text:
Giovanna Sestini
Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Dwarkanath Tagore
Chowringhee
First Anglo-Afghan War
"Hindostan"
Astley's Amphitheatre
Gallery of Illustration
Duke of Wellington
Columbia College
Sarah Siddons
Mary Frances Scott-Siddons
Edwin Roper Loftus Stocqueler
Edwin John James
Arthur Charles Margetson
Frederick Lincoln Siddons
Teapot Dome scandal
Anne Rivers Siddons
Duke of Wellington
William Nott
British India
The Horse-Guards

paragraph: Joachim Hayward Stocqueler

paragraph: J. H. Stocqueler (21 July 1801 - 14 March 1886) was a journalist, author and lecturer with interests in the theatre and in Indian and military affairs; he lived in England, India, and the United States of America.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Joachim Hayward Stocqueler was born 21 July 1801 in Abchurch Lane, City of London and baptized 25 August 1801 at the Portuguese Embassy Chapel in London. His father was Joachim Christian Stocqueler, son of the Italian opera singer Giovanna Sestini and her Portuguese husband José Christiano Stocqueler. His mother was Elizabeth Hayward, a daughter of Francis Hayward, physician of Hackney.

paragraph: He was educated at Brochard's academy in Camden. After occasional jobs in a bank and with a traveling theatre company, he trained at Chatham as a non-commissioned officer in the East India Company Army, and then sailed for Bombay in 1819 on the East Indiaman "Hythe", in charge of 100 men.

paragraph: Stocqueler purchased his discharge from the army in 1824; he had obtained a clerical job with the Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government but his increasingly radical views and interest in the press made him unpopular. He made a visit to England returning to Bombay in 1827 with printing materials. He edited the "Bombay Courier", started the "Bombay Sporting Magazine" and "Racing Calendar", helped with the foundation of the Bombay Public Library, but found himself seriously in debt.

paragraph: Leaving Bombay hurriedly in a small Arab boat bound for the Persian Gulf, Stocqueler embarked on a perilous journey during 1831 and 1832. Plans to investigate an overland route from the river Euphrates to Europe via Baghdad were foiled by war and plague and he was obliged to travel via the hazardous Buctarian mountains in Persia, apparently never before crossed by a white man. He survived sickness and attack and eventually reached the Black Sea and a ship to Odessa, where he was quarantined. He then journeyed across Europe encountering the exiled Polish general Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki in Linz and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Viceroy in Hanover. He gave thanks for his survival when he reached London in May 1832 and published the account of his journeys in two volumes entitled "Fifteen Months Pilgrimage through Untrodden Tracts in Khuzistan and Persia" .

paragraph: Early in 1833 Stocqueler was back in India, but now in Calcutta where, with the help of the Bengali entrepreneur Dwarkanath Tagore, he purchased the newspaper "John Bull". He changed its name to "The Englishman" and, as its editor, gave it a liberal focus but at times annoyed local residents. Stocqueler also published the "Bengal Sporting Magazine" and "East India United Services Journal". In 1836, the Calcutta Public Library was established at his suggestion. He was involved with theatrical performances in fashionable Chowringhee and with the new "Sans Souci" theatre there.

paragraph: As a journalist Stocqueler observed the First Anglo-Afghan War, but on his return to Calcutta financial problems landed him in the Debtors’ Prison there from October 1840 until February 1841. He sold "The Englishman" (which continued successfully) and left India on the new P&O paddle steamer "Hindostan" in 1843, bound for Suez. He travelled via Egypt and Italy to London, which he made his home for the next 16 years.

paragraph: Stocqueler was a prolific writer, making use of his experiences of India, the military and his travels. He wrote for the theatre, including the text for successful spectacles such as "The Battle of The Alma" and "The Fall of Sebastopol", both elaborately staged at Astley's Amphitheatre in south London. He was a charismatic lecturer and provided the commentary for dioramas at the Gallery of Illustration in Regent Street: subjects included the Overland Route to Australia, the ongoing story of the Crimean War, and the exploits of the Duke of Wellington, whose biography Stocqueler also wrote. He was less successful as a newspaperman in London, but was army editor of the "United Service Gazette" for several years. He tutored candidates for military colleges and was involved with the short-lived Cavalry College in Richmond. His reputation was not helped by suggestions of involvement in the illegal sale of army commissions.

paragraph: Despite his varied occupations, during his years in London Stocqueler was frequently in financial difficulties. He used family money (including all the assets of a wealthy maiden aunt) and faced bankruptcy on several occasions, even once using sequestration under Scottish law to evade further imprisonment in London. Then sensationally, in 1859 he ran away during a court hearing in Maidstone, Kent and escaped, under the pseudonym of Siddons, to New York.

paragraph: In North America he continued to write and lecture; a post at Columbia College in New York was interrupted by the onset of the Civil War but Siddons (as he was now known) offered some military instruction to Unionist recruits. He then lectured in Canada and New England, before going back to England to recruit artisans who would emigrate and take up manufacturing work in the States.

paragraph: Life was not easy in London, or briefly in Ireland, and in 1875 Stocqueler returned again to the United States, settling in Washington DC where found clerical work as a civil servant and gained some reputation as a Shakespearean scholar. He died on 14 March 1886, not 1885 in Bath, England, as is sometimes stated.

paragraph: At intervals from 1860 to his death, Stocqueler used the surname Siddons, mainly in the United States of America and, at times in Britain, claiming that he was the illegitimate son of George Siddons, son of Sarah Siddons the actress. Although apparently believed by some of his family, this claim was vehemently disputed by Sarah Siddons’s true great-grand-daughter, the actress Mary Frances Scott-Siddons.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Family Life.

paragraph: Stocqueler married Jane Spencer in Bombay in 1828; their son Edwin Roper Loftus Stocqueler was born in the following year. A second son born in Calcutta died in infancy. Following a long separation from her husband, and time in England, Jane Stocqueler and Edwin departed for the Victorian gold fields in Australia. Edwin, an artist, was present on the Bendigo gold fields during the mid-1850s, where he painted several scenes of the diggings. Jane Stocqueler died in Bombay in 1870, and Edwin in London in 1895.

paragraph: In 1844 Joachim Hayward Stocqueler was married. by the Rev. Charles Wesley at St Paul’s Church Covent Garden, to Eliza Wilson Pepper of Deal, Kent. This was a bigamous marriage as he was already married to Jane. Eliza bore him four children, two of whom (Fanny and Edgar) survived. The family joined Stocqueler in New York in 1860. Fanny Stocqueler became a musical theatre artiste in America. Edgar Stocqueler became a master mariner who married in England and whose large family all emigrated to New South Wales. Eliza Stocqueler was married secondly, in New Jersey in 1868, to the disgraced British lawyer Edwin John James, and then returned to England.

paragraph: Stocqueler also fathered three children, between 1852 and 1857, in an adulterous affair with Mrs Louise Wardroper. Two children, Arthur and Marion Stocqueler Wardroper, survived. Arthur became a clergyman and Marion was the mother of the songwriter and film actor Arthur Charles Margetson.

paragraph: When in the United States Stocqueler met aspiring actress Mary Agnes Cameron, nearly forty years his junior. They performed together, giving readings in Canada and New England, where he pretended she was his niece. They sailed together to England in 1864 and their son was born later that year. Two daughters followed and then in London in 1870, when he was almost 69 and Jane Stocqueler had died in Bombay, Stocqueler married Mary Cameron. In 1875, the family settled in the United States. The most famous of the three children was Frederick Lincoln Siddons, who later became a United States federal judge, and is remembered "inter alia" for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal and as the father-in-law of the writer Anne Rivers Siddons.

paragraph: Section::::Writings.

paragraph: Section::::Writings.:Authored.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fifteen Months Pilgrimage through Untrodden Tracts in Khuzistan and Persia... in the Years 1831 and 1832". 2 vols London: Saunders & Otley, 1832.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wellington Manual, being a compilation from the dispatches of ... the Duke of Wellington, embracing his sentiments on various points relating to military discipline and administration, &c". Calcutta: W. Rushton & Co., 1840.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Memorials of Affghanistan... between the Years 1838 and 1842". Calcutta: 1843.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lucretia Borgia, a romance of history". London: William Barth, 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Handbook of India, A guide to the Stranger and the Traveller, and a Companion to the Resident". London: W.H. Allen, 1844.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge : companion to The Handbook of British India". London: C. Cox, 1848.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Maid Marian: the Forest Queen". London: George Peirce, 1849. Originally serialized in 31 parts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Catechism of Field Fortifications". London: United Service Gazette Press, 1850

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Overland Companion: being a guide for the traveller to India via Egypt". London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1850.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The British Officer, His Position, Duties and Emoluments and Privileges". London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1851.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Victory must be won". Song: Words by J H Stocqueler. Music composed by Miss Harriet Georgina Willoughby. London: T. E. Purday, 1852

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Old Field Officer; or, the military and sporting adventures of Major Worthington". Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1853

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Military Encyclopædia; A Technical, Biographical, and Historical Dictionary, referring exclusively to the Military Sciences, the Memoirs of Distinguished Soldiers, and the Narratives of Remarkable Battles". London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1853.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "India: its history, climate, productions, and field sports; with notices of European life and manners, and of the various travelling routes". London: G. Routledge and Co., 1853.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington". Two volumes. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Company, 1853; Philadelphia: 1855.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Memoirs and Correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott". 2 vols. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1854.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Military Catechism and Handbook of Regimental Standing Orders" by Anthony Walshe, revised and enlarged by J H Stocqueler. London: W. Thacker & Co., 1855.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The British Soldier: an anecdotal history of the British Army from its earliest formation to the present time". London: Orr & Co., 1857.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The True Causes of the Revolt of the Bengal army". London: Charles Evans, 1858.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Familiar History of British India, from the earliest period to the transfer of the government of India to the British crown in 1858". London: Darton, 1859.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The War in Italy, and all about it". London: Henry Lea, 1859.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Norton’s Hand-book to Europe: or, How to Travel in the Old World". By J H Siddons (J H Stocqueler). New York: Charles B Norton, 1860

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Canadian Volunteers' hand-book : a compendium of military facts and suggestions adapted to field service". By J H Siddons (J H Stocqueler). Toronto: Rollo & Adam, 1863.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Emigrant's Friend; a true guide to the emigrant proceeding to New York, Boston, Philadelphia or the Canadas". Liverpool: W. Gilling, 1864.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yankeeland in her Trouble: An Englishman's Correspondence during the War". By J H Siddons (J H Stocqueler). Pamphlet (no publisher), 1864.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Familiar History of the United States of America from the date of the earliest settlements down to the present time". London: Darton & Hodge, 1865.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Familiar History of the British army, from the Restoration in 1660 to the Present Time". London: Stanford, 1871.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Personal History of The Horse-Guards from 1750 to 1872". London: Hurst & Blackett, 1873.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Memoirs of a Journalist". London: Hurst and Blackett, 1873.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Review of the Life and Labours of Dr. G.W. Leitner", (reprinted from "The Oriental"). Brighton: Tower Press, 1875

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rajahate of Saràwak", (reprinted from "The Oriental"). Brighton: Tower Press, 1875

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Utterance and Expression: a few words on the importance of high art reading and effective speaking". By J H Siddons (J H Stocqueler). New York: Sheldon & Co., 1876.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Language and Literature of Shakespeare". By J H Siddons (J H Stocqueler). Washington: Gibson brothers, printers, 1884.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shakespearian Referee". By J H Siddons (J H Stocqueler). Washington: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1886

paragraph: Section::::Writings.:Authored.:Minor Plays.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Polkamania: an apropos bagatelle in one act". 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Three Fra Diavolos". 1844

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Good Name". 1845

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Object of Interest". 1845

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Seven Champions of Christendom". 1845

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Robin Hood and Richard Coeur de Lion". 1846

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Marble Maiden". 1846

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Crusoe the Second". 1847

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Emigration, the Remedy". 1848

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fortress". 1848

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Provisional Government". 1848

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Any Port in a Storm". 1853

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Butterfly’s Ball". 1855

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dead Heart". (as J.H. Siddons). 1860

paragraph: Section::::Writings.:Authored.:Productions at Astley’s Amphitheatre and Elsewhere.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Sikh Invasion. 1846

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Camp of Silesia; or the Gypsy Queen. 1847

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Revolt of the Harem. 1848

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Battle of the Alma. 1854

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Fall of Sebastopol. 1855

paragraph: BULLET::::- England and France in the Days of Chivalry. 1855

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Bombardment and Capture of Canton. 1858

paragraph: BULLET::::- La Belle France and the Maid of Orleans. 1868

paragraph: Section::::Writings.:Authored.:Newspapers edited.

paragraph: Bombay (1822–1830)* "Iris"* "Bombay Chronicle" (formerly "The Argus")* "Bombay Sporting Magazine"* "Bombay Racing Calendar"

paragraph: Calcutta (1833–1842)* "The Englishman"* "The Oriental Observer"* "The Bengal Sporting Magazine"* "The Indian Racing Calendar for 1836-37"*"The East Indian United Service Journal and Military Magazine"London (1843–1859; 1865–1875)* "The English Gentleman"* "Pictorial Times"* "The Court Journal"* "United Service Gazette" (military section)* "The Oriental"

description: British writer

wikidata_label: Jocquim Hayward Stocqueler

wikipedia_title: Joachim Hayward Stocqueler


text:
Hammonasset School
Bard College
Depeche Mode
Lori Carson
The Golden Palominos
the Psychedelic Furs
Ultra Vivid Scene
Maggie Estep
the Creatures
R.E.M.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Seven Year Itch
Cyndi Lauper
Lou Reed
Dave Gahan
Paper Monsters
Berlin

categories: The Golden Palominos members,American rock guitarists,American male guitarists,American session musicians,Siouxsie and the Banshees members,American cellists,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Knox Chandler

paragraph: Knox Chandler is a session guitarist and cellist. In the early to mid-1970s, Chandler attended the Hammonasset School and Bard College in the late 1970s.

paragraph: Chandler worked with Depeche Mode, Lori Carson, The Golden Palominos, the Psychedelic Furs, Ultra Vivid Scene, Maggie Estep, the Creatures and R.E.M.. He was also the touring guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1995 and in 2002 for the "Seven Year Itch" tour. He also toured with Cyndi Lauper and Lou Reed.

paragraph: Chandler collaborated with Dave Gahan on his solo album "Paper Monsters", and played guitar during Gahan's 2003 Paper Monsters Tour in support of the album.

paragraph: He now lives in Berlin and is a teacher.

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Knox Chandler

wikipedia_title: Knox Chandler


text:
House of Nassau
Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Weilburg
Kassel
Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse
Louis I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
Dutch Wikipedia

paragraph: John III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

paragraph: John III of Nassau-Weilburg (27 June 1441 – 15 July 1480) was count of Nassau-Weilburg as co-regent with his father. He came from the Walramian branch of the House of Nassau.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: John was a son of Philip II, Count of Nassau-Weilburg and his wife Margaret of Loon-Heinsberg, daughter of John III of Loon-Heinsberg, Lord of Heinsberg, and Walburga of Moers.

paragraph: In 1472 his father appointed John as co-regent of the County of Nassau-Weilburg. Father and son shared the revenues of the county. John died in 1480, which forced his father to become the sole ruler of the county again. John was buried at Weilburg. His father became the guardian of the children.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and children.

paragraph: John married in 1464 with Elisabeth "the Handsome" of Hesse (Kassel, 14 December 1453 - 22 April 1489), daughter of Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse and Anne of Saxony. Elisabeth was buried at Weilburg.br

paragraph: Children from this marriage:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Louis I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1473 (?) - 28 May 1523), succeeded his grandfather in 1490.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Elisabeth, died at a young age.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article or an earlier version has been (partially) translated from the Dutch Wikipedia on 8 September 2018".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michel Huberty, Alain Giraud, F. & B. Magdelaine, "l’Allemagne Dynastique. Tome III Brunswick-Nassau-Schwarzbourg", Alain Giraud, Le Perreux, 1981.

description: Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1472-1480)

wikidata_label: John III of Nassau-Weilburg

wikipedia_title: John III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg


text:
Chicago
Illinois
Seattle
Hovercraft
Chicago
Articles of Faith
Dead Kennedys
San Diego
California
San Diego State University
New York City
Magnog
grunge
Hype!
Eddie Vedder
Foo Fighters
Mike Watt
Pearl Jam
Mute Records
Unwound
Stereolab
Mary Hansen
Eddie Vedder

categories: Guitarists from Chicago,1967 births,American female drummers,20th-century American drummers,Female bass guitarists,20th-century American bass guitarists,American bass guitarists,Living people

paragraph: Beth Liebling

paragraph: Beth Liebling (born March 12, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American musician known for being the co-founder of Seattle-based experimental instrumental group Hovercraft with guitarist/keyboardist/samplist Ryan Campbell ("Campbell 2000"). She played bass for the band under the stage name Sadie 7.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Liebling first became interested in playing while, as a teenager, attending all ages hardcore punk shows in Chicago such as Articles of Faith and the Dead Kennedys. After high school Liebling moved to San Diego, California and attended San Diego State University. She graduated with a degree in journalism in 1990.

paragraph: Prior to forming the trio Hovercraft, Liebling and Campbell had played together in Space Helmet, which formed when Liebling moved to Seattle. Space Helmet broke up when Campbell moved to New York City and the other members of Space Helmet, including Campbell's brother, formed the band Magnog. Ryan Campbell's departure for New York was short and upon his return, Hovercraft was formed and continued to record until 1999.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Hovercraft and other projects.

paragraph: Hovercraft, who had been included in the grunge music documentary "Hype!" (1996), had existed for four years before they released their first and only 7" single, "0,0,0,1," (1995). Drums on early recordings were provided by Eddie Vedder, under the name "Jerome230", and Xu Xu Fang's Bobby Tamkin, using the name "Paul 4". Hovercraft's first tour of the United States was as the opening act for the Foo Fighters and Mike Watt. When Vedder left, the band reunited with Bobby Tamkin, and later found a new drummer, Dave Krusen, a.k.a. Karl 3-30, who had been the drummer on Pearl Jam's record "Ten". With Krusen they recorded "Stereo Specific Polymerization" on their own label, Repellent Records. In 1997 they were signed by Daniel and Paul Smith to London-based Mute Records. In America, they were represented by "Mute Records America". They released "Akathisia" in 1997 and "Experiment Below" in 1998. Hovercraft toured the United States a few times on their own, and in Europe with Unwound. Hovercraft also collaborated on the project Schema with Stereolab's Mary Hansen, releasing an album in 2000.

paragraph: After Hovercraft ended around 2000, Liebling took a brief hiatus from music. She later sat in on sessions with various groups in Los Angeles, including playing drums in the Los Angeles-based group Lola.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Liebling married longtime boyfriend Eddie Vedder in Rome, Italy, in 1994, after having been together since 1983. They divorced in September 2000.

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Beth Liebling

wikipedia_title: Beth Liebling


text: Norwegian

text: professor

text: Bærum

text: dr.juris

text: Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

text: administrative law

text: Torstein Eckhoff

text: constitutional democracy

text: constitutional law

text: chair

text: Norwegian Institute for Social Research

text: honorary doctorate

text: Uppsala University

text: Sweden

text: University of Copenhagen

text: University of Uppsala

text: Aix-Marseille Université

text: Ordre des Palmes Académiques

text: Legion of Honour

categories: Academics of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo,1949 births,People from Bærum,Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,Norwegian legal scholars,Living people

paragraph: Eivind Smith

paragraph: Eivind Smith (born 4 December 1949) is a Norwegian jurist and professor of law.

paragraph: He was born in Bærum, and took the dr.juris degree in 1979. Since 1986, he has been Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

paragraph: He has published a large number of juridical books and articles. He continues to update and edit the book "Forvaltningsrett" (administrative law) after the original author Torstein Eckhoff died. Smith has also written the book "Konstitusjonelt demokrati" (constitutional democracy), which forms the bulk of the curriculum in constitutional law at the university.

paragraph: Smith has been the chair of the Norwegian Institute for Social Research from 2007 to 2010.

paragraph: On May 29, 1998 Smith received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University, Sweden In 2014, Smith was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Copenhagen. This is his third degree "honoris causa", holding the former two at the University of Uppsala and at Aix-Marseille Université. Furthermore, Smith is Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. In 2012 he was anointed Knight of the Legion of Honour.

description: Norwegian legal scholar

wikidata_label: Eivind Smith

wikipedia_title: Eivind Smith


text:
Greek
Indo-Greek
Punjab
Menander I
Athena
Eucratides the Great
Bopearachchi
grandiloquent

paragraph: Thraso

paragraph: Thraso (Greek: ), latinized as Thrason, was an Indo-Greek king in Central and Western Punjab, unknown until the 1982 discovery of one of his coins by R. C. Senior in the Surana hoard. The coin is in a style similar to those of Menander I, has the same type of Athena, and shares one of Menander's mint marks. On the coin, the title of Thraso is "Basileus Megas" ("Great King"), a title which only Eucratides the Great had dared take before him and which is seemingly misplaced on the young boy Thraso, whose single preserved coin indicates a small and insignificant reign.

paragraph: Osmund Bopearachchi suggests a preliminary dating of 95–80 BC, but Senior himself concludes that Thraso was the son and heir of Menander (c. 155–130 BC), since his coin was not worn and was found in a hoard with only earlier coins.

paragraph: It seems as though the child was briefly raised to the throne in the turmoil following the death of Menander, by a general who thought the grandiloquent title might strengthen his case.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- R. C. Senior, "The Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian King Sequences in the Second and First Centuries BC", ONS 179 Supplement.

description: thraso

wikidata_label: Thraso

wikipedia_title: Thraso


text:
Greek
epithet
Indo-Greek
Punjab
Gandhara
Strato I
Soter
Epiphanes
Pallas Athene
Menander I
aegis
aegis
Heliokles II
Archebios
Bopearachchi

categories: Indo-Greek kings,1st-century BC rulers in Asia

paragraph: Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter

paragraph: Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter (Greek: ; epithets mean respectively, "the Illustrious", "the Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled briefly in western Punjab or Gandhara.

paragraph: Section::::Time of reign.

paragraph: Bopearachchi places Polyxenos c. 100 BCE and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE.

paragraph: Section::::Coins of Polyxenos.

paragraph: Polyxenos, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those of Strato I. Both kings used the epithets Soter Epiphanes and the reverse of Athena Alkidemos (fighting Pallas Athene), the emblem of the dynasty of Menander I. Polyxenos also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and her aegis on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver.

paragraph: His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of her aegis.

paragraph: Polyxenos' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Straton I as well as the kings Heliokles II and Archebios, according to Bopearachchi and RC Senior.

paragraph: He was therefore likely to have been a brief contestant for power in the central Indo-Greek kingdom after the presumably violent death of Straton I, who was possibly his father.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Osmund Bopearachchi, "Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: American Numismatic Society, part 9, Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Coins", 1998, American Numismatic Society, .

description: Indo-greek King

wikidata_label: Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter

wikipedia_title: Polyxenos Epiphanes Soter


text:
soprano
Rovigo
Veneto
Benedetto Marcello Conservatory
Venice
La bohème
Mantua
Il trovatore
Parma
RAI
opera houses
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Teatro alla Scala
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Metropolitan Opera
Rossini Opera Festival
Pesaro
Rossini
Desdemona
Franco Zeffirelli
Verdi
Otello
Plácido Domingo
Nastro d'Argento
Pupi Avati
La seconda notte di nozze
Macerata Opera
reality show
The Farm
Canale 5
Pippo Baudo
Simon Boccanegra
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Un ballo in maschera
I due Foscari
Lamberto Gardelli
La battaglia di Legnano
La bohème
Sir Colin Davis
Tosca
Luisa Miller
Un ballo in maschera
Claudio Abbado
Il trovatore
Aida
Turandot
Herbert von Karajan
Lorin Maazel
Carmen
Falstaff
Carlo Maria Giulini
La donna del lago
Maurizio Pollini
Don Carlos
L'elisir d'amore
Claudio Scimone
Otello
La gazza ladra
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Bellini
Douglas Bostock
Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Patanè
Elijah Moshinsky

categories: 20th-century opera singers,20th-century women singers,20th-century Italian singers,Italian operatic sopranos,Österreichischer Kammersänger,Italian film actresses,Participants in Italian reality television series,1946 births,People from Rovigo,21st-century Italian actresses,Nastro d'Argento winners,Living people

paragraph: Katia Ricciarelli

paragraph: Katia Ricciarelli (; born 16 January, 1946) is an Italian soprano.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born as Catiuscia Maria Stella Ricciarelli at Rovigo, Veneto, to a very poor family; she struggled during her younger years when she studied music.

paragraph: She studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in "La bohème" in Mantua in 1969, followed by a 1970 appearance in "Il trovatore" in Parma. In the following year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses, including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); Teatro alla Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening her repertoire of Rossini's operas.

paragraph: Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's "Otello" in 1986, alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film journalists, for her role in Pupi Avati's "La seconda notte di nozze".

paragraph: In 1991 she founded "Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli", and, since 2003, she has been Artistic Director of the annual summer Macerata Opera Festival. In 2006 she participated in the reality show "La fattoria" (Italian version of "The Farm") on Canale 5.

paragraph: In 1986 on her 40th birthday, she married Pippo Baudo, a television personality, and filed for divorce in the summer of 2004.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Simon Boccanegra" (under Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 1973) (RCA)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Un ballo in maschera" (under Claudio Abbado, 1975) (Kulture DVD)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: I due Foscari" (under Lamberto Gardelli, 1976) (Philips)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano" (under Lamberto Gardelli, 1977) (Philips)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Puccini: La bohème" (under Sir Colin Davis, 1979) (Philips/Decca)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Puccini: Tosca" (under Herbert von Karajan, 1979) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Luisa Miller" (under Lorin Maazel, 1979) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Un ballo in maschera" (under Claudio Abbado, 1980) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Il trovatore" (under Sir Colin Davis, 1980) (Philips)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Aida" (under Claudio Abbado, 1981) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Puccini: Turandot" (as Turandot, under Herbert von Karajan, 1981) (Deutsche Grammophon); then (as Liù, under Lorin Maazel, 1983) (CBS/Sony)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bizet: Carmen" (under Herbert von Karajan, 1982) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Falstaff" (under Carlo Maria Giulini, 1982) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rossini: La donna del lago" (under Maurizio Pollini, 1983) (CBS/Sony)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Don Carlos" (under Claudio Abbado, 1982) (Deutsche Grammophon)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore" (under Claudio Scimone, 1984) (Philips)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Otello" (under Lorin Maazel, 1986) (EMI)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rossini: La gazza ladra" (under Gianluigi Gelmetti, 1990) (Sony)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bellini: "Messa No. 2 in G Minor" and "Giuseppe Geremia's Missa Pro Defunctis 1809" (under Douglas Bostock, 1997) (Classico)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Verdi: Un ballo in maschera" (under Giuseppe Patanè, directed by Elijah Moshinsky, February 16, 1980, Metropolitan Opera) Paramount Home Video

description: singer

wikidata_label: Katia Ricciarelli

wikipedia_title: Katia Ricciarelli


text:
OBE
chess
grandmaster
arbiter
British chess champion
Lambeth
Polish-Jewish
The Times
Stuart Milner-Barry
FIDE
Candidates' Tournament
Yugoslavia
Mikhail Botvinnik
Tigran Petrosian
José Raúl Capablanca
Réti
British Chess Magazine
World War II
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Chess Olympiad
C. H. O'D. Alexander
Stuart Milner-Barry
Bletchley Park
codebreaking
Hut 8
Enigma
Chalfont St Giles
International Master
Interzonal
philology
King's College London
Wilson's Grammar School
Penguin First Editions

categories: 1995 deaths,British chess players,Alumni of King's College London,People educated at Wilson's School, Wallington,Chess Olympiad competitors,Jewish chess players,Chess arbiters,Chess grandmasters,British non-fiction writers,British chess writers,1911 births,Officers of the Order of the British Empire,Bletchley Park people,Sportspeople from London

paragraph: Harry Golombek

paragraph: Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995), was a British chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He was retrospectively awarded the grandmaster title in 1985.

paragraph: He was born in Lambeth to Polish-Jewish parents. He was the chess correspondent of The Times newspaper from 1945 to 1989, following Stuart Milner-Barry. He was an official of the FIDE, and served as Arbiter for several important events, including the Candidates' Tournament of 1959 in Yugoslavia, and the World Chess Championship match 1963 between Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian. He was also editor of some well-known collections of games such as José Raúl Capablanca's and Réti's, and was a well-respected author. He was editor of "British Chess Magazine" from 1938 to 1940, and its overseas editor throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Golombek also translated several chess books from Russian into English.

paragraph: On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Golombek was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, competing in the Chess Olympiad for Britain alongside C. H. O'D. Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry. They immediately returned to the UK, and were soon recruited into Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking centre. Golombek worked in Hut 8, the section responsible for solving German Naval Enigma, moving to another section in October/November 1942. After the war he lived at 35 Albion Crescent, Chalfont St Giles. He was unusual among public figures in replying with care to letters from unknown persons, such as young schoolboys, from this address.

paragraph: Golombek represented England nine times in chess Olympiads. He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and was awarded an Honorary Grandmaster title in 1985. He was the first British player to qualify for an Interzonal tournament.

paragraph: Golombek studied philology at King's College London, having been a pupil at Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell. He was appointed OBE in 1966, the first to be so honoured for services to chess.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The World Chess Championship 1948", 1948, David McKay Company

paragraph: BULLET::::- "World Chess Championship 1954", 1954, MacGibbon and Kee

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reti's Best Games of Chess", 1954 (G. Bell & Sons, Ltd), republished 1974 (Dover Publications, Inc.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Game of Chess", 1954, Penguin Books

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The World Chess Championship 1957", 1957, MacGibbon and Kee

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Instructions to Young Chess Players", 1958, Pitman Publishing

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Modern Opening Chess Strategy", 1959, Pitman Publishing

paragraph: BULLET::::- "4th Candidates Tournament 1959: Bled, Zagreb, Belgrade" (originally BCM Quarterly No.3), 1960, BCM

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Capablanca's 100 Best Games", 1970, G. Bell and Sons

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fischer v Spassky: The World Chess Championship 1972", 1973, Times Newspapers

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A History of Chess", 1976, Routledge & Kegan Paul,

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Improve Your Chess", 1976, Pitman Publishing

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Best Games of CHO'D Alexander" (co-authored with William Hartston), 1976, Oxford University Press

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess" (Golombek as editor-in-chief) 1977, Batsford

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.

description: British chess player

wikidata_label: Harry Golombek

wikipedia_title: Harry Golombek


text: Michigan

text: Croesus

text: Detroit

text: Napoleon

text: New Orleans

text: Joseph

text: Macomb

text: St. Clair

text: Upper Peninsula

text: Wisconsin

text: white pine

text: Jump River

text: Ezra Cornell

text: Frederick Weyerhauser

text: Henry Sage

text: Indian Reserve

text: copper

text: coal

text: Seney, Michigan

text: Newberry, Michigan

text: Palms Apartments

text: Detroit Institute of Arts

text: Croul-Palms House

text: George D. Mason

text: Mt. Elliott Cemetery

categories: Businesspeople from Michigan,Belgian emigrants to the United States,1886 deaths,1809 births

paragraph: Francis Palms

paragraph: Francis Palms (1809–1886) was the largest landholder in Michigan during the mid-1850s. He had major business interests as well and was given the nickname "Croesus" because of his wealth.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: He was born in Antwerp, Belgium December 13, 1809 and relocated to Detroit with his parents and siblings in 1833. His father Ange was a quartermaster in Napoleon's army who emigrated to the New World upon Napoleon's defeat. After moving to Detroit, Ange relocated to New Orleans with 3 sons and a daughter where he founded a manufacturing firm. Francis stayed in Detroit with his mother Jeanette and sister Mary Frances.

paragraph: In 1836, Francis Palms married his first wife Margaret Burnett, who died shortly after the birth of their son, Francis Frederick II. He married his second wife, Catherine Campau, daughter of Joseph, who was a large landowner in early Detroit. With her he had two sons and a daughter. After working for Campau, Francis worked as a clerk and then tried manufacturing linseed oil. Selling this business, he became a partner in the wholesale grocery firm of Franklin Moore & Co. Palms made considerable capital as a grocer and purchased 40,000 acres Macomb and St. Clair Counties during the panic years of 1836-1837. Palms Road in St. Clair County was named for him. He had interest in a stave mill at the end of Palms Road on Anchor Bay.

paragraph: Palms sold his land in lower Michigan in small parcels for a profit estimated to be between $300,000 and $400,000 and with the proceeds purchased pine and other forest lands in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin. He invested in the white pine areas near the Jump River in Wisconsin along with other successful businessmen including Ezra Cornell, Frederick Weyerhauser and Henry Sage, and in 1875, the men paid between $10 an acre up to $23.59. He also received land from a Pottawatomie chief, Chief Lerner, and continued to purchase more Indian Reserve lands as they became available. With these additions to his holdings, he became the largest landholder in Michigan (and possibly the U.S.) while in his late 20s.

paragraph: When he would sell land, he would keep the mineral rights. The discovery of copper and coal increased his wealth and his net worth increased by $800,000. Some of the lands were subdivided and became established towns such as Seney, Michigan and Newberry, Michigan while others did not prosper and became ghost towns. In the 1880s Palms began building business blocks in Detroit. (The Francis Palms Building which houses the Fillmore theater in Detroit is named for him.) He was the president and largest stock holder in the Peoples Savings Bank as well as the Michigan Marine and Fire Insurance Company. He was the president of the Michigan Stove Company and part owner of the Galvin Brass & Iron Co., Union Iron Co., and the Vulcan Furnace & Peninsular Land Co. He was the vice president and a director of the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railroad and he built the Palms Apartments & Palms House on E. Jefferson. He was also an early supporter of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

paragraph: Palms lived in what is now known as the Croul-Palms House at 394 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. Between 1875 and 1885, his health declined when he suffered a paralytic stroke and heart disease. At the same time, he was struggling with his businesses as timber became scarce and taxes and the immigrant population increased, so he invited his son to the business in 1880. He died November 4, 1886, and was laid to rest in the Palms Mausoleum built by George D. Mason in the Mt. Elliott Cemetery in Detroit, leaving an estate of $7 million. After his death, his will was estimated at about 10,000,000, the largest estate in Michigan at the time.

paragraph: His children Francis Frederick and Clotilde fought about the Palms estate, so that they were estranged for twenty years before coming to an agreement. Palms's legacy not only continued with his son but his grandsons, the Book Brothers and Charles L. Palms, co-founder of the Wayne Automobile Co. and part owner of the E-M-F Motor Co.

wikidata_label: Francis Palms

wikipedia_title: Francis Palms


text: Bishop of Salisbury

text: Richard I

text: John

text: Richard of Ilchester

text: Richard Toclive

text: Bishop of Winchester

text: Richard Poore

text: exchequer

text: archdeacon of Canterbury

text: Archbishop Richard

text: prebend

text: Walter de Coutances

text: bishop

text: Lincoln

text: Henry II

text: Bishop

text: Baldwin

text: Worcester

text: vacant see

text: Salisbury

text: chapter

text: Joscelin

text: the pope

text: concubine

text: Hubert Walter

text: Hugh

text: the pope

text: the king

text: pallium

text: deacon

text: orders

text: ordained

text: priest

text: consecrated

text: St Katherine's Chapel

text: Westminster

text: enthroned

text: Salisbury

text: St Hugh

text: Lincoln

text: king

text: knight

text: his French wars

text: Council of Oxford

text: Normandy

text: Old Sarum

text: Salisbury Plain

text: King John

text: Richard

text: Salisbury

text: King John

text: coronation

text: Archbishop

text: Geoffrey

text: York

text: Westminster

text: the king

text: Scotland

text: Lincoln

text: Normandy

text: tuns

text: archbishop of Canterbury

text: Bishop

text: Gilbert

text: Rochester

text: Scotland

text: Pope

text: Innocent III

text: Berengaria

text: interdict

text: excommunicated

text: revenues

text: cathedral church

text: Wilton

categories: 12th-century births,12th-century Roman Catholic bishops,13th-century Roman Catholic bishops,Bishops of Salisbury,1217 deaths

paragraph: Herbert Poore

paragraph: Herbert Poore or Poor (died 1217) was a medieval English clergyman who held the post of Bishop of Salisbury during the reigns of Richard I and John.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Poore was probably the son of Richard of Ilchester, also known as Richard Toclive, who served as Bishop of Winchester. He was the brother of Richard Poore, who succeeded him as bishop. He may have served under his father in the exchequer but is first recorded as an archdeacon of Canterbury in 1175. He was initially one of a trio in the office but, in 1180, Archbishop Richard reversed himself and left Herbert the sole archdeacon for the area. At some point, he also became a canon of Lincoln and Salisbury, entitling him to their prebends.

paragraph: In his capacity as archdeacon of Canterbury, Herbert enthroned Walter de Coutances as bishop of Lincoln on 11 December 1183. In July the next year, he was one of the men charged by Henry II to instruct the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, to elect his favorite Bishop Baldwin of Worcester as Richard's successor. From 1185 to 1188, he directed the income of the vacant see of Salisbury and, in May 1186, the chapter at Lincoln elected him to succeed Walter as their bishop. The king refused his consent. The chapter at Salisbury then elected him to succeed Joscelin as the Bishop of Salisbury. The king assented on 14 September 1186 but the minority appealed to the pope owing to Herbert's birth to his father's concubine. (The position was ultimately taken up by Hubert Walter.) On 29 September 1186 he officiated the enthronement of Hugh as bishop of Lincoln and, in May 1193, he appealed to the pope against Hubert Walter's elevation as archbishop of Canterbury, as the king was in captivity and the bishops had not been present at his election. Instead, Celestine presented Hubert with his pallium, the symbol of his new office, and he was enthroned at Canterbury on 7 November.

paragraph: The canons of Salisbury unanimously elected Herbert as Hubert's successor around 5 May 1194, and the archbishop confirmed the result on 29 April. Herbert was only in deacon's orders at the time; he was ordained as a priest on 4 June, the day before Hubert consecrated him in St Katherine's Chapel at Westminster. He was enthroned at Salisbury on 13 June. In December 1197, Herbert joined St Hugh of Lincoln in denying the king 300 knights for a year's service in his French wars; when Archbishop Hubert made the same request at the Council of Oxford in February of the next year, they successfully resisted. By the king's orders, all of Herbert's English lands were then seized, until he left to visit Richard personally in Normandy. He was permitted to return to England with his lands and title in June upon payment of a large fine. It was Herbert's idea to move the see from Old Sarum to the Salisbury Plain and he received permission from Richard to that effect, but the plan had to be abandoned after King John came to the throne. It was left to Herbert's brother and successor, Richard, to carry it out decades later, founding modern Salisbury in the process.

paragraph: Bishop Herbert attended King John's coronation on 27 May 1199. On 19 September 1200, he served as a papal delegate at the reconciliation of Archbishop Geoffrey and the chapter of York at Westminster and, on 22 November, he was present when the king of Scotland paid homage to John at Lincoln. He was summoned to John in Normandy on 14 December 1201. He received six tuns of wine on 2 January 1205.

paragraph: In 1207, the dispute over the appointment of the new archbishop of Canterbury caused Herbert and Bishop Gilbert of Rochester to flee to Scotland. By 27 May 1208, Herbert appears to have returned to Ramsbury but, the next year, Pope Innocent III wrote to him concerning John's failure to pay Richard's widow Berengaria her pension (21 January) and then directed him, along with Bishop Gilbert, to publish the interdict against John. The king was then excommunicated and Herbert again fled to Scotland. In 1212, he and Bishop Gilbert were instructed to release them from their oaths of allegiance to John. In May 1213, John capitulated; Herbert's lands and revenues were ordered restored to him on 18 July.

paragraph: Herbert died in 1217. Sources variously place the date on February 6 or May 9 while it was commemorated at Salisbury on 7 January. He was not buried at the cathedral church but at Wilton.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- British History Online Archdeacons of Canterbury accessed on 30 October 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- British History Online Bishops of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- British History Online Deans of Salisbury accessed on 30 October 2007

alias:
Herbert le Poer
Herbert of Ilchester

description: Bishop of Salisbury

wikidata_label: Herbert Poore

wikipedia_title: Herbert Poore


text:
Tallinn
ski jumper
2014 Winter Olympics
normal hill
large hill
World Cup
Lahti
2011–12
Sapporo
2013–14

categories: Olympic ski jumpers of Estonia,Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Sportspeople from Tallinn,1993 births,Living people,Estonian male ski jumpers

paragraph: Siim-Tanel Sammelselg

paragraph: Siim-Tanel Sammelselg (born May 13, 1993 in Tallinn) is an Estonian ski jumper.

paragraph: Sammelselg competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Estonia. He placed 51st in the normal hill qualifying round, failing to advance, and 49th in the large hill qualifying round, also failing to advance.

paragraph: Sammelselg made his World Cup debut in November 2007. As of September 2014, his best finish is 9th, in a team event at Lahti in 2011–12. His best individual finish is 45th, at a large hill event at Sapporo in 2013–14.

description: Estonian ski jumper

wikidata_label: Siim-Tanel Sammelselg

wikipedia_title: Siim-Tanel Sammelselg


text:
Ōtomo no Kanamura
Goguryeo
Matsura Sayohime
Hizen

categories: People of Kofun-period Japan,Japanese soldiers

paragraph: Ōtomo no Satehiko

paragraph: Ōtomo no Satehiko (大伴挾手彦) was a Japanese general.

paragraph: Sadehiko was the son of Ōtomo no Kanamura. He twice led forces against the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, first in 537 CE (some sources claim 536) and later in 562. A legend regarding his first campaign tells of how his wife, Matsura Sayohime, climbed to the hills above Hizen and prayed with such intensity for his safe return that she was turned into stone.

description: Japanese soldier

wikidata_label: Ōtomo no Satehiko

wikipedia_title: Ōtomo no Satehiko


text:
Christ Church, Oxford
Lincoln College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber
Restoration
Master of the Jewel House
Fellow of the Royal Society
Second Dutch War
Member of Parliament
Plymouth
Justice of the Peace
Deputy Lieutenant
Sir John Talbot
Lacock Abbey
Salwarpe

categories: Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber,1695 deaths,Talbot family,People from Worcester,English MPs 1661–1679,Fellows of the Royal Society,Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford,Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford,Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire,English courtiers,English diplomats

paragraph: Gilbert Talbot (courtier)

paragraph: Sir Gilbert Talbot, FRS (c. 1606–1695) was an English courtier and MP.

paragraph: He was born a younger son of Sherington Talbot of Rudge, Pattingham, Shropshire and Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded BA in 1626 and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he gained an MA in 1628. He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1629 to ?1634.

paragraph: He then served 11 years as Secretary (1634–37), Resident (1637–44) and lastly Envoy (1645) at the British Embassy in Venice and was knighted in 1645. A Royalist, he served time in Gloucester gaol during the Civil War for his views. On his release he went abroad to join the exiled royal court and was made a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber. At the Restoration in 1660 he was appointed Master of the Jewel House, holding the position for the next 30 years. In 1663 he was elected an Original Fellow of the Royal Society.

paragraph: In 1664 he resumed his diplomatic career as Envoy Extraordinary to Denmark during the Second Dutch War and on his return was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth in 1666, sitting until 1678. A Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 1688, serving only until 1689.

paragraph: In his latter years he moved from his Worcestershire home to live with his nephew Sir John Talbot in Lacock Abbey, where he died in 1695. He was buried in Salwarpe, Worcestershire. He had never married.

description: English courtier and politician

wikidata_label: Gilbert Talbot

wikipedia_title: Gilbert Talbot (courtier)


text: Living Blues

text: Savannah, Georgia

text: Für Elise

text: Eric Culberson

text: Daytona Beach, Florida

text: Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University

text: Memphis, Tennessee

text: air traffic controller

text: Memphis International Airport

text: Florida

text: Ormond Beach, Florida

text: Novo Combo

text: Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

text: Roomful of Blues

text: Ardent Studios

text: bass

text: guitar

text: Dark Season Blues

text: Sirius/XM's

text: Springing the Blues

text: Jacksonville Beach, Florida

text: Memphis in May

text: Blues Music Award

text: Blind Pig Records

text: jam session

text: Damon Fowler

text: Buddy Guy

text: Wheeling, West Virginia

text: Tab Benoit

text: Blind Pig Records

text: Billboard

text: Top Blues Album

text: Blues Music Award

text: List of electric blues musicians

text: Official website

text: Blind Pig Records official website

text: YouTube video

text: July 2014 interview

categories: 1981 births,American blues pianists,Musicians from Savannah, Georgia,21st-century American singers,American male pianists,American rhythm and blues keyboardists,American blues singers,Air traffic controllers,Living people,21st-century American pianists,Songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state)

paragraph: Victor Wainwright

paragraph: Victor Lawton Wainwright, Jr. (born February 4, 1981) is an American blues and boogie boogie singer, songwriter, and pianist. Wainwright's musical style was described by the American Blues Scene magazine in 2013 as "honky-tonk and boogie, with a dose of rolling thunder. Wainwright's playing is simply beautiful madness."

paragraph: "Living Blues" magazine noted that "Wainwright serves as an electrifying guide to a good time – spinning tales, telling his listeners how to beat the blues, and meticulously conjuring raw soul and energy out of his acoustic piano."

paragraph: Wainwright currently tours both nationally and internationally, performing with two bands: Victor Wainwright and the Train, and Southern Hospitality. Wainwright formerly toured as Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots.

paragraph: Section::::Early Life and Career.

paragraph: Wainwright was born in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Both his father and grandfather were blues musicians, and became Wainwright's early mentors. At the age of 10 at a family gathering, Wainwright played "Für Elise". Wainwright's own ensemble backed Eric Culberson at the Savannah Blues Bar, during the former's high school years.

paragraph: Wainwright later attended college in Daytona Beach, Florida, and undertook an Air Traffic Management and Psychology degree at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, before relocating to Memphis, Tennessee. He then worked as an air traffic controller at Memphis International Airport.

paragraph: In 2004, Wainwright met Florida native Stephen Dees in Ormond Beach, Florida. The latter was part of Novo Combo in the early 1980s. The meeting led to Dees co-writing and producing Wainwright's debut album, "Piana from Savannah" (2005). In 2008, Wainwright played alongside the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz on Wirtz's live album "Pianist Envy – Group Therapy".

paragraph: Section::::Victor Wainwright and The Train.

paragraph: Wainwright teamed up with friend, engineer, and producer Dave Gross in 2017 to form "The Train," and begin work on what would become the 2018 Grammy nominated self-titled album, "Victor Wainwright and The Train". For touring and recording, Wainwright kept longtime bandmates Billy Dean on drums and Terrence Grayson on bass. For guitar, Wainwright added Pat Harrington. He also added the horn players Doug Woolverton and Mark Earely from Roomful of Blues.

paragraph: Wainwright wrote all 12 original songs.

paragraph: Later that year, Wainwirght and Dave Gross recorded the self-titled album, "Victor Wainwright and The Train", in the Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The album, co-produced by Wainwright and Gross, was released on March 9, 2018.

paragraph: The album went on to garner a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album of the Year.

paragraph: Wainwright currently tours with The Train, consisting of the same recording artists as on the album.

paragraph: Section::::Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots.

paragraph: After the release of "Piana from Savannah", Wainwright and Dees joined forces under the name of Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots. Wainwright and Dees shared vocal duties, with the former on keyboards and the latter on bass and guitar with Greg Gumpel as lead guitarist from 2002 through 2009. They were backed by Billy Dean (drums, backup vocal), Nick Black (guitar, backup vocal), Patricia Ann Dees, and Ray Guiser (tenor sax), and Charlie deChant (baritone sax). In September 2009, they released "Beale Street to the Bayou" on WildRoots Records. The album was praised by critics and placed on the Root Music Report "Top 50 Blues," the Blues Internet Charts, the Tennessee Roots Charts, and Europe's Collectif des Radio Blues Charts.

paragraph: In October 2010, Wainwright appeared at Dark Season Blues in Norway. In 2011, he performed at the South Florida Boogie Woogie Piano Festival. In June that year, "Lit Up!" was released, again credited to Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots. The album reached the number one spot on Sirius/XM's B.B. King's Bluesville channel's "Pick To Click," number 2 on the Collectif des Radio Blues Charts, and number 13 on the Living Blues Radio Chart.

paragraph: Wainwright also performed at Springing the Blues in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, plus at Memphis in May in 2012. The same year he was nominated for the first time for a Blues Music Award. In October 2014, he appeared at the Daytona Blues Festival.

paragraph: In July 2015, Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots released "Boom Town" on Blind Pig Records.

paragraph: Section::::Southern Hospitality.

paragraph: Following an impromptu jam session in July 2011 in Florida, Wainwright teamed up with Damon Fowler, J.P. Soars, Chuck Riley, and Chris Peet to form the band that would eventually become Southern Hospitality. Their first gig was supporting Buddy Guy in August the same year at the Heritage Music Blues Fest in Wheeling, West Virginia. Their debut album, "Easy Livin' ", (2013) was produced by Tab Benoit, and released by Blind Pig Records. It peaked at number 9 on the US "Billboard" Top Blues Album chart. In 2014, Wainwright won the 'Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year' award at the Blues Music Awards for the second consecutive year.

paragraph: Wainwright currently lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018: Grammy Award Nominee (Best Contemporary Blues Album)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018: #1 Most played contemporary blues album of the year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018: #2 Most played blues album of the year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018: #1 Billboard Blues Albums Chart

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018: Blues Music Award Winner for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017: Blues Music Award Winner for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: Blues Music Award Winner for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: Band of the Year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: Blues Blast Award Winner for Contemporary Album of the Year

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of electric blues musicians

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Victor Wainwright & the WildRoots official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Blind Pig Records official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- YouTube video

paragraph: BULLET::::- July 2014 interview

description: American blues pianist, singer and songwriter

wikidata_label: Victor Wainwright

wikipedia_title: Victor Wainwright


text: Brooklyn

text: Jim the Penman

text: Agnes Booth

text: Alabama

text: Lady Windermere's Fan

text: May Brookyn photo gallery

text: 1890s portrait

categories: 1894 deaths,English stage actresses,1854 births,Suicides by poison,American actresses who committed suicide,English actresses who committed suicide,English emigrants to the United States,19th-century American actresses,American stage actresses,Actresses from London

paragraph: May Brookyn

paragraph: May Brookyn (?1854/59 - February 15, 1894) was an English born American stage actress. Her name was spelled Brookyn but is often misspelled Brooklyn. On February 15, 1894 she died by suicide by taking carbolic acid in San Francisco several months after the death of her lover Frederic A. Lovecraft shot himself. Brookyn was born in Greater London, England and is buried in Brooklyn's Evergreen Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Selected roles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jim the Penman" as Mrs. Ralston (substitute for Agnes Booth)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Pharisee"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Alabama" as Widow Page (1891)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lady Windermere's Fan" as Mrs. Erlynne

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- May Brookyn photo gallery(NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)

paragraph: BULLET::::- May Brookyn page:"North American Theatre Online"(AlexanderStreet)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Contemporary image of May Brookyn her name misspelled as Brooklyn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1890s portrait(Univ. of Washington Sayre Collection)

description: American actor and stage actor

wikidata_label: May Brookyn

wikipedia_title: May Brookyn


text:
Italian
Rome
Naples
Salvator Rosa
Leonardo Coccorante
Claude Joseph Vernet
Grand Tour
Count Karl Joseph Firmian
Accademia di San Luca
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Honolulu Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museo di Capodimonte
Stourhead

categories: Italian male painters,Italian vedutisti,Neapolitan painters,Painters of ruins,18th-century Italian painters,1788 deaths,Landscape artists

paragraph: Carlo Bonavia

paragraph: Carlo Bonavia (died 1788) was an Italian painter known for idyllic landscape paintings, engravings and drawings. He was active from 1740 until his death. He is thought to be from Rome, but worked in Naples from about 1751 to 1788. He was trained in the Neapolitan landscape tradition of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) and Leonardo Coccorante (1680–1750), but was much more strongly influenced by the work of Claude Joseph Vernet, who visited Naples in 1737 and 1746.

paragraph: Bonavia’s paintings share with Vernet’s a rococo palette of pale blues, creamy yellows, pinks and soft green, as well as an atmospheric, rather than analytical, approach to landscape. Like Vernet, Bonavia painted capricci in which real features of the Neapolitan countryside were placed in imaginary settings. Bonavia’s idyllic landscapes were popular souvenirs of the Grand Tour. Among his patrons were Lord Brudenell and Count Karl Joseph Firmian, the Austrian ambassador to Naples 1753-8. Bonavia had a very successful career and was praised by Pietro Zani in his Enciclopedia Metodica Critico Ragionata delle Belle Arte (1794) as a fine painter of views and history subjects.

paragraph: The Accademia di San Luca (Rome), the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museo di Capodimonte (Naples) and Stourhead (Wiltshire, England) are among the public collections having paintings by Carlo Bonavia.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constable, W.G., "Carlo Bonavia", "Art Quarterly", vol. XXII, No. 1, Spring, 1959, 19.

alias:
Calebonario
Carlo Bonaria
Carlo Bonario
B. Bonario
Carlo Bonnaria
Caro Bonaria
Benario
Bonavia
C. Bonaria
Borrario
Bonaria
Chev. Bonario
Bonario
C. Bonario

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Carlo Bonavia

wikipedia_title: Carlo Bonavia


text: Italian

text: Baroque

text: Guido Reni

text: Pistoia

text: Andrea Sacchi

text: guild of painters

text: Accademia di San Luca

text: Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli

text: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

text: San Carlo al Corso

text: Cybo Chapel

text: Santa Maria del Popolo

text: Palazzo Buonaccorsi

text: Macerata

text: San Silvestro in Capite

text: Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli

text: Cagli Cathedral

text: Santa Caterina del Formello

categories: Italian male painters,Members of the Rome Guild of Saint Luke,17th-century Italian painters,People from Pistoia,18th-century Italian painters,1721 deaths,1638 births,Italian Baroque painters

paragraph: Luigi Garzi

paragraph: Luigi Garzi (Pistoia, 1638–Rome, 1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, whose work displayed heavy influences of the Bolognese painter, Guido Reni. Born in Pistoia. He started learning from a poorly known landscape painter, Salomon Boccali. But at age 15, he moved to Rome, where he was one of the main pupils of Andrea Sacchi. He is also often referred to as "Ludovico Garzi". In 1680 Garzi was appointed Regent of the "Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon", the papal honor society of painters. Garzi joined Rome's guild of painters, Accademia di San Luca in 1670 and became a director in 1682.

paragraph: He painted a "Triumph of St Catherine & saints" for the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome. He painted a "St. Silvestro shows Constantine portraits of Saints Peter and Paul" for Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. In the early 1680s he contributed to the frescoes on the vault of San Carlo al Corso, where his works included an "Allegory of Faith". He also completed a fresco depicting the "Glory of the Eternal Father" (1686) for the dome of the Cybo Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. He was one of the painters who contributed to the series of mythologic paintings to the Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata with a "Venus in the Forge of Vulcan". He also painted for San Silvestro in Capite, Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli, and Chiesa delle Santissima Stimmate di San Francesco. He contributed a canvas to the Cagli Cathedral.

paragraph: In Naples, he painted the ceiling and some chapels for Santa Caterina del Formello.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::-  Getty Museum biography]

alias:
Lud. Garzi
Luigi Gazzi
Luiggi Garzi Romano
Louis Garzi
Luigi Garzi Romano
Gargi
Louis Garsi
Luigi Gargi
Lui. Garzi
Lugi Garzi
Garzi
L. Garzi

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Luigi Garzi

wikipedia_title: Luigi Garzi


text:
Russia
ethnographer
Central Asia
Oryol
gymnasium
music theory
Warsaw
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
Orenburg
ethnographer
Kazakh folk music
Kazakh folk music
Moscow
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Six moments musicaux

categories: Russian composers,1936 deaths,Russian male composers,Russian ethnographers,1869 births

paragraph: Aleksandr Zatayevich

paragraph: Aleksandr Viktorovich Zatayevich (; 6 December 1936) was a Russian music ethnographer and exponent of Central Asian folk music.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Zatayevich was born on 20 March 1869 in Oryol. He graduated from the Oryol military gymnasium in 1886. He was largely self-taught in music theory. He lived in Warsaw, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg, then finally settled in Orenburg in 1920, where he began his most significant work. He worked as an ethnographer, collector, researcher on Kazakh folk music, and recorded about 3,000 instrumental melodies. He contributed to the "Warsaw Diary" which published music critiques and analyses. He wrote over 2,300 pieces of Kazakh folk music, of which 1,500 were published in two volumes during his life. He was the first to create a categorization system for Kazakh music, including genres such as historic, comedic, and legendary. He died on 6 December 1936 in Moscow.

paragraph: In 1896, he was the dedicatee of Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Six moments musicaux".

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- —. "1000 songs of Kyrgyz/Kazakh people: tunes and melodies". Orenburg, 1925.

paragraph: BULLET::::- —. "500 songs and "kyuis" of Aday, Bukey, Semipalatinsk, and the Ural Kazakhs". Alma-Ata, 1931.

description: Russian ethnographer

wikidata_label: Aleksandr Zatayevich

wikipedia_title: Aleksandr Zatayevich


text:
A Diary of Chuji's Travels
Kunisada Chūji (1954 film)
Kunisada Chūji (1958 film)

categories: 1810 births,People of Edo-period Japan,Japanese gamblers,1851 deaths

paragraph: Kunisada Chūji

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Diary of Chuji's Travels (忠治旅日記 Chūji tabi nikki)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kunisada Chūji (1954 film)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kunisada Chūji (1958 film)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kunisada Chūji (1960 film)

description: Japanese gambler

wikidata_label: Kunisada Chūji

wikipedia_title: Kunisada Chūji


text:
Saint-Claud
Paris
phonetics
George Oscar Russell
Raymond Herbert Stetson
Lev Shcherba
Hubert Pernot

wikipedia_title:
Saint-Claud
Paris
Phonetics
George Oscar Russell
Raymond Herbert Stetson
Lev Shcherba
Hubert Pernot

categories: French non-fiction writers,People from Charente,Phoneticians,Dialectologists,French Roman Catholic priests,French male non-fiction writers,Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery,1924 deaths,1846 births

paragraph: Jean-Pierre Rousselot

paragraph: Jean-Pierre Rousselot (14 October 1846, Saint-Claud – 16 December 1924, Paris) was a French priest who was an important phonetician and dialectologist.

paragraph: Rousselot is considered the founder of experimental phonetics, both theoretical and applied, as manifested in the two volumes of his "Principes de Phonétique Expérimentale" (1897, 1901). He influenced many phoneticians and linguists, including Josef Chlumsky, Jean Poirot, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia, Théodore Rosset, George Oscar Russell, Raymond Herbert Stetson, and Lev Shcherba.

paragraph: With Hubert Pernot, he was editor of the journal "Revue de phonétique".

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De vocabulorum congruentia in rustico cellae-fruini sermone", 1892.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Phonétique expérimentale", 1897.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Études de prononciations parisiennes", 1899.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Historique des applications pratiques de la phonétique expérimentale", 1899.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Principes de phonétique expérimentale" (2 volumes).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Précis de prononciation française", 1902.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Premiers éléments de prononciation française", 1903.

description: French priest

wikidata_label: Jean-Pierre Rousselot

wikipedia_title: Jean-Pierre Rousselot


text: Voigtstedt

text: Thuringia

text: pseudonyms

text: John O. Meusebach

text: Göttingen

text: Leipzig

text: chancery

text: Dillenburg

text: Cassation

text: German literature

text: chapbook

text: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

text: Berlin

text: Taler

text: Jacob

text: Wilhelm Grimm

text: Cornflower

text: recension

text: grammar

text: Fischart

text: German Wikipedia

categories: German scholars,People from Kyffhäuserkreis,1781 births,German collectors

paragraph: Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach

paragraph: Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach (June 6, 1781 – August 22, 1847) was a German lawyer and literary scholar born in Voigtstedt, Thuringia. He used the pseudonyms "Alban" and "Markus Hüpfinsholz" in his writings. He was father to politician John O. Meusebach (1812-1897).

paragraph: He studied in Göttingen and Leipzig, and in 1803 was appointed chancery-accessor in Dillenburg. Up until 1842 he was president of the "Rheinischen Kassationshofs" (Rhineland Cassation).

paragraph: Meusebach was an expert on German literature, and during his lifetime amassed a personal library of 36,000 volumes of 16th–17th century literature, German church music, folk songs, chapbooks, et al. After his death, his collection was purchased by the "Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin" (Royal Library in Berlin) for 14700 Taler with support from Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

paragraph: He was a good friend of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and was supportive of young scientists and writers that included poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kornblumen" (Cornflowers), 1804.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Geist aus meinen Schriften. Durch mich selbst herausgezogen, und an das Licht gestellt"; 1809.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zur Recension der deutschen Grammatik" (On the recension of German grammar), irrefuted by Jacob Grimm, 1826.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fischart-Studien" (Fischart studies), edited by Camillus Wendeler, 1879.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Briefwechsel des Freiherrn Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach mit Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm" (Correspondence of Baron Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach with Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm), edited by Camillus Wendeler, 1880.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article is based on a translation of an equivqlent article at the German Wikipedia."

paragraph: BULLET::::- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, The Meusebach Library

description: German literary scholar

wikidata_label: Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach

wikipedia_title: Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach