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Geoffrey Harber Diggle (6 December 1902 β 13 February 1993) was a British chess player and writer. Diggle contributed articles to the British Chess Magazine (BCM) from 1933 to 1981, and to the British Chess Federation's publications Newsflash and Chess Moves from 1974 to 1992. C.H.O'D. Alexander called Diggle \"one of the best writers on chess that I know\". In his A Book of Chess, Alexander reproduced in toto Diggle's account, first published in the November and December 1943 BCM, of the de facto 1843 world championship match between Staunton and St. Amant. After Diggle told Alexander of a game he had lost in seven moves (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Bxf7+?! Kxf7 5.Nxe4 Nc6 6.Qf3+ Kg8?? 7.Ng5! 1-0 Davids-Diggle, London Banks League 1949), Alexander affectionately christened Diggle \"the Badmaster\", a facetious counterpoint to the more familiar title Grandmaster. Diggle later adopted the sobriquet as a pseudonym, writing a series of articles in Newsflash under that name between 1974 and 1986. Chess historian Edward Winter wrote the following in his remembrance of Diggle in CHESS magazine: Specializing in nineteenth-century chess history (particularly the Staunton period), he brought the old masters to life with rare wit and shrewdness. These qualities also permeated his accounts of the idiosyncratic doings and sayings of club \"characters\", such as the elderly player \"who fumbled his way to perdition at reasonable speed until he was a queen and two minor pieces to the bad, after which he discovered that 'every move demanded the nicest calculation'\", or \"the Lincoln bottom board of 1922, who complained that he had 'lost his queen about the third move and couldnβt seem to get going after that'.\"A former county champion, G.H.D. was charmingly self-deprecatory in his reminiscences, as when he had a game adjudicated by Tartakower: \"The Great Master, having been fetched, sat down at the board very simply and unaffectedly, and drank in through his spectacles the fruits (and probably the whole deplorable history) of the Badmasterβs afternoon strategy.\"Little escaped G.H.D.'s eye, even towards the end. Modestly adapting Oscar Wilde, he claimed to have \"nothing to declare but his longevity\", simply adding that he had \"mingled from time to time with three generations of eminent players ranging from Isidor Gunsberg to Nigel Short, and rambled extensively round the highways and byways of provincial chess\". He was one of the game's most stylish chroniclers. In 1984 and 1987, Chess Notes published two collections of Diggle's Newsflash articles as Chess Characters: Reminiscences of a Badmaster and Chess Characters: Reminiscences of a Badmaster, Volume II.
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Moody Jolley (March 23, 1910 - February, 1976) was an American thoroughbred horse racing owner, breeder and trainer. He began his professional training career in the mid-1930s and by 1940 had his first Kentucky Derby runner. For several years, he trained for Harry Guggenheim's Cain Hoy Stable. After their partnership ended in November 1952. Jolley would soon join Bull Hancock's renowned Claiborne Farm where he conditioned the great Round Table before the colt was sold. Six horses trained by Moody Jolley ran in the American Classics with his best result a sixth in the 1951 Kentucky Derby, a third in the 1959 Preakness Stakes and a third in the 1951 Belmont Stakes. The most famous horse Moody Jolley and his wife owned was Ridan, a strong-headed colt purchased as a yearling and owned in partnership with Ernest Woods and John L. Greer. In 1962 Ridan won the Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes and equaled the world record for five furlongs in a near effortless early-morning workout. The Jolleys also owned multiple Graded stakes race winner Nearly On Time whose wins included the 1976 Whitney Handicap. Moody Jolley was living in Hialeah, Florida at the time of his death in 1976. His son, LeRoy, trained Ridan and other horses owned by the family. As well, in an illustrious career Leroy Jolley trained for other prominent owners and was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Adriano Goldschmied is an Italian fashion designer who focuses on denim jeans. He is known as \"the Godfather of denim\" and is the originator of βPremium denimβ. He created Diesel, Replay, Gap 1969, and AG Adriano Goldschmied, and is currently directing Goldsign and menβs Citizens of Humanity. Goldschmied was born in 1944 in Trieste to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, whose assets were appropriated in 1942. Later, some of these assets were reconveyed to his family. With initial dreams of becoming a competitive skier, he opened up a store in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1970. This was a springboard for beginning his own denim company. Since 1996, he has lived principally in Los Angeles and Milan.His daughter, Marta Goldschmied, has launched her own denim line, MADE GOLD Denim. The Indigo Move collection has 24 women styles and 13 men styles designed by Goldschmied in collaboration with Mavi. Available in all indigo shades including ink, smoke, and black, the assortment introduces new silhouettes and fits for Mavi.
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Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (November 3, 1873 β June 9, 1929) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1907 and 1921. Born near Dunn in Harnett County, North Carolina, Godwin attended common schools near his home and then Trinity College (later Duke University) in Durham. He studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Godwin married Mattie Black Barnes (January 9, 1876 β January 11, 1951), daughter of Hugh and Jennetta (Parker) Barnes, on December 23, 1896, in Harnett County, North Carolina. After being admitted to the bar in 1896, he practiced in Dunn and was elected Dunn's mayor in 1897. In 1903, Godwin was sent to the North Carolina Senate, and from 1904 to 1906, he sat on the executive committee of the North Carolina Democratic Party. In 1906, Godwin was first elected to the United States Congress; he would be re-elected six times, serving from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1921. In Congress, he rose to chair the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. He lost his congressional race in 1920 and returned to the practice of law in Dunn, where he died in 1929; he is buried in Dunn's Greenwood Cemetery.
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Joshua Lee Haynes (born July 30, 1977) is an American mixed martial artist. He fights out of Las Vegas, Nevada with Xtreme Couture where he is also a coach. His MMA record is 17 wins, 11 losses. He was also a contestant on the third season of The Ultimate Fighter reality television show, training under Tito Ortiz. Fellow Team Quest member, Ed Herman would fight under Ken Shamrock's team. He stands 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and fights in the 170 lb (77 kg), 185 lb (84 kg), and 205 lb (93 kg) weight classes. In The Ultimate Fighter, he won a controversial victory against Tait Fletcher by decision after the second round. In the semifinals, he defeated Jesse Forbes by guillotine choke in the second round. He was defeated by Michael Bisping in the finals due to strikes. Haynes was on the reality TV show Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge which debuted on Friday August 10, 2007.
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(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Chapman and the second or maternal family name is de la Cruz.) AlbertΓn Aroldis Chapman de la Cruz (Spanish: [aΛΙΎoldis ΛtΚapman]; born February 28, 1988) is a Cuban professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees of MLB and HolguΓn in the Cuban National Series. Chapman bats and throws left-handed, and is nicknamed the Cuban Missile or the Cuban Flame Thrower. Chapman pitched for HolguΓn domestically and internationally for the Cuban national baseball team. He defected from Cuba in 2009 and signed a contract with the Reds in 2010. Chapman made his MLB debut that season. He won the MLB Delivery Man of the Month Award as the best relief pitcher for July 2012, and has been named to four straight National League All-Star teams from 2012 to 2015. The Reds traded Chapman to the Yankees after the 2015 season, and the Yankees traded Chapman to the Cubs during the 2016 season. Chapman holds the record for the fastest recorded pitch speed in MLB history at 108.1 mph (169.1 km/h),. On July 11, 2014, Chapman broke the record, previously held by Bruce Sutter, for the most consecutive relief appearances with a strikeout, having struck out at least one batter in 40 consecutive appearances. Chapman's streak began on August 21, 2013, and lasted 49 consecutive games over two seasons, with the 49th and final game being on August 13, 2014.
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Gautam Bhatia graduated in Fine Arts and went on to get a Masters degree in Architecture. A Delhi-based architect, he has received several awards for his drawings and buildings and has also written extensively on architecture. Besides a biography on Laurie Baker, he is the author of Punjabi Baroque, Silent Spaces and Malaria Dreams β a trilogy that focuses on the cultural and social aspects of architecture. The Punchtantra, - a rewriting of the original Panchatantra into contemporary folk-tales and Comic Century, An Unreliable History of the 20th Century were published by Penguin India, while Whitewash: An Unkind View of India and its Makers was released in May 2007. Two shows of drawings and sculpture entitled Looking Through Walls and The Good Life examined disparities between the professed goals of architecture and the public perception of building. A recent collaborative arts project entitled Desh Ki Awaaz, weaved together themes from contemporary urban Indian experience, including politics, film, religion, cricket and family life and with the aid of traditional artists rendered them into a contemporary idiom. Lie, a graphic novel released in March 2010 was also a result of the collaboration. Bhatia is currently working on Below the Horizon β A City Underground, a project of drawing and ideas.]
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Zyrafete Gashi (14 August 1957 - 30 July 2013) simply known as Zyra was an Albanian Kosovar comedian. For over three decades active in the comedy stage, Zyra was known for many of roles. The role she got her pseudonym from was Zyra, an Albanian old-woman with old traditions, Zetβhanja, a police woman, Tetka Dragica, a Serbian Kosovar old-woman from GraΓ§anica complaining about living with Albanians, and many others. She is known for adapting humor and realistic situation in Kosovo. Although active on TV, Zyra announced that she was moving to Switzerland for a period of 9 months for treatment as she was ill. She came back to her hometown Prishtina a few days before dying. On July 31, 2013 her family confirmed that she had died. Her death was spread all over the news and had many documentaries about her life being aired just a few days after.
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Gail Charles Goodrich Jr. (born April 23, 1943) is an American retired professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best known for scoring a then record 42 points in the 1965 NCAA championship game vs. Michigan, and his part in the Los Angeles Lakers' 1971β72 season. During that season the team won a still-record 33 games consecutively, posted what was at the time the best regular season record in NBA history, and also won the franchise's first NBA championship since relocating to Los Angeles. Goodrich was the leading scorer on that team. He is also acclaimed for leading UCLA to its first two national championships under the legendary coach John Wooden, the first in 1963β64 being a perfect 30-0 season when he played with teammate Walt Hazzard. In 1996, 17 years after his retirement from professional basketball, Goodrich was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Falko Bindrich (born October 17, 1990) is a German chess grandmaster and trainer. He started to rise as a chess prodigy when he became a FIDE Master at the age of 13 in 2003. He earned his International Master title in 2006 and his grandmaster title a year later. Bindrich played in the 2008 Chess Olympiad, held in Dresden, where his German team placed 13th. He has attended several other prestigious chess events, such as the 2008 Bundesliga and the 2009 and 2010 Chess Olympiads. In October 2012, Falko Bindrich was accused of cheating in the 2012 Bundesliga tournament. In round 2 of the event, in a game against Sebastian Siebrecht, Bindrich had his game declared lost by an arbiter, after he refused to hand over his smartphone which he claimed held personal data and analysis on his former chess games. In January 2013, as a result of his actions, the German Chess Federation (GCF) issued a 2-year suspension from over-the-board play. Bindrich did not accept the decision and filed a protest stating that, if necessary, he would submit the case to court, and later the arbitration court cancelled the ban stating it was issued without legal basis.
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William Archibald Scott Brown, known as Archie, (13 May 1927 β 19 May 1958) was a British Formula One and sports car racing driver from Scotland. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix on 14 July 1956 scoring no championship points. He also attempted to qualify for the Italian Grand Prix in the same year, but was excluded due to his lack of the required International Licence, his disability precluding the granting of such a licence at the time. Away from F1, in his short career Scott Brown scored 71 wins, 15 of which came in international competition. Archie Scott Brown (although often shown as Scott-Brown, the name is not hyphenated) was born in 1927. As a result of German Measles during his mother's pregnancy, Archie was born with severe disablement to his legs and right arm. Tremendous determination and several operations meant that Archie was able to lead a normal life, although he never grew over 5'0\" tall. He took up motor sport early in life after his father built him a small car to aid his mobility. His first competitive race was in 1951, in his own MG roadster, bought using a small legacy. As his reputation grew, his name became closely linked with that of Brian Lister, initially driving Lister's Tojeiro special, and later in sports racing cars built by Lister himself, and bearing his name. Archie enjoyed much success driving Lister-Jaguars β the famous Knobblys. Known for his courageous driving style, he was often to be seen in corners getting his Lister very sideways indeed. Asked about the possibility of the Lister's notoriously poor brakes failing completely, he responded that he would \"carry on without them, old boy\". Over the few years he was in the sport he developed a fierce but good-natured rivalry with rising American driving talent Masten Gregory. He was mortally injured on 18 May 1958 during an accident in a sports car race at Spa-Francorchamps, driving a Lister Knobbly and duelling for the lead with Gregory. Battling hard with Mastern Gregory driving the Ecurie Ecosse Lister Jaguar, they swapped the lead between them inches apart.The competition was so fierce that Archie dented his car's nose on the rear of the Ecosse car on lap three.With Archie leading on lap six they arrived at Blanchimont, then in the Clubhouse bend (where Richard Seaman died in 1939) to find the track slick with rain, the right hand front wheel of the Lister hit a road sign snapping the track rod causing a disastrous accident. He died in hospital (Heusy) the following day, less than a week after his 31st birthday.
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Marat Dzhumaev (born 12 January 1976) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (2001) and twice national champion (2012, 2015). He played for Uzbekistan in the Chess Olympiads of 2000 and 2002, in the World Team Chess Championship of 2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1999, 2003 and 2008. He tied for 1stβ3rd with Ziaur Rahman and Sergei Tiviakov at the 6th United Insurance Tournament in Dhaka 2003, came first at Pune 2004 and Lucknow 2004. In 2007 Dzhumaev tied for 1stβ3rd with Leonid Yurtaev and Sergey Kayumov in the first edition of the Georgy Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent. In 2011 in the same tournament he tied for 1stβ3rd with Tigran L. Petrosian and Anton Filippov. In 2008, he tied for 3rdβ7th with Susanto Megaranto, Darwin Laylo, DraΕΎen Sermek and Ashot Nadanian at the 5th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship in Kuala Lumpur. In 2009, he tied for 1stβ2nd with Viacheslav Zakhartsov in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open and tied for 2ndβ5th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Lucian-Costin Miron, Amon Simutowe and Vladimir Burmakin in the Rochefort Open. In the same year, he won the Hokim Cup in Tashkent and tied for first with Andrey Kvon in the Tashkent Mayor's Cup. In 2012, tied for 1stβ2nd with S.P. Sethuraman in the Rose Valley Tournament in Kolkata.
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Giovanni Felice Ramelli (1666β1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He also became an abbot of the Augustinian order of Canons Regular of the Lateran. He was born in Asti in the Piedmont. He became a monk in the abbey of S. Andrea in Vercelli, then in San Pietro di Gattinara, and finally was named abbott of Santa Maria Nova of Asti in 1707. He initially trained in Vercelli with the manuscript illuminator, the monk Dionision Rho. He also had contacts with the pastel painter Rosalba Carriera. In 1717, he was called to Rome, where he was made by Pope Clement XI, abbott in perpetuity of the Augustinian St John Lateran. He died in Rome and was buried in Santa Maria della Pace. He excelled in portrait miniatures. In the Gallery of Bologna, there are miniatures of Guido Reni, Lorenzo Pasinelli, Giovanni Gioseffo Dal Sole; while in Dresden is a female portrait. In the Riksmuseum of Amsterdam, there is a miniature of Joseph and Potiphar by Carlo Cignani. The Palazzo Graziani in Pesaro has a miniature painting of a Shepherd with dead game, while at the University of Padua is a miniature of the Virgin and Child. The King of Sardinia invited him to his court, where he was for some time employed in painting the portraits of the most celebrated painters, many of which he copied from the originals, painted by themselves, in the Florentine Gallery (now Uffizi).
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Trotzky Augusto Yepez Obando (January 17, 1940 β August 2, 2010) was an Ecuadorian chess player. Yepez was born in San Gabriel, Carchi, on January 17, 1940. Second son of Rodolfo Yepez and Otilia Obando, he was an outstanding student in his classrooms. Together with his two brothers he moved to Quito in 1954, where he first attended \"Instituto Nacional MejΓa\" High School, and later the Central University of Ecuador, where he gained his engineer degree in 1964. The University Council awarded him with a gold medal for his achievements and distinguished him with the title of \"the best student of all times\". Married with Genoveva Navarrete, he had two daughters, Vivian and Yarka. Since childhood and throughout his life, chess was his great passion. His father taught him the first lessons using an antique chess game inherited from his grandmother Amada Guerrero Paez. His passion grew bigger through the time while studying by himself the Grand Masters Games and the FIDE Informants, which eventually led him to achieve the National Chess Championship twice, on September 1968, and 1982, as well as the second place in the National Championship of November 1983. He was granted with the FIDE's title of National Master with a registered score of 2180. Yepez was part of the Ecuadorian delegation in several international Championships and Tournaments: 16th Chess Olympiad of Tel Aviv 1964, 17th Chess Olympiad of Havana 1966, 18th Chess Olympiad of Lugano 1968, Open Tournament of Nice - 1974 (Capitan), Panamerican Tournament of Havana, 1968, II Tournament \"Apertura\" - BogotΓ‘, 1970, Tournament \"Ecopetrol - El Tiempo\" - BogotΓ‘, 1970, VIII Caribbean and Central America Zone Tournament FIDE, BogotΓ‘ β 1972. He was also an active participant in local tournaments, the most important: National Tournament of \"Secretaria de Integracion Colombo - Ecuatoriana\", First Place - April 11, 1970; International Tournament \"Ciudad de Quito\" - ConcentraciΓ³n Deportiva de Pichincha, November 1975 ; Tournament \"SimΓ³n BolΓvar\" - Club de Ajedrez \"El Nacional\", First Place - 1975; International Tournament Yacht Club Guayas - FederaciΓ³n Deportiva del Guayas, 1977; Open Tournament - \"ComitΓ© de Ajedrez de Pichincha\", Second Place - First Category, Azoguez, July 1987; Open Tournament - Filanbanco, First Place - Portoviejo, June 1993.
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Shaher \"Ronnie\" Khalil (born September 1977) is an American stand-up comedian and actor of Egyptian descent. He has headlined across four continents, toured the United States as a guest performer with the βAxis of Evilβ, performed with βArabs Gone Wildβ and taped two βFriday Night Liveβ Showtime Comedy specials in Dubai, including βMinorities Ruleβ and βNew World Orderβ, both were shown across 14 countries in the Middle East. Ronnie has performed in sold-out shows across the Middle East and was part of the first-ever Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival in Jordan, as well as numerous other comedy festivals including the New York Underground, NY Arab-American, South Beach, Los Angeles and Boston Comedy Festivals. He was also twice invited to the Montreal Comedy Festival's \"Just for Pitching.\" Ronnie has been featured on sketches for βConan O'Brienβ, ABC News, NPR, Air America, CNN and Al Jazeera, as well as in Comedy Central's online show \"The Watch List\", which was later picked up for a pilot, and A&E's \"15 Films About Madonna.\" Khalil is Executive Producer of the first ever Middle Eastern Comedy Festival in Los Angeles, which premiered September 2009, with the goal of changing stereotypes in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Khalil grew up in Miami, FL, where he was a founding member of \"The Miami Comics\", an ethnically diverse group of stand-up comedians. In addition to stand-up, Khalil earned his M.B.A. from the University of Miami, and lectures in colleges throughout the United States regarding success and motivation. His most popular lectures are βSuccess through C.O.M.E.D.Y.β and βNetworking: How to Avoid Really Hard Work.β Both Khalilβs parents were university professors, and his father is currently President of Nile University in Cairo, Egypt.
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James Turley (born 24 June 1981) is an English former professional footballer, currently playing as a winger for Buxton. Turley began his career as a trainee with York City, turning professional in August 1998. He made his league debut on 18 September 1999, starting in the 2-1 defeat away to Exeter City. He struggled to gain a regular place in the York side and was released in May 2001. He joined Torquay United on trial, playing in the 3-0 friendly win against Clyst Rovers on 31 July, but failed to impress new manager Roy McFarland sufficiently to warrant any further interest. On 21 August 2001 he signed for Scarborough, who had tried to sign him a year earlier, but made only 4 appearances as a substitute in their Conference side before joining Stalybridge Celtic on 20 October 2001. He moved to Harrogate Town in 2002, and was player of the year in the 2003β04 season. He was linked with moves to Hucknall Town and Barrow in the 2004 close season, but chose to remain with Harrogate. Turley announced that he would be leaving Harrogate in May 2005 and subsequently rejoined Stalybridge Celtic later that month. In October 2006, Turley joined Mossley on loan. Turley joined Witton Albion in June 2007, but moved on again, to Buxton, in September that year.
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Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and diplomat who was appointed by President Barack Obama on 23 October 2015 as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He replaced General John R. Allen to whom he had been a deputy since 16 September 2014. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, at the U.S. Department of State, and from October 2014 through January 2016 led 14 months of secret negotiations with Iran that led to a prisoner swap and release of four Americans from Evin Prison in Tehran, including the Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian. This assignment, among others, reinforced McGurk's \"reputation as a doer,\" according to the NY Times. He earlier served under President George W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan, and under President Obama as Special Advisor to the U.S. National Security Council and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. An attorney by training, Mr. McGurk served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court during the Court's 2001 October Term.
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Jennifer Zimdahl Galt (born Jennifer Ann Zimdahl) is the current United States Ambassador to Mongolia, as of September 2015. On May 6, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Jennifer Zimdahl Galt to be Ambassador of the United States of America to Mongolia. She was confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 2015, and was sworn in on September 15, 2015. Ambassador Galt, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, formerly served as Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate General, Guangzhou, China, where she had the privilege of leading and mentoring a talented team of nearly 500, comprising 133 American officers, of whom 62 were first- and second-tour, and over 300 locally engaged Chinese colleagues. Ambassador Galtβs previous postings overseas have included Belgrade, Taipei with the American Institute in Taiwan, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, and the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. In Washington, Ambassador Galt served as Senior Advisor in the United States Department of Stateβs Bureau of Public Affairs and as Deputy Director for Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Ambassador Galt holds master's degrees from National Defense University and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), as well as a bachelor's degree in political science, history and languages from Colorado College in her home state of Colorado. She is fluent in Mandarin and French, and also speaks Italian, Spanish and Serbian.She has two children, Phoebe and Dylan Galt and a husband, Fritz Galt.
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Peter Aerts (born October 25, 1970) is a Dutch semi-retired super heavyweight kickboxer. Known for his devastating high kicks, which earned him the nickname \"The Dutch Lumberjack\", he is widely considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers ever, along with Mirko FilipoviΔ, Remy Bonjasky, Andy Hug, Ernesto Hoost and Semmy Schilt. Born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Aerts began training in Muay Thai and kickboxing at the age of fourteen. He won his first world title when he was nineteen years old in 1990, taking the International Kick Boxing Federation's Heavyweight Championship. He would also add the Dutch heavyweight title the World Muay Thai Association's heavyweight title to his mantlepiece before going on to compete in the K-1 organization in Japan. He has competed in every K-1 World Grand Prix except one (2009), which has led to him being referred to as \"Mr. K-1\". A three-time K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, he debuted at the inaugural K-1 World GP in 1993 where he was eliminated by fellow K-1 legend Ernesto Hoost. He won his first Grand Prix in 1994 by knocking out Rob van Esdonk and Patrick Smith in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, before taking a unanimous decision over Masaaki Satake in the final. Aerts also won the GP the following year when he beat Toshiyuki Atokawa by KO, Ernesto Hoost by decision and then stopped JΓ©rΓ΄me Le Banner with body shots in the final. He would not win the tournament again until 1998 when he KO'd all three of his opponents in front of 63,800 spectators at the Tokyo Dome. In what is considered to be one of the best Grands Prix ever, and the pinnacle of Aerts' career, he stopped Masaaki Satake with a knee strike in the quarters and forced the referee to stop his semi-final match with long-time rival Mike Bernardo. In one of the most significant moments in K-1 history, he knocked out Andy Hug with one of his famous high kicks in the final. He won this tournament in six minutes and forty-three seconds, which was the quickest K-1 GP win ever at the time. This record stood until 2009 when it was beaten by Semmy Schilt. Although 1998 was his last Grand Prix win, he continues to compete and reached the final a further three times (in 2006, 2007 and 2010).
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Ilonka \"Killer Queen\" Elmont (born September 11, 1974) is a Dutch-Surinamese former professional kickboxer and seven-time World Champion in the Fly-Weight division (-50.80 kg - 52.16 kg). Elmont was born in Paramaribo, Suriname and moved to the Netherlands at a young age. She is a technical all-round and skilled fighter with powerful kicks and knee strikes and clinching. With her unorthodox fighting style she surprised many fighters and had a tendency to go head-to-head with her opponents. Her fighting record has 42 fights, with 38 wins (16 by (T) KO), 3 losses and 1 draw. Her nickname is \"The Killer Queen\" Her sporting career in thai boxing started, when she first entered the Fighting Factory Carbin (FFC) gym, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Lucien Carbin, former World Champion and currently one of the World's most respected and successful coaches, noticed her talent and challenged it to the max. The blend of passion, talent and ambition he saw and combined with his training program resulted in seven World Titles.
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William Ford Robinson Stanley (2 February 1829 β 14 August 1909) was a British inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes, manufactured by his company \"William Ford Stanley and Co. Ltd.\" Stanley was a skilled architect who designed and founded the UK's first Trades school, Stanley Technical Trades School (now Harris Academy South Norwood), as well as designing the Stanley Halls in South Norwood. Stanley designed and built his two homes. He was a noted philanthropist, who gave over Β£80,000 to education projects during the last 15 years of his life. When he died, most of his estate, valued at Β£59,000, was bequeathed to trade schools and students in south London, and one of his homes was used as a children's home after his death, in accordance with his will. Stanley was a member of several professional bodies and societies (including the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Meteorological Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Astronomical Association). Besides these activities, he was a painter, musician and photographer, as well as an author of a variety of publications, including plays, books for children, and political treatises.
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Chris Sanderson was a lacrosse coach and member of the Canadian team defending their world championship.. Sanderson was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Wings in the National Lacrosse League from 2005 to 2007 season. Sanderson played for parts of five seasons as a goaltender. Chris was a member of the Sanderson family of Orangeville, Ontario. He was the cousin of current NLL players Josh and Phil, as well as former NLL player Nate, and was the nephew of both former Wings GM Lindsay Sanderson and Toronto GM Terry Sanderson. Lastly, but definitely not least, he was the son of multiple Mann Cup championships winner and hall of fame inductee, Bill Gerrie. He played for multiple MSL teams such as Six Nations, and Brampton Excelsiors, as well as the NLL team Buffalo Bandits. Sanderson led the University of Virginia Cavaliers to two NCAA Final Fours. He has played in four world championships with the Canadian National Team, and has coached the U-19 Canadian team to a world championship. He also taught at the Pennington School in Pennington, NJ, and owned a lacrosse company and club team known as True North Lacrosse Company. He was originally diagnosed with a grade IV malignant brain tumor called Glioblastoma Multiforme in December, 2008. The 2006 ILF gold medalist fought back, miraculously representing Canada at the 2010 FIL World Championships in England, helping the Canadians to a silver medal. Sanderson was named to the All-World Team at the goaltender position in the 2010 FIL WC. Sanderson lost his battle with brain cancer on June 28, 2012 at the age of 38.
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Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930), Major General, USAF, Ret. is an American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11. While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first manned landing on its surface. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Collins was the fourth person, and third American, to perform an EVA; and is the first person to have performed more than one EVA. Prior to becoming an astronaut, he attended the United States Military Academy, and from there he joined the United States Air Force and flew F-86s at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France. He was accepted to the U.S. Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960. He unsuccessfully applied for the second astronaut group, but was accepted for the third group. After retiring from NASA in 1970 he took a job in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. A year later he became the director of the National Air and Space Museum. He held this position until 1978 when he stepped down to become undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1980 he took the job as Vice President of LTV Aerospace. He resigned in 1985 to start his own business. He was married to Patricia Collins until her death in April 2014. They had three children: Kate (born May 6, 1959), Ann (born October 31, 1961), and Michael (born February 23, 1963).
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Jason Joseph Euell (born 6 February 1977) is a former footballer who is now the Under 21s coach at Charlton Athletic. He played as either a forward or a midfielder. He has also been capped three times by Jamaica. He spent much of his career playing in the Premier League, with all but one season between 1995 and 2007 in the top flight β firstly with Wimbledon, where he spent six years, including one season in the First Division, then Charlton Athletic for five years, before a season with Middlesbrough. He then dropped to the second tier of football in England, initially with Southampton, where he spent two years, before his move to Blackpool in 2009, where he was part of the team which won promotion to the Premier League. In 2011, he rejoined Charlton Athletic β by now in League One β for a second spell and helped them win promotion to the Championship. Later that season he was loaned to AFC Wimbledon, the successor to his first club.
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Rose Mortem is an American fashion designer. She is married to front man Ashton Nyte, of the gothic metal band The Awakening. Rose is most widely known for her dark romantic fashion stylings and her involvement with underground music. Launching in 1998, the Rose Mortem fashion label has been featured in several publications including Mick Mercer's cult classic, 21st Century Goth. Her work has been repeatedly featured in goth subculture magazines including Gothic Beauty, Auxiliary Magazine, Darklife, Cynfeirdd, Terrorizer, and Fangoria. Rose also creates fashions for independent films and theatre productions, and live performers of varying kinds including members of several bands, symphonies, operas and chamber music ensembles. Use of velvets, chiffons, satins, tulles and lace with sharply angled hemlines and layered skirting have become the label's trademark style. As a musician and promoter, Rose is linked most notably with legendary gothic rock band The Awakening of South Africa. She has worked on many tours and events for gothic rock, synthpop, and alternative rock musicians including Wolfsheim, Faith and the Muse, and The Mission; and held resident DJ positions under the name Mary Chain as tribute to post-punk rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain. According to interviews with Rose, her designs are inspired greatly by musicians, ranging widely in style, from David Bowie to Loretta Lynn. The designer also draws on her studies of Bohemianism, Dark Romanticism, and love for the literature, art and music of the Decadent movement. She credits her knowledge of fashion design entirely to her mother and grandmother's instruction, and to her \"youthful passion for dissecting thrift store wedding gowns.\" Rose attributes her creativity to her eccentric upbringing by a non-nuclear family of various artists, and her long-time obsession with \"making fashions that feel like music.\" In 2009, Rose Mortem announced a partnership with South African record label Intervention Arts to distribute The Awakening's albums in the USA. Shortly thereafter, Rose joined the band on piano and keyboards, and was featured in their 2009 release entitled Tales of Absolution and Obsoletion and the single Fault released on the band's 2014 Anthology XV compilation. Rose describes her latest fashion since joining The Awakening as \"combining the elegance and extravagance of classic New Wave and Gothic fashion with touches of Bohemian elegance and Lolita chic β updated and reinvented for the modern world.\" In a 2015 Gothic Beauty magazine feature, the artist states her latest fashion stylings are directly inspired by her most recent music collaborations with rocker husband Ashton Nyte.
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Albert Johann Ludovici (3 September 1820 in Zittau, Saxony β September 1894 in Vevey, Switzerland), son of Henriette Amilie (nΓ©e WΓΆlher 1795β1826) and Johann August Ludovici, (1789β1872). After living in Chemnitz until 1843, he moved to Paris, where he studied at the Atelier DrΓΆlling and was a contemporary of the well-known artist Jean-Jacques Henner. He then moved to England, living in Margate, and started his career as a painter. Within two years he had established himself as a successful portrait painter and was able to return to Paris in 1850 to marry Caroline Grenier (1822β1893) and bring her back to England with him. He moved to Mornington Rd, London, where they had five children. He became a British citizen in 1871. He had a long and established career, often exhibiting at the Royal Society of British Artists, where he was at one point treasurer. Included in the portraits he painted were King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Ludovici's friend, the sculptor Jules Dalou presented him and his family with a terracotta bust of Ludovici in gratitude for their help after Dalou left Paris and stayed with the Ludovici family in London. Albert Ludovici died in Vevey, Switzerland in September 1894. Two of Albert's children became artists, his eldest son Albert Ludovici Jr., (1852β1932) and his second daughter Marguerite (Cathelin-Ludovici, 1856β1947). Albert Snr. was the Grandfather of Anthony M Ludovici, who although also a talented painter, chose writing as a career.
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Cheng Tin Hung or Zheng Tianxiong (1930β2005) was an influential taijiquan master and the founder of \"Wudang taijiquan\". He was based in Hong Kong, China, and sometimes attracted controversy for his attitude and approach to the teaching and practice of his martial art. Also known as the \"Tai Chi Bodyguard\" for his enthusiastic defence of Taijiquan as a martial art, he took part in full contact competitions as a young man and also trained some of his students to do the same during the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Though closely associated with the Wu school of taijiquan, he founded a separate organisation called the Hong Kong Tai Chi Association which is now run by his wife Chan Lai Ping. Cheng Tin Hung produced a series of books and VCDs on the subject of Taijiquan and was also involved in the production of the 1974 Hong Kong movie called The Shadow Boxer (Shaw Brothers). He appears in the opening scenes and some of his techniques were also used within the fight scenes of the movie proper. During the 1980s, Cheng Tin Hung travelled to the UK to promote Taijiquan with one of his students Dan Docherty, and also produced a joint publication with him called Wutan Tai Chi Chuan. During the 1990s Cheng Tin Hung's taijiquan career slowly drew to a close with the onset of diabetes and its debilitating effects; he finally passed from this world in 2005.
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James Roderick Lilley (January 15, 1928 β November 12, 2009) was an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to China at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Born to American parents in China, Lilley learned Mandarin at a young age before his family moved back to the United States at the outbreak of World War II. He served in the United States Army before earning an undergraduate degree from Yale University and a master's in international relations from George Washington University. He then joined the Central Intelligence Agency, where he would work for nearly 30 years in a variety of Asian countries prior to becoming a diplomat. Before being appointed ambassador to China in 1989, he was director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the unofficial American diplomatic mission in that country, and ambassador to South Korea. After the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests, Lilley was critical of the Chinese crackdown and harbored a prominent dissident in the embassy, but worked to prevent long-term damage to United StatesβChina relations. After his retirement, he published a memoir and worked as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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James Sommerin (born in Caerleon) is a Michelin-starred Welsh chef. Born in Caerleon, Sommerin baked with his grandmother on Saturdays as a child. Determined to become a chef, his father secured the 12 year old Sommerin's first Saturday job in an Italian restaurant in the hope of dissuading his son from getting into the industry, but the job only served to convince Sommerin of his vocation. After school he undertook formal cookery training. Sommerin's first full-time job cooking was as a commis chef at the Cwrt Bleddyn Hotel, Llangybi, Gwent.Then, aged 16, he headed to the Farleyer House Hotel in Aberfeldy, Scotland, where he trained further under Richard Lyth, who gave him his under-stated French style. Returning to Wales to be closer to his family, Sommerin joined The Crown at Whitebrook, Monmouthshire in 2000 as Sous Chef. In December 2003 he became Executive Chef. Under his control, The Crown at Whitebrook gained a Michelin star in 2007, which it retained for seven years until, due to financial difficulties, The Crown at Whitebrook ceased trading in March 2013. Having been selected as one of the Chefs to Watch in 2008 by The Guardian, Sommerin represented Wales in the 2009 final of the BBC's Great British Menu, having beaten Stephen Terry. Married to Louise, the couple live in Pontypool and have two daughters. In April 2013, Sommerin announced that he was going to open a new restaurant at Beachcliff in Penarth.
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James Sommerin
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Alfred Mogensen was a Danish architect and a City Architect of Aarhus. Alfred Mogensen was educated as a carpenter at Aarhus Technical School and worked as such between 1916-20. He found employment in various architect firms in Aarhus and Copenhagen and worked as the building inspector for Kaj Gottlob during the construction of St. Luke's Church between 1921 and 1926. In 1925 he was hired by the City Architects office in Aarhus. He worked there until 1943 when was he himself was appointed to the position of City Architect, aposition he held until 1968. Alfred Mogensen left a distinct mark on the city of Aarhus and worked on the forefront of modern school architecture. His most well-known works are the former Main City Library in MΓΈlleparken, a project he won in a contest along with Harald Salling-Mortensen, and Strandparken, a residential apartment complex built in 1935-38. Strandparken is an early example of an apartment complex with free-standing blocks separated by green open spaces and inspired the later and very similar Blidahpark in Charlottenlund. Alfred Mogensen designed 3 public elementary school. Skovvangskolen from 1933β37, MΓΈllevangskolen from 1945β51 and Vorrevangskolen from 1953-60. Skovvangskolen and MΓΈllevangskolen was jointly designed with Harald Salling-Mortensen. MΓΈllevangsskolen is the first time in Danish school architecture when class rooms are designed with dual external light sources. The design called for a sloping ceiling the rise towards the back of the class room where large ceiling windows are installed and illuminated by skylights. Vorrevangsskolen also exemplified modern school architecture in the overall shape of the school with many perpendicular wings and small courtyards in between.
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William Braucher Wood (born August 7, 1950) is the U.S. Envoy for International Sanctions Implementation at the Department of State. He is a former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Colombia. William B. Wood presented his credentials on April 16, 2007, to the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and was received as the U.S. Ambassador to that nation, replacing the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann. Ambassador Wood was the US Ambassador to Colombia from 2003 to 2007, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, with responsibility for all aspects of U.S. foreign policy at the United Nations and a number of other multilateral organizations from 1998 to 2002. Immediately before that assignment, Mr. Wood was Political Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where he was the chief U.S. negotiator in the Security Council.
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Rodolfo JosΓ© Fischer Eichler (born 2 April 1944 in OberΓ‘, Province Misiones) is a former Argentine international association football player of German-Brazilian descendancy. His tenacity awarded the tall attacker with a penchant for headers the nickname El Lobo, the \"Wolf\". With CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires he won three championship and he remains one of the foremost strikers in the club's history. Among others, he also played for Botafogo FR in Brazil and CD Once Caldas in Colombia. Rodolfo \"El Lobo\" Fischer joined in 1963 the youth of the top club CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. From 1965 he played in the first team of the club with which he won in 1968 under the Brazilian manager Elba de PΓ‘dua Lima \"Tim\" undefeated the Campeonato Metropolitano, the Metropolitan Championship β the first undefeated championship of any club in the history of professional football in Argentina. In 1969 he was top scorer of the Campeonato Nacional. In 1972 he won the both, the Metropolitan and the National championship with San Lorenzo. One of his personal highlights were his three goals he contributed to a 4β0 win over CA River Plate in April 1972. From 1967 onward he also played 35 matches for the national team for which he scored 12 goals. His last match for Argentina was in July 1972 in the MaracanΓ£ in Rio de Janeiro at the TaΓ§a IndependΓͺncia, the Brazilian Independence Cup, where Argentina finished fourth. At this tournament he was, together with the Portuguese Joaquim Dinis number two in the scorer list. After this tournament he stayed in Rio de Janeiro and played for four years for Botafogo FR, which paid one million Brazilian cruzeiros for him. Most prominent team member there was the World Cup 1970 winning player Jairzinho, and also MΓ‘rio Zagallo coach of Brazil 1970 worked in Botafogo for some time in that period. In 1976 Rodolfo Fischer moved to north-eastern Brazil, where he joined for EC VitΓ³ria in Salvador da Bahia, playing under coach Tim once more. From 1977 to 1978 he returned to Argentina and played again San Lorenzo, for which he scored altogether 141 goals in 271 league matches, which makes him fourth best scorer in the club's history. 1979 he went abroad once more to play for CD Once Caldas in Manizales, Colombia, for which he scored 11 goals in 40 league matches. In the years 1980 and 1981 he saw out his career back in Argentina with CA Sarmiento in JunΓn in the Buenos Aires Province and Sportivo Belgrano in CΓ³rdoba Province, both teams in the lower leagues. These days Rodolfo Fisher lives on a farm in the interior of Argentina.
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Leader Dominic Stirling (19 January 1906 β 7 February 2003) was a missionary surgeon and former Health Minister in Tanzania. Born in Finchley, England and raised in Sussex Weald, Stirling attended Bishop's Stortford College and the University of London. After a brief period of general practice, Stirling joined the Universities' Mission to Central Africa and was deployed to Tanzania. He spent 14 years of service to the UMCA in Lulindi. He then converted to Catholicism and joined the Benedictine Mission, working with them in Mnero, where he built another hospital. After 15 years he left to Kibosho, on the slopes of the Kilimanjaro, where he worked for 5 more years. During his medical missionary career, he emphasised the training of local nurses, establishing a precedent for official nurse recognition in Tanzania. His experience in Africa eventually led him to the political career, and in 1958 Leader Stirling was elected (unopposed) to the first Parliament of Tanzania. He held this position for the next 22 years, being the last 5 as Health Minister by appointment of Julius Nyerere. Besides his medical and political work, Stirling was also interested in Scouting. His successful efforts to establish a Scout movement in Tanzania eventually led him to the post of Chief Scout of Tanzania in 1962, following the formation of the Republic.
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Karl Richard Hanitsch (22 December 1860 β 11 August 1940) was a German-born entomologist and museum curator who served as the director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore in the early 20th century. Hanitsch was born at Grossenstein in Thuringia, Germany. He studied at the University of Jena, where he obtained his PhD. From 1887 to 1895 he was employed as a demonstrator of zoology at University College, Liverpool. He married Ethel Vernon in 1892, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. From 1895 to 1907 he was Curator and Librarian of the Raffles Library and Museum, becoming in 1908 the first Director of the museum, a position he held until 1919. He was especially successful at building up the library collection there. He also served as the Honorary Treasurer of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Although Hanitschβs principal research interest lay in entomology, he also worked on sponges, birds, amphibians and mammals. He retired on 7 July 1919 and returned to England. His successor as Director was Major John Moulton.
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Alan LaVern Bean (born March 15, 1932), (Capt, USN, Ret.), is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts.
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Satoshi Saida (born March 26, 1972 in Yokkaichi, Mie) is a Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player and 2004 Summer Paralympics gold medalist (Men's doubles with Shingo Kunieda). Saida, a big baseball enthusiast in his childhood, lost his left leg because of illness. At first, he used to play wheelchair basketball with his friends. At the age of fourteen, he had an opportunity to get to know wheelchair tennis with his basketball teammates at a seminar which took place in his hometown, and started this sport. As a competitor, his first Paralympics was the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, USA. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia, he got the eighth place. With Shingo Kunieda, he participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece, and won the men's doubles event. The two competed together again at the 2008 Beijing Games and took bronze in the doubles event.
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Tommy Nutter (17 April 1943 β 17 August 1992), was a British tailor, famous for reinventing the Savile Row suit in the 1960s. Born in Barmouth, Merioneth to Christopher Nutter and Dorothy (formerly Banister), he was raised in Edgware, Middlesex, where his father owned a local High Street Cafe. After the family moved to Kilburn, Nutter and his brother David attended Willesden Technical College. Nutter initially studied plumbing, and then architecture, but he abandoned both aged 19 to study tailoring at the Tailor and Cutter Academy. In the early 1960s he joined traditional tailors Donaldson, Williamson & Ward. After seven years, in 1969, he joined up with Edward Sexton, to open Nutters of Savile Row at No 35a Savile Row. They were financially backed by Cilla Black and her husband Bobby Willis, Managing Director of the Beatles' Apple Corps Peter Brown, and lawyer James Vallance-White. The business was an immediate success, as Nutter combined traditional tailoring skills with innovative design. He designed for the Hardy Amies range, and then for the man himself. His clients included his investors, plus Sir Roy Strong, Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger and Elton John. Nutter himself was most proud of the fact that, for the cover of The Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969, he dressed three out of the four: George Harrison elected to be photographed on the road-crossing in denims. In the 1970s his bespoke business became less successful, but he branched out into ready to wear clothing, marketed through Austin Reed. He also successfully expanded into East Asia, establishing the Savile Row brand in Japan. In 1976 Sexton bought Nutter out of the Business. Nutter went to work for Kilgour French and Stanbury, managing his own workroom. Sexton continued to run Nutters of Savile Row until 1983, when Nutter returned to the row with a ready to wear shop: \"Tommy Nutter, Savile Row\". (This new venture, which traded at No 19 Savile Row until Tommy's death, was backed by J&J Crombie Limited, who continue to own the \"Tommy Nutter\" trademark.) At this time, Sexton set up a business in his own name. In the 1980s, he described his suits as a \"cross between the big-shouldered Miami Vice look and the authentic Savile Row.\" He created the clothing of The Joker worn by Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film Batman. Nutter died in 1992 at the Cromwell Hospital in London of complications from AIDS.
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Frederic Storm (July 2, 1844 β June 9, 1935) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Alsace, France, he immigrated to the United States in 1846 with his parents, who settled in New York City. He attended the public schools of New York City and engaged in the cigar manufacturing business. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894; and a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co., 2nd D.) in 1896. He was a member of the Queens County Republican committee from 1894 to 1900 and was three times its chairman. He was the founder of Flushing Hospital, and was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress, holding office from March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1903. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and after leaving Congress engaged in banking in Bayside. He founded the Bayside National Bank in 1905 and was its president until his resignation in 1920. He resided in Bayside until his death in that city in 1935; interment was in Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, New York.
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Bradshaw's professional career began in 1946, and prior to his callup to Washington, took place mostly in the Class D North Carolina State League, where he served as a playing manager from 1950 through mid-1952 and in 1954. The 1952 season saw the 27-year-old Bradshaw rise from Class D to the Class B Charlotte Hornets in mid-year. He batted .324 in the Tri-State League and was recalled to the Senators in August. In his Major League debut, he singled in four at bats against the Philadelphia Athletics and made an error in the field. Six days later, also against Philadelphia, Bradshaw had his best MLB game, with two hits in four at-bats, including a double and three runs batted in. Bradshaw logged 23 Major League at bats with the Senators; his five hits included two doubles. He returned to the minor leagues in 1953 and 1954, before leaving baseball after nine pro seasons.
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William Henry Krause Pollock (21 February 1859 in Cheltenham β 5 October 1896 in Clifton, England) was an English chess master, and a surgeon. Pollock was born in Cheltenham, England, the son of the Rev. William J. Pollock. He was educated at Clifton College. He studied for the medical profession in Dublin, Ireland from 1880β82, at which time he was a member of the Dublin Chess Club. In 1882, he became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. In the same year, his first published chess game and problem appeared in the unlikely setting of the Irish publication The Practical Farmer. After receiving his medical license, Pollock moved back to England and became a surgeon. Pollock tied for 1stβ3rd in the B section at Bath 1884, scoring 7 points out of 10 games. In a stronger tournament, the British Chess Association Congress held at London 1885, he finished 4th with 10Β½/15, behind Isidor Gunsberg, Henry Edward Bird and Anthony Guest. He tied for 8β10th in the Master Tournament at Hereford, scoring 3/10; Blackburne won, ahead of Bird and Schallop. In the British Chess Club Master Tourney (London 1886), he finished 5th of 8 players, scoring 3/7, behind Blackburne, Bird, Gunsberg, and James Mason. In the 2nd British Chess Federation Championship, also held at London 1886, he finished 10th of 13 players (4Β½/12), but had the consolation of handing tournament winner Blackburne one of his two losses. At Nottingham 1886, he finished 7th of 10 players (3/9), behind Burn, Schallopp, Gunsberg, Johannes Zukertort, Bird, and Jean Taubenhaus. He tied for 3rdβ5th of 7 players (3/6) at Stamford 1887, won by Joseph Henry Blake. At London 1887, the 3rd British Chess Federation Congress, he finished 5th of 10 players (4/9), behind Burn, Gunsberg, Blackburne, and Zukertort. At Bradford 1888, the 4th British Chess Federation Championship, he tied with Bird for 9thβ10th place out of 17 players (7/16); Gunsberg won. He tied for 5β6th of 10 players at London 1888 (Simpson's Divan), also won by Gunsberg. Pollock returned to Ireland to win the Irish Championship at Dublin 1885 with 9 out of 10 points. He won Belfast 1886 (ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne and Amos Burn) with a rare perfect score of 8β0. He took 2nd at Dublin 1889. In 1889 Pollock made the voyage to New York City to participate in the great New York international tournament, the Sixth American Chess Congress. One of the longest tournaments in history, this double round robin was intended to select a challenger for the world championship title held by William Steinitz. Pollock finished 11th out of 20 players; Mikhail Chigorin and Max Weiss won. He later moved to Baltimore as the resident chess professional, and soon was writing a chess column for the Baltimore Sunday News, as well as reports on American chess for the British Chess Magazine. In 1890, he won a match against Charles Moehle 7Β½β6Β½ in New York, took 2nd place at the St. Louis Chess Congress, and played in Chicago. He lost a match to Eugene Delmar 3β5 at Skaneateles 1891, shared 1st with Jackson Showalter but lost a playoff game at Lexington 1891. In 1892, he was Wilhelm Steinitz's secretary. At tournaments in New York in 1893, he tied for 4β5th, and tied for 9β11th in New York (Emanuel Lasker won). In early 1895, he drew a match in Montreal against George H. D. Gossip, each player winning six games with five draws. This result was likely more satisfactory to Gossip than to Pollock, given Gossip's status as a perennial last-place finisher in major tournaments. Later that year, Pollock represented Canada at the famous Hastings 1895 chess tournament, won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Pollock took 19th (out of 22), including wins over the 4th and 5th-place finishers Siegbert Tarrasch and Wilhelm Steinitz. Following the tournament, Pollock's health progressively deteriorated due to tuberculosis. In August 1896, he returned to England, where he died at his father's home in Clifton on 5 October 1896.
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Charles Flint Rhem (January 24, 1901 β July 30, 1969), born in Rhems, South Carolina, was a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1924β28, 1930β32, 1934 and 1936), Philadelphia Phillies (1932β33) and Boston Braves (1934β35). He helped the Cardinals win the 1926 World Series, 1931 World Series, and 1934 World Series and 1928 and 1930 National League pennants. He finished 8th in voting for the 1926 National League MVP for having a 20β7 Winβloss record, 34 Games, 34 Games Started, 20 Complete Games, 1 Shutout, 258 Innings Pitched, 241 Hits Allowed, 121 Runs Allowed, 92 Earned Runs Allowed, 12 Home Runs Allowed, 75 Walks Allowed, 72 Strikeouts, 1 Hit Batsmen, 5 Wild Pitches, 1,068 Batters Faced, 1 Balk and a 3.21 ERA. In 12 seasons he had a 105β97 WinβLoss record, 294 Games, 229 Games Started, 91 Complete Games, 8 Shutouts, 41 Games Finished, 10 Saves, 1,725 β
Innings Pitched, 1,958 Hits Allowed, 989 Runs Allowed, 805 Earned Runs Allowed, 113 Home Runs Allowed, 529 Walks Allowed, 534 Strikeouts, 20 Hit Batsmen, 33 Wild Pitches, 7,516 Batters Faced, 4 Balks and a 4.20 ERA. Rhem died in Columbia, South Carolina at the age of 68.
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Sarah Sewall is Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at the U.S. State Department. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the Secretary of Defense's Defense Policy Board. She served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance during the Clinton administration and served on President Obama's national security and foreign policy transition team. Sewall was formerly the Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard. Sewall graduated from Harvard College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. During the Clinton Administration, Sewall served in the Department of Defense as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1987-1993, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, delegate to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group, and on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Sewall has also worked at a variety of defense research organizations and as Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the lead author of MARO Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook, and co-author of Parameters of Partnership: Civil-Military relations in the 21st Century. She was also lead editor of The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law (2000) and has written widely on U.S. foreign policy, national security, and military intervention. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sewall served as one of US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers, and subsequently worked for the Obama transition, overseeing program review in the national security area, including the Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, foreign assistance, and Intelligence Community agencies. Sewall is the founder and Faculty Director of the Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Project, a collaborative effort between the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. The MARO Project seeks to enable the United States and the international community to stop genocide and mass atrocity as part of a broader integrated strategy by explaining key relevant military concepts and planning considerations. Sewall is also a member of the Center for Naval Analyses Board of Trustees, founder of the White House Project's National Security Boot Camp, and a board member for Oxfam America. Sewall's current research focuses on ethics in counterinsurgency, civil-military relations and collateral damage during military operations. She is writing a book about civilian harm in war. Sewall is married to Massachusetts State Representative Tom Conroy and has 4 children. Sarah Sewall was appointed Special Coordinator for Tibetan issues, as announced 21 February 2014 by John Kerry
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Jerome Allen \"Jerry\" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer. Seinfeld is best known for portraying a semifictional version of himself in the sitcom, Seinfeld (1989β1998), which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David. For the final two seasons, Seinfeld and David were co-executive producers. Seinfeld co-wrote and co-produced the 2007 animated film, Bee Movie, in which he voiced the protagonist. In 2010, he premiered a reality series called The Marriage Ref. He directed Colin Quinn in the Broadway show Long Story Short at the Helen Hayes Theater, which ran until January 2011. He is the creator and host of the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In his stand-up comedy career, Seinfeld is known for specializing in observational humor, often focusing on personal relationships and uncomfortable social obligations. In 2005 Comedy Central named him the 12th Greatest Stand-up Comedian of All Time.
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Joseph Salim Peress (1896 β June 4, 1978), was a pioneering British diving engineer, inventor of one of the first truly usable atmospheric diving suits, the Tritonia, and was involved in the construction of the famous JIM suit. Salim Peress grew up in the Middle East. It is said that his interest in diving suit design started from the observations of the Persian Gulf pearl divers. Peress had a natural talent for engineering design, and had challenged himself to construct an articulated atmospheric diving suit (ADS) that would keep divers dry and at atmospheric pressure, even at great depth. At the time, little was known about decompression diving. Various atmospheric suits had been developed during the Victorian era, but nobody had yet managed to overcome the basic design problem of constructing a joint which would remain flexible and watertight at depth without seizing up under pressure. In 1918 Peress began working for WG Tarrant at Byfleet, United Kingdom, where he was given the space and tools to develop his ideas about constructing an ADS. His first attempt was an immensely complex prototype machined from solid stainless steel. In 1923 Peress was asked to design a suit for salvage work on the wreck of the P&O liner SS Egypt which had sunk in 122 m (400 ft) of water off Ushant. He declined, on the grounds that his prototype suit was too heavy for a diver to handle easily, but was encouraged by the request to begin work on a new suit using lighter materials. By 1929 he believed he had solved the weight problem, by using cast magnesium instead of steel, and had also managed to improve the design of the suit's joints by using a trapped cushion of oil to keep the surfaces moving smoothly.The oil, which was virtually non-compressible and readily displaceable, allowed the limb joints to move freely at depths of 600 ft (180 m), where the pressure was 520 psi (35 atm). Peress claimed that the Tritonia suit's joints could function at 1,200 ft (370 m) although this was never proven. In 1930 Peress revealed the Tritonia suit. By May it had completed trials and was publicly demonstrated in a tank at Byfleet. In September Peress' assistant Jim Jarret dived in the suit to a depth of 123 m (404 ft) in Loch Ness. The suit performed perfectly, the joints proving resistant to pressure and moving freely even at depth. The suit was offered to the Royal Navy which turned it down, stating that Navy divers never needed to descend below 90 m (300 ft). Jim Jarret made a deep dive to 305 m (1,001 ft) on the wreck of the RMS Lusitania off south Ireland, followed by a shallower dive to 60 metres (200 ft) in the English Channel in 1937 after which, due to lack of interest, the Tritonia suit was retired. Peress abandoned work on diving suits and instead turned to pioneering work in plastic moulding, later forming a company which became the world's largest manufacturer of gas turbine blades for the aircraft industry. In 1965, Peress came back from retirement, starting his collaboration with two British engineers, Mike Humphrey and Mike Borrow, interested in designing a modern atmospheric diving suit. The first order of business was finding the original Tritonia suit, which turned up in a Glasgow warehouse. After all these years, the old suit was still in working conditions, and the octogenarian Peress became the first person to test it in a factory test tank. In 1969 Peress became a consultant to UMEL (Underwater Marine Equipment Limited), the new company formed by Humphrey and Borrow, which eventually created the JIM suit, which was named after Peress' diver Jim Jarret.
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Guy William Willis Stevens was was a scientist specializing in microphotography. He was born at 181 Oakwood Court, Kensington on 10th July 1912, the eldest son of Alfred William and Marjorie (nee Willis) Stevens. He married Pauline Margaret Clear, the daughter of Edwin A. Clear on 22nd January 1949 in Harrow.He died on 12th November 1999 at Kilfillan nursing home, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire on 12th November 1999. He Graduated BSc chemistry from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1935. He was recruited by Eastman Kodak and worked at the research laboratory in Harrow. He visited the global headquarters in Rochester, New York a number of times whilst on lecture tours, He became the Senior Research Scientist at Harrow until his retirement in 1973. After Stevens' retirement, he undertook several consultancy roles, including work at the Cranfield Institute of Technology and the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermarston. Stevens authored several books. His most notable book is Microphotography: Photography at Extreme Resolution. Originally published in 1957, it was revised in 1968.
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(This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Viacheslavovna and the family name is Dementieva.) Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva (Russian: ΠΠ»Π΅ΜΠ½Π° ΠΡΡΠ΅ΡΠ»Π°ΜΠ²ΠΎΠ²Π½Π° ΠΠ΅ΠΌΠ΅ΜΠ½ΡΡΠ΅Π²Π°, [jΙͺΛlΚ²ΙnΙ dΚ²ΙͺΛmΚ²enΚ²tΚ²jΙͺvΙ ] ; born 15 October 1981) is a retired Russian tennis player. Dementieva won the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. She won 16 WTA singles titles, reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open and reached seven other Grand Slam semi finals. Dementieva was also part of the Russian team that won the 2005 Fed Cup, won the 2002 WTA Championship doubles with Janette HusΓ‘rovΓ‘ and was the runner-up in two US Open doubles finals β in 2002 with HusΓ‘rovΓ‘ and in 2005 with Flavia Pennetta. Dementieva achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 3, which was accomplished on 6 April 2009. She announced her retirement on 29 October 2010, after her final match at the 2010 WTA Tour Championships. Dementieva ended her career ranked World No. 9 and between 2003 and 2010 she only ended one year, in 2007, outside the top 10.
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C. Wellington Walker (1889-1967) was an American architect practicing in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Walker was born in the small city of Strang, Nebraska in 1889. In 1894 his father, Charles W. Walker (a typewriter designer), moved the family to Bridgeport. Walker's architectural training began in 1908, when he worked for Bridgeport architect Ernest G. Southey. That same year he began studying at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1910. He then worked for Leoni W. Robinson in New Haven. Later in 1910, Walker and Walter J. Skinner formed the firm of Skinner & Walker in Bridgeport. It lasted until 1919, when both then established independent offices. Walker remained in private practice until his death in 1967. His firm lasted for a few more years as C. Wellington Walker Associates, led by Flavian F. Arsenault. After 1950, the bulk of Walker's known commissions were for buildings at the University of Bridgeport.
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GΓΌlΕah Akkaya (born October 6, 1977) is a Turkish professional woman basketball player in forward position. The 1.81 m (5' 11Β½\") tall national player is a top scorer. Akkaya started playing basketball at the age of 13. She debuted in Deniz Nakliyat and then transferred to FenerbahΓ§e Δ°stanbul where she played in 1995-96 season. In 1997, she moved to the USA and played in the American NCAA with the Lynn University team in two seasons until 1999. She still ranks 4th with an average of 23.8 points in the all time list of single season points per season for her time being at Boca Raton, Florida. After Akkaya returned home and was with FenerbahΓ§e Δ°stanbul in the season 1999-00, she transferred to the Greek club Panserraikos in Thessaloniki for 2002-03 season and became top scorer with 204 points. In 2003, Akkaya played in YES Ramat HaSharon club in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. She helped her team win the championship by scoring a basket at the latest second. Returned to Turkey in 2003, Akkaya played for Erdemirspor in Zonguldak. Akkaya participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in AlmerΓa, Spain with the Turkish national team, which won a gold medal. She was top scorer in Turkish Women's Basketball League with her average of 22.0 points in 25 games in the 2004-05 season. She also played for BeΕiktaΕ for the 2005-06 season. That year she played in the league finals with BeΕiktaΕ. For 2006-2007 season she returned to Mersin B.B. sports club and played with an average of 17.0 points per game and help Mersin to play in playoffs. She also played for Galatasaray in the 2007-08 season. She was member of Spanish club El Cadi La Seu D'Urgell sports club for the 2008-09 season. She played for Samsun B.K. between 2009 and 2011. Akkaya played in the national team that won the silber medal at the EuroBasket Women 2011 championship held in Poland. During the 2011-12 season, GΓΌlΕah played for TED Ankara Kolejliler. By the start of the season 2012-13, she was transferred to Canik, after playing half of the season with Canik, GΓΌlΕah returned to BeΕiktaΕ in January 2013, and played with 12,4 points and 4,3 rebounds for the rest of the season.
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Sari Biro (March 24, 1912 β September 2, 1990) was a Hungarian pianist. \"I believe that a performer must be a clear channel for the composer's message and not allow his or her own personality to interfere with the composer's intentions... A performer should extend, not absorb.\" (Sari Biro) Sari Biro was born in Budapest in Hungary. She began piano lessons privately at the age of six, and received a scholarship to study in the Franz Liszt Academy. There she quickly distinguished herself, so that she was chosen as the soloist in the inaugural concert of the Hungarian national broadcasting system, playing under the baton of Erno von DohnΓ‘ni. Arriving in the US in 1939, Biro quickly established herself as a recitalist there. Based in New York City, for the next 18 years she toured extensively, as well as making numerous radio broadcasts which were notable for the wide repertoire they introduced. She also made an innovative 13-week series of live television programmes in 1958, in which she talked about and performed a wide range of music. She championed both early and contemporary music, performing Giancarlo Menotti Darius Milhaud, Leon Weiner (with whom she had studied in Budapest) and, of course, BartΓ³k, who admired her interpretations of his works. She also made the first recording by a woman of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in 1951. In 1949, the American State Department named Sari Biro the most distinguished new citizen of the year. Also in that year, she became the only woman to perform nine piano concertos in three concerts at Carnegie Hall. She moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s. She gave her last New York recital in 1972, but continued to give master classes until 1990. In contrast to her fragile appearance, her playing was powerful and commanding, and the elan and sense of communication in her performances made her a powerful advocate of the neglected music that she championed The Sari Biro Memorial Award was established in 1995 at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary. The award is given each March 24 (Mme. Biro's birthday) in the form of a monetary prize to an outstanding young piano student at the academy.
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Ernesto Bernardo Γlvarez (August 10, 1928 in Fuentes β September 27, 2010 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine and Chilean football striker. He played club football in Argentina and Chile. Γlvarez played youth football for AmΓ©rica de Funtes and Rosario Central before joining Banfield in 1948. He went on to make 152 appearances for the club, scoring 56 goals. In 1957 he moved to Chile toplay for Green Cross and in 1959 he joined Universidad de Chile where he became an important member of the team that became known as the \"Ballet Azul\" (Blue Ballet). He won four league championship titles with the club and is still one of the top scoring players in the history of the club with 82 goals in 190 games. In 1963 he gained Chilean citizenship and played one game for the Chile national team against Uruguay in the \"Copa Juan Pinto DurΓ‘n\". Γlvarez left \"La U\" in 1965 and returned to Green Cross, who had changed their name to Club de Deportes Temuco, he played his final season in 1967 for Audax Italiano.
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Sylvester E. Veitch (February 24, 1910 β February 14, 1996) was a Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer. Veitch began his career in racing as a jockey and trainer in Steeplechase racing. In 1939 he moved to flat racing when he began employment as a trainer with Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in Kentucky. He won two Belmont Stakes while in Whitney's employment: one in 1947 with Phalanx and the second in 1951 with Counterpoint. In 1958 he left his position with C.V. Whitney and began employment with George D. Widener, Jr. where he trained What a Treat, and many other notable horses. In 1971, after Mr. Widener's death, Sylvester Veitch opened his own public stable. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1977. Among his accomplishments, Sylvester Veitch held the single-season mark of 24 wins in 24 days set in 1954 at Saratoga Race Course, a record that held until 2003. In the course of his career he had forty-four stakes winners. He trained 5 champions in all: First Flight in 1946, Phalanx in 1947, Counterpoint in 1951, Career Boy in 1956, and What a Treat in 1965. Mr. Veitch died at the age of 85 at the Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, Long Island, New York in February 1996 after a brief illness. His son, John M. Veitch, is also a successful trainer.
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Terutomo Yamazaki (born July 31, 1947) is a Japanese karateka from the Kyokushin Kaikan and professional lightweight kickboxer. He is the founder of Gyakushin-Kai and a Director of Karate in Japan. He presides over the International Budo Karate Organization Gyakushin-Kai from the headquarters of the organization (honbu) in Εmiya-ku, Saitama, Japan. His title as head of the Gyakushin-Kai organization is βKanchoβ (Grandmaster - 7th Dan). Yamazaki is a first champion of the All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships in 1969, and has promoted Kyokushin famous through his accomplishments. Because he fought and defeated Muay Thai boxers, he created a reputation for Kyokushin before the First All-Japan Open Full Contact Karate Championships was held. Yamazaki is highly skilled at and an authority on fighting and breaking. When he fought someone, it was usual that he knocked them out without receiving any injuries himself. He is nicknamed βThe Genius Karate Fighterβ or βThe Dragon of Kyokushin\", and when he was an active fighter, he was the most popular figure of the time. He has shown off his mixed karate and Muai Thai style of fighting at both full contact karate open championships and kickboxing, and has been noted internationally as a prominent fighter in karate's history, appearing in Black Belt Magazine in the United States.
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Claude Maxwell \"Max\" Stanley (1904β1984) was an American engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, peace activist, author and world citizen. He founded Stanley Consultants, an engineering and consulting firm, in 1939 with his younger brother Art. In 1943 he co-founded HON Industries, originally named Home-O-Nize, an office furniture manufacturing company; and,along with his wife Elizabeth, created and endowed the Stanley Foundation in 1956, which is an international relations think tank which focuses on \"the promotion of public understanding, constructive dialog and cooperative action on critical international issues.\"\u009D. All three organizations are headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa, U.S.A. Mr. Stanley provided leadership in a number of engineering societies. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Consulting Engineers Council. He was a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Iowa Engineering Society (Honorary Member and Past President), the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers, and the Consulting Engineers Council/Iowa. He was the first Chairman of the UI Foundation's President's Club and was a member of the Foundation Board for nine years, including four as Chairman. He was one of the College of Engineering's most outstanding graduates and extensively supported The University of Iowa, including the donation of over $2 million and a major art collection to the UI Foundation after his death in 1984. Mr. Stanley died from a heart attack while on a business trip to New York City. In 2003, the Hydraulics Laboratory of the University of Iowa was renamed in honor of 1926 engineering graduate C. Maxwell Stanley. The structure is home to the College of Engineeringβs IIHRβHydroscience & Engineering.
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Harry W.J. Edbrooke (1873β1946) was an American architect. He was born in Chicago into a family of architects. His father was Willoughby J. Edbrooke (1843 β 1896). He worked with his uncle Frank E. Edbrooke in Denver, Colorado. Several of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. He graduated from Armour Institute of Technology in 1898. After serving as a draftsman under architects William K. Fellows and Howard Van Doren Shaw, he started his own practice in 1904. In 1908, he went to Denver to join Frank, with whom he worked until 1913, when Frank retired. Works of his that are listed on the National Register include: \n* Hinman Apartments, Evanston, IL (Atchison & Edbrooke), NRHP-listed \n* Le Mars Central High School, Le Mars, IA (Atchison & Edbrooke), NRHP-listed \n* Ridgewood, Evanston, IL (Atchison & Edbrooke), NRHP-listed \n* Bluebird Theater, 3315-3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO (Edbrooke, Harry W.J.), NRHP-listed \n* First National Bank Building, 818 17th St., Denver, CO (Edbrooke, Harry, W.J.), NRHP-listed \n* Gas & Electric Building, later Public Service Building, 910 15th St., Denver, CO, NRHP-listed \n* Tilden School for Teaching Health, Jct. of W. Fairview Pl. and Grove St., Denver, CO (Edbrooke, Harry W. J.), NRHP-listed Other works include: \n* Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO \n* W.H. Kistler Stationery Store, 1636 Champa, Denver, CO \n* A.T. Lewis Dry Goods Company building, later known at the Denver and Rio Grande Building, 1531 Stout, Denver, CO \n* Valverde School \n* Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist and other buildings.
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Dale Talde (born October 25, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American chef best known for competing on two seasons of the Bravo reality television cooking competition show Top Chef: Top Chef: Chicago in 2008 and Top Chef All-Stars in 2010-11. He currently runs the eponymous restaurant Talde in Brooklyn, New York. Talde is Filipino-American. Talde graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. He helped open the renowned restaurant Jean Georges Vong in Chicago. He has also worked with chefs such as Carrie Nahabedian and Shawn Mcclain. In 2005, he moved to New York City to open Morimoto with Masaharu Morimoto. Talde competed on season four of Top Chef in 2008. He came in 6th place, being eliminated after his team (for which he was captain) lost in the \"Restaurant Wars\" competition episode. In 2010 he was invited for the Top Chef: All-Stars season. He again came in 6th place, this time being eliminated when his amberjack stew failed to impress the judges. Talde later became a sous chef at Buddakan. In January 2012 Talde opened the restaurant Talde, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The restaurant is known for a contemporary twist on Asian flavors including Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Filipino. Talde has traveled extensively, including to the Philippines, Spain and the Caribbean. He has denounced seal hunting in ordinance with The Humane Society.
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Jacob Acker was a painter in the second half of the 15th century in Ulm, Germany. He painted the impressive altar in the St. Leonhard cemetery Chapel in Ehingen (Donau)-Risstissen, Germany which bears his inscription Jacob acker maler zu ulm hat diese dafel gemacht uf des hailligen Kreutz tag an herst. anno dmi MCCCCLXXXIII jar. This means: \"Jacob Acker, painter in Ulm has completed this painting on the day of the holy cross in the year of 1483\". Not much is known about this Jacob Acker \"der JΓΌngere\" (the younger). Most probably he belonged to the extended Ulm artist family of the Acker, many of them members of the so-called \"Ulmer Schule\" (school of Ulm). This dynasty of artists started with Jakob Acker \"dem Γlteren\" (the elder), who lived around 1400. He painted some of the glass windows of the Ulm cathedral today still existing. His son Hans Acker (about 1380-1461) continued with this profession and also his glass windows still can be admired in the Ulm cathedral. Whether Jacob Acker \"der Juengere\" is a son or brother of Hans Acker is not known. But it is known that Jakob Acker d. J. had produced doors with paintings for the main organ of the Ulm cathedral. This organ and Jakob Acker's doors are lost. In 1529 Ulm converted to Protestantism; under the radical influence of the reformer Zwingli on the so-called βGΓΆtzentagβ during summer 1531 the people of Ulm burned most paintings, altars and organs of the Ulm cathedral in a huge fire on the square in front of the cathedral. The Germans called this fundamentalist Protestant religious movement \"die BilderstΓΌrmer\" (iconoclasts). Because Risstissen, some 12 miles southwest of Ulm, then only partially owned by the city of Ulm remained Roman Catholic, Jakob Acker's remarkable Risstissen altar survived. It is believed to have been part of the decoration of the then gothic main church of Risstissen, which was removed at the end of the 18th century, to give way for the actual main church.
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Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a United States-born architectural historian, author and critic. Since 1995 he has served as Director of the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge MA, United States.Jarzombek received his architectural training at the ETH Zurich, where he graduated in 1980. From there he went to MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He taught at Cornell University until 1994. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, from Renaissance architecture to contemporary criticism. He was a 2005 Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA), a 2002 Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal) a 1993 Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and a 1986 Post-doctoral Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Santa Monica).
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Battista del Moro (1512 β after 1568) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona, as well as in Mantua and Venice. This artists is referred to by various names including Battista DβAgnolo Veronese by Filippo Baldinucci and Giorgio Vasari, or by Battista Angolo del Moro, (commonly called Angeli, and occasionally Angelo and Agnolo). He was a scholar of Francesco Torbido, called Il Moro, whose daughter he married, and whose name he added to his own. He improved his style by studying the works of Titian, and painted several pictures, both in oil and fresco, for the churches at Verona, and sometimes in competition with Paolo Veronese. In Sant'Euphemia he had painted a fresco of 'Paul before Ananias,' which, on the demolition of the wall on which it was painted, was sawn out with great care, and removed to another part of the church. His colouring is more vigorous than that of his instructor, and his design more graceful. Such is his picture in San Stefano of 'An Angel presenting the Palms of Martyrdom to the Innocents'. He also painted much in Venice, Mantua, and Murano. We have several slight but spirited etchings by this master, in which the extremities of the figures are drawn in a very masterly style. In conjunction with Battista Vicentino, he engraved a set of fifty landscapes, mostly after Titian, which are executed in a bold, free style. He labored in Mantua under Giovanni Battista Bertani. We have also the following plates as specimens of his work in this line : \n* The Nativity, or Adoration of the Shepherds; after Parmigiano. \n* The Virgin, with the Infant Christ and St. John; B. A. del Moro, fec. \n* The Holy Family, with St. Elisabeth and St. John; after Raphael. \n* Another Holy Family; after the same. \n* The Martyrdom of St. Catherine; after Bernardini Campi. \n* The Baptism of Christ by St. John; after the same.
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Miguel Humberto DΓaz is an American theologian, diplomat and commentator who served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 2009 He resigned on November 5, 2012 and was immediately named University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton. He was the first Hispanic U.S. Ambassador accredited to the Holy See. As ambassador, DΓaz helped launch the Religion in Foreign Policy Working Group of the Secretary of Stateβs Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society. The Working Group facilitates regular dialogue between the U.S. foreign policy establishment and religious leaders, scholars, and practitioners worldwide on strategies to build more effective partnerships on issues such as conflict prevention, humanitarian assistance and national security. On May 5, 2014, several newspapers reported, including the Dayton Daily News, that DΓaz had been investigated for sexual harassment at the University of Dayton in July 2013. DΓaz was accused of sexually harassing a married couple who also are professors at the University of Dayton. According to the published story, DΓaz was \"found to have likely engaged in 'unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature' toward the married couple.\" The allegation was outlined in confidential letters to the alleged victims from University Provost Joseph Saliba and the University's general counsel. confirmed that there was reasonable cause to believe, based on a preponderance of evidence, that federal law was violated. On May 20, 2014, Loyola University Chicago announced that they intended to hire DΓaz as a professor despite the University of Dayton harassment allegation. A spokesman for Loyola said in an email, βWe have reviewed the allegations raised against Miguel Diaz and our offer to him stands.β He will become a professor at Loyola on July 1, 2014.
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James Isaac \"J. J.\" Miller, Jr. (born August 23, 1979) is an American professional basketball player. He plays overseas since 2001 and has played in multiple countries, including France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden. Since 2012 he is a BorΓ₯s Basket player and one of the top players in the Swedish Basketligan. He started his professional career in the Netherlands with Landstede Basketbal in 2001. After that period he played with Brest of the French LNB Pro B and in his home country for the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs. He also played for the Sundsvall Dragons from 2004 till 2005. In the 2005β06 season he played with Demon Astronauts Amsterdam and won the NBB Cup with Amsterdam. He was one of the top scorers in the Eredivisie with 17.6 points per game. In 2012 Miller returned to Sweden, this time to play for BorΓ₯s Basket. From that moment, Miller was one of the top tier players in the Swedish Basketligan. He led the league in scoring in the 2012β13 and 2013β14 seasons with 21.6 and 23.7, respectively, points per game. Miller has also played for Levallois SCB, Optima Gent, Leuven Bears, STB Le Havre and Poitiers Basket 86 under his career.
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Jesse Lemar Gonder (January 20, 1936 β November 14, 2004) was an American professional baseball player. A catcher, he appeared in 395 games in the Major Leagues over eight seasons (1960β67) for the New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates. Gonder batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg). He played for Baseball Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel with both the Yankees (1960) and Mets (1963β65). He was born in Monticello, Arkansas, but attended McClymonds High School in Oakland, California, alma mater of Basketball Hall of Fame center Bill Russell, as well as two of Gonder's future MLB teammates, Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson. Gonder signed with Cincinnati in 1955 and began his 15-year professional career. Acquired by the Yankees' Triple-A Richmond Virginians affiliate in 1960, he made his MLB debut that September and hit a pinch home run at Yankee Stadium off Bill Monbouquette for his first big-league hit on September 30. He was a member of the Yankees for the first weeks of the 1961 season as a pinch hitter before being sent back to Richmond for the rest of the season. The Reds then reacquired Gonder in an off-season trade for pitcher Marshall Bridges. Assigned to the Triple-A San Diego Padres, Gonder led the 1962 Pacific Coast League in batting (.342) and runs batted in (116) and was named the PCL's most valuable player. He was recalled by Cincinnati that September, then spent the following four full seasons in the National League. Gonder batted over .300 in 1963 (.304) in part-time duty for the Reds and Mets, and was the Mets' regular catcher in 1964, starting behind the plate for 82 games and setting personal bests in home runs (seven) and runs batted in (35). Gonder reverted to part-time status in 1965, and for the remainder of his big-league career played behind regular catchers Chris Cannizzaro, Joe Torre and Jim Pagliaroni. He was sent to Triple-A in June 1967 and wrapped up his pro career in 1969. In the Majors, Gonder collected 220 hits, including 28 doubles, two triples and 26 home runs. Five of those home runs came as a pinch hitter.
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Daniel Humm (born 1976 in Strengelbach) is a Swiss chef and restaurant owner; he is chef/co-owner of Eleven Madison Park and The NoMad in New York City, the former a recipient of three Michelin stars. His cuisine is focused on the locally sourced ingredients of New York, with an emphasis on simplicity, purity, and seasonal flavors. A native of Switzerland, he was exposed to food at a very young age, and began working in kitchens at the age of 14. From there he spent time in some of the finest Swiss hotels and restaurants before earning his first Michelin star at the age of 24. In 2003, Daniel moved to the United States to become the executive chef at Campton Place in San Francisco, where he received four stars from the San Francisco Chronicle. Three years later, he moved to New York to become the executive chef at Eleven Madison Park.
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Guy Savelli is a martial artist, teacher, and psychic. He teaches the spiritual and mental aspects of martial arts, especially Kuntao. In a 2004 interview with BBC journalist Jon Ronson, Savelli claimed the ability to kill goats and hamsters with the force of his thoughts, however science writer Michael Shermer found no evidence to support Savelli's claims. In 1983, Savelli was recruited by Col. John B. Alexander to train U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers in his techniques at Fort Bragg; his experiences are also detailed in Ronson's 2004 book The Men Who Stare at Goats. Among the lethal techniques in which Savelli is said to be proficient is the fabled Dim Mak, or \"Touch of Death\". Savelli has been a research subject at Duke University, the Psychical Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Results of his work have been published in Research in Parapsychology, the Journal of Parapsychology, as well as by the Parapsychology Department of JFK University. Savelli has also authored an introductory text on the Spiritual, Mental, and Physical Teachings of Chinese Kung-Fu.
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Timothy Edward Tarsney (February 4, 1849 β June 8, 1909) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Tarsney was born in Ransom, Michigan and attended the common and high schools. He worked on the Government roads in Tennessee until the close of the Civil War. When he returned to Michigan, he settled in Saginaw, where he was employed as a sawmill engineer and became a marine engineer in 1867. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1872 and was admitted to the bar the same year and commencing practice in East Saginaw. He was elected justice of the peace in 1873 and city attorney from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned. His brother, John Charles Tarsney, was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. His sister Mary E. Tarsney married Thomas A. E. Weadock who became a U.S. Representative from Michigan after her death. In 1880, Tarsney was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 47th United States Congress, losing to Roswell G. Horr. He was a delegate at-large to the Democratic National Convention in 1884. That year, he defeated Horr to be elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 49th Congress. He defeated Horr again to be re-elected to the 50th Congress, serving from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1888, losing to Aaron T. Bliss. Tarsney moved to Detroit in 1893 and resumed the practice of law. He served on the corporation counsel of Detroit from 1900 to 1908. The following year, he died at the age of sixty in Detroit and is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Saginaw, Michigan.
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William J. \"B. J.\" Prager is a retired professional lacrosse attackman who played professional field lacrosse in the Major League Lacrosse (MLL). He starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 1999 through 2002, where he was Ivy League rookie of the year, a three-time United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) All-American (twice third-team, once honorable mention), a four-time All-Ivy League selection (three-time first team), a team captain and a NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player of a national champion team. For over a decade, he held the freshman goal scoring record at Princeton. During his time at Princeton, the team qualified for the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship all four years, reached the championship game three times, won the championship game once and won four Ivy League championships. In his career, he has scored game-winning overtime goals in both state high school and national collegiate championship games as well as participated on two championship MLL teams.
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Yosef Tekoah (born Yosef Tukaczynski; 4 March 1925 β 14 April 1991) was a senior Israeli diplomat and an Israeli doctor and the President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1975β1981). Tekoah was born in Lyakhavichy, Poland as Yosef Tukaczynski. At the age of five he emigrated with his family to Harbin, due to the rise of fascism in his homeland. Some time after the Fall of Harbin to the Imperial Japanese Army, Tekoah's family moved to Shanghai for financial purposes. He had a Doctorate in international relations from Harvard University, where he also taught and Master's degree in Natural and legal rights from Aurora University. In 1948 he made Aliyah, changed his name to Tekoah and started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he met his wife, Ruth Tekoah. During his work in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tekoah appointed for several positions: \n* The Israel Foreign Ministry legal adviser (1949β1953) \n* Head of Armistice Affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1954β1958) \n* Deputy and Acting Head of the Israeli delegation to the UN (1958β1960) \n* The Israeli Ambassador to Brazil (1960β1962) \n* The Israeli Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1962β1965) \n* VP of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (1965β1967) \n* Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations (1968β1975) Tekoah died in 1991 in New York after a Heart attack. Tekoah knew fluent Hebrew, English, Russian, French, Portuguese, Chinese and French.
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Martin Earley (born 15 June 1962) is a former Irish professional road bicycle racer. He turned professional in 1985 with the Fagor team with whom he stayed until 1987. In 1986 he won the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia and the second of the Tour of the Basque Country. In 1987, he was part of the Irish team at the world road championship that ended with a win by Stephen Roche. After that he rode for Kas and then the Dutch PDM team of Sean Kelly. The highlight of his career was a stage win in the 1989 Tour de France when he broke clear of three riders 750m from the end of 157 km from Labastide-d'Armagnac to Pau. Earley completed five of his eight Tours; his highest finish was 44th in 1989. After PDM left the sport, he rode for Festina, then switched to mountain biking by riding for Raleigh and then for individual sponsors. He competed in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta in the mountain bike race and finished 25th. He has a practice as a physiotherapist and chiropractor. He has been a coach to cyclists including Irish Olympians Robin Seymour and Tarja Owens.
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David Bouley (born near Storrs, Connecticut) is an American chef and restaurateur with restaurants in TriBeCa, New York City. He is best known for his flagship restaurant, Bouley. Early in his career, he worked in restaurants in Cape Cod, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and, eventually, France and Switzerland. While in Europe, after studies at the Sorbonne, David had the opportunity to work with chefs Roger VergΓ©, Paul Bocuse, JoΓ«l Robuchon, Gaston LenΓ΄tre, and FrΓ©dy Girardet. Having gained that experience, David returned to work in New York City in leading restaurants of the time, such as Le Cirque, Le PΓ©rigord, and La CΓ΄te Basque, as well as spending time as sous chef in a restaurant opened by Roger VergΓ© in San Francisco. In 1985, he became chef of Montrachet restaurant. The restaurant quickly drew attention and earned a three-star review in The New York Times. In 1987 David opened his own restaurant, \"Bouley,\" in TriBeCa overlooking Duane Park. Bouley quickly became known as the most notable dining experience in New York and set a new standard for fine dining in America. Among the many accolades earned was a Four-Star review in The New York Times and James Beard Foundation awards for the Best Restaurant and Best Chef among other Beard Awards. Most recently, in 2015, Bouley was awarded the \"Best Restaurant Award in the United States\" from TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice Awards, ranking #15 in the world. Bouley also received 29 out a 30 rating in Zagat. In 1991, Zagat's asked its 7,000 diners, \"Where you would you eat the last meal of your life?\" Respondents \"overwhelmingly\" chose Bouley. In 1997, Bouley restaurant moved location and opened up as the Bouley Bakery earning another Four-Star review from The New York Times. In September 1999, Bouley opened Danube, a Viennese-inspired restaurant, located on Hudson Street, and authored his first book \"East of Paris: The New Cuisines of Austria and the Danube\". Following the tragic events of September 11 attacks, Bouley Bakery served as a base to organize as an operation to feed rescue and relief workers at Ground Zero. Known as The Green Tarp, over one million meals for Ground Zero relief workers were prepared in conjunction with the Red Cross. Bouley Bakery re-opened in 2002. Bouley Bakery earned two Michelin Stars before it changed locations in 2008 and renamed itself back to Bouley Restaurant. His other restaurant, Danube also initially received two Michelin stars. The Danube location was transformed into a new entity designed by Architect SuperPotato or Takashi Sugimoto called, \"Brushstroke Restaurant\". Brushstroke Restaurant, located at 30 Hudson Street, opened in April 2011, is a combined effort between Bouley and the Tsuji Culinary Institute in Osaka, to share Japanese food culture and products while integrating American ingredients. Bouley Test Kitchen is a private event and testing learning center for visiting guest chefs and to develop recipes for the Bouley entities. The facilities were used by the American Team for the Bocuse d'Or Competition 2011. Bouley Botanical, on another corner in TriBeCa, located at 281 Church Street, is an event space dedicated to cultivating nutrient-rich plants, served in the flagship Bouley Restaurant. It also serves as an educational forum to develop creative healthy eating lifestyle through its lecture series: The Chef & The Doctor. Chef David Bouley, was presented with the Gohan Societyβs βWashoku Ambassador Awardsβ. Honorees exemplify the spirit of Washoku in their cooking and their everyday lives. βWashokuβ means the βharmony of foodβ in Japanese, and it is associated with an essential spirit of respect for nature that is closely related to the sustainable use of natural resources. In the summer of 2006, David married collaborator Nicole Bartelme, pioneer of the TriBeCa Film Festival, artist and photographer.
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Keith Edwards (born 16 July 1957) was an English footballer. Edwards actually started his early career as a youth player with Leyton Orient in London, as his father was an Orient supporter. He became homesick and joined Sheffield United. A prolific goalscorer, he had two spells (1975β1978 and 1981β1986) at Sheffield United for whom he scored 171 goals in 293 appearances. Whilst with the Blades, he was the highest scoring player in a division twice, scoring 36 goals (one for Hull City) in Division 4 in 1981β82 and 33 goals in Division 3 in 1983β84. The latter haul earned Edwards his second Adidas Golden Boot award. His debut for United came in a FA Cup Third Round Tie against Leicester City on 3 January 1976 and his League debut came on 28 February 1976 in a Division 1 game against Queens Park Rangers. However, his first goal didn't arrive until the next season in Division 2 against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 24 August 1976. In between his time at Bramall Lane he played for Hull City who paid Β£50,000 for Edwards in 1978. Ian Porterfield bought him back for Β£100,000 and played him for the first time against Scunthorpe United on 26 September 1981, the 1β0 home victory being the first of a 17-game unbeaten run. Edwards scored his first two goals under Porterfield in a 4β0 win over Crewe Alexandra three days later. He formed an impressive partnership with Bob Hatton, feeding off the distribution of Colin Morris as United ended the season with 19 games without defeat to win the Fourth Division Championship, his 35 goals being a post-war record. His final appearance for United came in a pre-season friendly at Bramall Lane against Spanish club Sevilla FC on 1 August 1986. He began the 1986β87 season at Leeds United after a transfer fee of Β£125,000 but only managed 9 goals in 51 appearances, although one of those was against Coventry City in the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough in 1987. Despite his efforts, Leeds lost the game 3-2. They also missed out on promotion to the First Division weeks later, losing the relegation/promotion playoff final to Charlton Athletic in a replay. Aberdeen secured his services later in 1987 and he returned to Hull City in 1988. He later played for Stockport County, Huddersfield Town and finished his career at Plymouth Argyle in 1990. He is one of the select band of players to have scored over 250 league goals in English football, although almost all of his career was spent outside the top flight. In recent years, Keith has worked for BBC Radio Sheffield commentating on matches involving one of his former clubs, Sheffield United.
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Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (June 14, 1907 β October 14, 1991) was a lawyer, politician, and academic, serving as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and in the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. A great-grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot and grandson of Charles William Eliot, Eliot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into the prominent Eliot family. He attended Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, graduated from Harvard University in 1928 and was a student at Emmanuel College in Cambridge University, from 1928-29. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1932 and was admitted to the bar in 1933, commencing practice in Buffalo, New York. He served as assistant solicitor in the United States Department of Labor from 1933β35 and as general counsel for the Social Security Board from 1935β38. He was a lecturer on government at Harvard University in 1937-38, and regional director of the Wage and Hour Division in the Department of Labor in 1939-40. In 1938 Eliot, a Democrat, ran for election to the Seventy-sixth Congress, losing to Republican Robert Luce. Eliot defeated Luce in a rematch in 1940, winning election to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941 β January 3, 1943). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress and for nomination in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; both times his successful opponent was the colorful longtime Boston politician James M. Curley. Eliot saw war service in 1943 as director of the British Division, Office of War Information, London, England, and special assistant to the United States Ambassador. In 1943-44 he was chairman of the appeals committee of the National War Labor Board. He served with the Office of Strategic Services in 1944, and from November 1944 to November 1945 was chief counsel of the Division of Power, U.S. Department of the Interior. In addition, Eliot served as New England chairman of the United Negro College Fund. After the war, Eliot engaged in the practice of law in Boston from 1945β50, before returning to university life. In 1952 he was appointed professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis, where he wrote Governing America; the Politics of a Free People: National, State, and Local Government, and American Government: Problems and Readings in Political Analysis. He was a professor of constitutional law from 1958-61. In 1961 he moved to the Washington University College of Liberal Arts, serving as dean in 1961β62, and chancellor from 1962β71. He also served as vice chairman of the United States Commission on Intergovernmental Relations from 1963β67 and as president of the Salzburg Global Seminar from 1971β77; and as a teacher at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Mass. (his high school alma mater, which had merged with another school), from 1977β85. Eliot was a resident of Cambridge until his death there in 1991. He was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Ed Gamble (born 10 March 1986) is a British stand-up comedian, best known for co-presenting The Peacock and Gamble Podcast. Educated at Durham University, he began his comedy career performing with the Durham Revue, and was a finalist in the 2007 Chortle Student Comedy Awards. Gamble's early work was alongside Ray Peacock, with whom he presented two different series of podcasts, totalling over 100 episodes. He has also appeared on television, performing a fifteen-minute set on the extended version of Russell Howard's Good News in late 2010. He is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he appeared in 2011, 2012 and 2013 with Peacock. Gamble also recorded a series of radio shows with Ray Peacock on FUBAR Radio. Peacock and Gamble were named as the act creating the biggest \"Buzz\" in Edinburgh Fringe history in 2013. In 2014 Ed debuted solo at Edinburgh Fringe with his Gambletron 5000 show. He returned in 2015 with his Lawman show and in 2016 with Stampede. Ed's stand-up performances contain much observational comedy, often aimed at himself, covering subjects such as weight issues and his adult circumcision. Gamble also appeared, in 2015, with Amy Hoggart in Almost Royal, a new faux-reality show on BBC America. They played a brother and sister, Georgie and Poppy Carlton. The show was shown on E4 in the UK and was followed by a second series in 2016. Gamble has appeared on Mock the Week in July, September and October 2015 and then again in July and October 2016.
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Marie-Paule Nolin (nΓ©e Archambault) (1908 in Saint-Hyacinthe β 1987 in Montreal) was a French Canadian high-fashion designer who lived and worked in the province of Quebec, Canada. Marie-Paule Archambault started out as a vendeuse for Raoul-Jean FourΓ© who had launched his fashion house in Montreal in about 1927. At the age of 26 she launched a dressmaking business on what would become the De Maisonneuve Boulevard. She received publicity early on through her participation in a charity fashion show at the Windsor Hotel, and after a trip to Paris where she visited several fashion salons, she came back to launch her own fashion salon at 648 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal in 1936. From 1941-1949, she ran a couture workroom, employing about twenty workers, in the department store Holt Renfrew from MontrΓ©al, where her creations could be purchased from the Salon Marie-Paule. Marie-Paule married Jean Nolin in 1949, and they had two daughters, Patricia and Marie-Claire. From 1949 to 1955 Marie-Paule worked from home, until in 1955 she relocated her business to an office at 1426 Sherbrooke Street, operating as 'Marie-Paule Haute Couture'. The following year she became President of the Association of Canadian Couturiers (ACC), whose purpose was to promote Canadian high fashion design. Along with FourΓ© (the ACC's first President), other founding members included Colpron d'Anjou, Marcel Martel, Jacques de Montejoye, and Federica of Toronto. From 1959 to 1965, she was part of the crew of the weekly radio program Femina at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal, informing the audience about design and its philosophical and historical background and development. In 1962, Nolin lost a lot of her work in a house fire, and subsequently relocated to 420 Bonsecours Street. In 1969 she launched a ready-to-wear line, although her refusal to compromise by using cheaper fabrics led to the failure of the venture. Marie-Paule Nolin retired in 1974, and closed her business, which was the last couture establishment in Montreal. In 1984, a major retrospective of her work was presented by the McCord Museum in Montreal. The Museum also manages the Marie-Paule Nolin Study Award, an academic award whose aim is to support fashion and textile research projects which make specific use of the McCord's collections.
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Mortimer B. Cleveland (1883 β ?) was an American architect of Waterloo, Iowa, and was \"one of Waterloo's most prominent architects\". He attended the University of Illinois and received bachelors and masters in architecture. He designed almost 40 homes in the Highland District of Waterloo during 1909 to 1926. He also designed commercial and public buildings. He worked creatively until 1969, age 86. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (with attribution): \n* Bremer County Court House, 415 E. Bremer Ave. Waverly, IA (Cleveland, Mortimer B.), NRHP-listed \n* Dr. Salsbury's Laboratories, Main Office and Production Laboratory Building, 500 Gilbert St. Charles City, IA (Cleveland, Mortimer), NRHP-listed \n* one or more works in Highland Historic District, roughly bounded by Independence Ave., Steely, Idaho, and Vine Sts. Waterloo, IA (Cleveland,Mortimer B.), NRHP-listed \n* one or more works in North Grinnell Historic District, Park to W., 6th Ave. to 11th Ave. Grinnell, IA (Cleveland, Mortimer \n* Roosevelt Elementary School, 200 E. Arlington St. Waterloo, IA (Cleveland, Mortimer B.), NRHP-listed \n* YMCA Building, 154 W. 4th St. Waterloo, IA (Cleveland,Mortimer), NRHP-listed
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John Wishart (May 27, 1850 β November 6, 1926) was a Canadian surgeon and pioneer medical educator. Wishart was the first professor of surgery at the University of Western Ontario. He was a pioneer surgical educator in Canada prior to the Flexner Report. Some of his lectures are preserved as student notes by the library at the University of Western Ontario. His resignation after 27 years as Professor of Clinical Surgery may have been due to Flexner's negative comments about the school. Wishart was a founding fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Wishart was educated at the University of Toronto at the same time as William Osler. As a young surgeon in 1874, he assisted Abraham Groves in one of the first operations to use modern aseptic technique. In 1886, he performed an appendectomy becoming an early practitioner of that surgery. Wishart published early articles regarding several surgical procedures, including nephrectomy and strangulated inguinal hernia After leaving the University of Western Ontario, he became the founding surgeon-in-chief at the newly built St Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario. Despite being Presbyterian, he had an excellent relationship with the Catholic Sisters of St. Joseph who ran the hospital.
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Thomas Dekker (born 6 September 1984) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights included winning TirrenoβAdriatico in 2006 and Tour de Romandie in 2007. He won two Dutch National Time Trial Championships and represented his country at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece. A few days before the start of the 2009 Tour de France, it was announced that Dekker had tested positive for EPO in a retroactive test carried out on a urine sample taken in December 2007. Dekker initially protested his innocence but he later admitted to using EPO, claiming it was a one-time mistake. He eventually admitted to using EPO over at least parts of the 2007 and 2008 seasons, although he declined to give exact dates. Dekker was suspended for two years, from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2011. Dekker's career has been marked by other doping allegations. He was a client of Luigi Cecchini, an Italian doctor who was investigated in relation to doping matters, though Dekker adamantly denies that Cecchini was involved in his doping. In 2009 he was also questioned in the Humanplasma doping scandal, a suspected doping ring connected to Austrian manager Stefan Matschiner. Dekker retired in March 2015 after narrowly failing to set a new hour record.
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Werner Haas (March 3, 1931 β October 11, 1976) was a German classical pianist. He was known for his performances of early 20th century compositions, particularly those of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. He had a wide repertoire that also included works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and the complete works for piano and orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and attended the Stuttgart Academy of Music. Later he was a student of Walter Gieseking in his SaarbrΓΌcken master-classes. After a successful recital career throughout Europe in the 1950s, he signed a multi-year recording contract with Philips Records. His recording of the complete works of Debussy was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque in 1970. Other recordings of Ravel by Haas were given the Amsterdam Edison Prize, also in 1970. He died in an auto accident in France in 1976.
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Nicholas Ernest (Nick) de Firmian (born July 26, 1957 in Fresno, California), is a chess grandmaster and three-time U.S. chess champion, winning in 1987 (with Joel Benjamin), 1995, and 1998. He also tied for first in 2002, but Larry Christiansen won the playoff. He is also a chess writer, most famous for his work in writing the 13th, 14th, and 15th editions of the important chess opening treatise Modern Chess Openings. He has represented the United States at several Interzonals and played on the United States Olympiad teams of 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1998, and 2000. De Firmian earned the International Master title in 1979 and the GM title in 1985. He currently resides in Denmark with his wife, Christine, who is a chess expert and past member of the Danish Women's Chess Team. He won the 1983 Canadian Open Chess Championship. In 1986, he won the World Open and the first prize of $21,000, at that time a record for a Swiss system tournament. De Firmian was a founding member of Prochess, a grandmaster advocacy group dedicated to promoting chess in the United States. He has a degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Grandmaster de Firmian is a noted expert on the chess openings and in 1990 he revised Modern Chess Openings, 13th edition (MCO-13). In 1999 he wrote the 14th edition of Modern Chess Openings (MCO-14), which, along with Nunn's Chess Openings (NCO), is considered an outstanding single volume opening reference in English. He also helped prepare the chess opening book for the IBM Deep Blue team for its successful 1997 match with Garry Kasparov. In 2006 he revised and expanded the classic 1921 book Chess Fundamentals, by JosΓ© Capablanca. The edition was harshly criticized by chess historian Edward Winter, who claimed that de Firmian \"destroyed\" the book by changing Capablanca's writing and removing games from previous editions to include new games not played by Capablanca. De Firmian also wrote the 15th edition of MCO, which was published in April 2008.
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Thomas McNaughton (born October 9, 1983) is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He is the chef and owner of flour+water, central kitchen and salumeria in San Francisco, California. Thomas involvement with local farmersβ markets for the last 10 years has enabled him to develop close relationships with various producers in the Bay area. These relationships are very important to him and allow him to be involved in the production of the meat and produce that he uses in all of his restaurants. He has been especially dedicated to CUESA and Outstanding in the Field. Thomas has been nominated three years in a row by the James Beard Foundation for the Rising Star Chef of the Year Award (2011, 2010, 2013). In 2011, Forbes featured Thomas as one of 30 under 30 most influential personalities in the food and beverage world. In 2012, Thomas represented the β20βsβ in Food & Wineβs βAmerican Icons at Every Age feature. That same year, Food & Wine Magazine named him one of the 10 βEmpire Buildersβ.
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Robert C. F. Gordon (March 19, 1920 β June 12, 2001) was an American diplomat, appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius. He graduated with a B.A. in 1941 and an M.A. (1949) from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1941 to 1946, Gordon was with the Bethlehem Steel Corp., and from 1946 to 1948, he was with Tri-Metals Corp. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1950 and served as a foreign affairs analyst at the U.S. State Department and then as a political officer in Baghdad and Khartoum. In 1961 to 1963, he was a personnel officer at the State Department, and he attended the National War College from 1963 to 1964. From then on until 1965, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Dar es Salaam. From 1965 to 1970, Gordon was the counselor for political-military affairs in Rome. He then was special assistant for welfare and grievances at the State Department from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1978, he was the consul general in Florence. Gordon was appointed by Jimmy Carter to be United States Ambassador to Mauritius in 1980. He would replace Samuel Rhea Gammon III, who resigned. He was coordinator for the handicapped at the State Department from 1978-1980.
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Jeffrey Edward Gray (born April 10, 1963 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played from 1988 to 1991 for the Cincinnati Reds (1988) and Boston Red Sox (1990β91). Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 175 lb., Gray batted and threw right-handed. He was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1984 out of Florida State University. A forkball specialist, Gray started his professional career in 1984 in the Phillies' minor league system, pitching for two years before joining the Cincinnati organization. In 1986, he posted a 14β2 record with a 2.35 ERA and 15 saves for Double-A Vermont, and in 1988, he went 8β5 with five saves and a 1.97 in 42 appearances for Triple-A Nashville, gaining promotion to the Reds during midseason. He recorded a 3.86 ERA in five games and did not have a decision, returning to Triple-A the next year. Then, he rejoined Philadelphia before the 1990 season. At the end of the 1990 spring training, Gray was told by the Phillies that he had not made the club; they asked him to go to Double-A Reading. Gray rejected the offer and signed with Triple-A Pawtucket, arriving to the Boston Red Sox during the midseason to become a significant contributor to the American League division winners. Gray collected nine saves, but seven of them came in seven chances from August 19 through September 10 as he filled in for injured closer Jeff Reardon. On July 30, 1991, Gray was preparing to go out onto the field for his daily routine. He never made it, as his right side went numb, and he suffered what was diagnosed as a kind of stroke (CVA), ending what had been a brilliant season. One of the best middle relievers of the league at this time, he allowed only 39 hits in 61 β
innings as he had a 2.34 ERA. On the other hand, opposing batters hit a .181 average against him (LH .200, RH .161), the best of any reliever but Bryan Harvey. He also went down in July and still finished third in the league with 19 holds. Gray missed the rest of the 1991 and 1992 seasons while recuperating from the stroke. He attempted to return to baseball over the following two seasons, but had lost a lot of velocity on his fastball and was never able to return to the majors. Gray later returned to the game as a pitching coach. As of 2003, he was the pitching coach for the Gulf Coast League Reds. He is also co-owner of Beef O'Brady's Restaurant in Sarasota, Florida along with former Red Sox teammate Jody Reed. In a three-season career, Gray posted a 4β7 record with a 3.33 ERA and 10 saves in 96 appearances, including a 3.31 strikeout-to-walk ratio (96-to-29) in 121 β
innings of work.
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Eric Lobron (born 7 May 1960) is a German chess player of American descent. A former two-time national champion, he has been awarded the title Grandmaster by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, he moved with his family to Germany at the age of five and was subsequently raised in the city of Wiesbaden. It was soon apparent that he had a talent for the game and he became the national junior champion in 1978. Just two years later, his continued rapid progress enabled him to attain International Master status and win the West German Championship at Bad Neuenahr. Buoyed by success, it was not long before he decided to become a full-time chess professional, whereupon he broke from his law degree to embark on the international chess tournament circuit. There were several notable achievements from the outset, including victories at Biel 1981 (with Vlastimil Hort), Ramat Hasharon 1982 and Manila 1982 (with Lev Polugaevsky). His qualification as a Grandmaster occurred the same year and he followed up with several more tournament wins, either outright or shared; at New York Kavkasian 1983 and New York Manhattan 1985 (both invitation tournaments), Biel 1986 (again with Lev Polugaevsky), Brussels and Ter Apel (both 1987), Lyons 1988 (with Simen Agdestein), the strong New York (Open) 1992 as sole winner, Wiesbaden and Graz (both 1993), Bad Zwesten 2000 and Wijk aan Zee 2003. Meanwhile, he was West German Champion for a second time in 1984. In attempting to reach the latter stages of the (PCA) World Championship, he scored well at the Groningen 1993 qualifying tournament, outperforming many players rated more highly, including Judit PolgΓ‘r, Veselin Topalov and Evgeny Bareev. In team chess, he was for many years a stalwart of the Bundesliga and represented Germany at all of the Olympiads between 1980β96, except for the event held at Dubai in 1986. At the European Team Chess Championship (ETC) he played three times, in 1983, 1989 and 1992, being honoured with selection at top board on the first and last occasions. At the Olympiad, he earned an individual bronze medal for his board three performance in 1990 and at the ETC, earned a team bronze in 1989. Reputed to have been a successful trader on the stock market during profitable times, he acquired 'celebrity' status in 2004, when he became romantically involved with Estonian supermodel Carmen Kass, herself a keen chess player and President of the Estonian Chess Federation. On the lead up to the 2008 Olympiad, Kass campaigned to bring the event to her home country, but ultimately lost out to Dresden's bid. At the peak of his chess career, Eric Lobron had an Elo rating of 2625. Since the mid-2000s he has played little over-the-board chess, but competes online at The Internet Chess Club as Yardbird, where he holds one of the highest blitz ratings. He is also known to be a good player of Backgammon.
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Elmar Magerramov (born April 10, 1958 in Baku, Azerbaijan) is an international chess Grandmaster. In 1991, he shared first place in the last USSR Chess Championship held, with Artashes Minasian, losing the title on tiebreaks. In 1992, Magerramov became the first chess Grandmaster in the history of Azerbaijan. He has played with Kasparov several training matches and tournament games with an overall score of + 4 - 8 = 7. Along with his playing career, Elmar had an extensive coaching career as well. He has been National Team Coach of Tunis, coached Garry Kasparov during 1984 World Chess Championship and Maia Chiburdanidze during 1991 Women's Chess World Championship. Magerramov is currently living in UAE. He is married and has two sons. His main hobbies apart from chess are mathematics and music. He plays on the Internet Chess Club (ICC) under the pseudonym \"El-Marmalade\". The ninth chapter of Tibor Karolyi's 2009 book Genius in the Background is devoted to him.
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John Charles \"Jack\" Van Berg (born June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska) is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his father is Hall of Fame trainer, Marion Van Berg. Both father and son have been inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY. For nineteen straight years between 1959 and 1977, Jack Van Berg was the leading trainer at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1976, he set a record for the most wins in a year with 496 and was also the United States Champion Thoroughbred Trainer by earnings. The trainer of Gate Dancer, he was voted the 1984 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer and in 1985 he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In 1987 he received the Big Sport of Turfdom Award. He is also an inductee of the Nebraska Racing Hall of Fame. On July 15, 1987 Jack Van Berg became the first trainer to win 5,000 races when he sent Art's Chandelle to victory at Arlington Park. As at the end of September 2008, Jack Van Berg ranks second all-time in career wins among American Thoroughbred trainers. Jack Van Berg is best known for training Alysheba who won the 1987 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and the 1988 Breeders' Cup Classic. He has mentored many top trainers, including Hall of Famer Bill Mott and Frank Brothers, both of whom started off as assistants to Van Berg who has led all American trainers in wins nine times. The biography of his life (including the life of his father Marion H. Van Berg) is chronicled in the book \"JACK, From Grit To Glory - A Lifetime of Mentoring, Dedication and Perseverance\" written by Nebraska native Chris Kotulak; published in 2013. The book was a semi-finalist in the 2014 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award; the book website is: www.jackfromgrittoglory.com Jack Van Berg also has a Facebook page that is managed for him.
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Sherrill W. Ward (March 14, 1911 - February 23, 1984) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born in Miami, Florida, he was the son of trainer John Sherrill Ward. His brother, John T. Ward, also trained horses and ran Fort Springs Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Having learned the business from his father, in 1929 Sherrill Ward embarked on a training career of his own. Following the outbreak of World War II, Sherrill Ward served with the United States Armed Forces. After the war he resumed a training career that would see him condition Summer Tan to multiple stakes winning seasons for owner, Dorothy Firestone Galbreath. In 1957 and 1958, Ward trained Idun to back-to-back Championships, first as the American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and then as the Three-Year-Old Champion. However, he earned his greatest acclaim as the trainer of Forego whose five Eclipse Awards under Ward's care included two Horse of the Year honors. In 1974, Ward was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer. Health problems led to Sherrill Ward retiring in 1975 and turning over training of Forego to Frank Whiteley. In 1978, Ward was inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was living in a Hollywood, Florida nursing home at the time of his death in 1984.
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Sara Carrigan OAM (born 7 September 1980 in Gunnedah, New South Wales) is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto-Belisol Ladiesteam. She was formerly a member of Professional cycling Team, Van Bemmelen - AA Drink (NED). She lives in Nerang in Queensland and is a member of the Gold Coast Cats cycling club. She graduated from Somerset College in 1998 and completed her tertiary education at Griffith University Her greatest success as a road cyclist has been in the 2004 Summer Olympics Women's Road race where she won the gold medal. With a few laps to the finish Carrigan crossed a gap to the leading group to join fellow Australian cyclist, Oenone Wood. At the start of the final lap Carrigan broke away, with only Judith Arndt of Germany following, leaving Wood to successfully distract the rest in the following group, allowing her to win the gold medal. Carrigan was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Honours List. Other awards include Australian Female Road Cyclist of the Year in 2002, 2003, 2004. In 2009 Carrigan was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was an inaugural Cycling Australia Hall of Fame inductee.
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Greg Grossman is an American chef and television personality who gained notoriety as a teenager. Greg Grossman is the Founder of Culinaria Group, and the Co-Founder of Blank Slate Group. In 2014, Culinaria Group took over foodservice at the tony Hamptons venue, Georgica Restaurant and Lounge, with Greg as the Executive Chef, winning accolades from the Wall Street Journal, and many other Press outlets. In addition to this, Greg founded MYUMI, an innovative sushi dining concept with sushi chef Kazuo Yoshida, starting with a fully customized, 18-ft Omakase Sushi Bar Truck, that is currently operating in Miami. Greg also conceptualized and launched several locations of Mirage Kitchen, a fast-casual Middle Eastern chain that he developed for Fawaz Alhokair Retail Group of Saudi Arabia.In 2015, Culinaria Group launched and operated Beautique Restaurant and Lounge (www.BeautiqueDining.com) in Southampton, NY at the Capri Hotel as the director of this counterpart to Beautique NYC, run by Chef Alain Allegretti. 3 Years Ago, Greg Co-Founded the Northeastβs Premier healthy meal delivery company called Kettlebell Kitchen (www.KettlebellKitchen.com) with Partner Joe Lopez-Gallego, with the Goal to provide delicious and nutritious goal-oriented meals to offices and gyms. After 3 years, Kettlebell is delivering to the most locations of any competitor in the Northeast and has taken over the Healthy mealplan space. They continue to rapidly grow. In addition to these projects, Culinaria Group and Blank Slate Group became the Food and Beverage Operating Partner for the new V Hotel Palm Springs www.VPalmSprings.com, which is just finishing a $15,000,000 re-imagination from its former life as the Curve Palm Springs. Blank Slate Group was tasked with creating 2 Unique food and beverage concepts for the property, Solstice Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, and Elixir Bar and Grill, the latter of which opened in Palm Springs in April 2015 just in time for Festival Season. Solstice will be opening at the end of 2016. Blank Slate Group Recently Opened its Mediterranean Restaurant, OREYA Hamptons (www.OREYAHamptons.com), in Southampton, New York for the Summer 2016 Season on June 24th at The Capri Hotel... It has received major accolades including a coveted 3-Star Review in the New York Times for Chef Grossman's Cuisine...
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Denis Khismatullin (born 28 December 1984) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Born in Neftekamsk, Khismatullin lives in Ufa, and studied at the Ufa Oil University. He is the first grandmaster from Bashkiria. Khismatullin won the silver medal at the World U16 championship in 2000. In 2011 he tied for 4thβ10th with Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Gata Kamsky, Rauf Mamedov, Ivan Cheparinov, Maxim Rodshtein and Yu Yangyi in the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in the first round by Mikhail Kobalia.In 2013 Khismatullin tied for 1stβ11th with Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Kokarev, Alexander Areshchenko, Maxim Matlakov, Oleg Korneev, Dragan Solak, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Sanan Sjugirov, Ivan Bukavshin and Ildar Khairullin in the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg. He has also served as Dmitry Jakovenko's second. In December 2013, he won the 8th Ugra Governor's Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. In January 2014, Khismatullin won a friendly eight-game match with Salem A. R. Saleh by 7-1. Soon after, in the same month, he won the Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial in Taganrog. This latter three achievements enabled him to cross the 2700 Elo rating mark in the March 2014 FIDE rating list. He finished third in the Superfinal of the 2014 Russian Chess Championship behind Igor Lysyj and Dmitry Jakovenko respectively. Khismatullin tied for 2ndβ4th place with David Navara and Mateusz Bartel, finishing fourth on tiebreak, in the 2015 European Individual Chess Championship, held in Jerusalem. This result qualified him for the Chess World Cup 2015, where he was eliminated in the first round by Alexander Areshchenko. That same year Khismatullin won the Rashid Nezhmetdinov Memorial tournament in Kazan.In December 2015 he won the Russian Rapid Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk.
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Vittorio Leonardi (born 2 January 1977) is a South African stand-up comedian and actor. As a comedian, he has performed as a member of Joe Parker's Comedy Express, as well as performing improvisational theatre with Joe Parker's Improv Express, and has appeared on stages in Witbank, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Vereeniging, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Pietermaritzburg, Durban and Cape Town. In television, he has appeared in the Laugh Out Loud (2005) series as part of the team that pranked South African comedian and show host Jeremy Mansfield, and as a shady gun dealer on the show One Way (2006). Leonardi appeared in the 2007 New York Underground Comedy Festival. In 2008, he received nominations in the Acappella Comedy Industry Awards, and received the Trusty Steed Award for the most reliable and dependable comic, and the Scribe Award for fastest turnaround of new material. In May 2009, he became the head writer for and one of the performers in the political satire show, The Last Say on Sunday, hosted by Darren Maule, and aired on SABC 3. Also in 2009, he appeared in the Academy Award-nominated science-fiction movie District 9. In January 2011 he became a script writer for SABC 1βs popular celebrity gossip show The Real Goboza Reloaded. In 2012, Vittorio penned a one man show entitled Vittorio's Secret, which was first performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. In the same year he was nominated for a Comics Choice Award in the Times Comic Pen Award Category.
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Vittorio_Leonardi
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Vittorio Leonardi
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David Charles Purley, GM (26 January 1945 β 2 July 1985) was a British racing driver born in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, who participated in 11 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting at Monaco in 1973. Purley is best known for his actions at the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix, where he abandoned his own race and attempted to save the life of fellow driver Roger Williamson, whose car was upside down and on fire following a serious accident. Purley was awarded the George Medal for his courage in trying to save Williamson, who suffocated in the blaze. During pre-qualifying for the 1977 British Grand Prix Purley sustained multiple bone fractures after his car's throttle stuck open and he crashed into a wall. His deceleration from 173 km/h (108 mph) to 0 in a distance of 66 cm (26 in) is one of the highest G-loads survived in a crash. He scored no championship points during his Formula One career. He died in a plane crash, having retired from motorsport and taken up aerobatics, in 1985.
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Bernardino Capitelli (1589β1639) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period. He was born in Siena. He became a pupil of Alessandro Casolani, and then of Rutilio Manetti, and between the years 1622 and 1637 was active in both at Rome and at Siena. Among his etchings are a Portrait of Alessandro Casolani, a St. Anthony of Padua (1637), a Marriage of St. Catharine after Correggio, a nocturnal Repose in Egypt after Rutilio Manetti, a Lot and his Daughters after Manetti. He also made a Ceres drinking in the Cottage of the old and a set of twelve plates of the Life of St. Bernard of Siena. He also etched a set of friezes and basso-relievi, among them, the Aldobrandini Marriage from an antique painting. Capitelli overcame his shortcomings as a draughtsman and achieved the unique position of virtually the only tenebrist etcher in Italy. The use of abrupt contrasts of light and dark is characteristic of Capitelli's work.
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Carlo Cannovaro Caliari (1570β1596) was an Italian artist of the Renaissance period. He is also known as Carletto. The youngest son of Paolo Veronese, Caliari was active mainly in Venice, where he worked and inherited the studio of his far more famous father, and later worked along with his uncle, Benedetto. His name is attached to several large pictures of banquets in Veronese's style. Alessandro Turchi worked briefly under him. As the most talented member of his father's workshop, he undoubtedly executed many works that are attributed to his father. Works that have been clearly isolated as Carlo's own are more precise and delicate, both technically and in the physical types; they lack Veronese's bravura, whether in the line and wash of a chiaroscuro drawing or in the richly layered pigments that make an embroidered drape. His early signed works show the influence of both his father and the Bassano family by whom he was trained. They include Angelica and Medoro (c. 1584; Padua, Barbieri priv. col.), which has a preciousness in the landscape and in details of foliage and coiffures that sets it apart from Veronese's work. The signed Nativity (c. 1588; Brescia, S Afra) combines narrative detail typical of the Bassano with morphological similarities to Veronese. There are similar characteristics in frescoes at the Villa Loredan, Sant'Urbano, Padua, that are assigned to Carlo by Crosato.
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Dr Edmund Cadbury Hambly (28 September 1942 β 28 March 1995) was a British structural engineer. Edmund Hambly was born in Seer Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1942. He went to Eton College prior to studying the engineering tripos at Cambridge University. He excelled there gaining a first class honours degree and claiming the prize in structural engineering. Staying at Cambridge as a fellow of Emmanuel College he completed his doctorate following work on soil deformation models. It was here that he met and married Elizabeth Gorham with whom he would have three daughters and a son. Hambly left academia to spend five years working with Ove Arup and Partners in the design of structures and Gifford and Partners in bridge building. He devised new models and work methods for the approximation of structural behaviour which he published in 1976 in his first book, Bridge Deck Behaviour. In 1974 he set up his own consultancy and worked from his home in Hertfordshire, writing more than 40 technical papers to supplement his income. One of his first contracts was to investigate the design of bridge foundations for the Building Research Establishment, publishing some of his findings in Bridge Foundations and Substructures in 1979. He was asked by the oil and gas extraction industries to advise upon offshore platforms damaged by wave fatigue and collisions. His expertise in the industry was widely recognized and he was created a fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1982, of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984 and of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1991. He also served as chairman of the Offshore Engineering Society between 1989 and 1990. He worked as a visiting professor at Oxford University from 1989 to 1992 lecturing in structural analysis, he wrote his third book, Structural Analysis by Example (1994) to provide examples of calculations for students. Hambly had a keen interest in the provision of better social housing and encouraging community spirit as well as a quaker upbringing, he united these beliefs in his service as a trustee to the Bournville Village Trust between 1979 and 1988. He was created a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1990 and was keen to use this to promote engineering to young people and society as a whole. He was elected vice-president in 1991 and President in 1994. He used his inaugural address to show the need to attract students into engineering degrees and to provide more sustainable solutions to engineering problems. However he died in London on 28 March 1995, just five months into his one-year presidency. A prize in his honour is awarded annually by the Institution of Civil Engineers for contributions to sustainability in the industry. He was posthumously awarded an honorary doctorate of science by Nottingham University in 1996.
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Ferdinand Porsche (3 September 1875 β 30 January 1951) was an automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, several other important developments and Porsche automobiles. In addition, Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, which was the first racing car with a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout. Porsche was an important contributor to the German war effort during World War II. He was involved in the production of advanced tanks such as the VK 4501 (P), Tiger I, Tiger II, Elefant, and Panzer VIII Maus, as well as other weapon systems, including the V-1 flying bomb. Porsche was a member of the German Nazi party and allegedly the SS (see below). He was a recipient of the German National Prize for Art and Science, the SS-Ehrenring and the War Merit Cross. He was called the Great German Engineer by Nazi propaganda. In 1996 Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and in 1999 posthumously won the award of Car Engineer of the Century.
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(For other people named Allan Quartermain, see Allan Quartermain (disambiguation).) Sir Allan Stephen Quartermaine CBE, MC, BSc (Eng) (9 November 1888 β 17 October 1978) was a British civil engineer. Allan Stephen Quartermaine was born in London on 9 November 1888 and, after attending Highgate School, was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering at University College London, where he was a Chadwick Scholar and later a Fellow. He served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry as a Temporary Captain. Quartermaine was promoted to Acting Major on 24 May 1919, a rank he relinquished on 15 June 1919. Between the wars he worked for Hertfordshire County Council Surveyorβs Department, Teesside Bridge and Engineering and for Great Western Railway, where he became Assistant Chief Engineer, but he remained liable for recall to the British Army as he was a Captain of the Royal Engineers (Transportation) in the Supplementary Reserve of Officers, being promoted to Major in that unit on 19 November 1924. Quartermaine resigned from the Supplementary Reserve on 1 January 1926, transferring immediately to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers whilst retaining his rank and association with the Royal Engineers. He reached the age limit (50) for recall to the British Army on 9 November 1938 and as of that date ceased to be a member of the British Army reserves. He was Director-General, Aircraft Production Factories in 1940 and Chief Engineer, Great Western Railway and Western Region of British Railways from 1940β51. Quartermaine also served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer unit which provided technical expertise to the British Army. He was appointed Colonel in this corps on 29 October 1943 and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the same year. Quartermaine was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in May 1951 for the November 1951 to November 1952 session. On 7 September 1954 Quartermaine and Geoffrey Jellicoe were appointed members of the Royal Fine Art Commission to replace William Halcrow and John Summerson respectively. Quartermaine was awarded a knighthood on 2 January 1956, this was conferred by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 10 July 1956. He retired from the Royal Fine Arts Commission on 18 November 1960. Quartermaine died in 1978.
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Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866β1922), known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers's early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father's 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father's social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam. One of Childers' best-known works is a portrait of her father; another is her own self portrait from 1889. Other of her better-known works are \"Children Playing Hoops in the Street, Arromanches\" and \"The Pannier market, Barnstaple\". Her style shows influences from the Impressionists.
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David Alexander Liddell (born June 15, 1966 in Los Angeles) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He caught one game for the New York Mets in 1990. He hit a single in his only Major League at bat, on June 3, 1990, giving him a lifetime batting average of 1.000. His Major League slugging percentage and on-base percentage are also 1.000. His at bat came in the 8th inning of a game against the Philadelphia Phillies as a pinch hitter for Mets' catcher Mackey Sasser against pitcher Pat Combs. His hit came on the only Major League pitch he ever faced; author George Rose estimates that his Major League career as a hitter thus lasted only about 20 seconds. He scored a run later in the inning. He also caught one inning with one putout for a lifetime fielding percentage of 1.000. After the 1990 season, he was signed by the Cincinnati Reds as a free agent, but he never played in the Reds' system. Liddell was a 4th round draft pick of the Chicago Cubs in 1984 β the 83rd overall pick in the draft β after attending Rubidoux High School in Riverdale, California. He was traded to Mets with minor league pitcher Dave Lenderman on June 30, 1986 in exchange for pitcher Ed Lynch. He also played in the Milwaukee Brewers' and Baltimore Orioles' organizations. In 529 minor league games between 1984 and 1992 he had a batting average of .215 with 24 home runs and at least 109 runs batted in in 1505 at bats. He had a minor league slugging percentage of .309. He also pitched in one game for the unaffiliated Reno Silver Sox in 1988, giving up one run in 2/3 of an inning. He also played as a first baseman in 13 games over the course of his minor league career. Liddell played in 18 games for the 1986 South Atlantic League champion Columbia Mets and 32 games for the 1991 American Association champion Denver Zephyrs.
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Tiffany Travis (born March 20, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Travis was born in Picayune, Mississippi. She attended Harrison Central High School in Gulfport, Mississippi, where she played high school basketball for the Harrison Central Red Rebels. She graduated from Harrison Central in 1996. She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida, and Travis excelled for coach Carol Ross's Florida Gators women's basketball team from 1996 to 2000. Travis was a second-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection as a senior in 2000. She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in 2000. Travis was selected in the second round, 11th pick overall, of the 2000 WNBA Draft by the Charlotte Sting. She played in all 32 games, starting 12 of them, as a rookie. She scored 10 or more points on four occasions, including a career-high of 16. Among her 2000 Sting teammates, she scored the fifth highest point total (173), and was sixth in points per game (5.4). Her 81 rebounds were the fifth most on the team. Her 31 steals were the third highest on the Sting, and seventh highest among 2000 WNBA rookies. She led the Sting in three-point field goal percentage (48.0%), and was fourth in three-point field goals made (12) and attempted (25). Her WNBA career ended as a result of a 2001 knee injury.
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Raymond Francis Clevenger (born June 6, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from the U.S. state of Michigan. Clevenger was born in Chicago and attended schools in Oak Park, Illinois, graduating from high school in 1944. He served in the United States Army Medical Corps from July 1944 to July 1946. He resumed his education and attended Roosevelt University in Chicago and the London School of Economics and Political Science. While at Roosevelt, he was elected student council president, and served alongside future Chicago mayor Harold Washington, who was the student council vice president. He graduated from Roosevelt University in 1949 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1952. He began the practice of law in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1953. He was a delegate to Democratic State Conventions, 1954β1964 and a delegate to the 1956 Democratic National Convention. He practiced law in Illinois, as well as Michigan, and before the United States federal courts and served as Chippewa County Circuit Court Commissioner, 1958β1960. He was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee, 1958β1960. He was also Michigan Corporation and Securities Commissioner, 1961β1963. In 1964, he defeated incumbent Republican Victor A. Knox to be elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the Eighty-ninth Congress, serving from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1967. He was known as one of the Michigan Five Fluke Freshmen and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966, and again in 1968, losing both times to Republican Philip Ruppe. Clevenger was appointed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as chairman, Great Lakes Basin Commission, 1967β1968. He later resumed the practice of law and campaigned in 1989 for Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, losing to Republican incumbent Gerald D. Jernigan. He currently resides in Ann Arbor.
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Robert E. \"Bob\" Holthus (June 24, 1934 β November 22, 2011) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus. Holthus is the all-time winningest trainer at Oaklawn Park and as of 2005 had won nine trainer's titles there. He also won training titles at Chicago's Arlington Park and Hawthorne Race Course, the Detroit Race Course, Ellis Park Racecourse in Henderson, Kentucky, Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, Louisiana plus a fall meeting at Turfway Park in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. Bob Holthus was the trainer for the Kentucky Derby entrants Greater Good and Pro Prado but is best known nationally as the trainer of Pure Clan and Lawyer Ron from the start of his career in 2005 until October 2006. Bob Holthus and his widow Bonnie owned the Kilkerry Farm at Royal, Arkansas near Hot Springs at the time of his death.
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Ellei Johndro (Shadowscene) is an American born photographer, musician and artist. Born in Maine and establishing herself in Los Angeles, she was the first female to document the hipster culture alongside the likes of The Cobrasnake and Merlin Bronques. When the Los Angeles Times did a Sunday feature they referenced her as the \"new breed of club chronicler\", comparing her to the New York nightlife photographers of the 1960s. Following in the footsteps of Robert Frank, she embarked on multiple US photographic tours illustrating the state and culture of America from 2007 to 2009.She has commonly been referenced as an \"unexpected nightlife Queen\" and was featured as one of the Top People in Los Angeles (2009). Her work has been featured in films and TV series including, Punks Not Dead and VH1's Remaking Vanilla Ice. She's also worked as a music and fashion photo journalist for Vogue, BPM, URB, Spin and more. Featured on the cover of Forth Magazine in 2009, she was introduced as forefronting the \"new weird\" and maintains a relationship with The Standard hotels doing installations for their various establishments.Johndro still continues her creative documentary work and has relocated to Philadelphia to focus on the culture and life in the city of Brotherly Love. In 2010, Johndro began her career as a musician under the name Biker Daughter while working with Jon Siebels of Eve 6. The first self-titled EP was released in 2010 along with a video for \"Carnivore\" which debuted on MTV's The Seven for upcoming artists to watch. She is currently in the studio for her follow-up album.
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title = "Robust Utility-Preserving Text Anonymization Based on Large Language Models",
author = "Yang, Tianyu and
Zhu, Xiaodan and
Gurevych, Iryna",
editor = "Che, Wanxiang and
Nabende, Joyce and
Shutova, Ekaterina and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1404/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1404",
pages = "28922--28941",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0",
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