text:
Blessed
Roman Catholic
Third Order of Saint Francis
Siena
Pope Pius VII
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Siena
Third Order of Saint Francis
Santa Maria della Scala
Assisi
Saint Francis
Dominican
Ambrose Sansedoni
Poor Clare
Dante Aligheri
Divina Comedia
Pope Pius VII
Saints SQPN

categories: Italian beatified people,1189 births,1289 deaths,People from Tuscany,12th-century Italian people,12th-century Roman Catholics,13th-century Italian people,12th-century venerated Christians,13th-century Roman Catholics,Italian Roman Catholics,13th-century venerated Christians

paragraph: Pietro Pettinaio

paragraph: Blessed Pietro Pettinaio (c. 1189 - 4 December 1289) was an Italian Roman Catholic who worked as a comb-maker. He became a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and was well known both for his trade and for his decision to remain in silence while living among the Franciscans. He became known for his charisma and for his care of both the poor and the ill and was honored as a saint during his lifetime by the people of Siena .

paragraph: He was beatified on 18 August 1802 after Pope Pius VII confirmed his "cultus" in Siena and in the surrounding cities.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Pietro Pettinaio was born around 1189 in Campi, a village of Castelnuovo Berardenga near Siena and moved with his parents to Siena at some point during his childhood.

paragraph: He married but remained childless during his marriage and in order to provide for his new wife he worked as a comb-maker. He purchased a house in which vines flourished so as to make wine. Pettinaio later lost his wife and he lived alone in Siena while being able to devote more time to his trade.

paragraph: Pettinaio became a professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis after serving as a nurse in a Franciscan-run hospital - Santa Maria della Scala - while continuing in his profession. He lived a simple life, giving excess wealth to the Franciscans and he spent his evenings in meditation and devoting such nights to God. He moved from his home (after selling it to the poor) to a cell among the Franciscans and there considered himself far too talkative, so worked towards living amongst them in silence. He undertook several pilgrimages to religious sites including Assisi, where Saint Francis worked and lived.

paragraph: During his lifetime he was hailed as a miracle worker and was considered to be a great saint. He became a sought after advisor to priests as well as to the people of Siena and was considered charismatic. He was so well-regarded to the point where in 1282 he was granted the chance to choose five prisoners to be pardoned. He saw as an advisor the Dominican orator Ambrose Sansedoni.

paragraph: Pettinaio died on 4 December 1289 at an advanced age and was buried at the Franciscan church in Siena. His grave soon became a pilgrimage site and the scene of miracles. A shrine was built over his grave in 1326 and an annual local feast in his honor was established in 1329. The shrine was lost to fire in 1655 and remaining relics were preserved when the Poor Clare nuns took them into their care.

paragraph: Section::::Dante Aligheri.

paragraph: The poet Dante Aligheri is said to have included Pettinaio in his work (Divina Comedia) in "Canto XIII" through the character of Pier the Comb-Seller.

paragraph: Section::::Beatification.

paragraph: The people adored Pettinaio as a saint and a patron and so established a local annual feast honoring him in 1329. It later led to calls for official recognition of sainthood and led to Pope Pius VII proclaiming his "cultus" acting as formal beatification on 18 August 1802

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saints SQPN

alias:
Pere de Siena
Pietro Pettinaio
Pietro da Campi

description: Italian merchant

wikidata_label: Pier Pettinaio

wikipedia_title: Pietro Pettinaio


text:
German
Neoclassical
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
Berlin
German Empire
Royal School of Art
Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts
genre sculpture
blacksmith
masons
scythe
nude
Neoclassical
bronze
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
chryselephantine
jewel
stage performance
Brazil
onyx
Berlin
Weimar Republic
Iffland
Preiss
Schmidt-Felling

categories: 19th-century German sculptors,20th-century German sculptors,Art Deco sculptors,Artists from Berlin,1873 births,People from Berlin,German male sculptors

paragraph: Otto Schmidt-Hofer

paragraph: Otto Schmidt-Hofer (1873–1925) was a German sculptor who worked during the late 19th century and early 20th century. His work was primarily Neoclassical and Art Nouveau between 1893-1914 and Art Deco from 1915 until his death in 1925.

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

paragraph: Schmidt-Hofer was born in Berlin, German Empire, in 1873. He studied at the Royal School of Art and also in the educational department at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts, founded as the "Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin" in 1868.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He specialized in genre sculpture featuring working people doing normal everyday tasks and activities. He produced a number of sculptures of blacksmiths and masons at work, women harvesting fields with scythes, and athletes.

paragraph: A number of the pieces he cast were of figures in the nude which was popular during the era he worked in. Schmidt-Hofer was a member of the National Association of Artists in Germany. He produced several Neoclassical statues in patinated bronze and held membership in the Reichsverband bildender Künstler in Germany.

paragraph: Very versatile, Schmidt-Hofer was able to transition from works produced in the Art Nouveau era and pivot to doing a number of Art Deco sculptures during the latter portion of his career between 1915 and 1925.

paragraph: One sculpture, among his large career output of Art Deco sculptures, was "The Entertainer". The statue, cast in four variations – one being chryselephantine and the other being all bronze (and also clothed and nude) – was among the best of the work he produced. "The Entertainer" features a beautiful, svelte young lady wearing a jewel-laden costume in the midst of a stage performance. Schmidt-Hofer also produced a small version of the statue (about 6 inches high) that was mounted on a Brazilian green onyx pin dish. The full array of Schmidt-Hofer's plentiful sculpting skills are displayed in this artwork which he completed .

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Schmidt-Hofer died in Berlin, Weimar Republic, in 1925. Along with other German sculptors of the period such as Iffland, Preiss, and Schmidt-Felling, Schmidt-Hofer takes his rightful place as one of the premier Neoclassical, Art Deco, and Art Nouveau sculptors that Germany has ever produced.

description: German sculptor

wikidata_label: Otto Schmidt-Hofer

wikipedia_title: Otto Schmidt-Hofer


text:
Italian
photographer
Getty Images
Corbis
photowalks
Scotland
England
Slovenia
Croatia
Italy
Venice
Italy
Milan
France
Switzerland
Scotland
The Isle of Scalpay
London
Gianni Berengo Gardin
Elliott Erwitt
Pope Francis
LeBron James
Mike Tyson
George Clooney
Queen Elizabeth II
Costa Concordia disaster
Bosnian War
Syrian refugee migration
Balkans
Fujifilm
Leica
Venice Biennale
French language
workshops
photowalks
Saint Petersburg
Russia
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Ljubljana
Slovenia
#Awakening Official Website

categories: British photographers,Italian writers,Italian photographers,Getty Images,Living people

paragraph: Marco Secchi

paragraph: Marco Secchi is an Italian photographer and photo journalist. He works for Getty Images, worked for Corbis and specializes in political and social events. Secchi is one of the founding members of the alternative photography collective, #Awakening. He is also a teacher offering photography workshops or photowalks of locations like Scotland, England, Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Secchi is a native of Venice, Italy, although he has lived most of his youth in Milan, moving later to France, Switzerland, Scotland, The Isle of Scalpay and since many years lives in London. He began his career as a photographer in 1980 and was inspired to do so by other photographers like , Gianni Berengo Gardin and Elliott Erwitt. Over the course of his career, he has taken photographs of prominent events and people, including political figures like Pope Francis, sportspeople like LeBron James and Mike Tyson, celebrities like George Clooney, and royalty like Queen Elizabeth II. He has also covered worldwide events like the Costa Concordia disaster, the Bosnian War, and the recent Syrian refugee migration through the Balkans. He is an editorial photographer for Getty Images.

paragraph: Secchi is one of the founding members of the alternative photography collective, #Awakening. The group seeks to create social change through photographic art. Secchi is also a photography teacher and offers photography workshops in a variety of places throughout Europe. He works with different camera brands including Fujifilm and Leica and held several photographic exhibitions. His photograph "Bajansenye Abandoned Checkpoint" is part of "The Absence of Paths" Exhibition for the Tunisian Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale. Additionally, he has compiled few books. One is a book of photographs called "The Venice Carnival" and the other is a French language guide called "Le grand guide de Venise" and few of black and white photography. Secchi's photographs have appeared in many publications including "Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People's Pope," "At This Moment: The Story of Michael Buble," "The Rough Guide to the Italian Lakes", "Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto", and "Women Writers who Changed the World".

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Venice Carnival" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le grand guide de Venise : Sur les pas de Canaletto et des maîtres vénitiens" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Venice and the Big Ships" (2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Venice in Black and White" (2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Artisans of Venice" (2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ljubljana in Monochrome" (2017)

paragraph: Section::::Workshops.

paragraph: He has run talks, workshops and photowalks across the UK, Italy, Slovenia and Hungary.

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions and Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017 Saint Petersburg Russia Marco Secchi Exhibition "Venice Shrouded in Fog'

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017 Ljubljana Slovenia Krizevniska

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018 Ljubljana Slovenia Mini Theatre - Krizevniska

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018 Silver Chromatic Awards - International Color Photography Contest

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- #Awakening Official Website

wikidata_label: Marco Secchi

wikipedia_title: Marco Secchi


text:
Sant'Omero
Italian
motorcycle racer
Kawasaki ZX-6R
Profile on MotoGP.com

categories: Italian motorcycle racers,1997 births,Living people

paragraph: Lorenzo Petrarca

paragraph: Lorenzo Petrarca (born 24 July 1997 in Sant'Omero) is an Italian motorcycle racer. He competes in the CIV Supersport 600 Championship aboard a Kawasaki ZX-6R.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on MotoGP.com

description: Italian motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Lorenzo Petrarca

wikipedia_title: Lorenzo Petrarca


text:
Santa Clara, Cuba
Madrid
La Gomera
Agulo
La Laguna
Pozuelo de Alarcón
Canary Islands
Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Basilica of Candelaria

categories: 1895 births,People from La Gomera,1976 deaths,Spanish male painters,20th-century Spanish painters

paragraph: José Aguiar

paragraph: José Aguiar or José Aguiar García (born 1895 (Santa Clara, Cuba), died 1976 (Madrid)) was a painter and muralist from La Gomera.

paragraph: Aguiar was born in Cuba in 1895 but his family returned to Agulo, La Gomera a few months later in 1896 where he was baptised. He went to school in La Laguna and studied law in Madrid for two years before moving to the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1916, studying under .

paragraph: His main residence was Madrid from 1924 onwards although he moved for a period to Florence in 1930 and had a spell as Professor of Drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Seville from 1933. In 1947 he set up his studio in Pozuelo de Alarcón.

paragraph: As well as producing numerous paintings, he also painted murals in several religious buildings in the Canary Islands and the Spanish mainland. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

paragraph: His house on Calle de la Seda, Agulo, a good example of eighteenth century Canarian architecture, was purchased by the municipal council and restored at a cost of 470,000 Euro as a part of the regeneration project of the municipality of Agulo. It was turned into a museum, library, artist studio and exhibition space.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mujeres del sur (Women of the south)" - Gold Medal, National Painting Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romaria de San Juan", Cabildo of La Gomera, 1924

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frescoes in the Basilica of Candelaria, Tenerife such as "El milagro de los panes y los peces (Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes)", 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Friso Isleño (Islander Frieze)", Casino de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1934

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Muja Canaria (Canarian woman)", 1950s

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Maternidad O Desnudo (Maternity or Naked)", 1946

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La pescadora", Collection of the City of London Corporation

alias:
José Aguiar García
Jose Aguiar Garcia
Jose Aguiar

description: Spanish painter

wikidata_label: José Aguiar

wikipedia_title: José Aguiar


text:
curling iron
crosshair
Norden bombsight
meteorological
Ronald Reagan
Colorado Aviation Historical Society
Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Pueblo, Colorado
Slovenia
Bessemer
elementary school
clandestine operation
Norden bombsight
state-of-the-art
B-24 Liberator
B-29 Super Fortress
B-17 Flying Fortress
black widow spider
meteorological instruments
war savings stamps
Paul Harvey
The Rest of the Story
Pueblo, Colorado
Mary Babnick Brown (biography)

categories: People from Pueblo, Colorado,American people of Slovenian descent,1991 deaths,1907 births,American patriotism

paragraph: Mary Babnik Brown

paragraph: Mary Babnik Brown (November 22, 1907 – April 14, 1991) was an American who became known for having donated her hair to the United States military during World War II. Thirty-four inches long (34/.3937 round0 cm), her blonde hair had never been chemically treated or heated with curling irons, and therefore proved resilient enough to use as crosshairs in Norden bombsights for bomber aircraft, which had to withstand a wide range of temperatures and humidity.

paragraph: Brown declined compensation for her donation, believing what she had done was her patriotic duty. She was told at the time only that the hair was needed for meteorological instruments, and had no idea how it had been used until 1987. President Ronald Reagan wrote to her that year on her 80th birthday to thank her, and in 1991 she received a special achievement award from the Colorado Aviation Historical Society during a ceremony at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Brown (née Babnik, often misspelled Babnick) was born in Pueblo, Colorado, to Frank and Mary Babnik, immigrants from Slovenia. Her father worked at the railroad and her mother was a domestic helper. Her parents named her Mitzi, a Slovenian name, but she Americanized it to Mary. The oldest of the children, she had three younger siblings; her sister, Josephine, arrived in 1908, followed by two brothers, Frank in 1910 and Joseph in 1912. Brown spent her early childhood in the Bessemer and Grove neighborhoods of Pueblo. Her father abandoned the family around 1920, leaving her mother to raise the children.

paragraph: Brown left elementary school when she was 12 years old to help support the family. She first obtained part-time domestic work for $5 a week. By lying about her age when she was 13, she was able to find a permanent job at the National Broom Factory, which paid 75 cents a day when she started; she ended up working there for 42 years. Her siblings contributed to the family financially by picking up chunks of coal on railroad tracks that had fallen from steam-engine trains.

paragraph: Brown became a well-known dancer in Pueblo. She began dancing as a hobby in her early teens, winning her first dancing contest at the age of nineteen. She danced so often at the Arcadia Ballroom (now razed) on Fifth Street in downtown Pueblo that her nickname was "Arcadia Mary". During World War II she taught GIs how to dance. She had a saying: "My first love is my family, but dancing is my second."

paragraph: Section::::Hair donation.

paragraph: In 1944 Brown was the first woman to have her hair used for military aircraft bombsights. She saw an advertisement in a Pueblo newspaper in 1943 that said the government was looking for hair from women for the war effort, although no details were given as to how it would be used. The ad said only that they wanted blonde hair that was at least , and which had not been treated with chemicals or hot irons. The women's hair collection for use as bombsight crosshairs was a clandestine operation even though they found the hair through a newspaper advertisement.

paragraph: The Army Air Forces had tried several different materials for the crosshairs of the Norden bombsight, a carefully guarded, state-of-the-art instrument that aimed bombs at their target. The bombsight was used on the B-24 Liberator, B-29 Super Fortress and B-17 Flying Fortress military aircraft. It was so secret that it was surrounded by booby-trapped charges that the crew were ordered to detonate if it appeared that the bombsight might be seized by the enemy.

paragraph: According to Doug Adams, black widow spider webbing had been tried for the crosshairs, but it could not withstand the variations in temperature to which the bombsight would be exposed. In contrast, fine blonde human hair that had not been treated with chemicals or heat was found to be reliable in a wide range of climatic conditions, including at 20,000 feet and below freezing.

paragraph: Brown's hair was long and had never been cut, chemically treated or heated with irons. It was her most prized possession. She washed it with "pure soap" twice weekly and combed it twice a day; it stretched down to her knees when she combed it out. She normally wore it wrapped around her head in a braid, and as a result was known as the "lady with the crown".

paragraph: The government purchasing agent at the Washington Institute of Technology told her that her hair would be used for meteorological instruments. She sent off samples, and they concluded that it would be appropriate for the crosshairs. Brown agreed in 1944 to have it cut. The government offered to pay her for it in war savings stamps, but she refused, seeing it as her duty to help in the war effort. She ended up feeling traumatized by the loss of it, and cried for two months afterwards.

paragraph: As well as being used for bombsight crosshairs, Brown's hair was also used in scientific equipment to make precise measurements of humidity, paramount in the production of military aircraft and other war equipment. Brown's hair was the first woman's hair used as crosshairs in military aircraft bombsights.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Brown married Carl Brown sometime after 1944, and became Mary "Mitzi" Babnik Brown. In 1947 she became vice president of the State Federation of Labor, the first woman to hold that position. She also became an active member of the Pueblo Democratic party, and was the vice president and president of the Slovenian Lodge SNPJ (Slovenian National Benefit Society). She spent her last years of her life in the 300 block of Spring Street in Pueblo.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brown received a special achievement award on November 17, 1990, from the Colorado Aviation Historical Society in a ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy. She was inducted into their Hall of Fame.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul Harvey told Brown's story on his nationally broadcast program "The Rest of the Story", on November 19, 1990.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The city of Pueblo, Colorado, declared November 22, 1991, as "Mary Babnik Brown Day". The formal ceremony of medical personnel at a banquet at the Pueblo Country Club was recorded by NBC-TV. It aired the following month on NBC's "The Story Behind the Story."

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mary Babnick Brown (biography)

description: Laborer, dancer

wikidata_label: Mary Babnik Brown

wikipedia_title: Mary Babnik Brown


text:
Early Netherlandish
Karel van Mander
Gillis van Coninxloo
Master of the Prodigal Son
Artnet

categories: Early Netherlandish painters,People from Antwerp,1560s deaths,1530s births

paragraph: Master of the Prodigal Son

paragraph: The Master of the Prodigal Son, also "Monogrammist LK", "Leonart Kroes", "Pseudo-Lombard" or "Master of Tobias" (c.1530 – c.1560), was an Early Netherlandish painter.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born in Antwerp and is considered to have run a workshop there with several pupils. His name is derived from a painting in Vienna. He is known for landscapes and religious works, and possibly travelled to Rome. Though a monogram of "LK" was discovered in one of his paintings, to conclude that this person was the "Leonart Kroes" mentioned as teacher in Karel van Mander's biography of Gillis van Coninxloo is incorrect.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Master of the Prodigal Son on Artnet

alias:
Meister des Verlorenen Sohnes
der meister des verlorenen sohnes
Stil Des Meisters Des Verlorenen Sohnes
meister vom verlorenen sohn
Master Of The Prodigal Son
Majster podobenstva strateného syna
Meester van de Verloren Zoon

description: Flemish painter and designer of tapestries and stained glass

wikidata_label: Master of the Prodigal Son

wikipedia_title: Master of the Prodigal Son


text:
Cossack Hetmanate
Cossacks
family of Lyzohub
Petro Doroshenko
Kiev Theological Academy
Holy Synod
Danylo Apostol
Vasyl Zhurakovsky
Peter and Paul Fortress
Pavlo Polubotok
Saint Petersburg
Danylo Apostol
Governing Council of the Hetman Office
Alexander Rumyantsev
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich
War of the Polish Succession
Crimean Khanate
Governing Council of the Hetman Office
Lyzohubs
Yukhym Lyzohub
Encyclopedia of Ukraine

categories: People from Zolotonosha Raion,People of the Cossack Hetmanate,1749 deaths,1675 births,Acting Hetmans (Ukrainian Cossacks),Doroshenko family,Lyzohub family,Obozni General of the Cossack Hetmanate

paragraph: Yakiv Lyzohub

paragraph: Yakiv Yukhymovych Lyzohub (; , "Yakov Yefimovich Lizogub") was a military and political figure of the Cossack Hetmanate and a member of a well known Cossacks family of Lyzohub.

paragraph: He was born in a family of Chernihiv Colonel Yukhym Yakovych Lyzohub and Lyubov Petrivna Doroshenko. Yakiv Lyzohub was a grandson of Hetman Petro Doroshenko. He graduated from the Kiev-Mohyla Academy that in the 19th century was transformed into the Kiev Theological Academy on the order of the Russian Holy Synod.

paragraph: In 1713-28 Lyzohub was a Bunchuk General.

paragraph: In 1723-24 he along with Colonel Danylo Apostol and Yesavul General Vasyl Zhurakovsky was imprisoned by Peter the Great in the Peter and Paul Fortress as a members of Pavlo Polubotok's party. After the release Lyzohub was forced to live for sometime in Saint Petersburg.

paragraph: During the hetman rule of Danylo Apostol, in 1728 he was promoted to the rank of Quartermaster General. After the death of Danylo Apostol in 1734, Lyzohub was placed as an Appointed Hetman in the Governing Council of the Hetman Office which was controlled by Russian residents in Ukraine Prince Alexei Shakhovskiy at first and later - Prince , Alexander Rumyantsev and others. Lyzohub at that time commanded corps of Ukrainian Cossacks, performed functions as hetman and participated in number of military campaigns along with the Russian field marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (War of the Polish Succession and raid of Crimean Khanate in 1736-37).

paragraph: After couple of "palace coup d'etat", Lyzohub vouched for reinstating the institute of Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks.

paragraph: Lyzohub had three brothers Andriy and Semen.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Governing Council of the Hetman Office

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lyzohubs at the Institute of History of Ukraine website.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yukhym Lyzohub at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

description: Cossack military officer

wikidata_label: Yakiv Lyzohub

wikipedia_title: Yakiv Lyzohub


text:
Albania
American football
defensive end
Seattle Seahawks
2015 NFL Draft
college football
Buffalo
Shkodër, Albania
United States
political asylum
Albanian Rebellion of 1997
economic instability in Albania
English
Albanian music
Albanian flag
Albanian
Bloomfield High School
Bloomfield, New Jersey
defensive end
left tackle
tight end
punter
placekicker
basketball
discus thrower
National Letter of Intent
University at Buffalo
Buffalo
redshirted
his freshman year
his junior year
first-round draft pick
linebacker
Khalil Mack
2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
2008 season
his senior year
Medal of Honor Bowl
New York Stock Exchange
scouting combine
Seattle Seahawks
2015 NFL Draft
Tom Cable
center
National Football League
special teams
defensive end
New Orleans Saints
New York Giants

categories: Buffalo Bulls football players,Albanian emigrants to the United States,Seattle Seahawks players,Living people,American football defensive ends,People from Bloomfield, New Jersey,American football defensive tackles,Players of American football from New Jersey,American people of Albanian descent,Indianapolis Colts players,People from Pukë,1991 births,New York Giants players,Bloomfield High School (New Jersey) alumni,New Orleans Saints players,American football offensive guards

paragraph: Kristjan Sokoli

paragraph: Kristjan Sokoli (born September 24, 1991) is an Albanian American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He played college football at Buffalo.

paragraph: Section::::High school career.

paragraph: Sokoli's father, Gjon, fled from Shkodër, Albania to the United States seeking political asylum around the time of the Albanian Rebellion of 1997 when Kristjan was five years old. During the period of economic instability in Albania, Gjon worked in monetary exchange. When Gjon first arrived in the United States, he made $45 per day as a maintenance worker in an apartment complex, and lived in the complex's basement with other workers. Kristan's mother, Gjyste, fled to America two years after Gjon and Kristjan and his younger brother, Mark, were not able to join their parents until another two years had passed. None of the family could speak English upon arriving. Although the Sokolis are now American citizens, Kristjan still listens to Albanian music, displays an Albanian flag and speaks Albanian with his family. Edmir Sokoli, Kristjan's cousin who had come to the United States five years before Kristjan, introduced Sokoli to football when the latter was thirteen years old. Kristjan saw Edmir as a role model and looked up to him growing up.

paragraph: Sokoli, known as "Moose" by his high school coach, was a three-year letterwinner in football at Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, New Jersey where he played defensive end, left tackle, tight end, punter and placekicker. He suffered fractures on his wrist before junior and senior year of high school, which set him back a bit. He led Bloomfield to consecutive playoff berths and was named an All-Conference player. He also started for Bloomfield's basketball team and finished eighth in the state in his junior year as a discus thrower and sixth in the state his senior year. He signed a National Letter of Intent to play at the University at Buffalo in early February of his senior year.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: At Buffalo, Sokoli moved to the defensive line full-time. When he committed to Buffalo, he stood at 6'5" and weighed 220 pounds. By his junior year, he weighed 300 pounds. He credited this to a diet of 7,000 calories per day. He redshirted during his freshman year. By his junior year, he had become a starter on the line and was an integral part of a Buffalo pass rush which was led by future first-round draft pick linebacker Khalil Mack. Sokoli would help Buffalo to the 2013 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl that season, its second bowl appearance ever and first since the 2008 season. During his senior year, he played in the 2015 Medal of Honor Bowl. He majored in Business Administration and said that he would like to work on the New York Stock Exchange if he could not make a living playing football.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Seattle Seahawks.

paragraph: Sokoli was not invited to the NFL's pre-draft scouting combine. The Seattle Seahawks selected Sokoli in the sixth round of the 2015 NFL Draft with the 214th overall pick. Despite taking two other collegiate offensive lineman in the draft, the Seahawks and offensive line coach Tom Cable discussed moving Sokoli from the defensive line to center, a position which Sokoli had never played before. He would become the first Albanian-born player to play in a National Football League game. He appeared in eight plays in the 2015 season, all on special teams in Week 16.

paragraph: On August 30, 2016, Sokoli was waived by the Seahawks.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Indianapolis Colts.

paragraph: On September 26, 2016, Sokoli was signed to the Colts' practice squad as a defensive end. He was promoted to the active roster on December 19, 2016.

paragraph: On June 15, 2017, Sokoli was waived by the Colts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New Orleans Saints.

paragraph: On July 25, 2017, Sokoli signed with the New Orleans Saints as an offensive lineman. He was waived on September 2, 2017, and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He was released on September 6, 2017.

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

paragraph: On December 27, 2017, Sokoli was signed to the New York Giants' practice squad. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Giants on January 1, 2018.

paragraph: On August 11, 2018, Sokoli was placed on injured reserve after suffering a torn ACL.

description: American football player from the United States

wikidata_label: Kristjan Sokoli

wikipedia_title: Kristjan Sokoli


text:
English Civil War
Thirty Years' War
battle of the Slaak
Thomas Fairfax
English Civil War
Gloucester
Chepstow Castle
Raglan Castle
George Monck
Restoration
baronet
English Expedition to Portugal
fight the Spanish
Governor of Jersey
Old Court
Llangattock Lingoed
Monmouthshire

categories: 1604 births,People from Monmouthshire,1679 deaths,Welsh soldiers,Baronets in the Baronetage of England,Governors of Jersey

paragraph: Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet

paragraph: Major-General Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet (1604 – 13 April 1679) was a Welsh soldier during the English Civil War, and Commander-in-Chief in Scotland during the Restoration.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Morgan was born in Wales. At 16, having at that time little knowledge of any language but Welsh, Morgan enlisted in Sir Horace Vere's Protestant volunteer expedition which fought in the Thirty Years' War.

paragraph: Morgan fought in the Low Countries and in particular assisted the Dutch in the decisive victory at the battle of the Slaak in 1631.

paragraph: He fought under Thomas Fairfax in the English Civil War. In 1645 he was appointed parliamentary governor of Gloucester. In 1646 he took Chepstow Castle and Monmouth, and besieged Raglan Castle. From 1651 to 1657 he assisted General George Monck in Scotland and was promoted to major-general. He was second in command in Flanders in 1657 and knighted on his return in 1658. He rejoined Monck in Scotland, and played a conspicuous part in the Restoration in Edinburgh. His Scottish command was disbanded in December, but he was rewarded with a baronetcy on 1 February 1661.

paragraph: Morgan established the English Expedition to Portugal to help the Portuguese fight the Spanish. He was appointed Governor of Jersey in 1665 repairing the Jersey forts and reorganising the militia.

paragraph: A pamphlet narrating his acts in France and Flanders in 1657 and 1658, said to be by himself was published in 1699.

paragraph: His family home was the Old Court at Llangattock Lingoed, Monmouthshire.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

wikidata_label: Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet


text: Río de Janeiro

text: disappeared and presumed dead

text: Brazil

text: virtuoso

text: Argentina

text: Buenos Aires

text: Toquinho

text: Vinícius de Moraes

text: guerrilla

text: Elis Regina

text: Folha de S.Paulo

text: La Plata City

text: CONADEP

text: desaparecido

text: State-sponsored terrorism

text: Copacabana

text: bossa nova

text: Leny Andrade

text: Edson Machado

text: Os Cobras

text: Wanda Sá

text: Vitor Assis Brasil

text: Vinicius de Moraes

text: Toquinho

text: ESMA

text: Mexico

text: Stella Calloni

text: Souza Vieira Baptista

text: Alfredo Astiz

text: Argentine Navy

text: Crimes against humanity

text: President

text: Raúl Alfonsín

text: forced disappearance

text: human rights

text: Nunca Más

text: Alfonsín

text: Rogerio Lima

text: short film

text: VIDECOM

text: Paulo Brossard

text: Luis Eduardo Greenhalgh

text: Fernando Trueba

text: Chapecó

text: Santa Catarina

text: Interpol

text: federal prosecutor

text: Operation Condor

text: Chile

text: Uruguay

text: Florianópolis

text: Wanda Sá

categories: 1941 births,Brazilian jazz pianists,Bossa nova pianists,1976 deaths

paragraph: Francisco Tenório Júnior

paragraph: Francisco Tenório Júnior (born July 4, 1941 in Río de Janeiro - disappeared and presumed dead 1976) was a Brazilian musician and composer. Despite recording only one album as a solo artist, he was considered one of the best pianists of his generation, and his fame as a virtuoso creator has increased over the years.

paragraph: He went missing in mysterious circumstances in Argentina during the first year of that country's last civil-military dictatorship: in March 1976, while on tour at Buenos Aires with Toquinho and Vinícius de Moraes, Tenório Júnior mentioned he was going out to buy cigarettes, and he was never seen again; it was quickly surmised that he might have been rounded up by the dictatorship's security forces, mistaken for an Argentine "guerrilla" and kidnapped, to be subsequently thrown in jail, tortured and murdered.

paragraph: In 1979, singer Elis Regina mentioned in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper "Folha de S.Paulo" that he had been seen in jail in La Plata City; subsequent investigations by several journalists and Argentina's CONADEP confirmed his tragic fate, and he is now widely considered to be a "desaparecido" (missing person), therefore a victim of Argentina's State-sponsored terrorism during the 70s.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born and raised in the neighborhood of Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro, he was considered one of the most important musicians of bossa nova. He used to be presented in the Lane in Rio de Janeiro. Simultaneously with his development as a musician Tenório Jr. was studying medicine at the National School of Medicine, and quickly became in the 1970s one of the Brazilian professionals most sought after by artists. He used to perform at Beco das Garrafas (Alley of the Bottles), a place in Copacabana famous for being one of the redoubts in which bossa nova emerged.

paragraph: His piano can be heard on anthological albums of Brazilian music such as "Arte Maior" (1963) by Leny Andrade (with the "Tenório Jr. Trio"), "É Samba Novo" (1964) by Edson Machado, "O LP"(1964) by Os Cobras, "Vagamente" (1964) by Wanda Sá and "Desenhos" (1966) by Vitor Assis Brasil.

paragraph: In 1976, after a show in Buenos Aires, in which he accompanied with a great performance the famous musicians Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho, Tenorio Junior (or Tenorinho, as he was popularly known in Brazil) disappeared without a trace. At first, it was not known whether he was in any prison or if he died in Argentina. At the time several versions ran, as quoted by singer Elis Regina in an interview to Folha de S. Paulo, on 3 June 1979. According to Elis Regina, Tenorinho had been seen in 1977 in a prison La Plata city.

paragraph: Ten years after his disappearance, Claudio Vallejos, a former corporal and member of the Naval Information Service, the Secret Service of the Argentine Navy, revealed to the defunct magazine "Lord" (n° 270, May 1986), that Tenorio Jr. had been approached on the street by a military patrol and arrested. According to Vallejos, Brazilian authorities had been informed of the kidnapping and death of Tenorio Junior. Vallejos said Tenorio was imprisoned in the ESMA (Navy Mechanics School); a notorious clandestine center and apparatus of repression of the Argentine Navy that existed between 1976 and 1979 and, according to reports and complaints, was the scene of almost five thousand murders.

paragraph: In the book "Operación Condor: Pacto Criminal" (Operation Condor: Criminal Pact), launched in Mexico in 2001, the journalist Stella Calloni says Tenorio Jr. was tortured by Brazilian and Argentine officials, including Brazilian Army major Souza Vieira Baptista. The story of Calloni converges with the interview Claudio Vallejos published in the journal Lord, in which the former Argentine military claimed that agents SNI had been present during the execution of Tenorio Jr, which occurred nine days after his arrest. The executor could have been none other than the infamous Alfredo Astiz, a frigate former captain of the Argentine Navy also implicated in the murder and forced disappearance of dozens of people and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for Crimes against humanity, carried on by Astiz during Argentina's last military dictatorship.

paragraph: Francisco Tenorio Jr. was 34 years old. He left four children and his wife, Carmen Cerqueira Magalhaes, who was pregnant at the time of his disappearance. His fifth child was born one month after his disappearance.

paragraph: The National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP), an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983 (shortly after the return of democracy) to investigate the fate of the "desaparecidos" (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations during the military dictatorship confirmed in its famous document "Nunca Más" (Never Again) - which details the research of the investigation commission with a complete summary and was published as an official report in Spanish; delivered to Alfonsín on 20 September 1984 - that Tenorio's death took place in March 1976 in Buenos Aires.

paragraph: Soon after the disappearance of Tenorio Jr., the filmmaker Rogerio Lima produced the short film "Balada para Tenorio" (A ballad for Tenorio), which chronicled the disappearance of Tenorio Jr. and interviews his family and friends.

paragraph: In 1986, when former Argentine military man Claudio Vallejos came to Brazil and gave a revealing interview with Lord, the production house VIDECOM of São Paulo, along with Rogério Lima, managed to record his testimony, which was used as the basis for the documentary about Tenorio Jr., which chronicles the tragedy that befell on the musician. Vallejos was arrested as determined by the then Minister of Justice, Paulo Brossard, days after the publication of the interview. In August 1987, in a new interview with Lord, the former agent said he suffered during his brief imprisonment, threats of men in federal police and received the recommendation not to insist on references to the omission of the Brazilian embassy and the involvement of agents SNI in the death of Tenorio. The documentary had its premiere at the 1986 Film and Video Festival of Rio de Janeiro. In the same week, Claudio Vallejos was expelled from Brazil, after three months in prison, without having been subjected to a process. In 1996, the documentary was updated with unpublished archive images, reissued and presented by TV Cultura of São Paulo. In the film, the lawyer Luis Eduardo Greenhalgh stated he believes that Tenorio Junior died in prison and that he had been arrested by mistake.

paragraph: According to people close to the pianist, Tenorio, although being the son of a military man, had never expressed political and ideological preferences. In an interview in 2003, Toquinho said that Tenorio physical appearance may have contributed to his arrest: "Tenorio was of a unique kind, very tall, with beard, long hair, wore a long cloak, was mistaken for someone else".

paragraph: The Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba has plans to carry out another documentary feature film about the disappearance of the Brazilian pianist.

paragraph: Claudio Vallejos returned to Brazil (supposedly around 2002) and settled in the region Chapecó in Santa Catarina. He was arrested in 2010 for embezzlement and forgery. Released some time later, he was again arrested for larceny in January 2012. His arrest had been requested to Interpol by the Argentine federal prosecutor who handles the criminal proceedings linked to Operation Condor, the military-political alliance between the dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay in the 1970s and 1980s, which was sponsored by the United States government. When the identity of Vallejos was confirmed, the prosecutor petitioned the Brazilian government for his extradition to Argentina. On 27 March 2013, Vallejos was delivered by Federal Police to Argentine police at the airport in Florianópolis.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As leader.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Embalo" (1964)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As accompanist.

paragraph: BULLET::::- ...E Samba Novo (1963), accompanying Edison Machado

paragraph: BULLET::::- O LP (1964), with Os Cobras

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vagamente (1964), accompanying Wanda Sá

paragraph: BULLET::::- Doris Monteiro (1964), accompanying Doris Monteiro

paragraph: BULLET::::- India (1973), accompanying Gal Costa

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beto Guedes - Danilo Caymmi - Novelli - Toninho Horta (1973), accompanying the eponymous musicians

paragraph: BULLET::::- Missa Breve (1973), accompanying Edu Lobo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Egberto Gismonti (1973), accompanying Egberto Gismonti

paragraph: BULLET::::- Academia de Danças (1974), accompanying Egberto Gismonti

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nós (1974), accompanying Johnny Alf

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bossa Nova nos "States" (1962), accompanying Juarez Araújo

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Arte Maior de Leny Andrade (1964), accompanying Leny Andrade

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minas (1975), accompanying Milton Nascimento

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nana Caymmi (1975), accompanying Nana Caymmi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Samba Nova Concepção (1964), (Various Artists)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Desenhos (1966), accompanying Victor Assis Brasil

alias:
Francisco Tenorio Junior
Tenorio Cergueira

description: Brazilian musician

wikidata_label: Francisco Tenório Júnior

wikipedia_title: Francisco Tenório Júnior


text:
Georgian
film director
screenwriter
Stalin Prize
locksmith
Tbilisi
The Suram Fortress
Saba
The Great Dawn
Georgi Saakadze
Klyatva (The Vow)
The Fall of Berlin
The Unforgettable Year 1919

categories: 1974 deaths,People from Tbilisi,Soviet film directors,Film directors from Georgia (country),Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography faculty,Stalin Prize winners,1894 births

paragraph: Mikheil Chiaureli

paragraph: Mikheil Chiaureli (, , 6 February 1894 – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974. He was awarded the Stalin Prize five times in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1950.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: In early life Chiaureli studied in a trade school and then worked for a while as a locksmith. Starting in amateur dramatics he became a professional actor aged 20 and worked as both actor and stage-decorator at the Tbilisi theatre. After 1917 he studied acting formally at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts.

paragraph: Chiaureli won four Stalin Prizes and became a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- as actor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Arsen Dzhordjiashvili" (1921) as star of the first Soviet film made in Georgia

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Suram Fortress" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- as director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The First Cornet Streshnev" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Saba" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Khabarda" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Last Masquerade" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Arsen" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Dawn" (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Georgi Saakadze" (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Klyatva (The Vow)" (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fall of Berlin" (1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Unforgettable Year 1919" (1952)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Widow Otarova" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Story of a Girl" (1960)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Generals and Daisies" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Any Other Time" (1967)

description: Film director, Screenwriter

wikidata_label: Mikheil Chiaureli

wikipedia_title: Mikheil Chiaureli


text: merchant captain

text: East India

text: meteorology

text: tropical storm

text: Lewes

text: Uckfield

text: William Reid

text: Brig

text: horn book

categories: 1858 deaths,1797 births,British scientists,British meteorologists

paragraph: Henry Piddington

paragraph: Henry Piddington (7 January 1797 – 7 April 1858) was an English merchant captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particularly well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name "cyclone" in 1848 based on his studies of tropical storms and the observation of circular winds around a calm centre.

paragraph: Section::::Scientific pursuits.

paragraph: Henry Piddington was the third of eight (excluding a ninth child who died at infancy) children born to an innkeeper at Lewes, James John Piddington (1757–1837) and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (1762–1835). The family moved to Uckfield in 1802–03 where the Henry would have encountered travelling sailors at the inn where his father worked. Little is known of his early sailing life but he rose to command a ship and by 1824 he was living in Bengal and settled in Calcutta around 1831 and took an interest in scientific pursuits. He worked in sugar refining and was a foreign secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India till 1837. In 1833 he wrote "Examination and analysis of some specimens of iron ore from Burdwan" and "On the fertilising principles of the inundations of the Hugli" in the "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". He was then appointed curator of the newly established Museum of Economic Geology in Calcutta in 1844 and over the next decade he continued to publish many scientific papers on geology, botany, mineralogy, and meteorology in India.

paragraph: In 1832, he compiled a list of the plants of economic importance and from 1835 he wrote on a variety of topics including descriptions of fish, reviews of fossil finds in South America and on geology. He sometimes reviewed and translated content published in other journals.

paragraph: Section::::Law of Storms.

paragraph: In 1833 a cyclone hit Calcutta and Piddington took little interest in it but in 1838 he stumbled on the "Law of Storms" by (then) Lt.-Colonel William Reid and this led him to return to his sailing experience and take an interest in ship logs. He was assisted by Captain Christopher Biden, the Master Attendant at Madras. Piddington also corresponded with R. W. Redfield who worked on storms around North America. His interest led the government to send all records of storms to Piddington from September 1839.

paragraph: The result of Piddington's studies based on the logs of several ships, notably the Brig "Charles Heddle" which was trapped in a storm off Mauritius was his observation of the spiral wind tracks and he wrote a series of papers (24 memoirs in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal) on the topic. He noticed that the storms had a calm centre and that the winds around them ran anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This was followed by a book, "The Horn-Book for the Law of Storms for the Indian and China Seas" the first edition of which was published in 1844. He produced a second edition in 1848 and he introduced the word "cyclone" derived from Greek κύκλος (kyklos, meaning "circle" or "ring") based on the helical nature of the winds. The idea of the horn book was that a translucent sheet (made of horn) with the diagram of the cyclone could be placed on a map so that the wind directions could be readily compared by any sailor to identify a cyclone so that a tacking course to avoid it could be followed. A review in "Nautical Magazine" (1848) however claimed that it reminded the author of a children's "horn book" to teach alphabets. The book ran into many editions and Piddington was even made a president of the marine court of enquiry at Calcutta in 1851. In 1853 he advised the Governor General that Port Canning was best not built on the southeastern side of Calcutta as it was vulnerable to storms. The Port was however built there and after Piddington's death, it was devastated in 1867 by a storm and abandoned a few years later.

paragraph: Section::::Other positions.

paragraph: Piddington held other positions as a secretary to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society; Her Majesty's Coroner of Calcutta (from 1844); and President of Marine Courts of Enquiry.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Piddington married Jeanne Julie Josephine Gaultier de Lavalette (died 4 September 1875) and they had three sons of whom Alfred (1831-c. 1880) and Edmund (1832-1869) worked in the court at Calcutta while an older son was born in 1820 but died young in 1830.

paragraph: Section::::Published works.

paragraph: For a list of the geological works, see the bibliography by Oldham. The following cover his major works on cyclones (he uses the word "cyclone" from his eighteenth memoir onwards.

paragraph: Section::::Published works.:Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Horn-book for the Law of Storms for the Indian and China Seas", 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Sailor's Horn-book for the Law of Storms", 1848 (third edition 1860 fifth edition)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An English index to the plants of India" 1832

description: English scientist and merchant captain

wikidata_label: Henry Piddington

wikipedia_title: Henry Piddington


text:
Italian
organist
composer
United States
Settimo Vittone
Italy
Milan
Turin
Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Rome
Polibio Fumagalli
Vatican
St. Francis Xavier Church
Gaston Dethier
St. Vincent Ferrer Church
Carnegie Hall
Charles M. Courboin
Wanamaker Organ
Philadelphia
Wanamaker's
Leopold Stokowski
Philadelphia Orchestra
Vatican
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Kilgen
St. Louis, Missouri
Carnegie Hall
Cardinal Patrick Hayes
recital
Christmas
Gesù bambino
concerto
oboe
Cole Porter
Georges-Émile Tanguay
Powell Weaver
Robert Elmore
Tracy Y. Cannon
Norman Dello Joio
Huntington, New York

categories: People from the Province of Turin,1943 deaths,Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni,Italian emigrants to the United States,1886 births,20th-century organists,Italian male composers,Male organists,Italian organists,Italian composers

paragraph: Pietro Yon

paragraph: Pietro Alessandro Yon (August 8, 1886 – November 22, 1943) was an Italian-born organist and composer who made his career in the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Yon was born in Settimo Vittone, (Piedmont, Italy), and studied at the conservatories of both Milan and Turin, also attending the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome; among his teachers in Milan was Polibio Fumagalli. He served for a time as an organist at the Vatican and at the Royal Church in Rome.

paragraph: Section::::Relocation to America.

paragraph: In the spring of 1907, Father John B. Young, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan, was in Rome on Vatican business and additionally to seek out a replacement for his organist Gaston Dethier, who was leaving to pursue a concert career. Upon hearing Yon play, Father Young was sufficiently impressed to offer him a three-year contract. Thus Yon at age 21 came to the United States, where from 1907 until 1926 he was the organist of St. Francis Xavier Church. He joined his brother S. Constantino Yon, who had preceded him and held a similar position at St. Vincent Ferrer Church.

paragraph: In 1914, Pietro and Constantino Yon opened the Yon Music Studios in Carnegie Hall, a conservatory for aspiring liturgical musicians utilizing a small number of instructors whose work he respected. Pietro would head the organ department while Constantino was in charge of the vocalists.

paragraph: In 1919, when Yon was married to Francesca Pesagno, the organist for the occasion was one of Yon's newest friends, the Belgian-American virtuoso Charles M. Courboin who had been chosen to rededicate the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia, now enlarged to 17,000 pipes and still the largest operational organ in the world. In 1920, Yon would share the stage at Wanamaker's with Courboin, Leopold Stokowski, and the Philadelphia Orchestra in one of the gala organ recitals performed at the store through the 1920s.

paragraph: Yon became an American citizen in 1921.

paragraph: On January 1, 1922 Yon was appointed 'Titular Organist' of the Vatican, a singular and unprecedented honor. The appointment put pressure on New York church authorities to promote Yon to a more-prestigious position.

paragraph: Section::::St. Patrick Cathedral.

paragraph: In 1926, he became the assistant organist of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Shortly after his arrival, church authorities began to discuss the possibility of replacing their existing Jardine and Odell organs, which were installed when the Cathedral was built. The Cathedral's 1929 Jubilee year was near and funding had become available for improvements.

paragraph: By 1927, it was announced that the Kilgen firm of St. Louis, Missouri had been selected to build the chancel, gallery and echo (triforium) organs, with Courboin as tonal designer. The resulting instrument was then and remains now the magnum opus of the Kilgen firm and one of the finest organs in the world.

paragraph: Also in 1927 Yon was approached by Carnegie Hall to assist in the replacement of its outmoded Hillgreen, Lane organ with a 4-manual, 59-rank instrument, also by Kilgen with Courboin as tonal director. And a 3-manual Kilgen instrument was to be built for the Yon Music Studios.

paragraph: Work proceeded rapidly on the Cathedral chancel organ, and by January 1928 the instrument had been installed (still without the elaborate organ case). Associate organist Yon presided over the dedication recital on January 30, 1928. The organ console was relocated to the sanctuary for the performance, which was a major social and musical event attended by 5,000 ticketholders.

paragraph: On May 1, 1928, Yon was promoted to music director replacing James C. Ungerer, who had been at the Cathedral for 36 years.

paragraph: In 1933, when the position of Associate Organist at the Cathedral became vacant, Yon chose as a replacement Edward J. Rivetti, one of his own students. Though Rivetti never actually became principal organist he served as assistant under both Yon and successor Courboin until 1970.

paragraph: In the spring of 1938, both Pietro and Constantino Yon were appointed as Knights of St. Sylvester by Cardinal Patrick Hayes, who would die within a month of the appointment. Pietro also toured the country giving recitals.

paragraph: Section::::Composer.

paragraph: Yon was also a composer, most famous for his "Humoresque "L'organo primitivo"- Toccatina for Flute", for organ, and his Christmas piece "Gesù bambino". He also wrote many works for organ, piano, and orchestra, including a "Concerto Gregoriano" for organ and orchestra (inspired by his experiences with the Wanamaker Organ) (with a companion version for organ and piano), Speranza (Hope) - Solo for Diapason, Concert Study #1 and #2, American Rhapsody and a concerto for oboe.

paragraph: Section::::Teacher.

paragraph: Yon's pupils included Cole Porter, Georges-Émile Tanguay, Powell Weaver (Kansas City), Edgar Bowman (Pittsburgh), Robert Elmore (Philadelphia), Mary Downey (New York), Henry Seibert (New York), Eugene Phillips (Grand Rapids), Tracy Y. Cannon (Salt Lake City, organist at the Mormon Tabernacle), Helen Knox Ferguson (Dallas), Helen Townsend (Buffalo), Franklin Coates (N.Y.City), Dorothy Mulroney (organist at the Municipal Auditorium Springfield, Mass.), Wilbur Chenowetch (Professor of organ and organist of the Plymouth Church, Lincoln, Neb.), Alan Bucher (Peekskill N.Y.), Edward Rivetti, assistant organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y., Radie Britain (Dallas) and Yon's godson Norman Dello Joio.

paragraph: Section::::Illness and death.

paragraph: On April 9, 1943, Yon suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed his entire right side. As a result, he was unable to fulfill his obligations at St. Patrick's Cathedral and was temporarily replaced by long-time assistant Edward Rivetti.

paragraph: At first, Yon was sent to Columbia Hospital. Eventually, it was decided to move him to a friend's house in Long Island, where it was thought that he would recover better. In the meantime, the Cathedral held his position open and refused application from organists who wanted to replace him.

paragraph: In time, it became obvious that Yon would take a long time to recover if at all. Courboin was available as a substitute "for the duration of the illness of Pietro Yon". He was heavily engaged in a recital and teaching career, in addition to consultation on many new organs and performing radio broadcasts on WOR. On October 2, 1943, Courboin was appointed interim organist while Yon was ill.

paragraph: Yon died in Huntington, New York on November 22, 1943, the feast of St Cecilia. His funeral, which took place on the 25th, was attended by 1,300 including Toscanini. Courboin conducted the choir in Yon's own Mass of Requiem.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- David Ewen, "Encyclopedia of Concert Music". New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.

description: Italian organist and composer

wikidata_label: Pietro Yon

wikipedia_title: Pietro Yon


text:
Waterlow and Sons
Plaistow
Waterlow and Sons
proposed designs
Harrison and Sons
Stabroek Market
recess
typography
postage due stamp
Cheapside
King George Hospital
definitive issue
Harold Nelson
British Empire Exhibition

wikipedia_title:
Waterlow and Sons
Plaistow, Newham
Waterlow and Sons
Essay (philately)
Harrison and Sons
Stabroek Market
Intaglio (printmaking)
Relief printing
Postage due
Cheapside
King George Hospital, London
Definitive stamp
Harold E. H. Nelson
British Empire Exhibition

categories: Waterlow and Sons,Currency designers,1891 births,1965 deaths,People from West Ham,British designers,Stamp designers

paragraph: Leonard Fryer (designer)

paragraph: Leonard Douglas Fryer (1891 - 16 November 1965) was a British artist and designer. The son of a steel engraver, he worked for the printers Waterlow and Sons, preparing proposed designs for material to be produced by the firm such as stamps and banknotes. In 2019, a collection of his watercolour paintings for stamp and banknote designs was sold at auction after being found in a wardrobe 40 years after his death.

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

paragraph: Leonard Fryer was born in Plaistow, West Ham, Essex, in 1891 to Augustus Frederick Fryer, a steel engraver, and his wife Emma. Augustus Fryer worked for Waterlow and Sons as a stamp engraver. He died on 30 December 1935 leaving £161, probate being granted in 1936 to his son Leonard, described as a "draughtsman".

paragraph: Leonard Fryer married Pauline V. Welling in West Ham in 1917.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Waterlow and Sons.

paragraph: Fryer joined the printers Waterlow and Sons in 1906 and worked there until his retirement around 1960, producing proposed designs for material to be printed by the firm such as banknotes and stamps, often for the British Commonwealth countries that formed a large part of Waterlow's trade, but also for the many South and Central American countries with whom Waterlow had a large business. He also produced designs for European and Middle East countries.

paragraph: As the earliest part of the stamp production process, Fryer's proposed designs were subject to change. Some were rejected completely such as his design for the 1948 stamp to mark the liberation of the Channel Islands, the contract for which went to Harrison and Sons, while others were printed in different colours, at different values, or with design changes. The British Guiana stamp of 1934 showing Stabroek Market, for instance, was originally designed as a $1 stamp in purple but printed as a 12c stamp in orange.

paragraph: Working in watercolour with the aid of a magnifying glass, Fryer produced a stamp-sized impression of the proposed design. If approved, a larger original was created at a higher level of detail that formed the final artwork from which the stamp would be printed. Often this was by the recess method from a steel engraving as with the British Guiana 12c but other printing methods used included typography as was used for the 1943 Belgian Congo postage due stamps which were produced in five different values and colours to a common design by Fryer.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Freelance work.

paragraph: Fryer also worked freelance as shown by a c.1910-20 calling card describing him as the designer of "Ornament Bookplates Vignettes" at his "private studio" at 18 Cheapside in the City of London. In 1957 he was trading as Fryer and Scott when he submitted an invoice for expenses incurred in a visit to the Austrian State Bank Note Printing Works.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Leonard Fryer died in 16 November 1965 on the way to the King George Hospital, Ilford. His residence at the time of his death was 11 Clarence Avenue, Ilford. Probate was granted to Leonard Marcus Fryer, a photolitho retoucher, on an estate of £2,128.

paragraph: In May 2019, a collection of his watercolour paintings for 270 stamps and 40 banknotes from the 1920s to the 1960s was sold by Hansons Auctioneers in Derbyshire. It was found in a wardrobe in Redbridge, Ilford, at the home of Pauline Fryer, a fashion designer who died in 2005, and sold by Leonard Fryer's granddaughters Dianne Fryer, a former graphic designer, and her sister Jan Bullock.

paragraph: Among the highest realisations were two Malta lots; 12 designs for the 1926 definitive issue, and another 10 for the King George VI 1938-43 definitive issue, that realised £22,100 and £5,700 respectively. The auction included items from Fryer's father Augustus as well as material for designs attributed in stamp catalogues to others such as Harold Nelson's 1924 British Empire Exhibition stamp and 1952 stamps of the Falkland Islands showing sheep, a Magellan goose, and Gentoo penguins for which Fryer worked from sketches by V. Spencer, thus showing that Fryer worked collaboratively and was not necessarily the originator or sole designer of every issue for which he prepared artwork.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catalogue for the Fryer sale. (Archived here)

description: British artist, stamp and banknote designer

wikidata_label: Leonard Fryer (designer)

wikipedia_title: Leonard Fryer (designer)


text:
rower
Lower Hutt
Dick Joyce
1968 Summer Olympics
Christchurch
Avon River
Rusty Robertson
Dudley Storey
Warren Cole
Simon Dickie
1972 Summer Olympics
Munich
Dick Tonks
Dudley Storey
Noel Mills
1975 World Rowing Championships
Nottingham

wikipedia_title:
Rowing (sport)
Lower Hutt
Dick Joyce (rower)
1968 Summer Olympics
Christchurch
Avon River (Canterbury)
Rusty Robertson
Dudley Storey
Warren Cole
Simon Dickie
1972 Summer Olympics
Munich
Dick Tonks
Dudley Storey
Noel Mills
1975 World Rowing Championships
Nottingham

categories: Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics,Olympic gold medalists for New Zealand in rowing,Sportspeople from Lower Hutt,Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand,Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics,Olympic rowers of New Zealand,1944 births,New Zealand male rowers,Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics,Living people,Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Ross Collinge

paragraph: Ross Hounsell Collinge (born 21 November 1944) is a former New Zealand rower who won two Olympic medals.

paragraph: Collinge was born in 1944 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He trained as a chemist at Petone Technical College. In rowing, he attracted attention due to his strong performance at the 1967 New Zealand championships, where he rowed for the Hutt Valley team; Dick Joyce was one of his team members. For the 1968 Summer Olympics, New Zealand qualified an eight and had a pool of four rowers and a cox as a travelling reserve; Collinge was part of this reserve. Preparations were held in Christchurch at Kerr's Reach on the Avon River. The reserve rowers were unhappy with the "spare parts" tag and felt that they were good enough to perhaps win a medal if put forward as a coxed four. The manager, Rusty Robertson, commented about them that they were "the funniest looking crew you've ever seen". There were stern discussions with the New Zealand selectors. In a training run, the coxed four was leading the eight over the whole race. In the end, the reserve rowers got their way and New Zealand entered both the coxed four and the coxed eight. Collinge won the Olympic coxed four event along with Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, Warren Cole and Simon Dickie (cox); this was New Zealand's first gold medal in rowing. At the time, Collinge had newly qualified as a pharmacist, and recently married. The crew's winning boat was sold to a rowing club to recoup costs, and ended in splinters after a road crash. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Collinge teamed with Dick Tonks, Dudley Storey and Noel Mills to win the silver medal in the coxless four. He rowed with the coxed eight in the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain, and won a bronze medal.

paragraph: He is married to Valerie Collinge with whom he had two children. Since the 1980s, they have been living in a house adjacent to the house of the Indian High Commissioner in Lower Hutt.

description: New Zealand rower

wikidata_label: Ross Collinge

wikipedia_title: Ross Collinge


text: São Paulo

text: Campinas

text: College of the Plaza of Saint Francis

text: São Paulo Academy of Letters

text: Epitácio Pessoa

text: Lieutenants' Revolution

text: Guaiaúna

text: airplanes

text: Antônio Dino da Costa Bueno

text: The Official São Paulo Governors' Gallery

categories: People from Campinas,Governors of São Paulo (state),1927 deaths,University of São Paulo alumni,1866 births,Republican Party of São Paulo politicians,Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from São Paulo

paragraph: Carlos de Campos

paragraph: Carlos de Campos (6 August 1866 – 27 April 1927) was a Brazilian politician, and president of the state of São Paulo for several months in 1924.

paragraph: He was a native of Campinas, São Paulo state, son of Bernardino de Campos (who also was a president of that state). He graduated with a law degree from the College of the Plaza of Saint Francis in 1887. Interested in music, he was a composer and founding member of the São Paulo Academy of Letters, and became its sixteenth chairman.

paragraph: His political career began when he was member of the Board of Municipal Intendancy Support in 1890. Shortly afterwards he served as state deputy, from 1895 up to 1915, being Chairman of the Board between 1907 and 1915. In 1896 already he had the busy position of Secretary of State for Justice. Between 1915 and 1918 he was a state senator. Moving up to the federal level, he was representative (1918/1923) and became leader of the majority in the government of President Epitácio Pessoa.

paragraph: He initiated his term as president of the State of São Paulo on May 1, 1924. As state governor, on July 5, 1924, the Lieutenants' Revolution erupted, compelling him to take refuge in Guaiaúna, where the legalist forces were concentrated. Under this administration the Guarda Civil was created, and the Public Force started to count on a flotilla of airplanes.

paragraph: He died in São Paulo, before fulfilling his term, on April 27, 1927. The remaining time in his term was served by the President of the State Senate, Antônio Dino da Costa Bueno, as thirteenth President.

paragraph: Section::::References.

description: Brazilian politician

wikidata_label: Carlos de Campos

wikipedia_title: Carlos de Campos


text:
Georgian
Bagratid
Tao
Armenia
Kuropalates
Byzantine
courtier title
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Christian
Bardas Phocas
Byzantine emperor
Basil II
Bagrat III
Adarnase V
Kartli
Bagrationi (Bagratid) dynasty
Turkey
Bagrat II
Byzantine Empire
Basil II
Constantinople
Taron
Manzikert
Tao-Klarjeti
Bardas Skleros
Asia Minor
Tornikios
Bardas Phokas
Battle of Pankalia
Caesarea
Greece
Erzurum
Phasiane
Muş Province
Apahunik
Mardali
Khaldoyarich
Chormayri
kouropalates
Georgian Orthodox
Mount Athos
Iviron
Iberians
Georgians
Caucasus
Aristakes Lastivertsi
Bagrat
Theodosius III
Kakheti
Uplistsikhe
Rus'
punitive expedition
Kldekari
Lower Kartli
Gurgen
emirate
Lake Van
Azerbaijan
Bagrat II of Georgia
Gagik I of Armenia
Marwanid
Diyar Bakr
Akhlat
Kurd
Rawadid
Archesh
Georgian Chronicles
Asoghik
Easter
Armenian calendar
Samuel Anetsi
Tarsus
Fatimid
Syria
Varangian Guard

categories: 10th-century murdered monarchs,Deaths by poisoning,Bagrationi dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti,10th-century rulers in Asia,1001 deaths,930s births

paragraph: David III of Tao

paragraph: David III Kuropalates (, "Davit’ III Kuropalati") or David III the Great (დავით III დიდი, "Davit’ III Didi"), also known as David II, (c. 930s – 1000/1001) was a Georgian prince of the Bagratid family of Tao, a historic region in the Georgian–Armenian marchlands, from 966 until his murder in 1000 or 1001. "Kuropalates" was a Byzantine courtier title bestowed upon him in 978 and again in 990.

paragraph: David is best known for his crucial assistance to the Byzantine Macedonian dynasty in the 976–9 civil war and his unique role in the political unification of various Georgian polities as well as his patronage of Christian culture and learning. Between 987 and 989, David joined his friend Bardas Phocas in a revolt against the Byzantine emperor Basil II, but was defeated and agreed to cede his lands to the empire on his death. Yet he was able to secure for his heir, Bagrat III, an opportunity to become the first ruler of a unified Georgian kingdom.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: David was the younger son of Adarnase V, a representative of the Second House of Tao, a branch of the Kartli line of the Georgian Bagrationi (Bagratid) dynasty which held sway over Tao (a province on the historic Georgian-Armenian border known to the Armenians as Tayk; now part of Turkey) since the extinction of the original Tao line in the 940s.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Alliance with the Byzantine Empire.

paragraph: He succeeded his brother, Bagrat II, as a duke of Tao in 966, and through his expansionist policy and flexible diplomacy began assembling a larger state. In order to enact his ambitious plans, David had to secure his independence from the Byzantine Empire, which would reach its greatest height under the emperor Basil II (r. 976-1025).

paragraph: The Byzantines' eastern neighbors – the fragmented Armenian and Georgian principalities – rarely threatened the empire directly, but were of particular interest to Constantinople as they controlled strategic international trade routes that ran through their domains. The Byzantines had already annexed the Armenian principalities of Taron (966) and Manzikert (968) and posed a potential danger to the constellation of several Georgian Bagratid principalities known as Tao-Klarjeti. However, the integrity of the empire itself was under serious threat after a full-scale rebellion, led by Bardas Skleros, broke out in 976. Following a series of successful battles the rebels swept across Asia Minor and threatened Constantinople itself. In the urgency of a situation, the young emperor Basil requested aid from David of Tao, who promptly responded and sent 12,000 first-rate cavalry troops under the command of Tornikios to reinforce the recently defeated loyal Byzantine general Bardas Phokas, thereby contributing to the decisive loyalist victory at the Battle of Pankalia near Caesarea on 24 March 979.

paragraph: David's reward was the lifetime rule of key imperial territories in eastern Asia Minor, known to the contemporary Georgian sources as the "Upper Lands of Greece" (ზემონი ქუეყანანი საბერძნეთისანი), consisting chiefly of northwestern Armenian lands: the city of Theodosiopolis or Karin (Geo. Karnu-kalaki, present-day Erzurum, Turkey), Phasiane, Hark (now Muş Province), Apahunik, Mardali (Mardaghi), Khaldoyarich, and Chormayri. On this occasion, he was granted the high Byzantine court title of "kouropalates". Basil II also rewarded the valor of David's commander Tornikios by funding a Georgian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos. Although populated now chiefly with Greek monks, it is to this day known as Iviron, "of the Iberians (i.e. Georgians)".

paragraph: These formidable acquisitions made David the most influential ruler in the Caucasus, enabling him to interfere in and arbitrate dynastic disputes in both Georgia and Armenia. The medieval Georgian authors call him "greatest of all the kings of Tao" and the eleventh-century Armenian chronicler Aristakes Lastivertsi describes him as:

paragraph: Being in control of highly important commercial centers, his principality profited from taxing the major trading routes running through southwestern Caucasus and eastern Anatolia. David invested these revenues in extensive building projects: constructing towns, forts and churches, and promoting Georgian monastic communities and cultural activities both in Georgia and abroad.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Issue of succession.

paragraph: Having no children of his own, David adopted his kinsman, the young prince Bagrat, heir to the Bagratid throne of Kartli (Iberia). He did so at the request of the energetic Georgian nobleman Iovane Marushis-dze. Through his fortunate bloodlines Bagrat was destined to sit upon two thrones. Furthermore, through his mother Gurandukht, sister of the childless Abkhazian king Theodosius III, Bagrat was a potential heir to the realm of Abkhazia. Making a plan for the creation of an all-Georgian state, David occupied Kartli for his foster-son in 976 and repulsed the troops from the easternmost Georgian kingdom of Kakheti, which had recently occupied the western sector of Kartli with its rock-hewn city of Uplistsikhe. Two years later, in 978, David and Marushis-dze secured the crown of Abkhazia for Bagrat by displacing Theodosius III.

paragraph: David's good fortunes changed in 987 when he, anxious to make his extensive possessions a hereditary Bagratid domain, joined his long-time friend Bardas Phokas in a rebellion against the emperor Basil. Once the rebels were defeated by the Byzantine-Rus' forces in 989, Basil dispatched a strong force under John of Chaldea to punish the Georgians, and David had to submit. Reconciled with the emperor, he was granted, in c. 990, the title of kuropalates again in return for his promise that upon his death the lands previously placed under his sovereignty would revert to the Byzantine Empire.

paragraph: Another problem arose around the same year, when Bagrat of Abkhazia planned a punitive expedition against the non-submissive duke Rati of Kldekari in Lower Kartli. Persuaded that his foster-son intended to attack Tao and kill him, David crushed the army led by Bagrat's natural father Gurgen on its march to Kldekari. As a medieval Georgian chronicler relates:

paragraph: Section::::History.:Last years and death.

paragraph: After the reconciliation with the emperor and his kinsmen, David led a series of successful raids against the Muslim emirates of Lake Van and Azerbaijan. Bagrat II of Georgia (grandfather of Bagrat, David's adoptee), and Gagik I of Armenia allied themselves with David, who recaptured Manzikert from the Marwanid emir of Diyar Bakr about 993 and raided Akhlat, another important stronghold of this Kurdish dynasty, in 997. Mamlan, the Rawadid emir of Azerbaijan, was also twice defeated, the second time decisively, in 998, near Archesh.

paragraph: David was murdered by his nobles early in 1000 or 1001. According to Aristakes:

paragraph: Although the "Georgian Chronicles" maintain that David died in 1001, several Armenian and Muslim accounts suggest he may have died in 1000. Aristakes gives the date of David's death as March 28, 1001, which is closely corroborated by another Armenian chronicler Asoghik who says David died on the Easter day of the year 449 of the Armenian calendar, i.e., March 31, 1001. Yet another Armenian, Samuel Anetsi, also puts the date as 1001.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Wars of the Kuropalates’ succession.

paragraph: Basil II was at that time in the eastern provinces of his empire, wintering on the plain of Tarsus following his campaign against the Fatimid dynasty in Syria. On hearing of David's death he marched north-eastward to claim the lands David had promised to the emperor. The local Georgian and Armenian nobility submitted without any serious resistance. The only notable incident occurred when a quarrel between a Georgian soldier and a Varangian Guardsman over a bale of hay developed into a major fight, involving 6,000 Varangians and taking the lives of thirty Georgian high-ranking nobles.

paragraph: King Bagrat, David's foster-son, met with Basil but, unable to prevent the annexation of David's realm, had to recognize the new borders in reward of the imperial title of "kouropalates". Despite this setback, Bagrat was able to become the first king of an all-Georgian unified monarchy, a result made possible largely by the efforts of David of Tao, who, as the modern scholar Stephen Rapp puts in, "appropriately ranks high on any 'Top Ten' list of Georgian history."

paragraph: There is some disagreement among modern scholars on whether David ceded to the Byzantines only those lands which had been granted to him as a reward for his assistance against the rebel Bardas Skleros, or if it had been the whole of his principality that was acquired by Basil II. As the former was endowed upon David for lifetime stewardship, it would be more reasonable to assume that he conceded his entire realm, i.e., Thither Tao/Tayk and the adjacent Armenian counties up to Lake Van. Whatever the extent of David's domain, the Georgian kings would not so easily reconcile with the loss of those territories, leading to a series of conflicts with the Byzantine Empire in the eleventh century.

alias: Δαβίδ Γ' ο Κουροπαλάτης

description: Georgian prince

wikidata_label: David III of Tao

wikipedia_title: David III of Tao


text:
Italian
Grand Prix
motorcycle
road racing
World Champion
Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoGP
Imola
Minarelli
1983
MBA
world championship
1985
1987
1986
Garelli
1991
1992
Honda
Ángel Nieto
Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoGP
Daijiro Kato
2001
world championship
Toni Elías
2010
2003 Japanese Grand Prix
2003
2011
Marco Simoncelli
Malaysian Grand Prix
Hiroshi Aoyama
Gresini Racing
Bio at Gresini Racing

categories: Italian motorcycle racers,1961 births,Motorcycle racing team owners,People from Imola,Living people

paragraph: Fausto Gresini

paragraph: Fausto Gresini (born 23 January 1961) is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion. He is currently team manager for the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoGP team.

paragraph: Section::::Motorcycle racing career.

paragraph: Gresini was born at Imola. He began racing in 1978 at the age of 17 on a Minarelli 50 in Italy, and in 1983 he joined the Grand Prix circuit with the MBA team.

paragraph: During his riding career, Gresini won two world championship titles in the 125cc class in 1985 and 1987. He was vice-champion in the 125cc class in 1986 aboard a Garelli and in 1991 and 1992 with Honda. He accumulated 21 victories and raced in 132 Grand Prix with 15 second places and 11 third places. He is tied with Ángel Nieto for the record of 11 consecutive victories in the 125 class, accomplished across 1986 and 1987. He holds the record of the most 125cc victories in one season with ten in 1987 - he crashed in the final race but won all others.

paragraph: Section::::Racing team management career.

paragraph: Gresini currently manages the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini MotoGP team. His team has won two world championships with Daijiro Kato winning the 2001 250cc world championship, and Toni Elías winning the 2010 Moto2 world championship. Kato died in hospital two weeks after crashing during the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix on 6 April 2003. On 23 October 2011, the Gresini team suffered another loss when rider Marco Simoncelli died soon after an accident at the Malaysian Grand Prix. The team's other rider is Hiroshi Aoyama.

paragraph: Section::::Grand Prix career statistics.

paragraph: Points system from 1969 to 1987.

paragraph: Points system from 1988 to 1992

paragraph: Points system from 1993 onwards.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Gresini Racing

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bio at Gresini Racing

description: Italian motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Fausto Gresini

wikipedia_title: Fausto Gresini


text:
Council of State
Louis-Philippe
French Second Republic
July Monarchy
Claude Hochet
Jules Hochet
Conférence Molé
Édouard Bocher
July Monarchy
Master of Requests
Legion of Honour
Cher department
Revolution of February 1848
François Guizot
Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe
Napoleon III
Père Lachaise Cemetery

paragraph: Prosper Hochet

paragraph: Prosper Hochet (26 April 1810 – 18 May 1883) was a French lawyer and senior administrator who was Secretary-General of the Council of State of Louis-Philippe (r. 1830–48) and of the French Second Republic. He served as a deputy in the last years of the July Monarchy.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Prosper Hochet was born in Paris on 26 April 1810.

paragraph: His parents were Claude Hochet (1772–1857) and Gabrielle Boigues (1788–1855).

paragraph: Prosper's father was an iron master who was made Master of Requests and honorary Councilor of State in 1822.

paragraph: He had three sisters and one brother, Jules Hochet (1813–67).

paragraph: Jules would become Inspector of Finances.

paragraph: Prosper was among the twenty founders of the Conférence Molé debating society on 19 March 1832.

paragraph: Four of them later became members of the Council of State including Prosper Hochet, Mortimer Ternaux, Achille Guilhem and Édouard Bocher.

paragraph: Prosper Hochet joined the administration of the July Monarchy first as auditor in Louis-Philippe's Council of State, then as Master of Requests.

paragraph: Claude Hochet resigned from his offices in 1839 to make way for his son.

paragraph: Prosper Hochet replaced his father as Secretary General of the Council of State on 12 March 1839.

paragraph: He was replaced as Master of Requests by Léon Cordunet and M. Louyer-Villermay.

paragraph: On 18 May 1841 Prosper Hochet married Marie Camille Trubert (born 1823).

paragraph: He was made a knight of the Legion of Honour on 4 May 1844.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Hochet was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies on 1 August 1846 for the Cher department.

paragraph: His opponent was Florestan Bonnaire, who said he would demand freedom of education "under the supervision of the university".

paragraph: Hochet was in favour of fulfilling the guarantees of the charter without subterfuge.

paragraph: He was a member of the Centre-Right group.

paragraph: Until the Revolution of February 1848 he supported the ministry of François Guizot.

paragraph: He left office when the chamber was dissolved on 24 February 1848.

paragraph: Hochet did not reenter politics after the revolution.

paragraph: Section::::Later career.

paragraph: In June 1850 Hochet was Secretary General of the Council of State, of which Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe was president.

paragraph: The position of Secretary-General was one of the functionaries appointed to the council of state by the President of the Republic, and was responsible for managing the work of the office and taking minutes at general assemblies.

paragraph: Hochet ran the offices at the quai d'Orsay supported by Philippe Pierson as Secretary of Litigation, five secretaries of sections and committees and various other administrators.

paragraph: By decree of 13 December 1851 Napoleon III appointed Hochet secretary-general of the consultative commission.

paragraph: Hochet resigned from the consultative commission as of 23 January 1852.

paragraph: Prosper Hochet was a member of the Cercle des chemins de fer in 1861.

paragraph: He died on 18 May 1883 in Paris.

paragraph: He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

description: French politician

wikidata_label: Prosper Hochet

wikipedia_title: Prosper Hochet


text:
Religious Society of Friends
Korea
Gandhi
Asia
human rights
Quaker
North Pyong'an Province
Uchimura Kanzo
Pendle Hill
Woodbrooke
Park Chung-hee
Park Chung-hee
Park Chung-hee
Nobel peace prize
American Friends Service Committee
Christianity in Korea
List of Korea-related topics
List of Koreans
Interviews with Teacher Ham
Korean Ham, Sok Hon website

categories: 1901 births,Korean anti-war activists,Prisoners and detainees of South Korea,South Korean philosophers,South Korean democracy activists,Quaker philosophers,Korean Quakers,Korean human rights activists,Prisoners and detainees of Japan,South Korean prisoners and detainees,1989 deaths

paragraph: Ham Seok-heon

paragraph: Ham Seok-heon (13 March 1901 – 4 February 1989) was a notable figure in the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) movement in Korea, and was nicknamed the "Gandhi of Korea." Ham was an important Asian voice for human rights and non-violence during the 20th century, despite numerous imprisonments for his convictions. He was a Quaker who concluded that all religions are on common ground in terms of human beings, a view shared by many Quakers.

paragraph: He encouraged peace and democracy and promoted non-violence movement known as “seed idea” (ssi-al sasang), consistently present in his famous books “Korean History Seen through a Will” published in 1948, “Human Revolution” in 1961, “History and People” in 1964, "Queen of Suffering: a spiritual history of Korea" edited in 1985. He was also a poet and wrote about 120 poems such as “Song of the West Wind” written in 1983.

paragraph: In 2000, Sok-Hon Ham was selected by the Republic of Korea as a national cultural figure.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Ham was born in Pyong-an Province, currently North Korea and grew up as a Presbyterian Christian. In 1919, he joined the March 1st Movement, the beginning of Korean resistance to Japanese occupation. He lost his place in Pyongyang Public High School. In 1923 he graduated from Osan High School and went to Japan to study to become a teacher. There he first encountered the Non-Church movement, an indigenous Japanese Christian movement that had no liturgy, sacraments or ordained clergy. It spoke out against social injustices and advocated pacifism.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- March 13, 1901: Born in North Pyong'an Province (Yong-Cheon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1906: Entered a missionary school of Deok-il Elementary School

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1914: Graduated from Deok-il Elementary School

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1916: Graduated from Yang-shi Public Elementary School, and entered Pyongyang public high school

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1919: After protesting against Japanese colonial regime in Korea, quit Pyongyang public highschool

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1923: Graduated from Osan high school, and went to Japan to take his studies in Tokyo school of education

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1924-1928: Studied the bible under Uchimura Kanzo with Kim Kyo-shin and Song Du-Yong

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1928: Graduated from Tokyo school of education

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1928-1938: Taught history and ethics at Osan highschool

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1934: Serially published “Korean History Seen through a Will” in ‘Seong-seo Chosun’ magazine

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1938: After protesting against Japanese colonial regime in Korea, quit working as a teacher at Osan highschool

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1940-1941: After working at Songsan agricultural&educational school, imprisoned as a protester against the Japanese colonial regime(schemed by the Japanese colonial regime)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1942-1943: After writing several articles against Japanese colonial regime in Korea for a monthly magazine 'Seong-seo-Chosun(Bible Korea)', imprisoned at Seo-Dae-Moon prison

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1945: Appointed as a minister of education for Northern Pyung-an province

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1947: Imprisoned as an organizor or of a student protests against the Soviet (schemed by the Soviet)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1956: He criticized social and political problems in an editorial paper, Sasang-gye.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1958: Imprisoned for writing an article “Must be a Thinking People to Live” which criticizes the autocratic regime and began his religious career as the Korean representative of Quaker.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1961-1963: Studied at the Quaker schools Pendle Hill in the US and Woodbrooke in Britain.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1963: Protested against General Park Chung-hee becoming to run for the presidency

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1965: Protested against Japanese regime and president Park Chung-hee for their attempt for an alliance

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1974: After protesting against President Park Chung-hee for his attempt to change the constitution to be elected again, convicted

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1979: Nominated for Nobel peace prize by American Friends Service Committee

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985: Nominated again for Nobel peace prize by American Friends Service Committee

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987: received the first Inchon-award, given to a person who contributed in the development of press and media.

paragraph: BULLET::::- February 4, 1989: Died in Seoul National University Hospital

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002: After his death, he received the “Accolade for Founding a Nation”, as a sign of recognition from the nation.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kim Sung-soo, "Biography of a Korean Quaker, Ham Sok-hon", Seoul: Samin Books, 2001, 360 pp.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christianity in Korea

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Korea-related topics

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Koreans

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interviews with Teacher Ham

paragraph: BULLET::::- Korean Ham, Sok Hon website

description: South Korean activist and philosopher

wikidata_label: Ham Seok-heon

wikipedia_title: Ham Seok-heon


text: ice hockey

text: defenseman

text: Detroit Red Wings

text: National Hockey League

text: minor ice hockey

text: Trail Smoke Eaters

text: British Columbia Hockey League

text: 2009–10 season

text: Sioux City Musketeers

text: United States Hockey League

text: 2009–10 season

text: college ice hockey

text: Western Michigan Broncos

text: 2010–11 season

text: Central Collegiate Hockey Association

text: University of Michigan

text: plus-minus

text: Canisius College

text: 2011–12 season

text: 2012–13 season

text: Detroit Red Wings

text: Nashville Predators

text: Henrik Zetterberg

text: 2012–13 season

text: Stanley Cup playoff

text: Grand Rapids Griffins

text: American Hockey League

text: 2013 Calder Cup playoffs

text: Calder Cup

text: Winnipeg Jets

text: 2013–14 season

text: Joe Louis Arena

text: United States

text: 2014 IIHF World Championship

text: 2017 IIHF World Championship

text: Macomb, Michigan

text: Western Michigan University

text: De La Salle Collegiate High School

categories: People from Macomb County, Michigan,Sioux City Musketeers players,Undrafted National Hockey League players,Ice hockey people from Michigan,1990 births,Detroit Red Wings players,Trail Smoke Eaters (BCHL) players,Grand Rapids Griffins players,Living people,American ice hockey defensemen

paragraph: Danny DeKeyser

paragraph: Daniel Christopher DeKeyser (born March 7, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Amateur.

paragraph: As a youth, DeKeyser played in the 2003 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Detroit Little Caesars minor ice hockey team. He later played midget hockey with the Compuware AAA program from 2006 to 2008, before signing with the Trail Smoke Eaters of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) for the 2008–09 season, where he recorded eight goals and 17 assists in 58 games. For his efforts, he was named the Trail Smoke Eaters' Defenseman of the Year. During the 2009–10 season, DeKeyser played for the Sioux City Musketeers of the United States Hockey League (USHL), where he recorded one goal and ten assists in 41 games. Following the 2009–10 season, DeKeyser committed to play college ice hockey for the Western Michigan Broncos.

paragraph: During the 2010–11 season, DeKeyser appeared in 42 games, where he recorded five goals and 12 assists. He was named to the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) All-Rookie team, and named to the CCHA All-Tournament Team for tallying two assists and helping shut down the University of Michigan’s high-powered offense during the CCHA Semifinals and Finals. DeKeyser ranked second on the team in plus-minus with a +12 rating, and led the team in blocked shots with 54. DeKeyser recorded his first collegiate goal on October 8, 2010, in a game against Canisius College.

paragraph: During the 2011–12 season, DeKeyser appeared in 41 games, where he recorded five goals and 12 assists. He was named to the Second Team All-American, Second Team All-CCHA, CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman, and CCHA All-Tournament Team. He became just the second Bronco player in program history to be named CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman.

paragraph: During the 2012–13 season, DeKeyser appeared in 35 games, where he recorded two goals and 13 assists. He was named to the First Team All-CCHA, and became the first Bronco to be named CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman twice after winning it in consecutive seasons. In three seasons with the Broncos, DeKeyser racked up 12 goals and 37 assists in 118 games.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.

paragraph: After three years with Western Michigan, DeKeyser was being pursued by multiple teams around the NHL. Eventually, he decided to play for his hometown team and signed a two-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings on March 29, 2013. He began playing for Detroit one week later and recorded his first NHL point against the Nashville Predators on April 14, 2013, assisting on a Henrik Zetterberg goal. DeKeyser appeared in 11 regular season and two post-season games for the Red Wings during the 2012–13 season. Following the conclusion of Detroit's Stanley Cup playoff run in 2013, he joined the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League (AHL) during the 2013 Calder Cup playoffs, where he recorded one assist in six games and helped the team capture their first-ever Calder Cup championship.

paragraph: On November 4, 2013, DeKeyser scored his first career NHL goal in a game against the Winnipeg Jets. During the 2013–14 season, DeKeyser recorded four goals and 19 assists, as well as a +10 rating, in 65 games. He ranked among the NHL's top rookie blueliners in points (eighth), plus-minus (tied for fourth) and ice time (second). He also placed third among all rookies, and second on Detroit overall, with 116 blocked shots. On September 16, 2014, the Red Wings signed DeKeyser to a two-year, $4.375 million contract extension. DeKeyser was named the 2014 Detroit Red Wings–Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association (DSBA) Rookie of the Year, receiving the award in a pre-game ceremony on November 9, 2014, at Joe Louis Arena.

paragraph: On July 26, 2016, the Red Wings signed DeKeyser to a six-year, $30 million contract.

paragraph: Section::::International play.

paragraph: DeKeyser represented the United States at the 2014 IIHF World Championship, where he recorded two assists in eight games. DeKeyser again represented the United States at the 2017 IIHF World Championship, where he recorded no points in eight games.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: DeKeyser, a native of Macomb, Michigan, is the son of Michael and Linda DeKeyser. On February 13, 2016, he proposed to girlfriend Melissa Beurmann. They married in September 2016, and Beurmann gave birth to their first child in February 2018.

paragraph: DeKeyser was a communication major at Western Michigan University and graduated

paragraph: from De La Salle Collegiate High School. In 2018, he was inducted into the Western Michigan University Hockey Ring of Honor.

description: American ice hockey defenseman

wikidata_label: Danny DeKeyser

wikipedia_title: Danny DeKeyser