text: English

text: Victoria Cross

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: 2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards

text: Indian Mutiny

text: Thomas Monaghan

text: Seaham

text: Sunderland

text: County Durham

text: Cardiff Castle

text: Wales

text: Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross

text: Monuments to Courage

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

text: Burial location of Charles Anderson

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,1827 births,1899 deaths,2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) soldiers,Victoria Cross awardees from Liverpool

paragraph: Charles Anderson (VC)

paragraph: Charles Anderson VC (1827 – 19 April 1899) was by birth an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Anderson was about 32 years old, and a private in the 2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards during the Indian Mutiny when the action for which he and Thomas Monaghan were awarded the Victoria Cross took place:

paragraph: He later achieved the rank of corporal. Charles Anderson was buried at Princess Road Cemetery, Seaham, near Sunderland, County Durham in section A, grave 1271.

paragraph: His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum in Cardiff Castle, Wales.

paragraph: Section::::References.

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

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

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

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Burial location of Charles Anderson "Co Durham"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of Charles Anderson's Victoria Cross "1st, The Queen's Dragoon Guards Museum"

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Charles Anderson

wikipedia_title: Charles Anderson (VC)


text:
American
bow
Evanston, Illinois
Giuseppe Guarneri
Giovanni Battista Guadagnini
Giovanni Grancino
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
cello
Seattle, Washington
University of Idaho
Seattle, Washington
Dominique Peccatte
François Tourte
Francois Nicolas Voirin
François-Jude Gaulard
John Dodd
Nicolaus Kittel
Pierre Simon
Voirin
Amber
Gennady Filimonov
Amber
F.N. Voirin
Gennady Filimonov
Baltic amber
official website
Gallery of Bows by Keith Peck

categories: 1998 deaths,People from Evanston, Illinois,Bow makers,University of Idaho alumni,1953 births,Luthiers

paragraph: Keith Peck

paragraph: Keith M. Peck (1953–1998) was a highly acclaimed American bow maker from Evanston, Illinois. His bows are used on instruments such as those created by master makers Giuseppe Guarneri, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Giovanni Grancino, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, and many others.

paragraph: Peck began playing cello at age nine. He assembled his first cello when in junior high school. He spent two summers while in high school repairing string instruments for the Boise (Idaho) School District albeit living and going to high school in Moscow, Idaho.

paragraph: His father was a physics professor at the University of Idaho who researched and published extensively in the field of optics. Keith Peck moved to Seattle, Washington in 1975 and worked for David Saunders from 1975 to 1976. He was insistent on using the finest horse hair with even the most inexpensive bows.

paragraph: Keith continued to study the cello with Howard Jones at University of Idaho. It was his other cello teacher, Arthur Ross, who got him intrigued in bows by stressing their importance and eventually his focus turned to bow making. He started making bows in 1971, and moved to Seattle, Washington in 1975 and worked for David Saunders from 1975 to 1976.

paragraph: Peck established his own shop in 1976, making his own model, as well as copies of Dominique Peccatte, François Tourte, and Francois Nicolas Voirin. and frog copies of François-Jude Gaulard, John Dodd, Francois Lupot, Nicolaus Kittel, Pierre Simon, Voirin and many more. Peck is widely known for being the creator of the Amber Frog Bow, a bow commissioned by Gennady Filimonov.

paragraph: The Amber Frog / Picture bow (copy of F.N. Voirin), is the first documented amber frog bow (made in 1996-97), that was (and is) a complete success. It is still being played by Gennady Filimonov.

paragraph: Amber used for the frog was Baltic amber. The amber frog and the rest of the bow was made entirely by hand by Master Bow Maker Keith Peck.

paragraph: Section::::Quotes.

paragraph: "...his bow was a perfect piece of work showing the right spirit of Vuillaume-Voirin. As for the owners of his bows, they should be honored to be in possession of such bows." - Jean Francois Raffin (1998) Bow Expert/Master Maker Expert Pres La Court D'Appel de Paris

paragraph: "...seeing a Peccatte copy which he made, was one of astonishment..." - Elmar Oliveira Concert Soloist (1998)

paragraph: "...superb copyist in the Great French Tradition..." - Bernard Millant (1998) Maitre Luthier-Archetier Entente Internationale des Maitres Luthiers et Archetiers d'Art

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- STRINGS magazine 1995/96 (Dec./Jan.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- STRINGS magazine, Nov 1997

paragraph: BULLET::::- STRINGS magazine, Nov 1999 No76 (Feb/March)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Srad magazine Jan. 1999

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Keith Peck official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gallery of Bows by Keith Peck

paragraph: BULLET::::- Filimonov Fine Violins

description: American luthier

wikidata_label: Keith Peck

wikipedia_title: Keith Peck


text:
Hundred Years' War
Wars of the Roses
Durham
France
Tombelaine
Fresnay-le-Vicomte
Caen
Sir John Fastolf
Duke of Somerset's
Calais
freebooter
Ludford Bridge
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
Battle of Ludford Bridge
Yorkist
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York
Lancastrians
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset
Guînes
battle of Newenham Bridge
Sandwich
Margaret of Anjou
ambush
Worksop
Battle of Wakefield
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Second Battle of St Albans
caltrop
King Edward IV
Battle of Towton
Edward IV
William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent
attainted

categories: People of the Wars of the Roses,1461 deaths,Year of birth missing,English military personnel killed in action,People of the Hundred Years' War

paragraph: Andrew Trollope

paragraph: Sir Andrew Trollope (died 1461) was an English soldier during the later stages of the Hundred Years' War and at the time of the Wars of the Roses.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born into a family of Durham dyers, Trollope began his long military career in France in the 1420s as a man-at-arms, serving first on Tombelaine under Thomas Burgh and then with the garrisons at Fresnay-le-Vicomte and Caen under Sir John Fastolf in the Duke of Somerset's raid into Picardy in February 1440. Trollope served in Matthew Gough's company. By 1442 he was lieutenant at Fresnay under Sir Richard Woodville and held the same position under Osbert Mundeford when he surrendered the castle to the French in 1450.

paragraph: Some time before 1455 he married Elizabeth, sister of Osbert Mundeford (a protégé of the Beaufort family, who became treasurer-general of the duchy of Normandy in September 1448), and this connection allowed Trollope to prosper in his military career. By 1455 Trollope was made Master Porter of Calais, a capacity in which he continued to serve until 1459. It was in this office that he prevented pirates and French ships alike from sailing, but also seized and stole from "the ships of allies and subjects alike" to such an extent that he has been called a "freebooter".

paragraph: Shortly before the confrontation at Ludford Bridge, Trollope sailed for England with Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick known as ("The Kingmaker"). At the Battle of Ludford Bridge Trollope commanded part of the Yorkist army of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, but betrayed him to the Lancastrians, bringing with him "valuable intelligence" regarding York's army.

paragraph: Trollope returned to France with Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset to aid in the capture of Calais. Somerset failed to achieve this, but Trollope did persuade the garrison of Guînes to come over to the Lancastrians, and was appointed bailiff of Guînes on 24 March and expected to defend it. However, Somerset's defeat at the battle of Newenham Bridge (Pont de Nieulay) on 23 April and the failure of Mundeford to supply a relief force (it was intercepted at the port of Sandwich in June) forced Trollope to surrender Guînes to the Yorkists shortly afterwards, and he then returned to England.

paragraph: Trollope proved to be an invaluable strategist to Margaret of Anjou. He took part in the ambush at Worksop on York's march north in December 1460 and then supposedly concocted the Lancastrian plan at the Battle of Wakefield, where York and Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury were killed. Andrew Trollope also fought at the Second Battle of St Albans (where he stepped on a caltrop) and was knighted by Prince Edward. His importance to the Lancastrian cause can be seen by the fact that, in March 1461, the recently proclaimed King Edward IV offered a £100 reward to anyone who killed "certain named enemies of the House of York", which included Trollope.

paragraph: At the Battle of Towton (29 March 1461) Trollope shared the command of the Lancastrian vanguard with the Earl of Northumberland, against the Yorkist army of Edward IV. Considered the "opposite number" of his contemporary William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, Trollope's death in the battle was "a damaging blow" for the future of the Lancastrian cause. He was posthumously attainted, and his son Sir David Trollope was also killed at Towton.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Trollop and his wife, Elizabeth Mundeford, had a daughter Margaret who married Richard Calle of Bacton, bailiff of the Pastons.

description: English soldier

wikidata_label: Andrew Trollope

wikipedia_title: Andrew Trollope


text:
Hebrew
Galician
Lemberg
yeshivah
Berlin
Daniel Itzig
Frankfurt an der Oder
Jewish cemetery
rabbinical
Orach chayyim
David ben Samuel
Avraham Gombiner
Yoreh De'ah
Shabbethai Kohen
Yebamot
Ketubot
Talmud
Chullin
Torah
Haftarot
Shabbat
Pirḳe Abot
Hebrew
Aramaic
Chaldaic

categories: Later Acharonim,Rabbis from Galicia (Eastern Europe),1727 births,1793 deaths

paragraph: Joseph ben Meir Teomim

paragraph: Joseph ben Meir Teomim (1727–1792) (Hebrew: יוסף בן מאיר תאומים) was a Galician rabbi born at Lemberg. While still young he succeeded his father in the position of preacher and rabbinical instructor in the yeshivah of Lemberg. Later he went to Berlin, where he stayed several years in the bet ha-midrash of Daniel Itzig. Then he resumed his former position at Lemberg, and in 1782 was appointed rabbi at Frankfurt an der Oder, where he remained until his death. He was buried on the Jewish cemetery at Frankfurt/Oder.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Te'omim, who was one of the foremost rabbis of his time, was a thorough student of rabbinical literature, and was not unlearned in the secular sciences. He wrote:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pri Megadim" (פרי מגדים), a supercommentary on some of the major commentators on the Shulkhan Aruch: On the "Orach chayyim" section, he wrote the "Mishbetzot Zahav," containing a supercommentary on David ben Samuel's "Ṭurei Zahav," and the "Eshel Avraham," on Avraham Gombiner's "Magen Avraham" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1753). On the Yoreh De'ah section, he wrote the "Siftei Da'at," on Shabbethai Kohen's "Siftei Kohen" (ש"ך; Berlin, 1772) as well as continuing the "Mishbetzot Zahav."

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Porat Yosef," novellæ on Yebamot and Ketubot, with rules for halakic decisions (Zolkiev, 1756)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ginnat Vradim," seventy rules for the comprehension of the Talmud (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1767)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tebat Gome," on the Sabbatical sections (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1782)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shoshanat ha-'Amakim," a methodology of the Talmud, published together with the preceding

paragraph: BULLET::::- "No'am Megadim," commentaries on the prayers, published with the prayer-book "Hegyon Leb."

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rosh Yosef," novellæ on Chullin

paragraph: Te'omim left in manuscript "Sefer ha-Maggid" (a commentary on the Torah and the Haftarot, sermons for Shabbat and festivals, and a twofold commentary on Pirḳe Abot) and "Em la-Binah" (a Hebrew, Aramaic, and Chaldaic lexicon; Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 1500). In the introduction to the last-named work Te'omim mentions a great number of writings of his own, on halakot and ethics, which are no longer in existence.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography and references.

paragraph: The following bibliography is referred to in the Jewish Encyclopedia article:

paragraph: BULLET::::- D. Cassel, in Ersch and Gruber, Encyc. section ii., part 31, p. 97;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1534;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Neubauer, in Ha-Maggid, xiii. 285;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 514;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Buber, Anshe Shem, p. 95.

description: Galician rabbi

wikidata_label: Joseph ben Meir Teomim

wikipedia_title: Joseph ben Meir Teomim


text:
Dublin
Gleemen
Liberties
P.J. McCall
Glasnevin Cemetery
Palm Sunday
Daniel O'Connell
Bishop of Raphoe
Saint Mary of Egypt
Jerusalem
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Zosimas of Palestine
The Finding of Moses
Gallery Zozimus
Yeats, WB
An Gúm
The Last Gleeman in GoogleBooks

categories: 19th-century Irish poets,1846 deaths,People from County Dublin,Irish male poets,1794 births

paragraph: Zozimus

paragraph: Michael J Moran (ca. 1794 – 3 April 1846), popularly known as Zozimus, was an Irish street rhymer. He was a resident of Dublin and also known as the "Blind Bard of the Liberties" and the "Last of the Gleemen".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Michael J. Moran was born circa 1794 in Faddle Alley off the Blackpitts in Dublin's Liberties and lived in Dublin all his life. At two weeks old he was blinded by illness. He developed an astounding memory for verse and made his living reciting poems, many of which he had composed himself, in his own lively style. He was described by songwriter P.J. McCall as the last gleeman of the Pale.

paragraph: Many of his rhymes had religious themes; others were political or recounted current events. He is said to have worn "a long, coarse, dark, frieze coat with a cape, the lower parts of the skirts being scalloped, an old soft, greasy, brown beaver hat, corduroy trousers and Francis Street brogues, and he carried a long blackthorn stick secured to his wrist with a strap."

paragraph: He performed all over Dublin including at Essex Bridge, Wood Quay, Church Street, Dame Street, Capel Street, Sackville Street, Grafton Street, Henry Street, and Conciliation Hall. He began each oration with the verse:

paragraph: "Ye sons and daughters of Erin,"

paragraph: "Gather round poor Zozimus, yer friend;"

paragraph: "Listen boys, until yez hear"

paragraph: "My charming song so dear."

paragraph: In his last few years, his voice grew weak, costing him his means of livelihood. He ended up feeble and bedridden and he died on 3 April 1846 at his lodgings in 15 Patrick Street, aged around 52, and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery two days later on Palm Sunday. He had feared grave robbers, who were busy in Dublin at the time. In one of his narrative songs, he begged his long-established companion, "Stony Pockets":

paragraph: "Oh Stony, Stony"

paragraph: "Don't let the Sack-'Em-Ups get me"

paragraph: "Send round the hat"

paragraph: "And buy me a grave."

paragraph: Zozimus was buried in Glasnevin's Prospect Cemetery which was guarded day and night. His grave remained unmarked until the late 1960s, when the band The Dublin City Ramblers erected a tombstone in his memory. His grave is in the "Poor Ground" of the cemetery, at the co-ordinates AG 30 South; it is not far from Daniel O'Connell's monument.

paragraph: His epitaph reads:

paragraph: "My burying place is of no concern to me,

paragraph: "In the O'Connell circle let it be,

paragraph: "As to my funeral, all pomp is vain,

paragraph: "Illustrious people does prefer it plain.""

paragraph: Section::::Nickname.

paragraph: Moran's nickname derived from a poem written by Anthony Coyle, Bishop of Raphoe about Saint Mary of Egypt. According to legend, she had followed pilgrims to Jerusalem with the intent of seducing them, then, turning penitent on finding herself prevented from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by a supernatural force, she fled to the desert and spent the remainder of her life in solitary penance. When she was at the point of death, God sent Zosimas of Palestine to hear her confession and give her Holy Communion, and a lion to dig her grave. The poem has the intolerable cadence of the eighteenth century, but was so popular, and so often called for, that Moran was soon nicknamed "Zozimus", and by that name is remembered.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Some of Zozimus's rhymes survive as songs, such as "Saint Patrick was a Gentleman"

paragraph: "Saint Patrick was a gentleman," "He came of decent people," "In Dublin town he built a church," "And upon't put a steeple."

paragraph: as well as "The Twangman", "Ye Men of Sweet Liberties Hall" and "The Finding of Moses".

paragraph: In Praise of Potheen

paragraph: "O long life to the man who invented potheen -

paragraph: "Sure the Pope ought to make him a martyr -

paragraph: "If myself was this moment Victoria, the Queen,

paragraph: "I'd drink nothing but whiskey and wather.

paragraph: The Song of Zozimus

paragraph: "Gather round me boys, will yez"

paragraph: "Gather round me"

paragraph: "And hear what I have to say,"

paragraph: "Before ould Sally brings me"

paragraph: "My bread and jug of tay."

paragraph: "I live in Faddle Alley,"

paragraph: "Off Blackpitts near the Coombe;"

paragraph: "With my poor wife called Sally,"

paragraph: "In a narrow, dirty room."

paragraph: "Gather round me, and stop yer noise,"

paragraph: "Gather round me till my tale is told;"

paragraph: "Gather round me, ye girls and ye boys,"

paragraph: "Till I tell yez stories of the days of old;"

paragraph: "Gather round me, all ye ladies fair,"

paragraph: "And ye gentlemen of renown;"

paragraph: "Listen, listen, and to me repair,"

paragraph: "Whilst I sing of beauteous Dublin town."

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A private art gallery in Dublin – Gallery Zozimus – is named after him.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The magazine "Zozimus", 1870–72

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zoz, or the Irish Charivari", 1876–79

paragraph: BULLET::::- A New York collection of stories "The Zozimus Papers" (1889)

paragraph: BULLET::::- A 2007 compendium of Irish comic poetry "Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus". Several of Zozimus's poems were included.

paragraph: Section::::Biographical and other texts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yeats, WB (1893) "Zozimus, Michael Moran, the Last of the Gleemen" in: Yeats’s 'Celtic Twilight" printed prev. as "The Last Gleeman" from "The National Observer"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gulielmus, Dubliniensis Humoriensis (1976) "Memoir of the Great Original Zozimus (Michael Moran) the Celebrated Dublin Street Rhymer and Reciter, with His Songs, Sayings and Recitations"; facsimile ed. (Carraig chapbooks) Blackrock (Co. Dublin): Carraig Books (original ed.: Dublin: M'Glashan & Gill, 1871)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Boylan, Henry (1978) "Michael Moran (Zozimus)" in: "A Dictionary of Irish Biography". Dublin: Gill and Macmillan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Harte, Frank (1978) "Songs of Dublin". Dublin: Gilbert

paragraph: BULLET::::- Uíbh Eachach, Vivian (1990) "Zozimus agus a Chairde" ('Zozimus and his Friends'). [Dublin?]: An Gúm (retold for children)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zimmerman, Georges Denis (2002) "Songs of Irish Rebellion: Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs, 1780–1900". Dublin: Four Courts Press

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jackson, John Wyse & McDonnell, Hector (2007) "Ireland's Other Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus". Lilliput Press

paragraph: BULLET::::- O Meara, Liam: Zozimus, The Life and Works of Michael Moran, Riposte Books

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Last Gleeman in GoogleBooks

description: Irish poet

wikidata_label: Zozimus

wikipedia_title: Zozimus


text:
Stalin
Stalin Prize
Academy of Arts
Tbilisi
Georgia
Atkarsk
First World War
Russian Civil War
Vkhutein
formalistic
Socialist realism
AKhRR
Kuznetsktstroy
Siberia
Whites
Octobering
baptism
famous dance
1939 New York World's Fair
Great Patriotic War
posters
Borodino
Alexander Matrosov
epic battle of the 14th century
Pushkin
USSR Academy of Arts
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Gogol
Taras Shevchenko
Novodevichy Cemetery

categories: 20th-century Russian painters,1908 births,1964 deaths,People from Saratov Governorate,Soviet painters,Socialist realism,Russian male painters,Stalin Prize winners

image: 512px-Почтовая_марка_СССР_№_5106._1980._600-летие_Куликовской_битвы.jpg

paragraph: Alexander Bubnov (painter)

paragraph: Aleksandr Pavlovich Bubnov () (1908–1964) was a noted Soviet painter, best known for the portraits of Stalin and for a monumental canvas, "Morning on the Kulikovo Field". He got the Stalin Prize in 1948 and became the corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Arts in 1954.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early years.

paragraph: Aleksandr Pavlovich Bubnov was born on in Tbilisi (modern Georgia) in the family of a serviceman. When the service was over, the family returned to the Saratov Province, in the town of Atkarsk. With the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the father was again called up for service, and the mother and the boy lived for three years in the village of Bubnovka with his grandfather. His father came back sick and the family again moved to Atkarsk, where the boy began to study at a school. In parallel with his studies in a regular school, he went to an art studio for a while, but it was soon closed due to the Russian Civil War. The young boy loved to draw and made sketches from life with pencil and charcoal. Fedorov, his teacher at an art studio, taught not only to draw, but also history and local history. His students participated in archaeological excavations near Atkarsk, where Bubnov also made sketches. In the group photo of graduates in 1926, he was taken with a pencil and an album for sketches. In 1926 or 1927 he moved to Moscow and entered the Higher Art and Technical Institute, ("Vkhutein") where was his teacher. In 1930 "Vkhutein" was split up into six smaller trade-oriented schools and its heritage began to be described by the derogatory (and dangerous) word "formalistic". Bubnov was also criticized for his style and did not turn to Socialist realism until the middle nineteen‐thirties.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Career.

paragraph: In 1929, Bubnov joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia ("AKhRR") and began to participate in its exhibitions but in 1930 he was sent to Kuznetsktstroy in Siberia as a junior architect, and his painting work was interrupted. In 1932 he returned to Moscow. According to his memoirs, "The first work ""Killed in Battle"" was presented at the exhibition "15 years of the Red Army", the second, ""Whites in the Town"" — at the exhibition of young artists in 1934." In 1936, he painted the ""Oktyabriny"" (Octobering) showing the secular new-invented rite, which was supposed to supplant a baptism ("Krestiny" in Russian). This painting was presented at the exhibition "The Industry of Socialism". In the painting "Yablochko" (1938), which depicts a famous dance, Bubnov tried to draw from life, though not completely. He took part in the creation of a huge panel of ""Well Known People of the U.S.S.R."" for the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the same year he painted the picture "Comrade Stalin Among Collective Farmers".

paragraph: After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he drew propaganda posters, painted pictures on military subjects, such as ""Dying, but did not Surrender"", ""To the Combat Position"", ""Borodino Field in 1942"". He also wrote a portrait of Alexander Matrosov. In 1943-1947 he creates his most famous work ""Morning on the Kulikovo Field"" dedicated to the epic battle of the 14th century and in 1948 got the Stalin Prize for it.

paragraph: After the war, Bubnov painted landscapes, genre scenes and pictures on mythological and historical themes; in particular, he created illustrations for the Pushkin's ballad "Song of the Wise Oleg". In 1954 he became a corresponding member of USSR Academy of Arts and also got the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In the last years of his life, he painted illustrations for the books of Gogol and Taras Shevchenko. His triptych ""Pugachev. Popular uprising"" remained unfinished. He died on 30 June 1964 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

wikidata_label: Alexander Bubnov

wikipedia_title: Alexander Bubnov (painter)


text:
Vietnam
Trịnh lords
Trịnh Sâm
Tây Sơn
Nguyễn Huệ
Quang Trung
Vietnamese
Buddhism
Trúc Lâm
zen
Confucianism
Taoism

categories: Tây Sơn dynasty officials,1803 deaths,1746 births,Mandarins of the Trịnh lords

paragraph: Ngô Thì Nhậm

paragraph: Ngô Thì Nhậm (, 1746–1803) was an important Vietnamese scholar and official who served several regimes during the turbulent last decades of the eighteenth century. He had served as an official for the Trịnh lords before losing his position as a result of a coup that followed the death of the Trịnh lord Trịnh Sâm in 1782.

paragraph: He retreated from public life, focusing on his scholarship, before being lured back to official service by the Tây Sơn leader, Nguyễn Huệ in the late 1780s. He served the Tay Son regime with enthusiasm during the reign of the Quang Trung Emperor (r. 1788-1792), writing edicts for the Tây Sơn court, and serving as an emissary to the Chinese court.

paragraph: After the unexpected death of the Quang Trung Emperor and the ascent to the throne of an underage son, Ngô Thì Nhậm slowly decreased his service to the court, and turned his attention to an interest in Vietnamese Buddhism. He became noted for his writings on Vietnamese Buddhism, and was actively involved in attempting to revive the 13th Century Trúc Lâm ("Bamboo Grove") zen sect, the only native Vietnamese school of Buddhism. The revival attempted to harmonize the "Three teachings" of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. After the defeat of the Tây Sơn by the resurgent Nguyễn family in 1802, Ngô Thì Nhậm was captured and publicly flogged by a vengeful Nguyễn official, dying shortly thereafter from the injuries sustained in the beating.

description: writer on Bhuddism

wikidata_label: Ngô Thì Nhậm

wikipedia_title: Ngô Thì Nhậm


text:
Les Brenets
Switzerland
Lenzerheide
linguist
University of Zürich
Heinrich Morf
Gaston Paris
Bern
Romance philology
Jakob Ulrich
Albert Bachmann
phonogram
academic rector
French language
Switzerland's French dialects
phonetic
Charmey
sociolinguistics

categories: People from Le Locle District,Members of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans,University of Zurich faculty,1942 deaths,Linguists from Switzerland,1866 births,University of Bern faculty

paragraph: Louis Gauchat

paragraph: Louis Gauchat (born 12 January 1866 in Les Brenets, Switzerland; died 22 August 1942 in Lenzerheide) was a Swiss linguist.

paragraph: He studied at the University of Zürich under Heinrich Morf and in Paris as a pupil of Gaston Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1890 with the dissertation "Le patois de Dompierre". He later worked as a lecturer at Bern (1893–96) and Zürich (1897–1902), and in 1902 was named a professor of Romance philology at the University of Bern. In 1907 he succeeded Jakob Ulrich at the University of Zürich, where he taught classes until 1931. In 1909, with Albert Bachmann, he founded the phonogram archives at the university. In 1926–28 he served as academic rector.

paragraph: Gauchat studied the French language spoken in Switzerland. In 1899 he founded "Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande" (Glossary of dialects of French-speaking Switzerland), an institution to publish comprehensive studies of Switzerland's French dialects. The institute receives subsidies from French-speaking cantons and the Swiss Confederation. Jules Jeanjaquet and Ernest Tappolet assisted in phonetic survey work. The first issue of the glossary was published in 1924.

paragraph: Section::::Published works.

paragraph: His 1905 article on the vernacular of the Swiss village of Charmey is considered a precursor in the field of sociolinguistics.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le patois de Dompierre", Halle sur Saale : E. Karras, impr., 1891 (dissertation thesis).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Etude sur le ranz des vaches fribourgeois", Zürich : Zürcher und Furrer, 1899.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L’unité phonétique dans le patois d’une commune", in: Aus romanischen Sprachen und Literaturen. Festschrift Heinrich Morf, Halle and d. Saale 1905, Nachdruck Genève 1980, S. 175–232.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Grammaire et lexicographie des patois de la Suisse romande": Bibliographie analytique, Neuchâtel 1916

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les noms de lieux et de personnes de la Suisse romande": Bibliographie analytique, Neuchâtel 1919

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande fondé" par Louis Gauchat, Jules Jeanjaquet, Ernst Tappolet, Neuchâtel 1924 ff.

description: Swiss linguist

wikidata_label: Louis Gauchat

wikipedia_title: Louis Gauchat


text:
street performer
performance artist
Santa Cruz
Los Banos
Cotati Accordion Festival
Gilroy Garlic Festival
Santa Cruz County
Silicon Valley
Los Gatos
Official Website

categories: 1942 births,American accordionists,American buskers,People from Santa Cruz, California,American performance artists,People from Los Banos, California,Living people

paragraph: The Great Morgani

paragraph: The Great Morgani (aka Frank Lima) is an American street performer and performance artist from Santa Cruz, California. Although he is an experienced accordionist with 60 years of experience, he is most noted for his spectacular costumes which sometimes take up to 100 hours of work.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Frank Lima was born in 1942 in Los Banos, California. His family moved to Santa Cruz in 1946. Lima started performing at age 11, mostly in trios at Portuguese events. He enjoyed success in his first career as a stockbroker, but retired when he was 35. Almost two decades later in 1995, he embarked on a second career playing accordion as a street performer.

paragraph: In the first few years of his street performing, he performed with his face uncovered. Gradually, he developed more elaborate costumes, relying on the sewing skills he learned from his mother, a master seamstress. Although he performs barefaced privately, he currently performs in public with face covered, often by the material used in the rest of his costume.

paragraph: Section::::Current Performances.

paragraph: The Great Morgani has performed a dozen times at the Cotati Accordion Festival and other festivals including the Gilroy Garlic Festival. He regularly performs at farmer's markets throughout Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley, as well as downtown shopping areas in Santa Cruz and Los Gatos.

paragraph: He has collected 42 accordions and assembled more than 130 costumes, which he entitles with names such as "Touluse Morgani" and "Glyn-duh", reflecting themes inspired from literature and historical figures. In February 2014 Lima announced his retirement from street performing in downtown Santa Cruz due to city ordinances that regulate artists and vendors.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

description: American musician

wikidata_label: The Great Morgani

wikipedia_title: The Great Morgani


text:
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles City Council
Macon County, Illinois
Los Angeles City Oil Field
Los Angeles City Council
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles Athletic Club
Elks
Mason
Knights of Pythias
San Fernando
Independence, Kansas
Charles Edward Locke
cortege
Inglewood Park Cemetery
pallbearer
William Stephens
Meredith P. Snyder
Thomas L. Woolwine
Harry Chandler

categories: American businesspeople in the oil industry,1919 deaths,Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery,Founders of the petroleum industry,Businesspeople from Los Angeles,1868 births,People from Macon County, Illinois,Los Angeles City Council members

paragraph: Edward A. Clampitt

paragraph: Edward A. Clampitt (December 14, 1868 – September 26, 1919) was a pioneer oilman in Los Angeles, California, at the turn of the 19th—20th centuries. He was also an elected a member of the Los Angeles City Council.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: Clampitt was born in Macon County, Illinois, on December 14, 1868, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clampitt. He moved to Los Angeles in 1888.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Business.

paragraph: Clampitt was one of the founding developers of the Los Angeles City Oil Field.

paragraph: He was a director of the Columbia Oil Producing Company, which was later bought by Commonwealth Petroleum.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Community.

paragraph: Clampitt was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1906 and served three years. He was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Mines and Oils, Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Elks, the Masons and the Knights of Pythias.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Death.

paragraph: Edward A. Clampitt died on September 26, 1919 in his home at 301 South Alexandria Avenue in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by his wife Margaret M. Clampitt and their two daughters Leah and Barbara; his parents in Los Angeles; his brother L.A. Clampitt in San Fernando; and his sisters, Mrs. R. Raskin in Los Angeles and Mrs. A.P. McBride in Independence, Kansas.

paragraph: Funeral services were conducted at the residence by Charles Edward Locke, and an escort of police officers, headed by Police Chief George K. Home accompanied the cortege to Inglewood Park Cemetery for burial.

paragraph: Chief Home was an active pallbearer, and honorary pallbearers included Governor William Stephens, Mayor Meredith P. Snyder, Sheriff John C. Cline, District Attorney Thomas L. Woolwine and newspaper publisher Harry Chandler.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Links to the "Los Angeles Times" may require the use of a library card.

description: American businessman

wikidata_label: Edward A. Clampitt

wikipedia_title: Edward A. Clampitt


text:
Hungary
2008 Summer Olympics
Miskolc
women's 50 m freestyle
2008 Summer Olympics
Beijing
Budapest
NBC Olympics Profile

categories: 1993 births,Hungarian female swimmers,Female freestyle swimmers,Olympic swimmers of Hungary,Sportspeople from Miskolc,Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics,Living people

paragraph: Éva Dobár

paragraph: Éva Dobár (born March 4, 1993) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Dobar represented her nation Hungary at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also trained as a member of the swimming team at Jövő Sports Club in Miskolc, under the tutelage of personal coach Balázs Fehérvári.

paragraph: Dobar competed as Hungary's youngest swimmer (aged 15) in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she won the race with a 26.26 to hit an insurmountable FINA B-standard (26.32) by just a 0.06 of a second at the Hungarian National Championships in Budapest. Swimming on the middle lanes in heat seven, Dobar denied her inauspicious age factor on the global scene to scorch her way to round out the top four of her heat with a time of 26.33. Dobar failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-first out of 92 swimmers in the prelims.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- NBC Olympics Profile

description: Olympic swimmer

wikidata_label: Éva Dobár

wikipedia_title: Éva Dobár


text: Roman Catholic

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City

text: Kansas

text: Salina, Kansas

text: Confirmation Saint

text: Saint Joseph

text: Benedictine College

text: Bachelor of Science

text: physics

text: mathematics

text: Iowa State University

text: Master of Science

text: Kansas State University

text: Doctor of Philosophy

text: curriculum and instruction

text: Wichita, Kansas

text: Wichita Collegiate School

text: Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School

text: Fr. Paul Coakley

text: Pontifical College Josephinum

text: Master of Divinity

text: Master of Arts

text: Moral Theology

text: Diocese of Wichita

text: Bishop Eugene Gerber

text: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

text: Bishop Carroll Catholic High School

text: Mexico

text: Spanish language

text: culture

text: Archbishop Pietro Sambi

text: Apostolic Nuncio to the United States

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Bishop of Dodge City

text: Bishop Ronald Gilmore

text: Archbishop Joseph Naumann

text: Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe

text: Michael Jackels

text: Ronald Gilmore

text: Prodigal Son

text: Gospel of Luke

text: sunflower

text: state flower

text: Kansas

text: Mary

text: St. Juan Diego

text: Our Lady of Guadalupe

text: Diocese of Wichita

text: Archbishop Paul Coakley

text: Oklahoma City

text: Bishop James Conley

text: Lincoln

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

categories: Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita,American Roman Catholic bishops,1958 births,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,People from Salina, Kansas,Roman Catholic bishops of Dodge City

paragraph: John Balthasar Brungardt

paragraph: John Balthasar Brungardt (born July 10, 1958) is the sixth Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: Bishop Brungardt was born on July 10, 1958 in Salina, Kansas to Francis Balthasar and Virginia ("née" Burton) Brungardt, where he was one of six brothers and sisters in a strong Catholic family. He chose his Confirmation Saint as Saint Joseph because he is a great role model for Catholic men and boys. He graduated from Benedictine College with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics with a minor in mathematics in 1980. He furthered his studies at Iowa State University, earning a Master of Science in physics in 1983, and at Kansas State University, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in curriculum and instruction. Brungardt had his "first career" as a science and computers teacher, moving to Wichita, Kansas in 1985 and teaching at Wichita Collegiate School and then at Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School.

paragraph: In 1990, Brungardt's mother died and that caused him to go through a spiritual reawakening, where he went to Fr. Paul Coakley for spiritual direction and vocational discernment. He entered priestly formation at Pontifical College Josephinum, where he earned a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Moral Theology in 1998.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Ordination and ministry.

paragraph: Brungardt was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Wichita by Bishop Eugene Gerber at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on May 23, 1998. As a diocesan priest, he served numerous assignments, including chaplain and religion teacher at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School, Director of the Office of Respect Life and Social Justice, and pastor of seven different parishes. In 2003, he spent five months in Mexico, studying the Spanish language and culture. From 2005 until 2010, he was Chancellor of the Diocese and Moderator of the Diocesan Office of Hispanic Ministry.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Bishop of Dodge City, Kansas.

paragraph: In November 2010, Father Brungardt received a call from Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. saying that Pope Benedict XVI had selected him to be sixth Bishop of Dodge City, replacing Bishop Ronald Gilmore, who had served there since 1998. On February 2, 2011, he was consecrated bishop by Archbishop Joseph Naumann, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe with Bishops Michael Jackels and Ronald Gilmore acting as co-consecrator.

paragraph: Brungardt chose his episcopal motto, "Filled With Compassion", from the story of the Prodigal Son found in the Gospel of Luke. The left side of his coat of arms is the shield of the Diocese of Wichita. The right side is divided into two halves. The superior side features a sun, which has a two-fold meaning: the sun symbolizes the light of God and the sunflower, which is the state flower of Kansas. The lower half features a rose, which also has a two-fold meaning. It shows the bishop's devotion to Mary, who is sometimes referred to as the "Mystical Rose" and is a representation of the Castilian roses given to St. Juan Diego by Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is the patron of the Diocese of Dodge City. Brungardt joins two other recent episcopal appointments from the Diocese of Wichita, Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop James Conley of Lincoln.

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::::- Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City Home Page

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: John Balthasar Brungardt

wikipedia_title: John Balthasar Brungardt


href: Dakar Senegal

text: Dakar Senegal

categories: Olympic athletes of Senegal,1981 births,Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics,Senegalese male middle-distance runners,Living people,Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Abdoulaye Wagne

paragraph: Abdoulaye Wagne (born October 2, 1981, in Dakar, Senegal) is a Senegalese Olympic athlete competing in the 800 meters with a personal best of 1:45.08.

description: Olympic middle distance runner

wikidata_label: Abdoulaye Wagne

wikipedia_title: Abdoulaye Wagne


text: Iranian Writers Association

text: Chain murders of Iran

text: Mashhad

text: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

text: Shahnameh

text: Cultural Revolution

text: University of Tehran

text: unidentified body

text: International Human Rights Day

text: Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar

text: Dariush Forouhar

text: Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh

text: Iranian Ministry of Intelligence

text: Chain murders of Iran

categories: Persian-language poets,1998 deaths,1942 births,20th-century poets,Burials at Emamzadeh Taher,Iranian poets,Persian-language writers,Iranian writers,People from Mashhad,Iranian murder victims,People murdered in Iran

paragraph: Mohammad Mokhtari (writer)

paragraph: Mohammad Mokhtari () (April 21, 1942 – December 3, 1998) was an Iranian writer, poet and activist. He was an active member of the Iranian Writers Association, a group that had been long banned in Iran due to their objection to censorship and encouraged freedom of expression. Due to his activism, he was most likely murdered during the Chain murders of Iran in December 1998.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Mohammad Mokhtari was born in Mashhad. He graduated from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 1969, majoring in Persian Language and Literature. He married in 1972 and had two sons.

paragraph: In 1973, Mokhtari joined the literary foundation of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and soon became a member of its scientific committee. From 1979 until the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Mokhtari taught at the School of Dramatic Arts (today’s School of Cinema and Theatre) of University of Tehran.

paragraph: In 1981, he was the secretary of the Iranian Writers’ Association for one year. He was arrested in 1982 for political reasons and imprisoned for two years and at this time he was also permanently banned from working for the Iranian government. From 1986, he was on the editorial board of the Donya-ye Sokhan magazine. He also had close ties with other publications such as Takapu. Mokhtari played a key role in the re-opening of the Iranian Writers’ Association. He was a long-time member of the Association and a central figure in the Third Iranian Writers’ Association. According to friends and acquaintances, he worked eagerly for the achievement of the goals of the Association, and followed its projects with patience and perseverance; his constructive and helpful criticism proved vital for the Association (Asr-e No). He also played a crucial part in the writing and publication of a letter, dated October 15, 1994, in which 134 writers stated their objection to censorship and restraints on the freedom of expression. Mokhtari was a successful researcher and respected poet and he had published several books of poetry, as well as a book on mythology.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: On December 3, 1998, Mr. Mokhtari left his house for shopping and never returned. The next day, police officers of Aminabad found an unidentified body in an uninhabited area of Aminabad, on the estate of a cement factory, near the road to Firuzabad (near Tehran City). There was nothing to help identify the body, other than a pen and a piece of paper. The body was transferred to the police station’s forensic team. On December 10 (the International Human Rights Day), one week after his disappearance, the body was identified at the morgue and his family remarked that there appeared to be bruising around his neck.

paragraph: He died on December 3, 1998 of suffocation. His death came only a few days after the death of Iranian political activists, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar and her husband, Dariush Forouhar and the assassination of writer Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh. The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence later denied responsibility for the Mokhtari death and claimed a "foreign network" may have assassinated him.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chain murders of Iran

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- UNESCO Director General Expresses Shock at the murder of Mohammad Mokhtari

paragraph: BULLET::::- Background Briefing On The Killings in Iran

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mohammad Mokhari memorial in defense of human rights in Iran

description: Iranian writer

wikidata_label: Mohammad Mokhtari

wikipedia_title: Mohammad Mokhtari (writer)


text:
princess
Ancient Egypt
Pharaoh
Amenhotep III
18th dynasty
Great Royal Wife
Tiye
Akhenaten
Sitamun
Isis, also called Iset
colossal statue from Medinet Habu
Nebetah
carnelian
cartouche

categories: 14th-century BC women,Princesses of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

paragraph: Henuttaneb

paragraph: Henuttaneb was an Egyptian princess.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Henuttaneb was one of the daughters of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty and his Great Royal Wife, Queen Tiye. She was a sister of Pharaoh Akhenaten. She also had several more siblings – one other brother and several sisters.

paragraph: Henuttaneb's name means "Lady of All Lands" and was also frequently used as a title for queens. She was the third daughter of her parents (after Sitamun and Isis, also called Iset).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Henuttaneb is shown on a colossal statue from Medinet Habu. This huge sculpture shows Amenhotep III and Tiye seated side by side, "with three of their daughters standing in front of the throne--Henuttaneb, the largest and best preserved, in the centre; Nebetah on the right; and another, whose name is destroyed, on the left". She also appears in the temple at Soleb and on a carnelian plaque (with her sister Iset, before their parents). Her name appears on three faience fragments.

paragraph: It is unclear whether Henuttaneb was elevated to the rank of queen like Sitamun and Iset. She is nowhere mentioned as "King's Wife", but on the aforementioned carnelian plaque her name is enclosed in a cartouche, a privilege which only kings and their wives were entitled to.

paragraph: After the death of her father she is not mentioned again.

description: Ancient Egyptian princess

wikidata_label: Henuttaneb

wikipedia_title: Henuttaneb


text: basketball

text: U.S. Air Force

text: Paine Field

text: Everett, Washington

text: Seattle University

text: forward

text: center

text: University of Montana

text: NCAA

text: 1964 NBA draft

text: St. Louis Hawks

text: Detroit Pistons

text: Cincinnati Royals

text: Seattle SuperSonics

text: Los Angeles Lakers

text: Baltimore Bullets

text: industrial arts

text: Snohomish, Washington

categories: St. Louis Hawks players,Power forwards (basketball),Basketball players from Washington, D.C.,St. Louis Hawks draft picks,Centers (basketball),Baltimore Bullets (1963–73) players,Seattle SuperSonics players,Seattle Redhawks men's basketball players,Cincinnati Royals players,Los Angeles Lakers players,Detroit Pistons players,1939 births,Living people

paragraph: John Tresvant

paragraph: John B. Tresvant (born November 6, 1939) is a retired American basketball player.

paragraph: A native of Washington, D.C., he played high school football and baseball, but not basketball as he was cut from the team. After graduating, he joined the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed at Paine Field in Everett, Washington and repaired aircraft radar units. He grew several inches and was playing AAU basketball when Seattle University spotted him and gave him a scholarship after his military stint was up.

paragraph: A 6'7" forward/center, Tresvant played three seasons at Seattle. He averaged 17.9 points and 14 rebounds per game as a senior, and 12.6 and 11.1, respectively, in his three-year career at Seattle. In 1963, he snared 40 rebounds in a game against the University of Montana at the Seattle Center Arena, the fourth-highest total in NCAA history.

paragraph: He was selected in the fifth round (40th overall) of the 1964 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks. He played nine seasons in the league with St. Louis, the Detroit Pistons, the Cincinnati Royals, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Baltimore Bullets, posting NBA career averages of 9.2 points and 6.3 rebounds.

paragraph: After retiring from basketball because of a knee injury, Tresvant worked as an industrial arts teacher and middle school basketball coach. In 2006, he invented the Total Rebounder Exercise System (TRES), a basket designed for use in training young players in rebounding techniques.

paragraph: Tresvant is divorced and the father of three grown children. He resides in Snohomish, Washington.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 30 or more rebounds in a game

description: American basketball player

wikidata_label: John Tresvant

wikipedia_title: John Tresvant


text:
bishop of Strasbourg
Bishop of Strasbourg
Freiburg
Notre-Dame de Strasbourg
Erwin von Steinbach
Château de Lichtenberg
Alsace
France

paragraph: Conrad of Lichtenberg

paragraph: Conrad of Lichtenberg (, ; 1240 – 1 August 1299) was a bishop of Strasbourg in the 13th century.

paragraph: Lichtenberg was born to a wealthy family and entered the clergy at the age of 13. He was elected Bishop of Strasbourg in 1273. He died in combat while supporting his brother-in-law Egino against the city of Freiburg.

paragraph: Credit is given to Lichtenberg for the construction of the Western facade of Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, realized by German architect Erwin von Steinbach (1244–1318). Lichtenberg is buried there in Chapel Saint Jean.

paragraph: The Château de Lichtenberg in Alsace, France remains today.

alias:
Konrad von Lichtenberg
Konrad III. von Lichtenberg
Conrad III de Lichtenberg

description: French bishop

wikidata_label: Conrad de Lichtenberg

wikipedia_title: Conrad of Lichtenberg


text:
Roman
equestrian
Augustus
province
Asia
slaves
lampreys
freedman
equestrian
Octavian
province
Asia
proconsul
earthquake
Aristobulus
Herod the Great
luxury
cruelty
villa
Posillipo
Gulf of Naples
Ovid
lamprey
slaves
shrine
monument
Beneventum
cup-bearer
Seneca
Dio
Curtius Nicias
Ronald Syme
Cicero
Pompey
Cilicia
Laodicea
wild asses
baboon
chariot
Atticus
Junia Secunda
Junia Prima
colonnade
Porticus of Livia
Ovid
philosopher
Seneca the Younger
encyclopedist
Pliny the Elder
anger
clemency
Natural History
Christian
Tertullian
Adam Smith
manumitted

categories: 15 BC deaths,Ancient Roman equites,1st-century BC births,1st-century BC Romans,Slavery in ancient Rome,Roman governors of Asia

paragraph: Vedius Pollio

paragraph: Publius Vedius Pollio (died 15 BC) was a Roman of equestrian rank, and a friend of the Roman emperor Augustus, who appointed him to a position of authority in the province of Asia. In later life he became known for his luxurious tastes and cruelty to his slaves – when they displeased him, he had them fed to lampreys that he maintained for that purpose, which was deemed to be an exceedingly cruel act. When Vedius tried to apply this method of execution to a slave who broke a crystal cup, Emperor Augustus (Pollio's guest at the time) was so appalled that he not only intervened to prevent the execution but had all of Pollio's valuable drinking vessels deliberately broken. This incident, and Augustus's demolition of Vedius's mansion in Rome he inherited in his will, were frequently referred to in antiquity in discussions of ethics and of the public role of Augustus.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Publius Vedius Pollio, the son of a freedman, was born in the 1st century BC and attained membership of the equestrian order.

paragraph: Vedius Pollio's first certain appearance in historical sources comes after Octavian (later Augustus) became sole ruler of the Roman world in 31 BC; at some point Vedius held authority in the province of Asia on behalf of the emperor. For a mere equestrian to govern this province was anomalous, and there were presumably special circumstances; Vedius' term of office could have been in 31–30 BC before the appointment of a regular proconsular governor, or after a major earthquake in 27 BC. He later returned to Rome, and when Alexander and Aristobulus, the sons of Herod the Great, came to the city in about 22 BC, they may have stayed with him.

paragraph: Despite these services to the state, it was for his reputed luxury and cruelty that Vedius would become best known. He owned a massive villa at Posillipo on the Gulf of Naples, later described by the poet Ovid as "like a city". Most notoriously, he kept a pool of lampreys into which slaves who incurred his displeasure would be thrown as food – a particularly unpleasant means of death, since the lamprey "clamps its mouth on the victim and bores a dentated tongue into the flesh to ingest blood".

paragraph: Nevertheless, he retained, at least for a while, the friendship of Augustus, in whose honour he built a shrine or monument at Beneventum. On one occasion, Augustus was dining at Vedius' home when a cup-bearer broke a crystal glass. Vedius ordered him thrown to the lampreys, but the slave fell to his knees before Augustus and pleaded to be executed in some more humane way. Horrified, the emperor had all of Vedius's expensive glasses smashed and the pool filled in. According to Seneca, Augustus also had the slave freed; Dio merely remarks that Vedius "could not punish his servant for what Augustus also had done".

paragraph: There are a number of less certain appearances that may be the same Vedius Pollio. A Vidius or Vedius, possibly the same, is mentioned in a letter of 46 BC as involved in a dispute with the scholar-politician Curtius Nicias. As well, Ronald Syme suggests that the "Publius Vedius" who appears in Cicero's letters as a friend of Pompey may also be Vedius Pollio. Cicero, governor of Cilicia, was travelling near Laodicea in 50 BC, when Publius Vedius met him with a large retinue, and several wild asses and a baboon in a chariot. Unimpressed, Cicero wrote to Atticus, "I never saw a more worthless man." About this possible Vedius Pollio, Cicero adds a further anecdote: Publius Vedius, earlier, had left some items with Vindulus, who meanwhile had died. Vindulus's heir later examined the items and found five portrait-busts of married ladies, including the noted patrician Junia Secunda. Cicero took these to be trophies of Vedius' sexual conquests, and, while highly praising her publicly, in correspondence, criticizing her for the indiscretion, and her husband and brother for their lack of awareness of her conduct. But an affair, if it did occur, may have been with a sister, Junia Prima.

paragraph: Vedius died in 15 BC. Among his many heirs, Augustus received a large part of Vedius's estate, including his villa at Posillipo, along with instructions to erect a suitable monument on the site. The emperor demolished at least part of Pollio's house in Rome and constructed in its place a colonnade, the "Porticus of Livia" in honour of his wife, which he dedicated in 7 BC.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Vedius's treatment of his slaves and Augustus's conduct towards him became popular subjects for anecdotes in antiquity. During or shortly after Augustus's reign, Ovid praised his demolition of Vedius's house as a grand statement against immoral luxury made even at the emperor's own cost. Scott notes that in replacing the house with a public monument Augustus merely "carried out the terms of the will", and argues that any suggestion he wished to censure Vedius's memory may have been mere "gossip".

paragraph: Also in the 1st century AD, Vedius's story was used by the philosopher Seneca the Younger and the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder. In two ethical treatises, Seneca used Vedius's treatment of the cup-bearer and Augustus's response to illustrate the extremes to which anger could lead and the need for clemency. Pliny the Elder mentioned Vedius's lampreys in his "Natural History" while treating varieties of fish, noting the man's friendship with Augustus while ignoring the story of the latter's clemency. Pliny was no admirer of Augustus and his handling of the story has been seen as "a gratuitous jibe" at the emperor. In a highly rhetorical passage, the Christian writer Tertullian stated that after executing slaves, Vedius had his lampreys "cooked straight away, so that in their entrails he himself might have a taste of his slaves' bodies too".

paragraph: In several works, Adam Smith cited Augustus's intervention to save the cup-bearer in support of an argument that the condition of slaves was better under a monarchy than a democracy. He embellished the story by claiming that Augustus manumitted all of Vedius's slaves, a statement not based on any ancient source; in one 1763 lecture even estimating the value of the property their master thus lost.

description: Roman equestrian

wikidata_label: Vedius Pollio

wikipedia_title: Vedius Pollio


text: Characene

categories: 2nd-century rulers,2nd-century deaths,Year of birth missing,2nd-century monarchs in the Middle East,Year of death missing

paragraph: Attambelos VI

paragraph: Attambelos VI of Characene was a ruler of the state of Characene,

wikidata_label: Attambelos VI

wikipedia_title: Attambelos VI


text:
first century
Characene
Persian Gulf
Charax
Attambelos IV
coin
mint
king list

categories: Kings of Characene,1st-century monarchs in the Middle East,Year of birth missing,1st-century rulers,1st-century deaths,Year of death missing

paragraph: Attambelos V

paragraph: Attambelos V of Characene was a ruler of the state of Characene who ruled from 64/65-73/74 but who is known only from the coins he minted.

paragraph: Attambelos was a first century ruler if not outright king, of the state of Characene, centered on the northern end of the Persian Gulf. His capital was probably Charax.

paragraph: He ruled from 64 to 73 and was the successor of Attambelos IV, but his rule is known only from coins he minted. It should also be noted that the king list of Characene is a modern construct and given the known scarcity of records could well be inaccurate.

description: ruler of the state of Characene

wikidata_label: Attambelos V

wikipedia_title: Attambelos V


text:
Punjab region
Gawth-ul-Azam
Shaikh Shahab-ud-Din Suhrawardi
Khwaja Maudood Chishti
Nigaha
jinn
Dhaunkal
Wazirabad
Peshawar
Lahore
Gugga
district Una
Himachal Pradesh
Punjab region
Gujranwala
Peshawar
Lahore
Mukandpur
Sakhi Sarwar
Balachaur
Saang
Saang
Sakhi Sarwar

paragraph: Syed Ahmad Sultan

paragraph: Syed Ahmad Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, was a 12th-century Sufi saint of the Punjab region. He is also known by various other appellations such as Sultan (king), Lakhdata (bestower of millions), Lalanvala (master of rubies), Nigahia Pir (the saint of Nigaha) and Rohianvala (lord of the forests). His followers are known as Sultanias or Sarwarias.

paragraph: Section::::Birth.

paragraph: Sakhi Sarwar, the Great Sufi Saint was born in 12th Century. His father's name is Jain ul Abdin and his mother's name is Ayesha.Sakhi Sarwar had one brother namely Khan DhohDha.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: When Sakhi Sarwar's Father Syed Janel Abidin, along with his wife and survivors, left Baghdad Sharif in the year 1126, leaving Baghdad Sharif in Shahkot, near Multan in India. After some time, Amina was killed and her two-year year-old son Ayerahan of Shahkot There were two daughters, of whom Ayesha was married to Sayyad Janel Abidin according to the 5th 20th Hijri, and according to the five sons of Ayesha, according to the 5th Chauvi Hijrī, 1130 is the birth of Sayyad Ahmad. After two years Abdul Ghani Khan Dhaohadha was born. All this family worked as farmer in Shahkot. In addition to doing work in Pir Peg's work as well as working with them, the people of the time, and married with the elderly and worshiped them, these two brothers, Pir Lakh donor Seeing the great popularity of Jee and Khan, the four Bhai Deshpande made a vow to kill them. An intra-gifted giver gave to each of his brothers and his family, including his four elder friends, from Multan 60 KOs sohalemana mountain in the distance on the uninhabited area at the time received martyrdom in the years 1181.on Baghdad where he was blessed with the gift of khilafat by three illustrious saints: Gawth-ul-Azam, Shaikh Shahab-ud-Din Suhrawardi and Khwaja Maudood Chishti.

paragraph: Section::::Shrines.

paragraph: Section::::Shrines.:Nigaha.

paragraph: The saint selected the town of Nigaha this place as his abode. It is known as the ‘last place’ because of the hostile geographical and climatic condition. According to Rose (1970), the buildings of the shrine consist of Sakhi Sarwar’s tomb on the west and a shrine associated with Guru Nanak Dev Ji on the north-west. On the east is an apartment containing the stool and spinning wheel of Mai Aeshan, Sakhi Sarwar’s mother. Near there is a Thakurdwara, and in another apartment is an image of Bhairon.

paragraph: Within the enclosures of the shrine are the tombs of Sakhi Sarwar, his wife, known as Bibi Bai, and of the jinn whom he had held in his power and who brought many miracles for him.

paragraph: Near the shrine at Nigaha there are two other holy spots called Chom and Moza, both associated with Murtaza, the son in law of Sakhi Sarwar. At Chom, an impression of the former`s hand was said to have been imprinted when he prevented a mountain from collapsing over the cave in which he had taken shelter.

paragraph: To the west of the outhouses and within the shrine enclosure are two dead trees said to have sprung from the

paragraph: pegs which were used for the head and heel ropes of Kaki, the saint’s mare.

paragraph: Section::::Shrines.:Other places.

paragraph: Shrines are situated at Dhaunkal in Wazirabad district, and also in Peshawar and Lahore.

paragraph: There are numerous shrines in Indian Punjab where they are known as Nigaha. At some places Sakhi Sarwar is worshiped along with Gugga and their common shrines along with other deities are known as Panj Pirs or Nigahas.

paragraph: The shrine of Baba Lakhdata at district Una in Himachal Pradesh is known as chotta (minor/small) Nigaha where a large fair is organised every year.

paragraph: Section::::Worship.

paragraph: His followers who visit the Pir’s shrine at Nigaha are known as sang who refer to each other as bharais. The drumbeating bards who act as professional guides and priests at local shrines are called pirkhanas. Members of a sang address each other as pirbhaior and pirbahin (brother or sister in faith respectively).

paragraph: Their halting points on the routes are known as chaukis (posts) where the pilgrims traditionally slept on the ground. Devotees unable to undertake the pilgrimage to Nigaha would attend at least one of the chaukis. If they could not, they went to any other village on the route for a night. Those who could not go anywhere at all slept on the ground at home for at least one night in a year.

paragraph: This ritual of sleeping on the ground instead of on a cot is called chauki bharna.

paragraph: Section::::Fairs.

paragraph: Various fairs are held in the Punjab region. The shrine at Nigaha holds a week-long Baisakhi fair in the month of April. Fairs are also held at Dhaunkal in Gujranwala district during June/July, at Jhanda Mela (fair of the flag) at Peshawar, and Qadamon ka Mela (fair of the feet) at Lahore.

paragraph: A common ritual which is traditionally observed is to offer a raut, (a huge loaf prepared from 18 kilograms of wheat flour sweetened with jaggery weighing half that quantity) once a year on a Friday.

paragraph: The raut is traditionally prepared by a Bharai, who took one fourth of the rotas offering, the remaining being consumed by the donor family and distributed among fellow Sultanias (followers of Sakhi Sarwar).

paragraph: A famous fair known as "Chaunkian da Mela" is held in Mukandpur to commemorate Sakhi Sarwar's visit Balachaur, starting his journey from Rattewal and reaching Mukandpur where he stayed here for nine days. Since then this fair is held in Mukandpur and lasts for nine days. A "Saang" starts from Rattewal and reaches Mukandpur. The leader of the "Saang" holds a flag which is called a "Togh".

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Sakhi Sarwar

wikidata_label: Sakhi Sarwar Saint

wikipedia_title: Syed Ahmad Sultan


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Belmont Cricket Club
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
tour of England in 1897
United States of America
Derbyshire
Philadelphians
GS Patterson's XI
Player Profile: Arthur Wood

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paragraph: Arthur Wood (American cricketer)

paragraph: Arthur Machin Wood (21 February 1861 – 25 August 1947) was an English-born American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he started his cricket career with Derbyshire, Wood played most of his major matches with the Philadelphian cricket team. He played a total of 71 first-class matches.

paragraph: Section::::Cricket in England.

paragraph: Wood was born in Pye Bridge in Derbyshire, England. He played a single match for Nottinghamshire against Leicestershire at Leicester, a match which began on 16 September 1878. Batting ninth he scored 15 before being bowled. Nottinghamshire won comfortably by an innings and 186 runs. Leicestershire were not ranked as a first-class county at the time.

paragraph: Wood played two first-class matches for Derbyshire in the 1879 season. The first began on 14 July 1879 against Yorkshire. The eighteen-year-old scored only 5 runs in the first innings and nine in the second. He earned a spot against Nottinghamshire the following month, but fared no better scoring 9 and 5. This was Wood's last county cricket match as he moved to Philadelphia in 1879.

paragraph: Section::::Philadelphian cricket.

paragraph: The Philadelphian cricketing establishment had strict rules for maintaining an American feel in their cricket. Wood was not allowed to play on the representative Philadelphian cricket team until he had satisfied a 5-year residency requirement. In 1881 Wood accepted at offer to coach the Belmont Cricket Club and took a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Philadelphia in 1882. Though he had come to Philadelphia to manage and play for Belmont, his first-class debut in Philadelphia was between the American born cricketers in the city and those Englishmen that were resident there. Playing for the English Residents, Wood scored only 5 runs in the match and his side lost. He played in this match each year until 1884 when he first played against the Philadelphians with the rest of America. He scored 32 runs in the second innings of this loss. His debut for the Philadelphian side came on 5 September 1892 against the remaining US players. In this match, Wood led his new team with a career high 182 runs before being stumped. The Philadelphian side won by an innings and 281 runs. He played for the next five years against touring foreign sides before joining the Philadelphians on their tour of England in 1897. He also took part in the tours of 1903 and 1908. Wood died in Philadelphia on 25 August 1947.

paragraph: Section::::Teams.

paragraph: BULLET::::- United States of America

paragraph: BULLET::::- Derbyshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philadelphians

paragraph: BULLET::::- GS Patterson's XI

paragraph: BULLET::::- AM Wood's XI

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Player Profile: Arthur Wood from CricketArchive

description: English-born American cricketer

wikidata_label: Arthur Wood

wikipedia_title: Arthur Wood (American cricketer)


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text: refrigeration

text: Thermo King

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text: World War I

text: Minneapolis

text: Minnesota

text: Thermo King Corporation

text: World War II

text: X-ray machine

text: African American

text: U.S. Department of Defense

text: Bureau of Standards

text: National Medal of Technology

text: George Bush

text: White House Rose Garden

text: lung cancer

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paragraph: Frederick McKinley Jones

paragraph: Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an African-American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement to the long-haul transportation of perishable goods. He cofounded Thermo King.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 17, 1893. After he was virtually orphaned at the age of seven, he was raised by a priest at a Catholic rectory in Cincinnati. Jones left school after 6th grade and left the rectory to return to Cincinnati at age 11, where he got a job first as a cleaning boy and by age 14 he was working as an automobile mechanic. He boosted his natural mechanical ability and inventive mind with independent reading and study and the willingness to seek new pastures in his search for advancement, against the odds.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1912, Jones moved to Hallock, Minnesota, where he worked as a mechanic on a farm. After service with the U.S. Army in World War I, Jones returned to Hallock; while employed as a mechanic, Jones taught himself electronics and built a transmitter for the town's new radio station. He also invented a device to combine sound with motion pictures. This attracted the attention of Joseph A. Numero of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who hired Jones in 1930 to improve the sound equipment made by his firm, Cinema Supplies Inc.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Refrigeration.

paragraph: Around 1938, Jones designed a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food, and received a patent for it on July 12, 1940. Numero sold his movie sound equipment business to RCA and formed a new company in partnership with Jones, the U.S. Thermo Control Company (later the Thermo King Corporation) which became a $3 million business by 1949. Portable cooling units designed by Jones were especially important during World War II, preserving blood, medicine, and food for use at army hospitals and on open battlefields.

paragraph: Section::::Distinctions and honors.

paragraph: During his life, Jones was awarded 61 patents. Forty were for refrigeration equipment, while others went for portable X-ray machines, sound equipment, and gasoline engines.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1944, Jones became the first African American to be elected into the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1950s era consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the Bureau of Standards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953 Merit Award, Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary, "for outstanding achievements which serve as an inspiration to youth."

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1977, He was posthumously inducted into the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1991, the National Medal of Technology was awarded to Joseph A. Numero and Frederick M. Jones. President George Bush presented the awards posthumously to their widows at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Jones was the first African American to receive the award.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the March 2009 issue of "Heavy Duty Truck" magazine, editor Tom Berg dubbed Jones "The King of Cool", and wrote that his "technological breakthrough redefined the global marketplace, with cultural reverberations felt from the world's largest cities to its most isolated villages."

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: He died of lung cancer in Minneapolis in 1961.

paragraph: Section::::Patents.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Ticket dispensing machine.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Design for air conditioning unit.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Removable cooling units for compartments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Means for automatically stopping and starting gas engines.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Two-cycle gas engine.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Starter generator.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Means operated by a starter generator for cooling a gas engine.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Means for thermostatically operating gas engines.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Rotary compressor.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – System for controlling operation of refrigeration units.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Engine actuated ventilating system.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Apparatus for heating or cooling atmosphere within an enclosure.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Prefabricated refrigerator construction.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Refrigeration control device.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Methods and means of defrosting a cold diffuser.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Method and means for air conditioning.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Method and means for preserving perishable foodstuffs in transit.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Control device for internal combustion engine.

paragraph: BULLET::::- was issued on – Thermostat and temperature control system.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "July 12: Frederick M. Jones Patents Refrigeration System", Rebecca Goodman and Barrett J. Brunsman, "This Day in Ohio History" (Emmis Books, 2005) p. 214.

description: American businessman

wikidata_label: Frederick McKinley Jones

wikipedia_title: Frederick McKinley Jones


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text: Columbia College

text: Rufus Mallory

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text: Oregon State Senate

text: John Burnett

text: Edward B. Watson

text: United States President

text: U.S. District Attorney

text: Portland, Oregon

categories: Oregon Supreme Court justices,Oregon state senators,1897 deaths,1840 births,Politicians from Dubuque, Iowa,Oregon state court judges

paragraph: James F. Watson

paragraph: James Finley Watson (March 15, 1840 – June 12, 1897) was an American judge and politician in Oregon. A native of Iowa, he was the 25th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving from 1876 until 1878. Previously he served in the state legislature and later served as United States Attorney for the District of Oregon.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: James Finley Watson was born on March 15, 1840, in Dubuque, Iowa, to James and Emily Watson. In 1853, the family relocated to Douglas County in Oregon Territory. Watson then was educated in Eugene, Oregon at Columbia College before it closed after two major fires. After attempting gold mining he would learn the law under Rufus Mallory in Roseburg, Oregon, with admittance to the legal bar in 1863. He then served as a prosecutor for Oregon’s Second Judicial District from 1864 to 1872.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: In 1872, Watson was elected to the Oregon State Senate as a Republican from Douglas County. He won re-election in 1874 to the same seat in the senate. Next, in 1876 Watson won election to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace John Burnett. His term ended in 1878 and he left the bench, however, his younger brother Edward B. Watson would join the court in 1880.

paragraph: In 1878, the circuit court functions of the Oregon Supreme Court were split off and a separate circuit court was created with the number of judges on the high court reduced from five to three. The following year Watson was appointed to the circuit court where he won re-election in 1880 and served until 1882.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: In 1882, Watson was appointed by the United States President to the position of U.S. District Attorney for the District of Oregon. He kept that position until 1886 when he returned to private practice in Portland, Oregon. In 1883, he married his second wife, Virginia Kinney. He was previously married to Isabella Flint in 1872, and they had two children. James Finley Watson died on June 12, 1897.

description: American judge

wikidata_label: James F. Watson

wikipedia_title: James F. Watson


text: Burgos

text: Villasandino

text: Jewish convert to Christianity

text: Roman Catholic

text: diplomat

text: historian

text: Renaissance

text: Spain

text: Paul of Burgos

text: Santiago de Compostela

text: Segovia

text: apostolic nuncio

text: John II

text: Castile

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text: Alonso de Carrillo

text: Pope Pius II

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text: Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo

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text: Diego Rodríguez Almela

text: Fernán Díaz de Toledo

text: Fernán Pérez de Guzmán

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text: Juan Alfonso de Zamora

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text: Pietro Candido Decembrio

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text: Flavius Josephus

text: Florus

text: Jiménez de Rada

text: Juan de Villafuerte

text: Atalaric

text: Navarre

text: Aragon

text: Alfonso X the Wise

text: Cato

text: Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo

text: Marqués de Santillana

text: Prose in the age of Juan II

categories: Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism,Bishops of Burgos,15th-century Roman Catholic bishops,15th-century Latin writers,Spanish Jews,University of Salamanca alumni,Conversos,Medieval Castilian Jews,1456 deaths,1384 births,Spanish male writers,Spanish Roman Catholics

paragraph: Alfonso de Cartagena

paragraph: Alfonso de Santa María de Cartagena (variants: "Alfonso de Carthagena", "Alonso de Cartagena") (1384 in Burgos – 1456 in Villasandino) was a Jewish convert to Christianity, a Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer of pre-Renaissance Spain.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Alfonso de Cartagena was the second son of Rabbi Paul of Burgos, who converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1390 or 1391. At the same time, Alfonso and his four brothers, one sister and two uncles were baptized. His mother, however, was not. Cartagena studied law in Salamanca, and "was a great lawyer in canon and civil law", according to "Claros varones de Castilla" (1486). He served as dean of Santiago de Compostela and Segovia, later becoming apostolic nuncio and canon of Burgos (1421).

paragraph: He was equally distinguished as statesman and as priest. In 1434 he was named by King John II de Trastámara (1405–54) as the representative of Castile at the Council of Basel, succeeding Cardinal Alonso de Carrillo. There he composed a famous discourse in Latin and Castilian ("Propositio... super altercatione praeminentia", 1434), calling on the council to recognize the superior right of the King of Castile over the King of England.

paragraph: The humanist Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, in his memoirs called Cartagena "an ornament to the prelacy". Pope Eugenius IV thanked him for his services by making him bishop of Burgos when his father died (1435). Eugenius, learning that the bishop of Burgos was about to visit Rome, declared in full conclave that "in the presence of such a man he felt ashamed to be seated in St. Peter's chair".

paragraph: After living in Rome for some time, dedicated to study, Cartagena returned to Burgos, where he founded a public school "of all doctrine", in which the most advanced Latinists of the Spain of the Catholic Monarchs studied. These included Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, Alfonso de Palencia, Diego Rodríguez Almela and perhaps Fernán Díaz de Toledo. Cartagena was a friend of fellow writer and humanist Fernán Pérez de Guzmán (1378–1460), nephew of Pero López de Ayala and señor de Batres, who included an affectionate biographical outline in his "Generaciones y semblanzas" (1450). Cartagena dedicated his "Oracional" (1454), a treatise on prayer, to him.

paragraph: Cartagena went to Portugal as an emissary of King John II, where he negotiated peace. He was also emissary to the kings of Germany and Poland and intervened in the conflicts of Castile with Aragon and Granada.

paragraph: He helped with a large sum to build the monastery of San Pablo of Burgos and rebuilt other churches and monasteries of his see, among them the Cathedral of Burgos, whose construction had been interrupted a considerable time before.

paragraph: In 1422 he undertook the translation of some works of Cicero ("De officiis", "De senectute"), ordered by the secretary of King John II, Juan Alfonso de Zamora. He also translated Cicero's "De inventione", for use by then Prince Duarte of Portugal. His translations into the vernacular followed a clear humanistic intent, that of teaching the wisdom of the classics to gentlemen interested in the works, but not scholars themselves. For the same reason, but also for another reason (his inclination to Stoicism), he translated the "Treatises" and "Tragedies" of Seneca the Younger. He disputed with the humanist Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo or Aretino (1370–1444) over a new translation by Bruni of the "Ethics" of Aristotle. The conflict became extended in scope when Pietro Candido Decembrio (1399–1477) came to the defense of Bruni, and Cardinal Pizolpasso (1370–1443) also became involved. At least six texts and 19 letters related to the dispute passed between Cartagena and Decembrio, including Cartagena's "Declinations".

paragraph: Heinrich Graetz ascribes to the influence exercised by Carthagena over Eugenius IV the latter's sudden change of attitude toward the Jews. Carthagena alone, says Graetz, could have been the author of the complaints against the pride and arrogance of the Castilian Jews, which induced the pope to issue the bull of 1442, withdrawing the privileges granted to them by former popes.

paragraph: He wrote besides some treatises on moral philosophy and theology. At the age of 60 he went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, but died on the return to his diocese.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Besides his translations of twelve books of Seneca, in which he was particularly interested, and of the works of Cicero mentioned above, he wrote "Rerum in Hispania gestarum Chronicon". Around 1456 he wrote a history of Spain based on Flavius Josephus, Florus and Jiménez de Rada and entitled "Anacephaleosis" that emphasized Castilian Gothicism. This was translated by Fernán Pérez de Guzmán and Juan de Villafuerte under the title "Genealogía de los Reyes de España" (Genealogy of the Kings of Spain) (1463). The translation was composed of a prologue and 94 chapters, of which seven contain a summary of the origins of the Spanish monarchy from Atalaric to the kings of Asturias and of Castile and León, and a genealogical tree showing their relationship to the monarchs of Navarre, Aragon and Portugal.

paragraph: Among Carthagena's writings on history, morals, and other subjects, there is a commentary on the twenty-sixth Psalm, "Judica me, Deus". "Defensorium fidei", also called "Defensorium unitatis christianae" (1449–50), is a plea in defense of converted Jews. "Oracional de Fernán Pérez" (Burgos, 1487, written about 1454) is a treatise on a prayer edited around 1454 and addressed to his friend and confidant Fernán Pérez de Guzmán, in 55 chapters and an afterword on virtues and the Mass. He also wrote "Doctrinal de Caballeros" (Burgos, 1487, written around 1444), which consists of an adaptation of the second "Partida" of Alfonso X the Wise in four books covering faith, laws, war, rewards and punishments, revolts, challenges and duels, tournaments, vassals, bad actions and privileges.

paragraph: Other works include "Memoriales virtutum" or "Memorial de virtudes", various songs, aphorisms and compositions of love that appear dispersed in songbooks; "Prefación a San Juan Crisóstomo", "Allegationes... super conquista insularum Canariae" (Allegations About the Conquest of the Canary Islands, 1437), which defends Castilian rights to the islands; "Epistula... ad comitem de Haro" (c. 1440), prescribing a program of readings to educate the nobility, among them the moral texts of Cato, and "Contemptus mundanorum". He also wrote "Duodenarium" (1442), where he answers twelve questions of Pérez de Guzmán; "Tractatus questionis ortolanus" (1443–47), to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, in which he defends the superiority of sight over hearing; a response to the "Questión sobre la caballería" (1444) of the Marqués de Santillana; a "Devocional" that has been lost, etc.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L. Fernández Gallardo, "Alonso de Cartagena (1385-1456): una biografía política en la Castilla del siglo XV", Valladolid, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, 2002.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L. Fernández Gallardo, "Alonso de Cartagena: iglesia, política y cultura en la Castilla del siglo XV", Madrid, 2003, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A. Birkenmajer, "Der Streit des Alonso von Cartagena mit Leonardo Bruni Aretino", en Clemens Baeumker (ed.), "Vermischte Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Philosophie", Münster, 1922, pp. 128–211.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L. Serrano, "Los conversos D. Pablo de Santa María y D. Alfonso de Cartagena, obispos de Burgos, gobernantes, diplomáticos y escritores", Madrid, 1942.

paragraph: BULLET::::- F. Cantera, "Burgos, Alvar García de Santa María y su familia de conversos. Historia de la judería de Burgos y sus conventos más egregios", Madrid, CSIC/Instituto Arias Montano, 1952.

paragraph: BULLET::::- N. Fallows, "The Chivalric Vision of Alfonso de Cartagena: Study and Edition of the Doctrinal de los Caualleros", Newark, Dela.: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 1995.

paragraph: BULLET::::- M. Penna, "Alfonso de Cartagena", Prosistas españoles del siglo XV, Madrid, Atlas (BAE), 1959, vol. I, pp. xxxvii-lxx.

paragraph: BULLET::::- M. Morrás, "Sic et non: En torno a Alfonso de Cartagena y los studia humanitatis", "Euphorosyne", 23 (1995), pp. 333–346.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prose in the age of Juan II

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Alonso de Cartagena: iglesia, política y cultura en la Castilla del siglo XV", edición digital de la obra

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists: Alphonsus de Cartagena

description: Spanish bishop

wikidata_label: Alfonso de Cartagena

wikipedia_title: Alfonso de Cartagena


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categories: Russian male professional wrestlers,1903 births,Wrestlers with acromegaly,Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum,1954 deaths,French male professional wrestlers,Imperial Russian emigrants to France,White Russian emigrants to France

paragraph: The French Angel

paragraph: Maurice Tillet (October 23, 1903 – September 4, 1954) was a French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice contracted to act as World Heavyweight Champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Tillet was born in 1903 in the Ural Mountains in Russia to French parents. His mother was a teacher and his father was a railroad engineer. Tillet's father died when he was young. As a child he had a completely normal appearance and Tillet was nicknamed "The Angel" due to his angelic face. In 1917, Tillet and his mother left Russia due to the Revolution and moved to France, where they settled in Reims. When Tillet was 20, he noticed swelling in his feet, hands, and head, and after visiting a doctor was diagnosed with acromegaly—a condition usually caused by a benign tumor on the pituitary gland, resulting in bone overgrowth and thickening.

paragraph: He had wanted to become a lawyer, but his acromegaly prevented him from doing so. Tillet served in the French Navy for five years as an engineer.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.

paragraph: In February 1937, Tillet met Karl Pojello (Lithuanian Karolis Požėla) in Singapore. Pojello was a professional wrestler, and convinced Tillet to enter the business. Tillet and Pojello moved to Paris for training, and Tillet wrestled for two years in France and England until World War II forced them to leave for the United States in 1939.

paragraph: In Boston, Massachusetts, in 1940, promoter Paul Bowser pushed Tillet, who was wrestling as The French Angel, as a main eventer, and he became a large draw in the area. As a result of his popularity, Tillet was booked as unstoppable, scripted to win for a span of 19 consecutive months. Tillet acted as the AWA World Heavyweight Champion from May 1940 until May 1942. In early 1942, he also worked as the Montreal-based world heavyweight champion. He re-appeared with the Boston-based title for a short time in 1944.

paragraph: As a result of his success, several Angel imitators emerged, including Paul Olaffsen (Swedish Angel), who also had acromegaly; Tony Angelo (Russian Angel), Tor Johnson (Super Swedish Angel), Jack Rush (Canadian Angel), Wladislaw Tulin (Polish Angel), Stan Pinto (Czech Angel), Clive Welsh (Irish Angel), Jack Falk (Golden Angel), Gil Guerrero (Black Angel), and Jean Noble (Lady Angel). Tillet competed against Tor Johnson, who was billed as The Swedish Angel on those occasions.

paragraph: By 1945, Tillet's health began to fail and he was no longer advertised as unstoppable. In his final wrestling match, in Singapore on February 14, 1953, working The National Wrestling Alliance Mid South Area then known as Tri-State and owned by Leroy McGuirk he agreed to lose to Bert Assirati.

paragraph: In 1950, Chicago sculptor Louis Linck befriended Tillet and made a series of plaster busts commemorating him for his wrestling career. One of the busts is in Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Tillet died on September 4, 1954, in Chicago, from cardiovascular disease. Tillet is buried at the Lithuanian National Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, Cook County, south of Chicago.

paragraph: Section::::Influence.

paragraph: Some have speculated that Maurice's likeness was used as an influence in the DreamWorks film Shrek (2001) for the main character of the same name, but this rumor hasn't been confirmed.

paragraph: Section::::Championships and accomplishments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- American Wrestling Association "(Boston)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- AWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- AWA World Heavyweight Champion (Canada/Montreal based) (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- Class of 2012

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Parker, Mike. "The World's Most Fantastic Freaks" (1983). .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Time magazine article from Mar 04, 1940 listing his measurements

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Human Marvels biography, J. Tithonus Pednaud

description: French professional wrestler

wikidata_label: Maurice Tillet

wikipedia_title: The French Angel