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text: Franco

text: music producer

text: Joe Meek

text: Indie music scene

text: cult-artist

text: fanbase

text: social networks

text: Indie

text: BMG Music Publishing

text: Jean-Pierre Bacri

text: Agnès Jaoui

text: Jamel Debbouze

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text: buzz

text: Web

text: Calogero

text: Calogero

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text: Universal Music

text: NRJ Radio

text: Pizzicato Five

text: Yasuharu Konishi

text: Paul McCartney

text: Lennon-McCartney

text: tribute album

text: collectable

text: Beatles

text: digital

text: concept album

text: Paul McCartney

text: Barry Miles

text: Many Years From Now

text: Flammarion

text: sampler

text: Celtic

text: bagpipes

text: HBO

text: TV series of the same name

text: Radio Suisse Romande

text: buzz

text: Electronic

text: South of France

text: Abbey Road Studios

text: MeeK's official MySpace

text: MeeK's official YouTube channel

paragraph: MeeK

paragraph: MeeK (birth name Stephane-Franck Pascal; born 16 February 1971 in Montmorency, near Paris, France), is a Franco-British singer-songwriter, recording artist, musician and music producer. His stage name (always spelled with a capital "M" and a capital "K") is a homage to 1960s British pop producer Joe Meek.

paragraph: A multi-instrumentalist, MeeK plays all the instruments on his recordings through a multitracked/multi-layered method of recording and provides all vocals including multi-layered backing harmonies.

paragraph: Since his first album in 2002 and an ever strong presence on the Internet right from its very early days as a mass media, MeeK is part of the European pop/rock Indie music scene. Over the years and through word-of-mouth some have come to consider him a "cult-artist" because of his ever dedicated worldwide fanbase, his rather non-typical and enigmatic persona and the fact that he is one of the very first few artists in Europe who have pioneered in utilizing the Internet as a marketing tool and a medium to publicize and/or expose their music to the general public in the late-1990s, long before the advent of social networks like MySpace, Facebook or YouTube.

paragraph: After having briefly been a member of London-based Indie acoustic-pop bands Tin Can Heart and Elsewhere in the mid-1990s, MeeK was signed as a solo songwriter by Stephane Berlow of BMG Music Publishing France in 1996.

paragraph: With the encouragement and support of French actors Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui and Jamel Debbouze, MeeK released his first album titled "Psychotique" (Psychotic) in 2002 on the record label "Bedroom" to a warm critical reception in France. The CD created what was not yet called an Internet buzz (the Web still being in its infancy as a mainstream media in the early-2000s), and was well noticed in the French Indie music scene of the time. French pop artist Calogero decided to sponsor MeeK after hearing him on the radio and mistaking him for a female performer because of his rather high-pitched vocal range. Calogero then invited MeeK to perform his single "Psychotique" on "The Live Café", one of the first music programs on the French Web, produced in partnership by Universal Music and NRJ Radio station. MeeK's "Psychotique" album was also released in a deluxe digipack version in Japan by Tokyo Indie record label MINF Records with an introductory essay by leader of Japanese pop group Pizzicato Five Yasuharu Konishi, drawing a camparison between the Franco-English songwriter and Paul McCartney amongst others. Since then, all MeeK albums have been released in Japan by the same record label.

paragraph: In 2003 and at the request of his Japanese label, MeeK released the album "Sleeping with Big Ben" composed of fourteen Lennon-McCartney songs recorded in an all-acoustic and vocal treatment. The tribute album's release was limited to the Japanese market only and soon became a popular collectable amongst curious Beatles fans around the world. The album was finally released in a digital form worldwide in 2011.

paragraph: In 2004, his second album of original songs "Margaret Et Ses Bijoux" (Margaret And Her Jewels) was released and can be defined as a concept album. It confirmed the "MeeK buzz" on the Internet and scored excited reviews in the French music press as well as on many professional music blogs.

paragraph: In 2004, MeeK translated what is considered the only official "autobiography" by Paul McCartney the former Beatle wrote in collaboration with Barry Miles in 1997, "Many Years From Now", in French for Paris publisher Flammarion (French title : "Les Beatles, les Sixties & moi" – The Beatles, the '60s and Me).

paragraph: In 2008 and after a two-year hiatus due to serious health concerns, MeeK recorded his third album "Sortie De Secours" (Emergency Exit) which he co-produced with Maxime Monegier Du Sorbier. Collaborating for the first time with a dozen musicians during the recording sessions, MeeK used no machines, synthesizers nor samplers at all during the album production that spanned more than 10 months. A real string section appeared on several tracks as well as a Celtic bagpipes section for the title "Je Vous Aime Immediatement".br

paragraph: The album lead single "Six Feet Under" is MeeK's most commercially successful hit with the single "So Fresh" so far and a nod to the HBO TV series of the same name. The single entered hundreds of campus and college radio stations playlists around the world and was the first independent music production to have cracked the Swiss state radio station Radio Suisse Romande's Top 20 while its promo video created a remarkable YouTube buzz.

paragraph: In 2010, several Electronic artists including The Electronic Matter, The OriginalFake and Lyhne remixed a few tracks from the "Sortie De Secours" album which were compiled on the "ElectroMeeK MySpace" parallel to the regular official Meek MySpace.

paragraph: In April 2011, the album "Archives 97/07" compiling 15 unreleased tracks recorded during sessions from MeeK's four previous efforts was released in digital form worldwide.

paragraph: MeeK began recording sessions for his next album in April 2011 in Paris and the album titled "Aristocracy" is an English album, co-produced by MeeK and (musicianAmerican partnership Ramses & Beaumond (group pseudonym of Christopher Hannover-Klein and Andy Ambrose),

paragraph: After the successive releases of 2 singles, the college-radio-friendly "So Fresh" in 2012 and the cold and icy "Monolith #6" in 2013 announcing the long-awaited album, the long anticipated "Aristocracy" album was finally released worldwide on April the 1st 2015. The album took 5 years in the making, using 6 different studios in Paris, London, South of France and Los Angeles. It was mastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London ("Just for a laugh" said MeeK).

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002 : "Psychotique" (Album – Bedroom/Musicast BDRM002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003 : "Sleeping With Big Ben" (Tribute Album for Japanese market – Bedrooom/Minf Records BDRM003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 : "Margaret Et Ses Bijoux" (Album – Bedroom/Musicast BDRM004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 : "Sortie De Secours" (Album – Bedroom/Raindrop/Musicast RAIN 002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 : "Archives 97/07" (Compilation Album – Bedroom/Believe Digital BDR005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 : "So Fresh" / "Back to the Monolith" (Single – Bedroom/Believe Digital BDRM006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 : "Monolith #6" / "Vicodin Anyone ?" (Single – Bedroom/Believe Digital BDRM006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015 : "Aristocracy" (Album – Bedroom/Believe Digital BDRM008))

paragraph: Section::::Videos.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "So Fresh" (Directors : Ramses & Beaumond)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Monolith #6" (Directors : Ramses & Beaumond)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Six Feet Under" (Director : Emmanuel Bajolle)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Troublemaker" (Director : SFMP)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Director : Angel)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le Gange Illumine" (Director : Arthur Shelton)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elle Est Tellement Vieille Que Tous Ses Amis Sont Morts" (Director : SFMP)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evaporée Charlotte Morphinique" (Director : Saïd Boukrouna)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le Papillon Junkie" (Director : SFMP)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Psychotique" (Director : SFMP)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Big Fish (Big Boat)" (Director : Anthony Pascal)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- MeeK's official MySpace

paragraph: BULLET::::- MeeK's official YouTube channel

description: Franco-British singer-songwriter

wikidata_label: MeeK

wikipedia_title: MeeK


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Croft Castle
House of Commons
Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet
New College, Oxford
baronetcy
Leominster
1713 British general election
Member of Parliament
1722 British general election
1727 British general election
Winchelsea
Bere Alston
Mrs Clayton
Lord of Trade
1734 general election
Archer Croft

categories: British MPs 1727–1734,1683 births,1753 deaths,British MPs 1722–1727,Baronets in the Baronetage of England,Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies

paragraph: Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet

paragraph: Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet (c. 2 March 1683 – 10 December 1753), of Croft Castle, near Leominster, Herefordshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1734.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Croft was the eldest son of Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Archer, daughter of Thomas Archer, MP of Umberslade, Warwickshire. He matriculated at New College, Oxford on 15 April 1702. In 1720 he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 3 November. He married Frances Waring, daughter of Brigadier-General Richard Waring of Dunston Park, Berkshire on 10 January 1723.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Croft stood unsuccessfully for Leominster at the 1713 British general election. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Leominster at the top of the poll at the 1722 British general election. On the death of King George I in 1727 he expected Walpole to be ousted by Sir Spencer Compton whom he backed. On Walpole's continuance in office Croft wrote an apology and begged for a post in the Treasury. However he was defeated at the 1727 British general election although returned on the Treasury interest for Winchelsea at a by-election in 1728. He was also returned as MP for Bere Alston on the Drake interest at a by-election on 2 March 1728 and chose to sit at Bere Alston. He then applied for posts through Mrs Clayton, the Queen's favourite, but was unsuccessful. In Parliament, he made a number of speeches for the government and was rewarded with a post as Lord of Trade in 1730. At the 1734 general election, he was unable to find a seat. However he was allowed to retain his post as Lord of Trade until the fall of Walpole in 1742 when he resigned with a pension of £1,000 a year.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Croft died on 10 December 1753, having had three sons and a daughter. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Archer Croft.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Burkes Peerage and Baronetage"

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet


text:
electronic
Berlin
Germany
The Knife
The Soft Pink Truth
Badly Drawn Boy
Chicks on Speed
Marble House
Mount Sims
Tomorrow, In a Year
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
Mute Records
Metacritic
sound design
Bruce LaBruce
James Murphy
LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver
DFA Records
From the Cradle to the Rave
Shit Robot
W
Arthur Russell
Resident Advisor
Olof Dreijer
genderqueer
W
All Love's Legal
Tomorrow, In a Year
The Knife
Mount Sims
Resident Advisor
The Knife
Marble House
Telepathe
Austra
CREEP
Nina Sky

categories: Electronic musicians,Non-binary musicians,LGBT musicians from England,LGBT people from the United Kingdom,English singers,Genderqueer people,British expatriates in Germany,Living people,DFA Records artists

paragraph: Planningtorock

paragraph: Jam Rostron (formerly Janine), better known by their stage name Planningtorock, is an English electronic musician and record producer who lives in Berlin, Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Early life.

paragraph: Rostron studied at Blackburn College of Art on the Foundation course in 1990 together with Patrick Bridge, Andrew Hine, Lisa Roberts amongst others. Rostron then enrolled in an Art school in Sheffield before moving to Berlin in 2002. In 2004, they launched their label Rostron Records with Planningtorock's EP "Eins", following it in 2005 with a compilation LP " Carousel of Souls" that featured songs from The Knife and The Soft Pink Truth. They sang backing vocals on the Badly Drawn Boy track "Outside is a Light 2", a B-Side from the 1999 single "It Came From the Ground".

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:2006–2009: "Have It All".

paragraph: After signing to Chicks on Speed's record label in 2006, Planningtorock released the limited edition 7" single "Changes/I Wanna Bite Ya", before their debut album was released the following summer.

paragraph: In 2006, Planningtorock remixed the song "Marble House" by The Knife.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:2010–2011: "Tomorrow, In a Year" and "W".

paragraph: In 2010, Planningtorock collaborated with The Knife and Mount Sims to write an opera for the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma. The opera, titled "Tomorrow, In a Year", is based on Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". "Tomorrow, In a Year" was later released on 9 March 2010, by Mute Records and received generally favourable reviews from contemporary critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 67/100.

paragraph: Rostron worked as the sound designer and componist for the Bruce LaBruce film "The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange" in 2010.

paragraph: Rostron began correspondence with James Murphy after he sent them a fan email that said 'Really like the Planningtorock stuff – just saying." Murphy later invited them on LCD Soundsystem's "Sound of Silver" tour before signing them to his label DFA Records. Planningtorock co-wrote the song "Answering Machine" from the album "From the Cradle to the Rave" by DFA label-mate Shit Robot in 2010. DFA released Rostron's second studio album "W" on 17 May 2011. Rostron had been working on the album's songs since 2007, eventually writing more than 27 songs. "W" received positive reviews from contemporary critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 72/100. The album included a cover of Arthur Russell's song "Janine."

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:2012–2013: EPs and "All Love's Legal".

paragraph: In an interview with Resident Advisor, Rostron stated: 'Last summer after touring W, I had a bit of a creative meltdown and wasn't sure about making music any more—then I wrote "Patriarchy Over And Out," and suddenly the goal of the next album became clear'. During this period Rostron legally changed their name from Janine to Jam so as to have a non-gendered name. They also revealed that in the Spring of 2012 they set up a studio space with Olof Dreijer (of The Knife), Hermione Frank (AKA Roxymore) and Paula Temple.

paragraph: Rostron states that "Patriarchy Over And Out" was a turning point 'which was the beginning of being more direct and experimenting with being more political'.

paragraph: On 8 March 2013 Rostron released "Misogyny Drop Dead EP" and in mid-July released a vinyl-only remix of "Full of Fire" by The Knife "Let's Talk About Gender Baby".

paragraph: On 29 October 2013 Rostron announced a third studio album "All Love's Legal" along with a music video for its opening track "Welcome".

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:2018-present: "Powerhouse".

paragraph: On 31 August 2018, Rostron released, "Transome", as the lead single from their fourth studio album, "Powerhouse". It was followed by a second album track, Much To Touch on 12 October 2018. Both were released via Human Level / DFA Records.

paragraph: Rostron identifies as genderqueer and non-binary. "Powerhouse" includes several tracks in which they sing about their family and childhood in Bolton, England. The title track is a tribute to Roston’s mother: ‘She’s basically the powerhouse of the record. It was the hardest track to write, to pin down and express my love and adoration for my mum, because there’s so many things that she’s done for me, for the family, for my sister. She’s the powerhouse, for sure.’

paragraph: Section::::Artistry.

paragraph: Planningtorock has stated that the distortion of their vocals allows for the "playing around with gender alongside communicating what I feel is the emotions within the songs. Because I am really interested in expanding upon the limits that we live in – how we are defined – and it is an experiment."

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Studio albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Have It All" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "W" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All Love's Legal" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Powerhouse" (2018)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tomorrow, In a Year" (with The Knife and Mount Sims) (2010) No. 79 Belgium (Flanders), No. 24 Sweden, No. 10 US "Billboard" Dance/Electronic Albums, No. 32 US "Billboard" Heatseekers Albums

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Extended plays.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eins" (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Topics on a Foreign Mind" (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Have It All Stringed Up" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Misogyny Drop Dead EP" (2013)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Mixtapes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "RA.266" (2011) (for Resident Advisor)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Changes" / "I Wanna Bite Ya" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Doorway" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Breaks" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Living It Out" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Patriarchy Over & Out" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Misogyny Drop Dead" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Human Drama" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Transome" (2018)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Much To Touch (2018)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Remixes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Knife – "Heartbeats" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Knife – "Marble House" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Telepathe – "Devil's Trident" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Austra – "Lose It" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- CREEP featuring Nina Sky – "You" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vicious Circle – "Cerebre" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Knife – '"Let's Talk About Gender Baby, Let's Talk About You And Me" (Full of Fire Rework)

alias:
Jam Rostron
Janine Rostron

description: English musician and record producer

wikidata_label: Planningtorock

wikipedia_title: Planningtorock


text:
Lyttelton family
Grafton
St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove
Dudley Castle
Elizabeth I
Kenilworth
Council of Wales and the Marches
Justice of the Peace
Worcestershire
Halesowen
Halesowen Abbey
Lord Robert Dudley
Frankley
Upper Arley
Sir John Pakington
Sir Francis Willoughby
Wollaton Hall
Nottinghamshire
Gilbert
John († 1601)
Humphrey († 1606)

categories: 1590 deaths,People from Worcestershire,English knights,Deputy Lieutenants of Worcestershire,Lyttelton family,1519 births,16th-century English people

paragraph: Sir John Lyttelton (1520–1590)

paragraph: Sir John Lyttelton (28 October 1519 – 15 February 1590) was an English nobleman, politician, knight, and landowner from the Lyttelton family during the Tudor period.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: John Lyttelton was the son of Sir John Littleton (c. 1500–1533), whose parents were Sir William Littelton and his second wife, Mary Whittington. His mother Elizabeth (née Talbot, died 1581), the daughter and coheiress of Sir Gilbert Talbot (died 1542), of Grafton, Worcestershire. John Lyttelton's brother, George (1528–1600), became a prominent lawyer; there is a monument to him in St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove.

paragraph: John Lyttelton was of age in 1541. He was made constable of Dudley Castle and keeper of the old and new parks there in 1553. He was knighted by Elizabeth I at Kenilworth in 1566. He was a member of the Council of Wales and the Marches, a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire.

paragraph: He purchased the manor of Halesowen (formerly of Halesowen Abbey) from Lord Robert Dudley afterwards Earl of Leicester in 1558. He bought the manor of Hagley from John St. Leger in 1565. These together with Frankley and Upper Arley (which he inherited) were the core of the family estate. Save that Upper Arley devolved away from the male line, this has remained in the hands of the family ever since, though parts were sold off in the 20th century.

paragraph: Section::::Family and descendants.

paragraph: He married Bridget Pakington (b. 1522), the daughter of Sir John Pakington, by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth Littleton (1546 – 4 June 1594), who in 1564 married Sir Francis Willoughby (d. 16 November 1596) of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

paragraph: He was succeeded by his son Gilbert (c. 1570–1599), who was the father of John († 1601) and Humphrey († 1606).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- ;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Burkes Peerage and Baronetage" (1939), s.v. Cobham, Viscount

description: English knight

wikidata_label: Sir John Lyttelton

wikipedia_title: Sir John Lyttelton (1520–1590)


text: American football

text: wide receiver

text: Oakland Raiders

text: 2009 NFL Draft

text: college football

text: University of Maryland

text: Indianapolis Colts

text: Pittsburgh Steelers

text: McDonogh School

text: Owings Mills, Maryland

text: football

text: wide receiver

text: linebacker

text: PrepStar

text: All-American

text: track and field

text: 100 meters

text: 200 meters

text: 60 meters

text: 55 meters

text: 100 meters

text: 200 meters

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text: Boston College

text: Michigan State

text: Pittsburgh

text: Virginia

text: Ralph Friedgen

text: redshirt

text: 40-yard dash

text: Atlantic Coast Conference

text: Sporting News

text: Rivals.com

text: Biletnikoff Award

text: 2007 Emerald Bowl

text: Oregon State

text: NFL Draft

text: Jermaine Lewis

text: 2009 NFL Draft

text: Oakland Raiders

text: Michael Crabtree

text: Jeremy Maclin

text: 40-yard dash

text: St. Louis Rams

text: San Francisco Chronicle

text: Seattle Seahawks

text: Jason Campbell

text: New England Patriots

text: Houston Texans

text: Cleveland Browns

text: Kansas City Chiefs

text: Detroit Lions

text: Jerry Rice

text: Kansas City Chiefs

text: Carson Palmer

text: Sebastian Janikowski

text: San Diego Chargers

text: Pittsburgh Steelers

text: Ryan Mundy

text: Castro Valley

text: Indianapolis Colts

text: Pittsburgh Steelers

text: Lance Moore

text: Derek Moye

text: Martavis Bryant

text: Justin Brown

text: Lance Moore

text: Martavis Bryant

text: Antonio Brown

text: Markus Wheaton

text: New England Patriots

text: San Francisco 49ers

text: St. Louis Rams

text: Baltimore Ravens

text: San Diego Chargers

text: Cincinnati Bengals

text: Denver Broncos

text: Miami Dolphins

text: Baltimore Ravens

text: Cleveland Browns

text: Miami Dolphins

text: JuJu Smith-Schuster

text: Cobi Hamilton

text: Eli Rogers

text: Sammie Coates

text: Justin Hunter

text: Baltimore Ravens

text: Cincinnati Bengals

text: Robert Golden

text: Pittsburgh Steelers bio

text: Indianapolis Colts bio

text: Oakland Raiders bio

text: Maryland Terrapins bio

categories: Sportspeople from Baltimore County, Maryland,People from Owings Mills, Maryland,African-American players of American football,1987 births,Pittsburgh Steelers players,American football wide receivers,People from Silver Spring, Maryland,Maryland Terrapins football players,Oakland Raiders players,Players of American football from Maryland,Indianapolis Colts players,Living people

paragraph: Darrius Heyward-Bey

paragraph: Darrius Ramar Heyward-Bey (born February 26, 1987) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders seventh overall in the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Maryland. He has also played for the Indianapolis Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey attended the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland, where he played football as a wide receiver and linebacker. During his senior year, he earned first-team all-state honors and was named a PrepStar All-American.

paragraph: In track and field, Heyward-Bey finished fifth at nationals as a junior and was the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) champion in the 100 meters, with a time of 10.44 seconds and in the 200 meters, with a time of 22.44 seconds. He also ran a 60 meters indoor time of 6.83 seconds his junior year and 6.82 seconds his senior year, that joint 6th and joint 4th fastest times in the nation respectively. He also posted a personal best of 6.38 seconds in the 55 meters. He ran career-bests times of 10.3 seconds in the 100 meters and 21.10 seconds in the 200 meters at the 2005 IAAM Championships.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey was recruited by Alabama, Boston College, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, and Virginia, before ultimately choosing to attend Maryland to play under head coach Ralph Friedgen.

paragraph: He spent 2005 on redshirt status. In 2006, he ran a 4.23-second 40-yard dash, which set the school record for a wide receiver. That season, he was considered one of the top rookies in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and earned first-team freshman All-America from the "Sporting News" and Rivals.com. He led the Terrapins with 45 receptions, and set a school record for a freshman with 694 receiving yards.

paragraph: In 2007, Heyward-Bey was placed on the Biletnikoff Award watchlist. He led Maryland in receptions, with 51, and receiving yards, with 786. His 63-yard touchdown reception in the 2007 Emerald Bowl against Oregon State stands as the second-longest in Maryland bowl history. At season's end, Heyward-Bey was awarded the team's Most Valuable Offensive Player honor.

paragraph: During his junior season in 2008, he made 42 catches for 609 yards and five touchdowns, and earned an All-ACC honorable mention. On January 7, 2009, Heyward-Bey announced that he would forgo his senior season to enter the NFL Draft. He finished his career at Maryland second in school history in career receiving yards with 2,089, third in receptions with 138 and tied for third in touchdown catches with 13. In just three years, he was second only to Jermaine Lewis in receiving yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: In the 2009 NFL Draft, Heyward-Bey was selected by the Oakland Raiders as the seventh overall pick. As the first wide receiver selected, he was picked earlier than most projections, and before Michael Crabtree and Jeremy Maclin, who most analysts thought would precede Heyward-Bey. At the 2009 NFL Combine, he recorded a 40-yard dash time of 4.30 seconds.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Raiders.:2009.

paragraph: During organized team activities following the draft, Heyward-Bey practiced early but was plagued by multiple hamstring injuries. On July 30, 2009, the Oakland Raiders agreed to terms on a five-year deal with Heyward-Bey. As a rookie, Heyward-Bey started 11 games, catching 9 passes for 124 yards and 1 touchdown while also rushing twice for 19 yards. He averaged 11.3 yards per reception in 2009.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Raiders.:2010.

paragraph: In 2010, Heyward-Bey started 14 of the 15 games in which he played. He had 26 receptions for 366 yards and 1 touchdown. On September 19 against the St. Louis Rams, Heyward-Bey had a career-high six receptions. Vittorio Tafur of the "San Francisco Chronicle" highlighted Heyward-Bey's performance in the game as a marked improvement from the preseason. On October 31, in a 33-3 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, Heyward-Bey made a career-long 69-yard touchdown reception from Jason Campbell, part of a career-high of 105 receiving yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Raiders.:2011.

paragraph: On October 2, 2011, in the Raiders' 31-19 loss to the New England Patriots, Heyward-Bey had 4 receptions for 115 yards, including a 58-yard reception. Over the next 3 games, he would compile receiving totals of 99 (October 9 against the Houston Texans), 82 (October 16 against the Cleveland Browns), and 89 (October 23 against the Kansas City Chiefs) yards. On December 18, 2011, in a 28-27 loss to the Detroit Lions, Heyward-Bey had 8 receptions for 155 yards, both new career-highs, and the most single-game receiving yards for the Raiders since Jerry Rice in 2003. On December 24, the Raiders beat the Kansas City Chiefs 16-13 in overtime after Heyward-Bey caught a 53-yard pass from Carson Palmer during overtime to set up Sebastian Janikowski's winning field goal. Heyward-Bey had a total of 4 receptions for 70 yards in the game. On January 1, during a loss to the San Diego Chargers, Heyward-Bey caught 9 passes for 130 yards and a touchdown.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Raiders.:2012.

paragraph: On September 23, 2012, in the fourth quarter of a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Heyward-Bey was left unconscious after a hit in the endzone by the Steelers' Ryan Mundy. Heyward-Bey was motionless in the endzone for more than 10 minutes before being placed in an ambulance to the Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley. Heyward-Bey was released from the hospital the next day. Mundy would be later fined for the hit. Overall, in the 2012 season, he had 41 receptions for 606 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey was released by the Raiders on March 13, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Indianapolis Colts.:2013.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey signed a one-year deal worth up to $3 million with the Indianapolis Colts on April 1, 2013. Heyward-Bey finished the 2013 season with 29 receptions for 309 yards and a touchdown.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Steelers.:2014.

paragraph: On April 2, 2014, Heyward-Bey signed a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

paragraph: He entered his first training camp with the Steelers competing with Lance Moore, Derek Moye, Martavis Bryant, and Justin Brown for the third wide receiver position. He was named the fifth receiver on the depth chart to begin the regular season.

paragraph: As the fifth receiver, he appeared in all 16 games but caught only 3 passes for 33 yards and played predominantly on special teams.

paragraph: Against the Ravens in the Steelers' playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Heyward-Bey made 1 reception for 6 yards, marking the first postseason catch of his career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Steelers.:2015.

paragraph: The Steelers re-signed Heyward-Bey to a one-year contract on March 26, 2015.

paragraph: Following the release of Lance Moore on March 2 and the four-game suspension of Martavis Bryant on August 31, Heyward-Bey became the Steelers' third receiver behind Antonio Brown and Markus Wheaton to begin the 2015 season.

paragraph: In the opener against the New England Patriots, Heyward-Bey caught 4 passes for 58 yards, including a reception of 43 yards. The following week against the San Francisco 49ers, Heyward-Bey again caught 4 passes, this time for 77 yards and 1 touchdown, marking his highest receiving yardage total since December 6, 2012. In Week 3 against the St. Louis Rams, Heyward-Bey caught 3 passes for 19 yards. In Week 4 against the Baltimore Ravens, he caught 4 passes for 31 yards and 1 touchdown.

paragraph: In total, Heyward-Bey finished the first quarter of the season with 15 receptions for 185 yards and 2 touchdowns, his best 4-game stretch since 2012, when he caught 15 passes for 257 yards and 2 touchdowns in Weeks 8-11. Martavis Bryant sustained an injury during his first week of practice back with the team following his suspension, leading to Heyward-Bey again filling in as the third receiver for Week 5 against the San Diego Chargers. Against the Chargers, Heyward-Bey made 2 catches for 24 yards, both of which came on the Steelers' game-winning drive.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey finished the 2015 regular season with 21 receptions for 314 yards and 2 touchdowns. He was held without a catch in the Steelers' first playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals, but the following week, against the Denver Broncos, he made 2 receptions for 64 yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Steelers.:2016.

paragraph: On March 8, 2016, the Steelers re-signed Heyward-Bey on a three-year, $3.8 million contract.

paragraph: He entered training camp competing to be the second or third wide receiver on the Steelers' depth chart, with Martavis Bryant suspended for the entire 2016 season. Heyward-Bey was named the fourth receiver behind Antonio Brown, Markus Wheaton, and Sammie Coates.

paragraph: Through the first eight games of the 2016 season, Heyward-Bey caught 5 passes for 68 yards and 2 touchdowns. Against the Miami Dolphins in Week 6, he carried the ball on a reverse for a 60-yard touchdown for both his longest career rushing attempt and first career rushing touchdown.

paragraph: However, in Week 9 against the Baltimore Ravens, he sustained a foot and ankle injury which sidelined him for the next six games. He returned for the Steelers' Week 16 rematch against the Ravens, though he did not make any receptions. In Week 17 against the Cleveland Browns, Heyward-Bey caught 1 pass for 46 yards for his longest reception of the season. This brought his 2016 regular season total to 6 receptions for 114 yards and 2 touchdowns.

paragraph: In the Steelers' opening round playoff game against the Miami Dolphins, Heyward-Bey caught 1 pass for 10 yards, his only reception during the 2016 playoffs.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Steelers.:2017.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey entered training camp in facing stiff competition for the backup wide receiver position from JuJu Smith-Schuster, Cobi Hamilton, Eli Rogers, Sammie Coates, and Justin Hunter. He was initially named the fourth wide receiver behind Antonio Brown, Martavis Bryant, and Rogers, but was passed on the depth chart by Smith-Schuster early in the season.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey got his first touch of the season on offense in Week 4 against the Baltimore Ravens, carrying the ball on a reverse for 3 yards. He earned his first passing target and reception in Week 7 against the Cincinnati Bengals on a fake punt when he and teammate Robert Golden connected for 44 yards.

paragraph: In Week 17 against the Browns, Heyward-Bey scored a 29-yard rushing touchdown on a reverse.

paragraph: He finished the 2017 season with 2 receptions for 47 yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Steelers.:2018.

paragraph: Heyward-Bey appeared in 14 games for the Steelers in 2018, making 2 starts.

paragraph: He finished the season with 1 reception for 9 yards and 1 carry for -7 yards.

paragraph: The Steelers elected not to re-sign Heyward-Bey following the 2018 season.

paragraph: He finished his Steelers career with 72 regular season games played, starting in 7 of those games, and making 33 receptions for 517 yards and 4 touchdowns. He also carried on 4 rushing attempts for 85 yards and 2 touchdowns.

paragraph: He also appeared in 7 playoff games for the Steelers, starting in 2 of those games and making 4 receptions for 80 yards.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pittsburgh Steelers bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indianapolis Colts bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oakland Raiders bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maryland Terrapins bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Darrius Heyward-Bey

wikipedia_title: Darrius Heyward-Bey


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Brooklyn Dodgers

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paragraph: Frank Lamanske

paragraph: Frank James Lamanske (September 30, 1906 – August 4, 1971), nicknamed "Lefty", was a pitcher in Major League Baseball, who appeared in two games for the 1935 Brooklyn Dodgers, working 3.7 innings and allowing five hits and three runs.

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Frank Lamanske

wikipedia_title: Frank Lamanske


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Bogotá
Colombia
football
midfielder
Millonarios FC
Categoría Primera A
Millonarios FC
Deportivo Pereira
Bogotá FC
Real Cartagena
Deportes Tolima

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paragraph: David Macalister Silva

paragraph: David Macalister Silva Mosquera (born December 13, 1986 in Bogotá) is a Colombian football midfielder who plays for Millonarios FC in the Categoría Primera A.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: David Silva started his career in the lower divisions of Millonarios FC, where he played as a striker. His main features are link up play and technique on the right foot.

paragraph: After two years in Millonarios, Silva was sent on a loan to Deportivo Pereira, a team for which he only had a few appearances. For the 2008 season, Silva returned to Millonarios.

paragraph: After passing through Bogotá FC and Real Cartagena, David Silva signed with Deportes Tolima. Here he was a key player in the starting eleven and he even captained the team before returning to Millonarios once again in 2015. Now with a lot more experience to his name, Silva walked seamlessly into the Millonarios starting eleven that won the team's fifteenth league title on December 2017. As of 2019 he is the teams' second captain.

description: Colombian footballer

wikidata_label: David Macalister Silva

wikipedia_title: David Macalister Silva


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Lieutenant Governor
Colorado
Omaha
Nebraska
Colorado State University
Arizona State University College of Law
Alpha Phi Alpha
George L. Brown
Bill Owens
7th Congressional District
Republican
Bob Beauprez

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paragraph: Joe Rogers (politician)

paragraph: Joseph Bernard Rogers (July 8, 1964 – October 7, 2013) was an American politician who was the youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Rogers was born on July 8, 1964 in Omaha, Nebraska to Joe Louis Rogers and Lola Marie Rogers. He later moved with his family to Colorado. He received his bachelor's degree from Colorado State University and his law degree from Arizona State University College of Law. He then practiced law in Colorado. Rogers was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: In 1996, Rogers ran for Colorado's First Congressional District as a Republican, gaining 42% of the vote. In 1998 he became the second black lieutenant governor of Colorado after George L. Brown, who served from 1975 to 1979. Personal and political conflicts with his running mate, Governor Bill Owens, kept him off the reelection ticket in 2002. Rogers instead ran in the newly created 7th Congressional District, but placed last out of four in the Republican primary, receiving just 13% of the vote, behind the eventual winner in the general election, Bob Beauprez.

paragraph: Rogers died after being admitted to the hospital due to back pains on October 7, 2013.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Joe Rogers

wikipedia_title: Joe Rogers (politician)


text: Gilbert White

text: Grand Rapids, Michigan

text: Grand Rapids High School

text: University of Michigan

text: Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White

text: channelling

text: Hillsborough, California

text: gold rush

text: Fernand Lungren

text: Theodore Roosevelt

text: Sagamore Hill

text: Daniel Boone

text: The Wonderful World of Disney

text: Jerome Courtland

text: Jeff York

text: Davy Crockett

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text: Charles A. Lindbergh

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text: Clifford H. Pope

text: George P. Putnam

text: Kermit Roosevelt

text: Carl Rungius

text: Orville Wright

text: S. H. Adams

text: Jane Roberts

text: Stewart Edward White Biography

text: The Bancroft Library

categories: 1946 deaths,Novelists from Michigan,American spiritual writers,Mediumship,20th-century American novelists,Writers from Grand Rapids, Michigan,1873 births,American male novelists,New Age writers,University of Michigan alumni

paragraph: Stewart Edward White

paragraph: Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: White was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Mary E. (Daniell) and Thomas Stewart White, a lumberman. He attended Grand Rapids High School, and earned degrees from University of Michigan (B.A., 1895; M.A., 1903).

paragraph: From about 1900 until about 1922 he wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. Starting in 1922 he and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote numerous books they say were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California.

paragraph: Section::::Writing.

paragraph: White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California gold rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. White also illustrated some of his books with his own photographs, while some of his other books were illustrated by artists, such as the American Western painter Fernand Lungren for "The Mountains" and "Camp and Trail". Theodore Roosevelt wrote that White was "the best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot" at Roosevelt's rifle range at Sagamore Hill.

paragraph: "The Long Rifle" (1930), "Folded Hills" (1932), "Ranchero" (1933), and "Stampede" (1942) constitute "The Saga of Andy Burnett," which follows a young Pennsylvania farm boy who escapes his overbearing step father by running away to the West with grandmother's blessing and "The Boone Gun", the original Kentucky rifle carried by Daniel Boone. He encounters mountain man Joe Crane, who becomes his mentor in the ways of survival in the wild. The remainder of the saga follows Andy as he moves west, ultimately settling in California, which is the setting of the last three books. The series incorporates actual events and characters from the time period in the narrative. The four stories were published as a posthumous volume, "The Saga of Andy Burnett", in 1947, and were adapted into several episodes of "The Wonderful World of Disney" during 1957 and 1958, starring Jerome Courtland as Andy Burnett, and Jeff York (Mike Fink) as his friend and mentor Joe Crane. This series was in many ways a follow-up to Disney's much more successful "Davy Crockett".

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: In 1927 the Boy Scouts of America made White an "Honorary Scout", a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was given to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...". The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews; Robert Bartlett; Frederick Russell Burnham; Richard E. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie; James L. Clark; Merian C. Cooper; Lincoln Ellsworth; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; George Bird Grinnell; Charles A. Lindbergh; Donald Baxter MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George P. Putnam; Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius; Orville Wright.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Westerners" (1901)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Blazed Trail" (1902)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Claim Jumpers" (1901)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Conjurer's House" (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Magic Forest" (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blazed Trail Stories" (1904)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mountains" (1904)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Silent Places" (1904)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Pass" (1906), with S. H. Adams

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mystery" (1907), with S. H. Adams

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Arizona Nights" (1907)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Camp and Trail" (1907)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Riverman" (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Cabin" (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- " The Adventures of Bobby Orde" (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rules of the Game" (1910) (sequel to " The Adventures of Bobby Orde")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Sign at Six" (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Land of Footprints" (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "African Camp Fires" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gold" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gray Dawn" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Magic Forest" (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rose Dawn" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rediscovered Country" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Simba" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The forty-niners; a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado" (1918)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Daniel Boone, wilderness scout" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Skookum Chuck" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lions in the path; a book of adventure on the high veldt" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Back of Beyond" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Secret Harbour (1926)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dog days, other times, other dogs; the autobiography of a man and his dog friends through four decades of changing America" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Long Rifle" (1930)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Folded Hills" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ranchero" (1933)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pole Star" (1935), with Harry DeVighne

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wild Geese Calling" (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stampede" (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "THE PSYCHIC BOOKS:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Credo (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Why Be a Mud Turtle (1928)

paragraph: These first two books are "pre" Betty´s book. White discusses the philosophy of the future books, without revealing the source (the channeling through his wife Betty).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Betty Book (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Across the Unknown [with Harwood White] (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Unobstructed Universe (1940) (Considered the most important of the collection).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Road I Know (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Anchors to Windward (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Stars are Still There (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "With Folded Wings (1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gaelic Manuscripts

paragraph: BULLET::::- "NONFICTION:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Birds of Mackinac Island

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jane Roberts

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- J. C. Underwood, "Literature and Insurgency" (New York, 1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Staff report (September 19, 1946). STEWART E. WHITE, NOVELIST, IS DEAD; Author of Stories of Adventure and Frontier Life Was 73—Stricken After Fabled Career CHOKED LEOPARD TO DEATH Writer of 'Blazed Trail' Knew Yukon, Africa and West—Honored as Geographer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stewart White, Adventurer and novelist, dies; books captured thrills of own exciting life." Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1946

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stewart Edward White Biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guide to the Stewart Edward White Manuscripts at The Bancroft Library

description: American writer

wikidata_label: Stewart Edward White

wikipedia_title: Stewart Edward White


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categories: 1863 births,1937 deaths,James Riely Gordon buildings

paragraph: James Riely Gordon

paragraph: James Riely Gordon (August 2, 1863 – March 16, 1937) was an architect who practiced in San Antonio until 1902 and then in New York City, where he established a national reputation. J. Riely Gordon is best known for his landmark county courthouses, in particular those in Texas. Working during the state's "Golden Age" (1883–1898) of courthouse construction, Gordon saw 18 of his designs erected from 1885 to 1901; today 12 remain.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Gordon was born in Winchester, Virginia, to George Muir and Sarah Virginia (Riely) Gordon. When he was 11 his family moved to San Antonio. At 16 he began working in the engineering office of the International and Great Northern Railroad.

paragraph: In 1882, Gordon apprenticed to W.K. Dodson of Waco (not to be confused with W.C. Dodson, himself a designer of courthouses). Soon after Gordon went to work for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the agency responsible for the design of federal court buildings, customs houses, post offices, etc. In 1887 he returned to San Antonio to supervise construction of that city's U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (replaced in 1937). Gordon was essentially self-educated in his art, learning on his jobs, but never attending a school of architecture.

paragraph: In 1891, Gordon and his then partner, D.E. Laub, won first prize of $1,000 in a country-wide competition to design the new Bexar County Courthouse; shortly afterwards they ended their partnership. The building met with popular acclaim.

paragraph: Section::::Architectural career.

paragraph: Section::::Architectural career.:Texas and the South.

paragraph: J. Riely Gordon's specialty while practicing in Texas was public buildings, though he also designed houses and commercial structures. He became a master of the Romanesque Revival style that had been introduced to great acclaim by Henry Hobson Richardson with his Trinity Church in Boston in 1877. Returning to the roots of the style in the medieval Auvergne Region of France, Gordon is said to have "out-Richardsonianed Richardson" with his finest Romanesque work in Decatur and Waxahachie, Texas.

paragraph: Gordon's most successful plan—apparently his own unique design, without precedent—was that of a Greek cross with a square central atrium and stairwell, and quarter-circular entrance porches in each corner. This Signature Plan of his captured the passing breeze, which lifted thru the central atrium like a chimney, providing a natural ventilation system. Putting the entrances in the corners also shortened the hallways, saving space. He built 11 courthouses of this type in Texas between 1891 and 1900.

paragraph: His masterpiece is the Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie, which has become the icon of the town-square, late Victorian Era genre. The massive building tapers to 134 feet at the peak of the central clock tower, atop a vast roof punctuated by dormers. It took two million bricks, "160 car loads of Texas granite, 100 car loads of Pecos red sandstone, used in trimming the building, and 14 cars of iron". The pyramidal mass is softened by decorations such as carved faces of people and animals (apparently by the accomplished artisan Harry Herley) as well as multi-colored stones and bricks, and metal eagles perched on spirelets above the roof.

paragraph: After he won commissions for courthouses in Hazelhurst (Copiah County) and Woodville (Wilkenson County) in Mississippi, political shenanigans cheated Gordon out of a commission for that state's new capitol. Later Gordon fought hard to win the contract for a new City Hall in Vicksburg, then the state's largest city. Like his proposed design for the capitol, the luscious-looking city hall featured curving rows of columns. Gordon got some satisfaction from the crooked state politicians with this "graceful, dignified, and architecturally fine" building in Vicksburg that flaunts its Beaux-Arts beauty on a crest above the Mississippi River.

paragraph: Using his design for the Mississippi capitol, Gordon won the commission for the Arizona Territorial Capitol building in Phoenix, which became the state capitol when Arizona was admitted to the Union in 1912; today it is a museum. Another notable building was the award-winning Texas Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

paragraph: Section::::Architectural career.:New York and the East.

paragraph: In 1902, Gordon moved his practice to Dallas, and then in 1904 to New York City. For a few years there he was in partnership with architects Evarts Tracy and Egerton Swartwout.

paragraph: Gordon designed a number of substantial buildings in Manhattan, but almost all of them have since been replaced by new structures. One venerable survivor from 1910, in the Gramercy Park area, is the apartment house 36 Gramercy Park East. With a soaring pair of stacked bay windows, it is clad in white terra cotta, like Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building of the same period.

paragraph: While apartment houses and commercial buildings dominated Gordon's practice in New York City, he did see more courthouse work, in Somerville and Hackensack, NJ, in Oakland, MD, in Ebensburg, PA, and in Wampsville and Cortland, NY.

paragraph: The significance of his role in the New York area may be inferred from the fact that his obituary in the "New York Times" failed to even mention the word "Texas".

paragraph: Section::::Courthouses.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aransas County: Gordon designed the 1889 Aransas County Courthouse in Rockport in the architectural styles of Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival. This courthouse was erected at a cost of $19,494 but razed in 1956 and replaced by the county's current courthouse.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brazoria County: In 1894, Gordon was hired to design a courthouse for Brazoria County in its original county seat of Brazoria. The Richardson Romanesque style structure was superseded by what is referred to as the Old Brazoria County Courthouse in 1897, when the county seat was moved to Angleton. The courthouse designed by Gordon was demolished in 1930.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Comal County: The 1899 Romanesque Revival Comal County Courthouse designed by Gordon for New Braunfels was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1993.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ellis County: Another Richardson Romanesque design by Gordon is in Waxahachie where the 1897 courthouse appears on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the larger Ellis County Courthouse Historic District. The courthouse itself was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1969.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Erath County: In 1891, county commissioners awarded Gordon a contract to design the Erath County Courthouse in Stephenville, which was completed in 1892. The Romanesque Revival building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1963.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bexar County: Groundbreaking was in 1891, and the Romanesque courthouse was completed in 1896. The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1976.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fayette County: Gordon designed the 1891 courthouse in La Grange, which appears on the National Register of Historic Place as the 1975-listed Fayette County Courthouse and Jail and as part of the larger 2001-listed Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District. The courthouse by itself was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2001.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gonzales County: Gonzales is the location of Gordon's 1896 Romanesque Revival Gonzales County Courthouse, which used his characteristic Greek cross layout, with corner entrances and a soaring rotunda. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 after becoming a Texas Historic Landmark in 1966.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Harrison County: Old Harrison County Courthouse in Marshall was designed by Gordon in the Beaux Arts and Renaissance Revival styles, and erected in 1900 of marble, granite, and other stone. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The courthouse was designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1965.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hopkins County: Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs is the only structure in Hopkins County on the National Register of Historic Places. It was added in 1977. The 1895 structure was designed by Gordon in the Romanesque Revival style at a cost of $75,000. It was designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1975.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee County: Gordon's Lee County Courthouse in Giddings was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. This Romanesque Revival building was constructed of red brick in 1899 and designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1968.

paragraph: BULLET::::- McLennan County: The Beaux Arts Classicism style McLennan County Courthouse in Waco was completed in 1902 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Van Zandt County: The Van Zandt County Courthouse in Canton, dedicated in 1896, was one more of Gordon's Romanesque buildings. But it was razed in 1936 for the current courthouse. The site was designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1986.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Victoria County: Gordon designed the Old Victoria County Courthouse located in Victoria, Texas in 1892. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and was designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1961.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wise County: County commissioners awarded a design contract in 1895 to Gordon for the Wise County Courthouse located in Decatur. Construction was completed in 1897. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and designated a Texas Historic Landmark in 1964.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Garrett County: In Oakland, Maryland, the Garrett County Courthouse used Gordon's trademark plan with corner doors and a ventilating atrium-like lobby. Using drawings prepared in 1907, in neo-classical Renaissance Revival style, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bergen County: Another surviving work from Gordon's New York period is the Bergen County Court House at 10 Main St, Hackensack, N.J. Its cornerstone was laid July 6, 1910 and the building completed in 1912. Designed in the [Beaux Arts architecture|Beaux Arts] style that reflects monuments of classical Rome and Italian Renaissance.

paragraph: Section::::Other buildings.

paragraph: Among Gordon's non-public work in Texas is the 1890 Protestant Home for Destitute Children at 802 Kentucky Ave in San Antonio. The building was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1991. The Stevens Building, which Gordon designed at 315 E. Commerce, received the Recorded Texas Historic Landmark designation in 1984. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places the same year.

paragraph: In Seguin, Texas, near San Antonio, the Nolte family hired Gordon to build the E. Nolte & Sons Bank (now a Wells Fargo branch) facing the town square (designed 1890, finished 1896). It is part of the National Register listing of Seguin's Commercial District. Its façade has been greatly altered over the years. For Eugene Nolte, Gordon also designed a house with Queen Anne style massing and a rare-in-Texas Shingle style exterior (circa 1895), just across the street from the back of the bank, at 102 E. Live Oak Street and the corner of S. Austin St. Today the 19-room mansion is owned the H.A. Daniels family of Seguin, whose family purchased the home from Mrs. Eugenie (Claudia) Nolte circa 1940. Photographs and Gordon's records of this house, including two photographs of its interiors, are housed at the Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin . More photographs of this house are also available at the Institute of Texan Cultures archives housed among the Eugene Nolte papers at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

paragraph: James Riely Gordon also designed a number of notable houses for wealthy clients in Gonzales, Texas. There, he not only designed the courthouse, but also at least three homes. In 1895, for lumberman J.B. Kennard he designed 621 St. Louis St. in Queen Anne style. The home of James F. Miller at 121 St. Joseph St., known as Walnut Ridge, was completed in 1901. And Gordon also supplied the design for the 1911 house of D.S. Dilworth, a banker and businessman.

paragraph: Gordon designed the Staacke Brothers Building at 309 E. Commerce St.for the carriage trade of August Frederick Staacke in 1894. The building became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984. The Staacke building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

paragraph: One surviving Gordon house, at 425 King William St in San Antonio's heavily German-American King William District, was built for George Kalteyer (1892–1893). Gordon designed a cottage in 1890 for August Thiele, Jr., a San Antonio business and civic leader. It has been listed since 1983 on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Thiele House and Thiele Cottage. The cottage itself was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984. The Queen Anne style Thomas H. Franklin House was designed by Gordon and built in 1891 for a local attorney. It was added to the National Register in 1986.

paragraph: Gordon's designs are also represented in the Monte Vista Residential Historic District, featured on the National Register of Historic Places since 1998. The showplace home that J. Riely Gordon designed for real estate developer Jay E. Adams stands at 505 Belknap today.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: In 1889, Gordon married Mary Lamar Sprigg. The couple had one daughter.

paragraph: Gordon served 13 years as the president of the New York Society of Architects before being named its honorary President. He also served on a number of important city boards and official committees.

paragraph: He died of a stroke on March 16, 1937. His funeral featured a tribute by the president of the New York Society of Architects, and was attended by some 50 other architects.

paragraph: James Riely Gordon's papers are now held in the Alexander Architectural Archive of the University of Texas Libraries.

paragraph: In 2011, Chris Meister's book "James Riely Gordon: His Courthouses and Other Public Architecture" became the first scholarly study of Gordon's career and major works.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Texas Courthouses on Texas Escapes.com

alias:
James Riley Gordon
J. Riely Gordon

description: architect

wikidata_label: James Riely Gordon

wikipedia_title: James Riely Gordon


text:
Chabrillan
Paris
Cirque Olympique
quadrille
can-can
Bal Mabille
schottische
Sebastián Iradier
Bizet
opera of the same name
Melbourne
Australia
Folies-Marigny
Valtesse de la Bigne
Liane de Pougy
Franco-Prussian War
bombardment of Mogador
Morocco
Essaouira
Montmartre

categories: 1909 deaths,1824 births,Writers from Paris,French women dramatists and playwrights,French female dancers,French women novelists

paragraph: Céleste Mogador

paragraph: Élisabeth-Céleste Venard (December 27, 1824 – February 18, 1909), better known by her stage name Céleste Mogador and often referred to simply as Mogador, was a French dancer and writer. She was also the countess of Chabrillan.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and career.

paragraph: The daughter of Anne-Victoire Vénard, she was born in Paris, France, on December 27, 1824. Her father died when she was six; she was neglected by her mother and abused by her stepfather. At the age of sixteen, she began performing at the Cirque Olympique. She helped introduce dances such as the quadrille and the can-can at the Bal Mabille. She is credited with being the first to dance the schottische. She also sang in cabarets, performing songs by Sebastián Iradier. One source has suggested that the character Carmen in Bizet's opera of the same name may have been based on Mogador.

paragraph: In 1854, she married Lionel de Moreton, count of Chabrillan. He was named consul for France in Melbourne, Australia, and died there in 1858. In 1854, she published a memoir "Adieu au monde, Mémoires de Céleste Mogador". Her attorney Desmarest convinced her to pen the story of how she worked her way out of poverty to rise to the top of the "demi"-"monde." This memoir caused scandal in both Europe and Australia, where the courtesan-turned-countess had just relocated with her new husband. Although ostracized by her new community, she used the two years to work on her writing and to pen notes about her new life in a journal. In 1877, she published it as "Un deuil au bout du monde" and it describes her experiences in Australia. She was disappointed that she could not find a publisher for "Les Deux Noms," her third set of memoirs. Although lost for many years, Jana Verhoeven found them in France—and with the help of Alan Willey and Jeanne Allen, translated and annotated them.

paragraph: She was director of a theatre company, the Folies-Marigny. Mogador also wrote a number of plays, including "Les voleurs d'or", "Les Crimes de la mer", "Les Revers de l'Amour", "L'Américaine" and "Pierre Pascal". Her friend Dumas "père" helped her revise a stage version of her best-selling novel "Les" "Voleurs d"’"or" (1857). Her novel, "La Sapho" (1858), is her only fictional work to address the injustices from which demi-mondaines suffered. In the novel, Marie Laurent is seduced and then abandoned. After a failed suicide attempt, she resurfaces as La Sapho in the London demi-monde and pursues revenge. Carol Mossman calls the novel a "vengeance fantasy" that allows de Chabrillan to work through the indignities she suffered as a prostitute: "If the justice sought by Céleste de Chabrillan in the course of her lifetime with respect to the social conditions leading her to her own prostitution remains elusive, she can at least mete it out in fiction."

paragraph: According to a review of her third set of memoirs, the widowed de Chabrillan confronted numerous difficulties: "There were powerful men who tried to crush Céleste’s spirit with no concern for the dire financial consequences of their actions. Her memoirs painfully document her being denied a widow’s pension even though her husband had worked as an important government employee. They also recount how the Chabrillan family tried to prevent her from publishing books, staging plays, and running her own theater. She usually managed to overcome such obstacles, but on several occasions, she toiled so hard that she ended up in the hospital.

paragraph: While she emphasizes the personal hurdles she faced trying to prove herself to others, she also bears witness to the struggles of a female autodidact to achieve literacy and to improve her social standing in nineteenth-century France. Writing would buoy her through her darkest hours during the fifty years she soldiered on without her companion. Although Céleste took great pride in the twelve novels, thirty plays and operettas, and dozen poems and patriotic lyrics she authored, they never provided her with a stable income and, sadly, she struggled financially at several points in her life. Rich in ideas, however, Céleste boasts: "If my numerous works are not outstanding through their literary brilliance, they are so at least by their quantity. I have never imitated anyone and never borrowed from other writers. Maybe I was wrong, but what I wrote is truly mine." Likely cognizant of the critics who doubted whether a courtesan could really write, and certainly angered by the tendency of male writers to "kill off" courtesans at the end of their novels and plays, Céleste proudly recounted her life beyond prostitution and was ultimately recognized as a writer by her peers. As she notes in the last line of her memoirs, her greatest joy was the memory of "my illustrious protectors from the Association of Stage Authors, who accepted me as one of their own and granted me a pension until the end of my life."

paragraph: Indeed, Mossman notes the respect her writing earned de Chabrillan: "If the publication of her memoirs in 1854-1858 shocked a reading public, the male half of which, in any case, participated with impunity in the very life she describes, other memoirs of notorious women would follow: The "grande horizontale", Liane de Pougy, composed her Blue Notebooks from 1919-1937, Cora Pearl's memoirs appeared in 1886, and Sarah Bernhardt's fascinating but expurgated "Ma double vie" was written with considerable retrospective distance in 1907." "The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel" also maintains that de Chabrillan's writings inspired other courtesans to protest their alienation in their own autobiographical fictions. For example, "Louise de la Bigne took up her pen to write courtesan fiction some 20 years later. She renamed herself Valtesse de la Bigne, enjoyed great fames in 1870s Paris, and took the pen name Ego when she published "Isola"." De la Bigne's novel in turn inspired Liane de Pougy to write four courtesan novels in fin-de-siècle Paris.

paragraph: Generous and patriotic, during the Franco-Prussian War, she established Les Sœurs de France to look after wounded soldiers and she opened her home to children orphaned during the war. She earned a public tribute from the women who volunteered with her in the "Sœurs de France."

paragraph: The name "Mogador" refers to the 1844 bombardment of Mogador in Morocco, now known as Essaouira. She explains how she earned the moniker in her first set of memoirs.

paragraph: Section::::Literary work.

paragraph: Mogador wrote a series of novels:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Voleurs d'or" (1857)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sapho" (1858)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Miss Pewell" (1859)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Est-il fou?" (1860)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Un miracle à Vichy" (1861)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mémoires d'une honnête fille" (1865)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Deux Sœurs" (1876)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Forçats de l'Amour" (1881)

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Mogador died in Montmartre, France, at the age of 84 on February 18, 1909.

description: French dancer, playwright and novelist

wikidata_label: Céleste Mogador

wikipedia_title: Céleste Mogador


text: alpine ski racer

categories: Olympic medalists in alpine skiing,Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Living people,Olympic alpine skiers of Austria,Austrian female alpine skiers,Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics,1997 births,Olympic bronze medalists for Austria,Olympic silver medalists for Austria

paragraph: Katharina Gallhuber

paragraph: Katharina Gallhuber (born 16 June 1997) is an Austrian alpine ski racer.

wikidata_label: Katharina Gallhuber

wikipedia_title: Katharina Gallhuber


text:
Slovenia
alpine ski racer

categories: Living people,Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics,1991 births,Slovenian female alpine skiers,Olympic alpine skiers of Slovenia

paragraph: Tina Robnik

paragraph: Tina Robnik (born 30 July 1991) is a Slovenian alpine ski racer.

description: Slovene alpine skier

wikidata_label: Tina Robnik

wikipedia_title: Tina Robnik


text: water polo

text: 2016 Olympics

categories: Olympic medalists in water polo,Croatian male water polo players,Living people,1986 births,Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics,Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics,Olympic water polo players of Croatia,Olympic silver medalists for Croatia,World Aquatics Championships medalists,Olympiacos Water Polo Club players,Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Greece

paragraph: Antonio Petković

paragraph: Antonio Petković (born 11 January 1986) is a Croatian water polo player who won silver medals at the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Olympics.

paragraph: Section::::Orders.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 2016

description: Croatian water polo player

wikidata_label: Antonio Petković

wikipedia_title: Antonio Petković


text: Education

text: Automotive

text: Jewellery

text: Malabar Gold

text: Pallikere

text: Kasaragod

text: Kerala

text: India

text: Mappila LP School

text: Automobile Engineering

text: Chennai

text: Madras

text: PACE Education Group

text: Technical Education

text: Kerala

text: India

text: Kerala

text: Chief Minister

text: GARSHOM Lifetime Achievement Award 2017

categories: 1943 births,Businesspeople from Kerala,20th-century Indian businesspeople,Indian chief executives,Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates,Living people

paragraph: P. A. Ibrahim Haji

paragraph: P. A. Ibrahim Haji is an Indian Entrepreneur having presence in the Education, Automotive and Jewellery industries. He is the Chairman of PACE Education group, Founder and Vice-chairman of the Indus Motor Company and Co-chairman and key investor of Malabar Gold. There are around 15,000 employees working within his group.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Ibrahim was born on 6 September 1943, in the village of Pallikere, in Kasaragod, Kerala, India. His parents were Abdulla Ibrahim Haji, a textile merchant and Aysha. He attended the Government Mappila LP School, and later the Kottikulam Government Fisheries High School. After completing his schooling, he pursued his Diploma in Automobile Engineering in Chennai (formerly known as Madras).

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1999, he created the PACE Education Group, an educational trust which provides education from kindergarten up to higher secondary school levels in Indian and British curricula, as well as providing undergraduate and post graduate Degrees in Engineering and Management in the UAE and India. The group has 1200 teaching staff and 500 non-teaching staff.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University Selected as a member in the Board of Governors of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University which is the affiliation body for Technical Education in Kerala, India.

paragraph: BULLET::::- C H Award in memory of former Kerala Chief Minister C H Mohammed Koya

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pravasi Ratna (SEP-2005) Awarded at -'THE NRI GLOBAL MEET'.

paragraph: BULLET::::- GARSHOM Lifetime Achievement Award 2017

description: Indian businessman

wikidata_label: P.A. Ibrahim Haji

wikipedia_title: P. A. Ibrahim Haji


text:
water polo
Brazil
2015 World Aquatics Championships
2016 Summer Olympics

categories: Water polo players at the 2015 Pan American Games,Brazilian male water polo players,Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil,1988 births,Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics,Olympic water polo players of Brazil,Pan American Games medalists in water polo,Pan American Games silver medalists for Brazil,Living people,Water polo players at the 2011 Pan American Games

paragraph: Jonas Crivella

paragraph: Jonas Crivella (born 30 April 1988) is a water polo player from Brazil. He was part of the Brazilian team at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships. and 2016 Summer Olympics. He won two medals at the Pan American Games in 2011 and 2015.

description: Brazilian water polo player

wikidata_label: Jonas Crivella

wikipedia_title: Jonas Crivella


text:
revue
Minneapolis, Minnesota
London Hippodrome
Albert de Courville
motor scooter
Little Grove
Georgian house
East Barnet
Ziegfeld Follies
Hullo Ragtime!
Are You There?
The Prince of Wales's Theatre
Hullo Tango!
Push and Go
Zig-Zag!
London Hippodrome
Cheating Cheaters
Joy Bells
footlightnotes.wordpress.com
npg.org.uk
YouTube
i1.wp.com
"New York Times"

categories: American actresses,East Barnet,American singers,1888 births,Year of death missing

paragraph: Shirley Kellogg

paragraph: Shirley Kellogg (born 27 May 1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American actress and singer who found greater success in Britain than in America, mostly in revue.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: She was born on 27 May 1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: She appeared in theatre, particularly at the London Hippodrome and married theatrical and later film director Albert de Courville in June 1913. In 1917 she was filmed promoting the introduction of the motor scooter to England. From 1921 to 1924 she owned Little Grove, a Georgian house in East Barnet which she was said to have spent £10,000 restoring, a very large amount of money at that time. The house was known as Shirley Grove during her ownership.

paragraph: In 1924, Kellogg was granted a divorce from de Courville.

paragraph: In 1924, Kellogg travelled to Hollywood to attempt to break into moving pictures and featured in silent films.

paragraph: Section::::Appearances.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ziegfeld Follies of 1910.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hullo Ragtime!" London Hippodrome, 1912.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Are You There?" The Prince of Wales's Theatre, London, 1913.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hullo Tango!" 1913.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Push and Go", London Hippodrome, 1915.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zig-Zag!" London Hippodrome, 1917.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cheating Cheaters", Strand Theatre, 1918

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Joy Bells", London Hippodrome, 1919.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- footlightnotes.wordpress.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- npg.org.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- YouTube

paragraph: BULLET::::- i1.wp.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times"

wikidata_label: Shirley Kellogg

wikipedia_title: Shirley Kellogg


text: mestizo

text: Arauco War

text: Mapuche

text: cacique

text: Curivilú

text: Mapuche raid

text: casta

text: toqui

text: crime of passion

text: Captaincy General of Chile

text: Arauco War

text: Mapuche

text: Curivilú

text: Concepción

text: caste system

text: mestizo

text: nun

text: arquebus

text: toqui

text: espionage

text: malones

text: incendiary device

text: Víctor Domingo Silva

text: historical comic

text: Patria vieja

text: Luis Ruiz Tagle

text: Bicentennial of Chile

categories: Captaincy General of Chile,1660 deaths,Indigenous leaders of the Americas,Indigenous military personnel of the Americas,People of the Arauco War,17th-century Mapuche people,Chilean people of Mapuche descent,Mestizo people,Assassinated military personnel,Tokis

paragraph: Alejo

paragraph: Alejo (1635 – 1660) was a Chilean mestizo, who fought in the Arauco War. He was the son of the Mapuche cacique Curivilú and the Spanish Isabel de Vivar y Castro who was captured during a Mapuche raid. Isabel and Alejo were rescued five years later and rejoined the Spanish society. Alejo enlisted the Spanish army, but the system of castas prevented his promotion. As a result, he deserted from the Spanish army and joined the Mapuches, being appointed toqui. Instructed in Spanish military strategy, he posed a serious threat to his former masters, but he died in a crime of passion: after he had sex with a captured Spanish woman his two wives murdered him.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Alejandro Vivar, Isabel's father, was a Spanish soldier in the Captaincy General of Chile during the Arauco War against the Mapuches. He led an incursion into Mapuche territory and was ambushed by them. Isabel was captured and engaged to the cacique Curivilú. She had a son with him, known as "Alejandro de Vivar" by the Spanish and "Ñancú" by the Mapuche; but he used the diminutive form of the name "Alejo" instead.

paragraph: Isabel and Alejo were rescued by the Spanish five years after Isabel's capture and returned to Concepción. However, the caste system of the local population meant they were looked down on: Alejo was rejected as a mestizo, and Isabel for having a son with a Mapuche. To avoid the social criticism, Isabel became a nun and lived inside a convent. Alejo was raised by Franciscans and eventually joined the military. Alejo trained as arquebusier, but he was denied any promotion as he was a mestizo. As a result, he deserted from the Spanish army in 1657 and joined the Mapuche.

paragraph: Alejo returned to the tribe of his father. The Mapuche had a more welcoming attitude towards mestizos than the Spanish, and accepted him. Alejo was valuable to the Mapuches as he had close knowledge of the Spanish military strategy. He informed his father about his life among the Spanish (known as "huincas" by the Mapuches), and expressed his willingness to serve with the Mapuche against them.

paragraph: As the new toqui, Alejo increased espionage activity and intensified the raids of malones to steal cattle, weapons and capture hostages. He introduced the use of incendiary devices to Mapuche warfare, which proved deadly against the city of Concepción. To prevent the complete destruction of the city, the Spanish sent Isabel to parley with him. Alejo agreed to stop the attack because of his love for his mother, but said ""Mother, it will be very difficult for those arrogant "huincas" to look you in the eyes. They are haughty enough to humiliate mestizos, but they are cowards incapable of defending themselves and have to resort to using a woman to parley with the enemy in their name, while they are surely trembling behind those walls". The other Mapuche were unwilling to stop the attack, but Alejo quickly silenced the objections by splitting open the head of one of the enraged Mapuche with an axe.

paragraph: Alejo continued his march and destroyed the forts of Conuco and Chepe completely. He then massacred the populations of Talcamavida and Santa Juana. He celebrated one of his victories by getting drunk and having sex with a captured Spanish woman. This angered his Mapuche wives who attacked and killed him while he was sleeping, and then escaped to a Spanish fort. The Spanish welcomed them and gave them asylum.

paragraph: Section::::In popular media.

paragraph: Víctor Domingo Silva wrote a historical novel about Alejo, "El mestizo Alejo y la Criollita".

paragraph: The life of Alejo was portrayed in a Chilean historical comic written in 1973, as part of a number of historical comic books about the history of Chile from the colonization to the "Patria vieja". The episode "El mestizo Alejo" was published in issues 178 to 184, with art and scripts by Luis Ruiz Tagle.

paragraph: The actor Diego Ruiz took part in the documentary film "Algo habrán hecho por la historia de Chile", playing Alejo. The documentary was produced during the Bicentennial of Chile.

description: Chilean mestizo

wikidata_label: Alejo

wikipedia_title: Alejo


text:
progressive rock
Gentle Giant
Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire
Wales
Swansea
Merseybeat
Phil Ryan
Gary Pickford-Hopkins
Melody Maker
Decca
Mercury Records
Buzzy Linhart
Lou Reizner
Racing Cars
Pete Brown & Piblokto!
Glenn Cornick
Jethro Tull
Graham Bond's Magick
Gentle Giant
Malcolm Mortimore
Octopus
Civilian
Man
Spinocerebellar ataxia
ornithologist
Octopus
In a Glass House
The Power and the Glory
Free Hand
Interview
The Missing Piece
Giant for a Day!
Civilian
Friday 13th
The Twang Dynasty
Call Down The Moon
Gentle Giant home page

categories: People from Carmarthen,1947 births,British male drummers,Welsh rock drummers,Living people,People from Swansea,Man (band) members

paragraph: John Weathers

paragraph: John Patrick 'Pugwash' Weathers (born 7 February 1947) is a drummer, best known for playing with the progressive rock band Gentle Giant.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, he moved to Swansea until, aged 15, he went to live with his aunt in Liverpool, just as the Merseybeat scene exploded. Weathers had had a drum-kit as a child, so took up drumming again, playing in several local bands. Returning to Wales in 1964, his experience on the Mersey scene got him into several local bands, including The Vikings (1964) and The Brothers Grimm (1965).

paragraph: Section::::Eyes of Blue.

paragraph: In 1966 Weathers joined a Neath band The Eyes of Blue, along with Phil Ryan (keyboards) and Gary Pickford-Hopkins (vocals) from The Smokestacks. The band turned professional, and won the 1966 Melody Maker Beat Contest. The prize was a one-year record contract, but they had to record songs chosen for them, rather than their own material and neither of their singles, "Heart Trouble" / "Up And Down" and "Supermarket Full Of Cans" / "Don't Ask Me To Mend Your Broken Heart", sold well.

paragraph: The Eyes of Blue changed label from Decca to Mercury Records and recorded their first album "Crossroads of Time" in 1968. They then recorded an album "Buzzy", as the backing band for American singer-songwriter Buzzy Linhart, before recording their second album "In Fields of Ardath" in 1969.

paragraph: The band Strawberry Dust supported The Eyes, and impressed Weathers, who persuaded Lou Reizner to commission an album, which Weathers produced and wrote/co-wrote 6 songs. "Women & Children First" was released in 1970, but Reizner renamed the band Ancient Grease, without telling them, and credited himself as co-producer.

paragraph: The Eyes of Blue's third album, "Bluebell Wood", released under the pseudonym Big Sleep, was their last, as the band broke up shortly afterwards. Weathers briefly played with Strawberry Dust, until they also broke up, later reforming as Racing Cars. After this break up he played drums on the final appearance of the Swansea Soul band the John Smith Committee.

paragraph: In 1970 Weathers and Phil Ryan joined Pete Brown & Piblokto! playing on one single, "Flying Hero Sandwich" / "My Last Band", before Piblokto also disbanded. Weathers then joined an embryonic Wild Turkey with Glenn Cornick (ex-Jethro Tull), Gary Pickford-Hopkins (ex Eyes of Blue) and Graham Williams (ex Strawberry Dust), but Weathers and Williams left to join Graham Bond's Magick before Wild Turkey recorded any material.

paragraph: Section::::Gentle Giant.

paragraph: "(For details of Weathers' work in this period see Gentle Giant)"

paragraph: Weathers joined Gentle Giant in 1972, as a temporary stand in for their drummer Malcolm Mortimore, who had been injured in a motorcycle accident. He first played on Gentle Giant's "Octopus" album, and his position soon became permanent, remaining with them until they broke up, after their last album "Civilian" (1980). He was well liked by fans for his distinctive hard-bashing drum style, and also played vibes and xylophone, among other percussion instruments. He also added his vocals in both studio and live performances more and more frequently as time went on, even singing lead on the songs "Interview" and "Friends", the latter of which he also composed.

paragraph: Whilst with Gentle Giant, Weathers occasionally played with Phil Ryan's band The Neutrons, including their 1974 album, "Black Hole Star".

paragraph: Section::::Recent years.

paragraph: After Gentle Giant disbanded in 1980, Weathers played a number of temporary positions, until he joined the psychedelic/progressive rock band Man when they reformed in 1983. Apart from a short spell, when he was unwell and Rick Martinez temporarily took over, he stayed with Man until 1996, recording 2 studio albums and 3 live albums, and becoming their longest serving drummer, allegedly leaving because Gentle Giant were about to reform. Ironically, he left Man shortly before Phil Ryan re-joined the band. Weathers was infamously featured in the 1986 S4C TV programme Rocking With A Sikh, backing the Sikh Elvis impersonator Peter Singh, along with Martin Ace and Micky Jones.

paragraph: It was variously reported that he was suffering from RSI or arthritis, but according to him was actually “diagnosed with a condition called Spinocerebellar ataxia, which is akin to M.S.” The unpublished memoirs of his time spent in Morriston Hospital – Two Weeks in Pain – Under the Knife, hilariously document the trials of an NHS in-patient in post-op recovery.

paragraph: Weathers has appeared on several Welsh TV soundtracks, and in 2006 rejoined the latest re-incarnation of Wild Turkey, to record their album "You & Me In The Jungle" and tour Europe.

paragraph: Weathers is also a keen ornithologist.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With Gentle Giant.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Octopus" (1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In a Glass House" (1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Power and the Glory" (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Free Hand" (1975)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Interview" (1976)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Missing Piece" (1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Giant for a Day!" (1978)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Civilian" (1980)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With Man.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Friday 13th" (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Twang Dynasty" (1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Call Down The Moon" (1995)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With Wild Turkey.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "You and Me in the Jungle" (2006)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gentle Giant home page

description: Welsh musician

wikidata_label: John Weathers

wikipedia_title: John Weathers


text:
Ferdinand and Isabella
Burgos
Palencia
Dominican order
Córdoba
Sixtus IV
Bishopric of Cuenca
P. B. Gams
Palencia
Council of Castile
Colegio de San Gregorio
Valladolid
Alfonso the Wise

categories: Spanish untitled nobility,1499 deaths,Spanish Dominicans,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Alonso de Burgos

paragraph: Alonso (or Alfonso) de Burgos (before 1477 – 1499) was the royal confessor of Ferdinand and Isabella.

paragraph: He was born of a noble family in Burgos and died at Palencia in 1499.

paragraph: He was conspicuous for learning before his entrance into the Dominican order, early in life. His preaching attracted the notice of Ferdinand and Isabella, who selected him as royal confessor. On the recommendation of the latter, Alfonso was appointed to the see of Córdoba by Sixtus IV, 30 April 1477. Remaining there only four years, he was transferred to the Bishopric of Cuenca, and in 1484, or according to P. B. Gams ("Series Episcoporum", P. 64) in 1486, to Palencia.

paragraph: At the same time he held successively the office of Grand Chaplain of the Court, Counsellor of the Catholic King, and President of the Council of Castile.

paragraph: In the latter capacity he was instrumental in getting pecuniary grants from the crown for Columbus. During the years 1487 and 1488 he obtained eight thousand pounds at various times for the fitting out of a fleet. In the absence of the king he exercised his right as President of the Council in giving orders for a payment of three thousand pounds to the discoverer.

paragraph: These duties did not hinder him from repairing many dilapidated churches of his diocese. He built, out of his own revenues, the Dominican convent of St. Vincent Ferrer at Palencia, in 1486. He takes a high rank in the history of Spanish education for completing the Colegio de San Gregorio at Valladolid, begun by King Alfonso the Wise (1252–1284). Posterity justly calls him the founder of this famous college of his order.

description: Confessor

wikidata_label: Alonso de Burgos

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World War II
Aubrey Herbert
Member of Parliament
Evelyn Waugh
his great-uncle
Voluntarist
their son
Ampleforth College
Balliol College
Oxford
British Army
Free French
Polish Army
Normandy Campaign
Winston Churchill
Belgium
Ghent
Parliament
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Brideshead Revisited
Isaiah Berlin
Malcolm Muggeridge
Pixton Park
Dulverton
Portofino
Sword of Honour
probate
Dictionary of National Biography

categories: 1974 deaths,Herbert family,People educated at Ampleforth College,1922 births,People from Dulverton,Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford

paragraph: Auberon Herbert (landowner)

paragraph: Auberon Mark Yvo Henry Molyneux Herbert (1922-1974) was a British landowner and advocate of Eastern European causes after World War II.

paragraph: Herbert was the son of Aubrey Herbert, Member of Parliament (MP), who died the year after his birth, and brother-in-law of the famous novelist, Evelyn Waugh. He was named after his great-uncle, the Voluntarist philosopher, and in a gesture of familial reconciliation, the Waughs named their son after him.

paragraph: Herbert attended Ampleforth College from 1934-1940, as well as Balliol College, Oxford from 1940-42. When World War II broke out he made repeated attempts to serve, being rejected by the British Army, the Free French and the Dutch forces in Britain. He was finally accepted by the Polish forces in Britain. Herbert became an expert in Polish and Ukrainian affairs, and served with the Polish Army during World War II. He fought throughout the Normandy Campaign. While on a personal mission from Winston Churchill in Belgium, Herbert was arrested in 1944 by Canadian military police in a Ghent bar, on suspicion of being a spy. His eccentric appearance, language proficiency and manner aroused suspicion. He was badly beaten and suffered facial scars thereafter. Herbert spoke six languages fluently. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to enter Parliament. Auberon Herbert supported various Eastern European anticommunist groups after the war. This included work to help resettle Polish refugees. He generously opened his country home to anticommunist East European groups and financed a textile mill to employ Polish exiles. His assistance extended to Ukrainian and Belarusian groups. A recently released CIA document names a "Mr. Herbert AUBERON of 11 Neville Terrace, London, SW 7" as one of two representatives of the British Conservative Party who met with World War II Ukrainian nationalist leader Yaroslav Stetsko in early 1951.

paragraph: He opposed Evelyn Waugh's marriage to his sister Laura Herbert, and Waugh never forgave him for this. An unflattering portrayal of a brother-in-law, 'Boy' Mulcaster, featuring some of his characteristics appears in Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited".

paragraph: Despite high intelligence and a circle of distinguished friends (including Isaiah Berlin and Malcolm Muggeridge), he seemed unable to accomplish as much in his life as he hoped. Being the only son, he inherited the family country home of Pixton Park, near Dulverton in Somerset, and the "Villa Alta Chiara" (an Italian rendering of "Highclere", the English seat of the Earls of Carnarvon) at Portofino in Italy, built by his grandfather the 4th Earl, which featured in Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy. He died a bachelor at the age of 52. Herbert's estate was probated at (GB)£895,722.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Jolliffe, ed., "Auberon Herbert: A Composite Portrait", Compton Russell, Tisbury, Wilts., 1976.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evelyn Waugh, Volume I: The Early Years: 1903-1939", Martin Stannard, Dent/Norton, London, 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evelyn Waugh, Volume II: No Abiding City 1939-1966", Martin Stannard, Flamingo, London, 1992

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evelyn Waugh, A Biography", Christopher Sykes, Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1977

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dictionary of National Biography

description: landowner

wikidata_label: Auberon Herbert

wikipedia_title: Auberon Herbert (landowner)