text: SOAS

text: Yehudi Menuhin

text: Mstislav Rostropovich

text: Martin Bell

text: MP

text: Tatton

text: 1997 general election

text: Cheltenham Ladies' College

text: University College, Oxford

text: University of Oxford

text: London School of Economics

text: Ragga jungle

text: klezmer

text: Oi Va Voi

text: The Daily Telegraph

text: The New York Times

text: BBC Radio 3

text: Josh "Socalled" Dolgin

text: David Krakauer

text: Frank London

text: klezmer

text: Rufus Wainwright

text: KT Tunstall

text: Paul Weller

text: Killing joke

text: Theodore Bikel

text: School of Oriental and African Studies

text: Royal Academy of Music

text: Roby Lakatos

text: Nikolaj Znaider

text: Mark O'Connor

text: Barbican Hall

text: London Symphony Orchestra

text: Martha Wainwright

text: Decca Records

text: Richard Hawley

text: Ralph Fiennes

text: KT Tunstall

text: Ali Friend

text: The Klezmatics

text: Gary Lucas

text: Luke Toms

text: The Real Tuesday Weld

text: Alan Bern

text: Brave Old World

text: Maurice El Medioni

text: London Symphony Orchestra

text: Yasmin Levy

text: Ludovico Einaudi

text: Marius de Vries

text: Temposhark

text: Jon Thorne

text: Smadj

text: Ben & Jason

text: Besh o droM

text: Fiddler on the Roof

text: Henry Goodman

text: Yehudi Menuhin School

text: South Bank Centre

text: Marius de Vries

text: T S Eliot

text: Four Quartets

text: The Strad

text: Marius de Vries

text: Bijan Sheibani

text: Royal National Theatre

text: Royal Court Theatre

text: London Assurance

text: Royal National Theatre

text: Nicholas Hytner

text: SOAS

text: Jocelyn Pook

text: Terezin

text: Melanie Pappenheim

text: Lorin Sklamberg

text: The Klezmatics

text: Digital Folklore

text: Laughter Through Tears

text: Solomon&Socalled's HipHopKhasene

text: Poison Sweet Madeira

text: Decca Records

text: Lazarus

text: Paul Weller

text: Royal Albert Hall

text: Paul Weller

text: Royal Albert Hall

text: Threads

text: Temposhark

text: Nicholas Wright (playwright)

text: Almeida Theatre

text: Paul Weller

text: Island Records

text: Easy Virtue

text: Stephan Elliott

text: Noël Coward

text: Jessica Biel

text: Colin Firth

text: Kristin Scott Thomas

text: Marius de Vries

text: Fiddler on the Roof

text: Jerry Bock

text: Joseph Stein

text: Crucible Theatre

text: Sheffield

text: Henry Goodman

text: Yehudi Menuhin

text: Luke Toms

text: Island Records

text: The Invisible Line

text: Temposhark

text: Amanda Ghost

text: Chagall

text: Want Two

text: Rufus Wainwright

text: DreamWorks

text: Music From The Winery

text: David Krakauer

text: Redbird

text: Heather Nova

text: Another Run Around the Sun

text: Ben Taylor

text: Sophie Solomon Official website

text: Sophie Solomon on Myspace.com

text: Sophie Solomon at Deccaclassics.com

categories: 1978 births,British violinists,Alumni of University College, Oxford,English composers,Alumni of the London School of Economics,English Jews,Place of birth missing (living people),Living people

paragraph: Sophie Solomon

paragraph: Sophie Solomon (born 6 June 1978) is a British violinist, songwriter and composer who fuses many different musical influences into her music. She was Artistic Director of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS (University of London) from 2012-2015 and is now VP Marketing at high growth music technology start up, ROLI.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Solomon began playing the violin at the age of two. At four she met Yehudi Menuhin and was taken to see the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. For the first five years she played totally by ear, learning to read music at the age of seven.

paragraph: Even though the National Children's Orchestra and Pro Corda heralded her as one of the most promising violinists of her generation, Solomon "was never completely satisfied by the classical world alone, I felt constrained by the fact that the music was written down and the strict parameters of the repertoire. I felt I had to step outside of that and find my own voice."

paragraph: She was one of "Bell's Belles" who campaigned for Martin Bell during his successful attempt to be elected MP for Tatton in the 1997 general election.

paragraph: She studied at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and later at University College, Oxford (University of Oxford) graduating in 1999 with a First Class degree in Modern History and Russian. She also holds an MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: During her time at Oxford, Solomon spent a year living in Russia, where she had a residency DJing Ragga jungle music at Kitai Gorod's Propaganda nightclub. Solomon developed a passion for the traditional musics of Eastern Europe especially klezmer and gypsy styles and travelled widely in the region, absorbing new sounds and influences along the way. This led to her becoming a founder member of Oi Va Voi who were described as "one of the most exciting bands in Britain today" by "The Daily Telegraph". It was with this band that she rediscovered her love for the violin.

paragraph: Famed for their live appearances and Solomon's on-stage pyrotechnics, the band's debut album "Laughter Through Tears" received rave reviews, was voted in the top ten albums of 2004 by "The New York Times", won them two nominations in BBC Radio 3's annual awards for world music and an Edison Album of the Year Award 2003.

paragraph: Solomon's collaboration with Josh "Socalled" Dolgin – "Solomon & Socalled's HipHopKhasene" – with special guests David Krakauer, Michael Alpert and Frank London, a traditional klezmer wedding hip-hop style received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Album of the Year award 2004.

paragraph: She became increasingly in-demand, lending her violin playing to the likes of Rufus Wainwright, KT Tunstall, Paul Weller, Killing joke and Theodore Bikel. Solomon teaches klezmer music all over the world, most recently at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), the Royal Academy of Music and Weimar Conservatoire. She is on the artistic advisory committee of the Genius of the Violin festival, the only such event in the world devoted entirely to the instrument. In February 2006 she appeared alongside Roby Lakatos, Nikolaj Znaider and Mark O'Connor in the Genius of the Violin concert at the Barbican Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, performing special orchestrations of her own compositions. Martha Wainwright made an appearance as Sophie's special guest at this concert singing Lazarus.

paragraph: In May 2006 Solomon released her debut solo album, "Poison Sweet Madeira", on Decca Records – an eclectic mix of klezmer, folk and pop and featuring the vocal talents of Richard Hawley, Ralph Fiennes and KT Tunstall. Her regular touring band comprises Ian Watson (accordion), Daniel Glendining (guitar/vocals), Grant Windsor (piano), Ali Friend (bass) and Stevie Pilgrim (drums).

paragraph: She has appeared and worked with musicians as diverse as The Klezmatics, Gary Lucas, Bacon & Quarmby, Luke Toms, The Real Tuesday Weld, Nayekhovichi, Alan Bern & Brave Old World, Maurice El Medioni, the London Symphony Orchestra, th'Legendary Shackshakers, the Israeli Sinfonietta, Hazmat Modine, Avishai Cohen, Yasmin Levy, Ludovico Einaudi, Marius de Vries, Kipper, Temposhark, Jon Thorne, Smadj, Ben Parker (formerly of Ben & Jason) and Besh o droM.

paragraph: In 2006, Solomon was Musical Arranger on Lindsay Posner's critically acclaimed production of "Fiddler on the Roof" starring Henry Goodman, which transferred to the Savoy Theatre on London's West End in May 2007.

paragraph: In early 2007 Solomon premiered Wiesenberg's "Suite Concertante for Klezmer and Classical Violins" with Dora Schwarzberg & the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra. In 2008 she was a featured musician for the premiere at London's South Bank Centre of Marius de Vries's composition Q4 based on T S Eliot's Four Quartets, commissioned by the Rafael Bonachela Dance Company.

paragraph: She contributes regularly to "The Strad" magazine.

paragraph: She is currently working on her second solo disc for Sony/ATV, produced by Marius de Vries, and composing music for various film projects. She composed the score for Vlast (Power), a film about Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which has been screened at international film festivals, including Zagrebdox where it won a Special Recognition Award, and as part of Al Jazeera's Witness strand. In 2009, Solomon was composer, arranger and musical director for "Our Class", a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek directed by Bijan Sheibani at the Royal National Theatre in London. In 2010, she was Composer for 'Off the Endz' by Bola Agbaje at the Royal Court Theatre in London and appeared as featured folk fiddler in London Assurance at the Royal National Theatre directed by Nicholas Hytner.

paragraph: In November 2011 she was appointed as Artistic Director of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS, effective from January 2012. As part of her work at Jewish Music Institute, Solomon commissioned composer Jocelyn Pook, together with dramaturg Emma Bernard and video artist Dragan Aleksic, to create Drawing Life a new multimedia work inspired by the poems and drawings of the child-inmates of Terezin concentration camp. The work, funded by the Arts Council and winner of the PRS David Bedford Award for Music Education, features singers Melanie Pappenheim and Lorin Sklamberg of The Klezmatics and received a preview performance in 2014 at Kings Place in London.

paragraph: Solomon is also Founder and Governor of Hackney New School, a new secondary free school focused on music, which opened in Hackney in September 2013.

paragraph: In December 2014, Solomon was named in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most powerful people working part-time in the UK.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Digital Folklore" (Voi Records, 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Laughter Through Tears" (Outcaste, 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Solomon&Socalled's HipHopKhasene" (Piranha, 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poison Sweet Madeira" (Decca Records, 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lazarus" (single, Decca Records, 2006)

paragraph: Section::::Contributions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'Klezmer', Timeshift documentary, BBC4 2012

paragraph: BULLET::::- Find the Torch, Burn the Plans – Paul Weller Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD

paragraph: BULLET::::- Special Guest with Paul Weller at the Royal Albert Hall, May 2010

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Threads" – Temposhark 2010 (violin solos on songs "Say I'm Sorry" and "Green Lights")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Solo violin and viola on Mrs Klein by Nicholas Wright (playwright) at the Almeida Theatre, London 2009

paragraph: BULLET::::- Special Guest with Paul Weller at Island Records 50th Birthday Celebrations, Shepherd's Bush Empire 2009

paragraph: BULLET::::- Solo violinist on "Easy Virtue" directed by Stephan Elliott, new film version of Noël Coward play starring Jessica Biel, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas, with score by Marius de Vries

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fiddler on the Roof"- Jerry Bock & Joseph Stein – Musical Arranger of critically acclaimed production @ Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, & Savoy Theatre, West End, London, directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Henry Goodman as Tevye, 2006/7

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Premiere of Menachem Wiesenberg's Suite Concertante for Klezmer and Classical Violins, commissioned for Sophie by the Jewish Music Institute, performed with Dora Schwarzberg & the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra, London 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fools with Money", Luke Toms, Island Records 2007, produced by Marius de Vries

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Invisible Line" – Temposhark, 2007/2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Natureboy" – Amanda Ghost, 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chagall Illuminated, a Spiel-commissioned project of animation & improvisation inspired by Chagall paintings, together with Max Reinhardt, Tamar Osborn, Ben Mandelson and Lemez Lovas, 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- Socalled Seder Live 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Want Two" – Rufus Wainwright, DreamWorks 2005, produced by Marius de Vries

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Music From The Winery" – David Krakauer, Tzadik 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Redbird" – Heather Nova, V2 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Another Run Around the Sun" – Ben Taylor, Independiente 2005, produced by Bacon & Quarmby

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Album of the Year 2004 – Solomon & Socalled's "HipHopkhasene" (Piranha)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edison World Music Album of the Year 2004 – Oi Va Voi "Laughter Through Tears" (Outcaste)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Timewise Power Part Time 2014 as Sophie Jankovic

paragraph: Section::::"Poison Sweet Madeira" track list.

paragraph: BULLET::::1. "Holy Devil"

paragraph: BULLET::::2. "Burnt by the Sun" (with Richard Hawley)

paragraph: BULLET::::3. "Poison Sweet Madeira"

paragraph: BULLET::::4. "Lazarus" (with KT Tunstall)

paragraph: BULLET::::5. "A Light That Never Dies" (with Ralph Fiennes)

paragraph: BULLET::::6. "Hazy"

paragraph: BULLET::::7. "I Can Only Ask Why"

paragraph: BULLET::::8. "Meditation on Dvořák's Slavonic Fantasy"

paragraph: BULLET::::9. "Pin Pricks And Gravy Stains"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophie Solomon Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophie Solomon on Myspace.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophie Solomon audio interview Temposhark's Podcast series, May 2006/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophie Solomon interviewed at BBC Radio 3

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophie Solomon at Deccaclassics.com

description: British composer

wikidata_label: Sophie Solomon

wikipedia_title: Sophie Solomon


text:
Major League Baseball
left-handed
pitcher
Colorado Rockies
St. Louis Cardinals
Toronto Blue Jays
Milwaukee Brewers
reliever
college baseball
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1990 Major League Baseball Draft
San Diego Padres
1995 NLDS
pinch hit
striking out
Atlanta Braves
ERA
Great Britain national baseball team
2005 European Baseball Championship
Czech Republic
pitching coach
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
Seattle Mariners
High Desert Mavericks
Clinton LumberKings
pitching coach
West Tenn Diamond Jaxx
Southern League

categories: Louisville Redbirds players,Palm Beach Cardinals players,1967 births,Toronto Blue Jays players,Colorado Rockies players,Indianapolis Indians players,Colorado Springs Sky Sox players,Sportspeople from Bedford,St. Louis Cardinals players,Memphis Redbirds players,Wichita Wranglers players,Spokane Indians players,Waterloo Diamonds players,Milwaukee Brewers players,Major League Baseball pitchers,Living people,Dunedin Blue Jays players,Major League Baseball players from England,Arkansas Travelers players

paragraph: Lance Painter

paragraph: Lance Telford Painter (born July 21, 1967) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played for the Colorado Rockies (-), St. Louis Cardinals (-, ), Toronto Blue Jays (-), and Milwaukee Brewers (). Although he started 28 games, Painter is most known as a reliever.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Painter played college baseball at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Painter was drafted in the 25th round of the 1990 Major League Baseball Draft by the San Diego Padres. While playing with the Rockies in the 1995 NLDS he pinch hit in the ninth inning of game one (striking out), then started the next day in a losing effort against the Atlanta Braves. During the season with the Cardinals, Painter appeared in 65 games, went 4-0, and posted a 3.99 ERA. Painter appeared in 314 major league games and posted a career ERA of 5.24. He retired after the 2003 season.

paragraph: Section::::Coaching career.

paragraph: Lance was the pitching coach of the Great Britain national baseball team during the 2005 European Baseball Championships in the Czech Republic. GB placed 7th, just missing out on the qualification round for the World Championships. Lance is now the Pitching Coach for the Tacoma Rainiers.

paragraph: From -, Painter was the pitching coach of the Single-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Seattle Mariners organization. In , he was named the pitching coach for the Single-A High Desert Mavericks. On 13 January , he was named the pitching coach of the Single-A Clinton LumberKings. After the 2009 season he was named the pitching coach for the Double-A West Tenn Diamond Jaxx of the Southern League.

description: British baseball player

wikidata_label: Lance Painter

wikipedia_title: Lance Painter


text:
boxer
Kid Lavigne
Olympic Club, New Orleans
Jack Burke

categories: 1894 deaths,Boxers from Louisiana,Sports deaths in Louisiana,1867 births,Deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing

paragraph: Andy Bowen

paragraph: Andy Bowen (May 3, 1867 – December 15, 1894) was an American boxer from New Orleans. He died at age 27, as a result of a head injury sustained in a bout against Kid Lavigne.

paragraph: Bowen's first fight was in 1887. He was undefeated in his first 14 fights, with 12 wins and two draws. In September 1890, he successfully defended his title against Jimmy Carroll at the Olympic Club, New Orleans.

paragraph: On April 6, 1893, Bowen and Jack Burke were involved in the longest fight in history. The fight at New Orleans' Olympic Club lasted 110 rounds over seven hours and 19 minutes (each round lasting three minutes) before referee John Duffy declared a "no contest", both men having become too dazed and tired to come out of their corners. Burke broke all the bones in both of his hands and considered retiring after the fight but chose to continue competing. Bowen fought four more times.

paragraph: Bowen's fight against Lavigne was his 27th fight. The injury that killed him was inflicted in the 18th round, when Lavigne knocked him down and he hit his head on the wooden canvas. He died the next morning having never regained consciousness. At first Lavigne was arrested for the death of Bowen, but was found to be innocent of any wrongdoing following a coroner's inquest.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:64402

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/bowen-andy.htm

description: American boxer

wikidata_label: Andy Bowen

wikipedia_title: Andy Bowen


text:
Japanese
road racer
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Superbike World Championship
British Superbike Championship
Suzuki
Yokohama
Japan
motorcycle racing
All Japan Road Race Championship
1997
1998
Rizla Suzuki
John Reynolds
Cadwell Park
2004
Troy Corser
Suzuki
Superbike World Championship
GSX-R1000
Noriyuki Haga
Misano
Brno
All Japan Road Race Championship
Suzuka
Kousuke Akiyoshi
Suzuka 8 Hours
Kevin Schwantz
2010
Tommy Hill
Sugo
All Japan Road Race Championship
Suzuki GSX-R750
Suzuki RGV250
Suzuki GSV-R
British Superbike Championship
Suzuki GSX-R1000
Superbike World Championship
GSX-R750
Akira Ryo
Yoshimura
GSX-R1000
Kousuke Akiyoshi
Nobuatsu Aoki
Josh Waters
Anthony Delhalle
Kevin Schwantz
Noriyuki Haga
Dominique Aegerter
Ryuichi Kiyonari
Naomichi Uramoto
kagayama.com

categories: British Superbike Championship riders,Superbike World Championship riders,500cc World Championship riders,250cc World Championship riders,Sportspeople from Yokohama,Suzuki factory MotoGP riders,Japanese motorcycle racers,Living people,1974 births

paragraph: Yukio Kagayama

paragraph: Yukio Kagayama (born 4 May 1974) is a Japanese professional motorcycle road racer. He began his motorcycle racing career competing in the Japanese national championships before racing internationally in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, the Superbike World Championship as well as in the British Superbike Championship. Kagayama raced Suzuki motorcycles for the majority of his career.

paragraph: Section::::Motorcycle racing career.

paragraph: Kagayama was born in Yokohama Japan. He began motorcycle racing in 1990, competing for many years in the All Japan Road Race Championship, finishing fourth in 2001. He also contested four 250 cc World Championship races in 1997 and 1998, finishing in the top 8 in all four races.

paragraph: In 2003 he raced in the British Superbike Championship for Rizla Suzuki, alongside double British champion John Reynolds, and had won three races when he crashed heavily at Cadwell Park. He returned for the start of 2004, finishing 3rd in the championship despite not being at full fitness early in the season (a further crash caused a broken collarbone).

paragraph: For he joined Superbike World Champion Troy Corser in the Belgian-based Alstare Suzuki team in the Superbike World Championship, and won races on the GSX-R1000, riding on largely unfamiliar circuits against some of the world's top riders. He finished 5th overall, and did enough to retain his ride for . In the first race, he collided with Noriyuki Haga while battling for the lead on the final lap. He then had a run of poor results, before taking a third and a fourth at Misano, and then an impressive double win from the second row at Brno, nearly doubling his points total in one weekend. He came 7th overall in the series.

paragraph: In 2006 he raced in the final round of the All Japan Road Race Championship at Suzuka as a wild card and won the race. In he remained at Suzuki, but missed four rounds through injury. He finished the season ranked 13th. Also in 2007, Kagayama teamed up with Kousuke Akiyoshi to win the prestigious Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race for Suzuki. For 2008 he switched his racing number to #34, as used by former 500 cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz. Again he had an injury-hit season, and was easily the lowest-placed of the three works Suzuki riders in the standings.

paragraph: In 2010 Kagayama returned to the British Superbike Championship riding for the Worx Suzuki team. His teammate was Tommy Hill. He finished 15th overall with one podium finish.

paragraph: In 2011 Kagayama launched his own team "Team Kagayama" for a full season in the JSB (Japanese Superbike) class of the All Japan Road Race Championship. He is the owner and sole rider for the team, and the team's bike is the Suzuki GSX-R1000. Kagayama could not record a win this season and ended up 4th in the championship.

paragraph: Kagayama and the team are in the 2012 championship as well and recorded a win in the 6th round at Sugo. It was the first win for Kagayama since his full-season comeback to Japan in 2011 as well as for Team Kagayama since its launch the same year.

paragraph: Section::::Career Rankings.

paragraph: 1995: 11th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

paragraph: 1996: 11th, All Japan Road Race Championship GP250 Suzuki RGV250

paragraph: 1997: 3rd, All Japan Road Race Championship GP250 Suzuki RGV250

paragraph: 1998: 13th, All Japan Road Race Championship GP250 Suzuki RGV250

paragraph: 1999: 16th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

paragraph: 2000: 7th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

paragraph: 2001: 4th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

paragraph: 2002: Suzuki MotoGP Test Rider Suzuki GSV-R

paragraph: 2003: 7th, British Superbike Championship: Rizla Suzuki Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2004: 3rd, British Superbike Championship: Rizla Suzuki Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2005: 5th, Superbike World Championship: Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2006: 7th, Superbike World Championship: Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2007: 13th, Superbike World Championship: Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2008: 11th, Superbike World Championship: Team Suzuki Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2009: 12th, Superbike World Championship: Team Suzuki Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2010: 15th, British Superbike Championship: Worx Crescent Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2011: 4th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2012: 8th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2013: 10th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2014: 5th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2015- 12th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2016- 8th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2017- 10th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: 2018- All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

paragraph: Section::::Suzuka 8 Hours.

paragraph: 2000 - 22nd (Team Suzuki / Atushi Watanabe / GSX-R750)

paragraph: 2001 - 3rd (Team Suzuki / Akira Ryo, Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R750)

paragraph: 2002 - DNF (Team Suzuki / Akira Ryo / GSX-R750)

paragraph: 2003 - DNF (Yoshimura Suzuki / Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2004 - 2nd (Yoshimura Suzuki / Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2005 - 10th (Yoshimura Suzuki / Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2007 - 1st (Yoshimura Suzuki / Kousuke Akiyoshi / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2008 - 4th (Yoshimura Suzuki / Kousuke Akiyoshi / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2010 - 6th (Yoshimura Suzuki / Daisaku Sakai, Nobuatsu Aoki / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2011 - 2nd (Yoshimura Suzuki / Josh Waters, Nobuatsu Aoki / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2012 - 15th (S.E.R.T. / Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2013 - 3rd (Team KAGAYAMA / Kevin Schwantz, Noriyuki Haga / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2014 - 3rd (Team KAGAYAMA & Verity / Dominique Aegerter, Noriyuki Haga / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2015 - 3rd (Team KAGAYAMA / Ryuichi Kiyonari, Noriyuki Haga / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: 2016 - 6th (Team KAGAYAMA / Ryuichi Kiyonari, Naomichi Uramoto / GSX-R1000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- [Year] - [Result] ([Team] / [Teammate(s)] / [Bike])

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- kagayama.com Official website

description: Japanese motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Yukio Kagayama

wikipedia_title: Yukio Kagayama


text:
Warsaw
Poland
Polish
Fryderyk Chopin University of Music
Włodzimierz Kotoński
Roman Haubenstock-Ramanti
Tadeusz Baird
Silesian String Quartet
Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra
Szymanski page
Szymanski biography

categories: 20th-century classical composers,Living people,Polish classical composers,21st-century classical composers,21st-century male musicians,Polish male classical composers,1954 births,20th-century male musicians

paragraph: Paweł Szymański

paragraph: Paweł Szymański (born 28 March 1954 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish composer. When he was a student attending the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Szymański studied composition under Włodzimierz Kotoński. Paweł later studied under Roman Haubenstock-Ramanti as well as Tadeusz Baird.

paragraph: His music is based on strict technical discipline and the initial sound material of Szymański’s pieces has roots in past conventions but is always processed and composed from the beginning. Szymański himself talks of his music using the qualification “surconventionalism”. His style is similar to that of a neoclassical composer, but instead Szymański emphasizes past styles within his works. Many of his works also include influences from the baroque era as well as from Renaissance fantasias. He often modifies these classical styles of music until they become abstract and impressionistic.

paragraph: Throughout his career Pawel has performed in many countries including Denmark, Austria, Japan, and the United States. He continues to live and work in Warsaw. His works have been performed by many groups including the Silesian String Quartet and Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra.

paragraph: His piece "Qudsja Zaher "captures a story about a woman from Afghanistan who is a refugee. She jumps off of a boat and becomes stuck between the underworld and life.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Young Polish Composers' Competition (first prize)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Benjamin Britten Composers Competition for "Partita III"

paragraph: Section::::List of selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Epitaph" (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Partita I" for orchestra (1976)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Partita II" for orchestra (1978)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gloria" (1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonata" for strings and percussion (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Appendix" (1983)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Illusionary Constructions" (1984)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dwie Etiudy" (Two Etudes) for piano (1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Partita III" for amplified harpsichord and orchestra (1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Partita IV" for orchestra (1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quasi una Sinfonietta" (1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Miserere" (1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Piano concerto" (1994)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In Paradisum", motet for men's voices (1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Recalling a Serenade" (1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Prelude and Fugue" for piano (2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Compartment 2, Car 7" for vibraphone, violin, viola, and cello (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Qudsja Zaher", opera in two acts (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Singletrack" for piano (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gigue" for cello solo (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "a piú corde" for piano and harps (2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "ΦΥΛΑΚΤΗΡΙΟΝ (Phylakterion)" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sostenuto" for orchestra (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dissociative Counterpoint Disorder" for harpsichord (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sonata for Viola and Piano" (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fourteen Points" for orchestra (2018)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Szymanski page at the Polish Music Center

paragraph: BULLET::::- Szymanski biography at culture.pl

description: Polish composer

wikidata_label: Paweł Szymański

wikipedia_title: Paweł Szymański


text: Cornell University

text: Ithaca, New York

text: Yale University

text: Yale Lit

text: Linonian Society

text: hail-fellow-well-met

text: Skull and Bones

text: Ezra Cornell

text: Andrew Dickson White

text: early troubles

text: Ulysses S. Grant

text: New York Court of Appeals

text: Charles J. Folger

text: Chief Judge

text: November 1880

text: November 1881

text: Douglass Boardman

text: American Civil War

text: Columbus, Mississippi

text: Confederate

text: Union

text: Internet Archive

text: The Blue and the Gray, and other verses

categories: Cornell University faculty,Yale University alumni,1827 births,1907 deaths,19th-century American poets,New York Court of Appeals judges,American male poets

paragraph: Francis Miles Finch

paragraph: Francis Miles Finch (June 9, 1827 – July 31, 1907) was an American judge, poet, and academic associated with the early years of Cornell University. One of his poems, "The Blue and the Gray", is frequently reprinted to this day.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Francis Miles Finch was born on June 9, 1827, in Ithaca, New York. He was educated at Yale University, where, according to a contemporary, he was a "thoughtful scholar in the class-room, a prizeman in the essay competitions, an influential editor of the Yale Lit an impressive speaker in the Linonian Society, hail-fellow-well-met on the campus, sedate, impulsive, big-hearted, wise, witty, everywhere he was the ideal collegian." Because of his achievements, he became a member of Skull and Bones. Having been graduated in 1849, he returned to Ithaca, became a lawyer, and speedily distinguished himself in his profession. He soon became as a speaker in the political campaigns which preceded and followed the Civil War.

paragraph: He was a friend of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, and at the organization of Cornell University, he became warmly interested in the institution, was one of its trustees, and its counsel and friendly adviser through its early troubles. As Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Finch was left in charge when both Cornell and White were travelling out of town. He also lent the university his literary skills, as a contemporary relates: "His indignation at the attacks upon Mr. Cornell by the enemies of the university aroused him to fight strenuously and successfully in the courts, in the press, and in public meetings, while the music of the university chime, heard at dawn, noon, and nightfall above the ripple or roar of the adjacent waters, inspired him to write songs which have been sung by Cornell students from their first arrival forty years ago until the present hour."

paragraph: Early in Ulysses S. Grant's first presidential term (circa 1870) he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the Twenty-sixth District, New York, which office he resigned after holding it for four years.

paragraph: In May 1880, he was appointed a judge of the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Charles J. Folger as Chief Judge. In January 1881, he was re-appointed to fill the vacancy that continued after Folger's election as Chief Judge in November 1880. In November 1881, Finch was elected to a full fourteen-year term, and remained in office until December 31, 1895. He lectured at the Cornell's School of Law from 1887 onwards, and on the death of Hon. Douglass Boardman in the year 1891, was unanimously elected as dean of the Law School.

paragraph: Finch wrote poetry throughout his life, but declined a chair in rhetoric literature at Cornell, thinking his poetry was "only incidents along the line of a busy and laborious life." Perhaps his best known poem, "The Blue and the Gray", written in remembrance of the dead of the American Civil War, was inspired by a women's memorial association in Columbus, Mississippi, who on April 25, 1866 tended the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers, treating the dead as equals despite the lingering rancor of the war.

paragraph: Francis Finch was married May 25, 1853 to Elizabeth A. Brook, who died on March 28, 1892. They had three children: a son, Robert Brooke, and two daughters, Mary Sibley and Helen Elizabeth. He died in 1907, and a collection of his poems, "The Blue and the Gray, and other verses", was published by friends two years posthumously in 1909.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- This article contains text from "Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York", a publication in the public domain

paragraph: BULLET::::- This article contains text from "The Blue and the Gray, and other verses", a publication in the public domain

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The life and services of Ezra Cornell : an address delivered at Cornell University on Founder's Day (January 11th, 1887)" by Francis M. Fitch, from the Internet Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Blue and the Gray, and other verses" by Francis M. Fitch, 1909, from the Internet Archive

description: American judge

enwikiquote_title: Francis Miles Finch

wikidata_label: Francis Miles Finch

wikipedia_title: Francis Miles Finch


text:
NASCAR
Villa Park, Illinois
Sprint Cup
drag racing
stock car race
Hodgkins, Illinois
O’Hare Stadium
Schiller Park, Illinois
late model
stock car
Illiana Motor Speedway
Schererville, Indiana
Ford Torino
USAC
Southern 500
Darlington Speedway
Ontario
1977
Daytona 500
1988 Daytona 500
vertebra
retina
Randy LaJoie
Mike Potter
Hendrick Motorsports
show car
NASCAR Thunder 2004

categories: People from Villa Park, Illinois,NASCAR drivers,American Speed Association drivers,2004 deaths,1939 births

paragraph: Bobby Wawak

paragraph: Bobby Wawak (September 4, 1939 – April 17, 2004) was an American NASCAR driver from Villa Park, Illinois. He made 141 Grand National/Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) starts, with fourteen top-10 finishes.

paragraph: Section::::Racing career.

paragraph: Section::::Racing career.:Local racing.

paragraph: He began drag racing as a teenager. He raced in his first stock car race at around 1958 at Mance Park Speedway in Hodgkins, Illinois. He raced regularly at the O’Hare Stadium in Schiller Park, Illinois. He competed in both the cadet (sportsman) and late model divisions.

paragraph: In 1974 he was the late model stock car champion at Illiana Motor Speedway in Schererville, Indiana. He competed at the track in 1973 and 1974, winning 14 features at that half mile asphalt track in his 1971 Ford Torino. He won 21 total races (including preliminary events) in 1974.

paragraph: Section::::Racing career.:National touring series.:USAC.

paragraph: Wawak competed on the USAC stock car circuit in 1965. He made six races with a sixth-place finish in one event during his rookie season. He finished 18th in the final USAC standings that year. Wawak did not return to USAC racing until 1969 and would compete on a limited basis into the early 1970s.

paragraph: Section::::Racing career.:National touring series.:NASCAR.

paragraph: Wawak made occasional NASCAR starts before 1976, except for making 14 NASCAR starts in 1967. His first start was in the 1965 Southern 500 at Darlington Speedway. He started 27th, and finished 36th with engine problems.

paragraph: His most successful year was 1976, when he finished 22nd in the points. His highest career finish was a sixth-place finish in the final race of the season at Ontario.

paragraph: The fuel line on his car came loose on the third lap of the 1977 Daytona 500, and the fire came into the car's cockpit. Wawak jumped from the car while it was still moving (and slammed into the inside wall moments later), held up his burnt hands, and ran to the infield care center. "It was like sitting in front of a blow torch," Wawak said later. He made six more starts that year.

paragraph: He continued racing in NASCAR, and made 96 more NASCAR starts. His career ended when he crashed in the first qualifier for the 1988 Daytona 500, Wawak suffering a fractured vertebra and detached retinas. Randy LaJoie raced in one race in his car in 1988, and Mike Potter raced three races in 1990.

paragraph: After his NASCAR career ended, he helped Hendrick Motorsports with their show cars.

paragraph: Section::::In media.

paragraph: He appeared in "NASCAR Thunder 2004" as an unlockable driver in a car numbered 36.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: At age 64, Wawak died on April 17, 2004. He was survived by his wife Stevi, daughters, Jaclin Wawak and Robin Wawak Pemberton and grandchildren, Lauri Trotter and River Pemberton, in addition to two brothers, Allen Wawak and Richard Wawak; three sisters, Carole Tarvash, Joyce Annanie, and Marilyn Zmich.

description: NASCAR driver

wikidata_label: Bobby Wawak

wikipedia_title: Bobby Wawak


text:
Frauenfeld
Zürich
Swiss Reformation
Strasbourg
German dictionaries
Conrad Dasypodius
Josua Maaler

categories: German dictionaries,Swiss Renaissance humanists,1490s births,Lexicographers,1559 deaths,Swiss philologists

paragraph: Petrus Dasypodius

paragraph: Petrus Dasypodius ("Peter Hasenfratz", ca. 1495–1559) was a Swiss humanist. Born in Frauenfeld, he was a teacher and pastor in Zürich from 1527. Due to the Swiss Reformation, he was forced to move back to Frauenfeld in 1530. In 1533, he went to Strasbourg, where he taught Latin at the Carmelite monastery, and later at the "Gymnasium Argentinense".

paragraph: Petrus was the author of a number of dictionaries, Latin-German, Greek-Latin, Greek-Latin-German, Latin-German-Polish, Latin-German-Czech. His "Dictionarium Latinogermanicum" of 1535 is one of the earliest German dictionaries published. It was reprinted in Strasbourg in numerous editions until the end of the 16th century (ed. Rihel) and into the 17th;

paragraph: Rreprints also appeared in Antwerp (Montanus 1542), Cologne (Metternich 1633), Amsterdam (1650), Frankfurt (Schönwetter 1653)

paragraph: The 2nd edition of 1536 was reprinted in 1974 and 1995 (ed. Olms, ).

paragraph: Petrus was the father of mathematician and astronomer Conrad Dasypodius (1530/32–1600/1601).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jonathan West, "Lexical innovation in Dasypodius' dictionary", Berlin 1989 (de Gruyter).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Josua Maaler

description: Swiss humanist

wikidata_label: Petrus Dasypodius

wikipedia_title: Petrus Dasypodius


text: KG

text: peer

text: Lord Deputy of Ireland

text: Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare

text: James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond

text: FitzGerald dynasty

text: Old English

text: Gerald de Windsor

text: Nest ferch Rhys

text: Rhys ap Tewdwr

text: Prince of Deheubarth

text: More Irish than the Irish themselves

text: Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

text: Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone

text: Lady Margaret FitzGerald

text: Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond

text: Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane

text: Lydiard Tregoze

text: James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant

text: Baron Skryne

text: Robert Plunkett, 5th Baron of Dunsany

text: Silken Thomas

text: treason

text: Tyburn

text: Earl of Kildare

text: Lord Deputy

text: Lord Grey of Codnor

text: the Pale

text: Edward IV

text: York

text: Henry VII

text: pretender

text: Lordship of Ireland

text: Lambert Simnel

text: Battle of Stoke

text: Thomas

text: Perkin Warbeck

text: traitor

text: Tower of London

text: Archbishop of Cashel

text: Lord Deputy of Ireland

text: Cork

text: Connacht

text: Battle of Knockdoe

text: Clandeboye

text: Belfast

text: Bissett family

text: Glens of Antrim

text: River Greese

text: Kilkea

text: BBC

text: The Shadow of the Tower

text: Gawn Grainger

text: Nuala O'Faoláin

text: black arts

text: shapeshift

text: goldfinch

text: sparrowhawk

text: cavern

text: Curragh of Kildare

text: Butler – Fitzgerald dispute

categories: FitzGerald dynasty,1513 deaths,People from County Kildare,15th-century Irish people,Butler dynasty,Knights of the Garter,MacCarthy dynasty,O'Neill dynasty,1456 births,16th-century Irish people,Earls of Kildare

paragraph: Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare

paragraph: Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare KG (born – ), known variously as "Garret the Great" (Gearóid Mór) or "The Great Earl" (An tIarla Mór), was Ireland's premier peer. He served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1477 to 1494, and from 1496 onwards. His power was so great that he was called "the uncrowned King of Ireland".

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Gerald FitzGerald, was the son of Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare and Jane FitzGerald, the daughter of "the Usurper" James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond. The Gaelicized Cambro-Norman FitzGerald dynasty had risen to become the premier Irish Gall or Old English peers in Ireland. They were descended from Gerald de Windsor and the Welsh Princess Nest ferch Rhys, the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, Prince of Deheubarth. The family's deep Gaelic roots have been down-played in recent days for contemporary political reasons. In fact, Lord Gearóid or Gerald provides a good example of Ireland's political and cultural autonomy as summarized in the phrase More Irish than the Irish themselves.

paragraph: Gerald married firstly Alison FitzEustace, daughter of Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester, with whom he had five children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Eleanor FitzGerald, married Donal MacCarthy Reagh, 9th Prince of Carbery

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Alice FitzGerald, married Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Margaret FitzGerald, married Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Ellis FitzGerald who married Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane.

paragraph: He married secondly Elizabeth St. John, daughter of Oliver St. John of Lydiard Tregoze, a cousin of Henry VII, and had a further five children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, father of:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isabel FitzGerald - married Richard de Barry of Rathbarry

paragraph: BULLET::::- James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Oliver FitzGerald

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Richard FitzGerald of Fassaroe, who married Maud Darcy, widow of James, Baron Skryne, (whom he had murdered)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir John FitzGerald

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Walter FitzGerald, who married Elisabeth Plunkett, daughter of Robert Plunkett, 5th Baron of Dunsany

paragraph: All his sons by his second marriage took part in the rebellion of their nephew, the 10th Earl of Kildare, Silken Thomas, and were executed for treason at Tyburn on 3 February 1537.

paragraph: Section::::Politics.

paragraph: Gerald FitzGerald inherited the title of Earl of Kildare in 1477. He was appointed Lord Deputy in 1477, but was quickly replaced by Lord Grey of Codnor on the supposition that an Englishman could do the job better. The Lords of the Pale set up a breakaway Parliament in protest, and Edward IV was forced to re-install FitzGerald.

paragraph: FitzGerald managed to keep his position after the York dynasty in England was toppled and Henry VII became king, but Fitzgerald blatantly disobeyed King Henry on several occasions; he supported the pretender to the throne of England and the Lordship of Ireland, Lambert Simnel. Henry needed Fitzgerald to rule in Ireland, but found it almost impossible to control him. Simnel's attempt to seize the throne ended in disaster at the Battle of Stoke and many of his supporters, including Kildare's brother Thomas, were killed. Henry, now secure on his throne, could afford to be merciful and pardoned both Simnel and Kildare. Kildare was shrewd enough not to commit himself to the cause of the later pretender Perkin Warbeck, despite Henry's caustic comment that the Irish nobility would "crown an ape" to secure power for themselves.

paragraph: He presided over a period of near independence from English rule between 1477 and 1494. This independence ended when his enemies in Ireland seized power and had him sent to London as a traitor. He suffered a double blow: he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and his wife Alison died soon after. He was tried in 1496, and used the trial to convince Henry VII that the ruling factions in Ireland were "false knaves." The Archbishop of Cashel accused FitzGerald of burning down his cathedral. FitzGerald responded, "I would not have done it if I had not been told that My Lord Archbishop was inside." This frankness delighted the King. Henry immediately appointed him as Lord Deputy of Ireland, saying "All Ireland cannot govern this Earl; then let this Earl govern all Ireland"; and allowed him to marry as his second wife Elizabeth St. John, a distant cousin of the King. Gearóid returned to Ireland in triumph.

paragraph: He ruled Ireland with an iron fist. He suppressed a rebellion in the city of Cork in 1500 by hanging the city's mayor. He raised up an army against rebels in Connacht in August 1504, defeating them at the Battle of Knockdoe. In 1512, after entering O'Neill of Clandeboye's territory, capturing him and then taking the castle of Belfast, FitzGerald then for reasons now unknown proceeded through to utterly ravage the Bissett family's lordship of the coastal Glens of Antrim.

paragraph: A year later, on an expedition against the O'Carrolls, he was mortally wounded while watering his horse in the River Greese at Kilkea. He was conveyed back to Kildare, where he died on or around 3 September 1513.

paragraph: Section::::Character.

paragraph: Gerald has been described as a man whose exceptional charisma impressed all his contemporaries, Irish and English alike. Unlike his eldest son, who favoured diplomacy, he was described as being "open and plain" in his dealings; he was hot-tempered and unpredictable when young, but more mellow in later life.

paragraph: Section::::Portrayal.

paragraph: In the 1972 BBC miniseries "The Shadow of the Tower", FitzGerald is played by Gawn Grainger.

paragraph: Section::::The Legend of the Great Earl's Ghost.

paragraph: A legend, retold by Nuala O'Faoláin, says that Fitzgerald was skilled in the black arts, and could shapeshift. However, he would never let his wife see him take on other forms, much to her chagrin. After much pleading, he yielded to her, and turned himself into a goldfinch before her very eyes. A sparrowhawk flew into the room, seized the "goldfinch", and he was never seen again.

paragraph: According to legend, the Great Earl and his soldiers now slumber in a cavern beneath the Curragh of Kildare, ready to awaken to defend Ireland in her hour of need. The Earl rises once every seven years on May Day, and rides around the Curragh on his steed. When his horse's shoes are worn down to the thickness of a cat's ear, he will lead his army against the English, drive them out, and reign as king of Ireland for 40 years.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Butler – Fitzgerald dispute, which the Eighth Earl played a large part in resolving in 1492.

alias:
Gerard FitzGerald
Garret the Great
The Great Earl
An Iarla Mór
The uncrowned King of Ireland
An Iarla Mor

description: Irish peer and Lord Deputy of Ireland

wikidata_label: Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare

wikipedia_title: Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare


text: Osaka, Japan

text: Osaka Prefecture University

text: Tokyo

text: Akutagawa Prize

text: Yasushi Ichikawa

text: Women's Literary Prize

text: Yomiuri Prize

text: Japanese Art Academy

text: Noma Literary Prize

text: sadomasochism

categories: Deaths from respiratory failure,2015 deaths,People from Osaka Prefecture,Winners of the Yomiuri Prize,Winners of the Akutagawa Prize,20th-century Japanese novelists,1926 births

paragraph: Taeko Kono

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Kōno Taeko was born February 24, 1926 in Osaka, Japan to Kōno Tameji and Yone; her father Tameji operated a business specialising in mountain produce. As a child she suffered from poor health. When she was 15, the Pacific War broke out and her teenage years were dominated by service as a student worker sewing military uniforms and work in a munitions factory.

paragraph: After the war, she finished her economics degree at Women’s University (currently Osaka Prefecture University), graduating in 1947. Kono has written of the new sense of freedom and the high hopes she had after the war. Determined to make a career for herself as a writer, she moved to Tokyo, a city full of literary activities and literary personae, joined a literary group led by Niwa Fumio, and threw herself into writing, at the same time as working full-time. After nearly a decade of trying, during which she suffered several setbacks in her health, including two bouts of tuberculosis, in 1961 the literary magazine Shinchōsha began publishing her stories, and in 1962 she was awarded Shinchōsha's "Dōjin zasshi" ("Coterie Magazine") award for her story "Yōji-gari" ("Toddler Hunting" [幼児狩り]). In 1963 her short story "Kani" (Crabs) (蟹) won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize (her story "Yuki" [Snow] had been nominated in 1962). After this Kōno began to produce a stream of remarkable short fiction. In 1965 she married the painter Yasushi Ichikawa. In 1967 she was awarded the Women's Literary Prize for "Saigo no toki (Final Moments)," in 1968 the Yomiuri Prize for "A Sudden Voice" (不意の声), and in 1980 she won the Tanizaki Prize for "A Year-long Pastoral" (一年の牧歌). She received a literary prize from the Japanese Art Academy in 1984 and the Noma Literary Prize in 1991 for her novel "Miiratori ryōkitan" ("Mummy-Hunting for the Bizarre", 1990). Kōno's short story "Hone no niku" (Bone Meat) was published in the 1977 anthology "Contemporary Japanese Literature" (ed. Howard Hibbett), which stimulated interest in her writing amongst readers in English. A trickle of translations into English followed in a variety of anthologies of Japanese women's writing in translation, culminating in the publication of "Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories" in 1996. Kōno continued to write all her life, and was still writing when she died in hospital in January 2015. In 2014 she was awarded a Bunka Kunshō, or Order of Culture, which is presented by the Emperor to distinguished artists, scholars, or citizens who make remarkable contributions to Japanese culture, arts and science.

paragraph: Section::::Literary analysis.

paragraph: Kōno's writing explores how "underneath the seemingly normal routines of daily life, one may find hidden propensities for abnormal or pathological behavior", demonstrating that often "reality and fantasy are not so clearly distinguishable from each other". Alternative sexual practices is a theme that permeates Kōno's's writing; sadomasochism, for example, figures in "Toddler-Hunting," and "Ants Swarm" (1964), as well as her novel "Miiratori ryōkitan;" and "Kaiten tobira" ("Revolving Door", 1970) features spouse-swapping. Kōno uses these themes to explore sexuality itself and the expression of identity. She combines these elements with illness, childlessness, and the absence of a husband to delve even more deeply into these topics.

paragraph: More specifically, her writings explore "the struggles of Japanese women to come to terms with their identity in a traditional patriarchal society". Most of her female characters "reject traditional notions" of femininity and gender roles, their frustration "leads them to violent, often antisocial or sadomasochistic ways of dealing with the world". For example, in "Yōjigari", or "Toddler Hunting", one of her most famous stories, she investigates one woman's dislike of children. The protagonist, Hayashi Akiko, is repulsed by little girls but obsessed by little boys—she even imagines a little boy being beaten by his father to the extent that his innards spill out. She also takes pleasure in the sadomasochistic sex she has with her adult partner. One critic has written that the story "turn[s] the myth of motherhood on its head" while another argued that Hayashi was a representation of demonic women who threatened patriarchy itself. In "Fui no koe" (1968), which one critic has called a "modern woman's "Hamlet"", Kōno presents the story of Ukiko, whose dead father haunts her. His ghost instructs her to murder the people who are controlling her life. At the end of the story, it is revealed that all of these incidents are only taking place within her mind and she is "trying in her twisted way to bring meaning to her everyday relationships".

paragraph: Section::::English translations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kōno, Taeko. "Toddler-hunting & Other Stories". Trans. Lucy North. New York: New Directions, 1996. .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- J'Lit | Authors : Taeko Kono* | Books from Japan

description: Japanese writer

wikidata_label: Taeko Kono

wikipedia_title: Taeko Kono


text:
Byzantine
Byzantine Emperor
Alexios I Komnenos
Doukas
Domestic of the Schools
doux
Antioch
Seljuk Turks
Constantinople
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
Maria of Alania
sebastokrator
heretical
John Komnenos
Anna Dalassene
Anna Komnene
Alexiad
Alexios
Theophylact of Ohrid
Patriarch of Antioch
John the Oxite
scripture
Neoplatonist
Proclus
Leo of Chalcedon
Isaac I Komnenos
Prinkipo
Michael VII Doukas
Georgian
Alania
Maria of Alania
strategos
autokrator
Anatolia
Seljuk Turks
Battle of Manzikert
Caesarea
Constantinople
Ancyra
doux
Antioch
Joseph Tarchaneiotes
Patriarch of Antioch
Armenian
Philaretos Brachamios
Taurus Mountains
Constantine Diogenes
Romanos IV Diogenes
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
sebastos
imperial palace
Komnenos
Constantine Doukas
Irene Doukaina
Doukas
Cyzicus
Thrace
Adrianople
Tzouroulos
sebastokrator
Dyrrhachium campaign
Normans
Heraclius
Hagia Sophia
deacon
Leo
senators
Gregory Pakourianos
Pecheneg
Balkans
Sozopolis
Mesembria
Black Sea
John Komnenos
Dyrrhachium
Philippopolis
Adrianos
icon
patristic
church council
Palace of Blachernae
Nicholas Grammatikos
Chaldia
Theodore Gabras
Gregory
Alan
uncanonical
Propontis
Anemas
senator
Bogomil
Basil the Physician
monastic name
Eastern Orthodox Church
Sunday of Orthodoxy
John Komnenos
protosebastos
doux
Dyrrhachium
Empress Irene Doukaina
Alexios Komnenos
sebastos
Constantine Komnenos
Beroea
megas droungarios
Chaldia
Archbishop of Bulgaria
John IV

wikipedia_title: Constantine Diogenes (son of Romanos IV)

wikipedia_title: Alexios Komnenos (governor of Dyrrhachium)

categories: 1100s deaths,Domestics of the Schools,Byzantine prisoners of war,Family of Alexios I Komnenos,Byzantine generals,11th-century Byzantine people,Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Seljuq Wars,1050s births,12th-century Byzantine people,Byzantine governors of Antioch,Komnenos dynasty

paragraph: Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I)

paragraph: Isaac Komnenos or Comnenus (, "Isaakios Komnēnos"; – 1102/1104) was a notable Byzantine aristocrat and military commander in the 1070s. Isaac played a major role in the rise to the throne of his younger brother, the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (), and remained a leading figure in his brother's administration until his death.

paragraph: Isaac was born to the highest aristocracy of mid-11th century Byzantium, a position reinforced through marriage ties to the imperial Doukas dynasty. Well educated and brave, in 1073–1078 Isaac occupied two of the highest military positions in the Byzantine Empire, as Domestic of the Schools and "doux" of Antioch. His military record against the Seljuk Turks was not particularly distinguished, but on his return to Constantinople in 1078 he gained the favour of Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and of Empress Maria of Alania. Isaac and Alexios used imperial favour to further their own designs on the throne, launching a revolt in early 1081 that saw Alexios crowned emperor. As a reward, Alexios created the title of "sebastokrator" for Isaac, which put him almost on par with the emperor. During Alexios' reign and until his death, Isaac played an important role in domestic affairs in matters of public order and justice, being called to examine several cases of conspiracy or heretical teachings.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and career.

paragraph: Isaac was the second-eldest son and third child of the "domestikos ton scholon" John Komnenos, and his wife Anna Dalassene. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but was likely around 1050. According to his niece, the historian-princess Anna Komnene ("Alexiad", 77–78), he was physically similar to his younger brother, the future emperor Alexios, though he was paler and his beard was less bushy. According to Anna, he enjoyed hunting and war, where he would put himself in the vanguard during battle. Anna and other contemporaries, like Theophylact of Ohrid, underline Isaac's virtue and his capability of befriending people, although Anna also mentions that he was often short-tempered, and that he could suddenly explode on account of a single word. According to all sources, Isaac was extremely well educated; the Patriarch of Antioch, John the Oxite, records that he was competent in the interpretation of scripture, while Basil of Euchaita credits him with an extensive knowledge of philosophical matters. Only a handful of his writings survive: three treatises on philosophy, directed against the Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, and a theological compilation against Leo of Chalcedon.

paragraph: As a result of his parentage, he belonged to the highest aristocracy of mid-11th century Byzantium, being the nephew of Emperor Isaac I Komnenos (). Following the trial and exile of his mother in late 1071 or early 1072, he was exiled to the island of Prinkipo alongside her. In order to reconcile the powerful Komnenos clan to himself, the Emperor Michael VII Doukas () soon recalled him and married him (sometime after 4 August 1072) to Irene, a Georgian princess, the daughter of the ruler of Alania, who was first cousin to Michael's wife, Maria of Alania.

paragraph: Shortly after, probably in 1073, he was appointed as "domestikos ton scholon" of the East, and sent as commander-in-chief ("strategos autokrator") to campaign in Anatolia against the Seljuk Turks, who had invaded the area following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. At the first battle, near Caesarea, he was captured by the Turks, and was released only after a ransom was paid. He then returned to Constantinople, via Ancyra, with his younger brother Alexios. In the next year, he was sent east again, this time as "doux" of Antioch. His predecessor, Joseph Tarchaneiotes, had died, and his son Katakalon, was unable to control the unrest sweeping the city, orchestrated by the Patriarch of Antioch Aemilian, suspected of collusion with the Armenian warlord Philaretos Brachamios, who in the aftermath of Manzikert had established a semi-independent domain in the Taurus Mountains north of the city. Isaac used a ruse to remove the patriarch from the city, but his partisans rose in revolt, and had to be suppressed by force. While confronting a Turkish raid in the spring of 1075, he was again captured by the Turks, and had to be ransomed by the citizens of Antioch for 20,000 gold pieces. The same battle saw the death of his brother-in-law Constantine Diogenes, son of Romanos IV Diogenes (). Isaac remained in Antioch until the first half of 1078, when he returned to Constantinople.

paragraph: Section::::Plotting the coup d'état.

paragraph: Once back in the capital, he quickly gained the favour of the new emperor, the elderly Nikephoros III Botaneiates (), reportedly due to the latter's fondness for Syrian textiles, which Isaac often gave him as gifts. Accordingly, Botaneiates often called Isaac to dine at his table, gave him the high title of "sebastos" and the right to reside in the imperial palace. Despite the favour shown to them by Botaneiates, Isaac and Alexios plotted to advance the position of the Komnenos clan by deposing the emperor and seizing the throne. When Botaneiates' Bulgarian confidantes, Boril and Germanos, learned of their intentions, the brothers sought the protection of Empress Maria, who adopted Alexios. The empress feared for status of her son by Michael VII, Constantine Doukas, whom Botaneiates intended to sideline in favour of a certain Synadenos. According to Anna Komnene, the brothers used the opportunity to reveal their plans to the empress, pledging to safeguard Constantine's rights to the succession. Thus, and through Alexios' marriage to Irene Doukaina, the Komnenos brothers secured the support of the still powerful Doukas family.

paragraph: The brothers found an opportune moment in late January 1081, when the sack of Cyzicus by the Seljuks led to a concentration of troops in Thrace, close to the capital. On Sunday, 14 February, the brothers and their partisans met, and on the next day they secretly left Constantinople and made for Adrianople, and then Tzouroulos, where they joined the army. Gaining control over it, they moved it towards Constantinople, setting up camp at the suburb of Skiza. At Skiza, there was contention that Isaac could be proclaimed emperor instead of Alexios, who according to one anonymous chronicle had already been crowned emperor at Adrianople, but the Doukai and the bulk of the army threw their support behind the latter, and Isaac acquiesced. He even demonstratively clasped the imperial purple boots on his brother's feet. The Komnenoi entered Constantinople on 1 April, and Isaac with the rest of the family established themselves in the palace.

paragraph: Section::::Career under Alexios I.

paragraph: After Alexios gained power, Isaac proved one of his most loyal, steadfast and enthusiastic supporters. Alexios in turn rewarded him by awarding him with the new title of "sebastokrator" which marked him as a near-equal; in the words of Anna Komnene, an "emperor without the purple". Isaac already bore his new title in May/June, when he was charged with leading Empress Maria of Alania to the Mangana Monastery, where she was confined on the insistence of the Doukas clan.

paragraph: According to the historian Paul Gautier, Alexios appears to have entrusted his brother with the role of "grand inquisitor and guardian of public order". As such, Isaac headed a special tribunal, and was charged by Alexios with a number of delicate assignments. Thus, when Alexios left for the Dyrrhachium campaign against the Normans in autumn 1081, Isaac was left in charge of keeping order in Constantinople. During the campaign, Alexios was constantly in need of money to pay his troops. A first appeal for financial aid was met by the Komnenoi themselves, as well as their relatives and supporters, but when a second appeal came soon after, Isaac and his mother, who had been left in charge of the government, were at an impasse. After long deliberation, they decided to turn to the treasures of the Church—following a precedent set by previous emperors all the way back to Heraclius (). Thus, in the winter of 1081/1082, and without prior warning, Isaac went to the Hagia Sophia, convened the patriarchal synod, and in a forceful speech convinced the clergy to allow the confiscation and melting of gold and silver items to cut coin to pay the troops. Only a single member of the synod, the deacon John Metaxas, opposed the move, and even went as far as ridiculing Isaac, but once the confiscation began, Leo, the Metropolitan of Chalcedon, who had not been present at the synod, started to publicly denounce the decision as well as Isaac, its chief instigator. This led to Leo's trial and dismissal by a mixed court composed of senators and senior clergymen in January 1086.

paragraph: Because of his extensive education, according to Anna Komnene, Isaac was placed in charge of the inquest against the philosopher John Italos in February 1082. Finding him guilty of unorthodox teachings, Isaac sent Italos before an ecclesiastical tribunal. In 1083, he donated precious sacral vestments to the Monastery of Petritzos, founded by the general Gregory Pakourianos. In 1087, on account of the Pecheneg raids into the Balkans, the confiscation of ecclesiastical treasure was repeated. According to John the Oxite, some recalcitrant monks who tried to hide precious vessels were even whipped and imprisoned. Once again Leo of Chalcedon began to denounce these measures, and in late 1087 Isaac, who once again was left in charge of Constantinople in his brother's absence, exiled him to either Sozopolis or Mesembria on the Black Sea coast of Thrace.

paragraph: In 1092/1094, his son John Komnenos, recently named "doux" of Dyrrhachium, was accused by Archbishop Theophylact of Ohrid of plotting against Alexios. A trial was held in front of the emperor at Philippopolis, to where Isaac went in haste. According to Anna Komnene, who gives a detailed account of the proceedings, Isaac himself was not certain of his son's innocence, and maintained a cautious stance until he realized that Alexios himself did not intend to press the matter. Then he intervened forcefully in his son's defence, and even quarreled with his younger brother Adrianos, whom he accused of slander.

paragraph: In the meantime, the affair of Leo of Chalcedon had flared up again. Leo's nephew, Nicholas of Adrianople, in a letter to his uncle, wrote that Isaac denounced those who opposed the confiscations as "worshipers of matter" (ὑλολάτραι), claiming that they accorded to the precious decorations of the icons the same veneration as to the saints depicted on them. Leo of Chalcedon responded to his nephew with a long theological defence of his positions, which caused great uproar. To defend himself from Leo's criticism, Isaac set about compiling a corpus of patristic and synodal texts against Leo's teachings. As a result, in late 1094, a church council was held at the Palace of Blachernae that examined the affair, under the direct presidency of Alexios I, with Isaac as one of the three judges, along with the patriarchs of Constantinople and Jerusalem, Nicholas Grammatikos and Symeon II. The council ended with Leo's admission of his errors, whereupon he was reinstated in his see. In the words of the historian Konstantinos Varzos, it was "a theological and political triumph for Isaac".

paragraph: Isaac also became involved in the affair of the "doux" of Chaldia, Theodore Gabras, and his son Gregory. Gregory was affianced to one of Isaac's daughters, until Theodore married again, to an Alan princess. As the latter was a cousin of Isaac's own wife, the prospective marriage of Gregory and Isaac's daughter was called off as uncanonical. Sometime between 1094 and 1098, when Gregory was held as a hostage for his father's loyalty in Constantinople, Isaac hosted Theodore Gabras at his palace on the shores of the Propontis. Isaac also played a leading role in the uncovering of the conspiracy of the four Anemas brothers, which took place sometime between 1097 and 1104 and involved several senior military and civil officials. Isaac persuaded the senator Solomon to reveal the members and details of the plot. Shortly after that he also led the inquiries against the Bogomil leader Basil the Physician.

paragraph: Towards the end of his life, Isaac entered a monastery, taking the monastic name John. He died "one year and a few months" after his mother, sometime between 1102 and 1104. His wife also entered a monastery under the name Xene. She died about a year after him, and Emperor Alexios took his children under his care. Isaac is commemorated by the Eastern Orthodox Church in the "Synodikon of Orthodoxy", which is read on the Sunday of Orthodoxy.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Isaac Komnenos was married to the Georgian princess Irene, by whom he had four sons and at least two daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Komnenos (1073 – after 1136), "protosebastos" and governor ("doux") of Dyrrhachium from 1092 to 1106, married Maria Doukaina, niece of Empress Irene Doukaina.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Unnamed daughter (born ), married a son of the "protoproedros" Constantine Doukas. Varzos suggests the name of Anna for her.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alexios Komnenos (born – after 1108), "sebastos" and "doux" of Dyrrhachium from 1106 until after 1108, married a lady called Zoe, of unknown family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Unnamed daughter (born ), engaged to Gregory Gabras until the engagement was broken off as uncanonical in 1094. Varzos suggests the name Maria for her. Her later fate is unknown.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constantine Komnenos ( – after 1147), "sebastos" and "doux" of Beroea in 1107, later "megas droungarios". Married a lady issued from the Antiochos and Euphorbenos clans.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adrianos Komnenos ( – 1157/64), "sebastos" and "doux" of Chaldia. Married a lady of unknown name or family, and became a monk. In he became Archbishop of Bulgaria as John IV.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sophia Komnene ( – ), married the "sebastos" Dokeianos.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eudokia Komnene ( – after 1150), married the "sebastos" Nikephoros Botaneiates.

description: Byzantine general, brother of emperor Alexios I

wikidata_label: Isaac Komnenos

wikipedia_title: Isaac Komnenos (brother of Alexios I)


text:
Dutch
Baroque
Utrecht
Adam Willaerts
Utrecht Caravaggist
Jan van Bijlert
Guild of Saint Luke
Simon Vouet
Brazil
Jacob van Campen
Rome
Bentvueghels
Naples
Isaac
Frans Hals Museum
National Maritime Museum

wikipedia_title:
Netherlands
Baroque
Utrecht
Adam Willaerts
Utrecht Caravaggism
Jan van Bijlert
Guild of Saint Luke
Simon Vouet
Brazil
Jacob van Campen
Rome
Bentvueghels
Naples
Isaac Willaerts
Frans Hals Museum
National Maritime Museum

categories: 1600s births,Dutch male painters,Dutch marine artists,1669 deaths,Artists from Utrecht,Dutch Golden Age painters

paragraph: Abraham Willaerts

paragraph: Abraham Willaerts (c. 1603 - 18 October 1669) was a Dutch Baroque painter, mostly of marine and harbor scenes. He also painted a number of single and family portraits.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Abraham Willaerts was born in Utrecht, the son of the painter Adam Willaerts. He trained with his father, a marine painter. He later studied with the Utrecht Caravaggist Jan van Bijlert in Utrecht. He became a member of the Utrecht Guild of Saint Luke in 1624. He travelled to Paris in 1628 where he worked in the workshop of the prominent religious and history painter Simon Vouet. He returned to his home country in 1635.

paragraph: On 1637 or 1638 Willaerts sailed to Brazil serving in the of Count John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen, the governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil. In 1641 the Count sent him with the Dutch fleet from Brazil to Angola (where the Dutch had just taken São Paulo de Loanda and the island of Tomé) on a mission to observe the customs and manners of the indigenous people. He had returned to the Netherlands in 1644, where he stayed with the prominent architect and painter Jacob van Campen at his castle Randenbroeck near Amersfoort.

paragraph: In 1659-60 he visited Rome. Here he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome. It was customary for the Bentvueghels to adopt an appealing nickname, the so-called 'bent name'. Abraham Willaerts was reportedly given the bent name 'Indian'. This nickname was likely given him because of his travels among the Brazilian tribes. He probably travelled further south to Naples, where he may have found inspiration for his imaginary views of Mediterranean ports.

paragraph: He died in Utrecht. His brother Isaac was also a marine painter.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Although mainly a marine painter, Willaerts also painted portraits.

paragraph: His marine paintings closely follow those of his father as is seen in his (1647, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem). He preferred compositions with an atmospheric softness. In addition to Dutch harbour and coastal scenes, he also painted Mediterranean harbour views (real and imaginary), such as the Harbour of Naples (National Maritime Museum, London). Despite Willaerts' six-year stay in Brazil and in Angola his compositions never treated specifically Brazilian or African subjects.

paragraph: Willaerts painted a series of portraits, both of single figures (several were admirals) and family groups. He also added portraits in the foreground of some of his father's harbour scenes.

paragraph: Willaerts also collaborated with the still life painter Willem Ormea on a which combines a seascape with a still life of fish in the foreground.

alias:
Abram Willers
Abramo Willaerts
Abraham Willarts
willaerts abraham
Willaerts
Abr. Willaerts
Abraham Willars

description: painter from the Northern Netherlands

wikidata_label: Abraham Willaerts

wikipedia_title: Abraham Willaerts


text:
Roman
legate
Pannonia
usurper
emperor
Gallienus
Sarmatian
"Caesar"
Cornelius Licinius Valerianus
Gallienus
Shapur I
Sassanid Empire
Moesia
Roman
Emperor
Sirmium
Germania
Rhine
Gaul
battlefield
Mursa
Aureolus

categories: Thirty Tyrants (Roman),260 deaths,Gallienus usurpers,Year of birth unknown,3rd-century Roman emperors

paragraph: Ingenuus

paragraph: Ingenuus was a Roman military commander, the imperial legate in Pannonia, who became a usurper to the throne of the emperor Gallienus when he led a brief and unsuccessful revolt in the year 260. Appointed by Gallienus himself, Ingenuus served him well by repulsing a Sarmatian invasion and securing the Pannonian border, at least temporarily. Ingenuus had also been charged with the military education of "Caesar" Cornelius Licinius Valerianus, the young son of Emperor Gallienus, but after the boy's death in 258, his position became perilous.

paragraph: A well-liked and admired commander, Ingenuus found an opportunity to become the Roman Emperor when Valerian was captured and killed by Shapur I of the Sassanid Empire. Throwing off their allegiance to Valerian's son, the legions of Moesia proclaimed Ingenuus Roman Emperor at Sirmium in 260. Gallienus was in Germania on the Rhine frontier, so he acted quickly by recalling troops from Gaul and after a rapid march he met Ingenuus on the battlefield at Mursa. The troops of Ingenuus were defeated, as Gallienus' general, Aureolus, used to great effect the advantage given by the mobility of an improved cavalry component of the army, which was the remarkable military innovation wanted by the Emperor.

paragraph: Ingenuus died after the battle by drowning himself in a nearby river to avoid capture.

description: Roman emperor

wikidata_label: Ingenuus

wikipedia_title: Ingenuus


text:
Dacian
Roman Empire
Historia Augusta
Eutropius
Trebellianus
Aurelius Victor
Epitome de Caesaribus
Tyranni Triginta
Dacia
Decebalus
Valerian
Pannonia
Ingenuus
Italia
Alamanni
Sarmatian
Sulpicia Dryantilla
Augusta
Roxolani
Thirty Tyrants
Historia Augusta
Gaius Cassius Regallianus

categories: Thirty Tyrants (Roman),260 deaths,Gallienus usurpers,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Regalianus

paragraph: P. C(?) Regalianus (died 260) was a Dacian general who turned against the Roman Empire and became himself emperor for a brief period, being murdered by the hands who raised him to power.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: The main source of information is the unreliable and for the most part fabricated "Historia Augusta". Other sources are Eutropius, who calls him Trebellianus, and Aurelius Victor and the "Epitome de Caesaribus", which call him Regillianus. About his origin, the "Tyranni Triginta" says he was a Dacian, a kinsman of Decebalus. He probably was of senatorial rank, and had received military promotion from the Emperor Valerian.

paragraph: After the defeat and capture of Valerian in the east (260), the border populations felt insecure, and elected their own emperors to guarantee they would have leaders against the foreign threats. The population and the army of the province of Pannonia had chosen Ingenuus, and elected him emperor, but the lawful emperor, Gallienus, had defeated the usurper.

paragraph: Gallienus had moved to Italia, however, to deal with an invasion of the Alamanni. The local population, facing the threat of the Sarmatians, elected Regalianus emperor, who raised his wife, Sulpicia Dryantilla, who was of noble lineage, to the rank of "Augusta" to strengthen his position. Regalianus bravely fought thereafter against the Sarmatians. Short time after his victory, he was killed by a coalition of his own people and of the Roxolani.

paragraph: A few, probably fictitious, anecdotes survive about this man, in the brief biographical sketch of him given in the Book on Thirty Tyrants in the "Historia Augusta": it is stated for example that he was raised to the throne because of his name (Regalianus, "of a king" or "kingly"); when his soldiers heard this jest they greeted Regalianus as their emperor.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gaius Cassius Regallianus

description: Dacian general

wikidata_label: Regalianus

wikipedia_title: Regalianus


text:
Roman usurper
Valerian's
Equestrian
Historia Augusta
Samosata
battle of Edessa
Sassanid Emperor
Shapur I
Gallienus
Callistus
Macrianus
Quietus
Asia
Europe
Thrace
Aureolus
Joannes Zonaras
Odaenathus
Palmyra
Joannes Zonaras

categories: People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars,Thirty Tyrants (Roman),261 deaths,Gallienus usurpers,Year of birth unknown,Fulvii

paragraph: Macrianus Major

paragraph: Fulvius Macrianus (died 261), also called Macrianus Major, was a Roman usurper. He was one of Valerian's fiscal officers. More precisely, sources refer to him as being in charge of the whole state accounts ("A Rationibus") or, in the language of a later age, as Count of the Treasury ("Comes Sacrarum Largitionum") and the person in charge of markets and provisions. It seems almost certain that he was an Equestrian. The "Historia Augusta" claims that he was the foremost of Valerian's military commanders, but that is most likely a gross exaggeration, if not entirely fictitious.

paragraph: He followed Valerian during his ultimately catastrophic campaign against the Persians in 259 or 260; however, he remained at Samosata during the fatal battle of Edessa and his role in the events before and after the battle is questionable. After Valerian's capture by Sassanid Emperor Shapur I, Valerian's son Gallienus became sole emperor, but was occupied with his own problems in the West. Macrianus grabbed the opportunity. With the support of Callistus, one of Valerian's military commanders, and with the influence that possession of the treasury of Valerian brought, Macrianus managed to have his two sons Macrianus and Quietus elevated to the throne. He himself was not able to assume the purple because he was deformed in one of his legs.

paragraph: Quietus and Balista stayed in the East to secure their rule. Macrianus Major and Minor marched the eastern army from Asia to Europe, but were defeated in Thrace in 261 by Aureolus. Macrianus and his son were killed in the battle. According to Joannes Zonaras, their army was encircled by Aureolus and surrendered, except for the Pannonian legions. Macrianus asked to be killed with his son to avoid delivery to Aureolus. Quietus was later murdered by Odaenathus of Palmyra.

paragraph: Section::::Portrayals In Popular Media.

paragraph: Macrianus appears in Harry Sidebottom's historical fiction novel series as one of the series' protagonists..

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bray, John. "Gallienus : A Study in Reformist and Sexual Politics", Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 1997,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Potter, David S. "The Roman Empire at Bay AD 180–395", Routledge, Oxon, 2004.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joannes Zonaras, "Epitome Historiarum", ed. L. Dindorf, Leipzig, 1870, vol. 3

description: Roman usurper

wikidata_label: Macrianus Major

wikipedia_title: Macrianus Major


text: Roman usurper

text: Fulvius Macrianus

text: equestrian

text: Historia Augusta

text: tribune

text: Valerian

text: Quietus

text: Mesopotamia

text: Sassanid

text: Balista

text: praefect

text: Quietus

text: Gallienus

text: Egypt

text: Rome

text: Aureolus

text: Gallienus usurpers

categories: People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars,Thirty Tyrants (Roman),261 deaths,Gallienus usurpers,Year of birth unknown,Imperial Roman consuls,Fulvii

paragraph: Macrianus Minor

paragraph: Titus Fulvius Iunius Macrianus (died 261), also known as Macrianus Minor, was a Roman usurper. He was the son of Fulvius Macrianus, also known as Macrianus Major.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Although his father was from an equestrian family,Macrianus Minor's mother was of noble birth and her name, possibly, was Iunia. According to the often unreliable Historia Augusta, he had served as military tribune under Valerian.

paragraph: Macrianus, his father and his brother Quietus, were in Mesopotamia in 260, for the Sassanid campaign of Emperor Valerian, when the Roman army was defeated, and the emperor was captured. With help from his father, who kept the imperial treasure, and by the influence of Balista, Valerian's praefect, Macrianus gained the imperial office together with his brother Quietus, through the election by the army, in contrast with the lawful Emperor Gallienus, son and co-emperor with Valerian, who was far in the West. The two emperors and brothers were recognized in the eastern part of the Empire, having a stronghold in Egypt, the grain supplying province for the city of Rome.

paragraph: After having temporarily secured the Persian frontier, Macrianus Major and Macrianus Minor moved to the West to attack and eliminate their rival Gallienus. They were however defeated in autumn 261 by Aureolus, and later killed by their own soldiers at the father's request.

paragraph: Section::::Portrayals In Popular Fiction.

paragraph: Macrianus appears in Harry Sidebottom's historical fiction novel series as one of the series' antagonists..

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gallienus usurpers

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Körner, Christian, "Usurpers in the east: The Macriani and Ballista", s.v. "Usurpers under Gallienus", "De Imperatoribus Romanis"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jones, A.H.M., Martindale, J.R. "The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I: AD260-395", Cambridge University Press, 1971

description: Roman usurper

wikidata_label: Macrianus Minor

wikipedia_title: Macrianus Minor


text: Roman usurper

text: Roman Emperor

text: Gallienus

text: Fulvius Macrianus

text: Historia Augusta

text: tribune

text: Valerian

text: Macrianus Minor

text: Gallienus

text: Balista

text: Praetorian prefect

text: consul

text: Gallienus

text: Roman Empire

text: Thrace

text: Odaenathus

text: Palmyra

text: Persians

text: Roman Mesopotamia

text: Emesa

text: Körner, Christian, "Usurpers in the east: The Macriani and Ballista", s.v. "Usurpers under Gallienus", "De Imperatoribus Romanis"

categories: People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars,Thirty Tyrants (Roman),Junii,261 deaths,Gallienus usurpers,Year of birth unknown,Imperial Roman consuls,Fulvii

paragraph: Quietus

paragraph: Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper against Roman Emperor Gallienus.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: Quietus was the son of Fulvius Macrianus and a noblewoman, possibly named Junia. According to "Historia Augusta", he was a military tribune under Valerian, but this information is challenged by historians.

paragraph: He gained the imperial office with his brother Macrianus Minor, after the capture of Emperor Valerian in the Sassanid campaign of 260. With the lawful heir, Gallienus, being far away in the West, the soldiers elected the two emperors. The support of his father, controller of the imperial treasure, and the influence of Balista, Praetorian prefect of the late Emperor Valerian, proved instrumental in his promotion.

paragraph: Quietus and Macrianus, elected consuls, had to face the Emperor Gallienus, at the time in the West. Quietus and Ballista stayed in the eastern provinces, while his brother and father marched their army to Europe to seize control of the Roman Empire. After the defeat and deaths of his brother and father in Thrace in 261, Quietus lost the control of the provinces in favour of Septimus Odaenathus of Palmyra, a loyal client king of the Romans who had helped push the Persians out of the eastern provinces and recovered Roman Mesopotamia in 260. Forced to flee to the city of Emesa, he was besieged there by Odaenathus, during the course of which he was killed by its inhabitants, possibly instigated by Ballista.

paragraph: Quietus appears in Harry Sidebottom's historical fiction novel series as one of the series' antagonists.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

alias:
Titus Iunius Fulvius Quietus
Gai Fulvi Quiet

description: Imperial Roman consul

wikidata_label: Quietus

wikipedia_title: Quietus


text: Roman usurper

text: Philip the Arab

text: Valerian

text: Praefectus augustalis

text: Roman Egypt

text: Macriani

text: Gallienus

text: Aurelius Theodotus

text: Memor

text: Gallienus usurpers

categories: Thirty Tyrants (Roman),Mussii,Gallienus usurpers,260s deaths,Year of birth unknown,3rd century in Roman Egypt

paragraph: Mussius Aemilianus

paragraph: Lucius Mussius Aemilianus (died 261 or 262) was a Roman usurper.

paragraph: Mussius Aemilianus probably was of Italian stock. He was an officer in the Roman army under Philip the Arab and Valerian. Under the latter he became Praefectus augustalis of Roman Egypt.

paragraph: He supported the rebellion of the Macriani against Gallienus (260-261). When the Macriani were defeated he probably proclaimed himself emperor.

paragraph: Gallienus sent his general Aurelius Theodotus to Egypt to deal with Aemilianus. After a short struggle Aemilianus was defeated (before 30 March 262), captured, and later strangled in prison. Also his possible supporter Memor was executed.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gallienus usurpers

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- s.v. "Usurpers in Egypt: Mussius Aemilianus and Memor", in Körner, Christian, "Usurpers under Gallienus", "De Imperatoribus Romanis"

alias:
Lucius Mussius Aemilianus
Emilià Alexandrí

description: Roman usurper

wikidata_label: Mussius Aemilianus

wikipedia_title: Mussius Aemilianus