text:
Chinese
Yuan
Ming
Huang Gongwang
Wu Zhen
Wang Meng
Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty
Wuxi
courtesy name
art name
Kublai Khan
Song
Confucian
Yellow River
Red Turban Revolt
bamboo painting
Ming Dynasty
Cahill, James
Ni Zan and his painting gallery
Met Museum
Sung and Yuan paintings

categories: 1301 births,Ming dynasty Taoists,1374 deaths,Ming dynasty painters,Yuan dynasty painters,Painters from Wuxi

image: 512px-Портрет_Ни_Цзаня_ок_1340_Аноним.Гугун,_Тайбэй..jpg

paragraph: Ni Zan

paragraph: Ni Zan (; 1301–1374) was a Chinese painter during the Yuan and early Ming periods. Along with Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen, and Wang Meng, he is considered to be one of the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Ni Zan was born into a wealthy family in Wuxi. His courtesy name was Yuan Zhen (元鎮), and his art names were Yun Lin Zi (雲林子), Huan Xia Sheng (幻霞生), and Jing Man Min (荊蠻民). He was born after the death of the Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler who defeated the Song and established dominance over all the areas that had traditionally been considered China. The Yuan rulers did not trust many of the Confucian scholars and instead preferred to appoint Mongolians and Muslims to administrative positions. Ni Zan was born into an elite family who could afford the cost of a rigorous Confucian education for him in spite of the unavailability of high-paying governmental jobs that traditionally were the reward for such an education. He was one of a number of wealthy scholars and poets who were part of a movement that radically altered traditional conceptions of Chinese painting. Their paintings depicted representations of natural settings that were highly localized, portraying personally valued vistas that reflected their individual feelings.

paragraph: During the 1340s a number of droughts and floods caused a famine throughout Ni Zan's region, which subsequently led to peasant revolts. These revolts peaked in 1350 due to the government’s use of forced labor to repair the dikes on the Yellow River. Throughout the 1340s, the Yuan rulers also imposed heavy taxes on the rich landowners of the region in order to cover the cost of the ongoing natural disasters. There are many divergent opinions concerning Ni Zan’s reaction to these taxes, and his ensuing actions are unclear. However, it has been established that he distributed all of his possessions to his friends and moved into a houseboat. He left on the eve of the millenarianist Red Turban Revolt and travelled throughout the relatively peaceful southeast while various revolutionary parties tore through his region of origin. It was at this time that Ni Zan developed his distinctive style.

paragraph: Ni Zan's landscapes after 1345 all take very much the same form: ink-monochrome paintings of widely separated riverbanks rendered in sketch brushwork and foreground trees silhouetted against the expanse of water. His sparse landscapes never represent people and defy many traditional concepts of Chinese painting. Many of his works hardly represent the natural settings they were intended to depict. Indeed, Ni Zan consciously used his art as a medium of self-expression. In 1364, he said “I use bamboo painting to write out the exhilaration in my breast, that is all. Why should I worry whether it shows likeness or not?”

paragraph: Ni Zan travelled around southern China during the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty and spent his time painting. During his lifetime, his work was highly valued and in itself was enough to pay for the hospitality provided by his friends as he travelled. He returned to his hometown in 1371 after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. In 1372, he painted his "Rongxi Studio", which epitomizes his style.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Masterpieces of Chinese Art" (page 90), by Rhonda and Jeffrey Cooper, Todtri Productions, 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cahill, James. Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty: 1279-1368. New York: Weatherhill, 1976. 114-120.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th-14th Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Siren, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading masters and principles. Vol. IV. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1973. 79-84.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Xin, Yan, Nie Chongzhen, Lang Shaojin, Richard M. Barnhart, James Cahill, and Wu Hung. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vandier-Nicolas, Nicole, Peinture chinoise et tradition lettrée, Paris : Seuil. 173-177.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会）. Ci hai （辞海）. Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she （上海辞书出版社）, 1979.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ni Zan and his painting gallery at China Online Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Met Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sung and Yuan paintings, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Ni Zan (see list of paintings)

alias:
Hsiao-hsien
Xiaoxian
倪元镇
Tsan
倪幻霞
Zan Ni
Ching-man-min
Huanxia Ni
Yunling Ni
Huan-hsia-shêng
zi Yuanzhen
倪珽
倪泰宇
云林子
Tung-hai
Ni Tsan
倪雲林
Lan Zan
Yuanlang Xi
Jingming jushi
Yunlin Ni
Yunlinzi
Ching-ming Chü-chih
Yunlin
Yün-lin
Hsien-ch'ing
Taiyu Ni
Donghai
Lan Tsan
Yüan-chên
Ting Ni
Huan-hsia-sheng
Huanxiasheng
Yuanzhen
Xianqing
Hsüan-ying
Ting
倪瓒
Yuanzhen Ni
倪云林
Hsi Yüan-lang
Jingmanmin
Chu-yang-kuan-chu
Yunlinjushi
Zhuyang guanzhu
hao Yunlin
Xuanying

description: Chinese painter

wikidata_label: Ni Zan

wikipedia_title: Ni Zan


text:
Hangzhou
Hanlin Academy
Taiping Rebellion
Wang Hui
Tang Yifen
Hummel, Arthur W., Sr.
Oxford
China On site

categories: 1860 deaths,Qing dynasty painters,1801 births,Painters from Zhejiang,Artists from Hangzhou

paragraph: Dai Xi

paragraph: Dai Xi () (1801 – 1860) was a Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner. His sobriquet was Chunshi (醇士) or “Pure-Minded Scholar” and his pen name was Yu'an (榆庵） or “Elm Retreat”, among others.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Dai Xi was a native of Qiantang (钱塘）near the cultural center of Hangzhou, although Dai　spent many years in Guangzhou. In 1832 he joined officialdom, becoming a member of the Hanlin Academy. He later became Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, although absenting himself later for illness.

paragraph: During the Taiping Rebellion Hangzhou was occupied by the rebels in 1860. Dai joined in the defense of the city and later committed suicide there by drowning himself in a pond. Dai was subsequently given the posthumous title Wenjie or “Cultured and Moderate.” Dai Xi painted in the manner of the great academic master Wang Hui of the previous century, although Dai Xi was said to have exceeded the master in artistic elegance. His work is similar to that of his contemporary Tang Yifen and together they were referred to as "Tang-Dai". Dai's works are usually landscapes. His works include a generous mixture of genre subjects such as plants and humans.

paragraph: In 1920 and in 1934 published collections of his paintings appeared in China. Dai was also an avid coin collector, publishing a three volume (卷) work on the subject "Guchuan zonghua" (古泉丛话).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hummel, Arthur W., Sr., "Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period", Library of Congress, Washington, 1943, pp. 700–701.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford(37) Oxford

paragraph: BULLET::::- China On site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lawrence Sickman, Eight dynasties of Chinese Paintings, Cleveland Museum of Arts, 1980

alias:
Yu'an
Xikuzhai
Tai Hsi
Chunsi
Shunshi
Jiuhuashuwu
Chunmengan
Dai Chunshi
Songping Dai
Chunshi
Chunxi
Mengxin
Feinan
Luchuangjushi
Tai Si
Dai Xi
Dongjingjushi
Songping
Zhushutang
Youshi
Xi Dai
Jingdongjushi
Wenjie
Luchuang
Chunxi Dai
Lunyan
Ciyanzhai
Yuan
Jiufeng
Dài Xī

description: Chinese artist

wikidata_label: Dai Xi

wikipedia_title: Dai Xi


text: Kingston-upon-Hull

text: Northwest Passage

text: Hudson Bay

text: Foxe Basin

text: Foxe Peninsula

text: Hudson Strait

text: Southampton Island

text: Roes Welcome Sound

text: Port Nelson, Manitoba

text: Thomas Button

text: Thomas James

text: Foxe Channel

text: Foxe Basin

text: Kingston-upon-Hull

text: John Knight

text: Greenland

text: Robert Bylot

text: William Baffin

text: Sir Thomas Button

text: Henry Hudson

text: George Waymouth

text: Henry Briggs

text: pinnace

text: Royal Navy

text: Bristol

text: Thomas James

text: Sir Thomas Roe

text: Sir John Wolstenholme

text: Whitby

text: Kirkwall

text: Frobisher Bay

text: Cape Chidley

text: Hudson's Strait

text: Resolution Island

text: Coats Island

text: north-west passage

text: Southampton Island

text: sepulture

text: Hudson Bay

text: Nelson River

text: Cape Henrietta Maria

text: James Bay

text: Cape Pembroke

text: Baffin Land

text: Cape Chidley

text: English Channel

text: Trinity House

text: Whitby

text: Stationers' Company

text: Roes Welcome Sound

text: Thomas Roe

text: Cape Dorset

text: Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset

text: Dorset culture

text: Paleo-Eskimo

text: Inuit

text: Arctic

text: Ottawa Islands

categories: Explorers of the Arctic,English explorers,1586 births,British polar explorers,1635 deaths,People from Kingston upon Hull,English explorers of North America,17th-century explorers,Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)

paragraph: Luke Foxe

paragraph: Luke Foxe (or Fox) (20 October 1586 – c. 15 July 1635) was an English explorer, born in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, who searched for the Northwest Passage across North America. In 1631, he sailed much of the western Hudson Bay before concluding no such passage was possible. Foxe Basin, Foxe Channel and Foxe Peninsula were named after him.

paragraph: He left the Thames in May 1631 in the "Charles", took 20 days to work through Hudson Strait, reaching the Bay on 11 July. Blocked by ice to the northward, he went south of Southampton Island to Roes Welcome Sound and south along the west shore to Port Nelson, Manitoba where he found Thomas Button's winter camp of 18 years before, turned north-east, met Thomas James on 29 August, went north into Foxe Channel and into the lower part of Foxe Basin, turned back at 66°47'N, passed Hudson Strait in 10 days and reached England in October without any deaths among his crew.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: The son of Richard Fox, seaman and assistant of the Trinity House at Kingston-upon-Hull, he was born at Hull 20 October 1586. He acquired knowledge of seamanship in voyages southward to France, Spain, and the Mediterranean, and northward to the Baltic, Denmark, and Norway, also working along the coasts of England and crossing the North Sea. In 1606 he offered his services as mate to John Knight for a voyage to Greenland, but was rejected as too young.

paragraph: Section::::Greenland voyage.

paragraph: After Hawkridge's abortive voyage of 1619, Foxe became the successor of Robert Bylot and William Baffin (1615) in Arctic exploration. In the meantime voyages had been made by Sir Thomas Button in 1612, by Henry Hudson in 1606, after George Waymouth in 1585-7 [probably 1605]. Foxe's first patron was Henry Briggs, who with Sir John Brooke, directed royal attention to Foxe's voyage. The project first took shape in 1629, in a "Petition of Luke Fox to the king for a small supply of money towards the discovery of a passage by the north-west to the South Sea, Hudson and Sir Thomas Button having discovered a great way, and given great hopes of opening the rest". A pinnace of the Royal Navy of seventy tons was placed at the disposal of the adventurers, but the setting forth was deferred until the following year. In the interval Briggs died; half the adventurers having dropped out, the voyage might have been abandoned, but for news that Bristol merchants had projected a similar voyage from their port (under Thomas James, leaving left Bristol 3 May 1631). London merchants, with Sir Thomas Roe and Sir John Wolstenholme, supported Foxe in the "Charles" pinnace with a crew of twenty men and two boys victualled for eighteen months.

paragraph: Foxe sailed from the Pool below London Bridge 30 April 1631. He anchored off Whitby, where he landed, and reached Kirkwall in Orkney on 19 May. Sailing due west on the sixtieth parallel he made land 20 June on the north side of Frobisher Bay; two days later he sighted Cape Chidley, off the south shore of Hudson's Strait, six leagues distant. Passing Resolution Island two leagues south on 23 June, his crew saw in the harbour on the west side the smoke of the camp-fire of Captain James, who had put in there for repairs. From this date until 11 July Foxe worked his way along the north shore of Hudson's Strait until he reached a position between Mill and Salisbury Islands.

paragraph: From this point Foxe sailed south of Coats Island until 19 July, when he commenced his search for the north-west passage. On 27 July he reached the furthest point of Button's voyage, on Southampton Island, where he found traces of native sepulture. Prohibited by his instructions from proceeding to a higher latitude than 63° N. in this direction, he turned southward along the west shore of Hudson Bay until 27 August, when he entered the mouth of the Nelson River, where he found the remaining half of an inscribed board erected by Button, which he replaced by a new one of his own. He sailed on E.S.E. sixty-one leagues until 30 August, when he met his rival, Captain James, in the "Maria" of Bristol, with whom, after some trouble in getting on board, he dined and spent seventeen hours.

paragraph: Foxe then proceeded on his course down to 55° 14', later known as Cape Henrietta Maria, at the head of James Bay. On 3 September he turned the head of his ship northward until he reached Cape Pembroke on Coats Island five days later. From 15 to 20 September Foxe made observations on the channel that bears his name on the west shore of what is now Baffin Land. On 22 September he turned homeward, among the numerous islands and sounds off the north shore of Hudson's Strait. Foxe found himself once more off Resolution Island, at the entrance to the strait. On 5 October he made Cape Chidley.

paragraph: Foxe's course homeward was south-east to the English Channel instead of the shorter, but more dangerous one by way of the North Sea. On 31 October he came into the Downs with all his crew safe.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Foxe was financially burdened after the voyage. He became a younger brother of Trinity House, and died at Whitby in July 1635.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Foxe is best known for the work which contains the results of his voyage: "North-west Fox, or Fox from the Northwest Passage . . . with briefe Abstracts of the Voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge ... Mr. James Hall's three Voyages to Groynland ... with the Author his owne Voyage, being the xvith ... T. Fawcett and B. Alsop, imp. London", 1635. It was entered for the Stationers' Company 15 December 1634. It was accompanied by a large folded map of the Arctic regions.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Foxe gave names to 27 locations during his voyages, eight of which exist in current usage. These include Roes Welcome Sound, named after his friend and sponsor, Sir Thomas Roe and Cape Dorset, named after Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset on 24 September 1631. In the 20th century this cape gave its name to the Dorset culture—a Paleo-Eskimo culture (500 BC – AD 1500) that preceded the Inuit culture in Arctic North America—whose remains were first found there.

paragraph: Thus, this name could also be indirectly attributed to Captain Foxe.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ottawa Islands

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

description: English explorer

wikidata_label: Luke Foxe

wikipedia_title: Luke Foxe


text:
Colonel
Irish
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Surgeon
Bombay Medical Service
Indian Army
Karen-Ni Expedition, Burma
Lwekaw
Burma (now Myanmar)
sepoy
Colonel
Order of the Indian Empire
Wells
Somerset
The Register of the Victoria Cross
Ireland's VCs
Monuments to Courage
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross
Location of grave and VC medal
Colonel J. Crimmin

categories: Companions of the Order of the Bath,19th-century Irish people,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,People from Dublin (city),Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire,1945 deaths,Irish soldiers in the British Indian Army,1859 births

paragraph: John Crimmin

paragraph: Colonel John Crimmin (19 March 1859 – 20 February 1945) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He also served as the Hon. Physician to H.M. The King.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: He was 29 years old, and a Surgeon in the Bombay Medical Service, Indian Army during the Karen-Ni Expedition, Burma when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

paragraph: On 1 January 1889, in the action near Lwekaw, Eastern Karenni, Burma (now Myanmar), a lieutenant and four men charged into a large body of the enemy and two men were wounded. Surgeon John Crimmin attended one of them under enemy fire and he then joined the firing line and helped in driving the enemy from small clumps of trees where they had taken shelter. Later while Surgeon Crimmin was attending a wounded man several of the enemy rushed out at him. He thrust his sword through one of them, attacked a second and a third dropped from the fire of a sepoy. The remainder fled.

paragraph: He later achieved the rank of Colonel and served in the Indian Medical Service, for which was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1901.

paragraph: He died at Woodward House, Wells, Somerset, 20 February 1945.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Register of the Victoria Cross" (1981, 1988 and 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ireland's VCs" (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Monuments to Courage" (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross" (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of grave and VC medal "(Somerset)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Colonel J. Crimmin

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: John Crimmin

wikipedia_title: John Crimmin


text:
VC
DCM
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
West Hatch
Somerset
Merthyr Tydfil
Boer War
Ladysmith
London Blitz
Bedlinog
Welsh Horse Yeomanry
Gallipoli
Hill 60
Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
British Army
corporal
Battle of Beersheba
Beersheba
Palestine
sergeant
George V
Buckingham Palace
Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum
Caernarfon Castle

categories: 1951 deaths,People from Taunton Deane (district),Royal Welch Fusiliers soldiers,Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal,British Army personnel of World War I,British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross,British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross,1880 births

paragraph: John Collins (VC)

paragraph: John Collins VC, DCM (10 September 1880 – 3 September 1951) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Born in West Hatch, Somerset, his family moved to Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, when he was 10 years old.

paragraph: He enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery in 1895 and served in South Africa during the Boer War and was one of the first troops to enter Ladysmith with the relief column. He also saw service in India. Although his war records were destroyed during the London Blitz of 1940, it is likely that he left the Army in 1907, when he worked as a collier at the Bedlinog Colliery.

paragraph: He enlisted in the newly formed Welsh Horse Yeomanry in 1915 and the regiment was sent to Gallipoli (it had been converted to an infantry regiment) and carried out mining and sapping duties in the area around Hill 60. They were evacuated to Egypt as part of the last British troops to leave the peninsula. The Welsh Horse provided part of the garrison in the Libyan desert until January 1917, when they were merged with the 1/1 Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and then formed the 25th Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, British Army. During the last week of October, the 25 RWF were positioned on the right of the 74 Division, in the centre of the line where, along with 24 RWF they were to be the brigade's two attacking battalions. At this time, Collins was 37 years old, and an acting corporal when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

paragraph: On 31 October 1917, during the Battle of Beersheba at Wadi Saba, Beersheba, Palestine, when, after deployment, prior to an attack, his battalion was forced to lie out in the open under heavy shell and machine-gun fire which caused many casualties. Corporal Collins repeatedly went out under heavy fire and brought back many wounded to cover, thus saving many lives. In subsequent operations throughout the day, he was conspicuous in rallying and leading his command. He led the final assault with the utmost skill in spite of heavy fire at close range and uncut wire. He bayoneted 15 of the enemy and with a Lewis gun section, pressed on beyond the objective and covered the reorganization and consolidation most effectively although isolated and under fire from snipers and guns.

paragraph: He later achieved the rank of sergeant.

paragraph: He was decorated with the Victoria Cross by HM King George V at Buckingham Palace on 1 June 1918. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, Wales, where there is a plaque in the entrance to his memory. A painting of Collins by G Ethridge is on display at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery.

description: recipient of the Victoria Cross, born 1880

wikidata_label: John Collins

wikipedia_title: John Collins (VC)


text:
Lieutenant Colonel
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Prestonfield House
Edinburgh
lieutenant
The Gordon Highlanders
British Army
Second Anglo-Afghan War
Sherpur Pass
Afghanistan
South Africa
Second Boer War
siege of Ladysmith
Gordon Highlanders Museum
Ladysmith
Cheltenham
Duddingston Kirk
Edinburgh
Philorth
Monuments to Courage
The Register of the Victoria Cross
Scotland's Forgotten Valour

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,British Army personnel of the Second Boer War,Second Anglo-Afghan War recipients of the Victoria Cross,British military personnel killed in the Second Boer War,Gordon Highlanders officers,1851 births,People from Edinburgh,1900 deaths

paragraph: William Dick-Cunyngham

paragraph: Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Dick-Cunyngham VC (16 June 1851 – 6 January 1900) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Dick-Cunynigham was the youngest son of Sir William Hanmer Dick-Cunyngham, 8th Baronet of Prestonfield and Lambrughton. The family lived at Prestonfield House in south Edinburgh.

paragraph: Section::::Military career and VC details.

paragraph: He was 28 years old, and a lieutenant in The Gordon Highlanders, British Army during the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the following deed took place on 13 December 1879 during the attack on the Sherpur Pass, Afghanistan for which he was awarded the VC.

paragraph: In 1899 he was appointed in command of the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, which was sent to South Africa for the Second Boer War.

paragraph: While in South Africa, he was killed in action at the siege of Ladysmith, on 6 January 1900.

paragraph: Section::::Medal and memorials.

paragraph: His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland.

paragraph: His grave is in Ladysmith Cement in South Africa. and his name appears on the Boer War Memorial in Cheltenham England.

paragraph: He is also memorialised with his siblings in Duddingston Kirkyard in Edinburgh. A memorial tablet inside the church remembers his only son, St John William Keith Dick-Cunyngham who was drowned near the family home of Philorth Castle in 1897 while trying to rescue his best friend.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995)

description: Scottish military officer

wikidata_label: William Henry Dick-Cunyngham

wikipedia_title: William Dick-Cunyngham


text: VC

text: Irish

text: Victoria Cross

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: Newmills

text: Dungannon

text: County Tyrone

text: Ireland

text: Private

text: Royal Irish Fusiliers

text: British Army

text: First World War

text: Messines

text: Belgium

text: killed in action

text: Ypres Salient

text: Belgium

text: Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum

text: Armagh

text: Northern Ireland

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

text: Ireland's VCs

text: Monuments to Courage

text: Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross

categories: British military personnel killed in World War I,People from Dungannon,British Army personnel of World War I,Royal Irish Fusiliers soldiers,1891 births,Recipients of the Cross of St. George,1915 deaths,Irish World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross

paragraph: Robert Morrow

paragraph: Robert Morrow VC (7 September 1891 – 26 April 1915) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Morrow was born in Newmills, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland. He was 23 years old, and a Private in the 1st Battalion, The Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

paragraph: On 12 April 1915 near Messines, Belgium, Private Morrow rescued and carried to places of comparative safety several men who had been buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. He carried out this work on his own initiative and under heavy fire from the enemy.

paragraph: He was killed in action at St. Jan on the Ypres Salient, Belgium, on 26 April 1915 and is buried in White House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery. His gravestone bears the inscription: .

paragraph: His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Register of the Victoria Cross" (1981, 1988 and 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ireland's VCs" (Dept of Economic Development 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Monuments to Courage" (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross" (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, Four Courts, 2000 )

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Robert Morrow

wikipedia_title: Robert Morrow


text:
VC
Ballinasloe
County Galway
Irish
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
private
75th Regiment of Foot
The Gordon Highlanders
British Army
Indian Mutiny
Delhi
India
colour-sergeant
Cork
The Register of the Victoria Cross
Ireland's VCs
Monuments to Courage
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross
Location of grave and VC medal

categories: People from Ballinasloe,1824 births,1889 deaths,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,Gordon Highlanders soldiers,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,Irish soldiers in the British Army,British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross

paragraph: Patrick Green

paragraph: Patrick Green VC (1824 – 19 July 1889) was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: He was approximately 33 years old, and a private in the 75th Regiment of Foot (later The Gordon Highlanders), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 11 September 1857 at Delhi, India, for which he was awarded the VC.

paragraph: He later achieved the rank of colour-sergeant. He died in Cork.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of grave and VC medal "(Co. Cork)"

description: British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient

wikidata_label: Patrick Green

wikipedia_title: Patrick Green


text:
VC
English
Victoria Cross
troop sergeant-major
9th Lancers
British Army
Indian Mutiny
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
2nd Sikh War
Indian Mutiny
Good Conduct Medal
regimental sergeant-major
Great Marlow
All Saints Church
Derby Museum

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,1886 deaths,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,1827 births,People from Woburn, Bedfordshire,9th Queen's Royal Lancers soldiers

paragraph: David Rushe

paragraph: David Rushe VC (28 April 1827 – 6 November 1886) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Rushe was 30 years old, and a troop sergeant-major in the 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

paragraph: Rushe received his Victoria Cross from Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 4 January 1860. This joined his medals for the 1st and 2nd Sikh Wars and the Indian Mutiny. He also received the Good Conduct Medal and the Long Service Medal.

paragraph: Section::::Further information.

paragraph: He later achieved the rank of regimental sergeant-major. Rushe died on 6 November 1886 at Great Marlow and was buried without a stone at All Saints Church. His widow sold the medal, but his descendants re-purchased the medal in 1959 and later lent in to be displayed at his regimental museum within Derby Museum.

description: Victoria Cross holder

wikidata_label: David Rushe

wikipedia_title: David Rushe


text:
Antwerp
folk singer
De Brug van Willebroek
kleinkunst
Home Sweet Home
Benoît Lamy
Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord

categories: Belgian male singers,Belgian puppeteers,2008 deaths,1937 births,Belgian male guitarists,20th-century Belgian singers,Flemish musicians,Belgian folk singers,Belgian artists,Dutch-language singers of Belgium,Belgian male poets,People from Antwerp,21st-century Belgian singers,20th-century male singers,Ark Prize of the Free Word winners,20th-century guitarists,Belgian sculptors,21st-century male singers

paragraph: Wannes Van de Velde

paragraph: Wannes Van de Velde (29 April 1937 – 10 November 2008), born Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde, in Antwerp, was a Flemish folk singer, guitarist, musician, poet, puppeteer and artist. He is most famous for his songs "Ik Wil deze Nacht in de Straten Verdwalen" (1973), "Mijn Mansarde" and "De Brug van Willebroek" (1990). His work is often categorized as kleinkunst. Van de Velde was known for singing in his local dialect.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His father, Jaak Van de Velde, was a metal worker and talented singer, his mother a housewife and singer. He grew up in the Zirkstraat, near the Antwerp Red Light district. At home the young boy was always surrounded by music.

paragraph: His song "Ik Wil Deze Nacht in De Straten Verdwalen" was written for the film "Home Sweet Home" by Benoît Lamy.

paragraph: In 1997 he received the Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord.

paragraph: Van de Velde died at Antwerp on 10 November 2008, aged 71.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 - Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord for his music.

description: artist, musician, poet, singer

wikidata_label: Wannes Van de Velde

wikipedia_title: Wannes Van de Velde


text: phrenologist

text: octagon house

text: Cohocton, New York

text: Ashland Academy

text: Amherst College

text: phrenological

text: phrenology

text: Lydia Folger Fowler

text: American Phrenological Journal

text: Philadelphia

text: Pennsylvania

text: Fowler & Wells

text: Fishkill, New York

text: Elizabeth, New Jersey

text: Charlotte Fowler Wells

text: Boston

text: Massachusetts

text: Manchester

text: Sharon, New York

text: Fowler, Colorado

text: psychology

text: children's rights

text: child labor

text: Walt Whitman

text: Leaves of Grass

text: Octagon house

text: Fowler, Colorado

text: Inventory of octagon houses

categories: People from Sharon, New York,People from Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts,1809 births,Amherst College alumni,People from Fishkill, New York,People from Elizabeth, New Jersey,Scientists from Philadelphia,Phrenologists,1887 deaths

paragraph: Orson Squire Fowler

paragraph: Orson Squire Fowler (October 11, 1809 – August 18, 1887) was a phrenologist and lecturer. He also popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: The son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler, he was born in Cohocton, New York, He prepared for college at Ashland Academy and studied at Amherst College, graduating in the class of 1834.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: With his brother Lorenzo Niles Fowler, he opened a phrenological office in New York City. Orson wrote and lectured on phrenology, preservation of health, popular education and social reform from 1834 to 1887. Lorenzo and his wife Lydia Folger Fowler lectured frequently with Orson on the subject of phrenology. The three were "in large measure" responsible for the mid-19th century popularity of phrenology. The practice of phrenology was frequently used to justify slavery and to advance a belief in African-American inferiority. Fowler wrote that coarse hair correlated with coarse fibers in the brain, and indicated coarse feelings; that, he wrote, suggested that people of African descent had poor verbal skills and traits that were best suited for nursing children or waiting on tables. At the same time, the phrenological journal edited by Fowler and his brother expressed strong abolitionist sentiments, calling slavery a "a monstrous evil." Fowler's writings were also anti-Semitic. For instance, in "Hereditary Descent" (1843), Fowler wrote that Jewish people were hereditarily acquisitive, deceitful, and destructive (phrenology believes that none of these "organs" are negative as such, but all can be used for good).

paragraph: Orson edited and published the "American Phrenological Journal", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1838 to 1842. He was a partner with Fowler & Wells, publishers, New York, from 1846 to 1854, residing in Fishkill, New York, and Elizabeth, New Jersey. His sister, Charlotte Fowler Wells, and her husband, were involved in the publishing house, and after it became a stock company, she served as president.

paragraph: He moved his office to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1863, residing in Manchester from 1863 to 1880. He resided in Sharon, New York, from 1883 until August 18, 1887, when he died.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Fowler was married three times: to Mrs. Eliza (Brevoort) Chevalier; to Mrs. Mary (Aiken) Poole; and to Abbie L. Ayres. He had three children.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: The town of Fowler, Colorado, is named for Fowler. Fowler too had an influence on modern psychology. He is remembered as a man of universal reform who preached for education, temperance, and equality. Orson, like his sister-in-law Lydia Fowler, held forth for the equality for women at a time when women had virtually no legal rights in the United States. Orson stood for children's rights when child labor was quite acceptable in the burgeoning industrial factories of his country. Fowler as a book seller and publisher was crucial in the original publication of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and other works.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Memory and intellectual improvement" (1841)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Physiology, Animal and Mental" (1842)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Matrimony, or Phrenology applied to the Selection of Companions" (1842)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Self Culture and Perfection of Character" (1843)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Education and Self-improvement"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hereditary Descent, its Laws and Facts applied to Human Improvement" (1843)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Religion; Natural and Revealed" (1844)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love and Parentage" (1844)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Maternity: or the Bearing and Nursing of Children" (1848)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Octagon House: A Home for All" (1848, the 1853 edition reprinted with new illustrations 1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Self Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology" (1849), with Lorenzo Fowler

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sexual Science" (1870)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Phrenology proved, illustrated and applied"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Amativeness"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Human Science of Phrenology"(1873)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Creative and Sexual Science, or Manhood, Womanhood, and their Interrelations (1875)"

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Octagon house for more information on Fowler's architectural influence

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Applegate, Debby. "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher". Doubleday, 2006.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martin, John H. Orson Squire Fowler: Phrenology and Octagon Houses

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fowler, Colorado; named for O.S. Fowler

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inventory of octagon houses

description: American phrenologist and lecturer

wikidata_label: Orson Squire Fowler

wikipedia_title: Orson Squire Fowler


text:
Bitch
Grammy Award
Heart
the Graces
Lay Down Your Arms
Capitol Records
Bitch
Grammy Awards
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
Best Rock Song
Blurring the Edges
"Billboard" 200
UK Albums Chart
David Ricketts
David and David
Lilith Fair
Argentina
the Rolling Stones
Deconstruction
Snake Eyes
Bad Bad One
Jennifer Love Hewitt
BareNaked
VH1
Divas Las Vegas
Celine Dion
Anastacia
SLG Records
Bad Bad One
Shine
Dr. Phil
If I Could Be...
Sony Music Entertainment
Becca
I'm a Mess
Bebe Rexha
Kissing Booth
Meredith Brooks Top 40 Mainstream Page

categories: Singers from Oregon,Guitarists from Oregon,20th-century American guitarists,Corvallis High School (Oregon) alumni,APRA Award winners,American singer-songwriters,1958 births,Musicians from Corvallis, Oregon,American female guitarists,20th-century women musicians,People from Oregon City, Oregon,Songwriters from Oregon,Living people,American female singer-songwriters

paragraph: Meredith Brooks

paragraph: Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for her 1997 hit song "Bitch", for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Brooks started her music career in 1976 as a member of an all-female band called Sapphire, based in Eugene, Oregon, touring and recording with CMS Records in the Pacific Northwest. Her bandmates were Janis Gaines, Cynthia Larsen, Patricia French and Pam Johnson. Seeking greater success, Brooks pushed the band to move to Seattle without Gaines on keyboards, reducing Sapphire to a foursome. In Seattle, Sapphire recorded at Kaye-Smith Studios at the same time as Heart. When this version of the band split in 1982, Brooks moved to Los Angeles to develop a solo career, releasing an album titled "Meredith Brooks" in 1986, which saw limited success in Mexico. In 1987, she joined Charlotte Caffey and Gia Ciambotti to form the trio the Graces, releasing the single "Lay Down Your Arms" which rose to number 56 on "Billboard"s charts. The Graces subsequently released an album, "Perfect View", and three more singles, but these did not chart, and the Graces were dropped from the A&M label in 1991.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Solo career.

paragraph: In 1995, Brooks landed a solo contract with Capitol Records. After two years, her first single, "Bitch", was released, and she was nominated twice for the 1998 Grammy Awards, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song. The single went Platinum in Australia.

paragraph: Her album "Blurring the Edges" achieved Platinum sales, peaking at 22 on the "Billboard" 200 and 5 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was produced by David Ricketts, formerly of David and David, and he also played keyboards (among other instruments) on the album. Brooks toured in the US and Europe in 1997 and 1998 to support the album, and also participated in the Lilith Fair music festival tour in both of those years.

paragraph: On March 30, 1998, in Argentina, she opened for the Rolling Stones. During her set the crowd demanded the Stones and became violent, throwing objects including rocks and tampons at the stage and bruising her eye. She appeared again the next day wearing an Argentine soccer shirt, but the crowd again threw things at her, so after singing "Bitch" she threw the shirt on the ground and walked off.

paragraph: In 1999, Brooks recorded her second album, "Deconstruction." The track "Sin City" was recorded for the movie "Snake Eyes."

paragraph: In 2002, Brooks signed with independent label Gold Circle Records. She worked on her third album, "Bad Bad One". The label folded immediately after releasing the album.

paragraph: In 2002, she produced Jennifer Love Hewitt's album "BareNaked" and appeared on VH1 "Divas Las Vegas" as a guest guitar soloist with Celine Dion and Anastacia.

paragraph: Brooks signed a record deal with SLG Records and re-issued "Bad Bad One" as "Shine" in 2004. The track "Shine" was used as the theme music for Dr. Phil from 2004-08. The instrumental remix appears as the last track on the album.

paragraph: In 2007 Brooks completed a new children's album titled "If I Could Be..." and is developing Portland area Sony Music Entertainment artist Becca.

paragraph: Brooks is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.

paragraph: In 2018 the song "I'm a Mess" was a worldwide chart hit for Bebe Rexha. While an original song, it does borrow some of its melody from Brooks' earlier hit "Bitch." As a result, Meredith Brooks is listed as a co-writer of the song.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kissing Booth, personal blog

paragraph: BULLET::::- Meredith Brooks Top 40 Mainstream Page

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Meredith Brooks

wikipedia_title: Meredith Brooks


text: represent Great Britain

text: Olympic ski jumping

text: 70 m

text: 90 m

text: speed skiing

text: Taron Egerton

text: Eddie the Eagle

text: Cheltenham

text: Gloucestershire

text: Lake Placid, New York

text: farsighted

text: 1987 World Championships

text: Oberstdorf

text: Bavaria

text: West Germany

text: 1988 Winter Olympics ski jumping

text: James Lambert

text: 1988 Winter Olympics

text: 70 m

text: 90 m

text: Bernat Solà Pujol

text: Matti Nykänen

text: The Tonight Show

text: Mr. Magoo

text: International Olympic Committee

text: 1992 Winter Olympics

text: 1994 Games

text: Lillehammer

text: Norway

text: 1998 Games

text: Nagano

text: Japan

text: Canada Olympic Park

text: Jamaican bobsled team

text: Olympic torch

text: 2010 Vancouver Olympics

text: Winnipeg

text: Irwin Goodman

text: De Montfort University

text: Let's Dance for Sport Relief

text: Splash!

text: Tom Daley

text: Channel 4

text: The Jump

text: Fake Reaction

text: Canada Olympic Park

text: Declan Lowney

text: Steve Coogan

text: Brad Pitt

text: Tom Cruise

text: Rupert Grint

text: Part 2

text: Gary Barlow

text: Matthew Vaughn

text: Dexter Fletcher

text: Taron Egerton

text: Hugh Jackman

text: Eddie the Eagle

text: Eric Moussambani

text: Philip Boit

text: Trevor Misipeka

text: Vinko Bogataj

text: Steven Bradbury

text: Elizabeth Swaney

categories: Musicians from Gloucestershire,1963 births,Alumni of De Montfort University,Ski jumpers at the 1988 Winter Olympics,English non-fiction writers,Sportspeople from Cheltenham,English pop singers,Olympic ski jumpers of Great Britain,English male ski jumpers,Living people

paragraph: Eddie the Eagle

paragraph: Michael Edwards (born 5 December 1963), known as "Eddie the Eagle", is an English ski-jumper who in 1988 became the first competitor since 1928 to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping, finishing last in the 70 m and 90 m events. He became the British ski jumping record holder, ninth in amateur speed skiing (), and a stunt jumping world record holder for jumping over 6 buses.

paragraph: In 2016, he was portrayed by Taron Egerton in the biographical film "Eddie the Eagle".

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Edwards was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His family calls him by his given name, Michael. "Eddie" is a nickname derived by schoolfriends from his surname. Having not made the grade as a downhill skier, he decided to switch to ski jumping as there were no other British ski jumpers with whom to compete for a place.

paragraph: Edwards began jumping under the eye of John Viscome and Chuck Berghorn in Lake Placid, New York, using Berghorn's equipment, although he had to wear six pairs of socks to make the boots fit. He was disadvantaged by his weight—at about 82 kg (181 lb), more than 9 kg (20 lb) heavier than the next heaviest competitor—and by his lack of financial support for training, being totally self-funded. Another problem was that he was very farsighted, wearing thick glasses under his goggles, which would mist up at altitude.

paragraph: Edwards was informed of his qualification for the games while working as a plasterer and residing temporarily in a Finnish mental hospital due to lack of funds for alternative accommodation (rather than as a patient). He first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships in Oberstdorf in Bavaria, West Germany and was ranked 55th in the world. This performance qualified him as the sole British applicant for the 1988 Winter Olympics ski jumping competition.

paragraph: Edwards was one of the best ski jumpers in the United Kingdom, holding the British record of 73.5 m in one of his Calgary jumps in 1988. In 1994 his record was surpassed by James Lambert.

paragraph: Section::::1988 Winter Olympics.

paragraph: During the 1988 Winter Olympics, Edwards competed in and finished last in both the 70 m and 90 m events. In the 70 m, he scored 69.2 points from two jumps of 61.0 m; second-last Bernat Solà Pujol of Spain scored 140.4 points from 71 m and 68.5 m jumps; winner Matti Nykänen of Finland had 229.1 points from 89.5 m jumps. In the 90 m, Edwards scored 57.5 points from 71 m and 67 m jumps; second-last Todd Gilman of Canada had 110.8 points from 96 m and 86.5 m; Nykänen won again, with 224 points from 118.5 m and 107 m.

paragraph: From the beginning, the press version of his story was "embroidered with falsehoods". "They said I was afraid of heights. But I was doing sixty jumps a day then, which is hardly something someone who was afraid of heights would do."

paragraph: His lack of success endeared him to people around the globe. He subsequently became a media celebrity and appeared on talk shows around the world, appearing on "The Tonight Show" during the Games. The press nicknamed him "Mr. Magoo", and one Italian journalist called him a "ski dropper".

paragraph: At the closing ceremony, the president of the Organizing Committee, Frank King, singled out Edwards for his contribution. King said, looking at the competitors, "You have broken world records and you have established personal bests. Some of you have even soared like an eagle."

paragraph: Section::::1988 Winter Olympics.:The "Eddie The Eagle" Rule.

paragraph: The widespread attention that Edwards received in Calgary was embarrassing to some in the ski jumping establishment. In 1990, shortly after the Olympics finished, the entry requirements were strengthened in order to make it nearly impossible for anyone to follow his example: the International Olympic Committee (IOC) instituted what became known as the Eddie the Eagle Rule, which requires Olympic hopefuls to compete in international events and be placed in the top 30% or the top 50 competitors, whichever is fewer.

paragraph: Edwards failed to qualify for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway. He got a five-year sponsorship from Eagle Airlines, a small British charter company, to support his attempt to reach the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, but failed to qualify for those as well.

paragraph: Section::::Return to Calgary and other media appearances.

paragraph: On 13 February 2008, Edwards made a return visit to Calgary to take part in festivities marking the twentieth anniversary of the Games. During his visit, he rode the zip-line at Canada Olympic Park with a member of the Jamaican bobsled team (the ride simulates the speed of a ski-jumper) and led a procession of skiers down the slopes of the park while carrying an Olympic torch.

paragraph: Edwards was chosen as a torchbearer in the relay for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He ran with the torch on 7 January 2010 in Winnipeg.

paragraph: Edwards released a book (and a video) called "On the Piste".

paragraph: In 1991 he recorded a single in Finnish entitled "Mun nimeni on Eetu" ("My name is Eetu"), B-sided with "Eddien Siivellä" ("On Eddie's Wing") though he does not speak Finnish. Edwards learned the lyrics phonetically and the song reached no.2 in the Finnish charts. The songs were written by Finnish singer Irwin Goodman.

paragraph: Edwards appeared in a number of advertising campaigns, e.g. on television, promoting cars, and commanded fees of £10,000 an hour. Nevertheless, he declared bankruptcy in 1992, claiming that a trust fund for his earnings was not set up properly. In 2003, he graduated from De Montfort University in Leicester with a degree in law. "I've been interested in law since taking out a civil action against my trustees 10 years ago," he said in a 2001 interview.

paragraph: On 25 February 2012, he appeared as a competitor on episode 2 of BBC1's "Let's Dance for Sport Relief, 2012" and got through to the final on most public votes. His performances were accompanied by the Royal British Legion Band & Corps Of Drums Romford.

paragraph: In 2013, he won the first series of the British celebrity diving programme "Splash!", mentored by Tom Daley.

paragraph: In January 2014, he commentated on the Channel 4 TV programme "The Jump", where 12 famous people took part in winter sports. As part of each episode, Edwards jumped off the largest of three ski jumps. In the same year he appeared as a guest on the ITV2 comedy show "Fake Reaction".

paragraph: In 2017 he returned to the ski jumping facilities at Canada Olympic Park, where he had taken part in the Olympics in 1988, to make some jumps that were his first in over 15 years.

paragraph: Section::::Biopic.

paragraph: A film chronicling the life story of Edwards had been planned by Irish director Declan Lowney since 2007. Comedian Steve Coogan was originally chosen for the title role. Edwards was said to be pleased with the choice but also joked that Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise would be better suited for the role. In 2009, Lowney announced that Rupert Grint would instead play the part. The film was scheduled to begin production once Grint completed work on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" and "Part 2", but it did not go ahead.

paragraph: On 23 December 2014, it was reported that Gary Barlow was in talks to write the entire soundtrack for the film. On 23 January 2015, it was reported that Edwards might perform the stunts in the movie about his life.

paragraph: Matthew Vaughn produced and Dexter Fletcher directed the biopic, starring Taron Egerton as Edwards, and Hugh Jackman as his trainer. The film, "Eddie the Eagle", was released in early 2016.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eric Moussambani: Eric "the Eel", another famously unlikely Olympian

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philip Boit

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trevor Misipeka

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vinko Bogataj

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steven Bradbury

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth Swaney

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- BBC Gloucestershire interview with Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards February 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards Speaking Profile and Video

description: British ski jumper

wikidata_label: Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards

wikipedia_title: Eddie the Eagle


text: Seigneur

text: Barbazan-Dessus

text: Hautes-Pyrénées

text: France

text: Vaudoncourt

text: Vosges

text: France

text: Charles VII of France

text: general

text: Hundred Years' War

text: Armagnacs

text: Burgundians

text: Melun

text: English

text: prisoner of war

text: Battle of Bulgnéville

text: Vosges mountains

text: Bulgnéville

text: Vaudoncourt

text: France

text: Saint Denis Basilica

categories: Burials at the Basilica of St Denis,1360 births,1431 deaths,French prisoners of war in the Hundred Years' War,French generals,People of the Hundred Years' War

paragraph: Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan

paragraph: Arnaud Guillaume (also "Arnault Guilhem"), Seigneur de Barbazan, (1360 in Barbazan-Dessus, Hautes-Pyrénées, France – 1431, Vaudoncourt, Vosges, France) was a counsellor and butler to Charles VII of France and later a general during the Hundred Years' War who earned for himself the name of the "Irreproachable Knight".

paragraph: He was one of the chief Armagnacs, a fervent partisan of Charles VII, and a sworn enemy of the Burgundians. He defended Melun in 1420 against the English, who captured him and kept him as a prisoner of war until 1430. Upon his release, he continued to fight against Burgundy and England, finally dying in combat in the Battle of Bulgnéville in the Vosges mountains near the villages of Bulgnéville and Vaudoncourt.

paragraph: Because of his heroic service to France and to the king in the many battles he had participated in, Barbazan was buried at the Saint Denis Basilica next to the king himself, after a state funeral of a type usually reserved for kings.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L'histoire d'Arnaud Guillaume, Seigneur de Barbazan In French.

description: French condottiero and military personnel

wikidata_label: Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan

wikipedia_title: Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan


text:
Danish
chief rabbi
Holocaust
occupation of Denmark
Wehrmacht
Horserød
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Swinemünde
Marcus Melchior

categories: Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors,1884 births,1947 deaths,Chief rabbis,Danish Jews,Danish people of World War II

paragraph: Max Friediger

paragraph: Max Friediger (April 9, 1884 – 1947) was a Danish chief rabbi and a survivor of the Holocaust.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: After the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht Friediger and other Danish Jews were interned by the occupying power in 1943 in the open state prison at Horserød, and later deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp via Swinemünde where on 3 October 1943 he and other Danish Jews were spotted by Danish communists also being deported. Friediger led the church register of approx. 480 Danish Jews in a synagogue located in a storeroom within the camp and later published an account of life in Theresienstadt.

paragraph: After his death in 1947, his successor as chief rabbi was Marcus Melchior.

description: Danish Rabbi

wikidata_label: Max Friediger

wikipedia_title: Max Friediger


text: hieromonk

text: Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

text: Herman of Alaska

text: Platina, California

text: Orthodox Christian

text: Orthodox Christianity

text: Russia

text: samizdat

text: Communist

text: ecumenical movement

text: toll house teaching

text: saint

text: icon

text: liturgy

text: prayer

text: canonized

text: synod

text: Serbian Orthodox Church

text: San Diego, California

text: World War I

text: Esther Rose

text: impressionist

text: Eileen Rose Busby

text: Mensa

text: antiques

text: Methodist

text: atheism

text: San Diego High School

text: Pomona College

text: Chinese philosophy

text: Ved Mehta

text: Alan Watts

text: American Academy of Asian Studies

text: University of California, Berkeley

text: Buddhism

text: true crime

text: homosexual

text: René Guénon

text: Chinese

text: Taoist

text: ancient Chinese

text: Tao

text: San Francisco

text: St. John Maximovitch

text: Platina

text: St. Herman of Alaska

text: tonsure

text: St. Seraphim of Sarov

text: priesthood

text: electricity

text: Seattle

text: Optina

text: starets

text: Eastern Orthodoxy

text: Christian

text: lovingkindness

text: longsuffering

text: mercy

text: Russian

text: samizdat

text: Soviet Union

text: Communist

text: church fathers

text: aerial toll house

text: Church Fathers

text: soul

text: judgment

text: God

text: heretical

text: Gnostic

text: vlog

text: Moscow Patriarchate

text: creationism

text: evolution

text: patristic

text: Theophan the Recluse

text: John of Kronstadt

text: Justin Popovich

text: Paisios

text: Elder Sophrony

text: Redding

text: hospital

text: critical condition

text: blood clot

text: intestine

text: coma

text: Divine Liturgy

text: Mt. Athos

text: Greece

text: coffin

text: rigor mortis

text: rose

text: pilgrimage

text: Serbian Orthodox Church

text: Russian

text: Death to the World Magazine

text: Death to the World Website

text: Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

categories: 20th-century Eastern Orthodox priests,Eastern Orthodox monks,Priests of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia,American people of Dutch descent,1982 deaths,20th-century Christian saints,American people of French descent,People from San Diego,American Eastern Orthodox priests,Eastern Orthodox priests in the United States,Pomona College alumni,Eastern Orthodox writers,20th-century Eastern Orthodox clergy,Eastern Orthodox mystics,20th-century American male writers,Traditionalist School,20th-century American writers,Burials at Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches,20th-century Christian mystics,American saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church,American people of Norwegian descent,Former atheists and agnostics,1934 births,Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Protestantism,Eastern Orthodox theologians

paragraph: Seraphim Rose

paragraph: Seraphim Rose (born Eugene Dennis Rose; August 13, 1934 – September 2, 1982), also known as Seraphim of Platina, was an American hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who co-founded the St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. He translated Orthodox Christian texts and authored several works (some of them considered polemical). His writings have been credited with helping to spread Orthodox Christianity throughout the West; his popularity equally extended to Russia itself, where his works were secretly reproduced and distributed by "samizdat" during the Communist era, remaining popular today.

paragraph: Rose's opposition to Orthodox participation in the ecumenical movement and his advocacy of the contentious "toll house teaching", led him into conflict with some notable figures in 20th-century Orthodoxy and he remains controversial in some quarters even after his sudden death from an undiagnosed intestinal disorder in 1982. However, many other Orthodox Christians hold him in high esteem, venerating him as a saint in iconography, liturgy and prayer though he has not been formally canonized by any Orthodox synod.

paragraph: Rose's monastery (as of 2010) is currently affiliated with the Serbian Orthodox Church and continues to carry on his work of publishing and Orthodox missionary activity.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Eugene Rose was born on August 13, 1934, in San Diego, California. His father, Frank Rose, was a World War I veteran who operated the city's first "Karmel Korn Shop" together with his wife Esther Rose, Eugene's mother. His ancestors had come to the United States from France, Norway and the Netherlands.

paragraph: In addition to being a businesswoman, Esther was a California artist who specialized in impressionist renderings of Pacific coast scenes. Raised in San Diego, Eugene would remain a Californian the rest of his life. His older sister was Eileen Rose Busby, an author, Mensa member, and antiques expert; his older brother was Frank Rose, a local businessman.

paragraph: Though Rose was described by one biographer as a "natural athlete" in his youth, he did not engage seriously in sport. Baptized in a Methodist church when he was 14 years old, Rose later rejected Christianity for atheism. After graduating from San Diego High School, he attended Pomona College where he studied Chinese philosophy and graduated "magna cum laude" in 1956. While at Pomona, he was a reader for Ved Mehta, a blind student who would go on to become a well known author. Mehta referred to Rose in two books, one of which was a book of memoirs called "Stolen Light": “I felt very lucky to have found Gene as a reader. ... He read with such clarity that I almost had the illusion that he was explaining things.” Afterward, Rose studied under Alan Watts at the American Academy of Asian Studies before entering the master's degree program in Oriental languages at the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated in 1961 with a thesis entitled "'Emptiness' and 'Fullness' in the Lao Tzu".

paragraph: In addition to a gift for languages, Rose was known for possessing an acute sense of humor and wit. He enjoyed opera, concerts, art, literature, and the other cultural opportunities richly available in San Francisco, where he settled after his graduation and explored Buddhism and other Asian philosophies.

paragraph: According to Rose's niece Cathy Scott, a noted true crime author, Rose came out in 1956 as a homosexual to a close friend from college after Rose's mother had discovered letters between him and Walter Pomeroy, a friend of his from high school. He reportedly ceased these alleged homosexual activities after accepting Orthodoxy. Other biographers and scholars have disputed Scott's assertion, questioning the authenticity of the sources she used in making it.

paragraph: Section::::Spiritual search.

paragraph: While studying at Watts' Asian institute, Rose read the writings of French metaphysicist René Guénon and also met a Chinese Taoist scholar, Gi-ming Shien. Shien emphasized the ancient Chinese approach to learning, valuing traditional viewpoints and texts over more modern interpretations. Inspired by Shien, Rose took up the study of ancient Chinese so that he could read early Tao texts in their original tongue. Through his experiences with Shien and the writings of Guénon, Rose sought out an authentic and grounded spiritual tradition of his own. Though he had previously focused on Eastern religions, Rose's spiritual journey led him back to Christianity and into the Russian Orthodox Church, partly as a result of his friendship with Jon Gregerson.

paragraph: Section::::Orthodoxy.

paragraph: In 1962, Rose was received into the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in San Francisco. He quickly distinguished himself to the bishop of San Francisco, St. John Maximovitch, as a serious and studious convert. In 1963, Archbishop John blessed Rose and his new friend, Gleb Podmoshensky, a Russian Orthodox seminarian, to form a community of Orthodox booksellers and publishers, the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood. In March 1964, Rose opened an Orthodox bookstore next to the ROCOR cathedral on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, which was under construction at the time. In 1965 the brotherhood founded the St. Herman Press publishing house, which still exists.

paragraph: Increasingly drawn to a more reclusive lifestyle, Rose's community ultimately decided to leave the city for the northern California wilderness, where Rose and Podmoshensky became monks in 1968 and transformed the Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood into a full-fledged monastic community. Rose's parents provided the down payment for a mountaintop near the isolated hamlet of Platina, where Rose and some friends built a monastery named for St. Herman of Alaska. At his tonsure, in October 1970, Rose took the name "Seraphim" after St. Seraphim of Sarov. He wrote, translated and studied for the priesthood in his cell, a one-roomed cabin with neither running water nor electricity, where he would spend the rest of his days. He was ordained in 1977 by Bishop Nektary of Seattle, spiritual son of St. Nectarius of Optina, the last of the great Optina "staretsy".

paragraph: In his ministry, Rose spoke frequently of an "Orthodoxy of the Heart", which he saw as increasingly absent in American ecclesiastical life. He also spoke of the need for warmth and kindness of the spirit, especially when dealing with those with whom one disagreed, an increasing problem in Eastern Orthodoxy in America, and its conflict between so-called "traditionalists" and "modernists". One can be firm, Rose insisted, without having to compromise basic Christian teachings on lovingkindness, longsuffering, and mercy toward others.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Using a hand-cranked printing press at his Geary Boulevard bookstore, Rose founded the bimonthly magazine "The Orthodox Word" in January 1965; this periodical is still published (on modern presses) today. He also composed and published dozens of other titles, including "God's Revelation to the Human Heart", "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future", and "The Soul After Death"; all remain in print. He translated and printed Fr. Michael Pomazansky's "Orthodox Dogmatic Theology", which remains a text for clerical students and laymen alike. Rose translated his books into Russian, and they were circulated widely as samizdat within the Soviet Union, although they were not formally published until after the fall of the Communist regime. He was also one of the first American Eastern Orthodox Christians to translate major works of several church fathers into English.

paragraph: Section::::Controversies over theological opinions or "theologoumena".:"Toll houses".

paragraph: Although most of Rose's works were widely received within the Orthodox community, a few raised controversy. The most notable of these was "The Soul After Death", which describes certain "aerial toll houses" described by various Church Fathers and saints. According to this teaching, every human soul must pass through a series of these stations after death as part of their initial judgment by God, where they will be accused of specific sins and possibly condemned to hell.

paragraph: Some modern Orthodox theologians, including Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Stanley Harakas and Alexander Kalomiros among others, have claimed that certain ideas in Rose's book are heretical, and that many of the Church Fathers have been misinterpreted or misquoted to support it. Puhalo claimed that the "toll-house theory" is specifically Gnostic in origin. These accusations were later declared to be wrong by the Holy Synod of the Russian Church Abroad, which emphasized that little has been revealed to the Church on this subject, and hence all controversy on this subject should cease.

paragraph: He endeavored to answer his detractors in his "Answer to a Critic", published as an appendix to "The Soul After Death".

paragraph: Though continuing to vehemently oppose Rose's teaching on this subject, Puhalo indicated that he considered Rose to be a "true ascetic", and that he respected the sincerity of Seraphim's monastic life and intentions. In one of his vlogs, Archbishop Lazar said of Fr. Rose: “Father Seraphim Rose was an astonishing ascetic. He had a great ascetic life. He had enormous struggles, enormous inner struggles, and he struggled with them in really great asceticism. So I don’t want anybody to denigrate or think anyone is denigrating Father Seraphim Rose’s ascetic struggle. It really was a great ascetic struggle, and there should be a reverence and a respect for that. … Again, I want people to have a reverence for Father Seraphim Rose’s ascetic struggle, and to acknowledge that, and see that there was a special spark there, in that he had enormous internal struggles, and that he saw those through to the end of his life. And that is a great virtue and a great reason to have a certain reverence for Father Seraphim.”

paragraph: Section::::Controversies over theological opinions or "theologoumena".:Moscow Patriarchate.

paragraph: Another question concerned whether the Moscow Patriarchate, that portion of the Russian Orthodox Church within Soviet Russia, still possessed "grace". Although some Orthodox Christians asserted that the so-called "red" church had forfeited legitimacy by cooperating with the communist government, Rose disagreed. While wholeheartedly disapproving of the close relations between the Moscow church and the country's communist masters, Rose insisted that it was still legitimate and possessed of valid sacraments.

paragraph: Section::::Controversies over theological opinions or "theologoumena".:Evolution vs. creationism.

paragraph: Rose also waded into the ongoing debate between Biblical creationism and evolution, asserting in "Genesis, Creation and Early Man" that Orthodox patristics exclusively supported the creationist viewpoint. This idea was vehemently attacked by other Orthodox theologians, who asserted that while man's existence is not accidental by any means, there is no official church doctrine as to the precise process God used in creation, nor the length of time that it might have required. In the 2011 edition of Rose's "Genesis, Creation and Early Man", his spiritual child and editor, Hieromonk Damascene, alleges to have demonstrated that Rose's teaching is in accord with the great saints and elders of the 19th and 20th centuries who have spoken on the issue, such as St. Theophan the Recluse, St. John of Kronstadt, St. Justin Popovich, St. Paisios, and Elder Sophrony. However, in his response to Kalomiros's article "The Eternal Will" ("The Christian Activist", Volume 11, Fall/Winter 1997), Rose admitted that: "I should state an elementary truth: modern science, when it deals with scientific facts, does indeed usually know more than the holy Fathers, and the holy Fathers can easily make mistakes of scientific facts; it is not scientific facts which we look for in the holy Fathers, but true theology and the true philosophy which is based on theology."

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: After feeling acute pains for several days while working in his cell in August 1982, a reluctant Rose was taken by fellow monks to Mercy Medical Center in Redding for treatment. When he arrived at the hospital, he was declared to be in critical condition and fell into semi-consciousness. After exploratory surgery was completed, it was discovered that a blood clot had blocked a vein supplying blood to his intestines, which had become a mass of dead tissue. He slipped into a coma after a second surgery, never regaining consciousness. Hundreds of people visited the hospital and celebrated the Divine Liturgy regularly in its chapel, praying for a miracle to save Rose's life. Prayers were offered for the ailing hieromonk from places as far away as Mt. Athos, Greece, the spiritual heart of Orthodox monasticism. Rose died on September 2, 1982.

paragraph: Rose's body lay in repose for several days in a simple wooden coffin at his wilderness monastery. Visitors claimed that Rose's body did not succumb to decay and rigor mortis, remaining supple and even allegedly smelling of roses. Several reputed miraculous events, healings and apparitions of Rose have been reported around the world, commencing soon after his death. Many Orthodox Christians anticipate Rose's canonization, though no formal proceedings for canonization have yet been opened. His grave at St. Herman's monastery has become a popular site for pilgrimages.

paragraph: Section::::St. Herman's Monastery today.

paragraph: The St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina is now a part of the Western America diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. While all of the brothers are currently American, many speak Russian. Their primary emphasis continues to be the printing of books, which has been the major activity of the brotherhood since its inception. In addition, the monastery has assisted with the guardianship and education of local youths with behavioral or learning problems, which has earned Rose's brotherhood significant respect among the locals. Visitors come to the monastery year-round but especially on September 2, the anniversary of Rose's death.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blessed John the Wonderworker: A Preliminary Account of the Life and Miracles of Archbishop John Maximovitch". Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1987. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Genesis, Creation and Early Man". Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2000. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "God's Revelation to the Human Heart". Platina: Saint Herman Press, 1988. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Letters from Father Seraphim". Nikodemos Orthodox Publication Society. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age". Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1994. () (as Eugene Rose).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future". Platina: Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1975. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Apocalypse: In the Teachings of Ancient Christianity". Platina: Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1985. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church". Platina: Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1983. ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Soul After Death: Contemporary "After-Death" Experiences in the Light of the Orthodox Teaching on the Afterlife". Platina: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1988. ()

paragraph: Section::::Biographical resources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Not of This World: the Life and Teaching of Fr Seraphim Rose" (). An extensive biography written by monk Damascene Christensen (out of print)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Father Seraphim: His Life and Work" (). Significantly revised and expanded version of the above book

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Letters from Father Seraphim" (). Correspondence with Fr. Alexey Young (now Hieromonk Ambrose), Rose's spiritual son

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters" (). A biography of his life, letters and works by Cathy Scott, Rose's niece

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Death to the World Magazine Online Orthodox publication containing some of Rose's writings

paragraph: BULLET::::- Death to the World Website Online collection of writings by and inspired by Rose

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Genesis and Early Man: The Orthodox Patristic Understanding", Reply to pro-evolution speech given by Orthodox theologian Dr. Alexander Kalomiros

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age. Book written by Rose

paragraph: BULLET::::- Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia Unofficial icon of Rose

description: American Orthodox writer and saint

wikidata_label: Seraphim Rose

wikipedia_title: Seraphim Rose


text:
Warsaw
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Polish
ballet dancer
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Moscelyne Larkin
Tulsa Ballet
Ida Rubinstein
Serge Lifar
Ballets Russe de Monte-Carlo
George Balanchine
Michel Fokine
Leonide Massine
Bronislava Nijinska
Moscelyne Larkin
Tulsa Ballet
Walt Disney
Fantasia
Moscelyne Larkin

categories: 1907 births,Polish male ballet dancers,1991 deaths

paragraph: Roman Jasinski

paragraph: Roman Jasinski (1907, in Warsaw – 16 April 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) was a Polish ballet dancer who performed from 1933–1950 with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. A "premier danseur", he was recognized for his elegance and style. After retiring from performing, he and his wife Moscelyne Larkin founded a ballet school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in 1956, the Tulsa Ballet. It is one of numerous regional companies founded by former members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

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

paragraph: Born in Warsaw in 1907, Jasinski began dance studies as a boy. After extensive studies in Warsaw, Jasinski began dancing with Ida Rubinstein's company in 1928.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He next danced with Serge Lifar. In 1933 Jasinski joined the Ballets Russe de Monte-Carlo, where he danced works by the leading choreographers of the time, such as George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine and Bronislava Nijinska. He was "premier danseur" with the company from 1933 to 1950.

paragraph: After 1954, he and his wife Moscelyne Larkin, a ballerina with the same company, retired from performing. They had a child that year and moved to Tulsa. There they founded and directed a school and the Tulsa Ballet 1n 1956. The company had its premier in New York in 1983.

paragraph: Jasinski is known for having served as a model for the Walt Disney film "Fantasia" (1940).

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and family.

paragraph: In 1943 he married Moscelyne Larkin, a younger dancer with the company. In 1954 they had a son, Roman Larkin Jasinski.

description: Polish ballet dancer

wikidata_label: Roman Jasinski

wikipedia_title: Roman Jasinski


text:
Marquess of Montferrat
Palaeologus dynasty
Boniface III, Marquess of Montferrat
Maria of Serbia
Stefan Branković
Serbia
Bishop of Casale
Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat
Frederick IV of Naples
Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
Margaret Paleologa

categories: Palaiologos dynasty,Marquesses of Montferrat,1533 deaths,16th-century Italian nobility,1488 births

paragraph: John George, Marquess of Montferrat

paragraph: John George of Monferrat (20 January 1488 – 30 April 1533) was the last Marquess of Montferrat of the Palaeologus dynasty.

paragraph: He was son of Boniface III, Marquess of Montferrat and his third wife Maria of Serbia, daughter of prince Stefan Branković of Serbia.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.

paragraph: John George was Bishop of Casale, when his nephew Boniface IV, Marquess of Montferrat unexpectedly died in 1530 without an heir.

paragraph: As the last of his family and despite his poor health, John George had no option than to become the new Marquess. In a desperate attempt to produce an heir, he married the 41-year-old Julia, daughter of Frederick IV of Naples, on 21 April 1533. He died 9 days later.

paragraph: After a Spanish occupation of 3 years, Montferrat came under Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, who had married his niece Margaret Paleologa in 1531.

paragraph: Section::::Descendants.

paragraph: John George had an illegitimate son, Flaminio, from the Paleologo-Oriundi line descends and is extant today.

description: Italian noble

wikidata_label: John George, Marquess of Montferrat

wikipedia_title: John George, Marquess of Montferrat


text: mathematician

text: representation theory

text: Loewy ring

text: Loewy length

text: Loewy decomposition

text: Loewy series

text: Wolfgang Krull

text: Friedrich Karl Schmidt

categories: People from the Province of Posen,German mathematicians,1935 deaths,German Jews,People from Rawicz,1873 births

paragraph: Alfred Loewy

paragraph: Alfred Loewy (20 June 1873 – 25 January 1935) was a German mathematician who worked on representation theory. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and Loewy series are named after him.

paragraph: His graduate students included Wolfgang Krull and Friedrich Karl Schmidt.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Versicherungsmathematik", 1903

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lehrbuch der Algebra", 1915

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" 1915

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mathematik des Geld- und Zahlungsverkehrs", 1920

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Volker R. Remmert: Zur Mathematikgeschichte in Freiburg. Alfred Loewy (1873-1935): Jähes Ende späten Glanzes, in: Freiburger Universitätsblätter 129(1995), 81-102

description: mathematician

wikidata_label: Alfred Loewy

wikipedia_title: Alfred Loewy


text: Slane

text: County Meath

text: St. Patrick's Classical School

text: Navan

text: County Meath

text: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath

text: All Hallows College

text: Dublin City University

text: Drogheda

text: Pope Francis

text: Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin

text: Archbishop

text: Diarmuid Martin

text: Eamon Martin

text: gay marriage

text: treat homosexuals with compassion

categories: Roman Catholic bishops of Kildare and Leighlin,1963 births,People from County Meath,Alumni of All Hallows College, Dublin,Post-Reformation Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland,Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth

paragraph: Denis Nulty

paragraph: Denis Nulty is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland.

paragraph: Section::::Early Life and Priestly Ministry.

paragraph: Denis Nulty was born in Slane, County Meath 7 June 1963, the youngest of five children. He was educated locally at St. Patrick's National School, Slane and St. Patrick's Classical School, Navan, County Meath, from where he went to St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, obtaining a BA in 1984 and BD in 1987, he was ordained in 1988 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Meath. Fr. Nulty took further studies in All Hallows College Dublin, in 2006 and was awarded an MA in Management for the Pastoral and Voluntary Services by Dublin City University.

paragraph: He served as a curate in Mullingar for ten years until being appointed Parish Priest of Saint Mary’s, Drogheda in 1998 (the youngest parish priest at the time).

paragraph: Section::::Episcopal Ministry.

paragraph: In May 2013, Pope Francis named Fr. Nulty as Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.

paragraph: He was ordained on 4 August 2013 by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. Upon his ordination, Nulty became the youngest bishop in Ireland, succeeding Archbishop Eamon Martin by two years. In light of the Government decision to hold a referendum on gay marriage in 2015, Bishop Nulty said in November 2013 said there is always a necessity to treat homosexuals with compassion. He added that the very nature of marriage and children and their importance to society is worth protecting. He said: "The Catholic Church will continue to hold that the differences between a man and woman are not accidental to marriage but fundamental to it and that children have a natural right to a mother and a father and that this is the best environment for them where possible."

paragraph: In May 2019 he issued a statement ahead of the referendum on the question of lowering the threshold for divorce suggesting "the objective of the proposed referendum is not to support marriage, rather to liberalise divorce... tt is imperative that we continue to work together to promote marriage and family.”

paragraph: He is active on social media, one of the few Irish bishops to tweet regularly and engage more widely with his diocese - @BishopDNulty

description: bishop

wikidata_label: Denis Nulty

wikipedia_title: Denis Nulty