text: Hindu

text: Charan

text: Durga

text: Jodhpur

text: Bikaner

text: ascetic

text: Mehrangarh Fort

text: most famous of her temples

text: Deshnoke

text: Bikaner

text: Rajasthan

text: white rat

text: Rao Jodha

text: Ajmer

text: Merta

text: Mandor

text: Rao Bika

text: Rao Shekha

text: Pungal

text: Rathor

text: Bhatian

text: fort of Bikaner

text: Maharaja of Jaisalmer

text: Kolayat

text: tehsil

text: blackbuck

text: Temple of Rats

text: Karni Mata, Udaipur

text: Udaipur

text: Rajasthan

text: Udaipur

text: Alwar

text: Camel festival

text: Explanation of Karni (Karniji)

text: Read Details about Karni Mata Temple

text: Deshnok Temple

categories: People from Jodhpur district,Folk deities of Rajasthan,Hindu sages,Ascetics,1387 births

paragraph: Karni Mata

paragraph: Karni Mata ( or Karniji;) (Karni Mata is also referred to as "Nari Bai") (circa 2 October 1387 – circa ,) was a female Hindu warrior sage born in the Charan caste. Also known as Shri Karniji Maharaj, she is worshiped as the incarnation of the warrior goddess Durga by her followers. She is an official deity of the royal families of Jodhpur and Bikaner. She lived an ascetic life and was widely revered during her own lifetime. At the request of the Maharajas of Bikaner and Jodhpur, she laid the foundation stones of Bikaner Fort and Mehrangarh Fort, the two most important forts in the region. The most famous of her temples is in the small town of Deshnoke, near Bikaner in Rajasthan, and was created following her mysterious disappearance from her home. The temple is famous for its white rats, which are treated as sacred and given protection in the temple. Another temple dedicated to her during her lifetime differs from others in that it does not contain an image or idol of her, but rather a footprint to symbolize her visit to that place. Karni Mata is also known as “dadi wali dokri (beard bearing old lady).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: According to tradition, Karni Mata was originally the wife of Depoji Charan, of the village of Sathika. However, she later expressed unwillingness to her husband to engage in conjugal relations. He initially humoured her, thinking that she would relent in time. Instead, Karni arranged for him to marry her younger sister, Gulab, so that he might have a proper married life. She herself remained celibate all her life with the agreement and support of her husband, who died in 1454.

paragraph: Karni lived in her husband's village for about two years before leaving with her followers and a herd of cattle, to live a nomadic life. She and her followers once made camp at the village of Jangloo. A servant of Rao Kanha who was ruler of Jangloo denied Karni, her followers, and their cattle access to water. Karni Mata declared her follower, Rao Ridmal of Chandasar, the new ruler of the village and continued on her journey. Karni Mata stopped wandering further and settled at Deshnok.

paragraph: In 1453, she gave her blessing to Rao Jodha of Jodhpur for conquering Ajmer, Merta and Mandor. In 1457, she went to Jodhpur at Rao Jodha's request, to lay the cornerstone of the Mehrangarh Fort at Jodhpur.

paragraph: Her first temple was constructed in the village of Mathania during her lifetime by her follower Amara Charan. In 1472, she arranged the marriage between Rao Bika and Rang Kunwar. Rao Bika was the fifth son of Rao Jodha, and Rang Kunwar was the daughter of Rao Shekha of Pungal. The marriage was arranged to turn the enmity of the Rathor and Bhatian families into friendship.

paragraph: In 1485, she laid the foundation stone of the fort of Bikaner at the request of Rao Bika.

paragraph: In 1538, Karniji went to visit the Maharaja of Jaisalmer.

paragraph: On 21 March 1538, she travelled back to Deshnok with her stepson, Poonjar, and a few other followers. They were near Gadiyala and Girirajsar of the Kolayat tehsil, in Bikaner district, when she asked the caravan to stop for water. It was reported that she disappeared there at the age of 151 years.

paragraph: In Rajasthan, the goddess Karni Mata is believed to protect the Krishna Saara Mriga (blackbuck).

paragraph: Section::::Karni Mata temples.

paragraph: Section::::Karni Mata temples.:Deshnoke.

paragraph: The most famous temple dedicated to Karni Mata is at Deshnoke, 30 km from Bikaner. It is also known as the Temple of Rats.

paragraph: Section::::Karni Mata temples.:Udaipur.

paragraph: Another temple dedicated to Karni Mata is Shri Manshapurna Karni Mata Temple or Karni Mata, Udaipur, located on the Machla Hills, near Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Park in Udaipur, Rajasthan. One can reach to the temple either by stairs, starting from Manikyalal Verma Park, or by ropeway.

paragraph: Between the years 1620 and 1628, Maharana Karan Singh developed a residential area at Machla Magra for Udaipur's safety. It was during this time that the Karni Mata Temple was built. Though for a long period the temple was deserted, in 1997 the Shri Manshapurna Karni Mata Development Committee rebuilt it.

paragraph: Section::::Karni Mata temples.:Alwar.

paragraph: A further temple dedicated to Karni Mata is located in the historical city of Alwar, Rajasthan. It is situated in the heart of city, near the Sagar Palace and Bala Qila.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Camel festival

paragraph: BULLET::::- Explanation of Karni (Karniji)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Read Details about Karni Mata Temple

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Geographic News: Rats Rule at Indian Temple

paragraph: BULLET::::- Deshnok Temple A three-minute video news report on Karni Mata, aka the "Bagwati Karniji" temple in Deshnoke, Rajasthan. Accessed 10 August 2007.

description: Hindu sage

wikidata_label: Karni Mata

wikipedia_title: Karni Mata


text:
German
mathematician
Laurahütte
Siemianowice Śląskie
Silesia
Germany
Poland
University of Breslau
University of Berlin
Technical University of Berlin
University of Kiel
projective configuration
incidence structure
Kőnig's theorem
German
Crelle's Journal
fields
prime field
perfect field
transcendence degree
field extension
algebraic closure
polyhedra
Steinitz's theorem
skeletons
connected
planar graph
Hans Rademacher
Steinitz class
Steinitz exchange lemma
Supernatural numbers
Lévy–Steinitz theorem

categories: 20th-century mathematicians,German mathematicians,1871 births,People from the Province of Silesia,University of Breslau alumni,University of Kiel faculty,People from Siemianowice Śląskie,Humboldt University of Berlin alumni,Technical University of Berlin faculty,German people of Jewish descent,1928 deaths,Algebraists

paragraph: Ernst Steinitz

paragraph: Ernst Steinitz (13 June 1871 – 29 September 1928) was a German mathematician.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Steinitz was born in Laurahütte (Siemianowice Śląskie), Silesia, Germany (now in Poland), the son of Sigismund Steinitz, a Jewish coal merchant, and his wife Auguste Cohen; he had two brothers. He studied at the University of Breslau and the University of Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. from Breslau in 1894. Subsequently, he took positions at Charlottenberg (now the Technical University of Berlin), Breslau, and the University of Kiel, Germany, where he died in 1928. Steinitz married Martha Steinitz and had one son.

paragraph: Section::::Mathematical works.

paragraph: Steinitz's 1894 thesis was on the subject of projective configurations; it contained the result that any abstract description of an incidence structure of three lines per point and three points per line could be realized as a configuration of straight lines in the Euclidean plane with the possible exception of one of the lines. His thesis also contains the proof of Kőnig's theorem for regular bipartite graphs, phrased in the language of configurations.

paragraph: In 1910 Steinitz published the very influential paper "Algebraische Theorie der Körper" (German: Algebraic Theory of Fields, "Crelle's Journal" (1910), 167–309). In this paper he axiomatically studies the properties of fields and defines important concepts like prime field, perfect field and the transcendence degree of a field extension. Steinitz proved that every field has an algebraic closure. He also made fundamental contributions to the theory of polyhedra: Steinitz's theorem for polyhedra is that the 1-skeletons of convex polyhedra are exactly the 3-connected planar graphs. His work in this area was published posthumously as a 1934 book, "Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Polyeder unter Einschluss der Elemente der Topologie", by Hans Rademacher.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steinitz class

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steinitz exchange lemma

paragraph: BULLET::::- Supernatural numbers

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lévy–Steinitz theorem

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- . As cited by Gropp.

description: German mathematician

wikidata_label: Ernst Steinitz

wikipedia_title: Ernst Steinitz


text: Peerage of Scotland

text: Clan Sutherland

text: New York City

text: Cromartie, Duke of Sutherland

text: big game

text: Rhodesia

text: malaria

text: George, Duke of Sutherland

text: Earl of Ellesmere

text: Dunrobin Castle

text: Clan Sutherland

categories: 20th-century Scottish women,Earls of Sutherland,21st-century Scottish people,Leveson-Gower family,20th-century Scottish people,1921 births,Hereditary women peers,Scottish countesses,Living people

paragraph: Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland ("née" Sutherland-Leveson-Gower; in Chelsea, London on 30 March 1921) is a Scottish noblewoman. She is the holder of an earldom in the Peerage of Scotland and is chief of Clan Sutherland.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Sutherland was the only child of Elizabeth Demarest (1892–1931), a daughter of Warren Gardener Demarest of New York City, and Major Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1890–1921), a son of Cromartie, Duke of Sutherland.

paragraph: Her father died while taking part in a big game expedition in Rhodesia, contracting malaria and dying there on 28 April 1921, aged 31. In 1931 her mother married Baron George Osten Driesen, she died three months after their wedding. Sutherland became a ward of her uncle George, Duke of Sutherland, and when he died without legitimate issue, she succeeded in her own right as the 24th Countess of Sutherland and Lady Strathnaver. The Dukedom and the other titles that could only pass in the male line were inherited by the Earl of Ellesmere. She also inherited most of her uncle's large land-holdings, including Dunrobin Castle. She subsequently dropped the double-barrels in her family name, in order to be recognised as Chief of Clan Sutherland.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: On 5 January 1946 Sutherland married journalist Charles Noel Janson (1917–2006) and together they had four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alistair Charles St Clair Sutherland, Lord Strathnaver, Master of Sutherland (born 7 January 1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alexander Charles Robert Sutherland, Master of Strathnaver (born 1 October 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Hon. Martin Dearman Sutherland Janson (born 7 January 1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Annabel Elizabeth Hélène Sutherland (born 16 May 1952)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Hon. Matthew Peter Demarest Sutherland (8 April 1955 – 5 December 1969)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland

description: British countess


text:
Minneapolis
Jimmy Jam
Chicago, Illinois
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Jimmy Jam
blues
jazz
Dinkytown
North Loop
West Bank
City Pages

categories: Singers from Minnesota,Living people,American blues pianists,American male pianists,20th-century American pianists,American blues singers,1927 births,20th-century male musicians,21st-century American pianists

paragraph: Cornbread Harris

paragraph: James Samuel "Cornbread" Harris Sr. (born James Samuel Harris Jr.; April 23, 1927) is an American musician. He is a singer and pianist who performs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was a performer on Minnesota's first rock 'n' roll record, and is the father of record producer Jimmy Jam.

paragraph: Section::::Family and early years.

paragraph: Harris was born James Samuel Harris Jr. on April 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of James Samuel Harris Sr. (1893–1930), a gambler, and his wife, Alberta Jones Nelson (1895–1930). When his father was shot while gambling and his mother died of grieving, he was orphaned at age 3. He lived with foster families until he was 11 or 12 when he and his sister went to live with his grandparents in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has been married four times. One of his daughters died. He is the father of Jimmy Jam (James Harris III) who produced records for Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Usher.

paragraph: Country music was an early influence, and Hank Williams and Gene Autry are among his early favorites.

paragraph: Section::::Later career.

paragraph: Harris helped invent Augie Garcia's "Hi Yo Silver," a 1955 song that was Minnesota's first rock 'n' roll recording. He performed on the record, which he called a one-hit wonder (although Garcia is remembered as the godfather of Minnesota rock 'n' roll).

paragraph: Harris was in the U.S. military and later worked for about 25 years for American Hoist & Derrick.

paragraph: His repertoire includes blues and jazz and in his eighties, Harris still plays Minneapolis nightclubs including the Loring Pasta Bar in Dinkytown, Clubhouse Jäger in the North Loop and Palmer's and the Nomad World Pub on the West Bank.

paragraph: Harris is a mentor to Cadillac Kolstad and "City Pages" calls them the "must-see dueling-piano act in town".

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The "Blues Legend Award" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Sally Awards (2013)

description: American musician

wikidata_label: James Samuel  Harris

wikipedia_title: Cornbread Harris


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text: simplified Chinese

text: pinyin

text: Wade-Giles

text: Republic of China

text: Wang Jingwei regime

text: Yilong

text: Sichuan

text: Tokyo University of Education

text: Tokyo Imperial University

text: National University of Beiping

text: Tsinghua University

text: Beijing Government

text: North China Political Council

categories: Tsinghua University faculty,Peking University alumni,Republic of China politicians from Sichuan,Educators from Sichuan,Year of death uncertain,Politicians from Nanchong,Chinese collaborators with Imperial Japan,1890s births,Republic of China people born during Qing

paragraph: Wang Mo

paragraph: Wang Mo (traditional Chinese: '; simplified Chinese: '; pinyin: Wáng Mó; Wade-Giles:Wang Mo) (1895 – ?) was a politician and educator in the Republic of China. He was an important politician during the Wang Jingwei regime (Republic of China-Nanjing). He was born in Yilong, Sichuan.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Wang Mo went to Japan where he graduated the Tokyo Teacher's High School (; Now, the Tokyo University of Education, ) and the Tokyo Imperial University. Later he returned to China, he successively held the positions of Professor of the National University of Wuchang (), National University of Beiping (), Teacher's College () and Tsinghua University. And he was also elected to Senator of the Beijing Government. Later he worked as president of the National Teacher's University of Beiping (), from 1942, he also worked for the professor this University.

paragraph: In November 1943, upon the North China Political Council () was reformed, Wang Mo was catapulted to Chief of the General Office for Education () and Executive Member of the same Council. In next July, he resigned his post.

paragraph: After that the whereabouts of Wang Mo were unknown.

description: Chinese politician

wikidata_label: Wang Mo

wikipedia_title: Wang Mo


text: Lieutenant-Colonel

text: CBE

text: JP

text: South Audley Street

text: Mayfair

text: Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland

text: Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe

text: Apethorpe

text: Eton

text: cricket

text: major

text: Militia

text: Northamptonshire Regiment

text: Northampton and Rutland Militia

text: South Africa

text: Second Boer War

text: Cape Town

text: Lieutenant-Colonel

text: Aide-de-Camp

text: King George V

text: First World War

text: Lieutenant-Colonel

text: Lancashire Fusiliers

text: Order of the British Empire

text: Justice of the Peace

text: Lady Sybil Mary St.Clair-Erskine

text: Chester Square

text: Belgravia

text: The Souls

text: Lieutenant-Commander

text: Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale

text: Henry Cecil Vane

text: Lady Sarah Spencer

text: Diana, Princess of Wales

text: Apethorpe Hall

text: Herne Bay

text: British Fascists

text: Hove

categories: People educated at Eton College,1922 deaths,20th-century English nobility,Fane family,19th-century English nobility,1859 births

paragraph: Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland

paragraph: Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Mildmay Julian Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland, CBE, JP (16 August 1859 – 9 June 1922), styled Lord Burghersh between October 1859 and 1891, was a British peer.

paragraph: Section::::Background and education.

paragraph: Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. He was baptised at Apethorpe, Northampton. He was educated at Eton. He was fond of cricket, and although not in the Eleven whilst at Eton, he occasionally played for Northamptonshire under his title Lord Burghersh.

paragraph: On 3 August 1891 he succeeded his father in the earldom.

paragraph: Section::::Military career.

paragraph: Lord Westmorland was appointed a major in the 3rd (Militia) battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, known as the Northampton and Rutland Militia, on 7 March 1900. He accompanied the 3rd Battalion of the Regiment to South Africa in April 1902, when they were posted there for the last stages of the Second Boer War. Following the end of the war in June 1902, Lord Westmorland and the other men of the 3rd battalion left Cape Town on the SS "Scot" in early September, and returned to Northampton after arrival in the United Kingdom later the same month. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment from 1907 to 1914, and in 1911 he was appointed an Aide-de-Camp to King George V. He fought in the First World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1919. He was also Justice of the Peace for Northamptonshire.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: On 28 May 1892, Lord Westmorland married his first wife Lady Sybil Mary St.Clair-Erskine, the daughter of Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn and Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy. The wedding took place at St. Michael's in Chester Square, Belgravia, London. The countess was renowned for her beauty, and was connected with the group known as The Souls. She died on 21 July 1910 aged 39.

paragraph: The couple had the following children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lieutenant-Commander Vere Anthony Francis St.Clair Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland (15 March 1893 – 12 May 1948) he married Hon. Diana Lister (daughter of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale) on 7 June 1923. They have three children.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Enid Victoria Rachel Fane (24 April 1894 – 9 September 1969) married Major The Honorable Henry Cecil Vane on 25 August 1914. She remarried Major Herbert Turnor on 1 September 1922. They had two daughters, Rosemary Sybil (9 September 1924-21 September 2015) and Pamela (born 22 May 1926) and through Rosemary, Enid was the maternal grandmother of Neil McCorquodale, husband of Lady Sarah Spencer (the elder sister of Diana, Princess of Wales).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Major the Hon. Mountjoy John Charles Wedderburn Fane (8 October 1900 – 9 October 1963), who married Agatha Acland-Hood-Reynardson on 29 April 1926. They had two children, Lt.-Cdr. Antony Charles Reynardson Fane (born 11 October 1927) and Daphne Sybil Fane (25 March 1929-23 January 2005).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady (Violet) Gloria Sybil Fane (11 April 1902–9 September 1969)

paragraph: Due to financial difficulties he sold the family seat, Apethorpe Hall, in 1904. It had been in his family for 300 years.

paragraph: After the death of his first wife, Lord Westmorland married Catherine Louise Geale on 22 April 1916. The wedding took place at Herne Bay in Kent. Catherine was the daughter of Reverend John Samuel Geale, and later a supporter of the British Fascists.

paragraph: He died in Hove, Sussex on 9 June 1922, and was buried there on 14 June.

description: British peer

wikidata_label: Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland

wikipedia_title: Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland


text:
Philadelphia
classics
Yale
Conic Sections Rebellion
University of Pennsylvania
M.D.
department of medicine
Paris
Vienna
Pennsylvania Medical College
University of Pennsylvania
typhus
typhoid fever
American Medical Association
germ theory
laboratory medicine

categories: American Medical Association people,American male non-fiction writers,Physicians from Philadelphia,American medical writers,1813 births,University of Pennsylvania faculty,University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni,1900 deaths

paragraph: Alfred Stillé

paragraph: Alfred Stillé (October 30, 1813 – September 24, 1900) was an American physician. Born in Philadelphia, he studied classics at Yale, but was expelled for participating in the Conic Sections Rebellion. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the same year, where he received an A.B. degree in 1832. He went on to get an A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 and in 1836 an M.D. from the school's department of medicine. He settled to practice in his native city, but spent parts of 1841 and 1851 in Paris and Vienna. From 1854 to 1859 he was professor of medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical College and from 1864 to 1884 at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming its Chair. Stillé was one of the first in America to distinguish between typhus and typhoid fever. His observations in this connection he made during a typhus epidemic in Philadelphia in 1836 and reported in 1838. He acquired a great reputation as a practitioner, teacher, and writer, and was the first secretary, and in 1871–72 the president, of the American Medical Association. However, as evidenced by his later writings, he was also known for refusing to accept the germ theory or laboratory medicine.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Among his numerous works are:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Medical Education in the United States" (1846)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elements of General Pathology" (1848)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Therapeutics and Materia Medica" (1860; fourth edition, 1874)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Epidemic Meningitis" (1867)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cholera" (1867)

paragraph: He edited with A. Maisch the "National Dispensary" (1879).

description: American physician, educator, and writer

enwikiquote_title: Alfred Stillé

wikidata_label: Alfred Stillé

wikipedia_title: Alfred Stillé


text: Thoroughbred horse racing

text: Hall of Fame

text: jockey

text: Sam Hildreth

text: Texas

text: bush track

text: Southwestern United States

text: New York

text: New Jersey

text: Canada

text: liquor

text: Joseph E. Seagram

text: Canadian Classic Races

text: Breeders' Stakes

text: Kentucky Derby

text: Worth

text: The New York Times

text: Sheepshead Bay Race Track

text: The Jockey Club

text: Hart–Agnew Law

text: parimutuel betting

text: New York Legislature

text: England

text: RMS Mauretania

text: Havre de Grace Racetrack

text: Maryland

text: J. K. L. Ross

text: H. Guy Bedwell

text: Sir Barton

text: Triple Crown

text: Earl Sande

text: Pimlico Race Course

text: New York Jockey Club

text: August Belmont, Jr.

text: Pimlico Race Course

text: Maryland's Governor

text: Albert Ritchie

text: State senator

text: legal counsel

text: drinking problem

text: TIME

text: sanitarium

text: Belmont Park

text: National Museum of Racing

text: Saratoga Springs, New York

categories: 1885 births,United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees,American Champion jockeys,American jockeys,1950 deaths

paragraph: Carroll H. Shilling

paragraph: Carroll Hugh "Cal" Shilling (1885–1950) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. In his 1926 autobiography, ""The Spell of the Turf"," Hall of Fame trainer Sam Hildreth wrote that Shilling was the greatest rider he ever saw.

paragraph: A native of Texas, Carroll Shilling was frequently referred to as "Cal." He began riding at an early age on bush tracks in the Southwestern United States and embarked on a professional riding career in 1904. The following year he moved to compete at racetracks in the New York and New Jersey areas. In 1910, he was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings. Shilling would also ride in Canada for the prominent stable owned by liquor magnate, Joseph E. Seagram, winning a number of important races including what became one of the Canadian Classic Races, the Breeders' Stakes.

paragraph: Section::::Kentucky Derby.

paragraph: During his career, Carroll Shilling had two mounts in the Kentucky Derby. He finished second aboard Miami in the 1909 edition then in the 1912 race rode Worth to victory in what the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame describes as probably his most dramatic win.

paragraph: Section::::Personal problems and ban from racing.

paragraph: On November 19, 1909, "The New York Times" reported that Carroll Shilling severely stabbed stable owner R. L. Thomas after the two got into an argument at Sheepshead Bay Race Track. In the Spring of 1910, The Jockey Club set aside Shilling's application for a jockey license.

paragraph: The Hart–Agnew Law, legislation outlawing parimutuel betting, was passed by the New York Legislature which resulted in the closure of all New York racetracks between 1911 and 1912. On November 2, 1911, "The New York Times" reported that Carroll Shilling and trainer Sam Hildreth had sailed to England aboard the RMS Mauretania with the intent of racing there for the stable of American owner, Charles Kohler. On January 9, 1912 "The New York Times" reported that Kohler was sailing to England and would apply for a license for Carroll Shilling to ride his horses there. However, that did not work out and "The New York Times" then reported on March 10, 1912 that Shilling would ride for Kohler's American stable under trainer, David J. Leary.

paragraph: In an era when jockeys commonly used dirty tactics, Carroll was notorious for his actions. In 1912, while riding at Havre de Grace Racetrack in Maryland, he was banned from racing for striking another jockey with his whip during a race. The action resulted in his riding career ending after just six full years plus two partial years when the New York racing shutdown meant there was fierce competition for jockeys at tracks outside New York state.

paragraph: Following his ban from riding, Carroll Shilling remained in racing as a stableman and in 1915 his application for a jockey's license was again denied. He eventually went to work for J. K. L. Ross, a major stable owner from Canada with racing and breeding operations there and in the United States. As an assistant to trainer H. Guy Bedwell, Shilling helped condition Sir Barton for his 1919 Triple Crown championship and tutored a young jockey named Earl Sande who would go on to a Hall of Fame career of his own. However, Shilling's suspension from riding remained an issue for many years. On November 11, 1920, "The New York Times" reported that J. K. L. Ross successfully petitioned the Maryland State Racing Commission to lift the ban on Shilling and grant him a temporary jockey's license. The Maryland Jockey Club revolted against the decision and the matter became a very major public embarrassment for racing when a mob at Pimlico Race Course, who wanted Shilling to race, attacked and beat up Maryland racing commissioner, Joseph P. Kennedy. The issue soon involved the New York Jockey Club, whose powerful president August Belmont, Jr. lined up against the attempt by J. K. L. Ross to have Carroll Shilling reinstated. The Ross stable trainer, H. Guy Bedwell, had testified before the Maryland State Racing Commission in support of Shilling and he too would become a central figure in the controversy. The April 21, 1921 issue of "The New York Times" quoted from a letter by August Belmont, Jr. to J. K. L. Ross saying "the entries of your stable will not be acceptable to this association if ex-Jockey Carroll Shilling or H. G. Bedwell is in any way connected, directly or indirectly, with the same."

paragraph: The issue threatened the closure of Pimlico Race Course who was the only of the four Maryland racetracks who sided with the New York authorities. Maryland's Governor, Albert Ritchie, got involved as did State senator William I. Norris who acted as legal counsel for trainer Bedwell. Pimlico Race Course president Charles E. McLane then supported Bedwell and the Maryland State Racing Commission threatened to ban New York Jockey Club members from competing in Maryland. The Maryland State Racing Commission stood its ground and on June 30, 1921, amended their temporary order to grant Shilling a permanent jockey's license. However, the Maryland State Racing Commission gave in to the unrelenting political pressure to end the inter-state dispute and on July 9, 1921 the Commission passed a resolution that "The New York Times" said had the effect of making any license issued by the Commission of doubtful value because the resolution declared its licenses not to be a mandate to any of Maryland's race tracks. The effect of the resolution was that Carroll Shilling never rode again and his ordeal led to a severe drinking problem. In their May 17, 1948 edition, "TIME" magazine reported that in recent years he had been in and out of sanitariums. Two years later, Shilling was found dead under a horse van at Belmont Park.

paragraph: In a short career, Carroll Shilling won 969 races and in his final three seasons, had a remarkable thirty-four percent winning percentage. In 1970, the National Museum of Racing at Saratoga Springs, New York recognized the talent of Carroll Shilling and inducted him in their Racing and Hall of Fame.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carroll H. Shilling at the United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- May 17, 1948 "TIME" magazine article titled "Man on a Horse"

description: American jockey

wikidata_label: Carroll H. Shilling

wikipedia_title: Carroll H. Shilling


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Memorial to the Children of Lidice
one crown coin
Kralovice
Prague Academy of Fine Arts
Prague
Lidice
Nazis
World War II
extermination camp
Chełmno
Velvet Revolution
Albertslund
bronze
Czech President
Miloš Zeman
Lidice

categories: Academy of Fine Arts, Prague alumni,Czech sculptors,20th-century sculptors,20th-century women artists,Czech women sculptors,1924 births,People from Plzeň-North District,1989 deaths

paragraph: Marie Uchytilová

paragraph: Marie Uchytilová-Kučová (17 January 1924 – 16 November 1989) was a Czech sculptor and designer of medals who created the Memorial to the Children of Lidice and designed the Czechoslovak one crown coin that circulated from 1957 to 1993.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Uchytilová was born in Kralovice, Czechoslovakia, the daughter of a clerk. From 1945 to 1950 she studied under at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. In 1956 she won a public competition to design the Czechoslovak one crown coin, secretly basing the figure of a young woman on a current prisoner held by the Czech Communist government. Uchytilová - Kučová was a teacher at Prague’s Vaclav Hollar Art School in Prague 3. Uchytilová died in Prague.

paragraph: Section::::Memorial to the Children of Lidice.

paragraph: In the late 1960s, on her own initiative, Uchytilová and her husband, Jiří V. Hampl, began working on a Memorial to the Children of Lidice, a Czech village destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. The memorial depicts 82 children killed in the extermination camp in the Polish town of Chełmno. Uchytilová decided not to portray the actual children of the town because she intended to commemorate all children who had become victims of the war. When Uchytilová died in 1989—the day before the November 17th Velvet Revolution—her work remained unrealized. In the 1990s, the Danish city of Albertslund and other—mostly foreign—investors donated money to cast the sculpture in bronze. The first thirty statues were installed in Lidice in 1995, and the last were dedicated on 10 June 2000, thirty years after Uchytilová began her work and eleven years after her death. The sculptures of the children overlook the mass graves at Lidice.

paragraph: In 2013, the Czech President Miloš Zeman called it "the most beautiful and saddest memorial I've ever seen," and he conferred on Uchytilová a posthumous award.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lidice

description: Czech medailer and sculptor

wikidata_label: Marie Uchytilová

wikipedia_title: Marie Uchytilová


text:
Gonzaga family
capitano del popolo
Mantua
imperial vicar
Mantua
Ghibelline
Cangrande I della Scala
Guglielmo Azzone Panebarco
Rinaldo Bonacolsi
capitano del popolo
Louis IV
Reggio Emilia
Luchino
Giovanni
Azzone Visconti
Mastino II della Scala
Lodrisio Visconti
Battle of Parabiago
Pisa
Florentine
Francesco Petrarca
Vergil
Bernabò Visconti
city cathedral
Guido
Feltrino
Genealogy of the Gonzaga of Novellara

categories: Condottieri,1360 deaths,1268 births,House of Gonzaga,People from Mantua

image: 512px-Луиджи_Гонзага.jpg

paragraph: Ludovico I Gonzaga

paragraph: Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268 - 18 January 1360) was an Italian lord, the founder of the Gonzaga family who was the first capitano del popolo of Mantua and imperial vicar.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Mantua, he was the son of Guido Corradi and the grandson of Antonio Corradi. On 16 August 1328, with the help of Ghibelline troops from Cangrande I della Scala and his father-in-law Guglielmo Azzone Panebarco, he ousted Rinaldo Bonacolsi from Mantua, replacing him as "capitano generale". The following August 28 he was elected "capitano del popolo" ("Captain of the People") by the inhabitants. The following year Louis IV appointed him as imperial vicar and in 1335 he became also lord of Reggio Emilia.

paragraph: In 1339, he supported Luchino, Giovanni and Azzone Visconti against Mastino II della Scala and Lodrisio Visconti, sending troops that helped the former to win the Battle of Parabiago. In 1342 he helped Pisa stand the Florentine assault.

paragraph: In 1349 Ludovico housed poet Francesco Petrarca, who visited Vergil's tomb in Mantua. In his late years he fought against Bernabò Visconti. He died at Mantua in 1360 and was buried in the city cathedral.

paragraph: He was succeeded in Mantua by his son Guido, while his other son Feltrino held Reggio.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogy of the Gonzaga of Novellara

alias:
Ludovico I Gonzaga
Luigi Corradi da Gonzaga

description: Italian noble founder of the House of Gonzaga

wikidata_label: Luis I Gonzaga

wikipedia_title: Ludovico I Gonzaga


href: Romania playwright journalist

text: Romania playwright journalist

categories: 1964 deaths,20th-century Romanian dramatists and playwrights,Recipients of the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic,People from Pitești,1888 births,Romanian journalists

paragraph: Alexandru Kirițescu

paragraph: Alexandru Kirițescu (March 28, 1888 – April 9, 1961) was a Romanian playwright and journalist, best known for his 1929 play "Gaiţele" ("The Magpies"), also called "Cuibul de viespi" ("The Wasps' Nest").

description: Romanian writer

wikidata_label: Alexandru Kirițescu

wikipedia_title: Alexandru Kirițescu


text:
Lithuanian
athlete
basketball
Marijampolė Gymnasium
humanities
Vytautas Magnus University
Berlin
occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany
Lithuanian Activist Front
June Uprising
Lithuanian Freedom Army
Siberia
Vorkuta Gulag
gymnasium
Lithuania
athlete
World War II
pentathlon
pole vault
hurdling
discus throw
athletics
Berlin
London
New York City
Tallinn
Riga
1934 European Athletics Championships
Turin
Italy
Lithuania national basketball team
EuroBasket
Lithuania
EuroBasket 1937

categories: 1907 births,1985 deaths,FIBA EuroBasket-winning players,Lithuanian men's basketball players

paragraph: Stasys Šačkus

paragraph: Stasys Šačkus (September 9, 1907 – November 9, 1985) was a Lithuanian athlete and basketball player.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: In 1928, he graduated Marijampolė Gymnasium. Later studied humanities studies at Vytautas Magnus University. Stasys actively participated in sport, academic and political life.

paragraph: In 1934, he graduated Department of Physical Education Academy in Berlin.

paragraph: During occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany, he was member of Lithuanian Activist Front, participated in June Uprising. He also was member of Lithuanian Freedom Army. On October 18, 1945, he was exiled to Siberia by Soviet authorities and imprisoned in Vorkuta Gulag. He later returned to Lithuania.

paragraph: Section::::Sporting activities.

paragraph: During his years in gymnasium, he became one of the best Lithuanian athlete. Before World War II, he accomplished pentathlon, pole vault and 110 meter hurdling records. Šačkus is the most famous for his discus throwing. He is the first to overcome 40 meter point with his 44-meter result.

paragraph: He participated in various athletics competitions in Berlin, London, New York City, Tallinn, Riga. He was the first Lithuanian sportsman to participate in the first athletics competition - 1934 European Athletics Championships in Turin, Italy.

paragraph: In addition, Šačkus also was Lithuania national basketball team player, won EuroBasket gold medals for the first time in Lithuania history during EuroBasket 1937. He also won two gold medals in Lithuanian National Olympic Games. In 1939, he was the first Lithuanian to be awarded international category basketball referee name.

paragraph: Later he was Republic Basketball Committee chairman, gymnastics federation (LGSF) sports club "Vaidotas" member, LGSF football team manager. He was awarded honored coach name.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vidas Mačiulis, Vytautas Gudelis. Halė, kurioje žaidė Lubinas ir Sabonis. 1939–1989 – Respublikinis sporto kombinatas, Kaunas, 1989

description: Lithuanian basketball player

wikidata_label: Stasys Šačkus

wikipedia_title: Stasys Šačkus


text: Danish

text: Skagen

text: Jutland

text: Flensburg

text: Aarhus

text: Skagen

text: Skagen Painters

text: Holger Drachmann

text: P.S. Krøyer

text: Jørgen Aabye

text: Johannes Wilhjelm

text: Frederik Lange

text: Tupsy

text: Gad Frederik Clement

categories: 1871 births,1956 deaths,20th-century women artists,19th-century Danish painters,Danish women painters,People from Flensburg,Skagen Painters,20th-century Danish painters

paragraph: Ella Heide

paragraph: Ella Christine Heide, née Brodersen, (24. November 1871 – 1956) was a Danish painter who from 1908 painted in Skagen in the far north of Jutland.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Flensburg (then Danish) in 1871, she married Rolf Wilhelm Heide who owned the Kragelund Teglværk brick factory near Aarhus (divorced in 1909). She had two children, Margarite Ella (1893) and Ove (1896). In 1908, she arrived in Skagen where she painted many watercolours and oils of the traditional subjects and scenes. She returned every summer, staying first with the Holst sisters on Søndervej.

paragraph: Ella Heide's brother, Johan Friedrich Brodersen (or just 'Hans' among family and friends), had moved to Skagen with his family in 1896. As a key member of the local authority, in 1903 he built the White House ("det Hvide Hus") which became a favourite gathering spot for members of the Skagen Painters including Holger Drachmann and P.S. Krøyer.

paragraph: Heide started to paint in Skagen at the very end of the period enjoyed by the well-known Skagen Painters. Holger Drachmann died in 1908 and P.S. Krøyer in 1909. She therefore belonged to the younger generation of painters in Skagen which included Jørgen Aabye, Johannes Wilhjelm, Frederik Lange, and Tupsy and Gad Frederik Clement, none of whom achieved the same notability as the former group. Among her paintings of Skagen are "Saxilds gård set fra havesiden. Anchers hus i baggrunden", "Hvide hus", and "P.S. Krøyers Hus i Skagen" (1938), "Parti fra Skagen" (1939), "Den tilsandede kirke", "Parti fra Gammel Skagen","Det Blå Hus". Many other examples of her work can be seen at art dealers' sites. On the occasion of her 70th birthday in 1941, the local newspaper "Vendsyssel Tidende" reported on the wide recognition she had received from the local community, most of whom had her pictures hanging in their homes.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joan Schersat Mikkelsen's background article on Ella Heide with several illustrations of her work

paragraph: BULLET::::- More examples of Heide's work from Joan Schersat Mikkelsen

description: Danish painter

wikidata_label: Ella Heide

wikipedia_title: Ella Heide


text: professional baseball

text: pitcher

text: Pittsburgh Pirates

text: Major League Baseball

text: college baseball

text: Louisville Cardinals

text: University of Louisville

text: Downers Grove South High School

text: Downers Grove, Illinois

text: pitcher

text: American football

text: quarterback

text: fastball

text: scouts

text: Keith Law

text: ESPN.com

text: 2011 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft

text: Minnesota Twins

text: signing bonus

text: University of Louisville

text: college baseball

text: Louisville Cardinals baseball

text: closer

text: earned run average

text: strikeout

text: innings pitched

text: prospect

text: 2014 MLB Draft

text: Minnesota Twins

text: signing bonus

text: Cedar Rapids Kernels

text: Class A

text: Midwest League

text: Fort Myers Miracle

text: Class A-Advanced

text: Florida State League

text: Chattanooga Lookouts

text: Class AA

text: Southern League

text: Scottsdale Scorpions

text: Arizona Fall League

text: Tommy John surgery

text: ulnar collateral ligament

text: Philadelphia Phillies

text: Rule 5 draft

text: Pittsburgh Pirates

text: thoracic outlet syndrome

text: quarterback

text: football

text: Western Michigan

text: Zack

categories: 1993 births,People from Downers Grove, Illinois,Chattanooga Lookouts players,Baseball players from Illinois,Living people,Bradenton Marauders players,Scottsdale Scorpions players,Pittsburgh Pirates players,Cedar Rapids Kernels players,Louisville Cardinals baseball players,Chatham Anglers players,Fort Myers Miracle players,Major League Baseball pitchers,Altoona Curve players,All-American college baseball players

paragraph: Nick Burdi

paragraph: Nicholas Edward Burdi (born January 19, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals of the University of Louisville.

paragraph: Section::::Amateur career.

paragraph: Burdi attended Downers Grove South High School in Downers Grove, Illinois, where he played for the school's baseball team as a pitcher, and for the American football team as a quarterback. Before his senior year, Burdi quit the football team to focus on baseball. Burdi, as a child and teen also played for the Downers Grove Longshots. He was able to throw his fastball as fast as as a high school student.

paragraph: Burdi participated in the Area Code Games in the summer of 2010, attracting the attention of scouts, including Keith Law of ESPN.com. After his senior season, Burdi expected to be chosen between the third to fifth rounds of the 2011 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft. However, he lasted in the draft until the 24th round, when he was selected by the Minnesota Twins, with the 748th overall pick. No team was willing to offer Burdi the signing bonus that would convince him to sign, rather than attend college. He did not sign with the Twins.

paragraph: Burdi enrolled at the University of Louisville, to play college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals baseball team. By his sophomore year, Burdi could reach with his fastball. Pitching as the Cardinals' closer, Burdi has an 0.78 earned run average (ERA) and 61 strikeouts in innings pitched through his sophomore year. After his sophomore year, he joined the United States national collegiate baseball team. As a junior, Burdi had a 0.49 ERA and 65 strikeouts in 37 innings.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Burdi was considered a top prospect in the 2014 MLB Draft. The Minnesota Twins selected Burdi in the second round, with the 46th overall selection of the draft. He signed with the Twins on June 25, receiving a $1,218,800 signing bonus, and reported to the Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Class A Midwest League. He posted a 4.15 ERA in 13 innings, and the Twins promoted him to the Fort Myers Miracle of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in August. Burdi opened the 2015 season with the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class AA Southern League. He struggled with a 5.93 ERA, and was demoted to Fort Myers in late June. After spending six weeks with Fort Myers, the Twins promoted Burdi back to Chattanooga, where he finished the season with a 1.77 ERA in innings. The Twins assigned him to the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League after the regular season.

paragraph: Burdi pitched only three innings in 2016 due to a bone bruise in his right elbow. Burdi began the 2017 season with Chattanooga. He required Tommy John surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow in May 2017. After the season, the Philadelphia Phillies selected Burdi in the Rule 5 draft, and traded him to the Pittsburgh Pirates for $500,000 of international signing bonus money.. On June 25, 2019, Burdi underwent thoracic outlet surgery to relieve symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome, putting him out for the rest of the 2019 season.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Burdi's older brother, Drew, was an All-State quarterback who played football for Downers Grove South and Western Michigan. His younger brother, Zack, is also a professional baseball pitcher who played college baseball at Louisville.

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Nick Burdi

wikipedia_title: Nick Burdi


text: Raja

text: Rao

text: bais suryavanshi Rajput

text: Daundia Khera

text: Utter pradesh

text: Oudh province

text: British East India Company

text: Sepoy Mutiny

text: Nana Sahib

text: Shiva

categories: People from Unnao district,1857 deaths,Executed revolutionaries,People executed by British India by hanging,Year of birth unknown,Revolutionaries of the Indian Rebellion of 1857,Hindu warriors,Executed Indian people

paragraph: Ram Baksh Singh

paragraph: Raja Rao Ram Baksh Singh was a bais suryavanshi Rajput who was the Raja Rao of Daundia Khera of unnao district Utter pradesh in the then Oudh province that was a vassal state of the British East India Company. He was one of the leaders of the Sepoy Mutiny, and a close associate of Nana Sahib. He was hanged by the British on 28 December 1857 for taking part in the revolt and being found guilty of the killing of British soldiers. In 1992, the Government of India built a memorial at the place where he was hanged to honor his death.

paragraph: The dilapidated remains of his fort - consisting of the ruins of his royal mansion, a huge campus spread over hundreds of acres, a temple to Shiva which has been in use for more than 180 years, and various other structures - have been in the news recently due to an excavation for gold by the Archaeological Survey of India.

description: Indian revolutionary

wikidata_label: Ram Baksh Singh

wikipedia_title: Ram Baksh Singh


text:
Nanbu Yukinobu
Nanbu Nobuoki
shōgun
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
sankin-kōtai
hatamoto
Papinot, Edmond
Morioka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"

categories: Tozama daimyo,1725 deaths,Nanbu clan,1689 births

paragraph: Nanbu Toshimoto

paragraph: Toshimoto was the 4th son of Nanbu Yukinobu, the 4th "daimyō" of Morioka Domain. He was initially adopted into the Sannohe branch of the Nanbu clan, but was posthumously adopted on the death of his brother Nanbu Nobuoki on 5 January 1706 to become "daimyō" of Morioka. He was received in formal audience by "shōgun" Tokugawa Tsunayoshi on 15 January.

paragraph: At this time the domain was suffering from severe financial difficulties due to reduced production from its copper mines and was deeply in debt, so much so that expenses for the mandatory "sankin-kōtai" procession could not be met. In 1723, he took the drastic and highly unpopular step of reducing the number of retainers. Before his death, he adopted the posthumous son of Nanbu Nobuoki as his heir to restore the direct line of succession, and demoted his own son to "hatamoto" status. He died in 1725.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Papinot, Edmond. (1948). "Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan". New York: Overbeck Co.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morioka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"

wikidata_label: Nanbu Toshimoto

wikipedia_title: Nanbu Toshimoto


text:
NFL
CNN
CNN Center
Bleacher Report
HLN
Robin Meade
Lynn Smith
FIFA Women's World Cup
College Football Playoff
Super Bowl 50
Fox Sports
Cedar Cliff High School
West Shore School District
Cedar Cliff
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
recruiting
Stanford University
2002 NFL Draft
Buffalo Bills
strong safety
rookie
Lawyer Milloy
special teams
team captain
Walter Payton Man of the Year
Atlanta Falcons
team captain
Ed Block Courage Award
software analyst
PGA
German
Irish
Dutch
Japanese
Atlanta
board of directors
Make-A-Wish
keynote speaker
U.S. Military
UPS
U.S. Department of Education.
Stanford Cardinal bio
Pro Football Reference bio
WireWire.com
On the Fringe: Wire Wire

categories: Atlanta Falcons players,1978 births,Living people,People from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania,American sportspeople of Japanese descent,American football linebackers,American football safeties,Stanford Cardinal football players,Players of American football from Pennsylvania,Buffalo Bills players

paragraph: Coy Wire

paragraph: Coy Wire (born November 7, 1978) is an American television anchor and correspondent, and former professional football player in the NFL. He joined CNN Sports in 2015 as a full-time anchor and correspondent. From CNN Center, Wire anchors daily Bleacher Report segments, covers events and serves as an expert contributor across all platforms. He appears regularly on CNN programs Early Start, New Day and CNN Newsroom, in addition to HLN programs Morning Express with Robin Meade and Weekend Express with Lynn Smith. He also contributes to CNN International's World Sport program and to CNN Digital on a broad range of crossover sports stories.

paragraph: Wire's many field assignments include on-the-ground coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, the College Football Playoff Semi-Finals and National Championship games, and Super Bowl 50.

paragraph: Wire wrote an inspirational book, "Change Your Mind", which was published in 2012. He then served as a game analyst, studio analyst and online writer for Fox Sports before joining CNN.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Wire attended Highland Elementary School, Lemoyne Middle School, and Cedar Cliff High School, all in the West Shore School District. He graduated from Cedar Cliff in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania in 1997 where he set school records in both football and wrestling that have still not been broken. In 1995, his father, Rick, founded Dynamite Sports, a company that guides student athletes and their families through the recruiting process.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Wire graduated from Stanford University, and was the first player in modern school history to lead the team in rushing one year and tackles in another.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Buffalo Bills.

paragraph: Wire was drafted in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft (97th overall) by the Buffalo Bills. He started 15 games at strong safety as a rookie.

paragraph: Following the signing of Lawyer Milloy in 2003, Wire became a full-time special teams player and was named Buffalo's Special Teams Player of the Year twice. Wire was voted a team captain in 2005 and selected by his teammates as the Bills' Walter Payton Man of the Year. After suffering a neck injury in 2008 that required surgery to insert a titanium plate and four screws into his neck, Wire was released by the Bills.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Atlanta Falcons.

paragraph: Wire signed with the Atlanta Falcons on July 25, 2008. He played in 47 of 48 games over three seasons with the Falcons before being released on September 2, 2011. While with the Falcons, Wire was named a team captain and selected by his teammates as the franchise recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award in 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Wire was raised by his parents, Rick and Jane Wire. His mother, Jane, is a software analyst. He has a sister, Tiffany, and his brother, Casey, is a PGA certified teaching professional. Wire is of German, Irish, Dutch, and Japanese descent. His mother named him after the Japanese word for "love". Wire resides in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Claire, who owns a home design and renovation company.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.:Community work.

paragraph: Wire has served on the board of directors at Make-A-Wish Georgia and has been a keynote speaker for organizations such as the U.S. Military, UPS, and the U.S. Department of Education.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stanford Cardinal bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pro Football Reference bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- WireWire.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- On the Fringe: Wire Wire

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Coy Wire

wikipedia_title: Coy Wire


text:
Uryū Tamotsu
Ashikaga Takauji
warrior monks
Heisenji
Emperor Go-Murakami
Kōfuku-ji
Shiba Yoshimasa
Shiba Yoshimasa
Shiba clan

paragraph: Shiba Takatsune

paragraph: In 1336, an ally of Nitta named Uryū Tamotsu attacked Shiba's castle, which fell soon afterwards. Two years later, Shiba was ordered by the shogun Ashikaga Takauji to attack Uryū's fortress at Somayama. The attack failed, and Shiba was forced to fight Nitta's forces again in the defense of the Kuromaru (Black Fortress). With the aid of forces sent by Takauji and warrior monks from Heisenji, the fortress was held, and Nitta Yoshisada mortally wounded in the battle.

paragraph: Despite this great victory, Shiba was defeated once again in 1340, when the newly throned Emperor Go-Murakami sent an army to attack the Kuromaru. Shiba was forced to surrender.

paragraph: The same year, a number of men claiming to serve Shiba invaded an area called Kawaguchi-shō, which was controlled by the Kōfuku-ji temple. In 1363 Shiba seized the area officially, becoming essentially a "daimyō" (feudal lord), gaining independent power beyond what was given him by the Shogunate. The monks of Kōfuku-ji resorted to various forms of blackmail and were granted their land back. However, Shiba continued to gain power, instituting "shugo-uke", a system under which the Constable would take a set amount of rice from the people of the land, paying the peoples' taxes to the Shogun and keeping the rest as a sort of commission. Of those few Constables who became lords in their own right, most if not all abused this system, earning great revenues for themselves.

paragraph: Shiba Yoshimasa was the son of Takatsune.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Shiba Muneuji

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother: Nagai Tokihide's daughter

paragraph: BULLET::::- Children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shiba Yoshimasa

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shiba Ienaga (1321–1338)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shiba Ujitsune

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shiba Ujiyori

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hachisuka Kagenari

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shiba clan

description: Japanese samurai

wikidata_label: Shiba Takatsune

wikipedia_title: Shiba Takatsune


text:
industrial metal
Static-X
post-grunge
alternative metal
Seether
Whitesnake
Tama
Sabian
Vater
Remo
Abe Cunningham
Morgan Rose
Tim Alexander
Disclaimer
Disclaimer II
Shadow Zone
Beneath... Between... Beyond...
Start a War
Cannibal
Cult of Static

categories: 1978 births,Musicians from Las Vegas,American heavy metal drummers,Living people,Nu metal drummers,20th-century American drummers,21st-century male musicians,American male drummers,21st-century American drummers,Static-X members,20th-century male musicians,Seether members

paragraph: Nick Oshiro

paragraph: Nick Oshiro (born July 29, 1978) is an American musician, best known as the former drummer of the industrial metal band Static-X. He has previously played with the South African post-grunge and alternative metal band Seether. He started out with a drumkit made by his father as he stated in an interview with Tama. It was made of pots and pans, of which his father made a whole kit from. Already at the age of nine, he wanted to be a rockstar after seeing a Whitesnake video. He then created a large following in his home town of Las Vegas, Nevada. Leaving Seether in 2003, he joined Static-X as a touring drummer but eventually became a full-time member. Oshiro uses a Tama drumkit (it is a Starclassic Maple in Blue Galaxy Fade), Sabian cymbals, Vater drumsticks and Remo drumheads. Some of his influences are Abe Cunningham, Morgan Rose and Tim Alexander.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Seether.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Disclaimer" (2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Disclaimer II" (2004)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Static-X.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shadow Zone" (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beneath... Between... Beyond..." (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Start a War" (2005)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cult of Static" (2009)

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Nick Oshiro

wikipedia_title: Nick Oshiro


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text:
Ortisei
Bolzano
Vienna
Venice
Milan
Schloss Prösels
Fiè allo Sciliar
Watten-Spielkarten
Merano
Samsara - Niflheim

categories: Ladin people,1949 births,People from Urtijëi,Italian male painters

paragraph: Egon Rusina Moroder

paragraph: Egon Rusina Moroder (born July 15, 1949, in Ortisei Val Gardena) is an Italian painter and illustrator from South Tyrol. He lives with his wife and daughter in Ortisei.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: After finishing secondary school in 1964, he learned woodcarving in a workshop in Val Gardena. At the same time, he attended the art school in Ortisei, where he studied drawing under Markus Vallazza. Between 1967 and 1968 he studied art in Florence and also participated in the student movement 1968/69. During this period of his life, he developed a strong political-social commitment.

paragraph: Section::::Brixner middle school.

paragraph: From 1969 to 1973 he taught as an art teacher at the Brixen middle school and at the same time participated in the "circle for art and culture (Circolo)" in Ortisei, he is currently still active in this organization. At this time his first experimental exhibitions started: in August 1970 he experimented with cybernetics in the exhibition space of the Circolo; A play of lights made of discontinuous movements of undefined objects in combination with electronic music should give the visitor a feeling of unrest. In August 1971 he built a 15 meters long and 2 meters high hedgehog installation. At the same time, he dealt with his community's political satire by drawing and distributing posters and leaflets. In 1973 he quit his apprenticeship and travelled to Munich living there for a year as a draftsman.

paragraph: Section::::Homeland mountain and slaughterhouse.

paragraph: From 1975 to 1979 he worked on the theme of "Meat, Blood and Bone, Life and Death" in various drawings and paintings that were created in the mountains and in a slaughterhouse. He sometimes used blood as a dye and for the first time used the fingers instead of the brush. "The Great Luck" by Albrecht Dürer inspired a series of bizarre pictures.

paragraph: Section::::Sociocritical Realism.

paragraph: He vowed to entertain the public with performances and caricatures of political-sociocritical nature. In collaboration with other artists from South Tyrol, exhibitions were created in Bolzano ( Pavilion De Fleur ), Merano ( Town Hall Gallery ) and Bressanone ( Palais Palfi ). His works have been shown in Vienna ( Bevilacqua La Masa ), Venice ( Gallery Aleph ) and Milan ( Gallery Piccinini-Cortina ). At that time he drew caricatures for South Tyrolean newspapers in German, Italian and Ladin, some of which were: Usc di Ladins, Alto Adige, FF-Illustrierte, Skolast, South Tyrolean Arbeiterzeitung, Alternative (KPI), Diving and Thistle.

paragraph: In a collective exhibition in 1983 at Schloss Prösels near Fiè allo Sciliar, his witch-burning installation was thrown into a cellar and cut down because of its disturbing nature. Due to a video installation, Rusina was accused by the prosecutor of defaming the state religion and obscenity, he was later absolved by an examining magistrate.

paragraph: Section::::Cartoons and Cards.

paragraph: The Watten-Spielkarten (a card game popular in Tyrol and Germany) series of painted cards was produced under Rusina's supervision; the cards had traditional South Tyrolean subjects (30,000 copies were produced) the sales were very successful. In 1997 he printed a book called Viecherei, a collection of over 80 cartoons and caricatures. Another Wadden playing card series "Prominent Women" was published in 2002. Caricatures of South Tyrolean women were immortalized in a provocative way on playing cards. A third satirical version of the Wadden playing cards was released in November 2009 with world and local South Tyrolean celebrities.

paragraph: Section::::Fantastic Realism.

paragraph: For the first time in 1991 Rusina exhibits his mountain pictures in South Tyrol. in 1994 Rusina shows his most famous masterpiece: The white deer in the circle for art and culture in Ortisei. Rusina completed his work in the style of Fantastic Realism with the presentation of the Nemesis series at the Art Forum Gallery in Merano in 1999.

paragraph: Section::::Heart of stone.

paragraph: From the year 2000 Rusina started to only paint in the mountains, mostly the Raschötzer Alm. He worked on two projects: the winter theme and a summer counterpart. Rusina at that time gave his production the name of heart made of stone, in order to express his feeling for nature in the title of the same exhibition. Rusina also presented a large wall with a cycle of rock painting.

paragraph: Section::::Dissolution in nature.

paragraph: For fifteen years Rusina lived in the mountains at an altitude of about 2000 meters in the forest. Far away from civilization, with only a small tent serving as his refuge, which he shares with three goats and a few hens. In 2003 he created a painting representing the smoke trails of planes in the sky of the Dolomites. Ever since 2004 Rusina has dedicated his life on the study of Samsara - Niflheim..

paragraph: Section::::Artistic Motives.

paragraph: The work of the artist Rusina is characterized by discomfort in the society of South Tyrol and at the same time by the attraction of his Ladin homeland and mountains. It experienced a continuous change of the form and the aesthetic expressiveness. From the satire, the caricature or the cartoon and fantastic realism, his work came to monochrome painting, which, according to Rusina, represents the calm, death and infinity of nature. The "nothing" or the "emptiness" - so called by Rusina himself - are to find expression in his last works..

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1993 in the city museum Klausen the erotic cycle "Dornrößchen" was presented to the public.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "And the mountain became flesh" was the name of the exhibition, which was commissioned by the State Cultural Assessor. Bruno Hosp was opened in 1991 in St. Magdalena in Villnöss.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rusina's political caricatures were shown in various South Tyrolean villages (Bolzano, Vipiteno, Vilpian) between 1995 and 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the old tunnel of the then Gardena (built in 1917) he exhibited in October 2000 the cycle resolution.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In August 2007 the creation Aura in Aere was presented in a group exhibition at the Grand Hotel Dobbiaco.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Museum Ladin Ćiastel de Tor in Gadertal in the spring of 2007 honored the artist with the total cycles Samsara-Niflheim (2006-2008) and The Yellow Void (2008-2011).

paragraph: BULLET::::- The absolute sleep in the city gallery Bressanone, Great Lauben, Bressanone 2010.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ghialar at Istitut Ladin Micurá de Rü, St. Martin in Thurn, 2016.

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Egon Rusina

wikipedia_title: Egon Rusina Moroder


text:
footballer
attacking midfielder
forward
Sūduva
Dainava
Lithuania national team
Lithuania
friendly
Azerbaijan
Justinas Marazas
Lithuanian Supercup
2019
A Lyga
March 2019

categories: 1999 births,Lithuania international footballers,Lithuania youth international footballers,Lithuanian expatriate footballers,Lithuanian footballers,FK Dainava Alytus players,FK Sūduva Marijampolė players,A Lyga players,Association football forwards,Yeovil Town F.C. players,Expatriate footballers in England,People from Ignalina,Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in England,Living people

paragraph: Paulius Golubickas

paragraph: Paulius Golubickas (born 19 August 1999) is a Lithuanian footballer who plays mostly as an attacking midfielder or forward for Sūduva, on loan from Dainava, and the Lithuania national team.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Golubickas made his international debut for Lithuania on 25 March 2019, starting in the friendly against Azerbaijan before being substituted out for Justinas Marazas in the 62nd minute, with the match finishing as a 0–0 draw.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: Sūduva

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lithuanian Supercup: 2019

paragraph: Individual

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Lyga Young Player of the Month: March 2019, May 2019

wikidata_label: Paulius Golubickas

wikipedia_title: Paulius Golubickas


text: Marshal of England

text: Nicholas of Seagrave

text: Baron Seagrave

text: Simon de Montfort

text: King Henry III

text: vanguard

text: Battle of Falkirk

text: Caerlaverock

text: Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford

text: Walter Langton

text: Lichfield

text: Edward I

text: Edward II

text: Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster

text: rolls of arms

paragraph: Nicholas Seagrave

paragraph: Nicholas Seagrave (after 1256 – 25 November 1321), lord of Stowe in Northamptonshire, was Marshal of England from 1308 to 1316. He was the second son of Nicholas of Seagrave, first Baron Seagrave and a leading supporter of Simon de Montfort in his struggle with King Henry III.

paragraph: Nicholas Seagrave was first summoned to Parliament in 1295 and continued to be summoned until his death. In 1298 he fought in the vanguard at the Battle of Falkirk. In 1300 he was present at the siege of Caerlaverock in the retinue of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, and in 1301 he sealed the barons' remonstrances to the pope as 'Nicholas de Seagrave, lord of Stow'. In 1301 he became involved in a dispute with Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield, and in the same year he and his wife Alice were accused with many others of breaking houses belonging to Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer. In the Scottish campaign of 1303-4 he became involved in another dispute, and when he was refused trial by combat he deserted the army to flee to France. On his return in 1305 he was apparently sentenced to death, but soon pardoned and restored to favour by King Edward I.

paragraph: He was one of Edward II's strongest supporters at the start of his reign, and in 1308 he was appointed Lord Marshal. However, he was an adherent of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, who became a leader of the opposition to the king. This made Seagrave's position at court increasingly untenable, and he was replaced in 1316. He died on 25 November 1321.

paragraph: Section::::Coat of arms.

paragraph: His coat of arms - "sable a lion rampant argent crowned or a label gules" - appears on the following rolls of arms which verify his presence on the Scottish campaigns mentioned above: The Falkirk Roll (together with his eldest brother John); The Caerlaverock Poem (again with John); and The Stirling Roll (with brothers John, Henry, Simon and nephew Stephen). Of course, his arms are differenced from those of his eldest brother.

description: English noble

wikidata_label: Nicholas Seagrave

wikipedia_title: Nicholas Seagrave


text:
St. Petersburg, Russia
Nicholas II of Russia
Florence, Italy
United States
Manhattan, New York City
Manhattan, New York City

wikipedia_title:
Saint Petersburg
Nicholas II of Russia
Florence
United States
Manhattan
Manhattan

paragraph: Reinhold von Warlich

paragraph: Reinhold von Warlich (May 24, 1877 - November 10, 1939) was a musician.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 24, 1877. His father was the musical director for the private orchestra of Nicholas II of Russia.

paragraph: He studied at the Hamburg Conservatory and then in Florence, Italy.

paragraph: He sang in Florence with G. Sulli and I. Braggiotti, and in Cologne with R. Thiele. He made his solo début in Florence in 1899. He toured England, Germany and France. He spent some years in Paris as a singing teacher. His United States début was in 1909 at Mendelssohn Hall in Manhattan, New York City.

paragraph: He married Maria Newman Lewis, the widow of Edward Judson Ovington, who owned the Ovington Gift Shop in Manhattan. Maria and von Warlich divorced in 1917.

paragraph: In 1923 he married Bertha von Turk-Rohn, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn.

paragraph: He died on November 10, 1939 in Manhattan, New York City.

wikidata_label: Reinhold von Warlich

wikipedia_title: Reinhold von Warlich


text:
pharaoh
9th
10th Dynasty of Egypt
First Intermediate Period
Herakleopolitan
nomarch
Manetho
crocodile
Jürgen von Beckerath
Merikare
Turin King List
copper
brazier
Abydos
scribe
Louvre Museum
ebony
Meir
Cairo Museum
ivory
casket
Lisht

wikipedia_title:
Pharaoh
Ninth Dynasty of Egypt
Tenth Dynasty of Egypt
First Intermediate Period of Egypt
Heracleopolis Magna
Nomarch
Manetho
Nile crocodile
Jürgen von Beckerath
Merikare
Turin King List
Copper
Brazier
Abydos, Egypt
Scribe
Louvre
Ebony
Meir, Egypt
Egyptian Museum
Ivory
Casket
Lisht

categories: Nomarchs,22nd-century BC rulers,22nd-century BC Pharaohs,Pharaohs of the Ninth Dynasty of Egypt,22nd century BC in Egypt,Pharaohs of the Tenth Dynasty of Egypt

paragraph: Meryibre Khety

paragraph: Meryibre Khety, also known by his Horus name Meryibtawy, was a pharaoh of the 9th or 10th Dynasty of Egypt, during the First Intermediate Period.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.

paragraph: Some scholars believe that Meryibre Khety was the founder of the 9th Dynasty, a Herakleopolitan nomarch who gathered enough authority to claim himself the legitimate successor of the 6th Dynasty pharaohs. It seems that Meryibre ruled over his neighboring nomarchs with an iron fist, and it is likely for this reason that in later times this ruler became Manetho's infamous "Achthoes", a wicked king who went insane and then was killed by a crocodile.

paragraph: Alternatively, other egyptologists such as Jürgen von Beckerath believe instead that Meryibre reigned toward the end of the subsequent 10th Dynasty, shortly before king Merikare.

paragraph: Because of the contrasting opinions of scholars, Meryibre's reign is difficult to account and date with reliability; if he really was the founder of the 9th Dynasty, his reign should have conventionally begun in c. 2160 BCE, while in the second case his reign should have started about a century later.

paragraph: Section::::Attestations.

paragraph: As his name is not mentioned in the Turin King List (probably because the papyrus is very scattered at this point), this ruler is known only for few objects: a sort of copper brazier or basket from a tomb near Abydos (found along with a scribe's palette bearing the name of king Merikare) and now exhibited at the Louvre Museum, an ebony wand from Meir now at the Cairo Museum (JE 42835), an ivory casket fragment from Lisht and some other minor finds. Thanks to those few monuments, however, Meryibre's royal titulary is the most complete amongst the known pharaohs of this period.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Meryibre Khety's page on Eglyphica.net.

description: Egyptian pharaoh

wikidata_label: Meryibre Khety

wikipedia_title: Meryibre Khety


text:
Naples
lifetime senator
Italian Socialist Party
Naples
Enrico De Nicola
Roman law
Theodor Mommsen
Action Party
Pietro Nenni
Aldo Moro
Sandro Pertini
Camorra
Bettino Craxi
senator for life
Democrats of the Left
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

categories: University of Naples Federico II alumni,2002 deaths,People from Naples,20th-century Italian politicians,Deputy Prime Ministers of Italy,Candidates for President of Italy,1907 births,Italian Socialist Party politicians,Action Party (Italy) politicians

paragraph: Francesco De Martino

paragraph: Francesco de Martino (31 May 1907, Naples – 18 November 2002, Naples) was an Italian jurist, politician, lifetime senator (1991–2002) and former Vice President of the Council of Ministers. He was considered by many to be the conscience of the Italian Socialist Party.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He graduated from the law school Federico II in Naples, and, under the guidance of Enrico De Nicola, embarked on the study of law and economics and became a distinguished scholar of Roman law.

paragraph: Emeritus Professor of law at the law school Federico II in Naples, he published several tomes, among which, the History of the Roman Constitution (in six tomes, which was compared for his monumental significance to the "Staatsrecht" by Theodor Mommsen) and the Economic History of Ancient Rome; his publications were translated in English, Spanish, German, French and Chinese.

paragraph: He first joined the Action Party (an anti-fascist political party) in 1943, and then joined the reconstituted Socialist party in 1945.

paragraph: At the first elections of the new Italian Republic in 1948, he was elected to Parliament with the Popular Front alliance of communists and socialists. He soon won the confidence of party leader Pietro Nenni, to whom he became vice secretary.

paragraph: When, in 1963, Nenni became Vice President of the Council of Ministers, or Deputy Prime Minister in the first centre-left government of Aldo Moro, De Martino took over as party secretary.

paragraph: De Martino was, in two times, the PSI's candidate to the presidential elections, in 1971 and 1978. This time, however, the more popular socialist, the former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Sandro Pertini was elected. De Martino candidacy was tarnished when the family paid a 1bn lire ransom for his release his son Guido who was kidnapped by the Camorra. The kidnappers were eventually captured, but those behind them were never discovered.

paragraph: In 1976, he was ousted as party secretary by Bettino Craxi when the PSI lost in the elections falling below 10% for the first time. De Martino became the scapegoat, and Craxi became Italy's first socialist Prime Minister in 1983.

paragraph: Nonetheless, he continued to be elected to the Parliament, and, in 1992, was appointed senator for life at which point he joined the post-communist Democrats of the Left, whom he considered "the true heirs to socialist values". He was dismayed by the demise of the historical socialist party after the corruption under Craxi.

paragraph: He resumed his academic career at the law school Federico II, where his secular funeral was celebrated in the presence of the President of Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

paragraph: He is survived by his children, Armando, Guido, Antonino, Elisa and Laura.

description: Italian politician

wikidata_label: Francesco De Martino

wikipedia_title: Francesco De Martino


text: Foreign Service

text: U.S. Ambassador

text: Mongolia

text: Brooklyn, New York

text: Long Island

text: Oceanside

text: Lynbrook

text: Sicily

text: Ukraine

text: New York University

text: U.S. Army

text: Georgetown University

text: National Security Agency

text: Foreign Service

text: U.S. Embassy in Jakarta

text: Indonesia

text: Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

text: Barack H. Obama

text: Medan

text: Deputy Chief of Mission

text: U.S. Embassy Wellington

text: New Zealand

text: Cambodian Genocide

text: Indonesia

text: Malaysia

text: Brunei

text: Singapore

text: American Foreign Service Association

text: United States-Indonesia Society

text: National War College

text: Georgetown University

text: School of Foreign Service

text: New York University

text: Indonesian

text: Turkish

categories: Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni,People from Oceanside, New York,21st-century American diplomats,20th-century American diplomats,Ambassadors of the United States to Mongolia,1939 births,People from Lynbrook, New York,New York University alumni,People from Brooklyn,National Security Agency people,American people of Ukrainian descent,American people of Italian descent,Living people,National War College alumni

paragraph: Alphonse F. La Porta

paragraph: Alphonse F. La Porta (born January 15, 1939) a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from December 1997 to November 2000. Subsequently, he served as the Political Advisor to the U.S. Commander-in-Chief of the Regional Headquarters Allied Forces in southern Europe from January 2001 to November 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Alphonse La Porta was born on January 15, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York. His family moved to the South Shore of Long Island – first to Oceanside, then Lynbrook.when he was young. His parents, both first generation immigrants, worked as hair dressers. His father came from Sicily and his mother from Ukraine. As a child he attended Davison Avenue Elementary School, then Malverne Junior High School, finally graduating from Malverne High School in 1956. He enrolled in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, graduating in 1960. That same he took the Foreign Service Exam, passing the written portion but failing to score a passing grade on the oral exams. He then decided to pursue a master's degree at New York University from 1960 to 1962 after which he entered the U.S. Army where he worked in Army Intelligence. He finished his enlistment in 1963 and began to pursue his Ph.D. at Georgetown University when he was recruited to work at the National Security Agency. He retook the Foreign Service exam in 1963–64 and this time passed both exams.

paragraph: He entered the Foreign Service in 1965. His first assignment was to the Office of Planning and Management. From 1967 to 1970 he was Political Officer and Chief of the Consular Section in the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. In this position he attested to the passport application of Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, mother of President Barack H. Obama. He thus has become a part of some Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories.

paragraph: He was Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate in Medan (1978–1981). From 1985 to 1987 La Porta served in the State Department's Office of Management Operations, then moved on to be Deputy Chief of Mission in U.S. Embassy Wellington, New Zealand from 1987 to 1991.

paragraph: Amb. La Porta's Washington-based assignments included working in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs as Director of the Office of Cambodian Genocide Investigation, Executive Assistant to the President's Special Representative for the Philippine economic reform, and as Deputy Director of the Office of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore Affairs.

paragraph: Before becoming U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia in 1997 he served as President and Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association from 1995 to 1997.

paragraph: Ambassador La Porta retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in September 2003 after more than 38 years of service. He was president of the United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) from 2004 through 2007 and currently is a Managing Partner of Trans Pacific Partners, LLC (TPP) where he provides professional support for military exercises in the Pacific, Europe and Latin America, and serves as a consultant on civil preparedness and disaster management.

paragraph: Section::::Education and Military Service.

paragraph: Amb. La Porta is a graduate of the National War College, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (1960) and New York University. He served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army from 1961 to 1963. He speaks both Indonesian and Turkish.

description: American diplomat

wikidata_label: Alphonse F. LaPorta

wikipedia_title: Alphonse F. La Porta