text: multimedia

text: installations in the public

text: video installation

text: National Theatre

text: United States Census Bureau

text: Eugene Lang College

text: The New School

text: Parsons School of Design

text: White Columns Gallery

text: SculptureCenter

text: Queens Museum

text: Brooklyn Museum

text: Sydney

text: General Services Administration

text: Gernika

text: Nazi Germany

text: President Franco

text: September 11 attacks

text: World Trade Center

text: Chase Manhattan Plaza

text: Ground Zero

text: Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków

text: Arthur M. Sackler

text: Peking University

text: climate change

text: Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

text: sea level rise

text: Al Gore

text: New York Custom House

text: Ellis Island

text: Red Hook

text: New York Public Library

categories: Living people,American women artists,American multimedia artists,American installation artists,Eugene Lang College alumni

paragraph: Anita Glesta

paragraph: Anita Glesta (January 21, 1958) is a New York City-based multimedia artist best known for her installations in the public and alternative venues internationally. She has been commissioned for a range of high-profile installations, including a video installation on the face of the National Theatre in London and a permanent seven-acre integrated landscape commission for the United States Census Bureau headquarters in Maryland. Her work has also been featured at several museums.

paragraph: Section::::Education and career.

paragraph: Glesta completed her undergrad at Eugene Lang College at The New School and Parsons School of Design where she received her B.A. in 1980, and completed graduate studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

paragraph: Glesta’s work has been exhibited extensively in New York City, beginning in 1984 with a solo show at White Columns Gallery. Her work was shown at SculptureCenter, the Queens Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and many New York galleries before she moved to Sydney in 1994. Since her return to New York in 2000, Glesta has created site-specific works in New York, Europe, and Australia.

paragraph: In 2004, Glesta was commissioned by the General Services Administration's Art in Architecture Program to create a permanent seven-acre landscape intervention for the Census Bureau Headquarters Building in Suitland, Maryland. Six years in the making, on July 12, 2010, Glesta inaugurated her artistic meditation on the idea of counting and numeric order with a global perspective.

paragraph: Her multimedia installation entitled "Gernika/Guernica" (2007) commemorates the 70th anniversary of the attack on Gernika by Nazi Germany ordered by President Franco, the dictator of Spain at the time. Glesta spent part of her teenage years in Northern Spain in the 1970s and felt an affinity for the experience of political turmoil there, and the legacy of Guernica (Gernika is the Basque spelling). It was her proximity to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center that spurred her to develop this body of work where she interviewed the survivors of the bombing of Guernica. The installation was exhibited by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at Chase Manhattan Plaza (three blocks from Ground Zero in New York), as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing.

paragraph: Beginning in 2014, Glesta has been travelling a large-scale video installation entitled "WATERSHED" to prominent locations in New York and London in an effort to facilitate discussion on climate change and infrastructure improvements in waterfront cities. The video originated from a commission she received in 2009 for the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. There, Glesta learned about the impact of sea level rise on the planet. Sponsored by a fellowship from the LABA Foundation in NYC, Glesta developed "THE WATERSHED Project," an installation that later was exhibited throughout the world. The installation itself features footage of fish swimming underwater that is projected onto surfaces in areas that will be affected by impending sea level rise. In 2015, "WATERSHED" appeared on the National Theatre in London; in 2016, it was commissioned by Al Gore for an event at the New York Custom House on Ellis Island; most recently in 2017, it was projected on the sidewalk outside the Red Hook branch of the New York Public Library.

paragraph: Section::::Selected awards and exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thames Festival Trust: WATERSHED

paragraph: BULLET::::- Federal Census Building Commission

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Foundation for the Arts Grant

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: GERNIKA/GUERNICA

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pollock/Krasner fellowship

paragraph: BULLET::::- Black & White Gallery: Pedazos

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yurong Water Garden

wikidata_label: Anita Glesta

wikipedia_title: Anita Glesta


text: Protestant reformer

text: reformer

text: Nordhausen

text: Martin Luther

text: Matthias Flacius

text: Schlitz, Hesse

text: Vacha

text: Strassburg

text: Jacobs, Henry Eyster

text: Spangenberg, Cyriacus

text: Spangenberg, Cyriacus

text: Christian Cyclopedia

text: Sf – Sz

categories: 16th-century German writers,German Lutheran clergy,German male non-fiction writers,1528 births,16th-century German Protestant theologians,1604 deaths,German Lutheran hymnwriters,People from Nordhausen,German Lutheran theologians

paragraph: Cyriacus Spangenberg

paragraph: Cyriacus Spangenberg (7 June 1528 – 10 February 1604) was a German theologian, Protestant reformer and historian, son of the reformer (1484–1550).

paragraph: Cyriacus was born in Nordhausen. As a student, he was a fellow tenant of Martin Luther in Wittenberg, later became a minister in Eisleben, and in 1559 the General Dean of the Grafschaft Mansfeld.

paragraph: In January 1575, he lost his place at Mansfeld because in the Flacian controversy he sided with Matthias Flacius. Along with Flacius, he taught that through original sin some of the substantial faculties of men were also corrupted. This contradicted the doctrine of his opponents that only accidental faculties were depraved. He served as a pastor at Schlitz, Hesse from 1580 until getting expelled in 1590. After getting expelled, he went on a short retreat to Vacha before moving to Strassburg, where his youngest son, , a celebrated poet, lived, and where he died. Among the last pupils of Luther, Spangenberg is the most prominent.

paragraph: He wrote about 150 works. As a historian he wrote "Mansfeldi Chronica", "Saxonian Chronica", and other publications. His "Adelsspiegel" is probably the most important early-modern aristocracy treatise. Also he wrote "How Husbands Ought to Behave" and "What every Christian should make...Confession of Faith."

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacobs, Henry Eyster. “Spangenberg, Cyriacus.” "Lutheran Cyclopedia." New York: Scribner, 1899. p. 450.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Spangenberg, Cyriacus, article from Christian Cyclopedia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cyriac Family History Project Cyriacus Spangenberg page

paragraph: BULLET::::- etching of M. CYRIACVS SPANGENBERGIVS (1528 - 1604)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sf – Sz Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts

description: German theologian and historian

wikidata_label: Cyriacus Spangenberg

wikipedia_title: Cyriacus Spangenberg


text:
St. Albans, West Virginia
American football
tight end
Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta Falcons
undrafted free agent
college football
Marshall
Miami Dolphins
New England Patriots
St. Albans High School
Atlanta Falcons
San Francisco 49ers
Rhein Fire
NFL Europa
Atlanta Falcons
tight end
Martrez Milner
offensive tackle
Wayne Gandy
New England Patriots bio
tsn.ca

categories: Atlanta Falcons players,People from St. Albans, West Virginia,1981 births,Marshall Thundering Herd football players,Rhein Fire players,American football tight ends,Miami Dolphins players,New England Patriots players,Living people

paragraph: Jason Rader

paragraph: Jason Rader (born April 12, 1981 in St. Albans, West Virginia) is an American football tight end who used to be a member of the Atlanta Falcons. He was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Marshall.

paragraph: Rader has also been a member of the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Rader attended high school at St. Albans High School in St. Albans, West Virginia. He signed with Coach Jim Donnan in 1999 at the University of Georgia, and caught two passes for 31 yards in the 2000 season.

paragraph: Rader transferred to Marshall University, sitting out in 2001.

paragraph: In 2002-03, he caught 30 passes each year, piling up 553 yards and 5 touchdowns, helping the Herd to an upset of No. 6 Kansas State as a senior in 2003 and finished with an 8-4 season. In 2002, he caught 30 passes from Byron Leftwich and Stan Hill in leading the Herd to the Mid-American Conference title and a GMAC Bowl win over Louisville, 38-15, in Mobile, Ala. as Marshall finished 11-2 that season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:First stint with Falcons.

paragraph: Rader was originally undrafted out of Marshall. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Atlanta Falcons, but was released at the conclusion of training camp. He had a workout for the San Francisco 49ers in October but spent the year out of football.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Miami Dolphins.

paragraph: In the spring, Rader played with the Rhein Fire of NFL Europa, catching 21 passes for 189 yards. In June, he signed a two-year deal with the Miami Dolphins. Though he was released at the end of training camp, he spent the final eight games of the season on the team's practice squad.

paragraph: Rader was re-signed by the team in January 2006. He was waived the following September, but re-signed to the practice squad. A few weeks later on September 16, Rader was signed to the Dolphins' active roster. He played five games (including one start) and accumulated no statistics before being released on November 8.

paragraph: The Dolphins signed Rader to a future contract in January. He was released on August 27.

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

paragraph: Rader was signed to the Patriots' practice squad on September 3 after a tryout with the team on August 31.

paragraph: He was released in late September.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Second stint with Atlanta.

paragraph: On March 14, 2008, Rader re-signed with the Atlanta Falcons after last playing with the team in the 2004 preseason. He was released by the team during final cuts on August 30, but re-signed on September 17 after the team waived tight end Martrez Milner.

paragraph: Rader remained with the Falcons until October 29, when he was released to make room for re-signed offensive tackle Wayne Gandy. Rader had appeared in six games for the Falcons, catching one pass. Rader re-signed with the Falcons on December 8.

paragraph: On April 24, 2010, Jason Rader announced that he was retiring.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- tsn.ca

description: Player of American football

wikidata_label: Jason Rader

wikipedia_title: Jason Rader


text:
tennis
WTA Tour
Martina Navratilova
French Open
Kathy Horvath

categories: 1961 births,Living people,German female tennis players

paragraph: Eva Pfaff

paragraph: Eva Pfaff (born 10 February 1961) is a German former tennis player.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: During her career she won one singles title and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. Her peak world rankings in the sport were 17th in singles (in 1983) and 16th in doubles (1988).

paragraph: At the 1983 Canadian Open, Pfaff held match points against Martina Navratilova in the round of 16, but lost 6–7 in the third set. She was the only player to have match points against Navratilova that year outside of Martina's loss at the French Open to Kathy Horvath.

description: German tennis player

wikidata_label: Eva Pfaff

wikipedia_title: Eva Pfaff


text:
Szekszárd
Budapest
Hungarian
painter
Gyula Rudnay
Vilmos Aba-Novák
Károly Patkó
Emil Kelemen
Jenő Barcsay
Ernő Bánk
Louvre
Szekszárd
Fine Arts in Hungary
Galeria origo

categories: Women painters,20th-century Hungarian painters,People from Szekszárd,20th-century women artists,1993 deaths,Hungarian educators,1902 births,Hungarian women artists

paragraph: Eszter Mattioni

paragraph: Eszter Mattioni (1902 in Szekszárd – 1993 in Budapest) was a prominent twentieth century Hungarian painter.

paragraph: For five years she attended the Applied Arts Vocational School, then continued her studies for six years at the High School of Fine Arts as a student of Gyula Rudnay. From 1926 her works began to regularly feature at various exhibitions: a number of her works are prized acquisitions of fine arts museums both in Hungary and across Europe.

paragraph: Between 1931 and 1942 she worked together with the Szolnok City group of artists the Zugliget which included Vilmos Aba-Novák, Károly Patkó, Emil Kelemen, Jenő Barcsay and Ernő Bánk.

paragraph: She made study trips to Italy in 1935 where she met her future husband and to the Scandinavian countries in 1939 increasing her recognition and acclaim across Europe. In 1940 she was elected Honorary Life Member. In 1946 she became Member of the Pál Szinyei Merse Society which featured the most prominent painters of Hungary.

paragraph: Her painting titled "Peasant bride" was acquired by the Louvre and exhibited in the aisle of the Musée du Luxembourg as early as 1937. A number of her works are public property of her hometown, Szekszárd.

paragraph: Section::::External links and sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fine Arts in Hungary

paragraph: BULLET::::- Galeria origo

description: Hungarian artist

wikidata_label: Eszter Mattioni

wikipedia_title: Eszter Mattioni


text:
Lorenzo Medici
Florence
Agnolo Poliziano
Franceschetto Cybo
Pope Innocent VIII
ducats
Giovanni
Cardinal
Piero
Stigliano
Rome
Pope Leo X
Lorenzo
St. Peter's Basilica
Pope Clement VII
Innocenzo Cybo
Lorenzo Cybo
Ricciarda Malaspina
Cybo Malaspina
Caterina Cybo
Duke of Camerino

categories: Women of medieval Italy,1528 deaths,15th-century Italian people,People from Florence,Cybo family,1473 births,House of Medici

paragraph: Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1528)

paragraph: Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1519) daughter to Lorenzo Medici

paragraph: Born in Florence, she was educated with her siblings to the humanistic cultures by figures such as Agnolo Poliziano. In February 1487 she was engaged to be married to Franceschetto Cybo, son of Pope Innocent VIII. They were married in January 1488, and she brought a dowry of 4000 ducats. This marriage brought closer connections for her family and the Vatican, helping her brother Giovanni get appointed as a Cardinal. She used her influence with her father, her brother Piero, and the Pope to help friends and poorer people get aid and positions within the church and governments.

paragraph: In 1488 she bought a thermal bath resort in Stigliano. She had the property renovated and turned it into a profitable resort.

paragraph: Maddalena lived in Rome after the election of her brother Giovanni as Pope Leo X in 1513. Shortly after his election, Pope Leo made her son Innocenzo a Cardinal. Maddalena received Roman citizenship and a pension from her brother in 1515. She worked to get all of her children married to noble families. She continued in her role of patron, negotiating with Pope Leo and her nephew, Lorenzo to get clients protection, funds, and release from prison and exile. She died in Rome, and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica by order of her cousin, Pope Clement VII.

paragraph: Section::::Issue.

paragraph: Franceschetto and Maddalena had seven children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Lucrezia Cybo (1489–1492)

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Clarice Cybo (1490–1492) born deformed, died as a child

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Innocenzo Cybo (1491–1550), Cardinal

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Lorenzo Cybo (1500–1549) Duke of Ferentillo, married Ricciarda Malaspina and founded the Cybo Malaspina family

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Caterina Cybo (1501–1557), married the Duke of Camerino

paragraph: BULLET::::6. Ippolita Cybo (1503–1503)

paragraph: BULLET::::7. Giovanni Battista Cybo (1505–1550)

description: Italian noble

wikidata_label: Maddalena de' Medici

wikipedia_title: Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1528)


text:
comte
d'Orsay
Bonapartist
Pierre Gaspard Grimod, comte d'Orsay
Croÿ-Molembais
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein
émigré
Freiin
illegitimate
reign
Duke of Württemberg
Anna Eleonora Franchi
dandy
Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d'Orsay
Antoine, 9th duc de Gramont
Antoine, 10th duc de Gramont
Marie Duplessis
roman à clef
La Dame aux camélias
Dumas, "fils"
Général de brigade
Napoleon I
Grande Armée
Hundred Days
Waterloo
Bourbon Restoration
July Monarchy
Rupt-sur-Saône
A letter from him to Napoleon
here

categories: Counts of the First French Empire,1772 births,1843 deaths,Counts of Orsay

paragraph: Albert Gaspard Grimod

paragraph: Jean-François-Louis-Marie-Albert-Gaspard Grimod (15 June 1772 – 26 December 1843), "comte d'Orsay", was a Bonapartist general and nobleman.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was the son of the collector Pierre Gaspard Grimod, comte d'Orsay (1748–1809) and his first wife, Princess Marie Louise Amélie de Croÿ-Molembais, (1748–1772), daughter of Prince Guillaume François de Croÿ and Anne Françoise Amélie de Trazegnies. She died in giving birth to him and his father began travelling Europe for consolation, gathering famous paintings and sculptures into a notable collection.

paragraph: He married again, to Princess Marie Anne of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, on 22 August 1784. The couple moved to Germany in 1787, meaning that - on the outbreak of the French Revolution two years later - Albert's father was declared an "émigré" and their property in France was seized. They were left in the poverty in which Albert's father died.

paragraph: In 1792 Albert married Eleonore Franchi, Freiin von Franquemont (17 January 1771 - 1833) an illegitimate daughter of the reigning Duke of Württemberg by the Italian adventuress Anna Eleonora Franchi. Their surviving son became the dandy, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d'Orsay. Their daughter Ida Grimaud d'Orsay married Antoine, 9th duc de Gramont in 1818, and became mother of Antoine, 10th duc de Gramont, a lover of Marie Duplessis, on whose life was based the "roman à clef", "La Dame aux camélias", by Dumas, "fils".

paragraph: He became a Général de brigade in Napoleon I's Grande Armée on 19 November 1813, a year before Napoleon's abdication and first exile. It is unknown what role he played in the previous and subsequent events of the Napoleonic Wars, or whether he supported Napoleon during the Hundred Days or at Waterloo, but he did survive the wars to see the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, dying five years before the end of the latter.

paragraph: He was sold the chateau at Rupt-sur-Saône (then state property) in 1820.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A letter from him to Napoleon (from here)

description: French count

wikidata_label: Albert Gaspard Grimod

wikipedia_title: Albert Gaspard Grimod


text:
House of Medici
Florence
Lorenzo il Popolano
Maria Soderini
Lorenzino
Alessandro de' Medici
Cafaggiolo

categories: Ambassadors of the Republic of Florence,1487 births,1525 deaths,Italian bankers,16th-century people of the Republic of Florence,House of Medici

paragraph: Pierfrancesco the Younger

paragraph: Pierfrancesco di Lorenzo (II) de' Medici ("the Younger"; 1487–1525) was an Italian banker, a member of the House of Medici.

paragraph: He was born in Florence, the son of Lorenzo il Popolano. Differently from the latter, he did not take in part in the city's politics, acting as Florentine ambassador only one time in 1522 in the Papal States.

paragraph: In 1511 he married Maria Soderini. They had four children, including the infamous Lorenzino, killer of Duke Alessandro de' Medici.

paragraph: Pierfrancesco died at Cafaggiolo in 1525.

description: Italian banker

wikidata_label: Pierfrancesco the Younger

wikipedia_title: Pierfrancesco the Younger


text:
Turin
Eclecticism
Carlo Fea
Luigi Canina
Antonio Nibby
Alba Fucens

categories: 1873 deaths,19th-century Italian architects,1808 births,Architects from Turin

paragraph: Carlo Promis

paragraph: Carlo Promis (1808 – 1873 in Turin, Italy) was an Italian architect and architectural historian and a proponent of Eclecticism.

paragraph: Promis earned his degree in architecture at Turin in 1828 and subsequently worked in Rome alongside leaders in the field of ancient architectural history, including Carlo Fea, Luigi Canina, and Antonio Nibby. He studied ancient sites, including Alba Fucens, and carried out new projects in Turin.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Politecnico di Torino

description: Italian architect

wikidata_label: Carlo Promis

wikipedia_title: Carlo Promis


text:
count of Blois
Chartres
Châteaudun
Tours
Rorgon I, Count of Maine
Hugh the Great
Duke of France
Louis IV
Laon
count of Blois
Châteaudun
Chartres
Alan II of Nantes
Rennes
Fulk II of Anjou
Saumur
citadel
Loire
Thouet
march
Richard I of Normandy
Normans
Évreux
Dunois
Rouen
Saint-Aignan
Loir-et-Cher
Vierzon
Anguillon
Berry
Hugh Capet
Château de Chinon
Loire
Luitgarde of Vermandois
William I of Normandy
Herbert II, Count of Vermandois
Robert I of France
Hugh, Archbishop of Bourges
Odo
Bouchard de Bray, Lord of Montmorency
Emma
William IV of Aquitaine

categories: Counts of Chartres,Counts of Châteaudun,975 deaths,Counts of Tours,Counts of Blois,913 births,Year of birth uncertain,Year of death uncertain

paragraph: Theobald I, Count of Blois

paragraph: Theobald I (913–975), called the Trickster ("le Tricheur" meaning cheater), was the first count of Blois, Chartres, and Châteaudun as well as count of Tours.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Theobald I was the son of Theobald le Vieux of Blois, who from 908 on was viscomte of Tours. Theobald le Vieux's wife, the mother of Theobald I, was Richende De Bourges, a great-granddaughter of Rorgon I, Count of Maine. Theobald I was initially a vassal of Hugh the Great, Duke of France. Around 945, Louis IV was captured by Northmen and given over to Hugh the Great, who placed the king in Theobald's custody. After about a year in his vassal's custody king Louis negotiated his freedom by offering Hugh the city of Laon which Hugh then gave to Theobald. Theobald was the count of Tours from 942, was also count of Blois and in 960 count of Châteaudun and Chartres.

paragraph: Theobald's sister had married Alan II of Nantes, the Duke of Brittany, giving Theobald influence all the way to Rennes. However the death of Alan II left a void in Brittany and left it vulnerable to encroachment by either the Normans or the Angevins. Theobald made an alliance with Fulk II of Anjou, which gave him control of Saumur, a strategic citadel located between the Loire and Thouet rivers guarding the Angevin march. This included control of the monastery of Saint-Florent inside the walls of Saumur. In turn the recently widowed Fulk married Theobald's sister, the widow of Alan II of Nantes.

paragraph: In 960, he began opposing Richard I of Normandy and entered into a long war with the Normans. In 961, he attacked Évreux. The Normans responded by attacking Dunois. In 962, he launched an assault on Rouen which failed. The Normans burned Chartres in response. He took control of the fortresses of Saint-Aignan in the Loir-et-Cher, Vierzon, and Anguillon in Berry. During the minority of Hugh Capet, he reinforced Chartres and Châteaudun. He founded the Château de Chinon. By his death, he had built a vast power on the Loire, dominating central France.

paragraph: About 943-44, he married Luitgarde of Vermandois, widow of William I of Normandy. She was the daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois and Hildebrand of France, daughter of king Robert I of France. Her half-brother was Hugh the Great Duke of France.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: His wife Luitgarde of Vermandois bore him:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Theobald (d. 962).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hugh, Archbishop of Bourges (d. 985).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Odo (d. 995), succeeded his father as Count of Blois.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hildegarde, married Bouchard de Bray, Lord of Montmorency.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emma (d. aft. 1003), married William IV of Aquitaine.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: br

description: Count of Blois

wikidata_label: Theobald I, Count of Blois

wikipedia_title: Theobald I, Count of Blois


text: jazz

text: Charles Mingus

text: Jackie McLean

text: John Coltrane

text: Eric Dolphy

text: Prestige Records

text: Soul Eyes

text: Billie Holiday

text: feature film

text: hard bop

text: post-bop

text: free jazz

text: West Indian

text: Long Island Rail Road

text: Jamaica, Queens

text: swing

text: Coleman Hawkins

text: Body and Soul

text: West Point

text: 52nd Street

text: Queens College

text: Karol Rathaus

text: Charlie Parker

text: G.I. Bill

text: rhythm and blues

text: Big Nick Nicholas

text: Ike Quebec

text: Café Society Downtown

text: Charles Mingus

text: Pithecanthropus Erectus

text: Lucky Millinder

text: Lucky Thompson

text: Idrees Sulieman

text: Gigi Gryce

text: Julian Euell

text: Arthur Edgehill

text: Billie Holiday

text: accompanist

text: The Sound of Jazz

text: Prestige Records

text: Jackie McLean

text: John S. Wilson

text: Gene Ammons

text: Kenny Burrell

text: John Coltrane

text: Phil Woods

text: Soul Eyes

text: jazz standard

text: Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors

text: St. Albans

text: Hackensack

text: Abbey Lincoln

text: Max Roach

text: minor keys

text: Eric Dolphy

text: Booker Little

text: Music Minus One

text: The Cool World

text: Marcel Carné

text: Three Rooms in Manhattan

text: Sweet Love, Bitter

text: Amiri Baraka

text: Dutchman

text: Ben Webster

text: Kenny Clarke

text: Free at Last

text: ECM

text: Enja Records

text: The Call

text: JAPO

text: krautrock

text: Embryo

text: George Who?

text: Joe Henderson

text: Herbie Lewis

text: Freddie Waits

text: Charlie Rouse

text: Horacee Arnold

text: Cameron Brown

text: Steve Lacy

text: Thelonious Monk

text: Haruki Kadokawa

text: Jeanne Lee

text: free

text: David Murray

text: Archie Shepp

text: Horace Silver

text: passing note

text: Bud Powell

text: runs

text: The Penguin Guide to Jazz

text: American minimalism

text: Alyn Shipton

text: time signature

text: Duke Ellington

text: Art Tatum

text: Matthew Shipp

text: Stanley Cowell

text: Ethan Iverson

text: Ran Blake

text: Mal Waldron discography by session

text: "On Mal Waldron"

categories: Palo Alto Records artists,20th-century American composers,American jazz pianists,American jazz composers,American male pianists,Jazz musicians from New York (state),Musicians from New York City,Avant-garde jazz pianists,Prestige Records artists,Post-bop pianists,Hard bop pianists,1925 births,Enja Records artists,2002 deaths,Male jazz composers,Modal jazz pianists,Freedom Records artists,Timeless Records artists,20th-century American pianists

paragraph: Mal Waldron

paragraph: Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from university. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing his most famous song, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959.

paragraph: A breakdown caused by a drug overdose in 1963 left Waldron unable to play or remember any music; he regained his skills gradually, while redeveloping his speed of thought. He left the U.S. permanently in the mid-1960s, settled in Europe, and continued touring internationally until his death.

paragraph: In his 50-year career, Waldron recorded more than 100 albums under his own name and more than 70 for other band leaders. He also wrote for modern ballet, and composed the scores of several feature films. As a pianist, Waldron's roots lay chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s, but with time he gravitated more towards free jazz. He is known for his dissonant chord voicings and distinctive later playing style, which featured repetition of notes and motifs.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Mal Waldron was born in New York City on August 16, 1925, to West Indian immigrants. His father was a mechanical engineer who worked on the Long Island Rail Road. The family moved to Jamaica, Queens when Mal was four years old. Waldron's parents discouraged his initial interest in jazz, but he was able to maintain it by listening to swing on the radio. Waldron had classical piano lessons from the age of around seven until he was about 16. He then became inspired to play jazz on tenor saxophone when he heard Coleman Hawkins' 1939 recording of "Body and Soul", but bought an alto saxophone, unable to afford a tenor. He played alto for local bands that performed for "dances, bar mitzvahs, Spanish weddings", frequently taking over the pianist's role when other musicians took their solos.

paragraph: In 1943, after school and having enrolled at university, Waldron was called up by the army, and was based at West Point, in New York. This allowed him to listen to the greats of jazz in clubs on 52nd Street and elsewhere in the city. After two years in the army, he returned as a student to Queens College in New York, where he studied under composer Karol Rathaus and made the final decision to switch from saxophone to piano. This decision was influenced in part by hearing Charlie Parker's virtuoso speed on saxophone, and by not having the extroverted personality Waldron thought necessary for that instrument. Not yet a professional musician, he received money through the G.I. Bill and continued to live with his parents. After obtaining a B.A. in music in 1949, Waldron worked for a short time in rhythm and blues bands, including with Big Nick Nicholas.

paragraph: Section::::Later life and career.

paragraph: Section::::Later life and career.:Early career in New York.

paragraph: Waldron went on to work with Ike Quebec in New York in 1950 and made his recording debut with the saxophonist in 1952. They played at Café Society Downtown on Mondays for six or seven months, which helped Waldron gain exposure and more work. Waldron worked frequently with Charles Mingus from 1954 to 1956, as part of the latter's jazz composers' workshop. He was pianist on several Mingus recordings, including "Pithecanthropus Erectus", which was a key development in the movement towards freer collective improvisation in jazz. In 1955, Waldron worked with Lucky Millinder and Lucky Thompson. Waldron formed his own band in 1956, which consisted of Idrees Sulieman (trumpet), Gigi Gryce (alto saxophone), Julian Euell (bass), and Arthur Edgehill (drums). This band recorded Waldron's first release as a leader, "Mal-1", in November of that year. Waldron was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959, including for the all-star television broadcast "The Sound of Jazz".

paragraph: Waldron played on numerous sessions for Prestige Records from 1956 to 1958, as he was the house pianist with the label, a position he acquired after being introduced to Prestige by saxophonist Jackie McLean. Waldron appeared on several McLean-led recordings, and was praised by critic John S. Wilson for these performances as being "a consistently interesting and inventive pianist, who apparently can create fresh and provocative ideas even in the midst of a shrilling bedlam". Other leaders he worked under at Prestige included Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, John Coltrane, and Phil Woods. Waldron often used his own arrangements and compositions for the Prestige sessions, of which his most famous, "Soul Eyes", written for Coltrane, became a widely recorded jazz standard following its initial appearance on the 1957 album "Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors". He composed at night at home in St. Albans between all-day recording sessions, and in a car travelling to and from the studio in Hackensack. Waldron estimated that he composed more than 400 pieces of music during his time with Prestige.

paragraph: After Holiday died, Waldron played with vocalist Abbey Lincoln and her husband, drummer Max Roach. Around this time, Waldron's playing on his own recordings became darker, featuring emotional shifts and variations in minor keys. In 1961, Waldron played in Eric Dolphy and Booker Little's quintet, a promising combination that ended when Little died that year, aged 23.

paragraph: In addition to writing for his own band and those led by others, Waldron wrote and arranged for early play-along records that were published by Music Minus One. Some of these recordings on which Waldron played were released under his name. He also wrote scores for modern ballet in the 1950s and started writing film scores in the following decade. His writing for the film "The Cool World" (released in 1964) was described in "The Oxford Companion to Jazz" as one of the first attempts to stress improvisation rather than composition in a jazz-based film score.

paragraph: Section::::Later life and career.:Breakdown and recovery.

paragraph: In 1963 Waldron had a major breakdown caused by a heroin overdose. He recounted in 1998 that a lot of musicians in the 1950s and 1960s felt that taking drugs was necessary for career progression. The police assumed they were all doing it, according to Waldron: The police would stop the musicians and search us as we came out of the clubs after work. We had to turn our pockets inside out. After a while, the musicians thought ... well, if you have the name you might as well have the game. Eventually, I overdosed. I couldn't remember my own name. My hands were trembling, I couldn't play the piano. I needed shock treatments and a spinal tap to bring me back. Waldron always felt that he had to return to playing, but this was a slow process. About a year after the overdose, his physical recovery was sufficient to allow him to start relearning his skills, which he did partly by listening to his own records. His recovery as a musician continued for another two years, as his speed of thought was still too slow over that period to allow genuine improvisation: "I worked out my solos in advance and played what I had written out, until gradually all my faculties returned".

paragraph: Section::::Later life and career.:Career after move to Europe.

paragraph: From the mid-1960s on, Waldron spent a lot of time in Europe: Paris, Rome, Bologna, and Cologne, before moving permanently to Munich in 1967. Waldron originally moved to France when film director Marcel Carné asked him if he wanted to compose the score for "Three Rooms in Manhattan" in New York or Paris; Waldron's 1958 experience touring Europe with Holiday made the decision an easy one. Waldron's stated reasons for settling in Europe were his disgust with the "fierce, cutthroat competition, just to get a job" and the fact that black musicians were paid less than their white counterparts in the U.S. The 1965 score for "Three Rooms in Manhattan" was followed by one for the American film "Sweet Love, Bitter" in 1967. Waldron also composed for theater (Amiri Baraka's "The Slave" and "Dutchman"), television, and short films. In Europe around this time he played with other expatriates, including Ben Webster and Kenny Clarke.

paragraph: Waldron's 1969 album "Free at Last" was the first release on the ECM label. This recording was an example of Waldron playing, in his words, "rhythmically instead of soloing on chord changes". Two years later, another Waldron recording session was the first for another label that became firmly established – Enja Records. His 1971 album "The Call" was the first release on the ECM sublabel JAPO; it features Waldron playing an electric piano. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with the German krautrock band Embryo on the albums "Steig Aus!" and "Rocksession". Waldron also wrote the score for the 1972 French film "George Who?"

paragraph: Waldron became popular in Japan, first playing there in 1970, after being invited by "Swing Journal" following the success of one of his earlier recordings. From 1975 he made visits to the U.S., mostly playing solo piano from the late 1970s to early 1980s. Other formats included a quartet with Joe Henderson, Herbie Lewis, and Freddie Waits; another quartet with Charlie Rouse, Calvin Hill and Horacee Arnold; a trio with Hill and Arnold; and a duo with Cameron Brown. Waldron performed and recorded extensively throughout Europe and Japan. In the early 1980s he reported that he allotted agents in France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia a month each per year of his time, but set aside two months for Japan.

paragraph: During the 1980s and 1990s Waldron worked with Steve Lacy, notably in piano–soprano duets playing their own compositions as well as Thelonious Monk's. Duet albums with others were also prominent in Waldron's recordings from the early 1980s. This setting was chosen partly for economic reasons, but mainly for artistic ones, Waldron stated: "jazz is like a conversation. [...] So to do this face to face, it is more direct, stronger and more accurate". A further film score was written for Japanese director Haruki Kadokawa's "Tokyo Blues" in 1986.

paragraph: Waldron moved from Munich to Brussels in the 1990s, stating that, in Belgium, "nobody stands on the corner waiting for the lights to change. In Germany they watch the lights instead of the cars. The lights never killed anybody." From the mid-1990s, Waldron traveled to the U.S. less frequently, put off by no longer being allowed to smoke in many of the jazz clubs there. Around the same period, Waldron recorded several albums with vocalist Jeanne Lee. Two of his final recordings were duets with saxophonists who tended, as he did, to play in melodic and free forms: David Murray and Archie Shepp. After some years of indifferent health, Waldron, a heavy smoker, was diagnosed with cancer in 2002. He continued to perform until his death on December 2 of that year in a hospital in Brussels, due to complications resulting from the cancer. He was 77, and had played his final concert in Lille two weeks earlier.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Waldron married twice and had seven children – two with his first wife and five with the second. Billie Holiday was godmother to his first daughter. Waldron's first wife, Elaine, occasionally sang on his recordings. His second wife was Japanese, and they owned and let several apartments in Japan. Combining birthday celebrations with a tour, Waldron took both families – ex-wife, wife, seven children and two grandchildren – on his three-week tour of Japan that coincided with his seventieth birthday. Waldron's mother died in 1979. He could speak English, French, German, and Japanese.

paragraph: Section::::Artistry.

paragraph: When he first played with Mingus, Waldron was a follower of Horace Silver's style, which used added chords and passing notes, as well as Bud Powell's, which contained many runs. Mingus encouraged him to strip away these things and concentrate on basic and altered harmonies. Before his breakdown, Waldron played in a lyrical way, but after it, "I couldn't find that lyricism inside myself any more, so I became a very angular player", becoming more like Thelonious Monk in playing and composition style.

paragraph: From the time he moved to Europe, Waldron played mostly in a free style, while being able to play in a more traditional style when the audience or situation required it. He used thick chords in the lower bass register; his emphasis on weight, texture and frequent repetition of a single and simple motif as opposed to linear and melodic improvisation gave a heavy and dark color to his sound. One facet of his playing was, according to "The Penguin Guide to Jazz", "likened to American minimalism: a slow accretion of almost subliminal harmonic and rhythmic shifts steadily pile up until the music seems ready to overbalance".

paragraph: As an accompanist to vocalists Holiday, Lincoln, Lee and others, Waldron was described by critic and musician Alyn Shipton as "one of the most sublime accompanists in jazz".

paragraph: Waldron's own assessment of his style was that it was partly a reflection of his personality: "It's part of my personality to be very economical with what I have and to use it in all variations before I move to the next set of notes". He acknowledged the influences of Holiday (on his conception of space and playing behind the beat), Mingus (for the importance of individuality), and Roach (on the value of time signatures other than the usual 4/4), as well as pianists Duke Ellington, Monk, Powell and Art Tatum.

paragraph: Section::::Influence.

paragraph: Waldron has influenced later generations of pianists. Examples are Matthew Shipp and Stanley Cowell. Another, Ethan Iverson, describes Waldron as one of his biggest influences, and reports having imitated most aspects of the older man's style during his own musical development, through listening to Waldron's recordings. Waldron contributed more personally to Ran Blake's progress: he was Blake's teacher for a time, helping him to improve his rhythmic flexibility and idea development.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chronological list of Mal Waldron records"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mal Waldron discography by session

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On Mal Waldron" – essay by Ethan Iverson

description: American jazz pianist and composer

wikidata_label: Mal Waldron

wikipedia_title: Mal Waldron


text:
American
baseball
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Buckeyes of Cincinnati
Andy Leonard
Charlie Sweasy
Harry Wright
National Association
Washington Olympics
outfielder
Great Falls Electrics
Northwestern League
The Baseball Page
"Harper's Weekly"
Buckeyes of Cincinnati

categories: Washington Olympics players,1847 births,Washington Olympics (NABBP) players,Cincinnati Red Stockings players,Baseball players from Pennsylvania,19th-century baseball players,Year of death missing,Cincinnati Buckeyes players

paragraph: Dick Hurley

paragraph: William H. "Dick" Hurley (1847–Aft. 1916) was an American baseball player who was noted as being the substitute player for the first paid professional club, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

paragraph: Hurley was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. After attending Columbia University and playing on its baseball team, he played for the Buckeyes of Cincinnati, one of the leading amateur teams in the Midwest. Along with two of his teammates, Andy Leonard and Charlie Sweasy, he was recruited by Harry Wright as the utility man for the rival Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869–70, being paid $600 per season for his efforts. He then played two games the following year in the fledgling National Association for the Washington Olympics as an outfielder.

paragraph: In 1916, Hurley managed the Great Falls Electrics in the Northwestern League.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Baseball Page

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Harper's Weekly"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Buckeyes of Cincinnati

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Dick Hurley

wikipedia_title: Dick Hurley


text:
Christian
Chios
persecutions
Roman emperor
Decius
May 14
Roman navy
Aegean island
mastic
Ammonius
Myrope
Chios town
sailor

categories: 3rd-century Romans,3rd-century Christian martyrs,251 deaths,Egyptian sailors,Saints from Roman Egypt,Year of birth unknown,Ancient Roman military personnel

paragraph: Isidore of Chios

paragraph: Isidore of Chios was a faithful Christian who was martyred on the island of Chios in 251 under the persecutions ordered by the Roman emperor Decius. His feast day is commemorated on May 14.

paragraph: Section::::Life and martyrdom.

paragraph: His life is the subject of several versions, mainly with hagiographic aims.

paragraph: An officer in the Roman navy, Isidore confessed himself as a Christian to the commander of the fleet while they were on the Aegean island of Chios. Because he was unwilling to repent and worship the gods of the state, he was tormented and beheaded, and his body cast into a cistern. According to one legend, at this point all the trees on the south side of the island shed tears for Isidore, and this was the origin of the mastic that is still collected regularly on the island.

paragraph: According to tradition, his friends Ammonius and Myrope, both destined to martyrdom, would have retrieved the body and interred it properly. Later Myrope was buried beside Isidore, and on their grave miraculous recoveries were reported. There was built a chapel, and in the 5th century a church, thanking Saint Marcian. This church could be that of which a few ruins can now be admired in Chios town. St Isidore’s veneration spread in all the Mediterranean sea and he became a sailors’ protector.

paragraph: In 1125 his remains were brought from Chios to the Venetian Basilica of St. Mark, which contains a small chapel containing the sarchophogus.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: 3. The Basiica of St. Mark in Venice, edited by Etore Vio. (1999)

paragraph: Section::::External links and sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.stlukeorthodox.com/html/saints/may/14th.cfm

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://web.archive.org/web/20040620135010/http://saintgeorge.org/news_and_events/church_calendar/saint_of_the_day/05may/may_14_saint_isidore_of_chios.php

description: Egyptian saint

wikidata_label: Isidore of Chios

wikipedia_title: Isidore of Chios


text: KBE

text: British

text: Queen's College, Taunton

text: Law Society

text: Law School

text: Ministry of Information

text: Second World War

text: Law Society

text: Knighted

text: 1956 Birthday Honours

text: life peer

text: County of Surrey

text: Greater London Council

text: Thomas Graham Brown

text: Frank Smythe

text: Mont Blanc

text: Alpine Club

text: Hon.

text: Baron Brain

wikipedia_title: Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)

categories: 1899 births,Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire,Life peers,Presidents of the Law Society of England and Wales,1973 deaths,People from Egham

paragraph: Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley

paragraph: Edwin Savory Herbert, Baron Tangley, KBE (29 June 1899 – 5 June 1973) was a British solicitor and mountaineer.

paragraph: The son- one of five children- of Henry William Herbert, a chemist, and his wife Harriett Lizzie (née Elmes), of Egham, Surrey, Herbert was educated at Queen's College, Taunton and the Law Society's Law School, from which he received his LL.B. Herbert served as director of postal and telegraph censorship for the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. He was elected President of the Law Society in 1956.

paragraph: Knighted in 1943, Herbert was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1956 Birthday Honours. He was created a life peer as Baron Tangley, "of Blackheath in the County of Surrey" on 22 January 1964. This was in recognition of his work on the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London. The area that was to become what is now known as Greater London was controlled by the London, Surrey, Essex, Kent and Middlesex County Councils and a number of County Boroughs. The result was that the London and Middlesex County Councils and County Boroughs disappeared, and the areas covered by Essex and Surrey were reduced.

paragraph: The Greater London Council was established as the strategic authority, with broad town planning and transport powers; below it were the City of London, basically covering the area it had always controlled, and thirty two new London Boroughs. They provided local town planning powers, local highways and inter alia social and housing powers. The GLC took over running the council housing that the London County Council had controlled.

paragraph: Herbert introduced Thomas Graham Brown to Frank Smythe in 1927. Herbert and Brown later climbed the Brenva face of Mont Blanc. Herbert was President of the Alpine Club from 1953 to 1956.

paragraph: Herbert married Gwendoline Judd in 1932; they had a son and three daughters. His eldest daughter, Dr Hon. Elizabeth Ann Herbert, M.A. B.Ch., married Michael Cottrell Brain, 3rd Baron Brain, in 1960.

description: British lawyer and mountaineer

wikidata_label: Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley

wikipedia_title: Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley


text:
Lord of Monaco
Lucien Grimaldi
Jeanne de Pontevès-Cabanes
Augustine Grimaldi
Monaco
France
Francis I
Burgos
Tordesillas
Spain
Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V
Spain
Monaco
Genoa
de facto
renovation
Palace of Monaco
Charles V
Monaco
Pope Paul III
Monaco
Nice
Isabella Grimaldi
Charles
Hercules

wikipedia_title:
Monaco
Lucien, Lord of Monaco
Jeanne de Pontevès-Cabanes
Augustine Grimaldi
Monaco
France
Francis I of France
Burgos
Tordesillas
Spain
Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Spain
Monaco
Republic of Genoa
De facto
Renovation
Prince's Palace of Monaco
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Monaco
Pope Paul III
Monaco
Nice
Isabella Grimaldi
Charles II, Lord of Monaco
Ercole, Lord of Monaco

categories: 1522 births,Burials at the Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate, Monaco,House of Grimaldi,People of Ligurian descent,Lords of Monaco,People from Campagna,1581 deaths

paragraph: Honoré I, Lord of Monaco

paragraph: Honoré I or Onorato I (16 December 1522 – 7 October 1581) was Lord of Monaco from 22 August 1523 to 7 October 1581.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Honoré was the youngest child of Lucien Grimaldi (1487–1523) and Jeanne de Pontevès-Cabanes. He became Lord of Monaco at the age of 9 months, upon the assassination of his father on 22 August 1523. A regent was appointed for the young Lord in the form of his uncle, Augustine Grimaldi (1482–1532).

paragraph: Under Honoré’s father, Monaco had been a subject of France and its King, Francis I. Augustine Grimaldi severed this relationship, and in the signing of the Treaties of Burgos and Tordesillas (1524), swore Monaco’s allegiance to Spain, and its King, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Monaco was therefore a protectorate of Spain, allowing the country to focus more on advancing and less on defending. The alliance with Spain would last until 1641, and weigh heavily on the financial situation of Monaco.

paragraph: Augustine Grimaldi died on 14 April 1532, while Honoré was still a minor, and another regent was chosen for the young Lord. His aunt Blanche Grimaldi, baronne de Tourette, became regent in co-regency with Nicholas Grimaldi. Nicolas Grimaldi held the position of regent for only 9 days, and Blanche Grimaldi was likewise forced to leave Monaco in 1 July 1532.

paragraph: Étienne (Stephen) Grimaldi (died 1561), from Genoa and known as “the Governor”, was chosen as regent on 23 April 1532.

paragraph: Etienne remained regent until 16 December 1540, when Honoré reached his majority, and was responsible for restorations made to the Church of St. Nicholas. Etienne remained the de facto ruler of Monaco, with Honoré's blessing, until his death in 1561.

paragraph: The reign of Honoré I was relatively calm and peaceful, and Honoré was referred to as remarkable for his bravery, wisdom and valour.

paragraph: During Honoré’s reign, extensive renovations and enlargements were made to the Palace of Monaco. Charles V paid a visit to Monaco in 1529, and Pope Paul III visited Monaco, on his way to the Council of Nice, during Honoré’s reign.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and children.

paragraph: In 1545 he married Isabella Grimaldi (died 1583). The couple had 4 sons;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charles (26 January 1555 – 17 May 1589)

paragraph: BULLET::::- François (1557–1586)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horace (1558–1559)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hercules (24 September 1562 – 21 November 1604)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Hare Society Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monaco History

description: Lord of Monaco

wikidata_label: Honoré I, Lord of Monaco

wikipedia_title: Honoré I, Lord of Monaco


text: Medal of Honor

text: Chaminade High School

text: Spring Hill College

text: United States Army

text: Vietnam War

text: First Lieutenant

text: Levittown, New York

text: List of Medal of Honor recipients

categories: Vietnam War recipients of the Medal of Honor,United States Army officers,1944 births,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,American military personnel killed in the Vietnam War,American Roman Catholics,Chaminade High School alumni,1967 deaths,Burials at Long Island National Cemetery

paragraph: Stephen Karopczyc

paragraph: Stephen Edward Karopczyc (March 5, 1944 – March 12, 1967) is a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. He was a 1961 graduate of Chaminade High School, a 1965 graduate of Spring Hill College, and he served in the United States Army in the Vietnam War. He was First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company A, 2d Battalion, 35th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.

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

paragraph: His official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: Section::::Namesake.

paragraph: There is an elementary school in Levittown, New York, which opened in the 1950s, formally named Farmedge Elementary School, which was renamed for Stephen E. Karopczyc. It was originally opened in the 1950s. The building still stands today, but is no longer used as a school, but as administrative offices for education officials. Inside the main entrance, there is a large wall display honoring Lt. Karopczyc. The school is located on Farmedge Road.

paragraph: Lt. Karopczyc attended Island Trees schools from 1950–56, and Chaminade High School from 1957 until his graduation in 1961. He is considered a son of Bethpage, NY. There are two plaques honoring his sacrifice at the General Douglas MacArthur High School in Levittown, New York. A sundial memorial to Lt. Karopczyc stands in the Peace Garden, outside Sodality Chapel at Spring Hill College.

paragraph: At American Legion Post 1711 in Levittown, NY on March 10, 2018 a statue dedicated to Lt. Karopczyc was dedicated to his service.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War

wikidata_label: Stephen Karopczyc

wikipedia_title: Stephen Karopczyc


text: Portuguese naming customs

text: family name

text: Guinea-Bissau

text: PAIGC

text: National Women's Day

text: Guinea-Bissau War of Independence

text: Portugal

text: PAIGC

text: Amílcar Cabral

text: Farim River

text: Amílcar Cabral

text: Conakry

text: Carnation Revolution

text: Lisbon

text: Portuguese Guinea

text: República da Guiné-Bissau

text: Bissau

text: Domingos Ramos

text: Dakar

text: Senegal

categories: 1943 births,Bissau-Guinean activists,Deaths by firearm in Guinea-Bissau,Bissau-Guinean women activists,History of Guinea-Bissau,1973 deaths,People from Tombali Region

paragraph: Titina Silla

paragraph: "This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or paternal family name is Ernestina and the second or paternal family name is Silá."

paragraph: Titina Ernestina Silá (var. Silla), (1943 – 30 January 1973) was a Guinea-Bissauan member of the PAIGC. 30 January, the day of her death, is celebrated as National Women's Day in Guinea Bissau.

paragraph: Section::::Guerrilla war.

paragraph: She is famed in Guinea Bissauan history as a martyr of the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence against Portugal, led by the PAIGC. Very young, Titina Silla joined the guerrilla war led by the charismatic Amílcar Cabral. She displayed remarkable organisational and leadership skills and became one of its most popular figures. Titina Silá was already famous within the movement in the early 1960s as an 18-year-old guerrilla leader on the North Front.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: She was killed in an encounter with the Portuguese military while crossing the Farim River with a group of other guerrillas. She was on her way to the funeral of Amílcar Cabral, the leader of PAIGC guerrillas, who was assassinated days earlier in Conakry (20 January 1973). After the events of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon and the independence of Portuguese Guinea as República da Guiné-Bissau in 1974, a monument was erected in her honor near the river Farim where she died and the date is marked as National Women's Day ("Dia Nacional da Mulher guineense") in Guinea Bissau. Numerous places and institutions in Guinea-Bissau are named for Silá, including Praça Titina Silá in Bissau (home to government ministries and foreign missions). Along with Cabral and Domingos Ramos, she is remembered as the most famous figures of the independence struggle.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Judy Kimble. The Struggle within the Struggle. "Feminist Review", No. 8 (Summer, 1981), pp. 107–111

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stephanie Urdang. Fighting Two Colonialisms: The Women's Struggle in Guinea-Bissau. "African Studies Review", Vol. 18, No. 3, Women in Africa (Dec., 1975), pp. 29–34.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Documentos Amílcar Cabral/ Fundação Mário Soares: Lucette Cabral, Titina Silá, Osvaldo Lopes da Silva, and Maria da Luz Boal photographed at an exchange of POWs during the independence struggle, Dakar, Senegal.

alias:
Ernestina Silla
Ernestina Silá
Titina Sila
Ernestina Sila

description: Bissau-Guinean resistance fighter

wikidata_label: Titina Silá

wikipedia_title: Titina Silla


text: Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford

text: Agnes of Essex

text: Magna Carta

text: Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford

text: Agnes of Essex

text: Isabel de Bolebec

text: Totnes

text: Devon

text: Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford

text: Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford

text: dower

text: Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk

text: knights' fees

text: John

text: Magna Carta

text: Runnymede

text: excommunicated

text: Pope Innocent III

text: Prince Louis

text: Castle Hedingham

text: homage

text: Rochester

text: Winchester

text: Henry III

text: Hatfield Regis Priory

text: Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford

text: Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford

text: Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford

categories: Magna Carta barons,People temporarily excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church,Anglo-Normans,People from Castle Hedingham,De Vere family,12th-century English people,12th-century births,Earls of Oxford,1221 deaths

paragraph: Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford

paragraph: Robert de Vere (after c. 1165 – before 25 October 1221), hereditary Master Chamberlain of England, was son of Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, and Agnes of Essex. He succeeded his brother as the third Earl of Oxford, and was one of the twenty-five guarantors of Magna Carta.

paragraph: Robert de Vere was the second surviving son of Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford, and his third wife, Agnes of Essex. The date of his birth is not known, but he was likely born after 1164. Almost nothing is known of his life until 1207, when he married Isabel de Bolebec, the widow of Henry de Nonant (d.1206) of Totnes, Devon. In 1206-7 Isabel and her sister Constance were co-heiresses of their niece, another Isabel de Bolebec, the countess of Oxford by her marriage to Robert's brother, Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford. They divided the barony of Whitchurch. The fact that aunt and niece had identical names, Isabel de Bolbec, and were successively countesses of Oxford and heiresses of Whitchurch has led to confusion between the two women.

paragraph: When Robert's brother, Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford, died in the latter half of 1214, Robert succeeded to his title and estates and the hereditary office of Master Chamberlain of England. The dower of Earl Aubrey's second wife, Alice (possibly his cousin, a daughter of Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk), had not been formalized. In 1215 Oxford settled his sister-in-law's dower by lot, the earl drawing two knights' fees for every one drawn by Alice. This is the only known instance of dower being settled in this manner.

paragraph: Oxford joined the disaffected barons who met at Stamford and forced King John to issue Magna Carta at Runnymede on 15 June 1215. The earl was elected one of the barons who were to guarantee the King's adherence to its terms. Together with other Magna Carta barons, he was excommunicated as a rebel by Pope Innocent III on 16 December 1215, and joined them in offering the crown to Prince Louis of France.

paragraph: Oxford took up arms against King John, but pledged loyalty to him after the King had taken Castle Hedingham in March 1216. Later in the same year, however, he did homage to Prince Louis at Rochester. Louis entered London and was proclaimed King. On 14 June 1216, he captured Winchester and soon controlled over half of England.

paragraph: In the midst of this crisis, King John died, prompting many of the barons to desert Louis in favor of John's nine-year-old son, Henry III. In 1217 Prince Louis retook Castle Hedingham and restored it to Oxford, but despite this Oxford transferred his allegiance to the new King in October 1217. Although he did homage to Henry, he was not fully restored in his offices and lands until February 1218.

paragraph: Earl Robert served as a king's justice in 1220-21, and died shortly before 25 October 1221.

paragraph: He was buried at Hatfield Regis Priory, where either his son, Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford, or his grandson, Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford had an effigy erected in which he is depicted in chain mail, cross-legged, pulling his sword from its scabbard and holding a shield displaying his de Vere arms.

paragraph: Section::::Issue.

paragraph: Robert de Vere and Isabel de Bolebec had a son, Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medieval Lands Project on Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford

wikidata_label: Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford

wikipedia_title: Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford


text:
Vienna
Siege of Vienna

categories: Mayors of Vienna,Year of birth missing,1540 deaths,People from Korneuburg District

paragraph: Wolfgang Treu

paragraph: Wolfgang Treu (died 1540, Vienna) was the mayor of Vienna from 1528 to 1530, 1532 to 1533 and 1536 to 1537. The Siege of Vienna occurred during his first term in office.

description: Austrian politician

wikidata_label: Wolfgang Treu

wikipedia_title: Wolfgang Treu


text: botanical artist

text: painter

text: Matthias Withoos

text: Amersfoort

text: Pieter

text: Maria

text: still life

text: Utrecht

text: Hoorn

text: Fijnschilder

text: Andries Cornelisz van Dalen

text: Vijverhof

text: Agnes Block

text: pineapple

text: Moninckx Atlas

text: Hortus Botanicus

text: Dutch East India Company

text: Wageningen University

text: Simon Schijnvoet

text: Amsterdam

text: Biography in Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon

text: Konstboeck

categories: Flower artists,People from Amersfoort,Botanical illustrators,Dutch Golden Age painters,1730 deaths,Dutch women painters,1661 births

paragraph: Alida Withoos

paragraph: Alida Withoos (c. 1661/62 – 5 December 1730 (buried)) was a Dutch botanical artist and painter. She was the daughter of the painter Matthias Withoos.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Alida Withoos was born in Amersfoort. With three brothers Johannes, Pieter, Frans, and her sister Maria, she was trained by her father in painting still lifes and botanical illustrations. Because of the invasion of Utrecht by the French, the family moved to Hoorn in 1672. In 1701, Alida married the Fijnschilder Andries Cornelisz van Dalen, a typical example of relations between artistic and painterly families in seventeenth and eighteenth century Holland.

paragraph: A training in painting was expensive and not often given to daughters, but talented daughters could be trained to work in the studio of their father, uncle, brother or spouse, often under his name. Unlike her husband, brothers and sister, Alida acquired a certain reputation painting under her own name, principally due to her botanical images. In Hoorn a number of the Withoos children were active as artists of flowers, birds, butterflies and insects. In inventories, such images were regularly called "Withoosjes".

paragraph: Alida was – with her brother Pieter – one of the many artists who painted plants on the country house place Vijverhof in the service of Agnes Block. She painted in 1687 (at Agnes Block's) the first pineapple bred in Europe, though these images have unfortunately not survived. Thirteen water colours that Alida made in 1694 for the coloured Moninckx Atlas, along with 425 images of plants in the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam (where plants brought back in the ships of the Dutch East India Company were grown in neat rows as at Block's house), have survived. The Library of Wageningen University own a book of drawings bought by the collector Simon Schijnvoet that includes 7 by Alida Withoos, perhaps made for Block. These give a good idea of the high quality of her work.

paragraph: She was buried in the Western Church in Amsterdam.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography in Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alida Withoos and her work – Digital exhibitions of Bibliotheek Wageningen UR

paragraph: BULLET::::- Konstboeck

description: painter from the Northern Netherlands

wikidata_label: Alida Withoos

wikipedia_title: Alida Withoos


text:
American football
cornerback
free agent
Philadelphia Eagles
undrafted free agent
college football
University of Oregon
All-American
Edison High School
T. J. McDonald
Rivals.com
Chip Kelly
Oregon Ducks football
Philadelphia Eagles
undrafted free agent
New York Jets
Claude Davis
Hillsboro
Buffalo Wild Wings
Oregon Ducks bio
Philadelphia Eagles bio

categories: Sportspeople from Fresno, California,Players of American football from California,Philadelphia Eagles players,American football return specialists,Oregon Ducks football players,1990 births,American football cornerbacks,Living people,All-American college football players

paragraph: Cliff Harris (cornerback)

paragraph: Cliff Jamaal Harris (born December 12, 1990) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2012. He played college football for the University of Oregon, and received All-American honors as a kick returner.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Harris attended Edison High School in Fresno, California, where he was a teammate of T. J. McDonald. Regarded as a four-star recruit by "Rivals.com", Harris was listed as the #7 cornerback prospect in the class of 2009.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Harris attended the University of Oregon, and played for coach Chip Kelly's Oregon Ducks football team from 2009 to 2011. Through the conclusion of the 2010 regular season, he had 33 solo tackles and five interceptions while also leading the nation with four punt return touchdowns and 20 passes defended. Harris was indefinitely suspended from playing after being pulled over in a car by Oregon State Police for traveling 118 miles per hour on Interstate 5 with a suspended license. He had been cited for the same pair of offenses in the recent past on multiple occasions. The trooper could also smell marijuana in the vehicle. When he asked who may currently be in possession of the drug, Harris memorably replied "We smoked it all", though at one point he also implied that someone else in the car, a cousin, was the only person using it. Harris was not charged with reckless driving as the trooper felt the car was under control. Following the indefinite suspension, Harris was dismissed from the Oregon football team December 5, 2011, after a series of traffic-related offenses and a reported citation for possession of marijuana.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Philadelphia Eagles.

paragraph: Harris was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2012. He was released on August 26, 2012.

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

paragraph: Harris was signed to a reserve/future contract by the New York Jets on January 4, 2013. He was waived on April 30, 2013 after he and teammate Claude Davis were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Harris was arrested May 3, 2013, outside a Hillsboro Buffalo Wild Wings for domestic harassment. He was seen and heard arguing with his girlfriend in the restaurant and pushing her outside. The woman did not press charges and Harris was released on bail. Days later, Harris was cited for speeding, passing in a no-passing zone, and driving without a license on his way to his court appearance. He told the deputy he was running late for his court appearance, and the deputy called the court to notify them of the situation, allowing extra time. When he did not appear on time for the adjusted appointment, the judge issued a warrant for his arrest. Harris did eventually appear in court, and was arrested upon arrival.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oregon Ducks bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philadelphia Eagles bio

description: All-American college football player, cornerback, kick returner

wikidata_label: Cliff Harris

wikipedia_title: Cliff Harris (cornerback)


text: Burmese

text: added to his name

text: India

text: Santiniketan

text: Nobel laureate

text: Rabindranath Tagore

text: Bagan

text: Peshawar

text: Afghanistan

text: Moscow

text: Picasso

text: Matisse

text: Kandinsky

text: Affandi

text: Rangoon University

text: mohinga

text: Indonesia

text: Singapore Art Museum

text: Santiniketan

text: Nandalal Bose

text: Affandi

text: AungSoeIllustrations.org

categories: 20th-century Burmese painters,Burmese artists,1990 deaths,1924 births,People from Yangon

paragraph: Aung Soe

paragraph: "Bagyi" Aung Soe ( ; 1924–1990) was a Burmese painter renowned for his modernistic, semi-abstract art, which caused such a shock in Burma when it appeared that many called it "psychopathic art". The name "Bagyi" is his phonetic spelling of the word "pangyi", meaning "painting", which he first added to his name in 1955.

paragraph: Section::::Santiniketan and Early Life in Burma.

paragraph: The Indian government offered him a scholarship in 1951 to study art at Santiniketan, founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, but he chose to return to Burma after only a year. He traveled throughout Burma studying its handicrafts, classical art and architecture, especially that of Bagan. In early 1953 one of Aung Soe's abstract paintings was published in "Shumawa" magazine, causing considerable controversy. Some said that the artist was mad.

paragraph: Section::::Trip to Peshawar, Afghanistan and Russia.

paragraph: In the winter of 1953 he was able to visit Peshawar, Afghanistan and Moscow for art studies. It has been alleged that in Russia he saw the works of modern European masters such as Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky, but this can hardly be true because the work of the European modern masters was in deep storage in Russia and unavailable to public view during the Stainist period and for many years afterwards. However, it is clear that Aung Soe was influenced by European painters such as Picasso and Matisse, probably Japanese painting (one work shows influence of "sumi-e"), and the work of painters at Santiniketan, both contemporary and deceased, whose works were in the Santiniketan Museum. During his time at Santiniketan, Aung Soe met the Indonesian expressionist painter Affandi, who also influenced him. In addition to these foreign influences, Aung Soe was deeply influenced by the long history of Burmese Traditional painting, stretching back to the time of Bagan, which can still be seen on the walls of temples of the old city there.

paragraph: Section::::Later life in Burma.

paragraph: After this, he had to depend on the Rangoon University library for art books as a source of inspiration. An eccentric, at times drunken and emotional, he had few friends in the artistic community, and few who shared his views on art. He worked alone, but did show his work in informal underground exhibitions, introducing concepts such as Cubism and Surrealism.

paragraph: To earn money, Bagyi Aung Soe painted for magazines and book covers until the end of his career. At times his family was so poor that his wife had to sell mohinga, a noodle soup, to support them. Bagyi Aung Soe suffered poverty and isolation and never found success during his life. He died in 1990, going deaf and blind.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Aung Soe thought deeply about the relevance of art in 20th-century Burma. According to Yin Ker, "He aspired for his paintings to be visual translations of Buddhist truths, not mere illustrations of episodes from the Buddha's previous lives or pretty pictures of pagodas and monks". In his later years, in poverty and with failing health, he became increasingly obsessed with creating an artistic idiom that reflected the Buddhist laws of impermanence. His biographer has said "he transposed his spiritual aspirations and experiences into his artistic mission statement and applied their practical methods to the act of creation".

paragraph: Though Aung Soe's talent was unrecognized during his life, he is now among the most admired and most famous of Burmese modern artists. Less than ten years after his death, his paintings fetched thousands of dollars in Indonesian art galleries. The organizer of a 2009 exhibition in his honor said "almost two decades after his death, his art continues to fascinate and stimulate".

paragraph: Section::::Museum Collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Singapore Art Museum

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santiniketan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nandalal Bose

paragraph: BULLET::::- Affandi

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'art fou ou art moderne birman selon les illustrations de Bagyi Aung Soe"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- AungSoeIllustrations.org - An open-access online database of periodical and book illustrations and covers by Bagyi Aung Soe (1923/24–1990).

description: painter

wikidata_label: Aung Soe

wikipedia_title: Aung Soe


text:
Senegal
Fogny
Foreign Minister of Senegal
Alfred Mondjannagni
Mamadou Diouf

categories: 2012 deaths,1919 births,Senegalese politicians

paragraph: Assane Seck

paragraph: Assane Seck (February 1, 1919 – 27 November 2012) was a Senegalese politician from Fogny. He served as Foreign Minister of Senegal from 1973–1978. He was said to be "forced into political retirement".

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Moyenne Casamance. Étude de géographie physique", 1955

paragraph: BULLET::::- (in collaboration with Alfred Mondjannagni), "L'Afrique occidentale", 1967

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les grandes villes d'Afrique et de Madagascar : Dakar", 1968

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dakar, métropole ouest-africaine", 1970 (thèse)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sénégal, émergence d'une démocratie moderne, (1945-2005) : un itinéraire politique" (préface de Djibril Samb), 2005

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Assane Seck, "Sénégal. Émergence d’une démocratie moderne (1945-2005). Un itinéraire politique", Karthala, Paris, 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Momar Coumba Diop et Mamadou Diouf, "Le Sénégal sous Abdou Diouf", Paris, Karthala, 1990

description: Senegalese politician

wikidata_label: Assane Seck

wikipedia_title: Assane Seck


text:
bandy
Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award
Associated Press
Boston College profile
USA Hockey profile

categories: 1988 births,People from Maplewood, Minnesota,Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award winners,Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey players,Minnesota Whitecaps players,American women's ice hockey players,Ice hockey people from Minnesota,Living people

paragraph: Allie Thunstrom

paragraph: In 2012, Thunstrom switched from hockey to speedskating in order to pursue her Olympic dreams. After competing in the 2014 Olympic Trials and missing out on the team. She also plays bandy, a sport almost exclusively played in Minnesota within the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:High school.

paragraph: At North St. Paul High School, she was the recipient of the 2006 Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award. She was named to the Associated Press All-State first-team in 2006. In addition, she was an All-Conference and All-State in soccer and softball in the state of Minnesota as well.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:NCAA.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:NCAA.:Boston College.

paragraph: Thunstrom never missed a game while competing for Boston College. She appeared in all 141 games in her four years. In her senior season (2009–10), she recorded 22 goals and seven assists. Thunstrom led the Eagles in goals and points and finished the season with the most goals scored in Hockey East.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Professional.:NWHL.

paragraph: On August 1, 2018, Thunstrom signed a contract with the Whitecaps, which also signified her first player contract with the NWHL.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allie Thunstrom, 2010 WHEA Second-Team All-Star

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allie Thunstrom, 2010 Frozen Four Skills Competition participant

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Boston College profile

paragraph: BULLET::::- USA Hockey profile

description: American ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Allie Thunstrom

wikipedia_title: Allie Thunstrom


text: Mino Province

text: daimyō

text: Takeda Nobutora

text: Takeda Shingen

text: Sezawa

text: Uehara

categories: 1501 births,1563 deaths,Takeda retainers,Samurai

paragraph: Tada Mitsuyori

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Mitsuyori was a native of the Mino Province.

paragraph: Section::::Warrior.

paragraph: He first served under the "daimyō" Takeda Nobutora, but later on served under Takeda Shingen, Nobutora's son.

paragraph: It is known that Mitsuyori fought in over 29 battles under Shingen, some of them being Sezawa of (1542) and Uehara of (1542). It is known that at night warfare, Mitsuyori was very skilled. In which he put to good use at Sezawa. In 1563, Mitsuyori died of illness.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Legendary Takeda's 24 Generals" at Yamanashi-kankou.jp

description: Japanese samurai

wikidata_label: Tada Mitsuyori

wikipedia_title: Tada Mitsuyori


text: Toronto, Ontario

text: Canada

text: Berlin

text: Theodore Durrant

text: Isadora Duncan

text: Vienna

text: Oscar Wilde

text: Salomé

text: Dance of the Seven Veils

text: silent film

text: MP

text: Noel Pemberton Billing

text: libel

text: defamatory

text: J. T. Grein

text: impresario

text: obscenities

text: Lord Alfred Douglas

text: necrophilia

text: Lord Chamberlain

text: Pat Barker

text: Philip Hoare

text: Maud Allan Papers, 1910–1934

text: Charles E. Young Research Library

text: University of California Los Angeles

text: Smithsonian Institution

text: Maud Allan on streetswing.com

categories: American erotic dancers,20th-century American actresses,Canadian erotic dancers,20th-century Canadian musicians,1956 deaths,LGBT dancers,20th-century Canadian actresses,Canadian film actresses,American film actresses,American expatriates in Germany,1873 births,20th-century American musicians,American female erotic dancers,LGBT musicians from Canada,LGBT musicians from the United States,Musicians from Toronto,Canadian emigrants to the United States,Actresses from Toronto

paragraph: Maud Allan

paragraph: Maud Allan (born Beulah Maude Durrant; 27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a Canadian pianist-turned-actress, dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her "impressionistic mood settings".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Allan was born Beulah Maude Durrant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sources give contradictory dates for her year of birth, ranging from 1873 through 1880. She spent her early years in San Francisco, moving to Germany in 1895 to study piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. She later changed her name, prompted in part by the scandal surrounding the crimes committed by her brother, Theodore Durrant, who was hanged in 1898 for the murder of two women in San Francisco. Allan never recovered from the trauma of this event. The execution was immediately followed by her abandonment of piano-playing and the development of a new means of self-expression in dance.

paragraph: Section::::Stage and dance career.

paragraph: In 1900, in need of money, Allan is said to have illustrated an encyclopaedia for women titled "Illustriertes Konversations-Lexikon der Frau". Shortly thereafter, she began dancing professionally. Although athletic, and having great imagination, she had little formal dance training. She was once compared to professional dancer and legend Isadora Duncan, which greatly enraged her, as she disliked Duncan.

paragraph: She designed and often sewed her own costumes, which were creative. In 1906 her production "Vision of Salomé" opened in Vienna. Based loosely on Oscar Wilde's play, "Salomé", her version of the "Dance of the Seven Veils" became famous (and to some notorious) and she was billed as "The Salomé Dancer". Her book "My Life and Dancing" was published in 1908 and that year she toured England, giving 250 performances in under a year.

paragraph: In 1910, she left Europe to travel. Over the next five years she visited the United States, Australia, Africa, and Asia. In 1915 she starred as "Demetra" in the silent film, "The Rug Maker's Daughter".

paragraph: Section::::Libel suit and later years.

paragraph: In 1918 the British MP Noel Pemberton Billing, in his own journal, "Vigilante", published an article, "The Cult of the Clitoris" which implied that Allan, then appearing in her "Vision of Salome", was a lesbian associate of German wartime conspirators.

paragraph: Allan sued Billing for libel, based on the following counts:

paragraph: BULLET::::- The act of publishing a defamatory article about Maud Allan and J. T. Grein, her impresario.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The act, a separate offence, of including obscenities within the article.

paragraph: This led to a sensational court case, at which Billing represented himself. Lord Alfred Douglas also testified in Billing's favour. Allan lost the case. The trial became entangled in obscenity charges brought forth by the state against the performance given by Allan in her dance. She was accused of practising many of the sexually charged acts depicted (or implied) in Wilde's writings herself, including necrophilia. The Lord Chamberlain's ban on public performances of Wilde's play was still in place in England and the "Salomé" dance was at risk. Her brother's crimes were also cited to suggest there was a background of sexual insanity in her family.

paragraph: Her name was given (as an alias) on arrest by a suffragette arrested near Stirling for an attack on Prime Minister Asquith. From the 1920s, Allan taught dance and lived with her secretary and lover, Verna Aldrich. Allan died in Los Angeles in 1956 aged 83.

paragraph: Section::::Fiction and theatre.

paragraph: Allan's "Salomé" dance, the reactions to it and its significance in terms of the sexual, social and political mores of the time appear in Pat Barker's 1993 novel "The Eye in the Door", the second part of the "Regeneration" trilogy. Allan's libel suit is the subject of a "fictography", "The Maud Allan Affair" by Russell James and a stage play "Salomania" by Mark Jackson, which premiered at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, CA in June 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philip Hoare, "Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy & The First World War" Duckworth, (1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Felix Cherniavsky, "Maud Allan and Her Art," Dance Collection Danse Presse (1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Toni Bentley, "Sisters of Salome," Yale University Press, 2002

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wendy Buonaventura, "Midnight Rose," Cinnabar Books, 2009

paragraph: BULLET::::- Russell James: "The Maud Allan Affair", Remember When, 2009

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maud Allan Papers, 1910–1934 (1 linear foot) are housed at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California Los Angeles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Henry Bradley Storrs Papers, 1847–1987 (18.4 linear feet) are housed at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Unspeakable Crime of Maud Allen". Cherished Television.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maud Allan on streetswing.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maud Allan on Bellydancers and Harem Girls

paragraph: BULLET::::- Felix Cherniavsky: "Maud Allan and Her Art"

description: choreographer

wikidata_label: Maud Allan

wikipedia_title: Maud Allan