text:
progressive rock
Le Orme
Murano
Le Orme
sitar
Official Site

paragraph: Aldo Tagliapietra

paragraph: Aldo Tagliapietra (born February 20, 1945) is an Italian singer, songwriter and musician best known for his work with the progressive rock band Le Orme.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Aldo Tagliapietra was born in Murano on February 20, 1945. He formed his first band in 1962 (The Corals) and in 1966 formed Le Orme. Le Orme went on to become one of the most widely recognised Italian progressive rock acts, and were active until 1982 when the group went on hiatus.

paragraph: In 1984 Tagliapietra released his first solo album "...nella notte". Le Orme reformed in 1986, releasing four albums over the next 23 years. In 1994 Tagliapietra travelled to India where he began to study sitar under Budhaditya Mukherje. The sitar was to feature on the Le Orme albums "Il Fiume" and "L'Infinito" as well as his 2008 solo album "Il Viaggio".

paragraph: In 2009 Tagliapietra left Le Orme after a tour of Canada. He joined with other former Le Orme members Tolo Marton and Toni Pagliuca to perform in "Prog Exhibition", a concert celebrating forty years of progressive rock in Italy, in 2010. In 2012 Tagliapietra released a new studio album "Nella pietra e nel Vento".

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (1984)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Radio Londra" (1992, live)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Unplugged" (2011, live)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Unplugged Cofanetto" (2011, live)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nella pietra e nel Vento" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'angelo rinchiuso" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Invisibili realtà" (2017)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Site

description: Italian musician

wikidata_label: Aldo Tagliapietra

wikipedia_title: Aldo Tagliapietra


text:
Michèle Mouton
1978 Sanremo Rally
Turin
Fabrizia Pons – Career Statistics

categories: Italian rally drivers,Female rally drivers,1955 births,Dakar Rally co-drivers,People from Turin,Italian rally co-drivers,Living people

paragraph: Fabrizia Pons

paragraph: Fabrizia Pons (born 26 June 1955) is an Italian rally co-driver best known for her partnership with Michèle Mouton.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: The pair won four rallies with the Rallye Sanremo in 1981 and a further three to finish second in the 1982 championship. Pons is one of two people to have achieved world championship points as a driver and co-driver, having finished ninth overall in the 1978 Sanremo Rally before switching to co-driving. Pons is a recipient of the Halda Trophy for 1982, the highest honor for a co-driver.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Personal life.

paragraph: Pons has two children and is originally from Turin.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fabrizia Pons – Career Statistics

description: Italian racecar driver

wikidata_label: Fabrizia Pons

wikipedia_title: Fabrizia Pons


text:
noble
House of Entença
Bernat Guillem de Montpeller
House of Entença
James I the Conqueror
Bernat Guillem de Montpeller
Conquest of Majorca
Valencia
Reconquista
Battle of the Puig
moors
dowry
Castellnou
Rafals
Kingdom of Castille
Crown of Aragon
Montpellier
Treaty of Almizra
Siege of Albarracín (1284)
Alfonso II the Chaste
Cyprus
hospitaller
Bernat II de Cabrera

categories: 13th-century Catalan people,Year of birth missing,Spanish untitled nobility,1237 deaths,People of the Reconquista

paragraph: Bernat Guillem d'Entença

paragraph: Bernat Guillem d'Entença, also known as Bernat Guillem II d'Entença (Spanish:"Bernardo Guillermo de Entenza". ?, 1226 - ?, 1300), was a noble of the Catalan House of Entença, son of Bernat Guillem de Montpeller.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Bernat Guillem d’Entença was born in 1226. Bernat was a member of the House of Entença. He was the son of Bernat Guillem de Montpeller, also known as Bernat Guillem I d'Entença, and Jusiana d'Entença who were the respective uncle and aunt of James I the Conqueror.

paragraph: His father, Bernat Guillem de Montpeller, participated in the Conquest of Majorca and Valencia during the Reconquista, and died after the Battle of the Puig in 1238. Bernat Guillem d'Entença, who was 10 or 11 years old, inherited his possessions and was also called to war. Due to his young age, his relatives Berenguer d'Entença and Gombau d'Entença fought in the name of House of Entença instead of him during the rest of the campaign.

paragraph: After the defeat of the moors in Valencia, the House of Entença achieved important territorial gains. He would marry Alamanda de Sant Martí in 1242, the daughter of an important noble family of New Catalonia, offering her as dowry the towns of Castellnou and Rafals. This increased the social status of his house and reinforced his presence in Valencia.

paragraph: Between 1250 and 1260 he assisted the Kingdom of Castille with their fight against the moors and he also delimited the border between the Kingdom of Castille and the Crown of Aragon. In 1264 he tried to claim the territory of Montpellier but failed.

paragraph: He participated in the Conquest of the Kingdom of Murcia from 1265 to 1266 and, in 1273, he protected the border established by the Treaty of Almizra from the Kingdom of Castille. In 1284 he fought in the Siege of Albarracín (1284). He would also participate in the peace treaty between Alfonso II the Chaste and the King Castille in 1289. In 1300 he went to Cyprus, became a hospitaller and died there.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bernat II de Cabrera

description: Spanish noble

wikidata_label: Bernat Guillem d'Entença

wikipedia_title: Bernat Guillem d'Entença


text: Belgrade

text: Belgrade

text: Serbia

text: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

text: Jewish

text: Zemun

text: PEN Club

text: Jovan Dučić

text: Miloš Đurić

text: opera

text: Vladislav Grinski

text: bombing of Belgrade (1941)

text: Sarajevo

text: Italy

text: Dubrovnik

text: Split

text: Korčula

text: First Belgrade Gymnasium

text: University of Belgrade

text: School of Medicine

text: Academy of Music in Belgrade

text: Milenko Živković

text: Rome

text: Vojislav Vučković

text: Kornelije Stanković

text: Composers’ Association of Serbia

text: choral

text: baroque

text: Fyodor Dostoyevski

text: Nikolai Berdyaev

text: Martin Buber

text: Bible

text: Jewish

text: Old

text: New Testament

text: music

text: Milenko Živković

text: Isak Asiel

text: Dejan Despić

text: piano

text: clarinet

text: harpsichord

text: flute

text: bass

text: violin

text: harp

text: viola

text: wind quintet

text: violoncello

text: trombone

text: horns

text: fagot

text: choir

text: ballet

text: Interview in english

text: Enriko Josif Website

categories: 2003 deaths,Serbian composers,1924 births,Serbian Jews,Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

paragraph: Enriko Josif

paragraph: Enriko Josif (; Belgrade, May 1, 1924 – Belgrade, March 13, 2003) was a Serbian composer, pedagogue and musical writer, member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born on May 1, 1924 in Belgrade in a Jewish family. His father, Mosha Josif was a merchant representative of Italian and German industries and an amateur dramatist. His mother Sofia (born Fahri), was from a rich family from Zemun. With good knowledge of foreign languages (she was educated in a Swiss institute), she worked as a translator (she translated verses by Serbian poets to German language) and a member of the international PEN Club. Intelligentsia, such as Jovan Dučić and Miloš Đurić were collaborators and friends of her. In the Josif family music had an important place. Josif's mother played the piano, while father was especially favourable about opera. Mosha and Sofia Josif wanted their both sons, Enriko and Albert, to study music, but it was Enriko’s talent that was recognized properly. Very soon he got his first, private music teacher, composer and conductor Vladislav Grinski. In that period, Enriko Josif wrote his first compositions.

paragraph: After father’s death (1937) started a hard period for Enriko Josif and his family. Just before the start of the bombing of Belgrade (1941), they went to Sarajevo and afterwards moved to Italy, across Dubrovnik, Split and Korčula. As they were not persecuted, they stayed in Italy until 1943, when they moved to Switzerland.

paragraph: After the end of the war, Josif continued his schooling in Belgrade and graduated in the First Belgrade Gymnasium. He started his further studies at the University of Belgrade's School of Medicine, but he left this area very soon by entering studies of music at the Academy of Music in Belgrade. As a student of Milenko Živković at the Department for Composition, he graduated in 1954. In the period between 1961 and 1962 he attended specialization studies in Rome. He worked as a teacher in the Elementary music school "Vojislav Vučković" (1955–1956) and in the High music school "Kornelije Stanković" (1955–1957). He followed the work of his professor Živković at the Academy of Music as an assistant (from 1957) and after sudden professor’s death (1964) he came into Živković’s position at the Department for composition. Next year (1965) he was chosen to become a docent, and afterwards an associate (1970) and full professor (1976). He worked at the Academy of Music until retirement 1989.

paragraph: In the period 1967–1968 he was the president of the Composers’ Association of Serbia. As an excellent intellectual, he was a corresponding member (from April 25, 1991) and a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (October 26, 2000).

paragraph: He died on March 13, 2003 in Belgrade.

paragraph: Section::::Creative work.

paragraph: Enriko Josif wrote his first compositions as a student ("Four sketches" for piano, "Improvization on folk theme" for strings, "Sonata brevis" for piano, string quartet "Quartetto lirico", "Isečak" for narrator, soprano and piano four-hands, "Simfoniettа") and his fertile creative work followed his pedagogical activities as well. Josif wrote pieces for solo-instruments, chamber, choral, orchestral music, pieces for choir and orchestra and film music.

paragraph: Besides from affinity for contemporary (not avant-garde) expression, he was devoted to the sound of baroque and earlier periods. That is visible in Josif’s compositional manner, but also in the titles of his several works: "Sonata antica, Oratorio profano da camera, Frescobaldiana, Sinfonia ricercar". Impressionistic and national, folk musical features were also detected in his pieces. ("Rustikon, Lyric symphony").

paragraph: Original melodic invention and specific instrumental coloring build a distinctive character of Josif’s musical language. According to the composer, distinctive melody was one of the most important features of his style. Josif identified the germ of all his musical thoughts with the terms of "voice", "inner singing" and "melody". His access to art and creation was deeply influenced by philosophical and poetical dimension, which is reflected in numerous titles of Josif’s pieces ("In memory of time, O bird, do not fold your wings, Kazivanja, Dozivanja, Snoviđenja, Pesmena govorenja, Vatrenja, Slobodišta").

paragraph: Section::::Religious-philosophical views.

paragraph: Extremely emotional, philosophical and spiritual Josif’s nature, particularly influenced by Fyodor Dostoyevski, Nikolai Berdyaev and Martin Buber, was reflected in his different statements. In his "sayings" ("kazivanja" in Serbian), Josif talked about spiritual life, his first contacts with the Bible, his relation with God and with all people around him. He was interested in Jewish issues but had no prejudices about the difference between the Old and New Testament. He saw them as a "magnificent, indivisible bridge", being enthralled by the idea of "embracing all people". He had particular reflections about suffering and passion. He even noted specific parallels between destinies of Serbian and Jewish people; inspired by such a "general human tragedy of an alienated man", he composed the scenic chronicle "Death of Saint Stephen of Dechani".

paragraph: Although Josif refused publishing of his speeches and writings, many sources testify his attractive ideas and thoughts about his artistic and living inspiration. Among them are numerous published interviews with Josif, as well as the collection of his lectures "Prophet of the stone herd", made by Vladeta R. Košutić, after audio recordings.

paragraph: Section::::Writings about music.

paragraph: Josif’s distinctive artistic sensibility is also displayed in his writings about music. By commenting pieces of music, composers’ opuses, concert performances and achievements of famous musical interpreters, Josif always marked the significance of complete entering, immersing in a piece of art. He compared the musical contexture stratification with the complexity of human being itself and defined the "tone revelation of secrets of infinity in formation and development" as the sublime purpose of musical art. He used a rich, eruptive language with many unusual and new words by his own.

paragraph: Section::::The book about Milenko Živković.

paragraph: During the seventh decade of the 20th century, at the proposal of the Department of Fine Arts and Music SASA (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Enriko Josif wrote a monograph about his professor Milenko Živković. After twenty years, on the initiative of Josif’s widow, Mrs Vera Josif, and the rabbi of Belgrade Isak Asiel, his manuscript was prepared for printing. The book was published in 2009, in the edition of SASA, with the addition with general information about the edition, written by the editor, academician Dejan Despić.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Solistic, instrumentаl.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonata brevis" for piano (1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Four Sketches" for piano (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Four Stories" for piano (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three Psalms", for piano (1966)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kazivanja", for clarinet (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Canzonna Bergamasca", for harpsichord

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ballade", for flute

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Psаlmody", for flute

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Signs", for double bass

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Monologue", for violin

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Chamber works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Improvisation on folk theme", for 14 wind instruments (1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- String quartet (1953)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Snoviđenja", for flute, harp and piano (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hamlet", for flute, harpsichord, harp and viola da gamba (1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zapisi", for wind quintet (1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vatrenja", for piano, violin and violoncello (1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dozivanja", for choir of flutes, two trumpets and harp (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Concertante parody", for violin and piano

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Divertimento" for wind quintet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Frescobaldiana", for wind quintet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Largo nobile", for two flutes and harp

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Моnody", for flute and harp

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Signs", for flute, choir of flutes, harpsichord and violoncello

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pesmena govorenja", for flute, choir of flutes and violoncello

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Epic chant", for choir of flutes and violoncello

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In memory of time", for choir of flutes, two trumpets, trombone, two horns, two fagots, viola and violoncello

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Choral.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dodolskа", for male choir

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Оrchestral.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Suite (1950)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Symphony (1953–54)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sinfonietta" (1954)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonata antica", for piano and orchestra (1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lyric symphony", for four flutes, harp and string orchestra (1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Iz osame" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Introduction" (1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Symphony in one movement – Monoptih" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concert for piano and orchestra (1967)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sinfonietta di tre re" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concert for piano and orchestra (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vučićevci i Knjaževci", for instrumental ensemble

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Piesa", for violin and orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sinfonia ricercar"

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Works for voice and instruments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Song cycle for soprano and piano (1954)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Isečak", for narrator, soprano and piano four-handed (1954)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oratorio profano da camera", for soprano, narrator, celesta, piano and percussion (1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Death of Saint Stephen of Dechani", motets for narrator, soloists, mixed choir and 16 instruments (1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Song of songs", for female choir and a small instrumental ensemble (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rustikon", for alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1962)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hymn to Danube", for voice and wind quintet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "By the Rivers of Babylon", for voice, flute and harp

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Song", for voice, flute and harp

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kameni spavač", for voice and orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nepokoreni grad", oratorio

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Slobodišta", cantata

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Scenic.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Death of Saint Stephen of Dechani", scenic chronicle for narrator, choir and orchestra (1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "O bird, do not fold your wings", ballet (1970)

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Film music.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Landing on Drvar" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vortex" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- „"Ko puca otvoriće mu se"“ (1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Abbes and commissar" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sarajevo Haggadah"

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Music for radio drama.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bonfire"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Оmer and Merima"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview in english

paragraph: BULLET::::- Enriko Josif Website

description: composer

wikidata_label: Enriko Josif

wikipedia_title: Enriko Josif


text:
Hungarian
cinematographer
film director
pioneer
The Dance
cinema projectionist
on location
Budapest
film studio
film laboratory
A Munkászubbony
The Officer's Swordknot
The Village Rogue
The Karthauzer
The Laughing Saskia

categories: Hungarian cinematographers,1930 deaths,1868 births,Hungarian film directors

paragraph: Béla Zsitkovszky

paragraph: Béla Zsitkovszky (3 April 1868 - 16 September 1930) was a Hungarian cinematographer and film director. Zsitkovszky was a film pioneer notable for producing the country's first ever film "The Dance" ("A táncz") in 1901. Zsitkovszky was a cinema projectionist who was commissioned to make a film. He shot it entirely on location as Budapest lacked a film studio. In 1901 he opened the first Hungarian film laboratory.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: Cinematographer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Munkászubbony" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ágyú és harang" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lyon Lea (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Officer's Swordknot" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Village Rogue" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Karthauzer" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Laughing Saskia" (1916)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az obsitos" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tájfun" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tüzpróba" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Az impresszárió" (1918)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cunningham, John. "Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex". Wallflower Press, 2004.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kulik, Karol. "Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles". Virgin Books, 1990.

description: film director

wikidata_label: Béla Zsitkovszky

wikipedia_title: Béla Zsitkovszky


text:
infielder
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
Minnesota Twins
Cleveland Indians
New York Yankees
Dave Rajsich
Larry McCall
Sparky Lyle
Mike Heath
Texas Rangers
Greg Jemison
Paul Mirabella
Mike Griffin
Juan Beniquez
Dave Righetti

categories: Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic,Cleveland Indians players,Edmonton Trappers players,Águilas Cibaeñas players,Chicago Cubs players,New York Yankees players,California Angels players,1958 births,Dominican Republic people of African descent,Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States,Major League Baseball infielders,Toronto Blue Jays players,Caribbean Series players,Syracuse Chiefs players,Seattle Mariners players,Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Canada,Living people

paragraph: Domingo Ramos

paragraph: Domingo Antonio Ramos (born March 9, 1958), is a former professional baseball player who was an infielder in Major League Baseball from 1978-1990. In 1982 with the Seattle Mariners, he filled in at all four infield positions, never appearing in more than 75 games. Ramos was primarily a glove man, and hit over .200 just twice, .283 in 1983 and .311 in 1987, in 103 at-bats,

paragraph: Ramos earned his first career hit on May 23, 1980. On June 26, 1982 he recorded his first career RBI. His first career home run came on an April 17, 1983 in a 7-4 loss against the Oakland Athletics. His first career stolen base came 2 days later, in a 6-2 loss at the Minnesota Twins. His first career 4-hit game came on September 8, 1987 in a 7-0 win over the Cleveland Indians.

paragraph: On November 10, 1978 he was traded by New York Yankees with Dave Rajsich, Larry McCall, Sparky Lyle, Mike Heath and Cash to Texas Rangers for Greg Jemison, Paul Mirabella, Mike Griffin, Juan Beniquez and Dave Righetti, considered the top lefty prospect in the minors‚ who went on to win Rookie of the Year honors in 1981.

description: baseball player

wikidata_label: Domingo Ramos

wikipedia_title: Domingo Ramos


text:
MBE
English
badminton
All-England
1980 IBF World Championships
1980 European Championships
Jane Webster
1983 IBF World Championships
Thomas Kihlström
World Badminton Hall of Fame
All England Champions 1899-2007
English results
European results

categories: Badminton players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games,Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England,World Games silver medalists,Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England,Members of the Order of the British Empire,English female badminton players,Badminton players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games,Commonwealth Games medallists in badminton,1954 births,Living people

paragraph: Nora Perry

paragraph: Nora Perry MBE (born 1954 as Nora Gardner) is an English former badminton player noted for her anticipation, racket control, and tactical astuteness. A doubles specialist, Perry won numerous major titles, with a variety of partners, from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. These included six All-England mixed doubles and two All-England women's doubles championships. She won both the 1980 IBF World Championships and the 1980 European Championships in women's doubles with Jane Webster. Three years later, she won the 1983 IBF World Championships title in mixed doubles with Thomas Kihlström. Generally regarded as one of the greatest female mixed doubles players in the game's history, in 1999 she was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- All England Champions 1899-2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- English results

paragraph: BULLET::::- European results

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pat Davis: "The Encyclopaedia of Badminton". Robert Hale, London, 1987, p. 120-121,

description: English badminton player

wikidata_label: Nora Perry

wikipedia_title: Nora Perry


text:
Bandō Mitsugorō
Yamato-ya
yagō
Bandō Mitsugorō I
Morita Kanya VI
Morita Kanya V
Nakamura Jūsuke I
Morita Kanya VIII
Ogino Izaburō II
Morita Kanya X
Morita Kanya XI
Bandō Shūka I
Morita-za
Nakamura-za
Ichimura-za
hengemono
sumo
Kawarazaki-za
Iwai Hanshirō V
Matsumoto Kōshirō V
Ichikawa Danjūrō VII
Osaka
Kado no Shibai
Nagoya
Kyoto
Kitagawa no Shibai
hyōbanki
Ishikawa Goemon
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan
Bandō Mitsugorō III at Kabuki21.com

paragraph: Bandō Mitsugorō III

paragraph: Section::::Names.

paragraph: Like most Kabuki actors, and many artists of his time, Mitsugorō bore a number of names. The third to bear the name Bandō Mitsugorō, he was also called Bandō Minosuke I, Morita Kanjirō II and Bandō Mitahachi I earlier in his career. A member of the Yamato-ya guild, he could be called by this name as well (see "yagō"). Finally, Mitsugorō was known in poetry circles as Shūka, and as he developed something of a reputation on the streets of Edo, he acquired the nickname "Eiki no Oyagata" (boss of the Eiki district).

paragraph: Section::::Lineage.

paragraph: Born into a family of actors, his parents were Bandō Mitsugorō I and Morita Kanya VI's daughter; Morita Kanya V and Nakamura Jūsuke I were his grandfathers. Mitsugorō was adopted by Morita Kanya VIII, and was the son-in-law of Ogino Izaburō II. Later in his career, he adopted three sons, Morita Kanya X, Morita Kanya XI and Bandō Shūka I, and raised them in the theatre.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Born in Edo in 1775, he made his stage debut at the age of three, at the Morita-za, under the name Bandō Mitahachi I. The young actor took a number of different stage names over the course of his childhood, becoming the third Bandō Mitsugorō at the Nakamura-za in 1799. His father died in 1782.

paragraph: As the 19th century began, Mitsugorō performed in a great number of plays and a myriad of roles, both male and female, at the Morita-za, Nakamura-za, and Ichimura-za theatres. He came to be known for his dancing, and in particular for "hengemono", dance plays in which he would quick-change through a number of roles. Though he played mostly women in these dance plays, he also frequently played sumo wrestlers, and lead hero roles in some of the most popular and famous kabuki plays.

paragraph: In May 1815, he performed at the Kawarazaki-za alongside Iwai Hanshirō V, Matsumoto Kōshirō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō VII, some of the most famous actors of the time. Over the years, he developed a rivalry with "kamigata" actor Nakamura Utaemon III, also known as Shikan. These types of rivalries were not uncommon in the kabuki world, particularly between actors from Edo and Kamigata, but were likely friendly rivalries, promoted more by the fans and by the theatre managers, rather than by genuine ill-feelings on the parts of the actors towards one another. The two would perform together many times, both in Edo and in Kamigata, their rivalry extending over many years.

paragraph: Following a "hengemono" farewell performance, Mitsugorō left Edo and moved to Osaka in December 1820. There, he performed primarily at the Kado no Shibai, and frequently alongside Utaemon III. He also spent time performing in Nagoya, and in Kyoto at the Kitagawa no Shibai, two cities where kabuki was far less prolific than in Edo and Osaka.

paragraph: Mitsugorō was ranked as "goku-jō-jō-kichi" (extreme-superior-superior-excellent) in the 1822 "hyōbanki" (a popular publication ranking and evaluating actors and performances). In February of that year, his rivalry with Utaemon III reached its climax. Both actors simultaneously played the popular and powerful role of the thief Ishikawa Goemon at different theaters.

paragraph: He returned to Edo soon afterwards, marking the end of his 13-month stay in Kamigata. Over the following years, he would perform many more times, primarily at the Ichimura-za. In addition to sumo wrestler roles and "hengemono" quick-change dances, he played a number of different roles in "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami", "Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura", "Tōkaidō Yotsuya Kaidan", and other very popular and famous plays.

paragraph: His last performance was in November 1831, in "Matsu o Chikara Tomoe no Fuji Nami" at the Kawarazaki-za. The following month he fell ill and died.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bandō Mitsugorō III at Kabuki21.com

alias:
Bando Mitsugoro III
Bandou Mitsugorou III

description: Japanese actor

wikidata_label: Bandō Mitsugorō III

wikipedia_title: Bandō Mitsugorō III


text:
United States Representative
Virginia
Virginia House of Delegates
Federalist
Fifth Congress
George Jackson

categories: Virginia Federalists,1827 deaths,Year of birth missing,Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives,Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia,Members of the Virginia House of Delegates,18th-century American politicians,19th-century American politicians

paragraph: James Machir

paragraph: James Machir (died June 25, 1827) was a United States Representative from Virginia. Machir was member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1793 to 1796. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress, having won 45.44% of the vote and defeating fellow Federalist Thomas Wilson and Democratic-Republicans John Mitchell and George Jackson and served from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1799. He again served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1811 to 1813 and from 1818 to 1821. Machir died on June 25, 1827.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: James Machir

wikipedia_title: James Machir


text: peer

text: House of Lords

text: Whig

text: Member of Parliament

text: Kilkenny City

text: British House of Commons

text: Steyning

text: aide-de-camp

text: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

text: Flanders

text: 32nd Regiment of Foot

text: Dragoon

text: Lord Cutts

text: Earl of Rochford

text: brigadier general

text: Battle of Almenar

text: Dictionary of National Biography

categories: Whig (British political party) MPs,32nd Regiment of Foot officers,1710 deaths,Irish MPs 1703–1713,1682 births,Earls of Rochford,Irish MPs 1695–1699,Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies,British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession,Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies,British MPs 1708–1710

paragraph: William Nassau de Zuylestein, 2nd Earl of Rochford (9 July 1682 – 27 July 1710) was a British peer and member of the House of Lords, styled Viscount Tunbridge from 1695 to 1709.

paragraph: Tunbridge was returned for the Whig party as an Irish Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City in 1705, and was also returned to the British House of Commons for Steyning in 1708. However, his principal importance was as a military commander: he was an aide-de-camp to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough in Flanders in 1704, and was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in the 32nd Regiment of Foot in January 1706. On 12 April, he received a commission as the colonel of a new regiment of foot, part of the Irish army, and on 1 February 1707, he was appointed colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Dragoons (succeeding the late Lord Cutts), which embarked for Spain in 1708.

paragraph: In January 1709, he succeeded his father as Earl of Rochford, and was commissioned a brigadier general in January 1710. Rochford was killed on 27 July 1710 at the Battle of Almenar while leading his regiment, aged 28. He was succeeded by his brother Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dictionary of National Biography", in article on his father.

alias:
Viscount Tonbridge
William Nassau de Zuylestein

description: British peer


text:
Portuguese India
Yamaguchi
Goa
Portugal
Society of Jesus
College of Coimbra
Rome
Spain
Barcelona
Naples
Loyola
Pope Marcellus II
Catholicism
Genoa
Tenshō embassy
Hasekura Tsunenaga

categories: Japanese Roman Catholics,1557 deaths,Japanese expatriates in Portugal,Converts to Roman Catholicism,Year of birth unknown,Japan–Portugal relations,University of Coimbra alumni

paragraph: Bernardo the Japanese

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Bernardo left Japan for Portuguese India with Xavier in 1551, together with another Japanese person, Mathias, born in Yamaguchi. They arrived in India in February 1552. Mathias died in Goa however. Bernardo, with Brother Andreas Fernandes, then left for Portugal, where he arrived in 1553, with a letter written by Francis Xavier in Goa, dated 8 April 1552. The objective was for Bernardo "to see the Christian religion in all its majesty", so that he could share his experience back in Japan. In his letter, Xavier also commented that "Japanese intellect [was] as sharp and sensible as any in the world".

paragraph: Bernardo is thought to have been the first Japanese person to set foot on European soil. In Portugal, Bernardo applied to and entered the Society of Jesus. He also studied at the College of Coimbra.

paragraph: After two years, Bernardo left to visit Rome on 17 July 1554, going through Spain to Barcelona, to take a ship to Naples. He was present in Rome during a period of 10 months. He met with Loyola and probably attended the election of Pope Marcellus II. Bernardo was highly valued, and gave great hope to the Papacy about the prospects of Catholicism in Japan.

paragraph: Bernardo left Rome on 23 October 1555, and took a ship in Genoa. Bernardo died however upon his return to Portugal in February 1557.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tenshō embassy (1582)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hasekura Tsunenaga, who visited Europe from 1613 to 1620

description: Japanese Christian convert

wikidata_label: Bernardo the Japanese

wikipedia_title: Bernardo the Japanese


text:
Russia
cross country skier
Russia
International Ski Federation (FIS)

categories: Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade,Universiade gold medalists for Russia,Living people,1985 births,Tour de Ski skiers,Universiade medalists in cross-country skiing,Russian male cross-country skiers

paragraph: Artem Zhmurko

paragraph: Artem Zhmurko (born October 3, 1985) is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2006. His lone World Cup victory was in a 15 km + 15 km double pursuit event in Russia in January 2010.

paragraph: Zhmurko also has two victories in lesser events, earning them in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

paragraph: Section::::World Cup results.

paragraph: All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

paragraph: Section::::World Cup results.:Individual podiums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1 victory

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1 podium

description: Russian cross country skier

wikidata_label: Artem Zhmurko

wikipedia_title: Artem Zhmurko


text:
American
Baptist
clergy
educator
Hartford
Connecticut
Brown University
Rochester Theological Seminary
Providence
Rhode Island

categories: 1937 deaths,Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School faculty,American educational theorists,American school administrators,Baptist ministers from the United States,Brown University alumni,1869 births,Presidents of Brown University,Religious leaders from Hartford, Connecticut

paragraph: Clarence Barbour

paragraph: Clarence Augustus Barbour (April 21, 1867 – January 16, 1937) was an American Baptist clergyman and educator most notable for having served as the president of Brown University.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: He was born on April 21, 1867 in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Brown University in 1888.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Career.

paragraph: He served as the President of his alma mater, Brown University, from 1929 to 1936. He also served as president of the Rochester Theological Seminary for thirteen years. He was a member of the Laymen's Commission that produced "Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry after One Hundred Years" (1932), which was a harsh critique of foreign missions.

paragraph: His wife, Florence Newell Barbour, was a musician and composer.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: He died on January 16, 1937 in Providence, Rhode Island, at the age of 69.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hocking, William Ernest, Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry after One Hundred Years (1932) Harper & Brothers, New York City.

description: President of Brown University

wikidata_label: Clarence Barbour

wikipedia_title: Clarence Barbour


text:
peer
Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland
John Neville, Baron Neville
Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter
Lancastrians
Battle of Towton
attainted
Lord Neville (1459 creation)
Knight of the Bath
King Edward IV
justice of the peace
Durham
King Richard III
Somerset
Berkshire
Margaret, Countess of Richmond
Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
Yorkist
Bosworth
Henry VII
James IV
Perkin Warbeck
Hornby Castle, Yorkshire
Ralph Neville
Lawrence Booth, Archbishop of York
Elizabeth of York
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys
Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland
Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy
Tower Hill
William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers
Langton by Wragby

categories: Neville family,15th-century English nobility,1456 births,1499 deaths,People of the Tudor period

paragraph: Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland

paragraph: Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland (c. 1456 – 6 February 1499) was an English peer. He was the grandfather of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Ralph Neville, born about 1456, was the only child of John Neville, Baron Neville, younger brother of Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, and Anne Holland, daughter of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Neville's father was slain fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461, and attainted on 4 November of that year. On 6 October 1472 Ralph Neville obtained the reversal of his father's attainder and the restoration of the greater part of his estates, and thereby became Lord Neville (1459 creation).

paragraph: On 18 April 1475 Neville was created a Knight of the Bath together with the sons of King Edward IV. He was a justice of the peace in Durham. For his 'good services against the rebels', on 23 March 1484 King Richard III granted Neville manors in Somerset and Berkshire and the reversion of lands which had formerly belonged to Margaret, Countess of Richmond. In September 1484 he was a commissioner to keep the truce with Scotland. On 3 November 1484 his uncle, Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, died, and Neville succeeded as 3rd Earl of Westmorland and Lord Neville (1295 creation).

paragraph: After the Yorkist defeat at Bosworth, Westmorland entered into bonds to the new King, Henry VII, of £400 and 400 marks, and on 5 December 1485, he gave custody (and the approval of the marriage of his eldest son and heir), Ralph Neville (d.1498), to the King.

paragraph: Westmorland held a command in the army sent into Scotland in 1497 after James IV supported the pretensions to the crown of Perkin Warbeck.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Westmorland's eldest son died in 1498. Westmorland died at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, the seat of his son-in-law, Sir William Conyers, on 6 February 1499, allegedly of grief for his son's death, and was buried in the parish church there. His grandson, Ralph Neville, succeeded to the earldom as 4th Earl of Westmorland.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and issue.

paragraph: Before 20 February 1473, Neville married Isabel Booth, the daughter of Sir Roger Booth, esquire (1396–1497) and Catherine Hatton, and the niece of Lawrence Booth, Archbishop of York, by whom he had a son and a daughter:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ralph Neville, Lord Neville (d. 1498). As noted above, on 5 December 1485, his father had granted his custody (and the approval of the marriage of his eldest son) to the King. Accordingly, Lord Neville married firstly, in the presence of King Henry VII and his Queen, Elizabeth of York, Mary Paston (born 19 January 1470), the eldest daughter of Sir William Paston (b. 1436 – died before 7 September 1496) by Lady Anne Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. She died of measles at court, about Christmas 1489. There were no issue of the marriage. Lord Neville married secondly, again in the royal presence, Edith Sandys (d. 22 August 1529), sister of William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, by whom he had two sons, Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, and a son who died young. After Lord Neville's death in 1498, his widow Edith married Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy, who was beheaded on Tower Hill on 30 June 1537.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Anne Neville, who married firstly, William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, and secondly, Anthony Saltmarsh (1473–1550) of Langton by Wragby, Lincolnshire.

description: English nobleman and soldier

wikidata_label: Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland

wikipedia_title: Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland


text:
Fr.
Count of Armagnac
John IV of Armagnac
Isabella of Navarre
Mathieu d'Escouchy
Henry VI of England
Lectoure
Pope Callixtus III
bishop of Auch
Antoine d'Alet
Bishop of Cambrai
parlement
Charles VII
Louis XI
"Bien public"
Lectoure
Jean Jouffroy
bishop of Albi
Pau
Gaston IV of Foix
Eleanor of Navarre
monarch of Navarre
Buzet-sur-Tarn
Père Anselme
Count of Armagnac
"Un vrai feuilleton"

categories: 1473 deaths,People murdered in France,Counts of Rodez,Counts of Armagnac,People convicted of incest,Murdered royalty,1420 births

paragraph: John V, Count of Armagnac

paragraph: John V of Armagnac (Fr.: "Jean V, comte d'Armagnac") (1420 – 5 March 1473), the penultimate Count of Armagnac of the older branch. He was the son of John IV of Armagnac and Isabella of Navarre.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Styled Viscount de Lomagne while his father lived, John succeeded him as Count of Armagnac when he died (5 November 1450); soon after, he started a relationship with his sister Isabelle, Lady of the Four-Valleys ("Dame des Quatre-Vallées"), ten years his junior, whom the chronicler Mathieu d'Escouchy accounted one of the great beauties of France and whose betrothal to Henry VI of England had been under consideration. When word got out that two boys (John and Anthony) had been born in the castle of Lectoure, the couple promised to reform their controversial behavior. But within a few months John solemnized the union between the two by claiming to have obtained a papal dispensation from Pope Callixtus III, shortly after their third child, a daughter called Rose (or Mascarose) was born.

paragraph: Other serious breaches ensued: John refused to seat a bishop of Auch selected by the King and assented to by the Pope, installing an illegitimate half-brother of his in the seat. Events came to a head in May 1455. Authorities were alerted, and a brief was issued for John's arrest, when an investigation revealed that he had forced a forged dispensation out of Antoine d'Alet, Bishop of Cambrai, a magistrate in the court of Rome. Tried "in absentia" in 1460 before a "parlement" of Charles VII, he was convicted of "lese-majeste", rebellion and incest. Forces were sent to capture him but he escaped punishment by fleeing to his cousins in Aragon. Though he pleaded his case in Rome, the couple were separated and the sons declared bastards and barred from inheritance.

paragraph: Within a few years a new King of France, Louis XI, reinstated John in his domains, where John rashly undid his father's acts and broke faith with his promises. Betraying Louis, Armagnac was part of the league that called themselves "Bien public" and threatened Paris at the head of 6,000 mounted men. In 1469, Louis responded, under the pretense that John was treating with ambassadors from England, and sent an army to rout him. John fled to Spain, only to reappear in 1471 in the train of the king's rebellious brother, the duc de Guyenne. Louis had John besieged in his stronghold of Lectoure and put to death by Jean Jouffroy, the fighting bishop of Albi, on 5 March 1473.

paragraph: In Lectoure on 19 August 1469, John married Joan (b. aft. 1454 - d. Pau, aft. 10 February 1476), daughter of Count Gaston IV of Foix and Queen Eleanor of Navarre, later monarch of Navarre. Eight months pregnant at the time of her husband's death, Joan was imprisoned at the castle of Buzet-sur-Tarn, where, according to Père Anselme, she was forced to drink a potion ("un breuvage") which made her give birth to a stillborn child in ca. April 1473 so that the "race of the Count could be ended" ("il ne restât aucun de la race du comte"). In consequence, the title of Count of Armagnac passed, first fruitlessly to his younger brother Charles, and in 1497 to his cousin of the cadet branch, Armagnac-Nemours.

paragraph: His union with his sister Isabelle of Armagnac (b. 1430 - d. Castelnau, 4 August 1476), produced three children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. John of Armagnac (d. 1516), Seigneur of Camboulas, married in 1507 with Jeanne de La Tour. No issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Anthony of Armagnac (d. ca. 1516), called the "Bâtard d'Armagnac". Unmarried and without issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Rose (or Mascarose) of Armagnac (d. 1526), married in 1498 with Gaspard II de Villemur, Seigneur of Montbrun. She had issue.

paragraph: Section::::Quotes.

paragraph: A contemporary chronicler described him:

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Un vrai feuilleton" documentary history of Jean d'Aramagnac (in French)

description: French count

wikidata_label: John V, Count of Armagnac

wikipedia_title: John V, Count of Armagnac


text:
Yuan Dynasty
Emperor Xuanzong
Yang Guifei
Tang Minghuang
Wutong Tree
Jin dynasty
Yuan Haowen
Mongol Empire
Yuan Dynasty
Zaju

categories: 1226 births,Yuan dynasty dramatists and playwrights,13th-century Chinese poets,1306 deaths,Yuan dynasty poets,Poets from Shanxi,People from Xinzhou,14th-century Chinese poets

paragraph: Bai Renfu

paragraph: Bai Renfu (, c. 1226−1306), also known as Bai Pu (), was a renowned Chinese playwright of the Yuan Dynasty.

paragraph: He wrote 16 plays, three of which are extant:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Over the Wall" (裴少俊牆頭馬上 "Péi Shǎo Jùn Qiáng Tóu Mǎ Shàng")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rain on the Paulownia Tree" (唐明皇秋夜梧桐雨 "Táng Míng Huáng Qiū Yè Wú Tóng Yǔ")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romance of the East Wall" (董秀英花月東牆記 "Dǒng Xiù Yīng Huā Yuè Dōng Qiáng Jì")

paragraph: He also wrote a play about Emperor Xuanzong and Lady Yang Guifei:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tang Minghuang on an Autumn Night with Wutong Tree and Rain" (唐明皇秋夜梧桐雨 "Tang Minghuang Qiuye Wutong Yu").

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: A scion of an important Jin dynasty family, Bai Renfu's grandfather held a post at the powerful Bureau of Military Affairs, and his father was a close friend of the poet Yuan Haowen. However, the defeat of the Jin dynasty by the Mongol Empire resulted in a major upheaval in social relationships. Nevertheless, Bo Renfu achieved honorary rank and an official position in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty as Minister of Protocol.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zaju

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crump, J. I. (1990). "Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan". (Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies The University of Michigan) .

description: playwright

wikidata_label: Bai Renfu

wikipedia_title: Bai Renfu


text: Chinese poet

text: Ming Dynasty

text: Three Yuan Brothers

text: Yuan Zongdao

text: Yuan Zhongdao

text: Wanli

text: chin-shih examination

text: Li Zhi

text: Jietuo ji

text: Xiaobi tangji

text: xiaopin

text: Mair, Victor H.

text: Amazon Kindle

text: renditions.org/yuanhd

categories: Ming dynasty essayists,Poets from Hubei,Ming dynasty poets,1610 deaths,People from Jingzhou,Chinese tea masters,1568 births

paragraph: Yuan Hongdao

paragraph: Yuan Hongdao (, 1568–1610) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers, along with his brothers Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Zhongdao. His life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period (1573-1620) in Chinese history. Yuan was from Gong'an in Hukuang.　His family had been military officials for generations. Yuan showed an interest in literature from youth and formed his own literary club at age fifteen. At the age of twenty-four in 1592 he took the chin-shih examination and subsequently received an official position in 1595. However he quit out of boredom after a year. Yuan traveled and consulted with the radical philosopher Li Zhi. On another trip his brothers joined him. Hu's elder brother was a Buddhist-Confucianist synchronist. His travels resulted in his publishing a poetry compilation "Jietuo ji" [Collection of One Released]. His and his two brothers' poetry, which focused on clarity and sincerity, produced a following eventually known as the Gong'an school, the central belief of which was that good writing was a result of genuine emotions and personal experience. When one of his brothers died in 1600, Yuan retired to a small island in a lake to meditate and write poetry. The resulting work is "Xiaobi tangji" [Jade-Green Bamboo Hall Collection].

paragraph: Section::::Poems.

paragraph: THE CAPITAL

paragraph: Bright are the city walls of the capital;

paragraph: Red-robed officials shout on broad streets.

paragraph: There is a white-headed destitute scholar;

paragraph: Hanging from his mule's saddle, sheaves of poems.

paragraph: Clasping his calling card, he knocks on doors for work;

paragraph: The gate keepers smirk at one another.

paragraph: Ten try and ten fail;

paragraph: Walk the streets, his face is haggard.

paragraph: Always fear in serving the rich;

paragraph: Sorry your flattery isn't quick enough.

paragraph: Over an eye a black eyepatch;

paragraph: Half blind, the fellow is old!

paragraph: A STRANGE PRIEST

paragraph: Bought his mantle to escape draft and taxes;

paragraph: Now he's the head priest amid his splendor.

paragraph: Recites incantations, but sounds like a bird;

paragraph: Writes Sanscrit that looks like twisted weeds.

paragraph: With his begging bowl he distributes food of the spirit;

paragraph: On his seat he faces the lamp of Buddha;

paragraph: If you don't devote you whole body and soul,

paragraph: How can there be anywhere Buddhism at all?

paragraph: Section::::Prose writings.

paragraph: He was also a notable author of the xiaopin, a form of short literary essay.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chaves, Jonathan trans. "Pilgrim of the Clouds", New York-Tokyo, 1978; new edition Buffalo New York: White Pine Press, 2005.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carpenter, Bruce E. "The Gentleman of Stones: Yüan Hung-tao", "Tezukayama University Review" (Tezukayama Daigaku ronshu), Nara, Japan, no. 24, 1979.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mair, Victor H. (ed.) (2001). "The Columbia History of Chinese Literature". New York: Columbia University Press. . (Amazon Kindle edition.)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- oberlin.edu/mao_xiang

paragraph: BULLET::::- renditions.org/yuanhd

alias:
Shigong
Liuxiu
Zhonglang
Yuan Hongdao

description: Chinese poet

wikidata_label: Yuan Hongdao

wikipedia_title: Yuan Hongdao


text: Paris

text: French

text: French landscape garden

text: Parc Monceau

text: magic lantern

text: motion picture

text: Duc de Chevreuse

text: Duc de Luynes

text: Château de Dampierre

text: Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

text: Marie-Madeleine Guimard

text: Philippe Egalité

text: Parc Monceau

text: French landscape garden

text: Louis-Philippe of France

categories: 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights,Artists from Paris,18th-century French architects,1806 deaths,French engravers,19th-century French painters,French landscape and garden designers,18th-century French dramatists and playwrights,French male painters,1717 births,English Landscape Garden style,18th-century French painters

paragraph: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle

paragraph: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (b. Paris, 15 August 1717 – d. Paris, 26 December 1806) was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer and author, and designer of one of the earliest examples of the French landscape garden, Parc Monceau in Paris. He also invented the "transparent", an early ancestor of the magic lantern and motion picture, for viewing moving bands of landscape paintings.

paragraph: Carmontelle came from a modest background- his father was a bootmaker. He studied drawing and geometry, and at the age of twenty three qualified for the title of engineer, and entered the service of the Duc de Chevreuse and the Duc de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre, where he taught drawing and mathematics to the children.

paragraph: In 1758, he entered the service of the Comte Pons de Saint-Maurice, governor of the Duc de Chartres and commander of regiment of Orléans-dragons as a topographical engineer. In addition to his drawing duties, he wrote farces and tales. After 1763 entered into the service of Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans as a lecteur, responsible for providing theatrical performances for the family. He wrote and directed plays, decorated the scenery and made the costumes. In this way he invented a new genre of play, the "proverbe dramatique", a scene of light comedy designed to be a point of departure for a theatrical improvisation. He also wrote plays for the famous ballerina, Marie-Madeleine Guimard for performance at the private theater of her residence, Pantin.

paragraph: In addition to his work in the theater, he was a talented artist, who made portraits in pen and watercolor in less than two hours of notable people that he met. The most famous of his drawings is that of the infant Mozart playing the clavier.

paragraph: Section::::Parc Monceau.

paragraph: In 1773, he was asked by the Duc de Chartres, the son of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans and the future Philippe Egalité, to design a garden around a small house that he was building to the northwest of Paris. Between 1773 and 1778, he created the "folie de Chartres", (now Parc Monceau), one of the most famous French landscape gardens of the time. It departed from the more natural English landscape gardens of the time by presenting a series of fantastic scenes designed "to unite in one garden all places and all times.". It included a series of fabriques, or architectural structures, while illustrated all the styles known at the time; antiquity, exoticism, Chinese, Turkish, ruins, tombs, and rustic landscapes, all created to surprise and divert the visitor.

paragraph: After the death of the duc d'Orleans in 1785, Carmonetelle entered into the service of the Duc de Chartres, and taught drawing to his son Louis-Philippe of France, the future and last King of France, and his sister Adeleide .

paragraph: Section::::Introduction of Animation into Painting.

paragraph: In the last years of his life, he pioneered a new invention for showing paintings in motion, which was a distant ancestor of the motion picture. In 1783 he began working on what he termed "décors transparents animés." These were paintings of landscapes on long bands of paper, fifty centimeters high and as many as forty two meters long. These were mounted on two wooden rollers in a box, with the light of day coming into the box from behind and passing through the paper. The landscapes were slowly rolled from one roll to the other, giving the illusion of a walk in the garden. The first moving landscapes he titled "Landscapes of France," "English Gardens," "The Seasons," and "The Banks of the Seine." One of the moving landscapes is preserved at the Museum of Sceaux.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jardins en France", 1760-1820. Caisse nationale des monuments historiques et des sites, Paris.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claude Wenzler, "Architecture du Jardin". Editions Ouest-France, Rennes, 2003.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philippe Prévôt, "HIstoire des jardins", Editions Sud Ouest, 2006.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yves-Marie Allain and Janine Christiany, "L'art des jardins en Europe", Citadelles, Paris, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Créateurs des jardins et de paysages en France de la Renaiisance au XXIe siècle", sous la direction de Michel Racine, Tome I, de la Renaissance au debut du XIX siècle, Actes Sud, École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, 2001.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times" article on a Carmontelle exhibition

alias:
Louis Carmontel
Louis De Carmontelle
Carmontelle
Louis Carrogis
Louis de Carmontelle
Louis Carrogis De Carmontelle
Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle
Carmontel
louis carrogis de carmontelle

description: French painter

wikidata_label: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle

wikipedia_title: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle


text: Ming Dynasty

text: Slapping the Table in Amazement

text: Zhejiang

text: Wuxing District

text: courtesy name

text: pseudonym

text: imperial examination

text: Nanjing

text: adjutant

text: Ding Zhou

text: Xiucai

text: Zhu Guozhen

text: Hangzhou

text: Suzhou

text: civil service

text: Xie Zhaozhe

text: Li Zicheng

text: Feng Menglong

text: The Book of Swindles

text: Feng Menglong

text: Han Feizi

categories: Ming dynasty short story writers,Writers from Huzhou,1644 deaths,Chinese male short story writers,1580 births

paragraph: Ling Mengchu

paragraph: Ling Mengchu (; 1580–1644) was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty. He is best known for his vernacular short fiction collections "Slapping the Table in Amazement" (拍案驚奇), I and II.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Ling Mengchu was born into the Ling clan of Wucheng in northern Zhejiang province (modern day Wuxing District). His courtesy name was 'Xuanfang' (玄房) and his pseudonym was 'Chucheng' (初成).

paragraph: His ancestors were government officials. His grandfather was named Ling Yueyan (凌约言). He was a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations of Ming Dynasty and in Nanjing served as an adjutant, managing legal affairs and prisons. Ling Mengchu's father was Ling Dizhi (凌迪知), styled Zhizhe (稚哲). He was a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations in 1556. He first worked in the Labor ministry as a leader, managing projects, water conservation, farmlands and so on. This was an unimportant position, but Ling Dizhi was studious and serious. Soon he was appreciated by the emperor of Ming Dynasty, and became tongpan (通判) of Ding Zhou government and Tong Zhou government.

paragraph: At the time of Ling's birth, his family fortunes were declining. He had four brothers, and he was the fourth son in this family. He went to school when he was 12 and became Xiucai at age eighteen. By 1605 his mother died and he failed the next level of exams. Afterwards, he wrote Break with Ju Zi (绝交举子书). In 1623, he was 44 years old. He met with minister of the Ministry of Rites Zhu Guozhen (朱国桢). After that meeting, Ling Mengchu decided to take up writing. In 1634 he worked as a country magistrate in Shanghai. In 1637 he wrote "Wu Sao He Bian" (吴骚合编) with Zhang Xudong. 1643 he was promoted to tongpan of Xuzhou government.

paragraph: In addition family members were actively engaged in the printing business with a local specialty of books in polychrome. The Wucheng area was adjacent to the commercial and cultural areas of Hangzhou and Suzhou where reading materials were in increasing demand. Ling Mengchu was certainly a merchant businessman and also certainly a traditional scholar with civil service ambitions.

paragraph: The business motive of the Ling family was originally discussed by Ling Mengchu’s contemporary Xie Zhaozhe (谢肇浙 1567-1624) in his "Wu zazu" (五雜俎 - Five Assorted Offerings). Such were the times. Ling repeatedly failed at the examinations and did not take a government post until he was fifty-four. Ling would finally perish in fighting against the Li Zicheng led rebels in 1644. He is frequently associated with Feng Menglong.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Ling’s "Two Slaps" collections of short stories ("Slapping the Table in Amazement" and "Slapping the Table in Amazement, vol. 2") comprise a detailed composite portrait of his 17th century moral world, offering tales of virtue, vice, and adventure. Sometimes racy, often outrageous, and wildly imaginative, they have remained popular reading for centuries. While focusing on extraordinary events, the narratorial attitude alternates openness toward the unorthodox with reflexive Confucian conservatism, a mix also found in contemporaneous works such as Feng Menglong's "Three Words" trio of story collections and Zhang Yingyu's "The Book of Swindles". Ling was most strongly influenced by Feng Menglong, whose success he acknowledged as having emboldened him to publish commercially.

paragraph: In the prefatory material to his first short story collection he insisted it was infinitely more difficult to paint a likeness of a dog or horse one had actually seen than to render a ghost or goblin one had never observed (a quotation from Han Feizi).

paragraph: Section::::References.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- James Scott, Rapp, trans., "The Lecherous Academician",(1973),

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mengchu Ling. "The Abbot and the Widow: Tales from the Ming Dynasty." (Norwalk: EastBridge, 2004).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wen Jingen trans., "Amazing Tales" (Volume One), Panda Books, 1998.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Perry W. Ma trans., "Amazing Tales" (Volume Two), Panda Books, 1998.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ling Mengchu, "Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection." Translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2018.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carpenter, Bruce E., 'The Ming Short Story Collection "P'ai-an ching-ch'i."' "Tezukayama Daigaku Jinbunkagakubu Kiyo" (Tezukayama University Journal of Humanities), Nara, Japan, 2000, pp. 41–111.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Goodrich and Fang ed., "Dictionary of Ming Biography 1368-1644" ( bio. by Li Tienyi), New York,1976, vol. 1, pp. 930–931.

description: Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty

wikidata_label: Ling Mengchu

wikipedia_title: Ling Mengchu


text: filmmaker

text: Nicholas II

text: Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia

text: Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley

text: Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia

text: Biarritz

text: Neuilly

text: General Leclerc

text: Lucien Lelong

text: Natalie Paley

text: assistant director

text: René Clair

text: Julien Duvivier

text: Henri-Georges Clouzot

text: Burt Lancaster

text: Tony Curtis

text: Gina Lollobrigida

text: Marlon Brando

text: Annabella

text: Tyrone Power

text: Biarritz

text: Neuilly

text: L'Escala

text: Costa Brava

text: Romanov Family Association

text: St Petersburg

text: Maria Feodorovna

text: Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia

text: Josse

text: Julien Duvivier

text: Joshua Logan

text: Marcel Carné

text: Julien Duvivier

text: Henri-Georges Clouzot

text: Carol Reed

text: Anatole Litvak

text: His Highness

text: Romanoff Family Association

categories: Romanov Family Association members,2008 deaths,People from Paris,House of Romanov in exile,1924 births,Russian film directors

paragraph: Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia

paragraph: Prince Michael Feodorovich Romanoff (; 4 May 1924 – 22 September 2008) was a French filmmaker. A descendant of the Russian Emperors, he was a great nephew of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Prince Michael Feodorovich was born in Paris the only son of Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia and his wife Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley. He descended from the Romanovs through both his father and his mother. Through his father he was a grandson of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. His mother was a daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and his second wife Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley, Countess of Hohenfelsen. Prince Michael Feodorovich was called in France Michel Romanoff de Russie (his civil name in his French identity papers). He was brought up in Paris and Biarritz. As a child he learned to speak French, English and Russian. In his later years he learned Spanish and Catalan.

paragraph: After the separation of his parents in 1932, Prince Michael Feodorovich went to live with his mother in Neuilly where he attended the École du Montcel school. Following the outbreak of World War II his family moved back to Biarritz. He served in the French infantry between 1945 and 1946 and accompanied the army of General Leclerc into Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: For sometime he worked for the Societé des Parfums of Lucien Lelong, who had been married to his aunt Princess Natalie Paley. In 1949, Prince Michael Feodorovich moved into the film industry working as an assistant director, later becoming a director of production. He worked, among others, with René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Henri-Georges Clouzot. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida and Marlon Brando were some of the well-known actors who appeared in his films. In the 1950s the prince had an affair with actress Annabella (1907–1996), after the latter had divorced the American actor Tyrone Power. Their love affair lasted ten years, and despite their age difference the French actress would have liked to marry the prince. They later split, but Michael Feodorovich remained very attached to Annabella until her death.

paragraph: After retiring from the industry in 1985 he spent his retirement living between Biarritz and Neuilly. After his second marriage he brought a house in L'Escala on the Costa Brava. Prince Michael Feodorovich joined the Romanov Family Association on its creation in 1979.

paragraph: Prince Michael Feodorovich first visited Russia in 1990. He made another trip in 1994 to attend a book launch with the St Petersburg authorities looking to provide him with a house in return for his help in promoting Russian culture. When asked about the house he said "First the house, then I'll ask for a passport." He made another visit to Russia in 1997 to attend the opening of his Romanov photographic exhibition which was also attended by a number of his cousins. Prince Michael Feodorovich refused to attend with other members of the Imperial family, the burial of his great uncle Nicholas II as he doubted the bones were genuine. He later tried unsuccessfully to prevent the reburial of the remains in St Petersburg of his great grandmother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, as he felt that "members of the Imperial family who died in exile should stay where they passed away".

paragraph: Prince Michael Feodorovich died in Paris at the age of 84. His cousin Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia died in Sydney on the same day.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and children.

paragraph: Prince Michael Feodorovich married firstly Helga Staufenberger (b. 1926) in Paris on 15 October 1958. They had one son before divorcing in 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prince Michael Mihailovich (31 July 1959 – 24 January 2001)

paragraph: After his divorce he was married secondly in Josse on 15 January 1994 to Maria de las Mercedes Ustrell-Cabani (b. 1960). In 1995 he adopted his granddaughter Tatiana Alexandra (b. 1986) the natural daughter of his wife by his son Prince Michael Paul Mihailovich.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography as assistant director.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1957 : Pot-Bouille directed by Julien Duvivier

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1949 : Black Jak directed by Julien Duvivier

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1961 : Fanny directed by Joshua Logan

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1951 : Juliette ou la clé des songes directed by Marcel Carné

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1967 : Diaboliquement vôtre directed by Julien Duvivier

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1957 : L'Homme à l'imperméable directed by Julien Duvivier

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953 : Le retour de Don Camillo directed by Julien Duvivier

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1955 : Les Diaboliques directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1959 : Marie-Octobre directed by Julien Duvivier

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1965 : Le dimanche de la vie directed by Jean Herman

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1968 : Un soir, un train directed by Jean Delvaux

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1967 : Les Demoiselles de Rochefort directed by Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1967 : Trois Chambres à Manhattan directed by Marcel Carné

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1957 : Les espions directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1956 : Trapèze directed by Carol Reed

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953 : Les Orgueilleux directed by Yves Allégret and Rafael E. Portas

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953 : Le Salaire de la peur directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1956 : Anastasia directed by Anatole Litvak.

paragraph: Section::::Title and styles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "His Highness" Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia

paragraph: "N.B. After the Russian revolution members of the Imperial family tended to drop the territorial designation "of Russia" and use the princely title with the surname Romanov. However this title, and even his right to the surname Romanov were disputed by some."

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Romanoff Family Association

description: Russian film director

wikidata_label: Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia

wikipedia_title: Prince Michael Feodorovich of Russia


text:
United States Department of Agriculture
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Cowles Art School
Rhode Island School of Design
pomological
Deborah Griscom Passmore
Amanda Newton
Ellen Isham Schutt
Elsie Lower
Isaac Newton
plaster of Paris
James Wilson
Pomological Watercolor Collection
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

categories: Rhode Island School of Design alumni,Artists from Portland, Maine,20th-century American painters,School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni,American illustrators,1875 births,1964 deaths,Artists from Boston,American male painters,United States Department of Agriculture people,Botanical illustrators

paragraph: Royal Charles Steadman

paragraph: Royal Charles Steadman (July 23, 1875 – August 6, 1964) was a botanical illustrator and wax fruit modeler for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) who also developed a patented method of strengthening wax fruit with plaster on the interior.

paragraph: Section::::Education and personal life.

paragraph: Royal Charles Steadman was born July 23, 1875, in Portland, Maine, to Alban Charles and Emma Frances Steadman. He had an older brother, Willie. His parents separated and by 1891 his father had remarried and moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Steadman studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as at the Cowles Art School in the same city. He went on to study jewelry design at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and then became a jewelry designer for a commercial firm, where he rose to head jewelry designer. He also did some scenic design, and he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design.

paragraph: Steadman married Myra L. Fuller in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1894. The marriage did not last, and in 1905 Steadman married again, to Harriet Eliza "Hattie" Beckley, with whom he had a son, Royal Beckley Steadman, in 1908. This marriage also ended, and in 1933 Steadman married his third wife, Ethel Augusta Rosenberger, who survived her husband by a decade.

paragraph: Section::::USDA career.

paragraph: Steadman joined the USDA in 1915 as a pomological artist for the Bureau of Plant Industry, where he was one of a select group of botanical illustrators that included Deborah Griscom Passmore, Amanda Newton, Ellen Isham Schutt, and Elsie Lower. Five years later he was promoted to the position of botanical artist. Steadman (who signed his work 'R.C. Steadman') painted delicate, meticulously detailed watercolors of fruits and vegetables ranging from the common (citrus, strawberries, grapes, pears, plums, watermelons) to the then-exotic (cashew nuts, pawpaw, avocado, cherimoya). Many of these were painted at the peak of ripeness, but he also did a series showing fruit damaged by freezing and cold storage. He also produced a few pen-and-ink drawings, a handful of flower paintings (daffodil, iris, and tulip), a few historical scenes, some designs for postage stamps, and—as a favor to Amanda Newton—a portrait of her grandfather Isaac Newton, who had been the first U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture.

paragraph: Steadman also made and painted hollow wax fruit models showing the characteristics of different cultivars for the USDA's permanent records. In 1932, he patented a method for strengthening his wax models with plaster of Paris. A small amount of liquid plaster would be injected through an inconspicuous hole in the fruit (with a second hole made for air release), after which the fruit would be rapidly rotated so as to create a thin, shell-like coating on the inside of the model. Once the plaster dried and the holes were patched, the fruit became less likely to distortion when heated and less likely to break. The added plaster also brought the model's weight closer to that of the original fruit, thus adding to the verisimilitude of the reproduction.

paragraph: Steadman retired in 1941, having produced almost 900 watercolors in the course of his 26-year career with the USDA. In 1943, he painted a portrait of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and gave the portrait to the department to hang in the Wilson arch between the Administration and South buildings. He died on August 6, 1964, in Banning, California. USDA's National Agricultural Library holds his watercolors in its Pomological Watercolor Collection and also has a small archive of his papers from the period 1923–1928.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

alias:
Royal C. Steadman
Royal Steadman

description: American botanical illustrator

wikidata_label: Royal Charles Steadman

wikipedia_title: Royal Charles Steadman


text:
military engineer
mathematician
France
Franche-Comté
Mézières
Gaspard Monge
Justin Girod-Chantrans
Acadèmie Royal des Sciences
De Gua's theorem
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
Descartes
French Revolution
Charles X of France
personal aide-de-camp
borbonic
Etats Generaux
Bourbon Restoration
Louis XVIII of France

categories: French mathematicians,18th-century French people,18th-century mathematicians,1748 births,1822 deaths,French military engineers

paragraph: Charles de Tinseau d'Amondans

paragraph: Charles-Marie-Thérèse-Léon de Tinseau d'Amondans de Gennes (1748-1822) was a military engineer and mathematician from France in the 18th century.

paragraph: Section::::Life and work.

paragraph: Charles Tinseau was the sixth son (from seven) of Marie-Nicolas Tinseau, "seigneur" de Gennes, and Jeanne Petramand de Velay, a noble family in the Franche-Comté.

paragraph: He entered in the "École du Génie" at Mézières (the Military School of Artillery of France) in 1769 and he graduated in 1771. Gaspard Monge, his professor of mathematics, interested him in mathematics. However, he followed his military career achieving the rank of General Brigadier. In the school he knew the future naturalist Justin Girod-Chantrans, born at Besançon like himself.

paragraph: In 1772 he presented two papers in the Acadèmie Royal des Sciences (published 1774). The more influential of the two papers was "Sur quelques propriétés des solides renfermés par des surfaces composées des lignes droites", in which he demonstrates what is today known as De Gua's theorem. The polemics with Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was granted because de Gua was published an other demonstration thirty years before. Apparently not de Gua, neither Tinseau can have the paternity of a theorem stated by Descartes in 17th century.

paragraph: From 1789, after the French Revolution, he lived in exile due to his radical monarchic convictions. He was in permanent contact with Charles-Philippe (the future king Charles X of France), being his personal aide-de-camp.

paragraph: From 1792 he published several politic pamphlets defending the borbonic monarchy against the power of the Etats Generaux. During the Napoleonic period he remained in exile and, probably, acted as an agent of the Allies against France. The intransigence of his political views is evident in the dozen of political writings published between 1792 and 1805.

paragraph: In 1816, two years after Bourbon Restoration in France in the person of Louis XVIII of France, he returned to France, but at the advanced age of 68, he retired immediately.

description: French mathematician and military personnel

wikidata_label: Charles d'Amondans de Tinseau

wikipedia_title: Charles de Tinseau d'Amondans


text:
San Francisco, California
Santa Monica, California
17th Academy Awards
Best Film Editing
Going My Way
Civilization
The Toll Gate (as Le Roy Stone)
Sand!
The Testing Block
Skin Deep
Eyes of the Forest
Flowing Gold
The Woman on the Jury
Flirting with Love
If I Marry Again
The Talker
The Lady Who Lied
Sailors' Wives
Harold Teen
The Butter and Egg Man
Show Girl
Naughty Baby
Children of the Ritz
Prisoners
Twin Beds
Sally (uncredited)
Bride of the Regiment
Sunny (edited by)
The Finger Points
The Lady Who Dared
Penrod and Sam (edited by)
Make Me a Star (uncredited)
The Phantom President (uncredited)
If I Had a Million (uncredited)
Duck Soup (uncredited)
Six of a Kind (uncredited)
Belle of the Nineties
College Rhythm
Goin' to Town
The Milky Way (edited by)
Early to Bed
College Holiday
Make Way for Tomorrow (edited by)
Ebb Tide
College Swing
The Texans
Say It in French
Man About Town
Adventure in Diamonds
Buck Benny Rides Again (edited by
I Want a Divorce
Love Thy Neighbor
Skylark
Louisiana Purchase
Are Husbands Necessary?
Wake Island
Riding High
True to Life
Going My Way (as Leroy Stone)
Murder, He Says
Hold That Blonde
Blue Skies
Variety Girl
Welcome Stranger (supervising editor)
The Big Clock
My Own True Love
Isn’t It Romantic?
My Friend Irma
Chicago Deadline
Appointment with Danger

categories: 1894 births,People from San Francisco,1949 deaths,American film editors

paragraph: LeRoy Stone

paragraph: LeRoy Stone (January 5, 1894 in San Francisco, California – September 15, 1949 in Santa Monica, California) was an American film editor and a screenwriter.

paragraph: He worked on over 60 films, being nominated at the 17th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing for his work on the film "Going My Way".

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Film

paragraph: BULLET::::- Civilization" (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Toll Gate (as Le Roy Stone)" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sand!" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Testing Block" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Skin Deep (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eyes of the Forest" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flowing Gold" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Woman on the Jury" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flirting with Love" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "If I Marry Again" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Talker" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lady Who Lied" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sailors' Wives" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Harold Teen" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Butter and Egg Man" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Show Girl" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Naughty Baby" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Children of the Ritz" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prisoners" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Twin Beds" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sally (uncredited)" (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bride of the Regiment" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sunny (edited by)" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Finger Points" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lady Who Dared" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Penrod and Sam (edited by)" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Make Me a Star (uncredited)" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Phantom President (uncredited)" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "If I Had a Million (uncredited)" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Duck Soup (uncredited)" (1933)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Six of a Kind (uncredited)" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Belle of the Nineties" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "College Rhythm" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Goin' to Town" (1935)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Milky Way (edited by) (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Early to Bed (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- College Holiday (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Make Way for Tomorrow (edited by) (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ebb Tide (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- College Swing (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Texans (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Say It in French (1938)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Man About Town (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adventure in Diamonds (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Buck Benny Rides Again (edited by (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- I Want a Divorce (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Love Thy Neighbor (1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Skylark (1941)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Louisiana Purchase (1941)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wake Island (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Riding High (1943)

paragraph: BULLET::::- True to Life (1943)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Going My Way (as Leroy Stone) (1944)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Murder, He Says (1945)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hold That Blonde (1945)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Blue Skies (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Variety Girl (1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Welcome Stranger (supervising editor) (1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Big Clock (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- My Own True Love (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isn’t It Romantic? (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- My Friend Irma (1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chicago Deadline (1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Appointment with Danger (1950)

description: American screenwriter and film editor

wikidata_label: LeRoy Stone

wikipedia_title: LeRoy Stone


text:
Hampton, Virginia
JGeek and the Geeks
N.E.R.D
Pharrell Williams
International Emmy
Best Documentary Award
41st International Emmy Awards
Come Dine with Me New Zealand
Ash vs Evil Dead
The Shannara Chronicles
James Patterson
Karl Urban
Antony Starr
Hampton, Virginia
Playwright
Allen Iverson
War on drugs
War on Poverty
Virginia Beach, Virginia

categories: African-American male actors,Actors from Virginia,New Zealand actors,1985 births,Australian actors,Living people

paragraph: Kelvin Taylor (actor)

paragraph: Kelvin Lewis Taylor (born January 18, 1985, Hampton, Virginia, United States) also known as Kelz, is an American actor, dancer, model and voice actor.

paragraph: Taylor started his career as a model back in 2005 for the Shmack Clothing x Billionaire Boys Club / BAPE clothing line collaboration. After Modeling for a couple years, Taylor went on to act on a couple of music videos, working with people like JGeek and the Geeks, N.E.R.D, Pharrell Williams and more. Eventually Taylor progressed his acting career into television, film and presenting. His greatest successful role was on a documentary called "The Golden Hour". The documentary received an International Emmy nomination for the Best Documentary Award at the 41st International Emmy Awards. Taylor appear on the first season of "Come Dine with Me New Zealand" in the second week, where he came last place. Taylor went on to make appearances in "Ash vs Evil Dead", "The Shannara Chronicles" and James Patterson's "Murder Is Forever". He was cast as Malcolm X in "" however production cancelled several characters opting to use archived footage instead. He also a student of Meisner Technique instructor Michael Saccenté, Acting coach of Karl Urban and Antony Starr.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Kelvin was born Kelvin Lewis Taylor in Hampton, Virginia with his fraternal twin sister, Princess. His Mother, Rhonda (Taylor) Clark, is an Playwright. His biological father Kelvin Lewis Pittman was a narcotics dealer turned user. Due to his fathers substance abuse, he was raised in a Single-parent home in the section 8 housing projects of Stuart Gardens, the same neighborhood of NBA Hall of Fame athlete Allen Iverson. His family was one of millions of African American families displaced and test subjects of US city zoning laws which origins stems from racial segregated of ethnic groups according to wealth. Taylor's family was subjected to the supposed War on drugs and also the War on Poverty. At age 11, his family relocated and eventually settled in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

paragraph: Kelvin made is stage debut at age 5 in kindergarten as the lead role in "The Gingerbread Man". His decision to become involved was inspired by his need to escape the harsh realities of his neigborhood, childhood trauma and the inspiration of his twin sister being cast as Cinderella for "Cinderella" at the same children's showcase..

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: As a young adult, Taylor had to have plastic surgery do to an altercation. Taylor has said that he has learned from the situation saying "...it taught me to reassess and define what a friendship is...". As of 2008, Kelvin Taylor currently resides between Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

wikidata_label: Kelvin Taylor

wikipedia_title: Kelvin Taylor (actor)


text:
Dutch Golden Age
Antwerp
Amsterdam
Abraham
oil paint
.
Fitzwilliam Museum
Magdalena van den Hecken
1001 Vrouwen
Magdalena van den Hecken
Netherlands Institute for Art History

categories: People from Antwerp,1615 births,17th-century deaths,Dutch Golden Age painters,Dutch women painters

paragraph: Magdalena van den Hecken

paragraph: Magdalena van den Hecken (1615 – after 1635) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.

paragraph: Van den Hecken was born in Antwerp as the daughter of the painter Samuel van den Hecken and moved with her family to Amsterdam. Her brother Abraham specialized in figure painting while she specialized in flowers, which were in the medium of oil paint. Her work is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Magdalena van den Hecken in 1001 Vrouwen

paragraph: BULLET::::- Magdalena van den Hecken in Netherlands Institute for Art History

alias:
Magdalena van der Hecken
Magdalena van den Hecken
Maddalena van den Hecken

description: painter from the Northern Netherlands

wikidata_label: Magdalena van den Hecken

wikipedia_title: Magdalena van den Hecken


text: scribe

text: Heritage Crafts Association

text: MBE

text: vellum

text: Fitzwilliam Museum

text: University of Cambridge

text: Heritage Crafts Association

text: Woodland Trust

text: Courtauld Institute of Art

text: British Academy Film Awards

text: Dulwich Picture Gallery

text: Wolf Hall (BBC series)

text: Book of Hours

text: Simon Schama

text: A History of Britain

text: Mark Rylance

text: Tom Bateman

text: British Library

text: Sevenoaks

text: MBE

text: Art Workers' Guild

text: Royal Society of Arts

text: Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust

text: All-party parliamentary group

text: Rosemary Sassoon

text: Fiona M. Watt

text: Christopher de Hamel

text: Michelle P. Brown

text: Illuminated manuscript

text: Islamic calligraphy

text: Palaeography

text: Penmanship

text: ITV News short video

categories: British women writers,Members of the Order of the British Empire,Women calligraphers,British women artists,British calligraphers,British scribes,Living people

paragraph: Patricia Lovett

paragraph: Patricia Lovett is a British scribe, calligrapher and illuminator from Kent. She is the author of several books and teaches calligraphy, illumination and manuscript skills in the UK and worldwide. Since 2017 she has been chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, having been vice-chair for several years previously and in 2013 was awarded an MBE for services to calligraphy and the protection of heritage crafts.

paragraph: Section::::Professional biography.

paragraph: Lovett was a secondary school teacher in London before becoming interested in calligraphy and heraldry in the late 1980s.

paragraph: She has a special interest in the manual preparation and uses of vellum. She teaches traditional vellum manuscript illumination, heraldry and calligraphy in Britain and in libraries around the world and is the author of several books across a range of manuscript skills.

paragraph: Lovett is the co-founder of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Collection of Contemporary Calligraphy at the University of Cambridge and curated the museum’s 2012/13 exhibition of contemporary calligraphy from around the world, "Calligraphy Today".

paragraph: She is the current chair of the Heritage Crafts Association, a position she has held since 2017 having previously been the founder vice-chair. She is a judge for the National Schools Handwriting Competition and champions handwriting along with other manual crafts.

paragraph: She has also produced many commissioned works including pieces for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, the Woodland Trust, Courtauld Institute of Art, British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) and Dulwich Picture Gallery. She has also worked in film and television providing tools and materials for "Wolf Hall (BBC series)" (a replica Book of Hours), "Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons" (BBC Radio 4) and the Simon Schama BBC series "A History of Britain". She has taught Mark Rylance and Tom Bateman how to prepare and use a quill for film and theatre performances and has appeared in “Numerous instances of being filmed as ‘the hand’, writing documents, signing documents, ‘being’ poets or historical figures, drawing maps etc.” for film and television.

paragraph: Lovett also works with the British Library providing short courses and study days on the traditional techniques of working with historical writing tools and vellum, illumination and gilding and medieval manuscripts. In addition she provided tools and materials and wrote the exhibition cards and introduction for the 2011/12 British Library exhibition "Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination".

paragraph: She lives in Sevenoaks in Kent.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition.

paragraph: Lovett has held several honorary positions and fellowships for her work in the arts and heritage crafts. In 2013 she was awarded an MBE for services to calligraphy and the protection and promotion of heritage crafts in the UK.

paragraph: Lovett is a brother of the Art Workers' Guild and an honoured fellow of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society (HFCLAS) having previously acted as chair. She is patron of the Lettering & Commemorative Arts Trust, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), an advisor for the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and is a participant in the All-party parliamentary group for art, craft and design education.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Lovett has written several books and magazine articles including

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Environment (Living Today series)" (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Teach Yourself Calligraphy (TY Arts & Crafts)" (1993, 10 editions)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Creating Letterforms: Calligraphy and Lettering for Beginners" (1992) with Rosemary Sassoon

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Calligraphy Projects" (1994) Multiple authors

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Calligraphy for Starters" (1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tools and materials for calligraphy, illumination and miniature painting" (1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Starting Lettering" (1997) with Fiona M. Watt

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The British Library Companion to Calligraphy, Illumination and Heraldry: A History and Practical Guide" (2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Macclesfield Alphabet Book: a facsimile" (2010) with Christopher de Hamel

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Calligraphy Today" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Historical Source Book for Scribes" (2015) with Michelle P. Brown

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Illumination, gold and colour: tools, materials, techniques, projects for using gold and colour and creating mediaeval miniatures" (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Art and History of Calligraphy" (2017)

paragraph: She has also contributed to several other books by providing calligraphy lettering and illustrations.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Illuminated manuscript

paragraph: BULLET::::- Islamic calligraphy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Palaeography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Penmanship

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video of the Book of Hours created for Wolf Hall

paragraph: BULLET::::- ITV News short video

description: British calligrapher and illuminator

wikidata_label: Patricia Lovett

wikipedia_title: Patricia Lovett


text: Native American

text: pottery

text: Santa Clara Pueblo

text: New Mexico

text: Tewa

text: Paul Speckled Rock

text: private first class

text: United States Army

text: World War II

text: Los Alamos National Laboratory

text: Los Alamos, New Mexico

text: Santa Fe National Cemetery

text: Santa Fe Indian Market

text: Santa Fe, New Mexico

text: photograph of Angela Baca

text: Palace of the Governors

text: Heard Museum

text: Phoenix, Arizona

text: National Museum of the American Indian

text: Washington, D.C.

categories: 1927 births,Artists from New Mexico,2014 deaths,Santa Clara Pueblo people

paragraph: Angela Baca

paragraph: Angela Tafoya Baca (1927 – 2014) was a Native American artist who was known for her redware and blackware pottery, especially melon bowls and bowls featuring a bear paw design. She had one of the longest careers of the potters in Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico. She was a member of the Tewa and a resident of Santa Clara Pueblo.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Born on November 6, 1927, Angela Tafoya Baca was the daughter of Severa and Cleto Tafoya. Her childhood home, located in the center of the plaza in Santa Clara Pueblo, later became the Merrock Galeria, which was owned and managed by her nephew Paul Speckled Rock.

paragraph: Angela married Jose Antonio "Tony" Baca, who served as private first class in the United States Army during World War II. He worked for the Zia Company (later Johnson Controls), which provided support services to Los Alamos National Laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The couple had 10 children, four of whom (David, Darryl, Leona, and Alvin) became noted Santa Clara Pueblo potters. Angela Baca died on February 16, 2014. She was interred in the Santa Fe National Cemetery with her husband, Tony, who died in 2005.

paragraph: Section::::Artistic creations.

paragraph: Angela Baca learned pottery-making techniques from her mother, Severa Tafoya, a well-known potter of Santa Clara Pueblo. According to Angela, her mother made melon bowls with large ridges, and Angela decided to make them with smaller ridges. Her initial work won first prize at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and she decided to focus on melon bowls, both red and black, although her work includes other designs, as well. She is considered to be the matriarch of the melon potters. A photograph of Angela Baca at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 1991 is available in the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Collection.

paragraph: Four of her children have carried on their mother's tradition of making melon vessels. Sons Darryl and Alvin Baca craft melon bowls and melon jars; son David "Yellow Mountain" Baca is known for his squash design melon bowls and melon seed pots; daughter Leona Baca primarily makes miniature versions of melon bowls.

paragraph: Section::::Artistic creations.:Exhibitions.

paragraph: Additional exhibitions: Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.; Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

wikidata_label: Angela Baca

wikipedia_title: Angela Baca


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brigandage
Bagarat
Bagratuni dynasty

paragraph: Valarsace

paragraph: Valarsace ( "Vałaršak", pronounced as "Vagharshak") was of Parthian origin and the founder of the Armenian branch of the Arsacid dynasty, according to Movses of Khorenatsi's account. However, scholarship considers him to be a composite of various kings. The first work of the new king was said to wipe out brigandage. He was horrified by the barbarity of the country, whose inhabitants, he reported, lived by murder and pillage. Valarsace organized a subdivision of the Parthian empire and conferred his greatest favors upon Bagarat, one of the ancestors of the Bagratuni dynasty.

wikidata_label: Valarsace

wikipedia_title: Valarsace