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Lord Chamberlain's Men
William Shakespeare
Will Kempe
King's Lynn
John Lonyson
goldsmith
Goldsmiths' Company
Royal Mint
Tower of London
Richard Tarlton
Thomas Nashe
Gabriel Harvey
ballad
William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos
Midlands
East Anglia
quarto
King's Revels Children
boy player
Nathan Field
Chandos's Men
marotte
persona
Hackney
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Curtain
Globe
Gianfrancesco Straparola
ruby
Shakespeare
King's Men
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
King Lear
All's Well That Ends Well
Troilus and Cressida
Macbeth
Timon of Athens
The Winter's Tale
Harold Bloom
touchstone
John Palmer
cynic
Arden
Lear
Iago
Othello
John Marston
The Malcontent
Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
George Wilkins
The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
St Botolph's Aldgate
Augustine Phillips
shilling
John Davies of Hereford
epigram
Shakespearian fool
Feste
Twelfth Night
Ken Kesey
Gary Blackwood
The Shakespeare Stealer
Tam Lin

categories: 17th-century English male actors,English male stage actors,English clowns,English male Shakespearean actors,1560s births,16th-century English male actors,1615 deaths,People of the Tudor period

paragraph: Robert Armin

paragraph: Robert Armin (c. 1563 – 1615) was an English actor, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. He became the leading comedy actor with the troupe associated with William Shakespeare following the departure of Will Kempe around 1600. Also a popular comic author, he wrote a comedy, "The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke", as well as "Foole upon Foole", "A Nest of Ninnies" (1608) and "The Italian Taylor and his Boy".

paragraph: Armin changed the part of the clown or fool from the rustic servingman turned comedian to that of a high-comedy domestic wit.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Armin was one of three children born to John Armyn II of King's Lynn, a successful tailor and friend to John Lonyson, a goldsmith also of King's Lynn. His brother, John Armyn III, was a merchant tailor in London. Armin did not take up his father's craft; instead, his father apprenticed him to Lonyson in the Goldsmiths' Company in 1581. Lonyson was the Master of Works at the Royal Mint in the Tower of London, a position of great responsibility. The arrangement moved Armin to a life and a social circle quite different from what he might have expected as a Norfolk tailor. Lonyson died in 1582, and the apprenticeship was transferred to another master. According to a tale preserved in "Tarlton's Jests", Armin came to the attention of the Queen's famous jester Richard Tarlton. In the course of his duties, the story contends, Armin was sent to collect money from a lodger at Tarlton's inn. Frustrated by the man's refusal to pay, Armin wrote verses in chalk on the wall; Tarlton noticed and, approving their wit, wrote an answer in which he expressed a desire to take Armin as his apprentice. Though not corroborated, this anecdote is far from the least plausible in "Tarlton's Jests". Influenced by Tarlton or not, Armin already had a literary reputation before he finished his apprenticeship in 1592. In 1590, his name is affixed to the preface of a religious tract, "A Brief Resolution of the Right Religion". Two years later, both Thomas Nashe (in "Strange News") and Gabriel Harvey (in "Pierce's Supererogation") mention him as a writer of ballads; none of his work in this vein, however, is known to have survived.

paragraph: Section::::The Chandos company.

paragraph: At some point in the 1590s, Armin joined a company of players patronised by William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos. With this company, about which little is known, he is presumed to have travelled from the western Midlands to East Anglia. The nature of his work for the company may be estimated from his parts in "The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke". The preface to the 1609 quarto indicates that he played Blue John, a clown in the vein of Tarlton and Kempe; he also seems to have doubled in the role of Tutch, a witty fool of the type he later played in London. The late quarto is associated with a revival by the King's Revels Children, a short-lived troupe of boy players led by Nathan Field, but it was almost certainly written around 1597.

paragraph: Little else is known precisely of Armin's time with Chandos's Men. A dedication to his patron's widow in 1604 suggests some personal acquaintance with the Brydges family; on the other hand, a reference in another work suggests he may have spent some time, like Kempe, as a solo performer. The pair of books Armin published around the turn of the century demonstrate a performer with an interest in his craft. "Fool Upon Fool" (1600, 1605; reissued in 1608 as "A Nest of Ninnies"), offers the wit of assorted natural fools, some of whom Armin knew personally. The same year he published "Quips upon Questions", a collection of seemingly extemporaneous dialogues with his marotte, named by him Signor Truncheon. In this he demonstrates his style; instead of having a conversation with the audience, as Tarlton did, and entering into a battle of wits, he jests using multiple personas, improvised song, or by commenting on a person or event. Rather than exchanging words, he gave words freely. Armin reported in that work that on either Tuesday 25 December 1599, or Tuesday 1 January 1600, he would be travelling to Hackney to wait on his "right honourable good lord". This was possibly Baron Chandos, who may have been visiting Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche over the holidays, or more likely Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford who lived in Hackney.

paragraph: The first editions of these two books were credited to "Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe"—that is, to the "Clown of the Curtain". The 1605 edition changes "Curtain" to "Mundo" (that is, Globe); only in 1608 was he credited by name, though the earlier title pages would have sufficed to identify him for Londoners.

paragraph: Another work of uncertain date (it was published in 1609) is "The Italian Tailor and his Boy". A translation of a tale from Gianfrancesco Straparola, the subject matter may reflect his family background of tailors. He was a tailor's son, who paralleled in the Italian tailor's apprentice, and the ruby ring of the play's lore parallels the goldsmith apprentice.

paragraph: Sutcliffe argues that Armin wrote a pamphlet published in 1599, "A Pil to Purge Melancholie", on the grounds that it was published by the same press, mentions a clown with Armin's nickname, and contains verbal echoes of "Two Maids of More-clacke".

paragraph: Section::::Lord Chamberlain's Men.

paragraph: The timing of Armin's joining the Chamberlain's Men is as mysterious as its occasion. That it was connected to Kempe's departure has been generally accepted; however, the reasons for that departure are not clear. One traditional view—that the company in general or Shakespeare specifically had begun to tire of Kempe's old-fashioned clowning—is still current, though the main evidence for this view consists of Kempe's departure and the type of comic roles Shakespeare wrote after 1600. Armin played on the Globe stage by August 1600; Wiles theorizes that he may have joined the Chamberlain's Men in 1599, but continued to perform solo pieces at the Curtain; however, he may also have played with the company at the Curtain, while Kempe was still a member.

paragraph: Armin is generally credited with all the "licensed fools" in the repertory of the Chamberlain's and King's Men: Touchstone in "As You Like It", Feste in "Twelfth Night", the Fool in "King Lear", Lavatch in "All's Well That Ends Well", and perhaps Thersites in "Troilus and Cressida", the Porter in "Macbeth", the Fool in "Timon of Athens", and Autolycus in "The Winter's Tale". Of these eight, Touchstone is the fool about which there is the most critical discussion. Harold Bloom describes him as "rancidly vicious," and writes that "this more intense rancidity works as a touchstone should, to prove the true gold of Rosalind's spirit". John Palmer disagrees and writes that "he must be either a true cynic or one that affects his cynicism to mask a fundamentally genial spirit". Obviously, as Palmer continues, a true cynic does not belong in Arden, so the clown "must be a thoroughly good fellow at heart". Touchstone affects the front of a malcontented cynic, thus serving as proof of Rosalind's quick wit. When she confronts both Jaques and Touchstone, she exposes their silliness and prevents the fools from making Arden out to be worse than it really is.

paragraph: Feste was almost certainly written for Armin, as he is a scholar, a singer, and a wit. Feste's purpose is to reveal the foolishness of those around him. Lear's fool differs from both Touchstone and Feste as well as from other clowns of his era. Touchstone and Feste are philosopher-fools; Lear's fool is the natural fool of whom Armin studied and wrote. Armin here had the opportunity to display his studies. The fool speaks the prophecy lines, which he tells—largely ignored—to Lear before disappearing from the play altogether. Lear's fool is hardly around for entertainment purposes; rather, he is present to forward the plot, remain loyal to the king, and perhaps to stall his madness.

paragraph: Although Armin typically played these intelligent clown roles, it has been suggested by a few scholars that he originated the role of Iago in "Othello", on the grounds that Iago sings two drinking songs (most of the songs in Shakespeare's plays from 1600 to 1610 were sung by Armin's characters) and that this was the sole play between "As You Like It" and "Timon of Athens" that has no fool or clown for Armin to play.

paragraph: In non-Shakespearean roles, he probably played Pasarello in John Marston's "The Malcontent"; indeed, Marston may have added the part for him when the play was produced by the King's Men. Armin appears in the cast list for Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist"; he may have played Drugger. He is also presumed to have been the clown in George Wilkins's "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage".

paragraph: He is not named in the cast list for Jonson's "Catiline" (1611), and other evidence suggests that he retired in 1609 or 1610. The preface to the "Two Maids" quarto confides, "I would have again enacted John myself, but "tempora mutantur in illis", and I cannot do as I would". He was buried in late 1615.

paragraph: In London, he resided in the parish of St Botolph's Aldgate; three of his children named in the parish register appear to have died before adulthood. Fellow King's Man Augustine Phillips bequeathed him twenty shillings as a "fellow"; John Davies of Hereford wrote Armin a complimentary epigram. His burial is recorded in the Registers of St Botolph's as 30 November 1615.

paragraph: Section::::A new fool.

paragraph: Armin may have played a key role in the development of Shakespearian fools. "If any player breathed," Hotson tells us, "who could explore with Shakespeare the shadows and fitful flashes of the borderland of insanity, that player was Armin". Robert Armin explored every aspect of the clown, from the natural idiot to the philosopher-fool; from serving man to retained jester. In study, writing, and performance, Armin moved the fool from rustic zany to trained motley. His characters—those he wrote and those he acted—absurdly point out the absurdity of what is otherwise called normal. Instead of appealing to the identity of the English commoner by imitating them, he created a new fool, a high-comic jester for whom wisdom is wit and wit is wisdom.

paragraph: When Robert Armin replaced Kemp in the Chamberlain's Men, it was considered the "taming of the clown". Armin's new style of comedy brought into play the "world-wisely fool". This urged Shakespeare to create Feste in his "Twelfth Night", who was a philosophical social insurgence. He had a place everywhere, but belonged nowhere.

paragraph: Ken Kesey told an interviewer of this notion of a fool. "That fool of Shakespeare's, the actor Robert Armin, became so popular that finally Shakespeare wrote him out of Henry IV. In a book called "A Nest of Ninnies", Armin wrote about the difference between a fool artificial and a fool natural. And the way Armin defines the two is important: the character Jack Oates is a true fool natural. He never stops being a fool to save himself; he never tries to do anything but anger his master, Sir William. A fool artificial is always trying to please; he’s a lackey."

paragraph: Section::::Modern References.

paragraph: Section::::Modern References.:"The Shakespeare Stealer".

paragraph: Robert Armin is a significant character in Gary Blackwood's historical fiction "The Shakespeare Stealer".

paragraph: Section::::Modern References.:"Tam Lin".

paragraph: In the 1991 Pamela Dean novel "Tam Lin", one of the major characters is Robert Armin (better known as Robin), a Classics and Theater student at a small college in the Midwestern U.S. during the early 1970s who has a surprisingly detailed knowledge of William Shakespeare's life and work.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bloom, Harold. "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human". New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brown, John Russell. "The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre." Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Web.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Faggen, Robert. "Ken Kesey-The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review: Issue 130, Spring 1994.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Felver, Charles S. "Robert Armin, Shakespeare's Fool: a Biographical Essay." "Kent State University Bulletin" 49(1) January 1961.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gray, Austin. "Robert Armine, the Foole." "PMLA" 42 (1927), 673–685.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hotson, Leslie. "Shakespeare’s Motley". New York: Oxford University Press, 1952.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lippincott, H. F. "King Lear and the Fools of Armin." "Shakespeare Quarterly" 26 (1975), 243–253.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Palmer, John. "Comic Characters of Shakespeare". London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1953.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sutcliffe, Chris. "Robert Armin: Apprentice Goldsmith." Notes and Queries (1994) 41(4): 503–504.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sutcliffe, Chris. "The Canon of Robert Armin's Work: An Addition." Notes and Queries (1996) 43(2): 171–175.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wiles, David. "Shakespeare's Clown". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zall, P. M., ed. "A Nest of Ninnies and Other English Jestbooks of the Seventeenth Century." Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

description: member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, a Shakespearean actor

wikidata_label: Robert Armin

wikipedia_title: Robert Armin


text: English

text: House of Plantagenet

text: baron

text: Edward II of England

text: Edmund Crouchback

text: Blanche of Artois

text: Henry III of England

text: Alice de Lacy

text: Canford

text: Dorset

text: knight

text: John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey

text: Battle of Falkirk

text: Edward I

text: coronation

text: Edward II of England

text: Curtana

text: Edward the Confessor

text: favourite

text: Piers Gaveston

text: Lords Ordainers

text: oligarchy

text: Bannockburn

text: Scots

text: Hugh the younger Despenser

text: Battle of Boroughbridge

text: Despensers

text: Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel

text: Pontefract Castle

text: Henry

text: martyr

text: saint

text: Edward III

text: canonisation

text: Earldoms of Lancaster

text: Leicester

text: Ferrers earldom of Derby

text: By his marriage

text: Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln

text: Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln

text: Earl of Lincoln

text: Earl of Salisbury

text: Baron of Halton

text: Lord of Bowland

text: earldom

text: Clitheroe Castle

text: Pontefract Castle

text: Dunstanburgh Castle

text: Northumberland

categories: Lord High Stewards,1270s births,People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation,Executed English people,14th-century English nobility,Earls of Lincoln (1232),1322 deaths,High Sheriffs of Lancashire,13th-century English nobility,House of Plantagenet,English rebels,Earls of Leicester (1265)

paragraph: Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster

paragraph: Thomas, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester (c. 1278 – 22 March 1322) was an English nobleman. A member of the House of Plantagenet, he was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to his first cousin, Edward II of England.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Thomas was the eldest son of Edmund Crouchback and Blanche of Artois, Queen Dowager of Navarre and niece of King Louis IX of France by her father Robert I Earl of Artois. Crouchback was the son of King Henry III of England.

paragraph: His marriage to Alice de Lacy was not successful. They had no children together, while he fathered, illegitimately, with another woman, two sons. In 1317 Alice was abducted from her manor at Canford, Dorset by Richard de St Martin, a knight in the service of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey. This incident caused a feud between Lancaster and Surrey; Lancaster divorced his wife and seized two of Surrey's castles in retaliation. King Edward then intervened, and the two Earls came to an uneasy truce.

paragraph: Although divorced from his wife, he continued to hold the powerful Earldoms of Lincoln and Salisbury. This was due to the marriage contract the two families had agreed; upon the death of his father-in-law, Thomas would hold these earldoms in his own right, not, as would be expected, in right of his wife.

paragraph: On reaching full age he became hereditary Sheriff of Lancashire, but spent most of the next ten years fighting for Edward I in Scotland, leaving the shrievalty in the care of deputies. He was present at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 as part of Edward I's wing of the army.

paragraph: He served in the coronation of his cousin, King Edward II of England, on 25 February 1308, carrying Curtana, the sword of Edward the Confessor. At the beginning of the King's reign, Lancaster openly supported Edward, but as the conflict between the king and the nobles wore on, Lancaster's allegiances changed. He despised the royal favourite, Piers Gaveston, who mocked him as "the Fiddler", and swore revenge when Gaveston demanded that the King dismiss one of Lancaster's retainers.

paragraph: Lancaster was one of the Lords Ordainers who demanded the banishment of Gaveston and the establishment of a baronial oligarchy. His private army helped separate the King and Gaveston, and Lancaster was one of the "judges" who convicted Gaveston and saw him executed in 1312.

paragraph: After the disaster at Bannockburn in 1314, Edward submitted to Lancaster, who in effect became ruler of England. He attempted to govern for the next four years, but was unable to keep order or prevent the Scots from raiding and retaking territory in the North. In 1318 his popularity with the barons declined and he was persuaded "to accept a diminished authority."

paragraph: The new leadership, eventually headed by Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his son Hugh the younger Despenser, proved no more popular with the Baronage, and in 1321 Lancaster was again at the head of a rebellion. This time he was defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge on 16 March 1322, and taken prisoner.

paragraph: Lancaster was tried by a tribunal consisting of, among others, the two Despensers, Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, and King Edward. Lancaster was not allowed to speak in his own defence, nor was he allowed to have anyone to speak for him. He was convicted of treason and sentenced to death. Because of their kinship and Lancaster's royal blood, the King commuted the sentence to mere beheading (as opposed to being drawn, quartered, and beheaded) and Lancaster was executed on 22 March 1322 near Pontefract Castle.

paragraph: Upon his death his titles and estates were forfeited, but in 1323 his younger brother Henry successfully petitioned to take possession of the Earldom of Leicester, and in 1326 or 1327 Parliament posthumously reversed Thomas's conviction, and Henry was further permitted to take possession of the Earldoms of Lancaster, Derby, Salisbury and Lincoln.

paragraph: Soon after Thomas's death, miracles were reported at his tomb at Pontefract, and he became venerated as a martyr and saint. In 1327 the Commons petitioned Edward III to ask for his canonisation, and popular veneration continued until the reformation.

paragraph: In 1942 it was reported by E. J. Rudsdale that some of Thomas's bones had been found in a box at Paskell's auctioneers in Colchester, Essex, having been removed from Pontefract Castle in 1885.

paragraph: Section::::Titles and lands.

paragraph: From his father Thomas inherited the Earldoms of Lancaster, Leicester, and a Ferrers earldom of Derby.

paragraph: By his marriage to Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, he became Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Salisbury, 11th Baron of Halton and 7th Lord of Bowland upon the death of his father-in-law in 1311. Master of five earldoms, he was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in England.

paragraph: Thomas was in possession of many key fortresses, including Clitheroe Castle, particularly in northern England. He was responsible for the extension of Pontefract Castle and in 1313 he began the construction of Dunstanburgh Castle a massive fortress in Northumberland.

paragraph: Section::::Arms.

paragraph: Inherited from his father, Thomas bore the arms of the kingdom, differenced by a "label France of three points (that is to say azure three fleur-de-lys or, each)".

description: English noble

wikidata_label: Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster

wikipedia_title: Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster


text:
Christchurch
John
Christchurch International Airport
Wellington International Airport
Rarotonga International Airport
Cecil Wood
Singapore
Paya Lebar Air Base
Zürich
Zürich Airport
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Copenhagen
Copenhagen Airport
Fletcher Construction
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
Sumner
Christchurch
Christ's College Chapel
school
Peter Beaven
Springfield

categories: 1908 births,1976 deaths,People from Christchurch

paragraph: Paul Pascoe

paragraph: Arnold Paul Pascoe (26 September 1908 – 11 September 1976) was a New Zealand architect. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1908; John was his twin brother. He designed airport terminal buildings for Christchurch International Airport (late 1950s), Wellington International Airport (late 1960s), and Rarotonga International Airport (early 1970s).

paragraph: He commenced architectural training and worked under Cecil Wood. In England, he worked for the Tecton Group. After returning to Christchurch, he went into partnership with Wood for just over a year but worked on his own from 1938. In 1945, he was joined by Humphrey Hall, and over the next ten years, they designed many domestic buildings. Shortly after dissolving the partnership in 1955, Pascoe won the commission to design the new terminal building for Christchurch Airport.

paragraph: By August 1955, Pascoe had developed sketch plans for a terminal building. By October, the design work was "well advanced". From December 1955 to March 1956, Pascoe went on a study tour and amongst other things, he studied airport buildings in Singapore (Paya Lebar Air Base), Zürich (Zürich Airport), Amsterdam (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol), Copenhagen (Copenhagen Airport), three terminals in the UK, and sixteen terminals in the USA. Upon his return, he reported on the need to significantly increase the size of the terminal based on what he had learned, but there were also some additional requests by the airport administration. The airport terminal was built by Fletcher Construction from late 1957, and it was opened on 10 June 1959.

paragraph: Two of Pascoe's designs are listed with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. One is the 1948 Pascoe House in 58 Colenso Street, Sumner, Christchurch, which was listed as Category II on 31 March 2000. The other is the design of the 1955 extension to the Christ's College Chapel. While the size of the chapel doubled, the Gothic Revival appearance of the school's quadrangle did not change.

paragraph: During his secondary school time, Peter Beaven had a conversation with Pascoe that led him to choose architecture as a career.

paragraph: Pascoe could be eccentric, and he would leave during important meetings because he always went to bed at 9pm. He died at his holiday home in Springfield on 11 September 1976.

description: New Zealand architect

wikidata_label: Paul Pascoe

wikipedia_title: Paul Pascoe


text:
shooter
Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Paris
pistol
bronze medal
1906 Intercalated Games
1908 Summer Olympics

categories: 1854 births,Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics,Olympic gold medalists for France,French male sport shooters,Olympic silver medalists for France,Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games,Olympic medalists in shooting,Olympic shooters of France,Shooters at the 1906 Intercalated Games,Shooters at the 1900 Summer Olympics,Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for France,Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics,1925 deaths

paragraph: Maurice Lecoq

paragraph: Maurice Marie Lecoq (26 March 1854 – 16 December 1925) was a French sport shooter who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a silver medal with the French military pistol team and a bronze medal in the military rifle team. He also competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics.

description: sport shooter

wikidata_label: Maurice Lecoq

wikipedia_title: Maurice Lecoq


text:
Asleep at the Wheel
Jewish
Philadelphia
Lucky Oceans
Austin
Willie Nelson
Grammy
Dale Watson
Suzy Bogguss
Aaron Watson
Carolyn Wonderland
Willie Nelson
Aaron Neville
Brad Paisley
Pam Tillis
Trace Adkins
Merle Haggard
Vince Gill
Rhythm and Blues Foundation
R&B
NARAS
Texas Music Scene TV show
Bob Wills
Jerry Wexler
Paul Shaffer
Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect
Sir Woodrow
Never Leave Nevada
Wild Texas Wind
Ben Rayson
Ray Benson Interview

categories: 20th-century American guitarists,Living people,American country guitarists,Guitarists from Philadelphia,American country singer-songwriters,1951 births,Country musicians from Pennsylvania,Jewish American musicians,Grammy Award winners,Songwriters from Pennsylvania,American male voice actors,American male guitarists,Singers from Pennsylvania,American actors,Asleep at the Wheel members

paragraph: Ray Benson

paragraph: Ray Benson (born March 16, 1951) is the front man of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel, as well as an actor, and voice actor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: In 1970, Benson, a Jewish native of Philadelphia, formed Asleep at the Wheel with friends Lucky Oceans and Leroy Preston. The group relocated to Austin in 1973 after a suggestion from Willie Nelson.

paragraph: Since then, the group has released more than 20 albums and earned 9 Grammy awards. Though the band's lineup has changed greatly over the years (about 90 people have been part of Asleep at the Wheel at some point), Benson has always remained at the helm as the band's driving force.

paragraph: In addition to his work with Asleep at the Wheel, Benson is also an accomplished producer whose credits include albums by Dale Watson, Suzy Bogguss, Aaron Watson, James Hand and Carolyn Wonderland; also single tracks for Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Brad Paisley, Pam Tillis, Trace Adkins, Merle Haggard, and Vince Gill.

paragraph: In 2003, Benson released his first solo album entitled "Beyond Time".

paragraph: Benson is also a founding member of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, which raises money to help aging R&B artists, and a member of the board of directors of the SIMS Foundation, which provides low-cost mental health services to Austin musicians and their families. He is also a trustee for the Texas chapter of NARAS, a board member of St Davids Community Health Foundation, and a board member and founding member of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM).

paragraph: Ray Benson is the former host of the Texas Music Scene TV show. In an interview, Benson said that when he was on the Board of Directors for Austin City Limits, he urged them to start a spin-off show that focused on Texas bands because Austin City Limits had grown beyond its original scope to become an international show. Later he had the opportunity to work with executive producer Tom Hoitsma to host the Texas Music Scene TV, which showcases Texas bands.

paragraph: Section::::"A Ride With Bob".

paragraph: In the Spring of 2005, Ray Benson and Asleep At The Wheel began the production of "A Ride With Bob" that follows the travels of legendary singer/songwriter Bob Wills. A Ride With Bob includes the live performance of 15 of Wills’ most well-known songs in a plot that interweaves Ray Benson’s present day with various stages in Wills’ storied career. The play continues to tour throughout the country.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Benson has been presented numerous awards throughout his career. Most recently, the 16th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Award for the making of "A Ride With Bob", an Honorary Junior Member of the United States Secret Service, and the Darrel K. Royal Music Patron Award by The Texas Heritage Songwriters' Association. In 2007, the Austin Chronicle recognized Benson for Male Vocals, Band of the Year, Songwriter, Record Producer, and for the Country Genre. Benson was inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2002, was given The Texas Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, and recognized as an Outstanding Producer by the National Academy of Recording Arts in 1988. He has also been given numerous Citations of Achievement by Broadcast Music, Inc. for his work in the country music field. Ray Benson has been one of the strongest names in Country Music for the last forty years. Ray Benson has earned 9 Grammy awards in 4 different decades.

paragraph: Section::::Willie and the Wheel.

paragraph: In February 2009, Asleep at the Wheel and Willie Nelson released "Willie and the Wheel," a western swing collaboration suggested by veteran producer Jerry Wexler. Nelson has a long-time interest in western swing and had toured with the band in 2007. Paul Shaffer and Vince Gill also perform on this album.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect" (1990) ... Sir Woodrow (voice)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Never Leave Nevada" (1990) ... Composer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wild Texas Wind" (1991) ... Ben Rayson

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.asleepatthewheel.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ray Benson Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2011)

description: country music musician from the United States

wikidata_label: Ray Benson

wikipedia_title: Ray Benson


text:
American
1932 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles
United States
Cornell University
Quill and Dagger
1932 Final Trials
Search for Beauty
Buster Crabbe
Anchorage

categories: Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics,Players of American football from Ohio,Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics,Cornell Big Red football players,Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field,American male discus throwers,Olympic track and field athletes of the United States,1948 deaths,1907 births,Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics,Sportspeople from Cincinnati

paragraph: John Anderson (athlete)

paragraph: John Franklin Anderson (July 4, 1907 – July 11, 1948) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He won the gold medal in this event at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States.

paragraph: Anderson graduated from Cornell University in 1929, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

paragraph: Prior to graduation from Cornell, he placed fifth at the 1928 Olympics in the discus throw. He later improved to beat the world record holder, Paul Jessup, at the 1932 Final Trials. He then took the gold medal in Los Angeles with a new Olympic record. He won the AAU title in 1933 and in June 1936 he had the best throw of his career in winning the Eastern Olympic Trials, 165-9 (50.62 m), but he failed to make a third consecutive Olympic team. Anderson was also an above-average performer with the shot (49 feet) and won the 1929 IC4A indoor shot put title. While at Cornell, Anderson played tackle on the football team for three years, was on the track team for three years, captaining it as a senior, and was president of the student council in his last year. Anderson was thought by Hollywood to have "dazzling masculine beauty" and after the 1932 Olympics he stayed on in California to star in the film "Search for Beauty" (the role went to Buster Crabbe). Later, experience gained in the Pacific during the war as a lieutenant commander in the naval reserve led to his obtaining a post as chief navigator of a salmon fishing fleet. While on an expedition some 700 miles north of Anchorage, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and died immediately, aged only 41.

description: American athlete mainly as a discus thrower

wikidata_label: John Anderson

wikipedia_title: John Anderson (athlete)


text:
Cybele, "Great Mother" of the gods
Second Punic War
Carthage
prodigies
Scipio Nasica
River Tiber
Hannibal
Megalesia
traditional Roman values
pudicitia
Clodia
Clodius
Claudius
Attis
religious purity
Beard, Mary

categories: Ancient Roman women,3rd-century BC Romans

paragraph: Claudia Quinta

paragraph: Claudia Quinta was a Roman matron said to have been instrumental in bringing the goddess Cybele, "Great Mother" of the gods from her shrine in Greek Asia Minor to Rome in 204 BC, during the last years of Rome's Second Punic War against Carthage. The goddess had been brought in response to dire prodigies, a failed harvest and the advice of various oracles. Roman histories and stories describe Claudia Quinta as "castissima femina" (purest or most virtuous woman) in Rome, chosen along with Scipio Nasica, Rome's "optimus vir" ("best man") to welcome the goddess. Gossips had accused Claudia of inchastity; but when the ship that carried the goddess's image up the River Tiber stuck fast on a sandbar, Claudia prayed for the goddess's help, then released and towed the ship single-handed. This miraculous feat proved Claudia's reputation and the goddess's willingness to become Rome's protector. Soon after, Rome had a good harvest, then defeated the Carthaginian leader Hannibal. Accounts of Cybele's arrival and her transformation into Rome's Magna Mater were embellished over time with circumstantial details, and formed part of the goddess's founding festival, Megalesia.

paragraph: These stories, and the pageants of Megalesia, were used to promote the goddess herself, traditional Roman values, and the status and reputation of Rome's ruling families. Magna Mater was conscripted to the Roman cause at a particularly unstable time in the city's history; the choice of Claudia Quinta and Scipio Nasica as the best of their kind may reflect their enrollment in a show of unity. Claudia's legend in particular became increasingly fantastical and embroidered, and cast idealised reflections on those who might be considered her descendants. In the Republican era, Cicero offered Claudia's exceptional reputation for pudicitia (sexual virtue) as the moral opposite to Clodia's, to undermine the latter's moral fitness to offer testimony against his client; and to accentuate the infamy of Clodia's brother Clodius, accused of deliberate sacrilege at Magna Mater's festival. The emperor Claudius claimed Claudia as an ancestor and may have promoted her cult, alongside that of Magna Mater and her divine consort, Attis.

paragraph: Most ancient sources describe Claudia Quinta as an aristocratic matron (a married woman and head of a household), who actively supports and defends her country's welfare, her personal reputation and that of her family. Cicero and later sources appear to have confused or conflated her with known Vestals of the Claudian family. Some images from the early Imperial era and onward show her in Vestal costume, highlighting her status as an Imperial paragon of morality and religious purity. She had at least one statue, in the vestibule of Magna Mater's Palatine temple; it was thought to have miraculously escaped two fires that had ruined the temple itself. Plaques and reliefs show her pulling the goddess's ship ( which is identified as "navis salvia", or "Saviour Ship" on a single inscription).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beard, Mary, "The Roman and the Foreign: The Cult of the 'Great Mother' in Imperial Rome", in Nicholas Thomas and Caroline Humphrey, eds., Shamanism, History, and the State (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1994) pp. 164–90.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gruen, Erich S. "The advent of the Magna Mater", in "Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy", University of California Press, 1996.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leach, Eleanor Windsor, "Claudia Quinta (Pro Caelio 34) and an altar to Magna Mater", "Dictynna," 4, 2007,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roller, Lynn Emrich, "In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele", University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 1999.

description: ancient roman noble woman and legendary figure

wikidata_label: Claudia Quinta

wikipedia_title: Claudia Quinta


text:
Italy
Ducati Panigale
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Supersport World Championship
2003 Italian Grand Prix
Aprilia
2005
Malaguti
Chinese Grand Prix
2006
Honda
Yamaha YZF-R1
2009
Supersport World Championship
Yamaha
The following year
Honda
Italian round at Imola
Aragon Grand Prix
Team Gresini
Valencia
Marco Simoncelli
Malaysian Grand Prix
FTR
Valencian Grand Prix
Ducati
2013 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix
Ben Spies
Italian Grand Prix
Cal Crutchlow
Argentine Grand Prix
Ducati
Italian
San Marino
Superbike World Championship
Misano
Spanish GP
Davide Giugliano
Danilo Petrucci
Pramac Ducati
Argentina
Texas
Jerez
Italian GP at Mugello
Loris Baz
Catalan GP
Avintia Ducati
2017
2018
2018 Italian Grand Prix
Profile on MotoGP.com
Profile on WorldSBK.com

categories: Moto2 World Championship riders,People from San Giovanni Rotondo,Gresini Racing MotoGP riders,Ducati Corse MotoGP riders,Italian motorcycle racers,Supersport World Championship riders,Superbike World Championship riders,1986 births,Avintia Racing MotoGP riders,FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders,125cc World Championship riders,Pramac Racing MotoGP riders,Living people

paragraph: Michele Pirro

paragraph: Michele Pio Pirro (born 5 July 1986) is a motorcycle racer from Italy, who currently races in the CIV Superbike Championship aboard a Ducati Panigale. He has also competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing and the Supersport World Championship.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Early Grand Prix racing (2003–06).

paragraph: He began his Grand Prix career as a wild card in the 2003 Italian Grand Prix in the 125cc class, on an Aprilia motorcycle. In 2005, he participated in the same class with Malaguti, scoring 3 points in the Chinese Grand Prix and finishing the season in 33rd place. In 2006, he continued to race in the 125 class on an Aprilia – and later a Honda – without scoring points.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:National racing (2007–08).

paragraph: In 2007 and 2008 he won the Italian national championship (CIV) in the Superstock class on a Yamaha YZF-R1.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Supersport World Championship (2009–10).

paragraph: In 2009 he participated in the Supersport World Championship on a Yamaha, ending in 11th place. The following year he switched to Honda and finished in 5th place, with a victory in the Italian round at Imola. He also made a one-off appearance in the Moto2 World Championship at the Aragon Grand Prix, finishing 14th.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Return to Grand Prix (2011–12).

paragraph: Pirro returned to Grand Prix racing in 2011 in Moto2 with Team Gresini. He obtained a victory, in the season finale at Valencia, just two weeks after Gresini's MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli was killed in a crash at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

paragraph: His MotoGP career began in 2012 with Gresini on a FTR motorcycle, with a best placement of fifth at the Valencian Grand Prix, ending the season in 15th place with 43 points.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Ducati test rider (2013–).

paragraph: Since 2013, Pirro has been the official test rider of team Ducati. He has participated in races every year, both as wild card and as a substitute for injured riders, obtaining a best result of 7th at the 2013 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix.

paragraph: During the 2013 season he participated in ten races as a wildcard and as a substitute for the injured Ben Spies, with a best result of seventh at the Italian Grand Prix, ending the season in thirteenth place with 56 points. In 2014, Pirro replaced the injured Cal Crutchlow in the Argentine Grand Prix and participated as a wild-card in five races.

paragraph: In 2015 and 2016 he continued to be the official Ducati test rider, while also participating in the Italian Superbike Championship (CIV), which he won in 2015.

paragraph: In 2015 he participated as a wild card in the Italian and San Marino MotoGP rounds. He also raced in the Italian round of the Superbike World Championship in Misano as a wild card, and in the Spanish GP as a substitute for the injured Davide Giugliano.

paragraph: In 2016 he substituted the injured Danilo Petrucci for the Pramac Ducati team in Argentina, Texas and Jerez MotoGP races, and participated as a wild card for the Ducati factory team to the Italian GP at Mugello. He will substitute for the injured Loris Baz at the Catalan GP on an Avintia Ducati.

paragraph: He continued to participate in MotoGP as Ducati's wild card rider in 2017 and 2018. During a practice session for the 2018 Italian Grand Prix he suffered a severe crash at the end of the start/finish straight and was hospitalised with a concussion.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

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

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

description: Italian motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Michele Pirro

wikipedia_title: Michele Pirro


text:
Jewish
origin
Beersheba
Mark Smulian
sound engineering
production skills
recording studios
Whiteflag Project
world
fusion
cross-over
Palestinian
Israeli
Phonag Records
Montreux Jazz Festival
Amnesty International
Sinai
Egypt
Mosh Ben-Ari
Putumayo
Shalom Hanoch
Zaviot
clarinet
Harold Rubin
Red Sea Jazz Festival
Western
Middle Eastern
blues
rock and roll
tones
phrasing
scales
chord
song arrangement
phrase
looping
effects
improvisation
expression
Rockfour
Rami Kleinstein
Gilad Shalit
Whiteflag Project
New Zealand Music Awards

categories: Jewish musicians,Progressive rock guitarists,Israeli composers,Israeli rock guitarists,1986 births,Israeli musicians,Israeli guitarists,Israeli record producers,Lead guitarists,Living people

paragraph: Arli Liberman

paragraph: Arli Liberman (; born December 17, 1986) is an Israeli guitarist and record producer of Jewish origin.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Liberman, the youngest of six children, was born in Beersheba, Israel. He began guitar at 13 years old and at age 16 began working as a session guitarist with a variety of recording artists in Israel. At age 16 Liberman was discovered and mentored by gold and platinum selling English record producer and bassist Mark Smulian. Mark became a prime influence not only in artistic and musical direction but together with sound engineer Ram Czudnowski also provided pragmatic education in sound engineering and production skills at Digihipi recording studios.

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

paragraph: From the years 2005 to 2009 Liberman was a key member of the band Whiteflag Project – one of the Middle East's first world fusion cross-over bands made up of Palestinian and Israeli musicians. He co-produced, edited and played on their latest album "Talk" released by Phonag Records in 2005. Whiteflag Project performed at various festivals worldwide such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the Creation of Peace Festival in Russia.

paragraph: In 2005, Whiteflag Project went on to create an award-winning documentary "Playing with the Enemy" broadcast live on National Swiss Television. In 2008 the band made an appearance for Amnesty International and in 2008 they performed at the Global Peace Festival.

paragraph: In 2007 Liberman was on the production team and played guitar for the world music project called "Ras Hasatan – A Sinai Journey" where 50 musicians from all over the world came together in the Sinai Desert, Egypt and created a unique world music album – featuring Israeli artist Mosh Ben-Ari – one of the songs went to the compilation album Putumayo.br

paragraph: At the age of 17 he performed with one of Israel's most prolific artists Shalom Hanoch who is considered to be the father of Israeli rock.

paragraph: Since 2008 he has been a member of the band Zaviot – one of Israel's premier jazz groups. Zaviot was the most successful, original jazz group in Israel during the 1980s with performances worldwide – featuring clarinet player Harold Rubin. Zaviot performed in the first Red Sea Jazz Festival and won an award for the most original Israeli jazz group.

paragraph: Section::::Artistic style.

paragraph: Liberman's signature sound is a blend of Western and Middle Eastern influences from a blues and rock and roll perspective. He specializes in unique tones and phrasing, eastern scales, alternate chord voicings, song arrangement and phrase looping. In contrast with many players his effects enhance the music rather than his playing. He is constantly experimenting with new sounds through spontaneity and originality while being innovative and progressive through improvisation and expression.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 – "Arli Liberman " – Self-titled

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Collaborations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 – "Whiteflag – Exile" – Guitarist

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 – "Shai Naus – The Time has Come" – Guitarist, editor & recording engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 – "Eyal Kofman – One second before" – Guitarist

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 – "Chuloo – Oldspice" – Guitarist

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 – "Har Ephraim " – Guitarist & co-producer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 – "Amir Estline – Reflections" – Guitarist, recording engineer, editor & co-producer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 – "SoulJa " – Recording engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 – "Anger Boys " – Guitarist

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 – "Nagoa " – Editor & assistant sound engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 – "Theatre Broadway Manhattan, NY " – Editor, recording engineer & sound engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 – "Rockfour – Memories of the never happened" – Editor & assistant sound engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 – "Ras Hasatan (A Sinai Journey) " – Guitarist, co-producer, sound engineer & editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 – "Kol Ha Ella (Voice of the Goddess)" – Guitarist & editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 – "Rami Kleinstein" Tribute song for Gilad Shalit – Sound engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 – "Adi Dagan" – Guitarist & assistant sound engineer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 – "Whiteflag Project – Talk" – Guitarist, co-producer & editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 – "Ngatapa Black – I Muri Ahiahi" – Producer, arranger & guitarist – Nominated Best Maori Album of the Year at the New Zealand Music Awards 2013)

paragraph: Section::::TV/film appearances.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 — Playing With The Enemy – with Whiteflag Project

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 — Neighbourhood – Satellite Media

description: musician, guitarist, producer

wikidata_label: Arli Liberman

wikipedia_title: Arli Liberman


text: bishop

text: Laredo

text: Texas

text: ordained

text: Port Isabel

text: Cameron County

text: Corpus Christi

text: Master in Arts in Theology

text: University of St. Thomas

text: St. Mary's Seminary

text: Houston

text: Pope John Paul II

text: Diocese of Galveston-Houston

text: titular bishop

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Laredo

text: Webb County

text: South Texas

text: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

text: U.S. President

text: George W. Bush

text: illegal immigrant

text: Barack H. Obama

text: Dilley

text: San Antonio

text: Texas A&M International University

text: Ray Keck

text: Hutto

text: Austin

text: The Vatican

text: rape

text: New York City

text: Kings County

text: Brooklyn

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

text: The Diocese of Laredo website

categories: 1949 births,Religious leaders from Texas,People from Houston,People associated with the Boy Scouts of America,People from Brownsville, Texas,Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of San Antonio,People from Laredo, Texas,Living people

paragraph: James Anthony Tamayo

paragraph: James Anthony Tamayo (born October 23, 1949) is the current bishop of Laredo, Texas.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was ordained a priest on July 11, 1976. Bishop Tamayo is the son of Antonio P. Tamayo (1925-2016), a native of Port Isabel in Cameron County, Texas, and Guadalupe B. Tamayo of Laredo. He has a sister, Mrs. Mercy Barrera of Corpus Christi. He holds a Master in Arts in Theology from the University of St. Thomas and attended St. Mary's Seminary in Houston.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston.

paragraph: Pope John Paul II appointed Tamayo as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston on January 26, 1993 and he was consecrated as bishop on March 10, 1993. He also became the titular bishop of Ita.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Bishop of Laredo.

paragraph: On July 3, 2000 Tamayo was appointed as bishop of the newly founded Roman Catholic Diocese of Laredo in Webb County in South Texas. On August 9, 2000, he was installed as its first bishop.

paragraph: Tamayo is a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. On September 10, 2008, Tamayo called upon the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to halt work-place raids in search of illegal immigrants. "We have respect for our enforcement personnel, but these worksite raids are only pitting human beings against each other. We must abandon the raids."

paragraph: In March 2015, Tamayo was among eighty religious figures who signed a letter to President Barack H. Obama asking that the government halt the practice of detaining families who have come into the United States illegally. He visited a detention center in Dilley between San Antonio and Laredo and expressed concern for the women being held there, some for a considerable period of time.

paragraph: Section::::Controversies.

paragraph: In March 2016, Tamayo halted the construction of a Catholic student center at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. The Brothers of St. John, key sponsors of the $4 million-plus project, held a groundbreaking ceremony in November 2013. Tamayo did not attend the groundbreaking; nor did he offer an explanation for his opposition to the project, even to TAMIU President Ray Keck. Hundreds of thousands of preliminary funds have already been spent on the project, which has been on the drawing board for a decade.

paragraph: Glen S. Jackson of Alexandria questions Bishop Tamayo's opposition to the student center, which he said has caused a "hostile atmosphere" in the Laredo diocese. No other college or university has faced such a denial. Jackson claims that 99 percent of the clergy in the Laredo diocese favors the project.

paragraph: Meanwhile, Father Robert L. Kincl of Hutto, north of Austin, a former judicial vicar for the Laredo diocese, has announced that he will deliver some thirty letters opposing Tamayo's position on the student center to the post office at The Vatican.

paragraph: In another controversy, when a priest was arrested in 2002 in Laredo on rape charges from New York City, the district attorney of Kings County (Brooklyn), said that the diocese under Tamayo was "less than satisfactory" in cooperation with law enforcement. Tamayo did not explain the circumstances under which the priest had left the Laredo diocese.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church hierarchy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church in the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Diocese of Laredo website

description: auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, titular Bishop of Ita, Bishop of Laredo

wikidata_label: James Anthony Tamayo

wikipedia_title: James Anthony Tamayo


text: Saudi

text: al-Qaeda

text: extrajudicial detention

text: United States

text: Guantanamo Bay detention camp

text: Cuba

text: Internment Serial Number

text: 9/11 Commission

text: Al Farouq

text: Mushabib al-Hamlan

text: visa

text: Geneva Conventions

text: the war on terror

text: competent tribunal

text: prisoner of war

text: Department of Defense

text: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

text: enemy combatant

text: Summary of Evidence memo

text: hunger strike

text: Qur'an desecration controversy

text: Combatant Status Review Tribunal

text: Administrative Review Board

text: Summary of Evidence memo

text: Administrative Review Board

text: Abu Hassan

text: Sheik Bin Gebreen

text: Sheik Bin Augla

text: jihad

text: Kut Kalif

text: Kabul

text: rocket-propelled grenade

text: Kut Bakrarn training camp

text: 324 Arabic names

text: suspicious lists

text: a chat session from 2 September 2002

text: Casio F91W

text: Summary of Evidence memo

text: Administrative Review Board

text: Department of Defense

categories: Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Khalid al-Zahrani

paragraph: A Saudi candidate to become one of the September 11 hijackers, Khalid Saeed Ahmad al-Zahrani (often misspelled as Zaharni) was an al-Qaeda member, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

paragraph: His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 234.

paragraph: His arrival in Guantanamo is recorded as February 11, 2002.

paragraph: His repatriation is recorded as July 17, 2007.

paragraph: His first interrogation is recorded on April 20, 2002 when his first interrogation is recorded.

paragraph: According to the 9/11 Commission, he attended "terrorist training camps", including Al Farouq in Afghanistan for eleven years. The 9/11 Commission reports:

paragraph: Khalid Saeed Ahmad al-Zahrani. He traveled to Afghanistan illegally after being prohibited by Saudi authorities from leaving Saudi Arabia. After being assigned to a mission in the U.S., he secretly reentered the Kingdom but failed in an attempt to have his name removed from the list of prohibited travelers so that he could obtain a U.S. visa. See Intelligence reports, interrogations of detainee, April 20, 2002; October 4, 2002; April 3, 2003.

paragraph: He was sent, but failed, to convince Mushabib al-Hamlan not to abandon his training, after Hamlan left the training camp to remain with his ill mother.

paragraph: He was later selected for an unknown mission in the United States, believed to have been the 9/11 hijackings, and re-entered Saudi Arabia to apply for a legitimate travel visa, but was denied an application because his name was on a Saudi watchlist of persons to be refused to travel outside the country.

paragraph: Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror.

paragraph: This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

paragraph: Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were "lawful combatants"—rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush administration's definition of an enemy combatant.

paragraph: Section::::Combatant Status Review Tribunal.:Summary of Evidence memo.

paragraph: A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Combatant Status Review Tribunal on September 24, 2004.

paragraph: The memo listed seven allegations:

paragraph: Section::::Hunger strike.

paragraph: In 2005, he partook in a hunger strike to protest the Qur'an desecration controversy

paragraph: Section::::Hunger strike.:Administrative Review Board.

paragraph: Detainees whose Combatant Status Review Tribunal labeled them "enemy combatants" were scheduled for annual Administrative Review Board hearings. These hearings were designed to assess the threat a detainee might pose if released or transferred, and whether there were other factors that warranted his continued detention.

paragraph: Section::::Hunger strike.:2005 Administrative Review Board hearing.

paragraph: Khalid al-Zahrani's first annual

paragraph: Administrative Review Board.

paragraph: The three page memo listed

paragraph: 16 "primary factors [which] favor continued detention" and

paragraph: 1 "primary factor [which] favors release or transfer".

paragraph: Among the factors al-Zahrani faced were:

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that he visited an audio store owned by "Abu Hassan", where he listened to jihad speeches.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that Sheik Bin Gebreen and Sheik Bin Augla gave him advice on travel routes for traveling to Afghanistan for jihad.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that he served on the front line in Kut Kalif in Kabul.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that ""was in a fighting position in the Tora Bora mountain region from 23 November 2001 until 18 December 2001.""

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that he trained on AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades at the Kut Bakrarn training camp in Kabul.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that his name was found on a list of 324 Arabic names, and several other suspicious lists.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that his name was found on a file ""titled 'al jawazat.doc' which translates to 'passports .doc'. This document contains tables labeled: name, nationality, safety-deposit box number, contents and comments."

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that ""a chat session from 2 September 2002 which contained the following entry: 'Khalid bin Muhammad bin'Ali al-Zahrani Abu al-Jarah from al Kharg-al Jazirah which is his parents.'"

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that he was in possession of a Casio F91W.

paragraph: Section::::Hunger strike.:2006 Administrative Review Board hearing.

paragraph: Khalid Mohammed Al Zahrani's second annual

paragraph: Administrative Review Board.

paragraph: The three page memo listed

paragraph: 20 "primary factors [which] favor continued detention" and

paragraph: Among the additional factors al-Zahrani faced were:

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that his name was found in a chat session recovered from the computer of one of the individuals involved in an attack on US Marines at Faylaka Island, Kuwait in October 2002.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that he traveled to Afghanistan in May 2001.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The allegation that his name was found on a list of mujahiden that arrived in Afghanistan in December 2001.

paragraph: Section::::Repatriation.

paragraph: On November 26, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of the dates captives were transferred from Guantanamo.

paragraph: According to that list Al Zahrani was repatriated on July 15, 2007.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Guantánamo Files: Website Extras (4) – Escape to Pakistan (The Saudis) Andy Worthington

wikidata_label: Khalid al-Zahrani

wikipedia_title: Khalid al-Zahrani


text:
English
House of Commons
Dukes of Westminster
Eaton Hall
Cheshire
Sir Richard Brooke
Norton Priory
puritan
Queen's College, Oxford
BA
High Sheriff of Cheshire
knight
James I
Vale Royal
Member of Parliament
Cheshire
baronet
High Sheriff of Cheshire
High Sheriff of Denbighshire
surety
Peter Daniell
Fleet Prison
Eccleston Church
Lettice Cholmondley
Sir Hugh Cholmondeley
Cholmondeley
Grafton
Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet

categories: 1585 births,Inmates of Fleet Prison,1645 deaths,High Sheriffs of Denbighshire,Grosvenor family,Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford,High Sheriffs of Cheshire,English MPs 1626,People of the Stuart period,Baronets in the Baronetage of England,English MPs 1621–1622

paragraph: Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet

paragraph: Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet (9 January 1585 – 14 September 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He is an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster.

paragraph: Grosvenor was born at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the only surviving son of 17 children. His father was Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, and his mother was Christian, the daughter of Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory, Cheshire. His early education was by John Bruen, a local puritan and at the age of 13 he went to Queen's College, Oxford. He matriculated in 1599 and graduated BA on 30 June 1602.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: In 1602 Grosvenor was High Sheriff of Cheshire. He was knighted by James I in Vale Royal on 24 August 1617. In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for Cheshire. He was created baronet on 23 February 1622. In 1623 he was High Sheriff of Cheshire again and in 1625 High Sheriff of Denbighshire. He was re-elected MP for Cheshire in 1626 and 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. His diary-taking has been described as meticulous and it is thought his diary taking represents some of the most complete accounts of Parliamentary debate from the period.

paragraph: Section::::Incarceration.

paragraph: Grosvenor stood surety for the debts of his son-in-law, Peter Daniell, but in 1629 Daniell defaulted on his debts, and for almost ten years Grosvenor was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison.

paragraph: Grosvenor died in Eaton Hall in 1645 and was buried in Eccleston Church.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Grosvenor married three times. His first marriage was in 1600 to Lettice Cholmondley, daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley, Cheshire. With her he had a son and three daughters. Lettice died in 1612 and two years later he married Elizabeth Wilbraham, the daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, Cheshire. Following her death in 1621 he married Elizabeth Warburton, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Peter Warburton of Grafton, also in Cheshire. His third wife died in 1627. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet.

paragraph: Section::::Styles of address.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1585–1617: "Mr" Richard Grosvenor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1617–1622: "Sir" Richard Grosvenor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1622–1645: "Sir" Richard Grosvenor, Bt

description: English politician

wikidata_label: Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet


text:
Weiz
Swiss
Josef Anton Henne
Bern
Geneva
Leipzig
Hirschberg (Silesia)
freemasons

wikipedia_title:
Weiz
Swiss people
Josef Anton Henne
Bern
Geneva
Leipzig
Jelenia Góra
Freemasonry

categories: 1828 births,People from St. Gallen (city),Swiss writers,1914 deaths

paragraph: Otto Henne am Rhyn

paragraph: Otto Henne am Rhyn (August 26, 1828 in St. Gallen – April 30, 1914 in Weiz) was a Swiss writer.

paragraph: He was a son of Josef Anton Henne called "von Sargans". After marrying Elisabeth am Rhyn, a member of the important Lucerne family am Rhyn, he added her name to his own family name. After studying philosophy and history in Bern and Geneva, he became a teacher at a school in St. Gallen in 1857. Between 1859 and 1877, as well as between 1885 and 1912, he was state archivist in St. Gallen. Between 1872 and 1879, he had been an editor in Leipzig and Hirschberg (Silesia), from 1879 to 1885 at the NZZ. Since 1861, he was an active member of the freemasons.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Geschichte des Schweizervolkes und seiner Kultur von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart" (1865–1866)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Kreuzzüge und die Kultur ihrer Zeit" (1 vol - 1880? - illustré par Gustave Doré)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes" (2 volumes, 1886)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Geschichte des Kantons St. Gallen" (2 volumes, 1863–1896)

description: Swiss writer

wikidata_label: Otto Henne am Rhyn

wikipedia_title: Otto Henne am Rhyn


text: Major League Baseball

text: shortstop

text: Long Island Ducks

text: New York Mets

text: Philadelphia Phillies

text: Texas Rangers

text: manager

text: New York Mets Hall of Fame

text: batting average

text: home run

text: fielding percentage

text: Gold Glove

text: National League

text: Most Valuable Player Award

text: National League East

text: Jerry Koosman

text: San Diego Padres

text: Clay Kirby

text: Shea Stadium

text: bullpen

text: extra innings

text: single

text: Cleon Jones

text: Chicago Cubs

text: double header

text: Montreal Expos

text: Steve Carlton

text: St. Louis Cardinals

text: runs batted in

text: runs scored

text: Atlanta Braves

text: triple

text: double

text: starter

text: Jon Matlack

text: Cincinnati Reds

text: Riverfront Stadium

text: Big Red Machine

text: second baseman

text: Joe Morgan

text: Pete Rose

text: John Milner

text: Sparky Anderson

text: Yogi Berra

text: Willie Mays

text: Tom Seaver

text: Cleon Jones

text: Rusty Staub

text: Chub Feeney

text: Tim Foli

text: New York Mets Hall of Fame

text: Little Falls Mets

text: Columbia Mets

text: third base coach

text: Bobby Valentine

text: Davey Johnson

text: 1986 World Series

text: 1991 season

text: Pittsburgh Pirates

text: Mike Cubbage

text: Chicago Cubs

text: radio

text: New York

text: WFAN

text: Howie Rose

text: D-Day

text: Hayward, California

text: Sunset High School

text: Everybody Loves Raymond

text: Hauppauge, New York

text: first base coach

text: Long Island Ducks

text: minor league baseball

text: Alzheimer's disease

text: Bud Harrelson

text: Bud Harrelson

text: Bud Harrelson

text: Bud Harrelson

categories: Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players,New York Mets players,Salinas Mets players,Philadelphia Phillies players,New York Mets broadcasters,San Francisco State Gators baseball players,Major League Baseball shortstops,Texas Rangers players,National League All-Stars,New York Mets coaches,Baseball players from California,People from Hayward, California,People from Fremont, California,Major League Baseball broadcasters,People from Hauppauge, New York,1944 births,New York Mets managers,Living people,Gold Glove Award winners,New York Mets scouts,Jacksonville Suns players,Sportspeople from Hayward, California

paragraph: Bud Harrelson

paragraph: Derrel McKinley "Bud" Harrelson (born June 6, 1944) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop. He is a coach and part-owner for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He played for the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Texas Rangers from to . After retiring, he served as a coach for the World Champion Mets, and as manager of the Mets in 1990 and 1991. He was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in . Harrelson is the only person to take part in both of the Mets' World Series championships; he won in 1969 as a player and in 1986 as a coach.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Harrelson anchored the Mets' infield for thirteen seasons, including their season, and pennant-winning season. Harrelson was typical of shortstops of his era: good fielder, poor hitter. He had a lifetime batting average of .236 and hit a total of seven home runs during his fifteen-year major league career, but had a lifetime .969 fielding percentage, and won a Gold Glove at his position in . He was a National League All-Star in 1970 and received Most Valuable Player Award consideration despite batting only .243 for the season.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:New York Mets.:Amazin' Mets.

paragraph: On May 28, 1969, after a five-game losing streak that saw the Mets fall into fourth place in the newly aligned National League East, Jerry Koosman and the San Diego Padres' Clay Kirby engaged in a pitchers' duel at Shea Stadium. After nine scoreless innings by Kirby and ten by Koosman, the game was turned over to the bullpens for extra innings. The game finally ended after eleven innings when Harrelson hit a single to drive in Cleon Jones. This led to an eleven-game winning streak that brought them back into second place, seven games back of the Chicago Cubs. Before the streak, the Mets' record was 18-23; they went 82-39 over the rest of the season.

paragraph: On September 10 the Mets swept a double header against the Montreal Expos. Coupled with a loss by the Cubs, the Mets jumped into first place for the first time in franchise history. On September 24, the New York Mets clinched the NL East with a 6-0 victory over Steve Carlton and the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets won 38 of their last 50 games, and finished the season with 100 wins against 62 losses, eight games over the second place Cubs. For his part, Harrelson batted .248 with no home runs, 24 runs batted in and 42 runs scored. He had a .969 fielding percentage in 119 games at shortstop.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:New York Mets.:1969 postseason.

paragraph: Harrelson had only two hits in the 1969 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, however, they were a go-ahead triple in the fourth inning of the first game, and an RBI double in game two of the Mets' three game sweep.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:New York Mets.:Fight with Pete Rose.

paragraph: Harrelson's light hitting became the subject of controversy during the 1973 National League Championship Series. Mets starter Jon Matlack held the Cincinnati Reds to two hits in his 5-0 complete game victory in game two of the series at Riverfront Stadium. Following the game, Harrelson commented, "He made the Big Red Machine look like me hitting today."

paragraph: Inadvertently providing the Reds with bulletin board material, Harrelson was confronted by Reds second baseman Joe Morgan during pregame warm-ups for game three. During this confrontation, he received the warning that batting champion Pete Rose was unhappy with the quote.

paragraph: In the fifth inning, Morgan hit a double play ball to Mets first baseman John Milner with Rose on first. Whether Rose slid hard into second attempting to break up the double play or if Harrelson was overly sensitive due to the warning he received is a matter of debate. Regardless, a fight between the two erupted, resulting in a bench-clearing brawl. The game was nearly called off when, after the Reds took the field, the Shea Stadium crowd threw objects from the stands at Rose, causing Reds manager Sparky Anderson to pull his team off the field until order was restored. Mets Manager Yogi Berra and players Willie Mays, Tom Seaver, Cleon Jones, and Rusty Staub were actually summoned by NL President Chub Feeney out to left field to calm the fans.

paragraph: When order was restored, the Mets went on to defeat the Reds handily in game three by a score of 9-2. Although the Reds forced a deciding game five when Pete Rose hit the game-winning home run in the 12th inning of game 4, the Mets ultimately won the pennant after the game five win.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Phillies and Rangers.

paragraph: After reacquiring former #1 overall pick Tim Foli, the Mets dealt Harrelson to the Philadelphia Phillies prior to the start of the season. Rose and Harrelson actually became teammates when Rose signed with the Phillies as a free agent prior to the start of the season. After two seasons with the Phillies, Harrelson spent one season with the Texas Rangers before retiring.

paragraph: In , Harrelson was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame.

paragraph: Section::::Post playing career.

paragraph: After his retirement, Harrelson managed the Little Falls Mets in and the Columbia Mets in . When Mets third base coach Bobby Valentine accepted a managerial position with the Texas Rangers part way through the 1985 season, Harrelson replaced him on Davey Johnson's coaching staff.

paragraph: Harrelson was a coach with the Mets during their 1986 World Series championship season, and eventually replaced Johnson following his dismissal as Mets manager 42 games into the season. He led the Mets to their seventh consecutive winning season, finishing at 91-71 and earning another season as manager. Although the Mets were contenders for most of the first half of the 1991 season and were as close as 2.5 games behind the eventual division winning Pittsburgh Pirates, the team collapsed in the second half and Harrelson was fired with a week remaining in the season and replaced by his third base coach, Mike Cubbage. His second season ended with a 74-80 record; the Mets finished at 77-84, one-half game behind the fourth place Chicago Cubs.

paragraph: During the 1990 season, Harrelson hosted his own radio show called "The Bud Harrelson Report" in New York on then-Mets flagship station WFAN but ended it prematurely early in the 1991 season because Harrelson felt some of Howie Rose's questions he posed to him were too negative.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Harrelson was born on D-Day: June 6, 1944. He grew up in Hayward, California, where he attended Sunset High School, graduating in 1962. He married his first wife, Yvonne, on December 17, 1965. They later divorced, and Harrelson married Kim Battaglia in 1975. Bud's children are Kimberly, Jessica, Timothy, Alexandra, Kassandra, and Troy Joseph. He appeared as himself in a episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" along with several other members of the 1969 Mets. Harrelson has resided in Hauppauge, New York, and, in 2000, became co-owner, Senior Vice President for Baseball Operations and first base coach of the Long Island Ducks, an unaffiliated minor league baseball team. Harrelson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bud Harrelson at SABR (Baseball BioProject)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bud Harrelson at Baseball Almanac

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bud Harrelson at Baseball Library

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bud Harrelson at Ultimate Mets Database

description: American baseball player and coach

wikidata_label: Bud Harrelson

wikipedia_title: Bud Harrelson


text: VC

text: Wexford

text: Irish

text: Victoria Cross

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: lance corporal

text: 84th Regiment

text: British Army

text: Indian Mutiny

text: Lucknow

text: British India

text: Sergeant

text: Clapham

text: The York & Lancaster Regiment Museum

text: Rotherham

text: South Yorkshire

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

text: Ireland's VCs

text: Monuments to Courage

text: Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross

text: Location of grave and VC medal

categories: People from Wexford, County Wexford,19th-century Irish people,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,1896 deaths,1829 births,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,Irish soldiers in the British Army,York and Lancaster Regiment soldiers

paragraph: John Sinnott

paragraph: John Sinnott VC (1829 – 20 July 1896) was born in Wexford and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: He was about 28 years old, and a lance corporal in the 84th Regiment (later the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 6 October 1857 at Lucknow, British India for which he was awarded the VC:

paragraph: Section::::Further information.

paragraph: Elected by the regiment. He later achieved the rank of Sergeant. He died at Clapham, London on 20 July 1896.

paragraph: Section::::The medal.

paragraph: His Victoria Cross is displayed at The York & Lancaster Regiment Museum, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Listed in order of publication year

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

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

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

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

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of grave and VC medal "(Surrey)"

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: John Sinnott

wikipedia_title: John Sinnott


text:
Major-General
British Army
Victoria Cross
Commonwealth
Thurso
Sedbergh School
Royal Horse Artillery
Military Cross
Second World War
major
4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
lieutenant colonel
7th Armoured Division
Support Group
William Gott
British Army
Italians
Archibald Wavell
flying column
Jock column
Operation "Compass"
Italian Tenth Army
Distinguished Service Order
brigadier
Operation "Crusader"
Sidi Rezegh
Tobruk
Afrika Korps
Alan Moorehead
Victoria Cross
Johann von Ravenstein
21st Panzer Division
Major-General
7th Armoured Division
XIII Corps
Roy Farran
Aide-de-Camp
Western Desert Campaign
Eighth Army
North Africa
Royal Artillery Museum
London Gazette
Sedbergh
Flore

categories: British military personnel killed in World War II,Recipients of the Military Cross,People from Thurso,1942 deaths,British Army personnel of World War I,British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross,Royal Horse Artillery officers,Companions of the Distinguished Service Order,People educated at Sedbergh School,Clan Campbell,1894 births,British Army generals of World War II

paragraph: Jock Campbell (British Army officer)

paragraph: Major-General John Charles Campbell, (10 January 1894 – 26 February 1942), known as Jock Campbell, was a British Army officer and a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and career.

paragraph: Campbell was born in Thurso and educated at Sedbergh School. In 1915, he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Artillery. He became a first class horseman (in the top flight at both polo and hunting) and also a first class artillery officer. He was awarded the Military Cross in the First World War.

paragraph: Section::::Second World War.

paragraph: When the Second World War broke out Campbell was 45 years old and a major commanding a battery in the 4th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in Egypt. When Italy declared war in June 1940, Campbell, by then a lieutenant colonel, was commanding the artillery component of 7th Armoured Division's Support Group under Brigadier William Gott. The British Army was heavily outnumbered by the Italians, so General Archibald Wavell formulated a plan with his senior commanders to retain the initiative by harassing the enemy using mobile all-arms flying columns. Campbell's brilliant command of one of these columns led to their being given the generic name "Jock columns" (although it is unclear if the idea originated with Campbell or not).

paragraph: During Operation "Compass" Campbell's guns played an important role in 7th Support Group's involvement in the decisive battle at Beda Fomm in February 1941 which led to the surrender of the Italian Tenth Army. In April 1941 Campbell was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).

paragraph: In September 1941 Gott was promoted to command 7th Armoured Division and Campbell took over command 7th Support Group as an acting brigadier. In November 1941 during Operation "Crusader", 7th Support Group was occupying the airfield at Sidi Rezegh, south of Tobruk, together with 7th Armoured Brigade. On 21 November 1941 they were attacked by the two armoured divisions of the Afrika Korps. The British tanks suffered heavy losses but prevented the Germans taking the airfield. Brigadier Campbell's small force, holding important ground, was repeatedly attacked and wherever the fighting was hardest he was to be seen either on foot, in his open car or astride a tank. According to Alan Moorehead,

paragraph: The following day he was again at the forefront, encouraging his troops through continued enemy attacks. He personally directed the fire of his batteries, and twice manned a gun himself to replace casualties. Though wounded, he refused to be evacuated during the final German attack. His leadership did much to maintain the fighting spirit of his men, and resulted in heavy casualties being inflicted upon the enemy. The fighting continued on 23 November, but with 7th Armoured Brigade destroyed and the 5th South African Infantry Brigade being decimated, Campbell withdrew the remains of his support group to the south. For his actions during the battle, Campbell was awarded the Victoria Cross.

paragraph: He purportedly received a letter of congratulation from General Johann von Ravenstein, commander of the 21st Panzer Division, one of the armoured formations which Campbell had faced at Sidi Rezegh. When interviewed later as a prisoner of war, Ravenstein freely expressed his "greatest admiration" for Campbell's skill on "those hot days" and recalled "all the many iron that flew near the aerodrome around our ears".

paragraph: In February 1942 Campbell was promoted Major-General and given command of 7th Armoured Division, while Gott was promoted from the 7th to lead XIII Corps.

paragraph: Three weeks after his promotion Campbell was killed when his jeep overturned on a newly laid clay road. The driver of the jeep, Major Roy Farran, and the other passengers were thrown clear from the wreck and knocked unconscious. Farran had been Campbell's Aide-de-Camp, and later admitted considering suicide while waiting for medical help.

paragraph: During the Western Desert Campaign Campbell was considered one of finest commanders in the Eighth Army, an old desert hand who had been in North Africa from the start of the war. His loss was deeply felt.

paragraph: Section::::Victoria Cross.

paragraph: His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich, England. The citation for the award was published in the "London Gazette" on 30 January 1942, reading:

paragraph: Section::::Further information.

paragraph: A memorial to Campbell stands in his old school, Sedbergh, commemorating his brave deeds.

paragraph: There is a plaque and bench on a seaside walk in his home town in his honour. Major-General Campbell is also recorded on the War memorial in the village of Flore, 7 miles West of Northampton.

alias:
John Charles Campbell
John Campbell

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Jock Campbell

wikipedia_title: Jock Campbell (British Army officer)


text:
VC
Victoria Cross
Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand
India
Hospital Apprentice
Indian Medical Establishment
Indian Army
67th Regiment
Third China War
capture
Taku Forts
China
dhoolie-bearer
Thomas Flinn
Jack Cornwell
Battle of Jutland
Apothecary
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross
Monuments to Courage
The Register of the Victoria Cross
Hospital-Apprentice A. Fitzgibbon

categories: 1845 births,19th-century Irish people,1883 deaths,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,Irish soldiers in the British Indian Army

paragraph: Andrew Fitzgibbon

paragraph: Andrew Fitzgibbon VC (13 May 1845 – 7 March 1883) was an Irish soldier, and possibly the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Fitzgibbon was born in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India. He was fifteen years old, and a Hospital Apprentice in the Indian Medical Establishment, Indian Army, attached to the 67th Regiment (later The Royal Hampshire Regiment) during the Third China War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

paragraph: On 21 August 1860 at the capture of the Northern of the Taku Forts, China, Hospital Apprentice Fitzgibbon accompanied a wing of the 67th Regiment when it took up a position within 500 yards of the fort. He then proceeded, under heavy fire, to attend a dhoolie-bearer, whose wound he had been directed to bind up, and while the regiment was advancing under the enemy's fire, he ran across the open ground to attend to another wounded man. In doing so he was himself severely wounded.

paragraph: Section::::Further information.

paragraph: Acknowledged to be youngest recipient of the VC (aged 15 years, 3 months), with Thomas Flinn. Jack Cornwell was 16 years old when he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross after the Battle of Jutland.

paragraph: Fitzgibbon later achieved the rank of Apothecary. He died in Delhi, India on 7 March 1883. He is believed to have been buried with his Victoria Cross.

paragraph: Section::::References.

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

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hospital-Apprentice A. Fitzgibbon

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Andrew Fitzgibbon

wikipedia_title: Andrew Fitzgibbon


text:
VC
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Boatswain
Royal Navy
Crimean War
Taganrog
Crimea
HMS "Miranda"
Cecil William Buckley
Imperial War Museum
Location of grave and VC medal

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,1893 deaths,Crimean War recipients of the Victoria Cross,1825 births,Royal Navy personnel of the Crimean War,Royal Navy sailors,People from Plymouth

paragraph: Henry Cooper (VC)

paragraph: Henry Cooper VC (1825 – 15 July 1893) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: He was about 30 years old, and a Boatswain in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

paragraph: Section::::Action.

paragraph: On 3 June 1855 at Taganrog, Sea of Azov, Crimea, Boatswain Cooper of HMS "Miranda" together with a lieutenant (Cecil William Buckley) landed while the town was actually under bombardment by the Allied Squadron. It was garrisoned by 3,000 Russian troops, but the two men landed at several places and set fire to government buildings and destroyed enemy equipment and arms. They were under fire themselves for most of the time.

paragraph: His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of grave and VC medal "(Cornwall)"

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Henry Cooper

wikipedia_title: Henry Cooper (VC)


text:
VC
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
private
The South Wales Borderers
British Army
Andaman Islands Expedition
Andaman Islands
Little Andaman
India
Bay of Bengal
David Bell
Campbell Mellis Douglas
William Griffiths
Thomas Murphy
Warstone Lane Cemetery
Birmingham
Location of grave and VC medal

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,1889 deaths,South Wales Borderers soldiers,1840 births,People from Birmingham, West Midlands

paragraph: James Cooper (VC)

paragraph: James Cooper VC (September 1840 – 9 August 1889) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Cooper was about 27 years old and a private in the 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot (later The South Wales Borderers), British Army during the Andaman Islands Expedition. The Cross was not awarded for bravery in action against the enemy, but for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands.

paragraph: On 7 May 1867 at the island of Little Andaman, eastern India, in the Bay of Bengal, Private Cooper was one of a party of five (David Bell, Campbell Mellis Douglas, William Griffiths, Thomas Murphy) of 2/24th Regiment. They risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through dangerous surf to rescue some of their comrades who had been sent to the island to find out the fate of the commander and seven of the crew, who had landed from the ship "Assam Valley" and were feared murdered by the cannibalistic islanders.

paragraph: The citation was gazetted on 17 December 1867:

paragraph: THE Queen has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officer and Private Soldiers of Her Majesty's Army, whose claims to the same have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, for their gallant conduct at the Little Andaman Island, as recorded against their names, viz. :—

paragraph: 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment: Assistant-Surgeon Campbell Millis Douglas, M.D, Private Thomas Murphy, Private James Cooper, Private David Bell, Private William Griffiths.

paragraph: For the very gallant and daring manner in which, on the 7th of May, 1867, they risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through a dangerous surf to the rescue of some of their comrades, who formed part of an expedition which had been sent to the Island of Little Andaman, by order of the Chief Commissioner of British Burmah, with the view of ascertaining the fate of the Commander and seven of the crew of the ship " Assam Valley," who had landed there, and were supposed to have been murdered by the

paragraph: natives.

paragraph: The officer who commanded the troops on the occasion reports : About an hour later in the day Dr. Douglas, 2nd Battalion, 24th

paragraph: ."Regiment, and the four Privates referred" to, gallantly manning the second gig, made their way through the surf almost to the shore, but finding their boat was half filled with water, they retired. A second attempt made by Dr. Douglas and party proved successful, five of us being safely passed through the surf to the boats outside. A third and last trip got the whole of the party left on shore safe to the boats. It is stated that Dr. Douglas accomplished these trips through the surf to the shore by no ordinary exertion. He stood in the bows of the boat, and worked her in an intrepid and seamanlike manner, cool to a degree, as

paragraph: if what he was then doing was an ordinary act of every-day life. The four Privates behaved in an equally cool and collected manner, rowing through the roughest surf when the slightest hesitation or want of pluck on the part of any one of them would have been

paragraph: attended by the gravest results. It is reported that seventeen officers and men were thus saved from what must otherwise have been a fearful risk, if not certainty of death.

paragraph: Cooper is buried at Warstone Lane Cemetery, in Birmingham.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of grave and VC medal "(Birmingham)"

description: English recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: James Cooper

wikipedia_title: James Cooper (VC)


text: VC

text: Irish

text: Victoria Cross

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: Cork, Ireland

text: Crimean War

text: 47th Regiment of Foot

text: Taku Forts

text: China

text: Second China War

text: Private

text: 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

text: The Royal Hampshire Regiment

text: Nathaniel Burslem

text: Winchester

text: Hampshire

text: Anglo-Zulu War

text: Rorke's Drift

text: Basutoland

text: Kimberley

text: South Africa

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

text: Ireland's VCs

text: Monuments to Courage

text: Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross

categories: Royal Hampshire Regiment soldiers,1836 births,Victoria Cross forfeitures,1889 deaths,19th-century Irish people,People from County Cork,British Army personnel of the Crimean War,British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,British Army personnel of the Second Opium War,British colonial army soldiers,Irish soldiers in the British Army

paragraph: Thomas Lane (VC)

paragraph: Thomas Lane VC (May 1836 – 12 April 1889) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: He was born in Cork, Ireland in May 1836, and served throughout the Crimean War in the 47th Regiment of Foot.

paragraph: Section::::Detail.

paragraph: On 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, during the Second China War, Lane, then aged 24 and a Private in the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot (later The Royal Hampshire Regiment), British Army and a lieutenant (Nathaniel Burslem) of his regiment displayed great gallantry. They swam the ditches of the North Taku Fort and attempted, during the assault and before an entrance had been effected by anyone, to enlarge an opening in the wall, through which they eventually entered. In doing so, they were both severely wounded. For this action both men were awarded the Victoria Cross. His medal is displayed at The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum & Memorial Garden in Winchester, Hampshire, England.

paragraph: He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War as a Sergeant with the 3/NNC. This unit was disbanded at Rorke's Drift after the siege and the officers and non-commissioned officers formed three troops of the Natal Horse. He also fought in Landrey's Light horse in Basutoland 1881–82. His VC gratuity was paid from the consulate in Boston, USA, and also in Auckland, New Zealand, during the 1870s. Lane was one of eight men whose VCs were forfeited. He was stripped of the medal on 7 April 1881 after being convicted of desertion on active service and theft of a "horse, arms and accoutrements". He died in Kimberley, South Africa on 12 April 1889 as a member of the Kimberley Police.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

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

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

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

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

description: Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Thomas Lane

wikipedia_title: Thomas Lane (VC)