text: Hungarian-American

text: cellist

text: Indiana University

text: Jacobs School of Music

text: Budapest

text: Russian Empire

text: Franz Liszt Academy of Music

text: Budapest

text: Adolf Schiffer

text: Leo Weiner

text: Zoltán Kodály

text: Béla Bartók

text: Ernő Dohnányi

text: Dvořák concerto

text: Budapest

text: Nazi internment camp

text: Budapest Opera

text: Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

text: Geneva

text: Kodaly's

text: Sonata in B minor for solo cello

text: Grand Prix du Disque

text: Dallas Symphony Orchestra

text: Antal Doráti

text: Metropolitan Opera

text: Fritz Reiner

text: Bach Cello Suites

text: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

text: music director

text: Bloomington, Indiana

text: RCA Victor Red Seal

text: Grammy Award

text: David Popper

text: David Baker

text: Antal Doráti

text: Bernhard Heiden

text: Jean Martinon

text: Miklós Rózsa

text: Robert Starer

text: Ernő Dohnányi

text: Philharmonia Orchestra

text: Walter Susskind

text: Walter Legge

text: Seattle Symphony Orchestra

text: Gerard Schwarz

text: Antonio Stradivarius

text: Matteo Goffriller

text: virtuosity

text: Schirmer

text: legato

text: György Sebők

text: Biographies, audio clips

text: "Remembering János Starker,"

text: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

text: János Starker interview

text: 2-hour audio interview of Mr. Starker

text: Interview with János starker

categories: Hungarian music educators,2013 deaths,Hungarian people of Ukrainian descent,Hungarian people of Polish descent,Hungarian Jews,Grammy Award winners,Jewish classical musicians,Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music,Musicians from Budapest,1924 births,Hungarian classical cellists,Jacobs School of Music faculty,Cello pedagogues,Hungarian emigrants to the United States,20th-century Hungarian people

paragraph: János Starker

paragraph: János Starker (; ; July 5, 1924 – April 28, 2013) was a Hungarian-American cellist. From 1958 until his death, he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the title of Distinguished Professor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Child prodigy.

paragraph: Starker was born in Budapest to a father of Polish descent and a mother who had immigrated from the Russian Empire, both Jewish. His two older brothers were violinists, and the young János (named for the hospital "Szent János kórház" [lit. "St. John's Hospital"] in which he was born) was given a cello before his sixth birthday. A child prodigy, Starker made his first public performances at ages six and seven. He entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest to study with Adolf Schiffer and made his debut there at age 11. Starker began teaching other children at age eight, and by the time he was 12, he had five pupils. Starker counted among his strongest influences Leo Weiner, a composer who taught chamber music. Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók and Ernő Dohnányi were also members of the Liszt Academy faculty. In his autobiography, Starker wrote that at the age of 13 he played Dohnányi's Konzertstuck for Cello for the composer (who was then the director of the Academy), who accompanied him at the piano.

paragraph: Starker made his professional debut at age 14, playing the Dvořák concerto with three hours' notice when the originally scheduled soloist was unable to play. He left the Liszt Academy in 1939 and spent most of the war in Budapest. Because of his youth, Starker escaped the tragic fate of his older brothers, who were pressed into forced labor and eventually murdered by the Nazis. Starker nevertheless spent three months in a Nazi internment camp.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Professional career.

paragraph: After the war, Starker became principal cellist of the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Starker left Hungary in 1946.

paragraph: He gave a successful concert in Vienna, then remained there to prepare for the Geneva Cello Competition. At the competition, held in October 1946, he received a bronze medal.

paragraph: After competing in Geneva, Starker spent a year working on his technique in Paris. "I played like a blind man," he said. "What happens to the bird who flies and doesn't know how it flies? That's what happens to child prodigies." At the conclusion of his year in Paris, he made his first recording of Kodaly's Sonata in B minor for solo cello. The recording earned him the Grand Prix du Disque. He went on to make three more recordings of the work.

paragraph: Starker emigrated to the United States in 1948 to become principal cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Antal Doráti. In 1949, he moved to New York City to become principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera under Fritz Reiner. It was in New York that Starker made the first of his recordings of the Bach Cello Suites.

paragraph: In 1953, Starker became principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when Fritz Reiner became the music director. In 1958, Starker moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where he settled for the rest of his life. At the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music he became a professor and resumed his solo career.

paragraph: Section::::Recorded repertoire.

paragraph: Starker made over 150 recordings. He recorded the Bach solo cello suites five times, most recently for RCA Victor Red Seal in 1997 for which he won a Grammy Award. He was also nominated for a Grammy Award for his 1989 recording of the works of David Popper. He had concerti written for him by David Baker, Antal Doráti, Bernhard Heiden, Jean Martinon, Miklós Rózsa, and Robert Starer. He twice recorded the Konzertstück for Cello and Orchestra by Ernő Dohnányi, the work he had played at age 13 with the composer: first, in 1956/57, with the Philharmonia Orchestra led by Walter Susskind, and the composer in attendance for all sessions (the composer was "angry" that the producer, Walter Legge, had insisted on cutting "the orchestra tutti at the start of part three" ); and second, without cuts, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra led by Gerard Schwarz in 1990.

paragraph: Section::::Cellos.

paragraph: From 1950 to 1965, Starker played and recorded on the "Lord Aylesford Stradivarius", the largest instrument made by Antonio Stradivarius. In 1965 Starker acquired a Matteo Goffriller cello believed to have been made in Venice in 1705; known previously as the "Ivor James Goffriller" cello, Starker renamed it for its certification as "The Star" cello.

paragraph: Section::::Reviews and published works.

paragraph: Many documentaries, articles in magazines, and newspaper stories have acknowledged János Starker's virtuosity. He published numerous books and musical scores through Peer International, Schirmer, and International Music. His autobiography, "The World of Music According to Starker", was published in 2004 by Indiana University Press.

paragraph: Section::::Playing style.

paragraph: Starker's playing style was intense and involved great technical mastery. According to some of his students, his technique revolved around long, legato notes, with very little shifting noise from his left hand, resulting in smooth, pure tones, "each note sounding like a jewel." Starker himself described his sound as "centered" and "focused." He was known for his ability to produce an extremely wide range of sounds and tone shading. He eschewed the wide vibrato favored by some of his peers—which he viewed as a cover for poor intonation—and was known for his patrician stage presence, preferring to let the music do the emoting. He quoted his long-time friend and colleague, György Sebők, who said, "Create excitement. Don't get excited."

paragraph: Section::::Personal habits.

paragraph: Starker was a lifelong smoker with a sixty-cigarette-per-day habit. He also drank copious amounts of scotch whiskey. He once refused to perform a concert in Columbia, SC that he was supposed to play because he was not allowed to smoke his "pre-concert cigarette" backstage.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The World of Music According to Starker", Janos Starker, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press (2004). .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Roll Call of the Blessed Ones. Text by Janos Starker. Drawings by Jorge Sicre.", Occidental Press, Washington D.C. (1985). .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Von Budapest nach Bloomington. Janos Starker und die ungarische Cello-Tradition.", Anna Dalos, Melinda Berlasz, Janos Starker, Janos Breuer, and Peter B. Jacobi, Kronberg Academy Verlag, Kronberg/Taunus (1999). (in German and English)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Janos Starker. "King of Cellists". The Making of an Artist", Joyce Geeting, Chamber Music Plus Publishing, Los Angeles (2008). .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Artists as Professors. Conversations with Musicians, Painters, Sculptors," Morris Risenhoover and Robert T. Backburn, pp. 171–185 are an interview with Janos Starker. Urbana, University of Illinois Press (1976). .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biographies, audio clips

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Remembering János Starker," "From the Archives," Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Rosenthal Archives, May 1, 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- János Starker interview by Bruce Duffie, November 24, 1987

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2-hour audio interview of Mr. Starker by Louise Dubin, one of his students

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview with János starker in "Retkes Attila: Zenélő ezredkezdet (Válogatott interjúk, 2000-2003)", Nap Kiadó, 2004

description: Hungarian-American cellist

wikidata_label: János Starker

wikipedia_title: János Starker


text: archaeologist

text: art historian

text: Harvard

text: Fogg Museum

text: Steven Spielberg

text: Indiana Jones

text: Silk Road

text: American Academy of Arts and Sciences

text: Mogao caves

text: Dunhuang

text: Tang dynasty

text: Harvard Art Museums

text: Longmen Grottoes

text: World War II

text: U.S. Army

text: firebombing

text: atomic bomb

text: Kyoto

text: Nara

text: Hōryū-ji temple

text: Kamakura

text: Henry L. Stimson

categories: Harvard University alumni,American art historians,Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,1955 deaths,1881 births,American explorers,People from Ipswich, Massachusetts,Monuments men,Sinologists,Harvard University faculty,Explorers of East Asia,Directors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

paragraph: Langdon Warner

paragraph: Langdon Warner (1881–1955) was an American archaeologist and art historian specializing in East Asian art. He was a professor at Harvard and the Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard’s Fogg Museum. He is reputed to be one of the models for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones. As an explorer/agent at the turn of the 20th century he studied the Silk Road. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Warner graduated from Harvard College in 1903 with a specialty in Buddhist art and an interest in archeology. After several field trips to Asia, he returned to Harvard, where he taught the university's first courses in Japanese and Chinese art. The Smithsonian Institution sent him to Asia in 1913, and he spent more than a year there, but World War I interrupted his work. In 1922 the Fogg Museum again sent him to China.

paragraph: Section::::Frescoes at Dunhuang and controversy over the removal of antiquities.

paragraph: Langdon Warner's work in China is the subject of much controversy among art historians. On the one side, there are those who say that he pillaged sites in Asia of their art, in particular frescos from the Mogao caves at Dunhuang. In 1922, the Fogg Museum sent Warner to China to explore western China. He arrived at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang in January 1924 and, armed with a special chemical solution for detaching wall-paintings, he removed twenty-six Tang dynasty masterpieces from caves 335, 321, 323 & 320. Warner first applied the chemical solution (strong glue) to the painting on the cave wall. He then place a cloth against it. The cloth is then pulled away from the fresco and then he applied plaster of Paris on the back of the painting and transfer the painting to the plaster surface. Warner had found evidence that the caves were the object of vandalism by Russian soldiers and reached an agreement with the local people to purchase the frescoes and remove them in order to save them for posterity. Unfortunately, the removal process resulted in some damage to the site itself. Luckily, frescoes he framed with glue but was unable to remove are still on display in caves today. Out of 26, only five(5) of the fragments of the murals he removed are in good enough condition to be exhibited now in the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

paragraph: The views of the Chinese government towards Warner have varied as intensively as the government itself over the last century. In 1931, the National Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities declared that archeological objects could only be taken from the country if there is no one in the country "sufficiently competent or interested in studying or safe-keeping them." Otherwise, the Commission concluded, it is not longer scientific archeology but commercial vandalism." Warner himself viewed his work as a heroic act of preserving art from destruction. He defended taking fragments from the Longmen Grottoes, saying "if we are ever criticized for buying those chips, the love and labor and the dollars we spent on assembling them should silence all criticism. That in itself is more service to the cause of China bigger than anyone else in this country has even made. It is worth noting though, most of the destruction was done to fill orders placed by western collectors using images provide by the buyers.

paragraph: Today the caves in Dunhuang are favored as tourist stops to showcase the Chinese view that the Americans pillaged their heritage. Certain members of the family have requested that the Museum return the pieces to Dunhuang. The Museum's position is that since they have a bill of sale indicating that Warner legitimately purchased the artwork they have no obligation to return them. The Warner family acknowledges both points of view on the matter and seeks resolution.

paragraph: Section::::World War II.

paragraph: Warner's archaeological career was interrupted by the United States' entry into World War II and he became part of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) Section of the U.S. Army. He was brought on as an advisor to the MFAA Section in Japan from April to September 1946.

paragraph: He has been given credit by some for advising against firebombing and the use of the atomic bomb on Kyoto, Nara and other ancient cities to protect cultural heritage of Japan. There are monuments erected in Kyoto, Hōryū-ji (outside the western edge of Hōryū-ji temple), and Kamakura (outside Kamakura JR Station) in his honor for this reason. However, Otis Cary has argued that the credit for sparing Japan's cultural heritage sites belongs not to Langdon but to the U.S. Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson.

paragraph: Section::::Major works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Long Old Road in China" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Craft of the Japanese Sculptor" (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Buddhist Wall-Paintings: A Study of a Ninth-Century Grotto at Wan Fo Hsia" (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Enduring Art of Japan" (1952)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Japanese Sculpture of the Tempyo Period: Masterpieces of the Eighth Century" (1959)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Directors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Theodore Robert Bowie, ed., "Langdon Warner Through His Letters". Bloomington: Indiana U. P., 1966

description: American explorer

wikidata_label: Langdon Warner

wikipedia_title: Langdon Warner


text: Italian

text: Neapolitan

text: Filumena Marturano

text: Napoli Milionaria

text: 20th century

text: senatore a vita

text: Presidente della Repubblica

text: Sandro Pertini

text: Naples

text: Eduardo Scarpetta

text: Peppino

text: Titina

text: De Sica

text: L'oro di Napoli

text: Totò

text: Sophia Loren

text: Laurence Olivier

text: Natale in casa Cupiello

text: Filumena Marturano

text: Questi fantasmi

text: rione

text: Three Lucky Fools

text: The Three-Cornered Hat

text: Those Two

text: It Was I!

text: In the Country Fell a Star

text: Non ti pago!

text: After Casanova's Fashion

text: Life Begins Anew

text: Assunta Spina

text: Alarm Bells

text: Yvonne of the Night

text: Napoli milionaria

text: Cameriera bella presenza offresi...

text: Three Girls from Rome

text: Un Ladro in paradiso

text: Five Paupers in an Automobile

text: It Happened in the Park

text: 100 Years of Love

text: The Gold of Naples

text: L'amore più bello

text: Raw Wind in Eden

text: Ferdinando I, re di Napoli

text: Everybody Go Home

text: Ghosts of Rome

text: The Shortest Day

text: Oggi, domani, dopodomani

text: Spara più forte, più forte... non capisco

text: Ghosts - Italian Style

text: Site dedicated to his life and works (in Italian)

categories: 20th-century Italian male actors,20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights,1984 deaths,Italian male dramatists and playwrights,20th-century Italian male writers,People from Naples,1900 births,Italian film directors,Italian screenwriters,Italian Life Senators,Italian dramatists and playwrights,Italian male stage actors,Italian male actors,20th-century Italian poets,Italian male poets

paragraph: Eduardo De Filippo

paragraph: Eduardo De Filippo (; 24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as Eduardo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works "Filumena Marturano" and "Napoli Milionaria". Considered as one of the most important italian artists of 20th century was author of many theatrical dramas put on play and directed by himself first and later awarded and played outside Italy. For his artistic merits and contribution to the culture was nominee "senatore a vita" by Italian Presidente della Repubblica Sandro Pertini.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: De Filippo was born in Naples to playwright Eduardo Scarpetta and theatre seamstress and costumier Luisa De Filippo. He began acting at the age of five and in 1932 formed a theater company with his brother Peppino and sister Titina, called "compagnia del Teatro Umoristico I De Filippo". Peppino left the troupe in 1944 and Titina departed by the early 1950s. After the war, in 1948 he bought the S. Ferdinando theatre in Naples, inaugurated in 1954.

paragraph: De Filippo starred in De Sica's "L'oro di Napoli" with Totò and Sophia Loren in 1954. In 1973 a production of his "Sabato, domenica e lunedi" (1959, "Saturday, Sunday and Monday"), starring Laurence Olivier in the lead role, won the London drama critics' award..

paragraph: De Filippo died in 1984 in Rome. His artistic legacy was inherited by his son.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Theatre.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Farmacia di turno" ("The All-night Chemist", 1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Uomo e galantuomo" (Man and Gentleman, 1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "*Requie a l'anema soja/I morti non fanno paura" ("May his soul rest", 1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ditegli sempre di sì" ("Always tell him "yes"", 1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Filosoficamente" ("Philosophically", 1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sik-sik, l'artefice magico" ("Sik-sik the magical maker", 1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chi è cchiu' felice 'e me" ("Who's Happier than Me?", 1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quei figuri di trent'anni fa" ("Those Dudes of 30 Years Ago", 1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ogni anno punto e da capo" ("Every Year Back from the Start", 1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "È arrivato 'o trentuno" ("The 31st is Here", 1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Natale in casa Cupiello" ("Christmas at the Cupiello's", 1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La voce del padrone/Il successo del giorno" ("Success of the Day", 1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Napoli milionaria" ("The Millions of Naples", 1945)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Filumena Marturano" (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Questi fantasmi" ("These Ghosts", 1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le voci di dentro" ("Inner Voices", 1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La grande magia" ("The Great Magic", 1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La paura numero uno" ("The Greatest Fear", 1950)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mia famiglia" ("Family of Mine", 1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bene mio e core mio" ("My Heart, my Treasure", 1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De Pretore Vincenzo" ("Vincent De Pretore", 1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sabato, domenica e lunedì" ("Saturday, Sunday and Monday", 1959)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il sindaco del rione Sanità" ("Mayor of "Sanità" alley", 1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'arte della commedia' ("The Art of Comedy", 1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il monumento" ("The Monument" 1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gli esami non finiscono mai" ("Exams never end", 1973)

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three Lucky Fools" (1933) - Gilberto, l'impresario

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Three-Cornered Hat" (1935) - Don Teofilo, il governatore

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Those Two" (1935) - Il professore

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It Was I!" (1937) - Giovannino Apicella

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Una Commedia fra i pazzi" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'amor mio non muore!" (1938) - Lorenzo, il finanziere

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il marchese di Ruvolito" (1939) - Il marchese di Ruvolito

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In the Country Fell a Star" (1939) - Pasquale Montuori

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il sogno di tutti" (1940) - Il professore scienziato

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A che servono questi quattrini?" (1942) - Il marchese Eduardo Parascandolo

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Non ti pago!" (1942) - Don Ferdinando Quagliolo

paragraph: BULLET::::- "After Casanova's Fashion" (1942) - Don Ferdinando

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Non mi muovo!" (1943) - Don Carlo Mezzetti

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il fidanzato di mia moglie" (1943) - Gaspare Bellini

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ti conosco, mascherina!" ("I know you, little Mask!", 1943) - Carmine

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Life Begins Anew" (1945) - Il professore

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Uno tra la folla" (1946) - Paolo Bianchi

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Assunta Spina" (1948) - Michele Boccadifuoco

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Alarm Bells" (1949) - Don Andrea

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yvonne of the Night" (1949) - L'avvocato Rubini

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Napoli milionaria" ("The Millions of Naples", 1950) - Gennaro Iovine

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cameriera bella presenza offresi..." (1951) - Raffaele, il professore di matematica

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Filumena Marturano" (1951) - Domenico Soriano

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three Girls from Rome" (1952) - Vittorio

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Un Ladro in paradiso" (1952)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I sette peccati capitali" (" Seven Deadly Sins", 1952) - Eduardo (segment "Avarice et la colère, L' / Avarice and Anger")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Altri tempi" (1952)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Five Paupers in an Automobile" (1952) - Eduardo Moschettone

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ragazze da marito" ("Girls to be married", 1952) - Oreste Mazzillo

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Marito e moglie" ("Man and Wife", 1952) - Matteo Cuomo / Gennaro Imparato

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Napoletani a Milano" ("Neapolitans in Milan", 1953) - Salvatore Aianello

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Traviata '53" (1953) - Commendator Cesati

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It Happened in the Park" (1953) - Donato Ventrella (segment: Il paraninfo)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "100 Years of Love" (1954) - Soldier Vincenzo Pagliaro (segment "Purificazione")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tempi nostri" (1954) - Il conduttore

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Questi fantasmi" ("These Ghosts", 1954)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gold of Naples" (1954) - Don Ersilio Miccio (segment "Il professore")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cortile" (1955) - Luigi

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La canzone del destino" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fortunella "("Happy-go-lucky Girl", 1958) - Head of the Theater Company

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'amore più bello" (1958) - Gennaro Esposito

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Raw Wind in Eden" (1958) - Urbano Varno

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ferdinando I, re di Napoli" (1959) - Pulcinella

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia "("A Midsummer's Hangover Dream", 1959) - Pasquale Grifone

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Everybody Go Home" (1960) - Signor Innocenzi

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ghosts of Rome" (1961) - Don Annibale, Principe di Roviano

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shortest Day" (1963) - Mafioso

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oggi, domani, dopodomani "("Today, Tomorrow and the Day After", 1965) - Driver (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Spara più forte, più forte... non capisco" ("Shoot louder, I can't hear You", 1966) - Zi Nicola

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ghosts - Italian Style" (1966)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Site dedicated to his life and works (in Italian)

alias:
Edoardo De Filippo
Molise

wikidata_label: Eduardo De Filippo

wikipedia_title: Eduardo De Filippo


text: an arts society in London

text: The Royal Society of Arts

text: Maidstone

text: Walbrook

text: Jonathan Shipley

text: Bishop of St Asaph

text: William Davies Shipley

text: Dean of St Asaph

text: City of London

text: Northampton

text: The Strand

text: Richard Cosway

text: William Pars

text: Francis Wheatley

text: Covent Garden

text: Viscount Folkestone

text: Isaac Maddox

text: Stephen Hales

text: Pierre-Nicolas Chantreau

text: cobalt

text: madder

text: breadfruit

text: Maidstone

text: Maidstone gaol

text: gaol fever

text: tinfoil

text: Maidstone

text: All Saints Church, Maidstone

text: National Portrait Gallery

text: John Faber Junior

text: flying shuttle

text: William Hodges

text: Francis Wheatley

text: Richard Cosway

text: William Pars

text: Samuel Johnson

text: Benjamin Franklin

text: Jonas Hanway

text: William Hogarth

text: Thomas Hollis

text: The Royal Society of Arts

text: William Shipley Group for RSA History

text: Portrait of Shipley by William Hincks

categories: English male painters,Founders of English schools and colleges,Royal Society of Arts,18th-century English painters,19th-century English painters,People from Northampton,People from Maidstone,People from the City of London,1710s births,English inventors,People from Westminster,Art educators,1803 deaths,English educators,British draughtsmen

paragraph: William Shipley

paragraph: William Shipley (baptised: 2 June 1715 – 28 December 1803) was an English drawing master, social reformer and inventor who, in 1754, founded an arts society in London that became The Royal Society of Arts, or Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Early years, training and career.

paragraph: Shipley was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of Jonathan Shipley (d. 1749, originally of Walbrook, London) and Martha (née Davies), and baptised on 2 June 1715. He had a brother Jonathan Shipley, who became the Bishop of St Asaph, and whose son William Davies Shipley became Dean of St Asaph. William grew up in the City of London. His father died when he was just three years old, and William was sent to live with his maternal grandfather. At the age of 21, he inherited £500 and used that money to practice as a painter and drawing master in Northampton. At this point, he also joined the Northampton Philosophical Society, where he began his philanthropic life by raising funds to buy fuel for the poor.

paragraph: Around 1750, Shipley moved to London and set up a drawing-school near Fountain Court in The Strand (at the east corner of Beaufort Buildings), which was known first as "Shipley's Academy" and later as "Ackermann's Repository of Arts". The school proved highly successful, and among Shipley's pupils were Richard Cosway, William Pars, and Francis Wheatley. Although Shipley had many students who went on to become famous artists, he himself was not remembered for his artwork.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:The Society of Arts.

paragraph: From Shipley's school, came the idea for a "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce" He published his proposals for the society in 1753, which he hoped would make Great Britain a center for intellectual advancements in the areas of arts and sciences. The resulting organisation first met at Rawthmell's coffee house on the north side of Henrietta Street, in Covent Garden on 22 March 1754. Founding members included Viscount Folkestone, Lord Romney (1712–1794), Isaac Maddox, Stephen Hales, and Thomas Baker, the naturalist. A "plan" of Shipley's devising was published in 1755 in folio, where the aims of the society were stated, "to promote the arts, manufactures, and commerce of this kingdom by giving honorary or pecuniary rewards, as may be best adapted to the case, for the communication to the society, and through the society to the public, of all such useful inventions, discoveries, and improvements as tend to that purpose".

paragraph: Historian Pierre-Nicolas Chantreau (1741–1808) was said to marvel "that such an institution was founded, not by those who held reins of government, but by William Shipley, "cultivateur modeste" The society would award premiums for different discoveries and inventions: "There appeared in the daily and evening papers a notice announcing premiums or awards" They offered premiums for the discovery of cobalt and the raising and curing of madder, for example. These were not just frivolous concerns but matters of Britain's most important industry, namely, textiles. According to Colley, "Cobalt dyes a brilliant blue and the madder was the principal source of all red dies until the 19th century". Quite simply, the society wanted to enable Britain's most important industry, its textile manufacturers, to be able to dye their cloth at home rather than send it abroad."

paragraph: Colley goes on to say that the Society was also busy trying to solve the problem of finding enough native timber for the building of ships. This was a matter of Britain's national defence. Without timber, the Royal Navy could not build ships.The Society carried out this purpose by establishing prizes for the growing of trees, such as Oaks, chestnuts, Elms and Firs. They once offered a premium to anyone able to develop a scheme to transport breadfruit from the East to the West Indies. Shipley raised the money for the endeavour through subscriptions. He also encouraged people to make new and more accurate maps by awarding special prizes to encourage exploration. Shipley's contributions to both England's economy and England's security through the Society were substantial.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:The inventor, and later years.

paragraph: Shipley was elected a "perpetual member" of the society in February 1755, and was presented with a gold medal by the society in 1758. But it is probable that he became less interested in the society as its sphere gradually became more technical and industrial; At any rate, he resigned his post as registrar in 1760. On 23 November 1767, William Shipley married Elizabeth Miller, and seems to have retired to Maidstone about 1768. The couple's first child was born in 1769 but died after two months. In 1771, The second child, Elizabeth was born. Shipley, under the auspices of Lord Romney, founded a local institution, "The Kentish Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge", along the lines of the Society of Arts. In 1783 the society was instrumental in improving the sanitation of Maidstone gaol, and so preventing the "gaol fever", which had ravaged the prison population of the country.

paragraph: Shipley was an inventor in his own right. He came up with ideas on how to provide inexpensive fuel for the poor, a floating light to save those lost in the sea (for which he received an award), a way to establish new species of fish in ponds around England, and perhaps strangest of all, a method of lining your shoes with tinfoil to keep them dry.

paragraph: Shipley died in Maidstone, aged 89, on 28 December 1803. A monument was erected to his memory in the north-west corner of churchyard of All Saints Church, Maidstone. Richard Cosway painted an oil portrait of Shipley, and there is also a portrait, drawn and engraved by William Hincks, in the National Portrait Gallery. There is a mezzotint by John Faber Junior of a painting by Shipley of a man blowing a lighted torch.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Shipley historical significance was summed up by David Allen in his biography: "Shipley's life included in its span the surge of English Commercial self-confidence which Defoe celebrated and which was to be feared by Napoleon, the spectacular first stage of the industrial Revolution from the flying shuttle to steam-powered cotton mills, the flowering of English genius in the arts from Hogarth to Turner, and the growth of English philanthropic endeavor from the first county hospitals to Hannah More's "Age if Benevolence." In the shaping of these momentous developments Shipley which was both distinctive and significant.

paragraph: Many credit Shipley with helping to establish the role of private organisations to serve the public; the Crown of England was so preoccupied with war and money dealings, it had little resources to further enhance culture at the time. "Merely by existing,the society challenged the way that the British state was organised. To begin with, by taking on certain tasks, they underlined just how much the state left undone.

paragraph: Section::::Students of Shipley's Art school.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Hodges

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francis Wheatley

paragraph: BULLET::::- Richard Cosway

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Pars

paragraph: Section::::Fellows of RSA with Shipley.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Samuel Johnson

paragraph: BULLET::::- Benjamin Franklin

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jonas Hanway

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Hogarth

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas Hollis

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Royal Society of Arts

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Shipley Group for RSA History

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrait of Shipley by William Hincks (National Portrait gallery)

description: Drawing master, social reformer, and inventor

wikidata_label: William Shipley

wikipedia_title: William Shipley


text: United States Army

text: Spanish–American War

text: Medal of Honor

text: Louisville, Kentucky

text: 10th U.S. Infantry

text: Medal of Honor

text: San Antonio National Cemetery

text: San Antonio, Texas

categories: 1875 births,Military personnel from Louisville, Kentucky,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,1927 deaths,American military personnel of the Spanish–American War,United States Army soldiers,Burials in Texas,Spanish–American War recipients of the Medal of Honor

paragraph: James J. Nash

paragraph: James J. Nash (1875-June 11, 1927) was a soldier serving in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Nash was born 1875 in Louisville, Kentucky and entered the army from same location. He was sent to the Spanish–American War with Company F, 10th U.S. Infantry as a private where he received the Medal of Honor for assisting in the rescue of wounded while under heavy enemy fire.

paragraph: He died June 11, 1927 and is buried in San Antonio National Cemetery San Antonio, Texas. His grave can be found in section I, grave 1461-A at GPS (lat/lon): 29.25279, -98.28078.

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

paragraph: Rank and organization: Private, Company F, 10th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Santiago, Cuba, 1 July 1898. Entered service at: Louisville, Ky. Birth: Louisville, Ky. Date of issue: 22 June 1899.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Citation

paragraph: Gallantly assisted in the rescue of the wounded from in front of the lines and under heavy fire from the enemy.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Spanish–American War

wikidata_label: James J. Nash

wikipedia_title: James J. Nash


text: Despenser

text: Edward II

text: John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

text: John de Comyn

text: Robert the Bruce

text: David II Strathbogie

text: Battle of Bannockburn

text: Aymer de Valence

text: John Hastings

text: Goodrich Castle

text: Painswick

text: Hugh le Despenser the older

text: Hugh Despenser the younger

text: Edward II

text: John de Bousser

text: Baron Talbot

text: Isabella of France

text: Gilbert

text: Edward III

text: garbs

text: Brayley, Edward William

text: William Tombleson

categories: Talbot family,1299 births,13th-century English people,14th-century English people,1372 deaths,13th-century English women

paragraph: Elizabeth de Comyn

paragraph: Elizabeth de Comyn (1 November 1299 - 20 November 1372) was a medieval noblewoman and heiress, notable for being kidnapped by the Despenser family towards the end of the reign of King Edward II.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Elizabeth was born to John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, also known as the "Red Comyn", a powerful Scottish nobleman related to the Scottish crown, and Joan de Valence, the daughter of the French knight William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke. She was the youngest of three children, with an elder sister, Joan de Comyn, and brother, John de Comyn. Her father was stabbed to death in 1306 by Robert the Bruce and Elizabeth and her siblings were sent south to England for their own safety. Joan married David II Strathbogie, the earl of Atholl, whilst her brother John later died at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, fighting Robert.

paragraph: Section::::Inheritance and kidnap.

paragraph: In 1324 Elizabeth's uncle on her father's side, Aymer de Valence, the earl of Pembroke, died. Since he had no surviving children, Aymer's considerable lands were then divided amongst his sisters; Isabel de Valence had died in 1305, leaving her share to her son, John Hastings, whilst Elizabeth's mother left lands to her daughters Joan and Elizabeth. Joan inherited the manor and castle of Mitford, the manor of Ponteland, and lands in Little Eland, and the manor of Foston. Elizabeth inherited the powerful fortress of Goodrich Castle and the manor of Painswick.

paragraph: By the mid-1320s, however, England was in the grip of the oppressive rule of the Marcher lords Hugh le Despenser the older and his son Hugh Despenser the younger, the royal favourites of King Edward II. As part of a "sweeping revenge" on their rivals, especially in the Marches, the Despensers illegally seized a wide range of properties, particularly from vulnerable targets such as widows, or wives whose husbands were out of favour with the king.

paragraph: John Hastings was effectively controlled by the Despensers and they ensured that he inherited an unequally large settlement of the Pembroke lands, anticipating that they would be able to marry him into their family and thereby acquire control of the estates themselves. To deal with Elizabeth, however, stronger measures were necessary. Upon her inheritance, Hugh le Despenser the younger promptly kidnapped Elizabeth in London and transported her to Herefordshire to be imprisoned in her own castle at Goodrich. Threatened with death, Elizabeth was finally forced to sign over the castle and other lands to the Despensers in April 1325. She was also forced to sign a debt notice of £10,000, a huge sum, which was witnessed by John de Bousser, a corrupt royal justice.

paragraph: Released, Elizabeth then married the English knight Richard Talbot, the 2nd Baron Talbot. Queen Isabella of France landed in England in late 1326 and deposed both the Despensers and her husband Edward II; Richard promptly seized Goodrich Castle from the Despensers, and Talbot and Elizabeth regained their legal title to the castle the following year. The Despensers were executed by Isabella, who killed Hugh the Younger in a particularly gruesome fashion.

paragraph: Section::::Later years.

paragraph: Elizabeth and Richard did well in the coming years. They had a son, Gilbert, in 1332. Richard progressed at court under Edward III and eventually became a royal steward. After Richard's death in 1356, Elizabeth remarried to Sir John Bromwich. She died in 1372. Elizabeth's heraldic device was three garbs, which she maintained as her own, rather than adopting her husbands'.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brayley, Edward William and William Tombleson. (1823) "A Series of Views of the Most Interesting Remains of Ancient Castles of England and Wales." London: Longman.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Doherty, P.C. (2003) "Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II." London: Robinson.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hull, Lise and Stephen Whitehorne. (2008) "Great Castles of Britain & Ireland." London: New Holland Publishers.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fryde, Natalie. (2003) "The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321-1326." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- McAndrew, Bruce A. (2006) "Scotland's historic heraldry." Woodbridge: Boydell Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prestwich, Michael. (2007) "Plantagenet England 1225-1360." Oxford: Oxford University Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rickard, John. (2002) "The Castle Community: the Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422." Woodbridge: Boydell Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Underhill, Frances Ann. (1999) "For her good estate: the life of Elizabeth de Burgh." London: Palgrave Macmillna.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Weir, Alison. (2006) "Queen Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England." London: Pimlico Books.

description: English noblewoman

wikidata_label: Elizabeth de Comyn

wikipedia_title: Elizabeth de Comyn


text: Swedish

text: footballer

text: Malmö FF

text: Allsvenskan

text: Sweden

text: senior team

text: UEFA Euro 2016

text: FC Bayern Munich

text: Malmö FF

text: youth setup

text: Bayern's reserve team

text: Kickers Offenbach

text: 3. Liga

text: FC Bayern Munich's

text: BK Häcken

text: Malmö FF

text: UEFA Euro 2016

text: Malmö FF

text: Allsvenskan

text: UEFA European Under-21 Championship

text: Malmö FF profile

categories: Swedish people of Polish descent,Sweden international footballers,BK Häcken players,Sweden youth international footballers,UEFA Euro 2016 players,Association football defenders,Sweden under-21 international footballers,FC Bayern Munich II players,3. Liga players,1992 births,Swedish footballers,Expatriate footballers in Germany,Malmö FF players,Allsvenskan players,Swedish expatriates in Germany,Living people,Sportspeople from Malmö,Association football midfielders

paragraph: Oscar Lewicki

paragraph: Carl Oscar Johan Lewicki (, ; born 14 July 1992) is a Swedish footballer currently playing for Malmö FF in Allsvenskan. He has represented Sweden at U17, U19, U21 (with which he won the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship) levels, as well as the senior team at UEFA Euro 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Bayern Munich.

paragraph: Lewicki joined FC Bayern Munich from his native Malmö FF in 2008 and settled into their youth setup. He was first involved with Bayern's reserve team towards the end of the 2009–10 season appearing as an unused substitute in a number of matches as the season drew to a close. He made his debut at the beginning of the following season in a 4–1 defeat against Kickers Offenbach and made 33 appearances as the club got relegated from the 3. Liga. He was offered a pro-contract at the first team but declined. In June 2011 he became a free agent.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:BK Häcken.

paragraph: Despite of FC Bayern Munich's efforts of wanting to re-sign him Lewicki chose to join Swedish side BK Häcken in August 2011 after having penned a contract lasting through to the year of 2014. The main reason for the switch was due to the presumable lack of first-team football in the near future with the German team. Lewicki spent four seasons at Häcken before leaving the club at the end of his contract in 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Malmö FF.

paragraph: Lewicki's first club Malmö FF announced that he would return to the club on a three-year contract on 13 November 2014. The transfer went through when the Swedish transfer window opened on 8 January 2015.

paragraph: Section::::International career.

paragraph: Lewicki was a vital part of the U21 team that won the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship where he was selected to the Team of the Tournament.

paragraph: He was also a squad player for Sweden at UEFA Euro 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.:Club.

paragraph: Malmö FF

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allsvenskan: 2016, 2017

paragraph: Section::::Honours.:International.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sweden U21

paragraph: BULLET::::- UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2015

paragraph: Section::::Honours.:Individual.

paragraph: BULLET::::- UEFA European Under-21 Championship - Team of the Tournament: 2015

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Malmö FF profile

description: Swedish association football player

wikidata_label: Oscar Lewicki

wikipedia_title: Oscar Lewicki


text: GBE

text: Canadian

text: newspaper

text: Fleet Street

text: The Scotsman

text: The Times

text: The Sunday Times

text: Toronto

text: Ontario

text: English

text: Toronto

text: Ontario

text: David Thomson

text: Scarborough

text: Ontario

text: Bo'ness

text: Westerkirk

text: Dumfriesshire

text: Scotland

text: British North America

text: Quebec

text: Upper Canada

text: World War I

text: business college

text: Manitoba

text: farmer

text: Northern Ontario

text: CFCH

text: North Bay, Ontario

text: Timmins Daily Press

text: Timmins, Ontario

text: Jack Kent Cooke

text: hairstyling

text: ice-cream cone

text: Edinburgh

text: The Scotsman

text: commercial television

text: Scottish Television

text: The Sunday Times

text: United States

text: United Kingdom

text: Thomson Organization

text: multinational corporation

text: publishing

text: printing

text: television

text: travel

text: The Times

text: Astor family

text: J. Paul Getty

text: consortium

text: oil

text: North Sea

text: London Underground

text: London

text: Toronto

text: Ontario

text: Kenneth Roy Thomson

text: Fort Lauderdale

text: Edinburgh

text: St Paul's Cathedral

text: Kenneth Thomson

text: Thomson Corporation

text: baron

text: Baron Thomson of Fleet

text: House of Lords

text: Roy Thomson Hall

text: Toronto

text: 1964 New Year Honours

text: peerage

text: Baron

text: Baron Thomson of Fleet

text: British citizenship

text: Canadian citizenship

text: 1970 New Year Honours

text: GBE

text: Canadian peers and baronets

text: Cash for Honours

text: Thomson Corporation

text: The men who made The Scotsman: Part two

text: Lord Thomson of Fleet

text: Canadian Communications Foundation

text: Aphorisms of Roy Thomson

text: "Never a Backward Step"

text: Adobe Flash

categories: Canadian newspaper chain founders,Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,Canadian university and college chancellors,Thomson family,Canadian socialites,Gardiner family,1976 deaths,Canadian people of English descent,Canadian people of Scottish descent,Canadian media company founders,Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire,People from Toronto,1894 births,Canadian peers

paragraph: Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

paragraph: Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, GBE (5 June 1894 – 4 August 1976) was a Canadian newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street.

paragraph: He first came to prominence when he was selling radios in Ontario, and to give his customers more programmes to listen to, decided to launch his own radio station. He then moved into newspapers, buying "The Scotsman" as a salute to his Scottish ancestors, followed by the first Scottish independent television channel. By 1966, he owned both "The Times" and "The Sunday Times".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: On 5 June 1894, Thomson was born as Roy Herbert Thomson in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Thomson's father was Herbert Thomson, a telegraphist turned barber who worked at Toronto's Grosvenor Hotel (at Yonge and Alexander - now site of Courtyard Marriott), and English-born Alice Maud. Thomson's family lived at 32 Monteith Street, off Church Street in Toronto, Ontario.

paragraph: Thomson's paternal grandparents were Hugh Thomson and Mary Nichol Sylvester. Thomson's grandfather Hugh was one of ten children of George Thomson, son of Archibald Thomson, who emigrated from Westerkirk, Scotland to Canada in 1773. Archibald was brother of David Thomson, first European settler of Scarborough, Ontario.

paragraph: Thomson's ancestors were small tenant farmers on the estates of the Dukes of Buccleuch at Bo'ness, in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Thomson's ancestor, Archibald Thomson (born May 1749), migrated to British North America in 1773, marrying Elizabeth McKay, of Quebec. The family eventually settled in Upper Canada, but retained a sentimental attachment to their country of origin.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: During World War I, Roy Thomson attended a business college, and owing to bad eyesight he was rejected by the army. He went to Manitoba after the war to become a farmer, but was unsuccessful. Thomson travelled to Toronto again, where he held several jobs at different times; one of which was selling radios. However, he found selling radios difficult because the only district left for him to work in was Northern Ontario. In order to give his potential customers something to listen to, he undertook to establish a radio station. By quite a stroke of luck, he was able to procure a radio frequency and transmitter for $201. CFCH officially went on the air in North Bay, Ontario on 3 March 1931. He sold radios for quite some time after that, but his focus gradually shifted to his radio station, rather than the actual radios.

paragraph: In 1934, Thomson acquired his first newspaper. With a down payment of $200 he purchased the "Timmins Daily Press", in Timmins, Ontario. He began an expansion of both radio stations and newspapers in various Ontario locations in partnership with fellow Canadian, Jack Kent Cooke. In addition to his media acquisitions, by 1949 Thomson was the owner of a diverse group of companies, including several ladies' hairstyling businesses, a fitted kitchen manufacturer, and an ice-cream cone manufacturing operation. By the early 1950s, he owned 19 newspapers and was president of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, and then began his first foray into the British newspaper business by starting up the "Canadian Weekly Review" to cater to expatriate Canadians living in Britain.

paragraph: In 1952, Thomson moved to Edinburgh and purchased "The Scotsman" newspaper. In 1957, Thomson launched a successful bid for the commercial television franchise for Central Scotland, named Scottish Television, which he was to describe as a "permit to print money" (often misquoted as a "licence to print money"). In 1959, Thomson purchased the Kemsley group of newspapers, the largest in Britain, which included "The Sunday Times". Over the years, Thomson expanded his media empire to include more than 200 newspapers in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His Thomson Organization became a multinational corporation, with interests in publishing, printing, television, and travel. In 1966, Thomson bought "The Times" newspaper from members of the Astor family.

paragraph: In the 1970s, Thomson joined with J. Paul Getty in a consortium that successfully explored for oil in the North Sea.

paragraph: A modest man, who had little time for pretentious displays of wealth, in Britain he got by virtually unnoticed, riding the London Underground to his office each day. Nonetheless, he made his son Kenneth promise to use the hereditary title that he had received in 1964, if only in the London offices of the firm.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: On 29 July 1916, Thomson married Edna Annis Irvine (1895-1951) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Edna A. Irvine was the daughter of John Irvine and Rebecca Caldwell. .

paragraph: Thomson had three children: Kenneth Roy Thomson (1923–2006), Irma Jacqueline Thomson (b. 20 October 1918) and Phyllis Audrey Thomson (b. 6 July 1917).

paragraph: On 22 February 1951, Thomson's wife Edna died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

paragraph: In 1952, Thomson moved to Edinburgh.

paragraph: As of 1964 and 1965, Thomson owned a residence near Port Credit, on Mississauga Road.

paragraph: In 1976, Thomson died in London, England. A plaque was placed in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral.

paragraph: After Thomson's death in 1976, his son Kenneth Thomson became chair of Thomson Corporation and inherited the baronial title becoming the 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet. With the Thomson operations now principally again in Canada, the younger Thomson did not use his title in Canada though he did so in Britain, and used two sets of stationery reflecting this dichotomy. In any case, as the peerage title he had was inherited, it did not debar him from retaining his Canadian citizenship, and he never took up his right to a seat in the pre-1999 House of Lords.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.:Legacy.

paragraph: Roy Thomson Hall, one of Toronto's main concert halls, is named in his honour as the Thomson family donated $5.4 million to its construction.

paragraph: Section::::Honours and styles of address.:Honours.

paragraph: In the 1964 New Year Honours, it was announced that Thomson would be elevated to the peerage as a Baron "for public services". On 10 March 1964 he was made Baron Thomson of Fleet, of Northbridge in the City of Edinburgh. In order to receive this title, it was necessary for Thomson to acquire British citizenship, as the Canadian government had made it common practice since 1919 to disallow the conference of titular honours from the sovereign on Canadians. However, the Canadian "Citizenship Act" between 1947 and 1977 stated that any Canadian who became a citizen of another country through means other than marriage would cease to be a Canadian citizen. Thus, Thomson lost his Canadian citizenship in the process.

paragraph: He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1970 New Year Honours.

paragraph: Section::::Honours and styles of address.:Styles of address.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1894-1964: Mr Roy Thomson

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1964-1970: "The Right Honourable" The Lord Thomson of Fleet

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1970-1976: "The Right Honourable" The Lord Thomson of Fleet GBE

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Canadian peers and baronets

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cash for Honours

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomson Corporation

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Braddon, Russell. "Roy Thomson of Fleet Street" (London: Collins, 1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Goldenberg, Susan. "The Thomson Empire" (Kampmann & Co, 1984)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The men who made The Scotsman: Part two

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord Thomson of Fleet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Canadian Communications Foundation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aphorisms of Roy Thomson

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Never a Backward Step", a 1966 National Film Board of Canada documentary on Thompson (requires Adobe Flash)

alias:
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Roy Herbert Thomson

description: Canadian newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur

wikidata_label: Roy Thomson

wikipedia_title: Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet


text:
American football
defensive tackle
National Football League
Minnesota Vikings
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college football
Iowa
Toronto
Ontario
Florida
South Plantation High School
football
wrestling
University of Iowa
football
scholarship
practice squad
Detroit Lions
Minnesota Vikings
restricted free agent
Green Bay Packers
Unrestricted Free Agent
Seattle Seahawks
Carolina Panthers
Green Bay Packers bio

categories: 1980 births,American football defensive linemen,Minnesota Vikings players,Green Bay Packers players,Detroit Lions players,Seattle Seahawks players,Players of American football from Florida,People from Plantation, Florida,American football defensive tackles,Black Canadian players of American football,Gridiron football people from Ontario,Sportspeople from Toronto,Carolina Panthers players,Canadian emigrants to the United States,Living people,Iowa Hawkeyes football players

paragraph: Colin Cole (American football)

paragraph: Colin Anthony Cole (born June 24, 1980) is a former American football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Iowa.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Cole moved to Florida at the age of 5. He attended South Plantation High School, where he excelled in football and wrestling. He was named second-team all-state in football, and won the state wrestling title as a senior defeating John Ufferfilge in the state finals. And on Friday, October 24, 2008 his football jersey number (number 34) was officially retired at South Plantation High School, only the second number in school history to be retired besides All-Pro Linebacker, Bobby Michelin.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Cole went to the University of Iowa on a football scholarship.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Green Bay Packers.

paragraph: Upon graduation Cole played on the practice squad of the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings before being signed to the active roster by the Packers.

paragraph: The Packers extended a second-round ($1.417 million) tender to Cole a restricted free agent . Cole needed this higher tender because he was originally undrafted.

paragraph: Cole was re-signed by the Green Bay Packers on April 17, 2008.

paragraph: Cole became an Unrestricted Free Agent on February 27, 2009.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Seattle Seahawks.

paragraph: Cole was signed by the Seattle Seahawks on March 1, 2009; his five-year contract is worth $21.4 million, including $6 million in guaranteed money.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Carolina Panthers.

paragraph: Cole was signed by the Carolina Panthers on February 8, 2013, after being out of the NFL for nearly two years for one year, $840,000 and no guaranteed money. On April 8, 2014, the Panthers resigned Cole for a 1-year deal. Cole was cut on October 1, 2015.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Green Bay Packers bio

description: American football defensive tackle

wikidata_label: Colin Cole

wikipedia_title: Colin Cole (American football)


text: English

text: singer

text: songwriter

text: Everton

text: Liverpool

text: Lancashire

text: singer-songwriter

text: pop music

text: artist

text: United States

text: Rainbow

text: the Beatles

text: chart

text: Atlantic

text: Redcoat

text: hit

text: United Kingdom

text: recorded

text: Oriole Records

text: B-side

text: A-side

text: single

text: Top 10

text: UK

text: UK Singles Chart

text: Billboard

text: Hot 100

text: record

text: gold disc

text: Nashville

text: Tennessee

text: MGM Records

text: Gonna Find Me a Bluebird

text: the Jordanaires

text: Chet Atkins

text: pop music

text: Asia

text: Canada

text: Six-Five Special

text: airplay

text: Buckley

text: North Wales

text: Biography at 45-rpm.org.uk

text: Video Newsreel of Russ Hamilton in 1957

categories: 2008 deaths,1932 births,English singer-songwriters,English male singers,Musicians from Liverpool,Butlins Redcoats,20th-century English singers,Oriole Records (UK) artists

paragraph: Russ Hamilton (singer)

paragraph: Russ Hamilton (19 January 1932 – 11 October 2008) was an English singer and songwriter. Hamilton made the Top 10 in the United Kingdom with "We Will Make Love", but in the United States, it was the b-side, "Rainbow", which made the Top 10.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born as Ronald Hulme in Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, he was one of the first singer-songwriters of pop music to have come out of the city, and he was the first Liverpool artist to hit the United States music scene with his song "Rainbow" several years before the Beatles. In 1957, chart success in the U.S. was a very unusual feat for a British performer and so it made Hamilton a hot property for a while. As a result, Hamilton had to commute from one side of the Atlantic to the other to meet the demands for live performances.

paragraph: A former Redcoat, Hamilton's first hit in the United Kingdom was "We Will Make Love", which he recorded in 1957 for Oriole Records. However, in the U.S., it was the B-side, "Rainbow", that became the hit because, according to Hamilton himself, it was mistakenly thought to be the A-side of the single. This led to the possibly unique situation of a single reaching the Top 10 in the UK, while its flipside achieved the same result across the Atlantic. "We Will Make Love" peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, and "Rainbow" reached No. 4 on "Billboard"'s Hot 100. The record sold over one million copies, and reached gold disc status.

paragraph: Hamilton followed this success later that same year with another self-penned item, "Wedding Ring", which reached the Top 20 in the UK. In 1960, he was invited to Nashville, Tennessee and signed up with MGM Records. In Nashville, he recorded "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" with the Jordanaires and Chet Atkins. His success with record releases did not improve, and by the early 1960s he had dropped away from the foreground of the pop music scene. He has written many songs which were popular, especially in Asia. "Little One" a song he wrote for his niece in Canada was his personal favourite. Other songs such as "I Still Belong to You", "I Had a Dream" and "Reprieve of Tom Dooley" were quite popular. He performed the song "I Had A Dream" on the "Six-Five Special". However, this hit faded rapidly and has received little airplay in recent years.

paragraph: Hamilton died on 11 October 2008, at the age of 76, at his home in Buckley, North Wales.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at 45-rpm.org.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Russ Hamilton Biography, photos, news and hear his music

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video Newsreel of Russ Hamilton in 1957

description: British singer

wikidata_label: Russ Hamilton

wikipedia_title: Russ Hamilton (singer)


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categories: Professional wrestlers from Florida,American male professional wrestlers,WWE Hall of Fame inductees,1952 births,Professional wrestling managers and valets,Sportspeople from Tampa, Florida,Living people

paragraph: Jimmy Garvin

paragraph: James Williams (born September 25, 1952) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Gorgeous" Jimmy "Jam" Garvin. A member of The Fabulous Freebirds, Garvin is best known for his appearances with promotions including the American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Williams grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he was an amateur wrestler.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Early career (1968-1983).

paragraph: Garvin began his wrestling career in November 1968 at the age of 16 as "Beau James". He soon took the name "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin and was given two "brothers", Terry and Ron Garvin, whom he briefly managed.

paragraph: He toured the Mid-South and Florida territories from 1978 until 1983. In 1982, Garvin (while holding the NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship with Big John Studd) won the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship from Sweet Brown Sugar. As a reward, Garvin's manager, J.J. Dillon, presented him with a valet named Precious. The original Precious was not the same woman as Garvin's wife, Patti Williams, who would later assume the name Sunshine II then "Precious". During his title defenses, Garvin often became distracted by Precious and flaunted his good looks to impress her. This would cause his opponents to recover and attack him. Due to her quiet-but-distracting nature, Garvin quickly lost the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship to Dusty Rhodes, while he and Studd lost the NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship to Ron Bass and Barry Windham. Garvin then replaced the original Precious (whom he later claimed in a shoot interview with Wrestling Perspective had been causing problems outside the ring with his marriage to Patti) with his cousin, Sunshine, and joined World Class Championship Wrestling in 1983.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:World Class Championship Wrestling (1983-1984).

paragraph: Along with his valet Sunshine, Garvin competed in WCCW as a heel, refusing to wrestle on live TV before he started a feud with beloved David Von Erich, which he lost and ended up spending a day with Sunshine on David's ranch, doing ranch type duties such as washing the five dogs owned by David (as he relaxed and shot skeet right over Jimmy and Sunshine's heads) and relocating several bales of hay without the use of a truck. However, towards the end of the day, Garvin drew the line at cleaning out the old horse barn and the two went at it.

paragraph: He next moved on to feud with Chris Adams. Around this time, he introduced his wife, Patti, as "Sunshine II", who was supposed to work as an assistant to the original Sunshine. After the interference of Sunshine II cost Garvin to lose the WCCW Television Championship to Johnny Mantell in October 1983, Sunshine II blamed the original Sunshine for the botch. Garvin then fired the original Sunshine and renamed Sunshine II as "Precious" (not to be confused with his original valet of the same name). Precious and Sunshine (now aligned with Chris Adams) feuded while Garvin traded the NWA American Heavyweight Championship with Adams. During this time, the couples competed in mixed tag-team matches. Sunshine temporarily left WCCW in 1984 (with the storyline excuse that she had been injured by Garvin and Precious) and was replaced in the feud with her "truck driving aunt", Stella Mae French (Tanya West). Adams and Stella Mae continued to compete in mixed tag team matches against Garvin and Precious until they defeated them in a "Loser Leaves Town" cage match in July 1984. Garvin and Precious then left World Class for the American Wrestling Association. Garvin and Adams would revive their feud ten years later in the Global Wrestling Federation, but the promotion went out of business before that angle got off the ground.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:American Wrestling Association (1984-1986).

paragraph: In the AWA, he formed a tag team with "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal (not to be confused with WWE wrestler William Regal, who performed in WCW as "Lord" Steven Regal and previously as Steve Regal, having seen the name in American wrestling magazines) and they won the World Tag Team Titles from The Road Warriors with the help of the Fabulous Freebirds.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (1986–1992).:Feuds with Wahoo McDaniel, Brad Armstrong and Magnum T.A. (1986-1987).

paragraph: After losing the titles to Scott Hall and Curt Hennig in 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions. He debuted as a heel often taunting Wahoo McDaniel, calling him "Yahoo." Garvin and McDaniel would feud throughout the summer and fall of 1986 in a series of "Indian Strap" matches. He also feuded with Brad Armstrong and was in the middle of a feud with Magnum T.A. when Magnum had the car wreck that would end his career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (1986–1992).:Feuds with The Midnight Express, Ric Flair, and Kevin Sullivan (1987-1988).

paragraph: In 1987, Jimmy's "brother" Ron (Jimmy's real-life stepfather), was in a feud with Jim Cornette and his stable. During a match with Cornette's Midnight Express, Cornette threw fire in Ron's face. Several faces came out to help and then Jimmy ran out and helped take him to the back. Jimmy flew into a rage and stormed into the heel dressing room and brutally attacked Cornette and it took several wrestlers, heel and face, to pull him off of him. Jimmy and Ron's friend and partner Barry Windham then took Ron to the hospital.

paragraph: Jimmy (and, by association, Precious) turned face and helped Ron feud with the Midnight Express. One of the bigger matches during that feud was when the two teams were matched against each other during the 1987 Jim Crockett Memorial Cup tag team tournament. The Midnight Express won by countout to advance.

paragraph: Later that year, Jimmy had one of the most memorable feuds in his career with Ric Flair, who was eyeing Precious. He sent her gifts and this caused lots of buildup for a big cage match between Flair and Jimmy during the 1987 Great American Bash stop in Greensboro, North Carolina for Flair's NWA World Title. The stipulation was added that if Flair won the match, he would get a date with Precious. During the match, Jimmy attempted a leap frog at one point but landed on one knee instead of his feet. Pain in the knee was "sold" by him during the rest of the match. This match got so heated that a fan actually attempted to climb into the cage to help Garvin. The fan was stopped by David Crockett, who was calling the match along with Tony Schiavone, right before the fan was about to get in. Flair ended up winning the match when he put Jimmy in the figure four leglock, Jimmy blacked out from the pain in his knee and his shoulders hit the mat for a count of three. Ron Garvin then entered the cage when the match was over and attacked Flair in order to defend Jimmy from further damage to his knee. When the date with Precious that Flair won occurred, Flair and James J. Dillon ended up being punched out by Ron Garvin, who was dressed in his "Miss Atlanta Lively" outfit. Just two months later, Ron successfully unseated Flair as NWA World Champion, holding on to the title until Starrcade '87 when Flair regained the belt.

paragraph: In 1988, Garvin had a feud with Kevin Sullivan and his Varsity Club. This one was over Precious too but it was never made clear why Sullivan wanted her. He made references to her calling her "Patti" instead of Precious, possibly referring to the past somehow. Sullivan would stalk her and taunt her with papers in his robe, but they never revealed anything. Jimmy had some memorable matches during this feud including challenging Varsity Club member Mike Rotunda for the NWA World TV Title at the first Clash of the Champions event during March of that year. Rotunda pinned Jimmy to retain the title.

paragraph: During the 1988 Great American Bash in Baltimore, Maryland held in July, Jimmy and Sullivan each captained 5 men teams opposing each other in the first ever "Tower of Doom" match. This match was actually a copied idea from World Class Championship Wrestling based out of Dallas, Texas who held a similar match a short while before this. It involved three cages stacked up on top of each other. A member of each team would start out climbing a ladder and facing off in the top cage. Every few minutes, new members from each team would enter the top cage in a similar fashion. Every so often, the doors between the cages would open for ten seconds allowing wrestlers to slip through to the next level. Jimmy's teammates consisted of Ron Garvin, Steve Williams, and the Road Warriors. They were victorious over Sullivan's team but the feud between Jimmy and Sullivan was not quite yet over.

paragraph: In September 1988, Garvin left to sell a broken leg that he had gotten from Sullivan and Mike Rotunda. On the September 3 edition of "NWA World Championship Wrestling" from the TBS studios, Sullivan broke cement blocks over Jimmy's leg. Jim Ross commentating at the time yelled out "He's breaking blocks all over his leg! Jesus!"

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (1986–1992).:The Fabulous Freebirds (1989-1992, 1994).

paragraph: Garvin returned to Jim Crockett Promotions, now known as World Championship Wrestling, in June 1989 minus Precious and became the newest member of the Fabulous Freebirds (he had been associated with the Freebirds since 1983) by winning the World Tag Team Titles with Michael Hayes at Clash of the Champions VII. The titles were won as part of a tournament for them that had been ongoing. That night, Hayes and Garvin scored victories over the Dynamic Dudes in the semifinals and the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane) in the finals. They feuded with the Midnight Express some more following that, as well as Rick & Scott Steiner. Garvin had worked in the past with Hayes, Buddy Roberts and Terry Gordy during the height of the Freebird-Von Erichs feud in World Class, and was always considered "The fourth Freebird".

paragraph: In the fall of 1990, they also had a manager of sorts, "Little Richard Marley" (wrestler Rocky King), who lasted until Starrcade.

paragraph: In February 1991, they added two managers, Big Daddy Dink & Diamond Dallas Page. In May 1991, they added a masked Freebird, Badstreet, and they feuded with The Young Pistols (Steve Armstrong & Tracy Smothers). By the summer of 1991, Badstreet and their managers were gone and the Freebirds had no direction. They briefly added Precious as their manager but she only made one appearance at WrestleWar '92. During this period, Hayes and Garvin won 2 World Tag Team titles, 1 World Six-Man Tag Team title (with Badstreet), and 2 United States Tag Team titles.

paragraph: Following the arrival of Bill Watts as Executive Vice President of WCW the Freebirds were targeted for what would become a wave of budget cuts. Following a loss of the United States tag-team titles to Dick Slater and The Barbarian, Garvin was split from Hayes. He wrestled The Barbarian in singles matches in August 1992 and also began teaming with Tom Zenk. His final match with the company came on the October 10th episode of The Power Hour when he partnered with Zenk to face Butch Reed and The Barbarian.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:World Wrestling Federation (1992).

paragraph: After leaving WCW in September 1992, Garvin received a tryout with the World Wrestling Federation. Garvin conducted an unaired interview segment at a television taping on October 26, 1992 in Springfield, IL where he insulted The Mega-Maniacs and predicted that all of the heels would win at the 1992 Survivor Series. Garvin did not sign with the company, and afterwards took a hiatus from pro wrestling, learning to become a commercial airline pilot.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:World Championship Wrestling (1994).

paragraph: In February 1994, Garvin made one final appearance in WCW at SuperBrawl IV in place of the "injured" Michael Hayes in a losing effort to Hayes' scheduled opponent Johnny B. Badd.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Global Wrestling Federation (1994).

paragraph: After SuperBrawl IV, Garvin went to the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF), where he reformed the Freebirds with Terry Gordy and Hayes. He won the Tag Team Titles with Gordy in 1994. They were the last champions before the promotion folded in September 1994 and he retired shortly thereafter. Before the promotion folded, Garvin was scheduled to feud with Chris Adams over the GWF North American Heavyweight Championship.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Retirement.

paragraph: Garvin is prominently featured in "The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling" DVD released by World Wrestling Entertainment in late 2007. The DVD was composed of interviews with former WCCW stars as well as footage and matches from various WCCW broadcasts.

paragraph: Garvin also appeared on an installment of "Legends" on WWE Classics on Demand discussing managers. Garvin spoke on a number of subjects, including the often contentious relationship between Sunshine, Precious and Missy Hyatt, as well as his own experiences as a manager.

paragraph: On April 2, 2016, Garvin was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of The Fabulous Freebirds.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Married in 1972, Williams and his wife Patti (born January 1, 1955), better known as Precious, have two daughters and they are involved in a ministry for the poor and homeless.

paragraph: Garvin's stepfather is professional wrestler Ron Garvin.

paragraph: Since his retirement from professional wrestling, Garvin has become an Airline Transport Pilot.

paragraph: Section::::Championships and accomplishments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- American Wrestling Association

paragraph: BULLET::::- AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Steve Regal

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Bahamian Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Big John Studd

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Steve Keirn (1 time) and Jack Brisco (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship "(Florida version)" (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA United States Tag Team Championship "(Florida version)" (2 times) - with Killer Kox

paragraph: BULLET::::- Continental Wrestling Association

paragraph: BULLET::::- AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Bob Ellis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Global Wrestling Federation

paragraph: BULLET::::- GWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Gordy

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Tri-State - Mid-South Wrestling Association

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mid-South Louisiana Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA United States Tag Team Championship "(Tri-State version)" (1 time) - with Herb Calvert

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pro Wrestling Illustrated

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI ranked him No. 61 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1992

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI ranked him No. 150 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Championship Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- WCW United States Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Michael Hayes

paragraph: BULLET::::- WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Michael Hayes and Badstreet

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA (Mid-Atlantic)/WCW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Michael Hayes

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Class Championship Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA American Heavyweight Championship (4 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- WCCW Television Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWE

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2016)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Fabulous Freebirds

description: American professional wrestler

wikidata_label: Jimmy Garvin

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Bologna
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astronomy
continued fraction
Euclid
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perfect number
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units digit
Nicomachus
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History of the Theory of Numbers
largest known prime
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eighth Mersenne prime
Galileo Project

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paragraph: Pietro Cataldi

paragraph: Pietro Antonio Cataldi (15 April 1548, Bologna – 11 February 1626, Bologna) was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation. He was one of many mathematicians who attempted to prove Euclid's fifth postulate.

paragraph: Cataldi discovered the sixth and seventh perfect numbers by 1588. His discovery of the 6th, that corresponding to p=17 in the formula M=2-1, exploded a many-times repeated number-theoretical myth that the perfect numbers had units digits that invariably alternated between 6 and 8. (Until Cataldi, 19 authors going back to Nicomachus are reported to have made the claim, with a few more repeating this afterward, according to L.E.Dickson's "History of the Theory of Numbers"). Cataldi's discovery of the 7th (for p=19) held the record for the largest known prime for almost two centuries, until Leonhard Euler discovered that 2 - 1 was the eighth Mersenne prime. Although Cataldi incorrectly claimed that p=23, 29, 31 and 37 all also generate Mersenne primes (and perfect numbers), his text's clear demonstration shows that he had genuinely established primality through p=19.

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wikidata_label: Pietro Cataldi

wikipedia_title: Pietro Cataldi