text: Florida

text: Depeche Mode

text: Nitzer Ebb

text: Nine Inch Nails

text: Meat Beat Manifesto

text: Ministry

text: Ramones

text: My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

text: Gene Loves Jezebel

text: Front 242

text: Pankow

text: Skinny Puppy

text: Cat Rapes Dog

text: Vomito Negro

text: industrial music

text: Vociferous Mutes

text: Another Nation

text: Miami

text: Stockholm, Sweden

text: EBM

text: industrial music

text: Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids

text: Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat

text: EBM

text: industrial music

text: WVUM

text: electro

text: Miami Bass

text: Henry Stone

text: TK Records

text: Amos Larkins

text: Proto-Bass

text: Miami Bass

text: Henry Stone

text: Instant Funk

text: Gucci Crew II

text: L'Trimm

text: 2 Live Jews

text: Miami bass

text: Marilyn Manson (band)

text: " Miami Bass: The Primer"

text: Official Website

text: Hypno5ive on Discogs

text: Nice & Nasty on Discogs

categories: Living people,Year of birth missing (living people),American DJs

paragraph: Hypno5ive (also known as Hypno5) is a south Florida alternative music DJ, artist, promoter, designer and publisher of a web blog of the same name that offers news and reviews focusing on industrial, ebm, darkwave, gothic, and alternative music.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Hypno5ive has produced extensive promotional work for radio, video and club appearances including concert support for Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Nine Inch Nails, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, Ramones, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Gene Loves Jezebel, Front 242, Pankow, Skinny Puppy, Cat Rapes Dog, Vomito Negro, and local Miami industrial music bands Vociferous Mutes and Another Nation, which helped develop alternative music popularity in the region as well as draw national and international attention to the underground music environment in Miami. In addition to being a frequent contributor to many alternative press publications, he wrote and published his own alternative music reviews, including the music publication "220 Volts" while living in Stockholm, Sweden.

paragraph: In 1990, Hypno5ive founded the historic Edge in Kendall, Florida and helped give rise to the fledgling South Beach dance club scene of the time while promoting EBM and industrial music. Club work since the late 80's has included: Club 1235, Club Nu's Backdoor, Church, Kitchen Club, Club Beirut, Jonestown, Cameo, Red Room, Another World, Hell's Kitchen, Institute, Noise Unit, Right Wing, The Catacombs at Power Studios, Thrashcan, DarkWave Club, Edge, and Marsbar.

paragraph: Additional work included promotional studio remixes of Front 242 hits for Miami distributors as well as conceptual artwork on various alternative and industrial band albums.

paragraph: In the mid 90's, one of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids' first self made promo tapes was discovered among his collection. This find was disputed by some fans as never existing. After an extensive debate by members of the web community and fans the "Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat" was sold to a collector in Japan.

paragraph: Today Hypno5ive resides in Miami and besides the web publication, he produces graphic design works, develops web sites, supports online marketing, creates animation, and edits video.

paragraph: Continuing to work on mixing music, a new series of EBM and industrial music mixes, labeled "psychosis101", were started in 2007. "Pychosis101" to date includes Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Rotterdam, and Los Angeles mixes.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.:Nice & Nasty / Double Duce.

paragraph: The first exposure to being a DJ was in the late 70's and early 80's spinning Punk Rock and New Wave records as a mobile DJ for parties. Part of the inspiration to become a DJ came from listening to the University of Miami's WVUM 90.5 FM radio station.

paragraph: Drawn to new styles of music, including early Hip Hop, Hypno5ive worked under the name Nice & Nasty during the early to mid 80's. Working first as part of a duo with another DJ from New York and then on his own playing a role in a different styles of emerging music, Nice & Nasty became part of the Miami hip-hop / electro / Miami Bass movement. During the developmental years of hip-hop and bass in Miami, Nice & Nasty played at numerous events including jams at local parks, Video Powerhouse, Dade County Youth Fair, Calle Ocho festival, live mixes on air, and brought DJ battles and hip-hop shows to Key West, Florida showcasing local South Florida talent such as DJ Laz, MC Mighty Rock, MC Flex, and Beatmaster Clay-D.

paragraph: Nice & Nasty was a performing member DJ of the group Double Duce on stage with MC Mighty Rock at concerts and recorded scratching effects at Henry Stone's (of TK Records fame) studio in Miami for Amos Larkins production of Double Duce's "School Breakdown" and later on "Fresh Out the Box" today considered among the early titles categorized as Proto-Bass contributing to the development of Miami Bass sound.

paragraph: Working with Henry Stone, Paul Klein, and Larry Davis (Instant Funk) at Hot Productions record company in Miami, he continued marketing and promoting all of the studio's releases and acts including Gucci Crew II, L'Trimm, Bose, and comedy rap duo 2 Live Jews.

paragraph: Nice & Nasty's major exposure as a DJ occurred at Miami's Skylight Express alongside Mohamed Moretta and then independently on weekly radio broadcasts live from the club at the height of the Miami bass popularity in the mid 80's.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Singles:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1985: School Breakdown (from DD-1004 12" Single) Double Duce Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987: Fresh Out The Box (from HAL-1224 12" Single) Boomtown Records

paragraph: Compilations:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987: Fresh Out The Box (on HTCD 3302-2, Jam On Bass Vol. 1) Hot Productions

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: Miami Bass Throwdown (8 94231 18982 1) Essential Media Group

paragraph: Mixtapes:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987: Double Duce Live At The Crib

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987: Kraftwerk à la Nasty

paragraph: Productions as "Hypno5ive":

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006: Cult-like

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006: Better Killer

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat, Marilyn Manson (band).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (1998) "Marilyn Manson: the Long Hard Road Out of Hell", Plexus Publishing.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Miami New Times (June 29, 1994) "Swelter 11."

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Miami Herald (July 12, 1990) "Kendall Nightclub on the Cutting Edge."

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Miami Herald (December 14, 1984) "Club Scene Gives Teens Everything But Booze."

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Miami Herald (February 22, 1984) "Break Your Booty."

paragraph: BULLET::::- Papawheelie " Miami Bass: The Primer", 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Papawheelie "The Real History of the Miami Bass Sound!!!", 2006

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hypno5ive on Discogs

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nice & Nasty on Discogs

description: American DJ


text: Italian

text: philosopher

text: nephew

text: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

text: Galeotto I Pico

text: lord of Mirandola

text: d'Este

text: Niccolò III d'Este

text: Aristotle

text: Girolamo Savonarola

text: Lateran Council

text: Willibald Pirckheimer

text: Mirandola

text: Galeotto

text: Pope Clement VII

text: Giovanni Pico

text: Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Vita

categories: 16th-century philosophers,1470 births,Italian philosophers,1533 deaths,House of Pico,Demonologists

paragraph: Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola

paragraph: Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola (1470–1533) was an Italian nobleman and philosopher, the nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. His name is typically truncated as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Gianfrancesco was the son of Galeotto I Pico, lord of Mirandola, and Bianca Maria d'Este, the daughter of Niccolò III d'Este.

paragraph: Like his uncle he devoted himself chiefly to philosophy, but made it subject to the Bible, though in his treatises, "De studio divinæ et humanæ sapientiæ" and particularly in the six books entitled "Examen doctrinæ vanitatis gentium", he depreciates the authority of the philosophers, above all of Aristotle. He wrote a detailed biography of his uncle, published in 1496, and another of Girolamo Savonarola, of whom he was a follower.

paragraph: Having observed the dangers to which Italian society was exposed at the time, he sounded a warning on the occasion of the Lateran Council: "Joannis Francisci Pici oratio ad Leonem X et concilium Lateranense de reformandis Ecclesiæ Moribus" (Hagenau, 1512, dedicated to Willibald Pirckheimer).

paragraph: He died at Mirandola in 1533, assassinated by his nephew Galeotto, along with his youngest son, Alessandro. His other son Giantommaso was ambassador to Pope Clement VII. Charles B. Schmitt wrote:Whereas Giovanni Pico had often argued that all philosophies and all religions have attained a portion of the truth, Gianfrancesco said, in effect, that all religions and all philosophies – save the Christian religion alone – are mere collections of confused and internally inconsistent falsehoods. In holding such a view, he sided not only with Savonarola, but with certain of the Fathers and with the Reformers as well. On this point, he was insistent. Christianity is a self-subsistent reality and it has little if anything to gain from philosophy, the sciences and the arts. This central thesis diffuses itself through nearly the whole of Gianfrancesco’s literary output. He writes not to praise or extend the realm of philosophy but to demolish it.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De studio divinae et humanae philosophiae" (1496)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Vita" (1496)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De imaginatione" (1501)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De providentia Dei" (1508)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De rerum praenotione" (1506-1507)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quaestio de falsitate astrologiae" (ca. 1510)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium, et veritatis Christianae disciplinae" (1520)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Libro detto strega o delle illusioni del demonio (1524)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Opera Omnia" (1573)

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Burke, Peter. (1977). "Witchcraft and Magic in Renaissance Italy: Gianfrancesco Pico and His "Strix,"" in Sydney Anglod, ed. "The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft," pp. 32-48. London.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Herzig, T. (2003). "The Demons' Reaction to Sodomy: Witchcraft and Homosexuality in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix." "The Sixteenth Century Journal", 34, 1, 53.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kors, Alan Charles and Edward Peters. (2001) "Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History." Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (Excerpts from the Pico's "Strix", pp. 239-44)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Schmitt, C. B. (1967). "Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469-1533) and his critique of Aristotle." The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pappalardo, L. (2015). "Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: fede, immaginazione e scetticismo" (Nutrix, 8), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovan Francesco Pico: Biographic overview at the Centro Internazionale di Cultura "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola"

alias:
Giovanni della Robbia
Giovanni Antonio della Robbia
Giovanni Della Robbia
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

description: Italian philosopher

wikidata_label: Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola

wikipedia_title: Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola


text: astrologer

text: astrological predictions

text: Daily Mail

text: Sydney Daily Telegraph

text: Melbourne Herald Sun

text: Hello

text: Auckland Sunday News

text: Jewish

text: Surbiton

text: Surrey

text: Barclays Bank

text: Leeds

text: Allerton Grange School

text: International Times

text: Los Angeles

text: session musician

text: Faculty of Astrological Studies

text: horoscopes

text: sun sign

text: Eddie Shah

text: Today

text: Times

text: Daily Express

text: Richard Desmond

text: Daily Mirror

text: Piers Morgan

text: pundit

text: heart attack

text: cocaine

text: cardiotoxic

text: open verdict

text: Biography at "exploreastrology.co.uk"

text: "The Observer Profile: Jonathan Cainer"

text: "Star of the stargazers"

text: Facebook page

text: Tribute to Jonathan Cainer

categories: English columnists,English astrologers,1957 births,2016 deaths,21st-century astrologers,People from Surbiton,20th-century astrologers

paragraph: Jonathan Cainer

paragraph: Jonathan Cainer (18 December 1957 – 2 May 2016) was a British astrologer. He wrote astrological predictions six days a week for the "Daily Mail," and forecasts for three Australian newspapers: the "Sydney Daily Telegraph", the "Melbourne Herald Sun", and the "Perth Sunday Times". Cainer's predictions were also published in "Hello", the "Auckland Sunday News", the "Botswana Echo", and "Misty Magazine" (Japan). It has been estimated that over twelve million people read his predictions.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Cainer was born to a Jewish family and grew up in Surbiton (then in Surrey), one of six children of David who worked at Barclays Bank and Ruth who was a medical secretary and spiritual healer. Aged 13, he followed his mother to Leeds where he attended Allerton Grange School which he left at 15 without qualifications. He then worked as a petrol pump attendant, school nursery assistant and factory worker. He also played bass guitar in a band called Strange Cloud, attended rock festivals and helped to relaunch the 1960s underground newspaper "International Times". He then managed a nightclub on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He was working as a session musician when an acquaintance read his birth chart to him. Amazed by how accurately it summed him up, Cainer went on to study with the Faculty of Astrological Studies. He was interested only in drawing up full horoscopes, based on people’s exact date, time and place of birth. Indeed, when first approached, back in 1984 to write a sun sign forecast column, he turned down the offer, opting instead to write books designed to help students learn the language of planetary symbolism. Cainer also co-designed one of the first astrological computer programs. In 1985 he wrote "Jonathan Cainer's Love Signs", and a cookbook, "The Junk Food Vegetarian".

paragraph: In 1986, when Eddie Shah launched "Today," Cainer was approached once more to write a daily Sun sign column. Assured that he would also have the chance to introduce his readers to the deeper side of his subject, Cainer took the post, and his column proved a great success. He left "Today" in January 1992 and joined the "Daily Mail" in December of the same year. His "Times" obituary said that he was "arguably the only hippy ever to write a leading column for the "Daily Mail"". Cainer disliked the editorial stances of the "Daily Mail", he "never once agreed with an editorial they have published".

paragraph: Cainer was a philanthropist who supported the Steiner School in York, a school based on the spiritual and philosophical principles of Rudolf Steiner.

paragraph: In January 2000, he moved from the "Daily Mail" to the "Daily Express". The change was the subject of a contract dispute with the "Mail", leading to the newspaper group's unsuccessful legal action that year. It was believed by their executives that Cainer's switch might lead to a loss of 4% of the "Mail"s circulation to the "Express". After Richard Desmond became the proprietor of the Express titles, Cainer joined the "Daily Mirror" in March 2001. Promised a high-profile position on page 9 by "Mirror" editor Piers Morgan, Cainer's column was soon shifted to a more remote location in the paper. He returned to the "Daily Mail" in June 2004. Cainer's book, "Cosmic Ordering", was published in 2006. He made frequent appearances as a pundit on British TV and radio stations, whenever astrology was in the news. At the "Mail", he was the highest paid journalist in Great Britain.

paragraph: Cainer had six children. In the 1990s his first wife was killed suddenly in a car crash leaving him alone to care for his young children.

paragraph: On 2 May 2016 he was found dead at home, in his office, of a suspected heart attack, by his wife Sue. An inquest found that he had taken cocaine shortly before his death, the cardiotoxic effects of which may have contributed to his heart attack. An open verdict was returned. Following his death, his nephew Oscar Cainer, whom Jonathan trained as his successor, took over his newspaper column and astrology website.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.:Other sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "You ask the questions" at "The Independent"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at "exploreastrology.co.uk"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Observer Profile: Jonathan Cainer"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Star of the stargazers"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jonathan Cainer: The big business of astrology"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Facebook page

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tribute to Jonathan Cainer

description: British astrologer

wikidata_label: Jonathan Cainer

wikipedia_title: Jonathan Cainer


text: Glenelg

text: Adelaide

text: Darwin

text: Waukaringa

text: Barrier Miner

text: Palmerston

text: Port Darwin

text: Wertheim

text: Sydney

text: Dalhousie Station

text: Essington Lewis

text: BHP

text: San Francisco

text: From Ocean To Ocean, republished (2017)

text: Jim Fitzpatrick on Jerome Murif

text: D'Un Océan à l'Autre

categories: Australian male cyclists,1863 births,1926 deaths

paragraph: Jerome J. Murif

paragraph: Jerome Joseph Murif (1863–1926) was an Irish-Australian engineer and bushman who was also the first man to cycle across the Australian continent, from South to North, Glenelg, a suburb of Adelaide to Darwin, in 1897. Murif's surname at birth is unknown (possibly Murphy). In Australia, he used the spelling "Murif", but after emigrating to the USA in 1903, he adopted the spelling "Muriff". No contemporary records of the surname Murif or Muriff in Ireland exist at the period of his birth.

paragraph: Murif is believed to have been born in Ireland in about 1863. He appears to have arrived in Australia in about 1883. The first record of him, so far located, places him as the holder (with others) of the ABC Claim, near Waukaringa in South Australia in 1888. He later was recorded as an engine driver at the Stephens Creek reservoir of the Broken Hill Water Supply. Elsewhere there are suggestions that he was a pipe layer for the waterworks. Murif wrote occasional sketches that were published in the Barrier Miner newspaper in Broken Hill.

paragraph: A declaration prepared by him, after his Trans Australia journey describes him as Engineer, certificated by the Adelaide Marine Board.

paragraph: Aged 34, he took 74 days to complete his journey to Palmerston and Port Darwin. Murif describes a quite clinical process of investigating various records before hitting upon the bicycle crossing of Australia from South to North and selecting the appropriate bicycle, eschewing advertising and painting over the brand-name of the Wertheim "Electra" bicycle and labelling it Diamond.

paragraph: He then went on to write about his travel in the book "From Ocean to Ocean", published the same year by George Robertson and Co in Sydney. He specifically avoids referencing the names of people he met during his journey, but mentions meeting a young white boy with two aborigines near Dalhousie Station, almost certainly Essington Lewis, later General Manager and Managing Director of BHP. Essington Lewis was sent to work on the family property Dalhousie during school breaks from 1896 to 1899. There is claimed to be a letter from Murif to Essington Lewis in 1898 amongst Lewis's papers, not yet referenced.

paragraph: He held mineral leases in New South Wales from approximately 1898 to 1902.

paragraph: He left Sydney for San Francisco on the arriving on 24 March 1903, when he was described as having USD500. He was recorded as living in a boarding house in that city on the census date of 1 January 1920, when he was shown as 65 years old Male, White, Unmarried, born in England and working for a third party.

paragraph: Whilst living in San Francisco, he sought copyright on a musical composition.

paragraph: Murif died in San Mateo, California on 19 March 1926. His grave is located at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- From Ocean To Ocean (1897), George Robertson and Co, republished 2017 (Haere)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- From Ocean To Ocean, republished (2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From Ocean To Ocean", scanned copy of the original, National Library Of Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jim Fitzpatrick on Jerome Murif

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 centenary celebration ride from Adelaide to Darwin

paragraph: BULLET::::- D'Un Océan à l'Autre online french translation of From Ocean to Ocean.

wikidata_label: Jerome J. Murif

wikipedia_title: Jerome J. Murif


text:
stage name
Canadian
indie rock
EP
The Barmitzvah Brothers
The Burning Hell
Don Kerr
Evan Gordon
Jim Guthrie
Bob Wiseman
Scott Merritt
Dave Clark
Andy Magoffin
Wax Mannequin
Shad
Kim Barlow
Ida Nilsen
Old Man Luedecke
Great Lake Swimmers
board game
Jenny Omnichord
Myspace
Jenny Omnichord
Bandcamp

categories: Canadian indie rock musicians,Living people,Canadian indie pop musicians,Canadian singer-songwriters,Place of birth missing (living people),Canadian female pop singers,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Jenny Omnichord

paragraph: Jenny Mitchell, better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord, is a Canadian indie rock musician. She has released three solo albums and an EP as a solo artist, and also records and performs with the bands The Barmitzvah Brothers and The Burning Hell.

paragraph: On "Cities of Gifts and Ghosts", Mitchell worked with a variety of influential Canadian record producers, including Don Kerr, Evan Gordon, Jim Guthrie, Bob Wiseman, Scott Merritt and Dave Clark. Collaborators on "Charlotte or Otis: Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other People Too", her 2008 children's album, included Andy Magoffin, Wax Mannequin, Shad, Kim Barlow, Ida Nilsen, Old Man Luedecke and Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers.

paragraph: Her 2010 album, "All Our Little Bones" was her first to feature a full band, including JJ Ipsen, Michael Brushey, Justin Nace, Michael Barclay, Paterson Hodgson, Andy Magoffin and former Barmitzvah Brothers bandmates Johnny Merritt, TJ O'Malley and Gillian Manford.

paragraph: She is also known for distributing her albums in unconventional packaging. "Cities of Gifts and Ghosts" was released in handmade wooden cases, "Charlotte or Otis" featured a 20-page booklet of artwork inspired by the album's songs, and the vinyl edition of "All Our Little Bones" was released in a jacket which folds out into a playable board game inspired by a cross-Canada concert tour.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jenny Omnicovers" (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cities of Gifts and Ghosts" (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pregnancy 'P" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Charlotte or Otis: Duets for Children, Their Parents and Other People Too" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All Our Little Bones" (2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Days of Hard Drives: Excavating Ten Years of Jenny Omnichord" (2013)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jenny Omnichord on Myspace

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jenny Omnichord on Bandcamp

description: Canadian musician

wikidata_label: Jenny Omnichord

wikipedia_title: Jenny Omnichord


text:
World War I
Armistice
Montchabrier
Le Malzieu-Ville
Lozère
shepherd
accordion
messenger
Marne
Verdun
Artois
Somme
Ardennes
artillery shell
Private First Class
Henri Gouraud
Meuse
Compiègne
Foch
Philippe Pétain
Sedan
Charleville-Mézières
sapper
Arthur Rimbaud
poilu
Paris
Vrigne-Meuse
George Edwin Ellison
George Lawrence Price
Henry Gunther
John Parr
Jules Andre Peugeot
French Army
Albert Mayer (soldier)
Imperial German Army

categories: French military personnel killed in World War I,1918 deaths,1878 births

paragraph: Augustin Trébuchon

paragraph: Augustin-Joseph Victorin Trébuchon (30 May 1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last French soldier killed during World War I. He was shot 15 minutes before the Armistice came into effect, at 10.45am on 11 November 1918. The French Army, embarrassed to have sent men into battle after the armistice with the Germans had been signed, recorded the date of his death as earlier by one day.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Augustin Trébuchon was born at Montchabrier (near Le Malzieu-Ville in the Lozère) on 30 May 1878, with four younger brothers and sisters. His mother died when he was young and his father nine years later. He had been in the army since the war began in 1914. He was a communal shepherd and played accordion at village marriages before volunteering for the army on 4 August 1914. He joined the 415th Infantry Regiment as a messenger. He had already served in the second battle of the Marne and at Verdun, Artois and the Somme before arriving in the Ardennes at the end of the war. He had twice been wounded, including a severe wound to his left arm caused by an exploding artillery shell. Upon his promotion to the rank of "Soldat de Première Classe" (Private First Class) in September 1918 it was said that he was "a good soldier having always achieved his duty, of remarkable calm, setting the best example to his young comrades."

paragraph: Trébuchon, as a messenger, knew an agreement had been signed before the rest of his unit. At Vrigne-sur-Meuse, in the Ardennes, the 163rd Infantry Division was ordered to attack an élite German unit, the Hannetons. General Henri Gouraud told his men to cross the Meuse and to attack "as fast as possible, by whatever means and regardless of cost". It has been speculated that the attack was to end any possible hesitations by German negotiators at Compiègne, that Maréchal Foch believed the Germans were reluctant to sign and so ordered Général Philippe Pétain to press on across the Meuse.

paragraph: Trébuchon was halfway between Sedan and Charleville-Mézières. Rain was falling and the Meuse was flooding. Its width was put at 70m. The temperature was well below freezing. Warfare had destroyed bridges across the river and sappers worked by night and in fog to build a plank footbridge across a lock. There had been no reconnaissance of the other bank because bad weather had kept the spotter plane on the ground. Around 700 men crossed the river a little after 8am, taking a telephone wire with them. Some fell in the river and the first deaths were by drowning.

paragraph: The fog cleared at 10.30am and the French could see the Germans installed a little higher than them, a few hundred metres away. The French were spread over three kilometres between the Meuse and a railway line. The Germans opened fire with machine guns. The French sent up a spotter plane now that the fog had lifted and the artillery on the other bank could open fire without fear of killing their own side. Darkness fell again at 6pm and the battle continued until news of the armistice arrived.

paragraph: The last of the 91 French soldiers to die was Trébuchon, "with a red hole in his right side", probably a figure of speech as this expression comes from Arthur Rimbaud's very famous poem "Le Dormeur du Val" (The Sleeper in the Valley). He was 40. He fell near the railway line with his message still in his hand. It read ""Rassemblement à 11h 30 pour le ravitaillement" - "Muster at 11.30 for food." The armistice followed and the French withdrew without honouring their dead.

paragraph: Section::::Memorial and burial.

paragraph: Trébuchon is buried in grave 13 at the cemetery at Vrigne-Meuse.

paragraph: Trébuchon remained unrecognised until a retired breeder, René Fuselier, began inquiring in 1998 into the identity of the last "poilu" to die. He said: "With the computer facilities that we have today, it was easy to find out about him and others of the past."

paragraph: The date on his memorial at Malzieu-Forain and in the village records is 10 November 1918. The Germans had asked for an armistice on 9 November and it came into effect on 11 November. Nobody knows who ordered the death date to be changed, but it is said to be so for all French soldiers who died on 11 November. Speculation that the army was ashamed of sending men into battle knowing the armistice had already been agreed grew when the 115th Infantry Regiment was not invited to the victory parade through Paris on 14 July 1919.

paragraph: Trébuchon is named on the village memorial as Victorin—his second given name—rather than Augustin.

paragraph: A street at Vrigne-Meuse, where he died and where he is buried with 17 colleagues in the cemetery, has been named after him.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Edwin Ellison, the last British soldier killed in World War I, at 9:30 a.m. 11 November

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Lawrence Price, the last Canadian and Commonwealth soldier killed in World War I, 10:58 a.m. 11 November.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Gunther, the last American soldier killed in World War I, at 10:59 a.m. 11 November.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Parr, the first British Army soldier killed, 1914

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jules Andre Peugeot, the first French Army soldier killed, 1914

paragraph: BULLET::::- Albert Mayer (soldier), the first Imperial German Army soldier killed, 1914

description: French soldier

wikidata_label: Augustin Trébuchon

wikipedia_title: Augustin Trébuchon


text: art songs

text: Prix de Rome

text: numismatist

text: Paris Conservatory

text: Fétis

text: Berton

text: Berlioz

text: Prix de Rome

text: Paris Opéra

text: Fanny Elssler

text: opéra comique

text: salon music

text: Église Saint-Roch

text: Adolphe Adam

text: François-Louis Crosnier

text: Théâtre de Opéra-Comique

text: Eugène Scribe

text: Mélesville

text: Ernest Mocker

text: typhoid fever

text: Église de la Madeleine

text: Charles Duveyrier

text: Jean Coralli

text: Paris Opéra

text: Salle Le Peletier

text: opéra comique

text: Eugène Scribe

text: Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique

text: Théâtre des Nouveautés

text: Mélesville

text: Jacques-François Ancelot

text: Alexis Decomberousse

text: Jean-François-Alfred Bayard

text: Edmond de Biéville

text: Michel Carré

text: Jules Barbier

text: Scores by Alexandre Montfort

categories: People from Paris,1856 deaths,French classical composers,French opera composers,Male opera composers,1803 births

paragraph: Alexandre Montfort

paragraph: Alexandre Montfort (12 May 1803 – 13 February 1856) was a French classical composer. His works included instrumental music, art songs and six operas. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in composition in 1830.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Montfort was born in Paris, the son of a prominent antiquarian and numismatist. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Fétis and Berton and in 1830 was awarded (jointly with Berlioz) the Prix de Rome in composition. He stayed in Rome at the Villa Medici for two years and used the rest of his Prix de Rome bursary to travel and study in other parts of Italy and then in Germany. On his return to Paris in 1835 he made his debut as a composer with a series of instrumental overtures, piano music, and art songs.

paragraph: Montfort's first stage work was "La chatte metamorphosée en femme", a three-act ballet which premiered at the Paris Opéra on 16 October 1837 with Fanny Elssler in the title role. Berlioz, who had attended the premiere, described the music as displaying "a smooth, elegant and graceful talent." Five more stage works by Montfort were premiered between 1839 and 1855, all in the opéra comique genre. Of these, the most successful was the first, "Polichinelle". Pieces from "Polichinelle" were also published separately and became popular as salon music.

paragraph: In January 1843 Montfort married Alexandrine Dacheux in a ceremony at the Église Saint-Roch with Adolphe Adam as the organist. Alexandrine was the niece of François-Louis Crosnier, the director of the Théâtre de Opéra-Comique company from 1834 until 1845. As a wedding present, Eugène Scribe had promised a new libretto for Montfort. This was to become the three-act opéra comique "La Charbonnière". Scribe had planned to finish the libretto by the time Montfort returned from his honeymoon, but did not even begin working on it until August of that year. According to Scribe "La Charbonnière" was based on an idea he and Mélesville had conceived twenty years earlier. He wrote to his friend Mahérault, "if ideas are like wine in bottles, then this one must now be excellent." It was not a view shared by the critics when the opera finally premiered in 1845.

paragraph: After the relative failure of "La Charbonnière" and the change in management at the Opéra-Comique in 1845, Montfort produced no further stage works for the next eight years. During that period he supported himself by giving music lessons and working as a piano accompanist and organist. He returned to stage composition with his one-act "L'Ombre d'Argentine" in 1853. It was followed by another one-act opéra comique, "Deucalion et Pyrrha", which premiered to critical success on 8 October 1855 with Ernest Mocker and Marie-Charlotte Lemercier in the title roles. It was to be his last work. Four months later, Montfort died in Paris from typhoid fever at the age of 52. His funeral was held at the Église de la Madeleine.

paragraph: Section::::Stage works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Chatte métamorphosée en femme", ballet in three acts, libretto by Charles Duveyrier, choreography by Jean Coralli, premiered Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier), 16 October 1837

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Polichinelle", opéra comique in one act, libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyerier, premiered Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (Théâtre des Nouveautés), 14 June 1839

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Jeunesse de Charles-Quint", opéra comique in three acts, libretto by Mélesville (Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier) and Charles Duveyrier, premiered Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (2° Salle Favart), 1 December 1841

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Sainte-Cécile", opéra comique in three acts, libretto by Jacques-François Ancelot and Alexis Decomberousse, premiered Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (2° Salle Favart), 19 September 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Charbonnière", opéra comique in three acts, libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville (Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier), premiered Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (2° Salle Favart), 13 October 1845

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Ombre d'Argentine", opéra comique in one act, libretto by Jean-François-Alfred Bayard and Edmond de Biéville, premiered Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (2° Salle Favart), 28 April 1853

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Deucalion et Pyrrha", opéra comique in one act, libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier, premiered Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (2° Salle Favart), 8 October 1855

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Scores by Alexandre Montfort at the International Music Score Library Project

description: French composer

wikidata_label: Alexandre Montfort

wikipedia_title: Alexandre Montfort


text:
Chilean
Chilean National Prize for Literature
Academia Chilena de la Lengua
Los Ángeles
Temuco
Internado Nacional Barros Arana
Universidad de Chile
Santiago
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Universidad Andrés Bello
University of Chile
Miguel de Cervantes University
La Serena
Editora Nacional Quimantu
Salvador Allende
Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship
Academia Chilena de la Lengua
Chilean National Library
Teresa
Lila Calderón

categories: 1930 births,2009 deaths,National Prize for Literature (Chile) winners,20th-century Chilean poets,Chilean male poets

paragraph: Alfonso Calderón

paragraph: Alfonso Calderón Squadritto (November 21, 1930 – August 8, 2009) was a Chilean poet and writer. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1998. He had been a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Chilean Academy of Language) since 1981. He died on August 8, 2009 having suffered a heart attack.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His secondary school years were spent in the Liceos of Los Ángeles, Temuco and in the Internado Nacional Barros Arana in Santiago, and completed his qualification in the Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile in 1952.

paragraph: After a stint as a Spanish teacher in the from 1952 to 1964, he returned to Santiago to teach in the Institute of Chilean Literature of the University of Chile. He also taught in the University's School of Journalism, was head of the School of Journalism of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, professor of writing skills in the Universidad Andrés Bello, professor of Literature in the Diplomatic Academy of the same name, and also taught in the University of Chile and the Miguel de Cervantes University.

paragraph: His literary debut came in 1949 with a collection of poems, "Primer consejo a los arcángeles del viento", and by 1952 he had become a critic in journals and newspapers. In 1953 he became the president of the newly founded Carlos Mondaca Cortés Literary Circle, and his reviews appeared in the La Serena publications "El Serenense" and "El Día". He participated in the "Revista Ercilla", was head of the "Revista Mapocho" and played a role in the Editora Nacional Quimantu set up by Salvador Allende's Unidad Popular government from 1971 until the 1973 coup.

paragraph: In 1974, under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, he gave up his teaching positions in protest at military intervention in Chile's higher education institutions.

paragraph: From 1981 he was a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and was appointed to the post of director of the Diego Barros Arana Research Centre of the Chilean National Library in 1993.

paragraph: His daughters Teresa and Lila Calderón are poets, and Cecilia Calderón González is a professor of Language and Communication and author of several textbooks.

paragraph: He died on August 8, 2009, of a heart attack, and was cremated in accordance with his final wishes.

description: Chilean poet and writer

wikidata_label: Alfonso Calderón

wikipedia_title: Alfonso Calderón


text: New Orleans

text: Louisiana

text: harmonica

text: Lafitte Housing Projects

text: Ink Spots

text: Fred Astaire

text: Broadway

text: soul

text: Wardell Quezergue

text: Malaco

text: Tuff City Records

text: funk

text: Show Boat

text: The Dixie Cups

text: The Temptations

text: R&B

text: Bang! Records

text: Curtis Mayfield

text: Smokey Robinson

text: French Quarter

text: The New York Times

text: glaucoma

text: Playing for Change

text: Ben E. King

text: Stand by Me

text: The Tonight Show

text: The Colbert Report

text: Dodger Stadium

text: Star Spangled Banner

text: God Bless America

text: gospel

text: blues

text: Keb Mo'

categories: 1945 births,American buskers,Street performance,Living people

paragraph: Grandpa Elliott

paragraph: Grandpa Elliott Small, born Elliot Small in 1944, also known as Uncle Remus, is a veteran street-musician in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. He plays the harmonica, sings, and is a street icon in New Orleans.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Growing up in the Lafitte Housing Projects, Small developed a love of music as a young boy, in part to deal with the pains of an unhappy home life. Small's uncle was a professional musician who worked with Lloyd Washington of the Ink Spots, and often let his nephew come to the Dew Drop Inn to hear them play. One day when his uncle left for work without his harmonica, Small picked it up and put it to his mouth. "Oooh, it was awful," he said, laughing. "He chewed tobacco. I had to sterilize that thing." The uncle gave young Elliott a harmonica, and he fell in love with the sound of the mouth harp, teaching himself by playing along with the music on his mama's radio. At home, Small's mother favored classical music, giving the youngster diverse tastes at an early age. Teaching himself to dance from watching Fred Astaire movies on television, Small began performing on street corners for change, dancing while singing and playing his harmonica.

paragraph: "They brought me to New York to tap on Broadway when I was 6 or 7, and my mama got killed up there," he said. The man they lived with beat them both and ended up killing his mother. After it happened, his grandmother brought Small back to New Orleans and gave him and his older sister Frances a good life. "She was a sweet old lady," he said. "My stepfather was a man who did not love his child," he said. "But my uncle would come to the house, and play the harmonica to me."

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: As a young man, Small then made the rounds as a soul singer in local clubs. He recorded singles with arranger Wardell Quezergue, some of which are available on Malaco and Tuff City Records compilations of New Orleans funk.

paragraph: In the early '60s, Small's family relocated to New York City, where he took his first steps as a professional entertainer. Small once again played on the streets in between regular gigs, which included a role in a stage revival of Show Boat, helped the Louisiana vocal group The Dixie Cups go up to New York, opened on tour with The Temptations, and cut a few of his own R&B singles. One was entitled "I'm a Devil," recorded for Bang! Records. and Small promoted the record with live appearances while wearing what some fans remember as a red devil's suit complete with horns and pitchfork. "Well, it wasn't called a devil suit," he said. "It was a pretty, silk red suit, that looked good. It was a nice show." At the time, Small remembers, he was billed as "The Harmonica King." He also recorded his own "Girls Are Made for Lovin'" in 1969, a Wardell Quezergue (“Big Q”) production which has the feel of something by Curtis Mayfield, maybe, or Smokey Robinson. It’s not an identifiably New Orleans record, although it was made there, originally released on the New Sound label and picked up by Bang.

paragraph: The song "E-Ni-Me-Ni-Mi-Ni-Mo" is a fine funk groove recorded at Sea-Saint Studio in New Orleans, probably in 1975. Small produced the session and co-wrote the song along with Quezergue and guitarist Teddy Royal. According to Rob Bowman's notes to the box set, The Last Soul Company, Small, who had recorded previously for Malaco when Quezergue was working there, brought the master tape to that Jackson, MS studio early in 1976, hoping they could find a company to release it. Instead, they purchased the master and released it themselves. However, nobody went for the funkified children's chant, no matter how danceable it was, and the song sank with hardly a ripple.

paragraph: By the '80s, Small had become dissatisfied with life in New York, the grueling schedule of performing in local clubs and on the road, and the music business in general. Bad decisions and unfair contracts had soured him on the industry. When the sight in his good eye started to go and everything got fuzzy, he signed away the rights to one of his songs. "It was to a guy I had taken a liking to, a guy I trusted," he said. Small moved back to New Orleans and took his music to the streets, where it would belong only to him and to the passersby who heard it.

paragraph: Small developed the persona of Grandpa Elliott, an old man dressed in blue denim overalls, a bright red shirt, Santa beard, and a floppy hat who played blues harp and sang for the street traffic on his corner at Royal and Toulouse streets in the French Quarter, right where he started out. He often teams with guitarist Michael “Stoney B” Stone and they have become an institution in New Orleans for the people who stop to listen to them and throw change in their bucket. His act was even written up in The New York Times in 1995. He arrives here most mornings by taxi and spends his days singing his soulful songs and playing his harmonica. It's the place where everybody knows his name."When I feel sick, I come out here to feel better," he said. "The French Quarter is my medicine." Small said he doesn’t even know what beer tastes like and he’s never touched drugs and the only thing he smokes is the exhaust from the cars that pass Royal and Toulouse.

paragraph: His listeners reward him with dollar bills and treasures, like the gold wedding band he wears on his finger. "A lot of people walk around with plastic now instead of cash, so they throw what they can," he said. "Some of the rings I get out of my bucket even have diamonds on them."

paragraph: Section::::Playing for Change.

paragraph: Small did not completely lose his sight to glaucoma until 2005. It was in that year that recording engineer and producer Mark Johnson launched a project called Playing for Change, dedicated to promoting international unity through music. He began recording performances by street performers from around the world. Johnson heard Small sing the Ben E. King hit "Stand by Me" and immediately recorded him singing the tune on Royal Street, making his performance the centerpiece of a video featuring performances of the number by a handful of artists. In 2009, after the "Stand by Me" video was posted online, it racked up 104,223,407 plays on YouTube (27 June 2017), and suddenly Small had an international audience. Small signed on for a tour with a band of musicians affiliated with the Playing for Change project, He has also been on "The Tonight Show" and "The Colbert Report". He performed to a crowd of more than 40,000 at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California, on June 30, 2009, playing the "Star Spangled Banner" on harmonica and singing "God Bless America." Later that same year, the Playing for Change Band came to New Orleans to accompany Small on his debut CD "Sugar Sweet", released November 3, 2009, an eclectic collection that includes gospel, blues, soul and what Small calls "some strong love songs." Keb Mo' also accompanied on the album. Small is the first artist to be signed to Playing for Change Records/Concord Music Group. The whole experience taught him to trust people again. "Mark Johnson changed my life," he said. "He made me lift my head up." Small has been featured on Playing for Change in several episodes.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times" article on Elliott Small and Michael Stone

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Grandpa Elliott

wikipedia_title: Grandpa Elliott


text:
Chinese:
Republic of China (1912–49)
Taixing
Jiangsu Province
University of Glasgow
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
Shanxi
Yunnan
Weng Wenhao
Johan Gunnar Andersson
Zhang Junmai
Peking University
Weng Wenhao
Zeng Shiying
Academia Sinica
Hunan
Fu Sinian
Changsha
Yuelu Mountain
Yi ethnicity
Hu Shih
Johan Gunnar Andersson
modern archaeology

categories: Republic of China science writers,1936 deaths,Peking University faculty,Scientists from Taizhou, Jiangsu,Writers from Taizhou, Jiangsu,Chinese geologists,Republic of China essayists,Educators from Taizhou, Jiangsu,1887 births

paragraph: Ding Wenjiang

paragraph: Ding Wenjiang (Chinese: 丁文江; March 20, 1887 – January 5, 1936), courtesy name Zaijun, was a Chinese geologist, polymath, writer, politician, administrator, and social activist, active especially in the Republic of China (1912–49). In his own time, his name was transcribed as either V.K. Ting, or Ting Wen-chiang.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Ding was born into a wealthy family in Taixing, Jiangsu Province. He went to study in Japan in 1902, and later studied in Britain, majoring in zoology and geology. In 1911, Ding graduated from the University of Glasgow. After returning to China, he taught at Nanyang Public School (now Shanghai Jiao Tong University) in Shanghai. In 1913, Ding became the geological section chief in the Mining Administrative Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and went to Shanxi and Yunnan, conducting geological and mineral exploitation.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:National Geological Survey.

paragraph: Together with Wong Wen-hao (Weng Wenhao in pinyin), Ding was also the founder of China's new National Geological Survey, where he collaborated closely with foreign scholars such as Johan Gunnar Andersson in training the first generation of Chinese geologists (Fiskesjö and Chen 2004; Fiskesjö 2011, Shen 2014). In 1921, Ding became the general manager of the Beipiao Mining Company, and founded the Chinese Geological Society. He served as vice president of the society, and was the editor-in-chief of "Chinese Palaeobiology".

paragraph: In 1923, Ding published a paper, "Mythology and Science", arguing with Zhang Junmai over science and philosophy, fighting against the view that "science is irrelevant to human philosophy" (on the major debates of which this was a part, see Furth 1970).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Director.

paragraph: In 1925, Ding was appointed as the director of Shanghai Commercial Bureau. He represented Jiangsu provincial government to negotiate with foreign delegates to Shanghai. They signed "The Temporary Regulation on Reclamation of Juridical Rights in Shanghai by China" on August 1, 1926. In 1931, Ding became a professor of geology at Peking University. Together with Weng Wenhao and Zeng Shiying, he edited and published "New Geographic Map of the Republic of China", and "Provincial Maps of China". In June, 1934, Ding served as the chief staff of Academia Sinica. When he was exploring a coal mine in Hunan in 1936, he was poisoned by coal gas. Fu Sinian came from Beijing to take care of him. On January 5, Ding died in Xiangya Hospital in Changsha. Following his will, he was buried on Yuelu Mountain.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Author.

paragraph: Ding authored "The Textbook of Zoology". His geological exploitation materials were compiled into "Mr. Ding Wenjiang's Geological Investigation Report", and published in 1947. Ding was also the first Chinese scholar to systematically study the written words of Yi ethnicity (see Fiskesjö 2011). Hu Shih wrote "Biography of Ding Wenjiang", and commented that he is "a most Europeanized Chinese, and a most scientifically styled Chinese." (Hu Shih: "Ding Wenjiang"). At the time of his death, he was working on a comprehensive book on the archaeology of ancient China.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Furth, Charlotte. "Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China's New Culture". Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. (This comprehensive biography focuses on Ding's scientific and political career, but almost entirely omits Ding's role in the creation of modern Chinese archaeology. A Chinese version was published in 1987: "Ding Wenjiang—kexue yu zhongguo xin wenhua" 丁文江—科学与中国新文化, translated by Ding’s niece, Ding Zilin, Jiang Yijian, and Yang Zhao. Changsha: Hunan Kexue jishu chubanshe, 1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fiskesjö, Magnus and Chen Xingcan. "China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China’s Prehistory" / 中国之前的中国:安特生,丁文江,和中国史前史的发现. Bilingual edition, in English and Chinese. A companion volume for the new exhibit at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Numerous archival illustrations. Stockholm: MFEA monographs no. 15, 2004. . (This monograph describes the dramatic beginnings of Neolithic archaeology in China in the 1920s, through the collaboration of Swedish scholar Johan Gunnar Andersson who worked at China's National Geological Survey from 1914 to 1925, with its founder-director, Ding Wenjiang. )

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fiskesjö, Magnus. "Science across borders: Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang." In: Stevan Harrell, Charles McKhann, Margaret Swain and Denise M. Glover, eds., "Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950". Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011, pp. 240–66. . (In-depth discussion of Ding Wenjiang's life and career, as it intersected with the birth of modern archaeology in China.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shen, Grace Yen. "Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. (A general history of the development of modern geology in China)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hu Shih etc.″The Guy Ding Wenjiang.″/ Chinese:丁文江这个人 / Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, 2014.8，ISBN：9787101101768

paragraph: Note: The above sources (esp. Furth 1970; Fiskesjö & Chen 2004) should be consulted for the correct titles of the Chinese-language works by Hu Shih and other writers, most of which are mistranslated and quoted incorrectly in English, in the entry text above—thus potentially misleading the readers of this entry.

alias:
Ding Wenjiang
Zaijun

description: Chinese geologist

wikidata_label: Ding Wenjiang

wikipedia_title: Ding Wenjiang


text:
Greek
Kingdom of Commagene
Antiochus IV of Commagene
Iotapa
Commagene
Roman Empire
Callinicus
Iotapa
Armenia
Greek
Median
Laodice VII Thea
Antiochus I Theos of Commagene
Syria
Seleucid Empire
Samosata
Rome
Archelaus of Cilicia
Roman Emperor
Herodian Dynasty
Drusilla
Judea
Agrippa I
Judaism
Egypt
Alexandria
Claudia Capitolina
Tiberius Claudius Balbilus
Equestrian
Aka II of Commagene
Antiochus I Theos of Commagene
Philopappos
Titus
Jerusalem
Josephus
Roman Emperor
Vespasian
Lucius Caesennius Paetus
Syria
Parthia
Euphrates
Legio VI Ferrata
Aristobulus of Chalcis
Sohaemus of Emesa
Cilicia
Parthia
Rome
Syria
Julia Balbilla
Greece
Athens
Hadrian
Vibia Sabina
Josephus
Tacitus
Coinage of Epiphanes and Callinicus

categories: 1st-century Romans,Hellenistic-era people,Julii,Commagene,Roman-era Athenians,38 births

paragraph: Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes, also known as Julius Archelaus Epiphanes; Epiphanes; Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes or simply known as Gaius (Greek: ο Γάιος Ιούλιος Αρχέλαος Αντίοχος Επιφανής, 38-92 AD) was an influential prince of the Kingdom of Commagene, who lived in the 1st century.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Epiphanes was the first-born son and child to King Antiochus IV of Commagene and Queen Iotapa of Commagene. His parents were full-blooded siblings. His parents were Roman Client Monarchs of Commagene who lived under the Roman Empire in the 1st century. His younger siblings were prince Callinicus and princess Iotapa.

paragraph: He was of Armenian, Greek and Median descent. Through his ancestor from Commagene, Queen Laodice VII Thea, who was the mother of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, he was a direct descendant of the Greek Syrian Kingdom, the Seleucid Empire. He was most probably born in Samosata, the capital of the Kingdom of Commagene, or in Rome. However, he was raised and educated between Rome and Samosata. His mother died around 52 and his father raised him. Epiphanes was named in honor of his father, his ancestors and the late Roman Client King Archelaus of Cilicia.

paragraph: Antiochus IV was an ally to the Roman Emperors and various members of the Herodian Dynasty. Epiphanes was betrothed in 43/44 to the princess Drusilla, who was a daughter of Judean King Agrippa I. Agrippa thought that Epiphanes would embrace Judaism and Jewish customs. However, Epiphanes never married Drusilla because he refused to adopt the customs and religion of the Jews. The marriage between Epiphanes and Drusilla had not been contracted on the death of Agrippa I.

paragraph: In 64, Epiphanes had married an Egyptian Greek woman from Alexandria called Claudia Capitolina. Capitolina came from a distinguished family. She was the only child of Tiberius Claudius Balbilus by his unnamed wife. Balbilus was an Egyptian Greek who was one of the highest magistrates of Equestrian rank in Rome. Balbilus was an astrologer, a learned scholar who was later prefect of Egypt. Capitolina was distantly related to Epiphanes. Capitolina’s paternal grandmother princess Aka II of Commagene was a direct descendant of King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, as she was a great-granddaughter of Antiochus I Theos.

paragraph: Capitolina is not mentioned by Roman sources, however she has been identified as the wife of Epiphanes and mother of Epiphanes’ children, through surviving honorific inscriptions and poetry dedicated to her. After Epiphanes married Capitolina, they settled and lived in the court of Antiochus IV. In 65 Capitolina bore Epiphanes their first son and child, Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappos in Samosata.

paragraph: In 70 Epiphanes was sent by his father with troops to command and assist the prince Titus to end the siege in Jerusalem. During this war, Epiphanes had met the Roman Jewish historian Josephus. The Roman Emperor Vespasian had stated then that the Kingdom of Commagene was one of the richest of the tributary kings.

paragraph: In 72 Lucius Caesennius Paetus, the Roman Governor of Syria had sent letters addressed to Vespasian accusing Antiochus IV, Epiphanes and his brother Callinicus in planning to revolt against Rome and allying themselves with the King of Parthia. Paetus had accused Antiochus IV, Epiphanes and Callinicus of disloyalty to the Emperor in these letters. It is not known whether these accusations were true or false. After reading the letters, Vespasian felt that he could longer trust the family of Antiochus IV and could not trust them to protect the strategic crossing at the Euphrates River at Samosata. Vespasian gave orders to Antiochus IV to terminate his rule in Commagene.

paragraph: Paetus invaded the Kingdom of Commagene, as head of the Legio VI Ferrata. The client Kings Aristobulus of Chalcis and Sohaemus of Emesa also supplied troops to Paetus. They all arrived the night before the battle. As Epiphanes and Callinicus prepared themselves that night for war, Antiochus IV was preparing to flee to Cilicia.

paragraph: The morning that the war was supposed to occur, Epiphanes, his family and Callinicus, out of fear of the Romans, fled to the King of Parthia, while Antiochus IV also out of fear of the Romans fled to Cilicia. There is a possibility that Epiphanes and Callinicus had a short-lived attempt to resist invasion, before they fled to Parthia.

paragraph: The family of Antiochus IV had let their own army and the citizens of Commagene down. Antiochus IV and his family never considered a war with Rome and they wanted to clear themselves of these accusations. Vespasian brought Epiphanes, with his family and Callinicus, peacefully back to Rome with an honourable Roman military escort. Epiphanes lived in Rome with his family and Callinicus, and Antiochus IV, for the remainder of his life. Vespasian had given Antiochus IV and his family sufficient revenue on which to live. Antiochus IV and his family had a glamorous life and were treated with great respect.

paragraph: They never returned to Commagene, which was reinstated again as a part of the Roman Province of Syria and there the citizens still proved to be loyal subjects of the Roman Empire.

paragraph: In 72 Capitolina bore Epiphanes another child, a daughter named Julia Balbilla in Rome. After the death of his father, Epiphanes and his family moved and finally settled in Athens Greece, where he died in 92. It is unknown whether Callinicus had travelled with them.

paragraph: After his death, Capitolina returned and lived her remaining years in Alexandria, while her son remained in Athens where he became a prominent citizen. His daughter Julia Balbilla became a prominent poet and became a travelling friend to the Roman Emperor Hadrian and his wife the Empress Vibia Sabina. In a surviving poem written by Balbilla dedicated to the memory of her parents and her grandfathers, Balbilla describes her parents as ‘pious’ people and writes very highly of her ancestry.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Josephus, "Jewish War", v. 11. § 3

paragraph: BULLET::::- Josephus, "Jewish War", vii. 7

paragraph: BULLET::::- Josephus, "Jewish Antiquities", xix. 9. § 1

paragraph: BULLET::::- Josephus, "Jewish Antiquities", xx.7.1

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tacitus, "Histories", ii. 81.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tacitus, "Histories", v. 1.

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://web.archive.org/web/20151227175141/http://www.mavors.org/PDFs/Commagene.pdf

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www2.ehw.gr/asiaminor/Forms/fLemmaBody.aspx?lemmaid=9159

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chahin, Mark (2001). The Kingdom of Armenia. Routlege, pp. 190–191.

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Coinage of Epiphanes and Callinicus

description: prince of the Kingdom of Commagene


text:
Continental Army
American Revolutionary War
Maryland State Militia
Fort Washington
prison hulk
Georgetown
War of 1812
freedom of the press
Fort Washington
HMS "Jersey"
Samuel Hood
British Army
George Washington
Society of the Cincinnati
Prospect House
freedom of the press
War of 1812
Baltimore Federal Republican
Alexander Contee Hanson
Henry Lee III
Baltimore City Jail
George Washington Custis
Arlington National Cemetery
James Lingan at Find A Grave
contemporary account
a summary

categories: Murdered American military personnel,People from Maryland,1751 births,Deaths by beating in the United States,People murdered in Baltimore,1812 deaths,Burials at Arlington National Cemetery,Continental Army officers from Maryland

paragraph: James Lingan

paragraph: James McCubbin Lingan was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and subsequently a senior officer in the Maryland State Militia. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington early in the war and spent several years aboard a prison hulk. After independence, Lingan served as a government official in Georgetown. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Lingan was an outspoken advocate of freedom of the press and was murdered by a mob while defending the offices of an anti-war newspaper in Baltimore.

paragraph: Section::::Military service.

paragraph: Lingan enlisted in the Continental Army on July 13, 1776, only nine days after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He became a lieutenant in the Rawlings Additional Regiment, but was captured at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. Imprisoned in the hulk HMS "Jersey", Lingan was initially kept in a cell in which he could neither lie down nor stand up. Approached by distant cousin Samuel Hood and offered £10,000 and a commission in the British Army if he agreed to switch sides in the conflict, Lingan was reported to have replied "I'll rot first". Later in his captivity, Lingan gained the reputation as a defender of prisoners' rights. On one occasion, Lingan defended the body of a recently deceased prisoner from guards who wanted to behead the corpse to make it fit into a small coffin.

paragraph: Section::::Government service and death.

paragraph: Following his release at the end of the war, Lingan was made Collector of the Port of Georgetown by George Washington personally and became a Brigadier-General in the Maryland State Militia. He was also a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

paragraph: He built Prospect House, in Georgetown.

paragraph: Throughout his life, Lingan was a strong advocate of the freedom of the press, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 spoke out in opposition to those who favoured censorship. When the offices of the "Baltimore Federal Republican" were besieged and burnt by a mob angry at anti-war editorials run by the newspaper, Lingan protested at the act and sheltered the newspaper editor, Alexander Contee Hanson in Georgetown. On July 17, 1812, Hanson resumed printing the newspaper at new offices in Baltimore and another mob formed within hours, again storming the building and destroying the presses. Hanson, with Lingan, Henry Lee III and others who had hastened from Washington to try to calm the crowd, were arrested by local militia and taken to Baltimore City Jail in an attempt to calm the situation. The crowd, led by an athletic butcher named John Mumma, followed them to the prison and stormed the building. Lingan attempted to stop the mob by displaying a bayonet wound he had received in the Revolutionary War, but this only inflamed the crowd and Hanson, Lingan and Lee were severely beaten and left for dead. Hanson and Lee survived, although the latter was left partially blinded after hot wax was poured into his eyes. Lingan however died from his serious injuries.

paragraph: Lingan was buried at St. John's Church in Georgetown, at a funeral attended by thousands of mourners. George Washington Custis read the eulogy, praising Lingan's defence of free press and crying "Oh Maryland! Would that the waters of the Chesapeake could wash this foul stain from thy character!" 96 years later, Lingan's remains were removed from the burial ground in Georgetown and transferred to Arlington National Cemetery. In an odd bit of irony, Arlington Cemetery had been established in 1864 on the grounds of the Arlington Plantation, the home of George Washington Parke Custis.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- James Lingan at Find A Grave

paragraph: Section::::External links.:Baltimore Riot of 1812.

paragraph: BULLET::::- contemporary account

paragraph: BULLET::::- a summary

description: Continental Army officer

wikidata_label: James Lingan

wikipedia_title: James Lingan


text:
Amsterdam
Brussels
Dutch
Jewish
Dutch
French
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Jewish
French literature
Netherlands
Overveen
Rotterdam
Een Lange Jeugd in Joods Amsterdam
De Toverheg
Damesprotest
Sam Levita's Levensdans
La Judith
Cabaret der Plaatsvervangers
Jeruzalem van het Westen
Het Huisaltaar
Onder de Streling van het Groen

categories: 1899 births,2002 deaths,Writers from Amsterdam,University of Amsterdam alumni,Dutch writers

paragraph: Siegfried van Praag

paragraph: Siegfried Emanuel van Praag (8 August 1899 in Amsterdam – 16 March 2002 in Brussels), was a prolific Dutch writer of more than 60 books.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born to Jewish parents and was the youngest of three sons. His father, Herman van Praag, worked in the diamond trade. His mother's name was Grietje de Jongh. Apart from his Dutch and Jewish cultural roots, Siegfried's education also introduced him to French language and culture. He pursued French studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, after which he became a lecturer at the Hogereburgerscholen in Purmerend.

paragraph: In the same year that Van Praag published his first novel "De Weegschaal", he also married Hilda Sanders, a journalist. These new changes in his life came at the expense of his teaching career, which was abandoned for the time being. Still he remained active as an academic by publishing articles that were primarily concerned with Jewish and French literature. Also, his wife's profession may have introduced him to radio broadcasting, an occupation which van Praag held during various phases of his life.

paragraph: The rise of Nazism may have prompted a move to Brussels in 1936, and was definitely the reason why van Praag and his family left the continent for England in 1940. In London he worked for the Dutch and Belgian radio programmes of the BBC. The war made a considerable impression on van Praag and his consequent preoccupation with Jewish culture and identity—specifically Dutch Jewish culture and the newly formed country of Israel—can be noted in the published works that follow this period. But unlike so many other artists who were exiled to England or The New World he did return to Europe after the war, settling in the Netherlands once more. Still writing, he now also resumed his teaching career and taught in at a Lyceum in Overveen, then later at the Nutsacademie in Rotterdam.

paragraph: Though his greatest relevance is as a novelist, van Praag was also an essayist and an autobiographical writer. His autobiography "De Arend en de Mol" (The Eagle and the Mole) was published in 1973, but because of his fierce interest in Jewish identity some of his fictional and non-fictional writings may also have an autobiographical ring to them: thus "Een Lange Jeugd in Joods Amsterdam" (A Long Youth in Jewish Amsterdam) reflects van Praag's own experience growing up in 'Jewish' Amsterdam. By the 1980s he was nearing the end of his writing career, though he lived for another 20 years.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Een Lange Jeugd in Joods Amsterdam" (A Long Youth in Jewish Amsterdam)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De Toverheg" (The Witchcraft)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (The Holy Trinity: A Small Family's Novel)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Damesprotest" (Ladies' Protest)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sam Levita's Levensdans" (Sam Levita's Life Dance)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Judith"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cabaret der Plaatsvervangers" (Cabaret of Alternates)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jeruzalem van het Westen" (Jerusalem of the West)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Het Huisaltaar" (The House Altar)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Onder de Streling van het Groen" (Under the Stroking of the Green)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joods Historisch Museum. "Siegfried Emanuel van Praag".

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.jhm.nl/personen.aspx?naam=Praag2c+Siegfried+Emanuel+van&markeer=siegfried+van+praag.

paragraph: Accessed 3 September 2008.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nederlands Wikipedia. "Siegfried Emanuel van Praag".

paragraph: Accessed 3 September 2008.

description: Dutch writer

wikidata_label: Siegfried van Praag

wikipedia_title: Siegfried van Praag


text:
Whig
Scott of Great Barr
Great Barr Hall
Member of Parliament
Lichfield
High Sheriff of Staffordshire
Deputy Lieutenant
Bateman baronets

categories: UK MPs 1832–1835,1793 births,Whig (British political party) MPs,UK MPs 1835–1837,1852 deaths,Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom,Deputy Lieutenants of Staffordshire,High Sheriffs of Staffordshire,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies,Deputy Lieutenants of Sussex,UK MPs 1831–1832

paragraph: Sir Edward Scott, 2nd Baronet

paragraph: Sir Edward Dolman Scott, 2nd Baronet (22 October 1793 – 27 December 1852) was an English landowner and a Whig politician.

paragraph: He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Scott of Great Barr and inherited the estate at Great Barr Hall on the death of his father in 1828.

paragraph: He was Member of Parliament for Lichfield 1831-1837. He was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1847. He was also Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire and Sussex.

paragraph: He married twice, firstly in 1815 to Catherine Juliana Bateman by whom he had three sons, and secondly in 1848 to Lydia Gisborne. He was succeeded by his son Edward Francis, who had, at birth in 1824, succeeded to the Baronetcy of Bateman of Hartington (see Bateman baronets).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Baronetage of England" John Debrett (1839) p 327

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Sir Edward Scott, 2nd Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Edward Scott, 2nd Baronet


text: Bishop of Amarillo

text: moral theologian

text: Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital

text: Pope Paul VI

text: concelebrating

text: Mass

text: San Antonio

text: Tegucigalpa, Honduras

text: Diocese of Austin, Texas

text: College Station

text: auxiliary bishop

text: San Antonio

text: Pope John Paul II

text: Pope Francis

text: John Yanta

text: Czech

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

text: Diocese of Amarillo

text: St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church

categories: People from Sealy, Texas,1948 births,American people of Czech descent,American Roman Catholic bishops,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,Living people

paragraph: Patrick Zurek

paragraph: Patrick James Zurek (born 17 August 1948) has served as Bishop of Amarillo since his installation on 22 February 2008. Zurek trained in Rome as a moral theologian who was a chaplain at the Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital during his seminary days.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Zurek was ordained a priest in Rome on 29 June 1975 by Pope Paul VI along with 359 others for the Holy Year of 1975.

paragraph: He has been on the board of the directors of missions, the Assumption Seminary, and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Spanish-language Bible. In his capacity as Bishop, he has participated in numerous charity events, including one for 13 area Catholic schools that raised $230,000. He has also appeared on television concelebrating Mass in honor of the faith connection between The Archdioceses of San Antonio and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

paragraph: Zurek served 21 years as a priest of the Diocese of Austin, Texas, including 10 years as the original pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in College Station. While a priest, he also led the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio.

paragraph: On January 5, 1998, Zurek was appointed an auxiliary bishop of San Antonio by Pope John Paul II and consecrated on February 16, 1998.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Bishop of Amarillo.

paragraph: On January 3, 2008, Pope Francis appointed Zurek as bishop of Amarillo where he replaced John Yanta. He was installed on February 22, 2008.

paragraph: He speaks five languages, including his ancestral Czech, Italian and Spanish.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church hierarchy

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

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

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

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

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diocese of Amarillo

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church

description: American RC bishop

wikidata_label: Patrick Zurek

wikipedia_title: Patrick Zurek


text: Johor

text: Malaysia

text: Johor Bahru

text: Istana Besar

text: Jalan Wong Ah Fook

text: Taishan

text: Guangdong

text: Singapore

text: Punti–Hakka Clan Wars

text: Maharaja Abu Bakar

text: Sultan of Johor

text: Sultan Abu Bakar

text: Istana Besar

text: Johor

text: Singapore

text: Istana Tyersall

text: Singapore

text: Jalan Wong Ah Fook

text: Jalan Siu Nam

text: Jalan Siu Koon

text: Jalan Siu Chin

text: Johor Bahru

text: Kwong Yik Bank

text: Khuan Jiew School

text: Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital

text: The Straits Times

text: Order of the Crown of Johor

text: Kallang

text: Singapore

text: Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng

text: 黄亚福逸事

text: 南洋淘金梦

categories: 1837 births,Malaysian people of Cantonese descent,1918 deaths,People from Johor Bahru,Singaporean people of Cantonese descent

paragraph: Wong Ah Fook

paragraph: Wong Ah Fook (; 1837 – 12 September 1918), also known as "Wong Fook" or "Wong Fook Kee", was a Chinese immigrant, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who left an indelible imprint on the state of Johor in present-day Malaysia, particularly its capital, Johor Bahru. Primarily a building contractor, although he also ventured into many other businesses, he built a good number of Johor's heritage buildings, including the original Istana Besar, the royal palace of the Sultan of Johor. Jalan Wong Ah Fook, one of the busiest streets in downtown Johor Bahru, is named after him.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Yanjingcun, a Chinese village in Taishan county, Guangdong province, Wong Ah Fook hired himself out as a farmer's boy when his family fell on hard times. It is likely that he never attended school but he did learn to read and write and also to use the abacus. In 1854, then age 17, Wong emigrated to Singapore as the result of civil unrest in his hometown that eventually erupted into the Punti–Hakka Clan Wars (1855–1867). Like many others, he had no money to pay his passage and indentured himself to a carpenter as he did not want to travel all the way, only to become an agricultural laborer all over again. After working for a year at nominal wages, Wong was free but he continued to work with his employer and was given a share of the business after a few years.

paragraph: Section::::The beginnings of success.

paragraph: The Singapore economy was growing and there was a great demand for houses, shops, and warehouses. Seeing the opportunities, Wong became a building contractor as it was only a short step from carpentry work. Obtaining the patronage of Hoo Ah Kay (better known as Whampoa), a fellow Cantonese, he was able to secure a major contract in 1863 to build two godowns for Paterson & Simons (acting as the business agent for the Temenggungs of Johor in Singapore), some ten years after his arrival in Singapore. It was Hoo who introduced Wong to his wide circle of friends, including Maharaja Abu Bakar who subsequently became the Sultan of Johor. Hoo was a successful businessman who had built up a prosperous ships' chandlering business and was the supplier and contractor to Her Majesty's navy.

paragraph: In the year of 1904, Sultan Abu Bakar honoured him with SMJ in recognition of his services to the Johor.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Beginning with the construction of the Istana Besar in 1865 that made him become the main government contractor, Wong Ah Fook was drawn into the politics of Johor's gambier and pepper economy at about this time when he was asked by the Johor government to penetrate the Kongkek (the Gambier and Pepper Society of Singapore) which was then monopolizing the industry. This introduced him into revenue farming after he was granted a lease on the tax on all the two crops produced in Johor and its territories, and it was revenue farming that brought him great wealth. Wong also helped with the construction the Istana Tyersall in 1890 for the Sultan's residence in Singapore.

paragraph: In 1892, Wong was granted a 99-year lease for 10 lots of land by the Sultan on the east bank of Sungai Segget as a reward for his services. Named Kampung Wong Ah Fook, the main road in the kampung was named Jalan Wong Ah Fook, while three other smaller roads, namely Jalan Siu Nam, Jalan Siu Koon, and Jalan Siu Chin, were named after Wong's three eldest sons. The area became a prominent Cantonese-dominant area and is now the city centre of Johor Bahru, with all the four roads still existing today. However, it was the Kwong Yik Bank that was to become Wong Ah Fook's most ambitious undertaking and also his proudest achievement. Yet, the venture was to lead to his greatest disaster and brought him close to grief.

paragraph: On 26 December 1914, a general meeting of Chinese Community of Johor Bahru was held for the elections of the officials and discussing the particulars of Chinese General Mandarin School of Johor, Khuan Jiew School, Wong Ah Fook was elected as the President of the Committee.

paragraph: He also one of the original founders of the Kwong Wai Siew Chinese Hospital (now Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital; ) in Singapore, which according to "The Straits Times", "a hospital providing indigenous treatment to the Chinese".

paragraph: Section::::Honour.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Companion of the Order of the Crown of Johor (Seri Mahkota Johor - SMJ) - 1904

paragraph: Section::::Illness & Death.

paragraph: In the later part of his life, Wong had suffered from a failing eyesight, and two months before his passing, he had recovered from a severe illness. However, in August 1918, he contracted influenza which developed into pneumonia, to which he succumbed. On 2 September 1918, Wong Ah Fook died at the age of 82 in his home at 80 Kampong Java Road, in the present day district of Kallang, Singapore. He was buried at Kwong Wai Siew Peck San Theng after his death.

paragraph: Section::::Properties.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Large residence: 24, Bukit Ah Fook, Johore Bahru

paragraph: BULLET::::- No 80, Kampong Java Road

paragraph: BULLET::::- No 63, Mohamed Sultan Road

paragraph: BULLET::::- No 32, Robinson Road

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oral History in Southeast Asia: Theory and Method: Biography of Wong Fook Kee. P. Lim Pui Huen. 1998

paragraph: BULLET::::- 黄亚福逸事

paragraph: BULLET::::- 南洋淘金梦

description: Malaysian businessman

wikidata_label: Wong Ah Fook

wikipedia_title: Wong Ah Fook


text: Princess Alexandra Hospital

text: wheelchair basketball

text: Pam Foley

text: FESPIC Games

text: 1980 Arnhem Games

text: 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games

text: 1988 Seoul Games

text: 1992 Barcelona Games

text: Beppu-Ōita Marathon

text: Sempach

text: Peachtree Road Race

categories: Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Paralympics,Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics,Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics,Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Paralympics,Paralympic gold medalists for Australia,Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics,Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Paralympics,Paralympic silver medalists for Australia,Australian men's wheelchair basketball players,Sportspeople from Brisbane,1940s births,Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors,Paralympic athletes of Australia,Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia,Sportsmen from Queensland,People with paraplegia,Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics

paragraph: Mike Nugent (athlete)

paragraph: Michael "Mike" Alwyn Nugent (born 1945/1946) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair manufacturer, who has won six medals at four Paralympics.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: Nugent was paralysed in a motorbike accident and first became involved in wheelchair sport at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane in 1963 at the age of 17. He began in wheelchair basketball and field events at Kingshome Rehabilitation Centre and became interested in canoeing due to physiotherapist Vernon Hill. He has been married to Paralympic swimmer Pam Foley since 1975. In 1977 he started a Brisbane-based wheelchair-manufacturing business, Surgical Engineering.

paragraph: Section::::Competitive career.

paragraph: Nugent competed at his first National Games in Perth in 1968, and was a regular part of the Queensland team for the games in the 1970s and 1980s. His first international competition was the 1977 FESPIC Games in Sydney. Once his family and business life settled, he began training six days a week to pursue his interest in international competition.

paragraph: At his first Paralympics, the 1980 Arnhem Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 200 m 3 event and a silver medal in the Men's 400 m 3 event. His world record-breaking 200 m performance at the 1980 games was recognised as the best international performance by an Australian wheelchair athlete in that year. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, he won a gold medal and broke a world record in the Men's 400 m 2 event and two bronze medals in the Men's 800 m 2 and Men's 1,500 m 2 events.

paragraph: At the 1988 Seoul Games, he won a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m 2 event; he had a flat tyre during the early stages of the marathon, but still finished the race to support his teammates. He also participated but did not win any medals in athletics events at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

paragraph: An avid wheelchair basketballer, he participated in the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 1986 Gold Cup and was an integral member of the Queensland state wheelchair basketball team. After his retirement from Paralympic competition, he focused on road-racing events to both compete and promote his new wheelchair designs. He has participated in all major international wheelchair road-racing events, including the Beppu-Ōita Marathon, the Sempach Marathon, and the Peachtree Road Race.

wikidata_label: Mike Nugent

wikipedia_title: Mike Nugent (athlete)


text: photographer

categories: People from Brisbane,Australian photographers,Living people

paragraph: Dane Beesley

paragraph: Dane Beesley (born 1978) is an Australian photographer.

paragraph: He has created photography books; exhibited widely; and his photographs are held in public and private collections.

paragraph: Using the family basement as a darkroom, he began taking pictures from an early age but when he purchased an enormous jumble of old cameras and photography equipment from a deceased estate, he started experimenting.

paragraph: Section::::Dane's work.

paragraph: Dane Beesley has been described as a "leading Australian rock photojournalist" by Melbourne street press Beat Magazine.

paragraph: Marei Bischarn, photo editor at Rolling Stone Australia, described his work as "honesty in photos; nothing planned or fabricated – just pure energy and great times. It’s like having a drink while you’re getting ready to go out." Continuing to say of his book Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer's Journal "Flick through this book, grab your jacket and run out that door ‘cos something magical has to happen."

paragraph: Dane's second book "The Road" showcases his photos like soft punctuation marks - an exclamation that is quiet and yet not without a tension. There's the closeness, the fact of a steering wheel, or the cosy interior of a car eerily framing a misty countryside.

paragraph: In SHADES, morning seems to originate in the stillness of a parked car. A leaning smoking woman in a striped shirt has less a shadow more a shadow self – it’s all in the texture of shades. Models clamber on a sand dune (or do they channel it?). A suited-up cowboy-man alights a shopping centre escalator while inky-dark ferns track him.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer's Journal (released 2011)

paragraph: br

paragraph: The Road (released 2012)

paragraph: br

paragraph: Shades (released 2016)

paragraph: br

paragraph: Yelseeb Enad (released 2017)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

description: Australian photographer

wikidata_label: Dane Beesley

wikipedia_title: Dane Beesley


text: American football

text: linebacker

text: San Francisco 49ers

text: National Football League

text: college football

text: Wisconsin

text: 2014 NFL Draft

text: Archbishop Alter High School

text: Kettering, Ohio

text: track & field

text: 100 meters

text: discus

text: shot put

text: Rivals.com

text: Iowa

text: Louisville

text: Hawaii

text: FWAA

text: Butkus Award

text: Yahoo Sports

text: Russell Wilson

text: Montee Ball

text: Peter Konz

text: Kevin Zeitler

text: 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game

text: Nebraska

text: 2013 Rose Bowl

text: Stanford

text: Chuck Bednarik Award

text: Bronko Nagurski Trophy

text: Dick Butkus Award

text: Lombardi Award

text: Lott IMPACT Trophy

text: Anthony Barr

text: Devon Kennard

text: Troy Vincent

text: Tom Burke

text: Jamar Fletcher

text: Erasmus James

text: All-America Team

text: FWAA

text: AP

text: Athlon

text: CBS Sports

text: Sports Illustrated

text: Source

text: 2014 NFL Draft

text: San Francisco 49ers

text: Michael Wilhoite

text: NaVorro Bowman

text: Denver Broncos

text: Patrick Willis

text: Peyton Manning

text: Tre Mason

text: Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week

text: Eli Manning

text: head trauma

text: Source

text: Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week

text: All-America Team

text: FWAA

text: Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year

text: Big Ten Linebacker of the Year

text: All-American

text: Yahoo Sports

text: FWAA

text: Big Ten Champion

text: Big Ten

text: Portland, Oregon

text: CBS News

text: Frontline

text: Wisconsin profile

categories: People from Kettering, Ohio,San Francisco 49ers players,Players of American football from Ohio,1990 births,American football linebackers,Living people,Wisconsin Badgers football players

paragraph: Chris Borland

paragraph: Christopher Borland (born December 26, 1990) is a former American football linebacker who played for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Wisconsin, and was drafted by the 49ers in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He is one of the first NFL players to retire from professional football early in his career due to concerns of mid-term brain damage inherent to the sport.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Borland attended Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio, where he was first-team All-state and All-conference player of the year. He was the team captain and MVP. He was a letterman in football, track, basketball and tennis. As a senior, he had 72 tackles, one interception, one forced fumble and two fumble recoveries on defense, and rushed for 1,230 yards and 19 touchdowns on offense.

paragraph: In track & field, he was one of the state's top performers in the shot put. He placed fifth at the state meet in the shot put as a junior. At the 2008 Fairmont Firebird Invitational, he recorded a PR of 11.97 seconds in the 100 meters. He got a top-throw of 41.05 meters in the discus at the 2008 OHSAA District T&F Championships. He was the runner-up to the state title in the shot put event at the 2009 OHSAA District T&F Championships, recording a career-best throw of .

paragraph: Section::::Early years.:Recruiting.

paragraph: Regarded as a three-star recruit by "Rivals.com", he was ranked the No. 55 linebacker nationally. He chose Wisconsin over scholarship offers from Iowa and Louisville.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2009.

paragraph: Borland played in 13 games, starting six. He led the team with five forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries. He finished third on the team in tackles-for-loss (10.5) and sacks (5.0) and fifth in tackles (54). Borland also returned six kickoffs for 106 yards and made three extra points in the game against Hawaii. Borland was named the Big Ten's Freshman of the Year in 2009. He was also named to the FWAA Freshman All-American team.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2010.

paragraph: Borland played and started two games. He was injured in the second game of the season and missed the rest of the year with a shoulder injury. He was granted an injury redshirt for that season.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2011.

paragraph: Before the season, Borland was on the watchlist for the Butkus Award which is awarded to the nations best linebacker. He was also listed on the preseason watchlists for All-Big Ten, first-team by Phil Steele and second-team by Athlon.

paragraph: On December 8, 2011, Borland was named Third Team All-American by Yahoo Sports. His teammate Russell Wilson joined him on the Third Team while Montee Ball was named to the First Team and offensive linemen Peter Konz and Kevin Zeitler were named to the Second Team.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2012.

paragraph: Borland set a season high with 13 tackles in the 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game against Nebraska. He recorded a team-high 9 tackles in the 2013 Rose Bowl against Stanford. Following the season, Borland was named first-team All-Big Ten by the coaches and honorable mention by the media.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2013.

paragraph: Borland was named to the preseason watchlists for the Chuck Bednarik Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Dick Butkus Award, Lombardi Award and Lott IMPACT Trophy. Halfway through the 2013 season ESPN ranked Chris Borland the #4 Defensive MVP.

paragraph: On November 23, Borland tied the FBS career forced fumble record, with his 14th, against Minnesota. Also in late November, he was named one of four finalists for the Lott IMPACT Trophy. Other finalists include Anthony Barr (UCLA linebacker), Devon Kennard (USC defensive end) and James Morris (Iowa linebacker).

paragraph: On December 3, 2013, Borland was named Big Ten Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year Borland is the fifth Wisconsin player to be named Defensive Player of the Year, joining Troy Vincent (1991), Tom Burke (1998), Jamar Fletcher (2000) and Erasmus James (2004). Borland was also named the Big Ten's Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year.

paragraph: On December 18, 2013, Borland was named to the first-team All-America Team by FWAA. He also earned second-team All-America honors by the AP, Athlon, CBS Sports, and "Sports Illustrated".

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

paragraph: Source

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.

paragraph: Borland was selected with the 13th pick of the 3rd round (77th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers. Throughout training camp and preseason, he competed against 49ers veteran Michael Wilhoite for a starting inside linebacker position left absent by the injured NaVorro Bowman.

paragraph: In the last preseason game against the Houston Texans, Borland led the defense in tackles (6) and returned an interception 34 yards for a touchdown.

paragraph: Borland got his first career start in Week 7 against the Denver Broncos after the 49ers All-Pro ILB Patrick Willis injured his toe against the St. Louis Rams during week six. He led the 49ers defense with eight tackles, one tackle for loss and he recorded his first career sack against Peyton Manning; ultimately the 49ers were defeated 42–17. In his second start filling in for Willis, he recorded 18 tackles, 15 solo and three tackles for loss against the St. Louis Rams. His 18 tackles were the most tackles for a single player league-wide and included a "suplex-like" tackle of running back Tre Mason.

paragraph: In a week 10 matchup against the New Orleans Saints, Borland recovered an overtime fumble that led the 49ers to a 27–24 victory. During the game,he recorded 17 tackles and he received his first ever NFL award, which was Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week. In week 11 he was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance against the Eli Manning-led New York Giants where he was the first rookie linebacker in franchise history to get two interceptions in one game. He also led the team in tackles with 13 and had three passes defended. Borland was selected as the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Month for November. On December 20, 2014, Borland was placed on season ending IR with an ankle injury. He finished his rookie season with 108 tackles, 1 sack, and 2 interceptions in only starting 8 games.

paragraph: On March 16, 2015, Borland announced his retirement from the NFL citing concern of head trauma. He received a $617,436 signing bonus when he inked a four-year rookie deal with the 49ers coming out of college but would be returning approximately three-quarters of this bonus to the team, or about $463,077.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Professional statistics.

paragraph: Source

paragraph: Section::::Awards and achievements.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and achievements.:NFL.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Defensive Rookie of the Month (November 2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NFC Defensive Player of the Week (Week 11, 2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week (Weeks 10 & 11, 2014)

paragraph: Section::::Awards and achievements.:College.

paragraph: BULLET::::- First-team All-America Team – FWAA (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3× First-team All-Big Ten (2011, 2012, 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Ten Linebacker of the Year (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Third Team All-American – Yahoo Sports (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Ten Freshman of the Year (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- FWAA Freshman All-America Team (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Honorable Mention All-Big Ten (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3× Big Ten Champion (2010, 2011, 2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Division I FBS most fumbles forced, career (14)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 4× Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (Weeks 10 & 12 – 2011, Week 4 – 2012, Week 11 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Ten Conference Outstanding Sportsmanship Award (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- UW Student-Athlete of the Year (2014)

paragraph: Section::::Life after football.

paragraph: Borland attended the premier of GridIron Gladiators movie directed by Todd Trigsted April 19, 2015 in Portland, Oregon Borland has been outspoken about his decision to retire. He has received both praise and criticism for his assertions in many interviews, including one with CBS News in which he stated that he believes football as a whole to be "inherently dangerous".

paragraph: In a December 2015 Frontline interview, Borland said, "Last year the NFL commissioned actuaries to estimate how many NFL veterans would have brain damage. And the number they came up with was 3 out of 10. So, if I turn on a game, and a third of the guys will have brain damage in life, I just, I can't really support that. And, I don't really watch football anymore. If it's on, I may peek at it, but ..." He shook his head as the video faded.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wisconsin profile

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