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Marek Hamsik is a player that’s been around the block.

Football has taken this 33-year-old, best known for his 12-year spell at Napoli, right around the world, while has become a legend in his native Slovakia.

It didn’t take long for those in Italy to poach him from Slovan Bratislava, arguably the best club in Slovakia before an impressive spell at Brescia earned Hamsik that move to Napoli.

As his career winds down, he spent two years in China no doubt raking in the cash under Rafa Benitez at Dalian Professional, before earlier this year joining Swedish outfit IFK Goteborg for a brief period.

Marek Hamsik will be hoping to lead Slovakia to the last-16 at Euro 2020 tonight

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Now set for a two-year stint in Turkey with Trabzonspor, the experienced midfielder is on the verge of helping Slovakia reach the knockout rounds of a major tournament once again.

However, there is far more to Hamsik than a journeyman footballing career.

This a man who enjoys bathing in the snow, as shown on multiple occasions on his social media.

Hamsik loves to bathe shirtless in the snow, as shown on multiple occasions

Hamsik’s bizarre yet thrill-seeking personality has seen him travel up ski lifts only to roll down snow-topped mountains in his underwear along with his equally nutty friends.

Moreover, Hamsik has sported an eye-catching mohican for almost 10 years now, though his initial do has been scaled down more recently.

The haircut is just another sign of his off the wall character that sets him apart from most other footballers and makes him unique to the sport.

NAPLES, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 28: Marek Hamsik…

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Editor’s note: This article is part of a series featuring women members of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. – One could say Kellie Zahn juggles a lot of balls. She works full-time as an agriculture agent for the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, a Mohican Indian tribe in Bowler, Wisconsin. She’s the agronomist for her family’s 1,000-acre farm near Clintonville. And she’s been a board member of the Shawano County Farm Bureau for the past four years. But her educational background, participation in the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s Leadership Institute and a willingness to step outside her comfort zone help her juggle those daily challenges.

Zahn, nee Behnke, was raised on the Clintonville-area dairy farm owned by her parents, Doug and Mary Behnke. As a youngster she fed calves, cleaned pens and did other chores, she said. Those jobs helped her learn about taking responsibility.

After graduating from high school she attended the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She earned in 2011 a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business with an animal-science minor. She then worked for about five years as an agronomist. But demanding seasonal-work schedules and time spent on the road as an agronomist conflicted with her work on the family farm, she said.

An opportunity appeared in fall 2016 she couldn’t refuse. It involved building from the beginning a program at the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. As an agriculture agent she would be managing gardens as well as teaching classes about practices such as composting, starting plants, alternative weed control and more.

Since joining the community she has helped establish a Community Supported Agriculture operation, and has expanded a demonstration farm from 1 to 3 acres. She and the community plan to rotationally graze chickens. She works with a few-part time employees and a summer intern.

“We grow about 30 different types of vegetables,” she said. “This is…

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HUDSON — The Hudson Area Library and the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History present “The Mohicans’ Incorporation into the Iroquois League, 1671-1675” by Evan Haefeli 6-7:30 p.m. June 24. This talk derives from one of Dr. Haefeli’s current research projects on the history of the Iroquois Confederacy’s relations with its Indigenous neighbors to the east and south, especially the people of the Hudson Valley. The incorporation of the Mohicans into the Iroquois League has remained obscured to history but was pivotal to the history of the colonial northeast. It explains why the Mohicans and the Munsee neighbors did not join in King Philip’s War and so prevented that conflict from spilling over into the Hudson Valley. It also clarifies the nature of Indigenous politics in the region in the era of Jacob Leisler.

The Jacob Leisler Library Lectures are made partially possible through the generous support of the Van Dyke Family Association.

An historian of colonial North America and the Atlantic world at Texas A&M University, Evan Haefeli has a particular interest in the political, religious, Indigenous, and imperial history of the colonial northeast. Born and raised on eastern Long Island, New York, he previously taught at Princeton University, where he received his PhD, as well as Tufts, Columbia University, and the London School of Economics. He has held a variety of fellowships, most recently from the NEH. His published books relating to colonial American and early New York history include New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty, Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, and (with Kevin Sweeney), Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield.

The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History is an independent, not-for-profit study and research center devoted…

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