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nlp | fill_mask | <mask> (; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. <mask> led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal gover... |
nlp | fill_mask | factions by exploiting their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage, and by appealing to the American people.His Gettysburg Address appealed to nationalistic, republican, egalitarian, libertarian, and democratic sentiments. <mask> scrutinized the strategy and tactics in the war effort, including the... |
nlp | fill_mask | namesake Captain <mask> and wife Bathsheba (née Herring) moved the family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky. The captain was killed in an Indian raid in 1786.His children, including eight-year-old Thomas, <mask>'s father, witnessed the attack. Thomas then worked at odd jobs in Kentucky and Tennessee before t... |
nlp | fill_mask | charge of a household including her father, 9-year-old <mask>, and Nancy's 19-year-old orphan cousin, Dennis Hanks.Ten years later, on January 20, 1828, Sarah died while giving birth to a stillborn son, devastating <mask>. On December 2, 1819, Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, w... |
nlp | fill_mask | reputation for strength and audacity after winning a wrestling match with the renowned leader of ruffians known as "the Clary's Grove Boys". In March 1830, fearing another milk sickness outbreak, several members of the extended <mask> family, including <mask>, moved west to Illinois, a free state, and settled in Macon... |
nlp | fill_mask | in Springfield, Illinois, and the following year they became engaged. She was the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, a wealthy lawyer and businessman in Lexington, Kentucky. A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled at <mask>'s request, but they reconciled and married on November 4, 1842, in the Springfield mansion ... |
nlp | fill_mask | Willie, had profound effects on both parents. <mask> suffered from "melancholy", a condition now thought to be clinical depression.Later in life, Mary struggled with the stresses of losing her husband and sons, and Robert committed her for a time to an asylum in 1875. Early career and militia service
In 1832, <mask> ... |
nlp | fill_mask | (1834–1842)
<mask>'s second state house campaign in 1834, this time as a Whig, was a success over a powerful Whig opponent. Then followed his four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives for Sangamon County. He championed construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and later was a Canal Commissioner.He vo... |
nlp | fill_mask | nomination in 1846 but also won the election. He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but as dutiful as any participated in almost all votes and made speeches that toed the party line. He was assigned to the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department. <mask... |
nlp | fill_mask | win the presidency, he supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election. Taylor won and <mask> hoped in vain to be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office. The administration offered to appoint him secretary or governor of the Oregon Territory as consolation. This di... |
nlp | fill_mask | Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker. The case is famous for <mask>'s use of a fact established by judicial notice to challenge the credibility of an eyewitness. After an opposing witness testified to seeing the crime in the moonlight, <mask> produced a Farmers' Almanac showing the moon ... |
nlp | fill_mask | became particularly acrimonious, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty as a compromise; the measure would allow the electorate of each territory to decide the status of slavery. The legislation alarmed many Northerners, who sought to prevent the resulting spread of slavery, but Douglas's Kan... |
nlp | fill_mask | Nothing movement. In 1854, <mask> was elected to the Illinois legislature but declined to take his seat. The year's elections showed the strong opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and in the aftermath, <mask> sought election to the United States Senate.At that time, senators were elected by the state legislature. A... |
nlp | fill_mask | Buchanan prevailed, while Republican William Henry Bissell won election as Governor of Illinois, and <mask> became a leading Republican in Illinois. Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave whose master took him from a slave state to a free territory under the Missouri Compromise. After Scott was returned to the... |
nlp | fill_mask | opposition. <mask> accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the U... |
nlp | fill_mask | popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and the legislature re-elected Douglas. <mask>'s articulation of the issues gave him a national political presence. In May 1859, <mask> purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper that was consistently supportive; most of the state's 130,000 German A... |
nlp | fill_mask | restrict slavery. He insisted that morality required opposition to slavery, and rejected any "groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong". Many in the audience thought he appeared awkward and even ugly. But <mask> demonstrated intellectual leadership that brought him into contention. Journalist Noa... |
nlp | fill_mask | third ballot, beating candidates such as Seward and Chase.A former Democrat, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, was nominated for vice president to balance the ticket. <mask>'s success depended on his campaign team, his reputation as a moderate on the slavery issue, and his strong support for internal improvements and the tari... |
nlp | fill_mask | vote against <mask> and rallied supporters for <mask>. As Douglas and the other candidates campaigned, <mask> gave no speeches, relying on the enthusiasm of the Republican Party. The party did the leg work that produced majorities across the North and produced an abundance of campaign posters, leaflets, and newspaper ... |
nlp | fill_mask | inauguration
The South was outraged by <mask>'s election, and in response secessionists implemented plans to leave the Union before he took office in March 1861. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louis... |
nlp | fill_mask | particularly emotional farewell address upon leaving Springfield; he would never again return to Springfield alive. The president-elect evaded suspected assassins in Baltimore. On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C., which was placed under substantial military guard. <mask> directed his inaug... |
nlp | fill_mask | War
Major Robert Anderson, commander of the Union's Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, sent a request for provisions to Washington, and <mask>'s order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter and began the fi... |
nlp | fill_mask | neutral. The Fort Sumter attack rallied Americans north of the Mason-Dixon line to defend the nation. As States sent Union regiments south, on April 19, Baltimore mobs in control of the rail links attacked Union troops who were changing trains. Local leaders' groups later burned critical rail bridges to the capital an... |
nlp | fill_mask | command positions. Copperheads criticized <mask> for refusing to compromise on slavery. The Radical Republicans criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. On August 6, 1861, <mask> signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judicial proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support t... |
nlp | fill_mask | Secretary Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton. Stanton centralized the War Department's activities, auditing and canceling contracts, saving the federal government $17,000,000. Stanton was a staunch Unionist, pro-business, conservative Democrat who gravitated toward the Radical Republican faction. He worked more often an... |
nlp | fill_mask | continued inaction. He elevated Henry Halleck in July and appointed John Pope as head of the new Army of Virginia. Pope satisfied <mask>'s desire to advance on Richmond from the north, thus protecting Washington from counterattack. But Pope was then soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 18... |
nlp | fill_mask | and undermine the labor market. The Emancipation Proclamation gained votes for Republicans in rural New England and the upper Midwest, but cost votes in the Irish and German strongholds and in the lower Midwest, where many Southerners had lived for generations. In the spring of 1863 <mask> was sufficiently optimistic ... |
nlp | fill_mask | free the slaves of those convicted of aiding the rebellion; <mask> approved the bill despite his belief that it was unconstitutional. He felt such action could be taken only within the war powers of the commander-in-chief, which he planned to exercise.<mask> at this time reviewed a draft of the Emancipation Proclamati... |
nlp | fill_mask | sight of 50,000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once". By the end of 1863, at <mask>'s direction, General Lorenzo Thomas had recruited 20 regiments of blacks from the Mississippi Valley. The Proclamation included <mask>'s earlier plans for colonies for newly ... |
nlp | fill_mask | Grant might be considering a presidential candidacy in 1864. He arranged for an intermediary to inquire into Grant's political intentions, and once assured that he had none, <mask> promoted Grant to the newly revived rank of Lieutenant General, a rank which had been unoccupied since George Washington. Authorization fo... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask>, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads. <mask> refused to negotiate with the Confederacy as a coequal; his objective to end the fighting was not realized. On April 1, 1865, Grant nearly encircled Petersburg in a siege. The Confederate government evacuated Richmond and <mask> visited the conquered capital. On Apri... |
nlp | fill_mask | Union Party was united by <mask>'s support for emancipation. State Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads. On November 8, <mask> carried all but three states, including 78 percent of Union soldiers. On March 4, 1865, <mask> delivered his second inaugural address. In it, he deemed the war casualties... |
nlp | fill_mask | Arkansas, <mask> respectively appointed Johnson and Frederick Steele as military governors. In Louisiana, <mask> ordered General Nathaniel P. Banks to promote a plan that would reestablish statehood when 10 percent of the voters agreed, and only if the reconstructed states abolished slavery. Democratic opponents accus... |
nlp | fill_mask | agency designed to meet the immediate needs of former slaves. The law opened land for a lease of three years with the ability to purchase title for the freedmen. <mask> announced a Reconstruction plan that involved short-term military control, pending readmission under the control of southern Unionists. Historians agr... |
nlp | fill_mask | railroad to put down the Dakota Uprising. When the Confederates protested forcing Confederate prisoners to fight Indians, <mask> revoked the policy. Pope fought against the Indians mercilessly, even advocating their extinction. He ordered Indian farms and food supplies be destroyed, and Indian warriors be killed. Aidi... |
nlp | fill_mask | Rivals. <mask> adhered to the Whig theory of a presidency focused on executing laws while deferring to Congress' responsibility for legislating. <mask> vetoed only four bills, including the Wade-Davis Bill with its harsh Reconstruction program. The 1862 Homestead Act made millions of acres of Western government-held l... |
nlp | fill_mask | proclamation that created an opportunity for the editors and others to corner the gold market. <mask> attacked the media for such behavior, and ordered a military seizure of the two papers which lasted for two days. <mask> is largely responsible for the Thanksgiving holiday.Thanksgiving had become a regional holiday i... |
nlp | fill_mask | Republican Party.Other judicial appointments
<mask> appointed 27 judges to the United States district courts but no judges to the United States circuit courts during his time in office. States admitted to the Union
West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863. Nevada, which became the third state in the fa... |
nlp | fill_mask | was loaded into a hearse and escorted to the White House by Union soldiers.President Johnson was sworn in the next morning. Two weeks later, Booth, refusing to surrender, was tracked to a farm in Virginia, and was mortally shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett and died on April 26. Secretary of War Stanton had issued orders... |
nlp | fill_mask | on organized religion and respected the beliefs of others. He never made a clear profession of Christian beliefs. Through his entire public career, <mask> had a proneness for quoting Scripture. His three most famous speeches—the House Divided Speech, the Gettysburg Address, and his second inaugural—each contain direct... |
nlp | fill_mask | three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that w... |
nlp | fill_mask | Diggins, Harry V. Jaffa, Vernon Burton, Eric Foner, and Herman J. Belz. <mask> called the Declaration of Independence—which emphasized freedom and equality for all—the "sheet anchor" of republicanism beginning in the 1850s. He did this at a time when the Constitution, which "tolerated slavery", was the focus of most p... |
nlp | fill_mask | which involved abuse of the South, hatred for the slaveholder, thirst for vengeance, partisan plotting, and ungenerous demands that Southern institutions be transformed overnight by outsiders."Reunification of the states
In <mask>'s first inaugural address, he explored the nature of democracy. He denounced secession ... |
nlp | fill_mask | Historians have said he was "a classical liberal" in the 19th-century sense.Allen C. Guelzo states that <mask> was a "classical liberal democrat—an enemy of artificial hierarchy, a friend to trade and business as ennobling and enabling, and an American counterpart to Mill, Cobden, and Bright", whose portrait <mask> hu... |
nlp | fill_mask | confidence in national greatness." He suggested that postmodernism and multiculturalism have diluted greatness as a concept. In the Cold War years, <mask>'s image shifted to a symbol of freedom who brought hope to those oppressed by Communist regimes. By the late 1960s, some African-American intellectuals, led by Lero... |
nlp | fill_mask | opined in his 1996 biography that <mask> was distinctly endowed with the personality trait of negative capability, defined by the poet John Keats and attributed to extraordinary leaders who were "content in the midst of uncertainties and doubts, and not compelled toward fact or reason".In the 21st century, President B... |
nlp | fill_mask | Steven Spielberg. Linconia, a proposed colony in Central America named for <mask>
Notes
References
Bibliography
Ellenberg's essay is adapted from his 2021 book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, Penguin Press.IS... |
nlp | fill_mask | Alfred "<mask><mask> (born 28 August 1939 in Waterford, Republic of Ireland) is a former Irish footballer and manager who played for several clubs in both the League of Ireland and the English League, most notably, Waterford, Aston Villa, Doncaster Rovers and Cork Celtic. During his career <mask> scored 153 goals in th... |
nlp | fill_mask | went on to make just 7 first team appearances, scoring 2 goals. Despite this <mask> won his first international cap for the Republic of Ireland while at Villa. Doncaster Rovers
<mask> signed for Doncaster Rovers in the summer of 1962 and made his debut for the club on 18 August in a 2–0 defeat to Brentford in the Foot... |
nlp | fill_mask | them to the First Division title. After leaving Kilkenny, <mask> remained active in junior football working with Waterford Crystal F.C.and Tramore F.C, winning the first league in 50 years with Tramore in 2000–01. Businessman
At the same time as managing various League of Ireland clubs, <mask> also established himself... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> (born Chaim Witz August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American musician, singer and songwriter. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in the early 1970s. Early life
<mask> was born as Chaim Wit... |
nlp | fill_mask | watching The Ed Sullivan Show and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls.It blew me away that these four boys [from] the middle of nowhere could make that music." Career
Kiss
<mask> became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed the Missing Links, when he was a ... |
nlp | fill_mask | with Kiss came from the wing design of comic book character Black Bolt. In 1983, when Kiss's fame was waning, the members took off their trademark make-up and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity that continued into the 1990s. At this time, Peter Criss, the original drummer, was voted out of the band, and a replacement ... |
nlp | fill_mask | band out of a group of students of Christ's Hospital School in the first season, and in the second, a group of kids from a comprehensive school in Lowestoft
Gene Simmons Family Jewels, a reality show documenting the personal lives of <mask>, his wife, his son and daughter
In 1985, <mask> appeared on the TV series Mia... |
nlp | fill_mask | Mantis and Adventure. He also contributed to other fanzines, among them BeABohema and Sirruish. By 1977, however, he would write in a letter of comment to Janus, "I haven't been active [in fandom] for about five years". <mask> lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Shannon Lee Tweed a Canadian actress and for... |
nlp | fill_mask | simply to liberate the people therein". In a follow-up, <mask> explained his position and wrote about his love and support for the United States: "I wasn't born here. But I have a love for this country and its people that knows no bounds. I will forever be grateful to America for going into World War II, when it had n... |
nlp | fill_mask | who refused to get the vaccine against COVID-19 "an enemy" and called them "evil". Philanthropy
<mask> is a known advocate for ChildFund International's work. He traveled to Zambia during his Gene Simmons Family Jewels show to visit several of his sponsored children, of whom he has more than 140. <mask> said that the ... |
nlp | fill_mask | interview in August 2007. In a 2014 interview with The Huffington Post, <mask> noted he was upset over what he perceived as Gross's "holier-than-thou" attitude, which included mislabeling his band Kiss as "the Kiss". In 2019, Ace Frehley stated that <mask> had attempted to grope his wife, calling <mask> an "asshole an... |
nlp | fill_mask | comments in an interview with Songfacts.com that seemed to openly encourage people with depression to kill themselves. The comments drew criticism from Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe who had suffered from depression in the past. Following his comments, both Triple M and Winnipeg radio station Power 97 stated that they were... |
nlp | fill_mask | for our nation's popular culture, becoming an iconic figure in American music and entertainment." <mask> is an honorary board member of Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools. A&E's <mask> Family Jewels visited a Little Kids Rock... |
nlp | fill_mask | bass on the album(credited as "Reginald Van Helsing"), co-wrote five songs "I Love Sex (And Rock and Roll)", "It's My Life", "Thief in the Night", "Legends Never Die" and "Ain't None of Your Business". Bruce Kulick – BK3 (2010) Lead vocals on "Ain't Gonna Die"
Engelbert Humperdinck – Engelbert Calling (2014) co-vocal... |
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nlp | fill_mask | school band, and was in the school soccer and basketball teams.After working at odd jobs for several years before being persuaded to apply for a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. His self-instructed talent earned him the opportunity, and he worked his way through school, including a stint as an ext... |
nlp | fill_mask | official portrait of 9Lives mascot Morris the Cat in 1976, and by the National Retriever Club to paint their 1983 stamp print. In 1982, Fracé was profiled in the book, The Art of <mask> Fracé, and a much more substantial profile, Nature's Window—<mask>, was published in 1992.Wildlife Art News (1995), Vol. 14, Issues 4... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician who has been the lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden since 1981. <mask> began his career in music fronting small pub bands in the 1970s while attending school in Sheffield and university in London. In 1979, he joined British new wave heavy metal band Samson... |
nlp | fill_mask | show on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2002 to 2010, and has also hosted television documentaries, authored novels and film scripts, created a beer with Robinsons Brewery and competed at fencing internationally. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born on 7 August 1958 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.His mother, Sonia, worked part-time ... |
nlp | fill_mask | grandfather to buy him, which made him more interested in music. He tried to play an acoustic guitar belonging to his father, but it blistered his fingers. By the time he moved to Sheffield, <mask>'s parents were earning a good living from buying property, refurbishing it and then selling it for a profit.As a result, ... |
nlp | fill_mask | Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Every term, a band would play at the school, the first of these which <mask> saw was called Wild Turkey, featuring former Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick. After that, he saw Van der Graaf Generator and Arthur Brown. <mask> initially wanted to play the drums, later obtaining a pair of bongo dr... |
nlp | fill_mask | career choice, and so he applied for a place to read history at Queen Mary College, London. His parents wanted him in the army, but he told them that he wanted to get a degree first, which acted as his "cover story", and immediately began playing in bands. At university, <mask> got involved in the Entertainments Commi... |
nlp | fill_mask | vocal abilities and asked him to join their group.<mask> played pubs with Shots on a regular basis to small audiences. One particular night, <mask> suddenly stopped in the middle of a song and started interviewing a man in the audience, heckling for not paying enough attention. He got such a good response he started d... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> joined. Immediately following the completion of his University work, he met up with the band at Greenwich's Wood Wharf studios to learn the Survivors album. Although the tracks did not suit his vocal style, the band soon wrote the majority of the following Head On album in their earliest rehearsal sessions, som... |
nlp | fill_mask | soon ran into difficulties with their record label, Gem, who went out of business and failed to finance their European tour in support of Iron Maiden.The band were turned over to RCA, which began neglecting the group, and so they promptly fired their management team and the resulting injunction meant that their equipm... |
nlp | fill_mask | Adrian Smith. The album was a major success, topping the British charts, and earning platinum status in the UK and the US. Following the release, the band embarked on a supporting tour around the globe. On the following albums, 1983's Piece of Mind and 1984's Powerslave, Steve Harris's song-writing monopoly was pushed... |
nlp | fill_mask | on their next studio effort, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, which featured more progressive rock elements than the band's previous records. Although it became their second release to top the British charts, it was also <mask>'s first album with the band that did not achieve platinum status in the US. Unlike Somewhere i... |
nlp | fill_mask | particular saying, "I really wanted to kill him." According to Harris, <mask> would only perform when the press was there, whereas at other concerts he would only mumble his way through songs. <mask> has since denied the accusations that he was deliberately under-performing, arguing that it was impossible to give a d... |
nlp | fill_mask | Tell Studios, Paris with producer Kevin Shirley, after which Iron Maiden undertook a supporting tour culminating with a performance at the Rock in Rio festival before a crowd of 250,000. In 2003 they recorded and released Dance of Death at London's SARM Studios with Kevin Shirley, now the band's new regular producer. ... |
nlp | fill_mask | band's private plane, Ed Force One (now a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet). Ozzfest incident
In 2005, Iron Maiden co-headlined the US festival tour, Ozzfest, with Black Sabbath.Lead singer Ozzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon, encouraged family friends and members of other bands to sabotage Iron Maiden's last performance at Hyundai... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> had always held a Union Flag during the song, being based on the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. It was also reported that Steve Harris had spoken to Ozzy Osbourne in San Bernardino, apologising for <mask>'s comments, which Harris denies, stating that his words had been "twisted".Solo career
In earl... |
nlp | fill_mask | Soundtrack. For his second solo effort, <mask> received the collaboration of American producer, Keith Olsen, and, while working on the record in LA, decided to leave Iron Maiden. Unhappy with the direction he was taking with Olsen, <mask> began working with Tribe of Gypsies guitarist Roy Z and started the album again ... |
nlp | fill_mask | that dragged me back into some assemblance, because he called up and he said, 'Listen, I've got some stuff and it's like a metal record.' And I wasn't thrilled, I wasn't really sure that I had anything to offer ... Then he played me some backing-tracks he'd done for what was to become Accident of Birth down the phone ... |
nlp | fill_mask | including two new songs and a bonus disc of rarities. His latest solo album, Tyranny of Souls was released in May 2005. This time the song-writing was all split between Roy Z and <mask> and many songs were composed by Z sending recordings of riffs to <mask> while he was on tour with Iron Maiden. On 21 June 2005, <mask... |
nlp | fill_mask | 1984, and they divorced in 1987. With his second wife, psychotherapist Patrice "Paddy" Bowden, he has three children: sons Austin (born 1990) and Griffin (born 1992), and daughter Kia (born 1994). All three were born in the Chiswick area of London, where <mask> lived for a few decades beginning in 1981. In 2019, it wa... |
nlp | fill_mask | On 15 May, <mask> was given the all-clear by his specialists.Honours
On 19 July 2011, <mask> was presented with an honorary music doctorate from his alma mater, Queen Mary University of London, in honour of his contribution to the music industry. In 2019, <mask> was made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo and received t... |
nlp | fill_mask | 2010, employed him as marketing director. One of his key roles in that position was to promote Astraeus' services by increasing their number of videos, leading to the Civil Aviation Authority releasing a video featuring <mask> on aircraft loading safety in June 2011. Following Astraeus' closure on 21 November 2011, <m... |
nlp | fill_mask | addition, he flew Rangers F.C. and Liverpool F.C. to away matches in Israel and Italy in 2007 and 2010 respectively. For the 2008–09 "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour", he piloted Iron Maiden's chartered Boeing 757, dubbed "Ed Force One", specially converted to carry the band's equipment between continents, which sub... |
nlp | fill_mask | Discovery Turbo in the UK. He was a guest on an episode of the Military Channel's The Greatest Ever, where he drove a Russian T-34 tank. In 2006, <mask> presented a documentary for Sky One entitled Inside Spontaneous Human Combustion with <mask>, in which he investigated the phenomenon by enlisting the help of several... |
nlp | fill_mask | Missionary Position (), a satire of televangelism.No further additions to the series have been published, although <mask> did write the first 60 pages to a prequel, set during "Lord Iffy's schooldays", which he "just thought was rubbish and ripped it all up. I didn't think it was funny." <mask> has turned his hand to ... |
nlp | fill_mask | James Dio and Rob Halford, <mask> is one of the pioneers of the operatic vocal style later to be adopted by power metal vocalists and regularly appears near the top in lists of the greatest rock vocalists/front-men of all time.<mask> says that his style was influenced primarily by Arthur Brown, Peter Hammill (Van der ... |
nlp | fill_mask | money and [they] can't even remember the sodding words". Discography
Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast (1982)
Piece of Mind (1983)
Powerslave (1984)
Somewhere in Time (1986)
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
No Prayer for the Dying (1990)
Fear of the Dark (1992)
Brave New World (2000)
Dance of Death (2003)
A Mat... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> (born September 5, 1962) is an American journalist, musician and songwriter. 1980–1990: Bands, fanzines and festivals
<mask> graduated from Muirlands Jr. High School in 1977 and then La Jolla High School in 1980, having played with several bands including Starjammer and the Pedestrians. In 1980 he joined the sta... |
nlp | fill_mask | 89.1990–1999: Journalism and Blindspot Records
<mask> co-founded the indie label Blindspot Records in 1991, with more than two dozen albums to date including releases from Skelpin, Mark Decerbo & Four Eyes, Skid Roper and others. <mask> is producer of the compilation series, Staring at the Sun, with twelve volumes to ... |
nlp | fill_mask | set decoration in several scenes of the film, Bring it On (2000). 2000–2010: Songwriting and media
Since 1999 <mask> has had numerous songs he has written or co-written, covered by artists including: Canada's The Kingpins, "Plan of Action,", Germany's Daniel Hall, "Survive", Spain's Happy Losers, "Blurs Somewhere" and... |
nlp | fill_mask | Boulevard. In May 2014, <mask> was interviewed on the TV Talk show, Tonight in San Diego (Episode 12), by host David Vaughn, with True Stories also performing two songs on air. He has since performed on air with the house band, The Mondaze in June 2017. Meanwhile, in June 2014, <mask> appeared on the soundtrack to the... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> (born 26 October 1973 in Wallasey (now part of Merseyside, formerly Cheshire), is a former English rugby union player who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and represented both England and the British & Irish Lions. He has 51 England caps and 2 Lions caps. He played for England at scrum half, fly-ha... |
nlp | fill_mask | make much of an international impression, his sole appearance at fly-half coming in the 2000 tour to South Africa in the first test, after Jonny Wilkinson fell victim to food poisoning. In 2001 he made the break during the Heineken Cup final that resulted in the winning try - <mask> had started the match at scrum half... |
nlp | fill_mask | flying out to Australia. 2004/2005 season
In the 2004/05 season <mask> hit form again, and with the failings of the England backline, there were calls for him to be reinstated to ignite it. England coach Andy Robinson humoured the press that there was a chance of a recall, but it never came. Instead <mask> turned his... |
nlp | fill_mask | Millionaire?Christmas Special, on 23 December 2008. Together they won £50,000 for their chosen charity - Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation. <mask> presented The Big Tackle on ITV in March 2009, aimed at promoting and assisting rugby clubs around the country. In January 2009, he obtained his basic coaching qualificatio... |
nlp | fill_mask | <mask> , (born 15 May 1971) is a Scottish celebrity chef and restaurateur. He is best known for combining Scottish produce with an arty, eclectic and accessible style of cooking. Born and raised in Leith, Edinburgh, <mask> comes from a second-generation Scottish Sikh family. He studied at Telford College and completed ... |
nlp | fill_mask | fine dining restaurants in Britain, including the Balmoral Hotel, Gravetye Manor, The Royal Scotsman train, Greywalls Hotel, the Royal Yacht , and Skibo Castle.In 2001, aged 30, <mask> became the Chef Patron at "Oloroso"; a roof-top bar and restaurant on Castle Street, Edinburgh. The restaurant was named Restaurant of... |
nlp | fill_mask | supported and worked closely with the charities Sick Kids Edinburgh, McMillian Cancer Research, the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service, Food Train, Scottish Air Ambulance, Water Aid, St. Columbus Hospice, and the Back Up Trust. In 2015 he was a presenter on RBS – Finding Scotland's Real Heroes, where he visited and sp... |