text: Milan

text: Luigi Barzini Sr.

text: Corriere della Sera

text: Columbia University

text: New York World

text: Richard Washburn Child

text: Benito Mussolini

text: Fascist

text: Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime

text: Galeazzo Ciano

text: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs

text: USS Panay

text: Nanking

text: George Atcheson

text: Norman Alley

text: Eric Mayell

text: New York Times

text: Norman Soong

text: Collier's Weekly

text: Jim Marshall

text: La Stampa

text: Nanking

text: Rape of Nanking

text: Floyd Gibbons

text: Wide World Photos

text: Il Globo

text: anti-Communist

text: Italian Chamber of Deputies

text: Italian Liberal Party

text: Benedetta

text: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

text: conspiracy theories

text: From Caesar to the Mafia

categories: Italian male journalists,People from Milan,1984 deaths,Italian magazine editors,1908 births,Columbia University alumni,Italian Liberal Party politicians,20th-century Italian politicians,Italian anti-communists,Italian publishers (people)

paragraph: Luigi Barzini Jr.

paragraph: Luigi Barzini Jr. (Milan, 21 December 1908 – Rome, 30 March 1984) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book "The Italians", delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Barzini junior was born in Milan, Lombardy, the son of Luigi Barzini Sr., a famous journalist. In the 1920s, his father left the "Corriere della Sera" and moved to the United States, where he directed the Italian-American newspaper "Corriere d'America" from 1923 to 1931.

paragraph: After completing his studies in Italy and at Columbia University, Barzini Jr. worked for two New York newspapers, including the New York World. In 1928, together with Richard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italy and a supporter of Benito Mussolini, he ghostwrote "The Autobiography of Benito Mussolini". He returned to Italy in 1930 to become a correspondent for "Corriere della Sera".

paragraph: His father had pro-Fascist sentiments and had access to highest political circles of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. Luigi Jr., however, frequently associated with the younger generation of fascists around Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mussolini's son-in-law.

paragraph: Section::::Panay incident.

paragraph: As the "Corriere della Sera "Asian correspondent, he went to China. On 11 December 1937, he was aboard the USS Panay on the Yangtze Patrol in Nanking at the prompting of George Atcheson, a U.S. Embassy official. Also aboard were Universal News cameraman Norman Alley, Movietone News' Eric Mayell, the "New York Times"'s Norman Soong, "Collier's Weekly" correspondent Jim Marshall, and "La Stampa" correspondent Sandro Sandri. Atcheson had invited them aboard the Panay so that they could document the fall of the city from relative safety. The four journalists had been covering the ongoing Japanese invasion of China in the mid-1930s, and found themselves in the thick of things in early December 1937 as Japanese forces moved on Nanking.

paragraph: According to Alley, writing in his memoir "I Witness", Atcheson proclaimed that aboard the gunboat the group would be "as safe as you would be on good old American soil." Little did any of them know that in just a week's time, the Panay would be attacked and sunk, Sandri killed, and that they would witness the Rape of Nanking.

paragraph: During the attack Barzini, although wounded, performed heroically helping to bring the wounded ashore and providing first aid to the best of his ability. As Sandri, known as "the Floyd Gibbons of Italy," was stretched out in the reeds with excruciatingly painful, fatal stomach wounds, Barzini could only comfort him with an occasional cigarette and a word from time to time. This episode of the incident was captured on Alley's and Mayell's cameras and in a 1937 Wide World Photos shot titled "Consoling dying Panay victim".

paragraph: Section::::Banned by the Fascists.

paragraph: In April 1940, he was arrested on charges of leaking confidential information to the enemy and making disparaging remarks about Mussolini. He was confined by the Fascists to forced residence in a village for five years, but in 1944, when Rome was liberated, he resumed his journalistic career.

paragraph: Section::::Journalism.

paragraph: in 1944, when Rome was liberated, he resumed his journalistic career, as editor-in-chief of daily and weekly publications. He founded "Il Globo". Subsequently he served in turn as the chief editor of several newspapers and magazines.

paragraph: Section::::Parliamentarian.

paragraph: A staunch anti-Communist, he was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1958 to 1972, for the centre-right Italian Liberal Party ("Partito Liberale Italiano" – PLI).

paragraph: Section::::Later life and family.

paragraph: He was the father of five children, and lived on a small farm near Rome, where he produced his own olive oil, wine, vegetables, and fruit. Barzini died in 1984 of cancer at his home in Rome. His daughter Benedetta, by his first wife Giannalisa Feltrinelli, was a successful fashion model during the 1960s. His marriage to Feltrinelli also made him the stepfather of Italian publisher and left-wing political activist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, of whom Barzini eventually disapproved, saying that he thought Giangiacomo preferred the company of men who "despised the masses as he did, who thought them something they could play with." Barzini also rejected as implausible conspiracy theories concerning Giangiacomo's death.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Americans are Alone in the World" (1953)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Italians: A Full Length Portrait" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From Caesar to the Mafia" (1971)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "O America When You and I were Young" (1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Europeans" (1983)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- D'Agostino, Peter R. (2004). "Rome in America. Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism", Chapell Hill (NC): University of North Carolina Press,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sarti, Roland (ed.) (2004). "Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present", Infobase Publishing,

description: Italian journalist and writer

wikidata_label: Luigi Barzini, Jr.

wikipedia_title: Luigi Barzini Jr.


text: Johnny Winter

text: Nick Curran

text: Ana Popovic

text: Walter Trout

text: Cedric Burnside

text: The Mannish Boys

text: Joe Louis Walker

text: Johnny Winter

text: Step Back

text: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

text: Paul Shaffer

text: Tom Morello

text: Zac Brown

text: Paul Butterfield

text: Sugar Blue

text: Billy Branch

text: JJ Appleton

text: Mark Hummel

text: Portland, Maine

text: Elan School

text: Howard Levy

text: overblowing

text: Little Walter

text: Paul Butterfield

text: Pat Ramsey

text: Adam Gussow

text: Junior Kimbrough

text: R. L. Burnside

text: Adam Gussow

text: Satan and Adam

text: New Jersey's

text: Dennis Gruenling

text: Raleigh, North Carolina

text: Shawn Starski

text: Guitar Player

text: Muddy Waters

text: Delta Groove Productions

text: Blues Music Award

text: Step Back

text: Grammy Award for Best Blues Album

text: Blues Music Award

text: Skype

text: JJ Appleton

text: Johnny Winter

text: Nick Curran

text: Ana Popovic

text: Walter Trout

text: Cedric Burnside

text: The Mannish Boys

text: Joe Louis Walker

text: Live Music Archive

categories: American blues harmonica players,Living people,Grammy Award winners,LGBT musicians from the United States,American blues singers,LGBT people from Maine,1974 births

paragraph: Jason Ricci

paragraph: Jason Ricci (born February 3, 1974) is an American harmonica player and singer. In addition to his solo albums, Ricci has appeared as a guest harmonica player on albums with Johnny Winter, Nick Curran, Ana Popovic, Walter Trout, Cedric Burnside, The Mannish Boys and Joe Louis Walker among others. Ricci was named "Best Harmonica Player" at the 2010 Blues Music Awards, and also performed on Grammy winning 2014 Johnny Winter album "Step Back". In February 2015, Ricci played at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Shaffer Band, Tom Morello and Zac Brown to induct The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Ricci also continues touring with his band Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind as well as with other bands such as: "Harmonicon" (Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Ricci), "JJ Appleton and Jason Ricci" and "Mark Hummel's Blues Blow Off". In 2017, Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind signed a record deal with the Eller Soul label and released their new album "Approved By Snakes" released on June 16, 2017.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: Raised in Portland, Maine, United States, Jason Ricci is the son of Joseph Ricci (co-founder of Elan School), and his first wife Cheryl Benton. His parents divorced in 1979. Ricci started performing in punk bands at the age of 14. Initially a vocalist, Ricci decided to pursue an instrument as well and the band chose harmonica for him. Being a blues fan, Ricci's mother encouraged his development as a harmonica player. Ricci names Howard Levy and his overblowing technique as having influenced his early harmonica playing as well as his decision not to switch to the saxophone. He further developed his playing style listening to and emulating Little Walter, Paul Butterfield, Pat Ramsey, and Adam Gussow. Jason has also directly referenced Pat Ramsey as a major influence in his developing a fast pentatonic approach to his playing, stating he prefers to be deliberate in his note choice in favor of speed for "speed's sake".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Musical career.

paragraph: In 1995, Ricci moved from Portland to Memphis, TN, where shortly thereafter he placed first in the Sonny Boy Blues Society contest at 21 years of age. Later that same year Ricci recorded his first album, "Jason Ricci".

paragraph: In Memphis, Ricci began playing with David Malone Kimbrough, son of Junior Kimbrough, and soon was a part of the bands of both Kimbroughs and was sitting in with R. L. Burnside. This also marked a dark period for Ricci, as drug addiction led to a one-year stint in jail.

paragraph: In 1999, Ricci won the Mars National Harmonica Contest, and began playing with Keith Brown, later recording with him as well. In 2000, he received a two-page write up in Blues Access magazine by Adam Gussow (harmonica player for Satan and Adam) saying:

paragraph: I am convinced he along with New Jersey's Dennis Gruenling is one of the best harmonica players of his generation.

paragraph: Gussow has also included Jason Ricci in the Top 10 All Time Harmonica Players list on his Modern Blues Harmonica website.

paragraph: After 15 months with Big Al and the Heavyweights, and a brief period of living in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ricci started his own band, Jason Ricci & New Blood, in 2002. This band features Shawn Starski, who, in June 2008, was named by "Guitar Player" magazine as one of the "Top Ten Hottest New Guitarists." In 2005, Ricci was honored with the Muddy Waters Most Promising New Blues Artist award.

paragraph: In 2007, Ricci and New Blood were signed to Eclecto Groove, a new subdivision of Delta Groove Productions. His first album with the label, titled "Rocket Number Nine," was released October 23, 2007. Later in 2009 the band recorded "Done With The Devil" for the same Label. "Done With The Devil" signaled a new direction in Ricci's musical inspiration, as his study of the occult strongly influenced the writing on the album. The band as a whole has been nominated for Blues Band of the Year three times by Blues Wax magazine. Ricci won the Blues Critic Award for Harmonica Player of the Year (2008) and was nominated for a Blues Music Award for Harmonica Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010. By January 2011, Ricci had relocated to New Orleans, and assembled a new band, Approved By Snakes, with guitarist John Lisi. Ricci received "Best Harmonica Player" at the May 6, 2010 Blues Music Awards.

paragraph: Ricci played harmonica on the song "My Babe" from his 2014 album "Step Back". The album won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album in February 2015.

paragraph: In February 2015, Ricci began a national tour with a new band named Jason Ricci and the Bad Kind.

paragraph: In April 2015, Ricci played harmonica on the song "Born in Chicago" with Zac Brown and Tom Morello at the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In August 2017, Ricci was awarded the "Bernie Bray Harmonica Player of the Year Award" by The Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica at the SPAH annual conference in Tulsa, OK. In 2018, Ricci received Blues Music Award nominations both for best harmonica instrumentalist and best rock blues artist, of which he was awarded best harmonica instrumentalist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Side projects.

paragraph: Ricci participates as an Expert Guide (instructor) in the Harmonica Collective, an annual conference for harmonica players wishing to improve their skills and collaborate with other musicians, which he co-founded with WInslow Yerxa in 2013. He also posts free video harmonica lessons to his web site, and teaches live lessons via Skype.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Ricci has been openly "queer" gay/bisexual most his career and has been outspoken about this subject in many interviews. This has been a professional obstacle as well as an opportunity for Ricci to challenge both gay stereotypes and traditional blues expectations:

paragraph: The [gay] community doesn't like drum sets and guitars and actual live music. They're used to lip-synching, and dudes in dresses, and Madonna, and Cher, and techno beats. Those are the things that kept me from coming out earlier. I felt like I had nothing in common with the gay community, and I still don't feel like I have a lot in common with the community. I'm hoping that changes, but the majority of their icons are press-friendly little Mickey Mouse-doll figureheads that you're more likely to see on a show redecorating somebody's house than onstage at a blues festival... When I came out of the closet as a gay white male from an upper-middle-class suburban home, I came out as not just gay, but as a white guy, and as a guy who likes punk, and as a guy who didn't come from total poverty, and all those things that we associate with being 'blues' things. And when I did that, I wanted to sing about that. I wanted to write songs about what my life was like, and I wanted to use terminology that was modern.

paragraph: Ricci's openness with being gay has occasionally been a difficult issue in the traditionally conservative blues world, as he's been "disinvited" from a number of venues and events.

paragraph: Jason Ricci married Kaitlin Dibble on May 17, 2017 see https://www.honeyfund.com/wedding/RicciWedding2017

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995: "Jason Ricci"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Down At The Juke"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001: "Feel Good Funk"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004: "Live At Checkers Tavern"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005: "Her Satanic Majesty Requests Harmonica Music" (compilation)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006: "Blood on the Road"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007: "Rocket Number 9"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009: "Done with the Devil"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010: "Down That Road..." (compilation)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "Dirty Memory" (with JJ Appleton)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017: "Approved By Snakes" (Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2019: "My Chops Are Rolling!!" (Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind)

paragraph: Ricci has also appeared as a guest harmonica player with Johnny Winter, Nick Curran, Ana Popovic, Walter Trout, Cedric Burnside, The Mannish Boys and Joe Louis Walker among others.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Live Music Archive

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Jason Ricci

wikipedia_title: Jason Ricci


text: Joseon dynasty

text: Prince Imperial Ui

text: Emperor Gojong of Korea

text: Prince Imperial Ui

text: King Yi Seok

text: Yi Won

text: Korean Imperial Household

text: Seoul

text: Kyunggi High School

text: Prince Hoeun

text: Yi Won

text: Hereditary Prince Imperial of Korea

text: Prince Hoeun

text: Korean Imperial Household

text: Empress of Korea

text: Sunjong of Korea

text: House of Yi

text: Joseon dynasty

categories: Korean centenarians,House of Yi,People from Seoul,Pretenders to the Korean throne,1919 births,Living people

paragraph: Yi Hae-won

paragraph: Princess Yi Haewŏn (born April 24, 1919) is a descendant of the Joseon dynasty (Empire of Korea). She is the second daughter of Prince Imperial Ui of Korea, the fifth son of Emperor Gojong of Korea and his concubine, Lady Sudeokdang. She is the eldest of the surviving daughters of Prince Imperial Ui. She is one of several descendants, including her brother King Yi Seok and her nephew, Yi Won, who claim to be the legitimate heir to the throne of the Korean Imperial Household.

paragraph: Section::::Birth and marriage.

paragraph: Yi was born in Sadong Palace which was an official residence of her family in Seoul and raised in Unhyeon Palace. She graduated from Kyunggi High School in 1936 and then married Lee Seunggyu, who was kidnapped and compulsorily taken to North Korea during the Korean War. They had three sons and one daughter.

paragraph: Section::::Coronation.

paragraph: Following the death of her cousin Prince Hoeun on 16 July 2005, members of the Lee Family Council chose his adopted son, Yi Won as the next Head of the Korean Imperial Household, bestowing him the title, the Hereditary Prince Imperial of Korea (Hwangsason), representative of an inherited title from Prince Hoeun. Contesting her nephew's claim and appointment to the throne, Yi Haewŏn announced the restoration of the Korean Imperial Household. Organized by the Korean Imperial Family Association, a private organization consisting of twelve (12) descendants of the Joseon Dynasty, a private coronation ceremony was held on 29 September 2006, during which Yi Haewŏn was bestowed the title, the Empress of Korea.

paragraph: The crowning of Yi Haewŏn was not approved nor endorsed by the family. The title of Emperor was stripped from the Imperial Family by Japan during the Emperor and King Sunjong of Korea's reign.

paragraph: Section::::Title.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess Yi Haewon.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- House of Yi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseon dynasty

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Coronation of Korea’s new empress leads to royal family controversy

description: Princess of Korea

wikidata_label: Yi Hae-won

wikipedia_title: Yi Hae-won


text:
Latin
elegiac
Commonitorium
Gaul
invasion of barbarians
Bishop of Augusta Ausciorum
Auch
Theodoric I
Goths
Flavius Aëtius
Litorius
Virgil
Ovid
Catullus
Prudentius
Martène
Andrea Gallandi
J.P. Migne
Patrologia Latina
Corpus Scriptorum Eccl. Latinorum

categories: 5th-century bishops,5th-century Latin writers,Bishops in Gaul,Bishops of Auch,Gallo-Roman saints,5th-century Gallo-Roman people

paragraph: Orientius

paragraph: Saint Orientius was a Christian Latin poet of the fifth century.

paragraph: Section::::Biography and work.

paragraph: He wrote the elegiac poem "Commonitorium" of 1036 verses (divided into two books) describing the way to heaven, with warnings against its hindrances. He was a Gaul (II, 184), who had been converted after a life of sin (I, 405 sq.), was evidently an experienced pastor, and wrote at a time when his country was being devastated by the invasion of barbarians.

paragraph: All this points to his identification with Orientius, Bishop of Augusta Ausciorum (Auch), who as a very old man was sent by Theodoric I, King of the Goths, as ambassador to the Roman generals Flavius Aëtius and Litorius in 439 ("Vita S. Orientii" in "Acta SS.", I May, 61).

paragraph: The Commonitorium quotes classical Roman poets —Virgil, Ovid, Catullus— and is perhaps influenced by Prudentius. It exists in only one manuscript (Cod. Ashburnham. sæc. X), and is followed by some shorter anonymous poems not by Orientius, and by two prayers in verse attributed to him.

paragraph: The first complete edition was published by Martène, "Veterum Scriptorum Monumenta", I (Rouen, 1700); then by Andrea Gallandi, "Bibliotheca veterum Patrum", X (Venice, 1774), 185-96, reprinted by J.P. Migne in "Patrologia Latina" 61.977-1006. The best modern edition is by Ellis in the "Corpus Scriptorum Eccl. Latinorum" XVI (Vienna, 1888): "Poetæ Christiani minores", I, 191-261.

description: Christian poet

wikidata_label: Orientius

wikipedia_title: Orientius


text:
documentary
This Week
Man Alive
That's Life!
Welwyn Garden City
Hertfordshire
England
Cheltenham Grammar School
Christ's College, Finchley
Outward Bound
Daily Mirror
noma
Paddington
London
Esther Rantzen
Rebecca Wilcox
Rainhill
Obituary

categories: English documentary filmmakers,1931 births,Converts to Judaism,British documentary film producers,English Jews,2000 deaths

paragraph: Desmond Wilcox

paragraph: Desmond John Wilcox (21 May 1931 – 6 September 2000) was a British television producer, documentary filmmaker, journalist and television executive. He worked at the BBC and ITV during his career and was producer of series such as "This Week", "Man Alive", and "That's Life!".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Wilcox was born in 1931 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, to John William Wilcox and Alice M. Whittle. He attended Cheltenham Grammar School and Christ's College, Finchley. He was then a training apprentice with the Outward Bound Sea School and left home to work as a deckhand in the merchant marine.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Journalism.

paragraph: In 1949 Wilcox began a career in journalism as a reporter on a weekly newspaper. After two years of national service, he moved to Fleet Street to work for the "Daily Mirror", becoming a foreign correspondent in the New York bureau.

paragraph: In 1960 Wilcox moved to television as a reporter on ITV's "This Week" current affairs programme, where he stayed for five years until joining the BBC.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Documentaries.

paragraph: He was co-editor and presenter of the landmark "Man Alive" series in 1965. He later formed the Man Alive Unit as well as providing the distinctive voice-over in the weekly current-affairs programme "TEMPO" directed by Mike Hodges.

paragraph: In an interview in 1986 he said:

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Television executive.

paragraph: From 1972 to 1980 he was head of general features at the BBC. He made series including "Americans", "The Visit", "Black in Blue" and "A Day in the Life".

paragraph: Section::::Later life and death.

paragraph: After he left the staff of the BBC, Wilcox was involved in the occasional series following the story of David Jackson (David Lopez) 'the Boy David', a badly-deformed Peruvian boy (a sufferer of noma) whose face was rebuilt by a Scottish surgeon who adopted him. The series won six international awards.

paragraph: Wilcox died of a heart attack in Paddington, London, in 2000, aged 69.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Wilcox married firstly Patsy Price, and they had three children together called Claire, Adam, and Cassandra. Claire has two children, Ruby and Martha, and Cassandra has three, Rosie, Archer, and Drew. During this first marriage he had an eight-year affair with television presenter Esther Rantzen, and in 1977 he married her after obtaining a divorce from Patsy. There were three further children of this marriage, including the television presenter Rebecca Wilcox. In 1992 Wilcox converted to Judaism, the religion of his second wife.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Wilcox was posthumously awarded the Grierson Documentary Film Awards Life Tribute in November 2001.

paragraph: A media arts centre at a High School in Rainhill, Merseyside has been opened, named in his honour.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Esther Rantzen, "The Autobiography", BBC Worldwide, 2001

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Obituary

description: British documentary film maker

wikidata_label: Desmond Wilcox

wikipedia_title: Desmond Wilcox


text:
Abdank
Vilnius
Lithuanian nobility
Albertas Goštautas
Voivode of Vilnius
Vereya
Goštautai
Polish–Lithuanian union
voivode of Navahrudak
Trakai
Prague groschen
Upytė
Sigismund Augustus of Poland
Barbara Radziwiłł
Sigismund II Augustus
Radziwiłł
Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund II Augustus

categories: Goštautai family,1542 deaths,Lithuanian nobility,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Stanislovas Goštautas

paragraph: Stanislovas Goštautas (also called Stanisław Gasztołd or "Gasztołt" of Abdank in Polish) (ca. 1507 in Vilnius – 1542) was a notable member of the Lithuanian nobility and a high-ranking member of the Lithuanian administration. Born to Albertas Goštautas, the Voivode of Vilnius and Princess Sofia of Vereya, he was the last direct male descendant of the – once mighty – Goštautai family.

paragraph: A prominent member of the Grand Duchy's administration in the early times of the Polish–Lithuanian union, Goštautas held a number of important posts in the state's administration. Among others, since 1522 he held the post of the voivode of Navahrudak, although he did not rise to that office until 1530. Since 1542 he was also a voivode of Trakai. As one of the most notable and influential noblemen of his epoch, in 1542 he was also awarded with a royal pension of "600 times the number of 60 Prague groschen" in exchange for his town of Upytė, which was bought by Sigismund Augustus of Poland.

paragraph: On 17 May 1537 he married Barbara Radziwiłł, later the second wife of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Sigismund II Augustus. Goštautas died on 18 December 1542, leaving some of his family fortune to his wife, who later might have passed it on to her branch of the Radziwiłł family, while the bulk of his estates was taken by the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund II Augustus, as a matter of sovereign's right.

description: Lithuanian noble

wikidata_label: Stanislovas Goštautas

wikipedia_title: Stanislovas Goštautas


text:
Neo-Hittite
Tabal
Anatolia
Turkey
Iron Age
Tuwanuwa
Tyana
İvriz relief
rock relief
Ivriz
Konya
Tarhunzas
Phrygians
hieroglyphic Luwian
Assyria
Tiglath-pileser III
Sargon II

paragraph: Warpalawas

paragraph: Warpalawa(s) was a late 8th century BC (ca 730-710 BC?) Late Hittite (or Neo-Hittite) king of Tabal in south-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). The political center of this Early Iron Age regional state was probably Tuwanuwa (or Tuwana or Tuhana/ later Roman Tyana).

paragraph: Among other commemorative monuments, Warpalawas most notably commissioned the carving of the İvriz relief, a rock relief at the site of Ivriz near a spring, south of Tuwanuwa in the province of Konya. In the relief, he is depicted with the storm-god Tarhunzas. His attire in the relief is seen as an evidence for his kingdom's close affinity with the Phrygians. The relief is accompanied with a hieroglyphic Luwian inscription. The Tabalian king Urballa, mentioned in the Assyrian texts at the time of Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II probably is Warpalawas.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Melchert, H C. (ed.); 2003. "The Luwians." (Leiden: Brill Publishers). (ebook) (print)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hawkins, J. David; 1999. "The Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions." Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. .

wikidata_label: Warpalawas

wikipedia_title: Warpalawas


text:
Italian
castrato
opera singer
diplomat
spy
Pistoia
Alessandro Melani
Jacopo Melani
composer
Mattias de' Medici
Carlo II of Mantua
Orfeo
Luigi Rossi
Louis XIV
Cardinal Mazarin
Bavaria
Holy Roman Emperor
Nicolas Fouquet
Rome
Giulio Rospigliosi
Maria Mancini
Pope Alexander VII
Clement IX
conclave
Abbot
Palazzo Colonna
Rita Monaldi
Francesco Sorti
Imprimatur

categories: 1714 deaths,People from Pistoia,17th-century LGBT people,1626 births,Italian opera singers,Castrati

paragraph: Atto Melani

paragraph: Atto Melani (30 March 1626 in Pistoia – 4 January 1714 in Paris) was a famous Italian castrato opera singer, also employed as a diplomat and a spy.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Melani was born in Pistoia, the third of seven sons of a local bell-ringer. He was castrated at a young age so that he could become a singer. Three other brothers also became castrati, along with two cousins. His brothers Alessandro Melani and Jacopo Melani both became celebrated composers.

paragraph: He soon attracted the patronage of nobleman Mattias de' Medici. Roger Freitas argues that the "circumstantial evidence is convincing" that Melano has an affair with Duke Carlo II of Mantua: Melani indicated that "both men had sex with the same (unidentified) page at the court of Innsbruck".

paragraph: Melani quickly became famous nevertheless and stories circulated that his voice was the result of being bitten by a snake. His most celebrated role was as Orfeo in the opera by Luigi Rossi which premiered in 1647. His fame took Melani to the court of Louis XIV of France, effectively promoted as a gift from the Medici to the opera-loving Queen Anne. Cardinal Mazarin thereupon introduced him to the world of espionage, where Melani quickly shone as he had in music. He took advantage of concerts held in the European courts to send messages and discover secrets. In 1657 Melani was sent by Mazarin to Bavaria to persuade the prince elector Ferdinand, a friend of France, to put himself forward as candidate for Holy Roman Emperor. Although the operation ultimately failed, Mazarin came to appreciate Melani's diplomatic abilities even more.

paragraph: Mazarin's death reversed Melani's fortunes. Especially damaging was his closeness to the superintendent of finances, Nicolas Fouquet, who was arrested and imprisoned. Louis XIV had known Melani from infancy and had great confidence in him, but after discovering Melani had copied his letters to Fouquet decided to publicly exile him. There is also suggestion that the husband of Hortense Mancini (niece of Cardinal Mazarin) convinced Louis of exile, apparently out of fear of an affair with his wife.

paragraph: He left France for Rome, where he spent the next 15 years. In Rome, he entered the service of Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi, also from Pistoia. He also continued to enjoy favour with Maria Mancini, niece of Mazzarin, with whom he maintained a correspondence of more than forty years.

paragraph: After the death of Pope Alexander VII, Melani's patron Rospigliosi rose to the papacy as Clement IX. Melani took part in the conclave as an assistant, but it is unknown if he played a role in influencing the election. In response Louis XIV, very happy at the outcome of the conclave, removed the ban on Melani and awarded him the title of Abbot with an annual income.

paragraph: In 1668 Melani sang for the last time at Palazzo Colonna, and from then on dedicated himself exclusively to politics and diplomacy, writing several books on Rome, advising the King of France, mediating with the German princes, and acting as go-between among the Italian States. Melani died at the age of 88 in 1714 in Paris. The assets he left in his will were significant: besides rich buildings and warehouses in Italy and France, he also left a large library.

paragraph: Section::::In fiction.

paragraph: Melani has been the object in recent years in the novels by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti beginning with "Imprimatur" and continuing with "Secretum" and "Veritas" . The two authors published some documents written from Melani including a letter to Louis XIV.

description: Italian opera singer

wikidata_label: Atto Melani

wikipedia_title: Atto Melani


text:
Anglesey
St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog
St Caw
Anglesey
Maelgwn Gwynedd
Twrcelyn
St Iestyn
St Cyngar
St Gildas
Mordred
King Arthur
Angharad Llwyd
Battle of Camlann
St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog
feast day
Hector Boece
Lewis Morris
Gildas
St Eleth
St Eleth's Church, Amlwch
St Iestyn
St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn
St Peulan
St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan
St Tyfrydog
St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog

categories: Medieval Welsh saints,6th-century Christian saints

paragraph: Cwyllog

paragraph: Saint Cwyllog (or Cywyllog) was a Christian holy woman who was active in Anglesey, Wales, in the early 6th century. The daughter, sister and niece of saints, she is said to have founded St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog, in the middle of Anglesey, where a church is still dedicated to her.

paragraph: Section::::Life and commemoration.

paragraph: Little is known for certain about Cwyllog (sometimes written as Cywyllog); her dates of birth and death are not given in the sources. She is said to have been one of the daughters of St Caw. He was a king in northern Britain who lost his lands and sought safety with his family in Anglesey, where the ruler Maelgwn Gwynedd gave him land in the north-east of the island, the district known as Twrcelyn. Other saintly relatives of Cwyllog included St Iestyn and St Cyngar (brothers of Caw) and her sisters Cain, Peithian and Gwenafwy as well as various brothers including St Gildas (although the number of Caw's children varies from 10 to 21 between different manuscripts). Cwyllog is said to have been the wife of Mordred (or Medrod), the treacherous son and nephew of King Arthur and mother of his sons. According to the 19th-century Welsh antiquarian Angharad Llwyd, in her "History of Anglesey", Cwyllog decided to follow a religious life after her husband's death in battle against Arthur at the Battle of Camlann in 537.

paragraph: She is said to have founded St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog, towards the middle of Anglesey but within the area granted to her father, in the 6th century. The current church there (which is still dedicated to her) is of a later date, with the walls possibly dating from about 1200. Her feast day there has been recorded as being 7 January, although this date does not appear in the Welsh calendars of saints.

paragraph: According to critics, Cwyllog may be a fictional creation. Her name could be a back-formation from the place-name Llangwyllog. The original saint of that location would be Gwrddelw, son of Caw, whose feast day is also 7 January. Cwyllog's connection to Mordred originated with readings of Hector Boece, who said Mordred's wife was a daughter of Gawolane. Some scholars identified "Gawolane" as Caw of Prydyn, which caused Welsh antiquary Lewis Morris to list Gildas as Medrawd’s brother-in-law and, eventually, “Kwyllog” as Medrawd's wife.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Other Anglesey saints commemorated in local churches include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Eleth at St Eleth's Church, Amlwch

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Iestyn at St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Peulan at St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Tyfrydog at St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Notes

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bibliography

description: 6c female Welsh saint

wikidata_label: Cwyllog

wikipedia_title: Cwyllog


text:
professional baseball
Major League Baseball
Arizona Diamondbacks
Texas Christian University
2005 Conference USA All-Tournament Team
Falmouth Commodores
Cape Cod Baseball League
2004 Major League Baseball Draft
Texas Rangers
Oakland Athletics
2007 Major League Baseball Draft
Midland RockHounds
Sacramento River Cats
2010
Arizona Diamondbacks
Conor Jackson
César Valdez
Boston Red Sox
Milwaukee Brewers
Houston Astros
spring training
New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers
Albuquerque Isotopes
Sam Demel
Texas Christian University

categories: Albuquerque Isotopes players,Midland RockHounds players,Living people,Kane County Cougars players,1985 births,Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders players,Major League Baseball pitchers,Arizona Diamondbacks players,Baseball players from Texas,Sacramento River Cats players,Sportspeople from Harris County, Texas,Stockton Ports players,Reno Aces players

paragraph: Sam Demel

paragraph: Samuel Vincent Demel (born October 23, 1985) is an American former professional baseball pitcher . He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:College.

paragraph: Demel attended Texas Christian University, where he was a member of the 2005 Conference USA All-Tournament Team and the 2006 First All-Mountain West Conference team. He pitched for the Falmouth Commodores of the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League in 2005 and 2006, earning league All-Star honors in 2006.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Draft and minor leagues.

paragraph: Demel was drafted in the 35th round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft by the Texas Rangers, but opted to attend college instead. He was again drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the third round of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft. Demel would play in spring training for the A's but would not make the team and go back to the minors.

paragraph: In 2007, Demel pitched for Kane County and Stockton in Class A and got to a 0-1 record and a 4.63 ERA. After playing for Stockton again in 2008 with a 5-2 record with a 3.36, he would be pulled up the Double-A and play for the Midland RockHounds, and in the same year be pulled up to Triple-A and play for the Sacramento River Cats. Demel would pitch again for Sacramento in 2009 and get to a 2-0 record with a 1.26 ERA until his was called up.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Arizona Diamondbacks.

paragraph: Demel began the 2010 season in Sacramento but on June 15, 2010, he was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Conor Jackson. He was called up the next day, replacing César Valdez on the major league roster. On his rookie debut against the Boston Red Sox, Demel pitched one inning and allowed no hits or walks. Demel would record his first major league win on August 9, 2010 in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers and his first save the next day. Demel would finish his rookie season with a 2-1 record and a 5.35 ERA.

paragraph: On Opening Day of 2011, Demel would get his third win of his career he would pitch just one inning and allow one hit and no earned runs. Demel improved from his rookie season, pitching with a 4.21 ERA, 15 strikeouts and a record of 2-2. Demel would give up more walks than his rookie year.

paragraph: Demel would pitch in his first game of 2012 on August 21. He would pitch one complete inning giving up 2 hits 1 walk and 1 earned run, and would end up receiving the loss for the game.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Houston Astros/New York Yankees.

paragraph: On November 1, 2012, Demel was claimed off waivers by the Houston Astros from the Diamondbacks. At the end of spring training in 2013, the New York Yankees claimed Demel from the Astros, and then outrighted him to the minor leagues. He elected free agency on November 4, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Los Angeles Dodgers.

paragraph: On December 12, 2013, he signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers and was assigned to the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes. He appeared in 21 games for the Isotopes, including 6 starts and was 1-2 with a 6.41 ERA. He left a game on June 20 with an arm injury and spent the rest of the season on the disabled list. He became a free agent after the 2014 season.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sam Demel at Texas Christian University Athletics

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Sam Demel

wikipedia_title: Sam Demel


text:
California
Literary Digest
Life
Carl Mydans
Chongqing
Philippines
Shanghai
Manila
Guam
The March of Time
Thomas a Becket
Larchmont, New York

categories: Life (magazine) photojournalists,20th-century American women writers,American women journalists,1915 births,American women novelists,2002 deaths,American magazine journalists,20th-century American novelists,Women historical novelists,Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages,Writers from California,American radio journalists,20th-century American non-fiction writers

paragraph: Shelley Smith Mydans

paragraph: Shelley Smith Mydans (born Shelley Smith, May 20, 1915 – March 7, 2002) was an American novelist, journalist and prisoner of war.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Mydans was born in California, where she grew up thinking of being a dancer, although her father was a university professor of journalism. She moved to New York to work for the Literary Digest, and became a journalist for "Life" magazine, where she met Carl Mydans in 1938. They married the following year and they were the first husband-and-wife team to be employed by the magazine.

paragraph: Section::::World War II.

paragraph: They were sent initially to the United Kingdom to cover the war but they left for China when France was defeated. They eventually traveled over 45,000 miles visiting Scandinavia, Portugal, Italy, Chongqing in China and the British colony of Hong Kong. Mydans described her job as writer and researcher only occasionally getting attribution when a writer was not available. They were both caught by the Japanese in the Philippines and they were interred firstly in Manila and later in Shanghai. They were lucky to be exchanged in a prisoner swap in December 1943, and they both then returned to the war. Mydans was to write her first novel called "Open City" based on her time as a prisoner of the Japanese and this was published in 1945.

paragraph: In 1945 her husband went to Manila where he was to record the iconic moment of MacArthur's return but this was denied to Mydans and she was sent to Guam to work on a restricted basis. "I was accredited to the navy, but I was not - because I was a woman - allowed to cover action on naval ships or planes and my articles had to be confined to such things as the navy flight nurses and marine base camps."

paragraph: Section::::Post war.

paragraph: Mydans wrote for radio for the American ABC network after the war including for the news program "The March of Time". She resigned when the first of her children were born. She wrote two more novels — the first was based around the life of Thomas a Becket and the other was based in 8th century Japan. She and her husband also wrote a non-fiction book about post war terrorism.

paragraph: Mydans died in Larchmont, New York in 2002.

description: American writer

wikidata_label: Shelley Smith Mydans

wikipedia_title: Shelley Smith Mydans


text: South Africa

text: South African Minister of Justice

text: Durban

text: South Africa

text: Herbert Penny

text: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

text: South African Navy

text: Gordon Moore

text: Admiral of the Fleet

text: Richard III of England

text: Leicester University

text: Leicester Cathedral

text: Kevin Schürer

text: Battle of Bosworth

text: Richard III

text: St Stithians College

text: Johannesburg

text: Austria

text: Soweto

text: Johannesburg

text: Africa

text: South African Minister of Justice

text: Royal Society of South Africa

text: Chartwell Castle

text: Johannesburg

text: Maze

text: Southern Hemisphere

text: Johannesburg

text: Rand Club of Johannesburg

text: CBD

text: The Penny Brothers Website

text: Chartwell Castle Website

categories: Property management,1951 births,Property law by country,South African businesspeople,Living people

paragraph: Conrad Penny

paragraph: Conrad Hugo Penny (born 31 May 1951) is a South African property broker and property valuer who has worked for Penny Brothers Brokers & Valuers for over forty seven years. He is the founder and chair of Penny Holdings (Pty) Ltd. and the Managing Director of Penny Brothers Brokers & Valuers (Pty) Ltd. He is also an appraiser to the South African Minister of Justice.

paragraph: Section::::Family and early life.

paragraph: Conrad Penny was born on 31 May 1951 in Durban, South Africa, the son of Errol Penny and Nina Hartdegen, Grandson of Magnus Penny and Elizabeth le Sueur, Great-Grandson of Herbert Penny (founder of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Cape which ultimately led to the formation of the South African Navy) and Carlotta Forssman (daughter of Chevalier Oscar Wilhelm Alric Forssman). His mother was a granddaughter of Cuninghame Wilson Moore, the older brother of Sir Archibald Gordon Moore, Admiral of the Fleet. In March 2015 he attended the reinterment of King Richard III of England as a guest of Leicester University and Leicester Cathedral. In addition to Penny's royal descent, Professor Kevin Schürer identified and recognised Penny as a descendant of at least ten other Lords, Knights and soldiers at the 1485 Battle of Bosworth where Richard III lost his life.

paragraph: He was educated at St Stithians College (1964–65) and Hyde Park High School (1966–68) in Johannesburg. Penny was privately educated "in house" at Penny Brothers between 1970 and 1973 where Town Planner Professor EWN Mallows, Quantity Surveyor and Civil Engineer ACM Tyrrell, Company/Property Lawyer PJP Neall and Company/Tax Account AE Hirsowitz were put at his disposal for his tertiary education. He later passed the Valuer's Exam set by The South African Council for the Property Valuers Profession. Penny married Baroness Maria-Therésia Kotz von Dobrz in Austria on 7 January 1978 and together they have two sons and two daughters.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1996 Penny's company, Penny Brothers Brokers & Valuers (Pty) Ltd., was awarded tenders for the valuation of the whole of Soweto, in Johannesburg, which valuation included over 325 000 dwellings. The tenders were awarded by the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality for taxing and rating purposes. This was the single largest valuation ever undertaken in Africa.

paragraph: Penny is a member of the Institute of Estate Agents of South Africa Website, a member of the South African Institute of Valuers Website, Appraiser to the Hon. South African Minister of Justice and is registered as a Professional Valuer with the South African Council for the Property Valuers Profession Website. Given his interest in anthropology and paleontology, he is also a member of the Royal Society of South Africa.

paragraph: He is the owner of Chartwell Castle in north western Johannesburg, where he laid out the largest permanent hedgerow Maze in the Southern Hemisphere.

paragraph: Section::::Philanthrophy and Civic Work.

paragraph: Trees - Penny has also propagated approximately 7000 trees at Chartwell Castle which have been donated to the streets, pavements, parks, schools and Places of Worship and Refuge mainly within the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

paragraph: Chartwell Local Area Committee - In around 1988, Penny as Chairman of the Farmall and Farmall Ext. 1 Landowners Association, assisted in the creation of The Greater Chartwell Local Area Committee, in what was then the outlying regions of northern Johannesburg. The merger of the surrounding areas resulted in a rate based income being viable to afford the region with tarred roads along arterial routes and the provision of municipal water supply. Consequently, the sub-division of land became possible and the region has since been incorporated into the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

paragraph: Rand Club - In 2016, Conrad Penny initiated the formation of the Rand Club Salvage Consortium (RCSC) which successfully resuscitated the historic (1887) Rand Club of Johannesburg (and its fine Edwardian building) after it had been mothballed because of a decline in membership following a general exodus from the old CBD of Johannesburg.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Penny Brothers Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chartwell Castle Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- The South African Council for the Property Valuers Profession Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- The South African Institute of Valuers Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Institute of Estate Agents of South Africa Website

description: South African businessman

wikidata_label: Conrad Penny

wikipedia_title: Conrad Penny


text: philologist

text: Assyriologist

text: British Museum

text: cuneiform

text: Mesopotamia

text: University of Birmingham

text: Wilfred G. Lambert

text: cuneiform

text: tablets

text: Flood narrative

text: Noah's Ark

text: coracle

text: kuphar

text: PBS

text: NOVA series

text: Anglo-Israel Archaeology Society

text: history of board games

text: "Board Game Studies"

text: Royal Game of Ur

text: Great Diary Project

text: Bishopsgate Institute

text: V&A Museum of Childhood

text: Orthodox Jew

text: atheist

text: The Great Diary Project

text: Meeting Irving Finkel.

text: Archived here.

categories: British archaeologists,1951 births,British Jews,Alumni of the University of Birmingham,English Assyriologists,Employees of the British Museum,Living people,Jewish atheists

paragraph: Irving Finkel

paragraph: Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is currently the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Finkel was born in 1951. He earned a PhD in Assyriology from the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Wilfred G. Lambert with a dissertation on Babylonian exorcistic spells against demons.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Philology.

paragraph: Finkel spent three years as a Research Fellow at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute. In 1976 he returned to the UK, and he was appointed as Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum, where he was (and remains) responsible for curating, reading and translating the museum's collection of around 130,000 cuneiform tablets.

paragraph: In 2014, Finkel's study of a cuneiform tablet that contained a Flood narrative similar to that of the story of Noah's Ark, described in his book "The Ark Before Noah", was widely reported in the news media. The ark described in the tablet was circular, essentially a very large coracle or kuphar and made of rope on a wooden frame. The tablet included sufficient details of its dimensions and construction to enable a copy of the ark to be made at about 1/3 scale and successfully floated, as documented in a 2014 TV documentary "Secrets of Noah's Ark" that aired as an episode of PBS's NOVA series.

paragraph: Finkel is an Honorary Member of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity of the University of Birmingham and a Council Member of the Anglo-Israel Archaeology Society.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Board games.

paragraph: Finkel studies the history of board games, and is on the Editorial Board of "Board Game Studies". Among his breakthrough works is the determination of the rules of the Royal Game of Ur.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Great Diary Project.

paragraph: Finkel founded the Great Diary Project, a project to preserve the diaries of ordinary people. In association with the Bishopsgate Institute, Finkel has helped to archive over 2,000 personal diaries. In 2014, the V&A Museum of Childhood held an exhibition of the diaries of children written between 1813 and 1996.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Literary.

paragraph: Finkel has written a number of works of fiction for children.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Finkel was raised as an Orthodox Jew but became an atheist as a teenager. He lives in southeast London with his wife Joanna. He has five children.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Great Diary Project

paragraph: BULLET::::- Meeting Irving Finkel. The Jager File, 24 September 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2013. Archived here.

description: archaeologist

wikidata_label: Irving Finkel

wikipedia_title: Irving Finkel


text: Salle

text: Norfolk

text: Narford Hall

text: Narford

text: Thomas Chicheley

text: Eton College

text: King's Scholar

text: Christ Church, Oxford

text: William III

text: Henry Aldrich

text: Lord Macclesfield

text: Act of Settlement

text: elector of Hanover

text: grand tour

text: Gottfried Leibniz

text: Royal Society of Berlin

text: States General

text: Dutch Republic

text: Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod

text: Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke

text: Jonathan Swift

text: 9th earl

text: Walter Cary

text: warden of the Royal Mint

text: Narford Hall

text: Roger Morris

text: Caroline of Ansbach

text: William Augustus

text: Knight of the Bath

text: Narford

text: Portrait bust of Fountaine

text: Louis-François Roubiliac

text: Fountaine's tomb at Narford

text: Images of Fountaine

text: National Portrait Gallery

text: The Fountain Collection of Maiolica

categories: People educated at Eton College,1753 deaths,18th-century English architects,1676 births,English antiquarians,Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford,Knights Bachelor,People from Broadland (district),People from Breckland District,English art collectors

paragraph: Andrew Fountaine (art collector)

paragraph: Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676 in Salle, Norfolk – 4 September 1753 in Narford Hall, Narford), son and heir of Andrew Fountaine Esquire of Salle, Norfolk and Sarah Chicheley, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Chicheley, was an English antiquarian, art collector and amateur architect.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Attending Eton College (as a King's Scholar) and then Christ Church, Oxford (graduating BA in 1697), William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (a friend of his father) introduced him at court and he received a knighthood in 1699 for the Latin oration he had made to William III on his entry to Oxford the previous year (a task he had been selected for by Christ Church's dean Henry Aldrich).

paragraph: When shortly afterwards Lord Macclesfield took the Act of Settlement to the elector of Hanover in 1701, the younger Andrew Fountaine accompanied him and thus became known in the courts of Europe in what became the first of his two grand tours. He was in correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz between 1701 and 1704, was admitted to the Royal Society of Berlin, became friends with Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany on travelling to Italy in 1702, and was part of the mission to the States General of the Dutch Republic in 1705 (using it as an opportunity to add to his book and coin collections).

paragraph: On his father's death in 1707, he was appointed Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod for Ireland and, whilst accompanying Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke to open the Irish parliament, became friends with Jonathan Swift (as is mentioned in Swift's letters and his "Journal to Stella"). He took a second grand tour in 1714, collecting maiolica, paintings and sculpture for himself and for the Earls of Pembroke (he later catalogued the 8th Earl's collection for his son the 9th earl). He succeeded Walter Cary as warden of the Royal Mint Aug 12 1727, but retired from London in 1732 or 1733 to redesign the family seat of Narford Hall (working with the professional architect Roger Morris). At Narford he hung a portrait of his patroness Caroline of Ansbach on the staircase (she had made him her vice-chamberlain and tutor to her third son, William Augustus, and was William's proxy for his installation as Knight of the Bath on 17 June 1725).

paragraph: He died unmarried in Narford in 1753, and was buried there. When sold and dispersed in 1884, his collection was so large it took four days to auction. His Narford estate passed to his sister Elizabeth and down to her grandson Brigg Price, who changed his surname to Fountaine and adopted his great-uncle's arms.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Letters, 'Pignatta's Sir Andrew Fountaine and Friends in the Tribune', 1715, by Graham Pollard, "The Burlington Magazine" 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrait bust of Fountaine by Louis-François Roubiliac

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fountaine's tomb at Narford

paragraph: BULLET::::- Images of Fountaine at the National Portrait Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Fountain Collection of Maiolica, Andrew Moore, "The Burlington Magazine", Vol. 130, No. 1023 (Jun., 1988), pp. 435–447

alias:
Andrew, Sir Fountaine
Sir Andrew Fountaine

description: English antiquarian, art collector and architect

wikidata_label: Andrew Fountaine

wikipedia_title: Andrew Fountaine (art collector)


text: mystery

text: lost world

text: short stories

text: novels

text: The All-Story Weekly

text: The Smart Set

text: Yellow Men Sleep

text: The Century Company

text: The Symphonic Step Stimulators

text: Georges Gurdjieff

categories: 1963 deaths,American male short story writers,20th-century American novelists,American male novelists,American fantasy writers,1893 births,American mystery writers,20th-century American short story writers

paragraph: Jeremy Lane (writer)

paragraph: Jeremy Lane (April 29, 1893 - ) was an American writer of mystery and lost world short stories and novels. His stories appeared in pulp magazines including "The All-Story Weekly", "Top-Notch Magazine", "The Smart Set" and "People's Favorite Magazine". His books, usually starring his detective hero Whitney Wheat, included "Death To Drumbeat", "Murder Menageries", "Murder Spoils Everything", "Kill Him Tonight", "The Left Hand of God" and "Murder Has Bright Eyes". His novel, "Yellow Men Sleep", was published by The Century Company in 1919.

paragraph: Born Herman Dale Schuchert in Mishawaka, Indiana, on April 29, 1893, he took the pen name Jeremy Lane (and later legally changed his name to that) to avoid post-World War I anti-German backlash as he was beginning his musical and literary careers.

paragraph: As “Jerry” Lane he also led a small dance band known as "The Symphonic Step Stimulators" which toured the Midwest from the early 1920s into the 1940s. In the 1950s and 1960s he was a reporter and feature writer for a local newspaper in New York State’s Mohawk Valley region.

paragraph: With his wife Betty (née Bessie May Ross 1890-1945), he was part of the so-called “group” who studied in Chicago with Georges Gurdjieff, an Armenian Russian (1877-1949) who combined ideas from Eastern mysticism and religions with his own ideas about living a full and productive life.

paragraph: His daughter Liela (1920-2014), known professionally as Lee Murray, was a popular radio/TV/cable personality in the Detroit, Michigan area from the mid-1960s through the 1980s.

description: writer

wikidata_label: Jeremy Lane

wikipedia_title: Jeremy Lane (writer)


text: Tbilisi

text: American

text: archer

text: Georgian

text: last names

text: Soviet Union

text: Unified Team

text: Georgia

text: Tbilisi, Georgia

text: Unified Team

text: 1992 Olympics

text: 1996 Olympics

text: 2000 Olympics

text: 2008 Olympics

text: Beijing

text: Virginie Arnold

text: France

text: Alison Williamson

text: Ana Rendón

text: Yun Ok-Hee

text: Jennifer Lawrence

text: The Hunger Games

text: Bridgestone

text: 2016 Rio Olympic Games

text: NBC Olympics Athlete Bio

categories: Pan American Games competitors for the United States,Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States,Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team,Sportspeople from Tbilisi,Archers at the 1992 Summer Olympics,American female archers,Soviet female archers,Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics,Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics,Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States,Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics,Olympic archers of the United States,Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics,Archers at the 2015 Pan American Games,Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics,Archers at the 2011 Pan American Games,Olympic archers of Georgia (country),Olympic archers of the Unified Team,Olympic medalists in archery,Living people,American people of Georgian (country) descent,Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States,World Archery Championships medalists,Female archers from Georgia (country),Georgian emigrants to the United States,1974 births

paragraph: Khatuna Lorig

paragraph: Khatuna Lorig (; born January 1, 1974 in Tbilisi as Khatuna Kvrivishvili, ) is an American archer of Georgian origin.

paragraph: She has used at least 3 different last names while competing in and representing various different countries.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khatuna Kvrivichvili, Soviet Union (part of the Unified Team) at Barcelona 1992. At the age of 18, she won the bronze medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khatuna Lorigi, while competing for Georgia in the Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000) Olympic games.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khatuna Lorig, from 2004 when she was unable to participate in the Olympic Games in Athens because of citizenship issues. She competed for the United States at the 2008 Olympics. Then, at the age of 38 she competed again for Team USA at the 2012 London Olympics.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Lorig's hometown is Tbilisi, Georgia, where she started her archery training in 6th grade at a state-sponsored school. Her training involved learning how to hold a bow for eight months while looking in the mirror before being able to actually load an arrow.

paragraph: Lorig earned individual bronze and team gold medals at the 1990 European Championships in Barcelona competing for the Soviet Union. She also earned individual and team gold medals at the 1992 European Championships in Malta.

paragraph: When she was 18 and while four months pregnant, Lorig earned a bronze medal in women's team competing for the Unified Team at the 1992 Olympics. Lorig went on to compete for Georgia at the 1996 Olympics. After competing in the 1996 Olympics in the United States, she decided to remain in the US and settled in Brooklyn, NY and later New Jersey. She competed again for Georgia at the 2000 Olympics as Khatuna Lorigi.

paragraph: Lorig became a naturalized U.S. citizen and qualified to compete in the women's individual archery event at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. There Lorig finished her ranking round with a total of 635 points. This gave her the 26th seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Virginie Arnold in the first round, beating the archer from France with 107-105. In the second round she was too strong for Alison Williamson with 112-109 and via Ana Rendón (107-95) she achieved her place in the quarter final. There she was unable to beat eventual bronze medalist Yun Ok-Hee who won the match with 111-105.

paragraph: She taught actress Jennifer Lawrence how to shoot with a recurve bow for the 2012 film "The Hunger Games".

paragraph: In April 2016, she received her first sponsorship deal with a non-archery brand, appearing in a commercial for Bridgestone tires. She was also selected to be part of "Team Bridgestone," a group of 6 Olympic and Paralympic athletes attempting to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- NBC Olympics Athlete Bio (defunct)

paragraph: BULLET::::- American dream is right on target for archer Lorig

description: archer

wikidata_label: Khatuna Lorig

wikipedia_title: Khatuna Lorig


text: Meroitic

text: Meroe

text: Lepsius

text: Neues Museum

text: British Museum

text: Natakamani

categories: Kings of Kush,1st-century monarchs in Africa

paragraph: Amanitenmemide

paragraph: Amanitenmemide was a Nubian king whose throne name was Nebmaatre. His name is written in Meroitic, while his throne name is written in classical Egyptian hieroglyphs. He is thus far only known from his pyramid in Meroe (Beg. N17). The pyramid occupies an area of 8.6 X 8.6 m and is, therefore, one of the smaller royal pyramids at Meroe. In front of the pyramid there was a decorated chapel. The decoration was copied by the Lepsius expedition. One wall was brought to Berlin, where it is displayed in the Neues Museum. Another, now only preserved in six blocks, is in the British Museum in London.

paragraph: Three skeletons were found in the burial chamber of the pyramid - two of them belonging to women, the third to a man of about 30 years, which are, perhaps, the remains of the king himself.

paragraph: There is little evidence for dating the king. The small size of the pyramid indicates a date after Natakamani, under whom the pyramids in general became smaller. It has been suggested that Amanitenmemide belongs to the first century AD.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inge Hofmann, "Beiträge zur meroitischen Chronologie", St. Augustin bei Bonn 1978, p. 139,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Laszlo Török, in: "Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. III", Bergen 1998, p. 914-916,

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The decoration of the chapel copied by the Lepsius expedition (top left and bottom left)

wikidata_label: Amanitenmemide

wikipedia_title: Amanitenmemide


text: Prague

text: Czech

text: slalom canoeist

text: ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

text: World Cup

text: European Championships

text: 2008 Summer Olympics

text: Beijing

text: C1 event

text: 2012 Summer Olympics

text: London

text: C1 event

text: C2 event

text: Vavřinec Hradilek

text: Beijing2008.cm profile

categories: Czech male canoeists,1976 births,Olympic canoeists of the Czech Republic,Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics,Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics,Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships,Living people

paragraph: Stanislav Ježek

paragraph: Stanislav Ježek (; born 21 November 1976 in Prague) is a Czech slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 1994.

paragraph: He won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C1 team: 2002), a silver (C1 team: 2006), and six bronzes (C1: 2006, C1 team: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011).

paragraph: He is the overall World Cup champion in C1 from 1999 and 2011. He also won a total of 7 medals at the European Championships (1 gold, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes).

paragraph: Ježek also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the C1 event, he finished fourth in the qualification round, thus progressing to the semifinals. In the semifinals he finished second, managing to reach the top eight and the final round. In the final he finished fifth. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he repeated his 5th position in the C1 event. He also started in the C2 event with Vavřinec Hradilek where they finished 9th after being eliminated in the semifinals.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships 12 September 2010 C1 men's team final results - accessed 12 September 2010.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beijing2008.cm profile

description: Czech canoeist, olympionic and water slalomist

wikidata_label: Stanislav Ježek

wikipedia_title: Stanislav Ježek


text:
recorded
Kingdom of Nri
Nigeria
British colonial
Christian missionaries
Awka
Northcote W. Thomas
taboo
abomination

categories: 20th-century deaths,Nri-Igbo,Nri monarchs,Kingdom of Nri,19th-century births

paragraph: Eze Nri Òbalíke

paragraph: Eze Nri Òbalíke is the 15th recorded Eze Nri of the Kingdom of Nri in modern-day southeastern Nigeria. He is said to have ruled from around the year 1889 till 1936.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Nomination as Eze Nri.

paragraph: Obalike mentioned a dream as central to his candidacy, as signs were supposedly given to the next Eze Nri spiritually, he is quoted saying:

paragraph: One night Enwelana, the last Eze Nri, appeared to him and said he was the chosen man; thereupon he proceeded to offer sacrifices.

paragraph: Section::::History.:British rule.

paragraph: Accompanied by British colonial authority, Christian missionaries, saw the existing ritual system of administration, based on traditional religious faith, as a barrier to the spread of their gospel. When the British continued to take over the administration of the Igbo in 1907, both the forces of the colonial authority and the Christian missionaries focused on destroying the Nri traditional authority. Military attempts to capture Nri and the Eze Nri ended in complete failure. However, forcing Eze Nri Obalike, against a long-standing tradition, to leave Nri town to attend the native at Awka by threatening to commit genocide against the Igbos, was one of the acts designed to achieve this end. Eze Nri Obalike agreed to leave Nri in order to save innocent lives. The government anthropologist, Northcote W. Thomas, confirmed that when Eze Nri Obalike appeared in the court, ‘the whole assembly rose and prepared to flee’. This is because, that was the first time an Ezenri was seen in person.

paragraph: The final act of destruction, after the British introduced the warrant Chief system in 1911, was to force all chiefs and community leaders to denounce the Eze Nri. But before then, Eze Nri Obalike was also forced to annul all codes of taboo and abomination still binding the towns to Nri. It was as the result of this hostility that the ritual influence of Nri narrowed to the nearest relations of the kingship. These were made up of Nri (Agukwu, Akamkpisi and Diodo), Enugwu-Ukwu, Nawfia, Enugwu-Agidi and Oruora jointly referred to as Umunri. Though the five towns mentioned above are said to belong to Umu-Nri clan, they are not direct descendants of Nri Ifikuanim.

description: Ruler of Nri

wikidata_label: Eze Nri Òbalíke

wikipedia_title: Eze Nri Òbalíke


text: Riga

text: Latvia

text: Moscow

text: USSR

text: Latvian

text: silent movie

text: Latvia

text: Germany

text: Russia

text: Latvian Operation

text: rehabilitated

text: corpus delicti

text: Last Address

text: The Green Alley

text: The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen

text: Sunken Worlds

text: Children of Darkness

text: The Rats

text: The Fear of Women

text: The Red Masquerade Ball

text: Eternal River

text: Satanas

text: Lola Montez

text: Profile

text: Marija Leiko filmography

text: Marija Leiko filmography

categories: Latvian silent film actresses,Latvian people executed by the Soviet Union,Latvian stage actresses,1938 deaths,People from the Governorate of Livonia,Great Purge victims from Latvia,20th-century Latvian actresses,Soviet rehabilitations,Executed Latvian people,People from Riga,1887 births

paragraph: Marija Leiko

paragraph: Marija Leiko (also known as Marija Leyko; 14 August 1887, Riga, Latvia – 3 February 1938, Moscow, USSR) was a Latvian silent movie actress in Europe since the 1910s, especially popular in Latvia, Germany and Russia.

paragraph: Section::::Life and film career.

paragraph: Leiko conquered the German big screen first, starring in the "Die Diamantenstiftung" (1917), "Kain" (1918), "Ewiger Strom" (1919), "Die Frau im Käfig" (1919) and "Lola Montez" (1919) as the dancer.

paragraph: When the silent movie era ended Leiko retired from film acting. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, she returned to her native Latvia. In 1935 she visited the Soviet Union and stayed to join the company of the Latvian State Theatre in Moscow.

paragraph: During the so-called "Latvian Operation" the theatre was shut down, and on 15 December 1937, Leiko was arrested on charges of belonging to a "Latvian nationalist conspiracy". On 3 February 1938 at the age of 50 she was shot and buried in a mass grave at the secret NKVD killing field at Butovo, near Moscow.

paragraph: Maria Leiko was posthumously rehabilitated for the absence of a crime (corpus delicti) on May 12, 1958.

paragraph: Section::::Memory.

paragraph: On May 14, 2017 in Moscow on the wall of the house 9, building 3 at memorial sign "Last Address of Maria Karlovna Leiko" was posted.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Räuberbande" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Green Alley" (1928) playing Katherina Rezek

paragraph: BULLET::::- "At Ruedesheimer Castle There Is a Lime Tree" (1928) playing Fritz's mother

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Aufstieg der kleinen Lilian" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dr. Wislizenus" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Der Frauenkönig" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Schneiderkomteß" (1922) playing the young Comtesse

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sunken Worlds" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Children of Darkness" (1921, 2 pats) playing Maria Geone

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Frau von morgen" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rats" (1921) playing Pauline Piperkarcka

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fear of Women" (1921) playing Reederstochter

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Am Webstuhl der Zeit" (1921) (as Marija Leyko) playing Ruth Einser, Hansen's assistant

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brandherd" (aka "Verlogene Moral". English release title "Torgus") (1921) playing Anna

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Red Masquerade Ball" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Kwannon von Okadera" (1920) playing Ingele von Geortz

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eternal River" (1920) playing Marija

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Satanas" (English release tite: "Satan") (1920) playing Irene

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Frau im Käfig" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Freie Liebe" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lola Montez" (aka "aka Am Hofe Ludwigs I. von Bayern)" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Das Frühlingslied" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Diamantenstiftung" (1917)

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guna Zeltina, Anita Uzulniece Language: Latvian Riga Liesma 155 pages (Illustrated) January 1989

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, kino-teatr.ru; accessed 14 August 2015.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marija Leiko filmography, mcomet.com; accessed 14 August 2015.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marija Leiko filmography, citwf.com; accessed 14 August 2015.

description: Latvian actress

wikidata_label: Marija Leiko

wikipedia_title: Marija Leiko


text:
Wijchen
Gelderland
Dutch
BMX
BMX World Cup
Victoria, British Columbia
Taiyuan
2008 Summer Olympics
Beijing
UCI World Championships
Copenhagen
Denmark
Union Cycliste Internationale
List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

categories: Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands,People from Wijchen,1989 births,BMX riders,Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics,Living people,Dutch female cyclists

paragraph: Lieke Klaus

paragraph: Lieke Klaus (born October 28, 1989 in Wijchen, Gelderland) is a Dutch BMX racer.

paragraph: Klaus reached her first podium spot at a BMX World Cup meeting in 2007 when she won the bronze medal in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In 2008, she reached the quarter final at the World Championships in Taiyuan and she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

paragraph: During the 2011 UCI World Championships of BMX in Copenhagen, Denmark, Lieke reached a 14th place in the Elite Women Time-Trial Superfinal and reached a 4th place in the Elite Women Challenge competition.

paragraph: These results moved Klaus to rank 40 in the world, according to Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

paragraph: Section::::Palmarès.

paragraph: Section::::Palmarès.:BMX.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011

paragraph: Section::::Palmarès.:Track cycling.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

description: Dutch BMX rider

wikidata_label: Lieke Klaus

wikipedia_title: Lieke Klaus


text: American pioneer

text: historian

text: physician

text: philosopher

text: naturalist

text: Alabama

text: Mississippi

text: Texas

text: Thirteen Colonies

text: Native Americans

text: Deep South

text: Warren County, Georgia

text: Muskogees

text: Tombigbee River

text: Columbus, Mississippi

text: Choctaw

text: Mississippi

text: Choctaw language

text: Texas

text: English

text: Confederate colony

text: Tuxpan, Veracruz

text: Mexico

text: Long Point, Texas

text: Chickasaw

text: Creek

text: Choctaw

text: Native Americans

text: Indian Removal

text: Charles Darwin

text: Autobiography of Gideon Lincecum

text: William Bartram

text: Daniel Boone

text: Cyrus Byington

text: Horatio B. Cushman

text: Henry S. Halbert

text: John R. Swanton

text: Gideon Lincecum's Find-A-Grave Website

text: Texas History - Gideon Lincecum

categories: People from Warren County, Georgia,1793 births,1874 deaths,American historians,Historians of Native Americans

paragraph: Gideon Lincecum

paragraph: Gideon Lincecum (22 April 1793 – 28 November 1874) was an American pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, and naturalist. Lincecum is known for his exploration and settlement of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. Lincecum had good relations with Native Americans as he explored the wilderness in the American Deep South. He was son of Hezekiah and Sally (Hickman) Lincecum, and was born in Warren County, Georgia, on April 22, 1793. Lincecum was self-educated. He spent his boyhood principally in the company of Muskogees. After successive moves, he and his wife, the former Sarah Bryan, moved in 1818 with his parents and siblings to the Tombigbee River, above the site of present Columbus, Mississippi.

paragraph: While living among the Choctaw in Mississippi, he recorded their legends and traditions in the Choctaw language. After moving to Texas, he translated it to English as the "Chahta Tradition".

paragraph: He sought a new frontier in 1868 and, at the age of seventy-six, with a widowed daughter and her seven children, joined a Confederate colony in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico. He died on November 28, 1874 after a long illness at his Long Point, Texas, home.

paragraph: Section::::Historian.

paragraph: Lincecum had contact with Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Choctaw Native Americans before the Indian Removals of the 1830s began. He learned how to speak and write their languages, learned about their medicine, and recorded their history. Lincecum frequently visited an elderly Choctaw man named "Chahta Immataha", who gave him a detailed account of Choctaw oral history. Historian Patricia Galloway notes that Lincecum's "narrative is not reliable."

paragraph: Section::::Naturalist.

paragraph: Lincecum was a self-taught naturalist. Lincecum would spend "countless hours observing birds, insects, weather, rocks, and plants. He regularly corresponded with like-minded individuals, including Charles Darwin on two occasions. He published numerous articles in scholarly scientific journals and came to be recognized as a thorough and respectable researcher, in spite of his lack of formal education."

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- “Autobiography of Gideon Lincecum”, Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 8 (1905), 443-519.

paragraph: BULLET::::- “Choctaw Traditions about Their Settlement in Mississippi and the Origin of Their Mounds.”Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 8 (1904), 521-542.

paragraph: BULLET::::- “Life of Apushimataha.” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 9 (1906), 415-485.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pushmataha: A Choctaw Leader and His People." Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2004.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum", Edited by Jerry Bryan Lincecum, Edward Hake Phillips, and Peggy A. Redshaw. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Traditional History of the Chahta Nation, Translated from the Chahta", Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas, 1861.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Burkhalter, Lois Wood (1965). "Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874: A Biography". Austin: University of Texas Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jerry Bryan Lincecum and Edward Hake Phillips, eds. "Adventures of a Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Dr. Gideon Lincecum" (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Bartram

paragraph: BULLET::::- Daniel Boone

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cyrus Byington

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horatio B. Cushman

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry S. Halbert

paragraph: BULLET::::- John R. Swanton

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gideon Lincecum's Find-A-Grave Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mississippi Pioneer and Man of Many Talents

paragraph: BULLET::::- Texas History - Gideon Lincecum

description: American historian

wikidata_label: Gideon Lincecum

wikipedia_title: Gideon Lincecum


text: trader

text: Kittery

text: Maine

text: Bideford

text: Devon

text: England

text: New England

text: Dover, New Hampshire

text: Portland

text: sagamore

text: Sebascodegan Island

text: Harpswell

text: trading post

text: squatter

text: confluence

text: Ossipee River

text: Saco River

text: Cornish

text: Route 5

text: Route 25

text: Route 113

text: fur trade

text: wilderness

text: Abenaki

text: credit

text: fur

text: debt

text: pine

text: forest

text: compensation

text: Little Ossipee River

text: Salmon Falls River

text: blanket

text: rum

text: powder

text: musket ball

text: bead

text: Limington

text: Limerick

text: Newfield

text: Parsonsfield

text: Shapleigh

text: Acton

text: Eliot

text: Piscataqua River

text: King Philip's War

text: English

text: Cape Small

text: Phippsburg

text: King William's War

text: New France

text: Acadia

text: Truro, Massachusetts

text: James Sullivan

text: Francis Small Heritage Trust

categories: Native American history of Maine,1714 deaths,People from Bideford,American fur traders,People from Kittery, Maine,People of colonial Maine,1625 births,People of pre-statehood Maine

paragraph: Francis Small

paragraph: Francis Small (October 6, 1625 – ca. 1714) was an enterprising trader and landowner residing primarily in Kittery, Maine. He made the first recorded land purchase in what is now Maine, and proceeded to amass so much that he was called "the great landholder." He possessed the largest number of acres of anyone who ever lived in Maine.

paragraph: Section::::Life and business.

paragraph: Small was the only child of Edward Small and Elizabeth Shurtt of Bideford, Devonshire, England who is known to have remained in America. There is no record of the other five children ever coming to the American Colonies. Francis is believed to have arrived in New England with his father about 1632. In 1648, he was residing in Dover, New Hampshire, and married Elizabeth Leighton of Kittery about 1650. While living in Casco (now Portland) in 1657, he bought from Scitterygusset, a local sagamore, about 200 acres (80.94 hectares) located on the northern side of Capisic Brook. In 1659, Small established a trading camp on Sebascodegan Island, now part of Harpswell. By 1668, he resided in Kittery, with a trading post (as a squatter) near the confluence of the Ossipee River and Saco River at what is now Cornish. Here major Indian trails converged—the Sokokis Trail (now Route 5), the Ossipee Trail (now Route 25), and the Pequawket Trail (now Route 113) – a location conducive towards lucrative fur trade with Indians, but also with risks of living isolated in the wilderness.

paragraph: Section::::Plot on his life.

paragraph: Indeed, Chief Wesumbe (or Captain Sandy), the sagamore of the Newichewannock Abenaki tribe, warned Small of a planned attempt on his life by renegade tribesmen. They were indebted to the trader, having purchased goods in the spring on credit, to be paid in the fall with furs. Instead, they decided to erase the debt by killing him at early dawn on a certain day, setting fire to his house and shooting him when he ran out the door. At first Small thought the warning a trick to frighten him away and avoid payment. Just to be on the safe side, however, he took refuge on a nearby hill, from which he could peer through the pines and observe what might transpire. Sure enough, at first light his trading post went up in flames, illuminating the dark forest. Small began running and didn't stop until he reached Kittery.

paragraph: Section::::The Ossipee Tract.

paragraph: As compensation for his losses, Chief Wesumbe sold to Small on November 28, 1668, twenty miles square of land, in all 256,000 acres (103,600 hectares), between the Ossipee River, Little Ossipee River, and Newichewannock River (now Salmon Falls River). The price was two large Indian blankets, two gallons of rum, two pounds of powder, four pounds of musket balls and twenty strings of Indian beads. The purchase comprised what is called the Ossipee Tract – Limington, Limerick, Cornish (formerly named Francisborough after its early proprietor), Newfield, Parsonsfield and Shapleigh (part of which was later set off as Acton). Small thereupon sold a half interest in the Ossipee Tract to Major Nicholas Shapleigh, who lived at what is now Eliot, and was then the richest man in the Piscataqua River region.

paragraph: But Indian unrest flared in 1675–1676 with King Philip's War. English settlements up the coast were attacked and burned until the revolt was quashed. About 1684, Small operated a trading post on Cape Small (which takes its name from him) at the extremity of what is today Phippsburg. During King William's War, however, English settlements in the region were destroyed again in 1689 by Abenaki warriors allied with the forces of New France, which resented encroachment into territory it considered part of Acadia. The area was deserted. Small took part in the Ossipee Excursion in this war.

paragraph: About 1700, Small moved from Kittery to Truro, Massachusetts to live with his son, Daniel. Major Nicholas Shapleigh died in 1682, followed 32 years later by Small. Then in 1770, the original unrecorded deed from Wesumbe to Francis Small was found by Small's heirs. Together with the heirs of Shapleigh, in 1772 they appointed a committee to recover the land. Accompanied by a surveyor and chairman, the committee marked what became the towns' boundaries. Represented by attorney James Sullivan, Small's heirs took possession of Cornish, Limington, Newfield and half of Limerick, while Shapleigh's heirs took possession of Parsonsfield, Shapleigh and the remainder of Limerick, the latter town presented by both sets of heirs to Sullivan as his fee.

paragraph: Section::::The Ossipee Tract.:Wesumbe deed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wesumbe deed, November 28, 1668; Maine Historical Society

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francis Small Heritage Trust

description: American colonial

wikidata_label: Francis Small

wikipedia_title: Francis Small


text: La Orotava

text: Tenerife

text: Virgin of Candelaria

text: Canary Islands

text: La Orotava

text: Tenerife

text: Franciscan

text: Jose Luján Pérez

text: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

text: Santa Cruz de Tenerife

text: Tenerife

text: Christ crucified

text: Chapter house

text: Cathedral of La Laguna

text: San Cristóbal de La Laguna

text: Immaculate Conception

text: Virgin of Candelaria

text: Santa Cruz de La Palma

text: Virgin of Carmen

text: Lanzarote

text: Tinajo

text: Gran Canaria

text: Virgin of the Rosary

text: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

text: John the Baptist

text: Telde

categories: Spanish sculptors,18th-century Spanish artists,People from Tenerife

paragraph: Fernando Estévez

paragraph: Fernando Estévez was a Spanish sculptor of the 18th century from La Orotava, Tenerife. He is considered one of the Canary Islands most noted sculptors.

paragraph: It is known for being the creator of the image of the Virgin of Candelaria, patron saint of the Canary Islands.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Fernando Estévez was born in 1788 in La Orotava, northern town of the island of Tenerife, where his father had its own silver workshop at your home address. From his earliest years, Fernando showed innate talent for plastic art, using knowledge of silverware but above all in the design.

paragraph: Apart from the artistic home, Fernando had a great vocation to evoke in the urban landscape artist. The first artistic training was received by Fernando Estévez in the Franciscan monastery of San Lorenzo, in La Orotava. There he met the painter, sculptor and architect Jose Luján Pérez, so he worked in his studio in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria until 1808 in which Fernando Estévez opened his own workshop in La Orotava. In 1846 he opened a workshop in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Thereafter, he also taught at the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: His sculptures represent exclusively religious themes. Among his most important works in Tenerife include the sculpture of the Christ crucified found in the Chapter house of the Cathedral of La Laguna. Also, the image representing the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Olives in Church of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (San Cristóbal de La Laguna) and the Immaculate Conception which is in the same church. His most famous work is undoubtedly the Virgin of Candelaria (patron saint of the Canary Islands) created in 1827 to replace the original image that disappeared in 1826 after a storm.

paragraph: In other islands they include other works by him: In Santa Cruz de La Palma the Christ of Forgiveness and the Virgin of Carmen that they are in the Church of the Savior. In Lanzarote, he highlights the image of the Virgin of Candelaria is the Church of San Roque in Tinajo. On the island of Gran Canaria include images of the Virgin of the Rosary (Church of Santo Domingo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and St. John the Baptist at the St. John the Baptist Basilica in Telde.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fernando Estévez is considered "Hijo Ilustre" of La Orotava.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The main art school in the Canary Islands named after him: "Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño Fernando Estévez" is located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

description: Spanish artist

wikidata_label: Fernando Estévez

wikipedia_title: Fernando Estévez


text:
artist
author
singer
web designer
photographer
Detroit
Michigan
Eugene
Oregon
photography
digital painting
collage
self-portrait
symbol
surgical instrument
human anatomy
mortality
Stars and Stripes
nature
tarot
Schiffer Publishing
lowbrow
Major Arcana
La Luz de Jesus
Los Angeles
California
coffee table book
Molly Crabapple
David Stoupakis
Chet Zar
Angie Mason
Daniel Martin Diaz
Chris Mars
vineyard
Rocheport
Missouri
Syrah
Schiffer Publishing
Schiffer Publishing
Schiffer Publishing
Schiffer Publishing
Schiffer Publishing
Alexi Era Gallery
Eugene
La Luz de Jesus
Los Angeles
St. Louis
St. Louis
St. Louis
Aunia Kahn website
Video interview with Aunia Kahn

categories: Artists from Illinois,American contemporary artists,American women artists,1977 births,Artists from Detroit,Living people

paragraph: Aunia Kahn

paragraph: Aunia Marie Kahn (born December 5, 1977) is an American artist, author, singer, web designer and photographer.

paragraph: She was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and currently lives in Eugene, Oregon.

paragraph: Kahn originally began creating art as a therapeutic response to a difficult upbringing, rather than through a wish to build a career. At the urging of a friend, her work was first exhibited publicly in December 2005 as part of the "Voices Within Surviving Through the Arts" show mounted by the St. Louis Artists' Guild. She has garnered several awards, having been featured in numerous publications, and represented and collected nationally and internationally, along with being a published author has provided her a platform to guest lectures at colleges and universities. She also undertakes commissions and other collaborative projects.

paragraph: Entirely self-taught, her work blends elements of photography, digital painting and collage. Most of her work includes aspects of self-portraiture and incorporates likenesses of herself.

paragraph: Her art frequently features juxtaposition of symbols. Representations of surgical instruments, human anatomy and mortality are common features, set against political symbols such as the Stars and Stripes and images from nature.

paragraph: An interest in tarot led to the creation of the Silver Era Tarot deck, made up of original designs featuring Kahn and author Russell J. Moon, published by Schiffer Publishing in April 2010.

paragraph: In October 2010 Kahn curated the Lowbrow Tarot Project, a collection of pieces loosely centered on the lowbrow art style, representing the 22 cards of the Major Arcana and a 23rd piece representing the back of the cards. The works were exhibited at La Luz de Jesus gallery, Los Angeles, California, and were published as a coffee table book and a card deck. As well as Kahn herself, artists featured included Molly Crabapple, David Stoupakis, Chet Zar, Angie Mason, Daniel Martin Diaz and Chris Mars.

paragraph: Her piece "Rousing the Whirlwind" was chosen by Les Bourgeois vineyard, Rocheport, Missouri, to appear on the label of its limited edition 2005 Syrah. The wine went on sale in 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Obvious Remote Chaos", Old Line Publishing, 2010

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Silver Era Tarot", Schiffer Publishing, 2010

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lowbrow Tarot: An Artistic Collaborative Effort in Honor of Tarot", Schiffer Publishing, 2012

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lowbrow Tarot: Major Arcana Cards", Schiffer Publishing, 2012

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Inspirations for Survivors", Schiffer Publishing, 2012

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Witch's Oracle", Schiffer Publishing, 2014

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tarot Under Oath", Alexi Era Gallery, 2014

paragraph: Section::::Curated Shows.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All Exhibitions", Alexi Era Gallery, Eugene, 2012-2016

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lowbrow Tarot Project", La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, 2010

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Darkest Dreams a Lighted Way", Fort Gondo Compound For The Arts, St. Louis, 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Beauty From Within", ArtDimensions Gallery, St. Louis, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Art of Being a Woman", ArtDimensions Gallery, St. Louis, 2006

paragraph: Section::::Selected Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Art That Creeps", Strychnin Gallery and Korero, 2009, pp. 88–95

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mynameis" issue 8, Graphotism, 2010, pp. 136–157

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Photographer's Forum, Best of College Photography", Serbin Communications, 2009, p. 64

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aunia Kahn website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video interview with Aunia Kahn

description: American artist and musician

wikidata_label: Aunia Kahn

wikipedia_title: Aunia Kahn


text:
Count of Guelders
Gerard I, Count of Guelders
Ermgard of Zutphen
Otto II, Count of Zutphen
Henry I, Count of Guelders

categories: 1090s births,House of Wassenberg,11th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire,Counts of Guelders,12th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire,1131 deaths

paragraph: Gerard II, Count of Guelders

paragraph: Gerard II was Count of Guelders from March 1129 until his death on October 24, 1131. He was the son of Gerard I, Count of Guelders.

paragraph: Around 1116, Gerard married Ermgard of Zutphen, daughter of Otto II, Count of Zutphen and Judith of Arnstein. They had two children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry I, Count of Guelders married Agnes of Arnstein, daughter of count Louis III of Arnstein.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Salome of Guelders, married Henry I, Count of Wildeshausen.

description: Dutch noble

wikidata_label: Gerard II, Count of Guelders

wikipedia_title: Gerard II, Count of Guelders


text:
Cambiano
Vatican
Roman Catholic
Archbishop
Slovak
Josef Tiso
Pius XII
Slovak National Uprising
Titular Archbishop
Gortyna
Apostolic Nuncio
Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
The Holocaust

categories: The Holocaust in Slovakia,Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany,Diplomats of the Holy See

paragraph: Giuseppe Burzio

paragraph: Giuseppe Burzio (1901-1966), born Cambiano, Italy, was a Vatican diplomat and Roman Catholic Archbishop.

paragraph: Ordained in 1924, he enrolled in the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy Class of 1926 and was commissioned into the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1929 when he was sent to Peru as a Secretary 2nd class. Later he served in Czechoslovakia (1935–38, as auditor) and Lithuania (1938–40, as Chargé d'affaires) before being posted to Slovakia in 1940 as Chargé d'affaires before the Slovak regime of Josef Tiso. Pope Pius XII appointed the 39-year-old Burzio to bring pressure to bear on the Slovak government. Burzio advised Rome of the deteriorating situation for Jews in the Nazi puppet state, sparking Vatican protests on behalf of Jews. Burzio also lobbied the Slovak government directly.

paragraph: In 1942 Burzio and others reported to Tiso that the Germans were murdering Slovakia's deported Jews. Tiso hesitated and then refused to deport Slovakia's 24,000 remaining Jews. When the transportation began again in 1943, Burzio challenged Prime Minister Tuka over the extermination of Slovak Jews. The Vatican condemned the renewal of the deportations on 5 May and the Slovak episcopate issued a pastoral letter condemning totalitarianism and antisemitism on 8 May 1943. In August 1944, the Slovak National Uprising rose against the People's Party regime. German troops were sent to quell the rebellion and with them came security police charged with rounding up Slovakia's remaining Jews. Burzio begged Tiso directly to at least spare Catholic Jews from transportation and delivered an admonition from the Pope: "the injustice wrought by his government is harmful to the prestige of his country and enemies will exploit it to discredit clergy and the Church the world over.”

paragraph: Following the war, he was ordained Titular Archbishop of Gortyna in 1946. He was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba in 1950 and resigned the position in 1955.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church and Nazi Germany

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Holocaust

description: Italian priest and diplomat

wikidata_label: Giuseppe Burzio

wikipedia_title: Giuseppe Burzio