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paragraph: Mike Spence

paragraph: Michael Henderson Spence (30 December 1936 – 7 May 1968) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 37 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 8 September 1963. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 27 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races, as well as sports car racing.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Spence was born in Croydon, Surrey, and began his motorsport career through involvement with his family's garage business in Maidenhead, Berkshire. After early outings in 1958, driving his father's Turner and an AC Ace sports car, Spence moved into open-wheel racing in Formula Junior in 1959. Immediate success at the wheel of his Emeryson earned Spence the opportunity to drive the car in two non-Championship Formula One races in , the Solitude Grand Prix near Stuttgart and the Lewis-Evans Trophy at Brands Hatch. He retired early from the Solitude race with a gearbox failure, but finished second behind Tony Marsh's BRM in the Lewis-Evans Trophy. These results prompted moves to the privateer Ian Walker Racing FJ team for 1962, driving a Lotus 22, and then to the works Lotus Formula Junior squad in 1963.

paragraph: Despite disappointing results in his first Formula Junior season with a major team, with fourth place in the British Grand Prix FJ support race his best result, towards the end of Spence was called up to the Lotus Formula One team, taking the place of the injured Trevor Taylor at the Italian Grand Prix. Driving the Lotus 25, Spence qualified ninth and was classified 13th in the race despite the car's oil pressure fading near the end, while team-mate Jim Clark took the win and with it the Drivers' Championship.

paragraph: Section::::Formula One.

paragraph: With Lotus signing Peter Arundell as Clark's team-mate for , Spence spent most of the early season driving in Formula Two events. However, shortly before the British Grand Prix, Arundell suffered a severe accident in an F2 race at Reims-Gueux, and Spence was called up to replace him in the F1 team for the rest of the season. Driving both the Lotus 25 and the Lotus 33, Spence managed points finishes in two World Championship races, sixth in Italy and fourth at the season finale in Mexico. This gave him four points, placing him equal 12th in the Drivers' Championship.

paragraph: Staying with Lotus for , Spence finished fourth in the season opener in South Africa, then won the prestigious Race of Champions at Brands Hatch and finished third in the International Trophy at Silverstone. But over the rest of the Championship, while Clark won his second Drivers' title with ease, Spence could only record two more points finishes, coming fourth again in Britain and third in the season finale in Mexico, behind American duo Richie Ginther and Dan Gurney, in what would turn out to be his only podium finish in a Championship race. With ten points, he was eighth in the Drivers' Championship.

paragraph: The season began with victory in another non-Championship race, in South Africa. However, Lotus boss Colin Chapman then took back the recovered Arundell, leaving Spence out of a drive. Before the Championship began in May at Monaco, Spence signed for the privateer Reg Parnell Racing team, but the BRM-powered Lotus 25 he drove was elderly and unreliable and he finished only twice, in the Netherlands and Italy, although he was fifth on both occasions. The four points thus earned placed him 13th in the Drivers' Championship.

paragraph: At the end of 1966, Graham Hill left the works BRM team to join Lotus, and Spence was chosen as his replacement. Driving the BRM P83 over the course of the Championship, Spence achieved points finishes in five races, though these consisted of four fifths and a sixth. He thus finished tenth in the Drivers' Championship with nine points. Continuing with BRM at the start of , Spence drove the P115 in the season opener in South Africa and the P126 in the Race of Champions and the International Trophy; he retired from all three races but performed strongly in the latter two, hinting at a great potential for the rest of the season.

paragraph: Section::::Sports car racing.

paragraph: In 1967, Jim Hall hired Spence as part of his Chaparral sports car team. One of the most innovative engineers in 1960s motorsport, Hall pioneered many advances in racing technology. For 1967 the great advance was the addition of aerodynamic wings to the rear of his cars, generating extra downforce to improve grip levels and hence cornering speeds. Driving the Chaparral 2F with regular partner Phil Hill, Spence managed to make a great impression on the sports car scene. Fastest laps in the 12 Hours of Sebring and 1000km Spa races were just the prelude to a dominant win in the 1967 BOAC 500 race at Brands Hatch. Spence and Hill finished half a lap ahead of the Jackie Stewart/Chris Amon Ferrari 330P, who were themselves three laps ahead of everybody else.

paragraph: For 1968 Spence moved to the Ford-backed Alan Mann Racing team. He became one of the few people ever to drive the ill-fated Ford P68 in competition, although an engine mount failure on his own entry, followed by a driveshaft failure on the team's second car during the race, prevented Spence from reaching the chequered flag.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Following Clark's death at Hockenheim in early April 1968, Colin Chapman invited Spence back to Lotus as part of their Indianapolis 500 team, with the race in late May. Spence was due to race the revolutionary Lotus 56 gas turbine car. During practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday, 7 May, Spence, driving the #60 Lotus 56 turbocar (later qualified and driven by Joe Leonard), ran a lap of – fastest of the month and second-fastest in track history.

paragraph: Later in the afternoon, Spence was asked by Chapman to take out turbocar #30 for a test run after driver Greg Weld had difficulty getting the car up to speed. Spence quickly got the car to a lap of , but early in the second lap, he misjudged his entry to turn one and collided heavily with the concrete wall. The right-front wheel of the Lotus swiveled backwards into the cockpit and struck Spence on the helmet; he died in the hospital later that evening at 9:45 pm from massive head injuries. His fastest lap speed set earlier that day was unsurpassed for the next five practice days.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at the Autocourse Grand Prix Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brief biography at gpracing192.net

paragraph: BULLET::::- Formula One Championship and non-Championship results from GEL Motorsport Information

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Sportscar Championship results at wspr-racing.com

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Indianapolis fatalities

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paragraph: Piers Courage

paragraph: Piers Raymond Courage (27 May 1942 – 21 June 1970) was a British racing driver. He participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 2 January 1967. He achieved two podium finishes, and scored a total of twenty championship points.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Piers Courage was the eldest son and heir to the Courage brewing dynasty. Educated at Eton College, he began his racing career in his own Lotus 7.

paragraph: Following a brief stint touring the European F3 racing circuit in 1964 with a Lotus 22, along with Jonathan Williams, good results persuaded him to pursue a full season in 1965. It was in this season, driving a 1.0L F3 Brabham for Charles Lucas, that he first formed an alliance with Frank Williams, at that time Lucas's other driver and sometime mechanic. A string of good results, including four high-profile wins, encouraged Colin Chapman to offer Courage a seat in a Lotus 41 for the 1966 F3 season. This car was inferior to the dominant Brabhams but Courage still managed to outperform them on occasion, earning him a step up to the F2 category for the 1966 German Grand Prix, where he crashed out.

paragraph: Signed by the BRM works Formula 1 team for 1967, alongside Chris Irwin, his wild driving style caused him to repeatedly crash out of races and his tendency to spin at crucial moments led to the team dropping him after the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix. He completed the remainder of the season concentrating on his alternative drive, as was common in the 1960s, in John Coombs's F2 McLaren M4A, finishing fourth in the unclassified drivers' championship. At the end of the season he purchased the car from Coombs. A good run in the McLaren during the winter Tasman Series, including a win at the last race, resulted in Tim Parnell offering a drive in his works-supported Reg Parnell Racing BRM team for 1968. In addition to a good run in F1 in 1968 – including points-scoring finishes in France and Italy – Courage also drove for old friend Frank Williams's F2 team. When Frank Williams Racing Cars decided to make the step up to F1 in 1969, Courage was their first choice as driver.

paragraph: In Courage's hands, Williams's dark-blue liveried Brabham BT26 was more than a match for many of the works teams. He finished second in both the Monaco Grand Prix and the US Grand Prix, at Watkins Glen. Perhaps his finest drive of the season, though, was during the 1969 Italian Grand Prix at the high-speed Monza circuit. Despite an older car, and a power deficit, he managed to stay with the leading pack for the majority of the race. Only fuel starvation caused his pace to slow near the end, and he finally finished in fifth. A second fifth place, in the British Grand Prix, saw Courage finish the season on sixteen points in eighth place in the drivers' championship.

paragraph: Section::::Accident and death.

paragraph: Following a business arrangement with Alejandro de Tomaso, Williams switched to a newly designed De Tomaso chassis for the 1970 Formula One season. Unfortunately for Courage, the De Tomaso proved to be overweight and unreliable, and only a third place in the non-championship International Trophy alleviated a poor string of results in the early season. The Dutch Grand Prix seemed to be going slightly better, with Courage qualifying in ninth place around the Zandvoort Circuit. Running in the middle of the field, the De Tomaso's front suspension or steering broke on the bump at Tunnel Oost, causing the car to suddenly go straight on instead of finishing the high-speed bend. It then rode up an embankment (one of the Zandvoort dunes) and disintegrated, with the engine breaking loose from the monocoque, upon which it burst into flames. To lighten the De Tomaso, magnesium was used in its chassis and suspension. The magnesium burned so intensely that many nearby trees and bushes were set alight.

paragraph: During the impact, one of the front wheels broke off the car and hit Courage's head, tearing away his helmet (both came rolling out of the cloud of dust at the same time). It is assumed that this impact broke Courage's neck or caused fatal head injuries and that he died instantly as a result. Courage was survived by his wife, Lady Sarah Marguerite Curzon (b. 1945), and his two sons, Jason Piers Courage (b. 10 February 1967) and Amos Edward Sebastian Courage (b. 26 February 1969).

paragraph: Courage was buried in St Mary the Virgin churchyard, Shenfield, Essex.

paragraph: Just three years later, Roger Williamson crashed fatally when his car came to rest upside down and burst into flames at the same spot, the Tunnel Oost bump, where Courage's accident had started.

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.:Complete European Formula Two Championship results.

paragraph: Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cooper, A. 2003. Piers Courage: Last of the Gentleman Racers. "Haynes Group". 224pp.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career synopsis at gpracing.net

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career synopsis at sportnetwork.net

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paragraph: Ricardo Rosset

paragraph: Ricardo Rosset (born 27 July 1968) is a Brazilian racing driver. He participated in 33 Formula One Grands Prix, making his debut at the 1996 Australian Grand Prix. He scored no championship points. He eventually quit Formula One to focus on developing a sportswear business in Brazil.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

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paragraph: After graduating from the Formula Opel Euroseries, Rosset competed in the British Formula 3 Championship in 1993 for Alan Docking Racing. He finished joint sixth in the standings, tied with Pedro de la Rosa, with his best finish being one second place at Silverstone. Rosset moved to the AJS team in 1994, and improved to fifth in the standings in a season dominated by Jan Magnussen. He won his first F3 race that year at Snetterton, albeit on an occasion where Magnussen retired.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Formula 3000.

paragraph: Rosset made his début in International Formula 3000 with the Super Nova Racing team in 1995. His teammate was the more experienced Vincenzo Sospiri, who won the drivers' championship that year. In 1995 Rosset came second to his teammate – winning two races, including his first ever F3000 race – and finished second in the championship.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Formula One.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Formula One.:Footwork (1996).

paragraph: Rosset was hired by Footwork in as teammate to Jos Verstappen, but never matched the Dutch driver's pace (Verstappen was quicker in qualifying for all the races), although the team largely stopped development on the car when Tom Walkinshaw bought it.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Formula One.:Lola (1997).

paragraph: In Rosset joined MasterCard Lola, where he was partnered with former F3000 teammate Sospiri. However, the team pulled out of F1 after one failure to qualify at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix due to an uncompetitive car, the Lola T97/30 and a breakdown in sponsorship from MasterCard. Rosset was left without an F1 drive for the rest of the season.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Formula One.:Tyrrell (1998).

paragraph: In 1998, Rosset was chosen by Craig Pollock to be Tyrrell's second driver, to the fury of Ken Tyrrell, whose choice was Verstappen. Pollock had bought into the team with a view to establishing BAR, and saw Rosset's superior sponsorship finance as essential in balancing the team's budget. The 1998 season was another unsuccessful one for Rosset, leading to a joke from Martin Brundle, who, upon Murray Walker's suggestion that people were debating whether Rosset was F1 quality, he remarked "it's a fairly short debate Murray". Also, after severely damaging his car in qualifying at the 1998 Monaco Grand Prix and receiving a warning from the stewards, his furious mechanics switched the first and last letters of his surname on his paddock scooter to form the word "tosser".

paragraph: Rosset's problems included missing out on qualification for the 1998 Spanish Grand Prix by 6 hundredths of a second, and an injury during practice for the German Grand Prix which prevented him from taking part in qualifying, while in Belgium he crashed at full speed into the carnage of the 14-car pile-up on the first lap after being unsighted by the heavy spray, and was unable to take the restart. A further failure to qualify at Tyrrell's final race in Japan, where he was again hindered by injury, caused by a ride on the rollercoaster next to the circuit, marked the end of his Formula One career. Arguably, the atmosphere within the Tyrrell team and the antagonism towards Rosset's very presence, which had in fact led Ken Tyrrell to quit his own team, was hardly beneficial to the Brazilian's confidence, and ultimately his performance.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:After Formula One.

paragraph: After leaving the team at the end of the season, Rosset quit racing entirely to concentrate on his sportswear business in Brazil. However, he made a return to racing in the 2008 Brazilian GT3 Championship, partnering Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. At the end of the season, the pair had won four times in their Ford GT and finished second in the overall standings.

paragraph: Encouraged by this performance, Rosset bought the Footwork FA17 chassis that he raced in 1996, and was planning to enter it in a historic F1 series in 2009.

paragraph: Rosset went on to win the Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil in 2010, 2013, and 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.:Complete International Formula 3000 results.

paragraph: () (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races

paragraph: in "italics" indicate fastest lap)

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.:Complete Stock Car Brasil results.

paragraph: † Ineligible for championship points.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at F1 Rejects

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paragraph: Rupert Keegan

paragraph: Rupert Keegan (born 26 February 1955 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex) is a former racing driver from England. He participated in 37 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 8 May 1977. He scored no championship points.

paragraph: Keegan won the 1976 British Formula 3 Championship, which propelled him into Formula One. After seasons with Hesketh and Surtees, neither of them particularly competitive teams, he won the Aurora Formula One Championship in 1979. A return to the Formula One World Championship with RAM driving their Williams FW07B yielded little in the way of results, as did a few races with March.

paragraph: After Formula One, Keegan raced in the United States in CART, and also in endurance racing. After his retirement, he pursued business interests and also worked as a racing instructor.

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paragraph: Tony Maggs

paragraph: Anthony Francis O'Connell Maggs (9 February 1937 in Pretoria, South Africa – 2 June 2009) was a racing driver from South Africa. He participated in 27 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 15 July 1961. He achieved three podiums, and scored a total of 26 championship points.

paragraph: The son of a wealthy farmer and businessman, Tony Maggs was part of Ken Tyrrell's Formula Junior, Cooper-BMC team in 1961 and shared the European Championship with Jo Siffert. He was invited into the Cooper Formula One team for 1962–1963, finishing second in the French Grand Prix both years, but was dropped at the end of 1963.

paragraph: Maggs then moved to Scuderia Centro Sud for 1964 and despite the fact that their BRM P57s were not current machinery achieved two points finishes out of three race starts. He also returned to Formula Two with an MRP Lola and with David Piper won the Kyalami 9 Hours race in the latter's Ferrari GTO.

paragraph: In 1965, Maggs raced only once in Formula One, for Reg Parnell Racing, in the South African Grand Prix at East London but continued with success in both Formula Two and sports cars. However, in a national race at Pietermaritzburg he crashed his Brabham and a young spectator standing in a restricted area was hit and killed. Maggs immediately retired from motor sport to concentrate on his business interests.

paragraph: Maggs died on 2 June 2009, from cancer.

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paragraph: Trevor Taylor (racing driver)

paragraph: Trevor Taylor (26 December 1936 – 27 September 2010) was a British motor racing driver from England.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Trevor Taylor was born in Sheffield, the son of a garage owner from Rotherham. He began his racing career in Formula Three racing, initially in a Staride and later a Cooper-Norton. Ten victories in 1958 earned him the British Formula Three Championship. After a frustrating year in 1959 spent with his own Formula Two Cooper, he received an invitation to run his Lotus 18 as a second works car for 1960. He finished equal first in the Formula Junior championship with Jim Clark, although he competed in two more races that counted towards the championship than Clark who was already driving regularly for Team Lotus in Formula One. Taylor went on to win the title on his own account in 1961. At the end of 1961, Taylor got a regular Formula One drive with Team Lotus and proved competitive with Clark and Moss in the South African series in December 1961.

paragraph: Section::::Formula One career.

paragraph: Taylor participated in 29 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, qualifying for 27 of them. He made his debut on 18 July 1959, in the British Grand Prix held that year at Aintree, driving a privately entered 1.5-litre Cooper T51 but did not qualify. In 1961, he was thirteenth at that year's Dutch Grand Prix, his only World Championship drive that year. He was second in the 1962 Formula One season opening Dutch Grand Prix, his only World Championship podium finish. He led early in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa and after his team leader Clark passed he engaged in a duel with Willy Mairesse who was driving before his home crowd. Following in Taylor's slip steam, Mairesse clipped the extension of Taylor's gearbox going uphill from Stavelot, the Ferrari 156 having more power uphill, and while neither suffered serious injury both were lucky to survive the high speed encounter. Taylor said that while, Mairesse generally tried too hard and was over eager for Championship honours, on this occasion, Mairesse was driving well and with precision and it was not his fault.

paragraph: At the end of 1962, Taylor shared with Jim Clark the car and victory in the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix had a win and a second place at two non-championship events in South Africa confirming his place with Team Lotus in 1963. However, after a handful of top-three-finishes in non-championship events, his best World Championship result was sixth place in the opening race at Monaco, and thereafter he was rarely competitive, although on the fast Reims circuit, in the French Grand Prix, he was running second when he retired at two-thirds distance. Taylor admitted his confidence was shaken by two serious accidents at Spa and Enna-Pergusa. Team owner Colin Chapman suggested Taylor take a sabbatical after the end of the 1963 season and then return to Lotus. Taylor differed and attempted to continue as an F1 driver. After an unsuccessful season with the British Racing Partnership in 1964, Taylor withdrew from Formula One competition.

paragraph: During his career he achieved one podium finish, and scored a total of eight championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races during this time and won three, including one shared with Clark, in 1962 and 1963. Taylor is credited with inventing the yellow stripe that ran down the middle of Team Lotus cars during the 1960s.

paragraph: After 1964 Taylor enjoyed lesser forms of racing, and tested a Cosworth Formula One car in 1969 which was entered for Grands Prix but did not race. In that, the opening year of F5000, Trevor Taylor was a strong contestant in the Guards Championship, winning F5000 rounds in a Surtees TS5 in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Ireland and finished runner up to Peter Gethin in the 1969 F5000 series.

paragraph: Taylor died at the age of 73 after contracting cancer.

paragraph: Section::::Complete Formula One World Championship results.:Non-Championship results.

paragraph: Win shared with Jim Clark, who took over the car after being disqualified for a push start.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trevor Taylor profile at The 500 Owners Association

description: racecar driver

wikidata_label: Trevor Taylor

wikipedia_title: Trevor Taylor (racing driver)


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paragraph: Janka Bryl

paragraph: Janka (Yanka) Bryl (, August 4, 1917 – July 25, 2006) was a Belarusian writer best known for his short stories. He was one of the older generation of Soviet writers who had begun their literary careers in Stalin's time but received a new lease on life in the late 1950s along with such contemporaries as Ivan Shamiakin and Ivan Melezh.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His father was a railway worker. In 1922, his family returned to their hometown of Zagorje, which was then in Poland. He was unable to complete his education, due to financial difficulties.

paragraph: In 1939, he was drafted into the Polish Army and was assigned to their equivalent of the Marine Corps. Although he was captured by the Germans at Gdynia, he was able to escape and returned to Belarus, where he joined the partisans and served several groups in different capacities. He began his writing career in Mir as an editor for a partisan newspaper, "The Banner of Freedom" and contributed pieces to a satirical journal called the "Guerrilla Gigolo". Later, he authored various anti-Nazi leaflets for the newspaper ""' (Crush the Fascist Vermin).

paragraph: In October 1944 he moved to Minsk where he worked on several newspapers and magazines, as well as in the State Publishing House and became Secretary of the local writers' union. From 1945, he was a member of the Soviet Writers' Union. He was also elected to the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, serving two terms: 1963-1967 and 1980-1985. From 1989 until his death, he was a member of the Belarusian PEN Center.

paragraph: In addition, He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1952 and the Jakub Kolas Literature Prize in 1963. In 1981, he was awarded the honorific title of People's Writer of the Byelorussian SSR and in 1994 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

paragraph: Bryl's first story appeared in 1938 and his first short story collection appeared in 1946. The first collection of stories was called "Apaviadanni" (Stories). Bryl's books are mostly works of psychological fiction and his characters tend to be sensitive and prone to introspection. They were largely set in Belarusian villages and frequently about the people's fight against the Nazis.

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Padua
Giuseppe Piermarini

categories: People from Bedano,Architects from Ticino,19th-century Swiss painters,19th-century Italian architects,1805 deaths,Swiss male painters,1761 births,18th-century Swiss painters

paragraph: Giacomo Albertolli

paragraph: Giacomo Albertolli (1761 – June 6, 1805) was a Swiss-born architect who was active in Italy during the Neoclassical period.

paragraph: He was born in Bedano in the province of Ticino. He was the nephew of Giocondo Albertolli, a professor of architecture at the Brera Academy. In 1797, Giacomo became professor of civil architecture in the Seminary of Padua. With the Austrian occupation, he moved to Milan, where he replaced his teacher, Giuseppe Piermarini. He died of apoplexy (stroke).

description: architect

wikidata_label: Gian Giacomo Albertolli

wikipedia_title: Giacomo Albertolli


text: short track speed skater

text: 500 m

text: 2018 Winter Olympics

text: 2014 Winter Olympics

text: 500 metres

text: 1500 metres

text: 1000 metres

text: 3000 metre relay

text: World Championships

text: ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup

text: Sanne van Kerkhof

categories: People from Zoetermeer,Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Short track speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Dutch short track speed skaters,Female short track speed skaters,Olympic medalists in short track speed skating,Olympic short track speed skaters of the Netherlands,Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands,World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medalists,1990 births,Short track speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands,Living people

paragraph: Yara van Kerkhof

paragraph: Yara van Kerkhof (; born 31 May 1990) is a Dutch short track speed skater. She won the silver medal in the 500 m event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Van Kerkhof competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for the Netherlands. In the 500 metres she was second in her heat, advancing to a quarter-final, where she finished third, not advancing. In the 1500 metres she again advanced out of the first round, but was fifth in her semi-final, not advancing. She also competed in the 1000 metres, finishing third in her heat. As a member of the Dutch 3000 metre relay team, she was disqualified in the heats, again not advancing. Her best individual finish was in the 500m, where she was 11th.

paragraph: As of September 2014, van Kerkhof's best performance at the World Championships came in 2011, when she won a silver medal as a member of the Dutch 3000m relay team. She also won gold medals as a member of the Dutch relay team at the 2012, 2013 and 2014 European Championships.

paragraph: As of September 2014, van Kerkhof has one ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup victory, as part of the relay team in 2012-13 at Dresden. She also has two other podium finishes with the relay team. Her top World Cup ranking is 11th, in the 1000 metres in 2013–14.

paragraph: She is a sister of Sanne van Kerkhof, also an Olympic short track speed skater.

description: Dutch short track speed skater

wikidata_label: Yara van Kerkhof

wikipedia_title: Yara van Kerkhof


text:
Metz
Jerusalem
Israel
from Germany
Marburg
Hesse
Darmstadt University of Technology
Martin Möbius
Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gerson Stern
Lorraine
Hagana
Israeli War of Independence
Nabataeans
runoff
Israeli agriculture
Algae fuel
renewable resource
biofuel
Leopoldina
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Israel Prize
Balzan Prize
Stolperstein
Michael Evenarí at TU Darmstadt
Michael Evenari, by Hans-Dieter Arntz

categories: Jewish scientists,1904 births,Israeli botanists,1989 deaths

paragraph: Michael Evenari

paragraph: Michael Evenari (hebr.: מיכאל אבן-ארי, even-ari meaning "lion's stone"; born as Walter Schwarz 9/10/1904 in Metz - 15/4/1989 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli botanist originally from Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Evenari grew up as Walter Schwarz close to Marburg and Buchenau in Hesse. He studied botany at Darmstadt University of Technology and received his doctorate 1927 under the auspices of Martin Möbius. He fled Nazi Germany on 1 April, 1933 and was active in Jerusalem as professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a brother in law of writer Gerson Stern, his parents were German Jews and merchants from the Lorraine, which had opted for Germany after World War I and were forced to emigrate after Metz became French again. Evenari joined Hagana and fought in the Israeli War of Independence.

paragraph: His works on the Nabataeans runoff rainwater management was crucial for modern Israeli agriculture and explained as well how the Nabataean culture was able to supply thousands of inhabitants in a similar arid climate. Evenari showed that the runoff rainwater collection systems concentrate water from larger areas and in so far allow to grow plants with higher water needs in the given arid environment. The mechanism explained a variety of ancient agricultural features, terraced wadis, channels for collecting runoff rainwater, and the phenomenon of "Tuleilat el-Anab", grape mounds.

paragraph: Evenari himself cared about the cultural heritage of the bedouins but saw the more as fathers than 'sons of the desert'. He worked as well on Algae fuel, a special sort of renewable resource and biofuel.

paragraph: 1966 Evenari was appointed member of Leopoldina and 1977 Technische Universität Darmstadt provided him with an honorable doctorate. Evenari received the Israel Prize 1986 and 1988 together with Otto Ludwig Lange Balzan Prize. 2001 the "Evenarí-Forum für Deutsch-Jüdische-Studien: Technik-, Natur-, Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften", a Jewish-German center of studies in Darmstadt was named in hs honor and 2010 a Stolperstein bearing his name was laid on Darmstadt university campus.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- together with Leslie Shanan and Naphtali Tadmor: "The Negev. The Challenge of a Desert." Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 1971; 1982,

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ökologisch-landwirtschaftliche Forschungen im Negev. Analyse eines Wüsten-Ökosystems." Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt 1982,

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Und die Wüste trage Frucht. Ein Lebensbericht." Bleicher, Gerlingen 1990, , autobiography

paragraph: Section::::Links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michael Evenarí at TU Darmstadt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michael Evenari, by Hans-Dieter Arntz

description: Jewish German botanist

wikidata_label: Michael Evenari

wikipedia_title: Michael Evenari


text:
Lyon
Algiers
Lyon School
École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon
Michel Philibert Genod
Joseph Guichard
Franco-Prussian War
pontonniers
tuberculosis
Frigolet Abbey
Antoine Sublet
Raymond Tripier
Alphonse Stengelin
Algeria
Albert Lebourg
Cemetery of Loyasse
genre
still life
8th arrondissement of Lyon
ArtNet: Works by Seignemartin

paragraph: Jean Seignemartin

paragraph: Jean Seignemartin (16 April 1848, Lyon - 29 November 1875, Algiers) was a French painter of the Lyon School.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His father was a weaver. Having shown artistic talent, in 1860 he was enrolled at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon, where he studied with Michel Philibert Genod and Joseph Guichard. He graduated in 1865 with the "Laurier d’or" and shared a studio with his friend, .

paragraph: In 1870, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, he was drafted and assigned to a unit of pontonniers from Paris. This involved being almost constantly in the water (even during winter), which resulted in infections that led to tuberculosis.

paragraph: After his return, he helped decorate Frigolet Abbey under the direction of Antoine Sublet. Later, he settled into his own studio in Lyon, where he attracted notable patrons such as Dr. Raymond Tripier and the banker R. Stengelin, father of the painter Alphonse Stengelin (1852-1938).

paragraph: In 1874, he went to Algeria, accompanied by Doctor Tripier. There he met Albert Lebourg, a professor at the , who had a major influence on his style. In spring of the following year, he returned to Lyon, but went back to Algeria shortly thereafter on the advice of his doctors. He died that winter. It took several weeks to arrange for the transport of his body, which was interred at the Cemetery of Loyasse. A public subscription was taken up to adorn his tomb with a bronze bust by .

paragraph: He painted portraits, genre scenes and still lifes of flowers, but his paintings from Algeria are his best-known works. A street in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon is named after him.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maurice Frèze, "Seignemartin, sa vie, son œuvre", 1876 (self-published?)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charles Faure and Alphonse Stengelin, "Les Peintres Lyonnais. Seignemartin", A. Rey et Cie Imprimeurs, 1905

paragraph: BULLET::::- Colette Bidon, "Jean Seignemartin au Musée des Beaux–Arts de Lyon" (exhibition catalog), 1984

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- ArtNet: Works by Seignemartin

description: French painter

wikidata_label: Jean Seignemartin

wikipedia_title: Jean Seignemartin


text:
field hockey
England
Great Britain
Men's England Hockey League
East Grinstead
men's hockey
2014 Commonwealth Games

categories: English male field hockey players,2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players,Loughborough Students field hockey players,Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics,Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey,Men's England Hockey League players,Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain,Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England,East Grinstead Hockey Club players,Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games,Sportspeople from Leicester,2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players,1991 births,British male field hockey players,Living people

paragraph: David Condon (field hockey)

paragraph: David John Condon (born 6 July 1991) is an English international field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for England and Great Britain.

paragraph: He plays club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for East Grinstead.

paragraph: Condon competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal.

description: British field hockey player

wikidata_label: David Condon

wikipedia_title: David Condon (field hockey)


text:
New Plymouth
Chelmsford
New Zealand Company
New Plymouth
Wellington
London
The Great Exhibition
Superintendent
Taranaki Province
Provinces
Omata
Grey and Bell
Port Taranaki
Te Henui Cemetery

categories: Superintendents of New Zealand provincial councils,1901 deaths,Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives,English surveyors,Burials at Te Henui Cemetery,People from New Plymouth,New Zealand surveyors,1807 births,People from Chelmsford,English emigrants to New Zealand,New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates

paragraph: Frederic Carrington

paragraph: Frederic Alonzo Carrington (Oct 1807 – 15 July 1901) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and surveyor. He is regarded as the Father of New Plymouth.

paragraph: Carrington was born in Chelmsford, Essex, England in 1807, the son of Captain William Carrington.

paragraph: He was 15 years in the Ordnance Survey Department. Then he was appointed by the New Zealand Company as Chief Surveyor to the Plymouth Company and surveyed the new settlement of New Plymouth. He arrived in Wellington with his family in the ship "London" in December 1840 as a cabin passenger.

paragraph: In 1844, he returned to England, and undertook surveying for parliamentary committees in England and Scotland. In 1851, he displayed iron made from Taranaki iron sand at The Great Exhibition, London. From 1851 to 1856 he investigated business proposals in California and other parts of America, Paris and Belgium.

paragraph: He left for New Zealand with his family in January 1857 and in 1862 was made Government Engineering Surveyor for Taranaki. He finally obtained a grant of land in 1877.

paragraph: He was Superintendent of Taranaki Province from 1869 to 1876 (when the Provinces were abolished), and was the member of Parliament for Omata in 1870 and then Grey and Bell from 1871 to 1879 when he retired. He had stood unsuccessfully in the for

paragraph: He was a member of the Harbour Board (now Port Taranaki), and an advocate of an adequate harbour for New Plymouth. In 1881, Carrington laid the first stone for the main breakwater at the port, using a trowel made from Taranaki ironsand.

paragraph: Carrington died in New Plymouth and is buried in the family grave in Te Henui Cemetery.

paragraph: Carrington Street, a New Plymouth arterial route, and its extension Carrington Road, which winds between the Pouakai and Kaitake ranges, are named for him. He is regarded as the father of New Plymouth.

description: New Zealand politician

wikidata_label: Frederic Alonzo Carrington

wikipedia_title: Frederic Carrington


text:
Ancient Egypt
18th dynasty
Thutmose I
Wadjmose
Ahmose
Hatshepsut
Neferubity
Mutnofret
Thutmose II
el-Kab
cartouche
Middle Kingdom

categories: Princes of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt,Ancient Egyptian overseers of the troops,Heirs to the ancient Egyptian throne

paragraph: Amenmose (prince)

paragraph: Amenmose was an Ancient Egyptian prince. He lived during the 18th dynasty and was the eldest son and designated heir of Thutmose I. He predeceased his father.

paragraph: Amenmose is likely to have been born before his father ascended the throne. It is not known who was his mother or his brother Wadjmose's mother. She is likely to have been either the Great Royal Wife Ahmose, who was also the mother of Hatshepsut and Neferubity, or the secondary queen Mutnofret, who also was the mother of Thutmose II.

paragraph: Amenmose is depicted in the el-Kab tomb of his and Wadjmose's tutor, Paheri. A fragment of Amenmose's small stone naos has also been found dated to year 4 of Tuthmose I. Amenmose's name was written in a cartouche, which was usually restricted to pharaohs and their chief queens; it was rare for a crown prince to be identified in this manner.

paragraph: Amenmose was the first Egyptian prince to receive a military title (that of "Great Overseer of Soldiers"), reflecting the role of pharaohs and princes as generals. This title first appeared during the Middle Kingdom and was later used frequently for princes during the Ramesside period.

description: ancient Egyptian prince

wikidata_label: Amenmose

wikipedia_title: Amenmose (prince)


text:
Egyptian
Akhenaten
Amenhotep III
Heliopolis
Ra
Akhet-Aten
Aswan
Gebel es-Silsila
stela
Aswan
Amun
Aten
Great Temple of the Aten
Berlin
Thutmose
Tiye
Information and images

categories: Sculptures of ancient Egypt,People of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt,Ancient Egyptian sculptors

paragraph: Bek (sculptor)

paragraph: Bek or Bak (Egyptian for "Servant") was the first chief royal sculptor during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. His father Men held the same position under Akhenaten's father Amenhotep III; his mother Roi was a woman from Heliopolis.

paragraph: Bek grew up in Heliopolis, an important cult centre of the sun god Ra. The young prince Amenhotep (who became the pharaoh Akhenaten) had a palace here, and it is likely that his religious views were formed in part by the Heliopolitan teachings. Bek followed his lord to Akhet-Aten, the city founded by Akhenaten. He oversaw the construction of the great temple statues of the king and the opening of the Aswan and Gebel es-Silsila stone quarries, from where the stone was transported.

paragraph: A stela found in Aswan, made around the 9th regnal year of Akhenaten shows Men and his son Bek with the pharaohs they serve. On the right side Men stands before the statue of Amenhotep III. The statue is very likely to be one of the colossi of the pharaoh that was made by Men. This side of the stela reflects the traditional artistic style of the 18th dynasty, and the only indication of the Amarna period is that the name "Amenhotep" is left out, instead of it the pharaoh's throne name "Nebmaatre" is repeated, in order to avoid having to mention the god Amun whose cult was forbidden. On the left side of the stela Bek is shown before Akhenaten, who makes offerings to his god Aten; according to the inscription the depicted scene is set in the Great Temple of the Aten. A typical feature of Amarna era pictures, the rays of Aten end in hands. Aten's and Akhenaten's name was later chiseled out.

paragraph: On the stela Bek states that he is "the apprentice whom His Majesty taught". It is likely that he oversaw the making of the statues which show Akhenaten and his family in an overly naturalistic style, breaking with the idealised depiction that tradition demanded.

paragraph: A stela (now in Berlin) shows Bek with his wife Taheret. This is possibly the first self-portrait in history. The inscription of this stela also mentions him being taught by Akhenaten. A drawing of Akhenaten, which depicts the pharaoh and Aten and is likely to have been made in the early years of his reign, is possibly Bek's work. This picture shows Aten with a falcon-headed man, which was an attribute of Ra.

paragraph: Some other sculptors of the Amarna period are also known by name, including Thutmose (creator of the famous Nefertiti bust) and Yuti, sculptor of Queen Tiye.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Information and images

description: Ancient Egyptian sculptor

wikidata_label: Bek

wikipedia_title: Bek (sculptor)


text:
ice hockey
defenceman
American Hockey League
Liiga
QMJHL
Val-d'Or Foreurs
Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Victoriaville Tigres
Memorial Cup
free agent
Detroit Red Wings
Grand Rapids Griffins
Manitoba Moose
2004–05 season
Montreal Canadiens
Hamilton Bulldogs
2006–07 season
Calder Cup
Rockford IceHogs
Chicago Blackhawks
2008–09 season
San Jose Sharks
AHL All-Star Classic
Eddie Shore Award
Chicago Wolves
Derek Joslin
Worcester
Vancouver Canucks
Dragons de Rouen

categories: Val-d'Or Foreurs players,Acadie–Bathurst Titan players,Ice hockey people from Quebec,Grand Rapids Griffins players,Canadian expatriate sportspeople in France,Victoriaville Tigres players,Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) players,1981 births,Chicago Wolves players,Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus,Canadian ice hockey defencemen,Manitoba Moose players,People from LaSalle, Quebec,Sportspeople from Montreal,Living people,Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Finland,Worcester Sharks players,Kassel Huskies players,Rockford IceHogs (AHL) players,Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Russia

paragraph: Danny Groulx

paragraph: Danny Groulx (born June 23, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the American Hockey League and Liiga. In 2018, Groulx was inducted into the QMJHL Hall of Fame and named the head coach of Riverains du collège Charles-Lemoyne Midget AAA team.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Groulx was drafted 11th overall by the Val-d'Or Foreurs in the 1997 QMJHL Draft. After winning the 1998 President Cup, Groulx joined the Acadie-Bathurst Titan and later the Victoriaville Tigres. At the conclusion of his major junior career, he racked up 332 points in 341 games and won three Memorial Cups. Groulx holds the distinction for most career points for a defenseman in the QMJHL.

paragraph: On August 12, 2002, Groulx was signed as a free agent for the Detroit Red Wings. Groulx then played with Red Wings affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL for the next three seasons before he was loaned to the Manitoba Moose for the completion of the 2004–05 season.

paragraph: Groulx was invited to the Montreal Canadiens training camp on September 13, 2006. He was reassigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL for the 2006–07 season, where he helped the Bulldogs capture the Calder Cup.

paragraph: Groulx signed a one year AHL contract with the Rockford IceHogs on September 4, 2008, and was later invited to the Chicago Blackhawks training camp on September 16, 2008. However, he was reassigned to the IceHogs for the 2008–09 season, where he posted 40 points in 80 games.

paragraph: On July 16, 2009, Groulx signed a one-year contract with the San Jose Sharks. While with the Sharks American Hockey League affiliate, he was named to the AHL All-Star Classic and won the Eddie Shore Award as the AHL’s best defenseman. He signed a one year contract with the Sharks on July 2, 2012. On March 22, 2013 Groulx was assigned to the Chicago Wolves by the Sharks while Chicago defenceman Derek Joslin was assigned to the Worcester by the Vancouver Canucks as part of an AHL trade.

paragraph: Groulx retired from professional hockey after the 2014–15 season which he spent in France with the Dragons de Rouen.

paragraph: In 2018, Groulx was inducted into QMJHL Hall of Fame. He was later named the new head coach for the Midget AAA Collège Charles-Lemoyne Riverains.

description: Canadian ice hockey defenceman

wikidata_label: Danny Groulx

wikipedia_title: Danny Groulx


text:
Millville, Massachusetts
North Smithfield, Rhode Island
pitcher
Major League Baseball
Boston Braves
New York Giants
Baseball Reference (MLB)
Baseball Reference (MiLB)

categories: 1898 births,Boston Braves players,Toledo Mud Hens players,Reading Keystones players,Baseball players from Massachusetts,Fordham Rams baseball players,People from Worcester County, Massachusetts,1994 deaths,People from North Smithfield, Rhode Island,Major League Baseball pitchers,New York Giants (NL) players

paragraph: Tim McNamara

paragraph: Timothy Augustine McNamara (November 20, 1898 in Millville, Massachusetts – November 5, 1994 in North Smithfield, Rhode Island) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Boston Braves and New York Giants.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (MLB) and Baseball Reference (MiLB)

paragraph: br

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Tim McNamara

wikipedia_title: Tim McNamara


text:
Los Angeles
tallest tree
redwoods
Hyperion
Stephen Sillett
Kenneth L. Fisher
World Heritage Site
The Wild Trees
Lost Monarch
Grove of Titans
Iluvatar
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
National Geographic Society
Save-the-Redwoods League
California State Parks
www.landmarktrees.net
Humboldt State University
San Diego State University

paragraph: Michael Taylor (forester)

paragraph: Michael W. Taylor (born 25 April 1966, in Los Angeles) is a leading discoverer of champion and tallest trees - most notably coast redwoods. In 2006, Taylor co-discovered the tallest known tree in the world, a coast redwood ("Sequoia sempervirens") now named "Hyperion". He also discovered "Helios" and "Icarus", the 2nd and 3rd tallest.

paragraph: National Geographic made a video about the discovery and measuring of Hyperion. The discovery made headlines.

paragraph: Taylor has discovered 50 coast redwoods over tall, and co-discovered approximately 100 more with Chris Atkins and Stephen Sillett, who is the first holder of the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State University. Taylor and Sillett have collaborated and measured remarkable previously unknown redwoods. Their discoveries have fueled research and public interest in coast redwoods, which are now a World Heritage Site.

paragraph: Michael is a main character of the non-fiction book (2007) "The Wild Trees". The narrative includes how Taylor began exploring for tall trees, measuring tallest trees, and later networking with Pacific coast forest researchers.

paragraph: Taylor co-discovered the largest known coast redwood named Lost Monarch in the Grove of Titans, as well as Iluvatar in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.

paragraph: Section::::Tallest tree discoveries.

paragraph: Redwoods: Helios and Icarus were discovered in 2006, shortly before Hyperion. Hyperion was the record height coast redwood that prompted National Geographic Society and Save-the-Redwoods League to coordinate a documentary. These are just 3 of many coast redwoods over feet which Michael Taylor discovered. The details are chronicled at www.talltreesclub.org

paragraph: Pines: Discovery of 4 new world's tallest pine trees, January, 2011.

paragraph: Section::::Largest coast redwood discoveries.

paragraph: Taylor discovered and co-discovered the largest known coast redwoods. The locations of these trees have not been disclosed by the National and California State Parks to the general public. For more information see www.landmarktrees.net

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Taylor attended Humboldt State University from 1984-87 studying forestry, attended San Diego State University in 1988, returned to Humboldt State University 1992-94 completing a bachelor of science in environmental engineering.

paragraph: Section::::Location.

paragraph: Michael Taylor resides in northern California.

description: American forester

wikidata_label: Michael Taylor

wikipedia_title: Michael Taylor (forester)


text: Art Deco

text: textile design

text: Redlands, California

text: Pratt Institute

text: San Francisco Art Institute

text: Art Students League

text: Leland Olds

text: Fernand Léger

text: dye

text: screen print

text: Cubism

text: Lewis Mumford

text: Guatemala

text: Radio City Music Hall

text: Marguerita Mergentime

text: Donald Deskey

text: Federal Art Project

text: Romana Javitz

text: New York Public Library

text: Shaker

text: Cooper Union Art School

text: India

text: Fulbright scholar

text: All-India Handicrafts Board

text: New Delhi

text: New City, New York

text: W. & J. Sloane

text: American Federation of Art

text: Metropolitan Museum of Art

text: Hudson River School

text: Gardner School

text: Carnegie Institution

text: R.H. Macy & Company

text: Guatemala

categories: Guggenheim Fellows,1966 deaths,Art Deco artists,1892 births,American textile designers

paragraph: Ruth Reeves

paragraph: Ruth Marie Reeves (1892–1966) was an American painter, Art Deco textile designer and expert on Indian handicrafts.

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

paragraph: Ruth Marie Reeves was born in Redlands, California, on July 14, 1892. She attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1910 to 1911, the San Francisco Art Institute from 1911 to 1913, and won an Art Students League's scholarship in 1913, where she studied until 1915. In 1917 she married Leland Olds, a graduate student at Amherst University. They divorced in 1922.

paragraph: In 1920, Reeves traveled to Paris and studied with Fernand Léger. During her time in Paris, she pioneered the use of vat dyes and the screen print process for home fabrics.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Returning to the United States in 1927, her designs were influenced by modern developments in France like Cubism. Reeves' first exhibition was with the American Designers' Gallery in New York, where she showed textiles. Lewis Mumford called her wall hangings and dresses inspired by traditional Guatemalan designs shown in 1935 "probably the most interesting work any designer has offered for commercial production today."

paragraph: One of her best-known works was the carpeting and wall fabrics of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Her fabric and carpet designs along with those of her colleague Marguerita Mergentime can be seen there today. Donald Deskey, who won the competition to design the interiors for Radio City Music Hall, commissioned Reeves and Mergentime to design textiles for the hall.

paragraph: The "Index of American Design", one of three main divisions of the Federal Art Project (FAP) was originally conceived by Reeves and Romana Javitz, the curator of the Picture Collection at the New York Public Library, as a way for the American artist to find authentic American everyday objects to use as visual references for their work. The Index was established with the FAP in January 1936 with Reeves as its national supervisor. She held the position until the spring when Adolph Cook Glassgold replaced her. Within the Index, Shaker works were highly prized as Reeves felt they emphasized the art of the American common man.

paragraph: She later taught at the Cooper Union Art School in New York. She married engineer Donald Robert Baker and had three daughters. The couple separated in 1940.

paragraph: After 1956, she moved to India as a Fulbright scholar, where she served on the All-India Handicrafts Board. She died in New Delhi in 1966.

paragraph: Section::::Textile design.

paragraph: She often worked with narratives sourced from her life or friends lives. "South Mountain" is one of her earliest narrative pieces designed as an autobiographical family portrait. It was named after the road she lived on in the artist colony in New City, New York. This piece was the start of her "personal prints" that were privately commissioned limited editions.

paragraph: In 1930, Reeve was commissioned by the W. & J. Sloane Company to create a group of narrative textiles to be submitted to the American Federation of Art for their "International Exhibition of Decorative Metalwork and Cotton Textiles" that was to be held later that year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The company neglected to check in on her progress and in the end were horrified at the unconventional fabric she designed. Each pattern was printed on twenty-nine different types of cotton and depicted a series of rooms in an imaginary house. The fabrics also didn't sell and the relationship ended unhappily. The most notable work from this collection is "American Scene," a panorama that celebrates everyday American life: work, sports, and family.

paragraph: In 1933, Reeves created a series of textiles inspired by the Hudson River School. These textiles were funded by a grant from the Gardner School Alumnae Fund. In 1934, the textiles were shown at the National Alliance of Art and Industry.

paragraph: In 1934, she traveled to Guatemala through a sponsorship from the Carnegie Institution. The textiles she collected on this trip were exhibited at Radio City in New York. In 1935, she worked with the R.H. Macy & Company to create five Guatemalan-inspired patterns that were some of her only works to be produced commercially.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruth Reeves (1930) "American Scene". W. & J. Sloane Company

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruth Reeves (1932) Carpets. Radio City Music Hall

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruth Reeves (1932) Wallpaper. Rockefeller Center

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kelly, Andrew. "Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts, American Culture, and the Index of American Design". Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2015.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- An online catalogue raisonné of the work of Ruth Reeves

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruth Reeves papers, 1880-1967, at the Archives of American Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruth Reeves Memorial Collection of the Folk Art in India

alias:
Ruth Marie Reeves
Ruth Reeves Olds

description: American textile artist

wikidata_label: Ruth Reeves

wikipedia_title: Ruth Reeves


text:
San Francisco
California
Jerry Garcia Band
gospel music
Charlie Daniels
Elvin Bishop
Chuck Berry
Jerry Garcia Band
Jerry Garcia
John Kahn
JGB
John Kadlecik
Steve Kimock
Jerry Garcia
Grateful Garcia Gathering
John Kadlecik
Donna Jean
Mookie Siegel
Pete Sears
G. E. Smith
Barry Sless
Mark Karan
Mike Lawson
Dave Hebert
Brian Lesh
Phil Lesh & Friends
Capitol Theatre
Port Chester, New York
Oteil Burbridge
Elvin Bishop
Run for the Roses
Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Band
Jerry Garcia Band
How Sweet It Is
JGB
Shining Star
Garcia Live Volume Two
Garcia Live Volume Eight
Garcia Live Volume 10
Electric on the Eel
Garcia Live Volume 11
Melvin Seals Official Website
JGB Official Website

categories: JGB (band) members,1953 births,Jerry Garcia Band members,American rock keyboardists,Living people

paragraph: Melvin Seals

paragraph: Melvin Seals (born 1953 in San Francisco, California) is an American musician, best known as a longtime member of the Jerry Garcia Band.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and career.

paragraph: Melvin Seals began playing piano at age eight and began his musical adventure playing gospel music for his local church. Over the next years he joined a few different bands in San Francisco and became good at playing other keyboards, particularly the electric organ, which he would play for the majority of his musical career. He went on to record and perform with artists such as Charlie Daniels, Elvin Bishop and Chuck Berry.

paragraph: Section::::Projects.

paragraph: In 1980 Melvin Seals joined the Jerry Garcia Band and remained a member until Jerry Garcia's death in 1995. He had the third-longest tenure in the band next to Garcia and bassist John Kahn, who had been members for the band's entire history. After Garcia and Kahn's deaths in 1995 and 1996 respectively, Seals formed JGB which he performs with to this day. JGB is essentially the Jerry Garcia band without Jerry and aims to continue the group's legacy.

paragraph: Other projects Seals has been involved in include The Mix with guitarist John Kadlecik and bassist Kevin Rosen and Steve Kimock's Crazy Engine with Steve Kimock.

paragraph: On July 30, 2004, Seals was the first Jerry Garcia Band member to headline an outdoor music and camping festival named in honor of Jerry Garcia, called Grateful Garcia Gathering. Melvin Seals and JGB members that year included Stu Allen and John Kadlecik. Jerry Garcia Band drummer David Kemper joined Melvin Seals & JGB in 2007. To date, other musicians/friends of Jerry's have included Donna Jean, Mookie Siegel, Pete Sears, G. E. Smith, Barry Sless, Mark Karan, Mike Lawson, Dave Hebert Brian Lesh to name a few musicians.

paragraph: In 2005 Seals released his first solo CD entitled "Melting Pot".

paragraph: Seals played two concerts with Phil Lesh & Friends at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on May 28 and 29, 2016. This marked Seals' first collaboration with Phil Lesh & Friends. Seals had previously only played with Lesh at two Jerry Garcia Band concerts in the 1980s when Lesh sat in for their regular bassist John Kahn.

paragraph: In 2017 Seals toured with Oteil Burbridge on his Oteil & Friends tour, which extended into early 2018.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Raisin' Hell" – Elvin Bishop – 1977

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Run for the Roses" – Jerry Garcia – 1982

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jerry Garcia Band" – Jerry Garcia Band – 1991

paragraph: BULLET::::- "How Sweet It Is" – Jerry Garcia Band – 1997

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Welcome to Our World" – JGB – 1998

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shining Star" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2001

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2004

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Melting Pot" – Melvin Seals – 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Keepers of the Flame" – JGB – 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Garcia Live Volume Two" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Garcia Live Volume Eight" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2017

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Garcia Live Volume 10" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2018

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Electric on the Eel" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2019

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Garcia Live Volume 11" – Jerry Garcia Band – 2019

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Melvin Seals Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- JGB Official Website

description: American singer

wikidata_label: Melvin Seals

wikipedia_title: Melvin Seals


text:
Vien
French Revolution
siege of the Bastille
18th Brumaire
Generville
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Benedictine
Alcibiades

categories: Artists from Paris,1759 births,19th-century French painters,French male painters,18th-century French painters,1838 deaths

paragraph: Philippe Chéry

paragraph: Philippe Chéry (1759–1838), a French historical and portrait painter, was a pupil of Vien. He was born in Paris, took an active part in the French Revolution, was wounded at the siege of the Bastille, and on the 18th Brumaire left France, to which he did not return until 1802. He painted "The Annunciation" in the church of Generville, "St. Benedict receiving the Viaticum", and two other religious subjects, which are in the church of Boulogne-sur-Mer, "St. Cecilia", in the Benedictine Convent in the same town, and several other scriptural and religious subjects. He also painted "The Treaty of Amiens", for which he received the prize of 12,000 francs in the competition in the year XI (1803); "The Death of the Father of Louis XVI.", exhibited in 1817; "Thrasybulus Re-establishing the Democratic Government at Athens", which passed into England, "The Death of Alcibiades", "The Birth of Venus", "The Toilet of Venus", and portraits of many of the men of mark of the time. He died in Paris in 1838.

alias:
Philippe Chery
Cheri

description: painter

wikidata_label: Philippe Chéry

wikipedia_title: Philippe Chéry


text:
Nyuserre Ini
Ancient Egypt
5th dynasty
Ptahshepses
Nyuserre Ini
Reptynub
Ptahshepses
Abusir
mastaba

paragraph: Princess Khamerernebty

paragraph: Khamerernebty A was a daughter of King Nyuserre Ini of Ancient Egypt from the 5th dynasty. She was married to Ptahshepses (a vizier). Her name means "Appearance of the beloved of the Two Ladies".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Khamerernebty was a daughter of King Nyuserre Ini. It is not known who her mother is. The principal wife of her father was Reptynub, but there is no evidence she was Khamerernebty's mother.

paragraph: Khamerernebty married a vizier named Ptahshepses. Their children are mentioned in Ptashepses' tomb at Abusir: sons Ptahshepses, Kahotep, Qednes and Hemakhti, and daughter Meritites, who had the title "King's Daughter", even though being only the granddaughter of a king. Verner mentions an additional son named Kafini, whose image and name were systematically removed. Ptahshepses had two sons named Ptahshespses.

paragraph: The "mastaba" of Ptahshepses contained two sarcophagi: one for himself, and a slightly smaller one probably meant for Khamerernebty. The sarcophagus of Khamerernebty was part of the original design of the tomb, and must have been included before the conclusion of the mastaba. Khamerernebty's name has been found on limestone blocks, being inscribed by the builders. Khamerernebty was buried in the mastaba belonging to her husband. She also had a finished burial chamber in the Mastaba of the Princesses located near the north-east corner of Nyuserre's pyramid. Khamerernebty shared the Mastaba of the Princesses with a princess named Meritites and a courtier named Kahotep. But this tomb was apparently never used.

description: ancient Egyptian princess

wikidata_label: Princess Khamerernebty

wikipedia_title: Princess Khamerernebty


href: Amsterdam Bergen%2C%20North%20Holland Netherlands socialism poet medicine Tachtigers Netherlands Anna%20Catharina%20Kleefstra Bergen%2C%20North%20Holland

text:
Amsterdam
Bergen
Dutch
socialist
poet
medicine
Tachtigers
Netherlands
Anna Catharina Kleefstra
Bergen, North Holland

categories: 20th-century Dutch male writers,Dutch male poets,1877 births,Dutch socialists,20th-century Dutch poets,1924 deaths

paragraph: Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema

paragraph: Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (Amsterdam, 26 February 1877 — Bergen, 6 May 1924) was a Dutch socialist poet.

paragraph: Son of a wealthy art connoisseur and -dealer, Adama van Scheltema studied medicine for two years before dropping out to pursue his artistic interests. He worked for the Dutch Drama Society and in an art gallery before his father died in 1899, leaving him financially independent. Allowed to concentrate upon literature, Adama van Scheltema started writing poetry and abandoned the naturalist prose which had until then been his main affection. In 1900, he published his first collection of poems, "Een weg van verzen" (A way of verses).

paragraph: For Adama van Scheltema, socialism and nature were prominent sources of inspiration. He developed his thoughts into his 1907 book, "De grondslagen eener nieuwe poëzie" (The Fundaments of a New Poetry). This book marked a decisive break with the Tachtigers (The 80's Movement), whose mentality of "l'art pour l'art" had been very influential in the Netherlands. Adama van Scheltema instead asserted that art should have a social function and be available to the masses.

paragraph: When working on this book, Adama van Scheltema hired Anna Catharina Kleefstra as a secretary. They soon fell in love and were married on 24 October 1907. The marriage, while childless, was happy, and the couple moved between different European cities before settling down in the small Dutch town of Bergen, North Holland. There Adama van Scheltema, a melancholic as well as a nature-lover, was able to find peace of mind.

paragraph: World War One, however, triggered an emotional crisis, and Adama van Scheltema's poetry took on a darker, religious undertone. This development reached its apogee in the epical poem "De Tors" (The Torso), which was published in its entirety after the author's sudden death in 1924.

alias:
C.S. Adama van Scheltema
Carel Steven Adama Van Scheltema

description: Dutch poet

wikidata_label: Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema

wikipedia_title: Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema


text: American

text: Pennsylvania House of Representatives

text: Mayor of Philadelphia

text: Republican

text: Pennsylvania Railroad

text: The Philadelphia Record

text: Republican Party’s

text: Philadelphia City Council

text: In 1915

text: William Scott Vare

text: Boies Penrose

text: Samuel Rotan

categories: Mayors of Philadelphia,1949 deaths,1869 births,Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

paragraph: Thomas B. Smith

paragraph: Thomas B. Smith (November 2, 1869–April 17, 1949) was an American politician from Pennsylvania.

paragraph: He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and was the 82nd Mayor of Philadelphia from 1916 until 1920. He was a Republican.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Smith was born November 2, 1868 in Philadelphia. Prior to this political career, he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, "The Philadelphia Record" and the National Surety Co. of New York. He entered politics as the Republican Party’s chairman for the 28th Ward and won election to the Common Council, which was the lower house of the Philadelphia City Council. In 1905, he won a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he served one term. Later he secured appointments as postmaster for the city of Philadelphia and the Public Service Commissioner.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Mayor of Philadelphia.

paragraph: In 1915, he ran for mayor and defeated George Porter in the general election.

paragraph: During the 1917 primary election, Smith, who was allied with William Scott Vare’s political machine, supported Issac Deutsch in for the Republican nomination. Jim McNichol, who was part of the Boies Penrose machine, supported James Carey. Deutsch’s supporters brought a gang from New York who attacked Carey. During the melee, a police officer, George Eppley, was shot and killed. Much of the blame fell on Smith, who, as mayor, controlled the police, worked to ensure that the officers assigned to the district would support Vare’s candidate and harass supporters of Carey.

paragraph: The District Attorney, Samuel Rotan, who was a Penrose ally, indicted Mayor Smith for ‘conspiracy to commit murder’ as well as impeding a free and fair election. While he was acquitted of the charges, the cloud of suspicion hung over the mayor for the remainder of his term.

paragraph: Smith died April 17, 1949 in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Thomas B. Smith

wikipedia_title: Thomas B. Smith


text:
Union Army
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Siege of Vicksburg
List of Medal of Honor recipients
A Forlorn Hope
Vicksburg Medal of Honor Recipients

categories: 1837 births,People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War,People of Missouri in the American Civil War,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,Union Army soldiers,People of Kansas in the American Civil War,1910 deaths,American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor

paragraph: Joseph Wortick

paragraph: Joseph Wortick (1837 – 1910) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863. Variant spellings of the surname are Wartick and Wertick.

paragraph: Section::::Private life.

paragraph: Born on November 20, 1837 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania to Simon Wartick and Margaret Ann Chron Wartick. The family moved to Adams County, Illinois in 1854. Married Nancy Elizabeth Odell in 1866. They had two sons, John Alvin and William Sherman. John Alvin died in 1869. In 1896 they moved to Kansas where he lived until his death on Thursday, April 7, 1910 at his home near Hickory creek.

paragraph: Section::::Union assault.

paragraph: On March 5, 1862, Wortick volunteered in Company A 6th Missouri Infantry. Mr. Wortick was the first man in his regiment to step to the front when his Colonel asked for 200 men to storm a redoubt at Vicksburg. Thirty of those men carried heavy planks to bridge a ditch outside of the earth works. The group of men were mowed down like grass. Some were able to reach the ditch and many were killed by grenades thrown over the breast works by the Confederates. Wortick and a first lieutenant were the only ones to cross the ditch but they couldn’t stay. Nearly all the storming party was killed or wounded, not a dozen escaped. Later, Wortick was asked if he was afraid to join the forlorn hope. He said, "I don’t know; I heard what my Colonel said, believed it should be done and wanted to help do it. It was pretty bad business. I don’t know how I escaped death." His heroism there and his surviving comrades earned them a Legion of Honor Medal, voted by Congress in recognition of patriotism and valor. He was hit seven times and still carried lead in his body. He recovered in time to participate at Champion Hill, then marched with to the sear and finally took part in the Grand Review in and was finally honorably discharged in May 27, 1865.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: "For gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863." Because of his misspelled last night of Wortick, he received his award late. Also because of the misspelling, his headstone was also delivered late.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

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

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Forlorn Hope

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vicksburg Medal of Honor Recipients

description: Medal of Honor recipient

wikidata_label: Joseph Wortick

wikipedia_title: Joseph Wortick


text:
Union Army
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Siege of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant
Vicksburg, Mississippi
forlorn hope
List of Medal of Honor recipients
Entry at Findagrave
A Forlorn Hope
Vicksburg Medal of Honor Recipients

categories: People of Michigan in the American Civil War,1837 births,People of Missouri in the American Civil War,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,Union Army soldiers,1913 deaths,American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor

paragraph: John G. K. Ayers

paragraph: John G. K. Ayers (1837 – 1913) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863.

paragraph: Section::::Union assault.

paragraph: On May 22, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack.

paragraph: The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in nineteenth century vernacular, a "forlorn hope". Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then, twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away. The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment.

paragraph: The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross. Despite repeated attacks by the main Union body, the men of the forlorn hope were unable to retreat until nightfall. Of the 150 men in the storming party, nearly half were killed. Seventy-nine of the survivors were awarded the Medal of Honor.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: "For gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863."

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Entry at Findagrave

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Forlorn Hope

description: Recipient of the Medal of Honor

wikidata_label: John G. K. Ayers

wikipedia_title: John G. K. Ayers


text:
Union Army
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Siege of Vicksburg
Wilmington, Indiana
Ulysses S. Grant
Vicksburg, Mississippi
forlorn hope
List of Medal of Honor recipients
Findagrave
A Forlorn Hope
Vicksburg Medal of Honor Recipients

categories: People of Indiana in the American Civil War,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,Union Army soldiers,People of Kansas in the American Civil War,1843 births,1925 deaths

paragraph: William W. Chisman

paragraph: William W. Chisman (1843 – 1925) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863.

paragraph: Chisman joined the army from Wilmington, Indiana in August 1862, and as mustered out in June 1865.

paragraph: Section::::Union assault.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: For gallantry in the charge of the volunteer storming party on 22 May 1863.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Findagrave

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Forlorn Hope

description: Union Army Medal of Honor recipient

wikidata_label: William W. Chisman

wikipedia_title: William W. Chisman


text:
professional baseball
player
outfielder
minor league baseball
appearances
pinch hitter
Major League
Chicago Cubs
Harristown, Illinois
Argenta, Illinois
Millikin University
plate appearances
hit by a pitch
Marv Grissom
New York Giants
run
Polo Grounds

categories: Visalia Cubs players,Macon Peaches players,Baseball players from Illinois,Chicago Cubs players,Columbus Red Birds players,1990 deaths,Portsmouth Cubs players,Victoria Tyees players,Millikin Big Blue baseball players,Rochester Red Wings players,Decatur Commodores players,Elmira Pioneers players,People from Macon County, Illinois,Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players,1916 births

paragraph: Cecil Garriott

paragraph: Virgil Cecil Garriott (August 15, 1916 – February 20, 1990) was an American professional baseball player during the middle of the 20th century. An outfielder during his long career in minor league baseball, Garriott made six appearances as a pinch hitter at the Major League level for the Chicago Cubs in 1946.

paragraph: Garriott was born in Harristown, Illinois, and graduated in the class of 1934 of Argenta High School, Argenta, Illinois. He attended Millikin University.

paragraph: He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . His professional playing career lasted for 17 seasons (1936–1944; 1946–1953), interrupted by service in the United States Army during World War II.

paragraph: Garriott's Major League trial came at the end of the season. In six plate appearances, he reached base once when he was hit by a pitch thrown by Marv Grissom of the New York Giants on September 18. He scored his only MLB run that day during the Cubs' 4–3 victory at the Polo Grounds.

description: Major League Baseball player

wikidata_label: Cecil Garriott

wikipedia_title: Cecil Garriott


text: Earl of Seaforth

text: Highland

text: clan

text: Scottish

text: Ross of Balnagown

text: Mackenzies

text: Ross-shire

text: Lordship of the Isles

text: Coigach

text: Kintail

text: Macleods of Lewis

text: Lewis

text: Killin

text: Davochmaluag

text: Sleat

text: Harris

text: Farr

text: Barra

text: Edinburgh

text: king

text: Clan Cameron

text: Marquis of Huntly

text: Earl of Argyll

text: James Matheson

text: Clan MacDonell of Glengarry

text: Trotternish

text: Isle of Skye

text: Raasay

text: Earl of Cromartie

text: Prince

text: Moidart

text: Arisaig

text: Clandonald's

text: Highlands and Islands

text: Ardnamurchan

text: Strathnaver

text: dog-days

text: sea loch

text: Fortrose

text: castle of Chanonry

text: Brahan Castle

text: Castle

text: Carmichael, South Lanarkshire

text: Loch Alsh

text: Lochcarron

text: Lochbroom

text: Gairloch

text: merks

text: Lord Chancellor of Scotland

text: George

text: Alexander Lindsay

text: Earl of Balcarres

text: Archibald Campbell

text: Earl of Argyll

text: Master of Berriedale

text: Alexander Sutherland

text: Lord Duffus

categories: History of the Scottish Highlands,Clan Mackenzie Chiefs,1633 deaths,1590s births,Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1621

paragraph: Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth

paragraph: Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth (1596/97–1633), was a Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman, possessed of vast estates and wealth.

paragraph: Section::::Origins.

paragraph: Mackenzie, nicknamed "Ruadh" (i.e. "Red"), was the eldest son of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail by his first wife, Ann, daughter of George Ross of Balnagown. The Mackenzies were a clan from Ross-shire that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles.

paragraph: Section::::The final subjection of Lewis.

paragraph: Mackenzie was only 14 when his father died in 1611, and the clan territories were therefore entrusted to his uncle, Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Coigach, the "Tutor of Kintail". Upon Lord Mackenzie's death, Neil Macleod and other members of the Macleods of Lewis, whom Lord Mackenzie had recently subdued, rose in rebellion in Lewis. A number of commissions against them were granted between 1611 and 1616 to the Tutor of Kintail, Colin Mackenzie of Killin, Murdo Mackenzie of Kernsary, Alexander Mackenzie of Coul and Kenneth Mackenze of Davochmaluag, while neighbouring chiefs (Donald Gorm Macdonald of Sleat, Roderick Macleod of Harris, Hugh Mackay of Farr and his son, and MacNeill of Barra) were forbidden to assist the rebels. Neil Macleod himself was captured and executed in Edinburgh in April 1613, but the turbulence continued. By a special commission from the king dated 14 September 1614, the Mackenzies were exempted by reason of their involvement in Lewis from engaging in the resolution of a dispute between two factions of the Clan Cameron (acting as proxies for the Marquis of Huntly and the Earl of Argyll). Once it had again eventually been brought under control, Lewis remained in the possession of the Mackenzies of Kintail until it was sold to Sir James Matheson in 1844.

paragraph: Section::::Acquisition of further territory and wealth.

paragraph: At the death of Lord Mackenzie, his estates were very heavily burdened in consequence of the feud with Clan MacDonell of Glengarry and various family difficulties and debts. The Tutor of Kintail completed the compromise of the disputes with Glengarry that had been commenced by Lord Mackenzie and otherwise devoted himself to his nephew's affairs to such effect that the estates were freed before Colin came of age, leaving him "master of an opulent fortune and of great [feudal] superiorities". In particular, he acquired the superiority of Trotternish with the heritable Stewartry of the Isle of Skye, and the superiority of Raasay and other islands. The Earl of Cromartie said: "This Colin was a noble person of virtuous endowments, beloved of all good men, especially his Prince. He acquired and settled the right of the superiority of Moidart and Arisaig, the Captain of Clandonald's lands, which his father, Lord Kenneth, formerly claimed right to but lived not to accomplish it. Thus, all the Highlands and Islands from Ardnamurchan to Strathnaver were either Mackenzie's property, or under his vassalage, some few excepted, and all about him were tied to his family by very strict bonds of friendship or vassalage, which, as it did beget respect from many it be got envy in others, especially his equals."

paragraph: Such wealth was not easily acquired: both the Tutor of Kintail and, in due course, Colin were criticized for imposing high entries and rents on Colin's Kintail and West Coast tenants. Indeed, a Gaelic proverb in common currency was "There are two things worse than the Tutor of Kintail: frost in spring and mist in the dog-days".

paragraph: Section::::Royal favour.

paragraph: Mackenzie's favour with King James, as referred to by the Earl of Cromartie, is well demonstrated by his elevation in 1623 to the Earldom of Seaforth (the name of the sea loch dividing Lewis from Harris) and Viscountcy of Fortrose. On his last visit to London (at which the king also complimented him on being the best archer in Britain), Mackenzie was disturbed to be told by the king that his loyalty had been called into question by an anonymous source. However, the king's confidence in him remained apparently unshaken.

paragraph: Section::::Extravagance.

paragraph: Mackenzie did not aim at economy and spent vast sums in securing his superiority over Moidart and Arisaig in a legal dispute with the Earl of Argyll. He added greatly to the castle of Chanonry and also built Brahan Castle. The Reverend John Macrae (d. 1704) recorded that he "lived most of his time at Chanonry in great state and very magnificently. He annually imported his wines from the Continent, and kept a store for his wines, beers, and other liquors, from which he replenished his fleet on his voyages round the West Coast and the Lewis, when he made a circular voyage every year or at least every two years round his own estates … It is scarcely credible what allowance was made for his table of Scotch and French wines during these trips amongst his people … I have heard my grandfather, Mr Farquhar MacRa (then Constable of the Castle) say that the Earl never came to his house with less than 300 and sometimes 500 men."

paragraph: Section::::Piety.

paragraph: Mackenzie and his wife had reputations for personal piety. They went yearly to take the sacrament from the Rev. Thomas Campbell, minister of Carmichael, South Lanarkshire, and usually had more than one chaplain in their house. Mackenzie provided the kirks of Lewis without being obliged to do so, as also the five kirks of Kintail, Loch Alsh, Lochcarron, Lochbroom, and Gairloch (of all of which he was patron), with valuable books from London, the works of the latest and best authors. He also laid the foundation for a church in Strathconan and Strathbran. He mortified 4000 merks for the Grammar School of Chanonry, and had several works of piety in his view to perform if his death had not prevented it.

paragraph: Section::::Family and posterity.

paragraph: Mackenzie married Margaret Seton, the daughter of Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Their only son, Alexander, died of smallpox at Chanonry on 3 June 1629. Margaret died at Edinburgh on 20 February 1631, after which Mackenzie contracted a lingering sickness which confined him to his chamber for some time before his death. He died at Chanonry on 15 April 1633 and was succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, George.

paragraph: He was survived by two daughters. Anne (d. 1705) married, first, Alexander Lindsay, later first Earl of Balcarres, and, secondly, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll. Jean married, first, John Sinclair, Master of Berriedale, and secondly, Alexander Sutherland, first Lord Duffus.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: This article contains text from Alexander Mackenzie's "History of the Mackenzies" (Inverness, 1894), which is no longer in copyright.

wikidata_label: Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth

wikipedia_title: Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth