text:
Bayt
Islamic "Nabi"
Prophet
Muhammad
Islam
Mecca
CE
Al-Hasan
Muhammad
Cairo
mosque
Ja'far al-Sadiq
Hijaz
Egypt
Shafi‘i
Sunni
fiqh
Sunnah.org
Ahl al-Bayt
Sayyid
Sayyidah Ruqayyah
Zaynab bint ‘Ali

categories: Family of Muhammad,Salaf,824 deaths,Women scholars of Islam,762 births,9th-century Muslim scholars of Islam,People from Mecca

paragraph: Sayyida Nafisa

paragraph: Sayyidah Nafisah bint Al-Hasan () was a woman of the "Bayt" (, Household) of the Islamic "Nabi" (, Prophet) Muhammad, and a scholar and teacher of Islam.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: She was born in Mecca in 762 CE, to Al-Hasan al-Anwar, the son of Zayd al-Ablaj, son of Al-Hasan the grandson of Muhammad. She spent her later life in Cairo, where there is a mosque bearing her name.

paragraph: Section::::Full name.

paragraph: Nafisa bint Amir al-Mumi'nin al-Hasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn Abi Talib al-'Alawiyyah al-Hasaniyyah (d.208/830) is the best known woman scholar of hadith scholarship in Egypt. Ibn Kathir in "al-Bidayah wa al-nihayah" reports about her the following statement: " She was a wealthy lady, did a lot of favours to the people, especially those paralysed, those with severe illness, and to all other ill people. She was a devout, ascetic, and of abundant virtue. When Imam al-Shafi'i arrived in Egpt, she did good to him, and sometimes Shafi'i led her in prayers in Ramadan".

paragraph: Section::::Full name.:Marriage and career.

paragraph: She married Is-haq al-Mutamin, son of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, himself a descendant of Muhammad. She emigrated with him from Al-Hijaz to Egypt. She had two children, a son named 'Qasim' and a daughter named 'Umm Kulthum'.

paragraph: Her students traveled from faraway places and among them was Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi‘i, the man behind the Shafi‘i school of Sunni fiqh. She financially sponsored his education for him.

paragraph: Section::::Full name.:Influence on Imam al-Shafi'i.

paragraph: It is said that Imam al-Shafi'i, a founder of the juridical school, after coming to Cairo called upon Nafisa bint Amir al-Mumi'nin al-Hasan to hear the hadiths from her..

paragraph: It could be possibly claimed not without influence of knowledge and personality of Nafisa al-Hasan, since he has been a frequent guest in her house, a listener of her lectures in her mosque, who as it is reported by the historians asked for her invocation (du'a) and seek for blessings from her (baraka). Sunnah.org

paragraph: When Imam al-Shafi'i felt sick and afterwards felt the approaching death, he immediately wrote the will where he mentioned that Nafisa al-Hasan is honourably expected to read the funeral prayer (salat al-janaza). After death of Imam al-Shafi'i, the body was carried to her house and she prayed over it. It could not be "without her popularity, fame, honour and respect among the people"

paragraph: Section::::Full name.:Ascetic way of life and miracles.

paragraph: It is reported that Nafisa al-Hasan has been living an ascetic way of life. Zainab, her niece, has witnessed that her aunt ate once per three days and kept an empty basket with her, each time she wanted to eat something small, she put hand inside and found something sent from Allah. Once being moved by the way of life led by Sayyida Nafisa, Zainab asked her aunt "You must take care of yourself." On that she replied that, "How shall I take care of myself before I reach my Lord? Ahead of me are so many barriers which no one can cross except the successful ones (al-faizun)."

paragraph: More than 150 miracles are atributted to Nafisa al-Hasan throughout her life and after death. After settling down in Cairo there was a miracle of curing paralysed daughter of non-Muslim family who was the neighbours of Nafisa al-Hasan. One day the daughter was left in Nafisa's house when mother went shopping to the marketplace. When Nafisa did her ablution before prayer some drops of water touched the girl and she started to move. When Nafisa was praying, daughter stood up and run to the coming mother who was shoked and overjoyed at the same moment. After that miracle the whole family and other neighbours accepted Islam.

paragraph: After her death the one accident has happened. Some thieves entered her mosque and took sixteen silver lamps. They wanted to escape immediately but failed to find the doors. They were trapped as in the cage. Next morning they were found and put into prison.

paragraph: Section::::Full name.:Legacy.

paragraph: Her piety was of such renown that people came from far and near to seek her blessings; hagiographers recount her decision to leave Egypt due to the throngs that came to seek the blessings of Ahl al-Bayt, leaving little time for prayer. The governor of Egypt and the pleas of the people for her not to leave Egypt convinced her to stay. Numerous accounts are given of the miracles she performed for those who sought her aid directly or through prayer, such as curing a blind child, intervening when the Nile did not rise one year as expected, preventing a ship from sinking, helping a poor woman who spent her life spinning wool to support her family, freeing a prisoner through her intercession and seeing people through their difficulties.

paragraph: Sayyidah Nafisah, Sayyidah Ruqayyah and Sayyidah Zaynab bint ‘Ali are traditionally considered the patron saints of the "madinah" (, city) of Cairo.

description: Muslim scholar

wikidata_label: Sayyida Nafisa

wikipedia_title: Sayyida Nafisa


text: Canadian

text: rugby union

text: Seattle Seawolves

text: Major League Rugby

text: Ospreys

text: Calgary, AB

text: Okotoks

text: Canadian Football

text: Rugby

text: Osprey

text: RaboDirect

text: RaboDirect

text: Canadian Football

text: Rugby

text: Canadian Interuniversity Sport

text: University of Saskatchewan Huskies

text: Rugby World Cup

text: Ospreys

text: Player Profile

categories: Saskatchewan Huskies football players,Canadian rugby union players,Rugby union centres,1991 births,Living people,Canada international rugby union players

paragraph: Jeff Hassler

paragraph: Jeff Hassler (born 21 August 1991) is a Canadian rugby union player and winger for the Seattle Seawolves in Major League Rugby. He has 12 caps as a member of the Canadian national squad and has appeared in 37 Rabo and Guinness Pro12 matches since signing with the Ospreys In 2013. Hassler is a Calgary, AB native and grew up playing high school athletics in Okotoks, AB where he attended Holy Trinity Academy. In High school Hassler excelled at all sports but in particular Canadian Football and Rugby.

paragraph: Jeff has a large family on his father George’s side. George has 9 siblings, (2 brothers and 7 sisters). Jeff also grew up with three brothers, Thomas Hassler, John Micheal Hassler, and Ryan Hassler.

paragraph: In his young professional career, Hassler has already been recognized for his talents on the field. In his rookie year as an Osprey, he appeared in seventeen matches and notched 8 tries earning him a spot on the RaboDirect Dream Team. In addition to being selected for the RaboDirect Dream Team, Hassler was voted by fans and peers as Team Canada's 15's player of the year for the 2014 season. Although injury sidelined him for the majority of the 14/15 campaign, Hassler scored 6 tries in eleven appearances with the Ospreys this season in GuinnessPro12 and European Cup Competitions.

paragraph: Hassler plays on the wing but is also able to cover in the centres. He ended his career with the Osprey on 24 April 2018. On 10 May 2019, it was announced that Hassler signed with teh Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Hassler played both Canadian Football and Rugby in his teen years. He was a star running back in Pee Wee, Bantam, Midget and High School Football. At the end of high school, Hassler was a highly sought after by multiple CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) programs and committed to the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Injuries unfortunately sidelined him for the majority of this two years with the Huskies. He was known for his dynamic and powerful running style. He was also selected to represent Team World in the 2010 IFAF International Federation of American Football game vs the USA.

paragraph: Huskies Individual Career Statistics

paragraph: Section::::Professional Rugby Career & Statistics.

paragraph: National Team Senior Men's XV's Statistics

paragraph: Hassler has represented Canada internationally at the U17, U20 and Senior Men's XV's level and also the on the HSBC Sevens World Series. He made his debut on the Sevens circuit in Feb 2012 and later that summer with the Senior Men's XV's vs the USA. At the end of the autumn internationals in 2014, Hassler suffered a serious knee injury that sidelined him for the majority of the remaining season. However, he stands to be an integral part of Canada's makeup for the RWC2015 Rugby World Cup in the fall of 2015.

paragraph: Hassler signed with the Ospreys in 2013, and extended his stay with a three-year deal that would see him as a member of the club until the end of the 2017 campaign. He had started the 2014/15 year with a bang, co-leading the team in tries through seven games before injuring his knee. He returned to the pitch on May 8, 2015 in a home stand against the Glasgow Warriors and was back in form scoring a try in the Pro12 semi finals vs Munster 2 weeks later.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Player Profile

description: Canadian rugby union player

wikidata_label: Jeff Hassler

wikipedia_title: Jeff Hassler


text: Russian

text: Moscow

text: Russia

text: Kuril Islands

text: Moscow Institute of Art

text: Advanced School of Cinematography

text: Soyuzmultfilm

text: NBC News

text: The Russia House

text: Franco Zeffirelli

text: Pablo Picasso

text: Marc Chagall

text: Mikhail Shemyakin

text: Giorgio Morandi

text: San Francisco

text: The New York Times

text: The Smashing Pumpkins

text: Machina

text: I of the Mourning

text: Machina

text: Stand Inside Your Love

text: Machina

text: Try, Try, Try

text: Machina

text: mewithoutYou

text: Jonny Craig

text: Official Website

text: Kafanov on Artnet

text: Art Auction of Vasily Kafanov

text: Facebook Page

categories: 21st-century American painters,20th-century American painters,American illustrators,American male painters,1952 births,American people of Russian descent,Living people

paragraph: Vasily Kafanov

paragraph: Vasily Alexeyevich Kafanov (; born 16 July 1952) is a Russian-born painter and illustrator. His works have been collected in many countries. His painting style mainly involves the depth of life in different forms. He also uses ceramics, printmaking and sculpture for making his artworks.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Kafanov was born in Moscow, Russia. His parents were Ludmila and Alexei Kafanov but as they got divorced, he was raised by his grandmother. After finishing school, he was in the Soviet Far East, Kuril Islands, serving in the ranks of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1970 to 1972. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Art and started his life as a graphic artist and an illustrator. Later on, he graduated from Advanced School of Cinematography and created four short cartoons at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. He married Eteri Lobzhanidze in 1980. Their only child, Lucy Kafanov (born 1982), is a journalist who is now a foreign correspondent for NBC News.

paragraph: Section::::Painting style.

paragraph: Kafanov used to paint traditional oils on canvas and sometimes on wood panels. Later on, his drawing began to feature a large fish, which popped up in a variety of very strange settings, carrying small chapels and towers on its back. Nowadays, he uses rapidograph and black Japanese ink on acrylic for his paintings. Bright primary colors with yellow backgrounds, as well as lots of red and green are also used in his paintings. He also worked on different fields of arts with ceramics, welding, sculpture and artifacts concerning alchemy.

paragraph: Section::::Inspiration and emigration.

paragraph: In the late 1980s, when spy thriller "The Russia House" was made in Russia, its film crew used Kafanov's studio to hold a cast party. Among the guests was the film director and painter Franco Zeffirelli who praised his painting style and played a key role in influencing Kafanov. Throughout his career, Kafanov has also been inspired by the paintings of prominent artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Mikhail Shemyakin and Giorgio Morandi. In 1990, Kafanov emigrated to America and started living in New York. His first exhibition in the United States was in the summer of 1990 in San Francisco.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Kafanov paints in many sizes and categories and has numerous auctions and exhibitions in different galleries. His paintings have been reproduced on book covers as well as album covers. He used to work as illustrator for The New York Times. In the late 1990s, he met Billy Corgan, the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and later was offered to create the cover of their 2000 release "Machina", which he believes is one of his best works in his entire career. Other releases Kafanov contributed to are:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I of the Mourning", a 2000 single by The Smashing Pumpkins from "Machina."

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stand Inside Your Love", another Smashing Pumpkins single from "Machina".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Try, Try, Try", a single by The Smashing Pumpkins from "Machina".

paragraph: BULLET::::- All the full-length albums by post-hardcore/indie rock band mewithoutYou

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Dream Is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer", the debut 2009 album by Canadian singer-songwriter Jonny Craig.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kafanov on Artnet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Art Auction of Vasily Kafanov

paragraph: BULLET::::- Facebook Page

description: Russian-born, American painter and illustrator

wikidata_label: Vasily Kafanov

wikipedia_title: Vasily Kafanov


text:
OBE
QC
Attorney General of Hong Kong
Hankow
Chaloner Alabaster
Tonbridge School
Inner Temple
China Association
British Supreme Court for China
Shanghai
FSA Bourne
United States Court for China
British Supreme Court for China
United States Court for China
World War I
O.B.E.
King's Counsel
Attorney General of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Legislative Council
Attorney General of Hong Kong
Joseph Horsford Kemp
Chief Justice of Hong Kong
Stanley Internment Camp

categories: English civil servants,Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong,Barristers of Hong Kong,Queen's Counsel 1901–2000,1880 births,Hong Kong Senior Counsel,Members of the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong,1958 deaths,Attorneys General of Hong Kong

paragraph: C. Grenville Alabaster

paragraph: Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, OBE, QC (1880–1958) was a British lawyer who served as Attorney General of Hong Kong in the 1930s.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Alabaster was born in Hankow, the son of Chaloner Alabaster a British consular official in China.

paragraph: He was educated at Tonbridge School He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1904 and practised on the Western Circuit until 1909. In 1907 he published a book the Law Relating to the Transactions of Money-lenders and Borrowers.

paragraph: A newspaper of the time when describing him mentioned his "consummate skill", "very few young men have commanded the admiration of so many intelligent people" and "he is a young man of great intellectual distinction and is endowed with a judgement of rare clearness and sagacity"

paragraph: While in London he served as secretary of the China Association.

paragraph: In 1909, he married Mabel Winifred Mary, M.B.E daughter of Col E.P. Mainwaring of the Indian Army.

paragraph: Section::::Practice in Hong Kong and China.

paragraph: In 1909, Alabaster left England to practice as a barrister in Hong Kong.

paragraph: In September 1913, he was admitted to practice before the British Supreme Court for China in Shanghai in a hearing whereby special dispensation he was allowed not to be present. Alabaster had been in Shanghai the week before his admission and was returning the week after. The Acting Judge, FSA Bourne, was not in Shanghai when Alabaster was there so allowed his admission to be moved in his absence. In 1915, he appeared in the United States Court for China As a barrister admitted to the British Supreme Court for China, by courtesy, he was allowed to appear before the United States Court for China.

paragraph: In 1913, Alabaster revised the Ordinances of Hong Kong

paragraph: He served on the Sanitary Board and during World War I served as Deputy Cable Censor He received an O.B.E. in 1918 for his services in connection with the Cable Censorate.

paragraph: He was appointed a King's Counsel in Hong Kong in 1922 and was said to be described by the legal profession as a "very sound lawyer"

paragraph: Section::::Legal Appointments.

paragraph: Alabaster acted as Attorney General of Hong Kong for periods in 1911, 1912 and 1928. He was also an unofficial member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 1919, 1924 and 1925.

paragraph: In 1930, he was appointed Attorney General of Hong Kong, succeeding Joseph Horsford Kemp.

paragraph: Alabaster acted as Chief Justice of Hong Kong in 1937.

paragraph: Alabaster was interned by the Japanese at Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945. Alabaster said that as a result of the war he has lost "furniture, household goods, silver, cutlery, glass, carpets, pictures, clothes, bedding ... jewelry, motor car, wireless set, masonic regalia etc ... all looted by the Japanese."

paragraph: He was knighted in 1942 whilst in internment.

paragraph: Section::::Retirement.

paragraph: Alabaster retired at the end of the war and returned to England. He settled in Southbourne, Bournemouth.

paragraph: A family postcard described his condition post-war:

paragraph: "Sir Grenville came to lunch on Sunday – he was almost blind by then, probably partly to do with deprivation when in prison camp (Japanese). His sisters used to read him the Times Crossword when he arrived – after lunch, he would give them the answers."

paragraph: He died on 10 September 1958 in Hampshire, England.

alias:
Grenville Alabaster
Chaloner Grenville Alabaster

description: Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple

wikidata_label: C. Grenville Alabaster

wikipedia_title: C. Grenville Alabaster


text: choral

text: Boston, Massachusetts

text: tanner

text: New South Church

text: Columbian Centinel

text: chorus

text: a cappella

text: Chester

text: Africa

text: tongue-in-cheek

text: Christmas carol

text: Isaac Watts

text: Luke

text: Nahum Tate

text: singing master

text: singing schools

text: shape note

text: Sacred Harp

text: early music

text: Sacred Harp

text: Stoughton Musical Society

text: William Schuman

text: Chester

text: New England Triptych

text: Songwriters Hall of Fame

text: Roger Lee Hall

text: Twyla Tharp

text: John Cage

text: Creation (William Billings)

text: University of Virginia Press

text: Princeton University Press

text: Art of the States: William Billings

categories: People of colonial Massachusetts,American male composers,People from colonial Boston,1800 deaths,1746 births,American composers,Burials in Boston,18th century in Boston,Tanners,Shape note,18th-century composers,Musicians from Boston

paragraph: William Billings

paragraph: William Billings (October 7, 1746 – September 26, 1800) is regarded as the first American choral composer.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: William Billings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of 14, the death of his father stopped Billings' formal schooling. In order to help support his family, young Billings trained as a tanner. He possibly received musical instruction from John Barry, one of the choir members at the New South Church, but for the most part he was self-taught. Billings had an unusual appearance and a strong addiction to snuff. His contemporary wrote that Billings "was a singular man, of moderate size, short of one leg, with one eye, without any address & with an uncommon negligence of person. Still, he spake & sung & thought as a man above the common abilities." Billings died in poverty in Boston on September 26, 1800, leaving behind a widow and six children. His funeral was announced in the "Columbian Centinel": "Died- Mr. William Billings, the celebrated music composer. His funeral will be tomorrow at 4 o'clock, PM from the house of Mrs. Amos Penniman, in Chamber-street, West-Boston."

paragraph: Section::::Music.

paragraph: Virtually all of Billings' music was written for four-part chorus, singing a cappella. His many hymns and anthems were published mostly in book-length collections, as follows:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The New-England Psalm-Singer" (1770)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Singing Master's Assistant" (1778)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Music in Miniature" (1779)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Psalm-Singer's Amusement" (1781)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Suffolk Harmony" (1786)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Continental Harmony" (1794)

paragraph: Sometimes Billings would revise and improve a song, including the new version in his next volume.

paragraph: Billings' music can be at times forceful and stirring, as in his patriotic song

paragraph: "Chester"; ecstatic, as in his hymn "Africa"; or elaborate and celebratory, as in his "Easter Anthem."

paragraph: "Jargon," from "Singing Master's Assistant", shows his wit. Written as an answer to a criticism of his use of harmony, "Jargon" contains a tongue-in-cheek text, and jarring dissonances that sound more like those of the 20th century than of the 18th.

paragraph: He also wrote several Christmas carols, including "Judea" in 1778 and "Shiloh" in 1781.

paragraph: Section::::Billings as a writer.

paragraph: Section::::Billings as a writer.:Verse.

paragraph: Most of the texts that Billings used in his works come from the poetry of Isaac Watts. Other texts were drawn from Universalist poets and local poets, whereas Billings himself wrote the text to about a dozen of his compositions.

paragraph: As an example, McKay and Crawford (see Books, below) compare Billings' metrical rendering of Luke 2:8–11 with that of Nahum Tate, thought to be the inspiration for Billings' work:

paragraph: Tate:

paragraph: Billings:

paragraph: Section::::Billings as a writer.:Pedagogical writing.

paragraph: Billings wrote long prefaces to his works in which he explained (often in an eccentric prose style) the rudiments of music and how his work should be performed. His writings reflect his extensive experience as a singing master. They also provide information on choral performance practice in Billings's day; for instance, a passage from the preface to "The Continental Harmony" indicates that Billings liked to have both men and women sing the treble (top) and tenor lines, an octave apart:

paragraph: ... in general they are best sung together, viz. if a man sings it as a Medius, and a woman as a Treble, it is in effect as two parts; so likewise, if a man sing a Tenor with a masculine and woman with a feminine voice, the Tenor is as full as two parts, and a tune so sung (although it has but four parts) is in effect the same as six. Such a conjunction of masculine and feminine voices is beyond expression, sweet and ravishing, and is esteemed by all good judges to be vastly preferable to any instrument whatever, framed by human invention.

paragraph: Section::::Singing schools.

paragraph: Billings was involved in teaching singing schools throughout his life. In 1769, when Billings was twenty-three years old, the following announcement appeared in the "Boston Gazette": "John Barrey & William Billings Begs Leave to inform the Publick, that they propose to open a Singing School THIS NIGHT ... where any Person inclining to learn to Sing may be attended upon at said School with Fidelity and Dispatch." He taught a singing school in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1774 and all the pupils names were listed He was listed as "singing master" in the Boston city directory up until 1798. In the preface to the "Singing Master's Assistant", Billings included advice for the practical running of a singing school, including topics such as logistics, expectations for manners and attentiveness in students, and the need for the supremacy of the teacher's musical decisions.

paragraph: Section::::Reception.

paragraph: Billings' work was very popular in its heyday, but his career was hampered by the primitive state of copyright law in America at the time. By the time the copyright laws had been strengthened, it was too late for Billings: the favorites among his tunes had already been widely reprinted in other people's hymnals, permanently copyright-free.

paragraph: With changes in the public's musical taste, Billings' fortunes declined. His last tune-book, "The Continental Harmony", was published as a project of his friends, in an effort to help support the revered but no longer popular composer. His temporary employment as a Boston street sweeper was probably a project of a similar nature.

paragraph: Billings died in poverty at age 53, and for a considerable time after his death, his music was almost completely neglected in the American musical mainstream. However, his compositions remained popular for a time in the rural areas of New England, which resisted the newer trends in sacred music. Moreover, a few of Billings' songs were carried southward and westward through America, as a result of their appearance in shape note hymnals. They ultimately resided in the rural South, as part of the Sacred Harp singing tradition.

paragraph: In the latter part of the twentieth century a Billings revival occurred, and a sumptuous complete scholarly edition of his works was published (see Books, below). Works by Billings are commonly sung by American choral groups today, particularly performers of early music. In addition, the recent spread of Sacred Harp music has acquainted many more people with Billings' music: several of his compositions are among the more frequently sung of the works in the Sacred Harp canon.

paragraph: Section::::Other.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Stoughton Musical Society, formed by former students of Billings, has carried on his tradition for over 200 years, and included twenty-seven Billings tunes in their 1878 music collection, "The Stoughton Musical Society's Centennial Collection of Sacred Music". Among the favorite tunes by Billings sung by this choral society are: "Majesty" and "Chester".

paragraph: BULLET::::- The modern American composer William Schuman featured Billings' American Revolutionary War anthem "Chester", along with two other of Billings' hymns ("When Jesus Wept" and "Be Glad Then, America"), in his composition "New England Triptych" (1956).

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Billings was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

paragraph: BULLET::::- American composer Roger Lee Hall had the premiere of his choral work in 1980 entitled "The Pleasures of Variety - Homage to William Billings."

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1996, modern dance choreographer Twyla Tharp premiered a piece entitled "Sweet Fields" using many hymns by Billings and other early American choral composers.

paragraph: BULLET::::- American composer John Cage incorporated chance-derived fragmentations of many of Billings compositions in his works centered around the bicentennial celebration commissions that he received, including "Apartment House 1776", "44 Harmonies", and "Quartets I-VIII". Cage also employed the music of other Colonial-era composers in these works as well.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Creation (William Billings), hymn tune

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Scholarly edition of Billings's works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Complete works of William Billings" in four volumes, edited by Karl Kroeger and Hans Nathan:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The New England psalm-singer". University of Virginia Press (1981).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Singing Masters Assistant, Music in Miniature". University of Virginia Press (1984). .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Psalm-Singer's Amusement". University of Virginia Press (1987). .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Continental Harmony". University of Virginia Press (1990). .

paragraph: Section::::References.:Other.

paragraph: BULLET::::- McKay, David P. and Richard Crawford (1975) "William Billings of Boston". Princeton: Princeton University Press. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gary, Charles & Mark, Michael. (2007). "A History of American Music Education". Rowman & Littlefield Education: UK.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hall, Roger L. MAJESTY: A discussion of Facts and Fiction about William Billings and The Stoughton Musical Society (PineTree Press, 2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nathan, Hans. 1976. "William Billings: Data and Documents". Detroit: College Music Society.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Art of the States: William Billings

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Billings - Father of American Choral Music

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wake Ev'ry Breath: Recording by William Appling Singers & Orchestra

description: American choral composer

wikidata_label: William Billings

wikipedia_title: William Billings


text: Baltic German

text: novelist

text: poet

text: Nobel Prize in Literature

text: Riga

text: Livonia

text: Lübeck

text: Katharineum

text: theology

text: Marburg

text: Germanistics

text: art history

text: Munich

text: World War I

text: Baltische Landeswehr

text: Bolsheviks

text: Fanny Mendelssohn

text: Kurt Hensel

text: Nazis'

text: Renaissance

text: Catholic Church

text: Carl Muth

text: Hochland

text: Reichsschrifttumskammer

text: Achenkirch

text: World War II

text: Rome

text: Baden-Baden

categories: German poets,Schiller Memorial Prize winners,1964 deaths,20th-century German novelists,Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class),Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism,Baltic-German people,German Roman Catholics,People from the Governorate of Livonia,1892 births,Baltische Landeswehr personnel,German military personnel of World War I,People from Riga,Mendelssohn family

paragraph: Werner Bergengruen

paragraph: Werner Bergengruen (September 16, 1892 – September 4, 1964) was a Baltic German novelist and poet. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Bergengruen was born in Riga, which at that time belonged to the Russian Empire, Governorate of Livonia. After growing up in Lübeck and attending the Katharineum, he started studying theology in Marburg in 1911. He later changed to studying Germanistics and art history, but failed to graduate; he then moved to Munich. He served as a lieutenant during World War I and joined the Baltische Landeswehr in 1919 to fight against the Bolsheviks.

paragraph: On 4 October 1919, he married Charlotte Hensel (1896–1990), a descendant of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn, and the daughter of the mathematician Kurt Hensel. From the marriage there were four children, Olaf, Luise, Maria and Alexander.

paragraph: Bergengruen started writing novels and short stories in 1923 and decided to become a full-time writer in 1927. While his earlier works were of a more contemplative nature and pondered metaphysical and religious questions, the Nazis' rise to power led him to write more political works. His most successful novel, "Der Großtyrann und das Gericht", published in 1935, is set in the Renaissance era, but the story of a merciless tyrant playing with the weaknesses of his underlings was often seen as a clear allegory on Germany's political situation. This interpretation is doubtful, though, as most of the novel was written before the Nazi takeover in 1933. In 1936 Bergengruen was received into the Catholic Church. The same year he moved to Munich; his new neighbour was Carl Muth, editor of the Catholic monthly Hochland. In 1937 he was expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer for being unfit to contribute to German culture. Although Bergengruen was politically a staunch conservative, his Catholicism—as well as the fact that his wife was of partly Jewish heritage—contributed to his alienation from the Nazi regime.

paragraph: In 1942, after his house in Munich was destroyed by bombs, Bergengruen moved to Achenkirch. After World War II, he lived in Switzerland, Rome, and finally Baden-Baden, where he died in 1964.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rome remembered." (Transl. German: "Römisches Erinnerungsbuch") Introduced by Clare Boothe Luce. Translated by Roland Hill. 40 color plates by Erich Lessing; 57 engravings by G. B. Piranesi. New York: Herder and Herder, 1968 ().

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Matter of Conscience." New York: Thames & Hudson, 1952. Review: Books: Morality Whodunit, TIME May 12, 1952 ().

description: German writer

wikidata_label: Werner Bergengruen

wikipedia_title: Werner Bergengruen


text:
Viking
The Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok
Ragnar Loðbrok
Aslaug
Björn Ironside
Halfdan Ragnarsson
Hvitserk
Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye
Ubba
Ragnarssona þáttr
male impotence
Aslaug
völva
Ímar
Uí Ímair
Northumbria
York
Kingdom of Dublin
Great Heathen Army
Anglo-Saxon
Heptarchy
East Anglia
Essex
Kent
Mercia
Northumbria
Sussex
Wessex
Ælla of Northumbria
York
Dido
York
blood eagle
Nottingham
Burgred of Mercia
West Saxon
Æthelred of Wessex
Edmund the Martyr
Æthelweard
Annals of Ulster
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
Laithlind
Gothfraid
Repton
William I of England
Alfred the Great
Hammer of the Gods
sodomitic
Ivan Kaye
History Channel
Vikings
History Channel
Vikings
Alex Høgh Andersen
Edmund the Martyr
The Darkness
Barbarian

categories: 9th-century English monarchs,873 deaths,Uí Ímair,Monarchs of Dublin,Viking warriors,Northumbrian monarchs,Monarchs of Jorvik,House of Munsö

paragraph: Ivar the Boneless

paragraph: Ivar the Boneless (; ), also known as Ivar Ragnarsson, was a Viking leader and a commander who invaded what is now England. According to "The Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok", he was the youngest son of Ragnar Loðbrok and third wife Aslaug. His elder half-brothers and brothers included Björn Ironside, Halfdan Ragnarsson, Hvitserk, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye and Ubba.

paragraph: The origin of the nickname is not certain. "Ívarr beinlausi" could be translated to "Ivar legless", but "beinlausi" could also be translated as "boneless", since "bone" and "leg" translates to the same word, "ben", in Swedish. Several of the sagas describe him as lacking legs/bones, while a passage in Ragnarssona þáttr (also known as the tale of Ragnar's sons) suggest it refers to male impotence with Ivar's "Bonelessness" being merely figurative.

paragraph: According to the "Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok", Ivar's bonelessness was the result of a curse. His mother Aslaug was Ragnar's third wife. She was a völva. She said that she and her husband must wait three nights before consummating their marriage after his return following a long separation (while he was in England raiding). However, Ragnar was overcome with lust after such a long separation and did not heed her words. As a result, Ivar was born with weak bones.

paragraph: Another hypothesis is that he was actually known as "the Hated", which in Latin would be Exosus. A medieval scribe with a basic knowledge of Latin could easily have interpreted it as "ex" (without) "os" (bone), thus "the Boneless", although it is hard to align this theory with the direct translation of his name given in Norse sources.

paragraph: While the sagas describe Ivar's physical disability, they also emphasise his wisdom, cunning, and mastery of strategy and tactics in battle.

paragraph: He is often considered identical to Ímar, the founder of the Uí Ímair dynasty, which at various times, from the mid-ninth to the 10th century, ruled Northumbria from the city of York, and dominated the Irish Sea region as the Kingdom of Dublin.

paragraph: Section::::Chronology.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 865 the Great Heathen Army, led by Ivar, invades the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. The Heptarchy was the collective name for the seven kingdoms East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex. The invasion was organised by the sons of Ragnar Lodbrok, to wreak revenge against Ælla of Northumbria who had supposedly executed Ragnar in 865 by throwing him in a snake pit, but the historicity of this explanation is unknown. According to the saga, Ivar did not overcome Ælla and sought reconciliation. He asked for only as much land as he could cover with an ox's hide and swore never to wage war against Ælla. Then Ivar cut the ox's hide into such fine strands that he could envelop a large fortress (in an older saga it was York and according to a younger saga it was London), which he could take as his own. (Compare the similar legendary ploy of Dido.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Late the next year, the army turned north and invaded Northumbria, eventually capturing Ælla at York in 867. According to legend, Ælla was executed by Ivar and his brothers using the blood eagle, a ritual method of execution of debated historicity whereby the ribcage is opened from behind and the lungs are pulled out, forming a wing-like shape. Later in the year, the Army moved south and invaded the kingdom of Mercia, capturing the town of Nottingham, where they spent the winter. King Burgred of Mercia responded by allying with the West Saxon king Æthelred of Wessex, and with a combined force they laid siege to the town. The Anglo-Saxons were unable to recapture the city, but a truce was agreed whereby the Danes would withdraw to York. The Great Heathen Army remained in York for over a year, gathering its strength for further assaults.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ivar and Ubba are identified as the commanders of the Danes when they returned to East Anglia in 869, and as the executioners of the East Anglian king, Edmund the Martyr, for refusing their demand that he renounce Christ. How true the accounts are of Edmund's death is unknown, but it has been suggested that his capture and execution is not an unlikely thing to have happened.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ivar disappears from the historical record sometime after 870. His ultimate fate is uncertain.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: The Anglo-Saxon chronicler Æthelweard records his death as 870. The "Annals of Ulster" describe the death of Ívar in 873. The death of Ívar is also recorded in the "Fragmentary Annals of Ireland" under the year 873.

paragraph: The identification of the king of Laithlind as Gothfraid (i.e., Ímar's father) was added by a copyist in the 17th century. In the original 11th-century manuscript, the subject of the entry was simply called "righ Lochlann" ("the king of Lochlainn"), which more than likely referred to Ímar, whose death is not otherwise noted in the "Fragmentary Annals". The cause of death—a sudden and horrible disease—is not mentioned in any other source, but it raises the possibility that the true provenance of Ivar's Old Norse sobriquet lay in the crippling effects of an unidentified disease that struck him down at the end of his life.

paragraph: In 1686, a farm labourer named Thomas Walker discovered a Scandinavian burial mound at Repton in Derbyshire close to a battle site where the Great Heathen Army overthrew the Mercian King Burgred of his kingdom. The number of partial skeletons surrounding the body—over 250—signified that the man buried there was of very high status. It has been suggested that such a burial mound is possibly the last resting place of the renowned Ivar .

paragraph: According to the saga, Ivar ordered that he be buried in a place that was exposed to attack, and prophesied that, if that was done, foes coming to the land would be met with ill-success. This prophecy held true, says the saga, until "when Vilhjalm bastard (William I of England) came ashore[,] he went [to the burial site] and broke Ivar's mound and saw that [Ivar's] body had not decayed. Then Vilhjalm had a large pyre made upon which Ivar's body was] burned... Thereupon, [Vilhjalm proceeded with the landing invasion and achieved] the victory."

paragraph: Section::::Fictional portrayals.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ivar the Boneless is a minor character in the film "Alfred the Great", portrayed as an acrobatic and agile warrior.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the film "Hammer of the Gods", Ivar the Boneless appears as a sodomitic Viking who lives reclusely, played by Ivan Kaye, who would later portray King Aelle in the History Channel's TV series "Vikings".

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the History Channel's TV series "Vikings", Ivar is portrayed as the son of Ragnar and Aslaug and a younger half-brother to Björn Ironside. He first appeared in Season Two as a baby, and later was played by James Quinn Markey and Alex Høgh Andersen.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ivar's invasion of East Anglia and killing of Edmund the Martyr are depicted in the video for The Darkness's song "Barbarian".

description: King of Jorvik

wikidata_label: Ivar the Boneless

wikipedia_title: Ivar the Boneless


text:
jazz
Down Beat
Judi Silvano
Paul Motian
Sicilian-American
Alcara Li Fusi
Cesarò
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
Sonny Stitt
Euclid High School
Berklee College of Music
Herb Pomeroy
Gary Burton
Jack McDuff
Lonnie Smith
Woody Herman
Mel Lewis
John Scofield
Bill Frisell
Paul Motian
Bill DeArango
Saxophone Summit
Dave Liebman
Michael Brecker
Ravi Coltrane
Streams of Expression
cool jazz
free jazz
Hank Jones
McCoy Tyner
Quartet
Esperanza Spalding
James Weidman
Francisco Mela
Folk Art
loft jazz
Bird Songs
Charlie Parker
Lionel Loueke
Cross Culture
Billy Strayhorn
Berklee College of Music
Jeff Coffin
Tones, Shapes & Colors
Soul Note
Hometown Sessions
Solid Steps
Village Rhythm
Worlds
Evidence
Landmarks
Blue Note
Sounds of Joy
Enja
From the Soul
Universal Language
Tenor Legacy
Rush Hour
Ten Tales
Sunnyside
Celebrating Sinatra
Tenor Time
52nd Street Themes
Viva Caruso
On This Day ... at the Vanguard
I'm All For You
Joyous Encounter
Streams of Expression
Symphonica
Folk Art
Bird Songs
Cross Culture
Classic! Live at Newport
Trio Tapestry
Dave Douglas
Sound Prints
James Emery
Judi Silvano
Drew Gress
Jim Hall
George Mraz
Lewis Nash
Telarc
Hank Jones
Greg Osby
Friendly Fire
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Flying Colors
Michael Brecker
Dave Liebman
John Scofield
Dave Holland
Al Foster
Oh!
John Abercrombie
Open Land
Within a Song
Ray Drummond
Excursion
Peter Erskine
Antonio Faraò
Sonny Fortune
From Now On
Paul Grabowsky
Sanctuary Records
Charlie Haden
Tom Harrell
Contemporary
Marc Johnson
Shades of Jade
ECM
Swept Away
Steve Kuhn
Mostly Coltrane
Masada Quintet
Tzadik
Paul Motian
Psalm
Ed Schuller
The Story of Maryam
Jim Pepper
Jack of Clubs
It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago
Misterioso
One Time Out
Monk in Motian
JMT
On Broadway Volume 1
Bill Evans
On Broadway Volume 2
Motian in Tokyo
On Broadway Volume 3
Trioism
At the Village Vanguard
Sound of Love
I Have the Room Above Her
Time and Time Again
Chris Potter
Vertigo
John Scofield
Time on My Hands
Meant to Be
What We Do
Impulse!
Dan Silverman
Lonnie Smith
Afro–desia
Keep on Lovin'
Tommy Smith
Bill Stewart
Evidence
Steve Swallow
Real Book
McCoy Tyner
Quartet
Roseanna Vitro
Reaching for the Moon
Tropical Postcards
A Records
Yōsuke Yamashita
Official website
Joe Lovano at NPR Music
Podcast
NAMM Oral History Interview

categories: American people of Sicilian descent,Big band bandleaders,Berklee College of Music faculty,Jazz tenor saxophonists,Living people,American record producers,American people of Italian descent,1952 births,21st-century male musicians,Grammy Award winners,Male jazz musicians,Post-bop jazz musicians,Berklee College of Music alumni,Jazz record producers,21st-century saxophonists,American saxophonists,American male saxophonists,Musicians from Cleveland

paragraph: Joe Lovano

paragraph: Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952) is an American jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. He has earned a Grammy Award and several mentions on "Down Beat" magazine's critics' and readers' polls. He is married to jazz singer Judi Silvano with whom he records and performs. Lovano was a longtime member of a trio led by drummer Paul Motian.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Sicilian-American parents; his father was the tenor saxophonist Tony ("Big T") Lovano. His father's family came from Alcara Li Fusi in Sicily, and his mother's family came from Cesarò, also in Sicily. In Cleveland, Lovano's father exposed him to jazz throughout his early life, teaching him the standards, as well as how to lead a gig, pace a set, and be versatile enough to find work. Lovano started on alto saxophone at age six and switched to tenor saxophone five years later. John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sonny Stitt were among his earlier influences. After graduating from Euclid High School in 1971, he went to Berklee College of Music, where he studied under Herb Pomeroy and Gary Burton. Lovano received an honorary doctor of music degree from the college in 1998.

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

paragraph: After Berklee he worked with Jack McDuff and Lonnie Smith. He spent three years with the Woody Herman orchestra, then moved to New York City, where he played with the big band of Mel Lewis. He often plays lines that convey the rhythmic drive and punch of an entire horn section.

paragraph: In the mid 1980s Lovano began working in a quartet with John Scofield and in a trio with Bill Frisell and Paul Motian. In 1993, he played on the album "Anything Went" by guitarist Bill DeArango, a native of Cleveland. In the late 1990s, he formed the Saxophone Summit with Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker (later replaced by Ravi Coltrane). "Streams of Expression" (2006) was a tribute to both cool jazz and free jazz. Lovano and pianist Hank Jones released an album together in June 2007, entitled "Kids". He played the tenor saxophone on the 2007 McCoy Tyner album "Quartet".

paragraph: In 2008 Lovano formed the quintet Us Five with Esperanza Spalding on bass, pianist James Weidman, and two drummers, Francisco Mela and Otis Brown III. "Folk Art" was an album of compositions by Lovano that the band hoped to interpret in the spirit of the avant-garde jazz and loft jazz of the 1960s. "Bird Songs" (2011) was a tribute to Charlie Parker. West African guitarist Lionel Loueke appeared on the album "Cross Culture" (Blue Note, 2013). Lovano played reed and percussion instruments he had collected since the 1970s. Peter Slavov replaced Esperanza Spalding on six tracks, all of them written by Lovano except for "Star Crossed Lovers" by Billy Strayhorn. "The idea [...] wasn't just to play at the same time, but to collectively create music within the music," Lovano wrote in the liner notes to "Cross Culture." "Everyone is leading and following," and "the double drummer configuration adds this other element of creativity."

paragraph: Lovano has taught at the Berklee College of Music. He taught Jeff Coffin after Coffin was given a NEA Jazz Studies Grant in 1991.

paragraph: "Downbeat" magazine gave its Jazz Album of the Year Award to Lovano for "".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Instruments.

paragraph: Lovano has played Borgani saxophones since 1991 and exclusively since 1999. He has his own series called Borgani-Lovano, which uses Pearl-Silver Alloy with Gold 24K keys.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As leader.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tones, Shapes & Colors" (Soul Note, 1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hometown Sessions" (JSL, 1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Solid Steps" (Jazz Club, 1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Village Rhythm" (Soul Note, 1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Worlds" (Evidence, 1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Landmarks" (Blue Note, 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sounds of Joy" (Enja, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From the Soul" (Blue Note, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Universal Language" (Blue Note, 1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tenor Legacy" (Blue Note, 1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (Blue Note, 1994)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rush Hour" (Blue Note, 1994)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ten Tales" (Sunnyside, 1994)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Celebrating Sinatra" (Blue Note, 1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tenor Time" (Somethin' Else, 1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (Blue Note, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "52nd Street Themes" (Blue Note, 2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (Blue Note, 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Viva Caruso" (Blue Note, 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On This Day ... at the Vanguard" (Blue Note, 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I'm All For You" (Blue Note, 2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Joyous Encounter" (Blue Note, 2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Streams of Expression" (Blue Note, 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Symphonica" (Blue Note, 2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Folk Art" (Blue Note, 2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bird Songs" (Blue Note, 2011) with Us Five

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cross Culture" (Blue Note, 2013) with Us Five

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Classic! Live at Newport" (Blue Note, 2016) feat. Hank Jones, George Mraz & Lewis Nash

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trio Tapestry" (ECM, 2019) with Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As co-leader.

paragraph: With Dave Douglas

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sound Prints" (Blue Note, 2013 [2015])

paragraph: With James Emery, Judi Silvano, and Drew Gress

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fourth World" (Between the Lines, 2001)

paragraph: With Jim Hall, George Mraz, and Lewis Nash

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Grand Slam: Live at the Regatta Bar" (Telarc,2000)

paragraph: With Hank Jones

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (Blue Note, 2007)

paragraph: With Greg Osby

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Friendly Fire" (Blue Note, 1999)

paragraph: With Gonzalo Rubalcaba

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flying Colors" (Blue Note, 1997)

paragraph: With Saxophone Summit (Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gathering of Spirits" (Telarc, 2004)

paragraph: With ScoLoHoFo (John Scofield, Dave Holland, Al Foster)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oh!" (Blue Note, 2003)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As sideman.

paragraph: With John Abercrombie

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Open Land" (ECM, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Within a Song" (ECM, 2012)

paragraph: With Michael Bocian

paragraph: BULLET::::- "For This Gift" (Gunmar 1982)

paragraph: With Furio di Castri

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Unknown Voyage" (A Témpo, 1985)

paragraph: With Ray Drummond

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Excursion" (Arabesque, 1993)

paragraph: With Peter Erskine

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sweet Soul" (Novus/BMG, 1991)

paragraph: With Antonio Faraò

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evan" (Cristal, 2013)

paragraph: With Sonny Fortune

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From Now On" (Blue Note, 1996)

paragraph: With Paul Grabowsky

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tales of time and Space" (Sanctuary Records, 2005)

paragraph: With Charlie Haden

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (Verve, 1989 [1999])

paragraph: With Tom Harrell

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sail Away" (Contemporary, 1989)

paragraph: With Marc Johnson

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shades of Jade" (ECM, 2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Swept Away" (ECM, 2012)

paragraph: With Steve Kuhn

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mostly Coltrane" (ECM, 2008)

paragraph: With Masada Quintet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (Tzadik, 2009)

paragraph: With Paul Motian

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Psalm" with Ed Schuller and Billy Drewes (ECM, 1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Story of Maryam" with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1984)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jack of Clubs" with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago" (ECM, 1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Misterioso" with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "One Time Out" (Soul Note, 1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Monk in Motian" (JMT, 1988) trio + guests

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On Broadway Volume 1" (JMT, 1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bill Evans" (JMT, 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On Broadway Volume 2" (JMT, 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Motian in Tokyo" (JMT, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On Broadway Volume 3" (JMT, 1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trioism" (JMT, 1993) trio + guest

paragraph: BULLET::::- "At the Village Vanguard" (JMT, 1995) trio

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sound of Love" (JMT, 1995) trio (live)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Have the Room Above Her" (ECM, 2004) trio

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Time and Time Again" (ECM, 2006) trio

paragraph: With Chris Potter

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vertigo" (Concord, 1998)

paragraph: With John Scofield

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Time on My Hands" (Blue Note, 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meant to Be" (Blue Note, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "What We Do" (Blue Note, 1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Past Present" (Impulse!, 2015)

paragraph: With Dan Silverman

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Silverslide" (Around the Slide, 2007)

paragraph: With Lonnie Smith

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Afro–desia" (Groove Merchant, 1975)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Keep on Lovin'" (Groove Merchant, 1976)

paragraph: With Tommy Smith

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evolution" (Spartacus Records, 2003)

paragraph: With Bill Stewart

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Snide Remarks" (Blue Note, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Think Before You Think" (Evidence, 1998)

paragraph: With Steve Swallow

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Real Book" (Xtra Watt, 1993)

paragraph: With McCoy Tyner

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quartet" (2007)

paragraph: With Roseanna Vitro

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reaching for the Moon" (Chase Music Group, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tropical Postcards" (A Records, 2004)

paragraph: With Yōsuke Yamashita

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kurdish Dance" (Verve, 1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dazzling Days" (Verve, 1993)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joe Lovano at NPR Music

paragraph: BULLET::::- Podcast featuring "The One You Love to Hate" performed by Joe Lovano

paragraph: BULLET::::- NAMM Oral History Interview October 15, 2014

description: American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist

wikidata_label: Joe Lovano

wikipedia_title: Joe Lovano


text: entomologist

text: Chicago

text: Illinois

text: Rutherford, New Jersey

text: Rutherford High School

text: Massachusetts Agricultural College

text: Washington State College

text: Hagerstown, Maryland

text: Elateridae

categories: Coleopterists,People from Chicago,1885 births,United States Department of Agriculture officials,People from Rutherford, New Jersey,1953 deaths,American entomologists,Massachusetts Agricultural College alumni,Washington State University alumni,Rutherford High School (New Jersey) alumni

paragraph: James A. Hyslop

paragraph: James Augustus Hyslop (July 7, 1885 – January 16, 1953) was an American entomologist who founded the Insect Pest Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.

paragraph: Hyslop was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. After graduating from Rutherford High School, he earned a B.S. at Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1908 and M.S. at Washington State College in 1911. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1907 and led the field station in Hagerstown, Maryland, from 1912 to 1917. He published over 130 articles on entomology and related subjects, and as coleopterist he specialized in the Elateridae.

description: American entomologist

wikidata_label: James Augustus Hyslop

wikipedia_title: James A. Hyslop


text: KG

text: Edward III of England

text: Knight of the Garter

text: John I

text: Count of Namur

text: Prussia

text: Robert III of Artois

text: besieging the city

text: Henry of Grosmont

text: Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer

text: Winchelsea

text: Philippa of Hainault

text: Edward III of England

text: Jean Froissart

text: Tournehem

text: Knight of the Garter

text: Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk

text: Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg

text: Battle of Baesweiler

text: Queen Philippa of England

text: William I, Count of Hainaut

text: Joan of Valois

paragraph: Robert of Namur (1323–91)

paragraph: Robert of Namur, KG (1323 – April 1391) was a noble from the Low Countries close to King Edward III of England. He was made Knight of the Garter in 1369.

paragraph: His was the son of John I, Count of Namur, and Marie, Lady of Merode.

paragraph: As a young man, he participated in crusades in Prussia and The Holy Land. His uncle Robert III of Artois, which had English sympathies, made him journey in 1346 to Calais to meet Edward III of England, who was besieging the city. Robert made a good impression on the King.

paragraph: On 30 August 1350, Robert and Henry of Grosmont commanded the English flagship Salle du Roy, at the Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer, off Winchelsea. On 2 February 1354, Robert of Namur married Isabella of Hainault (1323–1361), younger sister of Philippa of Hainault, queen consort of King Edward III of England. Thus Robert became brother-in-law to Edward III. Robert captured the Escanaffles Castle in 1363. Robert brought Jean Froissart to England, and introduced him to Queen Philippa. In 1369, Robert defended the English camp at Tournehem against French attack. He was made Knight of the Garter in 1369 after the death of Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk.

paragraph: In 1370, Robert requested Jean Froissart to write a recent chronicle of the history of England. On 20 August 1371, Robert fought for Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg and Brabant, commanding 2,000 men at the Battle of Baesweiler, but was defeated and released after paying a ransom. In 1373, Jean Froissart completed his first book of the Chronicles and dedicated it to Robert of Namur.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and Children.

paragraph: On 2 February 1354, Robert of Namur married Isabella of Hainault (1323–1361), sister of Queen Philippa of England and daughter of William I, Count of Hainaut, and Joan of Valois.br

paragraph: On 4 February 1380, he married Isabeau de Melun (died 1409). Both marriages remained childless, but Robert is said to have had 9 illegitimate children.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Medieval Combat Society Robert de Namur Lord of Beaufort, Renaix, Ballâtre and Chièvre 1323-1391

description: knight

wikidata_label: Robert of Namur

wikipedia_title: Robert of Namur (1323–91)


text: Inter University Students' Federation

text: Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

text: Marxist-Leninist

text: political party

text: Sri Lanka

text: United National Party

text: Colombo Municipal Council

text: Wadduwa

text: Beliatta

text: Inter University Students' Federation

text: Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

text: 1987–89 JVP Insurrection

categories: Sri Lankan rebels,1951 births,1990 deaths,Sri Lankan communists,Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians

paragraph: Shantha Bandara

paragraph: Shantha Bandara alias Mahanama (1951−1990) was the first convenor of the Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) and a key leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. He was killed in January 1990.

paragraph: Section::::Student activism.

paragraph: Shantha Bandara was a student at University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya campus when he started his political career joining the "Samaja Adhyayana Kavaya" (Social Studies Circle) of the university. He was instrumental in creating the Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) - a major university student union in Sri Lanka - in 1978. He also led a protest against the prevailing United National Party government in 1979. Bandara did not complete his degree.

paragraph: Section::::JVP and insurgency 1987−1989.

paragraph: He joined Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in 1977. After becoming the leader of southern region, he headed the list of candidates of JVP at the Colombo Municipal Council elections. Bandara was a key leader of the unsuccessful JVP insurrection during 1987−1989. He led an unsuccessful attack on Wadduwa Army Camp and many other clandestine operations. In 1988, he was arrested on suspicion at Beliatta. At the time of the arrest, he was ranked No.9 in the JVP hierarchy. He tried unsuccessfully to bribe the guards, but was released four months later on the promise to cease violence and bring about a settlement. But he reneged on his promise. Eventually, he was killed by the armed forces in January 1990.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inter University Students' Federation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987–89 JVP Insurrection

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Inter University Students' Federation website

description: Sri Lankan politician

wikidata_label: Shantha Bandara

wikipedia_title: Shantha Bandara


text: English country house

text: formal garden

text: Chiswick

text: Inigo Jones

text: Liphook

text: King John

text: boar

text: Grade II listed

text: Arts and Crafts Movement

text: Taormina

text: Bramshott

text: Arthur Bryant Triggs

text: Chelsea

text: New South Wales

text: Bramshott

text: Petersfield

text: Godwin

text: Vienna

text: Munich

text: Petit Palais

text: Musée des Beaux-Arts

text: Charles Girault

text: William Frederick Unsworth

text: Petersfield, Hampshire

text: Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

text: Stratford-upon-Avon

text: Royal Shakespeare Theatre

text: Whiteley Village

text: lavender

text: Liphook, Hampshire

text: Elizabethan

text: Nazeing

text: Chillington Hall

text: Saighton Grange

text: Abbey Gate College

text: Petersfield, Hampshire

text: Aubyn Trevor-Battye

text: St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park

text: "The Art of Garden Design in Italy"

text: "Garden Craft in Europe"

text: RIBA

text: Country life

categories: People from Chiswick,English gardeners,Arts and Crafts Movement artists,British garden writers,1876 births,1923 deaths

paragraph: Inigo Triggs

paragraph: Henry Inigo Triggs (1876–1923) was an English country house architect and designer of formal gardens, and author.

paragraph: Section::::Family life.

paragraph: Harry Benjamin Inigo Triggs was born in Chiswick, London, on 28 February 1876, to parents James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. The architect Inigo Jones was a distant relative. 1907 he married Gladys Claire.

paragraph: In 1910 Triggs bought the property then called Fry's Farm, in Liphook, Hampshire. He re-designed the farmhouse and gardens as his home, and renamed it Little Boarhunt, based on a legend about King John hunting boar in the district. The house is now a Grade II listed building, being a representative romantic house of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

paragraph: H(enry) Inigo Triggs died on 9 April 1923 in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. A memorial tablet is dedicated to him in St Mary's Church, Bramshott.

paragraph: His older brother was Arthur Bryant Triggs (1868–1936) born in Chelsea, who in 1887 emigrated to Australia, becoming a wealthy New South Wales grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Triggs designed many formal gardens and later some country houses, mostly in southern England. He specialised in historical research and in re-creating gardens of the past. His books influenced the Italian mode of the Arts and Crafts style in England. He also designed Cooper's Bridge at Bramshott and the War Memorial in Petersfield High Street in 1922.

paragraph: In 1906 he was awarded the Godwin Bursary, presenting two reports: "The planning of public squares and open spaces" (76 pages), relating to the cities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Munich, including public monuments and fountains; "Le Petit Palais, Paris" (20 pages), a detailed description of the Musée des Beaux-Arts building, Avenue Winston Churchill, designed by Charles Girault and built between 1897 and 1900.

paragraph: In the 1910s Triggs was in partnership with the architect William Frederick Unsworth (1851–1912), and his son Gerald Unsworth (1883–1946), in Petersfield, Hampshire. W. F. Unsworth had previously designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1879, which was destroyed by fire in 1926 and replaced in 1932 with the present Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

paragraph: In 1919, Triggs was tasked by The Whiteley Homes Trust to plan and supervise the landscaping of the area around Whiteley Village, Walton on Thames, Surrey, constructing tree-lined avenues and turfed walks, with fruiting trees and shrubs and lavender borders.

paragraph: Section::::Houses.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Little Boarhunt House and gardens Liphook, Hampshire (1910) including a sunken Elizabethan garden.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Rectory Liphook, Hampshire (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rookswood's Windrush Lodge Nazeing, Essex (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Homefield Nazeing, Essex

paragraph: Section::::Gardens.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Barrow Court, Somerset (1890)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chillington Hall, Staffordshire (1911)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saighton Grange (now Abbey Gate College) Cheshire (1901)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Restalls, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire. The home of W F Unsworth, Inigo Triggs' business partner. (circa 1905)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Garden Hill, Steep, Petersfield. The house was designed by W F Unsworth. The garden is believed to be by Triggs.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashford Chace, Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire. near Petersfield, Hampshire, for Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1912)

paragraph: Section::::Memorials.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steep War Memorial. This was the first village war memorial to be dedicated in the country. It contains the name of Edward Thomas, the Poet. It is listed of Historic Importance Grade II.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bedford Park War Memorial, outside St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, London (c.1920)

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones" (1901) A series of measured drawings and other illustrations together with descriptive notes; a biographical sketch and list of his authentic works, B T Batsford publishing. With Henry Tanner.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Formal Gardens in England and Scotland" (1902) Their Planning And Arrangement, Architectural And Ornamental Features, B T Batsford publishing, 63 pages. Republished 1988.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Art of Garden Design in Italy" (1906) Longmans publishing, 135 pages. Republished 1942 and 2007.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Town Planning, Past, Present and Possible" (1909) with 173 illustrations, Methuen & Co, 334 pages. Second edition in 1911.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Garden Craft in Europe" (1913) C Scribner's Sons publishing, 332 pages. Republished 1933 and 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "RIBA" Journal, 1923, volume 30, page 431 – Obituary.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Country life", 1995, volume 189, number 43, 26 Oct, pages 58–61 -"Designs for a garden – formal informality" by Diana Baskervyle-Glegg, on Triggs' Edwardian garden designs.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Parks and Gardens UK – Harry Inigo Triggs summary record

paragraph: BULLET::::- Plans and drawings by Harry Inigo Triggs (Bridgeman Art Library – 1 September 2010)

alias:
Harry Inigo Triggs
H. Inigo Triggs
Henry Benjamin Inigo Triggs

description: British gardener

wikidata_label: Inigo Triggs

wikipedia_title: Inigo Triggs


text:
David of Trebizond
Emperor
Trebizond
Alexios I of Theodoro
Principality of Theodoro
Crimea
Gothia
Crimean Goths
Hellenization
Byzantine Empire
Gabras
Stephen of Theodoro
Basil of Theodoro
Demetrios
Alexander Vasiliev
Constantine Gabras
Trebizond
Alexiad
Anna Komnene
Theodore Spandounes
Helena Kantakouzene
Irene Kantakouzene
George
John Eugenikos
Mehmed II
Ottoman Empire
Mohammed Zagan Pasha
Mamia II
Prince of Guria
Cyril Toumanoff
Mourousis
About Gabras dynasty

categories: 15th-century deaths,Year of birth unknown,15th-century Byzantine people,Year of death unknown,15th-century Byzantine women,Empresses of Trebizond

paragraph: Maria of Gothia

paragraph: Maria of Gothia was the first wife of David of Trebizond, last Emperor of Trebizond, whom she married in 1426.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: She was a daughter of Alexios I of Theodoro, ruler of the Principality of Theodoro in Crimea. Theodoro was also known as Gothia because its territory had previously belonged to the Crimean Goths, who had undergone Hellenization under the influence of the Byzantine Empire. Her family were the Gabras.

paragraph: Alexios I was a son of Stephen of Theodoro, who emigrated to Moscow in 1391 or 1402 along with his son Gregory. Stephen's patronymic suggests he may have been the son of Basil of Theodoro. The relation of Stephen to the first known prince of Theodoro, Demetrios is uncertain, though Demetrios could be his grandfather.

paragraph: "The Goths in the Crimea" (1936) by Alexander Vasiliev presented the theory that Demetrios and his successors were descendants of Constantine Gabras, the "doux" of Trebizond in the early 12th century. Constantine is considered a nephew of Theodore Gabras, the 11th century Duke of Trebizond mentioned in the Alexiad by Anna Komnene. However the exact relation is uncertain; Constantine could also be a younger brother or even son of Theodore.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: Maria sailed from Gothia, and married David of Trebizond in September 1426 in Trebizond. A report by historian Theodore Spandounes, dated to 1538, names the wife of David as Helena Kantakouzene, the sister of Irene Kantakouzene. Spandounes adds that Helena was visited by her brother George in Trebizond sometime after 1437, which implies Maria may have been dead by that time. On the other hand, based on an epitaph composed by John Eugenikos for her nephew Alexis, who died in Trebizond, Maria's brother John and her nephew Alexis were resident in Trebizond in 1447. It is unlikely they would have remained there after her death and her husband's subsequent remarriage.

paragraph: Historian Thierry Ganchou has recently asserted that due to discrepancies in Spandounes' accounts, it may be that Helena Kantakouzene had never existed. Ganchou instead suggests that Maria had outlived her husband, and that perhaps the legend of Helena's solitary burial of David and their sons following the Ottoman conquest of Trebizond may instead be assigned to Maria.

paragraph: Section::::Issue.

paragraph: The children of David have been attributed variously to Maria or Helena by various genealogies. They included Basil, Manuel and George Komnenos, princes decapitated by orders of Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire in 1463. Their sister Anna married first Mohammed Zagan Pasha, Beglerbeg of Macedonia and secondly to Sinan Beg, son of Ilvan Beg. Another daughter reportedly married Mamia II, Prince of Guria. Cyril Toumanoff gives Maria, a third daughter, as wife of Constantine Mourousis.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- About Gabras dynasty

description: first wife of David of Trebizond

wikidata_label: Maria of Gothia

wikipedia_title: Maria of Gothia


text: Catalan

text: Barcelona

text: Joaquim Mir

text: Sant Pere

text: Josep Mirabent

text: Gabriel Martínez Altés

text: Lluís Graner

text: Ricard Canals

text: Ramón Pichot

text: Juli Vallmitjana

text: Adrià Gual

text: Joaquin Sunyer

text: Impressionism

text: La Vanguardia

text: L'Esquella de la Torratxa

text: Barcelona Cómica

text: Pèl & Ploma

text: Caldes de Boí

text: Pyrenees

text: cretinism

text: Ricard Canals

text: impressionism

text: pointillism

text: Cuban war

text: cretinism

text: Catalogue raisonné

text: Isidre Nonell on Google Arts & Culture

categories: Post-impressionist painters,19th-century Spanish painters,1872 births,Catalan artists,Spanish male painters,20th-century Spanish painters

paragraph: Isidre Nonell

paragraph: Isidre Nonell i Monturiol (; ; November 30, 1872 – February 21, 1911) was a Catalan artist known for his expressive portrayal of socially marginalized individuals in late 19th-century Barcelona.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Isidre Nonell was born in 1872 in Barcelona. His parents, Isidre Nonell i Torras de Arenys de Mar and Àngela Monturiol i Francàs of Barcelona, owned a small but prosperous factory which made soup noodles. Together with his childhood friend, Joaquim Mir, with whom he attended the same school in the neighborhood of Sant Pere in the old part of town in Barcelona, he developed artistic ambitions at an early age.

paragraph: His early teachers included Josep Mirabent, Gabriel Martínez Altés and Lluís Graner. From 1893 to 1895 he studied at the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona (Fine Arts School of Barcelona). He met Ricard Canals, Ramón Pichot, Juli Vallmitjana, Adrià Gual, and Joaquin Sunyer with whom he developed an interest in landscape painting, studying light. The study of sunlight and its effects on color were a main part of Impressionism, which was then active. They were called the "Saffron Group" for the warm tones they used, as well as the "Sant Martí Group" after the town they painted in.

paragraph: In 1894, he began producing illustrations for "La Vanguardia". He later drew for other periodicals, including "L'Esquella de la Torratxa", "Barcelona Cómica", "Pèl & Ploma", and "".

paragraph: In 1896, Nonell went with Ricard Canals and Juli Vallmitjana to the spa town of Caldes de Boí in the Catalan Pyrenees to work at the spa run by Vallmitjana's family. There, he saw a large number of people suffering from the illness of cretinism, which became a subject of his paintings.

paragraph: In February 1897, he went to Paris with Ricard Canals. There he exhibited and shared a studio with Picasso. He returned to Barcelona in 1900. At the beginning of 1901, he made paintings of women, such as gypsy and working-class women, and still lifes. He exhibited in the Sala París in Barcelona twice, in 1902 and 1903. The reaction to his works of poor gypsy women was very hostile.

paragraph: He died in Barcelona, aged 38.

paragraph: Section::::His work.

paragraph: The oil paintings show the influence of impressionism and pointillism expressed in a new way. Thick strokes layered one after another do not quite mix colors in the eye, leaving a directness of emotion. His subjects, most often women, were the overlooked and marginalized-- poor women (often with children), gypsies, wounded soldiers repatriated from the Cuban war, and people suffering from cretinism.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- VV.AA.: "Isidre Nonell (1872–1911)", Editorial MNAC, Barcelona i Fundación Cultural Mapfre, Madrid 2000,

paragraph: BULLET::::- VV.AA.: "Isidre Nonell", Editorial Polígrafa, Barcelona 1996,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fontbona, Francesc, "Nonell", Gent Nostra, Thor, Barcelona 1987.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jardí, Enric: "Nonell", Editorial Polígrafa, Barcelona 1984,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Robinson, William H. et al, "Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí." Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- www.isidrenonell.cat Catalogue raisonné

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isidre Nonell on Google Arts & Culture

alias:
Noé
Isidro Nonell Monturiol
Isidro Nonell
Isidro Nonell y Monturiol
Isidre Nonell Monturiol
Isidre Nonell i Monturiol
Josué
Isidre Nonell Y Monturiol
Isidro Nonell Y Monturiol
Isidro Nonell i Monturiol
Isidre Nonell y Monturiol
Noe
Josue

description: Spanish artist

wikidata_label: Isidre Nonell

wikipedia_title: Isidre Nonell


text: Munich

text: Dukedom of Leuchtenberg

text: Nicolas Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg

text: Eugène de Beauharnais

text: Alexandre de Beauharnais

text: Joséphine de Beauharnais

text: Napoleon Bonaparte

text: Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais

text: web.genealogie.free.fr

paragraph: Nicolas de Leuchtenberg

paragraph: Nicolas de Leuchtenberg ("Nicolas Alexander Fritz"; born 12 October 1933, Munich) is a claimant to the Dukedom of Leuchtenberg. He is the son of Nicolas Nicolaïevitch de Leuchtenberg and his wife Élisabeth Müller-Himmler, and is thus a direct male line descendant of Eugène de Beauharnais, first Duke of Leuchtenberg and son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

paragraph: On 24 August 1962, he married Anne Bügge (born 1936), with whom he has two children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicolas Maximilien de Leuchtenberg (1963–2002), died unmarried and without issue

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constantin de Leuchtenberg (born 1965), unmarried and without issue

paragraph: Section::::Patrilineal descent.

paragraph: BULLET::::1. William I Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion

paragraph: BULLET::::2. William II Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion

paragraph: BULLET::::4. William III Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion

paragraph: BULLET::::5. William IV Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion

paragraph: BULLET::::6. François I de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion, died 1587

paragraph: BULLET::::7. François II de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Grillière, died 1651

paragraph: BULLET::::8. Jean de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Boische et de La Chaussée, 1606–1661

paragraph: BULLET::::9. François IV de Beauharnais, écuyer, sieur de la Boische, 1630–1681

paragraph: BULLET::::10. Claude de Beauharnais, seigneur de Beaumont, 1674–1738

paragraph: BULLET::::11. François V de Beauharnais, seigneur de Beaumont, 1714–1800

paragraph: BULLET::::12. Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, 1760–1794

paragraph: BULLET::::13. Eugène de Beauharnais, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1781–1824

paragraph: BULLET::::14. Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1817–1852

paragraph: BULLET::::15. Nicolas I Maximilianovich de Beauharnais, 4th Duke of Leuchtenberg, 1843–1891

paragraph: BULLET::::16. Nicolas II Nicolaevich de Beauharnais, 1868–1928

paragraph: BULLET::::17. Nicolas III de Beauharnais, 1896–1937

paragraph: BULLET::::18. Nicolas IV Alexander Fritz de Beauharnais, born 1933

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- web.genealogie.free.fr

description: Heir to the Dukedom of Leuchtenberg

wikidata_label: Nicolas de Leuchtenberg

wikipedia_title: Nicolas de Leuchtenberg


text: American

text: roboticist

text: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

text: operations research

text: artificial intelligence

text: IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

text: reinforcement learning

text: embedded control systems

text: robot navigation

text: Fellow

text: SRI International

text: Brown University

text: MIT

text: machine learning

text: robotics

text: Kluwer

text: Machine Learning

text: editor-in-chief

text: Journal of Machine Learning Research

text: open access journal

text: Kluwer

text: peer-review

text: Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

text: ML Littman

categories: Computer science educators,Stanford University alumni,American roboticists,SRI International people,Women computer scientists,Women in computing,Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty,Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,Machine learning researchers,Brown University faculty,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Leslie P. Kaelbling

paragraph: Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is widely recognized for adapting partially observable Markov decision process from operations research for application in artificial intelligence and robotics. Kaelbling received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1997 for applying reinforcement learning to embedded control systems and developing programming tools for robot navigation. In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Kaelbling received an A. B. in Philosophy in 1983 and a Ph. D. in Computer Science in 1990, both from Stanford University. During this time she was also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Language and Information. She then worked at SRI International and the affiliated robotics spin-off Teleos Research before joining the faculty at Brown University. She left Brown in 1999 to join the faculty at MIT. Her research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning, and sensing with applications to robotics.

paragraph: Section::::Journal of Machine Learning Research.

paragraph: In the spring of 2000, she and two-thirds of the editorial board of the Kluwer-owned journal "Machine Learning" resigned in protest to its pay-to-access archives with simultaneously limited financial compensation for authors. Kaelbling co-founded and served as the first editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Machine Learning Research", a peer-reviewed open access journal on the same topics which allows researchers to publish articles for free and retain copyright with its archives freely available online. In response to the mass resignation, Kluwer changed their publishing policy to allow authors to self-archive their papers online after peer-review. Kaelbling responded that this policy was reasonable and would have made the creation of an alternative journal unnecessary, but the editorial board members had made it clear they wanted such a policy and it was only after the threat of resignations and the actual founding of "JMLR" that the publishing policy finally changed.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reinforcement Learning: A Survey" (LP Kaelbling, ML Littman, AW Moore). Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 4 (1996) 237-285.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Planning and acting in partially observable stochastic domains" (LP Kaelbling, ML Littman, AR Cassandra). Artificial intelligence 101 (1), 99-134.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Acting under uncertainty: Discrete Bayesian models for mobile-robot navigation" (AR Cassandra, LP Kaelbling, JA Kurien). Intelligent Robots and Systems (2) 963-972.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The synthesis of digital machines with provable epistemic properties" (SJ Rosenschein, LP Kaelbling). Proceedings of the 1986 Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge, 83-98.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Practical reinforcement learning in continuous spaces" (WD Smart, LP Kaelbling). 2000 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 903-910.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hierarchical task and motion planning in the now" (LP Kaelbling, T Lozano-Pérez). 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 1470-1477.

alias:
Leslie Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling

description: American roboticist

wikidata_label: Leslie P. Kaelbling

wikipedia_title: Leslie P. Kaelbling


text: English

text: prelate

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: bishop of Clifton

text: Cowes

text: Isle of Wight

text: Irish

text: Ryde School

text: Allen Hall

text: St. Edmund's College, Ware

text: Bachelor of Arts

text: history

text: Royal Holloway, University of London

text: ordained

text: priesthood

text: Bishop Derek Worlock

text: Curia

text: Southwark

text: Portsmouth

text: Bishop of Clifton

text: Clifton Cathedral

text: Mervyn Alexander

text: pilgrimage

text: Lourdes

text: Stonyhurst College

text: Maronite Catholic Church

text: Catholic Church of England and Wales

categories: Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops in England,1950 births,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,People from Cowes,People educated at St. Edmund's College, Ware,Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London,Living people

paragraph: Declan Lang

paragraph: Declan Ronan Lang (born 15 April 1950) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the ninth bishop of Clifton.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Declan Lang was born in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, to Irish parents. He attended Ryde School, Allen Hall, and St. Edmund's College, Ware. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Royal Holloway, University of London. Lang was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Derek Worlock on 7 June 1975. He has been particularly noted for the influence he had as a youth chaplain and subsequently on those now playing leading roles in the Catholic community such as the evangelist and charismatic Catholic Sr Maria Natella OP and the ministerial adviser and author Francis Davis; and also for his work as an adult educationalist and as an ecumenist.

paragraph: He then served as an assistant priest at the Cathedral and chaplain to St Edmund's comprehensive school in Portsmouth. Four years after ordination he was appointed secretary to Bishop Emery and chancellor. During this time he also worked on the Diocesan Youth Commission, which he later chaired. For a number of years he went as chaplain with the Portsmouth Group to Lourdes at Easter.

paragraph: In 1983 he was appointed to the Religious Education Council as Adult Religious Education Advisor, a position he held until 1990. While doing this work he was also Parish Priest of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles, Bishop's Waltham, for four years, and then Parish Priest at Sacred Heart, Bournemouth. As a result of his work in adult religious education he produced together with John O'Shea, Vicky Cosstick and Damian Lundy the book "Parish Project". This was to help parishes look at what they were currently doing, evaluate it and plan together its future direction. This scheme has been taken up by a number of parishes throughout the country.

paragraph: In September 1990 he was appointed Moderator of the Curia and Administrator of the Cathedral. During this time he was also involved in organising a summer conference for the Diocese of Portsmouth and helping with conferences in Southwark and Shrewsbury. In January 1996 he was appointed as one of the Vicars General in the Diocese moving from Portsmouth to Abingdon.

paragraph: Whilst in there he chaired a Working Party jointly sponsored by the Bishop's Conference and the National Conference of Priests looking at clergy appraisal. The Working Party Report was accepted by the Bishop's Conference and since then he has spoken in a number of dioceses about the reasons for and the benefits arising from clergy appraisal.

paragraph: Lang was consecrated as Bishop of Clifton on 28 March 2001 in Clifton Cathedral by his predecessor, Bishop Mervyn Alexander.

paragraph: Bishop Lang chairs the committee for Theology Faith and Culture. He is the Co-Chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Committee (ARC) and also the Co-Chair for the Committee for Roman Catholic and United Reformed Church dialogue in England. Bishop Lang was elected to be the Moderator of the next Churches Together in England Forum to be held in 2009. He is a member of the Mixed Commission of Bishops and Major Religious Superiors and is a trustee of the Pontifical Missionary Societies. Outside the Bishops' Conference he is the President of the Catholic Association which organises a pilgrimage to Lourdes on behalf of the Dioceses of Clifton, East Anglia, Northampton, Portsmouth and Southwark, and of Stonyhurst College.

paragraph: Within the diocese Bishop Lang instigated a review of diocesan structures and as a result created the Diocesan Department for Evangelisation and Adult Education and a new Department for Schools and Colleges. During this time the Diocesan Liturgical Commission has also been reformed. In 2002 Bishop Lang was appointed an Ecumenical Prebendary of Bristol Cathedral. He is the current chairman of Somerset Churches Together and previous chairman of Bristol Churches Together.

paragraph: As part of his work as the chairman of the Department of International Affairs in the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, Bishop Lang traveled to Lebanon at the request of the Maronite Catholic Church. Bishop Lang hopes that the visit will 'deepen the relationship' between the Bishops of England and Wales and the Catholic community in Lebanon. Bishop Lang said: ""I felt the best way to show the Bishops' solidarity with the people of Lebanon and, in particular, the Maronite Catholic community was to accept the invitation to travel to the country and learn about the challenges, hopes and expectations of the people firsthand.""

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church of England and Wales

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Declan Ronan Lang

wikipedia_title: Declan Lang


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categories: San Diego Chargers players,Western Illinois Leathernecks football players,Canadian football wide receivers,Iowa Barnstormers players,Montreal Alouettes players,American football wide receivers,Sportspeople from Chicago,San Jose SaberCats players,Oakland Raiders players,American players of Canadian football,New York Jets players,New York Giants players,1983 births,Chicago Rush players,Living people

paragraph: Marco Thomas

paragraph: Marco Thomas (born November 27, 1983) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Western Illinois.

paragraph: Thomas has also been a member of the Oakland Raiders, New York Jets and San Diego Chargers.

paragraph: Section::::Collegiate career.

paragraph: Marco Thomas was a member of the Western Illinois University Leathernecks. In 43 games, he caught 109 passes for 1,691 yards and 11 touchdowns

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:NFL.

paragraph: Thomas began his NFL career as an undrafted free agent for the New York Giants. He also spent time with the New York Jets from 2007–08 and both the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers in 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arena Football League.

paragraph: Thomas began his Arena Football League career with the Chicago Rush in 2010. Chicago picked up Thomas at the end of the season. He caught 25 passes for 323 yards and two touchdowns before a knee injury ended his season. In 2011, he returned to the Rush and caught 16 passes for 140 yards and one touchdown before being released. After his release, he joined the San Jose SaberCats. In 2014, Thomas was named First Team All-Arena as well as the Wide Receiver of the Year. On March 15, 2015, Thomas was assigned to the Philadelphia Soul.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Montreal Alouettes bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Western Illinois Leathernecks bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Marco Thomas

wikipedia_title: Marco Thomas