text: Ash

text: Musbury

text: Francis Drake

text: lord

text: manor of Bideford

text: Stowe

text: Kilkhampton

text: Sheriff of Cornwall

text: Field of the Cloth of Gold

text: Richard Drake

text: Esher

text: Equerry

text: Groom of the Privy Chamber

text: Queen Elizabeth I

text: Member of Parliament

text: Richard Grenville (died 1550)

text: Sir Walter Raleigh

text: Sir Humphrey Gilbert

text: Roanoke Island Colony

text: North Carolina

text: Bilbao

text: Newfoundland

text: West Indies

text: Azores

text: Filleigh

text: Devon

text: Richard Fortescue

text: Earls Fortescue

text: monumental brass

text: Moor Hayes

text: Cullompton

text: William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville

text: John Drake

text: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

text: Richard Percivale

text: Earls of Egmont

text: Elizabeth I

text: Greenwich

text: Exeter Castle

text: mutiny

text: Lent

text: Black Assize of Exeter

text: Exeter Castle

text: Edward Flowerdew

text: Baron of the Exchequer

text: Crediton

text: typhus

text: wyvern

text: Sir Francis Drake

text: Queen Elizabeth

text: John Swete

text: John Prince

categories: 1586 deaths,People of the Tudor period,1537 births,16th-century English people

paragraph: Bernard Drake

paragraph: Sir Bernard Drake (c. 1537 – 10 April 1586) of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon, was an English sea captain. He himself refuted any familial relationship with his contemporary the great Admiral Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596), as their dispute concerning armorials reveals.

paragraph: Section::::Origin.

paragraph: He was the eldest son of John Drake (d. 1558) of Ash, by his wife Amy Grenville (d. 1578/9), a daughter of Sir Roger Grenville (1477–1523), lord of the manor of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1510–11, 1517–18, 1522, and present within the Cornish contingent at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. His brother was Richard Drake (1535–1603) of Esher, an Equerry of the Stable and Groom of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I and a Member of Parliament. His uncle was Richard Grenville (died 1550). Sir Bernard's aunt, Alice Drake, married Walter Raleigh and became the step-mother of Sir Walter Raleigh, the explorer and poet.

paragraph: Section::::Voyages.

paragraph: His life was uneventful until he became associated with Sir Humphrey Gilbert, perhaps through his relatives Richard Grenville and Walter Raleigh. Thus Bernard was first attracted to American ventures and, in December 1582, he was among the adventurers in a corporation established by Gilbert to exploit his royal grant in North America, although Drake's involvement seems to have been limited to his investment; Drake undertook to lead a party of adventurers to settle whatever part of North America Gilbert had sold him on paper. He did not participate in any overseas ventures, however, so far as is known, until 1585, by which time he had joined with Raleigh and Humphrey Gilbert's brother, John, in activities connected with the Roanoke Island Colony, in present-day North Carolina. When, on 26 May, the Spanish government placed an embargo on English shipping in Bilbao harbour, Raleigh commissioned Drake to warn English fishermen in Newfoundland of the embargo and to seize Spanish shipping. Dropping plans for a privateering voyage to the West Indies "en route" for Roanoke, where a colony was to be settled by Sir Richard Grenville who had left Plymouth in April, Drake left for Newfoundland in July.

paragraph: Section::::Voyages.:Newfoundland.

paragraph: "The voyage was both successful and profitable, beginning with the capture of a Portuguese ship laden with Brazilian sugar. Once at Newfoundland, Drake alerted the fishermen to the danger of heading directly to markets in Spain and captured both Spanish and Portuguese fishing ships. Sending some of his ships back to England with the prizes, he joined forces with another of Raleigh's associates, George Raymond, and sailed for the Azores. There they seized Spanish ships coming from the West Indies with cargoes of sugar, wine, and ivory, and a French ship carrying some gold. In all they probably took more than twenty ships, though not all reached England safely. Estimates of the value of the prizes vary but the voyage likely returned a profit of at least 600 per cent. As their share, Drake and his eldest son, John, were given four of the most valuable ships by Raleigh and Sir John Gilbert. Strategically the raid had the result of depriving the Spanish navy and merchant marine of 60,000 quintals of the dried fish so important to the victualling of ocean-going ships. In a precautionary move, the following year, the Spanish government forbade ships to sail to Newfoundland. Thereafter Spanish fishing ships tended to frequent the island's south coast, away from the English area of dominance. The Portuguese fishery seems never to have fully recovered from Drake's attack."

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and progeny.

paragraph: At an unknown date, Drake married Gertrude Fortescue, a daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue (d. 1557) of Filleigh, North Devon, and sister of Richard Fortescue (d. 1570) of Filleigh (ancestor of the Earls Fortescue) in whose memory he erected a monumental brass in Filleigh Church. Gertrude's mother was Ellen Moore, a daughter of Morris Moore (1459–1500) of Moor Hayes in the parish of Cullompton in Devon, by his wife Cecily Bonville, a daughter of John Bonville, base son of William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville. By his wife he had six children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hugh Drake (d. 1589), who died in Portugal in 1589, without progeny;

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Drake (died 1628), of Mount Drake and Ashe, who married Dorothy Button (d. 1631), a daughter of William Button of Aston, Wiltshire; their son, Sir John Drake (d. 1636) of Ashe, married Eleanor Boteler, a daughter of John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, and was the maternal grandfather of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marie Drake, who married Tynsley of Lincolnshire;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mary Drake, who married John Sherman, of Knightstone, Ottery St. Mary, Devon; their daughter Alice Drake married Richard Percivale and was ancestress of the Earls of Egmont;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eleanor Drake, who married John Button of Wiltshire.

paragraph: Section::::Death and burial.

paragraph: On 9 January 1586, Bernard Drake was knighted by Elizabeth I at Greenwich in recognition of his success. A couple of months later, the surviving Portuguese prisoners, whom Drake had had imprisoned in Exeter Castle, were put on trial, the charge perhaps being mutiny. Those who lived came to trial at the notorious Lent Black Assize of Exeter from 14 March 1586 held at Exeter Castle. The prisoners were so weak and ill that Drake was reprimanded by the judge, Edward Flowerdew (died 1586), Baron of the Exchequer, for his neglect. Within little more than three weeks, the judge, eleven of the twelve jurors and eight justices of the peace, who had been exposed to the prisoners, died from an infection caught from the Portuguese. Ill himself, Drake tried to reach home but died in Crediton on 10 April 1586, and was buried two days later. For more than a year an epidemic of what was apparently typhus raged in Devonshire. Drake's son, John, inherited Ashe as well as the profits of the Newfoundland voyage.

paragraph: Section::::Monument.

paragraph: A monument was erected by his son, John, in St. Michael's Church, Musbury, which shows three generations of family patriarchs at prayer, each kneeling with his wife. The inscription under the middle couple, being Sir Bernard and his wife, is as follows:

paragraph: "Heer is the monument of Sr Barnard Drake Kt. who had to wife Dame Garthrud the daughter of Bartholomew Fortescue of Filly Esqr. by whom hee had three sonnes and thre daughters where of whear five living at his death viz John, Hugh, Marie, Margaret and Helen. He died the Xth of April 1586 and Dame Garthrud his wief was here bured the XIIth of Februarie 1601 unto the memorie of whome John Drake Esqr. his sonne hath set this monument Anno 1611"

paragraph: Section::::Armorials.

paragraph: The armorials of the ancient family of Drake of Ash, "Argent, a wyvern gules", can be seen on the monument to Sir Bernard erected at Musbury Church in 1611. Sir Francis Drake, the great sea-captain, was a very distant relation to Sir Bernard, when knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1581 assumed the arms of Drake of Ash, which action was contested by Sir Bernard, as the anecdote recorded by John Swete (d. 1821), noted by him from John Prince's "Worthies of Devon" (1697), relates:

paragraph: "By the assumption of the arms of the family of Ash, Sir Francis Drake incurr'd the displeasure of Sir Bernard, insomuch that Sir Francis receiv'd from the indignant knight a box on the ear, and that even within the precinct of the court. The Queen was of too haughty a spirit to permit such an outrage to pass unpunish'd and not only reprehended Sir Bernard but as a check to the pride of the one and as what was due to the merit of the other, bestow'd on Sir Francis a new coat of arms allusive to his having circumnavigated the world: "Diamond, a fess wavy between two pole stars Arctic and Antarctic pearl" and a crest: "A ship on a globe under ruff held by a cable rope with a hand out of the clouds in the rigging whereof is hung up by the heels a wivern gules", tha arms of Sir Bernard, which indignity the knight bore as well as he might, observing "that though Her Majesty might give Sir Francis a nobler, yet she could not give an antienter coat than his"."

paragraph: Sir Francis, regardless of Sir Bernard's protest, nevertheless proceeded to adopt the arms of Drake of Ash, as he sealed several documents with the wyvern arms quartered with the new coat.

description: English nautical captain

wikidata_label: Bernard Drake

wikipedia_title: Bernard Drake


text: Karabagh

text: Armenia

text: Moscow

text: Russia

text: Soviet

text: Armenian

text: Nauka

text: "Rockets and people"

text: B. E. Chertok

text: A.I. Ostashev

text: Korolyov

text: Voronezh

text: Kiev

categories: Russian scientists,1905 births,1993 deaths,Armenian scientists

paragraph: Andronik Iosifyan

paragraph: Andranik Iosifian (born 21 July 1905 in Karabagh, Armenia, died 13 April 1993 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet scientist of

paragraph: Armenian descent in the field of electrical engineering.

paragraph: He is known as one of the founders of missilery, the chief constructor of the first Soviet meteorological satellites of Earth, and the father of electromechanics in USSR. Iosifian is the founder and the first director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics (VNIIEM) – the USSR's largest scientific research institute of electro-mechanics. Being one of the most outstanding figures in the field of military and rocket production, Andranik Iosifian for about thirty years was the USSR's “classified” Chief Constructor of electrical equipment of ballistic rockets, nuclear submarines, spacecraft. One of Iosifian's most important inventions, noncontact synchronized transmissions, considered a revolution in technology.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- J. K. Golovanov, M., "Korolev: Facts and myths", Nauka, 1994, ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rockets and people" – B. E. Chertok, M: "mechanical engineering", 1999. ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - A.I. Ostashev, Korolyov, 2001.;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Baikonur. Korolev. Yangel." - M. I. Kuznetsk, Voronezh: IPF "Voronezh", 1997, ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bank of the Universe" - edited by Boltenko A. C., Kiev, 2014., publishing house "Phoenix",

description: Soviet electrical engineer

wikidata_label: Andronik Iosifyan

wikipedia_title: Andronik Iosifyan


text:
silent film
vamp
Fox Film Corporation
Metro Pictures
Robert W. Service
Lima, Ohio
Bucyrus, Ohio
Portsmouth, Ohio
World War I
Liberty Bonds
U.S. Navy
Liberty Legion
Lon Chaney
Mary Alden
Adolphe Menjou
Tully Marshall
Vera Reynolds
The New York Times
Daisy Ashford
Louvre
Claire Windsor
profligate
Edward Everett Horton
Balzac
Alexandre Dumas
A Mother's Confession
The Spell of the Yukon
The Iron Woman
Who's Your Neighbor?
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
A Successful Adventure
The House of Mirth
Fair and Warmer
A Fugitive from Matrimony
Duds
An Amateur Devil
The Girl in the Web
Don't Ever Marry
When We Were 21
The Shock
For Sale

categories: Vaudeville performers,American film actresses,American stage actresses,American silent film actresses,1883 births,1961 deaths

paragraph: Christine Mayo

paragraph: Christine Mayo (1884–1963) was a silent film actress whose Hollywood career spanned the years from 1915–1924.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Mayo was featured in vamp roles produced by Fox Film Corporation, Metro Pictures, World Film Corporation,

paragraph: and Ivan Film Productions, Inc. Mayo's motion picture career was launched when she won a New York Telegraph contest as the most beautiful girl in New York.

paragraph: In "The Spell of the Yukon" (1916) she has the leading female part in a feature starring Edmund Breese, which is adapted from a poem by Robert W. Service. Service is known as the "Kipling of the North". Mayo performs the role of "Hattie Fenshaw" in "Who's Your Neighbor?" (1917).

paragraph: International spy, Dr. Karl Graves, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, where he traveled after watching Mayo perform at the Empire Theater in New York City. Graves authored "Revelations of the Kaiser's Personal Spy". Mayo was in Lima with her manager, Phil Selznik, when Graves was apprehended, stopping first in Bucyrus, Ohio, when she left New York.

paragraph: Portsmouth, Ohio was one of the thirty American cities Mayo toured in 1917. After the screening of one of her feature films, she discussed her movie career with the audience. A reception was held in the lobby of the Columbia Theater in Portsmouth. Aside from promoting movies, Mayo utilized her tour to recruit troops for service in World War I and to sell Liberty Bonds. She was assigned to the recruiting department of the U.S. Navy. She received a solid gold medal representing the American flag from the hospital corps in recognition of her service to the government. Mayo was one of the first women of the stage to be awarded the right to wear the button of the Liberty Legion.

paragraph: Mayo plays the scatterbrained "Mrs. Chadwick" in "The Hottentot" (1921). One reviewer

paragraph: complimented her acting as a "bright characterization". In "The Shock" (1923), starring

paragraph: Lon Chaney, Mayo was compared to Mary Alden in her rendition of "Ann Cardington", queen of the underworld. She was in the supporting cast of "Don't Marry For Money" (1923) along with

paragraph: Edith Yorke and Charles Wellesley.

paragraph: Mayo appeared with some of the most popular actors of her era. She made "For Sale" (1924) with Adolphe Menjou, Tully Marshall, and Vera Reynolds. "The New York Times" reviewed the movie unfavorably, comparing it to a discarded Daisy Ashford effort. The heroine resides in a mansion of Louvre-like dimensions. When her father loses his wealth entirely, he comes up with the idea of having his daughter, Claire Windsor, marry a profligate, a rich one.

paragraph: Mayo was in the troupe of the Wilkes Stock Company in April 1929 at the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles, California. She joined Edward Everett Horton in a stage production of "The Hottentot".

paragraph: Mayo enjoyed cooking chicken-a-la-king, interior decorating, and reading classic novels by Balzac and Alexandre Dumas.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Mother's Confession" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Spell of the Yukon" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Iron Woman" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Men and a Woman" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Who's Your Neighbor?" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Successful Adventure" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The House of Mirth" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fair and Warmer" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Fugitive from Matrimony" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Duds" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Amateur Devil" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Girl in the Web" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Don't Ever Marry" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "When We Were 21" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shock" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "For Sale" (1924)

description: American actress

wikidata_label: Christine Mayo

wikipedia_title: Christine Mayo


text: Bosnian Serb

text: amphipod

text: isopod

text: Macedonian Museum of Natural History

text: Skopje

text: Delamarella karamani

text: Harpacticoida

text: Stygophalangium karamani

text: Arachnida

text: Macedonethes stankoi

text: Isopoda

text: Gordan S. Karaman

text: carcinologist

text: PDF

categories: Carcinologists,1959 deaths,1889 births,People from Sarajevo,Yugoslav scientists

paragraph: Stanko Karaman

paragraph: Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of Bosnian Serb ancestry, researcher on amphipod and isopod crustaceans.

paragraph: In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later - Macedonian Museum of Natural History) in Skopje and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje.

paragraph: Several species are named after him, for example "Delamarella karamani" (Harpacticoida), "Stygophalangium karamani" (Arachnida), or "Macedonethes stankoi" (Isopoda).

paragraph: Other taxa named "karamani" are labeled after his son Gordan S. Karaman, also a carcinologist.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pisces Macedoniae, Split 1924 pp. 90

paragraph: BULLET::::- Komarci Dalmacije i njihovo suzbijanje.- Glasnik Ministarstva narodnog zdravlja, Institut za proucavanje i suzbijanje malarije Trogir, Split, 1925, pp. 1–40.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory: Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names

paragraph: BULLET::::- Karaman, Ivo (2003): "Macedonethes stankoi" n. sp., a rhithral oniscidean isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia. "Organisms Diversity & Evolution" 3(3): Electronic Supplement 8: 1-15. PDF

alias:
Stanko Luka Karaman
S. Karaman

description: Yugoslav spelaeologist and biologist

wikidata_label: Stanko Karaman

wikipedia_title: Stanko Karaman


text:
Umayyad
Andalusian
Muslims
Charles Martel
Battle of Tours
Tihamite
Ifriqiya
Tunisia
Maghreb
Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
Mauritania
Musa Ibn Nusair
Abdul Aziz
Al-Andalus
Battle of Toulouse
Al Samh ibn Malik
A.H.
Odo of Aquitaine
Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi
Gaul
Cerdanya
Caliph
Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
wali
Uthman ibn Naissa
Odo of Aquitaine
Pamplona
Levant
Gaul
Pyrenees
Arab
Gascony
Aquitaine
Bordeaux
Odo of Aquitaine
German
Poitiers
Loire River
Narbonne
Arles
Montfrin
Avignon
Aix-en-Provence
Liutprand, King of the Lombards
Nîmes
Agde
Béziers
"Early Andalusian Politics"

categories: Medieval Muslim generals,Generals of the Umayyad Caliphate,Medieval Arabs killed in battle,Year of birth unknown,732 deaths,Umayyad governors of al-Andalus,Arab generals,Al-Andalus military personnel

paragraph: Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi

paragraph: Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi (; died 732), also known as Abd er Rahman, Abdderrahman, Abderame, and Abd el-Rahman, was an Umayyad commander of Andalusian Muslims. He unsuccessfully led into battle against the forces of Charles Martel in the Battle of Tours on October 10, 732 AD.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: From the Arab Tihamite tribe of Ghafiq, he relocated to Ifriqiya (now Tunisia), then to the stretch of the Maghreb that is now Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania, where he became acquainted with Musa Ibn Nusair and his son Abdul Aziz, the governors of Al-Andalus.

paragraph: Section::::Battle of Toulouse.

paragraph: Abdul Rahman took part in the Battle of Toulouse, where Al Samh ibn Malik was killed in 721 (102 A.H.) by the forces of Duke Odo of Aquitaine. After the severe defeat, he fled south along with other commanders and troops, and took over the command of Eastern Andalus. He was briefly relieved of his command, when Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi was appointed in 721 (103 AH). After Anbasa died in 726 (107 AH) in southern Gaul, several successive commanders were put in place, none of whom lasted very long.

paragraph: Section::::Rebellion in Cerdanya.

paragraph: In 730 (112 AH), the Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik appointed Abdul Rahman as "wali" (governor/commander) of Al Andalus. David Levering Lewis describes him as "...intelligent, eloquent, and an accomplished administrator". On hearing that Uthman ibn Naissa, the Berber deputy governor of Catalunya, had concluded an alliance with duke of Odo of Aquitaine, in order to set up an independent Catalunya for himself, the governor hurried to quell the rebellion. He engaged the Berber lord's forces and killed him (731). (By some accounts, Uthman ibn Naissa killed himself.)

paragraph: Section::::Battle of Garonne.

paragraph: The wali assembled troops in Pamplona, called for recruits from Yemen and the Levant, and prepared to cross the Pyrenees into Gaul. Many arrived, and he crossed the Pyrenees range with an army composed primarily of Arabs. Emir Abdul Rahman made his way through Gascony and Aquitaine, according to one unidentified Arab, "That army went through all places like a desolating storm," sacking and capturing the city of Bordeaux, after defeating Duke Odo of Aquitaine in battle outside the city, and then again defeating a second army of Duke Odo at the Battle of the River Garonne —where the western chroniclers state, "God alone knows the number of the slain."

paragraph: Section::::Battle of Tours-Poitiers.

paragraph: Odo, with his remaining nobility, fled to Charles Martel, seeking help. Charles was campaigning on the Danube when news reached him. Martel had a seasoned professional infantry which had campaigned with him for many years and force-marched his army towards Acquitaine. In addition to the levies of militia the Franks normally called up to buttress their forces, he formed an army of Gauls and Germans approximately 30,000 strong. The invading forces, having no reason to believe the Franks were anything more than one of the various barbarian tribes that had ravaged Europe after Rome's fall, failed to scout their strength in advance. They also misjudged Charles Martel, who was determined to prevent the expansion of the Caliphate over the Pyrenees into the heart of Christian Europe. This was a disastrous mistake which led to the defeat of Abdul Rahman in 732 (114 AH) near Poitiers, south of the Loire River.

paragraph: The Frankish leader chose the battlefield. Moving his army over the mountains and avoiding the open roads, he escaped detection until positioning his men on a high, wooded plain. Martel had carefully chosen the battlefield, in large part knowing the hills and trees surrounding his position would greatly hinder the Muslim cavalry. For seven days, the two armies skirmished and maneuvered, with the Islamic forces recalling all their raiding parties, so that on the seventh day, their army was at full strength. Martel also received some reinforcements, though most historians agree he was badly outnumbered during the battle. Martel trained his men to fight in a large square, similar to the ancient Greek phalanx formation, to withstand the Muslim heavy cavalry. The Franks held their defensive formation all day, and repulsed repeated charges by the Muslim heavy cavalry.

paragraph: According to Lewis, the Muslim soldiers were accompanied by their families. Wives and concubines were among the casualties. Realizing their camp was being plundered, a large contingent of Abdul Rahman's forces broke off battle and returned to rescue their booty. Abdul Rahman was thus left exposed before the Frankish infantry and was killed in battle while attempting to rally his men. One reason for the defeat of the Muslim army was their preoccupation with war booty; another was the squabbles between various ethnic and tribal factions, which led to the surviving generals being unable to agree on a single commander to take Abdul Rahman's place. Political factions, racial and ethnic rivalries, and personality clashes arose following his death. The varied nationalities and ethnicities present in an army drawn from all over the Caliphate, and the surviving generals, bickered among themselves, unable to agree on a commander to lead them the following day. The inability to select anyone to lead certainly contributed to the wholesale retreat of an army that was still dangerous.

paragraph: Section::::Aftermath.

paragraph: Arab historians unanimously praise Abdul Rahman as a just and able administrator and commander, and bestow on him the honor of being the best governor of Al-Andalus, where he did not take sides in the ethnic and tribal divisions that plagued Al-Andalus under other rulers. Evidence of his irreplaceability as a ruler was demonstrated in the aftermath of his death at the Battle of Tours. Without his leadership and guidance, the other commanders were unable even to agree on a commander to lead them back into battle the following morning. Therefore, the effect of the death of Abdul Rahman on both Islamic and world history was profound.

paragraph: His son attempted another invasion of Gaul under the Caliph's instructions in 736, this time by sea. This naval invasion landed in Narbonne in 736 and moved at once to reinforce Muslim Arles and move inland. Charles again descended on the Provençal strongholds of the Muslims. In 736, he took Montfrin and Avignon, and Arles and Aix-en-Provence with the help of Liutprand, King of the Lombards. Nîmes, Agde and Béziers, held by Muslims since 725, also fell to him and their fortresses and probably the cities altogether were destroyed. He crushed one Muslim army at Arles, as that force sallied out of the city, and then took the city itself by a direct and brutal frontal attack, and burned it to the ground to prevent its use again as a stronghold for Muslim expansion. He then moved swiftly and defeated a mighty host outside of Narbonne at the River Berre, but lacking siege machines was unable to take the city.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Creasy Edward S., "Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon to Waterloo"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medieval Sourcebook: Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732

paragraph: BULLET::::- Watson, William E., "The Battle of Tours-Poitiers Revisited", Providence: Studies in Western Civilization, 2 (1993)

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The New Century Book of Facts", King-Richardson Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1911

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Early Andalusian Politics", by Richard Greydanus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (New York, 1974), 6:16.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Richard Hooker, "Civil War and the Umayyads"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tours, Poiters, from "Leaders and Battles Database" online.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Robert W. Martin, "The Battle of Tours is still felt today", from about.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santosuosso, Anthony, Barbarians, Marauders, and Infidels

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bennett, Bradsbury, Devries, Dickie and Jestice, Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reagan, Geoffry, "The Guinness Book of Decisive Battles", Canopy Books, NY (1992)

description: Muslim general

wikidata_label: Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi

wikipedia_title: Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi


text:
Taira no Kiyomori
Kamakura
Genpei War
Taira
Shikoku
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Second Battle of the Uji
Battle of Awazu
Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
Kyoto
Chūgoku region
Kyūshū
Battle of Kojima
Inland Sea
junks
Suo Province
Battle of Dan-no-ura
Mt. Fuji
Soga clan
Kudo Suketsune
Hōjō Masako
Izu Province
Minamoto no Yoshitomo

categories: 1193 deaths,1156 births,Minamoto clan,People of Heian-period Japan

paragraph: Minamoto no Noriyori

paragraph: As children, he and his brothers Yoritomo and Yoshitsune were spared by Taira no Kiyomori in 1160, following the death of their father, after their mother Tokiwa became Kiyomori's concubine.

paragraph: Noriyori seemingly disappears from any record until 1180, when he served his brother Yoritomo in Kamakura. Beginning in 1184, four years into the Genpei War, he was sent out from Kamakura by Yoritomo, and made his way to the Taira strongholds of Shikoku. Noriyori helped defeat the wayward Minamoto no Yoshinaka, his cousin, at the Second Battle of the Uji and the Battle of Awazu, before moving on to play a central role in the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani. The Taira were pushed back, and the war fell into a lull for about six months, during which Noriyori returned to Kyoto.

paragraph: Noriyori was sent out once more, in September 1184, to secure the provinces of the Chūgoku region, and then to move on into Kyūshū. He played a major role in the Battle of Kojima. However, attempting to push further, he ran into difficulties of a lack of supplies, and the fact that the Inland Sea was controlled by his enemies. He wrote to his brother in Kamakura, and was told that supplies were on the way, but that the Taira were watching, so any shipments had to be done very carefully. Noriyori finally managed to get rice, other supplies, and a handful of war junks from a magnate in Suo Province. He moved on into Kyūshū as planned, and remained there, playing no role in the decisive Battle of Dan-no-ura.

paragraph: After the Genpei War was over, Noriyori returned to Kamakura, where he was rewarded by Yoritomo for his services. However, there was now a feud for dominance of the clan between Yoritomo and Yoshitsune. Yoritomo ordered Noriyori to arrest their brother; after unsuccessfully trying to convince Yoritomo to change his mind, Noriyori simply disobeyed outright.

paragraph: In May 1193, when Yoritomo held a grand hunt on Mt. Fuji, an incident occurred in which two brothers of the Soga clan killed Kudo Suketsune, an enemy of their father. A rumor spread that Yoritomo had been killed. Yoritomo's wife, Hōjō Masako, was worried, but Noriyori comforted her, assuring her that even if Yoritomo were killed, he would be there for her and for the clan. These words caused Yoritomo to doubt his brother, who confined Noriyori to Izu Province.

paragraph: In 1193, Yoritomo had Noriyori killed on charges of conspiracy.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Minamoto no Yoshitomo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother: Iwata no Tsubone

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adopted father: Fujiwara no Suenori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wife: Adachi no Tsubone

paragraph: BULLET::::- Children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minamoto no Motoaki

paragraph: BULLET::::- Priest Chushaku

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- West, C.E. & F.W. Seal (2003). http://www.samurai-archives.com/chronol.html Chronology: Minamoto Noriyori. Accessed 8 Dec 2004.

paragraph: BULLET::::- www.samurai-archives.com

description: samurai of the late Heian and early Kamakura period

wikidata_label: Minamoto no Noriyori

wikipedia_title: Minamoto no Noriyori


text: human rights activist

text: Soviet Union

text: Andrei Sakharov

text: Merv

text: Turkmen SSR

text: USSR

text: Mary, Turkmenistan

text: NKVD

text: Stalin

text: Great Purge

text: Gulag

text: Karaganda

text: World War II

text: pediatrics

text: Kaluga

text: Andrei Sakharov

text: nuclear

text: human rights movement

text: Prague Spring

text: Kaluga

text: Natan Sharansky

text: Nobel Peace Prize

text: Oslo

text: Moscow Helsinki Group

text: Gorky

text: anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda

text: Mikhail Gorbachev

text: sextuple bypass heart surgery

text: hunger strike

text: Harvard University

text: human rights in Russia

text: August Coup

text: Boris Yeltsin

text: constitutional crisis

text: Chechnya

text: Kremlin

text: Vladimir Putin

text: two-state solution

text: Israel-Palestinian conflict

text: anti-semitism

text: Putin must go

text: Rafto Prize

text: Robert Schuman Medal

text: National Endowment for Democracy

text: Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

text: Giuseppe Motta Medal

text: They Chose Freedom

text: Advancing Human Rights (NGO)

text: Glenda Jackson

text: Sakharov

categories: Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class,Jewish human rights activists,Soviet non-fiction writers,1923 births,2011 deaths,Russian women activists,Soviet dissidents,Russian non-fiction writers,Resigned Communist Party of the Soviet Union members,Soviet people of World War II,Jewish women writers,Russian activists,Russian dissidents,Russian people of Armenian descent,Soviet pediatricians,Turkmenistan Armenians,Turkmenistan Jews,20th-century Russian writers,Moscow Helsinki Group,Soviet human rights activists,Russian Jews,20th-century women writers,Russian political activists,Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk,Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland,Russian memoirists,Soviet Jews,People from Mary, Turkmenistan

paragraph: Yelena Bonner

paragraph: Yelena Georgievna Bonner (; 15 February 1923 – 18 June 2011) was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Youth.

paragraph: Bonner was born Lusik Georgievna Alikhanova in Merv, Turkmen SSR, USSR (now Mary, Turkmenistan). Her father, Georgy Alikhanov (Armenian name Gevork Alikhanyan),

paragraph: In 1937, Bonner's father was arrested by the NKVD and executed as part of Stalin's Great Purge; her mother was arrested a few days later, and served eight years in the Gulag near Karaganda, Kazakhstan, followed by nine years of internal exile. Bonner's 41-year-old maternal uncle, Matvei Bonner, was also executed during the purge, and his wife internally exiled. All four were exonerated (rehabilitated) following Stalin's death in 1953. Serving as a nurse during World War II, Bonner was wounded twice, and in 1946 was honorably discharged as a disabled veteran. After the war she earned a degree in pediatrics from the First Leningrad Medical Institute, presently First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg.

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

paragraph: In medical school she met her first husband, Ivan Semyonov. They had a daughter, Tatiana, in 1950, and a son, Alexey, in 1956. Her children emigrated to the United States in 1977 and 1978, respectively.

paragraph: Bonner and Semyonov separated in 1965, and eventually divorced. In October 1970, while attending the trial of human rights activists Revol't (Ivanovich) Pimenov and Boris Vail in Kaluga, Bonner met Andrei Sakharov, a nuclear physicist and human rights activist; they married in 1972. The year before they met, 1969, Sakharov had been widowed from his wife, Klavdia Alekseyevna Vikhireva, with whom he had two daughters and a son.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Activism.

paragraph: Beginning as early as the 1940s, Bonner had helped political prisoners and their families. Although Bonner had joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1964 while she was working as a physician, only a few years later she was becoming active in the Soviet human rights movement. Her resolve towards dissidence was strengthened in August 1968 after Soviet bloc tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in order to crush the Prague Spring movement. That event strengthened her belief that the system could not be reformed from within.

paragraph: At the Kaluga trial in 1970, Bonner and Sakharov met Natan Sharansky and began working together to defend Jews sentenced to death for attempting an escape from the USSR in a hijacked plane. Under pressure from Sakharov, the Soviet regime permitted Yelena Bonner to travel to the West in 1975, 1977 and 1979 for treatment of her wartime eye injury. When Sakharov, awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, was barred from travel by the Soviet authorities, Bonner, in Italy for treatment, represented him at the ceremony in Oslo.

paragraph: Bonner became a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976. When in January 1980 Sakharov was exiled to Gorky, a city closed to foreigners, the harassed and publicly denounced Bonner became his lifeline, traveling between Gorky and Moscow to bring out his writings. Her arrest in April 1984 for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" and sentence to five years of exile in Gorky disrupted their lives again. Sakharov’s several long and painful hunger strikes forced the new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev to let her travel to the U.S. in 1985 for sextuple bypass heart surgery. Prior to that, in 1981, Bonner and Sakharov went on a dangerous but ultimately successful hunger strike to get Soviet officials to allow their daughter-in-law, Yelizaveta Konstantinovna ("Lisa") Alexeyeva, an exit visa to join her husband, Bonner's son Alexei Semyonov, in the United States.

paragraph: In December 1986, Gorbachev allowed Sakharov and Bonner to return to Moscow. Following Sakharov's death on 14 December 1989, she established the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, and the Sakharov Archives in Moscow. In 1993, she donated Sakharov papers in the West to Brandeis University in the U.S.; in 2004 they were turned over to Harvard University. Bonner remained outspoken on democracy and human rights in Russia and worldwide. She joined the defenders of the Russian parliament during the August Coup and supported Boris Yeltsin during the constitutional crisis in early 1993.

paragraph: In 1994, outraged by what she called “genocide of the Chechen people”, Bonner resigned from Yeltsin's Human Rights Commission and was an outspoken opponent to Russian armed involvement in Chechnya and critical of the Kremlin for allegedly returning to KGB-style authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin. She was also critical of the international "quartet" two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and has expressed fears about the rise of anti-semitism in Europe. In 1999, Yelena Bonner received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom.

paragraph: Bonner was among the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published 10 March 2010. Her signature was the first.

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

paragraph: From 2006, Bonner divided her time between Moscow and the United States, home to her two children, five grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, and one great-grandson. She died on 18 June 2011 of heart failure in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 88, according to her daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. She had been hospitalized since 21 February.

paragraph: Section::::Works and awards.

paragraph: Bonner was the author of "Alone Together" (Knopf 1987), and "Mothers and Daughters" (Knopf 1992), and wrote frequently on Russia and human rights. She was a recipient of many international human rights awards, including the Rafto Prize, the European Parliament’s Robert Schuman Medal, the awards of International Humanist and Ethical Union, the World Women's Alliance, the Adelaida Ristori Foundation, the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy, the Lithuanian Commemorative Medal of 13 January, the Czech Republic Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and others.

paragraph: She was also awarded the Giuseppe Motta Medal in 2004 for protection of human rights.

paragraph: In 2005 Bonner participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner was on the Board of Advancing Human Rights (NGO).

paragraph: Section::::Depiction in media.

paragraph: Bonner was portrayed by Glenda Jackson in the 1984 film "Sakharov".

paragraph: Section::::Books, articles and interviews.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Books

paragraph: BULLET::::- Articles & interviews

alias:
Yelena Georgievna Bonner
Elena Bonner

description: human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

enwikiquote_title: Yelena Bonner

wikidata_label: Yelena Bonner

wikipedia_title: Yelena Bonner


text:
Arakan
Dawlya
Ramree
Saw O
Andaw-thein Ordination Hall

categories: Monarchs of Mrauk-U,15th-century monarchs in Asia,1464 births,1521 deaths,15th century in Burma,16th-century monarchs in Asia,16th century in the Mrauk-U Kingdom

paragraph: Thazata

paragraph: Thazata (, ; also known as Ali Shah; 1464–1521) was king of Arakan from 1515 to 1521. He was a son of King Dawlya (r. 1482–1492), and governor of Ramree when he was selected by the ministers to succeed King Saw O. He moved the palace from Mrauk-U to a place called Daingkyi. He died in 1521.

paragraph: He built the Andaw-thein Ordination Hall.

wikidata_label: Thazata

wikipedia_title: Thazata


text:
American football
strong safety
Jacksonville Jaguars
2013 NFL Draft
Tennessee Titans
college football
FIU
North Miami Beach High School
North Miami Beach, Florida
Florida International University
FIU Panthers football
school record
2013 Senior Bowl
Senior Bowl
Reese's Senior Bowl
Oakland Raiders'
Dennis Allen's
NFL Scouting Combine
Indianapolis, Indiana
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Jacksonville Jaguars
Washington Redskins
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
Dallas Cowboys
Miami Dolphins
Arizona Cardinals
Tennessee Titans
San Francisco 49ers
Houston Texans
Sports Illustrated
Mike Mayock
Jacksonville Jaguars
2013 NFL Draft
T. Y. Hilton
2012 NFL Draft
$
contract
signing bonus
Dawan Landry
New York Jets
Gus Bradley
Jacksonville Jaguars
Kansas City Chiefs
Seattle Seahawks
Russell Wilson
St. Louis Rams
Cleveland Browns
Brandon Weeden
Jordan Cameron
Buffalo Bills
Jaguars'
Philadelphia Eagles
concussion
Washington Redskins
Tennessee Titans
Miami Dolphins
Josh Evans
Gus Bradley
Sergio Brown
Jaguars
Carolina Panthers
Indianapolis Colts
Andrew Luck
Indianapolis Colts
Houston Texans
AFC South
James Sample
Tashaun Gipson
Buffalo Bills
Tyrod Taylor
Minnesota Vikings
Houston Texans
Gus Bradley
Pro Football Focus
Tennessee Titans
Mike Mularkey
Kevin Byard
Tennessee Titans'
Oakland Raiders
Pittsburgh Steelers
Arizona Cardinals'
Blaine Gabbert
Kansas City Chiefs
New England Patriots
ACL
Tennessee Titans bio
Jacksonville Jaguars bio
FIU Panthers bio

categories: People from North Miami Beach, Florida,FIU Panthers football players,Sportspeople from Miami Beach, Florida,Players of American football from Florida,1990 births,American football safeties,Jacksonville Jaguars players,Living people

paragraph: Johnathan Cyprien

paragraph: Johnathan Ken Cyprien (born July 29, 1990) is an American football strong safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft and also played with the Tennessee Titans. He played college football at FIU.

paragraph: Section::::High school career.

paragraph: Cyprien attended North Miami Beach High School in North Miami Beach, Florida. He served as team captain as a senior and was also named to the "Miami Herald" All-Dade and District 12-6A first team.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Cyprien received an athletic scholarship to attend Florida International University, where he played for the FIU Panthers football team from 2009 to 2012. As a true freshman in 2009, he appeared in all 12 games and started seven. He finished second on the team with 78 tackles, recorded one interception, three breakups and forced two fumbles, and earned all-conference honorable mention selection. In 2010, he led the team with 113 tackles, the fourth-best single-season total in FIU history. He also recorded three tackles for loss, one interception, six pass breakups, forced three fumbles, and recovered a fumble, and earned second team all-conference honors. As a junior in 2011, he started in all 13 games. He recorded 81 tackles (third-highest on the team), along with 5.5 tackles for loss and a team-high eight passes broken up, which was tied for third all-time in a season in program history, and he earned second team all-conference honors. As a senior in 2012, he served as one of the team captains for 2012 and is widely regarded as the top safety to ever play at FIU. Cyprien once again led the team in tackles in 2012 with 93, also recorded a team-high four interceptions, along with five pass breakups, 3.5 tackles for loss and one forced fumble. He started all 12 games in 2012, as well as every game the past three seasons (2010–12), and has started the most career games at safety at FIU (45), which is the third-most number of starts at any position for a Panther. Set school record for total tackles (365), solo tackles (213) and fumbles forced (six). He also ranks among the all-time best for pass breakups (second, 22), interceptions (fourth, 7), and fumbles recovered (fourth, 3). Cyprien majored in physical therapy at FIU.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:College statistics.

paragraph: "Source":

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: On December 14, 2012, it was announced that Cyprien had accepted an invitation to play in the 2013 Senior Bowl. Throughout Senior Bowl practices, Cyprien impressed many scouts and analysts with his enthusiasm and aggressive style. On January 26, 2013, Cyprien played in the Reese's Senior Bowl and recorded five combined tackles and was a part of Oakland Raiders' head coach Dennis Allen's North team that lost 21–16 to the South. Cyprien was one of 60 collegiate defensive backs to attend the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was unable to compete and perform any physical drills due to a shoulder and hamstring injury. On March 7, 2013, he attended FIU's pro day and performed all of the combine and positional drills for scouts and team representatives from all 32 NFL teams. His 18 reps in the bench press would've finished third among all defensive backs at the combine. During the draft process, Cyprien had private workouts and meetings with over 12 NFL teams, including the Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, San Francisco 49ers, and Houston Texans. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Cyprien was projected by NFL draft experts and scouts to be a first or second round pick. He was ranked the top strong safety prospect in the draft by NFLDraftScout.com, the second best safety by NFL draft analyst Josh Norris, the third best safety by "Sports Illustrated", and was ranked the fourth best safety by NFL analyst Mike Mayock.

paragraph: The Jacksonville Jaguars selected Cyprien in the second round (33rd overall) of the 2013 NFL Draft. He was the fourth safety selected in 2013. Cyprien became the fifth player drafted from FIU and the highest NFL draft pick in school history, a distinction previously held by T. Y. Hilton who was selected in the third round (92nd overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.:2013 season: Rookie year.

paragraph: On June 18, 2013, the Jacksonville Jaguars signed Cyprien to a four-year, $5.46 million contract that includes $3.91 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $2.35 million.

paragraph: Cyprien entered training camp slated as the starting strong safety after Dawan Landry departed for the New York Jets during free agency. Although he suffered a hamstring injury, head coach Gus Bradley officially named him the starter to begin the regular season.

paragraph: Cyprien made his first career start and professional regular season debut in the Jacksonville Jaguars' season-opener against the Kansas City Chiefs and made three combined tackles during a 28–2 loss. On September 22, 2013, Cyprien recorded seven combined tackles and made his first career sack on Seattle Seahawks' quarterback Russell Wilson as the Jaguars lost 45–17. In Week 5, he collected a season-high 13 solo tackles in 34–20 loss at the St. Louis Rams. On December 1, 2013, Cyprien collected ten combined tackles, deflected a pass, and made the first interception of his career off of Cleveland Browns' quarterback Brandon Weeden in a 32–28 victory. His interception came in the second quarter as he picked off a pass intended for Jordan Cameron and returned it for 27 yards. He missed a Week 15 matchup against the Buffalo Bills due to a hamstring injury. Cyprien finished his rookie season with 104 combined tackles (87 solo), six pass deflections, an interception, and a sack in 15 games and 15 starts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.:2014 season.

paragraph: Cyprien remained the started strong safety in 2014 and started the Jaguars' season-opener against the Philadelphia Eagles, but was unable to finish the 34-17 loss after suffering a concussion while attempting to intercept a pass. He missed the Jaguars' Week 2 matchup at the Washington Redskins after he wasn't cleared to participate and remained in concussion protocol. On October 12, 2014, Cyprien recorded a season-high 15 combined tackles in a 16-14 loss to the Tennessee Titans. During Week 8, he made ten solo tackles in a 27-13 loss to the Miami Dolphins. Cyprien finished the season with 114 combined tackles (80 solo) and three pass deflections in 15 games and 15 starts. Cyprien also led the Jaguars with 21 missed tackles in 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.:2015 season.

paragraph: Throughout training camp, Cyprien saw competition from Josh Evans for his starting strong safety position. Head coach Gus Bradley named Cyprien the starting strong safety, opposite Sergio Brown, to start the season.

paragraph: Cyprien started the Jaguars' season-opener against the Carolina Panthers and recorded four combined tackles before leaving the 20-9 loss with a calf injury. He missed the next two games due to the injury. On October 4, 2015, Cyprien made 14 combined tackles during a 16-13 loss at the Indianapolis Colts. On December 13, 2015, he made six combined tackles, intercepted a pass from Andrew Luck, and returned it for 48 yards during a 51-16 defeat over the Indianapolis Colts. In Week 17, Cyprien tied his season-high of 14 combined tackles as the Jaguars' lost 30-6 at the Houston Texans. Cyprien finished the season with 108 combined tackles (78 solo), two passes defended, and one interception in 14 games and 14 starts. The Jaguars finished the season with a 5-11 record and third in the AFC South.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.:2016 season.

paragraph: During the 2016 training camp, Cyprien competed against James Sample to maintain his starting strong safety position. He was named the starting strong safety, opposite newly acquired free safety Tashaun Gipson.

paragraph: In Week 12, Cyprien recorded six combined tackles and sacked Buffalo Bills' quarterback Tyrod Taylor during a 28-21 loss. On December 11, 2016, he made 14 combined tackles as the Jaguars lost to the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 25-16. The next week, Cyprien recorded a career-high 17 combined tackles as the Jaguars lost to the Houston Texans by a score of 21-20. Head coach Gus Bradley was fired after Week 15 due to the Jaguars posting a 2-12 record. Cyprien finished the season with a career-high 127 combined tackles (96 solo), four pass deflections, and a sack in 16 games and 16 starts. It was his first season starting and playing in all 16 games. Cyprien had a career season due to the emergence of Tashaun Gipson as a capable free safety that allowed Cyprien to play closer to the line in the box. It also allowed him to lead the NFL with 27 run stops in 2016. Pro Football Focus gave Cyprien a run-stopping grade of 98.8 for 2016, which is the highest grade ever recorded by a safety and his 128 combined tackles were the 12th most by any player in 2016.

paragraph: On March 9, 2017, the Tennessee Titans signed Cyprien to a four-year, $25 million contract that includes $7 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $3 million.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tennessee Titans.:2017 season.

paragraph: Head coach Mike Mularkey named Cyprien the starting strong safety to begin the season, alongside free safety Kevin Byard. Cyprien started the Tennessee Titans' season-opener against the Oakland Raiders and recorded seven combined tackles before leaving the 26-16 loss with a hamstring injury that sidelined him for the next six games (Weeks 2-7). On November 16, 2017, he made ten combined tackles in a 40-17 loss at the Pittsburgh Steelers. In Week 14, Cyprien made ten combined tackles and sacked Arizona Cardinals' quarterback Blaine Gabbert in the Titans' 12-7 loss. He finished his first season with the Titans with 57 combined tackles (38 solo), one sack, and a pass deflection in ten games and ten starts.

paragraph: The Titans finished second in the AFC South with a 9-7 record and received a playoff berth. On January 6, 2018, Cyprien started his first career playoff game and recorded four solo tackles and deflected a pass in their 22-21 victory at the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Wildcard game. The following week, he made seven combined tackles as the Titans lost in the AFC Divisional round to the New England Patriots by a score of 35-14.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tennessee Titans.:2018 season.

paragraph: On August 1, Cyprien tore his ACL on a non-contact play during training camp. He was placed on injured reserve the next day, prematurely ending his season.

paragraph: On March 11, 2019, Cyprien was released by the Titans.

paragraph: Section::::Real Estate Career.

paragraph: Cyprien supplements his football earnings by investing in real estate, owning 13 properties in 2018.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Cyprien has four siblings, Clay, Schnider, Sheena, and Christina. In 2015, Cyprien started the CypSquad ARY Foundation which benefits different programs for at-risk youth in the South Florida area. He is a snorkeling enthusiast and is working on his scuba certification. Additionally, Cyprien has a burgeoning career in real estate. He owns and rents out more than a dozen properties in the Nashville, Jacksonville and Miami areas.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tennessee Titans bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacksonville Jaguars bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- FIU Panthers bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Jonathan Cyprien

wikipedia_title: Johnathan Cyprien


text:
tenor
Richard Wagner
Parsifal
Bayreuth
Moià
Barcelona
Barcelona Conservatory
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Lohengrin
Julián Gayarre
Teatro Regio
La Scala
Giulia Novelli
Nelly Miricioiu
Darina Takova
Giuseppe Filianoti
Works by and about Francesc Viñas
WorldCat

categories: Catalan opera singers,People from Moianès,1933 deaths,Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu alumni,1863 births

paragraph: Francesc Viñas

paragraph: Francesc Viñas i Dordal (27 March 1863 – 14 July 1933) was a Spanish operatic tenor. He is also known by the Spanish version of his name, Francisco Viñas and the Italian version, Francesco Vignas. He was particularly known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner and sang in the first production of "Parsifal" outside Bayreuth.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Viñas was born in Moià, a small town near Barcelona. At the age of 23, he enrolled in singing lessons at the Barcelona Conservatory where he studied under Gonçal Tintorer. After hearing him in some of the conservatory's concerts, Juan Goula a principal conductor at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, urged him to study the title role of "Lohengrin". Viñas went on to make his operatic debut at the Liceu on 9 February 1888 in "Lohengrin". It was to become one of his signature roles.

paragraph: Julián Gayarre, another Spanish tenor noted for his Wagnerian roles, was in the audience at the Liceu for Viñas's debut and was reportedly so impressed with the performance that he gave Viñas his own Lohengrin costume. Viñas soon received invitations to sing at other Spanish opera houses and in Italy. In the space of three years he sang Lohengrin 120 times. He debuted at Turin's Teatro Regio in 1890 and at Milan's La Scala in 1891, both times as Lohengrin.

paragraph: Viñas was married to the Italian operatic mezzo-soprano Giulia Novelli (1859-1932).

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: In 1963 the Francisco Viñas Singing Contest was founded in his honor. Its past winners have included Nelly Miricioiu, Darina Takova, and Giuseppe Filianoti.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works by and about Francesc Viñas on WorldCat

description: Spanish opera singer

wikidata_label: Francesc Viñas

wikipedia_title: Francesc Viñas


text:
abbot
Jōdo
Hosokawa Katsumoto
Yamana Sōzen
Ashikaga Yoshihisa
Kyoto
Ōnin War
Emperor

categories: Japanese Buddhist monks,1439 births,Samurai,Ashikaga clan

paragraph: Ashikaga Yoshimi

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Yoshimi was the abbot of a Jōdo monastery when he was first approached in 1464 by Hosokawa Katsumoto, who wished to support a bid for Yoshimi to become shōgun. He originally sought to stick to his religious life, and had no desires to become shōgun. However, by 1464, he was convinced to join his brother, the shōgun, and assist him, putting himself into a position to be the next in the line of succession. The birth of the Shōgun's son placed Yoshimi in an awkward situation, making his succession no longer definite, but he remained as Yoshimasa's Deputy.

paragraph: Despite Yoshimi's support by Hosokawa, it was Hosokawa's opponent, Yamana Sōzen, who stayed in Yoshimi's mansion for a time, and who attended a ceremony in March 1467 honoring the shōgun and his brother. Hosokawa did not attend, as he was preparing for the imminent war between himself and Yamana, who supported the succession of the shōgun's infant son Ashikaga Yoshihisa.

paragraph: Following the initial battles between Hosokawa and Yamana within the capital (Kyoto), the Ōnin War turned into a war between Yoshimi and his brother the Shōgun. Through a set of complicated events, Yoshimi became one of Yamana's chief generals, and was declared a "rebel" by the Emperor, and stripped of his court rank. That same year, 1469, the shōgun officially named his son heir.

paragraph: Yamana and Hosokawa both died soon afterwards, in 1473, and the Ōnin War came to an end in 1477, along with Yoshimi's political aspirations.

description: Japanese samurai

wikidata_label: Ashikaga Yoshimi

wikipedia_title: Ashikaga Yoshimi


text:
Grand Master
Teutonic Knights
Feuchtwangen
Middle Franconia
Konrad von Feuchtwangen
Gottfried von Hohenlohe
Danzig (Gdańsk)
Pomerelia
Treaty of Soldin
Poland
Knights Templar
Venice
Castle Marienburg
Pomesania
Holy Roman Empire
Kulmsee

categories: People from Ansbach (district),1311 deaths,Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order

paragraph: Siegfried von Feuchtwangen

paragraph: Siegfried von Feuchtwangen (died 1311) was the 15th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1303 to 1311.

paragraph: Von Feuchtwangen was born in Feuchtwangen in Middle Franconia, and was a relative of the earlier Grand Master Konrad von Feuchtwangen. He took the office after his predecessor, Gottfried von Hohenlohe, had abdicated. Von Hohenlohe's rule was marked by internal strife within the Order, but also by important changes.

paragraph: Under von Feuchtwangen, the Order seized Danzig (Gdańsk) in 1308 and took control of Pomerelia by the Treaty of Soldin, thus becoming Poland's strongest enemy.

paragraph: Due to the Pope dismantling the Knights Templar, he moved the headquarters of the order from Venice, located there by his predecessor, to Castle Marienburg in Pomesania, outside the Holy Roman Empire.

paragraph: Siegfried died there in 1311 and was buried in the cathedral of Kulmsee (Chełmża).

description: Grand MAster of the Teutonic Knights

wikidata_label: Siegfried von Feuchtwangen

wikipedia_title: Siegfried von Feuchtwangen


text: Swedish

text: count

text: county governor

text: Västernorrland County

text: Medelpad

text: Ångermanland

text: Jämtland

text: provinces

text: agriculture

text: city planning

text: potato

text: flax

text: Riksdag

text: embezzlement

text: Nyköping County

text: Södermanland County

text: Nyköping

text: Örnsköldsvik

text: List of Västernorrland Governors

text: Nordisk Familjebok

categories: Swedish nobility,1791 deaths,Place of birth missing,1720 births,County governors of Sweden

paragraph: Per Abraham Örnsköld

paragraph: Per Abraham Örnsköld (18 November 1720 – 16 April 1791) was a Swedish nobleman, with the title of count, whose notability in his country's history stems from his dedication to the able management of Sweden's regional subdivisions which he administered in his capacity as governor.

paragraph: In 1762, the year of his forty-second birthday, he was appointed county governor of the vast Västernorrland County, which at that time consisted of the Medelpad, Ångermanland and Jämtland provinces.

paragraph: Örnsköld realized the possibilities of the area and often travelled through it, by foot or using a carriage. He put to good advantage his knowledge about agriculture and city planning to found new settlements, thus relieving the old, overcrowded ones and, with the main goal of improving agriculture, provided aid for the farmers in trenching dikes, a procedure which they had previously found difficult to utilize. Among his other innovations was the introduction of new plants, including potato and flax, which quickly became popular; organizing the removal of stones from fields; commissioning maps of various parts of the region; opening pharmacies and myriad other improvements designed to help the inhabitants.

paragraph: During the 1769 session of the Riksdag, opponents attacked his self-decided reforms, claiming he made them to glorify himself. They also made accusations that he enriched himself through embezzlement. Although Örnsköld instituted several drastic reforms, some of which were arbitrary, his accusers were known to have acted with political motives as well as envy. Ultimately, Örnsköld was not punished, but rather transferred to govern Nyköping County, a part of the larger Södermanland County, where he continued his pattern of vigorously instituting reforms. In 1771 he was again accused of unlawful actions, but historical records do not indicate that he suffered any adverse consequences.

paragraph: Per Abraham Örnsköld died in Nyköping at the age of 70. His previous county of administration, Västernorrland, has kept his memory and honoured it with various publications. The town of Örnsköldsvik, founded in 1842, fifty-one years after his death, was named after him.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Västernorrland Governors

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Örnsköld, Per Abraham" biographical entry at the "Nordisk Familjebok" encyclopedia

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paragraph: Johan Wilcke

paragraph: Johan Carl Wilcke was a Swedish physicist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Wilcke was born in Wismar, son of a clergyman who in 1739 was appointed second pastor of the German Church in Stockholm. He went to the German school in Stockholm and enrolled at the University of Uppsala in 1749. He spent the years from 1751 travelling abroad and received the "magister" degree from the University of Rostock in 1757, after having published the dissertation "De electricitatibus contrariis". In 1759 he became the first "Thamian lecturer" of experimental physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, a position created through a donation from the wealthy merchant Sebastian Tham, and a member of the academy. He became a titular professor in 1770, and permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences in 1784. He died in Stockholm in 1796.

paragraph: His two areas of significant research were electricity and caloric theory. In 1762 he invented an electrostatic generator that was a first version of the electrophorus, a device named and popularized in 1775 by Alessandro Volta. In 1772 he calculated the latent heat of ice. In 1781, he coined the concept and term of "specific heat" ("Specifica-varme"), in analogy with the term "specific gravity" ("Specifica-tyngd"). In 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

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paragraph: BULLET::::- "Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, vol 2, p. 732  (Swedish)

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paragraph: Dirck Ferreris

paragraph: Dirck Ferreris, Diederik, or Theodor Freres (1639 – 6 June 1693), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He spent most of his life in Enkhuizen and several works of his hang in the Enkhuizen city hall. He travelled to Italy in 1666 with Adriaen Backer and, after returning to Amsterdam, he went to London to spend some time working for Sir Peter Lely in 1678. According to Houbraken he specialised in decorating galleries and decorated one at Huis Honselaarsdijk and one in Amsterdam for a gentleman named Mr Roeters. After he returned from Italy he became friends with Johannes Voorhout, with whom he practised drawing in a small group from a naked model. He told Voorhout that he had been very keen on saving money and only spent 30 guilders in his whole year in Italy, and that was the reason he couldn't spend much time with the Bentvueghels. This puzzled Houbraken, who wrote that he came from a good family and didn't need to save. In his biographical sketch of Johan van Neck, Houbraken mentions that he was a great friend of Freres and left him his "papierkunst" or paper-art.

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paragraph: Ishin Sūden

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Sūden oversaw the administration of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in the country alongside Itakura Katsushige, and was involved in a great many diplomatic affairs along with advisors Hayashi Razan and Honda Masazumi. Sūden made his home at the Konchi-in temple he founded in Sunpu, and founded another one by the same name in Edo in 1618. He was abbot of Nanzen-ji in Kyoto.

paragraph: Sūden played an important role in negotiations with the Chinese Ming court over the reopening of trade and the problem of piracy. Sūden was also involved in communications with the Spanish authorities in Manila and with the Kingdom of Siam. He was instrumental in organizing and receiving Korean embassies to Japan. He drafted a great many communications during this period, some of the more notable ones being rejections of the notion that the "shōgun" should be referred to as a "king" (, ""), as this would imply subordination to the Emperor of China and tributary status within the Sinocentric world order.

paragraph: Among his other works was the draft in 1615 of the "Buke shohatto", which he then read at an assembly of "daimyō" at Fushimi, and the draft of the edict banning Christianity in the previous year. In 1616, he oversaw the funeral services for Tokugawa Ieyasu, along with priests Tenkai and Bonshun.

paragraph: Sūden compiled all the diplomatic records of his period of service into the "Ikoku nikki" (Chronicle of Foreign Countries). He authored the "Honkō kokushi nikki" (Chronicles of Master Honkō), both of which remain valuable primary sources on the nature of diplomacy of the time, and on specific events.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 影印本異国日記: 金地院崇伝外交文書集成 ("Eiinbon Ikoku nikki: Konchiin Sūden gaikō monjo shūsei"; "Register of Foreign Affairs"). Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu. ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- 新訂本光國師日記 ("Shintei Honkō kokushi nikki" ("Chronicles of Master Honkō"). Tokyo: Zoku Gunsho Ruijū Kanseikai.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Toby, Ronald. (1984). "State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan." Princeton: Princeton University Press. ;

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paragraph: Nick Compton

paragraph: Nicholas Richard Denis Compton (born 26 June 1983) is an English former first-class cricketer who most recently played for Middlesex County Cricket Club. The grandson of Denis Compton, he represented England in 16 Test matches.

paragraph: A right-handed top order batsman and occasional right-arm off spin bowler, he made his List-A debut for Middlesex in 2001 and made his first-class debut three years later. A move to Somerset in 2010 saw Compton establish himself as a consistent scorer in a strong top order and following a prolific domestic season he made his England Test debut against India in November 2012.

paragraph: In April 2013, the "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" named Compton as one of their five "Wisden" Cricketers of the Year. He made a guest appearance for Worcestershire during the 2013 season.

paragraph: Compton left Somerset to return to Middlesex at the end of the 2014 season. On 23 June 2016, Compton announced that he would be taking an extended break from the game, following his disappointing performances in the Test series against Sri Lanka. He returned to first-class cricket in August 2016.

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

paragraph: Compton was born and raised in Durban, Natal Province, South Africa, the son of former first-class cricketer Richard Compton and Zimbabwean mother Glynis who had backgrounds in public relations and journalism. Compton was immersed in cricket from an early age: he is the grandson of English test cricketer and Arsenal footballer Denis Compton and the great-nephew of established first-class cricketer and fellow Arsenal footballer Leslie Compton.

paragraph: Compton's father Richard and uncle Patrick both played first-class cricket for Natal in South Africa. Compton moved to England while in his teens and attended Harrow School on a sports scholarship scheme where he was mentored by housemaster David Elleray. Compton impressed with a hatful of centuries for the school playing as captain and was prolific during the 2000 season for Middlesex's Under-19 side.

paragraph: Having only just turned 18, Compton played for an ECB Schools side against West Indies Under-19s in three matches playing as an opening batsman, top scoring for the side in the third match with 74. A month later, he represented England Under-18s during the same tour, on this occasion scoring 42 playing at number three.

paragraph: Compton began a social science degree at Durham University, matriculating at Hatfield College. However, a persistent groin problem, which eventually led to surgery, curtailed his cricket and led to him eventually withdrawing from his course.

paragraph: Section::::First-class career.

paragraph: Upon completing his A levels at Harrow in June 2001, Compton joined Middlesex on a summer contract, and entered into the record books in his debut Second XI Championship match, Compton was the last of five batsman out in six balls bowled by Glamorgan paceman Alex Wharf.

paragraph: Compton made his Middlesex first-team debut in the Norwich Union League at the end of the 2001 season, batting at six he scored just 6 runs from 9 deliveries in a 40 run defeat by Glamorgan. His promising performances for Middlesex's Under-19s and Second XI led him to receive the NBC Denis Compton Award, named after his grandfather, awarded to the most promising Middlesex player for 2001. The following winter, he was selected for the England Under-19s squad to take part in the ICC Under-19 World Cup in January and February 2002. Compton played in five of England's six matches as they reached the second group stage, Compton scoring 133 runs with one 50 at an average of 23.

paragraph: In July 2002, Compton made his U19 Test match debut against India, but made a total of just six runs from his two innings opening the batting. He had to wait until August for his next first-team appearance where he played four further Norwich Union League, impressing in reaching his maiden one day half-century with an 86 not out against Lancashire. His promise saw him awarded Middlesex's NBC Denis Compton award for the second consecutive year. Compton did not play at all for the Middlesex first team during the 2003 season due to injury and made his first-class debut against Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence in May 2004, Compton played a further three matches in the County Championship that season, in addition to ten one day matches and his Twenty20 debut. He only played in one first-class match in 2005 but scored his debut half-century in the match against Cambridge UCCE. In the winter of that year he would continue to hone his skills by playing domestic club cricket in Durban for Berea Rovers, the former local club of South African-born England cricketer Kevin Pietersen.

paragraph: He established himself in 2006, with a string of strong scores, including six centuries, and was award a county cap by the Middlesex in that season. His breakthrough season saw him score 1,315 runs at an average of 46.96, topping Middlesex's first-class runs charts, with his highest score of 190 coming in the County Championship match against Durham in July helping Middlesex to draw the match after being forced to follow-on. This breakthrough saw Compton awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award for a third time in 2006. Compton's good form saw him selected to tour with the England A team in Bangladesh in 2006–07. His highest score in a first-class match was 92 against Bangladesh A as he topped the England A averages with 140 runs at 46.66, though he did hit 152* in one of the minor tour matches.

paragraph: Section::::First-class career.:Later Middlesex career.

paragraph: The 2007 season saw a dip in form for Compton scoring less than 400 runs in first-class cricket with just three fifties, including featuring for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against County Champions Sussex. Although his one-day form improved with his first List A century in the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy against Sussex in June 2007, scoring 110 not out. During the 2008 season Compton only played five first-class matches scoring just 68 runs at an average of 8.50, thus the 2009 season was a marked improvement top scoring in first-class cricket for Middlesex with 860 runs including two centuries and three half-centuries.

paragraph: In one-day cricket Compton was in fine form with three centuries and 694 runs at an average of 77.11, and a highest score of 131 against Kent. Compton rejected an improved two-year contract with Middlesex acting on a verbal agreement with Angus Fraser, Middlesex's managing director of cricket, when he signed a new contract a year ago, that he would be free to move on if he wished at the end of the season.

paragraph: Section::::First-class career.:Move to Somerset.

paragraph: Having left Middlesex because he wanted a fresh challenge, Compton subsequently signed for Somerset on a multi-year contract, where he was expected to bat in the top three. Compton enjoyed a moderately successful first season in 2010 for Somerset, in first-class cricket only scoring 465 runs but in one day cricket Compton scored six fifties helping Somerset to the 2010 Clydesdale Bank 40 final against Warwickshire and recorded his highest score of 74 in Twenty20 cricket.

paragraph: Compton spent the first half of the 2010–11 season with Mashonaland Eagles in Zimbabwe, impressing in all forms of cricket scoring 209 runs in three first-class matches at an average of 41.80, scoring 204 runs in three one day matches at an average of 102, and scoring three fifties in six Twenty20 matches including matching his highest score of 74.

paragraph: He started the 2011 season well for Somerset with a one-day century in the 2011 Clydesdale Bank 40 century against the Unicorns on 1 May 2011, and just over a week later scored his first ever double century in first-class cricket with 254* against Durham. Compton's first-class form continued with him scoring 1,098 runs at an average of 57.78 and being awarded his county cap for Somerset. The end of the season saw Compton helping Somerset against the odds to the semi-final of the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 in India.

paragraph: With the earliest-ever start to a first-class cricket season, Compton took advantage by scoring 236 against Cardiff MCCU on 1/2 April 2012. This was the second earliest double-century in English cricket (after James Hildreth), and Compton's partnership of 450 with Hildreth for the second wicket set a new first-class record for Somerset.

paragraph: Compton's good form continued with a second double-century against Nottinghamshire and having amassed 685 runs by the 27 April, with this weight of runs earning him a recall to the England Lions for the tour match against the West Indies.

paragraph: Compton only scored 21 runs for the Lions but still appeared to be within range of becoming the first batsman to reach 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May for 25 years, before a washout on the second afternoon of Somerset's match against Worcestershire left him stranded on 950 runs. He nevertheless reached the landmark with a century the next day to become the earliest batsman to reach this milestone in 24 years. Compton's good first-class form continued until injury hampered his end to the 2012 season, while playing for the England Lions against Australia A in August 2012 despite scoring 46 in the first innings of the match he was ruled out of the rest of the match with back spasms. Compton finally returned to cricket on 6 September playing as a guest for Yorkshire Second XI against Somerset Second XI in their second innings scoring 39 and retiring not out in an innings defeat for Yorkshire.

paragraph: Compton returned to the Somerset side for their final County Championship match against Worcestershire, Compton scored 155* in his only innings in the match as Somerset wrapped up the runners-up spot in the competition, the century meant Compton finished the English cricket season with 1,494 runs in first-class cricket at an average of 99.60. Compton was the only English batsman to score 1,000 runs in the County Championship and won the PCA Player of the Year award for the first time.

paragraph: At the end of the 2014 season, Compton left Somerset having become disillusioned with the game and wanting to return to living in London.

paragraph: Section::::First-class career.:Return to Middlesex.

paragraph: On 12 December 2014, Middlesex County Cricket Club confirmed the return of Compton on a three-year contract. In January 2017 his contact was extended to the end of the 2018 season.

paragraph: Section::::International career.

paragraph: Section::::International career.:2012 India.

paragraph: Following the retirement of Andrew Strauss and the exclusion of Kevin Pietersen, Compton's weight of runs was enough to earn him a first call-up to the England Test squad for the tour to India in winter 2012–13.

paragraph: Compton made his England debut opening the batting with captain Alastair Cook in their first tour match against India A, but made a third ball duck in England's only innings. The second tour match against Mumbai A saw Compton open the batting with his rival for the Test opening spot Joe Root. Compton scored just one run in the first innings, but completed his first half century for England in the second innings, as he finished 64 not out. In the third and final tour match against Haryana, Compton completed half centuries in both innings of the match making 74 and 79 respectively, which included a 166-run opening partnership with Alastair Cook in the first innings.

paragraph: Compton made his test debut in the first Test of the series in Ahmedabad. He made 9 off 53 balls in the first innings, before being bowled by an off break by Ravichandran Ashwin and then made 37 runs in a first-wicket, second innings partnership of 123 with Alastair Cook, before being given out lbw to Zaheer Khan. Compton again struggled in the second Test, making 29 in the first innings. However, he scored an unbeaten 30 in the second innings to help England win the second Test by 10 wickets. Compton made his maiden Test half-century in the 3rd Test at Eden Gardens, going on to his highest test score of 57 before being dismissed lbw by Pragyan Ojha. In the fourth Test he made scores of 3 and 34 as England drew the match and won the Test series in India 2–1, which was their first series victory in India since the 1984–85 tour, with Compton featuring in all four of the Test matches therefore earning himself an ECB incremental contract. Compton finished the series having scored 208 runs in his eight Test innings at an average of 34.66. Compton had helped Cook post four successive 50 partnerships ensuring decent platforms for England and according to ESPNcricinfo's George Dobell he rated Compton's series as a 7/10 and that "while he proved his ability to occupy the crease, some doubt remains about his ability to press on and dominate."

paragraph: Section::::International career.:2013 New Zealand.

paragraph: Compton's performance in India was enough to maintain his place in England's Test squad for the tour to New Zealand in March 2013. Following a duck in the first innings of the first Test of the series Compton responded with his maiden Test century, scoring 117 as England drew the Test match. He proceeded to make a more fluent second century, scoring exactly 100, in the second Test match. Compton finished the drawn series as England's third highest run-scorer with 232 runs at an average of 46.40.

paragraph: Compton was named as one of the five "Wisden" Cricketers of the Year in 2013, recognising his achievements during the previous English season. Compton returned to County Cricket in late April 2013, with a century and half-century against county champions Warwickshire, and maintained his place in the England test squad for the home series against New Zealand. Compton fared badly in the two test home series scoring just 39 runs in 4 innings with a high score of just 16. He performed particularly poorly in the first Test, making scores of 1 and 7, although England still went on to win the match and the series 2-0. This failure led to renewed calls from the media for Compton to be dropped for the Ashes in favour of Joe Root, but Compton returned to first-class cricket for Somerset with a century against Durham, and then backed this up with a vital half-century at Derbyshire that guided Somerset to their first victory of the season.

paragraph: Despite this form Compton was dropped by England for the Ashes warm-up against Essex in favour of Joe Root, with Compton omitted from the squad and national selector Geoff Miller, describing Root as "currently the best opening partner" for Alastair Cook. On his 30th birthday, Compton's form continued with a defiant 81 for Somerset against the touring Australians at Taunton. Compton was rewarded for his form as the ECB arranged for him to play as a guest for Worcestershire in their tour match against Australia as a further audition for his Ashes spot. Despite still being in the selector’s thoughts, Compton did not play any part in the series.

paragraph: Section::::International career.:2015/16 South Africa.

paragraph: In November 2015, after more than two years out of the side Compton was recalled to the Test squad for the tour to South Africa. In the first test in his home town of Durban, Compton, batting at number 3 in the order, scored 85 runs from 236 balls in the first innings, and shared a century stand with James Taylor to help England recover from 49-3 to 303 all out.

paragraph: Compton fell just short of another half-century in the second innings, being caught behind by AB de Villiers from a Morné Morkel delivery on 49. Compton continued his good form in the first innings of the second Test, scoring 45 in the first innings. Both England and South Africa posted over 600 in their first innings, and the match ended in a draw. Compton was dismissed for 15 in England’s second innings. In the third Test he made 26 in the first innings but was out for a duck in the second innings as England successfully chased down a modest victory target to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. He scored just 25 runs in the fourth Test, which England went on to lose, although they won the series 2-1.

paragraph: Section::::International career.:2016 Sri Lanka.

paragraph: In May 2016 Compton was announced in the England test squad for the first match against Sri Lanka. Many were suggesting that this would be his last chance for England, but he scored a first innings duck, after being caught behind of the bowling of debutant Dasun Shanaka. After England recorded an empathic victory in the first match, they named an unchanged side for the second and Compton kept his place for the second Test. He was dismissed for just nine in the first innings, but looked in better touch in the second innings and scored an unbeaten 22 to help England to a nine wicket victory. In the final match of the series he was out for one in England's first innings, before making 19 in the second, as the match ended in a draw.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

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paragraph: BULLET::::- Player Profile: Nick Compton from ECB

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paragraph: George V of Georgia

paragraph: George V the Brilliant (, "Giorgi V Brtskinvale"; also translated as the "Illustrious", or "Magnificent"; 1286/1289–1346) was King of Georgia from 1299 to 1302 and again from 1314 until his death. A flexible and far-sighted politician, he recovered Georgia from a century-long Mongol domination, restoring the country's previous strength and Christian culture.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.

paragraph: George was born to King Demetrius II the Self-sacrificing and his third wife Natela, daughter of Beka I Jaqeli, prince and Atabeg of Samtskhe. Demetrius was executed by the Mongols in 1289, and the little prince George was carried to Samtskhe to be reared at the court of his maternal grandfather (Beka).

paragraph: In 1299, the Ilkhanid khan Ghazan installed him as a rival ruler to George's elder brother, the rebellious Georgian King David VIII. However, George's authority did not extend beyond the Mongol-protected capital Tbilisi, so George was referred to during this period as "The Shadow King of Tbilisi". In 1302, he was replaced by his brother, Vakhtang III. After the death of both his elder brothers – David and Vakhtang – George became a regent for David's son, George VI, who died underage in 1313, allowing George V to be crowned king for a second time. Having initially pledged his loyalty to the Il-khan Öljaitü, he began a program of reuniting the Georgian lands. In 1315, he led the Georgian auxiliaries to suppress an anti-Mongol revolt in Asia Minor, an expedition that would prove to be the last in which the Georgians fought in the Mongol ranks. In 1320, he drove the marauding Alans out of the town Gori and forced them back to the Caucasus Mountains.

paragraph: King George was on friendly terms with the influential Mongol prince Choban, who was executed by Abu Sa'id Khan in 1327. George used this loss as a pretext to rebel against the already weakened Ilkhanate. He stopped payments of tribute and drove the Mongols out of the country. The following year he ordered great festivities on the Mount Tsivi to celebrate the anniversary of the victory over the Mongols, and massacred there all oppositionist nobles. In 1329, George laid siege to Kutaisi, western Georgia, reducing the local king Bagrat I the Little to a vassal prince. In 1334 he reasserted royal authority over the virtually independent principality of Samtskhe, ruled by his cousin Qvarqvare I Jaqeli. Having restored the kingdom's unity, he focused now on cultural, social and economic projects. He changed the coins issued by Ghazan khan with the Georgian ones, called George's tetri. Between 1325 and 1338, he worked out two major law codes, one regulating the relations at the royal court and the other devised for the peace of a remote and disorderly mountainous district. Under him, Georgia established close international commercial ties, mainly with the Byzantine Empire, but also with the great European maritime republics, Genoa and Venice.

paragraph: George V also extended diplomatic relations to the Bahri dynasty of Egypt, achieving the restoration of several Georgian monasteries in Palestine to the Georgian Orthodox Church and gaining free passage for Georgian pilgrims to the Holy Land.

paragraph: According to Kldiashvili (1997), the introduction of the Jerusalem cross, taken as the inspiration for the modern national flag of Georgia in the 1990s, might date to the reign of George V.

paragraph: In the 1330s, George secured the southwestern province of Klarjeti against the advancing Osmanli tribesmen led by Orhan I. In 1341 he interfered in the power struggle in the neighbouring Empire of Trebizond and supported Anna Anachoutlou who ascended the throne with the help of the Laz, only to be put to death a year later.

paragraph: George V died in 1346. He was succeeded by his only son, David IX. He was buried at the Gelati Monastery near Kutaisi, western Georgia.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and child.

paragraph: The identity of his wife is not known. The "Georgian Chronicle" of the 18th century reports George V marrying a daughter of "the Greek Emperor, Lord Michael Komnenos". However the reigning dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 14th century were the Palaiologoi, not the Komnenoi. The marriage of a daughter of Michael IX Palaiologos and his wife Rita of Armenia to a Georgian ruler is not recorded in Byzantine sources. Neither is the existence of any illegitimate daughters of Michael IX. The Komnenoi did rule however in the Empire of Trebizond. A Michael Komnenos was Emperor from 1344 to 1349, but his only attested child was John III of Trebizond; whether John III had siblings is unknown.

paragraph: The Chronicle reports only one known son of George V, David IX of Georgia.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- George V the Brilliant (In Georgian)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ronald Grigor Suny, "The Making of the Georgian Nation": 2nd edition (December 1994), Indiana University Press, , page 44

description: King of Georgia

wikidata_label: George V of Georgia

wikipedia_title: George V of Georgia