text: red-carpet fashion

text: Indonesia

text: Tokyo

text: Osaka

text: Sendai

text: Los Angeles Trade–Technical College

text: costume designer

text: Bill Whitten

text: Elton John

text: Stevie Wonder

text: Neil Diamond

text: The Jacksons

text: Earth, Wind, & Fire

text: Richard Blackwell

text: eponym

text: couture

text: evening wear

text: plus-size

text: fragrance

text: shapewear

text: intimate apparel

text: Miss Universe

text: Riyo Mori

text: Miss Universe 2007

text: Tournament of Roses

text: New York Fashion Week

text: Vogue.com

text: Women's Wear Daily

text: Council of Fashion Designers of America

text: diffusion line

text: Mirai Nagasu

text: Octavia Spencer

text: Kate Beckinsale

text: Dita Von Teese

text: Mo'Nique

text: Helen Mirren

text: Katy Perry

text: Kate Hudson

text: Demi Lovato

text: Drew Barrymore

text: Miranda Kerr

text: Lea Michele

text: Sofia Richie

text: Kaley Cuoco

text: Heather Graham

text: Fan Bingbing

text: Carrie Underwood

text: Anna Kendrick

text: Janelle Monae

text: Met Gala

text: Academy Awards

text: The Help

text: Michelle Obama

text: Obama Administration

text: State dinner

text: Prime Minister of Japan

text: Shinzo Abe

text: South Coast Plaza

text: Costa Mesa

text: Las Vegas

text: David's Bridal

text: Anthropologie

text: BHLDN

text: Jakarta

text: Doha

text: Qatar

text: Rustan's

text: Manila

text: Tadashi Shoji Official Website

text: Tadashi Shoji Collections on Vogue.com

categories: Japanese fashion designers,Living people

paragraph: Tadashi Shoji

paragraph: Tadashi Shoji (born January 15, 1948) is an American-based Japanese fashion designer known for his evening wear and bridal collections, and his red-carpet fashion. The Tadashi Shoji brand is carried in over 700 major department and specialty stores worldwide, with signature boutiques in the United States, Indonesia, and the Middle East. The company operates offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, as well as showrooms in New York City, Tokyo, and Osaka.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Shoji was born in Sendai, Japan. He began painting and drawing at a young age and eventually moved to Tokyo where he studied fine art. He apprenticed with Jiro Takamatsu, a contemporary artist making art in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Shoji worked for three years in Takamatsu's studio making conceptual art. Sensing the political unrest brewing in Japan and encouraged by opportunity abroad, Shoji moved to the United States in 1973 to attend college and further his artistic development. He attended Los Angeles Trade–Technical College (L.A. Trade–Tech) where he studied fashion design. As a student, Shoji apprenticed with costume designer Bill Whitten. Shoji worked alongside Whitten, who created designs for musicians including Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, The Jacksons, and Earth, Wind, & Fire. After graduation, Shoji worked for designer-turned-critic Richard Blackwell.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Shoji launched his eponymous brand in 1982. He stated he was inspired to branch out on his own when he noticed that women had few choices in the contemporary market when it came to special occasion dresses. With his intellect as an artist and his acumen for business, he pioneered a new category of evening wear. He mixed stretch fabrics with easy-to-wear elegant silhouettes, and combined couture dressmaking techniques with skillful engineering, making it possible for pieces to be mass-produced and designed to fit all figures. He is known for designing for all ages, all ethnicities, and all figures. Shoji uses figure-flattering techniques, such as draping, ruching, and pintucks to accentuate the positives. Signature pieces include draped jersey gowns, pleated chiffon gowns, and shutter pleated cocktail dresses. His brand categories include evening wear, bridal, plus-size, kids, fragrance, shapewear, and intimate apparel.

paragraph: Tadashi Shoji was a sponsor of Miss Universe Pageant from 2002 to 2007. He designed the opening dresses as well as the evening wear Miss Universe would wear to her events in her winning year. Riyo Mori was the last Miss Universe who wore Shoji's evening gowns during her title Miss Universe 2007. Shoji is the official designer for the Tournament of Roses Royal Court.

paragraph: Shoji debuted his runway collection at the New York Fashion Week in September 2007. His runway collections have been well received by Vogue.com, Women's Wear Daily, and other notable publications. In June 2012, Tadashi Shoji was one of 26 new members accepted into The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

paragraph: In 2018, Shoji debuted his affordable luxury bridal collection, which is known for both its versatility and rich assortment of pieces, and in 2019, Shoji launched his diffusion line SHO.

paragraph: Women worldwide seek out his designs for their impeccable fit, trademark ease, and modern sense of femininity.

paragraph: Shoji's evening wear has been worn by stars at many red-carpet events and awards shows, including Olympic gold medalist, Mirai Nagasu (for the 2018 Academy Awards), Oscar Winner Octavia Spencer, Kate Beckinsale, Dita Von Teese, Oscar Winner Mo'Nique, Helen Mirren, Katy Perry, Kate Hudson, Paris Jackson, Demi Lovato, Drew Barrymore, Miranda Kerr, Lea Michele, Sofia Richie, Kaley Cuoco, Heather Graham, Fan Bingbing, Carrie Underwood, Anna Kendrick, and Janelle Monae (2014 Met Gala).

paragraph: Octavia Spencer wore a custom-made Tadashi Shoji gown to the 84th annual Academy Awards, where Spencer won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Help".

paragraph: First Lady Michelle Obama wore a Tadashi Shoji gown to the Obama Administration’s 8th White House State dinner held in honor of the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.

paragraph: Section::::Retail.

paragraph: Shoji opened his first signature boutique at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California in 2004. He has since opened boutiques in Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and two more in California. In April 2012, Tadashi Shoji launched an e-commerce website selling an edited collection of occasion dresses and bridal gowns.

paragraph: Shoji also designs and produces capsule wedding collections for the affordable bridal retailer David's Bridal and the Anthropologie-owned bridal e-tailer BHLDN.

paragraph: Shoji expanded his international reach by opening two locations in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2016, he opened a signature boutique in Doha, Qatar as part of a franchise partnership with Qatar-based Al Mana Group. Then in 2018, he opened a premier boutique at the second level of Rustan's in Manila, Philippines.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tadashi Shoji Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tadashi Shoji Official Diffusion Line SHO

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tadashi Shoji Collections on Vogue.com

description: Japanese fashion designer

wikidata_label: Tadashi Shoji

wikipedia_title: Tadashi Shoji


text:
King Christopher II
House of Estridsen
Euphemia of Pomerania
Haderslev Castle
Duke Valdemar
Southern Jutland
Gerhard III
puppet monarch
Count John III
Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg
Danevirke
Kiel
Sorø Abbey
St. Bendt's Church
Valdemar IV of Denmark

categories: 1332 deaths,1305 births,14th-century monarchs in Europe,Heirs apparent who never acceded,House of Estridsen,Danish princes,Burials at Sorø Abbey,Danish monarchs

paragraph: Eric Christoffersen of Denmark

paragraph: Eric Christoffersen (c. 1307 – c. 1332) () was king of Denmark from 1321 until his death, jointly with his father, King Christopher II. He was a member of the House of Estridsen. In Danish, he is called "Erik, elected king."

paragraph: Eric was the eldest son of King Christopher II and Euphemia of Pomerania. In 1321, he was elected king and crowned alongside his father as his junior co-ruler on 15 August 1324. In 1325, his father asked him to halt the Counts of Holstein and their allies, but was deserted by his troops, taken prisoner and confined in Haderslev Castle. His father was forced to abdicate and go into exile, while the 12-year-old Duke Valdemar of Southern Jutland was made king of Denmark under the regent, Count Gerhard III of Holstein. After a period of chaos in the "magnates’ republic" of Denmark, King Christopher was restored as a puppet monarch in 1329 through the help of his half-brother Count John III. Eric was released in 1330, on the condition he married Elizabeth of Holstein-Rendsburg, dowager duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg and sister of his father's enemy, Count Gerhard III, by whom he had no children. The marriage was dissolved the next year as war again erupted between his father and Count John III and his brother-in-law Gerhard III.

paragraph: He predeceased his father, fighting in the battles, which subsequently broke out between his father and Holstein. On 30 November 1331, Eric was defeated at the battle at Danevirke, but managed to escape to Kiel, where he died of his battle wounds, a few months afterward, either in late 1331 or early 1332. Eric was buried at Sorø Abbey, later his remains were transported to the St. Bendt's Church. Upon his father's death in the same year, Denmark ceased being a formal kingdom, and for the next eight years it was subdued by various mortgagees to German military rule. His younger brother would later regain Denmark from the Holsteiners and succeed as Valdemar IV of Denmark.

description: Danish King

wikidata_label: Eric Christoffersen of Denmark

wikipedia_title: Eric Christoffersen of Denmark


text: Italian

text: Roman Catholic

text: bishop

text: cardinal

text: Parma

text: Milan

text: Filippo Maria Visconti

text: Canossa

text: Matilda of Tuscany

text: University of Pavia

text: doctorate of both laws

text: letters

text: Italian

text: Renaissance humanist

text: Francesco Filelfo

text: Pietrasanta

text: illegitimate

text: Francesco I Sforza

text: Senator

text: Duchy of Milan

text: Rome

text: ambassador

text: Holy See

text: minor orders

text: ordained

text: subdeacon

text: suffragan bishop

text: Milan

text: Pope Paul II

text: protonotary apostolic

text: canon

text: Pavia Cathedral

text: Piacenza Cathedral

text: Bishop of Novara

text: Galeazzo Maria Sforza

text: Pope Sixtus IV

text: consistory

text: cardinal priest

text: titular church

text: Santi Nereo e Achilleo

text: red hat

text: Prefect

text: Apostolic Signatura

text: Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati

text: Santa Prassede

text: legate "a latare"

text: Perugia

text: Kingdom of Hungary

text: Holy Roman Empire

text: Kingdom of Bohemia

text: bubonic plague

text: papal conclave of 1484

text: Pope Innocent VIII

text: metropolitan see of Milan

text: pallium

text: procurator

text: Antonio Griffi

text: Basilica di Sant'Agostino

text: Catholic Church in Italy

categories: University of Pavia alumni,1488 deaths,Italian cardinals,Archbishops of Milan

paragraph: Giovanni Arcimboldi

paragraph: Giovanni Arcimboldi (died 1488) (called the Cardinal of Novara or the Cardinal of Milan) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Giovanni Arcimboldi was born in Parma or Milan in 1421 or 1426. He was the son of Nicolò Arcimboldo ("maestro delle Entrate Straordinarie" of Filippo Maria Visconti) and his wife Orsina Canossa (descendant of the family of Matilda of Tuscany).

paragraph: He was educated at the University of Pavia, receiving a doctorate of both laws in 1458. He also studied letters under Italian Renaissance humanist Francesco Filelfo and later maintained a correspondence with Filelfo.

paragraph: Early in his life, he married Briseide Pietrasanta, and had a daughter, Briseide Arcimboldi. He also later fathered nine illegitimate children.

paragraph: In July 1458, through the influence of Francesco I Sforza, he gained admission to Milan's prestigious "Collegio di Giureconsulti". He afterwards became a Senator of the Duchy of Milan. Francesco I Sforza sent Arcimboldi to Rome as his ambassador to the Holy See.

paragraph: After the death of his wife, Arcimboldi entered the ecclesiastical state. He received the four minor orders in September 1461. On September 20, 1466, he was ordained as a subdeacon by the suffragan bishop of Milan. In October 1466, Pope Paul II made him a protonotary apostolic. He also beame a canon of Pavia Cathedral and Piacenza Cathedral at this time.

paragraph: On November 20, 1468, he was elected Bishop of Novara. He took possession of the see in May 1469, but stayed there only a few days before he was called away by Galeazzo Maria Sforza to serve as his ambassador to Pope Sixtus IV, a post he held from May 1472 until February 1473.

paragraph: In the consistory of May 7, 1473, Pope Sixtus IV made Arcimboldi a cardinal priest. He received the titular church of Santi Nereo e Achilleo on May 17, 1473. He entered Rome on November 24, 1473 and received the red hat on December 10, 1473. The pope then named him Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, an office he held until his death. On May 31, 1476, he was elected temporary Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals in the absence of Cardinal Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati. He opted for the titular church of Santa Prassede on December 30, 1476.

paragraph: On January 15, 1477, Pope Sixtus IV named him legate "a latare" to Perugia. On February 7, 1477, his legation was extended to include the Kingdom of Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bohemia.

paragraph: During the outbreak of bubonic plague, he again served as temporary Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals, from May 19 to June 5, 1482. He was then elected to a full term as Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals on January 15, 1483 and held this post until January 19, 1484. On November 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV named him legate to Perugia for a second time.

paragraph: Following the death of Sixtus IV, Cardinal Arcimboldi participated in the papal conclave of 1484 that elected Pope Innocent VIII. In the consistory of September 23, 1484, Innocent VIII confirmed Arcimboldi's appointment as legate to Perugia, and Arcimboldi left on his legation on October 11, 1484, returning to Rome on January 15, 1485.

paragraph: Meanwhile, on October 25, 1484, he had been transferred to the metropolitan see of Milan. He received the pallium on November 12 and took formal possession of the archdiocese via a procurator, Antonio Griffi, on January 1, 1485.

paragraph: He died in Rome on October 2, 1488. He is buried in the Basilica di Sant'Agostino.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church in Italy

description: Italian cardinal

wikidata_label: Giovanni Arcimboldi

wikipedia_title: Giovanni Arcimboldi


text:
German
jurist
politician
Centre Party
Weimar Republic
Minister of Justice
first cabinet of Hans Luther
Heinsberg
Prussia
Cologne
Alsace-Lorraine
first cabinet of Hans Luther
Locarno Treaties

categories: Government ministers of Germany,1854 births,1943 deaths,German lawyers,University of Göttingen alumni,University of Bonn alumni,University of Marburg alumni

paragraph: Josef Frenken

paragraph: Lambert Josef Alois Frenken (27 September 1854 – 10 September 1943) was a German jurist and politician (Centre Party). During the Weimar Republic era, he briefly served as Minister of Justice in the first cabinet of Hans Luther (from January to November 1925).

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Josef Frenken was born on 27 September 1854 at near Heinsberg. He joined the Prussian civil service and was awarded a "Dr. jur." before becoming a public prosecutor at Cologne. From 1899 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of Justice and in 1913 became "Ministerialdirektor" in the department for criminal cases and prison administration.

paragraph: From 1914 to 1916 Frenken served as "Unterstaatssekretär" (under secretary) at the German Ministry for Alsace-Lorraine. In 1916 he became president of the "Oberlandesgericht" at Cologne. He retired as a judge in 1922, but in January 1925 became "Reichsjustizminister" (Minister of Justice) in the first cabinet of Hans Luther as he was close to (or actually a member of) the Catholic Centre Party. While in office, he was also in charge of the Ministry for the Occupied Territories. Frenken resigned on 21 November 1925, protesting the Locarno Treaties, which he had strictly opposed.

paragraph: He died on 10 September 1943 at Cologne.

description: German lawyer and politician

wikidata_label: Josef Frenken

wikipedia_title: Josef Frenken


text:
University of Copenhagen
Bergen
Bergen Cathedral School
Bishop of Bergen
Malmö
University of Copenhagen
Tycho Brahe
Pedagogy
University of Copenhagen
Hebrew Language
Theology

categories: 1564 births,Norwegian philosophers,Norwegian astronomers,People from Bergen,1624 deaths,University of Copenhagen alumni,University of Copenhagen faculty,People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School

paragraph: Cort Aslakssøn

paragraph: Cort Aslakssøn (28 June 1564 – 7 February 1624) was a Norwegian astronomer, theologist and philosopher. He was the first Norwegian to become a professor at the University of Copenhagen.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Aslakssøn was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of Aslak Magnussøn and Christina Jacobsdatter. He attended Bergen Cathedral School and after the death of his parents came under the under the patronage of Jens Pederssøn Schielderup (1509-1582), Bishop of Bergen. In 1578, he was transferred to the Latin school in Malmö. In 1584, he was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen. From 1590 to 1593 he worked as assistant for astronomer Tycho Brahe.

paragraph: He subsequently embarked on a several-year study trip to various universities on the continent. He was appointed professor of Pedagogy at the University of Copenhagen from 1600. From 1600-1603 he served also as notary at the university with administrative duties. In 1605, he became dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 1606, he was appointed professor of Hebrew Language and from 1607 professor of Theology. He died in Copenhagen in 1624.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: Cort Aslakssøn published numerous writings in various topics. His main work, "De natura cæli triplicis", was published in 1597. Other notable worklss included "Grammaticæ Hebrææ libri duo" (1606), "Physica et Ethica Mosaica" (1613) and "Historiske Beskriffuelse Om den Reformerede Religion" (1622)

description: astronomer

wikidata_label: Cort Aslakssøn

wikipedia_title: Cort Aslakssøn


text:
courtesy name
pseudonym
Yuan dynasty
Qingpu District, Shanghai
Tang dynasty
Song dynasty
Zhao Mengfu
The Palace Museum
Beijing
Tang
Qianlong Emperor
Cleveland Museum of Art
China-on-site
China Page on him

categories: 1254 births,Painters from Shanghai,1327 deaths,Yuan dynasty painters,Politicians from Shanghai,Yuan dynasty politicians

paragraph: Ren Renfa

paragraph: Ren Renfa () (1254–1327), courtesy name Ziming (子明), pseudonym Yueshan Daoren (月山道人; lit. "Taoist on the Moon Mountain"), was an expert of irrigation works, artist, and a government official during the Yuan dynasty. He was born in Qinglong Town, Songjiang (松江青龙镇 - present day Qingpu District, Shanghai).

paragraph: Ren drew some outstanding paintings of horses, people, flowers and birds. His style is similar to the artists of the Tang dynasty (608–907) and Li Gongling in the Song dynasty (1127–1279). His paintings of horses are comparable to those by Zhao Mengfu.

paragraph: Ren's hydrological works include dredging the area in what is now Beijing to improve the water supply and leading a team to build embankments after the Yellow River burst its banks.

paragraph: Section::::Chu Yu Ti.

paragraph: A prominent work of his is "Chu Yu Tu" (出圉图 - A Painting of Leading Horses out of Stable); on silk, with color, height 32.4 cm, width 201.9 cm, currently in a collection of The Palace Museum, Beijing.

paragraph: In this painting, three officials of the royal stables are leading four horses out the stable. The painting has a very explicit Tang style. The people in the painting are dressed in Tang style costumes. All these reflect that the artist admired the culture of the Tang dynasty. The people and horses are spread out in the painting, which is a main characteristic of paintings by Ren.

paragraph: At the end of the painting (left side), there are some words about the artist and the year of painting. "ZhiYuan GengCheng ChunWang San Ri (The third day in the second month of spring, 1280), Zuo ChuYu Tu Yu KeShi Tang (Draw "A Painting of Leading Horses out of Stable" at KeShi Tang—a room for poem), YueShan Ren ZiMing Ji (YueShan—Moon Mountain, Ren ZiMing—a courtesy name of the artist)". There is a poem written by the Qianlong Emperor (Qing dynasty, 1736—1795), who also wrote some hand writings in the middle of the painting. This is one of the earliest works of Ren (and the earliest one of his that exists), and was drawn in 1280 when he was 27.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会）. Ci hai （辞海）. Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she （上海辞书出版社）, 1979.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cleveland Museum of Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- China-on-site

paragraph: BULLET::::- China Page on him

alias:
Tzu-ming Jen
Yueshandaoren
Renfa Ren
Yüeh-shan-tao-jen
Ren Ziming
Jen Jen-fa
hao Yueshan Daoren
zi Ziming
Yueshan Daoren
Ziming Ren

description: Chinese politician and painter

wikidata_label: Ren Renfa

wikipedia_title: Ren Renfa


text: Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

text: Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia

text: Bank of Nova Scotia

text: Stellarton

text: New Glasgow

text: Charlottetown

text: Ministry of Finance

text: Ottawa

text: Metropolitan Bank of Toronto

text: Toronto

text: Branksome Hall

text: private school

text: Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

text: Liberal Party of Canada

text: Governor General

text: William Lyon Mackenzie King

text: Great Depression

text: Toronto Maple Leafs

categories: People from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality,1947 deaths,Canadian Presbyterians,1869 births,Canadian people of Scottish descent,Lieutenant Governors of Ontario

paragraph: William Donald Ross

paragraph: William Donald Ross (June 20, 1869 – June 25, 1947), was a financier, banker and the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

paragraph: Born in 1869 in Bras d'Or, Nova Scotia, Ross went to work for the Bank of Nova Scotia emptying wastebaskets at the age of 14. The family farm had failed and Ross left school in order to earn money . He rose through the ranks, becoming manager of branches in Stellarton and New Glasgow before becoming manager of the Charlottetown branch at the age of 24.

paragraph: In 1901, he joined the Ministry of Finance in Ottawa before becoming general manager of the Metropolitan Bank of Toronto and moving to Toronto with his wife and children. In his new city, Ross helped find the funds to found Branksome Hall, a new private school for girls, operated by his cousin. In 1914, the Metropolitan Bank was acquired by the Bank of Nova Scotia, where Ross would ultimately become vice-president and sit on the board of directors.

paragraph: Ross's first wife, Susan Archibald McGregor, died in 1909. Her father would become Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. They had three children: Donald, Isabel and Susan. He later married Isabel MacKay and they had two children: Jean and John.

paragraph: A supporter of and fundraiser for the Liberal Party of Canada, Ross was appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario by Governor General Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, on the advice of William Lyon Mackenzie King, in 1926. He asked to be relieved from office in 1931 due to the onset of the Great Depression as his income from private investments declined and he was no longer sufficient to supplement the $10,000 annual salary he received in his vice-regal role.

paragraph: In 1937, Ross became co-owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team. His son Donald became club president.

paragraph: He died in Toronto in 1947.

description: Canadian politician

wikidata_label: William Donald Ross

wikipedia_title: William Donald Ross


text:
Badonviller
Vosges
Museum of Nancy
Girardet
Joseph Vernet

categories: French still life painters,19th-century French painters,1805 deaths,French male painters,1733 births,People from Meurthe-et-Moselle,18th-century French painters

paragraph: Jean-Baptiste Claudot

paragraph: Jean-Baptiste Charles Claudot (1733–1805), a French painter of landscapes, flowers, and still-life, was born in Badonviller (Vosges). Several of his works are in the Museum of Nancy, where he died. He was a student of Girardet and a friend of Joseph Vernet.

paragraph: His painting showcased landscapes and ancient ruins.

alias:
Jean-Baptiste Charles Claudot
Jean Baptiste Charles Claudon
Jean Baptiste Charles Claudot
Jean-Baptiste-Charles Claudot
Claudon
Claudot

description: French painter

wikidata_label: Jean-Baptiste Claudot

wikipedia_title: Jean-Baptiste Claudot


href: Zeitz Stuttgart German%20people naturalist Breslau Marburg Silesia Vienna http%3A//www.floericke-online.de/

text:
Zeitz
Stuttgart
German
naturalist
Breslau
Marburg
Silesia
Vienna
floericke online

categories: German ornithologists,People from the Province of Saxony,German zoologists,1934 deaths,1869 births,People from Zeitz

paragraph: Kurt Floericke

paragraph: Kurt Ehrenreich Floericke (also spelled Curt and/or Flöricke; 23 March 1869 in Zeitz – 29 October 1934 in Stuttgart) was a German naturalist and author of numerous popular science books.

paragraph: From 1889, Floericke studied natural sciences in Breslau and Marburg and he gained a doctorate in 1893 with a thesis on the bird fauna of Silesia. He then extended his studies to east and south-east Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and South America. In 1902, he moved to Vienna, where he made a living as an author. His financial position was assured when he became the editor and owner of "Kosmos Die Zeitschrift für alle Freunde der Natur", Kosmos Magazine for the Friends of Nature 1904- Stuttgart. Floericke inspired the formation of the , the South German Ornithological Institute.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Einheimische Fische (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Schnecken und Muscheln (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Spinnen und Spinnenleben (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allerlei Gewürm (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Heuschrecken und Libellen (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Falterleben (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aussterbende Tiere (1927)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ulrich Franke: Dr. Curt Floericke - Naturforscher, Ornithologe, Schriftsteller. Mit der ersten umfassenden Bibliographie seiner Schriften. 2009.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- floericke online.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/floericke/

description: German naturalist

wikidata_label: Kurt Floericke

wikipedia_title: Kurt Floericke


text:
Argentine
marathon swimmer
River Plate
South America
Quilmes
Hertfordshire
Club Náutico San Isidro
Vito Dumas
Enrique Tirabocchi
Zárate
Tigre
Paraná River
River Plate
Enrique Tirabocchi
Vito Dumas
Colonia
Uruguay
Punta Lara
English Channel
Seine River
Ronaldo Munck
Gerardo Munck
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
El Gráfico

wikipedia_title:
Argentines
Marathon swimming
Río de la Plata
South America
Quilmes
Hertfordshire
Club Náutico San Isidro
Vito Dumas
Enrique Tirabocchi
Zárate, Buenos Aires
Tigre, Buenos Aires
Paraná River
Río de la Plata
Enrique Tirabocchi
Vito Dumas
Colonia del Sacramento
Uruguay
Punta Lara
English Channel
Seine
Ronaldo Munck
Gerardo L. Munck
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
El Gráfico

categories: Argentine people of English descent,Female long-distance swimmers,Argentine female swimmers,1993 deaths,1904 births,Argentine people of British descent

paragraph: Lilian Harrison

paragraph: Lilian Gemma Harrison (February 8, 1904 – January 11, 1993) was an Argentine marathon swimmer, the first person to swim across the River Plate, the widest river in the world, on December 22, 1923; and a holder of the world record of endurance in the water. She was a pioneer of swimming in South America.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Lilian Harrison was born in Quilmes, is a city in the , in 1904, within a family of British immigrants. As a child, when she has 8 years old, she went to England to attend school at Hertfordshire, where she learns to swim. She returned to Argentina in 1920, when she was 16 years old, and started to swim in the Club Náutico San Isidro, where she was coached by Gunther Weber, with whom she started to prepare for a crossing of the River Plate. She was assisted in her training by Vito Dumas, Romero Maciel and Enrique Tirabocchi, among others.

paragraph: Section::::World record.

paragraph: Her first big endurance test was the 67 kilometer (41.2 miles) Zárate-Tigre raid, down the Paraná River, on February 4, 1923. Completing this swim, she established a world female record of permanence in the water of 21 hours and 20 minutes.

paragraph: Section::::First crossing of the River Plate.

paragraph: In 1923 she embarked on the crossing of the River Plate. Until then, nine attempts to cross the River Plate had been made. But these attempts, by swimmers Enrique Tirabocchi, Luis Garramendy, Elio Pérez, Romero Maciel and Vito Dumas, had failed. Of these, Dumas had been the one who resisted longest in the water (25 hours and 17 minutes), while Maciel was the swimmer who covered the longest distance, abandoning his attempt when he was only 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) short of his point of destination.

paragraph: Lilian Harrison started her crossing on December 21, 1923, from the port of Colonia, in Uruguay, at 9:28 in the morning. During the first stretch, she was accompanied by uruguayan swimmers Caracciolo and Graneri, and had to struggle during three hours against the current pushing them back toward the uruguayan coast. Then she headed toward the south, accompanied by Tiraboschi and Wernotri.

paragraph: At 15:30 she drank some orange juice, at 17 a coffee, and at 18:30 a lump of sugar. As night fell, her team realized that they had not brought reflectors, an error that could have boomed the crossing but that was partially compensated by the moon light,

paragraph: From 1 o'clock until 4 a.m. she swam alone. At 4:30 the argentine coast was seen from the boats that were accompanying her. At that moment she was about to abandon, given that she was exhausted. But she managed to continue when she was told that she was 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) away from her goal.

paragraph: She touched shore on the argentine side of the River Plate at 9:47 in the morning, on the Playa Colorada, close to the Punta Lara. She had covered 48 kilometers (29.8 miles) in 24 hours and 19 minutes.

paragraph: Section::::The English Channel.

paragraph: In 1924, she attempted to cross the English Channel four times, without achieving her goal. On the last of these attempts, she was close to drowning.

paragraph: Section::::The Seine River.

paragraph: On August 1, 1925, she participated in the 42K (26-mile) marathon of the City of Paris, a competition on the Seine River. Lilian Harrison was the only woman among the twelve swimmers, ending in fourth place.

paragraph: Section::::Private life.

paragraph: In 1926 she married and abandoned high performance swimming. She had one daughter, Sheila Clark and six grandsons and granddaughters. Her grandsons include Ronaldo Munck, a well-known sociologist living in Ireland and Gerardo Munck, a political scientist living in the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Prizes and honors.

paragraph: For her crossing of the River Plate, she was decorated by the Minister of navy, in the presence of the president of Argentina Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear and the first lady; and honored by the Governor of the province of Buenos Aires, José Luis Cantilo, during a celebration in Quilmes, her native city.

paragraph: For her crossing of the River Plate she also received a prize of 5,000 pesos that the sport magazine "El Gráfico" had established for the first person to cross the River Plate.

paragraph: For her career in marathon swimming, she was inducted to the "International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame" en 1973.

paragraph: Section::::90 years until a second crossing of the River Plate by a woman.

paragraph: Lilian Harrison's feat of crossing the River Plate in 1923 was only repeated by a women 90 years later, when Noelia Petti became the second woman to swim across the River Plate, from Colonia to Punta Lara, on March 9, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Swimming and art.

paragraph: Lilian Harrison's crossing the River Plate was remembered in the award winning work "Crol", a theater recital by Verónica Schneck that premiered in 2015.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- EFEMÉRIDES DE UNA HAZAÑA

description: Argentinian swimmer

wikidata_label: Lilian Harrison

wikipedia_title: Lilian Harrison


text:
German
progressive educator
resistance fighter
Nazi
Solf Circle
20 July plot
Mohrungen
East Prussia
Poland
Thadden family
Prussian
Landkreis Greifenberg
Pomerania
Powiat Gryficki
Trieglaff
Protestant
Ehrengard Schramm
Social Democratic
Lower Saxon Landtag
Adolf von Thadden
National Democratic Party
World War II
West Germany
Baden-Baden
Reifenstein school
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze
peace movement
World War I
Berlin
Alice Salomon
Swabian Jura
Hermann Lietz
Kurt Hahn
Heidelberg
Easter
boarding school
Kurt Hahn
Adolf Hitler
humanitarian
Nazis came to power
Jew
Gestapo
Bavaria
Maginot Line
SD
Jewish
psalms
Baden
nationalized
Red Cross
prisoners of war
Soviet Union
morale
Helmut Gollwitzer
Martin Niemöller
Elly Heuss-Knapp
Solf Circle
German Resistance
Herbert Lange
Meaux
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Volksgerichtshof
Roland Freisler
high treason
Wehrkraftzersetzung
Plötzensee Prison
Charité
cremation
Second World War
coeducation
German Resistance

wikipedia_title: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

categories: Executed German women,German untitled nobility,Heads of schools in Germany,People from East Prussia,German Protestants,1944 deaths,People from Morąg,Executed members of the 20 July plot,People executed by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison,People condemned by Nazi courts,Members of the Solf Circle,1890 births

paragraph: Elisabeth von Thadden

paragraph: Elisabeth Adelheid Hildegard von Thadden (29 July 1890 – 8 September 1944, executed) was a German progressive educator and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime as a member of the Solf Circle. She was put to death in the wake of the 20 July plot, although it appears highly unlikely that she was involved in any plot to overthrow the Nazis.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and family.

paragraph: Elisabeth von Thadden was born in Mohrungen, East Prussia (present-day Morąg, Poland) to the long-established noble Thadden family. Her parents were Adolf Gerhard Ludwig von Thadden (1858-1932), Prussian county commissioner ("Landrat") of "Landkreis Greifenberg" in Pomerania (now "Powiat Gryficki" in Poland), and Ehrengard von Gerlach (1868–1909). She was the eldest of five children. In 1905, the family moved to the Trieglaff (Trzygłów) estate in Pomerania, where Thadden grew up in a big Protestant family.

paragraph: Elisabeth's brother, Reinold (1891-1976), grew up to be a famous theologian and jurist, and her nephew, Reinold's son, Rudolf (born 1932) is a well-known German historian. Her sister, Ehrengard Schramm (1900–1985), was a Social Democratic politician and member of the Lower Saxon Landtag. Her half-brother Adolf von Thadden (1921-1996), however, rose to be the National Democratic Party's chairman after World War II in West Germany. Elisabeth herself never married and has no direct descendants.

paragraph: Elisabeth attended boarding school in Baden-Baden and the renowned Reifenstein school. Upon her mother's death in 1909, Thadden took over managing the family estate, as well as the care of her youngest siblings. She kept an open and hospitable house in Trieglaff, which also was the scene of several discussion circles organized by her and her father. These "Trieglaffer Konferenzen" attracted politicians, theologians, jurists, and scientists of many political stripes. Here she met with Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, a theologian, social pedagogue and pioneer of the peace movement, who became a close friend. Thadden always felt a keen connection with her fellow human beings, and this showed up early on when, during World War I, she made it possible for many city children to spend time in the somewhat more idyllic setting of Trieglaff.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: After the war, in 1920, Elisabeth's father remarried to Barbara Blank (1895–1972). Thadden and her sisters left Trieglaff, she herself moved to Berlin to pursue a career in education. She attended the "Soziale Frauenschule" led by social reformer Alice Salomon, where she came into contact with educational progressivism. After training there, she got a job at a children's camp in Heuberg in the Swabian Jura, later also gaining experience at the Hermann Lietz and Kurt Hahn schools.

paragraph: Having been offered the opportunity to lease an unoccupied country house, Schloss Wieblingen near Heidelberg, in 1926, Thadden quickly found a use for it. At Easter 1927, after receiving government approval to do so, as well as obtaining the requisite funds, Schloss Wieblingen became the home of Thadden's "Evangelisches Landerziehungsheim für Mädchen", a private boarding school for girls incorporating the Christian ethics that Thadden had been brought up with and held dear, as well as Kurt Hahn's educational ideas. The initial enrolment was thirteen girls, whom Thadden hoped to train "strictly and fairly to (be) independently thinking, emancipated women."

paragraph: The 1920s were also the time when the National Socialists were rising to prominence. By the time Thadden founded her school, Adolf Hitler had already been released from prison after the Beerhall Putsch, and the Nazis were gaining popularity. Thadden herself even found a certain appeal in Nazi ideas in the beginning, but she soon decided otherwise, and came to regard the Nazis' vision for Germany as one quite at odds with her own humanitarian views.

paragraph: Section::::Third Reich.

paragraph: After the Nazis came to power in 1933, tension between the authorities and Thadden's school began to grow. Thadden disregarded official edicts and continued to enroll Jewish girls at her school, sometimes even reducing the boarding fees in special cases. She also kept seeing her Jewish friends. Thadden was also not shy about stating her views out loud, and for this reason she was ever more under the Gestapo's gaze. In October 1940, after the school had been evacuated to Tutzing in Bavaria because it was too near the French Maginot Line, a pupil denounced the school to the Gestapo and the SD. The Bavarian Culture Ministry threatened the school with closure for "activities endangering the state", as there was no portrait of Hitler hanging in the school building, and because at worship services, biblical – and therefore Jewish – psalms were being read. Thadden decided to take the school back to Wieblingen, where she hoped that its widely acknowledged good name would keep such harassment away. It did not, however. In May 1941, the Education Ministry of Baden saw in Thadden's school "no satisfactory guarantee for a National-Socialist-aligned education", whereupon the school was nationalized and Elisabeth von Thadden was unceremoniously suspended from the school's governing board without compensation.

paragraph: Thadden went back to Berlin and joined the Red Cross as a nursing assistant. Here, according to her sister Ehrengard, she learnt, among other things, that letters reaching Germany from German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union had to be destroyed because Hitler believed that they would weaken morale at the front.

paragraph: Section::::Arrest and execution.

paragraph: Thadden developed contacts with opponents of the Nazi régime, including Helmut Gollwitzer, Martin Niemöller, and Elly Heuss-Knapp, and she also engaged in activities such as gathering food stamps for people in hiding and affording those threatened by the régime a chance to leave the country. In doing so she either underestimated how dangerous these activities were, or acted without regard for her own safety.

paragraph: She also belonged to the Solf Circle, a group considered by the Nazis to be part of the German Resistance. Led by an ambassador's widow and her daughter, and much like the "Trieglaffer Konferenzen" of Thadden's youth, it attracted people from various walks of life with a variety of political views, who came to discuss pressing issues. At one such meeting on 10 September 1943, hosted by Elisabeth von Thadden, one of the guests was an assistant doctor named Paul Reckzeh, who, as it turned out, was a Gestapo informant. He had been sent by order of investigator Herbert Lange to make contact with the Solf Circle to find traitors to the Reich. His report to his Gestapo superiors was quite damning, leading the Gestapo to observe the participants to uncover their connections abroad. Over the next few months many were arrested, including Elisabeth von Thadden early on 12 January 1944, after she had moved to a post in Meaux in occupied France.

paragraph: From Meaux she was brought to Paris and later to Berlin. There followed months of dreadful treatment and lengthy interrogations in various prisons and in the penal bunker at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 1 July 1944, the "Volksgerichtshof", presided over by Roland Freisler, sentenced Elisabeth von Thadden to death for conspiring to commit high treason and undermining the fighting forces ("Wehrkraftzersetzung"). Ten weeks later, on 8 September 1944, at 17:00, she was beheaded at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Her last words were: "Put an end, Lord, to all our sufferings".

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: A doctor from Charité saw to it that Thadden's body was returned to her family for cremation. After the Second World War, the urn containing her ashes was entombed in the grounds of the now renamed "Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Schule", the school that she had founded in the 1920s, which is once again a private school in Heidelberg-Wieblingen, although since 1982 it is now coeducational and since 1992 has ceased to be a boarding school. It does, however, retain a strong link with its founder's philosophy and her memory.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- German Resistance

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Picture and brief biography at Metropolitan State College of Denver

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eine Christin in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus" by Barbara Hohmann, with another picture (in German)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elisabeth von Thadden at Oberreut Citizens' Club (in German)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Schule" website; includes picture of the Schloss (in German)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Straße" in Karlsruhe (in German)

description: German resistance member

wikidata_label: Elisabeth von Thadden

wikipedia_title: Elisabeth von Thadden


text:
Monkstown
County Dublin
Ireland
Hothouse Flowers
Fiachna Ó Braonáin
Coláiste Eoin
Gaelscoil
Irish language
bodhrán
The Complex
Kevin Shields
Colm Ó Cíosóig
My Bloody Valentine
low-budget horror film
Barefoot College
Rajasthan
India
Dublin to Gaza
benefit concert
Paddy Keenan
Festival au Désert
I Could Read the Sky

wikipedia_title:
Monkstown, County Dublin
County Dublin
Republic of Ireland
Hothouse Flowers
Fiachna Ó Braonáin
Coláiste Eoin
Gaelscoil
Irish language
Bodhrán
The Complex (band)
Kevin Shields
Colm Ó Cíosóig
My Bloody Valentine (band)
My Bloody Valentine (film)
Barefoot College
Rajasthan
India
Dublin to Gaza
Benefit concert
Paddy Keenan
Festival au Désert
I Could Read the Sky

categories: 1964 births,Musicians from County Dublin,Irish-language singers,Irish singer-songwriters,People educated at Coláiste Eoin,Irish male singers,Irish artists,Hothouse Flowers members,Sean-nós singers,Irish rock singers,Living people

paragraph: Liam Ó Maonlaí

paragraph: Liam Ó Maonlaí (born 7 November 1964 in Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician best known as a member of Hothouse Flowers. Ó Maonlaí formed the band in 1985 with his schoolmate Fiachna Ó Braonáin.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He attended Scoil Lorcáin and Coláiste Eoin, which is a Gaelscoil on Dublin's southside, although he credits his father as being the main influence for his love of the Irish language, of which he is a fluent speaker. He won an under-18 all-Ireland award for his skills on the bodhrán. Ó Maonlai first formed a band called The Complex with childhood friend Kevin Shields and drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. After Liam left to form the Hothouse Flowers in 1984, Shields and O'Ciosoig were joined by vocalist Dave Conway and keyboardist Tina (who used no surname), and renamed themselves My Bloody Valentine, taking their name from a low-budget horror film.

paragraph: Ó Maonlaí is also an active member of the Nuclear Free Future movement and contributed to the hosting of events in Carnsore and in Wexford Town in 2001. In 2004 he was a guest at the Barefoot College, located at Rajasthan, India. In 2005 he released a solo album entitled "Rian" which is a collection of tunes and songs in Irish. He performed in the 2009 Dublin to Gaza benefit concert.

paragraph: The 2008 documentary "" tells the story of his 3,000 mile cross-cultural musical adventure with Paddy Keenan and friends, and features performances from the "Festival au Désert".

paragraph: Section::::Acting.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Could Read the Sky" (1999) – Joe

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Timbuktu" (2004) – Conor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Busker" (2006) – Patrick O'Mallie

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (2008), (documentary)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rian" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "To Be Touched" (2009)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Liam Ó Maonlaí website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hothouse Flowers website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Liam Ó Maonlaí information

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography

description: Irish singer

wikidata_label: Liam Ó Maonlaí

wikipedia_title: Liam Ó Maonlaí


text:
Republican
New Jersey
4th congressional district
United States House of Representatives
Pleasant Meadows
Swedesboro
Gloucester County, New Jersey
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Warren County, New Jersey
Forty-eighth Congress
Columbia, New Jersey
Trinity Church Cemetery
Benjamin Franklin Howey
The Political Graveyard

categories: Members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey,People from Swedesboro, New Jersey,New Jersey Republicans,Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives,1828 births,19th-century American politicians,Burials in New Jersey,People of New Jersey in the American Civil War,1895 deaths

paragraph: Benjamin Franklin Howey

paragraph: Benjamin Franklin Howey (March 17, 1828 – February 6, 1893) was an American Republican politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1885.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born in Pleasant Meadows, near Swedesboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey. He engaged in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a flour and grain commission merchant in 1847 and later in quarrying and manufacturing slate; served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3, 1862, to June 26, 1863; sheriff of Warren County, New Jersey, from November 13, 1878, to November 15, 1881.

paragraph: Howey was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885.

paragraph: He died in Columbia, New Jersey, and is interred in Trinity Church Cemetery in Swedesboro.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: Retrieved on 2009-03-25

paragraph: BULLET::::- Benjamin Franklin Howey at The Political Graveyard

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Benjamin Franklin Howey

wikipedia_title: Benjamin Franklin Howey


text:
Soulfly
Joe Nunez
Borknagar
Chicago
Enslaved
Roadrunner Records
Universal
Indie Recordings
Urd
Century Media Records
Pearl
Pearl
Sabian
Axis

categories: American heavy metal drummers,Soulfly members,Railroad engineers,Malevolent Creation members,Black metal musicians,Borknagar members,1983 births,Death metal musicians,Living people

paragraph: David Kinkade

paragraph: David Kinkade (born August 25, 1983) is an American former musician.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: David Kinkade was born in New Jersey in 1983. At the age of three, he started picking up drums after his grandfather gave him his first drum kit.

paragraph: He has become known for his extreme hand and double bass speeds and technique. David's technique is not limited to metal; He is experienced in jazz, fusion, prog, swing, rock, and many others genres of music.

paragraph: His influences include bands such as Metallica, Pink Floyd, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Immortal, Emperor and Devin Townsend Project. His drumming influences include Gavin Harrison, Horacio "el Negro" Hernandez, Nick Barker, Mike Mangini, Hellhammer, Nick Mason, Carmine Appice, Vinnie Appice, Dave Lombardo, Nicko McBrain, Peter Criss, Eric Singer, Eric Carr, Neil Peart, Lars Ulrich and Pete Sandoval.

paragraph: In August 2011, he was announced as the drummer of Soulfly, replacing Joe Nunez.

paragraph: In October 2011, he parted ways with Borknagar.

paragraph: In October 2012, he announced his retirement from drumming, leaving Soulfly after their show in Bangkok. He retired in order to focus on his family.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: Aside from his drumming career, Kinkade is known for his interest in animal welfare. In 2007, he started a foundation called the "Metal 4 Pets Foundation", which stands against animal abuse. The Metal 4 Pets Foundation's goal is to unite the metal world to fight animal abuse.

paragraph: David also has a teaching background which includes eight years of private instructions. In the summer of 2008, David worked with 13 students ranging from ages 7–13 at a middle school program aimed at teaching children with autism the beginning fundamentals of drums and percussion.

paragraph: He currently lives in Chicago and works as a locomotive engineer.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With Soulfly.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Enslaved (full-length, 2012, Roadrunner Records)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With Borknagar.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Universal (full-length, 2010, Indie Recordings)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Urd (full-length, 2012, Century Media Records)

paragraph: Kinkade also recorded an EP with Council of the Fallen in 2006 titled "Sever all negatives"

paragraph: Section::::Endorsements.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pearl Masters series drums & Pearl Icon rack and hardware

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pearl Ultracast snare (size 6.5x14)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sabian HH, AAX, AA, HHX Cymbals

paragraph: BULLET::::- Axis A long-board pedals w/ ekit triggers

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alesis DM10

paragraph: BULLET::::- Evans drum heads (EQ3, G2, Power center reverse dot)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Promark drumsticks ( 16 3/4" .603 Hickory- David Kinkade signature)

description: American musician

wikidata_label: David Kinkade

wikipedia_title: David Kinkade


text:
Argentine
human rights activist
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Dirty War
human rights
disappeared
Workers' Revolutionary Party
Marxist
political party
La Plata
Buenos Aires
Forensic anthropologist

categories: 2013 deaths,People from La Plata,Year of birth uncertain,Argentine human rights activists,Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

paragraph: Zulema Castro de Peña

paragraph: Zulema Castro de Peña (c. 1920 – January 22, 2013) was an Argentine human rights activist and member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Her two sons, Jesús Peña and Isidoro, disappeared during Dirty War of the 1970s, leading to her lifelong campaign for human rights and answers for the relatives of the "disappeared."

paragraph: Castro's son, Jesús Peña, a member and militant of the Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRT), a Marxist political party, was kidnapped in La Plata, Argentina, on June 26, 1978. Her younger son, Isidoro, disappeared in Buenos Aires on July 10, 1978, just days after his older brother. The disappearance of her sons led Zulema Castro de Peña to campaign for answers for decades. She became a prominent human rights activist within the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an association for Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the dictatorship and Dirty War. Forensic anthropologists determined that both of her sons had been killed in an investigation finally conducted in 1997. In 2012, the city of La Plata installed two "Baldosas por la Memoria", or "Tiles For Memory", in remembrance of her sons and other "disappeared" from the city. Zulema Castro de Peña's husband, Isidoro Peña, also founded la Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos en La Plata, a human rights group in La Plata.

paragraph: Zulema Castro de Peña, a longtime resident of La Plata, died in the city on January 22, 2013, at the age of 92.

description: Argentine activist

wikidata_label: Zulema Castro de Peña

wikipedia_title: Zulema Castro de Peña


text:
Canadian football
defensive end
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Canadian Football League
Houston Texans
college football
Kansas State
Pro Bowl
Jessie Tuggle
Atlanta Falcons
Grady Jarrett
Georgia
Boston College
Blinn College
Blinn College
Kansas State
Kansas State
Houston Texans
Andrew Luck
Cleveland Browns
Toronto Argonauts
105th Grey Cup
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Jessie Tuggle
National Football League
Atlanta Falcons
Pro Bowl
All-Pro
Grady Jarrett
Atlanta Falcons
Terrance Plummer
Houston Texans bio
Kansas State Wildcats bio
Boston College Eagles bio

categories: People from Alpharetta, Georgia,Houston Texans players,African-American players of American football,Cleveland Browns players,Grey Cup champions,Toronto Argonauts players,Sportspeople from Fulton County, Georgia,American football quarterbacks,Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state),Boston College Eagles football players,Blinn Buccaneers football players,1990 births,American football linebackers,African-American players of Canadian football,Canadian football defensive linemen,Living people,American football outside linebackers,Kansas State Wildcats football players

paragraph: Justin Tuggle

paragraph: Justin DuJian Tuggle (born January 4, 1990) is an American Canadian football defensive end for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2013. He played college football at Kansas State. Tuggle is the son of former five-time Pro Bowl linebacker Jessie Tuggle. He is also the brother of Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Tuggle attended Northview High School in the state of Georgia. He earned the Greater Atlanta All-Area honors in his Senior season. He participated in the second annual Offense-Defense All-American Bowl and was the quarterback on the east team. He was selected to the 2007 All-North Fulton County team and was on the second team offense as a quarterback.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Tuggle played his freshman season at Boston College where he played quarterback. In his sophomore season, he transferred to Blinn College for the spring semester. After spending his sophomore season at Blinn College, he transferred to Kansas State. He switched positions from quarterback to linebacker for his junior season and first season at Kansas State.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

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

paragraph: On April 27, 2013, he signed with the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent. in 42 games over 3 seasons, Tuggle produced 71 tackles, forced one fumble, and intercepted an Andrew Luck pass which he returned for 8 yards.

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

paragraph: On March 11, 2016, Tuggle signed with the Cleveland Browns. On September 3, 2016, he was released by the Browns.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Toronto Argonauts.

paragraph: On May 23, 2017, Tuggle signed with the Toronto Argonauts. During his first year in the CFL, Tuggle recorded 3 sacks, a defensive touchdown, a forced fumble, and an interception, as well as being a part of the 105th Grey Cup championship team. The following season, Tuggle played in 17 games. Due to injuries to the struggling Argos, Tuggle was a starter at 3 different positions during the 2018 season, playing at middle linebacker, weakside linebacker, and along the defensive line. Tuggle put up a career high 36 tackles, along with 3 more sacks and two more forced fumbles.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

paragraph: Toronto's rival, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed Tuggle as a free agent in February 2019.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: His father is Jessie Tuggle who played in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons from 1987-2000. He also was selected to five Pro Bowls and three All-Pro teams during his career. His brother, Grady Jarrett is a defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons. Tuggle has also released 3 single albums and one album consisting of 14 songs (including all three singles) titled "Life on Beats by YGP "(Tuggle's teammate Terrance Plummer)" & take1".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Houston Texans bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kansas State Wildcats bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Boston College Eagles bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Justin Tuggle

wikipedia_title: Justin Tuggle


text:
MBE
1956
1960 Summer Olympics
MBE
Alzheimer's disease

categories: Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics,2002 deaths,Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics,Olympic gymnasts of Great Britain,British male artistic gymnasts,1927 births

paragraph: Nik Stuart

paragraph: Wray "Nik" Stuart, MBE (20 July 1927 – 24 June 2002) was a British gymnast. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events. His best achievement was 19th place all-around with the British team in 1960.

paragraph: He was born the tenth child in a family of 12. In his teens he assisted his father, a plumber, and worked as a bricklayer. In 1946 he joined the army where he trained in boxing, diving and pole vaulting. Only in 1952, while stationed in Singapore, he became interested in gymnastics and later won nine consecutive British titles between 1956 and 1964. In 1962 he was appointed MBE for his achievements in sport. Two years later he left the army to become the head coach of the British gymnastics team. Between 1964 and 1989 he published about a dozen of books on training in artistic gymnastics. He retired in 1985, but continued to train himself and others at a local gym. The last two years of his life he suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

paragraph: He married twice and had three children with his first wife, Edna. In 1987 he married second time, to Terry Liddle (née Henderson).

description: artistic gymnast

wikidata_label: Nik Stuart

wikipedia_title: Nik Stuart


text: baseball

text: shortstop

text: Baltimore Orioles

text: Major League Baseball

text: San Diego Padres

text: Chicago White Sox

text: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

text: Dominican Summer League Angels

text: Inland Empire 66ers

text: All-Star Futures Game

text: Carlos Correa

text: Taylor Lindsey

text: R. J. Alvarez

text: San Diego Padres

text: Huston Street

text: Trevor Gott

text: Lake Elsinore Storm

text: Rule 5 draft

text: Edwin Jackson

text: Chicago White Sox

text: Baltimore Orioles

categories: Tigres de Aragua players,Arizona League Angels players,Major League Baseball shortstops,Chicago White Sox players,Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino players,Charlotte Knights players,Major League Baseball players from Venezuela,Navegantes del Magallanes players,Lake Elsinore Storm players,Dominican Summer League Angels players,San Antonio Missions players,San Diego Padres players,Baltimore Orioles players,1994 births,Orem Owlz players,All-Star Futures Game players,Living people

paragraph: José Rondón

paragraph: José Gregorio Rondón Hidalgo (born March 3, 1994) is a Venezuelan professional baseball shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the San Diego Padres and Chicago White Sox.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Los Angeles Angels.

paragraph: Rondón was signed by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim as an international free agent on January 13, 2011. He made his professional debut that season with the Dominican Summer League Angels. He started 2014 with the Inland Empire 66ers. In July he played in the All-Star Futures Game as an injury replacement for Carlos Correa.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:San Diego Padres.

paragraph: On July 31, 2014, Rondón, along with Taylor Lindsey, R. J. Alvarez and Elliot Morris, was traded to the San Diego Padres for Huston Street and Trevor Gott. The Padres assigned him to the Lake Elsinore Storm.

paragraph: On November 19, 2015, the Padres added Rondón to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft.

paragraph: Rondón was called up to the major leagues on July 29, 2016 & he made his major league debut that night as a pinch hitter for Edwin Jackson, wearing #13. On January 6, 2018, he was designated for assignment by the Padres.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Chicago White Sox.

paragraph: On January 10, 2018, Rondón was acquired by the Chicago White Sox. Rondón ended the year playing in 42 games with the White Sox, hitting .230/.280/.470 in 107 plate appearances.

paragraph: On July 28, 2019, Rondón was designated for assignment. In 2019 with the White Sox, Rondón batted .197/.265/.282 in 156 plate appearances throughout 55 games.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Baltimore Orioles.

paragraph: On July 30, 2019, Rondón was claimed off waivers by the Baltimore Orioles.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela

alias:
José Gregorio Hidalgo Rondón
José Gregorio Rondón Hidalgo
Jose Gregorio Rondon Hidalgo
Jose Gregorio Hidalgo Rondon

description: Venezuelan professional baseball player

wikidata_label: José Rondón

wikipedia_title: José Rondón


text: Iceland

text: Fjölnismenn

text: Icelandic Independence Movement

text: J. R. R. Tolkien

text: Breiðabólsstaður

text: Fljótshlíð

text: Fjölnir

categories: Icelandic priests,1841 deaths,19th-century Icelandic people,Icelandic writers,1807 births

paragraph: Tómas Sæmundsson

paragraph: Tómas Sæmundsson (Jun 7 1807 – May 17, 1841) was an Icelandic priest, and one of the "Fjölnismenn", a group of Icelandic intellectuals who spearheaded the revival of Icelandic national consciousness and gave rise to the Icelandic Independence Movement. According to author Daisy Neijmann, he was "one of the era's most fervent nationalists".

paragraph: Tómas is quoted by J. R. R. Tolkien as saying ""Málin eru höfuðeínkenni þjóðanna..."" (Languages are the chief distinguishing marks of peoples ...):

paragraph: Tómas travelled around Europe from 1832 to 1834, and he became the pastor in Breiðabólsstaður in Fljótshlíð in 1835. Among other things, Tómas wrote the fifth annual issue of the journal "Fjölnir".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tómas Sæmundsson"; grein í Lesbók Morgunblaðsins 1941

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tómas Sæmundsson"; minningargrein í Fjölni 1843

description: Icelandic priest, author and nationalist

wikidata_label: Tómas Sæmundsson

wikipedia_title: Tómas Sæmundsson


text:
Yuan dynasty
Rinchinbal Khan

categories: 14th-century women,1368 deaths,Yuan dynasty empresses,14th-century Chinese women,Year of birth missing

paragraph: Daliyetemishi

paragraph: Empress Daliyetemishi (died 1368) was an Empress consort of the Yuan dynasty, married to Rinchinbal Khan (Emperor Ningzong).

description: Chinese Empress consort

wikidata_label: Darmashiri

wikipedia_title: Daliyetemishi


text:
Murta
Genoa
doge
Republic of Genoa
Simone Boccanegra
Murta
Val Polcevera
Genoa
Grimaldi
galley
Simone Vignoso
Chios
Jani Beg
Golden Horde
Phocea
alum
Maona of Chios and Phocaea
Corsica
Bonifacio
kingdom of Aragon
Venetian
Venice
assault
Pera
Constantinople
Levant
crusade
Ottomans
Black Death
Kaffa
Crimea
Mediterranean
Cathedral of San Lorenzo
Giovanni Valente

categories: 14th-century Genoese people,Doges of Genoa,1350 deaths,14th-century rulers in Europe,Year of birth unknown,Italian bankers,14th-century deaths from plague (disease)

paragraph: Giovanni I di Murta

paragraph: Giovanni di Murta (Murta, date unknown – Genoa, January 6, 1350) was elected the second doge of the Republic of Genoa after the resignation of Simone Boccanegra, on December 25, 1345. His dogate was dominated by his attempts to break the circle of political violence which had crippled the city over the past century and to reassert the Genoese domination over the Mediterranean colonies.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: While his date of birth remains unknown, it is assumed that he was born in the early years of the 14th century in the village of Murta in the Val Polcevera, today one of the boroughs of the city of Genoa from an affluent commoner family, however his mother was from the powerful Usodimare patrician family.

paragraph: Section::::The Maona of Chios and Phocaea.

paragraph: He became a banker by trade. After his accession to the office of doge, he managed to somewhat pacify the city torn apart by the conflict between the various local aristocratic families. In particular, he managed to prevent the Grimaldi clan from seizing the city. Against them, Giovanni da Murta chartered a fleet of over two dozen privately owned armed galleys under the command of the admiral Simone Vignoso.

paragraph: As the Grimaldis did not go out at sea to oppose the Republic's galleys, the doge sent the navy to support the island of Chios, then a Genoese colony, which was besieged by Jani Beg, khan of the Golden Horde. The fleet also managed to reconquer the city of Phocea and its important alum mines on September 20, 1346.

paragraph: Upon his return, the admiral did not receive the very large amount of money initially promised to him as payment for his galleys. Consequently, the doge had to agree to entrust Simone Vignoso and a group of his associates with the governorship of Chios, granting them at the same time the fiscal revenues from the island for twenty years. This group of investors became known as the Maona of Chios and Phocaea.

paragraph: Section::::Mounting tension in the region.

paragraph: Giovanni da Murta also tried to regain control over the island of Corsica. At the beginning of his dogate only the citadel of Bonifacio remained in Genoese hands, the rest of the colony was de facto independent thanks to the support of the kingdom of Aragon and of the Venetian fleet. The Doge entrusted his son, Tommaso, with mission of reconquering the island. This expedition marks the end of the feudal anarchy in Corsica and the beginning of a more asserted Genoese rule over the island. To fund the military operations in the island, the Republic had to borrow at 20% from an association of creditors known as the "Compera nuova acquisitionis Corsicæ" on December 27, 1347.

paragraph: On the diplomatic front, Giovanni da Murta tried to appease the tension between Genoa and Venice, that followed the assault of the Genoese of Pera on Constantinople, perceived by the Venetians as a threat to their domination in the Levant. He proposed a joint crusade against the Ottomans, an offer which was dismissed by the Venetians.

paragraph: Section::::Plague and succession.

paragraph: The breakout of the Black Death occurred during his time in office. Republic was one of the first European cities hit by the pandemics as it was a Genoese ship sailing away from Kaffa, in the Crimea, besieged by the Mongols that carried the disease across the Mediterranean. From November 1347 to 1351, the plague killed 30 to 40% of the population of the city, the Doge was among the victims. He died on January 6, 1350, and was buried in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. His successor, Giovanni Valente, was elected three days later in a climate of tension between "popolanis" and aristocrats, making evident that his efforts to unite the city would be short-lived.

paragraph: Unlike most of the other doges of the history of Genoa, Giovanni I di Murta left an excellent image of his time in office. He is hailed as a pacifier at home and abroad and he has even been qualified as a "lover of the common good" by a modern historian.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: br

description: Genoese doge

wikidata_label: Giovanni I di Murta

wikipedia_title: Giovanni I di Murta


text:
Milan
Italian
Milan
Lombardy
Baroque
Rococo
Federigo Panza
Francesco Solimena
Accademia Ambrosiana
Lodi
Corbetta
Mattia Bortoloni
Giovanni Angelo Borroni
Giovanni Antonio Cucchi
Ferdinando Porta
Cucchi
San Francesco of Assisi in Brescia
San Zeno al Foro
Duomo di Monza
Francesco Londonio

categories: People from Milan,Italian male painters,17th-century Italian painters,1679 births,Milanese painters,1762 deaths,18th-century Italian painters,Italian Baroque painters

paragraph: Giovanni Battista Sassi

paragraph: Giovanni Battista Sassi (1679 in Milan – 1762 in Milan) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Milan and other areas of Lombardy, who painted in a late-Baroque or Rococo style.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Lombardy, he first trained with Federigo Panza, then moved to study painting in the studio of the Neapolitan Francesco Solimena. His first works in Milan date from 1716. His brother was a Prefect of the Accademia Ambrosiana and thus member of the Academy of Design. He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as Mattia Bortoloni, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi, and Ferdinando Porta, were working. He helped fresco, along with Cucchi, the ceiling for the Church of San Francesco of Assisi in Brescia. He also painted the altarpiece for the main altar with the "Virgin and child with St Zeno, Rusticiano, and Vincenzo de Paoli" for the church of San Zeno al Foro of Brescia.

paragraph: His masterwork is the decoration of the chapel of St Stephen of the Duomo di Monza, where he painted a "Burial of St Stephen" in 1723. Among his pupils were Francesco Londonio.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Original from the Fogg Library; digitized May 18, 2007)

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Giovanni Battista Sassi

wikipedia_title: Giovanni Battista Sassi


text: British

text: Conservative

text: City of London School

text: Bevin Boy

text: Mansfield

text: Young Conservatives

text: Hampstead

text: London Borough of Camden

text: Association of Municipal Corporations

text: Islington East

text: 1959 New Year Honours

text: Member of Parliament

text: Hampstead

text: Hampstead and Highgate

text: Greater London

text: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

text: Department of the Environment

text: Council of Europe

text: knighted

text: 1992 general election

text: Labour

text: Glenda Jackson

text: Oliver Letwin

text: life peer

text: Hampstead

text: London Borough of Camden

text: Great Universal Stores

text: TSB

text: Post Office

text: Confederation of British Industry

text: Council of Christians and Jews

text: Maccabi

text: Marie Curie Cancer Foundation

text: JP

text: Catalogue of the Finsberg papers

text: Archives Division

text: London School of Economics

categories: UK MPs 1974–1979,Bevin Boys,People educated at the City of London School,UK MPs 1983–1987,UK MPs 1979–1983,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,Members of the Order of the British Empire,Members of Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council,1996 deaths,Jewish British politicians,English justices of the peace,Councillors in Greater London,Conservative Party (UK) life peers,UK MPs 1970–1974,UK MPs 1974,Councillors in the London Borough of Camden,UK MPs 1987–1992,1926 births

paragraph: Geoffrey Finsberg

paragraph: Geoffrey Finsberg, Baron Finsberg, (13 June 1926—8 October 1996) was a British Conservative politician.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Finsberg was educated at the City of London School and was a 'Bevin Boy' 1945-47.

paragraph: Section::::Political activity.

paragraph: From a young age he was active in the Conservative Party and was founder chairman of Mansfield Young Conservatives 1946-47. He served as National Chairman of the Young Conservatives, 1954–57 and took senior rules in the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1953–79 and the Greater London Area of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. He was Vice-Chairman, Conservative Party Organisation, 1975–79 and 1983–87.

paragraph: Finsberg was elected a Borough Councillor in Hampstead in 1949 at just 22 years old, until 1965, and on the new London Borough of Camden 1964-74, serving as Leader, 1968-70. He was Deputy Chairman, 1969–1971, and Vice-President of the Association of Municipal Corporations, 1971-74. He stood for Parliament in Islington East in 1955 without success. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1959 New Year Honours.

paragraph: Section::::Parliamentary career.

paragraph: In 1970, Finsberg was elected Member of Parliament for Hampstead, serving 1970 to 1983, then for Hampstead and Highgate 1983 to 1992. He acted as Opposition spokesman on Greater London, 1974–79; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, 1979–81, and Department of Health and Social Security, 1981-83. He was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1991 to 1992. He was knighted in the 1984 New Year Honours.

paragraph: He retired from Parliament at the 1992 general election, at which his seat was taken by Labour's Glenda Jackson, defeating Oliver Letwin. He was created a life peer in 1992 as Baron Finsberg, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.

paragraph: Section::::Outside Parliament.

paragraph: Finsberg was also active in business and charities: he was Controller of Personnel and Chief Industrial Relations Adviser at Great Universal Stores, 1968–79; Member, 1983–1986, and Deputy Chairman, South East Regional Board, TSB, 1986–89; Member, Post Office Users National Council, 1970–77; Member of the Council, Confederation of British Industry, 1968–79. He was Joint National Treasurer, 1993–1995, and Joint National Honorary Secretary, Council of Christians and Jews; Patron, Maccabi Association of Great Britain; Trustee, Marie Curie Cancer Foundation; a JP for Inner London from 1962.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catalogue of the Finsberg papers at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics.

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Geoffrey Finsberg

wikipedia_title: Geoffrey Finsberg


text:
Skåne
Bishop of Gothenburg
Diocese of Gothenburg
Annedal Church
Karlstad University
Archbishop of Uppsala
Per Eckerdal

categories: 21st-century Lutheran bishops,Swedish Lutheran bishops,Bishops of Gothenburg,1965 births,Living people

paragraph: Susanne Rappmann

paragraph: Susanne Rappmann (née "Norrhall"; born 2 February 1965 in Norra Vram, Skåne), is a Swedish theologian and current Bishop of Gothenburg.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Susanne Rappmann was ordained priest for the Diocese of Gothenburg in 1992 and has served as a parish priest of Annedal Church from 1994 till 1999. She later became parish priest of Stensjöns and served between 2007 and 2010. Afterwards she was appointed as the church minister of the parish of Värö-Stråvalla and served between 2010 and 2013. Between 2013 and 2018 she was a curator in Mölndal parish, which was formed in 2014.

paragraph: In 2005 Rappmann presented her dissertation titled "Kristi kropp som kritisk metafor : teologisk reflektion kring funktionshinder" (Christ's body as critical metaphor: theological reflection on disability) at Karlstad University.

paragraph: Section::::Bishop.

paragraph: In November 2017 Rappmann was elected bishop during the second and final election gaining around 70% of the votes. Rappmann was consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Uppsala on March 4, 2018. She became the first female bishop of Gothenburg, replacing Per Eckerdal.

wikidata_label: Susanne Rappmann

wikipedia_title: Susanne Rappmann


text: Vice-Admiral

text: British

text: Leveson-Gower family

text: Wixenford School

text: Royal Navy

text: Sub Lieutenant

text: lieutenant

text: torpedo cruiser

text: HMS "Scout"

text: HMS "Hood"

text: Mediterranean Station

text: commander

text: First World War

text: Distinguished Service Order

text: Chief of Staff

text: Commander-in-Chief, The Nore

text: aide-de-camp

text: King

text: Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland

text: Companion of the Bath

text: Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man

text: Royal Victorian Order

text: Governor of Northern Ireland

text: Knight of the Garter

text: Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon

text: 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

text: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

text: Rose Cecilia Clayton

text: Golders Green Crematorium

categories: Companions of the Order of the Bath,Royal Navy officers of World War I,Knights of the Garter,Royal Navy officers,1953 deaths,Leveson-Gower family,Companions of the Distinguished Service Order,Lieutenant Governors of the Isle of Man,Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order,1880 births

paragraph: William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville

paragraph: Vice-Admiral William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville, (11 July 1880 – 25 June 1953), styled The Honourable William Leveson-Gower until 1939, was a British naval commander and governor from the Leveson-Gower family.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Leveson-Gower was the younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, by his second wife .

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: After Wixenford School, William Leveson-Gower joined the Royal Navy in 1894. He was promoted to Sub Lieutenant in 1900, and lieutenant on 26 June 1902, when he was re-appointed to the torpedo cruiser HMS "Scout". In August 1902 he was posted to HMS "Hood", serving on the Mediterranean Station.

paragraph: Promotion to commander followed in 1913. He served in First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1919.

paragraph: He was appointed Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1924, aide-de-camp to the King in 1929 and Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland in 1931. He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1930 and retired in 1935.

paragraph: Leveson-Gower became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in 1937. In 1939 he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom. Granville was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1945 and became Governor of Northern Ireland in 1945, serving until 1952. He was made a Knight of the Garter that same year.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: In 1916, Lord Granville married Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon, the second surviving daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and elder sister of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. They had two children, five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Mary Cecilia Leveson-Gower (12 December 1917 – 13 February 2014), who married Sir Samuel Clayton on 7 July 1956. They have two children and have one grandson:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gilbert Falkingham Clayton (4 September 1958), who married Rosalind Mullen in 1994. They have one son:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Samuel Wittewronge Kit Clayton (February 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rose Cecilia Clayton (25 January 1960), who married William Wordie Stancer on 9 July 1993.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Granville James Leveson-Gower, 5th Earl Granville (6 December 1918 – 31 October 1996), who married Doon Aileen Plunket on 9 October 1958. They have three children and nine grandchildren:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Granville George Fergus Leveson-Gower, 6th Earl Granville (10 September 1959), who married Anne Topping on 23 May 1997. They have three children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Rose Alice Leveson-Gower (16 April 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- George James Leveson-Gower, Lord Leveson (22 July 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Violet May Leveson-Gower (5 August 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Marcia Rose Aileen Leveson-Gower (10 February 1961 – 3 August 2005), who married Jonathan Charles Bulmer in 1986. They have four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hesper Rose Constance Bulmer (1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- James Alexander Howard Bulmer (1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hector Charles Marcus Bulmer (1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lara Bulmer (29 August 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hon. Niall James Leveson-Gower (24 August 1963), who married Amanda Blaxell in 1996. They have one set of twins:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charlie Leveson-Gower (14 February 2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Honor Leveson-Gower (14 February 2000)

paragraph: Lord Granville died in June 1953, aged 72. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. The Countess Granville died in 1967.

description: British naval commander


text:
Prince of Smolensk
Turov
Pereyaslavl
Peresopnytsia
Vyshgorod
Grand Prince of Kiev
Vladimir Monomakh
Gytha of Wessex
Yaropolk II of Kiev
Vsevolod II of Kiev
Iziaslav II of Kiev
St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
Primary Chronicle

categories: Princes of Vyshgorod,1083 births,Grand Princes of Kiev,Princes of Peresopnitsa,Princes of Smolensk,1154 deaths,Monomakhovichi family,Princes of Turov,12th-century princes in Kievan Rus',Rurikids,Eastern Orthodox monarchs,Burials at Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev,Princes of Pereyaslavl

image: 512px-Изяслав_мстиславович.jpg

paragraph: Viacheslav I of Kiev

paragraph: Viacheslav Vladimirovich () (1083 – 2 February 1154) was a Prince of Smolensk (1113–1125), Turov (1125–1132, 1134–1146), Pereyaslavl (1132–1134, 1142), Peresopnytsia (1146–1149), Vyshgorod (1149–1151) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1139, 1151–1154).

paragraph: He was a son of Vladimir Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. On 18 February 1139 he succeeded his brother Yaropolk II of Kiev as Grand Prince, but was driven out in March by Vsevolod II of Kiev. He later ruled Kiev jointly with his nephew Iziaslav II of Kiev and died not long after Iziaslav in late 1154 or early 1155 and is buried in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. His only son, Michael Viacheslavovich, had predeceased him in 1129.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Primary Chronicle

description: Ukrainian ruler

wikidata_label: Viacheslav I of Kiev

wikipedia_title: Viacheslav I of Kiev


text: Old Norse

text: Norwegian

text: King of Norway

text: Øystein

text: Norwegian Crusade

text: Magnus III

text: Øystein

text: Olaf

text: illegitimate

text: King of the Isles

text: Earl of Orkney

text: Haakon Paulsson

text: Paul Thorfinnsson

text: Crusades

text: Orkney Islands

text: Hebrides

text: Irish Sea

text: Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson

text: King of the Isles

text: Muircheartach Ua Briain

text: High King of Ireland

text: Ireland

text: Dublin

text: Bjaðmunjo

text: Queen consort

text: Ulaid

text: Irish

text: Man

text: Norwegian Crusade

text: Kingdom of Jerusalem

text: First Crusade

text: Europe

text: Magnus III

text: Ireland

text: Scotland

text: Lisbon

text: Mediterranean

text: Palestine

text: Constantinople

text: Jerusalem

text: Roger II of Sicily

text: castle

text: Palermo

text: Holy Land

text: Baldwin I

text: Jordan River

text: baptized

text: Ordelafo Faliero

text: city of Sidon

text: Fatimids

text: Siege of Sidon

text: Eustace Grenier

text: Lordship of Sidon

text: Patriarch of Jerusalem

text: Ghibbelin of Arles

text: True Cross

text: Holy Land

text: Cyprus

text: Constantinople

text: Emperor

text: Byzantine Emperor

text: Varangian Guard

text: Serbia

text: Emperor Lothar

text: Holy Roman Empire

text: Niels of Denmark

text: tithe

text: diocese of Stavanger

text: Bergen

text: Kungälv

text: Sweden

text: relic

text: True Cross

text: Swedish Crusade

text: Småland

text: Christian faith

text: Old Norse deities

text: Hallvard's church ("Hallvardskirken")

text: Oslo

text: Queen

text: Malmfred

text: Grand Prince

text: Mstislav I of Kiev

text: Inge I of Sweden

text: Kristin Sigurdsdatter

text: Magnus

text: Borghild Olavsdotter

text: Harald Gille

text: Kingdom of Norway

text: civil war era in Norway

text: succession laws

text: Bagler

text: Birkebeiner

text: Eric I of Denmark

text: List of Norwegian monarchs

text: Monarchy of Norway

text: Norwegian Crusade

text: Heimskringla

text: Snorri Sturluson

text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

text: Edvard Grieg

text: Europe

text: sources

categories: Medieval child rulers,Roman Catholic monarchs,Christians of the Norwegian Crusade,Norwegian monarchs,Burials at Akershus Fortress,Norwegian Roman Catholics,Monarchs of the Isle of Man,1090 births,History of Bohuslän,House of Hardrada,1130 deaths,12th-century rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles

paragraph: Sigurd the Crusader

paragraph: Sigurd I Magnusson ( 1090 – 26 March 1130), also known as Sigurd the Crusader (Old Norse: "Sigurðr Jórsalafari", Norwegian: "Sigurd Jorsalfar"), was King of Norway from 1103 to 1130. His rule, together with his half-brother Øystein (until Øystein died in 1123), has been regarded by historians as a golden age for the medieval Kingdom of Norway. He is otherwise famous for leading the Norwegian Crusade (1107–1110), earning the eponym "the Crusader", and was the first European king to personally participate in a crusade.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Sigurd was one of the three sons of King Magnus III, the other two being Øystein and Olaf. They were all illegitimate sons of the king with different mothers. To avoid feuds or war, the three half-brothers co-ruled the kingdom from 1103. Sigurd would rule alone after Olaf died in 1115 and Øystein in 1123.

paragraph: Before being proclaimed King of Norway, Sigurd was styled as King of the Isles and Earl of Orkney. Sigurd would pass the Earl of Orkney title on to Haakon Paulsson, a son of Paul Thorfinnsson.

paragraph: Many historians have viewed Sigurd and Øystein's rule as a golden age for the medieval Kingdom of Norway. The country flourished economically and culturally, allowing Sigurd's participation in the Crusades and gaining international recognition and prestige.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Expedition with Magnus III.

paragraph: In 1098, Sigurd accompanied his father, King Magnus III, on his expedition to the Orkney Islands, Hebrides and the Irish Sea. He was made Earl of Orkney the same year, following the swift removal of the incumbent Earls of Orkney, Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson. He was also apparently, made King of the Isles in that same year, following the overthrow of their king by his father, Magnus. Although Magnus was not directly responsible for the death of the previous King of the Isles, he became the next ruler of the kingdom, most likely due to his conquest of the islands. This was the first time the kingdom had been under direct control of a Norwegian king. It is not certain whether Sigurd returned home with his father to Norway after the 1098 expedition. However, it is known that he was in Orkney when Magnus returned west in 1102 for his next expedition. While there, a marriage alliance was negotiated between Magnus and Muircheartach Ua Briain. He was High King of Ireland, one of the most powerful rulers in Ireland, as well as the ruler of Dublin. Sigurd was to marry Muirchertach's daughter Bjaðmunjo, a young Irish princess and for a short period, Queen consort.

paragraph: When King Magnus was ambushed and killed in Ulaid by an Irish army in 1103, the 14-year-old Sigurd returned to Norway along with the rest of the Norwegian army, leaving his child-bride behind. Upon arriving in Norway, he and his two brothers, Øystein and Olav, were proclaimed kings of Norway and jointly ruled the kingdom together for some time. The expeditions conducted by Magnus were somewhat profitable to the Kingdom of Norway, as the many islands under Norwegian control generated wealth and manpower. However the Hebrides and Man quickly re-asserted their independence after Magnus' death.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Norwegian Crusade.

paragraph: In 1107, Sigurd led the Norwegian Crusade to support the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem which had been founded after the First Crusade. He was the first European king to lead a crusade, and his feats earned him the nickname "Jorsalafari". Sigurd possessed a total force of about 5000 men in about 60 ships, as recorded by the sagas. The two kings, Øystein and Sigurd, initially disputed about who should lead the contingent and who should remain home to rule the kingdom. Sigurd was eventually chosen to lead the crusade, possibly because he was a more experienced traveler, having been on several expeditions with his father, Magnus III, to Ireland and islands in the seas around Scotland.

paragraph: Sigurd fought in Lisbon, various Mediterranean islands and Palestine. He would often fight the enemies himself, amongst his loyal soldiers and kinsmen; they were continually victorious and vastly successful, gaining considerable amounts of treasure and booty. However, the loot probably never reached Norway, as Sigurd left almost everything he had gained in Constantinople. On his way to Jerusalem ("Jorsalaland") he visited the Norman King Roger II of Sicily in his castle at Palermo.

paragraph: Upon arriving in the Holy Land he was greeted by Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem. He received a warm welcome, and spent much time with the king. The two kings rode to the Jordan River, where Sigurd might have been baptized. King Baldwin asked Sigurd to join him and Ordelafo Faliero, Doge of Venice in the capture of the coastal city of Sidon, which had been re-fortified by the Fatimids in 1098. The Siege of Sidon was a great success for the crusaders, and the city was conquered on 5 December 1110. Eustace Grenier was granted the Lordship of Sidon after the city was captured. By order of Baldwin and the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Ghibbelin of Arles, a splinter was taken from the True Cross and given to Sigurd after the siege, as a token of friendship and as a relic for his heroic participation in the crusades. Thereafter, King Sigurd returned to his ships and prepared to leave the Holy Land. They sailed north to the island of Cyprus, where Sigurd stayed for a time. Sigurd then sailed to Constantinople ("Miklagard") and entered the city through the gate called the Gold Tower, riding in front of his men. He stayed there for a while, meeting and spending much time with the Emperor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Return to Norway.

paragraph: Before leaving Constantinople, Sigurd gave all of his ships and many treasures away to the Byzantine Emperor. In return the emperor gave him many strong horses, for him and his fellow kinsmen. Sigurd planned to return to Norway over land, but many of his men stayed behind in Constantinople, to take up service for the emperor as part of his Varangian Guard. The trip took three years and he visited many countries en route. Sigurd traveled from Serbia and Bulgaria ("Bolgaraland"), through Hungary ("Ungararíki"), Pannonia, Schwabia ("Sváva"), and Bavaria ("Beiaraland") where he met with the Emperor Lothar of the Holy Roman Empire ("Rómaborg"). He later arrived in Denmark where he was greeted by King Niels of Denmark, who eventually gave him a ship in which to sail to Norway.

paragraph: Upon returning to Norway in 1111, Sigurd came back to a flourishing and prosperous kingdom. King Eystein had created a strong and stable country. The church had especially gained . During Sigurd's reign, the tithe (a 10% tax to support the church) was introduced in Norway, which greatly strengthened the church in the country. Sigurd also founded the diocese of Stavanger. He had been denied divorce by the bishop in Bergen, so he simply installed another bishop further south and had him perform the divorce.

paragraph: Sigurd made his capital in Konghelle (in the vicinity of Kungälv in present-day Sweden) and built a strong castle there. He also kept the relic given to him by King Baldwin, a splinter reputed to be from the True Cross. In 1123, Sigurd once again set out to fight in the name of the church, this time in the Swedish Crusade to Småland in Sweden. The inhabitants had reportedly renounced their Christian faith and were again worshiping Old Norse deities.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: Sigurd died in 1130 and was buried in Hallvard's church ("Hallvardskirken") in Oslo. Sigurd and his Queen Malmfred (a daughter of Grand Prince Mstislav I of Kiev and granddaughter of King Inge I of Sweden) had a daughter, Kristin Sigurdsdatter.

paragraph: He left no legitimate male heirs. Magnus, his illegitimate son with his mistress Borghild Olavsdotter, became king of Norway. He shared the throne in an uneasy peace with another claimant, Harald Gille. This led to a power struggle following Sigurd's death between various illegitimate sons and other royal pretenders, which escalated into a lengthy and devastating civil war. This gave rise to long feuds over who should rule the Kingdom of Norway in the 12th century and early 13th century.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Civil war.

paragraph: The civil war era in Norway ("Borgerkrigstida") lasted from 1130 until 1240 and involved several conflicts of varying scales and intensities. The conflicts arose in a background of ambivalent Norwegian succession laws, social discontents, and struggles between various parties of nobles strugging for ascendancy. Towards the end, there were two main parties, the "Bagler" and "Birkebeiner". The rallying point for a given party would be a royal son, or a person claimed by his followers to be a royal son, who was set up as the head figure of the party in question, to oppose the rule of a king from the contesting party. In the traditions of succession of the day, there was little or no difference between a legitimate and an illegitimate son of a king. The competence and popularity of the potential heir were supposed to be the deciding factors.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- King Eric I of Denmark, who went on a pilgrimage (not crusade) in 1103

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Norwegian monarchs

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monarchy of Norway

paragraph: BULLET::::- Norwegian Crusade

paragraph: Section::::Primary sources.

paragraph: Most of the information gathered about the saga of Sigurd and his brothers is taken from the Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson around 1225. The accuracy of this work is still debated by scholars. In the 19th century, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson wrote an historical drama based on the life of the king, with incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg. Sigurd is also mentioned in various European sources.

paragraph: Section::::Other sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bergan, Halvor (2005) "Kong Sigurds Jorsalferd. Den unge kongen som ble Norges helt" (Norgesforlaget)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morten, Øystein (2014) "Jakten på Sigurd Jorsalfare" (Spartacus)

paragraph: Section::::Related reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Riley-Smith, Jonathan (1986) "The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading" (University of Pennsylvania Press)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sigurd the Crusader: Stories from His Saga

alias:
Sigurd I Magnusson
Sigurd Jorsalfar

description: King of Norway from 1103 to 1130

wikidata_label: Sigurd the Crusader

wikipedia_title: Sigurd the Crusader