text:
Orange County, California
IT specialist
San Mateo County, California
Raleigh, North Carolina
Indies Spirit Award
New York City
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Parsons School of Design
pronouns
OHWOW
Mykki Blanco & the Mutant Angels
Flosstradamus
Le1f
Sinden
Junto
Basement Jaxx
Gay Dog Food
Kathleen Hanna
Cities Aviv
Cakes Da Killa
Mykki
YouTube
Lil' Kim
Lil' Kim
GG Allin
Jean Cocteau
Kathleen Hanna
Lauryn Hill
Rihanna
Marilyn Manson
Anaïs Nin
riot grrrl
queercore
Bruce LaBruce
Vaginal Davis
Yoko Ono
Michael Jackson
Rosie O'Donnell
Anderson Cooper
Madonna
GLAAD
Manhattan
LGBT
Mykki
Mykki Blanco & the Mutant Angels
Gay Dog Food
LGBT culture in New York City

categories: American drag queens,Gay writers,LGBT African Americans,People with HIV/AIDS,1986 births,Gay rappers,American people of Jewish descent,LGBT rights activists from the United States,LGBT musicians from the United States,School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni,LGBT people from New York (state),African-American Jews,LGBT people from California,African-American drag queens,Living people

paragraph: Mykki Blanco

paragraph: Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. (born April 2, 1986), better known by the stage name Mykki Blanco, is an American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Quattlebaum was born in Orange County, California. His father, Michael Quattlebaum Sr., was an IT specialist before becoming a psychic. His mother, Deborah Butler, was a paralegal at the North Carolina Patent and Trademark Office. His father's side is African-American Jewish. Quattlebaum's parents divorced when he was 2 years old. As a child, he lived in San Mateo County, California, near his paternal grandparents, before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina.

paragraph: At the age of 15, Quattlebaum won an Indies Spirit Award for the performance collective he founded, Paint In Consciousness Experimental Theater, in Raleigh.

paragraph: When Quattlebaum was 16, he ran away from home before moving to New York City. He then spent time in California, before winning a full scholarship to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but dropped out of college after two semesters in 2006. He also briefly attended Parsons School of Design in New York City.

paragraph: Blanco has used different pronouns throughout his career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Quattlebaum's book of poetry, "From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys", was published on OHWOW's imprint on June 17, 2011.

paragraph: In 2012, Blanco made his debut with "Mykki Blanco & the Mutant Angels" EP.

paragraph: Then in November 2012, Blanco released the mixtape "". The mixtape was produced by Brenmar, Flosstradamus, Gobby, Le1f, Boody, Matrixxman, and Sinden. He makes an appearance in the album "Junto" by Basement Jaxx.

paragraph: In 2013, Blanco released his second EP "". May 2014 saw the release of the "Spring/Summer 2014" EP, followed by his second mixtape "Gay Dog Food" in October. "Gay Dog Food" features a spoken word track with Kathleen Hanna, and contributions from Cities Aviv, Cakes Da Killa, and more.

paragraph: Blanco's debut album, "Mykki", was released on September 16, 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Artistry.

paragraph: Quattlebaum's persona Mykki Blanco began as a teenage girl character for a YouTube video in 2010, but evolved into a musical and performance art piece. Blanco's name is inspired by Lil' Kim's alter ego Kimmy Blanco. his influences include Lil' Kim, GG Allin, Jean Cocteau, Kathleen Hanna, Lauryn Hill, Rihanna, Marilyn Manson, and Anaïs Nin. He is also inspired by the riot grrrl movement and queercore, namely the director Bruce LaBruce and the drag queen Vaginal Davis.

paragraph: Blanco has been called one of hip hop's queer pioneers; although he struggles to identify with the label of "gay rap" or "queer rap," he has begrudgingly "accepted it." Blanco also disagrees with those who portray him as a drag artist, saying "You can't tag me as the rapping transvestite. I never vogued in my life. I'm from a punk and Riot Grrrl background." Blanco has often described himself in terms of other artists, saying that he's not a "Marilyn Manson" or even a rapper, but rather says he wants to be Yoko Ono. In fact, his album "Mykki" was originally going to be named "Michael" in reference to Michael Jackson. Blanco, along with Rosie O'Donnell and Anderson Cooper, presented Madonna with the GLAAD Advocate for Change award on May 5, 2019 in Manhattan.

paragraph: Blanco has also tried to bring his "persona" closer and closer to his non-artist self Quattlebaum, having to repeatedly say through interviews and alike that he is indeed transfeminine, and that the aesthetic evolution of Mykki Blanco over the years is the aesthetic evolution of his entire self, rather than just a "drag performance." Mykki Blanco places a lot of emphasis on his music videos and art performances, often taking complex and fresh new takes on his ever-moving aesthetic, and is constantly trying out new looks and performances just as genre-defying as his musical style.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In June 2015, Blanco revealed via his Facebook page that he has been HIV positive since 2011. Blanco initially worried that being HIV positive would be detrimental to his career, saying of the decision to make finally that information public, "I did it for myself. At a certain point, my real life has to be more important than this career." He made this information public via Facebook during Pride season. Over 12,000 users liked the post and over 700 shared it. Through coming out with this hard-hitting information, Blanco says that he feels like a good person when he hasn't felt that way in a long time.

paragraph: Mykki Blanco says that prior to coming out as HIV positive, he thought he might not continue his musical career in the future. Blanco expressed concern that the music industry would shut him down because of his public announcement: "I thought when I came out that was going to be the end," he says. "Mykki Blanco is fun. Talking about HIV is not fun. How could I be fun and have HIV?" He mentions that during that time period he had made plans to become an investigative journalist to report on LGBT issues on a global scale, yet that the flood of positive reactions in response to his coming out as HIV positive have made him determined to continue his artistry.

paragraph: Mykki Blanco at first identified as a trans woman, but ultimately declared that he has just been a feminine cis gay male. However, he has remained a transgender rights activist and has supported the trans community ever since.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mykki" (2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stay Close to Music, Stay Close to God" (2019)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Extended plays.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mykki Blanco & the Mutant Angels" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Spring/Summer 2014" (2014)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Mixtapes.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gay Dog Food" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "White Pelle Pelle" (2015)

paragraph: Section::::Published works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys" (2011)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- LGBT culture in New York City

description: American rapper

wikidata_label: Mykki Blanco

wikipedia_title: Mykki Blanco


text:
botanist
taxonomist
herbarium
Dana T. Merrill
East Auburn, Maine
University of Maine
United States Department of Agriculture
Frank Lamson-Scribner
Taft Commission
Insular Bureau of Agriculture
University of the Philippines
cryptogams
Eugene W. Hilgard
Mandeville Canyon
University of California, Los Angeles
New York Botanic Garden
Columbia University
Works Progress Administration
Nathaniel Lord Britton
Harvard University
Arnold Arboretum
United States War Department

categories: American taxonomists,People from Auburn, Maine,Arnold Arboretum,20th-century American botanists,Botanists active in the Philippines,University of California, Berkeley faculty,1956 deaths,Botanical Society of America,1876 births,Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences,Harvard University faculty,Columbia University faculty

paragraph: Elmer Drew Merrill

paragraph: Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twenty years in the Philippines where he became a recognized authority on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region. Through the course of his career he authored nearly 500 publications, described approximately 3,000 new plant species, and amassed over one million herbarium specimens. In addition to his scientific work he was an accomplished administrator, college dean, university professor and editor of scientific journals.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Merrill and his twin brother, Dana T. Merrill, were born and raised in the small village of East Auburn, Maine. They were the youngest of six children by Daniel C. Merrill and Mary (Noyes) Merrill. Merrill showed an early interest in natural history, collecting and identifying plants, birds' eggs, rocks, and minerals. In 1894 he entered the University of Maine with the intention of studying engineering but soon switched to a general science curriculum where he focused on the biology and classification of flowering plants. He was the valedictorian of his graduation class in 1898 and then stayed on for an additional year working as an assistant in the Department of Natural Science. During his time in college Merrill built a sizable herbarium of almost 2,000 specimens which he eventually donated to the New England Botanical Club.

paragraph: In 1899 Merrill accepted a position with the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C. as an assistant to Frank Lamson-Scribner, an authority on the classification of grasses and a pioneer plant pathologist. At the USDA he learned the principles of plant taxonomy and became proficient in the development and management of a herbarium. His training was supplemented by fieldwork in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

paragraph: Section::::Philippines.

paragraph: At the end of the Spanish–American War, the United States Taft Commission established the Insular Bureau of Agriculture in Manila. Merrill was appointed to the post of botanist in the new organization and arrived in 1902 in Manila where he was to work for the next twenty-two years. Merrill was dismayed to discover that the herbarium he was expecting to find had been destroyed during the war, along with the botanical library and scientific equipment. Nevertheless, starting with just an empty building, he set out to rebuild the herbarium and library.

paragraph: Within a few months his role was expanded to include a joint appointment with the Bureau of Forestry. Over the years Merrill's responsibilities continued to grow until he became both the Director of the Bureau of Sciences and a Professor of Botany at the University of the Philippines. He collected and studied plants not only from the Philippines but also from the greater Asia-Pacific region including Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina, China, and Guam. Eventually the herbarium grew to over 250,000 specimens and the botanical library was recognized as one of the best in Asia.

paragraph: Merrill published more than 100 taxonomic papers on Philippine flora and several additional papers on the flora of the region. Many of his papers were published in "The Philippine Journal of Science", a journal he helped establish and edited from 1907 to 1918. In 1912 he published a 500-page "Flora of Manila" covering some 1,000 species. In 1921 he completed a "Bibliographic Enumeration of Bornean Plants", a volume of 637 pages. His most ambitious work was the "Enumeration of Philippine Flowering Plants" published in sections between 1923 and 1926. As documented by his "Enumeration" the list of known Philippine species had been extended from 2,500 plants of all types in 1900 to 8,120 species of flowering plants, 1,000 species of ferns, and 3,000 species of cryptogams.

paragraph: Section::::University of California, Berkeley.

paragraph: In 1924 Merrill returned to the United States to join the University of California, Berkeley. There he was appointed Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. At Berkeley he led a reorganization of the faculty, revised the curriculum, emphasized academic training of staff, added buildings and equipment, and stressed fundamental research. In 1925, Merrill established the journal "Hilgardia", named for Eugene W. Hilgard who organized the Agriculture Department and was the founding director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. During his spare time, Merrill continued to work on systematic botany of the Asia-Pacific flora and added more than 100,000 specimens from that region to the University herbarium.

paragraph: In 1926 a proposal was developed to establish the California Botanic Garden in Los Angeles. Merrill took part-time leave from the College to become director of the Garden Foundation. The plan involved the purchase of at Mandeville Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains. About 800 acres in the center of the tract were to be developed as a botanical garden financed by the sale of surrounding property for residential homes. During his short tenure as director Merrill built administrative offices and greenhouses, started a library, established an herbarium of 180,000 specimens and planted 1,200 species in the gardens. Unfortunately, not long after Merrill left, the plans collapsed when property prices plummeted as a result of the Great Depression. The herbarium was transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles and the gardens were subdivided and sold for housing.

paragraph: Section::::New York Botanic Garden.

paragraph: In 1929 Merrill accepted dual appointments as Director of the New York Botanic Garden and Professor of Botany at Columbia University. He started his new job at the onset of the Great Depression and the Garden was facing severe financial constraints. Despite these difficulties, he was able to continue many of the programs by taking advantage of personnel provided by the Works Progress Administration. Up to 300 personnel were employed building walks, roads, fences and other infrastructure in the gardens; or they worked in the herbarium as mounters, artists, secretaries, librarians, clerks and technicians.

paragraph: The herbarium collection was completely rearranged, operations were improved, and specimens inventoried for the first time. Once

paragraph: the substantial backlog of unmounted material was complete, specimens were mounted for other institutions including the Arnold Arboretum and the Gray Herbarium. In 1931 Merrill established a new journal focused on systematic botany and plant geography, named "Brittonia" after Nathaniel Lord Britton, a co-founder of the Garden.

paragraph: Section::::Harvard.

paragraph: In 1935 Merrill left the Botanic Garden and took a job as Administrator of Botanical Collections at Harvard University, a new position created to consolidate the supervision of eight separate Harvard botanical units. A year after his arrival Merrill also became the Arnold Professor of Botany, and in 1937 the Director of the Arnold Arboretum. In his new roles Merrill devoted significant time to expanding the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum and to research on Asiatic plants. Over the next ten years 220,000 plant specimens were acquired from all parts of Asia and the Asia-Pacific. Meanwhile, Merrill continued to publish numerous papers on Asia flora as well as articles dealing with the cultivation and dispersion of domesticated plants. During the Second World War he consulted with the United States War Department and wrote a handbook, "Emergency Food Plants and Poisonous Plants of the Islands of the Pacific".

paragraph: In 1946, at the age of seventy Merrill retired from his administrative duties and became Professor Emeritus in 1948. He continued with his research at Harvard and traveled as much as his age and health would allow. One of his last major contributions was "The Botany of Cook's Voyages and it's Unexpected Significance in Relation to Anthropology, Biogeography and History", published in 1952.

paragraph: Merrill died on February 25, 1956 at Forest Hills, Massachusetts. His library of 2,600 titles was donated to the New York Botanical Garden and a fund was established to award an annual medal to “that individual within the entire field of botany irrespective of race, creed or nationality who was considered worthy of such an award”.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition and honors.

paragraph: Merrill was widely recognized for his many accomplishments. He received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Maine in 1926, Harvard University in 1936, the University of California in 1936, and Yale University in 1951. At various times he served as President of the Botanical Society of America, Acting President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the New England Botanical Club, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and the International Union of Biological Sciences.

paragraph: Seven plant genera ("Merrillia", "Merrilliobryum", "Merrilliodendron", "Merrilliopeltis", "Merrillosphaera", "Sinomerrillia", and "Elmerrillia") and over 200 species were named in his honor.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: A handful of his most notable publications are listed below. A more comprehensive bibliography is contained in Robbins' "Biographical Memoir".

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Flora of Manila. 1912

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Bibliographic Enumeration of Bornean Plants. 1921

paragraph: BULLET::::- An Enumeration of Philippine Flowering Plants. 1923-26

paragraph: BULLET::::- An Enumeration of Hainan Plants. 1927

paragraph: BULLET::::- Polynesian Botanical Bibliography (1773-1935). 1937

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emergency Food Plants and Poisonous Plants of the Islands of the Pacific. 1943

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Botanical Bibliography of the Islands of the Pacific. 1946

paragraph: BULLET::::- Botany of Cook's Voyages and Its Unexpected Significance in Relation to Anthropology, Biogeography and History. 1954

alias:
Merr.
Elmer D. Merrill

description: U.S. botanist (1876–1956)

wikidata_label: Elmer Drew Merrill

wikipedia_title: Elmer Drew Merrill


text: probability theorist

text: exchangeable

text: stochastic processes

text: Auburn University

text: Alabama

text: Sweden

text: engineering physics

text: Royal Institute of Technology

text: Stockholm

text: mathematical statistics

text: operations analysis

text: Gothenburg

text: Chalmers University of Technology

text: Ph.D.

text: Uppsala University

text: Auburn University

text: Rollo Davidson Prize

text: Cambridge University

text: Institute of Mathematical Statistics

text: University of Alabama in Huntsville

categories: 21st-century American mathematicians,Probability theorists,Swedish emigrants to the United States,20th-century American mathematicians,Living people,Swedish mathematicians,Royal Institute of Technology alumni,Chalmers University of Technology alumni,Auburn University faculty

paragraph: Olav Kallenberg

paragraph: Olav Kallenberg is a probability theorist known for his work on exchangeable stochastic processes and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Kallenberg is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama in the USA.

paragraph: From 1991 to 1994, Kallenberg served as the Editor-in-Chief of "Probability Theory and Related Fields", one of the world's leading journals in probability.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Olav Kallenberg was educated in Sweden. He has worked as a probabilist in Sweden and in the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Sweden.

paragraph: Kallenberg was born and educated in Sweden, with an undergraduate exam in engineering physics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Kallenberg entered doctoral studies in mathematical statistics at KTH, but left his studies to work in operations analysis for a consulting firm in Gothenburg. While in Gothenburg, Kallenberg also taught at Chalmers University of Technology, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1972.

paragraph: After earning his doctoral degree, Kallenberg stayed with Chalmers as a lecturer.

paragraph: Kallenberg was appointed a full professor in Uppsala University.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:United States.

paragraph: Later he moved to the United States. Since 1986, he has been Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Auburn University.

paragraph: Section::::Honours and awards.

paragraph: In 1977, Kallenberg was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize from Cambridge University, and Kallenberg was only the second recipient of the prize in history.

paragraph: Kallenberg is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

paragraph: In April 2006 Kallenberg was selected Auburn’s 32nd annual Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecturer at Auburn. Kallenberg delivered the 2003 AACTM Lewis-Parker Lecture at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.:Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kallenberg, O., "Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles". Springer -Verlag, New York (2005). 510 pp. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kallenberg, O., "Foundations of Modern Probability", 2nd ed. Springer Series in Statistics. (2002). 650 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kallenberg, O., "Random Measures", 4th edition. Academic Press, New York, London; Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (1986).

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.:Scientific papers.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Homogeneity and the strong Markov property". Ann. Probab. 15 (1987), 213–240.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Spreading and predictable sampling in exchangeable sequences and processes". Ann. Probab. 16 (1988), 508–534.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Multiple integration with respect to Poisson and Lévy processes" (with J. Szulga). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields (1989), 101–134.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "General Wald-type identities for exchangeable sequences and processes". Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 83 (1989), 447–487.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Random time change and an integral representation for marked stopping times". Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 86 (1990), 167–202.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Some dimension-free features of vector-valued martingales" (with R. Sztencel). Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 88 (1991), 215–247.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Symmetries on random arrays and set-indexed processes". J. Theor. Probab. 5 (1992), 727–765.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Random arrays and functionals with multivariate rotational symmetries". Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 103 (1995), 91–141.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the existence of universal functional solutions to classical SDEs". Ann. Probab. 24 (1996), 196–205.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brief CV for the 2003 Lewis-Parker Lecturer .

description: Swedish-American mathematician

wikidata_label: Olav Kallenberg

wikipedia_title: Olav Kallenberg


text: Norwegian

text: ski jumper

text: Birger

text: Asbjørn

text: 1928 Winter Olympics

text: St. Moritz

text: 1929 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

text: Holmenkollen ski festival

text: 1932 Winter Olympics

text: ski jumping event

text: appendicitis

text: alpine skiing events

text: 1936 Winter Olympics

text: Holmenkollen medal

text: Jacob Tullin Thams

text: Kongsberger technique

text: World War I

text: Daescher technique

text: Holmenkollen medalists

categories: Olympic medalists in ski jumping,Norwegian male ski jumpers,Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics,Holmenkollen medalists,Ski jumpers at the 1928 Winter Olympics,Olympic silver medalists for Norway,1994 deaths,Olympic ski jumpers of Norway,Norwegian male alpine skiers,FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping,Kongsberg IF ski jumpers,Ski jumpers at the 1932 Winter Olympics,1907 births,Alpine skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics

paragraph: Sigmund Ruud

paragraph: Sigmund Ruud (30 December 1907 – 7 April 1994) was a Norwegian ski jumper. Together with his brothers Birger and Asbjørn, he dominated ski jumping in the 1920s and 1930s. At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Sigmund earned a silver medal. At the 1929 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he won the ski jumping competition while earning a bronze at the 1930 event. Sigmund also competed in the ski jumping competition at the Holmenkollen ski festival, which first began in 1933. He also competed at the 1932 Winter Olympics in the ski jumping event, but finished seventh due to appendicitis. Additionally, Sigmund wanted to compete in the first alpine skiing events at the 1936 Winter Olympics, though he did not start.

paragraph: For his contributions in ski jumping, Sigmund earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1949, the last of the three Ruud brothers to do so. Sigmund was the only one of the three not to win the Holmenkollen ski jumping competition. Sigmund Ruud and fellow Norwegian ski jumper Jacob Tullin Thams are considered co-creators of the Kongsberger technique after World War I, a ski jumping technique that was the standard until it was superseded by the Daescher technique in the 1950s. Ruud also served as chairman of the FIS Ski Jumping Committee in 1946–1955 and 1959–1967. He owned and ran a sport shop in Oslo.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file

paragraph: BULLET::::- Swiss Olympic Committee "St. Moritz 1928", 1928. (digitized version)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Swiss Olympic Committee "Résultats DES concours DES II jeux Olympiques d'Hiver", 1928. (digitized version)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Organizing Committee "III Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1932", 1932 (digitized version)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Organizing Committee, "IV. Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht", Reichssportverlag Berlin SW 68, 1936 (digitized version)

description: Norwegian ski jumper

wikidata_label: Sigmund Ruud

wikipedia_title: Sigmund Ruud


text:
Doge of Venice
Lombard
Desiderius
Byzantium
Franks
Ionian Islands
Levant
Pope Paul I
Norwich, John Julius
Alfred A. Knopf
New York

categories: 8th-century deaths,8th-century Doges of Venice

paragraph: Domenico Monegario

paragraph: Domenico Monegario was the traditional sixth Doge of Venice (756–764).

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: He was elected with the support of the Lombard king Desiderius. However, in order to maintain necessary good relations with Byzantium and the Franks, two tribunes were elected annually to limit ducal power. Domenico came to resent these checks and was removed after eight years.

paragraph: During his reign, the transformation of the Venetians from fishermen to marine traders happened, with audacious travels as far as the Ionian Islands and the Levant. The art of shipbuilding was improved to make sturdier, faster ships. Venetian wealth increased via trade and the city took on its medieval character it held for the next millennium.

paragraph: When Pope Paul I demanded donations from Venice to the Holy See, the Doge Monegario was deposed, blinded, and exiled as his two predecessors had been.

paragraph: The surname Monegario may derive from ', that is, a friar or monk, or ', that is, a minter.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Norwich, John Julius. "A History of Venice". Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982.

description: Venetian doge

wikidata_label: Domenico Monegario

wikipedia_title: Domenico Monegario


text:
American football
linebacker
Buffalo Bills
National Football League
college football
Wagner College
Jacksonville Jaguars
undrafted free agent
Detroit Lions
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
New York Jets
Jacksonville Jaguars
2012 NFL Draft
Detroit Lions
Buffalo Bills
Wagner Seahawks Bio
Jacksonville Jaguars Bio

categories: People from Bloomfield, Connecticut,Detroit Lions players,Sportspeople from Hartford County, Connecticut,Players of American football from Connecticut,Buffalo Bills players,American football linebackers,1990 births,Jacksonville Jaguars players,New York Jets players,Living people

paragraph: Julian Stanford

paragraph: Julian Stanford (born September 2, 1990) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wagner College and was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He has also played for the Detroit Lions, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

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

paragraph: Stanford signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars following the 2012 NFL Draft as a rookie free agent. He was released on August 30, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Detroit Lions.

paragraph: On December 3, 2013, Stanford signed with the Detroit Lions. He was cut by the Lions on September 6, 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

paragraph: After working out for the team Stanford signed to the Buccaneers practice squad on September 16, 2015. On September 22, 2015, he was released from practice squad. On October 28, 2015, he was re-signed to the practice squad. On November 3, 2015, he was waived.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Jets.

paragraph: On December 1, 2015, Stanford was signed to the Jets' practice squad and was re-signed on January 5, 2016. He was released on September 26, 2016 and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted back to the active roster on October 22, 2016. He was waived by the Jets on December 7, 2016 and placed on injured reserve.

paragraph: On April 14, 2017, Stanford was released by the Jets but was re-signed three days later.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Buffalo Bills.

paragraph: On March 14, 2018, Stanford signed with the Buffalo Bills.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wagner Seahawks Bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacksonville Jaguars Bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Julian Stanford

wikipedia_title: Julian Stanford


text: Washington University in St. Louis

text: Pearson Education

text: Prentice Hall

text: Brown University

text: Northwestern University

text: core-mantle boundary

text: seismic waves

text: Beijing Anomaly

text: National Science Foundation

text: Earth Science Literacy Initiative

text: Earth science

text: Geophysical Research Letters

text: American Geophysical Union

text: Prentice Hall

text: Pearson's

text: The Teaching Company

text: NASA

text: National Science Teachers Association

text: Washington University Academic Homepage

text: Biography

categories: 1961 births,American science writers,Northwestern University alumni,American geophysicists,Living people,Brown University alumni

paragraph: Michael E. Wysession

paragraph: Michael E. Wysession (born December 6, 1961) is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of numerous science textbooks published by Pearson Education and Prentice Hall.

paragraph: Wysession earned his B.Sc. from Brown University in 1980 and his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1991, and has been on the faculty at Washington University since then. His research has focused on using seismic waves to identify the composition and structure of Earth's mantle, with special focus on the boundary between the mantle and core. In 1996, Wysession created one of the first maps of the structure of Earth's core-mantle boundary, and in 1999, he created the first accurate computer-generated animation of the way seismic waves propagate through Earth's mantle. An example of his research was the identification with Jesse Lawrence of the lower mantle Beijing Anomaly. Wysession is chair of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Earth Science Literacy Initiative, leading a research community-based effort that created a concise document of what all citizens should know about Earth science. He has been active for many years with the leadership of IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology), and has served as Chair for the past four years of the Education and Outreach Program, working to advance global awareness of earthquakes and seismology. Wysession also helped to create the NSF program on Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, and is an editor of the journal "Geophysical Research Letters", published by the American Geophysical Union.

paragraph: Wysession is the lead author of Prentice Hall's high school physical science book "Physical Science: Concepts in Action", and writer of their high school "Earth Science" and middle school Earth science "Science Explorer" books. He is also a co-author of Pearson's new K-8 national science program, "Interactive Science." Wysession is co-author of a leading undergraduate/graduate geophysics textbook with Seth Stein entitled "Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure." Wysession is author of the video course "How the Earth Works" with The Teaching Company, which consists of 48 30-minute lectures on all aspects of Earth science. He is the designer and instructor of a course entitled "Earth, Moon, and Mars" that he presents at different NASA locations. Wysession is a frequent lecturer internationally at teacher organization meetings (such as the National Science Teachers Association), science centers, and other venues.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washington University Academic Homepage

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography

description: Science author and educator

wikidata_label: Michael E. Wysession

wikipedia_title: Michael E. Wysession


text:
American
prelate
Roman Catholic Church
Bishop of Rapid City
Rochester
Minnesota
St. Francis Seminary
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Belgium
philosophy
Flanders
theology
University of Louvain
ordained
priesthood
Scripture
College of St. Thomas
pastor
St. Paul
rector
Cathedral of St. Paul
auxiliary bishop
Archdiocese of St. Paul
titular bishop
Hermopolis Maior
Pope Pius X
episcopal
consecration
John Ireland
James McGolrick
James Trobec
co-consecrators
Bishop of Lead
South Dakota
Pope Benedict XV
episcopal see
Lead
Rapid City
William Tibertus McCarty
coadjutor bishop
stroke
Alexander Joseph McGavick

categories: University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) faculty,People from Rochester, Minnesota,American Roman Catholic bishops,St. Francis Seminary (Wisconsin) alumni,1862 births,Roman Catholic bishops of Rapid City,Religious leaders from Minnesota,1948 deaths,Roman Catholic bishops of Lead,Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

paragraph: John Jeremiah Lawler

paragraph: John Jeremiah Lawler (August 4, 1862—March 11, 1948) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Rapid City from 1916 until his death in 1948.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Lawler was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and attended St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He continued his studies in Belgium, studying philosophy at the College of St. Nicholas in Flanders and theology at the University of Louvain. He was ordained to the priesthood at Louvain on December 19, 1885.

paragraph: Following his return to Minnesota, Lawler served as professor of Scripture at the College of St. Thomas and later pastor of St. Luke's Church in St. Paul. He also served as rector of the Cathedral of St. Paul. As rector, he was instrumental in the erection of the cathedral at a cost of $5 million.

paragraph: On February 8, 1910, Lawler was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and titular bishop of "Hermopolis Maior" by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 19 from Archbishop John Ireland, with Bishops James McGolrick and James Trobec serving as co-consecrators. As an auxiliary bishop, he assisted Archbishop Ireland for six years.

paragraph: Lawler was appointed the third Bishop of Lead, South Dakota, by Pope Benedict XV on January 29, 1916. On August 1, 1930, the episcopal see of the diocese was changed from Lead to Rapid City, and the name of the diocese was changed accordingly. In 1947, Lawler, who had been in failing health, received Bishop William Tibertus McCarty as his coadjutor bishop.

paragraph: Lawler died following a stroke at age 85. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Catholic bishop in the United States and, after Bishop Alexander Joseph McGavick, was the second most senior in years of service.

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: John Jeremiah Lawler

wikipedia_title: John Jeremiah Lawler


text: German-American

text: musicologist

text: music

text: Konitz

text: West Prussia

text: Poland

text: World War I

text: Weimar Germany

text: Berlin

text: Harvard

text: Indiana University

text: Harvard Dictionary of Music

text: Historical Anthology of Music

text: Archibald Thompson Davison

text: Mozart

text: Beethoven

text: notation

text: plainchant

text: Johann Ulrich Steigleder

text: Bernardo Storace

text: Peeter Cornet

text: Jan z Lublina

text: tablature

text: Bloomington, Indiana

categories: People from Chojnice,People from West Prussia,American musicologists,Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America,Musical notation,Indiana University faculty,German musicologists,1988 deaths,1893 births,Harvard University faculty,German emigrants to the United States

paragraph: Willi Apel

paragraph: Willi Apel (October 10, 1893 – March 14, 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music.

paragraph: Apel was born in Konitz, West Prussia, now Chojnice in Poland. He studied mathematics from 1912 to 1914, and then again after World War I from 1918 to 1922, in various universities in Weimar Germany. Throughout his studies, he had an interest in music and taught piano lessons. He then turned to music full-time, and essentially taught himself about musicology. He received his Ph.D. in 1936 in Berlin (with a dissertation on 15th and 16th century tonality) and immigrated to the USA the same year. He taught at Harvard from 1938 to 1942, but moved on to spend twenty years at Indiana University beginning in 1950. In 1972 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.

paragraph: Apel's work of the 1940s included books of broad scope, such as the Harvard Dictionary of Music (1944), which he edited, and Historical Anthology of Music (1949, co-authored with Archibald Thompson Davison). His approach was to give as much attention to Medieval, Renaissance and world music as was given to familiar subjects such as Mozart and Beethoven; this influenced the higher music education in the USA. His book on the notation of early polyphonic music was also written in the 1940s, and still serves as one of the essential works on the subject.

paragraph: In 1950 Apel's interest in early polyphonic notation resulted in an important edition, "French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century". In 1958 he published a large work on plainchant, which provided a comprehensive guide of the repertoire and its sources. In early 1960s he founded the Corpus of Early Keyboard Music (CEKM), a series of editions devoted to early keyboard music. Over the years, CEKM presented the music of less known composers such as Johann Ulrich Steigleder, Bernardo Storace, Peeter Cornet, and others, and also included modern editions of various important manuscripts such as the 16th century Jan z Lublina tablature. Apel was the general editor for CEKM and edited a total of ten volumes; his pupils provided dozens more.

paragraph: 1967 saw the publication of "Geschichte der Orgel- und Klaviermusik", a large work on the history of keyboard music. An English translation (by Hans Tischler) appeared in 1972. Apel's last book was a collection of essays from 1973–81, all dedicated to Italian violin music of the 17th century.

paragraph: Willi Apel died at age 94 in Bloomington, Indiana.

paragraph: Section::::Major works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900–1600" (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Harvard Dictionary of Music" (1944) (editor)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Masters of Keyboard" (1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Historical Anthology of Music Volume I: Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Music", (1949) (with Davison)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Historical Anthology of Music Volume II: Baroque, Rococo and Pre-Classical Music", (1950) (with Davison)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gregorian Chant" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The History of Keyboard Music to 1700" (1967, English edition published 1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Italian Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century" (1983, English edition published 1990)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Willi Apel page at the Indiana University website, includes a comprehensive list of Apel's writings.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Corpus of Early Keyboard Music (CEKM) current catalog

description: German-American musicologist/noted author of books devoted to music

wikidata_label: Willi Apel

wikipedia_title: Willi Apel


text:
Ottoman Armenian
composer
Armenian church
classical music
music notation
Armenian
Armenian Apostolic Church
Western Armenian
Eastern Armenian
Ascension
Beyoğlu
Harput
ney
Krikor Karasakalyan
Zenne Bogos
Hovhannes Çelebi Düzyan
Ottoman Imperial Mint
Kuruçeşme
Precentor
Mevlevi
Beşiktaş Mevlevihanesi
Dede Efendi
Selim III
Abdulbaki Nasir Dede
abjad
makam
Istanbul Municipal Conservatory
khaz
Pitch
minor second
tilde
sharp
chromatic scale
Turkish
enharmonic
microtonal
commas
rests
Hamparsum
TrueType font

categories: Armenian composers,Composers of Ottoman classical music,Turkish classical composers,19th-century people of the Ottoman Empire,Armenian inventors,1839 deaths,18th-century people of the Ottoman Empire,Armenians of the Ottoman Empire,People from Istanbul,1768 births,Composers of Turkish makam music

paragraph: Hampartsoum Limondjian

paragraph: Hampartsoum Limondjian () (1768 – 29 June 1839) was an Ottoman Armenian composer of Armenian church and classical music and musical theorist who developed the "Hampartsoum notation system". The system was the main music notation for Armenian and Ottoman classical music until modern times and is still used by the Armenian Apostolic Church.

paragraph: The name Համբարձում, pronounced "Hampartsum" in Western Armenian or "Hambardzum" in Eastern Armenian, means "Ascension". Hampartsoum Limondjian is referred to as Baba Hamparsum (Father Hampartsoum) in classical Ottoman imperial music circles.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Hampartsoum Limondjian was born in 1768 on Çukur Street in the Pera (Beyoğlu) district of Istanbul. His father Sarkis and his mother Gaderina, who had recently moved to Istanbul from Harput, were poor, and could only send their son to primary school. After primary school, Hamparsum Limonciyan started working for a tailor. A lover of music, Limondjian started attending Armenian churches and started receiving music lessons within the church.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Marriage and children.

paragraph: Hampartsoum Limondjian married at the age of 27 and had six children, one of whom, Zenop Limondjian (1810–1866) also became a musician and played the ney.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Musician, composer, member of court, theoretician, master.

paragraph: Hampartsoum Limondjian took lessons in Armenian music from various Armenian musicians like Krikor Karasakalyan (1736–1808) and Zenne Bogos (1746–1826). He soon came under the patronage of another Armenian - Hovhannes Çelebi Düzyan, Director of the Ottoman Imperial Mint, after which he could devote himself fully to music and continued his music education in the Düzyan family mansion in the Kuruçeşme district of Constantinople. After serving as a chorist in the Armenian Church, he was made Precentor (first singer) and chief musician.

paragraph: Around this time, Hampartsoum Limondjian started attending "mevlevihane"s, places of gathering for dervishes of the Mevlevi order, to learn Ottoman music. In the Beşiktaş Mevlevihanesi, he took lessons from Dede Efendi, one of the greatest Ottoman composers. He was then accepted at the court of Ottoman Sultan Selim III, himself a composer whose music is still performed today, and was a regular member of the music circles of his day.

paragraph: Sultan Selim III was concerned about the lack of a comprehensive notation system for music and encouraged members of his court to work on a notation system that would be easy to learn and to transcribe in. Two music systems were developed as a result and presented to Selim III, by Hamparsum Limonciyan and Abdulbaki Nasir Dede. Abdulbaki Nasir Dede's system was based on the abjad system, however differs in the ordering of the notes. Hampartsoum Limondjian's notation that he developed in two years between 1813 and 1815 was preferred over the other and became the dominant notation for Turkish and Armenian music.

paragraph: He worked as a master of music and educated a number of Turkish and Armenian musicians of his day. Besides being known as a leading composer, he was a famous vocal performer and played the violin and the tanbur. 31 of his Armenian hymns, composed with Armenian lyrics in the Turkish melodic system (makam) survive to this day. He has composed a large number of Turkish music pieces, most of which are regularly performed today.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death and afterward.

paragraph: Hampartsoum Limondjian died at the age of 71 in his house in the Hasköy district of Constantinople. He is buried in the Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Hamparsum notation.

paragraph: Using his own system, Hampartsoum Limondjian transcribed most of 18th century Turkish music compositions in a collection of six books, which he presented to Selim III. Only two of the originals survive to date and are preserved at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory Library. As the dominant notation for Turkish and Armenian music, the Hamparsum notation was instrumental in the transcription and survival of thousands of pieces of music, and was surpassed only in modern times in its use for Turkish classical music. The notation system is still in use by the Armenian Apostolic Church.

paragraph: The Hampartsoum notation uses symbols derived from an older notation called խազ "khaz" used by the Armenian Church. Pitch is indicated by one of forty-five symbols. There are fourteen notes per octave over a range of three octaves and a minor second; a tilde is used in place of a sharp and also to raise or lower a note an octave. All twelve notes of the Western chromatic scale are represented, but in the case of F-sharp ("fa diyez" in Turkish) and B-natural ("si"), two enharmonic symbols are used for each, because Middle Eastern music uses microtonal intervals called commas. Above each note is written another symbol, marking its duration. Other symbols are used for rests, repeats and phrases.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jäger, Ralf Martin: Türkische Kunstmusik und ihre handschriftlichen Quellen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Eisenach 1996,

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hamparsum (requires installation of a downloadable TrueType font for the Hamparsum notation)

description: Composer of Turkish Classical and Armenian Church music. Inventor of the Hamparsum musical notation system.

wikidata_label: Hampartsoum Limondjian

wikipedia_title: Hampartsoum Limondjian


text:
Chinjufu-shōgun
Minamoto no Yorinobu
Battle of Kawasaki
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū
Kamakura
Kamakura shogunate
Minamoto no Yoshiie
Minamoto no Yorinobu
Minamoto no Yoshiie
Minamoto no Yoshitsuna
Minamoto no Yoshimitsu
Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Hachiman

categories: 988 births,People of Heian-period Japan,Minamoto clan,1075 deaths

paragraph: Minamoto no Yoriyoshi

paragraph: He held the title, passed down from his father, of "Chinjufu-shōgun", Commander-in-chief of the Defense of the North.

paragraph: Yoriyoshi accompanied his father Minamoto no Yorinobu on his own missions to defend the Empire, quelling rebellions and disturbances. Thus he gained much of his knowledge of tactics and strategy. He fought in the Zenkunen War for twelve years starting in 1051, including the Battle of Kawasaki. In 1063, Yoriyoshi founded Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Kamakura which was to become, roughly a century later, the primary shrine of the Minamoto clan when they began the Kamakura shogunate.

paragraph: His son was Minamoto no Yoshiie, who "would go on to be admired by his contemporaries as the greatest warrior."

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Minamoto no Yorinobu

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother: Shuri Myobu

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wife: daughter of Taira no Naokata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine: Takichi Muneyori’s daughter

paragraph: BULLET::::- Children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minamoto no Yoshiie by Daughter of Taira no Naokata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minamoto no Yoshitsuna by Daughter of Taira no Naokata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minamoto no Yoshimitsu by Daughter of Taira no Naokata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kono Chikakiyo

paragraph: BULLET::::- daughter married Taira no Masanari

paragraph: BULLET::::- daughter married Kiyohara no Narihira/Shigehira

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Iwashimizu Hachimangū

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hachiman

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sansom, George (1958). 'A History of Japan to 1334'. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

wikidata_label: Minamoto no Yoriyoshi

wikipedia_title: Minamoto no Yoriyoshi


text: Madrid

text: Spanish nobleman

text: title

text: actor

text: playwright

text: theatre director

text: Teatro María Guerrero

text: Teatro Español

text: marquess

text: Luis García Berlanga

text: comedy

text: trilogy

text: La honradez de la cerradura

text: 1951 Cannes Film Festival

text: Don

text: homosexual

text: democracy

text: Spain

text: Doña

text: marquessate

text: Malibran's Song

text: Spanish nobility

categories: Gay writers,LGBT writers from Spain,1908 births,Spanish male dramatists and playwrights,20th-century dramatists and playwrights,Spanish nobility,20th-century Spanish male writers,Male actors from Madrid,Spanish male film actors,LGBT dramatists and playwrights,1991 deaths,People from Madrid,20th-century Spanish male actors,Spanish dramatists and playwrights

paragraph: Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick

paragraph: Luis Escobar y Kirkpatrick, 7th Marquess of las Marismas del Guadalquivir (5 September 1908 in Madrid – 16 February 1991 in Madrid), was a Spanish nobleman who succeeded to the title in 1954 upon the death of his father, José Ignacio Escobar y Kirkpatrick.

paragraph: An actor and playwright, during his later career as a theatre director, he much advanced the interests of Teatro María Guerrero, Teatro Español and . A real marquess and a flamboyant character, he had also earlier played the part of "el marqués de Leguineche" in Luis García Berlanga's comedy trilogy.

paragraph: In 1950 he directed the film "La honradez de la cerradura" which was nominated at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

paragraph: Don Luis Escobar never married and was openly homosexual, especially so, after democracy was restored to Spain in 1975; his niece, Doña María Victoria Escobar y Cancho, succeeded him in the marquessate in 1991.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Malibran's Song" (1951)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Spanish nobility

description: Spanish writer

wikidata_label: Luis Escobar, 7th Marquis of the Guadalquivir Marshes

wikipedia_title: Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick


text:
American football
Ohio State University
football program
All-America
College Football Hall of Fame
James Thurber
New York City
PM
Red Grange
Tom Harmon
Chicago, Illinois
Columbus, Ohio
East High School
Phi Gamma Delta
Big Ten Conference
University of Illinois
University of Wisconsin–Madison
point after touchdown
All-America
Walter Camp
Buckeyes
All-America
pilot
United States Army Air Service
World War I
University of Illinois
Michigan
Fielding H. Yost
All-America
halfback
safety
punter
place kicker
Howard "Hopalong" Cassady
interceptions
University of Michigan
Associated Press
Jim Thorpe
Red Grange
College Football Hall of Fame
Ohio Field
Ohio Stadium
lettered
baseball
basketball
track
outfielder
guard
sprinter
George Halas
NFL
Chicago Bears
Dementia praecox
Danville, Illinois
The Ohio State University Marching Band
Script Ohio
Archie Griffin
Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame
Chic Harley Award
Touchdown Club of Columbus

categories: 1974 deaths,American football halfbacks,Chicago Staleys players,Sportspeople from Chicago,College Football Hall of Fame inductees,Ohio State Buckeyes football players,1894 births,All-American college football players

paragraph: Chic Harley

paragraph: Charles William "Chic" Harley (September 15, 1894 – April 21, 1974) was one of the outstanding American football players of the first half of the 20th century and the player who first brought Ohio State University's football program to national attention. Harley was Ohio State's first consensus first-team All-America selection and first three-time All-America selection. In 1951, he became a charter inductee in the College Football Hall of Fame.

paragraph: In 1941, James Thurber described Harley's running skills for the New York City newspaper, "PM", "If you never saw him run with a football, I can't describe it to you. It wasn't like Red Grange or Tom Harmon or anybody else. It was kind of a cross between music and cannon fire, and it brought your heart up under your ears."

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Charles Harley was born in Chicago, Illinois, hence the source of the nickname Chic, but his family moved to Columbus, Ohio when he was 12 years old. There Harley attended East High School. The family was to return to Chicago just before Harley's senior year, but the Columbus East principal convinced the family to let Harley stay for his final year. In his career at East High School, Harley's team lost only one game, his last.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Harley was recruited to attend Ohio State by the university's chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the fraternity he joined upon his arrival on campus. Harley began his career with the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1916. He led the team to a 7–0 record and their first Big Ten Conference championship. The team scored 258 points in seven games and giving up only 29. The key games of the season were a 7–6 victory over the University of Illinois and a 14–13 victory over the University of Wisconsin–Madison, teams that were at the time the conference's dominant powers. In both games, the margin of victory was a point after touchdown kicked by Harley. Following the season, Harley was named as a consensus first-team All-America selection, including a spot on Walter Camp's authoritative list.

paragraph: The Buckeyes repeated as conference champion in 1917 with an 8–0–1 record, and Harley repeated as a consensus first-team All-American. In 1918, Harley left school to be a pilot in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, but he returned the following year. In 1919, the Buckeyes finished 6–1. In Harley's only career loss, the team lost the conference title to the University of Illinois on a field goal with eight seconds left in the season finale.

paragraph: The 1919 season is most remembered at Ohio State, however, for recording the school's first victory over arch-rival Michigan. Following the Buckeyes' 13-3 win, legendary Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost asked for and was granted a rare moment to address the Ohio State team. "You deserve your victory, you fought brilliantly," Yost began. "You boys gave a grand exhibition of football strategy and while I am sorry, dreadfully sorry, that we lost, I want to congratulate you. And you, Mr. Harley, I believe, are one of the finest little machines I have ever seen."

paragraph: Coach Yost was not alone in his praise. Harley was again a consensus first-team All-American in 1919 and became the first three-time All-America selection at Ohio State. The Buckeyes now have eight three-time All-Americans in their 120-plus years of college football, but none more impactful than their first.

paragraph: Throughout his Ohio State career, Harley played right halfback on offense and safety on defense, and was also the team's punter and place kicker. He scored 201 points in a 23-game career. This total was the school's individual scoring record until Harley was surpassed by Howard "Hopalong" Cassady in 1955. Harley's 8.74 points per game remains a school record. Harley also holds the team record for interceptions in a game: he picked off four passes in the 1919 game against the University of Michigan.

paragraph: In 1950, Harley was voted a first-team halfback on the Associated Press college football All-Star team for the first half of the 20th century. The other first-team halfback was Jim Thorpe. Red Grange was voted to the second team. When asked to explain his vote, one writer said, "Red Grange was a great runner, but that's all he was. Chic Harley was a great runner, a great passer, a great kicker and a great defensive back. That's why he's on my first-team." In 1951 Harley was one of 44 players and coaches selected as the charter members of the College Football Hall of Fame.

paragraph: In Harley's era, the Buckeyes played in Ohio Field, which had a seating capacity of no more than 20,000. Harley so excited the fans of Ohio State football that he inspired a $1.3 million funding drive, starting in 1920, to build the massive Ohio Stadium. For this reason Ohio Stadium, where the Buckeyes still play, is sometimes called "The House That Harley Built".

paragraph: Section::::College career.:All-around athlete.

paragraph: In addition to his football exploits, Harley also lettered in baseball, basketball, and track. He was an outfielder in baseball, a guard in basketball, and a sprinter in track. Harley was a member of the 1917 Big Ten baseball championship team. On the track field, Harley set a conference record in the 50-yard dash.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career and illness.

paragraph: Following his college playing career, Harley was contacted by George Halas to play for the NFL team Halas was organizing, a team that would ultimately become the Chicago Bears. Harley's brother, Bill Harley, negotiated a contract that was to give Chic Harley one-third ownership of the team. However, that contract was voided when a physical revealed health impairments resultant from Harley's time in the war. At the time he was diagnosed with Dementia praecox, a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood." Harley ultimately became hospitalized at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Danville, Illinois, where he was a patient for the remainder of his life.

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

paragraph: Harley returned to Columbus in 1949 for a tribute at Ohio Stadium. The Ohio State University Marching Band adapted their famous "Script Ohio" formation to spell out the name "Chic." By 2009 that performance remained the only time that the formation has been altered. Harley died of pneumonia in 1974 at the age of 79. His pallbearers were the five Ohio State football captains at the time; Archie Griffin, Arnie Jones, Steve Myers, Neal Colzie, Pete Cuzick and tackle Kurt Schumacher. Chic's final resting place is located at Union Cemetery along the Olentangy River, about two miles north of The Ohio State University campus.

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: Harley was among the first induction class of the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame in 1977.

paragraph: Ohio State began honoring players by retiring their numbers in 1999. Jersey numbers were more fluid in Harley's era, changing from game to game, but the University decided to honor Harley by retiring the final number he wore for Ohio State, #47. The ceremony was held at halftime of a game with Penn State on October 30, 2004. Ironically, that number was worn by Harley in the only collegiate game he lost. Many believe it would have been more appropriate to retire #10, which was the number Harley wore while defeating Michigan.

paragraph: To this day, East High School still plays on the same field that Harley played on in the 1910s, which has been named Harley Field in his honor.

paragraph: The Chic Harley Award is presented by the Touchdown Club of Columbus to the College Football Player of the Year.

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Chic Harley

wikipedia_title: Chic Harley


text:
Madrid
Spain
Grand Prix
motorcycle
road racer
Grand Prix
motorcycle
road racer
Ángel Nieto
Indianapolis
Yamaha
Estoril
Marco Melandri
Donington Park
Superbike World Championship
Caracchi
Ducati
Kawasaki
Assen
Chris Walker
Magny-Cours
Lausitzring
2007
Olivier Jacque
French Grand Prix
MotoGP
Alstare
Suzuki
Qatar
Yukio Kagayama
Max Neukirchner
fonsinieto.com

categories: Moto2 World Championship riders,Kawasaki Motors Racing MotoGP riders,1978 births,European Le Mans Series drivers,Superbike World Championship riders,250cc World Championship riders,Spanish racing drivers,Sportspeople from Madrid,125cc World Championship riders,Spanish motorcycle racers,Living people

paragraph: Fonsi Nieto

paragraph: Alfonso González Nieto (born 2 December 1978 in Madrid, Spain) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and the nephew of successful Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Ángel Nieto. After success in the 250cc class he moved to World Superbikes and made one MotoGP start. For 2010 he returned to the Grand Prix scene in the newly formed Moto2 category. Nieto announced his retirement from competition in early 2011 after failing to recover from injuries suffered when racing at Indianapolis in 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: He won the Spanish 125cc championship in 1998, and the Spanish 250cc champion in 1999 and 2000, also winning the less prestigious European 125cc title in 1997. In 1999 and 2000 he raced in the 250cc World Championship alongside his domestic commitments, finishing 14th overall on a Yamaha TZ250 with a best result of 6th at Estoril in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::250cc World Championship.

paragraph: He was 4th in the world championship in 2001, with 4 successive 5th places early in the season and a pair of late-season podium finishes. He won 4 races in 2002, finishing 2nd to Marco Melandri. He was then 5th in 2003 with a win at Donington Park, and 7th in 2004.

paragraph: Section::::Superbike World Championship.

paragraph: In he entered the Superbike World Championship with the Caracchi Ducati team, finishing 17th overall in the championship. A fourth in Round 4 of the season was the highlight; he only reached the top 10 once more. For and he rode for PSG-Kawasaki. His first podium finish came in Race 2 at Assen in 2006, following teammate Chris Walker's victory in the first race. He was also third at Magny-Cours in 2007. He took pole position at Lausitzring in 2007 after finding a dry spell in a wet qualifying session.

paragraph: In 2007 he also replaced the injured Olivier Jacque in the French Grand Prix making his debut in the MotoGP class, finishing the race in 11th place.

paragraph: For he joined Alstare Suzuki, making an immediate impact by winning his first world superbike race in the second race of the opening round in Qatar. He finished the season 7th overall, but lost his ride as the team scaled back to two riders and retained the less successful Japanese Yukio Kagayama. However, Nieto returned to the team mid-season after Max Neukirchner was injured.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- fonsinieto.com Official website

alias:
Alfonso González Nieto
Alfonso Gonzalez Nieto

description: Spanish motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Fonsi Nieto

wikipedia_title: Fonsi Nieto


text:
Bagrationi dynasty
Imereti
Alexander V of Imereti
George VII of Imereti
Rodam
George XI of Kartli
Otia Dadiani
Prince of Mingrelia
Duke of Racha
Kutaisi
Ottoman Empire
Mamia IV Gurieli
Chijavadze
Kartli
George IX
pasha of Akhaltsikhe
Solomon I
battle of Khresili
Teimuraz

categories: 18th-century people from Georgia (country),Year of birth uncertain,Kings of Imereti,Bagrationi dynasty of the Kingdom of Imereti,1769 deaths,Eastern Orthodox monarchs

paragraph: Mamuka of Imereti

paragraph: Mamuka (; – 1769) was a member of the Bagrationi dynasty of Imereti, a kingdom in western Georgia. He was installed as a rival king to his brother, Alexander V of Imereti from 1746 until being deposed in 1749.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Mamuka was a son of George VII of Imereti by his wife Rodam, daughter of King George XI of Kartli. He twice tried to seize the crown of Imereti from his brother, Alexander V. In December 1732, Otia Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia and Mamuka's brother-in-law, in alliance with the Imeretian noblemen, Zurab Abashidze and Grigol, Duke of Racha, attempted to bring down Alexander in favor of Mamuka. They blockaded the Imeretian capital Kutaisi, but did not dare to attack the citadel for fear of reaction from the Ottoman Empire and withdrew. They soon returned to the offensive and again marched against the king. Alexander, supported by Mamia IV Gurieli, won a victory at the battle of Chikhori, capturing Dadiani, but under the Ottoman pressure, the king had to restore him to Mingrelia and concede the districts of Sachilao and Samikelao in governorship to his alienated brother Mamuka. Later, Mamuka was able to dispossess the Chijavadze family of the Sebeka fortress and other estates.

paragraph: In 1741, Mamuka followed Alexander in his exile to Kartli, when the throne of Imereti was seized by their half-brother George IX in an Ottoman-sponsored coup. Mamuka soon fled the turmoil in Kartli back to Imereti and Alexander was also able to resume his reign the same year. In 1746, his nobles were again in revolt and put Mamuka on the throne of Imereti. In 1749, with the help of the Ottoman pasha of Akhaltsikhe, Alexander recovered the throne. He died in 1752, leaving his throne to his 17-year-old son Solomon I.

paragraph: Mamuka was member of the party opposed to his nephew's accession. After Solomon was able to secure the throne, Mamuka fled to Akhaltsikhe and was inveigled by its pasha as his agent. They continued to stir unrest in Imereti, but Solomon decisively defeated the Ottomans and their Imeretian allies at the battle of Khresili in 1757. In 1766, they finally succeeded to put Mamuka's son Teimuraz on the throne of Imereti, but Solomon staged a comeback in 1768. Teimuraz, together with his brother, was imprisoned and never seen again.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Mamuka married in 1732 Darejan Dadiani, daughter of Bezhan Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia. He had two sons:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Teimuraz (died c. 1768), king of Imereti (1766–1768);

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giorgi (fl. 1768).

description: King of Imereti

wikidata_label: Mamuka of Imereti

wikipedia_title: Mamuka of Imereti


text:
Gelgaudai
Lithuanian
general
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
November Uprising
Jan Krukowiecki
battles of Wawer
Białołęka
battle of Ostrołęka
Battle of Rajgród
assault of Wilno
Dezydery Chłapowski
battle of Ponary
Memel
Prussian

categories: Generals of the November Uprising,1792 births,1831 deaths,Lithuanian generals,Recipients of the Virtuti Militari

paragraph: Antoni Giełgud

paragraph: Antanas Gelgaudas of Gelgaudai (1792-1831) was a Lithuanian military officer, a general of the Polish-Lithuanian Army. During the Napoleon's invasion of Russia he financed and commanded the creation of the 21st Infantry Regiment, which he led since 1821. During the November Uprising he returned to active service and initially served as a commanding officer of the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division under Jan Krukowiecki. A hero of the battles of Wawer and Białołęka, he was given command over the entire 2nd Infantry Division. He covered the retreat of Polish-Lithuanian forces after the battle of Ostrołęka, but got separated from the main force and decided to head for Lithuania instead.

paragraph: He defeated the Russians in the Battle of Rajgród, but his assault of Wilno failed and his corps composed of his own division and the forces of Dezydery Chłapowski have lost over 2000 men in the battle of Ponary. Unable to return to Polish-Lithuanian main forces at that time converging on Warsaw, he decided to head of Memel, where he was expecting to receive foreign reinforcements. En route however all three of Gelgaud's columns were intercepted by the Russians and forced to cross the Prussian border. Gelgaudas himself soon after crossing the border was shot dead by one of his staff officers, enraged by his poor command. He died 31 August 1831 in the village of Schnaugsten (modern Šnaukštai, Lithuania) and was buried in a nearby town of Kisin (modern Kisiniai), from Memel.

description: Polish general

wikidata_label: Antoni Giełgud

wikipedia_title: Antoni Giełgud


text:
Australian rules football
Brisbane Lions
Australian Football League
Northern Areas Football Association
2012 Rookie Draft
North Adelaide
Booleroo Centre
Flinders Ranges
South Australia
ATAR
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016

categories: Australian rules footballers from South Australia,1993 births,Brisbane Lions players,Living people

paragraph: Justin Clarke

paragraph: Justin Clarke (born 18 November 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL) from 2012 to 2016. He was recruited from Booleroo Centre/Melrose/Wilmington (BMW) in the Northern Areas Football Association (NAFA) with the 4th selection in the 2012 Rookie Draft. Clarke played one reserves game for North Adelaide before returning home to the small town of Booleroo Centre in the southern Flinders Ranges region of South Australia. Clarke announced his retirement on 31 March 2016 after ongoing difficulties from concussion.

paragraph: Clarke is studying engineering, has a pilot license, and finished his schooling with an ATAR of 99.95.

paragraph: Section::::Statistics.

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paragraph: ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2016

paragraph: ! colspan=3| Career

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paragraph: ! 5.8

paragraph: ! 4.8

paragraph: ! 10.6

paragraph: ! 4.4

paragraph: ! 1.3

description: Australian rules footballer

wikidata_label: Justin Clarke

wikipedia_title: Justin Clarke


text:
miser
Pinner
Middlesex
legatee
Sporting Magazine
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend

categories: People from Pinner,Charles Dickens,1794 deaths,1716 births

paragraph: Daniel Dancer

paragraph: Daniel Dancer (1716–1794) was a notorious English miser whose life was documented soon after his death and continued in print over the following century.

paragraph: Section::::A "strange and unaccountable life".

paragraph: The miser Daniel Dancer was born in Pinner, then a rural area in the county of Middlesex, in 1716. His grandfather and father were both noted in their time as misers, and are only less famous because their accumulation of wealth was less. Daniel was the eldest of four children and inherited the family estate, eighty acres of rich meadow land and an adjoining farm, when his father died in 1736.

paragraph: Hitherto Dancer had given no manifestation of his miserly instincts, but now, in company with his only sister, who shared his tastes and lived with him as his housekeeper, he commenced a life of the utmost seclusion and most rigid parsimony. His lands were allowed to lie fallow so that the expense of cultivation might be avoided. He took only one meal a day, consisting invariably of a little baked meat and a hard-boiled dumpling, a sufficient quantity of which to last the week was prepared every Saturday night. His clothing consisted mainly of hay bands, which were swathed round his feet for boots and round his body for a coat, but it was his habit to purchase one new shirt every year. And after his sister's death in 1766, he used a fraction of her bequest to buy a second-hand pair of black stockings to put himself in decent mourning.

paragraph: The miser's only dealing with others arose from the sale of his hay. He was seldom seen, except when he was out gathering logs of wood from the common, or old iron, or sheep's dung under the hedges. To prevent theft, he fastened his door up and got into his house through the upper window, to ascend which he made use of a ladder and drew it up after him. The sole person who could be said to be at all intimately acquainted with the Dancers was a Lady Tempest, the widow of Sir Henry Tempest, a Yorkshire baronet. To this lady Dancer's sister had intended to leave her own private property, but she died before she could sign her will. There then arose a lawsuit among her three brothers as to the distribution of her money, the result of which was that Daniel was awarded two-thirds of the sum on the ground of his having kept her for thirty years.

paragraph: To fill his sister's place Dancer engaged a servant named Griffiths, whose manner of living was as penurious as his own. The two lived together in Dancer's tumble-down house till the master's death, which took place 30 Sept. 1794. In his last moments he was tended by Lady Tempest, who had shown uniform kindness to the old man, and who was rewarded by being made his sole legatee.

paragraph: Section::::Posthumous reputation.

paragraph: Accounts of Dancer followed almost immediately after his death, at first in periodicals such as the "Edinburgh Magazine" and the

paragraph: "Sporting Magazine", then in the volume "Biographical Curiosities" and in "The Strange and Unaccountable Life of Daniel Dancer, Esq.", both published in 1797. The latter work, which incorporated the lives of several more misers, was often to be reissued under various titles in the years to come. A later account based on these was contained in Frederick Somner Merryweather's "Lives and anecdotes of misers" (1850), a work made memorable by its appearance in an amusing chapter of Charles Dickens' novel, Our Mutual Friend. Wishing to give himself the character of a miser, the 'Golden Dustman' gets an assistant to begin reading to him Dancer's life from this book:

paragraph: The account then continues to the discovery of hoards of banknotes and coins to the value of several thousand pounds hidden in various places about the house.

description: notorious English miser

wikidata_label: Daniel Dancer

wikipedia_title: Daniel Dancer


text:
Kyoto
pharmacognosy
Kimura Kenkadō
Edo
Rembert Dodoens
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
traditional Chinese medicine
Ludovic Savatier
Chinese Classics
Asakusa
Nerima
Great Kantō earthquake
Ranzania japonica

categories: 1810 deaths,1729 births,Japanese botanists,Japanese pharmacists

paragraph: Ono Ranzan

paragraph: Ono was born in Kyoto to a courtly family, and studied in his youth under Matsuoka Joan. In 1754, he opened a school of botanical pharmacology (pharmacognosy) which enjoyed considerable success, with over a thousand pupils enrolling. One student who studied under Ono at this time was Kimura Kenkadō. In 1799, he was given a post at the Seijūkan, the country's major government medical school in Edo. Here he worked extensively on a translation into Japanese of Rembert Dodoens' herbal guide, the "Cruydeboeck". Ono was familiar with Western herbalism (making use of the work of Johann Wilhelm Weinmann in his translation) and had studied both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine as well. Some of Ono's own works on Japanese botany were translated by the French botanist Ludovic Savatier.

paragraph: In the early years of the nineteenth century, Ono travelled around Japan gathering information on botanical remedies, which culminated in his most important literary work, the , which was published in 1803. Despite Ono's knowledge of Western and Chinese botany, this was one of the first books in the Japanese natural sciences to advocate experimentation and research rather than reliance on the Chinese Classics.

paragraph: Ono never married, but fathered a son with one of his household servants. His botanical work was continued by his grandson, Ono Motoyoshi. After his death in 1810 he was interred at Asakusa; however his remains were moved to Nerima in 1927 after the graveyard was damaged in the Great Kantō earthquake. The barberry species "Ranzania japonica" was named in his honour.

description: Japanese botanist

wikidata_label: Ono Ranzan

wikipedia_title: Ono Ranzan


text:
ceramist
tulip vase
The Hague
Just van Deventer
Theo Dobbelman
De Stijl
Amsterdam
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Hans de Jong
Jan de Rooden
Johan van Loon
Sonja Landweer
Johnny Rolf
Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Rosenthal GmbH
Haagse Kunstkring
Rietveld Academy
Geert Lap
Wietske van Leeuwen
Barbara Nanning
Emmy van Deventer
Henk Trumpie
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Hans Copers
Lucie Rie
Princessehof Ceramics Museum
Centraal Museum
Frans Hals Museum
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Groninger Museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum De Fundatie
Museum of Modern Art
Princessehof Ceramics Museum
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Victoria and Albert Museum
De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles
List of Dutch ceramists
Vaart, Jan van der
Works of Jan van der Vaart
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof

categories: Willem de Kooning Academy alumni,1931 births,Artists from The Hague,Gerrit Rietveld Academie faculty,2000 deaths,Dutch ceramists

paragraph: Jan van der Vaart

paragraph: Johannes Jacobus (Jan) van der Vaart (The Hague, 17 October 1931 – Leiden, 8 November 2000) was an influential Dutch ceramist from the 20th century, known as founder of the abstract-geometric ceramics in the Netherlands. One of the key concepts in his work was the reintroduction of the pyramid or tulips tower, a specific type of tulip vase, from the 16th century in his own constructivist form.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Van der Vaart is autodidact, and took a pottery class for amateurs at the Vrije Academie in The Hague by Just van Deventer and Theo Dobbelman. In the 1950s he started working as a ceramist. From the beginning his work has been sleek and geometric. Purity of form and usability were important requirements for Van der Vaart, and in his work he strived to reach a perfect unity of material, form and glaze. He perceived shape as the most important, and considered decoration detracts from the monumentality of his work. This monumentality went along with the prevailing architecture of that period. His work fit in De Stijl related architecture, which expressed clarity and simplicity. Also, his work is related to the abstract-geometric art production in the Netherlands after De Stijl.

paragraph: In 1960 he settled in Amsterdam, and made study trips to Italy, France and England. At first he made his work of stoneware and since 1961 also in porcelain. Inspired by the idea of stacking forms, in 1962 Van der Vaart introduced the theme of the pyramid tulip vase in the contemporary visual arts. With these stack of forms, the vases and bowls were built from tight, geometric elements, which are combined in different ways. The functional use of his objects are of importance: a vase should contain flowers. The tulip vases and towers consist of twisted or hand-shaped elements, since the 1970s also build with poured out shapes. Van der Vaart re-used these form again for his designs, and fellow potters were inspired by him to the same. In 1962 Van der Vaart took part of an exhibition of six young ceramists from Amsterdam in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, together with Hans de Jong, Jan de Rooden, Johan van Loon, Sonja Landweer and Johnny Rolf, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands.

paragraph: During the 1960s Van der Vaart began designing vases in large format. These unique pieces he designed were no experiments; purity and usability were still an important starting point. The unica were received at various exhibits with lots of praise and regarded by collectors as true masterpieces. In 1967 it was made be possible to cast his design in small series, making the work affordable for many. In the first decades of his career Van der Vaart had developed and distributed his work himself. Later, some designs were produced at the Royal Tichelaar Makkum, and since 1984 he also designed work for Rosenthal GmbH Germany.

paragraph: Van der Vaart was member of the Haagse Kunstkring. In 1968 he was appointed ceramics professor at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and especially in this position he became innovator of ceramic art in the Netherlands. Until his retirement in 1993 he educated a new generations of potters, such as Geert Lap, Wietske van Leeuwen, Anita Manshanden, Wouter Dam, Irene Vonck, Barbara Nanning, Mieke Blits, Alberdien Rullmann and Esther Stasse assisted by Emmy van Deventer and since 1980 by Henk Trumpie.

paragraph: In 1991 in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam held the exhibition "Jan van der Vaart 35 years of ceramics," in which his entire career was represented with 350 pieces. Especially for this occasion Van der Vaart designed a fan-shaped vase on a foot, which was produced by the Royal Tichelaar Makkum is produced (in the blue and tomato red color).

paragraph: Later in life, he started making glass designs for Royal Leerdam and fulfilled assignments from the Czech Republic. Fifty years after the liberation in 1995, Royal Leerdam had two orange vases designed by the then chief designer of Royal Leerdam Siem van der Marel, and Jan van der Vaart. Between 1994 and 1997 Van der Vaart made designs for the Royal Leerdam Leerdam Unica and Leerdam Serica series and some unique utensils. The designs of Van der Vaart can be counted among the best design of the glass factory in decades. The design for the orange vase he made in his characteristic geometric style. It was - like that of Van der Marel - released in a limited edition of 200 pieces.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Jan van der Vaart is considered one of the most important Dutch ceramic artists of the 20th century. As the founder of a geometric abstract direction in postwar-ceramics he was nationally and abroad particularly influential. His work is very recognizable due to the distinctive character and the logical and consequent development of his artistic beliefs.

paragraph: Van der Vaart's work is of clear form, focusing on the use object and undecorated. Vases have been preferred, as well as a construction in turning or casting technique. His designs are blocky, simple and sober: lots of clean lines with soft gliding, often sloping surfaces. In addition, Van der Vaart makes ceramics in a more complex style. His work is also distinguished by the special tinted glazes which he put on his vases, mainly the bronze glaze. But also his white vases, with geometric shapes, generally are considered to be his trademark. He also made series in bright pink, lilac and blue.

paragraph: Van der Vaart wanted to create useful quality ceramics for a wide audience. Thus arose the next are unique 'multiples', objects that have been made in limited editions and signed. As a result, they got the authenticity of unique works of art and at the same time remain affordable. Both are unique as for its multiples, use is often made of the casting technique. In the case of the multiples, the shapes are common in the assembly from a mold, for the unica multiple parts are molded separately, which are then later combined into a single unit.

paragraph: His work hardly build on predecessors, only influences of foreign ceramists were featured in his work. Jan van der Vaart greatly admired the German ceramist Hans Copers, and the English ceramist Lucie Rie.

paragraph: Section::::Atelier.

paragraph: Since July 1, 2008, the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden permanently exhibits the ceramics studio of Jan van der Vaart and its complete inventory. The museum had received the inventory from the inherits on the basis of a long-term loan. It is the first permanent presentation of a ceramics studio in a museum in the Netherlands.

paragraph: In the studio the production of molded ceramics is illustrated by original materials and tools of Van der Vaart. The arrangement shows models, semi-products and molds, turntable and mixer, spray booth, oven and a closet with "powders"; the pigments that color the glaze. In the background Van der Vaarts voice is heard. In an interview from a NPS radio show in 1997, he talks about what bothers him and he casually gives his ideas and secrets.

paragraph: Section::::Museums with Van der Vaarts work in their collection.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Centraal Museum, Utrecht

paragraph: BULLET::::- CODA (Apeldoorn)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag

paragraph: BULLET::::- Groninger Museum, Groningen

paragraph: BULLET::::- Instituut Collectie Nederland

paragraph: BULLET::::- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

paragraph: BULLET::::- Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle/Heino

paragraph: BULLET::::- Museum of Modern Art, New York, Verenigde Staten

paragraph: BULLET::::- Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nationaal Glasmuseum, Leerdam

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princessehof Ceramics Museum, Leeuwarden

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

paragraph: BULLET::::- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Verenigd Koninkrijk

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Van der Vaart was awarded the following prices:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Porceleyne Fles Award, 1965; by the De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prix de la Critique, 1967

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emmy Leersum Price, 1988

paragraph: Section::::Work in corporate collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- KPN Art Collection

paragraph: BULLET::::- TNT art collection

paragraph: BULLET::::- Schiphol art collection

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Dutch ceramists

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Erik Beender (ed). "Jan van der Vaart | Keramiek," Veen/Reflex, 1991,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allaard Hidding. "Jan van der Vaart: multipels 1967-1997," Keramiek Museum 'Het Princessehof', Leeuwarden, 1997.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vaart, Jan van der at capriolus.nl

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works of Jan van der Vaart at Keramiekmuseum Princessehof.

alias:
Johannes Jacobus van der Vaart
Jan van der Vaart (1931-2000)

wikidata_label: Jan van der Vaart

wikipedia_title: Jan van der Vaart (ceramist)

wikipedia_title: Jan van der Vaart


text:
Bishop of Nottingham
Archdiocese of Birmingham
St Mary's College, Oscott
Birmingham
St Mary's College, Oscott
Buncrana
Yardley Wood
St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School
Kings Norton
Gregorian Pontifical University
Licentiate of Sacred Theology
Ecclesiology
Great Haywood
Episcopal Vicar
Stourbridge
St Chad
Most Rev Malcolm McMahon OP
Archbishop of Liverpool
Cardinal Vincent Nichols
Archbishop of Westminster
St Barnabas’ Cathedral, Nottingham

categories: Bishops of Nottingham,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,People from Birmingham, West Midlands,Pontifical Gregorian University alumni,1954 births,Living people,English Roman Catholics

paragraph: Patrick McKinney

paragraph: Patrick Joseph McKinney is the 10th Bishop of Nottingham. His appointment was announced on 14 May 2015 by Pope Francis. He previously served as a member of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and Rector of St Mary's College, Oscott.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Patrick McKinney was born on 30 April 1954, the eldest son of Irish immigrants Patrick and Bridget McKinney, and brought up in Birmingham. He began his studies for the priesthood at St Mary's College, Oscott, the Archdiocese of Birmingham’s seminary for the training of priests, in 1972, and was ordained to the priesthood on 29 July 1978 in St Mary’s Church, Buncrana, Co Donegal, Ireland, where his family lives.

paragraph: Section::::Priesthood.

paragraph: After his Ordination he was appointed assistant priest in the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, and chaplain to St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Kings Norton, Birmingham. Between 1982 and 1984, he was a student at the Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, where he gained a Licentiate of Sacred Theology. Returning to the Archdiocese of Birmingham, he taught fundamental theology in St Mary’s College until 1989, when he was appointed Rector of St Mary’s College, a post he held for nine years, during which period he was also a lecturer in Ecclesiology.

paragraph: He left the College in 1998, and until 2001 he was parish priest of St John’s, Great Haywood, and Episcopal Vicar for the north of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. He left the parish in 2001, remaining as Episcopal Vicar until 2006 when he was appointed parish priest of Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge and Dean of the Dudley Deanery.

paragraph: He was made a Prelate of Honour in 1990 and a member of the Metropolitan Chapter of St Chad in 1992, and has served for a time as Chair of the Birmingham Archdiocesan Ecumenical Commission.

paragraph: Section::::Bishop.

paragraph: Monsignor McKinney was appointed tenth Bishop of Nottingham in succession to the Most Rev Malcolm McMahon OP, Archbishop of Liverpool, on 14 May 2015, and was consecrated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, in St Barnabas’ Cathedral, Nottingham on Friday 3 July 2015.

wikidata_label: Patrick McKinney

wikipedia_title: Patrick McKinney


text:
FRS
FRSE
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
Banff, Aberdeenshire
Marischal College
Aberdeen
William Cullen
University of Edinburgh
antimony
London
colic
Devonshire
cider
Royal College of Physicians
Guy's Hospital
Goulstonian Lecture
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Daniel Rutherford
William Wright
Andrew Duncan, the elder
Harveian Oration
Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Anatomical Society
Dr William Babington
Sayer Walker
Prince Regent
George IV
Enfield, London

categories: 1743 births,18th-century Scottish medical doctors,Fellows of the Royal Society,19th-century Scottish medical doctors,People from Banff, Aberdeenshire,1817 deaths,Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

paragraph: William Saunders (physician)

paragraph: Dr William Saunders FRS FRSE (1743 – 4 June 1817) was a Scottish physician who was the first President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born on 9 July 1743 in Banff, Aberdeenshire, the son of Dr James Saunders MD. From 1755 to 1759 he took a Science degree at Marischal College in Aberdeen (the usual age to attend University in the 18th century was 14).

paragraph: He studied Medicine under Dr William Cullen at the University of Edinburgh and became Cullen's assistant. Writing a thesis on the medical use of antimony he gained his doctorate (MD) in 1765.

paragraph: He moved to London, where he first taught chemistry and pharmacy in private schools. He came to fame by contesting Sir George Baker's theory that the high levels of colic in Devonshire derived from over-consumption of cider, instead proving, by experiment that it came from the dissolving of lead during the cider-making process, and was lead-poisoning rather than alcohol-poisoning.

paragraph: In 1769 he was made a Licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1770 became a physician at Guy's Hospital, where he developed and delivered courses of medical lectures.

paragraph: In 1790 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, to whom he delivered the Goulstonian Lecture of 1792 on diseases of the liver. In 1792 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Daniel Rutherford, William Wright and Andrew Duncan, the elder.

paragraph: He delivered the Harveian Oration of 1796. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1793 and was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Anatomical Society and a member of the Geological Society. He left Guy's Hospital in 1802, proposing Dr William Babington as his successor.

paragraph: He was a founding member of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and in 1805 was elected their first President.

paragraph: He was mentor in London to Rev Dr Sayer Walker.

paragraph: In 1807 he was appointed Physician Extraordinaire to Prince George Augustus Frederick, who became the Prince Regent in 1811 (and was later to become King George IV). During his working life he published a number of works on a variety of medical subjects.

paragraph: He retired in 1814 and died in Enfield, London on 4 June 1817. He is buried in Enfield Parish Churchyard.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Thesis on Antimony" (1766)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Treatise on the Devonshire Colic" (1767)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the Red Bark"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On Liver Diseases"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On MIneral Waters: Their Uses and Abuses"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the Use and Abuse of Mercury on Liver and Other Diseases"

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He was twice married and had four sons and two daughters.

description: Scottish physician

wikidata_label: William Saunders

wikipedia_title: William Saunders (physician)