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Tourism in Memphis includes the points of interest in Memphis, Tennessee such as museums, fine art galleries, and parks, as well as Graceland (the former home of Elvis Presley) the Beale Street entertainment district, and sporting events (see Sports in Memphis, Tennessee). The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest fine art museum in the state of Tennessee. A smaller art museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in east Memphis focuses on impressionism. Downtown Memphis is home to the Peabody Place Museum, the largest collection of 19th-century Chinese art in the nation. Graceland, the home of Rock 'n' Roll legend Elvis Presley, is one of the most visited houses in the United States (after the White House and Biltmore Estate), attracting over 600,000 domestic and international visitors a year. Art collections Art Museum at the University of Memphis The Art Museum at the University of Memphis is home to the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the South. Brooks Museum of Art The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest fine art museum in the state of Tennessee. The Brooks' permanent collection includes works from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque eras to British, French Impressionists, and 20th century artists (including regional artists like Memphian Carroll Cloar). It is located in Overton Park, which is also home to the Memphis Zoo, the Overton Shell Auditorium, and the Memphis College of Art. Dixon Gallery and Gardens A smaller art museum, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in east Memphis focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. It also includes four outdoor gardens with Greco-Roman sculptures. Peabody Place Museum Downtown Memphis is home to the Peabody Place Museum, the largest collection of 19th-century Chinese art in the nation. Museums Children's Museum of Memphis The Children's Museum of Memphis offers interactive and educational activities for children to take part in. Permanent exhibits include a skyscraper maze, an airplane cockpit (donated by FedEx), a fire engine, an art studio, grocery store, and, most recently, a mechanic's garage sponsored by AutoZone, Inc. Cotton Museum The Cotton Museum is a museum that opened in March 2006 on the old trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis. The mission of the Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange is to share the story of the cotton industry and its many influences on the daily life, arts, and the development of this region. The museum highlights artifacts through interpretive exhibits, educational programs, and research archives that help tell the story of cotton and cotton trading, from crop to becoming fabric. The Cotton Museum preserves the history of the cotton business and its impact on economics, history, society and culture, and science & technology. It is an excellent field trip for middle schoolers and older, and a great beginning for tourists, giving visitors context for other attractions in the city. Graceland The Graceland Property includes Graceland Mansion™,
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1957. Specific locations 1957 in British music 1957 in Norwegian music Specific genres 1957 in country music 1957 in jazz Events January 5 – Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba. January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, England, as a jazz club. February 8 – Bo Diddley records his songs "Hey! Bo Diddley" and "Mona (I Need You Baby)". March – Chicago's Cardinal Stritch bans all rock and roll and rhythm and blues music from Catholic-run schools, saying that "its rhythms encourage young people to behave in a hedonistic manner." March 1 – The Everly Brothers record in Nashville their first single "Bye Bye Love" for Cadence Records. March 3 – The second annual Eurovision Song Contest is staged in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. The contest is won by Dutch singer Corry Brokken with the song Net als toen. March 19 – Elvis Presley purchases a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, and calls it Graceland. March 26 – Ricky Nelson records his first three songs. March 27 – "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" from 1956's Alfred Hitchcock suspense film The Man Who Knew Too Much wins the Academy Award for Best Song. Sung by Doris Day in the film, it proves to be one of her biggest hit records as well. May 14 – In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos records his Bachiana Brasileira No. 4, with the Orchestre Nationale de la Radiodiffusion Française, for EMI. Through May 21 the recording sessions continue with Bachiana Brasileira No. 7 and Bachiana Brasileira No. 3 with Manoel Braune, piano. May 26 – Paul Robeson, blacklisted at this time from travelling outside the United States, performs a concert from New York City via the new transatlantic telephone line to an audience in St Pancras Town Hall in London; on October 5 he uses the same means to address the Miners' Eisteddfod at the Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl in Wales. June 20 – Tōru Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings is first performed, by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. July 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles first meet at a garden fete at St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool, England, at which Lennon's skiffle group, The Quarrymen, is playing (and in the graveyard of which an Eleanor Rigby is buried). August 5 – American Bandstand begins its 30-year syndicated run on US network television. August 7 – The Quarrymen first play at The Cavern Club in Liverpool in an interlude spot between jazz bands; when John Lennon starts the group playing Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", the club's owner at this time hands him a note reading "Cut out the bloody rock 'n roll". Paul McCartney is away from Liverpool at this time at a Boy Scout camp and a family holiday. September 19 – Dalida is the
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"Eternal Flame" is a song by American pop rock group the Bangles for their third studio album, Everything (1988). The power ballad was written by group member Susanna Hoffs with the established hit songwriting team of Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. Upon its 1989 single release, "Eternal Flame" became a number-one hit in nine countries, including Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since its release, it has been covered by many musical artists, including Australian boy band Human Nature, who reached the Australian top 10 with their version, and British girl group Atomic Kitten, who topped four national charts with their rendition. Production Two of the song's three writers, Tom Kelly and Susanna Hoffs, had met via the Bangles' October 30, 1986, concert at the Avalon Hollywood (then the Palace). Kelly attended the concert and backstage met the group's members. This led to Hoffs writing songs with Kelly and his regular songwriting partner Billy Steinberg, an experience she found interesting in contrast to her usual songwriting habits. Hoffs would develop lyrics based on a melody she worked out while playing around with a guitar, while Kelly and Steinberg would start with a lyrical idea and write music to fit it. The trio's first composition to be recorded was "I Need a Disguise", which Belinda Carlisle recorded for her 1986 solo debut album. The Bangles' 1988 album Everything would feature two Hoffs/Kelly/Steinberg compositions, both with lead vocals by Hoffs: the upbeat lead single "In Your Room" and "Eternal Flame". The focal metaphor of "Eternal Flame" was suggested by two eternal flames: one at the gravesite of Elvis Presley at Graceland, where the Bangles had been given a private tour. Hoffs said, "we were taken out to the Garden of Memories, and there was this little box which was supposed to have a lit flame in it, an eternal flame. Actually, that day it was raining so the flame was not on"—and one at a local synagogue in Palm Springs which Steinberg attended as a child. Steinberg explained, "Susanna was talking about the Bangles having visited Graceland, and she said there was some type of shrine to Elvis that included some kind of eternal flame. As soon as those words were mentioned, I immediately thought of the synagogue in the town of Palm Springs, California where I grew up. I remember during our Sunday school class they would walk us through the sanctuary. There was one little red light and they told us it was called the eternal flame." After Steinberg suggested writing a song titled "Eternal Flame", he and Hoffs wrote the song's lyrics at Steinberg's house and then according to Hoffs brought the lyrics to Tom Kelly's studio where Kelly completed the music and the demo was cut. Steinberg recalls Kelly also being at Steinberg's house when the lyrics were written, beginning the music's composition there. "'Eternal Flame' was retro in that it has no chorus", Steinberg observed in 2021. The song instead works from an AABA
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Graceland Too was a tourist attraction and shrine dedicated to American singer Elvis Presley. It was located in Holly Springs, Mississippi, forty miles south of the original Graceland, to which it had no affiliation. Graceland Too was operated out of the two-story home of Paul MacLeod, a Presley fanatic who collected hundreds of pieces of Elvis memorabilia. The shrine cost $5 to enter and operated 24/7-year-round. The bizarre nature of the attraction, as well as MacLeod's eccentricity, made it a local landmark over its twenty-five years of operation. The attraction closed in 2014 after MacLeod shot a man dead on the property, and died himself one day later. Its contents were auctioned off and the site was purchased by a couple. History American singer and actor Elvis Presley rose to prominence in the mid-twentieth century, becoming a significant cultural icon due to his contributions to development of rock and roll music. Presley died in 1977 at his mansion, a 13.8-acre estate known as Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. After his death, it was opened to the public as a museum in 1982, rapidly becoming one of the most popular domestic landmarks. It was once estimated that the museum attracts over 650,000 visitors per year—second only to the White House. Paul MacLeod was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1942. He worked in prisons and at automobile assembly plants, but he was unemployed for the majority of his life. He developed an obsession with Presley at a young age; by the mid-1970s, he had relocated to Holly Springs, Mississippi—only forty miles south of Graceland. He was married twice throughout his life, with both women divorcing him due to his fixation on Presley. He opened Graceland Too in 1989 or 1990, and it became a local tourist attraction. Attraction Graceland Too was located at 200 E. Gholson Avenue in Holly Springs. The two-story home—MacLeod occupying the top floor—was filled with Elvis paraphernalia to the point of being a fire hazard. MacLeod operated Graceland Too 24/7 and would personally give visitors a tour, claiming that his collection was valued at millions of dollars. He became renowned for his eccentricity, based upon his reverence for Elvis, and his claim to drink at least two dozen cans of soda per day. The home was routinely remodeled in various gaudy color choices; it was originally painted pink, then white, then blue. The home remained a popular tourist spot for years, particularly among students at the University of Mississippi. The town's assistant director of tourism, Suzann William, claimed MacLeod was Holly Springs' number one tourist attraction. Closure In June 2014, MacLeod was involved in an altercation that resulted in the death of David Taylor, a twenty-eight-year old black man. Taylor had been assisting MacLeod with repainting the exterior, and the two were arguing over an unpaid ten dollars. MacLeod shot Taylor at point-blank range, killing him. MacLeod cooperated with police and was released with no charges filed. Thirty-six hours later, MacLeod suffered a heart attack and died on the
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My Farewell to Elvis is the twenty-seventh studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard, released in 1977 and his second release for MCA Records. It reached Number 6 on the Country album chart. The single "From Graceland to the Promised Land" reached number 4 on the Billboard Country Singles chart. The album is a tribute to the music of Elvis Presley, who died on August 16, 1977. He is backed by Roy Nichols, Ronnie Reno, and Mark Yeary of the Strangers. Background Haggard, who had previously recorded tribute albums to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills, had already started recording an LP of Elvis songs when Presley died at home at Graceland in Memphis in August 1977. Haggard quickly wrote "From Graceland to the Promised Land" and the album was out by October. Haggard had always made his admiration for "the King" known in interviews and, in his 1981 autobiography Sing Me Back Home, recalls meeting Presley at the International Hotel in Las Vegas through guitarist James Burton, who had played on albums by both singers. "I came away disappointed and, for a while, my Elvis image was tarnished," Haggard wrote."There was no big deal about the evening in general. I talked to Elvis only a little while. He seemed nervous and not too aware of his surroundings but nothing out of the ordinary happened. He introduced me to Priscilla, who didn't seem to know who I was. 'He's a country singer,' Elvis told her in a voice I thought sounded a little irritated... I guess that's why it bothers me so much to have fans put me up like some kind of idol. That's wrong. We're all human. None of us can walk on water, even Elvis." The album features Presley's old backing vocal group the Jordanaires and drummer Buddy Harman. Ironically, James Burton did not take part in the project. Haggard chose to record only hits, including Presley's first record "That's All Right" and his Christmas classic "Blue Christmas." The album was a success, but it has a polarizing reputation among Haggard fans and critics. Critical reception Al Campbell of AllMusic praises the album, insisting, "My Farewell to Elvis may not be on par with Same Train, A Different Time or Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World, but it's a decent, if overlooked, session in the Haggard discography." In his 2013 book The Running Kind, on the other hand, Haggard biographer David Cantwell dismisses the album as " a missed opportunity" and "a disappointing effort to say the least, not because it was particularly bad, but just because its arrangements were so generic in a faux-Fifties sort of way..." Track listing "From Graceland to the Promised Land" (Merle Haggard) – 2:28 "In the Ghetto" (Mac Davis) – 2:55 "Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) – 1:59 "Jailhouse Rock" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:50 "Love Me Tender" (Vera Matson, Presley) – 2:42 "That's All Right" (Arthur Crudup) – 2:29 "Heartbreak Hotel" (Mae
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Holmead's Burying Ground, also known as Holmead's Cemetery and the Western Burial Ground, was a historic cemetery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded by Anthony Holmead in 1794 as a privately owned secular cemetery open to the public. The city of Washington, D.C., constructed the Western Burial Ground on the remainder of the city block in 1798, and the two burial grounds became synonymous. The city took ownership of the private Holmead cemetery in 1820. The unified cemetery went into steep decline around 1850, and it was closed on March 6, 1874. Removal of remains, most of which were reinterred at Graceland Cemetery or Rock Creek Cemetery, continued until 1885. Burying ground history Founding Holmead's Burying Ground Holmead's Burying Ground was built on land originally owned by Anthony Holmead, a tobacco farmer who lived in Prince George's County in the Province of Maryland in the early and mid 1700s. In 1718 or 1726, Holmead purchased of land in the northern section of what was known as the "Widow's Mite" tract in what would later become the District of Columbia. Holmead died intestate in 1750, and his nephew, a 22-year-old from Devon, England, also named Anthony Holmead, inherited the estate and emigrated to America to take ownership of it. Upon his arrival in Maryland, the younger Holmead purchased two additional land patents (Beall's Plains and Lamar's Outlet) along Rock Creek north of Widow's Mite. The younger Holmead wanted to build a burying ground on part of the Widow's Mite tract. It is unclear whether he actually established a family burial plot there by 1791, or merely contemplated one, but the intended location was a space on the southwest corner of what is now 19th and T Streets NW. (The long edge was along 19th Street.) His plans were complicated by the establishment of the District of Columbia. On July 9, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, who chose a portion of the states of Maryland and Virginia on January 24, 1791. Only a portion of the new "District of Columbia" was intended to be used as a city. This "Federal City", or City of Washington, was laid out in the L'Enfant Plan of 1791, and was bounded by Boundary Street (northwest and northeast; now Florida Avenue), 15th Street Northeast, East Capitol Street, the Anacostia River, the Potomac River, and Rock Creek. The federal government purchased title to all land within the Federal City, which included land owned by Holmead. Holmead was entitled to repurchase his land at £12 and 10 pence per acre, and did so. Part of his repurchase involved the rectangle on the northeast corner of what was now called Square 109. Holmead's purchase was delayed for nearly five years. Square 109 lay just inside the city limits, it was unclear just where streets were to
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Gandalf's Garden was a mystical community which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie-underground movement, and ran a shop as well as a magazine of the same name. It emphasised the mystical interests of the period and advocated meditation and psychedelics in contrast to hard drugs. Location The shop was based in World's End, at what was then the unfashionable end of Chelsea and a fair walk from Sloane Square tube station, passing the Chelsea Drug Store (where the record shop scene from A Clockwork Orange was filmed) and across the road from a clothes shop named Granny Takes a Trip, distinguished by the mini car protruding from its first floor level. Gandalf's Garden was directly opposite the World's End pub. The site is now unidentifiable under the World's End Estate. The shop promoted a peaceful "vibe" and large cushions were provided on the floor for customers to "hang out" and drink honey-flavoured exotic teas. The basement provided not only a toilet but also an area for a "shrineroom" where homeless street people crashed during the day and spiritual meetings were held every evening. It was the first popular centre to invite teachers, gurus, monks, researchers, etc., from every spiritual tradition and practice and gained worldwide recognition. Gandalf's Garden was dispersed in 1971 into various Gandalf's Garden Seed Centres in different parts of Britain, e.g., Edinburgh and York, holding weekly meetings of short meditation and discussion, and often speakers invited from the list of address of Muz Murray's main contacts near each Seed Centre's location. Gandalf's Garden magazine The magazine emerged in 1968 and ran to 6 issues. It was part of the then-current Underground press (although they preferred to be called "Overground") as an alternative to the International Times and, particularly, OZ in departing from conventional black and white pages. In contrast to the psychedelic mayhem of many issues of OZ, Gandalf's Garden magazine was lyrical in choice of, for example, peach, light blue or pastel pink sheets with burgundy type, the colours rotating through the magazine. Articles in 1969 included: Atlantis Rising by Mark Western (issue 4) The Glastonbury Giants by Mary Caine (issue 4) The God'seye: The Aetherius Society by Colin Bord (issue 4) The Third Ear Band by Legolas (issue 4) Quintessence by Legolas (issue 6) The Cosmic Continent by Colin Bord (issue 6) The letters page was called the "Seedbag". A touch of satire came in the form of a page "Oh to be in England" (press cuttings). Some well-known contributors to the magazine included Christopher Logue, Adrian Mitchell, Joan Baez and Spike Milligan. The front cover of most issues set the tone with "Fear not, for you are now entering Gandalf's Garden" The introduction by Muz Murray included: Gandalf's Garden had ceased to function in London by 1972 however Muz Murray continued to be active, touring the Gandalf's Garden Seed Centres and gave inspirational talks. Copies of the magazine have now become collector's items and are selling for
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Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1859) is an American garden cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and at , is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago. According to legend, the name "Rosehill" resulted from a City Clerk's error – the area was previously called "Roe's Hill", named for nearby farmer Hiram Roe. He refused to sell his land to the city until it was promised that the cemetery be named in his honor. It is located in the north east section of the Lincoln Square community area. Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate (added in 1864) was designed by William W. Boyington, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the Old University of Chicago, who is buried in Rosehill. The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Like its sister cemetery Graceland, Rosehill is the burial place of many well-known Chicagoans. The cemetery contains many monuments that are notable for their beauty and eccentricity, such as that of Lulu Fellows. The cemetery is also the final resting place of 61 victims of the Iroquois Theatre fire, in which over 600 people died. Several graves, gravestones and monuments from the old City Cemetery, originally located in what is now Lincoln Park were relocated to Rosehill Cemetery. Landmarks Rosehill Mausoleum Dedicated in 1914, Rosehill Mausoleum was designed by architect Sidney Lovell. It is the largest mausoleum in Chicago and has two levels, the lower level being partially underground. The interior is constructed almost entirely of marble. The floors are Italian Carrara marble. There are many small family-owned rooms with heavy bronze gates. Some of these private rooms feature stained glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany among other artists. Richard B. Ogilvie, Governor of Illinois, is entombed near the ceiling in the west part of the Mausoleum. Other notables include Aaron Montgomery Ward, his business rival Richard Warren Sears, and John G. Shedd, philanthropist and president of Marshall Field & Company. The mausoleum has been expanded several times. Horatio N. May Chapel Built in 1899, the Horatio N. May Chapel was designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee. It is designed in a blend of Gothic and Romanesque styles, with an exterior of granite and an interior appointed with mosaic floors and a graceful oak roof with "hammer-beam trusses and curved brackets." Civil War Memorials Civil War buffs have long been attracted to Rosehill, where approximately 350 Union soldiers and sailors and at least three Confederates who gave their lives in service are entombed. It is the final resting place for several members of the 8th Illinois Cavalry, the unit that fired the first shots in the Battle of Gettysburg, and of a general whose troops helped Ulysses S. Grant avoid surrender in the Battle of Shiloh, Grant's first major engagement of the war. Rosehill Cemetery maintains the distinction of being the largest private burial ground of Union veterans, including 16 generals, in the state of Illinois. To honor those
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"Miners" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. He wrote the poem in Scarborough in January 1918, a few weeks after leaving Craiglockhart War Hospital where he had been recovering from a shell-shock. Owen wrote the poem in direct response to the Minnie Pit Disaster in which 156 people (155 miners, 1 rescue worker) died. Background After his discharge from Craiglockhart and a short spell of leave, Owen rejoined his army unit (the 3/5th battalion the Manchester Regiment) in Scarborough. While his men were in stationed at Burniston Road Barracks a mile north-west of the town, Owen and other officers were billeted in the Clarence Gardens (now the Clifton) Hotel; Owen was the mess secretary. Owen had a unique room in the hotel: he occupied the five-windowed turret on the 5th floor, directly overlooking the sea. He wrote Miners in under an hour in response to the Minnie Pit Disaster of 12 January 1918, in which 156 men and boys lost their lives as a result of a firedamp explosion, including 40 pit-lads under 16. Owen was unusually well-acquainted (for someone with a grammar school education) with working-class miner types. Aged nineteen, he had met a Northumberland pit-lad who made a particular impression on him at a nonconformist convention in Keswick in 1912. Also, many of the men in his platoon had worked down the Lancashire pits before the war: in 1916, Owen had described his men as"hard-handed, hard-headed miners, dogged, loutish, ugly. (But I would trust them to advance under fire and to hold their trench;) blond, coarse, ungainly, strong, 'unfatiguable', unlovely, Lancashire soldiers, Saxons to the bone. In addition, Owen was a keen geologist who had collected rocks and minerals since his youth, and in Miners he uses phrases like "smothered ferns" and "frond-forests", redolent of the imprints of fossil plants in coal. Poem The opening stanzas evoke the poet gazing into the fire imagining a primeval forest older than myth, "before the fauns". But his traumatic experiences on the Western Front intrude on his somewhat romantic meditation: "Wrote a poem on the Colliery Disaster: but I get mixed up with the War at the end. It is short, but oh! sour." The gently hissing coals recall the moans of the dying miners "writhing for air"; Owen intertwines their deaths with those of soldiers at the front, imagining charred bodies reduced to ash. Owen laments that though people over the coming years will live on peacefully and doze by fires, their coals will have been formed of the toils of the dead soldiers and miners, now buried under the earth and forgotten. For a projected volume of his work, Owen gave the poem the subtitle: How the future will forget the dead in war. Publication Owen sent the poem to The Nation in the evening of the day he finished it. The proofs arrived while Owen was preparing to attend Robert Graves' wedding (on 23 January at St. James's Church, Piccadilly). Miners was published on 26 January 1918, one
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Horace White (August 10, 1834 – September 16, 1916) was a United States journalist and financial expert, noted for his connection with the Chicago Tribune, the New York Evening Post, and The Nation. Biography White was born in Colebrook, New Hampshire. His father was a doctor. In 1837 his family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, and White graduated at Beloit College in 1853. In 1854, he became city editor of the Chicago Evening Journal. In 1856-57 he served as assistant secretary of the National Kansas Committee. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune he accompanied Abraham Lincoln in 1858 in his campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, his account being published in Herndon's Life of Lincoln. As a result, he became friends with Lincoln and Henry Villard. Villard was covering the debates for the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung. In 1861, White became the Washington correspondent of the Tribune. He headed a syndicate for the publication of Civil War news during 1864. From 1864 to 1874 he was editor in chief and one of the owners of the Chicago Tribune. He left the Tribune due to ill health. In 1877, he joined Villard to work successively in two railway firms, and then in 1881, when Villard bought the New York Evening Post and The Nation, White, along with Carl Schurz and Edwin L. Godkin, managed the enterprise. Schurz left in 1883, and Godkin assumed the role of editor in chief. In 1899, White succeeded Godkin as editor in chief, and he held that position until his retirement in 1903. In 1909, he was appointed to the New York State Commission on Speculation and Commodities. He was widely known for his able discussions of currency and banking problems. He was struck by an automobile in New York City, and died shortly thereafter. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Works Original work Money and Banking illustrated by American History (1895; fifth edition, revised, 1914) Life of Lyman Trumbull (1913) Translations Appian, Roman History (two volumes, 1899), translated from Greek Editor Frederic Bastiat, Sophismes économiques (Chicago, 1869) Luigi Cossa, Scienza delle finanze (New York, 1888) Legacy White is remembered as proponent of quality journalism aimed at public good. In his "School of Journalism" (1904) he wrote, References Attribution External links 1834 births 1916 deaths American economics writers American editors American male journalists American publishers (people) People from Colebrook, New Hampshire Beloit College alumni Writers from New Hampshire 19th-century American businesspeople Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located at 10378 Military Road in Key West, Iowa approximately south of Dubuque. It is one of the two large Catholic cemeteries located in the Dubuque area. The cemetery is located near Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Key West, but is operated independently. The cemetery offers in-ground burial, as well as columbarium and mausoleum entombment. History The cemetery began in 1856 and was known as the Key West Burying Ground. In 1901, the Mt. Olivet Cemetery Association was formed and the cemetery was renamed Mount Olivet. Though a newspaper article from 1901 indicates that the board of 11 trustees planned to relocate graves from the Third Street Cemetery, adjacent to St. Raphael's Cathedral (Dubuque, Iowa), to Mt. Olivet, there is no record that these disinterments ever took place. At least 11 graves encountered during development of the Third Street property in the 1940s were moved to the Third Street Cemetery section of Mt. Olivet, as were two sets of remains disturbed in the 1970s and four discovered in 1994. Over 900 graves were archaeologically excavated from the Third Street Cemetery between 2007 and 2011. The remains of these individuals were also reburied in the Third Street Cemetery section of Mt. Olivet. The board then hired O. C. Simonds to improve the cemetery grounds. Simmonds, who was the superintendent of Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois and was widely recognized as a landscape gardener, set about to improve the cemetery which was inaccessible to those not on-foot. Former Dubuque Archbishops James Keane and John Keane are both buried in the cemetery. While the men shared the same last name, they were not related. Kenneth Mott, owned a Dubuque music store, was buried at the cemetery following his death in an airplane accident with a marker shaped like a Grand Piano. St Joseph's Chapel Mausoleum is located at the northwest corner of the cemetery. The mausoleum was built in 1989, and was later expanded. This building has crypts for mausoleum entombment, columbarium niches for cremated remains and a small chapel for the final committal ceremonies. References External links Cemeteries in Iowa Roman Catholic cemeteries in the United States Buildings and structures in Dubuque, Iowa Mausoleums in the United States Protected areas of Dubuque County, Iowa 1856 establishments in Iowa Cemeteries established in the 1850s
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Dharma Seed is non-profit organization "dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages". History "Dharma Seed began in 1983 when [Bill Hamilton,] a volunteer at Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, began taping the dharma talks and meditation instructions offered there. His small project soon grew into a separate nonprofit organization, and Dharma Seed Tape Library began to spread the seeds of the dharma to the world by selling audiotapes of teachings. The original mission was simply to 'preserve and share the dharma,' which Dharma Seed continues to do today — with one critical change: The teachings are now offered based on the principle of dana, or the Buddhist practice of generosity. " Originally, the tapes were "for the benefit of people who were not in the hall at the time of the talk, and the immense value of this material for posterity soon became evident. In 1984 the project incorporated as a non-profit religious organization, became Dharma Seed Tape Library, and moved out into the world. We’ve been doing this for almost sixteen years now. I was one of the original directors, and have been involved since the beginning," said Judy Phillips, Director of the Dharma Seed Archive. By 1985, Dharma Seed Tape Libraries had started to gain notoriety among Western "Spiritual Pilgrims". Dharma Seed was one of "the growing number of organizations offering high quality cassettes" for the purpose of self-transformation. The May 1985 issue of Yoga Journal encouraged its readers to take advantage of the emerging availability of "'spiritual' cassette tapes" from the privacy of their home, car or Walkman headphones. From then on, "spiritual pilgrims have never had it so easy!" After a decade, the American vipassana movement was still largely concentrated in three states – California, New York and Massachusetts. Through offering the teachings given at Insight Meditation Society (IMS) by mail order, Dharma Seed allowed the teachings to become available to those in regions lacking significant vipassana offerings. "On the last night of [a meditation retreat], the ashes of Bill Hamilton, founder of the Dharma Seed Tape Library, were brought to Cloud Mountain. Bill had lived on Whidbey Island and had many friends in the Seattle sangha. In March of that year, Bill was told he had pancreatic cancer. A woman on the retreat outlined the story of his hospitalization and surgery, amazed at how affable and pleasant he had been through his suffering. Bill had wanted to be buried whole underneath an apple tree, but since such burials weren't allowed in Washington, a small apple tree was bought, a hole dug by the pond here, and his ashes were sent." Etymology The organization derives its name from the concept of a Dharma seed. "Seeds like this are the ideal object of reflection in the vipassana sense. It is not enough merely to have a bare, undigested idea of a topic like 'impermanence'... We need a Dharma Seed – an idea that has developed numerous facets of
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Michael Waller Robinson (October 13, 1837 – July 23, 1912) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician from Missouri. Graduating from Yale University at the age of nineteen, Robinson taught at Baptist State College, where he became college president in 1860. He attended Harvard Law School then successfully ran for a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives. After attending the 1864 Democratic National Convention as a delegate, Robinson decided to move to Chicago, Illinois and became a prominent lawyer there. He served two terms in the Illinois Senate in the 1870s. Biography Michael Waller Robinson was born in Fulton, Missouri on October 13, 1837. During his youth, he attended school and worked on the family farm. He attended preparatory school at Fulton College and then Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. He was admitted to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated with honors in 1857 at the age of nineteen. Returning to Missouri, he was appointed Professor of Greek and Latin at Baptist State College in Liberty. He taught for three years, assuming the presidency of the institution during the last year. In his free time, Robinson studied law under Alexander William Doniphan. Robinson matriculated at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating in 1861. Robinson again returned to Missouri, now practicing law in Fulton with future Missouri Attorney General John A. Hockaday. In 1862, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives for a two-year term. In 1864, during the Civil War, he was arrested and held as a military prisoner for several months. Upon his release, Robinson was named a delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. He was impressed with the city and decided to re-locate there. Robinson became a leading lawyer there, partnering at times with Lambert Tree and John V. Le Moyne. He settled in Lake View, Illinois in 1870 and served several terms at town attorney. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1874, serving two two-year terms. Robinson was named president of the Democratic State Convention upon expiration of his second term. Upon the annexation of Lake View to Chicago in 1889, Robinson was named assistant counsel to Chicago. He later served as special assessment attorney for the city. In his later years, he focused on real estate investments. Robinson married Leonora C. Paddock on December 23, 1866. They had four sons and two daughters: Walter B., Harbert B., Harold H. Ethel G. and Florence C. Robinson was a Baptist. He died in Chicago on July 23, 1912, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery. References 1837 births 1912 deaths Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives Democratic Party Illinois state senators Yale University alumni Harvard Law School alumni William Jewell College people Politicians from Chicago People from Fulton, Missouri Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) 19th-century American legislators 19th-century Missouri politicians 19th-century Illinois politicians
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David & Steve Gordon are a new-age and chill-out music recording duo. Career The Gordons' first album, Misty Forest Morning, was released in 1982, featuring mainly piano and acoustic guitars, with some synthesizer and sounds of nature they recorded in Sequoia National Forest, the location that was the inspiration for the name of their record label, Sequoia Records Their second album Peaceful Evening and several more albums in a similar style followed soon after, then in 1985 they branched out into electronic spacemusic with Astral Journey and Celestial Suite. In 1987 they returned to nature-inspired music with Garden of Serenity, the first of several releases in their Inner Music series of albums that featured longer meditative compositions. (A sequel, Garden of Serenity II, followed in 1998.) The early 1990s saw another of their electronic spacemusic releases with Music of the Tarot. Beginning in 1994 with Sacred Earth Drums, David & Steve Gordon branched out into world fusion music, adding African, Middle Eastern and Native American drums and percussion plus Native American flute and Incan pan pipes to the mix, along with acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers, and continuing their use of sounds of nature as musical elements. The song titles and liner notes portrayed the story of a mythical shaman who journeys to the spirit world to find healing for his people and for the Earth. Sacred Earth Drums became the top-selling drumming album in the New Age market for both 1994 and 1995 and by 2002 had sold over 300,000 units. Following a sequel in 1996 titled Sacred Spirit Drums, their 1999 release Drum Medicine entered Billboard's Top New Age Albums chart in April, 2000, and also in 2000, received the Coalition of Visionary Retailers Record of the Year and Best World Album awards and the New Age Voice Native Heart Award and was listed in the top 5 albums of New Age specialty distributors for two years. In 2006, the Gordon brothers released Soothing Sanctuary, ambient music with nature sounds, a re-version of the earlier release "Sanctuary" (so stated in the liner notes) with new arrangements and remastering. Also in 2006 came Shaman's Vision Journey, featuring shamanic drum beats and mantras in the languages of cultures from around the world, including Mayan, Sanskrit, Lakota and Tibetan chants. In 2007 and 2008, they released a pair of 25th anniversary retrospectives, Sound Peace, focusing on meditative selections, and Earth Drum, a collection of drum and native flute tracks packaged with a DVD of wilderness scenery from national parks around the USA set to the music of the compilation album. Earth Drum was awarded the 2009 Coalition of Visionary Retailers awards for Album of the Year and Best World Album. David & Steve Gordon released two albums of world drum and percussion music in 2009, an upbeat recording titled Drum Cargo: Rhythms of Fire, and an album of quiet drum beats with crystal bowls and native flutes titled Meditation Drum, that according to the liner notes is intended to encourage meditation
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Lydia Arms Avery Coonley-Ward (January 31, 1845 – February 26, 1924) was a social leader, clubwoman and writer. Coonley served as a president of the Chicago Women's Club and was known for her poetry. She also helped her second husband, Henry Augustus Ward, enlarge his meteorite collection. Biography Coonley was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when she was five. She was the oldest of five other siblings. Her parents were abolitionists and her father's factory was used as a hospital for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Coonley's mother, Susan Look Avery, was an important leader in the women's suffrage movement and started the first woman's club in Louisville. She married John Clark Coonley on December 24, 1867, and the couple moved to St. Louis after their marriage until 1868, when they came back to Louisville so that John could work in her father's business. In 1873, after establishing a Chicago-based company, the family moved to Chicago. She and her husband had six children, all of whom she encouraged to write. On October 6, 1882, her husband died in Indianapolis. Coonley was a member of the Chicago Women's Club, joining sometime in the late 1880s. On March 21, 1888, she served as one of the representatives of the club to the Women's International Congress in Washington, D.C. Between 1895 and 1896, she served as the president of the Chicago Women's Club. On May 17, 1901, she urged the club to take an official position on the issue of peace. Coonley married Henry Augustus Ward, who owned the world's largest meteor collection, on March 18, 1897. Coonley was involved in helping enlarge his collection. After his death following a car accident in 1906, she worked to sell the collection, known as the Ward-Coonley collection, to various museums. In 1911, Coonley sold her home in Chicago and moved to Hillside. Coonley started a summer school in 1914 for young artists, operating it out of her home. She also hosted plays at her home. She was also a patron to the arts. She was the sponsor for the Free Library in Wyoming, New York. Coonley lost two of her children in 1920 and continued to deal with depression during the last years of her life. Coonley died in her son's home, in Chicago, on February 26, 1924. Her funeral was held in Graceland Chapel, Chicago, on February 28, 1924. The great social reformer and peace activist Jane Addams gave the eulogy. She was buried in Graceland Cemetery. Writing Coonley started writing for the Home and Farm in 1878, using the pseudonym, Lois Catesby. Coonley released a book of her poems, Under the Pines and Other Verses in 1895. The Chicago Tribune wrote that the book contained "charming sentiment on love and nature and the divinity of everyday life." The Weekly Wisconsin called Under the Pines "rather above the average." In 1896, she wrote the lyrics for "Our Flag With the Stars and Stripes" and in 1897, she
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Adolph Schoeninger (January 20, 1833December 13, 1900) was a German-born American businessman. He was born in Weil der Stadt, Germany, and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an industrialist who owned Western Wheel Works in Chicago, Illinois. His company became one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world. Early life Schoeninger's parents were Joseph A. and Anna M. ( Eble) Schoeninger. Schoeninger was educated in Germany and moved to the United States with his brother in 1854. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Military service When the American Civil War began, Schoeninger was offered a command of a company in the 75th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. He served as a Captain under (then) colonel Henry Bohlen from 1861 to 1864. In 1864 Schoeninger returned to Philadelphia after the war, destitute. Career In 1865 Schoeninger moved to Chicago and opened a furniture business. But in 1866 he was left with a great financial loss when the factory burned down. In 1866 he then took over another factory that produced toys and baby carriages and named it Western Wheel Works, in partnership with a man named F. Westermann; they started out manufacturing toys and other novelties as the Western Toy Company. Schoeninger ran the company until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed his business. He did not have the proper insurance on his buildings, and was again left with a great financial loss. By 1872 he obtained financing from European banks and rebuilt the factories. By the mid-1890s, bicycles were very popular, and his company began building bicycles, renamed Western Wheel Works. By 1899 it employed 1,500 people and produced 350 bicycles a day. In 1893 Schoeninger transferred his ownership of the Western Wheel Works to his two sons-in-law. He returned to making toys and baby carriages, starting a new company which he called the Home Rattan Company. Personal life Schoeninger married Augusta Reichmann on April 20, 1857. They had three children, one boy and two girls. His only son died and left him without an heir. Mayor Harvey Doolittle Colvin appointed Schoeninger to serve a three-year term on the Chicago Board of Education. He served on the committee on reception when the 1892 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago. Death Schoeninger spent winters in Los Angeles, California. On December 13, 1900, he died of a lung ailment in Los Angeles. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. References 1833 births 1900 deaths People from Weil der Stadt Businesspeople from Chicago Businesspeople from Philadelphia 19th-century German businesspeople Emigrants from the German Confederation to the United States People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War Members of the Chicago Board of Education Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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Graceland is an American drama television series created by Jeff Eastin that premiered on the USA Network on June 6, 2013. On October 1, 2015, USA Network cancelled Graceland after three seasons. Premise A group of undercover agents from various United States law-enforcement agencies, including the DEA, the FBI, and ICE, live together in a confiscated Southern California beach house known as "Graceland". Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren is assigned to the house fresh out of Quantico training. Cast and characters Main Recurring cast Jay Karnes as Supervising Agent Gerry Silvo (pilot) is an FBI supervisory agent responsible for overseeing all operations at Graceland. He is not seen after the pilot episode. Pedro Pascal as Juan Badillo (season one) is an FBI control officer who was assigned to Mike's investigation into Briggs. Jenn Proske as Abby (season one) is a woman from Baltimore who became Mike's girlfriend, after being introduced to him by Mike's roommate, Paige. She moved out west for the summer to take a break before beginning her career in law enforcement. One day, Mike brought Abby home and upstairs (which is against the house rules), where Abby saw Paige dressed undercover and holding a gun. Frightened, she confronted Mike and broke up with him when she felt he was lying to her. Scottie Thompson as Lauren Kincaid (season one) is a DEA agent who initially lived in Graceland before Mike moved in. Her partner, Donnie Banks, was shot during one of their undercover operations, where she was undercover working with the Russian Vzakonye crime family. Donnie got transferred out of Graceland and she tried everything in her power to bring him justice, even going as far as putting the rest of the agents and herself at risk. She gets kicked out of Graceland after Paige reports her to the DEA. In reality, Briggs set Lauren up to get transferred to keep her identity safe from the Russians. Gbenga Akinnagbe as Jeremiah Bello (season one) is a rising criminal warlord and ex-military man from Nigeria, who resides in Long Beach and was involved in smuggling both drugs and weapons. His drug supply came from the Caza cartel, and he worked with Mike, who went undercover to get close to him. He is shown to be merciless, even towards his own men. He gets arrested, convicted, and sentenced and discovers that Mike is a federal agent. Vincent Laresca as Rafael Cortes/Jangles (season one) is a Mexican federale who befriended Charlie and worked with her. He was revealed to be "Jangles", the mass murderer affiliated with the Caza cartel. He was named so by the FBI due to the sound of his jangling keys during his murders. He was the one responsible for torturing Briggs and getting him addicted to heroin. Charlie goes to Cortes' vacation house and they are trailed by Briggs, who confirms that he is Jangles after discovering a set of keys in his bag. Both Briggs and Charlie are captured, tied up, and tortured by him
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A sesshin (接心, or also 摂心/攝心 literally "touching the heart-mind") is a period of intensive meditation (zazen) in a Zen monastery. While the daily routine in the monastery requires the monks to meditate several hours a day, during a sesshin they devote themselves almost exclusively to zazen practice. The numerous 30- to 50-minute-long meditation periods are interleaved with short rest breaks, meals, and sometimes short periods of work (Japanese: 作務 samu) all performed with the same mindfulness; nightly sleep is kept to a minimum, at six hours or fewer. During the sesshin period, the meditation practice is occasionally interrupted by the master giving public talks (teisho) and individual direction in private meetings (which may be called dokusan, daisan, or sanzen) with a Zen Master. In modern Buddhist practice in Japan and the West, sesshins are often attended by lay students and are typically one, three, five, or seven days in length. Seven-day sesshins are held several times a year at many Zen centers, especially in commemoration of the Buddha's awakening to full enlightenment (anuttarā-samyak-saṃbodhi). At this Rohatsu sesshin, practitioners seek to relax and quiet the mind to the point of cessation of mental chatter and emotional impulse, samadhi, kensho, or satori. A typical sesshin day A sesshin schedule in the West will typically allow anywhere from nine to fifteen periods of zazen per day, 30–40 minutes each, with ten-minute periods of walking meditation (kinhin) between zazen periods. Traditional sesshin are more intensive, with meditations lasting 30–60 minutes each, with an absence of any rest or work breaks and sleep limited to less than five hours a day. Meals are taken in a formal meditation ritual of ōryōki. Work periods in westernized sesshin are sometimes scheduled and may comprise one to two hours of the day, usually in gardening, cooking, or cleaning. The sesshin schedule typically allows for four to five hours of sleep per night, though practitioners occasionally will spend much of the next-to-last night of a five- or seven-day sesshin in zazen. This is called yaza and is much revered as a particularly effective time to meditate when the thinking mind and ego lack the energy to derail practice. It has been reported that at least three days of sesshin are usually required for the practitioner to "settle down" into the sesshin routine to a point where the mind becomes quiet enough for the deeper types of meditation and samadhi to begin. Psychological aspects of sesshin Some people unfamiliar with the process have reported becoming disoriented and fearful of incurring psychological damage during sesshin. Some Zen centers do not allow novices to attend long sesshins without much prior experience and screening by the practice leaders. Sesshin can lead to deep experiences of awakening that may at times be somewhat traumatic, akin to a "spiritual emergency" or symptoms of Kundalini Syndrome. While this may seem daunting at first, people who practice regular zazen do not usually have problems with sesshin. Heightening of senses may arise during sesshin. Sometimes practitioners report
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Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Benning Ridge neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. The cemetery contains approximately 36,000 burials, nearly all of them African Americans. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, 1996. History The District of Columbia was established in 1791, and for the first 160 years of its existence nearly all non-Catholic cemeteries in the city were segregated by race. Many cemeteries refused to bury African Americans, while others separated whites from "colored people" (African Americans, Native Americans, and Asians). By the 1880s, most of the city's African American population lived in the eastern part of the Federal City and Washington County and east of the Anacostia River. Just two cemeteries met the needs of the city's black populace: Graceland Cemetery (what is now Hechninger Mall at the corner of Maryland Avenue NE and Bladensburg Road NE) and Payne's Cemetery (now the site of Fletcher-Johnson Elementary School and the Fletcher-Johnson Recreation Center). Woodlawn Cemetery was founded because of a crisis among the black burying grounds. Graceland Cemetery, founded in 1871 on the edge of the Federal City, was rapidly engulfed by residential development. By the early 1890s, the decomposition of bodies in the partially filled cemetery was polluting the nearby water supply and creating a health hazard. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia (the city's government) pressed for the closure of Graceland to accommodate the need for housing. With Graceland on the verge of closing, a number of white citizens decided that a new burial ground, much farther from any development, was needed. Woodlawn's incorporators consisted of five white men: Jesse E. Ergood, president; Charles C. Van Horn, secretary-treasurer; and directors Seymour W. Tullock, William Tindall, and Odell S. Smith. They formed the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, and were incorporated on January 8, 1895. A plot of land adjacent to Payne's Cemetery was purchased, a portion of which was the site of the American Civil War's Fort Chaplin. Burial plots were quickly laid out, and Woodlawn Cemetery opened on May 13, 1895. Between May 14, 1895, and October 7, 1898, nearly 6,000 sets of remains were transferred from Graceland Cemetery to several mass graves at Woodlawn Cemetery. Over the years, the closure of smaller churchyard cemeteries in the Federal City as well as some large burying grounds resulted in more mass graves. The last major transfer occurred from 1939 to 1940, when 139 full and partial sets of remains were relocated to Woodlawn. In all a dozen mass graves eventually came to exist at Woodlawn Cemetery. Closure, reopening, and current status Woodlawn Cemetery remained the preeminent cemetery for the city's African Americans into the 1950s. Nonetheless, records at the site were badly kept, and bodies were often buried in the incorrect plots. Woodlawn was an integrated cemetery, in that it accepted burials of both whites and blacks. Internally, however, it was segregated, with Caucasians being buried in a whites-only section. As the cemetery filled and space
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Orsemus Morrison (1807 – 1864) was an early settler and politician of Chicago. Early life Morrison was born on June 24, 1807, to a family from Cambridge, New York. Career After working on the construction of the Erie Canal, he moved from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago in early 1833. His early work in Chicago was as a carpenter and contractor. One project he worked on was dredging the mouth of the Chicago River. On August 15, 1835 he was elected the first High Constable and High Collector of Chicago. As High Constable, he was the city's first head of police from his election until May 2, 1837. He was elected the first Cook County Coroner. He had been elected to the office in 1836, nominated by the Democratic Party. Morrison was elected and served as street commissioner. From 1840 to 1841, he served as an alderman from the 1st Ward of Chicago. In 1838, he purchased land on the corner of Clark and Madison in Chicago. This later became the location of the Morrison Hotel, the original building of which was built in 1860. He made a number of other real estate purchases in Chicago. A Whig, originally, Morrison became an early member of the Republican Party. Personal life He was married to the former Lucy Paul on April 7, 1836, in Aurora, Erie County, New York. Morrison died in Chicago on January 4, 1864, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery. When he died, he was survived by two daughters, Hannah Spofford and Lucy Mills, the latter of whom was married to congressman Daniel W. Mills. References Chicago City Council members 1807 births 1864 deaths People from Cambridge, New York Heads of the Chicago Police Department Cook County Coroners Illinois Whigs Illinois Democrats Illinois Republicans Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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Cypress Tomb, also known as Saruwala Maqbara (Urdu: ), is an early 18th century tomb located in Begumpura, Lahore, Pakistan Background This structure houses the tomb of Sharf-un-Nisa Begam, sister of Nawab Zakariya Khan, the governor of Lahore province during the reign of Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah Rangeela, built in the eighteenth century. It is located near to the north of the Tomb of Dai Anga, and east of the Grand Trunk Road in the Begampura neighbourhood of Lahore, Pakistan. History The structure was built during 1735–1740 CE, and was used by Sharf-un-Nisa Begam as a meditation chamber during her lifetime. Sharf-un-Nisa Begam had the structure constructed as a place for her to read the Quran in the mornings. She climbed up and descended from the structure by means of a wooden ladder. After her death, the meditation chamber was converted into her tomb, so that even in death, she could remain in purdah and out of view of unrelated men. The building came to be known locally as the Cypress tomb, on account of the tile motifs depicting cypress trees, alongside other floral motifs used on the tiles on the exterior walls. The tomb was originally surrounded by a garden and pool, which likely abutted the garden which once surrounded the nearby Tomb of Dai Anga. The tomb was one of the last notable structures of the late Mughal era. During Sikh rule in the 18th century, it was believed that the tomb contained treasure, and so Sharf-un-Nisa Begam's Quran and sword were both plundered and the tomb desecrated. As new buildings have been constructed around the area, it has become difficult to access the tomb. It was initially surrounded by gardens, but because of the houses built on them, a "small garden" exists today in which the local boys play cricket. Architecture Historian Catherine Blanshard Asher describes the tomb as "Lahore's best preserved monument from the post-Aurangzeb period". It is a "unique structure" as it is like a tapering tower with a "pyramidal vault". The exterior walls of the tomb are covered with Varanasi tiles, whose colours are much fainter than other buildings where similar tiles have been used. The lower part of the walls contains white and blue tiles imported from western Europe. The mosaic tiles are set in a plaster base. The structure has an elevated platform, so that Sharf-un-Nisa Begam could remain in purdah even after death. The use of glazed tiles is not unique in Lahore architecture, but the "stiff, rigid quality" of the design of these separates it from other buildings in the city. Conservation The tomb is listed on the Protected Heritage Monuments of the Archaeology Department of Punjab. Gallery References External links Architecture of Lahore Buildings and structures in Lahore Mughal tombs Mughal gardens in Pakistan Persian gardens in Pakistan Tourist attractions in Lahore
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Graceland Cemetery is the name for a number of cemeteries, burying grounds, and graveyards around the world. Graceland Cemetery, a large Victorian era cemetery located near Chicago, Illinois, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (Abbeville), a cemetery near Abbeville, Louisiana, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (Albany), a cemetery near Albany, New York, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (Miami), a cemetery in Miami, Florida, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (Milwaukee), a cemetery near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (Racine), a cemetery near Racine, Wisconsin, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (South Carolina) Graceland Cemetery (South Dakota), a historic rural cemetery near Mitchell, South Dakota, in the United States Graceland Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), a racially integrated cemetery that existed in Washington, D.C. in the United States in the 1800s.
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The Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) Encinitas Hermitage and Meditation Gardens is a religious center and tourist attraction in Encinitas, California, United States, created by Paramahansa Yogananda in the 1930s. Its Golden Lotus Tower rises above the white wall along Highway 101 near Swami's Seaside Park. The meditation gardens are open to the public, and the compound also contains a monastic ashram that is home to SRF monks, nuns, and male postulants (monks in training). History After establishing SRF's headquarters in Los Angeles in 1925, Paramahansa Yogananda began searching for a site to build a seaside hermitage. He came across the area of Encinitas then known as Noonan's Point, now Swami's Point, where a bluff overlooks the Pacific Ocean. He and some of his disciples frequented the area to meditate and picnic. In 1935, while Yogananda was on a return trip to India, his disciple Rajarsi Janakananda (James J. Lynn) bought the property and built the SRF Encinitas Hermitage there as a surprise gift for Yogananda. After his return to the United States from India in 1936, Yogananda took up residence in the hermitage, dedicating it in 1937. It was while staying in the hermitage that Yogananda wrote his work Autobiography of a Yogi, as well as other writings, and created a permanent foundation for the spiritual and humanitarian work of the Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. Golden Lotus Temple Yogananda designed and built the Golden Lotus Temple near the edge of the bluff, dedicating it on 2 January 1938. It was lost to cliff erosion in 1942. According to Yogananda Site, it was written in the Inner Culture magazine that Yogananda announced, "The crucifixion of Golden Lotus Temple must be the cause for its resurrection and the birth of many other such temples." Two other temples were immediately "born": the Hollywood Self-Realization Church of all Religions and the SRF San Diego Temple. In 1948, Yogananda dedicated the Golden Lotus Tower along the nearby highway, crowned with golden, lotus-shaped ornaments similar to those originally seen on the Golden Lotus Temple. The new SRF Encinitas Temple was built in 1977 at 939 Second Street. See also Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine References External links Official page of Encinitas Self-Realization Fellowship Temple 1936 establishments in California Gardens in California Paramahansa Yogananda Religious buildings and structures in San Diego County, California Religious organizations established in 1920
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Graceland Cemetery was a cemetery located in the Carver Langston neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1871 as a privately owned secular cemetery open to the public, but it primarily served the city's African American community. From 1884 to 1885, more than 1,200 bodies were transferred to Graceland Cemetery from Holmead's Burying Ground. When the cemetery encountered financial problems, the owners attempted to sell the land. This led to a lengthy and bitter battle involving the Graceland Cemetery Association, lot holders, the government of the District of Columbia, and the United States Congress. Graceland Cemetery was closed by an Act of Congress on August 3, 1894. Removal of remains was also bitterly contested, but a court ruled in the summer of 1895 that the lot holders did not have the right to prevent their removal. Most of the bodies at Graceland were reinterred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Washington, D.C. A portion of Maryland Avenue NE runs through a portion of the former cemetery. Most of the cemetery was purchased by Washington Railway and Electric Company and turned into a powerhouse and streetcar operations complex. This land later became Hechinger Mall. Creation Graceland Cemetery was created due to the need for a large, rural cemetery for African Americans in Washington, D.C., in the late 1800s. At the time, nearly all non-Catholic cemeteries in the city were racially segregated, with whites-only burial grounds refusing to inter black citizens on their property. By 1850, there were 16 cemeteries in the city of Washington, but only three served African Americans: (Eastern Methodist Cemetery, or "Old Ebenezer Cemetery"; the Harmoneon Cemetery, and Mount Pleasant Plains Cemetery). On June 5, 1852, the D.C. City Council enacted legislation to prohibit interments at any burying ground inside the limits of the Federal City and to ban the establishment of new burial grounds within the Federal City. The city's rapidly increasing African American population desperately needed a new cemetery. In 1870, a group of progressive white citizens decided to buy a plot of land just beyond the border of the Federal City and build a racially integrated cemetery. Graceland Cemetery was chartered by an Act of Congress in Section 5 of the Act of May 5, 1870 ("An act to provide for the creation of corporations in the District of Columbia under general law", 16 Stat. 106). It was incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia on September 30, 1871. Two weeks later, on October 16, 1871, the Graceland Cemetery Association acquired for a burying ground on a tract of land bounded by Bladensburg Road NE, K Street NE, 17th Street NE, and Benning Road NE. Operation From 1871 to 1873, Graceland Cemetery was landscaped and numerous trees were planted. Winding walkways were laid out through the cemetery's gently rolling hills, and an expensive caretaker's house was constructed. The southern half of the property sloped to the south. There were several springs here, and this area was somewhat marshy. The eastern
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Woodlawn Memorial Park is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville, known as a site where many prominent country music personalities are buried including Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Eddy Arnold. It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history. The land was originally a Revolutionary War land grant of 968 acres given to John Topp in 1788, eight years before Tennessee became a US state. In 1836 it became known as "Melrose" when US Senator Alexander Barrow purchased it and built a fine mansion with that name. The property served as a field hospital in 1865 during American Civil War Battle of Nashville. The site was established as a cemetery in the 1930s, and in 1993 the property, then reduced to 205 acres, was acquired by Roesch-Patton Corporation. Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many prominent members of Nashville's country music industry. In June 2018, Woodlawn installed the "Lynn Anderson Rose Garden", consisting of 200 Lynn Anderson Hybrid Rose Bushes (named for the singer by the National Rose Society of America), as a place of reflection and meditation in honor of the star's signature song. Notable graves Joe Allison (1924–2002), songwriter Liz Anderson (1927–2011), country music singer, songwriter, and mother to country musician Lynn Anderson. Lynn Anderson (1947–2015), Country music singer Eddy Arnold (1918–2008), Country Music Singer, Recording Executive, Producer and Country Music Hall of Fame Member Ernie Ashworth (1928–2009), country music singer, Grand Ole Opry member Rob Bironas (1978–2014), professional football player/Placekicker for the Tennessee Titans Otis Blackwell (1931–2002), Songwriters Hall of Fame member H. Leo Boles (1874–1946), president of Lipscomb University. Owen Bradley (1915–1998), record producer, Country Music Hall of Fame member, Academy Award nominee Jim Ed Brown (1934–2015), Country Music Hall of Fame singer Boudleaux Bryant (1920–1987), Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Felice Bryant (1925–2003), Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Billy Collins (1963–1984), boxer Jerry Chesnut (1931–2018), country music songwriter Little Jimmy Dickens (1920–2015), Country Music Hall of Fame singer Kerby Farrell (1913–1975), Major League Baseball Player, Manager Boston Braves, Chicago White Sox Red Foley (1910–1968), Country Music Hall of Fame singer D. J. Fontana (1931–2018), drummer Benton Cordell Goodpasture (1895–1977), Churches of Christ minister, editor of the Gospel Advocate Dobie Gray (1940–2011), singer and songwriter Vernon Holland (1948–1998), Professional football player Cincinnati Bengals, New York Giants and Detroit Lions Tommy Jackson (1926–1979), musician – considered by many in the country music industry to be the first great Nashville session fiddler George Jones (1931–2013), Country Music Hall of Fame Singer Amelia Laskey (1885–1973), ornithologist Larrie Londin (1943–1992), drummer Neal Matthews, Jr. (1929–2000), decorated soldier, Country Music Hall of Fame singer Claudette Frady-Orbison (1941–1966), wife of legendary singer Roy Orbison. She died when her motorcycle was hit by a truck. She is buried with her two young boys, Roy Dewayne Orbison (1958–1968) and Anthony King Orbison (1962–1968), who died together in a house fire Joe Moscheo (1937–2016),
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Jessica Graham is an American actress, producer and meditation teacher. She has acted in films such as Murder Made Easy, and 2 Minutes Later for which she won Best Actress Award at the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Early life Graham was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. She is the oldest of three sisters and has a half-brother and two step brothers. Her mother raises and trains Alpacas and also works as a gardener for an all-women's gardening company. Her stepfather is a carpenter and her father, who died, worked in an oil refinery. Graham spent part of her childhood living in a 400-year-old house in Ridley State Park without television. Graham is self-taught except for attending The School in Rose Valley from 4th through 6th grade. It was there that Graham performed in her first real play, Antigone, playing the title role. Career Before moving to Los Angeles from Philadelphia, she was the Producing Artistic Director or Theater Catalyst. She also co-founded both Theater Catalyst's Eternal Spiral Project, and Stonegraham Productions, (producers of *girl*, a Philadelphia lesbian party). With the Eternal Spiral Project, she produced and acted in numerous plays including a collection of monologues by Joyce Carol Oates called, "I Stand Before You Naked", and Scab, by Sheila Callaghan. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has appeared in a number of films including And Then Came Lola, Devil Girl and 2 Minutes Later which won her the Best Actress Award at the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. She has also appeared on the stage and her commercial credits include AOL, Southwest Airlines, and PETA. In 2013, Jessica produced Chasseur, written and directed by her frequent collaborator Christopher Soren Kelly, and starring Kelly and Joshua Bitton, which won Best Short at Fly Away Film Festival and Timecode:NOLA. In 2015, she produced and starred opposite Christopher Soren Kelly in the short film Monkeys, for which Kelly also directed. She will again be seen opposite Kelly in two new features, 'The Tangle and Murder Made Easy. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA. Personal life Graham is a meditation teacher and also writes about meditation. She is a contributing editor of the meditation blog, Deconstructing Yourself. In an interview for the website AfterEllen.com, Graham described herself as an "out bisexual woman" and joked she was "70/30 women to men". She also said, "the real, honest truth is I have been madly in love with three women in my life, and had long-term relationships with them. Madly in love. Maybe a little too madly. And lived with women. But I've done the same thing with men. I've been in long-term relationships with men, and been madly in love with them, too." as well as "I'm interested when an actress comes out. I'm interested when somebody makes a comment about how they fantasize about other women...It's such a double-sided thing." Filmography My Father's Gun (2002) (TV) as Patrice Inclinations (2005) as The Muse Thirsty (2005) as Hannah (also
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William Bradshaw Egan (September 28, 1808 – October 27, 1860), sometimes Eagan, was an Irish American physician, politician, and orator. Born in Killarney, Egan trained in the United Kingdom before immigrating to North America to teach school. He later studied in New York City, New York, then ventured west to the burgeoning city of Chicago, Illinois. As one of the first trained physicians in the city, Egan rose to prominence, serving on the first board of health and serving in the Illinois House of Representatives. Biography William Bradshaw Egan was born in Killarney, Ireland on September 28, 1808. He was a second cousin of Irish political leader Daniel O'Connell. When he was fifteen, he studied medicine in Lancashire, England before continuing in London and Dublin. He received a degree from Trinity College Dublin, then emigrated to North America. He first settled in Quebec, Canada, teaching a school. He later taught in Montreal, Quebec and New York City, New York, United States. There, he matriculated at the Rutgers Medical School. He then accepted a position at the University of Virginia. In 1830, the New Jersey State Medical Society granted him a license to practice medicine. He then opened a practice in Newark, New Jersey. In 1833, he decided to move west to the new town of Chicago, Illinois. As one of the few trained medical professionals in the city, he quickly rose to prominence. He represented the South Division of the city on its health committee, making him one of the two members of what was the city's first board of health. Egan became a noted orator and gave the celebratory speech at the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In 1842, Egan was elected the president of an organization of Irish Americans that sought to liberate their homeland. Aside from medical pursuits, Egan made a fortune in real estate. Egan was elected city recorder in 1844. In 1852, Eagan was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served a two-year term. He spoke with James Henry Lane, arguing that Kansas should be admitted as a free state. In 1856, he participated in the formation of the Republican Party by presiding over two of Anson Burlingame's speeches in favor of its establishment. Egan married Emeline W. Mabbatt in 1832. He was Episcopalian and co-founded the St. James Episcopal Church. He died at his home in Chicago on October 27, 1860, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery. Pershing Road was originally known as Egan Street in his honor. References 1808 births 1860 deaths Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) Members of the Illinois House of Representatives Physicians from Illinois Politicians from Chicago People from Killarney 19th-century American legislators 19th-century Illinois politicians
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Sissy is a 2022 Australian independent horror-thriller film written and directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes and starring Aisha Dee in the title role as Cecilia (aka Sissy), a successful social media influencer who is invited to a bachelorette weekend by her close childhood friend before it turns into a nightmare with Hannah Barlow (who also director and writer), Emily De Margheriti, Daniel Monks, Yerin Ha and Lucy Barrett. Plot Young best friends Cecilia and Emma make a pact to be friends forever. Years later, an adult Cecilia is a successful lifestyle vlogger. While shopping at a pharmacy, she reunites with Emma, who calls Cecilia "Sissy" to the other’s chagrin. After exchanging contact information, Emma invites Cecilia to her engagement party, and later to her bachelorette party. Cecilia arrives at Emma and her fiancé Fran's house for the bachelorette party, and meets Emma's friends Tracey and Jamie. During the trip, Fran mentions that a girl named Alex, Cecilia's former grade school bully, is joining them. The car accidentally hits a kangaroo, and when they all exit the car to inspect it, Cecilia is especially horrified, imagining the bloodied, spasming creature as a young Alex. Fran insists on running over the kangaroo's head to put it out of its misery. Once they arrive at their destination, Alex treats Cecilia coldly, including belittling her career as an influencer, while the other guests largely ignore her. Emma later apologizes to Cecilia for Alex's behavior and encourages them to make amends. While at a lake the next day, Cecilia overhears Alex, Tracey, and Jamie badmouthing her. When Emma storms off angrily, all but Alex follow her. Alex asks Cecilia why she bothered showing up and steals her phone, which she uses to post a video on Cecilia's social media accounts, ostensibly "exposing" Cecilia’s true cruel, sadistic nature to her followers. While wrestling for the phone, Cecilia strikes Alex in the head with a rock, seemingly killing her. It is revealed that as a child, Alex had repetitively taunted Cecilia until the latter eventually struck Alex in the face with a gardening trowel, disfiguring her cheek. Cecilia drags Alex into the woods to bury her, stealing a necklace from the body beforehand. She then begins a livestream where she calmly attempts to lead her followers in meditation and replant an uprooted tree on top of Alex's grave. Jamie arrives and flees when he sees Alex's body, but Cecilia pushes him over a cliff to his death. Emma then falls into a river while searching for Alex. Back at the house, Tracey reveals she knows what happened between Cecilia and Alex. Cecilia pushes Tracey into a bathtub and watches vacantly as the latter drowns when her hair gets tangled in the plug. Meanwhile, Alex, who is still alive, emerges from her grave, nearly blinded from a grievous head wound. Cecilia picks up Fran on the road while searching for Emma and confesses her heartbreak that they didn't grow old together, as they said they would
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Nichols Arboretum, locally known as the Arb, is an arboretum on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Arb is located adjacent to the Huron River, and features over 400 species, including 110 species of trees, in a varied, hilly landscape. A signature feature of Nichols Arboretum is the W. E. Upjohn Peony Garden, which features the largest collection of heirloom peonies in North America. Nichols Arboretum was designed by noted American landscape gardener and University of Michigan alumnus O. C. Simonds, and opened in 1907. The arboretum is named for Esther Connor Nichols and her husband Walter, who donated part of the land for the arboretum in 1906. History Plans drawn for the original campus of the University of Michigan, dating back to the 1830s, showed the university's desire for a large botanical garden on the main campus. These plans were never implemented, and the first botanical garden at the university was not established until 1897. A deep ravine, leading down from Forest Hill Cemetery to the Huron River, was left undeveloped as the surrounding land was converted to farmland in the 19th century. By the 1850s, the ravine was referred to as "Schoolgirls' Glen," likely for the pupils of a girls' school who gathered flowers there. Schoolgirls' Glen became popular as a retreat for university students, due to its location close to campus. The glen's beauty inspired an 1875 anonymous opinion piece in a student newspaper, which read in part that “no person with any poetry in his soul can walk from the second railroad bridge north to Schoolgirls’ Glen without rhyming all the way.” The City of Ann Arbor formed a parks commission in 1905, headed by university botany professor George C. Burns. In one of its first property acquisitions, the parks commission purchased part of Schoolgirls' Glen from the Mummery family in July 1906. Months later, Esther and Walter Nichols donated their adjacent farm to the university, with the stipulation that it be used as a botanical garden. The city and the university reached an agreement shortly afterwards, proposed by Burns, where the university would create and manage a botanical garden and arboretum on the combined land, and the city would build roads and provide policing. The arboretum opened to the public in 1907, with only limited improvements. Improvements to the arboretum began quickly, with plans drawn up by the Chicago-based firm of O. C. Simonds in 1906. Simonds' plans were subtle, using the existing natural landscape of the site. Simonds' design creates vanishing points in the landscape from the perspective of the park visitor, which he described as "long views." The largest example of the "long view" in the Arboretum is the Main Valley, a valley at the center of the property whose view leads to a tree-filled horizon. The signature feature of the "long view" is also present in Simonds' iconic designs in Chicago's Lincoln Park and Graceland Cemetery. The new arboretum and botanical garden was popular with the
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John James Mitchell (1853–1927) was an American banker, president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and Illinois Merchants Trust Company. Biography John J. Mitchell was born in Alton, Illinois, on November 3, 1853, the son of fellow banker William Hamilton Mitchell (1817–1910), and his first wife Lydia. He joined his father's Trust & Savings Bank as a messenger boy in 1873, and was president from 1880 to 1923, then president of its successor, the Illinois Merchants Trust Company, from 1923 until his death in 1927. He married Mary Louise Jewett in 1890, and they had five children. His eldest son, , succeeded him at the helm of the Continental Illinois National Bank and later became the director of Texaco, one of the largest and most successful oil companies of the era. In 1918, William married Chicago socialite Ginevra King—the first love of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald—and inspired the character of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. His younger son, the banker John J. "Jack" Mitchell, married J. Ogden Armour's daughter Lolita in 1920 at the family's estate in the upper-class enclave of Lake Forest, Illinois. By 1926, the extended Mitchell family had amassed in excess of $120 million (). His half-sister Hortense Lenore Mitchell (1871–1962) married the British architect, art dealer and collector Arthur Acton (1873–1953). John J. Mitchell died in Libertyville, Illinois on October 29, 1927, from injuries suffered in a car accident which also claimed the life of his wife. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. References 1853 births 1927 deaths American bankers Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) People from Chicago Road incident deaths in Illinois
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Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (May 16, 1859 – June 2, 1936) was an American businessman. He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. His tenure was marked by bitter conflict with the union, culminating in the murder of two striking workers on May 3, 1886– the event which precipitated the Haymarket Tragedy. Life and career McCormick was the eldest child of inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr. and philanthropist Nancy Fowler. He was born in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 1859. McCormick married Harriet Bradley Hammond on March 5, 1889. They had three children – Cyrus Hall McCormick III was born September 22, 1890; Elizabeth McCormick was born July 12, 1892; and Gordon McCormick was born June 21, 1894. He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. In 1885, striking workers forced McCormick to restore a 15 percent wage cut. From then on, McCormick was set on breaking the union. He replaced iron molders, skilled workers who had led the 1885 walkout, with new machinery. In February 1886, he locked out workers, replacing them with non-union labor (“scabs”), under the protection of 300 armed Pinkertons. On May 3, 1886, a clash occurred between striking workers and scabs. The police fired into the crowd of unarmed workers, wounding many and killing two. It was in response to this incident, that the Haymarket meeting of May 4, 1886 was called. McCormick was later president of the merged International Harvester Company starting in 1902. He was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club (aka The Millionaires Club) on Jekyll Island, Georgia. McCormick's daughter, Elizabeth, died at the age of twelve; in 1908, her parents established the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, which supported child health and welfare efforts in Chicago and nationwide for many years. Physician and public health advocate Caroline Hedger worked for the fund from 1920 to 1942. On June 2, 1936, McCormick died in Chicago and was buried at Graceland Cemetery. His brother Harold Fowler McCormick was the husband of Edith Rockefeller. McCormick's son Cyrus Hall McCormick III wrote a history of his grandfather's life and times, his company, and the successor company. Family tree References Bibliography External links McCormick Family Financial Records at the Newberry Library 1859 births 1936 deaths McCormick family American people of Scotch-Irish descent American people of Scottish descent 19th-century American businesspeople Philanthropists from Illinois Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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Nancy Maria "Nettie" McCormick (; February 8, 1835 – July 5, 1923) was an American philanthropist. Through marriage, she became a member of the prominent McCormick family. Early life Nettie was born on February 8, 1835, at Brownsville in Ontario County, New York. She was the daughter of Melzer Fowler (1803–1835), a prosperous farmer who died a month before her birth, and Clarissa Fowler (née Spicer; 1805–1842), who died when she was seven years old. She was raised by her grandmother in Clayton, New York, and attended Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. Marriage and children In 1857, while visiting friends in Chicago, Nettie met Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809–1884), the eldest son of inventor Robert McCormick and Mary Ann "Polly" McCormick (née Hall). Cyrus and Nettie were married in 1858. Together, they were the parents of seven children: Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (1859–1936), who married Harriet Bradley Hammond in 1889. Mary Virginia McCormick (1861–1941), who suffered from schizophrenia. Robert McCormick III (1863–1865), who died young. Anita Eugenie McCormick (1866–1954), who married Emmons Blaine, son of the U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine, in 1889. Alice McCormick (1870–1871), who died young. Harold Fowler McCormick (1872–1941), who married Edith Rockefeller, youngest daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller. Stanley Robert McCormick (1874–1947), who married Katharine Dexter. Stanley also suffered from schizophrenia, and his life inspired the 1998 novel Riven Rock by T. Coraghessan Boyle. On May 13, 1884, her husband died at their home in Chicago. On July 5, 1923, after a week's illness, Nettie died at her home in Lake Forest in Lake County, Illinois. She was buried alongside her husband at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Business and philanthropy While Cyrus was working out a controversy involving his patent of the reaper, they lived in Washington, DC. She had a keen business sense and became a great asset to her husband. Nettie became his financial counselor and oversaw many of the business affairs. She toured expositions in McCormick's interest, making contacts for the company. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. However, despite Cyrus' thoughts of retirement afterward, Nettie insisted on rebuilding even larger than before. The McCormicks provided $100,000 to bring the Hanover Seminary to Chicago. The school was renamed McCormick Theological Seminary soon after Cyrus's death in 1884. Nettie continued to fund buildings, endowing professorships and scholarships at the seminary even after his death. Nettie donated to over forty schools and colleges. She was said to have given more money to the Presbyterian Church than any other "citizen of the United States." At the time of her death, she left more than $1 million to be divided among various institutions. At Tusculum College, one of the many colleges Nettie supported, every September 13 observes Nettie Fowler McCormick Service Day. On this day, students perform community service in her honor. References External links Graceland Cemetery Mrs. McCormick National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. "Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormick." National Cyclopaedia
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William Perkins Black (November 11, 1842 – January 3, 1916) was a lawyer and veteran of the American Civil War. He received America's highest military decoration – the Medal of Honor – for his actions at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, in 1862. Biography He was the brother of John C. Black, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, who was also a Medal of Honor recipient. The Black brothers are one of only five pairs of brothers to have received the Medal of Honor. In 1867, together with Thomas Dent, Black founded the law firm of Dent & Black. As a lawyer, Black was best known for having served as defense counsel to the people charged with inciting the Haymarket Riot of 1886. He died at his home in Chicago on January 3, 1916, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery. Medal of Honor citation Rank and organization: Captain, Company K, 37th Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Pea Ridge, Ark., 7 March 1862. Entered service at: Danville, Ill. Born: 11 November 1842, Woodford, Ky. Date of issue: 2 October 1893. Citation: Single-handedly confronted the enemy, firing a rifle at them and thus checking their advance within 100 yards of the lines. See also List of Medal of Honor recipients List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F References 1842 births 1916 deaths United States Army Medal of Honor recipients Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) People from Park Ridge, Illinois American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor People of Illinois in the American Civil War
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Charles McNeill Gray (June 13, 1807 – October 17, 1885) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1853–1854). He was a member of the Democratic Party. Biography Charles McNeill Gray was born in Sherburne, New York on June 13, 1807. He arrived in Chicago on July 17, 1834, and took a job as a clerk for Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, later working for Peter Cohen, a retail merchant. By 1844 he was a candle maker with his own shop. He subsequently worked as a manufacturer, contractor and railroad man. He was elected mayor in 1853. He died at his home in Chicago on October 17, 1885, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery. References External links Inaugural Address Charles McNeill Gray at Chicago public library Gray, Charles McNeill, 12th Mayor of Chicago (1807-1885) at The Political Graveyard 1807 births 1885 deaths Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago) Mayors of Chicago 19th-century American politicians
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Jacob Manz, Jr. (October 1, 1837 – April 25, 1916) was, from 1855 until his death, a Chicago-based engraver and founding partner of J. Manz Engraving Company. Biography Jacob Manz was born in Marthalen, Switzerland on October 1, 1837, the oldest son of Jacob Manz, Sr. He had been apprenticed to a firm for wood engraving in Schaffhausen, where he stayed until he was sixteen years old. Through the dissolution of partnership of his employers, he was unable to finish the prescribed term of his apprenticeship, but his natural ability and industry had already made him a skillful engraver. He immediately set out for America, crossing the ocean on a sailing vessel, and arriving in Chicago in the middle of July 1855. He soon found employment with S. D. Childs & Company, with whom he worked for six years; for the next five years he worked under W. D. Baker, a well-known Chicago engraver. After a short period with Bond and Chandler, he formed a partnership with another engraver and formed a business partnership with him in 1866. Maas & Manz The firm, initially named Maas & Manz, and was first located at the corner of Clark and Washington Streets, and was two years later moved to Dearborn and Madison. While there, Mr. Manz became the sole proprietor of the business, by purchasing the interest of his partner, and was a very heavy loser in the great fire of 1871, realizing almost nothing of insurance. He had faith, however, in himself and the city, and very soon opened a shop on West Madison Street, near Union, whence he shortly removed to Clinton and Lake Streets. He subsequently occupied locations on LaSalle, Madison, and Dearborn Streets, then Nos. 183 to 187 Monroe Street. The business was incorporated, becoming known as J. Manz & Company, of which Manz was president, F. D. Montgomery vice-president, and Alfred Bersbach secretary and treasurer. Family Manz was twice married. On January 6, 1859, he married Carolina Knoepfli, who died September 7, 1866. She was a native of Ossingen, Switzerland. They had two children: Caroline Manz (1861–1913) and William Manz (1862–1904). On November 24, 1867, he married Johanna Hesse (1839–1911), who was born in Crivitz, Germany. Their children were Ida Manz Boerlin (1869–1934), Paul Henry (1874–1938), Adolph William, and Helen Manz York (1880–1961). He died in Chicago on April 25, 1916, after falling from a window of his home. He was buried at Graceland Cemetery. References 1837 births 1916 deaths Swiss engravers Swiss wood engravers 19th-century engravers Swiss emigrants to the United States Businesspeople from Chicago 19th-century American businesspeople Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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Sanger Brown (February 16, 1852 – April 1, 1928) was an American physician. Biography Sanger Brown was born in Bloomfield, Canada West on February 16, 1852. He graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane in White Plains, New York in 1882–1885, and acting medical superintendent there in 1886. He married Bella Christy on July 9, 1885, and they had one son. In 1890, he was appointed professor of neurology in the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, and in 1901–1906 was associate professor of medicine and clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the same city. In his experiments with E. A. Schäfer at University College London, in 1886–1887, he was the first to demonstrate conclusively that in monkeys the centre of vision is located in the occipital lobe. In 1908 he joined the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps with rank of first lieutenant. He died at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago on April 1, 1928, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery. Work He is known for describing Sanger-Brown cerebellar ataxia in 1892. It is one of the unusual types collected by Pierre Marie in 1893. It is accompanied by numerous ophthalmic abnormalities and pathologic changes in several tracts of the spinal cord. Publications "An Investigation Into the Functions of the Occipital and Temporal Lobes of the Monkey's Brain" (1888), with E. A. Schäfer, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 179 B, pp. 303–327. References Canadian emigrants to the United States American neurologists United States Army officers 1852 births 1928 deaths American hospital administrators Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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The or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. Zen gardens are commonly found at temples or monasteries. A Zen garden is usually relatively small, surrounded by a wall or buildings, and is usually meant to be seen while seated from a single viewpoint outside the garden, such as the porch of the hojo, the residence of the chief monk of the temple or monastery. Many, with gravel rather than grass, are only stepped into for maintenance. Classical Zen gardens were created at temples of Zen Buddhism in Kyoto during the Muromachi period. They were intended to imitate the essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve as an aid for meditation. History Early Japanese rock gardens Stone gardens existed in Japan at least since the Heian period (794–1185). These early gardens were described in the first manual of Japanese gardens, Sakuteiki ("Records of Garden Keeping"), written at the end of the 11th century by Tachibana no Toshitsuna (1028–1094). They adapted the Chinese garden philosophy of the Song dynasty (960–1279), where groups of rocks symbolized Mount Penglai, the legendary mountain-island home of the Eight Immortals in Chinese mythology, known in Japanese as Horai. The Sakuteiki described exactly how rocks should be placed. In one passage, he wrote: "In a place where there is neither a lake or a stream, one can put in place what is called a kare-sansui, or dry landscape". This kind of garden featured either rocks placed upright like mountains, or laid out in a miniature landscape of hills and ravines, with few plants. He described several other styles of rock garden, which usually included a stream or pond, including the great river style, the mountain river style, and the marsh style. The ocean style featured rocks that appeared to have been eroded by waves, surrounded by a bank of white sand, like a beach. White sand and gravel had long been a feature of Japanese gardens. In the Shinto religion, it was used to symbolize purity, and was used around shrines, temples, and palaces. In Zen gardens, it represents water, or, like the white space in Japanese paintings, emptiness and distance. They are places of meditation. Zen Buddhism and the Muromachi period (1336–1573) The Muromachi period in Japan, which took place at roughly the same time as the Renaissance in Europe, was characterized by political rivalries which frequently led to wars, but also by an extraordinary flourishing of Japanese culture. It saw the beginning of Noh theater, the Japanese tea ceremony, the shoin style of Japanese architecture, and the Zen garden. Zen Buddhism was introduced into Japan at the end of the 12th century, and quickly achieved a wide following, particularly among the Samurai class and war lords, who admired its doctrine of self-discipline.
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A Mary garden is a small sacred garden enclosing a statue or shrine of the Virgin Mary, who is known to many Christians as the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady, or the Mother of God. In the New Testament, Mary is the mother of Jesus of Nazareth. Mary gardens are most common to those Christian denominations which hold the Virgin Mary in special esteem, particularly Roman Catholics and Anglicans. History The practice originated among monasteries and convents in medieval Europe. During the Middle Ages, people saw reminders of Mary in the flowers and herbs growing around them. Modern revival The first such garden open to the public in the United States was founded in 1932 at St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This garden was founded by Frances Crane Lillie, a summer resident of Woods Hole. Inspired by the St. Joseph's Mary Garden in Woods Hole, Edward A. G. McTague and John S. Stokes, Jr. founded "Mary's Gardens" of Philadelphia in 1951 as a project to research flowers identified with Mary, and make available seeds and plant source information for starting Mary gardens. They also initiated a series of articles in religious publications to encourage the planting of Mary gardens. Description The statue of Mary, sometimes holding the Infant Christ, is central to the garden. Select flowers, shrubs, and trees associated with the legends about Mary are planted in the garden. Such plants may include laurel trees, strawberries, ladyslippers, lilies of the valley, peonies, violets, irises and roses, all of which are identified as symbolic and significant in the story of Mary as recounted in the Bible and other Christian stories. Gardens may have benches and a facility for lighting votive candles. It demonstrates devotional commitment through the spiritual practice of designing, building and maintaining the garden and for the attendance, contemplation, and prayers of visitors. Mary gardens are similar to the Zen meditation gardens found in the Buddhist tradition, with the exception that a Mary Garden pays homage to a person, the Virgin Mary, whereas a meditation garden in the East Asian traditions does not focus on a person. Flowers associated with Mary More than 30 flowers and herbs are connected to legends about Mary's life. Lily Columbine Lavender Madonna lily Marigold Violet Irises were used in Mary gardens. The blade-shaped foliage denotes the sorrows which 'pierced her heart.' An effort has been made by the Saint Kateri Conservation Center as well as by the Marianist Environmental Education Center (MEEC) to identify plants indigenous to the Eastern and Midwestern US that can be used in a Mary Garden. Gallery See also Catholic devotions Anglican devotions Sacramentals Hortus conclusus References External links John Stokes and Mary's Gardens Collection, select digitized records of John Stokes' organization, Mary Gardens. University of Dayton Libraries. John Stokes and Mary's Gardens Collection Finding Aid, finding aid for the John Stokes and Mary's Gardens collection. Marian Library. University of Dayton Libraries. Anglican Mariology Gardens in religion Marian devotions Shrines to the Virgin Mary Catholic Mariology
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Bryan Lathrop (August 6, 1844 – May 13, 1916) was an American businessman and art collector from Alexandria, Virginia, United States. He is known for his works in Chicago, Illinois, where his insurance and real estate dealings made him very wealthy. Lathrop had a lifelong interest in the arts, supporting several Chicago institutions and rallying for an extension to Lincoln Park. He was also the longtime president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Graceland Cemetery. He was the brother-in-law of Marshall Field and Thomas Nelson Page. Early life Bryan Lathop was born on August 6, 1844, to Jedediah Hyde Lathrop and Mariana Lathrop in Alexandria, Virginia. His family was prominent in the state; he descended from John Lothropp and was the grand-nephew of Governor James Barbour. He was grandson of Daniel Bryan Lathrop attended the Dinwiddie School, intending to enroll at the University of Virginia. However, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, Lathrop moved with his pro-Union family to Chicago, Illinois, home of his uncle, Thomas Barbour Bryan. Lathrop's parents sent him to study in Europe under private tutelage during the war. Here, Lathrop gained an appreciation of art and culture. Lathrop returned to Chicago in 1865. Career Lathrop engaged in a variety of pursuits once back in Chicago, dealing in real estate and life insurance. He quickly rose to prominence and became an advocate for parks in Chicago. Lathrop led an effort to extend Lincoln Park along the shore of Lake Michigan. His uncle Thomas named him the president of Graceland Cemetery in 1878. Lathrop held this position until his death. He also co-founded the Chicago Real Estate Board and became president of the Elmhurst Spring Water Company. He was a trustee of the Newberry Library and Art Institute of Chicago from 1894 until his death. He was also a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1894 until 1898, when he was named its vice president. Five years later, he was named its president and served in this role until his death. Under his presidency, the orchestra moved into its current home in Orchestra Hall. Personal life Lathrop's sister was Florence Lathrop, who first married Henry, brother of Marshall Field, and then, after being widowed, married Thomas Nelson Page. Lathrop married Lynde Aldis, the daughter of a Chicago judge, in 1875. His younger brother was Barbour Lathrop, world traveler and patron of plant explorer David Grandison Fairchild. In 1892, Lathrop commissioned Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White to design his house, Bellevue Place, in Chicago. Lathrop was also an avid collector of art and had one of the largest collections of James Abbott McNeill Whistler in the country. Lathrop was a member of the Caxton Club, Grolier Club, and Chicago Historical Society. Lathrop died at his home in Chicago on May 13, 1916, and donated most of his property to his philanthropic endeavors, including $700,000 to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was buried in Graceland Cemetery. Edgar Lee Masters wrote a commemorative poem about
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Phoenix Island Villa Condo & Club House is an ocean resort complex located in Seopjikoji on the eastern coast of Jeju Island. Glass House, designed by Tadao Ando, houses the Parang-i gallery. Ando also designed Genius Loci, home of the resort’s meditation hall and media art zone. Mario Botta designed the glass pyramid-shaped Club House Agora. Sustainability The resort developers wanted to create a sustainable complex that reflected the natural surroundings of the small peninsula and island. The use of local materials was encouraged not only for aesthetic reasons but also to create a more sustainable resort. Impermeable surface area was kept to a minimum and many of the buildings have green roofs. The villas were sited within the site’s topography in order to provide each villa and occupant a niche within the landscape and to reduce negative environmental impacts caused by the site development process. Most of the surrounding landscape and vegetation was preserved during the design and construction phases. Glass House Glass House is one of the buildings designed for Phoenix Island by Japanese Architect Tadao Ando. Constructed mostly of concrete, glass, and steel, the minimalist structure allows an unobstructed view of the surrounding landscape. Genius Loci Also designed by Tadao Ando, Genius Loci is composed of concrete, water, and stone, and has indigenous plant species planted within the meditation garden and outside the walls of the building. Genius Loci houses a meditation garden, meditation hall, and the resort’s media arts gallery, and is home to the Yumin Art Nouveau collection. Club House Agora Club House Agora, or simply Agora, was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. The Agora building is built of glass, steel, stone, and concrete. It houses a club house, outdoor swimming pool, and a fitness room. Hanging from the interior peak of the glass and steel pyramid is a 7-meter stainless steel sphere which reflects natural sunlight within the interior. Awards 2009: MIPIM Award in the Hotels and Tourism Resorts category 2011: Red Dot Award Honourable Mention References Resorts in South Korea Mario Botta buildings
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Thomas Dyer (January 13, 1805June 6, 1862) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Biography Thomas Dyer was born in Canton, Connecticut on January 13, 1805. He was a meat-packing partner of former mayor John Putnam Chapin, who was one of Chicago's first meat packers. Chapin built a slaughterhouse on the South Branch of the Chicago River in 1844. Running as a "pro-Nebraska" Democrat (aligned with Stephen A. Douglas, who publicly backed his candidacy), Dyer won the contentious 1856 Chicago mayoral election, defeating former mayor Francis Cornwall Sherman (who ran as an anti-Nebraska candidate). He died in Middletown, Connecticut on June 6, 1862, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. References External links Inaugural Address Biography of Mayor Dyer at Chicago Public Library site 1805 births 1862 deaths Mayors of Chicago 19th-century American politicians Meat processing in the United States Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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William Henry Bush (October 22, 1849 – April 9, 1931) was an American businessman and rancher. Born in Martinsburg, New York, he sold barbed wire and hats in the Western United States. He became a rancher in Texas and a multi-millionaire due to helium deposits on his landholdings. Early life William Henry Bush was born on October 22, 1849, in Martinsburg, New York. His father was James Bush and his mother, Caroline Lucretia Hills. Career Bush was hired by Joseph Glidden, the inventor of barbed wire, to find ranching lands in Texas and promote the new invention. With Henry B. Sanborn, he established the Frying Pan Ranch in Potter County. With his brother-in-law, F. T. Simmons, Bush co-founded the Bush, Simmons, and Company, a hat company, in 1885. By 1903, Bush founded the Bush Hat Company and served as its president. Bush was the founder of the city of Bushland, Texas, in 1903, which was named in his honor. It was founded as a railway stop on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Much of the land which Bush possessed was replete with helium deposits. As a result, Bush became a multimillionaire. He was worth US$2,175,000 by 1931. Personal life Bush married Elva Glidden, Joseph Glidden's daughter, in 1877. On October 20, 1908, he married Ruth Russel Gentry. They had two daughters, Caroline Gentry Bush, who married Frederick Latham Emeny, and Ruth Emmeline Bush, who married Francis Thomas O'Brien. Bush attended the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Death and legacy Bush died on April 9, 1931, in Chicago, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery. Two thirds of his estate went to his widow and two daughters. His cousin, Herbert S. Bush of DeKalb, Illinois, also received some inheritance. Furthermore, he donated US$100,000 to the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago and US$25,000 to the Chicago Art Institute. Secondary source Paul Howard Carlson. Empire builder in the Texas Panhandle : William Henry Bush. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press. 2009. 186 pages. References 1849 births 1931 deaths People from Martinsburg, New York People from Amarillo, Texas Businesspeople from Chicago Ranchers from Texas American city founders American Presbyterians Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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Janice Gates (January 28, 1965 – October 11, 2022) was a teacher of yoga as exercise and mindful yoga, known for her emphasis on the power of yoginis, women in yoga and her work in yoga therapy. Life Education Janice Gates was educated at Syracuse University, graduating in 1987 in International Relations. She travelled to Thailand in 1988, taking a meditation retreat which included hatha yoga. Returning to San Francisco, she studied Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga under Larry Schultz, Tim Miller, Danny Paradise and Richard Freeman. In 1989 she became an Ashtanga Yoga teacher. She injured her back while learning Ashtanga's Third Series, and turned towards therapeutic yoga. She studied with chiropractor Steve Katz and yoga teachers John Friend (founder of Anusara Yoga) and Angela Farmer. Career Gates ran a studio called The Yoga Garden in San Anselmo, California. She taught and facilitated yoga and meditation at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California and in retreat centres around the world. In 2006 she published a book, Yogini, on leading and pioneering women in yoga, including Nischala Joy Devi, Donna Farhi, Angela Farmer, Lilias Folan, Sharon Gannon (co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga), Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Judith Hanson Lasater, Sarah Powers, Shiva Rea, and Rama Jyoti Vernon. She wrote regularly on yoga sequences and meditation for magazines including Yoga Journal and Oprah Magazine. She was for a time president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She was a mentor on the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She trained healthcare professionals and yoga teachers in yoga therapy. Gates stated that yoga is more than postures (asanas); she used "all the tools of yoga — breath work, sound, visualization, and meditation — and tailor[ed] them to a client's specific health condition." She was identified by Yoga Journal as one of the people who had "each, independently, discovered the benefits of merging mindfulness with asana", leading to "something we might call 'mindful yoga'." Personal life Gates was married with a daughter. They lived in Fairfax, California. She died on October 11, 2022, aged 57. Works References External links 1965 births 2022 deaths Yoga therapists Mindful Yoga American yoga teachers
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The Miser and his Gold (or Treasure) is one of Aesop's Fables that deals directly with human weaknesses, in this case the wrong use of possessions. Since this is a story dealing only with humans, it allows the point to be made directly through the medium of speech rather than be surmised from the situation. It is numbered 225 in the Perry Index. Aesop's Fable The basic story concerns a miser who reduced his riches to a lump of gold, which he buried. Coming back to view it every day, he was spied on and his treasure stolen. As the man bewailed his loss, he was consoled by a neighbour that he might as well bury a stone (or return to look at the hole) and it would serve the same purpose for all the good his money had done him or that he had done with his money. Since versions of the fable were confined to Greek, it only began to gain greater currency during the European Renaissance. Gabriele Faerno made it the subject of a Latin poem in his Centum Fabulae (1563). In England it was included in collections of Aesop's fables by Roger L'Estrange as "A miser burying his gold" and by Samuel Croxall as "The covetous man". Appreciating the cut and thrust of the argument, the composer Jerzy Sapieyevski included the fable as the fourth his Aesop Suite (1984), set for brass quintet and narrator, as an example of how 'musical elements lurk in gifted oratorical arguments'. Alternative versions The story was made the occasion for commenting on the proper use of riches by authors in both the East and the West. In Saadi Shirazi's Bostan (The Garden, 1257), the Persian poet retells it as “A miserly father and his prodigal son”. The son spies on his father to discover where he has hidden his wealth, digs it up and substitutes a stone. When the father finds that it has all been squandered, his son declares that spending is what money is for, otherwise it is as useless as a stone. A similar variant is told by Vasily Maykov, where a man living in the miser's house (possibly a relative of his and possibly not) is tired of living as a pauper, so he substitutes the gold in his sacks for sand. A folk variant told about Nasreddin has him settle in a city where people boast of the pots full of gold they have stored at home. In turn, he starts boasting of his own pots, which he has filled with pebbles, asking when found out, "Since the jars were covered and idle, what difference in the least does it make what might be inside them?". In La Fontaine's Fables, where the fable appears as L'avare qui a perdu son trésor (IV.20), the story is made the occasion for a meditation on the nature of ownership. It begins with the statement 'Possessions have no value till we use them' and uses the story as an
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Elizabeth Jekyll born Elizabeth Ward (1624 – 1653) was an English diarist. She was married to John Jekyll who was a leading parliamentarian. Her diary is an insight into her life during the English Civil War. Life Jekyll was probably born in London as she was baptised on 18 July 1624 at St Christopher's church which was in the parish of St Mary Woolchurch in London. Her parents were George and Elizabeth Ward who wrre well connected. She married John Jekyll who was the son of Thomas Jekyll sometime before 1643. Her husband was a leading parliamentarian, a freeman and a haberdasher. She came to notice because she started a diary when she married. Her diary records the births of seven children (five survived) and her husband's efforts on behalf of the parliamentarians. Her husband was arrested in Bristol as the "leading roundhead" and later released. Jekyll records her meditations on his arrest including her explanation that this was caused by her own sins. She records the progress of the civil war and family events. Besides the meditations the diary also includes some poetry and an account of the trial of the martyr or traitor Christopher Love. Death and legacy Jekyll died a week after the birth of her seventh child and she was buried in St Stephen Walbrook. Her husband married again and had five more children, but he chose to be buried next to his first wife and he left his money to his second wife and Thomas Jekyll who was his and Elizabeth's eldest child. Her diary survived her and at somepoint it was copied by someone unknown. This was after 1685 because other quotes are from a later date. The diary is now in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. References 1624 births 1653 deaths Writers from London 17th-century English diarists Roundheads
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Graceland is an American police drama television series created by Jeff Eastin that premiered on the USA Network on June 6, 2013. A group of undercover agents from various law enforcement agencies in the United States, including the DEA, the FBI, and ICE, live together in a confiscated Southern California beach house known as "Graceland". Rookie FBI agent Mike Warren is assigned to the house fresh out of Quantico training. On October 1, 2015, USA Network canceled Graceland after three seasons. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2013) Season 2 (2014) Season 3 (2015) On November 11, 2014, Graceland was renewed by USA Network for a third season consisting of 13 episodes. References External links Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
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George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, PC, FRS ( – 10 October 1698) was an English merchant, politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1654 until 1658. Life Berkeley was the son of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley (d. 1658), and his wife, Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope. Berkeley was a canon-commoner at Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take any degree. In 1654 he was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Gloucestershire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. Berkeley succeeded to the barony in 1658, and was nominated in May 1660 as one of the commissioners to proceed to the Hague and invite Charles II to return to the kingdom. In the following November he was made keeper of the house gardens and parks of Nonsuch Palace, where the Duchess of Cleveland later lived. In 1661 Berkeley was placed on the council for foreign plantations. In 1663 he became a member of the Royal African Company on its formation (10 January), acquiring a share in the territory lying between the port of Salee in South Barbary and the Cape of Good Hope. In the same year he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He was made a privy councillor in 1677. In April 1678, he was made a member of the Board of Trade and plantations which had been established in 1668. On 11 September 1679 he was created Viscount Dursley and Earl of Berkeley. He was elected to the governorship of the Levant Company on 9 February 1680 and held the position for most, if not the whole, of his subsequent life. In May 1681 he was elected one of the masters of Trinity House. At this time he was a member of the East India Company. In February 1685 he was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Gloucestershire, and 21 July 1685 was sworn of the privy council. After the flight of James II, 11 December 1688, Berkeley was among the lords who assembled at Guildhall and declared themselves a provisional government. He was nominated as ambassador to Constantinople on 16 July 1698, but not wishing to go, petitioned parliament to be excused the office. He died in England and was buried in the parish church of Cranford, Middlesex, where he had an estate. Works He published in 1668 a religious work entitled Historical Applications and Occasional Meditations upon several Subjects. Family Berkeley married on 11 August 1646, Elizabeth Massingberd, daughter of John Massingberd, treasurer of the East India Company, by whom he had two sons, Charles and George, and six daughters: Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley (8 April 1649 – 24 September 1710) Rev. Hon. George Berkeley (d. 1694); graduated M.A. at Christ Church, 9 July 1669, took holy orders, and became a prebendary of Westminster, 13 July 1687, married Jane Cole and had issue Lady Elizabeth Berkeley (c. 1650 – d. 1681); married William Smythe Esq.
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Watching the Dark is an album by Richard Thompson released in 1993. The three-CD retrospective set was compiled with Thompson's co-operation and consent. It runs from 1969, when Thompson was a member of Fairport Convention, through to 1992. However, it is not sequenced in chronological order. Thompson had been reluctant to look backwards at his career and dig through the archives, but he decided that someone was bound to assemble such a set, so he might as well collaborate with them if possible. He had right of veto over the selections and recorded one track ("Poor Wee Jockey Clark") especially for the project. About a third of the selections are live, and five had never been included in any official Thompson release. Some of the material was donated by collectors of Thompson recordings. Notable inclusions are A live version of "Can't Win" with an extended guitar solo "From Galway to Graceland", a Thompson song that had never made it onto a commercial Thompson release A live version of "A Heart Needs a Home" from 1975 Solo, live versions of "Jennie" and "Devonside" An unreleased recording, thought to have been lost, of "A Sailor's Life" by Fairport Convention Three tracks from the unreleased, Gerry Rafferty-produced version of the Shoot Out the Lights album The set includes a booklet with details of each recording, some rare photographs and essays by Greil Marcus and Leslie Berman. Track listing All songs are written by Richard Thompson except where noted otherwise. Disc A "A Man in Need" "Can't Win" "Waltzing's for Dreamers" "Crash the Party" "I Still Dream" "Bird in God's Garden"/"Lost and Found" (Hakim Conrad Archuletta/Fred Frith) "Now Be Thankful" (Dave Swarbrick, Thompson) "A Sailor's Life" (Traditional; arranged by Sandy Denny, Thompson, Simon Nicol, Ashley Hutchings and Martin Lamble) "Genesis Hall" "The Knife-Edge" "Walking on a Wire" "Small Town Romance" "The Shepherd's March"/"Maggie Cameron" (Traditional; arranged by Richard Thompson) "Wall of Death" Disc B "For Shame of Doing Wrong" "Back Street Slide" "Strange Affair" "The Wrong Heartbeat" "Borrowed Time" "From Galway to Graceland" "Tear Stained Letter" "Keep Your Distance" "Bogie's Bonnie Belle" (Traditional; arranged by Richard Thompson) "Poor Wee Jockey Clark" (Traditional; arranged by Richard Thompson) "Jet Plane in a Rocking Chair " "Dimming of the Day" "Old Man Inside a Young Man" "Never Again" "Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)" "A Heart Needs a Home" "Beat the Retreat" Disc C "Al Bowlly's in Heaven" "Walking Through a Wasted Land" "When the Spell Is Broken" "Devonside" "Little Blue Number" "I Ain't Going to Drag My Feet No More" "Withered and Died" "Nobody's Wedding" "The Poor Ditching Boy" "The Great Valerio" "Twisted" "The Calvary Cross" "Jennie" "Hand of Kindness" "Two Left Feet " "Shoot Out the Lights" References Sources Richard Thompson - The Biography by Patrick Humphries. Schirmer Books. 0-02-864752-1 External links bio 1993 compilation albums Richard Thompson (musician) compilation albums
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Zombieland: Double Tap is a 2019 American post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and David Callaham. The sequel to Zombieland (2009), it stars an ensemble cast including Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleditch. In the film, Tallahassee (Harrelson), Columbus (Eisenberg), and Wichita (Stone) face evolved zombies and encounter other survivors as they travel from the White House to Graceland to search for Little Rock (Breslin). A sequel to the original film began development in November 2009, with the returns of Reese, Wernick, Fleischer and the main cast planned. It soon faced several delays, and the writers instead wrote a Zombieland television pilot in 2013 featuring a new cast, which ultimately failed in being ordered for a series release. Development for the sequel film was revived in February 2016, the screenplay was completed in March 2017, and the film was confirmed in July 2018. The rest of the cast was rounded out under a year later, and principal photography began in January 2019 and concluded that March, with filming primarily taking place in Atlanta. Zombieland: Double Tap premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2019, was theatrically released in the United States on October 18, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who found it to be a worthwhile successor to the original and praised the cast performances (particularly those of Stone and Deutch). The film grossed $125 million worldwide, surpassing its predecessor. Plot Years after the zombie outbreak, Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita and Little Rock encounter new strains of zombies: "Homers" (slow and dumb), "Hawkings" (partial intelligence), and "Ninjas" (silent and deadly). Living in the White House, Tallahassee rebuffs Little Rock's hopes of searching for a boyfriend, while Columbus awkwardly proposes to Wichita. The day after they celebrate Christmas, Tallahassee finds a note from the girls, revealing they took off in a weaponized version of The Beast. A month later, while exploring a mall, Columbus and Tallahassee meet dumb blonde Madison, who survived the apocalypse hiding in a Pinkberry store. Columbus and Madison have sex at the White House and are discovered by Wichita, who reveals Little Rock stole The Beast and left for Graceland with Berkeley, a mysterious pacifist. Fearing for Little Rock's safety, the group heads to Graceland. Attempting to switch cars, they fight off a horde of zombies, leading to Madison being scratched on the foot by a Ninja and being saved by Columbus. The last zombie in the bunch is labelled "T-800": a strain which takes multiple gunshots to kill. Retreating to their car, Madison appears to turn into a zombie; this forces them to pull over, and Columbus decides to lead her into the forest and kill her. The trio arrive at a ruined Graceland, without sign of Little Rock, Berkeley, and The Beast. They discover The Beast at a nearby Elvis-themed motel and meet Nevada, who reveals Little Rock
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is a Japanese anime television series directed by Takuya Nonaka and produced by ufotable, which first aired in Japan on July 3, 2006. The storyline consists of the adventures of a group of space-faring fugitives in search of a treasure. ADV Films acquired the North American rights to the anime Coyote Ragtime Show for $224,000 and has released all twelve episodes in this series on 3 DVDs. In 2008, the anime became one of over 30 ADV titles transferred to Funimation. In Australia and New Zealand, the series is distributed by Madman Entertainment. The manga was picked up by Broccoli Books, which managed to release two of its three volumes before closing its doors; the third volume was still listed on the Broccoli website as TBA. The future of the manga's English translation remains unknown. Story The legendary Pirate King Bruce has been killed by Madame Marciano, the boss of the galactic criminal guild. His bequest to his young daughter Franca is ten billion space dollars hidden in a complex custom vault somewhere on the planet Graceland. However, Graceland is now in such a state of civil war that the president of the Milky Way Federation threatens to blow up the planet in a week. Mister, a notorious space pirate, his sidekicks Bishop and Katana, and his longtime rival Swamp must help Franca get to her inheritance before either Madame Marciano and her twelve android Assassins or detective Angelica Burns get to them. Characters Crew of the Coyote Daughter of the Pirate King Bruce, she witnessed his death at the hands of Madame Marciano three years prior to the story. Despite her young age, she is a competent cook, runs the Pirate bar in Mister's absence and breaks up fights quickly and effectively. The cynical girl feels that Mister and the others are only using her because she knows where Bruce's treasure is buried. She carries a pendant given to her by Bruce that will lead her to the treasure. A criminal mastermind with so many aliases that he is simply called "Mister". He is proprietor of a bar called "Pirate" and captain of the starship "Coyote", named for his distinction as a coyote among space pirates. A jovial man even under pressure, his catch phrase is "Let's get this party started!" Still, he knows the gravity of the situation and is chasing Bruce' treasure not just for the fun of it, but to honour Bruce and keep a promise to Franca. The definition of a coyote is very important to Mister; it's more than not returning things you borrow, it's not giving up on friends and family. Transliterated as Blues by Broccoli (and this is most likely the intended spelling) but as Bruce by ADV. Bruce is the legendary "Pirate King" who stole ten billion space dollars from the impassable Central Bank. At the time, he had an incredibly high-paying job, which suggests that no matter how much work it was, he was a pirate for the thrill of
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