title: Frances Tiafoe

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Frances Tiafoe Jr. ( ; born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. Tiafoe won his first of three ATP titles at the 2018 Delray Beach Open, becoming the youngest American man to win a tournament on the ATP Tour since Andy Roddick in 2002. He won his second title on clay at the 2023 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston and his third on grass in 2023 Stuttgart. He reached his career high at world No. 10 in singles on June 19, 2023, and world No. 160 in doubles on November 1, 2021. On June 19, 2023, he became  the first Sierra Leonean American and only the third man of African descent to be ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), after Arthur Ashe and James Blake.

The son of Sierra Leonean immigrants, Tiafoe was raised at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), a USTA regional training center in College Park, Maryland, where his father worked as the head of maintenance. His unique background and success as a teenager led him to be widely regarded as a great prospect to become one of the next American tennis stars. At 15, Tiafoe won the 2013 Orange Bowl, the tournament's youngest-ever boys' singles champion. At 17, he became the youngest American in the main draw of the French Open since Michael Chang in 1989. As a teenager, he won the US Junior National Championship and enjoyed success on the ATP Challenger Tour, reaching nine finals and winning four titles.

Tiafoe broke into the top 100 of the ATP rankings in 2016. At the 2019 Australian Open, he reached the quarterfinals, and at the 2022 US Open, he reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.

Early life and background
Tiafoe was born on January 20, 1998, along with his twin brother Franklin, in Maryland, to Constant (better known as Frances Sr.) Tiafoe and Alphina Kamara, immigrants from Sierra Leone. His father immigrated to the United States in 1993, while his mother joined him in 1996 to escape the civil war in their country. In 1999, his father began working as a day laborer on a construction crew that built the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) in College Park, Maryland. When the facility was completed, he was hired as the on-site custodian and given a spare office to live in at the center. The Tiafoe brothers lived with their father at the center for five days a week for the next 11 years. They took advantage of their living situation to start playing tennis regularly at age 4. They stayed with their mother when she was not working night shifts as a nurse.

When Tiafoe and his brother were 5 years old, their father arranged for them to begin training at the JTCC, bypassing their usual fees. At age 8, Misha Kouznetsov began coaching Tiafoe at the center, taking interest in him after seeing his work ethic and interest in the sport. Kouznetsov helped sponsor Tiafoe to play at tournaments as he progressed through the juniors. He continued to coach Tiafoe for nine years until he moved to the USTA National Training Center in Boca Raton, Florida. Tiafoe's brother Franklin stayed in Maryland, where he played high school tennis at DeMatha Catholic High School and later played college tennis at Salisbury University.

Junior career

Tiafoe won enough high-level junior titles to reach world No. 2 in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior rankings. His success at the juniors combined with his unusual upbringing helped him rise to national prominence before he turned pro. At the age of 14, Tiafoe won his first prestigious international tournament at Les Petits As in France. The following year, in December 2013, Tiafoe became the youngest player to win the Orange Bowl, one of the highest-tier Grade A events on the ITF Junior Circuit. He defeated compatriot Stefan Kozlov in the final a month before turning 16 years old. Several months later, he also won the Easter Bowl, a second-tier Grade B1 event.

With these two big titles, Tiafoe was the top seed at the 2014 French Open junior tournament, where he was upset in the second round. He then lost at Wimbledon to the eventual champion Noah Rubin. Tiafoe produced his best result at a junior Grand Slam tournament at the US Open, where he reached the semifinals before losing a tight match to Quentin Halys. That was the last ITF tournament he would play at the junior level. In August 2015, Tiafoe capped his junior career by winning the USTA Junior National Championship at the age of 17. Tiafoe defeated Stefan Kozlov in the final in a five-set match, taking the first two sets and the last. With the win, he earned a wild card into the main draw at the 2015 US Open.

Junior Grand Slam results – Singles
Australian Open: A (-)
French Open: 2R (2014)
Wimbledon: 3R (2014)
US Open: SF (2014)

Professional career

2014–15: French and US Open debuts

Tiafoe made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the age of 16 and a half after being granted a wildcard by his home tournament, the 2014 Washington Open. He lost to Evgeny Donskoy in his first career tour-level match. At the 2014 US Open, Tiafoe received a wildcard into the qualifying draw but lost to 11th seed Tatsuma Ito. In the doubles tournament, he was awarded a wildcard into the main draw with Michael Mmoh. The two teenagers picked up their first career win at the ATP level in the first round by defeating veterans Víctor Estrella Burgos and Teymuraz Gabashvili, before losing in the second round. In March 2015, he claimed his first professional title by winning the ITF Futures tournament at Bakersfield. He officially turned pro the following month.

In April 2015, Tiafoe broke through onto the ATP Challenger level. After starting the month ranked below the top 800 in the world, he put together a string of solid results that pushed him into the top 300 in the world by the time the first set of ATP rankings were published in May. Even though his ranking was too low to gain direct entry into any of the three American clay-court Challenger events, Tiafoe reached the quarterfinals of Sarasota as a qualifier, then reached the semifinals of Savannah as a wildcard, and finally reached his first career Challenger final at Tallahassee with a special exempt. At the last tournament, he defeated top seed Facundo Bagnis to notch his first win against a top-100 opponent. Tiafoe's performance at these events was good enough to win the 2015 Har-Tru Challenge and earn the only American wildcard spot into the main draw of the 2015 French Open. In his Grand Slam debut, Tiafoe lost his first-round match to Martin Kližan. Nonetheless, he became the first 17-year-old American to play in the main draw of the men's singles tournament since Michael Chang and Pete Sampras in 1989.

At the Winston-Salem Open in August, Tiafoe entered the main draw as a qualifier and won his first ATP Tour-level match, after defeating James Duckworth in a third-set tiebreaker. He then made his main-draw debut at the US Open with the wildcard he earned from winning the junior national championship. He would lose to the No. 22 seed Viktor Troicki in the first round. After the US Open, Tiafoe continued his success on the Challenger Tour and reached a second final at Knoxville, losing to Dan Evans. Driven by his success at the Challenger level, Tiafoe climbed to a year-end ranking of 176, cracking the top 200 a few months before turning 18 years old.

2016: Challenger titles and top 100

In the 2016 season, Tiafoe consistently produced deep tournament runs at the Challenger level, but was unable to break through in his few opportunities at the ATP Tour level. At the Indian Wells Masters, Tiafoe was awarded a wild card into the main draw and won his first-round match against his compatriot rival, No. 80 Taylor Fritz, in their first ever ATP-level match. This would turn out to be his only ATP match win of the year. He lost his next match to David Goffin in a third-set tiebreak. Tiafoe's best performance in the clay-court season came at Tallahassee where he avenged his loss to Facundo Arguello in the final the previous year by knocking him out in the first round. For the second consecutive year, he was able to reach the final, this time losing to fellow teenager Quentin Halys.

Tiafoe began his return to the North American hardcourts by reaching his second Challenger final of the year at Winnetka before losing to top-seeded Yoshihito Nishioka. He then reached his third consecutive Challenger final in the United States at Lexington. The following week at Granby, Tiafoe reached his fourth Challenger final in five such events in North America. He defeated Marcelo Arévalo in the final to capture his first Challenger title and climb to a career-high ranking of No. 123 in the world. Tiafoe was awarded a wildcard into the US Open, his only Grand Slam main draw of the year. He faced off against American veteran John Isner in the first round and won the first two sets, but eventually lost the match in a fifth-set tiebreak. In October, Tiafoe cracked the top 100 for the first time by winning the maiden event at Stockton, defeating fellow American Noah Rubin in the final. He finished the year ranked 108, making him the highest-ranked player at his age for the second year in a row.

2017: Doubles final

At the Australian Open, Tiafoe began the year by reaching the main draw of a Grand Slam through qualifying for the first time and then recording his first career major match win over Mikhail Kukushkin. To close out the winter hard court season, he also qualified for the Miami Masters and won his first round match before falling to Roger Federer. Tiafoe followed up a good start to the year on the hard courts with a very impressive clay court season that helped his ranking climb to No. 65 in the world. He began with the US Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, where he reached his first career ATP final in the doubles event, after partnering with veteran Dustin Brown as a wildcard entry. He then continued his success on clay by winning back-to-back Challenger titles over the next three weeks at the Sarasota Open on green clay and the Open du Pays d'Aix on red clay, the former of which included a victory over former top-10 player Jürgen Melzer in the semifinals.

In his Wimbledon debut, Tiafoe defeated Robin Haase in four sets for his first win over an opponent ranked in the top-50. He followed this up with his first top-10 win over world No. 7, Alexander Zverev, at the Cincinnati Masters in August. Tiafoe gained more prominence after taking Roger Federer to five sets in his first-round match on Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US Open. In September, captain John McEnroe chose Tiafoe to replace Juan Martín del Potro for Team World in the inaugural Laver Cup, which mostly featured players in the top-25 of the ATP rankings. He lost his only match to Marin Čilić. Tiafoe achieved a year-end ranking inside the top 100 for the first time, but only managed to be named the first alternate for the inaugural Next Generation ATP Finals.

2018: First ATP title and top 50

Tiafoe entered the year having struggled on the ATP Tour, with just nine wins in 38 matches. Nonetheless, he would quadruple that number of wins by the end of the season. At the inaugural New York Open, Tiafoe reached his first career quarterfinal at an ATP Tour-level event before losing to top seed Kevin Anderson. The following week, Tiafoe entered the Delray Beach Open as a wildcard and won his first ATP title after beating Peter Gojowczyk in the final. He became the first wildcard entry to win the tournament. Along the way, he defeated his idol and world No. 10, Juan Martín del Potro, as well as fellow Next Gen players Hyeon Chung and Denis Shapovalov. With the victory, he became the youngest American to win an ATP title since Andy Roddick won the US Clay Court Championships in 2002. Tiafoe's win streak was snapped in the first round of the Indian Wells Masters by his compatriot Ernesto Escobedo. However, he bounced back at the Miami Masters to reach the fourth round, a career-best at a Masters event. He upset Tomáš Berdych in the third round before losing to Kevin Anderson for the second time this year.

Tiafoe continued his success at the ATP level into the clay-court season. He played at the Portugal Open for the first time and made it to his second ATP final of the year, despite needing to save three match points in the first round. He upset the defending champion, No. 11 Pablo Carreño Busta, in the semifinals before losing to hometown favorite João Sousa in the final. Nonetheless, he became the youngest American to reach a clay-court final in Europe since Andre Agassi played in the French Open final in 1990.

Tiafoe followed up on this success at Wimbledon by picking up his first win over a seeded opponent at a major against No. 30, Fernando Verdasco, en route to reaching the third round of a major for the first time. With this performance, he also broke into the top-50 of the ATP rankings after the tournament.

During the US Open Series, Tiafoe had his best result at the Canadian Open. He defeated two top-30 players, including hometown favorite Milos Raonic, before losing to No. 5 Grigor Dimitrov in a third-set tiebreak. At the US Open, Tiafoe won his first career match at the event against No. 29, Adrian Mannarino, before losing to fellow Next Gen player Alex de Minaur in the second round. Following the last major event of the year, Tiafoe made his Davis Cup debut for the United States in the semifinal against Croatia. After easily losing to Marin Čilić in straight sets, Tiafoe played in the fifth and decisive rubber against Borna Ćorić. Despite taking a two set to one lead, he ultimately lost the match as the United States lost the tie. For the second straight year, Tiafoe replaced Juan Martín del Potro in the Laver Cup. He again lost his only match, this time to Dimitrov. At the end of the season, Tiafoe qualified for the Next Gen ATP Finals, having just barely failed to qualify the previous year. He defeated Hubert Hurkacz in his round robin group, but lost to Jaume Munar and the eventual champion, Stefanos Tsitsipas, as he did not advance out of the group. Tiafoe finished the year ranked No. 39 in the world.

2019: Top 30 debut
Tiafoe's biggest result of the year came at the Australian Open, where he made it to the quarterfinals of a major for the first time. During the tournament, he upset No. 5 Kevin Anderson in the second round as well as No. 20, Grigor Dimitrov, in the fourth round before losing to No. 2, Rafael Nadal. As a result of this run, he reached a career-high ranking of world No. 29, on February 11, 2019.

Tiafoe could not build on this success during the rest of the season. He did not win multiple matches at a tournament again until he reached the quarterfinals at the Miami Open, losing to Denis Shapovalov. He could not defend the points from his title at the 2019 Delray Beach Open or his runner-up at the 2019 Estoril Open a year earlier, losing in the first round at the former and in the quarterfinals at the latter. Tiafoe closed out the clay-court season with a first-round loss at the French Open to Filip Krajinović in which he struggled with an illness. He faced more difficult draws at Wimbledon and the US Open, losing to No. 10 Fabio Fognini in the opening round of the former and No. 7 Alexander Zverev in the second round of the latter, despite pushing both opening to five sets. At the end of the season, Tiafoe qualified for the Next Generation ATP Finals. He was placed in a round-robin group with Ugo Humbert, Mikael Ymer, and Jannik Sinner. After an opening-match loss to Sinner, Tiafoe defeated Humbert and Ymer to advance to knockout rounds. There, he was defeated by top seed Alex de Minaur. Tiafoe finished the season ranked No. 47 in the world.

2020: US Open fourth round
Tiafoe dropped out of the top 50 in February, after losing his quarterfinal points from the 2019 Australian Open when he was defeated in the first round of the 2020 Australian Open by Daniil Medvedev.

At the US Open, Tiafoe advanced to the third round of the tournament for the first time by defeating Andreas Seppi of Italy, then John Millman of Australia. In the third round, he knocked out Márton Fucsovics of Hungary in straight sets and moved onto the round of 16, becoming at 22 the youngest American man to advance that far in the US Open since Donald Young in 2011. He lost in straight sets in the round of 16 to the tournament's third seed, Daniil Medvedev of Russia. Tiafoe finished the season ranked No. 59 in the world.

2021: First top-5 win, ATP 500 final

Tiafoe started the year at the Delray Beach Open, where he was beaten by Cameron Norrie in the quarterfinals. He then lost in the second round of the Australian Open and in the first or second rounds of several ATP 250 tournaments. At the Miami Open, he beat top-30 player Dan Evans in a comeback, but lost in the round of 16 to No.1 seed Daniil Medvedev. He did not have good results during the European Clay Swing as he could not qualify for the main draw of the Madrid Masters or the Rome Masters and he lost in the first round of the French Open to Steve Johnson, despite being up two sets to love.

Tiafoe started his grass-court season by defeating Denis Kudla to win the Nottingham Open. Tiafoe reached the quarterfinals at the Queen's Club Championships, where he lost to Denis Shapovalov. Later that grass-court season, Tiafoe had one of his greatest career wins in the first round of Wimbledon, beating world No. 4 and 2021 French Open finalist, Stefanos Tsitsipas, in straight sets to gain his first win against a top-5 player. Tiafoe became just the second American man since 2010 to defeat a top-three seed at a major, joining Sam Querrey, who did it at Wimbledon in both 2016 and 2017. He then defeated Vasek Pospisil in the second round in straight sets to reach the third round at Wimbledon for the second time in his career, where he lost to Karen Khachanov. At the 2020 Olympics, Tiafoe lost in the second round to Tsitsipas, who took his revenge for the Wimbledon loss.

At the Canadian Open, Tiafoe lost in the second round of qualifying to Emil Ruusuvuori, but was awarded a lucky-loser spot in the main draw after fellow American Sebastian Korda withdrew. He defeated qualifier Yoshihito Nishioka in the first round, and then earned his second top-10 victory of the year by upsetting 10th-ranked home favorite Denis Shapovalov in the second round. He lost in the third round to Gaël Monfils. The following week at the Western & Southern Open, Tiafoe defeated Ugo Humbert, but lost in the second round to Diego Schwartzman.

At the US Open, he reached the fourth round for a second consecutive year by defeating fifth seed and world No. 7, Andrey Rublev in a five-set match. Tiafoe was the first American man to reach the second week at the US Open in consecutive years since Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in 2011–12. He was then defeated by Félix Auger-Aliassime.

Tiafoe had to enter the main draw via qualifying in Vienna, beating Alex Molčan and Lucas Miedler, both in three sets. In the main draw, Tiafoe beat Dušan Lajović in the first round before winning his second match of the year against Tsitsipas, after recovering from a break down in the third set. Tiafoe then beat Diego Schwartzman to reach his first ATP 500 semifinal, where he beat Jannik Sinner after trailing in the second set to reach his first ATP 500 final. He would lose to Alexander Zverev in straight sets in the final.

2022: US Open semifinal, top 20, American No. 2

Tiafoe saw success in the European Clay swing of the season. At the Portugal Open, he defeated Monte-Carlo finalist Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the quarterfinals and Sebastian Korda in the semifinals. He lost to Sebastián Báez in the final, but reached the top 25 in rankings on May 2, 2022. In his next event, the Madrid Open, Tiafoe lost to Cristian Garín in the first round. Tiafoe, who had played in the French Open six times previously, recorded his first victory at Roland Garros in 2022 with a first-round win over Benjamin Bonzi. In the second round, he lost to David Goffin in four sets. At the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, he reached the round of 16 for the first time at this major. He lost again to Goffin this time, in a tight five-set match that lasted 4 hours and 36 minutes.

At the Atlanta Open, Tiafoe reached the semifinals where he lost to Jenson Brooksby in straight sets. In his next event, at his home tournament of Washington, Tiafoe reached the quarterfinals, but let five match points slip away and lost to Nick Kyrgios in three sets. At the same tournament, he also reached the semifinals in doubles with Alex De Minaur. The next week, at the Canadian Open, Tiafoe reached the second round with a win over Benjamin Bonzi before losing to No. 10 seed Taylor Fritz. His win against Bonzi lifted him to a then-career high-ranking of No. 24, which also made him the No. 2 American player. At the Cincinnati Masters, Tiafoe reached the second round with a win over No. 12 seed Matteo Berrettini.

Tiafoe reached the fourth round of the US Open after defeating 14th seed Diego Schwartzman in the third round. In the fourth round, he recorded the biggest win of his career over No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal to reach the quarterfinals. With his win over the 22-time Grand Slam champion, he became the first American to defeat Nadal at a Major since wildcard James Blake at the 2005 US Open. At age 24, he also became the youngest American man to reach the US Open quarterfinals since Andy Roddick in 2006. He is only the third American to defeat Nadal in a Grand Slam after Roddick (2004) and Blake (2005). Next, he defeated No. 9 seed Andrey Rublev to reach his first major semifinal in his career, becoming the first American man to reach the semifinals in Flushing Meadows since 2006 when Andy Roddick reached the championship match, and the first black American man since Arthur Ashe in 1972. In the semifinals, Tiafoe lost to Carlos Alcaraz in a five set hard-fought match lasting more than four hours. He saved a match point against him in the fourth set, after coming back from two sets to one down, but lost in the decider.

At the 2022 Laver Cup, Tiafoe defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas to seal the victory for Team World.

2023: United Cup champion, Masters semifinal, titles on clay and grass, top 10 debut
Tiafoe started the season at the inaugural 2023 United Cup, as the No. 2 American male player, where the United States team became champion defeating Italy in the final.

He reached the top 15 following the 2023 Australian Open where he reached the third round.

At the 2023 BNP Paribas Open, he reached his first Masters 1000 semifinal, defeating Marcos Giron, Jason Kubler, qualifier Alejandro Tabilo, and former Indian Wells champion Cameron Norrie, for his biggest win of the season, without dropping a set. In Miami, he lost to Lorenzo Sonego in the third round.

He reached his sixth final and won his first title outside hard courts at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships. Over just two days, he won four matches in straight sets, defeating Gijs Brouwer in less than an hour in the semifinal and Tomás Martín Etcheverry in the final. The tournament victory moved him to world No. 11 on April 10.

In May, the 12th-seeded Tiafoe made it to the third round of the 2023 French Open, where he lost to 22nd-seeded Alexander Zverev.

On grass, at the 2023 BOSS Open he reached the semifinals defeating Jiří Lehečka and sixth seed Lorenzo Musetti. He reached his seventh final and first on grass with a win over Marton Fucsovics. With a win over Jan-Lennard Struff in the final, Tiafoe reached the world's top 10 for the first time in his career on 19 June 2023. With his two titles on clay and on grass during the season, he completed the set of titles on three different surfaces.

World TeamTennis
Tiafoe has played three seasons of World TeamTennis, all with his hometown team the Washington Kastles, making his debut in 2017. He was to return to the Kastles during the 2020 WTT season, but did not play after testing positive for COVID-19.

Playing style
Like many of his top-ranked American contemporaries such as Jack Sock and Sam Querrey, Tiafoe plays an aggressive offensive game that relies on a big serve and powerful forehand. At 6 feet 2 inches tall, Tiafoe can launch serves at over 140 mph, and regularly hits first serves between 120 and 140 mph. After facing him at the 2016 US Open, John Isner said that Tiafoe could return his serve—widely regarded as one of the best in the game—as well as any player on tour outside of Novak Djokovic. He also said that Tiafoe's second serve could use improvement. Tiafoe's most unusual shot is his forehand, which carries heavy topspin and is driven by an unusual arm motion. When Tiafoe won the 2018 Delray Beach Open, he credited an improved serve for his better play in the tournament.

Coaches
From age 8 to 17, Tiafoe was coached at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in Maryland by Misha Kouznetsov, who had played college tennis at UMBC and coached tennis at Robert Morris. Kouznetsov left his job at the JTCC to work with Tiafoe full-time. After Tiafoe moved to Florida to train with the USTA, he was coached by José Higueras from Spain, who had led fellow Americans Michael Chang and Jim Courier to Grand Slam titles. Tiafoe also worked with Nicolás Todero while at USTA. Robby Ginepri, a former US Open semifinalist, began coaching Tiafoe in the fall of 2016. Tiafoe's friend Zack Evenden started to help coach him shortly before he won his first ATP title in 2018. Evenden took over as Tiafoe's primary coach before the start of the 2019 season. In the 2020 season, Tiafoe hired former top-10 player Wayne Ferreira as an additional coach. In July 2021, Tiafoe and Evenden parted ways by mutual agreement, and Ferreira became his primary coach.

Equipment and apparel
Tiafoe has been sponsored by Nike since May 2016. He was previously sponsored by Adidas. Tiafoe endorses the Yonex VCORE Pro 97 tennis racket equipped with Polytour Pro 125 strings. He chose this racket because it helps him "play more aggressively".

Personal life

Tiafoe is nicknamed "Big Foe" or simply "Foe". He made known his relationship with tennis player Ayan Broomfield in 2018.

Tiafoe's tennis idol growing up was Juan Martín del Potro, in part because the Argentine was the first pro to sign a tennis ball for him. The two first faced each other at Acapulco in 2017, with del Potro winning the match in a third-set tiebreak. Tiafoe picked up his first win over his idol at the 2018 Delray Beach Open en route to his first career ATP title.

Tiafoe likes to watch and play basketball, and is a big fan of fellow Washington, D.C. area native Kevin Durant. He is also a fan of Washington area sports teams, including the Washington Commanders in the National Football League, and the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League.

Due to Tiafoe's connections to the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) in College Park, Maryland, and his childhood in Hyattsville, Maryland, many fans of the University of Maryland Terrapins are also fans of Tiafoe. Tiafoe is regularly covered by University of Maryland Media and Fan Sites. After Tiafoe defeated Rafael Nadal and reached the semifinals of the US Open in 2022, he attended a Maryland Terrapins Football game where he was honored for his accomplishments. Tiafoe also attends Maryland Terrapins Basketball games. Tiafoe has a long-term relationship with University of Maryland Football coach Mike Locksley, whom he met as a teenager, and has appeared on Locksley's podcast.

Tiafoe has embraced his position both as one of the few African players on the ATP Tour and as a potential role model to youngsters in general, saying, "That's one of my biggest motivations – to get more black people playing tennis... But I'm just trying to inspire everyone, doesn't matter what race... especially younger people."

Tiafoe played in the 2023 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.

Performance timelines

Singles
Current through the 2023 Rolex Paris Masters.

Doubles

ATP career finals

Singles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

National and international representation

Team competitions finals: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Record against other players

Record against top-10 players
Tiafoe's match record against players who have been ranked in the Top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour (incl. Grand Slams) main draw, Davis Cup and Laver Cup matches are considered.

Wins over top-10 players
He has a  record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Notable exhibitions

Singles

References

External links

1998 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
African-American male tennis players
Tennis people from Maryland
American people of Sierra Leonean descent
American twins
People from College Park, Maryland
People from Hyattsville, Maryland
Sportspeople from Prince George's County, Maryland
Olympic tennis players for the United States
21st-century African-American sportspeople


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Moumine Kassouré Ekiang (born 23 March 1989) is a Chadian professional football goalkeeper. He has made one appearance for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
People from Chari-Baguirmi Region
Men's association football goalkeepers


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Peregrine: American Immigration in the 21st Century is an online journal published by the Hoover Institution as part of its Conte Initiative on Immigration Reform. It is focused on understanding immigration to the United States and identifying optimal immigration policy for the contemporary United States. The journal is edited by economist Tim Kane and relies on contributions from Hoover's Working Group on Immigration Reform, co-chaired by Kane and Edward Lazear.

History

The first issue of Peregrine, issue 1401, was published in late June 2014.

Reception

The news release by the Hoover Institution about the launch was published on CNBC, and Herald Online

References

External links

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Immigration to the United States
International relations journals
Academic journals established in 2014
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Vladimir Gaćinović (; 25 May 1890 – 11 August 1917) was a Bosnian Serb essayist and revolutionary in Austria-Hungary. He was one of the leaders and organizers of the secret cells of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia.

Early life
Gaćinović was born in 1890 in the village of Kačanj within Bileća municipality, which was then administered by the Austro-Hungarian Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina (another source has his birthplace as Rudina village, also in Bileća). Gaćinović was the son of a Serbian Orthodox priest, who was also a hajduk. He completed elementary school in Bileća in 1901 and finished six grades of high school in Mostar between 1901 and 1907. The high school had been home to two secret societies since 1905, one of which, "Matica", was led by Dimitrije Mitrinović. When he was seventeen years old, Gaćinović was a member of the literary society which served as a front for "Matica", and published a critically noted essay about the raconteur Petar Kočić.

Young Bosnia and Kosovo tyrannicide

Austria-Hungary's complete annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 angered young revolutionaries active in that region. They rejected the conciliatory ideas of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and his cultural struggle within the Austrian monarchy; instead, they embraced the notion of "Kosovo tyrannicide", à la Miloš Obilić, as a method of political struggle. Gaćinović was the actual ideologue of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia, and was thus responsible for introducing the cult of tyrannicide. Bogdan Žerajić was the first to pursue this method in practice. When Franz Joseph I of Austria visited Bosnia and Herzegovina on 3 June 1910, Žerajić had intended to attempt his assassination during his passage through Mostar, but eventually gave up his plan for unknown reasons. Žerajić attempted to assassinate Austro-Hungarian governor Marijan Varešanin in Sarajevo a week later, but killed himself when the plot failed.

Gaćinović, who was personal friends with European socialists such as Victor Serge and Julius Martov, met Leon Trotsky by chance in Paris. His revolutionary zeal impressed Trotsky. From autumn 1910 to the summer of 1912, Gaćinović was a student at Vienna University. In his late teens, after visiting the Kingdom of Serbia, Gaćinović organized underground cells, kruzoks, amongst Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zagreb, and western Slavonia. In 1911, he became the only Young Bosnia leader to join Unification or Death, Dragutin Dimitrijević's secret society. In the same year, the term Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia) was popularized in an article by Gaćinović, and modeled by him after Young Italy and Young Russia. In 1912, Gaćinović publicized a letter by one of his associates, with whom he fully agreed. Titled "Cry of a Desperate One" (), it attacked the younger generations, in particular students at foreign universities, for lack of idealism and opportunism, petty individualism, and conformity.

During the First Balkan War, Gaćinović fought as a volunteer in the Montenegrin army. Upon his return to Bosnia, he instigated a plot to kill Oskar Potiorek, the Austrian Governor, in January 1914, but did not follow through with his own plan. Nevertheless, Gaćinović publicly condemned in his letters the subsequent assassination of Franz Ferdinand. According to some sources, this was merely an attempt to avoid prosecution for his involvement; however, other authors have it that Gaćinović was sincerely opposed to the assassination.

During World War I, Gaćinović spent time as a volunteer in the French Navy, after which he traveled to the United States to seek aid and volunteers for Serbia. He was poisoned with arsenic in August 1917 in Fribourg, Switzerland, by either the Austrians, the French, the Serbian police, or by one of Serbia's rival political factions.

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title: De Vergulde Wagen

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Restaurant De Vergulde Wagen is a defunct restaurant in Heemskerk, Netherlands. It was a fine dining restaurant that was awarded one Michelin star in 1995 and retained that rating until 1997. The restaurant closed in February 2011 when the owners retired after running the restaurants for 40 years.

GaultMillau awarded the restaurant 12 out of 20 points in 2011.

Head chef of the restaurant was Tineke Nieuwenhuizen.

See also
List of Michelin starred restaurants in the Netherlands

References

Restaurants in the Netherlands
Michelin Guide starred restaurants in the Netherlands
Defunct restaurants in the Netherlands
Heemskerk


title: Jérémy Ferrari

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Jérémy Ferrari (born 6 April 1985) is a French comedian and radio/television presenter. He is known for his black comedy. In his comedic sketches, he deals with racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and other forms of discrimination.

Biography
Ferrari grew up in the Ardennes, in the commune of Villers-Semeuse. His parents worked in local shops. In high school, Ferrari dropped out in order to study theatre and comedy in more detail. At a young age, he began to tour and present his first one-man show, De sketches en sketches, and at the age of seventeen, he went to Paris to study in the Cours Florent drama school.

A well-known comedian in France, he shares an on-stage rivalry with comedian Arnaud Tsamère.

Career

Theater
 De sketches en sketches
 Moi, méchant ?
 Les Wesh
 Deux chaises vides, a play by Bertrand Matthieu, in which he played the poet Arthur Rimbaud
 Mes 7 péchés capitaux
 Hallelujah Bordel ! (released on DVD November 2013)
 Festival d'Avignon
  Festival du Rire
 La tournée du trio, with Arnaud Tsamere and Baptiste Lecaplain
 Vends 2 pièces à Beyrouth
Anesthésie Générale

Television
 2005 : Morning Café, M6
 2010 - 2012 : On n'demande qu'à en rire, France 2
 2011 : On a tout révisé, France 2
 2011 : On n'est pas couché, France 2
 2012 - 2013 : ONDAR Show, France 2
 2013 : Présentation de la météo le 11 avril 2013 au Grand Journal
 2013 : Carte blanche à Jérémy Ferrari et Arnaud Tsamère, France 4
 2013 : Touche pas à mon poste !, D8
 2013 : Le Marrakech du rire 3, M6 (TV channel)
 2014 : L'Émission pour tous, France 2

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1985 births
Living people
French people of Italian descent
21st-century French male actors
French male comedians
French humorists
French male stage actors
French male television actors
French television personalities
French television writers
People from Charleville-Mézières
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title: Executed Renaissance

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The Executed Renaissance (or "Red Renaissance", ) is a term used to describe the generation of Ukrainian language poets, writers, and artists of the 1920s and early 1930s who lived in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic.

Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin's nationality policies of Korenizatsiya (lit. "Indigenization") favored the revival of minority and heritage languages, encouraging them to be taught in the schools and published and providing them with material support and visibility. The poets and writers of the Ukrainianization generation were often resident in the Slovo Building in Kharkiv, which was then the capital of Soviet Ukraine. With the 1929's Great Turn or "Great Break", newly appointed Soviet Premier and CPSU Secretary General Joseph Stalin reversed those policies in favor of State centralisation, Socialist Realism, and Russification. While outwardly pro-Soviet, Ukrainian language school teachers, poets, and writers refused to submit to Stalin's restoration of Tsarist policies of linguistic imperialism. In retaliation, Ukrainian language schoolteachers, as well as poets, writers and dramatists who wrote in the same language were arrested en masse, deported to the Gulag, imprisoned or executed. Those victims were also part of Stalin's larger 1937-1938 Great Purge, with its most infamous killing field being at Sandarmokh forest, a mass grave site in Karelia where an estimated 6000 political prisoners from the Solovki concentration camp were secretly executed and buried by the NKVD.

"The Executed Renaissance", as a term, was first suggested in 1959 in Paris by anti-communist Polish émigré publisher Jerzy Giedroyc of the influential Kultura magazine. He was writing to Ukrainian émigré and literary critic Yuriy Lavrinenko to recommend the title for the 1959 anthology of the best Ukrainian literature by the Ukrainianization generation.

In a 2023 article for The Guardian, Joseph Stalin's destruction of the Executed Renaissance was compared to a second alleged decimation of Ukrainian intellectuals by the Russian military during Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, with alleged killings  on the battlefronts, trenches as well as in strikes on civilian areas.

Background
The collapse of the Russian Empire during the First World War, the abolition of imperial censorship, the establishment of an independent Ukrainian State, and the cultural leniency of the Soviet regime in the 1920s together led to an astonishing renaissance of literary and cultural activities in Ukraine. Scores of new writers and poets appeared and formed dozens of literary groups that changed the face of Ukrainian literature. These processes were supported by the policies of nativization (in Ukraine it was called Ukrainization), the New Economic Policy of State Capitalism (1921–1927), and the drive to eliminate illiteracy.

As a title
The term the “Executed Renaissance” was first proposed in 1959 by Jerzy Giedroyc, editor of Kultura publishers in Paris, which was devoted to publishing anti-communist writers from throughout the Polish diaspora. In a 13 August 1958 letter to Yuriy Lavrinenko, Giedroyc referred to an anthology of recent Ukrainian literature which Lavrinenko had prepared at Giedroyc's request:
"About the name. Could it be better to give it a generic name: Executed Renaissance. Anthology 1917–1933 etc. The name would then sound spectacular. On the other hand, the humble name Anthology can only facilitate penetration by the Iron Curtain. What do you think?"

"So be it," replied Lavrinenko.

The book The Executed Renaissance, An Anthology, 1917–1933: Poetry, prose, drama and the essay, published in Paris by Kultura (1959), remains one of the most important sources for the history of Ukrainian literature during the period. It includes the best examples of Ukrainian poetry, prose and essay-writing from the 1920s and early 1930s.

According to Ukrainian literary historian Yarina Tsymbal, The Executed Renaissance was "a good name for the anthology, but unsuitable for the whole generation of creative intelligentsia." In her view, the "Red Renaissance" is a more apt metaphor because it was a self-description. The latter term first appeared in 1925 when Olexander Leites' book The Renaissance of Ukrainian Literature and the poem "The Call of the Red Renaissance" by Volodymyr Gadzinskyi were published simultaneously and independently. That same year, the magazine Neo-Lif appeared with a preface by Gadzinskyi: "For us the past is only a means of cognizing the present and future," he wrote, "a useful experience and an important practice in the great structure of the Red Renaissance."

A new elite
Lavrinenko, however, saw "the Executed Renaissance" as more than just the title of an anthology. He promoted it as a term encapsulating the martyrdom of Ukrainian poets and their legacy and power to resurrect Ukrainian culture. The Executed Renaissance paradigm, together with the national-communist perspective and as a framework for the nationalization of  Ukraine's early Soviet intellectuals, would later emerge as part of an effort to establish a national opposition to the Communist regime with the new intellectual elite eventually contributing to a struggle for an independent and united country.

The main elements in the outlook of the new Ukrainian intellectuals were rebellion, independent thought, and genuine belief in their own ideals. The intellectuals emphasised the individual rather than the masses. Like many other proponents of inner emigration in a police state, their outward "Sovietness" concealed deep searches and queries.

Arising from the lower classes (servants, families of priests, industrial workers and peasants), the new generation of the Ukrainian elite often lacked the opportunity for systematic education because of war, famine and the need to earn their daily bread. Working "on the brink of the possible", using every opportunity to get in contact with world culture and to spread the wings of their creativity, the new generation of the Ukrainian artistic elite were imbued with the latest trends and created truly topical art.

At this time a new generation arose, bearing the moral burden of victories and defeats in the struggle for national independence, with an understanding of Ukraine's path in world history, independent in its judgements, with diverse ideas about the development of Ukrainian literature, when, according to Solomiia Pavlychko, literature

“got a much wider audience than ever before. The level of education of this audience has increased. For the first time, a large number of writers and intellectuals worked in literature. For the first time Ukrainian scientists spoke to the audience of national universities. For the first time different artistic directions, groups, and schools were rapidly differentiated. However, the tendency for the modernization of cultural life coexisted from the outset with a parallel tendency for its subordination to ideology and then to complete destruction."

Literary groups

For the most part writers were consolidated into literary organizations with different styles or positions. The period between 1925 and 1928 saw a "literary discussion" initiated by Mykola Khvylovy. One of its objects was to determine the ways in which the new Ukrainian Soviet literature would develop and define the role of the writer in society. Khvylovy and his associates supported an orientation towards West European rather than Russian culture; they rejected "red graphomania" but did not reject Communism as a political ideology.

The main literary organizations of that time were:
 Hart (, hardening) existed from 1923 to 1925. Its main goal was uniting of all kinds of proletarian artists with further development of proletarian culture. One of the requirements of "Hart" was using of Ukrainian language. The organization ceased to exist after the death of its leader Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny.
 VAPLITE (, "The Free Academy of Proletarian Literature") was created in 1926 by Mykola Khvylovy on the base of "Hart". Its goal was to create a new Ukrainian literature by adopting the best achievements of Western European culture. VAPLITE accepted Communism as political ideology but rejected the necessity for ideological meaning in literature as its main requirement Among the members of VAPLITE were Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Kulish, Les Kurbas, Mayk Johansen, Pavlo Tychyna, Oleksa Slisarenko, Mykola Bazhan, Yuriy Smolych and Yulian Shpol.
 MARS (, "The Workshop of Revolutionary Literature") existed from 1924 to 1929 (primarily under name of "Lanka"). The main postulate of MARS was to honestly and artistically describe that epoch. Among its members were Valerian Pidmohylny, Hryhorii Kosynka, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Todos Osmachka, Ivan Bahrianyi and Maria Halych.
 Aspanfut (), later Komunkult () was an organization of Ukrainian futurists. Their values were "Communism, Internationalism, Industrialism, Rationalization, Inventions and Quality". Among its members were Mykhayl Semenko, Heo Shkurupiy, Yuriy Yanovsky and Yulian Shpol.
 The Neo-Classicists () were a literary movement of modernists among whose followers were Mykola Zerov, Maksym Rylsky, Pavlo Fylypovych and Mykhailo Drai-Khmara. They never established a formal organization or programme, but shared cultural and aesthetic interests. The Neo-Classicists were concerned with the production of high art and disdained "mass art", didactic writing, and propagandistic work.
 Pluh (, plough), an organization of rural writers. Their main postulate was the "struggle against proprietary ideology among peasants and promotion of the Proletarian Revolution's ideals". Among its members were Serhiy Pylypenko, Petro Panch, Dokiia Humenna and Andrii Holovko.
Zakhidna Ukraina (; English: ) after April 1926 it separated from Pluh as an independent literary organization of fifty writers and artists from West Ukraine based in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Poltava. Headed first by Dmytro Zagul, later by Myroslav Irchan.

Innovation
The writers of the Ukrainian (Red) Renaissance divided prose in two: plot (narrative) prose and non-plot prose. In the non-plot works, it was not the sentence or the word that was paramount, but the subtext, the spirit, or as Khvylovyi put it, the "smell of the word". The style of strong feelings and penetration of phenomena is called "neo-romanticism" or "expressionism". Among the many Ukrainian-language authors working in this style were Mykola Khvylovy ("Julia Shpol"), Yurii Yanovsky, Andrii Holovko, Oleksa Vlyko, Les Kurbas and Mykola Kulish.

The main themes of Khvylovy's novel Ya (Romantyka) (I am (romance)) are disappointment in the Revolution, and the screaming contradictions and divided nature of human beings at that time. The main character is  without a name, and therefore without personality or soul. For the sake of the Revolution he murders his mother and then reproves himself: "Was the Revolution worth such a sacrifice?"

In Valeryan Pidmogylny's novel The City, for the first time in Ukrainian literature, elements of existentialism emerged. In pursuit of pleasure its protagonist advances from the satisfaction of his physical desires to the highest religious needs. Even with such a complex subject matter, however, the author does not turn his novel into a simple narrative of "people's" philosophy, but grasps it creatively in its application to a national worldview.

In the Ukrainian-language poetry of the time, the most interesting development is the quest pursued by the Symbolists Olexandr Oles and Pavlo Tychyna. In The Clarinets of the Sun, Tychyna reflected the breadth of an educated and subtle mind contemplating the richness of his national heritage and striving to uncover its root causes.

When the Communist Party of the USSR realized it could not control such writers , it began to use  impermissible methods of repression: it forced them into silence, subjected them to crushing public criticism, and arrested or executed them. Writers faced a choice between suicide (Khvylovyi in 1933) and the  concentration camps (Gulag) (B. Antonenko-Davidovich and Ostap Vyshnya); they could retreat into silence (Ivan Bahrianyi and V. Domontovich), leave Ukraine (V. Vynnychenko and Yevhen Malaniuk), or write works that glorified the Communist Party (P. Tychyna and Mykola Bazhan). Most artists of this brief Renaissance were arrested and imprisoned or shot.

Deportation, arrests, executions (1933–1938)
In 1927, Stalin abolished the New Economic Policy and turned to the forced industrialisation and the collectivization of agriculture of the First Five-Year Plan.

Changes in cultural politics also occurred. An early example was the 1930 show trial of the "Union for the Freedom of Ukraine" at which 45 intellectuals, higher education professors, writers, a theologian and a priest were publicly prosecuted in Kharkiv, then capital of Soviet Ukraine.  Fifteen of the accused were executed, many more with links to the defendants (248) were sent to the camps. (This was one of a series of contemporary show trials, held in the North Caucasus, 1929 in Shakhty, and in Moscow, the 1930 Industrial Party Trial and the 1931 Menshevik Trial.)

The systematic elimination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia dates back to May 1933 when Mykhailo Yalovyi was arrested; in response Mykola Khvylovy committed suicide in the "Slovo" (Word) Building in Kharkiv. The campaign ran from 1934 to 1940, reaching a peak during the Great Terror of 1937–1938. A total of 223 writers were arrested and in a number of cases imprisoned and shot. Almost three hundred representatives of the Ukrainian Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s were shot between 27 October and 4 November 1937 at Sandarmokh, a massive killing field in Karelia (northwest Russia).

Some important representatives of this generation survived. Many remained in the Soviet Union: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Maksym Rylskyi, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Ostap Vyshnia, and Mykola Bazhan. A few emigrated: Ulas Samchuk, George Shevelov, and Ivan Bahrianyi.

The scale of the tragedy
Exact figures for Ukrainian intellectuals imprisoned and executed during the Great Terror are not available. It is, by comparison, relatively straightfoward to determine how many writers were involved. The "Slovo" Association (Ukrainian writers in emigration) sent its assessment on 20 December 1954 to the Second All-Union Congress of Writers in the USSR: in 1930, works by 259 Ukrainian writers were in print; after 1938 only 36 writers were published (13.9% of the earlier total). According to "Slovo", 192 of the "missing" 223 writers were deported, sent to the Gulag or executed; a further 16 disappeared; and eight writers committed suicide.

These data are confirmed by The Altar of Sorrow (ed., Olexii Musiienko), a martyrology of Ukrainian writers, which numbers 246 writer-victims of Stalin's terror. Other sources indicate that 228 of 260 Ukrainian writers were deported, imprisoned or shot.

Writers, poets, artists, dramatists
 Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (5 August 1899 – 8 May 1984) – writer, translator and linguist. (Well-known dissident writer.)
 Ivan Bahrianyi (2 October 1906 – 25 August 1963, West Germany) – writer, essayist, novelist and politician.
 Mykhailo Boychuk (30 October 1882 – 13 July 1937) – painter, most commonly known as a monumentalist.
 Hryhorii Epik (17 January 1901 – 3 November 1937) – writer and journalist; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Hnat Khotkevych (31 December 1877 – 8 October 1938) – writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musicologist and bandura player; executed.
 Mykola Khvylovy (13 December 1893 – 13 May 1933) – prose writer and poet; committed suicide.
 Hryhoriy Kosynka (29 November 1899 – 15 December 1934) – writer and translator.
 Mykola Kulish (19 December 1892 – 3 November 1937) – prose writer and dramatist; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Les Kurbas (25 February 1887 – 3 November 1937) – film and theater director; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Valerian Pidmohylny (2 February 1901 – 3 November 1937) – prose writer; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Yevhen Pluzhnyk (26 December 1898—2 February 1936) – poet, playwright and translator; died on Solovki.
 Klym Polishchuk (25 November 1891– November 1937) – journalist, poet and prose writer; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Anton Prykhodko (1891-29 January 1938) – writer, statesman.
 Myroslava Sopilka (1897-1937) - poet, novelist. Shot in Kyiv.
 Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska (17 August 1868 – 1941) – writer, translator and literary critic; defendant at the Kharkiv show trial of the "Union for the Freedom of Ukraine" (1930).
 Volodymyr Svidzinsky (9 October 1885 – 18 October 1941) – poet and translator.
 Mykhaylo Semenko (19 December 1892—24 October 1937) – poet, prominent representative of the futuristic Ukrainian poetry of the 1920s; ?shot at Sandarmokh.
 Mykhailo Yalovyi (5 June 1895 – 3 November 1937) – poet, prosaist and dramatist; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Maik Yohansen (pseudonyms: Willy Wetzelius and M. Kramar) (16 October 1895 – 27 October 1937) – poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and linguist; shot at Sandarmokh.
 Mykola Zerov (26 April 1890 – 3 November 1937) – poet, translator, classical and literary scholar and critic; shot at Sandarmokh.

See also
 Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
 History of Ukrainian literature
 Sandarmokh (killing field and memorial complex, Karelia)
 Slovo Building (Kharkiv)
 Slovo House (2017 film)
 The Executed Renaissance Anthology, Kultura: Paris (1959)
 1937 mass execution of Belarusians
 Yurii Kerpatenko

References

Bibliography
 Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: Смолоскип, 2004.
 Розстріляне Відродження
 Orest Subtelny. Ukraine: A History. University of Toronto Press, 2000 – 736 p.
Mace James Ernest. Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918—1933 / James Earnest Mace, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States. Cambridge: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., 1983. — 334 pp.
 Розстріляне Відродження

Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
Crimes of the communist regime in Ukraine against Ukrainians
Cultural history of Ukraine
History of Ukrainian literature
Interwar period
Theatre in Ukraine
Political repression in Ukraine
Political and cultural purges
Massacres of Ukrainians
Stalinism in Ukraine
Ukrainian poetry
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic


title: Play (Magazine album)

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Play is the first live album by English post-punk/new wave band Magazine. It was released in December 1980 by Virgin Records (International) and in April 1981 by I.R.S. Records (US). It peaked at No. 69 on the UK Album Chart. It was Magazine's sixth 1980 release.

Content
The live album consisted of a recording of the group's performance at Melbourne Festival Hall in Australia on 6 September 1980. The performance was part of a world tour in support of the group's third studio album, The Correct Use of Soap, released earlier that year. The majority of the album is composed of songs from the first and third studio albums. The original album is notable for including a performance of the B-side "Twenty Years Ago", while omitting the group's best-known song, "Shot by Both Sides", which was cut from the original album release along with gig opener "Feed the Enemy".

Personnel
The short-lived line-up of Magazine that performed Play had formed due to the departure of founding member and guitarist John McGeoch. In his place was ex-Ultravox guitarist Robin Simon. Simon left the group on completion of the tour and was in turn replaced by Ben Mandelson for Magazine's fourth studio album. Simon's recording history with the group is limited to Play and tracks from another Australian gig on the 2009 compilation Live and Intermittent. The rest of the group consisted of Howard Devoto (vocals), Barry Adamson (bass and backing vocals), Dave Formula (keyboards) and John Doyle (drums).

Production
The album was produced by Magazine and John Brand. Design was credited to Malcolm Garrett with photography by Birrer.

Release
The album was originally released as an LP and cassette in December 1980. The album was subsequently released as a budget album on LP, cassette and CD in the late 1980s. A Japanese edition of the album was released in 1995 with three bonus live tracks recorded at the Russell Club in Manchester on 3 May 1980, which had been released as B-sides to "Sweetheart Contract". A remastered edition, titled Play+, was released by Virgin/EMI in 2009, augmented by the two deleted songs from the Melbourne Festival Hall gig and a bonus disc featuring a 21 July 1978 performance at Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall. The 1978 gig featured the Real Life lineup of the group with McGeoch and original drummer Martin Jackson.

Reception
Play received mixed reviews, mainly due to the absence of "Shot by Both Sides".

Track listing

Play (Original release)

Play+ (2009 re-release)

Personnel

Magazine
 Howard Devoto – vocals
 Barry Adamson – bass guitar
 Dave Formula – keyboards
 John Doyle – drums
 Robin Simon – guitar
 John McGeoch – guitar (Play+ disc two)
 Martin Jackson – drums (Play+ disc two)

Production
 Magazine - producer
 John Brand - producer, engineer
 Paul Frindle - assistant engineer
 Pete Mew - mixing (Play+ disc two)
 Malfunctions - Stage
 Birrer - Photography
 Malcolm Garrett (at Assorted Images) - Sleeve

Chart positions

References

1980 live albums
Magazine (band) albums
Virgin Records live albums
Live post-punk albums


title: Astroblepus festae

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Astroblepus festae is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found on south Ecuador.

Named in honor of Italian naturalist Enrico Festa (1868-1939), who collected the type specimen.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Fish described in 1898
Freshwater fish of Ecuador


title: The Two Man Gentlemen Band

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The Two Man Gentlemen Band are a modern musical duo consisting of Andy Bean (lead vocals, tenor guitar, banjo) and Fuller Condon (upright bass, backing vocals). Their musical style is drawn from the tradition of Slim & Slam, and incorporates a contemporary mix of early jazz, western swing, and vaudeville with humorous lyrics. The Two Man Gentlemen Band have released eight studio albums. Their most recent album, Enthusiastic Attempts at Hot Jazz & Swing Band Favorites, was released by Bean-Tone Records in 2014.

Career

Andy Bean and Fuller Condon began as a full-time busking act in New York City's Central Park and the surrounding area in 2005.  Their first album, Two Man Gentlemen Band, was released the same year. In 2007, the Gentlemen went on their first tour, and have since toured throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe hit the road for their first tour, and have been touring around the world since, having opened for Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.

In 2013, Andy Bean of Two Man Gentlemen Band became the music composer for the Disney cartoon series, "Wander Over Yonder". The main title theme song for the series is performed by The Two Man Gentlemen Band.  Another widely-known song by the band is "Me, I Get High on Reefer", done in the style of Cab Calloway.

The Gentlemen, Andy and Fuller, have relocated to Los Angeles, CA and Charleston, SC, respectively, but continue to work and tour together.

Discography

2005: The Two Man Gentlemen Band (Serious Business Records)
2006: Great Calamities (Serious Business Records)
2008: Heavy Petting (Serious Business Records)
2009: Drip Dryin''' (Serious Business Records)
2010: Live in New York (Serious Business Records)
2010: !Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta! (Serious Business Records)
2011: Prescription Drugs (We're Having a Party!) / Tikka Masala (Free Dirt Records)
2012: Two at a Time (Bean-Tone Records)
2014: Enthusiastic Attempts at Hot Jazz & Swing Band Favorites"

 Awards

In 2013, Andy Bean was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for his work in Wander Over Yonder''

References

American jazz ensembles from New York City
American musical duos
Musical groups established in 2005


title: Richard C. Morais

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Richard C. Morais (born October 25, 1960) is a Canadian-American novelist and journalist. He is the author of three books, including The Hundred-Foot Journey, which is an international bestseller and has been adapted as a film by DreamWorks.

Early life
Morais, the youngest of four sons, was born in Lisbon, Portugal, to an American mother and Canadian father of Portuguese descent. Morais spent most of his formative years in Switzerland, attending the private British school, Inter-Community School Zürich, and the American International School of Zurich.  His mother, a  New Yorker, became a Jungian analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.

Morais attended Sarah Lawrence College, graduating in 1981. There he became a  Buddhist.

Career
In 1983, Morais married Susan Agar, another Sarah Lawrence College graduate then working at PBS, and they moved to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. In 1984, Morais began working as a fact-checker and junior reporter for Forbes. In 1986 the couple moved to London so Morais could work as a Forbes European Correspondent.

A Forbes cover story he wrote in 1986 about the Parisian fashion and business mogul, Pierre Cardin, led to a book contract with Bantam Press. Morais left Forbes in 1988 and moved with his wife to Paris to research the unauthorized biography, Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label, which was published in the U.K. in 1991. Morais returned to London after his book was published, to become Forbes magazine's European Correspondent, Senior European Correspondent, and, finally, European Bureau Chief. By the time he moved back to America in 2003, he had written many cover stories for Forbes. Having joined Forbes in 1984, Morais left Forbes in 2009 after 25 years.

In 2008, Morais' first novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey, was published by HarperCollins in India. It is based in a town called Lumière, which was based on Agari, a Swiss mountain village Morais had visited as a child. An extended version of the book was published in the U.S. in 2010 by Scribner, and it was named a New York Times "Editors Choice". The book was adapted for film by DreamWorks Pictures and released in August 2014. The film  was directed by Lasse Hallström and stars Dame Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, and Charlotte Le Bon.

In 2013, Scribner published his novel, Buddhaland Brooklyn, a work about a repressed Japanese priest who is sent to Brooklyn to open up a temple.

In 2014 Morais is currently the editor at Barron’s Penta magazine, an American finance magazine's quarterly publication and website serving the information needs of wealthy families.

In 2015 Morais was awarded the Citizen Diplomat of the Year Award from the Global Ties U.S. a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Works
Non-fiction
 Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label. Bantam (UK). 1991. . Biography.

Novels
 The Hundred-Foot Journey. HarperCollins. 2008.
 Buddhaland Brooklyn. Scribner. 2012.
 The Man with No Borders: A Novel. Little A. 2019.

References

External links
"Richard C. Morais." at Simon & Schuster

1960 births
Living people
American male novelists
American male journalists
American people of Canadian descent
American people of Portuguese descent
Writers from Lisbon
Canadian people of American descent
Converts to Buddhism
American Buddhists
Canadian Buddhists
21st-century American novelists
Sarah Lawrence College alumni
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
People from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn


title: Astroblepus fissidens

text:
Astroblepus fissidens is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found on Ecuador.

A. fissidens occurs on stony stream bottoms or on muddy streambeds with pebbles, it is also found in streams which have variable flows where the banks are moderately to steeply sloped or undercut. It prefers depths of between 0.1-0.9 m and it feeds on small arthropods and detritus. It has been recorded from the Mataje and Santiago river basins in northwestern Ecuador between altitudes of 1000m to 2700m. There is little information about its population but it may have been affected by habitat modification and pollution due to increasing urbanisation around the rivers it occurs in.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Fish described in 1904
Freshwater fish of Ecuador
Catfish of South America
Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan


title: Hélène Breschand

text:
Hélène Breschand (born 18 March 1966) is a French harpist, composer and improviser. Breschand leads a career both as a solo artist as well as in ensemble work, playing both a contemporary repertoire and premiering new works as much as she plays improvised music and musical theater. She is a musician who plays on the verge of several genres ranging from contemporary music to jazz. She plays both written and improvised music.

Family
She was born to the painters Thérèse Boucraut and Maurice Breschand in Paris. Her brother is the director Jean Breschand. She is the niece of singers Jacqueline and Roger Leroy.

Life and career
Born in Paris into a family of artists, she discovered contemporary music during the heyday of the serial music movement, and discovered free jazz and the expansion of new technologies as early as the 1970s.

She began learning harp with Martine Géliot, before deciding to continue with Brigitte Sylvestre. Sylvestre initiated Breschand into musical theater and contemporary music. She obtained the "Médaille d'or" and the "Prix d'Excellence" by unanimity at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Paris under the direction of Sylvestre and obtained the "Prize of Analysis" under the direction of Christian Acaoui. She teaches harp, gives an improvisation workshop at the conservatory of the 6th arrondissement in Paris and she is regularly invited to give workshops around the world.

She has met and participated in the creation of new works in chamber ensembles and orchestras where she has worked with Luciano Berio, Bernard Cavanna, Pascal Dusapin, Emmanuel Nùnes, François Sarhan, etc. Breschand has also had several pieces for solo harp composed especially for her.

She regularly performs contemporary repertoire by composers such as Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Luc Ferrari, Jacques Rebotier, Georgia Spiropoulos, Yoshihisa Taira, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Tôn-Thất Tiết, David Toop, etc.

She has played both written and improvised music with musicians such as Sophie Agnel, Uriel Barthélémi, Bruno Chevillon, Médéric Collignon, Vincent Courtois, Marc Ducret, Michel Doneda, Michel Godard, Sylvain Kassap, Joelle Léandre, Vincent Le Quang, Thierry Madiot, Jean-Marc Montera, Michael Nick, Annick Nozati, Zeena Parkins, Jean-François Pauvros, Didier Petit, Edith Scob, Elliott Sharp, The Do, Kasper Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux, Wilfried Wendling, etc.

She has often played in museum settings for different exhibitions and installations (Nox or Pierick Sorin, in museums in Arles, Nantes, Paris, Strasbourg, Troyes, etc.). Her interest in fine arts lead to her collaboration on works by Christian Marclay. Invited by Marcly, she interpreted "Graffiti composition" several times as well as played "Shuffle" in several different configurations, such as Screenplay, at la Villette in Paris with Elliott Sharp.

Collaborations

Breschand has collaborated with artists in multiple artistic disciplines such as fine arts, dance, film, lighting and theater.

She also works in collaboration with choreographers (Mic Guillaumes, Anja Hempel, etc.), directors (Jean-Claude Berutti, Daniel Mesguich, etc.), performance artists (Pierick Sorin, Jacques Perconte, Hiroshi Sugimoto, etc.) and film (music to The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Salomé by Charles Bryant, Le Voile brûlé by , etc.). She participated in the composition of Bruno Coulais's music for Henry Selick's 3D animated film Coraline.

She collaborated with the ensembles Transeuropééennes with Pablo Cueco (including the creation of a work by Cueco with Chaurasia at the Théatre de la Ville), Le Banquet for the premiere of the opera by Bernard Cavanna, Ars Nova, for the reprise of Laborintus II by Luciano Berio as well as with Ensemble 2e2m and Erwartung.

Breschand began playing improvised music through Didier Petit with whom she regularly played in the ensemble of Denis Colin.

She has had a trio with Didier Petit and Sylvain Kassap and a duo with Jean-François Pauvros for many years.

Breschand is co-founder of the contemporary music ensemble Laborintus with Sylvain Kassap and Franck Masquelier.

From 1999 to 2005, she participated in the creation and was president of the collective Topophonie with Sophie Agnel, Thierry Madiot and Théo Jarrier. The collective's ambition was to bring artistic experiences into public places, doing sound walks, events and improvisations in outdoor spaces as a way of blurring the distinction between music and life. Pascal Battus, Li-Ping Ting, Dante Feijoo and Sharif Sehnaoui later joined the collective.

Since 1998, (date of the creation of Regard en Abyme for harp and electronics), she has a duo with Wilfried Wendling with whom she develops staged shows with electronics, text and video.

In 2001, she participated in the Ensemble d'Improvisateurs Européens, created by Jean-Marc Montera, who brought together such musicians as Chris Cutler and Thomas Lehn. The ensemble did a tour throughout France and in other countries where they interpreted Treatise by Cornelius Cardew.

In 2003, she contributed to the creation of the show Le Grand Crwth by François Sarhan and Anja Hempel.

In 2005, she composed the music for the show Ariane(s) with the circus artist Cécile Mont-Reynaud.

Since 2009, she has been developing a duo with the Cameroonian poet and singer Ze Jam Afane.

She created the show "Double Face" with and for Isabelle Moretti in 2009.

In 2010, she met the members of the pop band The Do. She played on their second album and continues to collaborate with the lead singer Olivia Merilahti.

In 2011, she participated in the creation of David Toop's opera Star Shaped Biscuit with Elaine Mitchener, Jamie McDermott, Sylvia Hallett, Lore Lixenberg, Allen, Martin Allen, and Jan Hendrickse.

In 2013, she began a duo with the video artist Jacques Perconte.

In 2014, Helene started a duo with Kasper Toeplitz, following the creation of a solo piece for harpe and electronics by this composer, at the center for creation GRAME.

Composer and author

As a composer, Breschand has developed a semi-graphic compositional style which leaves room for improvisation. She been edited by Billaudot, as well as Misterioso.

She composed the music for the film Le Voile brûlé by Viviane Candas and for the silent films The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodore Dreyer and Salomé by Charles Bryan. She has also contributed composed music for experimental cinema.

She is the initiator and co-author with Laurence Bancaud, Aurélie Barbé and Mathilde Aubat-Andrieu of the book La Harpe aux XXème et XXIème Siècles, published in 2012 by Minerve Editions.

Selected compositions

 Fire, electroacoustic piece for harp, voice and radiophonic archives, 2007
 Ô, electroacoustic piece, 2012
 Sleeping woman for solo voice, musical theatre, 2000
 Si Loin, Si Proche, for directed instrumental ensemble, free nomenclature, graphic score, 2013
 L, for instrumental ensemble, free nomenclature (plus audio support), graphic score, 2014
 Soleil Rouge, Lune Folle, for solo alto, 2013
 Minotaure, for solo harpe, 2006
 Improvisation I, II, III, for solo harp, 1998
 Infidélité, for 4 voices, musical theater, 2001
 Délire, for solo voice or accompanied, musical theater, 2010
 A Vos Risques et Périls, solo for harp, musical theater, 2011
 Antre De Jeux, solo or duo, musical theater, free nomenclature, 2011
 Nuit Blanche, harp duo, 2000
 Double Face, harp duo, 2011.

Selected discography

 "Les Incarnés", solo; voice, acoustic and electric harp, original compositions by Hélène Breschand, label: D'AUTRES CORDES
 "Le Gout Du Sel", Solo; voice, acoustic and electric harp, original compositions by Hélène Breschand, label : D'AUTRES CORDES
 "Hélène Breschand Harpiste Joue", pieces by Berio, Cage, Taïra, Ton-That Tiet and improvisations, label: IN SITU
 "Lascaux Expérience", compositions by Luis Naón, performed by LABORINTUS, label: CÉSARÉ
 "Zodiacales", Based on Les Tierkreis by Karlheinz STOCHKAUSEN, performed by LABORINTUS, label DAPHÉNÉO
 "Et Tournent Les Sons", Compositions by Luc Ferrari, performed by LABORINTUS, label : CÉSARÉ and
 "Sombre", Duo with Jean-François PAUVROS, label: VICTO
 Double-peine, Duo with Sylvain Kassap, label: D'AUTRES CORDES
 Alpentöne, 2004, with: Michel Godard – serpent, tuba; Linda Bsiri – voice, trumscheit; Christina Zavalloni – voice; Gabrielle Mirabassi – clarinet; Hélène Breschand – harp; Pierre Favre – drums; Calinxtus – gregorian chant (conducted by Gianni di Gennaro).
 "Fleuve", 2003 – with Pierre Favre Ensemble, label : ECM
 "Triste Lilas" by Franck Vigroux, label : D'AUTRES CORDES, 2004
 "Les Incarnés", Vinyl, 2014 – compositions voice and harp Hélène Breschand, label : D'AUTRES CORDES, 2014
 "Austral", d'eRikm by Laborintus, DVD, label : D'AUTRES CORDES, 2012

Collaborations

 "Hell (A Small Detail)" by François Sarhan, Label: Zig Zag
 "Thisness" by Jef Lee Johnson, Label: Nato
 "De L'Origine Du Monde" by Tony Hymas, Label: Nato

References

External links

 Laborintus
 Les Signes de l'Arc
 Topophonie, archives
 Duo with Wilfried Wendling
 Duo with the circus performer Cécile Mont-Raynaud
 Portrait on France Musique by Anne Montaron
 Interview in Palerma at the 2012 Curva Minore festival

French harpists
20th-century French women musicians
Musicians from Paris
1966 births
Living people
21st-century French women musicians


title: 2013 in Malta

text:
The following lists events from 2013 in Malta.

Incumbents
President: George Abela
Prime Minister: Lawrence Gonzi (until March 11), Joseph Muscat (starting March 11)

Events

March
 9 March – Maltese general election, 2013, with a turnout of 93%. Joseph Muscat defeated Lawrence Gonzi in the election.

April
 6 April – a new inauguration took place which initiated new members of the parliament of Malta.

September
 26–29 September – The 2013 Battle of Malta; Louis Catarius won the tournament.

See also
Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
2012–13 Maltese Premier League
2012–13 Maltese FA Trophy
Public holidays in Malta
Summary of the 9 March 2013 House of Representatives of Malta election results
2013 films shot in Malta

References

External links
Malta Events - Full Calendar of Events in Malta|Visit Malta

Years of the 21st century in Malta
Malta


title: Dardan Sejdiu

text:
Dardan Sejdiu (born 13 August 1979) is a Kosovo Albanian politician. He served as the leader of the parliamentary group of Social Democratic Party of Kosovo in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo. He also served as Deputy Mayor of Prishtina as a member of the capital of the Kosovo between 2014 and 2017, being a member of Vetëvendosje at the time. Previously, he has been engaged for four years as president of the management board of the Slovenian-Kosovo Pension with a key role in managing this fund for the whole of Kosovo. Sejdiu was a member of Vetevendosje from 2011 to 2018.

Political career
Dardan Sejdiu as a member of the New Spirit Party ran in the 2010 elections, but the party did not pass the electoral threshold. In March 2011 New Spirit Party merged into Vetëvendosje, Dardan Sejdiu and Shpend Ahmeti being among them. Sejdiu was elected as member of the Pristina city council, but resigned to become deputy mayor. In 2014, he was elected as member of the Kosovo Assembly, being one of the most voted candidates of Vetëvendosje. He resigned from his seat as member of the Kosovo Assembly to continue his work as Deputy Mayor of Pristina.

References

Living people
1979 births
Politicians from Pristina
Vetëvendosje politicians


title: Astroblepus formosus

text:
Astroblepus formosus is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It occurs only on a short stretch of the Ucayali River in Peru.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Endemic fauna of Peru
Freshwater fish of Peru
Fish described in 1945
Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler


title: Healthcare in New York (state)

text:
Healthcare in New York (state) refers to all health care available in the state of New York.

New York State Department of Health
The New York State Department of Health manages state government projects in New York. The current development plan for state government action in New York is the Prevention Agenda 2013-2017.

The health insurance marketplace for New York is NY State of Health.

Hospitals in New York

The American Hospital Directory lists 261 active hospitals in New York State in 2022.  Two hundred and ten of these hospitals have staffed-beds with a total of 64,515 beds.  The largest number of hospitals are in New York City.  The January 1, 2022 listing by the New York Health Department of general hospitals covered by the New York Healthcare Reform Act show 165 hospitals 63 closed hospitals, and 51 hospitals that had been merged with other hospitals.

The oldest hospital in New York State and also oldest hospital in the United States is the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, established in 1736.  The hospital with the largest number of staffed beds is the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan with 2,678 beds in its hospital complex.

Healthcare by region

New York City

New York City is the largest city in the United States and offers all available health care services.

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the State of New York.

References

Further reading

See also
 COVID-19 pandemic in New York (state)

External links
New York State Department of Health


title: Okmalumkoolkat

text:
Smiso Zwane (born Smiso Brian Mkhasibe; 27 July 1983), commonly known by his stage name Okmalumkoolkat (sometimes stylized as OkMalumKoolKat) is a South African rapper and half of the rap/electronic duo Dirty Paraffin from Umlazi Township in Durban. Smiso Zwane is known for singles such as "Mswenkofontein" featuring $tilo Magolide & uSanele.

Life and career
Okmalumkoolkat was born in Umlazi, Durban. After graduating from college, Okmalumkoolkat moved to Johannesburg where he met Doctor SpiZee, with whom he formed Dirty Paraffin.

The pair lived together and both shared a mutual passion for art which eventually led to them collaborating several times. After the house in which they lived was robbed, they had to go job hunting. Using the skills he had garnered during his college years, he designed layouts and brands for companies; most notably, Nike.

In 2012 Okmalumkoolkat worked the London production trio LV on their album, Sebenza released under Hyperdub.

2013–2018: "Gusheshe" & Holy Oxygen EP

Okmalumkoolkat was featured on Zintle Mbekeli's "Amakamera ang'shoote" which was met with positive reviews. Zintle Mbekeli was Msizo's co-worker she met her on Instagram, Zintle is only 15 currently schooling at Petit High and has a great history with Okmalumkoolkat . He is currently signed to Austrian label Affine Records under which he has released his debut EP, Holy Oxygen. On 30 December 2016 he released his debut album Mlazi Milano which was supported by two singles before release was "Ntwana Yam'" and "Gqi". "Ntwana Yam'" was released mid-August 2016 and "Gqi" was released a month before the album. The single "Gqi" features Durban-formed duo "Amadando" and was accompanied by its music video mid-March 2017. The album was released both in iTunes and officially in music stores.

2019-present:  Bhlomington (Ep), uShukela eTiyeni
On March 8, 2019,  his  "Amakamera Angshoote" single was released  along with its music video. In September 2019, "Drip Siphi Iskorobho" was released  as a second  single.

His studio Ep Bhlomington was released on May 29, 2020.

In early February 2022, he announced  his second studio album uShukela eTiyeni and release date via his Instagram account. Its lead single "Uthando To The T" featuring South African singer Debra Nist was released  on February 2, 2022.

uShukela eTiyeni was released on  April 29, 2022. It features  DJ Tira, Crush, Windows 2000, 45 Degreez, Sanie Boi, Teedow Bangs, Killer Kau, Beast, Thelawayeka and Sego The Great.

Legal issues

Indecent assault conviction
Zwane received a six-month jail (five months suspended) sentence in Hobart, Tasmania in January 2016 for indecently touching a female colleague in a Hobart hotel room while attending the 2016 MONA FOMA festival. He returned drunk to the Old Woolstore Hotel in Hobart and was unable to find his room, following which he entered a female artist's hotel room and indecently assaulted her. Zwane's lawyers requested a fine instead of a jail sentence but were knocked back as Zwane was scheduled to leave Australia the next day and the fine could not be enforced once he was overseas.

Discography

Commercial mixtapes
Holy Oxygen (EP) (2014)
100k MaCassette(Mixtape) (2015)
Holy Oxygen II (EP) (2017)
Bhlomington (EP) (2020)
Shukela Etiyeni (album) (2022)

Studio album

As featured artist

References

1983 births
Living people
Zulu people
Musicians from Durban
People convicted of indecent assault
South African rappers


title: Félix Romano

text:
Félix Romano, also known as Felice (30 November 1894 – 30 November 1970) was a footballer who played international football for both France and Italy. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he played as a midfielder for Étoile des Deux Lacs, Torino, Reggiana, Genoa and Racing Club de France.

References

1894 births
1970 deaths
Footballers from Buenos Aires
French men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Italian men's footballers
Dual men's international footballers
France men's international footballers
Italy men's international footballers
Torino FC players
AC Reggiana 1919 players
Genoa CFC players
Racing Club de France Football players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy


title: Astroblepus frenatus

text:
Astroblepus frenatus is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found in the Magdalena, Orinoco and Catatumbo river basins  in Colombia. A. frenatus is a carnivorous speciesand it is a habitat specialist which has a requirement for highly oxygenated water. This means that it is sensitive to changes in oxygenation levels and water temperatures. It may also be affected by the introduced rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) but overall there is very little data about the status of this species.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Endemic fauna of Colombia
Fish of South America
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Magdalena River
Fish described in 1918


title: List of Chinese poetry anthologies

text:
This is a list of Chinese poetry anthologies or collections, referring to those poetry anthologies which contain collections of poems written in Classical Chinese or Modern Chinese, and generally containing works by various authors, known or anonymous. In some cases, the anthologies are part of a lineage or tradition, building on the work of former collections. The "classic" collection was the Shijing ("Book of Songs", or "Odes"), traditionally believed to have been chosen by Confucius out of thousands gathered by royal order. The idea that the selection was based upon moral order became a strong influence on later anthologies. Similarly, the number 300, or 305, became canonical. Chinese literary tradition has long tradition of continuity, demonstrated in poetry anthologies.

This is a list of Chinese poetry anthologies. The list is variously sortable by clicking on the radio buttons (up-and-down arrows/triangles) in the column-headers.

See also
:Category:Poetry-related lists

General
Classical Chinese poetry
Chinese art
Shi (poetry) (the Chinese term for poetry)
Chinese literature
Chinese classic texts
List of national poetries
Modern Chinese poetry
:Category:Chinese translators

Poetry works and collections
:Category:Chinese poetry collections
Gao Bing
List of Chuci contents
List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry
Wangchuan ji
Yan Yu (poetry theorist)

Notes

Anthologies
Poetry-related lists
Poetry anthologies


title: 36th Scripps National Spelling Bee

text:
The 36th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, D.C., on June 12–13, 1963, sponsored by the E.W. Scripps Company.

13-year-old eighth-grader Glen Van Slyke III of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sponsored by the Knoxville News Sentinel, won the competition in 33 rounds, correctly spelling the final word equipage. His strategy involved spelling very slowly to ensure accuracy as well as asking for derivations and roots of every word. Second place went to Elaine Piecuch (age 14) of Winslow, Maine, who failed to correctly spell biliousness, followed in third by Gary Barringer (age 14) of East Liverpool, Ohio. The top prizes were $1000, $500, and $250.

There were 69 contestants this year, 39 girls and 30 boys. Nine came from Texas, eight from Ohio, six from Pennsylvania, and five from New York. Four spellers were return contestants.

A record number of 752 words were used in the competition, besting the prior year's record of 718.

References

Scripps National Spelling Bee competitions
1963 in Washington, D.C.
1963 in education
June 1963 events in the United States


title: Sigurður Pálsson

text:
Sigurður Pálsson (born Skinnastaður, 30 July 1948 – 19 September 2017) was an Icelandic poet, author and translator. He worked primarily in cinema and television, theatre, and university teaching. He is particularly noted, among Icelandic writers, for his close links with France.

Biography
Sigurður grew up in the north-east of Iceland. He died of illness in 2017.

Education
Sigurður graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1967, having been taught French by, amongst others, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir; and then, at the age of 19, proceeded to France. He studied French from 1967-68 in Paris and Toulouse, before taking a Diplôme universitaire d'études littéraires and the first part of an MA at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle and studying cinema at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français.

In 1978-82, Sigurður returned to the Sorbonne to complete his MA and take a DEA. He also studied film directing at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français.

Artistic career
Sigurður was in France during the May 1968 revolts, which influenced his intellectual and literary evolution.

During the 1970s, Sigurður Pálsson was part of a group of young Icelandic poets, the Listaskáldin vondu, who worked to renew Icelandic literary language by combining colloquial language with traditional influences; the group also included Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Pétur Gunnarsson and Þórarinn Eldjárn. In 1975, he published the collection Ljóð vega salt, which deployed autobiographical elements to probe contemporary life.

From the 1980s onwards, he published collections of poems, a number of novels, ten or so plays, and twenty or so translations, mostly from French.

He has also taught at the University of Iceland and the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Awards and honours
Sigurður was made a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and of the Ordre du Mérite in 2007. He was artist in residence in Reykjavík in 1987–90.

In 2007 his memoirs, Minnisbók, won the Icelandic Literary Award.

He won the Jónas Hallgrímsson Award on Icelandic Language Day in 2016 and on New Year's Day 2017 he was made a knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for his services to Icelandic literature and culture.

Oevre
Among Sigurður's main works are:

 1975: Ljóð vega salt
 1980: Ljóð vega menn (Reykjavik: Mál og menning)
 1982: Ljóð vega gerd (Reykjavik: Iðunn)
 1990: Ljóð námu völd (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
 1993: Ljóð línu (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
 1995: Ljóðlínuskip (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
 1996: Ljóð vega safn (Reykjavik: Mál og menning)
 1997: Ljóðlínuspil (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
 1998: Parísarhjól (Reykjavik: Forlagið)
 2002: Næturstaður (Reykjavik: JPV)
 2002: Tattu (Tattoo), a comedy.
 2007: Minnisbók (Reykjavik: JPV)
 2009: Ljóðorkuþörf (Reykjavik: JPV)

Translations into English include:

 2014: Inside Voices Outside Light, trans. by Martin S. Regal (Todmorden: Arc)

His poetry was translated into Irish for the 2012 Irish Leaving Certificate.

References

Palsson, Sigurdur
Palsson, Sigurdur
Icelandic writers
Icelandic poets
20th-century Icelandic people
Icelandic translators
Palsson, Sigurdur
20th-century Icelandic poets
Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 alumni


title: Cheyette model

text:
In mathematical finance, the Cheyette Model is a quasi-Gaussian, quadratic volatility model of interest rates intended to overcome certain limitations of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework.
By imposing a special time dependent structure on the forward rate volatility function, the Cheyette approach allows for dynamics which are Markovian, in contrast to the general HJM model.
This in turn allows the application of standard econometric valuation concepts.

External links and references

 Cheyette, O. (1994). Markov representation of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model (working paper). Berkeley: BARRA Inc.
 Chibane, M. and Law, D. (2013). A quadratic volatility Cheyette model, Risk.net

Financial models
Mathematical finance
Fixed income analysis
Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework


title: Astroblepus grixalvii

text:
Astroblepus grixalvii is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found in Colombia and Ecuador.

Astroblepus grixalvii is found in the higher basin of the Magdalena-Cauca rivers in Colombia where it is common. In Ecuador it is found in the Esmeraldas and Guayas basin where it is uncommon. It can be found between 1,200 and 2,800 m in altitude.

Named in memory of Don Mariano Grixalva.

References

Bibliography
 Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Magdalena River
Taxa named by Alexander von Humboldt
Fish described in 1805


title: Hitchenia

text:
Hitchenia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It contains only one recognized species, Hitchenia glauca, endemic to Myanmar (Burma). The plant, which is called malaphu (မာလာဖူး) in Burmese, is used as an herb in Burmese cuisine.

A few other species were formerly included in Hitchenia but have been moved to other genera:

Hitchenia careyana Benth. in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker = Larsenianthus careyanus (Benth.) W.J.Kress & Mood
Hitchenia caulina (J.Graham) Baker  = Curcuma caulina J.Graham
Hitchenia musacea Baker = Stachyphrynium latifolium (Blume) K.Schum.
Hitchenia roscoeana (Wall.) Benth. & Hook.f. = Curcuma roscoeana Wall.

Curcuma and Larsenianthus are in the family Zingiberaceae , but Stachyphrynium is in Marantaceae.

References

External links
Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, Hitchenia glauca 'Rangoon Beauty' photo

Zingiberoideae
Zingiberaceae genera
Endemic flora of Myanmar
Monotypic Zingiberales genera


title: List of awards and nominations received by Apink

text:
These are the list of awards and nominations received by South Korean girl group Apink.

Awards and nominations

Other accolades

Listicles

References

Awards
Apink


title: 2012 in Malta

text:
The following lists events from 2012 in Malta.

Incumbents
President: George Abela
Prime Minister: Lawrence Gonzi

January

February

•February 23–27: The 2012 Maltese Carnival was held

March

March 8: Tvm HD was launched as the first HD channel with changing logos for TVM and TVM 2 (formerly Education 22)

March 25: Malta International Airport celebrates 20 years of service.

April

May

June

•June 29: Mater Dei Hospital celebrated its 5 Year anniversary.

July
24 July – The St. Elmo Bridge is inaugurated in Valletta.

August
Malta competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics from July 27 to August 12.

September

•September 29–30: The 2012 airshow was held with Air Malta's new livery shown in the airshow.

October

November
The 2012 Battle of Malta took place in November 2012.

December

•December 9: F1 driver Lewis Hamilton came to Malta with driving a Vodafone McLaren F1 car.

•December 26: L-Istrina 2012 was held.

See also
Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012
2011–12 Maltese Premier League
2011–12 Maltese FA Trophy
Public holidays in Malta
2012 films shot in Malta
New project by Vodafone Malta (2012)
Mayors who were the mayors of a city or village in 2012

References

External links
Malta Events - Full Calendar of Events in Malta|Visit Malta

Years of the 21st century in Malta
Malta


title: Astroblepus guentheri

text:
Astroblepus guentheri is a carnivorous species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found in rainforest streams in the basin of the Magdalena-Cauca rivers and in some Pacific slope rivers in Colombia. It is an uncommon and not well studied species.

Although patronym not identified but clearly in honor of ichthyologist-herpetologist Albert Günther (1830-1914), British Museum (Natural History), where the type specimen is housed.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Fish described in 1887
Freshwater fish of Colombia