text:
Albany, New York
The Camera Club of New York
World's Columbian Exposition
Camera Notes
Alfred Stieglitz
Paris Exposition
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Paris Exposition

categories: 1952 deaths,Artists from Albany, New York,American women photographers,19th-century American photographers,1860 births

paragraph: Emma Justine Farnsworth

paragraph: Emma Justine Farnsworth (October 16, 1860–January 23, 1952) was an American photographer from Albany, New York known for her pictorialist photogravures and scenes illustrating children's literature.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in New York, Farnsworth was the daughter of Civil War general, Jonathan Gosman Farnsworth, and Sara Visscher Gourlay.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Farnsworth had training in the arts. After receiving her first camera as a gift in 1890, she began photographing seriously within a few months. A member of The Camera Club of New York, Farnsworth's photographs were featured in "In Arcadia", 1892, a book of figure studies accompanied by Classical verse, published by another member, George M. Allen. Her photographs were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893). Before the end of the decade, she had been awarded almost 30 medals at various exhibitions in the world, and her work appeared frequently in the noted periodical "Camera Notes", the journal of the Camera Club of New York, edited primarily by Alfred Stieglitz. Her photographs were also displayed at the Paris Exposition (1900). Her specialties were genre and figure studies, especially children and animals. Farnsworth exhibited internationally, and was included in the show, "American Women Photographers," organized by Frances Benjamin Johnston, and presented at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

paragraph: She died in Albany, New York, on January 23, 1952.

description: American photographer

wikidata_label: Emma Justine Farnsworth

wikipedia_title: Emma Justine Farnsworth


text:
track
road bicycle racer
Argentina
1959 Pan American Games
1960 Summer Olympics
men's road race

categories: Olympic cyclists of Argentina,Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics,1931 births,Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina,Argentine male cyclists,Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina,Competitors at the 1959 Pan American Games,Sportspeople from Córdoba, Argentina,Pan American Games medalists in cycling,Argentine people of German descent,Living people

paragraph: Ricardo Senn

paragraph: Ricardo S. Senn (born 3 April 1931) is a retired track and road bicycle racer from Argentina, who won the men's individual road race at the 1959 Pan American Games. He represented his native country at the 1960 Summer Olympics, finishing in 44th place in the men's road race.

description: Argentine racing cyclist

wikidata_label: Ricardo Senn

wikipedia_title: Ricardo Senn


text:
Voortrekker
Great Trek
Swellendam
Bible
Humansdorp
Uitenhage
Governor
Cape Colony
Benjamin d'Urban
Colonel
Harry Smith
Natal
Port Natal
Dingane
laager
Sand River
Piet Retief
constitution
democratic
United States of America
Andries Potgieter
Matabele
Mzilikazi
commando
Zimbabwe
Highveld
settlement
Orange Free State
Battle of Italeni
Dirkie
Battle of Blood River
Voortrekker Monument
Pretoria
South African Military History Society

categories: Afrikaner people,People from Swellendam,History of KwaZulu-Natal,1797 births,South African people of Dutch descent,1838 deaths

paragraph: Piet Uys

paragraph: Petrus Lafras Uys (more commonly known as Piet Uys) (1797–1838) was a Voortrekker leader during the Great Trek.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: He was born in Swellendam, the third son (of six) of Jacobus Johannes Uys (nicknamed "Koos Bybel" (Bible) because of his religious beliefs). In 1823 Piet Uys moved to a farm in the Humansdorp area near Uitenhage together with his father.

paragraph: Uys married a cousin, Alida Maria Uys, in 1815. The couple had three sons. He was described as a "well-spoken, intelligent man" with a wide circle of friends, including the Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin d'Urban and Colonel Harry Smith. His conduct during the Cape Frontier wars led him to assume a leadership role at the relatively young age of 37. As a result of this, Uys was chosen to lead the "Commission Trek" to Natal in 1834, where he visited Port Natal and may also have met Dingane.

paragraph: Section::::Pioneer.

paragraph: After this successful scouting expedition, the party returned to Uitenhage in February 1835. The subsequent favourable reports of the Commission Treks resulted in many farmers leaving their farms and trekking into the interior of Southern Africa, in what later became known as the Great Trek. Uys sold his own farm in December 1836 and left the Uitenhage area with his party of 100 Voortrekkers (as they became known) in April 1837.

paragraph: On 29 June of the same year, the Uys Trek arrived at the combined Voortrekker laager at the Sand River where, unbeknownst to them, Piet Retief had been elected Governor and a constitution drafted. Uys refused to accept either and insisted that, once they had reached Natal, democratic elections should be held. He also proposed a constitution based on that of the United States of America.

paragraph: Uys then received a request by Andries Potgieter to help him against the Matabeles and their leader, Mzilikazi, who had recently defeated him. A commando led by Uys responded, and their combined forces eventually drove the Matabeles into what is now the country of Zimbabwe, opening up the Highveld area for future settlement.

paragraph: On their return to the laager, the men found that Retief had already left for Natal. Uys and Potgieter subsequently travelled with a scouting party to Natal to visit Retief, but left for what later became known as the Orange Free State after being made to feel unwelcome.

paragraph: Section::::Warrior.

paragraph: However, after the massacare of Retief and his men by Dingane and the subsequent Zulu attacks on the Voortrekker laagers in Natal, commandos led by Uys and Potgieter rode to their aid. During the subsequent Battle of Italeni both Uys and his second son, Dirkie, were killed. The part of Uys' commando that remained behind (under the command of Field Cornet Potgieter), were surrounded and had to fight their way out. Due to the outcome of the battle, the Voortrekker forces involved in the fighting subsequently became known as the Vlugkommando(Flight Commando). Uys was to be the only Voortrekker leader to be killed in battle during the Great Trek. In retaliation the Voortrekkers formed the Vegkommando (Fight commando) which decisively defeated the Zulu in the Battle of Blood River.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Uys and his son Dirkie are rendered in the marble friezes of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- South African Military History Society

description: Voortrekker leader

wikidata_label: Piet Uys

wikipedia_title: Piet Uys


text:
Penns Hall
Sutton Coldfield
Warwickshire
England
Justice of the Peace
freemason
given name
wire
blue plaque
transatlantic telegraph cable
Hay Mills
Birmingham
Baronet Payne
Samuel Boteler Bristowe
William Darwin Fox

paragraph: Baron Dickinson Webster

paragraph: Baron Dickinson Webster (1818–1860), son of Joseph Webster of Penns Hall, Sutton Coldfield (then in Warwickshire), England, was a Justice of the Peace, a freemason, a member of the Aston Union and of the Turnpike Trust and was Warden of the town in 1844 and in 1855-1858 ("Baron" was his given name, not a heraldic title).

paragraph: A man of some prominence, he was much involved in the negotiations with railway companies regarding their plans for routes to and through Sutton Coldfield. His business interests included the manufacture of wire, and in 1998 a blue plaque was erected at Penns Hall, by the Sutton Coldfield Civic Society, honouring his involvement in the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

paragraph: In 1855, the business of Websters was merged with that of Horsfall at Hay Mills, Birmingham and, in 1859, the whole business was transferred to Hay Mills and the Penns Mills were closed down, with serious financial consequences for many workers and the economy of the Walmley area of Sutton Coldfield.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He was the son of Joseph Webster (1783-1856) and Maria Mary née Payne (1792-1848) a daughter of Sir Peter Payne (1762-1843) MP 3rd Baronet Payne of St Christopher's.

paragraph: He married twice:

paragraph: BULLET::::- in 1846 to Anne Maria Pipe-Wolferstan (1820-1848) by whom he had two sons who both died young: Baron Webster (1845-1845), Charles Payne Webster (1846-1862) and a daughter Frances Sharpe Webster (1848-1932) who married Stanley Edward Hicks JP DL Barrister at Law; and

paragraph: BULLET::::- secondly, in 1850, to Anna Maria Bristowe (1826-1862) daughter of Samuel Ellis Bristowe (1800-1855) JP DL and Mary Anne née Fox and brother of Samuel Boteler Bristowe (1822-1897) QC. They had two sons: Baron Dickinson Webster (1850-1930) who married Ellen Elizabeth Fox (1852-1923), a daughter of William Darwin Fox; and Lt Col Godfrey Fox Webster (1852-1933).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ironmasters of Penns", 1971, John Horsfall

description: British businessman

wikidata_label: Baron Dickinson Webster

wikipedia_title: Baron Dickinson Webster


text: Hungarian

text: Austria-Hungary

text: Romania

text: Temesvár

text: Austria-Hungary

text: engineering

text: University of Budapest

text: Budapest

text: Kalotaszeg

text: Székely Land

text: Roman Catholic

text: Zebegény

text: Óbuda

text: Reformed

text: Budapest Zoo

text: Dezső Zrumeczky

text: Rooster Church

text: Kolozsvár

text: Sepsiszentgyörgy

text: Vienna Secession

text: Art Nouveau

text: World War I

text: Stana

text: Istanbul

text: Budapest

text: Transylvania

text: Hungarian community

text: Romanian Kingdom

text: Lajos Albrecht

text: Magyar Party

text: Erdélyi Szépmíves Céh

text: Guild

text: Fine Arts

text: Erdélyi Helikon

text: Miklós Barabás

text: Northern Transylvania

text: Hungarian People's Union

text: Assembly of Deputies

text: Obuda

text: Zebegeny

text: Bela Janszky

text: Budapest

text: Dezső Zrumeczky

text: Városmajor Street

text: Dénes Györgyi

text: Wekerle estate

text: Székely National Museum

text: Sfântu Gheorghe

text: Church with the Rooster

text: Miskolc

text: King Matthias House

text: Baciu

text: Károly Kós, "Glasul care strigă"

text: Transylvanianism

text: Kós Károly House at Stana-Varjúvár

categories: Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania),Recipients of the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic,20th-century Romanian male writers,Romanian Calvinist and Reformed Christians,1977 deaths,Romanian male novelists,Art Nouveau architects,Romanian architects,Hungarian novelists,People from Timișoara,Romanian academics,Hungarian architects,Romanian magazine editors,Hungarian people of World War II,Hungarian people of German descent,20th-century Romanian novelists,Hungarian art critics,Hungarian journalists,1883 births,Romanian people of Hungarian descent,Romanian art critics,Hungarian Calvinist and Reformed Christians

paragraph: Károly Kós

paragraph: Károly Kós (born as Károly Kosch, ; December 16, 1883 – August 25, 1977) was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born as Károly Kosch in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now "Timișoara", Romania), he studied engineering at the University of Budapest, and only afterwards turned towards architecture (graduating from the Budapest Architecture School in 1907). Already during his studies and at the start of his career, he had a special interest for the historical and traditional folk architecture, and made study trips to Kalotaszeg and the Székely Land.

paragraph: In 1909, his project for the Roman Catholic church in Zebegény, in 1909 the Óbuda Reformed parochial building, and in 1910 the Budapest Zoo complex (with Dezső Zrumeczky), were carried out. During the 1910s, he completed the Reformed Rooster Church in Kolozsvár (a city later known as "Cluj" or "Cluj-Napoca") and the hospital in Sepsiszentgyörgy ("Sfântu Gheorghe"). At the time, his style was influenced by the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau.

paragraph: In 1914, at the start of World War I, Kós moved to Stana ("Sztána"). He was drafted the following year, but soon discharged on request from the Ministry of Culture. Between 1917 and 1918, he was sent on a study trip to Istanbul. In 1918, Kós was asked to be a professor of the College for Applied Arts of Budapest, but he declined, wishing to return to Transylvania.

paragraph: He lived off commissions and started a political career, choosing, unlike many in the Hungarian community, to accept the Romanian Kingdom's administration in the region as a given, while engaging in active opposition inside its legal framework (and authoring a manifesto calling on others to do the same). Alongside Lajos Albrecht and others, he was one of the founders of the Transylvanian People's Party in 1921 — the group later formed the Magyar Party. Kós also edited its illustrated political journal "Vasárnap".

paragraph: In 1924, he and several of his friends founded a publishing house under the name "Erdélyi Szépmíves Céh" ("Transylvanian Guild of Fine Arts"). From 1931, he was editor of the "Erdélyi Helikon", and manager of the Miklós Barabás Guild (an independent interest group of Hungarian artists in Romania).

paragraph: In 1944 his house in Stana (part of Northern Transylvania) was plundered, and he fled to Cluj, where he rejoined his family. He was director of the Transylvanian Hungarian Economic Association. As a politician, he was the president of the Hungarian People's Union ("Magyar Népi Szövetség", MNSz), and afterwards member of the Assembly of Deputies (1946–48).

paragraph: Kós taught at the College for Agriculture in Cluj until 1953, filling the post of the dean in 1945, and contributed to the journal "Világosság" between 1948-49. He died in Cluj.

paragraph: Section::::Buildings designed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1908-1910

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reformed Parish Church, Obuda

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholic Church, Zebegeny; with Bela Janszky

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zoo buildings, Budapest; with Dezső Zrumeczky

paragraph: BULLET::::- the "Varjuvar", Kós' house in Sztana

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1910-1913

paragraph: BULLET::::- Városmajor Street, Budapest; with Dénes Györgyi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wekerle estate, Budapest

paragraph: BULLET::::- Székely National Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Church with the Rooster, Cluj

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1930s and 1940s

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kós' house in Miskolc

paragraph: BULLET::::- Exhibition Hall, Cluj

paragraph: BULLET::::- King Matthias House restoration, Cluj

paragraph: BULLET::::- Milk hall, Mera village, Baciu

paragraph: Section::::Novels.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Varjú nemzetség" ("The Varjú Kin", 1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Gálok" ("The Gál Family", 1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Országépítő" ("The Country Founder", 1934)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lucian Nastasă, Levente Salat (eds.), "Maghiarii din România şi etica minoritară (1920-1940)", at the Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center. Open Society Foundation Romania; retrieved October 23, 2007:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Introductory studies by Lucian Nastasă and Levente Salat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Károly Kós, "Glasul care strigă"

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Transylvanianism

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kós Károly House at Stana-Varjúvár

alias:
Károly Kosch
Karoly Kos
Karoly Kosch

description: Hungarian architect

wikidata_label: Károly Kós

wikipedia_title: Károly Kós


text:
Ganden Tripa
Gelug
Tibetan Buddhism
Tatsak
abbot
Ganden Monastery
Mañjuśrī

categories: 1402 births,Ganden Tripas,15th-century religious leaders,1473 deaths

paragraph: Chökyi Gyeltshen

paragraph: Chökyi Gyeltshen (, (Wylie: chos kyi rgyal mtshan)) (1402–1473) was a Tibetan spiritual leader. He was the sixth Ganden Tripa of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1463 to 1473. He was also the 1st Tatsak Rinpoche ("rta tshag rin po che").

paragraph: He was a student of Jampel Gyatso ('jam dpal rgya mtsho, 1356-1428). He became known as Baso Choje (ba so chos rje), because "he either founded or took over the monastery of Baso Lhundrub Dechen (ba so lhun grub bde chen dgon)."

paragraph: As abbot of Ganden Monastery, he turned the main chapel into a "large temple," and installed "the gold gilt image of a form of Mañjuśrī known as Sanggye Sengge Ngaro (sangs rgyas sengge nga ro)."

paragraph: "Chokyi Gyeltsen had three principle disciples, known collectively as the “Three Dorje Brothers” (rdo rje mched gsum): Chokyi Dorje (chos kyi rdo rje, b. c.1457), Pelden Dorje (dpal ldan rdo rje) from Tolung, and Dorje Pelwa (rdo rje dpal ba), from Kham. Jedrung Lhawang Chokyi Gyeltsen (rje drung lha dbang chos kyi rgyal mtshan, 1537-1603) was identified as Baso Chokyi Gyeltsen's reincarnation."

description: Tibetan Buddhist leader

wikidata_label: Baso Chökyi Gyaltsen

wikipedia_title: Chökyi Gyeltshen


text: Camden, New South Wales

text: George Rignold

text: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

text: Covent Garden

text: Edwardian musical comedy

text: West End

text: Fallen Fairies

text: J. C. Williamson

text: The Chocolate Soldier

text: The Maid of the Mountains

text: A Southern Maid

text: The Firefly

text: The Cousin from Nowhere

text: Lilac Time

text: Efftee Studios

text: The Magic Shoes

text: Peter Finch

text: Annie Get Your Gun

text: Trilby

text: The Lure of the Bush

text: ₤500 Reward

text: Captain of the Guard

text: Too Many Wives

text: Dear Old London

text: Sheepmates

text: The Magic Shoes

text: Claude Flemming

text: National Film and Sound Archive

text: AusStage

categories: 1884 births,Australian film directors,1952 deaths,Australian film producers,Male actors from New South Wales

paragraph: Claude Flemming

paragraph: Claude Flemming (1884–1952) was an Australian actor, writer, producer and director of theatre and film whose varied stage career spanned the first half of the 20th century. He performed in Shakespeare and other drama, as well as opera, and became a music comedy specialist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Flemming was born in Camden, New South Wales. He made his stage début for George Rignold's Shakespeare company in Sydney in 1903. Soon afterwards, in England, he appeared on tour with Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Company and then performed in grand opera at Covent Garden ("Die Meistersinger", "The Angelus"). He later played in Edwardian musical comedy and operetta in the West End, including in "Fallen Fairies" (1909) and in New York. During and after the First World War, he toured in his homeland with the J. C. Williamson company in such musicals and operettas as "The Chocolate Soldier, The Maid of the Mountains, A Southern Maid, The Firefly, The Cousin from Nowhere, Sybil" and "Lilac Time".

paragraph: He acted and directed in several silent films in 1917 and 1918. Later, in America, he had a stint as a voice coach in Hollywood during the early years of sound films and as a company director for Efftee Studios. He directed "The Magic Shoes" (1935), the first screen performance of Peter Finch. He also worked as supervisor of productions at radio station 2CH in Sydney.

paragraph: His last stage work in Australia was as Col. Buffalo Bill in the Australian premiere in Melbourne, and subsequent three-year tour, of "Annie Get Your Gun" from 1947–50.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trilby" (1917) – actor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lure of the Bush" (1918) – director, actor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "₤500 Reward" (1918) – director, actor, producer, writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Captain of the Guard" (1930) - actor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Too Many Wives" (1933) - actor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dear Old London" (1933) (short) – director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sheepmates" (1934) (uncompleted film) – actor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Magic Shoes" (1935) (short) – director

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claude Flemming at National Film and Sound Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claude Flemming's Australian theatre credits at AusStage

wikidata_label: Claude Flemming

wikipedia_title: Claude Flemming


text:
Taira no Tadamori
Gion no Nyōgo
The Tale of the Heike
Emperor Shirakawa
Taira no Tadamori
Taira no Shigemori
Taira no Koremori
Taira no Chikazane
Oda Nobunaga
Taira no Motomori
Fujiwara no Sueyoshi
Taira no Tokiko
Taira no Munemori
Taira no Tomomori
Taira no Tokuko
Emperor Antoku
Taira no Shigehira
Konoe Motozane
Konoe Motomichi
Tokiwa Gozen
Taira no Tadamori
Taira
Minamoto no Yoshitomo
Minamoto
Hōgen Rebellion
Kyoto
Heiji Rebellion
Yoritomo
Noriyori
Yoshitsune
Go-Shirakawa
Emperor Nijō
daijō-daijin
de facto
Emperor Takakura
Tokuko
Emperor Antoku
coup d'état
Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Emperor Antoku
Prince Mochihito
Genpei War
Munemori
Kamakura period
Tale of Heike
Daiei Film
Kenji Mizoguchi
Taira Clan
Yoshikawa Eiji
The Tale of the Heike
heroic character
palanquin shrines
Yoshitoshi
Utagawa Hiroshige
Nakamura Utayemon IV
Osamu Tezuka
Phoenix series
peacock
Fabled Lands
Taiga drama
Junior First Rank
Taira no Shigemori
Shishigatani incident
Fukuhara-kyō
Itsukushima Shrine
Siege of Shirakawa-den

categories: 1181 deaths,1118 births,Taira clan,People of Heian-period Japan

paragraph: Taira no Kiyomori

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Kiyomori was born in Japan, in 1118 as the first son of Taira no Tadamori. His mother Gion no Nyōgo was a palace servant based from "The Tale of the Heike". Kiyomori was the son of Emperor Shirakawa with Gion no Nyogo who was given to Tadamori.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Taira no Tadamori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother: Gion no Nyogo (d. 1147)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wives, Concubine and children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wife: Takashina no Akiko, daughter of Takashina no Motoaki

paragraph: BULLET::::- First son: Taira no Shigemori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Kiyokumo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Shigezane

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Gyojitsu

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Tadafusa (d. 1186)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Moromori (1169–1171)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Arimori (1164–1185)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Kiyotsune (1163–1185)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Munejitsu (b. 1168)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Koremori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Takakiyo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Rokudai

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Sukemori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Chikazane ancestor of Oda Nobunaga

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Moritsuna

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Morichise

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Yoritsuna

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Takayori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inuma Sukemune

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Munetsuna

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second son: Taira no Motomori (1139–1162)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Yukimori (d. 1185)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Nobumoto

paragraph: BULLET::::- a daughter married Fujiwara no Sueyoshi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fujiwara Yoshisue

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second wife: Taira no Tokiko

paragraph: BULLET::::- Third son: Taira no Munemori

paragraph: BULLET::::- a daughter married Taira no Michimori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Kiyomune (1170–1185)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Hiramune (1178–1185)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fourth son: Taira no Tomomori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Tomoakira (1169–1184)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Masumori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Tomotada (1176–1196)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Kyoko (b. 1181) married Fujiwara noble, had 1 son.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Tomomune (1184–1255)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Muneshigehisa

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Morimaru

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Munesukekuni (1207–1274)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Morisaki

paragraph: BULLET::::- First daughter: Taira no Tokuko

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emperor Antoku

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fifth son: Taira no Shigehira

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Yoshinori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Shigenori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sixth son: Ro no Onkata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine: ???

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second daughter: Taira no Moriko (1156–1179) married Konoe Motozane

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine: ???

paragraph: BULLET::::- Seventh son: Taira no Tomonori (d. 1183)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine: ???

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fourth daughter: Taira no Hiroko married Konoe Motomichi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine: Tokiwa Gozen

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sixth daughter: Taira no Yoshiko (1164–1181)

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: After the death of his father Taira no Tadamori in 1153, Kiyomori assumed control of the Taira clan and ambitiously entered the political realm in which he had previously only held a minor post. In 1156, he and Minamoto no Yoshitomo, head of the Minamoto clan, suppressed the Hōgen Rebellion. This established the Taira and Minamoto as the top samurai clans in Kyoto. However, this caused the allies to become bitter rivals which culminated three years later during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159. Kiyomori, emerging victorious with Yoshitomo and his two eldest killed, was now the head of the single most powerful warrior family/clan in Kyoto. However, his clan's power and influence in the provinces at this time is a matter of debate. Kiyomori showed mercy and exiled a few of Yoshitomo's sons, including Yoritomo, Noriyori, and Yoshitsune – a benevolence that would turn out to be the Taira clan's downfall later on.

paragraph: Due to his status as the head of the sole remaining courtier/warrior clan, Kiyomori was in a unique position to manipulate the court rivalry between the retired emperor, Go-Shirakawa, and his son, Emperor Nijō. Via this manipulation, Kiyomori was able to climb the ranks of government, though the majority of his promotions as well as the success of his family in gaining ranks and titles at court was due to Shirakawa's patronage. This culminated in 1167, when Kiyomori became the first courtier of a warrior family to be appointed "daijō-daijin", chief minister of the government, and the de facto administrator of the imperial government. As was the norm, he soon relinquished the position and leadership of the Taira clan, with the goal of maintaining the social and political prestige of having attained the highest office in the land, but being free of the attendant duties. This had been a common practice for many years in the highest levels of Japanese government and in doing so Kiyomori was asserting what he felt was his strong position in the Kyoto government. However, many of the courtiers from traditional (non-warrior) noble families were less than pleased with both Kiyomori's attainment of power, and how he comported himself with regard to other high ranking courtiers.

paragraph: In 1171, Kiyomori arranged a marriage between Emperor Takakura and his daughter Tokuko. Their first son, the future Emperor Antoku, was born in 1178. The next year, in 1179, Kiyomori staged a coup d'état forcing the resignation of his rivals from all government posts and subsequently banishing them. He then filled the open government positions with his allies and relatives, and imprisoned the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa. Finally, in 1180 Kiyomori forced Emperor Takakura to abdicate and give Prince Tokihito the throne, who then became Emperor Antoku.

paragraph: With the exertion of Taira power and wealth and Kiyomori's new monopoly on authority, many of his allies, most of the provincial samurai, and even members of his own clan turned against him. Prince Mochihito, brother of Emperor Takakura, called on Kiyomori's old rivals of the Minamoto clan to rise against the Taira beginning the Genpei War in the middle of 1180. Kiyomori died early in the next year from sickness, leaving his son Munemori to preside over the downfall and destruction of the Taira at the hands of the Minamoto in 1185.

paragraph: The Tales of the Heike states that as he lay dying, Kiyomori's fever was so high that anyone who attempted to even get near him would be burned by the heat.

paragraph: Section::::Cultural references.

paragraph: Taira no Kiyomori is the main character in the Kamakura period epic, the "Tale of Heike".

paragraph: The Daiei Film production of Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 film "Shin heike monogatari" (variously translated as "Taira Clan Saga, Tales of the Taira Clan", and "The Sacrilegious Hero") credits its story as "from the novel by Yoshikawa Eiji", which in turn is a 1950 retelling of the 14th-century epic "The Tale of the Heike". The opening introduction to the film, in its English subtitles, is

paragraph: Unlike most other tellings, Mizoguchi's film includes only the story of Taira no Kiyomori's youth, depicting him as a heroic character, particularly in breaking the power of the tyrannical armed monks and their palanquin shrines, where he says at his father's grave "Father, with two arrows from my bow I destroyed a superstition that gripped men for centuries. The courtiers and priests have tried to have me for blasphemy. But others have supported me, more than I expected. Some of them are lords, too. Father, a greater battle lies ahead. But I remain undaunted. No matter how I am beaten, I shall rise again". The film then ends with Kiyomori approaching an alfresco Fujiwara dance, vowing to himself, "Dance, my Lords, dance. Your end is near. Tomorrow will be ours!"

paragraph: Taira no Kiyomori was featured by 19th-century woodblock print artists as an exemplar of guilt and retribution, see the accompanying print by Yoshitoshi. The famous print generally known as "The Vision of Kiyomori" by Utagawa Hiroshige depicts the actor Nakamura Utayemon IV in the character of Kiyomori, confronted by the horrific vision of his snow-filled garden transformed into the heaped bones and skulls of his slaughtered enemies.

paragraph: In video games, Kiyomori appears in Warriors Orochi 2, 3 and 4 fighting for Orochi's army and using prayer beads as weapons. He also makes an appearance in "Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce", as a boss in one of the game's Crossover Missions. Additionally, he is the main antagonist in "Harukanaru Toki no Naka De 3".

paragraph: Kiyomori also features prominently as a sympathetic villain in Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix series in the first half of the ninth volume, "Turbulent Times" (retitled "Civil War" in English), another Genpei War epic. Like most villains in the series he desires the titular bird for its immortality granting blood, due to his desire to continue to lead and protect the Taira clan and lack of confidence in his successors, but winds up being tricked into buying an imported peacock instead.

paragraph: A character named Lord Kiyomori appears in Book 6, "The Lords of the Rising Sun" in the Fabled Lands adventure gamebook series, where he is portrayed as the Imperial Sovereign Takakura's chancellor, and on the verge of war with the self-proclaimed shogun by the name of "Yoritomo".

paragraph: The 2012 NHK Taiga drama was about him.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Junior First Rank (11 February 1167)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taira no Shigemori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shishigatani incident

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fukuhara-kyō

paragraph: BULLET::::- Itsukushima Shrine

paragraph: BULLET::::- Siege of Shirakawa-den

alias:
Kiyomori Taira no
Kiyomori

description: Japanese samurai

wikidata_label: Taira no Kiyomori

wikipedia_title: Taira no Kiyomori


text:
Halifax
Embrace
Bailiff Bridge
Brighouse
Hipperholme Grammar School
Manchester University
Big Brother TV series
tinnitus
PTSD
Cardiff
Buzzcocks
Camden
Bristol
Cheltenham
Huddersfield

wikipedia_title:
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Embrace (English band)
Bailiff Bridge
Brighouse
Hipperholme Grammar School
University of Manchester
Big Brother (franchise)
Tinnitus
Posttraumatic stress disorder
Cardiff
Buzzcocks
Camden Town
Bristol
Cheltenham
Huddersfield

categories: English songwriters,People from Halifax, West Yorkshire,English male singers,1970 births,21st-century English singers,Living people,People educated at Hipperholme Grammar School

paragraph: Danny McNamara

paragraph: Daniel "Danny" Anthony McNamara (31 December 1970 in Halifax) is the lead singer of English band Embrace.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: McNamara and his brother Richard (guitarist) grew up in the village of Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse in West Yorkshire, England.

paragraph: Aged 11, he passed his 11+ exam and gained entry to Hipperholme Grammar School. When he left school, he studied psychology at Manchester University, but eventually quit to concentrate on the band, and having become tired of resits.

paragraph: Section::::Embrace.

paragraph: Embrace are an English rock band from West Yorkshire. To date they have released six studio albums, one singles album and one b-sides compilation. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale and drummer Mike Heaton. The group has released six studio albums: The Good Will Out (1998) which went to number 1; Drawn from Memory (2000); If You've Never Been (2001); Out of Nothing (2004) which also went to number 1; This New Day (2006) which went to number one spawning their most successful single to date "Natures Law", which just missed the top spot by a few hundred copies. Their sixth, and most recent album self-titled Embrace was released on 28 April 2014 and went top 5 marking a return after 8 years.

paragraph: Embrace have received critical and commercial acclaim at home where they have picked up several awards and nominations including the best new band award at the NME Brat Awards, and in the US where the band were on the cover of Billboard magazine, and in Thailand where their single "You're Not Alone" stayed at number 1 for six weeks becoming the biggest selling single of that year.

paragraph: Secret gigs by the band so far have involved playing on beaches and forests, and in a staged break in of the Big Brother TV series house.

paragraph: After number of 'secret gigs', Embrace had 5 gigs in Scotland in February 2014, prior to a tour of England during April/May 2014. They are due to appear at the 'T in the Park Festival' in July 2014 and 'V Festival' in August 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Conditions.

paragraph: McNamara suffers from the hearing condition, tinnitus, and supported a campaign for the condition. He has also recently written about suffering from PTSD.

paragraph: Section::::DJ.

paragraph: Recently, McNamara and his brother have been involved in DJ sessions. The first was at Get Loaded in the Park festival in Cardiff, and then on a weekly basis, as part of "Another Music = Another Kitchen" (named after a song by the Buzzcocks), at the Proud Gallery nightclub in Camden, London.

paragraph: They also did a set for a special aftershow party for their gig at Manchester Apollo in October 2006, which was opened up to the public, as well as one-off sets with Richard in Bristol and Cheltenham, and even more recently in Huddersfield.

description: English singer-songwriter

wikidata_label: Danny McNamara

wikipedia_title: Danny McNamara


text:
Alan
Queen consort
Georgia
Bagrat IV
Elene
Byzantine emperor
Romanos III Argyros
Bagratid
Mount Sion
Jerusalem
Virgin Mary
Theotokos
Svaneti
George II of Georgia
Martha-Maria
Theodore Gabras

wikipedia_title:
Alania
Queen consort
Georgia (country)
Bagrat IV of Georgia
Helena Argyre
Byzantine Empire
Romanos III Argyros
Bagrationi dynasty
Mount Zion
Jerusalem
Mary, mother of Jesus
Theotokos
Svaneti
George II of Georgia
Maria of Alania
Theodore Gabras

categories: Women poets from Georgia (country),11th-century women writers,11th-century people from Georgia (country),Alanic women,11th-century women from Georgia (country),11th-century Iranian people,11th-century writers,11th-century poets from Georgia (country),Women writers from Georgia (country),Georgian queens consort

paragraph: Borena of Alania

paragraph: Borena () was a sister of the Alan king Durgulel "the Great", and the Queen consort of Georgia, as the second wife of Bagrat IV (r. 1027-1072).

paragraph: The medieval Georgian historical tradition exposes little information about Borena. Bagrat married her, in the early 1030s, after the death of his first wife, Elene (niece of the Byzantine emperor Romanos III Argyros). This was just one of the several intermarriages between the medieval Georgian Bagratids and their natural allies, the royal house of Alania. Borena seems to have retained some contacts with her native Alania: the Georgian chronicles report that when Durgulel paid a visit to Bagrat IV, he also arranged an audience with his sister Borena. The last we hear about Borena is her presence at Bagrat's deathbed in 1072.

paragraph: Borena is primarily known as a patron and promoter of Georgian Orthodox culture and monastic life. She sponsored the construction of the Georgian Kapata Monastery on Mount Sion at Jerusalem. She is frequently identified with the Borena who was an author of a passionate and moving hymn to Virgin Mary, which is found as an inscription on the Theotokos icon from that time (now preserved at the Lenjer Church in highland Svaneti).

paragraph: Bagrat IV and Borena were the parents of:

paragraph: BULLET::::- George II of Georgia, Bagrat's successor to the throne of Georgia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martha-Maria, the future queen consort of the Byzantine Empire

paragraph: In addition to these well-documented children, the couple may have had a daughter, Mariam, possibly a wife of the Byzantine dignitary Theodore Gabras.

wikidata_label: Borena of Alania

wikipedia_title: Borena of Alania


text:
Todmorden
West Yorkshire
Embrace
Danny
Bailiff Bridge
Brighouse
Halifax
Hipperholme Grammar School
Hipperholme
thrash metal
garage
Hooligan
singles

wikipedia_title:
Todmorden
West Yorkshire
Embrace (English band)
Danny McNamara
Bailiff Bridge
Brighouse
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Hipperholme Grammar School
Hipperholme
Thrash metal
Garage rock
Hooligan (song)
Single (music)

categories: English guitarists,English male guitarists,1972 births,English songwriters,People from Brighouse,English male singers,People from Todmorden,21st-century English singers,21st-century guitarists,Living people,21st-century male singers,People educated at Hipperholme Grammar School

paragraph: Richard McNamara

paragraph: Richard McNamara (born 23 October 1972 in Todmorden, West Yorkshire) is the guitarist for the English band Embrace. He and his older brother, Danny grew up in the village of Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse near Halifax. Danny is the band's “singer”.

paragraph: Richard and Danny McNamara attended Hipperholme Grammar School in nearby Hipperholme with their brother Jonathan.

paragraph: According to Danny, as a child Richard was nicknamed 'Firestarter' as he was fascinated with fire and was always playing with a box of matches.

paragraph: McNamara was initially the drummer for a thrash metal garage band called The Little Cakes in his late teens. It is believed that Embrace began when his brother barged into a session and started telling him and his bandmates what to do.

paragraph: Although McNamara has worked with his brother in writing many of the band's songs, he only single-handedly sings a few songs. Most notably "One Big Family" and "Hooligan" which were both issued as singles.

description: English guitarist and songwriter

wikidata_label: Richard McNamara

wikipedia_title: Richard McNamara


text: English

text: professional wrestler

text: All-Star Promotions

text: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

text: nickname

text: Stoke-on-Trent

text: Brian Dixon

text: All Star Wrestling

text: Robbie Dynamite

text: feud

text: Team Britain

text: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

text: Nashville, Tennessee

text: Team Mexico

text: Mr. Águila

text: Heavy Metal

text: Abismo Negro

text: James Mason

text: British Tag Team Champions

text: Hanley

text: Desmond Wolfe

text: Noam Dar

text: Zack Sabre, Jr.

text: British Light Heavyweight Championship

text: Seiki Yoshioka

text: All Star Wrestling

text: British Heavyweight Championship

text: 1 time

text: British Light Heavyweight Championship

text: 2 times, current

text: British Mid-Heavyweight Championship

text: 3 times

text: British Open Tag Team Championship

text: 1 time

text: Preston City Wrestling

categories: 1985 births,English male professional wrestlers,Living people

paragraph: Dean Allmark

paragraph: Dean Allmark (born 25 August 1983), is an English professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in All-Star Promotions and his appearance in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Allmark, who often goes by the nicknames "Xtreme", or "2-Xtreme", is one half of the UK Dream Team with Kid Cool.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Allmark began his wrestling career in the Stoke-on-Trent based wrestling promotion Great British Hardcore (GBH) in 1999, where he was trained in its training school by Keith Myatt and Chris Curtis. He had his first professional match in January 2000 at Longton WMC against Chris Curtis. During Allmark's time in GBH, he won the British tag team titles twice, once with fellow trainee Timm Wiley and once with Robbie Dynamite. After this Allmark moved to Brian Dixon's All Star Wrestling. In 2001, Allmark became part of All Star's roster and found new tag team partners with Robbie Dynamite and Kid Cool. Teaming with Kid Cool became a lasting partnership as the pair became known as the UK Dream Team. Dynamite's partnership with Allmark was less successful with both men beginning a long-standing personal feud. On 7 April 2004, Allmark made his biggest appearance outside the UK when he was chosen to be a part of Team Britain during Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's America's X-Cup. During the PPV from Nashville, Tennessee, Allmark failed to win his singles match against Team Mexico's Mr. Águila but picked up a win in a tag match against Heavy Metal and Abismo Negro when Allmark's tag partner James Mason made one of the opponents submit. Team Mexico eventually won America's X-Cup. Back in England on 7 June 2005, the UK Dream Team defeated "The Chippendales", Mikey Whiplash (Michael Gilbert) and Johnny Midnight, to be recognized by All Star Promotions as the British Tag Team Champions. Allmark went on to renew his feud with Robbie Dynamite and after months of rapidly intensifying rivalry, things came to a head when Allmark defeated Dynamite in January 2006 for his All Star British Mid-Heavyweight title, making Allmark a double champion in the promotion. Dynamite fought back though (with the aid of "Chippendale" Mikey Whiplash) and defeated the UK Dream Team on 25 February 2006 in Staffordshire to win the British Tag Team titles. Allmark was hospitalised after the match with a gash to the head that needed nine stitches. Allmark commented on the situation between the him and Dynamite on All Star's website writing;

paragraph: Allmark tried to return to action in March 2006 only for the wound to re-open. He had to go back to hospital for more treatment. It was later announced that Dynamite and Allmark would meet in a no-holds-barred match on 18 March at the Victoria Hall in Hanley. However, this match never took place because only hours before the event Allmark received news that his 18-month-old son had been taken ill. The two rivals repeatedly met in matches throughout the rest of 2006, many of which were for Allmark's Mid-Heavyweight title. Dynamite finally defeated Allmark for the title in 2007.vIn 2006, Allmark became the head trainer at the All Star Wrestling school. On 1 September 2010, Allmark wrestled for Dragon Gate Pro Wrestling in St.Ives (DG:UK "Invasion 2"). There he defeated fellow British wrestler Stixx with a Spanish Fly Shiranui Kai. On 10 July 2010, Allmark wrestled for IPW:UK's Summer Sizzler which in Sittingbourne to compete in the quarter final Of the IPW:UK Cruiserweight Championship Tournament. He went on to defeat Max Angleus with a single man Spanish Fly but mainly known as a Shiranui Kai. Allmark is now in the semi finals of the tournament which should be held at the next IPW:UK show. On 3 December 2011, Allmark made his debut for PCW - Preston City Wrestling, taking on the former UKFF number one, Dave Mastiff. This show also featured Desmond Wolfe's return to a UK ring. Allmark next appeared for PCW on 24 February, taking part in a 4-way Cruiserweight match against Noam Dar, Joey Hayes and Zack Sabre, Jr. On 20 February 2013 Dean won a rumble match. His reward was to choose a partner on 10 April 2013 to face Robbie Dynamite and Rampage Brown in the first ever cage match in Gravesend. They won the match. Through ASW's relationship with Wrestle-1, Allmark made his debut for the Japanese promotion on 6 July 2014, losing the British Light Heavyweight Championship to Seiki Yoshioka. He regained the title from Yoshioka back in the United Kingdom on August 19.

paragraph: Section::::Championships and accomplishments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- All Star Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- ASW Superslam Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- British Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times, current)

paragraph: BULLET::::- British Mid-Heavyweight Championship (3 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- British Open Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kid Cool

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wrestler of the Year (2006, 2008, 2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Great British Hardcore

paragraph: BULLET::::- GBH Catchweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GBH Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Timm Wylie & Robbie Dynamite

paragraph: BULLET::::- Preston City Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- PCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- PCW Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- PCW Road to Glory (2018)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Xtreme" Dean Allmark's cagematch profile

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Xtreme" Dean Allmark's All Star profile

description: British professional wrestler

wikidata_label: Dean Allmark

wikipedia_title: Dean Allmark


text: German American

text: priest

text: architect

text: Rosenfeld, Germany

text: Deutsch-Krone

text: St. Francis Seminary

text: St. Francis, Wisconsin

text: Sioux City, Iowa

text: Carroll, Iowa

text: Dubuque, Iowa

text: St. Rose of Viterbo Convent

text: La Crosse, Wisconsin

text: Wesley, Iowa

text: Humboldt, Iowa

text: Grotto of the Redemption

text: West Bend, Iowa

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City

text: Mathias Wernerus

text: Dickeyville Grotto

text: Dickeyville, Wisconsin

text: West Bend Grotto

categories: Architects from Iowa,1872 births,19th-century Roman Catholic priests,People from Palo Alto County, Iowa,American Roman Catholic priests,20th-century American architects,20th-century Roman Catholic priests,1954 deaths,People from the Kingdom of Württemberg,German emigrants to the United States

paragraph: Paul Dobberstein

paragraph: Paul Matthias Dobberstein (September 21, 1872 – July 24, 1954) was a German American priest and architect.

paragraph: Dobberstein was born in Rosenfeld, Germany to Francis "Frank" Dobberstein and Julia Froehlich.

paragraph: Father Dobberstein was educated at the University of Deutsch-Krone in Germany and at the St. Francis Seminary, in St. Francis, Wisconsin. He was ordained on June 30, 1897.

paragraph: Section::::Grottoes.

paragraph: He is known for designing and building a series of religious grottoes:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sacred Heart Church: Sioux City, Iowa

paragraph: BULLET::::- Immaculate Conception Grotto: Carroll, Iowa (now gone)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Franciscan Convent: Dubuque, Iowa

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shrine in the St. Rose of Viterbo Convent of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration: La Crosse, Wisconsin (now gone)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Cemetery: Wesley, Iowa

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Brown Park: Humboldt, Iowa

paragraph: His most famous work, however, is The Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption, in West Bend, Iowa, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City. This is actually a series of several connected grottoes. At the neighboring church of Saints Peter and Paul, he also created a fountain and, inside, a majestic nativity scene.

paragraph: Father Dobberstein's works inspired Mathias Wernerus (who also attended St. Francis Seminary) to build the Dickeyville Grotto in Dickeyville, Wisconsin in 1930, thus starting the grotto building movement in America.

paragraph: Section::::Pastoral career.

paragraph: In addition to his prolific works of art and stone, he led a busy life as the pastor of Saints Peter and Paul there don in West Bend for more than 57 years. His signature appears on over a thousand baptism records from his time in the parish.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Explanation of the Grotto of the Redemption"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- West Bend Grotto

description: American architect

wikidata_label: Paul Dobberstein

wikipedia_title: Paul Dobberstein


text: CMG

text: Murray River

text: Hanley, Staffordshire

text: Darling River

text: New South Wales

text: Wilcannia

text: indigenous people

text: George Debney

text: Alfred Allen Simpson

text: House of Assembly

text: Encounter Bay

text: Treasurer of South Australia

text: Downer

text: Alice Springs

text: ore

text: Broken Hill

text: John Langdon Bonython

text: Adelaide Observer

text: Northern Territory

text: Labor

text: Thomas Price

text: Prime Minister of Australia

text: Joseph Cook

text: Henry Simpson Newland

text: Philip Mesmer Newland

text: Victor Marra Newland

text: Electoral district of Newland

categories: Australian non-fiction writers,Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George,Australian male novelists,1835 births,19th-century Australian novelists,People from Hanley, Staffordshire,Members of the South Australian House of Assembly,Treasurers of South Australia,People from Adelaide,1925 deaths

paragraph: Simpson Newland

paragraph: Simpson Newland CMG (2 November 1835 – 27 June 1925), pastoralist, author and politician, was a pioneer in Australia who made significant contributions to development around the Murray River. He was also an author of practical works and novels.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Newland was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, a son of Rev. Ridgway William Newland (died 1864) and his wife Martha Newland, née Keeling (died 1870), who emigrated with their eight children to South Australia aboard the "Sir Charles Forbes", arriving in June 1839.

paragraph: He and his siblings were educated to a high standard at home by their mother.

paragraph: Simpson Newland was at first a sickly boy, but the open air life improved his health, and he became a competent stockrider and bushman. His evenings were largely given up to improving his education with the help of his mother.

paragraph: Section::::Pastoralist and prosperity.

paragraph: In 1864 Newland took up station life on the Darling River in New South Wales some 50 miles from Wilcannia, and became more and more interested in the indigenous people and the natural history of the country. He improved the breeds of his sheep and cattle, and by age 40 had become very prosperous. On 12 September 1872 at Buckanbee, New South Wales, he married Jane Isabella Layton.

paragraph: Section::::Undelcarra.

paragraph: In 1876, with three sons, they moved to Adelaide and bought a mansion at Burnside which they called "Undelcarra"; Newland continued to manage the stations from Adelaide. George Debney was a leading furniture maker in Rundle Street and one of the first owners of the estate that was later known as Undelcarra. The estate stretched north from Second Creek, between Lockwood Road and Hallett Road up to approximately where Statenborough Street is now located. The Debneys lived on the property from the 1850s till 1877 when it was sold to Simpson Newland who significantly enlarged the house and called it Undelcarra.

paragraph: Undelcarra belonged to Simpson Newland between 1876 and 1911. He is best known as author of the book "Paving the Way", but was also a pastoralist from the River Darling area where his Marra Station had an out-station named Undelcarra which is said to be Aboriginal for ‘under the hill with running water’. The estate passed into the hands of Torrens Ward, solicitor from 1911–1919. It was purchased in 1919 by Alfred Allen Simpson of A. Simpson & Co whitegoods manufacturers. The final subdivision was in 1969, but the house still stands in Undelcarra Road and is still owned by his descendants. The gatehouse, which is still on Lockwood Road near the bridge over Second Creek, was converted into a private residence and the main driveway re-routed to have access from Undelcarra Road. The gates that are now seen there were originally on Glynburn Road at the end of the driveway to the house "Erindale".

paragraph: Section::::Politics and public life.

paragraph: He entered the House of Assembly in 1881 as member for Encounter Bay, and soon afterwards brought in a measure to build a north to south railway on the land grant system which was defeated.

paragraph: In June 1885 he became Treasurer of South Australia in the Downer ministry but, finding the strain of his duties too much for his health, resigned the position a year later.

paragraph: He took much interest in the development of the River Murray and revived the question of the north-south railway. He succeeded in getting a royal commission appointed to consider it, and as chairman of the commission personally examined the country as far north as Alice Springs. In two pamphlets, "The Far North Country" (1887) and "Our Waste Lands" (1888), Newland gave an account of his journey and his views on the possibilities of the districts traversed. In 1889 he visited England and while there heard of the discovery of rich ore at Broken Hill. He had acquired an interest in the new field and this now became very valuable.

paragraph: Section::::Author.

paragraph: On his return, encouraged by his friend Sir John Langdon Bonython, for whose paper (The "Advertiser") he had written a number of articles, he wrote his novel, "Paving the Way", which embodied many of his experiences as a pioneer and with indigenous people.

paragraph: He went to England again in 1893 and arranged for the publication of his book. It was released the same year and was given a good reception by the critics. A second edition was published in 1894 and it has since been several times reprinted. Newland also published a second novel, "Blood Tracks of the Bush", in 1900, which was less successful than his earlier work, "partly because inferior, but also because he courageously and accurately portrayed horrific mass-murders of Aborigines by police and pastoralists. The public was not ready for such honesty."

paragraph: In 1895 he produced several articles for the Adelaide Observer as part of that newspaper's "Old-time Memories" series: "Some Aboriginals I Have Known", and "A Band of Pioneers".

paragraph: Section::::North–South railway line.

paragraph: On Newland's return to Adelaide at the end of 1893, he began collecting material for a pamphlet on the Northern Territory, and the necessity for its being linked to the south by a railway.

paragraph: In 1899 he visited England and obtained the promise of support from financial interests in London, and returning to Australia obtained parliamentary sanction for the construction of a railway on the land grant system in 1902. His pamphlet, "Land-Grant Railway across Australia: The Northern Territory of the State of South Australia as a Field for Enterprise and Capital", was published by the government at the end of that year. In 1906 he again went to England and succeeded in floating a company to undertake the building of the line. On his return he found that a Labor government under Thomas Price had come into power, and as the policy of Labor was opposed to building lines on the land grant system, Newland realized that nothing could be done at the time.

paragraph: Section::::Other interests.

paragraph: He resumed his work on the development of a river port on the Murray, he had become a vice-president of the River Murray league in 1902, and the question was kept alive in 1903 and 1904 by holding public meetings. On 28 July 1904 Newland was elected president of the league, and the necessity of developing the Murray was kept steadily before the public for many years. A great step forward was made in 1914, when the Prime Minister of Australia, Sir Joseph Cook, pledged £1,000,000 from the Commonwealth if each of the three states interested would spend a similar amount, which is what occurred.

paragraph: Newland had many interests. In 1895–1900 and again in 1920–22 he was president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, and in 1906–23 president of the South Australian Zoological and Acclimatization Society. He deplored the European destruction of the environment and proposed that the Coorong area should be reserved for Aborigines and the land reforested. In 1922 he was appointed C.M.G. (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George).

paragraph: He had published a pamphlet in middle life, "A Band of Pioneers, Old-Time Memories" (2nd ed. 1919), which included an interesting account of the arrival of his family in 1839. This was incorporated in his "Memoirs of Simpson Newland", written in the last year of his long life. It was completed on 6 June 1925 and showed him to be still in full command of his mental powers. He died three weeks later, but before he died he knew that it had definitely been decided to complete the north to south railway line; his other dream of a (sea-)port at the mouth of the Murray still awaits fulfilment.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Newland died on 27 June 1925 at North Adelaide, survived by his wife and three of their five sons. His ashes were taken to his spiritual home, Victor Harbor, for burial.

paragraph: Colonel Sir Henry Simpson Newland DSO, CBE (1873–1969), their eldest son, was an accomplished surgeon known for his public works and as a founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

paragraph: Philip Mesmer Newland (1875–1916) was an Australian sportsman who excelled at Australian rules football, cricket and lacrosse. He played Sheffield Shield cricket for South Australia as a wicket-keeper and toured England with the Australian Test team in 1905. He played Australian rules football with the Norwood Football Club and captained Norwood's 1904 premiership winning team.

paragraph: Major Victor Marra Newland MC, OBE (1876–1953), their third son, had a distinguished military career, was a successful business man, a member of the stock exchange, and in the period 1933–38 represented North Adelaide for the Liberal and Country League in the House of Assembly.

paragraph: Doctor Clive Newland (1878–1919), a graduate of London University, had a practice at Morphett Vale. He was killed in a railway accident, when the motorcycle he was riding collided with an oncoming train.

paragraph: Ralph Dimmock Newland (1880–1933), their youngest son, represented South Australia at lacrosse.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Novels.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Paving the Way: A Romance of the Australian Bush" (1893)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blood Tracks of the Bush: An Australian Romance" (1900)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Autobiography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Far North Country" (1887)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Old Time Memories: a band of pioneers" (1895)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Memoirs of Simpson Newland, C.M.G. Sometime Treasurer of South Australia" (1926)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Electoral district of Newland

description: Australian politician

wikidata_label: Simpson Newland

wikipedia_title: Simpson Newland


text:
American
mayor
Fargo
North Dakota
elected
Cass County, North Dakota
North Dakota State University
Interstate 94
Interstate 29
the 1997 Red River Flood
2009 Red River flood
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Coast Guard
Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition
bi-partisan
Boston
Thomas Menino
New York City
Michael Bloomberg
Mayors Climate Protection Center
Red River Zoo
Plains Art Museum
American Public Works Association
American Water Works Association
Water pollution control federation
American Legion
Sons of Norway
Hospice
United Way
kidney cancer

categories: 1941 births,Mayors of Fargo, North Dakota,2014 deaths,Deaths from kidney cancer,North Dakota State University alumni,Deaths from cancer in North Dakota,Mayors of places in North Dakota

paragraph: Dennis Walaker

paragraph: Dennis Walaker (January 10, 1941 – December 2, 2014) was an American politician who served as mayor of Fargo, North Dakota. He was elected to a four-year term on June 13, 2006 and took office on June 28, 2006. He was re-elected twice during municipal elections held on June 8, 2010 and June 10, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Walaker was born in Fargo in 1941. He attended Leonard High School in Cass County, North Dakota and North Dakota State University. He worked on the construction of Interstate 94, Interstate 29, and projects within the City of Fargo. Walaker was named City's Public Works Operations Manager in 1989. The scope of the position was later expanded to include emergency management, forestry, and fleet management.

paragraph: He gained attention (locally and - on a smaller scale - nationally) in April 1997, while coordinating the city's efforts to fight the 1997 Red River Flood. After the flooding passed and the city was left mainly dry, Walaker was given some credit for the city's preparations. He gained similar notice for coordinating the response to the 2009 Red River flood, issuing an evacuation order at the height of the flood that included only children and the disabled. Although the city had been urged by state and federal agencies to issue a complete evacuation order, Walaker disagreed, stating that "There's just no way I could tell the people of the city of Fargo, after all the work they'd done, to evacuate." Walaker personally supervised the 2009 efforts in Fargo - described as "orchestrated primarily from inside City Hall" - by local volunteers working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, and other federal agencies.

paragraph: Walaker was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition was co-chaired by late Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He was also a member of the Mayors Climate Protection Center, and has been a board member or member of several local, regional, and national organizations, including the Red River Zoo, the Plains Art Museum, the American Public Works Association, the American Water Works Association, the Water pollution control federation, the American Legion, the Sons of Norway, the Hospice of the Red River Valley, and United Way.

paragraph: Walaker died on December 2, 2014 at the age of 73, from kidney cancer.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Dennis Walaker

wikipedia_title: Dennis Walaker


text:
Urdu
Persian
Arabic
Urdu
Persian
Ghazal
Sasaram
Madrasa
Persian
Urdu
Patna University
Urdu language & literature
Dip. in Ed.
Doctor of Philosophy
Daagh Dehlvi
Urdu poetry
Abr Ahsani Gunnauri
Shair
Meer Taqi Meer
Amir Khusrow
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Persian
Urdu
ghazals
Islam
List of Persian poets and authors
List of Urdu language poets
Urdu poetry
List of Muslim philosophers
Ghalib Academy, New Delhi

categories: Urdu writers from India,Persian-language poets,Poets from Bihar,1947 births,Urdu poets from India,Hanafis,Urdu letter writers,Urdu theologians,Indian male poets,Islamic philosophers,Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam,Urdu religious writers

paragraph: Shamim Hashimi

paragraph: Shamim Hashimi (Urdu/Persian/Arabic: ; ) born Syed Muhammad Shamimuddin on 14 August 1947, is an Urdu and Persian poet. He is basically a poet of Ghazal. He has also written poems of other forms of poetry in different meters.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Hashimi was born in Sasaram, Bihar, India. He received his primary education in Madrasa Khanqaah kabeeriya. He obtained "Aalim" (Graduation) at the age of 15. He pursued Fazil (Persian and Urdu) from Madrasa Shams-ul-Huda, Patna. After completing his studies from madrasa he joined Patna University and obtained master's degree in Urdu language & literature and Dip. in Ed.. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for his research thesis on the life of a poet Mahjoor Shamsi. He is from the Daagh Dehlvi school of Urdu poetry and is one of the disciples of Abr Ahsani Gunnauri. His pen name is Shamim Hashimi.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Hashimi began writing poems at the age of 9. His poems and prose were published in national magazines of Urdu literature like Funoon, Shair, Aaj kal and subh-e-naw-patna etc. He has written many books in Urdu, Persian and English, including collections of his Urdu and Persian Ghazals. His major literary work was published in the 1970s. One of his best books "Toot tay patton ka dukh" was published in 2005 which has widely been appreciated. He has also received "Sahitya Bhushan" and "Bihar Urdu academy award".

paragraph: His writing influences include Meer Taqi Meer and Amir Khusrow

paragraph: Section::::Views of contemporaries.

paragraph: Shabab Lalit: "...Shamim Hashimi is the narrator of the joy of grief. He is a reflector of his pain along with the grief of the universe and agony of the present. On the broad canvas of human life Shamim Hashimi has deeply felt and spiritually experienced the agony of present, unevenness of time and atrocities..."

paragraph: Nadim Balkhi: "...the main subject of the poems of Shamim Hashimi is Nostalgia which symbolises the complete inner and outer human world..."

paragraph: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: "...You have the tradition of intellect from the family of your mother and from that of your father as well and these two qualities are reflected in your poetry at a lot of places..."

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sahitya Bhushan"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bihar Urdu academy award"

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Persian

paragraph: BULLET::::- Collection of Persian Ghazals.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Farsi ki pahli kitab" The course text book for inter college (Bihar board) and Magadh University 1973.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Taaleef "Faryaad-e-raghib".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Talkheez-e-sher-ul-'ajam.

paragraph: Urdu

paragraph: BULLET::::- Collection of ghazals "Toot-tay Patton Ka Dukh.".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sahsaraam me Urdu shayari ki ibtada-o-irtiqaa (evolution of Urdu poetry in Sahsaraam.).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Insaniyat ka Islami Tasawwur. (Meaning of humanity in Islam).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kulliyaat-e-Mahjoor Shamsi. (Works on Mahjoor Shamsi).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Islam

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Persian poets and authors

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Urdu language poets

paragraph: BULLET::::- Urdu poetry

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Muslim philosophers

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ghalib Academy, New Delhi

alias: Hashimi Shamim

description: Urdu Poet

wikidata_label: Shamim Hashimi

wikipedia_title: Shamim Hashimi


text: Marquess of Montferrat

text: Liguria

text: marca Aleramica

text: William I of Montferrat

text: Vercelli

text: Hugh of Italy

text: province of Alessandria

text: Berengar II of Italy

text: Otto I

text: Langhe

text: Tanaro

text: Orba

text: Ligurian Sea

text: Adelaide of Burgundy

text: Lothair II

text: Rudolph II of Burgundy

text: Holy Roman Empire

text: Emperor Otto I

text: William II

text: Otto

text: William III

text: Anselm Ι

text: Grazzano Badoglio

text: Province of Asti

text: mosaic

categories: 10th-century Italian people,Marquesses of Montferrat,991 deaths,Liguria,Aleramici

paragraph: Aleramo, Marquess of Montferrat

paragraph: Aleram (; died 991) was the first Marquess of Montferrat and Liguria (the "marca Aleramica") in Northern Italy until his death. He was son of William I of Montferrat and is mentioned in documents for the first time in 933 when he received a fief near Vercelli by Hugh of Italy. In 955 he was invested of lands in what is now the province of Alessandria.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: In 958 he was appointed as Marquess by Berengar II of Italy, whose daughter Gerberga he had married. Three years later, however, Aleram sided for emperor Otto I, who gave him further lands in the Langhe and from the Tanaro, the Orba and the Ligurian Sea. The new grants had been favoured by Adelaide of Burgundy, wife of Otto I from 951 and previous wife of Lothair II, and also daughter of Rudolph II of Burgundy.

paragraph: When Italy came under the direct control of the Holy Roman Empire in 962, Aleramo's titles were confirmed by the Emperor Otto I.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Aleramo had three sons from his first wife, one Adelaide:

paragraph: BULLET::::- William II, died before 967, co-ruler with his father

paragraph: BULLET::::- Otto, died 991. His son William III succeeded to Montferrat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anselm Ι, who succeeded to Liguria. He was the founder of the "House of Del Vasto" and fathered Anselm II of Liguria.

paragraph: He was buried in Grazzano Badoglio, in the Province of Asti. His tomb, restored in the 16th and 20th centuries, is marked by a mosaic depicting mythological beasts.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Circolo Culturale "I Marchesi del Monferrato" (external link to website devoted to dynastic history)

paragraph: BR

description: Marquess of Montferrat

wikidata_label: Aleramo, Marquess of Montferrat

wikipedia_title: Aleramo, Marquess of Montferrat


text:
Aurangzeb
Udaipuri Mahal
Delhi
Aurangzeb
Georgian
concubine
Udaipuri Mahal
Azim-us-Shan
Aurangzeb
Bijapur
Golconda
Hyderabad
subahdar
Muhammad Azam Shah
Bahadur Shah I
Tomb of Aurangzeb
Hyderabad
lakhs
Bidar
William Irvine
Persia
Zulfikar Khan
Madras
Hyderabad
Bahadur Shah I
Jahandar Shah
Rafi-ush-Shan
Zulfikar Khan
Delhi
Humayun's Tomb

paragraph: Muhammad Kam Bakhsh

paragraph: Muhammad Kam Bakhsh (7 March 1667 – 14 January 1709) was the youngest son of Emperor Aurangzeb, born to his concubine Udaipuri Mahal.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Kam Bakhsh was born on 7 March 1667 at Delhi. He was the fifth son of sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb through a Georgian concubine Udaipuri Mahal. He was circumcised on 23 March 1673.

paragraph: On 2 February 1681, he married Fakhr Jahan Khanam, daughter of Barkhurdar Beg, a mansabdar. Later that year, on 9 August, he married Jamilat-un-nisa Begum née Kalyan Kaur alias Manoharpuri Mahal, daughter of Amar Chand, and sister of Jagat Singh of Manoharpur. The Qazi tied the knot in the mosque of khas and am. The dowry was 50,000 rupees.

paragraph: His third wife was Azarm Banu Begum, daughter of Muazzam Sayadat Khan, whom he married on 14 March 1683. Khidmatgar Khan conveyed to the Prince's house a special robe with half sleeves woven with pearls, and Khidmat Khan jewels worth rupees two lakhs and 26,000 rupees. Cash of five lakh rupees, two Arab and Iraqi horses, and an elephant were presented to Aurangzeb. The knot was tied in the mosque in the presence of the Qazi Shaikh-ul-Islam. A grand and joyous festivity marked the occasion. She died at Delhi on 13 February 1745.

paragraph: His sons were Umaid Bakhsh Mirza, Muhammad Muhi-us-Sunnat Mirza, Muhammad Firuzmand Mirza, and Bariqu'llah Mirza. He had also a daughter, who was married on 20 November 1709 to Muhammad Karim Mirza, son of Azim-us-Shan Mirza.

paragraph: Section::::King of Bijapur.

paragraph: Section::::King of Bijapur.:Civil war in court.

paragraph: After Aurangzeb's death, Kam Bakhsh marched towards Bijapur in March 1707 with his soldiers. When the news of his death spread through the city, the king Sayyid Niyaz Khan surrendered the fort to him. Upon ascending the throne, he made Ahsan Khan the "bakshi" or the chief general with the post of chief minister going to Taqarrub Khan. He also gave himself the title of Padshah Kam Bakhsh-i-Dinpanah (Emperor Kam Bakhsh, Protector of Faith). He went on to conquer Gulbarga and Wakinkhera.

paragraph: In the meantime, a conflict arose among Taqarrub Khan and Ahsan Khan. Ahsan Khan had created a market place in Bijapur where he took the decision of not levying tax on shops, without taking the permission of Kam Bakhsh. Taqarrub Khan reported it to him, who ordered this practise to be stopped. In May of the same year, Ahsan Khan was sent by Kam Bakhsh to conquer the states of Golconda and Hyderabad. The king of Golconda refused to surrender but the subahdar of Hyderabad, Rustam Dil Khan agreed to give his province to him.

paragraph: Envious of the progress of Ahsan Khan, Taqarrub Khan decided to suppress him. He joined hands with Sayyid Ahmed for the cause. He purposely misinterpreted the private meetings of Ahsan Khan, Saif Khan (the archery teacher of Kam Bakhsh), Arsan Khan, Ahmad Khan and Nasir Khan along with Rustam Dil Khan to discuss public business as finding a way to kill Kam Bakhsh. Taqarrub Khan said him that they would assassinate him "while on his way to the Friday prayer at the great mosque". He called Rustam Dil Khan for dinner, and while he came, the royal soldiers arrested him, and he was killed by crushing him under the feet of an elephant. Saif Khan's hands were amputated and Arshad Khan's tongue was cut off as punishment. In spite of his close mates warning him of Kam Bakhsh arresting him, Ahsan Khan paid no heed to it. But he was also put in custody and his goods were confiscated. In April 1708, Shah's envoy, Maktabar Khan came to his court. Taqarrub Khan said to him that his original intention was to dethrone him. So Kam Bakhsh, called him and his entourage in a feast, where he asked his men to execute them.

paragraph: Section::::King of Bijapur.:Bahadur Shah marches to South.

paragraph: After ascending the throne by defeating Muhammad Azam Shah at the battle of Jajau in 1707, Bahadur Shah I ascended the throne. In May 1708, Shah wrote a letter to Kam Bakhsh informing him of the happenings. Shah I thought that this incident would "be a warning" to him, so that he could not declare himself an independent sovereign. In that same month, he started his journey for the Tomb of Aurangzeb to pay respect to the departed emperor. In reply he wrote a letter thanking him "without either explaining or justifying it".

paragraph: When Shah reached Hyderabad on 28 June 1708, he received the news of Kam Bakhsh attacking Machhlibandar. Actually, there were thirty-two lakhs of treasure hidden in the fort which he wanted to seize for further campaigns. The "subahdar" of the province Jan Sipar Khan refused to hand over the money. Enraged by the refusal, he confiscated the property and ordered that four thousand men to be recruited for the attack. In the following month, the garrison of the Gulbarga fort revolted against him and declared themselves to be free. The leader of the garrison Daler Khan Bijapuri "reported his desertion from Kam Bakhsh". On 5 November 1708, Shah's camp reached Bidar which is 67 miles north from Hyderabad. Historian William Irvine writes that as his "camp drew nearer desertions from Kam Bakhsh became more and more frequent". On 1 November Kam Bakhsh captured Pam Naik's (the zamindar of Wakinkhera) belongings after he had left his army.

paragraph: Irvine writes that as more and more soldiers left his service as Shah's camp was coming nearer. When his general informed him that the non-payment of salary to his soldiers was responsible for the soldiers deserting him, he replied that: "What need have I of enlisting them? My trust is in God, and whatever is best will happen."

paragraph: Shah thought that in such a bankrupt condition, Kam Bakhsh might flee to Persia. On his orders, the Mughal prime minister Zulfikar Khan signed a pact with a certain Mr.Pitt, the governor of Madras that he would be paid two lakh rupees if he could capture Kam Bakhsh, in case he tries to flee. Records show that on 20 December, he had twenty five hundred cavalry and five thousand infantry.

paragraph: Section::::War against Bahadur Shah and death.

paragraph: On 20 December 1708, Kam Bakhsh marched towards Talab-i-Mir Jumla, on the outskirts Hyderabad with "three hundred camels, twenty thousand rockets" for the war against Bahadur Shah I. Shah made his son Jahandar Shah the commander of the vanguard, but was replaced by Khan Zaman. On 12 January 1709, Shah finally reached Hyderabad and set up his tent training his troops. With little money and soldiers left, Kam Bakhsh was sure of his victory due to the foretelling of the royal astrologer who predicted that he would "miraculously" win the battle.

paragraph: On 13 January, Shah's army charged towards him. The troops were divided in two bodies – one was under the commandant of Mumin Khan and was assisted by Rafi-ush-Shan and Jahan Shah and the second under Zulfikar Khan. There were an estimation of fifteen thousand soldiers in Shah's army. After two hours from sunrise, the emperor's troops surrounded Kam Bakhsh's camp. Being impatient, Khan attacked him with his "small force".

paragraph: With his soldiers being outnumbered and unable to resist the attack, Kam Bakhsh himself started shooting arrows at the enemy, finishing two quiverfuls of arrows. Irvine writes that when he was "weakened by loss of blood" the opposition surrounded him and took him and his son Bariqullah as prisoners. However a dispute rose among Mumin Khan and Zulfikar Khan about who had actually captured him. Rafi-us-Shan solved the matter by attributing it to the latter.

paragraph: He was taken by a palanquin to Shah's camp where he was made to rest on a bed. Shah went to his bedside and said "I had no desire to see you reduced to this state". Shah himself also washed the wounds from his body and replaced his blood stained clothes, besides forcing him to take "few spoonfuls of food". The next morning on 14 January 1708, Kam Bakhsh died. After ten days, his body was sent to Delhi for burial, and was hence buried in Humayun's Tomb.

description: Mughal prince

wikidata_label: Muhammad Kam Bakhsh

wikipedia_title: Muhammad Kam Bakhsh


text: Boekenweek

categories: 20th-century Dutch male writers,People from Gulpen-Wittem,1897 births,20th-century Dutch novelists,Dutch male novelists,1961 deaths

paragraph: Antoon Coolen

paragraph: Antoon Coolen (April 17, 1897 - November 9, 1961) was a well-known Dutch writer of novels. He wrote the "Boekenweekgeschenk" for the Boekenweek of 1947 and a novel that was part of the Boekenweekgeschenk in 1939.

paragraph: Section::::Translations in English.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antoon Coolen: "The golden webs". Transl. from the Dutch by Marten ten Hoor. Michigan, 1953

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antoon Coolen: "Christmas rose". Transl. from the Dutch by Marten ten Hoor. Michigan, 1952

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antoon Coolen: "The cross purposes". Transl. from the Dutch by Jacobine Menzies-Wilson. London, Collins, 1948

description: (1897-1961) Dutch novelist from Wijlre

wikidata_label: Antoon Coolen

wikipedia_title: Antoon Coolen


text:
Belgian
economics
Université libre de Bruxelles
Brussels
MBA
Harvard Business School
Jean Goblet d'Alviella
Sir Conrad Laurence Corfield
Veronique d'Oultremont
Groupe Danone
Sofina
Delhaize Group
SES
Delhaize - Board of Directors
Richard Goblet d'Alviella

categories: Counts Goblet d'Alviella,1948 births,Living people,Belgian businesspeople,Harvard Business School alumni,Free University of Brussels alumni

paragraph: Richard Goblet d'Alviella

paragraph: Count Richard Goblet d'Alviella (born 6 July 1948) is a Belgian businessman, who studied economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, (Brussels), and obtained an MBA at the Harvard Business School. He is a son of Jean Goblet d'Alviella and his wife, June Dierdre Corfield. He is the grandson of Sir Conrad Laurence Corfield.

paragraph: On 22 July 1971, he married countess Veronique d'Oultremont.

paragraph: He is a member of the board of directors of the Groupe Danone and Sofina, director and member of the audit committee of the Delhaize Group, and SES.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delhaize - Board of Directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- Richard Goblet d'Alviella (Suez)

description: businessman

wikidata_label: Richard Goblet d'Alviella

wikipedia_title: Richard Goblet d'Alviella


text: Rapperswil

text: Swiss

text: Rapperswil

text: "Obersee"

text: canton of St. Gallen

text: Dante's Inferno

text: Alfred-Döblin-Preis

text: Alice Ceresa

text: Tom Sawyer

text: Huckleberry Finn

text: Ufnau

text: Alfred-Döblin-Preis

text: Pro Helvetia

categories: Swiss male novelists,20th-century Swiss poets,Swiss male poets,Swiss poets in German,21st-century Swiss novelists,People from Rapperswil-Jona,21st-century Swiss poets,20th-century Swiss novelists,20th-century male writers,1939 births,Living people

paragraph: Gerold Späth

paragraph: Gerold Späth (* 16 October 1939 in Rapperswil) is a Swiss author, poet and writer.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Born 1939 in Rapperswil on the "Obersee" lakeshore in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, the son of an organ builder made his studies in London and Fribourg, after a training as an export clerk. Later, he worked in his father's company "Späth Orgelbau" in Rapperswil. Thereafter, Gerold Späth undertook several trips and a longer stay in Ireland. Gerold Späth lives and writes mainly in Rapperswil.

paragraph: Gerold Späth's three central works are thematically connected: "Unschlecht" (1970), "Balzapf oder als ich auftauchte" (1977) and "Barbarswila" (1988), in which Rapperswil gave model to the fictitious localities "Spiessbünzen", "Molchgüllen" and "Barbarswila", the satirical depictions of a typical Swiss small-town. A new narrative form was introduced with "Commedia" (1980), in a certain way basing on "Dante's Inferno", for which Späth was awarded with the German book prize Alfred-Döblin-Preis. Späth's literally cosmos is characterized by love, lust and vices, and a propensity to the blazing sensuality and baroque awareness of the transience of everything earthly. He dominates all the stops by the comical and humorous to the tragic. Tales of Späth's home town of Rapperswil and the region around "Zürichsee" form a central motif of his work.

paragraph: The Swiss films "Der Landvogt von Greifensee" (1979) and "Völlerei oder Inselfest" (1980) base on Gerold Späth's novels.

paragraph: Gerold Späth's novels and short stories were translated in various languages, inter alia by Alice Ceresa the Italian-language edition of the novel "Unschlecht" (Italian: "L'incredibile storia di Johann il Buono") in 1977.

paragraph: Gerold Späth's self-image as author is palpable to his organ builder family, as he told on occasion of a dramatic reading: "it's important that an organ will still be in 200 years a good organ". This results in a great care in writing, which he ironically called "team inability". He wants no lecturer, independence in writing is the most important. Also of great importance to his literary works are the different residences – Rapperswil, Ireland and Italy – "life abroad is deteriorating views of Switzerland". Anyway, Switzerland and his childhood in Rapperswil, which Gerold Späth compares with Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn", as he grew up with the so-called "Seebuebedütsch" (Zürichsee children language, meaning also 'wild') and to "write on the people's mouth". His 'staff' is reduced to four family members, among them his wife Christine Lötscher.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Section::::Work.:Books (excerpt).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1979: "Unschlecht". Arche, Zürich 1970, ASIN B002PDE5W4.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1979: "Commedia". Fischer, Berlin 1980, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1991: "Stilles Gelände am See". Suhrkamp, Berlin 1991, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013: "Drei Vögel im Rosenbusch. Eine Erzählung". Lenos, Basel 2013, ASIN B00J7KDOM0.

paragraph: Section::::Poems (excerpt).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005: "Hebed Sorg". In: "Ufnau – Insel der Stille", Rapperswil 2005.

paragraph: Section::::Filmographie.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980: "Völlerei oder Inselfest" ("Todsünde 4")

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1979: "The Bailiff of Greifensee" ("Der Landvogt von Greifensee")

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1970: Award of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer-Stiftung

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1970: Werkjahr der Stadt Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1972: Werkjahr Pro Helvetia (as well in 1991 and 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1973: Werkjahr Stiftung Schweizerische Landesausstellung

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1975: Werkjahr Kanton Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1977: Anerkennungsgabe der Stadt Zürich (and in 1984)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1979: Anerkennungsgabe Kanton St. Gallen

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1979: Alfred-Döblin-Preis for "Commedia"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980: DAAD-Stipendiat in Berlin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980/1981: Istituto Svizzero Roma scholarship

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1983: Award of Schweizerische Schillerstiftung (and in 1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1983: Premio stampa internazionale della città di Roma

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1984: Georg Mackensen-Literaturpreis

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987: Hörspielpreis Stiftung "Radio Basel"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1990: Preis für Schweizer Theatermacher

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001: Ehrengabe der Stadt Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004: Werkbeitrag Pro Helvetia

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charlotte E. Aske: "Gerold Späth und die Rapperswiler Texte. Untersuchungen zu Intertextualität und kultureller Identität". Lang, Bern 2002, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Klaus Isele, Franz Loquai (Hrsg.): "Gerold Späth". Edition Isele, Eggingen 1993, .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gerold Späth on the website of the Swiss television SRF

description: Swiss poet and writer from Rapperswil on Zürichsee lakeshore

wikidata_label: Gerold Späth

wikipedia_title: Gerold Späth


text: Paris Foreign Missions Society

text: Pondicherry

text: Vicar Apostolic of Siam

text: Nicolas Champenois

text: Sully-sur-Loire

text: Diocese of Orléans

text: Paris Foreign Missions Society

text: Mergui

text: Tenasserim

text: Jean de Lolière-Puycontat

text: Juan de La Fuente Yepes

text: Burmese–Siamese War of 1767

text: Tavoy

text: Giovanni Maria Percoto

text: Suppression of the Society of Jesus

text: Pope Pius VI

text: Creoles

text: Nicolas Champenois

categories: 18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops,Christian missionaries in the Ayutthaya Kingdom,Roman Catholic archbishops of Pondicherry and Cuddalore,French expatriates in Thailand,French Roman Catholic missionaries,1716 births,Apostolic vicars of Siam,Roman Catholic missionaries in Thailand,1791 deaths,French expatriates in India,Paris Foreign Missions Society missionaries,French Roman Catholic bishops in Asia,Roman Catholic missionaries in India

paragraph: Pierre Brigot

paragraph: Pierre Brigot (1 September 1713 – 8 November 1791) was a missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and was the first Superior of Karnatic Mission headquartered at Pondicherry which later became the Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore. He was the Superior from 30 September 1776 until his death. He was formerly the Vicar Apostolic of Siam in Thailand from 8 December 1755. After his death the Karnatic Mission was headed by Bishop Nicolas Champenois.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: He was born at Sully-sur-Loire in the Diocese of Orléans, France on 1 September 1713. He joined the Paris Foreign Missions Society and was sent to Siam, Thailand in 1741.

paragraph: Section::::In Siam Mission.

paragraph: He worked first in a place called Mergui. In 1749 he apposed the erection of a stone in front of his Church. The stone is claimed to have contained abusive language towards Catholicism and for that reason it was called "scandal stone". After two months of fighting, the Governor relented. From 1742 to 1750, he worked as the provicar of the Tenasserim.

paragraph: He came back to Bangkok on January 22, 1755 and was appointed titula bishop of Thabraca and Coadjutor of Siam. Since his predecessor Jean de Lolière-Puycontat died before consecrating him, Brigot went to Manila to receive his episcopal consecration on August 24, 1757 from Bishop Juan de La Fuente Yepes.

paragraph: Dunring the Burmese–Siamese War of 1767 Bishop Brigot, his missionaries together with their Christians and seminarians, a Jesuit, Dominicans, another Portuguese priest, and their Christians were taken prisoners. Seeing fellow Christians in misery, he gave them everything he had, he even sold his episcopal ring. During the month of May they were taken to Tavoy and then in November to Rangoon. The Franciscans and Barnabites missionaries in this city, chose him as arbitrator on an issue that divided them, and accepted his decision.

paragraph: On January 31, 1768, he consecrated Giovanni Maria Percoto as the Titular Bishop of Maxula Prates and the Vicar Apostolic of Ava e Pegù. He left in March of that year to Pondicherry.

paragraph: Section::::In Karnatic Mission.

paragraph: After the Suppression of the Society of Jesus, the "Karnatic Mission" was given to the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He was appointed as its Superior by Pope Pius VI on September 30, 1776. He devoted himself to the reunion of the Jesuits and MEP missionaries and encouraged them to work together.

paragraph: By a decree issued on September 7, 1778 he gained 13 jurisdictions, which gave him authority over all Christians in the territory of the French colony excluding Europeans and Creoles who remained subject to the Capuchins. Later his jurisdiction was extended over the Madurai and the Mysore. He consulted with Rome on some Indian customs and caste, and wisely applied the guidelines he received.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: In 1785, he chose Nicolas Champenois as coadjutor and consecrated him as the Titular Bishop of Doliche on November 5, 1786. Because of old age and sickness, he entrusted the administration to his coadjutor. He died in Pondicherry on November 8, 1791.

paragraph: Section::::References.

wikidata_label: Pierre Brigot

wikipedia_title: Pierre Brigot


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categories: Deputies of the Saeima,Minority rights activists,German politicians,1944 deaths,German editors,Baltic-German people,People from Courland Governorate,People from Jelgava,1876 births,Latvian Righteous Among the Nations,German male journalists,German journalists

paragraph: Paul Schiemann

paragraph: Paul Schiemann (; 17 March 1876 – 23 June 1944) was a Baltic German journalist, editor and politician who was known for his commitment to minority rights.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Carl Christian Theodor Paul Schiemann was born in Mitau in Courland, then part of the Russian Empire. He was educated in Germany, and underwent military training in the Imperial Russian army on the territory of what is now Lithuania. He came from a wealthy and conservative family (his uncle Theodor Schiemann, was a prominent supporter and historian of the German Empire), but his own political views were very liberal, and "made him an equally ardent opponent of both German National Socialism and of Soviet socialism."

paragraph: Schiemann started his education in Jelgava Gymnasium but later his father sent him to finish his studies in Elberfeld. After graduation he studied law and history in the universities of Berlin, Marburg and Konigsberg. However, he interrupted his studies when he was drafted into the Russian Imperial army. He served in the Caucasus and later underwent officer training in what is now Lithuania. He resumed his studies only in 1902, when he wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Greifswald.

paragraph: Later, he settled in Estonia, still a Baltic province of the Russian Empire and started work as a journalist. In 1903 he became editor of the German language newspaper "Revalsche Zeitung" in Tallinn, then called by its German name, Reval. He was also one of the founders of the German association (Deutscher Verein) in Estonia. In 1907 he returned to Latvia and became chief editor of the most important German newspaper in Latvia, the "Rigasche Rundschau". Between 1907 and 1914, he published more than 600 articles and often was involved in heavy polemics with the conservative part of Baltic German society.

paragraph: During World War I Schiemann fought in the Russian army, although his brother fought for the German army. During the build-up to the war, he was strongly against it, but was quoted as saying "War can only be objected to during times of peace". After the October Revolution he left the army and returned to German-occupied Riga. However, due to his negative views towards the aristocratic-military order of the Livonian Knighthood he was soon expelled from the city. After his expulsion, Schiemann went to Berlin where he worked in the newspapers "Frankfurter Zeitung" and "Preussische Jahrbücher". While in Berlin he published several anti-Bolshevik articles.

paragraph: In 1919, Paul Schiemann returned to Riga, now capital of the fledgling Republic of Latvia (declared on 18 November 1918) and again became editor of the "Rigasche Rundschau". He became a member of the first provisional Latvian parliament, the "Tautas Padome". Later he became leader of the Baltic German Democratic Party (DDP). This was often referred to as "Schiemann's Party" and was known for practising a politics 'above party', most notably his constant fight for minority rights in post-war Latvia, particularly in education. Schiemann led a coalition of Baltic German parties, the Committee of the Baltic German Parties, for most of the inter-war period. He was a member of all four Latvian parliaments (Saeima) (in 1922, 1925, 1928 and 1931) until the Saeima's dissolution following the coup d'état of 15 May 1934 by K. Ulmanis. In 1927 Schiemann had even been offered the post of prime minister but he declined, on the grounds that he would have insufficient support. In 1929 he was a member of the Latvian delegation to the League of Nations.

paragraph: During the buildup to World War II, Schiemann came under pressure from Baltic German society to abandon his uncompromising defence of the minorities, in particular the Jews. Schiemann declined to do so, and was one of the few voices of authority in the Baltic German community that argued for the rights of Jews. This led to his having some quite vocal critics in Baltic German society.

paragraph: Schiemann suffered from tuberculosis throughout the 1930s, and frequently visited Davos to recover. In 1930 he used one such trip to publish several extensive anti-Nazi articles.

paragraph: In 1933 supporters of National Socialism took over the "Rigasche Rundschau" and Schiemann was forced to leave the newspaper. In October he also resigned his seat in the Latvian parliament due to declining health and left Latvia to settle in Vienna.

paragraph: In 1937 he established the "Verband zur nationalen Befriedung Europas" (Association for National Freedom in Europe), which tried to unite all German minority groups in those parts of Europe not under Nazi influence.

paragraph: While in Vienna he wrote many articles, mostly for the German-language Polish newspaper "Der Deutsche in Polen". However, he also had articles published in important Austrian newspapers (such as the "Neues Wiener Tagblatt").

paragraph: After the Anschluss he returned to Riga. During the late 1930s he was quite unwell, but with war looming and minority rights becoming worse, he refused to leave his country in 1939 - and campaigned for other Baltic Germans to remain, where he felt their country needed them, and not to heed Hitler's call for "repatriation" of the Baltic Germans to the Reich.

paragraph: During the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 Schiemann was not repressed. During the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany, Schiemann was confined to his house. It was surprising that he did not suffer a worse fate. Some authorities believe that this was perhaps due to the high regard that his political opponents still held him in - but more likely his drastically failing health had much to do with it.

paragraph: During the last two years of his life, and despite suffering from severe tuberculosis, Schiemann hid a young Jewish girl called Valentina Freimane in his house. She credits him with saving her life, saying that she probably would not have survived if it were not for him. Schiemann died in Riga shortly before the Soviet Red Army occupied Latvia for the second time. In 2000 he was posthumously bestowed the title of the Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli institution Yad Vashem.

description: German journalist

wikidata_label: Paul Schiemann

wikipedia_title: Paul Schiemann