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text: Carlos Delgado

text: Minnesota Twins

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text: Ted Lilly

text: Chicago White Sox

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text: American League Central Division

text: New York Yankees

text: American League Division Series

text: American League MVP

text: Oakland Athletics

text: Curt Schilling

text: no-hitter

text: single

text: spring training

text: Matt Stairs

text: Reed Johnson

text: Syracuse

text: plantar fasciitis

text: Retrosheet

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paragraph: Shannon Stewart (baseball)

paragraph: Shannon Harold Stewart (born February 25, 1974) is an American former professional baseball outfielder with the Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball.

paragraph: Section::::High school years.

paragraph: Stewart was born in Cincinnati and attended Miami Southridge High School in South Miami Heights, Florida. He played baseball and football and ran track at Miami Southridge. He was recruited by Bobby Bowden to play football at Florida State as a defensive back. He was named to the 1992 American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings High School All-America Second Team. His number would later be retired by the baseball team at Miami Southridge.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Toronto Blue Jays.

paragraph: Stewart was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 19th pick of the 1992 MLB Draft as compensation for the Los Angeles Dodgers signing Tom Candiotti. He made his Major League debut on September 2, 1995. Stewart fluctuated between the majors and minors over the next several seasons, eventually finding a place in the everyday Blue Jay lineup by the end of 1997.

paragraph: In his first full season with the Blue Jays in 1998, he hit .279, belting 12 home runs and driving in 55 runs. During that season, he stole 51 bases, a career-high. Playing alongside superstars Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, and Carlos Delgado that year, Stewart became a catalyst at the top of the Toronto lineup, providing speed and base-stealing ability, as well as some power and clutch-hitting. In every season from 1999 to 2002, Stewart batted .300 or higher and scored over 100 runs. He also showed some unexpected power, hitting 21 HRs in 2000.

paragraph: Stewart spent parts of eight seasons with Toronto before he was dealt to the Minnesota Twins for Bobby Kielty in 2003. Stewart played in 855 games with Toronto, batting .301 with 218 doubles, 73 home runs and 163 stolen bases.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Twins.

paragraph: Stewart was traded, along with the balance of his salary, in 2003 to the Minnesota Twins for Bobby Kielty. Following that off-season, the Blue Jays would trade Kielty for Ted Lilly. Stewart performed well for the Twins in the pennant race with the Chicago White Sox, hitting .322 with the Twins, with an on-base percentage of .384. The Twins won the American League Central Division title that year, but lost to the New York Yankees 3 games to 1 in the American League Division Series. Despite his team's loss, Stewart batted .400 with a .471 On Base Percentage in that series. That year, Stewart finished 4th in American League MVP voting.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Athletics.

paragraph: On February 7, 2007, Stewart and the Oakland Athletics agreed to a one-year deal worth $1 million with a possible extra $1.5 million more in incentives based on playing time.

paragraph: On June 7, 2007, Stewart broke up Curt Schilling's bid for a no-hitter with a two out, bases-empty single in the bottom of the ninth inning.

paragraph: Stewart finished his one season with the Athletics hitting .290 with 12 home runs and 48 RBI in 146 games.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Second stint with Blue Jays.

paragraph: The Toronto Blue Jays signed Stewart to a minor league deal on February 24, 2008, and gave their former first-round pick an invitation to spring training. Stewart ended up being chosen by the Jays to take over left field in a platoon with Matt Stairs, over fan favorite Reed Johnson who was released by the team. On March 30, the Blue Jays purchased Stewart's contract from Triple-A Syracuse. He was released by the Blue Jays on August 11.

paragraph: Section::::Injuries.

paragraph: After his stellar 2003 season, Stewart suffered from plantar fasciitis problems in both feet, limiting him to 92 games in 2004 and only 44 in 2006. While playing football in high school, Stewart suffered an injury to his shoulder, thus weakening his throwing ability. Because his arm is not as strong as it once was, he has sometimes been considered a liability in the field; opposing base runners frequently take bases they might not take if another fielder were playing his position.

paragraph: Section::::Accomplishments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Finished 4th in American League MVP voting (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3rd in the American League in steals (1998, 51 steals)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 4th in the American League in steals (1999, 37 steals)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: , or Retrosheet, or Pelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League)

description: American professional baseball player

wikidata_label: Shannon Stewart

wikipedia_title: Shannon Stewart (baseball)


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text: botanist

text: chemist

text: physician

text: New York City

text: Greenwich Village

text: Amos Eaton

text: natural history

text: mineralogy

text: chemistry

text: medicine

text: Wright Post

text: New York Academy of Science

text: United States Army

text: geology

text: West Point military academy

text: Columbia University

text: Princeton

text: University of the City of New York

text: Asa Gray

text: American Academy of Arts and Sciences

text: Columbia College

text: College of Physicians and Surgeons

text: Torrey Botanical Club

text: National Academy of Science

text: United States Congress

text: A.M.

text: Yale

text: LL.D.

text: Amherst

text: Stirling, New Jersey

text: American Journal of Science

text: David B. Douglass

text: Edwin James

text: Rocky Mountains

text: Stephen H. Long

text: Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

text: Carl Linnaeus

text: Compositae

text: John C. Frémont

text: William H. Emory

text: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

text: San Diego, California

text: Howard Stansbury

text: Great Salt Lake

text: Utah

text: Red River

text: Louisiana

text: Randolph B. Marcy

text: Lorenzo Sitgreaves

text: Zuni

text: Colorado River

text: Colorado River

text: Joseph C. Ives

text: Civil War

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text: Torreya

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text: Japan

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text: Florida

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text: nutmeg

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text: Jeju Island

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text: Grays Peak

text: Asa Gray

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text: Columbia University

text: Brooklyn Botanic Garden

text: Torrey Botanical Society

text: New York State Library

text: John Torrey Papers

text: 1840 Photograph of Torrey

text: Part 1

text: Part 2

categories: American mycologists,Botanists active in North America,American taxonomists,Torrey Botanical Society members,Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,Bryologists,1796 births,Botanists active in California,Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences,Pteridologists,Botanists with author abbreviations,1873 deaths,United States Military Academy faculty,Columbia University faculty

paragraph: John Torrey

paragraph: John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, Torrey was a teacher of chemistry, often at multiple universities, while at the same time pursuing botanical work. Dr. Torrey's botanical career focused on the flora of North America. His most renowned works include studies of the New York flora, the Mexican Boundary, the Pacific railroad surveys, as well as the uncompleted "Flora of North America".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Torrey was born in New York City, the second child of Capt. William and Margaret (née Nichols) Torrey. Torrey showed a fondness for mechanics, and at one time planned to become a machinist, but when he was 15 or 16 years of age his father received an appointment to the state prison at Greenwich Village, New York, where he was tutored by Amos Eaton, then a prisoner and later a pioneer of natural history studies in America. He thus learned the elements of botany, as well as something of mineralogy and chemistry. In 1815 he began the study of medicine with Wright Post, qualifying in 1818. He opened an office in New York City, and engaged in the practice of medicine, at the same time devoting his leisure to botany and other scientific pursuits.

paragraph: In 1817, he became one of the founders of the New York Lyceum of Natural History (now the New York Academy of Science), and one of his first contributions to this body was his "Catalogue of Plants growing spontaneously within Thirty Miles of the City of New York" (Albany, 1819). Its publication gained for him the recognition of foreign and native botanists. In 1824 he issued the only volume of his "Flora of the Northern and Middle States". This used John Lindley's system of classifying flora, a way of classifying that was not commonly used in the United States.

paragraph: He found the medical profession uncongenial, and on August 5, 1824 he entered the United States Army as an assistant surgeon and became acting professor of chemistry and geology at West Point military academy. Three years later, he became professor of chemistry and botany in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York (the medical school of Columbia University), where he stayed until 1855, when he was made professor emeritus. He was also professor of chemistry at Princeton 1830-1854, and of chemistry, mineralogy, and botany at the University of the City of New York 1832/3. He resigned from his Army position on August 31, 1828.

paragraph: In 1836 he was appointed botanist to the state of New York and produced his "Flora" of that state in 1843; while from 1838 to 1843 he carried on the publication of the earlier portions of "Flora of North America", with the assistance of his pupil, Asa Gray. From 1853 he was chief assayer to the United States assay office in New York City when that office was established, but he continued to take an interest in botanical teaching until his death. He was frequently consulted by the treasury department on matters pertaining to the coinage and currency, and was sent on special missions at various times to visit the different mints. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1856.

paragraph: In 1856, Torrey was chosen a trustee of Columbia College, and in 1860, having presented the college with his herbarium, numbering about 50,000 specimens, he was made emeritus professor of chemistry and botany. On the consolidation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons with Columbia in 1860, he was chosen one of its trustees. His advice was frequently sought on scientific subjects by various corporations.

paragraph: He was the first president of the Torrey Botanical Club in 1873.

paragraph: Besides being the last surviving charter member of the Lyceum of Natural History, he held its vice presidency for several years, and was president in 1824-26 and 1838, holding the same office in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1855, and he was one of the original members of the National Academy of Science of the United States, being named as such by act of the United States Congress in 1863. The degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Yale in 1823, and that of LL.D. by Amherst in 1845.

paragraph: Torrey died at his home in New York City on March 10, 1873; he was buried in the family plot at Long Hill Cemetery, Stirling, New Jersey.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Private life.

paragraph: Torrey married Eliza Shaw on April 20, 1824; they had three daughters and a son, Herbert, who became United States Assayer.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: Torrey's earliest publications in the "American Journal of Science" are on mineralogy. In 1820, he undertook the examination of the plants that had been collected around the headwaters of the Mississippi by David B. Douglass. During the same year, he received the collections made by Edwin James while with the expedition that was sent out to the Rocky Mountains under Major Stephen H. Long. His report was the earliest treatise of its kind in the United States that was arranged on the natural system. Torrey, in the meantime, had planned "A Flora of the Northern and Middle United States, or a Systematic Arrangement and Description of all the Plants heretofore discovered in the United States North of Virginia", and in 1824 began its publication in parts, but it was soon suspended owing to the general adoption of the natural system of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in place of that of Carl Linnaeus. In 1836, on the organization of the geological survey of New York, he was appointed botanist, and required to prepare a flora of the state. His report, consisting of two quarto volumes, was issued in 1843, and was for a long time the most comprehensive for any state in the United States. In 1838, he began with Asa Gray "The Flora of North America", which was issued in numbers irregularly until 1843, when they had completed the "Compositae", but new botanical material accumulated at such a rapid rate that it was deemed best to discontinue it.

paragraph: Subsequently, Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1845), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California (1848), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah (1852), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California (1853), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy (1853), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers (1854), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad (1855-1860).

paragraph: He reported on the "Botany of the Mexican Boundary Survey" (1859), that of the expedition upon the Colorado River under Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives (1861), and, in association with Asa Gray, the botanical collections of the Wilkes exploring expedition. The last was in his hands at the time of his death, its publication having been delayed by the Civil War.

paragraph: His bibliography is extensive, including contributions on botanical subjects to scientific periodicals and to the transactions of the societies of which he was a member.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Torrey's name is commemorated in the small coniferous genus "Torreya", found in North America, China and Japan. Some species within this genus include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "T. taxifolia", a native of Florida, is known as the Florida torreya or stinking-cedar.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "T. californica", also known as California nutmeg or California torreya (although not closely related to true nutmeg).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "T. nucifera", a coniferous tree native to southern Japan and to South Korea's Jeju Island

paragraph: BULLET::::- "T. grandis, a conifer endemic to eastern and south-eastern China.

paragraph: "P. torreyana" an endangered species from southern California, is also named after the botanist. Torrey first described the carnivorous plant "Darlingtonia californica", which he named after his friend Dr. William Darlington. Torrey Canyon in Ventura County, California, was named for him, as was Torreys Peak in Colorado, near Grays Peak, named after his pupil and friend Asa Gray.

paragraph: A bronze bas-relief portrait of Torrey is mounted in the main building of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, a former site of Dr. Torrey's summer home. A similar portrait is owned by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In 2017, the Torrey Botanical Society, started by colleagues of John Torrey, celebrated its 150th birthday. It is the oldest botanical society in the Americas.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Torrey, John. A Flora of the State of New-York, comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the State; with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties. Albany: Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1843. A two-volume set with color plates, digitized by the New York State Library.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The John Torrey Papers at the Archive of the New York Botanical Garden (includes correspondence, letters, manuscripts and artwork)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1840 Photograph of Torrey @ Harvard University Library

paragraph: Section::::Additional publications online.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Botanic contributions relating to the flora of western North America [by] Gray, Engelmann, Torrey [and] Frémont" (1843–53)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A compendium of the flora of the northern and middle states, containing generic and specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of the Potomac" (1826)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A flora of North America :containing abridged descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico, arranged according to the natural system by John Torrey and Asa Gray" (1838–1843) Two volumes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An introduction to the natural system of botany" (1831) With John Lindley.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the Darlingtonia californica, a new pitcher-plant from northern California" by John Torrey (1853)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior" by William H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner (1857–1859) Part 1 / Part 2 Torrey et al.

description: U.S. botanist (1796–1873)

wikidata_label: John Torrey

wikipedia_title: John Torrey


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text: Charles Buller

text: Cornish

text: William Kirkpatrick

text: Arthur William Buller

text: Harrow

text: Edinburgh

text: Thomas Carlyle

text: Trinity College, Cambridge

text: Lincoln's Inn

text: barrister

text: West Looe

text: Reform Bill of 1832

text: Parliament

text: Liskeard

text: John Stuart Mill

text: Great Reform Bill

text: Rebellions of 1837

text: Lord Durham

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text: Edinburgh Review

text: Sir William Molesworth

text: Edward Gibbon Wakefield

text: New Zealand

text: Secretary to the Board of Control

text: Lord Melbourne

text: Judge Advocate General

text: Lord John Russell

text: President of the Poor Law Board

text: Grote

text: Thackeray

text: Monckton Milnes

text: Westminster Abbey

text: Charles Greville

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paragraph: Charles Buller

paragraph: Charles Buller (6 August 1806 – 29 November 1848) was a British barrister, politician and reformer.

paragraph: Section::::Background and education.

paragraph: Born in Calcutta, British India, Buller was the son of Charles Buller (1774–1848), a member of a well-known Cornish family, and Barbara Isabella Kirkpatrick, daughter of General William Kirkpatrick, considered an exceptionally talented woman. His younger brother was Sir Arthur William Buller. He was educated at Harrow, then privately in Edinburgh by Thomas Carlyle, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1828. He had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1824, and became a barrister in 1831.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Before this date, however, Buller had succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for West Looe. After the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832 and the consequent disenfranchisement of this borough, he was returned to Parliament for Liskeard, a seat he retained until he died.

paragraph: An eager reformer and a friend of John Stuart Mill, Buller voted for the Great Reform Bill, favoured other progressive measures, and presided over the committee on the state of the records and the one appointed to inquire into the state of election law in Ireland in 1836. In the aftermath of the Rebellions of 1837, he went to Canada in 1838 with Lord Durham as private secretary, and served in the second session of the Special Council of Lower Canada. For a long time it was believed that Buller wrote Lord Durham's famous "Report on the Affairs of British North America". However, this is now denied by several authorities, among them being Durham's biographer, Stuart J Reid, who mentions that Buller described this statement as a groundless assertion in an article which he wrote for the "Edinburgh Review". Nevertheless, it is quite possible that the "Report" was largely drafted by Buller, and it almost certainly bears traces of his influence. He also wrote "A Sketch of Lord Durham's mission to Canada", which was never printed. He returned with Durham to England in the same year. Buller and Sir William Molesworth were associated with Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his schemes for colonising South Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

paragraph: Buller was briefly Secretary to the Board of Control under Lord Melbourne during 1841. After practising as a barrister, he was made Judge Advocate General by Lord John Russell in 1846, and became the first President of the Poor Law Board the following year.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Buller died in office in London in November 1848, aged 42. He never married. He was considered a very talented man, witty, popular and generous, and is described by Carlyle as "the genialest radical I have ever met". Among his intimate friends were Grote, Thackeray, Monckton Milnes and Lady Ashburton. A bust of Buller is in Westminster Abbey, and another was unveiled at Liskeard in 1905. He left behind him, so Charles Greville says, a memory cherished for his delightful social qualities and a vast credit for undeveloped powers.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- T Carlyle, "Reminiscences" (1881)

paragraph: BULLET::::- S. J. Reid, "Life and Letters of the 1st Earl of Durham" (1906)

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Charles Buller

wikipedia_title: Charles Buller


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text: Federalist Party

text: Delaware General Assembly

text: College of Philadelphia

text: University of Pennsylvania

text: University of Edinburgh Medical School

text: Battle of Brandywine

text: Continental Congress

text: Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery

text: Jay Treaty

text: Adams

text: United States Senate

text: Delaware's Members of Congress

text: The Political Graveyard

text: Delaware Historical Society

text: website

text: University of Delaware

text: Library website

categories: Burials at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery,Members of the Delaware House of Representatives,Delaware Federalists,American Presbyterians,1819 deaths,Members of the United States House of Representatives from Delaware,United States Senators from Delaware,1752 births,Physicians from Delaware,People from Newport, Delaware,University of Pennsylvania alumni,Physicians in the American Revolution,Alumni of the University of Edinburgh

paragraph: Henry Latimer (politician)

paragraph: Dr. Henry Latimer (April 24, 1752 – December 19, 1819) was an American physician and politician from Newport, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was elected to the Continental Congress from Delaware, and was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and U.S. Senator from Delaware.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and family.

paragraph: Latimer was born in Newport, Delaware, son of James Latimer, Sr. and Sarah Geddes. His father was a wealthy grain shipper and politician, who was a member of the House of Assembly in the 1778/79 session and a member of the Delaware convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution on December 7, 1787. Latimer's brother, George, also served in the House of Assembly from the 1779/80 session through the 1781/82 session. Later he moved to Philadelphia where he became Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1794.

paragraph: Latimer studied medicine, and attended the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia and graduated in 1770, going to University of Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland in 1775 to complete his education. Returning in the midst of the American Revolution, he served in the "Flying Hospital," a mobile surgical unit of the Continental Army. He was at the Battle of Brandywine and continued through the end of the war.

paragraph: Section::::Professional and political career.

paragraph: Elected to the Continental Congress on April 8, 1784, Latimer never attended the session that spring in Annapolis, Maryland and was replaced. Like his father and brother, he was elected to the House of Assembly and served from the 1787/88 session through the 1790/91 session. He was the Speaker in that last session.

paragraph: Latimer lost the 1792 election for the U.S. House to Major John Patten by thirty votes, but contested Patton's election to the U.S. House. The Federalist majority there reviewed the ballots cast, and based on a confusing law requiring the names of two candidates on the ballot, disqualified enough of Patton's votes to award the seat to Latimer. Amidst considerable bitterness, he was seated February 14, 1794. After once again losing an election to Patten in 1794, Latimer resigned from the U.S. House on February 7, 1795 when he was elected by the Delaware General Assembly to the disputed and long vacant U.S. Senate seat of retired U.S. Senator George Read. After finishing Read's term, he was reelected in 1796, and served until February 28, 1801, when he also resigned. Some believe that the reason for his resignation was that he was unhappy over the tactics of his political opponents who were still bitter over the circumstances of the contested election in 1792.

paragraph: At various times Latimer was a member of the Wilmington Academy board, director of the Bank of Delaware, president of the First Agricultural Society of New Castle County, and president of the Board of Trustees of Newark College. He was a charter member of the Delaware Medical Society.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Latimer died at Philadelphia and was buried first in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Wilmington. This cemetery is now the location of the Wilmington Institute Library and his remains were then moved to the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery.

paragraph: Even though he was a physician and a Presbyterian, Latimer was a member of a prominent and well-to-do merchant family and was very much in agreement with the prevailing Federalist positions on such controversial issues as the Jay Treaty and other measures of the Adams administration. The burgeoning party of Thomas Jefferson, now known as the Democratic-Republicans, was increasingly popular and vocal in heavily Irish and "Country Party" New Castle County, and they never seemed to forgive him his apparent theft of the 1792 congressional election. Consequently, upon celebrating election victories in 1802, they fired cannon, loaded with potatoes and herring, in mock salute to Latimer, remembering his reputed statement that "the laboring classes lived too well to be happy and should be reduced to the fare of the Irish."

paragraph: Section::::Almanac.

paragraph: Elections were held October 1. Members of the General Assembly took office on October 20 or the following weekday. The State Assemblymen were elected for a one-year term. They chose the Continental Congressmen for a one-year term. U.S. Representatives took office March 4 and have a two-year term.

paragraph: The General Assembly chose the U.S. Senators, who also took office March 4, but for a six-year term. In this case he was initially completing the existing term, the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Read. However, the General Assembly failed to fill the position for nearly a year and a half.

paragraph: After 1792 elections were moved to the first Tuesday of October and members of the General Assembly took office on the first Tuesday of January. The State Legislative Council was renamed the State Senate and the State House of Assembly was renamed the State House of Representatives.

paragraph: Section::::Images.

paragraph: BULLET::::- United States Senate ; "Portrait courtesy of the United States Senate, Art & History."

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delaware's Members of Congress

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Political Graveyard

paragraph: Section::::Places with more information.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Henry Latimer

wikipedia_title: Henry Latimer (politician)


text:
1892
Vysočina Region
Bohemia
1971
Grammar School
Jihlava
German
Bohemia
French
German
Prague University
Prague
Suzanne Renaud
Josef Florian
Stará Říše
Jiří
humanism
Georg Trakl
Communist
Ivan Martin Jirous
Zbyněk Hejda
Ivan Diviš
Sylvie Germain
samizdat
Fish Scales
"Shadows,"
catalogue
Photos of Reynek and his art-work
Poems in Anthology "Vrh křídel"
Reynek-Renaud Society, Grenoble, France

categories: Czech Roman Catholics,Czech poets,20th-century Czech painters,Bohemian literature,1892 births,Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk,Czech male writers,1971 deaths,Male poets

paragraph: Bohuslav Reynek

paragraph: Bohuslav Reynek (born 31 May 1892 at Petrkov Manor, Vysočina Region, Bohemia; died 28 October 1971, at Petrkov Manor) was one of the most important Czech poets, writers, painters and translators of the 20th century.

paragraph: Section::::Education and personal life.

paragraph: In 1904-1911 he studied at Grammar School in Jihlava (German "Iglau"), Bohemia. There he learned both French and German. After a short time studying at Prague University, he left Prague for Petrkov. In 1926 he married the French poet Suzanne Renaud, whose work he would later translate into Czech. In 1914, he started his long-time and close cooperation with Josef Florian in the town of Stará Říše translating, illustrating and publishing his own poetry. He and Suzanne had two sons, Daniel (b. 1928 - d. 2014) and Jiří (b. 1929 - d. 2014). In 1949 his farmstead was confiscated by the new Communist state (he and his family were allowed to live on in Petrkov), and the publishers that had heretofore published his work were closed down. He died in 1971 on his farmstead, and was buried nearby in Svatý Kříž in the family grave.

paragraph: Section::::Poetry.

paragraph: His poems are meditative and inspired by the Czech landscape, rural life in the manor and deep Christian humanism. What is noteworthy is the delicate way in which religious themes are refracted through images of his immediate surroundings; the poems invest everyday objects and scenes (such as the farm animals, their byres, the rhythms of the working week) with a spiritual luminescence, a bright edge, and this is done so delicately that at no point does it feel imposed. He employs, for the most part, traditional forms, with inventive rhymes.

paragraph: Reynek was a graphic artist and a translator of French and German. Among the poets he translated was the German expressionist Georg Trakl, and it is clear that he learnt much from Trakl's techniques.

paragraph: After the Communist revolution of 1948, Reynek's manor was confiscated and devastated, his books were prohibited and those of public libraries liquidated because of Reynek's Christian faith. He died poor with his works banned but became a hero to young Czech poets of the 1960s and 1970s, the most prominent of which were Ivan Martin Jirous, Zbyněk Hejda and Ivan Diviš. His work was published in exile and after 1989 a critical edition of his poems was completed and edited by Torst Publishing House, Prague. The French author Sylvie Germain wrote "Bohuslav Reynek à Petrkov" (1998), a meditation on his life and art.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Žízně" (Thirst) (1921), poems

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rybí šupiny" (Fish Scales) (1922), poems in prose

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Had na sněhu" (Snake on the Snow) (1924), poems in prose

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Smutek země" (Earth's Grief) (1924), poems

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rty a zuby" (Lip to Tooth) (1925), poems

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Setba samot" (The Sowing of Solitude) (1936), poems

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pieta" (1940), poems

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Podzimní motýli" (Fall's Butterflies) (1946), poems

paragraph: posthumously:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Odlet vlaštovek" - samizdat (1978), in exile (Munich 1980), many editions after 1989.

paragraph: selected poems:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vlídné vidiny", ed. Jaromír Zelenka (Odeon, 1992)

paragraph: definitive edition of the poems:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Básnické spisy" (Poetic Works), ed. Marie Chlíbcová (Archa/Petrkov, 2009)

paragraph: Section::::Translations.

paragraph: Bohuslav Reynek, "Fish Scales", trans. Kelly Miller and Zdenka Brodská (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 2001).

paragraph: Bohuslav Reynek, "Shadows," trans. Justin Quinn, "New Yorker" (2011).

paragraph: Bohuslav Reynek, "Le serpent sur la neige", trans. Xavier Galmiche (Grenoble: Romarin-les Amis de Suzanne Renaud et Bohuslav Reynek, 1997). See the publishing house Romarin's catalogue.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Photos of Reynek and his art-work

paragraph: BULLET::::- Poems in Anthology "Vrh křídel"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reynek-Renaud Society, Grenoble, France

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reynek, Bohuslav: "Ostny v závoji". Praha, Paseka 2002

description: Czech poet, translator and graphic

wikidata_label: Bohuslav Reynek

wikipedia_title: Bohuslav Reynek


text:
Qing Dynasty
Viceroy of Liangguang
Viceroy of Minzhe
Li Yongfang
Ming

categories: Qing dynasty politicians,Qing dynasty generals,Viceroys of Liangguang,Viceroys of Min-Zhe

paragraph: Li Shuaitai

paragraph: Li Shuaitai (; d. 1666) was a military commander of the early Qing Dynasty. He served as the Viceroy of Liangguang between 1653 and 1656, then as the Viceroy of Minzhe from 1656 to its partition in 1658, after which he continued as Viceroy of Fujian until 1664.

paragraph: His father, Li Yongfang, was the first Ming general to defect to the Qing.

alias:
Li Lvtai
Li Yanling
Zhongxiang
Shouchou
Shoutao
Shuda

description: Qing dynasty politician

wikidata_label: Li Shuaitai

wikipedia_title: Li Shuaitai


text: choral conductor

text: Les Éléments

text: Victoire de la musique classique

text: Ensemble Jacques Moderne

text: Orthez

text: early music

text: John Elwes

text: Guillemette Laurens

text: University of Toulouse Le Mirail

text: musicology

text: Michel Corboz

text: Jean-Claude Malgoire

text: Gustav Leonhardt

text: Les Arts Florissants

text: William Christie

text: Philippe Herreweghe

text: La Chapelle Royale

text: Collegium Vocale Gent

text: Ensemble Jacques Moderne

text: Jean-Pierre Ouvrard

text: a cappella

text: polyphony

text: Renaissance music

text: Regnard

text: Jean Mouton

text: Guerrero

text: Morales

text: Schein

text: Schütz

text: Buxtehude

text: motet

text: passions

text: Mass in B minor

text: Johann Sebastian Bach

text: anthem

text: Purcell

text: Handel

text: Dido and Aeneas

text: King Arthur)

text: Baroque

text: oratorio

text: Mozart

text: Ivan Fedele

text: Philippe Hersant

text: Pierre Jodlowski

text: Alexandros Markeas

text: Zad Moultaka

text: Ton That Tiet

text: Michel Plasson

text: Christophe Rousset

text: Philippe Herreweghe

text: Christophe Coin

text: John Nelson

text: Emmanuel Krivine

text: Lawrence Foster

text: Marc Minkowski

text: Jérémie Rhorer

text: Liliane Bettencourt

text: Victoires de la musique classique

text: Virgin Classics

text: Éditions Hortus

text: Calliope

text: Naïve Records

text: opera

text: Don Giovanni

text: The Magic Flute

text: The Marriage of Figaro

text: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

text: Saint-Céré

text: Jacques Offenbach

text: Der Silbersee

text: Les caprices de Marianne

text: Henri Sauguet

text: Café Zimmermann

text: Ensemble Baroque de Limoges

text: Les Percussions de Strasbourg

text: Ensemble Ars Nova

text: Sorèze

text: Tarn

text: artistic director

text: Order of Arts and Letters

text: Les Éléments

text: Zad Moultaka

text: Philippe Hersant

text: Ralph Vaughan Williams

text: Frank Martin

text: Benjamin Britten

text: Ton That Tiet

text: Gabriel Fauré

text: Francis Poulenc

text: Maurice Duruflé

text: Jehan Alain

text: Camille Saint-Saëns

text: Maurice Duruflé

text: Alfred Desenclos

text: Ensemble Jacques Moderne

text: Lyon

text: Jacques Moderne

text: François Regnard

text: Marco da Gagliano

text: Clément Janequin

text: Giovanni Bassano

text: Eustache Du Caurroy

text: Cristóbal de Morales

text: Francisco Guerrero

text: Giacomo Carissimi

text: Jean Mouton

text: Dieterich Buxtehude

text: Domenico Scarlatti

text: Stabat Mater

text: Reinhard Keiser

text: France Inter

text: Radio Classique

text: France Musique

categories: 21st-century conductors (music),Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,1962 births,French choral conductors,People from Orthez,Living people,French male conductors (music)

paragraph: Joël Suhubiette

paragraph: Joël Suhubiette (born in 1962) is a contemporary French choral conductor. In particular, he conducts the chamber choir Les Éléments which he founded in Toulouse and with which he received a Victoire de la musique classique in 2006 and the Ensemble Jacques Moderne in Tours.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in 1962 in Orthez, Suhubiette played the piano very early. He then went on to undertake musical studies at the . He joined the early music department where he studied singing with John Elwes and Guillemette Laurens. At the University of Toulouse Le Mirail he studied musicology and choral conducting with Alix Bourbon, whose vocal ensemble he joined which allowed him, at a very young age, to sing under the direction of Michel Corboz, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Gustav Leonhardt etc. It was at this time, in 1985, that he founded Les Éléments with friends singers from the Conservatoire and the University, an ensemble that later became the chamber choir he still conducts in Toulouse.

paragraph: He then began his professional career as a singer with Les Arts Florissants of William Christie. In 1986 his meeting with Philippe Herreweghe played a decisive role: for twelve years he sang in his ensembles – La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale Gent – with which he took part in more than thirty recordings and discovered the diversity of the vocal repertoire to which the Belgian conductor devoted himself with his two prestigious choirs. Soon, Philippe Herreweghe made him his assistant and he was entrusted with the preparation of the choir for productions and recordings.

paragraph: In 1993, Suhubiette took over the management of the Ensemble Jacques Moderne, whose founder Jean-Pierre Ouvrard died at the end of 1992. It was the beginning of a new musical adventure that immersed him in the universe of "a cappella" polyphony of the French, English and Spanish Renaissance music to which he dedicated some of his recordings. (Regnard, Jean Mouton, Guerrero, Morales). Very soon, he extended the ensemble's repertoire to the composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, giving a preponderant place to the works of the first German Baroque, (Schein, Schütz and Buxtehude). A little later, he performed with l'Ensemble the motets, passions, Mass in B minor and short masses by Johann Sebastian Bach, anthems by Purcell and Handel, Purcell's operas ("Dido and Aeneas", "King Arthur)", and the French Baroque repertoire.

paragraph: As early as 1997, with the chamber choir Les Éléments he conducted in Toulouse, he began conducting the "a cappella" repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Baroque oratorios (Johann Sebastian Bach, Handel) classical (Mozart, Haydn) and commissioned a large number of works from contemporary composers (, Ivan Fedele, Philippe Hersant, Pierre Jodlowski, Alexandros Markeas, Zad Moultaka, Vincent Paulet, Ton That Tiet, Antonio Chagas Rosa). He also plays Stravinsky, Poulenc, Britten, Dallapiccola, Berio, Mantovani, Dusapin. Thanks to his assiduous practice of the "a cappella" repertoire, the chamber choir "Les Éléments" was one of the most important choirs in France, and with it, Suhubiette performed in Europe, the USA, Canada, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt. The ensemble was the guest of many conductors (Michel Plasson, Christophe Rousset, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Coin, John Nelson, Emmanuel Krivine, Lawrence Foster, Marc Minkowski, Jérémie Rhorer...

paragraph: In 2005, l'Ensemble was laureate of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for choral singing awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2006, it was consecrated "Ensemble de l'année" at the Victoires de la musique classique.

paragraph: With his two ensembles, Suhubiette has recorded for record companies Virgin Classics, Éditions Hortus, Calliope, Ligia, l'Empreinte Digitale, Naïve Records and Mirare, and many of his records have received awards and critical acclaim.

paragraph: He is also interested in the other vocal world of opera. He conducts Mozart's operas, "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute," "The Marriage of Figaro", "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (at the Dijon opéra, the Saint-Céré festival), the comedy operas by Jacques Offenbach, the French premiere of Kurt Weill's "Der Silbersee" at the Massy Opera House, "Les caprices de Marianne" by Henri Sauguet.

paragraph: In the oratorio domain, the programmes led him to conduct the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, the Orchestre Baroque Les Passions, Les Folies françoises, the Café Zimmermann, Gli Incogniti, Concerto Soave, the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, the Pau-Pays de Béarn orchestra, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Ars Nova etc.

paragraph: It is in this spirit of openness to several musical worlds that the Abbey-school of Sorèze in the Tarn département offered him in 2006 to become artistic director of its festival .

paragraph: Since 2008, Suhubiette has been teaching regularly in the choir conducting class of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon.

paragraph: In 2014, he was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: With the chamber choir Les Éléments:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Âme slave". Dvorak, Tchaïkovsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Bartok, Ligeti. (L'Empreinte Digitale)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pierre Jodlowski. "L'Aire du Dire", DVD (Eole Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Méditerranée sacrée", ancient and modern polyphonies in Latin, Arabic, Aramaic and ancient Greek (L'Empreinte Digitale)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zad Moultaka, "Visions" (L'Empreinte Digitale)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vincent Paulet, "De Profundis & Suspiros" (Hortus)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philippe Hersant, "Œuvres pour chœur" (Virgin Classics)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shakespeare Songs". Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Martin, Benjamin Britten, William Mathias (Hortus)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ton That Tiet, "Les Sourires de Bouddha" (Hortus)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ave Verum": Choral works by Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Duruflé, Jehan Alain (Naïve)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Camille Saint-Saëns, Motets (Hortus)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maurice Duruflé, Requiem (Hortus)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alfred Desenclos, "Messe de Requiem & Motets" (Hortus)

paragraph: With the Ensemble Jacques Moderne (after the name of the Lyonnais music printer Jacques Moderne):

paragraph: BULLET::::- François Regnard, "Motets", Calliope

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marco da Gagliano, "Motets", Calliope

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clément Janequin, "La Bataille de Marignan", Calliope

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanni Bassano, "Motets", Calliope

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eustache Du Caurroy, "Requiem", Calliope

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, "De Beata Virgine", Ligia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giacomo Carissimi, "Jephté", "Jonas", Ligia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jean Mouton, "Motets", Ligia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dieterich Buxtehude, "Jesu, meine Freude", Ligia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Domenico Scarlatti, "Stabat Mater – Messe de Madrid", Ligia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reinhard Keiser, "Passion Selon Saint-Marc", Mirare

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on France Inter

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on Opéra magazine

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on Flâneries musicales de Reims

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on Radio Classique

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on zadmoultaka

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette, "Philippe Herreweghe a été la plus grande rencontre musicale de ma vie" (2/5) on France Musique

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on France Musique

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joël Suhubiette on Musique au temple

paragraph: BULLET::::- Les Éléments. Joël Suhubiette – O Vos Omnes – Victoria on YouTube

description: French conductor and choir director

wikidata_label: Joël Suhubiette

wikipedia_title: Joël Suhubiette


text:
painting
Roma
Brno
List of Czech painters

wikipedia_title:
Painting
Romani people
Brno
List of Czech painters

categories: 1980 deaths,Czech male painters,20th-century Czech painters,1919 births

paragraph: Čeněk Dobiáš

paragraph: Čeněk Dobiáš (June 1, 1919 – September 28, 1980) was a Czech painter. His paintings have different themes, portraits of Roma girls and women, children, colorful fields of flowers etc. From 1949 he was a member of SVU Ales in Brno (Association of Fine Artists), and from 1955 a member of the Association of Czechoslovak Artists.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pospíšil, Leopold: S kumštýři za oponou, 1. vyd, Nakladatelství Šimon Ryšavý, Brno 2001, 103 s., 8 s. obr. příl.,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rudolfová, Věra: Kraj návratů a setkání : medailonky osobností kulturního života Vysočiny, 1. vyd., Sursum, 2006, 160 s.,

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Czech painters

description: Czech painter

wikidata_label: Čeněk Dobiáš

wikipedia_title: Čeněk Dobiáš


text:
James II of Majorca
queen of Majorca
James III of Majorca
Constance of Aragon
James
Isabella
Battle of Llucmajor
Peter IV of Aragon
Valencia
Spain
France
John II of France
Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
John II, Marquess of Montferrat
Joanna I of Naples
James

wikipedia_title:
James II of Majorca
List of Majorcan consorts
James III of Majorca
Constance of Aragon, Queen of Majorca
James IV of Majorca
Isabella of Majorca
Battle of Llucmajor
Peter IV of Aragon
Kingdom of Valencia
Spain
France
John II of France
Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
John II, Marquess of Montferrat
Joanna I of Naples
James IV of Majorca

categories: 1320s births,14th-century Spanish women,14th-century deaths,Consorts of Montpellier,Majorcan queens consort,14th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon

paragraph: Violante of Vilaragut

paragraph: Violante of Vilaragut (1320 or 1325 – before 1372) was a daughter of Berengeur de Vilaragut and his second wife Saura, who was an illegitimate daughter of James II of Majorca. Violante was titular queen of Majorca by her marriage to her cousin James III of Majorca.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: The marriage contract was signed on 10 November 1347 for the marriage of Violante and James. This was James' second marriage after the death of his first wife Constance of Aragon. Violante gained two stepchildren James and Isabella. Violante's brother was appointed counsellor and grand chamberlain to her husband. Violante bore her husband a daughter named Esclaramunda, who died young.

paragraph: James lost the kingdom in 1343 (before the marriage) and he was killed at the Battle of Llucmajor on 25 October 1349 by Peter IV of Aragon. The couple had only been married for three years.

paragraph: Violante and her stepchildren were captured by King Peter after the battle in which her husband was killed, and confined to the convent of the Clarissans at Valencia with Isabella. Violante was freed around 1358/59, and soon had Isabella released, on the condition that Isabella renounced her rights to Majorca.

paragraph: Violante later left Spain and travelled to France where she was made Vicomtesse d'Omélas by John II of France in 1352. Around the same time, she married Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and helped arrange the marriage of her stepdaughter Isabella to John II, Marquess of Montferrat.

paragraph: Violante died sometime before 1372, without surviving children. Her husband then married Joanna I of Naples, widow of her stepson James.

description: Majorcan Queen consort

wikidata_label: Violante of Vilaragut

wikipedia_title: Violante of Vilaragut


text:
Písek
Roman Dragoun
List of Czech painters

categories: 2005 deaths,People from Písek,1916 births,20th-century Czech painters

paragraph: František Roman Dragoun

paragraph: František Roman Dragoun (1916–2005) was a Czech portrait painter from Písek. He painted more than five thousand paintings and drawings and was also a poet. His son, Roman Dragoun, is a notable progressive rock musician.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Czech painters

description: Czech painter

wikidata_label: František Roman Dragoun

wikipedia_title: František Roman Dragoun


text:
A.S.C.
Tony Gaudio
Cosenza
Italy
IMP
Life Photo Film Corporation
Universal
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Alla Nazimova
May Allison
Bessie Barriscale
appendicitis
peritonitis
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Los Angeles
The House of Fear
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Revelation
The Shell Game
The House of Gold
The House of Mirth
Eye for Eye
A Man's World
Out of the Fog
One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day
The Uplifters
The Man Who Stayed at Home
The Brat
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
The Notorious Mrs. Sands
Life's Twist

categories: American cinematographers,Italian cinematographers,Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery,1886 births

paragraph: Eugene Gaudio

paragraph: Eugene Gaudio (December 31, 1886 – August 1, 1920) was a cinematographer.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Brother of future A.S.C. member Tony Gaudio, Eugene Gaudio was born in Cosenza in Italy on December 31, 1886. He learned photography in his father’s portrait studio and developed an interest in movies around 1905. After coming to the United States, he served as lab superintendent for IMP and the Life Photo Film Corporation. Arriving in California in 1915, Gaudio came out of the darkroom and went behind the camera for Universal. The best-known of his early efforts as a cinematographer is the 1916 production of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". He later photographed films for Metro’s top female stars, Alla Nazimova and May Allison. His final work was with actress Bessie Barriscale’s B. B. Features.

paragraph: Gaudio suffered an acute attack of appendicitis and died on August 1, 1920, from general peritonitis after an operation. Gaudio is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

paragraph: Section::::Cinematographer.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The House of Fear" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The White Terror" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The House of Fear" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elusive Isabel" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Revelation" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shell Game" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Social Hypocrites" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Toys of Fate" (1918)

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

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eye for Eye" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Man's World" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Out of the Fog" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Uplifters" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Man Who Stayed at Home" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Brat" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kitty Kelly, M.D." (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beckoning Roads" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Luck of Geraldine Laird" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Notorious Mrs. Sands" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Life's Twist" (1920)

description: Italian cinematographer

wikidata_label: Eugene Gaudio

wikipedia_title: Eugene Gaudio


text: downhill mountain biker

text: Giant Bicycles

text: fourcross

text: Steve Peat

categories: Australian male cyclists,Four-cross mountain bikers,1981 births,Australian mountain bikers,Downhill mountain bikers,Place of birth missing (living people),Living people

paragraph: Jared Rando

paragraph: Jared Rando (born 1981) is an Australian downhill mountain biker, signed to Giant Bicycles. Rando has competed at every UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships from 1999 to 2009, participating in both downhill and fourcross events. At the 2009 championships, he finished 16th, 6 seconds behind winner Steve Peat. Previous highlights include 1st at the 2006 Australian mountain bike championships, and 1st in the 2001 Oceania mountain bike championships.

description: Australian racing cyclist

wikidata_label: Jared Rando

wikipedia_title: Jared Rando


text:
werewolf
witchcraft
cannibalism
London
Montague Summers
Edward Fairfax
Bedburg
Electorate of Cologne
Thirty Years' War
werewolf
rack
black magic
Devil
belt or girdle
metamorphose
goat
lamb
sheep
pregnant
fetus
brain
cannibal
incest
succubus
wheel
beheaded
Electorate of Cologne
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg
Neuenahr
Bedburg
plague
Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck
Macabre
Murder Metal
The Other
Casket Case
Pine Deep Trilogy
Jonathan Maberry
Jim Butcher
William Peter Blatty
The Exorcist
Big Top Scooby-Doo!
Doctor Who
Loups-Garoux
Fifth Doctor
Grand Duchess Anastasia
Lord Lucan
J.E. Reich
Lore
TV series adaptation
Adam Goldberg
Mysterious Monsters

categories: Incest,German murderers of children,People executed by the Electorate of Cologne,People from Rhein-Erft-Kreis,Year of birth unknown,16th-century executions by Germany,Executed serial killers,Executed people from North Rhine-Westphalia,German cannibals,German serial killers,People executed by breaking wheel,Political and cultural purges,1589 deaths,Male serial killers,People executed for witchcraft

paragraph: Peter Stumpp

paragraph: Peter Stumpp (died 1589) (whose name is also spelled as Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer, accused of werewolfery, witchcraft and cannibalism. He was known as 'the Werewolf of Bedburg'.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: The most comprehensive source on the case is a pamphlet of 16 pages published in London in 1590, the translation of a German print of which no copies have survived. The English pamphlet, of which two copies exist (one in the British Museum and one in the Lambeth Library), was rediscovered by occultist Montague Summers in 1920. It describes Stumpp's life and alleged crimes and the trial, and includes many statements from neighbours and witnesses of the crimes. Summers reprints the entire pamphlet, including a woodcut, on pages 253 to 259 of his work "The Werewolf".

paragraph: Additional information is provided by the diaries of Hermann von Weinsberg, a Cologne alderman, and by a number of illustrated broadsheets, which were printed in southern Germany and were probably based on the German version of the London pamphlet. The original documents seem to have been lost during the wars of the centuries that followed.

paragraph: Contemporary reference was made to the pamphlet by Edward Fairfax in his firsthand account of alleged witch persecution of his own daughters in 1621.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Peter Stumpp's name is also spelled as "Peter Stube", "Peter Stub", "Peter Stubbe", "Peter Stübbe" or "Peter Stumpf", and other aliases include such names as Abal Griswold, Abil Griswold, and Ubel Griswold. The name "Stump" or "Stumpf" may have been given him as a reference to the fact that his left hand had been cut off leaving only a stump, in German "Stumpf".

paragraph: It was alleged that as the "werewolf" had its left forepaw cut off, then the same injury proved the guilt of the man. Stumpp was born at the village of Epprath near the country-town of Bedburg in the Electorate of Cologne. His actual date of birth is not known, as the local church registers were destroyed during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). He was a wealthy farmer of his rural community. During the 1580s, he seems to have been a widower with two children; a girl called Beele (Sybil), who seems to have been older than fifteen years old, and a son of an unknown age.

paragraph: Section::::Accusations.

paragraph: During 1589, Stumpp had one of the most lurid and famous werewolf trials of history. After being stretched on a rack, and before further torture commenced, he confessed to having practiced black magic since he was twelve years old. He claimed that the Devil had given him a magical belt or girdle, which enabled him to metamorphose into "the likeness of a greedy, devouring wolf, strong and mighty, with eyes great and large, which in the night sparkled like fire, a mouth great and wide, with most sharp and cruel teeth, a huge body, and mighty paws." Removing the belt, he said, made him transform back to his human form. No such belt was ever found after his arrest.

paragraph: For twenty-five years, Stumpp had allegedly been an "insatiable bloodsucker" who gorged on the flesh of goats, lambs, and sheep, as well as men, women, and children. Being threatened with torture he confessed to killing and eating fourteen children, two pregnant women, whose fetuses he ripped from their wombs and "ate their hearts panting hot and raw," which he later described as "dainty morsels." One of the fourteen children was his own son, whose brain he was reported to have devoured.

paragraph: Not only was Stumpp accused of being a serial murderer and cannibal, but also of having an incestuous relationship with his daughter, who was sentenced to die with him, and that he had coupled with a distant relative, which was also considered to be incestuous according to the law. In addition to this he confessed to having had intercourse with a succubus sent to him by the Devil.

paragraph: Section::::Execution.

paragraph: The execution of Stumpp, on October 31, 1589, and of his daughter and mistress, is one of the most brutal on record: he was put to a wheel, where "flesh was torn from his body", in ten places, with red-hot pincers, followed by his arms and legs. Then his limbs were broken with the blunt side of an axehead to prevent him from returning from the grave, before he was beheaded and his body burned on a pyre. His daughter and mistress had already been flayed and strangled and were burned along with Stumpp's body. As a warning against similar behavior, local authorities erected a pole with the torture wheel and the figure of a wolf on it, and at the very top they placed Peter Stumpp's severed head.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: There are a number of details of the text of the London pamphlet that are inconsistent with the historical facts.

paragraph: The years during which Stumpp was supposed to have committed most of his crimes (1582–1589) were marked by internal warfare in the Electorate of Cologne after the abortive introduction of Protestantism by the former Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg. He had been assisted by Adolf, Count of Neuenahr, who was also the lord of Bedburg.

paragraph: Stumpp was most certainly a convert to Protestantism. The war brought the invasion of armies of either side, the assaults by marauding soldiers and eventually an epidemic of the plague.

paragraph: When the Protestants were defeated during 1587, Bedburg Castle became the headquarters of Catholic mercenaries commanded by the new lord of Bedburg—Werner, Count of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, who was a staunch Catholic determined to re-establish the Roman faith.

paragraph: So it is not inconceivable that the werewolf trial was but a barely concealed political trial, with the help of which the new lord of Bedburg planned to bully the Protestants of the territory back into Catholicism. If it had only been just another execution of a werewolf and a couple of witches, as occurred about this time in various parts of Germany, the attendance of members of the aristocracy—perhaps including the new Archbishop and Elector of Cologne—would be surprising. Furthermore, the trial remained a singular event.

paragraph: However, this does not mean that the charges were without basis in fact. The execution of a mere Protestant convert would have been deeply unlikely to have drawn the aristocratic attention Stumpp's trial did, and while it was unlikely for the elite to attend to any given werewolf or witch trial, the sheer scale of Stumpp's alleged crimes would have made it more visible to the public at large and the nobility.

paragraph: Section::::In popular culture.

paragraph: The U.S. metal band Macabre recorded a song about Peter Stumpp, titled "The Werewolf of Bedburg"; it can be found on the "Murder Metal" album.

paragraph: The German horror punk band The Other recorded a song about Peter Stumpp, titled "Werewolf of Bedburg"; it can be found on the "Casket Case" album.

paragraph: In the Pine Deep Trilogy of novelist and folklorist Jonathan Maberry, Peter Stumpp is the supernatural villain Ubel Griswold. Since Griswold is actually one of Stumpp's historical aliases, Maberry decided to use the name of Ubel Griswold instead of openly telling people that the villain was the famous werewolf Peter Stumpp until later on in the third book of the series, "Bad Moon Rising".

paragraph: In the Jim Butcher book "Fool Moon" there are several characters that use enchanted wolf pelt belts to transform into a wolf form, similar to the belt Peter Stump claimed to have.

paragraph: A reference to Peter Stumpp is also in William Peter Blatty's book, "The Exorcist". When Father Karras and Kinderman talk about Satanism they say "Terrible, was this theory, Father, or fact?" "Well, there's William Stumpf, for example. Or Peter. I can't remember. Anyway, a German in the sixteenth century who thought he was a werewolf".

paragraph: The direct-to-video "Big Top Scooby-Doo!", uses a portion of Lukas Mayer's woodcut of the execution of Stumpp in 1589, though in the movie no mention of Stumpp is made. The portion used depicts a man cutting off a werewolf's left paw (supposedly Stumpp in werewolf form) and a child being attacked by a werewolf. The woodcut scene shown in the film restores the werewolf's left paw and removes the child in the second werewolf's jaws, making it appear as if the swordsman is fighting one of the werewolves while another flees.

paragraph: In the "Doctor Who" audio drama "Loups-Garoux", Pieter Stubbe was in fact a werewolf. He managed to escape before he was executed and lived for another five centuries. He was defeated by the Fifth Doctor in Brazil in 2080. It is implied that he ate both the Grand Duchess Anastasia and Lord Lucan.

paragraph: Journalist and fiction writer J.E. Reich partially based her short story "The Werewolves of Anspach," on the life of Peter Stumpp.

paragraph: The story of Peter Stumpp was also told in episode 3 of the podcast "Lore", released on April 6, 2015. In 2017, the podcast episode was adapted into the fifth episode of the TV series adaptation of "Lore", where he was played by Adam Goldberg.

paragraph: The case inspired Neil MacKay's novel, 'The Wolf Trial' (Glasgow: Freight Books, 2016. )

paragraph: Peter Stump is referenced in 'The Werewolf of Bamburg' by Oliver Potzsch. It briefly mentions his execution and crimes.

paragraph: Section::::External sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Bogeyman's Gonna Eat You-- Albert Fish, The Vampire of Brooklyn". "America's Serial Killers: Portraits in Evil" Mill Creek Entertainment, 2009.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anon. "A True Discourse. Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter, a Most Wicked Sorcerer." London, 1590. (original English version).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Homayun Sidky, "Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease. An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts." New York 1997, pp. 234–238. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Kremer, "Plädoyer für einen Werwolf: Der Fall Peter Stübbe", in, Ibd., "Wo das Grauen lauert. Blutsauger und kopflose Reiter, Werwölfe und Wiedergänger an Inde, Erft und Rur." Dueren 2003, pp. 247–270. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- David Everitt, "Human Monsters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Most Vicious Murderers" New York: McGraw-Hill 1993, pp. 15–18 .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El alma está en el cerebro". Eduardo Punset (punto de lectura) 2006 "Redes" RTVE.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mysterious Monsters Daniel Farson & Angus Hall,Mayflower Books,1975 - pg.53-4. Argues for Peter Stump being innocent.

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paragraph: Hypatius (consul 500)

paragraph: Flavius Hypatius (; 532) was a Byzantine noble of Imperial descent who held the position of commander in the East during the reign of Justin I, and was chosen by the mob as Emperor during the Nika riots in Constantinople against Justinian I.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Hypatius was the nephew of Emperor Anastasius I, who ruled before Justin, and he was also associated by marriage to the noble Anicii clan, which gave him a serious claim to the imperial diadem; however, Hypatius showed no such ambition, and he and the other nephews of Anastasius were well-treated by both Justin and his successor to the Byzantine throne, Justinian I.

paragraph: In the height of the Nika riots, Hypatius, along with his brother Pompeius and Probus (another nephew of Anastasius), were among the prime candidates for the Imperial Throne. As it became clear that the mob wanted a new Emperor, Probus fled the city and Hypatius and Pompeius took shelter in the Imperial Palace, along with Justinian and the rest of the Byzantine Senate. They did not wish to rebel against Justinian, fearing they would have too little popular support.

paragraph: Nevertheless, Justinian, fearing treachery, expelled the Senate from the Palace, thus ushering the two brothers into the mob's arms. Hypatius was dragged away from his house, despite the efforts of his wife to prevent this, and was proclaimed Emperor by the rioting mob at the Hippodrome. Hypatius seems to have thereafter overcome his initial reluctance, and began to play up to the part of Emperor.

paragraph: However, the riots were soon successfully (if bloodily) quelled by the Imperial Guard, and Hypatius was captured by Justinian's men. Justinian is reported to have wanted to spare Hypatius's life, but his wife Theodora prevailed upon him to see the punishment meted out, and the involuntary usurper was executed.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anastasian War and Vitalian for his campaigns.

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paragraph: Abu Hurairah

paragraph: Abd al-Rahman ibn Sakhr Ad-Dausi (; 603–681), Better known as, Abu Hurairah often spelled Abu Hurairah, was one of the sahabah (companions) of Muhammad and, according to Sunni Islam, the most prolific narrator of hadith. He was known by the "kunyah" Abu Hurayrah "Father of a Kitten", in reference to his documented attachment to cats, and he was a member of Ashab al-Suffa. It is unclear as to what his real name is, the most popular opinion being that it was ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr (). Abu Hurayrah spent four years in the company of Muhammad and went on expeditions and journeys with him. He is credited with narrating at least 5374 Ahadith.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Abu Hurairah was from the Arab tribe of Banu Daws and was born in the region of Bani Daws which was in Yemen at that time. His father had died, leaving him with only his mother and no other relatives.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:His name.

paragraph: His name is disputed among Muslim scholars. His name is said to be "Abd al-Rahman Ibn Sakhr","Abul Rahman Ibn Ghnam","Abd Ibn Ghnam","abd Nahm Ibn 'Amir","Abd Shams Ibn 'Amir","'Omir Ibn 'Amir","Abd Shams Ibn Sakhr", "'Amir Ibn Abd Ghnam", "Sikin Ibn Mal", "Sikin Ibn Hana'", "'Amr Ibn Abd Shams", "Amr Ibd Abd Nihm", "Sikin Ibn Jabir", "Yazid Ibn 'Ashrqah", "Abdullah Ibn 'Aith", "Sikin Ibn Wathmah", "Borir Ibn 'Ashraqah" and "Saeed Ibn Al-Harith". His birth name is also disputed among Muslim scholars, they give him these names "Abd Shams", "Abdallah", "Sikin", "'Amir", "Borir", "Amr", "Saeed", "Abd Amr", "Abd Ghnam", "Abd Yalil" and "Abd Tim".

paragraph: Section::::Life as a Muslim.

paragraph: Abu Hurairah embraced Islam through Tufayl ibn Amr, the chieftain of his tribe. Tufayl had returned to his village after meeting Muhammad and become a Muslim in the early years of his mission. Abu Hurairah was one of the first to respond to his call, unlike the majority of Tufayl's tribesmen, who embraced Islam later. Abu Hurairah accompanied Tufayl to Mecca to meet Muhammad who renamed him Abd al-Rahman ("servant of the Merciful"). Abu Hurairah then returned to his tribe to live for many years.

paragraph: Section::::Life as a Muslim.:Military campaigns during Muhammad's era.

paragraph: He was present during the Expedition of Dhat al-Riqa‘. Some scholars claim, the expedition took place in the Najd, a large area of tableland in the Arabian Peninsula in Rabi‘ II or Jumada al-awwal, 4 AH (or the beginning of 5 AH). They substantiate their claim by saying that it was strategically necessary to carry out this campaign in order to quell the rebellious bedouins in order to meet the exigencies of the agreed upon encounter with the polytheists, i.e. minor Badr Battle in Sha‘ban, 4 A.H. Muhammed received the news that certain tribes of the Ghatafan were assembling at Dhat al-Riqa‘ with suspicious purposes.

paragraph: Muhammad proceeded towards Najd at the head of 400 or 700 men. In his absence, he mandated the affairs of Medina to Abu Dhar al-Ghifari (or according to Umayyad tradition, Uthman ibn Affan). The Muslim fighters penetrated deep into their land until they reached a spot called Nakhla, where they came across some bedouins of Ghatfan.

paragraph: However, the opinion according to Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri in his "The Sealed Nectar", is that the Dhat ar-Riqa‘ campaign took place after the fall of Khaybar and not as part of the invasion of the Najd. This is supported by the fact that Abu Hurayrah and Abu Musa al-Ash'ari witnessed the battle. Abu Hurairah embraced Islam only some days before Khaibar, and Abu Musa Al-Ash‘ari came back from Abyssinia and joined Muhammad at Khaybar. The rules relating to the prayer of fear which Muhammad observed at Dhat Ar-Riqa‘ campaign, were revealed at the Invasion of the 'Asfan and this, scholars say, took place after the Battle of the Trench.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Following the death of Muhammad, Abu Hurayrah spent the rest of his life teaching hadith in Medina, except for a short period as governor of Eastern Arabia (then called "Bahrayn") during the reign of Umar, and when he was the governor of Medina during the early Umayyad Caliphate. Abu Hurayrah died in 681CE (59AH) at the age of 78 and was buried at al-Baqi'.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.:Other views.

paragraph: According to the Richard Gottheil and Hartwig Hirschfeld, Abu Hurairah was one of the close disciples of Ka'ab al-Ahbar.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of battles of Muhammad

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Abū Hurayrah
Abu Hurairah
Father of the Kitten
‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr

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wikipedia_title: Abu Hurairah


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paragraph: William E. Jones

paragraph: William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones (May 9, 1824 – June 5, 1864) was a Confederate cavalry general with a reputation for being a martinet to his troopers and fractious toward superiors, but acknowledged to be a good commander. After disagreements of a personal nature with J.E.B. Stuart, Jones's brigade was set to guarding supply lines and unavailable during a crucial juncture of the Gettysburg Campaign when Lee suffered from a lack of capable reconnaissance cavalry. As the personality clash between Jones and Stuart escalated, Jones faced charges for impertinence, and was transferred to separate him from Stuart. Jones was killed leading a counter-attack in the 1864 Battle of Piedmont

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Jones was born in Washington County, Virginia. After graduating from Emory and Henry College in Virginia in 1844, he graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1848, ranking twelfth out of 48 cadets, and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the U.S. Mounted Rifles. He served with the cavalry fighting Indians in the west and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1854. His nickname, "Grumble", reflects his irritable disposition. His wife was washed from his arms and drowned in a shipwreck shortly after their marriage in 1852 while en route to Texas. He resigned his commission in 1857, and became a farmer near Glade Spring, Virginia.

paragraph: Section::::Civil War.

paragraph: At the start of the Civil War, Jones joined the 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment as a captain, commanding a company he had raised. On May 9 he was promoted to major in Virginia's Provisional Army, and later that month both Jones and the regiment were transferred into the Confederate Army. Jones served under Col. J.E.B. Stuart in the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. The following month he was promoted to the rank of colonel and was given command of the 1st Virginia Cavalry. Regular officer Jones put his new volunteers through meticulous training and personally upbraided anyone who was slow to learn how to perform standard drills to their commander's exacting standards.

paragraph: In the fall of 1861 the Confederate forces underwent a massive reorganization, during which the enlisted men could elect their officers. As a result, Jones was not re-elected to his post as commander of the 1st Virginia Cavalry. That September he was appointed to command the 7th Virginia Cavalry. He led the regiment into Western Virginia, along the Potomac River. In March 1862 Jones was given command of all cavalry in the Valley District.

paragraph: Returning to eastern Virginia, Jones's cavalry was distinguished in the Second Bull Run Campaign; he was wounded in a skirmish at Orange Court House on August 2. He was part of Stuart's ostentatious raid around Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's army preceding the Seven Days battles. Jones had established himself a reputation as a "superb outpost officer" but had already alienated Stuart who tried to send Robertson off to North Carolina only for him to return, Stuart expressed the opinion that Jones was the most difficult man in the army.. Despite Stuart's protest, Lee promoted Jones to brigadier general, and assigned to him to command the 4th Brigade of Stuart's Cavalry Division in the Army of Northern Virginia. This brigade was known as Robertson's, or the "Laurel brigade," and consisted entirely of Virginians, it had performed well while commanded by Turner Ashby though sometime without tight discipline. Now leading an elite veteran unit, Jones was requested by Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson for the Valley District, and he took up the post on December 29, 1862.

paragraph: In the spring of 1863, Jones and Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden raided the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad west of Cumberland, Maryland, destroying much of the railroad and public property in the area, including the Burning Springs Complex on May 9, 1863. Rejoining Stuart, he fought in the largest cavalry engagement of the war, the Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863, at the start of the Gettysburg Campaign. He was surprised, as was all of Stuart's command, to be hit out of blue by Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. Jones's brigade was outnumbered by the division of his West Point classmate, Brig. Gen. John Buford, but it held its own and ended the fight with more horses and more and better small-arms than at the beginning, capturing two regimental colors, an artillery battery, and about 250 prisoners.

paragraph: Section::::Clashes with Jeb Stuart and Gettysburg.

paragraph: In one of the huge cavalry parades ordered by Stuart that had attracted the attention of Union forces and led to the Battle of Brandy Station, Jones put an affront on Stuart by disrupting a passing review ceremony for guest of honour Robert E. Lee. Accustomed to good press, Stuart found himself criticised for ordering outrageous pageantry and then failing to maintain Confederate cavalry supremacy in a real battle. To make it worse Stuart's "bête noire" Jones had been in the thick of the fighting and performed impressively at Brandy Station. By the beginning of the Gettysburg campaign, the function of cavalry was increasingly to be the eyes and ears of an army. John S. Mosby once a protege of Jones, but now leading his own partisan ranger detachment, had given Stuart optimistic intelligence, which he seized on to propose a showy raid around the Union army. Lee had twice found similar cavalry probes by Stuart lasting a few days useful, and gave him discretionary orders for a new operation as part of the major offensive into the North..

paragraph: Jones had so estranged Stuart that he chose to sideline the proven cavalry brigade commanded by Jones (and the similar one led by Beverly Robertson who had once been engaged to Stuart's wife) well away from the opportunity to distinguish themselves, either with Stuart or with Lee and the bulk of the army as it maneuvered in enemy territory. This left Lee with a couple of brigades of mounted partisan rangers, and he distrusted these irregulars for the vital work of probing enemy dispositions while screening their own army from the enemy. Lee chose not to use the irregular brigades, and waited for the return of Stuart, but his sweep around the Union army took far longer than anticipated. Confederate blindness to the disposition and movements of Union forces during Stuart's eight day absence was a harbinger of insouciant reconnaissance that was widely thought to have been a major factor in Lee's tactics at the Battle of Gettysburg.

paragraph: Before moving into Pennsylvania, General Robert E. Lee ordered Ewell to capture Harrisburg if practicable. On July 3, Jones's brigade fought a sharp battle with the 6th U.S. Cavalry at Fairfield, Pennsylvania, then again at Funkstown, Maryland, a few days later. The Battle of Culpeper Court House was Jones#s last action under Stuart's command.

paragraph: Stuart, who since Gettysburg had seen his reputation in the South and the Confederate army decline precipitously, court-martialed Jones for insulting him. Robert E. Lee had by this time become aware of the personality clash and intervened to have Jones exonerated and transferred to the Trans-Allegheny Department in West Virginia. He recruited a brigade of cavalry there and campaigned in eastern Tennessee with Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's forces during the winter and spring of 1864.

paragraph: Section::::Final campaign, death.

paragraph: In May, Jones assumed command of the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley who were defending against the halting advance of Maj. Gen. David Hunter towards Lynchburg, Virginia, in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. In the Battle of Piedmont on June 5, 1864, Jones was shot in the head and killed while leading a charge against a superior attacking force.

paragraph: Grumble Jones is buried in the Old Glade Spring Presbyterian Church graveyard, Glade Spring, Virginia. His fellow cavalry general, Brig. Gen. Imboden, wrote that Jones

paragraph: Section::::In popular culture.

paragraph: The bluegrass band The Dixie Bee-Liners have a biographical ballad about Jones on their 2008 album "Ripe" (Pinecastle Records) entitled "Grumble Jones". The song was co-written by band members Buddy Woodward, Brandi Hart, and Blue Highway guitarist Tim Stafford.

paragraph: A street in Centreville, Virginia is named Grumble Jones Court.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of American Civil War Generals (Confederate)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, "Civil War High Commands." Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lambert, Dobbie Edward. "Grumble: The W. E. Jones Brigade of 1863–64". Wahiawa, HI: Lambert Enterprises, 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- McClure, Alexander K., ed. "The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South." Philadelphia, PA: Times Publishing Company, 1879. . .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sifakis, Stewart. "Who Was Who in the Civil War." New York: Facts On File, 1988. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tagg, Larry. "The Generals of Gettysburg". Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing, 1998. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Warner, Ezra J. "Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders." Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Dixie Bee-Liners"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'maps.google.com Grumble Jones Ct. Centreville, VA 20121' Retrieved February 2, 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patchan, Scott C. "The Battle of Piedmont and Hunter's Campaign for Staunton: The 1864 Shenandoah Campaign". Charleston: The History Press, 2011. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wert, Jeffry D. "Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart". New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Online biography

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paragraph: Fred Smoot

paragraph: Fredrick Smoot (born April 17, 1979) is a former American professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for Mississippi State University, and was recognized as an All-American. The Washington Redskins chose him in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and he also played professionally for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Smoot was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Provine High School in Jackson, and played for the Provine rams high school football team. He was selected to play in the Mississippi-Alabama high school all-star game as a senior.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Smoot attended Mississippi State University, where he played for the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team from 1997 to 2000. He started his junior and senior years, and was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection both years, and a consensus first-team All-American as a senior. He was also a finalist for the Conerly Trophy in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:First stint with Redskins.

paragraph: Smoot was drafted by the Washington Redskins as the 14th pick in the second round (45th pick overall) of the 2001 NFL Draft out of Mississippi State. Many believed he was a first-round caliber player but because of questionable off-the-field problems many teams shied away from him. Afterwards, he proclaimed himself to be the steal of the draft. In Smoot's four years with the Redskins, he collected 16 interceptions, and formed an impressive duo with Champ Bailey.

paragraph: Following a strong season as part of the impressive Redskins defense in 2004, Smoot left the club as a free agent to sign with the Minnesota Vikings. However, he was not able to duplicate his success in Minnesota.

paragraph: Smoot reportedly bulked up in the 2006 offseason. His playing weight was listed at 178 lb for the 2005 season and in May 2006 the press reported he weighed about 200 lb. He faced very stiff competition for the starting spot since the Vikings drafted cornerback Cedric Griffin in the second round and cornerback Ronyell Whitaker was named All NFL Europa. In the third game of the season against Chicago, Smoot sat out the opening drive reportedly for discipline reasons. Coach Brad Childress said that was between him and Smoot. In the 11th game of the season, Smoot was benched in favor of starting Griffin instead. Childress said the switch was merited in performance and Griffin had been doing an excellent job.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Vikings.:Love Boat scandal.

paragraph: Smoot was at the center of the 2005 Minnesota Vikings boat cruise scandal involving several of his Minnesota Vikings' teammates. Some Vikings players had rented a boat on Lake Minnetonka and reportedly hired prostitutes to have a "sex party" on the boat. Smoot allegedly held a purple double-headed dildo and inserted it into the vaginas of two women who were lying on the floor in the lounge area. After one woman left, he continued to "manipulate the dildo" inside the other woman in front of the young crew. Formal charges for the Boat Scandal were filed on December 15. Smoot was also alleged to have organized the whole party, an accusation he denied.

paragraph: On May 2, 2006, Smoot pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and being a public nuisance on a watercraft in connection with the Love Boat scandal. He agreed to pay a $1,007 fine and perform 48 hours of community service. Vikings owner Zygi Wilf said, in addition to community service, he would participate in numerous service events this season. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said fines were likely, but Smoot would not be suspended.

paragraph: On September 9, 2006, the NFL imposed a fine equivalent to one game's salary against Smoot and former Vikings teammate Bryant McKinnie for their role in the Love Boat scandal, Smoot's fine was $82,352.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Vikings.:Car crash.

paragraph: Smoot broke his jaw in a single-vehicle crash in Mississippi on December 22, 2006, where he was spending the week. His jaw was broken in five different spots. As a result, he was out for the rest of the season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Second stint with the Redskins.

paragraph: He was released on March 1, 2007 from the Vikings. On March 3, 2007, the Redskins signed Smoot to a five-year deal worth $25 million. He was released on March 4, 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Business ventures.

paragraph: Section::::Business ventures.:SMACK Energy Bar.

paragraph: In November 2007, Smoot launched his own energy bar known as SMACK Energy chocolate bar. The website for this endeavor appears to have been abandoned in 2008. No orders are being taken at this time.

paragraph: Section::::Business ventures.:Waffle House.

paragraph: In April 2010, Smoot announced that he planned to open up a Waffle House in Washington, D.C.. He planned to open the first restaurant in the area of 14th and U streets NW. However, due to D.C. zoning laws, he admitted in 2015 that he was looking at other venues, potentially in Northern Virginia.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Smoot has advocated for the passage of the FIT Kids Act, federal legislation that would require school districts to report on students' physical activity while also distributing health and nutritional information.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.:Domestic violence accusation.

paragraph: On November 25, 2014, Smoot was arrested by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office on a domestic abuse charge against his former girlfriend, Valerie Jackson. Smoot was officially cleared of all charges on January 6, 2015.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "One on one with Fred Smoot", HoboTrashcan.com.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fred Smoot profile at SportsIllustrated.com.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Heavier, humbled Smoot still loud, still proud", NFL.com.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fred Smoot's Smack Energy Bar – Official Website, SmackEnergyBar.com.

description: All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive back, cornerback

wikidata_label: Fred Smoot

wikipedia_title: Fred Smoot


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categories: Twin people from Germany,Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2005,German Eurovision Song Contest entrants,Sony BMG artists,Deutschland sucht den Superstar participants,German pop singers,Women television personalities,Living people,People from Munich,1982 births

paragraph: Gracia Baur

paragraph: Gracia Arabella Baur (born November 18, 1982) is a German singer and songwriter. She rose to fame as a finalist on the debut season of the television series "Deutschland sucht den Superstar", the German "Idol" series adaptation, placing fifth.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Gracia was born in Munich on November 18, 1982 to Roman and Rosemary Baur and was named after Princess Grace (Gracia Patricia) of Monaco, who had died a few weeks earlier. Gracia's identical twin sister was called Patricia after the princess.

paragraph: During her teenage years she took vocal lessons to strengthen her voice. To fulfill her dreams of a career as a professional singer, she started recording demos and passed several auditions. In 2000, she even made it through the first round of "Popstars", but was forced out when she forgot the words of her song.

paragraph: In 2002/2003, she took part in "Deutschland sucht den Superstar", the German version of "Pop Idol", and eventually reached #5. Pushed by the publicity she released her first album "Intoxicated", which peaked at #10 on the German album charts and spawned the hit singles "I Don't Think So" and "I Believe In Miracles". Afterwards, she teamed up with fellow "DSDS" runners-up Daniel Küblböck, Nektarios Bamiatzis, and Stephanie Brauckmeyer, releasing the charity single "Don't Close Your Eyes" under the name "4 United".

paragraph: Gracia was selected to represent Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Run & Hide", produced and composed by David Brandes. After the German national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest it was revealed that Brandes had bought thousands of his own CDs to ensure chart placement, a requirement of the ESC (the single had actually hit the top 30 on the German charts). In contrast to the Swiss entry Vanilla Ninja, who had also had their entry produced by Brandes, Gracia opted to continue her association with the newly controversial figure.

paragraph: However, "Run & Hide", a modern pop-rock song with heavy use of synthesizers, failed to catch the audience's imagination in the Eurovision Song Contest and ignominiously placed last (24th), with just four points awarded from Moldova and Monaco. Gracia, however, was not deterred ("Well, somebody has to finish last" was her laconic comment after the show), and went on with her second solo album "Passion", released in November 2005.

paragraph: 2004 she recorded Götter der Ewigkeit, part of the German soundtrack of the Walt Disney Feature Animation "Brother Bear".

paragraph: In December 2006, Gracia released the Song "Cos I believe" together with Marvin Broadie under the name "Xantoo". It charted at #39.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eurovision Song Contest 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official site

description: German recording artist; singer

wikidata_label: Gracia Baur

wikipedia_title: Gracia Baur