway.)At the time of her appointment, she could hardly have known that this role would soon require her to draw on her experience in helping refugees in the previous World War. Consequently, increasing tension in Europe and the imminent death of Turkish reformer Atatürk, compelled her to advise Secretary of State Hull to install Ismet Inonu as President of Turkey to assure a protectionist ally in the region. In 1940, Germany invaded Norway with little warning, causing Harriman and the rest of the American legation in Norway to join certain members of the Norwegian royal family and other refugees seeking protection hundreds of kilometers away in Sweden. In the chaos and bombardment, America suffered its first military casualty when Captain Robert M. Losey, a U.S. military attaché assisting the evacuation while observing the war, was killed in a Luftwaffe attack on Dombås. The rest of the American legation ultimately arrived safely in Sweden. Harriman is credited with arranging for the safety of other Americans and several members of the Norwegian royal family -- Crown Princess Märtha and her children Ragnhild, Astrid and Harald. She returned to the Nordic countries to complete the evacuation of current and future U.S. citizens through Finland on the United States Army transport in August 1940.In January 1941, she officially left her position, became a vice-chair of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and testified in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in favor of the Lend-Lease Act. Her service in Norway, and the harrowing escape, became the subject of her next book, "Mission to the North," published in 1941. In July 1942, King Haakon VII of Norway (then in exile) conferred upon Harriman the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav. After the United States entered World War II, Harriman continued to write on causes important to her, and wrote the foreword to the English-language edition booklet of Natalia Zarembina "Oswiecim, Camp of Death," originally published in occupied Poland in 1942 by the PPS WRN. It was one of the first publications on the Holocaust and Auschwitz Concentration Camp in English language, published in New York City in March 1944 before the camp's liberation by Soviet troops. And despite her decades of involvement in the Democratic Party, she joined a bipartisan (but unsuccessful) effort to persuade Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the 1940 election, Wendell Willkie, to run for Governor of New York in 1942. In 1952, she campaigned on behalf of her cousin by marriage, W. Averell <mask>, in his unsuccessful run for the Democratic nomination for President.She served as the 3rd Vice President of the Board of Directors of the National Conference On Citizenship in 1960. Voting rights in the District of Columbia Harriman lived in the District of Columbia at the time of every presidential election since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, but the District received no electoral votes for most of her life, so she effectively could not vote in presidential elections for several decades. In 1955, at age 84, Harriman led a parade through the capital to protest "taxation without representation" in the District of Columbia. That year, she wrote in a New York Times letter to the editor that "the time has come for another Boston tea party" to end the disenfranchisement of the District's residents. The adoption of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961 gave three electoral votes to the District, so in 1964, at age 94, Harriman cast her first vote in a presidential election – for Lyndon Johnson. In 1956, Life Magazine reported that, even at age 86, she continued to host dinners for twenty-two guests nearly every Sunday night. Citation of Merit Harriman received a Citation of Merit for Distinguished Service, presented by President Kennedy on April 18, 1963 (when she was 92 years old).It states: In her illustrious career in public service, Mrs. Harriman has made singular and lasting contributions to the cause of peace and freedom. . . . In all of her endeavors, Mrs. Harriman has exemplified the spirit of selflessness, courage and service to the Nation, reflecting the highest credit on herself and on this country. She has, indeed, earned the esteem and admiration of her countrymen and the enduring gratitude of this Republic. Death and descendants Harriman died at her home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1967. Her daughter died on July 4, 1953, at age 55. Her granddaughter, Phyllis Russell Marcy Darling, of Eugene, Oregon, died on December 18, 2007, at age 88. Her grandson, Charles Howland Russell, of Carmel Valley, California, died on May 13, 1981, at age 60.

<mask> was an American social reformer, suffragist, and diplomat. She led one of the suffragists down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk, and was the minister to Norway in World War II. She received the first citation of merit for distinguished service in her ninety-second year. She was often in the middle of historic events. She stated that she had always had a box seat at the America of her times. On July 21, 1870, in New York City, <mask> was born to shipping magnate F. W. J. Hurst and his wife. She became a niece by marriage of her mother's brother, who was a New York dry goods merchant.Her mother died when she was three years old. She was raised in and around New York City by her father and maternal grandparents. She watched her first political torchlight parade when she was six. She told of leaning over the bannister of her home to hear visitors such as John Hay. Arthur. She was known as "Daisy". She received private lessons at the home of J. P. Morgan.She attended the Misses Lockwood's Collegiate School for Girls. She married an older cousin of a future New York Governor and a diplomat. Past and future presidents, as well as railroad tycoons, attended their wedding. Their only child was born in 1897. As an actress and writer, she worked on Broadway and Hollywood. A socialite for many years, Harriman led the life of a young society matron interested in charitable and civic activities. She lived in Mount Kisco, New York, Fifth Avenue in New York City, and Newport, Rhode Island.The Colony Club, New York City's first club for women, was founded in 1903 by her and two other women. She reached out to others instead of limiting her social and civic activities to members of her husband's political party. In 1908, she led efforts by the New York chapter of the National Women's Committee to expose harsh working conditions in New York City's factories, foundries and hotels. She asked if the woman who spends the money which the employees help to provide should take a special interest in their welfare. One hundred members of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen were hosted by her at her summer home in 1909. She was appointed to the Board of Managers of the New York State Reformatory for Women in 1906 by Republican Governor Charles Evans Hughes. In her book From Pinafores to Politics, Suffragist and social reformer <mask> explains that her leadership and organizing skills became increasingly directed toward the disenfranchised and impoverished.She led a parade of suffragists down Fifth Avenue in support of extending the vote to women. She fought against the bad conditions in New York's tenements. She was described as the woman who was most responsible for helping to provide milk for poor children in New York by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1912, Harriman's support for Wilson's presidential campaign led to national publicity and leadership roles. She was elected as the first president of the "Women's National Wilson and Marshall Association" in support of his campaign. Wilson appointed Harriman to the first U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, which Congress had authorized the previous year. The Commission couldn't agree on the causes of labor-management difficulties after 154 days of testimony.The caustic report written by Commission Chair Frank P. Walsh was refused to sign by Commissioner John R. Commons. The Walsh report mistakenly focused on individual scapegoats rather than the system that produces the demand for scapegoats, as Commons and Harriman wrote in their separate report. Shortly before Wilson took office, her husband became seriously ill. Washington, D.C. became their primary residence after President Wilson's appointment. She continued to serve in New York on the Reformatory board while she was on the Commission on Industrial Relations. As World War I began in the summer of 1914, her husband and daughter were in the middle of Europe. In June 1914, Harriman brought her family to Europe in hopes that the healing waters in Karlsbad would benefit her husband.When Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in July, they traveled through France to Karlsbad, a part of Austria-Hungary. After leaving Karlsbad on the last train crossing the frontier through Germany to France, they returned to New York on an armed British vessel. Her husband died on December 1, 1914. Nearly all of his net worth was consumed by his illness, lack of income, and expense of maintaining several homes. Harriman never married again. The battle along the south side of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas, was fought between the armies of Mexican leader Venustiano Carranza and the supporters of rebel Pancho Villa. During a break in hearings on working conditions for farmworkers that she conducted in Dallas in March 1915, she accepted an offer to visit the Rio Grande area, where the United States was attempting to remain neutral as Mexicans battled each other along the river.After watching the battle for Matamoros, she went to the battlefields and tended to the wounded. She increased her political activity. She turned her home into a sanitarium. During the period of American neutrality, she became a co-conspirator of the Committee of mercy, which was created to help the women and children of Europe. Eleanor Roosevelt recruited her to lead a group of "Independent Patriotic Women of America" in a parade. She directed the Women's Motor Corps in France after the United States declared war on Germany. She was the chair of the U.S. National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry from 1917 to 1919.After participating in the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 to 1937, she advocated for American participation in the League of Nations and worked on behalf of world peace organizations. The Wilson Administration ended in 1921, but Harriman's Democratic activism did not. William Hard described her as a candle for the party. She became the first president of the Woman's National Democratic Club in 1922 after founding the Democratic National Committee in 1920. "From Pinafores to Politics" was her first book. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana was often in the company of her. She lived in a large home on a hill northwest of Georgetown.In 1934, Time magazine reported that her "Sunday night salons have long been a Washington institution." She would invite up to 32 guests with different viewpoints, then referee a discussion of a single controversial issue. She didn't allow anyone to get angry and she didn't allow anyone to repeat what had been said. While sharing her Washington home with well-paying guests, Harriman lost most of her fortune during the Depression and had to eke out her income by interior decorating and real estate. In the first year of the Roosevelt Administration, the Secretary of Labor was the first woman in the cabinet. The District of Columbia delegate to the Party's convention was a member of the Democratic National Committee. When the Convention nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harriman did not support him.According to Time, "she unfortunately held out for someone else." She said that this would cause the triumphant members of the Roosevelt-before-the-Convention inner group to have a grey mark against them. She became one of Roosevelt's strongest supporters at the 1936 Convention after Roosevelt's nomination. Roosevelt scrambled many of his diplomatic assignments during his second term. Norway, the fourth nation to grant woman suffrage, was considered an obvious post for a woman diplomat. In 1937, Harriman was appointed as the United States' Minister to Norway. Her title was "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" for Norway.She didn't know at the time of her appointment that she would need to draw on her experience in helping refugees during the previous World War. Increasing tension in Europe and the imminent death of Turkish reformer Atatrk compelled her to advise Secretary of State Hull to install Ismet Inonu as President of Turkey to assure a protectionist ally in the region. In 1940, Germany invaded Norway with little warning, causing Harriman and the rest of the American legation in Norway to join members of the Norwegian royal family and other refugees in Sweden. Captain Robert M. Losey was the first military casualty of the war when he was killed in an attack on Dombs. The rest of the American legation arrived in Sweden. Crown Princess Mrtha and her children, as well as other Americans and members of the Norwegian royal family, were protected by Harriman. The current and future U.S. citizens were evacuated from the Nordic countries by the United States Army in August 1940.She left her position and became a vice-chair of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies in January 1941. The subject of her next book, "Mission to the North," was her service in Norway. The Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav was awarded to King Haakon VII of Norway in July 1942. After the United States entered World War II, Harriman continued to write on causes important to her, and wrote the foreword to the English-language edition booklet of Natalia Zarembina "Oswiecim, Camp of Death." The first publication on the Holocaust and Auschwitz Concentration Camp in English language was published in New York City in March 1944, before the camp's liberation by Soviet troops. She joined a bipartisan effort to persuade Willkie to run for Governor of New York in 1942, despite her decades of involvement in the Democratic Party. Her cousin, W. Averell <mask>, was unsuccessful in his bid for the Democratic nomination for President.She was the 3rd Vice President of the Board of Directors of the National Conference On Citizenship. Since the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, the District of Columbia has received no electoral votes for most of her life, so she has not been able to vote in presidential elections. In 1955, at the age of 84, Harriman led a parade through the capital to protest "taxation without representation" in the District of Columbia. She wrote in a New York Times letter that the time had come for another Boston tea party to end the disenfranchisement of the District's residents. The adoption of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution gave three electoral votes to the District, so in 1964, at the age of 94, Harriman cast her first vote for Lyndon Johnson. According to Life Magazine, at the age of 86, she continued to host dinners for twenty-two guests every Sunday night. President Kennedy presented a citation of merit for distinguished service to Harriman when she was 92 years old.In her illustrious career in public service, Mrs. Harriman has made singular and lasting contributions to the cause of peace and freedom. Mrs. Harriman has exemplified the spirit of selflessness, courage and service to the Nation, reflecting the highest credit on herself and on this country. She has earned the admiration and gratitude of her countrymen. On August 31, 1967, Harriman died at her home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. On July 4, 1953, her daughter died. She died on December 18, 2007, at the age of 88. Charles Howland Russell died at the age of 60.

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André Bachand (born December 8, 1961) is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Richmond—Arthabaska as member of the Progressive Conservatives from 1997 to 2003. When the PC Party was merged with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party in December 2003, Bachand left the party and sat as an "Independent Progressive Conservative" until the 2004 election, and then retired from the House of Commons. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Bachand has been an administrator, and a business executive. He was the mayor of Asbestos, Quebec, from 1986 to 1997, and was the Préfet of the MRC d'Asbestos from 1987 to 1997. Federal politics Young Turk Bachand was first elected as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1997, one of five PC MPs elected that year in Quebec. Bachand was one of a handful of new "Young Turk" PC MPs (along with Scott Brison, John Herron and Peter MacKay) who were considered the future youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days. In 1998, Jean Charest stepped down as federal Progressive Conservative leader to make the move to Quebec provincial politics, becoming leader of the federalist Quebec Liberal Party (unaffiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada). Bachand was one of many who unsuccessfully tried to convince Charest to remain in federal politics for at least one more election. Joe Clark succeeded Charest as leader of the PC Party and Bachand was supportive of Clark's candidacy. Difficult times The Quebec-wing of the federal PC Party parliamentary Caucus wrestled with several internal policy issues in the late 1990s after Charest's departure including the party's bilingualism policies and the autonomy of provinces in respect to federal powers. Shortly after Joe Clark was elected leader of the federal Tory Party, the federal government brought forward the Clarity Act. The Clarity Act was a Liberal Party of Canada sponsored Bill introduced by then Minister of Intergovernmental affairs Stéphane Dion. The Clarity Act detailed specifically how the province of Quebec could separate and under what conditions a separation could be legal. Clark chose to support Bachand and the Quebec PC Caucus MPs in the party and stated that he was against the Clarity Act while the fifteen other English MPs in the PC parliamentary Caucus voted in favour of the Bill regardless of Clark's stance. Quebec lieutenant By 1999, Bachand had emerged as the nominal Quebec lieutenant of the Conservatives, attending most PC events in the province with Clark and acting as the party's chief spokesman for Quebec issues. Bachand also was the chief responder to the multiple defections of Quebec Tory party officials, MPs and Senators to the Liberal and Canadian Alliance Parties during this period. In September 2000, three Quebec PC MPs, fearful of their re-election prospects under Clark's leadership, crossed the floor shortly before the federal election to sit as Liberal MPs, leaving Bachand as the only remaining PC MP in Quebec. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2000 election, as were all three of the MPs who crossed the floor. The Tories emerged from the election retaining party status. Deputy leader In February 2003, Bachand announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. However, on May 12, he announced that he was dropping out of the race and supporting Peter MacKay. Bachand had been running fifth in the race, and had failed to gather support among party delegates and to raise enough money for his campaign. After MacKay's victory, Bachand briefly served as Deputy Leader of the Progressive Conservatives until early December 2003. Before becoming Deputy Leader, Bachand served as the Deputy House Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, as well as its critic for the Intergovernmental Affairs, Industry, Science Research and Development, and the Deputy Prime Minister portfolios. Lone independent When the party merged with the Canadian Alliance at the end of 2003, Bachand announced that he would retire from politics. Bachand did not sit with the new Conservative Party of Canada Caucus, and became an independent MP until the June 2004 election. During the June 2004 election, Bachand endorsed the Liberal candidate in the Richmond—Arthabaska race over the Conservative and Bloc Québécois challengers. The riding was ultimately carried by the BQ in their electoral sweep of the province. Bachand's departure from federal politics has been lamented by many Tories hailing from Quebec. In a Maclean's article covering the March 2005 founding policy convention of the new Conservative Party, Senator Pierre Claude Nolin mused that if Bachand had remained elected and participatory in the new party, he may served as the new Conservative Party's chief Quebec lieutenant as part of Stephen Harper's attempts to woo Quebec voters. Return to politics In September 2008, Bachand announced that he would be the Conservative Party candidate for the district of Sherbrooke in the 40th Canadian General Election. On election night, Bachand's comeback attempt was unsuccessful. He lost to Bloc Québécois incumbent Serge Cardin, finishing third with 16.4% of the vote. Shortly after his election defeat, Bachand was appointed by Harper as Canada's ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. As ambassador, Bachand's most high-profile activity was to oppose, on the Canadian government's behalf, the entry of the Palestinian Authority to membership in the organization. In October 2011, Harper appointed Bachand as his senior advisor on Quebec issues. The post, which previously had been combined with responsibility for being Harper's communications advisor, was reportedly separated from other responsibilities in order to make space for Bachand. In 2013, Maclean's included Bachand as one of the thirteen members of Harper's "inner circle," of most-trusted advisors, tasked "to try to improve Conservative fortunes in Quebec." In September 2013, Bachand was hired by the Earnscliffe Strategy Group, an Ottawa public-affairs firm. Provincial politics Bachand ran for the Coalition Avenir Québec in the riding of Richmond, going on to win in the 2018 provincial election. 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<mask> (born December 8, 1961) is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Richmond—Arthabaska as member of the Progressive Conservatives from 1997 to 2003. When the PC Party was merged with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party in December 2003, <mask> left the party and sat as an "Independent Progressive Conservative" until the 2004 election, and then retired from the House of Commons. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, <mask> has been an administrator, and a business executive. He was the mayor of Asbestos, Quebec, from 1986 to 1997, and was the Préfet of the MRC d'Asbestos from 1987 to 1997. Federal politics <mask> was first elected as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1997, one of five PC MPs elected that year in Quebec. <mask> was one of a handful of new "Young Turk" PC MPs (along with Scott Brison, John Herron and Peter MacKay) who were considered the future youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days. In 1998, Jean Charest stepped down as federal Progressive Conservative leader to make the move to Quebec provincial politics, becoming leader of the federalist Quebec Liberal Party (unaffiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada).<mask> was one of many who unsuccessfully tried to convince Charest to remain in federal politics for at least one more election. Joe Clark succeeded Charest as leader of the PC Party and <mask> was supportive of Clark's candidacy. Difficult times The Quebec-wing of the federal PC Party parliamentary Caucus wrestled with several internal policy issues in the late 1990s after Charest's departure including the party's bilingualism policies and the autonomy of provinces in respect to federal powers. Shortly after Joe Clark was elected leader of the federal Tory Party, the federal government brought forward the Clarity Act. The Clarity Act was a Liberal Party of Canada sponsored Bill introduced by then Minister of Intergovernmental affairs Stéphane Dion. The Clarity Act detailed specifically how the province of Quebec could separate and under what conditions a separation could be legal. Clark chose to support <mask> and the Quebec PC Caucus MPs in the party and stated that he was against the Clarity Act while the fifteen other English MPs in the PC parliamentary Caucus voted in favour of the Bill regardless of Clark's stance.Quebec lieutenant By 1999, <mask> had emerged as the nominal Quebec lieutenant of the Conservatives, attending most PC events in the province with Clark and acting as the party's chief spokesman for Quebec issues. <mask> also was the chief responder to the multiple defections of Quebec Tory party officials, MPs and Senators to the Liberal and Canadian Alliance Parties during this period. In September 2000, three Quebec PC MPs, fearful of their re-election prospects under Clark's leadership, crossed the floor shortly before the federal election to sit as Liberal MPs, leaving <mask> as the only remaining PC MP in Quebec. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2000 election, as were all three of the MPs who crossed the floor. The Tories emerged from the election retaining party status. Deputy leader In February 2003, <mask> announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives. However, on May 12, he announced that he was dropping out of the race and supporting Peter MacKay.<mask> had been running fifth in the race, and had failed to gather support among party delegates and to raise enough money for his campaign. After MacKay's victory, <mask> briefly served as Deputy Leader of the Progressive Conservatives until early December 2003. Before becoming Deputy Leader, <mask> served as the Deputy House Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, as well as its critic for the Intergovernmental Affairs, Industry, Science Research and Development, and the Deputy Prime Minister portfolios. Lone independent When the party merged with the Canadian Alliance at the end of 2003, <mask> announced that he would retire from politics. <mask> did not sit with the new Conservative Party of Canada Caucus, and became an independent MP until the June 2004 election. During the June 2004 election, <mask> endorsed the Liberal candidate in the Richmond—Arthabaska race over the Conservative and Bloc Québécois challengers. The riding was ultimately carried by the BQ in their electoral sweep of the province.<mask>'s departure from federal politics has been lamented by many Tories hailing from Quebec. In a Maclean's article covering the March 2005 founding policy convention of the new Conservative Party, Senator Pierre Claude Nolin mused that if <mask> had remained elected and participatory in the new party, he may served as the new Conservative Party's chief Quebec lieutenant as part of Stephen Harper's attempts to woo Quebec voters. Return to politics In September 2008, <mask> announced that he would be the Conservative Party candidate for the district of Sherbrooke in the 40th Canadian General Election. On election night, <mask>'s comeback attempt was unsuccessful. He lost to Bloc Québécois incumbent Serge Cardin, finishing third with 16.4% of the vote. Shortly after his election defeat, <mask> was appointed by Harper as Canada's ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. As ambassador, <mask>'s most high-profile activity was to oppose, on the Canadian government's behalf, the entry of the Palestinian Authority to membership in the organization.In October 2011, Harper appointed <mask> as his senior advisor on Quebec issues. The post, which previously had been combined with responsibility for being Harper's communications advisor, was reportedly separated from other responsibilities in order to make space for Bachand. In 2013, Maclean's included <mask> as one of the thirteen members of Harper's "inner circle," of most-trusted advisors, tasked "to try to improve Conservative fortunes in Quebec." In September 2013, <mask> was hired by the Earnscliffe Strategy Group, an Ottawa public-affairs firm. Provincial politics <mask> ran for the Coalition Avenir Québec in the riding of Richmond, going on to win in the 2018 provincial election. Electoral record Provincial Richmond Federal Sherbrooke Richmond—Arthabaska References External links 1961 births Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons French Quebecers Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Politicians from Quebec City Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates Coalition Avenir Québec MNAs

From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Progressive Conservatives and represented the riding of Arthabaska. After the merger of the PC Party and the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party in December of 2003 he left the party and sat as an "Independent Progressive Conservative" until the 2004 election. <mask> was born in Quebec City, Quebec. He was the mayor of Asbestos from 1986 to 1997 and the Préfet of the MRC d'Asbestos from 1987 to 1997. One of five PC MPs elected in Quebec in 1997 was <mask>, who was first elected in 1997 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. There were a number of new "Young Turk" PC MPs who were considered the future youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days. Jean Charest became leader of the federalist Quebec Liberal Party in 1998 after stepping down as federal Progressive Conservative leader.Many tried to convince Charest to stay in federal politics for at least one more election. Joe Clark succeeded Charest as leader of the PC Party. The Quebec-wing of the federal PC Party parliamentary Caucus wrestled with several internal policy issues in the late 1990s after Charest's departure. The federal government brought forward the Clarity Act after Joe Clark was elected leader of the federal Tory Party. The Bill was sponsored by the Liberal Party of Canada. Under what conditions a separation could be legal, the Clarity Act detailed how the province of Quebec could separate. The fifteen other English MPs in the PC parliamentary Caucus voted in favour of the Bill regardless of Clark's stance, even though he stated that he was against the Clarity Act.By 1999, the Quebec lieutenant of the Conservatives had emerged, as he attended most PC events in the province with Clark and acted as the party's chief spokesman for Quebec issues. There were multiple defections of Quebec Tory party officials, MPs and Senators to the Liberal and Canadian Alliance Parties. In September 2000, three Quebec PC MPs crossed the floor to sit as Liberal MPs, leaving one remaining PC in Quebec. The three MPs who crossed the floor were re-elected in the 2000 election. The Conservatives retained their party status after the election. There was a candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives by the deputy leader. He dropped out of the race and supported Peter MacKay.He failed to raise enough money for his campaign because he was fifth in the race. The deputy leader of the Progressive Conservatives until December 2003 was <mask>. Before becoming the deputy leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, he was the deputy house leader and critic for the Intergovernmental Affairs, Industry, Science Research and Development and the deputy prime minister portfolios. When the party merged with the Canadian Alliance at the end of 2003 he announced that he would retire from politics. He became an independent MP in the June 2004 election after sitting with the new Conservative Party of Canada Caucus. The Liberal candidate in the June 2004 election was endorsed by Bachand. In the electoral sweep of the province, the riding was carried by the BQ.Many Conservatives hailing from Quebec are upset by his departure from federal politics. The March 2005 founding policy convention of the new Conservative Party was covered in an article by Senator Pierre Claude Nolin. In September 2008, he announced that he would be the Conservative Party candidate in the 40th Canadian General Election. On election night, a comeback attempt was unsuccessful. Serge Cardin finished third with 16.4% of the vote. After his election defeat, <mask> was appointed as Canada's ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. The entry of the Palestinian Authority to membership in the organization was the most high-profile activity of the ambassador.The senior advisor on Quebec issues was appointed by the Prime Minister. The post was separated from other responsibilities in order to make room for <mask>. One of the thirteen members ofHarper's "inner circle," of most-trusted advisors, was tasked to try to improve Conservative fortunes in Quebec. In September of last year, <mask> was hired by the Earnscliffe Strategy Group. <mask> ran for the Coalition Avenir Québec in the riding of Richmond and won the election. External links include births of Conservative Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons.

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John Davey (tree surgeon)

John Davey (June 6, 1846 – November 8, 1923), considered the father of the science of tree surgery, was born in Stawley, Somerset, England. Although he did not learn the alphabet until his early 20s, his intellect and analytical skills allowed him to become a skilled orator, author, publisher and inventor. John Davey mastered agriculture under the tutelage of his father, the superintendent of a large farm. He developed a strong work ethic and passion for arboriculture. Davey believed that great lengths should be taken to preserve natural resources, especially those that take more than a lifetime to replace. He took his convictions to America in hopes of preserving ailing trees and providing quality horticultural services. He subsequently launched a landscape and greenhouse business in Warren, Ohio, and then, in 1880, founded The Davey Tree Expert Company in nearby Kent. The company, still headquartered in Kent today, is a tribute to John Davey’s ingenuity. His motto, “Do It Right Or Not At All” and his commitment to environmental stewardship are the guiding principles inspiring the company’s approximately 7,000 nationwide employees. Davey was the father of both Martin L. Davey, governor of Ohio from 1935–1939 and Paul H. Davey, founder of the Davey Compressor company. Davey also had sons Wellington, Ira, and James (Jim) as well as daughters Belle and Mary. Societal benefit/scientific advancement Davey began to share his passion and science with the general public in 1878, when he published Davey’s Floral and Landscape Educator, a monthly newsletter for his customers. His signature work came in 1901, when he self-published The Tree Doctor, a comprehensive arboricultural guide. It is generally acknowledged that this book spawned an industry - tree care - and was ahead of its time. The Tree Doctor discussed Davey’s inventions and laid the groundwork for future patents. Available for $1, it became the comprehensive resource for those interested in tree and landscape preservation, and featured a multitude of descriptive photographs to enhance understanding, a rarity in Davey’s day. He analogized tree surgery to physician care, effectively changing attitudes and perceptions. For John Davey it was simple. If you needed surgery, you visited the surgeon, not the local butcher. Likewise, trees needing repair should be examined and restored by “tree scientists”, those versed in the latest methods of arboriculture. Davey urged citizens and governments to adopt a scientific approach to tree preservation, and he used his expertise to champion the causes of environmental stewardship and urban forest preservation. A prolific speaker on the Chautauqua circuit, John Davey would often waive his fee if the audience would promise to plant the seed packet that he had distributed at the beginning of the discourse. He employed innovative methods to communicate his passion for tree care, and often used lantern slide projections to illustrate his talks. Awards John Davey received wide acclaim among the influential thinkers of his day. His recognition as the leader in tree science came through his company being retained by the United States and Canadian governments and scions of industry to protect, preserve and restore their precious trees. For example, in 1920, he received acclaim from such clients as The White House, The Naval Academy, and innovators and entrepreneurs Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller and William Wrigley. Research/inventions John Davey’s inventions in the field of tree surgery were numerous, and included tree cavity filling, tree cabling and bracing, large tree moving and innovations in fertilization and disease prevention. He was the named inventor, joined by two sons, on two patents, and developed the research leading to twelve others patented by family members and employees of The Davey Tree Expert Company. Pruning innovations Among his most enduring innovations, now revised, was his theory of proper tree pruning. John Davey hypothesized that, just as a wooden house needs paint or waterproofing protection, tree wounds need to be sterilized and waterproofed to heal and remain impervious to decay. He had also noted that improperly pruned trees were unable to heal themselves. He thus became an early advocate of proper pruning techniques, including an angled cut to conform to a tree’s natural physiological processes. This proper pruning innovation was radical for the time period, and has only been adopted as the industry standard within the past 25 years. Cavity filling Davey observed that hollow trees often fell victim to wounds beginning as an exterior callous and inflicting decay inwardly on either side of the cavity. In response, he invented a cavity-filling process to replace the supporting surface artificially and to induce the callus to heal naturally over the face of the cavity. Again analogizing tree science to the medical profession, Davey determined that tree experts, like dentists, could effectively fill a tree cavity with a special substance, disinfect it, and then apply a sealer to protect the wound. The tree’s natural growth process would cover the cavity filling, preventing further damage and, most importantly, preserving a healthy tree. Cavity filling is now considered to be damaging and is not part of modern arboriculture; avoidance of making large wounds is the modern approach, which entails avoiding interference with the natural decay compartmentalization processes. Cabling and bracing Davey’s research demonstrated that certain trees by reason of their branching patterns were structurally weak. To preserve these trees, such as stately elms, Davey invented steel bracing and cabling methods that served as protection from the stress and strain associated with heavy winds and storms. This allowed urban areas to prevent property damage due to falling trees. It also served to ensure the safety of pedestrians and homeowners. The Davey compressor John Davey's youngest and only son to serve in World War I, Paul H. Davey returned from his service and was placed in charge of research at the Davey Tree Expert Company. The young and ambitious Paul Davey developed and patented a lightweight air compressor to be used in tree surgery and developed his designs to the point that the Davey Compressor Company was incorporated in 1929 to begin production. the “Davey Compressor”, an air-cooled compressor, was developed initially for use by The Davey Tree Expert Company however its uses would prove far reaching in the years ahead. The compressor was truly innovative for its time – it was much less bulky and more portable than the conventional water-cooled compressors of the day. The use of a finned aluminum head helped conduct heat away from the engine and therefore avoid the need for water-cooling. The new compressor, although lighter and smaller, easily matched the power output of conventional compressors, and allowed Davey to more efficiently use power spraying to remove decay from tree cavities. Paul Davey would go on to patent over 50 designs and improvements in the compressed air and related fields. The Davey Compressor Company thrived in Kent, OH and operated in the large factory that was once the repair shops for the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company. During World War II Paul Davey and his company turned the efforts of both his ingenuity and his factory towards war production. The company manufactured truck driven equipment, such as flood lighting and field servicing units, as well as compressors for military uses. After World War II the Compressor Company began production of truck mounted drilling equipment. Davey's new line of drills became a common sight putting in new highway right of ways, as well as drilling water wells, oil wells and blastholes. After years of continued success and growth with its drill rigs a new company was founded in 1981 by John Davey's great grandson and Paul Davey's grandson, Joseph Thomas Myers II. The new company, Davey Kent Inc. began the Davey Drill Division which still serves the world market for foundation and geotechnical drilling equipment. Scientific study A true scientist, Davey was committed to improving the technology and tools needed to advance tree care research. His company developed the rhisotron, an underground research station. The square, -deep station featured one side of polished plate glass with a unique subterranean vantage point, allowing Davey to view and directly study tree root growth. The invention propelled Davey to become the first to prove that tree root growth is shallow and lateral, as opposed to deep and vertical, the view common among Davey’s contemporaries. This discovery led to the development of root fertilization and watering techniques designed to stimulate the growth of the tree. Davey’s passion for scientific study and knowledge led to his founding in 1908 of the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery. This cutting edge training facility was staffed by experts and dedicated to providing Davey employees with the skill and tools needed to advance the science. The Davey Institute continues to this day to provide basic tree science as the educational foundation for company employees. Patents The following patents were directly attributable to John Davey. He successfully defended his patents in 35 Federal District Courts. Each time these courts issued injunctions to prevent infringement. (patent abstracts are attached) 1. Patent #890,968 (1908) Process of Treating and Dressing a Bruise or Wound in the Trunk or Live Branch of a Live Tree This process, pioneered and patented by John Davey, helped preserve and revitalize injured and/or dying trees through a method akin to surgery. By removing the decayed and unsound wood from the tree and then filling the wound with cementitious material and well-placed anchor ties, the tree could effectively be reinforced. The tree cavity was first coated with molten tar, and a drainage system installed, and a waterproof covering added to ensure sustained vitality.2. Patent #890,967 (1908) Means for Tying Tree Branches Together As part of the science of tree surgery, John Davey patented the method allowing for the bracing of two branches to avoid further splitting where a wound existed at the base. This was done preparatory to surgery in order to maintain branch health. The mechanical apparatus consisted of a chain link device with hook bolts and a shank at either end, allowing the tied branches to move as a unit rather than through separate, divisive forces. Notes External links 1846 births 1923 deaths English horticulturists People from Taunton Deane (district) People from Kent, Ohio

<mask> (June 6, 1846 – November 8, 1923), considered the father of the science of tree surgery, was born in Stawley, Somerset, England. Although he did not learn the alphabet until his early 20s, his intellect and analytical skills allowed him to become a skilled orator, author, publisher and inventor. <mask> mastered agriculture under the tutelage of his father, the superintendent of a large farm. He developed a strong work ethic and passion for arboriculture. <mask> believed that great lengths should be taken to preserve natural resources, especially those that take more than a lifetime to replace. He took his convictions to America in hopes of preserving ailing trees and providing quality horticultural services. He subsequently launched a landscape and greenhouse business in Warren, Ohio, and then, in 1880, founded The Davey Tree Expert Company in nearby Kent.The company, still headquartered in Kent today, is a tribute to <mask>’s ingenuity. His motto, “Do It Right Or Not At All” and his commitment to environmental stewardship are the guiding principles inspiring the company’s approximately 7,000 nationwide employees. <mask> was the father of both Martin L<mask>, governor of Ohio from 1935–1939 and Paul H<mask>, founder of the Davey Compressor company. <mask> also had sons Wellington, Ira, and James (Jim) as well as daughters Belle and Mary. Societal benefit/scientific advancement <mask> began to share his passion and science with the general public in 1878, when he published <mask>’s Floral and Landscape Educator, a monthly newsletter for his customers. His signature work came in 1901, when he self-published The Tree Doctor, a comprehensive arboricultural guide. It is generally acknowledged that this book spawned an industry - tree care - and was ahead of its time.The Tree Doctor discussed <mask>’s inventions and laid the groundwork for future patents. Available for $1, it became the comprehensive resource for those interested in tree and landscape preservation, and featured a multitude of descriptive photographs to enhance understanding, a rarity in <mask>’s day. He analogized tree surgery to physician care, effectively changing attitudes and perceptions. For <mask> it was simple. If you needed surgery, you visited the surgeon, not the local butcher. Likewise, trees needing repair should be examined and restored by “tree scientists”, those versed in the latest methods of arboriculture. <mask> urged citizens and governments to adopt a scientific approach to tree preservation, and he used his expertise to champion the causes of environmental stewardship and urban forest preservation.A prolific speaker on the Chautauqua circuit, <mask> would often waive his fee if the audience would promise to plant the seed packet that he had distributed at the beginning of the discourse. He employed innovative methods to communicate his passion for tree care, and often used lantern slide projections to illustrate his talks. Awards <mask> received wide acclaim among the influential thinkers of his day. His recognition as the leader in tree science came through his company being retained by the United States and Canadian governments and scions of industry to protect, preserve and restore their precious trees. For example, in 1920, he received acclaim from such clients as The White House, The Naval Academy, and innovators and entrepreneurs Thomas Edison, <mask>. Rockefeller and William Wrigley. Research/inventions <mask>’s inventions in the field of tree surgery were numerous, and included tree cavity filling, tree cabling and bracing, large tree moving and innovations in fertilization and disease prevention. He was the named inventor, joined by two sons, on two patents, and developed the research leading to twelve others patented by family members and employees of The Davey Tree Expert Company.Pruning innovations Among his most enduring innovations, now revised, was his theory of proper tree pruning. <mask> hypothesized that, just as a wooden house needs paint or waterproofing protection, tree wounds need to be sterilized and waterproofed to heal and remain impervious to decay. He had also noted that improperly pruned trees were unable to heal themselves. He thus became an early advocate of proper pruning techniques, including an angled cut to conform to a tree’s natural physiological processes. This proper pruning innovation was radical for the time period, and has only been adopted as the industry standard within the past 25 years. Cavity filling <mask> observed that hollow trees often fell victim to wounds beginning as an exterior callous and inflicting decay inwardly on either side of the cavity. In response, he invented a cavity-filling process to replace the supporting surface artificially and to induce the callus to heal naturally over the face of the cavity.Again analogizing tree science to the medical profession, <mask> determined that tree experts, like dentists, could effectively fill a tree cavity with a special substance, disinfect it, and then apply a sealer to protect the wound. The tree’s natural growth process would cover the cavity filling, preventing further damage and, most importantly, preserving a healthy tree. Cavity filling is now considered to be damaging and is not part of modern arboriculture; avoidance of making large wounds is the modern approach, which entails avoiding interference with the natural decay compartmentalization processes. Cabling and bracing <mask>’s research demonstrated that certain trees by reason of their branching patterns were structurally weak. To preserve these trees, such as stately elms, <mask> invented steel bracing and cabling methods that served as protection from the stress and strain associated with heavy winds and storms. This allowed urban areas to prevent property damage due to falling trees. It also served to ensure the safety of pedestrians and homeowners.The Davey compressor <mask>'s youngest and only son to serve in World War I, Paul H<mask> returned from his service and was placed in charge of research at the Davey Tree Expert Company. The young and ambitious <mask> developed and patented a lightweight air compressor to be used in tree surgery and developed his designs to the point that the Davey Compressor Company was incorporated in 1929 to begin production. the “Davey Compressor”, an air-cooled compressor, was developed initially for use by The Davey Tree Expert Company however its uses would prove far reaching in the years ahead. The compressor was truly innovative for its time – it was much less bulky and more portable than the conventional water-cooled compressors of the day. The use of a finned aluminum head helped conduct heat away from the engine and therefore avoid the need for water-cooling. The new compressor, although lighter and smaller, easily matched the power output of conventional compressors, and allowed <mask> to more efficiently use power spraying to remove decay from tree cavities. <mask> would go on to patent over 50 designs and improvements in the compressed air and related fields.The Davey Compressor Company thrived in Kent, OH and operated in the large factory that was once the repair shops for the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company. During World War II <mask> and his company turned the efforts of both his ingenuity and his factory towards war production. The company manufactured truck driven equipment, such as flood lighting and field servicing units, as well as compressors for military uses. After World War II the Compressor Company began production of truck mounted drilling equipment. <mask>'s new line of drills became a common sight putting in new highway right of ways, as well as drilling water wells, oil wells and blastholes. After years of continued success and growth with its drill rigs a new company was founded in 1981 by <mask>'s great grandson and <mask>'s grandson, Joseph Thomas Myers II. The new company, Davey Kent Inc. began the Davey Drill Division which still serves the world market for foundation and geotechnical drilling equipment.Scientific study A true scientist, <mask> was committed to improving the technology and tools needed to advance tree care research. His company developed the rhisotron, an underground research station. The square, -deep station featured one side of polished plate glass with a unique subterranean vantage point, allowing <mask> to view and directly study tree root growth. The invention propelled <mask> to become the first to prove that tree root growth is shallow and lateral, as opposed to deep and vertical, the view common among <mask>’s contemporaries. This discovery led to the development of root fertilization and watering techniques designed to stimulate the growth of the tree. <mask>’s passion for scientific study and knowledge led to his founding in 1908 of the Davey Institute of Tree Surgery. This cutting edge training facility was staffed by experts and dedicated to providing Davey employees with the skill and tools needed to advance the science.The Davey Institute continues to this day to provide basic tree science as the educational foundation for company employees. Patents The following patents were directly attributable to <mask>. He successfully defended his patents in 35 Federal District Courts. Each time these courts issued injunctions to prevent infringement. (patent abstracts are attached) 1. Patent #890,968 (1908) Process of Treating and Dressing a Bruise or Wound in the Trunk or Live Branch of a Live Tree This process, pioneered and patented by <mask>, helped preserve and revitalize injured and/or dying trees through a method akin to surgery. By removing the decayed and unsound wood from the tree and then filling the wound with cementitious material and well-placed anchor ties, the tree could effectively be reinforced.The tree cavity was first coated with molten tar, and a drainage system installed, and a waterproof covering added to ensure sustained vitality.2. Patent #890,967 (1908) Means for Tying Tree Branches Together As part of the science of tree surgery, <mask> patented the method allowing for the bracing of two branches to avoid further splitting where a wound existed at the base. This was done preparatory to surgery in order to maintain branch health. The mechanical apparatus consisted of a chain link device with hook bolts and a shank at either end, allowing the tied branches to move as a unit rather than through separate, divisive forces. Notes External links 1846 births 1923 deaths English horticulturists People from Taunton Deane (district) People from Kent, Ohio

The father of the science of tree surgery was born in England. He was able to become an orator, author, publisher and inventor because of his intelligence and analytical skills, even though he did not learn the alphabet until his 20s. <mask>'s father was the boss of a large farm. He was passionate about arboriculture and developed a strong work ethic. Natural resources should be preserved, especially those that take more than a lifetime to replace. He moved to America to save ailing trees and provide quality services. In Warren, Ohio, he launched a landscape and greenhouse business, and in Kent, he founded The Davey Tree Expert Company.The company is still based in Kent. The company's approximately 7,000 employees are inspired by his motto "Do It Right or Not At All" and his commitment to environmental stewardship. The father of the governor of Ohio was also the founder of the company. Wellington, Ira, and James were all sons of <mask>. <mask> began to share his passion and science with the general public when he published a monthly newsletter for his customers. The Tree Doctor, a comprehensive arboricultural guide, was his signature work. The book spawned an industry of tree care and was ahead of its time.The tree doctor talked about <mask>'s inventions and laid the groundwork for future patents. The comprehensive resource for those interested in tree and landscape preservation was available for $1 and featured a number of descriptive photographs to enhance understanding. He used tree surgery to change attitudes. It was simple for <mask>. If you needed surgery, you went to the surgeon. Tree scientists, who are versed in the latest methods of arboriculture, should examine and restore trees that need repair. He used his expertise to champion the causes of environmental stewardship and urban forest preservation, and he urged citizens and governments to adopt a scientific approach to tree preservation.If the audience promised to plant a seed packet at the beginning of the speech, <mask> would waive his fee. He used innovative methods to communicate his passion for tree care, and often used lantern slide projections to illustrate his talks. The influential thinker of his day, <mask>, received awards. His company was retained by the United States and Canadian governments and scions of industry to protect, preserve and restore their precious trees. He received praise from clients such as The White House, The Naval Academy, and <mask> D. Rockefeller. Inventions in the field of tree surgery included tree cavity filling, tree cabling and bracing, large tree moving, and innovations in fertilization and disease prevention. He was the named inventor, joined by two sons, and developed the research leading to twelve others patented by family members and employees of The Davey Tree Expert Company.His theory of proper treePruning was one of his most enduring innovations. <mask> believes that tree wounds need to be waterproofed to heal and remain impervious to decay, just as a wooden house needs paint or waterproof protection. He noted that trees were not able to heal themselves. An angle cut to conform to a tree's natural processes became an early advocate of properPruning techniques, including an angle cut to conform to a tree's natural processes became an early advocate of properPruning techniques, including an angle cut to conform to a tree's natural processes became an ThisPruning innovation was radical for the time period, and has only been adopted as the industry standard within the past 25 years. 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Truck driven equipment, such as flood lighting and field servicing units, were manufactured by the company. The Compressor Company began production of drilling equipment after World War II. New highway right of ways, as well as drilling water wells, oil wells and blastholes, became a common sight with the new line of drills. After years of continued success and growth with its drill rigs, a new company was founded in 1981 by the great grandsons of <mask> and Paul. The world market for foundation and geotechnical drilling equipment is still served by the Davey Drill Division.A true scientist, <mask> was committed to improving the technology and tools needed to advance tree care research. The rhisotron was developed by his company. 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Ashley Bramall

Sir Ernest Ashley Bramall (6 January 1916 – 10 February 1999) was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Bexley from 1946 to 1950 and Leader of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) for 11 years. Family and early career Bramall's family were wealthy merchants from Hampshire, but his mother was a socialist and did much to convince her son to support the left in politics. He attended Westminster School briefly, before moving to Canford School for the benefit of his health. He went up to Magdalen College, Oxford, in the mid-1930s to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was elected to chair the Oxford University Labour Club in 1938. At Oxford he was an active debater at the Oxford Union Society where he often debated with Edward Heath. He was Treasurer of the Union in 1939. On the outbreak of war, Bramall joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, into which he was commissioned in 1941. He transferred to the Reconnaissance Corps later the same year and also served at the Army Staff College in Camberley, being promoted to Major. After the end of the war, he served in Germany in the Allied administration. His younger brother Edwin (known as 'Dwin') was much later to be appointed Chief of the Defence Staff and created Lord Bramall. Parliament Bramall had already begun his political career by fighting Fareham for the Labour Party in the 1945 general election, and when a vacancy occurred at Bexley he was selected to fight the by-election. During the campaign, the Government was forced to introduce rationing of bread, which had never been needed during the war, and many were impressed that Bramall won the seat narrowly. He made a successful maiden speech outlining the difficulties in administering Germany and removing Nazi-controlled institutions of government. In the 1950 election, Bramall lost his seat by 133 votes to his old University adversary Edward Heath with whom he always remained personally friendly. He had already taken up a career outside politics by reading for the Bar, and was called in 1949 to the Inner Temple. He specialised in landlord and tenant issues. He tried to win Bexley back in 1951 and 1959, and also made an unsuccessful attempt at Watford in 1955. Municipal affairs Bramall was active in local politics in the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster although the local boundaries made it extremely difficult for Labour candidates to win seats. The boundaries had been the same since 1900 and in the mid-1950s the Council decided to change them, using the Rateable Value of property as one way of making each ward equal in size. The local Labour Party, under Bramall's guidance and advocacy, challenged this method at a public inquiry and persuaded the Boundary Commissioner to accept a new scheme for the wards which Bramall had drawn up. After this boundary change took effect in 1959 the Labour Party won enough seats to elect him as an Alderman. He was elected as a councillor to the new Westminster City Council; when he lost his seat in 1968 the Conservative group blocked his election as an Alderman. In 1961 he was elected to the London County Council, representing Bethnal Green. He made the transition to the Greater London Council when that body was set up in 1964; he was one of eight people to serve as a member of the GLC throughout its existence. Membership of the GLC made him an ex officio member of the Inner London Education Authority and Bramall specialised in education issues. He was Chairman of ILEA from 1965 until Labour lost power in 1967. He was then chosen to lead the Labour Group. Labour won back control in 1970 and Bramall then became Leader of the authority. Leader of ILEA In the controversy over education in the 1970s, Bramall stood firmly behind comprehensive schools as a way of raising the educational achievements of most pupils. He was opposed to the use of corporal punishment and had it banned. However, his generally strong leadership did not prevent the scandal over the William Tyndale Junior School in Islington in 1975. He received a knighthood in 1975. Under Bramall, Labour retained control of ILEA in 1977 despite losing the GLC election. He was under pressure to stand as a candidate to replace Reg Goodwin as Labour Leader on the GLC in 1980, but resisted because he wanted to continue at ILEA. When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister she put pressure on local authorities, and especially on ILEA, to cut spending. Bramall was opposed but was not willing to go along with the far left demands for an outright confrontation and legal defiance. This made the left determined to replace him, and when Labour won GLC control in 1981 with a new left-wing majority, Bramall was voted out as ILEA leader. Knowing this was going to happen, Bramall had cleared out his office and left a note to his replacement on the desk before going to the meeting where the vote for leader was to take place. Bramall remained on the authority and continued to fight for moderate policies, and it was a sign of the respect which the left had for him that they were prepared to choose him as figurehead Chairman of the Authority. Retirement Bramall made an unsuccessful attempt to remain on the directly elected ILEA in 1986 at Putney. He was well regarded by Officers of ILEA, especially after the succession of weak far-left leaderships that followed. At his memorial service, a former Chief Officer remarked "Under Ashley Bramall, the ILEA never found it necessary to have a foreign policy". In his retirement, Bramall held many public appointments including Directorships of the Museum of London, Chairman of the Westminster College of Further Education, and Honorary Secretary of the Theatres Advisory Council. He remained active in local politics as chair of his local party branch and surprised many by his willingness to undertake menial tasks such as delivering leaflets while in his 80s. In 1996 he acted as Agent in a local byelection which saw Mair Garside, formerly his Deputy at ILEA, elected to Westminster City Council. He had appeared on Mastermind while Leader of ILEA in 1976, taking "British politics since 1918" as his specialist subject, and was an active member of the Masterminders' club. His second wife, Gery Bramall (who was a fellow Westminster Councillor), was also on the show. External links 1916 births 1999 deaths People educated at Canford School British Army personnel of World War II Reconnaissance Corps officers Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of London County Council Members of the Greater London Council Members of the Inner Temple Councillors in the City of Westminster UK MPs 1945–1950 Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Knights Bachelor Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers Politicians awarded knighthoods 20th-century British lawyers Ashley Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley Northamptonshire Yeomanry soldiers

Sir <mask> (6 January 1916 – 10 February 1999) was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Bexley from 1946 to 1950 and Leader of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) for 11 years. Family and early career <mask>'s family were wealthy merchants from Hampshire, but his mother was a socialist and did much to convince her son to support the left in politics. He attended Westminster School briefly, before moving to Canford School for the benefit of his health. He went up to Magdalen College, Oxford, in the mid-1930s to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was elected to chair the Oxford University Labour Club in 1938. At Oxford he was an active debater at the Oxford Union Society where he often debated with Edward Heath. He was Treasurer of the Union in 1939.On the outbreak of war, <mask> joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, into which he was commissioned in 1941. He transferred to the Reconnaissance Corps later the same year and also served at the Army Staff College in Camberley, being promoted to Major. After the end of the war, he served in Germany in the Allied administration. His younger brother Edwin (known as 'Dwin') was much later to be appointed Chief of the Defence Staff and created <mask>. Parliament <mask> had already begun his political career by fighting Fareham for the Labour Party in the 1945 general election, and when a vacancy occurred at Bexley he was selected to fight the by-election. During the campaign, the Government was forced to introduce rationing of bread, which had never been needed during the war, and many were impressed that <mask> won the seat narrowly. He made a successful maiden speech outlining the difficulties in administering Germany and removing Nazi-controlled institutions of government.In the 1950 election, <mask> lost his seat by 133 votes to his old University adversary Edward Heath with whom he always remained personally friendly. He had already taken up a career outside politics by reading for the Bar, and was called in 1949 to the Inner Temple. He specialised in landlord and tenant issues. He tried to win Bexley back in 1951 and 1959, and also made an unsuccessful attempt at Watford in 1955. Municipal affairs <mask> was active in local politics in the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster although the local boundaries made it extremely difficult for Labour candidates to win seats. The boundaries had been the same since 1900 and in the mid-1950s the Council decided to change them, using the Rateable Value of property as one way of making each ward equal in size. The local Labour Party, under <mask>'s guidance and advocacy, challenged this method at a public inquiry and persuaded the Boundary Commissioner to accept a new scheme for the wards which <mask> had drawn up.After this boundary change took effect in 1959 the Labour Party won enough seats to elect him as an Alderman. He was elected as a councillor to the new Westminster City Council; when he lost his seat in 1968 the Conservative group blocked his election as an Alderman. In 1961 he was elected to the London County Council, representing Bethnal Green. He made the transition to the Greater London Council when that body was set up in 1964; he was one of eight people to serve as a member of the GLC throughout its existence. Membership of the GLC made him an ex officio member of the Inner London Education Authority and <mask> specialised in education issues. He was Chairman of ILEA from 1965 until Labour lost power in 1967. He was then chosen to lead the Labour Group.Labour won back control in 1970 and <mask> then became Leader of the authority. Leader of ILEA In the controversy over education in the 1970s, <mask> stood firmly behind comprehensive schools as a way of raising the educational achievements of most pupils. He was opposed to the use of corporal punishment and had it banned. However, his generally strong leadership did not prevent the scandal over the William Tyndale Junior School in Islington in 1975. He received a knighthood in 1975. Under <mask>, Labour retained control of ILEA in 1977 despite losing the GLC election. He was under pressure to stand as a candidate to replace Reg Goodwin as Labour Leader on the GLC in 1980, but resisted because he wanted to continue at ILEA.When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister she put pressure on local authorities, and especially on ILEA, to cut spending. <mask> was opposed but was not willing to go along with the far left demands for an outright confrontation and legal defiance. This made the left determined to replace him, and when Labour won GLC control in 1981 with a new left-wing majority, <mask> was voted out as ILEA leader. Knowing this was going to happen, <mask> had cleared out his office and left a note to his replacement on the desk before going to the meeting where the vote for leader was to take place. <mask> remained on the authority and continued to fight for moderate policies, and it was a sign of the respect which the left had for him that they were prepared to choose him as figurehead Chairman of the Authority. Retirement <mask> made an unsuccessful attempt to remain on the directly elected ILEA in 1986 at Putney. He was well regarded by Officers of ILEA, especially after the succession of weak far-left leaderships that followed.At his memorial service, a former Chief Officer remarked "Under <mask>, the ILEA never found it necessary to have a foreign policy". In his retirement, <mask> held many public appointments including Directorships of the Museum of London, Chairman of the Westminster College of Further Education, and Honorary Secretary of the Theatres Advisory Council. He remained active in local politics as chair of his local party branch and surprised many by his willingness to undertake menial tasks such as delivering leaflets while in his 80s. In 1996 he acted as Agent in a local byelection which saw Mair Garside, formerly his Deputy at ILEA, elected to Westminster City Council. He had appeared on Mastermind while Leader of ILEA in 1976, taking "British politics since 1918" as his specialist subject, and was an active member of the Masterminders' club. His second wife, Gery <mask> (who was a fellow Westminster Councillor), was also on the show. External links 1916 births 1999 deaths People educated at Canford School British Army personnel of World War II Reconnaissance Corps officers Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of London County Council Members of the Greater London Council Members of the Inner Temple Councillors in the City of Westminster UK MPs 1945–1950 Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Knights Bachelor Northamptonshire Yeomanry officers Politicians awarded knighthoods 20th-century British lawyers <mask> Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley Northamptonshire Yeomanry soldiers

The leader of the Inner London Education Authority for 11 years was a British Labour Party politician, who was also a Member of Parliament. His mother was a socialist and did everything she could to convince her son to support the left in politics. He moved to Canford School for the sake of his health. He went to Oxford in the 1930s to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. The Oxford University Labour Club was chaired by him. He was an active debater at the Oxford Union Society. He was the Union's treasurer in 1939.He joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry on the outbreak of war. He was promoted to Major after serving at the Army Staff College. He served in the Allied administration in Germany after the war ended. The Chief of the Defence Staff was created by his younger brother, who was known as 'Dwin'. After fighting Fareham for the Labour Party in the 1945 general election, Parliament had already begun his political career when he was selected to fight the by-election at Bexley. During the campaign, the Government was forced to introduce rationing of bread, which had never been needed during the war, and many were impressed that <mask> won the seat narrowly. He spoke about the difficulties in administering Germany and removing Nazi-controlled institutions of government.In the 1950 election, Edward Heath defeated him by 133 votes, despite the fact that he was personally friendly with him. He was called to the Inner Temple in 1949 after taking up a career outside politics by reading for the Bar. He dealt with landlord and tenant issues. He tried to win Bexley in 1951 and 1959 but failed. The local boundaries made it very difficult for Labour candidates to win seats. In the mid-1950s, the Council decided to use the Rateable Value of property as a way of making each ward equal in size, after the boundaries had been the same since 1900. The Boundary Commissioner was persuaded to accept a new scheme by the local Labour Party after they challenged this method at a public inquiry.The Labour Party won enough seats to get him elected as an Alderman after the boundary change. When he lost his seat in 1968, the Conservative group blocked his election as an Alderman. He was elected to the London County Council in 1961. When the Greater London Council was established in 1964, he was one of eight people to serve as a member. He was an ex officio member of the Inner London Education Authority because of his membership of the GLC. Labour lost power in 1967. The Labour Group was led by him.Labour won back control of the authority in 1970. In the 1970s, the leader of ILEA stood firmly behind comprehensive schools as a way of raising the educational achievements of most children. He banned the use ofcorporal punishment. The William Tyndale Junior School scandal was not prevented by his strong leadership. He was given a knighthood in 1975. Labour retained control of ILEA despite losing the election. He was under pressure to become Labour Leader on the GLC in 1980, but resisted because he wanted to stay at ILEA.Margaret Thatcher put pressure on local authorities to cut spending when she was Prime Minister. He was not willing to go along with the demands of the far left for a confrontation and legal defiance. When Labour won control of GLC in 1981 with a new left-wing majority, the left decided to replace him and he was voted out as ILEA leader. Before going to the meeting where the vote for leader was to take place, he left a note for his replacement on the desk and cleared out his office. It was a sign of the respect the left had for him that they were prepared to choose him as the Chairman of the Authority. Retirement <mask> tried to stay on the directly elected ILEA in 1986. After the weak far- left leaderships that followed, he was well regarded by the officers of ILEA.At his memorial service, a former Chief Officer remarked that the ILEA never found it necessary to have a foreign policy. The Director of the Museum of London, the Chairman of the Westminster College of Further Education, and the Secretary of the Theatres Advisory Council were some of the public appointments made by him in his retirement. He remained active in local politics as chair of his local party branch and surprised many by his willingness to undertake menial tasks such as delivering leaflets while in his 80s. Mair Garside, who was his deputy at ILEA, was elected to the council in 1996. He was an active member of the Masterminders' club and appeared on Mastermind in 1976, taking "British politics since 1918" as his specialist subject. His second wife was also on the show. People educated at Canford School have served in the British Army in World War II.

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Douglas P. Woodlock

Douglas Preston Woodlock (born February 27, 1947) is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut, Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating, Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986, Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He took senior status in 2015. Education, early life, and journalism career Woodlock was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 27, 1947. His family moved to the Chicago suburb of La Grange, Illinois, where Woodlock spent the first two years of high school. He spent his last two years of high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Woodlock received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1969, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and vice chairman of the Yale Daily News. He began his career in journalism as an intern at the Chicago Daily News, covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Woodlock then became a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1969 to 1973, where he worked in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, before moving to the Sun-Timess Washington Bureau in 1971–1973, where he covered the Supreme Court. Woodlock then attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of The Georgetown Law Journal. He earned his J.D. in 1975. Legal career Woodlock worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 1975 and was a law clerk for Judge Frank Jerome Murray of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976. He was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 to 1979 as an associate at the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, serving under U.S. Attorneys Edward F. Harrington and Bill Weld. He was assigned to the Justice Department's New England Task Force from 1982 to 1983. Woodlock returned to Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in 1983, where he was made a partner in 1984, and remained at the firm until his appointment to the federal bench. Woodlock was also chairman of the Board of Appeals for the Town of Hamilton from 1978 to 1979; an instructor at Harvard Law School in 1980 and 1981; and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services from 1984 to 1986. Federal judicial service Woodlock was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on April 22, 1986, to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated by Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 13, 1986, on a voice vote, and received his commission three days later. He assumed senior status on June 1, 2015. Woodlock is known for his interest in architecture and public art. He was a leading figure in the design of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, a new federal courthouse on the Boston waterfront, working with Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the project. Linda Greenhouse noted that both Woodlock and Breyer took "an intense hands-on role" in the development of the courthouse, which was designed by architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. In 1996, the American Institute of Architects honored Woodlock with its Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture for his efforts. Woodlock is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Judicature Society. He also served on the Committee on Space and Facilities of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Notable civil cases In 1989, Woodlock presided over a lawsuit brought by Jugoplastika, a Yugoslavian basketball team, against the Boston Celtics. Jugoplastika brought the suit after the Celtics had drafted basketball player Dino Radja, alleging that Radja still had two years remaining on a 1988 contract with Jugoplastika. Woodlock issued a preliminary injunction barring Radja from playing for the Celtics for two years. In October 1989, the Celtics and the Jugoplastika reached a settlement, under which the Celtics partially bought out Radja's contract with Jugoplastika, so that Radja would play for Jugoplastika during the 1989–90 season, but could play for the Celtics starting in the 1990–91 season. In a 1995 suit under the Alien Tort Claims Act, Woodlock ordered Hector Gramajo, a former Guatemalan general and defense minister, to pay $47.5 million in damages to nine plaintiffs, for his role in overseeing a campaign of repression and human rights abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War. The plaintiffs were eight Gutamalean Canjobal indigenous people and American nun Dianna Ortiz, who brought claims for human rights violations that included the razing of Canjobal villages and the torture of Ortiz. In his ruling, Woodlock wrote: "Gramajo was aware of and supported widespread acts of brutality committed under his command resulting in thousands of civilian deaths. The evidence suggests that Gramajo devised and directed the implementation of an indiscriminate campaign of terror against civilians." In 2008, Woodlock presided over a case involving the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), in which he issued an injunction barring three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from disclosing security vulnerabilities in the MBTA's CharlieCard system; the decision was controversial, and resulting press attention resulted in further publicity of the security lapse. Woodlock was the judge who presided over litigation between the South Middlesex Opportunity Council, an anti-poverty group, and the Town of Framingham and its officials. The Opportunity Council filed suit in 2007, alleging that the town government had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal fair housing laws by, among other things, delaying the permitting process for the construction of housing for recovering drug addicts and homeless veterans. In September 2010, Woodlock issued a lengthy opinion denying the town's motion to dismiss the suit, and the parties reached a settlement the following month, in which the Town paid $1 million and agreed to have officials undergo civil rights training. In 2011, Woodlock dismissed an attempt by the Winklevoss twins and their partner Divya Narendra to reopen litigation on their claims related to Facebook; the Winklevosses had settled their claims in a $65 million settlement in 2008. In 2020, Woodlock issued a preliminary order directing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to allow gun stores (but not shooting ranges) to reopen, overruling Governor Charlie Baker's executive order to the extent it excluded gun retailers from a list of essential retailers permitted to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. Applying intermediate scrutiny to the Second Amendment question, Woodlock found that the commonwealth had failed to establish "a substantial fit between the goals of the emergency declared by the commonwealth and the burdening of the constitutional rights," noting that liquor stores were deemed essential but gun retailers were not. The judge's order did require gun shops who reopened to follow a ten-point plan adopted by the state to limit the spread of the virus, including social distancing requirements, sales by appointment only, wearing of masks by employees and customers, and sanitation requirements. Notable criminal cases Woodlock has presided over a number of noteworthy criminal cases. In 2005, Woodlock accepted a plea agreement between federal prosecutors and Ahmed F. Mehalba, a translator at the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, who pleaded guilty to removing a disc containing classified documents from the base. Woodlock sentenced Mehalba to 20 months in prison. In 2010, Woodlock sentenced computer hacker Albert Gonzalez to 20 years and one day in prison, after Gonzalez pleaded guilty the previous year to hacking Heartland Payment Systems' corporate computer system as part of a scheme to steal millions of payment card numbers. In 2010, Woodlock accepted the guilty plea of Dianne Wilkerson, a former member of the Massachusetts Senate who pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted that she had accepted bribes, and the next year, Woodlock sentenced her to three and a half years in prison. Also in 2011, Woodlock sentenced former Boston city councilor Chuck Turner to three years in prison for accepting a $1,000 bribe, citing Turner's false statements to the FBI and "ludicrously perjurious testimony" as reasons for the sentence. In 2012, Woodlock sentenced Catherine E. Greig, the longtime companion of Boston organized crime figure James "Whitey" Bulger, to eight years in jail. Greig pleaded guilty to harboring Bulger while he was a fugitive from justice. The sentence was affirmed on appeal. In 2014, Woodlock oversaw the criminal proceedings against two friends of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who were convicted of obstruction of justice for destroying evidence and lying to authorities who were investigating the crime. In 2019, Woodlock was the judge assigned to the criminal case against Jeffrey Bizzack, a California businessman who was one of many parents charged in the Varsity Blues admissions bribery scandal. Bizzack pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with a scheme to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California as a fake recruited athlete; Woodlock sentenced Bizzack to two months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. Works Communities and the Courthouses They Deserve. And Vice Versa., 24 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (2012). "Drawing Meaning from the Heart of the Courthouse" in Celebrating the Courthouse: A Guide for Architects, Their Clients, and the Public (ed. Steven Flanders: New York: W.W. Norton: 2006). "Judicial Responsibility in Federal Courthouse Design Review: Intentions and Aspirations for Boston" in Federal Buildings in Context: The Role of Design Review (ed. J. Carter Brown: Yale University Press, 1995). References External links 1947 births 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Georgetown University Law Center alumni Harvard Law School faculty Journalists from Illinois Journalists from Washington, D.C. Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Lawyers from Boston Lawyers from Hartford, Connecticut Living people People from La Grange, Illinois Phillips Academy alumni United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan Yale College alumni

<mask> (born February 27, 1947) is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut, <mask> graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating, <mask> was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986, <mask> presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He took senior status in 2015. Education, early life, and journalism career <mask> was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 27, 1947. His family moved to the Chicago suburb of La Grange, Illinois, where <mask> spent the first two years of high school.He spent his last two years of high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. <mask> received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1969, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and vice chairman of the Yale Daily News. He began his career in journalism as an intern at the Chicago Daily News, covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. <mask> then became a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1969 to 1973, where he worked in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, before moving to the Sun-Timess Washington Bureau in 1971–1973, where he covered the Supreme Court. <mask> then attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a member of The Georgetown Law Journal. He earned his J.D. in 1975.Legal career <mask> worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 1975 and was a law clerk for Judge Frank Jerome Murray of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976. He was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 to 1979 as an associate at the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, serving under U.S. Attorneys Edward F. Harrington and Bill Weld. He was assigned to the Justice Department's New England Task Force from 1982 to 1983. <mask> returned to Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in 1983, where he was made a partner in 1984, and remained at the firm until his appointment to the federal bench. <mask> was also chairman of the Board of Appeals for the Town of Hamilton from 1978 to 1979; an instructor at Harvard Law School in 1980 and 1981; and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services from 1984 to 1986. Federal judicial service <mask> was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on April 22, 1986, to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated by Judge Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr.He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 13, 1986, on a voice vote, and received his commission three days later. He assumed senior status on June 1, 2015. <mask> is known for his interest in architecture and public art. He was a leading figure in the design of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, a new federal courthouse on the Boston waterfront, working with Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the project. Linda Greenhouse noted that both <mask> and Breyer took "an intense hands-on role" in the development of the courthouse, which was designed by architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. In 1996, the American Institute of Architects honored <mask> with its Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture for his efforts. <mask> is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Judicature Society.He also served on the Committee on Space and Facilities of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Notable civil cases In 1989, <mask> presided over a lawsuit brought by Jugoplastika, a Yugoslavian basketball team, against the Boston Celtics. Jugoplastika brought the suit after the Celtics had drafted basketball player Dino Radja, alleging that Radja still had two years remaining on a 1988 contract with Jugoplastika. <mask> issued a preliminary injunction barring Radja from playing for the Celtics for two years. In October 1989, the Celtics and the Jugoplastika reached a settlement, under which the Celtics partially bought out Radja's contract with Jugoplastika, so that Radja would play for Jugoplastika during the 1989–90 season, but could play for the Celtics starting in the 1990–91 season. In a 1995 suit under the Alien Tort Claims Act, <mask> ordered Hector Gramajo, a former Guatemalan general and defense minister, to pay $47.5 million in damages to nine plaintiffs, for his role in overseeing a campaign of repression and human rights abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War. The plaintiffs were eight Gutamalean Canjobal indigenous people and American nun Dianna Ortiz, who brought claims for human rights violations that included the razing of Canjobal villages and the torture of Ortiz.In his ruling, <mask> wrote: "Gramajo was aware of and supported widespread acts of brutality committed under his command resulting in thousands of civilian deaths. The evidence suggests that Gramajo devised and directed the implementation of an indiscriminate campaign of terror against civilians." In 2008, <mask> presided over a case involving the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), in which he issued an injunction barring three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from disclosing security vulnerabilities in the MBTA's CharlieCard system; the decision was controversial, and resulting press attention resulted in further publicity of the security lapse. <mask> was the judge who presided over litigation between the South Middlesex Opportunity Council, an anti-poverty group, and the Town of Framingham and its officials. The Opportunity Council filed suit in 2007, alleging that the town government had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal fair housing laws by, among other things, delaying the permitting process for the construction of housing for recovering drug addicts and homeless veterans. In September 2010, <mask> issued a lengthy opinion denying the town's motion to dismiss the suit, and the parties reached a settlement the following month, in which the Town paid $1 million and agreed to have officials undergo civil rights training. In 2011, Woodlock dismissed an attempt by the Winklevoss twins and their partner Divya Narendra to reopen litigation on their claims related to Facebook; the Winklevosses had settled their claims in a $65 million settlement in 2008.In 2020, Woodlock issued a preliminary order directing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to allow gun stores (but not shooting ranges) to reopen, overruling Governor Charlie Baker's executive order to the extent it excluded gun retailers from a list of essential retailers permitted to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. Applying intermediate scrutiny to the Second Amendment question, <mask> found that the commonwealth had failed to establish "a substantial fit between the goals of the emergency declared by the commonwealth and the burdening of the constitutional rights," noting that liquor stores were deemed essential but gun retailers were not. The judge's order did require gun shops who reopened to follow a ten-point plan adopted by the state to limit the spread of the virus, including social distancing requirements, sales by appointment only, wearing of masks by employees and customers, and sanitation requirements. Notable criminal cases Woodlock has presided over a number of noteworthy criminal cases. In 2005, Woodlock accepted a plea agreement between federal prosecutors and Ahmed F. Mehalba, a translator at the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, who pleaded guilty to removing a disc containing classified documents from the base. Woodlock sentenced Mehalba to 20 months in prison. In 2010, Woodlock sentenced computer hacker Albert Gonzalez to 20 years and one day in prison, after Gonzalez pleaded guilty the previous year to hacking Heartland Payment Systems' corporate computer system as part of a scheme to steal millions of payment card numbers.In 2010, <mask> accepted the guilty plea of Dianne Wilkerson, a former member of the Massachusetts Senate who pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted that she had accepted bribes, and the next year, <mask> sentenced her to three and a half years in prison. Also in 2011, <mask> sentenced former Boston city councilor Chuck Turner to three years in prison for accepting a $1,000 bribe, citing Turner's false statements to the FBI and "ludicrously perjurious testimony" as reasons for the sentence. In 2012, <mask> sentenced Catherine E. Greig, the longtime companion of Boston organized crime figure James "Whitey" Bulger, to eight years in jail. Greig pleaded guilty to harboring Bulger while he was a fugitive from justice. The sentence was affirmed on appeal. In 2014, <mask> oversaw the criminal proceedings against two friends of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who were convicted of obstruction of justice for destroying evidence and lying to authorities who were investigating the crime. In 2019, <mask> was the judge assigned to the criminal case against Jeffrey Bizzack, a California businessman who was one of many parents charged in the Varsity Blues admissions bribery scandal.Bizzack pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with a scheme to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California as a fake recruited athlete; <mask> sentenced Bizzack to two months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. Works Communities and the Courthouses They Deserve. And Vice Versa., 24 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (2012). "Drawing Meaning from the Heart of the Courthouse" in Celebrating the Courthouse: A Guide for Architects, Their Clients, and the Public (ed. Steven Flanders: New York: W.W. Norton: 2006). "Judicial Responsibility in Federal Courthouse Design Review: Intentions and Aspirations for Boston" in Federal Buildings in Context: The Role of Design Review (ed. J. Carter Brown: Yale University Press, 1995).References External links 1947 births 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Georgetown University Law Center alumni Harvard Law School faculty Journalists from Illinois Journalists from Washington, D.C. Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Lawyers from Boston Lawyers from Hartford, Connecticut Living people People from La Grange, Illinois Phillips Academy alumni United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan Yale College alumni

<mask> is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. <mask> attended Georgetown University Law Center after graduating from Yale College. After graduating, <mask> was a lawyer in private practice and worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. A key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront, <mask> was appointed to the federal bench in 1986 and presided over a number of noteworthy cases. He became a senior in 2015. <mask> was born in Connecticut on February 27, 1947. <mask> spent the first two years of high school in La Grange, Illinois, where his family moved.He spent his last two years of high school in Massachusetts. <mask> received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College in 1969 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He began his journalism career as an intern at the Chicago Daily News, covering the 1968 Democratic National Convention. <mask> was a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1969 to 1973, where he worked in Chicago and Springfield, Illinois, before moving to the Sun-Times Washington Bureau, where he covered the Supreme Court. <mask> was a member of The Georgetown Law Journal. He received his J.D. In 1975.<mask> worked in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 1975 and was a law clerk for Judge Frank Murray of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976. He worked in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1976 to 1979 before becoming an assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts. Attorneys Bill Weld and Edward F. Harrington. He was a member of the Justice Department's New England Task Force. <mask> was made a partner at the firm in 1984 and remained there until his appointment to the federal bench. From 1978 to 1979 <mask> was chairman of the Board of Appeals for the Town of Hamilton, as well as an instructor at Harvard Law School and chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. President Ronald Reagan nominated <mask> for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on April 22, 1986.He received his commission three days after he was confirmed by the United States Senate. He became a senior on June 1, 2015. <mask> has an interest in architecture and public art. He was involved in the design of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, a new federal courthouse on the Boston waterfront. Linda Greenhouse said that both <mask> and Breyer took "an intense hands-on role" in the development of the courthouse. <mask> received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture from the American Institute of Architects. <mask> is a member of several organizations.He was a member of the Committee on Space and Facilities of the Judicial Conference of the United States. In 1989 <mask> presided over a lawsuit against the Boston Celtics. Jugoplastika brought the suit after the Celtics drafted a basketball player, claiming that he still had two years left on his contract. A preliminary injunction was issued by <mask> prohibiting Radja from playing for the Celtics for two years. In October 1989, the Celtics and the Jugoplastika reached a settlement, under which the Celtics partially bought out the contract of radja, so that he could play for the Celtics during the 1989–90 season. <mask> ordered Gramajo to pay $47.5 million in damages for his role in overseeing a campaign of human rights abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War. Eight Gutamalean Canjobal indigenous people and an American nun brought claims for human rights violations that included the razing of Canjobal villages."Gramajo was aware of and supported widespread acts of brutality committed under his command resulting in thousands of civilian deaths," <mask> wrote in his ruling. The evidence shows that Gramajo directed a campaign of terror against civilians. In 2008, <mask> presided over a case involving the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), in which he issued an injunction barring three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from disclosing security vulnerabilities in the MBTA's CharlieCard system; the decision was controversial, and resulted in further publicity. The judge who presided over the litigation was Woodlock. The town government was accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and federal fair housing laws by the Opportunity Council. The Town paid $1 million and agreed to have officials undergo civil rights training after Woodlock denied the town's motion to dismiss the suit. Woodlock dismissed an attempt by the Winklevoss twins and their partner to reopen litigation on their claims related to Facebook, despite the fact that they had settled their claims in 2008 for $65 million.In 2020, Woodlock issued a preliminary order directing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to allow gun stores to reopen, overruling Governor Charlie Baker's executive order to the extent it excluded gun retailers from a list of essential retailers permitted to remain open during the coronaviruses epidemic. <mask> found that the commonwealth had failed to establish a substantial fit between the goals of the emergency and the burdening of the constitutional rights, noting that liquor stores were deemed essential but gun retailers were not. The judge's order required gun shops that reopened to follow a ten point plan adopted by the state to limit the spread of the virus, including social distancing requirements, sales by appointment only, wearing of masks by employees and customers, and Sanitation requirements. Notable criminal cases have been presided over by <mask>. <mask> accepted a plea agreement in 2005 between federal prosecutors and a translator who pleaded guilty to removing a disc containing classified documents. <mask> sentenced Mehalba to 20 months in prison. In 2010, Woodlock sentenced computer hacker Albert Gonzalez to 20 years and one day in prison for hacking Heartland Payment Systems' corporate computer system as part of a scheme to steal millions of payment card numbers.In 2010, <mask> accepted the guilty plea of Dianne Wilkerson, a former member of the Massachusetts Senate who pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted that she had accepted bribes, and the next year, <mask> sentenced her to three and a half years in prison. <mask> sentenced former Boston city councilor Chuck Turner to three years in prison for accepting a bribe because of his false statements to the FBI. Catherine E. Greig was sentenced to eight years in jail by <mask>. The woman pleaded guilty to helping the man who was a fugitive from justice. On appeal, the sentence was affirmed. <mask> oversaw the criminal proceedings against two friends of Boston Marathon bomber, who were convicted of obstruction of justice for destroying evidence and lying to authorities who were investigating the crime. The judge assigned to the criminal case against Jeffrey Bizzack was <mask>.<mask> sentenced Bizzack to two months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with a scheme to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California as a fake recruited athlete. Works Communities and the Courthouses deserve it. The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities published And Vice Versa. The book "Drawing Meaning from the Heart of the Courthouse" is a guide for architects, their clients and the public. Steven Flanders is from New York. "Judicial Responsibility in Federal Courthouse Design Review: Intentions and Aspirations for Boston" was written in Federal Buildings in Context: The Role of Design Review. J. Carter Brown is the author of the Yale University Press.References External links 1947 births 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Georgetown University Law Center alumni Harvard Law School faculty Journalists from Illinois The judges of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts are appointed by Ronald Reagan.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Jackson%20%28British%20Army%20officer%29

Arnold Jackson (British Army officer)

Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson, (5 April 1891 – 13 November 1972) was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". He was a brigadier general and amongst the most highly decorated British general officers of the First World War. Early life He was born Arnold Nugent Strode Jackson at Addlestone, Surrey, changing his surname to Strode-Jackson on 31 March 1919 (as noted in The London Gazette of 1 April 1919). He was the son of Morton Strode Jackson and Edith Rosine Martin, and grandson of Lieutenant General George Jackson. His uncle was Clement Jackson, athlete, academic, bursar of Hertford College, Oxford, and co-founder of the Amateur Athletic Association. His sister was the novelist Myrtle Beatrice Strode Strode-Jackson. He was educated at Malvern College, where he was head of his house and head of the athletics team, and there acquired the nickname "Jackers". Jackson entered Brasenose College, Oxford in 1910, where he took a degree in law. Athletic career Jackson rowed and played football and hockey for Brasenose College, being captain of the hockey team. He won the mile race for Oxford against Cambridge three times and was President of the Oxford University Athletic Club. In 1912, while still an undergraduate, Jackson cut short his fishing holiday in Norway, and travelled by train to compete in that year's Olympic Games in Sweden. He had to compete as a private entry, not having been chosen by the Great Britain team, along with his friend from Cambridge, Philip Baker, another private entry. This was the last Olympics at which such private entries were allowed. Even when compared to the amateurish race preparation of the era, Jackson's training regime of massage, golf and walking seemed very relaxed. At Stockholm, American hopes were high to win a gold in 1500 m, as the USA were successful in mile racing at that time, and seven of the runners in the final were from the USA. The race started at a modest 65 second pace, until Norman Taber took the lead and increased the pace. At the bell for the final lap, Abel Kiviat, a world record holder in 1500 m was first, followed by Taber and John Paul Jones, the mile world record holder. On the final turn, Mel Sheppard and Jackson also joined the crowd on his heels, with Sweden's Ernst Wide closing fast. The three Americans ran abreast, so Jackson had to run wide. With 50 yards left, Jackson came even with Kiviat and Taber, as Jones and Wide started to fade. Jackson summoned one last burst and captured the gold in 3:56.8, an Olympic record. Kiviat and Taber both clocked 3:56.9, and the photo had to be reviewed before officials handed the silver to Kiviat. Baker finished sixth. At the time, it was widely acclaimed as being "the greatest race ever run". Aged 21, Jackson was the youngest ever Olympic 1500 m gold medalist until Asbel Kiprop in 2008, aged 19. Military career At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Jackson was commissioned in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and, in September 1914, was attached to the 13th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, as a second lieutenant. He went over to France with the battalion and was with them until promoted lieutenant colonel in May 1918, when he took command of the 13th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps. In December 1914, he was promoted to temporary lieutenant. On 1 July 1916, he was promoted to captain. He was made an acting major by the time of his first DSO on 4 June 1917, and in August 1917, acting lieutenant colonel. He was made a full lieutenant colonel in May 1918, and Acting Brigadier in October 1918. Jackson served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, becoming a brigadier general in the British Army and being awarded the Distinguished Service Order with three Bars. The war put an end to his sporting career, for he was wounded three times and left permanently lame. Medals and honours He was awarded his DSO and Three Bars, with citations from The London Gazette, as follows: DSO awarded 4 June 1917, general citation. 1st Bar awarded on 18 July 1917, "for conspicuous gallantry during lengthy operations, when he assumed command of the battalion and, although wounded on two separate occasions, was able to carry out most valuable work. By his skill and courage he offered a splendid example to all ranks with him." 2nd Bar awarded on 13 May 1918, "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His battalion was subjected to an intense bombardment throughout a whole day, which caused many casualties and cut off all communication by wire with the front-line companies. He handles the situation with such skill and initiative that when the enemy attacked towards evening the casualties caused by the bombardment had been evacuated and replaced by reinforcements and communication with the front line had been re-established. It was entirely due to his powers of command and the splendid spirit with which he inspired his men that the attack on the greater part of his front was repulsed, and that the enemy, though they penetrated into parts of the front line, were counter-attacked and held at bay until the arrival of reinforcements. By his skilful dispositions he materially assisted the counter-attack which finally drove the enemy back with heavy losses and completely re-established the position." 3rd Bar awarded on 2 December 1918, "for conspicuous gallantry and brilliant leadership. During an attack by our troops Lt-Col Jackson advanced with the leading wave of his battalion, and was among the first to reach the railway embankment. The machine-gun fire against them was intense, but the gallant leading of this officer gave such impetus to the assault that the enemy¹s main line of resistance was broken. He was subsequently wounded during the work of consolidation." Jackson was also Mentioned in Despatches six times during the war, all published in the Gazette: 15 June 1916, 23 July 1917, 21 December 1917, 24 May 1918, 28 December 1918 and 12 January 1920. Later life He was a member of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and was appointed a CBE for his work there. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple. He went on to be a member of the British Olympic Council in 1920, and a major force in the founding of the Achilles Club. He emigrated to the United States in 1921, where he worked in industry and as a Justice of the Peace in Connecticut. He directed the first Kentucky Derby Festival in 1935. During World War II, he was a Colonel on the staff of the Governor of Kentucky, and Administration Officer of the Inspection Board of U.K. and Canada in New York and Ottawa, in charge of Inspectors and anti-sabotage precautions. He also met convoys arriving in New York and give what help he could to returning servicemen. He was the author of Kentucky Heyday: 1787–1827; the life and times of Kentucky's foremost portrait painter, published in 1956, a book about the artist Matthew Jouett He became a U.S. citizen in 1945. In 1963, after the death of his wife Dora, he returned to Oxford, where he lived until his own death on 13 November 1972. Personal life In 1918, he married Dora Mooney, daughter of the late William Allen Mooney of Silver Hills, New Albany, Indiana, USA. Legacy A play about his life, "Strode-Jackson" was written by Mike Hodd and Jack Thorington, and premiered at the King's Head Theatre, London, in 1979. A full-length oil painting of Jackson is prominently displayed at Vincent's Club in Oxford, having been rescued and repaired after lying neglected for many years in a Brasenose College cellar. References External links Images of Arnold Jackson's 1947 & 1963 passports from passportland.com 1912 1500m account 1891 births 1972 deaths British male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Great Britain British Army generals of World War I King's Royal Rifle Corps officers People educated at Malvern College Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain English Olympic medallists English barristers Loyal Regiment officers People from Addlestone English emigrants to the United States People from Madison, Connecticut Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century English lawyers British Army generals Military personnel from Surrey

Brigadier General <mask>, (5 April 1891 – 13 November 1972) was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". He was a brigadier general and amongst the most highly decorated British general officers of the First World War. Early life He was born <mask> at Addlestone, Surrey, changing his surname to <mask> on 31 March 1919 (as noted in The London Gazette of 1 April 1919). He was the son of <mask> and Edith Rosine Martin, and grandson of Lieutenant General <mask>. His uncle was <mask>, athlete, academic, bursar of Hertford College, Oxford, and co-founder of the Amateur Athletic Association. His sister was the novelist <mask>.He was educated at Malvern College, where he was head of his house and head of the athletics team, and there acquired the nickname "Jackers". <mask> entered Brasenose College, Oxford in 1910, where he took a degree in law. Athletic career <mask> rowed and played football and hockey for Brasenose College, being captain of the hockey team. He won the mile race for Oxford against Cambridge three times and was President of the Oxford University Athletic Club. In 1912, while still an undergraduate, <mask> cut short his fishing holiday in Norway, and travelled by train to compete in that year's Olympic Games in Sweden. He had to compete as a private entry, not having been chosen by the Great Britain team, along with his friend from Cambridge, Philip Baker, another private entry. This was the last Olympics at which such private entries were allowed.Even when compared to the amateurish race preparation of the era, <mask>'s training regime of massage, golf and walking seemed very relaxed. At Stockholm, American hopes were high to win a gold in 1500 m, as the USA were successful in mile racing at that time, and seven of the runners in the final were from the USA. The race started at a modest 65 second pace, until Norman Taber took the lead and increased the pace. At the bell for the final lap, Abel Kiviat, a world record holder in 1500 m was first, followed by Taber and John Paul Jones, the mile world record holder. On the final turn, Mel Sheppard and <mask> also joined the crowd on his heels, with Sweden's Ernst Wide closing fast. The three Americans ran abreast, so <mask> had to run wide. With 50 yards left, <mask> came even with Kiviat and Taber, as Jones and Wide started to fade.<mask> summoned one last burst and captured the gold in 3:56.8, an Olympic record. Kiviat and Taber both clocked 3:56.9, and the photo had to be reviewed before officials handed the silver to Kiviat. Baker finished sixth. At the time, it was widely acclaimed as being "the greatest race ever run". Aged 21, <mask> was the youngest ever Olympic 1500 m gold medalist until Asbel Kiprop in 2008, aged 19. Military career At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, <mask> was commissioned in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and, in September 1914, was attached to the 13th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, as a second lieutenant. He went over to France with the battalion and was with them until promoted lieutenant colonel in May 1918, when he took command of the 13th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.In December 1914, he was promoted to temporary lieutenant. On 1 July 1916, he was promoted to captain. He was made an acting major by the time of his first DSO on 4 June 1917, and in August 1917, acting lieutenant colonel. He was made a full lieutenant colonel in May 1918, and Acting Brigadier in October 1918. <mask> served in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, becoming a brigadier general in the British Army and being awarded the Distinguished Service Order with three Bars. The war put an end to his sporting career, for he was wounded three times and left permanently lame. Medals and honours He was awarded his DSO and Three Bars, with citations from The London Gazette, as follows: DSO awarded 4 June 1917, general citation.1st Bar awarded on 18 July 1917, "for conspicuous gallantry during lengthy operations, when he assumed command of the battalion and, although wounded on two separate occasions, was able to carry out most valuable work. By his skill and courage he offered a splendid example to all ranks with him." 2nd Bar awarded on 13 May 1918, "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. His battalion was subjected to an intense bombardment throughout a whole day, which caused many casualties and cut off all communication by wire with the front-line companies. He handles the situation with such skill and initiative that when the enemy attacked towards evening the casualties caused by the bombardment had been evacuated and replaced by reinforcements and communication with the front line had been re-established. It was entirely due to his powers of command and the splendid spirit with which he inspired his men that the attack on the greater part of his front was repulsed, and that the enemy, though they penetrated into parts of the front line, were counter-attacked and held at bay until the arrival of reinforcements. By his skilful dispositions he materially assisted the counter-attack which finally drove the enemy back with heavy losses and completely re-established the position."3rd Bar awarded on 2 December 1918, "for conspicuous gallantry and brilliant leadership. During an attack by our troops Lt-Col <mask> advanced with the leading wave of his battalion, and was among the first to reach the railway embankment. The machine-gun fire against them was intense, but the gallant leading of this officer gave such impetus to the assault that the enemy¹s main line of resistance was broken. He was subsequently wounded during the work of consolidation." <mask> was also Mentioned in Despatches six times during the war, all published in the Gazette: 15 June 1916, 23 July 1917, 21 December 1917, 24 May 1918, 28 December 1918 and 12 January 1920. Later life He was a member of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and was appointed a CBE for his work there. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple.He went on to be a member of the British Olympic Council in 1920, and a major force in the founding of the Achilles Club. He emigrated to the United States in 1921, where he worked in industry and as a Justice of the Peace in Connecticut. He directed the first Kentucky Derby Festival in 1935. During World War II, he was a Colonel on the staff of the Governor of Kentucky, and Administration Officer of the Inspection Board of U.K. and Canada in New York and Ottawa, in charge of Inspectors and anti-sabotage precautions. He also met convoys arriving in New York and give what help he could to returning servicemen. He was the author of Kentucky Heyday: 1787–1827; the life and times of Kentucky's foremost portrait painter, published in 1956, a book about the artist Matthew Jouett He became a U.S. citizen in 1945. In 1963, after the death of his wife Dora, he returned to Oxford, where he lived until his own death on 13 November 1972.Personal life In 1918, he married Dora Mooney, daughter of the late William Allen Mooney of Silver Hills, New Albany, Indiana, USA. Legacy A play about his life, "Strode-Jackson" was written by Mike Hodd and Jack Thorington, and premiered at the King's Head Theatre, London, in 1979. A full-length oil painting of <mask> is prominently displayed at Vincent's Club in Oxford, having been rescued and repaired after lying neglected for many years in a Brasenose College cellar. References External links Images of <mask>'s 1947 & 1963 passports from passportland.com 1912 1500m account 1891 births 1972 deaths British male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Great Britain British Army generals of World War I King's Royal Rifle Corps officers People educated at Malvern College Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain English Olympic medallists English barristers Loyal Regiment officers People from Addlestone English emigrants to the United States People from Madison, Connecticut Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century English lawyers British Army generals Military personnel from Surrey

<mask> was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He won the 1500 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics and was hailed as the greatest race ever run. He was one of the most decorated British general officers of the First World War. On March 31, 1919, <mask> changed his name to Strode-<mask>. He was the grandson of <mask> and the son of <mask>. <mask> was an athlete, academic, and co- founder of the Amateur Athletic Association. His sister was a novelist.The nickname "Jackers" was given to him when he was head of his house and athletics team at Malvern College. <mask> received a degree in law from Brasenose College in 1910. <mask> was a rower and captain of the hockey team at Brasenose College. He was the President of the Oxford University Athletic Club and won the mile race three times. <mask> traveled by train to compete in the 1912 Olympic Games in Sweden after cutting short his fishing holiday in Norway. He had to compete as a private entry, not a member of the Great Britain team. Private entries were allowed at the last Olympics.<mask>'s training regime of massage, golf and walking seemed very relaxed compared to the amateurish race preparation of the era. Seven of the runners in the 1500 m final were from the USA, as the USA were successful in mile racing at that time, and American hopes were high to win a gold. The race started at a modest 65 second pace, until Norman Taber took the lead and increased the pace. At the bell for the final lap, the world record holder in 1500 m was first, followed by the world record holder in mile and the world record holder in shot put. <mask> and Mel Sheppard joined the crowd on the final turn. <mask> had to run wide because the Americans ran together. <mask> came even with Kiviat and Taber, as Jones and Wide faded.<mask> captured the gold in a record time. The photo had to be reviewed before Kiviat was given the silver. Baker finished sixth. It was considered to be the greatest race ever run. <mask> was 21 when he won the 1500 m gold medal. <mask> was attached to the 13th (service) battalion, The Rifle brigade, as a second lieutenant in September 1914, after he was commissioned as a lieutenant in August 1914. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in May 1918 after taking command of the 13th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.He was promoted to lieutenant in December 1914. He was promoted to captain on July 1, 1916. He was made an acting major by the time of his first DSO on June 4, 1917. He was made an acting brigadier in October 1918. <mask> was a brigadier general in the British Army and was awarded the distinguished service order with three bars. He was wounded three times in the war, which ended his sporting career. He was awarded his DSO and Three Bars with citations from The London Gazette.When he assumed command of the battalion, he was wounded on two separate occasions, but he was still able to carry out most valuable work. He offered a great example to everyone by his skill and courage. The 2nd Bar was awarded on 13 May 1918. The battalion was subjected to an intense bombardment which caused many casualties and cut off all communication by wire with the front-line companies. The casualties caused by the bombardment had been evacuated and replaced by reinforcements and communication with the front line had been re-established when he handled the situation with such skill and initiative. It was due to his powers of command and the splendid spirit with which he inspired his men that the attack on the greater part of his front was repulsed, and that the enemy, though they penetrated into parts of the front line, were counter-attacked and held at bay until He helped the counter-attack which drove the enemy back with heavy losses and re-established the position.The 3rd Bar was awarded on December 2, 1918. One of the first to reach the railway embankment was Lieutenant-<mask>, who advanced with the leading wave of his battalion. The machine-gun fire against them was intense, but the leading of this officer gave such impetus to the assault that the enemy's main line of resistance was broken. He was wounded during the consolidation work. During the war, <mask> was Mentioned in Despatches six times: 15 June 1916, 23 July 1917, 21 December 1917, 24 May 1918, 28 December 1918 and 12 January 1920. He was a member of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and was appointed a CBE for his work. The Bar at Middle Temple was where he was called to.He was a member of the British Olympic Council in 1920 and a major force in the founding of the Achilles Club. He moved to the United States in 1921 and worked in industry and as a Justice of the Peace. The first Kentucky Derby Festival was directed by him. He was an officer in charge of Inspectors and anti-sabotage precautions in Canada and the United Kingdom during World War II. He helped returning servicemen by meeting convoys arriving in New York. The life and times of Kentucky's foremost portrait painter, Matthew Jouett, was the author of Kentucky Heyday: 1787–27. He became a U.S. citizen in 1945. He lived in Oxford until his death in 1972, after the death of his wife Dora.He married Dora Mooney, daughter of the late William Allen Mooney of Silver Hills, New Albany, Indiana, USA. The King's Head Theatre in London hosted a performance of "Strode-Jackson" in 1979. A full-length oil painting of <mask> is prominently displayed atVincent's Club in Oxford, having been rescued and repaired after lying neglected for many years in a Brasenose College cellar. Images of <mask>'s 1947 and 1963 passports can be found on passportland.com.

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Tommy Denander

Tommy Denander (born March 10, 1968 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is mostly famous for his role in the AOR project Radioactive, signed to Frontiers Records. The new Radioactive album called X.X.X in 2022 features guests like Robin McAuley, Robbie LaBlanc, Jerome Mazza, Clif Magness, Mutt Lange and Andreas Carlsson. Denander has worked with artists including Michael Jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper (including original members Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, plus Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner), Deep Purple, Anastacia, Ricky Martin, Hollywood Vampires, Rob Thomas, Jeff Beck, Peter Cetera,> Richard Marx, Rob Zombie, Vince Gill, Ke$ha, Steve Perry and many more. Producers include Robert "Mutt" Lange, David Foster, Max Martin, Bob Ezrin, Desmond Child, Humberto Gatica, Bob Clearmountain, Denniz Pop, and Chris Lord Alge. He is the founder of Legends Of Rock, a project that featured rock singers including Bobby Kimball, Jimi Jamison, Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Martin, Graham Bonnet, Mickey Thomas, Fergie Frederiksen, Steve Augeri, and Eric Martin. His signature VGS guitar features both the Evertune bridge and True Temperament frets. Together with Bob Ezrin and Tommy Henriksen, he co-produced and co-wrote Alice Cooper's album, Paranormal, that was released on July 28, 2017. Denander played most of the guitars on the album. Denander also worked on Alice Cooper's Detroit Stories as co-writer, co-producer and musician. He co-wrote and played on the song "Welcome To Bushwackers", that featured Jeff Beck on lead guitar, plus Denander played on the song "Mr Spider" on the Hollywood Vampires album, Rise. Discography The purpose of this discography is to list as many of Denander's sessions as possible and to try and find all different versions also. As solo artist Tommy Denander - Less Is More Tommy Denander - Less Is More "remaster" - 2020 Tommy Denander - Skeleton Tommy Denander - Skeleton "remaster" - 2020 Tommy Denander - Less Is More & Skeleton Tommy Denander - Less Is More "Asia" Tommy Denander - Limited Access Tommy Denander - Guitar Czar Tommy Denander - VGS Guitar Clinic Tour CD Tommy Denander - Line6 Demo CD Tommy Denander - Swedish Hardrock & Heavy metal 70 - 96 Tommy Denander - TOTO XX Part Duex - Bootleg Tommy Denander - Studio Sessions - Bootleg Tommy Denander - Mad About You - Bootleg Tommy Denander - Burnin' - Bootleg Tommy Denander - Frontiers Magazine Compilation 3 Tommy Denander - Great Guitars - Compilation - Romania Tommy Denander - Beverly compilation Germany Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 1 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 2 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 3 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 4 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 5 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 6 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 7 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 8 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 9 Tommy Denander - From The Vault Vol 10 Tommy Denander - Hollie-Day Picks Tommy Denander - Silent Night Tommy Denander - Dreamland Tommy Denander - Heartstrings Tommy Denander, Hollie Fronda - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Selected top work Paul Stanley - Live To Win Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare Alice Cooper - Paranormal Alice Cooper - A Paranormal Evening Live In Paris Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories Deep Purple - Infinite Hollywood Vampires - Rise Ricky Martin - MAS Anastacia - Evolution Umberto Tozzi & Anastacia - Ti Amo Pat Boone - Legacy Steve Walsh - Black Butterfly David Archuleta - s/t Big Time Rush - BTR Tokio Hotel - Alice In Wonderland Movie Soundtrack Glee - The Graduation Album Tina Arena - Eleven Björn Skifs - Da Capo Jill Johnson - Being Who I Am with ATC ATC - Soundtracks Compilation - 1983 ATC - Cut In Ice - 1984 ATC - Cut In Ice - Cassette Version 1984 ATC - Swe HR & HM 1970 - 96 ATC - Sweden Rocks the 80's "bootleg" Japan ATC - Live at Gröna Lund 1985 "bootleg" ATC - Cut In Ice - Reissue CD Version Brazil - 2007 with Bruce Gaitsch Denander - Gaitsch - Counterparts - 1999 with Fergie Frederiksen Frederiksen -Denander - Baptism By Fire - 2007 Frederiksen -Denander - Baptism By Fire - Promo Version - 2007 Frederiksen -Denander - Baptism By Fire - Russian Version - 2007 Frederiksen -Denander - Baptism By Fire - Japanese Version - 2007 Hear It - Vol 31 - Compilation - 2007 Let The Hammer Fall Vol. 61 -Compilation - 2007 with Radioactive Radioactive - Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard rock & Heavy metal Radioactive - Ceremony Of Innocence "promo pack" Radioactive - Ceremony Of Innocence Radioactive - Ceremony Of Innocence +1 "print error 1" Radioactive - Ceremony Of Innocence +1 "print error 2" Radioactive - Ceremony Of Innocence +1 "Japan" Radioactive - MTM Volume 5 Radioactive - MTM Volume 6 Radioactive - MTM Volume 7 Radioactive - MTM Volume 8 Radioactive - MTM Volume 9 Radioactive - MTM Volume 10 Radioactive - MTM Rock Ballads - Charity for USA Radioactive - MTM Rock Ballads - Vol 4 Radioactive - MTM Rock Ballads - Vol 6 Radioactive - United Compilation Radioactive - YEAH Radioactive - YEAH Promo Carboard Sleeve Version Radioactive - YEAH +1 - Japan Radioactive - YEAH Russian Version Radioactive - Demos 1991 - 2001 - “Bootleg” Radioactive - The Making Of Radioactive - “Bootleg” Radioactive - Taken Radioactive - Taken - Promo Carboard Sleeve Version Radioactive - Taken Russian Version Radioactive - Taken - ltd Edition + DVD Radioactive - Taken + 1 - "Japan" Radioactive - Legacy 3 CD Box Radioactive - F4ur Radioactive - F4ur Russian Version Radioactive - F4ur + 1 "Japan" Radioactive - Fireworks issue 70 Radioactive - Play Station 08-06 Russian Magazine Compilation Radioactive - Melodicrock.com V3 Compilation Radioactive - X.X.X Radioactive - X.X.X - Japan with Impera Impera - Legacy Of Life Impera - Legacy Of Life +1 Japan Impera - Pieces Of Eden Impera - Pieces Of Eden +1 Japan Impera - Pieces Of Eden - Russian Version Impera - Empire Of Sin Impera - Empire Of Sin +1 Japan Impera - Shadows In Light - SRM Single Heart It - Vol 77 - Compilation Let's Get Rocked - Vol 20 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 33 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 49 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 50 with Prisoner Prisoner - Blind Prisoner - Blind +1 "Japan" Prisoner - Blind "remaster" - 2020 Prisoner - II +3 "Ltd Edition" Prisoner - II "Promo" Prisoner - II "remaster" - 2020 Prisoner - Cruzade compilation Prisoner - MHR compilation Prisoner - Sacred Groove Compilation Prisoner - Musically Correct 4 Prisoner - Musically Correct 5 Prisoner - Melodicrock mp3 album Prisoner - Rock The Nations Compilation Prisoner - Live At Z Rock 2001 - “Bootleg” with Rainmaker Rainmaker - s/t Rainmaker - s/t - Remaster 2019 Rainmaker - Sacred Groove Compilation Rainmaker - Sacred Groove 2 Compilation Rainmaker - Melodicrock MP3 album Rainmaker - Classic Rock Compilation Rainmaker - Musically Correct 4 Rainmaker - Musically Correct 5 Rainmaker - Rock The Nations Rainmaker - Rock The Nations II with Lion's Share Lions Share - Compilation Belgium Lions Share - s/t Lions Share - s/t - Japan Lions Share - s/t - Germany Lions Share - TWO Lions Share - TWO - Japan Lions Share - Perspective Lions Share - Entrance "promo pack" Lions Share - Entrance "Scandinavia" Lions Share - Entrance "Europe" Lions Share - Entrance "South America" Lions Share - Entrance "Russia" Lions Share - Rock Hard Compilation Lions Share - Metal Hammer Compilation Lions Share - Metal Maniacs Compilation Lions Share - Nightmare Compilation Lions Share - United with Talk Of The Town Talk Of The Town - s/t " - 1988 Talk Of The Town - s/t "Germany" - 1988 Talk Of The Town - 1st - 2nd + Vikström Talk Of The Town - Reach For The Sky Talk Of The Town - The Ways Of The World - 2000 Talk Of The Town - The Ways Of The World - Japanese Version - 2000 with Speedy Gonzales Speedy Gonzales - Electric Stalker - 2005 Speedy Gonzales - Electric Stalker - Japanese Version - 2005 Speedy Gonzales - Electric Stalker - "remaster" - 2020 Listen Up - Compilation - 2005 Sweden Rock Magazine - Compilation- 2005 Hear It - Vol 23 - Compilation - 2005 with Deacon Street Project Deacon Street Project - Promo Version - 2004 Deacon Street Project - 2004 Deacon Street Project - "remaster" - 2020 Deacon Street Project II - Promo Version - 2006 Deacon Street Project II - 2006 Deacon Street Project II - "remaster" - 2020 Hear It - Vol 13 - Compilation - 2004 with Spin Gallery Spin Gallery - Standing Tall - 2004 Spin Gallery - Standing Tall - Japanese Version - 2004 Spin Gallery - Embrace - 2009 Spin Gallery - Embrace - Japanese Version - 2009 Scandinavian Strings - Attached Hear It - Vol 14 - Compilation - 2004 with Talisman Talisman - Genesis Reissue Talisman - Vaults - Deluxe Edition Talisman - Lost Gemms "Bootleg" with House Of Lords House Of Lords - Come To My Kingdom - 2008 House Of Lords - Come To My Kingdom - Japanese Version - 2008 House Of Lords - Cartesian Dreams - 2009 House Of Lords - Cartesian Dreams - Japanese Version - 2009 House Of Lords - Big Money - 2011 House Of Lords - Big Money - Japanese Version - 2011 House Of Lords - Indestructible - 2015 House Of Lords - Indestructible - Japanese Version - 2015 House Of Lords - Saint Of The Lost Souls - 2017 House Of Lords - Saint Of The Lost Souls - Japanese Version - 2017 House Of Lords - New World - 2020 House Of Lords - New World - Japanese Version - 2020 House Of Lords - New World - Russian Version - 2020 Classic Rock Magazine - AOR Special Compilation Let's Get Rocked - Compilation Let's Get Rocked - Vol 11 Rockhard - Le Sampler - Vol 114 with Robin Beck Robin Beck - Living On A Dream - 2007 Robin Beck - Trouble Or Nothing 20th Anniversary Edition - 2009 Robin Beck - The Great Escape - 2011 Robin Beck - The Great Escape - US Version - 2011 Robin Beck - The Great Escape - Japanese Version - 2011 Robin Beck - The Great Escape - Russian Version - 2011 Robin Beck - Underneath - 2013 Robin Beck - Underneath - Japanese Version - 2013 Robin Beck - Underneath - Russian Version - 2013 Believe In Me, The Finest Rock Ballads - 2011 Melodic Rock - Compilation - 2013 Fireworks Magazine - 2013 Robin Beck - Live At Sweden Rock Festival (Bootleg) - 2014 Wild at heart - The return of metal ballads Classic Rock Magazine Presents AOR Let's Get Rocked - Vol 8 Robin Beck - Love Is Coming Robin Beck - Love Is Coming - Japanese Version Metal Hard Rock Box - 4 CD Compilation Robin Beck - KuschelRock 25 - Das Jubiläumsalbum - 3 CD Compilation with AOR AOR - L.A. Reflection AOR - L.A. Reflection - Japanese Version AOR - Dreaming Of L.A. AOR - Dreaming Of L.A. - Promo AOR - Dreaming Of L.A. - Japanese Version AOR - Dreaming of L.A. - Re release with 6 bonus tracks AOR - Nothing But The Best AOR - Nothing But The Best - Japanese Version AOR - L.A. Concession AOR - L.A. Concession - Japanese Version AOR - Journey To L.A. AOR - Journey To L.A. - Russian Version AOR - L.A. Ambition AOR - LA Reflection - Re release with 4 bonus tracks AOR - L.A Attraction AOR - L.A Attraction - Japanese Version AOR - L.A Attraction - Russian Version AOR - L.A Concession Re release with 4 bonus tracks AOR - The Colors Of L.A AOR - The Colors Of L.A - Russian Version AOR - L.A Temptation AOR - LA Temptation - Russian Version AOR - The Secrets Of L.A AOR - The Secrets Of L.A - Japanese Version AOR - The Secrets Of L.A - Russian Version AOR – L.A Connection AOR – L.A Connection - Japanese Version AOR - The Best Of Dane Donohue AOR - Unreleased Tracks AOR - LA Darkness AOR - The Heart Of L.A AOR - Return To L.A AOR - More Demos from L.A AOR - Heavenly Demos AOR - The Ghost Of L.A. Hear It - Vol 10 - Compilation Let's Get Rocked - Vol 5 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 14 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 15 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 22 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 31 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 34 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 42 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 43 with Phenomena Phenomena - Blind Faith Phenomena - Blind Faith + 1 Japan Phenomena - Blind Faith - Russian Version Phenomena - Blind Faith - Vinyl Version Phenomena - Awakening Phenomena - Awakening + 1 Japan Phenomena - Awakening - Russian Version Classic Rock Magazine - AOR Special Compilation with Houston Houston - s/t Houston - s/t UK Promo Version Houston - s/t "UK version with 2 bonus tracks" Houston - II Houston - II Russian Version Houston - Relaunch Houston - "Don't You Know What Love Is" - Single Houston - "Runaway" - Single Houston - I'm Coming Home - Single Fireworks Magazine - Vol 40 Compilation with Silver Silver - Intruder Silver - Intruder Promo Version Silver - Intruder Russian Version Silver - Intruder +1 Japan Silver - Addictions Silver - Addictions Promo Version Silver - Addictions Russian Version Silver - Addictions +1 Japan Silver - Gold Silver - Gold Promo Version Silver - Gold Russian Version Silver - Gold +1 Japan Silver - Idolized The Very Best Of Various Artist compilations Melodifestivalen 2003 - 2003 (3x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2009 - 2009 (4x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2010 - 2010 (5x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2011 - 2011 (5x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2012 - 2012 (4x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2013 - 2013 (4x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2014 - 2014 (2x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2015 - 2015 (PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2016 - 2016 (PLATINUM) Melodi Grand Prix (Norway) - 2004 Mr Music - Hits 8 - 2004 Melodi Grand Prix (Norway) - 2005 Eirodziesma 2006 (Estonia) - 2006 Lugna Favoriter - 2009 Rix FM - Festival - 2009 (GOLD) Rix FM - Bäst Musik Just Nu - 2010 (GOLD) Body Work - Summer Edition - 2010 Dance Anthems - 2 - 2010 Absolute Kidz 26 - 2009 (GOLD) Absolute Music 15 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Music 60 - 2009 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Music 63 - 2010 (GOLD) Absolute Music 78 - 2015 Absolute Music 80 - 2016 Absolute Summer Hits - 2009 Absolute Dance anthems (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Party Anthems (GOLD) Playground Music Hitit - 2015 Melodicrock.com - Vol 1 Revealed & Revisited - 2003 Melodicrock.com - Vol 2 The Beast Inside - 2005 Melodicrock.com - Vol 3 V3 - 2006 Melodicrock.com - 10 Year Anniversary - 2007 Melodicrock.com - We Wil Rock Yule - 2009 Melodicrock.com - Forces Of Dark & Light - 2010 MRCD9 - 15 Years Later Let The Hammer Fall Vol. 61 -Compilation - 2007 Frontiers - Rock The Bones Vol 3 - 2005 Frontiers - Rock The Bones Vol 5 - Promo - 2007 Frontiers - Rock The Bones Vol 5 - 2007 Frontiers - Rock Ballads - 2010 Fireworks - Compilation 34 - 2008 Fireworks - Compilation 40 - 2010 Fireworks - Compilation 42 - 2011 Fireworks - Compilation 44 - 2011 Fireworks - Compilation 70 - 2015 Classic Rock Magazine - AOR Issue 1 - 2011 Classic Rock Magazine - AOR Issue 3 - 2011 Classic Rock - Aormania - 2011 Classic Rock Magazine - AOR Supersonic- 2013 Rocks Magazine "Germany" - 2011 Hear It - Vol 7 - 2004 Hear It - Vol 10 - 2004 Hear It - Vol 11 - 2004 Hear It - Vol 13 - 2004 Hear It - Vol 14 - 2004 Hear It - Vol 18 - 2005 Hear It - Vol 21 - 2005 Hear It - Vol 23 - 2005 Hear It - Vol 31 - 2007 Hear It - Vol 37 - 2008 Hear It - Vol 55 - 2011 Hear It - Vol 77 - 2015 Hear It - Vol 91 - 2017 Let's Get Rocked - Melodic Rock & Metal Compilation Let's Get Rocked - Vol 5 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 6 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 7 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 8 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 10 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 11 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 12 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 14 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 15 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 19 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 20 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 22 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 30 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 31 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 33 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 34 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 42 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 43 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 49 Let's Get Rocked - Vol 50 Westcoast Radio Hits - Rock - 1996 Fame Factory - Vol 6 - 2003 Fame Factory - Vol 7 - 2004 Fame Factory - Vol 8 - 2004 Dansband Collection - 2 - 2004 Poppärlor - 5 - 2005 Danspärlor - 3 - 2006 Danspärlor - 4 - 2006 UMe - 4th Quarter Sports Sampler - 2008 Rockhard 114 (House Of Lords) - 2011 RockHard 178 (Alice Cooper) - 2017 Classic Rock Magazine - Best Of The Year - 2017 Metal Hard Rock Box - 2018 Believe In Me, The Finest Rock Ballads - 2011 Absolute Svensk Pop - 2016 Absolut Jul - 2014 The 10's - 2016 Made In Sweden- 2016 Absolute 10's - 2016 Mello - 2016 Radio Hits 10's - 2016 Svensk Musik 10-tal - 2016 Mello - 100 Låtar - 2016 2010's - 2016 Svenska 10-talsfavoriter - 2016 Svenskt 10-tal - 2016 Swedish Pop Diamonds - 2016 All 10's - 2016 Various Artist Tribute Albums Undressed - Kiss Tribute - 2003 A Tribute To Boston - 2003 A Tribute To Boston - 2003 - Japanese Version Jason Becker - Warmth In The Wilderness Jason Becker - Warmth In The Wilderness "Japan" Jason Becker - Warmth In The Wilderness II Jason Becker - Warmth In The Wilderness II "Japan" Sweet Fa - Tribute - 2004 The Sweet According To Sweden - 2004 The Sweet According To Sweden - Russian Version - 2004 Jimi Hendrix Tribute - The Spirit Lives On II - 2005 Jimi Hendrix Tribute - The Spirit Lives On II - Russian Version - 2005 KISS Tribute - A World With Heroes: A Tribute For Cancer - 2013 KISS Tribute - A World With Heroes: A Tribute For Cancer - 2013 - iTunes Version Bootlegs Legends Of Rock - Voices Of Rock Live In Tokyo (first night) (Bobby Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, Bill Champlin, Steve Augeri) Legends Of Rock - Voices Of Rock Live In Tokyo (second night) (Bobby Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, Bill Champlin, Steve Augeri) Legends Of Rock - Voices Of Rock Live In Osaka 1 (Bobby Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, Bill Champlin, Steve Augeri) Legends Of Rock - Voices Of Rock Live In Osaka 2 (Bobby Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, Bill Champlin, Steve Augeri) Legends Of Rock - Voices Of Rock Live In Osaka 3 (Bobby Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, Bill Champlin, Steve Augeri) Horny Strings - Live In Mora (T Denander, Marcel Jacob, Thomas Vikström, Jake Samuel) Horny Strings - Live at Underground (T Denander, Marcel Jacob, Thomas Vikström, Jake Samuel) Horny Strings - Live in Eskilstuna (T Denander, Marcel Jacob, Thomas Vikström, Jake Samuel) Horny Strings - Live at Folkoperan (T Denander, Marcel Jacob, Thomas Vikström, Jake Samuel) Horny Strings - Live In Stockholm (T Denander, Marcel Jacob, Thomas Vikström, Jake Samuel) ATC - Live at Gröna Lund Bobby Kimball - First Time Live (Finland) Bobby Kimball - Live in Santiago Bobby Kimball - Live In Lima Bobby Kimball - Live in Stockholm Bobby Kimball - Alive In Anaheim Bobby Kimball - Live At Whiskey A Go Go Jimi Jamison - Live at Firefest (2nd time) Robin Beck - Live at Sweden Rock Festival Robin Beck - Live in Switzerland Alice Cooper - Russian Compilation (Bootleg) Alice Cooper - Live In Stockholm 2017 (1) Alice Cooper - Live In Stockholm 2017 (2) Alice Cooper - Live In Gothenburg 2017 Alice Cooper - Live at Wacken 2017 Alice Cooper - Live in Mansfield 2017 Alice Cooper - Live at Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt Germany 2017 Alice Cooper - Live at Arena Birmingham, England 2017 Alice Cooper - Live at TSB Bank Arena, Wellington New Zealand 2017 Alice Cooper - Live at Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Australia 2017 Alice Cooper - Deinze, Belgium - 2017 Alice Cooper - Vienna, Austria - 2017 Alice Cooper - Ludwigsburg, Germany - 2017 Alice Cooper - Krefeld, Germany - 2017 Alice Cooper - Maryland Heights, MO, USA - 2017 Alice Cooper - Dallas, TN, USA - 2017 Alice Cooper - Ovens Auditorium, Charlotte, NC, USA - 2018 Alice Cooper - Palace Theatre, Albany, NY, USA - 2018 Alice Cooper - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, USA - "2018 Alice Cooper - Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA - 2018 Alice Cooper - Wang Theatre, Boston, MA, USA - 2018 Alice Cooper - Englewood, NJ, USA - 2018 Alice Cooper - Old National Events Plaza, Evansville - 2019 Alice Cooper - Boulogne-Billancourt, France - 2019 Alice Cooper - Partille Arena, Partille, Sweden - 2019 Alice Cooper - Arkea Arena, Floirac, France - 2019 Alice Cooper - PPL Center, Allentown, PA, USA - 2019 Alice Cooper - Indianapolis, IN, USA - 2019 Alice Cooper - Mannheim, Germany - 2019 Alice Cooper - Cedar Park, TX, USA - 2019 Alice Cooper /Halestorm - Bethel, New York, USA - 2019 Hollywood Vampires - Live At Gröna Lund 2018 Gold & Platinum Awards Ricky Martin - MAS "USA version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Target version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Brazil version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Argentina version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Chile version" (GOLD, PLATINUM & DIAMOND) Ricky Martin - MAS "Colombia version" (GOLD & 2X PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Mexico version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Venezuela version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS "Digital Version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - MAS (Single Mexico) (GOLD) Ricky Martin - MAS (Single Digital) (GOLD & 3X PLATINUM) Ricky Martin - Greatest Hits Souvenir Edition (GOLD) Big Time Rush - BTR "US Version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Big Time Rush - BTR "Digital Version" (GOLD & 7X PLATINUM) Big Time Rush - BTR "International version" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Big Time Rush - BTR "Greece" (GOLD & 5X PLATINUM) Big Time Rush - BTR "Mexico" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Big Time Rush - BTR "Spotify" (GOLD & 5X PLATINUM) Big Time Rush - Famous "Single" (GOLD & 2X PLATINUM) Almost Alice - Soundtrack (GOLD & PLATINUM) Paul Stanley - Live To Win (Single) (GOLD & X2 PLATINUM) Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare - (3X PLATINUM) Deep Purple - Infinite "Russia" (GOLD) Deep Purple - Infinite "Czech Republic" (GOLD) Deep Purple - Infinite "Poland" (GOLD) Deep Purple - Infinite "Hungary" (GOLD) Deep Purple - Infinite "Germany" (GOLD) Deep Purple - Infinite "Europe" (IMPALA PLATINUM) Umberto Tozzi & Anastacia - Ti Amo (GOLD) Glee - The Graduation Album (GOLD & PLATINUM) Glee - The Music Season 4 Vol 1 (GOLD & 3X PLATINUM) Glee - Love Songs (GOLD & 14X Platinum) Glee - Some Nights (Single) (GOLD & 3X PLATINUM) Glee - Don't Speak (Single) (GOLD & PLATINUM) Glee - It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Single) (GOLD & 2X PLATINUM) Glee - Roots Before Branches (Single) (GOLD & PLATINUM) Glee - Tongue Tied (Single) (GOLD) Glee - Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Single) (GOLD & PLATINUM) Glee - Never Say Never (Single) (GOLD) Isac Elliot - Follow Me (GOLD + PLATINUM) Isac Elliot - Follow Me "Digital version" (GOLD) Tina Arena - Eleven (GOLD) David Hasselhoff - You Are Everything "Austria" (GOLD) David Hasselhoff - You Are Everything "Switzerland" (GOLD) Dr Alban - One Love "Austria" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Dr Alban - One Love "Germany" (GOLD) Dr Alban - One Love "Switzerland" (GOLD & PLATINUM) Dr Alban - Sing Hallelujah (Single) " (GOLD & 2X PLATINUM) Jill Johnson - Being Who I Am (GOLD) The Poodles - Metal Will Stand Tall (GOLD) David Archuleta - s/t - (US Version) (GOLD) David Archuleta - s/t - (Digital Version) (GOLD & 3X PLATINUM) Jan Johansen - Minnen (GOLD) Björn Skifs - Da Capo (GOLD) Smith & Thell - Hippie Van (GOLD) Star Pilots - Higher (GOLD) Star Pilots - Higher "Spotify" (GOLD) Idol 2010 (GOLD) Idol - All I Need Is You (GOLD & PLATINUM) Oscar Zia - Human (GOLD & 2X PLATINUM) Markoolio - En Vecka I Phuket (GOLD) Outtrigger - Echo - (GOLD) Melodifestivalen 2003 (GOLD & 3x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2003 DVD (GOLD & PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2009 (GOLD & 4x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2010 (GOLD & 5x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2011 (GOLD & 5x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2012 (GOLD & 4x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2013 (GOLD & 4x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2014 (GOLD & 2x PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2015 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Melodifestivalen 2016 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Rix FM - Festival 2009 (GOLD) Rix FM - Bäst Musik Just Nu 2010 (GOLD) Absolute Kidz 26 (GOLD) Absolute Dance Anthems (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Party Anthems (GOLD) Absolute Music 15 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Music 60 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Music 62 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Music 63 (GOLD) Absolute Hits 2009 (GOLD) Absolute Summer Hits 2009 (GOLD & PLATINUM) Absolute Summer Hits 2012 (GOLD) Absolute Sommar 2012 (GOLD) Hits for kids summer party 2012 (GOLD) Other recordings - LP/CD 1983 ATC - Soundtrack - Compilation 1984 ATC - Cut In Ice ATC - Cut In Ice - Cassette version ATC - Cut In Ice - Digital version Janne Berlin - s/t Gerry - s/t 1985 OZ - Decibel Storm - Vinyl Version OZ - Decibel Storm - US Vinyl Version Arkham Asylum - s/t Aquarius - Portrait Asian Ambient - s/t 1986 The Recorder Alexia - s/t Marie Andersson - Frihet Under Bar Himmel Alliance - Spotlight Ari Amber - Songs Johan Andersson - First! Rixvaxx - Compilation Karl Mayor - All Stars Project Fat City - Heroes & Losers 1987 Angels Delight - s/t John Boyd - s/t Jimmy Braden - Sleight Of Hand The Breathtaking - Beginnings Angel Heart - Anja - s/t Dark Angel - Second Coming The Notice - Live In Stockholm Markus Lilja - Emotions Vinjett - Dansa Med Oss Sunset Warriors - Demons & Beasts 1988 Talk Of The Town - s/t "Promo" Talk Of The Town - s/t Talk Of The Town - s/t - Cassette Version Talk Of The Town - s/t LP Version Talk Of The Town - s/t German LP Version Talk Of The Town - s/t German CD Version Talk Of The Town - s/t Russian Version Yale Bate - On The Prowl Änglarna - s/t Manuel De Pepe - Development - Party Of Funk Neil Drake - Decisions Dream Grooves - Summer Of Grooves Elbow - s/t 1989 Kent Kroon - Couldn't Hurt - 1989 Annica - s/t Emerald City - Crazy Daze Gilley's - s/t Annica Burman – I Can't Deny A Broken Heart Emotions - Flying Higher Enemy Child - Wrath Firebirds - Tic & Tacle Funeral - It' Ain't Over Yet Futureperfect - Praise The Fallen Christina G - Signing On Belinda - Under A New Sun I Walk Belly - s/t Fuse - s/t 1990 Boney Rides - s/t Yale Bate - Business & Pleasure Swedish Rock Graffiti Vol 1 Annika Burman - Watch Out Boxer - s/t Rat Bat Blue - Squeak Rat Bat Blue - Squeak - Vinyl Version Rat Bat Blue - Squeak - Russian Version Big At Birth - s/t Big Planet - Shelter Big Planet - Shelter - Japan Biosphere - Blackhole Abyss - s/t Glory - Crisis VS Crisis Gold - s/t n Blue Weather - Bodies And Souls - Dancin' Up A Storm BoobieBrothers - Vol 1 Bounce - s/t 1991 Dag Finn - The Wonderful World Of Dag Finn - The Wonderful World Of - Vinyl version Dag Finn - The Wonderful World Of - Cassette version Joey Gorkey - My Valentine Groove Army - March To Our Beat Gunfighter - Headphones - In ’n Out In A Heartbeat HEAT - s/t Viktoria Hellberg - Out Of Shape Hi-Fi Kids - Holy - Spirit Hollow Horse - Jennifer Hollseers - 1992 Dr Alban - One Love (GOLD & PLATINUM) Dr Alban - One Love "2nd Edition" Dr Alban - One Love (The DJ Album - Double Vinyl - Promo Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - English Version Dr Alban - One Love - English Version Dr Alban - One Love - Vinyl - English Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - Chile Version Dr Alban - One Love - Chile Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - Vinyl - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - Mexican Version Dr Alban - One Love - Mexican Version Dr Alban - One Love - Vinyl - Mexican Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - Colombian Version Dr Alban - One Love - Colombian Version Dr Alban - One Love - Vinyl - Colombian Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - Polish Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - Indian Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - Turkish Version Dr Alban - One Love - Cassette - South African Version Dr Alban - One Love - South African Version Dr Alban - One Love - Vinyl - South African Version Planet 3 feat Jay Graydon - Music From The Planet "Swedish version" Mighty M - s/t Earthquake - The Truth Earthquake - The Truth "2nd edition" Milburn - s/t Promotion Music 92 - For Sale Hometown Clowns - Out Of Control Hometown Heroes - s/t Merritts - s/t Mirage Miranda 1993 David Hasselhoff - You Are Everything (GOLD X2) David Hasselhoff - You Are Everything - Club Version David Hasselhoff - You Are Everything - Cassette Version Dr Alban - One Love - Second Edition - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - Second Edition - Cassette - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - Second Edition - European Version Dr Alban - One Love - Second Edition - Cassette - European Version Dr Alban - One Love - Vinyl Russian Version Dr Alban - One Love - It's My Life Version - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - It's My Life Version - Cassette - American Version Dr Alban - One Love - It's My Life Version - European Version Dr Alban - One Love - It's My Life Version - Cassette - European Version Hitman Volume 3 Dance Machine Maxi Dance Sensation 10 Dance 93 - Compilation Hot And Fresh - Die Internationalen Superhits DJ Irai Campos & O Som Das Pistas 4 BLJ Group - s/t Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead - Vinyl Version Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead "2nd edition - missprint" Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead "3rd edition" Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead - Japanese version Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead - Russian Version Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead - Cassette Version Mother Earth Records - Coming Up Mikael Nordfors - Lux Eterna Morpheus - Son Of Hypnos 1994 Planet 3 feat Jay Graydon - Music From The Planet "German version" Mirrorball - Open For Business Mirrorball - It's About Timeing Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead - US Version Walker - A Modern Life Eyes Wide Open - EWO Hard As A Rock - Atlantic - That Secret Place Aura - Section 18 Top 40 Remixes 1995 Tommy Denander - Less Is More Tommy Denander - Skeleton Tommy Denander - 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<mask> (born March 10, 1968 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is mostly famous for his role in the AOR project Radioactive, signed to Frontiers Records. The new Radioactive album called X.X.X in 2022 features guests like Robin McAuley, Robbie LaBlanc, Jerome Mazza, Clif Magness, Mutt Lange and Andreas Carlsson. <mask> has worked with artists including Michael Jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper (including original members Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, plus Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner), Deep Purple, Anastacia, Ricky Martin, Hollywood Vampires, Rob Thomas, Jeff Beck, Peter Cetera,> Richard Marx, Rob Zombie, Vince Gill, Ke$ha, Steve Perry and many more. Producers include Robert "Mutt" Lange, David Foster, Max Martin, Bob Ezrin, Desmond Child, Humberto Gatica, Bob Clearmountain, Denniz Pop, and Chris Lord Alge. He is the founder of Legends Of Rock, a project that featured rock singers including Bobby Kimball, Jimi Jamison, Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Martin, Graham Bonnet, Mickey Thomas, Fergie Frederiksen, Steve Augeri, and Eric Martin. His signature VGS guitar features both the Evertune bridge and True Temperament frets.Together with Bob Ezrin and <mask>, he co-produced and co-wrote Alice Cooper's album, Paranormal, that was released on July 28, 2017. <mask> played most of the guitars on the album. <mask> also worked on Alice Cooper's Detroit Stories as co-writer, co-producer and musician. He co-wrote and played on the song "Welcome To Bushwackers", that featured Jeff Beck on lead guitar, plus <mask> played on the song "Mr Spider" on the Hollywood Vampires album, Rise. Discography The purpose of this discography is to list as many of <mask>'s sessions as possible and to try and find all different versions also. Reflection AOR - L.A. Reflection - Japanese Version AOR - Dreaming Of L.A. AOR - Dreaming Of L.A. - Promo AOR - Dreaming Of L.A. - Japanese Version AOR - Dreaming of L.A. - Re release with 6 bonus tracks AOR - Nothing But The Best AOR - Nothing But The Best - Japanese Version AOR - L.A. Concession AOR - L.A. Concession - Japanese Version AOR - Journey To L.A. AOR - Journey To L.A. - Russian Version AOR - L.A.Ambition AOR - LA Reflection - Re release with 4 bonus tracks AOR - L.A Attraction AOR - L.A Attraction - Japanese Version AOR - L.A Attraction - Russian Version AOR - L.A Concession Re release with 4 bonus tracks AOR - The Colors Of L.A AOR - The Colors Of L.A - Russian Version AOR - L.A Temptation AOR - LA Temptation - Russian Version AOR - The Secrets Of L.A AOR - The Secrets Of L.A - Japanese Version AOR - The Secrets Of L.A - Russian Version AOR – L.A Connection AOR – L.A Connection - Japanese Version AOR - The Best Of Dane Donohue AOR - Unreleased Tracks AOR - LA Darkness AOR - The Heart Of L.A AOR - Return To L.A AOR - More Demos from L.A AOR - Heavenly Demos AOR - The Ghost Of L.A. Reflection AOR - L.A.

<mask> was born on March 10, 1968 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is well-known for his role in the AOR project Radioactive. The new Radioactive album is called X.X.X in 2022. <mask> has worked with artists such as Michael Jackson, Paul Stanley, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Anastacia, Ricky Martin, and Hollywood Vampires. Producers include Robert "Mutt" Lange, David Foster, Max Martin, Bob Ezrin, Denniz Pop, and Chris Lord Alge. He is the founder of a project that featured rock singers such as Bobby Kimball, Jimi Jamison, Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Martin, Graham Bonnet, Mickey Thomas, and Steve Augeri. His guitar has the Evertune bridge and True Temperament frets.He co-produced and co-wrote Alice Cooper's album, Paranormal, which was released in July of last year. Most of the guitars were played by <mask>. <mask> was a co-writer, co-producer and musician on Alice Cooper's Detroit Stories. <mask> played on the song "Mr Spider" on the Hollywood Vampires album, Rise, as well as co-writing and playing on the song "Welcome To Bushwackers". To try and find all different versions of <mask>'s sessions, the purpose of this discography is to list as many as possible. L.A. has a reflection AOR. There are 6 bonus tracks on the re release of AOR - Nothing But The Best.AOR - LA Reflection is a release with 4 bonus tracks. L.A. has a reflection AOR.

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Isaac Shelby

Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina. He was also a soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. While governor, he led the Kentucky militia in the Battle of the Thames, an action that was rewarded with a Congressional Gold Medal. Counties in nine states, and several cities and military bases, have been named in his honor. His fondness for John Dickinson's "The Liberty Song" is believed to be the reason Kentucky adopted the state motto "United we stand, divided we fall". Issac Shelby's military service began when he served as second-in-command to his father at the Battle of Point Pleasant, the only major battle of Lord Dunmore's War. He gained the reputation of an expert woodsman and surveyor and spent the early part of the Revolutionary War gathering supplies for the Continental Army. Later in the war, he and John Sevier led expeditions over the Appalachian Mountains against the British forces in North Carolina. He played a pivotal role in the British defeat at the Battle of Kings Mountain. For his service, Shelby was presented with a ceremonial sword and a pair of pistols by the North Carolina legislature, and the nickname "Old Kings Mountain" followed him the rest of his life. Following the war, Isaac Shelby relocated to Kentucky on lands awarded to him for his military service and became involved in Kentucky's transition from a county of Virginia to a separate state. His heroism made him popular with the state's citizens, and the Kentucky electoral college unanimously elected him governor in 1792. He secured Kentucky from Indian attacks and organized its first government. He used the Citizen Genet affair to convince the Washington administration to make an agreement with the Spanish for free trade on the Mississippi River. At the end of his gubernatorial term, Isaac Shelby retired from public life, but he was called back into politics by the impending War of 1812. Kentuckians urged Shelby to run for governor again and lead them through the anticipated conflict. He was elected easily and, at the request of General William Henry Harrison, commanded troops from Kentucky at the Battle of the Thames. After the war, he declined President James Monroe's offer to become Secretary of War. In his last act of public service, Shelby and Andrew Jackson acted as commissioners to negotiate the Jackson Purchase from the Chickasaw Indian tribe. Isaac Shelby died at his estate in Lincoln County, Kentucky on July 18, 1826. Early life Isaac Shelby was born in the Colony of Maryland on December 11, 1750, near Hagerstown in Frederick (now Washington) County. He was the third child and second son of Evan and Letitia (Cox) Shelby, who immigrated from Tregaron, Wales, in 1735. Though the family had been loyal to the Church of England, they became Presbyterians after coming to British America; this was the denomination Isaac Shelby embraced during his life. Shelby was educated at the local schools in his native colony. He worked on his father's plantation and occasionally found work as a surveyor. At age eighteen he was appointed deputy sheriff of Frederick County. Shelby's father lost a great deal of money when Pontiac's Rebellion disrupted his lucrative fur trade business, and two years later, the business' records were destroyed in a house fire. Consequently, in December 1770 the family moved to the area near Bristol, Tennessee, where they built a fort and a trading post. Here, Shelby and his father worked for three years herding cattle. Lord Dunmore's War During Lord Dunmore's War, a border conflict between colonists and American Indians, Isaac Shelby was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Virginia militia by Colonel William Preston. As second-in-command of his father's Fincastle County company, he took part in the decisive Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. The younger Shelby earned commendation for his skill and gallantry in this battle. The victorious militiamen erected Fort Blair on the site of the battle. They remained stationed there, with Shelby as second-in-command, until July 1775 when Lord Dunmore ordered the fort destroyed, fearing it might become useful to colonial rebels in the growing American Revolution. Revolutionary War After his unit was disbanded, Shelby surveyed for the Transylvania Company, a land company that purchased much of present-day Kentucky from the Cherokees in a deal later invalidated by the government of Virginia. After fulfilling his duties with the Transylvania Company, he rejoined his family in Virginia, but returned to Kentucky the following year to claim and improve land for himself. After falling ill, he returned home in July 1776 to recover. Back in Virginia, fighting in the American Revolutionary War was underway, and Shelby found a commission from the Virginia Committee of Safety appointing him captain of a company of Minutemen. In 1777, Virginia governor Patrick Henry appointed Shelby to a position securing provisions for the army on the frontier. He served a similar role for units in the Continental Army in 1778 and 1779. With his money, Shelby purchased provisions for John Sevier's 1779 expedition against the Chickamauga, a band of Cherokees who were resisting colonial expansion. Shelby was elected to represent Washington County in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1779. Later that year, he was commissioned a major by Governor Thomas Jefferson and charged with escorting a group of commissioners to establish a frontier boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. Shortly after his arrival in the region, North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell made him magistrate of newly formed Sullivan County and elevated him to the rank of colonel of the Sullivan County Regiment. Shelby was surveying lands in Kentucky in 1780 when he heard of the colonists' defeat at Charleston. He hurried to North Carolina, where he found a request for aid from General Charles McDowell to defend the borders of North Carolina from the British. Shelby assembled three hundred militiamen and joined McDowell at Cherokee Ford in South Carolina. On the morning of July 31, 1780, he surrounded the British stronghold at Thickety Fort on the Pacolet River with 600 men. He immediately demanded a surrender, but the British refused. Shelby brought his men within musket range and again demanded surrender. Though the fort likely would have withstood the attack, the British commander lost his nerve and capitulated. Without firing a shot, Shelby's men captured 94 prisoners. Following the surrender of Thickety Fort, Shelby joined a band of partisans under Lieutenant Elijah Clarke. This unit was pursued by British Major Patrick Ferguson. On the morning of August 8, 1780, some of Shelby's men were gathering peaches from an orchard when they were surprised by some of Ferguson's men on a reconnaissance mission. Shelby's men quickly readied their arms and drove back the British patrol. Soon, however, the British were reinforced and the colonists fell back. The pattern continued, with one side being reinforced and gaining an advantage, followed by the other. Shelby's men were winning the battle when Ferguson's main force of 1,000 men arrived. Outmanned, they retreated to a nearby hill where British musket fire could not reach them. Now safe, they taunted the British, and Ferguson's force withdrew from the area. Thus ended the Battle of Cedar Springs. General McDowell then ordered Shelby and Clarke to take Musgrove's Mill, a British encampment on the Enoree River. They rode all night with two hundred men, reaching their location about dawn on August 18, 1780. The colonists had estimated the enemy force was of comparable size, but an advance scout brought word there were approximately 500 British soldiers in the camp who were preparing for battle. Shelby's men and horses were too tired for a retreat and they had lost the element of surprise. He ordered his men to construct a breastwork from nearby logs and brush. In half an hour the makeshift fortifications were complete, and twenty-five colonial riders charged the British camp to provoke the attack. The British pursued them back to the main colonial force. Despite being outnumbered, the colonists killed several British officers and put their army to flight. Battle of Kings Mountain Shelby and Clarke elected not to pursue the British fleeing the Battle of Musgrove Mill. Instead, they set their sights on a British fort at Ninety Six, South Carolina, where they were sure they would find Ferguson. However, while en route, Shelby and his men were met with news of General Horatio Gates' defeat at the Battle of Camden. With the backing of General Cornwallis, Ferguson could ride to meet Shelby with his entire force, so Shelby retreated over the Appalachian Mountains into North Carolina. Following the colonists' retreat, an emboldened Ferguson dispatched a paroled prisoner across the mountains to warn the colonists to cease their opposition or Ferguson would lay waste to the countryside. Angered by this act, Shelby and John Sevier began to plan another raid on the British. Shelby and Sevier raised 240 men each, and were joined by William Campbell with 400 from Washington County, Virginia and Charles McDowell with 160 men from Burke and Rutherford counties in North Carolina. The forces mustered at Sycamore Shoals on September 25, 1780. The troops crossed the difficult terrain of the Blue Ridge Mountains and arrived at McDowell's estate near Morganton, North Carolina, on September 30, 1780. Here, they were joined by Colonel Benjamin Cleveland and Major Joseph Winston with 350 men from Surry and Wilkes counties. The combined force pursued Ferguson to Kings Mountain, where he had fortified himself, declaring "God Almighty and all the rebels out of hell" could not move him from it. The Battle of Kings Mountain commenced October 7, 1780. Shelby had ordered his men to advance from tree to tree, firing from behind each one; he called this technique "Indian play" because he had seen the Indians use it in battles with them. Ferguson ordered bayonet charges that forced Shelby's men to fall back on three separate occasions, but the colonists dislodged Ferguson's men from their position. Seeing the battle was lost, Ferguson and his key officers attempted a retreat. The colonists were instructed to kill Ferguson. Simultaneous shots by Sevier's men broke both Ferguson's arms, fatally pierced his skull, and knocked him from his mount. Seeing their commander dead, the remaining British soldiers waved white flags of surrender. Kings Mountain was the high point of Shelby's military service, and from that point forward his men dubbed him "Old Kings Mountain". The North Carolina legislature passed a vote of thanks to Shelby and Sevier for their service and ordered each be presented a pair of pistols and a ceremonial sword. (Shelby did not receive these items until he requested them from the legislature in 1813.) As the colonists and their prisoners began the march from Kings Mountain, they learned that nine colonial prisoners had been hanged by the British at Fort Ninety-Six. This was not the first such incident in the region, and the enraged colonists vowed they would now put a stop to the hangings in the Carolinas. Summoning a jury from their number – which was legal because two North Carolina magistrates were present – the colonists selected random prisoners and charged them with crimes ranging from theft to arson to murder. By evening, the jury had convicted thirty-six prisoners and sentenced them to hang. After the first nine hangings, however, Shelby ordered them stopped. He never gave a reason for this action, but his order was obeyed nonetheless, and the remaining "convicts" rejoined their fellow prisoners. The Kings Mountain victors and their prisoners returned to McDowell's estate, early on, the morning of, October 10, 1780. From there, the various commanders and their men went their separate ways. Shelby and his men joined General Daniel Morgan at New Providence, South Carolina. While there, Shelby advised Morgan to take Fort Ninety-Six and Augusta, because he believed the British forces there were supplying the Cherokee with weapons for their raids against colonial settlers. Morgan agreed to the plan, as did General Horatio Gates, the supreme commander of colonial forces in the region. Assured that his plan would be carried out, Shelby returned home and promised to return the following spring with 300 men. On his way to Fort Ninety-Six, Morgan was attacked by Banastre Tarleton and gained a decisive victory over him at the Battle of Cowpens. Shelby later lamented the fact, that General Nathanael Greene, who relieved Gates only days after Shelby departed for home, claimed the lion's share of the credit for Cowpens, when it was Shelby's plan that had put Morgan in the position to begin with. Later wartime service and settlement in Kentucky Upon his return home, Shelby and his father were named commissioners to negotiate a treaty between colonial settlers and the Chickamauga. This service delayed his return to Greene, but in October 1781 he and Sevier led 600 riflemen to join Greene in South Carolina. Greene had thought to use Shelby's and Sevier's men to prevent Cornwallis from returning to Charleston. However, Cornwallis was defeated at the siege of Yorktown, shortly after Shelby and Sevier arrived, and Greene sent them on to join General Francis Marion on the Pee Dee River. On Marion's orders, Shelby and Colonel Hezekiah Maham captured a British fort at Fair Lawn near Moncks Corner on November 27, 1781. While still in the field, Shelby was elected to the House of Commons of the North Carolina General Assembly. He requested and was granted a leave of absence from the Army to attend the legislative session of December 1781. He was re-elected in 1782 and attended the April session of the legislature that year. In early 1783, he was chosen as a commissioner to survey preemption claims of soldiers along the Cumberland River. Shelby returned to Kentucky in April 1783, settling at Boonesborough. He married Susannah Hart on April 19, 1783; the couple had eleven children. Their eldest daughter, Sarah, married Dr. Ephraim McDowell, and the youngest daughter, Letitia, married future Kentucky secretary of state Charles Stewart Todd. On November 1, 1783, the family moved to Lincoln County, near Knob Lick, and occupied land awarded to Shelby for his military service. Shelby was named one of the first trustees of Transylvania Seminary (later Transylvania University) in 1783, and on December 1, 1787, founded the Kentucky Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge. Shelby began working to secure Kentucky's separation from Virginia as early as 1784. That year, he attended a convention to consider leading an expedition against the Indians and separating Kentucky from Virginia. He was a delegate to subsequent conventions in 1787, 1788, and 1789 that worked toward a constitution for Kentucky. During these conventions he helped thwart James Wilkinson's scheme to align Kentucky with the Spanish. In 1791 Shelby, Charles Scott and Benjamin Logan were among those chosen by the Virginia legislature to serve on the Board of War for the district of Kentucky. Shelby was also made High Sheriff on Lincoln County. In 1792, he was a delegate to the final convention that framed the first Kentucky Constitution. First term as governor Under the new constitution, the voters chose electors who then elected the governor and members of the Kentucky Senate. Though there is no indication that Shelby actively sought the office of governor, he was elected unanimously to that post by the electors on May 17, 1791. He took office on June 4, 1792, the day the state was admitted to the Union. Though not actively partisan, he identified with the Democratic-Republicans. Much of his term was devoted to establishing basic laws, military divisions and a tax structure. One of Shelby's chief concerns was securing federal aid to defend the frontier. Although Kentuckians were engaged in an undeclared war with American Indians north of the Ohio River, Shelby had been ordered by Secretary of War Henry Knox not to conduct offensive military actions against the Indians. Furthermore, he was limited by federal regulations that restricted the service of state militiamen to thirty days, which was too short to be effective. With the meager resources of his fledgling state he was only able to defend the most vulnerable areas from Indian attack. Meanwhile, Kentuckians suspected that the Indians were being stirred up and supplied by the British. Shelby appealed to President Washington for help; Washington responded by appointing General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to the area with orders to push the Indians out of the Northwest Territory. Wayne arrived at Fort Washington (present-day Cincinnati, Ohio) in May 1793, but was prevented from taking any immediate action because federal commissioners were still attempting to negotiate a treaty with the Indians. He called for 1,000 volunteer troops from Kentucky, but few heeded the call and Shelby resorted to conscription. By the time the soldiers arrived, winter had set in. He ordered the men to go home and return in the spring. After a winter filled with Indian attacks, including one which claimed the life of Shelby's younger brother Evan Shelby III, Kentucky militia units won some minor victories over the Indians in early 1794. In spring the response to Wayne's call for troops was more enthusiastic; 1,600 volunteers mustered at Fort Greenville and were hastily trained. By August, 1794, Wayne was on the offensive against the Indians and dealt them a decisive blow at the August 20, 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. This victory, and the ensuing Treaty of Greenville, secured the territory, and although Shelby did not agree with some of the restrictions placed upon western settlers by this treaty, he abided by its terms and enforced those that were under his jurisdiction. Another major concern of the Shelby administration was free navigation on the Mississippi River, which was vital to the state's economic interests. For political reasons the Spanish had closed the port at New Orleans to the Americans. This would have been the natural market for the tobacco, flour and hemp grown by Kentucky farmers; overland routes were too expensive to be profitable. This made it difficult for land speculators to entice immigration to the area to turn a profit on their investments. Many Kentuckians felt the federal government was not acting decisively or quickly enough to remedy this situation. Citizen Genêt affair While Kentuckians despised the British and Spanish, they had a strong affinity for the French. They admired the republican government that had arisen from the French Revolution, and they had not forgotten France's aid during the Revolutionary War. When French Ambassador Edmond-Charles Genêt, popularly known as Citizen Genêt, arrived in the United States in April 1793, George Rogers Clark was already considering an expedition to capture Spanish lands in the west. Genêt's agent, André Michaux, was dispatched to Kentucky to assess the support of Kentuckians toward Clark's expedition. When he gained an audience with Governor Shelby, he did so with letters of introduction from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Kentucky Senator John Brown. Jefferson had written a separate letter to Shelby warning him against aiding the French schemes and informing him that negotiations were under way with the Spanish regarding trade on the Mississippi. When the letter was sent on August 29, 1793, it was Jefferson's intent that it reach Shelby before Michaux did, but Shelby did not receive it until October 1793. On September 13, 1793, Michaux met with Shelby, but there is no evidence that Shelby agreed to help him. In his response to Jefferson's delayed letter, Shelby assured Jefferson that Kentuckians "possess too just a sense of the obligation they owe the General Government, to embark in any enterprise that would be so injurious to the United States". In November 1793, Shelby received a letter from another of Genêt's agents, Charles Delpeau. He confided to Shelby that he had been sent to secure supplies for an expedition against Spanish holdings, and inquired whether Shelby had been instructed to arrest individuals associated with such a scheme. Three days later Shelby responded by letter, relating Jefferson's warning against aiding the French. Despite having no evidence that Shelby was party to Genêt's scheme, both Jefferson and Knox felt compelled to warn him a second time. Jefferson provided names and descriptions of the French agents believed to be in Kentucky and encouraged their arrest. Knox went a step further by suggesting Kentucky would be reimbursed for any costs incurred resisting the French by force, should such action become necessary. General Anthony Wayne informed him that his cavalry was at the state's disposal. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the American Northwest Territory, also admonished Shelby against cooperation with Genêt. In his response to Jefferson, Shelby questioned whether he had the legal authority to intervene with force against his constituency and expressed his personal aversion to doing so. Shelby tempered this lukewarm commitment by assuring Jefferson that "I shall, at all times, hold it my duty to perform whatever may be constitutionally required of me, as Governor of Kentucky, by the President of the United States." In March 1794, perhaps in response to Shelby's concerns, Congress passed a measure granting the government additional powers in the event of an invasion or insurrection. Jefferson's successor Edmund Randolph, who actually received Shelby's letter, wrote Shelby to inform him of the new powers at his disposal, and informing him that the new regime in France had recalled Genêt. Two months later Genêt's agents ceased their operations in Kentucky and the potential crisis was averted. In 1795, President Washington negotiated an agreement with the Spanish that secured the right of Americans to trade on the river. Having successfully dealt with the major challenges and issues involved in forming a new state government, Shelby left the state safe and financially sound. Kentucky's constitution prevented a governor from serving consecutive terms, so Shelby retired to Traveler's Rest, his Lincoln County estate, at the conclusion of his term in 1796. For the next 15 years he tended to affairs on his farm. He was selected as a presidential elector in six consecutive elections, but these were his only appearances in public life during this period. Second term as governor Gabriel Slaughter was the favorite choice for governor of Kentucky in 1812. Only one impediment to his potential candidacy existed. Growing tensions between the United States, France, and Great Britain threatened to break into open war. With this prospect looming, Isaac Shelby's name began circulating as a possible candidate for governor. Slaughter, who lived near Shelby, visited him and asked whether he would run. Shelby assured him that he had no desire to do so unless a national emergency that required his leadership emerged. Satisfied with this answer, Slaughter began his campaign. The situation with the European powers grew worse, and on June 18, 1812 the United States declared war on Great Britain, beginning the War of 1812. Cries grew louder for Shelby to return as Kentucky's chief executive. On July 18, 1812, less than a month before the election, Shelby acquiesced and announced his candidacy. During the campaign Shelby's political enemies, notably Humphrey Marshall, criticized his response to Jefferson's second letter regarding the Genêt affair and questioned his loyalty to the United States. Shelby contended that his noncommittal response to the letter was meant to draw the federal government's attention to the situation in the west. He cited the agreement between Washington and the Spanish as evidence that his ploy had worked. He also claimed to have known at the time he wrote the letter that the French scheme was destined to fail. Slaughter's supporters mocked Shelby's advanced age (he was almost 62), calling him "Old Daddy Shelby". One Kentucky paper even printed an anonymous charge that Shelby had run from the Battle of Kings Mountain. Though few even among Shelby's enemies believed the story, his supporters and Shelby himself responded through missives in the state's newspapers. One supporter typified these responses, writing "It is reported that Colonel Shelby 'run [sic] at Kings Mountain.' True he did. He first run [sic] up to the enemy ... then after an action of about forty-seven minutes, he run [sic] again with 900 prisoners." As the canvass stretched into August, Shelby grew more confident of victory and began preparations to return to the state house. He predicted a victory of 10,000 votes; the final margin was more than 17,000. When he took the oath of office, Shelby became the first Kentucky governor to serve non-consecutive terms. (James Garrard had been permitted to serve consecutive terms in 1796 and 1800 by special legislative exemption.) Preparations for the war dominated Shelby's second term. Two days before his inauguration, he and outgoing governor Charles Scott met at the state house to appoint William Henry Harrison commander of the Kentucky militia. This was done in violation of a constitutional mandate that the post be held by a native Kentuckian. Already commander of the militias of Indiana and Illinois, Harrison picked up Kentucky volunteers at Newport before hurrying to the defense of Fort Wayne. Shelby pressured President James Madison to give Harrison command of all military forces in the Northwest. Madison acceded, rescinding his earlier appointment of James Winchester. On the state level, Shelby revised militia laws to make every male between the ages of 18 and 45 eligible for military service; ministers were excluded from the provision. Seven thousand volunteers enlisted, and many more had to be turned away. Shelby encouraged the state's women to sew and knit items for Kentucky's troops. Shelby's confidence in the federal government's war planning was shaken by the disastrous Battle of Frenchtown in which a number of Kentucky soldiers died. He vowed to personally act to aid the war effort should the opportunity arise, and was authorized by the legislature to do so. In March 1813, Harrison requested another 1,200 Kentuckians to join him at Fort Meigs. Shelby dispatched the requested number, among whom was his oldest son James, under General Green Clay. The reinforcements arrived to find Fort Meigs under siege by a combined force of British and Indians. Clay's force was able to stop the siege, but a large number of them were captured and massacred by Indians. Initial reports put James Shelby among the dead, but he was later discovered to have been captured and released in a prisoner exchange. On July 30, 1813, General Harrison again wrote Shelby requesting volunteers, and this time he asked that Shelby lead them personally. Shelby raised a force of 3,500 volunteers, double the number Harrison requested. Future governor John J. Crittenden served as Shelby's aide-de-camp. Now a Major General, Shelby led the volunteers to join Harrison in a campaign that culminated in the American victory at the Battle of the Thames. In Harrison's report of the battle to Secretary of War John Armstrong Jr., he said of Shelby, "I am at a loss to how to mention [the service] of Governor Shelby, being convinced that no eulogism of mine can reach his merit." In 1817, Shelby received the thanks of Congress and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his service in the war. Friends of Shelby suggested he run for Vice President, but Shelby quickly and emphatically declined. Later life Upon Shelby's leaving office in 1816, President Monroe offered him the post of Secretary of War, but he declined because of his age. Already a founding member of the Kentucky Bible Society, Shelby consented to serve as vice-president of the New American Bible Society in 1816. He was a faithful member of Danville Presbyterian church, but in 1816, built a small nondenominational church on his property. In 1818, he accompanied Andrew Jackson in negotiating the Jackson Purchase with the Chickasaw. He also served as the first president of the Kentucky Agricultural Society in 1818 and was chairman of the first board of trustees of Centre College in 1819. Death In 1820, Isaac Shelby was stricken with paralysis in his right arm and leg. He died of a stroke on July 18, 1826, at his home in Lincoln County. Shelby was a slaveowner, and left slaves to his children in his will. He was buried on the grounds of his estate, Traveller's Rest. The state erected a monument over his grave in 1827. In 1952 the Shelby family cemetery was given to the state government and became the Isaac Shelby Cemetery State Historic Site. Legacy Shelby's patriotism is believed to have inspired the Kentucky state motto: "United we stand, divided we fall". He was fond of The Liberty Song, a 1768 composition by John Dickinson, which contains the line "They join in hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." Though he is sometimes credited with designing the state seal, his public papers show that the design was suggested by James Wilkinson. Centre College began awarding the Isaac Shelby Medallion in 1972, and since then, it has become the college's most prestigious honor. Those awarded the Medallion exemplify the ideals of service to Centre and dedication to the public good that were embraced by Shelby during his time at Centre and in Kentucky. Places named for Isaac Shelby Nine states have a county named after Shelby, as do numerous cities and military installations. 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<mask> (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina. He was also a soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. While governor, he led the Kentucky militia in the Battle of the Thames, an action that was rewarded with a Congressional Gold Medal. Counties in nine states, and several cities and military bases, have been named in his honor. His fondness for John Dickinson's "The Liberty Song" is believed to be the reason Kentucky adopted the state motto "United we stand, divided we fall". <mask>'s military service began when he served as second-in-command to his father at the Battle of Point Pleasant, the only major battle of Lord Dunmore's War. He gained the reputation of an expert woodsman and surveyor and spent the early part of the Revolutionary War gathering supplies for the Continental Army.Later in the war, he and John Sevier led expeditions over the Appalachian Mountains against the British forces in North Carolina. He played a pivotal role in the British defeat at the Battle of Kings Mountain. For his service, <mask> was presented with a ceremonial sword and a pair of pistols by the North Carolina legislature, and the nickname "Old Kings Mountain" followed him the rest of his life. Following the war, <mask> relocated to Kentucky on lands awarded to him for his military service and became involved in Kentucky's transition from a county of Virginia to a separate state. His heroism made him popular with the state's citizens, and the Kentucky electoral college unanimously elected him governor in 1792. He secured Kentucky from Indian attacks and organized its first government. He used the Citizen Genet affair to convince the Washington administration to make an agreement with the Spanish for free trade on the Mississippi River.At the end of his gubernatorial term, <mask> retired from public life, but he was called back into politics by the impending War of 1812. Kentuckians urged <mask> to run for governor again and lead them through the anticipated conflict. He was elected easily and, at the request of General William Henry Harrison, commanded troops from Kentucky at the Battle of the Thames. After the war, he declined President James Monroe's offer to become Secretary of War. In his last act of public service, <mask> and Andrew Jackson acted as commissioners to negotiate the Jackson Purchase from the Chickasaw Indian tribe. <mask> died at his estate in Lincoln County, Kentucky on July 18, 1826. Early life <mask> was born in the Colony of Maryland on December 11, 1750, near Hagerstown in Frederick (now Washington) County.He was the third child and second son of Evan and Letitia (Cox) <mask>, who immigrated from Tregaron, Wales, in 1735. Though the family had been loyal to the Church of England, they became Presbyterians after coming to British America; this was the denomination <mask> embraced during his life. <mask> was educated at the local schools in his native colony. He worked on his father's plantation and occasionally found work as a surveyor. At age eighteen he was appointed deputy sheriff of Frederick County. <mask>'s father lost a great deal of money when Pontiac's Rebellion disrupted his lucrative fur trade business, and two years later, the business' records were destroyed in a house fire. Consequently, in December 1770 the family moved to the area near Bristol, Tennessee, where they built a fort and a trading post.Here, <mask> and his father worked for three years herding cattle. Lord Dunmore's War During Lord Dunmore's War, a border conflict between colonists and American Indians, <mask> was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Virginia militia by Colonel William Preston. As second-in-command of his father's Fincastle County company, he took part in the decisive Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774. The younger <mask> earned commendation for his skill and gallantry in this battle. The victorious militiamen erected Fort Blair on the site of the battle. They remained stationed there, with <mask> as second-in-command, until July 1775 when Lord Dunmore ordered the fort destroyed, fearing it might become useful to colonial rebels in the growing American Revolution. Revolutionary War After his unit was disbanded, <mask> surveyed for the Transylvania Company, a land company that purchased much of present-day Kentucky from the Cherokees in a deal later invalidated by the government of Virginia.After fulfilling his duties with the Transylvania Company, he rejoined his family in Virginia, but returned to Kentucky the following year to claim and improve land for himself. After falling ill, he returned home in July 1776 to recover. Back in Virginia, fighting in the American Revolutionary War was underway, and <mask> found a commission from the Virginia Committee of Safety appointing him captain of a company of Minutemen. In 1777, Virginia governor Patrick Henry appointed <mask> to a position securing provisions for the army on the frontier. He served a similar role for units in the Continental Army in 1778 and 1779. With his money, <mask> purchased provisions for John Sevier's 1779 expedition against the Chickamauga, a band of Cherokees who were resisting colonial expansion. <mask> was elected to represent Washington County in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1779.Later that year, he was commissioned a major by Governor Thomas Jefferson and charged with escorting a group of commissioners to establish a frontier boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. Shortly after his arrival in the region, North Carolina Governor Richard Caswell made him magistrate of newly formed Sullivan County and elevated him to the rank of colonel of the Sullivan County Regiment. <mask> was surveying lands in Kentucky in 1780 when he heard of the colonists' defeat at Charleston. He hurried to North Carolina, where he found a request for aid from General Charles McDowell to defend the borders of North Carolina from the British. <mask> assembled three hundred militiamen and joined McDowell at Cherokee Ford in South Carolina. On the morning of July 31, 1780, he surrounded the British stronghold at Thickety Fort on the Pacolet River with 600 men. He immediately demanded a surrender, but the British refused.<mask> brought his men within musket range and again demanded surrender. Though the fort likely would have withstood the attack, the British commander lost his nerve and capitulated. Without firing a shot, <mask>'s men captured 94 prisoners. Following the surrender of Thickety Fort, <mask> joined a band of partisans under Lieutenant Elijah Clarke. This unit was pursued by British Major Patrick Ferguson. On the morning of August 8, 1780, some of <mask>'s men were gathering peaches from an orchard when they were surprised by some of Ferguson's men on a reconnaissance mission. <mask>'s men quickly readied their arms and drove back the British patrol.Soon, however, the British were reinforced and the colonists fell back. The pattern continued, with one side being reinforced and gaining an advantage, followed by the other. <mask>'s men were winning the battle when Ferguson's main force of 1,000 men arrived. Outmanned, they retreated to a nearby hill where British musket fire could not reach them. Now safe, they taunted the British, and Ferguson's force withdrew from the area. Thus ended the Battle of Cedar Springs. General McDowell then ordered <mask> and Clarke to take Musgrove's Mill, a British encampment on the Enoree River.They rode all night with two hundred men, reaching their location about dawn on August 18, 1780. The colonists had estimated the enemy force was of comparable size, but an advance scout brought word there were approximately 500 British soldiers in the camp who were preparing for battle. <mask>'s men and horses were too tired for a retreat and they had lost the element of surprise. He ordered his men to construct a breastwork from nearby logs and brush. In half an hour the makeshift fortifications were complete, and twenty-five colonial riders charged the British camp to provoke the attack. The British pursued them back to the main colonial force. Despite being outnumbered, the colonists killed several British officers and put their army to flight.Battle of Kings Mountain <mask> and Clarke elected not to pursue the British fleeing the Battle of Musgrove Mill. Instead, they set their sights on a British fort at Ninety Six, South Carolina, where they were sure they would find Ferguson. However, while en route, <mask> and his men were met with news of General Horatio Gates' defeat at the Battle of Camden. With the backing of General Cornwallis, Ferguson could ride to meet <mask> with his entire force, so <mask> retreated over the Appalachian Mountains into North Carolina. Following the colonists' retreat, an emboldened Ferguson dispatched a paroled prisoner across the mountains to warn the colonists to cease their opposition or Ferguson would lay waste to the countryside. Angered by this act, <mask> and John Sevier began to plan another raid on the British. <mask> and Sevier raised 240 men each, and were joined by William Campbell with 400 from Washington County, Virginia and Charles McDowell with 160 men from Burke and Rutherford counties in North Carolina.The forces mustered at Sycamore Shoals on September 25, 1780. The troops crossed the difficult terrain of the Blue Ridge Mountains and arrived at McDowell's estate near Morganton, North Carolina, on September 30, 1780. Here, they were joined by Colonel Benjamin Cleveland and Major Joseph Winston with 350 men from Surry and Wilkes counties. The combined force pursued Ferguson to Kings Mountain, where he had fortified himself, declaring "God Almighty and all the rebels out of hell" could not move him from it. The Battle of Kings Mountain commenced October 7, 1780. <mask> had ordered his men to advance from tree to tree, firing from behind each one; he called this technique "Indian play" because he had seen the Indians use it in battles with them. Ferguson ordered bayonet charges that forced <mask>'s men to fall back on three separate occasions, but the colonists dislodged Ferguson's men from their position.Seeing the battle was lost, Ferguson and his key officers attempted a retreat. The colonists were instructed to kill Ferguson. Simultaneous shots by Sevier's men broke both Ferguson's arms, fatally pierced his skull, and knocked him from his mount. Seeing their commander dead, the remaining British soldiers waved white flags of surrender. Kings Mountain was the high point of <mask>'s military service, and from that point forward his men dubbed him "Old Kings Mountain". The North Carolina legislature passed a vote of thanks to <mask> and Sevier for their service and ordered each be presented a pair of pistols and a ceremonial sword. (<mask> did not receive these items until he requested them from the legislature in 1813.)As the colonists and their prisoners began the march from Kings Mountain, they learned that nine colonial prisoners had been hanged by the British at Fort Ninety-Six. This was not the first such incident in the region, and the enraged colonists vowed they would now put a stop to the hangings in the Carolinas. Summoning a jury from their number – which was legal because two North Carolina magistrates were present – the colonists selected random prisoners and charged them with crimes ranging from theft to arson to murder. By evening, the jury had convicted thirty-six prisoners and sentenced them to hang. After the first nine hangings, however, <mask> ordered them stopped. He never gave a reason for this action, but his order was obeyed nonetheless, and the remaining "convicts" rejoined their fellow prisoners. The Kings Mountain victors and their prisoners returned to McDowell's estate, early on, the morning of, October 10, 1780.From there, the various commanders and their men went their separate ways. <mask> and his men joined General Daniel Morgan at New Providence, South Carolina. While there, <mask> advised Morgan to take Fort Ninety-Six and Augusta, because he believed the British forces there were supplying the Cherokee with weapons for their raids against colonial settlers. Morgan agreed to the plan, as did General Horatio Gates, the supreme commander of colonial forces in the region. Assured that his plan would be carried out, <mask> returned home and promised to return the following spring with 300 men. On his way to Fort Ninety-Six, Morgan was attacked by Banastre Tarleton and gained a decisive victory over him at the Battle of Cowpens. <mask> later lamented the fact, that General Nathanael Greene, who relieved Gates only days after <mask> departed for home, claimed the lion's share of the credit for Cowpens, when it was <mask>'s plan that had put Morgan in the position to begin with.Later wartime service and settlement in Kentucky Upon his return home, <mask> and his father were named commissioners to negotiate a treaty between colonial settlers and the Chickamauga. This service delayed his return to Greene, but in October 1781 he and Sevier led 600 riflemen to join Greene in South Carolina. Greene had thought to use <mask>'s and Sevier's men to prevent Cornwallis from returning to Charleston. However, Cornwallis was defeated at the siege of Yorktown, shortly after <mask> and Sevier arrived, and Greene sent them on to join General Francis Marion on the Pee Dee River. On Marion's orders, <mask> and Colonel Hezekiah Maham captured a British fort at Fair Lawn near Moncks Corner on November 27, 1781. While still in the field, <mask> was elected to the House of Commons of the North Carolina General Assembly. He requested and was granted a leave of absence from the Army to attend the legislative session of December 1781.He was re-elected in 1782 and attended the April session of the legislature that year. In early 1783, he was chosen as a commissioner to survey preemption claims of soldiers along the Cumberland River. <mask> returned to Kentucky in April 1783, settling at Boonesborough. He married Susannah Hart on April 19, 1783; the couple had eleven children. Their eldest daughter, Sarah, married Dr. Ephraim McDowell, and the youngest daughter, Letitia, married future Kentucky secretary of state Charles Stewart Todd. On November 1, 1783, the family moved to Lincoln County, near Knob Lick, and occupied land awarded to <mask> for his military service. <mask> was named one of the first trustees of Transylvania Seminary (later Transylvania University) in 1783, and on December 1, 1787, founded the Kentucky Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge.<mask> began working to secure Kentucky's separation from Virginia as early as 1784. That year, he attended a convention to consider leading an expedition against the Indians and separating Kentucky from Virginia. He was a delegate to subsequent conventions in 1787, 1788, and 1789 that worked toward a constitution for Kentucky. During these conventions he helped thwart James Wilkinson's scheme to align Kentucky with the Spanish. In 1791 <mask>, Charles Scott and Benjamin Logan were among those chosen by the Virginia legislature to serve on the Board of War for the district of Kentucky. <mask> was also made High Sheriff on Lincoln County. In 1792, he was a delegate to the final convention that framed the first Kentucky Constitution.First term as governor Under the new constitution, the voters chose electors who then elected the governor and members of the Kentucky Senate. Though there is no indication that <mask> actively sought the office of governor, he was elected unanimously to that post by the electors on May 17, 1791. He took office on June 4, 1792, the day the state was admitted to the Union. Though not actively partisan, he identified with the Democratic-Republicans. Much of his term was devoted to establishing basic laws, military divisions and a tax structure. One of <mask>'s chief concerns was securing federal aid to defend the frontier. Although Kentuckians were engaged in an undeclared war with American Indians north of the Ohio River, <mask> had been ordered by Secretary of War Henry Knox not to conduct offensive military actions against the Indians.Furthermore, he was limited by federal regulations that restricted the service of state militiamen to thirty days, which was too short to be effective. With the meager resources of his fledgling state he was only able to defend the most vulnerable areas from Indian attack. Meanwhile, Kentuckians suspected that the Indians were being stirred up and supplied by the British. <mask> appealed to President Washington for help; Washington responded by appointing General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to the area with orders to push the Indians out of the Northwest Territory. Wayne arrived at Fort Washington (present-day Cincinnati, Ohio) in May 1793, but was prevented from taking any immediate action because federal commissioners were still attempting to negotiate a treaty with the Indians. He called for 1,000 volunteer troops from Kentucky, but few heeded the call and <mask> resorted to conscription. By the time the soldiers arrived, winter had set in.He ordered the men to go home and return in the spring. After a winter filled with Indian attacks, including one which claimed the life of <mask>'s younger brother <mask> III, Kentucky militia units won some minor victories over the Indians in early 1794. In spring the response to Wayne's call for troops was more enthusiastic; 1,600 volunteers mustered at Fort Greenville and were hastily trained. By August, 1794, Wayne was on the offensive against the Indians and dealt them a decisive blow at the August 20, 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. This victory, and the ensuing Treaty of Greenville, secured the territory, and although <mask> did not agree with some of the restrictions placed upon western settlers by this treaty, he abided by its terms and enforced those that were under his jurisdiction. Another major concern of the <mask> administration was free navigation on the Mississippi River, which was vital to the state's economic interests. For political reasons the Spanish had closed the port at New Orleans to the Americans.This would have been the natural market for the tobacco, flour and hemp grown by Kentucky farmers; overland routes were too expensive to be profitable. This made it difficult for land speculators to entice immigration to the area to turn a profit on their investments. Many Kentuckians felt the federal government was not acting decisively or quickly enough to remedy this situation. Citizen Genêt affair While Kentuckians despised the British and Spanish, they had a strong affinity for the French. They admired the republican government that had arisen from the French Revolution, and they had not forgotten France's aid during the Revolutionary War. When French Ambassador Edmond-Charles Genêt, popularly known as Citizen Genêt, arrived in the United States in April 1793, George Rogers Clark was already considering an expedition to capture Spanish lands in the west. Genêt's agent, André Michaux, was dispatched to Kentucky to assess the support of Kentuckians toward Clark's expedition.When he gained an audience with Governor <mask>, he did so with letters of introduction from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Kentucky Senator John Brown. Jefferson had written a separate letter to <mask> warning him against aiding the French schemes and informing him that negotiations were under way with the Spanish regarding trade on the Mississippi. When the letter was sent on August 29, 1793, it was Jefferson's intent that it reach <mask> before Michaux did, but <mask> did not receive it until October 1793. On September 13, 1793, Michaux met with <mask>, but there is no evidence that <mask> agreed to help him. In his response to Jefferson's delayed letter, <mask> assured Jefferson that Kentuckians "possess too just a sense of the obligation they owe the General Government, to embark in any enterprise that would be so injurious to the United States". In November 1793, <mask> received a letter from another of Genêt's agents, Charles Delpeau. He confided to <mask> that he had been sent to secure supplies for an expedition against Spanish holdings, and inquired whether <mask> had been instructed to arrest individuals associated with such a scheme.Three days later <mask> responded by letter, relating Jefferson's warning against aiding the French. Despite having no evidence that <mask> was party to Genêt's scheme, both Jefferson and Knox felt compelled to warn him a second time. Jefferson provided names and descriptions of the French agents believed to be in Kentucky and encouraged their arrest. Knox went a step further by suggesting Kentucky would be reimbursed for any costs incurred resisting the French by force, should such action become necessary. General Anthony Wayne informed him that his cavalry was at the state's disposal. Arthur St. Clair, governor of the American Northwest Territory, also admonished <mask> against cooperation with Genêt. In his response to Jefferson, <mask> questioned whether he had the legal authority to intervene with force against his constituency and expressed his personal aversion to doing so.<mask> tempered this lukewarm commitment by assuring Jefferson that "I shall, at all times, hold it my duty to perform whatever may be constitutionally required of me, as Governor of Kentucky, by the President of the United States." In March 1794, perhaps in response to <mask>'s concerns, Congress passed a measure granting the government additional powers in the event of an invasion or insurrection. Jefferson's successor Edmund Randolph, who actually received <mask>'s letter, wrote <mask> to inform him of the new powers at his disposal, and informing him that the new regime in France had recalled Genêt. Two months later Genêt's agents ceased their operations in Kentucky and the potential crisis was averted. In 1795, President Washington negotiated an agreement with the Spanish that secured the right of Americans to trade on the river. Having successfully dealt with the major challenges and issues involved in forming a new state government, <mask> left the state safe and financially sound. Kentucky's constitution prevented a governor from serving consecutive terms, so <mask> retired to Traveler's Rest, his Lincoln County estate, at the conclusion of his term in 1796.For the next 15 years he tended to affairs on his farm. He was selected as a presidential elector in six consecutive elections, but these were his only appearances in public life during this period. Second term as governor Gabriel Slaughter was the favorite choice for governor of Kentucky in 1812. Only one impediment to his potential candidacy existed. Growing tensions between the United States, France, and Great Britain threatened to break into open war. With this prospect looming, <mask>'s name began circulating as a possible candidate for governor. Slaughter, who lived near Shelby, visited him and asked whether he would run.<mask> assured him that he had no desire to do so unless a national emergency that required his leadership emerged. Satisfied with this answer, Slaughter began his campaign. The situation with the European powers grew worse, and on June 18, 1812 the United States declared war on Great Britain, beginning the War of 1812. Cries grew louder for <mask> to return as Kentucky's chief executive. On July 18, 1812, less than a month before the election, <mask> acquiesced and announced his candidacy. During the campaign <mask>'s political enemies, notably Humphrey Marshall, criticized his response to Jefferson's second letter regarding the Genêt affair and questioned his loyalty to the United States. <mask> contended that his noncommittal response to the letter was meant to draw the federal government's attention to the situation in the west.He cited the agreement between Washington and the Spanish as evidence that his ploy had worked. He also claimed to have known at the time he wrote the letter that the French scheme was destined to fail. Slaughter's supporters mocked <mask>'s advanced age (he was almost 62), calling him "Old <mask>". One Kentucky paper even printed an anonymous charge that <mask> had run from the Battle of Kings Mountain. Though few even among <mask>'s enemies believed the story, his supporters and <mask> himself responded through missives in the state's newspapers. One supporter typified these responses, writing "It is reported that Colonel <mask> 'run [sic] at Kings Mountain.' True he did.He first run [sic] up to the enemy ... then after an action of about forty-seven minutes, he run [sic] again with 900 prisoners." As the canvass stretched into August, <mask> grew more confident of victory and began preparations to return to the state house. He predicted a victory of 10,000 votes; the final margin was more than 17,000. When he took the oath of office, <mask> became the first Kentucky governor to serve non-consecutive terms. (James Garrard had been permitted to serve consecutive terms in 1796 and 1800 by special legislative exemption.) Preparations for the war dominated <mask>'s second term. Two days before his inauguration, he and outgoing governor Charles Scott met at the state house to appoint William Henry Harrison commander of the Kentucky militia.This was done in violation of a constitutional mandate that the post be held by a native Kentuckian. Already commander of the militias of Indiana and Illinois, Harrison picked up Kentucky volunteers at Newport before hurrying to the defense of Fort Wayne. <mask> pressured President James Madison to give Harrison command of all military forces in the Northwest. Madison acceded, rescinding his earlier appointment of James Winchester. On the state level, <mask> revised militia laws to make every male between the ages of 18 and 45 eligible for military service; ministers were excluded from the provision. Seven thousand volunteers enlisted, and many more had to be turned away. <mask> encouraged the state's women to sew and knit items for Kentucky's troops.<mask>'s confidence in the federal government's war planning was shaken by the disastrous Battle of Frenchtown in which a number of Kentucky soldiers died. He vowed to personally act to aid the war effort should the opportunity arise, and was authorized by the legislature to do so. In March 1813, Harrison requested another 1,200 Kentuckians to join him at Fort Meigs. <mask> dispatched the requested number, among whom was his oldest son James, under General Green Clay. The reinforcements arrived to find Fort Meigs under siege by a combined force of British and Indians. Clay's force was able to stop the siege, but a large number of them were captured and massacred by Indians. Initial reports put <mask> among the dead, but he was later discovered to have been captured and released in a prisoner exchange.On July 30, 1813, General Harrison again wrote <mask> requesting volunteers, and this time he asked that <mask> lead them personally. <mask> raised a force of 3,500 volunteers, double the number Harrison requested. Future governor John J. Crittenden served as <mask>'s aide-de-camp. Now a Major General, <mask> led the volunteers to join Harrison in a campaign that culminated in the American victory at the Battle of the Thames. In Harrison's report of the battle to Secretary of War John Armstrong Jr., he said of <mask>, "I am at a loss to how to mention [the service] of Governor <mask>, being convinced that no eulogism of mine can reach his merit." In 1817, <mask> received the thanks of Congress and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his service in the war. Friends of <mask> suggested he run for Vice President, but <mask> quickly and emphatically declined.Later life Upon <mask>'s leaving office in 1816, President Monroe offered him the post of Secretary of War, but he declined because of his age. Already a founding member of the Kentucky Bible Society, <mask> consented to serve as vice-president of the New American Bible Society in 1816. He was a faithful member of Danville Presbyterian church, but in 1816, built a small nondenominational church on his property. In 1818, he accompanied Andrew Jackson in negotiating the Jackson Purchase with the Chickasaw. He also served as the first president of the Kentucky Agricultural Society in 1818 and was chairman of the first board of trustees of Centre College in 1819. Death In 1820, <mask> was stricken with paralysis in his right arm and leg. He died of a stroke on July 18, 1826, at his home in Lincoln County.<mask> was a slaveowner, and left slaves to his children in his will. He was buried on the grounds of his estate, Traveller's Rest. The state erected a monument over his grave in 1827. In 1952 the Shelby family cemetery was given to the state government and became the Isaac Shelby Cemetery State Historic Site. Legacy <mask>'s patriotism is believed to have inspired the Kentucky state motto: "United we stand, divided we fall". He was fond of The Liberty Song, a 1768 composition by John Dickinson, which contains the line "They join in hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." Though he is sometimes credited with designing the state seal, his public papers show that the design was suggested by James Wilkinson.Centre College began awarding the Isaac Shelby Medallion in 1972, and since then, it has become the college's most prestigious honor. Those awarded the Medallion exemplify the ideals of service to Centre and dedication to the public good that were embraced by <mask> during his time at Centre and in Kentucky. Places named for <mask> Nine states have a county named after <mask>, as do numerous cities and military installations.

He was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislature of Virginia and North Carolina. He was a soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. He was awarded a Congressional Gold medal for leading the Kentucky militia in the Battle of the Thames. Several cities and military bases have been named in his honor. Kentucky adopted the state motto "United we stand, divided we fall" because of his love for John Dickinson's "The Liberty Song". The only major battle of Lord Dunmore's War was the Battle of Point Pleasant, where Issac was second-in-command to his father. He spent the early part of the Revolutionary War gathering supplies for the Continental Army and gained the reputation of an expert woodsman.He and John Sevier led expeditions against the British in North Carolina. The British were defeated at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The nickname "Old Kings Mountain" followed him the rest of his life after he was presented with a ceremonial sword and a pair of pistols by the North Carolina legislature. After the war, the lands that were awarded to him for his military service were relocated to Kentucky, where he became involved in Kentucky's transition from a county of Virginia to a separate state. The Kentucky electoral college unanimously elected him governor after his heroism made him popular with the state's citizens. He organized Kentucky's first government after the Indian attacks. He convinced the Washington administration to make an agreement with the Spanish for free trade on the Mississippi River.At the end of his term as governor, he retired from public life, but was called back into politics by the War of 1812. Kentuckians urged <mask> to run for governor again. At the request of General William Henry Harrison, he commanded troops from Kentucky at the Battle of the Thames. He turned down President James Monroe's offer to become Secretary of War. The Jackson Purchase was negotiated in his last act of public service. He died at his estate in Kentucky. He was born in the Colony of Maryland near Hagerstown in Frederick (now Washington) County.He was the second son of Evan and Letitia, who came from Wales in 1735. The family had been loyal to the Church of England, but after coming to British America, they became Presbyterians. He attended the local schools in his native colony. He used to work on his father's plantation. He was a deputy sheriff in Frederick County. Two years after the fur trade was disrupted by the Rebellion, the records of the business were destroyed in a house fire. The family moved to the area near Bristol, Tennessee, where they built a fort and a trading post.The father and son worked for three years herding cattle here. The war between colonists and American Indians was called Lord Dunmore's War. He took part in the Battle of Point Pleasant as second-in-command of his father's company. The younger <mask> was praised for his bravery in this battle. Fort Blair was built on the site of the battle. Lord Dunmore ordered the fort destroyed because he thought it would be useful to colonial rebels in the American Revolution. The government of Virginia invalidated the Transylvania Company's purchase of Kentucky from the Cherokees after the Revolutionary War.He returned to Kentucky to claim and improve land for himself after fulfilling his duties with the Transylvania Company. He came home in July 1776 to recover after falling ill. In Virginia, fighting in the American Revolutionary War began and the Virginia Committee of Safety appointed him captain of a company of Minutemen. Patrick Henry appointed <mask> to a position securing provisions for the army on the frontier. He served in the Continental Army in the 17th century. The Chickamauga were a band of Cherokees who were resisting colonial expansion. Washington County had a representative in the Virginia House of Delegates.He was commissioned a major by Governor Thomas Jefferson and charged with escorting a group of Commissioners to establish a frontier line between Virginia and North Carolina. He was elevated to the rank of colonel of the Sullivan County Regiment by the governor of North Carolina after he arrived in the region. When the colonists were defeated at Charleston in 1780, he was surveying lands in Kentucky. He rushed to North Carolina, where he found a request for aid from General Charles McDowell to defend the borders of North Carolina from the British. The militiamen were assembled at Cherokee Ford in South Carolina. On the morning of July 31, 1780, he surrounded the British stronghold at Thickety Fort with 600 men. The British refused to surrender.The men were brought within the range of the musket. The British commander lost his nerve and capitulated. Without firing a shot, the men captured 94 prisoners. Following the surrender of Thickety Fort, <mask> joined a band of partisans. British Major Patrick Ferguson pursued this unit. On the morning of August 8, 1780, some of Ferguson's men were surprised by some of the men from the other side when they were gathering peaches. The British patrol was driven back by <mask>'s men.The British were reinforced and the colonists fell back. One side was reinforced and gained an advantage, followed by the other. When Ferguson's main force of 1,000 men arrived, the battle was over. British musket fire could not reach them so they retreated to a hill. Ferguson's force withdrew from the area after they taunted the British. The Battle of Cedar Springs ended. Musgrove's Mill is a British site on the Enoree River.They rode all night with two hundred men. An advance scout told the colonists that there were 500 British soldiers in the camp who were ready to fight. The men and horses were too tired for a retreat and had lost the element of surprise. He ordered his men to build a breastwork. The British camp was attacked by twenty-five colonial riders in half an hour. They were pursued by the British back to the colonial force. The colonists killed several British officers despite being outnumbered.The Battle of Kings Mountain was decided not to pursue the British. They decided to look for a British fort at Ninety Six, South Carolina, where they were certain they would find Ferguson. The news of General Gates' defeat at the Battle of Camden came as a surprise to the men. With the support of General Cornwallis, Ferguson was able to ride to meet <mask> with his entire force. Ferguson sent a paroled prisoner across the mountains to warn the colonists to stop their opposition or he would lay waste to the countryside. John andShelby began to plan a raid on the British. William Campbell raised 400 men from Washington County, Virginia, and Charles McDowell raised 160 men from Burke and Rutherford counties in North Carolina.On September 25, 1780, the forces arrived at Sycamore Shoals. The troops crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and arrived in Morganton, North Carolina, on September 30, 1780. They were joined by Colonel Benjamin Cleveland and Major Joseph Winston. Ferguson declared "God Almighty and all the rebels out of hell" could not move him from Kings Mountain, where he had fortified himself. October 7, 1780 is when the Battle of Kings Mountain began. He called it "Indian play" because he had seen the Indians use it in battles. Ferguson's men were forced to fall back on three separate occasions, but the colonists were able to remove them from their position.Ferguson and his officers tried to retreat after the battle was lost. The colonists were told to kill Ferguson. Both of Ferguson's arms were broken and he was knocked from his mount. The British soldiers waved white flags of surrender after their commander died. From that point forward, his men called him "Old Kings Mountain" because he was the high point of his military service. The North Carolina legislature ordered each of them to receive a pair of pistols and a sword after passing a vote of thanks for their service. He requested them from the legislature in 1813.Nine colonial prisoners were hanged by the British at Fort Ninety-six as the colonists and their prisoners began their march from Kings Mountain. The enraged colonists vowed to stop the hangings in the Carolinas after this incident. Random prisoners were charged with crimes ranging from theft to murder after the colonists summoned a jury from their number. Thirty-six prisoners were sentenced to death by the jury. They were stopped after the first nine hangings. The remaining "convicts" rejoined their fellow prisoners despite the fact that he never gave a reason for this action. On the morning of October 10, 1780, the Kings Mountain victors and their prisoners returned to McDowell's estate.The commanders and their men went their separate ways. General Daniel Morgan and his men were at New Providence. Morgan was told to take Fort Ninety-six and Augusta because he believed the British were supplying the Cherokee with weapons for their raids against colonial settlers. Morgan and Gates agreed to the plan. He promised to return the following spring with 300 men if his plan was carried out. Morgan defeated Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens after he was attacked on his way to Fort Ninety-six. General Nathanael <mask>'s plan that put Morgan in the position to begin with.When he returned home after the war, he and his father were named to negotiate a treaty between colonial settlers and the Chickamauga. In October 1781, he and Sevier led 600 riflemen to join Greene in South Carolina. Cornwallis was going to return to Charleston, so he was going to be prevented from doing so. After the siege of Yorktown, Cornwallis was defeated, and General Francis Marion was sent on to join the Pee Dee River. The British fort at Fair Lawn was captured by Colonel Hezekiah Maham on November 27, 1781. He was elected to the House of Commons of the North Carolina General Assembly. He was granted a leave of absence from the Army to attend the legislative session.He was re-elected in 1782 and attended the April session of the legislature. He was chosen to survey the claims of soldiers along the Cumberland River. In April 1783, she returned to Kentucky. The couple had eleven children. Their oldest daughter, Sarah, married a doctor and their youngest daughter, Letitia, married a secretary of state. On November 1, 1783, the family moved to Lincoln Knob County, near Lick, and occupied land for his military service. On December 1, 1787, the Kentucky Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge was founded by <mask>, who was one of the first trustees of Transylvania University.Kentucky separated from Virginia as early as 1784. He was considering leading an expedition against the Indians and separating Kentucky from Virginia. A constitution for Kentucky was worked on by him as a delegate. He helped stop the plan to align Kentucky with the Spanish. The Board of War was created by the Virginia legislature to serve the district of Kentucky. On Lincoln County, she was made High Sheriff. He was a delegate to the final convention of the Kentucky Constitution.The voters elected the governor and members of the Kentucky Senate under the new constitution. On May 17, 1791, he was unanimously elected to the office of governor, even though there was no indication that he wanted it. The state was admitted to the Union on June 4, 1792. He identified with the Democrats and Republicans. His term was devoted to establishing basic laws, military divisions and a tax structure. Obtaining federal aid to defend the frontier was one of the main concerns of <mask>by not to conduct offensive military actions against the Indians.Federal regulations limited the service of state militiamen to thirty days, which was too short to be effective. He was only able to defend the most vulnerable areas from Indian attack because of the meager resources of his state. The Indians were thought to be being supplied by the British. Washington appointed General "Mad" Anthony Wayne to the area with orders to push the Indians out of the Northwest Territory after <mask> appealed to him for help. The federal government was still trying to negotiate a treaty with the Indians when Wayne arrived at Fort Washington in May 1793. He called for a lot of volunteer troops from Kentucky, but they didn't show up. The winter had set in by the time the soldiers arrived.The men were told to go home and come back in the spring. After a winter filled with Indian attacks, Kentucky militia units won a few victories over the Indians. 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Free navigation on the Mississippi River was important to the state's economic interests. The port at New Orleans was closed for political reasons by the Spanish.overland routes were too expensive to be profitable and this would have been the natural market for the tobacco, flour and hemp grown by Kentucky farmers. It was difficult for land speculators to turn a profit on their investments because of this. Many Kentuckians felt that the federal government wasn't doing enough to remedy the situation. Kentuckians had a strong affinity for the French, despite their dislike of the British and Spanish. They didn't forget France's aid during the Revolutionary War, but they admired the republican government that came after the French Revolution. George Rogers Clark was considering an expedition to capture Spanish lands in the west when Citizen Gent arrived in the United States in April 1793. The support of Kentuckians towards Clark's expedition was assessed by Gent's agent, André Michaux.Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Kentucky Senator John Brown introduced him to the Governor. Jefferson wrote a letter to <mask> warning him against aiding the French schemes and letting him know that negotiations were under way with the Spanish regarding trade on the Mississippi. When the letter was sent on August 29, 1793, Jefferson intended for it to reach <mask> before Michaux, but he did not receive it until October 1793. On September 13, 1793, Michaux met with <mask>, but there is no evidence that he agreed to help him. "Kentuckians have a sense of obligation to the General Government to embark in any enterprise that would be so injurious to the United States", said <mask> in his response to Jefferson's delayed letter. In November 1793, Charles Delpeau wrote a letter to <mask>. He told <mask> that he had been sent to secure supplies for an expedition against Spanish holdings, and asked if he had been instructed to arrest anyone associated with the scheme.Three days later, <mask> wrote a letter about Jefferson's warning against aiding the French. Despite having no evidence that he was involved in Gent's scheme, both Jefferson and Knox felt compelled to warn him a second time. Jefferson encouraged the arrest of the French agents in Kentucky. Should Kentucky's resistance to the French become necessary, the state would be reimbursed for any costs incurred. The cavalry was at the state's disposal, according to General Anthony Wayne. The governor of the American Northwest Territory admonished <mask> against cooperation with Gent. In his response to <mask> questioned if he had the legal authority to intervene with force against his constituency and expressed his personal aversion to doing so.Jefferson was assured that "I shall, at all times, hold it my duty to perform whatever may be constitutionally required of me, as Governor of Kentucky, by the President of the United States." Congress passed a measure granting the government additional powers in the event of an invasion or insurrection. The new regime in France had recalled Gent and Edmund Randolph wrote to <mask> to inform him of the new powers at his disposal. The potential crisis was averted when Gent's agents ceased their operations in Kentucky two months later. The right of Americans to trade on the river was secured by President Washington in 1795. Having successfully dealt with the major challenges and issues involved in forming a new state government, <mask> left the state safe and financially sound. Kentucky's constitution prevented a governor from serving consecutive terms, so he retired to Traveler's Rest at the end of his term in 1796.He tended to affairs on his farm for 15 years. He was selected as a presidential elector in six elections, but only appeared in public once. Gabriel Slaughter was the favorite for governor of Kentucky in 1812. There was only one impediment to his candidacy. There were growing tensions between the United States, France, and Great Britain. A possible candidate for governor was circulating with this prospect looming. Slaughter asked if he would run.He was assured that he had no desire to do it unless there was a national emergency. Slaughter was happy with the answer and began his campaign. On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain, starting the War of 1812. Cries grew louder for him to return as Kentucky's chief executive. Less than a month before the election, <mask> announced his candidacy. Humphrey Marshall criticized his response to Jefferson's second letter regarding the Gent affair and questioned his loyalty to the United States during the campaign. The letter was meant to draw the federal government's attention to the situation in the west.The agreement between Washington and the Spanish was proof that his ploy had worked. He claimed that he knew the French scheme was doomed when he wrote the letter. Slaughter's supporters called him "Old Daddy" because he was almost 62 years old. An anonymous charge was printed from the Battle of Kings Mountain. Even though no one believed the story, his supporters and himself responded through missives in the state's newspapers. One supporter wrote, "It is reported that Colonel <mask> runs at Kings Mountain." He did.After running up to the enemy, he ran again with 900 prisoners. As the canvass stretched into August,<mask> grew more confident of victory and began preparations to return to the state house. The final margin was more than 17,000, and he predicted a victory of 10,000 votes. He became the first Kentucky governor to serve non-consecutive terms when he took the oath of office. James Garrard was allowed to serve consecutive terms by special legislative exemption. The second term was dominated by preparation for the war. Two days before his inauguration, he and outgoing governor Charles Scott met at the state house to appoint William Henry Harrison commander of the Kentucky militia.The post should be held by a native Kentuckian. Harrison picked up Kentucky volunteers at Newport and rushed to the defense of Fort Wayne, already commander of the militias of Indiana and Illinois. President James Madison gave Harrison command of all military forces in the Northwest. James Winchester was Madison's earlier appointment. The ministers were excluded from the provision that made every male between the ages of 18 and 45 eligible for military service. Many volunteers had to be turned away. The state's women were encouraged to knit and sew items for the troops.The Battle of Frenchtown, in which a number of Kentucky soldiers died, was a blow to the federal government's war planning. Should the opportunity arise, he was authorized by the legislature to personally act to aid the war effort. In March of 1813, Harrison requested another 1,200 Kentuckians to join him. James was the son of General Green Clay. There was a force of British and Indians who were under siege. Clay's force was able to stop the siege, but many of them were captured and massacred by the Indians. Initially, it was thought that <mask> was among the dead, but he was actually captured and released in a prisoner exchange.On July 30, 1813, General Harrison again requested volunteers, and this time he asked that <mask> lead them personally. The number of volunteers was double what Harrison requested. John J. Crittenden was an aide-de-camp. The American victory at the Battle of the Thames was the culmination of a campaign led by a Major General. In his report to the Secretary of War, Harrison said that he was at a loss to mention the service of the Governor. The Congressional Gold medal was awarded to <mask> for his service in the war. Friends suggested that he run for Vice President.President Monroe offered him the post of Secretary of War, but he declined because of his age. In 1816, as a founding member of the Kentucky Bible Society, he consented to serve as vice-president of the New American Bible Society. In 1816, he built a small church on his property, despite being a faithful member of the Presbyterian church. He was with Andrew Jackson in the Jackson Purchase. He was chairman of the first board of trustees of Centre College in 1819 and served as the first president of the Kentucky Agricultural Society in 1818. He was stricken with paralysis in his right arm and leg. He died of a stroke at his home.Slaves were left to his children in his will. He was buried in the grounds of his estate. The state built a monument over his grave. The state government took over the family cemetery in 1952 and made it a state historic site. The Kentucky state motto is "United we stand, divided we fall". "They join in hand, brave Americans all, By unifying we stand, by dividing we fall" is a line from The Liberty Song by John Dickinson. His public papers show that the design for the state seal was suggested by James Wilkinson.The college's most prestigious honor has been awarded by Centre College since 1972. The ideals of service to Centre and dedication to the public good were embraced by those who were awarded the Medallion. Many cities and military installations have been named after the man.

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Serhiy Ostapenko

Serhiy Ostapenko (November 1881—1937) was economist, statesman, and political activist of Ukraine. In the beginning of 1919 he directed the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic (prime-minister). Early years Ostapenko was born in November 1881 in the town of Troyaniv near Zhytomyr. Today it is the village of Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast. Ostapenko was born into family of a poor peasants and his father had another job as a freight transporter. From 1893 to 1897 Ostapenko attended the local elementary school, after which, he enrolled into an agrarian middle school in Bilokrynytsia of Kremenets uyezd (today Kremenets Raion of Ternopil Oblast). In 1904 he started working as a teacher in a two-grade school of Turiysk of Kovel uyezd. In 1905 Ostapenko was arrested for being a member of the [Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party]. He spent the next three years in jail for political reasons as he claimed. After his release, Ostapenko had some trouble of finding employment. He graduated from the Vladimir cadet corps after final tests in 1909 and the same year enrolled into the Economic school of Kyiv Commercial Institute (now Kyiv National Economic University). Upon his graduation in 1913 he was sent to Germany for extended studies in Economics. In 1913 he returned to Ukraine where he found the job as head of the Bureau of Statistics in Balta uyezd of Podolia Governorate. In 1914 Ostapenko was transferred to Kharkiv where he headed the Bureau of Statistics for the Mining Industry of Sloboda Ukraine. Later he returned to Kyiv where he worked as a private-docent in the Kyiv Commercial Institute until 1917. The revolution In January 1918, Ostapenko was appointed as an economic adviser to the Ukrainian economic commission of Vsevolod Holubovych for the negotiations in Brest-Litovsk (see Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine – Central Powers)). On March 14, 1918 he worked to the trade commission of Mykola Porsh for the goods exchange with the Central Powers and responsible to the Council of People's Ministers. During the times of the Ukrainian State Ostapenko was included to the Serhiy Shelukhin's economic commission of the Ukrainian peace delegation during the negotiations with the delegation of the Soviet Russia in Kyiv. These negotiations took place from May 23 through October 7, 1918. Concurrently, he lectured in political economy, economical geography, and others for various schools in Kyiv. Statesman career After the Directorate of Ukraine forced Pavlo Skoropadsky to emigrate, Ostapenko, being a member of the Ukrainian SR party and was appointed to the socialist government of Volodymyr Chekhivsky as the minister of trade and industry. In February 1919 when the government of Ukraine had to relocate out of Kyiv to Vinnytsia with the advancing Bolshevik forces, Ostapenko discontinued his membership with the Ukrainian SRs. After the resignation of several ministers from the government he was performing the duties of the minister of political agitation and propaganda. On February 6, 1919 he participated as the representative of the Ukrainian government in the negotiations with the Chief of staff of the French military forces of Colonel Freidenberg (see Entente intervention) at the railroad station of Birzula, near Odesa. The Ukrainians were requesting from the representatives of the Entente recognition of the sovereignty of Ukraine, allowing it to participate at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and several other important factors. After the negotiations brought no results the government of Chekhivsky resigned. The Directorate of Ukraine requested Ostapenko who was appointed to find the understanding (?) with the members of the Entente to form another government. His government was composed mostly out of more liberal-democratic representatives, but as the government did not bring any real results in the short period of time in couple of months it was replaced by the government of more socially oriented Borys Martos. Ostapenko found no place in the new government was found and he moved for couple of months to Galicia (Central Europe). Professor's career After some successes at the Bolshevik front and the liberation of Podolia, he moved to Kamyanets-Podilsky that since June 1919 served as the temporary administrative center of the Ukrainian People's Republic until the end of 1919. Still unable to find a job Ostapenko applied to the Kamyanets-Podilsky State University that was hiring numerous professors and private-docents in various fields. On July 18, 1919 the minister of education Anton Krushelnytsky accepted his application by the reference of the University's first rector Ivan Ohienko. Ostapenko became a private-docent at the Department of Statistics of the University's Jurisprudential School and started his work in October 1919. On November 5, 1919 the council of the University's professors asked him to lecture the political economy beside his classes of statistics. On February 25, 1920 Ostapenko was confirmed as the permanent docent of the Department of Political Economy and Statistics. In May 1920 the guberniya administration published his books The course of statistics and demographics of 3,500 releases and The important characteristics of the Ukrainian ethnicity in comparison to other ethnics of 1,500. Life in the Soviet Ukraine By the end of 1920 Ostapenko relocated to Kyiv. In May 1921 the Supreme Extraordinary Tribunal began the hearing of the affair of Ukrainian SRs on which Ostapenko was invited as a witness. However, by the proposition of Dmitry Manuilsky he was placed amongst the ones under trail. Ostapenko plead not guilty and was given five years of correctional labor camps. Later unexpectedly the sentence was changed and he was forced to work by specialty instead of katorga, due to his value as a scientific force. Further his fate is not known. There are speculations that 1931 he was arrested by the NKVD and perished in the labor camps (according to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine) sometime in 1937. References External links Ukrainian Martyrolog of the XX century Biography at the website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Biography at the website of Cabinet of Ministers 1881 births 1937 deaths People from Zhytomyr Raion People from Volhynian Governorate Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party politicians Ukrainian politicians before 1991 Prime ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic People who died in the Gulag

<mask> (November 1881—1937) was economist, statesman, and political activist of Ukraine. In the beginning of 1919 he directed the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic (prime-minister). Early years <mask> was born in November 1881 in the town of Troyaniv near Zhytomyr. Today it is the village of Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast. <mask> was born into family of a poor peasants and his father had another job as a freight transporter. From 1893 to 1897 <mask> attended the local elementary school, after which, he enrolled into an agrarian middle school in Bilokrynytsia of Kremenets uyezd (today Kremenets Raion of Ternopil Oblast). In 1904 he started working as a teacher in a two-grade school of Turiysk of Kovel uyezd.In 1905 <mask> was arrested for being a member of the [Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party]. He spent the next three years in jail for political reasons as he claimed. After his release, <mask> had some trouble of finding employment. He graduated from the Vladimir cadet corps after final tests in 1909 and the same year enrolled into the Economic school of Kyiv Commercial Institute (now Kyiv National Economic University). Upon his graduation in 1913 he was sent to Germany for extended studies in Economics. In 1913 he returned to Ukraine where he found the job as head of the Bureau of Statistics in Balta uyezd of Podolia Governorate. In 1914 <mask> was transferred to Kharkiv where he headed the Bureau of Statistics for the Mining Industry of Sloboda Ukraine.Later he returned to Kyiv where he worked as a private-docent in the Kyiv Commercial Institute until 1917. The revolution In January 1918, <mask> was appointed as an economic adviser to the Ukrainian economic commission of Vsevolod Holubovych for the negotiations in Brest-Litovsk (see Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine – Central Powers)). On March 14, 1918 he worked to the trade commission of Mykola Porsh for the goods exchange with the Central Powers and responsible to the Council of People's Ministers. During the times of the Ukrainian State <mask> was included to the <mask> Shelukhin's economic commission of the Ukrainian peace delegation during the negotiations with the delegation of the Soviet Russia in Kyiv. These negotiations took place from May 23 through October 7, 1918. Concurrently, he lectured in political economy, economical geography, and others for various schools in Kyiv. Statesman career After the Directorate of Ukraine forced Pavlo Skoropadsky to emigrate, Ostapenko, being a member of the Ukrainian SR party and was appointed to the socialist government of Volodymyr Chekhivsky as the minister of trade and industry.In February 1919 when the government of Ukraine had to relocate out of Kyiv to Vinnytsia with the advancing Bolshevik forces, <mask> discontinued his membership with the Ukrainian SRs. After the resignation of several ministers from the government he was performing the duties of the minister of political agitation and propaganda. On February 6, 1919 he participated as the representative of the Ukrainian government in the negotiations with the Chief of staff of the French military forces of Colonel Freidenberg (see Entente intervention) at the railroad station of Birzula, near Odesa. The Ukrainians were requesting from the representatives of the Entente recognition of the sovereignty of Ukraine, allowing it to participate at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, and several other important factors. After the negotiations brought no results the government of Chekhivsky resigned. The Directorate of Ukraine requested <mask> who was appointed to find the understanding (?) with the members of the Entente to form another government.His government was composed mostly out of more liberal-democratic representatives, but as the government did not bring any real results in the short period of time in couple of months it was replaced by the government of more socially oriented Borys Martos. <mask> found no place in the new government was found and he moved for couple of months to Galicia (Central Europe). Professor's career After some successes at the Bolshevik front and the liberation of Podolia, he moved to Kamyanets-Podilsky that since June 1919 served as the temporary administrative center of the Ukrainian People's Republic until the end of 1919. Still unable to find a job <mask> applied to the Kamyanets-Podilsky State University that was hiring numerous professors and private-docents in various fields. On July 18, 1919 the minister of education Anton Krushelnytsky accepted his application by the reference of the University's first rector Ivan Ohienko. <mask> became a private-docent at the Department of Statistics of the University's Jurisprudential School and started his work in October 1919. On November 5, 1919 the council of the University's professors asked him to lecture the political economy beside his classes of statistics.On February 25, 1920 <mask> was confirmed as the permanent docent of the Department of Political Economy and Statistics. In May 1920 the guberniya administration published his books The course of statistics and demographics of 3,500 releases and The important characteristics of the Ukrainian ethnicity in comparison to other ethnics of 1,500. Life in the Soviet Ukraine By the end of 1920 <mask> relocated to Kyiv. In May 1921 the Supreme Extraordinary Tribunal began the hearing of the affair of Ukrainian SRs on which <mask> was invited as a witness. However, by the proposition of Dmitry Manuilsky he was placed amongst the ones under trail. <mask> plead not guilty and was given five years of correctional labor camps. Later unexpectedly the sentence was changed and he was forced to work by specialty instead of katorga, due to his value as a scientific force.Further his fate is not known. There are speculations that 1931 he was arrested by the NKVD and perished in the labor camps (according to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine) sometime in 1937. References External links Ukrainian Martyrolog of the XX century Biography at the website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Biography at the website of Cabinet of Ministers 1881 births 1937 deaths People from Zhytomyr Raion People from Volhynian Governorate Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party politicians Ukrainian politicians before 1991 Prime ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic People who died in the Gulag

<mask> was a political activist and economist. He directed the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919. The town of Troyaniv was where <mask> was born. It is the village of Zhytomyr Raion. The <mask> family was poor and <mask>'s father had another job. After attending the local elementary school, <mask> went to the middle school in Bilokrynytsia of Kremenets uyezd. He started teaching in a two-grade school in 1904.<mask> was arrested in 1905 for being a member of theUkrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party. He spent three years in jail for political reasons. <mask> had trouble finding a job after his release. He attended the Economic school of Kyiv Commercial Institute after graduating from the cadet corps. He was sent to Germany for extended studies after graduating in 1913. He was the head of the Bureau of Statistics in Podolia Governorate when he returned to Ukranian in 1913. The Bureau of Statistics for the Mining Industry of Sloboda Ukraine was headed by <mask> in 1914.He worked as a private-docent in the Kyiv Commercial Institute until 1917. <mask> was appointed as an economic adviser to the Ukrainian economic commission in January of 1918. He was responsible to the Council of People's Ministers for the goods exchange with the Central Powers on March 14, 1918. <mask> was included to the economic commission of the Ukrainian peace delegation during the negotiations with the delegation of the Soviet Russia. From May 23 to October 7, 1918, these negotiations took place. He lectured in political economy, economical geography, and others. <mask> was appointed to the socialist government of Volodymyr Chekhivsky as the minister of trade and industry after he was forced to emigrate.<mask> discontinued his membership with the Ukrainian SRs in February 1919, when the government of Ukraine had to relocate due to the advance of the Bolsheviks. He was performing the duties of the minister of political agitation and propaganda after the resignation of several ministers. On February 6, 1919, he was the representative of the Ukrainian government in the negotiations with the Chief of staff of the French military forces of Colonel Freidenberg. The representatives of the ENTente recognition of the sovereignty of Ukraine were requested by the Ukrainians to allow them to participate in the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The Chekhivsky government resigned after the negotiations failed. <mask> was appointed to find the understanding. They were going to form another government.His government was composed mostly out of more liberal-democratic representatives, but as the government did not bring any real results in a short period of time, it was replaced by the government of more socially oriented Borys Martos. <mask> moved to Galicia for a couple of months after finding no place in the new government. Kamyanets- Podilsky was the temporary administrative center of the Ukrainian People's Republic until the end of 1919 after some successes at the Bolshevik front. <mask> tried to get a job at the Kamyanets- Podilsky State University, but couldn't find one. On July 18, 1919, the minister of education accepted the application from Ivan Ohienko. In October 1919, <mask> began his work at the Department of Statistics of the University's Jurisprudential School. He was asked to lecture the political economy by the University's professors on November 5, 1919.The permanent docent of the Department of Political Economy and Statistics was confirmed on February 25, 1920. The books The course of statistics and demographic of 3,500 releases and The important characteristics of the Ukrainian ethnicity were published in May 1920. <mask> moved to Kyiv at the end of 1920. <mask> was invited to be a witness in the hearing of the affair of Ukrainian SRs. He was placed under the trail by the proposition of Manuilsky. <mask> was sentenced to five years of labor camps after pleading not guilty. Due to his value as a scientific force, the sentence was changed and he was forced to work by specialty.His fate is not known further. According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, he died in the labor camps in 1937 after being arrested by the NKVD in 1931. There are External links to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.

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Black (singer)

Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey". Michael Hann of The Guardian described his voice as a "slightly frayed baritone". Early life Vearncombe was born in Liverpool and attended Prescot Grammar School. He then enrolled on an art foundation course at Liverpool Polytechnic. He first aspired to become a musician after seeing Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock. Career Black's first release was the single "Human Features" on Rox Records from Birkenhead in 1981. At this time the band also included Dane Goulding (formerly of Blazetroopers) on bass and Greg Leyland (another school-friend) on drums, with Vearncombe calling himself Black as he did not think his own surname would be remembered. The single was followed by another independent release, "More than the Sun", in 1982. It was then that Vearncombe formed a friendship with Dave "Dix" Dickie of the Last Chant, and the two became musical collaborators and signed for WEA Records. In 1982, Black played with the Thompson Twins on their 'Quick Step and Side Kick' tour and also supported Wah! on a UK tour. Black signed with WEA in 1984, and the next single was "Hey Presto", which got Vearncombe noticed outside the UK: the video for the song featured on the satellite channel Music Box, and the single was also released in Australia. The second WEA single was a re-recording of "More than the Sun". After this, Black was dropped from the record label, and Vearncombe and Dix went their separate ways. In 1985, Vearncombe wrote the minor key song "Wonderful Life". It was released independently through Ugly Man Records, and got Black noticed by A&M Records, who signed Vearncombe and launched his international career. Vearncombe said: By the end of 1985 I had been in a couple of car crashes, my mother had a serious illness, I had been dropped by a record company, my first marriage went belly-up and I was homeless. Then I sat down and wrote this song called 'Wonderful Life'. I was being sarcastic. The song reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart. "Wonderful Life" was later covered by singers including Kim Wilde and Tony Hadley. A version by Katie Melua was included on the BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s compilation album, and was released as a single in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Children's Hospital Charity. But its widespread popularity came from its use on several advertising commercials for brands that included Standard Life, Cadbury's chocolate and Fleury Michon. In 2015, Melua sang a version in an advertisement for Premier Inn. Vearncombe suffered from the feeling of being a one-hit wonder: Once you have had a hit, it's hard to write another song without having that in the back of your mind. For a long time, I would find myself hearing, 'I like it but it's not Wonderful Life'. At first, the single "Everything's Coming Up Roses" flopped, but the follow-up, "Sweetest Smile" became a UK top-10 hit. The third single, a re-release of "Wonderful Life", was a massive hit worldwide. The album of the same name, released in 1987, had similar success, reaping commercial and critical acclaim. Black sold over two million records worldwide with Comedy (1988) and Black (1991). Disillusioned with having to deal with a big record company, Vearncombe founded the independent label Nero Schwarz (which is the word "black" in Italian and in German, respectively), and released one album Are We Having Fun Yet? (1993). After a prolonged hiatus, Vearncombe returned in 1999 to release a string of recordings under his own name. Vearncombe returned to the name 'Black' to release the album Between Two Churches in November 2005. On this album, he included a song mocking the success of his hit "Wonderful Life", where he poignantly re-asked the question, ‘Are you having a wonderful life?’ In 2009, he released two albums: The Given was issued on 4 July as a free download under Vearncombe's name; Water on Stone was released on 17 November as the first Black studio album in four years. In September 2011, the album Any Colour You Like was released through Black's website. In April 2014, Vearncombe started a pledge fund (via the dedicated music crowd-funding site PledgeMusic) for a new album, co-written with long-time friend and musical collaborator Calum MacColl. This was the first time he had participated in a crowd-funded project. The project significantly exceeded its funding goals, and he regularly expressed his surprise and gratefulness through video updates on the PledgeMusic site. His experience with the process also contributed to the name of the album, Blind Faith, was released on 13 April 2015. Several months later, he recorded a Catalan version of "Wonderful Life" as a fundraiser for the Catalan telethon La Marató de TV3. Vearncombe sang a Catalan translation of the original lyrics. Death On 10 January 2016, Vearncombe was involved in a car accident, near Cork Airport in Ireland, and placed in a medically-induced coma after sustaining serious head injuries. He died from his injuries at the intensive care unit of Cork University Hospital on 26 January 2016, at the age of 53. Vearncombe left a widow, Swedish opera singer and former One 2 Many singer Camilla Griehsel, and three children. His remains were cremated on 4 February 2016. Discography Wonderful Life (1987) Comedy (1988) Black (1991) Are We Having Fun Yet? (1993) The Accused (1999) Water on Snow (2000) Smoke Up Close (2002) Between Two Churches (2005) The Given (2009) Water on Stone (2009) Blind Faith (2015) References External links Single Black Spot colinvearncombe.nl – fansite Blogsite Colin Vearncombe didn't want to be defined by one song – and he shouldn't be at theguardian.com, published 27 January 2016 1962 births 2016 deaths English male singer-songwriters English new wave musicians English pop singers Male new wave singers Singers from Liverpool Road incident deaths in the Republic of Ireland 20th-century English singers 21st-century English singers 20th-century British male singers 21st-century British male singers

Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), known by his stage name <mask>, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey". Michael Hann of The Guardian described his voice as a "slightly frayed baritone". Early life Vearncombe was born in Liverpool and attended Prescot Grammar School. He then enrolled on an art foundation course at Liverpool Polytechnic. He first aspired to become a musician after seeing Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock.Career <mask>'s first release was the single "Human Features" on Rox Records from Birkenhead in 1981. At this time the band also included Dane Goulding (formerly of Blazetroopers) on bass and Greg Leyland (another school-friend) on drums, with Vearncombe calling himself <mask> as he did not think his own surname would be remembered. The single was followed by another independent release, "More than the Sun", in 1982. It was then that Vearncombe formed a friendship with Dave "Dix" Dickie of the Last Chant, and the two became musical collaborators and signed for WEA Records. In 1982, <mask> played with the Thompson Twins on their 'Quick Step and Side Kick' tour and also supported Wah! on a UK tour. <mask> signed with WEA in 1984, and the next single was "Hey Presto", which got Vearncombe noticed outside the UK: the video for the song featured on the satellite channel Music Box, and the single was also released in Australia.The second WEA single was a re-recording of "More than the Sun". After this, <mask> was dropped from the record label, and Vearncombe and Dix went their separate ways. In 1985, Vearncombe wrote the minor key song "Wonderful Life". It was released independently through Ugly Man Records, and got <mask> noticed by A&M Records, who signed Vearncombe and launched his international career. Vearncombe said: By the end of 1985 I had been in a couple of car crashes, my mother had a serious illness, I had been dropped by a record company, my first marriage went belly-up and I was homeless. Then I sat down and wrote this song called 'Wonderful Life'. I was being sarcastic.The song reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart. "Wonderful Life" was later covered by singers including Kim Wilde and Tony Hadley. A version by Katie Melua was included on the BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s compilation album, and was released as a single in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Children's Hospital Charity. But its widespread popularity came from its use on several advertising commercials for brands that included Standard Life, Cadbury's chocolate and Fleury Michon. In 2015, Melua sang a version in an advertisement for Premier Inn. Vearncombe suffered from the feeling of being a one-hit wonder: Once you have had a hit, it's hard to write another song without having that in the back of your mind. For a long time, I would find myself hearing, 'I like it but it's not Wonderful Life'.At first, the single "Everything's Coming Up Roses" flopped, but the follow-up, "Sweetest Smile" became a UK top-10 hit. The third single, a re-release of "Wonderful Life", was a massive hit worldwide. The album of the same name, released in 1987, had similar success, reaping commercial and critical acclaim. <mask> sold over two million records worldwide with Comedy (1988) and <mask> (1991). Disillusioned with having to deal with a big record company, Vearncombe founded the independent label Nero Schwarz (which is the word "black" in Italian and in German, respectively), and released one album Are We Having Fun Yet? (1993). After a prolonged hiatus, Vearncombe returned in 1999 to release a string of recordings under his own name.Vearncombe returned to the name '<mask>' to release the album Between Two Churches in November 2005. On this album, he included a song mocking the success of his hit "Wonderful Life", where he poignantly re-asked the question, ‘Are you having a wonderful life?’ In 2009, he released two albums: The Given was issued on 4 July as a free download under Vearncombe's name; Water on Stone was released on 17 November as the first Black studio album in four years. In September 2011, the album Any Colour You Like was released through <mask>'s website. In April 2014, Vearncombe started a pledge fund (via the dedicated music crowd-funding site PledgeMusic) for a new album, co-written with long-time friend and musical collaborator Calum MacColl. This was the first time he had participated in a crowd-funded project. The project significantly exceeded its funding goals, and he regularly expressed his surprise and gratefulness through video updates on the PledgeMusic site. His experience with the process also contributed to the name of the album, Blind Faith, was released on 13 April 2015.Several months later, he recorded a Catalan version of "Wonderful Life" as a fundraiser for the Catalan telethon La Marató de TV3. Vearncombe sang a Catalan translation of the original lyrics. Death On 10 January 2016, Vearncombe was involved in a car accident, near Cork Airport in Ireland, and placed in a medically-induced coma after sustaining serious head injuries. He died from his injuries at the intensive care unit of Cork University Hospital on 26 January 2016, at the age of 53. Vearncombe left a widow, Swedish opera singer and former One 2 Many singer Camilla Griehsel, and three children. His remains were cremated on 4 February 2016. Discography Wonderful Life (1987) Comedy (1988) Black (1991) Are We Having Fun Yet?(1993) The Accused (1999) Water on Snow (2000) Smoke Up Close (2002) Between Two Churches (2005) The Given (2009) Water on Stone (2009) Blind Faith (2015) References External links Single Black Spot colinvearncombe.nl – fansite Blogsite Colin Vearncombe didn't want to be defined by one song – and he shouldn't be at theguardian.com, published 27 January 2016 1962 births 2016 deaths English male singer-songwriters English new wave musicians English pop singers Male new wave singers Singers from Liverpool Road incident deaths in the Republic of Ireland 20th-century English singers 21st-century English singers 20th-century British male singers 21st-century British male singers

Colin Vearncombe was known by his stage name <mask>. He achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year. Vearncombe is described as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey". Michael Hann of The Guardian said his voice was a bit frayed. Vearncombe was born and raised in the city. He attended an art foundation course. He saw Elvis in Jailhouse Rock and wanted to be a musician."Human Features" was <mask>'s first release. Vearncombe called himself <mask> as he didn't think his own name would be remembered, and the band also included a bass player and a drummer. The second independent release was " More than the Sun" in 1982. Dave "Dix" Dickie of the Last Chant and Vearncombe formed a friendship and signed with WEA Records. <mask> played with the Thompson Twins on their 'Quick Step and Side Kick' tour in 1982. There is a UK tour. <mask> signed with WEA in 1984 and the next single was "Hey Presto", which got Vearncombe noticed outside the UK: the video for the song featured on the satellite channel Music Box, and the single was also released in Australia.The second WEA single was a re-recording of " More than the Sun". <mask> was dropped from the record label after this. "Wonderful Life" was written by Vearncombe in 1985. <mask> was noticed by A&M Records, who signed Vearncombe and launched his international career. By the end of 1985 I had been in a couple of car crashes, my mother had a serious illness, I had been dropped by a record company, and I was homeless. I wrote a song called 'Wonderful Life'. I was being sarcastic.The song made it to the UK Singles Chart. Kim Wilde and Tony Hadley covered "Wonderful Life". The single was released in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Children's Hospital Charity, and was included on the Sounds of the 80s album. It was used in several advertising commercials for brands that included Standard Life, Cadbury's chocolate and Fleury Michon. Melua sang a song in an advertisement. It's hard to write another song without the feeling of being a one-hit wonder. I would hear "I like it but it's not wonderful life" for a long time.The single "everything's coming up roses" flopped, but the follow-up, "sweetest smile", became a UK top 10 hit. The re-release of "Wonderful Life" was a huge hit. The same album was released in 1987 and had similar success. Comedy and Black sold over two million records. Vearncombe didn't like dealing with a big record company so he founded an independent label and released an album called Are We Having Fun Yet? The year 1993 In 1999 Vearncombe released a string of recordings under his own name.The album Between Two Churches was released in November 2005. On this album, he included a song mocking the success of his hit "Wonderful Life", where he poignantly re-asked the question, "Are you having a wonderful life?" The album was released on <mask>'s website. In April of last year, Vearncombe started a pledge fund for a new album, co-written with Calum MacColl. He had never participated in a crowd-funded project before. He expressed his surprise and gratitude through video updates on the PledgeMusic site, as the project significantly exceeded its funding goals. The name of the album, Blind Faith, was influenced by his experience with the process.He recorded a Catalan version of "Wonderful Life" in order to raise money for the La Marat de TV3. A Catalan translation of the original lyrics was sung by Vearncombe. Vearncombe was placed in a medically-induced coma after sustaining serious head injuries in a car accident near Cork Airport in Ireland. He died from his injuries on January 26, 2016 at the age of 53. A widow, Swedish opera singer and former One Many 2 singer are some of the people Vearncombe left behind. His remains were cremated. <mask> is a comedy about whether or not we are having fun yet.Colin Vearncombe didn't want to be defined by one song.

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Melissa McBride

Melissa Suzanne McBride (born May 23, 1965) is an American actress and former casting director. McBride's breakout role was Carol Peletier on the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–present). She has garnered critical acclaim and received multiple awards and nominations for her role on the show. Originally cast in a minor role, McBride's role expanded over time to a main cast member and as of 2020, she is the second billed cast member in the opening credits of the show, and one of only two cast members to appear in every season (the other being Norman Reedus). Early life McBride was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to parents John Leslie McBride and Suzanne Lillian (née Sagley) Her father owned his own business, and her mother studied at the historic Pasadena Playhouse. She had three siblings: John Michael, Neil Allen, and Melanie Suzanne. Career McBride began her acting career in 1991, appearing in several television commercials for clients such as Rooms To Go; she was also a spokeswoman for Ford. She made her series television debut in a 1993 episode of ABC legal drama series Matlock, and later guest-starred in several other television drama series, including In the Heat of the Night; American Gothic; Profiler; Walker, Texas Ranger; and Dawson's Creek. In the last, she played Nina – a film buff who charms Dawson after his breakup with Jen – in the Season 1 episode "Road Trip" (1998) - and in 2003 returned to the series finale playing a different character. In the 1990s, McBride had supporting roles in several made-for-television movies, such as Her Deadly Rival (1995) opposite Annie Potts and Harry Hamlin, Close to Danger (1997) with Rob Estes, Any Place But Home (1997), and Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). In 1996, she appeared on the CBS miniseries A Season in Purgatory, based on Dominick Dunne's eponymous 1993 novel. From 2000 to 2010, she worked as a film and commercial casting director in Atlanta, Georgia and starred in several short films. In 2007, director Frank Darabont cast McBride as the "woman with the kids at home" in the ensemble-cast science-fiction horror film The Mist, alongside Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, and Marcia Gay Harden. McBride was in contention for a bigger role in the film but did not want to take a significant amount of time away from her job as a casting director. The following year, she appeared in the Lifetime television movie Living Proof. In 1996, McBride acted alongside both Martin Sheen and Ramon Estevez in the music video for country music group Diamond Rio's single It's All In Your Head. The Walking Dead McBride was cast as Carol Peletier in the AMC television drama series The Walking Dead – her biggest role to date. Peletier is a mid-forties widow and caring mother to preteen Sophia, fighting to survive in a violent post-apocalyptic world populated with flesh-eating zombies and the few surviving humans, some of whom are diabolical and even more dangerous than the zombies themselves. McBride did not audition for the role, which she thought was temporary. She was a recurring cast member in Season 1 and was promoted to series regular for Season 2. McBride's name appeared in the opening credits sequence beginning with the first episode of Season 4. Carol was supposed to have been killed off in the episode "Killer Within", but the producers eventually had a change of plans. As the series progresses, McBride's character develops from being weak and dependent, into a strong, cunning, and loyal warrior. The direction of her character is contrasted between the two media. In the comic series, Carol is much younger and exhibits a neurotic, self-centered, and naive demeanor. Throughout her time in the comics, she grows increasingly unstable to the point of being self-destructive. The television show differs in these regards, as she is shown to be a stern, pragmatic, and compassionate individual who has been gradually building inner strength. Producers of the series, Scott M. Gimple and Robert Kirkman, said in 2014 that "Carol is her own unique character; it would be a disservice to Melissa McBride to say she's evolved into the Carol from the comics. The Carol in the TV show is a wholly original creation that we'll continue to explore on the show to great effect. Everyone in the writers' room loves that character, and we're thrilled with what Melissa has brought to the table. She has definitely become a character that is one to watch, and there's some really exciting stuff ahead for her." McBride has received critical acclaim for her performance as Carol and won positive reviews from critics during Seasons 3, 4, and 5. Many critics praised McBride's performance in the Season 4 episode centered on her character, "The Grove". Others singled out Carol's actions in the Season 5 premiere, "No Sanctuary", which earned critical praise and positive fan reception. Despite the praise of some critics and a fan campaign, McBride did not receive a nomination for the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. However, she won the 40th Annual Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television, and was nominated for the 2014 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in Season 4. In March 2015, McBride was nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Leading Actress in a Television series, for her role as Carol. She once again won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television at the 41st Saturn Awards, for the second year in a row. McBride is set to reprise her role as Carol in a spin-off series centered on her and Daryl Dixon (played by Norman Reedus), following the conclusion of the 11th and final season of The Walking Dead. Angela Kang will be the showrunner for the series, which is set to debut in 2023. Personal life In the mid-1980s, McBride moved to Atlanta, where she still lives. Filmography Film Television Video games Casting director The Last Adam (2006) The Promise (2007) Golden Minutes (2009) This Side Up (2009) The Party (2010) Broken Moment (2010) Awards and nominations References External links 1965 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actors from Lexington, Kentucky Actresses from Atlanta Actresses from Kentucky American film actresses American television actresses American casting directors Living people

<mask> (born May 23, 1965) is an American actress and former casting director. <mask>'s breakout role was Carol Peletier on the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–present). She has garnered critical acclaim and received multiple awards and nominations for her role on the show. Originally cast in a minor role, <mask>'s role expanded over time to a main cast member and as of 2020, she is the second billed cast member in the opening credits of the show, and one of only two cast members to appear in every season (the other being Norman Reedus). Early life <mask> was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to parents <mask> and Suzanne Lillian (née Sagley) Her father owned his own business, and her mother studied at the historic Pasadena Playhouse. She had three siblings: John Michael, Neil Allen, and Melanie Suzanne. Career <mask> began her acting career in 1991, appearing in several television commercials for clients such as Rooms To Go; she was also a spokeswoman for Ford.She made her series television debut in a 1993 episode of ABC legal drama series Matlock, and later guest-starred in several other television drama series, including In the Heat of the Night; American Gothic; Profiler; Walker, Texas Ranger; and Dawson's Creek. In the last, she played Nina – a film buff who charms Dawson after his breakup with Jen – in the Season 1 episode "Road Trip" (1998) - and in 2003 returned to the series finale playing a different character. In the 1990s, <mask> had supporting roles in several made-for-television movies, such as Her Deadly Rival (1995) opposite Annie Potts and Harry Hamlin, Close to Danger (1997) with Rob Estes, Any Place But Home (1997), and Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). In 1996, she appeared on the CBS miniseries A Season in Purgatory, based on Dominick Dunne's eponymous 1993 novel. From 2000 to 2010, she worked as a film and commercial casting director in Atlanta, Georgia and starred in several short films. In 2007, director Frank Darabont cast <mask> as the "woman with the kids at home" in the ensemble-cast science-fiction horror film The Mist, alongside Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, and Marcia Gay Harden. <mask> was in contention for a bigger role in the film but did not want to take a significant amount of time away from her job as a casting director.The following year, she appeared in the Lifetime television movie Living Proof. In 1996, <mask> acted alongside both Martin Sheen and Ramon Estevez in the music video for country music group Diamond Rio's single It's All In Your Head. The Walking Dead <mask> was cast as Carol Peletier in the AMC television drama series The Walking Dead – her biggest role to date. Peletier is a mid-forties widow and caring mother to preteen Sophia, fighting to survive in a violent post-apocalyptic world populated with flesh-eating zombies and the few surviving humans, some of whom are diabolical and even more dangerous than the zombies themselves. <mask> did not audition for the role, which she thought was temporary. She was a recurring cast member in Season 1 and was promoted to series regular for Season 2. <mask>'s name appeared in the opening credits sequence beginning with the first episode of Season 4.Carol was supposed to have been killed off in the episode "Killer Within", but the producers eventually had a change of plans. As the series progresses, <mask>'s character develops from being weak and dependent, into a strong, cunning, and loyal warrior. The direction of her character is contrasted between the two media. In the comic series, Carol is much younger and exhibits a neurotic, self-centered, and naive demeanor. Throughout her time in the comics, she grows increasingly unstable to the point of being self-destructive. The television show differs in these regards, as she is shown to be a stern, pragmatic, and compassionate individual who has been gradually building inner strength. Producers of the series, Scott M. Gimple and Robert Kirkman, said in 2014 that "Carol is her own unique character; it would be a disservice to <mask> to say she's evolved into the Carol from the comics.The Carol in the TV show is a wholly original creation that we'll continue to explore on the show to great effect. Everyone in the writers' room loves that character, and we're thrilled with what <mask> has brought to the table. She has definitely become a character that is one to watch, and there's some really exciting stuff ahead for her." <mask> has received critical acclaim for her performance as Carol and won positive reviews from critics during Seasons 3, 4, and 5. Many critics praised <mask>'s performance in the Season 4 episode centered on her character, "The Grove". Others singled out Carol's actions in the Season 5 premiere, "No Sanctuary", which earned critical praise and positive fan reception. Despite the praise of some critics and a fan campaign, <mask> did not receive a nomination for the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.However, she won the 40th Annual Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television, and was nominated for the 2014 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in Season 4. In March 2015, <mask> was nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Leading Actress in a Television series, for her role as Carol. She once again won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television at the 41st Saturn Awards, for the second year in a row. <mask> is set to reprise her role as Carol in a spin-off series centered on her and Daryl Dixon (played by Norman Reedus), following the conclusion of the 11th and final season of The Walking Dead. Angela Kang will be the showrunner for the series, which is set to debut in 2023. Personal life In the mid-1980s, <mask> moved to Atlanta, where she still lives. Filmography Film Television Video games Casting director The Last Adam (2006) The Promise (2007) Golden Minutes (2009) This Side Up (2009) The Party (2010) Broken Moment (2010) Awards and nominations References External links 1965 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actors from Lexington, Kentucky Actresses from Atlanta Actresses from Kentucky American film actresses American television actresses American casting directors Living people

She is an American actress and former casting director. The Walking Dead's Carol Peletier was <mask>'s breakthrough role. She received multiple awards and nominations for her role on the show. As of 2020, she is the second billed cast member in the opening credits of the show, and one of only two cast members to appear in every season, the other being Norman Reedus. Her father owned his own business and her mother studied at the historic Pasadena Playhouse when she was a child. John Michael, Neil Allen, and Melanie Suzanne were her siblings. In 1991, she began her acting career, appearing in several television commercials for clients such as Rooms To Go.She made her series television debut in a 1993 episode of ABC legal drama series Matlock, and later guest-starred in several other television drama series, including In the Heat of the Night, American Gothic, Profiler, and Walker, Texas Ranger. She played a film buff in the first season of "Road Trip" and in the series finale she played a different character. In the 1990s, she had supporting roles in several made-for-television movies, including Her Deadly Rival (1995), Close to Danger (1997), Any Place But Home (1997), and Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999). In 1996, she appeared on the CBS mini-series A Season in Purgatory. 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She didn't want to take a lot of time away from her job as a casting director because she was in contention for a bigger role in the film.She appeared in a Lifetime movie the following year. The music video for Diamond Rio's single It's All In Your Head was filmed in 1996. Her biggest role to date was as Carol Peletier in The Walking Dead. Peletier is a widow and caring mother to a young girl, fighting to survive in a world full of flesh-eating zombies and the few remaining humans, some of whom are even more dangerous than the zombies themselves. She didn't try out for the role because she thought it was temporary. She was promoted to series regular for Season 2 after being a recurring cast member. The opening credits sequence began with the first episode of Season 4.Carol was supposed to be killed off in the episode "Killer Within", but the producers changed their minds. The character of <mask> develops from being weak and dependent to a strong, cunning, and loyal warrior as the series progresses. The direction of her character is different between the two media. Carol is a neurotic, self-centered, and naive character in the comic series. She was self-destructive throughout her time in the comics. She is shown on the television show to be a stern, pragmatic, and compassionate individual who has been gradually building inner strength. "Carol is her own unique character; it would be a disservice to the fans to say she's evolved into the Carol from the comics," said the producers of the series.The Carol in the TV show is an original creation that we will continue to explore on the show. Everyone in the writers' room loves that character, and we're thrilled with what she has brought to the table. There's some really exciting stuff ahead for her, and she has become a character that is one to watch. During Seasons 3, 4, and 5, <mask> received positive reviews for her performance as Carol. The Season 4 episode centered on her character, "The Grove", and many critics praised her performance. Carol's actions in the Season 5 premiere, "No Sanctuary", earned critical praise and positive fan reception. Despite the praise of some critics and a fan campaign, <mask> did not receive a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.She was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in Season 4. In March 2015, she was nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Leading Actress in a Television series for her role as Carol. She won the award for the second year in a row. Following the conclusion of the 11th and final season of The Walking Dead, there will be a spin-off series centered on Carol and her husband, Daryl. The series is set to debut in 2023. In the 1980's, she moved to Atlanta. The Last Adam, Golden Minutes, This Side Up, The Party, and Broken Moment all received nominations.

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Mike Williams (wide receiver, born 1984)

Michael Troy Williams (born January 4, 1984) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL). Williams played college football at USC, and received consensus All-American recognition. The Detroit Lions selected him in first round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and he also played for the Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans, and Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. Early years Williams was born in Tampa, Florida. He attended Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, and played both high school football and basketball for the Plant Panthers. As a senior, Williams had 38 receptions for 789 yards (20.8 average reception) with 14 touchdowns. Williams' honors included Tom Lemming All-American, Super Prep All-Dixie, PrepStar All-Southeast Region, St. Petersburg Times All-Suncoast second team, and Tampa Tribune All-Hillsborough County. During his junior year, Williams made the all-state Class 4A second team while making 35 receptions for 803 yards (22.9 avg.) and 14 touchdowns. As a sophomore, Williams made 28 receptions for 631 yards (22.5 avg.) and 10 touchdowns. In basketball, Williams was a 4-year Starter, winning over 100 games. As a Senior in 2002, Williams was a McDonald's All American Finalist. He earned “Tampa Tribune” All Hillsborough County 1st Team, District Tournament MVP, Western Conference MVP, and 3rd Team All State selections. Williams averaged 16.9 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 4.6 assists. As a junior in 2001, Williams earned Tampa Tribune All-Hillsborough County first team honors, averaging 14.7 points, 10.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists while helping his team to the state semifinals. As a Freshman, Williams started every game, averaging 12.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists while leading the team in Blocks and Rebounds. Williams graduated as the All Time leader in Blocks and Rebounds in school history. College career Williams attended the University of Southern California, where he played for coach Pete Carroll's USC Trojans football team from 2002 to 2003. Before attending USC, Williams was offered scholarships to Florida State University and the University of Florida, but neither school saw him as a wide receiver. Williams played split end wide receiver during most of his games for USC. Williams played in all 26 games during his freshman and sophomore years at USC, and started 15 of those games. He wore jersey No. 1 while on the football team. His freshman season, he had 81 receptions for 1,265 yards and 14 touchdowns. These statistics are all USC and Pacific-10 Conference freshman records. Williams was named First-Team Freshman All-American choice by The Sporting News, Scripps/Football Writers, and Rivals.com. Selected as the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, named to the All-Pac-10 second team, All-American honorable mention, The Sporting News Freshman All-Pac-10 first team, and The Sporting News All-Pac-10 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year. In his final season, as a sophomore, Williams started all 13 games at wide receiver, and led the Trojans in receiving yards and touchdowns which resulted in 95 catches leading to 1,314 yards and 16 touchdowns. Williams was a finalist for the 2003 Biletnikoff Award (nation's top receiver) while finishing eighth in Heisman Trophy voting. He also earned first team All-American (AP, ESPN.com, Football Writers, and SI.com among others) honors. Williams also was a 2003 All-Pac-10 First Team selection and CBS.Sportsline.com National Player of the Year. That year, he also completed two pass attempts for 38 yards and one touchdown against Michigan in the Rose Bowl, and blocked a field goal. College statistics Awards and honors Second-team All-Pac-10 (2002) Pac-10 Freshman of the Year (2002) First-team Sporting News Freshman All-American (2002) Honorable mention All-American (2002) First-team All-Pac-10 (2003) Consensus First-team All-American (2003) Biletnikoff Award finalist (2003) Heisman Trophy finalist (2003) CBS Sportsline.com National Player of the Year (2003) Sporting News National Player of the Year (2003) Professional career NFL draft controversy Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett was suspended by his school following his 2002 freshman year. After being unable to gain reinstatement with Ohio State, Clarett made the decision to declare for the NFL Draft. However, since Clarett was only of true sophomore eligibility, he had to legally challenge the NFL rule that a player must be three years removed from high school to be eligible for the NFL Draft. After a court proceeding, a federal judge ruled that the NFL could not legally bar Clarett from entering the 2004 NFL Draft. Williams, having completed his sophomore year and only two years removed from high school, made the decision to declare for the 2004 NFL Draft as well after hearing the federal judge's ruling. Williams hired an agent and moved forward presenting himself as a legitimate first round pick (and most, if not all, NFL pundits and NFL personnel agreed that Williams was a first round choice). By declaring his intent to enter the draft, hiring an agent to represent his interests, and filing the NFL paperwork necessary to enter the draft, he made himself ineligible for NCAA reinstatement. Before the 2004 NFL Draft, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned the Federal Judge's decision allowing Clarett to enter the Draft. Additionally, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. Clarett and Williams were ineligible for the 2004 NFL Draft. As Williams was ineligible for NCAA reinstatement, he was required to sit the entire 2004 football season and was not allowed to practice with USC as well. Pre-draft Detroit Lions Despite sitting out an entire season, Williams was selected 10th overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, the third WR drafted in the first round in as many years by the Lions. Williams selected jersey #88, which had been retired in honor of Hall of Fame tight end Charlie Sanders. As a rookie in 2005, Williams, appeared in 14 games with four starts. Williams recorded his first touchdown catch in his NFL debut, a 3-yard pass from quarterback Joey Harrington, in the season opener against Green Bay. Williams made his first career start against the Ravens and had 1 reception for 7 yards. Williams had a career-long, 49-yard reception in Cleveland. He finished that game with 5 receptions for 95 yards. Williams then again started in Minnesota and had 4 receptions for 43 yards. Three-of-four receptions were for first downs. Williams was then inactive for the Lions game in Dallas due to an injured ankle. Williams had a season-high 6 receptions for 84 yards against Atlanta and had a 21-yard reception for a first down in New Orleans on the Lions opening drive. He finished his rookie season with 29 receptions for 350 yards and 1 touchdown. In 2006, Williams was on the inactive list for both of the Lions' first two games. He played in just eight games in the 2006 season, and made eight catches for 99 yards and one touchdown. During the Lions' Week 15 loss at Green Bay, Williams led the Lions in receiving yards after catching three passes for 42 yards. Williams caught two more passes in a Week 16 loss to Chicago, but posted several drops as well, and was unable to secure a potential game-winning touchdown pass thrown by Jon Kitna as time expired. During the Lions' Week 17 win on the road in Dallas, Williams caught two passes, including a fourth quarter 50-yard pass. Oakland Raiders Williams was traded along with Josh McCown to the Oakland Raiders during the first day of the 2007 NFL Draft in exchange for a 2007 fourth-round pick which the Lions used to select A.J. Davis. In Oakland, Williams reunited with his former college position coach Lane Kiffin. Tennessee Titans Williams signed with the Tennessee Titans on November 22, 2007, reuniting him with former USC running back LenDale White and his former offensive coordinator from USC, Norm Chow. Seattle Seahawks After spending two years out of football, Williams signed with the Seattle Seahawks on April 15, 2010, reuniting Williams with former USC head coach Pete Carroll. After the Seahawks released T. J. Houshmandzadeh, Williams joined the starting unit, and during his debut for Seattle, Williams recorded four catches for 64 yards. In Week 6, he had career highs in both catches and yards going 10 catches for 123 yards in a 23–20 win against Chicago. He topped this performance four weeks later against the Cardinals, catching 11 passes for 145 yards. On Monday, January 3, the Seahawks rewarded Williams for his comeback season with a three-year contract extension. Williams responded by catching a touchdown pass in the Seahawks' wildcard victory over the New Orleans Saints, and two touchdowns in the following round's loss to Chicago. , Williams, Steve Largent, Jerramy Stevens and Jermaine Kearse as the only four Seahawks with two receiving touchdowns in a single post-season game; he is also the only receiver in franchise history with three receiving touchdowns in the same postseason. Williams followed this up with a disappointing 2011 season in which he broke his leg and ankle and had only 18 catches. He was released by the Seattle Seahawks on July 13, 2012. Toronto Argonauts On May 23, 2013, Williams signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was released by the team on May 31. Career statistics Coaching career After retiring in 2011, Williams coached defensive backs in his first season of high school in Los Angeles. Williams was both the football and basketball head coach at Brentwood School. In 2014, Williams accepted a position as head coach at Locke High School in Los Angeles. In March 2016, he became the head coach at Van Nuys High School. Williams accepted the head coaching job at Wharton High School in Tampa, Florida. Accepting the position following the resignation of coach David Mitchell, who stepped away after 14 seasons to deal with family medical issues, he embraces the challenge of coaching in Florida's highest class, 8A. He passed on his alma mater and Tampa powerhouse, Plant High School, saying “I didn’t even apply.” References External links Seattle Seahawks profile 1984 births Living people African-American basketball players African-American players of American football African-American players of Canadian football All-American college football players American football tight ends American football wide receivers American men's basketball players Basketball players from Tampa, Florida Canadian football wide receivers Detroit Lions players Henry B. Plant High School alumni High school football coaches in California High school football coaches in Florida Oakland Raiders players Players of American football from Tampa, Florida Players of Canadian football from Tampa, Florida Seattle Seahawks players Tennessee Titans players Toronto Argonauts players USC Trojans football players 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American people

<mask> (born January 4, 1984) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL). <mask> played college football at USC, and received consensus All-American recognition. The Detroit Lions selected him in first round of the 2005 NFL Draft, and he also played for the Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans, and Seattle Seahawks of the NFL. Early years <mask> was born in Tampa, Florida. He attended Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, and played both high school football and basketball for the Plant Panthers. As a senior, <mask> had 38 receptions for 789 yards (20.8 average reception) with 14 touchdowns.<mask>' honors included Tom Lemming All-American, Super Prep All-Dixie, PrepStar All-Southeast Region, St. Petersburg Times All-Suncoast second team, and Tampa Tribune All-Hillsborough County. During his junior year, <mask> made the all-state Class 4A second team while making 35 receptions for 803 yards (22.9 avg.) and 14 touchdowns. As a sophomore, <mask> made 28 receptions for 631 yards (22.5 avg.) and 10 touchdowns. In basketball, <mask> was a 4-year Starter, winning over 100 games. As a Senior in 2002, <mask> was a McDonald's All American Finalist.He earned “Tampa Tribune” All Hillsborough County 1st Team, District Tournament MVP, Western Conference MVP, and 3rd Team All State selections. <mask> averaged 16.9 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 4.6 assists. As a junior in 2001, <mask> earned Tampa Tribune All-Hillsborough County first team honors, averaging 14.7 points, 10.7 rebounds and 5.3 assists while helping his team to the state semifinals. As a Freshman, <mask> started every game, averaging 12.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists while leading the team in Blocks and Rebounds. <mask> graduated as the All Time leader in Blocks and Rebounds in school history. College career <mask> attended the University of Southern California, where he played for coach Pete Carroll's USC Trojans football team from 2002 to 2003. Before attending USC, <mask> was offered scholarships to Florida State University and the University of Florida, but neither school saw him as a wide receiver.<mask> played split end wide receiver during most of his games for USC. <mask> played in all 26 games during his freshman and sophomore years at USC, and started 15 of those games. He wore jersey No. 1 while on the football team. His freshman season, he had 81 receptions for 1,265 yards and 14 touchdowns. These statistics are all USC and Pacific-10 Conference freshman records. <mask> was named First-Team Freshman All-American choice by The Sporting News, Scripps/Football Writers, and Rivals.com.Selected as the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, named to the All-Pac-10 second team, All-American honorable mention, The Sporting News Freshman All-Pac-10 first team, and The Sporting News All-Pac-10 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year. In his final season, as a sophomore, <mask> started all 13 games at wide receiver, and led the Trojans in receiving yards and touchdowns which resulted in 95 catches leading to 1,314 yards and 16 touchdowns. <mask> was a finalist for the 2003 Biletnikoff Award (nation's top receiver) while finishing eighth in Heisman Trophy voting. He also earned first team All-American (AP, ESPN.com, Football Writers, and SI.com among others) honors. <mask> also was a 2003 All-Pac-10 First Team selection and CBS.Sportsline.com National Player of the Year. That year, he also completed two pass attempts for 38 yards and one touchdown against Michigan in the Rose Bowl, and blocked a field goal. College statistics Awards and honors Second-team All-Pac-10 (2002) Pac-10 Freshman of the Year (2002) First-team Sporting News Freshman All-American (2002) Honorable mention All-American (2002) First-team All-Pac-10 (2003) Consensus First-team All-American (2003) Biletnikoff Award finalist (2003) Heisman Trophy finalist (2003) CBS Sportsline.com National Player of the Year (2003) Sporting News National Player of the Year (2003) Professional career NFL draft controversy Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett was suspended by his school following his 2002 freshman year.After being unable to gain reinstatement with Ohio State, Clarett made the decision to declare for the NFL Draft. However, since Clarett was only of true sophomore eligibility, he had to legally challenge the NFL rule that a player must be three years removed from high school to be eligible for the NFL Draft. After a court proceeding, a federal judge ruled that the NFL could not legally bar Clarett from entering the 2004 NFL Draft. <mask>, having completed his sophomore year and only two years removed from high school, made the decision to declare for the 2004 NFL Draft as well after hearing the federal judge's ruling. <mask> hired an agent and moved forward presenting himself as a legitimate first round pick (and most, if not all, NFL pundits and NFL personnel agreed that <mask> was a first round choice). By declaring his intent to enter the draft, hiring an agent to represent his interests, and filing the NFL paperwork necessary to enter the draft, he made himself ineligible for NCAA reinstatement. Before the 2004 NFL Draft, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned the Federal Judge's decision allowing Clarett to enter the Draft.Additionally, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. Clarett and <mask> were ineligible for the 2004 NFL Draft. As <mask> was ineligible for NCAA reinstatement, he was required to sit the entire 2004 football season and was not allowed to practice with USC as well. Pre-draft Detroit Lions Despite sitting out an entire season, <mask> was selected 10th overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, the third WR drafted in the first round in as many years by the Lions. <mask> selected jersey #88, which had been retired in honor of Hall of Fame tight end Charlie Sanders. As a rookie in 2005, <mask>, appeared in 14 games with four starts. <mask> recorded his first touchdown catch in his NFL debut, a 3-yard pass from quarterback Joey Harrington, in the season opener against Green Bay.<mask> made his first career start against the Ravens and had 1 reception for 7 yards. <mask> had a career-long, 49-yard reception in Cleveland. He finished that game with 5 receptions for 95 yards. <mask> then again started in Minnesota and had 4 receptions for 43 yards. Three-of-four receptions were for first downs. <mask> was then inactive for the Lions game in Dallas due to an injured ankle. <mask> had a season-high 6 receptions for 84 yards against Atlanta and had a 21-yard reception for a first down in New Orleans on the Lions opening drive.He finished his rookie season with 29 receptions for 350 yards and 1 touchdown. In 2006, <mask> was on the inactive list for both of the Lions' first two games. He played in just eight games in the 2006 season, and made eight catches for 99 yards and one touchdown. During the Lions' Week 15 loss at Green Bay, <mask> led the Lions in receiving yards after catching three passes for 42 yards. <mask> caught two more passes in a Week 16 loss to Chicago, but posted several drops as well, and was unable to secure a potential game-winning touchdown pass thrown by Jon Kitna as time expired. During the Lions' Week 17 win on the road in Dallas, <mask> caught two passes, including a fourth quarter 50-yard pass. Oakland Raiders <mask> was traded along with Josh McCown to the Oakland Raiders during the first day of the 2007 NFL Draft in exchange for a 2007 fourth-round pick which the Lions used to select A.J.Davis. In Oakland, <mask> reunited with his former college position coach Lane Kiffin. Tennessee Titans <mask> signed with the Tennessee Titans on November 22, 2007, reuniting him with former USC running back LenDale White and his former offensive coordinator from USC, Norm Chow. Seattle Seahawks After spending two years out of football, <mask> signed with the Seattle Seahawks on April 15, 2010, reuniting <mask> with former USC head coach Pete Carroll. After the Seahawks released T. J. Houshmandzadeh, <mask> joined the starting unit, and during his debut for Seattle, <mask> recorded four catches for 64 yards. In Week 6, he had career highs in both catches and yards going 10 catches for 123 yards in a 23–20 win against Chicago. He topped this performance four weeks later against the Cardinals, catching 11 passes for 145 yards.On Monday, January 3, the Seahawks rewarded <mask> for his comeback season with a three-year contract extension. <mask> responded by catching a touchdown pass in the Seahawks' wildcard victory over the New Orleans Saints, and two touchdowns in the following round's loss to Chicago. , <mask>, Steve Largent, Jerramy Stevens and Jermaine Kearse as the only four Seahawks with two receiving touchdowns in a single post-season game; he is also the only receiver in franchise history with three receiving touchdowns in the same postseason. <mask> followed this up with a disappointing 2011 season in which he broke his leg and ankle and had only 18 catches. He was released by the Seattle Seahawks on July 13, 2012. Toronto Argonauts On May 23, 2013, <mask> signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was released by the team on May 31.Career statistics Coaching career After retiring in 2011, <mask> coached defensive backs in his first season of high school in Los Angeles. <mask> was both the football and basketball head coach at Brentwood School. In 2014, <mask> accepted a position as head coach at Locke High School in Los Angeles. In March 2016, he became the head coach at Van Nuys High School. <mask> accepted the head coaching job at Wharton High School in Tampa, Florida. Accepting the position following the resignation of coach David Mitchell, who stepped away after 14 seasons to deal with family medical issues, he embraces the challenge of coaching in Florida's highest class, 8A. He passed on his alma mater and Tampa powerhouse, Plant High School, saying “I didn’t even apply.” References External links Seattle Seahawks profile 1984 births Living people African-American basketball players African-American players of American football African-American players of Canadian football All-American college football players American football tight ends American football wide receivers American men's basketball players Basketball players from Tampa, Florida Canadian football wide receivers Detroit Lions players Henry B.Plant High School alumni High school football coaches in California High school football coaches in Florida Oakland Raiders players Players of American football from Tampa, Florida Players of Canadian football from Tampa, Florida Seattle Seahawks players Tennessee Titans players Toronto Argonauts players USC Trojans football players 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American people

<mask> is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League. <mask> was a consensus All-American at USC. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft. <mask> was born in Florida. He attended Henry B. Both football and basketball were played at Plant High School. <mask> had 38 catches for 791 yards and 14 touchdown as a senior.Tom Lemming All-American, Super Prep All-Dixie, PrepStar All-Southeast Region, St. During his junior year, <mask> made the all-state Class 4A second team with 35 catches for 803 yards. There were 14 touchdown. <mask> made 28 catches for 631 yards as a sophomore. There were 10 touchdown. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 <mask> was a McDonald's All American finalist.He was selected to the 3rd Team All State and earned the title of Western Conference Most Valuable Player. <mask> had 16.9 points, 8.3 rebound, and 4.6 assists. <mask> was named to the All-Hillsborough County first team as a junior in 2001 and helped his team to the state semifinals. <mask> started every game as a Freshman and averaged 12.6 points, 9.6 rebound and 4.6 assists while leading the team in Blocks and Rebounds. <mask> was the All Time leader in Blocks and Rebounds. <mask> attended the University of Southern California and was a member of the USC football team from 2002 to 2003 <mask> was offered scholarships to Florida State University and the University of Florida, but neither school saw him as a wide receiver.<mask> was a split end wide receiver at USC. During his freshman and sophomore years at USC, <mask> played in all 26 games. He wore a jersey. While on the football team. He had 81 catches for 1,265 yards and 14 touchdown in his freshman season. USC and the Pacific-10 Conference have freshman records. <mask> was named a Freshman All-American by a number of publications.Selected as the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, named to the All-Pac-10 second team, All-American honorable mention, and The Sporting News All-Pac-10 Freshman offensive player of the year. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 <mask> was a finalist for the 2003 Biletnikoff Award, the nation's top receiver. He was named first team All-American by AP, Football Writers, and SI.com. <mask> was an All-Pac-10 First Team selection in 2003 and a CBS.Sportsline.com National Player of the Year. In the Rose Bowl, he blocked a field goal and completed two pass attempts for 38 yards and one touchdown. First-team All-American 2002 Honorable mention All-American 2002 First-team All-Pac-10 2003 Consensus First-team All-American 2003 Biletnikoff Award finalistAfter being unable to return to Ohio State, he decided to enter the draft. The NFL rule that a player must be three years removed from high school to be eligible for the draft was challenged by Clarett. After a court proceeding, a federal judge ruled that the NFL couldn't legally prevent the player from entering the draft. <mask>, who had completed his sophomore year and only two years removed from high school, made the decision to declare for the 2004 NFL Draft as well after hearing the federal judge's ruling. <mask> hired an agent and moved forward presenting himself as a legitimate first round pick, even though most, if not all, NFL pundits and NFL personnel agreed that <mask> was a first round choice. He made himself ineligible for NCAA reinstatement by declaring his intent to enter the draft, hiring an agent, and filing paperwork for the draft. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit overturned the Federal Judge's decision to allow Clarett to enter the draft.The United States Supreme Court refused to hear the final appeal. They were ineligible for the draft. <mask> wasn't allowed to practice with USC as well as sit the entire 2004 football season because he was ineligible for NCAA reinstatement. Despite sitting out a entire season, <mask> was selected 10th overall in the 2005 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, the third receiver drafted in the first round in as many years by the Lions. The jersey #88 was retired in honor of a Hall of Fame tight end. In 2005, <mask> appeared in 14 games with four starts. In the season opener against Green Bay, <mask> recorded his first touchdown catch in the National Football League.<mask> had one reception for 7 yards in his first career start. <mask> had a career-long reception. He had 5 catches for 95 yards. In Minnesota, <mask> had 4 catches for 43 yards. Three of the four were for first downs. <mask> was inactive for the Dallas game because of an injured ankle. <mask> had a season-high 6 reception for 84 yards against Atlanta and had a 21-yard reception for a first down in New Orleans.He was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 <mask> was on the inactive list for the first two games. He played in eight games in 2006 and made eight catches for 99 yards and one touchdown. <mask> led the Lions in receiving yards after catching three passes for 42 yards. In a Week 16 loss to Chicago, <mask> caught two more passes, but posted several drops, and was unable to get a potential game-winning touchdown pass thrown by Jon Kitna as time expired. During the fourth quarter of the Lions' Week 17 win in Dallas, <mask> caught a 50-yard pass. In exchange for a fourth-round pick the Lions used to select A.J., Williams was traded to the Oakland Raiders.Davis. <mask> and Kiffin were together in Oakland. On November 22, 2007, <mask> joined the TennesseeTitans, returning him to his former USC teammates, including White and Chow. After spending two years out of football, <mask> signed with the Seattle Seahawks on April 15, 2010. During his debut for Seattle, <mask> recorded four catches for 64 yards. He had career highs in both catches and yards in a win against Chicago in Week 6. He caught 11 passes for 145 yards against the Cards four weeks later.<mask> received a three-year contract extension from the Seahawks on Monday, January 3. In the first round of the playoffs, <mask> caught a touchdown pass in the victory over the New Orleans Saints, and two more in the loss to the Chicago Bears. He is the only receiver in franchise history with three receiving touchdown in the same playoff game, as well as being the only one with two receiving touchdown in a single post-season game. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 On July 13, 2012 he was released by the Seattle Seahawks. <mask> joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. The team released him on May 31.<mask> coached defensive backs in his first season as a high school coach. <mask> was the basketball and football coach at the school. <mask> was the head coach at Locke High School in Los Angeles. He was the head coach at Van Nuys High School. <mask> was hired as the head coach at Wharton High School. Following the resignation of David Mitchell, who stepped away after 14 seasons to deal with family medical issues, he accepted the position and embraced the challenge of coaching in Florida's highest class, 8A. He did not apply to his alma mater, Plant High School.Plant High School alumni are high school football coaches in California and Florida.

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Zang-Hee Cho, Ph.D., is a Korean neuroscientist who developed the first Ring-PET scanner and the scintillation detector BGO. More recently, Cho developed the first PET-MRI fusion molecular imaging device for neuro-molecular imaging. Education B.Sc., Electronics, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1960) M.Sc. Electronics, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1962) Ph.D. Applied Physics, Institute of Physics, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden (1966) Fil.D(Docent). Nuclear Physics, Institute of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (1972) Career 2019.11.-Present Endowed Chair Professor & Director, Neuroscience Convergence Center, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. 2017–2019.10 Endowed Chair Professor & Director, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Suwon, Suwon, Korea. 2015–Present Distinguished Research Fellow, Advanced Institutes of Convergence technology (AICT), Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea. 2004–2014 University Professor, Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon Medical School, Inchon, Korea. 2006–Present Professor Emeritus, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. 1985–2006 Professor, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. 1995–1997 Visiting Endowed Chair Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea. 1979-1994 Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea. 1979–1985 Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Co-Director of Imaging Research Center, Columbia University, New York, USA 1972–1978 Associate Research Physicist and Adjunct Assoc. Professor, Applied Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 1972–1976 Associate Professor (Docent) of Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden. 1970–1971 Visiting Scientist, Wallenberg Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA 1966–1971 Research Staff, Swedish Atomic Research Council, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Other posts 1. Editor in Chief, International Journal of Imaging Systems & Technology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1993–2011 2. Editorial Board ; Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Academic Press, San Diego, New York, 1984–90 3. Steering Committee IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, IEEE Press, New York, NY, 1985–93 4. Steering Committee : IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, IEEE Press, New York, NY, 1985–92 5. Editorial Board : Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Pergamon Press, New York, NY, 1988- 6. Editorial Board : Physics in Medicine and Biology, Institute of Physics, London, England, 1993 7. Editorial Board : International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1989–93 Published works Cho, ZH., Chan, JK. and Eriksson, L., "Circular ring transverse axial positron camera for 3-D reconstruction of radionuclides distribution", IEEE Trans Nucl. Sci, NS-23, 613–622, 1976. Cho, ZH., Eriksson, L. and Chan, JK. "A circular ring transverse axial positron camera“ in Reconstruction Tomography in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Symposium, Puerto Rico, April 1975, and book “ Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine”, 393–421, 1977, University Park Press, Baltimore(Ed. by Ter-Pogossian et al.). Cho, ZH. and Farukhi, MR., "Bismuth Germanate (BGO) as a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras", J Nucl Med, 18, 840–844, 1977. Z.H. Cho, J. Jones, and M. Singh ; Foundation of Medical Imaging ( John Wiley & Sons ), 1993, New York, USA Cho, ZH, Y.D. Son, H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I. K. Hong, and Y. B Kim. A fusion PET-MRI system with a high- resolution research tomography-PET and ultra high field 7.0 T-MRI for the molecular-genetic imaging of the brain. Proteomic, Vol. 8, No. 6, 1302–1323, 2008 Book : 7 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas- In-vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation (Springer, New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London), 2009 Z. H. Cho (Editor) ; 7 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas – In-vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation (Springer, New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London) 2009 Technical Reports 1. Cho ZH, General Views on 3-D Image Reconstruction and Computerized Transverse Axial Tomography. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-21, No. 3, 1974. 2. Cho, ZH. and Ahn, I., "Computer algorithm for tomographic image reconstruction with x-ray transmission scan", Computer in Biomedical Res, 8, 8, 1974. 3. Cho, ZH., Chan, JK., Eriksson, L., Singh, M., Graham, S., Macdonald, WS. and Yano, Y., "Positron ranges obtained form biomedically important positron emitting radionuclides", J Nucl Med, 16, 1174–1176, 1975. 4. Cho, ZH., Chan, JK. and Eriksson, L., "Circular ring transverse axial positron camera for 3-D reconstruction of radionuclides distribution", IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, NS-23, 613–622, 1976. 5. Cho, ZH., Cohen, MB., Singh, M., Chan, J., Eriksson, L., Spolter, L. and MacDonald, NS., "Performance and evaluation of a circular ring transverse axial positron camera", IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, NS-24, 532–542, 1977. 6. Cho, ZH., Eriksson, L. and Chan, JK., "A circular ring transverse axial positron camera" in Reconstruction Tomography in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Symposium, Puerto Rico, April 1975, and in the book “ Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine”, 393–421, 1977, University Park Press, Baltimore (Ed. by Ter-Pogossian MM). 7. Cho, ZH. and Farukhi, MR., "Bismuth Germanate (BGO) as a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras", J. Nucl Med, 18, 840–844, 1977. 8. Cho, ZH., Kim, HS., Song, HB. and Cumming, J., "Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance tomographic imaging", Proc of IEEE (Invited paper), 79(10), 1152–1173, 1982 9. Cho, ZH., Hong, KS. and Hilal, SK., "Spherical positron emission tomography S-PET-I performance analysis", Nucl Instrum & Meth,225, 422–438, 1984. 10. Cho ZH, E.X. Wu, S.K. Hilal; Weighted Backprojection Approach to Cone-Beam 3-D Projection Reconstruction for Truncated Spherical Detection Geometry. IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 13(1), 110–121, 1994. 11. Cho, ZH, Y.D. Son, H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I.K. Hong, and Y.B. Kim. A Hybrid PET-MRI: An Integrated Molecular-Genetic Imaging System with HRRT-PET and 7.0 T-MRI. IJIST., Vol. 17, 252–265, 2007 12. Cho, ZH, Y.D. Son, H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I. K. Hong, and Y. B Kim. A fusion PET-MRI system with a high-resolution research tomography-PET and ultra high field 7.0 T-MRI for the molecular-genetic imaging of the brain. Proteomic, Vol. 8, No. 6, 1302–1323, 2008 13. Cho, ZH, Y.D. Son, H.K. Kim, S.T. Kim, S.Y. Lee, Je-Geun Chi, C.W. Park, and Y.B. Kim. Substructural Hippocampal Glucose Metabolism Observed on PET/MRI. J. Nucl. Med. Vol. 51. No. 10, Oct. 2010 Honors Member, The US National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine, USA, 1997–present, Washington D.C. USA Member, The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, 1998–2006 Seoul, Korea Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, 1991, Trieste, United Nation (Italy) Member, The National Academy of Engineering, Republic of Korea, 1996, Seoul, Korea Fellow, Korea Academy of Sciences and Technology, 1995, Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, 1982, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Fellow, Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1995, London, UK Member, National Advisory Council-NCCAM, NIH, Washington D.C., USA, 2004–6 Awards Distinguished Scientist Award, International Workshop on Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging; International Workshop on Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging, March 15–18, 1982, Asilomar, California, USA Grand Science and Engineering Award, Science and Cultural Foundation of Chung-Jinki, August 20, 1984, Seoul, Korea Jacob Javits Neuroscience Award, (NCI) NIH, January; 1, 1984, Washington, D.C., US Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award, American Association of Medical Physicist(AAPM), August 15, 1989, New York, New York, US National Science & Technology Prize (PresidentialAward), Republic of Korea, Feb. 28, 1995, Seoul, Korea National Academy of Science Prize, Korean National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, Sept. 1997, Seoul, Korea Science Prize, The Korea Academy of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea. Feb. 18, 2000 Distinguished Faculty Award for Research. Academic Senate, Univ. of Calif. Irvine. January 27, 2004–5, Irvine, California, US National Medal of Honor in Science & Technology, Presidential Award, Republic of Korea, April 21, 2005, Seoul, Korea Distinguished Alumni Award (Kwan-Ak Grand Prize), Seoul National University, Seoul, 2007 References 1936 births Living people Seoul National University alumni Stockholm University alumni Uppsala University alumni Columbia University faculty Baecheon Jo clan

<mask>, Ph.D., is a Korean neuroscientist who developed the first Ring-PET scanner and the scintillation detector BGO. More recently, <mask> developed the first PET-MRI fusion molecular imaging device for neuro-molecular imaging. Education B.Sc., Electronics, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1960) M.Sc. Electronics, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1962) Ph.D. Applied Physics, Institute of Physics, Uppsala university, Uppsala, Sweden (1966) Fil.D(Docent). Nuclear Physics, Institute of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (1972) Career 2019.11.-Present Endowed Chair Professor & Director, Neuroscience Convergence Center, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. 2017–2019.10 Endowed Chair Professor & Director, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of Suwon, Suwon, Korea.2015–Present Distinguished Research Fellow, Advanced Institutes of Convergence technology (AICT), Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea. 2004–2014 University Professor, Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon Medical School, Inchon, Korea. 2006–Present Professor Emeritus, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. 1985–2006 Professor, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. 1995–1997 Visiting Endowed Chair Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea. 1979-1994 Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea. 1979–1985 Professor of Radiology (Physics) and Co-Director of Imaging Research Center, Columbia University, New York, USA 1972–1978 Associate Research Physicist and Adjunct Assoc.Professor, Applied Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 1972–1976 Associate Professor (Docent) of Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden. 1970–1971 Visiting Scientist, Wallenberg Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA 1966–1971 Research Staff, Swedish Atomic Research Council, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Other posts 1. Editor in Chief, International Journal of Imaging Systems & Technology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1993–2011 2. Editorial Board ; Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Academic Press, San Diego, New York, 1984–90 3. Steering Committee IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, IEEE Press, New York, NY, 1985–93 4.Steering Committee : IEEE Trans. on Nuclear Science, IEEE Press, New York, NY, 1985–92 5. Editorial Board : Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Pergamon Press, New York, NY, 1988- 6. Editorial Board : Physics in Medicine and Biology, Institute of Physics, London, England, 1993 7. Editorial Board : International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1989–93 Published works <mask>, ZH., Chan, JK. and Eriksson, L., "Circular ring transverse axial positron camera for 3-D reconstruction of radionuclides distribution", IEEE Trans Nucl. Sci, NS-23, 613–622, 1976.<mask>, ZH., Eriksson, L. and Chan, JK. "A circular ring transverse axial positron camera“ in Reconstruction Tomography in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Symposium, Puerto Rico, April 1975, and book “ Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine”, 393–421, 1977, University Park Press, Baltimore(Ed. by Ter-Pogossian et al.). <mask>, ZH. and Farukhi, MR., "Bismuth Germanate (BGO) as a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras", J Nucl Med, 18, 840–844, 1977. Z.H<mask>, J. Jones, and M. Singh ; Foundation of Medical Imaging ( John Wiley & Sons ), 1993, New York, USA <mask>, ZH, Y.D.Son, H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I. K. Hong, and Y. B Kim. A fusion PET-MRI system with a high- resolution research tomography-PET and ultra high field 7.0 T-MRI for the molecular-genetic imaging of the brain.Proteomic, Vol. 8, No. 6, 1302–1323, 2008 Book : 7 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas- In-vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation (Springer, New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London), 2009 Z. H<mask> (Editor) ; 7 Tesla MRI Brain Atlas – In-vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation (Springer, New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London) 2009 Technical Reports 1. <mask>H, General Views on 3-D Image Reconstruction and Computerized Transverse Axial Tomography. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.NS-21, No. 3, 1974. 2. <mask>, ZH. and Ahn, I., "Computer algorithm for tomographic image reconstruction with x-ray transmission scan", Computer in Biomedical Res, 8, 8, 1974. 3. <mask>, ZH., Chan, JK., Eriksson, L., Singh, M., Graham, S., Macdonald, WS.and Yano, Y., "Positron ranges obtained form biomedically important positron emitting radionuclides", J Nucl Med, 16, 1174–1176, 1975. 4. <mask>, ZH., Chan, JK. and Eriksson, L., "Circular ring transverse axial positron camera for 3-D reconstruction of radionuclides distribution", IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, NS-23, 613–622, 1976. 5. <mask>, ZH., Cohen, MB., Singh, M., Chan, J., Eriksson, L., Spolter, L. and MacDonald, NS., "Performance and evaluation of a circular ring transverse axial positron camera", IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, NS-24, 532–542, 1977. 6.<mask>, ZH., Eriksson, L. and Chan, JK., "A circular ring transverse axial positron camera" in Reconstruction Tomography in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Symposium, Puerto Rico, April 1975, and in the book “ Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine”, 393–421, 1977, University Park Press, Baltimore (Ed. by Ter-Pogossian MM). 7. <mask>, ZH. and Farukhi, MR., "Bismuth Germanate (BGO) as a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras", J. Nucl Med, 18, 840–844, 1977. 8. <mask>, ZH., Kim, HS., Song, HB.and Cumming, J., "Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance tomographic imaging", Proc of IEEE (Invited paper), 79(10), 1152–1173, 1982 9. <mask>, ZH., Hong, KS. and Hilal, SK., "Spherical positron emission tomography S-PET-I performance analysis", Nucl Instrum & Meth,225, 422–438, 1984. 10. <mask>H, E.X. Wu, S.K. Hilal; Weighted Backprojection Approach to Cone-Beam 3-D Projection Reconstruction for Truncated Spherical Detection Geometry.IEEE Trans. Med. Imag. 13(1), 110–121, 1994. 11. <mask>, ZH, Y.D. Son, H.K.Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I.K. Hong, and Y.B. Kim. A Hybrid PET-MRI: An Integrated Molecular-Genetic Imaging System with HRRT-PET and 7.0 T-MRI.IJIST., Vol. 17, 252–265, 2007 12. <mask>, ZH, Y.D. Son, H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y.Han, I. K. Hong, and Y. B Kim. A fusion PET-MRI system with a high-resolution research tomography-PET and ultra high field 7.0 T-MRI for the molecular-genetic imaging of the brain. Proteomic, Vol. 8, No. 6, 1302–1323, 2008 13. <mask>, ZH, Y.D.Son, H.K. Kim, S.T. Kim, S.Y. Lee, Je-Geun Chi, C.W. Park, and Y.B. Kim. Substructural Hippocampal Glucose Metabolism Observed on PET/MRI.J. Nucl. Med. Vol. 51. No. 10, Oct. 2010 Honors Member, The US National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine, USA, 1997–present, Washington D.C. USA Member, The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, 1998–2006 Seoul, Korea Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, 1991, Trieste, United Nation (Italy) Member, The National Academy of Engineering, Republic of Korea, 1996, Seoul, Korea Fellow, Korea Academy of Sciences and Technology, 1995, Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea Fellow, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, 1982, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Fellow, Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1995, London, UK Member, National Advisory Council-NCCAM, NIH, Washington D.C., USA, 2004–6 Awards Distinguished Scientist Award, International Workshop on Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging; International Workshop on Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging, March 15–18, 1982, Asilomar, California, USA Grand Science and Engineering Award, Science and Cultural Foundation of Chung-Jinki, August 20, 1984, Seoul, Korea Jacob Javits Neuroscience Award, (NCI) NIH, January; 1, 1984, Washington, D.C., US Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award, American Association of Medical Physicist(AAPM), August 15, 1989, New York, New York, US National Science & Technology Prize (PresidentialAward), Republic of Korea, Feb. 28, 1995, Seoul, Korea National Academy of Science Prize, Korean National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, Sept. 1997, Seoul, Korea Science Prize, The Korea Academy of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea.Feb. 18, 2000 Distinguished Faculty Award for Research. Academic Senate, Univ. of Calif. Irvine. January 27, 2004–5, Irvine, California, US National Medal of Honor in Science & Technology, Presidential Award, Republic of Korea, April 21, 2005, Seoul, Korea Distinguished Alumni Award (Kwan-Ak Grand Prize), Seoul National University, Seoul, 2007 References 1936 births Living people Seoul National University alumni Stockholm University alumni Uppsala University alumni Columbia University faculty Baecheon Jo clan

The first Ring-PET scanner and the scintillation detector BGO were developed by <mask>. The first PET-MRI fusion device was developed by <mask>. The College of Engineering at the National University of Korea has a degree in electronics. The graduate school of electronics is located in Korea. The Institute of Physics is located at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. The Neuroscience Convergence Center is a part of the Korea University. The Neuroscience Research Institute is located in Suwon, Korea.The Advanced Institutes of Convergence technology (AICT) is located in Suwon, Korea. The Neuroscience Research Institute is located in Inchon, Korea. Professor Emeritus, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. Professor, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. The Visiting Endowed Chair was at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from 1979 to 1994. Associate Research Physicist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA, from 1972 to 1978.Professor, Applied Science & Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 1972– 1976, Associate Professor, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm, Sweden. 1966–1971 Research Staff, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm, Sweden, and 1970–1971 Visiting Scientist, Wallenberg Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA. Other posts 1. The editor in chief of the International Journal of Imaging Systems & Technology was from 1993 to 2011. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Academic Press, San Diego, New York, 1984–90 3 is an editorial board. The steering committee is made up of people. New York, NY, 1985–93 4.The steering committee is made up of people. Nuclear Science was published in New York, NY. Pergamon Press, New York, NY, 1988- 6. The Institute of Physics in London, England, has an editorial board. The International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology was published in 1989. The circular ring was used for 3-D reconstruction of radionuclides distribution. NS-23 was published in 1976.They were <mask>, ZH., Eriksson, L. and Chan. The book " Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine" was published in 1977 by University Park Press. The work was done by Ter-Pogossian et al. <mask>, ZH. "BGO as a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras", was written by Farukhi and published in 1977. Z.H<mask>, J. Jones, and M. Singh are from New York.H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I. K. Hong, and Y. B Kim. A fusion PET-MRI system with a high-resolution research tomography-PET and ultra high field 7.0 T-MRI for the study of the brain.There is a vol. Proteomic. No. 8, No. In-vivo Atlas with Cryomacrotome Correlation is a 2008 book by Z. H<mask>. Cho ZH has a general view on 3-D image reconstruction. The Trans. There is a Nucl. There is a science.NS-21, No. 3, 1974. 2. <mask>, ZH. Ahn wrote "Computer algorithm for tomographic image reconstruction with x-ray transmission Scan". 3. <mask>, ZH., Chan, JK., Singh, M., Graham, S., and Macdonald, W."Positron ranges obtained form biomedically important positron emitting radionuclides". 4. <mask>, ZH., Chan, JK. The circular ring is used for 3-D reconstruction of radionuclides distribution. 5. <mask>, ZH., Cohen, MB., Singh, M., Chan, J. 6.In the book " Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine", there is a picture of a circular ring. by Ter-Pogossian MM 7. <mask>, ZH. "BGO is a potential scintillation detector in positron cameras", said Farukhi. There are 8. <mask>, ZH., Kim, HS.The "fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance tomographic images" was published in 1982. <mask> is in Hong, KS. "Spherical positron emission tomography S-PET-I performance analysis" was written by Hilal. 10. <mask>H, E.X. S.K. Hilal is a Weighted Backprojection Approach to Cone-Beam 3-D Projection Reconstruction.The Trans. Med. Imag. 13(1) was published in 1994. 11. <mask>, ZH, Y.D. H.K.Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y. Han, I.K. Hong and Y.B. Kim. A hybrid PET-MRI has HRRT-PET and 7.0 T-MRI.IJIST. 17 and 12. <mask>, ZH, Y.D. H.K. Kim, K.N. Kim, S.H. Oh, J.Y.Han, I. K. Hong, and Y. B Kim. A fusion PET-MRI system with a high-resolution research tomography-PET and ultra high field 7.0 T-MRI for the study of the brain. There is a vol. Proteomic. No. 8, No. 6, 1302–1323, 2008 13. <mask>, ZH, Y.D.H.K. Kim, S.T. Kim is from S.Y. Lee, Je-Geun Chi, C.W. Park and Y.B. Kim. There is a Hippocampal Glucose Metabolism Observed.J. Nucl. Med. There is a new edition of Vol. 51. No. The US National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine, USA, 1997–present, Washington D.C. USA Member, The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea, 1998–2006. A member of the National Advisory Council-NCCAM, the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the International Workshop on Physics and Engineering in Medical Imaging.The Faculty Award for Research was presented in 2000. The Academic Senate is at the university. In Calif. Irvine. January 27, 2004–5, Irvine, California, US National Medal of Honor in Science & Technology, Presidential Award, Republic of Korea.

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Alejandro Valverde

Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Valverde's biggest wins have been the Vuelta a España in 2009, Critérium du Dauphiné in 2008 and 2009, Tour of the Basque Country in 2017, Volta a Catalunya in 2009, 2017 and 2018, Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008, 2015 and 2017, La Flèche Wallonne in 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2008 and 2014, the 2006 and 2008 UCI ProTours, the 2014 and 2015 UCI World Tours, and the road race in the 2018 World Championships. Overall, Valverde has 131 professional wins. Prior to his Worlds win, he already held the record for most medals won at World Championships – he twice collected the silver medal in the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005, as well as the bronze four times in 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014. As of 2021, Valverde has entered thirty grand tours, finished twenty-five of them and placed in the Top 10 of a grand tour on twenty occasions. He also shares the record for most wins in the Points Competition in Vuelta history with Sean Kelly and Laurent Jalabert. Valverde is rare in combining different specialties in road bicycle racing, being a strong climbing specialist, sprinter and a good time-trialist. The online database Cycling Ranking ranks him as the 4th most successful cyclist of all time. Biography Born in Las Lumbreras, Murcia, Valverde came from a cycling family, his father Juan was an amateur bicycle racer and bought him a bike when he was six years old. His brother Juan Francisco was also an amateur road racing cyclist. Valverde's first race was in Jumilla, in his region of Murcia, and he finished second. On the following week he won his second race in Yecla. He allegedly took more than fifty consecutive victories between 11 and 13 years old, earning him the nickname El Imbatido (The Unbeaten). Amateur career Due to his many wins, Valverde was offered to ride for the elite amateur team Banesto based in Navarre, some distance away from his home in Murcia. Perhaps due to the exhaustion from having to travel back and forth every weekend, his performance suffered while with the team. He moved to the development team of the professional squad and was coached by Francisco Moya, whom he credited with helping him become a better cyclist. Kelme also promised to allow him to move to the professional squad if he showed good performance. At the end of his first season with the Kelme amateur squad, they offered to move him to the professional squad. Kelme (2002–2004) Valverde turned professional in 2002 when he signed a contract with the Spanish team , with whom he stayed until the end of the 2004 season. During his time with Kelme he had a breakthrough year in the 2003 Vuelta a España, where he won two stages and finished third in the General classification. That year he also won the Vuelta a Mallorca and a stage in Tour of the Basque Country and other Spanish races like GP Primavera and GP Villafranca de Ordizia. He ended the season with a second place in the 2003 UCI Road World Championships behind Igor Astarloa after winning the sprint ahead of Peter Van Petegem and Paolo Bettini. In the 2004 season he decided to stay with Kelme despite the team's financial woes and offers from other teams. He went on to win the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, the Vuelta a Murcia, a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country, the Vuelta a Burgos and taking fourth in the Vuelta a España. Although he won a stage in the Vuelta, he was injured in a crash that forced him to downscale his ambitions in the overall classification. He also participated in the Summer Olympics. Caisse d'Epargne/Movistar (2005–present) 2005 Valverde joined the UCI ProTeam in 2005. He won the last stage in Paris–Nice and finished second overall behind Bobby Julich. He also took two stages in the Tour of the Basque Country. In his first ever appearance at the Tour de France, he won the 10th stage of the Tour de France ahead of Lance Armstrong, whom he beat in the sprint into Courchevel at the end of a mountain stage in the Alps. After Stage 12, he was in 5th place on GC, 3 minutes and 16 seconds behind Armstrong. He was also leading in the young rider classification (white jersey), with a 3-minute and 9 second lead on Armstrong's teammate Yaroslav Popovych. However, Valverde was forced to withdraw from the Tour during the 13th stage because of a knee injury. Valverde recovered barely in time for the UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, Spain. The injury of Óscar Freire, who was the Spanish team captain, forced him to become the team leader, despite having had only one day of competition before the Worlds. Amazingly, he was able to be competitive and finished second to winner Tom Boonen. 2006 In 2006, Valverde won a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country, finishing 2nd overall and capturing the points competition. He then completed a prestigious double in the Spring classics, winning La Flèche Wallonne and taking victory four days later at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Valverde subsequently won a stage in the Tour de Romandie finishing 3rd overall. Valverde planned to challenge at the 2006 Tour de France, and stated that he hoped to win in the future. He went to the Pinarello bicycle factory in Treviso, Italy, to optimize his time-trialing performance. In fact he started among the favourites for the Tour after the withdrawal of Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso due to a doping investigation. However, on the third stage of the race, Valverde crashed, and had to abandon the Tour with a fractured right collarbone. His ambition to win a Grand Tour shifted to the Vuelta a España, later that year. Valverde entered the Vuelta a España as the top favorite. Since he did not ride a full Tour de France he was in better condition than some of the other candidates for the victory: defending champion Denis Menchov and Carlos Sastre both ended in the top 10 of the Tour de France and were expected to be somewhat fatigued. Valverde won the 7th stage and dominated mountain stages, earning him the gold leader jersey after stage 9. Valverde lost the jersey however due to the aggressive climbing and attacking of Alexander Vinokourov. In the last time trial, Valverde again lost time on Vinokourov and had to settle for the 2nd place in the overall standings, his second podium finish in a Grand Tour. Following his impressive performance in the Vuelta, Valverde won yet another major title, winning the UCI ProTour with several major races still left on the calendar as his point lead had reached unassailable levels. At the UCI Road World Championships, Valverde was considered one of the favorites for the title. Although he did not win, he was able to finish 3rd and claim a bronze medal. 2007 He started 2007 by winning the overall classification at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Vuelta a Murcia. In stage 4 of the Vuelta a Murcia, Valverde accomplished his first win in an individual time trial. He also finished third in the Critérium International and fifth in the Tour of the Basque Country. In the Ardennes classics he took second place in both La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, unable to repeat the double victory of 2006 season. In the Tour de France, Valverde was seen as one of the favorites for the yellow jersey until he had a disastrous individual time trial that diminished his chances of fighting for the overall classification. He subsequently finished sixth overall, eleven minutes behind, and thus finished his first Tour de France after being unable to complete the race in 2005 and 2006. He decided not to race the Vuelta a España in order to prepare for the UCI Road World Championships. On 29 August 2007, the UCI announced that they prevented Valverde from riding the World Championships in Stuttgart because of his possible implication in the Operación Puerto doping case to safeguard the atmosphere and reputation of the World Championships. The UCI also called upon the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) to open disciplinary proceedings against the rider, but RFEC refused to comply with the UCI's request, saying there was no new evidence against him. RFEC also included Valverde in its squad for the World Championships, where he ended up 2nd. The matter was taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which authorised Valverde to participate in the World Championships. 2008 In 2008, Valverde showed strong form in the spring. After winning the Vuelta a Murcia, Valverde was focused on training. He announced his readiness with a podium finish in the Klasika Primavera and a triumph at the Paris–Camembert. These successes foreshadowed excellent results in the Ardennes classics: a podium at the Amstel Gold Race and victory in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Valverde also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Spanish National Road Race Championships in June. On 5 July, Valverde won the first stage of the Tour de France. His form faltered in the Pyrenees, and after being dropped on the Col du Tourmalet, eventually losing 5' 52" to stage winner Leonardo Piepoli, scrapping hopes of a podium finish. He performed better in the Alps and claimed a top ten finish. On Alpe d'Huez it appeared that he was working alongside to try to eliminate Cadel Evans. He followed the Tour with a strong victory in the Clásica de San Sebastián, leading out the sprint and holding off Alexandr Kolobnev and Davide Rebellin. Later, at the Vuelta a España, he started strong, winning the second stage and wearing the general classification leader's jersey on the third one. He was among the leaders in the first week. However, he lost around two minutes on a very wet stage to Saunces and any chance of a podium finish. However, he ended up in fourth position overall at the end with some strong performances including an impressive ride up the Angliru, where he was only bettered by Alberto Contador and then a good performance in the mountain time-trial. Before the participation at the UCI Road World Championships at Varese, he was mathematically proclaimed the UCI ProTour winner, being his second win in the four editions of the competition. 2009 Valverde started 2009 in good form by taking the points and mountains classifications in the Vuelta a Castilla y León while finishing 9th overall with two stage victories. He could not repeat his successes of the last few years in the spring classics with his best result being a 7th at La Flèche Wallonne. He won the Klasika Primavera and the Volta a Catalunya to put those disappointments behind him. With the threat of not racing the Tour de France hanging over his head he entered the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré hoping to prove his worth. He performed consistently throughout the two early time-trials to stay in touch with the leaders before finishing second on Mont Ventoux to take the lead in the overall classification. Though Cadel Evans repeatedly attacked him in the final days he stayed on his wheel, with the help of compatriot Alberto Contador, to take the yellow jersey. On the back of these successes he appealed his ban by the Italian authorities with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the hope of racing the tour. On 20 September 2009, Valverde clinched the overall victory in the Vuelta a España. Despite having no stage victories, Valverde's consistency in the mountains allowed him to keep his race all the way to end that he captured on stage 9. 2010 All his 2010 results were annulled because of the suspension. 2012 Valverde made his return to the peloton during the Tour Down Under, the first race of the UCI World Tour season. He won the race's fifth stage – the queen stage of the event – by out-sprinting 's Simon Gerrans in a two-man sprint in Willunga, and finished second overall. He earned his first overall victory since his return, by winning February's Vuelta a Andalucía, as well as achieving a stage victory during the race. Valverde also finished third in Paris–Nice, and by winning stage 3 showed good form for the upcoming Tour de France. In the Tour de France he sat casually in the peloton until initiating a breakaway in stage 17, which he held onto after breaking away from the other 16 riders in the breakaway. almost chased him down, ending only 19 seconds adrift; it was Valverde's fourth Tour de France stage victory. Valverde entered the Vuelta a España as a lieutenant to the defending champion Juan José Cobo in the . However, Valverde would soon become the leader when it became apparent that Cobo was not in top form. His started off with a victory in the first stage, a team time trial. Valverde would take the lead of the general, points and combination classifications after winning Stage 3, in which he chased down repeated attacks from Alberto Contador and outsprinted Joaquim Rodríguez at the finishing line. He would subsequently lose the lead to Rodríguez, but won the eighth stage atop the Collada de la Gallina in Andorra. Contador broke away from the small lead group and looked like he was heading for the win, but Rodríguez and Valverde passed him with less than to go, with Valverde taking the win. Valverde ultimately finished the Vuelta in second position overall after being a constant threat for the leader, which was Rodríguez until stage 17 where Contador soloed to victory and grabbed the lead, which he would not relinquish. Valverde won both the points and combination classification jerseys on the final day from Rodríguez as a result of a sixth-place finish on the last stage in Madrid. Valverde had to settle for a bronze medal in the World Championships in Valkenburg, as he was unable to reach Philippe Gilbert who attacked on the final climb of the Cauberg. He was the first of a group of 27 riders who had a five seconds deficit on the Belgian when crossing the line. He was supposed to participate in the Giro di Lombardia, but announced on the morning of the race that he was suffering from influenza and was putting an end to his 2012 season. 2013 As in 2012, Valverde won the overall classification of the Vuelta a Andalucía in 2013, where he also won the points classification in the race. Valverde continued showing some good form after finishing with podium places in the Vuelta a Murcia, the Amstel Gold Race and in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. After having a decent spring campaign, Valverde aimed for a podium finish in the Tour de France. Valverde started the Tour in good form after finishing third in Ax3 Domaines behind Chris Froome and Richie Porte. However the next day, Porte lost over 15 minutes which moved Valverde into second overall right before the tour left the Pyrenees. On Stage 13, Valverde lost almost 10 minutes after getting a flat tyre. Despite a very hard pursuit, the high crosswinds and the pace of the peloton prevented him and his teammates from catching back. They ended up with the second group at the finish causing him to slip out of the top ten. Despite losing his second position, Valverde managed to do well in the Alps which moved him back into the top ten of the overall standings, finishing 8th overall. At the Vuelta a España, after stage 10, Valverde sat fourth overall a minute behind race leader Chris Horner. However, on stage 11, he moved back up into 3rd after finishing 8th in the time trial. On stage 14, on a rainy descent, Valverde was dropped by the G.C. contenders entering the final climb a minute back. He managed to limit his losses on the final climb staying within a minute of his rivals, though losing close to a minute on Nibali, Horner, and Joaquim Rodríguez. On stage 16, he managed to cut back a handful of seconds on Nibali and Horner. He entered the penultimate stage 20 a minute behind the race leader. He came third of the stage which finished atop the steep Alto de l'Angliru, securing a podium finish in the general classification, one minute and 36 seconds behind race winner Horner. At the World Championships, he took the third place, but was criticized for failing to cover the late attack of Portuguese Rui Costa. Costa eventually reached and out sprinted Rodríguez, Valverde's Spanish teammate. 2014 In the Tour de France, Valverde ended in fourth place in the general classification. On 2 August 2014 Valverde won the Clásica de San Sebastián for the second time in his career. He won the first uphill finish of the Vuelta a España by powering away from the leaders after leading the group for most of the final climb. He finished the Spanish Grand Tour on the third step of the podium behind Chris Froome and the overall winner Alberto Contador. After the Vuelta, it was announced that Valverde had signed a three-year contract with his , meaning that he would ride for them until at least 2017. At the World Road Race Championships in Ponferrada, Valverde stood on the third step on the podium for the third year in a row. He came in second at the Giro di Lombardia, passing Contador for first place in the UCI World Tour rankings. 2015 Valverde grabbed three stage victories in the Volta a Catalunya. On stage 2, he got the better of a bunch sprint and helped score a 1–2 for the with his teammate José Joaquín Rojas. On stage 5, he launched a late attack as he was part of a small group containing all the leaders coming into Valls and won solo. On the last stage, he won the sprint of a group of about 40 riders and with the bonus seconds, snatched the second place of the overall classification from Domenico Pozzovivo. At the Amstel Gold Race he came in second, being bested in a small group sprint by Michał Kwiatkowski. The following Wednesday, Valverde equalled the record number of victories on La Flèche Wallonne with 3, distancing Julian Alaphilippe and Michael Albasini in the final meters of the Mur de Huy. He went one better the following Sunday, winning the sprint of a small group of riders to impose himself on Liège–Bastogne–Liège. It was the third time in his career Valverde had won La Doyenne. It was also the second time that he had won Liège–Bastogne–Liège and La Flèche Wallonne in the same year, becoming only the second rider to have achieved this double twice, after Ferdinand Kübler. In June, he won the Spanish National Road Race Championships. At the Tour de France, Valverde finished on the podium in 3rd place, his first podium finish at the Tour; achieving a lifelong dream of a top 3 finish. With that finish he had one career goal left, a World Championship victory. 2016 Valverde's main goals for the 2016 season were the Ardennes classics, the Giro d'Italia and the Road Race at the Olympic Games in Rio. He started his season by taking the overall at the Vuelta a Andalucía in February. He out-powered the rest of the contenders, including Tejay van Garderen and Rafał Majka, on the climb up to the finish on the final stage. Valverde changed his initial plan of riding the Tour of Flanders and went to Tenerife to prepare for the Giro. He returned to competition by winning two stages and the overall at the Vuelta a Castilla y León which he chose to race instead of the Amstel Gold Race, a race still lacking from his palmáres. The following Wednesday he took his third consecutive La Flèche Wallonne victory and became the most prolific winner of the "smaller" Ardennes Classic with his fourth win. He showed his climbing prowess by controlling up until the last when he accelerated away from his rivals to take the victory. The Sunday following, he went out to repeat his Ardennes double from 2015 by securing another Liège–Bastogne–Liège win but he fell short and only managed to finish 16th. Valverde was named in the start list for the Giro d'Italia, his first participation in the Italian race. Valverde rode a consistent race but struggled in the high mountains especially on the queen stage in the Dolomites where he lost more than three minutes. He fought back the very next day with a third place in the mountain time trial and managed to win his first Giro d'Italia stage the day after the rest day in Andalo, his 14th stage win over the three Grand Tours. He secured his spot on the podium by outclimbing Steven Kruijswijk on the very last mountain stage and finished third overall, becoming only the 16th cyclist to finish on the podium in each of the three Grand Tours. Later that year, Valverde finished sixth in the Tour de France, earning his ninth consecutive top 10 finish in his last nine grand tour starts. A week later he was third at the 2016 Clásica de San Sebastián. At the Vuelta a España he finished 12th in the general classification and third in the points classification. Upon completing the Vuelta he became just the 33rd rider in cycling history to complete all three grand tours in the same season. Valverde finished fourth in the World Tour season standings. 2017 In February 2017 Valverde took his first win of the season at the Vuelta a Murcia, a race that he had previously won four times. He followed this up with a win in the Vuelta a Andalucía for the fifth time in six years, defeating runner-up Alberto Contador by a single second and winning stage one in the process. The overall win was the 100th victory in Valverde's career. After not starting Paris–Nice due to illness, Valverde went on to dominate the Volta a Catalunya by winning stages three, five, and seven and beating runner-up Contador by over a minute. This was done in spite of him and his team being given a one-minute penalty for "pushes" in the opening team time trial. At the Tour of the Basque Country, Valverde won stage five and went into the final day's individual time trial as the race leader, albeit on the same time as 's Rigoberto Urán and Michael Woods, 's Romain Bardet, and ' Louis Meintjes, along with having just a three-second advantage over Contador. In the time trial, Valverde finished second on the day to Primož Roglič of by just nine seconds, and he beat Contador by fourteen seconds, extending his overall lead, and giving Valverde his third stage race victory of the season. He punctuated his dominance in La Flèche Wallonne by winning the race for the fourth consecutive year and the fifth time overall. A few days later in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Valverde fended off a late attack from Dan Martin and managed to outsprint him at the line and take his fourth win in the event. After taking time off from racing to train at a 25-day altitude camp at Sierra Nevada, Valverde raced in the Critérium du Dauphiné, where in the stage four time trial he clocked the third best time, losing out only to world time trial champion Tony Martin () and 's Richie Porte by twelve and twenty-four seconds respectively. He managed to put time into the rest of his general classification rivals, including Contador, Bardet, and most notably, defending champion Chris Froome (). Over the subsequent mountain stages, Valverde was consistently aggressive, however it failed to pay off and by the end of the Dauphiné he was 4 minutes 8 seconds down on 's Jakob Fuglsang, in ninth place overall. Going into the Tour de France, Valverde stated that he would work for his teammate Nairo Quintana, however he was still considered an outside bet for the final podium by many pundits. On the opening individual time trial stage, Valverde crashed on a tight corner and was forced to abandon the Tour immediately; his first Grand Tour withdrawal since 2006. He suffered a fractured kneecap, ruling him out for several months. Ultimately, Valverde opted to end his 2017 season because of his knee injury with the hope of making his comeback at the start of the 2018 season. 2018 Valverde returned to racing at the Challenge Mallorca in late January 2018. At the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, he took his first victory after his comeback, winning stage two and taking the overall lead in the process. The following weekend, he finished second to compatriot Luis León Sánchez in the Vuelta a Murcia. Later in February, Valverde claimed overall victory at the Abu Dhabi Tour, winning the stage to Jebel Hafeet. Valverde finished 17 seconds clear of Dutch rider Wilco Kelderman from . In March, Valverde rode the Strade Bianche classic, held partially on gravel roads in torrential rain. He finished fourth, 1 minute and 25 seconds behind winner Tiesj Benoot of . Later that month, Valverde won the Volta a Catalunya for the third time in his career. Valverde won the second and fourth stages during the race, taking the race lead – and the mountains jersey as well – for good after his second stage victory. He finished 29 seconds clear of his nearest rival, teammate Nairo Quintana, after Quintana's Colombian compatriot Egan Bernal () crashed out of the race on the final day. His next race, the cobbled classic Dwars door Vlaanderen, resulted in an 11th place showing after being in the mix for the victory until the successful breakaway of eventual winner Yves Lampaert in the closing kilometers. After taking victory in the GP Miguel Induráin followed by a second place in the Klasika Primavera, he began his Ardennes campaign with 5th place at the Amstel Gold Race. On the following Wednesday he was beaten by Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe at La Flèche Wallonne, a race he had won the four previous years. Furthermore, he was unable to win Liège–Bastogne–Liège and finished 13th making it the first time since 2013 that he did not win an Ardennes Classic race. After a lengthy break he won the Route d'Occitanie stage race in June where he prepared for the Tour de France. He made several long attacks in service of his teammates Quintana and Mikel Landa but all the three leaders failed to threaten the podium. Valverde returned for the Vuelta a España where was supposed to work for Quintana. He won stage 2 in an uphill sprint and stage 8 in a reduced bunch sprint, beating then World Champion Peter Sagan in the latter. He maintained a high position in the general classification until the last weekend and still had a chance of overall victory. He struggled in the last two stages in Andorra and only managed to finish 5th, but won the points classification for a record-equalling fourth time. Valverde won the gold medal at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, in his twelfth participation. He triumphed in a small group sprint at the finish line ahead of Romain Bardet, Michael Woods and Tom Dumoulin, becoming the second oldest Road World Champion in history after Joop Zoetemelk. An emotional Valverde called this his biggest ever victory and one he has chased for 15 years. 2019 Valverde took his first major result of 2019 when he finished second overall to Ion Izagirre in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. He then finished second again, this time to Luis León Sánchez, at the Vuelta a Murcia. At the 2019 UAE Tour, Valverde took his first victory as World Champion by winning the sprint at the summit finish of stage 3. He would go on to finish the race in second place overall. During the spring classics, Valverde rode the Tour of Flanders, his first participation in the monument. He finished the race in eighth place. Valverde endured a difficult end to his spring campaign. At the Flèche Wallonne, he swallowed a bee during the race and eventually finished 11th. A crash in the leadup to Liège–Bastogne–Liège resulted in a bone edema. Valverde started the race, not knowing of the severity of his injury, and then abandoned during the event, the first time he had not finished. After recovering from his injuries, he returned to racing at the Route d'Occitanie, which he won. On 30 June, he won the Spanish National Road Race Championships for the third time in his career. At the Tour de France, he finished ninth overall. At the Vuelta a España, Valverde took victory at stage 7 of the race, a summit finish at Mas de la Costa. He would eventually finish the Vuelta in second place overall, 2:16 minutes behind Primož Roglič. At the World Championship road race in Yorkshire, run in very rainy conditions, Valverde abandoned his title defence with about to go. Towards the end of the season, he finished second to Bauke Mollema at Il Lombardia. 2021 Valverde competed in the 2021 Tour de France, finishing twenty-fourth. His best result was a second place on stage 15 (Céret-Andorra la Vella). He also participated in the Men's individual road race in the 2020 Summer Olympics, his 5th participation in Olympic Games. Doping Alejandro Valverde has been linked by documentary and DNA evidence to the Operación Puerto, a blood-doping affair which erupted in May 2006 against doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and a number of accomplices. It uncovered doping products, bags of blood and human plasma, and code names that appeared to link top athletes, including up to 60 cyclists, to a highly organized system of doping, which relied heavily on blood transfusions. Valverde was not initially linked in the investigation, but documents from Madrid's Court 31 linked Valverde to a single bag of human plasma of the 211 total bags of blood and plasma seized in the investigation. The bag of human plasma was labelled with the codes Valv, Piti and 18. In 2007 Valverde was banned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) from competing in the UCI Road World Championships in Stuttgart but Valverde was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to compete at the championships. Dick Pound, World Anti-Doping Agency president, said the CAS decision did not mean that Valverde was no longer a suspect. In early 2009 the Italian National Olympic Committee matched DNA samples taken from Valverde during a rest day in Italy of the 2008 Tour de France to plasma seized in the Operación Puerto investigation. At a February 2009 appearance in front of the Olympic Committee, Valverde maintained his innocence and questioned the Italians' jurisdiction over this case. In May 2009, the Italian Olympic Committee suspended him from competition in Italy for 2 years, effectively barring him from the 2009 Tour de France, which detoured briefly onto Italian soil. Valverde filed an unsuccessful appeal against the Italian ban with the Court of Arbitration for Sport; in a second hearing on 18–21 March 2010, the UCI and WADA contested the Spanish Cycling Federation's decision not to open a case against Valverde. Finally, on 31 May 2010 it was announced the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the appeals from WADA and the UCI and Valverde was banned for two years, starting 1 January 2010, but rejected the request that any results obtained by the athlete prior to the beginning of the suspension be annulled. After serving the two-year suspension Alejandro Valverde returned to competition in 2012 riding for the . After a lengthy court battle, he was suspended for two years as part of the Operación Puerto blood doping investigation, but he returned to competition in 2012 upon completion of the ban. All his results from 2010 were stripped, including the overall win in the 2010 Tour de Romandie, and he did not compete in 2011. Career achievements Awards Vélo d'Or: 2018 Notes References External links Caisse d'Epargne's Official Website profile Alejandro Valverde at Cycling Ranking 1980 births Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Doping cases in cycling Spanish sportspeople in doping cases Living people Olympic cyclists of Spain Spanish male cyclists Spanish Tour de France stage winners Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners People from Huerta de Murcia Vuelta a España winners 2014 Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists from the Region of Murcia Spanish Giro d'Italia stage winners UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in cycling Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games UCI ProTour winners UCI World Tour winners

<mask> (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . <mask>'s biggest wins have been the Vuelta a España in 2009, Critérium du Dauphiné in 2008 and 2009, Tour of the Basque Country in 2017, Volta a Catalunya in 2009, 2017 and 2018, Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008, 2015 and 2017, La Flèche Wallonne in 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2008 and 2014, the 2006 and 2008 UCI ProTours, the 2014 and 2015 UCI World Tours, and the road race in the 2018 World Championships. Overall, <mask> has 131 professional wins. Prior to his Worlds win, he already held the record for most medals won at World Championships – he twice collected the silver medal in the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005, as well as the bronze four times in 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014. As of 2021, <mask> has entered thirty grand tours, finished twenty-five of them and placed in the Top 10 of a grand tour on twenty occasions. He also shares the record for most wins in the Points Competition in Vuelta history with Sean Kelly and Laurent Jalabert. <mask> is rare in combining different specialties in road bicycle racing, being a strong climbing specialist, sprinter and a good time-trialist.The online database Cycling Ranking ranks him as the 4th most successful cyclist of all time. Biography Born in Las Lumbreras, Murcia, <mask> came from a cycling family, his father Juan was an amateur bicycle racer and bought him a bike when he was six years old. His brother Juan Francisco was also an amateur road racing cyclist. <mask>'s first race was in Jumilla, in his region of Murcia, and he finished second. On the following week he won his second race in Yecla. He allegedly took more than fifty consecutive victories between 11 and 13 years old, earning him the nickname El Imbatido (The Unbeaten). Amateur career Due to his many wins, <mask> was offered to ride for the elite amateur team Banesto based in Navarre, some distance away from his home in Murcia.Perhaps due to the exhaustion from having to travel back and forth every weekend, his performance suffered while with the team. He moved to the development team of the professional squad and was coached by Francisco Moya, whom he credited with helping him become a better cyclist. Kelme also promised to allow him to move to the professional squad if he showed good performance. At the end of his first season with the Kelme amateur squad, they offered to move him to the professional squad. Kelme (2002–2004) Valverde turned professional in 2002 when he signed a contract with the Spanish team , with whom he stayed until the end of the 2004 season. During his time with Kelme he had a breakthrough year in the 2003 Vuelta a España, where he won two stages and finished third in the General classification. That year he also won the Vuelta a Mallorca and a stage in Tour of the Basque Country and other Spanish races like GP Primavera and GP Villafranca de Ordizia.He ended the season with a second place in the 2003 UCI Road World Championships behind Igor Astarloa after winning the sprint ahead of Peter Van Petegem and Paolo Bettini. In the 2004 season he decided to stay with Kelme despite the team's financial woes and offers from other teams. He went on to win the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, the Vuelta a Murcia, a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country, the Vuelta a Burgos and taking fourth in the Vuelta a España. Although he won a stage in the Vuelta, he was injured in a crash that forced him to downscale his ambitions in the overall classification. He also participated in the Summer Olympics. Caisse d'Epargne/Movistar (2005–present) 2005 Valverde joined the UCI ProTeam in 2005. He won the last stage in Paris–Nice and finished second overall behind Bobby Julich.He also took two stages in the Tour of the Basque Country. In his first ever appearance at the Tour de France, he won the 10th stage of the Tour de France ahead of Lance Armstrong, whom he beat in the sprint into Courchevel at the end of a mountain stage in the Alps. After Stage 12, he was in 5th place on GC, 3 minutes and 16 seconds behind Armstrong. He was also leading in the young rider classification (white jersey), with a 3-minute and 9 second lead on Armstrong's teammate Yaroslav Popovych. However, <mask> was forced to withdraw from the Tour during the 13th stage because of a knee injury. <mask> recovered barely in time for the UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, Spain. The injury of Óscar Freire, who was the Spanish team captain, forced him to become the team leader, despite having had only one day of competition before the Worlds.Amazingly, he was able to be competitive and finished second to winner Tom Boonen. 2006 In 2006, <mask> won a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country, finishing 2nd overall and capturing the points competition. He then completed a prestigious double in the Spring classics, winning La Flèche Wallonne and taking victory four days later at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. <mask> subsequently won a stage in the Tour de Romandie finishing 3rd overall. <mask> planned to challenge at the 2006 Tour de France, and stated that he hoped to win in the future. He went to the Pinarello bicycle factory in Treviso, Italy, to optimize his time-trialing performance. In fact he started among the favourites for the Tour after the withdrawal of Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso due to a doping investigation.However, on the third stage of the race, <mask> crashed, and had to abandon the Tour with a fractured right collarbone. His ambition to win a Grand Tour shifted to the Vuelta a España, later that year. <mask> entered the Vuelta a España as the top favorite. Since he did not ride a full Tour de France he was in better condition than some of the other candidates for the victory: defending champion Denis Menchov and Carlos Sastre both ended in the top 10 of the Tour de France and were expected to be somewhat fatigued. <mask> won the 7th stage and dominated mountain stages, earning him the gold leader jersey after stage 9. <mask> lost the jersey however due to the aggressive climbing and attacking of Alexander Vinokourov. In the last time trial, <mask> again lost time on Vinokourov and had to settle for the 2nd place in the overall standings, his second podium finish in a Grand Tour.Following his impressive performance in the Vuelta, <mask> won yet another major title, winning the UCI ProTour with several major races still left on the calendar as his point lead had reached unassailable levels. At the UCI Road World Championships, <mask> was considered one of the favorites for the title. Although he did not win, he was able to finish 3rd and claim a bronze medal. 2007 He started 2007 by winning the overall classification at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Vuelta a Murcia. In stage 4 of the Vuelta a Murcia, <mask> accomplished his first win in an individual time trial. He also finished third in the Critérium International and fifth in the Tour of the Basque Country. In the Ardennes classics he took second place in both La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, unable to repeat the double victory of 2006 season.In the Tour de France, <mask> was seen as one of the favorites for the yellow jersey until he had a disastrous individual time trial that diminished his chances of fighting for the overall classification. He subsequently finished sixth overall, eleven minutes behind, and thus finished his first Tour de France after being unable to complete the race in 2005 and 2006. He decided not to race the Vuelta a España in order to prepare for the UCI Road World Championships. On 29 August 2007, the UCI announced that they prevented Valverde from riding the World Championships in Stuttgart because of his possible implication in the Operación Puerto doping case to safeguard the atmosphere and reputation of the World Championships. The UCI also called upon the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) to open disciplinary proceedings against the rider, but RFEC refused to comply with the UCI's request, saying there was no new evidence against him. RFEC also included <mask> in its squad for the World Championships, where he ended up 2nd. The matter was taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which authorised Valverde to participate in the World Championships.2008 In 2008, <mask> showed strong form in the spring. After winning the Vuelta a Murcia, <mask> was focused on training. He announced his readiness with a podium finish in the Klasika Primavera and a triumph at the Paris–Camembert. These successes foreshadowed excellent results in the Ardennes classics: a podium at the Amstel Gold Race and victory in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. <mask> also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Spanish National Road Race Championships in June. On 5 July, <mask> won the first stage of the Tour de France. His form faltered in the Pyrenees, and after being dropped on the Col du Tourmalet, eventually losing 5' 52" to stage winner Leonardo Piepoli, scrapping hopes of a podium finish.He performed better in the Alps and claimed a top ten finish. On Alpe d'Huez it appeared that he was working alongside to try to eliminate Cadel Evans. He followed the Tour with a strong victory in the Clásica de San Sebastián, leading out the sprint and holding off Alexandr Kolobnev and Davide Rebellin. Later, at the Vuelta a España, he started strong, winning the second stage and wearing the general classification leader's jersey on the third one. He was among the leaders in the first week. However, he lost around two minutes on a very wet stage to Saunces and any chance of a podium finish. However, he ended up in fourth position overall at the end with some strong performances including an impressive ride up the Angliru, where he was only bettered by Alberto Contador and then a good performance in the mountain time-trial.Before the participation at the UCI Road World Championships at Varese, he was mathematically proclaimed the UCI ProTour winner, being his second win in the four editions of the competition. 2009 <mask> started 2009 in good form by taking the points and mountains classifications in the Vuelta a Castilla y León while finishing 9th overall with two stage victories. He could not repeat his successes of the last few years in the spring classics with his best result being a 7th at La Flèche Wallonne. He won the Klasika Primavera and the Volta a Catalunya to put those disappointments behind him. With the threat of not racing the Tour de France hanging over his head he entered the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré hoping to prove his worth. He performed consistently throughout the two early time-trials to stay in touch with the leaders before finishing second on Mont Ventoux to take the lead in the overall classification. Though Cadel Evans repeatedly attacked him in the final days he stayed on his wheel, with the help of compatriot Alberto Contador, to take the yellow jersey.On the back of these successes he appealed his ban by the Italian authorities with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the hope of racing the tour. On 20 September 2009, <mask> clinched the overall victory in the Vuelta a España. Despite having no stage victories, <mask>'s consistency in the mountains allowed him to keep his race all the way to end that he captured on stage 9. 2010 All his 2010 results were annulled because of the suspension. 2012 <mask> made his return to the peloton during the Tour Down Under, the first race of the UCI World Tour season. He won the race's fifth stage – the queen stage of the event – by out-sprinting 's Simon Gerrans in a two-man sprint in Willunga, and finished second overall. He earned his first overall victory since his return, by winning February's Vuelta a Andalucía, as well as achieving a stage victory during the race.<mask> also finished third in Paris–Nice, and by winning stage 3 showed good form for the upcoming Tour de France. In the Tour de France he sat casually in the peloton until initiating a breakaway in stage 17, which he held onto after breaking away from the other 16 riders in the breakaway. almost chased him down, ending only 19 seconds adrift; it was <mask>'s fourth Tour de France stage victory. <mask> entered the Vuelta a España as a lieutenant to the defending champion Juan José Cobo in the . However, <mask> would soon become the leader when it became apparent that Cobo was not in top form. His started off with a victory in the first stage, a team time trial. <mask> would take the lead of the general, points and combination classifications after winning Stage 3, in which he chased down repeated attacks from Alberto Contador and outsprinted Joaquim Rodríguez at the finishing line.He would subsequently lose the lead to Rodríguez, but won the eighth stage atop the Collada de la Gallina in Andorra. Contador broke away from the small lead group and looked like he was heading for the win, but Rodríguez and Valverde passed him with less than to go, with Valverde taking the win. <mask> ultimately finished the Vuelta in second position overall after being a constant threat for the leader, which was Rodríguez until stage 17 where Contador soloed to victory and grabbed the lead, which he would not relinquish. <mask> won both the points and combination classification jerseys on the final day from Rodríguez as a result of a sixth-place finish on the last stage in Madrid. <mask> had to settle for a bronze medal in the World Championships in Valkenburg, as he was unable to reach Philippe Gilbert who attacked on the final climb of the Cauberg. He was the first of a group of 27 riders who had a five seconds deficit on the Belgian when crossing the line. He was supposed to participate in the Giro di Lombardia, but announced on the morning of the race that he was suffering from influenza and was putting an end to his 2012 season.2013 As in 2012, <mask> won the overall classification of the Vuelta a Andalucía in 2013, where he also won the points classification in the race. <mask> continued showing some good form after finishing with podium places in the Vuelta a Murcia, the Amstel Gold Race and in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. After having a decent spring campaign, <mask> aimed for a podium finish in the Tour de France. <mask> started the Tour in good form after finishing third in Ax3 Domaines behind Chris Froome and Richie Porte. However the next day, Porte lost over 15 minutes which moved <mask> into second overall right before the tour left the Pyrenees. On Stage 13, <mask> lost almost 10 minutes after getting a flat tyre. Despite a very hard pursuit, the high crosswinds and the pace of the peloton prevented him and his teammates from catching back.They ended up with the second group at the finish causing him to slip out of the top ten. Despite losing his second position, <mask> managed to do well in the Alps which moved him back into the top ten of the overall standings, finishing 8th overall. At the Vuelta a España, after stage 10, <mask> sat fourth overall a minute behind race leader Chris Horner. However, on stage 11, he moved back up into 3rd after finishing 8th in the time trial. On stage 14, on a rainy descent, <mask> was dropped by the G.C. contenders entering the final climb a minute back. He managed to limit his losses on the final climb staying within a minute of his rivals, though losing close to a minute on Nibali, Horner, and Joaquim Rodríguez.On stage 16, he managed to cut back a handful of seconds on Nibali and Horner. He entered the penultimate stage 20 a minute behind the race leader. He came third of the stage which finished atop the steep Alto de l'Angliru, securing a podium finish in the general classification, one minute and 36 seconds behind race winner Horner. At the World Championships, he took the third place, but was criticized for failing to cover the late attack of Portuguese Rui Costa. Costa eventually reached and out sprinted Rodríguez, <mask>'s Spanish teammate. 2014 In the Tour de France, <mask> ended in fourth place in the general classification. On 2 August 2014 <mask> won the Clásica de San Sebastián for the second time in his career.He won the first uphill finish of the Vuelta a España by powering away from the leaders after leading the group for most of the final climb. He finished the Spanish Grand Tour on the third step of the podium behind Chris Froome and the overall winner Alberto Contador. After the Vuelta, it was announced that <mask> had signed a three-year contract with his , meaning that he would ride for them until at least 2017. At the World Road Race Championships in Ponferrada, <mask> stood on the third step on the podium for the third year in a row. He came in second at the Giro di Lombardia, passing Contador for first place in the UCI World Tour rankings. 2015 <mask> grabbed three stage victories in the Volta a Catalunya. On stage 2, he got the better of a bunch sprint and helped score a 1–2 for the with his teammate José Joaquín Rojas.On stage 5, he launched a late attack as he was part of a small group containing all the leaders coming into Valls and won solo. On the last stage, he won the sprint of a group of about 40 riders and with the bonus seconds, snatched the second place of the overall classification from Domenico Pozzovivo. At the Amstel Gold Race he came in second, being bested in a small group sprint by Michał Kwiatkowski. The following Wednesday, <mask> equalled the record number of victories on La Flèche Wallonne with 3, distancing Julian Alaphilippe and Michael Albasini in the final meters of the Mur de Huy. He went one better the following Sunday, winning the sprint of a small group of riders to impose himself on Liège–Bastogne–Liège. It was the third time in his career <mask> had won La Doyenne. It was also the second time that he had won Liège–Bastogne–Liège and La Flèche Wallonne in the same year, becoming only the second rider to have achieved this double twice, after Ferdinand Kübler.In June, he won the Spanish National Road Race Championships. At the Tour de France, <mask> finished on the podium in 3rd place, his first podium finish at the Tour; achieving a lifelong dream of a top 3 finish. With that finish he had one career goal left, a World Championship victory. 2016 <mask>'s main goals for the 2016 season were the Ardennes classics, the Giro d'Italia and the Road Race at the Olympic Games in Rio. He started his season by taking the overall at the Vuelta a Andalucía in February. He out-powered the rest of the contenders, including Tejay van Garderen and Rafał Majka, on the climb up to the finish on the final stage. <mask> changed his initial plan of riding the Tour of Flanders and went to Tenerife to prepare for the Giro.He returned to competition by winning two stages and the overall at the Vuelta a Castilla y León which he chose to race instead of the Amstel Gold Race, a race still lacking from his palmáres. The following Wednesday he took his third consecutive La Flèche Wallonne victory and became the most prolific winner of the "smaller" Ardennes Classic with his fourth win. He showed his climbing prowess by controlling up until the last when he accelerated away from his rivals to take the victory. The Sunday following, he went out to repeat his Ardennes double from 2015 by securing another Liège–Bastogne–Liège win but he fell short and only managed to finish 16th. <mask> was named in the start list for the Giro d'Italia, his first participation in the Italian race. <mask> rode a consistent race but struggled in the high mountains especially on the queen stage in the Dolomites where he lost more than three minutes. He fought back the very next day with a third place in the mountain time trial and managed to win his first Giro d'Italia stage the day after the rest day in Andalo, his 14th stage win over the three Grand Tours.He secured his spot on the podium by outclimbing Steven Kruijswijk on the very last mountain stage and finished third overall, becoming only the 16th cyclist to finish on the podium in each of the three Grand Tours. Later that year, <mask> finished sixth in the Tour de France, earning his ninth consecutive top 10 finish in his last nine grand tour starts. A week later he was third at the 2016 Clásica de San Sebastián. At the Vuelta a España he finished 12th in the general classification and third in the points classification. Upon completing the Vuelta he became just the 33rd rider in cycling history to complete all three grand tours in the same season. <mask> finished fourth in the World Tour season standings. 2017 In February 2017 <mask> took his first win of the season at the Vuelta a Murcia, a race that he had previously won four times.He followed this up with a win in the Vuelta a Andalucía for the fifth time in six years, defeating runner-up Alberto Contador by a single second and winning stage one in the process. The overall win was the 100th victory in <mask>'s career. After not starting Paris–Nice due to illness, <mask> went on to dominate the Volta a Catalunya by winning stages three, five, and seven and beating runner-up Contador by over a minute. This was done in spite of him and his team being given a one-minute penalty for "pushes" in the opening team time trial. At the Tour of the Basque Country, <mask> won stage five and went into the final day's individual time trial as the race leader, albeit on the same time as 's Rigoberto Urán and Michael Woods, 's Romain Bardet, and ' Louis Meintjes, along with having just a three-second advantage over Contador. In the time trial, <mask> finished second on the day to Primož Roglič of by just nine seconds, and he beat Contador by fourteen seconds, extending his overall lead, and giving <mask> his third stage race victory of the season. He punctuated his dominance in La Flèche Wallonne by winning the race for the fourth consecutive year and the fifth time overall.A few days later in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, <mask> fended off a late attack from Dan Martin and managed to outsprint him at the line and take his fourth win in the event. After taking time off from racing to train at a 25-day altitude camp at Sierra Nevada, Valverde raced in the Critérium du Dauphiné, where in the stage four time trial he clocked the third best time, losing out only to world time trial champion Tony Martin () and 's Richie Porte by twelve and twenty-four seconds respectively. He managed to put time into the rest of his general classification rivals, including Contador, Bardet, and most notably, defending champion Chris Froome (). Over the subsequent mountain stages, <mask> was consistently aggressive, however it failed to pay off and by the end of the Dauphiné he was 4 minutes 8 seconds down on 's Jakob Fuglsang, in ninth place overall. Going into the Tour de France, <mask> stated that he would work for his teammate Nairo Quintana, however he was still considered an outside bet for the final podium by many pundits. On the opening individual time trial stage, <mask> crashed on a tight corner and was forced to abandon the Tour immediately; his first Grand Tour withdrawal since 2006. He suffered a fractured kneecap, ruling him out for several months.Ultimately, <mask> opted to end his 2017 season because of his knee injury with the hope of making his comeback at the start of the 2018 season. 2018 <mask> returned to racing at the Challenge Mallorca in late January 2018. At the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, he took his first victory after his comeback, winning stage two and taking the overall lead in the process. The following weekend, he finished second to compatriot Luis León Sánchez in the Vuelta a Murcia. Later in February, <mask> claimed overall victory at the Abu Dhabi Tour, winning the stage to Jebel Hafeet. <mask> finished 17 seconds clear of Dutch rider Wilco Kelderman from . In March, <mask> rode the Strade Bianche classic, held partially on gravel roads in torrential rain.He finished fourth, 1 minute and 25 seconds behind winner Tiesj Benoot of . Later that month, <mask> won the Volta a Catalunya for the third time in his career. <mask> won the second and fourth stages during the race, taking the race lead – and the mountains jersey as well – for good after his second stage victory. He finished 29 seconds clear of his nearest rival, teammate Nairo Quintana, after Quintana's Colombian compatriot Egan Bernal () crashed out of the race on the final day. His next race, the cobbled classic Dwars door Vlaanderen, resulted in an 11th place showing after being in the mix for the victory until the successful breakaway of eventual winner Yves Lampaert in the closing kilometers. After taking victory in the GP Miguel Induráin followed by a second place in the Klasika Primavera, he began his Ardennes campaign with 5th place at the Amstel Gold Race. On the following Wednesday he was beaten by Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe at La Flèche Wallonne, a race he had won the four previous years.Furthermore, he was unable to win Liège–Bastogne–Liège and finished 13th making it the first time since 2013 that he did not win an Ardennes Classic race. After a lengthy break he won the Route d'Occitanie stage race in June where he prepared for the Tour de France. He made several long attacks in service of his teammates Quintana and Mikel Landa but all the three leaders failed to threaten the podium. <mask> returned for the Vuelta a España where was supposed to work for Quintana. He won stage 2 in an uphill sprint and stage 8 in a reduced bunch sprint, beating then World Champion Peter Sagan in the latter. He maintained a high position in the general classification until the last weekend and still had a chance of overall victory. He struggled in the last two stages in Andorra and only managed to finish 5th, but won the points classification for a record-equalling fourth time.<mask> won the gold medal at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, in his twelfth participation. He triumphed in a small group sprint at the finish line ahead of Romain Bardet, Michael Woods and Tom Dumoulin, becoming the second oldest Road World Champion in history after Joop Zoetemelk. An emotional <mask> called this his biggest ever victory and one he has chased for 15 years. 2019 <mask> took his first major result of 2019 when he finished second overall to Ion Izagirre in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. He then finished second again, this time to Luis León Sánchez, at the Vuelta a Murcia. At the 2019 UAE Tour, <mask> took his first victory as World Champion by winning the sprint at the summit finish of stage 3. He would go on to finish the race in second place overall.During the spring classics, <mask> rode the Tour of Flanders, his first participation in the monument. He finished the race in eighth place. <mask> endured a difficult end to his spring campaign. At the Flèche Wallonne, he swallowed a bee during the race and eventually finished 11th. A crash in the leadup to Liège–Bastogne–Liège resulted in a bone edema. <mask> started the race, not knowing of the severity of his injury, and then abandoned during the event, the first time he had not finished. After recovering from his injuries, he returned to racing at the Route d'Occitanie, which he won.On 30 June, he won the Spanish National Road Race Championships for the third time in his career. At the Tour de France, he finished ninth overall. At the Vuelta a España, <mask> took victory at stage 7 of the race, a summit finish at Mas de la Costa. He would eventually finish the Vuelta in second place overall, 2:16 minutes behind Primož Roglič. At the World Championship road race in Yorkshire, run in very rainy conditions, <mask> abandoned his title defence with about to go. Towards the end of the season, he finished second to Bauke Mollema at Il Lombardia. 2021 <mask> competed in the 2021 Tour de France, finishing twenty-fourth.His best result was a second place on stage 15 (Céret-Andorra la Vella). He also participated in the Men's individual road race in the 2020 Summer Olympics, his 5th participation in Olympic Games. Doping <mask> has been linked by documentary and DNA evidence to the Operación Puerto, a blood-doping affair which erupted in May 2006 against doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and a number of accomplices. It uncovered doping products, bags of blood and human plasma, and code names that appeared to link top athletes, including up to 60 cyclists, to a highly organized system of doping, which relied heavily on blood transfusions. <mask> was not initially linked in the investigation, but documents from Madrid's Court 31 linked Valverde to a single bag of human plasma of the 211 total bags of blood and plasma seized in the investigation. The bag of human plasma was labelled with the codes Valv, Piti and 18. In 2007 <mask> was banned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) from competing in the UCI Road World Championships in Stuttgart but <mask> was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to compete at the championships.Dick Pound, World Anti-Doping Agency president, said the CAS decision did not mean that <mask> was no longer a suspect. In early 2009 the Italian National Olympic Committee matched DNA samples taken from Valverde during a rest day in Italy of the 2008 Tour de France to plasma seized in the Operación Puerto investigation. At a February 2009 appearance in front of the Olympic Committee, <mask> maintained his innocence and questioned the Italians' jurisdiction over this case. In May 2009, the Italian Olympic Committee suspended him from competition in Italy for 2 years, effectively barring him from the 2009 Tour de France, which detoured briefly onto Italian soil. <mask> filed an unsuccessful appeal against the Italian ban with the Court of Arbitration for Sport; in a second hearing on 18–21 March 2010, the UCI and WADA contested the Spanish Cycling Federation's decision not to open a case against Valverde. Finally, on 31 May 2010 it was announced the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the appeals from WADA and the UCI and <mask> was banned for two years, starting 1 January 2010, but rejected the request that any results obtained by the athlete prior to the beginning of the suspension be annulled. After serving the two-year suspension <mask> returned to competition in 2012 riding for the .After a lengthy court battle, he was suspended for two years as part of the Operación Puerto blood doping investigation, but he returned to competition in 2012 upon completion of the ban. All his results from 2010 were stripped, including the overall win in the 2010 Tour de Romandie, and he did not compete in 2011. Career achievements Awards Vélo d'Or: 2018 Notes References External links Caisse d'Epargne's Official Website profile <mask>de at Cycling Ranking 1980 births Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Doping cases in cycling Spanish sportspeople in doping cases Living people Olympic cyclists of Spain Spanish male cyclists Spanish Tour de France stage winners Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners People from Huerta de Murcia Vuelta a España winners 2014 Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists from the Region of Murcia Spanish Giro d'Italia stage winners UCI Road World Champions (elite men) Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in cycling Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games UCI ProTour winners UCI World Tour winners

<mask> is a Spanish road racing cyclist who rides for the UCI World Team. The Vuelta a Espaa, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Lige–Bastogne–Lige, and the Tour of Catalunya have all been won by <mask>. There are 131 professional wins for <mask>. Prior to his Worlds win, he held the record for most medals won at World Championships, with two silver medals and four bronze medals. As of 2021, he has entered thirty grand tours, finished twenty-five of them, and placed in the Top 10 on twenty occasions. He shares the record for most wins in the Points Competition with Sean Kelly and Laurent Jalabert. Being a strong climbing specialist, sprinter and a good time-trialist is rare in road bicycle racing.He is the 4th most successful cyclist of all time. Juan was an amateur bicycle racer and bought his son a bike when he was six years old. Juan Francisco was an amateur cyclist. He finished second in his first race in Jumilla. He won his second race the following week. He was nicknamed El Imbatido (The Unbeaten) because he took more than fifty victories between 11 and 13 years old. Due to his many wins, <mask> was offered to ride for an elite amateur team based in Navarre, some distance away from his home in Murcia.His performance may have suffered due to the exhaustion he had to travel back and forth every weekend. He credited Francisco Moya with helping him become a better cyclist after he moved to the development team of the professional squad. If he showed good performance, Kelme would allow him to move to the professional squad. At the end of his first season with the Kelme amateur squad, they offered to move him to the professional squad. After signing a contract with the Spanish team, Kelme stayed until the end of the 2004 season. He had a breakthrough year in the Vuelta a Espaa in 2003 when he won two stages and finished third in the general classification. He won the Vuelta a Mallorca and a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country that year.He finished second in the 2003 UCI Road World Championships after winning the sprint ahead of Peter Van Petegem and Paolo Bettini. Despite the team's financial troubles, he decided to stay with Kelme. He won the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, the Vuelta a Murcia, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Vuelta a Burgos, and the Vuelta a Espaa. Although he won a stage in the Vuelta, he was injured in a crash that forced him to scale back his ambitions in the overall classification. He was in the Summer Olympics. Caisse d'Epargne/Movistar joined the UCI ProTeam in 2005. He finished second in the overall race after winning the last stage in Paris–Nice.He took two stages in the Tour of the Basque Country. In his first ever appearance at the Tour de France, he won the 10th stage of the Tour de France ahead of Lance Armstrong, who he beat in the sprint into Courchevel at the end of a mountain stage in the Alps. He was in 5th place on the GC after Stage 12. He had a 3-minute and 9 second lead on Yaroslav Popovych in the young rider classification. During the 13th stage, he withdrew from the Tour because of a knee injury. The UCI Road World Championships were held in Madrid, Spain. The injury of scar Freire, who was the Spanish team captain, forced him to become the team leader despite having only one day of competition before the Worlds.He was close to the winner and finished second. In 2006 he won a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country and captured the points competition. He took victory at Lige–Bastogne–Lige four days after winning La Flche Wallonne. The Tour de Romandie was won by <mask>. He wanted to win the Tour de France in the future. He went to the bike factory in Italy to improve his performance. He was one of the favorites for the Tour after the withdrawals of Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso.He had to abandon the Tour with a broken collarbone after crashing on the third stage. He wanted to win a Grand Tour later that year. The Vuelta a Espaa was entered by <mask> as the favorite. Defending champion Denis Menchov and Carlos Sastre both ended in the top 10 of the Tour de France and were expected to be somewhat fatigued, but since he did not ride a full Tour de France he was in better condition than some of the other candidates for the victory. He won the 7th stage and was the leader after stage 9. The jersey was lost due to the aggressive climbing of Alexander Vinokourov. In the last time trial, he lost time on Vinokourov and had to settle for the 2nd place in the overall, his second podium finish in a Grand Tour.His point lead had reached unassailable levels as he won the UCI ProTour with several major races still left on the calendar. One of the favorites for the title was <mask>. He was able to finish 3rd and claim a bronze medal even though he did not win. He won the overall classification at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Vuelta a Murcia in 2007. His first win in an individual time trial was in stage 4 of the Vuelta a Murcia. He finished fifth in the Tour of the Basque Country. He was unable to repeat the double victory of the 2006 season in the Lige–Bastogne–Lige classics.In the Tour de France, <mask> was seen as one of the favorites for the yellow jersey until he had a disastrous individual time trial. After being unable to complete the race in 2005 and 2006 he finished his first Tour de France in sixth place. The Vuelta a Espaa was 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 On August 29, 2007, the UCI announced that they prevented Valverde from riding the World Championships because of his possible implication in the Operacin Puerto case to safeguard the atmosphere and reputation of the World Championships. RFEC refused to comply with the UCI's request, saying there was no new evidence against the rider. RFEC included him in its squad for the World Championships, where he finished 2nd. The matter was taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which allowed him to participate in the World Championships.In the spring of 2008, <mask> showed his best form. He was focused on training after winning the Vuelta a Murcia. He won the Paris–Camembert and finished on a podium. The Lige–Bastogne–Lige victory foretold excellent results in the classics. In June, he won the Spanish National Road Race Championships. The first stage of the Tour de France was won by <mask>. After being dropped on the Col du Tourmalet, he lost 5' 52" to Leonardo Piepoli, who went on to win the stage.He finished in the top ten in the Alps. It appeared that he was trying to eliminate Cadel Evans. He followed the Tour with a victory in the Clsica de San Sebastin. He wore the general classification leader's jersey on the third stage of the Vuelta a Espaa after winning the second stage. He was a leader in the first week. He lost around two minutes on a very wet stage to Saunces and no chance of a podium finish. He had a good ride up the Angliru and a good performance in the mountain time-trial to finish in fourth position.His second win in the four editions of the competition made him the winner of the UCI ProTour. In the Vuelta a Castilla y Len, he took the points and mountains classifications and finished 9th overall with two stage victories. His best result in the spring classics was a 7th at La Flche Wallonne, but he couldn't repeat his success of the last few years. He won the Volta a Catalunya to put his disappointment behind him. With the threat of not racing the Tour de France hanging over his head, he entered the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré to prove his worth. He was in touch with the leaders throughout the two early time-trials and finished second on Mont Ventoux to take the lead in the overall classification. Cadel Evans attacked him multiple times in the final days, but he stayed on his wheel and took the yellow jersey.He appealed his ban by the Italian authorities in order to race the tour. The Vuelta a Espaa was won by <mask> on 20 September 2009. His consistency in the mountains allowed him to keep his race going even though he had no stage victories. His 2010 results were null and void because of the suspension. The Tour Down Under was the first race of the World Tour season. He beat Simon Gerrans in a two-man sprint to win the queen stage of the race and finish second overall. He won the Vuelta a Andaluca in February and also achieved a stage victory.By winning stage 3 in Paris–Nice, he showed good form for the Tour de France. He broke away from the other 16 riders in the break in the 17th stage of the Tour de France, which he held onto. It was his fourth Tour de France stage victory and he almost chased him down. The Vuelta a Espaa was won by Juan José Cobo. When it became apparent that Cobo was not in top form, <mask> became the leader. He won the first stage, a team time trial. After winning Stage 3, he would take the lead of the general, points and combination classifications and outsprinted Joaquim Rodrguez at the finish line.He was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 After breaking away from the small lead group, he looked like he was going to win, but Rodrguez and Valverde passed him with less than a kilometer to go. After being a constant threat for the leader, which was Rodrguez until stage 17 where Contador soloed to victory and grabbed the lead, he would not relinquish. A sixth-place finish on the last stage in Madrid gave <mask> Valverde the points and combination classification jerseys on the final day from Rodrguez. In the World Championships in Valkenburg, he was unable to reach Philippe Gilbert who attacked on the final climb of the Cauberg. A group of 27 riders had a five second deficit on the Belgian when they crossed the line. On the morning of the Giro di Lombardia, he announced that he was putting an end to his 2012 season because he was suffering from the flu.The Vuelta a Andaluca was won by <mask> in both the points classification and the overall classification. In the Vuelta a Murcia, the Amstel Gold Race, and Lige–Bastogne–Lige, <mask> finished with podium places. He wanted a podium finish in the Tour de France. The Tour got off to a good start after the third place finish by <mask>. On the next day, Porte lost over 15 minutes which moved <mask> into second overall. After getting a flat tire, <mask> lost almost 10 minutes. The high crosswinds made it difficult for him and his teammates to catch up.The second group at the finish caused him to slip out of the top ten. Even though he lost his second position, he still did well in the Alps and finished 8th overall. After the 10th stage of the Vuelta a Espaa, <mask> was fourth in the race. He moved up to 3rd on stage 11 after finishing 8th in the time trial. On stage 14, he was dropped by the G.C. The contender is a minute back. He was able to limit his losses on the final climb by staying within a minute of his rivals.He was able to cut back a few seconds on Nibali and Horner. He was 20 minutes behind the race leader. He finished third in the Alto de l'Angliru stage and was one minute and 36 seconds behind the race winner. He took third place at the World Championships, but was criticized for not covering the attack on Portuguese Rui Costa. Costa sprinted Rodrguez, his Spanish teammate. In the general classification, he finished in fourth place. The Clsica de San Sebastin was won by <mask> for the second time.He was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 He finished the Spanish Grand Tour on the third step of the podium, behind Chris Froome and the overall winner. After the Vuelta, it was announced that he had signed a three-year contract with them, meaning that he would ride for them until at least 2017. For the third year in a row, Valverde stood on the podium at the World Road Race Championships. He moved up to first place in the World Tour rankings after coming in second at the Giro di Lombardia. The cyclist won three stages in the Volta a Catalunya. He helped score a 1–2 for his teammate on stage 2 after getting the better of a bunch sprint.He launched a late attack on stage 5 as he was part of a small group of people who were coming into Valls. He snatched the second place of the overall classification after winning the sprint of a group of about 40 riders on the last stage. He came in second at the Amstel Gold Race, but was beaten by a small group sprint. On Wednesday, he equalled the record number of victories on La Flche Wallonne with three victories. He went one better the following Sunday, winning the sprint of a small group of riders to impose himself on Lige–Bastogne–Lige. It was the third time in his career that he had won La Doyenne. He became the second rider after Ferdinand Kbler to win the Lige–Bastogne–Lige and La Flche Wallonne in the same year.He won the Spanish National Road Race Championships. He achieved a lifelong dream of a top 3 finish at the Tour de France, finishing on the podium for the first time. He had one career goal left, a World Championship victory. The road race at the Olympic Games in Rio was one of the main goals for the 2016 season. He took the overall at the Vuelta a Andaluca in February. He was the leader on the climb up to the finish on the final stage. He went to Tenerife to prepare for the Giro after changing his plans for the Tour of Flanders.He returned to competition by winning two stages and the overall at the Vuelta a Castilla y Len which he chose to race instead of the Amstel Gold Race, a race still lacking from his palmres. He became the most prolific winner of the "smaller" Ardennes Classic with his fourth win. He showed his climbing prowess by controlling up until the last moment, when he sprinted away from his competitors to win. He went out to win another Lige–Bastogne–Lige win on the Sunday but fell short and finished 16th. He was on the start list for the Giro d'Italia for the first time. He lost more than three minutes on the queen stage in the Dolomites in the high mountains. He won the first Giro d'Italia stage the day after the rest day in Andalo, his 14th stage win over the three Grand Tours.He became the 16th cyclist to finish on the podium in each of the three Grand Tours after outclimbing Steven Kruijswijk on the last mountain stage. After finishing sixth in the Tour de France, <mask> earned his ninth consecutive top 10 finish in his last nine grand tour starts. He was third at the 2016 Clsica de San Sebastin. He finished 12th in the general classification and third in the points classification at the Vuelta a Espaa. He was the 33rd rider in cycling history to complete all three grand tours in the same season. The World Tour season ended with a fourth place finish for <mask>. The Vuelta a Murcia was the first win of the season for <mask>, who had previously won four times.He followed this up with a win in the Vuelta a Andaluca for the fifth time in six years, defeating runner-up Alberto Contador by a single second and winning stage one. The 100th victory was the overall win. After not starting the Paris–Nice due to illness, <mask> went on to win stages three, five, and seven and beat the runner-up by over a minute. He and his team were given a one-minute penalty for pushing in the opening team time trial. At the Tour of the Basque Country, <mask> won stage five and went into the final day's individual time trial as the race leader, but on the same time as's Rigoberto Urn and Michael Woods and Romain Bardet. After finishing second in the time trial, he beat Contador by fourteen seconds to extend his overall lead, and then 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 He won the race for the fourth consecutive year and the fifth time overall.A few days later in Lige–Bastogne–Lige, Dan Martin tried to take the win, but he was outsprinted at the line by <mask>. After taking time off from racing to train at a 25-day altitude camp at Sierra Nevada, he finished third in the stage four time trial of the Critérium du Dauphine, which was won by Tony Martin. He put time into the rest of his general classification rivals, including defending champion Chris Froome. After the mountain stages, he was consistently aggressive, however it failed to pay off and by the end of the race he was in ninth place. Going into the Tour de France, <mask> stated that he would work for his teammate, however he was still considered an outside bet for the final podium by many pundits. After crashing on a tight corner on the opening individual time trial stage, <mask> withdrew from the Tour. He was ruled out for several months because of a fractured kneecap.The decision was made to end the season because of his knee injury in order to be ready for the start of the new season. The Challenge Mallorca was where Valverde returned to racing in January. He was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 He finished second to Luis Len Snchez in the Vuelta a Murcia. The overall victory at the Abu Dhabi Tour was claimed by Valverde. Valverde finished 17 seconds ahead of Kelderman. The Strade Bianche classic was held partially on gravel roads in the rain.He finished fourth, 25 seconds behind the winner. He won the Volta a Catalunya for the third time. After winning the second and fourth stages, he took the race lead and the mountains jersey as well. He finished 29 seconds clear of his nearest rival after his teammate crashed out of the race on the final day. His next race, the cobbled classic Dwars door Vlaanderen, resulted in an 11th place showing after being in the mix for the victory until the successful break of eventual winner Yves Lampaert in the closing kilometers. He started his campaign with a fifth place at the Amstel Gold Race after winning the GP Miguel Indurin. He had won the race four years in a row, but was beaten by a Frenchman the next day.He was unable to win the Lige–Bastogne–Lige race and finished 13th, making it the first time in four years that he did not win an Ardennes Classic race. He prepared for the Tour de France by winning the Route d'Occitanie stage race. The leader failed to threaten the podium after he made several long attacks in service of his teammates. The Vuelta a Espaa was where <mask> was supposed to work. He won stage 2 in an uphill sprint and stage 8 in a reduced bunch sprint. He was in a good position in the general classification and still had a chance of victory. He won the points classification for the fourth time, despite struggling in the last two stages in Andorra.He won the gold medal at the UCI Road World Championships. He triumphed in a small group sprint at the finish line ahead of Romain Bardet, Michael Woods and Tom Dumoulin, becoming the second oldest Road World Champion in history. He has been chasing a victory for 15 years. He finished second to Ion Izagirre in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, his first major result of the year. He finished second to Luis Len Snchez at the Vuelta a Murcia. He won the sprint at the summit of stage 3 to take his first victory as World Champion. He finished the race in second place.He participated in the monument for the first time during the spring classics. He finished in the top eight. He had a difficult end to his spring campaign. During the race, he swallowed a bee and finished 11th. There was a crash in the lead up to Lige. He abandoned the event the first time he had not finished because he didn't know the severity of his injury. He won at the Route d'Occitanie after recovering from his injuries.He won the Spanish National Road Race Championships for the third time. He finished ninth in the Tour de France. At the Vuelta a Espaa, <mask> won stage 7 at Mas de la Costa. He finished the Vuelta in second place. At the World Championship road race in Yorkshire, run in very rainy conditions, <mask> abandoned his title defence. At the end of the season, he finished second to Bauke Mollema. The cyclist finished twenty-fourth in the Tour de France.Second place on stage 15 was his best result. He participated in the Men's individual road race in the 2020 Summer Olympics, his 5th participation in Olympic Games. The Operacin Puerto, a blood-doping affair which erupted in May 2006 against doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and a number of accomplices, has been linked by documentary and DNA evidence to <mask>. There were bags of blood and human blood, and code names that appeared to link top athletes, including up to 60 cyclists, to a highly organized system of drug use. The documents from Madrid's Court 31 linked <mask> to a single bag of human blood, which was seized in the investigation. The codes Valv, Piti and 18 were on the bag. The International Cycling Union banned <mask> from competing in the Road World Championships in 2007, but he was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to compete.The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency said that the CAS decision did not mean that <mask> was no longer a suspect. The Italian National Olympic Committee matched the samples from the rest day in Italy of the 2008 Tour de France to the samples from the Operacin Puerto investigation. At a February 2009, appearance in front of the Olympic Committee, <mask> maintained his innocence and questioned the Italians' jurisdiction over this case. The Italian Olympic Committee suspended him from competition in Italy for 2 years in May 2009, preventing him from competing in the Tour de France. The Spanish Cycling Federation decided not to open a case against <mask> despite the fact that he had filed an unsuccessful appeal against the Italian ban. On 31 May 2010 it was announced that the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the appeals from WADA and the UCI, but rejected the request that any results obtained by the athlete prior to the beginning of the suspension be nullified. <mask> returned to competition in 2012 after serving a two-year suspension.After a lengthy court battle, he was suspended for two years as part of the Operacin Puerto blood-doping investigation, but he returned to competition in 2012 after completing the ban. His results from 2010 were stripped, including the overall win in the 2010 Tour de Romandie, and he did not compete in 2011. There are External links to Caisse d'Epargne's Official Website.

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Ardie Suemalo Savea (born 14 October 1993) is a rugby union player who plays as a flanker or number 8 for in the ITM Cup, the Hurricanes in Super Rugby and international rugby for the New Zealand All Blacks. Savea was a member of New Zealand's 2019 Rugby World Cup squad and a nominee for 2019 World Rugby Player of the Year. Savea has previously captained Wellington, and also previously played for the Barbarian F.C., for the New Zealand U20's team, and the New Zealand national rugby sevens team. Early life Savea was a member of the Rongotai College 1st XV, captain of the side in his final year of high school and was head prefect in his final year. Savea played as an outside centre at high school, shifting to the forwards in his professional career. Playing career Early career Savea has represented New Zealand on the international sevens circuit. In the 2013 Super Rugby season he joined the Hurricanes after signing a two-year deal. In November 2013, Savea travelled with the All Blacks to Europe, along with his older brother Julian. This was because "we want to introduce him to the way of the All Black life," said Coach Steve Hansen. Savea was the first non-playing apprentice to be selected internationally for New Zealand, with future teammates of Savea, Jordie Barrett and Atunaisa Moli, being named as apprentices in 2016 and 2017 respectively. 2015-2016 In 2015, Savea was selected for the All Blacks Sevens squad to play in the Wellington 7s series in January 2016. Savea also became a regular starter for the Hurricanes during the 2015 Super Rugby season, but missed the final due to injury. After injury to Brad Shields, Savea took over as captain of Wellington for the rest of the 2015 ITM Cup season. Savea lead Wellington to the final of the Championship division in the absence of Shields, but Wellington lost the final to Hawke's Bay's Magpies, 25-26, with a late conversion from Savea's Hurricanes teammate Ihaia West. In 2016, after opting to withdraw from the All Blacks Sevens, Savea was selected in New Zealand's All Blacks squad for the June test series against Wales. Savea made his debut for the All Blacks, replacing Sam Cane off the bench, on 11 June, against Wales at Eden Park. Savea made a fine debut, with the All Blacks winning 39-21. The following week, Savea scored a try in his second match for New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium, his home crowd. Savea again made his way onto the field by replacing Cane off the bench. The All Blacks won, again, by 36-22. Savea was retained in the All Blacks squad for the 2016 Rugby Championship and following an injury to Sam Cane, Savea ended up playing 2 of the Rugby Championship tests as openside flanker. In his first start for the All Blacks against South Africa in the 2016 Rugby Championship, Ardie scored a try along with his brother Julian, making them the first brothers in the All Blacks to ever do so in the same test. Savea played 12 tests for the All Blacks in his debut season overall, 10 of them off the bench. 2017-2018 Savea was one of the highest try-scorers for the 2017 Super Rugby season, scoring six that year including a double in the Hurricanes' opening match for the year within the first ten minutes. The Hurricanes won their opening match 83-17 against the Sunwolves, with Savea playing the full 80 minutes. Savea was selected in the 33-man squad for the 2017 Pasifika Challenge against Samoa and the three-test series against the touring British and Irish Lions. Savea started at number 8, against Samoa, because All Blacks Captain Kieran Read had not yet recovered from his broken thumb. Savea scored two tries in the 78-0 demolition of Samoa and came off the bench as a replacement in all three tests against the Lions in a drawn series. Despite performing better than starting openside flanker Sam Cane, Savea was retained as an impact player off the bench for most of the 2017 Rugby Championship. A start against Argentina in New Plymouth was the exception, with Cane replacing Savea in the 44th minute of the 39-22 win. Despite a good performance, Savea's was overshadowed by Cane and by Vaea Fifita who was Man of the Match. With Matt Todd preferred by All Black coach Steve Hansen during tests, Savea only made two appearances on the 2017 end-of-year tour, starting in wins over the Barbarians and a French XV. Although the 2018 Super Rugby season proved to be a mixed season for Savea, Savea performed well against France during the mid-year Steinlager series, with his performance in the first two tests including an outstanding try. Due to Sam Cane's ongoing poor discipline, Savea earned a start at openside flanker during the final test of the series, on 23 June 2018. Although the All Blacks defeated France 49-14 in the third test, winning the series 3-0, it proved Savea to be luckless, with Savea coming off injured in the 16th minute, with Matt Todd replacing Savea. Savea missed the 2018 Super Rugby playoffs due to injury. Savea recovered from his ankle injury in time for the 2018 Rugby Championship, replacing Sam Cane off the bench in both Bledisloe Cup tests against Australia. Savea's dominance over Australia earned him a start against Argentina's Los Pumas for round 3 of the competition, on 8 September 2018. Savea lasted the full 80 minutes against Los Pumas, with the All Blacks winning 46-24, but Savea only earned 12 minutes against South Africa's Springboks the following week. Although Savea only played for 12 minutes during the All Blacks' 34-36 shock loss to South Africa, he still played well and scored a try. Savea was released by the All Blacks for the Wellington Lions during 2018, starring in a 52-7 win over Southland during the 2018 Mitre 10 Cup. This was his first fixture for Wellington since his All Black debut. For round 5 of the 2018 Rugby Championship, with Kieran Read being rested, Savea was scheduled to be used as impact off the bench for the All Blacks as usual, with Luke Whitelock starting at number 8 in Read's absence, on 29 September 2018. Savea, however, was drafted into the starting lineup only hours before the test against Los Pumas, with Whitelock falling ill. Savea went on to dominate his opposite number 8, Javier Ortega Desio, winning the first "Man of the Match" award of his international career. Savea lasted the full 80 minutes, with the All Blacks beating Los Pumas 35-17. Savea played outstandingly the following week, in the second test against South Africa, when he replaced the injured Sam Cane only 36 minutes into the test. Savea challenged the Springboks well as scored his seventh career try in the final minute. Savea's try was converted by first-five, Richie Mo'unga, who won the test for the All Blacks through the kick, making the final score a 32-30 win. Savea became a regular starter for New Zealand during the 2018 end-of-year tour, with Sam Cane out injured with a fractured neck. Savea used his time as a regular starter to surpass Cane as a player, being one of few players to shine for New Zealand in a narrow 16-15 win over England, and a 9-16 loss to Ireland. Savea played in the last test of the year, starting for the All Blacks in a 66-3 victory over Italy, before coming off in the 48th minute for newcomer, Dalton Papalii. Savea finished the year as one of the best-performing New Zealanders in the opinion of many, scoring three tries during the 2018 season, making him the highest try-scorer of any All Black forward for the season. 2019 Although the Hurricanes once again failed to progress to the final in the 2019 Super Rugby season, Savea was once again influential for the team, with the likes of former All Blacks, Josh Kronfeld and Sir Michael Jones praising Savea's consistent performances. Hurricanes teammate, Beauden Barrett, also referred to Savea as the All Blacks' "most influential player". Despite the return of Sam Cane to playing rugby, from his broken neck, Savea was retained in New Zealand's starting lineup, although at Blindside Flanker, with Liam Squire opting to withdraw from the team. Savea played in four of New Zealand's five warm-up matches prior to the World Cup in 2019 and was not subbed off for another player in any, including a 92-7 victory over Tonga. On 28 August, All Blacks Head Coach, Steve Hansen named Savea as one of 31 players in New Zealand's squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. He played in all three pool matches, but was one of few All Blacks who could hold their head high in their semi-final defeat, 7-19 to England. scoring their only try in the test after intercepting a botched line-out throw from English hooker Jamie George. Although Savea did not play in the Bronze final against Wales due to injury, he was a nominee for World Rugby Player of the Year. Savea eventually lost out on the award to South African flanker, Pieter-Steph du Toit. With Savea's older brother, Julian Savea, having been a nominee for the award in 2014 and 2015, the Savea brothers became the first set of brothers with nominations for the award. He was also nominated for New Zealand rugby player of the year beating out Beauden Barrett and Anton Lienert-Brown for the title Savea also won Kelvin R Tremain Memorial player of the year. Personal life His older brother is his former Hurricanes and All Blacks teammate, Julian, who currently plays as a wing for Hurricanes. Savea has Samoan ancestry and is a father-of-two, having married his partner, Saskia, in 2018. Outside his rugby career, Savea runs a namesake clothing company, alongside his wife, and is an advocate for mental health. Savea has also recently started a podcast. References External links Hurricanes profile itsrugby.co.uk profile Living people New Zealand rugby union players Hurricanes (rugby union) players Wellington rugby union players 1993 births Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from Wellington City New Zealand people of Samoan descent People educated at Rongotai College New Zealand international rugby sevens players Barbarian F.C. players New Zealand international rugby union players Rugby union number eights

<mask> (born 14 October 1993) is a rugby union player who plays as a flanker or number 8 for in the ITM Cup, the Hurricanes in Super Rugby and international rugby for the New Zealand All Blacks. <mask> was a member of New Zealand's 2019 Rugby World Cup squad and a nominee for 2019 World Rugby Player of the Year. <mask> has previously captained Wellington, and also previously played for the Barbarian F.C., for the New Zealand U20's team, and the New Zealand national rugby sevens team. Early life <mask> was a member of the Rongotai College 1st XV, captain of the side in his final year of high school and was head prefect in his final year. <mask> played as an outside centre at high school, shifting to the forwards in his professional career. Playing career Early career <mask> has represented New Zealand on the international sevens circuit. In the 2013 Super Rugby season he joined the Hurricanes after signing a two-year deal.In November 2013, <mask> travelled with the All Blacks to Europe, along with his older brother Julian. This was because "we want to introduce him to the way of the All Black life," said Coach Steve Hansen. <mask> was the first non-playing apprentice to be selected internationally for New Zealand, with future teammates of <mask>, Jordie Barrett and Atunaisa Moli, being named as apprentices in 2016 and 2017 respectively. 2015-2016 In 2015, <mask> was selected for the All Blacks Sevens squad to play in the Wellington 7s series in January 2016. <mask> also became a regular starter for the Hurricanes during the 2015 Super Rugby season, but missed the final due to injury. After injury to Brad Shields, <mask> took over as captain of Wellington for the rest of the 2015 ITM Cup season. <mask> lead Wellington to the final of the Championship division in the absence of Shields, but Wellington lost the final to Hawke's Bay's Magpies, 25-26, with a late conversion from Savea's Hurricanes teammate Ihaia West.In 2016, after opting to withdraw from the All Blacks Sevens, <mask> was selected in New Zealand's All Blacks squad for the June test series against Wales. <mask> made his debut for the All Blacks, replacing Sam Cane off the bench, on 11 June, against Wales at Eden Park. <mask> made a fine debut, with the All Blacks winning 39-21. The following week, <mask> scored a try in his second match for New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium, his home crowd. <mask> again made his way onto the field by replacing Cane off the bench. The All Blacks won, again, by 36-22. <mask> was retained in the All Blacks squad for the 2016 Rugby Championship and following an injury to Sam Cane, <mask> ended up playing 2 of the Rugby Championship tests as openside flanker.In his first start for the All Blacks against South Africa in the 2016 Rugby Championship, <mask> scored a try along with his brother Julian, making them the first brothers in the All Blacks to ever do so in the same test. <mask> played 12 tests for the All Blacks in his debut season overall, 10 of them off the bench. 2017-2018 <mask> was one of the highest try-scorers for the 2017 Super Rugby season, scoring six that year including a double in the Hurricanes' opening match for the year within the first ten minutes. The Hurricanes won their opening match 83-17 against the Sunwolves, with <mask> playing the full 80 minutes. <mask> was selected in the 33-man squad for the 2017 Pasifika Challenge against Samoa and the three-test series against the touring British and Irish Lions. <mask> started at number 8, against Samoa, because All Blacks Captain Kieran Read had not yet recovered from his broken thumb. <mask> scored two tries in the 78-0 demolition of Samoa and came off the bench as a replacement in all three tests against the Lions in a drawn series.Despite performing better than starting openside flanker Sam Cane, <mask> was retained as an impact player off the bench for most of the 2017 Rugby Championship. A start against Argentina in New Plymouth was the exception, with Cane replacing <mask> in the 44th minute of the 39-22 win. Despite a good performance, <mask>'s was overshadowed by Cane and by Vaea Fifita who was Man of the Match. With Matt Todd preferred by All Black coach Steve Hansen during tests, <mask> only made two appearances on the 2017 end-of-year tour, starting in wins over the Barbarians and a French XV. Although the 2018 Super Rugby season proved to be a mixed season for <mask>, <mask> performed well against France during the mid-year Steinlager series, with his performance in the first two tests including an outstanding try. Due to Sam Cane's ongoing poor discipline, <mask> earned a start at openside flanker during the final test of the series, on 23 June 2018. Although the All Blacks defeated France 49-14 in the third test, winning the series 3-0, it proved Savea to be luckless, with <mask> coming off injured in the 16th minute, with Matt Todd replacing <mask>.<mask> missed the 2018 Super Rugby playoffs due to injury. <mask> recovered from his ankle injury in time for the 2018 Rugby Championship, replacing Sam Cane off the bench in both Bledisloe Cup tests against Australia. <mask>'s dominance over Australia earned him a start against Argentina's Los Pumas for round 3 of the competition, on 8 September 2018. <mask> lasted the full 80 minutes against Los Pumas, with the All Blacks winning 46-24, but <mask> only earned 12 minutes against South Africa's Springboks the following week. Although <mask> only played for 12 minutes during the All Blacks' 34-36 shock loss to South Africa, he still played well and scored a try. <mask> was released by the All Blacks for the Wellington Lions during 2018, starring in a 52-7 win over Southland during the 2018 Mitre 10 Cup. This was his first fixture for Wellington since his All Black debut.For round 5 of the 2018 Rugby Championship, with Kieran Read being rested, <mask> was scheduled to be used as impact off the bench for the All Blacks as usual, with Luke Whitelock starting at number 8 in Read's absence, on 29 September 2018. <mask>, however, was drafted into the starting lineup only hours before the test against Los Pumas, with Whitelock falling ill. <mask> went on to dominate his opposite number 8, Javier Ortega Desio, winning the first "Man of the Match" award of his international career. <mask> lasted the full 80 minutes, with the All Blacks beating Los Pumas 35-17. <mask> played outstandingly the following week, in the second test against South Africa, when he replaced the injured Sam Cane only 36 minutes into the test. <mask> challenged the Springboks well as scored his seventh career try in the final minute. <mask>'s try was converted by first-five, Richie Mo'unga, who won the test for the All Blacks through the kick, making the final score a 32-30 win. <mask> became a regular starter for New Zealand during the 2018 end-of-year tour, with Sam Cane out injured with a fractured neck.<mask> used his time as a regular starter to surpass Cane as a player, being one of few players to shine for New Zealand in a narrow 16-15 win over England, and a 9-16 loss to Ireland. <mask> played in the last test of the year, starting for the All Blacks in a 66-3 victory over Italy, before coming off in the 48th minute for newcomer, Dalton Papalii. <mask> finished the year as one of the best-performing New Zealanders in the opinion of many, scoring three tries during the 2018 season, making him the highest try-scorer of any All Black forward for the season. 2019 Although the Hurricanes once again failed to progress to the final in the 2019 Super Rugby season, <mask> was once again influential for the team, with the likes of former All Blacks, Josh Kronfeld and Sir Michael Jones praising <mask>'s consistent performances. Hurricanes teammate, Beauden Barrett, also referred to <mask> as the All Blacks' "most influential player". Despite the return of Sam Cane to playing rugby, from his broken neck, <mask> was retained in New Zealand's starting lineup, although at Blindside Flanker, with Liam Squire opting to withdraw from the team. <mask> played in four of New Zealand's five warm-up matches prior to the World Cup in 2019 and was not subbed off for another player in any, including a 92-7 victory over Tonga.On 28 August, All Blacks Head Coach, Steve Hansen named <mask> as one of 31 players in New Zealand's squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. He played in all three pool matches, but was one of few All Blacks who could hold their head high in their semi-final defeat, 7-19 to England. scoring their only try in the test after intercepting a botched line-out throw from English hooker Jamie George. Although <mask> did not play in the Bronze final against Wales due to injury, he was a nominee for World Rugby Player of the Year. <mask> eventually lost out on the award to South African flanker, Pieter-Steph du Toit. With <mask>'s older brother, <mask>, having been a nominee for the award in 2014 and 2015, the <mask> brothers became the first set of brothers with nominations for the award. He was also nominated for New Zealand rugby player of the year beating out Beauden Barrett and Anton Lienert-Brown for the title Savea also won Kelvin R Tremain Memorial player of the year.Personal life His older brother is his former Hurricanes and All Blacks teammate, Julian, who currently plays as a wing for Hurricanes. Savea has Samoan ancestry and is a father-of-two, having married his partner, Saskia, in 2018. Outside his rugby career, <mask> runs a namesake clothing company, alongside his wife, and is an advocate for mental health. Savea has also recently started a podcast. References External links Hurricanes profile itsrugby.co.uk profile Living people New Zealand rugby union players Hurricanes (rugby union) players Wellington rugby union players 1993 births Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from Wellington City New Zealand people of Samoan descent People educated at Rongotai College New Zealand international rugby sevens players Barbarian F.C. players New Zealand international rugby union players Rugby union number eights

<mask> is a rugby union player who plays as a flanker or number 8 for the Hurricanes in Super Rugby and the New Zealand All Blacks. A nominee for the World Rugby Player of the Year, <mask> was a member of New Zealand's Rugby World Cup squad. <mask> previously captained Wellington, and also played for the Barbarian F.C., for the New Zealand U20's team, and the New Zealand national rugby sevens team. <mask> was a member of the Rongotai College 1st XV and captain of the side in his final year of high school. <mask> moved to the forwards in his professional career after playing as an outside centre at high school. <mask> has represented New Zealand on the international sevens circuit. He joined the Hurricanes in the Super Rugby season.<mask> traveled with the All Blacks to Europe with his brother. "We want to introduce him to the way of the All Black life," said Steve Hansen. <mask> was the first non-playing apprentice to be selected internationally for New Zealand, with Jordie and Atunaisa Moli being named as apprentices in 2016 and 2017, respectively. <mask> was selected for the All Blacks Sevens squad to play in the Wellington 7s series. During the 2015 Super Rugby season, <mask> became a regular starter for the Hurricanes, but missed the final due to injury. <mask> took over as captain of Wellington after Brad Shields was injured. In the absence of Shields, <mask> led Wellington to the final of the Championship division, but they lost to the Magpies, 25-26, with a late conversion from Savea's Hurricanes teammate Ihaia West.<mask> was selected in New Zealand's All Blacks squad for the June test series against Wales after withdrawing from the All Blacks Sevens. On 11 June, <mask> made his All Blacks debut, replacing Sam Cane on the bench. The All Blacks won 39-21. <mask> scored a try in his second match for New Zealand at his home stadium. <mask> replaced Cane on the bench and made his way onto the field. The All Blacks won again. <mask> played 2 of the Rugby Championship tests as an openside flanker after Sam Cane was injured.<mask> scored a try in his first start for the All Blacks against South Africa in the Rugby Championship, making him the first brother in the history of the All Blacks to do so. <mask> was off the bench in 10 of the 12 tests he played for the All Blacks. <mask> scored six tries in the last Super Rugby season, including a double in the first ten minutes, and was one of the top try-scorers. <mask> played the full 80 minutes in the Hurricanes opening match against the Sunwolves. <mask> was selected in the squad for the three-test series against the British and Irish Lions. <mask> started at number 8 because Read hadn't recovered from his thumb injury. <mask> came off the bench in all three tests against the Lions and scored two tries.<mask> was retained as an impact player off the bench for most of the Rugby Championship despite performing better than starting openside flanker Sam Cane. Cane replaced <mask> in the 44th minute of the 39-22 win against Argentina. <mask>'s performance was overshadowed by Cane and Vaea Fifita who were the Man of the Match. <mask> only made two appearances on the end-of-year tour, starting in wins over the Barbarians and a French XV. <mask> performed well against France during the mid-year Steinlager series, with his performance in the first two tests including an outstanding try. <mask> earned a start at openside flanker in the final test of the series due to Sam Cane's poor discipline. <mask> came off injured in the 16th minute of the third test and was replaced by Matt Todd.<mask> missed the playoffs because of an injury. <mask> replaced Sam Cane on the bench for the Bledisloe Cup tests against Australia after recovering from his ankle injury. <mask> started against Argentina in the third round of the competition on September 8. <mask> played 80 minutes for the All Blacks against Los Pumas, but only 12 minutes against South Africa the following week. <mask> scored a try despite only playing 12 minutes in the All Blacks' shock loss to South Africa. <mask> was released by the All Blacks to play for the Wellington Lions in the Mitre 10 Cup. He hadn't played for Wellington since his All Black debut.For round 5 of the Rugby Championship, <mask> was to be used as impact off the bench for the All Blacks, with Whitelock starting at number 8 in Read's absence. <mask> won the first "Man of the Match" award of his international career after being drafted into the starting lineup just hours before the test. <mask> lasted the full 80 minutes. In the second test against South Africa, <mask> replaced the injured Sam Cane 36 minutes into the test. <mask> scored his seventh career try in the final minute. <mask>'s try was converted by first-five, Richie Mo'unga, who won the test for the All Blacks through the kick. <mask> became a regular starter for New Zealand during the end-of-year tour, with Sam Cane out injured with a fractured neck.<mask> was one of the few players to shine for New Zealand in a narrow 16-15 win over England and a 9-16 loss to Ireland. <mask> came off in the 48th minute of the All Blacks 66-3 victory over Italy in the last test of the year. <mask> finished the year as one of the best-performing New Zealanders in the opinion of many, scoring three tries and making him the highest try-scorer of any All Black forward. The Hurricanes once again failed to progress to the final in the Super Rugby season, but <mask> was once again influential for the team, with the likes of former All Blacks, Josh Kronfeld and Sir Michael Jones praising his consistent performances. Beauden said <mask> was the All Blacks' most influential player. Despite the return of Sam Cane to playing rugby from his broken neck, <mask> was retained in New Zealand's starting lineup, although at blindside flanker. <mask> played in four of New Zealand's five warm-up matches before the World Cup and was not replaced in any of them.<mask> was named to New Zealand's squad for the Rugby World Cup on August 28th. He was one of the few All Blacks who could hold their heads high after their semi-final loss to England. They scored their only try in the test after intercepting a line-out throw from Jamie George. <mask> was a nominee for World Rugby Player of the Year despite not playing in the Bronze final due to injury. <mask> lost the award to du Toit. The <mask> brothers are the first set of brothers to be nominated for the award. <mask> was nominated for New Zealand rugby player of the year but lost out to BeaudenBarrett.His older brother is a member of the Hurricanes and All Blacks. <mask> is a father of two and has married his partner. <mask> is an advocate for mental health and runs a clothing company with his wife. <mask> has started a show. Hurricanes profile on itsrugby.co.uk has links to External links. Rugby union number eights are held by players from New Zealand.