text:
politician
Montalba
Palestine
seat
Anderson County
Texas
Democratic
Texas House of Representatives
Palestine
Republican
gubernatorial
George W. Bush
Karl Rove
Ann Richards
Texas Secretary of State
Stephen F. Austin
Rick Perry
Henry R. Cuellar
Laredo
South Texas
United States House of Representatives
Todd Staples
Texas Senate
Prairie Chapel Ranch
Crawford
McLennan County
Cheney
University of Houston
Houston
Austin
Dallas
John H. Reagan High School
Jimmy Dorsey
Neiman Marcus
Texas State Cemetery
Athens
Texas A&M University

categories: 1935 births,People from Anderson County, Texas,American businesspeople,Members of the Texas House of Representatives,People from Austin, Texas,Secretaries of State of Texas,Texas Democrats,University of Houston alumni,Living people

paragraph: Elton Bomer

paragraph: Elton L. Bomer (born July 30, 1935) is an insurance executive and a retired American politician from Montalba near Palestine, the seat of Anderson County in eastern Texas.

paragraph: Section::::Political life.

paragraph: From 1981 to 1985, and again from 1991 to 1995, Bomer was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Palestine, the seat of Anderson County in East Texas.

paragraph: In 1994, Bomer managed a visit to Palestine for the Republican gubernatorial candidate, George W. Bush gubernatorial campaign at the request of Bomer's friend and Bush's campaign strategist Karl Rove. In his memoir entitled "Courage and Consequence: My Life As a Conservative in the Fight", Rove describes Bomer as a "hard-working, thoughtful Democrat [who was] not fond of Ann Richards [Bush's unsuccessful gubernatorial opponent] because he thought that she was not willing to get her hands dirty on tough issues." Rove recalls that years later Bomer told him that he had read about Bush's intention if elected governor to "reform education, juvenile justice, . . . and tort laws."

paragraph: Bomer left the House in 1995 though he had been reelected in 1994 when Bush offered him the appointment as state insurance commissioner. In 1999, Bush named Bomer as Texas Secretary of State, an appointed office which handles state election matters and public documents and whose occupants over the years included even Stephen F. Austin. Bomer remained Secretary of State until Bush left office in December 2000. Bush's gubernatorial successor, his fellow Republican Rick Perry, invited another Democrat to become Bomer's successor as secretary of state, then State Representative Henry R. Cuellar of Laredo in South Texas, who in 2004 was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he remains. Bomer's successor in House District 11 was Todd Staples, the first Republican to hold the seat in the 20th century. In 2006, after a stint in the Texas Senate, Staples was elected state agriculture commissioner, a position to which he was easily reelected in 2010.

paragraph: In 1999, as Bush was preparing to seek 2000 Republican presidential nomination, Bomer assisted him with the purchase of the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas. According to Bomer, "image" was not a consideration in the acquisition of the property in McLennan County. "One thing I can tell you for sure: there were no public relations considerations when he bought that ranch. He purchased it as a great weekend getaway, a place to go on vacation, a place where he could do some fishing." Bomer conceded that while the Crawford ranch has PR value: "It portrays to the people of the country who [GWB] really is, and that is someone who is close to the land and loves the outdoors sincerely. . . . I think people like to know that he's a regular fellow, not a stuffy aristocrat that wants to stay behind closed doors in air conditioning."

paragraph: In 2003, Bomer gave the maximum $2,000 per person allowed to the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign.

paragraph: Section::::Business and personal life.

paragraph: Bomer graduated from the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.

paragraph: From 2004 to 2006, Bomer was a business and government affairs consultant in the Austin office of the Gardere Wynne Sewall law firm. In 2006, Bomer was named president of four insurance companies, American Reserve, Liberty Bankers, Mid-Continent Preferred, and Winnfield Life. The companies are linked through the Dallas-based Heritage Guaranty Holdings Group. In 2011, Bomer was still president of two of the four companies, the Winnfield and Mid-Continent Preferred life insurance companies.

paragraph: On June 5, 1964, Bomer married the former Virginia Maxine Roco, known as Ginny Bomer (November 10, 1925–December 1, 2001). Mrs. Bomer was a Houston native, a drum major at John H. Reagan High School, and a teen solo performer in the Jimmy Dorsey band. She had also modeled for the Neiman Marcus department store in Houston before she became an office administrator for an insurance company. She is buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, where he too will be interred upon his death, a prerogative of state legislators and their spouses.

paragraph: On May 1, 2011, Clifford "Cliff" Bomer, formerly of Athens, Texas, one of two children of Elton and Virginia Bomer, was named the president of the East Texas National Bank in Palestine. Clifford Bomer is a graduate of Texas A&M University. Elton Bomer is a director of the bank.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Elton Bomer

wikipedia_title: Elton Bomer


text:
Venetian
cartographer
portolan chart
Antillia
Satanazes
Royllo
Tanmar
legendary island
Atlantic Ocean
Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano
portolan chart
portolan chart
Thomas Phillipps
James Ford Bell Library
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Venetian
portolan chart
western Europe
northwest Africa
Atlantic Ocean
Venetian
Portuguese
Canary islands
Alegranza
Roque del Este
Genoese
Lobos Island
Fuerteventura
Gran Canaria
Tenerife
La Palma
La Gomera
El Hierro
Saint Brendan's Island
Madeira Islands
Madeira
Porto Santo
Desertas
Savage Islands
the Azores
Catalan Atlas
São Jorge
Faial
Terceira
São Miguel
Santa Maria
Antillia
Antilia
Satanazes
Royllo
Tanmar
pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact
Americas
Pizzigani brothers
Antilia
Antillia
Portugal
Iberian
Visigoth
Muslim conquest of Hispania
Satanazes
Norse
Greenland
Vinland
Skraelings
Isle of Mam
Pizzigani brothers
Antillia
Battista Beccario
Andrea Bianco
Grazioso Benincasa
Erdapfel
Martin Behaim
Ireland
Brasil
Isle of Mam
Greenland
online
JSTOR
vol. 3
offprint
The Pizzigano Map (1424)

categories: Italian cartographers,People from Venice,Pseudohistorians,Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact

paragraph: Zuane Pizzigano

paragraph: Zuane Pizzigano (sometimes given as Giovanni Pizzigano), was a 15th-century Venetian cartographer. He is the author of a famous 1424 portolan chart, the first known to depict the Antillia island group (Antillia, Satanazes, Royllo and Tanmar), a cluster of legendary islands in the north Atlantic Ocean.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Little is known of Zuane Pizzigano, save that he was probably a relative (possibly a descendant) of the Venetian cartographers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano, who made a famous 1367 portolan chart.

paragraph: Section::::1424 chart.

paragraph: Zuane Pizzigano is the author of the influential 1424 portolan chart, known simply as the "Pizzigano Map", measuring . The map was first discovered in 1953, among the thousands of manuscripts in the library of the noted collector Sir Thomas Phillipps. It is currently held by the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA. (B1424mPi)

paragraph: Identification of the author is not certain. The legend on the 1424 map reads: "Mccccxxiiij adi xxij auosto Zuane pizzi... afato questa carta" ("1424 on 22 August, Zuane Pizzi... made this map"), with the part after the last name "Pizzi" smudged, seemingly tracing an attempt to erase and then restore the author's name. The smudged space, under infrared light, does seem to reveal something like "pizzigano". "Zuane" is a common Venetian variant of "Giovanni' (John). While his name is uncertain, the date is not. Comparison with later maps of the 15th century shows that other cartographers had copied Pizzigano in several important respects, so his work was significant.

paragraph: Section::::1424 chart.:Features.

paragraph: The 1424 Pizzigano map is a nautical portolan chart that is limited to western Europe, northwest Africa, and a large swathe of the north Atlantic Ocean. He featured both real and mythical islands in the outer area. The map has notes in Venetian and Portuguese.

paragraph: Although the drawing is rudimentary, the Canary islands are depicted near completeness, with eight known islands indicated—"alegranzia" (Alegranza), "larozio" (Roque del Este), "lancarot" (blue with red stripe, rather than the usual Genoese shield, an understandable variation for a Venetian author), "louos" (Lobos Island), "fortubentura/fortouentura" (Fuerteventura), "canaria" (Gran Canaria), "inferno" (Tenerife), and a long distance to the west, "balmar" (La Palma). It is significantly missing La Gomera and El Hierro (which had already been shown in earlier maps). Pizzigano indicates a mysterious large red island, with four outlying islets, to the south of the Canaries archipelago, which he identifies as "himadoro". This may represent the mythical Saint Brendan's Island.

paragraph: The Madeira Islands, officially recently discovered in 1418–1420 by the Portuguese, are also depicted, with the names accurately given: "madera" (Madeira), "portosanto" (Porto Santo, "dexrexta" (Desertas) and "saluazes" (Savage Islands). This showed that the results of exploration were being rapidly shared among the seagoing nations and their cartographers.

paragraph: More surprising is Pizzigano's depiction of what appears to be the Azores archipelago further north, as these islands were not officially discovered by the Portuguese until 1431 or possibly 1427 at the earliest. Earlier maps had also sometimes featured such Atlantic islands (e.g. the Catalan Atlas of 1375), with names partially taken from ancient European sources. According to Cortesão's tentative 20th-century identification, in the 1424 Pizzigano map, these islands are denoted as the following:"lubrioczo" (São Jorge), "ixola de uentula" (Faial), "ixo de braxil" (Terceira), "capiria" (São Miguel) and "louo" (Santa Maria).

paragraph: Section::::1424 chart.:Antillia group.

paragraph: The most famous islands of the 1424 Pizzigano map are the Antillia group of four islands in the middle of Atlantic Ocean, west of the putative Azores, because he was the first known cartographer to depict them. The group is dominated by two very large rectangular-shaped islands: the large red "Antilia" (in Pizzigano's label, "ista ixolla dixeno antilia") and, some sixty leagues north of it, the large blue "Satanazes" ("ista ixolla dixemo satanazes", the Satanaxio/Satanagio/Salvagio of later maps). Some twenty leagues west of the great Antilia is the small blue "Ymana" (the 'Royllo' of later maps), while the Santanazes is capped to the north by the semi-circular red "Saya" (the 'Tanmar' or 'Danmar' of later maps).

paragraph: Historians have speculated that Pizzigano's depiction of the Antilia group on his 1424 map is based on accounts of possible pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact with the Americas. But, the basis of his depiction is not known for certain. For a time, historians thought he may have based the island group on a suggestive inscription in the 1367 map of the Pizzigani brothers (his relatives, possibly his father), but that interpretation has since been discarded. It is largely agreed that Zuane Pizzigano is the first known cartographer to depict the legendary Antilia group on a map.

paragraph: The name of the main island, Antillia, is believed to be derived from the Portuguese term "ante-ilha" ("opposite island", that is, facing Portugal). It is derived from an old Iberian legend, relating how seven Visigothic bishops, fleeing the Muslim conquest of Hispania in 714, embarked with their flock on ships and fled across the Atlantic to erect a new home on this island. Pizzigano, as many others after him, attempted to depict and name the seven settlements on the island; thus it is also known as the "island of Seven Cities".

paragraph: The source of "Satanazes" (the "Isle of Devils" in Portuguese), to the north of Antillia, is more uncertain. This island may represent elements of the Norse sagas of Greenland and Vinland, which had begun to filter South around this time; the indigenous "Skraelings" in these accounts would be the 'devils' implied in the island's name. The "Ymana" to the west of Antilia is possibly a transcription of "Ynsula Mam", the legendary Isle of Mam, first depicted in 1367 by the Pizzigani brothers. 'Saya' is more obscure.

paragraph: Whatever his source, Zuane Pizzigano mapped the Antillia group of islands; his number of islands, sizes, shapes and positions, were all subsequently copied almost exactly by most cartographers during the 15th century—notably, Battista Beccario (1435), Andrea Bianco (1436), Grazioso Benincasa (1462, 1470, 1482), etc. down to the 1492 Erdapfel globe of Martin Behaim.

paragraph: Pizzigano's 1424 map includes two other legendary islands: the tri-colored circular island of "braxil", located just west of Ireland, is believed to represent the mythical Brasil, which had already been shown in earlier maps. Southwest of that, around half-way to the Antilia group, lies a semi-circular blue island denoted "ixola de uentura". It is located near the area where the Pizzigani brothers first depicted the legendary Isle of Mam in 1367, and it may have been Z. Pizzigano's intention to duplicate that. However, identifying "uentura" with Mam would leave "Ymana" unresolved. One possibility is that the "ixola de ventura" is related to the "Illa Verde" ("Green Island", a reference to Greenland). Filtered from Norse or Irish sources, this was sometimes represented on contemporary maps, and perhaps was already known to Iberian fishermen.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Babcock, W.H. (1922) "Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography" New York: American Geographical Society. online

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cortesão, Armando (1953) "The North Atlantic Nautical Chart of 1424" "Imago Mundi", Vol. 10. JSTOR

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cortesão, Armando (1954) "The Nautical Chart of 1424 and the Early Discovery and Cartographical Representation of America". Coimbra and Minneapolis. (Portuguese trans. "A Carta Nautica de 1424", "Esparsos", Coimbra. vol. 3)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cortesão, Armando (1970) "Pizzigano's Chart of 1424", "Revista da Universidade de Coimbra", Vol. 24 (offprint),

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Pizzigano Map (1424), University of Minnesota.

description: Italian cartographer

wikidata_label: Zuane Pizzigano

wikipedia_title: Zuane Pizzigano


text: Latin

text: Brychan

text: Brycheiniog

text: Gwynllyw

text: Cadoc

text: saint's life

text: Arthur

text: Cynidr

text: Bugi

text: Cyfyw

text: Maches

text: Glywys II

text: Egwine

text: school

text: Bargoed

text: mediæval

text: Lifris

text: Talgarth

text: King Arthur

text: Cai

text: Bedwyr

text: hermitage

text: Stow Hill

text: Newport

text: South Wales

text: hermit

text: fasting

text: Usk

text: Bassaleg

text: Ebbw River

text: Gelligaer

text: Tredegar

text: St. Basil

text: Bassaleg

text: Coedkernew

text: Saint Gwladys' life

text: St Gwladys Bargoed School

text: St Gwladys' Church, Bargoed

categories: History of Brecknockshire,6th-century Welsh people,Children of Brychan,People from Newport, Wales,Arthurian characters,Ascetics

paragraph: Gwladys

paragraph: Saint Gwladys ferch Brychan or St Gladys (Latin-Gladusa), daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, was the queen of the saint-king Gwynllyw Milwr and the mother of Cadoc "the Wise", whose "vita" may be the earliest saint's life to mention Arthur. Gwladys's other children were Cynidr, Bugi, Cyfyw, Maches, Glywys II and Egwine. Today her main church and associated school is in Bargoed.

paragraph: Section::::Traditional history.

paragraph: The mediæval lives of Cadoc (by Lifris c. 1086) and of Gwynllyw (c. 1120) preserve different legendary details of Gwladys. Among the best attested of all of Brychan's half-Irish saintly children, she is also mentioned in Welsh king-lists.

paragraph: Both saint's lives agree that Gwladys, daughter of Brychan married Gwynllyw and gave birth to Cadoc. In the "Life of Saint Gwynllyw", the king is just and fair and the marriage is accomplished peacefully, while the tale of Glwadys' marriage in Lifris' work seems similar to abduction stories in other saints' lives as well as in other Arthurian stories, indicating that it is myth rather than history. Here, when her father refused to allow their marriage Gwynllyw accompanied by 300 men abducted her from Talgarth. A pitched battle occurred which was only stopped by the intervention of King Arthur and Cai and Bedwyr who supported Gwynllyw and his warband in the battle. This act only occurred after Cai managed to persuade Arthur not to abduct the beautiful Gwladys himself.

paragraph: However, both lives agree that Gwynllyw later became a hermit and local saint. It was the prompting of Cadoc and Gwladys that led Gwynllyw to abandon his life of violence and seek forgiveness for his sins. A vision led him to found a hermitage on what is now Stow Hill in Newport, South Wales. Gwladys accompanied Gwynllyw into a hermits life and for a while they lived together there fasting or on a vegetarian diet and bathing in the cold waters of the Usk but moved apart to avoid temptation: Gwladys founded a hermitage at Pencarn in Bassaleg, supposedly at Pont Ebbw, where there is a supposed grave and where she is said to have bathed in the Ebbw River, though Cadoc's life says that she later moved to Capel Wladus in Gelligaer. The Lady's Well at Tredegar may also have been dedicated to her and so, it has been suggested, once was St. Basil's, Bassaleg. There are also sites at the abandoned settlement of Pencarn itself and the nearby area of Coedkernew that also could be significant.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saint Gwladys' life

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pictures of The Chapel of St Gwladys, Pont Ebbw, Near Newport, Mon

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Gwladys Bargoed School

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Gwladys' Church, Bargoed

description: Welsh saint

wikidata_label: Gwladys

wikipedia_title: Gwladys


text:
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
noble
Lithuanian Tribunal
Polish–Russian War of 1792
Battle of Mir

categories: 1797 deaths,People of the Polish–Russian War of 1792,Year of birth unknown,Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus

paragraph: Józef Judycki

paragraph: Józef Judycki (died 1797) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth noble. Marshal of the Lithuanian Tribunal in 1777, Lithuanian Great Guard ("strażnik wielki litewski") from 1776, Lithuanian Great Quartermaster ("oboźny wielki litewski") from 1774. Commander of Lithuanian army during the Polish–Russian War of 1792. Defeated at the Battle of Mir in June 1792, he gained a reputation as a poor commander and was relieved soon afterwards.

description: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth noble, died 1797

wikidata_label: Józef Judycki

wikipedia_title: Józef Judycki


text:
Galician
Muladi
Sufi
northern
Mérida
Mozarab
Emir
Muhammad I of Córdoba
Badajoz
Lamego
Alfonso III of León
Al'Garb Al'Andalus
al-Andalus
Banu Dānis
Coimbra
Marvão

categories: Medieval rebels,Medieval Portugal,9th-century Al-Andalus people,Year of birth unknown,880s deaths,Al-Andalus military personnel,People of the Emirate of Córdoba

paragraph: Ibn Marwan

paragraph: Ibn Marwân ("‘Abd al Rahmân Ibn Marwân ibn Yūnus", also known as "Ibn al-Djillīki" or "Son of a Galician") (died ca. 889), was a Muladi Sufi whose family had come from northern Portugal and settled near Mérida.

paragraph: In 868, leading a host of Muladis and Mozarabs, he rebelled against Emir Muhammad I of Córdoba and after a heroic resistance he got honourable surrendering terms from the Emir and was given Badajoz, which he started to fortify.

paragraph: Knowing of an incoming attack by the Emirate forces, he fled northwards settling in the castle of "Karkar" (now Carquere, near Lamego, Portugal). Afterwards, at Ibn Marwân's request, king Alfonso III of León sent him auxiliary troops and the combined army defeated the Emirate forces. Returning to Badajoz, now a well-fortified city, he established his rule throughout the whole of the Al'Garb Al'Andalus.

paragraph: Together with his ally Sāʿḍūn al-Ṣurunbāqī, the other important Muladi rebel leader in Western al-Andalus, Ibn Marwan expelled the Banu Dānis from Coimbra. Between 876 and 877 he also erected the Castle of Marvão, in Portugal, a place already known in the 10th century as "Amaia de Ibn Maruán" or "Fortaleza de Amaia".

paragraph: His dynasty lasted until 930.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- VELOZO, Francisco José (1969), "Um Muçulmano Precursor da Independência Portuguesa: Bem Marvão, o Galego" in "O Islão", n.º 5, Agosto.

paragraph: BULLET::::- CAMPOS, José A. Correia de, "Monumentos da antiguidade árabe em Portugal", pp. 111–112.

description: Muslim noble

wikidata_label: Ibn Marwan

wikipedia_title: Ibn Marwan


text: basketball

text: New York City, New York

text: Long Island City High School

text: Louisiana State University

text: African-American Jew

text: Israel

text: Maccabi Haifa B.C.

text: Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.

text: Israeli Basketball State Cup

text: Elitzur Netanya

text: Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.

text: Israeli Basketball Super League

text: Israeli State Cups

text: Hapoel Eilat B.C.

text: Denver Nuggets

text: that year's NBA draft

text: coach

text: Maccabi Hadera

text: Liga Leumit

text: Maccabiah Games

text: Cyprus

text: Gal Mekel

text: basketpedya.com

text: LSU Tigers bio

categories: Elitzur Maccabi Netanya B.C. players,American men's basketball players,LSU Tigers basketball players,Israeli Jews,Maccabi Haifa B.C. players,Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball),Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C. players,1958 births,Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. players,Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the United States,Basketball players at the 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four,African-American Jews,Hapoel Eilat basketball players,Israeli Basketball Super League players,Denver Nuggets draft picks,Israeli men's basketball players,Maccabiah Games medalists in basketball,Living people

paragraph: Willie Sims (basketball)

paragraph: Willie Sims (; born June 16, 1958) is an American-Israeli retired professional basketball player.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Sims grew up in New York City, New York, predominantly raised by his grandmother who was a convert to Judaism following her marriage to Sims' grandfather, Jack Miller.

paragraph: He played high school basketball at Long Island City High School and college basketball at Louisiana State University from 1977 until 1981.

paragraph: Willie Sims, an African-American Jew, played basketball in Israel for Maccabi Haifa B.C. from 1981 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he played for Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C., where he won the Israeli Basketball State Cup. From 1985 until 1987 he played for Elitzur Netanya. From 1987 to 1992 he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., where he won the Israeli Basketball Super League five times, won three Israeli State Cups, and became one of the club's most famous players. He was with Hapoel Eilat B.C. from 1992 until 1996. Sims was drafted in 1981 by the NBA's Denver Nuggets in the fifth round of that year's NBA draft, but he never played in the NBA or in any other league in North America.

paragraph: Sims then retired from active basketball. He became a coach. He came back as an active player for Maccabi Hadera of the Liga Leumit during the 1998-99 season, but retired for good after that season.

paragraph: Section::::International career.

paragraph: Sims took part in the 10th Maccabiah Games in 1977 as part of the United States national basketball team. He scored the winning shot against Israel in the finals and helped the United States to the title. He also played in the 11th Maccabiah Games, again representing the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Sims married his wife in Cyprus. He has a daughter, Danielle Sims, who is married to Gal Mekel.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Israeli Basketball Super League Profile in Hebrew

paragraph: BULLET::::- basketpedya.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- LSU Tigers bio

description: American basketball player

wikidata_label: Willie Sims

wikipedia_title: Willie Sims (basketball)


text: attorney

text: diplomat

text: Franklin D. Roosevelt

text: Netherlands

text: Austria

text: New Rochelle, New York

text: née

text: Republican

text: New York State Assembly

text: Richard S. Emmet Jr.

text: Biddle

text: Ellen Emmet Rand

text: Lydia Field Emmet

text: Rosina Emmet Sherwood

text: Jane Emmet de Glehn

text: Wilfrid de Glehn

text: William LeRoy Emmet

text: Devereux Emmet

text: Robert Temple Emmet

text: New York Attorney General

text: Thomas Addis Emmet

text: United Irishmen

text: St. Paul's School

text: Concord, New Hampshire

text: Bachelor of Arts

text: Harvard University

text: New York National Guard's

text: 69th Infantry Regiment

text: Second Lieutenant

text: Spanish–American War

text: First Lieutenant

text: adjutant

text: law degree

text: New York Law School

text: Thomas Addis Emmet

text: U.S. Ambassador to Italy

text: Minister to Portugal

text: Hungary

text: Ambassador to Germany

text: Central European

text: Democrat

text: U.S. Minister to the Netherlands

text: U.S. Senate

text: Laurits S. Swenson

text: Herbert Hoover

text: George S. Messersmith

text: Assistant Secretary of State

text: Cordell Hull

text: U.S. Minister to Austria

text: pneumonia

text: President

text: Wilhelm Miklas

text: Gordon & Ferguson

text: St. Paul, Minnesota

text: East 63rd Street

text: East 94th Street

text: Mott B. Schmidt

text: Atlantic Ocean

text: Southampton, New York

text: William Corcoran Eustis

text: Levi P. Morton

text: Racquet and Tennis Club

text: Downtown Club

text: Knickerbocker Club

text: Harvard Club of New York

text: New York City Bar Association

text: Vienna's

text: Hotel Bristol

text: Episcopal Church

text: Bedford, New York

text: Grenville Temple Emmet biography

categories: Ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands,Harvard University alumni,Franklin D. Roosevelt,1937 deaths,New York (state) Democrats,St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) alumni,New York Law School alumni,1877 births,American military personnel of the Spanish–American War,New York (state) lawyers,Lawyers from New Rochelle, New York,National Guard of the United States officers

paragraph: Grenville T. Emmet

paragraph: Grenville Temple Emmet (August 2, 1877 – September 26, 1937), was an American attorney and diplomat. He practiced law with Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and Austria.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Emmet was born in New Rochelle, New York on August 2, 1877. He was the son of Richard Stockton Emmet Sr. (1820–1902) and Katherine (née Temple) Emmet. Among his siblings were older brothers William Temple Emmet and Republican New York State Assemblyman Richard S. Emmet Jr., and sisters Katherine Temple Emmet (wife of New York Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Keogh), Elizabeth LeRoy Emmet (wife of Nicholas Biddle) and Eleanor Emmet (wife of John Willard Lapsley).

paragraph: His paternal grandparents were Robert Emmet, a New York Judge of Courts, and Rosina (née Hubley) Emmet. Among his extended family was first cousins Ellen Emmet Rand, Lydia Field Emmet, Rosina Emmet Sherwood, Jane Emmet de Glehn (wife of Wilfrid de Glehn), William LeRoy Emmet, Devereux Emmet, and Robert Temple Emmet, and great-grandfather, New York Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet, a senior member of the United Irishmen before being exiled to America.

paragraph: He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1898.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Following his graduation from Harvard, Emmet joined the New York National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment in 1898 as a Second Lieutenant. He remained with the unit when it was federalized for service in the Spanish–American War. Emmet was promoted to First Lieutenant and appointed as the regiment's adjutant. He continued to serve in the National Guard, and remained active in veterans organizations.

paragraph: In 1901, Emmet received his law degree from New York Law School. After attaining admission to the bar in June 1901, he entered his father's law firm, Emmet & Robinson, where he became a partner in 1903. He later practiced in partnership with Langdon Marvin and Franklin Roosevelt at Emmet, Marvin & Roosevelt, a firm first founded by his great-grandfather Thomas Addis Emmet in 1805. Roosevelt, as junior partner, practiced with Emmet at various times in his career, including during Roosevelt's run for vice-president in 1920. Roosevelt left the firm in 1923, which continued to operate as Emmet, Marvin & Martin.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Diplomatic career.

paragraph: After his Roosevelt became president on March 4, 1933, Emmet was rumored to be considered for various diplomatic posts, including U.S. Ambassador to Italy, then Minister to Portugal or Hungary, which he reportedly declined, and then as "Ambassador to Germany or Minister to Austria because of his familiarity with Central European politics."

paragraph: On December 27, 1933, Roosevelt named Emmet, a fellow Democrat, as the U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. Emmet did not serve under this appointment however as he was commissioned during a recess of the U.S. Senate, and was reappointed by Roosevelt on January 15, 1934 to succeed Laurits S. Swenson (appointed by President Herbert Hoover). He presented his credentials on March 21, 1934 and served as U.S. Minister until he left his post on August 21, 1937.

paragraph: Following U.S. Minister George S. Messersmith's appointment as Assistant Secretary of State under Secretary Cordell Hull in 1937, Roosevelt nominated Emmet to succeed Messersmith as the U.S. Minister to Austria on July 13, 1937. Emmet, who was ill with pneumonia when he arrived in Austria, presented his credentials to President Wilhelm Miklas in Vienna on September 14, 1937 but only served less than two weeks in this role until his death on September 26, 1937.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: On September 18, 1905, Emmet was married to Pauline Annie Ferguson (1879–1947), the daughter of New York born Paul Dudley Ferguson, the co-founder and treasurer of Gordon & Ferguson from St. Paul, Minnesota. Together, they lived at 39 East 63rd Street and, later, 3 East 94th Street in Manhattan (both designed by noted architect Mott B. Schmidt), and between November 1913 and October 1919, owned Bonito, a mansion and estate overlooking the Atlantic Ocean located at 466 Gin Lane in Southampton, New York. Pauline and Grenville were the parents of:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pauline Temple Emmet (1906–1989), who died unmarried.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Grenville Temple Emmet Jr. (1909–1989), who married Anne Livingston Eustis (1915–1989), daughter of William Corcoran Eustis (and granddaughter of U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton), in 1937. He later married Elizabeth Chace (1911–2013) in 1973.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth Patricia Emmet (1918–1959), who died unmarried.

paragraph: He was a member of the Racquet and Tennis Club, the Downtown Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the Harvard Club of New York and the Bedford Golf and Tennis Club and the New York City Bar Association.

paragraph: Emmet died in Vienna's Hotel Bristol on September 26, 1937. After a funeral at the English Church in Vienna, he was buried at Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church in Bedford, New York.

paragraph: Section::::External resources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Grenville Temple Emmet biography at the Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

description: American lawyer

wikidata_label: Grenville T. Emmet

wikipedia_title: Grenville T. Emmet


text:
Corcelles-près-Concise
Neuchâtel
Romantic
Piedmontese
Baroque art
Claude Lorrain
Nicolas Poussin
Bernese Highlands
Salon
Canton of Neuchâtel
Academy of Arts, Berlin
Friedrich Wilhelm
Louis Léopold Robert
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Albert de Meuron

categories: 1868 deaths,1785 births,Swiss male painters,19th-century Swiss painters

paragraph: Maximilien de Meuron

paragraph: Maximilien de Meuron (8 September 1785, Corcelles-près-Concise - 27 February 1868, Neuchâtel) was a Swiss landscape painter in the Romantic style.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born to an aristocratic family. His first art lessons came from a Piedmontese artist named Matthieu Ricco in Neuchâtel. Later, he studied with and Alexandre Girardet (1767-1836). He originally intended to pursue a diplomatic career and studied law in Berlin, but continued his studies with the landscape painter, .

paragraph: He returned home in 1803 and took a position with the Department of Foreign Affairs, but gave it up in 1808 to go to Paris. There he studied the Baroque art of Claude Lorrain und Nicolas Poussin. The following year, he and his friend, visited Italy. Once again home, in 1812, he began organizing a project to establish a "National Museum", setting up a subscription campaign, petitioning the legislature to provide a building, and donating some of his own works to start the collection.

paragraph: He spent 1818 and 1819 in the Bernese Highlands to paint mountain landscapes. In 1822, he held a showing at the Salon in Paris. The following year. he was elected to the Grand Conseil (legislature) of the Canton of Neuchâtel. In 1824, he participated in an exhibition at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, where some of his works were bought by King Friedrich Wilhelm. In 1825, he became an honorary member of the Academy, but declined the offer of a professorship.

paragraph: In 1826, he organized the first exhibition of "objets d’art et d’industrie", which would be held again in 1828 and 1830. Following the suicide of Louis Léopold Robert (whom he had been financially supporting) in 1835, he organized a major retrospective of Robert's works.

paragraph: Depressed after his eldest son, Maximilien, died unexpectedly, he gave up painting until 1842, when he did some sketching in Italy. He never went back to his previous habits, however, and spent the remainder of his life primarily involved in organizing exhibitions and promoting local artists.

paragraph: A portrait bust of Meuron, created by in 1856, may be seen at the Musée d’art et d’histoire. The has an extensive collection of his correspondence. The painter, Albert de Meuron, was his youngest son.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nathalie Monbaron: "Maximilien de Meuron: Sa Vie, Son Œuvre", Editions de la Chatière, 2016,

description: Swiss painter

wikidata_label: Maximilien de Meuron

wikipedia_title: Maximilien de Meuron


text: DJ Gruff

text: Top Cat

text: Sean Martin

text: Don Joe

text: DJ Shablo

text: Club Dogo

text: Colle Der Fomento

text: «Post scripta» con il rapper Kaos One

categories: Italian rappers,Living people,1971 births

paragraph: Kaos One

paragraph: Marco Fiorito known as Kaos One, Don Kaos, Dottor K, Ahmad or simply Kaos (Caserta, June 11, 1971) is an Italian rapper, beatmaker, writer, began his career in 1986, first as a dancer breakdance and writer, then as MC, first in English and then in Italian. Kaos has been one of the forerunners of Italian Rap.

paragraph: Section::::80's and 90's.

paragraph: After working as a writer, Kaos between 1986 and 1987 knows DJ Gruff and American MC Top Cat, which organizes some jam and is the Fresh Press Crew, which also includes DJ Skizo and Sean Martin. The group, with the entry of Dre Love also changes name to Radical Stuff.

paragraph: The first musical works of Kaos is in English, in 1989 released their first single Let's Get Dizzy for Flying Records. In 1990, after the song I Guess You Know, began to work towards a live album recorded in collaboration with jazz musicians. The LP Live With Lo Greco Bros was released in 1992, followed by the single Summer Fever On tha Run of 1993 and 1994.

paragraph: Meanwhile, Kaos began collaborating with artists participating with their own songs to their records, the first is dated 1993 when the disc is inserted into the Rapadopa DJ Gruff the song Don Kaos, which is also the first song in the Italian Kaos.

paragraph: In 1994 he participated in the song Hello, hello I hate the hard Full of Colle der Fomento and in the same year he published together with the Radical Stuff their second and last album called Hardaswallow, even in English.

paragraph: After these experiences Kaos began working to release her first album in Italian, it was released in 1996 with the collaboration of discomfort Neffa (on this record under the name Piscopo), MDee, Loudy NCN and Sean returns the collaboration of participating Neffa in the same year with two tracks on the disc Neffa & i Messaggeri della Dopa: "I Messaggeri Pt.1" and "I fieri B-Boyz."

paragraph: Neffa also deals with the basis for discomfort, it is in fact the manufacturer of these for thirteen of the fifteen tracks on the disc (one in collaboration with Kaos).

paragraph: After his debut solo continues collaborations with different artists and in 1997, appears both in the world that there is no disk in Chief & Soci in the new disc titled Gruff Zero Stress.

paragraph: Also in 1997, the Milanese MC collaborated on the soundtrack for the film Torino Boys with the song "Quando vengo a prenderti", then the album Neffa 107 elementi with the song "Strategie dell'universo".

paragraph: The following year he released a 12 "contains remixes of discomfort, titled "Kaos '98 Remix".

paragraph: In 1999 he made "Cose preziose", was added to Novecinquanta Fritz Da Cat, and it is with Sean and Chico MD of Sangue Misto group Melma & Merda, with whom he released the album Merda & Melma.

paragraph: In the same year sees the light -/-/-/-/- (L'attesa) published by Jackpot Records Neffa, in collaboration with Freaktons, with producers Chico MD and Neffa, and himself to the test of the bases.

paragraph: In 2002 he participated in the project Neo Ex, impromptu training consists of Kaos and Gopher which publishes The missing disc, which features collaborations Moddi MC, Phase 2, Turi, Lugi and B. Soulee.

paragraph: In 2006, one of the leaders of the project "The Original" by Speaker Dee Mo where the soundtrack composer Franco Micalizzi and some of the best artists of Hip hop music Micalizzi Italian joined with the Hip Hop culture. On May 30, 2006 was held at Rolling Stone in Milan's spectacular concert by Red Bull Homegroove, characterized by the sound of Big Bubbling Band conducted by Franco Micalizzi joined on stage by MCs, B-boys and DJ. Everything was taken and was released on newsstands June 20 attached to the magazine Groove. The concert was then replicated December 20, 2006 at the Teatro Palladium in Rome.

paragraph: In October 2007, he released Karma, Mc penultimate album, produced by himself, DJ Trix, Don Joe, DJ Shablo, Mace and DJ Silver. It features collaborations with artists of the Italian scene as Turi, Club Dogo, Colle Der Fomento and Moddi MC.

paragraph: In 2011 he collaborated with Deda to produce, under the name BBeat, two tracks the No. 1 "Fifteen minutes," and No. 9 "National Anthem Personal" Hypnosis Collective, disk Musteeno [1].

paragraph: His last work, the album was released Post Scripta November 11, 2011 with the official shirt that mimics the explanation on the disc. In conjunction Kaos launched the new official website [2] and the Twitter profile [3]. Among the different tracks glories unpublished already made famous in his live, as Dr. K and the 2 half of which was filmed a video [4] (Made by Alberto Salvucci) posted on YouTube in conjunction with the album. At 48 hours of release, the disc reaches the first position in "Hip-Hop" in iTunes and fourth place overall among the best selling records in Italy. [5] In addition to digital, the album sold very well in support physical, doing sold out in many shops in Italy where it was distributed.

paragraph: On 27 November 2011 he was host of the radio program of Rai Radio 2 Babylon [6] conducted by Charles Shepherd where he explained "track by track" (track to track) the whole album Post Scripta. This presentation radio, accompanied by clips of the songs, is one of the few appearances of an average of national importance Kaos has always been reluctant to media exposure.

paragraph: Kaos is one of the few b-boy to have reached all the major disciplines of hip hop. [7] [8] In addition to writers, breakers and mc, in fact, he stood behind the plates as a DJ in some of his works. In addition, since '96 intro of "discomfort", and in 1998 in Viva Los Latinos (track album Fly Cat), began composing foundation for hip-hop, then that role he was also in the songs "Flow dopo flow (giocando col destino)" and "Dio lodato (per questa chance)", made in 1998 and 1999 for the rapper Joe Cassano, as well as other pieces of -/-/-/-/- (L'attesa), Merda & Melma and kARMA (under the pseudonym of Ahmad).

paragraph: In 2011 there took place the Hip Hop Hano Award 2011 created a poll on the site Hano.it to decide the best Hip Hop album of the year, which saw the participation of over 13,000 persone.Il prize for best album of the year was won by Kaos with his album Post Scripta

paragraph: Section::::Soloist.

paragraph: 1996 - Fastidio

paragraph: 1999 - L'attesa

paragraph: 2007 - Karma

paragraph: 2011 - Post Scripta

paragraph: 2015 - Coup de Grace

paragraph: Section::::In Radical Stuff.

paragraph: 1992 - Radical Stuff & Lo Greco Bros. - The Jazzy Rap Night - Live

paragraph: 1994 - Hardaswallow

paragraph: Section::::With Melma & Merda.

paragraph: 1999 - Merda & Melma

paragraph: Section::::With Neo Ex.

paragraph: 2002 - L'anello mancante EP

paragraph: Section::::External sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- «Post scripta» con il rapper Kaos One Corriere del Mezzogiorno

paragraph: BULLET::::- Messina: grande successo per il concerto di Kaos One, still.it

description: Italian rapper

wikidata_label: Kaos One

wikipedia_title: Kaos One


text: Bishop of Salford

text: auxiliary bishop

text: titular see of Lindisfarne

text: Grace Dieu Manor School

text: Ratcliffe College

text: Institute of Charity

text: Trinity College, Oxford

text: called to the Bar

text: Middle Temple

text: seminary

text: Holy Orders

text: Cardinal

text: Basil Hume

text: OSB

text: Archbishop of Westminster

text: Chaplain of His Holiness

text: auxiliary bishop

text: consecrated

text: bishop

text: Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

text: Terence Brain

text: Salford Cathedral

categories: People from Sheffield,English Roman Catholic bishops,1953 births,Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford,Living people,Members of the Middle Temple

paragraph: John Arnold (bishop)

paragraph: John Stanley Kenneth Arnold (born 12 June 1953) is the eleventh Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford. He was formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster and held the titular see of Lindisfarne.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Arnold was born in Sheffield and attended Mylnhurst Convent School before attending Grace Dieu Manor School and Ratcliffe College, both schools run by the Institute of Charity (Rosminian Fathers). In 1975 he graduated with a law degree from Trinity College, Oxford and completed his legal qualification by being called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1976 after studies at the Council of Legal Education.

paragraph: Section::::Ordained ministry.

paragraph: Arnold left the field of law and entered a seminary to undertake the studies for receiving Holy Orders in the Catholic Church. He was ordained on 16 July 1983 by Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, the Archbishop of Westminster.

paragraph: Between 1981 and 1985 he studied for a JCD at the Gregoriana. After his ordination he was a chaplain of the cathedral from 1985 to 1988 and from 1988 to 1993 vice-administrator of the cathedral. In 1993 he was appointed pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. George, in Enfield. From 2001 to 2005 he was vicar general and chancellor of the diocese.

paragraph: In recognition of this work as a priest, he was named a Chaplain of His Holiness.

paragraph: Section::::Ordained ministry.:Auxiliary Bishop.

paragraph: In December 2006 John Arnold was named as an auxiliary bishop for Westminster, for which office he was consecrated a bishop by the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. He held responsibility for the pastoral care of the deaneries of Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Harrow. He is also the chairman for the charity CAFOD, the Catholic Church's aid and development agency. He additionally served as chairman of the Oxford and Cambridge Catholic Education Board.

paragraph: Section::::Ordained ministry.:Bishop of Salford.

paragraph: On 30 September 2014, John Arnold was appointed as the 11th the Bishop of Salford to succeed Bishop Terence Brain who had retired upon reaching the age of seventy-five. He was installed at Salford Cathedral on 8 December 2014.

paragraph: in 2015 Bishop Arnold commenced a period of consultation to prepare the diocese for the future. 'A Proposal for Restructuring' was published in July 2016, with feedback invited until October. The final plan was then published in January 2017. The plans involve a drastic reduction in the numbers of parishes and churches within the diocese.

description: British bishop

wikidata_label: John Arnold

wikipedia_title: John Arnold (bishop)


text:
American football
quarterback
Rivals.com
Scout.com
Sammamish, Washington
Seattle
Beaver Lake Middle School
Skyline High School
high school
touchdowns
Gatorade Player of the Year
Class 4A
U.S. Army All-American Bowl
Hall Trophy
University of Southern California
Oklahoma
Washington
Alabama
Cody Kessler
Max Wittek
Lane Kiffin
Steve Sarkisian
2015 season
Sam Darnold
Clay Helton
Syracuse
Pittsburgh Panthers bio
USC Trojans bio

categories: USC Trojans football players,Players of American football from Washington (state),American football quarterbacks,People from Sammamish, Washington,1995 births,Living people

paragraph: Max Browne

paragraph: Max Austin Browne (born February 2, 1995) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He transferred to Pitt on December 15, 2016, as a graduate transfer. Browne committed to USC on April 4, 2012, during his junior year, and was considered the best quarterback recruit of his class by Rivals.com and Scout.com.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Born and raised in Sammamish, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle, Browne attended Beaver Lake Middle School and Skyline High School in Sammamish. During his high school career, he completed 73.5 percent of his passes for 12,951 yards and 146 touchdowns. He was the Gatorade Player of the Year for Washington in 2011 and 2012, and led the Spartans to three straight Class 4A state finals, winning the final two.

paragraph: Following his senior season, Browne participated in the 2013 U.S. Army All-American Bowl and was awarded the prestigious Hall Trophy as U.S. Army Player of the Year.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: On April 4, 2012, Browne committed to play football at the University of Southern California. He selected USC as his college destination over Oklahoma, Washington, and Alabama. In 2013, Browne was redshirted as a true freshman, after failing to beat out Cody Kessler and Max Wittek for the starting quarterback job. Head coach Lane Kiffin eventually named Kessler the starting quarterback in the fall. In 2014, after Steve Sarkisian took over as head coach, Browne again lost the starting quarterback battle to Kessler, who was named the starting quarterback during spring practice.

paragraph: In 2015, Browne was once again the backup to Kessler. With Kessler's departure to the NFL Draft after the 2015 season, Browne was the presumptive starter going into spring practice in 2016. Instead, he faced a stiff challenge from redshirt freshman Sam Darnold. On August 20, 2016, Browne was officially named the starting quarterback by head coach Clay Helton.

paragraph: Browne started his first game as a Trojan quarterback in a 52–6 loss to Alabama on September 3. On September 19, Browne was replaced by Sam Darnold as starting quarterback, a move that prompted speculation that the redshirt junior would transfer at the end of the season to take advantage of his status as a graduate student to start immediately with a new team. He eventually transferred to the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, Browne had a successful spring being voted Captain and earning the starting quarterback job. However, after starting the first three games of the season and going 1-2 (beating Youngstown State but losing to both Penn State and Oklahoma State), Browne was sat again and replaced by redshirt sophomore Ben Dinucci. Dinucci was unable to change the looks of the offense and the Panthers fell a third time to Georgia Tech. Browne was then given another shot to spark this offense for their game versus Rice and he did just that. Throwing for 410 yards, 28-32 (88% completion/attempts), and four touchdowns, the Panthers won 42-10.

paragraph: On October 7, 2017, Browne suffered a shoulder injury on a sack during the game against Syracuse. It was later revealed that the injury required surgery and Browne would miss the rest of the season.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Statistics.

paragraph: "Source":

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pittsburgh Panthers bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- USC Trojans bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Max Browne

wikipedia_title: Max Browne


text: British

text: politician

text: public servant

text: Conservative Party

text: Minister of Health

text: United Kingdom

text: National Health Service

text: Labour Party

text: Liverpool

text: King's Scholar

text: Eton College

text: Newcastle Scholarship

text: Trinity College, Cambridge

text: Royal Field Artillery

text: First World War

text: Battle of the Somme

text: Military Cross

text: Croix de Guerre

text: called to the Bar

text: Inner Temple

text: King's Counsel

text: Bencher

text: Member of Parliament

text: Croydon North

text: by-election on 19 June 1940

text: London

text: Privy Counsellor

text: Minister of Health

text: 1945 general election

text: John Hawton

text: White Paper

text: Beveridge Report

text: General practitioner

text: 1945 general election

text: Marion Billson

text: the other Croydon seat

text: subsequent by-election

text: Fred Harris

text: Master

text: Magdalene College, Cambridge

text: Royal College of General Practitioners

text: Dean of Arches

text: baronet

text: LLD

text: University of Melbourne

text: Churchill College, Cambridge

text: Papers of Sir Henry Willink

text: Portrait of Willink

text: National Portrait Gallery, London

categories: People educated at Eton College,Politicians from Liverpool,Recipients of the Military Cross,UK MPs 1935–1945,Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge,1894 births,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,Politics of the London Borough of Croydon,UK MPs 1945–1950,British Army personnel of World War I,Royal Artillery officers,Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom,Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge,1973 deaths,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge,Masters of Magdalene College, Cambridge

paragraph: Henry Willink

paragraph: Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet, (7 March 1894 – 20 July 1973) was a British politician and public servant.

paragraph: He is best known for his service in the Conservative Party as Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government of the United Kingdom. He proposed many of the bases of the National Health Service later taken up by the Labour Party.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and wartime service.

paragraph: Willink was born in Liverpool. He was educated as a King's Scholar at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1912, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Before he could take his Cambridge degree, he volunteered for service in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War. When aged only 22, Willink commanded a battery at the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Willink received the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Post-war, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1920, was appointed to the rank of King's Counsel in 1935 and became a Bencher in 1942.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Willink was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon North in a wartime by-election on 19 June 1940. There was only one other candidate, an independent, who received a very small vote. In 1940, he was appointed Special Commissioner for the homeless in London.

paragraph: Willink was made a Privy Counsellor in 1943, the year he became Minister of Health, a role in which he served until the Conservatives lost the 1945 general election. Willink, with John Hawton, was responsible for the 1944 White Paper, following the Beveridge Report, called "A National Health Service". It proposed the creation of a fully comprehensive, universal healthcare system, free of charge and available to all citizens irrespective of means.

paragraph: When Labour came into office in 1945, it presented its own plan in preference to Willink's, which it had supported. The principal difference was that Willink's plan talked of a "publicly organised" rather than a "publicly provided" service, and Labour's plan brought hospitals into full national ownership. Bevan, however, made concessions to General practitioners.

paragraph: Willink kept his seat at the 1945 general election by just 607 votes over Labour's Marion Billson. Turnout was low and there were rumours of sacks of servicemen's votes left uncounted in the Town Hall basement. Labour's David Rees-Williams - later Baron Ogmore - had taken the other Croydon seat.

paragraph: Willink resigned from Parliament on 29 January 1948, and the subsequent by-election was won resoundingly by Conservative Fred Harris, with a majority of almost 12,000 votes, despite a ballot of high-profile candidates.

paragraph: Section::::Public service.

paragraph: Willink continued to serve in public positions. In 1948, he was appointed Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, a post he held until 1966. From 1953 until 1955 he was also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He chaired the steering committee leading to the formation of the Royal College of General Practitioners, starting in 1952. Willink later described his role as Chairman of that Steering Committee as "one of the very best projects with which I have ever been involved in my life."

paragraph: In 1957 Willink served as Chairman of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Future Numbers of Medical Practitioners and Intakes of Medical Students. The committee concluded that too many doctors were being trained and proposed a 12% reduction. That was soon realised to be a misjudgement . From 1955 to 1971, he held the office of Dean of Arches, the senior ecclesiastical judge of England.

paragraph: He was made a baronet, of Dingle Bank in the City of Liverpool, in 1957, and was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Melbourne in 1955. His papers are held at Churchill College, Cambridge.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Papers of Sir Henry Willink

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrait of Willink in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

alias:
Henry Willink
Sir Henry Willink
Henry Urmston Willink
Sir Henry Urmston Willink
Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet

description: British politician and public servant

wikidata_label: Sir Henry Willink, 1st Baronet

wikipedia_title: Henry Willink


text:
British
Conservative
Sir Cecil Havers
Baroness Butler-Sloss
Court of Appeal
Family Division
Westminster School
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
World War II
Royal Navy
HMS "Sirius"
acting sub-lieutenant
sub-lieutenant
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
lieutenant
pupillage
Fred Lawton
Gerald Howard
Queen's Counsel
Recorder
Dover
Norwich
House of Commons
Wimbledon
Solicitor General
Edward Heath
Privy Council
Attorney-General for England and Wales
Northern Ireland
Margaret Thatcher
Falklands War
War Cabinet
Lord Chancellor
life peer
St Edmundsbury
Suffolk
Peter Sutcliffe
manslaughter
diminished responsibility
attempted murder
paranoid schizophrenia
English Collective of Prostitutes
Old Bailey
James Chadwin QC
the Crown
Guildford Four
Maguire Seven
Balcombe Street Gang
Sir John May
Chris Mullin
Philip Havers
Nigel Havers
Garrick Club
Wimbledon
Provisional IRA

categories: Lord Chancellors of Great Britain,English barristers,Solicitors General for England and Wales,UK MPs 1974,1923 births,Havers family,Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II,People educated at Westminster School, London,Royal Navy officers of World War II,Knights Bachelor,Queen's Counsel 1901–2000,UK MPs 1970–1974,Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,Provisional Irish Republican Army actions in England,Attorneys General for Northern Ireland,Attorneys General for England and Wales,Conservative Party (UK) life peers,British Queen's Counsel,1992 deaths,UK MPs 1974–1979,People from Suffolk,UK MPs 1979–1983,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,Northern Ireland Government ministers

paragraph: Michael Havers, Baron Havers

paragraph: Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, Baron Havers, (10 March 1923 – 1 April 1992) was a British barrister and Conservative politician. From his knighthood in 1972 until becoming a peer in 1987 he was known as Sir Michael Havers.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Havers was the second son of High Court Judge Sir Cecil Havers and Enid Flo Havers (née Snelling) and was the brother of Baroness Butler-Sloss (born 1933) who in 1988 became the first woman named to the Court of Appeal and later President of the Family Division.

paragraph: He was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read Law studies.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Military service.

paragraph: He served during World War II with the Royal Navy. He served as a 19-year-old Midshipman on HMS "Sirius" attached to Force Q in the Mediterranean. On 10 September 1943, he was promoted from temporary acting sub-lieutenant to temporary sub-lieutenant. Following the end of the war, he transferred to the permanent Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during April 1947 in the rank of lieutenant seniority from 1 August 1945.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Legal career.

paragraph: Havers was called to the bar in 1948 and undertook his pupillage in the chambers of Fred Lawton, as the pupil of Gerald Howard. Havers was made a Queen's Counsel in 1964. He was the Recorder of Dover from 1962 to 1968 and Recorder of Norwich from 1968 to 1971. He was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1971.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Political career.

paragraph: He was elected to the House of Commons representing Wimbledon in 1970, a seat he held until 1987. He served as Solicitor General under Edward Heath from 1972 to 1974. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1977. He served as Attorney-General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher; his was the longest unbroken tenure of the office since the eighteenth century. During the Falklands War, Havers was included in Thatcher's War Cabinet, to which he provided advice on international law and rules of engagement.

paragraph: In June 1987 he was appointed Lord Chancellor and consequently became a life peer as Baron Havers, of St Edmundsbury in the County of Suffolk. However, he was forced to resign that October, due to ill health.

paragraph: Section::::Controversy.

paragraph: Section::::Controversy.:Yorkshire Ripper trial.

paragraph: In May 1981, at the beginning of the trial of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, Sutcliffe pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The basis of this defence was his claim that he was the tool of God's will. Sutcliffe first claimed to have heard voices while working as a gravedigger, that ultimately ordered him to kill prostitutes. He claimed that the voices originated from a headstone of a deceased Polish man, Bronislaw Zapolski, and that the voices were that of God.

paragraph: He also pleaded guilty to seven counts of attempted murder. The prosecution intended to accept Sutcliffe's plea after four psychiatrists diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia. However, the trial judge, Mr Justice Boreham, demanded an unusually detailed explanation of the prosecution reasoning. After a two-hour submission by Havers, the Attorney-General, a 90-minute lunch break and a further 40 minutes of legal discussion, he rejected the diminished responsibility plea and the expert testimonies of the four psychiatrists, insisting that the case should be dealt with by a jury. The trial proper was set to commence on 5 May 1981.

paragraph: Havers drew controversy at the outset of the trial, when he said of Sutcliffe's victims in his introductory speech: "Some were prostitutes, but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not. The last six attacks were on totally respectable women." In response to this remark, the English Collective of Prostitutes accused Havers of "condoning the murder of prostitutes", and women demonstrated outside the Old Bailey with placards in protest.

paragraph: The trial lasted two weeks and despite the efforts of his counsel James Chadwin QC, Sutcliffe was found guilty of murder on all counts and sentenced to life imprisonment.

paragraph: Section::::Controversy.:Role in the Guildford Four and Maguire Family miscarriages of justice.

paragraph: Havers represented the Crown in two of the most notable miscarriages of justice in British judicial history: the trial and appeal of the Guildford Four and also of the Maguire family (known as the Maguire Seven), all of whom were wrongfully convicted. Collectively, they served a total of 113 years in prison and one of the Maguire Seven, Giuseppe Conlon, died in prison, convicted on the basis of discredited forensic evidence.

paragraph: In the case of the Guildford Four, the Director of Public Prosecutions was found to have suppressed alibi evidence that supported Gerry Conlon and Paul Hill’s claims of innocence. The Director of Public Prosecutions, for which Havers was acting, was also found to have suppressed confessions by Provisional IRA bombers, known as the Balcombe Street Gang, that they had carried out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings.

paragraph: In his submission to Sir John May's Inquiry into the Guildford and Woolwich bombings in 1989, Labour MP Chris Mullin cast doubt on Havers’s integrity in the matter:

paragraph: Sir Michael Havers represented the Crown at the trials of the Guildford Four, Mrs. Maguire and her family and at the re-trial/appeal of the Guildford Four. He is, therefore, probably the person who can lay claim to the most detailed knowledge of this affair. I respectfully submit that any inquiry that passed without the benefit of his experience would be deficient...

paragraph: The only hope of sustaining the original convictions was to rewrite the script from top to bottom. This Sir Michael and his colleagues proceeded to do with ingenuity and relish.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Havers married Carol Elizabeth Lay in 1949, with whom he had two sons; Philip Havers, who became a Queen's Counsel like his father, and the actor Nigel Havers. Havers was a member of the Garrick Club.

paragraph: Havers' house in Woodhayes Road, Wimbledon, was bombed by the Provisional IRA on 13 November 1981; Havers and his family were in Spain at the time of the attack. A police constable standing guard outside the house was taken to hospital suffering from shock.

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Michael Havers, Baron Havers

wikipedia_title: Michael Havers, Baron Havers


text:
Nagold
Germany
Swiss
Grand Prix
motorcycle
road racer
FIM
world championships
1982
1983
1984
1985

wikipedia_title: Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

wikipedia_title: List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions by year

wikipedia_title: 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

wikipedia_title: 1983 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

wikipedia_title: 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

wikipedia_title: 1985 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

categories: 1948 births,50cc World Championship riders,Living people,125cc World Championship riders,80cc World Championship riders,Swiss motorcycle racers

paragraph: Stefan Dörflinger

paragraph: Stefan Dörflinger (born 23 December 1948 in Nagold, Germany) is a Swiss former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

paragraph: Dörflinger won four consecutive FIM road racing world championships. In 1982 and 1983, he was the 50 cc world champion. In 1984, the FIM increased the displacement capacity to 80 cc and Dörflinger would become the first ever 80 cc world champion. He successfully defended his title in 1985. His lengthy Grand Prix career spanned 18 seasons.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wildeman-Zündapp

description: Swiss motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Stefan Dörflinger

wikipedia_title: Stefan Dörflinger


text:
Suffragan Bishop of Southampton
Lincoln Grammar School
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Ordained
curacy
Boston, Lincolnshire
Vicar
Redfield, Bristol
incumbencies
Olveston
Bishopston
Archdeacon of Winchester
episcopate

categories: 20th-century Anglican bishops,Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge,Archdeacons of Winchester (ancient),1920 births,Bishops of Southampton,1997 deaths,People educated at Lincoln Grammar School

paragraph: David Cartwright

paragraph: Edward David Cartwright (15 July 1920 – 24 April 1997) was the tenth Suffragan Bishop of Southampton.

paragraph: Cartwright was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1944, he began his career with a curacy in Boston, Lincolnshire and was then Vicar of St Leonard’s, Redfield, Bristol. After that he held further incumbencies at Olveston and Bishopston; and was then Archdeacon of Winchester before appointment to the episcopate, a post he held from 1984 until 1989.

alias:
Edward David Cartwright
E. David Cartwright

description: Bishop of Southampton

wikidata_label: David Cartwright

wikipedia_title: David Cartwright


text:
comics
Cubitus
Wowser
Montignies-sur-Sambre
Ottignies
Cubitus
Chlorophylle
BD Paradisio
Bedetheque
Lycos
fan page
Presentation on Lambiek Comiclopedia
Comic Book Database

categories: People from Charleroi,Belgian surrealist artists,Belgian comics artists,1945 births,Walloon people,Belgian comics writers,2000 deaths

paragraph: Dupa

paragraph: Luc Dupanloup, more famous under his pen name Dupa, was a Belgian comics artist best known as the creator of Cubitus which later was turned into an animated series called "Wowser". He was born on 12 February 1945 in Montignies-sur-Sambre and died on 8 November 2000 in Ottignies.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crayon d'Argent in 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aigle d'Or de la Ville de Nice in 1982

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prize of the best book for children at the BD de Paris convention in 1984

paragraph: BULLET::::- "110 d'Or" price in November 1993 at the BD Festival of Illzach

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cubitus" (43 albums) 1972–2000

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chlorophylle" (3 albums) 1973–1977

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Alice au pays des merveilles "(1 album) 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Constant Souci "(1 album) 1974

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Coup d'oeil "(1 album) 1984

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Niky "(3 albums) 1985–1988

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le Verrou "(1 album) 1987

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bédémix "(2 albums) 1989

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Vacances de Petit Biniou" (1 album) 1997

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- BD Paradisio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bedetheque

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lycos

paragraph: BULLET::::- fan page

paragraph: BULLET::::- Footnotes

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Presentation on Lambiek Comiclopedia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Comic Book Database

description: comic artist

wikidata_label: Dupa

wikipedia_title: Dupa


text:
English
portrait
photographer
culturally
Victorian era
Charles Dickens
Prince of Wales
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Carlyle
Charles Kingsley
Carlo Marochetti

categories: English photographers,1874 deaths,1823 births,Portrait photographers

paragraph: John Watkins (photographer)

paragraph: John Watkins (1823-1874) was an English portrait photographer. He and his brother, Octavius Charles Watkins (1836-1882), often worked together. They made studio portraits of artists and culturally influential people in the years between 1840 and 1875.

paragraph: Among their sitters were many notables of the Victorian era, including Charles Dickens, the Prince of Wales, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Kingsley, Carlo Marochetti and many others.

description: English photographer

wikidata_label: John Watkins

wikipedia_title: John Watkins (photographer)


text:
Moergestel
Dutch
baseball
Neptunus
Dutch national team
Twins Sport Club
Hoofdklasse
HCAW
DOOR Neptunus
Tjerk Smeets
Fausto Álvarez
Danny Rombley
Johnny Balentina
United States
Team USA
2007 World Port Tournament
2007 Baseball World Cup
Roger Bernadina
Chinese Taipei
En-Yu Lin
Reily Legito
Gregory Halman
Regensburg
Robert Eenhoorn
2008 Summer Olympics
Beijing
Meeuwis's profile at honkbalsite.com
Martijn Meeuwis @ Baseball Reference

categories: Living people,Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics,Dutch baseball players,Olympic baseball players of the Netherlands,1982 births

paragraph: Martijn Meeuwis

paragraph: Martijn Meeuwis (born July 14, 1982 in Moergestel) is a Dutch baseball player who currently plays for Neptunus and the Dutch national team.

paragraph: Meeuwis debuted with the Twins Sport Club in 1999 as a teenager but did not return to the Hoofdklasse again until 2004, when he became a full-time player. When the Twins were relegated, Meeuwis moved to HCAW. In 2005, he hit .184/.266/.233 as a regular outfielder. In 2006, he was the club's regular center fielder, though he also filled in at second base. He hit .304/.377/.402 and led the league in triples (5). In 2007, Meeuwis really blossomed after joining DOOR Neptunus. He hit .301/.394/.500 with 37 RBI in 39 games while returning to catcher, his original position. He threw out 19 of 35 would-be base-stealers. He was 7th in 2007 Hoofdklasse in batting average, third in home runs (6) and second in RBI (six behind leader Tjerk Smeets). He was named as one of the three finalists for the league MVP award alongside Fausto Álvarez and Danny Rombley; Álvarez won.

paragraph: Meeuwis joined the Dutch national team when Johnny Balentina, another C-OF, was injured. He was part of the team's historic first visit to the United States, which included a win over the college edition of Team USA. He played also in the 2007 World Port Tournament, going 1 for 6. Balentina was back with the team for the 2007 European Championship but Meeuwis replaced him once more for the 2007 Baseball World Cup. He was 3 for 10 with 2 walks and a double in the World Cup that year, helping fill in for CF Roger Bernadina. He had a key role in the Dutch win over host Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals. En-Yu Lin had retired 13 batters in a row and held a 2-0 lead when Meeuwis walked and came around to score on a hit by Reily Legito. Gregory Halman later replaced Meeuwis in center in that game. Meeuwis hit .231/.375/.231 in the 2008 European Cup in Regensburg.

paragraph: Meeuwis was selected by coach Robert Eenhoorn in the team that represents the Netherlands at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Meeuwis's profile at honkbalsite.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martijn Meeuwis @ Baseball Reference

description: Dutch baseball player

wikidata_label: Martijn Meeuwis

wikipedia_title: Martijn Meeuwis


text:
American football
Washington Redskins
National Football League
college football
Colgate University
Dallas High School
linebackers coach
Washington Redskins
San Diego Chargers
defensive coordinator
San Francisco 49ers
Mike Singletary
Stanford University
Jim Harbaugh
Arizona Cardinals
Dallas Cowboys
2011 season
Indianapolis Colts
Washington Redskins
Washington Redskins bio

categories: Kansas City Chiefs players,People from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania,Minnesota Vikings players,Washington Redskins players,Living people,1966 births,American football linebackers,Washington Redskins coaches,National Football League defensive coordinators,San Francisco 49ers coaches,Colgate Raiders football players,San Diego Chargers coaches

paragraph: Greg Manusky

paragraph: Gregory Manusky (born August 12, 1966) is an American football coach and former linebacker, who is currently defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). Manusky played in the NFL for three teams over twelve seasons. Manusky played college football at Colgate University and high school football at Dallas High School.

paragraph: Section::::Coaching career.

paragraph: Manusky was the linebackers coach for the Washington Redskins and San Diego Chargers before he became the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers in 2007. Following the 2010 season, 49ers head coach Mike Singletary was fired by the team. Former Stanford University head coach Jim Harbaugh replaced Singletary. Harbaugh gave Manusky permission to interview with other teams, and Manusky quickly lined up interviews with three teams: the Chargers, Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys. Manusky ultimately accepted the defensive coordinator job with the Chargers, with whom he had previously worked as a linebackers coach. He was fired following the 2011 season on January 5, 2012.

paragraph: The Indianapolis Colts hired Manusky as their defensive coordinator on February 2, 2012. After four seasons, he was fired by the Colts on January 5, 2016.

paragraph: On January 22, 2016, Manusky was hired to be the outside linebackers coach for the Washington Redskins. A year later, The Redskins promoted him to defensive coordinator.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Greg Manusky and his wife, Laurie, have four kids. Two sons, Colton and Jake, and two daughters, Logan and Chandler.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washington Redskins bio

description: American football player and coach

wikidata_label: Greg Manusky

wikipedia_title: Greg Manusky


text:
composer
film music
Lindenhurst Senior High School
Long Island, New York
BMI Film Music Award
comedy
Adam Sandler
Rupert Gregson-Williams
Alisha
Bounce Back

categories: American film score composers,Living people,Male film score composers,1965 births

paragraph: Teddy Castellucci

paragraph: Theodore Ross Castellucci is a composer of film music. A graduate of Lindenhurst Senior High School on Long Island, New York in 1983, Castellucci has won five BMI Film Music Awards. He's mostly known for working in comedy projects, and for being the recurring composer in films starring Adam Sandler, before being replaced by Rupert Gregson-Williams. Castellucci appeared on screen as a band member (the guitarist) in "The Wedding Singer" and his last name was used for minor characters in both "The Wedding Singer" and "Big Daddy".

paragraph: In 1990, he performed guitar on American singer Alisha's album "Bounce Back".

description: American composer

wikidata_label: Teddy Castellucci

wikipedia_title: Teddy Castellucci


text:
courtesy name
chancellor
Emperor Taizong
Tang dynasty
Fang Xuanling
Emperor Wen of Sui
Chang'an
Northern Zhou
Taiyuan
Li Yuan
Emperor Yang
Tang Dynasty
Li Shimin
Sanmenxia
Henan
Fang Xuanling
Xue Rengao
Liu Wuzhou
Wang Shichong
Dou Jiande
Luoyang
Du Yan
Li Jiancheng
Crown Prince
Li Yuanji
Yuchi Gong
Taoist
Xuanwu Gate
Zhangsun Wuji
Hou Junji
chancellor
Li Chengqian
posthumous name
Portraits at Lingyan Pavilion
Li Tai
Old Book of Tang
New Book of Tang
Zizhi Tongjian

categories: Chancellors under Emperor Taizong of Tang,Tang dynasty politicians from Shaanxi,Du clan of Jingzhao,Politicians from Xi'an,Sui dynasty politicians,630 deaths,585 births

paragraph: Du Ruhui

paragraph: Du Ruhui (585–630), courtesy name Keming, posthumously known as Duke Cheng of Lai, was a Chinese official who served as a chancellor under Emperor Taizong in the early Tang dynasty. He and his colleague, Fang Xuanling, were often described as role models for chancellors in imperial China.

paragraph: Section::::During Sui dynasty.

paragraph: Du Ruhui was born in 585, during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui. He was from the Sui capital Chang'an. His great-grandfather Du Jiao (杜皎) and grandfather Du Hui (杜徽) were both officials for Sui's predecessor state Northern Zhou, and his granduncle Du Guo (杜果) or Du Gao (杜杲) was particularly well-regarded during Sui. His father Du Zha (杜吒) was a provincial secretary general during Sui. Du Ruhui had at least one older brother, whose name is lost to history, and one younger brother, Du Chuke (杜楚客).

paragraph: Du Ruhui himself was considered intelligent in his youth, and he often discussed literature and history with others. During Emperor Wen's reign, he participated in the civil service selection process, and the deputy minister of civil service affairs, Gao Xiaoji (高孝基), was particularly impressed with him. Gao gave him the post as a county magistrate, although Du did not remain at that post for long and resigned.

paragraph: Section::::During Emperor Gaozu's reign.

paragraph: In 617, the governor of Taiyuan Li Yuan rebelled against the rule of Emperor Wen's son Emperor Yang, and by 618 had established the Tang Dynasty at Chang'an (as its Emperor Gaozu). Du Ruhui served on the staff of Emperor Gaozu's son Li Shimin the Prince of Qin, a major general. At that time, Li Shimin had many talented people on his staff, and soon, many were commissioned to be local officials. Du was scheduled to become the secretary general for Shan Prefecture (陝州, roughly modern Sanmenxia, Henan), when Li Shimin's trusted advisor Fang Xuanling pointed out that Du was highly talented and that Li Shimin could not afford to lose him. Li Shimin thus interceded with Emperor Gaozu to keep Du on his staff. Du later followed Li Shimin in campaigns against Tang's major enemies Xue Rengao the Emperor of Qin, Liu Wuzhou the Dingyang Khan, Wang Shichong the Emperor of Zheng, and Dou Jiande the Prince of Xia, contributing strategies to LI Shimin's campaigns. For his achievements, Du was created the Baron of Jianping. (When the Zheng capital Luoyang fell to Li Shimin in 621, Du Ruhui's uncle Du Yan, a Zheng official, was captured. Du Yan was not on friendly terms with Du Ruhui and his brothers and who had given information to Wang that Du Ruhui's older brother was not faithful to Zheng, causing Wang to execute Du Ruhui's older brother and to imprison Du Ruhui's younger brother Du Chuke. Du Ruhui was originally intending to allow Li Shimin to execute Du Yan, but Du Chuke reasoned with him that even though Du Yan had caused their brother's death, they should not in turn cause an uncle's death. Du Ruhui relented and interceded on Du Yan's behalf, and Du Yan was spared. Du and Fang continued to serve as key advisors for Li Shimin, and it was said that Fang was capable of planning and strategizing, but was not resolute, while Du was capable of making quick and correct decisions, and they divided their strategical responsibilities while on Li Shimin's staff in that manner. (This eventually led to the Chinese proverb "Fang plans and Du decides" (房謀杜斷, "Fang mou Du duan"), after they became renowned.)

paragraph: Later in Emperor Gaozu's reign, Li Shimin was locked in an intense rivalry with his older brother Li Jiancheng the Crown Prince, and Fang and Du often suggested that he act first against Li Jiancheng. As both Li Jiancheng and another brother who supported Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji the Prince of Qi, feared Fang's and Du's strategic capabilities, they falsely accused both Fang and Du and had them demoted out of Li Shimin's staff. In summer 626, when Li Shimin decided to act against Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, however, he summoned Fang and Du to his mansion. Fang and Du, initially fearing Emperor Gaozu's orders forbidding them to serve Li Shimin, declined. In anger, Li Shimin sent the general Yuchi Gong to summon Fang and Du, with directions that if they declined again, to kill them. Yuchi, however, was able to persuade them that Li Shimin was in fact intending on acting against Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and so Fang and Du put on disguises as Taoist monks and were able to get to Li Shimin's mansions, where they assisted Li Shimin in planning the ambush against Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji. Li Shimin subsequently ambushed his brothers at Xuanwu Gate and killed them, and then effectively forced Emperor Gaozu to create him crown prince. Once he was created crown prince, Fang and Du were restored to honored positions on his staff, and soon, Du was made the minister of defense. Two months later, Emperor Gaozu yielded the throne to Li Shimin (as Emperor Taizong).

paragraph: Section::::During Emperor Taizong's reign.

paragraph: Late in 626, when Emperor Taizong personally ranked the contributions of the generals and officials in order to grant them fiefs, Emperor Taizong ranked five of them—Fang Xuanling, Zhangsun Wuji, Du, Yuchi Gong, and Hou Junji to be contributors of the highest grade, and Du was created the Duke of Cai. When Emperor Gaozu's cousin Li Shentong (李神通) the Prince of Huai'an, himself a key general, objected to being ranked below Fang and Du, stating that Fang and Du, in particular, were only bureaucrats, Emperor Taizong pointed out that it was with their strategies that he was able to become emperor, Li Shentong relented, which led to the other objectors to also cease their objections.

paragraph: In 629, Du, along with Fang, became "Puye" (僕射), a head of the important executive bureau of the government (尚書省, "Shangshu Sheng") and a post considered one for a chancellor. It was said that at this time that the Fang and Du became known as the model for chancellors. During this time, remembering Gao Xiaoji's kindness toward him, he commissioned a stone tablet monument for Gao. Around the new year of 630, however, Du resigned due to illness. By spring 630, he was near death. Emperor Taizong initially sent his crown prince Li Chengqian to visit Du, and then did so himself as well. Du soon died. For a long time, whenever Emperor Taizong received precious items, he would think of Du, and he would send messengers to deliver some of the items to Du's family. He also often wept while talking with Fang, stating, "Both you and Du Ruhui assisted me. Now I only see you, and not him." For reasons unclear, he changed Du's title posthumously to Duke of Lai, with the posthumous name Cheng (成, "successful"). He gave his daughter Princess Chengyang to Du's son Du He (杜荷) in marriage and created Du He the Duke of Xiangyang. (Du Ruhui's oldest son Du Gou (杜構) inherited the title of Duke of Lai.) In 643, when Emperor Taizong commissioned the Portraits at Lingyan Pavilion to commemorate the 24 great contributors to Tang rule, Du's was one of the portraits commissioned.

paragraph: However, the honored position of the Du clan did not last long. Later in 643, Du He was implicated in a plot with Li Chengqian to overthrow Emperor Taizong (as Li Chengqian, who had by then lost Emperor Taizong's favor, was fearful that Emperor Taizong would depose him and replace him with his brother Li Tai the Prince of Wei). Du He was executed, while Du Gou was exiled.

paragraph: Section::::Notes and references.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Old Book of Tang", vol. 66.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New Book of Tang", vol. 96.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zizhi Tongjian", vols. , , , , , .

description: Chinese chancellor

wikidata_label: Du Ruhui

wikipedia_title: Du Ruhui


text:
Simon Tan
Sabu Toyozumi
Eric Dolphy
Sonny Simmons
Bert Wilson
Michael Bisio

categories: American jazz saxophonists,American jazz flautists,1957 births

paragraph: Rick Countryman

paragraph: Rick Countryman (January 31, 1957) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

paragraph: After years attracting little attention as a baritone saxophone player, including an extended sabbatical, Rick made a late-life change to alto sax, at the urging of bassist, Simon Tan. His first recorded session with Simon and Christian Bucher, avant garde drummer from Switzerland, attracted the attention of French label "Improvising Beings" and was released as "Acceptance – Resistance". The recordings received many positive reviews, both in the United States and Europe.

paragraph: Rick currently now has 9 releases on 4 labels across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including multiple CDs with Japanese improvisational drummer, Sabu Toyozumi, who has made several trips to Manila to perform and record. The music continues to receive positive reviews and airplay. Two recordings were listed in "Gold Dolphy 2018".

paragraph: Since 2011, Rick has been an active member of the Manila jazz scene. He leads and performs in ensembles on baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, alto flute and bass flute; performing original compositions, as well as free jazz/improvisation, in his own jazz quartets and trios. His style is heavily influenced by Eric Dolphy, Sonny Simmons and the 60s Free Jazz movement. He was a student of Bert Wilson, and considers Michael Bisio and Rick Mandyck early mentors.

wikidata_label: Rick Countryman

wikipedia_title: Rick Countryman


text: née

text: Australian

text: studio potter

text: studio potters

text: Kingston School of Art

text: Knox Guild

text: Camberwell College of Arts

text: Oxshott Pottery

text: Albany, Western Australia

text: East Molesey

text: budgerigars

text: parakeets

text: bees

text: Hittisleigh

text: Kingston School of Art

text: Archibald Knox

text: The Studio

text: Knox Guild of Design and Craft

text: Oxshott

text: Oxshott Pottery

text: interwar period

text: Oxshott Pottery

text: British Empire Exhibition

text: Central Hall, Westminster

text: Henry Hopkins

text: Camberwell School of Art

text: Guildford School of Art

text: Royal College of Art

text: salt glazing

text: Craft Potters Association

text: Hittisleigh

text: Bernard Leach

text: Leach Pottery

text: St. Ives

text: William Staite Murray

text: Royal College of Art

text: glazes

text: Craft Potters Association

text: Michael Casson

text: British Industries Fair

text: Kingston Museum

text: Crafts Study Centre

text: Kingston Museum

text: Shipley Art Gallery

text: Victoria and Albert Museum

text: York Art Gallery

text: Craft Potters Association

text: Kingston Museum

text: Kingston Museum Art Gallery

text: Whitechapel Art Gallery

text: Kettle's Yard

text: Cambridge

text: Henry Rothschild

text: Primavera

text: Bath

text: Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

text: Sussex

categories: Women ceramists,British potters,1979 deaths,1891 births

paragraph: Denise Wren

paragraph: Denise Wren (née Tuckfield; 7 January 1891–1979) was an Australian-born British studio potter and craftsperson. Wren was one of the first female studio potters in Britain. She studied and taught with the Kingston School of Art, Knox Guild and Camberwell College of Arts. Wren and her family subsequently set up the Oxshott Pottery and wrote on the subjects of ceramics, textiles and making.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Denise Tuckfield was born in Lake View, Albany, Western Australia on 7 January, 1891. Her family, including her sister Winnifred and two brothers, moved to East Molesey, Surrey, England in 1900. In 1915, Denise Tuckfield married another potter Henry Wren (d. 1947). Their daughter, Rosemary Wren (b. 1922) also worked in ceramics. Wren kept and bred budgerigars and parakeets as well as bees at the Oxshott family home. Wren moved to Hittisleigh, Devon in 1978 and died there in 1979.

paragraph: Section::::Ceramic art career.

paragraph: Section::::Ceramic art career.:Kingston School of Art and the Knox Guild.

paragraph: From 1907–1912 Tuckfield attended Kingston School of Art where she studied under Archibald Knox. Here, she learned to throw pots on the wheel from Mr. Mercer, an employee at the local Norbiton Potteries and Brickworks. He also fired her ceramics in his kiln, including a tile with a flying fish motif featured in a 1909 issue of fine and decorative arts magazine "The Studio".

paragraph: In 1912, following criticism of his teaching methods, Archibald Knox quit Kingston School of Art. Together with other students from their design class, sisters Denise and Winifred Broun-Morrison joined Knox in protest to co-found the Knox Guild of Design and Craft.

paragraph: Section::::Ceramic art career.:The Oxshott Pottery at Potter's Croft.

paragraph: After her marriage to Henry Wren in 1915, the couple built their own house to Denise Wren's design: Potter's Croft, a workspace and home at Oxshott in Surrey. Here, they set up the Oxshott Pottery which produced brightly glazed functional earthenware products such as bowls, dishes and vases which they sold at agricultural and horticultural shows during the interwar period. They taught a summer school and wrote books on pottery. Wren also taught evening classes at Teddington School of Art. Wren pioneered designs for small scale kilns, which she sold by mail order to aspiring amateur potters, both in the UK and abroad.

paragraph: The Oxshott Pottery participated in the British Empire Exhibition of 1924–25 and in the Artist Craftsman Exhibitions organised annually from 1923 to 1938 by Henry Wren at the Central Hall, Westminster.

paragraph: Section::::Ceramic art career.:Other institutions.

paragraph: Wren studied further with Henry Hopkins at Camberwell School of Art in 1920. She returned to study from 1945-1947 at the Guildford School of Art with Helen Pincombe and continued to the Royal College of Art from 1947-1950.

paragraph: Section::::Ceramic art career.:Later career.

paragraph: Henry Wren died in 1947 and the Wren's daughter Rosemary, a potter also known for her animal figures, joined the running of Oxshott Pottery with her mother. During the 1950s, Wren and Rosemary Wren experimented at Oxshott with a technique called salt glazing. The Wrens developed a new kiln to fire salt-glazed stoneware. Denise and Rosemary Wren became known for their revival of salt glazed stoneware. They were founder members of the Craft Potters Association in 1958 and used it, and various London galleries to sell their work through the 1950s and 1960s. Towards the end of her life, Wren was known for her handbuilt elephant figures. ‘[T]he variety, vitality and starkness of these creations' were apparent in even a small group when displayed. The pottery moved to Hittisleigh, Devon in 1978, a year before Wren's death.

paragraph: Section::::Ethos and style.

paragraph: During the early 20th-century, British pottery production was a large scale industry and pottery was not taught in art schools. This began to change in 1920 when Bernard Leach established the Leach Pottery at St. Ives in Cornwall and in 1925 William Staite Murray became pottery tutor at the Royal College of Art. In contrast to Leach and his followers, who mainly made wheel-thrown pots, Wren used a wide variety of techniques such as building with slabs or coils of clay and making tiles and figurines in moulds: partly inspired by her lessons from Archibald Knox. Wren also used commercially produced glazes, though often in an experimental way. Wren's technical understanding of ceramic work was demonstrated at a meeting of the Craft Potters Association in 1960 where she produced a detailed scheme of categories against which a pot's quality could be judged. Each category was in turn, comprehensive: one contained 87 questions. Michael Casson referred to it as 'a brilliant piece of planning'.

paragraph: Section::::Textile designs.

paragraph: From the late 1930s, Denise Wren began to design textiles to compensate for dwindling sales of pottery at Oxshott. Under the name of the Knox Guild, she took a stand at the British Industries Fair in 1937. This enabled her to make contact with some Manchester based textile printers like Grafton’s, Simpson and Godlee, Tootals and Whitworth and Mitchell. Wren also became a member of the National Register of Industrial Art Designers. Kingston Museum’s archive holds records of over 160 pattern designs she sold between the mid 1940s and 1951 to manufacturers like these.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Wren's work is in several regional and national collections:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crafts Study Centre at Farnham, Surrey

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kingston Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shipley Art Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- Victoria and Albert Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- York Art Gallery

paragraph: In 1975, Wren was made an honorary life member of the Craft Potters Association.

paragraph: Section::::Publications and exhibitions.:Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wren, Denise; Wren, Henry (1924). "Oxshott hand-made pottery"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wren, Denise; Wren, Henry (1930). "Handcraft pottery, for workshop and school". London: s.n.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wren, Denise; Wren, Henry (1932). "Pottery, the finger-built methodes". London: s.n.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wren, Denise; Wren, Rosemary (1952). "Pottery making; making pots and building and firing small kilns,". London: Pitman.

paragraph: Section::::Publications and exhibitions.:Solo Exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Denise Wren: Hope for Beauty" (2017-2018) Kingston Museum

paragraph: Section::::Publications and exhibitions.:Group Exhibitions.

paragraph: With the Knox Guild:

paragraph: BULLET::::- [Titles Unknown] (1914, 1919-1935) Kingston Museum Art Gallery, with live pottery demonstrations

paragraph: BULLET::::- [Titles Unknown] (1921, 1923, 1935) Whitechapel Art Gallery, with live pottery demonstrations

paragraph: Other exhibitions:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "More British Potters" (1972) Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. Organised by Henry Rothschild and Primavera.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wrens and the Oxshott Pottery" (1984) Crafts Study Centre, Bath (former location)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Women's Work" (2019) Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Sussex

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kingston Museum Denise Wren Flickr album

wikidata_label: Denise Wren

wikipedia_title: Denise Wren


text:
Vienna
Austria
entomologist
Hemiptera
Hymenoptera
Neuroptera
cook
Schwarzenberg
surname
merchant
pharmacist
Friedrich Moritz Brauer
Natural History Museum of Vienna
Hymenoptera
Hemiptera
evolution
palaeontology
University of Graz
Doctor of Science
honoris causa
Academy of Science of Vienna
Christoph Schröder
Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna
Ernst-Moritz-Universität
Greifswald
Guido Nonveiller
Evenhuis, N. L.

categories: 1935 deaths,Hymenopterists,Dipterists,Austrian entomologists,1865 births

paragraph: Anton Handlirsch

paragraph: Anton Handlirsch or Anton Peter Josef Handlirsch (20 January 1865, Vienna – 28 August 1935, Vienna) was an Austrian entomologist. He worked on many groups including Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera. His most significant work was in the study of fossil insects.

paragraph: Anton was born to Peter (1831–1873) and Rosina Handlirsch (born 1841). His father worked as a cook of the Schwarzenberg family. His surname Handlirsch came from "merchant". He went to study at the Gymnasium in Vienna in 1875. Although he began to show an interest in zoology, his father wished that he obtain a degree in pharmacy. Anton obtained a master's degree in pharmacy in 1885. After working for a while as a pharmacist, Anton and his brother Adam met the entomologist Friedrich Moritz Brauer and Anton later became an assistant to him in the department of entomology of the Natural History Museum of Vienna in 1892. In the same year he married Martha Allounek. He became the director of this department in 1922, a function which he held until his retirement. He specialised in the Hymenoptera and the Hemiptera, his work concerning the evolution of these and other insects. His principal work, which appeared between 1906 and 1908, was on insect fossils and he was the founder of insect palaeontology. The University of Graz gave him the title of Doctor of Science honoris causa and he was made a member of the Academy of Science of Vienna. He is best known for "Die Fossilen Insekten" (1906–1908) – 1,433 pages and 51 plates – and his contributions to the third volume of Christoph Schröder's "Handbuch der Entomologie" (1920–1925) – 1,201 pages with 1,040 figures.

paragraph: Handlirsch's fossil collection is mostly in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna. Other parts are in the Ernst-Moritz-Universität in Greifswald.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guido Nonveiller (2001). "Pioneers of the Research on the Insects of Dalmatia." Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) : 390 p.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 "Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum (1758-1930)" Leiden, Backhuys.

description: Austrian entomologist

wikidata_label: Anton Handlirsch

wikipedia_title: Anton Handlirsch