text:
Ponevezh
Imperial Academy of Arts
Palace of Fine Arts
World's Columbian Exposition
Tretyakov Gallery
Pushkin House
State Gornyi Institute
Vera F. Komissargevskaya
Anton S. Arensky
Luigi O. Premazzi
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Fyodor Buchholz
images of Maria Lvovna Dillon work

categories: 1932 deaths,1858 births,19th-century Russian sculptors,19th-century women artists

paragraph: Maria Lvovna Dillon

paragraph: Maria Lvovna Dillon (1858−1932) was a Russian sculptor. She is known for her allegorical, genre, memorial, and portrait sculpture. Dillon is acknowledged as the first Russian female professional sculptor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Dillon was born in Ponevezh, Lithuania on October 27, 1858. She studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg where she was taught by A. R. von Bock, Nikolay Laveretsky and I. I. Podosenov. She won multiple awards while at the Academy.

paragraph: She traveled to Paris, and then to Italy after she completed her studies at the Academy.

paragraph: Dillon exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

paragraph: Her works are included in the collections of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Urban Sculpture in St. Petersburg, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Pushkin House in St. Petersburg, and the State Gornyi Institute in Kamchatka.

paragraph: In the 1890s to the 1910s, Dillon created a number of memorial tombs, including for the actress Vera F. Komissargevskaya, the composer Anton S. Arensky and painter Luigi O. Premazzi. She also sculpted a monument to the mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky in Kazan.

paragraph: Her husband was the Russian painter Fyodor Buchholz. She died in Leningrad on June 14, 1932.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: An exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Dillon's birth was held at St Michael's Castle, part of the State Russian Museum, in 2010.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- images of Maria Lvovna Dillon work on "International Women Sculptors 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition"

alias:
Maria L'vovna Dillon
Maria Lvovna Dillon

description: Lithuanian sculptor (1858-1932)

wikidata_label: Marija Dilon

wikipedia_title: Maria Lvovna Dillon


text:
astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Cayenne
astronomical unit
seconds pendulum
ligne
Isaac Newton
gravimetry
Seconds pendulum

categories: French astronomers,1630 births,1696 deaths

paragraph: Jean Richer

paragraph: Jean Richer (1630–1696) was a French astronomer and assistant ("élève astronome") at The French Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Giovanni Domenico Cassini.

paragraph: Between 1671 and 1673 he performed experiments and carried out celestial observations in Cayenne, French Guiana, at the request of the French Academy. His observations and measurements of Mars during its perihelic opposition, coupled with those made simultaneously in Paris by Cassini, led to the earliest data-based estimate of the distance between Earth and Mars, which they then used to calculate the distance between the Sun and Earth (the astronomical unit).

paragraph: While there he also measured the length of a seconds pendulum, that is a pendulum with a half-swing of one second, and found it to be 1.25 "lignes" (2.8 millimeters*) shorter than at Paris. Isaac Newton later commented that if, as he had proposed, the force of gravity decreases with the inverse square of the distance between objects, the obvious conclusion to be drawn from Richer's work is that near-equatorial Cayenne is further from the center of the earth than Paris, where the first such measurements had been taken. Thus the earth could not be spherical, as had earlier been presumed, but rather bulges at and near the equator. It could be said that Richer was the first person to observe a change in gravitational force over the surface of the earth, beginning the science of gravimetry.

paragraph: Richer's 1673 return to Paris was duly celebrated, and when his data were reduced, the findings for which we remember him could be made public. However, publication was delayed, for unknown causes, until 1679, when a work entitled " Observations Astronomiques et Physiques Faites en L'Isle de Caïenne par M. Richer, de l'Academie Royale des Sciences." was released under Richer's name. Not long thereafter, he was assigned to an engineering project in Germany. The remainder of his life is undocumented. Most biographers believe that he died at Paris in 1696.

paragraph: BULLET::::- note: this does not agree with the difference of 2.5 minutes observed as quoted on the pendulum page... This number gives a time difference of 8.1 minutes (~5.2 if the world's lowest, in Mexico City, is assumed (still a factor of 2x above quoted))

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Seconds pendulum

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Richer.html

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/richer.html

description: French astronomer

wikidata_label: Jean Richer

wikipedia_title: Jean Richer


text: Philadelphia Phillies

text: Boston Beaneaters

text: Cincinnati Reds

text: Marion, Ohio

text: Warren G. Harding

text: Reds

text: Little Rock, Arkansas

categories: 1943 deaths,Mansfield (minor league baseball) players,Minor league baseball managers,Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players,19th-century baseball players,Philadelphia Phillies players,Cincinnati Reds players,Major League Baseball shortstops,Baseball players from Ohio,People from Marion, Ohio,Indianapolis Hoosiers (minor league) players,Major League Baseball player-managers,Boston Beaneaters players,Davenport Hawkeyes players,Detroit Tigers (Western League) players,Cincinnati Reds managers,Philadelphia Phillies managers,Terre Haute (minor league baseball) players,1867 births

paragraph: Bob Allen (shortstop)

paragraph: Robert Gilman Allen (July 10, 1867 – May 14, 1943) was an American shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Boston Beaneaters and the Cincinnati Reds, as well as a manager for two brief stints with the Phillies and Reds. He was born in Marion, Ohio, and as a youth, played baseball with future president Warren G. Harding. Allen made his NL debut in with the Phillies, and in his day was considered a power hitter, hitting a career high eight home runs in . When Allen's contract was up, he took a three-year hiatus from baseball, but he later joined the Beaneaters. His playing time diminished and he walked away from baseball again after the 1897 season. In , he was hired as manager of the Reds, occasionally inserting himself into the game as a shortstop. He finished 62–77 and in seventh place. He was fired after one season at the helm.

paragraph: He died in Little Rock, Arkansas at age 75.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball player–managers

description: baseball shortstop

wikidata_label: Bob Allen

wikipedia_title: Bob Allen (shortstop)


text:
Ivry-Port
Benz
Vivinus
voiturette
Société anonyme des automobiles Unic
Richard-Brasier
Gordon Bennett Cup
Léon Théry
Richard-Brasier
Unic
Baron Henri de Rothschild
Société anonyme des automobiles UNIC
Puteaux
Rouen

categories: 1863 births,Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France,1922 deaths,French racing drivers

paragraph: Georges Richard

paragraph: Georges Richard (1863–1922) was a French racing driver and automobile industry pioneer.

paragraph: His first automobile manufacturing business, "Société des Anciens Établissements Georges Richard", was founded in the North-Paris suburb of "Ivry-Port" in 1897 by Georges Richard and his brother Maxime Richard. Originally copying Benz cars of the era, Richard bought a licence, in 1900, from the Belgian Vivinus to build voiturettes. By 1905, however, there had been a parting of the ways with Henri Brasier (who had become Richard's business partner in 1901). Georges Richard moved on to create in 1905 or 1906 a new automobile company called Société anonyme des automobiles Unic

paragraph: Section::::Origins.

paragraph: During the 1890s George Richard and his elder brother, Félix-Maxime worked in a bicycle repair and manufacturing business. The business flourished and the brothers created a company which they called "Société des Cycles Georges Richard". It is here, as far back as 1893, that we find the first reference to Richard producing and selling motor cars.

paragraph: Section::::From bicycles to cars.

paragraph: The brothers' belief in the quality of their bicycles enabled them to include a life-time guarantee against manufacturing defects when selling the machines. This enhanced the reputation of Georges-Richard bicycles and sales boomed. New customers included large-scale users of bicycles such as the health services and the military, along with the postal and telegraph services. Expansion led to a name change, and the business became the "Société de Construction de cycles et d'Automobiles Georges Richard". The first formerly presented "motor car" was a two-seater propelled by a single cylinder 708cc power unit producing a claimed maximum output of 3.5 hp. This "voiturette" was presented at the first national bicycle show to admit motorised vehicles, and would be constructed between 1896 and 1902, being sold under the name "Pony".

paragraph: Section::::Henri Brasier moves in.

paragraph: The brothers took on another partner, Charles-Henri Brasier, in 1901. Brasier's influence within the business grew to the point where, in 1902 the name "Georges-Richard" disappeared from the auto-market. However, in 1903 cars continued to emerge from the little factory at 2 rue de Galilée in Ivry, now carrying the Richard-Brasier name.

paragraph: Section::::Business success and management rivalry.

paragraph: In 1904 and again in 1905 the prestigious Gordon Bennett Cup was won by Richard-Brasier cars, driven by Léon Théry. This did much to build a strong reputation for the cars. Relations deteriorated, however, between Brasier and Richard, Richard being repeatedly away from his desk due to his motor racing activities and, it was reported, injuries sustained as a result. In 1904 Brasier had himself appointed (sole or senior) executive director ("dirigeant et administrateur"), and gave notice to Richard terminating the agreement between them, while purporting to retain both the factory at Ivry-Port and the "four-leaf clover" trade mark which Richard had recently registered for the business. There followed a bitter litigation between the partners whereby Brasier sought to prevent Richard from using the name "Richard" in connection with any future automobile manufacturing activity. In fact, Richard won the legal tussle, but he never would, in future, use the trade name "Richard" in connection with automobile manufacture. After 1905 Georges Richard was no longer associated with the cars that till then had carried his name. Richard-Brasier automobiles, produced at the same factory as before, were from 1905 badged simply as Brasiers, and retained that name as the business faded from prominence, until the now renamed "Société des Automobiles Brasier" folded in 1930.

paragraph: Georges Richard himself nevertheless continued to play a leading role in the French auto industry, establishing in 1905 the Unic automobile business which half a century later, having switched its focus from passenger cars to commercial vehicles, had evolved into a leading French truck manufacturer.

paragraph: Section::::Société anonyme des automobiles Unic.

paragraph: In 1905, following a meeting with the polymath entrepreneur Baron Henri de Rothschild, Georges Richard obtained sufficient funding to establish the Société anonyme des automobiles UNIC, and to construct a first factory for the new enterprise in the north-Paris suburb of Puteaux, in order to manufacture "unique" motor vehicles tailored to various sets of customer requirements. Initially the company manufactured only light passenger cars and taxis.

paragraph: In 1922, paving the way for a future in which the company would be known as a truck manufacturer, Unic introduced a 3-ton truck, the Unic M5C. This was also the year in which Georges Richard died, on 22 June, following a motor accident, while on the way to Rouen. For the Unic business, however, the best years still lay ahead.

wikidata_label: Georges Richard

wikipedia_title: Georges Richard


text: Canadian

text: trade unionist

text: left-wing

text: politician

text: Toronto

text: Ontario

text: city council

text: Mayor of Toronto

text: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

text: Orange Order in Canada

text: Lancashire, England

text: high school

text: Evening Star

text: Trades and Labour Congress of Canada

text: Socialist Party of Canada

text: Board of Control

text: Ontario Labour Party

text: House of Commons of Canada

text: Parliament

text: Communists

text: Ontario CCF

text: Toronto Daily Star

text: 1936 Summer Olympics

text: Nazi Germany

text: Methodist

text: Christian socialist

text: Epworth League

text: Catholic

text: streetcar

text: Ruskin Literary and Debating Society

categories: Methodist socialists,Canadian Christian socialists,Road incident deaths in Canada,Toronto city councillors,1938 deaths,Labour candidates in the 1926 Canadian federal election,1873 births,Mayors of Toronto,Accidental deaths in Ontario,Canadian trade unionists

paragraph: James Simpson (politician)

paragraph: James "Jimmie" Simpson (1873 – September 24, 1938) was a Canadian trade unionist, printer, journalist and left-wing politician in Toronto, Ontario. He was a longtime member of Toronto's city council and served as Mayor of Toronto in 1935, the first member of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to serve in that capacity. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Simpson was born in Lancashire, England and immigrated to Canada at the age of 14. Never attending high school, Simpson worked selling newspapers at the age of 10 and then began working for a grocer at the age of 13 before moving to Canada where he worked in a tin factory before joining the printing trade.

paragraph: Section::::Printing trade and journalism.

paragraph: In 1892, Simpson was one of 27 members of the Typographical Union on strike against the "Toronto News". The strikers, including Simpson, founded the "Evening Star" on November 3, 1892, as a strike paper. For ten years, Simpson served as the "Star" City Hall reporter including nine years as the paper's municipal editor. He subsequently became editor of a labour newspaper.

paragraph: Section::::Labour leader.

paragraph: Simpson went on to become a labour leader and was the vice-president of the Toronto and District Trades and Labour Council at the turn of the century and also served three terms as vice-president of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada between 1904 and 1936.

paragraph: Section::::Labour Party.

paragraph: As a socialist labour politician, he ran in the May 1902 Ontario election in Toronto.

paragraph: As a candidate for the newly-formed Socialist Party of Canada, he ran in the 1905 Ontario provincial election and in a 1906 provincial by-election in Toronto and in the 1908 federal general election, all unsuccessfully.

paragraph: He was elected and served as a Toronto school board trustee, 1905–10.

paragraph: He ran for mayor of Toronto in 1908 as a Socialist but was not elected.

paragraph: He was elected to Toronto's Board of Control in 1914 with the highest vote total ever given a candidate up to that time and sat on the Board of Control again from 1930 to 1934.

paragraph: He was one of the co-leaders of the Ontario Labour Party (Ontario section of the Canadian Labour Party) in the 1920s and a Labour candidate for the House of Commons of Canada on several occasions that decade but was unable to win election to Parliament.

paragraph: Simpson played a leading role in opposing Communists in the Labour Party. After Communists convinced the party to withdraw its nomination of Simpson as its candidate for Toronto city council's Board of Control in 1927, Simpson and his supporters quit the party leading to its collapse. They then formed the Toronto Labour Party, which explicitly excluded Communists from membership.

paragraph: Section::::Mayor.

paragraph: In the 1930s he became a leading member of the Ontario CCF. In 1934 he ran as a CCF candidate for the Toronto Board of Control and was elected which set the stage for him to run for Mayor of Toronto in 1935. The only one of the city's newspapers to support him was the "Toronto Daily Star". The other papers and both the Conservative and Liberal parties supported Simpson's opponent, Alderman Harry Hunt and accused the CCF of being anti-British and under Communist influence. Percy Parker, a leading Liberal, declared on the radio that "the bells of Moscow will ring when Simpson is elected mayor."

paragraph: Simpson's personal popularity and the organization put together by the CCF and the trade union movement was enough to elect him making Toronto the largest city in North America to have elected a socialist mayor. As mayor, Simpson supported the campaign to boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics being held in Nazi Germany that summer.

paragraph: Section::::Religion.

paragraph: Simpson was a Methodist and Christian socialist who became active with the Epworth League movement at the age of 16 ultimately becoming president of the Epworth League Toronto Conference. He also served as president of the Toronto Methodist Young People's Union and the Toronto Methodists' Cycling Union. Simpson was intensely anti-Catholic which cost him the support of the "Toronto Star". When he ran for re-election as mayor in 1936 this contributed to his defeat.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Simpson was killed in 1938 when his car crashed into a streetcar.

paragraph: Section::::Ruskin Literary and Debating Society.

paragraph: In 1900, Simpson and eight others founded the Ruskin Literary and Debating Society and served as its first president. Today, it is Canada's oldest debating society.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920". By Ian McKay. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2008.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Address by Mayor Simpson to the Empire Club of Canada, January 10, 1935

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Canadian Encyclopedia: James Simpson

description: Canadian politician

wikidata_label: James Simpson

wikipedia_title: James Simpson (politician)


text: Torrejoncillo del Rey

text: Cuenca

text: Santo Domingo

text: Guyana

text: Venezuela

text: Trinidad

text: Tobago

text: Curaçao

text: Aruba

text: Colombia

text: Lake Maracaibo

text: Santa Cruz

text: Torrejoncillo del Rey

text: Oña

text: merindad

text: Burgos

text: Duke of Medinaceli

text: page

text: Archbishop of Burgos

text: Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca

text: Council of the Indies

text: Granada

text: Americas

text: Cibao

text: Taíno

text: cacique

text: La Isabela

text: Bartolomé de las Casas

text: Catholic Monarchs

text: caravel

text: pilot

text: cartographer

text: Juan de la Cosa

text: navigator

text: Amerigo Vespucci

text: Africa

text: Cape Verde

text: Brazil

text: Essequibo

text: Orinoco

text: Gulf of Paria

text: peninsula

text: Trinidad

text: Margarita

text: India

text: Paraguaná Peninsula

text: Curacao

text: Aruba

text: Las Aves archipelago

text: Gulf of Venezuela

text: Wayuu people

text: palafito

text: Amerigo Vespucci

text: Venice

text: Martín Fernández de Enciso

text: Lake Maracaibo

text: Saint Bartholomew

text: Cabo de la Vela

text: Coquivacoa

text: pearl

text: gold

text: slave

text: map

text: slaves

text: maravedis

text: profit

text: Pedro Alonso Nino

text: Demetrio Ramos

text: Andalusia

text: Juan de Vergara

text: García de Campos

text: caravel

text: Bahia Honda

text: King

text: Ferdinand the Catholic

text: cape

text: Cabo Gracias a Dios

text: Honduras

text: Nicaragua

text: Cabo de la Vela

text: Diego de Nicuesa

text: Veragua

text: New Andalusia

text: Gulf of Urabá

text: brig

text: Francisco Pizarro

text: Peru

text: Hernán Cortés

text: Mexico

text: River Atrato

text: lawyer

text: Martín Fernández de Enciso

text: Juan López de Palacios Rubios

text: Cartagena

text: Colombia

text: Bartolomé de las Casas

text: Turbaco

text: San Sebastián de Urabá

text: Vasco Núñez de Balboa

text: pirate

text: hurricane

text: Sancti Spíritus

text: Cuba

text: Virgin Mary

text: Pánfilo de Narváez

text: Jamaica

text: Monasterio de San Francisco

text: Bartholomew Columbus

text: Ciudad Ojeda

text: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

text: El Caballero de la Virgen

text: Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

text: B. de las Casas

text: Sir Arthur Helps

text: Alonso de Ojeda - Biografías y Vidas

text: Alonso de Ojeda - Biografías y Vidas

text: Alonso de Ojeda

text: Alonso de Ojeda - Biografías y Vidas

text: Descubrimiento del Lago de Maracaibo

text: Relato del Cacique Cacicaná y De Ojeda

text: Monasterio de San Francisco

text: Alonso de Ojeda - Biografías y Vidas

text: Alonso de Ojeda

categories: 15th-century explorers,1468 births,History of Venezuela,16th-century Haitian people,Spanish conquistadors,Spanish explorers,16th-century Spanish people,1515 deaths,People from Cuenca, Spain,16th-century explorers,15th-century Castilians

paragraph: Alonso de Ojeda

paragraph: Alonso de Ojeda (Torrejoncillo del Rey, Cuenca 1468 (some sources state 1466) – Santo Domingo 1515) was a Spanish navigator, governor and conquistador. He travelled through Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia. He is famous for having named "Venezuela", which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Colombia, and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita).

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: He was born in Torrejoncillo del Rey (Cuenca) around 1468 (some authors claim 1466) to an impoverished noble family. He grew up in Ojeda, near Cristian Garrido Oña, in the merindad of Bureba in the present day province of Burgos in northern Spain. In his youth he served the Duke of Medinaceli, don Luis de la Cerda, as a page.

paragraph: Alonso de Ojeda was a nephew of Archbishop of Burgos Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca who would later become president of the Council of the Indies.

paragraph: He distinguished himself in the conquest of Granada with his military abilities, his skill as a swordsman and his bravery. The young Ojeda quickly won the patronage of the Archbishop, who offered his protection at the first opportunity. Alonso was slight of stature, surprisingly agile and extremely accomplished with all types of weapons. In addition he was quick witted and insightful, he was brave to the point of recklessness, vindictive to the point of cruelty, softhearted with the weak and courteous with women, quarrelsome and a duellist, but he was deeply religious and rigorously observed his religious duties.

paragraph: Section::::Arrival in Hispaniola.

paragraph: In September 1493, thanks to Rodríguez de Fonseca, he accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Americas, arriving on the island of Hispaniola. In January 1494, Columbus gave him the task of finding the members of a number of crews that were lost in the hinterland of the island. Ojeda only had fifteen men at his command in his search of the Cibao region of the island, which was controlled by the warlike Taíno cacique called . Ciboa was an area that contained many gold mines and Ojeda returned to La Isabela to report his findings to the Admiral who he found was suffering from a fever.

paragraph: In March 1494 Columbus founded Fort Santo Tomás, with Pedro Margarit in command, later relieved by Ojeda.

paragraph: Caonabo and his warriors attacked the fort and Ojeda and his men defeated them. Legend has it that Ojeda personally took Caonabo prisoner using golden shackles by making the Cacique believe that they were items of royal clothing.

paragraph: Alonso de Ojeda also took part in the battle of Vega Real (also called the battle of Jáquimo), in which, under his command, the Spanish were victorious. An account of the battle written by Father Bartolomé de las Casas states that the native army comprised ten thousand warriors, while there were only some four hundred Spanish soldiers. Of course it is possible that these figures have been exaggerated. Ojeda returned to Spain in 1496.

paragraph: Section::::First voyage to Venezuela.

paragraph: On returning to Spain, Ojeda was commissioned by the Catholic Monarchs, without the permission of Columbus, to sail for America again, which he did on 18 May 1499 with three caravels. He travelled with the pilot and cartographer Juan de la Cosa and the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. This was the first of a series of what have become known as the "minor journeys" or "Andalusian journeys" that were made to the New World.

paragraph: On leaving Spain the flotilla sailed along the west coast of Africa to Cape Verde before taking the same route that Columbus had used a year before on his third voyage. After making landfall Vespucio decided to separate from the flotilla and he sailed south towards Brazil. The main flotilla arrived at the mouths of the rivers Essequibo and Orinoco in the Gulf of Paria. It also visited the peninsulas of Paria and Araya, the islands of Trinidad and Margarita and travelled along the continental coast, always in search of a passage towards India. The flotilla then sailed along the Paraguaná Peninsula and sighted the island of Curacao, which was named "Giants Island" as the indigenous people that were seen were thought to be giants. During the same journey, he constructed a ship and visited the islands of Aruba and the Las Aves archipelago.

paragraph: During the voyage along the Paraguaná Peninsula the flotilla entered into a gulf (Gulf of Venezuela) where there were villages of the Wayuu people with palafito houses built over the water and supported on stilts made from tree trunks. These villages are said to have reminded Amerigo Vespucci of the city of Venice, (), and so the area was given the name "Venezuela" meaning "Little Venice". (However, according to Martín Fernández de Enciso, who supported Ojeda's 1509 expedition, they found a local population calling themselves the "Veneciuela", so "Venezuela" may derive from the local term.) The flotilla arrived at the entrance to Lake Maracaibo on 24 August 1499. The lake was originally named after Saint Bartholomew as this was his saints day. Ojeda also reached Cabo de la Vela, on the Guajira Peninsula, which he named "Coquivacoa".

paragraph: A few days later the expedition left Cabo de la Vela for Hispaniola with some pearls obtained in Paria, a little gold and a number of slaves. The scarcity of goods and slaves resulted in a poor economic return for investors in the expedition. However, the importance of the voyage comes from the fact that it was the first detailed reconnaissance of the coast of Venezuela and that Spanish explorers carried it out. Following Colombus' third voyage Ojeda is credited with leading the second European expedition to have visited Venezuela, and the first to have visited Colombia. The expedition also gave Juan de la Cosa the chance to draw the first known map of the area now known as Venezuela, as well as being possibly the first journey that Vespucio made to the New World.

paragraph: However, when the expedition arrived in Hispaniola on 5 September the followers of Christopher Columbus were angry because they considered that Ojeda was infringing upon Columbus’ exploring privileges. This resulted in brawls and fights between both groups, which left a number of dead and wounded. Ojeda took many captives back to Spain whom he sold as slaves. Even so, the voyage was not financially successful, netting some fifteen thousand maravedis in profit to be divided among the fifty-five crewmembers surviving from the original three hundred. Note, that since forty maravedis per day was an average wage for skilled labour at this time, they could have made more money staying at home. Returning on the heels of Pedro Alonso Nino's smaller but far more lucrative voyage magnified this disappointment. The date of return is disputed: it is usually stated that Ojeda returned in June 1500 but the historian Demetrio Ramos has suggested the earlier date of November 1499.

paragraph: Section::::Second voyage to Venezuela.

paragraph: Ojeda decided to make another journey and he received a new commission from the Catholic Monarchs on 8 June 1501. He was appointed Governor of Coquivacoa behind the back of Christopher Columbus. This appointment gave him the right to found a colony in this area, although he was advised not to visit Paria. On this occasion he formed a partnership with the Andalusian merchants Juan de Vergara and García de Campos, who were able to charter four caravels: the "Santa María de la Antigua", the "Santa María de la Grenada", the "Magdalena", and the "Santa Ana".

paragraph: Ojeda set sail from Spain in January 1502 and he followed the same route as his first voyage. On this occasion he kept his distance from the Gulf of Paria and made landfall on Margarita Island where, according to some sources, he tried to obtain gold and pearls from the indigenous people using a number of different methods. He sailed along the coast of Venezuela from Curiana to the Paraguaná Peninsula. On 3 May 1502 he founded a colony on the Guajira Peninsula, at Bahia Honda. The colony was called "Santa Cruz" and it was the first Spanish settlement on Colombian territory and therefore the first on the American mainland.

paragraph: However, the colony did not last for more than three months, as the new arrivals started attacking the indigenous villages in the area, causing constant conflict with them. In addition to this there were personal difficulties between Ojeda and his men. At this point Vergara and Campos took Ojeda prisoner and abandoned the settlement with the small amount of plunder that had been captured. Ojeda was put in prison in Hispaniola in May 1502, where he was held until 1504. He was released following an appeal made by Archbishop Rodríguez de Fonseca, although he had to pay a costly indemnity, which left him with little money.

paragraph: The second voyage was therefore a failure as he had not discovered any new areas and he had not received much of a share of the plunder obtained by Vergara and Campos. In addition the Santa Cruz colony was abandoned and the Governorship of Coquivacoa was abolished.

paragraph: Section::::Third voyage to New Andalusia.

paragraph: On regaining his freedom Ojeda remained in Hispaniola for four years with little to do. (Some authors think that, on his release from prison, Ojeda returned to Spain.) Then in 1508 he learnt that King Ferdinand the Catholic was interviewing people interested in colonizing and governing the section of mainland between the capes of Cabo Gracias a Dios (on the border between present day Honduras and Nicaragua) and Cabo de la Vela in present-day Colombia. Juan de la Cosa went to Spain in order to represent Ojeda at court. One of Ojeda’s rivals was Diego de Nicuesa.

paragraph: Both candidates had good reputations and sympathizers at court, so the King decided to divide the region into two governorates: Veragua to the west and New Andalusia to the east as far as the Gulf of Urabá. The former was awarded to Nicuesa and the latter to Ojeda in a commission signed in 1508.

paragraph: The new governors repaired to Santo Domingo in order to prepare the expeditionary flotillas. There was a great disparity between the two flotillas. As Nicuesa was wealthier and had better credit with the colonial authorities he was able to attract 800 men, many horses, five caravels and two brigs. While Ojeda’s flotilla only consisted of a little more than 300 men, two brigs and two smaller ships. Among those who embarked on these four vessels was Francisco Pizarro, the future conqueror of Peru. Hernán Cortés, who was later to dominate Mexico, would have been among the soldiers of fortune engaged in this adventure, had a sudden illness not prevented him from sailing. Due to the disputes regarding the extent of each of the two governorates, Juan de la Cosa decided that the River Atrato would form the boundary between the two regions.

paragraph: Ojeda promised to make the wealthy lawyer Martín Fernández de Enciso mayor of the new colony that Ojeda planned to establish in New Andalusia. Encisco was ordered to follow on after the main flotilla with a chartered boat and more provisions. The main flotilla finally set sail from Santo Domingo on 10 November 1509, a few days ahead of Nicuesa. In an attempt to avoid problems with the indigenous peoples Ojeda took the unusual step of asking the writer Juan López de Palacios Rubios to draft a proclamation. This invited the local people to submit peacefully to rule by Imperial Spain or be forced to do so. The proclamation had the approval of the Spanish authorities.

paragraph: The flotilla arrived at Bahia de Calamar in present-day Cartagena (Colombia). This was against the wishes of De la Cosa who did not want to land in the area. After disembarking with about 70 men Ojeda encountered a number of indigenous tribes. He then sent out missionaries and interpreters to read out the proclamation that had been drafted by Palacios Rubios. The indigenous people were upset by this proclamation and so Ojeda tried to placate them by offering them trinkets. At this time the Spanish were also raiding villages to capture Indians for slaves. An eyewitness account recorded by historian Bartolomé de las Casas notes, "The Spaniards worked an incredible slaughter on that village, they spared no one, women, children, babies or not. Then they robbed." These actions so provoked the indigenous people that they started to fight against the Spanish settlers. Ojeda defeated the natives in the coastal area and on pursuing some of the survivors who had escaped into the jungle he came upon the village of Turbaco. The Spanish were then taken by surprise by a counterattack. Nearly the entire party were wiped out in the battle and Juan de la Cosa sacrificed his life so that Ojeda could escape. Only one other Spanish soldier survived the battle and he and Ojeda fled back to the coast where they were rescued by the ships anchored in the bay.

paragraph: Nicuesa arrived with his flotilla soon after and, worried by Ojeda’s losses, he gave him arms and men. The two men then forgot their differences and joined forces to seek revenge on the people of Turbaco, who were massacred to a man.

paragraph: Section::::Governor of Nueva Andalucía and Urabá.

paragraph: Nicuesa then left for Veragua while Ojeda continued travelling along the coast of Nueva Andalucía toward the southwest. On 20 January 1510 he founded the settlement of San Sebastián de Urabá, which in reality was little more than a fort.

paragraph: However, the fort soon grew short of food, which exacerbated the problems caused by the unhealthy climate and the constant threat of attack by the local tribes who attacked the Spaniards with poisoned arrows. Ojeda was wounded on the leg by one such attack.

paragraph: Eight months after the flotilla left Santo Domingo the assistance promised by Fernández de Enciso still had not arrived. Francisco Pizarro was placed in charge of the fort and ordered to stay there for the fifty days that it would take for Ojeda to travel to and return from Santo Domingo. However, Ojeda never returned to San Sebastian and after the fifty days Pizarro decided to leave the colony in the two brigs along with the 70 colonists. A little later Fernández de Enciso, along with Vasco Núñez de Balboa, arrived to provide assistance to the survivors. The indigenous people who lived in the area later burnt down the fort.

paragraph: Ojeda eventually returned to Santo Domingo in the brig of a Spanish pirate called Bernardino de Talavera who was fleeing from Hispaniola and passed by the port.

paragraph: Section::::Shipwrecked in Cuba.

paragraph: When Ojeda returned to Santo Domingo he was accompanied by seventy men and he was seeking help. However, the pirate took Ojeda prisoner and would not set him free. At this point a powerful hurricane struck the boat and Talavera had to seek help from Ojeda. Despite their efforts the ship was shipwrecked at Jagua, Sancti Spíritus, in the south of Cuba. Ojeda decided to travel along the coast on foot with Talavera and his men in order to reach Maisí Point from where they would be able to get to Hispaniola.

paragraph: However, the party faced a number of difficulties en route and half of the men died of hunger, illness or other hardships that they met along the way. The sole possession remaining to Ojeda was an image of the Virgin Mary, which he had carried with him since he left Spain. He made a promise on this image that he would build a church dedicated to her in the first village that he reached where he was given hospitality.

paragraph: A little later, and with only a dozen men and the pirate Talavera still surviving, he arrived in the district of Cueybá where the chief Cacicaná provided food and shelter. Ojeda was true to his word and he built a small hermitage to the Virgin in the village, which was venerated by the local people. The party was rescued by Pánfilo de Narváez and taken to Jamaica, where Talavera was imprisoned for piracy. From Jamaica Ojeda returned to Hispaniola where he learned that Fernández de Enciso had been able to relieve the colonists who had stayed in San Sebastián.

paragraph: Section::::Later life and death.

paragraph: After the failure of his journey to Nueva Andalucía, Ojeda did not mount any further expeditions and he renounced his position as governor. He lived out the last five years of his life in Santo Domingo. He later withdrew to the Monasterio de San Francisco where he died in 1515. Las Casas records of his death, that "He died sick and poor, he didn't have a cent to bury him, I think, for all the pearls, the gold he had … stolen from the Indians, for all the slaves he had made of them the times he hit the mainland. He willed himself to be buried (beneath) the door of the … monastery of St. Francis..." This was so that all the visitors to the monastery would walk over his grave as a penance for all the errors that he had committed during his life.

paragraph: His remains were moved to the former Convento Dominico. The excavations also found the remains of Bartholomew Columbus.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Ciudad Ojeda, a city on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, is named in his honour.

paragraph: The Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez tells the story of the life of the conquistador in his novel "El Caballero de la Virgen" (1929).

paragraph: In addition the Spanish writer Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa tells the story of Ojeda's life in his novel "Centauros" (2007).

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- B. de las Casas, "Historia de las Indias" (five volumes, Madrid, 1875–76)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Arthur Helps, "The Spanish Conquest in America", (new edition, four volumes, New York, 1900–04)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alonso de Ojeda - Biografías y Vidas

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alonso de Ojeda

paragraph: BULLET::::- Descubrimiento del Lago de Maracaibo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Relato del Cacique Cacicaná y De Ojeda

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monasterio de San Francisco

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alonso de Ojeda

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biografía de Alonso de Ojeda (includes images of the conquistador) (in English)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Link to the web page of Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (author of Centauros which relates the story of Alonso de Ojeda)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alonso de Ojeda en Historia del Nuevo Mundo

alias:
Alonso de Hojeda
Alfonso de Ojeda
Alonzo de Hojeda

description: Spanish navigator and governor

wikidata_label: Alonso de Ojeda

wikipedia_title: Alonso de Ojeda


text:
genre fiction
Wyggeston Grammar School
Guernsey
Second World War
St. Peter Port
Evington
First World War
Ministry of Information
Project Gutenberg Australia
Digby George Gerahty
Stark House Press
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown
filmed 1917
filmed 1919
filmed 1920
The Great Impersonation
The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent
The Game of Liberty
The Black Box
The Game of Liberty
The World's Great Snare
The Silent Master
The Test of Honor
The Illustrious Prince
The Cinema Murder
The Golden Web
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown
The Mystery Road
Behind Masks
1921 silent film
in 1935
in 1942
Expiation
False Evidence
The Great Prince Shan
Prince of Tempters
The Lion and the Lamb
Strange Boarders
The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
E Phillips Oppenheim
Project Gutenberg Australia
1927 "Time" cover featuring Oppenheim
The Free Library
Works
Open Library

categories: 1946 deaths,People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys,19th-century British short story writers,20th-century English novelists,People from Leicester,19th-century British male writers,19th-century English novelists,English thriller writers,English male novelists,20th-century British short story writers,1866 births,English short story writers,English male short story writers,20th-century English writers

paragraph: E. Phillips Oppenheim

paragraph: Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born 22 October 1866 in Leicester, the son of Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather merchant. He worked in his father's business for almost twenty years. He went to Wyggeston Grammar School.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Oppenheim's literary success enabled him to buy a villa in France and a yacht, then a house in Guernsey, though he lost access to this during the Second World War. Afterwards he regained the house, le Vanquiédor in St. Peter Port, and he died there on 3 February 1946.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 1892 Oppenheim married Elise Clara Hopkins. They lived in Evington, Leicestershire until the First World War, and had one daughter. During the war he worked for the Ministry of Information.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Autobiography, "The Pool of Memory" (1941) at Project Gutenberg Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- The sole biography of Oppenheim is "Prince of Storytellers: The Life of E. Phillips Oppenheim" by Robert Standish, pseudonym of Digby George Gerahty. London: Peter Davies 1957.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Three Oppenheim compilations published by Stark House Press, "Secrets & Sovereigns: The Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppenheim" (2004); "Ghosts & Gamblers: The Further Uncollected Stories" (2009); and, "The Amazing Judgment / Mr. Laxworthy's Adventures" (2014), were edited and provided introductions and collector's bibliographies by Daniel Paul Morrison.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Novels.

paragraph: Oppenheim produced more than 100 novels between 1887 and 1943. They include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Expiation" (1887)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Monk of Cruta" (1894)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Peer and the Woman" (1895)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Daughter of the Marionis" (1895)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "False Evidence" (1896)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Modern Prometheus" (1896)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown" (1896)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wooing of Fortune" (1896)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Postmaster of Market Deignton" (1897)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Amazing Judgment" (1897)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mysterious Mr. Sabin" (1898)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Daughter of Astrea" (1898)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "As a Man Lives" [a.k.a. "The Yellow House"] (1898)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr. Marx's Secret" (1899)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Man and His Kingdom" (1899)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The World's Great Snare" (1900)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Millionaire of Yesterday" (1900)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Survivor" (1901)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Enoch Strone" [a.k.a. "A Master of Men"] (1901)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Sleeping Memory" [a.k.a. "The Great Awakening"] (1902) (* filmed 1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Traitors" (1902)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Prince of Sinners" (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Yellow Crayon" (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Betrayal" (1904)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Anna the Adventuress" (1904)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Maker of History" (1905)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Master Mummer" (1905)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Lost Leader" (1906)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Tragedy of Adrea" [a.k.a. "A Monk of Cruta"] (1906)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Malefactor" [a.k.a. "Mr. Wingrave, Millionaire"] (1906) (*filmed 1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Berenice" (1907)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Avenger" [a.k.a. "The Conspirators"] (1907)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Secret" [a.k.a. "The Secret"] (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Governor" (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Distributors" [a.k.a. "Ghosts of Society"] (1908) (as Anthony Partridge)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Missioner" (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Kingdom of Earth" [a.k.a. "The Black Watcher"] (1909) (as Anthony Partridge)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jeanne of the Marshes" (1909)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Illustrious Prince" (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Passers-By" (1910) (as Anthony Partridge)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lost Ambassador" [a.k.a. "The Missing Delora"] (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Golden Web" (1911) (as Anthony Partridge)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Moving Finger" [a.k.a. "A Falling Star"] (1911)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Havoc" (1911)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Court of St. Simon" (1912) (as Anthony Partridge)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lighted Way" (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Tempting of Tavernake" (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mischief Maker" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Way of These Women" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A People's Man" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Vanished Messenger" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Black Box" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Double Traitor" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Kingdom of the Blind" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Hillman" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Cinema Murder" [.ak.a. "The Other Romilly"] (1917) (*filmed 1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Pawns Count" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Zeppelin's Passenger" [a.k.a. "Mr. Lessingham Goes Home"] (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wicked Marquis" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Box with Broken Seals" [a.k.a. "The Strange Case of Mr. Jocelyn Thew"] (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Curious Quest" [a.k.a. "The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss"] (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Impersonation" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Devil's Paw" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Profiteers" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jacob's Ladder" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nobody's Man" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Evil Shepherd" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Prince Shan" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mystery Road" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wrath to Come" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Passionate Quest" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stolen Idols" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Golden Beast" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Prodigals of Monte Carlo" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Harvey Garrard's Crime" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Interloper" [a.k.a. "The Ex-Duke"] (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Miss Brown of X. Y. O." (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Light Beyond" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fortunate Wayfarer" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Matorni's Vineyard" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Treasure House of Martin Hews" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Glenlitten Murder" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Million Pound Deposit" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lion and the Lamb" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Up the Ladder of Gold" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Simple Peter Cradd" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Man from Sing Sing" [a.k.a. "Moran Chambers Smiled"] (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ostrekoff Jewels" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Murder at Monte Carlo" (1933)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jeremiah and the Princess" (1933)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gallows of Chance" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Man without Nerves" [a.k.a. "The Bank Manager"] (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Spy Paramount" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Battle of Basinghall Street" (1935)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Floating Peril" [a.k.a. "The Bird of Paradise"] (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Magnificent Hoax" [a.k.a. "Judy of Bunter's Buildings"] (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Dumb Gods Speak" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Envoy Extraordinary" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mayor on Horseback" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Colossus of Arcadia" (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Spymaster" (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "And Still I Cheat the Gallows" (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sir Adam Disappeared" (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Exit a Dictator" (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Strangers' Gate" (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Last Train Out" (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shy Plutocrat" (1941)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr. Mirakel" (1943)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Short story collections.

paragraph: Most of Oppenheim's 37 collections of short stories, 26 of which have been published in the United States, are series with sustained interest in which one group of characters appears throughout.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Long Arm of Mannister" [a.k.a. "The Long Arm"] (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Peter Ruff and the Double-Four" [a.k.a. "The Double Four"] (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "For the Queen" (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Those Other Days" (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr. Laxworthy's Adventures" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Amazing Partnership" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Game of Liberty" [a.k.a. "An Amiable Charlatan"] (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mysteries of the Riviera" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Aaron Rodd, Diviner" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hon. Algernon Knox, Detective" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Seven Conundrums" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Michael's Evil Deeds" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Inevitable Millionaires" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Gray" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Channay Syndicate" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Madame and Her Twelve Virgins" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nicholas Goade, Detective" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Exploits of Pudgy Pete" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chronicles of Melhampton" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Human Chase" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jennerton & Co." (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "What Happened to Forester" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Slane's Long Shots" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gangster's Glory" [a.k.a. "Inspector Dickens Retires"] (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sinners Beware" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Crooks in the Sunshine" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ex-Detective" (1933)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "General Besserley's Puzzle Box" (1935)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Advice Limited" (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ask Miss Mott" (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Curious Happenings to the Rooke Legatees" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Pulpit in the Grill Room" (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "General Besserley's Second Puzzle Box" (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Grassleyes Mystery" (1940)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Film adaptations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Black Box" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr Grex of Monte Carlo" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Master Mummer" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Game of Liberty" (1916), also released as "Under Suspicion"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The World's Great Snare" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Master of Men" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Hillman", filmed as "In the Balance" (1917); "The Hillman" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Court of St. Simon", filmed as "The Silent Master" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Awakening", filmed under its American title "A Sleeping Memory" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr Wingrave, Millionaire" (a.k.a. "The Malefactor"), filmed as "The Test of Honor" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Illustrious Prince" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Long Arm", filmed under its American title "The Long Arm of Mannister" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Other Romilly", filmed under its American title "The Cinema Murder" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Plunderers", filmed under its American title "The Golden Web" (1920); and again as "The Golden Web" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mystery Road" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jeanne of the Marshes", filmed as "Behind Masks" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Impersonation", filmed three times: as a 1921 silent film, then again in 1935 and in 1942

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Lost Leader" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Missioner" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Expiation" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "False Evidence" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Prince Shan" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ex-Duke", filmed as "Prince of Tempters" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Inevitable Millionaires", filmed as "Millionaires" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Passionate Quest" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Temptation of Tavernake", filmed as "Sisters of Eve" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lion and the Lamb" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent", filmed as "Strange Boarders" (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss" (1920), also filmed as "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss" (1936)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- ebooks by E Phillips Oppenheim at Project Gutenberg Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1927 "Time" cover featuring Oppenheim

paragraph: BULLET::::- Daniel Paul Morrison's site which contains extensive lists of writings by Oppenheim.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Free Library

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works at Open Library

alias:
Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Anthony Partridge

description: English novelist

wikidata_label: E. Phillips Oppenheim

wikipedia_title: E. Phillips Oppenheim


text:
Victorian era
Kemble family
Fanny Kemble
Charles Kemble
Maria Theresa Kemble
John Braham
soprano
Giuditta Pasta
Norma
Edward John Sartoris
Belgravia
Chopin
plaque
Pauline Viardot
Leonardo
Nellie Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
East Room
White House
Charles Hallé
Frederic Leighton
British Royal Academy of Art
Leighton House
Henry Evans-Gordon
Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield
Pamela Stanley
Queen Victoria
Volume 1
Volume 2

categories: English stage actresses,1815 births,Kemble family,1879 deaths,Operatic mezzo-sopranos,19th-century English actresses,English opera singers,19th-century English musicians,Women of the Victorian era

paragraph: Adelaide Kemble

paragraph: Adelaide Kemble (13 February 18154 August 1879) was an English opera singer of the Victorian era, and a member of the Kemble family of actors. She was the younger sister of Fanny Kemble, the famous actress and anti-slavery activist. Her father was actor Charles Kemble, her mother Maria Theresa Kemble.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Adelaide studied in London with John Braham and in Italy under the great soprano Giuditta Pasta. On 2 November 1841, she made her first operatic performance on the London stage in "Norma".

paragraph: In 1843 she married Edward John Sartoris and retired after a brief but brilliant career. They were hosts at the Belgravia home to Chopin where, in 1849, he made his London debut. This is now marked by a plaque. She wrote "A Week in a French Country House" (1867), a bright, humorous story, followed by other, more mediocre tales. She recorded one interesting incident at a late London concert by Pasta, whose powers had diminished badly, and she asked of fellow singer Pauline Viardot what she thought of Pasta's voice now and got the reply:

paragraph: "Ah! It is a ruin, but so is Leonardo's "Last Supper"."

paragraph: Her son, the singer Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, married Nellie Grant, the daughter of the famous American general and president Ulysses S. Grant, on 21 May 1874 in the East Room of the White House. Their son, Algernon Edward Sartoris, married the granddaughter of the conductor Sir Charles Hallé.

paragraph: The young Frederic Leighton (the painter of "Flaming June" and a president of the British Royal Academy of Art from 1878 until his death in 1895) was introduced to her circle in Rome, and was greatly influenced by her in many respects, most evidently, perhaps, in social and musical areas. Her "soirees" surely were an inspiration for his famous, annual "Leighton Musics" later in the great Victorian painter's career, held in his home (now Leighton House and open to the public) in Kensington in London. Mrs. Sartoris and the younger artist, who shortly before his death was granted a peerage, becoming Lord Leighton, maintained a close friendship for the rest of her life.

paragraph: Leighton painted several portraits of her daughter, Mary Theodosia (May) Sartoris, who married

paragraph: Henry Evans-Gordon. Their daughter Margaret Evans-Gordon married Sir Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Sheffield; their daughter Pamela Stanley (Adelaide's great-granddaughter) was an actress noted for her film and stage portrayals of Queen Victoria.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Volume 1 • Volume 2

alias:
Adelaide Sartoris
Adelaide Kemble-Sartoris

description: opera singer

wikidata_label: Adelaide Kemble

wikipedia_title: Adelaide Kemble


text:
Gerlach I, Count of Nassau
clergy
Sonnenberg Castle
Battle of Poitiers
Adolph I
John I
Amöneburg Castle
Gerlach
Mainz
Liebenau monastery
Worms
Dominican
feud
John I
fief
Hesse
Star Covenant
Henry II
Nassau
Hadamar
Wenceslaus
Wetterau
Greifenstein Castle
Kirchheimbolanden
Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg
John
Diether VIII
House of Nassau
Chronology
Nasau family

categories: 14th-century births,Counts of Nassau,Year of birth unknown,1390 deaths,House of Nassau

paragraph: Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg

paragraph: Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg ( – 4 September 1390), nicknamed "the Bellicose", was a son of Gerlach I, Count of Nassau and his second wife, Irmgard of Hohenlohe.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: As a younger son, Rupert was originally destined for a career in the clergy. Gerlach I abdicated in 1344, in favour of his sons, except he kept Sonnenberg Castle, where he lived. This castle was to be inherited by Kraft, Rupert's eldest brother. However, Kraft fell in battle while fighting on the French side in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. It was then decided that Rupert would inherit Sonnenberg.

paragraph: Rupert's half-brother from his father's first marriage ruled their father's possessions jointly until 1355, and then divided it:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adolph I inherited Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (this line died out in the male line in 1605)

paragraph: BULLET::::- John I inherited Nassau-Weilburg (this line died out in the male line in 1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rupert later inherited Nassau-Sonnenberg.

paragraph: From 1355, Rupert was bailiff at Amöneburg Castle for his half-brother Gerlach, who was Archbishop of Mainz.

paragraph: In 1361, Gerlach I died and Rupert inherited Nassau-Sonnenberg. Gerlach's widow Irmengard retired to Liebenau monastery, near Worms, where she became a Dominican nun.

paragraph: In 1367, Rupert pledged some of his territory to his half-brother Adolph I, who immediately pledged it to back to Rupert and Anna (Ruper's wife) and Irmengard (Rupert's mother and Adolph's step-mother). The reasons for this remarkable maneuver are unclear.

paragraph: In 1369, Rupert started a feud against John I of Nassau-Dillenburg, about some fief John I held from Hesse. Rupert claimed these fiefs, and joined the Star Covenant, an alliance of knights against Landgrave Henry II of Hesse.

paragraph: In 1370, his half-brother Adolph I died. In 1371, his mother, Irmengard, died, as did his half-brothers John I and Gerlach.

paragraph: From 1372 to 1374, Rupert fought another feud against John I of Nassau-Dillenburg. He managed to keep his Sonnenberg Castle intact, whereas the town of Nassau was so badly damaged during the fighting that it was uninhabitable for a while. Rupert forced John to hand over the town of Hadamar to Anna. They divided the territory.

paragraph: In 1381, King Wenceslaus appointed Rupert governor of the Wetterau. This triggered a second feud against Nassau-Dillenburg, which lasted until 1382. In 1382, Rupert and the Counts of Solms-Burgsolms expanded Greifenstein Castle and added the characteristic twin towers. Also in 1382, yet another feud against Nassau-Dillenburg broke out, which lasted until 1385.

paragraph: After the feud he fought in the "Hattstein War" on the side of the cities in the Rhine/Wetterau region, against the high nobility in the area.

paragraph: Rupert died in 1390 and was buried in Kirchheimbolanden. As he had no children, Nassau-Sonnenberg was inherited by Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: In 1362, Rupert married Anna (d. 1404), a daughter of John of Nassau-Hadamar and Elisabeth of Waldeck. The marriage remained childless. After Rupert's death, Anna married Count Diether VIII of Katzenelnbogen (d. 1402).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- House of Nassau

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chronology

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nasau family

description: Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg (1355-1390)

wikidata_label: Rupert of Nassau-Sonnenberg

wikipedia_title: Rupert, Count of Nassau-Sonnenberg


text: Auburn University

text: Auburn, Alabama

text: Providence, Rhode Island

text: St. Paul, Minnesota

text: Pennsylvania

text: hunting

text: fishing

text: Penn State University

text: Plant Pathology

text: University of Delaware

text: Plant Pathology

text: University of North Carolina

text: Veishea

text: Auburn University

text: Instrument-rated

text: Cirrus SR-22

text: Bloomington, IL.

categories: Pennsylvania State University alumni,University of Illinois alumni,Presidents of Iowa State University,University of Delaware alumni,1957 births,University of North Carolina administrators,Living people

paragraph: Steven Leath

paragraph: Steven Leath is the former president of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.

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

paragraph: Leath was born in Providence, Rhode Island, moving to St. Paul, Minnesota at the age of two. Leath later moved again to central Pennsylvania, where he took up a number of sports, including hunting and fishing.

paragraph: He obtained his Bachelor's Degree from Penn State University in 1979, studying Plant Science. Two years later he received his M.S. in Plant Pathology from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and Phytopathology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Prior to his position at Iowa State, Leath was vice president for research for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system.

paragraph: A notable event that occurred during Leath's tenure at Iowa State was his decision to permanently end Veishea after 2014. This was due to continued problems with violence that occurred during the festival, especially a series of violent disturbances that led to his suspending Veishea halfway through the festival in 2014.

paragraph: On March 20, 2017, Leath announced his resignation from Iowa State after being named the new president at Auburn University.

paragraph: On June 21, 2019, It was announced he was resigning from Auburn University.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Leath and his wife have two sons, Eric and Scott.

paragraph: An Instrument-rated pilot, Leath damaged a Cirrus SR-22 owned by Iowa State while landing in gusty conditions in Bloomington, IL.The ensuing controversy about the use of school property for personal travel, and the fact that the school paid for the damage, led to Leath publicly declaring that he would no longer fly state-owned aircraft.

description: university president

wikidata_label: Steven Leath

wikipedia_title: Steven Leath


text: graffiti

text: street

text: Ghent

text: Belgium

text: Europe

text: United States

text: Australia

text: New Zealand

text: Tunisia

text: Djerba

text: UK

text: Hackney

text: The Premises Studios

text: Hackney Road

text: Cologne

text: Ehrenfeld

text: See No Evil

text: Bristol

text: England

text: storey

text: fox

text: East Harlem

text: New York City

text: Dunedin

text: Perth

text: City of Fremantle

text: Fremantle

text: Numbat

text: "ROA, Artist"

text: ROA interview

text: "An Afternoon with Roa, Street Artist"

text: Roa on Widewalls

categories: People from Ghent,Living people,Belgian graffiti artists

paragraph: ROA (artist)

paragraph: ROA (born c. 1976) is a graffiti and street artist from Ghent, Belgium. Internationally, he has created works on the streets of cities across Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Africa.

paragraph: ROA generally paints wild or urban animals and birds that are native to the area being painted. ROA usually uses a minimal color pallet, such as black, white, but also creates works using vibrant colours depicting the flesh or internal systems within the animals and birds.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works by continent.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works by continent.:Africa.

paragraph: In 2014, ROA ()contributed with several mural paintings in the Djerbahood project on the Tunisian island Djerba.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works by continent.:Europe.

paragraph: In 2011 ROA came to particular notice in the UK when Hackney council threatened to paint over one of his paintings, a 3.5 m high rabbit. The rabbit had been legally painted on the wall of The Premises Studios in Hackney Road, London. A campaign was launched to keep the mural, by the building's owners and local residents, forcing the council to change its mind.

paragraph: In 2010, ROA participated in the Cologne CityLeaks Festival and painted a mural in Ehrenfeld at Senefelderstrasse 5

paragraph: In August 2012 ROA took part in the "See No Evil" street art festival in Bristol, England, creating a two-storey high fox on the side of a building.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works by continent.:North America.

paragraph: Roa painted a mural in El Barrio, East Harlem, New York City for the MonumentArt Festival. The mural is located in Lexington Gardens on 108th Street and Lexington Avenue. Typical of Roa's work, the black and white composition features several animals. The work was commissioned to celebrate the neighborhood's culture, history, and imagination.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works by continent.:Oceania.

paragraph: In January 2014 ROA visited Dunedin in New Zealand and painted a tuatara mural on a building on Bath Street.

paragraph: While exhibiting works at Perth's Form Gallery, ROA was commissioned by the City of Fremantle to leave his mark on Fremantle, in about 12 hours ROA created a mural of a Numbat which he chose because it is a local endangered species.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "ROA, Artist" – unofficial fan page on Facebook

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vincent Morgan, ROA interview, Fatcap, 27 September 2010.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Freire Barnes, "ROA interview: 'Every wall has its own history'", "Time Out", 19 June 2014.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Afternoon with Roa, Street Artist", "Spitalfields Life", 17 February 2011.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roa on Widewalls

description: Belgian Graffiti artist

wikidata_label: ROA

wikipedia_title: ROA (artist)


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American football
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Emanuel Davis
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Johnson Bademosi
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Jay Cutler
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Pro Football Focus
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Donte Whitner
Drew Brees
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Blake Bortles
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2015 Pro Bowl
Joe Thomas
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categories: Unconferenced Pro Bowl players,Houston Texans players,Cleveland Browns players,Sportspeople from Dallas,1990 births,American football safeties,Jacksonville Jaguars players,Players of American football from Texas,Living people

paragraph: Tashaun Gipson

paragraph: Tashaun Gipson (born August 7, 1990) is an American football free safety for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wyoming, and signed with the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He has also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Gipson was a three-sport star at Kimball High School in Dallas, playing football and basketball while also running track. He had an outstanding career and especially an outstanding senior year on the gridiron. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 4A District 14 Dallas City League and also earned First Team All-District honors both as a cornerback and as a returner. On defense, Gipson made 35 tackles, broke up nine passes and recovered two fumbles. On offense and special teams, he accumulated more than 1,400 all-purpose yards and scored 14 touchdowns while serving as an offensive team captain. During his career, he played quarterback, wide receiver, free safety and also returned punts and kicks. He was recruited by Baylor, Louisville, Fresno State and Idaho.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Gipson decided to go to the University of Wyoming not only for the chance at early playing time, but also in order to play with his brother, Marcell Gipson. At Wyoming, both Gipson brothers played cornerback from 2008-2010 for the Wyoming Cowboys football team. Gipson's season year in 2011 proved to be his best statistically with 95 total tackles (73 solo 22 assist) with 0.5 sacks, 1 forced fumble, and 3 interceptions. During his senior season, Tashaun started the season by playing at the cornerback position, but for the final 8 games of the season he played at the safety position. Gipson had 3 interceptions as a junior in 2010, and 3 interceptions as a sophomore in 2009. As a freshman Tashaun did not have any interceptions, however along with his brother, Marcell, the Gipson brothers both tied for the team lead in passes defensed with 10 each. Gipson started every game of his collegiate career at Wyoming.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: On April 29, 2012, the Cleveland Browns signed Gipson to a three-year, $1.44 million contract after he went unselected in the 2012 NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.:2012.

paragraph: Throughout training camp, Gipson competed for a job as a backup safety against Ray Ventrone, Usama Young, David Sims, and Emanuel Davis. Head coach Pat Shurmur named Gipson the third free safety on the Browns' depth chart to start the regular season, behind veterans Eric Hagg and Ray Ventrone.

paragraph: He made his professional regular season debut in the Cleveland Browns' season-opener against the Philadelphia Eagles and made his first career tackle on Brandon Boykin during a 29-yard kickoff return in the first quarter of their 17–16 loss. In Week 3, Gipson made six combined tackles during a 24–14 loss against the Buffalo Bills. He earned increased playing time after Eric Hagg had an underwhelming performance in the first two games. The following week, Gipson made two solo tackles before leaving the 23–16 loss in the second quarter after sustaining a knee injury. His injury sidelined him for the next five games (Weeks 5–9). On November 25, 2012, Gipson earned his first career start in place of free safety Usama Young and recorded two solo tackles in a 20–14 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The following week, he made his second consecutive start and collected a season-high eight combined tackles during a 20–17 win at the Oakland Raiders. In Week 14, he made two combined tackles, deflected a pass, and recorded his first career interception off a pass by quarterback Brady Quinn in the Browns' 30–7 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. On December 31, 2012, the Cleveland Browns announced the firing of head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert after the Browns finished the season with a 5–11 record. He finished his rookie season with 33 combined tackles (26 solo), a pass deflection, and an interception in ten games and three starts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.:2013.

paragraph: Gipson entered training camp in 2013 slated as the starting free safety after Usama Young departed during free agency and Eric Hagg was released. He saw minor competition for the role from Johnson Bademosi. New head coach Rob Chudzinski named Gipson the starting free safety to start the regular season, alongside strong safety T. J. Ward.

paragraph: He started the Cleveland Browns' season-opener against the Miami Dolphins and recorded three solo tackles, broke up a pass, and an interception during a 23–10 loss. In Week 8, Gipson collected a season-high nine solo tackles in the Browns' 23–17 loss at the Kansas City Chiefs. On December 15, 2013, he recorded eight combined tackles, two pass deflections, two interceptions, and returned an interception by Jay Cutler for 44-yard touchdown in Cleveland's 38–31 loss to the Chicago Bears. His touchdown came in the second quarter and marked his first career touchdown. He finished the season with 95 combined tackles (63 solo), 11 passes defensed, five interceptions, and a touchdown in 16 games and 15 starts. On December 30, 2013, the Cleveland Browns unexpectedly fired head coach Rob Chudzinski after they finished 4–12 in his first and only season as head coach. Gipson finished the season as the 68th ranked safety in Pro Football Focus' overall grades for the 2013 season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.:2014.

paragraph: Gipson entered training camp as the Browns' "de facto" starting free safety. Head coach Mike Pettine named Gipson and newly acquired free agent Donte Whitner the starting safeties to begin the 2014 regular season.

paragraph: On September 14, 2014, Gipson collected eight combined tackles, broke up a pass, and returned an interception by Drew Brees for a 62-yard touchdown in the Browns' 26–25 victory against the New Orleans Saints. In Week 6, Gipson collected a season-high nine combined tackles as the Browns defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31–10. The following week, he made four combined tackles, two pass deflections, and intercepted quarterback Blake Bortles twice in their 24–6 loss at the Jacksonville Jaguars. On November 2, 2014, Gipson made five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and recorded an interception in the Browns' 22–17 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This marked his third consecutive game with an interception and brought his total to four interceptions in the last three weeks. In Week 12, he collected three combined tackles, but left the Browns' 26–24 win at the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth quarter after colliding with teammate Joe Haden and sustaining a knee injury. On December 20, 2014, the Cleveland Browns placed Gipson on injured reserve for the last two games after he missed the last three games after sustaining damage to his MCL and PCL. He led the league in interceptions at the time of his injury, but would ultimately finish second. On December 23, 2014, it was announced that Gipson was voted to play in the 2015 Pro Bowl, alongside teammates Joe Haden and Joe Thomas. He finished the season with 52 combined tackles (28 solo), eight pass deflections, a touchdown, and a career-high six interceptions in 11 games and 11 starts.

paragraph: On January 20, 2015, it was reported that Gipson would have to miss the Pro Bowl due to his knee injury. Gipson was ranked 67th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015, as voted on by NFL players.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.:2015.

paragraph: On March 9, 2015, the Cleveland Browns placed a second round tender on Gipson and agreed to a one-year, $2.56 million contract. Head coach Mike Pettine retained Gipson and Donte Whitner as the starting safety duo entering the 2015 regular season.

paragraph: He started the Cleveland Browns' season-opener at the New York Jets and recorded five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and intercepted a pass by Geno Smith during their 31-10 loss. He missed three consecutive games (Weeks 5-7) after suffering an ankle injury. On December 20, 2015, Gipson collected a season-high nine combined tackles in the Browns' 30-13 loss at the Seattle Seahawks. Gipson finished the season with 60 combined tackles (42 solo), two pass deflections, and two interceptions in 13 games and 13 starts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.:2016.

paragraph: On January 3, 2016, the Cleveland Browns fired head coach Mike Pettine after they finished fourth in the AFC North with a 3-13 record. Gipson became an unrestricted free agent after the 2015 season and did not receive an offer to remain with the Cleveland Browns.

paragraph: On March 10, 2016, the Jacksonville Jaguars signed Gipson to a five-year, $36 million contract that includes $12 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $4 million.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.:2016.

paragraph: Head coach Gus Bradley named Gipson the starting free safety, alongside starting strong safety Johnathan Cyprien.

paragraph: In Week 3, Gipson recorded three solo tackles, broke up a pass, and intercepted a pass by Joe Flacco in the Jaguars' 19–17 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. On December 11, 2016, he made a season-high four solo tackles in a 21–20 loss at the Houston Texans. On December 18, 2016, the Jacksonville Jaguars fired head coach Gus Bradley after the Jaguars lost nine consecutive games and accrued a 2–12 record. Assistant head coach and offensive line coach Doug Marrone was appointed the interim head coach for the last two games of the season. On January 1, 2017, Gipson collected a season-high six combined tackles in the Jaguars' 24–20 loss at the Houston Texans. He finished his first season with the Jaguars with 41 combined tackles (34 solo), two pass deflections, and an interception in 16 games and 16 starts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.:2017.

paragraph: Head coach Doug Marrone named Gipson the starting free safety to begin the regular season, opposite starting strong safety Barry Church. Marrone became Gipson's fifth head coach as a professional over the span of his first six seasons in the league.

paragraph: He started the Jacksonville Jaguars' season-opener at the Houston Texans and recorded six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and returned an interception by Deshaun Watson for 67 yards in the fourth quarter of their 29–7 victory. On October 1, 2017, he collected a season-high seven solo tackles and broke up a pass during the Jaguars' 23–20 loss at the New York Jets. The following week, Gipson recorded six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and intercepted two passes by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger as the Jaguars routed the Pittsburgh Steelers 30–9. The Jaguars recorded a total of five interceptions by Roethlisberger during their victory. Gipson finished the season with 64 combined tackles (53 solo), seven pass deflections, and four interceptions in 16 games and 16 starts. Pro Football Focus gave Gipson an overall grade of 81.4, ranking him 30th among all qualified safeties in 2017.

paragraph: The Jacksonville Jaguars finished atop the AFC South with a 10–6 record and clinched a playoff berth. On January 7, 2018, Gipson started his first career playoff game and made five solo tackles in a 10–3 victory over the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Wildcard Game. The Jaguars went on to defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 45–42 in the AFC Divisional round before being eliminated from the playoffs after a 24–20 loss against the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship.

paragraph: On March 8, 2019, Gipson was released by the Jaguars due to salary cap issues.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Houston Texans.

paragraph: On March 12, 2019, Gipson signed a three-year, $22.55 million contract with the Houston Texans.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacksonville Jaguars bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cleveland Browns bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wyoming Cowboys bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Tashaun Gipson

wikipedia_title: Tashaun Gipson


text: Member of Parliament

text: Bolsover Castle

text: Robert Smythson

text: Nottingham

text: Charles I

text: Battle of Marston Moor

text: Welbeck Circle

text: Welbeck Abbey

text: salon

text: Thomas Hobbes

text: John Pell

text: Sir Kenelm Digby

text: William Petty

text: Walter Warner

text: Robert Payne

text: William Oughtred

text: John Wallis

text: Marin Mersenne

text: Claude Mydorge

text: René Descartes

text: Gilles de Roberval

text: Pierre Gassendi

text: Noel Malcolm

categories: 1594 births,English MPs 1628–1629,English MPs 1624–1625,Place of death missing,Cavendish family,Place of birth missing,People of the Stuart period,People from Nottingham,English MPs 1640 (April),1654 deaths

paragraph: Charles Cavendish (MP for Nottingham)

paragraph: Sir Charles Cavendish (ca. 15941654) was an English aristocrat, Member of Parliament, and patron of philosophers and mathematicians.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was the younger brother of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He built a mansion on the site of Bolsover Castle, bought by his father (also called Sir Charles Cavendish). His work on the house, to a design by John Smythson (son of Robert Smythson), was never completed.

paragraph: He was knighted, at Welbeck on 10 August 1619, during a visit of the king to his brother. On 23 January 1623-4, he was returned to parliament for the borough of Nottingham.

paragraph: He was also returned for the same place to the third parliament of Charles I on 18 February 1627-8, and to the Short parliament on 30 March 1640.

paragraph: On the outbreak of the civil war, Cavendish, with his brother Newcastle, entered the king's service, serving under his brother as lieutenant-general of the horse. He behaved with great gallantry in several actions, particularly distinguishing himself at the Battle of Marston Moor. He went into exile with his brother after the battle.

paragraph: His group of intellectual acquaintances has been called the Welbeck Circle, after the family home Welbeck Abbey; it has also been called the "Newcastle Circle" after the elder brother’s title. Because the Cavendishes were royalist émigrés of the 1640s, the centre of this circle moved to Paris, where it took on the form of a salon. It grew around Thomas Hobbes and John Pell, with Sir Kenelm Digby joining in Paris, and also included William Petty.

paragraph: Cavendish knew Pell from the Welbeck period, along with the mathematicians Walter Warner and Robert Payne.

paragraph: He supported William Oughtred and knew John Wallis.

paragraph: From early travels in France, he knew Marin Mersenne and Claude Mydorge; later he met René Descartes, Gilles de Roberval and Pierre Gassendi.

paragraph: Cavendish was disinclined to make any concession by returning to England, but as the revenue from his estates was serviceable to his family, his brother Newcastle induced Clarendon to persuade him to make his submission.

paragraph: He accordingly repaired to England in the beginning of November with Lady Newcastle.

paragraph: They stayed in Southwark and afterwards in lodgings at Covent Garden, in great poverty.

paragraph: He was finally admitted to compound, and succeeded in purchasing Welbeck and Bolsover which had been confiscated from his brother.

paragraph: The proceedings in regard to his estates were not completed at the time of his death.

paragraph: He was buried at Bolsover in the family vault on 4 Feb. 1653-4.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline Stedall (2005), "John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician"

wikidata_label: Charles Cavendish

wikipedia_title: Charles Cavendish (MP for Nottingham)


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Jagiellonian University
Kraków
Sejm
Stalinism in Poland
Krzeszowice
occupation of Poland
Alma mater
Polish–Soviet Friendship Society
Polish October
Council of Ministers (Poland)
The Times
Radio Free Europe
Soviet repressions in Poland
an obscene lie
Norman Davies
president (mayor) of Kraków
literary criticism
essay
history of literature
Family home of K. Wyka in Krzeszowice

categories: Jagiellonian University faculty,Polish historians,Polish politicians,1910 births,1975 deaths,Polish literary critics

paragraph: Kazimierz Wyka

paragraph: Kazimierz Wyka (1910–1975) was a Polish literary historian, literary critic, and professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków following World War II. He was a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm) from 1952 to 1956 during the darkest years of Stalinism in Poland.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Wyka was a son of a small sawmill owner, born and raised in Krzeszowice. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany remained safely with the family in his small town. He became active politically only after the Soviet takeover, and obtained a position of a professor at his Alma mater in 1948. In 1952 Wyka co-founded and run the Polish–Soviet Friendship Society ("Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polsko-Radzieckiej"), a ruthlessly opportunistic cover for the direct Soviet propaganda in Poland, which enabled him to also remain Member of Parliament in 1952–56 before the collapse of Stalinism during the Polish October. Notably Wyka signed the so-called "Letter 34" "" against censorship, delivered in March 1964 to Council of Ministers (Poland) and than passed on to The Times. However, the resulting uproar in the communist party circles prompted Wyka to sign a counter letter against it, claiming that the Radio Free Europe spreads false information about the Soviet repressions in Poland, which in its own right was an obscene lie, wrote Norman Davies. Wyka was one of only two men who strategically withdrew their names from the original list to save their own jobs at the last moment.

paragraph: In 1980, the president (mayor) of Kraków established the commemorative in the field of literary criticism, essay, and history of literature. The award was given annually.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Family home of K. Wyka in Krzeszowice

description: Polish historian

wikidata_label: Kazimierz Wyka

wikipedia_title: Kazimierz Wyka


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film director
Gunn Wållgren
They Staked Their Lives
Ride Tonight!
While the Door Was Locked
Främmande hamn
Kvinnan bakom allt

categories: Swedish male film actors,1919 births,Swedish film directors,Male actors from Stockholm,20th-century Swedish male actors,1961 deaths

paragraph: Hampe Faustman

paragraph: "Erik" Stellan "Hampe Faustman" Chatham (3 July 1919 – 26 August 1961) was a Swedish actor and film director. He appeared in 23 films between 1940 and 1961. He also directed 20 films between 1943 and 1955. He was married to actress Gunn Wållgren 1941–1949.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "They Staked Their Lives" (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ride Tonight!" (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "While the Door Was Locked" (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Främmande hamn" (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kvinnan bakom allt" (1951)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (1952)

description: actor, Film director

wikidata_label: Hampe Faustman

wikipedia_title: Hampe Faustman


text:
Waffen-SS
SS
Nazi era
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Nazi Germany
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Clasp to the Iron Cross
Wound Badge 1939
Infantry Assault Badge
War Merit Cross
List SS-Gruppenführer

categories: Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross,People from Mannheim,1895 births,Nazis who served in World War I,Recipients of the Friedrich-August-Kreuz, 1st class,SS-Gruppenführer,Prussian Army personnel,People from the Grand Duchy of Baden,1954 deaths,Recipients of the Gold German Cross,Knights of the Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order,Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class,20th-century Freikorps personnel,Waffen-SS personnel

paragraph: Karl-Heinrich Brenner

paragraph: Karl Jakob Heinrich Brenner - also Karl-Heinrich Brenner - (1 May 1895 – 14 February 1954) was a decorated German general of the Waffen-SS who held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of Polizei during the Nazi era. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 December 1944 as SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Police.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class (4 August 1941) & 1st Class (17 August 1941)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wound Badge 1939 in Gold (27 September 1941)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Infantry Assault Badge in Silver (16 May 1944)

paragraph: BULLET::::- War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (24 July 1940) & 1st Class with Swords (1 September 1942)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List SS-Gruppenführer

description: German general

wikidata_label: Karl-Heinrich Brenner

wikipedia_title: Karl-Heinrich Brenner


text:
1940
2009
Polish
motorcycle speedway
Team World Champion
Vilnius
Lithuania
1972
road accident
Gdańsk
1964
Göteborg
Ullevi
1969
London
Wembley Stadium
1964
Abensberg
Abensberg Stadion
Andrzej Pogorzelski
Andrzej Wyglenda
Marian Kaiser
Marian Rose
1965
Kempten
Andrzej Wyglenda
Antoni Woryna
Andrzej Pogorzelski
1967
Malmö
Malmö Stadion
Jerzy Trzeszkowski
Andrzej Pogorzelski
Andrzej Wyglenda
Antoni Woryna
Poland national speedway team
Speedway in Poland
Podlecki at LotosGdansk.pl

categories: 1940 births,Sportspeople from Vilnius,Polish speedway riders,Sportspeople from Gdańsk,2009 deaths

paragraph: Zbigniew Podlecki

paragraph: Zbigniew Podlecki (19 January 1940 – 8 January 2009) was a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who won Team World Champion title in 1965. He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania.

paragraph: His career ended in 1972 when he had a road accident. He died in Gdańsk in January 2009.

paragraph: Section::::World Final Appearances.

paragraph: Section::::World Final Appearances.:Individual World Championship.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1964 - Göteborg, Ullevi - 14th - 3pts

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1969 - London, Wembley Stadium - Reserve - 3pts

paragraph: Section::::World Final Appearances.:World Team Cup.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1964 - Abensberg, Abensberg Stadion (with Andrzej Pogorzelski / Andrzej Wyglenda / Marian Kaiser / Marian Rose) - 4th - 16pts (3)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1965 - Kempten (with Andrzej Wyglenda / Antoni Woryna / Andrzej Pogorzelski) - Winner - 28pts (7)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1967 - Malmö, Malmö Stadion (with Jerzy Trzeszkowski / Andrzej Pogorzelski / Andrzej Wyglenda / Antoni Woryna) - 2nd - 26pts (3)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Poland national speedway team

paragraph: BULLET::::- Speedway in Poland

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Podlecki at LotosGdansk.pl

description: Polish speedway rider

wikidata_label: Zbigniew Podlecki

wikipedia_title: Zbigniew Podlecki