text: FRSAMD

text: patron

text: Aberdeen International Youth Festival

text: Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society

text: Isle of Wight

text: Arthur Boissier

text: Harrow School

text: Haddo House

text: Ellon, Aberdeenshire

text: Gordon family

text: Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society

text: Aberdeenshire

text: Haddo House

text: Aberdeen

text: National Trust for Scotland

text: Royal College of Music

text: Handel's 'Messiah'

text: Elsie Suddaby

text: St Matthew Passion

text: Leon Goosens

text: Elgar

text: Delius

text: Tippett

text: Vaughan Williams

text: Scotland

text: Janet Baker

text: Rosalind Sutherland

text: Verdi

text: Carmen

text: Madame Butterfly

text: San Francisco Opera House

text: Judith Lovat

text: Philadelphia Opera

text: Benjamin Britten

text: Ralph Vaughan Williams

text: Willard White

text: Sarah Walker

text: Neil Mackie

text: Finland

text: Denmark

text: America

text: Shakespeare

text: Prince Edward

text: Cornerstone Community Care

text: North East of Scotland Music School

text: Laurence Broderick

text: Aberdeen International Youth Festival

text: Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society

categories: Dames Grand Cross of the Order of St John,Deputy Lieutenants of Aberdeenshire,Alumni of the Royal College of Music,2009 deaths,Commanders of the Order of the British Empire,1913 births,British marchionesses,Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

paragraph: Beatrice Mary June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, , FRSAMD (née Boissier; 29 December 1913 – 22 June 2009), commonly known as Lady Aberdeen, was a professional musician and patron of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival and founder and Musical Director of Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: She was born in 1913 on the Isle of Wight to Arthur Boissier and Dorothy Christina Leslie, daughter of Rev. Clement Smith, rector of Whippingham and canon of Windsor. Trained as a pianist and conductor, she met David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair at Harrow School where her father was Headmaster. They married on 29 April 1939, and lived at Haddo House, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, home of the Gordon family. They adopted four children who were, until 2004, not entitled to either courtesy titles or for the elder son to inherit the peerage:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Mary Katherine Gordon (b. 30 May 1946), married Simon Piers Welfare and had issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Sarah Caroline Gordon (b. 25 March 1948), married Mr. P. Scott and had issue; then remarried Eric N Money with one son.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord Andrew David Gordon (b. 6 March 1950), married Lucy Mary Frances Milligan and had issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord James Drummond Gordon (b. 11 April 1953), married Marilyn Sim

paragraph: Until 2004 adopted children of peers had no right to any courtesy title. However, as a result of a Royal Warrant dated 30 April 2004 adopted children are now automatically entitled to such styles and courtesy titles as their siblings. However, as with illegitimate children where legitimated, such children have no rights to inheritance of peerages, although Scottish peerages rules of descent differ.

paragraph: They founded the Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society in 1945 in order to give additional cultural opportunities to the residents of Aberdeenshire. Haddo House, is surrounded by gardens, park and lake with abundant Scottish wildlife and boasts a wooden built theatre (Haddo House Hall) which was originally built as a tennis court but is now a fully operational theatre and concert hall. The Haddo estate is a uniquely beautiful and peaceful setting for concerts, operas and other shows. Situated 20 miles north of Aberdeen, the House is now administered by the National Trust for Scotland.

paragraph: Known professionally as June Gordon, a graduate of the Royal College of Music, Lady Aberdeen was a pianist and conductor by training and she developed Haddo's musical programme with great enterprise. The first recorded concert was a Christmas Carol service in Haddo House Chapel in 1945, which still occurs annually. Under June’s baton the society widened its repertoire developing a tradition for presenting major British works – both Operas and concerts. She started with directing Handel's 'Messiah' with soloist Elsie Suddaby in 1947 and other highlights have included 1950's Bach's 'St Matthew Passion' with oboist Leon Goosens in a solo role and major choral works by Elgar, Delius, Tippett, Vaughan Williams and Howells and many operas which require chorus.

paragraph: A succession of internationally renowned artists have helped make this North East Scotland venue a lively stage for the very best in choral, operatic and drama productions: Dame Janet Baker was asked to perform there immediately on graduating from the Royal College of Music because Lady Aberdeen thought her "promising". Glasgow-born Rosalind Sutherland first performed Desdemona in Verdi's opera "Otello" at Haddo in 1996, and returned as Micaela in "Carmen" in 1997, before finding fame taking the title role in 'Madame Butterfly' at the San Francisco Opera House. Judith Lovat, now with the Philadelphia Opera, gained early experience at Haddo. Other eminent musicians to appear have included: Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Willard White, Sarah Walker, and Neil Mackie. In recent years there have been visiting performers from France, Finland, Denmark, Germany and America. For many years a Summer Play was also produced, using the renowned Globe Stage in the Hall for Shakespeare one year and presenting another playwright's work the next, but this has recently been discontinued. As a young man Prince Edward appeared several times in these productions.

paragraph: Many young people who have grown up in the area have performed at Haddo and gone on to study music and the performing arts at tertiary level. Students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama take part in the opera every year, gaining invaluable experience in the orchestra, chorus and/or taking small singing roles. The Society is now 65 years old and presents an annual programme of opera, oratorio and carols. Professional pianist and singing teacher Alice E Dennis GTCL trains the chorus. HHCOS prides itself on its high standard of performance, achieved by the local community working alongside the professional artists brought in for producing and designing the opera, for the major solo roles and for playing in the orchestra for the opera and concerts alike. The facilities at Haddo comprise a purpose built rehearsal room, and the theatre known as "Haddo House Hall" for performances. The Choral Society also uses the tiny and picturesque Chapel, attached to the side of the main House for their popular carol concerts. These venues are a delight for both artists and their audiences. The umbrella organisation at Haddo house; the "Haddo User Group" involves over 200 members of all ages and backgrounds, who take part in a wide range of productions including the opera, large choral concerts and carol concerts. There are also musical shows from Haddo Youth Music Theatre and the Haddo Children's Theatre and youth concerts involving the two award winning Haddo Youth and Children's Choirs. She was President of the RSCDS (Royal Scottish Country Dance Society) Aberdeen Branch until her death.

paragraph: Section::::Death/legacy.

paragraph: Lady Aberdeen was a Patron of leading Scottish learning disabilities charity Cornerstone Community Care, and Chairman of the North East of Scotland Music School. She received the MBE in 1971 and CBE in 1989. She died in June 2009, aged 95.

paragraph: A sculpture of June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was commissioned from Laurence Broderick.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aberdeen International Youth Festival

paragraph: BULLET::::- Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society

description: English pianist and conductor


text:
Joan of Arc
Vouthon-Bas
Jacques d'Arc
Domrémy
Orléans
Pope Nicholas V
Vouthon-Bas
Domrémy
Jacques d'Arc
Catholic
spinning wool
Pierre
Orléans
Pope Nicholas V
Jean Bréhal
Pope Callixtus III
Paris
Holy See
baptism
confirmation
Jeanne D'Alcy
Joan of Arc
Jeanne Calvière
Selena Royle
Joan of Arc
Ingrid Bergman
Tatiana Moukhine
Joan the Maiden
Sandrine Bonnaire
Jacqueline Bisset
Joan of Arc
Leelee Sobieski
Regine Delalin
Lise Leplat Prudhomme
Glenn Close
The Mother of the Maid
Public Theater
Joan of Arc bibliography
Isabelle Romee page at MaidofHeaven

categories: 14th-century French people,Joan of Arc,1458 deaths,French untitled nobility,14th-century French women,People from Meuse (department),15th-century French people,1377 births

paragraph: Isabelle Romée

paragraph: Isabelle Romée, also known as Isabelle de Vouthon and Isabelle d'Arc (1377–1458) and Ysabeau Romee, was the mother of Joan of Arc. She grew up in Vouthon-Bas and later married Jacques d'Arc. The couple moved to Domrémy, where they owned a farm consisting of about of land. After their daughter's famous activities in 1429, the family was granted noble status by Charles VII in December of that year. Isabelle moved to Orléans in 1440 after her husband's death and received a pension from the city. She petitioned Pope Nicholas V to reopen the court case that had convicted Joan of heresy, and then, in her seventies, addressed the opening session of the appellate trial at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The appeals court overturned Joan's conviction on 7 July 1456. Isabelle died two years later, probably at Sandillon near Orléans.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Isabelle Romée was a native of Vouthon-Bas, a village near Domrémy where she and her husband Jacques d'Arc settled. Together they owned about of land and a modest house. Isabelle Romée may have earned her surname from a pilgrimage to Rome. Surnames were not universal in the early 15th century and a woman could be known by a different one from her husband.

paragraph: Isabelle Romée gave her daughter a religious, Catholic upbringing and taught her the craft of spinning wool. She also had three sons, Jacquemin, Jean, and Pierre, and a daughter named Catherine, though little is known about her life. Like the rest of the immediate family, she was ennobled by royal grant on 29 December 1429. She moved to Orléans in 1440 after her husband's death and received a pension from the city.

paragraph: Isabelle Romée spent the rest of her life restoring her daughter's name. She petitioned Pope Nicholas V to reopen the court case that had convicted Joan of heresy. An inquiry finally opened in 1449. The chief inquisitor of France, Jean Bréhal, took up the case and conducted an initial investigation in May 1452. On 7 November 1455, after the reign of Pope Callixtus III had begun, Isabelle traveled to Paris to visit the delegation from the Holy See. Although she was over seventy years old, she addressed the assembly with a moving speech. It began, "I had a daughter, born in legitimate marriage, whom I fortified worthily with the sacraments of baptism and confirmation and raised in the fear of God and respect for the tradition of the Church," and ended, "…without any aid given to her innocence in a perfidious, violent, and iniquitous trial, without a shadow of right… they condemned her in a damnable and criminal fashion and made her die most cruelly by fire." Isabelle attended most of the appellate trial sessions despite poor health. The appeals court overturned the conviction on 7 July 1456.

paragraph: Isabelle died on 28 November 1458, likely in the village of Sandillon near Orleans.

paragraph: Section::::Portrayals.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jeanne D'Alcy in the 1900 film "Joan of Arc" starring Jeanne Calvière.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Selena Royle in the 1948 film "Joan of Arc" starring Ingrid Bergman.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tatiana Moukhine in the 1994 film "Joan the Maiden" starring Sandrine Bonnaire.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacqueline Bisset in the 1999 television miniseries "Joan of Arc" starring Leelee Sobieski.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Regine Delalin in the 2017 musical film "" starring Lise Leplat Prudhomme.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Glenn Close in the 2018 theater play "The Mother of the Maid" at the Public Theater in New York City

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::1. As inscribed on a memorial plaque in Notre-Dame Cathedral dated April 22, 1894.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. .

paragraph: BULLET::::3. .

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joan of Arc bibliography

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isabelle Romee page at MaidofHeaven

description: French noble

wikidata_label: Isabelle Romée

wikipedia_title: Isabelle Romée


text:
Irish
journalist
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish Land League
Ratoath
County Meath
Irish nationalism
Nation
Tablet
Land League
Irish Parliamentary Party
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish Land League
Charles Stewart Parnell
Phoenix Park murders
The Times
Parnell Commission
Plan of Campaign
Henry Labouchère
Spain
Madrid
House of Commons
Members of Parliament

categories: Suicides by firearm in Spain,Male suicides,1889 deaths,People from County Meath,1838 births,Male journalists,Irish journalists,19th-century journalists,Forgers,19th-century male writers,Irish newspaper editors

paragraph: Richard Pigott

paragraph: Richard Pigott (1835—1 March 1889) was an Irish journalist, best known for his forging of evidence that Charles Stewart Parnell of the Irish Land League had been involved in the murders of senior British government representatives. Parnell successfully sued for libel and Pigott shot himself.

paragraph: Section::::Journalist.

paragraph: Pigott was born in Ratoath, County Meath. As a young man he supported Irish nationalism and worked on the "Nation" and the "Tablet" before acting as manager of "The Irishman", a newspaper founded by Denis Holland. James O'Connor later claimed Pigott embezzled funds from the paper (Holland, who had no business sense, left its affairs to Pigott) and covered his tracks by not keeping written records. Pigott also worked for the Land League, departing in 1883 after accusing its treasurer, Mr Fagan, of being unable to account for £100,000 of its funds (), and for keeping inadequate records. Nothing was done about his accusation, which was publicised in the newspapers, and he turned against the League, which was allied to several Irish nationalist groups including the Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.

paragraph: Section::::The forgeries.

paragraph: In 1879 Pigott was proprietor of three newspapers, which he soon sold to the Irish Land League, of which Charles Stewart Parnell was president. Hitherto a violent Nationalist, from 1884 Pigott began to vilify his former associates and to sell information to their political opponents. In an effort to destroy Parnell's career, Pigott produced fake letters, which purported that Parnell had supported one of the Phoenix Park murders.

paragraph: "The Times" bought Pigott's forgeries for £1,780 () and published the most damning letter on 18 April 1887. Parnell immediately denounced it as "a villainous and barefaced forgery". In February 1889, the Parnell Commission vindicated him by proving that the letters were forgeries. They included misspellings (specifically ") which Pigott had written elsewhere. A libel action instituted by Parnell also vindicated him, and his parliamentary career survived the Pigott accusations.

paragraph: The Commission eventually produced 37 volumes in evidence, covering not just the forgeries but also the surrounding violence that followed from the Plan of Campaign.

paragraph: After admitting his forgeries to Henry Labouchère, Pigott fled to Spain, and shot himself in a Madrid hotel room. Parnell then sued "The Times" for libel, and the newspaper paid him £5,000 () in an out-of-court settlement, as well as considerably more in legal fees. When Parnell next entered the House of Commons, he received a hero's reception from his fellow Members of Parliament.

description: British newspaper editor

wikidata_label: Richard Pigott

wikipedia_title: Richard Pigott


text: Frankfort, Kentucky

text: Covington, Kentucky

text: Psychometry

text: mesmerism

text: spiritualism

text: Stephen Pearl Andrews

text: Joseph Jastrow

text: delusion

text: wishful thinking

categories: 1899 deaths,American physiologists,American spiritualists,1814 births

paragraph: Joseph Rodes Buchanan

paragraph: Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814 in Frankfort, Kentucky – 1899) was an American physician and professor of physiology at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Covington, Kentucky. Buchanan proposed the terms Psychometry and Sarcognomy.

paragraph: Buchanan came to prominence in the 1840s when mesmerism and spiritualism were popularized. He is given credit for coining the term "Psychometry" ("soul-measuring") as the name of his own "science" whereby knowledge is acquired directly by the "psychometer" (the instrument of the soul). Having promoted his science from the 1840s onward in 1893 he released a comprehensive treatise entitled "Manual of Psychometry: the Dawn of a New Civilization" in which he predicted that Psychometry would eventually supersede and revolutionize every other field of science. Though himself a physician in lectures he denounced contemporary schools of medicine as "educated ignorance" while promoting Psychometry and appealing to Spiritualists. His work inspired other Spiritualism-based scientists such as Stephen Pearl Andrews.

paragraph: Psychologist Joseph Jastrow criticized Buchanan's work on psychometry as based on delusion and wishful thinking.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Manual of Psychometry: The Dawn of a New Civilization" (1893)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Periodicity: The Absolute Law of the Entire Universe" (1897)

description: American physician

wikidata_label: Joseph Rodes Buchanan

wikipedia_title: Joseph Rodes Buchanan


text:
perspective
Leeuwarden
Friesland
Kampen
Mechelen
Charles V
Philip II
Vitruvius
Sebastiano Serlio
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Antwerp
fortification
Frankfurt
Wolfenbüttel
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Hamburg
Danzig
Prague
Amsterdam
Hendrick Aerts
Paul
Salomon
Jacob Vredeman de Vries
kapellmeister
University of Leiden

wikipedia_title:
Perspective (graphical)
Leeuwarden
Friesland
Kampen, Overijssel
Mechelen
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Philip II of Spain
Vitruvius
Sebastiano Serlio
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Antwerp
Fortification
Frankfurt
Wolfenbüttel
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Hamburg
Gdańsk
Prague
Amsterdam
Hendrick Aerts
Paul Vredeman de Vries
Salomon Vredeman de Vries
Jacob Vredeman de Vries
Kapellmeister
Leiden University

categories: 1527 births,Dutch architects,Dutch Renaissance painters,Renaissance architects,1600s deaths,People from Leeuwarden

paragraph: Hans Vredeman de Vries

paragraph: Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – c. 1607) was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Leeuwarden and raised in Friesland, in 1546 Vredeman de Vries went to Amsterdam and Kampen. In 1549 he moved to Mechelen where the Superior Court was seating. Sebastian, his brother, was the organist in the local church. Vredeman de Vries designed ornaments for merry parades of Charles V and Philip II. Studying Vitruvius and Sebastiano Serlio, (translated by his teacher Pieter Coecke van Aelst), he became an internationally known specialist in perspective.

paragraph: He continued his career in Antwerp, where he was appointed city architect and fortification engineer. After 1585 he fled the city because of the Spanish occupation by Alessandro Farnese. Then the Protestants had to leave the city within two years. Vredeman de Vries moved to Frankfurt and worked in Wolfenbüttel, designing a fortification and a new lay-out of the city for Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After his death the project was cancelled and Hans worked in Hamburg, Danzig (1592), Prague (1596) and Amsterdam (1600). On his trips Vredeman was accompanied by Hendrick Aerts and his son Paul, both painters. His son Salomon was also a painter; Jacob Vredeman de Vries a kapellmeister and composer.

paragraph: Vredeman de Vries tried to get an appointment at the University of Leiden in 1604. It is not known when and where Hans Vredeman de Vries died, however, it is recorded that his son Paul was living in Hamburg when he inherited.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hans Jantzen, "Das Niederländische Architekturbild", Braunschweig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bernard G. Maillet, "La Peinture Architecturale des Ecoles du Nord : les Intérieurs d'Eglises 1580-1720", Pandora Publishers Wijnegem, 2012,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christopher P. Heue, "The City Rehearsed Object, architecture, and print in the worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries ",

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Architectura website of the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance at Tours (France)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Delft University on Vredeman de Vries

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Heidelberg 28 Prints from "Pictores, statuarii, architecti, latomi, et quicunque principum magnificorumque virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste" (1620)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ornaments by Vredeman de Vries in a museum in Schleswig-Holstein/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hans Vredeman de Vries on Artcyclopedia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hans Vredeman de Vries

alias:
Jan Vredeman de Vries
Hans Vredemann de Vries
Frisio, Johan Vredeman de Vries
Vredeman de Vries
Jan Vredeman De Vries
Hans Jan
Frisio, Johan Jan
Hans Vredeman Vries
Johannes Vredeman de Vries
Johannes Vredmannus Frisius
Hans Vredeman De Vries
Jan de Vries

description: Dutch renaissance painter

wikidata_label: Hans Vredeman de Vries

wikipedia_title: Hans Vredeman de Vries


text:
Catholic
hermit
Congregation of Monte Vergine
Williamites
saint
Roman Catholic Church
Vercelli
Italy
pilgrimage
Santiago de Compostela
blacksmith
Jerusalem
South Italy
South Italy
Christ
Jerusalem
South Italy
Nola
Benevento
Monastery
miracles
Roger II of Sicily
Salerno
Goleto
Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi
Campania
Basilicata
Apulia
Goleto
Naples
Gioacchino Murat
Benevento
Catholicism
wolf
saint
saint
Hagiographer
Roger II of Sicily
Salerno
prostitute
prostitute
Venosa
Hagiographer
Abbey of San Guglielmo al Goleto

wikipedia_title:
Catholic Church
Hermit
Order of Monte Vergine
Order of Monte Vergine
Saint
Catholic Church
Vercelli
Italy
Pilgrimage
Santiago de Compostela
Blacksmith
Jerusalem
South Italy
South Italy
Jesus
Jerusalem
South Italy
Nola
Benevento
Monastery
Miracle
Roger II of Sicily
Salerno
Abbey of San Guglielmo al Goleto
Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi
Campania
Basilicata
Apulia
Abbey of San Guglielmo al Goleto
Naples
Joachim Murat
Benevento
Catholic Church
Wolf
Saint
Saint
Hagiography
Roger II of Sicily
Salerno
Prostitution
Prostitution
Venosa
Hagiography
Abbey of San Guglielmo al Goleto

categories: Italian Roman Catholic saints,12th-century Christian saints,1142 deaths,People from Vercelli,1085 births,Italian Roman Catholic priests

paragraph: William of Montevergine

paragraph: William of Montevergine, or William of Vercelli, (1085 – 25 June 1142) was a Catholic hermit and the founder of the Congregation of Monte Vergine, or "Williamites". He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born in 1085 into a noble family of Vercelli in northwest Italy and brought up by a relation after the death of his parents. He undertook a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. On his pilgrimage to Compostela, William asked a blacksmith to make an iron implement that would encircle his body and increase his suffering, and he wore it throughout the pilgrimage.

paragraph: After he returned to Italy, he intended to go to Jerusalem and for this purpose he reached South Italy, but he was beaten up and robbed by thieves. William considered this misfortune a sign of God's will to stay in South Italy and spread the message of Christ. Because of this, he decided not to travel to Jerusalem anymore and to settle in South Italy, on the summit of Monte Vergine (then known as Monte Vergiliana) between Nola and Benevento, where he lived as a hermit.

paragraph: Here he attracted a number of followers and founded the Monastery of Montevergine.

paragraph: While at Montevergine, William of Vercelli is stated as having performed miracles. Roger II of Sicily served as a patron to William, who founded many monasteries for men and women in Sicily. The "Catholic Encyclopedia" states that Roger built a monastery opposite his palace at Salerno in order to have William always near him.

paragraph: The inflow of the faithful was for the priests the opportunity to exercise their ministry, and the hermit life that William sought was compromised. Moreover, his confreres did not tolerate that lifestyle too austere and full of privations. Therefore, he left Montevergine in 1128 and settled on the plains in Goleto, in the territory of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, between Campania and Basilicata, where he began a new monastic experience, a double monastery built mostly by women.

paragraph: Subsequently, he founded several other monasteries of the same rule, but mostly remained in Goleto except for some trips to Apulia.

paragraph: Eventually he died in Goleto on June 25, 1142. His remains were buried in Goleto, where they stayed until they were transferred to Montevergine on September 2, 1807, as ordered by the king of Naples Gioacchino Murat. Some of his relics are also located in other cathedrals (Benevento) and Italian churches. Catholic tradition states that William foresaw his own imminent death "by special revelation".

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: The most reliable source concerning William of Vercelli's life is the "Legenda de vita et obitu sancti Guilielmi Confessoris et heremitae", written in the first half of the 13th century, thus shortly thereafter. The remaining later sources contain corrupt or even invented accounts on his life, therefore they are unreliable although not necessarily false, as primary sources may have been lost.

paragraph: Section::::The Miracle of the Wolf.

paragraph: According to all the sources, including the earliest source, "Legenda de vita et obitu sancti Guilielmi Confessoris et heremitae", all of which are close to Catholicism, he performed many miracles. The best-known miracle was and still is the "Miracle of the Wolf" (1591). Because of this, he is often depicted in company with a "domesticated" wolf, even in the monastery of Montevergine. One day a wolf hunted and killed a donkey the saint used for towing and other tasks. The saint then turned to the wolf and ordered the beast to offer himself to do all the donkey's previous tasks. The wild beast reportedly became tame, and the people who met the saint were astonished to see such a docile wolf.

paragraph: Section::::At king Roger II's court.

paragraph: Hagiographer Tommaso Costo (1591) wrote that king Roger II of Sicily had heard about William of Montevergine, and thus he wanted to meet him. The king reportedly was living in Salerno at that time. Reportedly, while visiting the king, a prostitute wanted to prove the genuineness of his faith, and, complicit with the king, tried to get into William of Montevergine's bed who, in response, put burning embers on his bed and there he lay down, inviting the prostitute to follow his example. Reportedly the woman repented of her mistake and switched to a more religious life.

paragraph: Posthumous sources add further details, stating that the prostitute had been called Agnes and that, after conversion, she had built a monastery in Venosa, where she led a monastic life with other women, being called "Blessed Agnes of Venosa". Hagiographer Tommaso Costo, as early as in the 16th century, dismissed the second part of the story, there being no mention of it in the main and most reliable source, the "Legenda de vita et obitu sancti Guilielmi Confessoris et heremitae".

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abbey of San Guglielmo al Goleto

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Book of Saints", compiled by the Benedictine monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate. London: Cassell, 1994. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guglielmo di Montevergine (da Vercelli) at the Santi e Beati website.

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guglielmo di Montevergine (da Vercelli) at Santi e Beati

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Founder Statue in St Peter's Basilica

description: Italian noble and saint

wikidata_label: William of Montevergine

wikipedia_title: William of Montevergine


text:
Mechelen
Prague
Emperor Rudolf II
Mechelen
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Paulus van Vianen
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Paul Vredeman de Vries
Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein
Anton II
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Hendrick van Cleve III
Hans Bol
Lucas van Valckenborch
Paul Bril
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Aegidius Sadeler

wikipedia_title:
Mechelen
Prague
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Mechelen
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Paul van Vianen
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Paul Vredeman de Vries
Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein
Anton Stevens
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Hendrick van Cleve III
Hans Bol
Lucas van Valckenborch
Paul Bril
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Sadeler family

categories: People from Mechelen,1540 births,Year of birth uncertain,Flemish Renaissance painters,Flemish genre painters,Flemish landscape painters

paragraph: Pieter Stevens II

paragraph: Pieter Stevens II or Peter Stevens II (ca. 1567 in Mechelen – after 1626 in Prague) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman known for his landscapes. He left Flanders to work for the court of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. The circulation of prints made after a series of romantic Bohemian landscape drawings by Stevens and other artists had an important influence on the development of Flemish and Dutch landscape art in the 17th century.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Little documentary evidence survives for the life of Pieter Stevens. He was likely born in Mechelen somewhere between 1557 and 1577. There is no information as to whether he was related to Pieter Stevens I, a draughtsman active between 1550 and 1570.

paragraph: A group of Roman views dated to 1590–91 has been interpreted as an indication that he visited Italy as a young man. However, these drawings are rather crude and probably based on works of Jan Brueghel the Elder and are therefore no evidence that he visited Italy in those years. However, he may have done somewhat later as the first mature works known by him dated 1592 represent views of Roman sights.

paragraph: By April 1594 Stevens is recorded in Prague at his appointment as a court painter to the Emperor Rudolf II, with a salary of 8 guilders per month. It is likely that he became acquainted with the many other Flemish and Dutch artists active at the Prague court such as Roelandt Savery, Paulus van Vianen, Hans Vredeman de Vries, his son Paul Vredeman de Vries and Philippus van den Bossche. After Rudolf’s death in 1612, Stevens likely entered the service of Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein.

paragraph: Details about the time and place of his death are not available. He must have died between 1626 and 1632 as in 1626 he was last recorded in connection with the funeral of his son Šroněk and in 1632 his daughter sold his house, for which she required a proxy of her brother, a sign that the artist was then deceased.

paragraph: He was the father of Anton II (who trained under him) and Peter III. He was an uncle of Maurus Moreels (II) of Mechelen who studied under him in Prague and had a successful career as a history and portrait painter upon his return to Flanders. Two of his grandsons were also painters in Prague.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Pieter Stevens II was principally a painter and draughtsman of landscapes. The earliest known work of Stevens is the "", dated 1593 (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel). The composition is executed in a very refined finish and was possibly the work he made to support his application for a position at the Imperial court. Innovative through its complete omission of a view into the distance this painting heralds the idyllic close-up landscape of the 17th century. His contemporaries would probably have been more aware of the uncanniness of the sealed off, swampy valley with its ruinous castle, decaying inn and invalid wayfarers. They would likely have understood these details as symbols of the wickedness of the world, the arrogance of the powerful and the licentiousness of the lowly who can expect punishment.

paragraph: His early landscapes show genre elements as can be seen in the "Feast on the anniversary of a church consecration" (Fondation Custodia, Paris) dated 1594 and the "" dated 1596 (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). The "Feast on the anniversary of a church consecration" shows a crowded fair near an inn held to mark the anniversary of the consecration of a church. The scene is set in Rome even though such celebrations were actually a northern tradition. The church in the background on the right has been identified as Santa Maria in Cosmedin on the Forum Boarium. As Stevens possibly never went to Rome he must have relied on other artists’ work for the Roman details.

paragraph: These early compositions are clearly linked to the style of contemporary works produced by Flemish landscape artists such as Hendrick van Cleve III, Hans Bol, Lucas van Valckenborch, Paul Bril and the members of the Frankenthal School.

paragraph: Many of Stevens’ works depict nocturnal landscapes of a romantic character. These works show his interest in light and atmospheric effects. A good example is the "Fishing at Night" of c. 1600 (Kunsthistorisches Museum). This is even more pronounced in his drawings where there is a clear move away from his early drawings with pen and dark brown or black ink with deep blue washes in favour of the brush and a combination of soft tones. It is possible that Jan Brueghel the Elder’s visit to Prague in 1604 played a role in the change as Brueghel favoured a similar wash technique. The influence of Jan Brueghel is further apparent in the greater sense of volume and better integration of the figures. He drew around 1604 a numbered series of views around Brussels, Rome, Naples and Prague, which he probably intended to be engraved.

paragraph: Landscape designs by Stevens and Jan Brueghel and others were reproduced in hardstone in the imperial workshop and used as ‘Florentine mosaics’ to decorate luxurious furniture. He thanked his renown in his time to the reproduction of his designs by various engravers, including Aegidius Sadeler, Hendrick Hondius I, Isaac Major and Joannes Barra. Sadeler’s series of romantic Bohemian forest landscapes engraved in Prague after designs by Stevens and other artists formed an important element in the development of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish landscape painting. Sadeler also published the "Four Seasons" and "The Twelve Months" after Pieter Stevens' designs.

alias:
Pieter Stevens (II)
Pieter Steevens (II)
Pieter Stefani (II)
Pieter Steffan (II)
Pieter Steffens (II)
Pieter Stephan (II)
Pieter Stephani (II)
Pieter Stephens (II)
Pieter Stivens (II)
Pieter, II Stevens
Pieter II Stivens
Pieter II Stephan
Pieter, II Steffan
Pieter II Stefani
Pieter II Stephens
Peeter, II Stevens
Pieter, II Stephani
Pieter II Steffan
Pieter II Stephani
Pieter, II Stefani
Pieter Stevens II
Pieter II Steevens
Pieter Steevens
Pieter II Stevens
Pieter, the younger Stevens
Pieter, II Stephan
Pieter, II Steevens
Pieter, II Steffens
Pieter, II Stivens
Pieter, II Stephens
Pieter II Steffens
Pieter Stefani
Pieter Steffan
Pieter Steffens
Pieter Stephan
Pieter Stephani
Pieter Stephens
Pieter Stivens
Stephani Peter
Stephani
Pietro Stephano
Peter Stephani
P. Steevens
P. Stevens
Stevens
P. Stephany

description: painter from the Southern Netherlands

wikidata_label: Pieter Stevens

wikipedia_title: Pieter Stevens II


text:
stage name
cameroon
singer
entertainer
MiFi
Koung-Khi
West Region (Cameroon)
Sam Fan Thomas
Richard Bona
University of Douala
Hope Music Group
2013
Littoral Region (Cameroon)
Sam Fan Thomas
YouTube
Partage EP
Yaoundé
Douala
List of Cameroonian artists
List of African musicians

wikipedia_title:
Stage name
Cameroon
Singing
Entertainment
MiFi
Koung-Khi
West Region (Cameroon)
Sam Fan Thomas
Richard Bona
University of Douala
Hope Music Group
2013 in music
Littoral Region (Cameroon)
Sam Fan Thomas
YouTube
Partage EP
Yaoundé
Douala
List of Cameroonian artists
List of African musicians

categories: People from Douala,People from Bafoussam,Living people,Cameroonian musicians

paragraph: Michael Kiessou

paragraph: Anacle Michael Ghounam Kiessou better known by his stage name Michael Kiessou is a cameroonian singer and entertainer. He came to wide public attention with his song "Bennam." from his debut EP "Partage" released on April 2, 2014. Twice-nominated for the Canal 2'Or Act 10 ( Awards), he won the Best video award with "Tourner les reins". and Best Male Artist at the 2015 GreenLights Awards.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Douala, he is a native from the MiFi and Koung-Khi from the West Region (Cameroon). From a young age, he had been lulled by world music and traditional rhythms of his native West. Early influenced by great Cameroonian artists such as Sam Fan Thomas, Douleur, Richard Bona, and many others, throughout his high school studies, he fed his passion and developed his art in school competitions.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2010-2013:Radio and TV Host.

paragraph: After achieving his bachelor degree in organizations communication at the University of Douala, Michael stepped into radio entertainment. During a training course at the RTM Radio Douala, he met Joyce Fotso, who guided him in his debut as radio and TV host. Two years later, he joined the television channel in which he will host shows such as "Sweet Surfer" on Sweet FM radio, "Comptoir dafrik" and "Urban list".

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Debuts music career.

paragraph: Alongside his TV-radio host activity, he decided to step into the music industry by collaborating with Edel Koula, a local rnb singer. Thus, the single "Demoiselle" marked the debuts of his music career .In March 2013, he met the producer Philjohn who made him sign under his record label Hope Music Group .

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2013-2015: Partage (first EP).

paragraph: In 2013 after signing to Hope Music Group, Michael returned working to studios and focusing on his new music. Produced by Philjohn, Abele was released on July 17, 2013 and became the first single from the EP. Michael through the video concept, honored the festive movement found in Littoral Region (Cameroon) marked a happy event. To support this move, Michael also paid tribute to the famous Sam Fan Thomas's "Makassi dance" . The video was directed by NS Pictures and the world exclusive premiered on the Jambo show of the 28 July 2013 and YouTube on August 3, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Controversy.

paragraph: On the eve Christmas Eve, Michael decided to end his career through a post on his official Facebook page. The news gone viral, the media relayed the information, public opinion was split and asked for clarification on the matter. Some decried a buzz strategy or marketing campaign as the single Wopalilo was about to go out the next week. Through a press release to the medias and public, Hope Music group confirmed the information and tried to reassure in promising an eventual return of the artist. Michael fans and sympathizers sent him a letter four days following the announcement, to remind him that "we don't quit a battle before fighting it" . Finally, during the radio program "generations 2.0" of Brice albin on "radio nostalgie" Michael announced his return and dropped his Wopalilo video.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Partage EP" (2014-2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nomtema (Le Prelude) EP" (2016)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Singles.

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

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bennam" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tourner les reins" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wopalilo(Sagat Sagat) feat C-Prime " (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lomdie feat Locko" (2015)

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

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zeng Zeng - Jemmy Sev" (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "KDT - HMG feat Dynastie le tigre, Yvich" (2015) (TBD)

paragraph: Section::::Awards and nominations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Canal 2'Or Act 10 ( Awards )

paragraph: | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- Greenlight Awards

paragraph: | style="text-align:center;"| 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- KR Awards

paragraph: | style="text-align:center;"| 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- MTN Zik Awards

paragraph: | style="text-align:center;"| 2016

paragraph: Section::::Tours and residencies.

paragraph: Wopalilo Live Tour

paragraph: The Wopalilo live Tour was the first concert tour by Michael. Announced in October 2014 with initial dates mostly in Central Africa, the tour contained 5 legs and 50 shows. It began in Yaoundé, Cameroon on December 18, 2014 and ended in Douala, Cameroon on August 30, 2015. Its title is a reference to his brand new single Wopalilo featuring Cameroonian rapper C-prime, who made multiple guest appearances throughout the tour.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Cameroonian artists

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of African musicians

description: Cameroonian singer

wikidata_label: Michael Kiessou

wikipedia_title: Michael Kiessou


text:
art collector
philanthropist
investment banker
theatrical producer
Gilbert Miller
Paris
debutante
suffrage
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont
Miss Elsa Maxwell
Joseph Duveen
Francisco Goya
Billy Baldwin
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilbert Miller
550 Park Avenue
Billy Baldwin
Fashion Hall of Fame
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Duchess of Windsor
Truman Capote
Roosevelt Hospital
Christie's
Mattia Preti
Legion of Honor
Miller Theatre
Columbia University

wikipedia_title: International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List

categories: 1979 deaths,1896 births,People from the Upper East Side,Jewish art collectors,American people of German-Jewish descent,Philanthropists from New York (state)

paragraph: Kathryn Bache Miller

paragraph: Kathryn Bache Miller (April 19, 1896 – October 15, 1979) was an American art collector and philanthropist.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Bache was born in 1896, she was the daughter of investment banker Jules S. Bache and Florence Rosalie Scheftel (1869–1931). Known to her friends as Kitty. she married 1927 the theatrical producer Gilbert Miller in Paris, France.

paragraph: On February 18, 1916, along with many other debutantes, she performed in the suffrage opera, "Melinda and Her Sisters", by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Miss Elsa Maxwell. It was staged in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf–Astoria.

paragraph: Section::::Goya's "Red Boy".

paragraph: In 1926, while in Paris at the art gallery of Joseph Duveen, she fell in love with the painting by Francisco Goya, "Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga", commonly known as the "Red Boy". Her father then purchased it for $275,000. The painting was hung prominently in her living room. Her interior decorator, Billy Baldwin, described her attachment to it as if it were a living being. Her father bequeathed the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but it was allowed to be shown periodically in Miller's apartment until she died in 1979.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: On July 16, 1927, she married Gilbert Miller, a theatrical producer, in Paris, France. Her father had been initially against the marriage, but then changed his mind. He helped the guests celebrate with a wedding breakfast at his Paris apartment, which held his vast collection of antiques and art works. Her apartment at 550 Park Avenue in New York City was decorated by Billy Baldwin.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: A well-dressed society figure, she became a permanent member of the Fashion Hall of Fame, class of 1965, along with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She was a close friend of the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote.

paragraph: Section::::Philanthropy.

paragraph: She was known for having lavish New Year's Eve parties that supported charities. In particular, she supported Roosevelt Hospital with millions of dollars.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: On April 17, 1980 her estate was sold at auction by Christie's. In 1983 the Italian Baroque painting of by Mattia Preti was purchased partially with funds from the "Kathryn Bache Miller Fund" for the Legion of Honor museum in California.

paragraph: In 1988, the Miller Theatre at Columbia University was named in her honor.

description: art collector

wikidata_label: Kathryn Bache Miller

wikipedia_title: Kathryn Bache Miller


text:
Thurnau
Munich
physiologist
anthropologist
theologian
Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
pediatrician
Heinrich von Ranke
pulmonologist
Karl Ernst Ranke
Munich
Tübingen
Berlin
Paris
University of Munich
Rudolf Virchow
chemist
Justus von Liebig
tetanus
nutrition
Bavaria
Arthur de Gobineau
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
alveolar
maxilla

categories: 1836 births,1916 deaths,German anthropologists,People from Kulmbach (district),Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty

paragraph: Johannes Ranke

paragraph: Johannes Ranke (23 August 1836, Thurnau – 26 July 1916, Munich) was a German physiologist and anthropologist. He was the son of theologian Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798–1876), the brother of pediatrician Heinrich von Ranke (1830–1909) and father to pulmonologist Karl Ernst Ranke (1870–1926).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He studied medicine and natural sciences in Munich, Tübingen, Berlin and Paris, receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Munich in 1861. As a student, his influences included pathologist Rudolf Virchow and chemist Justus von Liebig. In 1863 he obtained his habilitation with the thesis, "Galvanischen Leitungswiderstand des lebenden Muskels", and spent the following years conducting physiological studies on tetanus and human nutrition. In 1868 he published a textbook on human physiology, titled "Grundzüge der Physiologie des Menschen".

paragraph: As a lecturer at the anatomical-physiological institute in Munich, he gave lectures on anthropology and general natural history (1863–69). He became an associate professor on the latter subject in 1869. From 1876 onward, his interests dealt almost entirely with problems associated with prehistory and anthropology. He made numerous contributions in his research of the physical anthropology associated with prehistoric Bavaria, being especially interested in studies of human skull forms. From his anthropological research, he was opposed to the racial ideology theories espoused by Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. In 1886, he attained the first university chair of anthropology in all of Germany. In 1886–87 he published an acclaimed two-volume textbook on scientific anthropology, called "Der Mensch".

paragraph: He was editor of the "Beiträge zur Anthropologie und Urgeschichte Bayerns", the "Archiv für Anthropologie", and the "Korrespondenzblatt" of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anthropologie". In 1885 he created the "prehistoric division" within the "Paläontologischen Sammlung des Staates"; in 1889 the prehistoric collection had become an independent entity.

paragraph: Section::::Associated eponym.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ranke angle": The angle formed by the horizontal plane of the head and a line passing from the centre of the margin of the alveolar arch of the maxilla, below the nasal spine to the centre of the frontonasal suture.

description: German anthropologist

wikidata_label: Johannes Ranke

wikipedia_title: Johannes Ranke


text:
C.M.
Vancouver
Canadian
jazz
Jim Blackley
Chris Gage
Dave Robbins
John Handy
The Fifth Dimension
Toronto
Rob McConnell
Ed Bickert
Ruby Braff
Jim Galloway
Sonny Greenwich
Jay McShann
Emily Remler
Frank Rosolino
Jim Hall
Oscar Peterson
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Eddie Daniels
Oliver Jones
Roger Kellaway
Helen Merrill
Ken Peplowski
Joe Roccisano
Ralph Bowen
Neil Swainson
Renee Rosnes
Peter Leitch
Rob McConnell
Juno Award
Traditional Jazz Album of the Year
Order of Canada
Jim Hall Live!
Joe Roccisano
Leave Your Mind Behind
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Barry Kernfeld

categories: 1944 births,Canadian jazz drummers,Members of the Order of Canada,Musicians from Vancouver,Living people

paragraph: Terry Clarke (drummer)

paragraph: Terence Michael "Terry" Clarke C.M. (born August 20, 1944, Vancouver) is a Canadian jazz drummer.

paragraph: Clarke studied percussion with Jim Blackley and played with Chris Gage and Dave Robbins early in his career. From 1965 to 1967 he toured in a quintet with John Handy, and joined The Fifth Dimension in 1967, remaining with the ensemble until 1969.

paragraph: In 1970, he moved to Toronto, where he began a longstanding association with Rob McConnell's group, Boss Brass; he also played with Ed Bickert, Ruby Braff, Jim Galloway, Sonny Greenwich, Jay McShann, Emily Remler, and Frank Rosolino. In 1976, he toured with Jim Hall for the first time and in 1981 did an international tour with Oscar Peterson.

paragraph: He relocated to New York City in 1985, where he played or recorded with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Eddie Daniels, Oliver Jones, Roger Kellaway, Helen Merrill, Ken Peplowski, and Joe Roccisano, among others. He played with the Free Trade ensemble in 1994, a quintet composed of Clarke, Ralph Bowen, Neil Swainson, Renee Rosnes, and Peter Leitch.

paragraph: Clarke returned to Toronto in 1999, where he joined The Rob McConnell Tentet. Clarke's 2009 debut album "It's About Time" won a Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year.

paragraph: Clarke was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2002.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It's About Time" (Blue Music Group, 2009)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As a sideman.

paragraph: With Ed Bickert

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ed Bickert" (PM, 1976)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Like To Recognize The Tune" (United Artists, 1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jazz Canada Europe '79" (Radio Canada International, 1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Wished On The Moon" (King Records, 1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Guitar Mastery Of Ed Bickert" (Unidisc, 1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Out Of The Past" (Sackville Recordings, 2006)

paragraph: with Ed Bickert Trio & Dave McKenna

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Third Floor Richard" (Concord Jazz, 1989)

paragraph: with Dave Stahl Band

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Standard Issue" (Abee Cake Records, 1991)

paragraph: with Ed Bickert & Don Thompson

paragraph: BULLET::::- "At The Garden Party" (Sackville Recordings, 2004)

paragraph: with Jim Hall

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jim Hall Live!" (A&M, 1975)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jim Hall Live in Tokyo" (A&M, 1976)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Commitment" (Horizon, 1976)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jazz Impressions of Japan" (Horizon, 1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Circles" (Concord Jazz, 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All Across The City" (Concord Jazz, 1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jim Hall Live In Tokyo - Complete Version" (King Record Co., 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live At Town Hall Volumes 1 & 2" (Jazz Heritage, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Subsequently" (MusicMasters, 1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Carnegie Hall Concert" (Columbia, 1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Textures" (Telarc, 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Telarc, 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "By Arrangement" (Telarc, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jazzpar Quartet + 4" (Storyville, 1998)

paragraph: with Oliver Jones

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cookin' at Sweet Basil" (Justin Time, 1988)

paragraph: with Dave Liebman/Mike Murley Quartet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live at U of T" (U of T Jazz, 2017)

paragraph: with Oscar Peterson

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nigerian Marketplace" (Pablo Live, 1982)

paragraph: With the Joe Roccisano Orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Leave Your Mind Behind" (Landmark, 1995)

paragraph: with Buddy Tate Featuring The Ed Bickert Trio

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ballad Artistry Of Buddy Tate" (Sackville Recordings, 1982)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mark Miller, "Terry Clarke". "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz". 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.

description: Canadian jazz drummer

wikidata_label: Terry Clarke

wikipedia_title: Terry Clarke (drummer)


text:
Baroque
Florence
Tuscany
Gherardo Silvani
Cosimo I
Gherardo Silvani
San Gaetano
San Marco
Florence
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri
Pisa
Bernardo Buontalenti
Palazzo Corsini, Florence

categories: People from Florence,1685 deaths,Italian Baroque architects,17th-century Italian architects,Architects from Florence,1620 births

paragraph: Pier Francesco Silvani

paragraph: Pier Francesco Silvani (1620–1685) was an Italian architect and designer, active during the Baroque period, in Florence and other sites in Tuscany.

paragraph: He was the son of the Sienese architect Gherardo Silvani. After the confiscation of goods decree in 1536, introduced by Cosimo I, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Silvani was forced to pursue a modest commercial career. He had three sons, Silvano Silvani, Salvatore Silvani and Gherardo Silvani. Pier Francesco worked on San Gaetano and in the refurbishment of San Marco in Florence, as well as in collaboration with Giovanni Battista Foggini, the aisle and high altar for the Church of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri in Pisa. He also added Baroque touches to Bernardo Buontalenti's garden behind the Palazzo Corsini, Florence.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Filippo Baldinucci, "Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali" ("Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610–1670"), p 528.

description: Italian architect

wikidata_label: Pier Francesco Silvani

wikipedia_title: Pier Francesco Silvani


text: Italian

text: Florence

text: Tuscany

text: Baroque

text: Pierfrancesco

text: Palazzo Corsini al Prato

text: Palazzo Capponi-Covoni

text: Palazzo Fenzi

text: Palazzo Pallavicini

text: Palazzo di San Clemente

text: Basilica di Santo Spirito

text: San Frediano

text: Santi Simone e Giuda

text: Sant'Agostino

text: Impruneta

text: cathedral of Florence

text: San Gaetano

text: Cardinal Carlo de Medici

text: Theatine

text: Matteo Nigetti

categories: People from Florence,Italian Baroque architects,1579 births,Baroque sculptors,1675 deaths

paragraph: Gherardo Silvani

paragraph: Gherardo Silvani (1579–1675) was an Italian architect and sculptor, active mainly in Florence and other sites in Tuscany during the Baroque period.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His son Pierfrancesco also became an architect. He worked on the Palazzo Corsini al Prato, Palazzo Capponi-Covoni (1623), Palazzo Fenzi (1634), Palazzo Pallavicini, Palazzo di San Clemente. He also helped design and construct the altar of the Basilica di Santo Spirito. He helped in the reconstruction of the churches of San Frediano, Santi Simone e Giuda, Sant'Agostino, and the Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore (Florence), among others. He helped design the façade of the Basilica of Santa Maria at Impruneta. His model for the façade of the cathedral of Florence was not adopted.

paragraph: His masterpiece remains the church and façade of San Gaetano (built 1604–1648) in front of Piazza Antinori in Florence. The work was commissioned by the Cardinal Carlo de Medici, and dedicated to the founder of the Theatine order. The building work was shared with Matteo Nigetti. The church is also known as the Church of "San Michele and San Gaetano", because it was built on the site of a Romanesque church of San Michele Bertelde. The façade with its sculptural decorations is highly atypical for Florentine churches, which had a predilection for iconoclastic geometrically ornamented façades.

description: Italian architect and sculptor

wikidata_label: Gherardo Silvani

wikipedia_title: Gherardo Silvani


text:
Saint Gregory the Elder
Saint Nonna
Pisidia
baptized
miraculously cured
mule
broken bone
internal organ
Eucharist
altar
symptom
headache
fever
paralysis
coma
Gregory of Nazianzus the Younger
eulogy
Paragon
Greek Orthodox Church
calendar of saints

categories: Saints from Roman Anatolia,4th-century Romans,Late Ancient Christian female saints,4th-century Christian saints,375 deaths

paragraph: Saint Gorgonia

paragraph: Saint Gorgonia () (died 23 February 375) was the daughter of Saint Gregory the Elder and Saint Nonna. She is remembered in both Eastern and Western Churches for her piety as a married woman.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Gorgonia married a man of some influence in Pisidia, sometimes called Vitolian, and other times, Meletius. By at least one account, she is called the "pattern of a married saint." She had several sons and three daughters, the most notable of whom was named Alypania. Later in her life, she converted her husband, and was baptized along with him and her sons and grandsons.

paragraph: Two times in her life, she was miraculously cured of serious maladies. The first of these was her having been trampled by a team of mules, causing her broken bones and crushed internal organs. Yet, Gorgonia would have no doctor, as she thought it indecent. According to the legend, it was this modesty which cured her.

paragraph: Another time, she cured herself of a desperate illness by anointing herself with "the sacred elements of the Eucharist" mixed with her own tears, which she had shed with her head on the altar. She was cured of this disease as she was of the first, the symptoms of headache, fever, paralysis, and sporadic coma disappearing, allegedly, through the strength of her prayer.

paragraph: Gorgonia died circa 375 of natural causes. Her father and mother were alive, though extremely old, at the time of her death. At her funeral, her brother Gregory of Nazianzus the Younger preached a eulogy which declared her a model Christian spouse and mother, as well as "The Paragon of Women" and "The Diamond of Her Sex."

paragraph: Section::::Veneration.

paragraph: Saint Gorgonia is venerated as the patron saint of people afflicted by bodily ills or sickness. The legacy of her charity has earned her the titles "Mother of Orphans", "Eyes of the Blind", and "Keeper of a Refuge of the Poor" in the Greek Orthodox Church. Her feast day on the calendar of saints is 9 December in the West and 23 February in the East, the latter date purported to be that of her death.

description: Daughter of Saint Gregory the Elder

wikidata_label: Saint Gorgonia

wikipedia_title: Saint Gorgonia


text: Johns Hopkins University

text: United States Ambassador to Brazil

text: Brookings Institution

text: Ethical Culture Fieldston School

text: Riverdale

text: Harvard University

text: glee club

text: Prohibition

text: Dunster House

text: Oxford University

text: Rhodes Scholar

text: War Production Board

text: steel

text: copper

text: zinc

text: aluminum

text: US State Department

text: Marshall Plan

text: Alliance for Progress

text: A. J. Langguth

text: Time

text: Kennedy

text: Brazil

text: João Goulart

text: 1964 Brazilian coup d'état

text: Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

text: covert operations

text: Brazilian Communist Party

text: Noam Chomsky

text: Thomas Skidmore

text: Brown University

text: CIA

text: Lyndon B. Johnson

text: National Security Archive

text: Stansfield Turner

text: ITT Corporation

text: Harold Geneen

text: John McCone

text: Vietnam War

text: ROTC

text: The New York Times

text: Milton S. Eisenhower

text: Smithsonian Institution

text: Brookings Institution

text: Atlantic Council

text: Mitchellville, Maryland

text: Kate Gordon

categories: Harvard University alumni,Writers from New York City,Cold War diplomats,Presidents of Johns Hopkins University,2009 deaths,1913 births,American Rhodes Scholars,Ambassadors of the United States to Brazil

paragraph: Lincoln Gordon

paragraph: Abraham Lincoln Gordon (September 10, 1913 – December 19, 2009) was the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University (1967–71) and a United States Ambassador to Brazil (1961–66). Gordon had a career both in government and in academia, becoming a Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard University in the 1950s, before turning his attention to foreign affairs. Gordon had a career in business after his resignation as president of the Johns Hopkins University, but remained active at institutions such as the Brookings Institution until his death. His full name was Abraham Lincoln Gordon, but he never used his first name.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in 1913 in New York City, Gordon attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, and later attended Harvard University. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Gordon was involved with the university's glee club; because Prohibition was still in place, wine was usually served at the Club's parties.

paragraph: While he was a student at Harvard, Gordon met his future wife, Allison Wright, at a film exhibition in Dunster House. They married in 1937.

paragraph: He received a BA from Harvard in 1933. He received a DPhil from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1936.

paragraph: Gordon was program vice-chairman of the War Production Board from 1944 to 1945. He started in the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the War Production Board before joining the staff of the Requirements Committee, helping design the Controlled Materials Plan. This Plan regulated the conservation and allocation of critical materials such as steel, copper, zinc, and aluminum—materials that were scarce or were in danger of becoming so during World War II.

paragraph: Gordon then worked for the US State Department as Director of the Marshall Plan Mission and Minister for Economic Affairs and at the United States embassy in London (1952–55). "To let Western Europe collapse for want of some dollars," Gordon has stated in regard to his role in the Marshall Plan, "would have been a tragedy. It would have been repeating the terrible mistake after World War I."

paragraph: Section::::Career in government (1944–67).:Brazil and Latin America (1960–67).

paragraph: In 1960, Gordon helped develop the Alliance for Progress, an aid program designed to prevent Latin America from turning to revolution and socialism for economic progress. The journalist A. J. Langguth noted that many Brazilian nationalists scorned the Alliance as Brazilian foreign aid to America due to the belief that American corporations were withdrawing more money from the country than they were investing. Though Brazil did indeed run balance of payments deficits with the United States during the years of the Alliance, the size of these deficits was well exceeded by the grants and credits provided by the US to Brazil, even before factoring in development loans and military aid. Brazil also enjoyed large overall balance of payments surpluses during the Alliance years.

paragraph: In 1961, "Time" reported that Gordon has "become Kennedy's leading expert on Latin American economics. Gordon drew up the U.S. agenda for the July inter-American economic meeting approved last week by the Organization of American States."

paragraph: Gordon served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (1961–66), where he played a major role for the support of the opposition against the government of President João Goulart and during the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. On March 27, 1964, he wrote a top secret cable to the US government, urging it to support the coup of Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco with a "clandestine delivery of arms" and shipments of gas and oil, to possibly be supplemented by CIA covert operations. Gordon believed that Goulart, wanting to "seize dictatorial power", was working with the Brazilian Communist Party. Gordon wrote: "If our influence is to be brought to bear to help avert a major disaster here--which might make Brazil the China of the 1960s--this is where both I and all my senior advisors believe our support should be placed."

paragraph: Noam Chomsky has been critical of the coup, as well as his perception of Gordon's role in it. At an address delivered at Harvard University on March 19, 1985, he stated:

paragraph: Thomas Skidmore, a well-respected Brazilian historian and moderately Marxist professor at Brown University takes a notedly different view than Chomsky. While he acknowledges that the U.S. supported the Brazilian military, he notes that the credit for the coup belongs to the Brazilian military and not to the U.S.:

paragraph: In the years after the coup, Gordon, Gordon's staff, and the CIA repeatedly denied that they had been involved and President Lyndon B. Johnson praised Gordon's service in Brazil as "a rare combination of experience and scholarship, idealism and practical judgment." In 1976, Gordon stated that the Johnson Administration "had been prepared to intervene militarily to prevent a leftist takeover of the government," but did not directly state that it had or had not intervened. Circa 2004 many documents were declassified and placed online at the GWU National Security Archive, indicating the involvement of Johnson, McNamara, Gordon, and others. In 2005 Stansfield Turner's book described the involvement of ITT Corporation president Harold Geneen and CIA director John McCone.

paragraph: Afterward, Gordon became Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1966–68) in Washington, D.C., and worked for the Alliance for Progress, which coordinated aid to Latin America.

paragraph: Section::::Career in academia.

paragraph: Gordon was a Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard University in the 1950s, before turning his attention to foreign affairs.

paragraph: Section::::Career in academia.:Johns Hopkins University (1967–71).

paragraph: He then served as president of the Johns Hopkins University between 1967 and 1971. In 1970, following approval from the Board of Trustees in November 1969, he introduced coeducation in Johns Hopkins' full-time undergraduate program.

paragraph: During his tenure, students and faculty briefly occupied the university's executive offices to protest against the Vietnam War despite the fact that Gordon had expressed opposition to the Vietnam War. He also took part in a campus-wide discussion over military recruiting on campus and whether ROTC should have a place at Johns Hopkins. During his tenure, the university was suffering a financial crisis, with an operating deficit of more than $4 million. The crisis caused Gordon to order budget cuts, which in turn caused faculty protests. Faculty were angered because while Gordon was cutting teaching positions, he was increasing the size of the University's administration. He also incurred student wrath when he re-wrote the student conduct code.

paragraph: Gordon resigned in March 1971, following a vote of "no-confidence" by a committee of senior faculty, attributing his resignation to growing criticism from the university's faculty.[18] "The New York Times" stated that "Dr. Gordon's four years at Johns Hopkins were dogged by deteriorating finances, faculty complaints over pay and academic priorities, and students rebellious over the 'relevance' of their educations." Although Gordon had agreed to remain until an interim successor could be named, he left town abruptly, forcing the trustees to move quickly; they asked Gordon's predecessor, Milton S. Eisenhower, to return in an emergency capacity.

paragraph: Section::::Career in academia.:Later career.

paragraph: Gordon was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution from 1972 to 1975.

paragraph: In 1984, he became a scholar at the Brookings Institution (he was an active associate there until his death) and also became director at the Atlantic Council of the United States.

paragraph: Gordon died at the age of 96 at Collington Episcopal Life Care, an assisted-living home, in Mitchellville, Maryland. He was survived by two sons, Robert and Hugh, and two daughters, Sally and Amy and seven grandchildren (including Kate Gordon); and three great-grandchildren.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A New Deal for Latin America" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Growth Policies and the International Order" (1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Energy Strategies for Developing Nations" (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eroding Empire: Western Relations with Eastern Europe" (1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brazil's Second Chance: En Route toward the First World" (Brookings Institution Press, 2001).

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oral History Interview with Lincoln Gordon, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

description: U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and university president

wikidata_label: Lincoln Gordon

wikipedia_title: Lincoln Gordon


text:
French
jazz
tenor saxophonist
Saint-Gaudens, France
Mezz Mezzrow
Big Bill Broonzy
Paris
Lionel Hampton
Emmett Berry
Wild Bill Davis
Bill Coleman
Franck Pourcel
EmArcy
Peanuts Holland
Columbia
Black & Blue
Hank Jones
George Duvivier
J. C. Heard
Jacky Terrasson
Arnett Cobb
EMI
Sammy Price
Pathé
Lucky Thompson

categories: 20th-century saxophonists,Cool jazz saxophonists,1998 deaths,Jazz tenor saxophonists,20th-century French musicians,Swing saxophonists,Big band saxophonists,1927 births

paragraph: Guy Lafitte

paragraph: Guy Lafitte (12 January 1927 – 11 July 1998) was a French jazz tenor saxophonist born at Saint-Gaudens, France, most notable for his work with Mezz Mezzrow from 1951–1952 and having toured with Big Bill Broonzy in 1951.

paragraph: In 1954 Lafitte made Paris his home, and worked with Lionel Hampton and Emmett Berry. Lafitte had also been a collaborator on various other projects with musicians such as Wild Bill Davis and Bill Coleman.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953 "All the Things You Are" with Franck Pourcel

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1954 "Blue and Sentimental" (EmArcy) with Peanuts Holland, Raymond Fol, Jean-Claude Pelletier, Geo Daly

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1957 "Les Classiques de Jazz" (Columbia) with André Persiany , Paul Rovere, Teddy Martin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1978 "Corps Et Ame" (Black & Blue) with Hank Jones, George Duvivier, J. C. Heard

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1983 "Lotus Blossom" (Black & Blue) with Wild Bill Davis, Clyde Lucas

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1990 "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Black & Blue) with Jacky Terrasson, Pierre Boussaguet, Al Lewitt

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As sideman.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arnett Cobb Quintet: "Live!" (Black & Blue, 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bill Coleman Quintett with Guy Lafitte: "Lions Abroad Vol. 3 – A Lion in Paris" (Black Lion, 1973) "Bill Coleman - Ben Webster - Guy Lafitte" (Jazz Colours, 1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lionel Hampton: "Paris Session 1956" (EMI)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peanuts Holland Sextet: "Jazz in Paris: Peanuts Holland – Buck Clayton – Charlie Singleton" (EmArcy, 1954)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sammy Price Quintet: "Le Jazz en France – Vol. 14 – Boogie Woogie a la Parisienne" (Pathé, 1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lucky Thompson Sextet: "Lucky Thompson" (Swing, 1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pierre Boussaguet: "Trio Europa" (EmArcy, 1998)

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Richard Morton & Brian Cook: "The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD", Sixth Edition, London, Penguin, 2001

description: French musician

wikidata_label: Guy Lafitte

wikipedia_title: Guy Lafitte


text:
André-Jacques Garnerin
parachute
André-Jacques Garnerin
Parc Monceau
Élisabeth Thible
Citoyenne Henri
Peace of Amiens
Grosvenor Square
St Pancras
Marie-Thérèse Figueur
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
table d'hôte
Élisa Garnerin
Wissous
Citoyenne Henri
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand

categories: French skydivers,Aviation pioneers,1847 deaths,French aviators,1775 births,Female aviators,French balloonists,French stunt performers

paragraph: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse

paragraph: Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (1775–1847), née Labrosse, was a French balloonist and parachutist. She was the first to ascend solo and the first woman to make a parachute descent (in the gondola), from an altitude of on 12 October 1799.

paragraph: Labrosse first flew on 10 November 1798, one of the earliest women to fly in a balloon. She was the wife of André-Jacques Garnerin, a hydrogen balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Jeanne Labrosse was amongst the crowd watching André-Jacques Garnerin's first hydrogen balloon flight and parachute descent at Parc Monceau, Paris, on 22 October 1797. She made his acquaintance, became his pupil, and flew with him on 10 November 1798, at Parc Monceau. She is sometimes described as the first woman in the world to fly in a balloon although Élisabeth Thible made a free flight in 1784, and Citoyenne Henri flew with Garnerin on 8 July 1798, four months earlier.

paragraph: On 12 October 1799, Labrosse became the first woman to parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. She went on to complete many ascents and parachute descents in towns across France and Europe.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Patent for parachute.

paragraph: On 11 October 1802, she filed a patent application on behalf of her husband for:

paragraph: ""a device called a parachute, intended to slow the fall of the basket after the balloon bursts. Its vital organs are a cap of cloth supporting the basket and a circle of wood beneath and outside of the parachute and used to hold it open while climbing: it must perform its task at the moment of separation from the balloon, by maintaining a column of air."

paragraph: Section::::Touring England.

paragraph: André-Jacques held the position of Official Aeronaut of France and was unofficially known as the "aérostatier des fêtes publiques", so the couple visited England in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens. They completed a number of demonstration flights, including his first flight ascending from the Volunteer Ground in North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square and a parachute descent to a field near St Pancras. This gave rise to the popular English doggerel:

paragraph: Jeanne Garnerin accompanied him on his third flight over London. One of her parachute descents was estimated at 8,000 feet (2,438 m). When the war between France and Great Britain resumed in 1803, the couple were forced to leave England and return to France, where she continued to make flights and descents.

paragraph: Section::::Family life.

paragraph: Garnerin's husband died in 1823. Garnerin later met French heroine Marie-Thérèse Figueur, "Madame Sans-Gêne", who had fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, with whom she reportedly opened a table d'hôte restaurant.

paragraph: Jeanne's niece, Élisa Garnerin (Elizabeth), (born 1791), learned to fly balloons at age 15, and made 39 professional parachute descents from 1815 to 1836 in Italy, Spain, Russia, Germany and France.

paragraph: Section::::Commemoration.

paragraph: On 17 October 2006, the "rue Jeanne Garnerin" in Wissous, France, was named in her honour.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Citoyenne Henri – the first woman who accompanied André-Jacques Garnerin on a trip by balloon on 8 July 1798 from the Parc Monceau in Paris.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Louis-Sébastien Lenormand – inventor and pioneer in parachuting.

alias:
Jeanne Labrosse
Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse

description: French balloonist, parachutist, and aviation pioneer

wikidata_label: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse

wikipedia_title: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse


text:
professional baseball
pitcher
Pittsburgh Pirates
Major League Baseball
Tampa Bay Rays
Clayton High School
Clayton, North Carolina
Cleveland Indians
2006 MLB draft
Chicago Cubs
Clayton High School
Clayton, North Carolina
letter of intent
University of Miami
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earned run average
Cleveland Indians
2006 Major League Baseball Draft
Rookie-level
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Burlington Indians
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games started
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John Gaub
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Peoria Chiefs
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40-man roster
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2011 Pan American Games
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Zac Rosscup
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Southern League
Durham Bulls
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International League
run
games started
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Matt Garza
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Ryan Roberts
Cleveland Indians
Jose Iglesias
Wil Myers
Alex Cobb
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
2015 MLB All-Star Game
Houston Astros
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Dallas Keuchel
David Price
Sonny Gray
Chris Sale
ESPN
2015 American League Wild Card Game
Baseball Tonight
ESPN Radio
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American League
Justin Verlander
strikeouts per nine ratio
run support
2016 World Series
David Price
all-star game
10-day disabled list
Pittsburgh Pirates
Tyler Glasnow
Austin Meadows
player to be named later
Shane Baz
Cincinnati Reds
Derek Dietrich
Jeff Kellogg
David Bell
Yasiel Puig
Amir Garrett
Keone Kela
Felipe Vázquez
Team USA
2017 World Baseball Classic
Colombia
four-seam fastball
slider
circle change
Pedro Martinez
Edinson Vólquez
Jacob deGrom
firefighter

categories: Montgomery Biscuits players,Sportspeople from Raleigh, North Carolina,Baseball players from North Carolina,Lake County Captains players,Tennessee Smokies players,Daytona Cubs players,1988 births,Gulf Coast Indians players,Tampa Bay Rays players,Pittsburgh Pirates players,Peoria Chiefs players,Durham Bulls players,Burlington Indians players,Major League Baseball pitchers,American League All-Stars,Living people,African-American baseball players

paragraph: Chris Archer

paragraph: Christopher Alan Archer (born September 26, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Tampa Bay Rays.

paragraph: Archer attended Clayton High School in Clayton, North Carolina. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the fifth round of the 2006 MLB draft. After he was traded to the Chicago Cubs and then the Rays, he made his MLB debut in 2012. Archer was selected to the 2015 and 2017 MLB All-Star Games.

paragraph: Section::::Amateur career.

paragraph: Archer attended Clayton High School in Clayton, North Carolina, where he played for the school's baseball team. He signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Miami. Archer pitched to an 8–3 win–loss record with a 1.75 earned run average (ERA) during his senior season at Clayton.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Archer was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the fifth round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft. He joined the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Indians after signing. He also pitched in one game for the Burlington Indians of the Rookie-level Appalachian League.

paragraph: Archer remained with the Gulf Coast Indians to start the 2007 season. In 2008, Archer had a 4–8 win–loss record in 27 games started for the Lake County Captains of the Class A South Atlantic League. On December 31, 2008, he was traded with John Gaub and Jeff Stevens to the Chicago Cubs for Mark DeRosa.

paragraph: Archer pitched for the Peoria Chiefs of the Class A Midwest League during the 2009 season. In 2010, Archer had a 15–3 win-loss record with a 2.34 earned run average (ERA) between the Daytona Cubs of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League and Tennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League. With Daytona, he had a streak of 41 innings pitched without allowing an earned run. He was named the Cubs' Minor League Pitcher of the Year, and the Cubs added him to their 40-man roster to protect him from being selected by another team in the Rule 5 Draft. After the season, he pitched for the United States national baseball team in the qualifying tournament for the 2011 Pan American Games. Defeating the Cuban national baseball team, USA Baseball called Archer's game the International Performance of the Year.

paragraph: In January 2011, the Cubs traded Archer to the Tampa Bay Rays with Hak-ju Lee, Brandon Guyer, Robinson Chirinos, and Sam Fuld for Matt Garza, Fernando Perez, and Zac Rosscup. At the start of the season, he was rated the 27th-best prospect in baseball by "Baseball America". Pitching for the Montgomery Biscuits of the Class AA Southern League, Archer had a 5.85 ERA through the first two months of the season and a 5.27 ERA at the end of the first half of the season. In the second half, he made a turnaround, going 5–4 with a 3.45 ERA. He received a promotion to the Durham Bulls of the Class AAA International League, making two starts for the Bulls at the end of the season, and allowing only one run.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2012 season.

paragraph: "Baseball America" rated Archer the Rays' third-best prospect and the 89th-best prospect in baseball before the 2012 season. Archer pitched to a 4–8 win–loss record with a 4.81 ERA in 14 games started for Durham to start the 2012 season. He was promoted to the major leagues for the first time on June 20, starting in place of the injured Jeremy Hellickson. In his MLB debut, Archer allowed three hits and three runs (one earned) while recording seven strikeouts in six innings, becoming the first pitcher the Rays did not draft to start a game for the team since Matt Garza on September 30, 2010.

paragraph: Archer became the first pitcher to register an at-bat at Oriole Park at Camden Yards when he finished an at-bat for injured Ryan Roberts, striking out under orders not to swing. He recorded his first major league win on September 19, 2012, against the Boston Red Sox at Tropicana Field after going 5 innings and giving up 3 earned runs.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2013 season.

paragraph: Archer began the 2013 season with Triple-A Durham. He was called up on June 1, 2013, to start against the Cleveland Indians.

paragraph: In his first extended action in the Majors, he went 9–7 with a 3.22 ERA in 23 starts. Among AL rookies, Archer ranked first in ERA, opponents' average (.226), complete games (two), shutouts (two), hits per nine innings (7.5) and WHIP (1.13). He was named the AL Pitcher of the Month and AL Rookie of the Month for July. He finished third in voting for AL Rookie of the Year, behind Detroit's Jose Iglesias and teammate Wil Myers.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2014 season.

paragraph: On April 2, 2014, it was announced that Archer had agreed to a six-year extension with the Rays worth $25.5 million guaranteed. The two option years would pay Archer about $9 million and $11 million, with the total contract maxing out at $43.75 million for all eight seasons. For the season, he went 10–9 with a 3.33 ERA, 1.28 WHIP and 173 strikeouts in innings pitched.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2015 season.

paragraph: Archer was named the Rays' Opening Day starter after Alex Cobb was placed on the 15-day Disabled List to begin the season. On June 2, Archer struck out 15 batters in a 6–1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Archer was selected to the 2015 MLB All-Star Game, where he pitched 1.1 innings and gave up one run. On August 20, he threw a complete game one hit shutout against the Houston Astros, in which he threw only 98 pitches and struck out 11.

paragraph: Archer finished the season 12–13 with a 3.23 ERA and 252 strikeouts, which was good for 2nd in the American League. Archer finished 5th in the American League Cy Young Award voting, behind Dallas Keuchel, David Price, Sonny Gray, and Chris Sale. Archer also provided guest color commentary for ESPN in their coverage of the 2015 American League Wild Card Game, and served as a guest commentator for "Baseball Tonight" and ESPN Radio during that year's World Series.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2016 season.

paragraph: Archer was a favorite among many baseball writers and fans to win the Cy Young Award before the season started after his strong 2015. Despite these expectations, Archer took a step back in 2016, posting a 4.66 ERA in the first half of the season. Archer rebounded strongly in the second half, however, and posted a 3.25 ERA. He finished the season with a 4.02 ERA, 233 strikeouts (tied for second in the American League behind Justin Verlander), and a 10.4 strikeouts per nine ratio. He also led the majors with 19 losses, which can be attributed to his giving up 30 home runs and poor 3.48 run support. Following the season, Archer once again served as a guest analyst for ESPN and ESPN Radio during the 2016 World Series.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2017 season.

paragraph: After pitching in the World Baseball Classic, Archer received the nod as the Rays opening day starter. He allowed only 2 runs in 7 innings, receiving the win. In May, Archer set a franchise record for strikeouts in a month with 58, topping David Price's record of 53. On July 6, Archer was named to his second career all-star game. On August 17, Archer recorded his 1,000th career strikeout, becoming the 9th player in history to achieve this feat in 154 games or less. After a strong end to August, capped off by a 7 inning, one run performance in St. Louis, Archer looked poised to finish above .500 for the first time since 2014, ending the month of August at 9–7 with a 3.66 ERA. However over his next 5 games he went 0–5 allowing 18 runs and failing to get past the 4th inning in 4 of the 5 games played, and his ERA skyrocketed to 4.18. His ended his season with a 10–12 record and a 4.07 ERA, a career high. He did, however, finish the season with 249 strikeouts, good for 3rd in the American League, as well as an 11.1 strikeouts per nine ratio. He tied for the major league lead in wild pitches, with 15.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Tampa Bay Rays.:2018 season.

paragraph: Archer was chosen as the opening day starter for the fourth year in a row. On May 1, Archer threw his 1,000th career inning. On June 5, Archer was put on the 10-day disabled list with an abdominal strain.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Pirates.

paragraph: On July 31, 2018, Archer was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows and a player to be named later, later revealed to be Shane Baz.

paragraph: In a game on April 7, 2019 against the Cincinnati Reds, Archer gave up a second-inning, two-run home run to Derek Dietrich. As the ball flew over the wall, Dietrich stayed at home plate and admired the ball for a few seconds as it went over before he started running. When Dietrich returned to bat in the fourth inning, Archer intentionally threw a ball behind Dietrich’s back. Home plate umpire Jeff Kellogg issued Archer a warning, much to the irritation of Reds manager David Bell. As Bell argued with the umpire, benches cleared and Yasiel Puig attempted to throw punches at the Pirates players. In the end of the incident, five people were ejected, Bell, Puig, Reds southpaw Amir Garrett, Pirates setup man Keone Kela, and Pirates closer Felipe Vázquez. When play resumed, Archer struck out Dietrich. Archer received a five-game suspension on April 9.

paragraph: Section::::International career.

paragraph: Section::::International career.:World Baseball Classic.

paragraph: Archer pitched for Team USA in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. In his only start of the tournament, the first game for Team USA, Archer pitched four perfect innings against Colombia in a 3–2, extra inning victory for the US.

paragraph: Section::::Scouting profile.

paragraph: Archer is listed at and . He throws a four-seam fastball between that can reach 99 mph (159 km/h). His secondary pitches include a dominating slider at 86–89 mph, and circle change from 86 to 90 mph. According to Pedro Martinez, Archer was prone to expose the ball too early long before release, leading to batters getting clear clues to his pitches, and compounded by his slow release time compared to other right-handed low-three-quarters-position pitchers like Edinson Vólquez and Jacob deGrom.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Archer's mother, Sonya Clark, is Caucasian. His biological father, a firefighter, is African-American. Sonya has two other children with a different father. Chris was raised by Donna and Ron Archer, his maternal grandparents, who adopted him when he was two years old.

alias:
Christopher Alan Archer
Christopher Alan "Chris" Archer

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Chris Archer

wikipedia_title: Chris Archer


text: Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet

text: Ulbster

text: John

text: William

text: Catherine Sinclair

text: Harrow School

text: Lord Byron

text: Robert Peel

text: Göttingen

text: whig

text: Member of Parliament

text: county of Caithness

text: Spencer Perceval

text: House of Commons

text: Joseph Hume

text: Francis Burdett

text: Charles X of France

text: Holyrood

text: Reform Bill of 1832

text: William IV

text: Edward Smith-Stanley

text: Sir James Graham

text: Earl Grey

text: Rector of Marischal College

text: Thurso Castle

text: Torquay

text: Cannes

text: Harold's Tower

text: John George Tollemache Sinclair

categories: 19th-century Scottish writers,UK MPs 1832–1835,Whig (British political party) MPs,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies,UK MPs 1835–1837,Rectors of the University of Aberdeen,1868 deaths,UK MPs 1818–1820,People educated at Harrow School,UK MPs 1837–1841,1790 births,UK MPs 1807–1812,UK MPs 1831–1832

paragraph: Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet

paragraph: Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet (28 August 1790 – 1868), was a Scottish politician and author.

paragraph: Section::::Background and education.

paragraph: Sinclair, the eldest son of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster, and Diana, only daughter of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald, was born in Edinburgh. His siblings were John, William and Catherine Sinclair. He entered Harrow School, under Dr. Drury, at the age of ten, having for fellow scholars Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel. Byron described Sinclair as "the prodigy of our school-days. He made exercises for half the school (literally), verses at will, and themes without it. He was a friend of mine, and in the same remove." At the age of sixteen Sinclair quit Harrow and went to Göttingen. Arrested as a spy, he was brought before Napoleon, who examined him and ordered his release. In 1826 Sinclair issued a privately printed "Narrative" of the interview (Edinburgh, 1826, 8vo).

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Sinclair returned to England, and in 1811 succeeded his father in the whig interest as Member of Parliament (MP) for the county of Caithness, which he represented at intervals for many years. On the invitation of Spencer Perceval he moved the reply to the address from the throne during his first session, and soon achieved success as a speaker. He was re-elected to parliament in 1818. In the House of Commons Sinclair formed a close friendship with Joseph Hume and Sir Francis Burdett. He strenuously advocated catholic emancipation and the emancipation of the West India slaves, and he severely criticised the pension list. While a member of parliament Sinclair found time to attend the Edinburgh lectures of Dr. Hope on chemistry, of Dr. Knox and Dr. Monro on anatomy, and also a course on botany. He took a great interest in the misfortunes of Charles X of France, and had numerous interviews with the royal exile when resident in Holyrood. One of these he described in a racy pamphlet, "Comme Charles X," 1848.

paragraph: In 1831 Sinclair was again returned for Caithness-shire to the House of Commons, and sat continuously till 1841, being re-elected in 1833, 1835, and 1837. He supported the Reform Bill of 1832, and in the same year he attracted public attention by refusing William IV's invitation to dine with him on a Sunday. In 1835 he joined the new 'constitutional' party of Edward Smith-Stanley and Sir James Graham, who had seceded in 1834 from the government of Earl Grey.

paragraph: On 21 Dec. 1835 he succeeded his father as second baronet. He took an active part, as chairman of Sir Francis Burdett's committee, in the famous Westminster election of 1837. At this time a writer in "Blackwood" characterised him as "one of the manliest and most uncompromising of the constitutional members of the House of Commons; a friend to the church, the king, and the people." He retired from parliament in 1841.

paragraph: Sinclair was elected Rector of Marischal College (later Aberdeen University) for 1840–41. He was a faithful supporter of the anti-patronage society with reference to the church of Scotland and afterwards joined the free church. His last years were passed in seclusion at Thurso Castle or Torquay. He spent the winter of 1867 at Cannes, and, dying in Edinburgh on 23 October 1868, was buried at Harold's Tower, Thurso.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Sinclair was a voluminous writer for the press and author of many pamphlets. His earliest work, "Travels in Germany," in two volumes, describing his visits to the continent, was printed for private circulation. Only one copy is known to exist. Among his other publications were:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Selections from the Correspondence carried on during recent Negotiations for the Adjustment of the Scottish Church Question," 8vo, Edinburgh, 1842.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Letter on the Church Question," 8vo, Edinburgh, 1843.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Comme Charles X: an Essay on the Downfall of Louis-Philippe," 8vo, 1848.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Observations on the new Scottish Poor Law," 8vo, Edinburgh, 1849.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Letters to the Protestants of Scotland," 12mo, Edinburgh, 1852.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Miscellaneous Thoughts on Popery, Prelacy, and Presbyterianism," 8vo, Edinburgh, 1853.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Hundred Years of Popery in France," 12mo, Edinburgh, 1853.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Popery in the First Century," 12mo, Edinburgh, 1855.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Sinclair married, on 1 May 1816, Lady Catherine Camilla Manners (dau. of the 1st Lord Huntingtower), and with her had three sons and three daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, John George Tollemache Sinclair, M.P. for Caithness, 1869–85.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution:

alias:
Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet
George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet

description: Scottish politician and author, 2nd Baronet of Ulbster

wikidata_label: George Sinclair

wikipedia_title: Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet