text:
Trans-Am Series
24 Hours of Daytona
Brumos
Jacksonville, Florida
New York City
incinerators
Deerfield Academy
Harvard University
squash
Naval Air Station
Jacksonville, Florida
gymkhanas
hill climb
Laconia, New Hampshire
Osceola County, Florida
SCCA
Porsche
Porsche 904
Porsche 906
Daytona
Sebring
Mercedes-Benz
Fiat
MGs
Bud Moore
George Follmer
Trans-Am Series
IMSA
IMSA GTO
Hanna-Barbera
Wacky Races
24 Hours of Daytona
Hurley Haywood
Ponte Vedra
BMW E9
BMW M
Brian Redman
24 Hours of Le Mans
924 Carrera GTS
Al Holbert
Paris
ox cart
Frank Stella
Derek Bell
double vision
BMW
BMW M1 Procar Championship
Frank Stella
BMW Art Car
Guggenheim Museum
Bonhams
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
Brumos Porsche
Grand-Am Series
Homestead-Miami Speedway
International Motorsports Hall of Fame
Motorsports Hall of Fame of America

categories: 24 Hours of Daytona drivers,Harvard University alumni,Racing drivers who committed suicide,Sportspeople from New York City,1940 births,IMSA GT Championship drivers,1980 deaths,Can-Am entrants,24 Hours of Le Mans drivers,World Sportscar Championship drivers,International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductees,American automobile salespeople,International Race of Champions drivers,Racing drivers from New York (state),Trans-Am Series drivers,Deerfield Academy alumni,SCCA National Championship Runoffs winners

paragraph: Peter Gregg (racing driver)

paragraph: Peter Holden Gregg (May 4, 1940 – December 15, 1980) was a racecar driver during the golden age of the Trans-Am Series and a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. He was also the owner of Brumos, a Jacksonville, Florida car dealership and racing team.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Gregg was born in New York City, the son of a mechanical engineer and manufacturer of marine incinerators.

paragraph: He graduated from the Deerfield Academy, a private prep school, in 1957 and moved on to Harvard University, where he earned a degree in English in 1961. He had a brief career in filmmaking while also competing as a squash player and then eventually settling on auto racing. After graduating from Harvard, he moved to Europe and attended the Centro-Sud Driving School. He then joined the U.S. Navy and became an air intelligence officer. He was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and served there until discharged in 1965. He was married to Jennifer Johnson and had two sons, Jason and Simon.

paragraph: Section::::Racing career.

paragraph: While at school, Gregg began his motorsport career in gymkhanas and ice races after an initial appearance in a hill climb in 1958 in Laconia, New Hampshire.

paragraph: In 1963 he drove an unmodified production Corvette in Osceola County, Florida and won the SCCA sanctioned race. He became a serious Porsche racer in 1964 with a Porsche 904 and then moved into competition with a Porsche 906. In 1965 he purchased Brumos Porsche, a local dealership, after the death of the owner, Hubert Brundage. He was the SCCA's Southeastern Division champion in 1967 in two classes and scored victories in Daytona and Sebring. In 1968 he acquired a Mercedes-Benz dealership and entered competition in the SCCA's Under-2-Litre section of the Trans-Am Series. He won six Trans-Am races in 1969 and also took the SCCA's B Sedan National Championship. In 1970, he opened a third dealership, SportAuto, selling Fiats and MGs.

paragraph: In 1971, he was part of the major Trans-Am Series, driving Bud Moore Ford Mustangs, alongside teammate George Follmer. He won the Trans-Am Series in 1973 and 1974 in a Brumos Porsche. By this time, he was involved with IMSA and won the IMSA GTO overall championship in 1971 and 1973, earning him the nickname "Peter Perfect", possibly a reference to a character in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon called the "Wacky Races" and his clean-cut naval officer image. In 1973 he won the 24 Hours of Daytona in a Porsche Carrera co-driven by Hurley Haywood. He then announced his retirement to lead a life as a director of the Jacksonville National Bank, a club tennis player and a speedboat racer out of the Ponte Vedra Yacht Club.

paragraph: Gregg retracted his retirement and won the 24 Hours of Daytona three more times, in 1975, 1976, and 1978. His 1976 Daytona victory in the #59 BMW E9 Coupe Sport Leicht (CSL) "Batmobile" (the first product of what would become the BMW M Motorsport subsidiary) with co-driver Brian Redman is cited as BMW's first major victory on American soil.

paragraph: Gregg won IMSA GTO overall championships in 1974, 1975, 1978, and 1979, giving him six career titles in the class. In June 1980, he was due to compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a 924 Carrera GTS for the Porsche factory team along with fellow American Al Holbert, but was injured near Paris; en route to a practice session for the race, he attempted to overtake an ox cart, but a car pulled out in front of him and, in attempting to avoiding a collision, his car careered into a ditch. Artist Frank Stella was his passenger. When doctors refused to allow Gregg to race his place was taken by Derek Bell.

paragraph: Gregg was given clearance to compete at the Paul Revere 250 at Daytona the following month. His partner, Haywood, who was scheduled to drive for most of the race, soon fell ill while leading, leaving Gregg to fill in, but their Porsche fell back, eventually finishing third. Suffering from double vision, he was soon barred from racing by IMSA.

paragraph: Gregg’s success with BMW was rewarded with an invitation to order a BMW M1 Procar Championship supercar from the factory. The Gregg car Frank Stella painted is cited as the only BMW Art Car not owned by the factory (although "unofficial", Stella was an official art car artist). Gregg’s widow sold the car in 1990; it was donated to the Guggenheim Museum in 1999 and then sold at the Bonhams 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance auction for $854,000 to art collector, car collector, and BMW dealer Jonathan Sobel.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Gregg was discovered dead after committing suicide in 1980. At the time of his death he had a reputation as one of America's greatest and most successful road racers, with 152 wins out of 340 races he started.

paragraph: Gregg's endurance racing partner, Hurley Haywood, assisted Deborah Gregg (herself a racer) as she took the position of Owner/CEO at Brumos Motorcars. She became a successful driver in the Trans Am and endurance series driving for Brumos in the '80s. She remarried and sold the dealerships in the mid-'90s.

paragraph: In 1991, Brumos Porsche entered a two-car Porsche team in the newly created IMSA SuperCar series and won three straight manufacturer’s championships for Porsche with a pair of traditional white, red, and blue 911 Turbos. Peter's son Simon later competed as a driver in Trans-Am, the American Le Mans Series and the Grand-Am Series. Simon Gregg campaigns a Chevrolet Corvette under the Derhaag Motorsports banner in the SCCA's GT-1-class. He won the SCCA Southeast Conference Major's Tour GT-1 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway in January 2015, and set a new track record for the GT-1 class.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gregg was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115736/http://www.brumosracing.com/raceteam/2004_paulrevere.pdf

description: American racecar driver

wikidata_label: Peter Gregg

wikipedia_title: Peter Gregg (racing driver)


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British
Bacon Baronetcy
Redgrave
English baronetcy
Premier Baronet
Mildenhall
Raveningham Hall
Wixenford
Eton
Trinity College, Cambridge
Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet
Sir Paul Nicholson
Deputy Lieutenant
Royal Artillery
Second World War
mentioned in despatches
Honorary Colonel
Justice of the Peace
Lord-Lieutenant
quango
Brown Sugar Corporation
Pro-Chancellor
the University of East Anglia
Lloyds Bank
Venerable Order of Saint John
Order of the British Empire
Order of the Garter

categories: People educated at Eton College,Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire,1903 births,Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge,People educated at Wixenford School,Knights of the Garter,Lord-Lieutenants of Norfolk,1982 deaths,Royal Artillery officers,Knights of the Order of St John,English justices of the peace,People associated with the University of East Anglia,Baronets in the Baronetage of England,People from South Norfolk (district),British Army personnel of World War II

paragraph: Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet

paragraph: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet (18 March 1903 – 30 September 1982) was a British landowner and businessman.

paragraph: Section::::Baronetcy.

paragraph: As the Bacon Baronetcy of Redgrave in the County of Suffolk is the oldest extant English baronetcy (created in the Baronetage of England on 22 May 1611), Sir Edmund was the Premier Baronet of England.

paragraph: He was both the 13th and 14th Baronet of Bacon, since the 8th Bacon Baronet of Mildenhall in the County of Suffolk (created in the Baronetage of England on 29 July 1627), had been additionally appointed the 7th Bacon Baronet of Redgrave in 1755 when his third cousin, the 6th Bacon Baronet of Redgrave, died without heirs.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Sir Edmund was born in 1903 at Raveningham Hall, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 12th Baronet and Constance Alice Leslie-Melville. He was educated at Wixenford, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge.

paragraph: On 15 January 1936, he married Priscilla Dora Ponsonby (1913-2000), daughter of Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet and they had five children. Bacon's daughter, Sarah, is married to Sir Paul Nicholson.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Sir Edmund was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1939.

paragraph: He commanded the 55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War and he was mentioned in despatches. He became Honorary Colonel of the 308 (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery between 1961 and 1967.

paragraph: He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Norfolk in 1944. He succeeded to the family baronetcies on 1 January 1947 and he was Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk between 1949 and 1982.

paragraph: Sir Edmund held several quango and business positions: chairman of Brown Sugar Corporation (1957 - 1968); Pro-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1964 - 1973); chairman of the Agricultural North East Development Council (1966 - 1982) and director of Lloyds Bank.

paragraph: Sir Edmund died on 30 September 1982, aged 79.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and decorations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knight of the Order of the Garter (1970)

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lindsay, Donald, "Sir Edmund (Castell) Bacon: a Norfolk life", , Maldon: Plume, 1988

description: English soldier, landowner and businessman

wikidata_label: Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet


text:
sculptor
Bunt
cubism
futurism
Classicism
Frédéric Chopin
Assis Chateaubriand

categories: Zamoyski family,Counts of Poland,20th-century sculptors,1970 deaths,Polish sculptors,1893 births

paragraph: August Zamoyski

paragraph: Count August Zamoyski (June 28, 1893 – May 19, 1970) was a Polish sculptor, member of groups Bunt and Formiści.

paragraph: Zamoyski was an author of stone compositions in simplified and geometrised form. His first works were

paragraph: influenced by French cubism and Itialian futurism. In 1920s he developed his own, monumental style in which he referred to Classicism. In his last period, Zamoyski was an author of expressive religious works.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ich dwoje" ("c." 1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leopold Zborowski portrait (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Akt" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Głowa Wierki" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frédéric Chopin monument, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1944)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Assis Chateaubriand monument, São Paulo, Brazil ("c." 1950)

description: sculptor

wikidata_label: August Zamoyski

wikipedia_title: August Zamoyski


text:
Bahmani sultanate
Gulbarga
Turkic
Muhammad bin Tughluq
Ferishta
Brahmin
Delhi
Muhammad bin Tughluq
Daulatabad
Gulbarga
Miraj
Belgaum
Hukeri
Miraj
Miraj
Jamkhandi
Amir-ul-Umara
Warangal
Vijayanagara
Wainganga River
Krishna
Bhongir
Daulatabad
Mohammed Shah I

categories: Bahmani Sultans,1358 deaths,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah

paragraph: Ala-ud-Din Hasan Bahman Shah (r. 3 August 1347 – 11 February 1358), whose original name was Zafar Khan, was the founder of the Bahmani sultanate.

paragraph: His original name was Zafar Khan titled with "Alauddin Bahman Shah Sultan - Founder of the Bahmani Dynasty" with his capital at Gulbarga (Hasanabad) and all his coins were minted at Hasanabad.

paragraph: Section::::Ancestry and early life.

paragraph: Zafar Khan was a Turkic noble in the employ of Muhammad bin Tughluq. His descent is unknown. However, there is a popular legend regarding him narrated by the 17th century poet Ferishta, which says that he was a servant of a Brahmin astrologer named Gangu (Gangadhar Shastri Wabale) of Delhi and he was himself called Hasan Gangu. Historians have not found any corroboration for the legend.

paragraph: Zafar Khan began his career as a general serving under the Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq. He was made a governor. In 1347 he was made commander of an army in Daulatabad. On 3 August 1347 Nasir-ud-Din Ismail Shah (Ismail Mukh, whom the rebel "amir"s of the Deccan placed on the throne of Daulatabad in 1345) abdicated in his favour and he set up the Bahmani Kingdom with its headquarters at Hasanabad (Gulbarga).

paragraph: br

paragraph: Before the establishment of his kingdom, he was holding the jahangir of Miraj, Belgaum and Hukeri on behalf of Tughlaq's and he used to live along with his widowed mother at Miraj town. After establishing his kingdom, he handed over his kingdom to his eldest son. The sources like Isami and The Buran mentions Miraj was his headquarters of his Jahangir.

paragraph: Section::::The reign.

paragraph: On establishing an independent kingdom Zafar Khan took the title of "Abu'l-Muzaffar Ala-ud-din Bahman Shah". He gave Ismail Mukh a "jagir" near Jamkhandi and later conferred to him the highest title of his kingdom, "Amir-ul-Umara". But Narayana, a local Hindu chieftain still succeeded in turning Ismail against Bahman Shah for a short period before he poisoned Ismail.

paragraph: Bahman Shah led his first campaign against Warangal in 1350 and forced its ruler Kapaya Nayaka to cede to him the fortress of Kaulas. His kingdom was divided into four provinces and he appointed a governor for each province. During his reign Hasan fought many wars with Vijayanagara. By the time of his death the kingdom stretched from north to south from the Wainganga River to Krishna and east to west from Bhongir to Daulatabad.

paragraph: He was succeeded by his son Mohammed Shah I after his death in 1358.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sources

description: king

wikidata_label: Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah

wikipedia_title: Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah


text: German

text: freestyle

text: swimmer

text: 1904 Summer Olympics

text: 1906 Intercalated Games

categories: German male swimmers,Swimmers at the 1904 Summer Olympics,1955 deaths,Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games,Swimmers at the 1906 Intercalated Games,Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics,Olympic gold medalists in swimming,Olympic gold medalists for Germany,Olympic swimmers of Germany,Olympic bronze medalists in swimming,Olympic bronze medalists for Germany,1883 births

paragraph: Emil Rausch

paragraph: Emil A. Rausch (September 11, 1883 – December 14, 1954) was a German freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics and 1906 Intercalated Games.

paragraph: In the 1904 Olympics he won a gold medals in the 880 yard freestyle and 1 mile freestyle and a bronze medal in the 220 yard freestyle.

paragraph: Two years later he won a silver medal as a member of German 4x250 m relay team and was fifth in 1 mile freestyle.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

description: swimmer

wikidata_label: Emil Rausch

wikipedia_title: Emil Rausch


text: fl.

text: nobleman

text: monk

text: troubadour

text: Auvergne

text: Vic-sur-Cère

text: Aurillac

text: Benedictine

text: vida

text: sirventes

text: priory

text: Montauban

text: Clermont

text: Alfonso II of Aragon

text: Carlat

text: Périgord

text: Languedoc

text: Catalonia

text: Dalfi d'Alvernha

text: Maria de Ventadorn

text: poetical society

text: Le-Puy-en-Velay

text: sparrow hawk

text: Roussillon

text: Saint-Pierre-de-Belloc

text: Villafranca

text: Richard I of England

text: Austria

text: cansos

text: enueg

text: plazer

text: tenso

text: God

text: Peire d'Alvernha

text: Arnaut Daniel

text: Arnaut de Maruelh

text: Folquet de Marselha

text: Gaucelm Faidit

text: Guilhem Ademar

text: Guillem de Saint Didier

text: Peire Vidal

text: Peirol

text: Raimon Jordan

text: Raimon de Miraval

text: Bertran de Born

text: Jausbert de Puycibot

text: Ezra Pound

text: Complete works in Old Occitan

categories: French male poets,Year of birth unknown,Year of death unknown,French Benedictines,Troubadours

paragraph: Monge de Montaudon

paragraph: The (Lo) Monge de Montaudon (meaning "monk of Montaudon") (fl. 1193–1210), born Pèire de Vic, was a nobleman, monk, and troubadour from the Auvergne, born at the castle of Vic-sur-Cère near Aurillac, where he became a Benedictine monk around 1180. According to his "vida", he composed "couplets while he was in the monastery and "sirventes" on subjects that were popular in the region."

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: The Monge requested and received the priory of Montaudon from the abbot of Aurillac. Montaudon may be identified with Montauban or perhaps with a "Mons Odonis" southeast of Clermont. He became so popular with local nobility that he was taken from his monastery to serve them, receiving honours and gifts in return. In this way he greatly improved the state of his priorate and, upon his request, was released from his monastic vocation by his abbot to follow Alfonso II of Aragon, whose vassal the viscount of Carlat and lord of Vic was. This is the view of his "vida"; he may have simply abandoned holy orders. Internal evidence in his poems suggests wide wanderings, to Périgord, Languedoc, and Catalonia, and the patronage of Dalfi d'Alvernha and Maria de Ventadorn.

paragraph: At Alfonso's court, according to his "vida", he ate meat, courted women, and composed songs and poems. In return he was appointed lord of the poetical society of "Puy Sainta Maria" (Puy-Sainte-Marie) at Le-Puy-en-Velay ("Podium Aniciense") and received a sparrow hawk, the prize the society granted for superb poetry. According to his "vida", he held the "suzerainty" of the "court of Puy" ("cour du Puy") until it was dissolved.

paragraph: After this he went to Roussillon, where he became prior of the Benedictine priory of Saint-Pierre-de-Belloc, near Villafranca, though this establishment was not, contrary to his "vida", a dependent of Aurillac. He is said to have "enriched [the priory] and improved it" before "ending his days" there.

paragraph: Section::::Songs.

paragraph: The Monge's earliest song which can be reliably dated refers to the captivity of Richard I of England in Austria (1192–1194). Though seven of his "cansos" survive, he is most well known for the genres he probably invented: the "enueg" and "plazer". He wrote four "enuegz": "Be m'enuejan, per saint Marsal" and "Be m'enueja, per saint Salvaire" being two. His "cansos" are "rich in feudal metaphors".

paragraph: Among the Monge's other works, "Mout me platz deportz e gaieza" and "Be m'enueia, s'o auzes dire" have been translated into English as "What I Like" and "What I Don't Like" respectively. He wrote fictional "tensos" with God. Around 1192–4 he wrote "Pos Peire d'Alvernh' a chantat", a famous parody of a satire of Peire d'Alvernha. In it he insults his contemporaries, such as Arnaut Daniel, Arnaut de Maruelh, Folquet de Marselha, Gaucelm Faidit, Guilhem Ademar, Guillem de Saint Didier, Peire Vidal, Peirol, Raimon Jordan, and Raimon de Miraval. Two of his melodies survive. One of these, the music for the "enueg" "Fort m'enoja, so auzes dire" was borrowed from a "sirventes", "Rassa, tan creis e mont", of Bertran de Born: the only piece of Bertran's music to survive. Only one melody by the Monge himself—for a "canso" entitled "Ara pot ma dona saber"—survives. Nonetheless, this lone piece of work is characterised by phrase variation and motivic transformation, with an unexpected ending.

paragraph: The poem "S'eu vos voill tan gen lauzar" was appended to a set of four by the Monge in the 13th century, but it is probably a work of Jausbert de Puycibot.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aubrey, Elizabeth. "The Music of the Troubadours". Indiana University Press, 1996. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chambers, Frank M. "On the Attribution of a Provençal Poem." "Modern Language Notes", Vol. 62, No. 5. (May, 1947), pp. 320–322.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Egan, Margarita (trans.) "The Vidas of the Troubadours". New York: Garland, 1984. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah (edd.) "The Troubadours: An Introduction". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kehew, Robert (ed.) "Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours". Ezra Pound and William De Witt Snodgrass, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Routledge, Michael J. "Les Poésies du Moine de Montaudon". Montpellier: 1977.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Complete works in Old Occitan on trobar.org

description: French poet

wikidata_label: Monge de Montaudon

wikipedia_title: Monge de Montaudon


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Urdu
Persian
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Bukkur
Middle East
Sindh
Pakistan
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warrior
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ruler
Yemen
explorer
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Fatimah
Ali al-Hadi
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Mecca
Medina
Baghdad
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Kaaba
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archery
wrestling
Turkey
Khorasan
Karachi
Thatta
Lahore
Ali ibn Abu Talib
Husayn ibn Ali
Ali ibn Husayn
Muhammad al-Baqir
Jafar al-Sadiq
Musa al-Kadhim
Ali al-Ridha
Muhammad al-Taqi
Ali al-Hadi
Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari
Uch
Alauddin Khalji
Attock
Rohtas Fort
Kallar Syedan
Mansehra
Taxila
Sialkot
Waris Shah
Heer Ranjha
Allahabad
Manba Al-Ansab

paragraph: Muhammad Al-Makki

paragraph: Sayyid Muhammad ibn Shuja Al-Dīn ibn Ibrahīm ibn Qāsim Shah Al-Hussaini Al-Makki (Arabic: السيد محمد الحسيني المكي) (born 1145, died 1246), also known as Sayyid Mahmood Shah Al-Makki (Urdu: سيد محمود مكي) and well known by the nickname of "Sher Sawār" or "Lion Rider" (Persian: شیر سوار) is the ancestor of the Bukkuri or Bhaakri Sayyids (Urdu: بهاكري سادات), who founded Bukkur and was the first Sayyid to ever migrate from the Middle East to the Sindh region in today's Pakistan. He was a saint of the people of Sindh, a warrior who fought battles against Abbasids, a ruler over Yemen and an explorer who travelled frequently. He was a Sayyid and a descendant of Ali and Fatimah through Ali al-Hadi.

paragraph: Section::::Birth and upbringing.

paragraph: The father of the Sayyid was Abu Ahmad Muhammad Shuja. Sayyid Muhammad Shuja once left his native Mashhad with the intention of pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. On the way Sayyid Muhammad Shuja passed through Baghdad where he met Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi, after spending some time in his presence, Suhrawardi gave his daughter in marriage to Sayyid Muhammad Shuja. Proceeding to Mecca along with his wife, he found that his wife was pregnant and was in immense pain. Unable to bear the pangs of child birth, the lady gave birth to Sayyid Muhammad in the courtyard of the Kaaba who was born in 1145 and the Islamic year of 540 AH. He later became well known as Muhammad the Meccan. Some scholars however disputed this marriage of Sayyid Muhammad Shuja to a daughter of al-Suhrawardi and have mentioned that it was Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki himself who married the daughter of al-Suhrawardi.

paragraph: Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki was taught the sciences of Islam by his father and brother, Sayyid Ahmad, who both ensured the young Sayyid was well trained to propagate and spread Islam in his wanderings. To fully understand the childhood of the Sayyid, it must be taken in to consideration that he grew up in the era of the Crusades while he was brought up in the heart of Islam, Mecca. It shaped his psychology which eventually led to his interest in military training and his later military endeavors.

paragraph: Section::::In Yemen.

paragraph: In 1174 AD, Turan-Shah, the brother of Saladin conquered Zabid and Aden in South Yemen and this eventually led to all of Southern Yemen being under Ayyubid control. Abbasids, who were allies of Ayyubids also gained influence in Yemen. Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki, who was now twenty nine years old, entered Yemen from the North from his native Mecca. With the force of the sword, he killed many Abbasids, routing them away from Yemen. His hostility towards the Abbasid caliphate, being an Alid, was a result of the historical on going feud between Alids and Abbasids who on numerous occasions killed Alids wherever they were able, the Battle of Fakhkh and the murder of numerous ancestors are notable reasons. He ruled his province in Yemen for approximately ten years. Sayyid Muhammad decided to leave Yemen for Sindh and left a representative, claiming he saw his ancestor, the Prophet of Islam Muhammad in his dream instructing him to leave for India as it awaited him.

paragraph: The Sayyid then headed North and stopped at Medina, where he visited the grave of his ancestor Muhammad and other ancestors in Al-Baqi'. He then went to Mecca and sought refuge with the Kaaba. Eventually, it is said he had another dream of Muhammad instructing him to proceed towards India.

paragraph: Section::::In Mashhad.

paragraph: Sayyid Muhammad on his way to Sindh, stopped at many places to camp. He first stopped at Baghdad, then Mashhad, then Herat and finally Sindh. When he stopped at Mashhad he visited the shrine of his forefather Ali al-Ridha at Mashhad. The Sayyid was very much attached to Mashhad for it was a city some of his ancestors lived in. He visited the library of his grandfather, Sayyid Ibrahim Jawwādi and remained in Mashhad. By the time he left the land of Iran, he had an army of 30,000 and led this army towards the land of Bukkur, fighting his way through native hostile armies of Khurasan and India who challenged him.

paragraph: Section::::In Sindh.

paragraph: It is mentioned in many sources that Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki arrived in Bukkur at dawn.

paragraph: Delighted at the peaceful setting and beautiful view of the sun rising, he famously and joyfully exclaimed : "God has ordained my morning in this blessed place!"

paragraph: (Arabic: ! جعل الله بكرتي في البقعة المباركة). Sayyid Muhammad also named this place 'Bukkur' from its former name 'Fareshta'. Upon being asked where he wanted to live by the welcoming natives he told them he wanted to live where the cow bells could be heard and the rising sun would be visible. Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki obtained a grant of land in Rohri with the condition expressed in the deed that he should cultivate the land in lieu of the military duties obligatory on all granted land owners. Due to the warlike nature of this tribe, they were entrusted by the authorities to prevent marauders and bandits from thieving and looting. Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki became a well known saint whose preaching brought many people towards Islam. He established a centre of spiritual learning in Sindh and remained the religious figure of Sindh until the early 13th century.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: The Sayyid died at the age of 101 in 1246 AD and 644 AH. He was buried in the fort of Arak between Sukkur and Bukkur

paragraph: Section::::Grandfather.

paragraph: Sayyid Ibrahim Al-Jawwadi was born in Mashhad in 1040 and died in 1132 during the era of the Seljuq dynasty and was the grandfather of Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki. Although Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki did not ever meet his grandfather, it is proven from sources that he inherited books and other items which belonged to Sayyid Ibrahim and it greatly influenced his upbringing in the realm of spirituality. He received books and journals relating to events in the life of Sayyid Ibrahim.

paragraph: It is mentioned in sources related to Bukkuri Sayyids that Sayyid Ibrahim had mastered fourteen Islamic sciences and was a very generous, hence he was nicknamed 'Jawwadi' or 'The Generous One'. It is mentioned that in the time of Toghril Beg, the Assassins group which was founded by Hassan-i Sabbah was causing havoc in the region and spreading bloodshed and plundering. Upset at this, Toghril came to Sayyid Ibrahim and asked him to pray. Sayyid Ibrahim went to the tomb of his ancestor Imam Ali al-Ridha and made a prayer while Toghril said ; 'Amen'. Shortly after it is mentioned that the Assassins had stopped murdering and plundering for a time.

paragraph: Sayyid Ibrahim was childless for a long time and was very upset at this. It is mentioned that he would frequently visit the shrine of Imam Ali al-Ridha and pray to God. One day, he lost patience and began to cry bitterly and became unconscious. Leaving the shrine happy, he told people that he saw Ali al-Ridha in his dream who told him ; "Do not cry Ibrahim, Allah (God) will give you a child". Shortly after this event, the father of Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki, Sayyid Muhammad Shuja, was born.

paragraph: Section::::Father.

paragraph: Sayyid Muhammad Shuja was an expert in the field of Hadith and Fiqh. He was also an expert in the arts of swordsmanship, archery, wrestling and on horseback. He was also very brave in battle which gave him the title of 'Shuja' or 'The Brave'. In 1132, a ruler in Iran, Sayfullah Khan and Turkey went to war. Sayyid Muhammad Shuja, who was then ruling Khorasan, was appointed in command of an army of 10,000 and fought the Turkish army in a mountainous region. Sayyid Muhammad Shuja then returned to Iran victorious after a bloody and lengthy battle. The king of Iran gave his daughter Safiyya Khatūn in marriage as a gift to Sayyid Muhammad Shuja. This was the first marriage of the Sayyid before the daughter of Suhrawardi. It has also been mention in ancient sources that the Sayyid also travelled to places including Karachi, Thatta and Lahore.

paragraph: Section::::Ancestors.

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Ali ibn Abu Talib

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Husayn ibn Ali

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Ali ibn Husayn

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Muhammad al-Baqir

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Jafar al-Sadiq

paragraph: BULLET::::6. Musa al-Kadhim

paragraph: BULLET::::7. Ali al-Ridha

paragraph: BULLET::::8. Muhammad al-Taqi

paragraph: BULLET::::9. Ali al-Hadi

paragraph: BULLET::::10. Ja'far al Zaki

paragraph: BULLET::::11. Ismail Harifa

paragraph: BULLET::::12. Aqeel

paragraph: BULLET::::13. Harun

paragraph: BULLET::::14. Hamza

paragraph: BULLET::::15. Ja'far

paragraph: BULLET::::16. Zaid

paragraph: BULLET::::17. Qasim

paragraph: BULLET::::18. Ibrahim al Jawadi

paragraph: BULLET::::19. Muhammad Shuja

paragraph: BULLET::::20. Muhammad al Makki Makhdoom

paragraph: Section::::Ancestors.:Makhdoom Muhammad Badruddin Bhaakri.

paragraph: Not to be confused with his nephew from Sayyid Sadruddin who shares the same name, Sayyid Muhammad Badruddin was born between 1205 and 1210 AD in Bukkur. He was a pious Sayyid who was often known by his strength in his religion, keen interest in spirituality and remembrance of God. He was instructed in a dream by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad to marry his daughters, Sayyidah Fatima Sa'eedah Habeebah and Sayyidah Tahireh to Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari. However, since Jalaluddin was known to be someone who dressed like a poor person due to his spirituality and humility, the brothers of Muhammad Badruddin, Sayyid Mah, Sayyid Shams and Sayyid Sadruddin objected to this marriage. When the objection was not taken in to consideration by Sayyid Muhammad Badruddin, the brothers ordered his exile and the exile of Sayyid Jalaluddin from Bukkur. They said to Sayyid Badruddin, "You go as well and hang around with him (Jalaluddin) like a beggar". Sayyid Badruddin and his son in law, Sayyid Jalaluddin migrated to Uch where both are buried.

paragraph: Sayyid Badruddin's descendants are plenty in number. His descendants come from many sons including Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi who was born from the daughter of Alauddin Khalji and Sayyid Sa'adullah. Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi's descendants migrated all around Pakistan including Attock, Rohtas Fort, Kallar Syedan, Mansehra, Taxila, Sialkot and many other places. From this line is Waris Shah, the author of Heer Ranjha, the famous romantic story.

paragraph: Section::::Ancestors.:Sayyid Sadruddin Al-Khatib.

paragraph: The saint Sayyid Sadruddin, the son of Sayyid Muhammad Shah Al-Makki was born in 1204 AD in Bukkur. His influence spread all around the Indian Sub-Continent and was well known for his spirituality. He spent most of his life travelling and seeking knowledge from other parts of the world. He died in 1270 AD and is buried on Bukkur Island.

paragraph: Sayyid Sadruddin's son Ali Badruddin had many sons including Sayyid Murtadha also known as 'Sha'ban Al-Millat', whose descendants are found mostly in Allahabad in India. From the descendants of Sayyid Ali Badruddin comes the author of Manba Al-Ansab, Sayyid Muin Al-Haqq and many other famous historical personalities. Other sons of Sayyid Ali Badruddin are Sayyid Daulat Ahmad, Sayyid Ruknuddin and Sayyid Muhyuddin.

paragraph: Section::::Ancestors.:Sayyid Maah and Sayyid Shams.

paragraph: Both were the sons of Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki and were born in Yemen. They migrated with their father to India. However they have no known progeny.

paragraph: Section::::Research.

paragraph: The research into the life of Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki is currently led by Sayyid Hasnain Al-Hussaini Ar-Ridhawi An-Naqawi Al-Bhakari who has dedicated his life to uniting the descendants of Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki from around the world. He was titled 'Naqeeb' or 'Representative' of the tribe by the top genealogist of Pakistan, Sayyid Qamar Al-Hamdani, as this term has been used to describe one who generally holds the burden in the bulk of research and representation. He is currently writing a book regarding the life of the Sayyid and he himself is a descendant of Sayyid Muhammad through his son Sayyid Badruddin.

description: Founder of Bukkur

wikidata_label: Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki

wikipedia_title: Muhammad Al-Makki


text:
Wesselburen
Jil Sander
University of California, Los Angeles
Jil Sander
Rotherbaum
Hamburg
Hoechst
trevira
Plaza Athénée
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Park Avenue
Browns
Prada Group
share
chairwoman
joint venture
CEO
noncompete clause
resigned
Michael Gabellini
Fast Retailing
Uniqlo
Bundesverdienstkreuz
The Guardian
Infomat Who's Who: Jil Sander
Portrait Jil Sander, 2004

categories: 1943 births,Female billionaires,People from Wesselburen,German fashion businesspeople,German humanitarians,German women in business,German fashion designers,Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,University of California, Los Angeles alumni,Living people

paragraph: Jil Sander

paragraph: Heidemarie Jiline "Jil" Sander (; born 27 November 1943 in Wesselburen) is a minimalist German fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life and education.

paragraph: Sander studied at Krefeld School of Textiles (Class 1963) and was a foreign exchange student at the University of California, Los Angeles (1963–64). After her stint in UCLA, she moved on to New York as a magazine fashion writer. At age 21, she came back to Hamburg to join her younger and older siblings after their father died unexpectedly at 52.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Jil Sander fashion house.

paragraph: Sander founded her own fashion house Jil Sander in Rotherbaum, Hamburg, Germany in 1968 with her mother's sewing machine. Her first collection was for Hoechst using the trevira fabric. In 1973, she launched a collection under her own brand name

paragraph: She overcame a poorly received first Jil Sander Paris collection shown at the Plaza Athénée in 1975 and listed her company on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange at the end of the 1980s. She subsequently flourished through the 1980s and 1990s, and soon achieved an international following, thanks to retailers like Linda Dresner, who for a time had a Sander boutique on New York's Park Avenue, and Joan Burstein of Browns in London. In 1995, the Jil Sander group reported $114 million in sales.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Prada.

paragraph: In 1999, Prada Group bought a 75% share in her company. Sander remained creative designer and became chairwoman in the new joint venture. Six months later, in January 2000, Sander unexpectedly resigned abruptly as chairwoman and shortly thereafter as chief designer after confrontations with Prada's CEO, Patrizio Bertelli. Nearly all the design and production staff left after her departure. For 2001, the Jil Sander Group reported a net loss of $9.4 million, its first ever. The brand lost 26 million euros (about $30.4 million) in 2002 on flat sales, in part because of the costs of adding retail stores in London and in New York.

paragraph: Sander returned to the company as head designer and partner in a surprise decision in May 2003, after her noncompete clause had expired. Officially, Bertelli ""approached Ms. Sander and began negotiating a truce"". Bertelli had, with regard to Sander's departure in 2000, boldly stated before: "A brand as strong as Jil Sander doesn't need to rely on the name of a designer". She was rehired under a six-year consulting contract and also received an undisclosed stake in the company and a seat on Prada's strategic committee.

paragraph: In November 2004, Sander terminated cooperation with Prada for good and resigned from her post again after insurmountable differences with Mr. Bertelli. Prada announced in an official statement that "the decision by Patrizio Bertelli [...] and Ms. Sander to end her involvement in the company was amicable." She withdrew from her involvement in her namesake brand. She continued her contributions and work at Uniqlo. The white stucco building in Hamburg that was once the Jil Sander showroom was re-proportioned by the New York architect Michael Gabellini. She returned to her brand in February 2012, only days after the then creative director, Raf Simons, was released from his position. Sander left the brand again in October 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Uniqlo.

paragraph: On 17 March 2009, Sander announced the creation of her own fashion consultancy. The new company's first client was Fast Retailing of Japan with its Uniqlo label for whom Sander oversaw the design of womenswear and menswear collections called +J. The first collection for the 2009–10 Autumn/Winter season was launched worldwide on 1 October 2009 consisting of "about 40 pieces for men and 100 for women, including coats, jackets, knitwear, T-shirts and accessories" featuring the minimalist aesthetic and demure colors typical of Jil Sander.

paragraph: The second line of +J designed for Spring and Summer wear, was launched on 23 December 2009 throughout Asia including Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China and on 7 January 2010 in the London stores. It is to be launched in Uniqlo's sole US store in New York city on 14 January 2010. This collection will see more retail drops during the Spring and Summer seasons. Following a successful run of three years, Sander and Uniqlo's parent company, Fast Retailing, announced that the partnership agreement will not be renewed at the end of 2011, thus marking the end of +J. The last collection from the collaborative label was for the Fall/Winter 2011 season. The split between the parties is said to have been mutual.

paragraph: +J returned to Uniqlo's store shelves and online shop for a Fall/Winter 2014 and Spring/Summer 2015 "best of" collection, featuring selected previously designed pieces by the partnership.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition.

paragraph: Sander was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz by the Federal Republic of Germany for her achievements in the fashion industry.

paragraph: She was listed as one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by "The Guardian" in March 2013.

paragraph: Sander has been described as the ""Queen of Less"".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Infomat Who's Who: Jil Sander (last update: 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrait Jil Sander, 2004

description: German fashion designer

wikidata_label: Jil Sander

wikipedia_title: Jil Sander


text:
Member of Parliament
Taunton
Devon
Thomas Cromwell
Dissolution of the monasteries
Lewis Pollard
King's Nympton
Justice of the Common Pleas
Totnes
Kingston
Staverton
Totnes
Middle Temple
JP
Taunton
Devon
Sheriff of Devon
Court of Augmentations
Thomas Cromwell
Dissolution of the monasteries
Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle
Honor Grenville
Frithelstock Priory
George Rolle
Umberleigh
Lisle Letters
Thomas Becket
Putney
Council of the West
Combe Martin
Forde Abbey
Plympton Priory
George Rolle
Berrynarbor
Hugh I Pollard
Sheriff of Devon
Recorder of Barnstaple

categories: English MPs 1542–1544,People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries,1542 deaths,Politicians awarded knighthoods,English MPs 1539–1540,Knights Bachelor,English MPs 1536,People of the Tudor period

paragraph: Richard Pollard (MP)

paragraph: Sir Richard Pollard (by 1505 – 10 November 1542), was Member of Parliament for Taunton in 1536, and for Devon in 1540 and 1542. He played a major role in assisting Thomas Cromwell in administering the Dissolution of the monasteries.

paragraph: Section::::Origins.

paragraph: He was the second son of Sir Lewis Pollard (c. 1465-1526) of King's Nympton, in North Devon, Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 and MP for Totnes in 1491, by his wife Agnes Hext, daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer of Kingston in the parish of Staverton, near Totnes.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1519 Richard Pollard entered on his legal training in the Middle Temple, where his father had also trained. He was a JP for Devon in 1532,

paragraph: and was elected MP for Taunton in 1536 and twice for Devon in 1539 and 1542 and was Sheriff of Devon in 1537-8. By 1537 he had been appointed King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer and a law reporter. Also by 1537 he had been appointed General Surveyor of the Court of Augmentations. He was thus an assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the monasteries, and was employed particularly as a surveyor who visited the premises and made a detailed valuation of the house's assets and income, the "Valor Ecclesiasticus", as a preliminary to their sale. He was thus a highly influential person and was able to perform many favours for his friends. He helped, for example, Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, whose wife Honor Grenville was from North Devon, to secure advantageous terms in his purchase of Frithelstock Priory, in which action he was assisted by his fellow influential North Devonian lawyer George Rolle. He is known to have been loaned by Honor Grenville her manor house at Umberleigh where he lodged his family in the summer of 1538. Frequent references to his activities are recorded in the Lisle Letters, though none of his letters survive, and in the Letters & Papers of Henry VIII. One of his most notorious acts was his supervision of the destruction and pillaging of the shrine to Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in September 1538, which on account of the quantity of gold and precious stones within it took several days to complete. The spoil of the shrine was stated by Stow in his "Annales" to have "filled two great chests such as six or seven strong men could do no more than convey one of them at once out of the church". Following this operation Pollard proceeded to Reading and Winchester to effect similar destructions. He resided sometime at Putney, Surrey.

paragraph: In 1539, he was appointed to the Council of the West, and was knighted on 16 January 1542.

paragraph: Section::::Lands acquired.

paragraph: In 1537 he was granted by King Henry VIII the manor of Combe Martin in Devon His influential position within the Court of Augmentations enabled him to acquire cheap bargains from the possessions of the dissolved religious houses. In 1540 he purchased Forde Abbey and in 1538 he acquired on favourable terms a 99-year lease (later reduced to 21 years) of Marsh Priory, formerly a possession of Plympton Priory in Devon. His technique was similar to that used by George Rolle (by whom he was enlisted to help Lord Lisle) in that he used his local knowledge to buy land which had a ready and profitable resale market when split into smaller lots, often being sold to the former tenants.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: He married Jacquetta Bury (d.1545, buried at Berrynarbor), as promised him in the will of her father John Bury (d.1533) of Colleton, Chulmleigh, Devon. By his influence Richard had helped his elder brother Sir Hugh I Pollard (fl.1535,1545) (Sheriff of Devon in 1535/6 and Recorder of Barnstaple in 1545) to obtain the wardship of John Bury's 17-year-old son and heir Richard Bury, whom Sir Hugh married to his daughter Elizabeth Pollard.

description: politician

wikidata_label: Richard Pollard

wikipedia_title: Richard Pollard (MP)


text: American

text: ice hockey

text: defenseman

text: Columbus Blue Jackets

text: National Hockey League

text: Wheatfield, New York

text: Chicago Blackhawks

text: 2011 NHL Entry Draft

text: minor ice hockey

text: Rochester, New York

text: Boston University

text: 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships

text: Jonas Hiller

text: Calgary Flames

text: American Hockey League (AHL)

text: Rockford Icehogs

text: Vancouver Canucks

text: Gustav Forsling

text: Utica Comets

text: Nick Bonino

text: Pittsburgh Penguins

text: Brandon Sutter

text: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

text: Anaheim Ducks

text: David Perron

text: Carl Hagelin

text: Edmonton Oilers

text: New York Rangers

text: Arizona Coyotes

text: Tucson Roadrunners

text: Anthony Duclair

text: Richard Pánik

text: Laurent Dauphin

text: Cleveland Monsters

text: Tampa Bay Lightning

text: Boston Bruins

categories: Cleveland Monsters players,Utica Comets players,USA Hockey National Team Development Program players,1992 births,New York Rangers players,Vancouver Canucks players,Tucson Roadrunners players,Edmonton Oilers players,Chicago Blackhawks draft picks,Ice hockey people from New York (state),Living people,Arizona Coyotes players,Chicago Blackhawks players,Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey players,People from Niagara County, New York,Pittsburgh Penguins players,Columbus Blue Jackets players,Rockford IceHogs (AHL) players,American ice hockey defensemen

paragraph: Adam Clendening

paragraph: Adam Clendening (born October 26, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Clendening was raised in Wheatfield, New York. He was selected 36th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Amateur.

paragraph: As a youth, Clendening played in the 2004 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Rochester, New York.

paragraph: Prior to his professional career, he played for Boston University, and played hockey in Canada for the Toronto Marlboros' AAA junior team.

paragraph: Clendening was part of Team USA's gold-medal-winning team at the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships. During the tournament he led all defensemen with 10 points, and tied for the lead among defensemen with 3 goals and 7 assists. His 10 points ranked 6th among all players in the tournament, and his 7 assists ranked 4th. He was named as one of the defensemen to the tournament all-star team and as one of Team USA's 3 top players.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:Chicago Blackhawks.

paragraph: Clendening made his NHL debut on November 20, 2014 and scored his first NHL goal on his first shot against Jonas Hiller of the Calgary Flames. Clendening spent the majority of his time with the club with their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Rockford Icehogs.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:Vancouver Canucks.

paragraph: On January 29, 2015, the Blackhawks traded Clendening to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Gustav Forsling. Clendening finished out the season appearing in 17 games for the Canucks, as well as 11 games for the Utica Comets.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:Pittsburgh Penguins.

paragraph: On July 28, 2015, Clendening, along with Nick Bonino and a 2nd-round pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft were traded from the Canucks to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Brandon Sutter and a 3rd-round pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Clendening made the Penguins roster to open the 2015–16 season, and would appear in 9 games for the club, as well as 6 for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:Anaheim Ducks and Edmonton Oilers.

paragraph: On January 16, 2016, Clendening was included in yet another trade, being sent to the Anaheim Ducks alongside David Perron in exchange for Carl Hagelin. However, Clendening's time with the Ducks was short-lived, as he was claimed off waivers by the Edmonton Oilers two weeks later on January 27. This marked the fifth organization Clendening would join within the year, though he never actually played a game whilst with the Ducks. Clendening skated in 20 games for the Oilers, recording 1 goal and 6 points.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:New York Rangers.

paragraph: On July 1, 2016, Clendening signed as a free agent to a one-year, two-way contract with the New York Rangers. Clendening appeared in 31 games for the Rangers, scoring 11 points.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:Arizona Coyotes and return to Chicago.

paragraph: On July 1, 2017, Clendening signed a one-year, one-way contract as a free agent with the Arizona Coyotes. Having made the Coyotes opening night roster for the 2017–18 season, Clendening only appeared in 5 games for the team before he was placed on waivers and reassigned to play 21 games for the Tucson Roadrunners of the AHL.

paragraph: On January 10, 2018, Clendening, alongside Anthony Duclair was traded to the Blackhawks in exchange for Richard Pánik and Laurent Dauphin, returning to Chicago for a second stint. He was immediately assigned to play out the remainder of the season with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:Columbus Blue Jackets.

paragraph: As a free agent from the Blackhawks, Clendening left to sign a one-year, two-way contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets on July 1, 2018. He began the 2018–19 season on the Blue Jackets opening night roster, featuring in 4 games before he was placed on waivers and reassigned to AHL affiliate, the Cleveland Monsters. Leading the Monsters blueline in scoring, Clendening posted 4 goals and 37 points in 45 games, before he was recalled by Columbus to add depth for the playoffs. He made his NHL playoff debut with the Blue Jackets, appearing in game 3 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against the Tampa Bay Lightning. He went on to collect an assist in 7 games before ending his season in the Conference Semifinals to the Boston Bruins.

paragraph: On June 25, 2019, Clendening was re-signed to a two-year $1.4 million contract extension with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

description: ice hockey player from the USA

wikidata_label: Adam Clendening

wikipedia_title: Adam Clendening


text:
Oakesdale, Washington
Old Greenwich, Connecticut
silent film
actress
author
Chicago
Illinois
public schools
convent school
boarding school
United States
Westbrook, Connecticut
Broadway
New Rochelle, New York
model
New York City
Harvard College
Hollywood, California
King Lear
Cordelia
The Fall of a Nation
D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation
Thomas Dixon
creative writing
Columbia University
moviemaking
David Seabury
Braille
suicide
Old Greenwich, Connecticut
The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch
The Straight Road
The Dancing Girl
Are You a Mason?
The Fall of a Nation
King Lear
Lorraine Huling Maynard Papers.
Schlesinger Library
Lorraine Huling Maynard Papers.
Schlesinger Library

categories: American women children's writers,Writers who committed suicide,American actresses who committed suicide,20th-century American actresses,1897 births,American women writers,Columbia University alumni,American film actresses,American children's writers,Actresses from Washington (state),American silent film actresses,People from Whitman County, Washington,1971 deaths

paragraph: Lorraine Huling Maynard

paragraph: Lorraine Huling Maynard (January 19, 1897, Oakesdale, Washington – November 15, 1971, Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a silent film actress and author.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: She was the daughter of Floyd and Florence Simmons Huling. They divorced when Lorraine was five, and her mother worked in Chicago, Illinois, as a nurse/receptionist for Edmund James Doering, who became her lover as well as a father figure for Lorraine. Lorraine attended Chicago public schools and a convent school for the first few years of her education; her mother later placed her in a variety of boarding schools in the United States and abroad. Lorraine spent several summers in Westbrook, Connecticut, with her grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Lyman Simmons, and also frequently travelled abroad with her mother and Doering. When Lorraine was 15, Florence's relationship with Doering ended and she married Charles Young, who drank heavily and made advances to Lorraine on at least one occasion.

paragraph: Section::::Stage and film.

paragraph: Encouraged by her mother to go on the stage, Lorraine made her Broadway debut in 1913, playing the role of "Doll" in "Prunella"; she began acting in silent films produced by the Thannhauser Company in New Rochelle, New York, the following year. In 1915, while working as a model in New York City, she met Richard Field Maynard, a portrait painter and Harvard College graduate. A romantic relationship developed between them but was opposed by Richard's parents, who were concerned about the age difference between Richard (born in 1875) and Lorraine, and also about Lorraine's career as an actress. Lorraine's mother also objected to the match, and moved to Hollywood, California, with her daughter. Lorraine appeared in several more films, including "King Lear", in which she played Cordelia, and "The Fall of a Nation", a response to D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation". (The two films were based on books by the same author, Thomas Dixon, who directed "The Fall of a Nation".) Lorraine and Richard corresponded during their separation and married in 1917, with Lorraine retiring from the screen. They had two daughters, Sylvia (born in 1921) and Beverly (born in 1923).

paragraph: Section::::Writing.

paragraph: Shortly after their marriage, Lorraine began taking creative writing classes at Columbia University. A number of her stories were published in magazines for children; in both 1929 and 1930, her stories were included in anthologies of "best" children's stories. She also wrote the children's books "Twinkle Little Movie Star", which drew on her knowledge of Hollywood and moviemaking, and "Dilly Was Different". In the 1930s, Lorraine began therapy with David Seabury and formed a deep attachment to him. She worked with him on his books, transcribing at least one into Braille, and he provided the introduction to her "Genius in Chrysalis: Locked Doors on Greatness Within". Lorraine's last book, "Bellevue", written with Dr. Laurence Miscall, was published in 1940. Richard Field Maynard died in 1964 and Lorraine, increasingly dismayed at growing old, committed suicide in her home in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, in November 15, 1971.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Straight Road" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Dancing Girl" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Are You a Mason?" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fall of a Nation" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "King Lear" (1916)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lorraine Huling Maynard Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

wikipedia_title: Lorraine Huling Maynard


text: Bosnian

text: Croatian

text: Hungarian

text: Ban of Croatia

text: Slavonia

text: Dalmatia

text: Macsó

text: Voivode of Transylvania

text: titular

text: King of Bosnia

text: Újlaki family

text: Kingdom of Hungary

text: Albert

text: Vladislaus I

text: Ladislaus V

text: Matthias I

text: Ladislaus of Ilok

text: Stibor of Stiboricz

text: Stephen

text: Nicholas Kont

text: palatine

text: Louis I of Hungary

text: Ilok

text: Elizabeth of Luxembourg

text: Holy Crown of Hungary

text: John Hunyadi

text: Ladislaus

text: Palatine

text: Ladislaus II Garay

text: Frederick III

text: perpetual ispán

text: Teočak

text: Kingdom of Bosnia

text: Ottoman Empire

text: Blaise Magyar

text: Damian Horvat

text: by the Grace of God

text: Latin

text: Laurence

text: fl

text: Leonhard of Gorizia

text: Laurence

categories: Pretenders to the Bosnian throne,Bans of Slavonia,15th-century Hungarian nobility,Counts of the Székelys,Bans of Macsó,1410 births,15th-century Croatian people,Voivodes of Transylvania,1477 deaths,Bans of Croatia

paragraph: Nicholas of Ilok

paragraph: Nicholas of Ilok (Bosnian and Croatian: "Nikola Iločki", Hungarian: "Újlaki Miklós"; 1410–1477) was Ban of Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia and Macsó, Voivode of Transylvania and titular King of Bosnia from 1471 until his death.

paragraph: A member of the Újlaki family, he was one of the richest landowners in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of its most influential magnates. He held a reputation of a great hero and served under four kings of Hungary: Albert, Vladislaus I, Ladislaus V and Matthias I.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: His parents were Ladislaus of Ilok, Ban of Macsó, and Anna Stiboriczi, daughter of Stibor of Stiboricz, Voivode of Transylvania. His father died shortly after his birth. He had four brothers: John, Stephen, Peter and Paul. His great-grandfather, Nicholas Kont, served as palatine to King Louis I of Hungary. Nicholas was the best known lord of the city of Ilok. While he was in power, the city experienced its golden age. In 1430, Nicholas' brother Stephen died and Nicholas succeeded him as Ban of Macsó.

paragraph: When King Albert died in 1439, Nicholas supported his widow, Elizabeth of Luxembourg, in her struggle to secure the Holy Crown of Hungary for her son, Ladislaus the Posthumous. As a reward, Queen Elizabeth had him knighted. However, Nicholas soon took the side of Vladislaus III of Poland and allied himself with John Hunyadi. Upon becoming King of Hungary, Vladislaus gave Nicholas and Hunyadi extraordinary powers, appointing them as joint Voivodes of Transylvania.

paragraph: Section::::Matthias' reign.

paragraph: In 1457, Nicholas took part in the liquidation of John Hunyadi's son, Ladislaus. The next year, Ladislaus' brother, Matthias Corvinus, was elected King of Hungary. However, various Hungarian and Croatian nobles refused to recognise him as their sovereign. The opposition was led by Nicholas himself and Palatine Ladislaus II Garay, who asked Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III for support. Matthias was, however, eventually recognised as king.

paragraph: He retained his influence throughout the reign of Matthias Corvinus, who created him perpetual ispán of Teočak in 1464, making him only the third person to bear such a title. In 1471, having settled his disputes with Nicholas, King Matthias I conferred upon him the title of King of Bosnia, that being an empty title considering the fact that the Kingdom of Bosnia had been conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1463. Nicholas seems to have been made Ban of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia by early 1472, probably in order to secure his loyalty to the King and to enable him to defend the region against the Ottomans. He had been named ban to replace Blaise Magyar, who had rebelled against the King. However, he did not retain that office for long; by the end of the same year, he was replaced by Damian Horvat.

paragraph: As King of Bosnia, Nicholas even minted his own currency. However, Nicholas failed to defend his satellite kingdom, losing most of it to the Ottomans. The Hungarian Kingdom of Bosnia consisted of a few fortresses. Nicholas ruled those remnants and retained the kingly title until his death, styling himself "Nicholas, by the Grace of God King of Bosnia" (Latin: "Nicolaus Dei Gratia Rex Bosniae"). He was succeeded, as Ban of Macsó and Lord of Ilok, by his eldest surviving son, Laurence.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.

paragraph: Nicholas was first married to Margit Rozgonyi (fl 1441-1458). By his first wife, Nicholas had the following children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Nicholas (fl 1452)

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Stephen (fl 1459-1465)

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Catherine (fl. 1448-1493), whose daughter's sons claimed their great-grandfather's inheritance

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Euphrosyne (fl. 1458-1476)

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Hieronyma (fl 1458-1460), married to Leonhard of Gorizia

paragraph: BULLET::::6. Ursula (fl 1458-1476)

paragraph: He was married secondly to Dorottya Széchy de Felsőlendva (fl 1471-1495). Their children were:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Laurence (1459–1524), Nicholas' successor, after whose death without surviving issue the family became extinct

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Bernard (fl 1460)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicholas of Ilok, Ban of Croatia, built the castle in Ilok in the 15th century

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicholas of Ilok's kingship in Bosnia 1471-1477

description: King of Bosnia

wikidata_label: Nicholas of Ilok

wikipedia_title: Nicholas of Ilok


text: GBE

text: KCB

text: Treasury

text: Second World War

text: potash

text: Ministry of Economic Warfare

text: Ministry of Aircraft Production

text: Wilfrid Freeman

text: Rab Butler

text: Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall

text: 1946 Birthday Honours

text: 1951 Birthday Honours

text: 1987 Birthday Honours

text: life peer

text: Plowden

text: Shropshire

text: Bridget

text: Plowden Report

text: hypertension

categories: Crossbench life peers,Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath,2001 deaths,Place of birth missing,Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire,1907 births,Deaths from hypertension

paragraph: Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden

paragraph: Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Baron Plowden, GBE, KCB (6 January 1907 – 15 February 2001) was a British industrialist and public servant in the Treasury.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Before the Second World War, Plowden joined C Tennant Sons & Co, commodity dealers. As he spoke French and German and knew the European mainland well, he was put in charge of selling Palestine potash, in competition with the European potash cartel; he did so to such effect that his firm, as it had hoped, was invited to join the cartel.

paragraph: During the war, he served in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and later joined the Ministry of Aircraft Production, in which he remained until 1946. During 1945–46 he was chief executive in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman.

paragraph: He returned after the War to the private sector, but then was appointed Chief Planning Officer to the Cabinet Office in March 1947. The group was called the Central Economic Planning Staff and Plowden headed it for over six years..

paragraph: Section::::The Korean War.

paragraph: “I was at this stage put in charge of a working party set up to formulate an official reply to the Americans and, over the next year or so, was to be responsible for the general economic supervision of the rearmament programme.”

paragraph: Section::::The Conservative Government.

paragraph: Rab Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951-55) inherited Plowden after the Conservatives took power in 1951. He commented, “But I depended on Edwin Plowden, as head of the economic planning staff, to interpret and give practical edge to the advice generated by the less voluble and extrovert Hall (Robert Hall, Baron Roberthall), to act as "vulgarisateur" or publicist for his ideas. Plowden was to be my faithful watchdog in chief, and his departure for industry in 1953 undoubtedly weakened my position and that of the British economy.”

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: Plowden was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1946 Birthday Honours, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1951 Birthday Honours and was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1987 Birthday Honours.

paragraph: He was created a life peer with the title Baron Plowden, of Plowden in the county of Shropshire on 17 February 1959.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: His wife, Bridget (née Bridget Horatia Richmond; 1910–2000), chaired the group which authored and published the 1967 Plowden Report on primary education. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Edwin Noel Auguste Plowden, Baron Plowden died of hypertension in 2001, aged 94, one year after his wife's death. He predeceased his two sons and one daughter while another daughter predeceased both Sir Edwin and Dame Bridget Plowden.

paragraph: Section::::Styles of address.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1907–1946: Mr Edwin N. A. Plowden

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1946–1951: Sir Edwin N. A. Plowden KBE

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1951–1959: Sir Edwin N. A. Plowden KCB KBE

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1959–1987: "The Right Honourable" The Lord Plowden KCB KBE

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987–2001: "The Right Honourable" The Lord Plowden GBE KCB

description: British crossbench life peer

wikidata_label: Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden of Plowden

wikipedia_title: Edwin Plowden, Baron Plowden


href: Klingenm%C3%BCnster Eisenach author Munich Augsburg Bavaria Lola%20Montez

text:
Klingenmünster
Eisenach
author
Munich
Augsburg
Bavaria
Lola Montez

categories: 19th-century German male writers,1891 deaths,Writers from Rhineland-Palatinate,German male novelists,1828 births,People from Südliche Weinstraße,People from the Palatinate (region),19th-century German novelists

paragraph: August Becker (author)

paragraph: August Becker (27 April 1828 in Klingenmünster – 23 March 1891 in Eisenach) was a German author.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He studied at Munich, from 1855 to 1859 was a member of the staff of the "Allgemeine Zeitung" of Augsburg, and from 1859 to 1864 editor of the liberal "Isar-Zeitung". He published "Jung-Friedel der Spielmann" (Young Friedel, the Minstrel, 1854), a poem which established his reputation, and considerable fiction, including "Des Rabbi Vermächtnis" (The Rabbi's Bequest, 1866); "Vervehmt" (Proscribed, 1868), which was attacked for containing alleged portraitures of contemporaries of the Bavarian court; "The Carbuncle" (1870); "My Sister" (1876), descriptive of the doings of Lola Montez and the events of 1848 in Bavaria; "Painter Fairbeard" (1878); and "Der Küster von Horst" (The Sexton of Horst, 1889).

description: German writer

wikidata_label: August Becker

wikipedia_title: August Becker (author)


text:
Japan
ukiyo-e
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Kinisawa Shimburō
triptych
First Sino-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
War artists
Harvard University Press
OCLC 48943301

categories: 20th-century Japanese painters,Ukiyo-e artists,19th-century Japanese painters,1862 births,20th-century printmakers,1925 deaths

paragraph: Toshihide Migita

paragraph: , also known as Oju Toshihide or Toshihide was a Japanese artist, creating work in traditional ukiyo-e prints and painting in the Western syle.

paragraph: Migata was apprenticed to Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. He also studied with Kinisawa Shimburō (1847–1877), who was an artist who had trained in Britain.

paragraph: Starting in 1877, his work was published in newspapers and magazines. His portraits of Kabuki actors were well known.

paragraph: His , in triptych format are considered to be important historical documents. This work documents Japan's participation in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- War artists

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301

description: Japanese artist

wikidata_label: Toshihide Migita

wikipedia_title: Toshihide Migita


text:
Bergen
Norway
death
black metal
musician
Bergen
Hades Almighty
Old Funeral
Immortal
Christmas Eve
Varg Vikernes
Satan Rides the Media
early Norwegian black metal scene
Bergensavisen
Sam Dunn

categories: Critics of Christianity,Old Funeral members,21st-century Norwegian guitarists,Living people,Immortal (band) members,Black metal musicians,Norwegian guitarists,Male guitarists,1970 births,21st-century male musicians

paragraph: Jørn Inge Tunsberg

paragraph: Jørn Inge Tunsberg (born 4 December 1970 in Bergen, Norway) is a death/black metal musician. He lives in Bergen and plays guitar in the black metal band Hades Almighty and the industrial metal band Dominanz.

paragraph: Tunsberg played in the bands Old Funeral, Amputation and Immortal. He "got kicked out of the band" Immortal after the second demo, "Northern Upins Death", was recorded in summer 1991. He then formed his own band, Hades, which is now known as Hades Almighty.

paragraph: He was convicted for Åsane church arson on Christmas Eve 1992 along with Varg Vikernes and spent two years in prison. He gave interviews in "Satan Rides the Media" (a documentary focused on Varg Vikernes and the whole early Norwegian black metal scene) and "". Tunsberg says in both these documentaries, and also in an interview with "Bergensavisen" that he regrets nothing. In the 1990s, in "Satan Rides the Media", Tunsberg stated that the action was a response to Christian morals and that "Norway should not be Christian", the point being "very symbolic". When Sam Dunn interviewed Tunsberg for his 2005 documentary "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", he replied that: "The most important thing that happened was that the church were burnt up. So that's something I stand for, and I stood for it then, I will stand for it now and I will stand for it until I die. […] It's kind of a statement, to break down Christianity." He also worked as metal music reviewer in "Bergensavisen" tabloid.

description: Norwegian musician

wikidata_label: Jørn Inge Tunsberg

wikipedia_title: Jørn Inge Tunsberg


text:
FitzHerbert baronetcy
Tissington Hall
Sir John FitzHerbert
MC
Eton
Conservative
Parwich and Dovedale ward
Derbyshire Dales District Council
Chief Executive

categories: 1963 births,People from Derbyshire Dales (district),Baronets in the Baronetage of England,Conservative Party (UK) councillors,Living people

paragraph: Sir Richard FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet

paragraph: Sir Richard Ranulph FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet (born 2 November 1963), is a British landowner and holds the FitzHerbert baronetcy, which he inherited in 1989 along with the family home, Tissington Hall, on the death of his uncle, Sir John FitzHerbert. At the time of his inheritance, he was working as a wine merchant.

paragraph: He is the son of Major the Rev. David Henry FitzHerbert MC by his marriage to Charmian Hyacinthe Allsopp. Educated at Eton, he is an elected Conservative district councillor for the Parwich and Dovedale ward on Derbyshire Dales District Council. and is Chief Executive of Tissington Hall and estate.

paragraph: FitzHerbert married Caroline Louise Shuter in 1993. They had two children, but later divorced. He married secondly Fiona, now Lady FitzHerbert, at Tissington Hall in October 2011, becoming stepfather to her two children.

description: British politician

wikipedia_title: Sir Richard FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet


text:
Armenia
Cilicia
Levon IV
Toros Roslin
Matenadaran
Think quest

categories: Armenian painters,Year of birth unknown,Manuscript illuminators,14th-century painters,Year of death unknown

paragraph: Sargis Pitsak

paragraph: Sargis Pitsak () was an early 14th-century Armenian artist. Nearly 50 illustrated manuscripts are attributed to him. His father was called Grigor.

paragraph: Pitsak lived in Cilicia, during a difficult period when epidemics often followed wars. He copied and illustrated manuscripts on the request of King Levon IV, queen Mariun and others.

paragraph: Pitsak seems to have been familiar with the work of Toros Roslin and he completed the illustration of a famous Gospel (Matenadaran, Cod. 7651), in which some miniatures reflect Roslin's influence.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Think quest

description: Armenian artist

wikidata_label: Sargis Pitsak

wikipedia_title: Sargis Pitsak


text:
Copenhagen
Great Fire of 1795
Andreas Hallander
Christiania
Copenhagen
Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Skien
Great Fire of 1795
Kronprinsessegade
Sankt Annæ Plads
Ved Stranden
Wildersgade Barracks
Kronprinsessegade 20
Kronprinsessegade 26
Kronprinsessegade 28
Kronprinsessegade 30
Kronprinsessegade 46

categories: 1751 births,Danish architects,Norwegian architects

paragraph: Jørgen Henrich Rawert

paragraph: Jørgen Henrich Rawert was a (16 August 1751 – 14 July 1823) was a Danish architect. He created the masterplan for the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the Great Fire of 1795 in his capacity of city architect and was also involved in many building projects, mostly of townhouses, often collaborating with Andreas Hallander.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Rawert was born in Christiania, where he became a cadet from the Military and Mathematical School in 1783. In 1775, he enrolled with the engineering troops in Copenhagen and moved to Denmark where he studied architecture under Caspar Frederik Harsdorff at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1776 and 1778, winning both the small and large silver medals. In 1779 and 1791 he unsuccessfully competed for the large gold medal which would have won him a travel scholarship.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He was a Second Lieutenant with the engineering troops from 1778 to 1786 and from 1783 a titular professor. In 1786, he returned to Christiania to serve as a teacher in mathematics at the Military and Mathematical School. His achievements as a designer are Norway is limited to the pulpit in the church in Skien and a few tombs and memorials.

paragraph: In 1790, he returned to Copenhagen to assume a position as implementing architect for the City ("Stadskonduktør"). He was a key figure in the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the Great Fire of 1795 and again after the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Rawer's works in Copenhagen include a number of townhouses on Kronprinsessegade, two buildings on Sankt Annæ Plads, a building on Ved Stranden and Wildersgade Barracks:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kronprinsessegade 20 (1805-1806, with Andreas Hallander)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kronprinsessegade 26 (1805-1806)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kronprinsessegade 28 (1805-1806)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kronprinsessegade 30 (1806-1807)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kronprinsessegade 46-46a-e (1805-07 - s.m. Andreas Hallander)

paragraph: BULLET::::- a href="Sankt%20Ann%C3%A6%20Plads%205%20%281796%29%20%0A%2A%20Sankt%20Ann%C3%A6%20Plads%2011"Sankt Annæ Plads 5 (1796)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sankt Annæ Plads 11/a (1801)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ved Stranden 18 (1796, attribution)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wildersgade 60a-e-62 / Bådsmandsstræde 6 / Overgaden Neden Vandet 49a-c-51a-b (1802 - s.m. Andreas Hallander) - Wildersgade Kaserne

description: Danish architect

wikidata_label: Jørgen Henrich Rawert

wikipedia_title: Jørgen Henrich Rawert


text: United Fruit Company

text: Gillette

text: Paris Peace Conference

text: Bradley Palmer State Park

text: Topsfield, Massachusetts

text: Nottinghamshire

text: Scrooby congregation

text: Plymouth, England

text: Plymouth, Massachusetts

text: Duxbury

text: Henry W. Palmer

text: breaker boys

text: Phillips Exeter Academy

text: New Hampshire

text: The Exonian

text: Harvard University

text: AB

text: Harvard Lampoon

text: Hasty Pudding Club

text: Delta Kappa Epsilon

text: Harvard University School of Law

text: AM

text: Pennsylvania

text: Andrew W. Preston

text: United Fruit Company

text: Minor Cooper Keith

text: Costa Rica

text: Boston

text: Gillette

text: ITT Corporation

text: Sinclair Oil

text: Teapot Dome scandal

text: Myopia Hunt Club

text: Hamilton

text: Alien Property Custodian

text: Federal Reserve Board

text: Paris Peace Conference

text: U.S.–German Peace Treaty

text: equestrian

text: North Shore

text: Massachusetts

text: Boxford

text: Georgetown

text: Hamilton

text: Ipswich

text: Rowley

text: Bradley Palmer State Park

text: Willowdale Estate.

categories: 1864 births,1948 deaths,Harvard Law School alumni

paragraph: Bradley Palmer

paragraph: Bradley Webster Palmer (June 28, 1866 – November 9, 1946) was a prominent U.S. attorney and businessman. He was involved with the creation and development of multiple corporations, including the United Fruit Company, Gillette Safety Razor Corp., and International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation. He was also part of the American delegation at the Paris Peace Conference following the First World War.

paragraph: From 1937 to 1944, Palmer donated his extensive land holdings to the state of Massachusetts. These lands today make up the Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Family background.

paragraph: The American Palmers in Bradley Palmer's ancestral line came from William Palmer, Nottinghamshire, who was possibly one of the original Scrooby congregation of puritan separatists. He sailed on the vessel Fortune in 1621 from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, settling finally in Duxbury. Bradley's grandfather on his father's side, Gideon, moved to Pennsylvania

paragraph: Bradley Webster Palmer was born on June 28, 1866, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His father was Henry W. Palmer, who served as Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, 1879–1883, and a member of congress, 1901–1907 and 1909. His mother, Ellen W. Palmer, was an essential figure in fighting for the rights of breaker boys in Pennsylvania. She promoted child literacy and appropriate wages, equal to those of adults for the work done by the boys. Until the 1990s a statue of Ellen Palmer stood on the city commons in Wilkes-Barre.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Education.

paragraph: Bradley's parents sent him to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he was admitted at the age of 16 in 1882. At Exeter, Palmer was involved in "The Exonian", debate club, the Christian Fraternity, and the G. L. Soule Literary Society, as well as playing tennis, baseball, and lacrosse, and being his class secretary. From there he went immediately to Harvard University, receiving an AB in 1888. He was a treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. He played football and baseball for his class teams, and he was a member of the Institute of 1770 (later merged with the Hasty Pudding Club), Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Historical Club, the Finance Club, the St. Paul's Society, and the Varsity Club. He stayed on an extra year in Harvard University School of Law, earning the AM in 1889. He was a proctor that year. Returning to Wilkes-Barre he went to work in his father's law office there in 1889 at the age of 23 and passed the bar in Pennsylvania in 1890. He returned to Boston in 1891 and passed the bar in Massachusetts the following year.

paragraph: Section::::Legal career.

paragraph: Until 1899 Bradley's chief work in the firm of Storey, Thorndike and Palmer had been to check the legality of bonds and then to handle the legal business of the Boston Fruit Company, the company of Andrew W. Preston, a Boston banana importer. In that year, however, he created the United Fruit Company by a merger of Preston's firm and the banana import business of Minor Cooper Keith. Bradley became a director and a permanent member of the executive committee, while his law partners were listed as executives. Their first move was to buy outright or buy an interest in 14 competitors. They now had a monopoly on the Costa Rican banana import business and controlled 80% of the entire business in the United States. These moves under Bradley's tutelage brought instant wealth to everyone concerned. The profits in 1899 were 1.6 million, and were up to 6.2 million by 1907. For all business purposes, Bradley was United Fruit. When the first anti-trust suit was brought against United Fruit in 1909, charging that it had created a monopoly and was using its financial interests in the competition (in this case the Bluefields Steamship Company) to suppress their business, Palmer, as secretary, was named along with Preston and Keith, the president and vice president.

paragraph: Palmer was a lawyer and partner with multiple Boston-based corporations, including the United Fruit Company (which controlled large land holdings and agriculture in Central America), Gillette, and ITT Corporation. He was possibly an attorney for Sinclair Oil during the Teapot Dome scandal.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Palmer never married, but was involved in the social life of the North Shore of Massachusetts, which is relatively densely populated with horse farms. He belonged to Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, Massachusetts, which is known for its golf course and its equestrianism. Periodically it holds steeple-chasing events, polo matches, horse shows and fox hunts. Bradley Palmer hosted some of these events on his estate. Bradley died in 1946.

paragraph: Bradley enjoyed numerous individualisms, such as smoking a cigar with the end stuck in a pipe bowl.

paragraph: Section::::Public service.

paragraph: During WWI, Palmer's career took a brief break from his legal career. In December 1917, Palmer went to Washington D. C. and joined the office of Alien Property Custodian, which was charged with the investigation of attempts by German nationals to conceal their extensive property of all sorts in the United States, and with the confiscation and disposition of this property. Where he did both investigations and dispositions, mainly by sale, for which legal expertise was required. All of members of the APC served without pay. He also was appointed as counsel to the Capital Issues Committee. In 1918 Bradley was also appointed to an advisory committee supporting the Federal Reserve Board, also serving without pay. He was the board's lawyer.

paragraph: After the War, Palmer continued serving his country after being appointed by President Wilson to the delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. Wilson chose Palmer because of his experience with the Alien Property Custodian. In Palmer's own words: "At the end of the War, President Wilson required someone familiar with the operations of the Alien Property Custodian to attend the peace conferences in Paris. He selected me. I had no official title, but was assigned as the representative of the United States to several sub-committees whose duty was to prepare the provisions of the treatise of economic character. Our sphere covered restoration of business relations, adjustment of private contracts, property rights and interests, and similar considerations." The elements negotiated by Palmer and his fellow economic delegates made it into the separate U.S.–German Peace Treaty in 1921. For his work during the Paris Peace Conference, Palmer was decorated by France, Belgium, and Romania, as well as receiving a letter of commendation from the United States government. He then returned home and began practicing law again.

paragraph: Section::::Land holdings.

paragraph: Beginning in 1891 Palmer began to acquire land. An equestrian and nature-lover, he continued to purchase land as he accumulated the means. At one point, he owned over 10,000 acres (40 km²) on the North Shore of Massachusetts in towns such as Boxford, Georgetown, Hamilton, Ipswich, Rowley, and Topsfield.

paragraph: In 1898 Palmer purchased the hereditary farm holdings of the Lamson family, some . This would become the estate in which he resided, known as "Willow Dale". The mansion was built in 1902 by Charles K. Cummings, who described the original structure as having, a rather unusual arrangement, the master’s house, the quarters for a farmer or caretaker, and the stable, all being joined together under one roof. This was done with a view to economy of construction and management; and especially during the winter months this grouping together of quarters, which more often appear as separate buildings, has been found convenient and agreeable In 1915, Palmer renovated the mansion, moving the stables and coach house to separate buildings and replacing them with a dining room and ballroom respectively. He also added an addition for a screened patio, guest rooms, and servants quarters. This ultimately gave Willowdale the form it has today.

paragraph: By 1944, Palmer had donated all of his land holdings in Massachusetts to the Commonwealth, leasing back the surrounding his mansion. The estate is now incorporated as part of the Bradley Palmer State Park. The mansion became a civil defense training academy, before it fell into disrepair and was eventually leased for renovation by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Today it is operated as a premier events venue under the name Willowdale Estate.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Bradley Palmer died on November 9, 1946 due to an unspecified pulmonary illness. Bradley Palmer's body lay in state at Willow Dale before being processing to Wilkes-Barre, PA. He was laid to rest in Hollenback Cemetery with his mother and father. Their tombstone also contains a memorial to Palmer's brother, Henry Palmer, who had died at sea just six days before Bradley Palmer. His body was never recovered.

description: businessman

wikidata_label: Bradley Palmer

wikipedia_title: Bradley Palmer


text:
Halland
Finland
favourite
Svantepolk of Skarsholm
Canute, Duke of Reval
Valdemar II of Denmark
Sverker II of Sweden
favorite
Magnus IV of Sweden
Folkunge
Boberg family
Ingeborg Ulvsdotter of Tofta
Sparre
Karl of Tofta
Erengisle, Earl of Orkney
Charles VIII of Sweden
Gustav Vasa
Duke of Finland
Knut Porse
Scania
frälse
St Bridget of Sweden
Rönneholm
Lord Karl Ulvsson

categories: People of medieval Finland,Swedish nobility,1360 deaths,14th-century Swedish people,1330 births

paragraph: Benedict, Duke of Halland

paragraph: Duke Benedict of Halland and Finland (c. 1330 – c. 1360), aka "Bengt Algotsson", was a medieval Swedish lord, and royal favourite.

paragraph: He was born to a family who descended from Svantepolk of Skarsholm and his wife Benedikta Sunadotter. Svantepolk had been the younger son of Canute, Duke of Reval, Laland and Belinge (possibly also Halland), a bastard of Valdemar II of Denmark with Helena Guttormsdatter, daughter of a Swedish earl. Benedikta was the sister-in-law of King Eric XI and daughter of earl Sune Folkason, justiciar of Västergötland, with his wife Helena Sverkersdotter, herself the daughter of Sverker II of Sweden and his first wife Benedikte Ebbesdotter of the Galen. This made Benedict as one of the noblest blood of Sweden of his time.

paragraph: His success was due to his being the favorite and alleged lover of king Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway.

paragraph: His coat of arms was a standing lion; thus, the family has in some later reconstructions been called "Lejon". This may also mean they were kin with the Folkunge, his line's ancestress belonging to those siblings of Boberg family who were nephews and nieces of Birger jarl.

paragraph: His paternal great-grandfather was Bengt Magnusson, justice of Östergötland.

paragraph: His kinship with the royal family (he was at least a distant cousin of Magnus, fourth cousin counted from Danish kings) and with other noble families of the country is presumed as the reason for the young man's exceptionally rapid rise.

paragraph: From 1352 he is known to had a seat in the kingdom's Privy Council.

paragraph: Duke Benedict was married to Ingeborg Ulvsdotter of Tofta, a member of the Sparre family. She was much older than he, possibly already a widow. Ingeborg was the daughter of Ulf Abjörnsson, justiciar of Tiohärad, the younger half-sister of Lord Karl of Tofta, maternal niece of Erengisle, Earl of Orkney, and the aunt of the future Margaret Sparre of Tofta, mother of Charles VIII of Sweden and ancestress of Gustav Vasa.

paragraph: In about 1353, the king created Benedict Duke of Finland and Halland. The title of Halland came from his descent from Duke Canute of Reval whose male line, which had held Halland as compensation for Reval and Laland, had gone extinct some fifty years earlier. Previous holders of the duchy of Halland had been the king's own father Duke Eric, his mother Duchess Ingeborg, and Ingeborg's second husband Knut Porse, as well as king's half-brothers.

paragraph: Benedict was also appointed Viceroy of Scania, the newly acquired group of mostly Danish provinces.

paragraph: Most probably, the chief reasons the king took these steps were to stop the spiritual and secular "frälse", to gain yet more power at royal expense, and Hanseatic power in Nordic commerce. (Their personal relationship was also rumored at the time to be the reason.) The Viceroy confiscated many of the properties of the Archdiocese of Lund upon the death of Archbishop Peder Jensen in 1355. Hanseatic privileges were also curbed in Skanish ports.

paragraph: However, Benedict repudiated his wife sometime in 1356, one of the reasons his noble relatives did not protect him. His wife's relatives became his enemies, and the duke was driven into exile. A civil war started at about the same time: leaders of Swedish nobility used the king's eldest son Eric as claimant and cited the favorite's exceptional privileges as an insult to the younger king. In 1356 a revolt started, nominally against Duke Benedict, but actually to weaken the king and his centralizing grip.

paragraph: In 1357, Benedict was exiled and Scania as well as several other Swedish and Finnish provinces were given to the young king Eric. Duke Benedict's elder brother Lord Knut was exiled to Norway with his wife Märta Ulvsdotter, a daughter of St Bridget of Sweden.

paragraph: Benedict probably lived in Denmark. In c 1360, Benedict returned to Sweden, but according to tradition was besieged in Rönneholm castle in Scania and eventually killed by his brother-in-law Lord Karl Ulvsson and Magnus Nilsson Röde.

paragraph: Duke Benedict had no children.

description: Swedish noble

wikidata_label: Benedict, Duke of Halland

wikipedia_title: Benedict, Duke of Halland