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Question: Tell me a bio of Wil Nieves.
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"title": "Wil Nieves",
"text": "<s>Wil Nieves Wilbert \"Wil\" Nieves (born September 25, 1977) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher and current minor league coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies.</s><s>Playing career.</s><s>Playing career.:San Diego Padres. Nieves was selected by the Padres in the 47th round of the 1995 MLB draft. He made his major league debut on July 21, 2002, for the San Diego Padres, and played 28 games with them during their 2002 season.</s><s>Playing career.:Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels. Nieves was selected off waivers by the Anaheim Angels on December 20, 2002.</s><s>Playing career.:New York Yankees. He was traded to the New York Yankees for pitcher Bret Prinz. Nieves won a spot on the Yankees 2007 roster by beating out Todd Pratt and Raul Chavez during spring training. He served as the back-up catcher to Jorge Posada, but was primarily considered Mike Mussina's \"personal catcher.\" Joe Torre experimented with using Nieves to help bolster Mussina out of a rough stretch with good results. Nieves made"
},
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"title": "Wil Nieves",
"text": " his first career non-catching appearance in the ninth inning of a game on July 8, 2007, against the Angels; he played first base when the Yankees ran low on position players. Following an impressive 2-for-3 performance against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on July 21, 2007, Nieves was designated for assignment by the Yankees following news that they had acquired José Molina from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Though respected as a good defensive catcher, Nieves hit just.164 for the Yankees. \"It's just business and I really want this team to go all the way to the playoffs and, hopefully, win the World Series,\" Nieves said. \"They're a bunch of great guys. I love them, Torre and all those guys. They can improve the backup catcher and they're bringing in Molina. He's a great catcher, too.\" Nieves cleared waivers, and reported to the Yankees' Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on July 27, 2007. Nieves was the starting catcher for Scranton. He declared free agency in October 2007. He played for Licey in the Dominican Winter League during the off-season.</s><s>Playing career.:Washington Nationals. He started the 2008 season in"
},
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"title": "Wil Nieves",
"text": " the Washington Nationals organization with the Triple-A Columbus Clippers of the International League. On April 25, 2008, Nieves hit his first major-league home run, a walk-off home run to right field, to give the Nationals a 5–3 win over the Chicago Cubs. Nieves was the backup catcher to starter Jesus Flores in the 2009 season. Nieves was the backup catcher for Iván Rodríguez in 2010.</s><s>Playing career.:Milwaukee Brewers. On December 10, 2010, Nieves signed a one-year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers.</s><s>Playing career.:Atlanta Braves. He was traded to the Atlanta Braves on July 27, 2011, for $1. He was demoted to Triple-A Gwinnett shortly after, and J. C. Boscan was recalled to be the backup catcher.</s><s>Playing career.:Colorado Rockies. On December 18, 2011 Nieves signed a minor league deal with the Colorado Rockies worth $414,000. After hitting.409 with 1 HR in 18 games in spring training, he was reassigned before the season started. On May 25, 2012, Nieves was called up to replace Ramón Hernández, who was placed on the 15-day disabled"
},
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"title": "Wil Nieves",
"text": " list. Nieves was hitting.299 with 3 HR and 14 RBI in 28 games with Triple-A Colorado Springs. During his time up there, he acted as a mentor to Wilin Rosario and was used to try to solve Jeremy Guthrie's problems. On July 13, Nieves was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a turf toe in his right foot. However, on August 1, he was designated for assignment to clear roster space. Nieves was hitting.298 with 1 HR and 5 RBI in 16 games. He elected free agency on August 6.</s><s>Playing career.:Arizona Diamondbacks. Nieves signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks on August 6, 2012. Nieves scored a two-run homer on his debut August 9, 2012 at the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 6 to 3 win.</s><s>Playing career.:Philadelphia Phillies. On December 4, 2013, Nieves signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. Nieves made the Phillies Opening Day roster in 2014 as the backup catcher to Carlos Ruiz. On June 18, he injured his leg while running the bases during a start against Atlanta. He exited the game, and the Phillies recalled catcher Cameron Rupp to serve as Ruiz's backup while Nieves healed. Nieves"
},
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"title": "Wil Nieves",
"text": " had only played in 14 games to that date, all starts to give Ruiz some rest.</s><s>Playing career.:Return to San Diego Padres. Nieves signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres on February 4, 2015. He made the Padres' opening day roster as back-up to catcher Derek Norris after Tim Federowicz suffered a season-ending knee injury during spring training. Nieves appeared in six games for the Padres in 2015 and collected one hit in thirteen at-bats, an April 12 grand slam against the San Francisco Giants. Nieves was designated for assignment on May 4, 2015, and chose to become a free agent.</s><s>Playing career.:Braves organization. The Braves signed Nieves to a minor league contract, and he batted.238 for AAA Gwinnett, but the Braves released him on June 22, 2015.</s><s>Post-playing career. In 2019, Nieves joined the Boston Red Sox' minor league system as a coach with the Class A-Advanced Salem Red Sox.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Robert Guthrie.
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"title": "Robert Guthrie",
"text": "<s>Robert Guthrie Robert Guthrie, MD, Ph.D. (June 28, 1916 – June 24, 1995) was an American microbiologist, best known for developing the bacterial inhibition assay used to screen infants for phenylketonuria at birth, before the development of irreversible neurological damage. Guthrie also pioneered the collection of whole blood on specially designed filter paper, commonly known as \"Guthrie cards\" as a sample medium that could be easily collected, transported and tested. Although Guthrie is best known for developing the test for phenylketonuria, he worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the need to screen for treatable conditions and adapted his method to early screening tests for galactosemia and maple syrup urine disease.</s><s>Early life. Guthrie received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, although his education took a circuitous route, as he eventually earned six degrees in six years, including both a medical doctorate and a doctor of philosophy. While in school, Guthrie married Margaret, a fellow student, and they eventually had six children together. His early research into bacterial inhibition assays came while he was employed by the Staten Island Public Health Hospital, testing antibiotic sensitivity.</s><s>Research interests. Guthrie became interested in causes and prevention"
},
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"title": "Robert Guthrie",
"text": " of mental retardation after his son, John, was born disabled in 1947. Despite his work in the field, the cause of his son's disability was never diagnosed. In 1958, Guthrie's 15-month-old niece was diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU), a condition in which the body cannot metabolize phenylalanine. Untreated PKU results in irreversible neurological damage. After the discovery of PKU as a cause of mental retardation, Horst Bickel and colleagues discovered that it could be treated successfully with a diet low in phenylalanine. The main drawback in successful treatment of PKU was the delay in identifying affected individuals. The common test for PKU at the time was mixing urine with ferric chloride. The excess phenylpyruvic acid in the urine of an individual with PKU would produce a bright green colour when reacting with the ferric chloride. Infants do not excrete high enough concentrations of this compound to give a positive test result, thus delaying their diagnosis, and allowing irreversible damage to take place. Guthrie's disabled son had driven his interest in causes of mental retardation, the diagnosis of his niece with PKU turned his attention to preventable causes. Others working with children who had PK"
},
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"title": "Robert Guthrie",
"text": "U asked Guthrie to focus on a test that would allow for earlier identification, before irreversible damage had taken place.</s><s>The Guthrie test. Guthrie developed a simple method to screen for elevated phenylalanine levels using a bacterial inhibition assay. He cultured \"Bacillus subtilis\" on agar in the presence of a phenylalanine antagonist, inhibiting the growth. When exposed to blood from patients affected with PKU, the high levels of phenylalanine overcame the inhibition, and bacterial growth was visible. This assay was initially developed to allow monitoring of phenylalanine concentrations in known patients on dietary treatment using serum spotted onto filter paper. Guthrie recognized both the utility of this method as a screening test, and the need to eliminate serum as the sample type to minimize processing. He tested the assay using whole blood collected on filter paper from a heel stick. The collection of whole blood on special filter paper developed by Guthrie is still used in newborn screening programs around the world, allowing babies to be screened shortly after birth for a number of treatable conditions. After establishing a test that could identify PKU in whole blood spots, Guthrie set out to test his method, starting in an institution in New York. Here, his test correctly"
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"title": "Robert Guthrie",
"text": " identified all patients known to have PKU and also four who had previously been undiagnosed. In 1961, Guthrie and his lab started screening infants for PKU, a project that quickly expanded. In two years, they had tested 400,000 American newborns, and diagnosed 39 with PKU. This early diagnosis allowed for early treatment and avoidance of the most severe consequences of the disease. Throughout the 1960s, PKU testing expanded in the United States and around the world, eventually becoming required by law in many jurisdictions. With the success of PKU testing, Guthrie and his colleagues focused on screening tests for other diseases that can affect newborns. They developed bacterial inhibition assays for galactosemia and maple syrup urine disease that could be run using the same sample collection as the PKU test.</s><s>Patent controversy. Guthrie decided that commercial production would be the most efficient way to manufacture 400,000 test kits, so he approached the Ames Company, a division of Miles Laboratories, which manufactured the older PKU tests. Ames said it would only manufacture the kits if a patent was issued, so Guthrie filed a patent application in 1962 and signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Miles, under which he would receive no royalties and 5% of the proceeds"
},
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"title": "Robert Guthrie",
"text": " would be divided among the National Association for Retarded Children Research Fund, the Association for Aid of Crippled Children, and the University of Buffalo Foundation. Miles couldn't produce the kits fast enough, so Guthrie produced his own kits for 500 tests at a cost of $6 each. But in 1963, he found out that Ames planned to charge $262 for the same kit. Guthrie was appalled, but Ames wouldn't lower their price. Guthrie appealed to the U.S. Children's Bureau, which sponsored the field trial, and the Children's Bureau recommended that Miles not be granted exclusive commercial rights. Most of the funding to develop the tests had come from the Children's Bureau ($742,0000) and the Public Health Service ($251,700). The surgeon general determined that the invention belonged to the United States and abrogated the exclusive licensing agreement. The dispute was the subject of a May, 1965 hearing by the Monopoly Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Small Business of the U.S. Senate. Committee chair Russell B. Long (D-LA) denounced the award of private patent rights on federally funded research, and said, \"when the desire to make monopoly profits at the public's expense can adversely affect the health of our children, it"
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"title": "Robert Guthrie",
"text": " is time to call a halt to this immoral and evil practice.\" One of the defenders of Ames was Senator Birch Bayh (D-IN), who, with Senator Robert Dole (R-KS), in 1980 introduced the Bayh–Dole Act which allowed universities and small businesses to retain ownership of inventions developed with federal funding.</s><s>Legacy. PKU Day For the 100th birthday of Robert Guthrie the European Society for Phenylketonuria and Allied Disorders Treated as Phenylketonuria invited Patricia Guthrie to the annual conference to give a speech about her father. In subsequence she launched the Robert Guthrie Legacy Project to honor the efforts of Robert Guthrie to Phenylketonuria. His birthday, June 28, which is the same as the one of Horst Bickel, was taken up to launch the International PKU Day. International Neonatal Screening Day On June 28, 2021, IPOPI, ESID and ISNS launched the first International Neonatal Screening Day (INSD) as a tribute to Dr Robert Guthrie. INSD helps raise awareness about the value of neonatal screening, encourages improvements on existing screening programmes and the advancement of scientific developments.</s><s>See also. Robert Guthrie Legacy Project"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ernestine Eckstein.
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": "<s>Ernestine Eckstein Ernestine Eckstein (April 23, 1941 – July 15, 1992) was an African-American woman who helped steer the United States Lesbian and Gay rights movement during the 1960s. She was a leader in the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Her influence helped the DOB move away from negotiating with medical professionals and towards tactics of public demonstrations. Her understanding of, and work in, the Civil Rights Movement lent valuable experience on public protest to the lesbian and gay movement. Eckstein worked among activists such as Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, Barbara Gittings, Franklin Kameny, and Randy Wicker. In the 1970s she became involved in the black feminist movement, in particular the organization Black Women Organized for Action (BWOA).</s><s>Early life. Eckstein was born in Indiana in 1941. Her given name was Ernestine Delois Eppenger, though all her lesbian and gay activist work was done under the name Eckstein to protect herself from being outed in circles where it was not safe to be open. She graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 1963. Her undergraduate degree was in Magazine Journalism with a minor in Government and Russian. She moved to New York"
},
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " City soon after graduation in 1963 at the age of twenty-two. Upon moving she came into a lesbian identity and her activism as a lesbian began. Eckstein says of her sexual orientation:</s><s>Political organizing in the LGBT community. Eckstein began attending meetings of the New York Mattachine Society soon after she arrived in New York City, which led her to its sister organization DOB. In 1965, debates around the direction of the homophile movement were heating up. That same year Eckstein marched in Philadelphia at the first Annual Reminder Day and in front of the White House as the only person of color demonstrating. The original Mattachine Society's “old guard” leaders (versus the independent Mattachine Society of Washington who initiated the 1965 protests) wanted to continue pursuing homosexual rights via negotiations with doctors and psychologists while the younger activist wing desired to take the issue of equal civil rights for homosexuals to the people through lobbying government officials and demonstrating. Psychologists considered homosexuality to be a mental illness until 1973, when it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual in the third edition; until that point, homosexuality was perceived as a mental illness and therefore something to ‘fix’. This debate was equally strong within the DOB; Eckstein's appointment as DO"
},
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": "B New York chapter Vice President indicated a strategic push by the activist wing. Marcia M. Gallo writes, “Her [Eckstein’s] plan was to reach out to women who saw the gay struggle as linked to other civil rights issues and hope that during her time as vice president of the local chapter she would help build a more social action oriented group\". During the time that Eckstein was involved in DOB, until 1968, the “old guard” was still controlling the organization. In June 1965, DOB actually pulled out of the East Coast Homophile Organization (ECHO) because the coalition was increasing its involvement in protests for lesbian and gay rights. Eckstein was an important lesbian representative of the activist wing. She understood that she was living through a huge tactical shift for lesbian and gay activists and that it was an uphill battle. She said, “I think our movement is not ready for any forms of civil disobedience. I think this would solidify resistance to our cause. This situation will change eventually. But not now\". Eckstein believed that there should be a concentration on, “the discrimination by the government in employment and military service, the laws used against homosexuals,” and, “the rejection by the"
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " churches\". Eckstein, like the founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton, saw the connection between black American's struggle for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and the lesbian and gay struggle for equality and fostered the connection. To this day, many groups still do not acknowledge the connection between gay rights and rights for people of color. It was not until 2012 that Ben Jealous, President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) declared, \"Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,\" confirming that LGBT rights are now acknowledged as civil rights struggles by the NAACP.</s><s>Eckstein’s correspondence with Frank Kameny. Frank Kameny was one of the most significant figures in the American gay rights movement, co-founding the Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW), and, inspired by Stokely Carmichael's creation of the phrase Black is beautiful, created the slogan “Gay is Good” for the gay civil rights movement. In late 1965 and early 1966, Ernestine Eckstein and Frank Kameny corresponded by letters about Eckstein's wish to bring Kameny to speak on April 17, 1966 at DOB headquarters in New York City. Eckstein wanted Kam"
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": "eny's help to reinforce to DOB officers and members the need for activism and activist strategies and tactics in moving forward the lesbian and gay movement. Eckstein, writing to Kameny on February 12, 1966 said, “I want you to be free enough to say whatever you want, so to speak – about any aspect of the movement. Keep in mind my particular aim: to get these people to realize there is such a thing as the homophile movement and possibly begin to develop a fuller concept of themselves as part of it.” However, in a letter dated February 17, 1966, Eckstein informs Kameny that the DOB organization had decided to disinvite Kameny to speak at DOB. After three years in New York with the DOB Eckstein moved to Northern California to “focus on social justice issues…[she] joined Black Women Organized for Action…in the early 1970s\". Much less is known about Eckstein after she left New York. Interviews with previous DOB members revealed, “Eckstein had gotten tired of all the political wrangling and disagreements within DOB over strategies and tactics” and wanted “more political organization.” She left the movement on the East Coast for other political work advocating"
},
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " for women of color in California.</s><s>Political organizing in the Black feminist community. Eckstein's involvement with political activism started in the Civil Rights Movement at Indiana State, as a NAACP chapter officer. But Eckstein understood organizations like NAACP as, “structured with the white liberals in mind” and joined more progressive organizations like Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) once she moved to New York. Upon moving to the west coast, Eckstein joined the radical, activist group Black Women Organized for Action (BWOA). BWOA was a San Francisco organization collectively co-founded in 1973 by fifteen women including Aileen Hernandez, Patsy Fulcher, and Eleanor Spikes. The organization, “formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in response to the lack of representation of Black women in local women's organizing\". The group emerged from Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA). BWOPA, which functioned in an auxiliary fundraising role for men of color running for office, and had many members who wanted to shift to a space explicitly defined by Black women's concerns. “Though members had strong roots in the Civil Rights Movement … more so than any of the other organizations, BWOA exhibits a clear link to the Women's Movement\". BWOA was"
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " among the first Black feminist organizations in the United States. The fact that Eckstein chose to join BWOA reflects her radical political beliefs. The organization had a truly progressive model of collective responsibility and political philosophy. “The organization was structured so that leadership, work, and community involvement were shared among members willing to participate, and “a system of, three coordinators for a three-month tenure” was utilized. This created an emphasis on fostering Black women as leaders while simultaneously avoiding a hierarchy among Black female activists. This was a rare structure in comparison to sister organizations. The three-month terms were a part of the organization's larger political perspective that did not mandate that its members hold specific stances on political issues. Historian Kimberly Springer writes, “Members were free to choose the activities in which they participated and they were not obligated to subscribe to an organizationally-dictated political perspective. …The survival of Black communities … did not depend on one solution but on the conscious, consistent political awareness of the communities' members\". The BWOA Statement of Purpose reads: The organization's careful use of terms such as “feminist” and “Black” that could potentially alienate or divide their membership encouraged the non-hierarchical atmosphere."
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " Springer writes: “The BWOA subverted discrimination within Black communities based on color, physical appearance, or class by welcoming \"all\" Black women into the organization. The organization focused on activism, rather than social constructions of beauty or social class.... BWOA’s avoidance of the label ‘feminism’ while practicing feminism was indicative of future developments in Black feminist organizing\". The BWOA lasted from 1973 to 1980 with a 400-person membership at its height. There was no one factor that caused the group to stop meeting actively, but the rise in conservatism with the election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1980 caused members to “determine that 1960s strategies would not be effective\". One unusual factor in Eckstein's involvement in BWOA is that it “did not interrogate heterosexism as an oppressive force in Black women’s lives\".</s><s>Political views. Eckstein was one of the most progressive thinkers of her time in the gay and lesbian political movement as well as in the Black Feminist movement. Her understanding of the successes of the Civil Rights Movement influenced her beliefs about political organizing. She saw demonstrations as, “one of the very first steps towards changing society\". In 1966, three years before the Stonew"
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": "all Rebellion in 1969 that sparked annual Gay Pride marches beginning in 1970, while many white gay and lesbian activists were still struggling with direct action as a feasible tactic Eckstein said, “Picketing I regard as almost a conservative act now. The homosexual has to call attention to the fact that he’s been unjustly acted upon. This is what the Negro did\". At a time when much of the activism regarding lesbian and gay rights was done for, by, and about white people, Eckstein was leading an extremely active, majority white, DOB chapter and advocating for coalition-based politics. She understood that her views were coming from what might be described as a more inclusive analysis than many White gay or lesbian activists who often only did work around gay or lesbian issues. She said, “I think if we meet on the common ground of our unjust position in society, then we can go from there. This is a new frame of reference, a new way of thinking almost, for some\". Eckstein's beliefs toward political coalition work and organizing differed than that of many other separatist leaning gay and lesbian people in the 1960s. Eckstein said: - “I think Negroes need white people, and I think homosexuals need heterosexuals. If you foster"
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " cooperation right from the start, then everyone is involved and it’s not a movement over there\". - “I would like to see in the homophile movement more people who can think. And I don’t believe we ought to look at their titles or at their sexual orientation. Movements should be intended, I feel, to erase labels, whether ‘black’ or ‘white’ or ‘homosexual’ or ‘heterosexual\". - “I’d like to find a way of getting all classes of homosexuals involved together in the movement”.</s><s>June 1966 interview in \"The Ladder\". Much of what is known about Eckstein's beliefs and life is taken from an interview in \"The Ladder\" in June 1966. Eckstein was one of two women of color to be featured on the cover of this landmark lesbian political publication. The importance of Eckstein's issue of \"The Ladder\" should not be underestimated: “Her image on the cover, and her ideas throughout the pages of \"The Ladder\", helped greatly to complicate notions of the kinds of women who were involved in DOB and expanded definitions of lesbian identity\". Her coverage in \"The Ladder\" is the only"
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"title": "Ernestine Eckstein",
"text": " known published piece that substantially features Eckstein.</s><s>Later life. At this time virtually nothing is known of Eckstein's life after she became a part of BWOA. According to the Social Security Death Index, Ernestine Eckstein (Ernestine D. Eppenger) died in San Pablo, California in 1992.</s><s>Other. Season 4 episode 9 of the podcast \"Making Gay History\" is about Eckstein.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Sheldon T. Mills.
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"title": "Sheldon T. Mills",
"text": "<s>Sheldon T. Mills Sheldon Tibbetts Mills (August 13, 1904 – July 15, 1988) was a United States diplomat, who served as a career Foreign Service officer of the U.S. Department of State from 1928 to 1961.</s><s>Family. Mills was born on August 13, 1904, in Seattle, Washington and died on July 15, 1988, in Santa Barbara, California. Mills' parents were Harry Edward Mills, a Protestant minister and poet, best known for his book, \"The Sod House in Heaven, and Other Poems,\" and Mary Brewster Tibbetts Mills, a direct descendant of Elder William Brewster who arrived in America on the Mayflower in 1620. On January 23, 1932, Sheldon Mills married Francesca Dekum of Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Adolph Andrew Dekum and Linda Andrews Dekum. Adolph Dekum was in the hardware business. Linda Andrews Dekum was originally from Warren, Ohio, where her father, Francis Newell Andrews, was a prosperous merchant whose family had arrived in America in the 17th century. Francesca Dekum's grandfather, Frank Dekum, was born in Bavaria, Germany and was a prominent 19th century fruit merchant, banker and real estate investor in Portland,"
},
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"title": "Sheldon T. Mills",
"text": " Oregon. Sheldon Mills and Francesca Mills were the parents of three daughters.</s><s>Education. Sheldon Mills graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon with a B.A. degree in 1927. He then traveled to Washington, D.C., where he studied for the Foreign Service exams with Angus Crawford, who tutored 90 percent of the aspiring Foreign Service officers of that era. Sheldon Mills passed the exams and was commissioned as a Foreign Service Officer in December 1928. From 1939 to 1940 Sheldon Mills was detailed to Harvard University where he studied Economics. Francesca Dekum Mills attended Miss Catlan's School in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Reed College in 1929.</s><s>Career. After Mills was appointed a Foreign Service officer in the Department of State in 1928, he began a diplomatic career that spanned 32 years. His postings included Bolivia, Panama, Romania, Chile, India and Brazil. He also served as United States Ambassador to Ecuador (1954-1956); United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (1956-1959); and, finally, as United States Ambassador to Jordan from 1959 to 1961. Mills developed a positive relationship with Afghanistan's King Mohammad Zahir which proved beneficial to both the U.S. and Afghanistan. The King returned to Afghanistan from forced exile in 2002"
},
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"title": "Sheldon T. Mills",
"text": " to become the ceremonial \"father of the nation\" after the Taliban retreat. During Sheldon Mills' time in Kabul, King Zahir Shah received economic development support from both the United States and the Soviet Union which was an unusual achievement during the Cold War when recipient countries were clients of one super power or the other. In Jordan, Mills enjoyed a good personal interaction with King Hussein which enhanced the United States-Jordanian relationship. According to Nigel Ashton's, \"King Hussein of Jordan, a Political Life,\" (page 83) the King told Ambassador Mills in early 1960 that, 'the Arab legend,' that Israel should be pushed into the sea should be abandoned, and that \"It was time to put aside emotionalism and take steps toward a final settlement between Israel and the Arabs.\"</s><s>Later life. After leaving the Foreign Service and retiring to Santa Barbara, California. Mills was an active member of the Channel City Club, the Cosmopolitan Club, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Foreign Service Association and Diplomatic and Consular Officials, Retired. He was a frequent contributor of op-ed articles on foreign affairs to local newspapers.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of W. Clark Still.
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": "<s>W. Clark Still William Clark Still (born 1946) is an American organic chemist. As a distinguished professor at Columbia University, Clark Still made significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry, particularly in the areas of natural product synthesis, reaction development, conformational analysis, macrocyclic stereocontrol, and computational chemistry. Still and coworkers also developed the purification technique known as flash column chromatography which is widely used for the purification of organic compounds.</s><s>Major contributions.</s><s>Major contributions.:Total synthesis.</s><s>Major contributions.:Total synthesis.:Periplanone B. In 1979, Still reported the first total synthesis of periplanone B, the potent sex pheromone of the American cockroach. Although the structural connectivity of this compound had been established spectroscopically, Still's synthesis confirmed the relative stereochemical relationships present in this natural product. A key step in this synthesis makes use of an anionic oxy-Cope rearrangement to form the macrocyclic 10-membered ring found in periplanone B. In this transformation, the initial tertiary alcohol was treated with potassium hydride and 18-crown-6 at elevated temperature to induce the rearrangement, and the resulting enolate was"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " trapped with chlorotrimethylsilane to form the macrocyclic silyl enol ether as a single diastereomer. This intermediate was then transformed into a key enone substrate over the course of five steps including Rubottom oxidation, TBS protection of the secondary alcohol, and formation of the exocyclic alkene via a selenoxide rearrangements. br These transformations set the stage for the introduction of both epoxide groups, which were formed with high levels of diastereoselectivity based on the principles of macrocyclic stereocontrol. The first epoxide was introduced via nucleophilic epoxidation of the enone using potassium hydride and tert-butylhydroperoxide; this led to the formation of a 4:1 mixture of diastereomeric epoxides, favoring the desired isomer in which attack had occurred from the peripheral face of the enone. At this stage, the ketone was transformed into the second epoxide group using the Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky reaction; notably, the product was formed as a single diastereomer, again due to initial peripheral attack of the dimethylsulfonium methylide nucleophile on the ketone."
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " Subsequent removal of the TBS protecting group and Sarett oxidation of the resulting secondary alcohol completed the total synthesis of racemic periplanone B.</s><s>Major contributions.:Total synthesis.:Monensin. In 1980, Still and coworkers reported the total synthesis of monensin, a complex polyether natural product that acts as an ionophore. One of the key steps in this route is the late-stage union of two advanced fragments via an intermolecular aldol reaction. In this reaction, low-temperature deprotonation of the methyl ketone with lithium diisopropylamide formed the kinetic enolate which then underwent transmetalation upon the addition of magnesium bromide. Subsequent addition of the aldehyde component initiated a diastereoselective aldol reaction, forming the desired beta-hydroxyketone in 75% yield as a 3:1 mixture of diastereomers. Notably, this instance of acyclic stereocontrol is consistent with the Cram-Felkin-Anh model for the addition of nucleophiles to an aldehyde bearing an existing stereocenter in the alpha position. br br br Having united these two complex fragments, Still was able"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " to complete the synthesis of monensin in three additional steps. First, hydrogenolysis of the benzyl group afforded the free primary alcohol under standard conditions. Next, cleavage of the triethylsilyl (TES) protecting groups was achieved in the presence of para-toluenesulfonic acid; the resulting free secondary alcohols then engaged the ketone in a spontaneous cyclization reaction to form the thermodynamic spiroketal linkage. Finally, hydrolysis of the methyl ester under basic conditions furnished the sodium salt of monensin, completing the synthesis of this challenging natural product.</s><s>Major contributions.:Method development.</s><s>Major contributions.:Method development.:Wittig-Still rearrangement. The 2,3-Wittig rearrangement is a useful carbon-carbon bond forming reaction that transforms an allyl ether into a homoallylic alcohol. However, a significant limitation of this reaction is the difficulty in forming the alkoxy-substituted carbanion which initiates the 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement. Traditionally, this required the use of a strong base and the presence of a stabilizing group to enable deprotonation of the ether substrate. In 1978,"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " Still dramatically increased the scope of the 2,3-Wittig rearrangement by introducing an organotin-substituted ether as a precursor to the alkoxy-substituted carbanion. In this procedure, transmetalation of the organotin group can be achieved chemoselectively at low temperature using n-butyllithium to form an alpha-lithiated ether that undergoes the desired 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement. This variation of the traditional 2,3-Wittig reaction is known as the Wittig-Still rearrangement. br br br An application of the Wittig-Still rearrangement in the context of natural product synthesis can be seen in Still's 1979 formal synthesis of the Cecropia juvenile hormone. The organotin-substituted ether that serves as the substrate for the rearrangement was readily prepared by bis-alkylation of the corresponding diol with iodomethyltributyltin. Treatment of this compound with two equivalents of \"n\"-butyllithium at low temperature resulted in transmetalation, initiating a double 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement to give the bis-homoallylic alcohol product"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " in 79% yield. Notably, this rearrangement is highly stereoselective with regard to the geometry of the trisubstituted olefins, giving exclusively the (\"Z\",\"Z\")-isomer shown.br br</s><s>Major contributions.:Method development.:Still-Gennari alkenation. The Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction is a widely used olefination reaction in which a phosphonate-stabilized carbanion reacts with an aldehyde or ketone to form an alkene. In the standard HWE reaction, the phosphonate ester contains alkoxy substituents (typically methoxy or ethoxy), producing an \"E\"-alkene as the major product. In 1983, Still and Gennari reported that simply substituting the more electron-withdrawing 2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy groups on the phosphonate component reversed the stereoselectivity to produce predominantly \"Z\"-alkenes. The use of a non-coordinating counterion was also found to be critical for high levels of \"Z\"-selectivity; this is typically accomplished by using a base with a potassium counterion in the presence of 18-crown"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": "-6. Taken together, this protocol is known as the Still-Gennari modification of the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction or, alternatively, as the Still-Gennari olefination. Although the mechanism of this reaction has not been fully elucidated, it is speculated that the use of an electron-deficient phosphonate accelerates elimination of the oxaphosphatane intermediate. This renders the initial addition of the phosphonate-stabilized carbanion to the aldehyde effectively irreversible, leading to \"Z\"-selectivity in analogy to the standard Wittig reaction.</s><s>Major contributions.:Flash column chromatography. In 1978, Still and coworkers published a highly influential paper reporting a purification technique known as flash column chromatography. Prior to this report, column chromatography using silica gel as a stationary phase had already been established as a valuable method for the separation and purification of organic compounds. However, elution of the solvent by gravity alone was often a tedious process, requiring several hours and leading to poor separations due to band broadening via diffusion. Still's innovation was to apply pressure to the top of the column to increase the speed of solvent elution. Not only did this drastically reduce"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " the time required to run the column, but it also allowed for the routine separation of compounds having an R difference of 0.10 or greater. After optimizing this procedure, Still compiled a table correlating column diameter, volume of eluant, amount of sample, and typical fraction size, providing a useful guide for application of this technique in the laboratory. Today, flash column chromatography is one of the most important methods for the purification of organic compounds, especially when working on a small scale (< 50 mg) where the techniques of recrystallization and distillation are impractical. Still's paper describing flash column chromatography remains his most highly cited publication and holds the distinction of being one of the most frequently downloaded papers from the \"Journal of Organic Chemistry\", despite being published over 35 years ago.</s><s>Major contributions.:Computational chemistry and MacroModel. In addition to his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, Clark Still was an early pioneer in applying computational methods to the study of organic compounds. Conformational analysis was integral to Still's study of macrocyclic stereocontrol, and there was a general need for a fast and reliable computational method for predicting an organic molecule's lowest energy conformation. In order to address the problem, Still and coworkers reported a"
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"title": "W. Clark Still",
"text": " simple Monte Carlo method for searching conformational space in 1989. In this procedure, the internal coordinates for an organic molecule were varied at random, and the energy of the lowest energy conformation was determined after structure minimization. After each iteration, the minimum energy was compared to the values obtained previously in order to locate the global minimum; Still referred to this overall process as a Monte Carlo multiple-minimum search. In an effort to make molecular modeling more accessible to practicing organic chemists, Still developed the integrated software program MacroModel in 1986 in association with Columbia University. Dr. Wayne Guida, a senior postdoctoral researcher in Still's group at the time, described the development of this software package in the following way: One particularly notable feature of MacroModel was the inclusion of an implicit solvation model known as GB/SA (generalized Born model augmented with the hydrophobic solvent accessible surface area term). The GB/SA model simulated solvent interactions with organic molecules by incorporating a continuous solvent field instead of including explicit individual solvent molecules in the computation. Still disclosed a full description of MacroModel in the Journal of Computation Chemistry in 1990, and the rights to this software were later acquired by Schrodinger, Inc. in 1998.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Jonathan Roy.
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"title": "Jonathan Roy",
"text": "<s>Jonathan Roy Jonathan Piuze-Roy (born March 15, 1989) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. Son of hockey great Patrick Roy, he initially pursued hockey in junior leagues, but abandoned that path in favour of music while still a teenager. Having previously released three albums, his major-label debut, \"Mr. Optimist Blues\", was released in 2017, and includes several songs written by 1980s pop star Corey Hart.</s><s>Early life. Roy's father is famed Montreal Canadiens goaltender Patrick Roy. He moved with his family from Montreal to Colorado when he was six years old, due to his father being traded. Roy was influenced by his mother's frequent piano playing for the family as he was growing up. He wrote poetry from the age of 13 or 14, and began putting his poems to music around age 16. At age 17, Roy played hockey for the Quebec Remparts, with his father coaching the team at the time. Although he enjoyed goaltending, he dreamed of a music career, and was listening to the Backstreet Boys, John Mayer, and Ray LaMontagne. At 18, when his father told him that his future would not be in hockey and that he needed to plan an education, Roy told his father that he wanted"
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"title": "Jonathan Roy",
"text": " to be a musician and songwriter. In 2009 Roy was charged with assault following an incident during a hockey brawl where he skated the length of the ice and attacked the opposing goaltender, punching him several times.</s><s>Music career. Roy's album \"What I've Become\" came out in 2009. His second album, \"Found My Way\", came out in 2010. He released his French-language debut album, \"La route\", in 2011. The title track, a duet with Natasha St-Pier, received the most attention. Roy had a critically acclaimed role in the 2012 revival of the musical \"Don Juan\". In 2012, his father helped him set up a meeting with 1980s pop singer Corey Hart, who runs Siena Records, an affiliate of Warner Music. Hart offered to sign him to his label after Roy performed a Teddy Thompson song for him at Hart's home in Nassau, Bahamas. Roy and Hart had a hit holiday release in 2016 when they duetted on the Chris Rea song \"Driving Home for Christmas\". In 2017, Roy released the album \"Mr. Optimist Blues\" on Siena Records, Corey Hart's music label. Hart executive-produced the album, and wrote three of the album's songs."
},
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"title": "Jonathan Roy",
"text": " The \"Montreal Gazette\"'s music critic characterizes the style as \"easygoing 21st-century pop with a little light reggae thrown in for good measure. Think Ed Sheeran meets Paolo Nutini and then slap on Bob Marley’s greatest hits.\" Roy is based in Toronto. In 2023, he participated in an all-star recording of Serena Ryder's single \"What I Wouldn't Do\", which was released as a charity single to benefit Kids Help Phone's Feel Out Loud campaign for youth mental health.</s><s>Discography.</s><s>Discography.:Albums. - \"What I've Become\" (2009) – No. 18 Canada - \"Found My Way\" (2010) - \"La route\" (2011) - \"Mr. Optimist Blues\" (2017) – No. 3 Canada - \"My Lullaby\" (2021) – No. 99 Canada</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Jimmy Weldon.
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"title": "Jimmy Weldon",
"text": "<s>Jimmy Weldon Jimmy Weldon (born Ivy Laverne Shinn, September 23, 1923) is an American retired voice actor, ventriloquist, and former television host. He is best known as the voice of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Yakky Doodle and the host and ventriloquist in the locally produced television series \"The Webster Webfoot Show\". Weldon has a YouTube channel titled \"Jimmy's Lecture\", where he documents stories of his adventures during his time in World War II.</s><s>Early life. Born Ivy Laverne Shinn on September 23, 1923 in Dale, Texas, he began his career in 1946 as a disc jockey at KWCO, the radio station which began its operations shortly after he returned home following WWII. He was the first announcer hired at this new radio station. While there, he developed a character named Webster Webfoot, a little duck who visited him while he was playing record requests from listeners calling in. Often they just wanted to talk to little Webster. They thought Webster was someone other than Weldon, and so he became an important part of Weldon's disc jockey presentations.</s><s>Television acting. In 1948, Weldon (and Webster Webfoot) moved to Duncan"
},
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"title": "Jimmy Weldon",
"text": ", Oklahoma, where they performed on another 250-watt AM station, KRHD, for two more years. The big 50,000-watt radio station WFAA in Dallas, Texas, recruited Webster and Weldon as entertainers, and Webster became a real person on television on April 4, 1950, on \"The Webster Webfoot Show\", produced locally by station WFAA-TV. They moved to California on September 5, 1952, joining KCOP-TV, Channel 13, in Hollywood and continued their television careers. During an appearance at a middle school in Brentwood, Jeff Chandler and Randolph Scott collected the tickets from the children and parents who came to see the show. These two movie stars made Weldon feel very lucky indeed when they commented, \"Our children think more of little Webster than they do OUR movie careers.\" Also, Ralph Edwards was there, and he later gave Webster and Weldon the positions as co-hosts of a new children's game show titled \"Funny Boners\", a junior version of his famous \"Truth or Consequences\" radio and television shows, which aired on ABC. In 1956, Weldon and Webster moved to Fresno, California, which began a career in the San Joaquin Valley at KFRE"
},
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"title": "Jimmy Weldon",
"text": "-TV, Channel 12. This was interrupted, however, when NBC executives called them to New York to replace Shari Lewis on the \"Hi, Mom\" show on NBC flagship station, WRCA-TV, Channel 4. In 1959, Channel 13 in Hollywood once again became their television home. In 1961, Weldon and Webster were called back to the San Joaquin Valley. They continued performing their show on KJEO-TV, Channel 47, in Fresno, California, throughout the 1960s. During this time, Weldon and Webster also did TV shows in Salinas and Bakersfield, California, flying their airplane from city to city for those shows.</s><s>Voice acting and other work. It was thanks to Webster's voice that he earned the voice-over for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, Yakky Doodle. Many of the odd animal sounds were also performed by Weldon. He also was the voice of Solomon Grundy on Hanna-Barbera's series \"Challenge of the Super Friends\". Jimmy has also made numerous television appearances in acting on shows such as \"Dragnet\", \"Alfred Hitchcock Presents\", \"The Waltons\", \"Dallas\", and \"Diff'rent Strokes\". Weldon has also played"
},
{
"title": "Jimmy Weldon",
"text": " some supporting characters on the popular radio drama \"Adventures in Odyssey\" and in classic serials and TV series. He is currently a member of the Premiere Speakers Bureau.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of William M. Brodhead.
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"title": "William M. Brodhead",
"text": "<s>William M. Brodhead William McNulty Brodhead (born September 12, 1941) is an American lawyer and former politician from Michigan who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983.</s><s>Early life and education. Brodhead was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended elementary and secondary schools in Cleveland. He received a B.A. from Wayne State University in Detroit, in 1965 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, in 1967.</s><s>Legal career and politics. He was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Detroit. He was elected to Michigan House of Representatives in 1970 and was reelected in 1972, from a district in Detroit. In 1974, Martha W. Griffiths, Democratic incumbent for Michigan's 17th District to the United States House of Representatives was not a candidate for renomination. Brodhead won nomination as the Democratic candidate and was elected to the Ninety-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1983. While in Congress, Brodhead served on the House Ways and Means Committee and on the Budget Committee. Brodhead also served as Chair of the Democratic Study Group which was"
},
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"title": "William M. Brodhead",
"text": " then the liberal caucus in the House.</s><s>Post-political career. He declined to run for reelection in 1982 and returned home to the Detroit area. He became a partner in the Detroit law firm, Plunkett & Cooney, where he practiced from 1983 to 2003. Retiring from the law firm in October, 2003, he practiced on his own until 2006, when he retired completely. While in law practice in Detroit, Brodhead served on many non-profit boards including Detroit Public Television, Mt. Carmel Hospital, Michigan's Children and the Citizen's Research Council. He served at various times as Board Chair of the Skillman Foundation, Covenant House Michigan, Focus:Hope and the Oakland Mediation Center. In 1994, he was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator, losing in the primary to Bob Carr, who went on to lose in the general election to Spencer Abraham.</s><s>Personal life. Brodhead now lives with his wife Kathleen, to whom he has been married since 1965, in Northern California. They have two adult children and a granddaughter who also live in Northern California. He serves on the board of directors of Covenant House, California.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Kelli White.
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"title": "Kelli White",
"text": "<s>Kelli White Kelli White (born April 1, 1977, in Oakland, California) is an American former sprinter. She won two gold medals in the World Championships in Paris in 2003. However, on June 18, 2004, she was stripped of her medals, because she tested positive on a drug test. She retired from professional track in 2006.</s><s>Early life and education. White's parents had both been sprinters. Her mother, Debbie Byfield, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She attended James Logan High School in Union City, California, where she was on the track team. In 1994, when she was 17, a fellow student slashed her face with a knife; 300 stitches were required to close the wounds. White continued competing that season. Although she never won a state championship, at the time of her graduation in 1995 she held the top time in the 200 meters and the second best time in the 100 meters in the North Coast Section. She received a scholarship to the University of Tennessee, graduating in 1999.</s><s>Doping case and work with USADA. After her positive test, White admitted guilt and testified before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). All her performances since December 15, 2000, were annulled."
},
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"title": "Kelli White",
"text": " She was banned for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, effective May 17, 2004. Her doping was linked to the BALCO doping scandal. After returning from college to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000, White's long-time coach, Remi Korchemny, introduced her to BALCO head Victor Conte. White has reported that Conte provided her with products that he identified as supplements and vitamins at first; when he informed her that one was a steroid, she declined to use it then and did not begin doping until after an injury-plagued, losing year in 2002. After being confronted with evidence seized from BALCO, she admitted using tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) and erythropoietin (EPO) in addition to modafinil. White has since given lectures on drug abuse in sports around the world. She became the first athlete to work directly with the United States Anti-Doping Agency to help it understand the system and culture of doping at the elite competition level. While banned from competition, she has taught at track clinics at James Logan High. She announced her retirement in May 2006.</s><s>See also. - List of doping cases in athletics</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of John Morris (curler).
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": "<s>John Morris (curler) John C. Morris (born December 16, 1978; nicknamed \"Johnny Mo\") is a Canadian curler, and two-time Olympic gold medallist from Canmore, Alberta. Morris played third for the Kevin Martin team until April 24, 2013. Morris, author of the book \"Fit to Curl\", is the son of Maureen and Earle Morris, inventor of the \"Stabilizer\" curling broom. Morris grew up in Gloucester, Ontario (now part of Ottawa) and at the age of five began curling at the Navy Curling Club.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:Junior career. As a junior curler, Morris skipped his Ottawa Curling Club rink to three-straight Ontario provincial junior Men's titles from 1997 to 1999, and won the 1998 and 1999 Canadian and World Junior Championships, setting records for most wins by a skip along the way. Morris and his rink of Craig Savill, Matt St. Louis and Mark Homan would represent Ontario at the 1997 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. His team would finish the round robin with a 7–5 record, in a five-way tie for third place. He would go on to beat British Columbia's T. J"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": ". Perepolkin, New Brunswick's Tommy Sullivan in tiebreakers, the Northwest Territories' Jamie Koe in the semifinal before losing to Alberta's Ryan Keane in the final. The following season, Morris brought in a new front end for his junior team, adding Andy Ormsby and Brent Laing to replace St. Louis and Homan. At the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, he led his Ontario Team to a 9–3 round robin record in a 4-way tie for first place. The team beat New Brunswick's Rob Heffernan in a tiebreaker before beating Manitoba's Mike McEwen in the semifinal and then Alberta's Carter Rycroft in the final. Their win qualified the team to represent Canada at the 1998 World Junior Curling Championships. There, the team would go 9–0 in the round robin before defeating Switzerland's Ralph Stöckli in the semifinal and Garry MacKay of Scotland in the final to win the gold medal. For their third championship run, Team Morris replaced Ormsby with Jason Young at second. At the 1999 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Morris led the team to an 8–4 round robin record in a three-way tie for second. He again had to fight through a"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " tiebreaker to win the championship, downing Alberta's Jeff Erickson before defeating Newfoundland's Brad Gushue in the semifinal and British Columbia's Jeff Richard in the final. At the 1999 World Junior Curling Championships, he led Canada to an 8–1 round robin record (first place) and beat Sweden's Patric Håkansson in the semifinal and Christian Haller of Switzerland in the final to win the gold medal. In addition to his provincial junior titles, Morris won a provincial junior mixed title in 1999 with Jacqueline Smith, Brent Laing and Chrissy Cadorin.</s><s>Career.:Early men's career in Ontario (1999–2003). After living in Ottawa, Morris moved to Southwestern Ontario to attend Wilfrid Laurier University and curled out of the Stayner Granite Club in Stayner, Ontario. Despite the move, his team remained nearly intact, with Young being replaced by Andy Ormsby. In their first season after juniors, the team entered the playdowns for the 2000 Ontario Nokia Cup, the provincial men's championship, but lost in regionals. In 2000 Ormsby left the team and was replaced by Joe Frans, who would become the team's third, moving Savill to play second"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": ". The team won a couple of tour events and made it to their first provincial championship, the 2001 Ontario Nokia Cup. After finishing the round robin with a 6–3 record, Morris defeated Team Glenn Howard in the semifinal before losing to Team Wayne Middaugh in the final. The team qualified for the 2001 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, where Morris garnered national attention after a difficult loss to Russ Howard. His team would finish the event with a 5–4 record, missing the playoffs. With many of the province's top teams ignoring the Brier playdowns in 2002 to focus on the new Grand Slam of Curling, Morris and his team had an easy path at the 2002 Ontario provincial championships. The team went 8–1 after the round robin and beat Team Phil Daniel twice to win his first provincial title, qualifying him for the 2002 Nokia Brier. At the diluted Brier, Morris led his rink to an 8–3 round robin record, in second place. In the playoffs, they lost to Alberta's Randy Ferbey in the 1 vs. 2 game but rebounded to defeat New Brunswick's Russ Howard in the semifinal. In the final, the team lost to Alberta in a rematch. In 2003, the Morris rink would make it to"
},
{
"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " the finals at the inaugural Canada Cup of Curling, where they lost to Randy Ferbey. The team played in another diluted provincial championship that year, the 2003 Ontario Nokia Cup. There, his rink finished the round robin in 2nd place with a 7–2 record. In the playoffs, they lost to the first-place Bryan Cochrane rink and then to Peter Corner in the semifinal. The team finished the season at the 2003 Players' Championship Grand Slam, where they lost to Jeff Stoughton in the final. After the season, Morris moved to Calgary, where he played out of the Calgary Winter Club.</s><s>Career.:Move to Calgary (2003–2006). After moving to Calgary, Morris assembled a new team, which would consist of Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy and Paul Moffatt. The team had some success on the Tour, winning a few events, including the 2004 Players' Championship Grand Slam. The team would play three seasons together, never winning a provincial championship, having to compete against teams like Randy Ferbey and Kevin Martin. The team would play in the 2005 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, where they would finish the round robin with a 6–3 record before losing to Jeff Stoughton in the semifinal.</s><s>"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": "Career.:Joining forces with \"K-Mart\" (2006–2013). In 2006, Morris joined forces with veteran skip Kevin Martin on a four-year plan aimed at winning a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The team won the 2007 Kia Cup, the provincial championship, defeating Morris' former teammate, Kevin Koe in the final. On February 27, 2007, just four days before the 2007 Tim Hortons Brier, Morris was hit by a car. He was knocked unconscious but went on to compete at the 2007 Tim Hortons Brier, where Alberta placed fourth after losing to Jeff Stoughton in the 3–4 page playoff. Morris later recovered by winning all-star third in the tournament. In their first season together on the tour, the team dominated, winning three of the four Grand Slam events, the Canadian Open, The National and the Players' Championship. After winning the 2008 Boston Pizza Cup provincial championship, Morris and the Kevin Martin (Alberta) rink returned to the 2008 Brier in Winnipeg. Roughly a week before the Brier, Morris broke his right hand and subsequently had to wear a special brace while sweeping. The event sidelined Morris from playing in the 2008 Canada Cup of Curling, where he was replaced by Kevin"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " Park. At the Brier, the Martin team went 11–0 in the round robin, and won their 1–2 playoff game to make the finals. In a game marred by tricky ice and missed opportunities, Alberta won by a score of 5–4. Morris was named MVP of the finals after curling 90%. At the following 2008 World Men's Curling Championship, Morris led all players with a round robin percentage of 90% and helped team Canada to a World Championship crown, the first for any player on the team. On the tour that season, the team won two Grand Slams, the Canadian Open and the National. The following season, the team won the 2009 Boston Pizza Cup and represented Alberta at the 2009 Tim Hortons Brier, where the team won their second straight title. At the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, the team would lose in the final to Scotland's David Murdoch. Also, that season, the team would win the 2009 Canada Cup of Curling. The team qualified for the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, where Morris and Team Martin would win the right to represent Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. On February 27 at the Vancouver Olympics, Team Martin won the gold medal with a score of 6–"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": "3 in the final against Thomas Ulsrud of Norway. On the tour that season, the team would win the 2010 BDO Classic Canadian Open and the 2010 Players' Championship. Morris represented Alberta at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier with Team Martin after winning the provincials. They finished with a 9–2 win–loss record but dropped their page playoff game against Ontario's Glenn Howard and lost the bronze medal game against Brad Gushue of Newfoundland and Labrador. In Grand Slam play, the team would win the December 2010 National and the 2011 Players' Championship. In the 2011–12 curling season, Morris and the rest of the team won the Canada Cup of Curling over Glenn Howard, giving them a berth into the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials. They participated in the 2012 Alberta provincials but struggled against Kevin Koe and Brock Virtue, eventually losing the semifinal to Virtue. Team Martin was unable to defend their Canada Cup title in 2012, finishing outside of the playoffs. Morris subbed in as skip for an injured Martin at the Canadian Open of Curling and played with former teammate Joe Frans, finishing with a 2–3 win–loss record. After Martin recovered, the team went to the 2013 provincials, where a close"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " win over Kevin Koe in the final gave them the right to represent the home team Alberta at the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier. The team went to the Players' Championship, where they finished with a 2–2 win–loss record, and they advanced to a tiebreaker, where they lost to John Epping. A few days after the conclusion of the Players' Championship, on 24 April 2013, Morris announced that he and Martin were parting ways. One week later, it was announced that Morris would join Jim Cotter and his team for the 2013–14 season.</s><s>Career.:Team changes and another Olympics (2013–2018). Morris found immediate success with the Cotter rink, skipping the team (which also consisted of Tyrel Griffith and Rick Sawatsky) out of the Kelowna Curling Club, and throwing third rocks. The team qualified for the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials through the pre-trials event, only to lose in the final to the Brad Jacobs team that would go on to win the Olympic gold medal. Following that, the team went undefeated en route to winning the 2014 British Columbia provincial championship and the right to represent the province at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier. This made Morris one of only three curlers"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " to have played for three different provinces at the Brier, joining his father Earle and Ryan Fry. After posting a 9–2 round robin record, Morris' B.C. rink defeated Alberta (skipped by former teammate Kevin Koe) in the 1 vs. 2 game, before losing to Alberta in a rematch final, 10–5. Rule changes implemented for the 2015 Tim Hortons Brier meant that for the first time defending Brier champions will be afforded an automatic entry in the following year's Brier. For the 2015 Brier, this entry would normally have gone to Koe; however, in the 2014 off-season, Koe announced he was leaving his team to form a new team. Under CCA rules, this left Koe's former teammates (Pat Simmons, Carter Rycroft and Nolan Thiessen) with the automatic entry for the 2015 Brier. Koe's former teammates subsequently recruited Morris to skip them, thus ensuring that Morris, despite being the 2014 Brier runner-up, would skip the first-ever Team Canada entry in a Brier. After Team Canada started off 2–3, Morris approached third Pat Simmons with the idea that Simmons skip and Morris move to vice. The move paid off as the rink went"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " on to win the Canadian championship; they won the bronze (third place) medal at the 2015 world championships in Halifax. The Brier win in 2015 meant the team would return for the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier to represent Team Canada. The team would struggle at the event, missing the playoffs with a 6–5 record. They would disband after the season. In 2016, Morris returned to play with Jim Cotter's British Columbia-based team, skipping the rink while Cotter threw fourth stones. The team would win the 2017 belairdirect BC Men's Curling Championship, giving the team the right to represent British Columbia at the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier. Morris led the team to a 7–4 record, missing the playoffs. On the tour, the team won one Grand Slam event, the 2017 Elite 10. The team began the 2017–18 season with Morris throwing last rocks and skipping and Cotter at third. The team qualified for the 2017 Olympic Pre-Trials, which the team qualified out of despite a 3–3 pool record. This put the team into the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, where the team would struggle. The team experimented with Morris throwing third again, but it was to no avail, and the team finished with a 3"
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": "–5 round robin record. In 2018 Morris joined up with Kaitlyn Lawes to win the 2018 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic Trials to return to the Winter Olympics, this time in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where the mixed doubles made its debut. Morris had been playing with Rachel Homan in pre-trials events but had to find a new partner after Homan became ineligible when her women's team won the right to represent Canada in the Olympic women's event. Morris and Lawes won the gold, defeating Switzerland in the final.</s><s>Career.:Post Olympics (2018–2020). After the Olympics, Morris said he planned to focus on the mixed doubles discipline rather than the team event. He and Lawes committed to playing for at least two more seasons together. However, the two only competed together for one season in 2018–19, winning the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Classic and making the quarterfinals in the Qualico Mixed Doubles Classic. They were unable to compete at the 2019 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, as Lawes had sustained an injury at the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. During the 2019–20 curling season, Morris played with several different mixed doubles partners, placing 2nd in the"
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " Colorado Curling Cup with Kira Brunton, placing 3rd in the MadTown DoubleDown and 5th in the Canad Inns Mixed Doubles Championship with Jolene Campbell, placing 3rd in the Brantford Mixed Doubles Cashspiel with Sarah Anderson, and winning the Qualico Mixed Doubles Classic with Rachel Homan. After John Epping and his rink won the 2020 Ontario Tankard, they announced they would be taking Morris as their alternate to the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier. At the Brier, the team finished the championship pool with a 7–4 record and in a four-way tie for fourth place. They defeated Team Wild Card (Mike McEwen) in the first tiebreaker before losing to Northern Ontario (Brad Jacobs) in the second and being eliminated from contention. Morris got to play in the last two ends of the second tiebreaker against Jacobs, replacing Fry as they were already down 6–3 without the hammer.</s><s>Career.:Joining Koe (2020–2022). On March 16, 2020, Team Kevin Koe announced they would be parting ways with their second Colton Flasch. The following day, the team announced they would be adding Morris to their lineup as their new second. Morris spared for"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " the team at the 2019 Tour Challenge Grand Slam event, where they made it to the semifinals. Team Koe began the 2020–21 season at the McKee Homes Fall Curling Classic, where they lost in the quarterfinals. Their next three events included a semifinal finish at the Ashley HomeStore Curling Classic and two runner-up finishes at both the ATB Banff Classic and the ATB Okotoks Classic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, the 2021 provincial championship was cancelled. As the reigning provincials champions, Team Brendan Bottcher was chosen to represent Alberta at the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier. However, due to many provinces cancelling their provincial championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Curling Canada added three Wild Card teams to the national championship, which were based on the CTRS standings from the 2019–20 season. Because Team Koe ranked 6th on the CTRS and kept at least three of their four players together for the 2020–21 season, they got the second Wild Card spot at the 2021 Brier in Calgary, Alberta. At the 2021 Tim Hortons Brier, the team finished with a 10–2 round robin record in first place. This gave them a"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " bye to the final, where they played Team Alberta, skipped by Brendan Bottcher in a re-match of the 2019 Brier final. This time Bottcher won, with the Koe rink taking home the silver medal. The team ended their season at the final two Slams of the season, the 2021 Champions Cup and the 2021 Players' Championship, reaching the semifinals of the Champions Cup. The Koe rink won their first two events of the 2021–22 season, the ATB Okotoks Classic and the IG Wealth Management Western Showdown. At the first two Slams of the season, they reached the quarterfinals of the 2021 Masters and the semifinals of the 2021 National. They then competed in the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, held November 20 to 28 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Team Koe qualified for the Trials via their CTRS points as they finished in second place through the 2018–19 season. Through the round robin, Morris and teammates Kevin Koe, B. J. Neufeld and Ben Hebert finished with a 6–2 record, only suffering losses to the Brad Gushue and Brad Jacobs rinks. This record earned them a place in the semifinal game, where they faced the Jacobs' rink. Despite shooting a"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " 96% game, the Koe rink lost the semifinal game 8–3 as Team Jacobs scored two four enders, ending the game early. In the new year, the team went undefeated to claim the 2022 Boston Pizza Cup. This earned them the right to represent Alberta at the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier where they finished with a 7–1 round robin record. They then won the seeding game against Saskatchewan's Colton Flasch and beat Team Canada's Brendan Bottcher in the 1 vs. 2 game to qualify directly for the final. There, they faced the Gushue rink. After a tight game all the way through, Team Gushue scored one in the extra end to win the game 9–8 and hand Team Koe their second consecutive Brier silver medal. They ended their season with two more playoff finishes at the 2022 Players' Championship and the 2022 Champions Cup, reaching the final of the latter. In March 2022, Team Koe announced that they would be disbanding. With the announcement, Morris also stated that he would be retiring from competitive men's curling.</s><s>Personal life. Morris, a certified personal trainer, currently serves as a full-time firefighter for the Chestermere & Rocky View Fire County Service, living"
},
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"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " in Canmore, Alberta. Drawing on his degree in Kinesiology from Wilfrid Laurier University, in 2009 Morris co-authored the book \"Fit to Curl\", a sport-specific training manual. As of 2016, Morris is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist. Morris attended high school at Colonel By Secondary School in Gloucester, Ontario and played hockey, softball, volleyball, soccer and little league baseball in his youth. In 2016, he graduated from the Chef's Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City. Morris has been a 'big brother' with Calgary and the area BBBS since 2011. Morris was also an ambassador at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he helped lead and inspire the next generation of young athletes. Morris is the third generation of his family to compete in the Brier. As well as his father Earle, his great-grandfather Cliff McLachlan skipped Saskatchewan in the 1933 Macdonald Brier. In 2010, Morris was featured by ET Canada in a Valentine's special as one of Canada's most eligible bachelors. However, he proposed to his girlfriend Maggie and the two had a son together in 2018. They had another child in 2019. Morris made his international coaching"
},
{
"title": "John Morris (curler)",
"text": " debut at the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event, coaching the Australian mixed doubles team where they unprecedently qualified for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the first an Australian Curling Team has ever done so. In his youth, Morris also played baseball and was on the team that lost the 1993 Canadian junior final.</s><s>Awards. - Canadian Junior Curling Championships: All-Star Skip - 1998 and 1999 - World Junior Curling Championships: All-Star Skip - 1999 - Canadian Citizenship Award - 1999 - Brier: First Team All-Star, Third - 2007, 2008, 2014 - Brier: Second Team All-Star, Skip - 2002 - Brier: Second Team All-Star, Third - 2009 - Brier: Second Team All-Star, Second - 2022 - Brier: Hec Gervais Most Valuable Player Award - 2008</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of William G. Angel.
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"title": "William G. Angel",
"text": "<s>William G. Angel William Gardner Angel (July 17, 1790 – August 13, 1858) was an American politician and lawyer who served two terms as a U.S. Representative for New York's 13th congressional district from 1825 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1833.</s><s>Early life and education. Angel was born in New Shoreham, Rhode Island, the son of William and Susannah (Gardner) Angel. In 1792, he moved with his parents to a farm in that part of Richfield, New York, which was separated as the Town of Exeter in 1799, and attended the common schools while working on the family farm. In 1807, he began attending Dr. Buckingham's Grammar School. Angel also briefly studied medicine.</s><s>Career. In 1809, Angel was heard as a witness at a trial where William Dowse, a lawyer from the county seat Cooperstown, appeared for the defense. After the trial, Angel was hired by Dowse as a handyman and, while working for Dowse, he read law and became a clerk in Dowse's office. After Dowse's death, Angel continued to study law with Farrand Stranahan, and in 1816"
},
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"title": "William G. Angel",
"text": " entered the office of William Welton in Sherburne, Chenango County, New York. The next year, he was taken into partnership by Luther Elderkin, a lawyer of Burlington, and was admitted to the bar. Elderkin absconded with his clients' money, and left Angel to refund them. In this way, Angel took over Elderkin's office, practicing at Burlington until 1833. Angel was Surrogate of Otsego County from 1821 to 1824. After the death of his first wife, Angel married Clarissa English and they had ten children, among them James R. Angel (1836–1899) and Texas Angel (1839–1903, a lawyer in Hailey, Idaho, and a Populist contender for U.S. Senator from Idaho in 1897).</s><s>Career.:Congress. Angel was elected as a Jacksonian to the 19th, 21st and 22nd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1827, and from March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1833. Afterwards he removed to Hammondsport and resumed the practice of law in partnership with Morris Brown. At this time, Martin Grover studied law with"
},
{
"title": "William G. Angel",
"text": " Angel, first in Burlington, then in Hammondsport. Grover was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Angelica, New York. In 1835, Angel followed Grover to Angelica, and practiced law in partnership with Grover until 1843. From 1843 to 1847, he practiced law in partnership with his son Wilkes Angel. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846. Becoming First Judge and Surrogate of the Allegany County Court, he served from 1847 to 1851.</s><s>Personal life. In 1812, Angel married Emily P. English (1790–1822) and they had several children, among them William P. Angel (1813–1869) and Wilkes Angel (1817–1889). Angel died on August 13, 1858, in Angelica, Allegany County, New York; and was buried at the Until the Day Dawn Cemetery there.</s><s>Sources. [confuses Richfield with Litchfield (in Herkimer Co.)] [gives wrong death month \"August\"] - \"The American Biographical Sketch Book\" by William Hunt (pages 86f) - \"The Bench and Bar of New-"
},
{
"title": "William G. Angel",
"text": "York\" by Lucien Brock Proctor (1870; pages 728ff) [says he was a Jacksonian in the 19th Congress, page 743] - \"The New York Civil List\" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71f, 358 and 416; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) - \"DEATH LIST OF A DAY\";...Ex-Justice James R. Angel\" in NYT on October 5, 1899 - \"WILKES ANGEL\" in \"Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York\"] by William D. Murphy (1863; pages 42f) [says his father died in October 1858] - \"No Choice in Idaho\" in NYT on January 17, 1897 - Angel genealogy at GenForum - \"ANGELICA COLLECTANEA & OBITUARIES\" compiled by L. L. Stillwell, at RootsWeb [gives October 13 as death date]</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Andy Middleton.
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"title": "Andy Middleton",
"text": "<s>Andy Middleton Andy Middleton (born May 22, 1962) is an American tenor and soprano jazz saxophonist. He has recorded with Ralph Towner, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Renee Rosnes, Jamey Haddad, Joey Calderazzo, and Alan Jones.</s><s>Life and career.</s><s>Life and career.:Early life. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Middleton grew up in a musical family and began playing the alto sax at the age of 9. He attended the University of Rochester from 1980 to 1982, then the University of Miami from 1982 to 1987. He met Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Coleman, John Abercrombie, Richie Beirach and David Liebman at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada in 1985 and 1986. Middleton moved to the New York City area in 1987, playing with the Bob Mintzer Big Band, the Lionel Hampton Big Band (who recorded a composition he wrote with his brother Rob Middleton entitled \"Two Brothers\" on \"Cookin' in the Kitchen\") and the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. He founded his long-running quartet featuring at various times guitarist Ben Monder, drummers John Hollenbeck, Owen Howard, bassists Scott"
},
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"title": "Andy Middleton",
"text": " Colley and Peter Herbert, and pianists Henry Hey, Andy Ezrin, and David Berkman. Middleton's first album, \"Acid Rain\", featuring Joey Calderazzo, was released in 1991 by the French label Owl Records. His second, \"Terra Infirma\" was released in 1995 by EMI France, produced by David Liebman, and featuring the quartet of Middleton, pianist Renee Rosnes, bassist Paul Imm, and drummer Alan Jones augmented by a horn section. The Fensters was a two saxophone, bass and drums formation featuring Middleton, Alan Jones, the saxophonist and composer François Theberge, and bassist Paul Imm. The Fensters recorded 2 CDs, \"Jazz Music, Vol. 1\" in 1992 for the Czech label Arta Records, and \"Jazz Music, Vol. X\" for the Dutch label Challenge Records sub-label A Records in 1996. In 1999 Middleton recorded his 3rd CD as a leader \"Nomad's Notebook\" with ECM Records guitarist Ralph Towner on acoustic guitars and piano, Dave Holland on bass, Alan Jones on drums, Noah Bless on trombone and Jamey Haddad on percussion. \"Nom"
},
{
"title": "Andy Middleton",
"text": "ad's Notebook\" was followed by his 2nd production for the German label Intuition Music and Media featuring trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and trombonist Nils Wogram entitled \"Reinventing the World\". In September, 2006 Middleton moved to Vienna, Austria to teach at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.</s><s>Awards and honors. - Outstanding Jazz Soloist, \"DownBeat\" magazine, 1987 - First Prize, Best Soloist, Best Arranger, 13th Europ' Jazz Contest, Belgium, 1991 - National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant, 1996 - Brooklyn Arts Council performance grant, 2006 - Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals 2004, 2003, 1993, 1992 - New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship, 2006 – 2009 - Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and Presentation Grant Program/Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, 2004 - Bundeskanzleramt Österreich: Film \"Kompositionsförderung\", 2014</s><s>Discography.</s><s>Discography.:As leader. - The Fensters - \"Jazz Music Vol. 1\" (Arta, 1992) - The Fensters - \"Jazz Music"
},
{
"title": "Andy Middleton",
"text": " Vol. X\" (A Records, 1996) - \"Acid Rain\" (Owl/Time Line, 1991) - \"Terra Infirma\" (Owl /EMI France, 1995) - \"Nomad's Notebook\" (Intuition, 1999) - \"Reinventing the World\" (Intuition, 2003) - \"The Muir Woods Suite\" (Chamber Music America, 2006) - \"The European Quartet Live\" (Qrious, 2007) - \"Between Worlds\" (Prova, 2010) - \"Three Hearts, Three Minds\" (Alessa, 2010)</s><s>Discography.:As sideman. - Stefan 'Pista' Bartus Collectivity, 2012 - Lionel Hampton, \"Cookin' in the Kitchen\" Gladhamp, 1990 - Owen Howard, \"Drum Lore\" BJU, 2010 - Klemens Marktl/Flip Philip, \"Open Sea\", ATS, 2010 - Maria Schneider, \"Concert in the Garden\" ArtistShare, 2004 - Sparkle + Andy Middleton, \"Playing Tricks\" ZeroZero Jazz, 2010 - Ron van Stratum, \"Swingin' in the Swamp\" Mons, 2010 - Piotr"
},
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"title": "Andy Middleton",
"text": " Wojtasik, \"Old Land\" SO Jazz, 2013</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Benjamin Lawrence Reid.
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"title": "Benjamin Lawrence Reid",
"text": "<s>Benjamin Lawrence Reid Benjamin Lawrence Reid (May 3, 1918 — November 30, 1990) was an American professor in English from the 1940s to 1980s. During his career, Reid primarily taught at Sweet Briar College from 1951 to 1957 and Mount Holyoke College from 1957 to 1983. Outside of academics, Reid wrote multiple books, and won a Pulitzer Prize and other honors.</s><s>Early life and education. Reid was born on May 3, 1918, in Louisville, Kentucky, and briefly lived in Texas growing up. During his childhood, Reid played baseball during his childhood and switched to basketball during his teens. For his post-secondary education, Reid first received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Louisville in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Reid obtained a Master of Arts from Columbia University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia.</s><s>Career. As a conscientious objector throughout World War II, Reid was a bridge constructor and a psychiatric hospital orderly. After the war, Reid started his academics tenure as an English lecturer at Iowa State College from 1946 to 1948. Upon continuing his English teaching career at Smith College from 1948 to 1951, Reid became an instructor at Sweet Briar College in 1951. At Sweet Briar, Reid remained as an"
},
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"title": "Benjamin Lawrence Reid",
"text": " instructor until he spent his last years at the college as an assistant English professor from 1956 to 1957. For the last part of his career, Reid joined Mount Holyoke College as an assistant professor in 1957. While at Mount Holyoke, he was promoted to associate professor in 1959, professor in 1963, and English professor in 1970. Reid stayed at Mount Holyoke until ending his academic career in 1983. Outside of academics, Reid published his first books in the late 1950s to early 1960s using his university theses he wrote on Gertude Stein and William Butler Yeats. He moved on to biographies about New York lawyer John Quinn in 1968 and Irish politician Roger Casement in 1976. While he wrote essays between the two biographies, his last publications were his autobiographies between 1988 and 1990.</s><s>Awards and honors. Reid won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for \"The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends\". Years later, Reid was a finalist of the 1977 National Book Award for Biography and Autobiography for \"The Lives of Roger Casement\". In 1963, Reid received a research grant from the Fulbright Program to study at the University of London. For his book on Russell, Reid was given a"
},
{
"title": "Benjamin Lawrence Reid",
"text": " fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1971.</s><s>Death. On November 30, 1990, Reid died from a heart attack and multiple strokes in South Hadley, Massachusetts.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of David Galloway (writer).
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"title": "David Galloway (writer)",
"text": "<s>David Galloway (writer) David Darryl Galloway (born 5 May 1937 – 28 December 2019) was an American novelist, curator, journalist and academic. A graduate of Harvard University, he was the founding curator of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, a longtime contributor to the \"International Herald Tribune\", an emeritus professor at the Ruhr University Bochum and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. The last decades of his life he resided in both France (Forcalquier) and Germany.</s><s>Early life. David Galloway was born on 5 May 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1955 he enrolled in Harvard University, where he was mentored by Leonard Bernstein and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. There Galloway met Radcliffe student Sally Gantt, whom he married in 1959, relocating to the University at Buffalo where their son was born two years later.</s><s>Career. David Galloway first worked as a publications editor for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Leaving the United States, he taught at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Sussex, freelancing as a journalist for \"The Daily Telegraph\", \"The Times\" and \"The Guardian\". In 1967 Galloway returned to the U.S."
},
{
"title": "David Galloway (writer)",
"text": " to assist in founding the New Gallery (later renamed the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland). He then moved to Germany in 1972 after being appointed as chairman of American studies at the newly established Ruhr University Bochum, meanwhile publishing his first novel, \"Melody Jones\", to wide critical acclaim. While teaching at the Ruhr University, Galloway lectured extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, including regular visits to the Iran-America Society in Tehran. In 1977 he first met Farah Pahlavi, Empress consort of Iran, whose staff was preparing to open the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Empress' coronation. Galloway was hired as chief curator and with his staff assembled what is widely considered the most important collection of Western art outside of the Western world, including pieces by Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Andy Warhol, exhibited alongside works by Iranian artists such as Parviz Tanavoli. Several months before the Iranian Revolution, Galloway left Tehran for Wuppertal, Germany, to resume his professorship in Bochum. While visiting Forcalquier, France, he purchased the town's former episcopal residence, known"
},
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"title": "David Galloway (writer)",
"text": " as the Maison de Chapitre, which he transformed into an informal retreat for artists and students. In 1979, Galloway began writing for the \"International Herald Tribune\". Throughout his many years at the paper, he maintained a close professional relationship with artists including Pina Bausch, Keith Haring, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol, contacts much coveted by his editors. Alongside his journalism, Galloway published three more novels: \"A Family Album\", \"Lamaar Ransom: Private Eye\" and \"Tamsen\". After leaving the Ruhr University in 2002, Galloway served as a guest curator at venues including the Venice Biennale and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art while continuing to write for \"Art in America\", \"ARTnews\" and the \"IHT\". In 2011, he opened exhibitions at both Art Basel in Miami Beach and the Kunsthalle Wien of paintings by singer Marilyn Manson. In a career spanning some fifty-five years, David Galloway contributed to over a hundred books on the subjects of art, design, literature and architecture, while curating, reporting and teaching worldwide. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1988.</s><s>Selected bibliography. - \"Pioneering"
},
{
"title": "David Galloway (writer)",
"text": " in Art Collecting\" (1962) - \"The Absurd Hero of American Fiction\" (1966) - \"Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady\" (1967) - \"Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe\" (1967) - \"Ten Modern American Short Stories\" (1968) - \"Melody Jones\" (1976) - \"David Hockney: Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink\" (1977) - \"A Family Album\" (1978) - \"Edward Lewis Wallant\" (1979) - \"Lamaar Ransom: Private Eye\" (1979) - \"Calamus\" (1982) - \"The Other Poe\" (1983) - \"Tamsen\" (1983) - \"The Individual Conscience as Subject of Literary Reflection\" (1986) - \"Andy Warhol: Events and Non-Events\" (1988) - \"Keith Haring\" (1992) - \"The Critical Response to Truman Capote\" (1999) - \"Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell\" (2001) - \"Keith Haring: L'art à la plage\" (2005) - \"The Keith Haring Show\" (2005) - \"George Pusenkoff: Mona Lisa Travels"
},
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"title": "David Galloway (writer)",
"text": "\" (2007) - \"Marilyn Manson & David Lynch: Genealogies of Pain\" (2011) - \"Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life – Victoria and Albert Museum\" (2013) - \"Hermann-Josef Kuhna: The Handel Cycle\" (2015) - \"Henri Barande: The Work Beyond\" (2017)</s><s>See also. - Contemporary art - Forcalquier - International Herald Tribune - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland - Farah Pahlavi - Ruhr University Bochum - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art - University of Sussex - Wuppertal</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Stan Marple.
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"title": "Stan Marple",
"text": "<s>Stan Marple Stanislaus Henry Marple is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. Marple played twelve seasons in various British leagues, most notably for the Guildford Flames, for whom he later served as head coach. He is currently the general manager for the University of Alberta's men's hockey team, the Alberta Golden Bears.</s><s>Clubs. Note: Marple could not play regularly after 2005 because of the EPL 4 import rule, therefore he could only play when other imports were injured.</s><s>Playing career. Marple had his number 3 retired by Guildford. The Flames gained ten titles while Marple was head coach and general manager.</s><s>General manager / coaching record and titles. Marple's coaching record at Guildford is as follows: 396 wins, 174 losses, 42 ties and overtime losses. His record during his time as GM is as follows: 213 wins, 55 losses. Marple's titles for his clubs as head coach & or general manager are as follows:</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Caitlin Lowe.
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": "<s>Caitlin Lowe Caitlin Faith Lowe-Nagy (born February 6, 1985) is the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats softball team. Lowe is a former collegiate four-time first team All-American and medal winning Olympian. She played college softball for Arizona and led her team in back-to-back Women's College World Series championships in 2006 and 2007. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Lowe played with National Pro Fastpitch's USSSA Pride for six seasons, winning three titles and being named 2012 Player of the Year, before officially retiring in 2015. She is one of select players in NCAA Division I history to have accumulated over 300 hits, 200 runs and 100 stolen bases while batting.400 in her career. Recently, she was only one of 3 named by both the fan vote and experts to the Greatest College Softball Team All-Time, in the outfield.</s><s>Early years. At Foothill High School in North Tustin, California, Caitlin was selected as an All-American four years in a row, and helped lead her team to state and national championships in 2000. In addition, she led the school to league championships in 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 2001, she received the"
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": " All-League and Foothill High School MVP Awards and in 2003, she received the Orange County \"Player of the Year\" Award.</s><s>Arizona Wildcats. For her freshman season at the University of Arizona, Lowe earned First Team All-American status and was named the Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year and was a top-10 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She jumped into top-10 rankings in Wildcat history for her run and stolen base totals and posted career highs in doubles and base on balls; Lowe also led the conference in stolen bases. The sophomore continued her success by earning all-season honors from both the NFCA and the Pac-10, including being named conference Player of the Year. Her career best season batting average still ranks second all-time and her hits total top-10 at Arizona (both topped the conference year), leading to a finalist spot for the Honda and USA Softball National Collegiate Player of The Year. She also set career highs in home runs, triples and slugging percentage. On February 26, she hit a career high four hits against the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters in a 7-0 win. The next month on March 27, Lowe would drive in four RBIs"
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": " for another career high over Louisiana–Lafayette. Lowe was named 2006 First Team All-American and Pac-10 for a third consecutive year. She posted another top-10 school record for her 33 stolen bases and was caught just twice that year while also achieving a high in RBIs and again leading the conference for stolen bases. From February 25 through March 18, Lowe achieved a 15 consecutive game hit streak. She batted.510 (26/51) and had 12 RBIs, a home run, four triples and two doubles to accompany a slugging percentage of over.750%, eventually ended by Cat Osterman on March 19. Starting in a doubleheader sweep of the Oregon Ducks on May 12, Lowe stole two bags in the games to begin a consecutive stolen bases streak that would reach into her senior season. The Wildcats made it into the Women's College World Series as the No. 2 seed and eventually trumped the Northwestern Wildcats in the finals, outscoring them a combined 13-0 over the two-game series; Lowe scored four of those runs. Lowe went 2/4 in the June 6 finale and was named to the All-Tournament Team scoring a then new series record 8 runs. For a final season Lowe was named All-American,"
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": " all-conference and newly bestowed with the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year award. She also stole a career high, school season second best and Pac-10 leading 49 bags, being caught just once. Her resumed streak of consecutive stolen bases concluded on May 19 when the one time she was thrown out was by Chelsea Bramlett of Mississippi State Bulldogs. To that point, Lowe had amassed 47 consecutive stolen bases and 54 overall for the NCAA ninth best streak all-time. Lowe and the Wildcats returned to defend their title at the 2007 WCWS. After riding the arm of tournament MVP Taryne Mowatt and escaping elimination through four games (three straight), Lowe won another National Championship defeating the Tennessee Lady Vols 5-0 on June 6. Lowe ended her career with a perfect day at the plate going 4/4 off USA Softball Collegiate Player of The Year Monica Abbott. She was named All-Tournament hitting.345 with two RBIs and three doubles. Lowe is the Wildcat’s career leader in stolen bases, second in batting average and top-10 in hits, triples and runs. She ranks top-10 for all the same marks in the since renamed Pac-12, minus the triples. At Arizona, she was known"
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": " for her welcoming and volunteering nature and helped other student athletes become acclimated to college through Arizona’s Peer Athletic Leaders (PAL). Her senior year, Caitlin was awarded the inaugural Lowe’s Senior CLASS Softball Award, which acknowledges personal qualities that define a complete student athlete, such as excellence in the classroom, character and community, as well as success in athletic competition. Lowe is one of only six Wildcat players to be named an NFCA All-American in each of her four years with the program and joined Leah Braatz (1994, 95, 97, 98) as the only player in Arizona history to be awarded first-team All-America all four years.</s><s>Team USA. Caitlin began her national career in 2004 as a member of the USA Schutt Elite Team at the Canada and Champions Cups, where she scored a team-high 16 runs. In 2005, Caitlin joined the United States National Team and helped the team earn silver medals in the Japan and World Cups. She was one of the youngest members of the 2006 World Championship team. Caitlin also helped the team win the World Cup in 2006 and 2007, where she posted a team high 6 hits with three runs scored. She earned a gold medal at the 2007 Pan"
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": " American games, and that season tied for the most hits, a team high with two triples and scored 21 runs, the second best on the team. That year, Caitlin’s impressive base running and speed also earned her a perfect 9 stolen bases in 9 attempts. Caitlin Lowe has been a member of the U.S. Women's National Softball Team since 2005. USA Softball Head Coach Mike Candrea says, \"She's all out all the time and plays the game like a giant.\" Leading up the 2008 Olympics, Lowe hit.455 on the Bound 4 Beijing Tour and was tied leading the team in triples, second in stolen bases and had a perfect fielding percentage. At the Games, Lowe began her tournament with a 3/4 effort in a run-rule of Venezuela, including hitting the first-ever inside-the-park home run in Games history. On August 20, Lowe and Team USA went extra innings in the semifinals vs. Japan and she hit the RBI single to take the lead before scoring on Crystl Bustos' winning three-run homer. She had two hits in the gold medal game but made the last out in the 3-1 loss. Lowe was tied in at-bats for the tournament and hit."
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": "357 overall.</s><s>National Pro Fastpitch. Lowe played her first two seasons in limited action but was later named All-NPF from 2012–2014, including nabbing the Player of The Year and Diamond Spikes Awards in 2012. In 2012, she also led the league in batting average with a career best and set a personal best with four hits on August 25 vs. the Akron Racers. She had a hit in the championship finale, though her team was bested by the Chicago Bandits. The Pride also made it to the Cowles Cup Championship every other year of her career, winning titles in 2010, 2013–2014, Lowe playing in all except 2009–2010. On August 8, 2013, Lowe set another career high with 3 RBIs in a victory over the NY NJ Comets. She played her last season setting a career high in doubles. She also had a career best 22 consecutive game hit streak from July 13-August 16:.408 (31/76) with 7 RBIs and 7 doubles, slugging.500%. Lowe announced her retirement as a player after the 2014 season. Subsequently, the Pride announced the Lowe would be inducted into the USSSA Hall of Fame, and that her jersey number 26 would be retired."
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": "</s><s>Coaching career. On June 7, 2021, Lowe was named the head coach of the Arizona Wildcats softball program, following the retirement of former head coach Mike Candrea. Lowe spent the last nine seasons under Candrea following a professional career with the USSSA Pride. Lowe served as the program's director of operations in 2013 and then the volunteer assistant coach in 2014, before joining the coaching staff full time in 2015. She served as the team's associate head coach from 2018 to 2021.</s><s>Head coaching record. The following lists Lowe-Nagy's record as a head coach at the NCAA level.</s><s>Personal life. She graduated from the University of Arizona in the fall of 2007 with a degree in psychology and a minor in communications. Lowe comes from an athletic family. She is the daughter of Dave and Dawn Lowe and has a brother Tanner and three sisters Whitney, Paige, and McKenna Lowe. Paige and McKenna are part of the Oregon State University softball team. Four-time Wildcat All-American Caitlin Lowe returned and joined Arizona's coaching staff as the team’s volunteer assistant coach in 2013 after serving as the program’s director of operations in 2012. Lowe will be working with the slappers, the outfielders and base running"
},
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"title": "Caitlin Lowe",
"text": ". Lowe retired officially from softball in 2015. In 2015, Lowe married Paul Nagy who is the assistant soccer coach at the University of Arizona. Lowe and Nagy have two children together, Harper and Beckham.</s><s>See also. - NCAA Division I softball career.400 batting average list</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Maddy Crippen.
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"title": "Maddy Crippen",
"text": "<s>Maddy Crippen Madeleine Marie Crippen (born July 10, 1980), also known by her married name as Madeleine Plankey, is an American former competition swimmer. Crippen represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics.</s><s>Career. In 1997 Crippen earned a silver medal as a part of Team USA at the Pan Pacific Championship in Fukuoka, Japan. She followed that performance with a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter individual medley and a sixth-place finish in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia. She represented the United States at the Pan Pacific Championships in 1999 where she placed fourth in the 400-meter individual medley. Crippen earned a spot on the 2000 Olympic Team by placing second in the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. Olympic Trials. In the 2000 Summer Olympics, she placed sixth in the event. Following her Olympic showing, Crippen competed at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships and 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Crippen is a three-time U.S. national champion, winning two national titles in the 400-meter individual medley and one in the 200-"
},
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"title": "Maddy Crippen",
"text": "meter breaststroke. While attending Villanova University, she swam for the Villanova Wildcats swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Big East Conference competition. During her college swimming career, Crippen won an NCAA championship in the 400-yard individual medley and ten Big East championships, and was named Big East \"Swimmer of the Year\" in 1999 and 2001. She was named Villanova \"Swimmer of the Year\" in 1999, 2001 and 2002. In 2019, Maddy was inducted into the Villanova Athletic Hall of Fame.</s><s>Personal. Crippen is the daughter of Peter and Patrica Crippen. She, her late brother Fran, and sisters Teresa and Claire were all members of the Germantown Academy swim team and swam for coach Richard \"Dick\" Shoulberg; all four have qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in swimming. Her brother Fran won a bronze in the 10-kilometer open water race at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships. He swam for the University of Virginia where he was an 11-time All-American and two-time Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) swimmer of the year in 2006 and 2008. He died on October 23,"
},
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"title": "Maddy Crippen",
"text": " 2010 due to exhaustion after he did not pass the line during a race with inadequate safety measures. Her sister, Claire Crippen, is a national finalist, an NCAA All-American, and swam for the University of Virginia. Her sister Teresa is a Pan American Games Champion in the 200-meter backstroke and was a U.S. National Team member, competing at the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, CN; Teresa swam for the University of Florida. Crippen retired from swimming in 2004, and works as a marketing professional. She was a member of USA Swimming's Board of Directors and the Athletes Executive Committee. Crippen is married to Sean Plankey, a commander in the U.S. Coast Guard.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of John Counter.
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"title": "John Counter",
"text": "<s>John Counter John Counter (April 18, 1799 – October 29, 1862) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He served as Mayor of the City of Kingston, Ontario for the terms 1841-43; 1846; 1850; 1852–53 and 1855.</s><s>Personal life. John Counter was born on April 18, 1799 came to Kingston from Devonshire, England with his parents in 1820. He had an older brother George and younger sister Susannah. His parents were John and Susannah. He began his career in the family business as a baker and confectioner, with a bakery located at the corner of Barrie and Clergy Streets. After securing major local contracts to supply bread, he moved on to real estate investments and a variety of transportation and industrial enterprises with the goal to make Kingston a transportation hub. He married Hannah Rhode, aged 17 and they had four children. Within 10 years he lost his brother, two grandchildren, his two sons, and his wife, and finally he died, on October 29, 1862, in virtual obscurity and penniless, at the home of his son-in-law.</s><s>Business affairs. John Counter was an avid businessman, and invested heavily in Kingston’s commercial district"
},
{
"title": "John Counter",
"text": ", was involved in the real estate and transportation industries, and owned both a foundry and a sawmill. He was involved in the Calvin Company which proposed a ferry to the railway in Cape Vincent, USA. This was before the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway, and Counter wanted to build and own an infrastructure that could be used to connect the two countries when the railway was finally built. He owned substantial waterfront rights and share in the Penny Bridge, later to become the La Salle Causeway. He also proposed building the Wolfe Island Canal (now abandoned) to provide quick water transportation to and from Cape Vincent. Counter promoted the incorporation of Kingston as a town judging that it would bring increased business and improve property values. This ambition was realized when he signed the petition which finally brought incorporation in 1838.</s><s>Political career. He sought a council seat in the town’s first election but was defeated. Later, in 1841, he was among the first to propose building a new town hall in 1841. Architect George Brown was selected to design the new town hall, and he travelled to England to borrow £20,000 for its construction. In the same year he organized accommodations for government officials when Kingston became the home of the Parliament of the Province of Canada"
},
{
"title": "John Counter",
"text": ", giving up his own home to the vice-chancellor, R.S. Jameson, and renting the new offices of the Marine Railway to the government. Upon incorporation in 1846, Counter was elected the city’s first Mayor, and served an additional four terms due to his popularity and influence. He was instrumental in establishing the Board of Trade in 1839. He was among the people who donated their homes for the new government workers in 1841, and the people who donated the first clock in the City Hall Clock Tower. He supported the Wesleyan Methodists, and donated generously to the building fund for the Victoria Street chapel in 1847. He donated the land for Sydenham Street Church and laid the cornerstone on April 17, 1851. However, he had borrowed heavily to support his numerous interests and also to open the first subdivision in Kingston. He resigned from the office of mayor in June 1855 because his shares in the local gas company were considered to constitute a conflict of interest; and only a few months later, in October 1855, he could not meet a large mortgage payment and his financial obligations forced him into bankruptcy. His house was at Plymouth Square, at the corner of Ontario and Johnson Streets. It was torn down in 1973.</s>"
},
{
"title": "John Counter",
"text": "<s>Official portrait. Counter’s portrait was painted by American itinerant artist Alvah Bradish while he was visiting Kingston in 1842. Bradish was well known as a portrait painter in Rochester and Detroit, and is known to have undertaken commissions in Toronto and Montreal. Bradish advertised in the \"Kingston Chronicle\" in July 1842 that he was at Daley’s Hotel and offering his \"professional services for a few weeks\". Town Council members asked Mayor Counter to sit for his portrait, which was delivered in September 1842 at a cost of £17.10 and was paid for by the councilors personally, not from civic funds. He is depicted wearing a relatively simple Chain of Office and holding a scroll in left hand. It has been loaned to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where they made the existing slides of the painting that have been copied for archival institutions nationwide, and was stored at the City of Kingston facility at 19 Queen Street until it received restoration work in the late 1970s. It currently hangs in the John Counter meeting room at Kingston City Hall.</s><s>See also. - List of mayors of Kingston, Ontario</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Jeffrey Satinover.
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{
"title": "Jeffrey Satinover",
"text": "<s>Jeffrey Satinover Jeffrey Burke Satinover (September 4, 1947) is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and physicist. He is known for books on a number of controversial topics in physics and neuroscience, and on religion, but especially for his writing and public-policy efforts relating to homosexuality, same-sex marriage and the ex-gay movement.</s><s>Biography. Satinover was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 4, 1947, to Joseph and Sena Satinover. He lived in and around Chicago until moving to California at the beginning of his high school years. Satinover won a National Merit Scholarship. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He obtained a Master of Education degree in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University, a medical degree at the University of Texas, and a Master of Science in physics at Yale University. He received a diploma in analytical psychology from the C. G. Jung Institute of Zürich, becoming their youngest graduate. He trained there and became an accredited Jungian analyst. He received a PhD in physics in the laboratory of Didier Sornette at the University of Nice in France, in 2009. He married for the second time in 1982"
},
{
"title": "Jeffrey Satinover",
"text": ", having previously divorced and is the father of three daughters. According to two journalists, in September 1991, during the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Satinover suggested during dinner conversation with President Bush's nephew that Anita Hill, if suffering from erotomania (a \"delusional disorder\"), might be entirely convinced that Thomas had sexually harassed her, even if he had not, just as a witness for Thomas, John Doggett, (now a conservative commentator) claimed had happened with him. She would even pass a lie detector test, as Hill had, convinced of the truth of what she was saying. Soon Satinover and another psychiatrist, Park Dietz were explaining this possibility to Thomas' Senate sponsor, John Danforth, and White House press secretary, Larry Thomas, though as psychiatrists neither would testify about a patient they had not examined. (Psychiatrists brought in by the Democrats similarly refused to testify.) Satinover was quoted as stating that once he saw the testimony of one of Hill's main critics, John Doggett, he concluded the idea was invalid. He has provided commentary for two documentary films, \"What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?\" (2004) and \"What the B"
},
{
"title": "Jeffrey Satinover",
"text": "leep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole \" (2006). In 2008, he completed a Ph.D. \"summa cum laude\" in physics at the University of Nice, France. Satinover was distinguished visiting professor of Math and Science at King's College, New York City, a private Christian college affiliated with Campus Crusade for Christ. He also teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He is a visiting scientist at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He is managing director of Quintium Analytics, LLC, a proprietary investment advisory company he founded in 2007. Satinover is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Satinover is Jewish, but says he has an eclectic worldview.</s><s>Writing and research. Satinover's book, \"Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth\" (1996), published by the evangelical Christian publisher Baker Books, debates the nature of homosexuality from psychological, religious and scientific perspectives, discussing homosexuality primarily in the context of being a condition that can or should be treated, contrary to the views of the mainstream psychiatric and psychological community. Satinover draws comparisons between homosexuality and various pathologies (\"e."
},
{
"title": "Jeffrey Satinover",
"text": "g.,\" alcoholism, pedophilia) and argues that homosexuality involves compulsive impulses. He states that homosexuality \"is not a true illness, though it may be thought an illness in the spiritual sense of'soul sickness,' innate to fallen human nature.\" He also argues that \"gay activism distorts the truth and harms not only society, but homosexuals themselves\". Most of the book discusses whether homosexuality is biological and genetic and if it can be changed. About one fifth of the book discusses human sexuality from Jewish and Christian perspectives. In the book's introduction, Satinover states that \"[i]n the end the debate over homosexual behavior and its implications for public policy can only be decided conclusively on moral grounds, and moral grounds will ultimately mean religious grounds.\" In 1997, Satinover was called by the State of Florida as an expert witness in Amer v. Johnson, which challenged Florida's law prohibiting adoption by gays and lesbians. \"Surprisingly, Satinover said in his testimony that 'if two homosexuals wanted to adopt a child, I would have no objection to it if one of them was a man and one of them was a woman' [but] 'the 'needs' of a child includes having [both] a mother and a father'\". He said that"
},
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"title": "Jeffrey Satinover",
"text": " \"The state of Florida wanted me to argue that the reason the ban should be upheld was because homosexuals made bad parents and I refused to do that.\" After several years of additional court cases relating to the Florida's anti-gay adoption ban, \"\" resulted in the ban being declared unconstitutional in 2010. Satinover has frequently testified regarding his views on same sex marriage. In a hearing before the Massachusetts Judicial Committee in April 2003, he testified that homosexuality is not immutable and that the environment plays an important role in sexual orientation. Organizations that oppose the expansion of LGBT rights and protections have frequently cited his research in their position papers.</s><s>Selected works. - \"Feathers of the Skylark: Compulsion, Sin and Our Need for a Messiah\" (Hamewith Books, 1996) - \"The Empty Self: Gnostic & Jungian Foundations of Modern Identity\" (Grove Books, 1995), 28 pp. - also as \"The Empty Self: C.G. Jung and the Gnostic Transformation of Modern Identity\" (Grove Books, 1996) - \"Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth\" (Baker Books, 1996) - \"The Truth Behind the Bible Code\" (Sidgwich Jackson, 1997) - \"Cracking"
},
{
"title": "Jeffrey Satinover",
"text": " the Bible Code\" (1997, New York: W. Morrow, ) - \"The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man\" (Wiley, 2002)</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of DeAnna Bennett.
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"title": "DeAnna Bennett",
"text": "<s>DeAnna Bennett DeAnna Danielle Bennett (born November 18, 1984) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Flyweight division in Bellator. As of December 13, 2022, she is #4 in the Bellator Women's Flyweight Rankings.</s><s>Background. Bennett wrestled and played water polo for American High School before graduating in 2002. Bennett briefly attended an art college, but dropped out. She credits her \"being a fat kid\" for motivating her to join a kickboxing gym to stay in shape, and eventually competing in Muay Thai kickboxing.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Early career. After a short amateur MMA career in 2011, Bennett made her professional MMA debut in February 2012 for Showdown Fights. She competed for the promotion four times over the next two years, winning all of her bouts. Notably beating stand outs Sharon Jacobson, Colleen Schneider and Julianna Peña respectively.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Invicta FC. Bennett made her Invicta FC debut on September 6, 2014, at, where she defeated Michelle Ould by TKO in the second round. In her second fight for the promotion, Bennett faced Jennifer Maia on December"
},
{
"title": "DeAnna Bennett",
"text": " 5, 2014, at. She won the fight by unanimous decision. Bennett next faced Norma Rueda Center on February 27, 2015, at. She again won the fight by unanimous decision.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:The Ultimate Fighter. In August 2017, it was announced that Bennett would be one of the fighters featured on \"The Ultimate Fighter 26\", where the process to crown the UFC's inaugural 125-pound women's champion will take place. Bennett was selected seventh by coach Eddie Alvarez. She faced Karine Gevorgyan in the opening round and won via TKO in the first round. In the quarter finals Bennett faced Sijara Eubanks losing via first round knockout.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Ultimate Fighting Championship. Bennett faced Melinda Fábián on December 1, 2017 at. The fight ended as a majority draw and Bennett was subsequently released from the promotion.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Return to Invicta. Bennett returned to Invicta to face Karina Rodríguez on March 24, 2018 at. She won the fight by split decision. Bennett then entered a flyweight tournament where she defeated Miranda Maverick by unanimous decision but lost in the final in a rematch against"
},
{
"title": "DeAnna Bennett",
"text": " Karina Rodriguez.</s><s>Mixed martial arts career.:Bellator. Bennett made her promotional debut against Liz Carmouche at Bellator 246 on September 12, 2020. She lost the bout via a rear-naked choke submission in the third round. Bennett was scheduled to face Alejandra Lara on July 31, 2021 at Bellator 263. The bout was rescheduled for unknown reasons to take place on August 20, 2021 at Bellator 265. On August 13, it was announced that the bout was moved once again, this time to Bellator 266. At the weigh-ins, Bennett missed weight for her bout. Bennett weighed in at 129.2 pounds, 3.2 pounds over the flyweight non-title fight limit. The bout proceeded at catchweight and Bennett was fined a percentage of her purse which went to Lara. Bennett won the bout in dominant fashion via unanimous decision. Bennett faced Justine Kish on February 19, 2022 at Bellator 274. She won the bout in dominant fashion via unanimous decision. Bennett rematched Justine Kish on August 12, 2022 at Bellator 284. At weigh ins, Kish came in at 128.4 lbs, 2.4 pounds over the weight limit, for the flyweight bout, resulting"
},
{
"title": "DeAnna Bennett",
"text": " in her being a fined a percentage of her purse which went to Bennett and the bout proceeded at catchweight. Bennett won the bout again via unanimous decision. Bennett is scheduled to face Liz Carmouche for the Bellator Women's Flyweight World Championship on April 21, 2023 at Bellator 294.</s><s>See also. - List of female mixed martial artists - List of current Bellator MMA fighters</s><s>References.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Emcee N.I.C.E..
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"title": "Emcee N.I.C.E.",
"text": "<s>Emcee N.I.C.E. Aulsondro \"Novelist\" Hamilton, better known by his stage name Emcee N.I.C.E., is an American Christian hip hop recording artist. Five No. 1 hit records on the \"Billboard\" charts in \"I Got Angels\" claiming two positions along with \"Glory to God\" (ft. Fred Hammond) & Nielsen BDS including a No. 1 gospel album in \"Praise\".</s><s>History. In 2015, under his real name Aulsondro Hamilton, he voiced the character \"Novelist\" in a 3D animated music series entitled Da Jammies.</s><s>Productions, Releases and Guest Appearances. Albums | Singles | EP's</s><s>As a writer and performer A Lighter Shade of Brown.</s><s>As a writer and performer A Lighter Shade of Brown.:Charts (1994–1999). Peak positions</s><s>As a member and lead vocalist/rapper of KansasCali.</s><s>As a member and lead vocalist/rapper of KansasCali.:2002 to 2006.</s><s>As Emcee N.I.C.E. (Novelist Is Constantly Evolving"
},
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"title": "Emcee N.I.C.E.",
"text": ").</s><s>As Emcee N.I.C.E. (Novelist Is Constantly Evolving).:2015. Tonight feat. Suhana Machete peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot Single Sales Chart in 2014 (Billboard Albums)</s><s>Music Videos. A music video for \"Thugz Mansion\" was shot. The video was nominated at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Rap Video. - other music videos includes: - \"If U Wanna Groove\" with Lighter Shade of Brown - \"If I...\" with KansasCali - \"The Life\" with KansasCali - \"Life of The Party\" with Stacey Dash & Blake Smith - \"I Got Angels\" - \"This Is TBL\" with Lamontt Blackshire & DaLomonze - \"Precious Stones\" with Bryann Trejo</s><s>Awards and achievements.</s><s>Awards and achievements.:The Gospel Hip Hop Awards. The complete list of winners can be found here https://www.thegospelhiphopawards.com/team-4</s><s>Awards and achievements.:Kingdom Image Awards. Awards/Nominations - 2019: Stellar Awards Nomination, Rap/Hip Hop"
},
{
"title": "Emcee N.I.C.E.",
"text": " CD of the Year – PRAISE - 2019: Stellar Awards Nomination, Internet Station of the Year – GH3 Radio (God's House of Hip Hop) – Curated by Emcee N.I.C.E. - 2019: Kingdom Image Awards Nomination, Producer of the Year – - 2019: The Spin Awards Nominees</s><s>Books. - \"50 Shades of L.O.V.E. – (Learning Our Various Emotions)\" (July 15, 2015) - \"Music Release University - The Indies' Guide to Releasing Music!\" (August 19, 2022) Note: (Music Release University - The Indies' Guide to Releasing Music! is an Amazon Books New Release Best Seller achieving No. 1 in the category of \"Music Recording & Sound\" and a Top 10 Best Seller in the category of \"Music Business\")</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Karyn Pugliese.
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"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": "<s>Karyn Pugliese Karyn Pugliese (Pabàmàdiz) is a Canadian broadcast journalist and communications specialist, of Algonquin and Italian descent. She is member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation in Ontario. She is a Nieman Fellow, Class of 2020, Harvard University and has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists with a Charles Bury Award for her leadership supporting journalists and fighting for media rights. In 2018 the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented Pugliese with the organization's annual Gordon Sinclair Award for distinguished achievement in journalism at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2019 Pugliese received the Hyman Solomon Award for Public Policy Journalism and was the co-recipient with journalist Justin Brake for the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) 2019 Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. She was chosen for the twenty-fifth Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. She won a National Newspaper Award for a series of columns written for the National Observer in 2021, where she is now editor-in-chief. She is a frequent commentator on CBC's Rosie Barton Live and the podcast Canadaland. Pugliese recently replaced the former host"
},
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"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": " of the canadaLANDBACK series. The former host Ryan McMahon, left after some personal controversy and conflict with his producer. Pugliese is best known for her work as a journalist/Executive Director of news and current affairs at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network,Karen Mccall, \"Indigenous First: Why APTN won't stop covering the kinds of stories mainstream Canadian media once regularly messed up or ignored—and often still do Ryerson review of journalism https://medium.com/ryerson-review-of-journalism/indigenous-first-b5b2d3d7b344 and as the host of ichannel's #FAQMP. Pugliese was also the Managing Editor of CBC's Investigative unit, overseeing television programming for the Fifth Estate and Marketplace. She also worked at Vision TV and as a Communications Director for the Assembly of First Nations. Pugliese is president of the Canadian Association of Journalists (2018-2020) and previously sat on the CAJ Ethics Committee. Pugliese has acted as a co-chair for the Night for Rights Gala, an event which raises approximately $140,000 annually for rights-based journalism programming, and is organized by Journalist for Human Rights, JHR. Pugliese"
},
{
"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": " is an ambassador for Journalist for Human Rights, and works with them to train young indigenous journalists. She frequently speaks in support of the organization. She is also a board member for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).</s><s>Early life. Pugliese was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, but frequently visited Pikwàkanagàn in her youth. Most of her close family lived off-reserve in Ottawa. Pugliese dropped out of high school three times, eventually enrolling in an alternative high school where she earned her diploma. Although she was a bright student, Pugliese had no intention of attending university, and wanted to be a bartender, until a high school teacher coaxed her into applying to Carleton University's journalism program. She enrolled and graduated with a combined honours in Journalism and History in 1998. Pugliese was in journalism school during the years of the resistance, Ipperwash Crisis and standoff at Gustefsen Lake. She was so distressed by the way media covered these events, out of context and stereotyping Indigenous people \"as angry warriors threatening an otherwise peaceful Canada,\" that when she attended her graduation ceremony at Pikwakanagan she was embarrassed to admit she'd studied journalism and told her people she"
},
{
"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": " was thinking about becoming historian instead. After graduating Pugliese worked short-term contracts at CBC Radio Ottawa's \"Morning Show\", \"Sounds Like Canada\" and CTV television, Ottawa. As a single mother of a young child, Pugliese found it difficult to balance motherhood with the instability of a journalism career. For a time she left journalism and worked as a technical writer in the federal government. Around this time she returned to Carleton University to complete an M.A. in history. Her thesis \"'So, where are you from?' Glimpsing the history of Ottawa-Gatineau's urban Indian communities\" is a history of the off-reserve community she grew up in. Pugliese returned to journalism in 2000, after a professor put her in touch with the APTN. Pugliese became the APTN's first Parliamentary Correspondent. She credits the APTN's daycare policy and flexible hours for her ability to re-enter journalism and build a career. She says APTN was a place where she could \"write the truth about my people,\" turning her back toward a career in journalism. Her son Zackery Liberty is now an adult and a guitarist with the indie rock group Farewell Davidson.</s><s>Career."
},
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"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": "</s><s>Career.:Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). In 2000 Pugliese heard from a professor that the APTN was about to launch a weekly news magazine show called \"InVision\". It was later rebranded into the nightly APTN National News. From 2000 to 2006 Pugliese was a member of the Press Gallery and APTN's Parliamentary Reporter. She also travelled to many Indigenous communities, mostly in Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut. During her time at APTN Pugliese won 3 Native American Journalism Awards and was nominated for a Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Award. Pugliese left APTN in 2006.</s><s>Career.:360 Vision, Vision TV. In 2006, Pugliese joined Vision TV's investigative and current affairs show 360 Vision then led by Sadia Zaman and John Scully. That year the series was a nominee for Best News and Information Series at the 2006 Gemini Awards. Pugliese left after one season.</s><s>Career.:Assembly of First Nations. Pugliese joined the Assembly of First Nations as a communications officer in 2007. In this role she also worked with the World Health Organization,Global STOP-TB Indigenous Experts Meeting Summary of Proceedings Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 12–14"
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"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": ", 2008 p 57 http://www.kateniesresearch.com/papers/DRAFT%20Global%20Indigenous%20STOP%20TB%20Summary%20of%20Proceedings%20DEC.%201,%202008.pdf and the United Nations. A year later she was promoted to Communications Director. She left the AFN in 2010.</s><s>Career.:ichannel and #FAQMP. In 2010 Pugliese returned to journalism, hosting and producing @issue, ichannel's current affairs talk show. In 2011 Pugliese hosted and produced a new flagship program #FAQMP (Frequently Asked Questions for your Member of Parliament). The show was described as an experiment in democracy, and with its hyper-local focus it was favourably compared to a modern twist on Geoff Scott's 1968 Show \"Your Man on the Hill.\" #FAQMP invited viewers to vote on a website and choose which MP they wanted to appear on the show. Viewers were then invited to submit their own interview questions and topics via social media. Among the MPs who appeared on the show were: Justin Trudeau, Jason Kenney, Dean Del Mastro, Elizabeth May, Bob Rae, Carolyn Bennett, Joy Smith, Pat Martin"
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"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": ", and Senator Patrick Brazeau. Some controversial episodes included: PEI Liberal MP Sean Casey's admission that he did not support his own party's 2012 resolution on abortion that would penalize any province that restricted women's access to abortion (by cutting federal health transfer dollars). Green Party Leader Elizabeth May's assertion that political parties should be eliminated, and all MPs elected independently also caused a stir. The clip resurfaced and caused debate on reddit in 2014. The series garnered a nomination for Best Cross-Platform Project, Non-Fiction at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. Pugliese left in 2012, returning to APTN. #FAQMP lasted for 1 more season under a new host, Kevin O'Keefe.</s><s>Career.:Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). In 2012, Pugliese returned to the APTN to lead the news department as the executive director of News and Current Affairs. Since her arrival, new programming has been added to the News Department including: \"Nation to Nation\", a half hour political show, and the talk shows \"InFocus\" and \"The Laughing Drum\". During the 2015 federal election, for the first time, APTN National News secured interviews with 3 out of 4 of the national party leaders."
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"title": "Karyn Pugliese",
"text": " In 2017, Pugliese was awarded the Canadian Association of Journalists Charles Bury Award, by then CAJ President Nick Taylor-Vaisey. In particular Taylor-Vaisey noted Pugliese's contributions to fighting for press freedom. \"When it comes to supporting journalists and fighting for journalism, APTN punches above its weight,\" said Taylor-Vaisey. \"They fight for press freedom in the courts...\" In her acceptance speech Pugliese recounted some of the early struggles of setting up the \"first aboriginal broadcaster in the world\" adding: \"Yes. We punched above our weight, how could we not with so much at stake?\"</s><s>Career.:Managing Editor Investigative (CBC). As managing editor of investigative for the CBC from 2021, Pugliese oversaw \"The Fifth Estate\", an award-winning English-language Canadian news magazine television program airing on the national CBC Television network.</s><s>Career.:Executive Editor National Observer. Pugliese is currently the executive editor of Canada's National Observer, a daily online news service focused on climate change.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Michael L. MacDonald.
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"title": "Michael L. MacDonald",
"text": "<s>Michael L. MacDonald Michael L. MacDonald (born May 4, 1955) is a Canadian politician and a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate. He was appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate on January 2, 2009.</s><s>Early life and education. MacDonald was born in Louisbourg, the youngest of 10 children. In 1977, he graduated from University of King's College in Halifax with an Honours degree in political science.</s><s>Political career. MacDonald worked as a researcher for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Research Office from 1978 to 1980. He then worked in the office of MLA Gerald Sheehy from 1980 to 1982 and then as Executive Assistant to Premier John Buchanan from 1982 to 1984. He was also Executive Assistant to Thomas McMillan from 1984 to 1985, and then to Stewart McInnes from 1985 to 1987. He has been the owner of the Fortress Inn in Louisbourg since 1988. In 1988, he ran for federal office in Cape Breton—East Richmond, placing second with 7,173 votes. In 1993, he ran provincially for the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia in the riding of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, placing second with 2,905 votes. He ran in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour again in 1998, placing third with"
},
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"title": "Michael L. MacDonald",
"text": " 2,084 votes. He ran federally in 2004 in the riding of Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, placing third with 8,739 votes.</s><s>Controversy. On February 16, 2022, during the convoy protest in Ottawa, MacDonald was recorded in a video making derisive remarks about the city's residents, saying, \"I’m so sick of the entitlement in this country and this f------ city. Everybody around this city, with their six-figure salaries and twenty-hour weeks.\" He also expressed support for the protesters, saying, \"...in Ottawa I don't want them to leave,\" and described his wife as \"a Karen\" for wanting the protest to end. MacDonald later read a statement in the Senate chamber to apologize for his remarks.</s><s>Personal life. MacDonald lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with his wife Marilyn, and their two sons, Lauchlan and Liam.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ingo Titze.
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"title": "Ingo Titze",
"text": "<s>Ingo Titze Ingo R. Titze is a voice scientist and executive director of the National Center for Voice and Speech and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He also teaches at the Summer Vocology Institute, also housed at the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa and has written several books relating to the human voice.</s><s>Education. Titze received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah, and then an M.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Physics from the University of Utah. He graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Brigham Young University in 1972. In 1976 he went to Gallaudet University, where he received his first of many grants from the National Institutes of Health.</s><s>Career. Prior to his conjoint positions at the Universities of Utah and Iowa (for which he began in 2009 and 1990, respectively) he was the Chief Scientist and Executive Director for the National Center for Voice and Speech from 1994–2009, which was then housed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts"
},
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"title": "Ingo Titze",
"text": ". From 1983–1994 he served as the Director of Research for the Recording and Research Center, also housed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and from 1989–1994 he was adjunct professor in the Westminster Choir College at Princeton, New Jersey. Titze was a consultant to the Department of Linguistics/Speech Analysis at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, a visiting Lecturer at the Department of Hearing/Speech Science at the University of Maryland, and an associate professor for the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology for the University of Iowa from 1979–1995. His early career positions included associate professor in the Department of Physics at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, assistant professor for the Sensory Communication Research Laboratory at Gallaudet College from 1976–1979, lecturer in physics and electrical engineering at California State Polytechnic University, physics instructor at Pomona College from 1973–1974, and Brigham Young University from 1972–1973. Before accepting a position to work as a research engineer at the Boeing Company of Seattle from 1968–1969, he worked at the National Reactor Test Station (1965–1966) and as a research engineer at North American Aviation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Titze began his career"
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"title": "Ingo Titze",
"text": " as a summer research engineer for Argonne National Laboratory in Arco, Idaho in 1963.</s><s>Vocology. Between the years of 1979–1981, Titze developed a new course entitled \"Principles of Voice Production\", which was taught jointly in the School of Music. During the 1980s he developed various university courses that included acoustics, biomechanics of speech, experimental phonetics, digital signal processing, voice therapy and vocal pedagogy, all of which culminated in him coining the phrase 'vocology', which he then proposed as a discipline parallel to audiology.</s><s>Research. Titze has been awarded multiple grants during his career from the National Institutes of Health, to study voice health and voice disorders. His research on the voice is prolific, with over 160 research articles listed at the NIH, alone.</s><s>Media. - 2015 Appeared in BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms, \"Singing Machines\" - 2013 Appeared in Reuters, BBC, Pacific Standard, Iowa Now, and AIP regarding his “Voice Vote” article - 1992 Featured on Television Documentary, NDR, Hamburg, Germany - 1986 Part of a documentary on Quantum, The Science Series, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, produced and directed by Peter Hiscock"
},
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"title": "Ingo Titze",
"text": " - 1985 Part of a nationally aired feature on Voice Research, Cable News Network (CNN), \"Science and Technology Today\" series, produced by Charles Crawford - 1985 Part of a documentary entitled \"Figures of Speech\" on the series Innovation, WNET (Public Television Network), produced by Duncan Scott</s><s>Awards. - 2012: Kay-Pentax Lecturer and Awards, American Speech Language Hearing Association - 2010: Honors of the Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - 2009: Science Writing Award for Professional in Acoustics, The Acoustical Society of America - 2007: Silver Medal, the Acoustical Society of America - 2004: Wullstein Lecture and Award, German Ear, Nose, Throat Association - 2003: Karl Storz Lecture Award, American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology - 2002: Willard R. Zemlin Lecture Award, American Speech–Language–Hearing Association - 1996: American Laryngological Association Award - 1996: Honored Alumnus, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young Univ. - 1995: University of Iowa Regents Award - 1992: Fellow, American Speech Language Hearing Association - 1992: Editor's Award Speech Science, American Speech Language"
},
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"title": "Ingo Titze",
"text": " Hearing Association - 1990: Quintana Award, The Voice Foundation - 1989: Claude Pepper Award, National Institutes of Health - 1986: Part of a documentary on Quantum, a science series of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 1984: William and Harriott Gould Award for laryngeal physiology - 1984: Jacob Javits Neurosciences Investigation Award - 1983: Fellow, Acoustical Society of America - 1969: NDEA Graduate Fellow - 1959: Josephine Bean Scholarship</s><s>Bibliography.</s><s>Bibliography.:Books. - \"Fascinations with the Human Voice\". National Center for Voice and Speech. Translated into German, Japanese, Finnish, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French. Titze, I.R. (2010). - \"Vocology: The Science and Practice of Voice Habilitation\". National Center for Voice and Speech, Salt Lake City, UT. Titze, I.R., & Verdolini, K. (2012). - \"The Myoelastic-Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation\". Denver, CO 80204: National Center for Voice and Speech (2006). Titze, I.R. - \"Principles of Voice Productio\"n. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall ("
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"title": "Ingo Titze",
"text": "1994). Reprinted by the National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, CO 80204 (2000). Translated into Chinese, German, Japanese and Portuguese. Titze, I.R. - \"Vocal Fold Physiology: Frontiers in Basic Science\". San Diego: Singular Publishing Group (1992). Titze, I.R. (Ed.). - \"Vocal Health and Science\". Jacksonville, FL: The National Association of Teachers of Singing (1991). Sataloff, R.T. & Titze, I.R. (Eds.). - \"Vocal Fold Physiology: Biomechanics, Acoustics, and Phonatory Contro\"l. Denver CO: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (1985). Titze, I.R. & Scherer, R.C. (Eds.).</s><s>See also. - Phonation - Place of articulation - Vocal folds - Vocology</s><s>References.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Kathleen A. McGrath.
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"title": "Kathleen A. McGrath",
"text": "<s>Kathleen A. McGrath Kathleen Anne McGrath (June 4, 1952 – September 26, 2002) was the first woman to command a United States Navy warship.</s><s>Early life. On June 4, 1952, McGrath was born in Columbus, Ohio. McGrath's father is Colonel James H. McGrath. McGrath's mother is Martha McGrath.</s><s>Education. In 1975, McGrath earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from California State University, Sacramento. McGrath attended Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island. In 1987, McGrath earned a Master of Arts degree in Educational Management from Stanford University.</s><s>Career. McGrath worked in the United States Forestry Service until 1980 when she joined the US Navy. McGrath was deployed to the Western Pacific, the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas. McGrath commanded the rescue and salvage ship USS Recovery in 1993 and 1994. She was the first woman to command was US Navy ship. In December 1998, Captain McGrath became commander of the frigate USS Jarrett. She was one of the group of five women, including Michelle J. Howard, Maureen Farren, Ann O'Connor, and Grace Mehl, chosen to be the first female combatant commanders in"
},
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"title": "Kathleen A. McGrath",
"text": " the United States Navy. In the spring of 2000, it was just six years after Congress revoked rules prohibiting women from serving on combat aircraft and warships. On March 31, 2000, McGrath commanded USS Jarrett and set to sea from San Diego, California with a destination of the Persian Gulf region. Its goal was to hunt boats suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions. In May 2002, McGrath was promoted to the rank of captain. Following her tour as commander of the \"Jarrett\", McGrath served at the Joint Advanced Warfighting Unit in Alexandria, Virginia. Captain McGrath died in September 2002 at the age of 50.</s><s>Awards. - Legion of Merit - Meritorious Service Medal with three gold stars (4 awards) - Navy Commendation Medal with 2 gold stars - Navy Achievement Medal - Joint Meritorious Unit Award - Meritorious Unit Citation - Navy E Ribbon - National Defense Service Medal with star - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal with star - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - Navy Overseas Service Ribbon - Kuwait Liberation Medal</s><s>Personal life. McGrath's husband was Gregory H. Brandon. They have two children. On September 26, 2002, McGrath died from lung cancer at the National"
},
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"title": "Kathleen A. McGrath",
"text": " Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She was 50 years old. McGrath is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Sergei Bodrov.
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"title": "Sergei Bodrov",
"text": "<s>Sergei Bodrov Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov (; born June 28, 1948) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2003 he was the President of the Jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.</s><s>Life and career. Bodrov was born in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). In the post-Soviet period he emigrated to the United States. His son, actor Sergei Bodrov, Jr. was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002, while shooting a film titled \"The Messenger\". Bodrov's paternal grandmother was an ethnic Buryat, which influenced his decision to make the movie \"Mongol\". Bodrov currently has an apartment in Los Angeles and a ranch in Arizona. He is married to American film consultant Carolyn Cavallaro.</s><s>Awards. - \"Prisoner of the Mountains\" - Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Director. - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination. - \"Mongol\" - Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Director. - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination. - \"The Quickie\" - 23rd Moscow International Film Festival"
},
{
"title": "Sergei Bodrov",
"text": " Golden St. George (nominated)</s><s>Filmography. - \"Freedom Is Paradise\" (1989) - \"Katala\" (1989) - \"White King, Red Queen\" (1992) - \"Prisoner of the Mountains\" (1996) - \"Running Free\" (2000) - \"The Quickie\" (2001) - \"Bear's Kiss\" (2002) - \"Shiza\" (2004) - \"Nomad\" (2005) - \"Mongol\" ( 2007) - \"A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries\" (2010) - \"Seventh Son\" (2014) - \"Breathe Easy\" (2022)</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Diana Ivanova.
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": "<s>Diana Ivanova Diana Ivanova (Bulgarian Диана Иванова; born 19 March 1968 in Montana, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian journalist, author and documentary filmmaker. In her professional work she is interested in intercultural dialogue between people in Bulgaria and other countries, preferably Germany. As cultural manager and curator, she is committed to international understanding and cultural exchange and organizes every year in northwestern Bulgaria an international cultural festival. As a group analyst in Sofia and Bonn she deals with traumas that have been suffered due to the political situation in both countries in the time before the political change in Europe - in Germany primarily by citizens of the GDR.</s><s>Professional background. When Diana Ivanova went to school her birthplace still was wearing the name Mihajlovgrad. It was given up in 1993 in favor of the original name Montana. On the local German school, which maintained friendly relations with the Thuringian school in Schmalkalden as part of a twinning, she passed the Abitur. She lives and works in Bonn and Sofia. Ivanova studied Cultural anthropology and Mass communication at the University of Sofia, where she 1991 obtained a Master in Journalism. After that"
},
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": " she worked as a journalist until 1995, including as reporter and moderator at Bulgarian National Television. She then until 2003 was Radio journalist at Radio Free Europe in Prague. That same year she completed her training as a cultural manager on \"International Centre for Culture and Management\" (ICCM) at Prof. Herwig Poeschl in Salzburg. In 2005, she was \"Milena Jesenská scholarship holder\" at the Institute of Human Sciences. 2014 she completed her training as a group analyst at the \"International Association for Group Analysis (IAG)\" in Altaussee. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship between elderly Italians and Bulgarian women who had to leave their villages in regions with hopeless labor market situation to make money with the care of the elderly in Italy, but by that lost contact with their homeland. Since 2003 she is a freelance journalist, among others, for \"n-ost\", \"Dnevnik\", \"Capital (Bulgaria)\", \"Abitare\" and \"Foreign Policy\". She is also manager of the \"New Culture Foundation\" and researched the film heritage of the Bulgarian secret services in Sofia, Berlin and Munich.</s><s>Work. Ivanova emphasizes “slow journalism”, as she calls it. Authenticity for"
},
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": " her is essential. Journalism of this kind needs time and she is willing to take time. Against this background she is shaping her articles, her films and projects. Contentual focus of her work are the individual and collective traumas of the people in Bulgaria and Germany having been suffered by political circumstances. With her understanding of the trauma phrase she leans on the social psychologist Angela Kühner and the sociologist Kai Erikson, who understands a collective trauma as a “violation of the social tissue and the connections between people”. Cultural exchange and encounter groups are the chosen devices, by which she meets the traumas to prepare the ground for a better future. At the beginning of every project her look goes back to the past, which gives her information about the historical roots of the present and the actual experiences of the people. After her cycle \"Hello Melancholy\" was published in \"Capital weekly\", she was awarded on 16 August 2005 by the \"Austria Press Agency\" in Vienna with the prize \"Writing for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)\" – for her text \"Mrs. Bulgarian, Ivan Milev and Gustav Klimt\". In December 2013 Ivanova was for the second time invited on a scholarship for one month in the \"Kü"
},
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": "nstlerhaus Villa Waldberta\" in Feldafing. Among other things, she there showed the \"Films of the Bulgarian Ministry of State Security\", which were presented in the \"Brotfabrik\" in Berlin too.</s><s>Projects (Choice).</s><s>Projects (Choice).:\"GOATMILK\". \"Goat Milk\" is the name of an international cultural festival, Ivanova, together with the team of the \"New Culture Foundation\" organizes every year since 2004 in May as \"Festival of memories\" in the village of Gorna Bela Rechka in northwestern Bulgaria. Involved are the almost one hundred more than seventy-years-old residents of the village and artists from different nations – people who otherwise would not meet. In this way, Bela Rechka becomes a place of encounter, where the participants in joint designing the festival share stories, experiences and memories. The project is based on the question whether the cultural differences do separate people fundamentally or whether commonality and understanding are possible. For the inhabitants of the village and the participating guests and artists of the \"Goatmilk Festival\" this question already found an answer. At the same time it comes through the festival to a revitalization of this"
},
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": " by poverty and loneliness embossed region of the country. Every year the \"Goat Milk Festival\" is dedicated to a theme. 2008 was marked by the replacement of the bell. Although Bela Rechka never had a church, there was a bell in the village. And that was very important for the residents until it was stolen in the nineties of the last century. The \"Goatmilk Festival\" paved by help of many artists the way for its replacement. Supported by the Goethe-Institut in Sofia, Bela Rechka 2009 received a new bell. \"The bell of Bela Rechka\" was realized within the European program Culture 2000 by the \"New Culture Foundation\" in collaboration with the \"Borderland Foundation\" (Poland) and the \"Laundry Association\" (Birmingham, England). There were also donations and the participation of numerous volunteers.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:\"I lived Socialism\". From 2004 to 2006 Ivanova worked with the poet and writer Georgi Gospodinov and the psychiatrist Rumen Petrov. The focus of their joint project was the question of which traces socialism had left in the souls of men and what influence had these marks on their lifestyle and identity. 171"
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": " stories of Bulgarians of different ages were collected. The website on which they were presented, no longer exists; yet they are preserved in a book bearing – in Bulgarian – the title of the project. An online article of The Sofia Echo provides some of the shortened stories.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:\"My street\". The project \"My street\" began with the waste crisis 2005 in Bulgaria. It was an opportunity to reflect on the importance of the road, in which people live and feel strange or at home. So Ivanova started initially in Bulgaria and later in Cuba bringing people together who wrote down their story with their street, took photos and then in personal encounter shared with each other. Although many at first did not know what to do with the offer, they developed step by step while participating in the project a new relationship with an environment in which they have always lived but previously had paid little attention.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:\"My street\".:\"My street Bulgaria\". Ivanova was invited along with Boris Deliradev by the \"British Council\" in Bulgaria, to develop a concept for workshops with young people on the topic \"The EU and ME\". From the desire to avoid general and superficial conversations on the subject, and under the influence of the"
},
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": " then current waste crisis the idea for the project \"My street\" took shape. After \"My street Bulgaria\" having been successful, the project later in Cuba found its continuation.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:\"My street\".:\"My street Cuban Stories\". Since 1997 Ivanova traveled to Cuba. 2009 she gathered together with the Iranian-Canadian photographer Babak Salari stories and photos of people and their streets. As in all projects the identity of the people were in the focus and the question of how it is influenced by environment and experience. The result was 2010 a first book and 2012 a second one.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:\"Traumas and Miracles\". Together with Babak Salari Ivanova in 2008 began her research on the project \"Traumas and Miracles - Portraits from the Northwest of Bulgaria\" in one of the economically weakest and poorest regions of the country. Inspired by the conviction of the French sociologist and philosopher Maurice Halbwachs, “that all of us unconsciously are ‘an echo’ of events that happened before our time”, the aim of the project was a documentation of the oldest inhabitants of the region and their often traumatic stories. With the intention to create a space “for words"
},
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": ", phrases, images, faces that convey a sense of the area”, a “collection of fragments” emerged with portraits and stories of 50 inhabitants in eight villages. 2010 the project was presented to the public with an exhibition at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna and in the National Art Gallery in Sofia. Other presentations followed, from 2016 also in Germany.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:Filmprojects. Ivanova participated in various film projects. For the 2009 released film \"The Town of Badante Women\" by Stephan Komandarev she wrote the script. Idea and interviews she contributed to the 2012 released film \"Father\" by Ivan Bogdanov, a Bulgarian-, Croat, German co-production. Moreover, she published several short documentaries. On 14 November 2014, after four years of preparation, her 76-minute documentary \"Listen\" premiered in Sofia. It reports about Radio Free Europe (RFE), which broadcast from Munich from 1949 to 1995 but was banned in Bulgaria before the change in Europe. From 1995 to 2003 Ivanova had worked there. In Germany the film found his audience, for example, on 11 June 2015, at the \"America House (Munich"
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": ")\". Here, two former employees from \"Radio Free Europe\" (RFE) were invited: Luben Mutafoff, formerly journalist there, and Richard H. Cummings, former head of security – both after the film in an interview with the director. Also in June 2015, the movie was shown at Giessen University that thereafter provided an opportunity for discussion with Ivanova. Also in the \"naTo\" in Leipzig and in the \"Brotfabrik\" in Berlin the film was shown, as well as in the \"Filmmuseum Potsdam\", in \"Werkstattkino Munich\" and in \"Film Club 813\" in Cologne. Outside Germany, the film was presented in Kosovo and Luxembourg. The film historian Claus Löser wrote about the film: “Diana Ivanova succeeds in her debut documentary ‘Listen’ a small miracle. She manages retrospectively to soften the entrenched positions of the European postwar order, without playing down the historical and current conflicts.” In the year of its formation Ivanova was awarded with the \"Best Director Award\" for \"LISTEN\" as best first film. The film was developed with the support of the \"Bulgarian National Film Center\". After completing this film works"
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": ", Ivanova turned researching the film archive of the Bulgarian State Security to what she received a grant from the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.</s><s>Projects (Choice).:Self-Awareness-Groups. Since 2012 Ivanova organizes and since 2013 she conducts self-awareness-groups in Bonn and Sofia. As method she applies the technique of group analysis. Her interest in this context is it, to give a place to the suffering of people inflicted due to political circumstances on which it could be heard and may be alleviated.</s><s>Publications. - {{cite book |last1=Ivanova - {{cite book |last1=Salari - {{cite book |last1=Dietrich - {{cite book |last1=Ivanova - {{cite book |last1=Salari</s><s>Filmography. - 2014: \"LISTEN\" (76 Min.) - 2012: \"The Abandoned Northwest\" (22 Min.) - 2010: \"My Street Cuba\" (28 Min.) - 2010: \"Between Havana and Sofia\" (16 Min.)</s><s>Awards. - 2014: HostwriterPrize \"Collaboration"
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"title": "Diana Ivanova",
"text": " in Journalism\" (together with Dagmar Gester) - 2014: Prize for the best debut-film \"Golden Rhyton Festival Award\" - 2007: \"Robert Schumann Journalist Award\" - 2005: Journalistprize \"Writing for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)\" - 1993: National Award for the best short TV news presentation</s><s>References and Remarks. {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web }} {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite journal }} {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web {{cite web</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Arthur Ewert.
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": "<s>Arthur Ewert Arthur Ernest Ewert (30 November 1890 – 3 July 1959) was a German communist political activist and functionary of the Communist International (Comintern). Ewert is best remembered as an official Comintern representative to the United States, China, Argentina, and Brazil during the late 1920s and 1930s. After being subjected to torture and sentenced to 13 years in prison for his political activity in Brazil, Ewert lost his sanity. He was granted amnesty in May 1945 and ultimately returned to East Germany, where he lived out the rest of his life in a series of medical facilities.</s><s>Biography.</s><s>Biography.:Early years. Arthur Ernest Ewert was born November 13, 1890, in the town of Heinrichswalde, East Prussia (today's Slavsk, Russia). He was the son of a poor peasant family. Largely self-educated, Ewert completed only a primary school education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. Anxious to escape the drudgery of rural life, at the age of 14 Ewert accepted a position as an apprentice in an uncle's saddle-making factory in the urban center of Berlin. The growth of the automotive industry convinced the young Ewert"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " that there was little future in saddle-making, however, so he left that trade to take a job as a worker in a Berlin steel works. Earning low wages to perform difficult and sometimes dangerous work in the steel plant proved to be a radicalizing experience for Ewert. Influenced by his older sister, Minna, who was an activist in the social democratic youth movement, Ewert himself joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDP) in 1908 at the age of 18. In addition to socialist politics, Ewert's sister introduced him to a friend from work, the Polish-born Elise Saborovsky Ewert — known to her friends as \"Szabo\" — who was herself a committed Marxist. The pair began living together and would remain a couple for 25 years.</s><s>Biography.:Life in Canada. Early in 1914 Ewert and Szabowski moved to Canada, where they began to achieve fluency in the English language. At the time of Canada's entry into World War I in the summer of that year Ewert and Szabowski were required as citizens of an enemy power to report to the legal authorities for internment for the duration of the war. Instead the couple chose to disappear into the political"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " underground, where they were aided by Canadian Marxist opponents of the war. The couple traveled extensively through Canada and the United States in this period, interacting with others of like political mind and joining the new Socialist Party of North America (SPNA), a small revolutionary socialist organization launched in Canada in 1915. During this period the couple used the party pseudonyms \"Gustav\" and \"Elsie\" and procured false identity documents under the names \"Arthur Brown\" and \"Annie Bancourt\" to better avoid law enforcement officers. Following the Russian Revolution of November 1917, Canadian authorities increased their scrutiny of domestic radicals and Ewert and Szabowski became persons of interest. An informer tipped off the authorities that the pair would be in Toronto for a party meeting on March 23, 1919, and plainclothes detectives picked up their trail from the gathering to a boarding house, where arrest and search warrants were served. According to the police communist propaganda and several handguns were found in the couple's room during the search. After an administrative hearing Ewert was deported to Germany a few months after his arrest, while Szabo was transported across Canada to an internment camp, pending her own deportation in February 1920 aboard a prisoner of war repatriation ship. The couple reunited in"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " Berlin where they resumed their lives together anew.</s><s>Biography.:German revolutionary. Returning to Germany early in the summer of 1919, Ewert joined the fledgling Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became active in its work preparing the ground for a revolutionary overthrow of the German government. To support himself he went to work in Berlin as a laborer at the giant electrical corporation AEG \"(Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft),\" becoming one of the leading KPD activists among that company's workers. This period was marked by economic chaos, strikes, and streetfighting, in which the KPD frequently played the role of provocateur. Ewert was involved in this activity as a leading member of the loosely organized Greater Berlin Revolutionary Action Committee, established to organize urban workers into fighting groups to do battle with similar bands of ultra-nationalist demobilized soldiers. The leadership of Soviet Russia placed supreme importance on an early communist revolution in Germany to provide material support for the revolution in their own revolution backwards peasant nation. Substantial funds were funneled into Germany to support the organizing and propaganda efforts of the German communist movement. From 1920 onwards German-speaking veterans of the Soviet revolution and Russian Civil War were employed to establish paramilitary"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " \"military-political organizations\" throughout Germany in preparation for armed insurrection. The leadership of the KPD was divided over the advisability of such preparations for armed struggle, with Hungarian Comintern plenipotentiaries Bela Kun and József Pogány dispatched to Germany early in 1921 in an effort to win support for the strategy from faltering party chiefs. These preparations for a planned insurrection were ultimately short-circuited by events in Soviet Russia, including the March 1 Kronstadt uprising in which Baltic sailors took up arms against the Soviet regime, prompting more than two weeks of violent and bloody conflict between these revolutionary forces. In need of a diversion, the Communist International (Comintern) pushed forward with its plans for German insurrection in events which were later to be known as the March Action. On March 22, 1921, Communist paramilitary units exploded bombs and attacked police stations and government buildings throughout Central Germany in an attempt to spark the overthrow of the Ebert government. The chaos and killing which resulted from this coordinated offensive resulted in a debacle for the Communists, alienating a broad section of the public against the KPD and provoking an immediate reaction by the authorities, which easily put down the uprising. The Communist Party of Germany was decimated in the aftermath of the failed"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " March Action and party leader Paul Levi was expelled for afterwards publishing a pamphlet which sharply criticized the Comintern for its tactics and role. In April 1921 the KPD leadership dispatched Arthur Ewert to the city of Halle to attempt to rebuild the party organization there following its destruction in the March Action. After only a couple weeks Ewert was arrested for his organizing activity, however, and he was transferred to the prison facility at Frankfurt, where he was held for two months with other communist activists without formal charges being filed. The state was unable to produce evidence that Ewert was involved in fomenting armed insurrection, however, and he was subsequently released.</s><s>Biography.:Political rise. Ewert was elected to the governing National Committee (Zentrale) and its Politburo by the 8th Congress of the KPD in January 1923. Ewert was also elected as a KPD delegate to the 3rd Enlarged Plenum of Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) in 1923. During this interval Ewert was one of the top party leaders in Western Germany involved in the planning of the Communist Party's failed November 1923 revolutionary uprising. This activity made Ewert a wanted man with the legal authorities of the We"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": "imar Republic and he was forced into hiding. Ewert was arrested in November 1926 but managed to escape and he returned to life in the underground until 1928. Ewert was voted off the Zentrale for factional reasons by the dominant party left wing at 9th Congress of the KPD, held in April 1924. Ewert and his co-thinkers Heinz Neumann and Gerhart Eisler were removed from the political scene for work in the Communist International in Moscow. Ewert was initially assigned to work in the Comintern's Balkan Commission, dealing with political affairs of the various Communist Parties of that region. Ewert was also put to work as a lecturer at the Comintern's International Lenin School, an institution established in 1925 for the intellectual and technical training of leading party cadres for life as \"professional revolutionaries.\" The fortunes of his \"center\" political faction soon improved in Germany, however, and Ewert was returned to his formerly held leading positions by the 10th Congress of the KPD in 1925 and re-elected by the 11th Congress in 1927. In 1926, Ewert was again selected as a delegate of the KPD to the 6th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI, at"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " which he made use of his English-language skills as chair of the British Commission under the pseudonym \"Braun.\" Ewert was again elected to the 8th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI, held in Moscow in May 1927, where he chaired the American Commission, which attempted to resolve the ongoing factional war inside the Workers (Communist) Party of America. This was followed that same summer by his dispatch to the United States as the Comintern's Representative to the 5th Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, during which time he used the pseudonym \"Grey.\" By 1928 Ewert was regarded as one of the top leaders of the KPD, reckoned by historian Patrick Major to have been the number two figure in the Communist Party of Germany after party leader Ernst Thälmann. He entered the German parliament, the \"Reichstag,\" in May 1928. Later in 1928 Ewert was tapped as the KPD's representative to the Executive Committee of the Communist International following Thälmann's apparent involvement in a corruption scandal.</s><s>Biography.:Condemnation as \"Conciliator\". Ewert returned from his Moscow posting to ECCI early in 1929 to resume work in the apparatus of the German"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " Communist Party. He quickly found himself on the wrong side of a growing factional divide of the increasingly radical Third Period policies of the world communist movement as a leading member of the moderate \"Conciliator\" \"(Versöhnler)\" faction. At the 10th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI, held in Moscow in 1929, Ewert came under fire from his factional opponents as a supporter of discredited Soviet leader Nikolai Bukharin, with KPD representative to ECCI Walter Ulbricht leading the attack of what he characterized as a \"Bukharin–Humbert-Droz–Ewert Group.\" This charge was echoed by Joseph Stalin's right-hand man, Vyacheslav Molotov, who singled out Ewert by name among those \"conciliators\" who lent de facto political support to the more moderate political line of Bukharin and his co-thinkers inside the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks). Ewert managed to salvage his political career by engaging in public self-criticism at the 12th Congress of the KPD, held in June 1929, followed by publication of an article entitled \"The Bankruptcy of the Conciliators\" in the"
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " official party newspaper. Despite this public reversal of previously held political positions, Ewert was removed from the top leadership of the German Communist Party and was thereafter no longer directly involved in German party affairs.</s><s>Biography.:Comintern functionary. Ewert's familiarity with the English language and with the affairs of the America Communist Party made him a useful agent to the US, to which he traveled a false passport on Comintern business in 1930. Of primary concern to the Comintern was obtaining an independent assessment of the solidity of the hold over the party apparatus by the faction headed by Earl Browder and William Z. Foster, which had recently assumed control from deposed party leader Jay Lovestone. The use of Ewert — a personal friend and former ideological ally of the expelled dissident Lovestone — for this task was doubtlessly a form of loyalty-testing and assessment of whether Ewert retained political usefulness to the Comintern. Ewert seems to have passed the test, avoiding contacts with the Lovestone political organization and gaining the confidence and respect of the new American party leadership. In the fall of 1930 Ewert was formally assigned to the Comintern's Latin American department and he traveled with his common-law wife Szabo to Buenos Aires,"
},
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " Argentina to take over affairs of the Comintern office there. The posting was not a desirable one, but was rather a form of banishment of the ideologically suspect Ewert from the decision-making centers of the Communist Party of Germany and the Comintern. Ewert worked closely with Comintern representative A. Guralsky to win popular expelled Brazilian political leader Luís Carlos Prestes to the Communist cause, regarded as a top priority task. The pair were successful in formally bringing Prestes over to the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB) by May 1931, with Prestes capping his conversion with a trip to Moscow that fall. It is unclear whether Ewert accompanied Prestes to the Soviet Union, but he did turn up again in Moscow in the spring of 1931, his Argentine mission at an end. In 1932 Ewert and his wife were dispatched as Comintern Representatives to the Communist Party of China, where they would stay until recalled to Moscow in 1934. From Moscow Ewert and Szabo were first sent to the United States, with Ewert using the pseudonym \"Harry Berger\" during his brief stay. From there the pair proceeded to Brazil as Comintern Representative to the Communist Party of Brazil. Following an abortive insurrection against the regime of"
},
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": " Getúlio Vargas in November 1935, Ewert was arrested in Rio de Janeiro and was subjected to severe torture by authorities seeking the whereabouts of opposition leader Prestes. His wife Szabo was also subjected to police torture, being stripped, forced to suffer electric shocks, beaten, and burned with cigarettes — all in the presence of Ewert. Despite the viciousness of the interrogation, neither Ewert nor Szabo betrayed their confidences under duress. Szabo was ultimately deported to Nazi Germany in September 1936, where she was incarcerated and would later die at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1939. Ewert underwent protracted interrogation, during which time he lost his sanity. He was finally brought to trial in May 1937, where he was convicted and sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison.</s><s>Biography.:Later years. In May 1945 Ewert was granted an amnesty from prison. He returned by ship to the Soviet zone of control in Eastern Germany in August 1947 but the mental problems which followed his torture and imprisonment proved insurmountable and he was forced to be hospitalized in a sanatorium for the rest of his life.</s><s>Biography.:Death and legacy. Ewert died on July 3, 1959, in Eber"
},
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"title": "Arthur Ewert",
"text": "tswalde. In 1981 the government of the German Democratic Republic issued a postage stamp in Ewert's honor.</s><s>Further reading. - Robert J. Alexander, \"Communism in Latin America.\" New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957. - Ronald H. Chilcote, \"The Brazilian Communist Party: Conflict and Integration, 1922-72.\" London: Oxford University Press, 1974. - Theodore Draper, \"American Communism and Soviet Russia.\" New York: Viking Press, 1960. - David P. Hornstein, \"Arthur Ewert: A Life for the Comintern.\" Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Sami Shalom Chetrit.
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": "<s>Sami Shalom Chetrit Sami Shalom Chetrit (; born 1960) is a Moroccan-born Hebrew poet an inter-disciplinary scholar and teacher, and Israeli social and peace activist.</s><s>Biography. Sami Shalom Chetrit was born in Errachidia, Morocco. His family moved to Israel when he was 3 years old. He grew up in Ashdod. He received his BA (Literature), MA (political science) and PhD (political science) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his MA in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York. Chetrit lives in New York City. He teaches Hebrew language, literature and culture, and Middle Eastern studies at Queens College in Flushing, New York. Chetrit was a Mizrahi activist and one of the founders of Kedma, an alternative school system that advocated equal opportunities for all students and a multi-cultural curriculum. He was among the founders of \"HaKeshet HaDemokratit HaMizrakhit\" (Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition) for social justice and cultural freedom. Chetrit is the author of numerous articles and books on culture, society and politics in Israel, a novel and four books of"
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": " poetry. He produced two documentary films. Chetrit is the founder of the democratic Mizrahi blog for social justice and peace in Israel-Palestine. Chetrit identifies as an Arab Jew.</s><s>Published works. - Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews. London and New York: Routledge. 2010. 298 pp. - “Revisiting Bialik: A Radical Mizrahi Reading of the Jewish National Poet.” Comparative Literature. Winter 2010. - “Mirror Mirror on the Wall, in this Land, am I the Greatest Victim of them All? - Comments Following a Journey along Route 181.” (a documentary film by E. Sivan and M. Khleifi). In: Yael Munk and Eyal Sivan (editors) South Cinema Notebooks, # 2: On Destruction, Trauma & Cinema. Fall 2007. Israel: Sapir College Press & Pardes Publishing House. - “Why are SHAS and the Mizrahim supporters of the right?“ in : T. Honig-Parnas and T. Haddad (editors), Between the Lines – Readings on Israel, The Palestinians, and the U"
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": ".S. ‘War on Terror’ Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2007. pp. 195–203. - “The Ashkenazi-Zionist Problem : The Segregation in Education as a case study“ in: Y. Yona, Y. Naaman and D. Mahleb (editors), A rainbow of Opinions – A Mizrahi Agenda for Israel. Tel Aviv: November Books, 2007. pp. 221–234. (Hebrew) - “The Neo-Mizrahim: The Mizrahi Radical Discourse and the Democratic Rainbow Coalition movement“, in: G. Abutbul, L. Grinberg and P. Muzafi-Haler (editors). Mizrahi Voices: Toward a New Discourse on Israeli Society and Culture. Tel Aviv: Masada. 2005. pp. 131–152. (Hebrew) - Hamaávak HaMizrahi Be’Yisrael: Bein Dikui keshihrur, bein hizdahut lealternativa, 1948–2003. (The Mizrahi Struggle in Israel: Between Oppression and Liberation, Identification and Alternative,"
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": " 1948–2003), Am-Oved / Ofakim Series, 2004 (Hebrew). - 1948-2003 (The Mizrahi Struggle in Israel: Between Oppression and Liberation, Identification and Alternative, 1948–2003). MADAR RamAllah, Palestine, 2005. (Arabic). - SHAS and the “new Mizrahim” – Back to Back in Parallel Axles: Criticism of and Alternative to - European Zionism. Israel Studies Forum. Spring 2002. Volume 17, Number 2. pp. 107–113. - Shas: Catch 17 – between ultra-orthodoxy and Mizrahiut. In: Shas – the challenge of Israeliness. (Hebrew) Editor: Yoav Peled. TAPUACH, Yediot Aharonot, 2001. Chapter 1, pp. 21–51. - Mizrahi Politics In Israel: Between Integration And Alternative. Journal of Palestine Studies. University of California Press, Berkeley. Volume XXXIX/4 – Number 116. Summer 2000. pp. 51–65. - The Tents Movement (Hebrew). In: Fifty to Forty-Eight, a special issue of Theory and Criticism Vol. 12-13 1999. Editor: Adi Ofir"
},
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": ". Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.</s><s>Published works.:Literary publications. - “To Sing in Ashdodi”, an interview with Ronit Hacham. In: Hebrew Writers on Writing, Edited by Peter Cole. Trinity University Press, 2008 - “A Mural With no Wall. Kasida to Mahmud Darwish.” A poem. Al-Adaab Literary Journal, Beirut, Lebanon. 2008. (Arabic) - Yehudim (Jews). Poetry book. Nahar books. Binyamina, Israel. 2008. (Hebrew) - Ein Habuba (Doll’s Eye), a novel. Hargol-Am Oved publishers, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2007. (Hebrew) - Shirim Beashdodit (Poems in Ashdodian), poetry collection 1982-2002. Andalus Publishers, Tel Aviv Israel. 2003. (Hebrew) - Exclusive poetry contribution to: Frederic Brenner, Diaspora: Homeland in Exile. Volume 1: Photographs, volume 2: Voices. Harper Collins Publishers. New York. 2003. List of my poems (volume2, voices): “where would we be today, Dr."
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": " Horowitz?” (page 23), “Oh black desert daughters” (page 30), “Look, a Bukharan Barber shop” (page 42), “The Little Yemenites” (Pages 54–55), “in God we trust” (page 80). - (Editor) Me’aa Shanim, Me’aa Yotzrim. Asufat Yetzirot Ivriyot BaMizrah BaMe’aa HaEsrim. (A Century of Hebrew Writing. An Anthology of Modern Hebrew writing in the Middle East) Volumes A and B: prose, 1998. Volume C: Poetry, 1999. Bimat Kedem Publishing, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Hebrew). - Freha Shem Yafe (Freha is a beautiful name), poems (Hebrew). Nur publishing, Tel Aviv, 1995. - Ptiha (Opening). Poems. Eked publishing. Tel Aviv, 1988. - English translations of his poems from both books appeared in: Keys to the Garden. New Israeli Writing. Editor: Ammiel Alcalay. 1996. City Lights Books, San Francisco. pp. 357–369. - Many of"
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": " his poems were published throughout the years (in Hebrew and other languages) in numerous literary magazines, journals, periodicals, newspapers and anthologies.</s><s>Published works.:Documentary films. The Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak – a documentary film about the Israeli social-protest movement “The Black Panthers”, in the early 1970s. research and script writing. co-production and co-directed with Eli Hamo. (53 min, Hebrew with English subtitles). 2003. Special Screening at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque, 2003. Special Screening at the Jerusalem Cinemateque, 2003. Official Selection The African Diaspora Film Festival, New York, 2004. Official Selection ArteEast Film Festival, New York, 2004. Official Selection for a Greek Alternative Film Festival, 2005. Official Selection for an Irish Alternative Film Festival, 2005. Az’i Ayima (come mother) – a documentary film about Moroccan women of the first generation in Israel. Writing and directing. Produced by Haim Buzaglo. (77 minutes, Hebrew and Moroccan with English subtitles) 2009. DocAviv International Film Festival, Tel Aviv 2009. Official selection, special screening. Darom International Film Festival, Sderot 2009. Official selection."
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": "</s><s>About Chetrit's books. Phreha Shem Yafe (Freha is a Beautiful Name (poems 1995) Haaratz Book Reviews, by Michael Glozman, April 23, 1997 Moznayim Literary Monthly, by Hertzle Hakak, 1996, #6 Mitsad Sheni Journal, by Tzukerman Moshe, 1996, #2 Mea Shanim Mea Yotzrim (anthology of Hebrew writing in the 20th century, 3 volumes. was approved by the Mainstay of Education in Israel) Haaretz Culture and Literature weekly, by Rami Kimhi, November 20, 1998 Yediot Aharonot Cultural weekly, bu Haya Hofman, November 27, 1998 Afikim (periodical), by Yosef Avidor, May 1999 Moznayim Literary Monthly, by Balfur Hakak, 1999 #8 Hamahapecha Haashkenazit Meta (the Ashkenazi revolution is dead, essays) Haaratz Book Reviews, by Amnon Raz-Krakotskin, June 30, 1999 Moznayiom Literary Monthly, by Rami Kimhi, 1999 #2 Shirim Beashdodit (Poems in Ashdod"
},
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": "ian) Haaretz Book Review, by Gal Karniel, December 10, 2003 Hakivun Mizrah, by Ronit Hacham, Winter 2004, #8 Iton 77, Literary Journal, by Amos Levitan, 2003, #282 Afikim, by Meir Yosef, June 2005 Maariv, books and Literature, by Yoram Meltzer, August 22, 2003 Hamaavak Hamizrahi Beyisrael 1948-2003 (The Mizrahi Struggle in Israel, 1948–2003) Haaretz Literature and Culture weekly, by Yitzhak Laor, May 21, 2004 Haaretz Book Review, by David Hamo, June 9, 2004 Yisrael – a Journal for the Study of Zionism and Israel, by Leon Nisim, Fall 2004 Afikim, by Meir Yosef, June 2005 Moznayim Literary Monthly, by Rami Kimhi, 2004 #6 On Ein Habuba (Doll’s Eye), a novel Haaretz Gallery, weekly supplement, by Reuven Miran. August 16, 2007. Page 6. Time Out tel Aviv, weekly journal. By Pe’er Fridman. August 16, 2007. Ynet, Israeli daily online."
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"title": "Sami Shalom Chetrit",
"text": " Book review supplement. By Ronny Scwartz. August 8, 2007. Kol Hazman, Jerusalem weekly. By Yaron Avituv. August 10, 2007. Ynet, Israeli daily online. Culture Supplement. July 11, 2007. Haaretz, Literature and Culture weekly. By Oren Kakon. August 16, 2007. Sabih, J. ( 2009) Politisk poesi: Sami, S. Chetrit og \"vævet identitet\", in Naqd, pp. 51–70</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Robbie Horgan.
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"title": "Robbie Horgan",
"text": "<s>Robbie Horgan Robbie Horgan (born 7 June 1968) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.</s><s>Career. Born in Dublin, Horgan started his career at Shamrock Rovers, making his League of Ireland debut on 14 April 1987. He was the last goalkeeper to play for Shamrock Rovers at Glenmalure Park (Milltown) in a game that decided the League of Ireland B Division title in 1987. He then moved to Drogheda United in 1988 making his debut on 4 September in a 2–1 home win over Bray Wanderers. He kept 12 clean sheets in 26 league games as Drogheda won the League of Ireland First Division title in 1989. In the 1990/1991 season Horgan kept 15 clean sheets as Drogheda again won the First Division. After four and a half years at United Park he then moved to Shelbourne in November 1992. He then signed back for Rovers in July 1994 where he spent another eight years. Horgan played in 2 European games for Shamrock Rovers against Djurgårdens IF in the 2002–03 UEFA Cup. He made his last League of Ireland appearance in the last game of the 2007 League of Ireland season. Horgan was"
},
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"title": "Robbie Horgan",
"text": " the goalkeeping coach at Sporting Fingal until they went out of business. Horgan made history in August 2009 when he became the only player to have played at Milltown and Tallaght Stadium. He went to Drogheda United in February 2011, as an assistant to Mick Cooke. Drogheda won the League of Ireland Cup in 2012. Cooke left Drogheda in November 2013 and Horgan was confirmed as his replacement shortly afterwards.</s><s>Honours.</s><s>Honours.:As a Player. - League of Ireland First Division: 2 - Drogheda United 1988/89, 1990/91 - Leinster Senior Cup (football) - Shamrock Rovers 1997</s><s>Honours.:As a Coach. - League of Ireland Cup: - Drogheda United 2012</s><s>Sources. \"Irish Football Handbook\" by Dave Galvin & Gerry Desmond ()</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Tanel Ingi.
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"title": "Tanel Ingi",
"text": "<s>Tanel Ingi Tanel Ingi (born 26 November 1976) is an Estonian stage and film actor who performs primarily at the Ugala theatre.</s><s>Early life. Tanel Ingi was born in Tallinn. In 1995, he began attending the Kopli-Tallinn Art School. He attended the Viljandi Culture Academy, graduating in 1999. He began appearing in stage roles while still a student.</s><s>Career. In 1998, he joined the Ugala theatre in Viljandi, where he still performs at present. He has performed in a variety of stage productions, including works by: William Shakespeare, A. A. Milne, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, August Gailit, Jules Verne, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Schiller, Victor Hugo and Oskar Luts, among many others. In addition to his work in the theatre, Ingi has appeared in several film and television roles. He made his film debut in the 1999 Valentin Kuik directed drama \"Lurjus\" (English release title: \"An Affair of Honour\"), starring Taavi Eelmaa. One of his more notable performances was as T�"
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"title": "Tanel Ingi",
"text": "�nu in the 2005 Ilmar Raag directed ETV television film \"August 1991\"; a dramatization of the failed Soviet attempt to suppress the Singing Revolution independence movement in Estonia. He has also appeared on the ETV children's television seris \"Nöbinina\", the TV3 series \"Kättemaksukontor\", the Kanal 2 crime series \"Kelgukoerad\" and the ETV political satire series \"Riigimehed\". In 2015, he joined the cast of the Kanal 2 television drama series \"Pilvene all\" as the character Andres Kroon. In 2017 he joined the cast of the ETV ten-part drama series \"Pank\" as the character Aivar, which follows the rise and subsequent misfortunes of a new bank that which emerges in Estonia in the 1990s. In 2020, he co-directed the comedy feature film \"Asjad, millest me ei räägi\" with Andrejs Ekis.</s><s>Personal life. Tanel Ingi resides in Viljandi with his wife Kätlin. The couple have a summer home in Koeru Parish near the village of Preedi in Järva County"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Joseph Jaquet.
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"title": "Joseph Jaquet",
"text": "<s>Joseph Jaquet Joseph Jaquet, sometimes written Joseph Jacquet, (30 January 1822 - 9 June 1898) was a Belgian sculptor.</s><s>Biography. Joseph Jaquet, born in Antwerp in Belgium, was the son of a baker. He studied with Guillaume Geefs at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and was the friend of Peter Ludwig Kühnen (1812–1877), a painter originating from Aachen, specialised in painting romantic landscapes. He called from Antwerp to Brussels his brother Jacques (1830 - 1898) who assisted him throughout his lifetime. Jacques actively took part in sculpture by his own productions for the Brussels art salons of 1843, 1854, 1860, 1866, 1872 and 1873. For the 1842 Brussels Art Salon, Joseph Jaquet exhibited a marble bust, three plaster busts, a \"Moses Saved from the Waters\" and a \"Meditating Saint Paul\" which brought him notoriety. His contribution for the 1845 Salon was more important and especially a model for a bronze statue of Froissart for Chimay but he acquired a definitive notoriety in 1854 with \"The Golden Age\". At that time, he"
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"title": "Joseph Jaquet",
"text": " lived in Goffard street then he moved for Charles Quint street. In 1864, he secured his first commission in Amsterdam: \"The Victory\" for the Paleis voor Volksvlijt, then a second commission for the decoration of the national monument in The Hague Willemspark. The equestrian statue of Baldwin I of Constantinople was created in 1868 in Mons, then the pediment and lions on the Brussels Stock Exchange in 1872. In 1879, Joseph Jaquet designed a statue of Louise of Orléans, first Queen of the Belgians: this statue was on the \"Place d'Armes\" in Philippeville then was moved to the old \"École moyenne\", Namur street. He was a professor at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and a master of Charles Samuel. He died in 1898 in Schaerbeek in the Brussels-Capital Region.</s><s>Honours. - Officer of the Order of Leopold - Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown - Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Alen Omić.
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"title": "Alen Omić",
"text": "<s>Alen Omić Alen Omić (born 6 May 1992) is a Slovenian professional basketball player for Cedevita Olimpija of the ABA League.</s><s>Professional career. Omić started playing professional basketball for Zlatorog Laško. In 2009, he signed with Zlatorog and stayed with the club for three seasons until 2012. On 30 August 2012, Omić signed a four-year deal with Union Olimpija. In July 2014, Omić joined the Brooklyn Nets for the 2014 NBA Summer League. He returned to the Summer League the following year, for the Denver Nuggets. On 1 August 2015, Omić signed a two-year deal with Gran Canaria. He made a good impression with Gran Canaria right from the start, and was named to the season's All-EuroCup First Team. On 28 June 2016, Omić signed a two-year deal with Turkish club Anadolu Efes. On 16 January 2017, he left Efes, and signed with Spanish club Unicaja, for the rest of the season. In April 2017, he won the EuroCup with Unicaja after beating Valencia Basket in the Finals. On 28 July"
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"title": "Alen Omić",
"text": " 2017, Omić signed with Israeli club Hapoel Jerusalem for the 2017–18 season.{{Cite news|url=http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocup/news/i/838nhmungxf34loq|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728180649/http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocup/news/i/838nhmungxf34loq|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 July 2017|title=Hapoel Jerusalem lands EuroCup champion Omic On 2 January 2019, he signed with Olimpia Milano for the rest of the season. On 24 June 2019, he signed with Joventut Badalona of the Liga ACB. Omić averaged 11.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. On 11 September 2020, he signed with JL Bourg Basket of the LNB Pro A. Omić averaged 11.4 points, 9.0 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game. On 23 November 2021, he signed with Cedevita Olimpija of the ABA League.</s><s>International career. Omi"
},
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"title": "Alen Omić",
"text": "ć made his debut for the senior Slovenian national team at the 2014 FIBA World Cup. He also represented Slovenia at the EuroBasket 2015, where they were eliminated by Latvia in the tournament's eighth finals.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of James Theodore Bent.
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"title": "James Theodore Bent",
"text": "<s>James Theodore Bent James Theodore Bent (30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897) was an English explorer, archaeologist, and author.</s><s>Biography. James Theodore Bent was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1852, the son of James (1807-1876) and Eleanor (née Lambert, c.1811-1873) Bent of Baildon House, Baildon, near Bradford, Yorkshire, where Bent lived in his boyhood. He was educated at Malvern Wells preparatory school, Repton School, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1875. His paternal grandparents were William (1769-1820) and Sarah (née Gorton) Bent; it was this William Bent who founded Bent's Breweries, a successful business which, in various guises, was still in existence into the 1970s, and which helped generate the family's wealth. One of Bent's uncles, Sir John Bent, the brewer, was Liverpool mayor in 1850–51. In 1877, Bent married Mabel Hall-Dare (1847-1929) who became his companion, photographer, and diarist on all his travels. From the time of their marriage, they went abroad nearly every"
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"title": "James Theodore Bent",
"text": " year, beginning with extended travels in Italy and Greece. In 1879, he published a book on the republic of San Marino, entitled \"A Freak of Freedom\", and was made a citizen of San Marino; in the following year appeared \"Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell\", and in 1881 a \"Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi\". The couple's researches in the Aegean archipelago over the winters of 1882/3 and 1883/4 culminated in Bent's \"The Cyclades; or, Life among the Insular Greeks\" (1885). At the time of Bent's death in 1897, the couple resided at 13 Great Cumberland Place, London, and Sutton Hall, outside Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.</s><s>Archaeological research. From this period Bent concentrated particularly on archaeological and ethnographic research. The years 1883-1888 were devoted to investigations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia, his discoveries and conclusions being communicated to the \"Journal of Hellenic Studies\" and other magazines and reviews; his investigations on the Cycladic island of Antiparos are of note. In 1889, he undertook excavations in the Bahrein Islands of the Persian Gulf, looking for evidence that they"
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"title": "James Theodore Bent",
"text": " had been a primitive home of the Phoenician civilization; he and his wife returned to England via Persia (Iran), being introduced to Shah Naser al-Din Shah Qajar along the way. After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa, with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa. To this end, in 1891, he made, along with his wife and the Glaswegian surveyor Robert McNair Wilson Swan (1858-1904), a colleague from Bent's time on Antiparos in 1883/4, the first detailed examination of the Great Zimbabwe. Bent described his work in \"The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland\" (1892). In 1893, he investigated the ruins of Axum and other places in northern Ethiopia, which had previously been made known in part by the researches of Henry Salt and others. His book \"The Sacred City of the Ethiopians\" (1893) gives an account of this expedition. Bent now visited at considerable risk the almost unknown Hadramut"
},
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"title": "James Theodore Bent",
"text": " country (1893–1894), and during this and later journeys in southern Arabia he studied the ancient history of the country, its physical features and actual condition. On the Dhofar coast in 1894-1895, he visited ruins which he identified with the Abyssapolis of the frankincense merchants. In 1895-1896, he examined part of the African coast of the Red Sea, finding there the ruins of a very ancient gold-mine and traces of what he considered Sabaean influence. While on another journey in South Arabia and Socotra (1896–1897), Bent was seized with malarial fever, and died in London on 5 May 1897, a few days after his return. Mabel Bent, who had contributed by her skill as a photographer and in other ways to the success of her husband's journeys, published in 1900 \"Southern Arabia, Soudan and Sakotra\", which she recorded the results of their last expedition into those regions. The conclusions at which Bent arrived as to the Semitic origin of the ruins in Mashonaland have not been accepted by archaeologists.</s><s>Collections. The majority of Bent's collections (hundreds of artefacts but relatively few on display) is to be found in the British Museum"
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"title": "James Theodore Bent",
"text": ", London. Smaller collections are kept at: The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK; The Victorian and Albert Museum, London, UK; Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, London, UK; The Natural History Museum, London, UK; Sulgrave Manor, Banbury, UK; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK. Overseas: The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; The Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; The South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; The Great Zimbabwe Museum, Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Some manuscripts are archived at The Royal Geographical Society, London, UK; The Hellenic and Roman Library, Senate House, London, UK; The British Library, London, UK.</s><s>Legacy. The Natural History Museum, London, has small collections of shells and insects the Bents returned with in the 1890s. Some shells carry the Bent name today (e.g. \"Lithidion bentii\" and \"Buliminus bentii\"). Several plants and seeds the Bents brought back from Southern Arabia are now in the Herbarium at Kew Gardens; one such specimen being \"Echidnopsis Bentii\", collected on his last journey in 1897. Bent is also commemorated in"
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"title": "James Theodore Bent",
"text": " the scientific name of a species of Arabian lizard, \"Uromastyx benti\". Some of Bent’s original notebooks held in the archive of the Hellenic Society, London, and unpublished, have now been digitized and are available on open access.</s><s>References. -</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Karl Eliasberg.
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"title": "Karl Eliasberg",
"text": "<s>Karl Eliasberg Karl Ilitch Eliasberg (; ) (10 June 1907, in Minsk – 12 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Soviet conductor. Eliasberg graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory as a violinist in 1929, and was conductor of the Leningrad Theatre of Musical Comedy from 1929 to 1931 before joining Leningrad Radio as conductor.</s><s>The siege of Leningrad. Eliasberg was conductor of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra and only second conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic but played a part in one key event in society and culture in Saint Petersburg during the siege of Leningrad when Dmitri Shostakovich dedicated his Seventh Symphony to the city as the \"Leningrad Symphony.\" The symphony had already been premiered in Kuibyshev on 5 March 1942 under Samuil Samosud, then performed in Moscow (29 March 1942), London (22 June 1942) and New York City (19 July 1942). When Eliasberg was asked to conduct the Leningrad première, only 15 members of the orchestra were still available; the others had either starved to death or left to fight the enemy. During the days of the siege of Leningrad, Eliasberg saved many"
},
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"title": "Karl Eliasberg",
"text": " lives by getting musicians to rehearsals and to feeding stations. The concert was given on 9 August 1942 in the Leningrad Bolshoy Philharmonic Hall under the baton of Eliasberg, with artists he had gathered from the main orchestra, the reserve orchestra, and military bands. It was heard over the radio and lifted the spirits of the survivors. Eliasberg was recognised as a Meritorious Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1944, but after the war Yevgeny Mravinsky returned and blocked Eliasberg's career in Leningrad, so he became a travelling provincial conductor. Between 1945 and 1975 Eliasberg headlined in Leningrad only three more times – each of them with the Seventh Symphony, each of them with the reserve orchestra. In 1961, he conducted the first movement only. In 1964, there was a reunion of Eliasberg and 22 of the original musicians before a performance in Shostakovich's presence on 27 January 1964; it was the first time they had been together in 22 years. The musicians played in their same seats. Eliasberg said the concert was dedicated to those who had performed then but died since, and the audience gave a standing ovation. Eliasberg later wrote: The third time was 9 May 1975"
},
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"title": "Karl Eliasberg",
"text": " three years before his death. In 1978 Eliasberg died, almost forgotten, and his ashes were buried in a small plot at the back of the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery. After the fall of Communism, Yuri Temirkanov led a resurrection of Eliasberg's reputation and mayor Anatoly Sobchak arranged for Eliasberg's ashes to be moved to a more suitable grave among the \"Literatorskie Mostki\" at the Volkovo Cemetery.</s><s>Recordings. - Brahms: German Requiem (rec. 1960), Symphony No.3 (rec. 1948), Symphony No. 4 (live concert recording, May 9, 1960), Double Concerto (rec. 1951, with David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Knushevitsky) - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 with soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya USSR State Symphony Orchestra. Rec. Oct 19, 1954 - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 Leningrad Philharmonic. Live concert recording, Jan 27, 1964 - Sergei Taneyev: Symphonies No. 1 and No. 3 - J. S. Bach Mass in B minor. Live concert recording, April 24, 1957)</s><s>In"
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"title": "Karl Eliasberg",
"text": " popular culture. The Leningrad Radio Orchestra's performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony conducted by Karl Eliasberg is the subject of the 2011 novel \"The Conductor\" by New Zealand author Sarah Quigley. The concert during the Leningrad siege was commemorated in the 1997 film \"\" and featured in the documentary \"Leningrad and the Orchestra that defied Hitler\", broadcast on BBC Two on 2 January 2016. Earlier radio broadcasts by the BBC on the same subject include \"Witness\" and \"Newshour\".</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre.
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": "<s>F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre Fergus (also Feargus) Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948 – 25 June 2010), also known as Froggy, was a New York City-based journalist, novelist, poet and illustrator. MacIntyre's writings include the science-fiction novel \"The Woman Between the Worlds\" and his anthology of verse and humour pieces \"MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary\". As an uncredited \"ghost\" author, MacIntyre is known to have written or co-written several other books, including at least one novel in the Tom Swift IV series, \"The DNA Disaster\", published as by \"Victor Appleton\" (a house pseudonym) but with MacIntyre's name on the acknowledgements page. On 25 June 2010, MacIntyre set his Brooklyn apartment on fire and his body was later found there.</s><s>Background. Little is known about MacIntyre's background, early life or family. Throughout his life, he told various stories about his family, birthplace and childhood that remain unsubstantiated, and which, after his death, his brother confirmed to be fictional. MacIntyre often told people he was orphaned by a Scottish family and raised in an Australian orphan"
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": "age and a child labour camp. He used the aliases Paul Grant Jeffery, Timothy/Tim C. Allen, Oleg V. Bredikhine, and the nickname Froggy. But a teenage acquaintance alleged that the young MacIntyre spoke then with a plain New York accent from Long Island or Queens, raising questions about his claims of foreign origin. Another acquaintance who knew MacIntyre in his twenties remembered that he still spoke with an American accent, and used the name Jeremy MacIntyre. An acquaintance remembers MacIntyre sharing the reason for the \"Gwynplaine\" in his name; it was, he said, from the film \"The Man Who Laughs\", based on the Victor Hugo novel, in which the title character, Gwynplaine, has had a permanent smile surgically carved on his face. MacIntyre stated that he identified with Gwynplaine and thus chose the name as part of his own.</s><s>Works. In the 1970s, MacIntyre worked for a Manhattan publisher of pornographic novels. Employees were paid $175 per week and expected to produce an entire pornographic novel in that time, as well as a chapter for a compilation-format pornographic book supposedly assembled from the cases of a Dr. Lamb. Although Mac"
},
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": "Intyre professionally published many works of non-fiction and literature, he is best known as an author of genre fiction: specifically, science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery stories. His short stories were published in \"Weird Tales\", \"Analog\", \"Asimov's Science Fiction\", \"Amazing Stories\", \"Absolute Magnitude\", \"Interzone\", \"The Strand Magazine\" and numerous anthologies, including Terry Carr's \"Best Science Fiction of the Year #10\", Michael Reaves and John Pelan's mystery/horror anthology \"Shadows Over Baker Street\", James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey's horror anthology \"Evermore\", and Stephen Jones's \"The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror\". For Mike Ashley's \"The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives\" (1995), MacIntyre wrote \"Death in the Dawntime\", a locked room mystery (or rather, sealed cave mystery) set in Australia around 35,000 BC, which editor Mike Ashley suggests is the furthest in the past a historical whodunnit has been set. A characteristic of MacIntyre's writing (both fiction and non-fiction) is his penchant for coining new words and resurrecting obscure words. Language authority William Safire acknowledged MacInt"
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": "yre's neologism of \"Clintonym\" and quoted his historical etymology research. In addition to publishing science fiction in \"Analog\", MacIntyre also contributed to that magazine as an artist, illustrating his own stories and one by Ron Goulart. MacIntyre wrote a considerable number of book reviews for \"The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\". In the July 2003 issue of that magazine, MacIntyre mentioned that he was related to the wife of Scottish author Eric Linklater. It is unclear whether this was one of the many fabrications about his life that MacIntyre's brother later confirmed to be untrue. MacIntyre had previously stated (in interviews and at science-fiction conventions) that he was estranged from his abusive family and did not acknowledge them. He had legally changed his name, officially filing a deed poll: \"Fergus MacIntyre\" was therefore his legal name but not his birth name. He had acknowledged that he took the name \"Gwynplaine\" from the protagonist of \"The Man Who Laughs\", a novel by Victor Hugo. MacIntyre claimed to have contributed substantial script material to a 2006 documentary about actress Theda Bara, \"The Woman with the Hungry Eyes\": he claimed his contributions included the film"
},
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": "'s title and an interview he had conducted with author Fritz Leiber. He is only listed under the \"Special Thanks\" section of the credits; MacIntyre claimed to be contractually prevented from receiving a screenplay credit.</s><s>Legal issues. In 2000, MacIntyre was arrested after a neighbour said he duct-taped her to a chair, shaved her head, and spray-painted her black. He later plead guilty to third-degree misdemeanor assault.</s><s>Death. In the months leading up to his death, MacIntyre became increasingly depressed and despondent. He sent mass emails to friends where he spoke of being troubled by his childhood (he would describe his family as \"deeply evil people\") and referenced suicide. He had also lost his night job as a printer and claimed to have health problems including synaesthesia. One day before his death, MacIntyre posted a review of the silent German science fiction film \"Metropolis\" (1927), titled \"My favourite film, my last review\" on IMDb. On 24 June 2010, police were called to MacIntyre's Bensonhurst apartment after a friend received a mass email from MacIntyre that alluded to suicide. Six police officers forcibly removed MacIntyre from the apartment as he"
},
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": " yelled that he wanted to die and take \"everyone in the building down with me\". He was taken to Coney Island Hospital for psychiatric evaluation and released hours later. MacIntyre returned to his apartment and sent off an angry mass email admonishing the person who called the police. At around 9:30 a.m. on 25 June, MacIntyre, who was a long time hoarder, lit the contents of his apartment on fire. The fire quickly engulfed the building and took sixty firefighters more than an hour to extinguish. MacIntyre's body was later found among the burned debris. He was the only fatality in the fire as the other residents were quickly evacuated. After his death, MacIntyre's brother came forward and stated that MacIntyre's life story was in fact fabricated, but did not provide any details about his real-life story- save that they did have Scottish ancestry- or the reasons for his fabrications and affectations.</s><s>Bibliography.</s><s>Bibliography.:Books. Novels and collections include: - \"The Woman Between the Worlds\" (1994, and 2000, ) - \"MacIntyre's Improbable Bestiary\" (2005, )</s><s>Bibliography.:Short stories. Short stories include:"
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": " - \"Asimov's Science Fiction\": - \"For Cheddar or Worse\" (volume 4 number 11, November 1980) - \"Martian Walkabout\" (volume 5 number 13, December 1981) - \"Isle Be Seeing You\" (volume 6 number 4, April 1982) - \"Amazing Stories\": - \"The Man Who Split in Twain\" (May 1986) - \"Weird Tales\": - \"The Ones Who Turn Invisible\" (#293, 1988) - \"Beddy-Bye\" (Summer, 1998) - \"Absolute Magnitude\": - \"The Minds Who Jumped\" (Spring 1995) - \"Albedo One, (Ireland)\": - \"An Actor Prepares\" (#20, 1999) - \"Analog Science Fiction and Fact\": - \"OOPS!\" (March 1991) - \"Teeny-Tiny Techno-Tactics\" (March 1997) - \"Time Lines\" (June 1999) - \"A Real Bang-Up Job\" (July 2000) - \"'Put Back That Universe!'\" (October 2000) - \"Schrödinger's Cat-Sitter\" (July 2001) - \"A Deadly Medley of Smedley\" (April 2003) - \"Annual Ann"
},
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"title": "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre",
"text": "ular Annals\" (January 2004) - \"Interzone, (Britain)\": - \"Sundowner Sheila\" (February 2006) - \"The Strand Magazine\": - \"Down the Garden Path\" (February 2008) - \"Esli\", (Russia): - \"Random\" (July 2008) - \"Smart Fashions\" (June 2009; cover story) - \"Boarder Incidence\" (February 2010) - \"Space and Time\": - \"Another Fine Messiah\" (#110, Spring 2010) - \"SF Magajin\", (Japan): - \"The Adventure of Exham Priory\" (May 2010)</s><s>References. - F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, entry at \"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction\", 3rd edition (draft) - Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Carl Braun (obstetrician).
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"title": "Carl Braun (obstetrician)",
"text": "<s>Carl Braun (obstetrician) Carl Braun (22 March 1822 – 28 March 1891), sometimes Carl Rudolf Braun alternative spelling: Karl Braun, or Karl von Braun-Fernwald, name after knighthood Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun was an Austrian obstetrician. He was born 22 March 1822 in Zistersdorf, Austria, son of the medical doctor Carl August Braun.</s><s>Career. Carl Braun studied in Vienna from 1841 and, in 1847, took the position of \"Sekundararzt\" (assistant doctor) in the Vienna General Hospital. In 1849 he succeeded Ignaz Semmelweis as assistant to professor Johann Klein at the hospital's first maternity clinic, a position he held until 1853. In 1853, after Braun became a Privatdozent, he was appointed ordinary professor of obstetrics in Trient and vice-director of the Tiroler Landes-Gebär- und Findelanstalt. In November 1856 he was called to Vienna to succeed Johann Klein as professor of obstetrics. On Braun's recommendation, the hospital's first gynaecology clinic was created in 1858, under his direction. He"
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"title": "Carl Braun (obstetrician)",
"text": " is credited for establishing gynaecology as an independent field of study In 1867-1871 he was appointed dean of the medical faculty, and in the academic year 1868/69 was made rector of the University of Vienna. He was knighted in 1872 (cf. the title Ritter) and in 1877 became a Hofrat, a title reserved for very eminent professors. His name is associated with a disorder of pregnancy called the \"Braun-Fernwald sign\". This sign is described as an asymmetrical enlargement and softening of the uterine fundus at the site of implantation at 4–5 weeks.</s><s>Views on puerperal fever. In full harmony with his contemporaries, Braun identified 30 causes of childbed fever opposing Ignaz Semmelweis's thesis that 'cadaverous poisoning' was the only cause of childbed fever. Despite this scholar opposition, Braun maintained a relatively low mortality rate in the First Division, roughly consistent with the rate Semmelweis himself achieved, as historical mortality rates of puerperal fever in the period April 1849 to end 1953 show. These results suggest that Braun continued, assiduously, to require hand disinfection before attending women and did not let"
},
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"title": "Carl Braun (obstetrician)",
"text": " mortality return to the high levels before Semmelweis introduced the chlorine washings.</s><s>Works. - \"Klinik der Geburtshilfe und Gynäkologie\" (im Verein mit Chiari und Spaeth, Erlangen 1855) ([The] Maternity and Gynaecology Clinik, together with Chiari and Spaeth, Erlangen 1855) - \"Lehrbuch der Geburtshilfe mit Berücksichtigung der Puerperalprocesse und der Operationstechnik\" (Wien 1857) (Textbook of obstetrics [also] concerning the puerperal process and surgical technique). Google book search https://books.google.com/books?id=3OOCGAAACAAJ. - \"Lehrbuch der gesammten Gynäkologie\" (2. Aufl., Ib. 1881) (Textbook of Gynaecology, 2nd ed. 1881). WorldCat entry: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8179918 - \"Über 12 Fälle von Kaiserschnitt und Hy"
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"title": "Carl Braun (obstetrician)",
"text": "sterectomie bei engem Becken (mit achtmaligem günstigem Ausgang)\" (On 12 cases of caesarean section and hysterectomy with narrow pelvis (with eight successful outcomes))</s><s>References. - p92 footnote 15 - - \"Braun, Carl Ritter von Fernwald.\" Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 229-231. (in German) - Corroborated by source provided in Swedish wiki \"Nordisk familjebok, 1904–1926\" http://runeberg.org/nfbd/0035.html (in Swedish) - - Österreich-Lexikon http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b717161.htm, retrieved 28 Aug 2008,</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Generoso Rossi.
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"title": "Generoso Rossi",
"text": "<s>Generoso Rossi Generoso Rossi (born 3 January 1979) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.</s><s>Club career. Rossi started his career at A.S. Bari. he was on loan to Serie C1 teams, and returned to Bari in summer 2000. He made his Serie A debut on 30 September 2000, against Verona. In January 2001, he transferred to Venezia, and then transferred to Palermo, as Maurizio Zamparini, owner of Venezia, bought Palermo. He was on loan to U.S. Lecce, and signed by A.C. Siena in summer 2003. He was banned from football due to betting scandal, he then signed an 18-month contract with Queens Park Rangers in January 2005. In summer 2005, he was signed by Triestina. In January 2008, he was on loan to Calcio Catania, with Babu moving in the opposite direction. Rossi became the third choice goalkeeper at Catania, behind Ciro Polito and Albano Bizarri, and was ahead of Raffaele Ioime. During 2008/2009 season, Rossi was transferred to Gallipoli in Lega Pro Pr"
},
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"title": "Generoso Rossi",
"text": "ima Divisione – B. Although the club won Serie B promotion, the team faced financial difficulty, Rossi did not stay at the club. In February 2010, Rossi was signed by Sorrento. Rossi spent the next two and a half seasons at Sorrento and became an integral member of the team that twice nearly gained promotion to Serie B. In summer 2012, after the resignation of Sorrento's president and much speculation as to whether the club would continue, Rossi left Sorrento to seek employment elsewhere. After spending a long period out of the game he was re-signed by Sorrento on a free contract in November 2012.</s><s>International career. Rossi was capped for Italy at youth level in 2000 in the Toulon Tournament and called up to the under 21 squad for the 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship.</s><s>Honours. Sorrento - Lega Pro Prima Divisione: 2009</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Kathinka Pasveer.
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "<s>Kathinka Pasveer Kathinka Pasveer (born 11 June 1959) is a Dutch flautist.</s><s>Biography. Kathinka Pasveer was born in Zaandam, The Netherlands, daughter of the conductor Jan Pasveer, who also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory. She studied with Frans Vester at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she received her performer's diploma, with the distinction of the Nicolai Prize in 1983. During her final year of studies she was the principal flutist of the Gewestelijk Orkest Zuid-Holland. In December 1982 Karlheinz Stockhausen was invited to the Royal Conservatory for a series of concerts, master classes, and lectures, at which time Pasveer worked with the composer and with Suzanne Stephens on his compositions \"Zeitmaße\", \"Amour\", and \"In Freundschaft\". Stockhausen invited her to work with him on a new work for flute and six percussionists, which was composed in February and March 1983 and premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in October 1983. It took six months of rehearsals to prepare this work for performance. This was"
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " \"Kathinkas Gesang\", the second scene of the opera \"Samstag aus Licht\", which she also performed at the staged premiere of \"Samstag\" at La Scala in Milan in May 1984. The next year, Stockhausen made a new version of the piece, for flute and six-channel electronic music, and Pasveer likewise gave its premiere at Ircam in Paris in May 1985. As a result of this initial contact Stockhausen began featuring the flute in the \"Licht\" cycle. She worked with Stockhausen for twenty-five years, up until his death in December 2007. He composed many works especially for her, all of which she premiered, and many of which are dedicated to her. These included parts in the operas \"Montag aus Licht\" (La Scala 1988), \"Dienstag aus Licht\" (Leipzig Opera 1993), and \"Freitag aus Licht\" (Leipzig Opera 1996), as well as the concert premieres of \"Orchester-Finalisten\" (Carré, Amsterdam, 1996), \"Michaelion\" from \"Mittwoch aus Licht\" (Prinzregententheater"
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": ", Munich, 1998), and Pasveer performed as one of the 4 soloists in the world première of \"Licht-Bilder\" (third scene of \"Sonntag aus Licht\" (Donaueschingen, 16 October 2004). After \"Licht\", Stockhausen composed for her the flute version of \"Harmonien\" (2006, premiered 13 July 2007 at the Sülztalhalle in Kürten) and \"Paradies\" (2007, premiered on 24 August 2009 at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg), components of the chamber-music cycle \"Klang\". In addition to her activities as a flautist, in 1989 she learned the solo dancer-mime part for Stockhausen's, which she performed for the first time on 27 May 1989 in the Kölner Philharmonie, with the Gürzenich Orchestra conducted by the composer. When pressed to name a favourite from all of Stockhausen's compositions, Pasveer named \"Inori\" as a \"very special\" piece that she privately \"performs\" almost every day, \"as it is my form of meditation\". She also performs from memory the 83-minute-long"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " \"Vortrag über HU\" (a sung and mimed lecture introducing \"Inori\"), in both German and English, and has made video recordings of both versions. She also performs the dancer-mime part in \"\" (act 3 scene 2 of \"Donnerstag aus Licht\"). Pasveer also has recorded as a soprano singer in a number of Stockhausen's works, including the electronic music for both \"Dienstag aus Licht\" (\"Oktophonie\") and \"Freitag aus Licht\", as well as \"Die sieben Lieder der Tage\" (extracted from \"Montag\"), \"Zwei Paare\" (made as soundtrack music for the 2000 short film \"In Absentia\" by the Quay Brothers), and \"Urantia\" (the Nineteenth Hour from \"Klang\"). From 1998 up to the present time, Pasveer has taught the interpretation of Stockhausen's works at the Stockhausen Courses for New Music held each summer in Kürten. Beginning in 1983, she assisted Stockhausen in the production of recordings and learned from him the techniques of sound projection used in most of his works. Since the composer"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "’s death, she has acted as sound projectionist in many live performances, and has produced and mixed down all the recordings in the Stockhausen Complete Edition. Stockhausen also entrusted her, together with Antonio Pérez-Abellán, with the production of the sound loops in the 24 individual layers of his electronic work \"Cosmic Pulses\" in 2006. Together with Suzanne Stephens, she is in charge of Stockhausen's legacy as a director of the Stockhausen Foundation for Music. Harpist Marianne Smit is her niece.</s><s>Discography.</s><s>Discography.:Flautist. - 1985. \"Karlheinz Stockhausen dirigiert Haydn & Mozart\". Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major, KV 313 (cadenzas by Karlheinz Stockhausen). Kathinka Pasveer, flute; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Karlheinz Stockhausen, cond. (Also with: Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major.) Acanta 43813. Hamburg: Fono Team GmbH. Also issued with the addition"
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " of Stockhausen, \"Oberlippentanz\", Acanta 40.23 543 DT (LP). 1986. Reissued as part of \"Stockhausen Conducts Haydn and Mozart\". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 39 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1993. - 1985. Stockhausen, Karlheinz. \"Tierkreis: Trio Version\". Markus Stockhausen, trumpet and piano; Kathinka Pasveer, flute and piccolo; Suzanne Stephens, clarinet. Acanta 23531 (LP); also issued on Acanta 43201 (CD). Hamburg: Fono Team GmbH. - 1988. Karlheinz Stockhausen, \"Samstag aus Licht\", opera. (Kathinka Pasveer, flute and piccolo in scenes 2 & 3). Deutsche Grammophon 423 596-2 (4 CDs). Hamburg: Polydor International GmbH, 1988. Reissued on Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 34-ABCD (4 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1992. - 1992. \"Michaels Reise um die Erde\" (Solisten-"
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "Version). ECM 1406 (CD). - 1992. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 28 \"Music für Flöte: Kathinka Pasveer spielt 9 Kompositionen\". (2 CDs). Includes Stockhausen, \"In Freundschaft\", for flute; \"Piccolo\" for piccolo flute, \"Amour\" for flute; \"Susanis Echo\", for alto flute; \"Xi\", for flute; \"Zungenspitzentanz\" for piccolo flute; \"Flautina\", for flute with piccolo flute and alto flute; \"Ypsilon\", for flute; \"Kathinkas Gesang\", for flute and electronic music. - 1992. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 35 Stockhausen, \"Oberlippentanz\" for piccolo trumpet, 4 Horns and 2 percussionists \"Ave\" for basset-horn and alto flute. \"Tierkreis\", trio version, for clarinet, flute and piccolo flute, trumpet and piano [recorded 1991, different recording from Acanta 23531] - 1992. Stockhausen, \"Monday from Light\", opera. Stockhaus"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "en Complete Edition CD 36-ABCDE (5 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 1994. Stockhausen, \"Musik für Klarinette, Baßklarinette, Bassetthorn: Suzee Stephens spielt 15 Kompositionen\". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 32 A–C (3 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. Includes \"Bijou\" for alto flute, bass clarinet and tape, and \"Sukat\" for basset-horn and alto flute, both with Kathinka Pasveer. - 1996. Stockhausen, \"Dienstag aus Licht\", opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 40 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2003. Stockhausen, \"Freitag aus Licht\", opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 50 A–D (4 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 1997. Stockhausen, \"Orchester-Finalisten\" of \"Mittwoch aus Licht\" (with the Asko Ensemble). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 52. K"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "ürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2000. \"Kathinka: Flute and Synthesizer\". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 57 Stockhausen, \"Zungenspitzentanz\", for piccolo flute, euphonium, synthesizer player, and percussionist; \"Freia\" version for flute; \"Entführung\" for Piccolo Flute. \"Flöte\" for flute and electronic music (from \"Orchester-Finalisten\"); \"Thinki\" for flute (from \"Michaelion\", of \"Mittwoch aus Licht\"). (Also with \"Klavierstück XVI\" and \"Komet als Klavierstück XVII\", with Kathinka Pasveer, soprano, on tape). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2002. Stockhausen, \"Die sieben Lieder der Tage\" (versions for flute and for soprano, extracted from \"Montag aus Licht\"), \"Der Kinderfänger\", for alto flute with piccolo, two synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, and sound projectionist. (Also with"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " \"Luzifers Zorn\"). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 63. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2002. Stockhausen, \"Europa-Gruss\" for winds and synthesizers (Kathinka Pasveer, flute); \"Two Couples\", for electronic and concrete music, and \"Electronic and Concrete Music for Komet\" (Kathinka Pasveer, soprano). (Also with \"Stop and Start\" for 6 instrumental groups, and \"Licht-Ruf\".) Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 64. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2003. Stockhausen, Ten Scenes from \"Freitag aus Licht\". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 65. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2005. Stockhausen, \"Licht-Bilder\" (3rd Scene of \"Sonntag aus Licht\"), for tenor, ring-modulated flute, basset horn, and ring-modulated trumpet. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 68. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2007. Stockhausen, \"Quitt\" for alto fl"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "ute, clarinet and piccolo trumpet. (Also with \"Michaels-Ruf\", \"Bassetsu\", \"Synthi-Fou (Klavierstück XV)\", \"Komet\" version for percussionist, and \"Trumpetent\"). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 82. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2009. \"Paradies\" for flute and electronic music: Twenty-First Hour from \"Klang\", the 24 hours of the day. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 99 Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2010. \"Harmonien\" and \"Schönheit\". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 87. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.</s><s>Discography.:Soprano. - 1996. \"Electronic Music with Sound Scenes of Friday From Light\". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 49 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2000. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 48. Stockhausen, \"Paare vom Freitag\", for soprano, bass, and electronic instruments. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2002. \"Die sieben"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " Lieder der Tage\" (versions for flute and for soprano), \"Der Kinderfänger\", for alto flute with piccolo, two synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, and sound projectionist. (Also with \"Luzifers Zorn\"). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 63. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2009. \"Urantia\" for soprano and electronic music. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 97. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.</s><s>Filmography. - 1985. \"Kathinkas Gesang de Karlheinz Stockhausen\". Colour film, 33'21\". French. Paris: I.R.C.A.M. - 1998. Stockhausen, \"Vortrag über HU\" (German version). Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 83 minutes. Live recording of the first integral performance in German with Kathinka Pasveer on 5 April 1998, at the Audimax of the Technical College in Darmstadt. (Archive No. 107 / 1). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag - 1998. INORI für 2 Solisten und"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " Tonband. Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 73 minutes. Live recording of a performance of INORI on 5 April 1998 at the Audimax of the Technical College in Darmstadt, with Kathinka Pasveer and Alain Louafi (dancer-mimes). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 1998. Stockhausen, \"Michaelion\", scene 4 from \"Mittwoch aus Licht\". Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 59 minutes. (Archive No. 109 / 1). Live recording of the world première on July 26, 1998 in Munich at the Prinzregenten Theatre with the choir of the South German Radio (conductor: Rupert Huber), Michael Vetter (short-wave singer), Kathinka Pasveer (flute), Suzanne Stephens (basset-horn), Marco Blaauw (trumpet), and Andrew Digby (trombone). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. - 2003. Stockhausen, \"Lecture on HU\". Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 83 minutes. Live recording of the integral performance in English with Kathinka Pasveer on August 17, 2003 at the Sülztalhalle"
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " in Kürten during the Stockhausen Courses Kürten 2003. (Archive No. 149 / 2). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.</s><s>References.</s><s>References.:Cited sources. - - - - - -</s><s>Further reading. - Abbé, Chloe l'. 2009. \"\"Ave\", pour cor de basset et flûte\". \"Traversières Magazine\", no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 15–18. - Bledsoe, Helen. 2011. \"In Media Res (Into the Middle of Things): Kathinka Pasveer, Stockhausen’s Muse\". \"Flute\" 30 no. 1 (March): 21–25. - BPI (VK). 2009. \"Stockhausen, Karlheinz\". \"Lexikon der Flöte: Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte—Spielpraxis—Komponisten und ihre Werke—Interpreten\", edited by András Adorján and Lenz Meierott, 753–55. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,. - D"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "éraspe, Geneviève. 2009. \"\"Der Kinderfänger\"\". \"Traversières Magazine\", no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 11–13. - Duval, François. 2009. \"\"Ave\", pour cor de basset et flûte tiré de Montag\". \"Traversières Magazine\", no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 19–20. - Rondeau, Marie-Hélène. 2009. \"\"Freia\"\". \"Traversières Magazine\", no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 8–10.</s><s>Reviews. - Anon. 1993. \"Recent Recordings: \"Stockhausen 35\"\". \"Flute Talk\" 13 (November): 20. - Frisius, Rudolf. 1986. \"Schallplatten: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flötenkonzert G-Dur, KV 313 (Kadenzen: Karlheinz Stockhausen); Joseph Haydn: Trompetenkonzert Es-Dur (Kadenzen: Karlheinz Stockhausen); Karlheinz Stockhausen,"
},
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"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": " Oberlippentanz für Trompete solo. Kathinka Pasveer, Flöte, Markus Stockhausen, Trompete, Radio-Symphobie-Orchester Berlin, Dirigent: Katlheinz Stockhausen. Acanta 40.23 543 DT\". \"Neue Zeitschrift für Musik\" 147, no. 11 (November): 66–67. - Hodges, Nicolas. 1993. \"Reviews: CDs—\"Flute Music: In Freundschaft, Piccolo, Amour, Susanis Echo, Xi, Zungenspitzentanz, Flautina, Ypsilon, Kathinkas Gesang.\"\" \"The Musical Times\" 134 (March): 155. - Nordin, Ingvar Loco. n.d. \"Stockhausen Edition no. 28 (9 works for flute, piccolo & alto flute)\". Sonoloco Record Reviews. - Watkins, Glenn. 2003. \"Music of the European Avant-Garde: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s \"Samstag aus Licht\": A Contemporary Report\". In \"The Wind Band and Its Repertoire: Two Dec"
},
{
"title": "Kathinka Pasveer",
"text": "ades of Research as Published in the College Band Directors National Association Journal\", edited by Michael Votta, 171–73. The Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. Miami: Warner Brothers/Alfred Music Publishing..</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Yordanka Donkova.
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"title": "Yordanka Donkova",
"text": "<s>Yordanka Donkova Yordanka Donkova () (born 28 September 1961) is a Bulgarian former hurdling athlete, notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as nine medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. Donkova set four 100 m hurdles world records in 1986. Her fifth world record, a time of 12.21 set in 1988, stood for almost 28 years until broken in 2016 by Kendra Harrison. In total, Donkova has 16 medals from major athletics tournaments.</s><s>Personal life. Donkova suffered a childhood accident, which resulted in her losing two fingers on her right hand. She has three children. In 1991 she gave birth to a son called Zhivko Atanasov - professional football player, currently playing for Levski Sofia; twin girls Daniela and Desislava followed in 1996. After the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Donkova received an offer to compete for the United States, but refused to change her national allegiance and continued to represent Bulgaria.</s><s>Major achievements. Five-time Bulgarian National Champion at 100 m hurdles, 1980, 82, 84, 86 & 94. CR = Championship Record</s><s>World records. Donkova set five world records for the 100 metres hurdles"
},
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"title": "Yordanka Donkova",
"text": ": - 12.36 sec - August 13, 1986 (equalling the record of Grażyna Rabsztyn) - 12.35 sec - August 17, 1986 - 12.29 sec - August 17, 1986 - 12.26 sec - September 7, 1986 - 12.21 sec - August 20, 1988 (the world record stood until July 22, 2016)</s><s>References.</s><s>References.:Bibliography. - {{Cite book |last1=Kyoseva|first1=Tsvetana|year=2014</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Arthur Wakefield.
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"title": "Arthur Wakefield",
"text": "<s>Arthur Wakefield Captain Arthur Wakefield (19 November 1799 – 17 June 1843) served with the Royal Navy, before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the new settlement at Nelson, New Zealand.</s><s>Early life. Arthur Wakefield was born in Essex, a son of Edward Wakefield (1774–1854), a distinguished surveyor and land agent, and Susanna Crash (1767–1816). His grandmother, Priscilla Wakefield (1751–1832), was a popular author for the young, and one of the introducers of savings banks. He was the brother of Catherine Gurney Wakefield (1793-1873), Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858), William Hayward Wakefield (1801–1848), John Howard Wakefield (1803–1862), Felix Wakefield (1807–1875), Priscilla Susannah Wakefield (1809–1887), Percy Wakefield (1810–1832), and an unnamed child born in 1813.</s><s>Royal Navy. He joined the Royal Navy at age eleven. He saw action in the Dutch East Indies, and was"
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"title": "Arthur Wakefield",
"text": " part of the force that captured and burnt Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. He took part in the bombardment of Algiers. In the post-Napoleonic period he was stationed off South America, involved in diplomatic duties during the various wars of independence. He then spent several years off the coast of West Africa as part of the flotilla engaged in the suppression of the slave trade. He also saw duty in the North Atlantic, the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea. He was eventually given command of his own ship, the steam frigate. However, in 1837 he was passed over for promotion, so, recognising that his career was going nowhere, he resigned from the Navy in 1841.</s><s>New Zealand Company. Immediately after Arthur Wakefield left the Navy in 1841, his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield recruited him to join the New Zealand Company, tasking him to select settlers for a new settlement to be named Nelson, escort the party to New Zealand, and supervise the growth of the new town. Arthur Wakefield sailed from London on the \"Whitby\" in April 1841 and reached Wellington in September 1841. }} The first immigrant ships arrived in Nelson in February 1842. The settlement of"
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"title": "Arthur Wakefield",
"text": " Nelson got off to a good start. In the first two years, 18 ships transported more than 3,000 colonists. Captain Wakefield actively worked to promote the orderly development of the colony. Although he seems to have been rather paternal in his attitude to the settlers, he also seems to have been respected and admired. However, the new colony encountered serious difficulties in subsequent months. The biggest problem was the lack of arable land. The New Zealand Company, and particularly Wakefield's brother, had made extravagant promises to the settlers about the availability of land. Each settler family had been offered 1 acre (4,000 m²) of urban land, 50 acres (200,000 m²) of suburban land, and 150 acres (600,000 m²) of rural land. However, the company had nothing like that amount of land available and the existing owners – the native Māori – proved very reluctant to sell their land and not inclined to trust the New Zealand Company's promises. Furthermore, the newly established British government of William Hobson in Auckland was not at all sympathetic to their problems. One of the basic tenets of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840), between the British Crown and various Māori chiefs, was the understanding that the Crown would"
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"title": "Arthur Wakefield",
"text": " protect the Māori from attempts to defraud them of their land. On the other hand, some members of the New Zealand Company and many of the settlers saw the Māori as ignorant savages who had no right to stand in the way of honest British colonists. This was a period when the growing British Empire was very aware of what it saw as its manifest destiny, to rule the native peoples of the world. The British colonists believed they were owed the land, and resented the fact that their survival was dependent on the goodwill of the Māori, who held all the power. In summary, Arthur Wakefield found he had far more settlers than he had land for and they were not happy. For once, Edward Gibbon Wakefield urged caution, but he was in London and his brother Arthur was the man on the spot.</s><s>Death. The Chief Magistrate in Nelson, Henry Thompson, was a very hot-tempered, arrogant man who was not prepared to accept that the Nelson settlement did not own and control the Wairau Plains. Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata visited Nelson and made it very clear that they would not allow the settlers to occupy the Wairau Plain. Despite that, Wakefield and"
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"title": "Arthur Wakefield",
"text": " Thompson sent out surveyors. The Māori very firmly, but without violence, escorted them off their land and burnt down their hut. Thompson immediately issued a warrant for the arrest of the two chiefs on a charge of arson. He and Wakefield then recruited a group of special constables and led them off to carry out the arrest. The result was the Wairau Affray, in which Arthur Wakefield and 21 other of the party were killed by the Māori. It is difficult to apportion the blame for this disaster. Henry Thompson appears to have been the driving force behind the attempt to arrest Te Rauparaha and he already had a reputation for headstrong, irrational impulses. But Wakefield was supposed to be in command of the settlement. His brother had told him that the claim to the land was invalid. It seems that he yielded to the pressures and expectations of the people around him and particularly to Thompson. It is still unknown as to what initiated the incident at Wairau yet Wakefield, Thompson and seven other settlers surrendered during the clash and were summarily executed on the orders of Chief Te Rangihaeata who was enraged and demanded utu (revenge) for the death of his wife Rongo, Te Raupar"
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"title": "Arthur Wakefield",
"text": "aha's daughter, who had been shot in the affray. It is claimed that his head was laid on a loaf of bread as a final insult, echoing his arrogant quote that he could buy the Maori with \"sugar and bread\". The subsequent government inquiry found the whole expedition had been illegal and exonerated the Māori. This did not sit well with the colonists, who immediately began a political campaign against Governor Robert FitzRoy that contributed to his early recall.</s><s>Commemoration. Nelson is now a thriving city. The community of Wakefield south of Nelson is not believed to be named after him, but it was renamed shortly before his death. The Wairau Affray is believed to have assisted in the new name becoming established. The Arthur Range in what is now Kahurangi National Park was explored by Arthur Dudley Dobson, and the range and Mount Arthur were named by Dobson after Arthur Wakefield.</s><s>References. -</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Felician of Foligno.
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"title": "Felician of Foligno",
"text": "<s>Felician of Foligno Felician(us) of Foligno () (c. 160 – c. 250) is the patron saint of Foligno.</s><s>Biography. According to Christian tradition, he was born in \"Forum Flaminii\" (present-day San Giovanni Profiamma), on the Via Flaminia, of a Christian family, around 160. He was the spiritual student of Pope Eleuterus and evangelized in Foligno, Spello, Bevagna, Assisi, Perugia, Norcia, Plestia, Trevi, and Spoleto. He was later consecrated bishop of Foligno by Pope Victor I around 204 (he was the first bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office). He ordained Valentine of Terni as a priest. His episcopate lasted for more than 50 years; he was one of the first Christian bishops of northern Italy. He was arrested at the age of 94 for refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods during the persecutions of Decius. He was tortured and scourged, and died outside Foligno while being conveyed to Rome for his execution.</s><s>Biography.:Saint Messalina. Saint"
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"title": "Felician of Foligno",
"text": " Messalina was a consecrated virgin who had received the religious veil from Felician. She cared for him during his imprisonment, and for this she was also arrested and clubbed to death when she refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.</s><s>Veneration. A church was built over his grave at Foligno. His relics were transferred to Metz on October 4, 970. In 965 some relics were translated to Minden in Germany; Felician was thus erroneously considered a bishop of that German city (and he had a separate feast day of October 20), an error that entered the \"Roman Martyrology\". Some of his relics were later returned to Foligno in 1673–4. Foligno Cathedral preserves a statue of the saint, of silver and bronze, made by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Maini.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Neil Sinclair.
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"title": "Neil Sinclair",
"text": "<s>Neil Sinclair Neil Sinclair (born 23 February 1974), is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2010. He challenged once for the WBO welterweight title in 2010. At regional level, he held the British welterweight title from 2001 to 2003 and challenged once for the EBU European Union title in 2008. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal representing Ireland at the 1992 Junior World Championships and gold while representing Northern Ireland at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.</s><s>Amateur career. Sinclair boxed for Ireland as an amateur and won a bronze medal at the World Junior Championships at Montreal in 1992 and also won a gold for Northern Ireland at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.</s><s>Professional career. Sinclair turned professional in April 1995, winning his first fight at the Ulster Hall, Belfast, in which he knocked out Marty Duke on a card that included Darren Corbett and the final fight in the career of Damien Denny. In June 2007, Sinclair announced his retirement although he decided to return to boxing within a couple of months. In May 2009, Sinclair won the Irish light-middleweight title with a stoppage victory over Henry Coyle at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast.</s><s>Writing. He used to write a regular column"
},
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"title": "Neil Sinclair",
"text": " for Irish-boxing.com, entitled \"Sinky Says\".</s><s>See also. - List of British welterweight boxing champions - Neil was classed as one of the hardest punchers and deceivingly clever boxer by Paci Collins, brother of former super middleweight champion, Steve Collins. - Neil is close friends with Anglo/Irish cruiserweight boxer Joseph Armstrong.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Jake Tilson.
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"title": "Jake Tilson",
"text": "<s>Jake Tilson Jake Tilson (born 1958 in London) is an English artist, graphic designer, writer and publisher. Author and designer of \"A Tale of 12 Kitchens\" (2006), he published the arts magazines \"Cipher\" (1979–1981) and \"Atlas\" (1985–1993), taught in the Communication Design department at the Royal College of Art (1987–1999) and also works as a journalist. A retrospective exhibition of his art work was held at the Museo Internacional de Electrografia in Cuenca, Spain (1997), part funded by The British Council. He was an early adopter of the World Wide Web as a medium for art, using his website \"TheCooker\" (1994). As a graphic designer he has produced work for companies such as Paul Smith, Haworth Tompkins, Royal National Theatre and Warehouse plc. He is a trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. \"Rooted in everyday culture and a pervading sense of place, Tilson’s practice spans publishing, cultural commentary, photography and audio work and often focuses on the unremarkable and the everyday whilst purposefully avoiding any sense of spectacle.\" \"Jake Tilson has always been one of the more"
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"title": "Jake Tilson",
"text": " original voices in graphic design, his playful, multilayered work defying both convention and easy description.\"</s><s>Early life and education. Jake Tilson was born in London, the son of Joe Tilson and Joslyn Tilson (née Morton). His grandfather was Alastair Morton, who ran his father's business the Edinburgh Weavers, commissioning artists such as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Jake studied painting at Chelsea School of Art from 1976–79, and at the Royal College of Art from 1980–83. He won the Royal of Art Major Travelling scholarship and spent a year working in Paris, where he had his first one-person exhibition at Galerie J et J Donguy.</s><s>Work. In 1979 he set up the small independent press, The Woolley Dale Press, which enabled him to publish limited edition book works and the arts/literary magazine \"Cipher\", helped by a grant from the Greater London Arts Association. After leaving college in 1983 he continued publishing, including the trilingual arts magazine, \"Atlas\", which sold in 15 countries. Atlas became the name of his next independent press in 1993 which published his audio works and books such as \"3 Found Fonts\" (2003). Throughout the 1990s Til"
},
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"title": "Jake Tilson",
"text": "son exhibited widely and had a commercial dealer, the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London. During this time his work was primarily collage based wall pieces and sculptural dioramas. He was Erna Plachte artist in residence at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (1994–95) where he developed his website \"TheCooker\" (1994) as well as designing websites for the Laboratory at the Ruskin (1994) he designed websites for the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1995) and the Royal College of Art (1996). His most recent exhibition was at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, commissioned by Haworth Tompkins Architects as part of the Common Ground exhibition.</s><s>Selected bibliography. No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism, Rick Poynor, 2013, Laurence King,. How To Survive Modern Art, Susie Hodge, Tate Publishing, 2009,. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design, Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris, AVA Publishing, 2008,. The Designer and the Grid, Lucienne Roberts, Rotovision, 2005,. Influences: a Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design, Anna Gerber and Amy Lutz, Gestalten Verlag, 2006,"
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"title": "Jake Tilson",
"text": ". New Media Design, Tricia Austin and Richard Doust, Laurence King Publishers, 2005,. Elizabeth David – Her Life, Work and Influence, Eddie Cass, Portico Library Gallery, 2007, OCLC 747321710. All Messed Up – Unpredictable Graphics, Anna Gerber, Laurence King, 2004,. Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design, Christian Küsters and Emily King, Thames & Hudson, 2001,. Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity, a Celebration of Art, Architecture and Design (Cutting Edge), Melvyn Bragg, Thames & Hudson, 1999,. New Media in Late 20th-century Art (World of Art), Michael Rush, Thames & Hudson World Art series, 1999,.</s><s>Selected bookworks. \"Light & Dark\", Woolley Dale Press, 1979,. \"Exposure\", Woolley Dale Press, 1980,. \"8 Views of Paris\", Woolley Dale Press, 1980,. \"The V Agents\", Woolley Dale Press, 1981,. \"Excavator-Barcelona-Excavador\", Woolley Dale Press, 1986,. \"One World – A Guide\", Warehouse PLC, 1987, ASIN: B001OQ"
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"title": "Jake Tilson",
"text": "29O4. \"Breakfast Special\", 5 books, Woolley Dale Press, 1989,,,,,. \"The Terminator Line\", Woolley Dale Press, 1991,. \"3 Found Fonts\", Atlas, 2003,. \"A Tale of 12 Kitchens\", Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Artisan, 2006,,. \"In At The Deep End\" – cooking fish Tokyo to Venice, Quadrille,.</s><s>Selected audioworks. \"City Sounds of the Everyday\", podcasts, Atlas, 2012 \"City Picture Fiction\", audio CD, Atlas, 1996 \"Hungerford Bridge\", tide and trains, audio cassette, Atlas, 1998 \"Hannahsleeps\", audio cassette, Atlas 1998 \"Gate 23\", audio cassette, Atlas, 1993 \"Foundsounds\", audio CD, Atlas, 1993</s><s>Public collections. Tate Gallery Collection. Chase Manhattan Bank. Arthur Andersen & Co. BBC World Service. The Principal Financial Group, USA.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Neil Googe.
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"title": "Neil Googe",
"text": "<s>Neil Googe Neil Googe is a British comics artist.</s><s>Biography. Googe's early comics work include a \"Shotgun Mary\" mini-series and work on \"2000 AD\", including a number of \"Judge Dredd\" stories. In 1999, Googe was hired as the artist for a graphic novel adaptation of Konami's Silent Hill, which had been released in early 1999. The novel was scheduled for release in November 1999. Despite being completed, advertised, and even receiving an ISBN code, the novel never got published due to disputes with Konami and it's European branch, with only four screenshots of the novel remaining. Googe is said to have had a CD with the full, completed novel on it, but has since lost said CD. He was one of the co-founders of the British independent comic publisher Com.x in 2000, where he wrote and drew \"Bazooka Jules\" and although only three issues were published Googe says he still has ideas for many more. However, since then he had steady work in the American comic book market since and the opportunity has never arisen. In the American market he is known for his work on \"Welcome to Tranquility\" with Gail Simone for Wildstorm where he'd"
},
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"title": "Neil Googe",
"text": " previously worked on \"Majestic\". Following this he worked with Christos Gage on \"Wildcats: World's End\". and then with \"Mike Costa\" on the \"World of Warcraft\" hard back graphic novel Dark Riders which was released by \"DC Comics\" after the \"Wildstorm\" merge. After this Neil continued working with \"DC Comics\", lending his hand more to one shot issues like \"Rose and Thorn\", the recent Detective Comics \"Harley Quinn\" #1 issue, the Legends of the Dark Knight \"Harley Quinn\" issue and most recently \"The Flash\". Also returning to \"2000 AD\" to work on Survival Geeks written by \"Gordon Rennie\" and \"Emma Beeby\" Coming almost full circle, Neil is currently working on a creator owned project entitled Welcome to the Hood, to be launched as a pen and paper \"Role Playing Game\" and also an accompanying comic. As well as finally relaunching \"Bazooka Jules\" under the name of \"\", though he has said this will be as a world setting for existing \"Role Playing Games\" systems with supplementary short stories in comic format. He is also working on a number of other table top and \"RPG\" products, including an as yet unnamed 3"
},
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"title": "Neil Googe",
"text": "rd party \"Pathfinder\" supplement. He has said that he will still be doing regular comic work alongside his other projects.</s><s>Bibliography. Comics work includes: - \"Shotgun Mary: Blood Lore\" (pencils, with writer Herb Mallette and inks by Kelsey Shannon, 4-issue mini-series Antarctic Press, 1997) - \"Mercy Heights\" (with John Tomlinson): - \"Dead of Winter\" (in \"2000 AD\" #1124, 1998) - \"Mercy Heights Book 2\" (in \"2000 AD\" #1144-1148, 1999) - \"Pulp Sci-fi\": \"Coy's Big Score\" (with Dan Abnett, in \"2000 AD\" #1129, 1999) - \"Judge Dredd\": - \"Trial of Strength\" (with John Wagner, in \"2000 AD\" #1151-1152, 1999) - \"War Games\" (with John Wagner, in \"2000 AD\" #1153, 1999) - \"Mind Ripper\" (with Robbie Morrison, in \"Judge Dredd Megazine\" #272, 2008) - \"Bazooka Jules\" #1-3 (script and art, Com."
},
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"title": "Neil Googe",
"text": "x, 2001–2002) - \"Something in the Air\" (with Jamie Delano, in \"X-Men Unlimited\" #41, Marvel Comics, 2003) - \"Majestic\" #1-4, 6-8, 12-13, 15 (pencils, with author Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning, Wildstorm, 2005–2006) collected in: - \"While You Were Out\" (with inks by Trevor Scott, collects \"Majestic\" #1-7, 2005, ) - \"Volume 2\" (collects \"Majestic\" #8-12, 2006, ) - \"Volume 3: Final Cut\" (collects \"Majestic\" #13-17 and \"Wildstorm Winter Special\", January 2007, ) - \"Worldstorm\" (with Gail Simone, one-shot, Wildstorm, 2006) - \"Welcome to Tranquility\" (with Gail Simone, Wildstorm, 2007–2008) collected as: - \"Volume 1\" (collects \"Welcome to Tranquility\" #1-6, 160 pages, WildStorm, December 2007, ) - \"Volume 2\" (collects \"Welcome to Tranquility\" #7-12, 144"
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"title": "Neil Googe",
"text": " pages, WildStorm, May 2008, ) - \"Wildcats: World's End\": #1-4, 6- (with Christos Gage, Wildstorm, 2008-) collected as: - \"Wildcats: World's End\" (136 pages, August 2009, ) - \"Aiva's Story\" (with writers David Noonan/Ricardo Sanchez, one-shot, Wildstorm, 2009) - \"Hondo-City Justice\" (with Robbie Morrison, in \"Judge Dredd Megazine\" #300-303, August–November 2010)</s><s>References. - Neil Googe at the Big Comic Book DataBase - Neil Googe at 2000 AD online</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Francis Nicholson (painter).
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"title": "Francis Nicholson (painter)",
"text": "<s>Francis Nicholson (painter) Francis Nicholson (14 November 1753 – 6 March 1844) was a British artist. He worked in watercolour and oil, and is mainly known as a landscape artist.</s><s>Early life. Nicholson was born in Pickering, North Yorkshire.</s><s>Career. Nicholson studied with a local artist in Scarborough, before beginning his career in his native Pickering, producing sporting pictures and portraits for a variety of Yorkshire patrons. By the mid-1780s he was also making paintings of country houses, leading him to concentrate on landscapes in watercolour. From 1789, he contributed views of both Yorkshire and Scotland to exhibitions at the Royal Academy. He also supplied topographical views for the Copper Plate Magazine. He contributed \"Views of England\", in collaboration with the engraver Francis Jukes to \"The Beauties of England and Wales\", Author: Britton, John & Edward Wedlake Brayley - A book published in 18 volumes from 1801 to 1815. Although his market increasingly became London-based, Nicholson continued to live in Yorkshire - at Whitby, Knaresborough and Ripon. He did not move to London until about 1803. In 1804, he became a founder-member of the"
},
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"title": "Francis Nicholson (painter)",
"text": " Society of Painters in Watercolours, and was a regular and prolific contributor to its exhibitions.</s><s>Later life. He wrote a handbook, \"The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours\", which was published in 1820. It sold out and a second edition followed in 1823. Nicholson died in London and is buried there in Brompton Cemetery.</s><s>Legacy. His c. 1837 self-portrait is in the National Portrait Gallery. He is known as the Father of water colour painting and also as an early pioneer of lithography, and was much admired by Turner. In October 2012 Pickering and district Civic Society erected a Blue Plaque in his memory on 3 Hungate Pickering. His daughter Marianne Croker was an artist, poet and author, and married Thomas Crofton Croker.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Chris Duffield.
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"title": "Chris Duffield",
"text": "<s>Chris Duffield Christopher Paul Duffield (born 20 May 1952) is the former Town Clerk of London and Chief Executive of the Corporation of the City of London. He was succeeded by John Barradell in 2012.</s><s>Early life. Duffield was born on 20 May 1952, the son of Jack and Irene Duffield. He was educated at St Albans School, a then all-boys private school in Hertfordshire. He graduated from Newcastle University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons).</s><s>Career. He has served in local government for nearly 30 years and prior to joining the City of London was the Chief Executive of Bexley Council. He has also previously worked for the GLC, Redbridge and Essex.</s><s>Career.:Corporation of London. He joined the corporation by appointment to the Town Clerk and Chief Executive position City of London Corporation – See: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Council_and_democracy/Council_departments/ in September 2003 and has previously worked as the Chief Executive of a London Borough and as the assistant director of finance at the Greater London Council He is also the chief executive of the Police"
},
{
"title": "Chris Duffield",
"text": " Authority. His responsibility is to oversee all Police Authority staff. He works closely with the chairman to facilitate efficient and effective police service within the City of London. Sample duties of the Town Clerk and Chief Executive include, but are not limited to: - Efficient management and execution of City functions. - Primary advisor on policy and resources. - Servicing meetings of the Court of Common Council and designated committees. - Servicing meetings of the Court of Alderman and designated committees. - Investigating complaints against the city. - Electoral Registration Officer. - Overseer of public relations. - Overseer of economic development. - Overseer of human resources.</s><s>Associations. Duffield is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).</s><s>Family. He is married and has three sons, including Joe Duffield. He also has four grandchildren, including Amelia Duffield.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Aert van der Neer.
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"title": "Aert van der Neer",
"text": "<s>Aert van der Neer Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus (c. 16039 November 1677), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal or river. He was a contemporary of Aelbert Cuyp and Meindert Hobbema, and like the latter he lived and died in comparative obscurity.</s><s>Biography. Recent (2008) research by René van Dijk of the Gorinchem Regional Archive has established that Van Der Neer was born in Gorinchem. According to Arnold Houbraken, Van Der Neer lived in Gorinchem as a steward to the lords of Arkel, which would account for the absence of any pictures dating from his early years. He became an amateur painter possibly upon contact with the Amsterdam painters Rafael and Jochem Govertsz Camphuysen, whose sister Lysbeth he married in 1629. They had six children: Grietje (1629), Eglon(~1635), Cornelia (1642), Elisabeth (1645), Pieter (1648), and Alida ("
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"title": "Aert van der Neer",
"text": "1650). Five of the children were baptized in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, not far from where he lived. His son Eglon later became a portrait painter himself. Van Der Neer was barely able to support his family by selling his landscapes, which were not highly valued. In 1659 it seemed necessary to supplement his income by keeping a wine tavern in the Kalverstraat, but two years later he went broke. He died in Amsterdam in abject poverty, and his art was so little esteemed that the pictures left by him were valued at about five shillings apiece.</s><s>Career. The earliest pictures in which Van Der Neer coupled his monogram of A.V. and D.N. interlaced with a date are a winter landscape in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam (dated 1639), and another in the Martins collection at Kiel (1642) immature works both, of poor quality. Far better is the \"Winter Landscape\" (1643), and the \"Moonlight Scene\" (1644) once in the d'Arenberg collection in Brussels. In 1652 Van Der Neer witnessed the fire which consumed the old town-hall of Amsterdam. He made this accident the"
},
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"title": "Aert van der Neer",
"text": " subject for two or three pictures, now in the galleries of Berlin and Copenhagen. Though Amsterdam appears to have been constantly Van Der Neer's domicile, his pictures tell that he was well acquainted with the canals and woods about Haarlem and Leiden, and with the reaches of the Meuse and Rhine. Dordrecht, the home of Aelbert Cuyp, is sometimes found in his pictures, and substantial evidence exists that there was friendship between the two men. At some period of their lives they laid their hands to the same canvases, on each of which they left their joint mark. On some it was the signature of the name, on others the more convincing signature of style. There are landscapes in the collections of the dukes of Bedford and Westminster, in which Cuyp has represented either the frozen Maes with fishermen packing herrings, or the moon reflecting its light on the river's placid waters. These are models after which Van Der Neer appears to have worked. The same feeling and similar subjects are found in Cuyp and Van Der Neer, before and after their partnership, but Cuyp was the leading genius. Van Der Neer got assistance from him; Cuyp expected none from Van Der Neer. He"
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"title": "Aert van der Neer",
"text": " carefully enlivened his friend's pictures, when asked to do so, with figures and cattle. It is in pictures jointly produced by them that we discover Van Der Neer's presence at Dordrecht. We are near Dordrecht in the landscape sunset of the Louvre, in which Cuyp evidently painted the foreground and cows. In the National Gallery, London picture Cuyp signs his name on the pail of a milkmaid, whose figure and red skirt he has painted with light effectiveness near the edge of Van Der Neer's landscape. Again, a couple of fishermen with a dog, and a sportsman creeping up to surprise some ducks, are Cuyp's in a capital Van Der Neer at the Staedel Institute in Frankfurt. Van Der Neer's favourite subjects were the rivers and watercourses of his native country either at sunset or after dark. His peculiar skill is shown in realizing translucence which allows objects even distant to appear in the darkness with varieties of warm brown and steel greys. Another of his fancies is to paint frozen water, and his daylight icescapes with golfers, sleighers, and fishermen are as numerous as his moonlights. But he always avoids the impression of frostiness,"
},
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"title": "Aert van der Neer",
"text": " which is one of his great gifts. His pictures are not scarce. They are less valuable in the market than those of Cuyp or Hobbema; but, possessing a charm peculiarly their own, they are much sought after by collectors. Out of about one hundred and fifty pictures accessible to the public, the choicest selection is in the Hermitage at Saint Petersburg. In England paintings from his brush are to be found at the National Gallery and Wallace Collection.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Michael Coulson (barrister).
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"title": "Michael Coulson (barrister)",
"text": "<s>Michael Coulson (barrister) (James) Michael Coulson (23 November 1927 – 18 June 2002) was a British barrister and judge, who also had a five-year parliamentary career. He was also an enthusiastic horse rider, huntsman and farmer, and was known at the Bar for his outstanding memory.</s><s>Family. Coulson was from an East Riding of Yorkshire family in Driffield; his father was a wealthy wool merchant. He attended the independent Fulneck School in Leeds as a boarding pupil before going up to Merton College, Oxford. His national service was spent in the East Riding Yeomanry in the Wenlock's Horse.</s><s>Early career. In 1951 Coulson was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple, and joined the North Eastern Circuit, although he also participated in London cases. At the same time he became active in the Young Conservatives and did much to improve their organisation in the north of England, including drafting their constitution. He was an active member of the Territorial Army in the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry where he received a commission as a Major.</s><s>Marriage and farming. In 1955 he married Dilys Adair Jones, a marriage which also brought him a farm on the Jones estate"
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"title": "Michael Coulson (barrister)",
"text": " at Bolton Percy near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. Coulson enjoyed farming and trained at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, but suffered an embarrassing failure while attempting to farm turkeys in a cold winter. He was forced to herd them into the farmhouse airing cupboard to keep them warm, and eventually the stockman poisoned the entire flock in a dispute with Coulson's father-in-law. Coulson also enjoyed horse riding, including fox hunting, and acted as secretary to meetings of the Bramham Moor and York and Ainsty Point to Point Race.</s><s>Political advancement. Elected to Tadcaster Rural District Council, Coulson had higher ambitions and in 1958 was selected as Conservative Party candidate for Kingston upon Hull North, a seat the retiring Conservative MP, Austen Hudson held by a knife-edge majority of 590. After energetically campaigning, he won the seat at the 1959 general election with a majority which increased to 702. His maiden speech was regarded as outstandingly witty and was reported in \"Punch\".</s><s>Parliamentary career. Coulson was a loyal supporter of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home, but made his contribution by introducing a successful Private Member's Bill to abolish the farthing as legal"
},
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"title": "Michael Coulson (barrister)",
"text": " tender. In 1962 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Solicitor General, Sir Peter Rawlinson. He also had an interest in Commonwealth affairs and served as a member of the executive committee of the Conservative Commonwealth Council.</s><s>Judge. Losing his seat at the 1964 general election, Coulson received a promotion in his legal career as Assistant Recorder of Sheffield in 1965. He was made Deputy Chairman of the Northern Agricultural Land Tribunal in 1967, and served there for six years; from 1968 he was a Regional Chairman of Industrial Tribunals. His marriage under strain, in the 1970s Coulson moved to the East Midlands to become a full-time chairman of Industrial Tribunals. He became a member of the Belvoir Hunt and in 1977, a hunting acquaintance twenty years his junior (Barbara Chambers) became his second wife. From 1981 he worked as a Recorder of the Crown Court, and from 1983 he was a Circuit Judge on the Midland and Oxford Circuit. In his home village of Wymondham, Leicestershire near Melton Mowbray he was known as the \"hunting Judge\". In 1990 Coulson received his final promotion as a Deputy Circuit Judge. A fourth similar precedent in the law reports of that"
},
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"title": "Michael Coulson (barrister)",
"text": " year was entered in Coulson's 1994 judgment, when on appeal, he awarded Trevor McAuley £5,900 for unfair dismissal for racism after McAuley proved a case establishing that a certain additional level of damages can be awarded for having been a victim of a vicious and highly organised campaign of making fun of his Irish accent. Coulson retired in 1998 at the age of 70.</s><s>References. - \"His Honour Michael Coulson\" (Obituary), \"The Times\", 25 July 2002 - M. Stenton and S. Lees, \"Who's Who of British MPs\" Vol. IV (Harvester Press, 1981) - \"Who Was Who\", A & C Black</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ruth Fischer.
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": "<s>Ruth Fischer Ruth Fischer (11 December 1895 – 13 March 1961) was an Austrian and German Communist, and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) in 1918. Along with her partner Arkadi Maslow, she led the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) through both the May 1924 and December 1924 federal elections. After being removed from the KPD, she became involved with various anti-Stalinist left-wing groups, and would remain a staunch anti-Stalinist activist for the rest of her life.</s><s>Background. Fischer was born Elfriede Eisler in Leipzig in 1895, the daughter of Marie Edith Fischer and Rudolf Eisler, a professor of philosophy at Leipzig but of Austrian nationality. }} Her father was Jewish and her mother was Lutheran. She was the elder sister to noted film and concert composer Hanns Eisler and fellow communist activist Gerhart Eisler. She studied philosophy, economics and politics at University of Vienna, where her father was working. At an undisclosed time, before March 1921, she adopted her mother's maiden name as part of her writer's name, \"Ruth Fischer.\" According to later records of the British Security Service (MI5"
},
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": "), she also used the names of her partner Maslow and husband Pleuchot.</s><s>Communism. The Austrian Communist Party was founded on 4 November 1918 by Ruth Fischer and Paul Friedländer, a medical student she married in 1917, who later died in a Nazi prison or concentration camp. She claimed in her memoir, \"Stalin and German Communism\", that she was listed as member number one. Eight days later, she claimed, a crowd of rioters proclaimed her editor of Vienna's largest daily, the \"Neue Freie Presse\", and she was arrested and charged with treason, but released under amnesty. She opposed the failed attempt to seize power in Austria in June 1919 instigated by the Hungarian communist Erno Bettelheim, and during the recriminations that followed, she left her husband and moved to Berlin. She visited the Comintern representative Karl Radek many times while he was interned in Moabit prison, acting as his contact with the Communist Party of Germany. In a memoir of his year in Berlin, Radek commented: \"She gave the impression of being a lively, if uneducated female.. I saw that she could grasp ideas easily, but that they didn't sink in very far, and she could easily fall"
},
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": " under some other influence.\" In 1921, Fischer became leader of the Berlin branch of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and she and Arkadi Maslow emerged as leaders of the left of the communist party, who blamed the party's over-cautious leadership for the failure of the March Action in 1921, and opposed the tactic of a 'united front' with the German Social Democratic Party. The German authorities tried to forcibly repatriate her to Austria. Thus she married the fellow communist Gustav Golke (1889–1937, executed in the Soviet Great Purge), in order to be naturalised as a German. Heinrich Brandler was the national leader of the Communist Party of Germany. In the early months of 1923, Ruth Fischer and urged Brandler to organize an uprising on the model provided by the Bolsheviks in 1917. Together they developed the \"theory of the offensive\". Fischer denounced the leadership for \"making concessions to social democracy\", for \"opportunism\" and for \"ideological liquidationism and theoretical revisionism\". Chris Harman, author of \"The Lost Revolution\" (1982) has pointed out: \"Articulate and energetic, they were able to gather around them many of the new workers who had joined the party.\" Although"
},
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": " she appeared to represent a minority view in the Communist Party of Germany at that time, Comintern ordered that she should be co-opted onto its Central Committee in April 1923. In 1923, Fischer appealed to a group of Nazi students, proclaiming that \"Those who call for a struggle against Jewish capital are already, gentlemen, class strugglers, even if they don’t know it. You are against Jewish capital and want to fight the speculators. Very good. Throw down the Jewish capitalists, hang them from the lamp-post, stamp on them.\" Ruth Fischer argued that the Communist Party of Germany leaders were saying: \"In no circumstances must we proclaim the general strike. The bourgeoisie will discover our plans and destroy us before we have moved. On the contrary, we must calm the masses, hold back our people in the factories and the unemployed committees until the government thinks the moment of danger has passed.\" When the leaders of the Communist Party of Germany met leaders in Moscow in September 1923 to discuss the prospect of seizing power that autumn, Leon Trotsky was so disturbed by the antagonism between the different factions that, out of loyalty to Brandler, he proposed that Maslow and Fischer be ordered to stay in Moscow. In the event, it was agreed that Maslow would stay"
},
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": ", but Fischer could return to Germany. After the failure of the Hamburg Uprising, and Maslow's return to Germany, Fischer, Maslow and Ernst Thälmann gained control of the KPD, at Brandler's expense. In April 1924, the 9th party convention elected her and Maslow co-chairpersons of the Communist Party of Germany. In May 1924, she travelled to the UK as a fraternal delegate to a sixth congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whom she accused of being too close to the Labour Party, and narrowly avoided being arrested in Manchester. She was elected to the Reichstag under her then legal name Elfriede Golke, and to the Prussian House of Representatives. In January 1925, she was arrested in Austria, after crossing the border illegally on a mission to revive the Austrian communist party. During the power struggle in the Soviet Union following the death of Lenin, the trio backed the Comintern chairman Grigory Zinoviev, who at that time was aligned with Joseph Stalin, against Trotsky and Radek. In June 1924, she led the German delegation to the Fifth Congress of Comintern, where she denounced Trotsky in public, in language not previously heard. At the sixth congress of the KPD"
},
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": ", in 1925, she went on to attack the two most famous martyrs of German communism, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht for having \"burdened us with great errors which we must eradicate.\" Writing in a party journal, she likened Luxemburg's influence to a syphilis bacillus. By August 1925, Zinoviev and other soviet leaders had decided that Fischer and Maslow were unreliable, and the executive of Comintern passed a resolution attacking them by name, without mentioning Thälmann. She was ordered to stay in Moscow (while Maslow was in prison in Germany), and Thälmann took over the leadership of the German party. When the rift between Zinoviev and Stalin became public, she began meeting Zinoviev to settle their past differences. In February 1926, she was summoned by Stalin, who told her she could return to Germany and be readmitted to the party leadership if she submitted to the party line, which she refused to do. When the executive of Comintern held a special session, private letters she had written, which had been intercepted by the censorship were read out, including one to Maslow, in which she wrote \"We are condemned to death, since terror reigns in Leningrad"
},
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": ".\" From then, she was publicly linked to the anti-Stalinist left, despite her previous clashes with Trotsky. On 19 August 1926, she and Maslow were expelled from the KPD.</s><s>Anti-Stalinism. In Germany, she and Maslow formed a splinter group to the left of the KPD. arguing that Stalin was the leader of a counter-revolution in the USSR, which was ruled by a new class of bureaucrats running a form of state capitalism. She lost her Reichstag seat in 1928, and fled to Paris in 1933 and in August the same year the Nazi government annulled her naturalisation of 1923. When Trotsky founded the Fourth International in 1938, he'set great store' by the accession of Fischer, who visited him frequently in France, though her opposition to Stalinism went further than his. In 1941, Fischer left France for the United States. In 1947, she testified before HUAC against her brothers Gerhart and Hanns. Her testimony against Hanns resulted in his blacklisting and deportation. She testified that Gerhart was an important Comintern agent. In 1948, she published her memoir \"Stalin and German Communism\" - but the accuracy of her account of events that had happened a quarter of"
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": " a century or more before she was writing has been challenged. Rosa Luxemburg's biographer, J.P.Nettl, described the book as \"generally unreliable; in places deliberately so.\" E.H.Carr looked into one of the claims made in the book and concluded that it was \"inaccurate in every particular that can be checked.\" Isaac Deutscher, a biographer of Trotsky and Stalin, described her as a \"young, trumpet-tongued woman, without any revolutionary experience or merit, yet idolized by the Communists of Berlin.\" In 1955, Fischer returned to Paris and published her books \"Stalin and German Communism\" and \"Die Umformung der Sowjetgesellschaft\".</s><s>Death and afterwards. Fischer died in Paris in 1961, aged 65, from undisclosed causes. She had one child, Friedrich Gerhart Friedländer (F.G. Friedlander), born in Vienna 1917, later a mathematician, who died in the United Kingdom in 2001. The International Institute of Social History has an archive of her papers.</s><s>See also. - Hanns Eisler - Gerhart Eisler - Arkadi Maslow</s><s>Further reading. - Ruth Fischer Papers, (International"
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"title": "Ruth Fischer",
"text": " Institute of Social History) - Deutscher, Isaac, \"The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921–1929\", Oxford University Press, 1980,</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ameyaw Debrah.
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"title": "Ameyaw Debrah",
"text": "<s>Ameyaw Debrah Ameyaw Kissi Debrah, known professionally as Ameyaw Debrah, is a Ghanaian celebrity blogger, freelance journalist, and reporter. He founded AmeyawDebrah.com, an entertainment website and blog that primarily publishes news about Ghanaian celebrities. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in publishing. While at KNUST, he won the Best Publishing Student award in 2005. He has made significant contributions to several pan-African websites, including Jamati.com, Orijin-ent.com, and ModernGhana.com. In 2008, he joined GhanaWeb.com as the entertainment editor and launched his own website that same year.</s><s>Early life and education. Debrah attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast, and became an editor for the school's magazine in 1999. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in publishing from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). After graduating from KNUST, Debrah completed his National Service Secretariat (NSS) programme at \"Ovation International Magazine\" in Accra.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:Early career. While at \"Ovation\","
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"title": "Ameyaw Debrah",
"text": " he primarily wrote about the Ghanaian entertainment industry. His writings were published for the publication's international audience. After completing his service with NSS, he became a columnist for \"Star\" newspaper. In 2007, he devoted his time contributing to the pan-African websites Jamati.com, Orijin-ent.com, and ModernGhana.com. Towards the end of 2007, he joined \"Voices of Africa\", a media project based in the Netherlands. During his time there, he submitted videos, photos and news from Ghana for Africanews.com. In 2008, he became the entertainment editor for GhanaWeb.com. Later that year, he fully launched his blog AmeyawDebrah.com. He left Ghanaweb in 2012 to pursue his blog full-time. He contributes to StarGist, an entertainment segment on Africa Magic, as a Skype correspondent. He also contributes to content on EbonyLife TV and \"Glitz Africa Magazine\". He was an ambassador for Malta Guinness' Africa Rising Campaign.</s><s>Career.:AmeyawDebrah.com. The formulation of AmeyawDebrah.com was a result of Debrah's friend hosting and helping him get the domain. Since its inception, the website has"
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"title": "Ameyaw Debrah",
"text": " found innovative ways to reach readers across the globe. In 2010, the website debuted its iPhone app with the help of MobBase, a web developer. In 2012, the website launched an internet-based talent hunt competition to discover and promote new musical talents in Ghana. In addition, Debrah launched the My Ghana Campaign, a platform that allows readers to record a one-minute video discussing relevant issues in Ghana.</s><s>Career.:Ringier Ghana and Yen.com.gh. In December 2014, Debrah joined Ringier Ghana to launch and manage pulse.com.gh. He left in August 2015 to join Genesis Technology and later launched Yen.com.gh. In September 2015, Debrah worked as the editor-in-chief of a newly established publication called Yen.com.gh. He left the role in September 2017.</s><s>Career.:Managing career. Coptic, a multi-platinum award-winning Ghanaian music producer, appointed Debrah as his manager in Ghana and Africa. Coptic released \"The Black Star Line Mixtape Vol 1\" (2011), a mixtape that seeks to bring American rappers back to Africa and close to their roots. The mixtape is also Coptic's introduction to the African market. In addition to"
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"title": "Ameyaw Debrah",
"text": " managing Coptic's interest in Ghana and Africa, Debrah is also in charge of scouting for new up and coming talents that can be signed to Rebel Musik, Coptic's African music production branch. In an interview posted on Peace FM Online, Debrah said he's grateful for the opportunity to work with Coptic and help advance the careers of other Ghanaian and African artists. Debrah also assumed management of multiple-award-winning rapper Pappy Kojo in 2014.</s><s>Ameyaw TV. In 2018, Debrah launched Ameyaw TV, a web portal for various web video formats. After holding auditions for several talented and young aspiring TV presenters, Ameyaw TV rolled out production of three formats currently streaming on tv.ameyawdebrah.com. The formats include Daily Buzz, News in One, and Trend Mill. Other formats such as Trending GH were later introduced and others are expected to be rolled out in 2019.</s><s>Personal life. Ameyaw Debrah married Elsie Darkoa at a wedding ceremony held on March 6, 2018. The couple have a son named Nathan.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Félix María Zuloaga.
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": "<s>Félix María Zuloaga Félix María Zuloaga was a Mexican conservative general and politician who played a key role in the outbreak of the Reform War in early 1860, a war which would see him elevated to the presidency of the nation. President Zuloaga was unrecognized by and fought against the liberals supporters of President Benito Juarez. Zuloaga’s forces quickly gained control over the capital, and the central states of the nation, winning every major engagement during the first year of the war, and even temporarily capturing Juarez and his entire cabinet, but in the end, the liberals were not decisively defeated, still controlled large parts of the nation’s periphery, and Juarez remained securely entrenched in the strategic port of Veracruz. In December 1858, a moderate faction of the conservatives overthrew Zuloaga, hoping to come to a compromise with Juarez. Manuel Robles Pezuela then ascended to the presidency. The liberal government rejected all offers of compromise, and the conservatives then elected Miguel Miramon as president. The ousted Zuloaga still clinging to his claims of the presidency, endorsed Miramon’s election and officially passed the presidency on to him. Zuloaga remained"
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " somewhat active in Miramon’s government but eventually retired from the scene. He emerged after the war ended to claim the presidency while conservative guerillas were still active in the countryside, but this came to nothing, and Zuloaga subsequently left the country. He would return during the Second Mexican Empire, but unlike many of his conservative colleagues played no political or military role within the Empire. After the fall of the Empire in 1867, Zuloaga was exiled to Cuba and returned to civilian life eventually returning to Mexico and living until 1895.</s><s>Early life. Felix Zuloaga was born on 31 March 1803 in Álamos, Sonora. On 8 October 1834, he received the rank of colonel of the national guard and was engaged in campaigns against Indians until 1837, when he left the department of Chihuahua, having previously been granted the rank of lieutenant of engineers. He defended the government during the Federalist Revolt of 1840, during which a group of militants seized the National Palace and took President Anastasio Bustamante hostage in order to try and overthrow the government and restore the Constitution of 1824. The following year he joined the Bases of Tacubaya which intended to revise the then current constitution, the S"
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": "iete Leyes. He was promoted to captain on 5 November 1841 and fought in Yucatan as part of the Caste Wars, after which he moved to Tabasco and was granted the rank of lieutenant colonel. During the Mexican–American War, he was in charge of fortifications in Monterey and in Saltillo, and in 1847 contributed to setting up the defenses on the route from Veracruz to Mexico City. In July 1848, he retired to Chihuahua where he was elected alderman in 1852 and remained in that post until March, 1853 when he returned to service in the military. In November he was promoted to colonel and was named president of the council of war for judging thieves at which post he remained for a few months. In the following two years he served the Santa Anna’s campaign against the liberal revolutionaries of the south led by Juan Alvarez. He fell prisoner at the Hacienda de Nuzco, and the rebel commander Ignacio Comonfort protected him from being sent to a firing squad and actually recruited him to join the liberal cause. When the Plan of Ayutla triumphed, and Santa Anna’s dictatorship was overthrown, Zuloaga was given command of"
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " Comonfort’s forces and assigned to the campaign of Sierra de Queretaro.</s><s>La Reforma. Zuloaga’s old commander Ignacio Comonfort ascended to the presidency in December, 1856, and proceeded to administer over one of the most eventful presidencies in 19th century Mexican history. A convention finished drafting a new constitution for the nation in early 1857, only to encounter extreme opposition from conservatives over its unprecedented reforms aimed against the army and the church. Most notable was the opposition to the constitutional codification of the Ley Lerdo, a law which forced collective entities to forcibly sell their properties, affecting both the Catholic Church, and Mexico’s Indigenous communities, who had a tradition of farming on communal lands. Further controversy was inflamed when the government mandated that all civil servants swear an oath to the constitution or lose their jobs. Many Catholics did refuse the oath, but those who did not were excommunicated. Zuloaga was initially loyal to the moderate liberal government of Ignacio Comonfort. He helped command a government effort to put down a conservative rebellion in Puebla. As tensions over the constitution rose, Comonfort left the capital and temporarily resided in Tacubaya where his defenses were commanded"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " by Zuloaga. However, by December, Zuloaga was among those being suspected of plotting against the government, and he was even indicted.</s><s>Plan of Tacubaya. The suspicion was well placed as Zuloaga was plotting with conservative conspirators. After coming to an arrangement with certain governors, the conspirators in a suburb of Mexico City declared the Plan of Tacubaya on the morning of December 17th to set aside the national constitution. The supreme control of the government was to be entrusted to Ignacio Comonfort who was to convoke within three months another constitutional congress for framing another constitution more in line with the national will, to be submitted to a national plebiscite and in the event of its non acceptance to be returned to the congress for an amendment. The president was tso rule with a consultative council composed of one representative from each state. On 17 December, congress made a solemn protest against the Plan of Tacubaya, and declared the Comonfort’s authority had now come to an end. Zuloaga’s brigade occupied the capital and dissolved the congress. Benito Juarez, president of the Supreme Court and Isidoro Olvera, president of the congress were arrested. The ayunt"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": "amiento of Mexico City was also dissolved. On 19 December, Comonfort officially announced that he had accepted the Plan of Tacubaya. He released a manifesto explaining his motives, expounding that he viewed the Plan of Tacubaya as an opportunity for a moderate compromise and viewing the alternative as anarchy. Seventy deputies reassembled in Queretaro and aired their protests. A council of state was installed on 25 December in which skeptical voices opined that it was impossible to bring about the reconciliating that Comonfort sought. On 30 December, the strategic state of Vera Cruz abandoned the Plan of Tacubaya, convincing Comonfor that his new government’s position was precarious. Comonfort would resign, passing the presidency over to Benito Juarez whom Comonfort had also released. He gathered his loyal troops and engaged in skirmishes with the Zuloaga government, but most of the loyal garrison eventually abandoned Comonfort, leading him to flee the capital, and eventually the nation.</s><s>Presidency. After triumphing in the minor skirmish with Comonfort, Zuloaga on January 21, published a manifesto promising order in the capital. He then named the individuals who had been chosen to be a part of the"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " junta that was meant to choose the new head of state according to the Plan of Tacubaya. On the 22nd the junta met in the senate chambers and Felix Zuloaga was chosen by twenty six votes, one vote going to Santa Anna, and one vote going to General Echeagaray. The junta then drafted an oath of office, which Zuloaga read the following day, promising to uphold and protect, independence, religion, and unity between all Mexicans, echoing the promises made in the Plan of Iguala. The newly established conservative government was recognized by the foreign diplomatic corps at the capital with the exception of the United States. On the 24th, Zuloaga named his ministers. Luis Gonazaga Cueva was made Minister of the Interior, Hilario Elguero was made Ministry of Government, Manuel Larrainzar was made Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Jose de la Parra was made Minister of War, and Jose Hierro Maldonado was made Minister of Development. Zuloaga then named a council of government made up of two representatives from each state. On 28 January, a decree was published nullifying the Ley Lerdo, and calling for the property which had been seized by the church to be returned"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": ". Other decrees published on the same day restored to their former employment all civil servants who had lost their jobs in refusing to swear an oath to the constitution of 1857, and also nullified the Ley Juarez. On 31 January, President Zuloaga directed a letter to Pope Pius IX reaffirming his country’s adherence to the Catholic faith. States were declaring their loyalty to either Juarez or Zuloaga and their respective armies were preparing for war. After hostilities broke out Zuloaga, knowing the strategic importance of Veracruz, tried to win over the governor of the state,, who however affirmed his support for the government of Juarez. In the meantime liberal forces in the north were being organized by Santiago Vidaurri while Manuel Doblado led a liberal coalition in the interior headquartered in the town of Celaya. On 10 March 1858, the liberals lost the Battle of Salamanca, which opened up the interior of the country to the conservatives. Juarez at this point was in Guadalajara, when part of the army there mutinied and imprisoned him, at one point threatening his life, until fellow liberal minister and prisoner Guillermo Prieto dissuaded the hostile soldiers from shooting Juarez. As rival factions struggled"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " to control the city, Juarez and other liberal prisoners were released on agreement after which Guadalajara was fully captured by conservatives by the end of March. Juarez now made Santos Degollado the head of his armies, and then decided to head towards Veracruz, embarking from Manzanillo, crossing Panama, and arriving in Veracruz on May, 4 1858. On 24 July, Miramon captured Guanajuato, and San Luis Potosi was captured by the conservatives on 12 September. Vidaurri was defeated at the Battle of Ahualulco on 29 September. By October the conservatives were at the height of their strength. The conservatives controlled the most populous cities of the republic, and the liberal capital of Vera Cruz was cut off from the interior of the country. The liberals however still had the loyalty of significant parts of the north and the south of the country. Juarez was determined to sustain the conflict, entrenched in the strategic port of Vera Cruz, which the conservatives did not have the forces to carry out a naval blockade of. Despite his significant victories in the first few months of the war, the Zuloaga government’s position was far from entirely secure. An attempt to revive the unitary organization of the"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " country by reducing the states to departments as they existed during the Centralist Republic of Mexico, proved to be unpopular. The conservatives were also divided into three factions: the Santanistas, named after supporters of Santa Anna, wanted a more authoritarian government as had exited during the dictatorship of Santa Anna from 1853 to 1855, the Zuloaguistas wanted to retain Zuloaga, and the Fusionists wanted to compromise with the liberals. The Zuloaga government was also struggling to find funds, the contributions of the clergy, forced loans, and increased tariffs not being sufficient to sustain government expenses. The seizure of property was irritating both citizens and foreigners. The Plan of Tacubaya had called for a congress to be summoned in order to draft a constitution, but this was proving to be impractical in the middle of the war. Zuloaga’s cabinet drafted a provisional constitution. In July 1858, the failure of achieving a final victory over the liberals led to a shuffling of the cabinet. Joaquin Castillo y Lanzas was named Minister of Relations. Fernandez de Jauregui was made Minister of Government, Javier Miranda was made Minister of Justice, J. M. Garcia was made Minister of War, Pedro Jorrin was made Minister of the Treasury"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": ", and Jose M. Zaldivar was made Minister of Development. A law against conspirators was passed along with restrictions on the press. The conservatives kept achieving victory and on July 24th, Miramon captured Guanajuato. Some moderate liberals now wished to compromise with the conservatives. On 29 September, the conservatives won a significant victory at Ahuahulco against Santigo Vidaurri. By October, 1858, the conservatives were at the height of their strength. In early November, Zuloaga’s minister of Government Jarequi offered to resign but it was not accepted. The liberals then took Guadalajara causing alarm in Mexico City. Zulaoga was holding frequent conferences with the British and French foreign representatives, and the two powers showed themselves disposed to help blockade Juarez. Juarez, however had long gained the good will of the United States, whose minister Forsyth had refused to recognize Zuloaga’s government. On 20 December 1858, about a year since he first came to power, Zuloaga had to face a pronunciamiento against himself. Echeagaray pronounced at Ayutla with a plan to summon a congress to frame a constitution suitable for the nation. Zuloaga"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " passed measures to put down the revolt, assuming personal command of the forces at the capital, and forbidding all interaction with the rebels. He passed a manifesto condemning Echeagaray who was stripped of his post in the army. Manuel Doblado was also arrested. A modified form of the Ayotla Plan was proclaimed by Manuel Robles Pezula on 23 December, and found some military support in the capital. Zuloaga offered to resign if the objection was to him personally, but would not assent if the plan was meant to overthrow his conservative principles. Miramon was offered command of the plan, but he rejected it. As loyal troops kept defecting, Zuloaga resigned before midnight and sought asylum with the British legation in spite of the insurgents promises to keep Zuloaga unharmed. The Plan of Ayotla was actually an offshoot of the aforementioned fusionist party, a moderate faction, which did not seek to abandon conservative principles, but did seek an end to the war by seeking compromise with the liberals. Manuel Robles Pezuela arrived at the national palace on the morning of 24 December, when he assumed the presidency. Robles Pezuela sent commissioners out to gain adherence to his plan, and began to assemble"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " a junta of representatives ignoring, however the conservative hero Miguel Miramon, upsetting conservative hardliners. Robles, however eventually conceded in granting Miramon representation. The Junta assembled on 30 December 1858, and proceeded to elect a president. Miramon won with 50 votes against Robles’ 46, though the latter was authorized to act as provisional president until Miramon arrived in the capital. Meanwhile Zuloaga had taken back his previous resignation, but due to the circumstances, agreed to officially pass on the presidency to Miramon on 31 January 1859. To keep him from changing his mind, Miramon had him sent to the interior. Zuloaga then left the government. Miramon would go on to wage the war energetically and make two attempts to capture Juarez’s capital at Vera Cruz. His second attempt in March 1860, would see his naval forces intercepted by the U.S. navy which was protecting Juarez. Liberal victories then accumulated until Juarez took back the capital on January 1861, though conservative guerilla’s most notably Leonardo Marquez remained active in the countryside.</s><s>Later life. It was amidst this situation, with conservative forces still active, that Zuloaga once more publicly emerged in 1861, once more"
},
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"title": "Félix María Zuloaga",
"text": " claiming the presidency, but to no effect. He left the country again the following year. He returned to Mexico in August 1864, during the Second Mexican Empire, but no longer played any role in politics. He survived the fall of the Empire but was exiled to Cuba, returning to his country after the death of Benito Juarez. Zuloaga became a tobacco merchant, living until 1895.</s><s>See also. - List of heads of state of Mexico</s><s>Further reading. - \"Zuloaga, Félix María\", \"Enciclopedia de México\", v. 14. Mexico City, 1996,. - García Puron, Manuel, \"México y sus gobernantes\", v. 2. Mexico City: Joaquín Porrúa, 1984. - Orozco Linares, Fernando, \"Gobernantes de México\". Mexico City: Panorama Editorial, 1985,.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ahmed Mumin Warfa.
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"title": "Ahmed Mumin Warfa",
"text": "<s>Ahmed Mumin Warfa Ahmed Mumin Warfa (, ) was a Somali scientist specializing in botany, who with his colleague Mats Thulin discovered \"Cyclamen somalense\". He served as president (rector) of the Zamzam University of Science and Technology from 2020 until his death.</s><s>Biography.</s><s>Biography.:Somalia. Warfa was a professor at the Somali National University, where he taught biology and agriculture. He also regularly conducted research with colleagues in Somalia, where he jointly discovered several endemic species, notably in the northeastern Bari region. With the outbreak of the civil war in 1991 and the closure of the university, Ahmed became a peacemaker, working as a translator for the United Nations and setting up councils for the reconciliation process in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His efforts brought him into conflict with several local militia leaders. In 1994, he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. His children are Sumaya Mumin, Ismail Mumin, Daud Ahmed Mumin, Hibo Mumin, Farah Mumin, Mohamed Mumin, Aisha Mumin, Yusuf Mumin, Dahir Mumin, Halima Mumin, Fadumo Mumin, and Fadumo Mumin."
},
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"title": "Ahmed Mumin Warfa",
"text": "</s><s>Biography.:United States. Warfa subsequently left Somalia for Nairobi, Kenya, from where he then emigrated to the United States, where he taught biology at Salt Lake Community College and Brigham Young University in Utah. He continued to attend conferences on herbology as a keynote speaker or contributor. Warfa was also actively involved in the affairs of Somalia and the Somali diaspora, whether as a reconciliator working for the UN and the Somali President or as an activist raising funds for projects such as Hiiraan University.</s><s>Biography.:Back to Somalia. In 2020, Warfa returned to Mogadishu to serve as rector of the Zamzam University of Science and Technology. Professor Warfa died of complications from COVID-19 on 15 March 2021 in Mogadishu.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Geraldo de Barros.
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": "<s>Geraldo de Barros Geraldo de Barros (February 27, 1923 – April 17, 1998) was a Brazilian painter and photographer who also worked in engraving, graphic arts, and industrial design. He was a leader of the concrete art movement in Brazil, co-founding Grupo Ruptura and was known for his trailblazing work in experimental abstract photography and modernism. According to \"The Guardian,\" De Barros was \"one of the most influential Brazilian artists of the 20th century.\" De Barros is best known for his \"Fotoformas\" (1946-1952), a series of photographs that used multiple exposures, rotated images, and abstracted forms to capture a phenomenological experience of Brazil's exponential urbanization in the mid-twentieth century.</s><s>Early life and education. De Barros was born in the city Chavantes, in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. When he was 16 years old, De Barros began taking pictures using a homemade camera that he built himself. At the time he was interested in experimenting with scratching and manipulating the negatives and images. From 1945 to 1947, De Barros studied drawing and painting with Clóvis Graciano, Collete Pujol"
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": ", and Yoshioka Takaoka, with a focus on figurative and landscape painting. He moved into the world of abstraction and studied European abstract constructivism and art of the 1920s and 1930s. He was particularly influenced by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg and the De Stijl movement. In 1946, De Barros began studying painting at the Associaçião Paulista de Belas Artes.</s><s>Career. For many years De Barros supported himself by working at Banco do Brasil. In 1946 and 1947, De Barros began to explore photography. In 1948, he co-founded Grupo XV, which was a collective of mostly Japanese painters interested in exploring post-impressionist art. In 1948, De Barros was introduced to the concepts of Gestalt theory, where he focused heavily on form, by the critic Mário Pedrosa. He was also influenced at the time by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and the Bauhaus movement in relation to industrial design. In 1949, he started a photography lab with his friend Athaíde de Barros and Thomaz Farkas, and, with the intention of deepening his knowledge, he joined the Foto Cine"
},
{
"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": " Clube Bandeirante in São Paulo, a group of artists who focused on pictorialism. Artists in this group included German Lorca, José Yalenti, Thomaz Farkas, among others. During this time, De Barros studied photographic experimental practices from Europe and United States in the work of Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray. In 1949, De Barros began teaching and organized the photography laboratory of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP). In 1950, De Barros held \"Fotoformas\" at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, an exhibition which represented a new era in the process of photography in Brazil. The title was influenced by Gestalt theory. In 1951, received a scholarship from the French government, and taking a one-year leave from his job at Banco do Brasil, he went to Paris to study lithography at the National Superior School of Fine Arts and engraving at Stanley William Hayter's atelier. He went on to attend the Ulm School of Design in Ulm, Germany, where he studied graphic arts with Otl Aicher and met Max Bill. At this point he abandoned his work in photography to focus on concrete art. In"
},
{
"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": " 1952, De Barros co-founded Grupo Ruptura with Judith Lauand, Luiz Sacilotto, Lothar Charoux, Waldemar Cordeiro, among others. He was involved in writing the manifesto that outlined abstract and concrete art. De Barros founded the photography group called Escola Paulista. In 1954, De Barros founded with Frei João Batista a cooperative furniture design company called Unilabor, which was successful and allowed him to leave his job at Banco do Brasil. In 1964, De Barros went on to found in association with Aloísio Bione another furniture design company called Hobjeto. Both Unilabor and Hobjeto went bankrupt due to the political instability and economic hardship of the time. In the 1960s, De Barros worked with Nelson Leirner, putting on pop art events, often including outdoor advertisements that had been removed, re-worked, and replaced in the street. In 1966, De Barros, founded Galeria Rex with Carlos Fajardo, Frederico Nasser, José Rezende Filho, Nelson Leiner, and Wesley Duke Lee as an experiment in the art market and selling art. Although the gallery closed after a year, the Grupo"
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": " Rex and the work of the group continued for over 12 years. In 1977, De Barros returned to geometric art and concepts of concrete art, using Formica as his base material in further exploring industrial design. Geraldo abandoned photography for over 30 years, devoting himself to focus on arts and design. In 1996, his daughter put together an exhibit of photographs from his archive that was held at Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, which led to an interest in De Barros' early work in photography. In 1996, after suffering several brain ischemia and with his motor functions totally debilitated, he resumed working in photography, and with the help of his assistant, the photographer Ana Moraes, made a last series of 250 works called \"Sobras.\" It wasn't until 1998 that De Barros' work was exhibited in the United States, at Sicardi-Sanders Gallery in Houston, Texas.</s><s>Death. De Barros died on April 17, 1998, in São Paulo at the age of 75.</s><s>Legacy. Following his death, the legacy of De Barros' work led to an increased coverage and academic and art history-based awareness of his importance and impact as a central figure in"
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": " Brazil's recent art history. Retrospectives were held in Europe and North America.</s><s>Documentary. In 1999, a documentary on De Barros directed by Michel Favre called \"Geraldo de Barros: Sobras em Obras\" was released. The film was produced by De Barros' daughter, Fabiana de Barros.</s><s>Awards. - 1952: Forth Centenary of the São Paulo City, Brazil, First Prize for Graphic Design - 1953: II Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, Acquisition Award - 1967: IX Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil, Acquisition Award - 1991: XXI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil, Second Prize</s><s>Selected exhibitions.</s><s>Selected exhibitions.:Selected group exhibitions. - 1951: I Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 1953: II Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 1955: \"Incisioni e disegni Brasíliani,\" Villa Ciani (Lugano) - 1956: XXVIII Biennale di Venezia (Venice) - 1960"
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": ": \"konkrete kunst. 50 jahre entwicklung,\" Helmhaus (Zurich) – traveling exhibition - 1967: IX Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 1967: \"Nova objectividade brasileira,\" Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) - 1977: Projeto construtivo brasileiro na arte - 1950–1962: Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 1979: XV Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 1986: XLII Biennale di Venezia (Venice) - 1991: XXI Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 1992: \"Brasilien. Entdeckung und Selbstentdeckung,\" Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich) - 1999: \"Brasilianische Fotografie 1946–1998. Labirinto e Identidades,\" Kunstmuseum"
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": " Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg) - 2000: \"Heterotopías. Medio siglo sin lugar. 1918–1968,\" Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid) - 2000: \"Século 20. Arte do Brasil,\" Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão (Lisbon) - 2000–2002: \"Brasil 1920–1950. De la antropofagia a Brasília,\" Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Centre Julio González (Valencia); Museu de Arte Brasileira (São Paulo) - 2002: \"Grupo Ruptura. Arte concreta paulista. Revisitando a exposição inaugural,\" Centro Universitário Maria Antonia da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo) - 2003: \"Cuasi-corpus. Arte concreto y neoconcreto de Brasil,\" Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City);"
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": " Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Monterrey) - 2006: \"Cruce de miradas. Visiones de América Latina. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros,\" Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City) - 2006: \"The Sites of Latin American Abstraction,\" Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, Florida) – traveling exhibition - 2007: \"Desenho construtivista brasileiro,\" Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) - 2007: \"The Geometry of Hope. Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,\" Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas); Grey Art Gallery, New York University (New York) - 2007-08: \"New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions,\" Museum of Modern Art (New York) – November 21, 2007 – February 25, 2008 - 2008: \"Diálogo concreto – Design e construtivismo no Brasil,\" Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro) - 2009: \""
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": "Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante. 70 Anos,\" Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo) - 2009: \"Experimentaciones. La experiencia concreta y neoconcreta en la fotografía brasileña,\" Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Parque Forestal y Espacio ArteAbierto de Fundación Itaú (Santiago) – traveling exhibition - 2010: \"Moderna para sempre. Fotografia modernista brasileira na Coleção Itaú,\" Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli (Porto Alegre) - 2010: \"Vibración. Moderne Kunst aus Lateinamerika. The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection,\" Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn) - 2010: \"Constructive Spirit. Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s,\" Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey); Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, Texas)</s><s>Selected exhibitions.:Selected solo exhibitions. - 1950: \"Fotoformas,\" Museu de Arte de São Paulo Ass"
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": "is Chateaubriand (São Paulo) - 1965: Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires) [catalogue] - 1976: \"12 anos de pintura, 1964 a 1976,\" Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo (São Paulo) [catalogue] - 1987: Tschudi Galerie (Glarus, Switzerland) [brochure] - 1993: \"Peintre et photographe,\" Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne) - 1994: \"Fotógrafo,\" Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo) [catalogue] - 1996: \"Precursor,\" Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro) [catalogue] - 1999: MMA Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) [catalogue] - 1999–2000: \"Fotoformas,\" Museum Ludwig (Cologne); SESC Pompéia (São Paulo); Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne) [catalogue] - 2001: \"Geraldo de Barros and Lygia Pape,\" Americas Society ("
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": "New York) [catalogue] - 2005: \"Javier Pérez. Geraldo de Barros,\" Galerie Guy Bärtschi (Geneva) - 2006: \"Fotoformas. Fotografías – Photographies,\" Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo) [catalogue] - 2008: \"Free, Freed and Freeing,\" Sicardi Gallery (Houston, Texas) [catalogue] - 2013: \"Fotoformas\" / \"Sobras,\" The Photographers' Gallery (London)</s><s>Selected works. - (1949) - (1949) - (1949) - (1949) - \"Mouvement giratoire\" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1949) - \"São Paulo, Brazil, Neg. 50\" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1949) - (1948–50) - (1952) - \"Concreto\" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1953) - \"Cartaz para o IV Centenário de São Paulo\" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1954)</s><s>Selected works and publications. - – 5"
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": ". September bis 10. Oktober 1987, Galerie Tschudi, Glarus - – Catálogo de exposição 25 de janeiro a 24 de março de 1996 - – Published on the occasion of the exhibition \"Geraldo de Barros: Fotoformas,\" held at Museum Ludwig, Köln, (26.8.1999 - 25.1.2000); SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, (3.11.-3.12.1999); Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne (July-Sept. 2000) - – Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Americas Society as part of \"Forma: Brazil series\" held from March 20-May 6, 2001 - - – Published on the occasion of the exhibition, \"Geraldo de Barros,\" which took place at the Sicard Gallery in Houston Texas from May 28-July 5, 2008 - – Published on the occasion of the exhibition \"Geraldo de Barros: What Remains,\" held at the Photographers' Gallery, London, 17 January - 7 September 2013 - – Published on the occasion of the exhibition \"Geraldo de Barros: J"
},
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"title": "Geraldo de Barros",
"text": "ogos de Dados e Sobras (1980-1990)\" held 11 July - 8 Sept., 2013 at Sesc Vila Mariana in São Paulo</s><s>Further reading. - - - - - - - - - - -</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Marcel Hernández.
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"title": "Marcel Hernández",
"text": "<s>Marcel Hernández Marcel Hernández Campanioni (born 11 July 1989) is a Cuban professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Costa Rican club Cartaginés and the Cuba national team.</s><s>Club career.</s><s>Club career.:Barcelona Atlético. On 10 January 2017. Hernández signed with the new champion team of Liga Dominicana de Fútbol side Barcelona Atlético.</s><s>Club career.:Cibao. Before failing to join the Football Superleague of Kosovo side Trepça'89, he joined Liga Dominicana de Fútbol side Cibao.</s><s>Club career.:Cibao.:Failure to join with Trepça'89. On 23 December 2017. Hernández joined Football Superleague of Kosovo side Trepça'89, but because of some bureaucratic problems it could not join with Trepça'89 even though it is registered by Football Federation of Kosovo as Trepça'89 player and it is expected that during the summer transfer window to join the team.</s><s>International career.</s><s>International career.:Under-23. On 25 June 2011. Hernández making his debut with Cuba"
},
{
"title": "Marcel Hernández",
"text": " U23 in a 2012 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification match against Aruba U23 after being named in the starting line-up and scoring two goals during a 7–0 home win.</s><s>International career.:Senior. On 10 November 2010. Hernández made his debut with Cuba in a 2010 Caribbean Cup qualification match against Dominica after being named in the starting line-up and scoring one goal during a 4–2 home win. He represented his country in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches On 6 November 2013, he announced his retirement from international football after not was named as part of the Cuba squad for 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.</s><s>Honours. Alajuelense - CONCACAF League: 2020 Cuba - Caribbean Cup: 2012 Individual - Liga FPD Top Scorer: Apertura 2020</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Zewde Gebre-Sellassie.
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"title": "Zewde Gebre-Sellassie",
"text": "<s>Zewde Gebre-Sellassie \"Dejazmatch\" Zewde Gebre-Sellassie (12 October 1926 – 15 December 2008) was a prominent nobleman, historian, and former deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia. He was born in the village of Galdu, in the subdistrict of Mecca, to the north-west of Addis Ababa where his father was relegated.</s><s>Early life. Zewde's father was \"Dejazmatch\" Gebre Selassie Baria Gabr (governor of Adwa) and his mother was \"Leult\" Wolete Israel Seyoum. His sister was \"Leult\" Ijigayehou Asfa Wossen, his grandfather was \"Ras\" Seyum Mengesha, and his wife was \"Woizero\" Alem Tsehai Araya. He received his rudimentary education in Addis Ababa under a tutor, and went to school in Jerusalem and Cairo respectively where his mother stayed during the Fascist occupation of Ethiopia. After the liberation, he enrolled at the Haile Selassie I secondary school in Addis Ababa and subsequently joined the University of Exeter, England, where he"
},
{
"title": "Zewde Gebre-Sellassie",
"text": " studied English literature. This was followed by legal training at St. Anthony's College, Oxford where he became a senior member of the college from 1963 to 1971, at the conclusion of which he was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, London. After a long interval, during which he held various public offices in Ethiopia, he returned to Oxford and earned his PhD in the composite field of history, politics and economics.</s><s>Career. After his return home in the early 1950s, he held various offices, including that of deputy prime minister. Under the imperial government he held the following positions: - Economic attache, later Head of Press, Information and Administration Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1951–53 - Director-General of Maritime Affairs, 1953–55 - Deputy Minister, Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Civil Aviation, 1955–57 - Mayor and Governor of Addis Ababa, 1957–59 - Ambassador to Somalia, 1959–60 - Minister of Justice, 1961–63 - Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1972–74 - Minister of the Interior, March–May 1974 - Minister of Foreign Affairs, May–November 1974 In November 1974, the Provisional Military Administrative Council's (Derg) summary execution of high government officials of the previous"
},
{
"title": "Zewde Gebre-Sellassie",
"text": " regime forced Zewde to go into exile. He eventually became vice-president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and subsequently worked for several years as advisor to the secretariat of the United Nations. Throughout his service, he received national honors from at least seven sovereign states, including the Federal Republic of Germany. Together with some other prominent Ethiopians, he attempted to mediate between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998.</s><s>Legacy. Scholars of African history often compare the passing away of a knowledgeable person to a library consumed by conflagration. That is precisely what happened when the Ethiopian luminary, Dr. \"Dejazmatch\" Zewde Gebre-Sellassie, died of illness in Addis Ababa on 15 December 2008. He harmoniously combined oral tradition with profound western education, readily availing of them to any academic who sought his assistance. His popularity among people from all walks of life was immense. His funeral, which took place at the patriotic cemetery of the Trinity Cathedral, was attended by a huge crowd of mourners. The lawyer \"Ato\" Tasoma Gebre Mariam, who delivered the eulogy, praised him for his contribution to the various Ethiopian codes of law. A week-long exhibition"
},
{
"title": "Zewde Gebre-Sellassie",
"text": " of Zewde’s works and photos, accompanied by speeches by scholars and family members, was held in his memory at the main campus of Addis Ababa University.</s><s>Publications. - - \"The Conflict of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Causes and Solutions\" (Amharic) - -</s><s>References.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Mohamed Abdi Mohamed.
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"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": "<s>Mohamed Abdi Mohamed Mohamed Abdi Mohamed (Gandhi) (, ; 1949 – 18 April 2021) was a Somali geologist, anthropologist, historian and politician. He was the former Minister of Defense of Somalia, and the former President of Azania (Jubbaland). In July 2014, Gandhi was appointed Somalia's Ambassador to Canada.</s><s>Biography. Professor Mohamed Abdi Xaji-Mohamed, nicknamed \"Gandhi\", was a candidate for Somali president 2021. He was a Somali politician, scholar, writer & double Ph.D., holder. He served as a Somali member of Parliament since 2009. Professor Gandhi previously served as a Defense Secretary and Minister of Air and Transportation in the Somali Transitional Federal Government. From childhood, Mohamed was a great student and managed to memorize the Koran at an early age. He excelled in his elementary schooling as well. He was accepted to the most prestigious high school at the time, Jamal Abdelnazer High School, in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, where he graduated as an honor student in 1970. He was one of the top students in his high school and the entire country for that year and was awarded a full scholarship to go to France for higher education. He arrived in"
},
{
"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": " France in October 1972 to attend Besançon University. There he majored in geology and graduated with a B. A. in September 1976. He continued to acquire his Master of Science in Geology in 1979. He obtained his Ph.D. in applied geology in June 1983. The title of his thesis was \"Study of Geology and Hydrogeology of the Central Somalia Basin (Somali Democratic Republic)\". After graduation, Gandhi started lecturing at the same university. Prof. Gandhi pursued another major (history and civilization of antiquity) and received his second Ph.D. in 1990. Through that decade, the professor continued lecturing at the University of Besançon, France. Prof. Gandhi received his Certificate in Anthropology of Space, March 1992, at the University of New Lisbon, in Portugal under the Erasmus exchange. In addition to that, he received a Higher Degree in Research (HDR) from Besançon University in Besançon, France. Prof. Gandhi was awarded an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the French Academy, and served as a senior program advisor of UNDP Somalia in Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR). Prof. Mohamed Abdi"
},
{
"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": " Gandhi was an active participant in the Somali peace process and was a Lead Consultant in Mapping the Somali Civil Society. He chaired the Technical Committee at the Arta Somali Peace process in Arta, Djibouti, and Somali Peace and Reconciliation Conference held in Kenya. Mohamed Abdi Mohamed was an accomplished author; he has published 12 books and more than 50 scientific articles in various academic journals. He has also edited three studies. Gandhi recently announced that he would be contesting the upcoming President Election 2021 in Somalia.</s><s>Biography.:Professional activities. During his studies in France, Prof. Gandhi returned every year in Somalia to teach and support as a Professor in the Departments of History and Geology at the University of Mogadishu. Since 1987 Professor was a consultant to the National Museum of Somalia (since 1988), which he had set the task of identifying and classifying ancient manuscripts (especially those held by the Sheikhs and clan leaders) to build a directory of literary (oral or written) and objects of art. Prof. Gandhi was the co-founding member of the Association Somali Peace Line, Paris, 1996. Prof. Gandhi worked as a consultant to \"Doctors Without Borders\" from Switzerland, Spain, and other international organizations between Jan 2006"
},
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"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": "-Feb 2007, where they built schools and training centers for nurses' clinics in Kulbiyoow, Lower Jubba, and the surrounding area where his beloved mother was born. Besides, Professor Gandhi built a mosque and education center for the midwife-nurse clinic to remember his beloved mother. Professor Gandhi worked as Consultant Expert to UNESCO between 1995 and 1998, where he wrote many books and articles, including: - Somali Translation of Poems for a Poetry of Anthology of African sub-Saharan Africa, published in 1995 under the direction of Bernard Magnier who was conducting an inventory of intellectuals and nongovernmental organizations Somali opening for peace in Somalia published 10/25/1995. - \"How to involve women in the Somali peace process,\" Program for Culture of Peace, UNESCO published 1998. - \"Women and the Somali Peace\" Program for Culture of Peace, UNESCO published 1998. - \"Dictionary of the People\", companies from Africa, America, Asia and Oceania, under the direction of Jean-Christophe Tamisier, and Larousse-Bordas, 1998. Professor Gandhi was an Associate Member of the Institute of Science and Techniques of the Ancient World (ISTA), CNRS, ESA 6048 (since 1992), he was"
},
{
"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": " still a supervisor of the research. Prof. Gandhi worked as Research Officer 1st Class March 1999-February 2001 IRD: at the Institute of Development Research (formerly ORSTOM). Gandhi was the Technical Committee Chairman for the Conference for Peace held at Arta in Djibouti (Republic of Djibouti), from March to September 2000. - Consultant for UNOPS, Somali Civil Protection Program 2001 and consultant advisor to the UNDP. Senior Program Advisor, SCPP, UNDP, 2002. - Principal Consultant Mapping of Somali Civil Society Organizations, NOVIB, Somalia, 2002. - Representative of civil society in the peace process in El-Doret and Nairobi (Kenya), October 2002 to November 2004. Administrative activities: Creation of \"Somali Studies\" in France and Europe edition of collected works. Co-founding member of the French Association of Somali Studies (established 1986) and the European Association of Somali Studies (established 1990). To bring together researchers \"Somaliazation\" Europe, these associations have organized several seminars and cultural events. Professor Gandhi was responsible for preparing the following events: The first conference of Somali Studies, Paris, IMA, 11–13 July 1988 in collaboration with Mrs. Danièle"
},
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"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": " Kintz and Mr. Osman Omar Rabah; Second Conference of Somali Studies, Besançon, 8–11 October 1990 and accompanying exhibitions (Dole and Besançon); Forum: \"The civil war in Somalia: When and How? Why?\", Paris, IMA, 7–8 April 1992; Forum: \"Peace and Reconciliation in Somalia,\" Paris, IMA, 15–17 April 1993; Congress of Somali Studies on the theme \"For a Culture of Peace in Somalia,\" Paris, 25–27 October 1995. During his time as a Defense Minister, Professor Gandhi organized and held a meeting in Washington, D.C. that he aimed to bring together former high-ranking officers from the military, police, custodial and intelligence services for in-depth discussions on both the historical background of the Somali security forces and on the re-establishment and the strengthening of the capacity of the security sector institutions in Somalia. He proposed a 36 thousand strong army led by former Somali senior military to revive the Somali nationhood.</s><s>Political career.</s><s>Political career.:Minister of Defense. On February 21, 2009, Gandhi was appointed Somalia's Minister of Defense by the nation's then head of government, Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid"
},
{
"title": "Mohamed Abdi Mohamed",
"text": " Ali Sharmarke. He held the position until November 10, 2010.</s><s>Political career.:President of Azania. On April 3, 2011, the establishment of a new autonomous region in southern Somalia was announced. Referred to as \"Azania\" (formerly Jubaland), the nascent polity was led by Gandhi, who was serving as its first President. According to President Gandhi, \"Azania\" was selected as the name for the new administration because of its historical importance, as \"Azania was a name given to Somalia more than 2,500 years ago and it was given by Egyptian sailors who used to get a lot of food reserves from the Somali Coast[...] Its origin is [an] Arabic word meaning the land of plenty.\" Gandhi's first stated policy initiative was to remove the Al Shabaab group of militants from the territory. Gandhi held President of Jubaland's position until May 15, 2013, when Ahmed Mohamed Islam was elected to the office.</s><s>Political career.:Ambassador of Somalia to Canada. In July 2014, Gandhi was appointed Somalia's new Ambassador to Canada. The first such envoy in over two decades, he headed the Somali federal government's reopened embassy in Ottawa, Ontario.</s><s>References. - National Civic Forum Founders"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Shaolin (humorist).
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"title": "Shaolin (humorist)",
"text": "<s>Shaolin (humorist) Francisco Jozenilton Veloso (8 May 1971 – 14 January 2016), better known by his pseudonym and stage name Shaolin, was a Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, humorist, comedian and media presenter.</s><s>Biography. He was born in Coremas, Paraíba. He started his career at the \"Teatro Municipal Severino Cabral\" in Campina Grande. He also worked as a presenter on \"Rádio Campina Grande\" and drew cartoons for the newspapers \"A Palavra\", \"Jornal da Paraíba\" and \"Revista Nordeste\".</s><s>Shows. His best-known shows are \"Domingão do Faustão\", \"Show do Tom\"; and most recently \"Tudo è Possível\" (\"All is possible\") with Ana Hickmann, in which he satirized Brazilian celebrities, for example Leonardo, Joelma (singer in the duo Banda Calypso) and.</s><s>Accident. On 19 January 2011, Shaolin was seriously injured in a traffic accident when his car collided with a truck in Campina Grande on the highway BR-230. Until May he remained in a coma in intensive"
},
{
"title": "Shaolin (humorist)",
"text": " care, and then left hospital to go home although he had not recovered from his injuries. In September 2012 he began communicating again using movements of his eyelid helped by a machine.</s><s>Family. In December 1994 he married Laudiceia Veloso, with whom he had two children.</s><s>Death. On 14 January 2016, Shaolin died following a myocardial infarction.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Jesse Chacón.
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"title": "Jesse Chacón",
"text": "<s>Jesse Chacón Jesse Alonso Chacón Escamillo (born 9 November 1965) is a Venezuelan politician, engineer, and former military officer. Chacón participated in the November 1992 coup attempt the second attempted coup of that year, when he took part in the occupation of the station of the state television station channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), where several workers of the station were killed. Two years after the coup, he was pardoned by president Rafael Caldera. During Hugo Chávez's tenure, he served in many high ranking positions, such as minister of communications, minister of interior and justice and minister of electric power.</s><s>Education. Jesse Chacón graduated from the Military Academy in 1987 obtaining a degree in Military Arts In 1996 he received his degree in systems engineering from the Polytechnic University of the National Armed Forces (UNEFA). He also completed a postgraduate study in Telematics at the National Institute of Telecommunications in France and the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas. While holding the rank of lieutenant he participated in the coup d' etat on 27 November 1992 in Venezuela, which followed the coup in February 1992 earlier that year against the government of President Carlos Andrés Pé"
},
{
"title": "Jesse Chacón",
"text": "rez. He took part in the occupation of the station of the state television station channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), where several workers of the station were killed. A military tribunal sentenced him of 22 years of imprisonment, but two years after the coup president Rafael Caldera pardoned the soldiers involved.</s><s>Public functions. Chacón was born on 9 November 1965 and studied Military Art and Sciences at the Military Academy of Venezuela (the 'Instituto Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional', or Polytechnic Institute of the National Armed Forces). As a lieutenant in the military, he participated in the November 1992 attempted coup (the second attempted coup of that year), for which he spent time in jail. He participated in the occupation of the station of the state television station channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), where several workers of the station were killed. In 1999 Chacón worked at the General Administration of Operations of the National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel) coordinating the working teams that prepared the Organic Law on Telecommunications and the National Plan of Telecommunications. In May 2001 he was appointed General Director of Conatel..In July 2003 Jesse Chacón was appointed as the"
},
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"title": "Jesse Chacón",
"text": " first Minister of Communications. He was Director of Communications for the option of “No” in the campaign for the recall referendum in 2004. Chacon acted as Minister of Interior and Justice between 2004 to January 2007, under the presidency of Hugo Chávez. While in this post he achieved the creation of the National Commission on Police Reform (CONAREPOL). On January 9, 2007 Chacón was appointed as Minister of Telecommunications and Informatics. During his administration the Venezuelan State could nationalize the provider company of phone and internet services CANTV, He presided over the closure of television broadcaster RCTV. In January 2008 Jesse Chacón was appointed Minister of the Secretariat of the Presidency, where he supported the administration of president Hugo Chávez. He held the post of Minister of Communications again between December 2008 and April 2009, which was named at the time Ministry of the People's Power for Communication and Information (MINCI). Chacón was the head of Publicity and Propaganda of the Socialist United Party of Venezuela for the option “YES” in the campaign for the constitutional amendment. In April 2009 Chacón is appointed as Minister for Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries until December 6, 2009. He submitted his resignation after the arrest"
},
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"title": "Jesse Chacón",
"text": " of his brother Arné Chacón for his alleged links with an investigation started after the intervention of seven financial institutions in Venezuela. In April 2013, Jesse Chacón is appointed as Minister of Electric Power. By the end of 2015 President Nicolás Maduro appointed Jesse Chacón as ambassador in Austria.</s><s>See also. - Cabinet of Hugo Chávez</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan.
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": "<s>Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan () (born January 1928, died 22 June 2022) was a veteran Sudanese politician who was a member of parliament, a government minister and diplomat.Hassan, Abdullahi. \"From Sea to Sea..But Any Goals?\" Saudi Research & Publishing Company (SRPC), 10 July 2003. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.aawsat.com/leader.asp%3Fsection%3D3%26article%3D180918%26issueno%3D8990&ei=LhbfTOacKYq4sAPZj6z5Cg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522%25D8%25B9%25D8%25A8%25D8%25AF%2B%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%2584%25"
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": "D9%2587%2B%25D9%2585%25D8%25AD%25D9%2585%25D8%25AF%2B%25D8%25A3%25D8%25AD%25D9%2585%25D8%25AF%2B%25D8%25AD%25D8%25B3%25D9%2586%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DmLk%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Div. Originally in Arabic.</s><s>Biography. Abdullahi was born in 1928 in the town of Barah in the state of North Kurdufan in Sudan. His family later moved and settled in Al-Ubayyid. At an early age he was sent to a Koranic school () after which he followed the British education system in implementation by the British at the time. In 1947 he joined the newly established Hantoub Secondary School () and later went on to study at and graduate in May 1955 from the Faculty of"
},
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": " Arts at the University College of Khartoum. After graduating he was posted as a history teacher in the town of Tonj in the south of Sudan. In August 1955 he was re-posted to as a history teacher at Khour Taqatt Secondary School () just weeks before the first uprising of the Anyanya Movement in the South. In August 1958 he resigned his post as a teacher and moved to Khartoum where he started his business in commercial advertisements and feasibility studies. At this time he also carried out some journalism work for the two biggest newspapers at the time (\"Al-Umma\" and \"Al-Nile\"). In 1958 he opposed the new military government of General Aboud who seized power in a coup d'état. He was politically intimidated by the new government in Khartoum and his newly formed business suffered as a result. An opportunity arose in 1959 when he was approached by a local committee from Al-Ubayyid requesting him to establish and run an intermediate level school. He moved to Al-Ubayyid and establish Kurdufan Ahliya Intermdiate School () and ran it as its headmaster. He was approached in 1961 by Alsayeed Sidique Abdulrahman Almahadi to take charge"
},
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": " and run the Almahadi Intermediate School for Girls () in Omdurman. He took charge of the school the same year and overhauled it to become one of the most sought-after schools in the city. He resigned from the school in 1963 because of tensions with the head of the school board over the way financial funds were released by the board and over his strict discipline rules. After resigning he worked for the American Embassy until 1964 as their chief translator.</s><s>Political career. Abdullahi grew up in a Sudan that was under the occupation of the British Empire and from a young age joined in the sentiments of the youth that was disgruntled by the occupation, and was calling for the withdrawal of the British from Sudan. In March 1949 Babikir Karrar Al-Nour (), Mohammad Yousif Mohammad (), Mohammad Mohammad Ali (), Adam Fadl-Allah () and Yousif Hassan Said () established the Islamic Liberation Movement () at the University of Khartoum. The goal of the movement was to liberate Sudan from British occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the country. Babikr Karar Al-Nour was a former and a very active and popular student at Hantoob Secondary School. After the establishment of the movement, and in"
},
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": " June 1949, Karrar visited Hantoob Secondary School to canvass for members for his movement. Abdullahi was one of the 30 students who joined the movement that day. Before the establishment of the Islamic Liberation Movement, the Communist Party had a strong hold on the student union at the university and among the secondary schools in Sudan. Abdullahi joined the university in 1951, in 1952 the Islamic Liberation Movement won the student union election. Abdudllahi was a major recruitment driver for the movement and managed to recruit Hassan Al-Turabi, Mohammad Suar Aldahab, Ibrahim Abou Hasaneen, and Abdalhameed Abdalmajid. In 1954, Sudan politics was at a crossroads between the union of Sudan with Egypt or complete independence. In 1954 two main political bodies were formed and later became a member of the Umma Party. Sudan officially achieved its independence in 1956; the first prime minister was Ismail al-Azhari and later on Abdallah Khalil. The democratic government was overthrown in a coup d'état by Ibrahim Abboud in 1958. Abdullahi joined the ranks of the opposition and in 1964 the students of the University of Khartoum, the civil servants and transport workers staged demonstrations and acts of"
},
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": " civil disobedience that forced the government of Ibrahim Abboud to resign. Abdullahi was elected a second time as a Member of Parliament in the second Sudanese democracy under the leadership of al-Azhari, and the government of al-Azhari was overthrown in 1969 by Gaafar Nimeiry. Abdullahi again joined the opposition under the leadership of Sadiq al-Mahdi and was exiled to Saudi Arabia but later on moved to the United Kingdom. He returned to Sudan in 1979 after a National Reconciliation took place between the leaders of the opposition and Nimeiry. Upon his return to Sudan he was appointed in the newly established office that overlooked the affairs of the Ansar (). In 1984 Abdullahi was among the few politicians who Nimeiry arrested and imprisoned in Kober Prison until 6 April 1985 when Nimeiry was ousted by Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab. Swar Al-Dahab called upon the political parties to reform and elections took place a year later in 1986. Abdullahi was elected for the third time as a Member of Parliament representing the Umma Party. In 1986 the Umma Party won the election but did not have the majority vote to have full control of the government. Sadiq al-Mahdi"
},
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"title": "Abdullahi Mohammad Ahmad Hassan",
"text": " was elected the Prime Minister, after which he formed a coalition government. Abdullahi was appointed as Minister of Culture and Information and was the official spokesman for the government. Political turmoil brought the first reshuffle of the government and Abdullahi was appointed as Minister of Foreign Trade. The government was reshuffled a second time and he was appointed as Councilor and Advisor to the Prime Minister. The unstable coalition government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi was ousted by Omar Al-Bashir in a bloodless military coup on 30 June 1989. Abdullahi was arrested and imprisoned in Kober Prison but later released and was put under house arrest. Later he was appointed by Al-Bashir as Minister of Education, Culture and Information and the Official Government Spokesman and deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and later appointed as ambassador of the Sudan to Italy, Spain, Greece and San Marino. During his time as ambassador he continually disagreed with the government and in 1995 was instructed to return indefinitely to the Sudan. He chose to travel to the UK where he became a political observer, analyst, lecturer, author and columnist. He lives in London but often spends time in Sudan.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Roxana Miranda.
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"title": "Roxana Miranda",
"text": "<s>Roxana Miranda Roxana del Pilar Miranda Meneses (born 24 April 1967) is a Chilean activist and politician, candidate for President of Chile for the 2013 election, representing the Partido Igualdad.</s><s>Biography. Miranda was born in Buin on 24 April 1967, to Francisco Miranda Araya, municipal worker, and Orfilia de las Mercedes Meneses Roa, seamstress. Her father died when she was six years old. She completed her secondary studies at the Liceo Comercial de San Bernardo, where she also held positions as student leader in the school's \"student council\". She married Iván Luis Vargas García in San Bernardo on 10 January 1994. The couple have four children.</s><s>Political career. Miranda has been involved with the Asociación de Deudores Habitacionales (Association of House Debtors, ANDHA Chile), as national leader of the organization, which in recent times has been renamed ANDHA Chile a Luchar Democrático. In 2009 she ran for a deputy seat representing the District No. 30; however, she lost the election, ending up in the seventh place, with 4,332 votes (2.85 per cent)."
},
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"title": "Roxana Miranda",
"text": " Miranda was a candidate for mayor of San Bernardo in 2008, as an independent, but lost the election, by only getting 3,558 votes (4.24%) out of 83,825. She ran again for the same position in the 2012 election, but obtained fewer votes than the previous municipal election (1,831 –2.77%– out of 65,944 votes). Later, she became president of the Partido Igualdad (Equality Party). She was proclaimed presidential candidate representing the party for the 2013 president election, on 20 January of that year. By the end of May of that year, it became known that the candidacies of Miranda and Marcel Claude were negotiating to \"unify themselves\" into only one candidacy, however, Miranda ruled out she was resigning her candidacy before the election. On 29 May 2013, Miranda gave the Electoral Service of Chile the requested signatures to legalize the Partido Igualdad, and as a consequence, formalizing her candidacy. Miranda presented, the last presidential candidate to do so, on 5 November 2013, which was centered in four areas related to social reforms. The 125-page document was introduced by Miranda Meneses \"with proud (...) to begin, through the next four years, the profound"
},
{
"title": "Roxana Miranda",
"text": " transformation of Chile,\" and described it as a \"plebeian program, of the people who wakes up and begins to organize itself to struggle for a better country\". The four main areas of Roxana Miranda's program were titled: \"Superación del capitalismo\" (Overcoming capitalism), \"Que el pueblo mande\" (Let the people rule), \"Recuperación de nuestros derechos\" (recovering our rights), and \"El buen vivir\" (Good living). She lost the election.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Chacho Gaytán.
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"title": "Chacho Gaytán",
"text": "<s>Chacho Gaytán Gonzalo \"Chacho\" Gaytán is a Mexican music composer, producer, musical arranger, musical director and conductor. He is best known for being the co-founder and keyboardist of the Mexican pop band Sentidos Opuestos, along with colleague Alessandra Rosaldo. He is also the brother of actress and singer Bibi Gaytan and brother-in-law of actor and singer Eduardo Capetillo.</s><s>Career. As a musical producer, he was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Latin Children's Album for \"Ellas Cantan a Cri-Cri\". As musical director, he is best known for his musical direction in \"West Side Story\" and for his musical arrangement, orchestration and conducting of orchestras in Mexico, having presented his work at The Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked with Fernando de la Mora, in concert with the Campeche Philharmonic Orchestra. Gaytán is the founder of Mexican jazz band, Manzana Jazz Band. He is currently director of Azteca Music, a TV network in Mexico. He is also a co-founder and the musical producer and director"
},
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"title": "Chacho Gaytán",
"text": " of \"MYST\".</s><s>Discography. - \"Un día después\" (2007)</s>"
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"entity": "Chacho Gaytán",
"frequency": "rare",
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Question: Tell me a bio of Fernando da Costa Novaes.
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"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": "<s>Fernando da Costa Novaes Fernando da Costa Novaes (April 6, 1927 – March 24, 2004) was a Brazilian ornithologist who worked on the Amazonian bird fauna.</s><s>Education. In 1971 he was granted his doctorate from the State University of São Paulo at Rio Claro, with the thesis \"Estudo ecológico das aves em uma área de vegetação secundária do baixo rio Amazonas, Estado do Pará\".</s><s>Career. Novaes was based at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, where he assembled the second largest bird skin and skeleton collection in Brazil. This collection has been renamed in his honor. His major contributions were in defining the Amazon region's faunal boundaries and affinities, as well as clarifying taxonomic problems. In 1954, Novaes was granted a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to study in the US, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, of the University of California at Berkeley, with the renowned ornithologist Alden H. Miller. Novaes's many publications are listed in the obituaries by O"
},
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"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": "ren and Silva. He is commemorated in the name of the Alagoas foliage-gleaner, \"Philydor novaesi\".</s><s>Selected publications. - \"Acta Amazonica\" - 1976: \"As aves do rio Aripuanã, Estado de Mato Grosso e Amazonas,\" 6(4): 61-85. - 1981: \"Área de Vertebrados do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi,\" 11(1): 183-188. - \"Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias\" - 1952: With J.M. Carvalho. \"A new species of Megninia from the roseate spoonbill (Analgesidae, Analgesinae),\" (1): 1-12. - 1961: \"Sobre Thamnophilus palliatus (Licht.), com especial referência ao leste do Brasil. (Formicariidae, Aves),\" 33(1): 111-117. - \"Anais da Sociedade Sul-Riograndense de Ornitologia\" - 1980: \"Observações sobre Proc"
},
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"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": "nias alba (Hermann), Araponga-branca,\" 1: 4-6. - 1981: \"Sobre algumas aves do litoral do Estado do Pará,\" 2: 5-8. - 1982: \"Observações sobre o comportamento de Thamnophilus amazonicus Sclater (Passeriformes, Formicariidae),\" 3: 1-5. - \"Ararajuba\" - 1991: With M.F.C. Lima. \"Variação geográfica e anotações sobre morfologia e biologia de Selenidera gouldii (Piciformes: Ramphastidae),\" 2: 59-63. - \"Arquivos de Zoologia\" - 1960: \"Sobre uma coleção de Aves do Sudeste do Estado do Pará,\" 11(6): 133-146. - \"The Auk\" - 1959: \"Quiscalus lugubris in Brasil,\" 76(2): 242. - \"Biological Conservation\" - 1986: With D.C. Oren."
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": " \"Observations on the Golden Parakeet Aratinga guarouba in Northern Brazil,\" 36: 329-337. - \"Boletim do Museu Nacional Zoologia\" - 1952: \"Algumas adendas à ornitologia de Goiás, Brasil,\" (117): 1-7. - \"Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi\" - 1957: \"Notas sobre a ecologia do bacurau Hydropsalis climaco¬cerca Tschudi (Caprimulgidae, Aves). Notas de ornitologia amazônica 1. Gêneros Formicarius e Phlegopsis,\" (8): 1-9. - 1957: With J.M. Carvalho. \"Observações sobre a nidificação de Glaucis hirsuta (Gmelin) (Trochilidae, Aves),\" (1): 1-12. - 1957: \"Contribuição à ornitologia do noroeste do Acre,\" (9): 1-30. - 1958: \"As aves e as"
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": " comunidades bióticas no alto rio Juruá, Território do Acre,\" (14): 1-13. - 1959: \"Variação geográfica e o problema da espécie nas aves do grupo Ramphocelus carbo,\" (22): 1-63. - 1963: \"Uma nova subespécie de Turdus ignobilis Sclater no Estado do Pará e sobre a ocorrência de Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis na região de Belém,\" (40): 1-4. - 1964: \"Uma nova raça geográfica de Piprites chloris (Temminck) do Estado do Pará (Pipridae, Aves),\" (47): 1-5. - 1965: \"Notas sobre algumas aves da Serra Parima, Território de Roraima (Brasil),\" (54): 1-10. - 1967: \"Sobre algumas aves pouco conhecidas na Amazônia bras"
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": "ileira,\" (64): 1-8. - 1969: \"Análise ecológica de uma avifauna da região do rio Acará, Estado do Pará,\" (69): 1-52. - 1970: \"Distribuição ecológica e abundância das aves em um trecho da mata do baixo rio Guamá (Estado do Pará),\" (71): 1-54. - 1978: \"Sobre algumas aves pouco conhecidas da Amazônia brasileira II,\" (90): 1-15. - 1980: \"Observações sobre a avifauna do alto curso do rio Paru de Leste, Estado do Pará,\" (100): 1-58. - 1981: \"A estrutura da espécie nos periquitos do gênero Pionites Heine (Psittacidae, Aves),\" (106): 1-21. - \"Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club\" - 1985: With D.C. Oren. \""
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": "A new subspecies of White Bellbird Procnias alba (Hermann) Southeastern Amazonia,\" 105(1): 23-25. - 1991: \"A new subspecies of Grey-cheeked Nunlet Nonnula ruficapilla from Brazilian Amazonia,\" 111(4): 187-188. - \"The Condor\" - 1959: \"Procellaria aequinoctialis on Amazon River in Brazil,\" 61(4): 299. - 1984: With P. Roth and D.C. Oren. \"The White Bellbird (Procnias alba) in the Serra dos Carajás, Southeastern Para, Brazil,\" 26: 343-344. - \"Goeldiana zoologia\" - 1992: \"Bird observations in the State of Piauí, Brazil,\" 17: 1-5. - \"Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia\" - 1961: \"Sobre as raças geográficas de Philydor rufus (Vieillot) no Brasil (Furnariidae, Aves),\" 14(24): 227-235. - \"Publicações Avulsas"
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": " do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi\" - 1973: With T. Pimentel. \"Observações sobre a avifauna dos Campos de Bragança, Estado do Pará,\" 20: 229-246. - 1973: \"Aves de uma vegetação secundária na foz do Amazonas,\" 21: 1-88. - 1974: \"Ornitologia do Território do Amapá I,\" 25: 1-121. - 1978: \"Ornitologia do Território do Amapá II,\" 29: 1-75. - \"Revista Brasileira de Biologia\" - 1949: \"Variação nos tucanos brasileiros do gênero Ramphastos L. (Ramphastidae, Piciformes),\" 9(3): 285-296. - 1950: \"Sobre as aves de Sernambetiba,\" 10(2): 199-208. - 1952: \"Resultados ornitológicos da \"Expedição João Alberto\" à ilha da Trindade,\" 12(2): 219-228."
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": " - 1952: With J.M. Carvalho. \"A new genus and species of feather mite (Pterolichinae, Analgesidae),\" 24(3): 303-306. - 1953: \"Sobre a validade de Syndactyla mirandae (Snethlage, 1928) (Furnariidae, Aves),\" 14(1): 75-76. - 1953: \"A new species of Neumanniella from the tataupa tinamou (Sarcoptiformes, Analgesidae),\" 13(2): 203-204. - 1953: \"A new race of tody-tyrant from southeastern Brasil (Tyrannidae, Aves),\" 13(3): 235-236. - 1960: \"Sobre Ramphotrigon megacephala (Swainson) (Tyrannidae, Aves),\" 20(2): 217-221. - 1960: \"As raças geográficas de Thamnophilus doliatus (Linnaeus) no Brasil. (Formicariidae, Aves),\" 20(4): 415-424. - 1961: \"Distribuição e"
},
{
"title": "Fernando da Costa Novaes",
"text": " diferenciação geográfica de Automolus leucopthalmus (Wied.) e Automolus infuscatus (Sclater) (Furnariidae, Aves),\" 21(2): 179-192. - 1968: \"Variação geográfica em Platyrinchus saturatus Salvin & Godman (Aves, Tyrannidae),\" 28(2): 115-119. - \"Revista Brasileira de Zoologia\" - 1991: With M.F.C. Lima. \"As aves do rio Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brasil,\" 7(3): 351-381. - \"Revista Científica\" - 1950: \"Sobre alguns termos da sistemática zoológica,\" 1(4): 10-14. - \"Summa Brasiliensis Biologiae\" - 1947: \"Notas sobre os Conopophagidae do Museu Nacional (Passeriformes, Aves),\" 1(13): 243-250.</s><s>References.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Flávio Rocha.
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"title": "Flávio Rocha",
"text": "<s>Flávio Rocha Flávio Gurgel Rocha (born 14 February 1958) is a Brazilian former federal deputy and businessman, current CEO and Chairman of Lojas Riachuelo, one of the largest retailers in the country.</s><s>Biography. Born on the 14th of February 1958, Flávio Rocha is the current CEO of apparel retailer Lojas Riachuelo and of its financial services subsidiary, Midway Financeira. His family also owns Confecções Guararapes, the group’s industrial company, as well as Transportadora Casa Verde, the Group's logistics subsidiary. Riachuelo is one of 15 biggest employers of the country, with over 40,000 employees (2017). In 1986, was elected federal deputy for Rio Grande do Norte for the National Reconstruction Party (PRN), being reelected in 1990 for the Liberal Party (PL). In 1994, he attempted to run for The Presidency with the PL, but later formed a coalition to support the winning party, the PSDB, led by Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Rocha and his wife are members of the neo-Pentecostal church.</s><s>Political"
},
{
"title": "Flávio Rocha",
"text": " profile. Rocha defends the free market as a natural vehicle to fight corruption, and is one of the main defenders of economic liberalism in Brazil. He defends a smaller and more efficient Government. In 2016, he received the Entrepreneur of the Year award from the magazine \"Isto É Dinheiro\" in the Retail category. A former federal deputy between 1987 and 1995, Rocha was one of the first businessmen to support the \"impeachment\" of former president Dilma Rousseff and the candidacy of João Doria to become mayor of São Paulo. In January 2018, Rocha launched the manifest \"\"Brasil 200\"\", which defends a liberal economic agenda and conservatism in social values. The name is a reference to the 200 years of independence of Brazil.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Santiago Vergini.
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"title": "Santiago Vergini",
"text": "<s>Santiago Vergini Santiago Vergini (born 3 August 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back.</s><s>Club career.</s><s>Club career.:Early career. Born in Máximo Paz, Constitución Department, Santa Fe, Vergini was a Vélez Sársfield youth graduate, but only appeared with the reserves in the lower leagues. In June 2009 he signed a two-year deal with Paraguayan side Club Olimpia, and made his professional debut on 13 September, in a 0–2 home loss against Club Libertad. Vergini scored his first goal on 7 November, netting the second in a 2–1 home win against Sportivo Luqueño. He finished his first professional year with 12 appearances and one goal, as his side finished fifth. On 1 September 2010 Vergini was loaned to Lega Pro Prima Divisione team Verona, in a one-year deal. He appeared in 15 matches, scoring a goal against Bassano Virtus.</s><s>Club career.:Newell's Old Boys. On 26 July 2011 Vergini signed for Newell's Old Boys. He made his debut for the club on 2"
},
{
"title": "Santiago Vergini",
"text": " September, playing the full 90 minutes in a 0–0 home draw against Colón de Santa Fe. An undisputed starter for \"La Lepra\", Vergini appeared in 32 matches and scored three goals in 2011–12 (against Olimpo, Banfield and Unión Santa Fe). He was again ever-present in the following campaign, as his side reached the semi-finals of 2013 Copa Libertadores.</s><s>Club career.:Estudiantes. On 1 August 2013, after being linked to a possible move to FC Barcelona, Vergini joined Estudiantes de La Plata. He appeared in 17 matches, scoring one goal (against Godoy Cruz on 16 November).</s><s>Club career.:Sunderland. On 20 January 2014, Vergini secured a loan move to Premier League side Sunderland for the remainder of the 2013–14 season. He made his league debut on 8 February, replacing Fabio Borini in the first half against Hull City after the dismissal of regular centre-back Wes Brown. Vergini made his first start on 22 February away to Arsenal. He was also an unused substitute as Sunderland lost the 2014 Football League Cup Final 3–1 to Manchester City at the Wembley Stadium on 2 March."
},
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"title": "Santiago Vergini",
"text": " After several games playing in central defence, manager Gus Poyet slotted Vergini into the right back position due to injuries. He helped Sunderland avoid relegation to finish 14th in the Premier League. On 7 August 2014, he re-signed for Sunderland on a season-long loan for the 2014–15 campaign, with the deal becoming a permanent two-year contract after the Black Cats avoided relegation. In October 2014, Vergini scored an own goal during a Premier League game against Southampton, volleying from the edge of the penalty area past goalkeeper Vito Mannone. Luke Perry of the BBC described it as \"one of the Premier League's most spectacular own goals\". It was the first goal in an 8–0 away defeat for the Black Cats.</s><s>Club career.:Sunderland.:Getafe (loan). On 16 July 2015 Vergini was loaned to Spanish La Liga side Getafe CF in a season-long deal with a view to a permanent transfer.</s><s>Club career.:Boca Juniors. In June 2016, Vergini returned to his home country and signed with Boca Juniors, for an undisclosed fee.</s><s>Club career.:Bursaspor. On 28 August 2018 he has signed a two"
},
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"title": "Santiago Vergini",
"text": "-year deal with Bursaspor.</s><s>Club career.:San Lorenzo. Ahead of the 2019–20 season, Vergini returned to Argentina and signed a 3-year contract with San Lorenzo de Almagro.</s><s>International career. Vergini earned his first cap for Argentina in a 1–2 Superclásico de las Américas loss at Brazil on 20 September 2012, after coming on as a 73rd-minute substitute for Lisandro López. He returned to the team on 14 October 2014, playing the entirety of a 7–0 friendly away win against Hong Kong and again in November 2014, starting in a 2–1 success over Croatia at the Boleyn Ground.</s><s>Career statistics.</s><s>Career statistics.:International.</s><s>Honours. Newell's Old Boys - Primera División: Torneo Final 2013, Torneo Inicial 2013 Runner-up Sunderland - Football League Cup 2013–14 Runner-up</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Alexandre Hohagen.
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"title": "Alexandre Hohagen",
"text": "<s>Alexandre Hohagen Alexandre Hohagen is a Brazilian executive with over 20 years of experience managing F500 companies in Latin America (Dow Chemical, HBO, UOL, Google, Facebook). Hohagen was responsible for starting two global technology companies in Latin America and the US Hispanic markets. He started the operations of Google in the region in 2005 and then Facebook in 2011. In 2010, Hohagen became one of the first international VPs at Google, managing operations of the company in over 8 countries in the region. Hohagen is currently the CEO of Nobox, investor and partner at Ampfy, Botmaker, MarketUP, investor at Hyper, Busbud and Everypost, besides other investments VC funds and real estate in Brazil, US and Europe. Hohagen left the corporate world in 2015, after spending 5,5 years building Facebook in Latin America and US Hispanic markets. In his tenure, Hohagen was responsible to open and manage operations in more than 5 countries, with a team of 500 employees.</s><s>Education. Hohagen has a degree in communications from Faculdades Integradas Alcantara Machado, masters in people management from the University of São Paulo and post -graduate degrees in Business Administration"
},
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"title": "Alexandre Hohagen",
"text": " from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD, Switzerland) and IIHR in the Netherlands.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:Early career. He began his career managing public relations for Dow Chemical Brazil In 1995, he coordinated the Human Resources department for Boehringer Ingelheim and later the ABN Amro Bank. Beginning in 2000, he held several positions at UOL (Universo Online) including the Human Resources Director, Vice-President of advertising and e-commerce, and Director of Electronic Commerce. He then became General Manager of HBO Brazil and oversaw the operations of the HBO Premium Channel and the Warner Channel. In 2008, he was nominated as an \"Executivo de Valor\" (Top Executive) in the IT and service sectors by the major Brazilian business newspaper Valor Economico.</s><s>Career.:Google. In 2005, Hohagen joined Google as the General Manager for Brazil and held this position until August 2008. At this time, Google named Brazil as the location for Google's Latin American headquarters and Hohagen as the Managing Director of Google Latin America. Since becoming the Latin American Managing Director of Google, Hohagen has made several major business moves for Google Latin America. Not long after the promotion,"
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"title": "Alexandre Hohagen",
"text": " Hohagen signed a term of behavior adjustment with federal prosecutors to cooperatives in the Fight Against pedophilia on the Internet. Google's social network, Orkut, which was very popular at the time in Latin America, had quickly been overrun by child pornography. Hohagen's act of signing the Conduct Adjustment Term not only showed Google's commitment to Brazilian law, but also Hohagen's commitment to eradicating online pedophilia. The filter Hohagen and Google implemented on Google's Orkut social network, is said to have reduced child pornography on the site by over 70%. He oversaw the implementation of Google Public Transport for Rio de Janeiro on Google Maps in 2009. In 2010, he announced the \"Doodle for Google\" contest, in which children ages six to fifteen where invited to submit a remake of the Google logo inspired by the theme \"Brazil’s Future\". For every entry Google received, the company planted a tree in a forest on the border of São Paulo and Paraná, Brazil. The winner of the contest received a laptop, a trip to the forest, and their design featured on Google for 24 hours.</s><s>Career.:Facebook. In 2011, Hohagen was hired as the first employee and Vice President of Facebook"
},
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"title": "Alexandre Hohagen",
"text": " for Latin America and US Hispanics.</s><s>References. - Facebook Launches Dedicated U.S. Hispanic Brand Offer - Alexandre Hohagen Moves to Miami Offices - Hispanicize Wire - November 7, 2013</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ivan Toms.
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"title": "Ivan Toms",
"text": "<s>Ivan Toms Ivan Toms (11 July 1952 – 25 March 2008) was a South African physician, who battled the Apartheid era government as a prominent anti-Apartheid and anti-conscription activist. At the time of his death in 2008, Toms was serving as the Director of Health for the city of Cape Town, South Africa.</s><s>Early life. Ivan Toms was born in Cape Town on 11 July 1952. He received his medical degree from the University of Cape Town in 1976. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban from 1965 to 1969. He was deputy Head Prefect in 1969.</s><s>Conscription. Toms was drafted into the national service in the South African Defence Force (SADF), as a non-combatant doctor in 1978. He opposed the goals of the SADF, but refused to leave South Africa. He spent much of his six months as a doctor in Namibia, which was then known as South West Africa and was controlled by South Africa. Once he returned to Cape Town, Toms set up a medical clinic in the squatter settlement of Crossroads, which is located about 15 km outside of the city in the Cape Flats area. He was the only doctor who served the"
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"title": "Ivan Toms",
"text": " Crossroads' population of approximately 60,000 people. In September 1983, Toms witnessed a three-week-long confrontation between the Crossroads community and the South African police and security forces, who were trying to tear down \"illegal\" buildings in the settlement. After witnessing the violence and brutality of the raid, Toms vowed never to serve in the SADF again, even in a non-combatant capacity. He went public with his opinions on what he had witnessed and became a founding member of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) in 1983. Toms' co-founders of the ECC included other prominent anti-conscription activists including Nan Cross. Toms went on a three-week-long hunger strike in February 1985 to protest the government's decision to bulldoze the Crossroads shanty town. The destruction of Crossroads resulted in violence and the deaths of several people as residents tried to resist the destruction. Toms commented during his hunger strike that, \"As a Christian, I am obliged to say no, to say never again will I put on that SADF uniform.\" The SADF officially took control of Toms' health clinic in 1986. The following year, in July 1987, Toms defied the SADF"
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"title": "Ivan Toms",
"text": " when he was called up for one month of compulsory service. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 1988 for defying the order and ultimately served nine months in Pollsmoor Prison.</s><s>Gay rights activism. Toms had been involved with gay rights activism in South Africa. He was a founding member of the Lesbians and Gays Against Oppression (LAGO) in 1987. Toms was also subject to homophobic attacks by his enemies.</s><s>Post-Apartheid. Ivan Toms became the national co-ordinator of the National Progressive Primary Healthcare Network in 1991 at the end of the Apartheid era. The AIDS virus was beginning to sweep through South Africa at the time. Toms, as the national co-ordinator, began to implement a series of programs to combat the spread of AIDS and HIV in the country. He was considered a pioneer in the advocacy of the use of antiretroviral drugs to fight the disease. He became director of the Students' Health and Welfare Centres Organisation in 1993, which is a non-governmental organization which runs medical clinics staffed by students in poor areas. He continued to work for non-governmental charities until 1996, when he became the Health Director in the City of Cape Town. His name is"
},
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"title": "Ivan Toms",
"text": " remembered in the Ivan Toms Centre for Men's Health (Cape Town) in Greenpoint, Cape Town, which works in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. South African President Thabo Mbeki awarded Ivan Toms with the Order of the Baobab in 2006 for his stance against Apartheid and his public service for South Africans in need.</s><s>Death. Ivan Toms died unexpectedly of meningitis at his home in Mowbray on 25 March 2008, at the age of 55. He was honored by prominent South African political figures, including Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and the Mayor of Cape Town, Helen Zille. Archbishop Tutu described himself as \"devastated\" by the news of Toms' death and paid tribute to him saying, \"I thank God that I knew him. Knowing him makes (one) feel proud. This is a prime example of someone who had ubuntu. He was utterly selfless.\" His funeral, which was attended by hundreds of people including Archbishop Tutu, was held at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Abdul Halik Hudu.
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"title": "Abdul Halik Hudu",
"text": "<s>Abdul Halik Hudu Abdul Halik Hudu (born 19 March 2000), commonly known as Rooney, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swedish club AFC Eskilstuna.</s><s>Club career.</s><s>Club career.:Inter Allies. Halik Hudu started his professional football career with Inter Allies in the Ghana Premier League, getting promoted from their feeder club Accra Youth FC. During his debut season in 2016, Halik Hudu played 19 games and soon established himself as a starter. At the end of the season, he was crowned \"Most Promising Player of the Year\" in the Ghanaian Premier League, and also got voted as the \"Fans' Player of the Season\" at Inter Allies. In early 2017, Halik Hudu went on a two month-trial with Hammarby IF, appearing in friendlies for the Swedish club. He returned to Inter Allies before the start of the season in March, and went on to win the prize as \"Man of the Match\" in three league games throughout the year. In total, he made 37 competitive appearances for Inter Allies across two full seasons, scoring twice.</s><s>Club career.:Hammarby IF. In early January 2018, Halik Hudu"
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"title": "Abdul Halik Hudu",
"text": " returned to Hammarby IF for a second trial.{{cite web|url=http://www.hammarbyfotboll.se/aktuellt/nyheter/odilon-och-rooney-tillbaka-i-hammarby/|title=Odilon och \"Rooney\" tillbaka i Hammarby In 2019, Halik Hudu went on a season-long loan to IK Frej in Superettan. He played 26 games and scored twice as the club was relegated from the Swedish second division. On 28 July 2020, Halik Hudu was loaned out to GIF Sundsvall for the remainder of the season, and also signed a one-year extension of his contract with Hammarby. On 30 May 2021, Halik Hudu won the 2020–21 Svenska Cupen, the main domestic cup, with Hammarby IF through a 5–4 win on penalties (0–0 after full-time) against BK Häcken in the final.</s><s>Club career.:Lyngby. On 16 July 2021, Halik Hudu signed a two-year contract with Lyngby in the second-tier Danish 1"
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"title": "Abdul Halik Hudu",
"text": "st Division. He made his debut for the club on 30 July as a late substitute for Rasmus Thellufsen in a 2–1 away win over Jammerbugt.</s><s>Club career.:AFC Eskilstuna. On 28 March 2022, Halik Hudu signed a two-year contract with AFC Eskilstuna in Sweden.</s><s>International career. Halik Hudu has been capped by the Ghana national under-17 team. He also captained his country in an 8–0 victory against Namibia in March 2016. In 2018, Halik Hudu was called up to the Ghana national under-20 team ahead of an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Algeria on 11 May.</s><s>Career statistics.</s><s>Honours.</s><s>Honours.:Club. Hammarby - Svenska Cupen: 2020–21</s><s>Honours.:Individual. - Most Promising Player of the Year in the Ghanaian Premier League: 2016</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of José Hernández Delgadillo.
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"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": "<s>José Hernández Delgadillo José Hernández Delgadillo (1927 – December 26, 2000) was a Mexican painter and muralist best known for carrying on the traditions of Mexican muralism in the latter 20th century. He created over 160 murals in Mexico and the United States, with most of his work, especially after 1970, containing strong political messages. Many of these messages have been unpopular in Mexico, which has made the artist somewhat obscure and some of his murals have been destroyed. Hernández Delgadillo's main recognition is membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana honor society, but his home state has made effort to rescue and promote his life and work.</s><s>Life. Hernández Delgadillo was born in Tepeapulco in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, the son of a poor rural farm worker. He grew up working on farms, road construction, in a greenhouse and making furniture. In 1945, he traveled to Mexico City and studied painting and architectural drawing at the workshop of Antonio Navarrete Tejero. To survive during this time, he made money by creating portraits. After the first"
},
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"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": " individual exhibition of his work, he decided to pursue advanced training, attending the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado \"La Esmeralda\" from 1955 to 1960. According to his autobiography, at this time he met Pablo O'Higgins which inspired him to continue the ideals of Mexican muralism. In addition to his art career, he was also very politically active. He believed that popular organization in neighborhoods, unions and schools was necessary to exert non-violent pressure against the government. From 1980 to 1983 he wrote a weekly column for the Excélsior newspaper, which allowed him to write to present an alternate point of view and appear more neutral. In 1985, he stood for the Partido Mexicano de Trabajadores in the 38th electoral district, covering the Magdalena Contreras area and part of Alvaro Obregon. He was a pre candidate for president with the PRD in 1987, but the party chose Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. The artist then worked for the Cárdenas campaign creating murals. Hernández Delgadillo died in 2000, leaving behind his wife, Beatriz Zamora and three children"
},
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"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": ", Beatriz, Myriam and Francisco.</s><s>Career. Hernández Delgadillo's first exhibition of his easel work was in 1954 in Mexico City. He returned to school afterwards but when he finished his studied, he won recognition at two biennials, the II Bienal Interamericana in Mexico and the II Biennale de Paris for his expressionistic painting called Hombres (1961). This success earned him a grant to Paris from the French government. From 1963 to 1965 he lived in the country, exhibiting his work in Nice, Lyon, Marseille, Le Havre and Bordeaux as well as in the Reflets Gallery in Brussels and the Biosca Gallery in Madrid. The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris bought one of his works as well. He had another important individual exhibition in Beverly Hills in 1967. However, most of the artist's career was dedicated to muralism, creating over 160 of them, twenty of which are on university campuses in Mexico. His first mural was painted at the Escuela Primaria Belisario Dominguez in 1959. In 1969, he was named director of arte for the Centro Residencial Morelos,"
},
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"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": " a housing project in Mexico City. He and students created forty murals, the largest of which consists of fifteen floors of abstract panels places among the windows. In the center of the small plaza between the apartment buildings, he created a monument highly critical of the social order, which put his career at risk. In 1973, he created the first of his militant murals. His main support was with student organizations, which invited him to paint in universities, technical schools and teachers’ colleges in various parts of the country. The artist created the designs and usually the students did the actual painting, using simple colors. Many times, the mural was done in a day, with the students using the occasion to also present musical productions, and discussion groups. From 1973 to 1976, he worked on posters which featured large powerful figures in basic colors, based on the designed for murals in also done at this time in Mexico City, Toluca, Xalapa, Pachuca, Fresnillo, Zacatepec de Hidalgo, Tepic and the teachers’ colleges in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. In 1975 he created a mural in the medical conference center of the former Hacienda de Cortés in Cuernavaca. He created his first mural"
},
{
"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": " in the United States in 1981 in San Fernando, California, sponsored by a Chicano organization. He returned in 1989 to create several works for the agricultural school of University of California, Davis, a Latino social service organization in San José and the mayor's office in Watsonville. In the 1990s he created one of his major works called El Hombre Nuevo Hacia el Futuro. Many of Hernández Delgadillo's murals are in urgent need of restoration with a number already lost, either due to deterioration or because they were destroyed because of their political messages. In 2013 an effort was begun Pachuca to rescue and restore his murals in that city, which include Contradicciones y lucha en Hidalgo at the Jardín del Arte and Por la democracia, el trabajo y la soberanía nacional at the Miguel Alemán primary school. Other activities during his career include sculpture, receiving commissions between 1959 and 1960, and illustrating medical books in 1963 and 1972. In 1997 he organized the first competition of murals and public art called the Jornada Mundial del Arte Público y Muralismo, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes"
},
{
"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": ". His main recognition was membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (SPM), an honor society for Mexican artists, serving on its executive committee in the 1970s. After his death, the SPM established the José Hernández Delgadillo Prize in categories such as painting, print making, sculpture, photography and art objects and held a retrospective of his work in 2009. The Efrén Rebolledo Cultural Center in Pachuca has a gallery named after him. However, his work has become obscure, mostly because they espouse unpopular and radical political ideas. There was no biography written about him until 2008, when Hidalgo writer Guillermo Furlong Franco published a book called Muros de Insomnio, about the life and work of the artist. It was sponsored by the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes of Hidalgo.</s><s>Artistry. Hernández Delgadillo was an artist and activist in the tradition of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, with his work more closely related to the second state of Mexican muralism rather than his contemporary Generación de la Rupt"
},
{
"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": "ura. This was particularly true after the 1968 student uprising in Mexico, which inspired the artist to incorporate its ideology to reinvigorate Mexico's traditions of murals with social and political messages. In 1975, he described himself as one of the few artists still “fighting for Mexico.” He stated that it was “… very risky to do political art now. You put your subsistence and liberty at stake.” He also stated “After 1970, I conceived most of my visual work in line with popular struggles, in books, periodicals, posters, films and murals; this side of my work is predictably ignored by the educated public, and negated and attacked even by critics who purport to be revolutionaries.” He worked in oil, acrylics, mixed media, print and poster making and some sculptures in bronze. His style was mostly expressionistic, often denouncing acts of violence. Some murals, such as those done at university campuses rely on simple, basic colors but others more nuanced used of color, such as shades of reds and ochre are used to express anger at social injustices. Justino Fernandez wrote “In the works of Hernández Delgadillo, we find a definite sense of"
},
{
"title": "José Hernández Delgadillo",
"text": " the monumental and certain underlying classicism combined with personal expressionism. This may seem contradictory, but is not, thanks to the synthesis to which he brings both tendencies.” “His giants – images of men and women, entire or fragmented nudes with extraordinarily expressive heads large or small, their features barely insinuated, their eyes tiny – betray his humanist leanings.” Similar to the artists of the Mexican muralism movement, he used indigenous cultural expression to highlight the country's heritage, its abilities as well as how it has been exploited. Many of his figures have a primeval quality, as if they sprang from the earth.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of David Oyite-Ojok.
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"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": "<s>David Oyite-Ojok David Oyite Ojok (15 April 1940 – 2 December 1983) was a Ugandan military commander who held one of the leadership positions in the coalition between Uganda National Liberation Army and Tanzania People's Defence Force which removed strongman Idi Amin in 1979 and, until his death in a helicopter crash, served as the national army chief of staff with the rank of major general.</s><s>Military career before 1979. An ethnic Lango, Oyite Ojok was born in Lira District on 15 April 1940. Although there are few documented details regarding David Oyite Ojok's early years, he was initially noted in his late twenties as a junior army officer serving during the 1966–71 period of President Milton Obote's first government. Oyite-Ojok joined the Uganda Army in 1963. By 1965, he was teaching at a training course for officer cadets in Jinja. He was transferred from 1st Battalion to 4th Battalion on 7 February 1966 at Shaban Opolot's orders. However at the end of February 1966 he was transferred to Army Headquarters and made Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General. In September 1970, while Idi Amin was out of the country serving as the Ug"
},
{
"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": "andan representative at the funeral of President Nasser of Egypt, Obote appointed a new Chief of Defence Staff (Brigadier Suleman Hussein). Oyite-Ojok was one of President Obote's most important followers in the military, and was described by Omara-Otunnu as 'Obote's principal military confidant' was appointed to the '..newly created post of Assistant Military Secretary in the Ministry of Defence,' serving as a Major. His duties included '..planning, all policy matters, and control of Establishment.' At some point, he was sent for training to Great Britain. By 1971, Oyite-Ojok served as lieutenant colonel, but was forced to flee his home country when Idi Amin overthrew Obote in a coup. Relocating to Tanzania, Oyite-Ojok joined the guerrilla army Obote was organizing to regain power. While operating in exile, Oyite-Ojok gradually gained a \"legendary\" reputation in Uganda. Rumours circulated about him sneaking into the Ugandan capital where he would party with locals at popular nightspots and ask that the bills be sent to President Amin. The latter allegedly responded by putting a $70,000 bounty on Oyite-O"
},
{
"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": "jok's head. In 1972, Oyite-Ojok took part in a rebel invasion of Uganda which aimed at restoring Obote to presidency. Striking from their exile in Tanzania, the rebels attacked in two columns, with Oyite-Ojok reportedly leading the group targeting Masaka. However, the operation resulted in a major rebel defeat. After this failure, Obote reorganized his remaining forces; he mobilized a \"navy\" of six boats on Lake Victoria which would conduct smuggling operations to finance the rebels as well as set up an underground network in Uganda. Oyite-Ojok was entrusted with command of Obote's \"navy\". The Uganda Army invaded Tanzania in late 1978, resulting in the Uganda–Tanzania War's outbreak. Oyite-Ojok assumed a key role in the grouping of military exiles who, with the backing of Tanzanian troops, led the counteroffensive which resulted in the overthrow of Amin. At first, he served as field commander for Obote's private army Kikosi Maalum, and was appointed head of a Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) battalion in March 1979. With the latter unit, he fought alongside the Tanzanians in central and eastern Uganda. Oyite-"
},
{
"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": "Ojok proved to be tactically adept during this conflict. He eventually rose to chief of staff for the entire UNLA. Oyite-Ojok's reputation grew immensely during the Uganda–Tanzania War. Some people, including Tito Okello, attributed the Tanzanian victories in the Battle of Lukaya and the Fall of Kampala to his leadership.</s><s>Transition period. Oyite Ojok became a member, along with Yoweri Museveni, Paulo Muwanga and Tito Okello, of the Military Commission, a powerful sub-committee of the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) which ruled the country after Idi Amin's overthrow. Like most people in power after the fall of Amin, Oyite-Ojok illegally amassed a great amount of wealth. One of his most successful business ventures was coffee export, and he became chairman of the Coffee Making Board. He remained loyal to Obote who was preparing to return from exile. The alliance of political forces in the UNLF under President Yusuf Lule soon began to unravel. Of significant importance was the emergence of tribal rivalry. On the one side were those from the North who made up the bulk of the new national army, and"
},
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"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": " on the other those from the South (particularly those from the Buganda tribe) who for the first time since 1964 had significant political and military influence. As chief of staff of the UNLA in its new role as Uganda's national army, Oyite Ojok was supposed to stay neutral and above the political disputes. Instead of doing so, Oyite Ojok fully backed Obote. He ensured that the national army under his command was overwhelmingly made up of Northerners, such as himself. The political symbol for most of those from Northern Uganda was the Uganda Peoples Congress party and Obote, who was still in Tanzanian exile. Obote's possible return was opposed by many within the UNLF, particularly those from Buganda who recalled that it was Obote who had dethroned their King (the Kabaka of Buganda) and forced him into exile in 1966. It is widely believed that it was this opposition to Obote's return and the growing influence of the northern dominated army that led to the removal of Yusuf Lule from the Presidency after only 2 months in office. Lule had also tried to extend his very limited presidential powers in the UNLF. Lule was replaced by another Muganda, Godfrey Binaisa"
},
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"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": " who was seen as more of a figurehead. Real power now lay with Oyite Ojok and the Military Commission. The UNLF became more militaristic in appearance as army officers like Ojok became actively involved in politics, and the quasi-legislative National Commission and government ministers became less significant. On the ground the army became more brutal, particularly in Buganda and other areas of Southern Uganda. Most significantly, the Uganda Peoples Congress with its military allies began to actively organise and call for the return of Obote. In May 1980, Oyite Ojok gained greater power when \"figurehead president\" Binaisa dismissed him as army chief in an attempt to reduce the power of the Military Commission. In response the Military Commission removed Binaisa from office and declared the country would be ruled by a Presidential Commission which included Muwanga, Museveni, Oyite Ojok and Okello. Although as chairman, Muwanga presented the face of the Commission, real power was held by Oyite Ojok. Meanwhile, Oyite-Ojok also organized his personal death squad led by his trusted follower Captain Patrick Ageta. This 30-strong squad roamed Kampala in two jeeps, and murdered several political"
},
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"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": " opponents of the chief of staff.</s><s>Return of Milton Obote. The Presidential Commission now paved the way for the return of Obote and organised what an general election in December 1980. Oyite-Ojok campaigned on behalf of Obote, using his status as \"legendary commander\" to rally northerners to his cause. Firmly rooted in tribalist ideas, the officer believed that the elections would decide which ethnic group controlled Uganda's wealth. Researcher Opiyo Oloya argued that this \"was the game as [Oyite-Ojok] saw and played it\". Despite being an ethnic Lango, Oyite Ojok managed to gain the support of many traditionally marginalised Acholi people. The 1980 elections resulted in \"victory\" for Obote's Uganda Peoples Congress and Obote became president for the second time, confirming Oyite-Ojok as Army Chief of Staff. Museveni, who had formed a rival political party, the Uganda Patriotic Front, disputed the result and started a guerrilla war against the government. As Army Chief of Staff, Oyite-Ojok was responsible for attempting to defeat the guerrilla armies of Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRA) and Andrew Kayiira"
},
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"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": "'s Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) which were fighting to overthrow Obote's government. With his military experience during the struggle to overthrow Idi Amin, Oyite Ojok proved very effective against these groups. However this was done with both military tact and brutality against the population in areas where the guerrilla forces operated. This was most prevalent in the Luwero District where the NRA was active and in the capital city, Kampala where the UFM was based. In Luwero, thousands of civilians were killed by the army – especially in an area called the 'Luwero Triangle'. In Kampala, the army and secret police carried out numerous random arrests which often involved arresting hundreds of people and loading them onto trucks which were then driven to army barracks. This phenomenon was called \"Panda Gari\" (\"Climb the Truck\") and it instilled widespread fear in the capital as many of those taken to army barracks were beaten or killed. By 1983, the UNLA under Oyite-Ojok had effectively defeated the NRA and UFM. However, tensions increasingly emerged in the military, as a rivalry developed between the two northern tribes that dominated the army -the Langi (Obote and Oyite Ojok's tribe) and the Ach"
},
{
"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": "oli (Tito Okello – the Army Commander's tribe). The majority of the army foot soldiers were Acholi and it was they who suffered most casualties in the war, and it is rumoured that they wanted to engage in peace talks with the guerrillas. Meanwhile, the elite Special Forces and most of the officers closest to Obote were Langi – and were fiercely opposed to any negotiations with the NRA. A rift also emerged between Oyite-Ojok and Obote, as the former seized properties of the Coffee Marketing Board and began to amass a fortune by smuggling coffee out of Uganda. At one point, the army commander and President engaged in a fierce dispute over this issue, with Oyite-Ojok reportedly telling his superior that \"it was because of him and the army that he (Obote) was still in power\". On 2 December 1983, Oyite-Ojok died in a helicopter crash. The NRA claimed that it had shot down his Bell 412, whereas Obote's government claimed that the crash had been the result of a technical failure. Soon, conspiracy theories emerged, alleging that Obote had arranged the death of his army commander as the latter had grown too powerful.</s><s>Aftermath. In the decades following"
},
{
"title": "David Oyite-Ojok",
"text": " the helicopter crash which ended David Oyite Ojok's life at the age of 43, documented details have not been made public. The political ramifications for Uganda, however, were severe. Acholi officers now expected Obote to appoint an Acholi to replace Oyite Ojok. One obvious candidate, Bazilio Olara-Okello who, although unrelated to Tito Okello, was, as in the case of Oyite Ojok, another officer who participated in the overthrow of Idi Amin. Obote, nevertheless, appointed a junior Langi officer, Smith Apon-Achak. This further alienated the Acholi officers who overthrew Obote's government two years later. Despite having fought against Museveni, Oyite-Ojok has been honored by the latter's government as a national hero.</s><s>References. - - - - - -</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Stephanus Swart.
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"title": "Stephanus Swart",
"text": "<s>Stephanus Swart Stephanus Andries Johannes Swart (21 July 1888 – 6 May 1927) was a South African farmer and one of the first spree killers who killed at least 8 people and wounded 3 others in Charlestown, South Africa on 6 May 1927, before killing himself.</s><s>Timeline. Stephanus Swart was born on 21 July 1888 in Ladismith in Cape Colony. He arrived in Charlestown in 1920. Little is known about him before this time. It is thought he had been a Horse Trader.</s><s>Timeline.:Marriage. On 1 December 1921 Swart aged 33 married a wealthy 64-year-old widow, Anna Eksteen. She owned the farm Potters hill west of Charlestown which Swart farmed and made productive again.</s><s>Timeline.:Imprisonment. A few years later Swart seriously assaulted Willie Knight, the husband of his stepdaughter Fannie Knight. They lived on a nearby farm Shorstcliff. Swart served 18 months imprisonment for the assault with a horse stirrup.</s><s>Timeline.:Incest charges. After his time in prison Swart had been in a love affair with his 14-year-old niece Sarie Alberts and he"
},
{
"title": "Stephanus Swart",
"text": " brought her to come and live with him on his farm. His estranged wife Annie had left the farm to live with relatives in Potchefstroom and Charlestown. On 1 May 1927 Swart was served with a summons on charges of incest. On 3 May Swart fired shots at his neighbour Roets. He went looking for Willie Knight on whose assault charges he had served prison for, but Knight had fled. On 4 May Swart summoned his lawyer Maasdorp from Volksrust to draw up a 28 page final Will and testament that was also a suicide statement. The police had asked the lawyer to convince his client to hand himself in, but Swart refused. He had declared he would not be captured and made threats of killing as many as he could and saving his last bullet for himself. His lawyer had notified the police of the violent mental state of his client and said his client was in a state of mental crisis. Swart failed to appear court in Newcastle on the 5th of May as accused for incest. An arrest for contempt of court was issued.</s><s>Timeline.:Killing spree. On Friday 6 May 1927 a team of 10 policemen led by Captain Gerald Ashman arrived at daylight to arrest Swart at his farm Potters Hill."
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"title": "Stephanus Swart",
"text": " In the misty low visibility conditions Swart shot and killed 5 policemen including Ashman and wounded 1. Swart fled on horseback towards Charlestown. On the road he happened to come across his stepdaughter Fannie Knight and farm manager Cornelis Roets in a horse cart. He shot and killed them both on the road. They had both previously testified against him. From there he went to find his estranged wife in Charlestown where he found her in her brothers house, where he shot and killed her. On the same day it is believed he also killed a black African man, but history has not recorded his identity. From there he was heading in the direction of Volkrust and fired on a car wounding 2 people. At this point police all over the district had been notified and had formed a posse of local farmers along with police to hunt him down. The group caught up to him on the road between Charlestown and Volkrust and fired shots at him. Swart was spotted diving into a ditch where he shot and killed himself using the gun he had stolen from Ashman. Swart was buried in the grounds of the Charlestown police station in a coffin that was too short for him.</s><s>Victims.</s><s>Vict"
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"title": "Stephanus Swart",
"text": "ims.:Policemen. - Inspector Gerald C. Ashman - Constable William H. Crossman - Sergeant J.A. Grove - Head Constable William Charles Mitchell - Sergeant Annes van Wyk</s><s>Victims.:Witnesses at previous trial. - Fannie Knight (step daughter) - Cornelis Roets</s><s>Victims.:Estranged wife. - Annie Swart</s><s>Victims.:Uncertain. - It is possible there was an unidentified African man also part of the killing spree.</s><s>Memorials. A memorial was erected in the Charlestown cemetery for the 5 slain policemen. Another memorial on the location of the murder of Fanny Knight reads \"Hierdie Gedenkteken is opgerigt ter gedagtenis aan Fannie Knight -nee Eksteen- en C. Roets, wat deur S. Swart geskiet was op die 6de Mei 1927, terwyl hy van die polisie ontsnap het to Potters Hill\" (This memorial is erected in memory of Fanny Knight -nee Eksteen- and C. Roets. Who was shot by S. Swart on 6 May 1927 while he had escaped from the police at Potter"
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"title": "Stephanus Swart",
"text": "'s Hill).</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Amr Shabana.
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"title": "Amr Shabana",
"text": "<s>Amr Shabana Amr Shabana (; born 20 July 1979 in Cairo) is a former professional squash player from Egypt. He won the World Open in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, and reached the World No. 1 ranking in 2006. He represented the winning Egyptian team in the 1999 Men's World Team Squash Championships held in Cairo and the 2009 Men's World Team Squash Championships held in Denmark. Shabana's accomplishments in professional squash lead many to regard him as one of the greatest players of all time.</s><s>Career overview. The talented left-hander from Cairo first showed his promise when he was the runner-up (to compatriot Ahmed Faizy) in the British Under-14 Open in January 1993. Four years later he reached the final of the British Under-19 Open, where he again lost to Faizy. A PSA member since 1995, Amr claimed his first Tour title with the help of Bryan \"Griffin\" Knight in July 1999, winning the Puebla Open in Mexico. Seven days later he grabbed his second, the Mexico Open, again by beating Australia's Craig Rowland in the final. Amr Shabana crowned a remarkable year in 2003 when, as ninth seed,"
},
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"title": "Amr Shabana",
"text": " he forced his way through a star-studded field in the World Open in Pakistan. He dispatched title-holder David Palmer, the third seed, in five games in the third round. He then went on to take out Palmer's Australian teammate Anthony Ricketts in the last eight. After defeating Karim Darwish (the Egyptian No 1) in a four-game semi-final, Shabana clinched the historic title by beating Thierry Lincou in the final 15–14, 9–15, 15–11, 15–7, to become Egypt's first winner of the sport's premier title. But after a disappointing following year, in which his only final appearance was in the British Open Squash Championship in England, losing to David Palmer in four games 10–11 (4–6), 11–7, 11–10 (3–1), 11–7, Shabana stormed back to the top of his game in 2005. Over a short period, he acquired a new coach, Ahmed Tahir; a new manager, the former Egyptian international Omar Elborolossy; and a wife, Nadjla. \"\"All I have to worry about now is playing my matches – everything else is looked after for me now"
},
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"title": "Amr Shabana",
"text": "\"\", said Shabana. And the effect was plain to see as a week after winning the Heliopolis Open in his home town Cairo, the seventh-seeded Shabana beat David Palmer and James Willstrop, before defeating Anthony Ricketts in the final to claim the St Louis Open crown in the United States. The next event saw the in-form Egyptian brush aside all opposition in the Hungarian Open in Budapest, winning his third title in as many weeks after beating Grégory Gaultier in the final. But the World Open in Hong Kong confirmed his renaissance beyond doubt. Seeded five, Amr crushed fourth seed Lee Beachill in the quarters, Peter Nicol in the semis, and, in his third successive straight games victory, powered past David Palmer 11–6 11–7 11–8 in the final to become the first player since the heyday of the Khans to win the World Open title for the second time. The new year brought continuing rewards for Shabana with victories in the Canadian Classic in January, followed by the Tournament of Champions in New York in March, and the Bermuda PSA Masters in April – bringing his PSA Tour title tally to 12, and then in April 2006, Shabana became the first"
},
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"title": "Amr Shabana",
"text": " Egyptian player to reach the world number 1 ranking. In 2007, Shabana was crowned world champion for the third time in five years at the World Open in Bermuda and later in January 2009, Shabana's 33-month reign as World No. 1 was ended by his countryman Karim Darwish. In 2014, Shabana became the oldest professional to win a World Series title by defeating Grégory Gaultier in the finals of Tournament of Champions. On the 27th of August 2015, Shabana announced his retirement from competitive professional squash.</s><s>Career statistics. Listed below.</s><s>Career statistics.:PSA Titles (30). All Results for Amr Shabana in PSA World's Tour tournament Note: (ret) = retired, min = minutes, h = hours</s><s>Career statistics.:Singles performance timeline. \"To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.\" Note: NA = Not Available</s><s>See also. - Official Men's Squash World Ranking</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Vanda Pignato.
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{
"title": "Vanda Pignato",
"text": "<s>Vanda Pignato Vanda Guiomar Pignato (born 16 February 1963) is a Brazilian-born Salvadoran lawyer, human rights activist, politician, women's rights activist, and former First Lady of El Salvador from 2009 until 2014. Pignato became First Lady of El Salvador on 1 June 2009, the same day that her husband, President Mauricio Funes appointed her as the country's Secretary of Social Inclusion from 2009 to 2014. The appointment made Pignato the first sitting First Lady in El Salvador's history to hold a political position. Funes's successor, President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, reappointed Pignato as Secretary of Social Inclusion when he took office in June 2014. In 2011, Pignato established Ciudad Mujer (\"Women City\"), to aid victims of violence against women, as well provide access to women's healthcare services, financial advice, and career training. The five Ciudad Mujer centers, located throughout the country, offer services from 15 Salvadoran government agencies in one location. These include job training and financial loans to offer a chance for economic independence. Ciudad Mujer also provides healthcare services, including forensic laboratories and legal aid for victims of sexual assault, reproductive services,"
},
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"title": "Vanda Pignato",
"text": " neonatal care and breast cancer prevention. An estimated 603,000 women have utilized Ciudad Mujer, as of November 2014. Pignato's Ciudad Mujer initiative has received international support and recognition, including from the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations. In January 2015, the Brazilian government announced plans to launch its own \"Women's House\" project, modeled on Pignato's Ciudad Mujer program in El Salvador. The first \"Women's House\" in Pignato's native Brazil is slated for Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. Guatemala, Colombia and Mexico have also expressed interest in implementing Pignato's programs.</s><s>Biography. Pignato was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She became an activist in the Workers' Party (PT) and served as an adviser to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who would later serve as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011. She reportedly remains close to both Lula da Silva and his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. She began documenting human rights abuses in El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War, which was ended by the Chapultepec Peace Accords. Pignato moved from Brazil to El Salvador"
},
{
"title": "Vanda Pignato",
"text": " in 1992, where she represented the Workers' Party in Central America. She also became the Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies at the Embassy of Brazil in San Salvador in 1992. She later married Mauricio Funes, a Salvadoran journalist and FMLN politician, with whom she had one son, Gabriel.</s><s>First Lady and Secretary of Social Inclusion. Pignato has promoted women's rights and gender equality during her tenures as First Lady and Secretary of Social Inclusion. Pignato's Department of Social Inclusion oversees issues related to human rights and family affairs in El Salvador. Pignato was first appointed as Secretary on 1 June 2009, by her husband, President Mauricio Funes. She was reappointed to the post in 2014 by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who asked her to stay on as his Secretary of Social Inclusion. Pignato has acknowledged the challenges facing Salvadoran women, who have higher high school dropout rates and lower literacy rates than men. They tend to be economically dependent on male partners or family members, making it more difficult to leave an abusive relationship. In 2012, President Mauricio Funes gave a speech calling \"Violence against women is violence against society,\" which was one of the first times that"
},
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"title": "Vanda Pignato",
"text": " women's issues and gender-based violence had reached the forefront of political debate in El Salvador. In a 2014 interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Vignato praised her now-estranged husband's efforts and his 2012 speech, noting \"Before that speech women didn't exist in government policies. They were invisible. At Women City, women are now visible, in a place that's just for them. When women come here they get a hug from a female official who doesn't judge or ignore them.\" Her signature initiative has been Ciudad Mujer, which were established in 2011. Five the centers have been opened to low income areas across El Salvador. She overcame opposition against the plan from several sectors of Salvadoran society, which included politicians, evangelical Christian groups, and the Roman Catholic Church, to launch Ciudad Mujer. Ciudad Mujer, which had provided healthcare, legal and healthcare services to 603,000 women by November 2014, have won praise both within El Salvador and internationally. Brazil has announced plans to open its own Ciudad Mujer initiative, while Guatemala, Colombia and Mexico have expressed interest in adopting Pignato's initiative as well. Pignato simultaneously served as the Salvadorian Institute for Women Development. Additionally, she was appointed"
},
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"title": "Vanda Pignato",
"text": " as the first President Salvadorian National Council for the Youth. In October 2011, ten days of heavy rain led to severe flooding which affected 70% of El Salvador and damaged approximately 80% of the country's roads. The floods, which impacted 300,000 residents, killed 105 people and destroyed of 250,000 of agricultural land and crops. Then President Mauricio Funes estimated that damages totaled $840 million, equal to 4% of El Salvador's gross domestic product (GDP). Pignato, as both Secretary of Social Inclusion and First Lady, traveled to Washington D.C. in November 2011 to lobby for humanitarian aid from the United States Congress and the U.S. State Department. She also met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the Salvadoran American community and representatives for the corporate sector. The National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) awarded Pignato the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May 2012, citing her cooperation with the Salvadoran American community and her initiatives to support women's rights. In October 2014, Mauricio Funes publicly confirmed that he and Pignato had separated. In July 2015, Secretary Vanda Pignato announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer."
},
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"title": "Vanda Pignato",
"text": " She took a temporary leave of absence from the Department of Social Inclusion to undergo treatment for the disease. On 12 May 2017 Mr. Joao Santana, a Brazilian marketing consultant reveleaded under oath the money applied to Mr. Mauricio Funes first presidential campaign was financed by Brazilian company Odebrecht with dirt money, the command to Odebrecht to give money to Mr. Funes campaign committee came from former Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. A Warrant has been issued for Vanda Pignato arrest. This was decided on the afternoon of Monday, 12 June 2018 by the Fifth Peace Court of San Salvador. Pignato is part of the case against former President Mauricio Funes for the crimes of embezzlement, and money and asset laundering. Jorge Cortez, head of the Financial Unit of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), explained that they had requested that Pignato only pay a bond to be processed in freedom as a consideration for her health condition. However, the judge decided to issue a warrant for her arrest since he believes Mrs. Pignato poses a flight risk.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Lou Briel.
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"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": "<s>Lou Briel Lou Briel (born October 19, 1954, Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer, composer, comedian, record producer, pianist, and host, among other things.</s><s>Musical career.</s><s>Musical career.:Early years with Anexo 3. Lou Briel started his career at a very young age as a singer, director and member of a pop musical group called \"Anexo 3\". Together they recorded four albums, the first two produced by Alfred D. Herger, and reached popularity with songs such as: \"Oh, Cuanto te Amo\" (\"Oh, how much I love you\"), \"Contigo\" (With you), & \"Por eso estoy Preso\", (That's why I'm a prisoner), among others. For two consecutive years, \"Anexo 3\" won the second prize of the local OTI Festival in Telemundo with the songs: \"Tengo Vida\" (\"I'm full of life\"), and \"Más Allá de mis Canciones\" (\"Beyond my songs\"). Both songs were written by Lou Briel and his group partner, Julio Ortiz-Teissonniere. They produced and hosted a television"
},
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"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": " variety show titled \"Contigo... Anexo 3\", (\"With you... Anexo 3\") broadcast by Rikavisión (Channel 7). \"See:Anexo 3\" Anexo 3 also recorded a commercial for Datsun which was very popular on Puerto Rican television at the time. In it, Briel appeared driving a Datsun car while singing the jingle, \"Mirame, en esta via, Datsun es perfecto para mi\" (\"Look at me, in this driveway, Datsun is perfect for me\")</s><s>Musical career.:As a solo artist. \"Anexo 3\" broke up and Lou Briel started working on his solo career. In 1984, Briel reached popularity with the song: \"Yo puedo\" (\"I Can\"), a song written specially for Puerto Rico's Diva Yolandita an inspirational song about perseverance. He toured throughout Latin American countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Santo Domingo, and also toured the United States. He also reached one of the first places, in the song festival called \"Festi-Buga\" in Buga, Colombia, with this song. Lou Briel has represented Puerto Rico four times at the"
},
{
"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": " International OTI Festival as a composer: - In 1983, with \"Navegaré\", (\"Staying Afloat\") sung by Edgardo Huertas in Washington, D.C. - In 1984, with \"Todo llega\", (\"Everything comes around\"), sung by himself in Mexico City - In 1985, with \"Represento\", (\"I Represent\"), sung by Juan Manuel Lebrón in Sevilla, Spain \"See Lou Briel video singing \"Represento\":\" - In 1990, with \"La Mujer que Sueño Ser\", (\"The Woman I long to be\"), sung by his niece Ivonne Briel (now known as \"Arana\") in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lou Briel also wrote several songs that participated in other song festivals, such as the 1981 \"Festival de la Canción de Trujillo\" (\"Trujillo's Song Festival\") in Perú, and the 1992 \"Festival de la Voz y la Canción de Mérida\" (\"Méridas's Voice & Song Festival\") in Yucatán, México. Many international Latin singers have recorded Lou Briel's compositions, such as, Yolandita Monge, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Juan"
},
{
"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": " Manuel Lebrón, Zeny & Zory, Jose Feliciano, Tony Vega, Johanna Rosaly, Los Chicos, Pedro Brull, Sophy, Johnny Rivera, and Grupo Marfil (band) (from Costa Rica).</s><s>Musical career.:Television composer. Lou Briel has also created works for television programs and telenovelas, as opening & title songs. - De Fiesta con Nydia Nydia Caro (1980s), Telemundo \"-Opening and closing title song-\" - Estudio Alegre Awilda Carbia, Juan Manuel Lebrón, Otilio Warrington (1980s), Telemundo \"-Opening and closing song-\" - El Amor Nuestro de Cada Día Johanna Rosaly 1980, WAPA-TV \"-Soap opera title theme song-\" - Y Esto Qué Es Rafael Jose (1990s), \"Tele Isla\" \"Opening and closing title song\" - Ave de Paso Yolandita Monge, (1989), Tele-Once, \"soap opera theme song: Nunca Te Diré Adiós\" among many other variety shows, mini series, TV station promotions, movie soundtracks, television commercials, and so forth.</s>"
},
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"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": "<s>Acting career.</s><s>Acting career.:Television. In 1985, Lou Briel starred, hosted and was the script-writer of a television musical-comedy show in Telemundo called \"En Broma y en Serio\", (\"Joking & Seriously\") together with Puerto Rican comedian and singer Dagmar, produced by Paquito Cordero. He also produced, wrote and hosted a children's television series called: Teatrimundo, broadcast by Telemundo alongside Sandra Zaiter. He characterized himself as \"Lubrielito\", a 7-year-old child, whose best pal and \"puppy love\" was \"Dagmarita\", a fellow child role, portrayed by Dagmar. In 1991, he played the leading role as an actor-comedian in the TV sitcom called \"Cara o Cruz\", (\"Heads or Tails\"), broadcast by WAPA-TV, opposite singer & actor, \"Edgardo Huertas\", (\"whose first daughter Ambar, is Lou Briel's goddaughter\"). This show was written and directed by Spanish comedian, Joaquín Monserrat (\"Pacheco\").</s><s>Acting career.:Voces en Función. From 1995 to"
},
{
"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": " 2001, Lou Briel produced and hosted his own variety show titled Voces en Función, (\"Voices in Performance\") where he presented guest stars and young new talents. The show was taped in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico at the Teatro Yagüez and broadcast by WIPR-TV. {\"See:VEF\"}</s><s>Acting career.:Theatre. As an actor-comedian, Lou Briel has starred in various Zarzuelas & Operettas in Centro de Bellas Artes in Santurce. Some of them are: - \"La Viuda Alegre\" (\"The Merry Widow\") - \"La del Soto del Parral\", (The Grapevine Thicket) - \"Las Leandras\", (The Leanders) - \"El Huesped del Sevillano\", (The Guest of the Sevillian) - \"El Conde de Luxemburgo, (\"The Count of Luxembourg\") - \"La Duquesa del Tabarín\" (\"The Duchess of the Small Tavern\") - \"Amalia Batista\", (Amalia Batter), among others. He has also interpreted Sancho Panza from \"Don Quixote\" for different theater companies. Lou B"
},
{
"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": "riel has also starred in various children's musicals like: - \"Jack y la Mata de Guisantes\" (\"Jack and the Beanstalk\") - \"Los Pitufos\" (\"The Smurfs\") - \"Sueños de Niño\" (\"Child Dreams\") - \"Las Aventuras de Lubrielito\" (\"The Adventures of Lubrielito\") - \"La Bella Durmiente\" (\"Sleeping Beauty\") - \"Los Lobos Malos\" (\"The Bad Wolves\") - \"Tarzán, el Defensor de la Naturaleza\" (\"Tarzan, Defender of Nature\"), among others.</s><s>Recent years. In 2004, Lou Briel reprised his role of \"Lubrielito\" as the leading actor in the family oriented TV film \"Yo Creo en Santa Claus\" (\"I Believe in Santa Claus\"). The film was produced by Leo Fernández III and also starred Lorel Crespo in her child role as \"Lucía\". The film was broadcast by Televicentro and WAPA-America. He was also the main director and composer, performing also on the soundtrack and title song of the movie. In 2005, he directed and performed in the inspirational video clip \""
},
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"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": "Dios Alumbra a Puerto Rico\" (\"God Enlightens Puerto Rico\"). It was the first time that 40 Latin pop and Christian gospel music celebrities joined for a laudable purpose, the eradication of child abuse. In 2006, Lou Briel carried out a nine-month engagement at the \"Show Time\" nightspot, with his club act, \"Bohemia Live\". As of 2007, Lou Briel has been performing in \"Solo para Hombres.. y para Mujeres tambien\", in New York City, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo, as a singer, pianist, and musical director alongside, Nancy Alvarez, host of \"¿Quién Tiene La Razón?\", broadcast by Telefutura. Briel's presently featured as an MC and singer in the \"Puerto Rican Folkloric Revue\", (designed for tourists), and including native folkloric music and dance, for English-speaking audiences. This spectacle is staged throughout the island and it also has a Spanish version. This performance is produced by \"Entertainment Concepts Inc\". As of 2008, Briel is featured, along Yoyo Boing, Shorty Castro, Dreuxilla Divine, Jose Miguel Class, and"
},
{
"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": " Francisco Rosa, at the \"La Receta de la Abuela Tour\" (Grandma's Recipe Tour), throughout the island of P.R., sponsored by MCS Classic Care, and produced & MC'd, by Luisito Vigoreaux.</s><s>Discography. - \"Solo Por Fin\" (1981, CBS) - \"Yo Puedo\" (1984, Global-K-Tel) - \"Olas\" (1987, Velvet) - \"En Broma y en Serio en la Navidad con Dagmar\" (1986, TeleCumbre) - \"Reflejos\" (1988, LBM) - \"Sigamos Brindando con Ivonne Briel\" (1988, LBM) - \"En Otra Frecuencia\" (1991, LBM) - \"Edición Especial\" (1996, LBM) - \"Aplauso à la Bachata con Pascual\" (2004, GOGO) - \"Lou Briel con La Maphia Boba... Adondequiera\" (2008, JODIBA)http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49886805477</s><s>See also."
},
{
"title": "Lou Briel",
"text": " - Voces en Función - Teatrimundo - List of singer-songwriters - List of notable residents of San Juan, Puerto Rico - List of TV theme song composers - List of composers by nationality - Puerto Rican Songwriters</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Diego Suarez (garden designer).
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"title": "Diego Suarez (garden designer)",
"text": "<s>Diego Suarez (garden designer) Diego Suarez (1888 in Bogotá, Colombia – 14 September 1974 in New York City, New York) was a garden designer best known for his work at James Deering's Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida. He also served as a press attaché and minister counselor for Chile in Washington, D.C. from 1948 until 1952 and counselor to the Colombian delegation to the United Nations.</s><s>Family background. A son of Roberto Suarez, a Colombian diplomat and historian, and his Italian wife, the former Maria Costa (1870–1949), Suarez and his sisters, Camelia and Lucia, and brother, Roberto, spent their childhood in their mother's native country after the death of their father. Suarez took courses as an architectural designer at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. There the young man was taken up by Arthur Acton of the well-known English expatriate family, who was engaged in restoring the gardens of the Acton villa outside Florence, Villa La Pietra, where the formal terraced plan had been swept away in the early nineteenth century by the fashion for English landscape gardens in the naturalistic manner. Acton passed to Suarez, who went four or five"
},
{
"title": "Diego Suarez (garden designer)",
"text": " days a week to the villa, some of the formal Renaissance garden ideals that were being revived in the late nineteenth century by designers such as Achille Duchêne. Through Acton, whose wife was an American heiress, Suarez was introduced into the Anglo-American community of Florence, where he began to lay out gardens, notably, he remembered years later, one at Villa Schifanoia for Lewis Einstein and another for Charles Loeser, one of the first collectors of Paul Cézanne.</s><s>Career as garden designer.</s><s>Career as garden designer.:Villa Vizcaya. In May 1914, when James Deering, the International Harvester heir, and his travelling companion and long-term artistic advisor Paul Chalfin, a decorative painter and interior decorator who once worked for Elsie de Wolfe, were lent one of the smaller casinas at La Pietra, Acton commissioned Suarez to take them around and show them some villas they would not otherwise have had access to. Among the Anglo-Americans in Florence was Lady Sybil Cutting, who had the Villa Medici in Fiesole, and who suggested that Suarez accompany her to America. The outbreak of war marooned Suarez in New York, where he"
},
{
"title": "Diego Suarez (garden designer)",
"text": " met a likable young Italian with whom he roomed cheaply in Brooklyn but kept up his connections. Thus it was lunching at the Ritz with Mrs. Albert Gallatin that he ran into Deering and Chalfin, and through the old connection he was invited to design the garden for Villa Vizcaya. Aside from the straight landward approach avenue, less commonly used then than now, the gardens at Villa Vizcaya are centered on two of the façades. One is the boat basin facing Biscayne Bay; its central island is in the form of a boat, railed by balustrades that are punctuated by obelisks, with central landing stairs shoreside and bayside, and bosquets of trees at bow and stern. The main extent of the gardens faces south, with a central axis that rises to a casino, and radiating side axes that offer glimpses of the lake beyond their ends. The main garden element, which had been purchased on one of Deering and Chalfin's trips before the villa was laid out, was the fountain from the main piazza of Bassano di Sutri, near Viterbo, which Deering and Chalfin were convinced was by Vignola."
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"title": "Diego Suarez (garden designer)",
"text": " Rather than displaying it in the central axis, Suarez sited it at the end of its own cross-axis, not to be discovered until the visitor had penetrated deep into the plan. The design was richly patterned on the ground, with \"parterres en broderie\" in the French baroque taste, contrasts of sun and shade, and many slight changes of level to enliven the essentially flat site.</s><s>Career as garden designer.:Suarez House. In 1952, in collaboration with the architect Frederic Rhinelander King, Suarez completed a neoclassical house with extensive gardens at Brookville, New York.</s><s>Marriage. In 1937, in Monterey, California, Diego Suarez married Evelyn Marshall Field (1888–1979), the daughter of Charles Henry Marshall and first wife of department-store heir Marshall Field III. Evelyn was a sister-in-law of the future Brooke Astor. By that marriage, Suarez had three stepchildren: Barbara Field, Bettine Field, and Marshall Field IV.</s><s>Burial. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.</s><s>References. - James T. Maher, \"Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the"
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"title": "Diego Suarez (garden designer)",
"text": " Age of American Palaces\" (Boston: Little, Brown) 1975</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Haruto Takahashi.
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"title": "Haruto Takahashi",
"text": "<s>Haruto Takahashi is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball.</s><s>Early baseball career. Influenced by his older brother, Haruto played softball at an early age, then played little league baseball for the Nishina Shonen Baseball Club in his hometown in Shizuoka.。 He entered Tokoha University Tachibana Integrated High, where doubling as a pitcher and right fielder, he helped his school win the national junior high softball tournament. In his 2nd year in high school, he pitched as a reliever in the 2012 Summer Koshien, but his team lost in the 1st round. The next year, despite declaring his intentions to become a professional baseball player after graduation, none of the teams drafted him, so he entered Asia University in Tokyo instead. He became a regular starter as his team participated in the Tohto University Baseball League, and even made it all the way to the 2016 Japan National Collegiate Baseball Championship Tournament where he was awarded Best 8. He finished with 5 wins, 7 losses and a 3.57 ERA in 31 league appearances.</s><s>Hanshin Tigers. He was the Tiger's 2nd round pick during the 2017 NPB draft. He"
},
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"title": "Haruto Takahashi",
"text": " signed a 70 million yen contract with Hanshin, for an estimated annual salary of 12 million yen. He was assigned jersey number 29. 2018 The coaches made him undergo strength training during spring camp to improve his weak pitching arm as they've seen its potential. Shortly into the season, he was given the opportunity to debut as the starter for the April 11 match against the Carps. He pitched seven shutout innings and allowed only 2 hits and no runs, earning him his first career win. This victory made him the first Hanshin rookie pitcher in 6 decades to win his debut match in Koshien Stadium (since Minoru Murayama won against the Swallows in April 1959). Despite his starts having wider rest intervals than the team's other starting pitchers due to his weak arm, his continuous starts took its toll in June, prompting the coaches to stop him from pitching any further before his arm gets worse. His season ended with a 2–3 win loss record, and a 3.63 ERA. He received a 1 million raise in November, bringing his total annual salary to 13 million yen. 2019 He spent the first few months in the farm to give his arm more time to heal. His first start came on May 5 against the Baystars, but he failed to secure"
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"title": "Haruto Takahashi",
"text": " a win after giving up 5 runs in 4 innings. He also lost his next start, but redeemed himself on May 30 when he pitched 7 solid innings against the Giants and won the game. This was his first official win in more than a year. He continued to pitch well afterwards and was even in the running for the July MVP of the month after giving up at most 2 runs in 6 consecutive starts, but he kept failing to secure a win due to lack of run support. His continued starts took its toll on his arm once more however, and he went into a slump later in the season, losing 3 out of his 4 matches in September. He also pitched in relief during Randy Messenger's retirement game on September 29, and recorded his first career hold after pitching 2 scoreless innings. He finished the season with 3 wins, 9 losses, 1 hold and a 3.78 ERA in 19 game appearances. After Hanshin finished 3rd in the overall rankings, he started 2 games during the post-season Climax Series and helped his team beat the Baystars to reach the final stage. His improved performance earned him a 9 million pay raise, bringing his total annual salary to 22 million yen. 2020 Despite seeing less playtime in 2020 as the NPB season was shortened due"
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"title": "Haruto Takahashi",
"text": " to the Covid-19 pandemic, Takahashi brought his A-game early on. He held the Giants scoreless during his first start on August 6 and fanned a career first of 11. He gave away only 2 runs in his next 2 starts and finished August with 0.82 ERA. His early success against the Giants prompted the team to schedule most of his starts against them, and the gamble paid off as he notched a 2.03 ERA and gave away only 1 home run in all of his 6 starts against them. He was particularly effective against Giants prolific hitter Hayato Sakamoto who only managed 2 hits out of 16 at-bats (0.125). In contrast, he wasn't as effective against the Baystars where he recorded 4.91 ERA and 3 home runs in 2 starts. On October 5, he struck out a career-high of 14 and went the distance on 113 pitches to record his first career complete win. He finished the season with 5-4 in 12 starts, and a personal best ERA of 2.49 - second among the team's starters, behind Yuki Nishi's 2.26. 4 of his 5 wins were earned at their home stadium Koshien where he recorded a 1.47 ERA out of"
},
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"title": "Haruto Takahashi",
"text": " 5 starts there. This earned him a 7 million pay raise to bring his annual salary to 29 million yen. His success during this season was partly attributed to forming his batteries with Seishiro Sakamoto instead of the team's mainstay catcher Umeno. After observing each batter, Sakamoto was able to set a good tempo for his throws and cleverly mixed the fastballs with the breaking pitches to confuse the opponent. Sakamoto also tends to direct Takahashi's pitches towards the edges of the strikezone</s><s>Pitching Style. A 5'11 southpaw pitcher with three quarters delivery, he throws a four-seam fastball as his main pitch, coupled with a cutter, a two-seamer, and an occasional curveball and slider. Despite his weak arm, his fastest pitch was clocked at. His fastballs average around while his breaking balls were clocked around the range.</s><s>Career Statistics. - NPB Statistics</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Karni Liddell.
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"title": "Karni Liddell",
"text": "<s>Karni Liddell Karni Liddell (born 1 March 1979) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia.</s><s>Personal. Liddell was born on 1 March 1979 in Rockhampton, Queensland. She is a radio presenter for 4BC. At twelve months old, Liddell was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy a rare neuromuscular wasting disease. Karni was misdiagnosed for 40 years and has recently been diagnosed with Congenital Titinopathy which is also a neuromuscular wasting disease. Karni was diagnosed via a whole genome sequencing test performed in Europe in 2019 and Karni and her family had been looking for a diagnosis for the past 12 years and this has been a lengthy, traumatic and expensive process for her family. Her parents were told by doctors that she would never be able to walk and that she would not live past her teens. Liddell, alongside Branka Pupovac, Hamish MacDonald and Charmaine Dalli, was one of eighteen Australian Paralympians photographed by Emma Hack for a nude calendar. Liddell's photography depicts her wearing sunglasses and a covered in body paint made to look like a polka-dotted bikini. In 2008,"
},
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"title": "Karni Liddell",
"text": " she was one of several Queenslanders to have their images painted by Ludmila Clark to have the picture go on display at the Customs House in Rockhampton.</s><s>Swimming. By the age of 14, Liddell had broken a swimming world record. She has competed at two Paralympic Games: 1996 and 2000. She won medals at both Games and was the Australian Swimming Team Captain at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Douglas Wood (engineer).
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"title": "Douglas Wood (engineer)",
"text": "<s>Douglas Wood (engineer) Douglas Wood (30 June 1941 – 31 December 2019), was an Australian construction engineer who had worked with the American military, and was held hostage in Iraq for six weeks between May and June 2005, before being rescued.</s><s>Early life. Wood was born in Whyalla, South Australia in 1941. He moved to Geelong where he attended the Geelong College and the Gordon Institute of TAFE, graduating as a mechanical engineer. In 1973 he left Australia to work in the United States, moving to Alamo, California, where he lived with his American wife and daughter, and employed by construction company Bechtel Corporation for 25 years. He later formed his own company and moved from his Californian home to Iraq. His work involved project management, and building nuclear plants; including the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating station in Arizona.</s><s>Kidnapping. In 2005, Wood was kidnapped along with two Iraqi business associates and forced into a cell, while at a home in Baghdad, Iraq where he was organising a business deal. On 2 May 2005, Arabic television network al-Jazeera broadcast footage of Wood being held by armed captors, identified as the \"Shura Council\" of the \"Mujahideen of Iraq"
},
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"title": "Douglas Wood (engineer)",
"text": "\". Wood is shown pleading for his life, and urges Australia and the United States to withdraw their troops from the country. On 4 May 2005, Al-Jazeera broadcast an appeal by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Wood's brothers for the insurgents to free Wood. By 7 May 2005, new footage emerged showing Wood, having sustained injuries, with machine guns held to his head. In the video, he read aloud an order to withdraw troops from Iraq within 72 hours. In response, Imam Sheik Alhilali flew to Iraq on 9 May 2005 to attempt to assist with Wood's release. It is during this time that Alhilali claims to have seen Wood, confirming that he was still alive. In response to suggestions that the Australian government or Wood's family might make payments to the kidnappers, Prime Minister John Howard stated that Australia will neither pull troops out, nor pay any ransom that might be demanded. Downer added that any concession to demands could encourage further kidnappings. Wood's family conducted a public relations campaign in both Australia and Iraq, to convince Mr Wood's captors that he was a family man who sympathises with their cause. On 10 May 2005, the deadline given by the kidnappers expired at 5pm Australian time, however there was no"
},
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"title": "Douglas Wood (engineer)",
"text": " indication that Wood had been killed. Six weeks after his capture, Wood was found and rescued by Iraqi army troops from a house in Ghazaliya, with assistance from U.S. forces. The Iraqi troops were performing a routine raid of a suspected weapons cache at the house, before finding Wood. Brigadier General Jaleel Khalaf Shewi, commander of the Iraqi brigade which rescued Wood, said a brief firefight had taken place during the operation, but there were no casualties on either side. It was revealed that Wood's Iraqi business associates were killed a month earlier. On 15 June 2005, news of the rescue was relayed to senior Australian diplomat in Baghdad, Nick Warner. Footage was aired in Australia by CNN showing Wood talking to soldiers and sitting up in bed in a medical facility in Baghdad. Prime Minister John Howard subsequently acknowledged the efforts of Australia's Muslim community and senior cleric Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, while also confirming that no ransom had been paid. On 20 June, Muslim Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali returned to Australia, claiming that Douglas Wood would have been killed if it had not been for his intervention. Wood has, however, denied that he ever spoke to Alhilali during his capture.</s>"
},
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"title": "Douglas Wood (engineer)",
"text": "<s>Aftermath and political position. In 2009, Wood contacted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, claiming that seven of the ten Iraqi soldiers who rescued Wood in 2005 have been systematically murdered. He argues that they were targeted after giving evidence against his kidnappers. In response, two Iraqi service personnel were granted permanent refugee visas under Australia's humanitarian program, after an assessment of their applications found they were in grave and imminent danger. Wood had previously worked on the failed feasibility study for the Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant, and in response to John Howard's plan for nuclear power production in Australia, Wood stated that he would happily live next door to a nuclear power plant, and would assist in development of an Australian nuclear energy industry. However, he stated his concerns that Australia's engineers and industrial suppliers are under-qualified to build a local plant.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Aditya Kalyanpur.
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"title": "Aditya Kalyanpur",
"text": "<s>Aditya Kalyanpur Aditya Kalyanpur (born 21 July 1978) is an Indian Tabla Maestro. He belongs to the Punjab gharana.</s><s>Early life and background. Aditya Kalyanpur was born in Mumbai, India. He began his studies at the age of five under the guidance of Tabla Maestro late Alla Rakha Khan and his son Zakir Hussain. He is a commerce graduate from Mithibai College.</s><s>Performing career. Aditya Kalyanpur was initially known for his debut performance with his guru Zakir Hussain for the Wah Taj! commercial when he was 11 years old. His style consists of bold and clear execution of syllables, pinpoint precision in rhythm coupled with a colossal repertoire of compositions and improvisational technique. He has accompanied artists including Shivkumar Sharma, Amjad Ali Khan, Prabha Atre, N. Rajam, Sultan Khan, Shahid Parvez, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Satish Vyas, Shujaat Khan, and Nayan Ghosh. He has also accompanied Carnatic performers including T. N. Krishnan, N. Ramani, U. Shrinivas, and Lalgudi Krish"
},
{
"title": "Aditya Kalyanpur",
"text": "nan. Kalyanput went on tour with A.R. Rahman for his JAI HO World Tour! He can be heard on Katy Perry's \"Legendary Lovers\" from her album \"Prism,\" has recorded with Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.</s><s>Awards. - \"TOP\" Grade Artist of All India Radio - 'Taal – Mani' by Sur Singar Samiti - Vidyasagar Award, ITC - Sangeet Visharad - National Scholarship for Advanced Training, Government of India - Awardee of Pandit Jasraj Competition, Vedic Heritage Center, Long Island, New York</s><s>Performances. - Orient Arts Festival, Estonia - Edinburgh festival, Scotland (2003) - Earagal Arts Festival, Ireland - Jazz Yatra, Mumbai - Great Lakes Folk Festival, Lansing, Michigan - Saptak Festival</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of D. B. Nihalsinghe.
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": "<s>D. B. Nihalsinghe Dr. Diongu Badaturuge Nihalsingha (known as \"D. B. Nihalsinghe\", 27 May 1939 – 21 April 2016) was an accomplished Sri Lankan film director, cinematographer, editor, producer. He was noted for his versatility : as a film cameraman, as a film director, as a (pioneering) television director, as an administrator, and as a teacher. He is a pioneer who introduced professional television production to Sri Lanka (in 1979), commencing with Sri Lanka's and South Asia's first color teledrama, \"Dimuthu Muthu\". He was the founding Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Sri Lanka's National Film Corporation and a distinguished alumni of the then University of Ceylon, Peradeniya (presently University of Peradeniya). He is the only Sri Lankan who has been conferred Life Fellowship of the Society of Motion picture and Television Engineers USA, the oldest film organisation in the world, established in 1915. The Society determines film and television standards worldwide. His best known work is \"Welikathara\", Sri Lanka's first and South Asia's second Cinemascope film, included as among the ten best"
},
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": " Sri Lankan films awarded the Sri Lanka Presidential award, while \"Maldeniye Simiyon\" is also noted for the award for its actress Anoja Weerasinghe as Best Actress at the 16th New Delhi International Film Festival. Two more of his films, \"Ridei Nimanaya\" and \"Kelimadala\" are also noteworthy, with the latter winning the highest number of national awards at that time. He is also notable for being the pioneer with first ever degree for TV and cinema degree from the University of Kelaniya.</s><s>Biography.</s><s>Biography.:Early life. Nihalsinghe was an accomplished student leader as Head Prefect and as Sergeant of the cadet platoon at Ananda college and originally hoped to join the army. By the time he left school he had become more interested in film. As a present for completing the SSC examination, Nihalsinghe's father veteran journalist D.B Dhanapala presented him with a 16mm Bolex cine camera. Nihalsingha entered the University of Ceylon at Peradeniya and read for a degree in Economics. While at the University he did the camera work for the first documentary to be made by University"
},
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": " students, \"Niyanada Rata\", directed by a student K.K.L de Silva. After leaving the University, Nihalsingha got an opportunity to enter the film field when a friend of his father offered him a job as a cameraman for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Colombo which he took. In 1965 he was offered a post with Hearst Metrotone News on the weekly newsreel, \"Metro News\" for the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam.</s><s>Biography.:Film career. On his return to Sri Lanka, Nihalsinghe was asked to be cameraman and editor of \"Sath Samudura\". He brought to the film a fluid newsreel look, (a total departure from the Indian studio style camera work) hand-holding the 35mm Arriflex film camera- a point which was noted by reviewers. He is famous for the first teledrama in Sri Lanka, Dimuthu muthu. Nihalsingha received the Cardiff Commonwealth Film Festival award for his first film \"Bakhti\". In 1971, he made the groundbreaking \"Welikathara\" in cinemascope. \"Welikathara\" was South Asia's second CinemaScope film and"
},
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": " Sri Lanka's first. \"Maldeniye Simiyon\" (1986) won star Anoja Weerasinghe the 'Silver Peacock' as the Best Actress at the 11th Delhi International Film Festival, 1987. \"Kelimadala\" (1992) won a dozen awards at the Sarasaviya film festival. \"Ridi Nimnaya\" (1982) starred Sanath Gunatileke.</s><s>Biography.:Industry work. After graduating from the University of Ceylon with a degree in Economics, Nihalsingha began his career, winning the Most Promising Filmmaker award for his documentary \"Bhakthi\" at the Cardiff International Film Festival in 1965. He then began as a newsreel cameraman for Hearst Metrotone News, the US-based weekly global newsreel, in 1965. He was sent to Vietnam attached to the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MAC-V) to cover war-related work for the \"NEWS of the DAY\" weekly global newsreel. Returning to Sri Lanka, he began a career in film encompassing documentary and feature films beginning as cameraman and editor of \"Sath Samudura\", (Nuwan Nayanajith in N"
},
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": "ihalsingha:The Pioneering Third Eye) as a milestone in Sri Lankan cinema. His fluid camera work in this film, originating from his newsreel experience, was widely recognised as fresh in an industry where massive Mitchell Indian-style immobile camera work was the norm. At the age of 29, Nihalsingha became the youngest person to hold the post of Director of the Ceylon Government Film Unit, succeeding George Wicremasinghe (who was its first Sri Lankan Director). The Government Film Unit is the one institution with continuity whose productions have won the highest number of international awards for its documentaries. Besides invigorating documentary film production, he was instrumental in introducing 35 mm still film to Sri Lanka to replace 120 film when he was asked to oversee the photographic aspects of the National Identity Card project. Using Practica cameras gifted by the (then) East Germany and amid much opposition of photographers, he managed to win them over and thereby establish 35 mm still film as the staple of Sri Lankan still photography until that was overtaken by digital photography. Nihalsingha's skill as film administrator was best seen in the work he did as founding CEO and general manager of the State Film Corporation from 1972 to 1978. To offset"
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": " foreign domination of Sri Lankan theatres (80 percent), Nihalsingha launched a series of initiatives which unleashed the suppressed demand for domestically produced films. The initiatives resulted in audience surging from 30 million a year in annual attendances in 1971 to an unprecedented 74.4 million by 1979. The domestic film share of screen time went up from 20% in 1971 to 58% in 1979.( Committee of Inquiry Report, 1985; Committee Report 1997)</s><s>Awards. Nihalsingha was awarded the Sri Lankan national honour of \"KalaKeerthi\" for his lifetime contribution to Sri Lankan film and television while the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers of America (SMPTE) made him a Fellow and later, Life Fellow in 2004 for \"achieving outstanding rank among engineers and administrators in motion pictures and television by proficiency and contributions.\" He was the only Fellow of the SMPTE in Sri Lanka and South Asia. SMPTE is the oldest film and television body in the world, formed in 1915 in New York. It determines motion picture and television standards. British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society also made him a Fellow of the society in recognition of lifetime services to film and television in Sri Lanka and South Asia for \""
},
{
"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": "the development of film and television production techniques\" which included pioneering professional color television production in South Asia in 1979. In 1979, Nihalsingha left the State Film Corporation and formed the Tele-Cine Limited with the help of Hemasiri Premawarne and Chandra Seneviratne. Tele-Cine Ltd was South Asia's and Sri Lanka's pioneer in professional color television production of television drama, commercials, musicals and documentary. As CEO of Tele-Cine for 16 years, Nihalsingha directed and pioneered the first television drama series in South Asia, \"Dimuthu Muthu\", starring Devika Mihirani and Amarasiri Kanlansooriya. He later went on to direct several pioneering tele-drama series, creating the template for tele-drama production and training and introducing technical personnel in a context where there were none. This is a legacy which lasts to this day in Sri Lanka. In 1995, Nihalsingha resigned from TCL in 1994 when he was invited to join Television Broadcast (Overseas) Limited in Hong Kong. He was sent to Malaysia's ASTRO as its general manager of Film and Television Production and later, in 2003, as its Executive Director of Feature Film"
},
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"title": "D. B. Nihalsinghe",
"text": " Production. In Kuala Lumpur, Nihalsingha trained several hundred Malaysian young people in all facets of film and television production. He returned to Sri Lanka in early 2006 and was active in migration of film to digital and television migration to digital. Besides a BA in Economics from the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Nihalsingha has an MA in Film Studies from the Norwich University, Vermont, USA and a PhD in Public Enterprises from the University of South Australia in Adelaide.</s><s>References. \"Public Enterprise in Film Development-Success and Failure in Sri Lanka\", by Trafford Publishing, British Columbia, Canada.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Yehuda Lindell.
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"title": "Yehuda Lindell",
"text": "<s>Yehuda Lindell Yehuda Lindell (born 24 February 1971) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University where he conducts research on cryptography with a focus on the theory of secure computation and its application in practice. Lindell currently leads the cryptography team at Coinbase.</s><s>Education and academic positions. Lindell received a BSc and Msc degree in computer science from Bar-Ilan University. He then obtained a PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2002. Lindell received a Raviv Fellowship and spent two years at IBM's cryptography research group at the T.J. Watson Research Center. In 2004, he returned to Israel to take up an academic position at Bar-Ilan University. Lindell's work on secure computation was recognized by the award of an ERC starting grant in 2009 and an ERC consolidators grant in 2014. Lindell was appointed as an IACR Fellow in 2021.</s><s>Industry experience. Lindell worked from 2004 to 2014 as a permanent cryptographic consultant to Safenet, formally Aladdin. He co-founded the company Unbound Security, and served as its Chief Scientist from 2014 to 2018. In early 2019, he took over the role"
},
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"title": "Yehuda Lindell",
"text": " of CEO of Unbound Security, taking leave from Bar-Ilan University. In January 2022, Unbound Security was acquired by Coinbase, and Lindell now leads their cryptography team.</s><s>Research. Lindell's main contributions are in the field of secure multiparty computation. Lindell's research initially focused on theoretical feasibility, and in particular in the area of protocol composition. Lindell has carried out extensive research on efficient two-party secure computation via the Yao garbled circuit construction, and on efficient multiparty computation for the multiparty honest-majority setting based on Secret sharing. His most cited work is a joint paper with Benny Pinkas on privacy preserving data mining in which the use of secure computation was proposed for performing data mining algorithms; in particular the ID3 algorithm. Lindell provided the first proof of security for the basic Yao protocol, and the first proof of security for the BGW protocol. Lindell has also worked on the design of two-party protocols which are secure against active adversaries, the introduction of the concept of covert adversarial models, and much more. Lindell won the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Math in 2006 for his work on the composition of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement, and the best paper award at"
},
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"title": "Yehuda Lindell",
"text": " ACM CCS 2016 for work on high-throughput MPC protocols. In 2021, Lindell published a review article on secure multiparty computation in the Communications of the ACM. Lindell is also the co-inventor of the AES-GCM-SIV mode of operation for symmetric encryption, standardized by the IETF Crypto Forum Research Group in RFC 8452. He received the best paper award at ACM CCS 2017 for the research paper behind AES-GCM-SIV. Lindell is also the author of a textbook with Jonathan Katz on modern cryptography. This textbook is utilized in many universities around the world as a standard reference work.</s><s>Books. - {{cite book | author = Yehuda Lindell - {{cite book | author = Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell - {{cite book | author = Carmit Hazay and Yehuda Lindell - {{cite book | editor = Yehuda Lindell - {{cite book | author = Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell - {{cite book | editor = Yehuda Lindell - {{cite book | author = Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell</s><s>References.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ted Mack (politician).
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": "<s>Ted Mack (politician) Edward Carrington Mack (20 December 1933 – 6 November 2018) was an architect and Australian politician. He is the only person ever to have been elected and re-elected as an independent to local, state, and federal government in Australia, and is often referred to as the \"father of the independents\". He chose to serve for only two terms in both the New South Wales state seat of North Shore and the federal seat of North Sydney to avoid receiving a parliamentary pension.</s><s>Early life. Mack was born in the Sydney suburb of Paddington and educated at Sydney Boys High School, finishing in 1950. He completed national service in the RAAF in 1951–1952 at Albury. At the University of New South Wales, he trained as an architect, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1958. Following graduation, he married Wendy, with whom he has two daughters, one of whom is consumer activist Jenni Mack, and two sons. He and his wife travelled to Europe and worked in London 1958–61. Returning to Australia he worked as an architect mainly on hospitals and public housing until 1974 and in private practice until 1980. He supervised the construction of the Port Kembla district hospital (1961–63) and was later"
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " appointed as Architect-in-charge of Hospital design and construction at the NSW Public Works Department in 1966. In 1972 he was appointed as Assistant Chief Architect at the NSW Housing Commission. In 1975, he was appointed to a committee chaired by H.C. Coombs (former Governor of both the Commonwealth and Reserve Banks) to monitor and advise on Aboriginal housing in remote areas of Australia. Between 1974 and 1980, Mack was also employed as a part-time tutor at UNSW in architecture.</s><s>Political career. Mack began to take an interest in politics in 1970 after the North Sydney Municipal Council approved construction of a 17-storey office block near his residence. He subsequently ran for election to the council in 1974 and was successful. He was re-elected as an Alderman in 1977 and 1980. He was elected by the council as mayor in 1980, 1981, and 1982. He was re-elected by popular vote in 1983 and 1987. He began his term as mayor by selling the mayoral Mercedes-Benz car to help buy community buses. For the next eight years he used his 1951 Citroen as the mayoral car at no cost to the ratepayers. He relinquished his private architectural practice on becoming mayor. He introduced open government policies making all council meetings, committees"
},
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " and council files open to the public. There were no meetings of any sort from which the public or press were excluded while he was mayor. Public participation in decision making was created through the establishment of some 24 precinct committees, some 3000 public meetings and 36 referendums over his eight years as mayor. Under Mack's leadership the council decided all decision making is ultimately the right of the public not aldermen – irrespective of the merits of the public decision. He initiated a policy of raising funds from sources other than rates, with the result that rates fell from 66% of council's income in 1980 to 38% in 1987. In that year North Sydney was named as the top Sydney council in an independent financial analysis. This enabled the council to establish a large public works program without using rates or loans to fund it. The works program consisted of several new and renovated parks, four multi-storey car parks, four new childcare facilities, four renovated community centres and one major new community centre, four new tennis centres, two renovated public swimming pools, major library extensions, major renovations to North Sydney Oval, over one hundred new public housing dwellings (funded by the State Government), major streetscape improvements throughout the municipality, seats, signs, footpaths, lighting, forty bus shelters,"
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " some 50,000 street trees and a substantial number of commercial and retail establishments providing an income stream for council. Mack ensured that his name was not on any of the opening plaques for these facilities. He received a 90% vote at the 1987 mayoral election. In 1981, he decided to run as an independent for the newly created New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of North Shore, based in North Sydney. On paper, it was a comfortably safe Liberal seat; the North Shore has been the power base for the Liberals (and their predecessors) in Sydney for over a century. Mack nominated for North Shore after noticing that its new boundaries were virtually coextensive with the boundaries of the Municipality of North Sydney. Mack considered that being both mayor and state member for electorates that covered nearly identical boundaries would make both positions more effective. His opponent was state opposition leader Bruce McDonald. After the first count on election night he pushed the Labor candidate into third place, and ultimately defeated McDonald on Labor preferences—one of the few times a major-party leader has been defeated at any level in Australia. Mack did not accept a mayoral allowance for the next seven years. He was returned by comfortable margins in 1984 and 1988, the latter election coming as the Coalition won government in a landslide. Shortly"
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " after his 1988 victory, he abruptly retired from all of his offices. He did so just two days short of serving seven years in parliament, which would have made him eligible for parliamentary pension entitlements in excess of $1,000,000. Mack had always taken a dim view of what he perceived as the excesses of public political office, and decided to retire in protest. His retirement from both local and state government resulted in three by-elections for North Sydney ward alderman, North Sydney mayor and state member for North Shore. All three people he recommended for these positions were elected. Despite living nearby, for a time, he refused to travel across the Sydney Harbour Bridge or through the Sydney Harbour Tunnel in protest at the secret contract and awarding of all tolls to Kumagai Transfield for 30 years.</s><s>Federal politics. After 18 months out of politics, mainly spent camping in the outback, Mack achieved even broader fame by winning the federal seat of North Sydney in 1990. The seat had long been regarded as a blue-ribbon Liberal seat; it had been held by the Liberals or their predecessors since Federation. However, Mack defeated incumbent Liberal MP and Shadow Foreign Minister John Spender on a large swing. Mack led on the primary vote, while"
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " Spender lost over 18 percent of his primary vote from 1987. He was elected on the fourth count after Democrat and Labor preferences flowed overwhelmingly to him. Mack was narrowly re-elected in 1993.{{cite web Mack chose to retire from federal parliament at the 1996 election for the same reason he had previously chosen to retire from state parliament − to avoid receiving a parliamentary pension. When the Liberals held their preselection contest for the seat, they did not know at the time that Mack would not renominate, and Joe Hockey won the nomination with very little opposition. It is widely believed that Hockey would have faced a more rigorous preselection contest had it been known that Mack was retiring. North Sydney had always been a comfortably safe Liberal seat on a \"traditional\" two-party preferred basis, and it had been an almost foregone conclusion that it would revert to the Liberals once Mack retired. As expected, Hockey easily won the seat, and later went on to serve in various ministerial roles including Treasurer.</s><s>Post-political life. Mack was elected as an independent Republican delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention. He opposed the model favoured by the Australian Republican Movement. Along with Clem Jones, he was a director of Real Republic and was appointed to the official ten person \"no\""
},
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " committee for the 1999 referendum. In 1997, Ted Mack was elected as one of the one hundred \"National Living Treasures\", organised by the National Trust of Australia. After his retirement from federal parliament he was an occasional media political commentator, and was chosen to deliver the 2013 Sir Henry Parkes Oration entitled \"The State of the Federation\" at.</s><s>Post-political life.:2015 North Sydney by-election. Ahead of the 2015 North Sydney by-election held on 5 December, Mack re-entered the federal political arena by announcing he would steer the campaign of independent candidate Stephen Ruff, which had the support of some disgruntled Liberal supporters. A senior orthopaedic surgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital, Ruff was a late entrant into the 2015 New South Wales state election for the North Shore state seat, and despite little financial resources and facing veteran Liberal incumbent Jillian Skinner, Ruff still managed a vote in excess of 10 percent. Regarding the North Sydney by-election, Mack stated \"I've never seen an election where a Liberal candidate is so disliked by such a lot of Liberal members and Liberal voters\". Leaked emails showed potential voters were sent registration forms at 7:30 pm on a Thursday and asked to signal their availability, with the cut-off for rep"
},
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": "lying by noon the next day, and additionally, advance notice of the email and cut-off was provided to Liberal candidate Trent Zimmerman's backers. It was claimed up to 550 Liberal branch members were unable to vote after the Liberal state executive pushed through a shortened pre-selection process to select Zimmerman, who was also head of the body that sets the rules for Liberal pre-selections, which has been claimed as a \"complete conflict of interest\". Mack also claimed that much of the electorate was angered that the outgoing Joe Hockey, who penned the \"age of entitlement\" speech, had forced a $1-million by-election within a year of the 2016 federal election, with the expectation of becoming the next Ambassador of Australia to the United States. Ruff was ultimately unsuccessful, coming second to Zimmerman with a 19 percent primary and 40 percent two-candidate vote. It was only the second time in the seat's history that the successful Liberal candidate did not obtain a majority of the primary vote, having to rely on preferences after a larger than predicted double-digit primary vote swing.</s><s>Post-political life.:Health and death. In 2016 it was reported that Mack had commenced treatment for brain cancers following the discovery of multiple small tumours in his brain. Mack informed the media that"
},
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"title": "Ted Mack (politician)",
"text": " the diagnosis was terminal. The inaugural Ted Mack Oration was hosted by North Sydney Council and delivered in March 2017 by Elizabeth Farrelly, a \"Sydney Morning Herald\" columnist and architecture academic at the University of New South Wales. Mack died after a stroke on 6 November 2018. On the first anniversary of his death on 6 November 2019, the Mayor of North Sydney, Jilly Gibson, officially renamed the park next to North Sydney Council Chambers as \"Ted Mack Civic Park\".</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Phillip Gillespie.
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"title": "Phillip Gillespie",
"text": "<s>Phillip Gillespie Phillip J. Gillespie (born 23 October 1975) is an Australian cricket umpire. A member of the Australian National Umpire Panel, Gillespie has umpired 6 Women's One Day International cricket matches, 10 first-class matches, 9 List A matches, 10 Twenty20 matches and 9 Women's Twenty20 matches.</s><s>Career. He began his career in umpiring after suffering injuries to his Achilles tendon, jaw and knee whilst playing for Rowville Cricket Club in Melbourne. Wanting to stay in the game, he began umpiring in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition in 2009. Making his List A debut in the fixture between the England Lions and Victoria during the February 2013 tour, he has officiated in eight Matador BBQs One-Day Cup matches. Gillespie has also umpired two Women's National Cricket League matches including the semi final between New South Wales and Victoria in 2015. Gillespie umpired six matches during the 2015–16 Big Bash League season and a further four the following season. In women's Twenty20, he umpired his first match during the 2012–13 Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup. He has also stood in Women's Big Bash League matches including the second semi final of the 2016–17 season"
},
{
"title": "Phillip Gillespie",
"text": " where the Sydney Sixers defeated the Hobart Hurricanes at the Gabba. He made his first-class debut on 15 February 2015 in the Sheffield Shield in the round 7 match between New South Wales and Victoria at Robertson Oval in Wagga Wagga where Doug Bollinger took a hat-trick from his end. He has since umpired a further nine matches with the latest the clash between Tasmania and Queensland at Bellerive Oval in March 2017. Gillespie made his international umpiring debut during the West Indies women's cricket team tour of Australia in 2014, standing in all four WODI matches. Most recently, he umpired the final two WODIs of the South Africa in Australia WODI series in November 2016 at the Coffs Harbour International Stadium. In February 2017, he umpired three matches in the 2016–17 ICC World Cricket League East Asia–Pacific Region Qualifiers – Fiji versus the Philippines at the Queen Elizabeth Oval in Bendigo; the Philippines against Vanuatu at Canterbury Park in Eaglehawk and Fiji against Vanuatu at Dower Park in Kangaroo Flat. Gillespie was accepted into the 2015 intake of the Australian Sports Commission National Officiating Scholarship program where he will undertake professional development and identified training activities to be able to officiate the"
},
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"title": "Phillip Gillespie",
"text": " elite level. In May 2015, he replaced Damien Mealey on the 2015–16 National Umpire Panel. On 7 October 2022, he stood in his first Twenty20 International (T20I) match, between Australia and West Indies.</s><s>Personal life. Gillespie was born 23 October 1975 in Frankston, an outer-suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. A supporter of the Richmond Tigers in the Australian Football League, his day job is a police officer in the Victorian Police Force.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Shigeru Fukudome.
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"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": "<s>Shigeru Fukudome</s><s>Biography.</s><s>Biography.:Early life and career. Born in Yonago, Tottori prefecture, Fukudome graduated from the 40th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1913, ranked 8 out of 144 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruisers \"Soya\" and \"Izumo\" and battleship \"Satsuma\". After his promotion to ensign, he was assigned to the battleship \"Hizen\" and cruiser \"Kashima\". After attending torpedo school and naval artillery school, he served on the patrol boat \"Manshu\", followed by the cruiser \"Chitose\" and was promoted to lieutenant in 1918. After attending navigational training, he was assigned as chief navigator to the destroyer \"Sakura\", and cruiser \"Niitaka\". He was then appointed executive officer on the oiler \"Kamoi\", on its voyage to the United States from 1921–1922. After his return to Japan, he was assigned a number of staff positions. He then graduated from the Naval War College with honors in 1924, and was promoted to lieutenant commander. After a tour as chief navigator on the cruiser \"Iwate\","
},
{
"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": " he joined the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff and was promoted to commander in 1929. He continued to hold a number of staff positions through the 1930s. He was promoted to captain in 1933, and was captain of the battleship \"Nagato\" from 1938–1939. He was promoted to rear admiral on 15 November 1939.</s><s>Biography.:Pacific War. Fukudome was first assigned to the Combined Fleet in 1940 to April 1941 (where he conducted aerial torpedo exercises with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in early 1940 in contemplation of the proposed attack on Pearl Harbor), which was then under discussion. After his promotion to vice admiral in 1942, he again served as Chief of Staff under Admiral Yamamoto's successor Admiral Mineichi Koga from May 1943 to March 1944, On 31 March 1944, while traveling by air from Palau to deliver plans for the Japanese counterattack in defense of the Marianas Islands (code named \"Z plan\") to Japanese headquarters at Davao near British North Borneo, Fukudome became the first flag officer in Japanese history to be captured by the enemy (Filipino guerrillas commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James M. Cushing) after his plane crash landed in a typhoon near Cebu. (Ad"
},
{
"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": "miral Mineichi Koga, who had been traveling in a separate plane, was killed the same night). He was released to stop reprisals against civilians, costing the lives of numbers of Filipinos and burning dozens of villages by Japanese forces searching for the Admiral and the documents but the battle plans fell into the American hands. After Koga's death in March 1944, Fukudome became commander-in-chief of the 6th Air Base and 2nd Air Fleet, based in the Kyūshū-Okinawa-Formosa district. He later noted that this appointment was out of convenience, arguing that since he had no experience with naval aviation, his assignment to a newly formed air unit must be because of the immediate need for an officer of flag rank. On 10 October 1944, the headquarters of the 2nd Air Fleet moved from Katori in Chiba Prefecture to Taiwan; at the same time as the headquarters move, the 200 Imperial Japanese Army aircraft present in Taiwan were assigned to him to bolster his 100-aircraft fleet, with additional reinforcements coming in later in smaller quantities over time. In late October 1944, because of the heavy losses of Japanese air units in the Philippines, Fukudome's responsibility was expanded to cover the Philippines as well"
},
{
"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": ". He moved his headquarters to Manila on 22 October. Another 450 aircraft reached Clark Field over the next two days to join the approximately 100 aircraft that were already there under Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi, who became his chief of staff. In January 1945, the 2nd Air Fleet was dissolved and merged with the 1st Air Fleet. With the merger of the two air fleets in the Philippines, Fukudome was transferred to Singapore to command the IJN 10th Area Fleet, which at the time consisted mainly of the 13th Air Fleet with 450 aircraft (mostly trainers) and the IJN 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet (2 operational cruisers and other smaller ships). He arrived in Singapore and took over command on 16 January 1945, and remained in this role until the end of the war. Because of the American control of air and sea after the Philippines campaign, he was effectively stranded in Singapore without the ability to affect the outcome of the war in a significant way. After the war, Fukudome was interrogated in Tokyo between 9–12 December 1945 by Rear Admiral Ralph A. Ofstie of the United States Navy. In addition to the cooperative interrogation with the Americans, Fukudome was also entrusted by the British to take charge of"
},
{
"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": " repatriating Japanese nationals from the Singapore area. Once the task of repatriation was accomplished, Fukudome was arrested at the instigation of American prosecutors and accused of war crimes; he was tried by a military tribunal in Singapore in connection with the execution of two downed American airmen during his tenure in Singapore, and found guilty of negligence in the performance of his duties. Following his release in 1950, Fukudome became a member of a 12-man commission to advise the Japanese government on the organization of the Japanese Self-Defense Force before his death in 1971. His grave is at the Tama Cemetery in Fuchu, outside of Tokyo.</s><s>Notable positions held. - Equipping Officer, CVS \"Kamoi\" – 1 December 1921 – 12 September 1922 - Chief Navigator, CVS \"Kamoi\" – 12 September 1922 – 10 December 1922 - Staff Officer, 1st Fleet – 8 January 1924 – 15 October 1924 - Staff Officer, Combined Fleet – 8 January 1924 – 15 October 1924 - Staff Officer, Combined Fleet – 16 November 1933 – 15 November 1934 - Staff Officer, 1st Fleet – 16 November 1933 – 15 November 1934 - Vice-Chief-of-Staff, China Area Fleet – 25 April 1938 – 15 December 1938 - Staff"
},
{
"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": " Officer, 3rd Fleet – 25 April 1938 – 15 December 1938 - Commanding Officer, \"Nagato\" – 15 December 1938 – 5 November 1939 - Chief-of-Staff, 1st Fleet – 15 November 1939 – 10 April 1941 - Chief-of-Staff, Combined Fleet – 1942 – 31 March 1944 - Commander-in-Chief, 2nd Air Fleet – 15 June 1944 – 8 January 1945 - Commander-in-Chief, 13th Air Fleet – 13 January 1945 – 15 August 1945</s><s>Dates of Promotions. - Midshipman – 17 July 1912 - Ensign – 1 December 1913 - Sublieutenant – 13 December 1915 - Lieutenant – 1 December 1918 - Lieutenant Commander – 1 December 1924 - Commander – 30 November 1929 - Captain – 15 November 1933 - Rear Admiral – 15 November 1939 - Vice Admiral – 1 November 1942</s><s>Portrayal in films. Fukudome was one of the characters that appeared in the 1970 American/Japanese war film \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\", where he was portrayed by the Japanese actor Koji Kawamura.</s><s>References.</s><s>References.:Books. - Barreveld, Dirk Jan (2015). \"Cushing's Coup\", Casemate Publ. - {{c"
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"title": "Shigeru Fukudome",
"text": "ite book | last = Dupuy - {{cite book | last = Parrish - {{cite book | last = Van Der Vat</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Akbar Hossain.
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{
"title": "Akbar Hossain",
"text": "<s>Akbar Hossain Bir Protik Akbar Hossain (18 January 1941 – 25 June 2006) was a Bangladeshi politician of Bangladesh National Party. He served as the minister of Minister for Shipping, Minister for the Environment and Forests and Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources.</s><s>Biography. Hossain was born in Kashari Patty on 18 January 1941, in Comilla District.</s><s>Military career. Hossain joined the army at Kakul Military Academy in Pakistan in May 1966, after his commission, he was posted to the 31 Baluch Regiment. While serving, he studied for his bachelor's at the University of Dhaka, receiving the degree in 1969. Hossain joined the War of Independence in 1971 first under Khaled Musharraf and then with the Z force headed by Ziaur Rahman. He was decorated for gallantry, receiving the 'Bir Protik' for his role in the War. After independence was won, he took voluntary retirement from the Bangladesh Army at the end of December 1973, after attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel.</s><s>Political career. Hossain then became actively involved in politics and helped form the United People's Party (UPP) in January 1974. He went on to become"
},
{
"title": "Akbar Hossain",
"text": " the Vice-President of the UPP. In 1977, the UPP merged with the Jatiyatabadi Front, Hossain left and joined Bangladesh National Party (BNP) and played a crucial role in its founding. He was first made Special Secretary and then held the position of Joint Secretary General and was one of the Vice-Presidents of the BNP up until his death. In 1978, Hossain was appointed as the minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources under the government of President Ziaur Rahman. Hossain was first elected a Member of the Bangladesh Parliament in 1979, he represented the Comilla 8th constituency in the 2nd Jatiyo Sangshad elections, a seat he was re-elected to four times. During the military dictatorship of General Hossain Mohammad Ershad, Akbar Hossain was jailed on five separate occasions for coming into conflict with the regime. After the ending of the military dictatorship and the election of Khaleda Zia, the country's first female Prime Minister. Hossain returned to government as Minister for the Environment and Forests in October 1993. In October 2001, Hossain was appointed Minister for Shipping after the BNP led four-party alliance won the 8th Jati"
},
{
"title": "Akbar Hossain",
"text": "yo Sangshad elections, with a two-thirds majority and Khaleda Zia became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the third time. He died in Dhaka in 2006 following a massive heart attack.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Zhang Yaokun.
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"title": "Zhang Yaokun",
"text": "<s>Zhang Yaokun Zhang Yaokun (; born 17 April 1981) is a retired Chinese footballer.</s><s>Club career. Zhang Yaokun started his football career in 1998 with Dalian Shide; however, due to an ankle fracture, he struggled to establish himself within the team and it was only once he overcame his long term injury did he start to become a regular. He later became an integral member of the defense and helped Dalian in their dominance within Chinese football by winning league titles in the 2001 season and the 2002 season as well as the Chinese FA Cup in 2001. After Dalian had a disappointing 2004 season, Vladimir Petrović came in as the new manager and would loan out Zhang to Sichuan Guancheng during the 2005 season where he quickly established himself as a key member of the club. He returned to Dalian the following season where he continued to be a key member of the squad and would go on to become their captain. On 18 December 2012, Zhang transferred to fellow Chinese Super League side Guangzhou R&F. He made his debut for the club on 9 March 2013 in a 4-2 loss against Liaoning Whowin. On 26 February 2017, Zhang transferred to League One side Wuhan Zall."
},
{
"title": "Zhang Yaokun",
"text": " On 12 November 2018, Zhang Yaokun publicly announced his retirement from professional football right after Wuhan Zall successfully promoted to Chinese Super League.</s><s>International career. Zhang was called-up to the Chinese national team for the 2004 AFC Asian Cup where he made several appearances coming on as a substitute and playing in numerous positions in defence. He continued to be a regular for the squad that qualified for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup and he and Li Weifeng were the first-choice centre back pairing during the tournament.</s><s>Career statistics.</s><s>Career statistics.:Club statistics.</s><s>Honours.</s><s>Honours.:Club. Dalian Shide - Chinese Jia-A League: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 - Chinese FA Cup: 2001 - Chinese FA Super Cup: 2000, 2002 Wuhan Zall - China League One: 2018</s><s>Honours.:International. - China PR national football team - East Asian Football Championship: 2005</s><s>Honours.:Individual. - Chinese Super League Team of the Year: 2004</s>"
}
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Question: Tell me a bio of Steve Cummins.
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"title": "Steve Cummins",
"text": "<s>Steve Cummins Steven Cummins (born 29 March 1992) is an Australian professional rugby union player, currently signed with Melbourne-based Super Rugby side, the. He was previously a member of Welsh Pro 14 team Scarlets. His regular position is lock and he also plays at blind-side flanker.</s><s>Early life and rugby. Cummins was born in Sydney and attended The Hills Sports High, captaining their first XV in 2010. He was also named captain of the New South Wales All Schools team in the same year, as well as the Australian Schoolboy team. In 2011, Cummins captained the Australia Under-19 side and he was a member of the Australia Under-20 team that played at the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship. Cummins played in the Shute Shield competition with Eastwood, impressing coach John Manenti, who said: Steve Cummins has established himself as a real hard worker with huge involvements at the tackle and breakdown areas. In 2013, Cummins played for the Sydney-based Super Rugby franchise side the'emerging side, Gen Blue in the Pacific Rugby Cup.</s><s>Rugby career.</s><s>Rugby career.:Eastern Province Kings. On 3 June 2014, the announced Cummins as one"
},
{
"title": "Steve Cummins",
"text": " of three new signings prior to the 2014 Currie Cup Premier Division season. He joined them on a short-term contract for the remainder of 2014. Two days later, Cummins was selected on the bench for the side to face during a tour match during a 2014 incoming tour. He came on as a late substitute, playing the last six minutes as the Kings suffered a 12–34 defeat. Cummins started the opening match of the Currie Cup season, but was on the losing side as secured a 35–16 victory. He played in the first three matches of the season, as well as in the final four matches, including their match against the in the final round of the competition, where the Kings secured their only victory after nine successive defeats, beating the 26–25. Cummins made a total of eight appearances in Eastern Province Kings colours during his short spell in Port Elizabeth.</s><s>Rugby career.:Melbourne Rebels. On the same day that Cummins was announced as an EP Kings player, the also announced that Cummins signed a contract to join them as an Extended Playing Squad (EPS) member for the 2015 Super Rugby season. In early 2015, it was announced that Cummins had re-signed with the Melbourne Rebels for a further two years"
},
{
"title": "Steve Cummins",
"text": "</s><s>Rugby career.:Scarlets. Cummins signed with Welsh team Scarlets in November 2017.</s>"
}
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Question: Tell me a bio of Kubota Beisen.
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[
{
"title": "Kubota Beisen",
"text": "<s>Kubota Beisen Although his style remained recognisably Japanese, his knowledge of Western principles and methods is also reflected in his work. Beisen trained under Suzuki Hyakunen (1825–1891). The way in which he integrated Western perspective and techniques in his work was a self-taught skill.</s><s>Biography. Kubota was a teacher at the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting, which was founded in 1878 by Kubota and others. Among his colleagues in establishing the school was the artist Kōno Bairei (1844–95). - 1886: Kubota was ordered to decorate the ceiling and doors of one of the rooms in the Imperial palace, which was then newly constructed in Tokyo. - 1889: Kubota visited Paris, where he made a study of European masters. - 1890: Kubota began working for the \"Kokumin Shimbun\", which was among the daily newspapers in Tokio. - 1893: Kubota was sent to the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago by a newspaper, \"Kokumin Shimbun\"; and his drawings were published for its subscribers in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan Kubota's paintings were collected in a multivolume set of soft cover books"
},
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"title": "Kubota Beisen",
"text": " in Japan that same year under the title \"\" (閣龍世界博覧美術品画譜) by Okurashoten. The illustration to the right appears in volume one, available for free download as a PDF through Getty Images, the Internet Archive, and Hathi Trust. - 1897: A painting by Kubota was amongst the gifts from Japan which were presented to Queen Victoria on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee. As war artist for \"Kokumin Shimbun\", he accompanied the Japanese army at the time of the war with China in 1894 through 1895. His vivid illustrations of battlefield scenes of the First Sino-Japanese War were widely distributed in the Japanese population. When Kubota returned from the front, he was summoned to General Headquarters where he was ordered to create drawings in the presence of the Emperor. Kubota's artwork was published in \"Nisshin Sentou Gahou\" (\"A Pictorial Record of the Sino-Japanese War\"). The eleven volumes were published at irregular intervals between October 1894 and June 1895. The volumes are a visual chronicle of the war, beginning with the outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1894. Kub"
},
{
"title": "Kubota Beisen",
"text": "ota created images of Japan's sea-victories. He also published a visual account of Japan's advance into Manchuria. The peace treaty signed between Japan and China was also illustrated as part of this series of drawings. Amongst the honours he received are the Paris Exposition, Gold Medal, 1889. and at the Columbian Exposition, First Class Medal, 1893.</s><s>Works. Kubota's published work in Japanese is encompassed in 24 works in 25 publications in 53 library holdings. His one work in English was published in six editions and is found in 84 libraries worldwide. - 1921 — 洗張浮世模漾 \"(\") OCLC 029340693 - 1905 — OCLC 037632804 - 1901 — 米僊畫談 (\"). OCLC 037418923 - 1895 — - 1894 — 圖案服紗合 (\") OCLC 027754896</s><s>See also. - War artist</s><s>Further reading. - Diósy, Arthur. (1900). \"The New Far East.\" London: Cassell. OCLC 1368973 - Okamoto, Shum"
},
{
"title": "Kubota Beisen",
"text": "pei and Donald Keene. (1983). \"Impressions of the front: woodcuts of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95.\" Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. OCLC 179964815 - Tokutomi Ichiro and Y. Fukai. (1896). \"The Far East: an Exponent of Japanese Thoughts and Affairs,\" Vol. 1. Tokyo: Office of the \"Kokumin-no-tomo\". OCLC 17255487</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Marty Mayberry.
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"title": "Marty Mayberry",
"text": "<s>Marty Mayberry Marty Mayberry (born 9 February 1986) is a double leg amputee LW3 classified Paralympic alpine skier from Australia. Mayberry lost both legs after contracting meningococcal disease when he was sixteen years old. This experiences led him to study medicine, and he attended Griffith University and the University of Sydney where Mayberry pursued health science courses. Beyond the classroom, he has written a paper on meningococcal disease, worked part-time on research about the disease, and talked about his experiences at a conference. Having started out as an able-bodied skier, Mayberry took up the disability sport. He made his national team debut in 2005, and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Winter Paralympics the following year, when he did not medal. With the aid of a prosthesis, adjustments were made to his skiing legs, and he competed in several skiing competitions during 2007, 2008 and 2009. He was selected for the Australian 2010 Winter Paralympics team at a ceremony in Canberra in November 2009. Between then and the start of the Games, he participated in a few more competitions, including one where he picked up a gold medal, and participated in a national team training camp. He was selected as"
},
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"title": "Marty Mayberry",
"text": " Australia's flag bearer for the opening ceremony. In competition, he earned a silver medal in the men's downhill standing event, finished 24th in the Super-G, was disqualified from the slalom, and failed to finish in the giant slalom. Following the games, he retired from skiing.</s><s>Personal. Mayberry was born on 9 February 1986, and grew up in Byron Bay, New South Wales, where he attended Byron Bay High School. By 2009, he resided in Queensland, and was living in Yeerongpilly, Queensland by 2010. In June 2010, he married a woman he met at a music festival. Following a high school ski trip when he was in year 11, Mayberry contracted meningococcal disease at the age of 16, and this resulted in double below the knee amputations. He was in a coma for two weeks as a result of the disease, and, when he woke up at Byron Bay Hospital, learned his legs had been amputated. One of the things that motivated him to keep going during rehabilitation was the opportunity for sports. Mayberry studied health sciences at Griffith University, and medicine at the University of Sydney. He went into medicine partly because of his illness during high school. He relocated to Sydney with"
},
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"title": "Marty Mayberry",
"text": " his fiancé to do so not long before the start of the 2009—2010 ski season. In August 2010, he was the opening speaker at the Amanda Young Foundation Meningococcal Conference, and in 2010 and 2011, worked part-time at the Kids Research Institute at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, where he was in contact with \"Robert Booy in his research on the psycho-social impact of meningococcal B on families.\" He wrote up his experiences in dealing with meningococcal infection in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. He lives by Gandhi's quote \"Be the change you want to see in the world\".</s><s>Skiing. Mayberry is an LW3 classified skier who competes in standing events using a pair of artificial legs. Prior to contracting meningococcal, he was involved with skiing. He was back to competing at it on the disability side by 2004. When fully kitted out, he looks like an able-bodied skier, and is capable of skiing faster than. He received support for his skiing from the Australian Institute of Sport, New South Wales Institute of Sport and the Australian Government Sports Training Grants program. Mayberry has won medals at IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup events"
},
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"title": "Marty Mayberry",
"text": " and the Paralympic Games. He made his Australian national team debut in 2005 at the European Cup Finals, and went on to represent Australia the following year at the 2006 Torino Games where he failed to medal in the four men's standing events he competed in. He finished 33rd in the downhill, 21st in the Giant Slalom, 19th in the Slalom and did not finish in the Super G. Mayberry attributed his poor performance at the 2006 Games to his prosthetic legs, which \"just didn't feel right during the speed events in Italy.\" Following those Games, he worked with prosthetist Peter Farrand to develop new legs that would address the problems in Italy. Continuing to ski following the 2006 Games, he earned a gold medal at a World Cup event in 2007 in Slalom, and earned a bronze medal in slalom event at a 2008 World Cup competition. During Australia's 2009—2010 summer, Mayberry was based in Europe and North America for training. At the 2009 World Championships, he had a pair of sixth places finished in the Super G and downhill events. That year, at a Spanish hosted IPC World Cup, he crashed in the giant slalom event and did not score a time. He was"
},
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"title": "Marty Mayberry",
"text": " officially named to the Australian 2010 Winter Paralympics team in November 2009. A ceremony was held in Canberra with Australian Paralympic Committee president Greg Hartung and Minister for Sport Kate Ellis making the announcement. Mayberry was selected to the largest Winter Paralympics team that Australia had ever sent to the Games. In 2010, he was the only elite skier with his type of disability in his classification. At the second to last World Cup event before the 2010 Games, on a course in Vancouver, Canada, he won a silver medal in the downhill with a time of 1:16.02. In Aspen, Colorado, at the last World Cup event before the 2010 Games, he won a gold medal in the downhill event. Prior to the start of the Games, he participated in a national team training camp in Vail, Colorado before the Aspen hosted World Cup. He and the rest of Australia's para-alpine team arrived in the Paralympic village on 9 March 2010. As a 24-year-old, Mayberry competed in five events in the 2010 Paralympic games: downhill, super G, super combined, giant slalom, and slalom. His parents were in Vancouver to watch him compete. Mayberry won a silver medal"
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"title": "Marty Mayberry",
"text": " in the men's standing downhill event where he tied with another skier, and had a combined time of 1:22.78 He finished 24th in the Super-G, was disqualified from the slalom event after missing a gate, and did not finish in the Giant Slalom. Following the Games, he returned with the team to Sydney, where he attended a press conference at Sydney International Airport. He won an Australian Institute of Sport Sport Achievement Award in 2010. By September 2010, he had retired from elite skiing, one of several 2010 Winter Paralympic skiers to retire following the games. Others who retired at the same time he did included Shannon Dallas and Bart Bunting.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Thirayuth Boonmee.
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"title": "Thirayuth Boonmee",
"text": "<s>Thirayuth Boonmee Thirayuth Boonmee (, ; born 10 January 1950) is a Thai public intellectual and a former student activist.</s><s>Student leader. While a student at Chulalongkorn University in 1973, Thirayuth led the National Student Center of Thailand (NSCT) in coordinating political activism against the military dictatorship of Thanom Kittikachorn and Praphas Charusathien. The NSCT led tens of thousands in public protests against the regime. One of the earlier activities of the NSCT had been a 10-day boycott against Japanese products, in protest against Japanese investments in Thailand. On 6 October 1973, Thirayuth and 12 other student activists were arrested by the Praphas government for sedition after they distributed leaflets demanding a new constitution. Rumors spread that they had been killed, which sparked massive anti-government protests. The demonstrations reached their peak on 13 October, when about 400,000 protesters gathered in front of the Democracy Monument and the parliament building. That afternoon, Thirayuth and the other students were released, and the king approved plans to draft a new constitution within 12 months. Thirayuth also played a role in exposing the Internal Security Operations Command"
},
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"title": "Thirayuth Boonmee",
"text": "'s role in a massacre of villagers at Ban Na Sai village in the northeast. After the student massacre at Thammasat University on 6 October 1976, Thirayuth, as well as many other students and intellectuals fled from the cities to take refuge with the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) in its jungle strongholds. Thirayuth increasingly became critical of the king, noting in a broadcast on 1 April 1977 that the monarchy was \"obsolete and deteriorating\", and that \"I think that if our people were to destroy it, there would be no adverse effects\". After the CPT dissolved itself in the early-1980s, Thirayuth returned to the mainstream of Thai intellectual life, renouncing socialism and rejecting his anti-monarchical statements.</s><s>Contemporary activism. Thirayuth earned a PhD in political science in the US, then returned to Thailand. For many years he has taught in the Faculty of Sociology of Thammasat University. In 1997, he was named one of Thailand's ten most influential public intellectuals.</s><s>Further reading. - Paul M. Handley, \"The King Never Smiles\" Yale University Press: 2006,</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Bir Hambir.
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"title": "Bir Hambir",
"text": "<s>Bir Hambir Hambir Malla Dev (also known as Bir Hambir, Beera Hambeera, and Veer Hambir) was the forty-ninth king of Mallabhum. He ruled from 1565 to 1620 AD.</s><s>Personal life. Hambir was the 49th ruler of the Malla dynasty who flourished around 1586 AD and ruled in 16th-17th century, and was a contemporary of the Mughal emperor Akbar. He fought on the side of Akbar against the Afghans and paid an annual tribute to the Mughal governors of Bengal and thus acknowledged their suzerainty. Bir Hambir was a pious man who started following Vaishnavism. A story in two Vaishnava works (Prem-vilasa of Nityananda Das (alias Balaram Das) and Bhakti Ratnakara of Narahari Chakrabarti) recounts the manner in which Srinivasa and other devotees were robbed by Bir Hambir while travelling from Vrindavan to Gaur with a number of Vaishanava manuscripts. However, Bir Hambir was so moved by Srinivasa’s reading of Bhagavata that he converted to Vaishnav"
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"title": "Bir Hambir",
"text": "ism and gave Srinivasa a rich endowment of land and money. He introduced the worship of Madan Mohan to Bishnupur.</s><s>Personal life.:Dev Title. During his regime (1565 to 1620), Dev title was suffixed after title Malla and Mallabhum was very safe and secured.</s><s>Battle of Mundamala Ghat. During the Pathan rule of Soleiman Karrani in Gaur, the kingdom of Bishnupur stood in a unique glory in the Rarh region of Bengal. His reckless son Daud Khan Karrani dreamed of seizing the whole of Bengal. In this situation, in 1575 AD, Daud Khan attacked Bishnupur with a large number of Pathan troops. Revered Fakir Narayan Karmakar Mahasaya writes - \"Dawood Khan suddenly came and encamped at a village called Ranisagar near Bishnupur with more than one lakh soldiers and similar ammunition.\" The people of Ranisagar were embarrassed by the sudden attack of Dawood Khan's army of lakhs. The Bishnupur army was still not ready for battle. At this moment, the heroic prince of Bishn"
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"title": "Bir Hambir",
"text": "upur, Hambir Malla, started the war by arming the army. The army of Bishnupur, intoxicated with the dream of victory, proceeded to subdue the enemy by worshiping the Maa Mrinmayee, the kuladevi of Mallabhum. The state of Bishnupur had total twelve forts, one of which was the Mundmal fort. Near this Mundmal Garh, the Mallabhum army attacked the Pathan forces. After a fierce battle between the two sides, Hambir Malla defeated the Pathan forces in such a tragic manner that the battlefield at the eastern gate of the fort was filled with the corpses of Pathan soldiers. The defeated Dawood Khan was taken prisoner. He waited for death in a state of siege. But the noble Hambir arranged for his release and reached a safe place. \"There were so many corpses of the dead Nawab's soldiers at the eastern gate of the fort that it was called\" Mundmalaghat \". It is said that Hambir Malla cut off the heads of the invading Pathan soldiers, made a garland (mundamala) and offered it as a gift to the demon-destroying Maa Mrinmayidevi. He"
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"title": "Bir Hambir",
"text": " was awarded the title of \"Bir Hambir\" for accomplishing that difficult task.1) \"Mallabhum Bishnupur\" - Manoranjan Chandra.</s><s>Rashmancha. The Rashmancha is a historical building located at Bishnupur. It was commissioned by Malla king Bir Hambir in 1600 CE. During the Vaishnava Ras festival, all the Radha Krishna idols of Bishnupur town used to be brought here to be worshipped by the citizens.</s><s>Dal Madal Kaman (Cannon). During the reign of Bir Hambir the Dal Madal, one of the largest-bored cannons even made, was founded, demonstrating the skill of artisans of that time. Dal Madal was made by Jagannath Karmakar. \"Dal Madal\" means \"destruction of enemy\". Another, eminent historian Maniklal Sinha writes, the well-known Dalmadal of the Malla Rajas. There are distinct critiques regarding the name of the cannon. Common people think that Dal and Madal are two cannons. The concept of Sanskrit-educated people is Dalmadal, came from Sanskrit name Dalmardan. However,"
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"title": "Bir Hambir",
"text": " each of the above thoughts is incorrect. Actually, Mallabhum, kingdom of Malla Rajas was dominated by Dharmathakura and a Dharamshila is known as Dalmadal. His study also suggests that the ancestor of the Karmakar family, Jagannath Karmakar who built the Dalmadal cannon and named the cannon as Dalmadal</s><s>See also. - History of Bankura district</s><s>Sources. - website on Bankura - Kumkum Chatterjee. \"Cultural flows and cosmopolitanism in Mughal India : The Bishnupur Kingdom\" in \"Indian Economic and Social History Review\" Vol. 46 (2009), p. 147-182. - - O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, Bankura, Bengal District Gazetteers, pp. 21–46(25), 1995 reprint, first published 1908, Government of West Bengal</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad.
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"title": "Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad",
"text": "<s>Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad (15 September 1955 – 25 January 2016) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India where he represented the Junagadh constituency of Gujarat. He was a former Cabinet Minister of water resources and irrigation of Gujarat state. He played a vital role in the development of Narmada and Ukai Dam Projects. He served his fourth term as member of legislative assembly representing Talala Gir Constituency of Gujarat until 2016.</s><s>Early life. He hailed from Yadav/Ahir community. His family was a native of Badalpara village near Veraval. Jashubhai was also known as lion of saurastra and lion of sorath(Sorath no savaj) રાજનીતિ માં આવ્યા બાદ પોતે તાલા�"
},
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"title": "Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad",
"text": "�ા તાલુકાનાં ઘુસીંયા ગામે તેમની સ્કૂલ આવેલી છે ત્યાં રહેવાનું વધારે પસંદ કરતા હતા.</s><s>Career. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 2004 Indian general election and represented Junagadh. He was twice elected to Gujarat legislative assembly in 1990 and 1995 from Somnath constituency and"
},
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"title": "Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad",
"text": " became Cabinet Minister for water resources and irrigation. He was also twice elected to Gujarat legislative assembly in 1998 and in 2012 from Talala Gir constituency. He died on 25 January 2016 at Ahmedabad following brain tumour. After his death, his brother Bhagvanjibhai Barad was elected with 31,000 margin against BJP candidate Govindbhai Parmar.</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Namita Gokhale.
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": "<s>Namita Gokhale Namita Gokhale (born 1956) is an Indian writer, editor, festival director, and publisher. Her debut novel, \"Paro: Dreams of Passion\" was released in 1984, and she has since written fiction and nonfiction, and edited nonfiction collections. She conceptualized and hosted the Doordarshan show \"Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond\" and is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. She won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award.</s><s>Early life and education. Gokhale was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 1956. She was raised in Nainital by her aunts and her grandmother Shakuntala Pande. She studied English literature Jesus and Mary College at Delhi University, and at age 18 married Rajiv Gokhale and had two daughters while she was a student. She refused to attend a course about the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was dismissed from university by age 26. By age forty, she had survived cancer and her husband had died.</s><s>Career. While a student, at age 17, Gokhale began editing and managing the 1970s-era film magazine \"Super"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": "\", and continued publishing the magazine for seven years, until it closed in the early 1980s. After \"Super\" closed, she began writing the story that became her debut novel. In addition to her writing career, Gokhale hosted a hundred episodes of \"Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond\", a multilingual book-show she conceptualized for Doordarshan. According to Raksha Kumar, writing for \"The Hindu\" in 2013, \"\"Kitaabnama\" tries to showcase the multilingual diversity of Indian literature by inviting laureates from different languages to talk about their work. It reminds one of the times when book stores were not overwhelmed by technical writing and self-help books; when literature and quality writing were not considered a waste of time; when the pleasure of reading was experienced by many.\" Gokhale is also a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, along with William Dalrymple and Sanjoy K Roy. She was also an advisor to the 'Mountain Echoes' literary festival in Bhutan. She conceptualised the 'International Festival of Indian Literature-Neemrana' 2002, and 'The Africa Asia Literary Conference', 2006. Gokhale also advises The Himalayan Echo"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " Kumaon Festival for Arts and Literature or the Abbotsford Literary Weekend. From 2010 through 2012, she traveled and conducted administrative work as a committee member of Indian Literature Abroad (ILA), an initiative by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, for a project intended to translate contemporary literature from Indian languages into the eight UNESCO languages, but after funding was not provided by the government, she shifted her efforts to work with Jaipur Bookmark, the publishing imprint of the Jaipur Literature Festival. She is also the co-founder-director of Yatra Books, established in 2005 with Neeta Gupta, a multilingual publishing company specialising in creative writing and translations in English, Hindi and Indian regional languages.</s><s>Influences. In a 2017 interview with R Krithika of \"The Hindu\", Gokhale described the influences on her writing as \"very insidious things. Books and ideas can trigger responses that take a long time to come to fruition.\" She named \"The Tale of Genji \" as a major influence, and listed \"Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Muriel Spark, Kalidasa.\" In 1998, Nalini Ganguly writes for \"India Today\", \"All of her work seems to be stuck"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " with her personality as a Kumaoni Brahmin girl,\" and quotes Gokhale, \"My way of looking at the world remains trapped in that primary identity; once you start loving the hills they hold on to you.\" In 2010, Nita Sathyendran writes for \"The Hindu\", \"The author is also \"deeply fascinated\" by Indian mythology, with a lot of her books inspired by its tales and characters. It has also led her to writing books such as \"The Book of Shiva\" (on Shaivaite philosophy) and an illustrated version of the Mahabharata for children.\"</s><s>Critical reception. According to \"Harmony\" Magazine, Gokhale \"burst upon the literary scene in 1984 with a rather unconventional but sparkling social satire, \"Paro: Dreams of Passion\", which swirled around the cocktail circuit of Delhi, capturing the shenanigans of Page 3 celebs, long before the term was even coined.\" Somak Ghoshal, writing for \"Mint\" in 2014, described the novel as \"A chronicle of the debauched existence of the rich and famous in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Delhi,\" that \"invoked horror and outrage when it first appeared in India. Few seemed to have got"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " its uproarious humour,\" and \"If Indian parents forbade their children to touch the book, the reaction in the West was quite the opposite, where it was received as a work of literary, rather than pulp, fiction.\" According to the \"Press Trust of India\" in 2020, it \"has remained a cult classic.\" It was later re-issued as the double edition \"Double Bill: Priya and Paro\" in 2018, with the 2011 sequel \"Priya: In Incredible Indyaa\", described by Paro Anand, writing for \"Outlook\" in 2011, as a \"racy read\" and by Somak Ghoshal, writing for \"Mint\" in 2014, as \"not as well received\" as \"Paro\". A review of \"Priya\" by Kishwar Desai for \"India Today\" states, \"Written in the same sparkling Hinglish style which had lent Paro its appeal, Priya's escapades are probably not as scandalous as her baate noire's were. But Gokhale's acerbic touch has not deserted her.\" In a 2011 review for \"The Hindu\", Sravasti Datta writes \"Priya\" \"intrigues but doesn't shock"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": ". Why? Because sexual frankness is everywhere, be it in books or films.\" In 1994, Gokhale published \"Gods Graves and Grandmother\", described by Subhash K Jha of \"India Today\" as \"remarkable on two counts. First, its structure of a modern fable held aloft by the gauziest of irony. And second, its searching scan of life in the downwardly mobile class of the Indian metropolises migrants who, by emotional and pecuniary manipulation, get rich quick, breaching the bastion of the bourgeois class as a casual enterprise.\" It was later adapted into a musical play. In 1998, Gokhale published the nonfiction \"Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women\", a book of oral biography, that explores the Kumaoni way of life through the lives of four women: her aunt Shivani, the Hindi novelist, her grandmother Shakuntala Pande, Tara Pande and Jeeya (Laxmi Pande), which was one of several of her works described by Nita Sathyendran, writing for \"The Hindu\" in 2010, that \"narrate tales of strong women.\" Gokhale edited the 2014 book \""
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": "Travelling In, Travelling Out\", described by Danielle Pagani in \"The Hindu\" as an essay collection that \"take the reader from Asia to America and Europe, discovering situations and different ways to travel. Every author shares his or her personal experience and the stories are very different from each other — from unusual encounters with Maoist guerrillas in the jungle to Western cities and difficulties encountered there by immigrants,\" and \"Although rich in detail, some of the stories are short, leaving the readers wanting more.\" Her novel \"Things to Leave Behind\" was published in November 2016. Shahnaz Siganporia writes for \"Vogue India\", \"Veteran publisher, prolific author, founder-director of the Jaipur Literary Festival and advisor to Mountain Echoes in Bhutan—Namita Gokhale's latest novel is considered her most ambitious yet.\" Rakhshanda Jalil writes for \"Scroll.in\", \"\"Things To Leave Behind\" is the third in her trilogy of books on the Himalayas, coming after \"The Book of Shadows\" and \"A Himalayan Love Story\". As in the previous books, once again she demonstrates her strength in painting the most vivid pictures of the hills and dales in and around Naineetal and"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " Almora. Her eye for the small details coupled with her near-photographic memory for the sights and sounds she imbibed as a child and the stories she heard from her grandmother and grand-aunts help in creating a virtual tableau before the reader’s inward eye.\" In a review by Ravi Shankar Etteth of \"The New Indian Express\", Gokhale is described as writing with \"chutzpah, imagination and leaps of faith taken in the ordinary pursuit of the extraordinary.\" Shreya Roy Chowdhury writes for \"The Times of India\" that the novel is the \"third in a series set in the Kumaon hills between 1840 and 1912,\" and that the \"experiences of Gokhale’s own family, especially its women members, have informed her stories.\" In a review for \"Kitaab\", Dr. Pallavi Narayan writes, \"the author seems to be pointing to the patriarchal functioning of much of society—documenting the histories of men while conveniently absenting the women, or portraying them as shadow figures. But what the novel is primarily about is the tussle of women with their dependence on men, and how this frames a woman’s identity within that of the"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " man “taking care” of her at the moment.\" Annie Zaidi writes in a review for \"Mint\", \"The novel moves at a brisk trot, with the result that the drama inherent in the lives of these characters is rather underplayed. [...] Gokhale’s light touch also masks her more serious musings upon the painful clamp of caste and religion, the lack of education and independent property, and how these negative forces narrowed lives in ways that could break a woman’s spirit, or declaw a spirited one.\" Her first YA fiction book \"Lost in Time\" was published in 2017, and described by R Krithika of \"The Hindu\" as \"a lovely tale of time travel, friendship, loss and love.\" Gokhale edited the 2017 anthology of prose and poetry \"The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east\", featuring work by 28 authors from the region Gokhale described as \"the bend of the Himalayas, the East of South-east, including Nepal, Bhutan, north-east India, and Myanmar.\" In a review published in \"The News Lens\", Omair Ahmad writes, \"These histories have largely been forgotten in favor of the lines drawn"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " on the map by the British Empire and its successors, but they have re-emerged, and have to be understood, if we are to understand the complex political geography of the region.\" Her 2020 novel \"Jaipur Journals\" features the Jaipur Literature Festival. Aishwarya Sahasrabudhe writes for \"Firstpost\", \"we are taken in five days through the lives of some interesting characters who are in one capacity or another part of what is often referred to as the \"Kumbh Mela of Literature\", the Jaipur Literature Festival.\" Pragya Tiwari writes in a review for \"Scroll.in\", \"Gokhale achieves the impossible by going beyond approximating the alchemy of the festival and leading us to its beating heart. The point of the festival is to keep asking repeatedly, like the heart beats – what does it mean to be a writer?\"</s><s>Works.</s><s>Works.:Fiction. - \"Paro: Dreams of Passion\", 1984 - \"Gods, Graves, and Grandmother\", 1994 - \"A Himalayan Love Story\", 1996 - \"The Book of Shadows\", 1999 - \"Shakuntala: The Play of Memory\", 2005 - \"Priya: In Incredible Indya"
},
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": "a\", 2011 - \"The Habit of Love\", 2012 - \"Things to Leave Behind\", 2016 - \"Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions\", 2017 - \"Betrayed by Hope : A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt\" (co-authored with Malashri Lal), 2020 - \"The Blind Matriarch\", published in 2021</s><s>Works.:Non-fiction. - \"Mountain Echoes – Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women\", 1994 - \"The Book of Shiva\", 2000 - \"The Puffin Mahabharata\", 2009 - \"In Search of Sita\"(co-edited with Malashri Lal), 2009 - \"Travelling In, Travelling Out\" (edited), 2014 - \"Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life\"(co-edited with Ruskin Bond), 2016 - \"The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east\" (edited), 2018 - \"Finding Radha: The Quest for Love\", 2018</s><s>Honors and awards. - 2017 Centenary National Award for Literature from the Asam Sahitya Sabha - 2017 Valley of Words Book Award, Best English Fiction (\"Things to Leave Behind\") - 2018"
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"title": "Namita Gokhale",
"text": " International Dublin Literary Award long list (\"Things to Leave Behind\") - 2019 Sushila Devi Literature Award, 'Best Book of Fiction Written by a Woman Author' (\"Things to Leave Behind\") - 2021 7th Yamin Hazarika Woman of Substance Award - 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award for \"Things to Leave Behind\"</s>"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Nonzee Nimibutr.
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"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": "<s>Nonzee Nimibutr Nonzee Nimibutr (, ; born in 1962 in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand) is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, \"Nang Nak\", he is generally credited as the leader among a \"New Wave\" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.</s><s>Biography.</s><s>Biography.:Education. Nonzee is a relative of Lieutenant General Phachoen Nimitbutr (เผชิญ นิมิบุตร), Director of the Signal Department of the Royal Thai Army and the founder of Thailand's first television station, Army TV Channel 5. Nonzee graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in visual communication design from the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University in 1987. Classmates included Wisit Sasanatieng and production designer Ek Iemchuen. He started his career as a director of television commercials and music videos.</s><s>Biography.:First films. He made his feature-film debut with"
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"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": " 1997's \"Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters\", with a screenplay by Wisit Sasanatieng. The story was set in 1956 in Bangkok and follows the adventures of a gang of young criminals, with the action showing the influence of John Woo films. It was named best picture at the Thailand National Film Awards and was nominated for a Dragons and Tigers Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. His next film was \"Nang Nak\", a thriller based on a popular Thai ghost story, also scripted by Wisit. A famous ghost story that has been depicted in many Thai films and television series, the story is about a husband comes home from war and takes up living with his wife and newborn son who, unbeknownst to him, have died while he was away. The moodily framed horror film won numerous awards, including best picture at the Thailand National Film Awards. Both \"Young Gangsters\" and \"Nang Nak\" were hits at the box office and were credited with reinvigorating the Thai film industry.</s><s>Biography.:Pan-Asian production. With his third film, \"Jan Dara\", Nonzee began a trend of pan-Asian film production in the Thai industry, bringing in Hong Kong actress Christy Chung to star in"
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"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": " the erotic drama. He also sought funding from studios outside Thailand. Ahead of its release, \"Jan Dara\" was controversial because its sexual subject matter, involving incest, rape and abortion, tested the bounds of Thailand's 1930 Censorship Code. The film was released with the board's cuts for the film's commercial run in Thailand, but it was available uncut for film festivals. Nonzee also became quite active as a producer, putting his name on such films as \"Bangkok Dangerous\" by the Pang Brothers; \"Tears of the Black Tiger\" by Wisit Sasanatieng; the historical battle epic, \"Bangrajan\" by Thanit Jitnukul and Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's \"Monrak Transistor\". He co-founded his own production company, Cinemasia, with his production partner, Duangkamol Limcharoen. She died in 2003. Continuing on his path of pan-Asian production, Nonzee initiated the horror trilogy, \"Three\", in which he and two other directors, Hong Kong's Peter Chan and Korean director Kim Ji-Woon, each directed a segment.</s><s>Biography.:Recent work. While keeping busy as a producer, he directed 2003's \"OK Bay"
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"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": "tong\", a topical, contemporary drama about a young man who must leave the Buddhist monkhood and go to Muslim-dominated southern Thailand to attend to the affairs of his sister, who was killed in a train bombing. In 2005, he directed a short film, \"The Ceiling\" for the Asian Film Academy, in conjunction with the Pusan International Film Festival. The 18-minute, English-language film starred South Korean actors is the story of a young writer who climbs into the crawlspace above her apartment and spies on the woman living next door. His next film, \"Queens of Langkasuka\", is an epic historical-fantasy involving pirates and three princesses who must protect their realm, Langkasuka. The film was originally to be called \"Queens of Pattani\", but the name was changed to avoid possible political overtones stemming from the South Thailand insurgency and Pattani separatism. Shooting began in August 2006. The film stars Jarunee Suksawat, Ananda Everingham from \"Shutter\", Dan Chupong from \"Kerd ma lui\", Jesdaporn Pholdee, Winai Kraibutr and Sorapong Chatree. Another film mentioned as being in development by Nonzee is"
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"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": " a ghost thriller, \"Toyol\", a Singaporean co-production about a pair of Hong Kong children who move with their father to Bangkok and are introduced to a stepmother they do not like, in a house that has some problems, namely, the toyol. He's also produced \"\", a live-action adaptation of the popular Thai comic book (or manga) by Padung Kraisri, about a plucky Isan woman who works as a maid in a middle class urban Thai home. In 2008, Nonzee became the fifth filmmaker to be honored with the Thailand Culture Ministry's Silpathorn Award, an honor previously bestowed on Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng and Thunska Pansittivorakul.</s><s>Filmography.</s><s>Filmography.:Director. - \"Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters\" (\"2499 Antapan Krong Muang\") (1997) - \"Nang Nak\" (1999) - \"Jan Dara\" (2001) - \"Three\", segment \"San Geng\" (\"The Wheel\") (2002) - \"OK Baytong\" (2003) - \"The Ceiling"
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"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": "\" (2005) (short film) - \"Queens of Langkasuka\" (2008) - \"Distortion\" (2012) - \"Timeline\" 2015 - \"The Gift\" 2017</s><s>Filmography.:Producer. - \"Bangkok Dangerous\" (1999) - \"Tears of the Black Tiger\" (\"Fah Talai Jone\") (2000) (producer) - \"Bang Rajan\" (2000) - \"Jan Dara\" (2001) - \"Monrak Transistor\" (\"Transistor Love Story\") (2001) - \"Three\", segment \"San Geng\" (\"The Wheel\") (2002) - \"Last Life in the Universe\" (\"Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan\" (2003) - \"\" (\"Jod Mai Rak\") (2004) - \"The Overture\" (\"Hom Rong\") (2004) - \"The Eye 2\" (\"Jian Gui 2\" (2004) - \"\" (2006) - \"Queen of Langkasuka\" (2008) - \"Pro May\" (\"Atchariyah Tong Sang)\" (2019) - \"Nemesis\" (\"Kuen Yuttitum\") (2020)</s><s>References. - Interview (2001). \"Nonz"
},
{
"title": "Nonzee Nimibutr",
"text": "ee Nimibutr - Interview\". \"Movieseer\". Retrieved December 29, 2005.</s><s>References.:Notes.</s>"
}
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Question: Tell me a bio of Mamunul Islam.
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[
{
"title": "Mamunul Islam",
"text": "<s>Mamunul Islam Mamunul Islam Mamun() (born 12 December 1988) is a Bangladeshi professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Bangladesh Premier League side Fortis FC and also played for the Bangladesh national football team during 2009-2020. He has won five league titles with three clubs. Mamunul started his career at Brothers Union as a central midfielder. After spending a season, he moved to Abahani Limited Dhaka in 2008–09 season and became league champion with Sky Blue Brigade. He joined Mohammedan SC Dhaka the following season. For 2010–11 season, Mamunul moved to Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club and won his second league title. Leaving Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club after 2011–12 season, he played the next season for Muktijoddha Sangsad KC. Then he joined Sheikh Russel KC and won his third league title. Again in 2013–14 season he returned to Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club and won two more league titles in 2013-14 and 2014–15 season. In the middle of this quest, Atletico de Kolkata signed Mamunul on loan from Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club to play the inaugural season of Indian Super League. After"
},
{
"title": "Mamunul Islam",
"text": " returning to Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, later he joined his hometown club Chittagong Abahani Limited for a record transfer fee in 2016. After spending two seasons there, the midfielder returned to Abahani Limited Dhaka in 2018. On 6 September 2020, he announced his retirement from international football.</s><s>Career.</s><s>Career.:Brothers Union. Mamunul started his career in Brothers Union as a central midfielder in 2007–08 season.</s><s>Career.:Abahani Limited Dhaka. Mamunul moved to Abahani Limited Dhaka in 2008–09 season and became the league champion in that season.</s><s>Career.:Mohammedan SC. After winning league title with Abahani he moved to their arch-rival Mohammedan SC in 2009–10 season and won Federation Cup and Super Cup with them.</s><s>Career.:Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club. Mamunul moved to Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club from Dhaka Mohammedan SC in 2010–11 season. In his first season with Sheikh Jamal DC he became the league champion.</s><s>Career.:Muktijoddha Sangsad KC. Mamunul played 2011–12 season for Mukt"
},
{
"title": "Mamunul Islam",
"text": "ijoddha Sangsad KC.</s><s>Career.:Sheikh Russel KC. Mamunul went to Sheikh Russel KC from Muktijoddha Sangsad KC. And won the league, Federation Cup and Independence Cup in 2012–13 season.</s><s>Career.:Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club. 2013–14 season Mamunul returned to Sheikh Jamal DC. The club became the league champion under Mamunul's captaincy. His success at the club continued as they went on to win the league again in 2014–15 season.</s><s>Career.:Chittagong Abahani Limited. Ending his stint at Sheikh Jamal DC Mamunul Islam joined his hometown club, Chittagong Abahani on a national record fee of taka 65 lakh. He played two seasons there. And he captained the team in his first season.</s><s>Career.:Abahani Limited Dhaka. After ten long years at several clubs, Mamunul finally returned to Sky Blue Brigade in 2018. He played a veteran role in the team and helped them with his vast experience.</s><s>Career.:Mohammedan SC. On 17 November 2021, Mamunul returned to Dhaka Mohammedan SC after"
},
{
"title": "Mamunul Islam",
"text": " 11 years.</s><s>Career.:Rahmatganj MFS. On 17 April 2022, Mamunul joined relegation fighting Rahmatganj MFS.</s><s>Indian Super League. Mamunul played in the first season of Indian Super League for Atlético de Kolkata, he went to the club on a 3 months loan from Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club. He is the only South Asian player outside India who was signed in the first season of the league. He impressed Indian football fans in 2014 IFA Shield by taking Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club(one of three foreign clubs participating in the tournament) to the finals. But Mamunul didn't get a chance to start for Atlético de Kolkata in \"ISL\".</s><s>Honours. Abahani Limited - Bangladesh Premier League: 2008–09 - Federation Cup: 2018 Mohammedan Sporting Club - Federation Cup: 2009 - Super Cup: 2009 Sheikh Russel KC - Bangladesh Premier League: 2012–13 - Federation Cup:2012 - Independence Cup: 2012–13 Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club - Bangladesh Premier League: 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15 - Federation Cup: 2013–14, 2014–15 Chittagong Ab"
},
{
"title": "Mamunul Islam",
"text": "ahani Limited - Independence Cup: 2016 - Indian Super League: 2014 Bangladesh U-23 - South Asian Games Gold medal: 2010</s>"
}
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Question: Tell me a bio of Khalid Mahmood Mithu.
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[
{
"title": "Khalid Mahmood Mithu",
"text": "<s>Khalid Mahmood Mithu Khalid Mahmood Mithu (1960 – March 7, 2016) was a Bangladeshi film director and painter. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director for his direction of the film \"Gohine Shobdo\" (2010).</s><s>Background and career. Mithu was born in Dhaka in 1960. His mother, Begum Momtaz Hossain Mithu, was a \"scriptwriter\". He was the nephew of the film director Alamgir Kabir. Mithu completed his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka in 1986. He directed his play, \"Dhusor Album\", in 1993. In 2010, he directed the film, \"Gohine Shobdo\", which earned him the national film award. His second film, \"Jonakir Alo\", was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014, but was not nominated. Mithu was also a painter and by 2004, his work had been featured in 11 solo exhibitions.</s><s>Personal life. Mithu was married to painter Kanak Chanpa Chakma and together they had one son, Arjo Srestha and"
},
{
"title": "Khalid Mahmood Mithu",
"text": " one daughter, Shiropa Purna. Mithu died when a road side tree fell on top of the rickshaw he was travelling on on March 7, 2016, in Dhanmondi Thana, Dhaka.</s><s>Works. - \"Gohine Shobdo\" (2010) - \"Jonakir Alo\" (2014)</s>"
}
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"frequency": "rare",
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ahsee Tuala.
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[
{
"title": "Ahsee Tuala",
"text": "<s>Ahsee Tuala Ahsee Tuala (born 23 August 1989) is a Samoan rugby union player who plays as a fullback for Aviva Premiership side Northampton Saints.</s><s>Early career. Tuala was born in Samoa, but moved to New Zealand with his family aged 2 years old and grew up in South Auckland.</s><s>Club career. Tuala began his senior rugby career in New Zealand with the Counties Manukau Steelers, debuting during the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup season while only 20 years old. His ability to play in several positions across the backline saw him become an integral part of the Steelers squad and earn over 50 ITM Cup caps. He was also involved in the Chiefs Development squads in both 2010 and 2011. On 3 February 2015, Tuala signed for English club Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership until the end of the 2014-15 season. However, he signed a new deal with Northampton, making his move permanent at Franklin's Gardens. It could be said that while Tuala has been at Saints for two season now, his breakthrough year was this past season (2016/17). The full back secured his place within the starting lineup on a weekly basis while George North was away on international duty and retained that on"
},
{
"title": "Ahsee Tuala",
"text": " the wing's return, crossing the whitewash five times that season for Saints. Teaming up with the rest of Saints' backline to form a formidable force when firing, Tuala was awarded Saints' Supporter' Breakthrough Player of the Year award at the 2016/17 End of Season Awards, pipping newcomers Nic Groom and Juan Pablo Estelles to the post. Most recently Tuala helped Saints secure a place in European Rugby Champions Cup, scoring the match winning try as Saints beat Stade Francais by one point to clinch the final top-tier European spot.</s><s>International career. Despite being born in Samoa, Tuala's early international experience came with New Zealand. He was a member of the New Zealand Under-20 wider squad in 2009 and the New Zealand sevens wider training group in 2012. However, in January 2012 it was announced that Tuala had withdrawn from the New Zealand sevens squad to focus on gaining international recognition with his native Samoa. His ambitions were realized 2 years later when he was named in the Samoan squad for the 2014 end-of-year rugby union tests and made his international debut on 14 November 2014 in a 23-13 victory over in Vannes, France. Most recently Tuala was called up,"
},
{
"title": "Ahsee Tuala",
"text": " alongside fellow Saint Ken Pisi, to the Samoan squad for the 2017 internationals.</s>"
}
] |
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Question: Tell me a bio of Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay.
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[
{
"title": "Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay",
"text": "<s>Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay (born 8 March 1956) is a Bengali writer from India. He has written novels and short stories for both adults and children.</s><s>Life. Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay was born in Calcutta His father was Ramangamohan Mukhopadhyay and mother Kanaklata Mukhopadhyay. He graduated from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir (a residential college) at Belur before taking a Masters in English from The University of Calcutta. He did his Ph.D from Jadavpur University. Mukhopadhyay started his career as Regional Secretary, East India, of Sahitya Akademi. Formerly he was Convener of the Bengali Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. He was also President of the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. He has retired as the Director of the Publishing Department, Visva-Bharati. He is associated with a number of Bengali Little Magazines.</s><s>Works. His first collection of 14 short stories entitled \"Madale Natun Bol\" (The New Beats on the Drum) published from Calcutta"
},
{
"title": "Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay",
"text": " in 1984. His first novel \"Charane Prantare\" (At the Grazing Ground, at the Horizon) was published from Calcutta in 1993.</s><s>Awards. - Somenchandra Award of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (2000) - Galpamela Puraskar (2004) - Katha Award (New Delhi, 2005) - Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar of the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal (2006) - Saratchandra Smriti Puraskar (Bhagalpur, 2007) - Sis Puraskar (2008) - Gajendra Kumar Mitra Birth Centenary Award 2009 - Ananda Puraskar of the Ananda Bazar Patrika and Desh (2013) - D.L.Ray Award (2014) - Kusumanjali Award (New Delhi, 2014) - Krititwa Samagra Puraskar of Bharatiya Bhasha Parisad (2016)</s>"
}
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"frequency": "rare",
"region": "Asia/Pacific"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Alf Garland.
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[
{
"title": "Alf Garland",
"text": "<s>Alf Garland Brigadier Alfred Barrett Garland, AM (19 March 1932 – 9 March 2002) was an Australian Army officer, and National President of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) from 1988 to 1993. Garland had a distinguished military career, and attracted media attention by being outspoken on many controversial social issues, often antagonising the Keating government at the time.</s><s>Military career. Garland's army career spanned 35 years. In 1965, he commanded the 1st Special Air Service squadron against Indonesian forces in Borneo. During the Vietnam War, he was second-in-command of the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and was appointed Australia's chief liaison officer to US forces.</s><s>National Presidency of the RSL and activism. Garland was President of the Australian Capital Territory branch of the RSL, before becoming the RSL National President in 1988. Garland was elected as the Australian Monarchist League delegate from New South Wales at the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention. He joined Bruce Ruxton in campaigning against the notion of Australia becoming a republic. The two sat next to each other, angering republican delegates by opposing them on almost every point. In one attempt to filibuster debate, Garland recounted his family's loyalty to the Crown beginning in"
},
{
"title": "Alf Garland",
"text": " medieval times. Garland was Chairman of both the Australian Monarchist League NSW and ACT branches. Garland also opposed the construction of the Japanese funded technology city known as the Multifunction Polis (MFP). Garland was also opposed to Asian immigration, saying in 1988 Australia must alter the selection of immigrants to ensure Australia remained \"predominantly European\".\"We want to retain Australia for Australians,\". Garland died at age 69, after a long battle with motor neurone disease.</s>"
}
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"entity": "Alf Garland",
"frequency": "rare",
"region": "Asia/Pacific"
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Question: Tell me a bio of Don Beard.
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[
{
"title": "Don Beard",
"text": "<s>Don Beard Donald Derek Beard (14 January 1920 – 15 July 1982) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in four Tests from 1952 to 1956.</s><s>Early life and career. Don Beard grew up in the country near Palmerston North, cycling 15 miles a day to attend Palmerston North Boys' High School. After teacher training in Auckland, he attended Victoria University in Wellington, from where he completed a Diploma in Education in 1946 and a Master of Arts in 1948. His thesis was on the history of physical education in New Zealand primary schools. An accurate fast-medium bowler and useful lower-order batsman, Beard was selected to make his first-class debut for Wellington in the first round of Plunket Shield matches after the Second World War in December 1945, but he had not fully recovered from burns he had received while fighting a fire, and was replaced by Ray Buchan. He made his first-class debut a few weeks later in a friendly match against Auckland. He did not play Plunket Shield cricket until 1950–51, when he played for Central Districts in their inaugural match.</s><s>International career. In the 1951–52 Plunket Shield season, Beard took 16 wickets at 27.25 and was selected for"
},
{
"title": "Don Beard",
"text": " the two Tests against the touring West Indies side, taking four wickets. He was a stalwart of the Central Districts team until 1960–61, taking 15 wickets and scoring 255 runs at 51.00 in 1953–54 when Central Districts won the Plunket Shield for the first time. He hit his top first-class score of 81 not out against Wellington during the season. Dick Brittenden said Beard specialised in the sweep shot, and \"would have made more runs in his colourful career had he not expended so much of his patience on bowling\". Beard topped the bowling averages in the Plunket Shield in 1955–56 with 28 wickets at 10.64, \"and 110 of his 217 overs were maidens\". After the visiting West Indies side won the first two Tests by an innings, they played Central Districts at Wanganui, where Beard top-scored in each innings, making 25 and 67, and took 3 for 52 and 2 for 59 (match figures of 50.1–20–111–5). He returned to the Test team for the last two Tests, and played an important role in New Zealand's first-ever Test victory in the Fourth Test, making 31 and 6 not out and taking 1 for 20"
},
{
"title": "Don Beard",
"text": " and 3 for 22. But that was his last Test.</s><s>Later career. Beard's best innings and match figures came in 1956–57 against Otago in Dunedin, when he took 7 for 56 and 4 for 43 (match figures of 61.4–26–99–11) in a match that Otago nevertheless won. In 1961 he became principal of Te Aroha College in Waikato, and played a few games for Northern Districts. In 1961–62 he took 5 for 70 and 6 for 71 against Auckland, and 5 for 60 and 3 for 36 in the next match against Wellington. He played his last game in the 1964–65 season, just after turning 45. Beard also played Hawke Cup cricket for Wanganui, Manawatu and Thames Valley. He stood nearly six feet three inches tall. He played basketball for New Zealand, was a notable amateur golfer, and played rugby union for Wellington, Wanganui (as captain) and North Island. Beard died in 1982 while on holiday in England after retiring as principal of Te Aroha College. His son Derek also played first-class cricket in New Zealand.</s>"
}
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"entity": "Don Beard",
"frequency": "rare",
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