text:
Greek
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Kingdom of Greece
Georgios Skouzes
Skouzes family
Attica
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Theodoros Deligiannis
Dimitrios Rallis
Georgios Theotokis

categories: Greek MPs 1906–1910,Greek MPs 1892–1895,1937 deaths,Greek MPs 1895–1899,Greek MPs 1902–1905,1853 births,Foreign ministers of Greece,Greek diplomats,Greek MPs 1910–1912,People from Athens,20th-century Greek people,Greek politicians,Greek MPs 1899–1902,Greek MPs 1905–1906,Greek MPs 1890–1892

paragraph: Alexandros Skouzes

paragraph: Alexandros Skouzes (; 1853–1937) was a Greek politician who served several times as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Greece.

paragraph: He was the son of Georgios Skouzes, of the notable Skouzes family from Athens, and was born there in 1853. He studied law and graduated by 1873, becoming a lawyer, while from 1873 to 1880, he worked as a diplomat. He was first elected as an MP for Attica in 1890, and served in the same post until 1912. He was also named Minister for Foreign Affairs in several cabinets of Theodoros Deligiannis, Dimitrios Rallis and Georgios Theotokis: from 31 May 1895 to 18 April 1897, from 24 November 1902 to 14 June 1903, from 16 December 1904 to 12 June 1905, and from 8 December 1905 to 21 June 1908. He died in Athens in 1937.

description: Greek diplomat and politician

wikidata_label: Alexandros Skouzes

wikipedia_title: Alexandros Skouzes


text:
flautist
Zaandam
North Holland
Amsterdam Conservatory
Royal Conservatory of The Hague
Gewestelijk Orkest Zuid-Holland
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Suzanne Stephens
Amour
Donaueschinger Musiktage
Samstag aus Licht
La Scala
Milan
Ircam
Paris
Montag aus Licht
Dienstag aus Licht
Freitag aus Licht
Mittwoch aus Licht
Prinzregententheater
Harmonien
Paradies
Laeiszhalle
Klang
Gürzenich Orchestra
Quay Brothers
Urantia
Kürten
Cosmic Pulses
Asko Ensemble
Europa-Gruss
Michael Vetter
Marco Blaauw
Kathinka Pasveer biography

categories: Dutch classical musicians,1959 births,Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni,Dutch flautists,People from Zaanstad,Contemporary classical music performers,Living people

paragraph: Kathinka Pasveer

paragraph: Kathinka Pasveer (born 11 June 1959) is a Dutch flautist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Kathinka Pasveer was born in Zaandam, North Holland, the daughter of a conductor who also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory . She studied with Frans Vester at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she received her performer's diploma, with the distinction of the Nicolai Prize in 1983. During her final year of studies she was the principal flutist of the Gewestelijk Orkest Zuid-Holland .

paragraph: In December 1982 Karlheinz Stockhausen was invited to the Royal Conservatory for a series of concerts, master classes, and lectures, at which time Pasveer worked with the composer and with Suzanne Stephens on his compositions "Zeitmaße", "Amour", and "In Freundschaft". Stockhausen invited her to work with him on a new work for flute and six percussionists, which was composed in February and March 1983 and premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in October 1983. It took six months of rehearsals to prepare this work for performance. This was "Kathinkas Gesang", the second scene of the opera "Samstag aus Licht", which she also performed at the staged premiere of "Samstag" at La Scala in Milan in May 1984 (; ). The next year, Stockhausen made a new version of the piece, for flute and six-channel electronic music, and Pasveer likewise gave its premiere at Ircam in Paris in May 1985 . As a result of this initial contact Stockhausen began featuring the flute in the "Licht" cycle . She worked with Stockhausen for twenty-five years, up until his death in December 2007. He composed many works especially for her, all of which she premiered, and many of which are dedicated to her. These included parts in the operas "Montag aus Licht" (La Scala 1988), "Dienstag aus Licht" (Leipzig Opera 1993), and "Freitag aus Licht" (Leipzig Opera 1996), as well as the concert premieres of "Orchester-Finalisten" (Carré, Amsterdam, 1996), "Michaelion" from "Mittwoch aus Licht" (Prinzregententheater, Munich, 1998), and Kathinka performed as one of the 4 soloists in the world première of "Licht-Bilder" (third scene of "Sonntag aus Licht" (Donaueschingen, 16 October 2004). After "Licht", Stockhausen composed for her the flute version of "Harmonien" (2006, premiered 13 July 2007 at the Sülztalhalle in Kürten) and "Paradies" (2007, premiered on 24 August 2009 at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg), components of the chamber-music cycle "Klang".

paragraph: In addition to her activities as a flautist, in 1989 she learned the solo dancer-mime part for Stockhausen's , which she performed for the first time on 27 May 1989 in the Kölner Philharmonie, with the Gürzenich Orchestra conducted by the composer. When pressed to name a favourite from all of Stockhausen's compositions, Pasveer named "Inori" as a "very special" piece that she privately "performs" almost every day, "as it is my form of meditation" . She also performs from memory the 83-minute-long "Vortrag über HU" (a sung and mimed lecture introducing "Inori"), in both German and English, and has made video recordings of both versions. She also performs the dancer-mime part in "" (act 3 scene 2 of "Donnerstag aus Licht"). Pasveer also has recorded as a soprano singer in a number of Stockhausen's works, including the electronic music for both "Dienstag aus Licht" ("Oktophonie") and "Freitag aus Licht", as well as "Die sieben Lieder der Tage" (extracted from "Montag"), "Zwei Paare" (made as soundtrack music for the 2000 short film "In Absentia" by the Quay Brothers), and "Urantia" (the Nineteenth Hour from "Klang").

paragraph: From 1998 up to the present time, Pasveer has taught the interpretation of Stockhausen's works at the Stockhausen Courses for New Music held each summer in Kürten . Beginning in 1983, she assisted Stockhausen in the production of recordings and learned from him the techniques of sound projection used in most of his works. Since the composer’s death, she has acted as sound projectionist in many live performances, and has produced and mixed down all the recordings in the Stockhausen Complete Edition. Stockhausen also entrusted her, together with Antonio Pérez-Abellán, with the production of the sound loops in the 24 individual layers of his electronic work "Cosmic Pulses" in 2006.

paragraph: Together with Suzanne Stephens, she is in charge of Stockhausen's legacy as a director of the Stockhausen Foundation for Music .

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Flautist.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985. "Karlheinz Stockhausen dirigiet Haydn & Mozart". Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major, KV 313 (cadenzas by Karlheinz Stockhausen). Kathinka Pasveer, flute; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Karlheinz Stockhausen, cond. (Also with: Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major.) Acanta 43813. Hamburg: Fono Team GmbH. Also issued with the addition of Stockhausen, "Oberlippentanz", Acanta 40.23 543 DT (LP). 1986. Reissued as part of "Stockhausen Conducts Haydn and Mozart". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 39 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1993.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985. Stockhausen, Karlheinz. "Tierkreis: Trio Version". Markus Stockhausen, trumpet and piano; Kathinka Pasveer, flute and piccolo; Suzanne Stephens, clarinet. Acanta 23531 (LP); also issued on Acanta 43201 (CD). Hamburg: Fono Team GmbH.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1988. Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Samstag aus Licht", opera. (Kathinka Pasveer, flute and piccolo in scenes 2 & 3). Deutsche Grammophon 423 596-2 (4 CDs). Hamburg: Polydor International GmbH, 1988. Reissued on Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 34-ABCD (4 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992. "Michaels Reise um die Erde" (Solisten-Version). ECM 1406 (CD).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 28 "Music für Flöte: Kathinka Pasveer spielt 9 Kompositionen". (2 CDs). Includes Stockhausen, "In Freundschaft", for flute; "Piccolo" for piccolo flute, "Amour" for flute; "Susanis Echo", for alto flute; "Xi", for flute; "Zungenspitzentanz" for piccolo flute; "Flautina", for flute with piccolo flute and alto flute; "Ypsilon", for flute; "Kathinkas Gesang", for flute and electronic music.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 35 Stockhausen, "Oberlippentanz" for piccolo trumpet, 4 Horns and 2 percussionists "Ave" for basset-horn and alto flute. "Tierkreis", trio version, for clarinet, flute and piccolo flute, trumpet and piano [recorded 1991, different recording from Acanta 23531]

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992. Stockhausen, "Monday from Light", opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 36-ABCDE (5 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1994. Stockhausen, "Musik für Klarinette, Baßklarinette, Bassetthorn: Suzee Stephens spielt 15 Kompositionen". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 32 A–C (3 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. Includes "Bijou" for alto flute, bass clarinet and tape, and "Sukat" for basset-horn and alto flute, both with Kathinka Pasveer.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996. Stockhausen, "Dienstag aus Licht", opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 40 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003. Stockhausen, "Freitag aus Licht", opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 50 A–D (4 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997. Stockhausen, "Orchester-Finalisten" of "Mittwoch aus Licht" (with the Asko Ensemble). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 52. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000. "Kathinka: Flute and Synthesizer". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 57 Stockhausen, "Zungenspitzentanz", for piccolo flute, euphonium, synthesizer player, and percussionist; "Freia" version for flute; "Entführung" for Piccolo Flute. "Flöte" for flute and electronic music (from "Orchester-Finalisten"); "Thinki" for flute (from "Michaelion”, of "Mittwoch aus Licht"). (Also with "Klavierstück XVI" and "Komet als Klavierstück XVII", with Kathinka Pasveer, soprano, on tape). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002. Stockhausen, "Die sieben Lieder der Tage" (versions for flute and for soprano, extracted from "Montag aus Licht"), "Der Kinderfänger", for alto flute with piccolo, two synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, and sound projectionist. (Also with "Luzifers Zorn"). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 63. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002. Stockhausen, "Europa-Gruss" for winds and synthesizers (Kathinka Pasveer, flute); "Two Couples", for electronic and concrete music, and "Electronic and Concrete Music for Komet" (Kathinka Pasveer, soprano). (Also with "Stop and Start" for 6 instrumental groups, and "Licht-Ruf".) Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 64. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003. Stockhausen, Ten Scenes from "Freitag aus Licht". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 65. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005. Stockhausen, "Licht-Bilder" (3rd Scene of "Sonntag aus Licht"), for tenor, ring-modulated flute, basset horn, and ring-modulated trumpet. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 68. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007. Stockhausen, "Quitt" for alto flute, clarinet and piccolo trumpet. (Also with "Michaels-Ruf", "Bassetsu", "Synthi-Fou (Klavierstück XV)", "Komet" version for percussionist, and "Trumpetent"). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 82. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009. "Paradies" for flute and electronic music: Twenty-First Hour from "Klang", the 24 hours of the day. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 99 Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010. "Harmonien" and "Schönheit". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 87. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Soprano.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996. "Electronic Music with Sound Scenes of Friday From Light". Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 49 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 48. Stockhausen, "Paare vom Freitag", for soprano, bass, and electronic instruments. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002. "Die sieben Lieder der Tage" (versions for flute and for soprano), "Der Kinderfänger", for alto flute with piccolo, two synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, and sound projectionist. (Also with "Luzifers Zorn"). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 63. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009. "Urantia" for soprano and electronic music. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 97. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985. "Kathinkas Gesang de Karlheinz Stockhausen". Colour film, 33'21". French. Paris: I.R.C.A.M.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998. Stockhausen, "Vortrag über HU" (German version). Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 83 minutes. Live recording of the first integral performance in German with Kathinka Pasveer on 5 April 1998, at the Audimax of the Technical College in Darmstadt. (Archive No. 107 / 1). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998. INORI für 2 Solisten und Tonband. Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 73 minutes. Live recording of a performance of INORI on 5 April 1998 at the Audimax of the Technical College in Darmstadt, with Kathinka Pasveer and Alain Louafi (dancer-mimes). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998. Stockhausen, "Michaelion", scene 4 from "Mittwoch aus Licht". Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 59 minutes. (Archive No. 109 / 1). Live recording of the world première on July 26, 1998 in Munich at the Prinzregenten Theatre with the choir of the South German Radio (conductor: Rupert Huber), Michael Vetter (short-wave singer), Kathinka Pasveer (flute), Suzanne Stephens (basset-horn), Marco Blaauw (trumpet), and Andrew Digby (trombone). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003. Stockhausen, "Lecture on HU". Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 83 minutes. Live recording of the integral performance in English with Kathinka Pasveer on August 17, 2003 at the Sülztalhalle in Kürten during the Stockhausen Courses Kürten 2003. (Archive No. 149 / 2). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kathinka Pasveer biography on www.stockhausen.org.

description: Dutch musician

wikidata_label: Kathinka Pasveer

wikipedia_title: Kathinka Pasveer


text:
Cesena
Italian
road bicycle racer
Giro del Lazio
Giro di Toscana
Tour de France
Giro d'Italia

categories: Italian male cyclists,1995 deaths,Sportspeople from Emilia-Romagna,1913 births,People from Cesena

paragraph: Mario Vicini

paragraph: Mario Vicini (Cesena, 21 February 1913 — Cesena, 6 December 1995) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Vicini won the 1940 Italian road race championship, as well as the Giro del Lazio and the Giro di Toscana. He rode the Tour de France twice, finishing 2nd (in 1937) and 6th (in 1938). In the Giro d'Italia, Vicini won 3 stages, and finished third in 1939.

paragraph: He later went on to build racing bicycles, simply named "Vicini", using top of the line components. You can tell his frame and fork sets by the Vicini name stamped into the top end of the seat stay flutes and the V in the top of each side of the fork crown.

paragraph: Section::::Palmarès.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1935

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1936

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1937

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1938

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1939

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1940

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1947

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953

description: Road bicycle racer

wikidata_label: Mario Vicini

wikipedia_title: Mario Vicini


text: Vay

text: Sables d'Olonne

text: French

text: road bicycle racer

text: 1939 Tour de France

text: 1947 Tour de France

categories: 1912 births,French Tour de France stage winners,Sportspeople from Loire-Atlantique,French male cyclists,Tour de France cyclists,1977 deaths

paragraph: Eloi Tassin

paragraph: Éloi Tassin (Vay, 6 June 1912 — Sables d'Olonne, 17 August 1977) was a French professional road bicycle racer. Tassin won a stage in the 1939 Tour de France, and another stage in the 1947 Tour de France.

paragraph: Allée Éloi Tassin in Nantes is named after him. A Éloi Tassin day was held in his honour at Vay on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

paragraph: Section::::Major results.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1939

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1945

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1947

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1948

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Tour de France results for Eloi Tassin

description: Road bicycle racer

wikidata_label: Eloi Tassin

wikipedia_title: Eloi Tassin


text:
South African
Boer
political figure
head of state
Zoutpansberg
voortrekker
Andries Potgieter
Stephanus Schoeman
acting president
South African Republic
Piet Potgietersrust
Andries Hendrik Potgieter
cmdt.genl.
Zoutpansbergdorp
field cornet
Nyl River
Potchefstroom
M. W. Pretorius
Makapansgat
NG Church in South-Africa
South-African Broederbond
National Party
Dr. Pieter Johannes Potgieter Stofberg

categories: 19th-century South African people,Afrikaner people,1854 deaths,White South African people,1822 births,South African people of Dutch descent

paragraph: Pieter Johannes Potgieter

paragraph: Pieter Johannes "Piet" Potgieter (1822 – 1854) was a South African Boer political figure. He was the acting head of state of Zoutpansberg from 1852 to 1854, and the first son of voortrekker Andries Potgieter. He married Elsie Maria Aletta van Heerden, who later married Stephanus Schoeman, a subsequent leader of Zoutpansberg, and acting president of the South African Republic. The town Piet Potgietersrust, now Mokopane, was named in Potgieter's memory in 1907.

paragraph: Section::::Leader of Zoutpansberg.

paragraph: When Andries Hendrik Potgieter died in 1852, he left his son, cmdt.genl. Piet Potgieter, in charge of the Zoutpansbergdorp. Potgieter had a short tenure, as he soon died in a campaign against tribal leader Mgombane ka Gegana.

paragraph: In September 1854 Piet's uncle, field cornet Hermanus Potgieter (Groot Hermaans), was searching for ivory near the Nyl River, an area ruled by chiefs Makapan and Mankopane (also: Mapela or Mapele). For reasons imperfectly known, the chiefs decided to massacre them and other unrelated white travellers. The act claimed the lives of 28 white settlers, and the Potchefstroom governance authorized a punitive commando under the command of Piet Potgieter and M. W. Pretorius. The tribesmen retreated into Makapansgat cave, where they were to suffer heavy casualties. One of their snipers however managed to fatally shoot Piet Potgieter. Potgieter was the only Boer casualty of the campaign, but his death brought an end to his family's hegemony in the north.

paragraph: Section::::Descendants.

paragraph: The family was the starting point of an influential South-Africa lineage. The Potgieters' daughter Elsie Maria Aletta married reverend Ds. J H M Stofberg, the secretary and head of the NG Church in South-Africa, after ex president Schoeman granted his blessing. They had two children of which one became a political figure through the South-African Broederbond and a member of the executive committee of the National Party, Dr. Pieter Johannes Potgieter Stofberg. National Party Minister Hendrik Schoeman was also closely related to this family.

description: South African politician- First Burgemeester of Pretoria

wikidata_label: Peter Johannes Potgieter

wikipedia_title: Pieter Johannes Potgieter


text: American

text: Beaux-Arts tradition

text: New York

text: Dey Street

text: skyscraper

text: City Hall Park

text: New York World Building

text: Manhattan, New York

text: New York University

text: civil engineering

text: Richard Morris Hunt

text: American Institute of Architects

text: Cornelius Vanderbilt II

text: Albert Levy

text: Collis P. Huntington

text: Newport, Rhode Island

text: Louisville and Nashville Railroad

text: John La Farge

text: New York Stock Exchange Building

text: Bronx Borough Hall

text: Wisconsin State Capitol

text: World's Columbian Exposition

text: Chicago, Illinois

text: Burnham and Root

text: American Renaissance

text: Karl Bitter

text: Elihu Vedder

text: National Arts Club

text: Statler Hotels

text: Arthur Bates Jennings

text: Richard Morris Hunt

text: Jacobethan

text: Gothic

text: chateau

text: 57th Street

text: 5th Avenue

text: Paris

text: Central Park

text: Karl Bitter

text: Sherry-Netherland Hotel

text: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

text: Metropolitan Museum of Art

text: John LaFarge

text: Philip Martiny

text: Frederick W. MacMonnies

text: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

text: Bergdorf Goodman

text: Sarah Landau

text: George Ranalli

text: the City College of New York

text: New York Historical Society

text: AIA Gold Medal

text: New-York Historical Society

text: Alice Matilda Stone

text: Bernardsville, New Jersey

text: Woodlawn Cemetery

text: The Bronx

text: Princeton University

text: Princeton, New Jersey

text: Williamsburgh Savings Bank

text: McKim

text: Henry-Russell Hitchcock

text: Troy Savings Bank

text: Western Union Telegraph Building

text: skyscraper

text: New York City

text: Western Union

text: AT&T

text: Chickering Hall

text: Thomas H. Huxley

text: Oscar Wilde

text: Alexander Graham Bell

text: New Brunswick

text: New Jersey

text: New York Hospital

text: Brooklyn Historical Society

text: Mills Building

text: New York Produce Exchange

text: 2 Broadway

text: Bowling Green

text: Cornelius Vanderbilt

text: New York Cotton Exchange

text: Mortimer Building

text: New York World Building

text: tallest building in the world

text: New York Times Building

text: 41 Park Row

text: Prudential Headquarters

text: World's Columbian Exposition

text: Erie County Savings Bank

text: Bronx Borough Hall

text: St. Paul Building

text: New York Stock Exchange

text: City College of New York

text: Old Montreal Stock Exchange Building

text: Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company

text: Wisconsin State Capitol

text: Cleveland Trust Company Building

text: Euclid Avenue

text: Cleveland, Ohio

text: Pontiac Hotel

text: Oswego, New York

categories: People from Manhattan,1837 births,Presidents of the American Institute of Architects,19th-century American architects,Defunct architecture firms based in New York City,Fellows of the American Institute of Architects,1913 deaths,People included in New York Society's Four Hundred

paragraph: George B. Post

paragraph: George Browne Post (December 15, 1837 – November 28, 1913) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition. Many of his most characteristic projects were for commercial buildings where new requirements pushed the traditional boundaries of design. Many have been demolished, since their central locations in New York and other cities made them vulnerable to rebuilding in the twentieth century. Some of his lost buildings were regarded as landmarks of their era. He was active from 1869 almost until his death in 1913. His sons, who had been taken into the firm in 1904, continued as George B. Post and Sons through 1930.

paragraph: Post's eight-story Equitable Life Assurance Society (1868–70), was the first office building designed to use elevators; Post himself leased the upper floors when contemporaries predicted they could not be rented. His Western Union Telegraph Building (1872–75) at Dey Street in Lower Manhattan, was the first office building to rise as high as ten stories, a forerunner of skyscrapers to come. When it was erected in "Newspaper Row" facing City Hall Park, Post's twenty-story New York World Building (1889–90) was the tallest building in New York City.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Post was born on December 15, 1837 in Manhattan, New York to Joel Browne Post and Abby Mauran Church. After graduating from New York University in 1858 with a degree in civil engineering, Post became a student of Richard Morris Hunt from 1858 to 1860. In 1860, he formed a partnership with a fellow student in Hunt's office, Charles D. Gambrill, with a brief hiatus for service in the Civil War. Post served as the sixth president of the American Institute of Architects from 1896 to 1899.

paragraph: Among the prominent private houses by Post were the French chateau for Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1879–82) that once stood at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street (that was photographed by Albert Levy while being built), and the palazzo that faced it across the street, for Collis P. Huntington (1889–94). In Newport, Rhode Island he built for the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, C.C. Baldwin, "Chateau-Nooga" or the Baldwin Cottage (1879–80), a polychromatic exercise in the "Quaint Style" with bargeboards and half-timbering; John La Farge provided stained glass panels. He also designed more staid public and semi-public structures including the New York Stock Exchange Building, the Bronx Borough Hall and the Wisconsin State Capitol.

paragraph: In 1893, Post was named to the architectural staff of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois by Burnham and Root, where he designed the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.

paragraph: A true member of the American Renaissance, Post engaged notable artists and artisans to add decorative sculpture and murals to his architectural designs. Among those who worked with Post were the sculptor Karl Bitter and painter Elihu Vedder. Post was a founding member of the National Arts Club, serving as president from 1898 to 1905. In 1905, his two sons were taken into the partnership, and they continued to lead the firm after Post's death, notably as the designers of many Statler Hotels in cities across the United States. From that time forward, the firm carried on under the stewardship of Post's grandson, Edward Everett Post (1904–2006) until the late twentieth century.

paragraph: Post trained architect Arthur Bates Jennings.

paragraph: One of post's major works was the Vanderbilt Mansion, co-designed with Richard Morris Hunt, this English Jacobethan Gothic red-brick and limestone chateau stood at the corner of East 57th Street and 5th Avenue and was one of the most opulent single-family homes of its time. It featured a lavishly scrolled cast-iron gate forged in Paris (now in Central Park), sculptural reliefs by Karl Bitter (now in the Sherry-Netherland Hotel), an ornate reddish-brown marble fireplace sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and elaborate interior decoration by Frederick Kaldenberg, John LaFarge, Philip Martiny, Frederick W. MacMonnies, Rene de Quelin, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his brother Julius. The mansion was razed in 1927 for the construction of the Bergdorf Goodman department store.

paragraph: Sarah Landau's publication "George B. Post, Architect: Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist" (1998) inspired a retrospective exhibition in 1998–99 to revisit Post's work at the Society. In 2014, curator, architect George Ranalli presented an exhibition of Post's drawings and photographs of the design of the City College of New York's main campus buildings, on loan from the New York Historical Society.

paragraph: He received the AIA Gold Medal in 1911. His extensive archive is in the collection at the New-York Historical Society.

paragraph: He married Alice Matilda Stone (1840-1909) on October 14, 1863. They had five children: George Browne, Jr., William Stone, Allison Wright, James Otis and Alice Winifred.

paragraph: Post died on November 28, 1913 in Bernardsville, New Jersey. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

paragraph: Section::::List of works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- High Bridge Reformed Church, High Bridge, New Jersey, 1869

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bonner-Marquand Gymnasium, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (1869–1870), razed in 1907.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn, New York, 1870-1875. Solidly classicizing and capped with a dome, "it might easily have been prepared in the nineties. Indeed it prefigures McKim's famous Columbia Library", Henry-Russell Hitchcock noted in his biography of H.H. Richardson.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Troy Savings Bank, Troy, New York, 1875.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Western Union Telegraph Building, New York City, 1875. Often dubbed "the first skyscraper in New York City, this 10-story headquarters for Western Union featured a clock tower. The building was razed in 1914 for the AT&T headquarters at 195 Broadway.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chickering Hall, New York City, c.1877. Built as the headquarters of the Chickering Piano Company, this four-story building faced in brick with brownstone and gray marble trim featured a 1,450-seat auditorium that hosted lectures by Thomas H. Huxley and Oscar Wilde and was the site of Alexander Graham Bell's first interstate telephone call to New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1877. Razed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Hospital (razed), 1877, notable for its use of large ground-level windows for better natural illumination of the interior.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Library and Lyceum, Morristown, New Jersey. 1878, Razed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, New York, 1878–1880, Romanesque revival building employing architectural terracotta, originally named Long Island Historical Society.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Post Building, New York City, 1880-81. A deep central recess provided light and air to the interiors, a feature that quickly became standard for large commercial structures.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mills Building, New York City, 1881–1883, called "the first modern office building", on a two-story base, the upper eight floors reached by ten elevators, it used architectural terracotta panels, which Post had helped to introduce to the United States, and eliminated the conventional mansard roofline. Razed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Produce Exchange (1881–84) at 2 Broadway faced Bowling Green. Its grand skylighted hall, based on French retail structures, cast daylight into the lower floors. Built 1881-1885; Razed 1958.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion, New York City, 1882, renovated and enlarged 1893, Razed 1927.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Cotton Exchange (razed), New York City, 1883–1885

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mortimer Building (razed), New York City, 1885

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York World Building, or Pulitzer Building, New York City, at the time of its completion the tallest building in the world, 1889-1890, Razed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Times Building, 41 Park Row, New York City, 1888–89

paragraph: BULLET::::- Union Trust Building (razed), 78-82 Broadway, New York City, 1889–1890

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prudential Headquarters (4 buildings), Newark, New Jersey, 1892-1911. Razed 1956.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Manufacturer's and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893. Razed after the exposition concluded.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Erie County Savings Bank building, Buffalo, New York, 1893, in Romanesque Revival. Razed in 1968.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Park Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1896, remodeled in the 1960s

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bronx Borough Hall, Bronx, NY, 1897, Razed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- St. Paul Building, New York City, 1898. Razed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Stock Exchange, New York City, 1901–1903

paragraph: BULLET::::- City College of New York Campus, New York City, 1903–1907, in Gothic Revival style

paragraph: BULLET::::- Old Montreal Stock Exchange Building, Montreal, Quebec, 1904.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey, 1904-08 (razed)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, 1906

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cleveland Trust Company Building, Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pontiac Hotel, Oswego, New York, 1912

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Landau, Sarah Bradford, "George B. Post: Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist", the Monacelli Press, New York, 1998

description: American architect

wikidata_label: George B. Post

wikipedia_title: George B. Post


text:
Mongolian
regent
Yuan dynasty
Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür
Khongirad
Princess Supreme Sengge Ragi of Lu
Toghon Temür
Goryeo
Henan
Khutughtu Khan Kusala
Babusha
coup
Rinchinbal
El Temür
empress dowager
grand empress dowager
Langfang
Hebei Province
Yamantaka-Vajrabhairava mandala
Kim Seo-hyung
"Empress Ki"
Guide to Women Leaders

categories: 1307 births,Yuan dynasty empresses,1340 deaths,13th-century women rulers,14th-century Chinese women,14th-century Chinese people

image: 512px-Будшир_хатан.jpg

paragraph: Budashiri

paragraph: Budashiri (Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠳᠬᠠᠱᠢᠷᠢ, Budashri), or in Sinicized form Putashali (卜答失里; born c. 1307 – died c. 1340) was a regent of the Yuan dynasty between 1332 and 1333. She was the wife of Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, and came from the Khongirad clan. Her father was Prince Consort Diwabala, Prince of Lu, and her mother was Princess Supreme Sengge Ragi of Lu.

paragraph: Section::::Empress of Yuan.

paragraph: It is uncertain when Budashiri became the wife of Tugh Temür, though she became empress in 1328 when her husband ascended the throne for the first time. In the early part of 1329, she received the imperial seal. It is thought she had borne him at least three sons: Aradnadara (d. 1332), whom he named as heir; El Tegüs (c. 1329 - c. 1340); and Taipingna (died young). It is not known if she had any daughters.

paragraph: During her husband's reign, the empress was responsible for exiling the young Toghon Temür to Goryeo, and then to Henan. Her claim was that he was not the actual son of Khutughtu Khan Kusala (Emperor Mingzong), Tugh Temür's older brother. It was during Toghon Temür's exile that Budashiri also arranged for the execution of his stepmother, Babusha, having accused her of the coup against her late husband.

paragraph: Section::::Regency.

paragraph: When Tugh Temür died in 1332, Budashiri acted as regent, which was in accordance with tradition and because Tugh Temür had not named a successor. It is said that on his deathbed, Tugh Temür had expressed remorse for what he had done to his elder brother, and intended to pass the throne on to his nephew Toghon Temür, his brother's eldest son. As a result, Budashiri did not appoint her own son El Tegüs to the throne, but neither did she appoint Toghon Temür; it was Kusala's second son, the six-year-old Rinchinbal, who was instead installed as emperor on 13 October 1332. This the empress did under pressure from the grand councilor, El Temür, who resisted allowing Toghon Temür to accede to the throne since he was suspected of having poisoned his father. A month after she had appointed Rinchinbal, Budashiri was granted the rank of empress dowager, and was tasked with assuming the regency. However, only two months (fifty-three days) later, the young emperor died.

paragraph: El Temür went on to insist that she install El Tegüs on the throne, but the empress refused, maintaining that she was still honouring the wishes of her late husband, and that El Tegüs was too young to rule. Instead, she brought back the thirteen-year-old Toghon Temür and installed him as emperor in 1333. In 1336, she was elevated to the rank of grand empress dowager.

paragraph: Budashiri remained regent for over seven years, virtually ruling over the empire. However, in 1340, when the emperor grew confident that he could take control and decide matters, he began an investigation into the injustices suffered by his late father and stepmother. He also pointed out the various wrongs done to him by the grand empress dowager. As a result, in mid-1340 he ordered that Budashiri be stripped of all her titles and exiled to Dong'an Prefecture (the modern-day city of Langfang in Hebei Province), where she was swiftly put to death. In further retaliation for the difficulties he had faced while in exile, Toghon Temür also banished El Tegüs, who was killed shortly afterwards.

paragraph: Budashiri was about thirty-three years old when she died.

paragraph: Section::::In art.

paragraph: A portrait of Empress Budashiri, alongside Empress Babusha, is found on the Yamantaka-Vajrabhairava mandala. Opposite of the two empresses are portraits of Tugh Temür and Kusala.

paragraph: Section::::In popular culture.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Kim Seo-hyung in the 2013-14 MBC television series "Empress Ki".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guide to Women Leaders

description: Mongolian empress consort

wikidata_label: Budashiri

wikipedia_title: Budashiri


text:
VC
British Army
Victoria Cross
Commonwealth
Oughterard
County Galway
private
9th Lancers
Indian Mutiny
Delhi
Thomas Hancock
Hope Grant
killed in action
Delhi
The Register of the Victoria Cross
Ireland's VCs
Monuments to Courage
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross

categories: 1857 deaths,19th-century Irish people,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,1814 births,People from County Galway,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,British military personnel killed in the Indian Rebellion of 1857,Irish soldiers in the British Army,9th Queen's Royal Lancers soldiers

paragraph: John Purcell (VC)

paragraph: John Purcell VC (1814 – 19 September 1857) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: He was born at Kilcommon, Oughterard, County Galway.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: He was about 43 years old, and a private in the 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal), during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 19 June 1857 at Delhi, India for which he and Thomas Hancock were awarded the VC:

paragraph: In a later dispatch from Brigadier-General Hope Grant, C.B. to Major H. W. Norman, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army, on 10 January 1858, Hope writes:

paragraph: He was killed in action at Delhi a few weeks later, on 19 September 1857.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Register of the Victoria Cross" (1981, 1988 and 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ireland's VCs" (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross" (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)

description: Irish soldier in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: John Purcell

wikipedia_title: John Purcell (VC)


text:
Żebbuġ
Maltese
bard
Seminary
philosophy
theology
University of Malta
Italian
Latin
English
cosmography
National Library of Malta
Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi
Maltese literature
Elizabeth II
Order of the British Empire
popular religious hymns
Maltese
Albert Laferla
Robert Samut
Innu Malti
national anthem
Maltese people
romanticism
Maltese
history of Malta
Italian
Pawl Galea
Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi
Hymns by Dun Karm Psaila
L-Innu Malti

categories: 19th-century poets,1871 births,20th-century poets,19th-century Roman Catholic priests,Maltese Roman Catholic priests,Maltese poets,People from Żebbuġ,20th-century Roman Catholic priests,Maltese male writers,National anthem writers,19th-century male writers,Male poets,Catholic poets,1961 deaths

paragraph: Dun Karm Psaila

paragraph: (Don) Carmelo Psaila, better known as Dun Karm (Żebbuġ, 18 October 1871 – 13 October 1961) was a Maltese priest, writer and poet, sometimes called 'the bard of Malta'. He is widely recognised as the Maltese national poet.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was educated at the Seminary between the years 1885 and 1894 and then proceeded to study philosophy in 1888 and theology in 1890 the University of Malta. He was ordained priest in 1894. From 1895 to 1921 he taught various subjects at the Seminary: Italian, Latin, English, arithmetic, geography, cosmography, ecclesiastical history and Christian archaeology. In 1921 he was appointed assistant librarian at the National Library of Malta and in 1923 director of circulating libraries, a post he held till his retirement in 1936.

paragraph: Dun Karm was one of the founding members of the Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti (founded in 1921) and on the death of Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi in 1927, he was elected president of the Għaqda and later editor of the official organ, "Il-Malti". He carried out these functions till 1942 when he was nominated honorary president of the Għaqda for life. In recognition of his contribution to Maltese literature, he was granted a D. Litt (honoris causa) by the Royal University of Malta in 1945 - the first time the University granted such an honour. A year later he was awarded the Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi gold medal. Queen Elizabeth II decorated him with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956. In 1957 the Maltese government issued him an ex-gratia pension in recognition of his services to Maltese literature.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Dun Karm is best known as the author the verses of a good number of popular religious hymns in Maltese, including the National Anthem. In 1921, Albert Laferla, the director of education, asked Dun Karm to compose some verses to a music score by Robert Samut. The "Innu Malti" was sung for the first time in 1923. In 1941 it was officially designated the national anthem, a status confirmed by the Constitution at independence in 1964. Yet, Dun Karm is not deemed the Maltese "national poet" merely because he wrote the text of the National Anthem. Rather, he has gained this title for having written prolifically in Maltese, and producing works that are serenely conscious of what can be called a "Maltese identity". Dun Karm was conscious that his identity, that that of most people who inhabited the Maltese Islands could not be too easily collapsed into an extended form of the "Britishness", "Italianità del Risorgimento" or "Italianità cattolica", which were the subject of endless political debates among the intellectuals of the time. Yet, we probably cannot label Dun Karm a "nationalist" or a "patriot" in the way such terms are usually used in the English language: he sought to put his finger on the identity of the common people of the Islands, while not trying to mimic the oftentimes inflated, monolithic, exclusive and triumphalist national identities created for the major European polities by Romantic movements as a reaction to the cosmopolitanism of the French Revolution and the Napolenonic Wars.

paragraph: His first works in Italian reveal an early life of peace and calm; after the death of his mother, solitude became his companion. Such solitude is present throughout his opus, eventually accompanied by a high degree of spiritual balance. Some of his best poems illustrate an inner journey of sentimental and moral experience. Nonetheless, besides expressing such great subjectivity, Dun Karm's works also give voice to his country's collective aspirations. His poetry reflects a background of village life crowned with an atmosphere of family feelings and it also portrays the Maltese countryside with a perspective imagination. It synthesises the popular culture of the Maltese people, which is quite evident from the rural characteristics that furnish its local identity with the literary culture based largely on Italian romanticism. Indeed, when he decided to make Maltese the medium of his creativity, Dun Karm poetically explored the history of Malta to confirm its cultural and national identity. Both the personal and the national sentiments are treated from a deeply religious viewpoint that discusses existentialism. The spiritual crisis in "Il-Jien u lil hinn Minnu" is analysed in universal human terms that illuminate human existence and insist on the ineffable relation that exists between God and the human person, while pointing to the need of the latter's absolute acceptance of the former's hidden power.

paragraph: Before 1912 Dun Karm wrote only in Italian. His first known published poem is "La Dignità Episcopale" (1889) after which he published "Foglie d'Allora" (1896) and "Versi" (1903) another collection of Italian poems. Dun Karm wrote "Quddiem Xbieha tal-Madonna," his first poem in Maltese, which appeared in the first issue of the Maltese periodical "Il-Ħabib", published by Mgr. Pawl Galea and Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi. His best poems include "Il-Musbieħ tal-Mużew" (1920).

paragraph: A.J. Arberry translated about 37 of Dun Karm's poems into English, Ġużè Delia translated "Il-Vjatku" into Spanish and Laurent Ropa translated "Il-Jien u lil hinn Minnu" into French. Carmel Mallia translated the latter into Esperanto. Yevgeniy Vitkovskiy (Евгений Владимирович Витковский) translated "Ħerba", "Kewkbet is-Safar", and "Wied Qirda" into Russian.

paragraph: Dun Karm's writings include "Żewġ Anġli: Inez u Emilia" (translated in 1934 from an Italian novel by D Caprile) Besides these he wrote a few critical works. He also compiled a dictionary between 1947 and 1955 in three volumes, "Dizzjunarju Ingliż u Malti".

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hymns by Dun Karm Psaila

paragraph: BULLET::::- L-Innu Malti

description: Maltese poet

wikidata_label: Dun Karm Psaila

wikipedia_title: Dun Karm Psaila


text:
guitarist
songwriter
Norwegian
rock
Madrugada
My Midnight Creeps
Sofienberg
Oslo
Bjerkvik
Nordland
NRK
Harald Are Lund
Led Zeppelin's
Rock and Roll
John Lauvland Pettersen
Frode Jacobsen
Sivert Høyem
Madrugada
Oslo
Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Stratocaster
Gibson Les Paul
Gibson ES-345
Harmonica
mandolin
Official Madrugada homepage

categories: Musicians from Narvik,2007 deaths,Norwegian rock guitarists,1975 births

paragraph: Robert Burås

paragraph: Robert Solli Burås (12 August 1975 – 12 July 2007) was guitarist and songwriter in the Norwegian rock band Madrugada. He was also a founding member of the band My Midnight Creeps, where he played guitar and was lead singer.

paragraph: On 12 July 2007, Burås was found dead in his apartment by a friend, with his guitar in his hand. After a ceremony in Sofienberg Church in Oslo, he was cremated. His ashes lie at Bjerkvik Cemetery in Nordland, Norway.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: According to a radio interview with NRK disc jockey Harald Are Lund in 2006, Robert Burås' first real contact with rock music came in the form of a mix tape. The first song on the tape was Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll", and 12-year-old Robert was hooked. In later years, he mentioned "Rock and Roll" as a favourite of his.

paragraph: Section::::Madrugada.

paragraph: After playing in local bands with friends and schoolmates in his adolescent years, he formed Abby's Adoption with drummer John Lauvland Pettersen and bass player Frode Jacobsen. The three teamed up with singer Sivert Høyem, changed their name to Madrugada and relocated to Oslo shortly after that. Madrugada's debut EP was released in 1998.

paragraph: Section::::My Midnight Creeps.

paragraph: Robert Burås founded "My Midnight Creeps" in 2005 in which he performed as lead singer/guitarist as well as fronting the band and writing the majority of the material. They released two albums: the eponymous "My Midnight Creeps" (2005) and "Histamin" (2007).

paragraph: Section::::Instruments.

paragraph: Burås' instrument of choice throughout his career with Madrugada was a 1966 vintage, Candy Apple Red, Fender Jazzmaster. This guitar was placed on top of the coffin during his funeral service. Also used extensively were his sunburst Fender Stratocaster, black Gibson Les Paul Custom and In later times with My Midnight Creeps he performed mostly with a brown Gibson ES-345. He also played the Harmonica, electric mandolin and occasionally piano.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Madrugada homepage

description: Norwegian musician

wikidata_label: Robert Burås

wikipedia_title: Robert Burås


text:
Edinburgh
football
manager
Motherwell
Detroit Cougars
Hibernian
Hellenic
Cape Town City
Scotland
Scottish League
Queen of the South
Inverness Caledonian
Edinburgh Norton
Bobby Ancell
Gordon Smith
Detroit Cougars
NASL
Hibernian
1968–69 Scottish League Cup Final
Celtic
caps
Scotland national team
Hungary
Turkey
Wales
Portsmouth
Ian St. John
Queen of the South
Allan Ball
Iain McChesney
Nobby Clark
Crawford Boyd
Jocky Dempster
Dumfries
Inverness Caledonian's

categories: Hellenic F.C. players,Scottish Football League representative players,Association football inside forwards,Cape Town City F.C. (NFL) players,Scottish expatriate footballers,Scottish footballers,1940 births,Sportspeople from Edinburgh,Scotland international footballers,Scottish expatriate sportspeople in South Africa,Expatriate soccer players in the United States,Scotland under-23 international footballers,Scottish Football League players,Hibernian F.C. players,Scottish football managers,North American Soccer League (1968–84) players,United Soccer Association players,Living people,Portsmouth F.C. non-playing staff,Detroit Cougars (soccer) players,Queen of the South F.C. managers,Expatriate soccer players in South Africa,Motherwell F.C. players,Scottish Football League managers

paragraph: Willie Hunter (footballer)

paragraph: William Hunter (born 14 February 1940 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Hunter spent most of his playing career with Motherwell, although he also played for Detroit Cougars, Hibernian, Hellenic and Cape Town City. Hunter also represented both Scotland and the Scottish League. After retiring as a player, Hunter was manager at Queen of the South and Inverness Caledonian.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.

paragraph: Hunter joined Motherwell from Edinburgh Norton in 1957 with Motherwell then managed by Bobby Ancell. Hunter became part of the side that became known as the 'Ancell Babes'. Although usually played as an inside left, he also played occasionally as a winger, and was compared favourably to Gordon Smith for his performance in that role.

paragraph: In May 1967, the Detroit Cougars paid £14,000 for his transfer and Hunter moved to the new American professional league, the NASL. His new side survived for only one year however and at the end of the 1968 NASL season, he returned to Scotland to join Hibernian. Hunter was a substitute as his new team lost the 1968–69 Scottish League Cup Final to Celtic, and he played for the Edinburgh team until 1971.

paragraph: Section::::International career.

paragraph: Hunter earned three caps for the Scotland national team while with Motherwell, all in 1960. He scored his only Scotland goal in his first cap in a 3-3 draw with Hungary. He also played in defeats to Turkey and Wales.

paragraph: Section::::Managerial career.

paragraph: After four years playing in South Africa, Hunter became assistant manager of Portsmouth, a role he held for three years. Hunter worked for his former Motherwell team-mate Ian St. John at Portsmouth.

paragraph: He earned the opportunity to manage in his own right at Queen of the South in 1978, working with players such as Allan Ball, Iain McChesney, Nobby Clark, Crawford Boyd and Jocky Dempster. Hunter left the Dumfries club after only four months. His last involvement in football was as Inverness Caledonian's manager from 1979 to 1981.

description: Scottish footballer

wikidata_label: William Hunter

wikipedia_title: Willie Hunter (footballer)


text: Pedro de Arias

text: Beatriz de Bobadilla

text: Isabella I of Castile

text: Francisco de Bobadilla

text: Christopher Columbus

text: Hernando de Soto

text: Cojimar

text: Alvar Nunez

text: Hernan Cortes

text: Pedro de Alvarado

text: Antonio de Mendoza

text: Jacques de Sores

text: yucca

text: La Giraldilla

text: Castillo de la Real Fuerza

paragraph: Isabel de Bobadilla

paragraph: Isabel de Bobadilla, or Inés de Bobadilla (c. 1505–1543) was the first female governor of Cuba from 1539–1543.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Isabel was born to a family closely associated with the exploration and conquest of the Americas. She was the third child of Pedro de Arias and Isabel de Bobadilla y Peñalosa. Pedro de Arias was one of conquerors of Central America and also the governor of Nicaragua. Isabel’s mother was related to Beatriz de Bobadilla, an acquaintance of Isabella I of Castile and served as the matriarch of two of the most powerful and richest families in Spain, the Bobadillas and Peñalosas. Isabel de Bobadilla (daughter) is related to Francisco de Bobadilla, who was appointed to succeed Christopher Columbus as the second governor of the Indies in 1499.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and kinship.

paragraph: Isabel de Bobadilla married the prominent explorer and conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1537, who was in charge of one of the first European expeditions into what is now the United States. In 1535-36 Isabel must have been in her late twenties which suggest that she may have been a widow, or in some way seen as an undesirable mate because woman from powerful families were typically married before they reached their late twenties. The Conveyance of Dower is a document that was signed at Valladolid on November 14, 1536 and provided all the cattle that had belonged to Pedro de Arias in Panama, the estate, the slaves and the horses as a "pure and perfect gift irrevocable in favour." This document verifies the wealth of Bobadilla’s family and also shows how Isabel's marriage to De Soto was a business arrangement between a very powerful Spanish family and an established conquistador.

paragraph: Hernando de Soto was named governor of Cuba and Adelantado de Florida and both arrived in Cuba in 1538. Documents show that Isabel brought slaves with her to Cuba including three white slave who were Christians, possibly Moors. Within the first couple weeks of 1539, the first couple of Cuba purchased at least four plantations near the city of Havana, with the largest plantation at Cojimar on the coast just east of the bay.

paragraph: Section::::Government.

paragraph: Isabel de Bobadilla was given power of attorney on May 17, 1539 when Hernando de Soto left Havana for the exploration and conquest of Florida [la Florida]. De Soto also appointed Juan de Rojas to serve as Bobadillas deputy in Havana and Francisco de Guzman to serve as her deputy in Santiago. Both of these men served previous at this capacity before De Soto and Bobadilla arrived in Cuba. There were several political factions who were competing for power and control in Spain through exploration and control of unexplored territories. Among the important people involved in these "grand plans of exploration" were Alvar Nunez, Cabeza de Vaca, Hernan Cortes, Pedro de Alvarado, Hernando de Soto, and Antonio de Mendoza. This illustrates how in the midst of the Spanish conquistadors, Isabel de Bobadilla was appointed to a highly politicized and powerful role.

paragraph: Historians have conflicting opinions on why Isabel de Bobadilla was provided with the powers to govern the affairs of Cuba; Márquez Sterling indicates that Isabel was only governor of Cuba because Hernando did not want to stay in Cuba, while surviving documents show that Isabel was both the governor de jure and de facto governor of Cuba. Rodrigo Ranjel, Soto’s private secretary in Cuba and la Florida, described Isabel as having inherited her mother’s fortitude, intelligence, and strength of character; and like her mother she is "a woman of great essence and goodness, and of very noble judgement and character." Hernando also confirmed Isabel’s abilities by giving her the power of attorney, naming her governor of the island of Cuba. In 16th century Spain, it was extremely rare that a woman would be appointed in a high office position within a territory. Isabel became the first female governor of Cuba and appointed woman governor of a territory in the Western Hemisphere. The only other woman who served in high office during 16th century Spain is Aldonza Manrique of Venezuela, who inherited the governorship when her father, Marcelo Villalobas died in 1526. Bobadilla was also acknowledged as governor by the King of Spain in letters directly sent to her. As the governor, Isabel was able to handle many issues faced by all New World governors, including problems, between the indigenous Cubans and Europeans. Isabel Bobadilla contributed to the fortification of Cuba against rivals by advancing the work of Havana’s first fortress La Fuerza. La Fuerza, was finished by Isabel de Bobadilla in order to defend against frequent enemy attacks. French pirates led by Jacques de Sores sacked Havana and burned La Fuerza in 1555.

paragraph: Section::::Lawsuit against Ponce de Leon.

paragraph: Isabel de Bobadilla filed a 3,720 page lawsuit, known as Justicia, against Hernán Ponce de León covering the time period of 1540–45. Ponce de Leon was a former partner of De Soto in his explorations of Peru and Nicaragua. The lawsuit recounts the controversies among the inheritors of De Soto and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Hernan Cortes, and the viceroy of Mexico; and also includes de Soto’s Residencia, which was the investigation carried out in 1554 (after his death) to determine whether or not he had fulfilled all of his responsibilities outlined in his asiento. Ponce de Leon claimed that de Soto did not fulfill his obligations by not equally sharing his new found fortune and wealth from the Peru and Nicaragua explorations. Hernán Ponce de León and Hernando de Soto arrived at an agreement over this issue, before de Soto left for his Florida expedition. However, when de Soto left, Hernán secretly took legal action saying that de Soto did not fulfill their previous agreement and that de Soto intimidated him into signing the agreement. Dona Isabel heard of this legal action, when she was appointed governor, and had seized the document from Ponce de Leon. She then waited for a ship that was in Havana harbor bound for Spain to leave, leaving Hernán with no way out of Cuba, then sent him a letter asking why he had behaved so badly. As the governor, she ordered Ponce de Leon not to leave Havana until he had renounced his secret legal action and drew up a document, that Ponce de Leon would sign, repudiating his repudiation. Dona Isabel was an able and strong leader who used her power to promote her self-interest as seen in this lawsuit against a powerful Spanish conquistador. There is no further information on how this lawsuit concluded.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legend.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legend.:Death.

paragraph: In December 1543, Rodrigo Arangel brought the news to Dona Isabel in Havana of de Soto’s death. After his death, Isabel auctioned off thousands of items belonging to her and her husband before she left Cuba for Spain. These items included everything from a ranch at Maybeque, complete with native laborers, several hundred heads of cattle, and 500 yucca plants to Soto’s house in Havana containing eighteen household slaves, a rosary made of thirty-two solid-gold beads, and a collar and cap made of black velvet. After auctioning off her and her husband items she raised "more than four thousand pesos of gold," which she used to move back to Spain. The circumstances of Isabel de Bobadilla’s death are uncertain. Some people claim she moved back to Spain with the money she received while others believe that after she heard of her husband’s death, she was "broke with grief upon hearing it, and a few days later she died.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legend.:Legend.

paragraph: La Giraldilla is a bronze wind statue of a woman who is surveying the horizon to her north and is located on top of the Castillo de la Real Fuerza in old Havana, Cuba. The local Cuban people claim that this bronze statue is a depiction of Dona Isabel de Bobadilla and it is suggested that it was placed there to honor Inès de Bobadilla, who is said to have watched every day the return of her husband.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Conquistadoras : mujeres heroicas de la conquista de América" ; Carlos B Vega ; Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2003.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Leyendas cubanas : a collection of Cuban legends" ; Olympia B González ; Lincolnwood, Ill. : National Textbook Company, 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maura, Juan Francisco. Españolas de Ultramar Colección Parnaseo-Lemir. Valencia: Publicaciones de la Universitat de València, 2005. http://parnaseo.uv.es/Editorial/Maura/INDEX.HTM

paragraph: Section::::External links.

description: governor of Cuba, wife of Hernando de Soto

wikidata_label: Inés de Bobadilla

wikipedia_title: Isabel de Bobadilla


text: Italian

text: Cardinal

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: Vicar General of Rome

text: cardinalate

text: Spoleto

text: Pontifical Roman Seminary

text: ordained

text: priesthood

text: pastoral

text: Rome

text: auditor

text: Sacred Congregation of the Council

text: Apostolic Penitentiary

text: prelate

text: protonotary apostolic

text: Roman Rota

text: annulment

text: Paul Ernest Boniface

text: Anna Gould

text: Secretary

text: dicastery

text: Vincenzo Vannutelli

text: Casimiro Gennari

text: bishop

text: Cardinal Deacon

text: Santa Maria in Domnica

text: Pope Pius X

text: consistory

text: Vicar General of Rome

text: diocese of Rome

text: Titular Archbishop

text: episcopal consecration

text: Antonio Agliardi

text: Donato Sbarretti

text: Americo Bevilacqua

text: co-consecrators

text: church

text: Cardinal-Priest

text: Santa Maria in Aracoeli

text: participated

text: conclave of 1914

text: Pope Benedict XV

text: Archpriest

text: Lateran Basilica

text: Bishop of Velletri-Segni

text: cardinal electors

text: conclave

text: of 1922

text: Pope Pius XI

text: Filippo Cremonesi

text: Royal Commission

text: Mayor of Rome

text: papal legate

text: Holy Door

text: Dean of the

text: College of Cardinals

text: Campo Verano

text: Cathedral of his native Spoleto

text: athlete

text: Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

text: Catholic-Hierarchy

categories: 1931 deaths,People from Spoleto,Italian cardinals,Cardinal Vicars,Italian titular archbishops,Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology,1858 births

paragraph: Basilio Pompili

paragraph: Basilio Pompili (16 April 1858 – 5 May 1931) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Vicar General of Rome from 1913 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Basilio Pompili was born in Spoleto, and studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary before being ordained to the priesthood on 5 December 1886. He then did pastoral work in Rome from 1888 to 1904. During that time, Pompili was made auditor of the Sacred Congregation of the Council in 1891, an official in the Apostolic Penitentiary in 1896, and prelate adjunct of the Congregation of the Council on 16 March 1898. He was raised to the rank of a protonotary apostolic on 18 December 1899, and was named Auditor of the Roman Rota on 18 July 1904. During his time at the Roman Rota, Pompili sat at the sixth trial for the annulment of Paul Ernest Boniface and Anna Gould.

paragraph: Pompili later returned to the Congregation of the Council upon becoming its Secretary on 31 January 1908. As Secretary, he served as the second-highest official of that dicastery, successively under Cardinals Vincenzo Vannutelli and Casimiro Gennari. Before becoming a bishop, Pompili was created Cardinal Deacon of "Santa Maria in Domnica" by Pope Pius X in the consistory of 27 November 1911. Pius X later named him Vicar General of Rome, and thus in charge of the pastoral of the diocese of Rome, on 7 April 1913.

paragraph: On 5 May 1913, Pompili was appointed Titular Archbishop of "Philippi". He received his episcopal consecration on the following 11 May from Cardinal Antonio Agliardi, with Archbishop Donato Sbarretti and Bishop Americo Bevilacqua serving as co-consecrators, in the church of "S. Vincenzo de' Paoli alla Bocca della Verità". In late May 1914, Pompili opted to become a Cardinal-Priest, with the title of "Santa Maria in Aracoeli". He then participated in the conclave of 1914, which elected Pope Benedict XV, and was named Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica on 28 October 1914.

paragraph: The Cardinal Vicar was elevated to Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni on 22 March 1917, and was one of the cardinal electors in another conclave, that of 1922, resulting in the election of Pope Pius XI. In 1923, he exchanged visits with Filippo Cremonesi, a Royal Commissioner, who served as Mayor of Rome from 1922 to 1926. Among other events, Pompili served as papal legate to the opening (24 December 1924) and closing (24 December 1925) of the Holy Door at the Lateran Basilica. On 9 July 1930, he was made Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals, remaining in that position until his death.

paragraph: Pompili died in Rome, at age 73. He was initially buried at the Campo Verano cemetery, but his remains were later transferred to the Cathedral of his native Spoleto on 18 December 1933.

paragraph: Section::::Trivia.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pompili was a onetime athlete.

paragraph: BULLET::::- From 1919 to 1920, he was Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic-Hierarchy

description: Catholic cardinal

wikidata_label: Basilio Pompilj

wikipedia_title: Basilio Pompili


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Indiana
Ohio
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Boston, Indiana
Miami University
Adrian Beaugureau
Mount Union College
Alliance, Ohio
Adolphe William Bouguereau
Cleveland Academy of Art
New York City
cenotaph
Oxford, Ohio
trompe l'oeil
still life
Kent State University
Artcyclopedia: "De Scott Evans"

categories: 1847 births,Miami University alumni,People lost at sea,Artists from Ohio,American male painters,People from Wayne County, Indiana,Artists from Indiana,Burials at Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Ohio,People who died at sea,Deaths due to shipwreck,19th-century American painters,University of Mount Union faculty,1898 deaths

paragraph: De Scott Evans

paragraph: De Scott Evans (March 28, 1847 – July 4, 1898) was an American painter known for working in a number of genres. Raised in Indiana, he spent much of his career in Ohio and then moved to New York City. His posthumous reputation is largely based on a number of "trompe l'oeil" still lifes that have been attributed to him.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: David Scott Evans was born in Boston, Indiana to David S. and Nancy A. (Davenport) Evans. His father was a physician. He attended Miami University's preparatory school in the 1860s, studying with professor Adrian Beaugureau at Miami and later in Cincinnati. Evans married Alice Josephine Burk in 1872. They had two biological daughters, Mabel and Blanche, and an adopted daughter, Laura.

paragraph: In 1873, he became head of the art department at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, and taught there until 1875. Evans then lived in Paris from 1877 to 1878, where he studied with Adolphe William Bouguereau. He then taught from 1882 to 1887 at the Cleveland Academy of Art, and then moved to New York City in 1887, at the age of forty.

paragraph: Evans and his three daughters died in July 1898, when the Paris-bound steamer was rammed by a sailing ship; 500 other passengers and crew were also lost. His wife was not on board and later remarried. There is a cenotaph for Evans and his daughters in the Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Ohio.

paragraph: Section::::Work and legacy.

paragraph: During his life, he was mainly known for his genre paintings and portraits of stylish young women in rich settings. His popularity faded after his death, until a number of "trompe l'oeil" still lifes were attributed to him. Evans is known to have signed his work as D. Scott Evans and later De Scott Evans, and some of the still lifes attributed to him bear the names David Scott, S. S. David, and Stanley S. David. The attributions are not without question, but are assumed based on the similarity of two paintings of pears, and scholars' inability to identify another artist named "David" who was active at the right time and place.

paragraph: Section::::Other references.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Burnet, Mary Q. (1921). "Art and Artists of Indiana". New York: The Century Co.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Haverstock, Mary Sayer, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt, Jeffrey Weidman (1999) "Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary". Kent State University Press

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Artcyclopedia: "De Scott Evans"

alias:
Stanley S. David
S. S. David
Evans De Scott
David Scott Evans

description: American painter

wikidata_label: De Scott Evans

wikipedia_title: De Scott Evans


text: politician

text: barrister

text: Conservative Party

text: Member of Parliament

text: House of Commons

text: life peer

text: Chief Whip

text: Home Secretary

text: Leader of the House of Lords

text: Governor of Bermuda

text: Burnley

text: Lancashire

text: Cressbrook School

text: Sedbergh School

text: Hertford College, Oxford

text: called to the Bar

text: Gray's Inn

text: Conservative

text: Farnworth

text: 1955 general election

text: Nelson and Colne

text: Heywood and Royton

text: 1968 Nelson and Colne by-election

text: Labour

text: Sydney Silverman

text: February 1974

text: October 1974 general election

text: Doug Hoyle

text: Clitheroe

text: by-election in March 1979

text: Ribble Valley

text: Margaret Thatcher

text: Lord Commissioner of the Treasury

text: Parliamentary Under-Secretary

text: Home Office

text: Chief Whip

text: Cabinet

text: Home Secretary

text: Conservative Monday Club

text: life peer

text: Read

text: County of Lancashire

text: Lord Privy Seal

text: Leader of the House of Lords

text: Governor of Bermuda

text: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

text: Waddington Amendment

text: freedom of speech

text: hate crime

text: House of Lords Reform Act 2014

text: Profile on Parliament website

categories: 1929 births,Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford,UK MPs 1974,Queen's Counsel 1901–2000,People from Burnley,UK MPs 1970–1974,Governors of Bermuda,Members of Gray's Inn,2017 deaths,Conservative Party (UK) life peers,British Queen's Counsel,People educated at Sedbergh School,Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order,Lords Privy Seal,Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire,Secretaries of State for the Home Department,UK MPs 1966–1970,UK MPs 1974–1979,British Secretaries of State,UK MPs 1983–1987,UK MPs 1979–1983,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,Leaders of the House of Lords

paragraph: David Waddington, Baron Waddington

paragraph: David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, (2 August 1929 – 23 February 2017) was a British politician and barrister.

paragraph: A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1968 to 1974, and from 1979 to 1990, and was then made a life peer. During his parliamentary career, Waddington worked in government as Chief Whip, then as Home Secretary and finally as Leader of the House of Lords. He then served as the Governor of Bermuda between 1992 and 1997.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Waddington was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the youngest of five. His father and grandfather were both solicitors in Burnley. He was educated at Cressbrook School and Sedbergh School, both independent schools.

paragraph: He then attended Hertford College, Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association. He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1951.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Waddington stood for election several times before being successful. He was the Conservative candidate at Farnworth in the 1955 general election, at Nelson and Colne in 1964, and at Heywood and Royton in 1966.

paragraph: He was first elected to Parliament at the 1968 Nelson and Colne by-election, caused by the death of Labour MP Sydney Silverman. He was re-elected there in 1970 and in February 1974, but lost his seat at the October 1974 general election by a margin of 669 votes to Labour's Doug Hoyle.

paragraph: Waddington was returned to Parliament for Clitheroe at a by-election in March 1979, and was subsequently elected for the broadly similar Ribble Valley constituency in 1983.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.:In government.

paragraph: A junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, Waddington was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Government Whip (1979–81), Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Employment (1981–83), Minister of State at the Home Office (1983–87), and Chief Whip from 1987 until his elevation to Cabinet level in 1989, when he became Home Secretary. On Monday 5 November 1990, he was the guest-of-honour at the annual dinner of the Conservative Monday Club

paragraph: Section::::Political career.:Life peer.

paragraph: On 4 December 1990, he was created a life peer as Baron Waddington, of Read in the County of Lancashire. He served as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords until 1992. He then served as Governor of Bermuda from 1992 until 1997.

paragraph: Lord Waddington was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1994. In 2008, his amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, known as the Waddington Amendment, inserted a freedom of speech clause into new anti-homophobic hate crime legislation.

paragraph: In November 2009, the Government failed to repeal the Waddington Amendment in the Coroners and Justice Bill. On 26 March 2015, Lord Waddington retired from the House of Lords pursuant to Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Lord Waddington died on 23 February 2017, aged 87. He was survived by his wife, and their five children.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on Parliament website

alias:
David Waddington
David Charles Waddington

description: British politician

wikidata_label: David Waddington, Baron Waddington

wikipedia_title: David Waddington, Baron Waddington


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text: funk

text: soul

text: jazz

text: hip hop

text: reggae

text: rock

text: Grammy Award

text: neo-soul

text: Berlin

text: Sergeant Major

text: Duke Ellington School of the Arts

text: Oxon Hill High School

text: Maverick Records

text: Swahili

text: Plantation Lullabies

text: go-go

text: Rare Essence

text: Living Colour

text: Muzz Skillings

text: Maverick Records

text: Plantation Lullabies

text: androgynous

text: duet

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text: Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?

text: Jerry Maguire

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text: Bedtime Stories

text: Tupac Shakur

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text: Never Miss the Water

text: How Stella Got Her Groove Back

text: Lost & Delirious

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text: Love Jones

text: Love & Basketball

text: Talk to Me

text: Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

text: The Best Man

text: Higher Learning

text: Down in the Delta

text: The Hurricane

text: Soul Men

text: Basement Jaxx

text: Indigo Girls

text: Scritti Politti

text: The Blind Boys of Alabama

text: The Rolling Stones

text: Bridges to Babylon

text: Saint of Me

text: Alanis Morissette

text: Under Rug Swept

text: So Unsexy

text: Zap Mama

text: Standing in the Shadows of Motown

text: The Miracles

text: You've Really Got a Hold on Me

text: The Temptations

text: Cloud Nine

text: Lilith Fair

text: Two Doors Down

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text: iTunes

text: Oprah Winfrey

text: Queen Sugar

text: Ibeyi

text: Ash

text: Frida Kahlo

text: Yerba Buena

text: Fela Kuti

text: Red Hot and Riot

text: Enough Project

text: Downtown Records

text: Raise Hope for Congo

text: Dan Savage

text: It Gets Better Project

text: bisexual

text: Rebecca Walker

text: Plantation Lullabies

text: Maverick

text: Peace Beyond Passion

text: Bitter

text: Comfort Woman

text: Shanachie

text: EmArcy

text: Devil's Halo

text: Downtown

text: Weather

text: Naïve

text: Comet, Come to Me

text: Ventriloquism

text: The Article 3

text: Who Is He And What Is He To You

text: Dance Naked

text: John Mellencamp

text: Wild Night

text: Mercury

text: Bedtime Stories

text: Maverick

text: Sire

text: Warner Bros.

text: Higher Learning (soundtrack)

text: Epic

text: Guru

text: White Man's Burden

text: Panther (soundtrack)

text: Freedom (Theme from Panther)

text: Love Jones (soundtrack)

text: Money Talks (soundtrack)

text: Batman & Robin (soundtrack)

text: My Melody

text: Queen Pen

text: Down In The Delta (soundtrack)

text: Anomie & Bonhomie

text: Scritti Politti

text: The Best Man (soundtrack)

text: Love & Basketball (soundtrack)

text: Go Tell It on the Mountain

text: The Blind Boys Of Alabama

text: Imagine

text: John Lennon

text: Talk to Me

text: Terence Blanchard

text: Atlantic

text: Black Radio

text: Robert Glasper Experiment

text: Jason Moran

text: Extensive audio interview

text: The Sound of Young America

categories: Singers from Washington, D.C.,Guitarists from Washington, D.C.,African-American singer-songwriters,American jazz bass guitarists,African-American rappers,Neo soul singers,American reggae musicians,American female guitarists,LGBT musicians from the United States,LGBT songwriters,Military brats,20th-century American bass guitarists,Maverick Records artists,American female rappers,American hip hop musicians,LGBT African Americans,Bisexual musicians,Female bass guitarists,American multi-instrumentalists,American funk singers,20th-century American women singers,American funk bass guitarists,LGBT singers,American contraltos,21st-century women singers,LGBT rappers,African-American female singer-songwriters,African-American guitarists,Bisexual women,1968 births,African-American female rappers,Living people,American rock bass guitarists,American female rock singers,American jazz singers,American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters,EmArcy Records artists,LGBT rights activists from the United States,American soul singers,Musicians from Berlin,American rhythm and blues bass guitarists,American female singer-songwriters

paragraph: Meshell Ndegeocello

paragraph: Michelle Lynn Johnson, better known as Meshell Ndegeocello (; born August 29, 1968), is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. She has gone by the name Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur which is used as a writing credit on some of her later work. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and although she has never won a Grammy Award, she has been nominated ten times. She has been credited for helping to have "sparked the neo-soul movement."

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Ndegeocello was born Michelle Lynn Johnson in Berlin, Germany, to army Sergeant Major and saxophonist father Jacques Johnson and health care worker mother Helen. She was raised in Washington, D.C. where she attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Oxon Hill High School. In early press releases from Maverick Records her birth year was erroneously listed as 1969. The 1968 birth date has been confirmed through a previous manager and lifelong friend.

paragraph: Named Michelle Lynn Johnson at birth, Ndegeocello adopted her surname at the age of 17, which she says means "free like a bird" in Swahili. Early pressings of "Plantation Lullabies" were affixed with stickers to help pronounce her name. The spelling has changed in the hands of record labels a few times during her career; however, the correct spelling of her stage name is now "Meshell Ndegeocello".

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Ndegeocello honed her skills on the D.C. go-go circuit in the late 1980s with the bands Prophecy, Little Bennie and the Masters, and Rare Essence She unsuccessfully tried out for Living Colour's bassist position, vacated in 1992 by Muzz Skillings. Going solo, she was one of the first artists to sign with Maverick Records, where she released her debut album, "Plantation Lullabies". This recording presented a distinctly androgynous persona.

paragraph: Her biggest hit is a duet with John Mellencamp, a cover version of Van Morrison's "Wild Night", which reached No. 3 on the "Billboard" charts. Her only other "Billboard" Hot 100 hit besides "Wild Night" has been her self-penned "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)", which peaked at No. 73 in 1994. Also in 1994, Ndegeocello collaborated with Herbie Hancock on "Nocturnal Sunshine," a track for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, "". The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by "Time" magazine.

paragraph: She had a No. 1 Dance hit in 1996 with a Bill Withers cover song called "Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?" (briefly featured in the film "Jerry Maguire") as well as Dance Top 20 hits with "Earth", "Leviticus: Faggot", "Stay" and the aforementioned "If That's Your Boyfriend.. Last Night)". Ndegeocello played bass on the song "I'd Rather be Your Lover" for Madonna on her album "Bedtime Stories". Ndegeocello was also tapped, at the last minute, to perform a rap on the same song. This came after Madonna and producers decided to remove Tupac Shakur's rap (which he did while he and Madonna were dating in 1994), after he had criminal charges filed against him. Ndegeocello also performed a rap on Chaka Khan's single "Never Miss the Water", from the album "", released in 1996. The song reached #1 on Billboard's Dance Club Play Chart and #36 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Chart.

paragraph: Her music has been featured in a number of film soundtracks including "How Stella Got Her Groove Back", "Lost & Delirious", "Batman & Robin", "Love Jones", "Love & Basketball", "Talk to Me", "Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls", "The Best Man", "Higher Learning", "Down in the Delta", "The Hurricane", "", and "Soul Men".

paragraph: She has appeared on recordings by Basement Jaxx, Indigo Girls, Scritti Politti, and The Blind Boys of Alabama. On The Rolling Stones' 1997 album "Bridges to Babylon" she plays bass on the song "Saint of Me". On Alanis Morissette's 2002 album "Under Rug Swept", she plays bass on the songs "So Unsexy" and "You Owe Me Nothing in Return". On Zap Mama's album "ReCreation" (2009), she plays bass on the song "African Diamond".

paragraph: She can also be seen in the documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", singing The Miracles' "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" and The Temptations' "Cloud Nine". In the late 1990s, she toured with Lilith Fair. She also did a remake of the song "Two Doors Down" on the 2003 release "".

paragraph: Ndegeocello was also a judge for The 2nd, 12th, 13 and the 2015 14th Annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

paragraph: Her song "Tie One On" was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week on February 23, 2010.

paragraph: In 2016, she provided the theme song, "Nova", for the Oprah Winfrey-produced show "Queen Sugar". She also collaborated with French-Cuban duo Ibeyi in the song Transmission/Michaelion for the album Ash reciting a poem by Frida Kahlo.

paragraph: In December 2016, the world premiere of Ndegeocello's "Can I Get a Witness? The Gospel of James Baldwin", a new theatrical music and art work, was held in Harlem, New York.

paragraph: Section::::Activism.

paragraph: In 2002, Ndegeocello collaborated with Yerba Buena on a track featuring Ron Black for the Red Hot Organization's tribute album to Fela Kuti, "Red Hot and Riot". Proceeds from the album went to various AIDS charities, per the Red Hot Organization's mission.

paragraph: In June 2010, she contributed a cover of U2's "40" to the Enough Project and Downtown Records' Raise Hope for Congo compilation. Proceeds from the compilation fund efforts to make the protection and empowerment of Congo's women a priority, as well as inspire individuals around the world to raise their voice for peace in Congo.

paragraph: In 2010, Ndegeocello contributed to the essay anthology "", edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller in the vein of the It Gets Better Project.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Ndegeocello is bisexual and previously had a relationship with feminist author Rebecca Walker. Ndegeocello's first son, Solomon, was born in 1989. Since 2005, she has been married to Alison Riley, with whom she has a second son.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Studio albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1993: "Plantation Lullabies" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "Peace Beyond Passion" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999: "Bitter" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002: "" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003: "Comfort Woman" (Maverick)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007: "The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams" (EmArcy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009: "Devil's Halo" (Downtown)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "Weather" (Naïve)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "" (Naïve)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014: "Comet, Come to Me" (Naïve)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018: "Ventriloquism" (Naïve)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006: "The Article 3" (EmArcy)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Singles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1993: "Dred Loc" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1993: "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1993: "Outside Your Door" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1994: "Call Me" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "Who Is He And What Is He To You" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Stay" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999: "Grace" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002: "Pocketbook" (feat. Missy Elliott, Tweet, & Redman) (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002: "Earth" (Maverick)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007: "Lovely Lovely"

paragraph: Citation:

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Appearances.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1994: "Dance Naked": John Mellencamp feat. Meshell Ndegeocello "Wild Night" (Mercury)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1994: "Bedtime Stories": "I´d Rather Be Your Lover" (Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995: "Higher Learning (soundtrack)": "Soul Searchin' (I Wanna Know If It's Mine)" (Epic)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995: "": Guru feat. Meshell Ndegeocello "For You" (Chrysalis)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995: "White Man's Burden": "Time Has Come Today" (Chrysalis)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "Panther (soundtrack)": "Freedom (Theme from Panther)" (Mercury)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "": Chaka Khan feat. Meshell Ndegeocello — "Never Miss The Water" (Reprise)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Love Jones (soundtrack)": Marcus Miller feat. Meshell Ndegeocello – "Rush Over" (Columbia)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Money Talks (soundtrack)": "The Teaching" (Arista)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Batman & Robin (soundtrack)": "Poison Ivy" (Warner Bros.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "My Melody": Queen Pen feat. Meshell Ndegeocello "Girlfriend" (Interscope)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998: "How Stella Got Her Groove Back (soundtrack)": "Let Me Have You" (Flyte Tyme/MCA)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998: "Down In The Delta (soundtrack)": "My Soul Don't Dream" (Virgin)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999: "Anomie & Bonhomie": Scritti Politti "Die Alone" (Virgin)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999: "The Best Man (soundtrack)": "Untitled" (Sony)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Love & Basketball (soundtrack)": "Fool of Me" (New Line)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003: "Go Tell It on the Mountain": The Blind Boys Of Alabama Special Guest Vocals and Piano - "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" (Real World)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007: "": "Imagine" (John Lennon cover) (Warner Bros.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007: "Talk to Me" (soundtrack): "Compared to What" (featuring Terence Blanchard) (Atlantic)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Black Radio": Robert Glasper Experiment feat. Meshell Ndegeocello: "The Consequences of Jealousy"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014: "": Jason Moran (Blue Note, 2014): producer and vocals

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Extensive audio interview on public radio program The Sound of Young America

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Meshell Ndegeocello

wikipedia_title: Meshell Ndegeocello


text:
Italian
Venice
Giorgio Massari
San Rocco
Gallerie dell'Accademia
Ridotto
Palazzo Ducale
Mestre
Padua

wikipedia_title:
Italy
Venice
Giorgio Massari
San Rocco, Venice
Gallerie dell'Accademia
Ridotto
Doge's Palace
Mestre
Padua

categories: 1798 deaths,Republic of Venice architects,Year of birth uncertain,Italian Baroque architects

paragraph: Bernardino Maccarucci

paragraph: Bernardino Maccarucci (c. 1728 – 1798) was an Italian architect, active in his native Venice.

paragraph: He was a pupil of Giorgio Massari, but most of his work in the declining republic was merely in reconstructions and restorations. He helped build the facade of the church of San Rocco (1765–71) and of the Scuola della Carità (1766, design by Massari, now the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice); he worked in the palazzo del Ridotto (1768) and one of the Banquet rooms in the Palazzo Ducale. In Mestre, he designed the construction of the Chiesa Collegiata. In Padua, he helped build the Palazzo del Capitanio (1779). He died in Venice.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Treccani encyclopedia entry

description: Italian architect

wikidata_label: Bernardino Maccarucci

wikipedia_title: Bernardino Maccarucci


text:
White Hopes
Jack Johnson
African American
World White Heavyweight Championship
newspaper decision
Brooklyn, New York
Joe Walcott
George Dixon
Al Kaufman
K.O.
Luther McCarty
Vernon, California
newspaper decision

categories: Boxers from Iowa,1917 deaths,Heavyweight boxers,People from Winneshiek County, Iowa,1890 births

paragraph: Al Palzer

paragraph: Al Palzer (1 January 1890 - 26 July 1917) was a boxer who fought from 1911 to 1915, one of the "White Hopes" during the reign of world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, an African American. The 6'3" Palzer, who was German-American, fought in the heavyweight division at a weight of 218 to 228 lbs. Palzer was one of the first boxers to fight for the World White Heavyweight Championship title.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born on 1 January 1890.

paragraph: On 9 March 1911, he lost a newspaper decision to Frank Moran in a 10-round bout held in Brooklyn, New York. Moran had fought Johnson in a four-round exhibition in April 1909 in Pittsburgh and later lost a title match with Johnson in Paris on 27 Jun 1914.

paragraph: Palzer participated in a "White Hope" tournament organized by promoter Tom O'Rourke at New York City's National Sporting Club that was held in May 1911. Ironically, O’Rourke has managed the legendary African American boxers Joe Walcott and George Dixon. He also had signed Palzer to a contract before the tournament, and likely manipulated it so that Palzer could win. Other White Hope tournaments were created in response to O'Rouke's contest.

paragraph: On 19 December 1911, Palzer fought Al Kaufman in Brooklyn and scored a K.O. in the fifth round of their 10-round bout. Kaufman had fought Jack Johnson for the world heavyweight title in San Francisco on 9 September 1909. The 10-rounder ended in a no-decision, and the two fighters met in Reno, Nevada to box an exhibition in July 1910.

paragraph: On New Year's Day 1913, Palzer met Luther McCarty in Vernon, California to determine the "White Heavyweight Championship" of the world. McCarty won the title by way of a T.K.O. in the 18th round. It would be a title he would hold for the rest of his life which would only be a short five months.

paragraph: Palzer retired in 1915 after having racked up a record of nine wins (six by K.O.) against four losses. He also lost four newspaper decisions.

paragraph: He died on 26 July 1917, when he was shot to death by his father.

description: American boxer

wikidata_label: Al Palzer

wikipedia_title: Al Palzer


paragraph: Fujiwara no Kanefusa

description: Daijō Daijin

wikidata_label: Fujiwara no Kanefusa

wikipedia_title: Fujiwara no Kanefusa


text: French Revolution

text: Holy See

text: Champagne

text: Army of Condé

text: Napoleon Bonaparte

text: François Cacault

text: Joseph Fesch

text: Chateaubriand

text: chargé d'affaires

text: Queen of Etruria

text: Elisa Bonaparte

text: Bourbon Restoration

text: Divina Commedia

text: Machiavelli

text: Pius IX

text: Gaeta

categories: Italian–French translators,French historians of religion,19th-century French historians,1849 deaths,French translators,French art collectors,French art historians,19th-century French diplomats,1772 births,Writers from Paris,Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres,French male non-fiction writers,19th-century French male writers

paragraph: Alexis-François Artaud de Montor

paragraph: Alexis-François Artaud De Montor (born Paris, 31 July 1772; died Paris, 12 November 1849) was a diplomat and historian. An émigré during the French Revolution, he was entrusted by the royal princes with missions to the Holy See and served during the campaign of Champagne in the Army of Condé. Napoleon Bonaparte made him secretary of the French Legation in Rome. Artaud occupied this post under François Cacault, left Rome for a short time when Cardinal Joseph Fesch, Cacault's successor, brought Chateaubriand with him, and returned to Rome in the same capacity after Chateaubriand had resigned. Appointed chargé d'affaires of France to Florence in 1805 he was recalled in 1807 because he was wrongfully suspected of having employed his power on behalf of the Queen of Etruria, whose possessions Napoleon wished to give to Elisa Bonaparte.

paragraph: Made censor during the last years of the empire, he became under the Bourbon Restoration secretary of the embassy in Vienna, then again in Rome. In 1830 he retired on a pension to devote himself exclusively to literary works. Besides his translation of Dante's "Divina Commedia" (1811–1813) which was rated very highly, Artaud de Montor left several historical works:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Machiavel, son génie et ses erreurs" (Machiavelli, his genius and his errors; Paris, 1833);

paragraph: BULLET::::- the volume on the history of Italy in the collection of the "Univers pittoresque" (Paris, 1834);

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoire du pape Pie VII" (2 vols., Paris, 1836);

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoire de Dante Alighieri" (Paris, 1841);

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoire des souverains pontifes romains" (8 vols., Paris, 1842);

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoire de Léon XII" (Paris, 1843);

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoire de Pie VIII" (Paris, 1843).

paragraph: Shortly before his death, in 1849 when Pius IX was banished to Gaeta, Artaud de Montor published a work entitled: "La papauté et les émeutes romaines". His recollections and his observations as a diplomat form part of Artaud de Montor's historical works. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres from 17 Dec., 1830.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- . Cites:

paragraph: BULLET::::- QUÉRARD, "La littérature française contemporaine", I (Paris, 1840), 78-82;

paragraph: BULLET::::- LORENZ, "Catalogue Général de la Librairie Française", I (Paris, 1892), 79.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A selection of European paintings and objects, by Roberta Olson

alias: Jean-Alexis-François Artaud de Montor Chevalier

alias: Jean-Alexis-François, Chevalier Artaud de Montor

description: French historian

wikidata_label: Alexis-François Artaud De Montor

wikipedia_title: Alexis-François Artaud de Montor