text: heptathlete

text: high jump

text: 2008 Olympics

text: 2009 World Championships in Athletics

text: Berlin

text: high jump

text: heptathlon

text: 2011 World Championships

text: Daegu, South Korea

text: 2012 Olympics

text: London

text: 2013 World Championships

text: Moscow

text: high jump

text: Costa Mesa High School

text: CIF California State Meet

text: Chaunte Howard

text: American record holder

text: World Junior Championships

text: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

text: Sam Adams

text: Westmont College

text: Montecito, California

text: "A" standard

text: UCLA

text: NCAA

text: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

text: Jessica Ennis

text: Great Britain

text: Jennifer Oeser

text: Germany

text: Kamila Chudzik

text: Poland

text: Tatyana Chernova

text: Russia

text: Jessica Ennis

text: Great Britain

text: Jennifer Oeser

text: Germany

text: 2012 London Olympics

text: Jessica Ennis

text: Great Britain

text: Lilli Schwarzkopf

text: Germany

text: Russia

text: Tatyana Chernova

text: 2013 World Championships in Athletics

text: Hanna Melnychenko

text: Ukraine

text: Canada

text: Brianne Theisen-Eaton

text: Netherlands

text: Dafne Schippers

text: USA Indoor Track & Field Championships

text: Albuquerque

text: DeDee Nathan

text: Hyleas Fountain

text: Sopot, Poland

text: Nadine Broersen

text: Barbara Nwaba

text: 2015 World Championships in Athletics

text: Barbara Nwaba

text: Heather Miller-Koch

text: Kendell Williams

text: Erica Bougard

categories: American heptathletes,American female high jumpers,African-American female track and field athletes,1985 births,People from Costa Mesa, California,Track and field athletes from California,Olympic track and field athletes of the United States,Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics,Living people,Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe (born June 9, 1985) is an American heptathlete and high jumper. She is the 2011, 2013, and 2014 national heptathlon champion, She is also the 2012-2015 national indoor pentathlon champion. She is the first athlete to win four consecutive national championships in the pentathlon. As a junior athlete, she was the 2003 Pan American Junior champion in the high jump and the following year won the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships.

paragraph: She has qualified for multiple international championships. At the 2008 Olympics she high jumped 1.85 to finish 24th in qualifying. At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin she competed in both the high jump, finishing 17th and the heptathlon finishing 10th as the top American finisher. In subsequent heptathlons, she finished 18th at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. She finished 16 at the 2012 Olympics in London. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow she finished 6th.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Sharon Day originally excelled in the high jump. While at Costa Mesa High School she was the CIF California State Meet champion two years in a row, and was coached in the high jump by her father, Eugene Day. Day's mother, Yolanda Day, was an elite high jumper, and her sister, Jasmin Day, competed in the high jump for the University of Arizona. While winning during her junior year, she defeated senior Chaunte Howard, who has gone on to become the current American record holder.

paragraph: In 2003, she won the high jump at the Pan American Junior Championships in the high jump, again defeating Howard. In 2004, she won the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships, which she qualified for by winning the USA National Junior Championships.

paragraph: Day attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where she won the 2005 NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship while setting the school record in the high jump. She since improved upon the record and also holds the school record in the heptathlon, which she attempted at the end of her college career, after also being a standout soccer player in the fall. Day also suffered a plant foot fracture in 2005 that required two surgeries and a year of rehabilitation. All of the heptathlon events except the high jump were taught to Day by her coach, Jack Hoyt. Day had not competed in the long jump, hurdles, shot put, javelin, 200 meters, or 800 meters prior to Spring 2007. She trained for these events after her soccer season.

paragraph: While winning the Sam Adams Multi-Event meet at Westmont College in Montecito, California, Day achieved the "A" standard for the 2012 Olympics.

paragraph: Day has been signed with ASICS since she graduated from college in 2008, for competition in both the high jump and heptathlon. She currently trains at UCLA with her coach, Jack Hoyt, and is a volunteer assistant with the UCLA team. On September 1, 2013 she married to Dan Monroe, a Cal Poly alum and basketball coach. Day is 5' 9" tall.

paragraph: Section::::2004 World Junior Championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day earned a bronze medal in the high jump at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics clearing 1.91 meters.

paragraph: Section::::2005 NCAA Outdoor Championship.

paragraph: In June 2005, Day won the women's NCAA national outdoor-season high jump title for Cal Poly, with a clearance of 6-4.

paragraph: Section::::2007 Outdoor championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe earned silver medal in the high jump clearing 1.89m 6-02.25

paragraph: Section::::2008 US Outdoor championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe earned bronze medal in the high jump clearing 1.91m 6-03.25.

paragraph: Section::::2008 Beijing Olympics.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe placed 24th in the high jump clearing a height of 1.85 meters at Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: Section::::2009 US Outdoor championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe earned silver medal scoring 6177 points.

paragraph: Section::::2009 World Championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe placed 10th in the 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon scoring 6126 points, after Jessica Ennis of Great Britain won gold scoring 6731 points, Jennifer Oeser of Germany with silver scoring 6493 points and Kamila Chudzik of Poland with bronze scoring 6471 points.

paragraph: Section::::2010 US Outdoor championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the silver scoring 6006 points.

paragraph: Section::::2011 US Outdoor championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the heptathlon scoring 6058 points.

paragraph: Section::::2011 World Championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe, placed 18th in the 2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon scoring 6043 points, after Tatyana Chernova of Russia won gold with (6880 points), Jessica Ennis of Great Britain with silver (6751 points) and Jennifer Oeser of Germany with bronze (6572 points).

paragraph: Section::::2012 Indoor Championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the Pentathlon scoring 4567 points.

paragraph: Section::::2012 US Olympic Trials.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the silver with 6343 points

paragraph: Section::::2012 London Olympics.

paragraph: Former Cal Poly All-American, Sharon Day-Monroe, finished 16th in the heptathlon at 2012 London Olympics on Saturday with (6232 points). Jessica Ennis of Great Britain won the gold with 6955 points followed by Lilli Schwarzkopf of Germany with the silver (6649 points) and Russia's Tatyana Chernova with the bronze (6628 points).

paragraph: Section::::2013 USA Indoor championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the Pentathlon for the second consecutive year scoring 4478 points.

paragraph: Section::::2013 USA Outdoor championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won heptathlon with 6550 points.

paragraph: Section::::2013 Moscow World Championships.

paragraph: Day finished 6th in the Heptathlon at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics scoring 6407 points. Hanna Melnychenko of Ukraine won the gold (6586 points), Canada's Brianne Theisen-Eaton with the silver (6530 points) and Netherlands' Dafne Schippers with the bronze (6477 points).

paragraph: Section::::2014 USATF Indoor Championship and American Record.

paragraph: Former two-time Cal Poly Women's Student-Athlete of the Year Sharon Day-Monroe broke the American pentathlon record on Friday afternoon at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in the Albuquerque Convention Center. It was the third consecutive national indoor championship for Day-Monroe, who finished with a score of 4,805. Day-Monroe's total was 238 points ahead of her previous career best, and eclipsed the old record — which had been shared by DeDee Nathan (set March 5, 1999) and Hyleas Fountain (tied March 10, 2013) — by a margin of 52. Day-Monroe will represent USA at the world indoor championships in Sopot, Poland.

paragraph: Day-Monroe set a personal best of 8.44-second time in the 60-meter hurdles, then cleared 1.88 meters (or 6 feet, 2 inches) to win the high jump, and proceeded to put forth marks of 15.59 meters (or 51-1.75) in the shot put and 6.09 meters (or 19-11.75) in the long jump to put herself in solid position to claim the record. Needing a time of 2:16.87 in the 800 meters, Day-Monroe closed by finishing at 2:13.19. For her record performance, she was named USATF "Athlete of the Week.".

paragraph: Her mark was the World Leading performance of 2014 until the World Indoor Championships, where it was surpassed by Nadine Broersen. Day-Monroe finished with 4718 points including a field leading 2:09.80 800 meters, just six points out of a podium position.

paragraph: Section::::2014 USATF Outdoor Championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the heptathlon with 6470 points.

paragraph: Section::::2015 USA Indoor championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe won the Pentathlon scoring 4654 points.

paragraph: Day-Monroe's fourth consecutive indoor championship.

paragraph: Section::::2015 USATF Outdoor Championship.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe was runner up to Barbara Nwaba in the heptathlon with 6458 points.

paragraph: Section::::2015 Beijing World Championships.

paragraph: Day placed 14th in the Heptathlon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics with 6246 Points.

paragraph: Section::::2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field).

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe finished behind Barbara Nwaba, Heather Miller-Koch and Kendell Williams in the heptathlon with 6385 points.

paragraph: Section::::2017 Indoor Championships.

paragraph: Sharon Day-Monroe earned silver medal for second place in the Pentathlon behind Erica Bougard scoring 4404 points at 2017 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

description: American heptathlete

wikidata_label: Sharon Day

wikipedia_title: Sharon Day-Monroe


text: Paris

text: Cognac

text: Seven Years' War

text: menin

text: Louis XVI

text: peer of France

text: brigadier

text: maréchal de camp

text: knight of the ordre du Saint-Esprit

text: knight of the Golden Fleece

text: Verona

text: lieutenant général

text: peerage of France

text: dame d'honneur

text: comtesse de Provence

text: prince de Carency

text: pair de France

text: Menin

text: lieutenant général

text: ordre du Saint-Esprit

text: order of Saint-Louis

text: Seven Years' War

text: Cognac

text: menin

text: peer of France

text: Vergennes

text: Estates General

text: Dutch Republic

text: maréchal de camp

text: order of the Holy Spirit

text: Order of the Golden Fleece

text: French Revolution

text: Le Havre

text: National Constituent Assembly

text: Charles de Lameth

text: Bourgoing

text: Verona

text: La Ville-Heurnois

text: Hamburg

text: lieutenant général

text: chambre des pairs

text: maid of the wardrobe

text: comtesse de Provence

text: baronne d’Oberkirch

text: Marie-Antoinette

text: comtesse de Provence

text: prince de Carency

text: Alexandre de Bauffremont

text: prince de Carency

text: maréchal de camp

text: lieutenant général

text: kingdom of Naples

text: Joachim Murat

categories: 1828 deaths,Politicians from Paris,Ambassadors of France to the Netherlands,Ambassadors of France to Spain,Recipients of the Order of the Holy Spirit,1746 births,Order of Saint Louis recipients,French Foreign Ministers,French military personnel of the Seven Years' War,Governors of the Children of France,Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain,18th-century peers of France,People of the French Revolution

paragraph: Paul François de Quelen de la Vauguyon

paragraph: Paul François de Quelen de La Vauguyon or Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade, duc de La Vauguyon (30 July 1746, in Paris – 14 March 1828, in Paris) was a French nobleman. He was governor of Cognac, after having been involved in the last campaigns of the Seven Years' War. He wrote a "Portrait de feu monseigneur le Dauphin" and was menin to the future Louis XVI, one of the Dauphin's sons. A peer of France, brigadier, maréchal de camp, knight of the ordre du Saint-Esprit, he was chosen to be minister plenipotentiary to the Estates General of the Dutch Republic. He later became French ambassador to Spain, knight of the Golden Fleece, temporary minister of foreign affairs in 1789, then minister of the conseil d'État of Louis XVIII in Verona. He was the main intermediary among Louis's agents in France, but became the victim of intrigues. From the Restoration onwards he was lieutenant général and sat in the peerage of France, where he was noted for his moderation. He and his wife (dame d'honneur to the comtesse de Provence) had four children, but the Quelen line died out with his children.

paragraph: Section::::Parents.

paragraph: Vauguyon was descended from an old aristocratic family. His father, Antoine de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade (1706–1772) was the duc de La Vauguyon (1759), prince de Carency, pair de France, Menin to the Dauphin, lieutenant général of the royal armies, governor, first gentleman of the chamber and grand master of the garde-robe to the duke of Burgundy, to the Dauphin and to the counts of Provence and Artois, knight of the ordre du Saint-Esprit and the order of Saint-Louis.

paragraph: His mother, Marie Françoise de Béthune (1712–1799) was the daughter of the duke of Charost, himself governor to the king's person to Louis XV.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Before the Revolution (1758-1789).

paragraph: Paul François is known by his father's living, under the name of the duke of Saint-Mégrin. He entered the public service aged 12 and fought in the last campaigns of the Seven Years' War. After the war he was made governor of Cognac and took advantage of the post to write and have published an elogy of Louis XVI's father, entitled "Portrait de feu monseigneur le Dauphin". His father had been entrusted with the delicate mission of educating the Dauphin's sons on the Dauphin's death, and Paul himself had been menin to the future Louis XVI. He succeeded his father as a peer of France in 1773.

paragraph: In 1776, on the recommendation of Vergennes, Louis XVI chose La Vauguyon to be France's representative to the Estates General of the Dutch Republic. On his arrival, the Estates were in a sense under the control of the British government - when he left a solemn deputation from the Estates conveyed him their public recognition for his services and gratitude for the :

paragraph: In 1784, La Vauguyon was made French ambassador to Spain. On 1 January 1784 he was simultaneously made maréchal de camp and a knight of the order of the Holy Spirit, and later also became a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. However, his post as Spanish ambassador was soon lost with the onset of the French Revolution.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:During the Revolution.

paragraph: In 1789, La Vauguyon was recalled from Spain by Louis XVI to take possession of the ministry for foreign affairs, as he did on 13 July. He could make the king listen to his advice and found himself under attack from revolutionaries. The Assembly presented new ministers responsible for the events of the 14 July and La Vauguyon gave his resignation on 16 July, having been minister for only three days.

paragraph: Fearing he would pay for "the short and disastrous honour of his ministry" with his head, he disguised himself as a businessman, took a passport under a false name and fled to Le Havre with his son in the hope of crossing to England. They were both arrested in Le Havre and the case was referred to the National Constituent Assembly on 1 August. After a heated discussion Le Havre received orders to set La Vauguyon free.

paragraph: The king recalled La Vauguyon to Paris and sent him to Madrid again as ambassador. On 16 May 1790, Charles de Lameth complained that his negotiations were as important as those in the hands of La Vauguyon. Differences had arisen between England and Spain, whose cause may be attributed to La Vauguyon's negotiations by the British minister. He was replaced by Bourgoing on 1 June 1790 but continued to stay in Madrid. The Spanish king granted hospitality to La Vauguyon and his family, granting him properties during the Revolutionary storms and giving his son (the future general La Vauguyon, still a child) a post in the Spanish army.

paragraph: Around the end of 1795, Louis XVIII summoned Paul François de Quelen de La Vauguyon to Verona to be one of the four ministers that made up his conseil d'État. La Vauguyon followed this prince to Blackembourg. The counter-revolutionary plan to use conciliatory plans and in virtue of which royalists would still accept public posts can be attributed to him, but it proved too soft a plan. La Vauguyon rendered major services to the royal cause during his ministry and was Louis XVIII's main intermediary to his agents in France, notably in the La Ville-Heurnois conspiracy. His time in the conseil d'État ended in February 1797 when, due to courtesans' intrigues, he fell into disgrace with the pretender, who his father had nicknamed "the disingenous". The count of Saint-Priest replaced him. He then stayed for a time in Hamburg before returning to Spain, where he stayed until 1805. In that year he returned to France and lived in retirement until the Bourbon Restoration.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Under the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1828).

paragraph: Whilst in exile La Vauguyon was promoted to lieutenant général, on 4 June 1814 he was made duke, prince and lieutenant général by a royal decree, with the dukedom made hereditary. He was summoned to sit in the chambre des pairs, where he was of the chief backers for moderation. Lacking ambition, he lived in great simplicity and was received as a member of the société d'instruction élémentaire, several times being elected its president and putting much zeal into spreading mutual education. A doctor's mistake made an intestinal illness fatal, and he died in 1828.

paragraph: Section::::Wife.

paragraph: On 27 April 1766 Paul François de Quelen de La Vauguyon married Marie-Antoinette Rosalie de Pons de Roquefort (1751–1824), maid of the wardrobe to the comtesse de Provence. According to the "L'almanach de Versailles" of 1790, she was made dame d'honneur to the comtesse de Provence en 1774.

paragraph: Marie-Antoinette was the daughter of Charles Armand de Pons (1692–1760) and of Rosalie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1725–1792), daughter of minister François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil. Her mother married for the second time in 1771 to Louis Armand Constantin de Rohan-Guemené-Montbazon, known as the "prince de Montbazon" (1731-guillotined 23 July 1794).

paragraph: In his memoirs baronne d’Oberkirch writes that:

paragraph: She also seems to have been close to Marie-Antoinette and sometimes accompanied her on her nights out at Parisian balls:

paragraph: Du Barri wrote : "The duchess of La Vauguyon was a lady of the wardrobe. Very serious and grave, she had an imposing and severe air, such was the basis of her character. She had much spirit but hid it for fear of exposing her dignity by showing it and of also compromising the superiority of Madame la comtesse de Provence".

paragraph: Section::::Children.

paragraph: He and his wife had two sons and two daughters :

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul-Antoine (1768–1824), prince de Carency, on 14 September 1789 married Florence Constance de Rochechouart-Faudoas, daughter of Aimeric count of Faudoas.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marie-Antoinette de Quelen de La Vauguyon (1771–1847), on 13 May 1787 married Alexandre de Bauffremont, prince-duc de Bauffremont.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul-Yvon (1777–1837) was duke of La Vauguyon, prince de Carency, and marquis of Saint-Megrin, peer of France, maréchal de camp, and lieutenant général (firstly in the kingdom of Naples, then the French Army). He fought in Napoleon's armies and was aide de camp to grand-duke de Berg. He followed Joachim Murat to Naples and became general and colonel general of infantry in his guard. Unmarried and without children, the Quelen family died out with him.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pauline-Antoinette de La Vauguyon (1783–1829), married Joseph de Savoie-Carignan, count of Villafranca.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Portrait de feu monseigneur le Dauphin", par M. L. O. D. (with Cerutti); Paris, 1765, 1816, in-8°;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Doutes éclaircis, ou réponses aux objections de l'abbé de Mably sur l'ordre naturel des sociétés politiques" ; Paris, 1768, in-12. "Cet ouvrage, en forme de lettre, qui parut d'abord dans les Éphémérides du Citoyen pour 1768, est très rare, dit Barbier, l'édition ayant été imprimée à un petit nombre d'exemplaires " ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tableau de la Constitution française", Paris, 1816, in-8 ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De la simplification des principes constitutifs et administratifs, ou commentaire nouveau sur la Charte constitutionnelle", Paris, lviO, in-60 ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Du Système général des Finances", Paris, in-8° : les trois derniers ouvrages ont paru sons les initiales de M. L. D. D. L. V. L. L

paragraph: And on his own :

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Duc de Choiseul, Eloge de M. le duc de La Vauguyon, prononcé è la chambre des pairs le 10 avril 1828. "

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lardier, "Histoire biographique de la Chambre des Paires". Barbier, Dict. des Anonymes

paragraph: BULLET::::- Quérard, "La France Littéraire".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Louis XVI, "Réflexions sur mes entretiens avec M. le duc de la Vauguyon", father of Paul François

description: French nobleman

wikidata_label: Paul François de Quelen de la Vauguyon

wikipedia_title: Paul François de Quelen de la Vauguyon


text:
James VI of Scots
Anne of Denmark
Peerage of Scotland
extinct
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
Elizabeth of Bohemia
King Charles I

categories: 1602 births,17th-century Scottish peers,House of Stuart,1602 deaths,Dukes in the Peerage of Scotland,People from Dunfermline,Peers of Scotland created by James VI,Scottish princes

paragraph: Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne

paragraph: Robert Bruce Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne (18 January 1602 – 27 May 1602) was the fifth child of James VI of Scots and Anne of Denmark. He was born at Dalkeith Castle, Scotland. On 2 May 1602 he was created Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, Marquess of Wigton, Earl of Carrick and Lord of Annandale, all in the Peerage of Scotland. On his death, at the age of four months, all his titles, created only 25 days earlier, became extinct. He died at Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey.

paragraph: His older siblings included Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and King Charles I.

description: Fifth and short-lived child of James VI of Scots and Anne of Denmark.

wikidata_label: Robert Stuart


text: c.

text: farmer

text: witchcraft

text: Martha Corey

text: Salem witch trials

text: pressing

text: force him to plead

text: American history

text: Salem

text: cemetery

text: Northampton, England

text: baptized

text: Holy Sepulchre

text: North America

text: Danvers

text: England

text: Essex County, Massachusetts

text: indentured

text: Isaac Goodale

text: corporal punishment

text: Peabody

text: swept up

text: Mary Warren

text: Abigail Hobbs

text: Bridget Bishop

text: wizard

text: Oyer and Terminer

text: peine forte et dure

text: George Corwin

text: Robert Calef

text: The Crucible

text: Samuel Sewall

text: New England

text: Margaret Clitherow

text: hanged

text: apparition

text: Great Salem Fire of 1914

text: Sheriff of Essex County

text: Middleton

text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

text: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

text: Arthur Miller

text: The Crucible

text: Robert Ward

text: operatic treatment

text: movie of the same name

text: Peter Vaughan

text: Kevin Tighe

text: Salem

text: Have a Nice Life

text: Blank Media Games

categories: Kingdom of England emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies,People executed by the Province of Massachusetts Bay,American people executed for witchcraft,17th-century executions of American people,1692 deaths,1610s births,People of the Salem witch trials,Executed English people,People executed by torture

paragraph: Giles Corey

paragraph: Giles Corey (c. August 1611 – September 19, 1692) was an English-born American farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. He was subjected to pressing in an effort to force him to plead—the only example of such a sanction in American history—and died after three days of this torture.

paragraph: Corey is believed to have died in the field adjacent to the prison that had held him, in what later became the Howard Street Cemetery in Salem, which opened in 1801. His exact grave location in the cemetery is unmarked and unknown. There is a memorial plaque to him in the nearby Charter Street Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Pre-trial history.

paragraph: Giles Corey was born in Northampton, England, sometime before 16 August 1611, the date on which he was baptized in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. Giles was the son of Giles and Elizabeth Corey. His birth is recorded in the parish records. His name is quite often spelled "Corey", but the baptismal record is "Cory". It is not certain when he arrived in North America, but there is evidence he was living in Salem Town as early as 1640. He originally lived in Salem Town but later moved to nearby Salem Village (now Danvers) to work as a farmer. There are quite a few entries in the court documents as to his behavior, which was not completely good, but in those times, any accusation was an offense against the state.

paragraph: Giles Corey was a prosperous land-owning farmer in Salem and married three times. He is believed to have married his first wife, Margaret, in England. Margaret was the mother of his four children: Martha, Margaret, Deliverance, and Elizabeth. His second wife was Mary Bright; they were married on 11 April 1664, when Corey was 53 years old, and she bore him a son named John.

paragraph: In 1676, at age 65, Corey was brought to trial in Essex County, Massachusetts, for allegedly beating to death one of his indentured farm workers, Jacob Goodale (also spelled "Goodell" or "Goodall"), son of Robert and Catherine Goodale and brother to Isaac Goodale. According to witnesses, Corey had severely beaten Goodale with a stick after he was allegedly caught stealing apples from Corey's brother-in-law, and though Corey eventually sent him to receive medical attention ten days later, Goodale died shortly thereafter. Since corporal punishment was permitted against indentured servants, Corey was exempt from the charge of murder and instead was charged with using "unreasonable" force. Numerous witnesses and eyewitnesses testified against Corey, as well as the local coroner, and he was found guilty and fined.

paragraph: Mary Bright died at age 63 on 27 August 1684, according to her gravestone in Salem. Corey later married his third wife, Martha Rich. Martha was admitted to the church at Salem Village, where Giles had lived. At the time of the witch trials, Corey was 80 years old and living with Martha in the southwest corner of Salem Village, in what is now Peabody.

paragraph: Section::::Arrest, examination, and refusal to plead.

paragraph: Martha Corey was arrested for witchcraft on 19 March 1692. Corey was so swept up by the trials that he initially believed the accusations against his wife, until he himself was arrested based on the same charge on 18 April, along with Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs, and Bridget Bishop. The following day, they were examined by the authorities, during which Abigail Hobbs accused Giles of being a wizard. Corey denied the accusations and refused to plead (guilty or not guilty), was sentenced to prison, and subsequently arraigned at the September sitting of the court.

paragraph: The records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer on September 9, 1692, contain a deposition by one of the people who accused Giles of witchcraft in "Mercy Lewis v. Giles Corey":

paragraph: I saw the apparition of Giles Corey come and afflict me urging me to write in his book and so he continued most dreadfully to hurt me by times beating me and almost breaking my back till the day of his examination being the and then also during the time of his examination he did afflict and torture me most grievously and also several times since urging me vehemently to write in his book and I verily believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard for since he had been in prison he or his appearance has come and most grievously tormented me.

paragraph: Again, in this court, Corey refused to plead.

paragraph: Section::::Death by pressing.

paragraph: According to the law at the time, a person who refused to plead could not be tried. To avoid people cheating justice, the legal remedy for refusing to plead was ""peine forte et dure"". In this process, prisoners were stripped naked, and heavy boards were laid on their bodies. Then rocks or boulders were laid on the plank of wood. This was the process of being pressed:

paragraph: ... remanded to the prison from whence he came and put into a low dark chamber, and there be laid on his back on the bare floor, naked, unless when decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight as he could bear, and more, that he hath no sustenance, save only on the first day, three morsels of the worst bread, and the second day three draughts of standing water, that should be alternately his daily diet till he died, or, till he answered.

paragraph: As a result of his refusal to plead, on 17 September, Corey was subjected to the procedure by Sheriff George Corwin, but he was steadfast in that refusal, nor did he cry out in pain as the rocks were placed on the boards. After two days, Corey was asked three times to enter a plea, but each time he replied, "More weight," and the sheriff complied. Occasionally, Corwin would even stand on the stones himself. Robert Calef, who was a witness along with other townsfolk, later said, "In the pressing, Giles Corey's tongue was pressed out of his mouth; the Sheriff, with his cane, forced it in again." There are several accounts of Corey's last words. The most commonly told one is that he repeated his request for "more weight", as this was how it was dramatized in "The Crucible", but it may also have been "More rocks." Another telling notes it as, "Damn you. I curse you and Salem!"

paragraph: Samuel Sewall's diary states, under date of Monday, September 19, 1692:

paragraph: About noon at Salem, Giles Cory was pressed to death for standing mute; much pains was used with him two days, one after another, by the court and Captain Gardner of Nantucket who had been of his acquaintance, but all in vain.

paragraph: It is unusual for people to refuse to plead, and extremely rare to find reports of people who have been able to endure this painful form of death in silence. Since Corey refused to plead, he died in full possession of his estate, which would otherwise have been forfeited to the government. It passed on to his two sons-in-law, in accordance to his will.

paragraph: The pressing of Giles Corey is unique in New England. It is similar to the case in England of Margaret Clitherow, who was arrested on 10 March 1586 for the crime of harboring priests, hearing Mass, and secretly being of the Catholic faith.

paragraph: Section::::Aftermath.

paragraph: Corey's wife Martha was hanged three days later on September 22, 1692. She had a son from a previous marriage named Thomas; he showed up as a petitioner for loss and damages resulting from his mother being executed illegally during the witch trials. He was awarded £50 on 29 June 1723.

paragraph: The gruesome and public nature of Corey's death may have caused residents of Salem to rethink their support for the witch trials. Corey was absolved of the crime in 1712, although Martha was not.

paragraph: Despite Corey's efforts to protect his estate by refusing to plead, George Corwin still attempted to extort money from Corey's heirs after the witch trials. In 1710, Corey's daughter Elizabeth and her husband John Moulton filed a lawsuit seeking damages from Corwin. Her statement to the court read, "After our father's death the sheriff threatened to seize our father's estate and for fear that of we complied with him and paid him eleven pound six shillings in money."

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: According to a local legend, the apparition of Giles Corey appears and walks his graveyard each time a disaster is about to strike the city. Notably, he was said to have appeared the night before the Great Salem Fire of 1914. The position of Sheriff of Essex County was also said to have suffered from the "curse of Giles Corey", as the holders of that office, since George Corwin, had either died or resigned as a result of heart or blood ailments (Corwin died of a heart attack in 1696). The curse was said to have been broken when the sheriff's office was moved from Salem to Middleton in 1991.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.:Literature.

paragraph: Giles Corey is the subject of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow play entitled "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms" and an 1893 play, "Giles Corey, Yeoman", by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman.

paragraph: Corey is a character in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" (1953), in which he is portrayed as a hot-tempered but honorable man, giving evidence critical to the witch trials. His wife Martha was one of the 19 people hanged during the hysteria on Proctor's Ledge. In "The Crucible", Giles feels guilty about the accusation of his wife because he had told a minister that Martha had been reading strange books, which was discouraged in that society. Corey also appears in Robert Ward's operatic treatment of the play, in which his role is assigned to a tenor. A movie of the same name was released in 1996, featuring Peter Vaughan as Corey.

paragraph: Actor Kevin Tighe portrayed Giles Corey in the pilot episode of the WGN television series "Salem", in which he is pressed to death in a more-or-less historically accurate manner.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.:Music.

paragraph: Giles Corey is also the name of a solo project of Dan Barrett, Have a Nice Life member.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.:Video Games.

paragraph: In the Blank Media Games browser title "Town of Salem" based on the Salem witch trials, Giles Corey is a username that can be selected by the game when a player does not input a name.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 2 vv, v. 1 pp. 181–91, 205, v.2 pp. 38, 44, 52, 114, 121, 128, 334–43, 480, 483.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giles Corey Pressed to Death, September 16, 1692, "The Salem Witchcraft Papers", University of Virginia

description: Executed in the Salem witch trials

wikidata_label: Giles Corey

wikipedia_title: Giles Corey


text: 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification

text: Baba Yara Stadium

text: African Cup of Nations

categories: Asante Kotoko SC players,Ghanaian footballers,Ghana international footballers,1969 deaths,1936 births,Association football midfielders

paragraph: Baba Yara

paragraph: Baba Yara (real name Osman Seidu) was a Ghanaian international football player. He was popularly known as the "King of Wingers".

paragraph: He was part of Ghana National team that won African Cup of Nations in 1963. He played for Ghana in their unsuccessful 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign.

paragraph: At the age of 26, he was injured in a motor collision while travelling with his team, Real Republicans. He suffered a spinal injury and never played again.

paragraph: In 2005, the Baba Yara Stadium was named in his honour.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: African Cup of Nations :1963

description: Ghanaian association football player (1936-1969)

wikidata_label: Baba Yara

wikipedia_title: Baba Yara


text:
spitball
pitcher
Major League Baseball
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Summerville, Pennsylvania
Penn State University
World War I
American Expeditionary Forces
batting average
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Larry Chappell
Braggo Roth
Shoeless Joe Jackson

categories: Chicago White Sox players,Pennsylvania State University alumni,Cleveland Indians players,Rochester Hustlers players,New York Highlanders players,New York Yankees players,Baseball players from Pennsylvania,Penn State Nittany Lions baseball players,Major League Baseball pitchers,1888 births,1950 deaths

paragraph: Ed Klepfer

paragraph: Edward Lloyd Klepfer was a spitball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians in a span of six seasons between 1911 and 1919.

paragraph: Klepfer, commonly known as "Big Ed", was born on March 17, 1888 in Summerville, Pennsylvania. He batted and threw right-handed and was also , 180 pounds, and attended Penn State University.

paragraph: Klepfer made his big league debut on July 4, 1911 with the Highlanders. His career was chopped up due to time spent fighting in World War I, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. At one time in his war fighting tenure, he was gassed.

paragraph: Perhaps the most extraordinary part of his career was his second to last season-1917. He went 14–4 with a 2.37 ERA in 213 innings. He finished his career with a 22–17 record and a 2.98 ERA in 98 games.

paragraph: Even though Klepfer was a fairly productive pitcher, he will still go down in history as one of the worst hitters (pitcher or otherwise) to ever step on the diamond. In 125 career at-bats, he collected 6 hits for a paltry .048 batting average.

paragraph: He played his last game on September 5, 1919.

paragraph: After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C.W. Titus, an oilman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Klepfer died on August 9, 1950 in a hospital in Tulsa. His body was laid to rest at Rose Hill Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Major transaction.

paragraph: On August 21, 1915, the White Sox traded Klepfer along with Larry Chappell, Braggo Roth and cash for Shoeless Joe Jackson.

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Ed Klepfer

wikipedia_title: Ed Klepfer


text:
Spanish
Kingdom of Portugal
Cebu
Portuguese
navigator
Fernão de Magalhães
circumnavigation
Francisco Serrão
Spice Islands
Ternate
Mactan Island
Cebu
4th Portuguese India Armada
Vasco da Gama
7th Portuguese India Armada
Francisco de Almeida
capture of Malacca
Cebu
Enrique of Malacca
Antonio Pigafetta's
Samuel Eliot Morison

categories: 15th-century births,Explorers of Asia,Portuguese explorers of the Pacific,Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation,Portuguese navigators,1521 deaths,16th-century Portuguese people,16th-century explorers,Maritime history of Portugal,Portuguese explorers

paragraph: João Serrão

paragraph: João Rodrigues Serrão, also known as Juan Serrano in the Spanish version, (Kingdom of Portugal - Cebu, 1521) was a 16th-century Portuguese navigator who sailed with Fernão de Magalhães during the first circumnavigation of the world (1519-1521).

paragraph: Serrão was brother or cousin to Francisco Serrão, who was residing in the Spice Islands when the voyage began and whom Magalhaes hoped to meet, but both died almost at the same time in 1521, in the Moluku islands (Ternate) and the Philippines (Mactan Island, Cebu), respectively, before this occurred.

paragraph: He was the pilot of a round caravel in the 4th Portuguese India Armada led by Vasco da Gama in 1502. João Serrão also accompanied Fernao de Magalhaes and his brother (or cousin) Francisco, in the 7th Portuguese India Armada of 1505, led by Francisco de Almeida, commanding the round caravel "Botafogo", and later also in the capture of Malacca and other actions in the East.

paragraph: Captain of the ship "Santiago" across the Atlantic and of the "Concepcion" across the Pacific, Serrão was involved in the events that led to a massacre on Cebu allegedly instigated by Enrique of Malacca, but this cannot be ascertained by Antonio Pigafetta's accounts alone.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Samuel Eliot Morison, "The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).

description: Portuguese explorer

wikidata_label: João Serrão

wikipedia_title: João Serrão


text: bog body

text: peat

text: bog

text: Jutland

text: Germanic Iron Age

text: Tollund Man

text: Elling Woman

text: human sacrifice

text: Germanic paganism

text: Aarhus

text: Moesgaard Museum

text: stratigraphic

text: radiocarbon dating

text: farming

text: teeth

text: jaw

text: calcium

text: naked

text: Tollund Man

text: trachea

text: oesophagus

text: suicide

text: CT scan

text: archaeologist

text: Peter Glob

text: Aarhus

text: consecrated ground

text: Tollund Man

text: post-mortem

text: tanning

text: leather

text: Moesgaard Museum

text: Aarhus

text: radiological study

text: CT scanning

text: stereolithography

text: Seamus Heaney

text: Tollund Man

text: The Grauballe Man

text: "The Grauballe Man"

text: BBC NI Schools

text: Forensic Facial Reconstruction

categories: Archaeology of Denmark,Historical people who were forensically reconstructed,Year of birth unknown,Bog bodies,Germanic archaeological artifacts,1952 archaeological discoveries

paragraph: Grauballe Man

paragraph: The Grauballe Man is a bog body that was uncovered in 1952 from a peat bog near the village of Grauballe in Jutland, Denmark. The body is that of a man dating from the late 3rd century BC, during the early Germanic Iron Age. Based on the evidence of his wounds, he was most likely killed by having his throat slit. His corpse was then deposited in the bog, where his body was naturally preserved for over two millennia. He was not the only bog body to be found in the peat bogs of Jutland: with other notable examples Tollund Man and the Elling Woman, Grauballe Man represents an established tradition at the time; it is commonly thought that these killings, including that of Grauballe Man, were examples of human sacrifice, possibly an important rite in Iron Age Germanic paganism.

paragraph: Grauballe Man has been described as "one of the most spectacular discoveries from Denmark's prehistory" because it is one of the most exceptionally preserved bog bodies in the world. Upon excavation in 1952, it was moved to the Prehistoric Museum in Aarhus, where it underwent research and conservation. In 1955 the body went on display at the Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus, where it can still be seen today. Due to the preservation of the man's feet and hands, his fingerprints were successfully taken.

paragraph: Section::::Evidence.

paragraph: Grauballe Man was initially dated to the late 3rd century BC by analysing the stratigraphic layer of peat that his body was found in. This date was subsequently confirmed by radiocarbon dating his liver, the results of which were published in 1955.

paragraph: Section::::Evidence.:Life.

paragraph: Information about the Grauballe Man's life have been ascertained from his remains. His hands were smooth and did not show evidence of hard work, indicating that Grauballe Man was not employed in hard labour such as farming. Study of his teeth and jaws indicated that he had suffered from "periods of starvation or a poor state of health during his early childhood." The man's skeleton showed signs of significant calcium deficiency, and his spine also suffered the early stages of "spondylosis deformans", a generalized disease of aging that is secondary to the degeneration of intervertebral disks. Due to the shrinkage that the corpse suffered in the bog, the man's actual height is not known. It is known that he had dark hair, although this too was altered in the bog, and now appears reddish in colour.

paragraph: Section::::Evidence.:Death.

paragraph: The corpse was not found with any artifacts or any evidence of clothing, indicating that when he died he was entirely naked, or his clothing had deteriorated, something that had also happened with the Tollund Man. The actual manner of his death was by having his throat cut ear to ear, severing his trachea and oesophagus. Such a wound could not have been self-inflicted, indicating that this was not suicide. A damaged area to the skull that was initially thought to have been inflicted by a blow to the head, has since been determined by a CT scan to have been fractured by pressure from the bog long after his death. He was around thirty years old when he died.

paragraph: Section::::Discovery, preservation and exhibition.

paragraph: The Grauballe Man's body was first discovered buried in the bog on 26 April 1952 by a team of peat diggers. One of the workmen, Tage Busk Sørensen, stuck his spade into something that he knew was not peat; upon revealing more they discovered the head protruding from the ground, and the local postman, who was passing, alerted the local doctor as well as an amateur archaeologist named Ulrik Balslev. With the body still in the peat, various locals came to visit it over the next day, one of whom accidentally stepped on its head. The following morning, Professor Peter Glob from the Prehistory Museum at Aarhus came to visit the body, and arranged for it to be removed to the museum, still encased in a block of surrounding peat.

paragraph: Glob and his team decided that they should not only research the body but that they should also attempt to preserve it so that it could be exhibited to the public. This concept was new at the time as most of the bog bodies previously discovered had been re-buried, sometimes in consecrated ground, with the Tollund Man which had been discovered two years earlier having only its head preserved. Despite the warnings of some scientists who believed that the corpse should immediately undergo preservation, it was exhibited straight away in order to capitalise on public interest. Indeed, the scientists' fears were proved right, as mould started to appear on certain areas of the body as a result of it having to be kept permanently moist.

paragraph: The body then underwent research, including a post-mortem, and then preservation, which was organised by conservator C. Lange-Kornbak, who had to decide on the best way to do this. (No entire bog body had ever been preserved before.) He examined various methods for doing so, before deciding on a programme of tanning the body to turn it into leather and then stuffing it with oak bark. In 1955, the body went on display at the Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus, only to be removed for a time in 2001-2002 when it underwent more modern scientific study, including radiological study, CT scanning, 3D visualisation, stereolithography and analyses of the gut contents.

paragraph: Section::::Modern culture.

paragraph: The Grauballe Man is the subject of a poem by Seamus Heaney, as is the Tollund Man.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Grauballe Man – a brief description at the homepage of the Moesgård Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Grauballe Man" – a poem by Seamus Heaney at the homepage of BBC NI Schools

paragraph: BULLET::::- "National Geographic" September 2007: "Tales From the Bog"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Forensic Facial Reconstruction

description: Iron Age bog body found in Denmark

wikidata_label: Grauballe Man

wikipedia_title: Grauballe Man


text: American

text: alternative rock

text: Live Skull

text: Uzi

text: Spin

text: Come

text: Washington, D.C.

text: Springbrook High School

text: Maryland

text: Patti Smith

text: New York City

text: Boston Globe

text: Boston

text: Boston University

text: semester

text: Uzi

text: New York City

text: Live Skull

text: heroin addiction

text: Come

text: Codeine

text: Chris Brokaw

text: Suffragette Sessions

text: Indigo Girls

text: indie-rock

text: out-and-proud

text: lesbian

text: Matador

text: Thrill Jockey

text: Biography from Matador Records

text: Biography of Thalia Zedek

text: Thalia Zedek - A Different Girl

text: Gig Review

categories: Lesbian musicians,Songwriters from Washington, D.C.,LGBT people from Maryland,20th-century American guitarists,American rock guitarists,1961 births,Jewish American musicians,American female guitarists,American female singers,LGBT musicians from the United States,LGBT people from Washington, D.C.,Guitarists from Massachusetts,Living people,Musicians from Boston

paragraph: Thalia Zedek

paragraph: Thalia Zedek (born 1961) is an American singer and guitarist. Active since the early 1980s, she has been a member of several notable alternative rock groups, including Live Skull and Uzi both of which, according to "Spin" magazine, "made big noise in the underground", and Come. Critic Heather Phares writes that Zedek's music can be defined by "the permanent, aching rasp in her voice, her guitar's bluesy bite, the startlingly clear-eyed lyrics about life and loss."

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Zedek grew up in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C. She attended Springbrook High School in Maryland, where she played clarinet in the marching band under band director Charles Sickafus. The early punk era of the late 1970s in which she came of age, and in particular Patti Smith, contributed deeply to the formation of her musical aesthetic. While still at high school, she would travel to New York City with her brother, Dan Zedek (currently the editorial design director at the "Boston Globe"), to see Smith perform.

paragraph: Zedek moved to Boston in 1979, attending Boston University for one semester before deciding to pursue a musical career instead. Her first band, the all-female White Women, broke up after a couple of years, and she formed the Dangerous Birds. This group had somewhat more success, including a single, "Smile on Your Face/Alpha Romeo", which achieved airplay on college and alternative-commercial radio; but Zedek wanted a more "violent" sound in contrast to the somewhat "girlie pop" tendencies of her Dangerous Birds bandmates. Her next project, Uzi, worked towards this aim, producing an EP, "Sleep Asylum". The EP was characterized by elusive yet subtly menacing lyrics superimposed upon lugubrious but driving instrumental tracks, featuring layers of dense, murky yet muscular guitar arrangements, blended with heady synthesizer and tape effects. However, despite the promise of "Sleep Asylum", Uzi dissolved, owing to tension between Zedek and the band's drummer, Danny Lee.

paragraph: She next took the role of primary vocalist for New York City's Live Skull, a band already well established. While the album "Dusted", the first product of this collaboration, reflected an intense synergy between Zedek's vocal style and the complexly histrionic instrumental work of Live Skull, the follow-up "Positraction" floundered, and Live Skull also disbanded, due to conflicts, in 1990. By that time, Zedek had also run into problems regarding heroin addiction. Motivated to quit, she returned to Boston and the support of her friends. She soon co-founded Come, with Codeine drummer and guitarist Chris Brokaw. It was with them that she had her biggest successes, releasing four albums before the group disbanded in 2001. In that same year, she also released "Been Here and Gone", her first solo project. Since then she has released two other full-length albums and several EPs.

paragraph: Zedek was also a participant in the 1998 Suffragette Sessions tour, organized by the Indigo Girls. In 2006, she performed at North East Sticks Together.

paragraph: In spite of limited commercial success, Zedek has been acclaimed by music critics throughout her career, and has arguably been deeply influential within the indie-rock realm, particularly through her influence within the prolific Boston indie scene, which has spawned many noteworthy artists. She is an "out-and-proud lesbian".

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Solo.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Solo.:Albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Been Here and Gone" (Matador, July 31, 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hell is in Hello" (Return To Sender, August 2, 2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trust Not Those in Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness" (Thrill Jockey, September 14, 2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Liars and Prayers" (Thrill Jockey, April 22, 2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Via" (Thrill Jockey, March 19, 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eve" (Thrill Jockey, August 19, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fighting Season" (Thrill Jockey, September 21, 2018)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Solo.:EPs.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "You're a Big Girl Now" (Acuarela/Kimchee Records, 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Nature of Drones" (Self-released, 2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "SIX" (Thrill Jockey, February 24, 2014)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Solo.:Live.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live at Tonic, NYC 1/16/2000" (Self-released, 2000)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With E.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "E" (Thrill Jockey, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Negative Work" (Thrill Jockey, 2018)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography from Matador Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography of Thalia Zedek

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thalia Zedek - A Different Girl

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview with Thalia Zedek on Well-Rounded Radio for 2008's Liars and Prayers album

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gig Review at Corsica Studios, London (5/10/08)

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Thalia Zedek

wikipedia_title: Thalia Zedek


text: American football

text: running back

text: National Football League

text: San Francisco 49ers

text: undrafted free agent

text: college football

text: Northwestern

text: Atlanta Falcons

text: Cleveland Browns

text: Chicago Booth

text: McKinsey & Company

text: college career

text: Northwestern

text: co-MVP

text: Motor City Bowl

text: lettered

text: football

text: track

text: Diamond Bar High School

text: Alpha Phi Alpha

text: San Francisco 49ers

text: undrafted

text: rookie

text: free agent

text: Brock Lesnar

text: Atlanta Falcons

text: practice squad

text: Carolina Panthers

text: Tennessee Titans

text: Pittsburgh Steelers

text: kickoff return

text: Miami Dolphins

text: Reuben Droughns

text: 2006 NFL season

text: starter

text: injured reserve

text: Phil Savage

text: 2008 NFL season

text: unrestricted free agent

text: Arizona Cardinals

text: Arizona Cardinals bio

text: Northwestern Wildcats bio

categories: Atlanta Falcons players,Northwestern Wildcats football players,Players of American football from California,Cleveland Browns players,San Francisco 49ers players,Living people,Sportspeople from San Bernardino County, California,American football running backs,Arizona Cardinals players,People from Upland, California,People from Diamond Bar, California,Sportspeople from Los Angeles County, California,1982 births

paragraph: Jason Wright (American football)

paragraph: Jason Gomillion Wright (born July 12, 1982) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2004. Wright played college football at Northwestern.

paragraph: Wright has also played for the Atlanta Falcons and Cleveland Browns. He received his MBA from Chicago Booth and is now employed by McKinsey & Company in Washington, DC.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Wright finished his college career as the fourth all-time leading rusher with 2,625 yards, the third all-time all-purpose yards leader with 4,030 yards and the fourth all-time leading scorer with 210 points in Northwestern school history. Wright finished his career with 32 touchdowns on 487 carries (5.4 yards-per-carry average), and added 577 yards and two touchdowns on 54 receptions. Wright also returned 31 kickoffs for 828 yards and one touchdown. He was the co-MVP of the 2003 Motor City Bowl, even though Northwestern lost the game. Wright also lettered in football and track at Diamond Bar High School, and had 4,268 yards in his high school career. He was a double-major in psychology and pre-medicine.

paragraph: Member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.

paragraph: Wright was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted rookie free agent on April 26, 2004, and was waived by the 49ers on August 31, 2004. Wright was run down and tackled from behind by Brock Lesnar in a 2004 preseason game against the Minnesota Vikings.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Atlanta Falcons.

paragraph: He was picked up by the Atlanta Falcons and signed to its practice squad on September 7, 2004, but was subsequently waived on October 19, 2004. He was signed again to the Falcons' practice squad on October 25, 2004, and elevated to the active roster on December 14, 2004. He made his NFL debut versus the Carolina Panthers on December 18.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.

paragraph: He was waived by the Falcons on September 3, 2005 and signed by the Cleveland Browns on September 13, 2005, and assigned to the practice squad. Wright was then signed to the active roster on November 3, 2005, and waived on December 16, 2005. He was re-signed to the practice squad on December 20, 2005.

paragraph: Wright saw playing time for the Browns when he made his Cleveland debut on November 6, 2005, versus the Tennessee Titans, when he had eight carries for nineteen yards and the Browns' first rushing touchdown of the season. He also had three receptions for fifteen yards. Wright also played on November 13, 2005, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, where he had one kickoff return for seventeen yards. He also added three carries for eight yards versus the Miami Dolphins on November 20, 2005. After Reuben Droughns was injured during the 2006 NFL season,Wright became the starter for a couple of games, only to be put in the injured reserve list in December to end his season.

paragraph: On February 20, 2007 Browns general manager Phil Savage announced the team had extended Wright's contract through the 2008 NFL season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arizona Cardinals.

paragraph: An unrestricted free agent in the 2009 offseason, Wright signed a two-year, $2 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals on March 16. In July 2011, he announced his retirement from the NFL to attend business school at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arizona Cardinals bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Northwestern Wildcats bio

description: American football running back

wikidata_label: Jason Wright

wikipedia_title: Jason Wright (American football)


text:
Tampa, Florida
safety
National Football League
New York Jets
Eastern Kentucky University
College Football Hall of Fame

categories: 1960 births,Players of American football from Florida,Eastern Kentucky Colonels football players,People from Florence, Kentucky,College Football Hall of Fame inductees,American football safeties,Sportspeople from Tampa, Florida,New York Jets players,Living people

paragraph: George Floyd

paragraph: George Floyd (born December 21, 1960 in Tampa, Florida) was a safety who played three seasons in the National Football League for the New York Jets.

paragraph: Floyd was an All-American at Eastern Kentucky University. In 1999, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

description: American football player

wikidata_label: George Floyd

wikipedia_title: George Floyd


text:
American football
defensive tackle
St. Louis Rams
2007 NFL Draft
college football
Arkansas
Pro Bowl
tight end
Keith Jackson
St. Louis Rams
2007 NFL Draft
San Diego Chargers
Little Rock
Arkansas Razorbacks bio

categories: St. Louis Rams players,Sportspeople from Little Rock, Arkansas,1985 births,American football defensive tackles,Arkansas Razorbacks football players,Living people

paragraph: Keith Jackson (defensive tackle)

paragraph: Keith Jerome Jackson, Jr. (born February 25, 1985) is a former American football defensive tackle. He was originally drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arkansas. He is the son of former NFL Pro Bowl tight end Keith Jackson.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: For the Arkansas Razorbacks, Jackson played in 44 games with 26 starts and posted 191 tackles (109 solo) with 7.0 sacks, 18.5 tackles for loss and 23 quarterback hurries, two career interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown. Jackson repeated his All-SEC designation in 2006 and started all 14 games at right defensive tackle and totaled career-high 79 tackles and Posted two interceptions, including one returned 69 yards for a touchdown. In 2005 Jackson started all 11 games, and posted an All-SEC season as a junior. He was named Second-team All-SEC by The Associated Press after he racked up 74 tackles, including 44 solo stops, including 6.5 TFL and six quarterback hurries. He also netted 2.5 sacks. In 2004, he saw action at defensive tackle in all 11 games during his sophomore season. He made his first career start at defensive tackle in the Hogs’ 49-20 win over Louisiana-Monroe. He tallied 26 tackles, including 4.5 tackles for loss and two sacks. He made at least one stop in 10 of 11 games. In 2003, he was initially targeted for a redshirt season, he was called into action in the fourth game of the season on the Hogs’ defensive front. He earned 12 tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery in his eight games.

paragraph: Jackson was a member of the Associated Press Arkansas Super Team as a senior. As a junior nose guard, he made 76 tackles with 50 unassisted stops while recording 4.5 sacks and three fumble recoveries. As a junior fullback he rushed for 880 yards and 13 touchdowns. As a senior, he had 80 tackles (eight for loss) and eight sacks. He was a member of the PrepStar All-Region VI Team.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:St. Louis Rams.

paragraph: Jackson was originally drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft. July 9, 2007, he signed a three-year contract with the Rams. He was cut on September 7, 2007, and signed to the Rams practice squad. On September 19, 2007, Jackson was released from the Rams practice squad and on November 20, 2007, the San Diego Chargers signed him to their practice squad.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Diego Chargers.

paragraph: Jackson was re-signed by the Chargers on January 29, 2008. He was cut from the team on August 30, 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Recent Events.

paragraph: On June 5, 2009, Jackson was arrested in Little Rock on drug charges.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arkansas Razorbacks bio

description: Player of American football

wikidata_label: Keith Jackson

wikipedia_title: Keith Jackson (defensive tackle)


text:
Qajar dynasty
khan
Ganja khanate
Shahverdi Khan
Rahim Khan
Georgian
Qajar tribe
Russo-Turkish war
Erekle II
Shamshadilu
Quba
Shaki
Iranian expedition
khan of Karabakh
Valerian Zubov
Persian Expedition of 1796
Russo-Persian War
Ganja
Russia
Pavel Tsitsianov
Tiflis
Armenians
Tabriz
First State Duma
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
Tsitsianov
Palace of Ganja Khans

categories: People from Ganja, Azerbaijan,Iranian generals,1748 births,Khans of Ganja,Qajar dynasty,Battle of Krtsanisi,1804 deaths

paragraph: Javad Khan

paragraph: Jafar al-Javad Khan Ziyad oghlu Qajar (c. 1748 – 1804) was a member of the Qajar dynasty, and the last khan of the Ganja khanate from 1786 to 1804.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Javad Khan was a son of Shahverdi Khan and brother of Rahim Khan. Javad Khan succeeded his brother on Rahim Khan's deposition through Georgian intervention in 1786. Alike the then ruling dynasty of Iran, Javad Khan was a member of the Qajar tribe. With the accession to power, Javad Khan faced a threat from Georgia. In September 1787, a combined Georgia and Russian army under the command of Colonel Burnashev marched to Ganja, but the ongoing Russo-Turkish war forced the allies to withdraw. A fragile peace ensued and the Georgia king Erekle II granted Javad Khan control over Shamshadilu, but the khan of Ganja failed to bring the district into submission. In early 1789 Erekle II, now allied with Fath Ali Khan of Quba and Muhammad Hasan Khan of Shaki, attacked Ganja and Javad Khan had to abandon his capital without fighting. After three months, Fath Ali Khan died and Javad was able to resume his reign. His political orientation was pro-Iranian that brought him in conflict with Georgia and Russia. In 1795, Javad Khan of Ganja joined the Iranian expedition against Georgia. Erekle II retaliated by blockading Ganja in 1796, but the khan of Karabakh brokered peace. In September 1796 Ganja was temporarily occupied by the Russian general Valerian Zubov during his Persian Expedition of 1796.

paragraph: During the first Russo-Persian War (1804-1813), Ganja was considered by Russians as a town of foremost importance. General Pavel Tsitsianov approached Javad khan several times asking him to submit to Russian rule, but each time was refused. In November 1803, the Russian army moved from Tiflis and in December, Tsitsianov started the siege preparations. After heavy artillery bombardment, on January 3, 1804, Tsitsianov gave the order to attack the fortress. During the fierce fighting, Armenians residing in the city open the gates of the castle and, as a results, the Russians were able to capture the fortress. Javad khan was killed, together with his sons at war.

paragraph: Some members of his family were able to escape to Tabriz, while others remained in Ganja. Javad Khan's descendants in the Russian empire bore the surname Ziatkhanov. Ismail Khan Ziatkhanov was a member of the First State Duma of the Russian empire, and later a prominent activist of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

paragraph: Section::::Javad Khan's handwritten letter to Tsitsianov.

paragraph: Javad Khan's handwritten letter (or his Secretary) to Tsitsianov :

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Palace of Ganja Khans

description: Khan of ganja

wikidata_label: Javad Khan

wikipedia_title: Javad Khan


text:
Ghibelline
Viterbo
Vetralla
Orvieto
Narni
Lazio
Umbria
Prefetti di Vico
Louis IV of Bavaria
Pope Clement VI
Cola di Rienzo
Avignon
Gil de Albornoz
Innocent VI
Papal States
Charles IV of Bohemia

categories: 1366 deaths,People excommunicated by the Catholic Church,Condottieri,Year of birth unknown,Lords of Italy

paragraph: Giovanni di Vico

paragraph: Giovanni di Vico (died 1366) was an Italian Ghibelline leader, lord of Viterbo, Vetralla, Orvieto, Narni and numerous other lands in northern Lazio and Umbria. He is the most famous member of the Prefetti di Vico family.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Giovanni is mentioned for the first time in 1322. In 1337 he inherited the charge of prefect of Rome from his father Manfredi. The following year he entered Viterbo, killing his brother Faziolo, who had remained loyal to the Pope. Giovanni was named Imperial vicar of Latium by emperor Louis IV of Bavaria, confirmed in 1342 by Pope Clement VI.

paragraph: However, increasing contrasts with the latter drove him to an open rebellion in 1344, in which he expanded his lordship. After a short reconciliation, in 1347 Cola di Rienzo, senator of Rome, declared Giovanni a rebel and waged war against him. Assailed by 7,000 men, he was forced to sue for a surrender, and to renounce his title of prefect. Giovanni was again arrested in Rome, twice, but was freed with the fall of Cola di Rienzo.

paragraph: He thenceforth continued his ruthless policy of ravages against the Papal territories, refusing always to present himself in Avignon to respond for his deeds. In 1352 the Papal army attacked Viterbo; Giovanni resisted successfully in a siege of seven months, but was excommunicated. He was also initially victorious against Gil de Albornoz, the skillful Cardinal sent by Pope Innocent VI to conquer back the usurped territories of the Papal States, but in 1354 he was decisively defeated near Orvieto. After a short resistance in Viterbo, he surrendered and swore loyalty to Albornoz and the Church.

paragraph: In March 1355 he accompanied Charles IV of Bohemia to Rome for his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor. Taking advantage of Charles' protection, he tried to spur new rebellions in the Papal territories, but was always countered by Albornoz. He continued to rage sporadically in Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria, and died in April 1366, excommunicated by the Church.

description: Italian noble

wikidata_label: Giovanni di Vico

wikipedia_title: Giovanni di Vico


text: noise rock

text: Melt-Banana

text: guitar

text: extended technique

text: effects pedals

text: surgical mask

text: Spike

text: John Zorn

text: Tzadik Records

text: Agata's 1999 guitar rig

text: Agata's 2005 guitar rig

categories: Japanese rock musicians,Living people,Japanese rock guitarists,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Ichirou Agata

paragraph: Ichirou Agata is the guitarist for the Japanese noise rock band Melt-Banana. Agata is known particularly for his furious stage antics, jumping and constantly moving around, and exceedingly unique approach to playing the guitar which involves extended technique heavy use of effects pedals

paragraph: and guitar slides resulting in sounds not easily attributed to the guitar. He is also known for consistently wearing a surgical mask on stage during performances.

paragraph: He has also released a solo guitar album, entitled "Spike", on John Zorn's Tzadik Records.

paragraph: Agata claims that he gets the inspiration for his guitar riffs from the moment of euphoria when achieving something on a video game (Tony Hawk's is a favourite of his) and at that moment sings out the melody pattern and converts it to guitar.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Agata's 1999 guitar rig

paragraph: BULLET::::- Agata's 2005 guitar rig

paragraph: BULLET::::- In depth interview about his guitar playing from QRD in 2010

description: guitarist

wikidata_label: Ichirou Agata

wikipedia_title: Ichirou Agata