text:
Latinized
Byzantine
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
Alexios Komnenos
dethronement
Michael VII
doux
Dyrrhachium
Thessalonica
Nikephoros III
Nikephoros Bryennios
Sclaveni
Alexios Komnenos
Vardar River
blinded

categories: Byzantine governors of Dyrrhachium,11th-century Byzantine people

paragraph: Nikephoros Basilakes

paragraph: Nikephoros Basilakes (), frequently encountered simply as Basilakios (Βασιλάκιος), Latinized as Nicephorus Basilacius, was a Byzantine general and aristocrat of the late 11th century, who in 1078/79 tried to overthrow the Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates and was defeated by Alexios Komnenos.

paragraph: In the chaos that surrounded the dethronement of Michael VII, Nikephoros Basilakes, at the time "doux" of Dyrrhachium decided that his time had arrived. Moving into position at Thessalonica, he waited for the outcome of the clash between two other claimants to the throne, Nikephoros III and Nikephoros Bryennios, in order that he might quickly crush the exhausted victor.

paragraph: His forces consisted of veteran Frankish, Sclavenian, Albanian and Greek soldiers, and his confidence in his own abilities and courage convinced him that victory would easily be his. Nikephoros III sent his best general, Alexios Komnenos to deal with him, and Alexios managed to entrap Basilakes in a night attack on the imperial camp, on the banks of the Vardar River, some eighteen miles distant from Thessalonica. Defeated, Basilakes fled to Thessalonica where he attempted to defend the city, but was seized by his own soldiers and delivered to Nikephoros III who ordered that Basilakes be blinded.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Finlay, "History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from 1057 - 1453", Volume 2, William Blackwood & Sons, 1854

description: Nikephoros Basilakes

wikidata_label: Nikephoros Basilakes

wikipedia_title: Nikephoros Basilakes


text:
Republic of Genoa
Pietro Fregoso
Francesco Guistiniano di Garibaldo

categories: 14th-century Genoese people,Doges of Genoa

paragraph: Clemente Promontorio

paragraph: Clemente Promontorio or di Promontorio, was a statesman who became doge of the Republic of Genoa. He was elected on July 15, 1393 to the dogeship after Pietro Fregoso, who had been elected the day before, had stepped down. He himself was deposed the day after his election by Francesco Guistiniano di Garibaldo.

description: Genoese doge

wikidata_label: Clemente Promontorio

wikipedia_title: Clemente Promontorio


text: swimmer

text: Danish record

text: 2012 games

text: 2013 World Aquatics Championships

text: 100 m backstroke

text: 2015 World Aquatics Championships

text: Kazan

text: 2016 European Aquatics Championships

text: 100 m backstroke

text: Championships record

text: national record

text: 2016 Summer Olympics

text: 4 × 100 m medley relay

text: Rikke Møller Pedersen

text: Jeanette Ottesen

text: Pernille Blume

text: Benny Nielsen

text: 200 m butterfly

text: 1988 Summer Olympics

text: Lone Jensen

text: 1978 World Aquatics Championships

categories: Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m),Female backstroke swimmers,Olympic swimmers of Denmark,World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming,Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark,Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics,Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics,Female freestyle swimmers,Sportspeople from Aalborg,Olympic medalists for Denmark,1996 births,Danish female swimmers,Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics,World record holders in swimming,Olympic bronze medalists in swimming,Living people

paragraph: Mie Nielsen

paragraph: Mie Østergaard Nielsen (born 25 September 1996) is a Danish competitive swimmer who holds the Danish record in several backstroke events.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Nielsen won her first international senior medals at the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships, where she won four medals and was named newcomer of the championship.

paragraph: She made her Olympics debut at the 2012 games where she was taking part in the 100 and 200 m backstroke and the 4×100 m relays in freestyle and medley.

paragraph: Nielsen missed the 2013 World Aquatics Championships with a knee injury, but won the bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia.

paragraph: At the 2016 European Aquatics Championships in London, she successfully defended her title in the 100 m backstroke, breaking the Championships record and national record with a time of 58.73.

paragraph: At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a bronze medal as a part of the 4 × 100 m medley relay alongside Rikke Møller Pedersen, Jeanette Ottesen and Pernille Blume. Here they also broke the European record with a time of 3:55.01.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: She is the daughter of Benny Nielsen, who won silver in the 200 m butterfly at the 1988 Summer Olympics and Lone Jensen, who participated in the 1978 World Aquatics Championships.

description: Danish swimmer

wikidata_label: Mie Nielsen

wikipedia_title: Mie Nielsen


text:
Republic of Genoa
Antoniotto di Montaldo

categories: 14th-century rulers in Europe,14th-century Genoese people,Doges of Genoa

paragraph: Francesco Guistiniano di Garibaldo

paragraph: Francesco Giustiniano di Garibaldo was a statesman who became doge of the Republic of Genoa. He was elected doge on July 16, 1393 after his predecessor was forced to step down after only one day in office. He himself remained in office only two weeks until the exiled Montaldo family returned and Antoniotto di Montaldo was elected as the new doge.

description: Genoese doge

wikidata_label: Francesco Guistiniano di Garibaldo

wikipedia_title: Francesco Guistiniano di Garibaldo


text:
Republic of Genoa
Antoniotto di Montaldo
Antonio Guarco

categories: Doges of Genoa,14th-century Italian people

paragraph: Niccolo Zoagli

paragraph: Nicolò Zoagli was a statesman who became doge of the Republic of Genoa. He took office after his predecessor, Antoniotto di Montaldo, had to flee the city due to the conflict between the local nobility, in particular between the Mondaldo and Adorno families. Nicolò stayed in office until August 17 when he stepped down in favor of Antonio Guarco.

description: Genoese doge

wikidata_label: Niccolo Zoagli

wikipedia_title: Niccolo Zoagli


text:
Republic of Genoa
Nicolò
Antoniotto Adorno

paragraph: Antonio Guarco

paragraph: Antonio Guarco was a statesman who became doge of the Republic of Genoa. Antonio was the son of Nicolò, who had been doge from 1378 to 1383. Like his predecessors, he suffered from the conflicts between the great families of the nobility. Antoniotto Adorno finally managed to force Antonio out of office.

description: Genoese doge

wikidata_label: Antonio Guarco

wikipedia_title: Antonio Guarco


text:
FDP.The Liberals party
University of Zurich
Economiesuisse
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
charges against Honegger
Swissair bankruptcy case
embezzlement
tax fraud
Einsiedeln

categories: Living people,University of Zurich alumni,People from Zürich,1946 births,FDP.The Liberals politicians

paragraph: Eric Honegger

paragraph: Eric Honegger Pierre Antoine (born 29 April 1946) is a Swiss politician, member of the FDP.The Liberals party, and manager.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Eric Honegger was born in Zurich, a native of Rüschlikon and Fischenthal, the son of the late Fritz Honegger. He graduated in 1964 from the high school in Freudenberg, Zurich. Subsequently, he studied history and journalism at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1976.

paragraph: From 1975 to 1979 Honegger was Party Secretary of the FDP for the city and canton of Zurich. From 1980 to 1981 he worked at the Society for the Promotion of the Swiss economy (now part of Economiesuisse). He was from 1982 to 1987 Leader of the Swiss Association of Graphic Company (SVGU, now Swiss Association for Visual Communication, Viscom).

paragraph: From 1974 to 1978 he was a member of the council of Rüschlikon. From 1979 to 1987 he was a member of the Zurich cantonal parliament. In 1987 he was elected to the Executive Council, where he served until 1999 and he presided at the official 1993/94 and 1998/99. He initially led the Building Department, from 1991, the Finance Office.

paragraph: Honegger had been since 1993 member of the Board of SAirGroup. After his resignation as Minister, he was Executive Vice President of the Board of SAirGroup and from 1 May 2000 as a successor to Chairman Hannes Goetz. In January 2001 he also took over the Executive Committee of the SAirGroup. In March 2001 he was deposed by the Board and replaced by Mario Corti. In addition, Honegger was until 2001 a member of the Board of Directors of UBS and Chairman of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

paragraph: The prosecutor of the canton of Zurich raised charges against Honegger and another 18 people in March 2006 in connection with the Swissair bankruptcy case. Honegger was accused of embezzlement and tax fraud.

paragraph: Honegger is CEO of the company Sophocles GmbH, which provides services and advice on matters of corporate governance (corporate management and supervision). He also has more mandates.

paragraph: He is married and lives in Einsiedeln.

description: Swiss politician and businessman

wikidata_label: Eric Honegger

wikipedia_title: Eric Honegger


text:
liberal
San Luis Potosí
property rights
hacienda
taxes
aristocracy
Minister of justice
Guerrero
Mexico State
Michoacán
Jalisco
Puebla
Zacatecas
Federal District
Secretary of the Interior
President of the Chamber of Deputies
1857 Mexican constitution
Ponciano Arriaga International Airport

categories: People from San Luis Potosí City,Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico),1865 deaths,Mexican Secretaries of the Interior,Mexican lawyers,Liberalism in Mexico,Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico),1811 births

paragraph: Ponciano Arriaga

paragraph: José Ponciano Arriaga Mejía (1811–1865) was a lawyer and radical liberal politician from the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Arriaga rose to prominence in the late 1840s and is particularly known for pushing for the equality of people through property rights. Arriaga proposed a law in which the government would confiscate lands from the local hacienda owners and redistribute it to the local Indian population. Later in his career, Arriaga proposed landowners who possessed more than 15 square leagues, had to begin cultivating their land or forfeit it. Arriaga further proposed that anyone who did not own at least 50 pesos worth of land would be exempt from most taxes. The focus for Arriaga on equality through property rights stems from his argument that "despite the fundamental laws of the land, a privileged caste would be able to establish an aristocracy of wealth and monopolize land and political power."

paragraph: Arriaga is also known for proposing a law that would establish a public attorney to represent the poor.

paragraph: Ponciano Arriaga has served in multiple political positions including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minister of justice

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constitutional Congressman representing eight constituencies: Guerrero, Mexico State, Michoacán, Jalisco, Puebla, Zacatecas as well as San Luis Potosí and the Federal District.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Secretary of the Interior

paragraph: BULLET::::- Defensor de los Fondos de Beneficencia

paragraph: BULLET::::- President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1856 and 1862-1863.

paragraph: Arriaga, in his position as First Minister of the Interior, participated in writing the first draft of the 1857 Mexican constitution, later earning him the title of "Father of the 1857 constitution."

paragraph: The Ponciano Arriaga International Airport in San Luis Potosí is dedicated to Arriaga's memory. Arriaga is entombed in the Mexican National Rotunda (Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres).

description: Mexican politician

wikidata_label: Ponciano Arriaga

wikipedia_title: Ponciano Arriaga


text: Philip IV

text: Waldeck

text: Philip Louis I of Hanau-Münzenberg

text: John VI

text: Landgraviate of Hesse

text: Archbishopric of Cologne

text: Hanau

text: Albert, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

text: John VII of Nassau-Siegen

text: Calvinist

text: Dillenburg

text: John Ernest of Nassau-Siegen

text: John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen

text: Christian of Waldeck

text: Juliane of Nassau-Siegen

text: Maurice of Hesse-Kassel

text: John Adolph of Daun-Falkenstein

text: William of Nassau-Siegen-Hilchenbach

categories: 1558 births,Countesses of Hanau-Münzenberg,House of Waldeck,House of Hanau

paragraph: Countess Magdalena of Waldeck

paragraph: Countess Magdalena of Waldeck (9 September 1558 – August 1599) was a daughter of Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen (1493–1574) and his wife, Jutta of Isenburg (d. 1564).

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.:First marriage.

paragraph: On 2 or 6 February 1576, she married Count Philip Louis I of Hanau-Münzenberg. This marriage has some interesting features for its time. First, it seems to have been a love match. In the medieval view of nobility, Magdalene was ranked lower than Philip. Politically, the marriage could also represent a conscious withdrawal on her groom's part from the politically dominant influence of his guardian, Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg, who would have preferred that Philip Louis marry a member of the Nassau family. Her own family was more oriented toward the Landgraviate of Hesse and the Archbishopric of Cologne.

paragraph: Magdalena and Philip Louis had four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Philip Louis II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (18 November 1576 – 9 August 1612).

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Juliane of Hanau-Münzenberg (13 October 1577 – 2 December 1577), buried in the choir of the St. Mary's Church in Hanau.

paragraph: BULLET::::3. William of Hanau-Münzenberg (26 August 1578 – 14 June 1579), also buried in the choir of St. Mary's Church in Hanau.

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Albert, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels (12 November 1579 – 19 December 1635).

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.:Second marriage.

paragraph: On 24 November 1581, she married Count John VII of Nassau-Siegen. Magdalena took up the Calvinist confession of her second husband. She moved with him to Dillenburg, where they took in the two surviving children from her first marriage. This led to Philip Louis II being raised as a Calvinist. When Philip Louis II became Count of the Hanau-Münzenberg in 1595, he made Calvinism the established faith there, the so-called "second Reformation" of the county.

paragraph: Magdalena and John had twelve children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. John Ernest of Nassau-Siegen (21 October 1582 – 27 September 1617).

paragraph: BULLET::::2. John VIII, Count of Nassau-Siegen (29 September 1583 – 27 July 1638).

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Elizabeth of Nassau-Siegen (8 November 1584 – 26 July 1661), married on 26 July 1604 to Count Christian of Waldeck.

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Adolph of Nassau-Siegen (8 August 1586 – 7 November 1608).

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Juliane of Nassau-Siegen (3 September 1587 – 15 February 1643) married on 22 May 1603 to Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel.

paragraph: BULLET::::6. Anna Maria of Nassau-Siegen (3 March 1589 – 27 February 1620), married on 3 February 1611 to Count John Adolph of Daun-Falkenstein.

paragraph: BULLET::::7. John Albert of Nassau-Siegen (8 February 1590 – died shortly after).

paragraph: BULLET::::8. William of Nassau-Siegen-Hilchenbach (13 August 1592 — 18 July 1642).

paragraph: BULLET::::9. Anna Johanna of Nassau-Siegen ((2 March 1594 – 7 December 1636), married on 14 June 1619 Johann Wolfart von Brederode.

paragraph: BULLET::::10. Frederick Louis of Nassau-Siegen (2 February 1595 – 22 April 1600).

paragraph: BULLET::::11. Magdalena of Nassau-Siegen (23 February 1596 – 6 December 1662), married firstly in August 1631 to Bernhard Moritz von Oeynhausen and secondly on 25 August 1642 to Philipp Wilhelm zu Inn und Knyphausen.

paragraph: BULLET::::12. John Frederick of Nassau-Siegen (10 February 1597 – died shortly after).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reinhard Dietrich: "Die Landesverfassung in dem Hanauischen", in the series "Hanauer Geschichtsblätter", issue 34, Hanau, 1996, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacob Christoph Carl Hoffmeister: "Historisch-genealogisches Handbuch über alle Grafen und Fürsten von Waldeck und Pyrmont seit 1228", Kassel, 1883.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gerhard Menk: "Philipp Ludwig I. von Hanau-Münzenberg (1553-1580). Bildungsgeschichte und Politik eines Reichsgrafen in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts", in: "Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte", vol. 32, 1982, p. 127–163.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Georg Schmidt: "Der Wetterauer Grafenverein", in the series "Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen", vol. 52, Marburg, 1989, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reinhard Suchier: "Genealogie des Hanauer Grafenhauses", in: "Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier am 27. August 1894", Hanau, 1894.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Johann Adolf Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: "Grundlage der Waldeckischen Landes- und Regentengeschichte", Arolsen, 1853.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ernst J. Zimmermann: "Hanau Stadt und Land", 3rd ed., Hanau, 1919, reprinted 1978.

description: Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg, later Countess of Nassau-Siegen

wikidata_label: Countess Magdalena of Waldeck

wikipedia_title: Countess Magdalena of Waldeck


text: Hangul

text: Hanja

text: Busan

text: South Korea

text: South Korea

text: pitcher

text: KBO League

text: OB Bears

text: Major League

text: minor leagues

text: Daejeon

text: Seoul

text: Yonsei University

categories: South Korean baseball coaches,Yonsei University alumni,South Korean baseball players,El Paso Diablos players,1956 births,Doosan Bears players,KBO League pitchers,Stockton Ports players,Sportspeople from Busan,KBO League Most Valuable Player Award winners,Living people

paragraph: Park Chul-soon

paragraph: Park Chul-soon (Hangul: 박철순, Hanja: 朴哲淳; also spelled Cheol Sun Park, Bak Cheol-sun) (born March 12, 1956 in Busan, South Korea) is a former South Korean pitcher in the KBO League who played for the OB Bears. Park batted and threw right-handed. He was also the second South Korean player to sign with a Major League team and play in the minor leagues after Lee Won-Kuk.

paragraph: Section::::Amateur career.

paragraph: Park attended Daeseong High School in Daejeon and Baemyung High School in Seoul. After high school Park went on to pitch for Yonsei University.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization (Official website)

description: baseball player

wikidata_label: Park Chul-soon

wikipedia_title: Park Chul-soon


text:
Australian rules football
Brisbane Lions
Australian Football League
2010 rookie draft
Gippsland Power
TAC Cup
2009 AFL Under 18 Championships
ACL
Etihad Stadium
the Gabba
Rising Star

categories: Brisbane Lions players,Port Melbourne Football Club players,Gippsland Power players,Australian people of English descent,1991 births,Living people,Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)

paragraph: Mitch Golby

paragraph: Mitchell "Mitch" Golby is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Brisbane Lions with their first selection and sixteenth overall in the 2010 rookie draft, after having played for Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup. He looked almost certain to represent Victoria Country in the 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships but tore his ACL in a trial match.

paragraph: Golby made his debut in the sixty-one point loss against at Etihad Stadium in round 12, 2011. In his sixteenth match, he recorded twenty-four disposals, eight marks and four tackles in the ninety-two point win against at the Gabba in round 8, 2012, and he was rewarded with the round nomination for the Rising Star. He played a total of 56 games between 2011 and 2015 and his form fell away in 2015 where he managed only five matches, and was subsequently delisted at the end of the season.

description: Australian rules footballer

wikidata_label: Mitchell Golby

wikipedia_title: Mitch Golby


text: American

text: rock

text: country

text: blues

text: Grammy Award

text: Buffalo, NY

text: Byron Brown

text: Willie Dixon

text: Buddy Guy

text: Susan Tedeschi

text: Buffalo, New York

text: Roy Buchanan

text: Boston Music Awards

text: Bo Diddley

text: Percy Sledge

text: Chuck Berry

text: Gary Puckett

text: Sha Na Na

text: Susan Tedeschi

text: Just Won't Burn

text: Johnny Winter

text: Buddy Guy

text: Skin Deep

text: "Billboard" 200

text: Buddy Guy

text: Living Proof

text: George Thorogood and the Destroyers

text: 2120 South Michigan Ave.

text: B. B. King

text: Buddy Guy

text: Quinn Sullivan

text: Quinn Sullivan

text: Grammy Award for Best Blues Album

text: Buddy Guy

text: Born to Play Guitar

text: Mike Zito

text: Billboard Charts

text: Grammy Award

text: Bloodline (Kenny Neal album)

text: Susan Tedeschi

text: PBS

text: NBC

text: Conan O'Brien

text: David Letterman Show

text: Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

text: "Bug" soundtrack

text: Cars

text: Billy Ray Cyrus

text: White House

text: Buddy Guy

text: Keb Mo

text: Susan Tedeschi

text: Derek Trucks

text: Mick Jagger

text: BB King

text: Barack Obama

text: Sweet Home Chicago

text: White House

text: Buddy Guy

text: Marty Sammon

text: Trombone Shorty

text: Carol Burnett

text: Queen Latifah

text: MC Lyte

text: Keb Mo

text: Smokey Robinson

text: National Endowment for the Humanities

text: Discography at "Billboard" Magazine

text: AllMusic Biography

categories: 1960 births,Songwriters from New York (state),Singers from New York (state),American blues drummers,Country musicians from New York (state),American country singer-songwriters,20th-century American drummers,Grammy Award winners,American male drummers,Berklee College of Music alumni,American blues singers,Musicians from Buffalo, New York,Record producers from New York (state),Living people

paragraph: Tom Hambridge

paragraph: Thomas Jay "Tom" Hambridge (born December 20, 1960) is an American rock, country, and blues, producer, songwriter, musician and vocalist. Hambridge has received two Grammy Awards, an ASCAP award, seven Grammy nominations, seven Boston Music Awards, and has been inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. In December 2015, Tom was given the key to his hometown of Buffalo, NY with Mayor Byron Brown declaring December 28 “Tom Hambridge Day.” Hambridge's songs have been recorded by several notable artists and have been featured in movie productions, commercials and television programs. He has been referred to as "The White Willie Dixon" by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi's "Secret Weapon".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Hambridge began learning the drums at the age of 5. He played his first paying gig, a bar mitzvah, in third grade. Throughout his school years, Hambridge played in garage bands, his high school orchestra and jazz band. After graduating from high school in 1979, he received a scholarship at Boston's Berklee College of Music.

paragraph: He received his degree in Professional Music in 1983. After graduation, he worked for three years as drummer and lead singer for the blues guitarist Roy Buchanan. While working with Buchanan, Hambridge contributed as a musician on Buchanan's release, "Live: Amazing Grace". In the meantime, he formed the band "T.H. and the Wreckage". In 1988, the band released "Born to Rock," one of several independent, self-produced albums Hambridge has completed. "Born To Rock" was the first of the many Boston Music Awards he has received. In the meantime, he assisted promoters assemble backup bands for artists such as Bo Diddley, Percy Sledge, Chuck Berry, Gary Puckett, and Sha Na Na.

paragraph: Hambridge released his own album "Still Running" in 1996.

paragraph: In 1997, he produced Susan Tedeschi's "Just Won't Burn". Hambridge wrote Tedeschi's Top 10 hits "Rock Me Right" and "It Hurt So Bad". In the meantime, he also released his own album "Balderdash" in 2000. Hambridge received a subsequent 2004 Grammy nomination (Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album) for his contributions on Johnny Winter's release "I'm A Bluesman" ("Cheatin' Blues" and "Lone Wolf"). Shortly thereafter, Hambridge released his album "Bang N' Roll" (2004) and the album "Live" (2007).

paragraph: In 2008, he received Grammy nominations (Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album) for his work on Buddy Guy's "Skin Deep". "Skin Deep" debuted at number 68 on the "Billboard" 200 which was the highest position of any of Guy's previous albums, and was number 1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. Hambridge released his own album "Boogieman" (2009). In 2011, he won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for co-writing and producing Buddy Guy's album "Living Proof".

paragraph: He was credited as the producer, songwriter and percussionist for George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2011 release "2120 South Michigan Ave.", which included the song "Going Back" that reached number 1 on Classic Rock Radio. Also in 2011, he wrote and produced B. B. King and Buddy Guy's duet "Stay Around A Little Longer."

paragraph: Other recognized 2011 successes include writing/co-writing all songs on Quinn Sullivan's release "Cyclone" (2011, number 7 on the Billboard Blues charts, July 30, 2011). Later in 2013, Hambridge would do the same on Quinn Sullivan's release "Getting There" which charted at 38 on the Billboard Blues Charts.

paragraph: In 2015, Hambridge earned his second Grammy Award for Best Blues Album for his contributions as a musician, producer, composer and mixer on Buddy Guy's Born to Play Guitar.

paragraph: In 2016, Hambridge produced Mike Zito's album "Make Blues Not War" which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Charts on December 10, 2016 and earned his seventh Grammy Award Nomination for his production work on Bloodline (Kenny Neal album).

paragraph: Hambridge's songs and productions have appeared on a variety of television shows, movies and commercials. These include "It Hurt's So Bad" (Susan Tedeschi) on PBS's "Austin City Limits", "Autumn Hearts", VH1's "Born To Diva", NBC's "Conan O'Brien", and "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn". In addition, "Rock Me Right" (Susan Tedeschi) appeared in "Autumn Hearts", "David Letterman Show", "NASCAR Rocks II" (1999), and "Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas". "I Fell In Love" (Susan Tedeschi) appeared on the "Bug" soundtrack. Plus, "Road Trip" and "I Got A New Car" (Tom Hambridge) appeared in the movie "Cars". "Flying By" (Billy Ray Cyrus) appeared in the film, "Flying By".

paragraph: Hambridge has performed multiple times at the White House. On February 21, 2012, he joined Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Mick Jagger, BB King and others in a performance for the White House's "Red, White and Blues" Black History Month celebration concert. During the performance, President Barack Obama provided a brief history of the Blues and accompanied the group during the song "Sweet Home Chicago". On October 14, 2015, Hambridge returned to the White House with Buddy Guy, Marty Sammon, Trombone Shorty, Carol Burnett, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Keb Mo, Smokey Robinson and others for “A Celebration of American Creativity: In Performance at the White House”, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

paragraph: Section::::Credits.

paragraph: BULLET::::- As leader

paragraph: BULLET::::- As contributing artist

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Discography at "Billboard" Magazine

paragraph: BULLET::::- ASCAP - Tom Hambridge Registered Songs and Additional Information

paragraph: BULLET::::- AllMusic Biography

description: American music producer, songwriter, and musician

wikidata_label: Tom Hambridge

wikipedia_title: Tom Hambridge


text:
model
Edgar de Evia
Eileen Ford
Ford Models
Naomi Sims
Gerald W. ″Jerry″ Ford
Funny Face
Richard Avedon
Christie's
Funny Face
Richard Avedon′s August 1954 photograph

categories: Actresses from New York City,Deaths from fire in the United States,American film actresses,1987 deaths,People from Brooklyn,1924 births,Female models from New York (state)

paragraph: Sunny Harnett

paragraph: Annemarie Margot Elfreda "Sunny" Harnett (1924 - May 1987) was an American model, actress, and casting director. She can be found in fashion magazines throughout the 1950s — including frequently on the cover of "Vogue" — and was often a model of choice by photographer Edgar de Evia. "Harper′s Bazaar" ranks her as one of the 26 greatest models of all time.

paragraph: After becoming an assistant to Eileen Ford of Ford Models, she soon quit modeling. Harnett allegedly turned down the chance to represent Naomi Sims, who eventually became the first African-American supermodel, because Ford had "too many" black models already.

paragraph: At some point, Harnett gained weight and underwent a mastectomy. Due to health concerns, she was later placed in a home for long-term care. According to fellow 1950s Ford model Betsy Pickering, Gerald W. ″Jerry″ Ford, founder of Ford Models, hospitalized Harnett for mental illness. Harnett died from injuries sustained in a fire at the home in May 1987 when she was 63.

paragraph: She was also an actress and appeared in the film "Funny Face". An ash blonde, she was a favorite model of photographer Richard Avedon, who served as a thinly veiled model for Fred Astaire′s character of Dick Avery in "Funny Face". Avedon snapped one of the most famous photos of Harnett, in which, clad in an evening gown by Grès, she peers at a roulette wheel in a casino in Le Touquet, France. That iconic August 1954 photograph fetched $35,000 when Christie's auctioned it in October 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Funny Face (1957)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Richard Avedon′s August 1954 photograph

description: super model

wikidata_label: Sunny Harnett

wikipedia_title: Sunny Harnett


text: Stockholm

text: engraver

text: lute

text: engraving

text: Stockholm

text: medal stamps

text: École des Arts Décoratifs

text: Académie Colarossi

text: art colony

text: first world war

text: Ragnar Östberg

text: Carl Westman

text: Hjalmar Branting

text: Nationalmuseum

text: collection

text: stomp

text: Gripsholm Castle

text: Mariefred

text: Carl Michael Bellman

text: old French songs

text: Svante Nilsson Sture

text: Engraving

categories: Académie Colarossi alumni,19th-century engravers,Medallists,20th-century engravers,20th-century sculptors,1942 deaths,Swedish songwriters,1869 births,19th-century sculptors,Swedish engravers

paragraph: Svante Nilsson (artist)

paragraph: Svante Nilsson, "Svante Edvin Nilsson" (10 June 1869 in Stockholm, Sweden – 21 May 1942 in Stockholm) was a Swedish medal engraver, medal artist, lyricist and lute singer.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: When Svante Nilsson was thirteen years old he began to study medal engraving for the Swedish engraver Adolf Lindberg (1839–1916) in Stockholm. Adolf Lindberg was a prestigious and reputable medal engraver in Sweden during the 1800s. After ten years of teaching in Stockholm Svante Nilsson mastered the art of producing the medal stamps. Then he was awarded the scholarship of Kommerskollegium in 1893, that he used to further education in Paris and Rome. Svante Nilsson remained in Paris. He collaborated with the Swedish medal engraver Sven Kulle (1860–1945), who resided in Paris in France. Sven Kulle had established a studio in Paris in 1891 where, among others, Svante Nilsson was employed. At the same time Nilsson also studied at École des Arts Décoratifs, a public university of art and design in Paris, the school is one of the most prestigious "French grande école", and at Académie Colarossi, another art school in Paris. Svante Nilsson participated in several exhibitions during his years in Paris and he played a significant role in the Swedish art colony. His home became a gathering place for the Swedish art students. He stayed in Paris from 1893 to 1914. He returned to Sweden when the first world war broke out in 1914.

paragraph: Section::::Meritorious medals and plaques.

paragraph: Svante Nilsson has made many meritorious medals and plaques of famous people, such as the Swedish architect Ragnar Östberg, the Swedish architect and interior designer Carl Westman, the Swedish governor and senator Gustaf Tornérhjelm and the Swedish politician, party leader and Prime Minister of Sweden Hjalmar Branting.

paragraph: Section::::Represented.

paragraph: Svante Nilsson is represented at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Kungliga Myntkabinettet in Gamla stan in Stockholm, a Swedish museum in the Old Town of Stockholm. Sweden's premier, very rich coin and "medal collections" are to be found in Kungliga Myntkabinettet, not to be confused by Kungliga Myntet, Stockholm, where most of the "medal stomping" are stored. Svante Nilsson is also represented in Svenska statens porträttsamling at Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred. Now the castle is a museum which is open to the public, containing paintings and works of art. Part of the castle houses the National Collection of Portraits ("Statens porträttsamlingar"), one of the oldest portrait collection in the world.

paragraph: Section::::Musician.

paragraph: As a musician Svante Nilsson was an appreciated and popular lute singer. His speciality was Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795), a Swedish poet and composer in the 18th century, and old French songs.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A namesake of Svante Nilsson was the Swedish nobleman, statesman and regent in 1504–1512, born about 1460 and died 2 January 1512, also called Svante Nilsson Sture. Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden) (1460–1512). See also Svante Nilsson Sture

paragraph: BULLET::::- Svante Nilsson's namesake Svante Nilsson Sture (1460–1512) was chosen to regent in 1504. He had a troubled regent time and the country was plagued of bad finances.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called engravings.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Svante Nilsson in Konstnärslexikonett Amanda ("Swedish")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Svante Nilsson in Projekt Runeberg, Svensk Konst, Nordisk Familjebok, page 677 (1926) Nordisk Familjebok, Uggleupplagan. 38. Supplement. Riksdagens bibliotek-Öyen. Tillägg. Page 677-678, 1926.

description: Swedish musician

wikidata_label: Svante Nilsson

wikipedia_title: Svante Nilsson (artist)


text:
deputy
Frankfurt National Assembly
Provisional Government
Palatinate
uprising

categories: Place of birth unknown,German lawyers,1872 deaths,Place of death unknown,German revolutionaries,1803 births

paragraph: Joseph Martin Reichard

paragraph: Joseph Martin Reichard (23 September 180314 May 1872) was a German politician and revolutionary. He was a lawyer by profession and a democrat by philosophy. He was elected as a deputy to the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848, and served as a member of the Provisional Government in the Palatinate during the uprising of 1849. He died in 1872.

description: German lawyer, politician and revolutionary

wikidata_label: Joseph Martin Reichard

wikipedia_title: Joseph Martin Reichard


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text:
Horus
princess
ancient Egypt
Kekheretnebti
Djedkare Isesi
Neserkauhor
Meret-Isesi
Isesi-ankh
mastaba

paragraph: Tisethor

paragraph: Tisethor (named after the god Horus) was a princess of ancient Egypt, a daughter of Princess Kekheretnebti and granddaughter of the King Djedkare Isesi. Her father is not known. She was a niece of Neserkauhor, Meret-Isesi and Isesi-ankh.

paragraph: She barely reached the age of puberty when she died. She was buried in the mastaba of her mother.

wikidata_label: Tisethor

wikipedia_title: Tisethor


text:
Valencian
Pope Alexander VI
Cesare Borgia
Gioffre Borgia
Giovanni Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia
María Enríquez de Luna
House of Enríquez
Granada War
Reconquista
Ferdinand II
grandee of Spain
Gandia
duke of Gandía
Andrés de Cabrera
Marquis of Moya
Beatriz de Bobadilla
Ferdinand II
House of Borgia
Route of the Borgias

categories: 1491 deaths,Illegitimate children of popes,1458 births,House of Borgia,15th-century Italian people,Dukes of Gandía,Pope Alexander VI

paragraph: Pier Luigi de Borgia, 1st duke of Gandía (, ) (1458 or 1460–1488 or 1491) was a Valencian noble. Pier Luigi was the son of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI), and half-brother of Cesare Borgia, Gioffre Borgia, Giovanni Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia.

paragraph: He was married to María Enríquez de Luna of the House of Enríquez. Due to Pier Luigi's untimely death, she would later wed his younger brother Giovanni (also known as Juan) in September 1493.

paragraph: Pier Luigi Borgia fought alongside the Spanish armies during the Granada War (Reconquista). Following his heroic triumph during the Battle of Ronda, King Ferdinand II rewarded him with the title of 'grandee of Spain' on 18 May 1485.

paragraph: The lands of Gandia, the ancestral home of the Borgia family, were initially inherited by Pier Luigi (Pedro Luis). However, before becoming duke of Gandía, he purchased the duchy through a financial agreement with local nobles Andrés de Cabrera, Marquis of Moya, and his wife, Beatriz de Bobadilla. Through this agreement, Pier Luigi was required to provide the marquis an unknown sum, albeit considered small, and accept certain rights pertaining to the crown and of Valencia over the lands of the duchy. Some sources state that Pedro Luis' father gave him 50,000 ducats in order to purchase the territory. In late 1485, King Ferdinand II officially elevated Pier Liugi's status to duke of Gandía.

paragraph: In his will, Pier Luigi ceded the duchy to his younger brother Giovanni and demanded a dowry of 10,000 florins to be given to his sister, Lucrezia.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- House of Borgia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Route of the Borgias

description: 1st duke of Gandía and son of Pope Alexander VI

wikidata_label: Pier Luigi de Borgia


text: Vercelli

text: commedia dell'arte

text: Beltrame

text: L'inavertito

text: Moliere

text: L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps

text: Scapino

categories: 1586 births,Commedia dell'arte,17th-century male writers,17th-century Italian writers,People from Vercelli,1641 deaths

paragraph: Niccolò Barbieri

paragraph: Niccolò (or Nicolò) Barbieri (Vercelli, 1586 - 1641) was an Italian writer and actor of the commedia dell'arte theatrical genre. He was also known as Beltrame di Milano ("Beltrame of Milan") in reference to one of his most popular characters, Beltrame; this was the main character of one of Barbieri's best known plays, "L'inavertito", which is known to have inspired Moliere's "L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps" ("The Blunderer"). Besides popularizing Beltrame, Barbieri is also credited with creating another "commedia dell'arte" mask, Scapino.

paragraph: Barbieri was a successful author and actor, and one of those that toured Europe; he is known, for example, to have played at the royal court of France.

paragraph: Besides plays, he wrote essays on theatre; his prominent essay is "La supplica. Discorso famigliare a quelli che trattano de' comici" (1634), a passionate apology of theatre and actors, which is also an important source of information on the commedia culture.

paragraph: As a "commedia" actor, Barbieri introduced the habit of acting while standing on a chair, which is supposedly the origin of the Italian word "saltimbanco" (which roughly translates to "s.o. who jumps on chairs") to refer to comic actors and jesters.

description: Italian actor

wikidata_label: Niccolò Barbieri

wikipedia_title: Niccolò Barbieri


text: Allahabad

text: United Provinces of British India

text: Allahabad University

text: Indian Institute of Science

text: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

text: Engineering Science

text: Columbia University

text: Harcourt Butler Technological Institute

text: BITS Pilani

text: Ghanshyam Das Birla

text: MIT

text: NIIT

categories: 2008 deaths,Birla Institute of Technology and Science faculty,University of Allahabad alumni,Indian Institute of Science alumni,Educators from Uttar Pradesh,Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni,1926 births

paragraph: Chittaranjan Mitra

paragraph: Chittaranjan Mitra, popularly known as CR Mitra and CRM, was an Indian scientist who is best remembered as the second Director of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani (BITS). He played a pivotal role in the transformation of the Institute from a local engineering college to a reputed university.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Born in 1926 in Allahabad in the erstwhile United Provinces of British India, C.R. Mitra studied at Allahabad University, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, did his Masters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then acquired a Doctorate in Engineering Science from Columbia University, New York.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Returning to India in the 1960s, Mitra first became the director of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute. In 1969, he was offered the position of director of BITS Pilani by Ghanshyam Das Birla. At this time, the institute was undergoing major changes under the leadership of a committee of experts from MIT. He is credited with increasing the pace of those reforms, as well as for constituting a "practice school" program of industry internship "far more ambitious than anything MIT had done, as a requirement for all faculty and students". To address the human resource development needs of the Indian industry and the financial challenge of running higher degree programs at BITS Pilani, in the year 1979, he pioneered the Work Integrated Learning Programs, which provided education and training to employees of Indian Industries. Today, these programs have an enrollment of about 17,000 students throughout India and are responsible for earning two thirds of the revenue of the Institute.

paragraph: Mitra was responsible for introducing innovative educational philosophies which made the educational system at BITS Pilani unique, including broad-based, multi-disciplinary approach, semester long course based curricula, practice school, industry-academia collaboration, choosing electives and many other features which were firsts in Indian higher education. He was widely respected by the students who affectionately referred to him as "Dynamic Diro" (Director)

paragraph: In 1989, he was invited by NIIT to be their education advisor. He was responsible for introducing the 'GNIIT' program that would become the flagship offering of the Institute. Under his advisory, NIIT rose as one of the leading IT education providers in India.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Mitra died on 27 August 2008. He is survived by his wife and children.

description: Indian academic

wikidata_label: Chittaranjan Mitra

wikipedia_title: Chittaranjan Mitra


text:
Als
Sønderborg
Syddanmark
Westye Martinus Egeberg
Christian Egeberg
Fredrikke Egeberg
Westye Egeberg & Co
Christiania
Fet
Lake Øyeren
Akershus
Ferdinand Julian Egeberg
Einar Westye Egeberg

categories: Danish emigrants to Norway,Norwegian company founders,1830 deaths,1770 births

paragraph: Westye Egeberg

paragraph: Westye Egeberg (16 August 1770 – 27 February 1830) was a Danish-Norwegian businessperson.

paragraph: Egeberg was born on the island of Als at Sønderborg in the region of Syddanmark, Denmark. He re-located to Norway in 1786. He married Anna Sophie Muus (1775–1862) and was the father of several children including Westye Martinus Egeberg (1805-1898), physician Christian Egeberg (1809-1874) and composer Fredrikke Egeberg (1815–1861).

paragraph: In 1800, he founded the timber trade company Westye Egeberg & Co in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He purchased the Gahnsbruket timber lands in Fet near Lake Øyeren in Akershus. This formed the basis for an important lumber company and was passed on through generations. He controlled the company until his death in 1830. From 1830-51, his son Westye Martinus Egeberg managed the firm. Brothers Peder Cappelen Egeberg (1810-1874) and Christian August Egeberg (1809–1874) became co-owners and took control of the company in 1851. In 1874, management of the company was passed down to Ferdinand Julian Egeberg (1842-1921) and Einar Westye Egeberg (1851-1940). From 1911, Westye Parr Egeberg (1877-1959) controlled the firm. After the financial crash in 1929, the company and all assets were sold.

description: Norwegian businessman

wikidata_label: Westye Egeberg

wikipedia_title: Westye Egeberg


text:
Norwegian
rally
Super 2000 World Rally Championship
Škoda Fabia S2000
Adapta World Rally Team
Mads Østberg
Ford Fiesta RS WRC
2012 Rally Sweden
Profile at ewrc-results.com

categories: 1988 births,World Rally Championship drivers,Living people,Norwegian rally drivers

paragraph: Eyvind Brynildsen

paragraph: Eyvind Brynildsen (born 14 January 1988) is a Norwegian rally driver. During 2011 he competed in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship in a Škoda Fabia S2000. He is currently looking for a drive with the Adapta World Rally Team alongside Mads Østberg, where he drove the second Ford Fiesta RS WRC during the 2012 Rally Sweden.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at ewrc-results.com

description: Norwegian rally driver

wikidata_label: Eyvind Brynildsen

wikipedia_title: Eyvind Brynildsen


text: U.S. Olympic Teams

text: 1956 Summer Olympics

text: pole vault

text: decathlete

text: President of the United States

text: Populist Party

text: Maureen Salaman

text: University of Illinois

text: Amateur Athletic Union

text: Dutch Warmerdam

text: Wheaties

text: Wheaties

text: Brandon

text: CIF California State Meet

text: Church of the Brethren

text: Yelena Isinbayeva

text: U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame

text: National Track and Field Hall of Fame

text: Track and Field

text: Masters athletics

text: What's My Line?

text: Gordon, Texas

text: Hal Stalmaster

text: ABC

text: anthology series

text: Cavalcade of America

text: The Lincoln Academy of Illinois

text: ESPN

text: 30 for 30

text: documentary

text: N.C. State

text: Jim Valvano

text: motivational

text: List of athletes on Wheaties boxes

categories: Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States,Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics,Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics,Track and field athletes from California,Candidates in the 1984 United States presidential election,20th-century American politicians,Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics,James E. Sullivan Award recipients,American male pole vaulters,Church of the Brethren clergy,American members of the Church of the Brethren,Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in track and field,Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field,Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field),Olympic track and field athletes of the United States,American Freedom Party,Living people,1926 births,Illinois Fighting Illini men's track and field athletes,Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics,Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games,People from Palo Pinto County, Texas,Populist Party (United States, 1984) politicians,Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics,Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States,American masters athletes,Sportspeople from Champaign, Illinois,Athletes (track and field) at the 1951 Pan American Games,Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Bob Richards

paragraph: Robert Eugene Richards (born February 20, 1926) is an American athlete who made three U.S. Olympic Teams in two events: the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter and as a decathlete in 1956.

paragraph: In the 1984 United States presidential election, Richards ran for President of the United States on the newly formed Populist Party ticket. He and running mate Maureen Salaman earned 66,324 votes.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Richards was the second man to pole vault 15 ft (4.57 m). While a student at the University of Illinois, Richards tied for the national collegiate pole vault title and followed that with 20 national Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, including 17 in the pole vault and three in the decathlon. The first man to clear 15 feet was Dutch Warmerdam, who set the world record of in 1942, long before Richards came into his prime. While Richards was the dominant vaulter of his time, he never achieved the world record.

paragraph: Richards later became involved in promoting physical fitness and continued to vault in his later years. He was the first athlete to appear on the front of Wheaties cereal boxes in 1958 (though not the first depicted on all parts of the packaging), and also was the first Wheaties spokesman, setting up the Wheaties Sports Federation, which encouraged participation in Olympic sports. Richards had four sons who were also pole vaulters: Brandon, held the national high school record at 18'2" for fourteen years from 1985; Tom won the CIF California State Meet in 1988; Bob, Junior was second in the same meet in 1968 and later ranked #7 in the US in 1973.

paragraph: Ordained in 1946 as a minister in the Church of the Brethren (which led to his being nicknamed the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson"). He is the only male two-time Olympic gold medal winner in the pole vault (1952 and 1956), thus also the only man to defend his Olympic title. He also won a bronze medal in 1948, so he won three Olympic medals in the pole vault. All of his feats were equalled by female pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, completed in 2012. He also was 13th in the 1956 decathlon. He was elected to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983 and the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1975. As he aged, Richards continued participating in Track and Field in a variety of events, particularly throwing events. He was one of the first regular participants in the origins of what now has become Masters athletics. Richards appeared on the panel game show, "What's My Line?" episode #346 January 20, 1957.

paragraph: As of 2010, Richards and his wife operate the Olympian Ranch in Gordon, Texas, breeding miniature horses. In 1957 the actor Hal Stalmaster played Richards as a teenager in an episode of the ABC anthology series "Cavalcade of America".

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Richards was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2000 in the area of Sports. Richards is referenced in the ESPN "30 for 30" documentary "Survive and Advance", for the impact he had on former N.C. State coach Jim Valvano. Valvano cites hearing Richards speak when he was a teen and the motivational messages he implored. He was inducted into the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Class of 2017.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of athletes on Wheaties boxes

description: Athletics competitor, pole vaulter

wikidata_label: Bob Richards

wikipedia_title: Bob Richards


text: stage name

text: actress

text: video jockey

text: Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)

text: Shunji Iwai

text: Swallowtail Butterfly

text: Yasashii Kimochi

text: Judy and Mary

text: Yuki

text: Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange

text: Mean Machine

text: Kawaguchi

text: Saitama

text: vocational school

text: Sony Music

text: Epic Records Japan

text: ANN

text: Sweet

text: Oricon

text: FM Yokohama

text: Soul Kiss

text: Japan Record Award

text: Suntory

text: Shiseido

text: Marui

text: Snow Brand

text: Violet Blue

text: Happy Toy

text: Shunji Iwai

text: Picnic

text: Tadanobu Asano

text: Chara the Best Baby Baby Baby XXX

text: Swallowtail Butterfly

text: Mr. Children

text: Takeshi Kobayashi

text: Beatles

text: Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)

text: Montage

text: Junior Sweet

text: Yasashii Kimochi

text: Shiseido

text: RIAJ

text: Strange Fruits

text: Judy and Mary

text: Yuki

text: Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange

text: Madrigal

text: James Iha

text: Mean Machine

text: Yuki

text: Ayumi Ito

text: Jagatara

text: Lamaze technique

text: Cream

text: Yoake Mae

text: A Scenery Like Me

text: Something Blue

text: March of the Penguins

text: Arai Akino

text: Sekai

text: Seiji Kameda

text: Do As Infinity

text: Tokyo Jihen

text: Union

text: Honey

text: Utakata

text: BounDEE Inc.

text: Space Shower TV

text: Oricon

text: Shibuya-AX

text: Ki/oon Records (now Ki/oon Music)

text: Sony Music Japan

text: Tokyo

text: Tadanobu Asano

text: Picnic

text: 80th Academy Awards

text: Mongol

text: best foreign film category

text: Kazakhstan

text: Sweet

text: Soul Kiss

text: Violet Blue

text: Happy Toy

text: Montage

text: Junior Sweet

text: Strange Fruits

text: Madrigal

text: Yoake Mae

text: A Scenery Like Me

text: Something Blue

text: Union

text: Honey

text: Carol

text: Dark Candy

text: Cocoon

text: Secret Garden

text: Official Universal Music Label Site

text: Ongaku Bāka Official Website

categories: A&M Records artists,20th-century Japanese singers,Epic Records artists,Japanese female rock singers,Japanese radio personalities,Actors from Saitama Prefecture,Universal Music Japan artists,VJs (media personalities),Japanese film actresses,20th-century Japanese actresses,Japanese songwriters,Musicians from Saitama Prefecture,20th-century women singers,Trip hop musicians,21st-century Japanese singers,1968 births,Living people,Mean Machine (band) members,Japanese television personalities,Downtempo musicians,Japanese female pop singers,Ki/oon Music artists

paragraph: Chara (singer)

paragraph: , better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single "Heaven". She is most well known for her song "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film "Swallowtail Butterfly" (in which she starred), her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Chara grew up in Kawaguchi, Saitama. She started learning the piano from age four, and starting composing songs in elementary school. In her first year of elementary school, she performed a song she had written, , at a school piano recital.

paragraph: She originally received her nickname "Chara" in junior high school, after a teacher called her this. She was so well known by this name that even some of her friends did not know her real name. She continues to use this name as she believes it brings out her inner child. After finishing high school, Chara went to Tokyo to a vocational school, majoring in music and specialising in piano. However, she dropped out one year into her two-year degree.

paragraph: From 1984 onward, she worked as a keyboardist in several different unsigned bands. During this time, she found part-time work as a roller-skating waitress. In 1988, to get a chance to sing her own compositions, she decided to become a band vocalist instead. Her first live performance was at the Shinjuku Ruido live house in 1990.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:1991–1995 Early releases.

paragraph: Chara sent a demo tape to Sony Music in 1990, which caught the attention of Masahiro Ohara and landed her a deal with Epic Records Japan She recorded her debut album in early 1991 in Tokyo and London, and debuted in September with a performance at the Shibuya Club Quattro and the release of her debut single "Heaven". In October, Chara became a personality on the ANN music show Video Jam, and later in November released her debut album "Sweet". The album was not very successful, only reaching #64 on Oricon's album charts.

paragraph: Chara's career gained more momentum after her first tour, "Chara Live "Sweet"" in May 1992. She became a radio personality for the FM Yokohama, with her own radio show , and her second album, Soul Kiss, won the 1992 Japan Record Award for best rock/pop album from a new artist. The album reached #14 on the album charts.

paragraph: In 1993, she starred in many different commercials (or had her songs featured in them), including commercials for Suntory, Shiseido, Marui and Snow Brand ice creams. Her single , the song used in the Shiseido campaign, was her first top 100 charting single, reaching #66. The resulting album, "Violet Blue", debuted at #4 on the charts. Her 1994 album, "Happy Toy", riding on the success of her first top 50 single , also debuting at #4.

paragraph: In spring 1994, she filmed the Shunji Iwai film Picnic, in which she played a mental patient. The film would not be released for another two years. She starred aside Tadanobu Asano, whom she married in 1995. Chara took a short break from music, releasing "Chara the Best Baby Baby Baby XXX" and giving birth to her first child, a girl named .Sumire means violet.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:1996–2001 Mainstream success.

paragraph: In February 1996, Chara began filming her second film for Iwai, titled "Swallowtail Butterfly". She played , a slum prostitute with musical aspirations. Chara recorded the soundtrack for the movie, collaborating with Mr. Children music producer Takeshi Kobayashi to create a Beatles-esque sound. The music was released under the name "Yen Town Band", the name of the band Glico forms in the film.

paragraph: Before the movie's release, the theme song "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)" was released, along with Chara's first film with Iwai, Picnic, finding a proper cinema release. The film was a massive hit, propelling Chara to stardom. Both the concept album, "Montage", and the theme song reached #1 on Oricon charts. Her performance awarded her a Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role nomination. The film won the "Most Popular Film" award.

paragraph: Chara's fame soared, as shown by her next album "Junior Sweet". The main single from the album, "Yasashii Kimochi" (the Shiseido 'Tessera J' CM song), was a big hit, selling over 520,000 copies and became her second biggest hit after "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)". The album was certified by the RIAJ as selling over 1,000,000 copies.

paragraph: Her 1999 album, "Strange Fruits", saw some success, debuting at #3 and selling over 300,000 copies. Chara teamed up with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki to release a special single called "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". This song is Chara's third biggest hit, selling over 230,000 copies.

paragraph: In 2000, Chara released her second best-of collection, "", and 2001 released her 8th album, "Madrigal". "Madrigal" featured two tracks co-written with American guitarist James Iha.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2001–2005 Mean Machine.

paragraph: In late 2001, Chara released music as the drummer of the twin-drum all-girl rock band, Mean Machine, alongside Yuki, "Swallowtail" actress Ayumi Ito, 1980s musician Mayumi Chiwaki and former funk/rock band Jagatara dancer Yukarie. The band was conceived in 1998, when Chiwaki mentioned to Chara that she thought it would be good to start up a girls' rock band. One of the tenets of the band was that all members would have to do something they'd never tried before, landing Chara on drums. The band first practiced in 1999, and continued to sporadically practice throughout 2000, despite different members' schedules.

paragraph: In 2001, the band debuted with the song , which was written by Chara during her second pregnancy, inspired by the breathing sounds of the Lamaze technique. Soon after, the band released their debut album "Cream".

paragraph: In 2003, Chara released her 9th solo album, "Yoake Mae", and in 2004 released an album of re-recordings of songs from her early albums, "A Scenery Like Me". This heralded the end of Chara's Sony contract. Chara self-released her music after this point, recording songs from her own home and self-producing her work. These recordings resulted in a limited 2,000 copy album, "Something Blue", and a digital single (used as the theme song for the Japanese release of the movie "March of the Penguins").

paragraph: During this period, Chara created several bands. One, "Cold Sugar" was a collaboration with Arai Akino.

paragraph: Chara re-debuted as a major label artist in 2006, with the release of the single "Sekai". Her single "Fantasy" was a minor hit, reaching #13 on Oricon charts. It was written in collaboration with Seiji Kameda, producer for artists such as Do As Infinity and bassist for the band Tokyo Jihen. The following album, "Union", also fared well. It reached the top 5 in Oricon's album charts, and outsold her former two Sony released albums. On the back of Chara's returned success, Sony released the compilation album, "".

paragraph: Chara's Universal singles have fared better on digital charts. "Trophy", a single from Chara's second Universal album "Honey", did well digitally, despite the physical release only reaching #37.

paragraph: After the end of her contract with Universal, Chara released a new mini-album, Utakata, on November 2011 under BounDEE Inc. (a subsidiary of Space Shower Networks, the owners of Space Shower TV). "Utakata" charted at 56th spot on the Oricon charts and lasted there for three weeks.

paragraph: Last December 14, 2011, Chara announced in a concert at Shibuya-AX her transfer to Ki/oon Records (now Ki/oon Music), an imprint of Sony Music Japan. She joined Ki/oon's 20th anniversary concert tour, "Ki/oon 20 Years and Days", in April 2012 at Liquidroom Ebisu, Tokyo. She released her first single through Ki/oon, "Alterna Girlfriend", on June 6, 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 1994, Chara married actor Tadanobu Asano. She met Asano on the set of the 1994 film "Picnic", in which they were both starring actors. Chara gave birth to a daughter, , on July 4, 1995. Chara also had a son with Asano on December 19, 1998. The couple attended the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2008, as the film "Mongol", in which Asano starred, was nominated for the best foreign film category as the submission from Kazakhstan. On July 25, 2009, Chara announced her amicable divorce from Asano, after fourteen years of marriage. Chara has two tattoos: a blue bird on her back, and a on her neck. Chara's children feature in her music. Sumire features on the cover of her album "Honey", which also has a track named after her.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sweet" (1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Soul Kiss" (1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Violet Blue" (1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Happy Toy" (1994)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Montage" (1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Junior Sweet" (1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Strange Fruits" (1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Madrigal" (2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yoake Mae" (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Scenery Like Me" (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Something Blue" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Union" (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Honey" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Carol" (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dark Candy" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cocoon" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jewel" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Secret Garden" (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Diverse Journey" (2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sympathy" (2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Baby Bump" (2018)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Universal Music Label Site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ongaku Bāka Official Website

description: Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

wikidata_label: Chara

wikipedia_title: Chara (singer)


text:
French
mathematician
Villefranche de Rouergue
Aveyron
mathematics
civil service
Algeria
amateur
Leonhard Euler
conjecture
Graeco-Latin square
List of amateur mathematicians
Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem
Tetramagic square
Thirty-six officers problem

categories: 20th-century mathematicians,19th-century French mathematicians,1913 deaths,Combinatorialists,People from Villefranche-de-Rouergue,1843 births

paragraph: Gaston Tarry

paragraph: Gaston Tarry (27 September 1843 – 21 June 1913) was a French mathematician. Born in Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, he studied mathematics at high school before joining the civil service in Algeria.

paragraph: He pursued mathematics as an amateur, his most famous achievement being his confirmation in 1901 of Leonhard Euler's conjecture that no 6×6 Graeco-Latin square was possible.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of amateur mathematicians

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tetramagic square

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thirty-six officers problem

description: French mathematician

wikidata_label: Gaston Tarry

wikipedia_title: Gaston Tarry


text: Second Continental Congress

text: Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina

text: United States District Judge

text: Charleston

text: Province of South Carolina

text: British America

text: University of Oxford

text: read law

text: Justice of the Peace

text: South Carolina General Assembly

text: South Carolina House of Representatives

text: Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina

text: Second Continental Congress

text: Continental Congress

text: South Carolina Senate

text: George Washington

text: William Drayton Sr.

text: United States Senate

text: Pendleton

text: Goose Creek

text: John Adams

text: Barnard E. Bee Sr.

text: Texas Revolution

text: Republic of Texas

text: Carlos Bee

text: United States Representative

text: Texas

text: American Civil War

text: Barnard Elliott Bee Jr.

text: Hamilton P. Bee

categories: Judges of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina,1739 births,Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina,Continental Congressmen from South Carolina,South Carolina colonial people,United States federal judges appointed by George Washington,18th-century American politicians,Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina,18th-century American judges,1812 deaths,Lawyers from Charleston, South Carolina,Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives,South Carolina state senators

paragraph: Thomas Bee

paragraph: Thomas Bee (1739 – February 18, 1812) was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

paragraph: Section::::Education and career.

paragraph: Born in 1739 in Charleston, Province of South Carolina, British America, Bee attended the University of Oxford and read law in 1761. He entered private practice in Charleston from 1761 to 1762, and subsequently engaged in private practice from 1765 to 1769, 1769 to 1772, and 1782 to 1786, also engaging in planting. He was a member of the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly from 1762 to 1765, and from 1772 to 1776. He was a Justice of the Peace in 1775. He was a member of the Council of Safety in 1775 and 1776. He was a member of the South Carolina General Assembly from 1776 to 1778. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1778 to 1779, 1781 to 1782, and 1786 to 1788, serving as Speaker in January and February of 1779. He was a commissioner for stamping and issuing paper bills of credit in Charleston in 1769. He was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1780. He was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress (Continental Congress) from 1780 to 1781. He was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1788 to 1790.

paragraph: Section::::Federal judicial service.

paragraph: Bee was nominated by President George Washington on June 11, 1790, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina vacated by Judge William Drayton Sr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 14, 1790, and received his commission the same day. He published reports of the district court in 1810. His service terminated on February 18, 1812, due to his death in Pendleton, South Carolina. He was interred in Woodstock Cemetery in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

paragraph: Bee was nominated by President John Adams to be Chief Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Fifth Circuit on February 21, 1801, and was confirmed by the Senate on February 24, 1801, but he declined the appointment.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Bee was the father of Barnard E. Bee Sr., who took part in the Texas Revolution and who was a political figure in the Republic of Texas, and the great grandfather of Carlos Bee, a United States Representative from Texas. Two of Barnard's sons became known as Confederate generals during the American Civil War: Barnard Elliott Bee Jr. and Hamilton P. Bee.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Thomas Bee

wikipedia_title: Thomas Bee


text:
Victorian
sonnet
Petrarch
Oriel College
Oxford University
Cambridge University
Edward Hamlyn Adams
University of Oxford
Alabama arbitration at Geneva
Lisbon
Vernon Lee
Annie E. Holdsworth
Victorian
Robert Browning
dramatic monologue
Philip Hobsbaum
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems and Transcripts
Gods, Saints and Men
The New Medusa
Apollo and Marsyas
The Fountain of Youth
Sonnets of the Wingless Hours
Forrest Notes
The Lord of the Dark Red Star
The Romance of the Fountain
Mimma Bella

categories: 1845 births,19th-century English poets,Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford,English translators,19th-century British male writers,19th-century translators,1907 deaths,Writers from London,English male poets

paragraph: Eugene Lee-Hamilton

paragraph: Eugene Lee-Hamilton (6 January 1845 – 9 September 1907) was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. He endowed a literary prize administered by Oriel College in Oxford University, where he was a student. The prize is open to students of Oxford and of Cambridge University and continues to this day.

paragraph: Section::::Life and works.

paragraph: Eugene Lee-Hamilton was born in London on 6 January 1845; his parents were James Lee-Hamilton, who died in 1852, and Matilda Abadam (1815–1896), daughter of Edward Hamlyn Adams.

paragraph: Lee-Hamilton was educated mainly in France and Germany. In 1864 he was sent to the University of Oxford. In 1869 he entered the British diplomatic service. He was first attached to the Embassy at Paris, where, due to his early experiences of French life, and mastery of the French language, he was eminently suitable. After the Franco-German War broke out he took part in the Alabama arbitration at Geneva. Subsequently he was appointed secretary in the British Legation at Lisbon. He had to renounce this second position in 1873, when, suddenly, he collapsed altogether, losing the use of his legs, and suffering agonies of pain. He expressed it in one of his sonnets,

paragraph: "To keep through life the posture of the grave,

paragraph: While others walk and run and dance and leap."

paragraph: It was to while away the tedium arising out of this malady that he first took to composing verse. All of his poetry from this time was composed without his touching pen or paper, and subsequently dictated.

paragraph: Section::::Life and works.:Early poems.

paragraph: Hamilton's first miscellaneous poems appeared in 1878, and attracted no notice whatever; and it was only with the publication of "The New Medusa" that his poetry began to receive attention. This volume was followed, in 1885, by one entitled "Apollo and Marsyas", and his next publication, entitled "Imaginary Sonnets", came out in the fall of 1888. As a writer of sonnets he is most remarkable.

paragraph: He spent much of his adult life suffering from psychological ailments.

paragraph: He was nursed by his mother and sporadically by his half-sister, Violet Paget, who wrote under the name Vernon Lee. Lee-Hamilton lived with his mother and step-father in Florence, Italy, during his illness, and it was only after his mother died in 1896 and he recovered that he was able to travel again, eventually marrying the novelist Annie E. Holdsworth in 1898 and fathering a child, Persis Margaret, in 1903, but she died of meningitis in infancy. This led to him writing the poem, "Mimma Bella; In Memory of a Little Life".

paragraph: Section::::Life and works.:Analysis.

paragraph: Lee-Hamilton wrote in the tradition of shorter Victorian verse, particularly the dramatic sonnet. Robert Browning was an influence, but Lee-Hamilton refined the art of the dramatic monologue, and there is a restless imagination to his sonnets.

paragraph: Certain motifs recur, such as submersion in water, being buried in the earth, being shackled, the conflict between body and mind, dark female archetypes such as the gorgon, and male archetypes such as the madman or the murderous lover. Lee-Hamilton has failures when an image or plot that loses force because it lacks restraint. His major works are his sonnets, and his successes depend on technical ability. He condensed the dramatic monologue into a sonnet format, and gained power, in sonnets that are concise and restrained.

paragraph: "Imaginary Sonnets" (1888) drew on historical, mythic and imaginary figures: each spoken by a particular person at a definite time. Philip Hobsbaum (in "Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form") suggests that Lee-Hamilton's "Sonnets of the Wingless Hours" (1894) is the only Victorian sonnet sequence that can compare to Gerard Manley Hopkins. In longer poems of collections such as "the New Medusa" (1882), there are narratives and dramatic monologues that explore the darker side of life; as in Browning, lust, jealousy, and fear predominate.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poems and Transcripts" (London: William Blackwood, 1878).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gods, Saints and Men" (London: W Satchell & Co, 1880).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The New Medusa" (London: Eliot Stock, 1882).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Apollo and Marsyas" (London: Eliot Stock, 1884).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Imaginary Sonnets" (London: Elliot Stock, 1888).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fountain of Youth" (London: Eliot Stock, 1891).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonnets of the Wingless Hours" (London: Eliot Stock, 1894).

paragraph: BULLET::::- (as translator), "The Inferno of Dante" (London: Grant Richards, 1898).

paragraph: BULLET::::- (with his wife) "Forrest Notes" (London: Grant Richards, 1899).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lord of the Dark Red Star" (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1903).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Romance of the Fountain" (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1905).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mimma Bella" (London: Heinemann, 1908).

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dramatic Sonnets, Poems and Ballads: Selections from and Poems of Eugene Lee-Hamilton" (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1903).

paragraph: BULLET::::- (MacDonald P. Jackson, ed.), "Selected Poems of Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907): A Victorian Craftsman Rediscovered" (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).

description: English poet and translator

enwikiquote_title: Eugene Lee-Hamilton

wikidata_label: Eugene Lee-Hamilton

wikipedia_title: Eugene Lee-Hamilton


text: American

text: modern dance

text: theatrical lighting

text: Chicago

text: Hinsdale, Illinois

text: choreographed

text: burlesque

text: vaudeville

text: circus

text: free dance

text: improvisation

text: silk

text: Serpentine Dance

text: Minnie "Renwood" Bemis

text: Paris

text: Folies Bergère

text: Art Nouveau

text: Auguste and Louis Lumière

text: Jules Chéret

text: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

text: François-Raoul Larche

text: Henri-Pierre Roché

text: Auguste Rodin

text: Jean-Léon Gérôme

text: Franz von Stuck

text: Maurice Denis

text: Thomas Theodor Heine

text: Paul-Léon Jazet

text: Koloman Moser

text: Demetre Chiparus

text: Stéphane Mallarmé

text: Marie Curie

text: Société astronomique de France

text: patent

text: color gel

text: salt

text: luminescent

text: Isadora Duncan

text: Marie of Romania

text: Carol II of Romania

text: Romania

text: Magda Lupescu

text: Samuel Hill

text: Maryhill Museum of Art

text: Washington State

text: pneumonia

text: Père Lachaise Cemetery

text: Mollie Fuller

text: Gab Sorère

text: Jacques Rancière

text: Soko

text: Jody Sperling

text: Ann Cooper Albright

text: Taylor Swift

text: Reputation Tour

text: Anatole France

text: Women in dance

text: Biodata

text: Biography

text: Loie Fuller collection, 1914-1928

text: Loie Fuller papers, 1892-1913

text: Loie Fuller notebooks and letters

categories: LGBT choreographers,Vaudeville performers,Articles containing video clips,Deaths from pneumonia,American dancers,American female dancers,American artists' models,1862 births,Actresses from Illinois,People from Hinsdale, Illinois,Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery,Modern dancers,American lighting designers,LGBT people from Illinois,1928 deaths

paragraph: Loie Fuller

paragraph: Loie Fuller (born Marie Louise Fuller; January 15, 1862 – January 1, 1928), also known as Louie Fuller and Loïe Fuller, was an American actress and dancer who was a pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Born Marie Louise Fuller in the Chicago suburb of Fullersburg, now Hinsdale, Illinois, Fuller began her theatrical career as a professional child actress and later choreographed and performed dances in burlesque (as a skirt dancer), vaudeville, and circus shows. An early free dance practitioner, Fuller developed her own natural movement and improvisation techniques. In multiple shows she experimented with a long skirt, choreographing its movements and playing with the ways it could reflect light. By 1891, Fuller combined her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design, and created the "Serpentine Dance". After much difficulty finding someone willing to produce her work when she was primarily known as an actress, she was finally hired to perform her piece between acts of a comedy entitled "Uncle Celestine," and received rave reviews.

paragraph: Almost immediately, she was replaced by imitators (originally Minnie "Renwood" Bemis). In the hope of receiving serious artistic recognition that she was not getting in America, Fuller left for Europe in June 1892. She became one of the first of many American modern dancers who traveled to Europe to seek recognition. Her warm reception in Paris persuaded Fuller to remain in France, where she became one of the leading revolutionaries in the arts. A regular performer at the Folies Bergère with works such as "Fire Dance", Fuller became the embodiment of the Art Nouveau movement and was often identified with Symbolism, as her work was seen as the perfect reciprocity between idea and symbol. Fuller began adapting and expanding her costume and lighting, so that they became the principal element in her performance—perhaps even more important than the actual choreography, especially as the length of the skirt was increased and became the central focus, while the body became mostly hidden within the depths of the fabric. An 1896 film of the "Serpentine Dance" by the pioneering film-makers Auguste and Louis Lumière gives a hint of what her performance was like. (The unknown dancer in the film is often mistakenly identified as Fuller herself; however, there is no actual film footage of Fuller dancing.)

paragraph: Fuller's pioneering work attracted the attention, respect, and friendship of many French artists and scientists, including Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, François-Raoul Larche, Henri-Pierre Roché, Auguste Rodin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Franz von Stuck, Maurice Denis, Thomas Theodor Heine, Paul-Léon Jazet, Koloman Moser, Demetre Chiparus, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Marie Curie. Fuller was also a member of the Société astronomique de France (French Astronomical Society).

paragraph: Fuller held many patents related to stage lighting including chemical compounds for creating color gel and the use of chemical salts for luminescent lighting and garments (stage costumes US Patent 518347). She attempted to create a patent of her "Serpentine Dance" as she hoped to stop imitators from taking her choreography and even claiming to be her. Fuller submitted a written description of her dance to the United States Copyright Office; however, a US Circuit Court judge ended up denying Fuller's request for an injunction, as the "Serpentine Dance" told no story and was therefore not eligible for copyright protection. At that time dance was only protected if it qualified as "dramatic" and Fuller's dance was too abstract for this qualification. The precedent set by Fuller's case remained in place from 1892 until 1976, when Federal Copyright Law explicitly extended protection to choreographic works.

paragraph: Fuller supported other pioneering performers, such as fellow United States-born dancer Isadora Duncan. Fuller helped Duncan ignite her European career in 1902 by sponsoring independent concerts in Vienna and Budapest.

paragraph: Loie Fuller's original stage name was "Louie". In modern French "L'ouïe" is the word for a sense of hearing. When Fuller reached Paris she gained a nickname which was a pun on "Louie"/"L'ouïe". She was renamed "Loïe" - this nickname is a corruption of the early or Medieval French "L'oïe", a precursor to "L'ouïe", which means "receptiveness" or "understanding". She was also referred to by the nickname "Lo Lo Fuller".

paragraph: Fuller formed a close friendship with Queen Marie of Romania; their extensive correspondence has been published. Fuller, through a connection at the United States embassy in Paris played a role in arranging a United States loan for Romania during World War I. Later, during the period when the future Carol II of Romania was alienated from the Romanian royal family and living in Paris with his mistress Magda Lupescu, she befriended them; they were unaware of her connection to Carol's mother Marie. Fuller initially advocated to Marie on behalf of the couple, but later schemed unsuccessfully with Marie to separate Carol from Lupescu. With Queen Marie and American businessman Samuel Hill, Fuller helped found the Maryhill Museum of Art in rural Washington State, which has permanent exhibits about her career.

paragraph: Fuller occasionally returned to America to stage performances by her students, the "Fullerets" or Muses, but spent the end of her life in Paris. She died of pneumonia at the age of 65 on January 1, 1928 in Paris, two weeks shy of her 66th birthday. She was cremated and her ashes are interred in the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Her sister, Mollie Fuller, had a long career as an actress and vaudeville performer.

paragraph: Section::::Continuing influence.

paragraph: After Fuller's death, her romantic partner of thirty years, Gab Sorère inherited the dance troupe as well as the laboratory Fuller had operated. Sorère took legal action against dancers who wrongfully used Fuller's fame to enhance their own careers and produced both films and theatrical productions to honor Fuller's legacy as a visual effects artist.

paragraph: Fuller's work has been experiencing a resurgence of professional and public interest. Rhonda K. Garelick's 2009 study entitled "Electric Salome" demonstrates her centrality not only to dance, but also modernist performance. Sally R. Sommer has written extensively about Fuller's life and times Marcia and Richard Current published a biography entitled "Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light" in 1997. The philosopher Jacques Rancière devoted a chapter of "Aisthesis", his history of modern aesthetics, to Fuller's 1893 performances in Paris, which he considers emblematic of Art Nouveau in their attempt to link artistic and technological invention. And Giovanni Lista compiled a 680-page book of Fuller-inspired art work and texts in "Loïe Fuller, Danseuse de la Belle Epoque", 1994.

paragraph: Recently, Stéphanie de Giusto directed the movie "La Danseuse" about the life of Loïe Fuller, with actresses Soko as Loïe and Lily-Rose Depp as Isadora Duncan. Jody Sperling choreographed Soko's dances for the movie, served as creative consultant and was Soko's dance coach, training her in Fuller technique. The movie was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.

paragraph: Fuller continues to be an influence on contemporary choreographers. Sperling, who re-imagines Fuller's genre from a contemporary perspective, has choreographed dozens of works inspired by Fuller and expanded Fuller's vocabulary and technique into the 21st century. Sperling's company Time Lapse Dance consists of six dancers all versed in Fuller-style technique and performance. Another is Ann Cooper Albright, who collaborated with a lighting designer on a series of works that drew inspiration from Fuller’s original lighting design patents. Shela Xoregos choreographed a tribute, "La Loȉe", a solo which shows several of Fuller's special effects.

paragraph: Taylor Swift's 2018 Reputation Tour featured a segment dedicated to Fuller. During her performance of "Dress" each night on the tour, several dancers recreated the "Serpentine Dance."

paragraph: Section::::Written works.

paragraph: Fuller's autobiographical memoir "Quinze ans de ma vie" was written in English, translated into in French by Bojidar Karageorgevitch and published by F. Juven (Paris) in 1908 with an introduction by Anatole France. She drafted her memoirs again in English a few years later, which were published under the title "Fifteen Years of a Dancer's Life" by H. Jenkins (London) in 1913. The New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Collection holds the nearly complete manuscript to the English edition and materials related to the French edition. Although her book is a first hand account, she was also known for being very adaptive in her story telling. There are seven highly dramatized versions of how she got her first silk skirt; however, the real story is unknown. As well as writing about inventing the "Serpentine Dance", she also wrote extensively about her own theories of modern dance and motion.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Women in dance

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dance Heritage Coalition - 100 Dance Treasures - Loie Fuller capsule biography and essay by Jody Sperling

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chapter One: Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light", "New York Times".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biodata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loie Fuller collection, 1914-1928, held by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loie Fuller papers, 1892-1913, held by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loie Fuller notebooks and letters, held by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

description: American dancer

wikidata_label: Loie Fuller

wikipedia_title: Loie Fuller