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paragraph: Jennifer Jones (curler)

paragraph: Jennifer Judith Jones OM (born 7 July 1974) is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her squad were the first Manitoba based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship, and were the last Canadian women's team to do so until Rachel Homan in 2017. She won a second world championship in 2018.

paragraph: Jones has won the national championship a record tying six times, most recently during the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, equaling Colleen Jones for total Scotties championships. To go along with her national championships, Jones has also won the Manitoba provincial championship 11 times, with a total of 13 Tournament of Heart appearances as of 2018. In addition to her accomplishments internationally, nationally, and provincially, she has also won 15 Grand Slam of Curling events on the World Curling Tour, more than any other female skip.

paragraph: In 2019, Jones was named the greatest Canadian female skip and overall curler in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and personal.

paragraph: Jennifer Judith Jones was born to Larry and Carol Jones who were both curlers. She also has a sister named Heather 18 months older. During her childhood, she was often described as "shy". Larry Jones started teaching Jones when she was 11 although Jones' interest of the sport took up before that, in a daycare at the St. Vital Curling Club. She attended General Vanier School in South Winnipeg from kindergarten to grade 8. After, she attended Windsor Park Collegiate. At that point, Jones was proficient at volleyball and curling. "When I was in high school I really had to make a choice and it was actually my volleyball coach who told me I had to choose either volleyball or curling, and I chose curling." she told the CBC. She later attended the University of Manitoba from 1999–2001.

paragraph: At the University of Manitoba, she earned a B.A. in psychology and economics and a LL.B. She later became a lawyer, a corporate counsel for National Bank Financial, where she is now a senior legal advisor. Jones is married to former world champion curler Brent Laing from Ontario; they have two daughters. Their first daughter Isabella was born prematurely on 13 November 2012 in Barrie, Ontario. Although it was a premature birth, the baby was healthy weighing over 3.2 kilograms. "Honestly, she's the best thing that's ever happened to me," she said. Their second daughter Skyla Carol was born on 18 August 2016. In late 2016 Jones moved to Shanty Bay, near Barrie, Ontario, with her husband Brent Laing and daughters. A residency policy change adopted by Curling Canada in 2015 allows one member of a team to live out-of-province and continue to represent the province.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:Juniors.

paragraph: Jones began curling at the age of 11. As a junior curler, Jones won three provincial junior championships and a national junior championship. Her first provincial junior competition was in 1990 when she was 15. The team was coached by Jones' dad which included her sister Heather at second, Tracey Lavery at third, and Dana Malanchuk at lead. They won one time and lost two times before being eliminated. After the tournament, Jones was recruited to play third for Jill Staub.

paragraph: In 1991, Jones won her first provincial junior title, playing third for Jill Staub (Thurston). The team also included Kristie Moroz at second and Kelly Scott (then Mackenzie) at lead. The team represented Manitoba at the 1991 Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Leduc, Alberta. The team finished the round-robin in first place, with a 10–1 record. This gave the team a bye to the final, when they lost in the final to New Brunswick, skipped by Heather Smith.

paragraph: After the loss, Jones set out to skipping her own team and form together the right squad. She approached Jill Officer, whom she saw great potential at the Highlander Curling Club in Winnipeg."We got together when we were quite young and had an instant connection on the ice and became really good friends." says Jones.

paragraph: Jones won her second provincial junior title in 1993 as a skip. Her team consisted of Trisha Baldwin at third, Jill Officer at second and Dana Malanchuk (Allerton) at lead. After they won the provincial juniors, they set out for the Canadian Juniors. The team finished the round robin of the 1993 Canadian Juniors with an 8–3 record, tied for third with Nova Scotia and Quebec. The team played Quebec (skipped by Janique Berthelot) in their tie-breaker match, but lost, eliminating them from the tournament.

paragraph: The following year, the team won their second straight provincial junior title. At the 1994 Canadian Juniors, the team once again found themselves in a three-way tie for third, this time with Ontario and Northern Ontario, and with a 7–4 record. In their first tie-breaker, they defeated Northern Ontario's Rhonda Halvorsen 10–4. They then defeated Ontario's Dominique Lascelles 10–8 in the second tie-breaker. This put the team into the semi-final, against British Columbia's Jeanna Richard (Schraeder), whom they beat 5–3. The win put them in the final, against the first place Saskatchewan rink, skipped by Sherry Linton. The team beat Saskatchewan 8–5, claiming the 1994 Canadian Junior title. However, during the final, Jones suffered a black eye and bumped her head after tripping over her feet. Jones told the CBC, "[My eye] is really sore and I've got the biggest headache of my life." Ordinarily this would mean a berth in the following year's World Junior Curling Championships, but a change in the ruling by the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) forced her to play in a playoff the following year at the 1995 Canadian Juniors for the right to attend, which she lost to MacKenzie's team. However, the CCA decided to give Jones' team another chance to qualify and put them directly at the semifinals which was against MacKenzie and lost, again.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:Early women's career.

paragraph: After juniors, Jones would later partner up with Karen Porritt, Porritt's twin sister Lynn Fallis-Kurz, and Jones' junior lead, Dana Allerton. The team would lose in the final of the 2001 Manitoba Scott Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's championship to Karen Young. However, the following year, the Jones rink won the Manitoba Hearts, which earned them the right to represent the province at the 2002 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian national women's championship. At the 2002 Hearts, she led her Manitoba rink to an 8–3 round robin finish, which placed them in third place. This placement put them in the playoffs, where she lost to Ontario's Sherry Middaugh. The following season, Jones replaced Porritt with Kimberly Keizer at third. The team made it to the final of the 2003 Manitoba Scott Tournament of Hearts, but lost to Barb Spencer in the final.

paragraph: The following season, Porritt was brought back on to the team, replacing Keizer. The team had less success at the 2004 Manitoba Scott Tournament of Hearts, losing in the quarter final to Joelle Duguid.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2005 and "The Shot".

paragraph: Jones returned to the Scott at the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts, with her team consisting of Cathy Gauthier at lead, Jill Officer at second, and Cathy Overton-Clapham at third. She would win the 2005 Scotts by defeating Team Ontario, skipped by Jenn Hanna in the championship game. Jones faced an extremely difficult shot to win, having to hit a rock outside of the house and roll to the button taking out an Ontario rock. Had she missed, she would have lost both the game and the tournament. The shot was perfect, scoring 4 points with her final stone and winning the game. CBC analyst Mike Harris described it as "the best shot I've ever seen to win a game". Revered by Canadian sports media and admiring curling fans, Jones' accomplishment under pressure was quickly dubbed "The Shot", and, in the following weeks, became the source of talk and of attempts by novice curlers to repeat the feat in curling clubs across the country. The team's win qualified them for the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship in Paisley, Scotland. The Worlds were a disappointing tournament for her and her team, where they struggled constantly with poor ice conditions. They were knocked out of the playoffs in the 3–4 game against Dordi Nordby and her Norway rink.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:Team changes.

paragraph: In the off-season, Jones replaced Gauthier at lead with 2002 Olympic bronze medalist Georgina Wheatcroft who had also won the 2000 World Championship. This was done in part to boost the team's chances at the Olympic trials in December 2005, the first time Jones had qualified for an Olympic Trial. However, the team finished a disappointing 5–4 and out of the playoffs. In the trials, Jones also experienced a case of kidney stones, and was rushed to hospital. She described it as "the worst pain I've ever had".

paragraph: Because Jones had won the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts, she got to return to the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts in London, Ontario as Team Canada. At the Hearts that year, she managed to defeat Colleen Jones's team from Nova Scotia in the semi-final before losing to her former teammate Kelly Scott of Kelowna, British Columbia in the final.

paragraph: In 2006, Wheatcroft moved back to her home of Vancouver, British Columbia to live with the rest of her family and to play with her former skip, Kelley Law. She was replaced by Dana Allerton. Midway through the season however, she was dropped in favour of Janet Arnott just before the provincial playdowns.

paragraph: On the eve of the 2007 provincial championship, Jones decided Allerton wasn't working out and replaced her with the team's fifth player/coach Janet Arnott. Jones won another provincial championship in 2007, earning her a berth at the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Jones made the playoffs again, but lost to Kelly Scott again, this time in the semi-final. During the off-season, Jones switched leads again, gaining Dawn Askin who had moved from Ottawa looking for a team from Jenn Hanna's rink. Jones won her first Canada Cup of Curling on 17 March 2007 with three wins and two losses.

paragraph: After a bittersweet 2009/2010 curling season in which Jennifer Jones' rink won the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. They went 8-3 in the round robin and won the Page Playoff game 8–5 against Kathy O'Rouke of Prince Edward Island which took them to the finals. Erin Carmody's team managed to tie the game. Jones then knocked the opposing team's stone out of the four-foot and won her third consecutive Canadian Championships. They also took bronze in the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, and lost out in the 2010 Players' Championships, the team decided to replace third Cathy Overton-Clapham, replacing her with the younger Kaitlyn Lawes in time for the 2010/2011 curling season.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:World Championship success.

paragraph: In the 2007/2008 curling season Jones celebrated several successes including winning the 2007 Autumn Gold Grand Slam as well as the 2008 Manitoba Provincial Championship. Winning the 2008 Manitoba Provincial Championship qualified her to represent the province at the 2008 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Regina, Saskatchewan. Jones got off to a slow start, having just a 3–4 record to start off the week, but then gotten four consecutive wins for a 7–4 record which earned a spot in the tiebreaker match where she defeated Newfoundland and Labrador's Heather Strong by a score of 6–3. In the first playoff game, Jones edged Québec skip Marie-France Larouche with a score of 6–5. She advanced to the semi-finals, where she defeated Ontario's Sherry Middaugh 9–8 by stealing a point in the extra end. In the final, Jones faced Alberta's Shannon Kleibrink. In the final stone, Klëibrink had the opportunity to score a big end for the win but only managed to knock out one Manitoba Stone giving Jones' team a 6–4 victory and was crowned Canadian Champions for the second time.

paragraph: Because of the win at the Canadian Championships, Jones got to compete at the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship in Vernon, British Columbia. This time, they had access to the top coaches, athletic therapists and sports psychologists like Dr. Cal Botterill. During the round robin, Canada was defeated by Bingyu Wang of China. They were down 6–1 in four ends to Debbie McCormick of America when coach Janet Arnott delivered a speech. TSN analyst Cathy Gauthier said "I heard Janet say something once and it really struck in my head". The Canadians made a comeback winning that game 10–9 and winning every game after that except to Angelina Jensen from Denmark which they lost 6–3. They also lost to China again. After a comeback, Jones made it into the finals and defeated China to capture her first World Championship by a score of 7–4. Jones finished the week with an overall record of 11–3.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:Repeat championships.

paragraph: In 2009, Jennifer Jones and her team competed at the 2009 Tournament of Hearts. They went on a record of 7–4 which led to a tiebreaker match against Rebecca Jean MacPhee of Prince Edward Island. They found themselves losing 3–0 but won 6–5. They beat Quebec's Marie-France 12–8 in the semi finals and beat Marla Mallett from British Columbia to 8–5 to win her second consecutive title. The win at the Scotties sent the Jones rink back to the World Championship. But as in 2005, the outcome was disappointing. Jones was defeated in the bronze medal game by Angelina Jensen from Denmark. She ended the season by winning her third Players' Championship.

paragraph: Jones participated in the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in mid December, there the team played a 2–5 record and ended up tied for sixth place and off of the playoffs. She later revealed that she was sick all week unable to play well. "We worked really, really hard and wanted to excel at this event, but it just didn't work out," Jones told reporters.

paragraph: Jennifer Jones and team again returned to the Scotties as defending champions, Team Canada. In the round robin, the team managed to finish tied for first but second overall to upstart PEI with an 8–3 record. The page 1 vs 2 playoff featured PEI facing Jennifer Jones which saw Jones winning and through to the final. PEI would go on to beat Ontario in the semifinal to force a rematch of the 1 vs 2 page playoff. In the finals, PEI was winning 6–3 through 6 ends. Jones stole a point in the eighth and two more in the ninth to make it 7–6 for Team Canada. P.E.I tied the game with a single point in the tenth forcing an 11th end. Finally, Jones picked a yellow P.E.I stone out of the four-foot in the extra end to win the tournament, completing another Scotties comeback, and secured her 3rd consecutive Tournament of Hearts victory and 4th STOH victory in total. "It's pretty incredible and the way we won, the way we came back," said Jones.

paragraph: Jones third win in a row put her in the elite company of Vera Pezer and Colleen Jones (no relation to Jennifer) as the only skips to have won three Tournament of Hearts in a row. As this was also her 4th win in total she and second Jill Officer became part of a group of 4 to have won 4 Scotties, they joined Vera Pezer and Lee Morrison of Saskatoon. The win was Cathy Overton-Clapham's 5th in total this moved her one off Colleen Jones in the record book and alongside the legendary Joyce McKee of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotians Mary Anne Arsenault, Nancy Delahunt and Kim Kelly.

paragraph: At the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, after finishing the round robin with a 10–1 record, she lost all her playoff games, except the bronze medal final against Sweden. With that bronze, Jones claimed her second world championship medal in four tries.

paragraph: Jones won her second Canada cup title in 2011, defeating Chelsea Carey in the final.

paragraph: At the 2013 Tournament of Hearts, where her Manitoba rink finished second, Jones became the second Canadian woman to record 100 wins as a skip at the Canadian championships.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2013–14.

paragraph: Jones competed at the 2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials where she managed to qualify as the top seed through the round robin play which meant the team went directly to the finals. There she defeated Sherry Middaugh eight to four and won the right to represent Canada at the Olympics for the first time. She skipped the Canadian women's team at the 2014 Winter Olympics to a Gold medal. Jones is the first ever female skip in Olympic history to be undefeated throughout the tournament. The only male skip to achieve it being fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. After the win she said that "We're Olympic gold medallists. It's something that you dream of for your entire life. It's what every athlete wants to do and we did it today. And we did it in a way where we played so consistent all week. On the biggest stage for sport, we came out and played our best. And I'm so so proud of us." On the World Curling Tour that season, the Jones team won 3 slams, the 2013 Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Women's Classic, the 2013 Colonial Square Ladies Classic and the season ending 2014 Players' Championship.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2014–15.

paragraph: Jones began the 2014–15 curling season by winning the 2014 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic grand slam event. Later, Jones went undefeated in the 2015 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, and represented Manitoba in the 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, which she won. She went on to represent Canada at the 2015 World Women's Curling Championship, where she won a silver medal after losing to Alina Pätz in the final.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2015–16.

paragraph: As defending champions, the Jones rink would represent Team Canada at the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The team finished the round robin with a 9–2 record, in a tie for first place. In the playoffs however, they lost both of their games before rebounding in the bronze medal game, defeating Team Manitoba's Kerri Einarson rink. In the very last slam of the year, the inaugural 2016 Humpty's Champions Cup, Team Jones defeated Rachel Homan to win her lone slam of the season.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2016–17.

paragraph: Early on in the 2016–17 curling season, Jones defeated Homan to win the 2016 Canada Cup of Curling, Jones' third career title. The Jones rink lost in the semifinal of the 2017 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, marking the first time since 2004 that the team did not win the event (having also participated). Team Jones won one slam that season, the 2017 Players' Championship, where they beat Valerie Sweeting's team in the final.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2017–18.

paragraph: With the 2017 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials approaching, Jones was attempting to repeat as the Canadian Olympic team and Olympic champion. The team did not play as well as expected, and eventually lost in the semi-final and were unable to qualify. During the mixed doubles Olympic trials, third, Kaitlyn Lawes would win with teammate John Morris. During the 2018 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts taking place in Killarney, Manitoba the team played very well. Facing Darcy Robertson, the team scored two in the final to win their 8th provincial title. The team would go on to play in the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia, but Lawes was unavailable due to her participation in mixed doubles at the 2018 Winter Olympics. So the upcoming Shannon Birchard took her spot at the third position while Lawes was named as the team's alternate, despite her presence in Korea. In the national event the team continued their exceptional performance, they beat the Wildcard team from Manitoba, Kerri Einarson in the semi-final and would face her again in the final where they would win over the team for the second time in a row.

paragraph: Following her return from South Korea, Lawes joined the Jones team and took her spot at third back from Birchard. The team's victory in Penticton meant they won the right to wear the maple leaf at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship taking place in North Bay, Ontario. The team played very well and went through the round-robin undefeated. They would eventually beat Jamie Sinclair and her American team in the semi-final earning the right to face the Olympic champion, Anna Hasselborg of Sweden in the final. Lawes and the Jones team would have to take Hasselborg to an extra end, but ultimately won the game without having to throw their last rock. The victory was Lawes' first World Championship victory and would be the last for long-time second Jill Officer, as she announced she was stepping back from the game. Jones, with tears in her eyes, said of the final game with Officer that "I'm just so thrilled to be able to stand on top of the podium with these girls one more time." It had earlier been announced that Jocelyn Peterman would be joining the team the following season, coming over from the Chelsea Carey team to replace Officer.

paragraph: On the tour that season, the Jones rink won two slams, the 2017 Masters of Curling and the 2017 Boost National beating Kerri Einarson and Casey Scheidegger respectively.

paragraph: Section::::Curling career.:2018–19.

paragraph: Jones won her fourth career Canada Cup title in 2018, defeating Kerri Einarson in the final. In the new year, she won the 2019 TSN All-Star Curling Skins Game, defeating Tracy Fleury's rink to pick up $51,000. As defending champions, her rink represented Team Canada at the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. The team struggled, finishing the round robin with a 6-5 record, missing the playoffs. It was the first time Jones had ever missed the playoffs at the Scotties in her 14th event. Jones was invited to represent Team Canada (in lieu of a pregnant Rachel Homan, who had previously qualified) in the Grand Final of the inaugural Curling World Cup. Jones, and her composite rink of Kaitlyn Lawes, Shannon Birchard and Jill Officer won the event, defeating the World Champion Silvana Tirinzoni rink from Switzerland in the final.

paragraph: Section::::Grand Slam record.

paragraph: Jones has won a career 15 Grand Slam victories since the women's grand slam was introduced in 2006, more than any other female skip.

paragraph: Section::::Grand Slam record.:Former events.

paragraph: Note: Jones did not play at the beginning of the 2012–13 season due to her pregnancy. She returned to the team in January, in time for that year's Players' slam.

paragraph: Section::::Teams.

paragraph: Notes

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Jones was on maternity leave for the beginning of the 2012–13 curling season, and returned to her team in January 2013.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. McEwen was on maternity leave for the beginning of the 2015–16 curling season, and she returned to the team in November 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: In 2014, she was made a member of the Order of Manitoba.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Team Jennifer Jones

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 Olympic profile

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paragraph: Gaz Coombes

paragraph: Gareth "Gaz" Michael Coombes (born 8 March 1976 in Oxford) is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band Supergrass. He first entered the music scene aged sixteen as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers which featured Supergrass bandmate Danny Goffey. Coombes was noticeable for his large sideburns during the 1990s.

paragraph: Section::::1991–1993: The Jennifers.

paragraph: Coombes first entered the music world at age sixteen as the lead singer of the band The Jennifers. The band undertook a nationwide tour before Coombes was fifteen. When they signed for their first recording contract with Nude Records, Coombes was under 18 at the time and so had to have his mother sign the contract for him.

paragraph: "There were a couple of ridiculous, punky, joke songs – "Harvey The Accountant" and "The Girl with the Removable Face". That one went: "The girl with the removable face/She didn't have much of a life/All the boys used to pull it off/And use it as a frisbee." Most of them were in that vein. Actually, we haven't changed much." says Coombes about some Jennifers songs.

paragraph: The Jennifers released "Just Got Back Today" on Nude Records in 1992 before they disbanded.

paragraph: After the mild success experienced by The Jennifers, but still living with his parents, Coombes got a job at the local Harvester. He would take old Jennifers demos and play them over the restaurant's PA system before it opened, and this eventually led to him meeting Mick Quinn, a co-worker who played bass guitar and shared his musical tastes. With Danny Goffey they began to practice at Quinn's house, and Supergrass was formed shortly thereafter.

paragraph: Section::::1993–2010: Supergrass.

paragraph: In 1993 after The Jennifers disbanded, Coombes, Goffey and Quinn formed Supergrass. In 2002 Coombes' brother keyboardist Rob Coombes officially joined the band. Before that he was studying for an Astrophysics degree at Cardiff University. The band released six studio albums in their 17 years together, each of them entering the UK top 20: "I Should Coco" (1995), "In It for the Money" (1997), "Supergrass" (1999), "Life on Other Planets" (2002), "Road to Rouen" (2005) and "Diamond Hoo Ha" (2008). They also released a singles compilation "Supergrass is 10" (2004), commemorating the first decade of the band's life.

paragraph: During the height of Supergrass' fame around 1995, Coombes received offers from ""Italian Vogue"" and most notably, ""Calvin Klein"", to model for them in their ad campaigns and magazine publications, as well as an offer from Steven Spielberg to make a Monkees-style TV show of the band. Coombes however, along with the rest of the band, declined these offers, saying; "Yes, we probably would have been face down in a pool if we'd said yes to all that. I mean, our heads would have returned to our shoulders at some point, but... it felt like cheating. Too easy. Short cut. Y'know? If you have to do all that to be the biggest band in the world then... then what does that say about your music? And all that... [the publicity offers] would have just got in the way of the music. It would have taken so long to get to grips with. We'd have lost years."

paragraph: In 1999, Coombes made an appearance on the ""Da Ali G Show"" and played the Supergrass song "Sun Hits the Sky", whilst having to deal with Ali G 'remixing' it as he performed. "I tried to take the mickey out of his goatee, and he came back with: "So, you are looking like a monkey..." But if you go on his show, you know what you're letting yourself in for."

paragraph: Coombes appeared on "The Annex" on 2fm with Jenny Huston alongside Goffey before Supergrass took the stage at Malahide Castle in Dublin, Ireland to support Arctic Monkeys on 16 June 2007.

paragraph: On 12 April 2010 Coombes and the rest of Supergrass announced that the band was to split after seventeen years. Musical differences were cited as the reason. They played four farewell concerts before the split. Their seventh album "Release the Drones" remains unfinished and unreleased.

paragraph: Section::::2010–present: Solo career.

paragraph: Coombes announced on 28 October in The Hotrats and Supergrass Facebook page that he was working on his first solo album, recorded at his studio in Oxford with producer Sam Williams, and claimed that the record was on its final stages, planned to release it in 2011. He played most of the instruments on the record.

paragraph: Coombes starred in an advert for the Toyota Yaris where he plays himself and encounters a fan who wants a picture with him. The Supergrass single "Pumping on Your Stereo" also appears in the advert.

paragraph: Coombes appeared on and produced the single "Wonderful" by Little Fish, which was released in October 2011. In December 2011, Coombes performed his first solo shows at The Rotunda in Oxford and released his debut solo single "Hot Fruit" on 14 March 2012. His debut album, "Here Come the Bombs" was released shortly after and was well received by critics and fans alike.

paragraph: In May 2014, Coombes recorded a cover version of The Kinks' song "This Time Tomorrow" for a television advertisement for the UK department store, John Lewis. The song was subsequently released as a digital single on the Caroline International label.

paragraph: Coombes's second solo album, "Matador", was released on 26 January 2015. The album debuted at number 18 in the Official UK Album chart and was also nominated for a Mercury Prize and an Ivor Novello award.

paragraph: On 24 June 2016, Coombes supported The Last Shadow Puppets (featuring Arctic Monkeys' front man, Alex Turner, and Miles Kane) at Bristol Summer Series.

paragraph: On 10 January 2018, Coombes announced his third solo album, "World's Strongest Man" would be released in May. The announcement was accompanied by the launch of the single "Deep Pockets".

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Coombes is the son of Eileen and John Coombes. His father was a food scientist, who enjoyed playing Jazz piano, and his mother was an English teacher.

paragraph: Although he was born in England, he lived with his family in San Francisco, from around the age of five up until the age of nine, at which point in 1985 they returned to his birthplace in Oxford.

paragraph: Coombes played Classical piano at this age, but gradually moved on to an interest in playing guitar. He began to attend Wheatley Park School in Holton, Oxfordshire, but found himself being picked on for being 'girly'. His elder brother Rob was friends with Nic Goffey at the time, and one day on the school's playing fields a thirteen-year-old Gaz Coombes met and befriended Nic's younger brother, fifteen-year-old Danny Goffey. Danny Goffey was two years older than Coombes and helped to "protect him" from being teased. Goffey recounts what happened; "I mean, you couldn't fucking miss him. He was gorgeous. He grew sideburns and they [other pupils] gave him loads of shit, but I was really into him. I think I fancied him a bit, y'know? He's really beautiful. He wasn't very mature at that age. He was like a kid. I just went up to him and asked him to form a band. I could. I was a drummer. The tallest drummer in the school."

paragraph: Coombes originally lived in a Regency townhouse in Brighton, East Sussex, which he first purchased in 1999, with his partner Joules Poore and their daughter, Raya May (born 2003). Due to the death of his mother, Eileen, in 2005, he felt compelled to move back into her house in Oxford during 2006, where he had grown up. Coombes and his partner now have a second daughter, named Tiger (b. 2008). Gaz Coombes and his brothers Rob Coombes, Charly Coombes and Eddie Coombes also jointly own a converted barn in Northern France, which is where the Supergrass album "Road to Rouen" was recorded.

paragraph: His three siblings are all involved in music: the eldest is the keyboardist and fellow Supergrass member Rob, former 22-20s keyboardist Charly and Paris-based Ed (who also plays piano).

paragraph: He is a Manchester United fan, and has appeared on the club's TV channel, MUTV.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Supergrass discography

description: English singer-songwriter

wikidata_label: Gaz Coombes

wikipedia_title: Gaz Coombes


text: Qin dynasty

text: Baiyue

text: Guangdong

text: Guangxi

text: Northern Vietnam

text: Nanyue

text: Guangzhou

text: Vietnamese history

text: emperor of Vietnam

text: Triệu dynasty

text: Zhending

text: state

text: Zhao

text: Hebei

text: Qin

text: Baiyue

text: Ren Xiao

text: Panyu

text: Guangzhou

text: Hengpu

text: Yangshan

text: Huangqi

text: An Dương Vương

text: Âu Lạc

text: north Vietnam

text: Emperor Gaozu of Han

text: Lu Jia

text: Empress Lü

text: Changsha

text: Zhou Zao

text: Minyue

text: Xiou

text: Luoluo

text: Emperor Wen of Han

text: Zhao Mo

text: District 9

text: Ho Chi Minh City

text: History of China

text: History of Vietnam

text: Qin's campaign against the Yue tribes

text: Nam Việt

text: Triệu dynasty

text: Phiên Ngung

text: Trọng Thuỷ

text: Han-Nam Việt War

text: An Dương Vương

text: Âu Lạc

text: Phiên Ngung Palace

text: Luobowan Tomb No.1

text: Đông Sơn culture

text: Changsha (state)

text: Minyue

text: Yelang

text: Bách Việt

categories: Politicians from Shijiazhuang,Qin dynasty generals,Generals from Hebei,Year of birth unknown,Qin dynasty politicians,3rd-century BC Chinese monarchs,137 BC deaths,Vietnamese kings,Nanyue,2nd-century BC Chinese monarchs

paragraph: Zhao Tuo

paragraph: Zhao Tuo or Triệu Đà (), was a Qin dynasty Chinese general who participated in the conquest of the Baiyue peoples of Guangdong, Guangxi and Northern Vietnam. After the fall of the Qin, he established the independent kingdom of Nanyue (Nam Viet) with its capital in Panyu (now Guangzhou) in 214 . Some traditional Vietnamese history scholars considered him an emperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Triệu dynasty, although official modern historians regard him as a foreign invader.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Nanyue.

paragraph: Zhao Tuo was born around in Zhending in the state of Zhao (within modern Hebei). When the state of Zhao was defeated and annexed by Qin in , Zhao Tuo joined the Qin, serving as one of their generals in the conquest of the southern Baiyue. The territory of the Baiyue was divided into the three provinces of Guilin, Nanhai, and Xiang. Zhao served as magistrate in the province of Nanhai until his military commander, Ren Xiao, fell ill. Before he died, Ren advised Zhao not to get involved in the affairs of the declining Qin, and instead set up his own independent kingdom centered around the geographically remote and isolated city of Panyu (modern Guangzhou). Ren gave Zhao full authority to act as military commander of Nanhai and died shortly afterwards. Zhao immediately closed off the roads at Hengpu, Yangshan, and Huangqi. Using one excuse or another he eliminated the Qin officials and replaced them with his own appointees. By the time the Qin fell in 221 BC, Zhao had also conquered the provinces of Guilin and Xiang. He declared himself King Wu of Nanyue (Southern Yue).

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Conquest of Âu Lạc.

paragraph: According to Vietnamese historians, in Zhao Tuo defeated An Dương Vương, king of Âu Lạc in what is now north Vietnam. The next year, he annexed Âu Lạc. This is not mentioned by Chinese historians.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Conflict with the Han.

paragraph: In 196 BC, Emperor Gaozu of Han dispatched Lu Jia to recognize Zhao Tuo as king of Nanyue. Lu gave Zhao a seal legitimizing him as king of Nanyue in return for his nominal submission to the Han.

paragraph: In 185 BC, Empress Lü's officials outlawed trade of iron and horses with Nanyue. Zhao Tuo retaliated by proclaiming himself Emperor Wu of Nanyue and attacking the neighboring kingdom of Changsha, taking a few border towns. In 181 BC, Zhou Zao was dispatched by Empress Lü to attack Nanyue, but the heat and dampness caused many of his officers and men to fall ill, and he failed to make it across the mountains into enemy territory. Zhao began to menace the neighboring kingdoms of Minyue, Xiou (Western Ou), and Luoluo. After securing their submission he began passing out edicts in a similar manner to the Han emperor.

paragraph: In 180 BC, Emperor Wen of Han made efforts to appease Zhao. Learning that Zhao's parents were buried in Zhending, he set aside a town close by just to take care of their graves. Zhao's cousins were appointed to high offices at the Han court. He also withdrew the army stationed in Changsha on the Han-Nanyue border. In response, Zhao rescinded his claims to emperorship while communicating with the Han, however he continued using the title of emperor within his kingdom. Tribute bearing envoys from Nanyue were sent to the Han and thus the iron trade was resumed.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Death.

paragraph: Zhao Tuo died in 137 BC and was succeeded by his grandson, Zhao Mo.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: A street in Hiệp Phú Ward (District 9) in Ho Chi Minh City is named after him.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of China

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of Vietnam

paragraph: BULLET::::- Qin's campaign against the Yue tribes

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nam Việt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Triệu dynasty

paragraph: BULLET::::- Phiên Ngung

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trọng Thuỷ

paragraph: BULLET::::- Han-Nam Việt War

paragraph: BULLET::::- An Dương Vương

paragraph: BULLET::::- Âu Lạc

paragraph: BULLET::::- Phiên Ngung Palace

paragraph: BULLET::::- Museum of the Mausoleum of King Triệu Mạt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Luobowan Tomb No.1

paragraph: BULLET::::- Đông Sơn culture

paragraph: BULLET::::- Changsha (state)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minyue

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yelang

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bách Việt

description: King of Nanyue

wikidata_label: Zhao Tuo

wikipedia_title: Zhao Tuo


text:
Longsight
Simply Red
The Stone Roses
John Squire
Ian Brown
Marillion
Steve Hogarth
Paul Weller
Steven Wilson
Asia
The Players
Paul Weller
22 Dreams
Illumination
Lahore to Longsight
Lahore
Longsight
Simply Red
Sylvan Richardson
Reading Festival
My Star
Corpses in Their Mouths
Unfinished Monkey Business
Golden Greats
Solarized
The Greatest
PlayStation
Bolton
Tailgunner
Longsight
Manchester
Steve Rothery
Aziz – official website
Aziz on Myspace
Aziz on AllMusic

categories: 1964 births,Musicians from Manchester,English rock guitarists,Asia (band) members,The Stone Roses members,People from Longsight,Living people,English people of Pakistani descent

paragraph: Aziz Ibrahim

paragraph: Aziz-Ur-Rahman Ibrahim (born March 1964) is a British musician. He was born in Longsight, Manchester to Pakistani parents. He is best known for his work as guitarist with Simply Red, The Stone Roses (post-John Squire) and their former vocalist Ian Brown in whose band he regularly performs – both in the studio and live. He is also a member of the H Band with Marillion's lead singer Steve Hogarth and is involved in the writing of the second H Band album. He has also worked with Paul Weller, Steven Wilson, Asia and contributed to The Players' debut album "Clear the Decks".

paragraph: Ibrahim's first release was the CD EP "Middle Road" featuring guest vocals and guitar from Paul Weller. Ibrahim also provided the vocals for Weller's spoken word song entitled "God", on his 2008 album, "22 Dreams" along with guitars for previous Paul Weller releases, e.g. "Illumination". He followed that with his début album entitled "Lahore to Longsight", which he describes as being 'Asian Blues', the album title describes his family journey from Lahore to Longsight, Lahore being the second city of Pakistan and Longsight Aziz's birthplace in inner city Manchester, where he still lives. He performed on the Simply Red 1987/88 world tour but did not feature on the following album. He was called in to replace original guitarist Sylvan Richardson who had left after recording the second album. At this point, apart from Sylvan the line-up featured all original members.

paragraph: Most notably, Ibrahim was the guitarist for the last Stone Roses performance before they split, at the 1996 Reading Festival. After their split Ibrahim continued to tour and write with former Stone Roses front man Ian Brown, co-writing songs such as "My Star", "Corpses in Their Mouths", "Longsight M13", "One Way Ticket to Paradise" and numerous other songs from "Unfinished Monkey Business", "Golden Greats", "Solarized" and "The Greatest".

paragraph: Ibrahim also scored the music for the Psygnosis PlayStation game "Eliminator". The music in the game features samples, electric guitars with effects, electronic drum kits, percussion, and techno sounds.

paragraph: Ibrahim co-founded "No Label" – the name initially came from Ibrahim in a rant about major record labels, how he didn't need them and would start his own label and call it 'No Label Records'. The label was initially formed with co-directors John Sherrington, Nova Rehman and employing Ahsan Naeem as A&R scout. After No Label was established in Bolton, Ibrahim later took a back seat to the set up concentrating on his music. The labels' first release was the début single 'Middle Road" from Aziz Ibrahim followed by the signing of Mark Coyle group 'Tailgunner'. No Label was liquidated in 2000. After the demise of No Label, Ibrahim founded the Longsight Manchester based label Indus Records Ltd.

paragraph: Ibrahim has also been involved in the British Guitar Academy, founded by Steve Rothery of Marillion.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aziz – official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aziz on Myspace

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aziz on AllMusic

description: British musician

wikidata_label: Aziz Ibrahim

wikipedia_title: Aziz Ibrahim


text: FBA

text: London School of Economics

text: Glasgow

text: Bachelor of Science

text: University of Glasgow

text: St Catherine’s College, Oxford

text: Nuffield Foundation

text: Bachelor of Letters

text: Franz Steiner

text: Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

text: Nuer

text: Azande people

text: doctorate

text: Somali

text: Afar

text: Saho

text: International African Institute

text: Somali history

text: culture

text: Somali studies

text: University of Rhodesia

text: Glasgow

text: UCL

text: Siyad Barre

text: UNHCR

categories: Scottish anthropologists,2014 deaths,20th-century anthropologists,1930 births

paragraph: Ioan Lewis

paragraph: Ioan Myrddin Lewis FBA (January 30, 1930 – March 14, 2014), popularly known as I. M. Lewis, was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the London School of Economics.

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

paragraph: Born in Scotland to a Welsh father and a Scottish mother, Lewis lived in Glasgow after the death of his father during his childhood.

paragraph: He was educated at Glasgow High School before receiving a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow in 1951. He proceeded to St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he obtained a diploma in Anthropology in 1952 with the aid of a grant from the Nuffield Foundation, and a Bachelor of Letters in 1953. He studied under Franz Steiner and social anthropologist Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, who was himself an authority on the Nuer and Azande people of South Sudan, as a graduate student – finishing with a doctorate in 1957.

paragraph: Steiner was working on a multi-language bibliography on the Somali, Afar (Danakil), and Saho peoples, a project for the International African Institute. After his death, Lewis completed the task of bringing it to publication.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He was renowned internationally as the foremost scholar on Somali history and culture, on which he has published numerous articles and books. Zitelmann characterized him as "the doyen of 'Somali studies'".

paragraph: Lewis taught at the University of Rhodesia. Returning to the United Kingdom, he lectured at Glasgow and UCL. He then proceeded to the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1969 as a professor, where he remained until his retirement in 1992. "In 1969 Lewis was considered to be the youngest professor in Great Britain." He was also the editor of "Man" (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 1959–1972), as well as the Honorary Director of the London-based International African Institute from 1982 to 1988.

paragraph: His academic interests in Somalia were broad, including published studies in varied fields:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Somali and other oral poetry in the Horn of Africa;

paragraph: BULLET::::- clan, nation, state building and failure in Somalia and beyond;

paragraph: BULLET::::- types of Islam among the Somali and in sub-Saharan Africa;

paragraph: BULLET::::- possession cults and ecstatic religions;

paragraph: BULLET::::- last but not least taking position in general anthropology.

paragraph: Lewis was not appreciated by the Somali President and Dictator Siyad Barre (1969–1990), so he and his team were prevented from conducting a planned refugee survey in Somalia on behalf of the UNHCR.

description: British anthropologist

wikidata_label: Ioan Myrddin Lewis

wikipedia_title: Ioan Lewis


text:
English
Thomas Seckford
Red Bull Theatre
Queen's Servants
Thomas Heywood
Henry Bedingfeld
Queen Elizabeth

categories: People from Middlesex,1560 births,1641 deaths

paragraph: Anne Bedingfeild

paragraph: Anne Bedingfeild or Anne Draper (1560 – 1641) was an English theatre landlord and a benefactor.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Bedingfeild was born in 1560 to John and Mary Draper. When her father died he left his brewery business to Mary and her children. He left some land specifically to Anne on what was known as the Seckford estate. The land was still held in trust after the death of Thomas Seckford to fund almhouses that Seckford had also left in his will. Anne had these lands from (probably) the age of sixteen.

paragraph: In 1579 she married into the recusant family of Eustace Bedingfeld. Bedingfeld lived at Holme Hall. He died in 1599 and Anne took over the management of their affairs. In 1605 her lease of the Seckford land was sub-let to a tailor cum innkeeper named Aaron Holland and to an actor named Martin Slater. The Red Bull Theatre was built by Holland around an existing inn and a company of players called the "Queen's Servants" were resident. Notably one of the plays by their main playwright Thomas Heywood made fun of Sir Henry Bedingfeld who had been the "jailer" of Queen Elizabeth when she was just a princess. This was unusual as Sir Henry Bedingfeld was her dead husband's uncle.

paragraph: When she died in 1641 there was a memorial brass placed in All Saints church in Durston which includes a picture of her in a watchman's greatcoat. The plaque notes that she was 80 years and seven months old. Her will included instructions to her daughter to continue to look after seven poor men in Clerkenwell.

description: English theatre landlord and benefactor (1560–1641)

wikidata_label: Anne Bedingfeild

wikipedia_title: Anne Bedingfeild


text:
surfer
Mavericks
Half Moon Bay
Singapore
Hawaii
O'ahu
Waimea Bay
big wave surfing
Mavericks
Half Moon Bay
Northern
California
Hawaiian scale
Riding Giants
surfboard 'leashes'
Lustra
Bikini Pie Fight!
Ken Bradshaw
Stealing the Wave
Andy Martin
Bloomsbury Publishing
Eddie Aikau
North Shore

categories: Sportspeople of Chinese descent,Sports deaths in California,World Surf League surfers,Big wave surfing,American sportspeople of Singaporean descent,1958 births,American surfers,1994 deaths,American people of Chinese descent,Mavericks

paragraph: Mark Foo

paragraph: Mark Sheldon Foo (February 5, 1958 – December 23, 1994) was a professional surfer. Foo drowned while surfing at Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Born in Singapore to Colonel Charlie Foo and Lorna Foo, Chinese photojournalists for the U.S. Information Agency, he relocated to Hawaii at age 10. Foo spent his early childhood surfing the South Shore of O'ahu. His family moved several times during his adolescence, but Foo ultimately returned to Hawaii just before finishing high school. He continued surfing throughout his teen years and in 1977 he joined a professional surfing tour, the IPS World Tour. In the early 1980s, Foo quit the IPS World Tour, stopped competing, and began surfing Waimea Bay, a famous big wave surfing spot on the North Shore of O'ahu. Foo's passion for surfing big waves led him to surf larger and larger swells.

paragraph: Section::::Accidental death at Mavericks.

paragraph: On December 23, 1994, Foo died in a surfing accident at Mavericks, a big wave surf location in Half Moon Bay, Northern California. Surfer magazine wrote that Foo was sleep deprived after arriving in California on an overnight flight for the swell. During take-off on a wave estimated at 18–20 feet (Hawaiian scale), Foo experienced a seemingly innocuous wipeout which resulted in his drowning. The fateful wipeout was photographed from at least two angles, and shows him falling forward near the bottom of the wave. The most popular presumption is that Foo's surf leash had become entangled on the rocks, with the rushing currents of a second wave passing overhead preventing him disengaging his ankle strap and getting to the surface. This theory was further validated when professional surfer Mike Parsons, who wiped out on the following wave, said that he came into contact with something, possibly Foo, as he was tumbled around underwater. His body was discovered still tied to the broken tail section of his board, inside Pillar Point lagoon, over two hours later. Foo's death shook the big wave surfing community. On December 30, over 700 people arrived at Waimea Bay in Hawaii for his funeral. Approximately 150 surfers paddled into the Bay and formed a large circle. One of the participants, who was carrying a container with Foo's ashes, paddled into the center of the circle and placed the ashes into the ocean. A segment of the film Riding Giants documented Foo's death at Mavericks.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Foo helped elevate the popularity of the sport, with his talent, courage, and enthusiasm, and was certainly recognized as one of the greatest big-wave surfers to ever ride the waves. Mark was a favorite subject of photographers, and he had his own cable television surfing program. "If you want to ride the ultimate wave, you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price" was Foo's philosophy, which he certainly lived by until the day of his final ride.

paragraph: In the surfing sport, Mark Foo's death has brought about a continuing discourse regarding the safe use on extreme size waves of surfboard 'leashes' (a flexible cord which connects the surfboard to a belt on the surfers ankle). Many in the surfing sport believe that Foo's surfboard leash may have caused or contributed to his death. The leash proponents defend the leash as a useful convenience and as insurance against losing the surfboard, a form of flotation device, in case of a 'wipe out', and the leash is a means for the fallen surfer to find his way to the surface air by following the leash cord to the floating surfboard above him on the water surface. Opponents of surfboard leashes in big surf state that a leash can cause the surfrider to collide with his board in a 'wipe out', causing head injuries, and the leash can also loop around arms, legs or the surfer's neck when underwater, and thus dangerously restrict movement to safety or, worse, strangle the surfer with his own leash. Quick-release velcro tear-open-collared leashes have since become standard surfing equipment to address some, but not all, of these dangers. The debates and concerns continue unresolved to this date, and these worthwhile discussions of water safety are, perhaps, the legacy of Foo's unfortunate demise.

paragraph: American rock band Seventeen (later known as Lustra) performed a musical tribute (misspelled as "Mark Fu") on their 2000 LP Bikini Pie Fight!.

paragraph: Section::::"Stealing the Wave".

paragraph: The epic battle between Foo and Ken Bradshaw in the 1980s is chronicled in "Stealing the Wave" by Andy Martin (Bloomsbury Publishing).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eddie Aikau

paragraph: BULLET::::- North Shore (movie appearance as a surfer)

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Andy Martin: "Stealing the Wave", Bloomsbury Publishing,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Matt Warshaw: "Maverick's: the story of big-wave surfing", Chronicle Books,

description: Singapore-born Hawaiian professional surfer of Chinese ancestry

wikidata_label: Mark Foo

wikipedia_title: Mark Foo


text: nickname

text: rugby league

text: Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame

text: British Rugby League Hall of Fame

text: Other Nationalities

text: Warrington

text: rugby league in Australia

text: Australia

text: Eastern Suburbs'

text: Rick Bevan

text: Second World War

text: Royal Australian Navy

text: St George Dragons

text: Paul Bevan

text: Australian rules football

text: Sydney Swans

text: Australian Football League

text: HMAS Australia

text: Bill Shankland

text: Leeds

text: Hunslet

text: Jack Fish

text: Albert Rosenfeld

text: 1953–54 season

text: Alf Ellaby

text: Challenge Cup

text: Easter Monday

text: Blackpool Borough

text: Warrington

text: Widnes

text: Challenge Cup

text: 1949–50 season

text: Wembley Stadium

text: London

text: Halifax

text: Challenge Cup

text: replay

text: 1953–54 season

text: Odsal

text: Bradford

text: Wigan

text: Lancashire

text: County Cup

text: 1948–49 season

text: Station Road, Swinton

text: Wigan

text: 1950–51 season

text: try

text: St. Helens

text: Lancashire

text: County Cup

text: 1959–60 season

text: Central Park

text: Wigan

text: British Empire XIII

text: New Zealand

text: Stamford Bridge

text: London

text: Keith Holman

text: Kangaroo touring sides

text: British Rugby League Hall of Fame

text: Southport

text: Wilderspool

text: Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame

text: Halliwell Jones Stadium

text: "100 Greatest Players"

text: National Rugby League

text: Australian Rugby League

text: Ken Irvine

text: Team of the Century

text: "The Immortals"

text: Brian Eyrl Bevan biography

text: Brian Bevan at rugbyleaguehistory.co.uk

text: Brian Bevan at rlhalloffame.org.uk

text: Brian Bevan at eraofthebiff.com

text: Brian Bevan at warringtonwolves.org

text: Bev makes Warrington debut

categories: British Empire rugby league team players,Rugby league wingers,Sydney Roosters players,Blackpool Borough players,Rugby League XIII players,Warrington Wolves players,Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductees,1924 births,1991 deaths,Australian rugby league players,Other Nationalities rugby league team players,Australian expatriate sportspeople in England

paragraph: Brian Bevan

paragraph: Brian Earl Bevan (24 January 1924 – 3 June 1991), also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s who became the only player ever to have been inducted into both the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and British Rugby League Hall of Fame. An Other Nationalities representative , Bevan scored a world record 796 tries, mainly for Warrington. In 2008, the centenary year of rugby league in Australia, he was named on the wing of Australia's Team of the Century (1908-2007). Bevan was the only player chosen in the team who had never represented Australia in a test match.

paragraph: Section::::Sydney.

paragraph: The son of former Eastern Suburbs' player Rick Bevan, Brian Bevan began his career playing for Easts in 1942. He made 8 appearances for the club, although when the Second World War had begun in 1939 he had decided to join the Royal Australian Navy, which restricted his appearances for the club. Ironically, Bevan, who would go on to break try scoring records in English club football, never scored a try for Easts.

paragraph: Brian was the brother of Owen 'Ozzy' Bevan who played for Sydney club the St George Dragons as well as Warrington, and is the great uncle of Paul Bevan who plays Australian rules football for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League.

paragraph: Section::::Britain.

paragraph: He arrived on board HMAS Australia in Britain in 1946, and all he had with him was a letter of recommendation which was written by former Eastern Suburbs Test winger Bill Shankland. Bevan requested a trial with Leeds, which was a suggestion from Shankland, but the club decided against signing him partially due to his frail looking appearance. Shankland also recommended he try Hunslet if Leeds refused to sign him, but once again he was turned down. He then decided to try his luck with the Warrington club. Warrington decided to give him an 'A' team trial in November in which he scored a try. The club were impressed with his first performance and decided to play him in the first team a week later. The club then decided to sign him on a permanent basis on a £300 contract. He then returned home to Australia for several months in order to complete his Navy service, before returning to Warrington.

paragraph: In 1946–47, his first season, he scored 48 tries for the club - 14 tries more than any other player in the league. Within four years at the club he had surpassed the club's try scoring record of 215 set by Jack Fish over thirteen seasons. On five occasions Brian Bevan was the top try scorer in Britain. His best season for try scoring feats was in 1952–53 when he amassed a total of 72 tries. Only Albert Rosenfeld has scored more tries in a single season in Britain. Rosenfeld holds the top two most tries in a season with 78 in 1911–12 and 80 in 1913–14. He was the 1946–47 Northern Rugby Football League season's top try-scorer with 48. The 1953–54 season saw him become the highest try scorer in the game's history when he passed the 446 tries mark set by Alf Ellaby.

paragraph: In his career in Britain, Bevan scored a hat-trick of tries or more in a single game 100 times. Twice he scored seven tries in a game for Warrington, which is still a club record. During his sixteen-year career with Warrington he helped the club win the Challenge Cup twice, three RL Championships, a Lancashire Cup and six Lancashire League titles. He played his last game for Warrington on Easter Monday, 1962. He came out of semi-retirement to play for Blackpool Borough between 1962–64.

paragraph: Brian Bevan played , i.e. number 2, in Warrington's 19-0 victory over Widnes in the 1949–50 Challenge Cup Final during the 1949–50 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 6 May 1950, in front of a crowd of 94,249, and played in the 8-4 victory over Halifax in the 1953–54 Challenge Cup Final replay during the 1953–54 season at Odsal, Bradford on Wednesday 5 May 1954, in front of a record crowd of 102,575 or more.

paragraph: He scored a try in Warrington's 8-14 defeat by Wigan in the 1948–49 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1948–49 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 13 November 1948, played in Warrington's 5-28 defeat by Wigan in the 1950–51 Lancashire Cup Final during the 1950–51 season at Swinton on Saturday 4 November 1950. and scored a try in Warrington's 5-4 victory over St. Helens in the 1959–60 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1959–60 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 31 October 1959.

paragraph: He played for the British Empire XIII against New Zealand on Wednesday 23 January 1952 at Stamford Bridge in London.

paragraph: In all he scored 796 tries in his career in Britain in competitive matches, a world record by a rugby player of either code). He scored 740 for Warrington, in 620 appearances (both club records). In 1961 he returned to Australia to play for an Eastern Suburbs seven-a-side competition for Keith Holman's testimonial.

paragraph: Bevan played most of his career in Britain, and was never selected to represent Australia in a test match, although he did mesmerise Kangaroo touring sides with his guile and skill for almost two decades.

paragraph: Section::::Post-playing.

paragraph: In 1988 Brian Bevan was inducted into the British Rugby League Hall of Fame. The 'wing wizard', as he is commonly referred, died in Southport, England in 1991, aged 67. Thousands turned up for his memorial service a month later which was held on the pitch at Wilderspool which was at the time the home of Warrington.

paragraph: Bevan was featured on a British stamp in 1995, one of a series of five to commemorate the centenary of Rugby League. In September, 2005 he was also inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame. He is the only player to have been so doubly honoured. A statue of him was erected in the middle of a roundabout close to Wilderspool Stadium, then moved to the club's new ground, the Halliwell Jones Stadium, in 2004, which also includes a mural showing Bevan's face made from primrose and blue bricks, the traditional Warrington colours. Bevan was also inducted into the Warrington Wolves Hall of Fame.

paragraph: In February 2008, Bevan was named in a list of Australia's "100 Greatest Players" (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the National Rugby League and the Australian Rugby League to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Bevan went on to be named as one of the wingers, along with Ken Irvine, in Australian rugby league's "Team of the Century". Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.

paragraph: In June 2018, Bevan was named on a shortlist of ten players for potential induction into the NRL's "The Immortals", with two to be selected and announced in August of the same year. While the NRL made a surprise announcement that they were making five inductions rather than the planned two on the night, Bevan was not among those raised to Immortal status.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brian Eyrl Bevan biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brian Bevan at rugbyleaguehistory.co.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brian Bevan at rlhalloffame.org.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brian Bevan at eraofthebiff.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brian Bevan at warringtonwolves.org

paragraph: BULLET::::- France defeated in ‘Battle of the Boulevard’

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bev makes Warrington debut*

paragraph: BULLET::::- Statistics at wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk

description: Australian rugby league player

wikidata_label: Brian Bevan

wikipedia_title: Brian Bevan


text:
noms de guerre
Polish
Polish Army
World War II
Armia Krajowa
Lwów
Lwów Uprising
generał brygady
Suwałki
Privislinsky Krai
Russian Empire
Galicia
partitioned Poland
Polish language
Lviv University
Lviv University of Technology
Związek Strzelecki
Great War
Polish Legions
Carpathians
Bukovina
Volhynia
howitzer
Oath Crisis
Warsaw
Polish Army
Marshal of Poland
Józef Piłsudski
Polish-Bolshevik War
II Detachment of the Headquarters
peace of Riga
May Coup d'État
World War II
Polish Defensive War
General Government
Otwock
Warsaw
SZP
Association of Armed Resistance
Home Army
Operation Tempest
Lwów Uprising
Red Army
Masovia
Warsaw Uprising
Michał Rola-Żymierski
NKVD
Zhytomir
Kiev
Smersh
1st Ukrainian Front
Kharkov
Ryazan
Dyagilev
Gryazovets
Brest
Ministry of Public Security of Poland
Biała Podlaska
destalinization
Pieńsk
Zgorzelec
Recovered Territories
newly restored Republic of Poland
glass
Powązki cemetery
Virtuti Militari
Order of Polonia Restituta
Cross of Independence
Cross of Valour
Gold Cross of Merit
Order of the Crown of Romania

categories: Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta,Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari,People from Suwałki Governorate,Recipients of the Cross of Independence,People from Suwałki County,Armia Krajowa officers,Polish deportees to Soviet Union,People detained by the Polish Ministry of Public Security,Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland),1892 births,Polish generals,Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Romania),Knights of the Order of the Crown (Romania),Burials at Powązki Cemetery,Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland),1950 deaths

paragraph: Władysław Filipkowski

paragraph: Władysław Filipkowski (noms de guerre "Cis" and "Janka"; 1 May 1892 – 17 April 1950) was a Polish military commander and a professional officer of the Polish Army. During World War II he was the commanding officer of the Armia Krajowa units in the inspectorate of Lwów (modern Lviv) and the commander of the Lwów Uprising. For his merits he was promoted to the titular rank of generał brygady.

paragraph: Władysław Jakub Filipkowski was born on 1 May 1892 in the village of Filipów near Suwałki, then in the Privislinsky Krai of the Russian Empire. In 1909 he graduated from a local gymnasium in Suwałki and then left for Galicia, the only part of partitioned Poland where teaching in Polish language was permitted. There he started studying at the law faculty of the Lviv University. Simultaneously he also studied at the machine engineering faculty of the Lviv University of Technology, where he became a member of the Związek Strzelecki paramilitary organization. However, he did not finish his studies at the latter university due to the outbreak of the Great War.

paragraph: On 1 August 1914 he joined the Polish Legions, where he held a number of posts. He fought in the Carpathians, Bukovina and Volhynia, serving as a commander of a single piece of artillery, of an infantry platoon and as an adjutant of a battalion of heavy howitzers. Following the Oath Crisis of 1917 he was interned by the Germans. Released from the prisoner camp on 1 November 1918, he moved to Warsaw, where he joined the newly-born Polish Army immediately after its creation. Initially a clerk in the Inspectorate of Artillery, on November 29 he became an adjutant to the Polish commander-in-chief, General (later Marshal of Poland) Józef Piłsudski. During the early stage of the Polish-Bolshevik War, in November 1919 he was dispatched to Lwów, where he served as the commander of the local cell of the II Detachment of the Headquarters, that is the intelligence and counter-intelligence service. He held that post until the signing of the peace of Riga.

paragraph: During the May Coup d'État in Poland Filipkowski with an infantry regiment under his command supported the revolters of Piłsudski against the government. He remained in the military until the outbreak of World War II. He fought in the Polish Defensive War as a commander of an improvised infantry unit. Captured by the Soviets on 2 October 1939, he was imprisoned in Lwów. However, he managed to escape from the prison and moved to German-held General Government. There he hid in Otwock and then in Warsaw, under a variety of false identities. He joined the SZP resistance organization, which was later reformed into the Association of Armed Resistance and in the end into the Home Army. As one of the high-ranking Polish officers who knew the city of Lwów - yet were not known to a wider public prior to the outbreak of World War II, Filipkowski was a perfect candidate for a chief of Polish resistance in that town. In early 1940 he returned there under a false name and started to organize the Polish resistance. Initially under Soviet occupation, he continued his work as a Home Army inspector for the area of the city after the German take-over of the area in 1941. On 1 August 1943 he was made the commander of all Home Army units in the region.

paragraph: In 1944 the units under his command started the Operation Tempest in the area. Filipkowski commanded the Polish forces in the Lwów Uprising, in which the Home Army, with assistance of the advancing Red Army, took control over the city from the Germans. In the same period his wife, Janina née Obiedzińska and one of his two sons Jan (b. 1922) were active members of the Home Army in Masovia. The latter was killed in the final days of the Warsaw Uprising.

paragraph: Soon after the German forces were pushed out of the city, Filipkowski was invited to a conference with Michał Rola-Żymierski and arrested by the Soviet NKVD in Zhytomir on 3 August 1944; at the same time most of his soldiers were also arrested and sent to Soviet prisons - or had to flee back to German-held part of Poland. Filipkowski was held in a number of Soviet prisons, including the prison in Kiev, a Smersh camp of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and NKVD camps in Kharkov, Ryazan, Dyagilev, Gryazovets and Brest. In November 1947 he was handed over to the Ministry of Public Security of Poland in Biała Podlaska, interrogated and set free. However, soon afterwards his younger son Andrzej (b. 1925), also a former soldier of the Home Army, was arrested by the Communists and was held in prisons until the destalinization thaw of 1956.

paragraph: Władysław Filipkowski then was resettled to the town of Pieńsk (former ) near Zgorzelec in the Recovered Territories of the newly restored Republic of Poland, where he found a job of an administrative director of a local state-owned glass works. He died there on 17 April 1950 and was buried in the Powązki cemetery of Warsaw.

paragraph: Section::::Honours and awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cross of Independence (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cross of Valour - twice (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gold Cross of Merit (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of the Crown of Romania (1939)

description: Polish general

wikidata_label: Władysław Filipkowski

wikipedia_title: Władysław Filipkowski


text:
Guru Gobind Singh
Sahibzada Zorawar Singh
Sikhism
Anandpur Sahib
Mata Jito
Mata Gujari
Mughals
Anandpur Sahib
Mughal emperor
Aurangzeb
Sirhind
Wazir Khan (Sirhind)
Zorawar
Muslims
bricked up alive
Gurudwara Bhora Sahib
Banda Singh Bahadur
Battle of Samana
Battle of Sadhaura
Battle of Chappar Chiri
Wazir Khan (Sirhind)
Sahibzada Ajit Singh
Sahibzada Jujhar Singh
Sahibzada Zorawar Singh
Guru Gobind Singh
Mata Jito
Guru Tegh Bahadur
Mata Gujri

categories: 1705 deaths,18th-century executions in India,Punjabi people,People executed by starvation,History of Punjab,People executed for refusing to convert to Islam,Executed children,1699 births,Sikh martyrs,People executed by the Mughal Empire,Family members of the Sikh gurus

paragraph: Fateh Singh (Sikhism)

paragraph: Sahibzada Fateh Singh Ji (12 December 1699 – 26 December 1705) was the fourth and youngest son of Guru Gobind Singh. He and his older brother, Sahibzada Zorawar Singh are among the most hallowed martyrs in Sikhism. He is also known as "Baba" Fateh Singh. The term "Baba" is used in India for an elder who is respected for his wisdom.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Sahibzada Fateh Singh was born in Anandpur Sahib on 12 December 1699, the fourth son of Mata Jito, Guru Gobind Singh's first wife. His mother died when he was one year old, and he and his brother Zorawar were cared for by their grandmother, Mata Gujari, until their martyrdom.

paragraph: In May 1705 a combination of Mughals and hillmen besieged Anandpur Sahib on the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. For several months the Sikhs withstood the attacks and blockade, but eventually the stock of food in the town ran out. The Mughals offered the Sikhs safe exit if they left Anandpur. Guru Gobind Singh agreed and evacuated the town with his family and a small band of retainers. Mata Gujari and the two Sahibzadas were brought by the family's servant Gangu to his native village of Sahedi. Bribed by the Mughals, he turned over the three members of Guru Gobind Singh's family to the "faujdar" of Sirhind. They were then brought to the Nawab Wazir Khan (Sirhind) in Sirhind. The two sons of Guru Gobind Singh, Zorawar (9 years old) and Fateh (6 years old) were offered safe passage if they became Muslims. With a courage that belied their years, both boys refused to do so. Wazir Khan sentenced them to death. They were bricked up alive within a wall. Gurudwara Bhora Sahib marks the site of the wall in Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib.

paragraph: After Guru Gobind Singh's death, Banda Singh Bahadur, born Lachman Dev, also known as Madho Das and Banda Bairagi, took revenge on those who had taken part in the deaths of the children. After defeating mughals in the Battle of Samana and Battle of Sadhaura he conquered Samana and Sandhaura, he moved towards Sirhind and after defeating the Mughal forces in the Battle of Chappar Chiri , Sikh army conquered Sirhind.In the battle, Wazir Khan (Sirhind) was beheaded.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sahibzada Ajit Singh (brother)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sahibzada Jujhar Singh (brother)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sahibzada Zorawar Singh (brother)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guru Gobind Singh (father)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mata Jito (mother)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guru Tegh Bahadur (grandfather)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mata Gujri (grandmother)

wikidata_label: Sahibzada Fateh Singh

wikipedia_title: Fateh Singh (Sikhism)


text: Bishop of Hildesheim

text: Bishop of Münster

text: John V of Saxe-Lauenburg

text: Dorothea of Brandenburg

text: Frederick II

text: cathedral chapter

text: Cologne

text: prebendary

text: Hildesheim

text: Alexander VI

text: consecration

text: John IV of Saxe-Lauenburg

text: Conrad VI of Rietberg

text: Francis of Waldeck

text: canon

text: First Mass

text: Bernard of Saxony

text: Provost

text: Magdeburg

text: auxiliary bishop

text: Hildesheim Diocesan Feud

text: Eric I of Brunswick-Göttingen-Calenberg

text: Francis

text: Knights of Saldern

text: Charles V

text: imperial ban

text: County of Lingen

categories: 1472 births,15th-century Roman Catholic bishops,15th-century German people,16th-century Roman Catholic bishops,Prince-Bishops of Münster,House of Ascania,16th-century German people,Prince-Bishops of Hildesheim

paragraph: Eric of Saxe-Lauenburg (prince-bishop)

paragraph: Eric of Sachsen-Lauenburg (1472 – 20 October 1522) was Bishop of Hildesheim as "Eric II" from 1502 to 1503 and Bishop of Münster as "Eric I" from 1508 to 1522.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Eric was one of ten children of Duke John V of Saxe-Lauenburg and Dorothea of Brandenburg (1446–1519), daughter of the Elector Frederick II of Brandenburg. He came into contact with the cathedral chapter at Cologne at an early age. In 1484 it was proposed that he should study at university, so he went to Cologne and graduated in law (in particular, canon law) at the University of Cologne.

paragraph: In 1487, he was ordained as a priest and on 27 October 1490, he received a prebendary in Cologne. He held another prebendary in Hildesheim, where he was elected bishop on 21 May 1502. His election was confirmed by Pope Alexander VI. His consecration was scheduled for 12 July 1503, however, he resigned before that date in favour of his brother John IV of Saxe-Lauenburg, possibly because the Diocese of Hildesheim was too heavily indebted. Eric returned to his post in Cologne.

paragraph: In 1508, Conrad VI of Rietberg, Bishop of Osnabrück and Münster, died. The cathedral chapter at Münster elected Eric as his successor, preferring him over Francis of Waldeck and John of Rietberg, a nephew of the late Conrad and canon at Cologne. Eric was consecrated a bishop in the same year and celebrated his First Mass, assisted by his brother John and his half-brother Bernard. Eric appointed Bernard of Saxony (died before 21 February 1549), an illegitimate son of his father (not to be confused with his legitimate brother Bernard of Saxe-Lauenburg, died 1524, Provost of Cologne and Magdeburg), as auxiliary bishop in Münster.

paragraph: During the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud, Eric supported his brother, the Bishop of Hildesheim. This, he belonged to the "League of Lüneburg", opposing Henry the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Eric I of Brunswick-Göttingen-Calenberg, Bishop Francis of Minden, and the Knights of Saldern. Emperor Charles V imposed an imperial ban on all members of the League, including Eric.

paragraph: During a dispute with Count Klaus "the Hedges Rider" of Tecklenburg, Eric occupied the County of Lingen.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wilhelm Kohl (ed.): "Germania Sacra". New series, vol. 37.3, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2003, (= "Diocese of Münster 7, the Dioceses 3"), pp. 529–538.

description: Bishop of Hildesheim and later Bishop of Münster

wikidata_label: Eric of Saxe-Lauenburg

wikipedia_title: Eric of Saxe-Lauenburg (prince-bishop)


text: Werle

text: John I

text: Nicholas II

text: John III

text: Christopher II of Denmark

text: Henry II

text: Principality of Rügen

text: Rügen War of Succession

text: Jews

text: host desecration

text: Doberan Minster

text: Henry I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

text: Nicholas III

text: Bernard II

text: Albert IV of Saxe-Lauenburg

text: Barnim IV of Pomerania-Wolgast

text: Dobbertin Abbey

text: Biographical information about John II

categories: Lords of Werle,14th-century German people,House of Mecklenburg,Year of birth uncertain,People from Güstrow,1337 deaths

paragraph: John II of Werle

paragraph: John II, Lord of Werle[-Güstrow] nicknamed "The Bald" (after 1250 – 27 August 1337), was from 1309 to 1316 co-regent of Werle and from 1316 to 1337 Lord of Werle-Güstrow. He was the second eldest son of John I of Werle and Sophie of Lindow-Ruppin.

paragraph: He reigned Werle from 1309 to 1316 together with his brother Nicholas II. After Nicholas's death in 1316 it was decided to divide the territory, and John took control over the part Werle-Güstrow and Nicholas's son John III, took control over the part Werle-Goldberg.

paragraph: On 4 May 1326, King Christopher II of Denmark promised to invest John and Lord Henry II of Mecklenburg with the Principality of Rügen. However, the Dukes of Pomerania took Rugen, leading to the Rügen War of Succession. Pomerania successfully defended Rügen, and Mecklenburg's claims on Rügen could not be enforced.

paragraph: He reduced his debts by prosecuting Jews for host desecration.

paragraph: John died in 1337 and was buried in the Doberan Minster.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and issue.

paragraph: In 1311, John II married Mechtild (born: ; died: between 24 October 1333 and 14 March 1344), a daughter of Duke Henry I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. They had four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicholas III, Lord of Werle-Güstrow

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bernard II, Lord of Werle-Waren

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophia of Werle (1329–1364), married firstly, in 1341, with Albert IV of Saxe-Lauenburg and secondly, in 1344, with Barnim IV of Pomerania-Wolgast

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anna of Werle, a nun in the Dobbertin Abbey

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogical table of the House of Mecklenburg

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biographical information about John II at emecklenburg.de

description: Lord of Werle-Güstrow

wikidata_label: John II of Werle

wikipedia_title: John II of Werle


text: Scottish

text: British Columbia

text: Comox

text: Mackenzie

text: Conservative

text: Shetland Islands

text: justice of the peace

text: Cortes Island

text: Bella Coola

text: Mansons Landing

categories: 1857 births,1932 deaths,British Columbia Conservative Party MLAs

paragraph: Michael Manson

paragraph: Michael Manson (April 29, 1857 – July 11, 1932) was a Scottish-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Comox from 1909 to 1916 and Mackenzie from 1924 to 1933 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.

paragraph: He was born in Pickigarth, Shetland Islands, the son of John Manson and Margaret Bain. He came to British Columbia in 1874. In 1879, Manson married Jane Renwick. He was a director of the Call Creek Oyster Company. Manson also served as a justice of the peace. From 1887 to 1895, he operated a trading post on Cortes Island with his brother John. He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the assembly in 1916. Manson died in Bella Coola at the age of 75.

paragraph: The community of Mansons Landing on Cortes Island was named after him. Several of his descendants still live on the island.

description: Canadian politician

wikidata_label: Michael Manson

wikipedia_title: Michael Manson


text:
Derby
England
Los Angeles, California
Anglo-American
dramatist
Bennett Junior College
Millbrook, New York
Edith Wynne Matthison

categories: American male dramatists and playwrights,20th-century American dramatists and playwrights,English male dramatists and playwrights,1871 births,People from Derby,English emigrants to the United States,English dramatists and playwrights,1950 deaths

paragraph: Charles Rann Kennedy (playwright)

paragraph: Charles Rann Kennedy (born Derby, England, 14 February 1871; died Los Angeles, California, 16 February 1950) was an Anglo-American dramatist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He began life as an office boy, largely educated himself and began lecturing and writing early. He later became an actor, press agent, and theatrical business manager. This led to the production of dramas for the stage with which he combined the writing of short stories, critical articles and poems. He taught for several years at Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, New York. He retired in Los Angeles.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: After 1905, he spent most of his time writing drama, including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Servant in the House", his first success (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Winter Feast" (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Terrible Meek" (1911)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Necessary Evil" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Idol-Breaker" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rib of the Man" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Army with Banners" (1917)

paragraph: All of these dramas deal with problems of society and are of a serious, reforming tendency.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "World Within: A Cycle of Sonnets" (1956) -- posthumously published collection of sonnets

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: In 1898, he married actress Edith Wynne Matthison. She was an advisor during the development of his dramas, acted in them, and also taught at Bennett Junior College.

description: Anglo-American dramatist

wikidata_label: Charles Rann Kennedy

wikipedia_title: Charles Rann Kennedy (playwright)


text:
Tallaght
Lupe Fiasco
Dublin
Wordsworth
Lyricist Lounge
Maverick Sabre
Public Enemy
D12
Asher Roth
Styles P
Skinnyman
Royce da 5'9"
Plan B
SPIN 1038
Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco
Atlantic Records
Redzer
Class A'z.com

categories: 1987 births,People from South Dublin (county),Irish songwriters,Celtic hip hop musicians,Living people

paragraph: Nucentz

paragraph: Robert Byrne (born 15 April 1987 in Tallaght, Dublin), better known by his stage name Nucentz, also known as Nu-Centz or Nuie, is an Irish rapper. In May 2011, Nucentz won "Ireland's First Rap Superstar Competition" to collaborate with world-wide hip-hop star Lupe Fiasco.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Background.

paragraph: Nucentz was born and raised in Tallaght, Dublin. At age 12, he began penning his own rap tunes under the alias Nu-Centz, a name he once joked that was given to him by his mother. He was a regular guest on 2FM's Friday night Hiphop show ""The Big Smoke"".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Hot Property.

paragraph: At age 15, Nucentz and fellow emcee "Rawsoul", set up the group "Hot Property". The group were also affiliated with Irish rapper "Filthy Rich" and Dublin singer-songwriter "Paul Donnelly". Over the next few years, Hot Property performed in several gigs across the country, and gained recognition for their controversial live sets. Nucentz and Rawsoul's "Hot Property" album was released in 2010 and featured popular page 3 model "Claire Tully" on the front and back cover.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Collaborations.

paragraph: In 2006, Nucentz performed with Brooklyn's underground hiphop emcee Wordsworth (of MTV Lyricist Lounge fame) when he and his rhyme partner "Punchline" visited Dublin for their "Art of Rhyme" DVD promotion tour, alongside "Craig G" of the U.S rap pioneering ""Juice Crew"". Following this, Wordsworth collaborated with Nucentz on the track ""Feels So Good"" produced by Dublin's own ITF World Scratch Champion" DJ Flip". Wordsworth once again features on Nucentz' upcoming solo album entitled "Tryin' 2 Build a Life on Curse Words". Nucentz has also worked with a variety of the country's top urban DJ's and artists, including critically acclaimed Irish/English vocalist and rapper Maverick Sabre.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Gigs.

paragraph: Nucentz performed his first gig at 15 in the renowned Temple Bar Music Centre (now The Button Factory). Since then, he has performed in every major Dublin venue, including the O2. Nucentz has also supported Public Enemy, D12, Asher Roth, Styles P, Skinnyman, Royce da 5'9", Plan B and several other successful hip-hop acts in concert.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:D.F.I Rap Battle League.

paragraph: In 2010, Nucentz appeared in two of the successful "Da Fighting Irish" Rap Battle League (D.F.I) events, winning both of his battles. Nucentz also featured on the DFI compilation mix-tape with his track "Win or Lose".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Ireland's First Rap Superstar Competition.

paragraph: In April 2011, Nucentz won "Ireland's First Rap Superstar" competition, securing more than half of the 67,000 votes. The competition was launched by popular Dublin radio station SPIN 1038's breakfast show "Fully Charged" with Ryan and Tracy, who teamed up with worldwide rap star Lupe Fiasco in a search to find Ireland's best hip-hop talent. Lupe Fiasco informed the entrants ""if you bring a nice record, we'll narrow it down to three, we'll pick the best one and I'll do a verse on it"". The search began on 7 March, with hundreds of entrants short-listed and eventually narrowed down to three finalists by Lupe and David Miller, Vice-President of Atlantic Records. The three final tracks were subsequently put forth for a public vote. Nucentz' winning track, entitled "Had Enough", was produced by Jamie Mc Peake, and features vocals from recently signed Irish R&B singer Gabriella Marsella and musicians Class B. The original track was featured on Nucentz and Terawrizt's 2011 collaborative mixtape "Sense the Terror 2". In January 2012, "Had Enough" debuted on Irish National Radio to much success. The popular radio single received ongoing air time and was play-listed on a host of top national radio stations.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Sin City.

paragraph: In late 2007, Class A'z released their ""Sin City"" video, produced by the "Lambert Brothers". The tracks itself, featuring Redzer, was lifted from Terawrizt & Nucentz' joint ""Sense The Terror 1"" Mixtape. The video became an instant hit, earning over 200,000 plays to become the most viewed Irish rap video on youtube. The track also went Number 1 for 5 weeks in the "Independent Irish Download Charts".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Music style.

paragraph: Described by Ireland's biggest music website as ""one of the standard bearers of hiphop in this country"", Nucentz is also recognised for his easy-to-relate to lyrics, humorous punchlines, and ability to deliver a variety of styles and subject matters Nucentz is currently working on a long-awaited solo album "Tryin' 2 Build a Life on Curse Words", set for release this October. The album is set to feature prominent artists from both Europe and America. The video to the lead single "Do You Really Love me" (Feat. Funzo) was released on 15 October. Future Playboy model Shahira Barry starred in the Jonathan Lambert directed video which received over 10,000 hits in its first week. The song received extensive radio play in Dublin.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Return to Music.

paragraph: In June 2017, Nu-Centz announced via Social Media that he was returning to the studio to record music for the first time in 2 years. Shortly after, he released mixtape song 'Havin The 1' and announced plans to release a new radio single before the summer ends.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Solo albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Music for the Open Minded (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- I Can Explain (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tryin 2 Build a life on Curse Words (2015– To be released)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Hot Property album.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hot Property (2010)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hardest Working Man Volume 1 (2008): "Free download"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hardest Working Man Volume 2 (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hardest Working Man Volume 3 (2012)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sense the Terror (2007): "Free download"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sense the Terror 2 (2010)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Class A'z.com

alias:
Nu-Centz
Nuie
Robert Byrne

description: Irish rapper

wikidata_label: Nucentz

wikipedia_title: Nucentz