text:
Beaucourt
sanatorium
Vallauris
darkroom
Pablo Picasso
Rolleiflex
Heinz Berggruen
Jacques Prévert
Fernand Léger
Alexander Calder
Jacques Prévert
Alberto Magnelli
Oliver Mark
Jean Arp
Le Corbusier
Salvador Dalí
Joan Miró
Marc Chagall
Max Ernst
Jean Cocteau
Bram van Velde
César Baldaccini
Hans Hartung
Pierre Soulages
Antoni Clavé
Antoni Tàpies
Francis Ponge
Luis Buñuel
Federico Fellini
Léo Ferré
Michel Butor
Ben Vautier
Henri Dutilleux
Zao Wou Ki
Michel Butor
David Douglas Duncan
Karel Appel
Robert Combas
Les Cahiers du Sud
Mougins
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Official site
Saga Magazine March 2008
The Fine Art of Shooting Pablo

categories: French photographers,2016 deaths,1930 births,Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

paragraph: André Villers

paragraph: André Villers (; 10 October 1930 – 1 April 2016) was a French photographer and artist "best known for his pictures of Pablo Picasso in the south of France in the 1950s."

paragraph: Section::::Life and work.

paragraph: Villers was born in Beaucourt. In 1947, following a bone tuberculosis, he was hospitalized at a sanatorium in Vallauris where he stayed for eight years. During that period he was introduced to photography and started making in 1952 his first experiments in the darkroom, and pictures of Vallauris and its inhabitants.

paragraph: He met Pablo Picasso there in March 1953, who offered him his first camera, a Rolleiflex. Villers produced many portraits of the painter, and their relationship evolved into working together, making hundreds of images based on photographic experiments. In 1962 Heinz Berggruen edited a book, "Diurnes" (Daytime), based on 30 of these images accompanied by an original text by Jacques Prévert.

paragraph: Since the 1950s, Villers shot many portraits of great artists, among them: Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Jacques Prévert, Alberto Magnelli, Oliver Mark, Jean Arp, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Bram van Velde, César Baldaccini, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Clavé, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Ponge, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Léo Ferré, Michel Butor, Ben Vautier, Henri Dutilleux, and Zao Wou Ki.

paragraph: In 1970 he began to experiment with a new way of creating his photography without a camera. He made the negatives himself from pieces of tracing paper. This series was exhibited and a book was released with a text by Michel Butor, "Pliages d'Ombres" (Folding Shadows).

paragraph: Since then, his personal photographic work was based upon experimentation with shadows and transparencies. He tried to use several emulsion techniques (solarisations, jets of developer).

paragraph: In the mid-1950s Villers began a set of carvings titled "Ex-Photos" that were exhibited in 1970 at the Loeb Gallery in Paris. In the 1980s he did an important set of paintings on cardboard, "The Photographers", exhibited in Paris, Tokyo and New York by the Yoshii Gallery. His friend David Douglas Duncan devoted a book to it entitled "A Secret Garden."

paragraph: In the 1980s, Karel Appel made an important set of paintings on photographs of Villers. Later, Robert Combas also worked with him.

paragraph: In 1984 he published his text "Photobiographie" recounting his life, his artistic process and his relationship with Picasso in a special issue of "Les Cahiers du Sud" dedicated to him.

paragraph: Since the 2000s, he produced a set of paper cuts works.

paragraph: Significant collections of his photographic work can be found at Nicephorus-Niepce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône and the Museum of Photography in Charleroi in Belgium.

paragraph: The city of Mougins in the Alpes Maritimes honored Villers with the creation of a Museum of Photography bearing his name.

paragraph: On July 14, 2006, André Villers became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

paragraph: He died on 1 April 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography (extracts).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1959 "Portraits de Picasso", text by Jacques Prévert (Milan, Muggiani)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1962 "Diurnes" in collaboration with Pablo Picasso, text by Jacques Prévert

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1977 "Pliages d'Ombres" with a text by Michel Butor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1984 "Cahiers du Sud" Special issue dédicated to André Villers

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1986 "Photobiographie" Dole Museum, France

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987 "Picasso à Vallauris" (Nice, Z'Editions)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1990 "Das Fotogramm in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts" Floris M. Neussus (Dumont Buchverlag)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992 "L'œil Multiple" Patrick Roegiers (La Manufacture)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992 "A Secret Garden" David Douglas Duncan (DDD Edition)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995 "Picasso et la photographie" Anne Baldassari (Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 "The Dark Mirror" Anne Baldassari (Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000 "André Villers, Rétrospective" Patrick Roegiers (Théatre de la Photographie et de L'image, Nice)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001 "André Villers, Lumière des Ombres" Frédéric Ballester (La Malmaison, Cannes)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 "Picasso e Altri ritratti" Ta Matete Gallery (Rome)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 "Le Regard Continu" Patrick Roegiers (La Pierre d'Alun)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 "Guiding Light" Michael Hoppen Gallery (London)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 "Album Villers" Debora Ferrari and Luca Traini (Fabbrica Arte, Italy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 "Villers et les Sapone, Photographies d'une amitié" (Sapone Gallery, Nice)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 "Picasso, les Chemins du Sud" Editions Skira Flammarion/Musée National Picasso Paris

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 "André Villers, 60 ans de Photographies" Editions Centre d'art Malmaison/Cannes

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 "Picasso and the Camera" John Richardson (Gagosian Gallery, New York)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016 "Villers/Picasso" (Gagosian Gallery, Geneva)

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1982 "Le Photographe s'appelle André Villers" Alain Bedos, 52 Mn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987 "La Conférence des photographes" Jean-Michel Vecchiet, 26 Mn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996 "Picasso-Villers, Diurnes" Jean-Michel Vecchiet, 26 Mn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998 "Les 1001 Visages d'André Villers" Jean-Michel Vecchiet, 52 Mn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010 "Portrait d'André Villers" Robert Matthey, 26mn

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016 "André Villers, A Lifetime in Images" Marketa Tomanova, 62mn

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official site (in French)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saga Magazine March 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Fine Art of Shooting Pablo ("The Age")

description: French photographer

wikidata_label: André Villers

wikipedia_title: André Villers


text: architect

text: landscape designer

text: Frederick Law Olmsted

text: Central Park

text: United States

text: public park

text: urbanization

text: industrialization

text: cityscape

text: London

text: physician

text: St Benet Gracechurch

text: Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

text: Gothic Revival

text: watercolor

text: United States

text: Andrew Jackson Downing

text: White House

text: Smithsonian Institution

text: Washington, D.C.

text: steamboat

text: Frederick Clarke Withers

text: Jefferson Market Library

text: Rice Building

text: George B. Post

text: National Academy of Design

text: Century Club

text: American Institute of Architects

text: Ruskin

text: Ralph Waldo Emerson

text: Frederick Law Olmsted

text: Central Park

text: Bethesda Terrace

text: Olmsted, Vaux and Company

text: Prospect Park

text: Fort Greene Park

text: Brooklyn

text: Morningside Park

text: Manhattan

text: Chicago

text: Riverside Improvement Company

text: Buffalo, New York

text: Martin Luther King, Jr. Park

text: Delaware Park

text: Front Park

text: Saint John, New Brunswick

text: Rockwood Park

text: New York State Hospital for the Insane

text: Poughkeepsie

text: Samuel Parsons

text: City of Newburgh's

text: Downing Park

text: New York City

text: Jefferson Market Courthouse

text: Samuel J. Tilden House

text: American Museum of Natural History

text: Metropolitan Museum of Art

text: The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital

text: Towson, Maryland

text: Children's Aid Society

text: Fourteenth Ward Industrial School

text: St. Patrick's Old Cathedral

text: Gravesend Bay

text: Brooklyn

text: Kingston, New York

text: Montrepose Cemetery

text: Jervis McEntee

text: Hudson River School

text: Downing)

text: Olmsted proile

categories: People from London,1824 births,American landscape and garden designers,American landscape architects,People from Kingston, New York,Central Park,British emigrants to the United States,Deaths by drowning,Accidental deaths in New York (state),1895 deaths,Architects from New York City

paragraph: Calvert Vaux

paragraph: Calvert Vaux (; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer. Vaux is best known as the co-designer, along with his protégé and junior partner Frederick Law Olmsted, of what would become New York City's Central Park.

paragraph: Vaux, on his own and in various partnerships, designed and created dozens of parks across the United States. He introduced new ideas about the significance of public parks in America during a hectic time of urbanization. This industrialization of the cityscape inspired Vaux to focus on an integration of buildings, bridges, and other forms of architecture into their natural surroundings. He favored naturalistic, rustic, and curvilinear lines in his designs.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in London to a physician, Vaux was baptized at St Benet Gracechurch on February 9, 1825. He trained as an apprentice under the architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, a leader of the Gothic Revival movement. Vaux trained under Cottingham until the age of twenty-six.

paragraph: Section::::First partnership.

paragraph: In 1851, Vaux exhibited a series of watercolor landscapes that he made while en route to the United States that caught the attention of Andrew Jackson Downing, a noted landscape architect. Downing traveled to London in search of an architect, who would complement his architectural vision. He believed that architecture should be visually integrated into the surrounding landscape, and wanted to work with someone who was equally passionate. Vaux accepted the opportunity and subsequently moved to the United States.

paragraph: Vaux worked with Downing for two years and became a firm partner. Together, they designed many projects such as the White House grounds and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Vaux’s work on the Smithsonian inspired him to write an article in 1852 for "The Horticulturalist," of which Downing was the editor. In his publication, he argued that the government should recognize and support the arts. Shortly afterward, Downing died in a steamboat accident.

paragraph: Section::::Vaux and Withers.

paragraph: After Downing's death, Vaux gained control of the firm. As a partner, he hired Frederick Clarke Withers, who was already working at the company. The business lasted four years and their projects included the Jefferson Market Library and the Rice Building, although the Rice project has been attributed in other scholarship to George B. Post.

paragraph: Section::::U.S. citizenship, affiliations, and publishing.

paragraph: In 1856, he gained U.S. citizenship and became identified with the city’s artistic community, “the guild,” joining the National Academy of Design, as well as the Century Club. In 1857, he became one of the founding members of the American Institute of Architects. Also in 1857, Vaux published "Villas and Cottages," which was an influential pattern book that determined the standards for “Victorian Gothic” architecture. These particular writings revealed his acknowledgment and tribute to Ruskin and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as to his former partner Downing. These people, among others, influenced him intellectually and in his design path.

paragraph: Section::::Collaboration with Olmsted.

paragraph: In 1857, Vaux recruited Frederick Law Olmsted, who had never before designed a landscape plan, to help with the Greensward Plan, which would become New York City's Central Park. They obtained the commission through an excellent presentation that drew upon Vaux's talents in landscape drawing to include before-and-after sketches of the site. Together, they fought many political battles to make sure their original design remained intact and was carried out. All of the built features of Central Park were of his design; Bethesda Terrace is a good example.

paragraph: In 1865, Vaux and Olmsted founded Olmsted, Vaux and Company, which went on to design Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, and Morningside Park in Manhattan. In Chicago, they planned one of the first suburbs, called the Riverside Improvement Company in 1868. They also were commissioned to design a major park project in Buffalo, New York, which included The Parade (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Park), The Park (now the Delaware Park), and The Front (now simply Front Park). Vaux designed many structures to beautify the parks, but most of these have been demolished. Vaux also designed a large Canadian city park in the city of Saint John, New Brunswick called Rockwood Park. It is one of the largest of its kind in Canada. In 1871, the partners designed the grounds of the New York State Hospital for the Insane in Buffalo and the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane in Poughkeepsie.

paragraph: In 1872, Vaux dissolved the partnership and went on to form an architectural partnership with George K. Radford and Samuel Parsons.

paragraph: He returned to working with Olmsted in 1889 for one last collaboration: designing the City of Newburgh's Downing Park as a memorial to their mentor.

paragraph: Other famous New York City buildings Vaux designed are the Jefferson Market Courthouse, the Samuel J. Tilden House, and the original Ruskinian Gothic buildings, now largely invisible from exterior view, of the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition to the New York buildings, Vaux also was the designing architect for The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland.

paragraph: Less familiar are twelve projects Vaux designed for the Children's Aid Society in partnership with Radford; the Fourteenth Ward Industrial School (1889), 256-58 Mott Street, facing the churchyard of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, and the Elizabeth Home for Girls (1892), 307 East 12th Street, both survive and are landmarked.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: On November 19, 1895, Vaux accidentally drowned in Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn while visiting his son, Downing. He is buried in Kingston, New York's Montrepose Cemetery. In 1998, the city of New York dedicated Calvert Vaux Park, situated in Coney Island overlooking the bay, to him.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 1854, Vaux married Mary Swan McEntee, the sister of Jervis McEntee, a Hudson River School painter. They had two sons (Calvert and Downing) and two daughters (Helen and Julia).

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance profile

paragraph: BULLET::::- Olmsted proile

description: American architect

wikidata_label: Calvert Vaux

wikipedia_title: Calvert Vaux


text:
Ridder
Kazakhstan
cross country skier
Finland
2006 Winter Olympics
Turin
sprint
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
Liberec
2009
2010 Winter Olympics
Vancouver

categories: Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games,Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan,Cross-country skiers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games,Olympic cross-country skiers of Kazakhstan,Kazakhstani male cross-country skiers,Cross-country skiers at the 2007 Winter Universiade,Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Medalists at the 2007 Winter Universiade,1986 births,Asian Games medalists in cross-country skiing,Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games,Universiade medalists in cross-country skiing,Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan,Universiade bronze medalists for Kazakhstan,Living people,Cross-country skiers at the 2011 Asian Winter Games,Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics,Cross-country skiers at the 2017 Asian Winter Games,Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games

paragraph: Sergey Cherepanov

paragraph: Sergey Cherepanov () (born January 25, 1986 in Ridder) is a Kazakhstani cross country skier who has competed since 2001. His best World Cup finish was third in a 15 km event in Finland in 2008.

paragraph: At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Cherepanov finished 55th in the sprint event. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was tenth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Liberec in 2009.

paragraph: He finished 11th in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

paragraph: Section::::Career highlights.

paragraph: BULLET::::- FIS Nordic Under 23 World Ski Championships Medals

paragraph: BULLET::::- Universiade

paragraph: BULLET::::- Asian Winter Games

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Cup podiums

description: Kazakhstani cross-country skier

wikidata_label: Sergey Cherepanov

wikipedia_title: Sergey Cherepanov


text:
American football
wide receiver
San Diego Chargers
undrafted free agent
college football
West Texas A&M
Carolina Panthers
Seattle Seahawks
San Francisco 49ers
Jacksonville Jaguars
2009 NFL Draft
San Diego Chargers
undrafted free agent
practice squad
Carolina Panthers
regular season
offensive tackle
Jordan Gross
injured reserve
Jacksonville Jaguars
Seattle Seahawks
Kyle Nelson
San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahawks
Colton Schmidt
Jacksonville Jaguars bio
Carolina Panthers bio
San Diego Chargers bio
West Texas A&M Buffaloes bio

categories: Sportspeople from Walla Walla, Washington,San Diego Chargers players,Seattle Seahawks players,Living people,American football wide receivers,1984 births,Players of American football from Washington (state),West Texas A&M Buffaloes football players,Jacksonville Jaguars players,Carolina Panthers players,People from Farmington, New Mexico,Players of American football from New Mexico

paragraph: Charly Martin

paragraph: Charly Martin (born March 20, 1984) is a former American football wide receiver. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at West Texas A&M.

paragraph: Charly also played for the Carolina Panthers, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers, and Jacksonville Jaguars.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Diego Chargers (2009).

paragraph: After going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, Martin signed with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent. He appeared in all four preseason games with the team in 2009, catching seven passes for 88 yards. The Chargers waived Martin during final cuts on September 5.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Carolina Panthers (2009−2010).

paragraph: Martin was signed to the practice squad of the Carolina Panthers on September 9, 2009. He remained there during the first 10 weeks of the regular season before being promoted to the active roster on November 17 after offensive tackle Jordan Gross was placed on season-ending injured reserve.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars (2011).

paragraph: He was signed to the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad on December 2, 2011.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Seattle Seahawks (2012).

paragraph: Martin was signed by the Seattle Seahawks on January 5, 2012. Martin appeared in each preseason game for the Seahawks in 2012, catching one pass for a touchdown on August 23 versus the Kansas City Chiefs. Martin was waived by the Seahawks on November 6, 2012 and re-signed to the practice squad on November 7, 2012. He was released on July 11, 2013 to make room for Kyle Nelson, who was picked up from waivers from the San Francisco 49ers.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers (2013).

paragraph: On July 11, 2013, Martin was claimed off waivers by the San Francisco 49ers after being released by the Seattle Seahawks. He was waived on August 6, 2013, to make room for punter Colton Schmidt.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars (2013).

paragraph: On August 7, 2013, Martin was claimed off waivers by the Jaguars. He was released by the Jaguars on August 30, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacksonville Jaguars bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carolina Panthers bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Diego Chargers bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- West Texas A&M Buffaloes bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Charly Martin

wikipedia_title: Charly Martin


text:
Zen
Musō Soseki
general
Kamakura shogunate
Kyoto
Genkō War
Emperor Go-Daigo
Kusunoki Masashige
Nitta Yoshisada
Kamakura
Shogunal regent
Kenmu Restoration
Heian period
Hōjō Tokiyuki
Nakasendai rebellion
Sei-i Taishōgun
Kyūshū
Prince Takanaga
Prince Norinaga
Kitabatake Akiie
Yūki Munehiro
Kikuchi clan
Hakata Bay
Battle of Tatarahama (1336)
Battle of Minatogawa
Emperor Kōmyō
Northern and Southern Court period
Chinjufu-shōgun
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
Ashikaga Yoshiakira
Ashikaga Motouji
Go-Murakami
Ashikaga Tadayoshi
Kō no Moronao
Ashikaga Motouji
Kanrei
Ashikaga Tadafuyu
Southern Court
Kō no Moronao
Kō no Moroyasu
Nitta Yoshimune
Yamana Tokiuji
Go-Kōgon
Kitabatake Chikafusa
Ashikaga Yoshiakira
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
Yoshino
Gregorian calendar
Japanese era name
Southern Court
Northern Court
Meiji era
Japanese Imperial Regalia
Engen
Kōkoku
Shōhei
Ryakuō
Kōei
Jōwa
Kannō
Bunna
Enbun
Taiheiki
Junior First Rank
Southern Court
Northern Court
Ackroyd, Joyce I.
OCLC 7574544
OCLC 38970710
Titsingh, Isaac.
Nihon Ōdai Ichiran
"Annales des empereurs du Japon."
OCLC 585069

categories: People of Nanboku-chō-period Japan,1305 births,Ashikaga shōguns,14th-century Japanese people,People of Kamakura-period Japan,1358 deaths,14th-century shōguns

paragraph: Ashikaga Takauji

paragraph: According to Zen master and intellectual Musō Soseki, who enjoyed his favor and collaborated with him, Takauji had three qualities. First, he kept his cool in battle and was not afraid of death. Second, he was merciful and tolerant. Third, he was very generous with those below him.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: His childhood name was Matagorō (又太郎). Takauji was a general of the Kamakura shogunate sent to Kyoto in 1333 to put down the Genkō War which had started in 1331. After becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Kamakura shogunate over time, Takauji joined the banished Emperor Go-Daigo and Kusunoki Masashige, and seized Kyoto. Soon after, Nitta Yoshisada joined their cause, and laid siege to Kamakura. When the city fell to Nitta, the Shogunal regent, Hōjō Takatoki, and his clansmen committed suicide. This ended the Kamakura shogunate, as well as the Hōjō clan's power and influence. Go-Daigo was enthroned once more as emperor, reestablishing the primacy of the Imperial court in Kyoto and starting the so-called Kenmu Restoration.

paragraph: However, shortly thereafter, the samurai clans became increasingly disillusioned with the reestablished imperial court, which sought to return to the social and political systems of the Heian period. Sensing their discontent, Takauji pleaded with the emperor to do something before rebellion would break out, however his warnings were ignored.

paragraph: Hōjō Tokiyuki, son of Takatoki, took the opportunity to start the Nakasendai rebellion to try to reestablish the shogunate in Kamakura in 1335. Takauji put down the rebellion and took Kamakura for himself. Taking up the cause of his fellow samurai, he claimed the title of "Sei-i Taishōgun" and allotted land to his followers without permission from the court. Takauji announced his allegiance to the imperial court, but Emperor Go-Daigo sent Nitta Yoshisada to reclaim Kamakura.

paragraph: Takauji defeated Yoshisada in the battles of Sanoyama and Mishima. This cleared the path for Takauji and Tadayoshi to march on to Kyoto.

paragraph: He captured Kyoto for a few days in Feb. 1336, only to be driven out and to Kyūshū by the arrival of forces under Prince Takanaga, Prince Norinaga, Kitabatake Akiie and Yūki Munehiro.

paragraph: Takauji and his brother were forced to retreat to the west. Takauji then allied himself with the clans native to Kyūshū. After defeating the Kikuchi clan at Hakata Bay in the Battle of Tatarahama (1336), Takauji was "virtually master of Kyushu".

paragraph: His brother advanced simultaneously by land and both reached the environs of present-day Kobe in July.

paragraph: At the decisive Battle of Minatogawa in 1336, Takauji defeated Yoshisada again and killed Masashige, allowing him to seize Kyoto for good. Emperor Kōmyō of the illegitimate Northern Court (see below) was installed as emperor by Takauji in opposition to the exiled Southern Court, beginning the turbulent Northern and Southern Court period ("Nanboku-chō"), which saw two emperors fight each other and which would last for almost 60 more years.

paragraph: Besides other honors, Emperor Go-Daigo had given Takauji the title of "Chinjufu-shōgun", or Commander-in-chief of the Defense of the North, and the courtly title of the Fourth Rank, Junior Grade. His buddhist name was Tojiinden Niyama Myogi dai koji Chojuji-dono (等持院殿仁山妙義大居士長寿寺殿).

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Ashikaga Sadauji (1273–1331)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother: Uesugi Kiyoko (1270–1343)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Siblings:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Half-siblings: Ashikaga Takayoshi (1297–1317)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Natural Siblings:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashikaga Maagoro

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashikaga Tadayoshi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wife: Akahashi Toshi (1306–1365)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubines:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kako no Tsubone

paragraph: BULLET::::- Echizen no Tsubone

paragraph: BULLET::::- Children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashikaga Tadafuyu (1327–1387) adopted by Ashikaga Tadayoshi by Echizen

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashikaga Takewakamaru (d. 1333) by Kako

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashikaga Yoshiakira by Toshi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ashikaga Motouji by Toshi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tazuo by Toshi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yoriko (d. 1353) by Toshi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Seiomaru (1338–1345)

paragraph: Section::::Timeline of shogunate.

paragraph: Significant events which shaped the period during which Takauji was "shōgun" are:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1338 – Takauji appointed "shōgun".

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1349 – Go-Murakami flees to A'no; Ashikaga Tadayoshi and Kō no Moronao quarrel; Ashikaga Motouji, son of Takauji, appointed Kamakura Kanrei

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1350 – Tadayoshi, excluded from administration, turns priest; Tadayoshi's adopted son, Ashikaga Tadafuyu is wrongly repudiated as a rebel.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1351–1358 – Struggle for Kyoto.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1351 – Tadayoshi joins Southern Court, southern army takes Kyoto; truce, Takauji returns to Kyoto; Tadayoshi and Takauji reconciled; Kō no Moronao and Kō no Moroyasu are exiled.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1352 – Tadayoshi dies, Southern army recaptures Kyoto; Nitta Yoshimune captures Kamakura; Ashikaga forces recapture Kamakura and Kyoto; Tadafuyu joins Southern Court; Yamana Tokiuji joins Tadafuyu.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1353 – Kyoto retaken by Southern forces under Yamana Tokiuji; retaken by Ashikaga forces.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1354 – Takauji flees with Go-Kōgon; Kitabatake Chikafusa dies.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1355 – Kyoto taken by Southern army; Kyoto retaken by Ashikaga forces.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1358 – Takauji dies.

paragraph: Takauji's son Ashikaga Yoshiakira succeeded him as "shōgun" after his death. His grandson Ashikaga Yoshimitsu united the Northern and Southern courts in 1392.

paragraph: Section::::Eras of Takauji's "bakufu".

paragraph: Because of the anomalous situation, which he had himself created and which saw two Emperors reign simultaneously, one in Yoshino and one in Kyoto, the years in which Takauji was "shōgun" as reckoned by the Gregorian calendar are identified in Japanese historical records by two different series of Japanese era names ("nengō"), that following the datation used by the legitimate Southern Court and that formulated by the pretender Northern Court.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eras as reckoned by the Southern Court (declared legitimate by a Meiji era decree because in possession at the time of the Japanese Imperial Regalia):

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Engen" (1336–1340)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kōkoku" (1340–1346)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shōhei" (1346–1370)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eras as reckoned by the pretender Northern Court (declared illegitimate by a Meiji era decree because not in possession at the time of the Japanese Imperial Regalia):

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ryakuō" (1338–1342)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kōei" (1342–1345)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jōwa" (1345–1350)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kan'ō or Kannō" (1350–1352)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bunna" (1352–1356)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Enbun" (1356–1361)

paragraph: Section::::Literary references.

paragraph: The story of Ashikaga Takauji, Emperor Go-Daigo, Nitta Yoshisada, and Kusunoki Masashige from the Genko rebellion to the establishment of the Northern and Southern Courts is detailed in the 40 volume Muromachi period epic "Taiheiki".

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Junior First Rank (9 July 1358; posthumous)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Southern Court

paragraph: BULLET::::- Northern Court

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ackroyd, Joyce I. (1982) "Lessons from History: the Tokushi Yoron." Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. ; OCLC 7574544

paragraph: BULLET::::- Matsuo, Kenji. (1997). 中世都市鎌倉をく: 源頼朝から上杉謙信まで ("Chūsei toshi Kamakura o aruku: Minamoto no Yoritomo kara Uesugi Kenshin made"). Tokyo: Chūkō Shinsho. ; OCLC 38970710

paragraph: BULLET::::- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). "Nihon Ōdai Ichiran"; ou, "Annales des empereurs du Japon." Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 585069

alias:
Ashikaga no Takauji
Takauji Ashikaga
足利高氏
足利尊氏

description: Japanese Shogun

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paragraph: J. Arthur Rank

paragraph: Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was a British industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation.

paragraph: Section::::Family business.

paragraph: Rank was born on 22 or 23 December 1888 at Kingston upon Hull in England into a Victorian family environment, which was dominated by his father Joseph Rank who had built a substantial flour milling business. He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge. Joseph is reported to have told his son Arthur that he was "a dunce at school" and that the only way that he could succeed in life would be in his father's flour mill. J. Arthur ventured on his own with Peterkins Self-Raising Flour, but when that business failed he returned to work for his father. That was the business (Joseph Rank Limited) that he later inherited and which became known as Rank Hovis McDougall (now owned by British food conglomerate Premier Foods).

paragraph: Section::::Religious challenge.

paragraph: Rank was a devout member of the Methodist Church and in his middle age he taught Sunday School to which he began to show religious films. This practice expanded to other churches and schools and it led to his formation of the Religious Film Society to which he then distributed films that he had also made. His first production was called "Mastership".

paragraph: When the "Methodist Times" newspaper began to complain about the negative influence that British and American films shown in Britain were having on family life, their editorial was answered by the London "Evening News" who suggested that instead of complaining, the Methodist Church should provide a solution. Rank took up the challenge and via an introduction by a young film producer named John Corfield, he discussed both the problem and a solution with Lady Yule of Bricket Wood. The net result of these meetings was the formation of the British National Films Company.

paragraph: The first commercial production by this company was "Turn of the Tide", a movie based upon a recently published 1932 novel by Leo Walmsley called "Three Fevers". Having created their movie, British National then had to get it distributed and exhibited, but this proved to be more difficult than making the movie itself. Some commercial screens began showing "Turn of the Tide" as a second feature, but this was not enough exposure for the company to make a profit.

paragraph: Section::::Pinewood Film Studios.

paragraph: Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California. In 1935 the trio became owner-operators of Pinewood Film Studios. Lady Yule later sold her shares to Rank while John Corfield resigned from its board of directors.

paragraph: Section::::Commercial challenge.

paragraph: The problems encountered in the distribution of "Turn of the Tide" were addressed when Rank discovered that the people who controlled the British film industry had ties to the American movie industry and that for all practical purposes he was shut out of his own domestic market. American films occupied 80% of British screen time during the era before World War II.

paragraph: In 1935 Rank arrived at a solution to his distribution problems. Because the middlemen controlled the distribution pipeline from production to exhibition, he decided to buy a large part of both the distribution and exhibition systems. He began by forming a partnership with film maker C. M. Woolf to form General Film Distributors, which in 1936 was incorporated in Rank's General Cinema Finance Corporation but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors.

paragraph: Section::::Rank Organisation.

paragraph: In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned 619 cinemas. Other interests were acquired (such as the Bush Radio company in 1949) which would be added to the interests in a few more years) within a new company called the Rank Organisation. Rank retired as Chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had been Managing Director since 1948.

paragraph: Section::::Films.

paragraph: During the 1940s, the companies Rank controlled produced some of the finest British films of the period, including: "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "Henry V" (1944), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "Black Narcissus" (1947), and "The Red Shoes" (1948). From the 1950s fewer adventurous films were attempted and solidly commercial ventures, largely aimed at the family market, were made instead. These include the popular Norman Wisdom comedies and the various Doctor... films. However some films of note were produced during this era including: "Carve Her Name With Pride" (1958), and "Victim" (1961), as well as a clutch of prestige topics such as the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 and filmed performances by The Royal Ballet.

paragraph: Section::::Core interests and legacy.

paragraph: Although his critics claimed that many of the films that he had produced under the name of Rank were not exactly in keeping with his original intention of producing "family-friendly" films (which John Davis had said was company policy) to challenge American competition, he nevertheless kept to his core beliefs. To that end in 1953 he set up the J. Arthur Rank Group Charity to promote Christian belief. The charity later became known as The Rank Foundation. He was a governor of The Peckham Experiment in 1949.

paragraph: In 1957 J. Arthur Rank was raised to the peerage as Baron Rank, of Sutton Scotney in the County of Southampton (Sutton Scotney is a small village between Andover and Winchester in Hampshire).

paragraph: Inspired by his personal knowledge of the Brazilian Fundação Estudar, the Rank Fellowship was created in 2003 by Rank's eldest grandson, Fred Arthur Rank Packard, who became Chairman of the Rank Foundation in 2000. Fred was one of the founders of the Brazilian investment banking firm Banco Garantia, along with Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicuperia.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Rank married Nell, and they had two daughters, Shelagh (who was married first to Fred Packard who lived in Hollywood, and then to Robin Cowen) and Ursula (born 1920). When he died in March 1972, aged 83, his baronage title became extinct.

paragraph: Section::::In popular culture.

paragraph: J. Arthur Rank's name was parodied on the PBS children's educational TV show "The Electric Company" as J. Arthur Crank (voiced and later performed by Jim Boyd), a character wearing a plaid shirt, suspenders and a porkpie hat, who was in a perpetually cranky mood (hence his name) whenever he interrupted sketches to complain when spellings or pronunciations confused him or when he was mistaken for someone else.

paragraph: J. Arthur Rank has also been used as cockney rhyming slang to indicate something bad. "That’s a bit J. Arthur" or "That's a bit Rank" are used to describe something as "Wank" or not very good.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michael Wakelin (1997) "J.Arthur Rank: The Man Behind the Gong". Oxford: Lion, 1996. (hardcover), (paperback)

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paragraph: Erik Jorpes

paragraph: Johan Erik Jorpes (born Johansson, 15 July 1894 – 10 July 1973) was a Finnish-born Swedish physician and biochemist. He identified the chemical structure of heparin and developed its clinical applications. Jorpes was the professor of medical chemistry in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm in 1946–1963.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Erik Jorpes was born as Johan Erik Johansson to a poor fisherman's family in the village of Överboda in Kökar, Åland Islands. The family lived in a house called "Jorpes", which he later adopted as his last name to replace the patronyme "Johansson". After the primary school, his parents send the talented kid to high school in Turku. Other students of the Swedish-language "Svenska klassiska lyceum" came mostly from wealthy upper-class families, Jorpes was bullied of his social status and dialect. As a result, Jorpes got interested in socialist ideas in the early 1910s. He joined the local Social Democratic student organization and wrote marxist articles to the newspaper "Arbetaren".

paragraph: Jorpes graduated in 1914 and entered the University of Helsinki to become a doctor, although his parents wished him a priest. Jorpes finished his medical studies in 30 January 1918, just a few days after the outbreak of the Finnish Civil War. Jorpes did not support the idea of an armed revolution, but joined the Red Guards medical staff as he saw it was his duty to help the wounded. After the Battle of Tampere on 6 April, tens of thousands of Red refugees fled from the western parts of Red Finland. Jorpes and his patients were evacuated from Turku to the eastern Finnish town of Vyborg. They were soon transported to Soviet Russia, and finally Jorpes ended up working as a doctor in the Buy refugee camp, set for the Finnish Reds in the Kostroma Governorate. In August 1918, Jorpes attended the founding congress of the exile Communist Party of Finland in Moscow.

paragraph: As the Buy camp was disbanded in early 1919, Jorpes was offered a job in Saint Petersburg but he wanted to leave Russia and emigrate Sweden as a political refugee because the former Reds were prisoned in Finland. In the fall of 1919, Jorpes sneaked across the border to Finland and took a train to Turku. Jorpes was then shipped to his parents home in Kökar by local fishermen who soon smuggled him to Vaxholm in Sweden. The police visited the family a day after Jorpes had left.

paragraph: Section::::Life in Sweden.

paragraph: Jorpes arrived Stockholm in October 1919. He had no money, but managed to find a place to live and with the help of the prominent Social Democrat politician Hjalmar Branting, Jorpes was able to continue his medical studies in the Karolinska Institute. after promising to quit the politics. In 1923, Jorpes was granted the Swedish citizenship. Three years later he was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacology, and in 1946 Jorpes was named the professor of medical chemistry. Jorpes retired in 1963 and continued as a professor emeritus until his death in 1973. In 1949–1951, Jorpes and his predecessor, the professor Einar Hammarsten had a major influence on the architectural design of the building of chemistry of the Karolinska Institute Campus in Solna. The drawings were originally made in 1937 by the architect Tore Rydberg but the construction was postponed due to the World War II.

paragraph: His first research involved pancreatic nucleic acids. Jorpes completed his German dissertation "Über Pentosennucleinsäuren im Tierorganismus unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pancreasnucleinsäuren" in 1928. After earning his doctorate, Jorpes received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation and spent the academic year 1928–1929 in the Rockefeller University in New York City. He also visited the University of Toronto, where Jorpes studied the preparation of insulin in the Connaught Laboratories under the guidance of the Nobel-winning biochemists Frederick Banting and John Macleod. After returning Sweden, Jorpes launched the production of insulin in the laboratory of the pharmaceutical company Vitrum AB. The royalties soon made him a multimillionaire, but Jorpes gave most of his income to academic research or charity.

paragraph: In the early 1930s, Jorpes started his pioneering work on the isolation and structure of heparin. In 1936, he successfully purified heparin and subsequently demonstrated that it was localized in the mast cells of tissues. In the same year, Jorpes and the surgeon Clarence Crafoord used heparin to prevent postoperative thrombosis. Crafoord later confirmed the usefulness of heparin in treating thrombosis. Jorpes' classic study on the use of heparin in the treatment of thrombosis was published in 1946. Since the 1940s, Jorpes participated in studies on fibrinogen, factor VIII, plasminogen, prothrombin and thrombin. He also worked on von Willebrand disease with Erik Adolf von Willebrand. In 1961, Jorpes and the docent Viktor Mutt isolated the hormone secretin.

paragraph: Jorpes was known as a strong personality. There was often tensions between Jorpes and his students and colleagues. He was also a workaholic who enjoyed his time in the laboratory. In 1952, Jorpes was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with K.P.Link.

paragraph: In 1945, he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1968, Jorpes received the honorary doctorate of Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland. During his late years, Jorpes translated Russian literature to Swedish, wrote biographies of Nobel-awarded scientists, and published popular science articles in the Social Democratic newspaper "Arbetarbladet".

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Erik Jorpes was married with Ida Elvira Ståhl (b. 1896) in 1930.

wikidata_label: Erik Jorpes

wikipedia_title: Erik Jorpes


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text: Humboldt University of Berlin

text: Düsseldorf

text: Düsseldorf-Gerresheim

text: Friedrich von Uechtritz

text: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

categories: German genealogists,German writers,1805 births,People from Münster,Humboldt University of Berlin alumni,1883 deaths,German historians,University of Bonn alumni

paragraph: Anton Fahne

paragraph: Anton F. Fahne (28 February 1805 – 12 January 1883) was a German author, jurist, genealogist and historian.

paragraph: Fahne was born in Münster and studied medicine at the University of Bonn and law at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He produced several genealogical and local historical writings. Fahne helped to found the Historischen Verein für den Niederrhein (Historical Society of the Lower Rhine) in 1854.

paragraph: Fahne died in Düsseldorf. He was buried at the Gerresheimer Waldfriedhof in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim. His estate manages the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne.

paragraph: It is a common mistake that Anton Fahne and Friedrich von Uechtritz are the same person.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

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text: Alameda, California

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text: Saint Mary's College of California

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text: Weiser, Idaho

text: New York Yankees

text: scout

text: Joe Devine

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paragraph: Andy Carey

paragraph: Andrew Arthur Carey (October 18, 1931 – December 15, 2011) was born in Oakland, California and was a major league third baseman for the New York Yankees (1952–1960), and three other major league teams from 1960 to 1962. Carey also balked at a trade which would have sent him from the Chicago White Sox to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1962. He batted and threw right-handed.

paragraph: Carey ended his career on September 30, 1962 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. In an 11-year career, he had a .260 batting average, with 64 home runs, and 350 RBIs. He had 741 career hits. Carey led the league in triples in 1955 with 11. He finished his career with 38 triples. While playing for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series, Carey twice helped preserve Don Larsen's perfect game against the Dodgers on Oct 8, 1956. In the second inning, the Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson smacked a shot between third and short that Carey knocked down, allowing shortstop Gil McDougald to pick up the ball and nip Robinson at first. In the eighth, he robbed Gil Hodges by snaring a low line drive that seemed headed for left field.

paragraph: Carey died on December 15, 2011 of Lewy body dementia.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Carey was born in Oakland but grew up in Alameda, California where his father was a civil lawyer. Carey attended Alameda High School where he pitched and played third base. He went on to attend Saint Mary's College of California where he made the freshman team. Carey played semi-professional baseball in Weiser, Idaho where he caught the attention of New York Yankees scout Joe Devine.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Andy Carey Oral History Interview (1 of 2) - National Baseball Hall of Fame Digital Collection

paragraph: BULLET::::- Andy Carey Oral History Interview (2 of 2) - National Baseball Hall of Fame Digital Collection

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wikidata_label: Andy Carey

wikipedia_title: Andy Carey


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paragraph: Chad Tracy

paragraph: Chad Austin Tracy (born May 22, 1980) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2004 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2013 for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, and Washington Nationals. He also played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

paragraph: Section::::College career and draft.

paragraph: Tracy compiled a .339 batting average during his career at East Carolina University. He was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the seventh round of the 2001 Major League Baseball draft.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minor league career.

paragraph: He played third base in El Paso, Texas, for the El Paso Diablos. In four minor league seasons, Tracy hit .335 with 24 home runs, 85 doubles, and 206 RBIs in 337 games. In , he was selected to participate in the Futures Game during the All-Star break as the starting third baseman on the U.S. squad.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arizona Diamondbacks.:2004–08.

paragraph: Tracy made his major league debut with Arizona in . He finished his rookie season with a .285 average, eight home runs, 53 RBIs, and a .343 on-base percentage in 143 games. He led NL third basemen with 25 errors, and he had a major-league-low .935 fielding percentage at third.

paragraph: In , Tracy had a breakout season, as he batted .308 (7th-best in the league) with 27 home runs and 72 RBIs. He also had a slugging percentage of .533, 10th-best in the NL.

paragraph: Tracy's numbers dipped in the season. He batted .281 with 20 homers and 80 RBIs. His slugging percentage went down over 100 points from his 2005 total, going from .553 to .451. His 129 strikeouts went up as they nearly doubled his 2005 total. He also tied Edwin Encarnación for the major league lead in errors by a third baseman, with 25, as he again had a .935 fielding percentage at third base.

paragraph: His numbers dipped again in 2007, as he batted .264—the lowest batting average of his major league career. He batted .222 with 2 out and runners in scoring position.

paragraph: In 2008, he had his lowest on-base percentage (.308) and slugging percentage (.414) of his major league career, as he batted .267. He again batted .222 with 2 out and runners in scoring position.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arizona Diamondbacks.:2009.

paragraph: On May 6, 2009, Tracy (who was batting .224) was taken out of the starting lineup, replaced by Josh Whitesell, who was called up to the Diamondbacks after hitting .356 for the Reno Aces with a .477 on-base percentage (2nd in the Pacific Coast League) and a .552 slugging percentage. Manager Bob Melvin said Whitesell would get a chance to play every day, and that Tracy "is going to pinch hit, (and) he's going to fill in at third and first for a while." That did not last long, however, as on May 19, not even two weeks later, Melvin had been fired as manager and the team optioned Whitesell back to Reno.

paragraph: A right-oblique strain that Tracy suffered May 29 led to him being placed on the 15-day disabled list. Tracy came off the disabled list after missing 27 games.

paragraph: Tony Clark was released in mid-July, and Whitesell was called back up for the third time in the season to replace him on July 16. Tracy said: Obviously, I want the playing time, I want to be out there every day. Right now, there are a lot of question marks, especially for me, and some of the other guys that are on their last year of their contract or have some value to be traded, so I think we're probably at that point now where anything can happen. I wouldn't be surprised by anything. Manager AJ Hinch spoke with Tracy, who was batting a career-low .222 with a .288 on-base percentage at the time, and Whitesell on July 17. He told them that Whitesell would get the bulk of the action at first base, starting four or five times a week "for the time being". After the 2009 season, the Arizona Diamondbacks did not pick up Tracy's 2010 option, which permitted Tracy to file for free agency.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, and Florida Marlins.:2010.

paragraph: On January 26, 2010, Tracy signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs with an invite to spring training. The deal was announced on January 27, 2010. On March 29, the Cubs announced that Tracy had made the major league Cubs' 25 man roster. On May 7, Tracy was sent down to the Triple-A Iowa Cubs to make room for Starlin Castro. Tracy was designated for assignment by the Cubs. Tracy was released by the Cubs on July 1, 2010.

paragraph: Tracy signed with the New York Yankees on July 9, 2010, and he was assigned to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees but eventually opted out of his contract, making him a free agent.

paragraph: Tracy signed with the Florida Marlins on August 5, 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Hiroshima Toyo Carp.:2011.

paragraph: Tracy signed with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan to play the 2011 season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Washington Nationals.:2012–2013.

paragraph: Chad Tracy signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals in the spring of 2012. He showed enough improvement at the plate during spring training to make the club's opening day roster. He was made a member of the Nationals' bench, where he was a productive left-handed bat. In two seasons, he hit .269 in 2012 but declined to just .202 in 2013, his final season for the Nationals.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and retirement.:2014.

paragraph: Tracy signed a minor league deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on January 29, 2014. He was released on March 23. On April 26, Tracy announced his retirement from baseball.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 2007, Tracy married Katie Martin. They have four daughters: Ella, Brynn, Leah, and Ruthie. He now owns a Baseball/Softball facility known as Ultimate Performance Sports.

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wikipedia_title: Chad Tracy


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paragraph: Steve Edwards (American football)

paragraph: Steven Edwards (born February 20, 1979) is a former American football guard. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Central Florida.

paragraph: Edwards was also a member of the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens and California Redwoods.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Edwards played grade school ball at St. Barnabas Elementary, and high school football at Mount Carmel High School.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

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

paragraph: Edwards was signed as a free agent by the Baltimore Ravens on June 11, 2007. He was placed on injured reserve and then waived with an injury settlement on August 27, 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:California Redwoods.

paragraph: Edwards was signed by the California Redwoods of the United Football League on September 2, 2009.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Just Sports Stats

paragraph: BULLET::::- United Football League bio

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paragraph: Dory Funk Jr.

paragraph: Dorrance Earnest Funk (born February 3, 1941) is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. He is the son of Dory Funk and brother of Terry Funk, and was the promoter of the Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion. He is credited with the invention of the Texas cloverleaf submission hold and runs the Funking Conservatory, a professional wrestling school.

paragraph: Funk held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the fifth-longest reigning NWA World Heavyweight Champion of all time, holding it for over four years. He also held the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship once and the CWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He is a 2009 WWE Hall of Fame inductee. He is working for All Japan Pro Wrestling as the Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) chairman.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Training.

paragraph: Funk's career in professional wrestling began in 1963 just after a college football career with West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University), culminating in a 15 to 14 victory over Ohio University in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. Funk's first match was a victory over Don Fargo in Amarillo, Texas. West Texas State University All American Jerry Logan was in Funk's corner and Fargo's brother, Jim, was in his corner. Funk was supported by the whole West Texas State University football team and the Tascosa High School amateur wrestling team. He was doing his student teaching as coach of the Tascosa High wrestling team under coach James Kyle.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:National Wrestling Alliance.

paragraph: Funk started in his father's Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion and fought Harley Race, Iron Mike DiBiase and Wild Bull Curry. He demonstrated a rugged hard-hitting style that gained attention. He would eventually move on to Florida, Missouri and Japan where his skills improved as he used uppercut forearm smashes, a variety of suplexes and leglocks. Funk won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Gene Kiniski on February 11, 1969 in Tampa, Florida with a spinning toe hold and remained NWA World Champion for the next four and a half years, which is the second-longest uninterrupted reign of any NWA World Champion (Lou Thesz held the NWA world title from November 27, 1949, to March 15, 1956). Dory and Terry are the only brothers in history to each hold the title. Funk finally lost the NWA World Championship on May 24, 1973 after a hurried recovery from a pickup truck accident on his father's Flying Mare Ranch in West Texas. Dory was forced into the ring in Kansas City, losing the belt to Harley Race. Race held the title only a few months before dropping it to Brisco. He performed regularly throughout the NWA, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic and Ontario as a heel, Georgia, Florida and Central States regions, through the 1970s and early 1980s. In Toronto he fought Ric Flair for the NWA championship. In 1984, he and his brother Terry competed in a tag team match against Bruiser Brody and Stan Hansen that later received a 5-star rating by Dave Meltzer. As well they had a series of matches against Abdullah the Butcher and The Sheik. In Tokyo they were placed against each other in a tournament and Dory won the match.

paragraph: In 1986, Dory (given the nickname "Hoss") made his WWF debut in a team alongside his brother Terry. The brothers performed at WrestleMania 2 defeating the Junkyard Dog and Tito Santana. Terry left the WWF shortly after WrestleMania, but Dory remained, mostly tagging with storyline brother Jimmy Jack Funk, who in truth had no relation to the Funk family. He made an appearance for WCW at the Slamboree 1993: A Legends Reunion Pay-Per-View, wrestling Nick Bockwinkel to a time limit draw. He also made a single appearance with the WWF as a participant in the 1996 Royal Rumble.

paragraph: Section::::Professional wrestling career.:Later years.

paragraph: Funk is now the Coach of the Funking Conservatory Professional Wrestling School in Ocala, Florida and teaches the Dory Funk Method of Professional Wrestling. Dory's students included Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Christian Cage, Lita, Kurt Angle, Mickie James, Edge, Ted DiBiase and Test. His wife Marti runs BANG TV in which Dory`s matches are featured. On March 1, 2008, Funk and Osamu Nishimura defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Masanobu Fuchi in Funk's retirement match via spinning toe hold.

paragraph: On the February 16, 2009 episode of "Raw", it was announced that Dory along with his brother Terry would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2009 by Dusty Rhodes. On the April 1, 2010 edition of TNA Today, Funk appeared on the show to have an interview with Jeremy Borash.

paragraph: On October 27, 2013, Funk returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling, teaming with Terry in a tag team match, where they wrestled Masanobu Fuchi and Osamu Nishimura to a twenty-minute time limit draw. Funk was then announced as the new Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) chairman. Funk returned to All Japan on July 27, 2014, teaming with Osamu Nishimura and Yutaka Yoshie in a six-man tag team match, where they defeated Masanobu Fuchi, Takao Omori and Último Dragón, with Funk submitting Fuchi for the win. Funk's next match with All Japan took place on May 31, 2015, when he and Nishimura wrestled Fuchi and Yoshiaki Fujiwara to a twenty-minute time limit draw. The day before at age 74 he teamed with old student Tenryu and Nosawa Rongai for Tenryu Project to beat Kohei Suwama, Hikaru Sato and Atsushi Aoki. He returned to All Japan the next month to team with Fuchi and Ultimo Dragon to beat his student Nishimura, Masao Inoue and Soma Takao.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Dory married his first wife, Jimmie, on June 8, 1960. Together, they have three children: Dory III, Adam Dirk, and Penny. They also have five grandchildren. They later separated and were officially divorced on July 6, 1983. Dory III went into medicine and now practices out of Colorado. Dory IV is now training to be a wrestler under Dory Jr. In 1980, Dory met his second and current wife, Marti; the couple married in 1989. They have two children.

paragraph: Section::::Championships and accomplishments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- All Japan Pro Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA International Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League (1977, 1979, 1982) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA International Heavyweight Championship Tournament (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Technical Award (1977) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Teamplay Award (1980) – with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Distinguished Service Medal Award (1984) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Skill Award (1985) - with Giant Baba

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Technique Award (1986) – with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Technique Award (1987) – with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Excellent Team Award (1990) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Teamwork Award (1991) - with Al Perez

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cauliflower Alley Club

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lou Thesz Award (2019)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Other honoree (1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Championship Wrestling from Florida

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (4 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Florida Television Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA North American Tag Team Championship "(Florida version)" (2 times) - with Terry Funk (1) and David Von Erich (1)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Continental Wrestling Association

paragraph: BULLET::::- CWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- Class of 2011

paragraph: BULLET::::- Georgia Championship Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship Tournament (1978) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- International Championship Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- ICW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Wrestling Alliance

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Hollywood Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA International Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA World Tag Team Championship "(Los Angeles Version)" (1 time) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- New England Wrestling Alliance

paragraph: BULLET::::- NEWA North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pro Wrestling Illustrated

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI Match of the Year (1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI Match of the Year (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stanley Weston Award (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI ranked him #147 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1994

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI ranked him #149 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- PWI ranked him #9 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Terry Funk in 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Class of 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pro Wrestling Illustrated

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stanley Weston Achievement Award

paragraph: BULLET::::- Southwest Championship Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- SCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- Class of 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- St. Louis Wrestling Club

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stampede Wrestling

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA International Tag Team Championship "(Calgary version)" (1 time) - with Larry Lane

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tokyo Sports

paragraph: BULLET::::- Match of the Year Award (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Western States Sports

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Brass Knuckles Championship "(Amarillo version)" (2 times)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA International Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA North American Heavyweight Championship "(Amarillo version)" (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (6 times) - with Ricky Romero (2), The Super Destroyer (2), Ray Candy (1), and Larry Lane (1)

paragraph: BULLET::::- NWA World Tag Team Championship "(Texas Version)" (2 times) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Wrestling Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWC World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Wrestling Entertainment

paragraph: BULLET::::- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wrestling Observer Newsletter

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Other titles

paragraph: BULLET::::- New York Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Funks at WWE.com

description: American professional wrestler

wikidata_label: Dory Funk Jr.

wikipedia_title: Dory Funk Jr.


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text: Pope John Paul II

text: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

text: Queen Mary Hospital

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

text: Notice of death of Cardinal Wu

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paragraph: John Baptist Wu

paragraph: John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung (; 26 March 1925 – 23 September 2002) was the fifth Bishop of Hong Kong's Catholic church and a Cardinal. He was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: A Hakka, Wu was born in the village of Ho Hau, Wu-hua (Province of Guangdong, Diocese of Kai-ying). Baptized in the village's parish church, he received his primary education there. He joined the diocesan minor seminary of Ka-ying for his secondary education in 1940 and was ordained in 1952.

paragraph: He was appointed the fifth Bishop of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese by Pope Paul VI as successor to Bishop Peter Lei Wang-kei who had died on 23 July 1974. He arrived in Hong Kong and on 25 July was consecrated and installed as Bishop of the Hong Kong in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in 1975.

paragraph: After due preparation, he initiated a Diocesan Renewal Movement for priests, laity and religious. On 25 March 1985, he led a five-member delegation on a seven-day visit to Beijing and Shanghai, at the invitation of the National Bureau of Religious Affairs under the State Council of China. He was the first bishop of Hong Kong to visit the mainland China. Later on 21 January 1986, he led a seven-member delegation on a ten-day visit to Guangzhou and the eastern part of his home Province, Guangdong, at the invitation of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of that Province. This visit marked the first reunion with his 85-year-old mother, after a separation of 40 years.

paragraph: He was named a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II on 29 May 1988.

paragraph: After the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, on 11 July 1989, he wrote a letter to all the bishops in the world, requesting them to appeal for justice, order and democracy in China.

paragraph: On 1 September 1991, Wu issued a pastoral letter that exhorting the faithful to give full support to the direct elections to the Legislative Council – the first time in the history of Hong Kong – on 15 September. In 1999, he convoked the "Diocesan Synod" to meet the pastoral needs of the Third Millennium.

paragraph: He died of cardiac arrest on 23 September 2002 at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong , aged 77.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- GCatholic.org on the Bishops of Hong Kong

paragraph: BULLET::::- Notice of death of Cardinal Wu

description: Chinese cardinal

wikidata_label: John Wu

wikipedia_title: John Baptist Wu