text:
Ocho Rios
footballer
forward
Scarborough
Ontario
Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute
Most Valuable Player
college soccer
University of Connecticut
Hermann Trophy
NCAA Division I
Soccer America Player of the Year Award
Major League Soccer
Toronto FC
2009 MLS SuperDraft
River Plate
BMO Field
Columbus Crew
D.C. United
Colorado Rapids
2010 Season
Seattle Sounders FC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
2010 MLS Expansion Draft
Seattle Sounders FC
FIFA
Jamaican Senior Team
Costa Rica
University of Connecticut profile

categories: Hermann Trophy men's winners,Jamaican expatriates in Canada,Jamaica youth international footballers,Toronto FC draft picks,Jamaican expatriates in the United States,Living people,1985 births,All-American men's college soccer players,Toronto FC players,Seattle Sounders FC players,Major League Soccer players,Jamaican footballers,Expatriate soccer players in the United States,UConn Huskies men's soccer players,Jamaica international footballers,Expatriate soccer players in Canada

paragraph: O'Brian White

paragraph: O'Brian White (born 14 December 1985, in Ocho Rios) is a Jamaican former footballer who played as a forward.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Youth and college.

paragraph: White grew up in Jamaica before moving to Scarborough, Ontario in 2002 to live with his mother. He began playing football while attending Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, where he was named the Most Valuable Player of the squad in 2004 and 2005.

paragraph: White played college soccer at the University of Connecticut. He won the Hermann Trophy, the highest individual honor in NCAA Division I soccer and the Soccer America Player of the Year Award in 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Professional.

paragraph: After signing a deal with Major League Soccer, he was selected fourth overall by Toronto FC in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft on 15 January 2009.

paragraph: White made his debut for Toronto FC in an international friendly against the Argentinean side River Plate, at BMO Field on 22 July 2009, and made his MLS debut on 25 July 2009, against the Columbus Crew. He scored his first MLS goal on 15 August 2009, against D.C. United.

paragraph: White won his first individual award with Toronto FC after being named MLS Goal of the Week in week 26 for his goal in the 3-2 victory against Colorado Rapids on 12 September 2009. On 25 April 2010, White scored his first goal on the 2010 Season in a 2-0 win against the Seattle Sounders FC.

paragraph: White was taken by the Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the 2010 MLS Expansion Draft, but was traded to Seattle Sounders FC three hours afterwards.

paragraph: After undergoing blood clot surgery, White was bought out of his contract by Seattle so that he'd no longer be part of the club's roster. However, he would stay with the club while they supported him during his recovery.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:International.

paragraph: White has played for Jamaica's under-15, under-17 and under-20 national teams but through FIFA rules he remains eligible to represent either Jamaica or Canada at the senior level. However, in November 2010 White accepted an invitation from the Jamaican Senior Team to play against Costa Rica on the 17th. White did make his debut for Jamaica in the Costa Rica match that ended in a 0-0 draw.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Connecticut profile

description: Jamaican footballer

wikidata_label: O'Brian White

wikipedia_title: O'Brian White


text:
John of Artois, Count of Eu
Count of Eu
Joanna of Durazzo
Charles, Duke of Durazzo
Castel dell'Ovo
Margaret
Philip of Artois, Count of Eu

categories: Deaths by poisoning,1356 births,1387 deaths,French people murdered abroad,Counts of Eu,House of Artois,People murdered in Italy

paragraph: Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu

paragraph: Robert IV of Artois (1356 – July 20, 1387), son of John of Artois, Count of Eu and Isabeau of Melun, was Count of Eu from April to July 1387.

paragraph: About 1376, he married Joanna of Durazzo, daughter of Charles, Duke of Durazzo. Robert IV inherited the County of Eu on April 6, 1387 along with Saint-Valery and Ault, however, in Naples at the time, he never learned of his father's death. He and his wife were poisoned whilst staying at Castel dell'Ovo on July 20, 1387 on the orders of Joanna's own sister Margaret, Queen Regent of Naples. Robert and Joanna were buried in the church of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples.

paragraph: The marriage of Robert and Joanna had remained childless. Robert was succeeded in Eu by his younger brother Philip of Artois, Count of Eu.

description: Count of Eu

wikidata_label: Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu

wikipedia_title: Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu


text:
Susanoo
Oyamatsumi
kami
Shinto
Izumo Province
Ninigi
Susanoo
Kushinadahime
Santō
Asago
Hyōgo Prefecture
Japan
Susanoo
Ōyama-tsumi
Ōkuninushi
Hare of Inaba
Kojiki
Nihon Shoki
Izumo
Inaba
Oki
cattail
blood cockle
hamaguri
Susanoo
Ne-no-kuni
Susanoo
koto
Izumo-taisha
hoko
Daikoku-ten
Seven Lucky Gods
sacred texts

categories: Japanese gods,Agricultural gods,War gods

paragraph: Ōkuninushi

paragraph: Main articles: Susanoo and Oyamatsumi

paragraph: Ōnamuchi (大己貴神, Ōnamuchi-no-kami), commonly known: Ōkuninushi (大国主神, Ōkuninushi-no-kami) is a "kami" in Shinto. He is believed to be originally the ruler of Izumo Province, until he was replaced by Ninigi. In compensation, he was made ruler of the unseen world of spirits and magic. He is believed to be a god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine.

paragraph: Ōkuninushi is the great descendant of the male deity Susanoo and the female deity Kushinadahime. He is also the son-in-law of Susanoo through his daughter Suseri-hime.

paragraph: Section::::Genealogy.

paragraph: The genealogy is recorded from a book called the "Origin of the Great Shining Deity "Awaga"" ("Awaga Daimyōjin Mototsufumi," 粟鹿大明神元記) at Awaga Shrine (粟鹿神社, Awaga Jinja) in Awaga, town of Santō, Asago, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan as followed:

paragraph: The fourth generation grandson, Fukafuchi-no-Mizuyarehana (深淵之水夜礼花神) from the lineage of both ancestors, the male deity Susanoo and Ōyama-tsumi, Fukafuchi-no-Mizuyarehana married Ame-no-tsudohechine (天之都度閇知泥神, or 阿麻乃都刀閇乃知尼, Ama-no-tsutohenochine in the "Origin of the Great Shining Deity "Awaga"" ("Awaga Daimyōjin Mototsufumi," 粟鹿大明神元記)) and from their union gave birth to Omizunu/ Omidzunu (淤美豆奴神, or 意弥都奴). Then, Omizunu/ Omidzunu married the female deity Futemimi (布帝耳神), who is the daughter of the deity Funozuno (布怒豆怒神) and from their union gave birth to the male deity Ame-no-Fuyukinu (天之冬衣神). Ame-no-Fuyukinu married the female deity Sashikuniwaka-hime (刺国若比売), who is the daughter of the male deity Sashikuni (刺国大神, Sashikuni Ōkami), from their union gave birth to the male deity Ōkuninushi, the sixth generation grandson of Ōyama-tsumi.

paragraph: Section::::Legend.

paragraph: Section::::Legend.:White hare of Inaba.

paragraph: This famous tale of the Hare of Inaba is recorded in the "Kojiki", but omitted in the "Nihon Shoki".

paragraph: Ōkuninushi (at the time he was just Ōnamuji without the august suffix) and his brothers, eighty gods altogether, were all suitors seeking the hand of Princess of Inaba in marriage. They were all travelling together from their home country of Izumo to the neighboring Inaba to court her.

paragraph: Along the way, the brothers encounter a poor little rabbit or hare, flayed and raw-skinned, lying in agony upon a sea shore. The group asks what happened, and the hare explains that he came from the island of Oki across the sea. He concocted a marvelous plan to accomplish this, recruiting the crocodiles (, interpreted as an imagined creature based on a shark) into his service, unbeknownst to them. He beckoned one crocodile, and challenged him to a contest to decide which of them had the greater number of kin, the rabbit or the croc-fish. To settle the bet, he told the crocodile-fish to line up in a straight row across the strait, so he can hop on and count the numbers. But before the hare had completely gotten ashore to safety, he gloated about having tricked them, the last crocodile in line grabbed him and tore off the fur that clothed him.

paragraph: The gods who listened on were cruel-hearted, and as a prank, instructed the hare to wash himself in the briny sea, and blow himself dry in the wind. The hare was of course in much more stinging pain than was before. Then came along Ōkuninushi lagging far behind. The gentle-hearted god told the hare to go to the mouth (of the river) and wash himself in the fresh water, then gather the flowering spikes of cattail plants growing all around, and scatter the catkins on the ground and tumble around until he is covered by fleece. The cured rabbit makes a divined prediction that Ōnamuji will be the one to win Princess Yakami, "Though thou bearest the bag." (Evidently his brother was treating him as a luggage carrier, and that was why he was outpaced by the rest of the group).

paragraph: Section::::Legend.:Vengeance of rivals.

paragraph: Just as the rabbit predicted, Princess Yakami/Yagami pronounced before the eighty gods that she had chosen Ōkuninushi as her mate. The rival gods, his brothers, were all furious, and conspired to slay him.

paragraph: They compelled him, on pain of death, to chase down a red boar, which was really a boulder heated red hot. Ōnamuji died of burns, but his mother (Sashikuni-wakahime) petitioned , one of the creator deities, and she dispatched two clam goddesses, , to restore him. The passage regarding the curative treatment has been subject to emendations and reinterpretation. But recent commentary explains that the one goddess who represents the "akagai" or blood cockle gathered up her blood-red juices, which were placed in the shell of the other goddess who was a hamaguri clam.

paragraph: His rivals then tricked him into walking onto a fresh tree log split open and held apart by a wedge, and snapped it shut, killing him a second time. His mother revived him once again, and bid him to seek out Susanoo who has been banished to the Netherworld (Ne-no-kuni), and to obtain wise counsel.

paragraph: Section::::Legend.:Love to Suseri-Hime.

paragraph: In the underworld, he met the storm god Susanoo and his daughter Suseri-hime, with whom he shortly fell in love. Of course, Susanoo was aghast. In response, he sent Ōkuninushi to sleep in a room full of snakes. However, Suseri-hime had given him a scarf, which protected him. When Susanoo sent him to sleep in a room with centipedes and wasps the next night, he was still successfully protected. As a trial, Susanoo shot an arrow into the middle of an enormous meadow, and told him to look for it. Ōkuninushi searched and eventually reached the middle of the field, at which point Susanoo proceeded to light the field on fire. A mouse showed Ōkuninushi a hole that he could hide in, and also brought the arrow to him.

paragraph: Section::::Legend.:Ruler of Izumo.

paragraph: By now, after all his various attempts of murder, Susanoo was beginning to actually approve of Ōkuninushi. One night, after he told Ōkuninushi to wash his hair and go to sleep, Ōkuninushi tied Susanoo's hair to the rafters of his palace, and fled with Suseri-hime. He took Susanoo's bow and arrows and "koto" with him. When the couple made their escape, the "koto" brushed against a tree, awakening Susanoo. The god jumped up, and pulled down the palace with his hair. At the borders of the underworld, Susanoo almost caught up with the elopers and called out to them, advising Ōkuninushi to fight his brothers with Susanoo's weapons. Ōkuninushi asked him to make Suseri-hime his wife, and to build a palace at the foot of Mount Uka, which he agreed to. After the entire ordeal was over, Ōkuninushi became ruler of the province of Izumo.

paragraph: The Izumo-taisha is dedicated to his spirit and is one of the oldest and most important shrines in Japan.

paragraph: Section::::Other names.

paragraph: He has a lot of other names. It is thought faith in him came from several virtuous gods and was combined from their image:

paragraph: BULLET::::- – It means an emperor or monarch. According to another opinion, he is said to have been the king in Izumo.

paragraph: BULLET::::- or – These were his names when he was young.

paragraph: BULLET::::- – A "hoko" ("spear") is a symbol of power. For this reason, Yachihoko|"eight-thousand-spears"}} is believed a god of power.

paragraph: BULLET::::- – A ""shikono'o" is a symbol of strength of men, that is," Ashihara-Shikono'o" is believed a god of war.

paragraph: BULLET::::- – Probably because of the similarity of this name with Daikoku-ten (one of the Seven Lucky Gods), the two gods became intertwined.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (primary sources)

paragraph: BULLET::::- sacred texts

paragraph: BULLET::::- , annotated Japanese.

description: divinity (kami) in Japanese Shinto

wikidata_label: Ōkuninushi

wikipedia_title: Ōkuninushi


text:
fortune-teller
Gustav III of Sweden
Mamsell
Gustavian age
Lästmakargatan
Johannis Church
coffee
Charles XIII of Sweden
Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790)
Henrik Liljensparre
Elin Håkansson
Charles XI of Sweden
Charles XII of Sweden
Carl August Ehrensvärd
Italy
Gustav III of Sweden
Jacob Johan Anckarström
the palace
duchess of Södermanland
Prince Charles
Adolph Ludvig Ribbing
Henrik Liljensparre
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
Magdalena Rudenschöld
Catherine the Great
Stackelberg
Hedvig Ulrika Armfelt
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Daniel Auber
opera
Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué
Eugene Scribe
Gustavo III
Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Somma
Un ballo in maschera
The Queen's Tiara
Carl Jonas Love Almquist
Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou
Charlotta Roos
Biography

categories: Gustavian era people,18th-century occultists,1734 births,1801 deaths,Clairvoyants,18th-century Swedish businesspeople,Fortune tellers

paragraph: Ulrica Arfvidsson

paragraph: Anna Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801) was a professional Swedish fortune-teller during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden. She was commonly known as "Mamsell Arfvidsson".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Background.

paragraph: Ulrica Arfvidsson was the daughter of a caretaker of the royal palace, Erik Lindberg, and Anna Katarina Burgin (d. 1771). After the death of her father, her mother remarried in 1740 to a chef of the royal household, Arfvid Arfvidsson (d. 1767), and Ulrica took the name of her stepfather.

paragraph: Ulrica Arfvidsson grew up comfortably in an environment where she heard many rumours and gossip of the higher circles in society. She became well-informed about things which many people outside of the court would like to know. Ulrica is described as an intelligent, with a sharp talent, well-developed intuition, and always very up-to-date about everything in society. Judging from the school-books from the inventory of her childhood-home, she seem to have been given a good education. She had no siblings.

paragraph: Not much is known of her earlier life. It seems she had run away from home at one point, since she was sought via a newspaper advertisement. She never married. After the death of her widowed mother in 1771, she received an inheritance which made her moderately wealthy.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Professional fortune teller.

paragraph: The Gustavian age was a great age for fortune tellers and mediums: though occultism was formally a crime at this point, the law was in practice seldom enforced. It is not known from which point she was professionally active, though it is believed to have been from 1774 onward. In 1780, she is confirmed as a professional fortune-teller, and her clientele came from all walks of society.

paragraph: Arfvidsson had her business at Lästmakargatan not far from Johannis Church in Stockholm, hidden away in an alley where mainly poor people, such as "blind and crippled women" lived, in order for her customers to come to her discreetly.

paragraph: Speculation about her background pointed her out both as an eloped noblewoman and as a Finnish woman.

paragraph: Her office was reportedly not much different from that of an ordinary room, however it had a corner covered by a drape, behind which she used to retire during the seances. Her clients were banned from entering it, as there was a rumor that she hid some sort of magic device behind the drape. Though she offered several different methods of fortune telling, such as card readings, her primary method was the reading of coffee grounds, thereby earning the nickname "Kaffepytissan" (The Coffee Seeress). During this time, several female professional fortune tellers supported themselves by this method, and they were commonly referred to as "coffee goddesses", but Arfvidsson became the most successful of her trade.

paragraph: She had two assistants. One was the former domestic of her childhood home, Maja Persdotter. The other has been called Adrophia, Adotia and Adrecka Dordi (d. 1800), who was of African origin and described as a Turkish woman from Morocco, which was seen as exotic. Nothing is known of her origin other than that she had arrived to Sweden from Germany, and that she had originally been a slave.

paragraph: Arfvidsson enjoyed great popularity within the aristocracy. It was said that she was never wrong, and that her predictions became more and more accurate every year. Reportedly, Ulrica Arfvidsson had a wide net of informers from all over society, reaching from the royal household to private homes. She was said to have been an informer of the police, and members of the royal house asked her for political advice, such as the future King Charles XIII of Sweden. She was consulted by Gustav III, duke Charles and other influential people during the Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790).

paragraph: She was also protected by Gustav III. In 1790, the chief of police Henrik Liljensparre cautioned her to discontinue her fortune telling, Liljensparre was ordered by the monarch to allow Arfvidsson to continue her trade.

paragraph: During her last years, her business seems to have become less lucrative. The reason for this is suggested to have been connected to the coffee ban, which was applied twice during these years, in 1794-96 and again in 1799-1802, something which would have affected her activity significantly, as it was the reading of coffee grounds which was the preferred method of fortune telling for her and her clients. She died in poverty.

paragraph: Ulrica Arfvidsson is perhaps the most famous fortune-teller in Swedish history. She is mentioned in many contemporary memoirs and diary notes. During the 19th-century, several professional fortune tellers used her fame by claiming to have been her students in the occult. Another famed occultist was Elin Håkansson, who had the ear of both Charles XI of Sweden and Charles XII of Sweden.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Predictions.

paragraph: In 1783, she received a visit from Carl August Ehrensvärd and the General-Admiral af Trolle in disguise. She looked into the coffee, revealed their identities, and stated that Ehrensvärd would replace af Trolle in his position. This was not likely at the time, as Ehrensvärd was not designed as the replacement of af Trolle. In 1784, however, af Trolle died during the King's visit to Italy, and it was found that the King had left an instruction that Ehrensvärd should be his replacement in the event of af Trolle's death.

paragraph: In 1786, Ulrica Arfvidsson was consulted by King Gustav III of Sweden in disguise, who came to her in the company of Count Jacob De la Gardie posing as someone else. Arfvidsson presented several predictions about his past and his future, as well as that of his escort. At this occasion, she warned him about a man in a mask with a sword. This was remembered when in 1792, the King was assassinated at a masque ball by Jacob Johan Anckarström who shot the King from behind. She also warned the King: "Beware of the man with a sword you will meet this evening, for he aspires to take your life".

paragraph: When the King and the Count left her, they saw no one suspicious on their way back to the palace. The Count told the King to ignore her warning, but he answered: "But she has told me so many other things, that have already come true!" When they entered the palace and was proceeding up the stairs, they met a man with a sword leaving the apartment of the King's sister-in-law the duchess of Södermanland, consort of Prince Charles, who was suspected of conspiring against him. The man was Adolph Ludvig Ribbing, one of the future participants in the conspiracy which planned the regicide of the King in 1792. During the Russo-Swedish war of 1788–1790, the King consulted Arfvidsson again. After the murder of Gustav III, the chief of the police, Henrik Liljensparre, interviewed her about the attitude toward the King in the upper class opposition, and she is said to have been of some assistance in the investigation.

paragraph: In 1792, Ulrica Arfvidsson was also consulted in connection to the conspiracy of Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, who conspired to depose the guardian government of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden by an alliance with Russia. The co-conspirator of Armfelt, Magdalena Rudenschöld, was instructed by him to consult Arfvidsson, which she did three days after his departure from Sweden. Rudenschöld described the prediction in her correspondence to Armfelt. Arfvidsson consulted her coffee leaves and stated that the man of whom Rudenschöld was thinking (Armfelt) had recently left the country in anger over a child (the King) and a small man (the regent, Duke Charles), whom he would soon scare by an agreement with a woman with a non-royal crown on her head (Catherine the Great). She predicted that Armfelt risked to be revealed by the loss of a letter, which would be his ruin. As for Rudenschöld herself, Arfvidsson told her that she was observed and mentioned to Catherine the Great in letters by a fat man (the Russian ambassador Stackelberg), that she should be careful, and that great sorrows awaited her.

paragraph: In 1797, she was consulted by Hedvig Ulrika Armfelt about the future of her exiled spouse, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, upon which she answered, that the days of sorrow would soon be over for Hedvig Ulrika Armfelt, and that all would be well for her spouse.

paragraph: Section::::Ulrica Arfvidsson in culture.

paragraph: Ulrica Arfvidsson is a character in Daniel Auber's opera "Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué" ("Gustave III, or The Masked Ball"), which used a libretto by French playwright Eugene Scribe.

paragraph: In preparing his opera "Gustavo III" between 1857 and 1859, the Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi, had his librettist, Antonio Somma, use Scribe's libretto as its basis. As a result of changes imposed by censors in both Naples and Rome, the title of the opera became "Un ballo in maschera" and it premiered in Rome on 17 February 1859.

paragraph: She is also mentioned in the famed novel "The Queen's Tiara" by Carl Jonas Love Almquist.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charlotta Roos, who also predicted misfortune to King Gustav III, something he reportedly referred to on his death bed after the assassination.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Notes

paragraph: Sources

paragraph: BULLET::::- Erland Ros: Biography Digitalized version of "Strövtåg i S:t Johannes församling" ("Trips through the congregation of Saint John")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wilhelmina Stålberg and P. G. Berg : digitalized version of "Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor" ("Notes on Swedish women")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Englund: "Förflutenhetens landskap" ("The country of past times")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nils Bohman: Svenska män och kvinnor. 1, A-B ("Swedish men and women". Book 1, from A to B, Reference-book)

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://archive.org/stream/svenskafolketsun07grimuoft/svenskafolketsun07grimuoft_djvu.txt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carl Rimberg: "Svenska Folkets underbara öden. Gustav III:s och Gustav IV Adolfs tid" ("The wonderous destinys of the Swedish people. The age of Gustav III and Gustav IV Adolf")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carl Forsstrand (1913). Spåkvinnor och trollkarlar. Minne och anteckningar från Gustav III:s Stockholm (Andra upplagan). [Fortune tellers and magicians. Memory and notes from the Stockholm of Gustav III] Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag.

alias:
Anna Ulrica Arfvidsson
Mamsell Arfvidsson

description: Swedish fortune-teller

wikidata_label: Ulrica Arfvidsson

wikipedia_title: Ulrica Arfvidsson


text:
Bégaszentgyörgy
Budapest
Hungarian
sculptor
neo-classicism
Hungarian National Gallery
Museum of Modern Art
Rome
Zürich
Károly Antal
Brussels Academy
Tip Catting
Portrait of Ferenc Herczeg
Lamp (sculpture)
Áron Szilády
Kiskunhalas
My Son with a Dog
Memorial of the 32nd Regiment
Portrait of István Réti
tomb
Fine Arts in Hungary

categories: 20th-century sculptors,1881 births,1938 deaths,Hungarian sculptors

paragraph: István Szentgyörgyi

paragraph: István Szentgyörgyi (1881, Bégaszentgyörgy - 1938, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor. His work exemplified neo-classicism. Fourteen of his statues are in the possession of the Hungarian National Gallery and a copy of "Tip Catting" can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in Rome.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Szentgyörgyi worked as a stone cutter in Zürich. He learnt sculpting at the School of Applied Arts alongside Károly Antal, then was a pupil of Van der Stappen at the Brussels Academy from 1905 to 1910, where he modelled "Complaint", his first successful work of art, as well as "Snake Charmer". On his return to Hungary, he modelled a number of portraits. From 1925 onwards, he worked as a teacher at the Art School.

paragraph: His major works include "Tip Catting" 1920, "Portrait of Ferenc Herczeg" (undated), "Lamp (sculpture)" 1923, "Áron Szilády" in Kiskunhalas 1927, "My Son with a Dog" 1927, "Memorial of the 32nd Regiment" 1933, "Portrait of István Réti", and several memorials, tombs and fountains.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fine Arts in Hungary

description: Hungarian sculptor

wikidata_label: István Szentgyörgyi

wikipedia_title: István Szentgyörgyi


text:
Tótkeresztúr
Magyarkeresztúr
Pozsony
Sopron
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Wilhelm von Diez
genre
plein-air
Béla Spányi
Franco-British Exhibition (1908)
Mihály Munkácsy
Sándor Bródy
Mór Jókai
Biography and appreciation

categories: 1849 births,Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni,19th-century Hungarian painters,1936 deaths

paragraph: Ottó Baditz

paragraph: Ottó Baditz, (19 March 1849 in Tótkeresztúr – 21 April 1936 in Magyarkeresztúr) was a Hungarian painter and illustrator who specialized in scenes with women and children.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: During the 1860s, he studied law in Pozsony (now Bratislava) while taking art lessons from Károly Steinacker (1801-1873) in Sopron. Upon obtaining his law degree, the bibliographer and scholar encouraged him to continue his artistic studies.

paragraph: In 1870, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied with , followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he took lessons from Wilhelm von Diez and began producing genre scenes of folk-life. Attempts at painting landscapes en plein-air were not to his liking. For almost twenty years, he stayed in Munich, where he shared a studio with Béla Spányi and sent his paintings to exhibitions in Paris and London as well as Budapest. His works proved to be very popular and he soon became wealthy.

paragraph: He returned to Hungary for a few months every year and, apparently a bit homesick, decided to remain there in 1890. Soon, he became the most sought-after painter for portraits of children. He was a regular participant in the (National Salon) and briefly served as its Director. He won the Grand Prize at the Franco-British Exhibition (1908). Three years later, he settled in the small village of Magyarkeresztúr and lived there until his death. In his later years, his paintings began to show the influence of Mihály Munkácsy. His last exhibition was in 1921.

paragraph: He also produced numerous book illustrations for works by , Sándor Bródy and Mór Jókai, among others.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography and appreciation @ Művészet (1913)

description: Hungarian artist

wikidata_label: Ottó Baditz

wikipedia_title: Ottó Baditz


text: Air Chief Marshal

text: Anglo-Irish

text: aristocrat

text: Royal Air Force

text: Second World War

text: Royal Observer Corps

text: Distinguished Flying Cross

text: Bronze Star Medal

text: Gillingham, Kent

text: Lieutenant Colonel

text: Lord Alfred Paget

text: Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

text: Charles Bernard

text: Bishop of Tuam

text: James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon

text: Lady Meux

text: St. Aubyns Preparatory School

text: Rottingdean

text: Wellington College

text: Royal Air Force College

text: Cranwell

text: Lincolnshire

text: James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon

text: Earl of Bandon

text: Irish peerage

text: House of Lords

text: Bandon

text: IRA

text: British Army

text: Royal Navy

text: Shepheard's Hotel

text: Cairo

text: Major

text: the Honourable

text: A N Other

text: Assistant Provost Marshal

text: Group Captain

text: Earl of Bandon

text: outrank

text: on both counts

text: No 4 Squadron RAF

text: pilot officer

text: flying officer

text: Qualified Flying Instructor

text: flight lieutenant

text: Central Flying School

text: Adjutant

text: No. 216 Squadron RAF

text: squadron leader

text: RAF Ternhill

text: Shropshire

text: Adastral House

text: Fairey Battle

text: Hawker Hurricane

text: Supermarine Spitfire

text: wing commander

text: No. 2 Group RAF

text: Officer Commanding

text: No. 82 Squadron RAF

text: RAF Watton

text: Gembloux

text: Distinguished Service Order

text: group captain

text: RAF West Raynham

text: Norfolk

text: RAF Horsham St Faith

text: South East Asia Command

text: air commodore

text: No. 224 Group RAF

text: Arakan sector

text: Commandant

text: Royal Observer Corps

text: Finlay Crerar

text: Richard Jordan

text: RAF Thorney Island

text: RAF Waterbeach

text: VIP

text: Air Officer Commanding

text: No. 2 Group

text: No. 11 Group RAF

text: air vice marshal

text: RAF Odiham

text: Queen Elizabeth

text: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

text: air marshal

text: Far East Air Force

text: air chief marshal

text: Allied Air Forces Central Europe

text: George Ward, Secretary of State for Air

text: Lord Mountbatten of Burma

text: Gan

text: Nairobi

text: Cathedral

text: Kenya

text: River Bandon

text: Bon Secours Hospital

categories: Companions of the Order of the Bath,Graduates of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell,Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire,People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire,Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order,1979 deaths,People from Gillingham, Kent,People educated at St. Aubyns School,Royal Air Force air marshals,Royal Air Force pilots of World War II,People from County Cork,Companions of the Distinguished Service Order,1904 births,Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States),People of the Royal Observer Corps,Earls in the Peerage of Ireland

paragraph: Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

paragraph: Air Chief Marshal Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon, (30 August 1904 – 8 February 1979) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who served as a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the mid-20th century. He was a squadron, station and group commander during the Second World War, and the fifth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps after the war. He was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star Medal in 1946.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Gillingham, Kent, Bernard was the elder of twin boys by twenty minutes and the son of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Percy Hamilton Bernard and Lettice Mina Paget, daughter of Captain Gerald Cecil Stewart Paget, son of Lord Alfred Paget, younger son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. On his father's side he was a great-grandson of the Right Reverend Charles Bernard, Bishop of Tuam, younger son of James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon. His family resided in a house on the Theobald's Park estate in Hertfordshire where the eccentric horse breeder and owner Lady Meux had loaned his parents a house.

paragraph: In the summer of 1914 he and his twin brother were sent to St. Aubyns Preparatory School at Rottingdean, and four years later both boys entered the Orange dormitory at Wellington College where Percy was continually referred to as Bernard Minor incorrectly throughout his time at Wellington College. Having studied for and passing the entrance examination he entered the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell in Lincolnshire in 1922.

paragraph: Section::::Earldom.

paragraph: In 1924, whilst still a cadet in B Squadron at Cranwell, Bernard succeeded his first cousin twice removed, James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, as 5th Earl of Bandon. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. There was also little money attached to his inheritance and the main element, Castle Bernard outside Bandon and eighteen miles south west of Cork, was derelict after being burned down by the IRA four years earlier in 1920. The new Earl eventually received £123,000 (£4.7 million in today's terms) compensation for the damage to the family seat, which remains a ruin. The earl built a modern and modestly sized mansion alongside the castle ruins.

paragraph: Although the British Army and the Royal Navy have always had a significant number of peers within their ranks the new Earl of Bandon was almost unique within the RAF. Known to one and all by the familial name of "Paddy" Bandon he developed a devilish sense of humour and was involved in many scrapes with superior officers during his career. There were a number of anecdotes told about the Earl, perhaps the most repeated was the occasion that he and several of his fellow pilots wearing grubby and dishevelled flight dress, straight after combat flights, entered the Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo used as an officers’ mess during 1942. An immaculately dressed army officer snootily told him, "I am Major the Honourable (A N Other), Assistant Provost Marshal. You and your men are improperly dressed and must leave." The Earl replied, "I am Group Captain the Earl of Bandon and therefore outrank you on both counts. Now do push off, there's a good chap."

paragraph: Section::::Early RAF career.

paragraph: The Earl graduated from Cranwell in December 1924 and was posted as a pilot to No 4 Squadron RAF in the rank of pilot officer. Two years later he was promoted to flying officer and appointed as a Qualified Flying Instructor (QFI) at No 5 Flying Training School RAF.

paragraph: On 2 May 1930, by now a flight lieutenant, he was posted as a QFI to the RAF's Central Flying School but only stayed there eight months before he took up a post as Personal Assistant to the Air Officer Commanding the Middle East. In November 1931 he returned to active flying duties with No 216 Squadron RAF, also acting as squadron Adjutant. During 1931 whilst still serving with No. 216 Squadron RAF, he made the first non-stop flight from Khartoum to Cairo, re-filling his fuel tanks by hand from cans stored recklessly inside the aircraft’s cockpit.

paragraph: Promotion to squadron leader came on 1 December 1936 when the Earl was posted to RAF Ternhill in Shropshire as a flight commander at No 10 Flying Training School. At the end of 1938 Bandon spent several months as a supernumerary squadron leader within No 6 (Auxiliary) Group RAF. The hiatus in his career ended in January 1939, just prior to World War II when he was summoned to a Headquarters staff posting as the Plans 3 Officer at the Directorate of Operational Plans at Adastral House. During his time in the Directorate he was a member of the committee that held talks in 1939 with delegates from Poland about the supply of Fairey Battles, Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires, but the agreed provision failed to reach the country before the German victory.

paragraph: Section::::Second World War.

paragraph: On 1 January 1940 he received a promotion to temporary wing commander and a short term posting to Senior Staff Officer, No. 2 Group RAF. Later that year he received his first proper command when appointed Officer Commanding No. 82 Squadron RAF. A month later he was additionally designated Station Commander of RAF Watton. On 17 May 1940, his squadron was detailed to carry out a raid against German columns around Gembloux. When the expected fighter escort did not arrive, having already been intercepted by Bf109's, the twelve Blenheims pressed on to the target and were themselves attacked by Bf109's. All but one of the aircraft were shot down and that one collapsed when it landed back at base.

paragraph: Faced with a squadron consisting of himself, one flight commander, two sergeant pilots and the ground crews, it was planned to disband the squadron but Bandon put forward a case on behalf of his ground crews that the squadron should be re-equipped. That evening twelve new Blenheims were delivered together with their crews. The following day they carried out a practice flight and that night he led six of them on a raid into Germany. This quality of leadership earned him the Distinguished Service Order.

paragraph: Promoted to temporary group captain he became Station Commander of two other RAF stations during the same year, spending only a few months at each. Firstly he commanded RAF West Raynham (also in Norfolk) before moving to nearby RAF Horsham St Faith.

paragraph: On 29 December 1942 he was posted overseas as the Air Staff Officer, HQ Air Forces in India. The following year he moved to Air Staff Officer HQ South East Asia Command (SEAC). Bandon returned to operational command in July 1944 when he was promoted to acting air commodore and appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 224 Group RAF. During his time in command, 224 Group saw action in Burma, including fighting against the Japanese in the Arakan sector. As AOC he very unofficially continued to fly on operational sorties, removing his air commodore rank badges and flying instead in a flying officer’s uniform.

paragraph: Section::::Royal Observer Corps.

paragraph: In December 1945 the Earl became the fifth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps, taking over from the retiring Air Commodore Finlay Crerar. The Earl assumed command of the Corps at a time when it had been officially stood down from duty and placed on a care and maintenance basis. Although a period of stand-down had been ordered the Corps was not completely disbanded, as it was anticipated that the ROC must continue as an essential component of the UK’s future post-war air defence system.

paragraph: The wholetime cadre of ROC officers remained in post and the ROC centres across the UK were maintained and kept in good condition. Humorous cartoons of the era depicted the wholetime officers tending flower beds in front of the ROC centres with uniform sleeves rolled up, sunning themselves in deck-chairs or sleepily answering the front door in nightgown and nightcap with a candle in their hand. Although no longer being paid, many observers continued to meet and train weekly in private and membership of the unofficial Royal Observer Corps Club expanded.

paragraph: Cabinet approval was finally given for the Corps to be re-formed in January 1947 and Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon enthusiastically drew upon a considerable number of wartime experienced observers to form the nucleus around which the Corps was rebuilt, together with a massive influx of new and younger recruits. During the next two years the ROC was reorganised and vigorously retrained, but on geographical lines similar to those that existed at the end of the war. The speed of the newly introduced jet aircraft exercised the minds of the ROC senior officers as they strived to adapt to a modern environment.

paragraph: With the ROC rebuilt and back to full readiness, on 1 February 1949 Lord Bandon handed over his once more fully operational command to his successor Air Commodore Richard Jordan. Having introduced the concept of annual ROC summer training camps in 1948 the Earl had formally opened the first two camps at RAF Thorney Island. In 1953 he returned as Air Vice-Marshal The Earl of Bandon to inspect the sixth annual camp at RAF Waterbeach and address the observers as a visiting VIP guest of honour.

paragraph: Section::::Later RAF career.

paragraph: After a period of sabbatical private study at the Imperial Defence College, the Earl became Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group, Germany on 16 January 1950. Seven months later he returned to the UK as AOC No. 11 Group RAF on promotion to acting air vice marshal, a rank that was made permanent on 1 Jan 1952. In 1953 he was tasked with the formidable duty of planning the flypast for the Coronation Review of the RAF at RAF Odiham which took place on 15 July. This involved scheduling 640 aircraft to pass the reviewing point in 27 minutes. On completion of the flypast he marched to the saluting dais to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth, who bestowed him on the spot as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

paragraph: On 1 October 1953 he was appointed Assistant Chief of the Air Staff with responsibility for RAF training. On 22 January 1956 he was promoted to acting air marshal and appointed as Commander in Chief of the 2nd Tactical Air Forces. In July 1957 his promotion to air marshal was made permanent and he was appointed Commander in Chief, Far East Air Force.

paragraph: On 1 July 1959 Lord Bandon was promoted to air chief marshal and his final RAF appointment came on 1 March 1961 when he became Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe.

paragraph: The Earl's disregard for any regulations or items of protocol which he considered unimportant landed him in trouble on a number of occasions throughout his career, one such being in 1957 when he received a reprimand from George Ward, Secretary of State for Air, for stating to the British press that tactical nuclear weapons would soon be issued to air forces in Europe. Another reprimand arrived from Lord Mountbatten of Burma after his "de facto" hijacking of the Indian Ocean island of Gan as a RAF staging post. During his tenure as C in C, FEAF he took the opportunity of flying aboard Sunderland 'P-Peter' of 205/209 Sqn when it made the last ever flight by a RAF flying boat on 15 May 1959. He then took the salute at the disbandment of the Squadron at Changi on the 31st of the month.

paragraph: He retired from the RAF on 6 February 1964 and took up residence at the family estate in Cork.

paragraph: Section::::Private life.

paragraph: Bandon married Maybel Elizabeth Playfair, the daughter of Raymond Playfair, on 28 February 1933 at Nairobi Cathedral, in Kenya. They divorced thirteen years later in 1946 just before he married Lois Russell, daughter of prominent Australian Francis Russell, on 2 October 1946.

paragraph: In retirement the Earl discovered the pleasures of fishing, particularly in the River Bandon which was well stocked with salmon, and in shooting, snipe and woodcock found in large numbers near Castle Bernard. He was also developing an enthusiastic skill as a gardener with a particular knowledge of rhododendrons. The Earl died on 8 February 1979 at Bon Secours Hospital in County Cork. aged 74 and without male issue. Consequently, on his death all his titles became extinct. He was survived by Lois, Lady Bandon who died in 1999 and the two daughters from his first marriage, Lady Jennifer Jane Bernard, of Castle Bernard (30 Apr 1935 – 3 Jun 2010) and Lady Frances Elizabeth Bernard (born 4 February 1943). A portrait in oils (painted 1969) of the Earl, in his uniform as an Air Chief Marshal together with his robes as a peer of the realm, hangs in the main dining hall at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Chief Marshal The Earl of Bandon

description: Royal Air Force air marshal

wikidata_label: Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

wikipedia_title: Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon


text: FRSE

text: Helensburgh

text: Dumbartonshire

text: Scotland

text: Burradoo

text: New South Wales

text: Australia

text: Scottish

text: Australia

text: John Conrad Jaeger

text: Helensburgh

text: The Glasgow Academy

text: Cambridge University

text: Glasgow University

text: Royal Society of Edinburgh

text: School of Mathematics and Statistics

text: University of Sydney

text: Bowral

text: Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet

text: revised 2nd edn.

text: Diffusion equation

text: Heat equation

text: Horosphere

text: Thermal diffusivity

categories: 1870 births,University of Sydney faculty,People educated at the Glasgow Academy,Australian mathematicians,1954 deaths,Scottish mathematicians

paragraph: Horatio Scott Carslaw

paragraph: Dr Horatio Scott Carslaw FRSE LLD (12 February 1870, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Scotland – 11 November 1954, Burradoo, New South Wales, Australia) was a Scottish-Australian mathematician. The book he wrote with his colleague John Conrad Jaeger, "Conduction of Heat in Solids", remains a classic in the field.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born in Helensburgh the son of the Rev Dr William Henderson Carslaw (a Free Church minister) and his wife, Elizabeth Lockhead. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy. He went on to study at Cambridge University and then obtained a postgraduate doctorate at Glasgow University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1901.

paragraph: In 1903, upon the retirement of Theodore Thomas Gurney, Carslaw was appointed Professor and the Chair of Pure and Applied Mathematics in the now School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. He retired in 1935 to his house in Burradoo where he produced most of his best work. The Carslaw Building at the University, completed in the 1960s and containing the School, is named after him.

paragraph: He died at home in Burradoo and was buried in the Anglican section of Bowral Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He married Ethel Maude Clarke (daughter of Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet)in 1907 but she died later in the same year.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An introduction to infinitesimal calculus", 1905

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals and the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat", London 1906, revised 2nd edn. 1921, published under the title "Introduction to the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat in solids"; revised and enlarged 3rd edn. 1930, published under the title "Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Elements of Non-Euclidean Plane Geometry and Trigonometry", London 1916

paragraph: BULLET::::- with John Conrad Jaeger: "Operational methods in applied mathematics", 1941, 1948

paragraph: BULLET::::- with Jaeger: "Conduction of Heat in Solids", Oxford 1947, 1959

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diffusion equation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Heat equation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horosphere

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thermal diffusivity

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horatio Scott Carslaw at the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

description: British mathematician

wikidata_label: Horatio Scott Carslaw

wikipedia_title: Horatio Scott Carslaw


text:
Union soldier
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
company
5th Michigan Cavalry
Coldwater, Michigan
Mustered
corporal
first sergeant
second lieutenant
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Union, Michigan
Third Battle of Winchester
Winchester
Virginia
Confederate
battle flag
Gabriel Cole
List of Medal of Honor recipients

categories: People of Michigan in the American Civil War,People from Coldwater, Michigan,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,Union Army soldiers,1844 births,1923 deaths,American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor,People from Ashtabula County, Ohio

paragraph: Henry M. Fox

paragraph: Henry M. Fox (November 15, 1844 – March 3, 1923) was a Union soldier during the American Civil War, and a Medal of Honor recipient.

paragraph: He enlisted in company M, 5th Michigan Cavalry on August 12, 1862, at Coldwater, Michigan for a period of three years.

paragraph: Mustered August 30, 1862, Fox was promoted to corporal August 2, 1863, first sergeant January 1, 1865, and to second lieutenant April 4, 1865.

paragraph: Mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, June 19, 1865, Fox lived in Union, Michigan, after the war.

paragraph: He is buried at Mottville Township Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor.

paragraph: On September 19, 1864, during the Third Battle of Winchester at Winchester, Virginia, Fox captured the Confederate battle flag.

paragraph: Henry M. Fox's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company M, 5th Michigan Cavalry.

paragraph: Place and date: At Winchester, Va., 19 September 1864.

paragraph: Entered service at: Coldwater, Mich.

paragraph: Born: 1844, Trumbull, Ohio.

paragraph: Date of issue: 27 September 1864.

paragraph: Citation:

paragraph: Sgt. Fox was one of two members of the 5th Michigan Cavalry to receive the Medal of Honor for this action. The other was Corporal Gabriel Cole.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients

wikidata_label: Henry M. Fox

wikipedia_title: Henry M. Fox


text: PC

text: House of Commons

text: peerage

text: Baron Walsingham

text: Joint Postmaster General

text: House of Lords

text: William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham

text: Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

text: Eton College

text: Trinity Hall, Cambridge

text: Merton Hall, Norfolk

text: Groom of the Bedchamber

text: Treasurer of Ireland

text: Postmaster General

text: Member of Parliament

text: Wareham

text: Tamworth

text: Lostwithiel

text: Privy Council

text: House of Lords

text: William Irby, 1st Baron Boston

text: George

categories: People educated at Eton College,Fellows of the Royal Society,1818 deaths,1748 births,United Kingdom Postmasters General,Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,People from Broadland (district),Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain,British MPs 1774–1780,Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies,British MPs 1780–1784,Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall

paragraph: Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham

paragraph: Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham PC (14 July 1748 – 16 January 1818), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1781 when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Walsingham. He served as Joint Postmaster General and was for many years Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Walsingham was the son of William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and educated at Eton College from 1760 to 1765 and was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1766. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Walsingham on 9 May 1781 and inherited his Merton Hall, Norfolk estate from his uncle Thomas de Grey the same year.

paragraph: He served as Groom of the Bedchamber to King George III from 1771 to 1777. His other public posts included Lord of Trade (1777–1781), Under-Secretary of State for the American department (February 1778 – September 1780), Vice-Treasurer of Ireland (1784–1787) and joint Postmaster General (1787–1794).

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Walsingham sat as Member of Parliament for Wareham in 1774, for Tamworth from 1774 to 1780, and for Lostwithiel from 1780 to 1781, when he succeeded his father and took his seat in the House of Lords. In 1783 Lord Walsingham was admitted to the Privy Council, and from 1794 to 1814 was Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Lord Walsingham married the Hon. Augusta Georgina Elizabeth Irby, daughter of William Irby, 1st Baron Boston. He died in January 1818, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, George.

description: British politician and Baron

wikidata_label: Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham

wikipedia_title: Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham


text:
Drina Division
World War I
St. Petersburg
Eminove Vode
Mt. Gučevo

categories: People from Saint Petersburg,Nurses killed in World War I,Female nurses in World War I,Russian women of World War I,World War I nurses,Russian casualties of World War I,Year of birth unknown,1914 deaths

paragraph: Darja Korobkina

paragraph: Darja Alexandrovna Korobkina (died October 2, 1914) was a Russian-born nurse and volunteer of Serbia's Fifth Infantry Regiment of the Drina Division during World War I.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Darja Alexandrovna Korobkina was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her bravery and tireless work during World War I as a nurse and volunteer of Serbia's Fifth Infantry Regiment were mentioned in dispatches. She worked “day and night” and was able to attend to 120 soldiers in one day. She died on October 2, 1914, during heavy fighting at Eminove Vode, on Mt. Gučevo.

wikidata_label: Darja Korobkina

wikipedia_title: Darja Korobkina


text:
Bint Jbeil
Bint Jbeil
Lebanon
Lebanese University
Lebanese National Conservatory of Music
al-Quds al-Arabi
al-Safir

categories: Lebanese poets,Lebanese women writers,Lebanese writers,1958 births,21st-century Lebanese writers,Living people,21st-century women writers

paragraph: Inaya Jaber

paragraph: Inaya Jaber (; born 1958 in Bint Jbeil) is a Lebanese writer, journalist, artist and singer. She has published nine collections of poetry and one collection of short stories. She lives in Beirut.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Jaber was born in 1958 in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. She studied at the Lebanese University and at the Lebanese National Conservatory of Music. She wrote a weekly column in al-Quds al-Arabi (London) for over twenty years and was also a contributor to the Lebanese newspaper al-Safir, writing on arts and culture.

paragraph: In addition to writing, she is a visual artist and singer and has performed concerts internationally including in Egypt and Italy.

paragraph: Jaber has three adult children, all of whom live in the United States. She lives in Beirut.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.:Short story collection.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lā ʼaḥad yuḍīʻu fī bayrūt" ("No one gets lost in Beirut"), 2016

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.:Poetry collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "ʻArūḍ al-ḥadīqa (The garden's prosody)", 2011

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lā ʼaḵwāt lī" ("I have no sisters"), 2009

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jamīʻ ʻasbābinā (All of our reasons)", 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sātān ʼabyaḍ" ("White satin"), 2002

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ṯumma ʼinnanī mašḡūla (Also, I'm busy)", 2000

paragraph: BULLET::::- "ʻAstaʻaddu lil-ʻašāʼ (I'm getting ready for dinner)", 1999

paragraph: BULLET::::- "ʼUmūr basīṭa" ("Simple matters"), 1997

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mizāj ḵāsir" ("A losing mood"), 1995

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ṭaqs al-ẓullām" ("Ritual of darkness"), 1994

wikidata_label: Inaya Jaber

wikipedia_title: Inaya Jaber


text:
Marijampolė Gymnasium
Saint Petersburg University
Lithuanian press ban
Russian Academy of Sciences
tuberculosis
Varpas
Vienybė lietuvninkų
Plymouth, Pennsylvania
Sintautai
Suwałki Governorate
Congress Poland
Marijampolė Gymnasium
Sejny Priest Seminary
Saint Petersburg University
Povilas Višinskis
Varpas
Vienybė lietuvninkų
Plymouth, Pennsylvania
Julija Pranaitytė
Saliamonas Banaitis
Sietynas
Lithuanian book smugglers
banned Lithuanian press
Simonas Daukantas
Antanas Baranauskas
Peter and Paul Fortress
Russian Academy of Sciences
Jonas Staugaitis
tuberculosis
Saliamonas Banaitis
rubles
Kaunas
Alexander Pushkin
Mikhail Lermontov
Nikolay Nekrasov
Nikolay Yazykov
Maria Konopnicka
quatrain
Martynas Jankus
Kaunas
Christmas Eve
Nikolai Gogol
romantic poetry
literary realism
Lithuanian folk song
personification
elegies
sonnet
ballad
satire
epigram
Jonas Krikščiūnas
Liudas Gira
Julius Janonis
Liudas Gira
Vincas Grybas
Kęstutis Krasauskas

categories: 1901 deaths,Saint Petersburg State University alumni,Lithuanian poets,20th-century deaths from tuberculosis,1876 births

paragraph: Pranas Vaičaitis

paragraph: Pranas Vaičaitis (10 February 1876 – 21 September 1901) was a Lithuanian poet. After graduation from the Marijampolė Gymnasium, he studied law at the Saint Petersburg University. Due to the violations of the Lithuanian press ban, he was imprisoned for a month in 1899 and could not find a jurist job. He worked at the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences before progressing tuberculosis forced him to return home. He died at the age of 25 and left less than a hundred originals poems. His first poems were published in 1896 in "Varpas" though the vast majority of them were published in "Vienybė lietuvninkų", Lithuanian newspaper published in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. The first collection of his poems was published posthumously in 1903 in the United States. His poems are popular, particularly those about the nature in Lithuania, and have been adopted to folk songs. His poetry is sensitive, intimate, without more complex metaphors or lyrical devices, with a depth of feeling that distinguishes it from other poetry of the period.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Vaičaitis was born in the village on the Penta river near Sintautai, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland. He attended a primary school in Sintautai and Marijampolė Gymnasium. He started writing poetry at age 13, but his earliest poems have not survived. As typical of the period, his parents wanted him to become a priest and continue education at the Sejny Priest Seminary, but he felt no calling for priesthood and instead chose to study law at the Saint Petersburg University in 1895. His parents refused to support him financially due to his refusal to become priest; his father remained cold and distant until his death. He received assistance from professor , but struggled financially. According to visitor logs kept by Volters, he was visited by Vaičaitis 29 times in 1895 (first time on 23 August), 33 times in 1896, and 69 times in 1897.

paragraph: At the university, he met fellow Lithuanian student Povilas Višinskis who became known as mentor of literary talent. Višinskis sent three of his poems to "Varpas" even though the editors discouraged submissions of poetry as too many of the submitted poems were too amateurish and dilettantish; the poems were published in 1896 with editor's note that while Vaičaitis' poetry was better than average, it was still weak. Perhaps insulted by such reception, Vaičaitis sent his other poems to "Vienybė lietuvninkų", Lithuanian newspaper published in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. This newspaper published more than 60 of his poems under pen name Pranciškus Sekupasaka in 1897.

paragraph: In summer 1896, Vaičaitis met Julija Pranaitytė at the home of her brother-in-law Saliamonas Banaitis. At the time, Pranaitytė was a gymnasium student in Saint Petersburg and they developed a close friendship that culminated in their engagement. In 1897, Vaičaitis was implicated in the Sietynas case. Sietynas was an organization of Lithuanian book smugglers that smuggled and distributed the banned Lithuanian press. Police found a small library of the illegal books at his cousin Antanas Pranas Daniliauskas. Since one of his seized letters discussed obtaining history of Lithuania by Simonas Daukantas for Vaičaitis, he was also searched by the police which found a handwritten copy of a Lithuanian poem by Antanas Baranauskas. This was a particularly difficult time for Vaičaitis as he lost his university stipend and was monitored by the police for a year. He was imprisoned for a month in 1899 at the Peter and Paul Fortress.

paragraph: Vaičaitis graduated from the university in June 1899, but as politically compromised, he could not obtain a jurist work with the Russian government. He had plans to study commerce in Belgium, but he did not have funds. With help of Volters (there are hints that Vaičaitis lived with Volters for about six months), he managed to get a job at the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but, due to progressing illness, he had to return home in April 1901. He was treated by Jonas Staugaitis and cared by his fiance Pranaitytė, but the family had no money for more extensive treatments and tuberculosis progressed. He died on 21 September 1901 in his parents' home. His tombstone was organized by Saliamonas Banaitis. He collected 95 rubles, purchased the monument in Kaunas, and transported it to the cemetery in Sintautai. It was installed for the first anniversary of his death. The tombstone cost more than 95 rubles and Volters covered the difference of 23.5 rubles.

paragraph: Section::::Works and legacy.

paragraph: Vaičaitis left 98 known original poems and 21 translations of poems by Russian and Polish authors, including Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolay Nekrasov, Nikolay Yazykov, Maria Konopnicka. His manuscripts have not survived. In 2008, three new poems and one quatrain were discovered among other papers that belonged to Martynas Jankus during a renovation of a house in Kaunas. The booklet also contained a lose and shortened translation of "Christmas Eve" by Nikolai Gogol, which was published by Jankus in 1892. One of the poems is dated 1883, but that would mean that Vaičaitis wrote it when he was seven years old. The neat handwriting indicates that it was written by a gymnasium student, thus dating the text to 1890–1891.

paragraph: Vaičaitis poetry is sensitive, intimate, natural, without more complex metaphors or lyrical devices. The depth of feeling distinguishes him from other late 19th-century poets. His poetry has features of both of romantic poetry and literary realism. It includes both traditions of Lithuanian folk songs (including common folk personifications, parallels, precision of poetic scenes) – several of his poems have been transformed into popular folk songs – and elements of well known Russian and Polish poets. The poetry varies in topic (nature, history, patriotism, social inequality, religion, personal experiences) and in mood (love, regret, nostalgia, anger, irony), but often expresses ideas of serving your nation and seeking justice. His later poetry is particularly melancholic due to the sense of the approaching death; he was the first to write elegies in Lithuanian. Other genres included sonnets, ballads, satires, epigrams. His works have influenced other poets, including Jonas Krikščiūnas (Jovaras), Liudas Gira, Julius Janonis.

paragraph: Vaičaitis' poems were first collected and published by the editorial staff of "Vienybė lietuvninkų" in United States in 1903. In 1904, Eduards Volters published a collection of Pushkin's poems translated into Lithuanian, which was dedicated to Vaičaitis and included two of his translations. The second edition (1912) of his poems was also published in United States. His collected works, edited by Liudas Gira, though incomplete, were published in Lithuania in 1921. Various poetry collections followed: "Lyrika ir satyra" (1951), "Rinktinė" (1956), "Yra šalis" (1964), "Lėkite, dainos" (1975), "Kas našlaičius priglaus?" (1988). A new edition of collected works was prepared by Albertas Zalatorius and Zenius Šileris and published in 1996. His biography was published by Juozas Klimaitis (1994) and Zenius Šileris (2001). In 1936, Vincas Grybas prepared a model for a monument to Vaičaitis, but it was not erected due to financial difficulties and the outbreak of World War II. A small museum exposition was collected in 1965; it was housed at the secondary school in Sintautai before it was moved to the homestead of Vaičaitis family in 1995. A wooden sculpture by Kęstutis Krasauskas was installed in the homestead in 1996. A granite monument to Vaičaitis by sculptor Juozas Šlivinskas was unveiled in Sintautai in 2013.

description: Lithuanian poet

wikidata_label: Pranas Vaičaitis

wikipedia_title: Pranas Vaičaitis


text: Köthen

text: Mount Vernon, New York

text: Louis Blenker

text: German revolutions of 1848–49

text: Palatinate

text: Baden

text: Uhlan

text: Worrms

text: Grand Duchy of Hesse

text: revolution of 1848

text: Landau

text: Castle of Eberstein

text: Switzerland

text: Rockland County

text: Civil War

text: Brigadier General

text: Warrenton, Virginia

text: "Elise Blenker (1824–1908)"

text: Buchbesprechung

categories: 1908 deaths,Female military personnel,1824 births,Military personnel of Bavaria,People of New York (state) in the American Civil War,German revolutionaries,People of the Revolutions of 1848,German-American Forty-Eighters

paragraph: Elise Blenker

paragraph: Elise Blenker (* 1824 in Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt; † 15 May 1908 in Mount Vernon, New York) was the wife of Louis Blenker, a German revolutionary officer of the years 1848/1849. Elise was also actively involved in various actions of the German revolutions of 1848–49 in the Palatinate and in Baden.

paragraph: Section::::Life in Germany.

paragraph: Elise Blenker (née Aue) was the daughter of an evangelical pastor, Johann Christian Aue. In 1843 she married the former Uhlan officer, Louis Blenker, in Worrms in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. At this time Louis was running a wine trading business in Worms. In 1848, he became a colonel in the Worms militia. When the revolution of 1848, broke out in Baden, Elise accompanied her husband on his campaigns, partially dressed in military uniform. At this time, Elise met with other revolutionary women, including Kathinka Zitz-Halein, Emma Herwegh, Amalie Struve and Mathilde Franziska Anneke. On 20–21 May Elise and her husband took part in an unsuccessful attack on Landau. She also played a decisive role in the plundering of the Castle of Eberstein in Baden.

paragraph: Section::::Life in the United States.

paragraph: After the suppression of the revolution, Elise was compelled to flee with her husband, first to Switzerland, and then in 1850 to the United States. With her father's help, Elise and Louis built a new life in Rockland County, where they ran a dairy farm. Together Elise and Louis had four children (three daughters and a son).

paragraph: Upon the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 Louis organized the 8th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, of which he became colonel. For his gallantry at Bull Run he was raised to the rank of Brigadier General of volunteers. In October 1863 Louis died of injuries sustained while with his command at Warrenton, Virginia, leaving Elise and their children in poverty. Elise was unable to cover the cost of his funeral, and had to turn to friends and family for help. Her widow's pension was later increased from 30 to 50 US dollars a month.

paragraph: Elise Blenker died on 15 May 1908 in her daughter's house in Mount Vernon (New York).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gerlinde Hummel-Haasis: "Schwestern, zerreißt Eure Ketten. Zeugnisse zur Geschichte der Frauen in der Revolution 1848/49". München 1982.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Klaus Gaßner und Diana Finkele: "Der Aufstand der badischen Demokraten. Geschichten aus der Revolution 1848/1849". Verlag Regionalkultur, Baden-Baden 1999, .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elise Blenker (1824–1908)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Buchbesprechung

description: German revolutionary

wikidata_label: Elise Blenker

wikipedia_title: Elise Blenker


text:
Medzhybizh
Baal Shem Tov
Beis Medrash
Pinchas of Korets
Jacob Joseph of Polonoye
rebbe
Tulchyn
Magid of Chernobyl
Magid of Mezritch
Shneur Zalman of Lyadi
Chozeh of Lublin
Baal Shem Tov
Shneur Zalman of Lyadi
Tanya
Podolia
Hershel of Ostropol
jester
Elie Wiesel
Kislev
Baal Shem Tov
Baal Shem Tov
Baal Shem Tov family tree
Hershel of Ostropol
Medzhybizh
Medzhibozh (Hasidic dynasty)
Rapoport-Bick (rabbinic dynasty)
Joods Historisch Museum

categories: People from Medzhybizh,1753 births,1811 deaths

paragraph: Boruch of Medzhybizh

paragraph: Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), was a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov.

paragraph: Reb Boruch (known in his childhood as Reb Boruch'l, a Yiddish diminutive, and subsequently as "Reb Boruch'l HaKadosh") was the first major "rebbe" of the Hasidic movement to hold court in Mezhbizh in his grandfather's hometown and "Beis Medrash", which he inherited.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: As recorded in the early Hasidic work "Mekor Boruch" (first published in 1880 from handwritten manuscripts), at the time of the Baal Shem Tov's death, Rabbi Pinchas of Korets and Rabbi Jacob Joseph of Polonoye, two of the Baal Shem Tov's closest disciples, reported to the Hasidim that the Baal Shem Tov had designated Reb Boruch as his successor, and instructed Reb Pinchas to take responsibility to carry out those wishes. Reb Boruch was only seven at the time of his grandfather's death, and was raised in Reb Pinchas' home, where the Baal Shem Tov's other close disciples and other leaders of the Hasidic movement visited regularly to check on his progress and assist with his preparation to assume his grandfather's mantle.

paragraph: Reb Boruch remained with Reb Pinchas of Korets until the "Chevraya Kadisha", as the close inner circle of disciples of the Baal Shem Tov was known, felt that he was ready to become a Rebbe and return to Mezhbizh.

paragraph: Rabbi Boruch'l was appointed rebbe around 1782. He conducted his court with the principle of "malkhus" (royalty). He conducted his court in Tulchyn from 1788 until 1800, after which he moved to Mezhbizh. There he built a spacious, luxurious residence where he had a coach and horses in his stable.

paragraph: Many of his grandfather's disciples and the great Hasidic leaders of the time, regularly visited the "Rebbe Reb Boruch'l" as he was called, including the Magid of Chernobyl, the Magid of Mezritch, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyadi (founder of the Chabad Hasidic movement), the Chozeh of Lublin, and others.

paragraph: Reb Boruch was known for his melancholy, fiery temper, and uncompromising strong will. His guiding principle of "malkhus" was the subject of great debate amongst the Chasidic leadership of his generation. Reb Boruch was the first chasidic leader to accumulate great wealth from his devotees through the practice of "petek" and "pidyonot". In other words, he obtained donations and gifts for personal requests or prayers. He claimed to his followers that he had supernatural powers derived directly from his blood-connection to the Baal Shem Tov.

paragraph: In 1808, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyadi visited Reb Boruch in Medzhybizh to settle their differences. At the time, Reb Boruch was incensed by his publication "Tanya", and by Rabbi Shneur Zalman's insistence that communal funds be given freely to charitable causes. There are numerous stories related to this visit, most ending with Reb Boruch's temper getting the best of him. The visit ultimately resulted in Rabbi Shneur Zalman and his followers being evicted from Podolia.

paragraph: In his later years, Reb Boruch became overwhelmed by his melancholy. In an attempt to remedy his melancholy, his followers brought in Hershel of Ostropol as a court jester of sorts. Hershel was one of the first documented Jewish comics and his exploits are legendary within both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities. One story has it that in a fit of rage Reb Boruch himself was responsible for Hershel's death. At least one tale has Hershel lingering for several days and dying in Reb Boruch's own bed surrounded by Reb Boruch and his followers.

paragraph: Elie Wiesel described his personality as follows:

paragraph: When Reb Boruch died in 1811 on 18 Kislev 5572, his chasidim (followers) numbered in the thousands. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Medzhybizh, next to his grandfather the Baal Shem Tov. His writings were included in "Amarot Tehorot" published in 1865 and in "Buzino Dinhora" published in 1879.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Baal Shem Tov

paragraph: BULLET::::- Baal Shem Tov family tree

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hershel of Ostropol

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medzhybizh

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medzhibozh (Hasidic dynasty)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rapoport-Bick (rabbinic dynasty)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chapin, David A. and Weinstock, Ben, "The Road from Letichev: The history and culture of a forgotten Jewish community in Eastern Europe, Volume 1". iUniverse, Lincoln, NE, 2000.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wiesel, Elie, 1978, "Four Hasidic masters and their struggle against melancholy:" University of Notre Dame Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. "The Encyclopedia of Hasidism": Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tracing An-sky": Uitgeverij Waaders b.v., Zwolle, State Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, 1992.

description: rabbi

wikidata_label: Boruch of Medzhybizh

wikipedia_title: Boruch of Medzhybizh


text:
footballer
Red Star Belgrade
Lanerossi Vicenza
St. Louis Stars
Yugoslavia national football team
1960 European Nations' Cup
Profile

categories: National Professional Soccer League (1967) players,1960 European Nations' Cup players,1930 births,Association football wingers,St. Louis Stars (soccer) players,2011 deaths,Red Star Belgrade non-playing staff,Serbian footballers,L.R. Vicenza Virtus players,Olympic medalists in football,Expatriate soccer players in the United States,Red Star Belgrade footballers,Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics,Serbian expatriate footballers,Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia,Yugoslav footballers,Yugoslav First League players,Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia,Serie A players,Yugoslavia international footballers,Expatriate footballers in Italy,Association football forwards,People from Obrenovac

paragraph: Bora Kostić

paragraph: Borivoje "Bora" Kostić (, ; 14 June 1930 – 10 January 2011) was a Serbian footballer. Normally a prolific left winger, Kostić is regarded as one of finest Yugoslav players of his generation and was well known for powerful shot and free kick ability.

paragraph: During his club career he played for Red Star Belgrade, Lanerossi Vicenza and St. Louis Stars. He earned 33 caps and 26 goals for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in the 1960 European Nations' Cup. Kostić was no less prolific at the club level with Red Star Belgrade, for whom he remains to this day the all-time leading marksman with 158 league strikes.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at Serbian national football team page

description: Serbian footballer

wikidata_label: Bora Kostić

wikipedia_title: Bora Kostić


text: babyface

text: Bobo Brazil

text: The Sheik

text: Johnny Valentine

text: Kinji Shibuya

text: Martin Luther King, Jr.

text: Washington, D.C.

text: WWA World Heavyweight Championship

text: Freddie Blassie

text: Los Angeles, California

text: Worldwide Wrestling Associates

text: Edouard Carpentier

text: Fred Blassie

text: Gene LeBell

text: WWE Hall of Fame

text: 50th State Big Time Wrestling

text: NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship

text: 2 times

text: Luther Lindsay

text: Sam Steamboat

text: Big Time Wrestling "(San Francisco)"

text: 2 times

text: Championship Wrestling from Florida

text: 1 time

text: NWA Florida Tag Team Championship

text: 1 time

text: NWA All-Star Wrestling

text: 1 time

text: Enrique Torres

text: 1 time

text: Whipper Billy Watson

text: Pacific Northwest Wrestling

text: 3 times

text: Shag Thomas

text: Billy White Wolf

text: IWA World Heavyweight Championship

text: 2 times

text: IWA World Tag Team Championship

text: 1 time

text: Mark Lewin

text: Worldwide Wrestling Associates

text: WWA World Heavyweight Championship

text: 1 time

text: 1 time

text: Mr. Moto

text: WWE

text: Wrestler: Bearcat Wright

text: Legends: Bearcat Brown

text: Profile at Online World of Wrestling

text: Deceased Superstars - Bearcat Wright

text: CageMatch.de -

text: Bearcat Wright

text: WrestleWiki

categories: 1932 births,Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica,American male professional wrestlers,American people of Jamaican descent,1982 deaths,20th-century American male actors,African-American male professional wrestlers

paragraph: Bearcat Wright

paragraph: Edward Wright (January 13, 1932 – August 28, 1982) was an American professional wrestler who became popular in the late 1950s and 1960s. Despite racial tension in the United States, he became wildly popular as a babyface. Wrestling in either singles competition or in tag team competition (often matched with Bobo Brazil), thousands of fans would pack arenas to see him. He was the son of boxer Ed "Bearcat" Wright, and had an 8-0 record as a professional boxer himself in the early 1950s, boxing as "Bearcat Wright Jr."

paragraph: The Arizona Wrestling Legends website says, "He was seen in Australia, in Canada, throughout the south, in the midwest, in Texas, always winning the support of the fans as he battled the likes of The Sheik, Johnny Valentine and Kinji Shibuya. A tall and lanky man, he was usually noted for flying dropkicks, spin kicks and leaps off the rope." He adopted a "claw hold" for his finisher, and was famous for desegregating wrestling.

paragraph: Wright declared before an audience in Gary, Indiana, that he would no longer participate in segregated wrestling. Although suspended for a short time by the Indiana State Athletic Commission for his stand, shortly afterwards professional boxing desegregated. Bearcat Wright defeated Killer Kowalski in April 1961 to win the Big Time Pro Wrestling title and become, in effect, the world heavyweight wrestling champion."

paragraph: Five days before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., Wright won the WWA World Heavyweight Championship from "Classy" Freddie Blassie in Los Angeles, California. Known for behemoth strength (he would rip phone books in half during promotional interviews for his matches) he also was blackballed by Worldwide Wrestling Associates for refusing to drop the WWA championship to Edouard Carpentier and then back to Fred Blassie on December 13, 1963. He is one of the few wrestlers who legitimately would not drop their title—and so WWA had Gene LeBell (a known judo champion and shooter—or one who knew how to legitimately wrestle to defend themselves if needed) to substitute for Blassie at a rematch. When Wright refused to enter the ring, WWA stripped him of his title and awarded it to Carpentier.

paragraph: Although creating controversy, promoters soon forgot about his negative sides. Wright continued to draw money and therefore wrestled even into the 1970s.

paragraph: Wright died at the age of 50 on August 28, 1982.

paragraph: On March 31, 2017, Wright was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Legacy wing.

paragraph: Section::::Championships and accomplishments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 50th State Big Time Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Luther Lindsay and Sam Steamboat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Time Wrestling "(Massachusetts)"

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Time Wrestling "(San Francisco)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA United States Championship "(San Francisco version)" (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Championship Wrestling from Florida

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Brass Knuckles Championship "(Florida version)" (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Bobby Shane

paragraph: BULLET::::- Midwest Wrestling Association

paragraph: BULLET::::- MWA Ohio Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA All-Star Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship "(Vancouver version)" (1 time) – with Enrique Torres

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Pacific Coast Tag Team Championship "(Vancouver version)" (1 time) – with Whipper Billy Watson

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pacific Northwest Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Shag Thomas (2) and Billy White Wolf

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Championship Wrestling "(Australia)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- IWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- IWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mark Lewin

paragraph: BULLET::::- Worldwide Wrestling Associates

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWA International Television Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Mr. Moto

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWE

paragraph: BULLET::::- Other titles:

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Negro Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wrestler: Bearcat Wright

paragraph: BULLET::::- Heritage Corner: Edward "Bearcat" Wright, Wrestler

paragraph: BULLET::::- Legends: Bearcat Brown

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at Online World of Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- Deceased Superstars - Bearcat Wright

paragraph: BULLET::::- CageMatch.de -

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bearcat Wright at the WrestleWiki

description: American professional wrestler

wikidata_label: Bearcat Wright

wikipedia_title: Bearcat Wright


text:
Argentine
composer
pianist
conductor
eponym
Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music
La Plata
Buenos Aires
San Fernando
Arturo Berutti
Ilse
Teatro Colón
Renovación
University of La Plata
harmony
pentatonic scale
Americas
Indigenous
La leyenda del Urutaú
Primera serie argentina
Evocación quechua
Gaucho con botas nuevas
Réquiem
Misa de Gloria
Susana Baron Supervielle
Regina Benavente
Cosimo Giogeri Contri
José Oliva Nogueira
Ricardo Rojas

categories: Argentine people of Italian descent,1889 births,People from San Fernando, Buenos Aires,1963 deaths,Argentine composers

paragraph: Gilardo Gilardi

paragraph: Gilardo Gilardi (May 25, 1889 - January 16, 1963) was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires.

paragraph: He was born in San Fernando, Argentina and first learned music from his father before studying with the composer Arturo Berutti in Buenos Aires. He began composing as a teenager and he premiered his first opera, "Ilse", at Teatro Colón opera house, aged 23. He co-founded the group "Renovación" (Renovation) in 1929, but left three years later, in 1932. He was professor at the University of La Plata and wrote an elementary course on harmony. Gilardi experimented with the pentatonic scale and Americas' Indigenous music. Some of their works are the operas "Ilse" (1923) and "La leyenda del Urutaú" (The legend of the Urutaú) (1935), "Primera serie argentina", (First Argentine series), "Evocación quechua", "Gaucho con botas nuevas" (Gaucho with new boots) (1938, orchestra), a symphonic poem which won a national prize in 1939. Among his religious music "Réquiem" (1933) and "Misa de Gloria" (Glory Mass) (1936) are particularly esteemed. He also composed chamber music pieces: Sonata for violin and piano, Songs for voice and piano, Argentine popular Sonata for violin and piano and various piano pieces.

paragraph: Gilardi's pupils included Susana Baron Supervielle and Regina Benavente.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ilse", opera based on a Libretto of Cosimo Giogeri Contri, 1919, UA 13 July 1923

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La leyenda del urutaú", opera based on a Libretto of José Oliva Nogueira, 1929, UA 25 October 1934

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Primera serie argentina"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Evocación quechua"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Réquiem", 1933

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Misa de Gloria", 1936

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gaucho con botas nuevas", symphonic poem, 1938

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ollantay", incidental music for the play of Ricardo Rojas, 1939

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonata para violín y piano"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Canciones para canto y piano"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonata popular argentina para violín y piano"

description: Argentine composer

wikidata_label: Gilardo Gilardi

wikipedia_title: Gilardo Gilardi


text:
glass art
California College of Arts and Crafts
Barrington, Illinois
University of Illinois
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Harvey Littleton
Dominick Labino
University of California, Berkeley
Richard Marquis
Jay Musler
Pilchuck Glass School
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
San Francisco Art Institute
California College of Arts and Crafts
translucent
National Endowment for the Arts
Corning Museum of Glass
High Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Oakland Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft
Frauenau Glass Museum
Wolfgang Kermer
Museum Bellrive
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Berkeley, California
Zeta Beta Tau

categories: 1938 births,Glass artists,Living people,People from Barrington, Illinois

paragraph: Marvin Lipofsky

paragraph: Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 – January 15, 2016) was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, introducing it to California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts.

paragraph: Section::::Education and teaching career.

paragraph: Lipofsky was raised in Barrington, Illinois, where his family owned a department store. In 1962, he earned a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois, and he went on to earn both an MS and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. There he studied under Harvey Littleton, the founder, with assistance from Dominick Labino, of the Studio Glass Movement. He would introduce the concepts of the movement during his subsequent tenure as a Design instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until 1972. During this time he was responsible for training many studio artists. Notable students of Marvin Lipofsky include John Lewis (b. 1942), Richard Marquis (b. 1945) and Jay Musler (b. 1947).

paragraph: Lipofsky has been an instructor for seminars and workshops at art and craft schools, including the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington; Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, Southwest Craft Center in San Antonio, Texas; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California and the Art Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As a visiting artist he has traveled widely in the United States and internationally to Israel, Spain, France, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland, Japan, and the Netherlands. He died from complications of diabetes on January 15, 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Founder and collaborator.

paragraph: In 1967 Lipofsky founded the glass program at the California College of Arts and Crafts, which he headed for two decades. He was also a founder of the Glass Art Society (G.A.S.), serving as president of that organization from 1978 to 1980. Lipofsky was one of the first American glass artists to travel to Czechoslovakia, where a studio glass movement had arisen in the 1950s. This would prove to be the first of many trips he would take; he became well known for his journeys abroad and his collaboration with numerous glass artists around the world.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Many of Lipofsky's works are colorful "bubbles" of glass. Often semi-translucent they allow the viewer to examine their depths. He is best known for the organic form of his pieces. “His art is about the visceral and the gestural,” wrote Studio Glass connoisseur Dan Klein. “The forms are inspired by internal organs, intestines, breast, stomachs, brains; their colorful, mottled, crumpled, broken shapes and expression of turbulence and restlessness.” Lipofsky is well known for having devoted his career in glass to endless variations on the turbulent, broken bubble form. His work, in short, is about glassblowing and the way the ways in which a blown glass sphere can be opened, shaped and distorted. Corning Museum of Glass curator Tina Oldknow has written that she admires Lipofsky “for his devotion to material and form. His non-objective vessels break apart and rearrange the blown glass mass while retaining the breathy, ephemeral quality that is one of the medium’s most intriguing characteristics".

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Notable awards garnered by the artist include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass in Chicago, Illinois in 2005 and a Masters of the Medium Award from the James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC in 2003. He was named an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Glass Art Society (G.A.S.) in 1986 and a California Living Treasure in Sacramento, California in 1985. The artist was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1976 and 1974.

paragraph: Section::::Collections.

paragraph: Lipofsky's work has been collected by many public institutions worldwide. In the United States his work can be found in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. Overseas his work is in Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark; Frauenau Glass Museum (Sammlung Wolfgang Kermer), Germany; Museum Bellrive in Zürich, Switzerland; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Holland; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: The artist resided in Berkeley, California. He is an alumnus of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Baizerman, Suzanne. "Marvin Lipofsky: A Glass Odyssey." Oakland Museum of California/University of Washington Press, 2003.

paragraph: BULLET::::- White, Cheryl. "Marvin Lipofsky: Roving Ambassador of Glass." American Craft 51 (Oct./Nov. 1991).

alias:
Marvin B. Lipofsky
Marvin Bentley Lipofsky

description: Artist, educator

wikidata_label: Marvin Lipofsky

wikipedia_title: Marvin Lipofsky