text: King of Strathclyde

text: Arthgal ap Dyfnwal, King of Alt Clut

text: Alt Clut

text: Vikings

text: kingship of Alt Clut

text: Kingdom of Alt Clut

text: River Clyde

text: Kingdom of Strathclyde

text: Eochaid

text: Áed mac Cináeda, King of the Picts

text: Harleian genealogies

text: Arthgal ap Dyfnwal, King of Alt Clut

text: kings of Alt Clut

text: Chronicle of the Kings of Alba

text: Dunblane

text: Cináed mac Ailpín, King of the Picts

text: Dyfnwal ap Rhydderch

text: floruit

text: Alpínid

text: Eochaid

text: Prophecy of Berchán

text: Historia Brittonum

text: Bamburgh

text: Hebrides

text: Mull

text: Islay

text: Alt Clut

text: captured and destroyed

text: Amlaíb

text: Ímar

text: Chronicon Scotorum

text: Annals of Ulster

text: Fragmentary Annals of Ireland

text: Annales Xantenses

text: Dublin slave market

text: puppet king

text: Northumbria

text: East Anglia

text: River Clyde

text: Govan

text: Partick

text: Kingdom of Strathclyde

text: Glasgow

text: Hálfdan

text: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

text: Atholl

text: Fife

text: Áed mac Cináeda

text: King of the Picts

text: Giric

text: Dyfnwal

categories: Monarchs of Strathclyde,9th-century Scottish monarchs

paragraph: Rhun ab Arthgal

paragraph: Rhun ab Arthgal was a ninth-century King of Strathclyde. He is the only known son of Arthgal ap Dyfnwal, King of Alt Clut. In 870, during the latter's reign, the fortress of Alt Clut was captured by Vikings, after which the Arthgal and his family may have been amongst the mass of prisoners taken back to Ireland. Two years later Arthgal is recorded to have been slain at the behest of Causantín mac Cináeda, King of the Picts. The circumstances surrounding this regicide are unknown. The fact that Rhun seems to have been Causantín's brother-in-law could account for Causantín's interference in the kingship of Alt Clut.

paragraph: The Viking's destruction of the capital fortress of the Kingdom of Alt Clut appears to have brought about a reorientation of the kingdom towards the valley of the River Clyde. In consequence, the realm came to be known as the Kingdom of Strathclyde. Either Rhun or his father could have been the first kings of Strathclyde. In the years following the fall of Alt Clut, Rhun's realm may have endured periods of Pictish and Viking overlordship. Despite his kinship with the Pictish king, there is reason to suspect that the two clashed at some point.

paragraph: It is unknown when Rhun's reign came to an end or when he died. One possibility is that he fell with Causantín, who seems to have been killed warring against the Vikings in 876. Certainly, Rhun's son, Eochaid, is recorded to have succeeded Causantín's successor, Áed mac Cináeda, King of the Picts, after 878. Whether Eochaid's succession reflects the end of Eochaid's reign and life is unknown.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Rhun's patrilineal ancestry is evidenced by a pedigree preserved within a collection of tenth-century Welsh genealogical material known as the "Harleian genealogies". According to this source, Rhun was a son of Arthgal ap Dyfnwal, King of Alt Clut, and descended from a long line of kings of Alt Clut. Rhun is Arthgal's only known son.

paragraph: In about 849, the ninth- to twelfth-century "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" reports that Britons burned Dunblane, an ecclesiastical centre seated on the southern Pictish border. This attack took place during the reign of Cináed mac Ailpín, King of the Picts, and may have been overseen by either Arthgal or his father, Dyfnwal ap Rhydderch. The razing of Dunblane could be evidence that the Kingdom of Alt Clut was in the process of extending its authority at the expense of the Pictish regime. If so, the British kings would appear to have seized upon the chaos wrought by contemporaneous Viking attacks upon the Picts.

paragraph: According to the "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba", Rhun was married to a daughter of Cináed. This alliance may have been contracted between the Britons and Picts as a way of repairing international relations following the attack on Dunblane in 849. Rhun is the last listed king in the Harleian pedigree. This could indicate that the genealogy was originally compiled during his floruit—perhaps at the time of his marriage to his Alpínid wife, or upon the outset of his reign as king. According to the "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba", a product of the marriage was a son named Eochaid. The twelfth-century "Prophecy of Berchán" describes Eochaid as "the son of the woman from Dún Guaire". The fact that ninth-century "Historia Brittonum" identifies Bamburgh as Din Guoaroy could indicate that Dún Guaire too refers to Bamburgh. Another possibility is that Dún Guaire refers to one of two similarly-named sites in the Hebrides (on Mull and Islay), In any event, the association of Rhun's wife with the fort could be evidence that she had been previously married.

paragraph: Section::::King of Alt Clut.

paragraph: In 870, during the reign of Rhun's father, the fortress of Alt Clut was captured and destroyed by the insular Scandinavian kings Amlaíb and Ímar, following a naval blockade of four months. In the following year, the twelfth-century "Chronicon Scotorum", the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century "Annals of Ulster", and the eleventh-century "Fragmentary Annals of Ireland" reveal that Amlaíb and Ímar returned to Ireland with a fleet of two hundred ships, and a mass of captives composed of English, Britons, and Picts. The exportation of these people to Ireland is also attested by "Annales Xantenses", a ninth-century German source. The captives could have been meant for ransom, or may have been intended for the Dublin slave market. It is possible that Arthgal and his family were amongst those imprisoned.

paragraph: Arthgal died in 872. The "Annals of Ulster", and "Chronicon Scotorum" reveal that he was slain at the behest of Causantín mac Cináeda, King of the Picts. If Rhun succeeded Arthgal—as seems likely—it is uncertain how long he outlived him. Although the circumstances surrounding Arthgal's assassination are unknown, the familial relationship between Causantín and Rhun could be evidence that Arthgal's demise was orchestrated to allow Rhun gain the throne. One possibility is that Rhun had been exiled from his father's realm, and had been living in exile at the Pictish royal court when his father's realm was overcome by Amlaíb and Ímar. This could mean that Causantín acted to offset any rival Rhun had in regard to the British kingship. Conversely, if there was no strife between Rhun and Arthgal, Causantín's actions against the latter may have been carried out in the context of an intrusive and aggressive neighbour. Arthgal's elimination may have been carried out in the context of an attempt by Causantín to capitalise upon the political turmoil wrought by the Viking onslaught.

paragraph: Another possibility is that, following the conquest of Alt Clut, Arthgal ruled as a puppet king under Amlaíb and Ímar. Certainly, the Vikings utilised royal puppets in the conquered kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia. If so, it could explain Causantín's role in Arthgal's demise, and could explain why his brother-in-law (or future brother-in-law) eventually succeeded to the throne. In any event, Arthgal's elimination at Causantín's instigation would appear to have removed the latter of neighbouring adversary, and would have also increased his own authority and reputation.

paragraph: Although the Harleian pedigree identifies the listed rulers as those of the Kingdom of Alt Clut, it is apparent that one aftereffect of the destruction of the eponymous fortress was that the capital of the realm shifted up the River Clyde to the vicinity of Govan and Partick. Whilst Govan—seated on the northern bank of the River Clyde—appears to have utilised by Athgal and Rhun's eighth-century predecessors, Partick—situated on the southern bank—could well have been used at least a century earlier.

paragraph: The relocation is partly exemplified by a shift in royal terminology. Until the fall of Alt Clut, for example, the rulers of the realm were styled after the fortress; whereas following the loss of this site, the Kingdom of Alt Clut came to be known as the Kingdom of Strathclyde in consequence of its reorientation towards Ystrat Clut (Strathclyde), the valley of the River Clyde. Arthgal himself is styled King of the Strathclyde Britons upon his death in 872—the first use of this terminology by Irish sources. Although it is possible that Arthgal ultimately met his end in Ireland at the hands of his Viking captors, this title could instead be evidence that he had briefly ruled the new Kingdom of Strathclyde. Either he or Rhun could have been the first monarch to rule to this reconstructed realm.

paragraph: Section::::King of Strathclyde.

paragraph: Rhun's reign probably commenced not long after his father's death, in 872. The "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" identifies Rhun as ("king of the Britons"). Hostility between Rhun and his brother-in-law may be evidenced by the "Prophecy of Berchán". According to this source, Causantín won four victories over his enemies. Whilst the first three victories are stated to have been won against Vikings, the fourth is described as that of —a location possibly identical to Glasgow—where he overcame the "king of the Britons of the green mantles". Although it is possible that unnamed king in question was Arthgal—which could in turn cast light upon this man's demise—another possibility is that the prophecy refers to Rhun himself. If Rhun is indeed the prophecy's mantled monarch, his conflict with Causantín may have been occurred in the aftermath of his father's demise, and may have been undertaken an attempt to ensure his kingdom's independence from Pictish overlordship.

paragraph: If a garbled passage preserved by the "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" is to be believed, Amlaíb was killed by Causantín in 872/874/875, whilst in the midst of extracting tribute from the Picts. Upon Ímar's death in 873, the "Annals of Ulster" styles him "king of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain", a title that may partly exemplify Viking overlordship of regions inhabited by the Picts, Strathclyde Britons, and the Welsh. In 875, seemingly during Rhun's reign, the "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" reports that the Picts suffered a devastating loss to insular Scandinavians at Dollar after which the invaders are said to have occupied in the vicinity for one year. This Viking conquest—seemingly corroborated by the "Annals of Ulster"—may be related to the campaigns of Hálfdan against the Picts and Strathclyde Britons in 875/876, as recorded by the ninth- to twelfth-century "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". This northern northern campaigning by Hálfdan could have been conducted in the context of the insular Scandinavians not only avenging Amlaíb's killing but of regaining Ímar's authority in the region. At any rate, these clashes with the Britons seems to show that the Kingdom of Strathclyde was not permanently subjected.

paragraph: Section::::Death and succession.

paragraph: It is uncertain when Rhun's reign and life ended. One possibility is that Rhun died in 876, when Causantín seems to have been slain by Vikings. Causantín's death is dated to 876 by the "Annals of Ulster". The "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" appears to locate his fall in Atholl, whilst several king-lists locate his demise to a place variously called , an otherwise uncertain location that could refer to Inverdovat in Fife. If Causantín indeed enjoyed overlordship of Strathclyde at this date, Rhun could have fallen alongside him as a supporting vassal. It is likewise unknown who succeeded to the kingship of Strathclyde. If Rhun and Causantín both died in 876, Eochaid could well have inherited the British kingship in their absence. Certainly, Causantín's brother, Áed mac Cináeda, succeeded as King of the Picts, and ruled as such upon his death two years later. Whilst it is possible that the Pictish kingship was then assumed by a certain Giric, another possibility is that Eochaid succeeded to the throne.

paragraph: If the "Prophecy of Berchán" is to be believed, Eochaid ruled as king until he was expelled and replaced by Giric. The "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba", however, states that Eochaid and Giric shared the kingship between themselves, and that Giric was the ("foster-father" or "foster-son") and ("governor" or "king-maker") of the former, before both men were expelled from office. One possibility is that Giric indeed succeeded Áed, and that Eochaid succeeded Rhun. Another possibility is that Giric and Eochaid jointly succeeded Áed, with Giric holding a more senior position (as the "Chronicle of the Kings of Alba" appears to evince). Whilst Eochaid's maternal Alpínid ancestry could well have ensured him a claim to the Pictish throne, the ancestry of Giric is uncertain. Another son of Rhun could have been Dyfnwal, who ruled the Kingdom of Strathclyde into the second decade of the tenth century.

alias:
Rhun
Run
Rhun ab Arthal
Rhun ap Arthgal
Rhun map Arthgal
Rhun ap Artgal
Rhun map Artgal

description: King of Strathclyde

wikidata_label: Rhun ab Arthgal

wikipedia_title: Rhun ab Arthgal


text: American

text: ice hockey

text: defenseman

text: National Hockey League

text: SV Kaltern

text: Italian

text: Serie A

text: minor ice hockey

text: Springfield, Massachusetts

text: Buffalo Sabres

text: 1999 NHL Entry Draft

text: University of Maine

text: Rochester Americans

text: American Hockey League

text: Tampa Bay Lightning

text: Chicago Blackhawks

text: Dallas Stars

text: Montreal Canadiens

text: Steve Bégin

text: Hamilton Bulldogs

text: Montreal Canadiens

text: Ottawa Senators

text: Chris Higgins

text: Ryan McDonagh

text: New York Rangers

text: Scott Gomez

text: Tom Pyatt

text: Michael Busto

text: Detroit Red Wings

text: Grand Rapids Griffins

text: Boston Bruins

text: Adler Mannheim

text: German

text: DEL

text: San Antonio Rampage

text: AHL

text: Chicago Wolves

text: SV Caldaro

text: Italian

text: Serie A

text: Arizona Coyotes

text: Springfield Falcons

categories: Buffalo Sabres players,Maine Black Bears men's ice hockey players,1980 births,Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) players,Grand Rapids Griffins players,Buffalo Sabres draft picks,Tampa Bay Lightning players,San Antonio Rampage players,Ice hockey people from Massachusetts,Chicago Wolves players,Montreal Canadiens players,USA Hockey National Team Development Program players,Detroit Red Wings players,Dallas Stars players,Rockford IceHogs (AHL) players,Living people,American ice hockey defensemen,Rochester Americans players

paragraph: Doug Janik

paragraph: Douglas John Janik (born March 26, 1980) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He last played for the SV Kaltern of the Italian Serie A before ending his playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: As a youth, Janik played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Springfield, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Janik was drafted 55th overall, in the second round, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. Janik played collegiate hockey for the University of Maine before making his professional debut with the Sabres' affiliate, the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League in 2001–02.

paragraph: On July 6, 2006, Janik signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Lightning. He played his first full NHL season in 2006–07 and appeared in 136 games over two seasons.

paragraph: Janik was signed as an unrestricted free agent by the Chicago Blackhawks on July 15, 2008; before playing for the Blackhawks, though, he was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Stars for the start of the 2008–09 season on October 2, 2008. He was then claimed off waivers by Chicago on October 8, only to be immediately traded back to Dallas for a conditional draft pick. After appearing in 13 games with the Stars and being used mainly as a reserve defenseman, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for Steve Bégin on February 26, 2009. After clearing waivers, Janik was then assigned to affiliate the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL. Janik played his first game with the Montreal Canadiens on April 6, 2009, against the Ottawa Senators.

paragraph: Janik was traded by the Canadiens, along with Chris Higgins and Ryan McDonagh to the New York Rangers for Scott Gomez, Tom Pyatt, and Michael Busto on the eve of free agency on June 30, 2009.

paragraph: Unsigned by the Rangers, Janik became a free agent and on July 8, 2009, signed a one-year contract with the Detroit Red Wings. After starting the 2009–10 season with AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins, he made his Red Wing debut on November 3, 2009, against the Boston Bruins. He played 13 games with the Wings before recording a career high 37 points with the Griffins. On June 10, 2010, Janik was re-signed by the Red Wings to a two-year contract.

paragraph: On July 12, 2012, Janik signed a one-year contract with Adler Mannheim of the German DEL. During the 2012–13 season, Janik contributed with 10 points in 40 games from the Blueline. He was not tendered a new contract offer at season's end.

paragraph: On November 25, 2013, Janik signed with the San Antonio Rampage of the AHL. After 13 games with the Rampage, Janik's AHL rights were included in a trade to the Chicago Wolves on March 2, 2014.

paragraph: On October 21, 2014, he signed as a free agent a contract with SV Caldaro of the Italian Serie A.

paragraph: On July 21, 2015, Janik signalled the conclusion of his playing career upon accepting an assistant coaching position with the Arizona Coyotes AHL affiliate, the Springfield Falcons.

description: American ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Doug Janik

wikipedia_title: Doug Janik


text: Romania

text: Red Cross

text: Roman

text: World War II

text: Ion Antonescu

text: Jewish population

text: Holocaust in Romania

text: Righteous Among the Nations

text: Israel

text: Yad Vashem

text: synagogue

text: Horia Agarici

text: Royal Romanian Air Force

text: Romanian Army

text: Eastern Front

text: Iași pogrom

text: Călăraşi

text: Iaşi

text: Gendarmerie

text: non-commissioned officer

text: German

text: first aid

text: Romanian Red Cross

text: Bucharest

text: King Michael Coup

text: life imprisonment

text: hard labor

text: war crimes

text: crimes against peace

text: bust

text: Rabbi

text: Alexandru Șafran

text: Queen-Mother Elena

text: "Final Report"

categories: 1979 deaths,Romanian Righteous Among the Nations,1886 births,Romanian philanthropists,World War II nurses,Romanian nurses,Romanian people of World War II,Red Cross personnel,Female wartime nurses

paragraph: Viorica Agarici

paragraph: Viorica Agarici (1886–1979) was a Romanian nurse, the chairwoman of the local Red Cross in the city of Roman during World War II and the Ion Antonescu regime. A protector of the Jewish population during the implementation of the Holocaust in Romania, she is one of the Romanians among the Righteous Among the Nations commemorated by the Israeli people at Yad Vashem.

paragraph: Viorica Agarici was the daughter of a former mayor of Roman, himself noted for intervening on behalf of the Jews, and who helped establish the local synagogue and modern school. She was the mother of Horia Agarici, a celebrated Royal Romanian Air Force pilot.

paragraph: On the night of July 2, 1941, after caring for the Romanian Army wounded coming from the Eastern Front, she overheard people moaning from a train transporting Jewish survivors of the Iași pogrom. The crowded deportees were being transported to Călăraşi without water or food. Many of them had died before reaching Roman, on the trip from Iaşi (which normally took two hours). The transport they were on, supervised by the Gendarmerie, has been described as a "death train". The Gendarmes, instigated by Second Lieutenant Aurel Triandaf and the non-commissioned officer Anastase Bratu, prevented passengers access to water and shot several of those who attempted to procure it. In parallel, various local people and soldiers made attempts to sell the victims water at exorbitant prices, while troops, both local and German, attacked the prisoners with stones.

paragraph: Taking advantage of her position, Agarici asked and received permission to give food and water to the passengers, to allow them to wash, and to remove of the dead bodies. This first aid operation was accomplished with assistance from Romanian Red Cross and local Jewish volunteers, and effectively stalled the transport a full day. According to one account, Agarici actually ordered the authorities to obey — a Colonel Eraclide possibly complied due to the respect he may have had for Agarici's son. On July 4, all Jewish prisoners were moved to another train, where they received some food and water (despite the improved conditions, 75 died during the subsequent trip and 69 shortly after). Of 2,530 people forcefully embarked in Iaşi, only 1,011 were still alive in Călăraşi. It is possible that the original number was higher, and that losses were under-counted by officials, who did not keep evidence of all the bodies thrown out of the train.

paragraph: Agarici's actions were strongly condemned by the community of Roman, and she subsequently had to resign and move to Bucharest. Reportedly, she was instantly seen as a hero and rumors about her actions spread throughout the country. In 1947, three years after the King Michael Coup toppled Antonescu, Aurel Triandaf was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor for war crimes and crimes against peace.

paragraph: Alongside her Yad Vashem recognition, Agarici was the recipient of several local tributes: Roman train station houses her bust and a memorial plate, and, in summer 2005, her memory was honored through a ceremony hosted by local authorities and representatives of the Jewish community. She was also publicly praised by "Rabbi" Alexandru Șafran, the Jewish community leader during World War II, who cited her among the "humane people in inhumane times" (Şafran's list also included Queen-Mother Elena).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Final Report" of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania; retrieved October 4, 2007

description: Red Cross chairwoman, nurse

wikidata_label: Viorica Agarici

wikipedia_title: Viorica Agarici


text:
Egyptian
Egypt
Kingdom of Kush
Sudan
Nubia
Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
Shabaka
Taharqa
Shebitku
Shabaka
Qalhata
Taharqa
Shebitku
Shabaka
Shabaka
Assyria
Necho I
Nile
Thebes
Psamtik I
Kush
Atlanersa
El-Kurru
Charles Bonnet
Kerma
Robert Morkot

categories: Egyptian people of Nubian descent,7th-century BC Pharaohs,Year of birth unknown,653 BC deaths,Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt,Kingdom of Kush

paragraph: Tantamani

paragraph: Tantamani (Assyrian "UR-daname"), Tanutamun or Tanwetamani (Egyptian) or "Tementhes" (Greek) (d. 653 BC) was a Pharaoh of Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. His prenomen or royal name was Bakare which means "Glorious is the Soul of Re."

paragraph: He was the son of King Shabaka and the nephew of his predecessor Taharqa. In some sources he is said to be the son of Shebitku. Assyrian records call Tantamani a son of Shabaka and refer to Qalhata as a sister of Taharqa. Some Egyptologists interpreted the Assyrian text as stating that Tantamani was a son of Shebitku, but as he was most likely a son of Shabaka himself, it is now more common to consider Tantamani a son of Shabaka.

paragraph: Once the Assyrians had appointed Necho I as king and left Egypt, Tantamani marched down the Nile from Nubia and reoccupied all of Egypt including Memphis. Necho I, the Assyrians' representative, was killed in Tantamani's campaign. In reaction, the Assyrians returned to Egypt in force, defeated Tantamani's army in the Delta and advanced as far south as Thebes, which they sacked. The Assyrian reconquest effectively ended Nubian control over Egypt although Tantamani's authority was still recognised in Upper Egypt until his 8th Year in 656 BC when Psamtik I's navy peacefully took control of Thebes and effectively unified all of Egypt.

paragraph: Thereafter, Tantamani ruled only Nubia (Kush). Tantamani died in 653 BC and was succeeded by Atlanersa, a son of Taharqa. He was buried in the family cemetery at El-Kurru. The archaeologist Charles Bonnet discovered the statue of Tantamani at Kerma (now called Doukki Gel) in 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Robert Morkot, "The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers", The Rubicon Press, 2000.

description: Egyptian pharaoh

wikidata_label: Tanutamani

wikipedia_title: Tantamani


text:
Hittites
short chronology
Tawannanna
Hattusili I
Hittitologist
PU-Sarruma
PU-Sarruma
Papahdilmah
PU-Sarruma
Telepinu Proclamation
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Tyana
Heraclea Cybistra
Laranda
Lystra
History of the Hittites
Reign of Labarna I

paragraph: Labarna I

paragraph: Labarna I was the traditional first king of the Hittites, c. early 16th century BC (short chronology). He was the traditional founder of the Hittite Old Kingdom (fl. c. 1600 – 1450 BC). His wife was Tawannanna.

paragraph: The existence of Labarna I is questioned by some modern scholars. "Labarna" was also a title of early Hittite rulers, such as Hattusili I. Given the relatively few contemporaneous references to Labarna I personally, some scholars have suggested that pioneering Hittitologists may have erred in assuming that Labarna was the personal name of a king. According to this theory, the first "Labarna" (in the sense of a title) was Hattusili I, who is normally regarded as the second "Labarna".

paragraph: "Tabarna", a variant of "Labarna", is mentioned often in Hattian, Hittite, Hurrian and Akkadian texts from the Hittite archives.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Labarna was not the first in line to the throne. PU-Sarruma designated Labarna as his successor after his own sons revolted against him. Upon PU-Sarruma's death, Labarna and Papahdilmah, one of PU-Sarruma's sons, contended for the throne, with Labarna emerging victorious.

paragraph: What little is known about him is culled mainly from the Telepinu Proclamation, which states that he overwhelmed his enemies and "made them borders of the sea", a statement which may refer to conquests as far as the Mediterranean coast in the south, and the Black Sea in the north.

paragraph: Labarna installed his sons as governors in several cities including Tuwanuwa, Hupisna, Landa, and Lusna (the identities of these cities are uncertain, but thought to perhaps be Tyana, Heraclea Cybistra, Laranda, and Lystra). Through his conquests, he was responsible for laying the groundwork for the Hittite empire that was to come.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of the Hittites

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reign of Labarna I

description: Hittite king

wikidata_label: Labarna I

wikipedia_title: Labarna I


text:
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
sergeant-major
53rd Regiment of Foot
The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
British Army
Indian Mutiny
Lucknow
India
adjutant
lieutenant
New Zealand Wars
Auckland War Memorial Museum
bronchitis
Burial location of Charles Pye
News item

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Sikh War,Royal Scots Fusiliers soldiers,British military personnel of the First Anglo-Sikh War,King's Shropshire Light Infantry officers,People of the New Zealand Wars,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,Deaths from bronchitis,1876 deaths,King's Shropshire Light Infantry soldiers,South Lancashire Regiment soldiers,British colonial army officers,1820 births,English emigrants to New Zealand,New Zealand military personnel,People from Stafford

paragraph: Charles Pye

paragraph: Charles Pye (chr: 24 September 1820 – 12 July 1876) was an English 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: Pye was approximately 37 years old, and a sergeant-major in the 53rd Regiment of Foot (later The King's Shropshire Light Infantry), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 17 November 1857 at Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the VC:

paragraph: Charles Pye is not to be confused with Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Colquhoun Pye (11 Nov 1834 – 17 Feb 1872), son of Henry John Pye and Mary Anne Walker of Clifton Campville, Staffordshire. Charles Colquhoun Pye was not the recipient of the Victoria Cross.

paragraph: Section::::Further information.

paragraph: Charles Pye's birth date is unknown. His baptism occurred on 24 September 1820 at St Mary's church, Castle Church, Staffordshire. Charles was probably a few months old when he was baptised. His death certificate and obituary state he was 56 years old when he died, which suggests he was born prior to July 1820.

paragraph: Pye was commissioned into the 53rd Foot in 1858. He became adjutant in 1859 and was promoted lieutenant in 1861. He retired in 1862. He, his wife and stepdaughter emigrated to New Zealand in August 1862. He was commissioned as Inspector & captain into the Colonial Defence Force (or New Zealand Militia), taking part in active operations during the New Zealand Wars.

paragraph: His medals were donated to the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: After settling in Papakura and Karaka Hill, New Zealand, Charles Pye actually died in Australia on 12 July 1876, aged 56 whilst visiting his father in Kirkstall, Victoria. He was taken ill with bronchitis which proved fatal and was buried in the Tower Hill cemetery at Koroit near Warrnambool. The farming locality of Pyes Pa, south of Tauranga, is named after him.

paragraph: Memorials honouring Captain Pye can be found at Stafford, UK (his birthplace) and Kirkstall near Koroit, Victoria (his deathplace).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Burial location of Charles Pye "Victoria, Australia"

paragraph: BULLET::::- News item "Charles Pye's Victoria Cross donated to the Auckland Museum"

description: English recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Charles Pye

wikipedia_title: Charles Pye


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acromegalic
giant
tallest living person
Robert Wadlow
Helsinki
Grand Duchy of Finland
Finnish Defence Forces
professional wrestler
Finnish Army
Winter War
Järvenpää
The Tallest Man: Väinö Myllyrinne
Väinö Myllyrinne homepage

categories: Finnish expatriates in the United States,People with gigantism,Wrestlers with acromegaly,1909 births,1963 deaths,Finnish male professional wrestlers,People from Helsinki

paragraph: Väinö Myllyrinne

paragraph: Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 – 13 April 1963)) was an acromegalic giant who was at one time (1940?–1963) the world's tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow. He stood and weighed at the age of 21, but experienced a second phase of growth in his late thirties, attaining a height of and weighing 376 pounds.

paragraph: Myllyrinne was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, and is considered the tallest soldier ever, having served in the Finnish Defence Forces. He underwent his conscript training in 1929 in the Viipuri Heavy Artillery Regiment, and was tall and very strong. In the 1930s he travelled around Europe as a professional wrestler and circus performer. He returned to Finland in 1939 to serve in the Finnish Army during the Winter War. In 1946, he moved to Järvenpää and ran a chicken farm. He died in Helsinki in 1963 and is buried at Järvenpää.

paragraph: In 1962, just a year before his death, he was measured by doctors at . He had a size hand, the greatest known.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Tallest Man: Väinö Myllyrinne

paragraph: BULLET::::- Väinö Myllyrinne homepage

description: Finnish giant

wikidata_label: Väinö Myllyrinne

wikipedia_title: Väinö Myllyrinne


text:
Italian
Baroque
composer
Kapellmeister
Giacomo Buonaccorsi

categories: Italian male classical composers,Musicians from Rome,Sacred music composers,1670s births,Italian Baroque composers,18th-century classical composers,Italian classical composers,1755 deaths

paragraph: Pietro Paolo Bencini

paragraph: Pietro Paolo Bencini (ca. 1670 – 6 July 1755) was an Italian Baroque composer and Kapellmeister.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Bencini was born into a musical family. He became "maestro di cappella" at several churches in Rome. His compositional output consists mostly of religious music, including several oratorios and cantatas. He was maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Nuova (The Roman Oratory) from 1705 to 1743. He left there to succeed Pitoni at St. Peter's.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il sacrificio di Abramo" (oratorio, libretto by Giacomo Buonaccorsi)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tra l'ombre piu romite" (cantata)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rimembranza crudele" (cantata)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Clori che m'invaghi" (cantata)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jesu redemptor omnium" (Christmas hymn)

description: Italian Baroque composer

wikidata_label: Pietro Paolo Bencini

wikipedia_title: Pietro Paolo Bencini


text:
seventh
Mayor
Lowell, Massachusetts
Billerica, Massachusetts
Lowell

categories: 1876 deaths,Mayors of Lowell, Massachusetts,1799 births,American bank presidents

paragraph: Josiah B. French

paragraph: Josiah Bowers French (December 13, 1799 – August 21, 1876) was a bank president who served as the seventh Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Section::::Family life.

paragraph: French married Mary Anne Stevens of Billerica, Massachusetts on April 6, 1823, they had nine children Mary Ann French, born September 19, 1823, Josiah Stevens French born 30 September 30th 1825, Harriet Stevens French born 27 August 27th 1827, Josiah Bowers French born January 8, 1830, Samuel Lawrence French born September 25, 1832, Luther Bartlett French born 25 October 25th 1834, Sarah Josephine French born March 3, 1838, Catherine Isabella French born December 20, 1840 and Francis Maria French born 20 April 20th 1843.

paragraph: Section::::Mayor of Lowell.

paragraph: Josiah Bowers French was elected mayor of Lowell in 1848, he was re-elected mayor in December 1849.

description: American businessman and politician

wikidata_label: Josiah B. French

wikipedia_title: Josiah B. French


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Donation of Sutri
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Osimo
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Paul
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Thrasimund II
Godescalc
Rome
Theodo
Charles Martel
duke of the Franks
Pepin the Short
Notitia de actoribus regis
capitulary
Hildeprand
Alps
Moors
Aix-en-Provence
Arles
Pope Gregory III
Orte
Bomarzo
patrician
Zachary
San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro
Historia Langobardorum
Paul the Deacon
VI.xxii; xxxv; xxxviii; xliii etc.
"Lexikon des Mittelalters"
"Catholic Encyclopedia":

categories: Burials at San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro,8th-century kings of Italy,Lombard warriors,Lombard kings,8th-century Lombard people,Year of birth missing,8th-century monarchs in Europe,744 deaths

paragraph: Liutprand, King of the Lombards

paragraph: Liutprand was the King of the Lombards from 712 to 744 and is chiefly remembered for his Donation of Sutri, in 728, and his long reign, which brought him into a series of conflicts, mostly successful, with most of Italy. He is often regarded as the most successful Lombard monarch, notable for the Donation of Sutri, which was the first accolade of sovereign territory to the Papacy.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Liutprand's life began inauspiciously. His father was driven to exile among the Bavarians, his older brother Sigipert was blinded by Aripert II, king of the Lombards and his mother Theodarada and sister Aurona were mutilated (their noses and ears were cut off). Liutprand was spared only because his youth made him appear harmless. He was released from Aripert II's custody and allowed to join his father (Paul the Deacon, VI.xxii).

paragraph: Section::::Reign.

paragraph: The reign of Liutprand, son of Ansprand, duke of Asti and briefly king of the Lombards, began the day before his father's death when magnates called to Ansprand's deathbed consented to make Liutprand his colleague. Liutprand's reign endured for thirty-one years. Within the Lombard kingdom he was considered a lawgiver of irreproachable Catholicity.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Relations with the Agilolfings of Bavaria.

paragraph: At the opening of his reign, Liutprand's chief ally among neighboring rulers was the Agilolfing Theodo I, the Frankish duke of Bavaria. Theodo I's intervention on Ansprand's behalf helped him gain the throne. Theodo had taken him in, when he and his father were temporarily expelled by Aripert II in 702, and the hospitality was later cemented with a marriage connection: Liutprand took to wife the Agilolfing Guntrud. The core of Theodo's policy was resistance to the Merovingian mayors of the palaces in their encroachments north of the Alps, concerns that did not much occupy Liutprand, and maintaining strategic control of the eastern Alpine passes in what is now the Italian Alps, which did. In the spring of 712, Theodo’s son Theodebert, with Ansprand and Liutprand, attacked Lombard strongholds, and with the drowning of their fleeing rival Aripert, Ansprand's faction were back in power at Pavia.

paragraph: Theodo died in 717 or 718; under his successor the Lombard ties with the Agilolfing weakened. Until distracted by Byzantine politics in 726, Liutprand's chief warmaking energies were concentrated on taking Bavarian castles on the River Adige.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Byzantine wars.

paragraph: In his early reign, Liutprand did not attack the Exarchate of Ravenna or the Papacy. But in 726, the Emperor Leo III made his first of many edicts outlawing images or icons (see the iconoclastic controversy). The pope, Gregory II, ordered the people to resist and the Byzantine duke of Naples, Exhiliratus, was killed by a mob while trying to carry out the imperial command to destroy all the icons. Liutprand chose this time of division to strike the Byzantine possessions in Emilia. In 727, he crossed the Po and took Bologna, Osimo, Rimini and Ancona, along with the other cities of Emilia and the Pentapolis. He took Classis, the seaport of Ravenna, but could not take Ravenna itself from the exarch Paul. Paul was soon killed in a riot, however. Eventually, Ravenna would capitulate to Liutprand with barely a fight (737).

paragraph: The first Moorish raids on Corsica began around 713–719 from the Balearic Islands to the west. Acting as the protector of the Catholic Church and its faithful, Liutprand subjected the island to Lombard government (c. 725), though it was nominally under Byzantine authority. Corsica remained with the Lombard kingdom even after the Frankish conquest, by which time Lombard landholders and churches had established a significant presence on the island.

paragraph: When the Saracens invaded Sardinia, Liutprand redeemed the body of Augustine about the year 720. He brought it with great ceremony to Pavia, and enshrined it in the Church of Saint Peter, which was then the cathedral of Pavia. He rescued the relics stationed on the island with great haste as well as with great expense, according to Paul the Deacon.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Donation of Sutri.

paragraph: Having just overwhelmed the Byzantine forces, though it was left to his heirs to make the final vestige of the Exarchate of Ravenna Lombard at last, Liutprand advanced towards Rome along the Via Cassia; he was met at the ancient city of Sutri by Pope Gregory II (728). There the two reached an agreement, by which Sutri and some hill towns in Latium (see Vetralla) were given to the Papacy, "as a gift to the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul" according to the "Liber Pontificalis". They were the first extension of Papal territory beyond the confines of the Duchy of Rome. This was the beginning of the Papal States.

paragraph: In the meantime, Leo sent Eutychius, as Exarch of Ravenna, to take control of Italy. When Eutychius arrived at Naples, he made an agreement whereby Liutprand would attack the Pope if the Greeks aided him in subjugating the contumacious and independent southern Lombard duchies, the Duchy of Spoleto and the Duchy of Benevento. The dukes, Thrasimund II and Godescalc, surrendered — though control of the duchies from Pavia was not to endure for long — and the new exarch marched on Rome. At Rome, Liutprand camped on the far bank of the Tiber in the "Field of Nero"  and arbitrated, returning to the exarch the city of Ravenna alone among the Byzantine territories and prevailing on the pope to restore his allegiance to the emperor (730).

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Frankish relations.

paragraph: Following the death of Theodo, Liutprand turned from his former Agilolfing allies to bind himself to Charles Martel, duke of the Franks, whose son, Pepin the Short, he adopted and girded with arms at his coming of manhood. In 733 Liutprand promulgated the "Notitia de actoribus regis", a series of six laws, presaging the later Frankish capitulary in structure. They sought to curb the usurpation by local administrators of public lands.

paragraph: In 735–736, a serious illness encouraged Liutprand to raise his nephew Hildeprand to co-kingship. In 736–737, Liutprand crossed the Alps with an army to help Charles expel the Moors from Aix-en-Provence and Arles.

paragraph: In 738, a long peace was broken by the rebellious Lombard duke of Spoleto, Thrasimund II. When the revolt was suppressed, with nephews of Liutprand established at Beneventum and Spoleto, the dukes fled to Rome and the protection of Pope Gregory III. Liutprand immediately began the conquest of the "Ducatus Romanus", the province around Rome. After capturing Orte and Bomarzo, he arrived at Rome and besieged it. The Pope sent an embassy to Charles Martel to beg for aid, promising favour then and in the future world: the cover letter survives. Gregory conferred on him the title of patrician. Gregory's anti-Lombard rhetoric reached absurd heights considering Liutprand's orthodoxy; the Lombard king only wanted his rebellious dukes to face justice. Charles ignored the pope's excessive charges against his erstwhile ally and instead sent back his own embassy to mediate between the two Italian powers. Before any headway was made, however, both pope and Frank died.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Death.

paragraph: Soon after the death of Gregory III (741), Zachary was elected to the Apostolic See; Liutprand happily signed a twenty-year peace and restored the cities of the Duchy of Rome of which he had taken possession. Soon after, his reign ended in peace. Having passed more years on the throne and come closer to bringing the entire peninsula under one rule than any of his predecessors, the great Lombard died in 744 and was buried in the church of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, in Pavia.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: The main source for the career of Liutprand is the "Historia Langobardorum" of Paul the Deacon, which idealises Liutprand. It was written after 787 and covers the story of the Lombards from 568 to the death of Liutprand in 744. Though written by a Lombard from a Lombard point of view, it contains much information about the Eastern Roman Empire, the Franks, and others.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Riché, Pierre. "The Carolingians : A Family who forged Europe". M. I. Allen, translator. Philadelphia, 1993.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Neil Christie, "The Lombards. The Ancient Longobards." Oxford/Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul the Deacon, "History of the Lombards". Translated by William Dudley Foulke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. VI.xxii; xxxv; xxxviii; xliii etc.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cristina La Rocca (ed.), "Italy in the Early Middle Ages." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lexikon des Mittelalters"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicholas Everett, “How territorial was Lombard law?”, in W. Pohl and P. Erhart (eds.). "Die Langobarden. Herrschaft und Identität." Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna, 2004), pp. 347–362.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicholas Everett, "Liutprandic letters amongst the Lombards", in K. Forsyth, J. Higgitt, and D. Parsons (eds.), "Roman, Runes and Ogham. Medieval Inscriptions in the Insular World and on the Continent. Papers of the International Conference on medieval Epigraphy. St Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK. July 16–17, 1996". Paul Watkins Publishers (Stamford, 2000), pp. 175–189.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicholas Everett, "Literacy in Lombard Italy". Cambridge University Press 2003.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Catholic Encyclopedia": "States of the Church"

description: Lombard king

wikidata_label: Liutprand, King of the Lombards

wikipedia_title: Liutprand, King of the Lombards


text:
Italian politician
European Commission
La Sapienza University
Aversa
province of Caserta
systems theory
Rector
European Commission
Delors Commission
Socrates
Leonardo da Vinci
European Science and Technology Forum
Italian Parliament
EU obituary

categories: Sapienza University of Rome faculty,Italian European Commissioners,Italian engineers,1927 births,Control theorists,People from Aversa,2000 deaths

paragraph: Antonio Ruberti

paragraph: Antonio Ruberti (24 January 1927 – 4 September 2000) was an Italian politician and engineer. He was a member of the Italian Government and a European Commissioner as well as a Professor of engineering at La Sapienza University.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Antonio Ruberti was born in Aversa in the province of Caserta, Campania.

paragraph: He trained as an engineer and taught control engineering and systems theory as the first head of the Department of Science and Engineering of La Sapienza university in Rome, a university of which he was later Rector.

paragraph: In 1987, he joined the Italian government as Minister for the Coordination of Scientific and Technological Research. He held this position for five years. He was appointed to the European Commission by the Italian government 1993, when he joined the Delors Commission with the portfolio covering science, research, technological development and education. Ruberti was only a commissioner until 1995 but during this short mandate, he launched a series of new initiatives including the Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci programmes, the European Week of Scientific Culture, and the European Science and Technology Forum. After leaving the Commission, Professor Ruberti was once more elected to the Italian Parliament where he chaired the Committee for European Union Policies.

paragraph: He died in Rome in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- EU obituary

description: Italian politician

wikidata_label: Antonio Ruberti

wikipedia_title: Antonio Ruberti


text: poet

text: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

text: feminist activism

text: Richard Wilbur

text: sonnet

text: Rockland, Maine

text: St. Vincent's Hospital

text: New York

text: Shakespeare

text: Milton

text: Camden, Maine

text: Edith Wynne Matthison

text: Vassar College

text: New York City

text: Greenwich Village

text: Cherry Lane Theatre

text: 75½ Bedford Street

text: Floyd Dell

text: Witter Bynner

text: Arthur Davison Ficke

text: Susan Glaspell

text: Floyd Dell

text: Edmund Wilson

text: Renascence

text: Orrick Johns

text: Camden, Maine

text: Vassar College

text: Provincetown Playhouse

text: Pulitzer Prize

text: Sara Teasdale

text: Margaret Widdemer

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text: Constantin Brancusi

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text: Norma Millay Ellis

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text: Provincetown Players

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text: Edna St. Vincent Millay at the Poetry Foundation

text: Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

text: Archive and images at

text: Smithsonian Institution

text: Miriam Gurko-Floyd Dell Papers

text: The Newberry Library

text: Guide to the Edna St. Vincent Millay

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paragraph: Edna St. Vincent Millay

paragraph: Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella Buzelle, a nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher who would later become a superintendent of schools. Her middle name derives from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where her uncle's life had been saved just before her birth. The family's house was "between the mountains and the sea where baskets of apples and drying herbs on the porch mingled their scents with those of the neighboring pine woods." In 1904, Cora officially divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility, but they had already been separated for some years. Cora and her three daughters, Edna (who called herself "Vincent"), Norma Lounella (born 1893), and Kathleen Kalloch (born 1896), moved from town to town, living in poverty. Cora travelled with a trunk full of classic literature, including Shakespeare and Milton, which she read to her children. The family settled in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine, where Millay would write the first of the poems that would bring her literary fame.

paragraph: The three sisters were independent and spoke their minds, which did not always sit well with the authority figures in their lives. Millay's grade school principal, offended by her frank attitudes, refused to call her Vincent. Instead, he called her by any woman's name that started with a V. At Camden High School, Millay began developing her literary talents, starting at the school's literary magazine, "The Megunticook". At 14 she won the St. Nicholas Gold Badge for poetry, and by 15, she had published her poetry in the popular children's magazine "St. Nicholas", the "Camden Herald", and the high-profile anthology "Current Literature". While at school, she had several relationships with women, including Edith Wynne Matthison, who would go on to become an actress in silent films.

paragraph: Millay entered Vassar College in 1913 when she was 21 years old, later than usual. She had relationships with several fellow students during her time there and kept scrapbooks including drafts of plays written during the period.

paragraph: Section::::New York City.

paragraph: After her graduation from Vassar in 1917, Millay moved to New York City. She lived in a number of places in Greenwich Village, including a house owned by the Cherry Lane Theatre and 75½ Bedford Street, renowned for being the narrowest in New York City. The critic Floyd Dell wrote that the red-haired and beautiful Millay was "a frivolous young woman, with a brand-new pair of dancing slippers and a mouth like a valentine." Millay described her life in New York as "very, very poor and very, very merry." While establishing her career as a poet, Millay initially worked with the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street and the Theatre Guild. In 1924 Millay and others founded the Cherry Lane Theater "to continue the staging of experimental drama." Magazine articles under a pseudonym also helped support her early days in the village.

paragraph: Counted among Millay's close friends were the writers Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and Susan Glaspell, as well as Floyd Dell and the critic Edmund Wilson, both of whom proposed marriage to her and were refused.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Millay's fame began in 1912 when she entered her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest in "The Lyric Year". The poem was widely considered the best submission, and when it was ultimately awarded fourth place, it created a scandal which brought Millay publicity. The first-place winner Orrick Johns was among those who felt that "Renascence" was the best poem, and stated that "the award was as much an embarrassment to me as a triumph." A second-prize winner offered Millay his $250 prize money. In the immediate aftermath of the "Lyric Year" controversy, wealthy arts patron Caroline B. Dow heard Millay reciting her poetry and playing the piano at the Whitehall Inn in Camden, Maine, and was so impressed that she offered to pay for Millay's education at Vassar College.

paragraph: After graduating from Vassar, Millay moved to Greenwich Village. A friend remembered seeing her red hair flying as she ran down MacDougal Street, “flushed and laughing like a nymph.” She would soon fall out of love, bluntly answering a marriage proposal: "Never ask a girl poet to marry you." Holed up in a small, unheated apartment, she began to write shorter, pithier poems.

paragraph: Millay’s 1920 collection "A Few Figs From Thistles" drew controversy for its exploration of female sexuality and feminism. In 1919, she wrote the anti-war play "Aria da Capo", which starred her sister Norma Millay at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City. Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the third woman to win the poetry prize, after Sara Teasdale (1918) and Margaret Widdemer (1919).

paragraph: In January 1921, she went to Paris, where she met and befriended the sculptors Thelma Wood and Constantin Brancusi, photographer Man Ray, had affairs with journalists George Slocombe and John Carter, and became pregnant by a man named Daubigny and secured a marriage license, but instead returned to England where her mother Cora helped induce an abortion with alkanet as recommended in her old copy of Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

paragraph: Possibly as a result, Millay was frequently ill and weak for much of the next four years. After his remarkable attentions to her during her illness, in 1923 she married 43-year-old Eugen Jan Boissevain (1880–1949), the widower of the labor lawyer and war correspondent Inez Milholland, a political icon Millay had met during her time at Vassar. A self-proclaimed feminist, Boissevain supported her career and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. Both Millay and Boissevain had other lovers throughout their twenty-six-year marriage. For Millay, a significant such relationship was with the poet George Dillon. She met Dillon at one of her readings at the University of Chicago in 1928 where he was a student. He was fourteen years her junior, and the relationship inspired the sonnets in the collection "Fatal Interview" (published 1931).

paragraph: In 1925, Boissevain and Millay bought Steepletop near Austerlitz, New York, which had been a blueberry farm. The couple built a barn (from a Sears Roebuck kit), and then a writing cabin and a tennis court. Millay grew her own vegetables in a small garden. The couple later bought Ragged Island in Casco Bay, Maine, as a summer retreat. The couple often had trouble with servants, with Millay writing, "The only people I really hate are servants. They are not really human beings at all."

paragraph: In the summer of 1936, Millay was riding in a station wagon when the door suddenly swung open, and "I was hurled out into the pitch-darkness...and rolled for some distance down a rocky gully", severely damaging nerves in her spine, requiring frequent surgeries and hospitalizations, at least daily doses of morphine, and she lived the rest of her life in "constant pain". Despite this, she was sufficiently alarmed by the rise of fascism to write against it. During the first world war, Millay had been a dedicated and active pacifist; however, from 1940, she supported the Allied Forces, writing in celebration of the war effort and later working with Writers' War Board to create propaganda, including poetry. Her reputation in poetry circles was damaged by her war work. Merle Rubin noted, "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than Ezra Pound did for championing fascism." In "The New York Times Magazine", Millay mourned the Czechoslovak city of Lidice, the site of a Nazi massacre:

paragraph: poemThe whole world holds in its arms today

paragraph: The murdered village of Lidice,

paragraph: Like the murdered body of a little child./poem

paragraph: This article would serve as the basis of her 32-page poem, Murder of Lidice in 1942 and loosely served as the basis of the 1943 MGM movie Hitler's Madman. Douglas Sirk directed the movie. Harper and Brothers published the poem in 1942.

paragraph: In 1943, Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry.

paragraph: Despite the excellent sales of her books in the 1930s, her declining reputation, constant medical bills, and frequent demands from her mentally-ill sister Kathleen meant that for most of her last years, Millay was in debt to her own publisher. Boissevain died in 1949 of lung cancer, and Millay lived alone for the last year of her life.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Millay died at her home on October 19, 1950. She had fallen down stairs and was found approximately eight hours after her death. Her physician reported that she had suffered a heart attack following a coronary occlusion. She was 58 years old. She is buried alongside her husband at Steepletop, Austerlitz, New York.

paragraph: Millay's sister Norma and her husband, the painter and actor Charles Frederick Ellis, moved to Steepletop after Millay's death. In 1973, they established Millay Colony for the Arts on the seven acres around the house and barn. After the death of her husband in 1976, Norma continued to run the program until her death in 1986.

paragraph: At 17, the poet Mary Oliver visited Steepletop and became a close friend of Norma. Oliver eventually lived there for seven years and helped to organize Millay's papers. Mary Oliver herself went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, greatly inspired by Millay's work. In 2006, the state of New York paid $1.69 million to acquire of Steepletop, to add the land to a nearby state forest preserve. The proceeds of the sale were used by the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society to restore the farmhouse and grounds and turn it into a museum. The museum opened to the public in the summer 2010, and guided tours of Steepletop and Millay's gardens were available from the end of May through the middle of October. Effective November 2018 Steepletop closed to the public due to financial challenges and restoration needs. Fundraising efforts continue as do considerations for the future of this museum house.

paragraph: Parts of the grounds of Steepletop, including the Millay Poetry Trail that leads to her grave, are now open to the public year-round.

paragraph: Details of Millay's life were compiled by biographer Nancy Milford in the book titled "Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay", published in 2001. Milford was sought out by Millay's only living connection at the time, her sister Norma Millay Ellis, and was chosen for her previous, successful biography "Zelda". Milford would then go on to edit and write an introduction for a collection of Millay's poems called "The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay."

paragraph: In 2015, she was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Millay wrote five verse dramas early in her career, including "Two Slatterns and a King" and "The Lamp and the Bell", a poem written for Vassar College about love between women. She was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera House to write a libretto for an opera composed by Deems Taylor. The result, "The King's Henchman", drew on the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's" account of Eadgar, King of Wessex, and was described as the most effectively and artistically wrought American opera ever to reach the stage. Within three weeks, her publishers had run through four editions of the book.

paragraph: Her pacifist verse drama "Aria da Capo", a one-act play written for the Provincetown Players, is often anthologized. It aired live as an episode of "Academy Theatre" in 1949 on NBC.

paragraph: "" (1922) is an homage to the geometry of Euclid. "Renascence" and "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" are often considered her finest poems. On her death, "The New York Times" described her as "an idol of the younger generation during the glorious early days of Greenwich Village [...] One of the greatest American poets of her time." Thomas Hardy said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: The following comprises works published during her lifetime:

paragraph: Section::::Publications.:Poetry collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (title poem first published under name E. Vincent Millay in "The Lyric Year, 1912"; collection includes God's World), M. Kennerley, 1917. reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1972.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Few Figs From Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets", F. Shay, 1920, 2nd [enlarged] ,

paragraph: BULLET::::- (poems; includes Spring, Ode to Silence, and The Beanstalk); reprinted, Harper, 1935

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver", F. Shay, 1922, reprinted as The Harp-Weaver, in "The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems" (includes The Concert, Euclid Alone has Looked on Beauty Bare, and Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree), Harper, 1923.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poems", M. Secker, 1923.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Under pseudonym Nancy Boyd) "Distressing Dialogues", preface by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper, 1924.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (includes The Buck in the Snow [also see below] and On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fatal Interview" (sonnets), Harper, 1931.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wine from These Grapes" (poems; includes Epitaph for the Race of Man and In the Grave No Flower), Harper, 1934.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Translator with George Dillon; and author of introduction) Charles Baudelaire, "Flowers of Evil", Harper, 1936.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Conversation at Midnight" (narrative poem), Harper, 1937.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Huntsman, What Quarry?" (poems), Harper, 1939.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "There Are No Islands, Any More: Lines Written in Passion and in Deep Concern for England, France, and My Own Country", Harper, 1940.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Make Bright the Arrows: 1940 Notebook" (poems), Harper, 1940.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay", Harper & Brothers, 1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Murder of Lidice (poem)", Harper, 1942.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Second April [and] The Buck in the Snow", introduction by William Rose Benét, Harper, 1950.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mine the Harvest, A Collection of New Poems", Edited by her sister, Norma Millay, and posthumously published by Harper & Brothers, 1954 (This collection consists of the poems that Edna St. Vincent Millay was preparing at the time of her death).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love is Not All", Engeler Urs Editor, 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.:Plays.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (And director) "Aria da capo" (one-act play in verse; first produced in Greenwich Village, NY, December 5, 1919), M. Kennerley, 1921 (also see below).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lamp and the Bell" (five-act play; first produced June 18, 1921), F. Shay, 1921 (also see below).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Slatterns and a King: A Moral Interlude" (play), Stewart Kidd, 1921.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three Plays" (contains "Two Slatterns and a King", "Aria da capo", and "The Lamp and the Bell"), Harper, 1926.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Author of libretto) "The King's Henchman" (three-act play; first produced in New York, February 17, 1927), Harper, 1927.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Princess Marries the Page" (one-act play), Harper, 1932.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Atkins, Elizabeth (1936). "Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Times". Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Milford, Nancy (2002). "The Selected Poems of Edna St Vincent Millay". New York: Random House. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1991) "Selected Poems". Harper Collins

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edna St. Vincent Millay at the Poetry Foundation.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works by Edna St. Vincent Millay at the Academy of American Poets

paragraph: BULLET::::- Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Biography & 18 poems (Ashes of Life, The Betrothal, Departure, Dirge, Ebb, Feast, First Fig, [Four Sonnets 1922], Grown Up, Humoresque, Lament, The Penitent, Recuerdo, Second Fig, Sonnets 1923, Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree, Sorrow, Spring)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Archive and images at the Smithsonian Institution.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times" Obituary October 20, 1950 "Edna St. V. Millay Found Dead At 58". Accessed 2010-09-13

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il raccolto a mano aperta di Edna St.Vincent Millay" an article in Italian

paragraph: BULLET::::- Miriam Gurko-Floyd Dell Papers at The Newberry Library

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guide to the Edna St. Vincent Millay at Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library

description: American poet

enwikiquote_title: Edna St. Vincent Millay

wikidata_label: Edna St. Vincent Millay

wikipedia_title: Edna St. Vincent Millay


text: Miletus

text: philosopher

text: Megarian school

text: Euclid of Megara

text: paradox

text: Euclid of Megara

text: Megarian school

text: Aristotle

text: Demosthenes

text: Apollonius Cronus

text: Diodorus Cronus

text: Euphantus

text: Diogenes of Sinope

text: paradoxes

text: Diodorus Cronus

text: The Liar ("pseudomenos") paradox

text: Electra

text: Orestes

text: The Heap ("sôritês") paradox

text: the Liar

text: Epimenides the Cretan

text: masked man fallacy

text: syllogistic fallacy

text: Aristotle

text: Plato

text: Aulus Gellius

text: Saturnalia

text: Seneca

text: Rescher

categories: Megarian philosophers,4th-century BC philosophers,Year of birth unknown,Ancient Greek philosophers of language,Ancient Milesians,4th-century BC Greek people

paragraph: Eubulides

paragraph: Eubulides (; fl. 4th century BCE) of Miletus was a philosopher of the Megarian school, and a pupil of Euclid of Megara. He is famous for his paradoxes.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Eubulides was a pupil of Euclid of Megara, the founder of the Megarian school. He was a contemporary of Aristotle, against whom he wrote with great bitterness. He taught logic to Demosthenes, and he is also said to have taught Apollonius Cronus, the teacher of Diodorus Cronus, and the historian Euphantus. He may have been the author of a book about Diogenes of Sinope.

paragraph: Section::::Paradoxes of Eubulides.

paragraph: Eubulides is most famous for inventing the forms of seven famous paradoxes, some of which, however, are also ascribed to Diodorus Cronus:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. The Liar ("pseudomenos") paradox:A man says: "What I am saying now is a lie." If the statement is true, then he is lying, even though the statement is true. If the statement is a lie, then he is not actually lying, even though the statement is a lie. Thus, if the speaker is lying, he tells the truth, and vice versa.

paragraph: BULLET::::1. The Masked Man ("enkekalymmenos") paradox:br"Do you know this masked man?" "No." "But he is your father. So – do you not know your own father?"

paragraph: BULLET::::2. The Electra ("Elektra") paradox:Electra doesn't know that the man approaching her is her brother, Orestes. Electra knows her brother. Does Electra know the man who is approaching?

paragraph: BULLET::::3. The Overlooked Man ("dialanthanôn") paradox:Alpha ignored the man approaching him and treated him as a stranger. The man was his father. Did Alpha ignore his own father and treat him as a stranger?

paragraph: BULLET::::4. The Heap ("sôritês") paradox:brA single grain of sand is certainly not a heap. Nor is the addition of a single grain of sand enough to transform a non-heap into a heap: when we have a collection of grains of sand that is not a heap, then adding but one single grain will not create a heap. And yet we know that at some point we will have a heap.

paragraph: BULLET::::5. The Bald Man ("phalakros") paradox:brA man with a full head of hair is obviously not bald. Now the removal of a single hair will not turn a non-bald man into a bald one. And yet it is obvious that a continuation of that process must eventually result in baldness.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. The Horns ("keratinês") paradox:brWhat you have not lost, you have. But you have not lost horns. Therefore, you have horns.

paragraph: The first paradox (the Liar) is probably the most famous, and is similar to the famous paradox of Epimenides the Cretan. The second, third and fourth paradoxes are variants of a single paradox and relate to the problem of what it means to "know" something and the identity of objects involved in an affirmation (compare the masked man fallacy). The fifth and sixth paradoxes are also a single paradox and is usually thought to relate to the vagueness of language. The final paradox attacks presumptions involved in a proposition, and is related to the syllogistic fallacy.

paragraph: These paradoxes were very well known in ancient times, some are alluded to by Eubulides' contemporary Aristotle and even partially by Plato. Aulus Gellius mentions how the discussion of such paradoxes was considered (for him) after-dinner entertainment at the Saturnalia, but Seneca, on the other hand, considered them a waste of time: "Not to know them does no harm, and mastering them does no good."

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rescher, N. (2001) "Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution." Open Court Publishing.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Seuren, P. A. M. (2005) "Eubulides as a 20th-century semanticist". Language Sciences, 27(1), 75-95.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wheeler, S. C. (1983) "Megarian Paradoxes as Eleatic Arguments", American Philosophical Quarterly, 20 (3), 287-295.

description: ancient Greek philosopher

wikidata_label: Eubulides

wikipedia_title: Eubulides


text: Abney-Hastings

text: British

text: Australia

text: Earl of Loudoun

text: Wangaratta

text: Melbourne

text: Victoria

text: Repton School

text: Derbyshire

text: Ashby de la Zouch

text: Loudoun Kirk

text: St Andrew's First Aid Australia

text: Ringwood

text: Australian Monarchist League

text: Loudoun County, Virginia

text: heir presumptive

text: Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings

text: Loudoun

text: Edward IV

text: Richard III

text: King James IV of Scotland

text: Mary Tudor, Queen of France

text: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

text: Pope Leo XIII

text: Mary Boleyn

text: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

text: Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby

text: Britain's Real Monarch

text: Channel 4

text: United Kingdom

text: King of England

text: Edward IV of England

text: Elizabeth II

text: United Kingdom

text: Scotland

text: Margaret Tudor

text: James IV of Scotland

text: The Honourable

text: The Right Honourable

categories: Earls of Loudoun,Australian peers,People from Wangaratta,Living people,1974 births

paragraph: Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun

paragraph: Simon Michael Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun (born 29 October 1974), is a British aristocrat living in Australia who is the current holder of the ancient Scottish noble title of Earl of Loudoun.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: The Earl of Loudoun is the son of Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, whom he succeeded in 2012. He resides in Wangaratta and Melbourne, Victoria.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hereditary Governor / Patron - Repton School, Derbyshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron - Ashby de la Zouch Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron - Friends of Loudoun Kirk

paragraph: BULLET::::- President - The Board of Governors, St Andrew's First Aid Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron - Ringwood Highland Games, Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron - Australian Monarchist League, Victoria Branch

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron - Clan Campbell Society of Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron - Barnet 1471 Battlefields Society

paragraph: BULLET::::- Esteemed friend of Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia

paragraph: The heir presumptive to the title is the present holder's brother, the Hon. Marcus William Abney-Hastings (b. 1981).

paragraph: Section::::Ancestry.

paragraph: Through his grandmother Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun, he is directly descended from, and heir-general of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III. Other notable ancestors include King James IV of Scotland, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (Catholic martyr, beatified by Pope Leo XIII), Mary Boleyn, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby.

paragraph: Section::::Claim to the Throne of England.

paragraph: In 2004, "Britain's Real Monarch"—a documentary broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom—repeated the claim that the Earl's father, as the senior descendant of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, was the rightful King of England. This argument involves the claim that Edward IV of England was illegitimate. The Earl, following his father's death, would have become the rightful monarch of England under this alternative path of succession, rather than Elizabeth II. This is a claim to the throne of England but not the whole of the United Kingdom, as the English line joined that of Scotland in 1503 with the marriage of Margaret Tudor to James IV of Scotland.

paragraph: Section::::Titles and styles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 19742002: "The Honourable" Simon Abney-Hastings

paragraph: BULLET::::- 20022012: "Lord Mauchline

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "The Right Honourable" The Earl of Loudoun

description: Australian peer


text:
Singaporean
footballer
Sri Lankan Burgher
Woodlands Wellington FC
Prime League
midfielder
attacking midfielder
winger
striker
2011 S.League
S.League
2012 season
Woodlands Wellington
S.League
Gombak United
floorball
Oswind Suriya's Profile

categories: Hougang United FC players,Woodlands Wellington FC players,Living people,Floorball players,1989 births,Singapore Premier League players,Singaporean footballers,Burgher sportspeople,Association football midfielders,Singaporean people of Sri Lankan descent

paragraph: Oswind Suriya

paragraph: Oswind Suriya Rosayro () is a Singaporean footballer of Sri Lankan Burgher descent who plays for Woodlands Wellington FC, primarily in the Prime League as a midfielder. Oswind is normally deployed as an attacking midfielder, winger or striker. He can also play goalkeeper, central defender, and wing back.

paragraph: Oswind first rose to prominence during his early playing days with Glasgow Hotspurs. And during the 2011 S.League season, where he was promoted to the S.League squad and featured in 2 first team matches in his first season. During the 2012 season, Oswind scored his first senior goal for Woodlands Wellington in a S.League match against Gombak United on 26 August 2012.

paragraph: Apart from football, Oswind is also an accomplished floorball player who participated in the Singapore Floorball League in his teens and has represented the Singapore national floorball team at international level. He is currently an international floorball referee.

paragraph: Section::::Club career statistics.

paragraph: Oswind Suriya's Profile

alias: ඔස්වින්ඩ් සුරිය රෝසය්රෝ

description: Singaporean footballer

wikidata_label: Oswind Suriya

wikipedia_title: Oswind Suriya


text:
electronic music
skweee
DJing
Stockholm
breakdancing
graffiti
sampler
electro
Dub Techno
Grammis
Sveriges Radio
mix
re-edit
prog
disco
fusion
Service
Pitchfork
The Avalanches
Svenska Dagbladet
DJ Shadow
Radio Soulwax
Dario Argento
pads
sequencing
Timbaland
Neptunes
R&B
singles
7" vinyl
12" vinyl
Dødpop
turntablist
Britney Spears
Overprotected

categories: 1978 births,Swedish male musicians,Musicians from Stockholm,Swedish experimental musicians,Swedish electronic musicians,Living people

paragraph: Daniel Savio

paragraph: Daniel Savio (born 6 April 1978), is a Swedish electronic musician, composer and DJ. He is recognized as the originator of the genre term skweee, describing the sparse electronic music style initially released on Scandinavian record label Flogsta Danshall. With their release of the single "The Bubble Bump" in 2006, the label also debuted Daniel Savio's solo material.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born to artist parents, Daniel Savio was encouraged to embrace creativity early in life. The record collections of his uncle's and cousin's made music his starting point. While focusing entirely on DJing, his Stockholm childhood and early teenage years involved brief encounters with breakdancing and graffiti. Savings from a summer job at the age of fourteen gave him access to a sampler. The first music he produced were beats made for himself to rap to.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Following high school, Daniel would go on to form the electro and Dub Techno group Hundarna Från Söder with friends Aksel Friberg and Tor Löwkrantz. As a member of Hundarna Från Söder, Savio was awarded the Swedish Grammis (Club/Dance) in 2004 for the trio's self-titled debut album. The group was also nominated at the Sveriges Radio P3 Guld awards, as well as the independent Manifest awards. After two albums, and after no real disbanding of the group (in an interview Daniel Savio stated that "it just fizzled out"), Savio continued producing and recording music as a solo artist.

paragraph: While departing from making music with Hundarna Från Söder, Savio simultaneously started releasing music under his birth name – as well as under the alias "Kool DJ Dust". As Kool DJ Dust he produced the mix and re-edit concept album "The Disco Opera" using samples sourced from obscure European prog- and disco-influenced fusion. The album was released locally on label High Feelings, along with an EP called "The Space Opera". Following the wider re-release of the CD mix album on Service, Pitchfork gave plaudits to the album, comparing "The Disco Opera" to the music of Todd Terje and The Avalanches. Svenska Dagbladet proclaimed Daniel, in the guise of Kool DJ Dust, as "...a Swedish DJ Shadow in terms of the sampling of collages of vinyl, or a one-man Radio Soulwax intertwining the most remarkable combinations of tunes into a suddenly logic entity". In conjunction with the release of "The Disco Opera", Daniel cited influences like Italian composer Dario Argento. He also explained how he endured listening through piles of cheap LPs by saying "it is no worse listening to a bad record from 1972 than it is to listen to the radio on any given day".

paragraph: Section::::Musical style.

paragraph: A technique employed by Daniel Savio is committing himself to using a single synthesizer in the making of an entire song, or even full collections of songs. Using this method, the drum sounds, melodies, bass rhythms, pads and sequencing of a track may all be done using just one piece of hardware. The original purpose of the synthesizer in use would typically be considered insufficient for the purpose of making detailed and complete songs.

paragraph: Savio's music has been compared to productions by Timbaland and Neptunes, echoing early 2000s R&B to a greater degree than his skweee counterparts.

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.

paragraph: While Savio's solo albums have had digital releases, a longtime preferred format for his singles were 7" vinyl. Several releases on his own House Of Wisdom imprint have been 12" vinyl and have been geared more towards house music with an electronic disco influence. Other labels which released records by Savio include Flogsta Danshall, Permanent Vacation, Flora & Fauna, Romb, Dødpop, Harmönia and Losonofono.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Studio albums (as Daniel Savio)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dirty Bomb" (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nekropolis" (2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Daniel Savio" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ill Eagle" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Against All Odds" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Plejjern från Plejaderna" (2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ mix albums (as Kool DJ Dust)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Disco Opera" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Studio albums (as member of Hundarna Från Söder)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hundarna Från Söder" (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Troika" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Studio work

paragraph: BULLET::::- As a turntablist, Daniel Savio is the credited performer on Britney Spears' "Overprotected".

description: Innovator of skweee music genre

wikidata_label: Daniel Savio

wikipedia_title: Daniel Savio


text:
singer-songwriter
the second series
X Factor
PLN
Sony Music
Tatiana Okupnik
Comfort and Happiness
Polish Albums Chart
Fryderyk

categories: Polish pop singers,The X Factor (TV series) winners,Polish male singers,Polish rock singers,21st-century Polish singers,1993 births,English-language singers from Poland,Living people

paragraph: Dawid Podsiadło

paragraph: Dawid Podsiadło (born 23 May 1993) is a Polish singer-songwriter who won the second series of "X Factor" in 2012. He received PLN 100,000 and a recording contract with Sony Music. On the show, he was mentored by Tatiana Okupnik.

paragraph: His debut album titled "Comfort and Happiness" was released on 28 May 2013. It debuted at number one on the Polish Albums Chart and was certified triple Platinum the same year, becoming the best-selling album of 2013 in Poland. The album received Diamond certification in 2015.

paragraph: In October 2014, Podsiadło released an album with his band Curly Heads. The album, titled "Ruby Dress Skinny Dog" and produced by Daniel Walczak, debuted at number four on the Polish Albums Chart and was certified Gold.

paragraph: The album was nominated for the 2015 Fryderyk award in the Rock Album of the Year category.

paragraph: Podsiadło's second solo album, "Annoyance and Disappointment", was released on 6 November 2015. The album debuted at number one in Poland and was certified Diamond.

paragraph: Section::::Performances on "The X Factor".

paragraph: Dawid Podsiadło performed the following songs on the first series of "X Factor":

paragraph: Dawid Podsiadło performed the following songs on the second series of "X Factor":

description: singer-songwriter

wikidata_label: Dawid Podsiadło

wikipedia_title: Dawid Podsiadło


text:
manhua
Fung Wan
Chinese Hero
Hong Kong Comic Weekly
Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts
Chinese Hero
Golden Daily
Des Montagnes Studio
Fung Chi-ming
Jonesky
Ryoichi Ikegami
Chinese Hero
manhua
Chinese Hero
Fung Wan
Comicsworld
Ma Wing-shing's biography

categories: 1961 births,Wuxia writers,Hong Kong comics artists,Living people,Hong Kong comics writers

paragraph: Ma Wing-shing

paragraph: Ma Wing-shing (born 16 January 1961) is a Hong Kong manhua artist, writer and publisher. He is best known for creating the "Fung Wan" and "Chinese Hero" series.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Ma quit his studies and became a comic artist in 1976 at the age of 15. He started his career in Hei Po, where he published his first series, "Day Dream". His other works included "Winds and Clouds in Public Housing", "Wily Little One", "Little Tough Guy", "Great Dictator", "Lau-keung the Contractor", "The Invisible Weird Guest" and "Wonder Dog".

paragraph: In 1977, Hei Po was closed and Ma joined Golden Comics, where he began employing realism in his works, such as "The Five Brothers", which caught the attention of others in the industry. He also published "The Battle: Before and After" in "Hong Kong Comic Weekly".

paragraph: The following year, Ma attended a one-year course at the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts to improve his drawing skills. He quit Golden Comics and joined Ching Po, where he produced numerous works, including: "Evil Experiment", "Assault 13", "Alien", "I Wanna be Woman", "Small Luk's Fight at Wudang" and the "Eve of the Battle", "Martial House", "Sword and Spear", "Destroyer", "My Pursuit", "Great Stealer 13", "Knowing You", "Mad Dog", "Security Guard", "Story of Big-Nose Boy", "Hillfire", and "Five Affairs".

paragraph: "Veteran Cop" and "New Drunken Fist" were published in 1980 when Ma was working in New Waves. In August, he joined Jademan and began publishing "Chinese Hero" in "Golden Daily".

paragraph: In 1981, he furthered his studies in fine arts at Des Montagnes Studio and incorporated his newly acquired knowledge into his works. In November, he co-authored "Tong Lung" with Fung Chi-ming, and this comic succeeded in entering the Japanese market.

paragraph: In 1982, the "Chinese Hero" periodical was published and proved to be an immediate great success, laying a solid foundation for Ma's career.

paragraph: In 1987, Ma co-organized a painting exhibition, "Footsteps", with teachers and students of Des Montages Studio.

paragraph: In 1989, Ma founded the company Jonesky and released his "The Two Extremes" and held his personal art exhibition.

paragraph: Section::::Style.

paragraph: In Ma's career, his drawings were heavily influenced by the works of Ryoichi Ikegami for his realistic style and attention to details. He usually employs painterly techniques. The artwork and drawing style of "Chinese Hero" is responsible for the modern day characteristics of manhua.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chinese Hero"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Leopard"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fung Wan"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Comicsworld, Ma Wing-shing's official website.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ma Wing-shing's biography on lambiek.net

description: Hong Kong comic artist and writer

wikidata_label: Ma Wing-shing

wikipedia_title: Ma Wing-shing


text: Brooksville, Florida

text: professional baseball

text: Korea Baseball Organization

text: Nippon Professional Baseball

text: first baseman

text: Montreal Expos

text: 1988 MLB draft

text: third baseman

text: errors

text: GCL Expos

text: batted

text: home run

text: at bat

text: walked

text: whiffing

text: caught stealing

text: Jamestown Expos

text: Rockford Expos

text: doubles

text: OBP

text: slugged

text: West Palm Beach Expos

text: outfield

text: Harrisburg Senators

text: Ottawa Lynx

text: Baltimore Orioles

text: Rochester Red Wings

text: DH

text: Boston Red Sox

text: Trenton Thunder

text: Pawtucket Red Sox

text: Potros de Minatitlán

text: Mexican League

text: Korea Professional Baseball

text: OB Bears (Doosan Bears)

text: MVP

text: Park Kyung-wan

text: Korean Series

text: Jay Davis

text: Yokohama BayStars

text: Alex Ramirez

text: Central League

text: Best Nine

text: Tuffy Rhodes

text: Chunichi Dragons

text: OPS

text: double play

text: Shugo Fujii

text: Kosuke Fukudome

text: grand slam

text: Fumio Fujimura

text: Venezuelan League statistics

text: Korea Baseball Organization

categories: KBO League first basemen,Harrisburg Senators players,Potros de Minatitlán players,American expatriate baseball players in Japan,Korean Series MVPs,Trenton Thunder players,Rochester Red Wings players,Gulf Coast Expos players,Chunichi Dragons players,American expatriate baseball players in Mexico,Baseball players from Florida,KBO League Most Valuable Player Award winners,American expatriate baseball players in South Korea,Pawtucket Red Sox players,African-American baseball players,Jamestown Expos players,Navegantes del Magallanes players,West Palm Beach Expos players,Rockford Expos players,Doosan Bears players,KBO League designated hitters,Living people,American expatriate baseball players in Canada,Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen,1969 births,Leones del Caracas players,People from Brooksville, Florida,Ottawa Lynx players

paragraph: Tyrone Woods

paragraph: Walter Tyrone Woods (born August 16, 1969 in Brooksville, Florida) is a former professional baseball player.

paragraph: He played five seasons with the Korea Baseball Organization then six further seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball, primarily as a first baseman.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Minor league career.

paragraph: Woods was the 5th pick of the Montreal Expos in the 1988 MLB draft as a high school third baseman. He fielded .882, making 10 errors in 32 games for the GCL Expos and batted just .121. He hit just 2 home runs in 149 at bats and walked 7 times while whiffing 47 times; he was also caught stealing four times in six tries.

paragraph: Woods was promoted to the Jamestown Expos in 1989. In Single-A action, Woods hit .263; he continued to strike out frequently (58 times in 209 AB), but his walks were up (20) and his average and power (9 homers) were also improved.

paragraph: In 1990, with the Rockford Expos, the 20-year-old third baseman hit .242, above the team average of .226. He also led the team in doubles (27), homers (8) and strikeouts (121). His OBP was .310 and he slugged .363.

paragraph: Woods made it to High-A in 1991 where he hit just .220 for the West Palm Beach Expos. He also was moved from third base to the outfield that year. He hit .291 for Rockford and even stole 15 bases in 21 tries. He hit .286 for West Palm Beach and struck out in 3 of his 4 at-bats in his first Double-A exposure with the Harrisburg Senators.

paragraph: In 1993, Woods returned to Harrisburg, batting .252. A year later, Woods split the year between Harrisburg (.316) and the Triple-A Ottawa Lynx (.224). On November 18, the Expos gave up on Woods and released him.

paragraph: Woods found a home with the Baltimore Orioles' Rochester Red Wings farm club in 1995, hitting .261 as a 1B/DH/OF.

paragraph: A year later, Woods was in another system, joining the Boston Red Sox, playing for their Double-A affiliate, the Trenton Thunder, hitting .312, tying for 4th in the league in homers (25) and was among the leaders in average, OBP and slugging.

paragraph: In 1997, Woods spent his 10th and final season in a United States-based league, hitting .352 for the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox. He homered 9 times and drove in 28 in 29 games but did not play for the parent Boston team.

paragraph: He also played that year for the Potros de Minatitlán of the Mexican League, homering 18 times in 85 games for 27 homers and 101 runs (73 RBI in 85 games for the Potros). Woods hit .342. His walk total (59) surpassed his K total (49).

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Career in Korea.

paragraph: 1998 found Woods in the KBO, Korea Professional Baseball, where he became the first foreign player to hit a home run and be ejected from a game by an umpire in the league's first year allowing foreign players. Playing for the OB Bears (Doosan Bears), he set a KBO record with 42 homers and won the MVP award. He was the first foreign player to win the award. Two years later, he hit .315 with 39 homers and 111 RBI and lost the home run race by one to Park Kyung-wan. In 2001, he won MVP honors in the All-Star game, playoffs and the Korean Series, in which he blasted four homers in six games for Doosan. In 2002, Woods hit just .256; he struck out 123 times in 407 at-bats though he did hit 25 homers. In five years in Korea, he hit 174 homers, drove in 510 runs and batted .294. Woods left Korea with the longest career of any foreign player in KBO history until 2005, when Jay Davis broke his mark.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Yokohama BayStars.

paragraph: Woods left the Bears to try his hand in Japan in 2003, signing with the Yokohama BayStars, hitting .273 and tied for the home run lead with Alex Ramirez with 40. He was 6th in the Central League in slugging, 4th in walks (66) and 5th in RBI (87) though he also led the league with 132 K's. Woods became the first man to lead a league in homers in both Korea and Japan.

paragraph: Woods improved in his second year with Yokohama, hitting .298. He made the Best Nine at first base, tied Tuffy Rhodes for the home run lead with 45, was third in walks (74) and tied for third in RBIs (103). He was also 5th in slugging and 4th in OBP and OPS. He struck out 142 times, ranking him third in that category.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Chunichi Dragons.

paragraph: After the 2004 season, he signed with the defending CL champion Chunichi Dragons and hit .306 with 38 homers. He was third in OPS and homers, 5th in slugging, 4th in OBP, tied for 4th with 103 RBI and ground into the most double plays (24) as the Dragons' 1B and cleanup hitter. Woods missed 10 games due to a suspension he served after charging the mound when Shugo Fujii threw high and inside during an at bat. Woods was also fined 500,000 yen. It was the harshest penalty given to any player in Japan in five years.

paragraph: After the 2005 season was completed, Woods had hit 421 homers in his pro career.

paragraph: In 2006, Woods put together an MVP caliber season by batting .310 with a league-leading 47 homers and 144 RBI. However, the MVP award that season went to his teammate, Kosuke Fukudome. To clinch the title for Chunichi, he hit grand slams in back-to-back games, the first Central Leaguer to do so since Fumio Fujimura 53 years earlier. He also set a new team record for home runs. He played for the Dragons until 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Pursuits outside baseball.

paragraph: In addition to playing baseball, Woods worked for a time for the Brooksville Fire Department.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Venezuelan League statistics

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization

description: American baseball player

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wikipedia_title: Tyrone Woods