text: Albert II of Belgium

text: Belgian Royal Family

text: House of Austria-Este

text: cadet branch

text: House of Habsburg-Lorraine

text: line to the throne of Belgium

text: Saint-Luc University Hospital

text: Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

text: Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este

text: Princess Astrid of Belgium

text: Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta

text: King Philippe

text: Queen Paola of Belgium

text: Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

text: Joachim

text: Maria Laura

text: Luisa Maria

text: Laetitia Maria

text: Cardinal Danneels

text: Jesuit

text: Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege

text: Sevenoaks School

text: Royal Military Academy

text: London School of Economics

text: Deloitte

text: Master of Business Administration

text: Columbia Business School

text: Columbia University

text: McKinsey & Company

text: Gutzwiller

text: Basel

text: Nobile

text: Ruffo di Calabria-Santapau

text: Sinopoli

text: Oettingen-Spielberg

text: Rome

text: Santa Maria in Trastevere

text: Royal Family of Belgium

text: Queen Fabiola

text: cadet branch

text: House of Habsburg-Lorraine

text: Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg

text: Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein

text: Princess Beatrice of York

text: Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon

text: succession rights

text: King Albert II

text: Belgium's line of succession

text: dynastic

text: Belgian Constitution

text: La Une

text: Belgian National Day

text: gazetted

text: Moniteur Belge

text: His Imperial and Royal Highness

text: Princess Astrid

text: Archduke Lorenz

text: style

text: Royal Military Academy

text: Para-commando Training

text: Parachutist Badge

text: Belgian Land Component

text: Warrant-Officer

text: Royal Military Academy

text: Belgian Land Component

text: Second lieutenant

text: Reserve officer

categories: Austrian princes,People educated at Sevenoaks School,Belgian people of Austrian descent,Columbia Business School alumni,1986 births,Deloitte people,Austria-Este,Belgian Army personnel,Alumni of the London School of Economics,Living people,Royal Military Academy (Belgium) alumni

paragraph: Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (Amedeo Marie Joseph Carl Pierre Philippe Paola Marcus d'Aviano; born 21 February 1986) is a grandson of King Albert II of Belgium, and thus a member of the Belgian Royal Family. He is also heir to the headship of the House of Austria-Este, a cadet branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and is sixth in line to the throne of Belgium.

paragraph: Section::::Birth and family.

paragraph: Amedeo was born on 21 February 1986 at the Saint-Luc University Hospital in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium, as the first child and elder son of Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este, and Princess Astrid of Belgium. He bears the same given name as his paternal great-grandfather, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta. His godparents are his maternal uncle King Philippe and grandmother Queen Paola of Belgium.

paragraph: Amedeo himself is godfather to his cousin, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant. Amedeo has one younger brother, Joachim (b. 1991), and three younger sisters: Maria Laura (b. 1988), Luisa Maria (b. 1995) and Laetitia Maria (b. 2003).

paragraph: He was baptised and married by the Archbishop of Mechelen, Cardinal Danneels.

paragraph: Section::::Education and career.

paragraph: Amedeo undertook primary school and the greater part of his secondary education at the Jesuit school Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege (founded 1604) in Brussels, popular with Belgian aristocracy and royalty. He finished his secondary education at Sevenoaks School in Kent, England, between 2001 and 2004. He then spent a year in Belgium's Royal Military Academy. In September 2005, he began studies at the London School of Economics, where he graduated in 2008 with a "Bachelor of Science (BSc), Management", and took a sabbatical before entering professional life.

paragraph: From July 2009 to June 2012, Amedeo worked for Deloitte in New York City, first as a business analyst from July 2009 to June 2011, then as a management consultant in strategy and operations from July 2011 to June 2012. He then worked as a research analyst intern at Accumulus Capital Management, LLC from August through December 2012.

paragraph: During 2013 and 2014, Amedeo resumed his studies, obtaining a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Columbia Business School of Columbia University. He subsequently returned to Belgium, where he worked for McKinsey & Company in Brussels from September 2014 to September 2016. In January 2017, he began working at the Gutzwiller private bank in Basel, where his father is a partner.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: On 15 February 2014, the Belgian Royal Court announced the engagement of Prince Amedeo to an Italian journalist, Nobile Elisabetta "Lili" Maria Rosboch von Wolkenstein.

paragraph: Amedeo and Elisabetta both descend from Don Giuseppe Tiberio Ruffo di Calabria-Santapau, 2nd Prince of Palazzolo, Count of Sinopoli (1627-1683), while through German princely dynasties their most recent common ancestor is Franz Albrecht I, Prince of Oettingen-Spielberg (1663-1737).

paragraph: The couple's wedding was celebrated on 5 July 2014 in Rome's Basilica Santa Maria in Trastevere, in the presence of the Royal Family of Belgium (with the exception of his great-aunt Queen Fabiola), as well as members of the cadet branches of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, including the bridegroom's grandmother, Margherita of Savoy, Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este, and members of other dynasties, including Princess Margaretha of Luxembourg and her husband Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Princess Beatrice of York and Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon. The couple were planning to relocate in Belgium after the wedding.

paragraph: In April 2016, it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child, due to be born in May of that year. Their daughter, Anna Astrid, was born on 17 May 2016 at in Brussels.

paragraph: On 19 June 2019 it was revealed that Prince Amadeo and his wife were expecting a second child, to be born in September 2019.

paragraph: Section::::Succession rights to the Belgian throne.

paragraph: In 1991, Amedeo obtained, along with his mother and younger siblings, succession rights to the Belgian throne. In 1993, his maternal grandfather acceded to the throne as King Albert II and he became third in Belgium's line of succession, following his uncle Philippe, Duke of Brabant, and his mother. Upon Philippe's marriage in 1999, the prospect of Amedeo inheriting the throne substantially diminished, and the birth of a daughter and dynastic heir to Philippe in 2001 dropped his place in the order of succession down to fourth and eventually to seventh, following the birth of Philippe's other children. The abdication on 21 July 2013 of his grandfather King Albert II promoted him to sixth in line to the throne.

paragraph: Although an announcement of Amedeo's engagement was published on the Royal Family's website, no dynastic authorisation for his marriage was published prior to his wedding, as foreseen in Article 85 of the Belgian Constitution. Speculation in the media included a commentator on the military parade for "La Une" who, on 21 July 2014 (Belgian National Day), alleged that no royal authorisation was announced because the prince intentionally chose not to request permission to marry, and therefore Amedeo was no longer deemed in the line of succession. In November 2015, a royal decree expressing King Philippe's retroactive permission for the marriage was gazetted in the "Moniteur Belge".

paragraph: Section::::Titles and styles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 21 February 1986 – 2 December 1991: "His Imperial and Royal Highness" Archduke Amedeo of Austria-Este

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2 December 1991 – present: "His Imperial and Royal Highness" Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Modena

paragraph: All the children of Princess Astrid and Archduke Lorenz bear the title of "Prince(ss) of Belgium" by Belgian Royal Decree of 2 December 1991, which is distinct from their traditional Austro-Hungarian titles, i.e. "Archduke/Archduchess of Austria-Este, Prince(ss) Royal of Hungary". Internationally, his abbreviated style is HI&RH Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este.

paragraph: Section::::Military ranks.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004-2005 Royal Military Academy (Social & Military Sciences)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 Para-commando Training: Parachutist Badge

paragraph: BULLET::::- September 2005 September 2007: Belgian Land Component, Warrant-Officer as Candidate-officer ("Adjudant Candidat-Officier"), after his formation at Royal Military Academy

paragraph: BULLET::::- September 2007 : Belgian Land Component, Second lieutenant (as a Reserve officer) of the Regiment Carabiniers Prins Boudewijn – Grenadiers

description: Belgian prince


text:
Joseon Dynasty
Korea
Chi-hwa-seon
Im Kwon-taek
Yi Ung-heon
Danwon
Hyewon
Korean art
Korean culture
Korean painting
List of Korea-related topics
List of Korean painters

categories: 1843 births,1897 deaths,19th-century Korean painters,Joseon Dynasty painters

paragraph: Jang Seung-eop

paragraph: Jang Seung-eop (1843–1897) (commonly known by his pen name Owon) was a painter of the late Joseon Dynasty in Korea. His life was dramatized in the award-winning 2002 film "Chi-hwa-seon" directed by Im Kwon-taek. He was one of the few painters to hold a position of rank in the Joseon court.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Growing up as an orphan,'_' Owon learned painting while staying at another family's house. He first had the opportunity to paint extensively when he was taken into the household of aristocrat Yi Ung-heon in his 20s. Later, his talent became widely known, and he painted extensively in all genres of the time, including landscapes, flower paintings, and paintings of daily life.

paragraph: Together with the earlier painters Danwon and Hyewon, Owon is remembered today as one of the "Three Wons" of Joseon-period painting.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Korean art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Korean culture

paragraph: BULLET::::- Korean painting

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Korea-related topics

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Korean painters

alias:
장승업
Chang Sŭng-ŏp
吾園
Chang Sung-op
장 승업
취명거사
Sŭng-ŏp Chang
Owŏn Chang
ho Owŏn
sung-op Chang
Owŏn
醉暝居士
오원
Owon

description: Korean painter of the late Choson dynasty

wikidata_label: Jang Seung-eop

wikipedia_title: Jang Seung-eop


text: civil engineering

text: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

text: Thomas Telford

text: vintage car

text: heritage railways

text: Chester

text: Hay-on-Wye

text: Yukon gold rush

text: Stanley Pontlarge

text: Cheltenham College

text: Kerr Stuart

text: Stoke-on-Trent

text: Kyrle Willans

text: flyboat

text: Ford Model T

text: Alvis 12/50

text: Hartley Wintney

text: Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost

text: Vintage Sports-Car Club

text: Prescott hill climb

text: mass production

text: Tooley's Boatyard

text: Banbury

text: Oxford Canal

text: Spitfire

text: Merlin

text: Aldbourne foundry

text: River Thames

text: River Kennet

text: Hungerford

text: H. J. Massingham

text: Narrow Boat

text: Tardebigge

text: Robert Aickman

text: Charles Hadfield

text: Inland Waterways Association

text: Stratford-upon-Avon Canal

text: British Waterways

text: Market Harborough

text: Billy Smart

text: Birmingham Post

text: Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society

text: Towyn

text: Ealing comedy

text: The Titfield Thunderbolt

text: Sonia Smith

text: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

text: George

text: Robert Stephenson

text: Thomas Telford

text: civil engineering

text: canal

text: ghosts

text: possession

text: atavism

text: M. R. James

text: Newcomen Society

text: Science Museum

text: York Railway Museum

text: Newcastle

text: University of Bath

text: Royal Society of Literature

text: Association for Industrial Archaeology

text: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

text: Tom Rolt

text: Talyllyn Railway

text: C. P. Snow

text: Oxford Canal

text: Banbury

text: Ellesmere Port

text: Tooley's Boatyard

text: Narrow Boat

text: Eyre & Spottiswoode

text: Green and Silver

text: George Allen & Unwin

text: Thames

text: Longmans

text: Canal du Midi

text: Allen Lane

text: Constable

text: The Bodley Head

text: Patrick Stirling

text: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

text: Thomas Telford

text: Cornish

text: Richard Trevithick

text: George

text: Robert Stephenson

text: James Watt

text: Batsford

text: Thomas Newcomen

text: David & Charles

text: Holloways

text: Hunslet Engine Company

text: Mechanicals

text: Ball Clay

text: Worcestershire

text: County Books series

text: Canals of the United Kingdom

text: History of the British canal system

text: L. T. C. Rolt website

categories: 1974 deaths,English autobiographers,People from Chester,English horror writers,English memoirists,British people associated with Heritage Railways,1910 births,Talyllyn Railway,Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature,English non-fiction writers,Rail transport writers,Railway historians,Ghost story writers,English short story writers,English biographers,Waterways campaigners of the United Kingdom,English male short story writers

paragraph: L. T. C. Rolt

paragraph: Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February 1910 – 9 May 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: Tom Rolt was born in Chester to a line of Rolts "dedicated to hunting and procreation". His father Lionel had settled back in England in Hay-on-Wye after working on a cattle station in Australia, a plantation in India, and joining (unsuccessfully) in the Yukon gold rush of 1898. However Lionel Rolt lost most of his money in 1920 after investing his capital in a company which failed, and the family moved to a pair of stone cottages in Stanley Pontlarge in Gloucestershire.

paragraph: Rolt studied at Cheltenham College and at 16 he took a job learning about steam traction, before starting an apprenticeship at the Kerr Stuart locomotive works in Stoke-on-Trent, where his uncle, Kyrle Willans was chief development engineer. His uncle bought a wooden horse-drawn narrow flyboat called "Cressy" and fitted it with a steam engine. Then (having discovered the steam made steering through tunnels impossible) he replaced that with a Ford Model T engine. This was Rolt's introduction to the canal system.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Cars.

paragraph: In the thirties depression Rolt became jobless and turned to vintage sports cars, taking part in the veteran run to Brighton, and acquiring a succession of cars including a 1924 Alvis 12/50 two seater 'ducks back' which he was to keep for the rest of his life.

paragraph: Rolt bought into a motor garage partnership next to the Phoenix public house in Hartley Wintney in Hampshire (their breakdown vehicle was an adapted 1911 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost) and together with the landlord of the Phoenix, Tim Carson, and others, formed the Vintage Sports-Car Club in 1934. He also founded and helped create the Prescott hill climb. His 1950 book "Horseless Carriage" contains a diatribe against the emergence of mass production in the English car industry, claiming that "mass production methods must develop towards the ultimate end [of automatic procreation of machines by machines], although by doing so, they involve either the supersession of men by machines or a continual expansion of production". His preference for traditional craftsmanship helps to explain his subsequent career.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Cressy.

paragraph: In 1936, Kyrle Willans bought back "Cressy", which he had earlier sold, and several trips on the waterways convinced Rolt that he wanted a life afloat. He persuaded Angela Orred to join him in this idyll. She was a young blonde in a white polo-necked sweater, who had swept into his garage in an Alfa Romeo in 1937 and been caught up in the vintage car scene. Rolt bought "Cressy" from his uncle and set about converting her into a boat that could be lived on, the most notable addition being a bath.

paragraph: By the summer of 1939 Rolt and Angela decided to defy her father's reluctance and married in secret on 11 July. Work on "Cressy" was completed at Tooley's Boatyard in Banbury, and on 27 July Rolt and his wife set off up the Oxford Canal.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:War.

paragraph: The outbreak of the Second World War intervened and Rolt, a pacifist at heart, immediately signed up at the Rolls-Royce factory at Crewe, working on the production line for the Spitfire's Merlin engine. He was saved from the tedium of the production line by the offer of a job in an Aldbourne foundry. The Rolts battled south in "Cressy" through storms, reaching Banbury a day before the canals were finally frozen over for the winter. The following March they negotiated the River Thames in flood and battled up the River Kennet to reach Hungerford where Rolt worked for more than a year.

paragraph: The Rolts' first four-month cruise was described in a book which Rolt initially called "Painted Ship". Despite sending the manuscript to many publishers, he had to put it aside, as it was felt that there was no market for books about canals. It wasn't until a magazine article he wrote came to the attention of the countryside writer H. J. Massingham that Rolt had the break which led to the book finally being published, in December 1944, under the title "Narrow Boat".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Inland Waterways Association.

paragraph: "Narrow Boat" was an immediate success both with critics and public, with fan mail arriving at the Rolts' boat at Tardebigge where they were then moored.

paragraph: Two of the letters Rolt received were from Robert Aickman and Charles Hadfield who were both to figure prominently in the next phase of his life, that of a campaigner. He invited Aickman and his wife Ray to join them on "Cressy" and Aickman later described that trip as "the best time I have ever spent on the waterways". It was on this voyage they decided to form an organisation that a few weeks later, in May 1946, at Robert's London flat, was named the Inland Waterways Association, with Aickman as chairman, Hadfield as vice-chairman and Rolt as secretary.

paragraph: This was a critical period for the waterways, which were nationalised in 1947 and faced an uncertain future. The traditional life which Rolt had so movingly described was faced with extinction. He pioneered direct action on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal which stopped British Waterways from closing it, organised a hugely successful Inland Waterways Exhibition, which started in London but toured the country, and proposed the first boat rally at Market Harborough. Aickman, who had a private income, was working full-time on the campaign, whilst Rolt, who had only his writing to support him, and was still living aboard "Cressy", struggled to meet all his commitments. Eventually he fell out with Aickman over the latter's insistence that every mile of canal should be saved, and in early 1951 Rolt was expelled from the organisation he had inspired.

paragraph: By this time also he had decided to bring his life on "Cressy" to an end and return to his family home in Stanley Pontlarge. Angela departed to continue the mobile life, joining Billy Smart's Circus.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Talyllyn Railway.

paragraph: A letter Rolt had sent to the "Birmingham Post" in 1950 resulted in the formation of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society, and he now threw himself into that, becoming chairman of the company which operated the railway as a tourist attraction. "By the time the fateful letter terminating his IWA membership arrived, he was already busy issuing and stamping passengers' tickets from the little station in Towyn". His time at Talyllyn gave rise to the 1953 book "Railway Adventure", which was the basis of the popular Ealing comedy film "The Titfield Thunderbolt".

paragraph: Rolt married again, to Sonia Smith, a former actress. During the war she had become one of the amateur boat-women who worked the canals and had married a boatman. She had been on the council of the IWA. They had two sons, Tim and Dick, and continued to live in Stanley Pontlarge till Rolt's death in 1974.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Author.

paragraph: The fifties were Rolt's most prolific time as an author. His best-known works were biographies of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, which stimulated a revival of interest in a forgotten hero, George and Robert Stephenson, and Thomas Telford. His classic study of historic railway accidents, "Red for Danger", became a text book for numerous engineering courses. Rolt produced many works about subjects that had not previously been considered the stuff of literature, such as civil engineering, canals and railways. In his later years he produced three volumes of autobiography, only one of which was published during his lifetime.

paragraph: Rolt also published "Sleep No More" (1948) a collection of supernatural horror stories featuring ghosts, possession and atavism. These were modelled after the work of M. R. James, but used industrial settings such as railways instead of James' "antiquarian" settings. "The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural" described "Sleep No More" as "An exceptionally original collection of ghost stories ... Rolt had the special talent of combining folkloric spontaneity with artful sophistication." Several of Rolt's stories were anthologised; they were also adapted as radio dramas.

paragraph: Section::::Achievements and honours.

paragraph: He was Vice-President of the Newcomen Society, which established a "Rolt Prize";

paragraph: a trustee and member of the Advisory Council of the Science Museum; member of the York Railway Museum Committee; an honorary MA of Newcastle; an honorary MSc of the University of Bath (1973) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was a joint founder of the Association for Industrial Archaeology, which has an annual Rolt lecture. He helped to form the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

paragraph: A locomotive "Tom Rolt" on the Talyllyn Railway, the world's first preserved railway, was named in his memory in 1991.

paragraph: Rolt observed the changes in society resulting from the industrial-scientific revolution. In the epilogue to his biography of I. K. Brunel he writes two years before C. P. Snow makes similar statements about the split between the arts and sciences:

paragraph: Men spoke in one breath of the arts and sciences and to the man of intelligence and culture it seemed essential that he should keep himself abreast of developments in both spheres. ... So long as the artist or the man of culture had been able to advance shoulder to shoulder with engineer and scientist and with them see the picture whole, he could share their sense of mastery and confidence and believe wholeheartedly in material progress. But so soon as science and the arts became divorced, so soon as they ceased to speak a common language, confidence vanished and doubts and fears came crowding in.

paragraph: He set out these ideas more fully in his book "High Horse Riderless", a classic of green philosophy.

paragraph: A bridge (no. 164) on the Oxford Canal in Banbury bears his name (in commemoration of his book "Narrow Boat"), as does a centre at the boat museum at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. A blue plaque to Mr. Rolt was unveiled in at Tooley's Boatyard, Banbury on 7 August 2010 as part of the centenary celebrations of his birth.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Rolt's work (arranged by topic in rough chronological order) includes:

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Waterways.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Narrow Boat" (1944, Eyre & Spottiswoode)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Green and Silver" (1949, George Allen & Unwin)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Inland Waterways of England" (1950, George Allen & Unwin)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Thames from Mouth to Source" (1951)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Navigable Waterways" (1969, Longmans; rpt. 1973 by Hutchinson )

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From Sea to Sea: The Canal du Midi" (1973, Allen Lane)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Railways.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lines of Character" (1952, Constable), with Patrick Whitehouse

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Railway Adventure" (1953, Constable)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Red for Danger: A History of Railway Accidents and Railway Safety" (1955, The Bodley Head)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Patrick Stirling's Locomotives" (1964, H. Hamilton)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Making of a Railway" (1971, Evelyn)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Biography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Biography" (1957, Longmans)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Thomas Telford" (1958, Longmans)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Cornish Giant: The Story of Richard Trevithick, Father of the Steam Locomotive" (1960, Lutterworth Press)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution" (1960, Longmans)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Great Engineers" (1962, G. Bell)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "James Watt" (1962, Batsford)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Thomas Newcomen: The Prehistory of the Steam Engine" (1968, David & Charles)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Industrial history.

paragraph: From the period of 1958 onwards, Rolt was commissioned by many engineering companies to document their history. Many of these are unpublished internal documents; only the published works are listed here.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Holloways of Millbank: The First Seventy-Five Years" (1958)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Dowty Story" (Part I, 1962; Part II, 1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Hunslet Hundred: One Hundred Years of Locomotive Building by the Hunslet Engine Company" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mechanicals: Progress of a Profession" (1967)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Waterloo Ironworks: A History of Taskers of Andover, 1809–1968" (1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Victorian Engineering" (1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Potters' Field: A History of the South Devon Ball Clay Industry" (1974)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Autobiography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Landscape with Machines" (1971, Longman), first part of autobiography

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Landscape with Canals" (1977), second part of autobiography

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Landscape with Figures" (1992), retitled third part of his autobiography

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Landscape Trilogy" (2001), gathers all three parts of autobiography in one volume

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Other.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "High Horse Riderless" (1947, George Allen & Unwin), personal philosophy

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sleep No More" (1948), ghost stories

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Worcestershire" (1949, Robert Hale), County Books series

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Horseless Carriage: The Motor Car in England" (1950)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Winterstoke" (1954), history of a fictional Midlands town

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Clouded Mirror" (1955), travel

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Aeronauts: A History of Ballooning, 1783–1903" (1966; rpt. 2006 as "The Balloonists: The History of the First Aeronauts")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Ghost Stories" (1994)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Canals of the United Kingdom

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of the British canal system

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L. T. C. Rolt website

alias:
Tom Rolt
Thomas Caswall Rolt
Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt

description: English historian and biographer

wikidata_label: L. T. C. Rolt

wikipedia_title: L. T. C. Rolt


text: French

text: painter

text: draughtsman

text: Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons

text: Napoleon

text: Théodore Géricault

text: Cluny

text: Saône-et-Loire

text: France

text: French provinces

text: Italy

text: Paris

text: Napoleon

text: Josephine

text: Marie-Louise

text: Neo-classicism

text: Romanticism

text: Stendhal

text: Delacroix

text: Millet

text: Baudelaire

text: chiaroscuro

text: realism

text: St. Etienne

text: Cathedral

text: Metz

text: Louvre

text: Théodore Géricault

text: The Raft of the Medusa

text: "Crucifixion" at Web Gallery of Art

categories: French romantic painters,French draughtsmen,19th-century French painters,1758 births,French male painters,Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery,1823 deaths,People from Saône-et-Loire,18th-century French painters

paragraph: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

paragraph: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (April 4, 1758 – February 16, 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as "Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons" (1796). Notably, he painted a portrait of each of Napoleon's two wives.

paragraph: He was an early influence on Théodore Géricault.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was born in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. He received his artistic training in the French provinces and went to Italy when he was twenty-six years old to continue his education. On his return to Paris, he found work decorating some private mansions. His work for wealthy Parisians led him to be held in high esteem at Napoleon's court.

paragraph: His painting of Josephine portrays her not as an Empress, but as a lovely, attractive woman, which led some to think that he might have been in love with her. After the divorce of Napoleon and Josephine, he was also employed by Napoleon' s second wife Marie-Louise.

paragraph: Prud'hon was at times clearly influenced by Neo-classicism, at other times by Romanticism. Appreciated by other artists and writers such as Stendhal, Delacroix, Millet and Baudelaire for his chiaroscuro and convincing realism, he is probably most famous for his "Crucifixion" (1822), which he painted for St. Etienne's Cathedral in Metz. "Crucifixion" now hangs in the Louvre.

paragraph: The young Théodore Géricault had painted copies of work by Prud'hon, whose "thunderously tragic pictures" include his masterpiece, "Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime", where oppressive darkness and the compositional base of a naked, sprawled corpse obviously anticipate Géricault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution", a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Prud'hon (see index)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Crucifixion" at Web Gallery of Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pierre-Paul Prud’hon: Napoleon’s Draughtsman" at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

alias:
Pierre Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prudhon
Pierre Prud'Hon
P. P. Prud'hon
Pierre Prudon
Pierre-Paul Prudhon
Pierre Paul Prud'Hon
p. p. prud'hon
P.P. Prudhon
P.-P. Prud'hon
prud'hon pierre paul
Prudum
pierre-paul prud'hon
pierre paul prudhon
Prud'hon
paul pierre prudhon
pierre prud'hon
Prudhon

description: French painter

wikidata_label: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

wikipedia_title: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon


text: mountaineer

text: Brazil

text: Everest

text: adventure race

text: Amazon Rainforest

text: São Paulo

text: South America

text: Tierra del Fuego

text: Patagonia

text: bicycle

text: UNICAMP

text: Vale do Ribeira

text: São Paulo

text: Mount Everest

text: Aconcagua

text: Rodrigo Raineri

text: north ridge route

text: David Sharp

text: Asian Trekking

text: Asian Trekking

text: Report of Negrete's death

text: Portrait of Vitor Negrete

categories: Brazilian explorers,Brazilian people of Spanish descent,Brazilian mountain climbers,2006 deaths,1967 births,Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest,People from Campinas,Summiters of Mount Everest

paragraph: Vitor Negrete

paragraph: Vítor Negrete (November 13, 1967 – May 19, 2006) was a mountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen.

paragraph: Negrete was also an adventure racer beginning in 2001. Among many other adventures, he had crossed the Amazon Rainforest and traveled from São Paulo state to the southernmost part of South America– Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia– on a bicycle. As a UNICAMP researcher in food engineering, he helped to introduce pre-industrialized food to poor communities in the Vale do Ribeira, south of São Paulo. Negrete first reached the summit of Mount Everest on June 2, 2005. He reached it again on May 18, 2006, this time without supplementary oxygen, but died on the climb down from the summit. He was 38 years old.

paragraph: Section::::Previous climbs.

paragraph: In 2005 Negrete summited Everest and did not use oxygen until on Camp 3. He also summited Aconcagua in the Andes of South America.

paragraph: Section::::Death on Everest.

paragraph: In May 2006, Negrete and his Brazilian teammate, Rodrigo Raineri, were attempting to climb Mount Everest following the north ridge route without the aid of oxygen. On May 16, 2006, Negrete received bad news on his arrival at Camp II. First, while making a summit bid, David Sharp, a British member of an expedition outfitted by Asian Trekking, the same outfitter used by the Brazilian team, had died on the mountain. In addition, Malaysian climber Ravi Chandran, also outfitted by Asian Trekking, was suffering from frostbite in two fingers and needed to descend to Base Camp for medical treatment. Finally, someone had looted and emptied a cache containing gear and food left by the Brazilians at Camp II.

paragraph: “All these events have affected me deeply – I even considered calling the attempt off,” said Negrete. “However, Ravi told me to reach the summit for him."

paragraph: On May 17, 2006, Negrete reported from Camp III that he was setting off for the summit. “I am going tonight, without O2, without a Sherpa and without a sat-phone, since the batteries of the one I have are almost gone," he told his friend Raineri, at the moment resting at Base Camp after a failed summit bid. “I am going completely on my own. I promise I’ll be careful,” Negrete added.

paragraph: According to reports, Negrete called for help on the way down from the summit, which he had reached by noon on May 18. His Sherpa guide, Ang Dawa Sherpa, who had remained in Camp III, went immediately up to rescue him, reportedly finding Negrete still alive. Ang Dawa helped him back down to Camp III, but Negrete died soon afterwards.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of people who died climbing Mount Everest

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Report of Negrete's death

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrait of Vitor Negrete

description: Brazilian mountaineer

wikidata_label: Vitor Negrete

wikipedia_title: Vitor Negrete


text:
golf
Shreveport, Louisiana
Women's Western Amateur
North and South Women's Amateur
Pinehurst
U.S. Women's Amateur
USGA
Curtis Cup
Louisiana State University
kinesiology
LPGA Tour
Futures Tour
C.E. Byrd High School
Shreveport
Women's Western Amateur
Women's Western Amateur
North and South Women's Amateur
U.S. Women's Amateur
Curtis Cup
2002

categories: 1980 births,LPGA Tour golfers,Golfers from Louisiana,LSU Lady Tigers golfers,American female golfers,Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships,Sportspeople from Shreveport, Louisiana

paragraph: Meredith Duncan

paragraph: Meredith Duncan (born March 25, 1980) is an American professional golfer.

paragraph: Duncan was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She won the Women's Western Amateur in 2000 and 2001. She won the 2001 North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst. She followed this up by capturing that year's U.S. Women's Amateur in a match that the USGA says "veteran observers called the greatest final in the history of the United States Golf Association championships". She also played on the U.S. team at the 2002 Curtis Cup.

paragraph: Duncan graduated from Louisiana State University in 2003 with a degree in kinesiology having turned professional in 2002.

paragraph: Duncan has played on the LPGA Tour and the Futures Tour.

paragraph: Duncan now works at C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport. She serves as the head golf coach, pep squad sponsor, assistant basketball coach, physical education instructor, and kind soul.

paragraph: Section::::Amateur wins (4).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000 Women's Western Amateur

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001 Women's Western Amateur, North and South Women's Amateur, U.S. Women's Amateur

paragraph: Section::::Team appearances.

paragraph: Amateur

paragraph: BULLET::::- Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 2002 (winners)

description: professional golfer

wikidata_label: Meredith Duncan

wikipedia_title: Meredith Duncan


text: Blessed

text: American

text: Roman Catholic

text: priest

text: Guatemala

text: Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

text: murder

text: Pope Francis

text: Cox Convention Center

text: Oklahoma City

text: Miriam Teresa Demjanovich

text: Okarche

text: Oklahoma

text: baptized

text: Assumption Seminary

text: San Antonio

text: Texas

text: plumber

text: bishop

text: Victor Reed

text: Mount Saint Mary's Seminary

text: Emmitsburg

text: Maryland

text: ordained

text: pastor

text: Durant

text: Holy Family Cathedral

text: Tulsa

text: Oklahoma City

text: Tz'utujil people

text: Santiago Atitlán

text: Spanish

text: Tz’utujil language

text: New Testament

text: Mass

text: Panabaj

text: tobacco

text: pipe

text: catechists

text: warned

text: Daniel Henry Mueggenborg

text: Easter

text: altar

text: Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

text: Sololá-Chimaltenango diocese

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Servant of God

text: Congregation for the Causes of Saints

text: Rome

text: Positio

text: Pope Francis

text: Cox Convention Center

text: Angelo Amato

text: Eusebius J. Beltran

text: postulator

text: Decatur, Arkansas

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock

text: Hagiography Circle

text: Saints SQPN

text: Father Stanley Rother Guild

text: Aleteia

text: New York Times

text: Website of Cause of Father Rother

categories: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City,20th-century American people,20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs,American expatriates in Guatemala,Roman Catholic missionaries in Guatemala,American beatified people,20th-century venerated Christians,Beatifications by Pope Francis,Murder in 1981,People from Okarche, Oklahoma,1981 deaths,20th-century Roman Catholic priests,Mount St. Mary's University alumni,Murdered Roman Catholic priests,Deaths by firearm in Guatemala,1935 births,American Roman Catholic missionaries,Religious leaders from Oklahoma,20th-century Roman Catholics,20th-century translators,Venerated Catholics,Translators of the Bible into indigenous languages of the Americas,People murdered in Guatemala,American Roman Catholic priests,American people murdered abroad

paragraph: Stanley Rother

paragraph: Blessed Stanley Francis Rother (March 27, 1935 – July 28, 1981) was an American Roman Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala. Ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City in 1963, he held several parish assignments there until 1968 when he was assigned as a missionary priest to Guatemala where he was murdered in 1981 in his Guatemalan mission rectory.

paragraph: On December 1, 2016, Pope Francis issued a decree confirming that Rother had been killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith) which would allow him to be beatified. Rother was beatified on September 23, 2017, during a Mass at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City. He is the first US-born priest and martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church and the second person to be beatified on US soil following the 2014 beatification of New Jersey-born nun Miriam Teresa Demjanovich.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Education and priesthood.

paragraph: Stanley Francis Rother was born on March 27, 1935, in Okarche, one of four children of Franz Rother and Gertrude Smith, who farmed near that Oklahoma town. He was baptized on March 29, 1935, in Okarche's Holy Trinity Church by Father Zenon Steber. He had a sister, Betty Mae, who became Sister Marita on taking her vows, and two brothers, Tom and Jim.

paragraph: Rother was strong and adept at farm tasks. After completing high school at Holy Trinity School, he decided to become a priest. He studied at Saint John Seminary and then Assumption Seminary in San Antonio in Texas. He served as a sacristan, groundskeeper, bookbinder, plumber, and gardener. After almost six years the seminary staff advised him to withdraw.

paragraph: Following consultation with his local bishop Victor Reed Rother attended Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland from which he graduated in 1963. Bishop Reed ordained him to the priesthood on May 25, 1963. Rother served as an associate pastor in various parishes around Oklahoma: Saint William in Durant, Saint Francis Xavier and the Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, and Corpus Christi in Oklahoma City. In 1968 – at his own request – he was assigned to the mission of the archdiocese to the Tz'utujil people (also spelled Tz'utuhil) located in Santiago Atitlán in the rural highlands of southwest Guatemala. It was while he was at Corpus Christi that he had learned a priest was needed in Guatemala, and so applied and was accepted by Reed in 1968.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Guatemalan pastor.

paragraph: So that Rother could be in closer touch with his congregation, he set out to work to learn Spanish and the Tz’utujil language which was an unwritten and indigenous language that the missionary Ramón Carlín once recorded. He served in Santiago Atitlán from 1968 until his death. He supported a radio station located on the mission property which transmitted daily lessons in both language and mathematics. In 1973 he noted with pride in a letter: "I am now preaching in Tz'utuhil." During that time, in addition to his pastoral duties he translated the New Testament into Tz'utujil and began the regular celebration of the Mass in Tz'utujil. In the late 1960s Rother founded in Panabaj a small hospital, dubbed as the "Hospitalito"; Father Carlín served as a collaborator in this project.

paragraph: By 1975, Rother had become the "de facto" leader of the Oklahoma-sponsored mission effort in Guatemala as other religious and lay supporters rotated out of the program. He was a highly recognizable figure in the community, owing to his light complexion as well as his habit of smoking tobacco in a pipe. Since there was not a Tz'utujil name equivalent to "Stanley," the people of Father Rother's mission affectionately called him "Padre Apla's," translated as "Father Francis," a nod to his middle name.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Final months and murder.

paragraph: Within the last year of his life Rother saw the radio station smashed and its director murdered. His catechists and parishioners would disappear and later be found dead, with their bodies showing signs of having been beaten and tortured. Rother knew all this when he returned to Guatemala in May 1981. In December 1980 he had addressed a letter to the faithful in Oklahoma and wrote about the violent situation: "This is one of the reasons I have for staying in the face of physical harm. The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger."

paragraph: At the beginning of 1981 Rother was warned that his name was on a death list of the right-wing death squads (he was number eight on the list) and that he should leave Guatemala at once to remain alive. Rother was reluctant but he nonetheless returned to Oklahoma in January and while home in Okarche, celebrated a mass served by Daniel Henry Mueggenborg, a college student who became inspired by Rother to pursue the priesthood, though he later asked the archbishop for permission to return. Another reason for returning was that he wanted to celebrate Easter with them. Rother went back to Santiago Atitlán in April and knew that he was being watched.

paragraph: On the morning of July 28, 1981, just after midnight, gunmen broke into the rectory of Rother's church and shot him twice in the head after a brief struggle. The killers forced the teenager Francisco Bocel (who was in the church at the time) to lead them to Rother's bedroom. The men threatened to kill Bocel if he did not show them Rother and so Bocel led them downstairs and knocked on a door near the staircase. Rother opened the door and a struggle ensued as Bocel escaped.

paragraph: Rother was one of 10 priests murdered in Guatemala that year. His remains were flown back to Oklahoma and were buried in his hometown on August 3, 1981, in Holy Trinity Cemetery. At the request of his former Tz'utujil parishioners, his heart was removed and buried under the altar of the church where he had served.

paragraph: Three men were arrested on charges of murder within weeks of Rother's murder; another man and woman were sought for questioning at that stage as well. The three men arrested admitted to having entered the church in a robbery attempt, and also admitted to having shot Rother dead when the priest attempted to stop them. Despite the confessions, many people familiar with the circumstances of the murder considered the three accused persons as innocent, and the prosecutions to be a cover-up of paramilitary involvement in the murder. Convictions for all three men were later overturned by a Guatemalan appellate court, under pressure from U.S. authorities. No other suspects have been prosecuted for the murder.

paragraph: Section::::Beatification.

paragraph: The beatification process was set to open in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City but the cause had to first be transferred to the archdiocese from Guatemala because a cause opens in the diocese where the individual died; the forum transfer was granted from the Sololá-Chimaltenango diocese to Oklahoma on September 3, 2007. The diocesan process of investigation opened on October 5, 2007, and closed on July 20, 2010. The formal start to the cause came under Pope Benedict XVI on November 25, 2009, when Rother became titled as a Servant of God. The diocesan process received validation from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on March 16, 2012, in Rome and later received the Positio dossier from the cause's officials in 2014. The theologians approved the cause in a unanimous decision on June 23, 2015, as did the cardinal and bishop members of the CCS on October 18, 2016.

paragraph: On December 1, 2016, his beatification received approval from Pope Francis after the pope confirmed that Rother had been killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith). On March 13, 2017, the date for his beatification was announced on the archdiocesan website. Rother was beatified on September 23, 2017, at the Cox Convention Center, with Cardinal Angelo Amato presiding over the beatification — as the Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints on the pope's behalf at a Mass attended by 20,000 people. Among the bishops who assisted Amato were the Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and Oklahoma City Archbishop Emeritus Eusebius J. Beltran, who began Rother’s cause for canonization in 2007.

paragraph: The postulator for the cause was Dr. Andrea Ambrosi.

paragraph: A mission church has been named after him in Decatur, Arkansas, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock; it is the first Catholic church anywhere in the world to be named after him.

paragraph: In 2017 the Oklahoma City Archdiocese announced planning for the Venerable Servant of God Father Stanley Rother Shrine, new Church, and ministry complex to be built on property owned by the Archdiocese at I-35 and 89th Street in South Oklahoma City (the site of the former Brookside Golf Course).

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hagiography Circle

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saints SQPN

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father Stanley Rother Guild

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aleteia

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Times

paragraph: BULLET::::- Website of Cause of Father Rother

description: American priest

wikidata_label: Stanley Rother

wikipedia_title: Stanley Rother


text:
Spanish
motorcycle racer
British Superbike Championship
Honda CBR1000RR
FIM Superstock 1000 Cup
Profile on MotoGP.com
Profile on WorldSBK.com

categories: Moto2 World Championship riders,MotoGP World Championship riders,Audi Sport TT Cup drivers,Supersport World Championship riders,Superbike World Championship riders,1985 births,FIM Superstock 1000 Cup riders,125cc World Championship riders,Spanish motorcycle racers,Living people

paragraph: Javier Forés

paragraph: Javier Forés Querol (born 16 September 1985) is a Spanish motorcycle racer. He currently competes in the British Superbike Championship aboard a Honda CBR1000RR. He won the CEV Stock Extreme Championship in 2010 and 2013, the European Superstock 1000 Championship in 2013 and the IDM Superbike Championship in 2014. He has also competed in the 125cc World Championship, the Supersport World Championship, the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup and the Moto2 World Championship.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on MotoGP.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on WorldSBK.com

alias:
Xavi Forés
Javier Fores
Xavi Fores
Javier Forés Querol

description: Spanish motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Javier Forés

wikipedia_title: Javier Forés


text:
fencer
foil
1980 Summer Olympics

categories: Olympic medalists in fencing,1949 births,Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics,People from Świętochłowice,Living people,Polish female fencers,Olympic fencers of Poland,Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship,Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for Poland,Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Barbara Wysoczańska

paragraph: Barbara Wysoczańska (born 12 August 1949) is a Polish fencer. She won a bronze medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

description: fencer

wikidata_label: Barbara Wysoczańska

wikipedia_title: Barbara Wysoczańska


text:
Industrial Workers of the World
Monson, Maine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Bertrand, Nebraska
Tabor College
Industrial Workers of the World
Solidarity

categories: Industrial Workers of the World members,1964 deaths,Leaders of American trade unions,Syndicalists,1877 births,Industrial Workers of the World leaders,People from Monson, Maine,History of the United States (1865–1918)

paragraph: Ben H. Williams

paragraph: Benjamin "Ben" Hayes Williams was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Ben Williams was born in 1877 in Monson, Maine and named after president Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1888, he moved with his mother to Bertrand, Nebraska and started working as a printing apprentice.

paragraph: Williams graduated from Tabor College in 1904 with a bachelor's degree. While at Tabor, he played on the football team, edited a campus magazine, and was president of the Phi Delta Literary Society.

paragraph: He joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905 and from 1909 to 1917 edited the IWW's publication, "Solidarity".

paragraph: Williams published newspaper articles and authored several works on labor movement.

paragraph: He died in 1964.

description: American leader of the Industrial Workers of the World

wikidata_label: Benjamin H. Williams

wikipedia_title: Ben H. Williams


text: Niger

text: Prime Minister of Niger

text: Iférouane

text: Agadez Region

text: Tuareg

text: National Assembly of Niger

text: Prime Minister

text: Mahamadou Issoufou

text: President

text: Iférouane

text: Agadez Region

text: Colony of Niger

text: French West Africa

text: Agadez

text: Niamey

text: Paris

text: Rally for Democracy and Progress

text: Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara

categories: People from Agadez Region,Members of the National Assembly (Niger),Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism politicians,Berber Nigeriens,Prime Ministers of Niger,1953 births,Living people

paragraph: Brigi Rafini

paragraph: Brigi Rafini (born 7 April 1953) is a Nigerien politician who has been Prime Minister of Niger since 2011. A native of Iférouane in Agadez Region and an ethnic Tuareg, Rafini was Minister of Agriculture in the late 1980s and Fourth Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger from 2004 to 2009. He was appointed as Prime Minister after Mahamadou Issoufou took office as President on 7 April 2011.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Brigi Rafini was born in 1953 in Iférouane in the Agadez Region, part of the Colony of Niger in French West Africa. He attended primary and secondary school in Iférouane and Agadez. From 1971 to 1974, he attended the National School of Administration (ENA) in Niamey, returning for advanced study from 1978 to 1981. In 1983, he spent a year at the French International Institute of Public Administration (IIAP) in Paris. He returned to Paris a decade later, to the French National School of Administration (ENA) from 1994 to 1995.

paragraph: Section::::Political affiliation.

paragraph: Brigi Rafini, as a civil administrator, minister, and office holder, has represented four different political parties since the 1980s. He was a member of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) during the time it was the unitary party (1989–1991), left to join the breakaway faction that became the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ANDP) during the democratic Third Republic (1993–1996), and helped form the ruling Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a) party during the presidency of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (1996–1999). He served as a parliamentarian and assembly officer under the RDP in opposition during the Fifth Republic (1999–2009). He has since been reported to have formally joined the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), elected to power in 2011.

paragraph: Section::::Prime Minister.

paragraph: When Mahamadou Issoufou, who won the January–March 2011 presidential election, took office as President on 7 April 2011, he promptly appointed Rafini as Prime Minister. The 23-member government headed by Rafini was appointed on 21 April 2011. On 2 April 2016, when Issoufou was sworn in for his second term, he reappointed Brigi Rafini as Prime Minister.

description: Prime Minister of Niger

wikidata_label: Brigi Rafini

wikipedia_title: Brigi Rafini


href: Nayanars Hinduism Shaivism Appar Tamil%20language Periya%20Puranam Sekkizhar Thingalur Chola Thanjavur%20district Tamil%20Nadu Kailasanthar%20Temple%2CThingalur Shiva Pallava caste Vedic guru Thirubuvanam%2C%20Thanjavur vibhuti Tevaram Sundarar Tamil%20month Pausha Shatabhisha nakshatra Anjali%20mudra

text:
Nayanar
Hindu
Shaivism
Appar
Tamil
Periya Puranam
Sekkizhar
Thingalur
Chola
Thanjavur district
Tamil Nadu
Kailasanthar Temple
Shiva
Pallava
caste
Vedic
guru
Thirupuvanam
sacred ash
Ondru Kolam thevaram
Sundarar
Tamil month
Thai
Shatabhisha
nakshatra
Anjali mudra

paragraph: Apputhi Adigal

paragraph: Apputhi Adigal, also spelt as Apputhi Adikal, Atputhi Adigal, Apputi Adigal, Appoodi Adikal, Appoothi Adikal and Appudhi Adigal and known as Appuddi Nayanar, was a Nayanar saint, venerated in the Hindu sect of Shaivism. He is generally counted as the twenty-fifth in the list of 63 Nayanars. He is described as a contemporary of Appar or Thirunavukkarasar (first half of the 7th century CE), one of the most prominent Nayanars.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: The life of Apputhi Adigal is described in the Tamil "Periya Puranam" by Sekkizhar (12th century), which is a hagiography of the 63 Nayanars. He was a contemporary of Appar.

paragraph: Apputhi Adigal was born in the village of Thingalur, Chola kingdom. Presently in the Thanjavur district, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the village is famous for its Kailasanthar Temple dedicated to Shiva, the patron god of Shaivism. Apputhi Adigal belonged to the Pallava (Kshatriya) caste. His family had the job of reciting the Vedic scriptures. He was a staunch devotee of Shiva and a follower of Appar, who he regarded as his guru even though he has ever met Appar. He named his sons, cows and everything else in his house "Tirunavukkarasu", after Appar (Thirunavukkarasar). He worshipped Appar and erected rest-houses and water-sheds and dug ponds for devotees of Shiva and named them after Appar.

paragraph: Once, while Appar decided to close-by Shiva temples after worshipping in the Shiva temple at Thirupuvanam and arrived at Thingalur. Thirsty, he went to a water-shed and saw his own name "Thirunavukkarasar", written all over the place. Upon enquiry, fellow pilgrims informed him that it was the word of Apputhi Adigal.

paragraph: Appar went to the home of Apputhi Adigal and was welcomed by his host as a devotee of Shiva. Before Apputhi Adigal bowed to Appar, Appar prostrated before him. The guest asked Apputhi Adigal the reason why he did not name the water-shed after himself, but the name of somebody else. Apputhi was annoyed by the "causal reference" of the name of his guru. He shouted at the guest and asked if he did not know the greatness of Appar and sang his guru's glories. Finally, he asked the guest his identity. The humble guest indicated that he was the devotee who wrongly converted to another religion, but returned to Shaivism, after being cured by Shiva of colic. Apputhi realized by the description that his guest was his guru Appar.

paragraph: Apputhi Adigal fell at his guru's feet and worshipped him. He washed Appar's feet with his family and sprinkled the "holy" water on him and his kin. He requested Appar to have lunch at the house; Appar consented. While Apputhi's wife cooked various delicacies, the eldest son (called "eldest Tirunavukkarasu") rushed to the garden to bring a banana leaf (traditionally lunch is served on a banana leaf in Tamil Nadu) for the guest. A snake bit him in the garden. The boy rushed with the banana leaf to the house before the poison took effect so as to not delay the feast. On handling the leaf to his parents, he collapsed. The parents realised their son had died due to the venom.

paragraph: Not to delay the lunch of his guru, Apputhi and his wife hid the corpse and served Appar. Before the lunch, Appar blessed the family and wanted to present sacred ash to the family. He called the eldest son to receive it; Apputhi said he would not be available without mentioning the son's death. Finally, upon further enquiry, Apputhi revealed the truth to Appar. Appalled, Appar prayed to Shiva with the hymn Ondru Kolam thevaram. The child was resurrected. While the village cheered, the disappointed parents apologized to Appar for delaying his food. Appar had the meal with Apputhi and his children. Appar also resided at Apputhi Adigal's home for a few days, before returning to Thirupuvanam. At Thirupuvanam, Appar composed a hymn in honour of his host. Apputhi Adigal is said to have earned the grace of Shiva by serving Appar. The "Periya Puranam" also praises the devotion of the entire family.

paragraph: Section::::Remembrance.

paragraph: One of the most prominent Nayanars, Sundarar (8th century) venerates Apputhi Adigal in the "Tiruthonda Thogai", a hymn to Nayanar saints, praises him as "princely Apputi". Appar has praised Apputhi Adigal in a hymn, composed at Thirupuvanam.

paragraph: Images of Apputhi Adigal and his family are worshipped in the Kailasanthar Temple in his native village Thingalur.

paragraph: Apputhi Adigal is worshipped in the Tamil month of Thai, when the moon enters the Shatabhisha nakshatra (lunar mansion). He is depicted with a shaved head and folded hands (see Anjali mudra). He receives collective worship as part of the 63 Nayanars. Their icons and brief accounts of his deeds are found in many Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu. Their images are taken out in procession in festivals.

wikidata_label: Atputhi Adigal

wikipedia_title: Apputhi Adigal


text:
blues
Buddy Guy
A.C. Reed
Magic Slim
B.B. King
Holly Springs, Mississippi
Mississippi Blues Trail
sharecroppers
Memphis, Tennessee
Rosco Gordon
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
Greyhound bus
McKinley Mitchell
Bobby Day
Howlin' Wolf
Kingston Mines
Buddy Guy
A.C. Reed
Magic Slim
B.B. King
electric blues
soul
R&B
funk
Son Seals
crossroads
WXPN
Chicago blues
Buddy Guy's Legends

categories: Songwriters from Mississippi,African-American singer-songwriters,Guitarists from Illinois,21st-century American guitarists,20th-century male musicians,Songwriters from Illinois,African-American songwriters,Chicago blues musicians,American blues singer-songwriters,Contemporary blues musicians,Singers from Louisiana,1942 births,Delmark Records artists,Guitarists from Mississippi,African-American guitarists,Lead guitarists,Living people,Electric blues musicians,Musicians from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,American male guitarists,Guitarists from Louisiana,20th-century American guitarists,American blues guitarists,Songwriters from Louisiana,Blues musicians from Mississippi

paragraph: Linsey Alexander

paragraph: Linsey Alexander (born July 23, 1942) is a blues songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. He has been a fixture in clubs on Chicago's North Side for nearly two decades and has played with numerous blues musicians, including Buddy Guy, A.C. Reed, Magic Slim, and B.B. King. His album "Been There Done That", released in 2012, was rated the best blues CD of the year.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Alexander was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in an area along the Mississippi Blues Trail.

paragraph: His family was "poor but honest and hardworking" sharecroppers. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his mother and a sister when he was 12 years old.

paragraph: Alexander's interest in music started when a family friend he knew only as Otis taught him enough that when Otis left his guitar as a gift at Alexander's home, he was able pick it up and play. Alexander concentrated on singing as a teenager and later developed his guitar playing. His early influences were blues, country music, and rock and roll, including the blues keyboardist Rosco Gordon and the rock-and-roll artists Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley.

paragraph: In Mississippi, Alexander worked as a porter in a hotel laundry room and later as a bicycle technician. In 1959, he pawned his first guitar to help pay his way to Chicago by Greyhound bus, following a girl he had met in Memphis. In Chicago, he had a series of jobs, working for a car dealer, at a gas station, and as a cook and busboy. He received a pension after he was wounded while working for the Chicago Police Department.

paragraph: Alexander was pulled into the Chicago South Side music scene, where he heard soul artists like McKinley Mitchell and Bobby Day and the bluesman Howlin' Wolf. His first guitar was never recovered from the pawnshop, but he bought another guitar and formed a band, the Hot Tomatoes, which was "good enough to enter a talent show at the well-known nightclub on 63rd Street called The Place." Alexander went on to form another band, the Equitable Band, which played at the Launching Pad, at 75th Street and Stony Island, for about eight years. When Alexander was playing at Red's, a Chicago club at 35th Street and Archer, he was approached by an agent who introduced him to the popular North Side blues clubs B.L.U.E.S. and Kingston Mines. His entry into "Blue Chicago" (downtown) exposed him to tourists to whom he started selling independently recorded CDs, which are still selling well. Alexander has been a fixture in Chicago North Side clubs for nearly two decades and has played with blues notables including Buddy Guy, A.C. Reed, Magic Slim, and B.B. King. He has performed for audiences in New York, Canada, and Europe and has appeared at the Mississippi Blues Festival. Alexander is a regular performer at Kingston Mines.

paragraph: Section::::Music and performance style.

paragraph: Music critic Jim White called Alexander a "still-present, real-deal bluesman" with "deep, rich, gritty vocals" and "guitar work as strong as his vocals."

paragraph: Alexander plays his own style of electric blues, influenced by soul, R&B, and funk.

paragraph: The original material he writes contributes to the survival of the blues genre. His sense of humor shown in his music and his act sets him apart from most other blues players. He is known for playing his guitar "with the energy of a 20 year old." Reviewer Greg Szalony wrote that "at times [Alexander's] vocal approach is more akin to talking than singing" and noted that his "distorted guitar tones" and vocals as "uncannily close to the late Son Seals."

paragraph: The music critic David Whiteis wrote that Alexander's guitar style shows "lively improvisational imagination" and is in "good taste" and said Alexander was especially gifted as a songwriter "in command of a lyric vividness." Whiteis described Alexander's song "Saving Robert Johnson" as "a full-scale theatrical vignette set to music ... [that] take[s] on the crossroads myth." Greg Szalony observed that Alexander brings the blues into the present with the lyrics "I want you to e-mail the devil, I want you to poke him on Facebook." Alexander's song "Saving Robert Johnson" was included in the Mississippi Blues Project, a review of Mississippi blues produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.

paragraph: The Chicago blues historian Karen Hanson wrote in 2007,

paragraph: Veteran guitarist Linsey Alexander, the "Hoochie Man", plays classic Chicago blues spiced up with the occasional joke or double entendre. Watch him take his guitar for a crowd walk-through, where he'll stop often to flirt with the pretty women. ... These days Alexander is one of the hardest-working bluesmen in the city, appearing as many as six nights a week at Chicago clubs.

paragraph: A critic described Alexander's music and live show as "loud, raw, rocked out and raucous". Another critic called Alexander a "character" and wrote that his live show is "not to be missed."

paragraph: The Linsey Alexander Blues Band includes Alexander as vocalist and guitarist, Breezy Rodio on guitar, and Ronald Simmons on bass.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A1 Blues Podcast called Alexander's first international release, "Been There Done That", "pure blues of the finest quality" and named it "Blues CD of the Year".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big City Blues honored Alexander with a "Best Fan Interaction" award in 2012.

paragraph: BULLET::::- On June 8, 2014, Alexander was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame at the blues club Buddy Guy's Legends.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Someone's Cookin' in My Kitchen" (2004), Linsey Alexander, the L.A.B.B.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "My Days Are So Long" (2006), Hoochie Man

paragraph: BULLET::::- "If You Ain't Got It" (2010), Hoochie Man Music

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Been There Done That" (2012), Delmark Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Come Back Baby" (2014), Delmark Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- Two Cats (2017), Delmark Records

description: Blues musician

wikidata_label: Linsey Alexander

wikipedia_title: Linsey Alexander


text:
Ottoman
Edirne
madrasa
Kadı
Bayezid II
Selim I
Suleiman I
ulema
Quran
Saadi
Mulla Sadra

wikipedia_title:
Ottoman Empire
Edirne
Madrasa
Kadi (Ottoman Empire)
Bayezid II
Selim I
Suleiman the Magnificent
Ulama
Quran
Saadi Shirazi
Mulla Sadra

categories: 15th-century historians,1468 births,Muslim historians of the Ottoman Empire,Maturidis,Sheikh-ul-Islams of the Ottoman Empire,Hanafis,1536 deaths,15th-century writers of the Ottoman Empire,Persian-language writers,Turkish Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam,Arabic-language writers

paragraph: Ibn Kemal

paragraph: Şemseddin Ahmed (1468–1536), better known by his pen name Ibn Kemal or Kemalpaşazâde ("son of Kemal Pasha"), was an Ottoman historian, Sheikh ul-Islam, lawyer and poet.

paragraph: He was born into a distinguished military family in Edirne and as a young man he served in the army and later studied at various madrasas and became the Kadı of Edirne in 1515. He became a highly respected scholar and was commissioned by the Ottoman ruler Bayezid II to write an Ottoman history ("Tevarih-i Al-i Osman", "The Chronicles of the House of Osman"). During the reign of Selim I, in 1516, he was appointed as military judge of Anatolia and accompanied the Ottoman army to Egypt. During the reign of Suleiman I he was appointed as the Sheikh ul-Islam, i.e. supreme head of the Muslim "ulema", a post which he held until his death.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: He "authored around 200 works in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. His works include commentaries on the Qur'an, treatises on hadith, Islamic law, philosophy and theology (kalam), logic, Sufism, ethics, history, several books on Arabic and Persian grammar, literature, and a small diwan of poetry."

paragraph: His most famous history work is the "Tevarih-i Al-i Osman" ("The Chronicles of the House of Osman"), a history of the Ottoman Empire which provides the most original and important source material now extant on the reigns during which he himself lived. Although best known as a historian, Kemalpaşazâde was also a great scholar and a talented poet. He wrote numerous scholarly commentaries on the Quran, treatises on jurisprudence and Muslim theology and philosophy, and during his stay in Egypt he translated the works of the Egyptian historian Abu al-Mahasin ibn Taghribirdi from Arabic. He also wrote in Arabic, a philological work entitled "Daqaʿiq al-Haqaʿiq" ("The Subtleties of Verities"). His best poetical works include the Nigaristan ("The Picture Gallery"), written in Persian and modeled upon the Būstān and the Golestān of Saadi; a poem, Yusuf ü Züleyha, in rhymed couplets retelling the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife; and Divān ("Collected Poems"), consisting mainly of lyrics. In philosophy and theology, he followed Ibn 'Arabi and anticipated some theories of Mulla Sadra.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Online

paragraph: BULLET::::- Encyclopædia Britannica

description: Ottoman historian

wikidata_label: Ibn Kemal

wikipedia_title: Ibn Kemal


text:
American football
wide receiver
New England Patriots
2013 NFL Draft
college football
Marshall
Dunbar, West Virginia
South Charleston High School
South Charleston, West Virginia
high school football
receptions
touchdown
senior
interception
USA Football
Canton, Ohio
New York Giants
David Wilson
Marshall University
Marshall Thundering Herd football
touchdown
2011 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
Conference USA
Senior Bowl
East Carolina
ESPN
New England Patriots
2013 NFL Draft
New York Jets
Pittsburgh Steelers
hamstring
Green Bay Packers
injured reserve
Super Bowl XLIX
Seattle Seahawks
reception
Buffalo Bills
Tom Brady
ankle
high ankle sprain
Detroit Lions
Arizona Cardinals

wikipedia_title:
American football
Wide receiver
New England Patriots
2013 NFL Draft
College football
Marshall Thundering Herd football
Dunbar, West Virginia
South Charleston High School
South Charleston, West Virginia
High school football
Reception (gridiron football)
Touchdown
Twelfth grade
Interception
USA Football
Canton, Ohio
New York Giants
David Wilson (American football)
Marshall University
Marshall Thundering Herd football
Touchdown
2011 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl
Conference USA
Senior Bowl
East Carolina Pirates football
ESPN
New England Patriots
2013 NFL Draft
New York Jets
Pittsburgh Steelers
Hamstring
Green Bay Packers
Injured reserve list
Super Bowl XLIX
Seattle Seahawks
Reception (gridiron football)
Buffalo Bills
Tom Brady
Ankle
High ankle sprain
Detroit Lions
Arizona Cardinals

categories: Detroit Lions players,South Charleston High School alumni,American football wide receivers,Marshall Thundering Herd football players,People from Kanawha County, West Virginia,Players of American football from West Virginia,1991 births,New England Patriots players,Arizona Cardinals players,Living people

paragraph: Aaron Dobson

paragraph: Aaron Jameer Dobson (born July 23, 1991) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft and played college football at Marshall.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Dobson was born in Dunbar, West Virginia. He attended South Charleston High School in South Charleston, West Virginia, and played high school football and high school basketball for the South Charleston Black Eagles. He recorded 45 receptions for 1,298 yards and 17 touchdowns as a senior and added seven interceptions on defense, and finished his high school career with 108 receptions, 2,365 yards and 32 touchdowns. He had 10 interceptions, two of which he returned for touchdowns, and was a member of the 2008 MSAC Championship team and 2008 West Virginia AAA State Championship, which finished with a 14-0 record.

paragraph: In 2009, he played for USA Football's U.S. Under-19 National Team that won the 2009 IFAF Under-19 World Championship in Canton, Ohio, where he was teammates with future New York Giants running back, David Wilson.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Dobson attended Marshall University, where he played for the Marshall Thundering Herd football team from 2009 to 2012. During his college career, Dobson had 165 receptions for 2,398 yards and 24 touchdowns. As a junior in 2011, he was the MVP of the 2011 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl. He ended his Marshall senior season being named 2nd team All-Conference USA and being invited to play in the Senior Bowl.

paragraph: Dobson gained recognition in 2011 during a game against East Carolina, when he had a one-handed backhand catch for a touchdown in the second quarter. The play went viral and was ranked second on ESPN's Top 10 Plays of the Year.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New England Patriots.

paragraph: The New England Patriots selected Dobson in the second round, with the 59th overall pick, of the 2013 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year, $3.4 million contract. His first career catch was for a touchdown against the New York Jets in Week 2. In a Week 9 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers, he had the first 100-yard game of his career. He caught five passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns. He suffered a foot injury in week 12 against the Broncos and missed weeks 13-15. He appeared in 12 games (nine starts) with 519 receiving yards and four touchdowns during his rookie campaign in 2013.

paragraph: Dobson was inactive for eight of the first twelve weeks of the 2014 season before injuring his hamstring against the Green Bay Packers in Week 13. On December 4, 2014, he was placed on injured reserve. With Dobson on IR, the Patriots won Super Bowl XLIX after they defeated the defending champion Seattle Seahawks, 28-24.

paragraph: Dobson was active for Week 1 against the Steelers on September 10, 2015. He played sparingly recording one reception for nine yards. In the second week, against the Buffalo Bills, he tied a career-high with seven catches, for 87 yards. He recorded a 17-yard pass from quarterback Tom Brady in a 20-13 win over the Bills in Week 11; on the play, he injured his ankle and had to leave the game. He was diagnosed with a high ankle sprain, and on November 26, 2015, the Patriots placed him on injured reserve, ending his season.

paragraph: On September 3, 2016, Dobson was released by the Patriots as part of final roster cuts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Detroit Lions.

paragraph: On September 21, 2016, Dobson was signed by the Detroit Lions. He was released on September 24, 2016. On September 27, 2016, he was re-signed by the Lions. He was released again on October 8, 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arizona Cardinals.

paragraph: On January 5, 2017, Dobson signed a reserve/future contract with the Arizona Cardinals. He was placed on injured reserve on September 2, 2017. He was released on September 6, 2017.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marshall Thundering Herd bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- New England Patriots bio

description: American football player, wide receiver

wikidata_label: Aaron Dobson

wikipedia_title: Aaron Dobson


text: Kt

text: neuroscientist

text: life peer

text: House of Lords

text: crossbencher

text: Newcastle Medical School

text: British Medical Association

text: General Medical Council

text: Royal Society of Medicine

text: Green College, Oxford

text: Templeton College, Oxford

text: Green Templeton College

text: knighted

text: life peer

text: Detchant

text: County of Northumberland

text: crossbencher

text: The Little Foundation

text: Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

text: Parkinson's UK

text: Profile

text: Profile

text: Profile

text: Profile

text: Profile

text: Profile

categories: Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine,Crossbench life peers,English neuroscientists,1922 births,Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,2016 deaths,Knights Bachelor,Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Alumni of Newcastle University,Presidents of the British Medical Association

paragraph: John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant

paragraph: John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant Kt (16 September 1922 – 21 April 2016) was a British neuroscientist, academic, and life peer who sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Lord Walton qualified from Newcastle Medical School (then part of the University of Durham). Walton was President of the British Medical Association (BMA) from 1980-82, President of the General Medical Council (GMC) 1982-89 and President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1984-86. He was also appointed second Warden of Green College, Oxford in 1983, where he stayed until 1989. Green College merged with Templeton College, Oxford in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, located on the site that was previously Green College.

paragraph: Having been knighted in 1979, Walton was created a life peer on 24 July 1989 as Baron Walton of Detchant, "of Detchant in the County of Northumberland" and sat as a crossbencher. In 1992 he became a member of the Science and Technology Committee, leaving in 1996, returning in 1997 and leaving again in 2001. From 1993-94 he was Chair of the Medical Ethics committee. He was Secretary of the Rare Diseases Group from 2009 until his death.

paragraph: He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He was Patron of The Little Foundation, Honorary Life President of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Vice President of Parkinson's UK and Honorary Chairman of the United Kingdom Medical Students' Association (UKMSA).

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Lord Walton of Detchant died on 21 April 2016, aged 93.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, hansard.millbanksystems.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, aim25.ac.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, dodonline.co.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, brookes.ac.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, nationalarchives.gov.uk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, ukmsa.org

description: British politician

wikidata_label: John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant

wikipedia_title: John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant


text: Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent

text: Richard II of England

text: Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury

text: Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent

text: Alianore Holland

text: Countess of March

text: Upholland

text: Alice FitzAlan

text: Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel

text: Alianore Holland, Countess of March

text: Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March

text: Richard II

text: Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey

text: Cirencester

text: Epiphany Rising

text: Henry IV of England

text: Edmund Holland

text: Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent

text: Joan of Kent

text: Edward, the Black Prince

text: Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel

text: Eleanor of Lancaster

text: Sir Thomas Montagu

text: John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury

text: Hundred Years War

text: John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter

text: Essex

text: Joan Fitzalan

text: Bisham Manor

text: Richard Neville

text: Bisham Priory

text: Alice Chaucer

text: Geoffrey Chaucer

text: Siege of Orléans

text: suo jure

text: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick

text: Cecily Bonville

text: Catherine Parr

text: Henry VIII

categories: 15th-century deaths,15th-century English women,14th-century English women,Holland family,Burials at Bisham Abbey,de Montagu family,14th-century English people,1386 births,People from Up Holland,English countesses,Daughters of British earls

paragraph: Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury

paragraph: Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury (1386- after 1413), was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, a half-brother of King Richard II of England. She was the first wife of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury. One of her brothers was Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, to whom she was co-heiress. She is not to be confused with her eldest sister Alianore Holland, Countess of March who bore the same name.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Lady Eleanor Holland was born in 1386 in Upholland, Lancashire, England, one of the ten children of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Lady Alice FitzAlan, sister of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel. Eleanor's eldest sister, Lady Alianore Holland, Countess of March who married Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March shared the same name. They were named after their maternal grandmother. Eleanor's father was a uterine half-brother of King Richard II. Her eldest brother Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey was beheaded in 1400 by a mob of angry citizens at Cirencester for his role in the Epiphany Rising, which was aimed against the life of King Henry IV of England, who had usurped the throne of King Richard. Thomas's heir to the earldom of Kent was her second eldest brother Edmund Holland, to whom Eleanor became co-heiress.

paragraph: Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, who was the mother of King Richard by her second marriage to Edward, the Black Prince; and her maternal grandparents were Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and issue.

paragraph: Lady Eleanor married Sir Thomas Montagu, son of John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and Maud Francis, on 23 May 1399, as his first wife. She was about thirteen years old at the time of her marriage. Thomas would later become one of the most important commanders in the Hundred Years War. Eleanor did not assume the title of Countess of Salisbury until 14 June 1409, when the title, Earl of Salisbury, was nominally restored to Thomas. An attainder had been placed on his father's title and estates following his execution for his participation in the Epiphany Rising in 1400 alongside Eleanor's brother, Thomas. Eleanor's uncle John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter had also been part of the conspiracy but he had escaped the mob only to be captured in Essex and decapitated on the orders of her maternal aunt Joan Fitzalan, mother-in-law of King Henry IV.

paragraph: Thomas and Eleanor made their home at Bisham Manor in Berkshire. Together they had one daughter:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alice Montagu, 5th Countess of Salisbury (1407-3 April/9 December 1462), married in 1420, Richard Neville, by whom she had ten surviving children.

paragraph: Eleanor died on an unknown date sometime after 1413. She was buried in Bisham Priory.

paragraph: Thomas married secondly before 1424, Alice Chaucer, granddaughter of the noted author Geoffrey Chaucer, but their marriage was childless. He was mortally wounded on 27 October 1428 at the Siege of Orléans and died several days later on 3 November.

paragraph: Alice, the daughter of Thomas and Eleanor, succeeded her father as "suo jure" 5th Countess of Salisbury. Through Alice, Eleanor was the grandmother of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and great-grandmother of Cecily Bonville, who became one of the wealthiest English heiresses in the 15th century. Eleanor was also the great-great-great-grandmother of queen consort Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII.

paragraph: Section::::References.

description: English countess

wikidata_label: Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury

wikipedia_title: Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury


text:
French
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen
Chênex
Pope Paul VI
auxiliary bishop
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes
Coadjutor Archbishop
Jacques Gaillot

categories: 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops,1928 births,Archbishops of Rouen,2009 deaths,20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops,People from Haute-Savoie

paragraph: Joseph Duval

paragraph: Joseph Marie Louis Duval (11 October 1928 – 23 May 2009) was the French Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen.

paragraph: Born in Chênex, Duval was ordained to the priesthood on June 8, 1953. On May 14, 1974, Pope Paul VI appointed Duval auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, and he was consecrated on July 6, 1974. On June 5, 1978, Pope Paul VI appointed Duval Coadjutor Archbishop of Rouen and, on May 6, 1981, he became the archbishop retiring on October 16, 2003.

paragraph: Archbishop Duval was concerned about the activities of Bishop Jacques Gaillot while archbishop.

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Joseph Duval

wikipedia_title: Joseph Duval


text:
American football
defensive end
Cincinnati Bengals
2012 NFL Draft
college football
Penn State
All-American
Houston Texans
New York Jets
Camden, New Jersey
Howard High School of Technology
Wilmington, Delaware
Joe Paterno
Penn State Nittany Lions football
Big Ten
Jared Odrick
Outland
Bednarik
team captain
2011
Iota Phi Theta
2012 NFL Draft
Cincinnati Bengals
Marvin Lewis
Atlanta Falcons
New York Jets
Neuroblastoma
New Orleans Saints
Sean Payton
Gillette Stadium
Jimmy V Award
Art Still
Levon Kirkland
NFL Combine bio
Penn State Nittany Lions bio

categories: Houston Texans players,Penn State Nittany Lions football players,American football defensive tackles,Players of American football from New Jersey,1989 births,Sportspeople from Camden, New Jersey,Cincinnati Bengals players,Living people,All-American college football players

paragraph: Devon Still

paragraph: Devon Joshua Still (born July 11, 1989) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State, where he earned consensus All-American honors. He was also a member of the Houston Texans and New York Jets.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Still was born in Camden, New Jersey. He attended Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was a standout lineman for the Howard Wildcats high school football team. Still was a team captain during his senior season, recorded 59 tackles, 18 of them for a loss, and was recognized as the Lineman of the Year by the Delaware Interscholastic Coaches Association. He also was a member of the Howard Wildcats basketball and track and field teams.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Still attended Penn State, where he played for coach Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions football team from 2008 to 2011. He was named the 2011 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, becoming only the second defensive tackle to win the award (along with former teammate Jared Odrick). He was also named Big Ten Defensive Lineman of the Year, consensus All-Big Ten, and to 10 first-team All-American teams. He was a finalist for both the Outland and Bednarik awards. Still was elected a team captain for the Nittany Lions as a senior in 2011. He is a charter member of the Eta Alpha chapter of Iota Phi Theta fraternity. He graduated with a degree in Criminal Law and Justice. The Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association named him Delaware's Outstanding Athlete of 2011.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cincinnati Bengals.

paragraph: At the 2012 NFL Draft, Still was selected in the second round by the Cincinnati Bengals, with the 53rd overall selection. He played two seasons with the team before being cut in late August 2014, prior to the start of the season. The following day, the Bengals re-signed Still to the practice squad to help him pay for his daughter's cancer treatment.

paragraph: In addition to his daughter Leah's diagnosis, Still was also attempting to heal from a hamstring injury. He admitted that he would not be able to impact to his full ability and give the best effort to his team. Consequently, Still did not make the Cincinnati Bengal's 53-man roster. Still said: "I completely understand where they were coming from..."I can't give football 100 percent right now. In the business aspect they want guys to solely focus on football, which is understandable. We are here to win this city a Super Bowl and right now I am not in a position where I can give football 100 percent of everything I have." Head coach Marvin Lewis offered Still a position on the practice squad so that he could continue to pay for his daughter's cancer treatments. As a member of the practice squad, Still did not have to travel with the team on road trips.

paragraph: On September 10, 2014, it was announced that Still would be moved to the active roster. In the game that followed, the Bengals' second of the season, he recorded three tackles against the Atlanta Falcons.

paragraph: On September 5, 2015, Still was waived by the Bengals.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Houston Texans.

paragraph: On January 6, 2016, the Houston Texans signed Still to a reserve future contract. He was placed on injured reserve on October 5, 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Jets.

paragraph: On August 4, 2017, Still signed with the New York Jets. He was waived on August 28, 2017.

paragraph: On December 23, 2017, Still announced his retirement from the NFL.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In June 2014, his daughter, Leah Sari Still, was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma stage 4 cancer. Still put his football career on hiatus saying: "she's fighting for her life. Sports is not more important than me being there while my daughter is fighting for her life." Since the June 2, 2014 diagnosis, Still spent the next three weeks sleeping next to his daughter at the hospital despite his own recent back surgery. In support of his daughter, Still shaved his head bald and has said that he will grow back his hair only when Leah's does.

paragraph: The Bengals demonstrated their loyalty even further by permitting Devon Still's jersey to be sold in order to raise awareness for pediatric cancer research and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. $400,000 sales were made in four days. At the end of September, it was reported that Still's jersey donation sales neared $1 million. The New Orleans Saints head coach, Sean Payton bought 100 jerseys and distributed them to the local Boys & Girls Club and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

paragraph: On September 25, 2014, before driving Leah to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for cancer surgery, Devon Still posted a video to his Instagram account, which went viral. Still later tweeted that the tumor and lymph nodes were removed.

paragraph: On October 5, 2014, during a game with the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, a music video was shown on the stadium's video screen featuring Still's daughter. The Patriots cheerleaders also donned copies of Still's' jersey to show support. It was further reported that Patriots owner Robert Kraft was donating $25,000 to Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Leah's name.

paragraph: On March 18, 2015, Still announced that Leah had undergone surgery to get the tumor out, and that she was now cancer-free. On July 15, 2015, at the ESPY awards, Devon and Leah Still received the Jimmy V Award for their determination and perseverance in the face of cancer.

paragraph: In November 2015, Still announced Leah was in remission with no signs of cancer. In January 2016, Still announced that Leah remained cancer-free and that she had "really beat cancer."

paragraph: Still's cousins, Art Still and Levon Kirkland, have also played in the NFL.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- NFL Combine bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Penn State Nittany Lions bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Devon Still

wikipedia_title: Devon Still


text:
Pahokee, Florida
American football
wide receiver
San Francisco 49ers
National Football League
college football
Wake Forest
Detroit Lions
Hakeem Nicks
2009 NFL Draft
Canadian Football League
National Football League
Anquan Boldin
Detroit Lions
CFL
Korey Banks
DJ Boldin profile
San Francisco 49ers bio

categories: Canadian football wide receivers,Living people,Toronto Argonauts players,Players of American football from Florida,American football wide receivers,1986 births,Wake Forest Demon Deacons football players,San Francisco 49ers coaches,American players of Canadian football

paragraph: DJ Boldin

paragraph: Demir "D.J." Boldin (born June 20, 1986, in Pahokee, Florida) is a former American football wide receiver who is an offensive assistant for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He played college football at Wake Forest. He signed with the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent in 2009.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Boldin was selected as the Defensive Player of the Year by the Palm Beach Post. He was an A first-team all-state selection. He recorded 107 tackles, 2 interceptions and 4 forced fumbles as a senior in high school along with 29 receptions for 691 yards and 9 touchdowns as wide receiver He selected to the first-team all-state as linebacker.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Redshirt Freshman.

paragraph: Boldin was named to The Sporting News' ACC All-Freshman Team. Boldin finished second on the team in receiving yards and fourth on the team in receptions. He played nine games and started six and recorded 15 receptions for 224 yards, a team-best 14.9 yards per catch. Boldin made his first career reception in the Maryland game, a 14-yard reception and had three catches against Clemson for 36 yards. Boldin also had a season-high four receptions in Tallahassee for 58 yards and Boldin caught three passes for 54 yards at Boston College. He had two receptions for 15 yards at Georgia Tech. He did not play in the season opener against Vanderbilt because of a coach's decision and missed the Miami game with injury.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Sophomore season.

paragraph: In 2006, Boldin sat out his sophomore season due to academic reasons

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Junior season.

paragraph: Boldin recorded 11 reception for 127 yards while appearing in all 13 games in which he had a successful return in 2007 after missing the 2006 season. Caught his first pass since 2005 when he snagged a 14-yarder in the season opener vs. Boston College (Sept. 1) ... Had two receptions vs. Virginia (Nov. 3) and Clemson (Nov. 10) ... Made two receptions for 47 yards in the Meineke Car Care Bowl ... His longest catch of the season was a 38-yarder that led to a first down on a third-and-17 against Connecticut.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Senior.

paragraph: Boldin led the ACC with 81 receptions and 848 yards receiving 3 touchdowns. Boldin was second in the ACC with (65 yards) a game, and averaging over 10 yards per catch. Boldin was second behind North Carolina Tar Heels Wide receiver Hakeem Nicks. Finished his career with 107 receptions 1,199 yards 3 touchdowns.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Detroit Lions.

paragraph: After going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, Boldin signed with the Detroit Lions as an undrafted free agent. September 2009, Boldin was released on the day that final cuts were announced.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Toronto Argonauts.

paragraph: On October 19, 2010 Boldin signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. In the 2011 CFL season in which Boldin recorded 3 receptions for 35 yards with the Toronto Argonauts.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: D.J.'s older brother is National Football League veteran receiver Anquan Boldin who most recently played for the Detroit Lions and cousin of CFL All-Star defensive back Korey Banks with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ Boldin profile at Argonauts.ca

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Francisco 49ers bio

alias:
Demir "D.J." Boldin
Demir Bodin

description: Player of Canadian football

wikidata_label: DJ Boldin

wikipedia_title: DJ Boldin