text:
American
baseball
pitcher
Moore, Oklahoma
baseball
Montreal Expos
Washington Nationals
2001 Major League Baseball Draft
Moore High School
Moore, Oklahoma
relief
Philadelphia Phillies
Baltimore Orioles
Toronto Blue Jays

categories: Savannah Sand Gnats players,Sportspeople from Oklahoma City,Oklahoma City RedHawks players,Gulf Coast Expos players,Baseball players from Oklahoma,Harrisburg Senators players,Vermont Expos players,Potomac Nationals players,Bowie Baysox players,Living people,Washington Nationals players,Brevard County Manatees players,People from Moore, Oklahoma,Major League Baseball pitchers,Norfolk Tides players,Columbus Clippers players,1982 births

paragraph: Mike Hinckley

paragraph: Michael David Hinckley (born October 5, 1982) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He grew up in Moore, Oklahoma, where he played high school baseball. He and his wife LeAnna have three children, Cora, Isaac and Livingstone.

paragraph: Section::::Baseball career.

paragraph: Hinckley was a 3rd round draft pick by the Montreal Expos (who became the Washington Nationals in 2005) in the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft, as a senior at Moore High School in Moore, Oklahoma. He was added to the Nationals 40-man roster in September and called up to the majors on September 1, , making his debut the next day and pitching 1 scoreless innings in relief against the Philadelphia Phillies.

paragraph: On November 25, 2009, the Baltimore Orioles signed Hinckley to a minor league deal.

paragraph: On December 21, 2010, the Toronto Blue Jays signed Hinckley to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. He was released on June 27, 2011, after recording a 5.68 ERA in the Blue Jays minor league system.

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Mike Hinckley

wikipedia_title: Mike Hinckley


text: storyteller

text: author

text: musician

text: Sodom Laurel

text: Madison County, North Carolina

text: Mars Hill College

text: English

text: Scottish

text: Irish

text: clawhammer

text: five-string banjo

text: National Public Radio

text: The Thistle & Shamrock

text: Fiona Ritchie

text: Celtic Colours

text: Cape Breton Island

text: Nova Scotia, Canada

text: storyteller

text: National Storytelling Festival

text: Jonesborough, Tennessee

text: Asheville, North Carolina

text: Al Petteway

text: Art6 Gallery

text: Sodom Laurel

text: Rob Amberg

text: National Storytelling Festival

text: Jonesborough, Tennessee

text: Smithsonian Folklife Festival

text: University of North Carolina Press

text: Algonquin Books

text: Workman Publishing Company

text: SIBA Book Award

text: Kirkus Reviews

text: National Heritage Fellowship

text: National Endowment for the Arts

text: Appalachian music

text: National Heritage Fellowship

text: Clawhammer

text: Banjo

text: Storyteller

text: Ballads

text: Sheila Kay Adams Official Website

categories: People from Madison County, North Carolina,1953 births,American storytellers,Living people,Mars Hill University alumni

paragraph: Sheila Kay Adams

paragraph: Sheila Kay Adams is an American storyteller, author, and musician from the Sodom Laurel community in Madison County, North Carolina.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: A seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and claw-hammer banjo player, Sheila Kay Adams was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, an area renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied singing of traditional southern Appalachian ballads that dates back to the early Scots/Irish and English Settlers in the mid-17th century.

paragraph: Adams learned to sing from her great-aunt Dellie Chandler Norton and other notable singers in the community such as, Dillard Chandler and the Wallin Family (including NEA National Heritage Fellow Doug Wallin). She began performing in public in her teens and, throughout her career she has performed at festivals, events, music camps, and workshops around this country and the United Kingdom.

paragraph: In 1975, Adams graduated from Mars Hill College. In 2003 she was named Alumna of the Year and later received a LifeWorks recognition in appreciation for her shared commitment to service and responsibility, presented at the college's LifeWorks 150 Alumni Celebration in April 2007.

paragraph: After teaching in the North Carolina public schools for seventeen years, Adams turned to full-time music and storytelling.

paragraph: Section::::Music, storytelling, and performance.

paragraph: Adams performs ballads from English, Scottish, and Irish traditions as she learned them from her ancestors, as well as innovating other tunes with a signature drop-thumb clawhammer style on the five-string banjo, an ability which has won her recognition and awards, Adams' extensive knowledge of balladry has also been featured in National Public Radio's The Thistle & Shamrock program with Fiona Ritchie.

paragraph: Adams' ballad singing and musical performances have also been featured internationally, including the Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

paragraph: As a storyteller Adams often appears at major festivals including the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

paragraph: Adams has been a regular performer with "A Swannanoa Solstice" in Asheville, North Carolina, alongside such artists as Al Petteway, Amy White, and Robin Bullock. In 2004 she appeared at Art6 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia in conjunction with an exhibition of Sodom Laurel photographs by Rob Amberg.

paragraph: Other performances include the acclaimed National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee as well as the 1976 and 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival as part of The Bicentennial Celebration and Appalachia: Heritage and Harmony.

paragraph: Adams performs and teaches regularly at the Swannanoa Gathering, a series of week-long workshops in various folk arts held in July and August on the campus of Warren Wilson College, near Asheville, NC. She has taught workshops in banjo playing, unaccompanied singing, and storytelling.

paragraph: Section::::Work as an author.

paragraph: In 1995, Adams released her first publication, "Come Go Home With Me" with the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories. The book was praised as "pure mountain magic" by "Life Magazine" and winner of the 1997 Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award, North Carolina Society of Historians.

paragraph: Her second publication, the acclaimed novel "My Old True Love", released in 2004 with Algonquin Books of Workman Publishing Company, was a finalist for the SIBA Book Award and praised by Kirkus Reviews as "Deeply satisfying storytelling propelled by the desires of full-bodied, prickly characters set against a landscape rendered in all its beauty and harshness."

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honors.

paragraph: Adams was named among eight North Carolina artists to receive the 2016 North Carolina Heritage Award for outstanding contributions to the state’s cultural heritage.

paragraph: In 2013, Adams was one of nine individuals to receive a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

paragraph: In 1998 Adams received the Brown Hudson Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society in recognition of her valuable contributions to the study of North Carolina folk traditions.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Sheila Kay has recorded several albums of ballads, songs, and stories including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Loving Forward, Loving Back" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Spring In the Burton Cove" (1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Don't Get Above Your Raising" (1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Christmas on the Mountain" (1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "What Ever Happened to John Parrish's Boy?" (1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Come Go Home With Me" (audio book)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "My Dearest Dear" (2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All The Other Fine Things" (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live at the International Storytelling Festival" (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Legacy I: Banjo Tunes" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Legacy II: Traditional Ballads" (2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Legacy III" (2017) Storytelling Live 2013 International Storytelling Festival

paragraph: Section::::Film and Documentary.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Last of the Mohicans" (1992); credited as the "humming woman" under the name Sheila Adams Barnhill

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Songcatcher" (2000); credited three times—first for her performance in the film as "Barn band banjo player", second for her work as a vocal coach for the cast, and third as the film's official advisor on traditional balladry.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound" (2006), a documentary film about ballad singers in Madison County; Adams appears as herself.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Appalachian music

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Heritage Fellowship

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clawhammer

paragraph: BULLET::::- Banjo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Storyteller

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ballads

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sheila Kay Adams Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Public Radio: "Thistle & Shamrock" with host Fiona Richie

description: American storyteller, author, musician

wikidata_label: Sheila Kay Adams

wikipedia_title: Sheila Kay Adams


text:
World Rally Championship
Harri Rovanperä
Latvia
Risto Pietiläinen
Škoda Fabia
power steering
Toni Gardemeister
European Rally Championship
Wales Rally GB
M-Sport
WRC2
Škoda Motorsport
Rally Argentina
Pontus Tidemand
Rovanperä's Youtube channel
Rovanperä's Facebook page

categories: 2000 births,World Rally Championship drivers,Finnish racing drivers,Finnish rally drivers,Living people

paragraph: Kalle Rovanperä

paragraph: Kalle Rovanperä (born October 1, 2000) is a Finnish rally driver. Rovanperä is the son of former World Rally Championship driver Harri Rovanperä. He has garnered international attention by starting rallying at an exceptionally young age. He is the 2016 and 2017 Latvian open class champion and the 2015 Latvian R2 class champion.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2015 season – Latvian R2 class champion.

paragraph: In 2015, at age 14, Rovanperä competed in Latvia, where a driver's license is not a requirement to take part in rallying. Between the stages his car was driven by co-driver Risto Pietiläinen, who also used to be the co-driver of Kalle Rovanperä's father Harri in WRC rallies. On 18 October 2015 Rovanperä won the Latvian rally championship with his Citroen C2R2 Max car in the R2 class.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2016 season – Latvian open class champion.

paragraph: For the first three rallies of the 2016 Latvian rally series, Rovanperä drove a 300-horsepower four-wheel-drive Škoda Fabia S2000. It was a completely new WRC2 class rally car with a two-liter naturally aspirated engine. The first race, on 16–17 January, ended in Rovanperä's overwhelming victory. The second place driver Ralfs Sirmacis lost the eight stage rally by one minute and 10 seconds. Rovanperä won each of the stages.

paragraph: The second rally, also in January 2016, was won by Rovanperä after a ferocious final spurt. His car's power steering was lost on the second stage and he lost over a minute. Eventually Rovanperä was able to win the rally with a 20.4 second margin to second-place Raimonds Kisiels. Rovanperä won nine of the ten stages.

paragraph: Rovanperä placed second in the Kurzeme rally in Latvia in May. It was the first rally in the 2016 Baltic Rally Trophy series. He was able to finish the rally despite suffering an axle damage and losing torque in his rear wheels.

paragraph: For the rest of the season Rovanperä got to drive a new Škoda Fabia R5 car. He placed second in Rally Zemaitija in Latvia in June and won the Tallinn rally in Estonia in August.

paragraph: In September Rovanperä was second in Liepaja rally, the penultimate rally of the Latvian championship series.

paragraph: Latvia rally in October closed out the season. Rovanperä won the rally and clinched the championship. Over the season, he won four times, placed second three times, and finished outside the podium only once. He is the youngest driver ever, at age of 16, to win a national open class rally championship in any country.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2017 season – three national series and WRC debut.

paragraph: In January 2017 the Finnish motorsport association AKK-Motorsport granted 16-year-old Rovanperä a special permission to take part in Finnish rally races and the Ralli SM national championship series.

paragraph: In February Rovanperä took part in his first Finnish championship rally in Mikkeli. He won the rally by a 10.7-second margin to second-place Teemu Asunmaa despite suffering a tire puncture. In June Rovanperä took his second Finnish rally championship series victory in Kouvola.

paragraph: In 2017 Rovanperä participated in the national championship series of three countries: Latvia, Italy and Finland. In Latvia and Finland he was driving Toni Gardemeister's team's Škoda Fabia R5 and in Italy a Peugeot team's Peugeot 208 T16. In Latvia Rovanperä won two of his first rallies and place second in the third one. In Italy he did not have notable success.

paragraph: In June 2017 the Finnish transport safety agency Trafi granted Rovanperä a special permission to apply for a driver's license when he turns 17. The normal required age in Finland is 18. On Monday 2 October, a day after his 17th birthday, Rovanperä successfully completed the mandatory driving test after having completed the theory part beforehand. Having a driver's license allows him to take part in WRC rallies.

paragraph: In the beginning of October Rovanperä placed second in Rally Liepaja in Latvia. As well as being part of the Latvian championship series, it was also Rovanperä's first rally in the European Rally Championship. Rovanperä had already previously clinched the 2017 Latvian open class rally championship for the second year in a row.

paragraph: Rovanperä participated in his first WRC rally at Wales Rally GB in October 2017, driving an M-Sport Ford Fiesta R5 car in Wales as well as in Rally Australia in November. He won the Rally Australia in WRC2, but was also the only contestant in the class. He also finished tenth in the total evaluation, gained a point and therefore became the youngest ever driver to score a point.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:2018 season.

paragraph: Rovanperä joined the Škoda Motorsport team for the 2018 season, with a plan to contest in the WRC2 series in 6–7 events. Rovanperä will use a private entered car for some of the rallies, including the season opener Monte Carlo Rally. Rovanperä will also contest some events in the Asia Pacific Championship series.

paragraph: In May, Kalle suffered a large accident on the Rally Argentina. Locked in a battle with teammate Pontus Tidemand for the WRC-2 victory on the final day, Rovanperä misjudged a fast left-hander and rolled violently, his car landing on top of a spectator's car parked at the side of the stage. Thankfully there was nobody in the car, and he and his co-driver were unscathed.

paragraph: He had a successful season, leading in Argentina prior to the accident, and was leading again in Finland when his suspension broke, before finally bagging a win with a dominant drive in Wales, where he'd made his debut one year earlier.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rovanperä's Youtube channel

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rovanperä's Facebook page

description: Finnish racecar driver

wikidata_label: Kalle Rovanperä

wikipedia_title: Kalle Rovanperä


text:
Eberhard I
Mark
Philip IV of France
interdict
Lordship of Mechelen
County of Loon
Engelbert III of the Marck

wikipedia_title: Engelbert III of the Marck, Archbishop of Cologne

categories: 1344 deaths,14th-century Roman Catholic archbishops,1288 births,House of La Marck

paragraph: Adolph II de la Marck (Bishop)

paragraph: Adolph II von der Mark (English: Adolph II of the Mark) (August 1288 – Clermont-sur-Meuse, 3 November 1344) was the Prince-Bishop of Liège from 1313 until his death in 1344.

paragraph: Adolph was the third son of Count Eberhard I of the Mark and Mary of Loon.

paragraph: Aged only 25, but through the influence of King Philip IV of France, he became Prince-Bishop of Liège in 1313.

paragraph: The people of the Prince-Bishopric opposed his authoritarian way of ruling. In 1316, he was forced to sign the Peace of Fexhe, which has been compared to the Magna Carta and which limited his powers. When he tried to revert the treaty, he was forced to flee from Liège to Huy at the end of 1324. From here, he placed Liège under interdict.

paragraph: In 1333, he sold the Lordship of Mechelen to the Count of Flanders.br

paragraph: He intervened in the War of Awans and Waroux and participated in the 1334 siege of Maastricht.br

paragraph: When Louis VI of Loon died in 1336 without an heir, he tried to annex the County of Loon, but without success.

paragraph: In 1343, his power was reduced further with the creation of the "Tribunal of the XXII", an independent court.br

paragraph: He died the next year and was succeeded by his nephew Engelbert III of the Marck.

wikidata_label: Adolf van der Mark

wikipedia_title: Adolph II de la Marck (Bishop)


text:
Chigwell
Essex
United Kingdom
field hockey
United States
Bryn Mawr College
anthropometry
Dudley Allen Sargent
Harvard University
Vassar College
Harriet Ballintine
Wellesley College
Bryn Mawr College
Smith College
Mount Holyoke College
Radcliffe College
nickname
New Milton
Hampshire
Burley
New Forest
NCAA

wikipedia_title: National Collegiate Athletic Association

categories: English emigrants to the United States,People from Chigwell,American female field hockey players,1981 deaths,American centenarians,1873 births

paragraph: Constance Applebee

paragraph: Constance Mary Katherine Applebee (June 4, 1873, Chigwell, Essex, United Kingdom – January 26, 1981) is best known for introducing field hockey to the United States. She was a co-founder of the American Field Hockey Association and served as its head for 20 years. She also founded Sportswoman magazine and was the athletic director at Bryn Mawr College for 24 years.

paragraph: Applebee graduated from the British College of Physical Education in 1899. In 1901, she came to America and took a course in anthropometry at Dudley Allen Sargent's Summer School of Physical Training at Harvard University. After a discussion among her classmates and instructors regarding the British sport of field hockey, she took them to a courtyard behind the Harvard gymnasium and gave a demonstration of the game.

paragraph: In the autumn of 1901 she embarked on a tour of women's colleges in the northeastern United States, introducing field hockey and giving coaching and instruction regarding the sport to the students and faculty at each stop. She was invited to Vassar College by Harriet Ballintine, the school's athletic director, and also visited Wellesley College, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and Radcliffe College, and Wheaton Female Seminary. She made return visits to each of those schools and the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics to coach field hockey through the spring of 1904. In 1904 she was hired as full-time athletic director at Bryn Mawr College, where she served in that capacity through 1928.

paragraph: In September 1922, Applebee established an annual three-week camp for intensive field hockey instruction at Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on the grounds of Camp Tegawitha. The camp was in business for more than 70 years before finally closing after the 1994 season.

paragraph: In 1924 she founded The Sportswoman, initially a field hockey magazine that eventually focused on all women's sports

paragraph: She was more commonly known by her nickname, "The Apple", and on January 26, 1981, she died at 107 at a New Milton, Hampshire, England nursing home. She is buried at St John the Baptist Church at Burley in the New Forest. As well as a grave she is commemorated within the church in one of the stained glass windows.

paragraph: She was also active in establishing lacrosse as a women's sport in the United States of America. The U. S. Women's Lacrosse Association was founded at her camp in the summer of 1931. The USWLA governed the sport on the collegiate and club levels until 1981, when the NCAA inaugurated its national championship tournament for women.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Schiot, Molly. "Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History". 2016.

description: American field hockey player

wikidata_label: Constance Applebee

wikipedia_title: Constance Applebee


text:
Washington, DC.
Rites of Spring
Rites of Spring
post-hardcore
emo
One Last Wish
Happy Go Licky
Brendan Canty
vinyl record
Dischord Records
Fugazi
Margin Walker
Rickenbacker
13 Songs
Repeater
Steady Diet of Nothing
In on the Kill Taker
Red Medicine
End Hits
The Argument
Mats Gustafsson
Vic Chesnutt
the Ex
Gossip
Standing in the Way of Control
Blonde Redhead
Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Misery Is a Butterfly
The Blood Brothers
Young Machetes
Downtown Boys
Xylouris White
Vic Chesnutt
North Star Deserter
At the Cut
Chain
Museum Hours
Jem Cohen
Instrument
Howard Bilerman
Rickenbacker 330
Fugazi
Rickenbacker 370
Rites of Spring
One Last Wish
The Argument
Gibson Les Paul Jr.
Marshall
Marshall
Fender Twin
Georgetown University
Georgetown Day School
Kathi Wilcox
Bikini Kill
the Frumpies
Rites of Spring
End on End
13 Songs
Steady Diet of Nothing
In on the Kill Taker
Red Medicine
End Hits
Instrument Soundtrack
The Argument

wikipedia_title:
Washington, D.C.
Rites of Spring
Rites of Spring
Post-hardcore
Emo
One Last Wish
Happy Go Licky
Brendan Canty
Phonograph record
Dischord Records
Fugazi
Margin Walker
Rickenbacker
13 Songs (Fugazi album)
Repeater (album)
Steady Diet of Nothing
In on the Kill Taker
Red Medicine
End Hits
The Argument
Mats Gustafsson
Vic Chesnutt
The Ex (band)
Gossip (band)
Standing in the Way of Control
Blonde Redhead
Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Misery Is a Butterfly
The Blood Brothers (band)
Young Machetes
Downtown Boys (band)
Xylouris White
Vic Chesnutt
North Star Deserter
At the Cut
Chain (film)
Museum Hours
Jem Cohen
Instrument (film)
Howard Bilerman
Rickenbacker 330
Fugazi
Rickenbacker 360
Rites of Spring
One Last Wish
The Argument
Gibson Les Paul Doublecut
Marshall Amplification
Marshall Amplification
Fender Twin
Georgetown University
Georgetown Day School
Kathi Wilcox
Bikini Kill
The Frumpies
Rites of Spring (album)
End on End
13 Songs (Fugazi album)
Steady Diet of Nothing
In on the Kill Taker
Red Medicine
End Hits
Instrument Soundtrack
The Argument

categories: Fugazi members,20th-century American guitarists,American punk rock singers,American male singers,Post-hardcore musicians,American indie rock musicians,One Last Wish members,1965 births,Rites of Spring members,American punk rock guitarists,American people of Italian descent,Living people,American male guitarists,Georgetown University alumni

paragraph: Guy Picciotto

paragraph: Guy Charles Picciotto (born September 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, and producer from Washington, DC.

paragraph: He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist in Fugazi and Rites of Spring.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Rites of Spring and early projects.

paragraph: Picciotto's musical career began in 1984, with the group Rites of Spring. A part of the D.C. post-hardcore scene, Rites of Spring increased the frenetic violence and visceral passion of hardcore while simultaneously experimenting with its compositional rules. Picciotto, as the band's lyricist, as well as singer and guitarist, also shifted hardcore into intensely personal realms and, in doing so, is generally credited with creating emo.

paragraph: Picciotto's early musical resume also includes the bands One Last Wish (1986), Happy Go Licky (1987–1988), Brief Weeds (EPs released circa 1991–1992), and The Black Light Panthers (ongoing sporadic project since 1982), the last two bands both being projects with Brendan Canty. He also created a record label called Peterbilt Records, which released limited-quantity vinyl record albums for the bands Rain, Happy Go Licky, and Deadline, then years later was involved in releasing the album "1986" by One Last Wish, along with Dischord Records.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Fugazi.

paragraph: Though not in the original line up of Fugazi, Picciotto joined very early in the group's career, singing with them by their second show and appearing on all the band's studio recordings.

paragraph: From the "Margin Walker" EP on, he also took up 2nd guitar duties, playing characteristically trebly Rickenbacker guitars. After seven albums ("13 Songs", "Repeater", "Steady Diet of Nothing", "In on the Kill Taker", "Red Medicine", "End Hits", "The Argument"), and several tours, Fugazi went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Side projects and production work.

paragraph: Picciotto has collaborated and performed with Mats Gustafsson, Vic Chesnutt, and members of the Ex among others. He has also produced numerous albums including the Gossip's breakthrough record "Standing in the Way of Control" as well as Blonde Redhead's "Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons" (2000), "Misery Is a Butterfly" (2004), The Blood Brothers final album, "Young Machetes," and Downtown Boys' "Cost of Living" (2017).

paragraph: Picciotto has produced three albums by the duo Xylouris White: "Goats" (2014), "Black Peak" (2016), and "Mother" (2018).

paragraph: Picciotto played on the Vic Chesnutt albums "North Star Deserter" (2007) and "At the Cut" (2009), and accompanied him on a 2009 Fall/Winter North American Tour. He co-produced the films "Chain" and "Museum Hours" with Jem Cohen (who made the Fugazi film "Instrument").

paragraph: In 2012 Picciotto was interviewed on stage at the Pop Montreal festival by Howard Bilerman about his experiences in the music industry.

paragraph: Section::::Equipment.

paragraph: Section::::Equipment.:Guitars.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rickenbacker 330 – Picciotto's main guitars are a sunburst Rickenbacker 330 and 2 identical black Rickenbacker 330's all equipped with RIC HB1 humbuckers. He has also occasionally been seen playing a natural-finish 330. The characteristically trebly Rickenbackers allowed Picciotto to make use of sonic space not taken by MacKaye's chunkier, rhythmic guitar playing in Fugazi.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rickenbacker 370 – Picciotto's main guitar when he fronted Rites of Spring, One Last Wish and in the first few years with Fugazi was a Mapleglo Rickenbacker 370. It eventually ended up in a state too fragile for live use, but he still used it in the studio right up to The Argument.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gibson Les Paul Jr. – During Picciotto's time with Rites of Spring and during the early days of Fugazi (photos show until at least as late as 1993) he could also be seen playing a white, Gibson Les Paul Doublecut Jr with a single P90 pickup. In an NPR interview done in 2011, Picciotto is quoted as having had a Gibson SG Jr. stolen in NYC. The NPR article may be incorrect about it being an SG and it was likely the same Les Paul JR guitar.

paragraph: Section::::Equipment.:Amplification.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Park 100 Watt heads

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marshall JCM 800 2203 heads

paragraph: BULLET::::- Red or Black Marshall JCM 800 4x12 cabinets fitted with 75-watt celestion speakers

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fender Twin reverb (studio)

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Picciotto holds a BA degree in English from Georgetown University and is a graduate of the Washington, D.C. private school, the Georgetown Day School.

paragraph: Picciotto married musician Kathi Wilcox from the band Bikini Kill and the Frumpies; as of October 2016 the two were living in Brooklyn with their ten-year-old daughter.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Rites of Spring.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rites of Spring" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All Through a Life" (1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "End on End" (complete discography) (1991)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:One Last Wish.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "1986" (1999)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Happy Go Licky.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "12"" (1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Will Play" (1997)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Black Light Panthers.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Peterbilt 12" 82-97" (1997)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Brief Weeds.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Very Generous Portrait 7"" (1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Songs of Innocence and Experience 7"" (1992)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Fugazi.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "13 Songs" (September 1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Repeater" (March 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Steady Diet of Nothing" (August 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In on the Kill Taker" (May 1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Red Medicine" (June 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "End Hits" (April 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Instrument Soundtrack" (1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Argument" (October 2001)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview from 2001 at Welcome to Flavor Country

paragraph: BULLET::::- January 1998 interview with Picciotto in "Diskant"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nude as the News" interview with Guy Picciotto (October 2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pitchfork" interview with Picciotto

paragraph: BULLET::::- Picciotto interview on the "Morphizm" site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Exclaim.ca September 2007 interview with Guy Picciotto

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Picciotto's 1999 Fugazi Guitar Rig. GuitarGeek.com

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Guy Picciotto

wikipedia_title: Guy Picciotto


text: Elizabethan

text: Jacobean

text: Cawston, Norfolk

text: Ely

text: sizar

text: Caius College, Cambridge

text: Philip Henslowe

text: Henry Chettle

text: William Haughton

text: Thomas Dekker

text: Richard Hathwaye

text: Wentworth Smith

text: shilling

text: Edward Sharpham

text: Thomas Middleton

text: Gervase Markham

text: Francis Meres

text: Henry Porter

text: Henry VI

text: The Isle of Gulls

text: Sir Philip Sidney

text: Algernon Charles Swinburne

text: Puritan

text: Bleak House

text: William Rowley

text: George Wilkins

text: Sir Thomas

text: Sir Anthony

text: Robert Shirley

text: romance

text: The Parliament of Bees

text: The Noble Spanish Soldier

text: John Lyly

text: euphuism

text: John Marston

text: The Maid's Metamorphosis

text: Charles Lamb

text: John Tatham

text: The Maid's Metamorphosis

text: Mermaid Series

text: Arthur Symons

text: Algernon Charles Swinburne

categories: 16th-century male writers,1574 births,Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,17th-century English dramatists and playwrights,English Renaissance dramatists,1640s deaths,People from Broadland (district),16th-century English writers,People of the Stuart period,17th-century male writers,16th-century dramatists and playwrights,People of the Tudor period

paragraph: John Day (dramatist)

paragraph: John Day (1574–1638?) was an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born at Cawston, Norfolk, and educated at Ely. He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book. He became one of Philip Henslowe's playwrights, collaborating with Henry Chettle, William Haughton, Thomas Dekker, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith. There are 22 plays to which he is linked.

paragraph: However his almost incessant activity does not seem to have paid, to judge by the small loans, of five shillings and even two shillings, that he obtained from Henslowe. Little is known of his life beyond these small details, and disparaging references by Ben Jonson in 1618/19, describing him, (with Dekker and Edward Sharpham) as a "rogue" and (with Thomas Middleton and Gervase Markham) as a "base fellow". It may be indicative of his abilities that of all the writers who did a substantial amount of work for Henslowe's companies Day is one of only two not mentioned and praised by Francis Meres in his lists of "the best" writers in 1598. In "Peregrinatio Scholastica, or Learning's Pilgrimage", a collection of 22 "morall Tractes" written towards the end of his life, but not published until 1881, he laments that "notwithstanding . . . Industry . . . he was forct to take a napp at Beggars Bushe", and elsewhere he refers to "being becalmde in a fogg of necessity" having been passed over by "Credit" and "Opinion". It seems likely that he was the "John Daye, yeoman" who killed fellow dramatist Henry Porter in Southwark 1599. If so it does not seem have to interrupted his career; he continued to collaborate with writers such as Henry Chettle, who had written with Porter.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: The first play in which Day appears as part-author is "The Conquest of Brute, with the finding of the Bath" (1598), which, with most of his early work, is lost. Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is "The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green" (acted 1600, printed 1659), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI. It bore the sub-title of "The Merry Humor of Tom Strowd, the Norfolk Yeoman", and was so popular that second and third parts, by Day and Haughton, were produced in the next year. "The Isle of Gulls" (printed 1606), a prose comedy founded upon Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia", contains in its light dialogue much satire to which the key is now lost, but Algernon Charles Swinburne notes in Manasses's burlesque of a Puritan sermon is a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr. Chadband in "Bleak House". In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, "The Travels of the Three English Brothers", which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley. This play is a dramatic romance of a type that hearkened back to the early decades of the public stage in London. In 1608 Day published two comedies, "Law Tricks, or Who Would have Thought it?" and "Humour out of Breath".

paragraph: "The Parliament of Bees" is the work on which Day's reputation chiefly rests. The piece contains much for which parallel passages are found in Thomas Dekker's "Wonder of a Kingdom" (1636) and "The Noble Spanish Soldier" (printed 1634). The passages which echo "The Noble Spanish Soldier" include references to speaking Spanish which are only meaningful in the context of Dekker's play; this suggests that the Dekker play is the original, a possibility reinforced by the consideration that there is no known edition of "The Parliament of Bees" earlier than 1641.

paragraph: The six dramas by Day which we possess show a delicate fancy and dainty inventiveness all his own. He preserved, in a great measure, the dramatic tradition of John Lyly, and affected a kind of subdued euphuism. Without ever wholly abandoning these characteristics, Day's comedy also reveals some influence of early Jacobean satirists such as John Marston, who like Day wrote for the children's companies. "The Maid's Metamorphosis" (1600), once supposed to be a posthumous work of Lyly's, may be an early work of Day's. It possesses, at all events, many of his marked characteristics. His prose "Peregrinatio Scholastica or Learninges Pilgrimage", dating from his later years, was printed by A. H. Bullen from a manuscript of Day's. Considerations partly based on this work have suggested that he had a share in the anonymous "The Pilgrimage to Parnassus" and the "Return from Parnassus". The beauty and ingenuity of "The Parliament of Bees" were noted and warmly extolled by Charles Lamb; and Day's work has since found many admirers.

paragraph: The date of his death is unknown, but an elegy on him by John Tatham, the city poet, was published in 1640.

paragraph: Section::::Publication.

paragraph: His works, edited by Bullen, were printed at the Chiswick Press in 1881. The same editor included "The Maid's Metamorphosis" in Vol. 1 of his "Collection of Old Plays". "The Parliament of Bees" and "Humour out of Breath" were printed in "Nero and other Plays" (Mermaid Series, 1888), with an introduction by Arthur Symons. An appreciation by Algernon Charles Swinburne appeared in "The Nineteenth Century" (October 1897).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hotson, Leslie M., "The Adventure of a Single Rapier", "Atlantic Monthly", July 1931

description: English dramatist

wikidata_label: John Day

wikipedia_title: John Day (dramatist)


text: American

text: jump blues

text: jazz

text: bebop

text: R&B

text: saxophonist

text: blues shouter

text: nickname

text: lye

text: hair straightening

text: Robert Christgau

text: Houston

text: Texas

text: horn section

text: Milton Larkin

text: Arnett Cobb

text: Illinois Jacquet

text: Tom Archia

text: Cedric Haywood

text: Wild Bill Davis

text: Big Bill Broonzy

text: New York

text: Cootie Williams

text: Mercury Records

text: double-sided

text: hit

text: chart-topper

text: John Coltrane

text: Jay McShann

text: Los Angeles

text: Johnny Otis

text: Monterey Jazz Festival

text: Count Basie

text: Roomful of Blues

text: Arnett Cobb

text: Buddy Tate

text: Four

text: Miles Davis

text: heart attack

text: chemotherapy

text: Los Angeles

text: California

text: Arnett Cobb

text: Live at Sandy's!

text: Oliver Nelson

text: Swiss Suite

text: Flying Dutchman

text: Buddy Tate

text: Live at Sandy's

categories: West Coast blues saxophonists,Bebop saxophonists,Rhythm and blues saxophonists,1917 births,20th-century American singers,Jazz musicians from Texas,New York blues musicians,American male saxophonists,Jump blues musicians,Muse Records artists,20th-century saxophonists,American male singers,American rhythm and blues musicians,Musicians from Houston,1988 deaths,20th-century male singers,American jazz alto saxophonists,American blues singers,West Coast blues musicians

paragraph: Eddie Vinson

paragraph: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L. Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product. Music critic Robert Christgau has called Vinson "one of the cleanest—and nastiest—blues voices you'll ever hear."

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Vinson was born in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the horn section in Milton Larkin's orchestra, which he joined in the late 1930s. At various times, he sat next to Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, and Tom Archia, while other members of the band included Cedric Haywood and Wild Bill Davis. After exiting Larkin's employment in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. He then moved to New York and joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945, recording such tunes as "Cherry Red". Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury Records, and enjoying a double-sided hit in 1947 with his R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie", and the song that would prove to be his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues".

paragraph: Vinson's jazz leanings were probably heightened during 1952-1953, when his band included a young John Coltrane. In the late 1960s, touring in a strict jazz capacity with Jay McShann, Vinson's career took an upswing. In the early 1960s Vinson moved to Los Angeles and began working with the Johnny Otis Revue. A 1970 appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival with Otis spurred a bit of a comeback for Vinson. Throughout the 1970s he worked high-profile blues and jazz sessions for Count Basie, Otis, Roomful of Blues, Arnett Cobb, and Buddy Tate. He also composed steadily, including "Tune Up" and "Four", both of which have been incorrectly attributed to Miles Davis. The aforementioned single-sourced claim is contradicted by the many times Miles Davis has been credited as composer on numerous recordings.

paragraph: Vinson recorded extensively during his fifty-odd year career and performed regularly in Europe and the U.S. He died in 1988, from a heart attack while undergoing chemotherapy, in Los Angeles, California.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: With Arnett Cobb

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live at Sandy's!" (Muse, 1978)

paragraph: With Oliver Nelson

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Swiss Suite" (Flying Dutchman, 1971)

paragraph: With Buddy Tate

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live at Sandy's" (Muse, 1978 [1980])

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Houston's own, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson!

paragraph: BULLET::::- NBR: Blues and Jazz Get Rollicking Together

paragraph: BULLET::::- All About Jazz: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'I Remember Eddie Cleanhead Vinson', by Steve Holt

wikidata_label: Eddie Vinson

wikipedia_title: Eddie Vinson


text: Kastoria

text: Michail Papageorgiou

text: Kastoria

text: List of Macedonians (Greek)

categories: Linguists from Greece,People from Kastoria,Year of birth unknown,Year of death unknown,Greek Macedonians

paragraph: Konstantinos Michail

paragraph: Konstantinos Michail () was a philosopher, physician and linguist.

paragraph: He was born in Kastoria. He spoke Greek, Latin, French and German and was a student of Michail Papageorgiou. He left all his books to the schools of Kastoria.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Macedonians (Greek)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Great Macedonians (15th-19th century)

description: Greek linguist

wikidata_label: Michael Constantine

wikipedia_title: Konstantinos Michail


text:
figure skater
1961 World Figure Skating Championships
U.S National Championships
Sabena Flight 548
Evergreen Cemetery
Colorado Springs, Colorado
honor student
pianist
homecoming queen
Cheyenne Mountain High School

categories: 1943 births,1961 deaths,Sportspeople from Colorado Springs, Colorado,American female single skaters,Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1961,Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Belgium,Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

paragraph: Stephanie Westerfeld

paragraph: Stephanie "Steffi" Westerfeld (October 8, 1943 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater.

paragraph: She earned a place on the United States' world team for the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships after she finished second at 1961 U.S National Championships.

paragraph: She died on February 15, 1961 when Sabena Flight 548 crashed on its way to the World Championships in Prague. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her sister, Sharon, was also killed in the crash and is buried next to her in the family plot.

paragraph: Westerfeld was an honor student, pianist and homecoming queen at Cheyenne Mountain High School.

description: figure skater

wikidata_label: Stephanie Westerfeld

wikipedia_title: Stephanie Westerfeld


text: Irish

text: politician

text: Dublin

text: Dublin Lockout of 1913

text: Castletownbere

text: County Cork

text: Belvedere College

text: Irish Parliamentary Party

text: Dublin St Patrick's

text: 1885 general election

text: House of Commons

text: Pope

text: Timothy Healy

text: Timothy Harrington

text: Charles Stewart Parnell

text: Anti-Parnellites

text: William Field

text: John Dillon

text: Kerry South

text: Mayo North

text: Irish Independent

text: Freeman's Journal

text: Sunday Independent

text: King Edward VII

text: International Exhibition

text: Herbert Park

text: King-Emperor

text: Edward VII

text: New Unionism

text: Dublin tram system

text: James Larkin

text: Dublin Lockout of 1913

text: Easter Rising

text: Abbey Street

text: Sean MacDiarmada

text: James Connolly

text: Irish Convention

text: Home Rule Act

text: John Redmond

text: Midleton Plan

text: partition of Ireland

text: newspaper

text: Sinn Féin

text: Independent Newspapers

text: Tony O'Reilly

text: Morrissey, Thomas

text: Morrissey, Thomas

categories: Businesspeople from County Cork,Irish Independent people,UK MPs 1885–1886,1919 deaths,Sunday Independent (Ireland) people,Irish Parliamentary Party MPs,UK MPs 1886–1892,Politicians from County Cork,1844 births,People educated at Belvedere College,People from Bantry,Anti-Parnellite MPs,Irish newspaper editors

paragraph: William Martin Murphy

paragraph: William Martin Murphy (6 January 1845 – 26 June 1919) was an Irish businessman, newspaper publisher and politician. A member of parliament (MP) representing Dublin from 1885 to 1892, he was dubbed "William "Murder" Murphy" among Dublin workers and the press due to the Dublin Lockout of 1913. He was arguably both Ireland's first "press baron" and the leading promoter of tram development.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Murphy was born on 6 January 1845 in Castletownbere, County Cork, and educated at Belvedere College. It is frequently incorrectly stated (including in the cited article) that he was an 'only child' when in fact he had two brothers who died young, and a sister Margaret Cullinane, who lived to be 93, and was buried with Murphy in Glasnevin . When his father, the building contractor Denis William Murphy (1799-1863), died, he took over the family business. His enterprise and business acumen expanded the business, and he built churches, schools and bridges throughout Ireland, as well as railways and tramways in Britain, West Africa and South America.

paragraph: Section::::Politician.

paragraph: He was elected as Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Dublin St Patrick's at the 1885 general election, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was a member of the informal grouping, the "Bantry band" – a group of politicians who hailed from the Bantry Bay area. The Bantry Band was also disparagingly dubbed the "Pope's brass band". Its most famous member was Timothy Healy MP and included Timothy Harrington MP, sometime Lord Mayor of Dublin City – however, Harrington (unlike Healy and Murphy) was a Parnellite in the 1890s. (Tim Harrington MP was not the same individual as TR Harrington, who edited the Irish Independent from 1905–31, though they both came from the Bantry/Schull area in West Cork.)

paragraph: When the Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890 over Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership, Murphy sided with the majority Anti-Parnellites. However, Dublin emerged as a Parnellite stronghold and in the bitter general election of 1892, Murphy lost his seat by over three to one to a Parnellite newcomer, William Field.

paragraph: Murphy was the principal financial backer of the "Healyite" newspapers the "National Press" and the "Daily Nation". His support for Healy attracted the hostility of the majority anti-Parnellite faction led by John Dillon. He made two attempts to return to Parliament, at Kerry South in 1895 and Mayo North in 1900, but both were unsuccessful because of Dillonite opposition.

paragraph: Section::::Publisher.

paragraph: In 1900, he bought the insolvent "Irish Daily Independent" from the Parnellites, merging it with the "Daily Nation". In 1905 he re-launched this as a cheap mass-circulation newspaper, the "Irish Independent", which rapidly displaced the "Freeman's Journal" as Ireland's most popular nationalist paper. In 1906, he founded the "Sunday Independent" newspaper.

paragraph: He refused a knighthood from King Edward VII in 1907 after organising a controversial International Exhibition in Herbert Park, Dublin (it was opposed by many nationalists who considered it as cosmopolitan and as encouraging the purchase of imported goods). In fact, the King-Emperor, Edward VII, was about to knight Murphy, but the honour was refused. Murphy had previously made it clear to the viceroy, Lord Aberdeen, that under no circumstances would he accept a knighthood, but Aberdeen had failed to pass on the message. Murphy appears to have been motivated by pride; he did not wish to have it said that he had angled for a title and compromised his nationalist principles.

paragraph: Murphy was highly critical of the Irish Parliamentary Party; from 1914 he used the "Irish Independent" to oppose the partition of Ireland and advocate Dominion Home Rule involving full fiscal autonomy (which the 1914 Home Rule Act would not have granted).

paragraph: Section::::Anti-trade unionist.

paragraph: Murphy took a benevolent attitude to traditional trade union activity amongst skilled workers, but resisted the advance of New Unionism.

paragraph: Worried that the I.T.G.W.U.would destroy his Dublin tram system, he led Dublin employers against the union led by James Larkin, an opposition that culminated in the Dublin Lockout of 1913. This made him extremely unpopular with many, being depicted as a vulture or a vampire in the workers' press.

paragraph: After the 1916 Easter Rising he bought ruined buildings in Abbey Street as sites for his newspaper offices. The call (expressed through his "Irish Independent") for the executions of Sean MacDiarmada and James Connolly at a point when the Irish public began to feel sympathy for their cause, made him even more unpopular. Murphy privately disavowed the editorial, claiming it had been written and published without his knowledge.

paragraph: Section::::Later career.

paragraph: He was invited in 1917 to take part in talks during the Irish Convention which was called to agree terms for the implementation of the suspended 1914 Home Rule Act. However he discovered that John Redmond was negotiating agreeable terms with Unionists under the Midleton Plan to avoid the partition of Ireland but at the partial loss of full Irish fiscal autonomy. This infuriated Murphy who criticised the intention in his newspaper, which severely damaged the Irish Parliamentary Party. However, the Convention remained inconclusive, and the ensuing demise of the Irish party resulted in the rise of Sinn Féin, whose separatist policies Murphy also did not agree with.

paragraph: Murphy died on 26 June 1919. His family controlled Independent Newspapers until the early 1970s, when the group was sold to Tony O'Reilly.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morrissey, Thomas: "William Martin Murphy", a short biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morrissey, Thomas: "Enigma of William Martin Murphy", The Irish Times, 11 September 2013.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morrissey, Thomas: "William Martin Murphy: Patriotic Entrepreneur or "a soulless money-grabbing tyrant"?", History Ireland, Issue 4(July–August 2013), Volume 21.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maume, Patrick: "The Irish Independent and Empire, 1891–1919" in Simon Potter (ed.) Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain: brReporting the British Empire c.1857–1921 (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2004) pp. 124–42.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maume, Patrick: "The Irish Independent and the Ulster Crisis 1912–21" in Alan O’Day and D.G. Boyce (eds.) br The Ulster Crisis 1885–1921 (London; Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006) pp. 202–28.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bielenberg, Andy: "Entrepreneurship, Power and Political Opinion in Ireland; the Career of William Martin Murphy.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maume, Patrick: "Murphy, William Martin", (Dictionary of Irish Biography)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Larkin, Felix M: "Hidden Lives of William Martin Murphy", Conference address, 3 October 2013.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hidden History, William Martin Murphy, RTE

description: Irish politician and businessman

wikidata_label: William Martin Murphy

wikipedia_title: William Martin Murphy


text:
jarl
Sweden
House of Bjelbo
Charles the Deaf
Estonians
John I of Sweden
Eric XI of Sweden
Knut the Tall
Bengt Birgersson
Canute
Battle of Sparrsätra
Holmger Knutsson
Birger jarl
Teutonic Knights
Riga
Courland

categories: Swedish nobility,13th-century Swedish people,1247 deaths

paragraph: Ulf Fase

paragraph: Ulf Fase (died 1247) was the jarl of Sweden c 1221-47. His nickname "Fase" (sometimes written "Fasi") has not been convincingly explained but may indicate "The Dreadful". Ulf belonged to the House of Bjelbo.

paragraph: After jarl Charles the Deaf had been killed during a Swedish attack against Estonians in 1220, Ulf as his closest relative was soon selected as the new jarl. An ephemeral jarl may have served briefly before Ulf's appointment. Before the death of king John I of Sweden in 1222, Ulf certainly held the office. He is presumed to have been a son of the late jarl Charles.

paragraph: In 1222, the rival dynasty's young heir, Eric XI of Sweden, ascended the throne at the age of 6. His minority meant that jarl Ulf gained more importance along with Knut the Tall. However, the nominal regent was Bengt Birgersson, Ulf's cousin.

paragraph: In 1229, Canute usurped the throne and exiled the young Eric. However, Ulf continued to hold the position of jarl. Upon Canute's death in 1234, king Eric, now 18, was restored to the throne. His supporters did not appreciate Ulf's "treachery" in accepting an usurper over Eric five years earlier. Ulf however was too powerful to be deposed from his office.

paragraph: There are clear records to show that Ulf Fase had the right to mint money, an otherwise exclusively royal prerogative. Several pieces of such coins, bearing his signs, are preserved.

paragraph: In 1247, there was an attempted coup against king Eric. The rebels were crushed at the Battle of Sparrsätra. Sources do not reveal whether Ulf was already dead at that time, or if alive, what was his role in the revolt. It has been speculated that he participated in the revolt and was therefore executed. Nevertheless, several rebel leaders were beheaded in 1247-48, including Canute's son Holmger Knutsson. After Ulf's death, the office of jarl was held by his relative Birger Magnusson, better known as Birger jarl.

paragraph: Ulf Fase left one well-attested son, Karl Ulfsson, also known as "junker Karl". Young Karl had bad relations with Birger jarl. Karl went later to voluntary exile by joining Teutonic Knights in Livonia. Karl was killed in 1260 at a battle near Riga in Courland, unmarried.

description: Swedish noble

wikidata_label: Ulf Fase

wikipedia_title: Ulf Fase


text: Bolton

text: cricket

text: Warwickshire County Cricket Club

text: Griqualand West

text: South Africa

text: 2001–02 season

text: Otago

text: New Zealand

text: 2005–06 season

text: 2001 season

text: County Championship

text: 2002 season

text: Rugby School

text: Ashley Giles

text: Cricket Scotland

text: List of Otago representative cricketers

text: Player Profile: Mike Powell

text: Cricinfo

text: Mike Powell

categories: Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers,Griqualand West cricketers,English cricketers,1975 births,Sportspeople from Bolton,Warwickshire cricketers,Otago cricketers,Warwickshire cricket captains,People educated at Lawrence Sheriff School,Living people

paragraph: Mike Powell (English cricketer)

paragraph: Michael James Powell (born 5 April 1975 in Bolton) is an English cricketer and coach who played for and captained Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He also played for Griqualand West in South Africa in the 2001–02 season, and three matches for Otago in New Zealand in the 2005–06 season.

paragraph: He captained Warwickshire from 2001 to 2003. In the 2001 season, the team were promoted from Division Two to Division One of the County Championship, and in the 2002 season they finished as runners-up in Division One, as well as winning the Benson & Hedges Cup Final at Lord's.

paragraph: Currently Powell coaches cricket at Rugby School.

paragraph: Powell was awarded a Benefit Year in 2008 but did not have his contract renewed at the end of that season following an appraisal of the playing staff under new coach Ashley Giles

paragraph: In February 2010 it was announced that Powell would be working with Cricket Scotland as their new High Performance batting coach with a specific remit of developing and improving young Scottish cricketers.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Otago representative cricketers

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Player Profile: Mike Powell from Cricinfo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mike Powell at CricketArchive

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Powell joins Scotland as batting coach from Cricinfo/a

description: New Zealand cricketer

wikidata_label: Mike Powell

wikipedia_title: Mike Powell (English cricketer)


text:
Grand Master
Teutonic Order
Welf
Albert I of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Boniface II of Montferrat
Henry
Albert II
William
Grubenhagen
Göttingen
Wolfenbüttel
Prussian
Commander
Gollub
commandry
Chełmno Land
Malbork Castle
Christburg
Vistula
Vistula Lagoon
Baltic
town
Gilgenburg
Eylau
Saalfeld
Osterode
Cistercians
Order's State
Werner von Orseln
Polish–Teutonic War
Pomerelia
Battle of Płowce
Christianisation
Königsberg Cathedral
Peter of Dusburg
Chronicon terrae Prussiae
Nikolaus von Jeroschin
World War II

categories: 1275 births,1335 deaths,Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order,Old House of Brunswick

paragraph: Luther von Braunschweig

paragraph: Luther von Braunschweig (also known as Lothar of Brunswick; – 18 April 1335) was the 18th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, serving from 1331 until his death.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Luther was a younger son of the Welf duke Albert I of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1236–1279) and his second wife Adelaide (1242–1284/85), daughter of Margrave Boniface II of Montferrat. His elder brothers Henry, Albert II and William succeeded their father in the Brunswick principalities of Grubenhagen, Göttingen and Wolfenbüttel.

paragraph: He was first documented as a Teutonic Knight in 1295, serving in the Prussian lands; from 1304 in the entourage of the "Landmeister". From 1308 to 1312, Luther acted as Commander ("Komtur") at Gollub, an important commandry in Chełmno Land. From 1313 he served as commander at Malbork Castle and in 1314 became commander of Christburg (present-day Dzierzgoń), governing large estates along the Vistula river down to the Vistula Lagoon ("Frisches Haff") on the Baltic coast. He founded the town of Gilgenburg (Dąbrówno) in 1326; he also renewed the charters of Christburg, Eylau (Iława), and Saalfeld (Zalewo). In 1329 he had the commandry of Osterode (Ostróda) established. Under Luther's rule, and with the aid of the Cistercians, his territory became the most advanced commandry in the Order's State.

paragraph: On 17 February 1331, he was elected Grand Master ("Hochmeister"), succeeding Werner von Orseln who had been killed the year before. While the Polish–Teutonic War over Pomerelia continued, again culminating in the Battle of Płowce on 27 September 1331, Luther further promoted the colonisation and Christianisation of the Order's lands. In his presence, Königsberg Cathedral was consecrated in 1333; Luther also had Malbork Castle extended and became known as a patron of the arts, such as the work of Peter of Dusburg, whose "Chronicon terrae Prussiae" was translated by chaplain Nikolaus von Jeroschin on his behalf.

paragraph: Luther was buried in Königsberg Cathedral. His tomb was destroyed in World War II.

description: German noble

wikidata_label: Luther von Braunschweig

wikipedia_title: Luther von Braunschweig


text: Lieutenant General

text: Charterhouse School

text: ensign

text: 61st Regiment of Foot

text: 14th Regiment of Foot

text: captain

text: 38th Regiment of Foot

text: Ionian Islands

text: half pay

text: Adjutant General

text: Cape Frontier Wars

text: lieutenant colonel

text: Mauritius

text: colonel

text: major-general

text: Ottoman

text: Crimean War

text: Florence Nightingale

text: KCB

text: War Office

text: GCMG

text: GCB

text: Malta

text: Governor

text: Jamaica

text: Morant Bay rebellion

text: Governor of Jamaica

text: Privy Councillor

text: Surveyor-General of the Ordnance

text: 70th Regiment of Foot

text: Borough of Newark

text: Sir George Grey

text: Colonial Empire

text: Home Rule for Ireland

text: Samuel Boteler Bristowe

text: Surveyor-General of the Ordnance

text: Ripon

text: by-election

text: lieutenant general

text: purchase system for Army commissions

text: Contagious Diseases Acts

text: Earl de Grey

text: 1874 general election

text: Highgate Cemetery

categories: West Yorkshire Regiment officers,1811 births,Governors of Jamaica,1874 deaths,61st Regiment of Foot officers,Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George,British Army generals,Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,UK MPs 1868–1874,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies,People educated at Charterhouse School

paragraph: Henry Knight Storks

paragraph: Lieutenant General Sir Henry Knight Storks (5 April 1811 – 6 September 1874) was a British soldier and colonial governor.

paragraph: Section::::Military career.

paragraph: Educated at Charterhouse School, he entered the Army on 10 January 1828 as an ensign of the 61st Regiment of Foot. He was promoted lieutenant on 2 March 1832, exchanged to the 14th Regiment of Foot on 23 March 1832 and was promoted captain on 30 October 1835. Exchanging to the 38th Regiment of Foot on 30 May 1836, he served with them in the Ionian Islands in 1840 and was promoted major on 7 August 1840.

paragraph: He went on half pay from the regiment on 23 May 1845 and served in a variety of staff posts. He served as an Assistant Adjutant General during the seventh of the Cape Frontier Wars from 1846 to 1847, and was subsequently promoted to an unattached lieutenant colonelcy on 15 September 1848. From 1849 to 1854, he was Assistant Military Secretary at Mauritius, and was promoted colonel on 28 November 1854.

paragraph: Promoted major-general, Storks superintended the British bases set up in Ottoman territory during the Crimean War, where he supported the nursing efforts of Florence Nightingale. After the war, he was awarded the KCB (2 January 1857) and employed from 1857 to 1859 by the War Office as Secretary for Military Correspondence.

paragraph: He now began his career in colonial government, appointed Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands on 2 February 1859. While serving there, he was created GCMG in 1860, and reorganized the judiciary of the islands before the end of the commissionership (by treaty) on 14 November 1863. He was made a GCB on 1 July 1864. Sent next to Malta, he was appointed Governor on 15 November 1864. However, he was called the next year to Jamaica to investigate the disturbances there, including the Morant Bay rebellion, and was appointed Governor of Jamaica on 12 December 1865. He held that post until 16 July 1866. Upon his return, he was created a Privy Councillor (10 November 1866). He resigned the Governorship of Malta on 15 May 1867.

paragraph: Now back at the War Office, he was appointed Controller-in-Chief and Under-Secretary at the War Office on 19 December 1867. There, he was involved in the re-organization of Army logistics that took place after the Crimean War. He was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance on 5 August 1870, the first to hold that post since the Crimean War. On 10 October 1870 he was appointed colonel of the 70th Regiment of Foot, an office he held for the remainder of his life.

paragraph: Section::::Last years in politics.

paragraph: Entering politics in 1870, Storks was endorsed as the Liberal candidate at a parliamentary by-election for the Borough of Newark that followed the death of the sitting Liberal MP. Unfortunately he was opposed by progressive liberal and colonial administrator Sir George Grey, who had previously been governor of South Australia, New Zealand and the Cape Colony, standing as an independent liberal. Grey's extremist views on the questions of the Colonial Empire, of emigration, of Home Rule for Ireland and the cause of the English poor were contrary to the interests of Gladstone's Liberal government. Determined that Grey should not be elected and seeing that splitting the liberal vote would result in both Grey and Storks losing to the Conservative candidate, the Liberal government engineered an arrangement where both would withdraw, leaving another Liberal candidate, Samuel Boteler Bristowe, to take the seat. Storks was rewarded with the newly revived post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and Grey returned to New Zealand later that year.

paragraph: The following year Storks was elected to parliament at the Ripon by-election. He was promoted lieutenant general on 25 October 1871. While in Parliament, he spoke in favor of the abolition of the purchase system for Army commissions. His stance on the Contagious Diseases Acts contributed to his defeat by the Earl de Grey in the 1874 general election. He died shortly after losing the election, on 6 September 1874. He was buried in the Western part of Highgate Cemetery.

description: British Army general

wikidata_label: Henry Knight Storks

wikipedia_title: Henry Knight Storks


text:
Norwegian
Halden
Østfold
Cappelen
Didrich von Cappelen
Skien
Norwegian Constituent Assembly
Eidsvoll
Constitution of Norway
Nils Otto Tank
Moravian Church
Suriname
Peter Martin Anker
manor house

categories: Ministers of Finance of Norway,1766 births,Government ministers of Norway,1832 deaths

paragraph: Carsten Tank

paragraph: Carsten Tank (24 April 1766 – 28 January 1832) was a Norwegian businessman and politician who served as Norwegian councilor of government of the 1st Ministry (finance and taxes, March–November 1814), and later councilor of state of the same ministry.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Carsten Tank was born at Rød Herregård, the family estate at Halden in Østfold County, Norway. Carsten Tank belonged to a branch of a wealthy timber merchant family. Carsten Tank's grandfather, Carsten Nielsen Tank was a merchant and acquired Rød Herregård in 1733. His parents were Nils Carstensen Tank (1725–1801) and Sophie Cathrine Leuch (1740–1778). Carsten Tank was a merchant and ship owner as well as being involved in the timber trade. He came to own numerous properties, a tobacco factory, several sawmills and large forests. He lost his fortune and in December 1829 had to file for bankruptcy.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Carsten Tank was married first to Bartha Sophie Leth (d. 1795) from Halden, and secondly to Catherine von Cappelen (1772–1837), sister of Didrich von Cappelen (1761–1828), who was the deputy for Skien to the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814 which established the Constitution of Norway. His son, Nils Otto Tank (1800–1864) was the noted Moravian Church missionary to the Dutch colony of Suriname. His daughter, Petronelle Didrikke Cathrine, (died 1833) who married Peter Martin Anker inherited the family estate Rød Herregård.

paragraph: Section::::Rød Herregård.

paragraph: Rød Herregård in Halden is one of the best preserved manor house in Norway. The property features well-preserved buildings, a baroque garden and an English landscape garden. The buildings have their oldest origins of the late 1600s, but were largely built during the last half of the 1700s. The manor house and estate complex was owned by the Tanker family through three generations, from 1733 to 1829. In 1961, two foundations were established to maintain the historic property. Rød Manor Foundation ("Stiftelsen Rød Herregård") is responsible for the manor house, buildings and gardens. Ankerske Foundation Collections ("Stiftelsen De Ankerske Samlinger") is responsible for the contents and the rich archives related to the property.

paragraph: Section::::Other sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jostein Vormeland, "Otto Tank – Pioneren fra Rød herregård" (Oslo: Genesis Forlag. 1999) Norwegian

paragraph: BULLET::::- E.A.Thomle, "Familien (von) Cappelen i Norge og Danmark" (Christiania: J. W. Cappelen. 1896) Norwegian

description: Norwegian politician

wikidata_label: Carsten Tank

wikipedia_title: Carsten Tank


text:
La Línea
Andalusia
hard rock
Nazareth
Spain
Dunfermline
Scotland
The Weight
The Band
blues
Dan McCafferty
Deep Purple
producer
Roger Glover
Hair of the Dog
platinum
United States
LP
Axl Rose
Guns N' Roses
Appetite for Destruction
solo
shows
Scottish
club
record label
Texas
Manny Charlton Band
id Software
Doom
John Romero
shareware
covers
Tim Hardin
Bob Dylan
Europe
Fleetwood Mac
Tim Bogert
Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
Steven Adler
Vivian Campbell
Classic Rock
Official Manny Charlton website
John Romero's Doom page

categories: 1941 births,Male guitarists,Lead guitarists,Scottish heavy metal guitarists,Living people,Scottish rock guitarists

paragraph: Manny Charlton

paragraph: Manuel "Manny" Charlton (born 25 July 1941, La Línea, Andalusia, southern Spain) is a founding member of the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth and was their lead guitarist from 1968 to 1990.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Nazareth.

paragraph: Charlton's family had emigrated from Spain to Dunfermline, Scotland in the 1940s when he was aged 2. Prior to joining Nazareth, Charlton played in a few bands, most notably the Mark 5 and later the Red Hawks, until joining the local semi-pro Dunfermline band The Shadettes. In 1968, the band changed their name to "Nazareth", inspired by the opening lyric from "The Weight", a song by The Band.

paragraph: Charlton played a huge part in Nazareth's worldwide success. His bluesy style of playing, combined with Dan McCafferty's vocals, first came to the attention of wider rock audiences when Nazareth toured in 1971 as the opening act for Deep Purple. But by 1973, they were headlining their own shows. Charlton also became the band's producer for many years, succeeding Deep Purple's Roger Glover, after the band decided they wanted to move in a new direction for the "Hair of the Dog" album. "Hair of the Dog" attained platinum sales in the United States and has to date sold in excess of two million copies. It is the band's most well known album, and contains their biggest ever hit "Love Hurts" which reached No. 8 in the US. Charlton also produced the self-titled "Dan McCafferty" debut LP around this time.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:"Appetite For Destruction".

paragraph: Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses initially wanted "the producer of Nazareth's Hair of the Dog" to produce what would become the band's breakthrough album. Manny Charlton subsequently got the request from Geffen Records and did produce several yet unreleased performances recorded at Sound City (LA) on 4 June 1986. The songs include "Paradise City", two versions of "Move to the City", "November Rain", "Shadow of your Love" (takes one and two), and "Reckless Life". However, after the initial work, Nazareth duties were pressing for Charlton to return to Europe, and Guns N Roses eventually hired Mike Clink to produce the album. Charlton's productions where included as a bonus disc on the 2018 re-issue of "Appetite for Destruction".

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Exit from Nazareth.

paragraph: After leaving Nazareth in 1990, Charlton played some solo shows on the Scottish club circuit, and released his first solo album "Drool" in 1997, on the Red Steel record label with Neil Miller on vocals. The following year, he relocated to Texas, where he formed the Manny Charlton Band (MCB). The new band released a pair of albums – "Stonkin" and "Klone This" – before disbanding in 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:"Doom".

paragraph: In 1995, Charlton sent to id Software, creator of "Doom", a cassette tape featuring an untitled song that John Romero would later title "Blood on the Walls". The liner said, "For all the guys and gals at I.D. (sic) who came up with the coolest game this side of hell, kick some demon butt to this!!" It also said "distribute as shareware", in keeping with the old days of PC gaming in which one could get the first third or fourth of the game for free or a reduced price, and buy the full game later. Romero would later find this tape and record it to mp3, providing it for free on his website. The song is actually titled "Doom" from Charlton's album "Drool".

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Recent work.

paragraph: In 2004, Charlton released "Say The Word" on the Scottish label River Records. 2005 saw the release of "Sharp", which is on the whole a covers album, including Tim Hardin's "Hang On To A Dream" and Bob Dylan's "Shelter From The Storm". Later that year, Charlton completed the follow-up to "Sharp", titled "Sharp Re-Loaded".

paragraph: In early 2006, Charlton joined the Swedish rock band, From Behind, who released their debut album titled "Game Over", and toured in support of the album around Europe before disbanding in late 2007. Charlton then released a solo album "Americana Deluxe", covering songs such as Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk".

paragraph: In March 2013, Charlton released "Hellacious". co-produced by Gary Bryant (GB Records). This recording was made in California and featured

paragraph: Tim Bogert, Walfredo Reyes, Jr., Steven Adler, Vivian Campbell and Robyn DeLarenzo.

paragraph: In 2014, Charlton's solo albums "Sharp" and "Sharp Re-Loaded" were issued as a double CD. Neil Jefferies of "Classic Rock" commended Charlton's production work, writing: "Among three Dylan songs tackled, All Along The Watchtower is simply stunning, sidestepping both the original and Hendrix’s seminal version with quasi-reggae tones that cement Charlton’s reputation as a truly gifted arranger."

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Singles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Manny Charlton Band - It Does Something" (2012)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:ROIO.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nazareth with Manny Charlton – Rock ‘N’ Roll Resort (Live)" (2008)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Manny Charlton website

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Romero's Doom page features a section on MCB's gift to id Software and accompanying mp3 and a scan of the liner

description: British musician

wikidata_label: Manny Charlton

wikipedia_title: Manny Charlton


text:
Norwegian
Little Norway
Canada
prisoner of war
German
POW camp
Stalag Luft III
Great Escape
Shanghai, China
Nils R. Müller
Aker, Norway
Zurich
World War II
England
331 (Norwegian) Squadron
North Weald
England
Roadsted
Spitfire Mark V
Focke-Wulf Fw 190
Belgian
dinghy
Great Escape
Żagań
Per Bergsland
Stettin
Szczecin
Roger Bushell
brothel
Swede
Gothenburg
Stockholm
Scotland
Bromma
London
neutral countries
Dutchman
Bram van der Stok
Spain
French resistance
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Göring
Geneva Convention
war crime
Gestapo
Sachsenhausen
Colditz Castle
Det Norske Luftfartsselskap
Scandinavian Airlines System
Rykkinn
Tre kom tilbake
Gyldendal
The Great Escape

categories: Norwegian World War II pilots,1999 deaths,Norwegian prisoners of war in World War II,People from Akershus,Norwegian people of British descent,Norwegian Royal Air Force pilots of World War II,1917 births,Norwegian escapees,Norwegian Army Air Service personnel of World War II,World War II prisoners of war held by Germany,Norwegian expatriates in Switzerland,Norwegian expatriates in Canada,Participants in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III

paragraph: Jens Müller (pilot)

paragraph: Jens Einar Müller (30 November 1917 – 30 March 1999) was a Norwegian pilot trained in Little Norway in Canada and a prisoner of war in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. He was one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Müller was born in Shanghai, China, the son of Norwegian engineer Einar Jønsberg Müller (1872–1943) and British actress Daisy Constance Russell (1891–1978). Jens Müller had one brother, the Norwegian movie director Nils R. Müller. The brothers grew up in Aker, Norway. Müller had already received a pilot's license at age eighteen in 1935. Müller was studying in Zurich when World War II broke out. In May 1940 he arrived in England.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: By 1942 he was an officer in 331 (Norwegian) Squadron at North Weald in England. On 19 June 1942, after completing a so-called "Roadsted" mission, his Spitfire Mark V (tail number AR298) was shot down by a German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 just off the Belgian coast after running out of ammunition. He escaped the plane by parachute and managed to paddle ashore unseen in his inflatable dinghy after 66 hours. However, he was caught by a German sentry almost immediately.

paragraph: In what later became known as the "Great Escape," which Müller had contributed to by constructing an air pump for ventilation of the tunnel, he was escapee #43 among the 76 prisoners of war who managed to escape from the camp (now: in Żagań, Poland). Müller partnered with a fellow Norwegian pilot, Per Bergsland, for their escape attempt.

paragraph: The pair caught a train to Stettin in Germany (now: Szczecin, Poland), where they intended to meet one of Roger Bushell's contacts in a local brothel. However, while there, they made contact with a Swede who offered to aid their escape, telling them to wait down at a pier in the harbour. After some time they realized the ship had left. They spent half the night in a boxcar, slept the next at an inn, and on returning to the harbour the next evening, met two Swedish sailors who helped smuggle them past the harbour authorities.

paragraph: The ship arrived in Gothenburg, where the two Norwegian pilots quickly sought out the British consulate. They were sent by train to Stockholm and were flown to Scotland from Bromma airport. From there they were sent by train to London and shortly afterwards to 'Little Norway' in Canada where they both resumed service, this time as flight instructors.

paragraph: Out of the 76 POWs who escaped, only three managed to reach neutral countries and freedom. The third successful escapee was the Dutchman Bram van der Stok, who crossed most of occupied Europe and escaped to Spain with the help of the French resistance.

paragraph: The remaining 73 escapees were recaptured. Adolf Hitler wanted to have them all shot, but Heinrich Himmler (or possibly Hermann Göring) persuaded him not to do this. Instead, fifty of the escapees were executed to make an example. This was a serious breach of the Geneva Convention which constituted a war crime. The remaining 23 recaptured prisoners were held in the custody of the Gestapo before being sent off to other camps. Of these, 17 were returned to "Stalag Luft III", four were sent to Sachsenhausen, and two to Colditz Castle.

paragraph: After the war, Müller worked for Det Norske Luftfartsselskap (DNL), one of the companies that merged into Scandinavian Airlines System. He retired in 1977.

paragraph: He was married and resided in Rykkinn. He died in April 1999.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Jens Müller wrote a book about his war time experiences titled "Tre kom tilbake" (Gyldendal, 1946). "The Great Escape" was made into a film. In February 2019 the first English language edition of Müller's memoir will be published in English with an introduction by the Norwegian historian Asgeir Ueland and a preface by Jen Müller's son Jon Muller.

paragraph: Section::::Related reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carroll, Tim (2004) "The Great Escaper" (Mainstream Publishing)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brickhill, Paul (1950) "The Great Escape" (W. W. Norton & Company)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Burgess, Alan (1990) "The Longest Tunnel" (Bloomsbury Publishing)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Durand, Arthur A (1989) "Stalag Luft III" (Patrick Stephens Ltd)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Muller, Jens (2019) "Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller" (Greenhill Books)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nerdrum, Johan (1986) "Fugl fønix: En beretning om Det Norske Luftfartselskap" (Gyldendal)

description: pilot and author from Norway

wikidata_label: Jens Müller

wikipedia_title: Jens Müller (pilot)


text: Fatimid

text: Caliph

text: 14th Ismaili imam

text: Ifriqiya

text: Tunisia

text: Cairo

text: al-Mansur Billah

text: Abu Yazid

text: Abbasids

text: Jawhar as-Siqilli

text: Berbers

text: Morocco

text: Umayyads

text: Spain

text: Byzantium

text: Ikhshidid

text: Abbasids

text: Al-Mansuriya

text: Cairo

text: Zirids

text: Carmathians

text: Yaqub ibn Killis

text: Al-Aziz

text: Jew

text: Christian

text: fountain pen

text: Qadi

text: al-Nu'man al-Tamimi

text: Al Muizz

text: Ibn Hani

text: Ibn Hani

text: Al Mutanabbi

text: Coptic Christians

text: Nayrouz

text: Coptic New Year

text: Pope Abraham of Alexandria

text: Mokattam mountain

text: Cairo

text: Gospel of Matthew

text: Pope Abraham of Alexandria

text: Mary

text: Simon the Tanner

text: Mokattam mountain

text: History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria

text: Severus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ

text: Christianity

text: Ahmad Zaki Pasha

text: List of Ismaili imams

text: List of rulers of Egypt

text: List of Shi'a Muslims

text: Ali ibn Muhammad al-Iyadi

categories: 975 deaths,10th-century Fatimid caliphs,932 births

paragraph: Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah

paragraph: Abu Tamim Maad al-Muizz li-Dinillah (26 September 932 – 19 December 975) (), also spelled as al-Moezz, was the fourth Fatimid Caliph and 14th Ismaili imam, and reigned from 953 to 975. It was during his caliphate that the center of power of the Fatimid dynasty was moved from Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) to Egypt. The Fatimids founded the city of "al-Qāhirah" (Cairo) "the Victorious" in 969 as the new capital of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: After the Fāṭimids, under the third caliph, al-Mansur Billah (946-953), had defeated the Khārijite rebellion of Abu Yazid, they began, under his son al-Mu‘izz, to turn their attentions back to their ambition of establishing their caliphate throughout the Islamic world and overthrowing the Abbasids. Although the Fāṭimids were primarily concerned with Egypt and the Near East, there were nevertheless campaigns fought by General Jawhar as-Siqilli against the Berbers of actual Morocco and the Umayyads of Spain. At the same time, Fatimid raids on Italy enabled naval superiority in the Western Mediterranean to be affirmed, at the expense of Byzantium, even capturing Sicily for a period of time.

paragraph: The way to Egypt was then clear for the Fāṭimids, the more so given the state of crisis that the incumbent Ikhshidid dynasty found itself in and the inability of the Abbasids to counterattack. The country fell to Jawhar in 969 without any great resistance. After he had secured his position, al-Muʻizz transferred the royal residence from Al-Mansuriya to the newly founded city of "Qāhirat al-Muʻi" "al-Muʻizz's Victory", i.e. Cairo, thereby shifting the centre of gravity of the Fatimid realm eastwards. In Africa, the Zirids were installed as regents. In Egypt, several attacks by the Carmathians had to be fought off (972-974) before the restructuring of state finances under Yaqub ibn Killis could be embarked upon. Al-Muʻizz was succeeded by his son Al-Aziz (975-996).

paragraph: Section::::Cultural achievements.

paragraph: Al-Muʻizz was renowned for his tolerance of other religions, and was popular among his Jewish and Christian subjects. He is also credited for having commissioned the invention of the first fountain pen. In 953, al-Muizz demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen which held ink in a reservoir. As recorded by Qadi al-Nu'man al-Tamimi (d. 974) in his "Kitāb al-Majālis wa 'l-musayarāt", al-Mu’izz commissioned the construction of the pen instructing:

paragraph: Fatimid Literature rose to a certain height of prominence in the period of Al Muizz with the emergence of skilled poets like Ibn Hani al Andalusi and Ali al Tunusi. Ibn Hani was often compared to Al Mutanabbi and hailed as the Mutanabbi of the West.

paragraph: Section::::Relationship with Coptic Christians.

paragraph: Coptic Christians were allowed a degree of freedom under al-Muizz. Copts were among those appointed to the highest offices of the empire and were allowed to freely practice their religion. Under Al-Muizz, the viceroy of Syria was Quzman ibn-Nima, a Copt who remained a Christian. The Nayrouz festival, the celebration of the Coptic New Year, was permitted though prohibitions on some of the activities, such as fire illumination and water splashing, were instituted.

paragraph: The relationship between al-Muizz and the Copts of Egypt has been the subject of a number of legends written later by Coptic Christians. One such legend involves al-Muizz challenged Pope Abraham of Alexandria to move the Mokattam mountain in Cairo, recalling a verse in the Gospel of Matthew which says:If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. According to Coptic sources, Pope Abraham of Alexandria ordered the Coptic community to keep vigil and to pray for three days and nights. On the third night, Pope Abraham had a dream in which Mary directed him to search for Simon the Tanner. The legend continues that with the prayers of the Coptic community, led by the Pope and Simon, the Mokattam mountain moved. This story is recounted in the book "History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria", written by Severus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ.

paragraph: Later Coptic sources would further assert that this miracle led al-Muizz to convert to Christianity, and that he was baptized at the church of Saint Mercurius in Cairo in a baptismal font that continues to exist to this day, and which known today as the "Sultan's Baptistry". According to this legend al-Muizz abdicated the throne in favor of his son, and spent the rest of his life in a monastery. This story is rejected by influential Muslim historians such as Ahmad Zaki Pasha and Muhammad Abdullah Enan.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Family tree of Muhammad#Family tree linking prophets to Imams

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Ismaili imams

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of rulers of Egypt

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Shi'a Muslims

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ali ibn Muhammad al-Iyadi

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jad Hatem, "Le Traité christologique du Calife al-Mu‘izz, le druzisme et le nusayrisme," Paris, Éd. du Cygne, 2013

description: Fatimid Caliph

wikidata_label: Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah

wikipedia_title: Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah


text:
Tijuana
Baja California
Mexico
professional baseball
infielder
Toros de Tijuana
Mexican League
third baseman
Diablos Rojos del México
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego
pitcher
Houston Astros
San Diego Padres
spring training
Lehigh Valley IronPigs
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Diablos Rojos del México
Guerreros de Oaxaca
Toros de Tijuana
Mexican League

categories: Águilas de Mexicali players,Auburn Astros players,Mayos de Navojoa players,People from Tijuana,Mexican League baseball managers,Portland Beavers players,Jackson Generals (Texas League) players,Mexican League baseball infielders,Diablos Rojos del México players,Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States,Guerreros de Oaxaca players,Major League Baseball shortstops,New Orleans Zephyrs players,Los Angeles Dodgers players,Major League Baseball players from Mexico,Baseball players from Baja California,Kissimmee Cobras players,Major League Baseball third basemen,Toros de Tijuana players,Gulf Coast Astros players,Living people,1976 births,Las Vegas 51s players,Lehigh Valley IronPigs players,San Diego Padres players,Major League Baseball second basemen

paragraph: Óscar Robles

paragraph: Oscar Manuel Robles Arenas (born April 9, 1976 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) is a former professional baseball infielder and current manager of the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He spent much of the 2000s as a third baseman for the Mexico City Red Devils (Diablos Rojos del México), and played briefly as an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers from May through . He graduated from Montgomery High School in San Diego, where he had his jersey retired as a pitcher, and set a then-record for San Diego Section career hits (143). He was originally signed by Houston Astros scout Deron Rombach after being drafted in the third round of the June free agent draft. After being signed, he used some of his bonus money to buy a scoreboard for his high school field. However, the Astros had no use for Robles, so they sent him back to the Mexican Baseball League (LMB), where he batted around .400, until he was called up by the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he played 110 games in the 2005 season. On February 2, , Robles was released by the Dodgers and his contract was sold to the Diablos Rojos del México. He was soon picked up by the San Diego Padres and invited to spring training.

paragraph: On April 29, , the Phillies claimed Robles off waivers from the Padres and assigned him to their Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

paragraph: Robles played from 2009-2013 with the Diablos Rojos del México, in 2014 with the Guerreros de Oaxaca, and with the Toros de Tijuana from 2015-2017. Following the 2017 season and after winning the Mexican League Championship with the Toros, he announced his retirement as a player. However, he accepted an offer to stay with the Toros organization as a hitting coach for the 2018 season. On August 6, 2018, Robles was promoted to manager of the team for the rest of the season.

description: Mexican baseball player

wikidata_label: Óscar Robles

wikipedia_title: Óscar Robles


text:
Wallachia
Romanian
mural
Câmpulung
Orthodox
Moldavia
Mărgineni Monastery
fresco
Măgureni
Cotroceni
Călineşti
Aninoasa
Colţea
Filipeştii de Pădure
Sfântul Gheorghe Nou
Cantacuzino family

categories: Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church,Romanian muralists,1735 deaths,1657 births,Fresco painters,People from Câmpulung

paragraph: Pârvu Mutu

paragraph: Pârvu Mutu ("Pârvu the Mute", nickname of "Pârvu Pârvescu"; 1657–1735) was a Wallachian Romanian muralist and church painter.

paragraph: He was born in the town of Câmpulung as the sixth son of the Orthodox priest Ioan Pârvescu, and began his career as a church painter at the age of 12. He lived some 40 years in Moldavia, returning to Wallachia in 1702. In 1718 he retired to the Mărgineni Monastery, the place where he died.

paragraph: Pârvu Mutu painted in fresco style the interiors of churches in Mărgineni, Măgureni, Cotroceni, Călineşti, Aninoasa, Fiindenii Doamnei, Colţea, Bordeşti, Filipeştii de Pădure and the Sfântul Gheorghe Nou church in Bucharest. Many of his works were commissioned by the Cantacuzino family.

paragraph: He is mostly remembered for his portraits and his frescoes of church founders.

alias:
Parvu Mutul
Mutu Pîrvu
Parvu Mutu
Mutu Pafnutie
Pârvu Mutu
Mutu Pârvescu
Mutu Pirvu
Mutu Pîrvescu
Pafnutie
Pârvescu Pârvu
Pîrvescu Pîrvu
Mutu Pârvu

description: Romanian artist

wikidata_label: Pârvu Mutul

wikipedia_title: Pârvu Mutu


text:
German
rally
World Rally Championship
Rally Catalunya
European Rally Championship
Race of Champions
Neustadt an der Aisch
Franken
World Rally Championship
1988
Toyota Team Europe
1990 season
Toyota Celica GT-Four
Rally Portugal
Rally Australia
Rally Catalunya
European Rally Championship
Manx International Rally
Cyprus Rally
RAC Rally
M-Sport
Juha Kankkunen
1999 season
Mitsubishi
Ford
Škoda
Safari Rally
2005 season
SCORE International
Baja 1000
Austria
Official website

categories: 1963 births,German rally drivers,World Rally Championship drivers,European Rally Championship drivers

paragraph: Armin Schwarz

paragraph: Armin Schwarz (born 16 July 1963) is a German rally driver. He competed in the World Rally Championship from 1988 to 2005, winning the 1991 Rally Catalunya and taking six other podium finishes. Outside the WRC, he won the German Rally Championship (1987–88), the European Rally Championship (1996) and the "Rally Masters" event at the Race of Champions (2000).

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Schwarz was born in Neustadt an der Aisch in Franken in 1963 and debuted in rallying in 1983. After having won the German Rally Championship for two years in a row, he made his debut in the World Rally Championship in 1988 and was signed by Toyota Team Europe, Toyota's factory WRC team, for the 1990 season.

paragraph: Driving a Toyota Celica GT-Four, Schwarz led a world championship rally for the first time at the 1990 Rally Portugal, took his first podium finish at the 1991 Rally Australia and his first and only win at the 1991 Rally Catalunya.

paragraph: In 1996, due to Toyota's 12-month ban from the WRC, Schwarz drove for the team in the European Rally Championship. He won the Manx International Rally and the Cyprus Rally and captured the overall title. Later that same year, he drove to victory in the RAC Rally, then part of the 2-Litre World Championship ("Formula 2").

paragraph: In 1997 Schwarz drove for the now Cumbria based M-Sport Ford rally team but was later replaced by Juha Kankkunen after a series of disappointing performances.

paragraph: In the 1999 season, after stints with Mitsubishi and Ford, Schwarz started his long partnership with the debuting Škoda works team. His best result with the team was third place at the 2001 Safari Rally. Schwarz retired from the world championship after the 2005 season, during which he took his first points finish in over a year at the season-ending Rally Australia.

paragraph: Following the successful completion of its Red Bull Young Rally Driver's Search Program, Schwarz joined forces in 2006 with Global Sport Licensing Ltd. (“GSL”) and Mr. Baumschlage to create the WRC designated Red Bull Škoda Team. Simultaneously, Schwarz started in 2007 to race, as a GSL racing driver with the support of California-based All German Motorsport team, in the American SCORE International off-road championship which includes among others the internationally famous races Baja 1000.

paragraph: Schwarz now lives in Austria. He is married with two children.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

description: German racecar driver

wikidata_label: Armin Schwarz

wikipedia_title: Armin Schwarz