text: Thaumaturgus

text: Sicily

text: Roman Catholics

text: Orthodox Church

text: Justinian II

text: Constantine IV

text: paganism

text: sorcery

text: Byzantine

text: Sicily

text: Saint Michael

text: Sicilian

text: Rometta

text: Longi

text: Sinagra

text: Saracena

text: Calabria

text: Ravenna

text: Eastern Roman Empire

text: Benedictine

text: Reggio Calabria

text: Calabria

text: Reggio

text: iconoclasm

text: Longi

text: Sinagra

text: Rometta

text: Monti Peloritani

text: Messina

text: Heliodorus

text: Omophorion

text: "St. Leo of Catania"

text: "Catholic Online - St. Leo of Catania"

text: "Sacred Image of Saint Leo"

categories: Italian Benedictines,Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church,789 deaths,Catania,Italian saints,709 births,People from Ravenna

paragraph: Leo of Catania

paragraph: Saint Leo of Catania, nicknamed the "Thaumaturgus", also known as St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily (May 703 or 709 – 20 February 789), was the fifteenth bishop of Catania, famed also for his love and care toward the poor. His feast day occurs on February 20, the day of his death in which he is venerated as a saint both by Roman Catholics and by the Orthodox Church. He lived in the lapse of time between the reigns of the Emperors Justinian II and Constantine IV. He struggled especially against the paganism and sorcery still prevalent in the Byzantine Sicily.

paragraph: He left the memory of prodigies and charitable deeds, an admirable apostolate that deserved him his Greek epithet. For the natives of Catania he was simply "Leone " il Maraviglioso"" (the "Wonderworker" or "He who performs Miracles").

paragraph: Catania dedicated to him a peripheral suburb built around the homonymous Catholic Parish but even the name of the sole Eastern Orthodox church of the city, harboured in a temple that still maintains

paragraph: the primal name of "Saint Michael the Lesser", restored recently and consecrated again to the purpose.

paragraph: He is, moreover, the patron saint of the Sicilian localities of Rometta, Longi and Sinagra. The hamlet of Saracena in Calabria celebrates him twice a year in spring and in late summer.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Leo was born at Ravenna (then under the suzerainty of the Eastern Roman Empire) and at a very young age he became a Benedictine, he then moved to Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy where the local bishop Cyril nominated him to be an archdeacon. He stayed there until his episcopal election for the vacant Diocese of Catania.

paragraph: A local legend asserts that the Catanians, who needed a new Bishop, had a collective dream wherein an Angel suggested them to search for the selected person in the Calabrian city of Reggio where a man in odour of sanctity lived in an hermitage. That stranger would have become the right guide to fill suchlike post. At first Leo was reluctant as he considered himself not worthy for this ordeal so he did not accept and decided to refute politely such summary acclaim. Afterwards, when the umpteen solicitations from Catania became doubtless and heartfelt, he persuaded at last. In fact on 765 he was appointed to rule over that Community of Christians.

paragraph: In the coming epoch, in every regions of the Byzantine Empire (of whom Catania with the entire Sicily was a dominion) began the fierce and unrestrainable destruction of the sacred icons, the so-called "iconoclasm", which Leo openly opposed to.

paragraph: Owing to his firmness, the Byzantine Governor of Sicily ordered his arrest, forcing him to leave Catania and find refuge on the Tyrrhenian territories of the island. He wandered for many years through the woody Nebrodian heights, in the whereabouts between Longi and Sinagra, protected by the people that recognized him as a fervent opposer of the Imperial power.

paragraph: He reached, during this long peregrination a place called Rometta. Here, on the Monti Peloritani backing Messina, he lived in a cave he hollowed out all by himself with his very hands and fingernails. Shortly after, when his persecution seemed to calm down he was able to come back to Catania where he repossessed his bishopric to keep on fighting with more strength than ever against the iconoclast laws and the new and growing gurgles of heresy.

paragraph: He died in Catania on 20 February 789.

paragraph: Section::::A Catanian legend: the Thaumaturge and the Charmer.

paragraph: According to a local account, among the candidates who were excluded from being vested with the episcopate, there was a character called Heliodorus. Catanian dignitary of noble birth, he probably denied his Christian belief because of envy and rage for a choice so sudden and unexplainable to him, bearing a malice towards the foreign-born nominee and his fellow-citizens.

paragraph: For this reason, he began devoting himself to the occult and magic with the sole aim to grow into Leo's worst adversary and noisome disturber to fascinate and lead astray with any sort of wizardries his occasional spectators in order to acquire easily compliant followers.

paragraph: On the other hand, Leo always tried peacefully to convince Heliodorus that his behavior and deviltries were thoroughly wrong.But in vain. They met each other for the last time on 778 AD and their final clash will have a large echo throughout Sicily, to rebound even to the Imperial court of Constantinople.

paragraph: During a Mass officiated by the Saint Prelate in the whilom mother-church of Catania, Heliodorus noisily rushed into the nave, slinking away along the pews to spellbind and confound the believers engrossed in the Sunday rite. In further versions of the same tale, many story-tellers want him to clamour inside the temple in the likeness of a black elephant or with the retinue of a trumpeting pachyderm.

paragraph: Leo was constrained to conclude the Liturgy and determined on ending those roaring witcheries he drew away from the altar and forced his way through the parishioners to face that "demonic jester". Deranged by sorrow, he drew the conclusion that all his mild approaches and patient argumentations would have not been efficient any more. So, he decided to dare that impious enchanter to show publicly and prove baldly he who professed the rightest creed.

paragraph: After ordering to heap up wood for a pyre in a furnace inside the close Achillean Thermal Baths, Leo suddenly enwrapped his Omophorion round the abashed miscreant dragging him towards the chosen place where the balefire was already crackling. Both were immediately enfolded by highest flames that transformed their lineations and clothes in embers.

paragraph: Only Leo will survive to this test of faith.He came out of the stake with undamaged vestments that kept shining about his unscathed body.The other unwilling contestant was fated to succumb instead. The only traces of his funeral pile were, as a matter of fact, a mass of smoking and glittering ashes.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santi Correnti. "La città semprerifiorente". Catania, Greco, 1977.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "St. Leo of Catania"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Catholic Online - St. Leo of Catania"

paragraph: Section::::External links.:Pictures and art.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Byzantine Icon of Saint Leo of Catania"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sacred Image of Saint Leo"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Giuseppe Platania (Palermo 1780-1852) - Saint Leo and the burning Heliodorus (Museum of Castello Ursino - Catania)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Matteo Desiderato (XVIII-XIX) - Particular of Saint Leo's Portrayal (Mother Church of Santa Maria di Licodìa - Province of Catania)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Statue of Saint Leo inside the Parishional Church of Saint Leo (Saracena - Province of Cosenza)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Painting with Saint Leo and Heliodorus (Parishional Church of Saint Leo - Saracena - Province of Cosenza)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mural artistic creation - Saint Leo, Heliodorus and the pyre & the Unscathed Saint Leo (Parishional Church of Saint Leo - Saracena - Province of Cosenza)"

description: Italian saint

wikidata_label: Saint Leo of Catania

wikipedia_title: Leo of Catania


text:
James K. Polk
political activist
White House
Nashville, Tennessee
Polk Place
Sarah Childress Polk
Emancipation Proclamation
freedmen
Democratic
United States Capitol
Grover Cleveland
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Samuel Polk
James K. Polk
Sarah Childress
Columbia, Tennessee
James H. Thomas
Polk Place
Democratic Party
freedmen
Arthur St. Clair Colyar
Henry S. Foote
Tennessee Senate
United States Capitol
Grover Cleveland
Nashville City Cemetery
James K. Polk Ancestral Home
Uncle Tom

categories: 1886 deaths,People from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina,Freedmen,1806 births,People from Nashville, Tennessee,Polk family,American slaves,People from Columbia, Tennessee,Tennessee Democrats

paragraph: Elias Polk

paragraph: Elias Polk (1806 – December 30, 1886) was an American slave known for serving President James K. Polk for decades. After emancipation, he became a conservative Democratic political activist, when most freedmen allied with the Republican Party. As a slave, Polk had lived and worked in the White House in 1845, and again from 1847 to 1849. At the end of the president's term, he returned with him to Nashville, Tennessee.

paragraph: After the president died, Elias Polk continued to live at Polk Place in Nashville, where he served the widowed First Lady Sarah Childress Polk in the household. After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which applied to this Union-occupied state, Polk continued to work for her.

paragraph: When freedmen were given the franchise, Polk became a Democratic activist and served as the president of the Independent Colored Conservative National Club. He returned to Washington, DC, where he worked as a laborer on the United States Capitol from 1876 to 1882. He died three days after meeting President Grover Cleveland in 1886 and is buried in Nashville.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Elias Polk was born into slavery in 1806 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He and his mother were held by Samuel Polk, was a surveyor.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Samuel gave Elias, then 18-years-old, to his son James K. Polk as a gift upon the latter's wedding to Sarah Childress in 1824, as was often the custom in slaveholding families. Elias Polk worked as a "body servant," or valet, and "coachman" for James Polk in Columbia, Tennessee.

paragraph: After James Polk was elected President in 1845, he arranged for Elias Polk and his other domestic slaves to join him and work at the White House, in order to support the household. However, Elias Polk was sent to work for attorney James H. Thomas from 1846 to 1847. He worked in the White House again from 1847 until the end of President Polk's term in 1849. He was taken back to Tennessee with James Polk's family.

paragraph: After the abolition of slavery in the US, Elias Polk continued to live with and work for the widowed, former first lady Sarah Childress Polk at Polk Place in Nashville.

paragraph: When he received the franchise, Polk became active in the Democratic Party, and "threw in his political lot with displaced slave owners". His political alliance was unusual at a time when most freedmen joined the Republican Party. In 1867 Polk was elected as the president of the Independent Colored Conservative National Club. At a meeting whose speakers included Arthur St. Clair Colyar and Henry S. Foote in June 1867, Polk called for harmony between blacks and whites. He suggested that a new federal tax on cotton production hurt African Americans.

paragraph: From 1871 to 1876, Polk worked as a porter, or custodian, at the Tennessee Senate in Nashville. He returned to Washington, DC to work as a laborer on the United States Capitol, from 1876 to 1882. After returning to Nashville, Polk traveled back to Washington, D.C. a few years later, where he met President Grover Cleveland three days before his own death.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life, death and legacy.

paragraph: Polk was married three times. His third wife was Mary Polk.

paragraph: Polk died on December 30, 1886 in Washington, D.C. His body was returned to Nashville, where his funeral was held at Clark's Chapel, later known as Clark Memorial United Methodist Church. He was buried in the Nashville City Cemetery.

paragraph: According to Zacharie Kinslow of the James K. Polk Ancestral Home, "During his life, Elias Polk went from being a president’s slave to one of the most controversial African-American political activists of his day." For journalist Jesse J. Holland, the author of "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African-American Slaves in the White House," "In today's parlance, we'd call (Polk) an 'Uncle Tom' because he's taking the gentry's side. But that's how he felt."

wikidata_label: Elias Polk

wikipedia_title: Elias Polk


text: Hoover Institution

text: Graduate School of Business

text: A.B.

text: magna cum laude

text: Harvard University

text: Political Science

text: Stanford University

text: Condoleezza Rice

text: Bill Clinton

text: McKinsey & Company

text: UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

text: United States Intelligence Community

text: national security

text: Flawed By Design

text: United States Department of Defense

text: Central Intelligence Agency

text: National Security Council

text: Spying Blind

text: September 11 attacks

text: Eyes on Spies

text: Amy Zegart Biography

categories: Harvard University alumni,Stanford University alumni,University of California, Los Angeles faculty,Hoover Institution people,1967 births,People from Louisville, Kentucky,Living people

paragraph: Amy Zegart

paragraph: Amy Zegart (born 1967) is an American academic. She serves as the co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University; a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; and professor of political economy (by courtesy) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Zegart was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1967. She received an A.B. in East Asian Studies "magna cum laude" from Harvard University. She then earned a Ph.D in Political Science at Stanford University, where she studied under Condoleezza Rice. While in graduate school, she spent time on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Shortly after graduating from Harvard, Zegart moved to Hong Kong, where she continued studying East Asia for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship. Following this, she began work as an associate with McKinsey & Company, where she advised "Fortune" 100 companies on strategy and organizational effectiveness. Zegart then attended graduate school. After completing her Ph.D., she served as professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and as a fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations. In 2011, Zegart moved to Stanford University.

paragraph: Zegart is a leading national expert on the United States Intelligence Community and national security policy. She has written three books on the topic: "Flawed By Design", which chronicled the evolution of the relationship between the United States Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Council; "Spying Blind", which examined U.S. intelligence agencies in the period preceding the September 11 attacks in 2001; and "Eyes on Spies", which examined the weaknesses of U.S. intelligence oversight.

paragraph: She currently resides in Palo Alto, California, and is married to a retired screenwriter.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC", Stanford University Press, 1999.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11", Princeton University Press, 2007.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eyes on Spies: Congress and the United States Intelligence Community", Hoover Institution Press, 2011.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Amy Zegart Biography. "The New York Times". Accessed June 2012.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview: Professor Amy Zegart, "Flawed by Design", discusses the future of the CIA – NPR "Weekend Edition"

description: American academic

wikidata_label: Amy Zegart

wikipedia_title: Amy Zegart


text:
American football
fullback
Atlanta Falcons
National Football League
college football
Oregon State
Baltimore Ravens
Atlanta Falcons
Philadelphia Eagles
Atlanta Falcons bio
Oregon State Beavers bio

categories: American football fullbacks,Atlanta Falcons players,Players of American football from California,People from Moreno Valley, California,Oregon State Beavers football players,1994 births,Baltimore Ravens players,Living people

paragraph: Ricky Ortiz (American football)

paragraph: Ricky Ortiz (born April 15, 1994) is an American football fullback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oregon State.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Baltimore Ravens.

paragraph: Ortiz signed with the Baltimore Ravens on April 29, 2017 as an undrafted free agent. He was waived by the Ravens on September 2, 2017 and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He was released on October 3, 2017, but was re-signed on November 14, 2017. He signed a future/reserve contract on January 2, 2018. He was released by the Ravens on May 7, 2018.

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

paragraph: Ortiz signed with the Atlanta Falcons on May 23, 2018. He made his NFL debut in the season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles. He was the starting fullback in the 18–12 loss.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Atlanta Falcons bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oregon State Beavers bio

description: American-football player

wikidata_label: Ricky Ortiz (American football)

wikipedia_title: Ricky Ortiz (American football)


text:
Ansar
Medina
Yazid I
Battle of al-Harrah
Hanzala ibn Abi ‘Amir
sahaba
Islam
Muhammad
Battle of Uhud
Julius Wellhausen
Yazid I
Muawiya I
Ansar
Medina
Umayyad
Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan
Damascus
Quraysh
Muslim ibn Uqba
ensuing battle

categories: 7th-century Arabs,People killed in action,Ansar,683 deaths,625 births

image: 512px-عبد_الله_بن_حنظلة.png

paragraph: Abd Allah ibn Hanzala

paragraph: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanẓala ibn Abī ʿĀmir al-Anṣārī (625/26 – August 683) was the leader of the Ansar faction of Medina during the city’s revolt against Caliph Yazid I in 682–683. He was killed when he led his forces to confront Yazid’s expeditionary army at the Battle of al-Harrah in August 683.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Abd Allah was the son of Hanzala ibn Abi ‘Amir, a "sahaba" (companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who had been slain at the Battle of Uhud in 625. Abd Allah was born after his father's death. According to historian Julius Wellhausen, he was "celebrated from his birth as the posthumous son of the martyr of Uhud who was washed by the angels". Hence, he became known as "Ibn al-Ghasīl" after his father’s nickname "al-Ghasīl al-Malāʾika" (the one washed by the angels).

paragraph: When Yazid I succeeded his father Muawiya I as caliph, the move was opposed by the Ansar. The latter were the early supporters of Muhammad from Medina and this group had included Abd Allah"s father. Abd Allah himself was part of a delegation from Medina sent by the Umayyad governor of the city, Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan, to reconcile with Yazid in the Umayyad capital Damascus. Despite the warm reception, the delegation left Damascus with the conviction that Yazid was unfit to be caliph. Abd Allah was the most vocal in his criticism and was chosen by the Ansar to be their leader. Meanwhile, the Quraysh of Medina, who also opposed Yazid, chose Abd Allah ibn Muti as the leader of their faction.

paragraph: Together, the Ansar and Quraysh drove out the Umayyads from Medina, prompting Yazid to dispatch an army led by Muslim ibn Uqba to bring the city into submission. The army, composed of the Arab tribesmen of Syria, took up strategic positions in the Harrah just east of Medina where they were met the Ansar led by Abd Allah. During the ensuing battle, the faction of Medina was defeated and Abd Allah was slain. According to historians Ch. Pellat and K. V. Zettersteen, Abd Allah had fought with "remarkable bravery ... but finally fell under the blows of the Syrians". Eight of his sons were also slain. His body was subsequently decapitated and his head was given to Ibn Uqba. The two soldiers credited with his death were rewarded by Yazid.

wikidata_label: Abd Allah ibn Hanzala

wikipedia_title: Abd Allah ibn Hanzala


text:
British
Whig
Member of Parliament
Salisbury
1832 general election
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds

categories: UK MPs 1832–1835,UK MPs 1835–1837,1780 births,UK MPs 1837–1841,Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies,UK MPs 1841–1847

paragraph: William Bird Brodie

paragraph: William Bird Brodie (26 September 1780 – 24 October 1863) was a British Whig politician.

paragraph: Brodie was the son of Reverend Peter Bellinger Brodie and Sarah née Collins. In 1810, he married Louisa Hussey, daughter of Thomas Hussey. After her death in 1816, he married Frances Huntley, daughter of Reverend Richard Huntley, in 1826.

paragraph: Brodie was elected Whig Member of Parliament for Salisbury at the 1832 general election and held the seat until 1843 when he resigned the seat by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

description: politician, died 1863

wikidata_label: William Brodie

wikipedia_title: William Bird Brodie


text:
Unitarian
Northborough, Massachusetts
Harvard College
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Washington, D.C.
Bangor, Maine
William Francis Allen
James B. Greenough
Historical correspondence
Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

categories: American Christian theologians,1898 deaths,1820 births,American Unitarians,Harvard Divinity School alumni

paragraph: Joseph Henry Allen

paragraph: Joseph Henry Allen (August 21, 1820 – March 20, 1898) was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and scholar.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born in Northborough, Massachusetts. He prepared for college at a school run by his father in Northborough. He graduated at Harvard College, and then at the Divinity School in 1843. He was pastor at the First Congregational Society in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (1843), the Unitarian church in Washington, D.C. (1847), and a church in Bangor, Maine (1850). In 1857 he departed from full-time ministry and took up teaching (in Jamaica Plain, Northborough and West Newton) and editing Unitarian periodicals ("Christian Examiner", 1863-5; "Unitarian Review", 1887-1891). He lectured at Harvard for four years (1887-1891).

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy" (1849)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hebrew Men and Times" (to the Christian era), (Boston, 1861)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Manual Latin Grammar" (1868)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Latin Reader" (with his brother William Francis Allen; 1869)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Latin Primer" (1870)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Our Liberal Movement in Theology, chiefly as Shown in Recollections of the History of Unitarianism in New England" (1882)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Christian History in its Three Great Periods", (1) Early Christianity, (2) The Middle Age, (3) Modern Phases (three volumes, 1882–83)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement since the Reformation", (New York, 1894).

paragraph: Latin manuals he prepared with James B. Greenough were familiar to high school students.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Historical correspondence with Joseph Henry Allen is in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

description: American Unitarian Minister and Theologian

wikidata_label: Joseph Henry Allen

wikipedia_title: Joseph Henry Allen


text: American

text: Roman Catholic

text: theologian

text: Manchester, New Hampshire

text: Collège de Montréal

text: Pontifical North American College

text: Propaganda

text: Rome

text: Catholic University of America

text: Diocese of Hartford

text: Pontifical Roman Major Seminary

text: New Haven, Connecticut

text: Bishop Lawrence McMahon

text: Humboldt University of Berlin

text: Institut Catholique de Paris

text: Patristics

text: St. Patrick's Cathedral

text: Catholic Encyclopedia

text: The Catholic Historical Review

text: Pope Pius X

text: John Patrick Carroll

text: Diocese of Helena

text: Domestic Prelate

text: Catholic Educational Association

text: Baltimore

text: titular bishop

text: Germanicopolis

text: Baltimore Cathedral

text: James Gibbons

text: William J. Kerby

text: National Catholic War Council

text: The Catholic University of Louvain

text: Medieval Academy of America

text: Georgetown University

text: Catholic University of America Press

text: Otto Bardenhewer

text: B. Herder

text: Catholic University of America

categories: 1857 births,1932 deaths,Presidents of the Catholic University of America,Catholic University of America faculty,American people of Irish descent,American Roman Catholic bishops,Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America,20th-century American Roman Catholic theologians,People from Manchester, New Hampshire

paragraph: Thomas Joseph Shahan

paragraph: Thomas Joseph Shahan (September 11, 1857 – March 9, 1932) was an American Roman Catholic theologian and educator, born at Manchester, New Hampshire, educated at Collège de Montréal (1872) at the Pontifical North American College, and at the Propaganda in Rome.

paragraph: In 1909 Shahan was chosen as the fourth rector of The Catholic University of America.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Thomas Joseph Shahan, was born September 11, 1857, the son of Irish immigrants Maurice and Mary Anne Carmody Shahan, in Manchester, New Hampshire. His mother was mentally ill, and his upbringing was primarily influenced by his father and grandmother. He was an advocate for Irish independence in language, culture, and politics.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Education.

paragraph: After attending public school in Millbury, Massachusetts, he entered the Sulpician seminary at the College in Montreal in 1872, after which he proceeded to the North American College in Rome in 1878. In 1882, Shahan obtained a Doctor of Divinity decree and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Hartford, Connecticut. He also studied at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary (J.U.L., 1889)

paragraph: Father Shahan served as a curate at St. John the Baptist parish in New Haven, Connecticut, and later as secretary to Bishop Lawrence McMahon of Hartford, and then chancellor of the Diocese of Hartford.

paragraph: From 1889 to 1891, Shahan studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin (S.T.D., 1891), the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris earning a Civil and Ecclesiastical Law licentiate’s degree. He also developed some expertise in Church History.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Teacher.

paragraph: In 1891, Father Shahan was offered a position as professor of Canon and Civil Law and Patristics at The Catholic University of America, where he also taught Latin. In addition to teaching at CUA, he was editor in chief of the "Catholic University Bulletin" and also lectured at nearby Trinity College. In an effort to gain more visibility for the University, in 1897, he preached the Lenten Series at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

paragraph: Professor Shahan was an editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia (published in 1913), editor in chief of "The Catholic Historical Review" from its foundation in 1915 until 1928, and one of the editors of "Universal Knowledge: A Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences, History and Biography, Law, Literature, Religions, Nations, Races, Customs and Institutions" (New York: Universal Knowledge Foundation, 1927).

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Rector.

paragraph: Shahan had been among those considered for the position of rector as far back as 1902. In 1909, while Professor of Church History, he was appointed rector, when Pope Pius X declined to release Bishop John Patrick Carroll of the Diocese of Helena, Montana from his see. Some in the academic community raised objections to the appointment based in part on Shahan's seriously impaired hearing. Nonetheless, Shahan was elected as the fourth rector of CUA.

paragraph: During his tenure as rector, African American students were barred from the university.

paragraph: He was named a Domestic Prelate in 1909.

paragraph: Monsignor Shahan was also president of the Catholic Educational Association in 1909-14.

paragraph: On September 25, 1910, representatives of a number of service agencies met at The Catholic University of America at Shahan's invitation, and formed the National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC) to support and coordinate their efforts. He served as president from 1910-14.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Bishop.

paragraph: In 1914 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Baltimore, and ordained titular bishop of Germanicopolis. The consecration occurred on 15 November that year at the Baltimore Cathedral. Cardinal James Gibbons was principal Consecrator.

paragraph: Along with Catholic University sociology professor William J. Kerby and others, Shahan was instrumental in the creation of the National Catholic War Council, an organization of the American Catholic hierarchy founded to address the challenges of World War I. In 1919 it evolved into the National Catholic Welfare Council and is now known as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

paragraph: Bishop Shahan founded the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Upon his death in 1932, he was buried in the crypt of the National Shrine. To this day, he remains the only person interred at the Basilica.

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1923: Honorary Doctorate - The Catholic University of Louvain,

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1926: Fellow - Medieval Academy of America,

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1928: Honorary Doctorate - Georgetown University

paragraph: Section::::Published works.

paragraph: Section::::Published works.:As author.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Blessed Virgin in the Catacombs" (1892)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Civil Law of Rome" Catholic University of America Press (1896)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Giovanni Batista de Rossi" (1900)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Beginnings of Christianity" (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Middle Ages" (1904)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The House of God and Other Addresses and Studies" (1905)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "St. Patrick in History" (1905)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Catholic university of America (1889-1916)" (Paulist Press) (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Cause of Ireland", "The Catholic University Bulletin", December 1920.

paragraph: Section::::Published works.:As translator.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Otto Bardenhewer, "Patrology: The Lives and Works of the Fathers of the Church"; translated from the second edition by Thomas J. Shahan. Freiburg im Breisgau and St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1908.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic University of America

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Thomas Joseph Shahan

wikipedia_title: Thomas Joseph Shahan


text: ice hockey

text: right winger

text: Boston Bruins

text: enforcers

text: Niagara Falls, Ontario

text: Boston Bruins

text: 1971 NHL Amateur Draft

text: captain

text: Phil Esposito

text: the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character

text: Ray Bourque

text: plus/minus

text: Madison Square Garden

text: New York Rangers

text: Stan Jonathan

text: head coach

text: 1986–87 NHL season

text: Stanley Cup

text: Wayne Gretzky

text: Edmonton Oilers

text: Adam Sandler

text: Happy Gilmore

text: Milan Lucic

categories: National Hockey League first round draft picks,Boston Bruins draft picks,Boston Bruins coaches,National Hockey League players with retired numbers,Boston Bruins sportscasters,1951 births,Ice hockey people from Ontario,Canadian ice hockey right wingers,Canadian people of Irish descent,Boston Braves (AHL) players,Oshawa Generals players,Boston Bruins players,New York Rangers coaches,Living people,Boston Bruins captains

paragraph: Terry O'Reilly

paragraph: Terence Joseph James O'Reilly (born June 7, 1951) is a retired ice hockey right winger, who played for the NHL's Boston Bruins, and one of the most effective enforcers in NHL history. O'Reilly was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: O'Reilly was picked by the Boston Bruins in the first round as the 14th pick overall in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft. O'Reilly spent his entire career in Boston, serving as the captain of the Bruins during the 1983–84 and 1984–85 seasons before his retirement. The Bruins retired his No. 24 on October 24, 2002.

paragraph: O'Reilly was known for being a tough player, racking up over 200 penalty minutes in five consecutive seasons, and earning for himself the nickname "Bloody O'Reilly" in the press. His teammate, Phil Esposito, dubbed O'Reilly "Taz" in reference to the Tasmanian Devil cartoon character for O'Reilly's reckless, hard driving style of play. He was very protective of his teammates. When the Bruins retired O'Reilly's No. 24, Ray Bourque noted that O'Reilly's banner "hangs next to mine, protecting me again."

paragraph: On top of his physical presence, he also had a decent scoring touch, highlighted by his 29-goal, 90-point season in 1977–78. He added to that with a 77-point effort the following campaign. He had 211 and 205 minutes in penalties in those seasons respectively, displaying an excellent balance of grit and scoring. He finished his 13-year career with 204 goals, 402 assists for 606 points, a +212 plus/minus and 2,095 minutes in penalties.

paragraph: In the infamous December 23, 1979, incident at Madison Square Garden, during a post-game scrum, a New York Rangers fan rolled up a program tightly and smacked Stan Jonathan in the face drawing blood, and then stole his stick and wielded it like a weapon. O'Reilly scaled the glass boards and charged into the stands. His teammates followed when other fans tried to intervene. O'Reilly was suspended eight games for his part in the brawl.

paragraph: He became the replacement head coach of the Bruins during the 1986–87 NHL season and kept his job until 1989, when he left to care for, and spend more time with, his son who was seriously ill with liver disease. In that time, he took the Bruins to the Stanley Cup finals in 1988, where they were defeated by the Wayne Gretzky-led Edmonton Oilers. O'Reilly also was an assistant coach for the Rangers for the two seasons prior to the lockout.

paragraph: Section::::Other.

paragraph: In the Adam Sandler movie "Happy Gilmore", O'Reilly is mentioned as Happy Gilmore's favorite hockey player growing up because of his tough style.

paragraph: O'Reilly has stated his favorite player who played for the Bruins is Milan Lucic, also born on June 7.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of NHL players with 2000 career penalty minutes

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article about number retirement and achievements at bostonbruins.com

description: Canadian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Terry O'Reilly

wikipedia_title: Terry O'Reilly


text: Voivode

text: Prince

text: Wallachia

text: Prince

text: Moldavia

text: Mihnea Turcitul

text: Voica Bratcul

text: Koper

text: Mount Athos

text: Serenissima

text: Michael the Brave

text: Vlad III Dracula

text: Alexandru Coconul

text: Polish

text: vassal

text: Simion Movilă

text: Bucharest

text: hetman

text: Jan Zamoyski

text: Jan Karol Chodkiewicz

text: Ottoman

text: Michael the Brave

text: Alexandru Coconul

text: Venetian

text: Moldavian Magnate Wars

categories: Rulers of Moldavia,1586 births,Rulers of Wallachia,1626 deaths

paragraph: Radu Mihnea

paragraph: Radu Mihnea (1586–1626) was Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia between September 1601 and March 1602, and again between March and May 1611, September 1611 and August 1616, August 1620 and August 1623, and Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia in 1616–1619, 1623–1626. He was the illegitimate son of Mihnea Turcitul by Voica Bratcul.

paragraph: Section::::Modern-style prince & Family Man.

paragraph: Radu Mihnea spent part of his early years in Koper (Capodistria), on Mount Athos and in Greece. His stay in the Serenissima accounts for the pro-Venetian character of his rule, and his interest in reforming the institutions of Wallachia and Moldavia. After completing his studies in Istanbul, Radu became prince of Wallachia at a very important time in Romanian history: following the union of the three principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania under Michael the Brave. Radu would rule no less than four times in Wallachia and twice in Moldavia. He was loved due to his Renaissance-style and love of the arts. This was due to his upbringing by the monks of Iveron at Mount Athos, Greece. Radu Mihnea died in 1626 in Moldavia, and his body was carried to Bucharest and interred at the Church of Prince Radu. The monastery was protected by the monks of Mount Athos due to Radu's loyalty to his educators. Radu and his wife Arghira had five children, three boys and two girls. These five would be the last surviving direct descendants of Vlad III Dracula. The eldest was Alexandru Coconul.

paragraph: He replaced Polish vassal Simion Movilă on the throne in Bucharest after the brief occupation of Wallachia by the troops of hetmans Jan Zamoyski and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. His first rule in the country signified the return to Ottoman control, interrupted since Michael the Brave.

paragraph: Radu appears to have been interested in a joint rule over Wallachia and Moldavia, and he came closest to achieving it when his third rule over Moldavia was doubled by the reign of son Alexandru Coconul in Wallachia. The subtlety of this gesture is discarded in several sources:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Radulo, who is nowadays Prince in Moldavia, and his son [who is Prince] in Wallachia, [the latter] being very young and overseen by his father" (Venetian document of April 11, 1625).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Radulo Voivode, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia" (various documents).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Radu Mihnea's tombstone bears the carving of both countries' seals.

paragraph: Section::::Current Successors.

paragraph: An article in a Romanian newspaper in the 1950s acknowledged the death of the last direct male descendant of Radu Mihnea Voda, Dumitru Radulescu(Radu)- a church, artist painter. However, it is not widely known that female descendents of Radu Mihnea do in fact still live in Bucharest. In fact, the bloodline extends as far as a 10th generation, through the continuing lineage of the sister of Dumitru Radu, Rozalia Matilda Radulescu (Radu). She married a pharmacist Gheorghe Moraru and had five children out of which only two survived, Matilda Virginia and Maria-Florica.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Moldavian Magnate Wars

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Magazin Istoric", 6/1979

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cristian Luca, "Influssi occidentali sull’atteggiamento politico di alcuni principi dei Paesi Romeni nei secoli XVI e XVII"

description: Prince of Transylvania

wikidata_label: Radu Mihnea

wikipedia_title: Radu Mihnea


text:
Habsburg
Aargau
House of Habsburg
Albert III of Habsburg
Pfullendorf
Staufen
Albert IV of Habsburg
Rudolph III of Habsburg
Rudolph I of Germany

paragraph: Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg

paragraph: Rudolph II (or Rudolph the Kind) (died 10 April 1232) was Count of Habsburg in the Aargau and a progenitor of the royal House of Habsburg.

paragraph: He was the only son of Count Albert III of Habsburg and Ita of Pfullendorf. He married Agnes of Staufen. Rudolph was the father of Count Albert IV of Habsburg and Count Rudolph III of Habsburg and the grandfather of King Rudolph I of Germany.

alias:
Rudolf II van Habsburg
Rudolph the Kind

description: German nobleman

wikidata_label: Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg

wikipedia_title: Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg


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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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Greyfriars Abbey
dissolution
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Merchant Taylors' School
Sir William Herrick
St John's College
Trinity Hall
Sons of Ben
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Dean Prior
English Civil War
Solemn League and Covenant
Westminster
monometer
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
carpe diem
Ben Jonson
Elizabethan era
metaphysical poets
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
Swinburne
James Branch Cabell
adept
dark arts
mystery
horror
Rose Macaulay
They Were Defeated
Samuel Beckett
Happy Days
Ken Bruen
crime novel
alternate history
1632
Thomas Burnett Swann
Peter Hurford

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Lyric poetry
Clergy
Carpe diem
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Cheapside
Member of parliament
Leicester (UK Parliament constituency)
Greyfriars, Leicester
Dissolution of the Monasteries
Westminster School
Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
William Herrick (MP)
St John's College, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Sons of Ben (literary group)
Ben Jonson
Dean Prior
English Civil War
Solemn League and Covenant
Westminster
Monometer
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Carpe diem
Ben Jonson
Elizabethan era
Metaphysical poets
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
Algernon Charles Swinburne
James Branch Cabell
Adept
Black magic
Mystery fiction
Horror fiction
Rose Macaulay
They Were Defeated
Samuel Beckett
Happy Days (play)
Ken Bruen
Crime fiction
Alternate history
1632 series
Thomas Burnett Swann
Peter Hurford

categories: 1591 births,People educated at Westminster School, London,Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge,People from the City of London,Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood,1674 deaths

paragraph: Robert Herrick (poet)

paragraph: Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for "Hesperides", a book of poems. This includes the "carpe diem" poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. He was named for his uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous MP for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood on after its dissolution. Nicholas Herrick died in a fall from a fourth-floor window in November 1592, when Robert was a year old (whether this was suicide remains unclear). The tradition that Herrick received his education at Westminster is based on the words "beloved Westminster" in his poem "Tears to Thamesis", but the allusion is to the city, not the school. It is more likely that (like his uncle's children) he attended The Merchant Taylors' School. In 1607 he became apprenticed to his other uncle, Sir William Herrick, a goldsmith and jeweler to the king. The apprenticeship ended after only six years when Herrick, at age twenty-two, matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge. He later migrated to Trinity Hall, graduating in 1617. He became a member of the Sons of Ben, a group centered upon an admiration for the works of Ben Jonson. Herrick wrote at least five poems to Jonson. Herrick was ordained in 1623 and in 1629 became the vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire.

paragraph: Section::::Civil War.

paragraph: In 1647, in the wake of the English Civil War, Herrick was ejected from his vicarage for refusing the Solemn League and Covenant. He then returned to London, living in Westminster and depending on the charity of his friends and family. He spent some time preparing his lyric poems for publication, and had them printed in 1648 under the title "Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick", with a dedication to the Prince of Wales.

paragraph: Section::::Restoration and later life.

paragraph: When King Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, Herrick petitioned for his own restoration to his living. He had obtained favour by writing verses celebrating the births of both Charles II and his brother James before the Civil War. Herrick became the vicar of Dean Prior again in the summer of 1662 and lived there until his death in October 1674, at the age of 83. His date of death is not known, but he was buried on 15 October. Herrick was a bachelor all his life, and many of the women he names in his poems are thought to be fictional.

paragraph: Section::::Poetic style and stature.

paragraph: Herrick wrote over 2,500 poems, about half of which appear in his major work, "Hesperides". "Hesperides" also includes the much shorter "Noble Numbers", his first book, of spiritual works, first published in 1648. He is well known for his style and, in his earlier works, for frequent references to lovemaking and the female body. His later poetry was of a more spiritual and philosophical nature. Among his most famous short poetical sayings are the unique monometers, such as number 475, "Thus I / Pass by / And die,/ As one / Unknown / And gone."

paragraph: Herrick sets out his subject-matter in the poem he printed at the beginning of his collection, "The Argument of his Book". He dealt with English country life and its seasons, village customs, complimentary poems to various ladies and his friends, themes taken from classical writings and a solid bedrock of Christian faith, not intellectualized but underpinning the rest. It has been said of Herrick's style 'his directness of speech with clear and simple presentation of thought, a fine artist working with conscious knowledge of his art, of an England of his youth in which he lives and moves and loves, clearly assigns him to the first place as a lyrical poet in the strict and pure sense of the phrase'.

paragraph: Herrick never married, and none of his love-poems seems to connect directly with any one woman. He loved the richness of sensuality and the variety of life, and this is shown vividly in such poems as "Cherry-ripe", "Delight in Disorder" and "Upon Julia's Clothes".

paragraph: The over-riding message of Herrick's work is that life is short, the world is beautiful, love is splendid, and we must use the short time we have to make the most of it. This message can be seen clearly in "To the Virgins, to make much of Time"; "To Daffodils"; "To Blossoms"; and "Corinna's Going A Maying", where the warmth and exuberance of what seems to have been a kindly and jovial personality comes over strongly.

paragraph: The opening stanza in one of his more famous poems, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", is as follows:

paragraph: This poem is an example of the carpe diem genre; the popularity of Herrick's poems of this kind helped revive the genre.

paragraph: His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman writers, and by the poems of the late Elizabethan era. This must have seemed quite old-fashioned to an audience whose tastes were tuned to the complexities of the metaphysical poets such as John Donne and Andrew Marvell. His works were rediscovered in the early nineteenth century, and have been regularly printed ever since.

paragraph: The Victorian poet Swinburne described Herrick as "the greatest song writer ever born of English race". Despite his use of classical allusions and names, Herrick's poems are easier for modern readers to understand than those of many of his contemporaries.

paragraph: Section::::In fiction.

paragraph: Robert Herrick is the subject of James Branch Cabell's "Concerning Corrina," published in Cabell's 1916 short story volume "The Certain Hour: Dizain des Poëtes". The story more than suggests that the poet was an adept of the dark arts. Though technically a mystery-horror story, it is best categorized as a philosophical comedy.

paragraph: Robert Herrick is a major character in Rose Macaulay's 1932 historical novel, "They Were Defeated".

paragraph: In Samuel Beckett’s play "Happy Days", the character Winnie quotes from Herrick’s “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time.”

paragraph: In Ken Bruen's debut noir crime novel "Rilke on Black", Herrick's two-line poem ""Dreams"" is a favorite of the protagonist, Nick.

paragraph: Robert Herrick is one of many historical characters in the alternate history series 1632.

paragraph: The dedication in Thomas Burnett Swann's Will-o-the-Wisp (1976 - ) is "A novel suggested by the life of Robert Herrick, poet, vicar, and pagan", the novel opens with a letter of denunciation of the new vicar Robert Herrick for Consorting with Gubbings.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Country house poems

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Hurford – composer of musical setting of "Litany to the Holy Spirit"

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth H. Hageman, Robert Herrick: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983).

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Walton Scott, Robert Herrick, 1591–1674 (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gordon Braden, "Robert Herrick and Classical Lyric Poetry," in his The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 154–254.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ann Baynes Coiro, Robert Herrick's "Hesperides" and the Epigram Book Tradition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Robert L. Deming, Ceremony and Art: Robert Herrick's Poetry (The Hague & Paris: Mouton, 1974).

paragraph: BULLET::::- T. S. Eliot, "What Is Minor Poetry?," in his On Poetry and Poets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957), pp. 34–51.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Achsah Guibbory, "Robert Herrick: 'Repullulation' and the Cyclical Order," in her The Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Ideas of Pattern in History (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986), pp. 137–167.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John L. Kimmey, "Order and Form in Herrick's Hesperides," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 70 (Spring 1971): 255–268.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kimmey, "Robert Herrick's Persona," Studies in Philology, 67 (April 1970): 221–236.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kimmey, "Robert Herrick's Satirical Epigrams," English Studies, 51 (August 1970): 312–323.

paragraph: BULLET::::- F. W. Moorman, Robert Herrick: A Biographical and Critical Study (London: John Lane, 1910; New York: Russell & Russell, 1962).

paragraph: BULLET::::- S. Musgrove, The Universe of Robert Herrick, Auckland University College Bulletin, no. 38, English Series, no. 4 (Auckland: Pelorus Press, 1958).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roger B. Rollin and J. Max Patrick, eds., "Trust to Good Verses": Herrick Tercentenary Essays (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Louise Schleiner, "Herrick's Songs and the Character of "Hesperides," English Literary Renaissance, 6 (Winter 1976): 77–91.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claude J. Summers, "Herrick's Political Counter-plots," SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, 25 (Winter 1985): 165–182.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Harold Toliver, "Herrick's Book of Realms and Moments," English Literary History, 49 (Summer 1982): 429–448.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas R. Whitaker, "Herrick and the Fruits of the Garden," English Literary History, 22 (March 1955): 16–33

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chrysomela: A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Upon Kings. Poems Upon Several Personages of Honour …"

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick (with full biography) Site at Newcastle University for the new edition of Herrick's Poetry

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Robert Herrick, The Poetry Foundation"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Encyclopædia Britannica: Robert Herrick"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Luminarium: "The Life of Robert Herrick""

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Texts by Robert Herrick on IMSLP"

description: 17th-century English poet and cleric

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text: Swedish

categories: Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics,Olympic athletes of Sweden,Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden,Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics,1933 deaths,1887 births,Swedish male discus throwers,Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)

paragraph: Emil Magnusson

paragraph: Emil Magnusson (23 November 1887 – 26 July 1933) was a Swedish athlete who won a bronze medal at the 1912 Olympics in the two-handed discus throw. In this event the final result was a sum of best attempts with a right hand and with a left hand. He finished eighth in the traditional discus throw competition.

description: Swedish discus thrower

wikidata_label: Emil Magnusson

wikipedia_title: Emil Magnusson


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text:
Haiti
painter
Port-au-Prince
Aristide
razor blade

categories: 1956 births,Living people,Haitian painters

paragraph: Nicolas Dreux

paragraph: Nicolas Dreux (born 1956) is a Haitian painter. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince. He showed an early interest in painting and studied under Calixte Henri, one of Haiti's early master. With Raymond Olivier, he generated a style that differed from many other Haitian artists.

paragraph: During the Aristide period Dreux was so traumatized by the violence that he suffered a breakdown. With the 2004 departure of Aristide, and his government, Dreus started a slow battle to regain his mental balance and revive his ability to create fine art. His first efforts were childlike but, over the intervening years, Dreux has regained his position as a master in the Haitian art community.

paragraph: His work is displayed in many of Haiti's finest art galleries.

paragraph: He works with acrylics and oil – using a razor blade to create his pieces.

description: Haitian artist

wikidata_label: Nicolas Dreux

wikipedia_title: Nicolas Dreux


text:
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high jump
Hamburg
Berlin
1912 Summer Olympics
Stockholm
Sweden
silver medal
profile

categories: Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics,Olympic athletes of Germany,1979 deaths,Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics,1891 births,German male high jumpers,Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field),Olympic silver medalists for Germany

paragraph: Hans Liesche

paragraph: Hans Liesche (October 11, 1891 – March 30, 1979) was a German athlete, who competed mainly in the high jump.

paragraph: he was born in Hamburg and died in Berlin.

paragraph: Liesche competed for Germany in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in the high jump, where he won the silver medal.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- profile

description: German high jumper

wikidata_label: Hans Liesche

wikipedia_title: Hans Liesche


text: Alphonso

text: William Howard Taft

text: antitrust

text: name partner

text: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

text: Skull and Bones

text: Yale

text: Ohio

text: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

text: New York Supreme Court

text: Theodore Roosevelt

text: Attorneys General

text: William H. Moody

text: Charles Joseph Bonaparte

text: Tobacco Trust

text: Bohemian Grove

text: Bohemian Club

text: Mutual Life Insurance Company

text: Central Savings Bank

text: New York City Board of Education

text: College of the City of New York

text: New York Public Library

text: University Settlement House

text: League for Political Education

text: Republican Party

text: Republican National Convention

text: League of Nations

text: New York Times

text: The Times

text: The Salvation Army

text: New York County Lawyers' Association

text: the New York Law Institute

text: Century Association

text: Down Town Association

text: Pilgrims of the United States

text: Psi Upsilon

text: Skull and Bones

text: Sons of the American Revolution

text: Imperial Order of Meiji

categories: Deaths from falls,American people of English descent,Taft family,Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery,Yale University alumni,Presidents of the New York City Bar Association,Sons of the American Revolution,Ohio Republicans,Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class,1945 deaths,Columbia Law School alumni,1859 births

paragraph: Henry Waters Taft

paragraph: Henry Waters Taft (May 27, 1859 – August 11, 1945) was an American lawyer and author. He was the son of Alphonso and brother of President William Howard Taft. A renowned antitrust lawyer, he was a name partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He graduated from Yale in 1880 with a BA, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and commencement orator of the class of 1880. Taft also studied at Cincinnati and Columbia Law Schools. He received an honorary MA from Yale in 1905.

paragraph: In 1882, he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law in Ohio. Shortly afterward, he joined Strong & Cadwalader, in New York City, later Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He also became counsel to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. After building up a reputation as a lawyer, Taft decided to run for Justice of the New York Supreme Court. He was defeated. Two years later, he was offered the position by Theodore Roosevelt, but he declined. The following year, he was appointed to the Charter Revision Commission to revise charter of Greater New York. From 1905 to January 1907, he was a special assistant to Attorneys General William H. Moody and Charles Joseph Bonaparte to investigate and prosecute the Tobacco Trust. During the trial, Taft pushed for the Tobacco Trust to release certain books, which they refused to submit as evidence. From 1917 to 1919, he was Chairman of the Permanent Legal Advisory Board for Greater New York. He also served on the Commission on Reorganisation of the New York State Government, from 1925 to 1926. In 1926, he was appointed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. Taft became one of the most noted lawyers in New York.

paragraph: During the annual convention of the American Bar Association, the delegates made a trip to Bohemian Grove. Taft who was among them said, 'There among the giant redwoods the spirit that is San Francisco was revealed to the visitors. The amalgamation of San Francisco Society through its love of beauty, through it cultural purpose has no duplicate in America and the Bohemian Club which unites the world of big business and the world of fine art, literature and cultural ideals could only exist in a community such as this.' Taft said his brother, William Howard Taft, was also very fond of the Bohemian Club.

paragraph: He was a Trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Central Savings Bank.

paragraph: Taft was a member of the New York City Board of Education, from 1896 to 1900; Trustee of the College of the City of New York, from 1903 to 1905; Trustee of the New York Public Library, from 1908 to 1919; President of the Council of University Settlement House, from 1917 to 1919; member of the Advisory Committee to investigate public schools of New York City, in 1931; member of the Committee on Cost of Public Education, in 1933; and President of the League for Political Education, from 1919 to 1935.

paragraph: He was affiliated with the Republican Party and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, in 1920 and 1924. Taft was a supporter of the League of Nations, and wrote several articles on the organisation for the "New York Times". He also wrote for other newspapers, including "The Times".

paragraph: Taft was Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Salvation Army for New York City, from 1920 to 1940.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: Taft died in New York City on August 11, 1945. He had been in the St. Luke's Hospital for fourteen weeks as the result of a hip injury received after a fall.

paragraph: Section::::Memberships.

paragraph: He was a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Vice President, 1911–1912); Chairman of the War Commission, 1917-1920 (President, 1923–1925); the New York County Lawyers' Association (Vice President, 1914–1918, 1923–1930; President, 1930–1932); the New York State Bar Association (President, 1919–1920); the American Bar Association (Chairman of the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform); the New York Law Institute ; the American Law Institute; the International Law Association; and the Maritime Law Association

paragraph: He was a member of the Century Association, City Midday Club of New York, Down Town Association, New England Society, Ohio Society, Park Avenue Association, Pilgrims of the United States, Psi Upsilon, Skull and Bones and the Sons of the American Revolution.

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Imperial Order of Meiji, 1929

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, 1929

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of Distinguished Auxiliary Service, 24. February 1941

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Occasional Papers and Addresses of an American Lawyer" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Japan and the Far East Conference" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Law Reform-Papers and Addresses by a Practicing Lawyer" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Essay on Conversation" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kindred Arts-Conversation and Public Speaking" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Japan and America-A Journey and a Political Survey" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Witnesses in Court" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Opinions-Literary and Otherwise" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Century and a Half at the New York Bar" (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Legal Miscellanies-Six Decades of Changes and Progress" (1941)

description: American lawyer

wikidata_label: Henry Waters Taft

wikipedia_title: Henry Waters Taft


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text: politician

text: Minister of Education

text: Minister of Foreign Affairs

text: political science

text: Statsradiofonien

text: Folk high school

text: Roskilde

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text: Folketing

text: Social Democrat

text: Council of Europe

text: Minister of Education

text: Cabinet

text: Jens Otto Krag

text: Higher Preparatory Examination (HF)

text: corporal punishment

text: scroll

text: Icelandic sagas

text: Iceland

text: Foreign Minister

text: Anker Jørgensen

text: Prime Minister

text: Bilderberg Conference

text: NATO

text: Sir Alec Douglas-Home

text: William P. Rogers

text: Europe

text: South Africa

text: political parties in Denmark

text: coalition government

categories: 1984 deaths,Speakers of the Folketing,Foreign ministers of Denmark,Danish Education Ministers,Politicians from Copenhagen,1914 births

paragraph: K. B. Andersen

paragraph: Knud Børge Andersen, known as K. B. Andersen for short, (1 December 1914 – 23 March 1984) was a Danish politician, who served as Danish Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and held international offices.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Andersen finished his degree in political science in 1940, worked for Statsradiofonien from 1935 to 1950, and was the headmaster of the "Workers' Folk high school" in Roskilde from 1950 to 1957. He entered politics, and was elected to the Folketing as a Social Democrat in 1957. He served as a member of the Council of Europe from 1963 to 1964.

paragraph: Andersen served as Minister of Education in the Cabinet of Jens Otto Krag from 1964 to 1968. As a Minister of Education, Andersen instated the Higher Preparatory Examination (HF) and abolished corporal punishment in schools, and turned the scrolls of the Icelandic sagas back to Iceland. In 1970, Andersen left the Folketing, but was appointed Foreign Minister under Jens Otto Krag and later Anker Jørgensen, from 1971 to 1973 and again from 1975 to 1978. Andersen was acting Prime Minister when Jens Otto Krag resigned in October 1972, until Anker Jørgensen was appointed new Prime Minister a few days later. By 1973, he had re-entered the Folketing.

paragraph: As Foreign Minister, Andersen became well known in European foreign affairs circles, and was invited to the Bilderberg Conference. At a NATO council in December 1972, Andersen received heavy criticism from Sir Alec Douglas-Home, William P. Rogers, and NATO's Secretary General, for Denmark's eight percent reduction in their defense budget. This was at a time when the more powerful nations of Europe were calling for an increase in military spending.

paragraph: Andersen was President of the European Economic Community Council of Ministers in 1978. During this time he was involved in the economic sanctions against South Africa. He ended his tenure in the Folketing in 1981, after serving as its Speaker from 1978 to 1981. He was a critic of Denmark's political system. His belief was that the large number of political parties in Denmark made for political instability and for difficulty in forming coalition governments.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maxen, Arsenio, "10 år med K.B. Andersen, 1972-82", Thise, 1983,

description: Danish politician

wikidata_label: K. B. Andersen

wikipedia_title: K. B. Andersen


text: Isesaki, Gunma

text: Subaru World Rally Team

text: Group N

text: World Rally Championship

text: Group A

text: Subaru Impreza WRX STI

text: Turkey

text: Japan

text: Australia

text: Profile at World Rally Archive

text: Profile and results at Rallybase

categories: Global RallyCross Championship drivers,1966 births,World Rally Championship drivers,Japanese rally drivers,Intercontinental Rally Challenge drivers,World Touring Car Championship drivers,Living people

paragraph: Toshi Arai

paragraph: Arai was born in Isesaki, Gunma. He made his debut in 1987 and drove for the Subaru World Rally Team in the Group N World Rally Championship from 1997–2000 and 2002–2003, and in the Group A Championship in 2000–2001.

paragraph: In 2004 he established his own team, Subaru Team Arai, and won the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship for Drivers in 2005 and 2007 driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI, which made him the first Japanese FIA world champion. He scored class victories in Turkey, Japan and Australia on his way to the title.

paragraph: He was also the winner of the short-lived FIA Teams' Cup in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::Career results.

paragraph: Section::::Career results.:Complete Global Rallycross results.:Supercar.

paragraph: Race cancelled.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at World Rally Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile and results at Rallybase

description: Japanese rally driver

wikidata_label: Toshi Arai

wikipedia_title: Toshi Arai


text:
Brookville
Indiana
Polk County
Iowa
Republican National Convention
Republican National Committee
Newark
New Jersey
Des Moines
Iowa
NY Times Obituary

categories: 1842 births,Iowa Republicans,Republican National Committee chairmen,1918 deaths,People from Brookville, Indiana

paragraph: James S. Clarkson

paragraph: James S. Clarkson (May 17, 1842 – May 30, 1918) was born in Brookville, Indiana, but raised a native of Polk County, Iowa. Clarkson was a delegate to each Republican National Convention from 1876 to 1896; a member of the Republican National Committee from 1880 to 1896; chairman of the Committee from 1891 to 1892, and President of the Republican League of the United States from 1891 to 1893. He died at the home of his son in Newark, New Jersey with his wife by his side. Clarkson was buried in the family mausoleum in Des Moines, Iowa.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- NY Times Obituary

description: American politician

wikidata_label: James S. Clarkson

wikipedia_title: James S. Clarkson


text:
conductor
violist
London Contemporary Orchestra
Kettering
Northamptonshire
Royal Academy of Music
Hugh Brunt
London Contemporary Orchestra
Royal Academy of Music
London Contemporary Orchestra
Barbican Centre
Abbey Road
National Theatre
Slow West
Macbeth
Theeb
Frank Ocean
Imogen Heap
Ron Arad
Belle and Sebastian
Vivian Westwood
DJ Shadow
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
Foals

categories: British male conductors (music),21st-century conductors (music),English conductors (music),1985 births,People from Kettering,English classical violists,Living people

paragraph: Robert Ames (conductor)

paragraph: Robert Ames (born 8 October 1985) is a British conductor and violist, who holds the positions of co-Artistic Director and co-Principal Conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music. While at University, Robert met Hugh Brunt, who together founded the London Contemporary Orchestra in 2008. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2016. In September 2016 he was announced as the co-principal conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra where he conducts across an eclectic range of venues from Oval Space in East London through to Barbican Centre .

paragraph: Ames regularly works at Abbey Road, the National Theatre and film studio projects such as John Maclean's Slow West (Sundance Film Festival Award), Macbeth and Theeb (BAFTA winning and Oscar nominated).

paragraph: Ames has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Frank Ocean, Imogen Heap, Ron Arad, Belle and Sebastian, Vivian Westwood, DJ Shadow, Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead and Foals.

description: British conductor

wikidata_label: Robert Ames

wikipedia_title: Robert Ames (conductor)


text:
apothecary
ovariectomy
infantile spasm
The Lancet
psychomotor retardation
hypsarrhythmia
Guy's Hospital
Royal College of Surgeons
St Giles' Church
Camberwell
Kent
Tonbridge
syndrome that bears his name
The Lancet
ovariectomy
ovarian cyst
pint
seizure disorder
dropsy
ascites
kidney
eponymous syndrome
eponym
Farnham
West syndrome

paragraph: William James West

paragraph: William James West, was an English surgeon and apothecary, who among other things took a prominent role in the local movement of reform of medical practice. He published in 1837 the first article referred to an ovariectomy performed in England and first described the picture of a kind of infantile spasm (present in his own son, James Edwin West) in an article published by "The Lancet" in 1841. this syndrome is typically characterized by three findings: epileptic spasms, psychomotor retardation and electroencephalogram with a characteristic layout of hypsarrhythmia, although one of the three may not appear.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: There is little that is known about William James West, and the data about him, especially in their early years, are contradictory. Depending on the source his birth is dated in 1793 or 1794 in England, although it is unknown exactly the place. It is believed that received medical training at Guy's Hospital in London, and it is known that he was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons in February 1815.

paragraph: West married with Mary Halsey Dashwood in June 1828 in the St Giles' Church, district of Camberwell, London. Although neither William nor Mary were originally from Kent, they lived in Tonbridge, a small town in that county. A year after his marriage was born his first daughter, Julia, and approximately between the years 1834 and 1835 was born his second son, William. His third son James Edwin, who was the object of the description of the syndrome that bears his name, was born on 13 February 1840.

paragraph: West was working quite successfully as a general practitioner and surgeon in Tonbridge. In 1837 West published in "The Lancet" the first surgery of ovariectomy, describing how he removed an ovarian cyst with a size of about 20 pints (11.3 liters ). The patient recovered well, and the cyst was placed on display at the Museum of Guy's Hospital. His colleague and friend, John Gorham published a couple of years later several of the ovariotomies made by West.

paragraph: In late January 1841 William writes to "The Lancet" describing the case of his son James, who began to suffer a seizure disorder at four months of age. West's letter was published by "The Lancet" on 13 February 1841, date of the first birthday of James.

paragraph: William James West died in 1848 at approximately 55 years of age, as recorded in the annals of Tonbridge, because of dropsy, an older term used to designate the ascites resulting from kidney or heart failure. His grave can still be visited in the cemetery of the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Tonbridge.

paragraph: Five years after the death of his father in 1853, James was transferred to the Earlwood Asylum for the Feeble-Minded in Redhill. James died on 27 September 1860, at the age of 20 and was buried in the same grave as his father.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: The name of William West is best known for the eponymous syndrome, even though the convention on the use of this name is relatively recent and dates back to 1960, when H. Gastaut organized the "9th Colloque de Marseille" (Marseille Colloquium); which focused on infantile spasms. The methods of this meeting were published in the book "L'encéphalopathie Myoclonique Infantile avec Hypsarythmie" (infantile myoclonic encephalopathy with hypsarrhythmia) and was at that conference that H. Gastaut suggested the use of West syndrome as an eponym for infantile spasms; which is widely used for the syndrome to date.

paragraph: The truth is that most of the legacy of William and James West would have been lost forever if Mary West had not donated, some six months after the death of her husband, her private journal to William Newnham, a physician from Farnham. Newnham had found a similar case described by West two years before the publication of the case of James in "The Lancet", so Mary's journal apparently aroused great interest in Newnham. A couple of years later Newnham wrote a monograph describing four cases, one of which was that of James West; Newnham's monograph quoted directly from Mary West's journal, and it is thanks to this work and the William West's letter to "The Lancet"; that is known a little about the private life and history of William and James West.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- West syndrome

description: English physician and surgeon

wikidata_label: William James West

wikipedia_title: William James West


text: agronomist

text: Ontario

text: Sarsfield

text: Ontario

text: University of Ottawa

text: Oka (CAE)

text: Plantagenet

text: United Counties of Prescott and Russell

text: Bourget

text: erosion

text: reforesting

text: Clarence-Rockland

text: The Nation

text: Alfred and Plantagenet

text: Russell

text: The Man Who Planted Trees

text: Jean Giono

text: Montreal

text: Plantagenet

text: cemetery

text: maple

text: moose

text: The Larose Forest: History and Ecology

categories: People from Ottawa,1955 deaths,Canadian foresters,Canadian agronomists,1888 births

paragraph: Ferdinand Larose

paragraph: Ferdinand Alphonse Fortunat Larose (April 1, 1888 - January 29, 1955) was a French Canadian agronomist, best known for having created in Ontario one of the largest regeneration forests in the 1920s, named after him.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Sarsfield, Ontario, Larose studied at the University of Ottawa, where he obtained his diplomas B.A. in 1910 and B.Ph. in 1912 and L.Ph. (Philosophy). He later studied at the Agricultural Institute of Oka (CAE), graduating in Agronomic Sciences in 1919. The same year he became employed in the service of the Ontario Department of Agriculture.

paragraph: Having established an office in Plantagenet, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, he started an inventory of agricultural lands. Discovering that the area around Bourget was a desert of abandoned sandy soil farmland and presented signs of erosion yielding to the advance of the "Bourget Desert", he suggested reforesting this "Bourget Desert" and launched a plan to sow a forest.

paragraph: Ferdinand Larose had set up a small-scale reforestation experiment with seeds and planting trees in 1921-1923 (the "Plantagent Demonstration Woodlot"). In 1926 he started a wasteland utilization campaign in Prescott and Russell counties.

paragraph: In 1927 he became secretary of the newly founded "Committee of Conservation and Reforestation" of the united counties. In 1928 he obtained permission to work on a large-scale reforestation. For this, in 1928, the United Counties of Prescott and Russell acquired, on Larose's insistence, the territory of the future forest. This "Prescot and Russel County forest", later called "Larose Forest", became one of the largest man and hand planted forest in Canada. It covers an area of 110 square km in Clarence-Rockland, The Nation, Alfred and Plantagenet and Russell territories. Ferdinand Larose was then nicknamed "The Man Who Planted Trees", after the short novel by French nature writer Jean Giono.

paragraph: He continued stimulating the selling of abandoned farms by the united counties for further reforestation. He also organised in the late 1930s forest visiting tours to convince politicians to invest in better reforestation. As a result, he could speed up reforestation to about 1 million trees planted annually at the end of the 1940s, early 1950s.

paragraph: Larose was largely involved in organising farmers and was one of the founders of the "Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens" in 1929. Larose also contributed to agricultural education by the creation of agricultural school-clubs for boys and girls in 1935 in each parish of the united Counties.

paragraph: He also fought for teaching in French, and gave agricultural courses in French, in Kent and Essex counties (1934). At his request, circles of French women farmers were created in those counties in 1936. With the support of Antonin Lalonde, president of the Catholic Union of the Franco-Ontarian farmers, Larose also obtained sewing and cooking education in French for the farmers' wives.

paragraph: Larose retired in 1950 and was succeeded by Lawrence Faber. He died January 29, 1955 in Montreal at age 66 and is buried in the Plantagenet cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: In 1988, the Franco-Ontarian Agricultural Merit was awarded for the first time. The first two winners were Larose and Antonin Lalonde (1911-1985), both posthumously.

paragraph: In 2004, the "Ferdinand Larose Environmental Prize" was established in his honor by the French Canadian Association of Ontario and Prescott Russell. The prize was awarded for the first time in 2007, posthumously, to Ernest Hurtubise, of Bourget, "the spiritual son of Larose" . Gilles Trahan, (Hawkesbury educator), was the 2008 winner and in 2014, the family business "Legault Les Serres" .

paragraph: Section::::Larose Forest.

paragraph: As of 2016, the 10,700 hectare forest, originally a man-made conifer plantation, is now a mature mixed forest with a diversity of trees including maples, wild flowers, insects and many species of birds and other animals, including mooses. "Three generations of forest workers have successively planted trees and maintained the forest. In all, more than 18 million trees have been planted".

paragraph: Section::::Publication.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ferdinand Larose, "The south Nation and its environment" in: "Conservation in Eastern Ontario", 1947.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Bacher, "Ferdinand Larose - Key Architect of Ecological Resurrection of Eastern Ontario", in: "Forestory", Newsletter of the Forest History Society Ontario, Volume 2, nr 2, automne 2011 .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Larose Forest: History and Ecology, Christine Hanrahan, "The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club".

description: canadian agronomist

wikidata_label: Ferdinand Larose

wikipedia_title: Ferdinand Larose


text:
Major League Baseball
Guelph Maple Leafs
Philadelphia Phillies
Dallas City, Pennsylvania
Bradford, Pennsylvania
Baseball-Reference.com

categories: Philadelphia Phillies players,1957 deaths,Baseball players from Pennsylvania,1887 births

paragraph: Petie Behan

paragraph: Charles Frederick "Petie" Behan (December 11, 1887 – January 22, 1957) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Behan played for the Guelph Maple Leafs circa 1913, and for the Philadelphia Phillies from to . He batted and threw right-handed.

paragraph: Behan was born in Dallas City, Pennsylvania and died in Bradford, Pennsylvania.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Baseball-Reference.com

alias:
Charles Frederick "Petie" Behan
Charles Frederick Behan

description: Major League Baseball pitcher from the United States

wikidata_label: Petie Behan

wikipedia_title: Petie Behan


text:
Berlin
shot put
East Germany
Potsdam
Profile

categories: 1947 births,Sportspeople from Berlin,Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics,East German male shot putters,Olympic athletes of East Germany,Living people,European Athletics Championships medalists,Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Hans-Peter Gies

paragraph: Hans-Peter Gies (born May 9, 1947 in Berlin) is a retired male shot putter, who competed for East Germany during his career. A two-time Olympian (1972 and 1976) he set his personal best (21.31 metres) in the men's shot put event on 25 August 1972 at a meet in Potsdam.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile

description: German shot putter

wikidata_label: Hans-Peter Gies

wikipedia_title: Hans-Peter Gies


text:
Abu Dhabi
Emirati
grand touring
Dubai 24 Hour
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Sean Edwards
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Thomas Jäger
Bernd Schneider
24 Hours of Le Mans
2014
Amna

categories: Emirati racing drivers,Living people,24 Hours of Le Mans drivers,1975 births

paragraph: Khaled Al Qubaisi

paragraph: Khaled Abdull Al Qubaisi (born 22 December 1975 in Abu Dhabi) is an Emirati racing driver.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Al Quabaisi has been active in the international grand touring races since the beginning of the 2010s. His biggest accomplishments were overall victories at Dubai 24 Hour 2012 and 2013; each driven out in Black Falcon - Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and teammates Sean Edwards, Jeroen Bleekemolen and Thomas Jäger (2012 ) and Bernd Schneider (2013). In 2013, he also won the Yas Marina 12-Hour Race.

paragraph: He also raced three times in 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the best finish 2014 when he finished 19th in the overall standings.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Al Qubaisi is the father of racing drivers Amna and Hamda Al Qubaisi.

description: racing driver

wikidata_label: Khaled Al Qubaisi

wikipedia_title: Khaled Al Qubaisi


text: Gornja Vrbava

text: Vraćevšnica monastery

text: Serb

text: Metropolitan of Belgrade

text: Serbian Orthodox Church

text: Principality of Serbia

text: Second Serbian Uprising

text: Gornja Vrbava

text: Gornji Milanovac

text: Hegumen

text: Vraćevšnica monastery

text: First Serbian Uprising

text: Second Serbian Uprising

text: Takovo Meeting

text: Ljubić

text: Palež

text: Miloš Obrenović

text: Obrenović dynasty

text: Metropolitanate of Belgrade

text: chirotony

text: Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

text: Constantius I

text: Greek language

text: Belgrade

text: Kragujevac

text: Radomir Popović

categories: People of the Second Serbian Uprising,1833 deaths,Serbian revolutionaries,People from Gornji Milanovac,1776 births,Metropolitans of Belgrade,People from the Principality of Serbia,Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia

paragraph: Melentije Pavlović

paragraph: Melentije Pavlović (Gornja Vrbava, 1776 – Vraćevšnica monastery, 11 June 1833) was the first Serb Metropolitan of Belgrade, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Principality of Serbia from 1831 until his death in 1833, as well as a participant in the Second Serbian Uprising.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: He was born in Gornja Vrbava, a village near present-day Gornji Milanovac. He joined the monastery before 1810, in March of that year he became Hegumen of the Vraćevšnica monastery. He did not take part in the First Serbian Uprising, but he joined the Second Serbian Uprising, participated in the Takovo Meeting and distinguished himself in the battles of Ljubić and Palež. Thanks to his personal courage, Melentije gained respect of the Prince Miloš Obrenović, who in 1818 appointed him a personal confessor of the Obrenović dynasty. With time, Melentije became his adviser, initially in religious matters and later also in general political matters. In 1823, the Prince entrusted him with the organization of a state school system.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Metropolitan.

paragraph: When the Prince reached an agreement with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on the creation of the autonomous Metropolitanate of Belgrade, he pointed out Melentije as the most appropriate candidate. In recommending Melentije to accept chirotony as bishop, the Prince called him the most honest, the most talented and the most respected among the Serb clergy. Melentije was ordained bishop by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Constantius I on 18 August 1831. A year later, the autonomy of the Metropolitanate of Belgrade was confirmed. At that moment he was seriously ill.

paragraph: Melentije, while holding office, determined the administrative division of the Metropolitanate to eparchies and organized a metropolitan office. He forbade church singing in Greek language in Belgrade churches, and he tried to create a printing house in Belgrade; he himself resided in Kragujevac. According to Radomir Popović, a dispute arose between him and the Prince in the last period of Melentije's administration.

paragraph: He died in 1833.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- R. Popović, "Serbian Orthodox Church in History", Academy of Serbian Orthodox Church for Fine Arts and Conservation, Belgrade 2013.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Đ. Slijepčević,"Istorija Srpske Pravoslavne Crkve", t. II, JRJ, Beograd 2002.

description: metropolit of Serbia 1831–1833

wikidata_label: Melentije

wikipedia_title: Melentije Pavlović


text:
sexual offender
Las Vegas
SWAT
Nellis Air Force Base

paragraph: Christopher Sena

paragraph: Christopher Sena (born 1967) is a convicted sexual offender from Las Vegas, USA. In February of 2019 he was convicted and sentenced to 54 life terms for his crimes.

paragraph: Section::::Crime.

paragraph: Sena was charged with forcing his seven children in having sex with him, the mother, the step-mother, and the family dog for 12 years. His crimes were unveiled in 2014 after a SWAT team raided his trailer located to the south of Nellis Air Force Base on 18 September 2014 Information about the abuse was given by Deborah Sena to a family law attorney. Two of the children told police that he threatened to kill them or break their legs if they reported the crimes to the police. Terrie Sena testified in court that the abuse started in the 1990s with her 12-year old sister.

paragraph: Most victims were relatives of Sena, however he also asked his children to bring friends over so that he could also abuse them. One angry father tried to attack Christopher Sena in the courtroom.

paragraph: Section::::Sentencing.

paragraph: In February 2019, Sena was found guilty of multiple counts of sexual abuse and child abuse, and given 54 life prison sentences on 28 May 2019 by Judge Bill Kephart Along with him, Deborah Sena and Terrie Sena, his ex-wives, were sent for 10 years imprisonment for 'willing participation'. He was found guilty of 95 out of 120 felony counts against him. He will be eligible for parole after serving 337 years.

description: convicted

wikidata_label: Christopher Sena

wikipedia_title: Christopher Sena


text:
Church of Ireland
cleric
Bishop of Meath
Archbishop of Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
Abbeyleix
Queen's County
County Laois
Longford
Trinity College, Dublin
BA
deacon
priest
Church of Ireland
curate
Kilkenny
Evangelical
Church Missionary Society
Monkstown Church
County Dublin
rector
Dublin
canon
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Doctor of Divinity
bishop of Meath
Cambridge
Blackrock
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Joseph Irvine Peacocke
bishop of Derry and Raphoe
Philip de László
bishop
palace

categories: 1916 deaths,Irish Anglicans,Anglican bishops of Meath,1835 births,Alumni of Trinity College Dublin,Anglican archbishops of Dublin

paragraph: Joseph Peacocke (archbishop of Dublin)

paragraph: Joseph Ferguson Peacocke (5 November 1835 – 26 May 1916) was a Church of Ireland cleric. He was the Bishop of Meath from 1894 to 1897 and then Archbishop of Dublin from 1897 until 1915. He was also briefly the professor of pastoral theology at Trinity College, Dublin.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born at Abbeyleix, Queen's County (now County Laois), Peacocke was the son of George Peacocke, who was a physician at Longford, and of his wife Catherine Ferguson. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he graduated BA in 1857 with a first-class divinity "testimonium". He was senior moderator in history and English literature and won that year's Dublin University prize for political economy.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Peacocke was ordained a deacon in 1858 and a priest of the Church of Ireland in 1859. He was curate at St Mary's, Kilkenny, from 1858 until 1861, then for two years took up the position of secretary to the Hibernian Church Missionary Society. He was on the Evangelical wing of the church and believed especially in foreign missions and in the Church Missionary Society. From 1863 until 1873, he was curate of Monkstown Church, County Dublin. in 1873 he was appointed rector of St George's, Dublin, a significant parish. In 1878 he returned to Monkstown as rector and remained until he was elected a bishop. He became a canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1883, and for a few months in 1894 he held the professorship of pastoral theology in Trinity College.

paragraph: In 1894, Peacocke was elected bishop of Meath, where he was consecrated on 11 June 1894. On 19 May 1897, he was translated to become archbishop of Dublin (with which the dioceses of Glendalough and Kildare were united) and became the first archbishop of Dublin in two centuries to have served as a parish priest in the diocese. He presided successfully over his dioceses, serving also as a visiting preacher at Cambridge, until 1915, when he resigned on the grounds of ill health.

paragraph: Peacock died at Hastings, Blackrock, in May 1916, and his memorial tablet in Kildare Cathedral says that he was a "Pastor fidelis, humilis, et sanctus corde" ("a faithful, humble and holy pastor"). According to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", his reputation was for "tolerance, holiness, and varied pastoral experience" and also as "a man of fine presence".

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: In 1865, Peacocke married Caroline Sophia Irvine. They had one daughter and four sons. Their eldest son, Joseph Irvine Peacocke, was elected bishop of Derry and Raphoe a few weeks before his father's death, while the other sons included George John Peacocke and the Rev. Gerald William Peacocke.

paragraph: Section::::Likeness.

paragraph: A portrait in oils of Peacocke by Philip de László "(working sketch illustrated)" was presented to him by the diocese and is now to be seen in the bishop's palace at Dublin. A sketch for this is reproduced in de László's book "Painting a Portrait" (1937).

paragraph: Section::::References.

description: Irish bishop

wikidata_label: Joseph Peacocke

wikipedia_title: Joseph Peacocke (archbishop of Dublin)


text:
Indian national flag
Bhatlapenumarru
Machilipatnam
Andhra Pradesh
Indian independence movement
Indian National Congress
The Hindu
Machilipatnam
Bharat Ratna

categories: Artists from Andhra Pradesh,20th-century Indian designers,1876 births,People from Krishna district,1963 deaths,Flag designers,19th-century Indian people

paragraph: Pingali Venkayya

paragraph: Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based. He was born at Bhatlapenumarru, near Machilipatnam, in what is now the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

paragraph: Various so-called national flags had been used by members of the Indian independence movement prior to independence being achieved in 1947. Venkayya's version was first designed for the Indian National Congress and subsequently modified in 1947.

paragraph: According to "The Hindu", "Pingali Venkayya was an authority in geology, agriculture and also an educationist who set up an educational institution in Machilipatnam. He, however, died in poverty in 1963 and was largely forgotten by the society and by his own party, the Congress." A postage stamp was issued to commemorate him in 2009 and in 2011 it was proposed that he be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna. The outcome of that proposal is not known.

description: Indian independence activist

wikidata_label: Pingali Venkayya

wikipedia_title: Pingali Venkayya


text: Jan Kotěra

text: Malá Strana

text: communist government

text: functionalist

text: Hradec Králové

text: Poděbrady

text: art nouveau

text: Mladá Boleslav

text: Mnichovo Hradiště

text: Holice

text: Bakov nad Jizerou

text: Nová Paka

text: Mnichovo Hradiště

text: Prague-Malá Strana

text: Nové Strašecí

text: Kolín

text: Jan Vladimír Hráský

text: Jaroměř

text: Bělá pod Bezdězem

text: Pečky

text: Jablonec nad Nisou

text: Sušice

text: Photo portrait of Janda (c. 1928)

categories: 20th-century Czech architects,1886 births,1956 deaths,Czech architects,People from the Central Bohemian Region,Architects from Prague

paragraph: František Janda

paragraph: František Janda (10 September 1886 – 2 March 1956) was a Czech architect and urban planner, in which capacity he authored many regulation designs. Janda studied under the tutelage of Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Along with pianist and composer he founded the , for which he designed and in 1925 finished construction of his Cooperative Arts Forum building in Prague's Malá Strana district. For the remainder of his life Janda lived in this building. In 1960, four years after his death, the property was confiscated by the communist government. Janda's wife, however, was allowed to continue living there until her death. His most famous building is probably the functionalist Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937).

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Winter spa in Poděbrady (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 30-room art nouveau guest house at Rieger's Square, Poděbrady spa (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Regulation plans for the cities of Mladá Boleslav and Poděbrady (1912) and the spa village Brestovičky

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mladá Boleslav courthouse

paragraph: BULLET::::- Building societies in Mnichovo Hradiště, Holice, Bakov nad Jizerou, Nová Paka and Mnichovo Hradiště

paragraph: BULLET::::- in Prague (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (with Č. Vořech) Theatre Na Prádle, Prague-Malá Strana (1924–26)

paragraph: BULLET::::- District Union building in Nové Strašecí (1928–1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Water towers in Kolín (1930; Janda replaced Jan Vladimír Hráský, author of the original 1928 project), Podebrady, Jaroměř, Bělá pod Bezdězem and Pečky

paragraph: BULLET::::- Merkur restaurant and cafe in Jablonec nad Nisou (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Office buildings, including erstwhile municipal HQ, in Sušice (1925–1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Photo portrait of Janda (c. 1928)

description: Czech architect

wikidata_label: František Janda

wikipedia_title: František Janda