text:
Ancient Greek
Salamis
Cyprus
satrap
Achaemenid Persia
Phoenicia
Nicocles
Evagoras I
Pnytagoras
Artaxerxes III
Phoenicia
Sidon
Tennes
Abdashtart II

categories: Satraps of the Achaemenid Empire,Executed monarchs,Year of birth unknown,Phoenicia,Ancient Greek rulers,People from Salamis,Year of death unknown,Kings of Salamis, Cyprus,340s deaths,4th-century BC Greek people

paragraph: Evagoras II

paragraph: Evagoras II or Euagoras II () was a king of the Ancient Greek city-state of Salamis in Cyprus, and later satrap for Achaemenid Persia in Phoenicia.

paragraph: He was possibly a son of his predecessor, Nicocles, and a grandson of Evagoras I. He followed a pro-Persian course, for which he was deposed ca. 351 BC by a popular revolt led by his nephew Pnytagoras, who succeeded him as king.

paragraph: Evagoras fled to the Persian court, where Artaxerxes III gave him the government of the Phoenician city of Sidon, following the defeat of the rebellion of Tennes. His administration of Sidon was so bad that after three years, in 346 BC, he was chased out of the city by the populace, who called upon a descendant of the ancient royal line, Abdashtart II, to replace him. Evagoras fled back to Cyprus, where he was arrested and executed.

description: cypriot King of Salamis and persian Satrap

wikidata_label: Evagoras II

wikipedia_title: Evagoras II


text:
Netherton
Farway
Honiton
Honiton
Sheriff of Devon
Anthony Paulet
Hinton St George
Somerset
John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett
Member of Parliament
Liskeard
St Mawes
Bevil Grenville
lord of the manor
Bideford
Stowe, Kilkhampton
John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
Sir Edmund Prideaux, 4th Baronet
Exeter College, Oxford
Newport
Alwington

wikipedia_title: Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)

categories: 1705 deaths,English MPs 1661–1679,English MPs 1685–1687,1626 births,17th-century English MPs,People of the Stuart period,People from Devon

paragraph: Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet

paragraph: Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet (1626–1705), of Netherton in the parish of Farway, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician.

paragraph: Section::::Origins.

paragraph: He was the 4th but eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Peter Prideaux, 2nd Baronet (1596–1682), of Netherton, MP for Honiton in 1661 and Sheriff of Devon in 1662, by his wife Susan Paulet (d. 1673), daughter of Sir Anthony Paulet (1562–1600) of Hinton St George, Somerset, Governor of Jersey, and sister of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (born c. 1585).

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He was elected Member of Parliament for Liskeard, Cornwall, in 1661, but chose to sit for Honiton in place of his father (who stood down in his favour after having been elected himself). He was several years later returned for St Mawes on 22 June 1685.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage & progeny.

paragraph: In 1645 he married Elizabeth Grenville (d. 1692), eldest daughter of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596–1643) lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall and sister of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath. By his wife he had 4 sons and 6 daughters including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Edmund Prideaux, 4th Baronet (1647–1720), eldest son and heir, of Netherton.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Prideaux (1651–1712), 2nd son, who was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and was later a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. He died unmarried.

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Prideaux (1655–1706) of Solden, Holsworthy, 3rd son, MP for Newport, Cornwall in 1700. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He married firstly his cousin Anne Prideaux (d. 1703), daughter and heiress of Humphrey Prideaux of Soldon, and secondly to Katherine Kelland, daughter of John Kelland of Painsford and widow of John Coffin of Portledge, Alwington. He died without progeny.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roger Prideaux (1657–1685), 4th son, educated at Exeter College, Oxford

paragraph: Section::::Death, burial & monument.

paragraph: He died on 22 November 1705 and was buried two days later in St Michael's Church, Farway, where survives his mural monument.

description: English politician

wikidata_label: Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Peter Prideaux, 3rd Baronet


text:
Gittisham
Devon
Member
Parliament of England
Honiton
Mayor of Honiton
Sir Thomas Putt, 2nd Baronet

wikipedia_title:
Gittisham
Devon
Member of parliament
Parliament of England
Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)
List of mayors of Honiton
Putt baronets

categories: 1644 births,Mayors of places in Devon,1686 deaths,17th-century English MPs,People of the Stuart period,People from Devon,Baronets in the Baronetage of England

paragraph: Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet

paragraph: "Thomas Putt redirects here. For Sir Thomas Putt, 2nd Baronet, see Putt Baronets"

paragraph: Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet (1644–1686), of Combe, Gittisham, Devon, was an English politician.

paragraph: He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Honiton in March 1679, October 1679, 1681, 16 April – 15 June 1685 and 3 October 1685 – 25 June 1686. He was Mayor of Honiton in 1685. He was succeeded by Sir Thomas Putt, 2nd Baronet.

description: English Baronet

wikidata_label: Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Thomas Putt, 1st Baronet


href: Palermo Calabria Sicily Saracens Reggio%20Calabria Palmi Sinopoli

text:
Palermo
Calabria
Sicily
Saracens
Reggio Calabria
Palmi
Sinopoli

wikipedia_title:
Palermo
Calabria
Sicily
Saracen
Reggio Calabria
Palmi
Sinopoli

categories: People from Palermo,Palmi,11th-century Christian saints,1020 births,People from the Province of Reggio Calabria,Sicilian saints,1070 deaths

paragraph: Filarete of Calabria

paragraph: Saint Filarete of Calabria (also the gardener) (c. 1020 – 1070) he was born in Palermo in 1020, into a family of Calabrian origin deported to Sicily by the Saracens, and subsequently released. Back in Calabria in 1040, Filarete lived in Reggio Calabria and then moved to the monastery of St. Elias stood on Mount Aulinas at Palmi. Later also lived in Sinopoli and then return to the mountain Aulinas under the guidance of Orestes, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- , Filarète di Calabria, santo, "Enciclopedia Treccani"

description: Italian saint

wikidata_label: Filarete of Calabria

wikipedia_title: Filarete of Calabria


text:
Dirk van Erp
Lawrence Buck
Idaho Springs
Leadville
Art Institute of Chicago
International Studio
Lawrence Buck
House Beautiful
Steinway Hall
Dwight Perkins
Frank Lloyd Wright
London
Charles Robert Ashbee
Lillian McNeill Palmer
Four Mounds Estate Historic District
Dirk van Erp
San Francisco Call

wikipedia_title:
Dirk van Erp
Lawrence Buck
Idaho Springs, Colorado
Leadville, Colorado
Art Institute of Chicago
The Studio (magazine)
Lawrence Buck
House Beautiful
Steinway Hall
Dwight H. Perkins (architect)
Frank Lloyd Wright
London
Charles Robert Ashbee
Lillian McNeill Palmer
Four Mounds Estate Historic District
Dirk van Erp
The San Francisco Call

paragraph: Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy Gaw

paragraph: Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy Gaw (May 4, 1868 – November 12, 1944) was a prominent Arts & Crafts artist whose style influenced her former business partner Dirk van Erp and noted architect Lawrence Buck. She was the president of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy Gaw was born on May 4, 1868, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the daughter of Henry Woolsley Gaw (1834-1928), a brewer born in Ireland, and Elizabeth Jane Stripple (1842-1914). Her family moved to Idaho Springs, Colorado, before 1880 and Henry W. Gaw bought a brewery around 1876. They moved to Leadville before 1890 and The Gaw Brewery became the largest brewery in the area.

paragraph: Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy Gaw attended local school in Leadville before entering the Art Institute of Chicago where she remained from 1892 to 1903 or 1904. Around 1899 and 1900 she moved to Denver and taught art and design at local high schools. Her designs were published in the school’s magazine and in national journals including "International Studio". She worked as interior designer and, with two classmates of the Chicago Art Institute, Lawrence Buck and Mary Mower, she opened "The Crafters" a firm that was advertised in "House Beautiful" from 1901 to 1903. Their studio-offices were located in Steinway Hall, the heart of Chicago's progressive architectural movement where Dwight Perkins, Robert C. Spencer, A. Phelps Wyman, and Frank Lloyd Wright also maintained their professional presence in the city. Though "The Crafters" remained active for only a few years, Buck continued to maintain his professional space at Steinway Hall well into the 1920s.

paragraph: During the summer of 1904, she studied English Arts and Crafts in London at the Guild and School of Handicraft under Charles Robert Ashbee.

paragraph: Middle of the 1900s, her father sold the brewery and moved the family to San Jose, California. D'Arcy Gaw worked for Lillian McNeill Palmer in San Jose, between 1907 and 1908.

paragraph: For a number of years she was associated in business with Buck, that she knew from her Chicago time, when they worked together as "The Crafters". She made many of the floor plans and designs the interior decorating of his houses. Her specialty was interior decorating but she also won quite a name for herself for her hand wrought metal work and her designs in jewelry. Her designs for electric light fixtures, lamps and screens were particularly effective. In 1908 she worked as interior designer for the Grey House, now part of the Four Mounds Estate Historic District, part of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The metal-and-glass light fixtures flanking the entry and hanging down from the porte-cochere roof are Arts & Crafts fixtures featuring two versions of the Four Mounds logo. These fixtures may have been designed D'Arcy Gaw.

paragraph: In September 1909 D'Arcy Gaw entered into a partnership with Palmer's rival, Dirk van Erp, and they opened a studio on Sutter Street, San Francisco. From February 1910 the partnership began marking their wares with a stamped device of a windmill, with their names underneath. But it was really D'Arcy Gaw that was both designer and metalworker, and it was her copper and mica lamp designs what made the Van Erp Studios famous. In 1910 D'Arcy Gaw was the president of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts. The "San Francisco Call" said of their studio that it was "one of the most-interesting studios" in San Francisco "where, in conjunction, they conduct two classes a week in metal work and design. The interior of the attractive place was designed and executed by Miss Gaw. The harmonious tones of draperies and hangings, with the long, low shelves, settees and mission furniture, tend to make it bright and attractive along lines almost severe in their simplicity. Interior decorating and metal fixtures are really Miss Gaw's life work." The partnership with van Erp ceased on January 30, 1911; van Erp continued marking with the windmill device, with D'Arcy Gaw's name cut out from the stamp. The cutting-out of her name was not complete, and some wares can be found with a faint impress of some or all of the letters. Although their partnership lasted less than a year, D'Arcy Gaw exerted a strong and lasting influence on van Erp's design sensibility. He began making lamps to her design during this period, with shades incorporating mica panels.

paragraph: Middle of 1909 D'Arcy Gaw taught at a summer school and after she partnered with van Erp, she opened a private class for instruction in designing and metal work. She did work on the homes of Henry Gaw and J. R. Thompson in San Jose and floor plans and conventional interior designing for the house Mrs. H. Campbell in Palo Alto. When Palmer, who had closed her shop in 1917, went back in business in 1932, D'Arcy Gaw went back working with her through the 1940s.

paragraph: Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy Gaw died on November 12, 1944, in Monterey, California, at age 76, and is buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, with her family.

wikidata_label: Elizabeth Eleanor D’Arcy Gaw

wikipedia_title: Elizabeth Eleanor D'Arcy Gaw


text:
English
singer-songwriter
Ipso Facto
Purson
Southend-on-Sea
Ipso Facto
singles
Mute Records
Magazine
The Last Shadow Puppets
backing vocalist
BBC Electric Proms
Later... with Jools Holland
These New Puritans
Hidden
Willy Moon
Jack White
Cathedral
The Last Spire
Ipso Facto MySpace

categories: English rock musicians,English singer-songwriters,21st-century women singers,English female singers,1990 births,21st-century English singers,Living people,English pop musicians,People from Southend-on-Sea

paragraph: Rosalie Cunningham

paragraph: Rosalie Cunningham (born 25 April 1990) is an English singer-songwriter. After the split of the band Ipso Facto, Cunningham started a new project named Purson.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Cunningham was born in Southend-on-Sea, and started her first commercial band Ipso Facto in 2007, releasing the singles "Harmonise" / "Balderdash" (Disc Error) in October 2007,

paragraph: "Ears And Eyes" (PureGroove) in August 2008,

paragraph: "Six And Three Quarters" / "Circle Of Fifths" Mute Records in October 2008. These were followed by "IF..." a Vinyl Junkie release in February 2009. All their songs were written by Cunningham.

paragraph: Ipso Facto broke up midway through 2009.

paragraph: Since that time, Cunningham has been touring, composing and recording material with Purson.

paragraph: Cunningham has also been working with other bands such as Magazine and The Last Shadow Puppets (though referred to as Rosie Cunningham) as a backing vocalist, appearing on stage with them on their recent tours, at the "BBC Electric Proms" and on "Later... with Jools Holland".

paragraph: She also played keyboards from January to May 2010 with These New Puritans on their tours of the album, "Hidden".

paragraph: In 2012, Cunningham played guitar with Willy Moon, as the support act for Jack White's UK tour. She also contributed back vocals to Cathedral's final album, "The Last Spire", which was released in 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: with Ipso Facto

paragraph: Singles

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Harmonise/Balderdash"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ears And Eyes"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Six And Three Quarters/Circle Of Fifths"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "IF..."

paragraph: with Purson

paragraph: Albums

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013: "The Circle and the Blue Door" (Rise Above/Metal Blade)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: "Desire's Magic Theatre" (Spinefarm Records), April 2016

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ipso Facto MySpace

description: English singer-songwriter

wikidata_label: Rosalie Cunningham

wikipedia_title: Rosalie Cunningham


text:
India
Chalakudy
M. C. Joseph
rationalist
Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham
Ernakulam
Kingdom of Cochin
Travancore
Parur T. K. Narayana Pillai
A. J. John, Anaparambil
Travancore-Cochin
Mukundapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)
K. Karunakaran
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

categories: Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala,Indian independence activists from Kerala,Railway Ministers of India,People from Thrissur district,20th-century Indian lawyers,Chief Ministers of Kerala,Indian rationalists,Law Ministers of India,1970 deaths,St. Thomas College, Thrissur alumni,Chief ministers from Indian National Congress,Members of the Constituent Assembly of India,Malayali politicians,1906 births,4th Lok Sabha members,Lok Sabha members from Kerala,3rd Lok Sabha members

paragraph: Panampilly Govinda Menon

paragraph: Panampilly Govinda Menon () (1 October 1906 – 23 May 1970) was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and lawyer.

paragraph: He was born in a village Kakkad/ Kathikkudam near Chalakudy and started his lawyer practice there as a junior to Adv. M. C. Joseph (a rationalist). He was the first treasurer of Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham. He moved his practice to Ernakulam afterwards.

paragraph: Later in the 1930s he became prominent in the politics of the Kingdom of Cochin and served briefly as the Prime minister of Cochin state in 1947.

paragraph: After the union of Travancore and Cochin, he served as minister for education under Parur T. K. Narayana Pillai and minister for finance under A. J. John, Anaparambil. He was the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin in 1955–1956.He represented Mukundapuram (Lok Sabha constituency) from 1962 until his death. He became Union Minister for Law and Railways (1969–1970) and Minister of state for Food and Agriculture. He was also the political mentor of K. Karunakaran.

paragraph: In 2006, the birth centenary celebrations of Panampilly Govinda Menon were inaugurated by the then President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Later in his memory a college was built in Chalakudy named Panampilly Memorial Government College.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L. V. Harikumar: "Panampilly Govinda Menon: Charithravazhiyile Deepashikha" - Biography, 2nd Edition published by Kerala State Institute of Languages, Thiruvananthapuram,

description: Indian politician

wikidata_label: Panampilly Govinda Menon

wikipedia_title: Panampilly Govinda Menon


text:
Neilston
Jon Lawler
the Fratellis
Codeine Velvet Club
Codeine Velvet Club
Jon Lawler
Vanity Kills
debut album
The Fratellis
Will Foster
Record Store Day
Codeine Velvet Club

paragraph: Lou Hickey

paragraph: Lou Hickey (born Mhairi-Louise Hickey) is a singer-songwriter from Neilston, Scotland. She has been working as a solo artist since 2006 and in 2008, joined Jon Lawler from the Fratellis in a band called Codeine Velvet Club which disbanded in 2010. Since then, Lou has recorded her debut album and is currently preparing for its release.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.:"New Shoes" and "Do It Yourself" (2006–08).

paragraph: Lou began her time as a musician building up her solo career, which involved performing with Club Noir, the world's biggest burlesque club, as a singer. She spent many years in the Glasgow music scene building up her profile and recording two EPs in this time. As a student, Lou learned about engineering and mixing and took this into her "Do It Yourself" ethic when recording her EPs, which were entitled "New Shoes" and "Do It Yourself" (released December 2007). "New Shoes" cannot be found on any digital download or physical form and is hard to obtain, whereas "Do It Yourself" remains on iTunes but cannot be bought physically.

paragraph: During this time, Lou was given a grant by the Scottish Arts Council to record her debut album, but this was eventually put on hold so Lou could pursue a new project called Codeine Velvet Club.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.:Codeine Velvet Club (2008–10).

paragraph: Lou met fellow Glaswegian musician Jon Lawler in 2008 thanks to her friend Heather Donnelly (Lawler's wife). Donnelly told Lawler about Lou and asked if he wanted to write a song with her for her debut album; Lawler agreed and the pair met and wrote the song "Vanity Kills". As Lawler was unable to give the song away, he suggested the pair see how many more songs they could write and form a band.

paragraph: The duo recorded their debut album in 2009 while Lawler's band, The Fratellis, were taking a break. They recruited various session musicians to help record the album and eventually recruited a live setup in the form of Lewis Gordon, Ross MacFarlane and Will Foster. They toured the UK during the end of 2009 and did a brief tour of the US in early 2010, before Lawler announced he would be giving the project up, leaving Lou to go onto his solo work. Disappointed with the end of the band, Lou went back to her solo work.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.:"True Love Ways" (2010–present).

paragraph: After the demise of Codeine Velvet Club, Lou used her grant from the Scottish Arts Council to record her debut album in May 2010. She had a week-long session to record most of the album, with extra sessions being squeezed in when she could. As with her previous EPs, Lou has produced, engineered and mixed the album.

paragraph: The album was delayed for various reasons during 2011 and 2012, before it was confirmed that the title of the album is to be "True Love Ways", with a digital release date of Monday 13 May, with a CD release to be confirmed. There was an analog release of an edition of 550 records by Vinyl Frontier Records on Record Store Day, 29 November 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:With Codeine Velvet Club.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Codeine Velvet Club" (2009)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As a solo artist.

paragraph: EP's

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Does It Get Easier" EP (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Do It Yourself" EP (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Minutes, Hours, Days" EP (2011)

paragraph: Albums

paragraph: BULLET::::- "True Love Ways" (2013)

description: British singer

wikidata_label: Lou Hickey

wikipedia_title: Lou Hickey


text:
French
actor
film director
editor
screenwriter
Thomas H. Ince
Cilvil War
Mildred Harris
Declassee
The Trespasser
Grumpy
The Royal Family of Broadway
Reckless Living
Doomed Battalion
Perfect Understanding
Big Business
Widow's Might
Chick

categories: American male silent film actors,1898 births,American male screenwriters,1942 deaths,American film directors,American male film actors,20th-century American male actors,Male actors from Paris,French emigrants to the United States

paragraph: Cyril Gardner

paragraph: Cyril Gardner (30 May 1898 - 30 December 1942) was a French-born American actor, film director, editor and screenwriter.

paragraph: Gardner was born Cyril Gottlieb in Paris, France in 1898 and emigrated to the United States at an early age, where he changed his surname to 'Gardner'. He began his career as a child actor, most notably in a starring role in the 1913 Thomas H. Ince-directed Cilvil War drama "The Drummer of the 8th", opposite child star Mildred Harris.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.:Director.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Declassee" (1925) editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Trespasser" (1929) editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Grumpy" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Royal Family of Broadway" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reckless Living" (1931)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Doomed Battalion" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Perfect Understanding" (1933)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Big Business" (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Widow's Might" (1935)

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.:Screenwriter.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chick" (1936)

description: American actor and director

wikidata_label: Cyril Gardner

wikipedia_title: Cyril Gardner


text:
Haitian Vodou
Loa
Marassas
Pointillism
Prospere Pierre-Louis
Louisiane Saint Fleurant
Smithsonian Institution

categories: Haitian painters,Living people,1944 births

paragraph: Levoy Exil

paragraph: Levoy Exil (born 1944), is a master Haitian artist and painter; he is one of the main contributors to the Saint Soleil art movement.

paragraph: Exil's paintings are mystical and abstract and often depict Haitian Vodou Loas, suns and stars, birds, and Marassas. His painting style is primitive and dreamlike and employs the Pointillism technique of applying small, distinct dots in a pattern to reveal an image. There are rarely unused portions of the canvas in his works and he draws from African, Haitian and Vodou influences. Exil has participated in conferences focused on Haitian Vodou, including KOSANBA's 9th International Colloquium held in Mirebalais in July, 2009.

paragraph: Levoy Exil was born in 1944, in Haiti. Along with Prospere Pierre-Louis, Dieuseul Paul, Denis Smith, and Louisiane Saint Fleurant he formed the renowned Cinq Soleil (Five Suns) art movement. The Five Suns group formed out of the Saint Soleil movement, of which Levoy Exil was a member and master painter.

paragraph: His work is well regarded by collectors and he has exhibited in France, Rome, the United States and parts of Asia. Haitian Art historian Seldon Rodman referenced Exil's paintings in his book “Where Art is Joy: Haitian Art: The First Forty Years”

paragraph: In 2010, Exil was featured in a CNN article after the earthquake that struck Haiti. Later that year the Smithsonian Institution sponsored the Folklife Festival in Washington DC which featured presentations and art work by Levoy Exil and other prominent Haitian artists.

description: Levoy Exil was a Haitian painter.

wikidata_label: Levoy Exil

wikipedia_title: Levoy Exil


text:
Swedish
theatre
film director
Strindberg
Shakespeare
Helsinki
Lydia Molander
Gustaf Molander
Jan Molander
Royal Dramatic Theatre
Dramatens elevskola
Royal Dramatic Theatre
Dramaten
here
Dramaten.se
Only a Dancing Girl
Johansson and Vestman

categories: Swedish film directors,1966 deaths,1892 births,Swedish theatre directors

paragraph: Olof Molander

paragraph: Olof Johan Harald Molander (8 October 1892 – 26 May 1966) was a Swedish theatre - and film director. He was most notable for his many Strindberg and Shakespeare productions.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Molander was born in Helsinki. He was the son of the director and writer John Harald Molander, Sr. (1858–1900) and actress Lydia Molander

paragraph: (1851 -1929). His brother was filmmaker Gustaf Molander (1888–1973). He was the uncle of actor Jan Molander (1920–2009) .

paragraph: He entered the Royal Dramatic Theatre Acting School ("Dramatens elevskola") in 1912. Molander was First Director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramaten) 1919–1963.

paragraph: Section::::Stage work.

paragraph: A complete list of Olof Molander's productions as director at the Royal Dramatic Theatre can be found here. (list and data from Dramaten.se).

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Only a Dancing Girl" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Johansson and Vestman" (1946)

description: Swedish director

wikidata_label: Olof Molander

wikipedia_title: Olof Molander


text:
Artashes
king of Armenia
Movses Khorenatsi
History of Armenia
epic
minstrel
Armenia
Rome
Parthia
Alans
Kura River
Artavasdes (Artavazd)
Tigranes

categories: Armenian feminine given names,Alanic women

paragraph: Satenik

paragraph: Satenik () or Satana was the name of the princess who married Artashes, the king of Armenia. Their love story, known as "Artashes and Satenik", is presented by the Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi in his "History of Armenia". Movses noted that the story, which he directly quotes from, was a well-known epic during his time among the common people of Armenia told by traveling storytellers and minstrels. Satenik is a popular feminine name among Armenians today.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Artashes, whose name is also seen in the Greek form as Artaxias, had risen to throne of Armenia in around 189 BC and was recognized as such by both Rome and Parthia. The invasion of the Kingdom of Armenia by the Alans during the reign of King Artashes I (189–159 BC) serves as the backdrop of the romantic tale between Artashes and Satenik. Following their conquering of the lands of Iberian, the Alans moved further southwards, crossing the Kura River and, effectively, into Armenia. Artashes gathered a large force to meet the Alanian threat and a fierce war took place between the two sides, resulting in the capture of the young son of the Alanian king. The Alanians were forced to retreat back to the Kur river and there they set up a base camp on the northern side of the river. Meanwhile, Artashes' army pursued them and established their camp on the southern side of the Kur. The Alanian king asked for an eternal peace treaty to be concluded between his people and the Armenians and promised to give Artashes anything he wanted so long as he would release his son, but the Armenian king refused to do so.

paragraph: Section::::Romance with Artashes.

paragraph: At this time, Satenik came near the shore and, through an interpreter, called on Artashes to release her brother:

paragraph: Hearing these words, Artashes traveled down to the river and upon seeing Satenik, was immediately captivated by her beauty. Artashes called on one of his close military commanders, Smbat Bagratuni, and confessing his desire for Satenik, expressed his willingness to conclude the treaty with the Alans and ordered Smbat to bring her to him. Smbat dispatched messengers to the Alanian king, who gave the following reply:

paragraph: Artashes remained undaunted and instead sought to abduct Satenik since bride abductions were considered more honorable during this period than formal acquiescence:

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: Following Satenik's abduction, Artashes agreed to pay to the Alans vast amounts of gold and red leather, the latter of which, was highly valued material among the Alans. With this, the two kings concluded a peace treaty and a lavish and magnificent wedding took place. Movses stated that during the wedding a "golden shower rained down" on Artashes and a "pearl shower" rained down on Satenik. It was a popular tradition among the Armenian kings, according to Movses, to stand in front of the entrance of a temple and drop money from above his head and to shower the queen's bedroom with pearls. They had six sons: Artavasdes (Artavazd), Vruyr, Mazhan, Zariadres (Zareh), Tiran and Tigranes (Tigran). The Artashesyan, or Artaxiad, dynasty lasted until the beginning of the next century, expiring in around 14 AD.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: The later relationship between Artashes and Satenik remains largely unknown. Early on in "History of Armenia", Movses had stated that Satenik had fallen in love with Argavan, a descendant of a race of dragons ("vishaps", in Armenian), but the remainder of the story that was sung by the minstrels is missing and believed to be lost.

wikidata_label: Satenik

wikipedia_title: Satenik


text:
KA
Barbadian
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paragraph: Conrad Hunte

paragraph: Sir Conrad Cleophas Hunte, KA (9 May 1932 – 3 December 1999) was a Barbadian cricketer. Hunte played 44 Test matches as an opening batsman for the West Indies.

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

paragraph: Hunte was born in rural St Andrew Parish in the north of Barbados, the son of a sugar plantation worker. Hunte's family was poor; one of nine children, Hunte grew up in a one-room house. By the time Hunte was six-years-old he was playing cricket with the village boys, using an improvised bat made from palm fronds. Hunte's father was determined that Hunte would receive a good education and so Hunte was required to walk—barefoot—each day the three miles to Belleplaine Boys School. Hunte showed the first glimpses of his talent, making the school First XI aged 10 where he played with and against boys much bigger and older than himself.

paragraph: Hunte, aged 12, won a scholarship to attend Alleyne Secondary School. His talent was soon noted by the school gamesmaster, who placed him straight into the school First XI, where he played against boys aged up to 18. As an incentive the gamesmaster offered Hunte a shilling every time he made 25 runs. Hunte captained the school team in his last three years. In his final year at school Hunte was asked to play for a new club, the Belleplaine Sports and Social Club. Belleplaine played in the Northern section of the Barbados Cricket League (BCL), which provided organised cricket for poor and rural Barbadians. In 1950 Hunte made the BCL representative team for its annual match against the elite (and socially exclusive) Barbados Cricket Association team. Dropped early in his innings by Test player Denis Atkinson, Hunte went on to make 137—the first BCL player to make a century in this annual fixture.

paragraph: Soon after this match Hunte was selected to make his first-class cricket debut for Barbados against Trinidad and Tobago at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown. Hunte scored 63 runs in the first innings and followed this with 15 in the second. Hunte was also offered a place with the elite Empire Cricket Club in Division 1 of the Barbados Cricket Association, the home club of his sporting idol Everton Weekes. There was little first-class cricket in the West Indies at the time and Hunte's cricket career was slow to progress. He worked for a time as a school teacher at St. Simon's Mixed School, the Barbados civil service as an Accounts Clerk and later in life insurance. Hunte failed to take his opportunity against the visiting Australians in 1954–55, scoring a duck and three. It was the following season when Hunte finally showed his ability on a larger stage, scoring 151 and 95 in two matches against a touring team from England managed by E. W. Swanton.

paragraph: In 1956 Hunte moved to England, to study Economics and also looking for a professional contract in English league cricket. He worked at a bus plant and cotton mill in Lancashire before being picked up by Leyland Motors Cricket Club in the Northern League. The next year Hunte was contracted by Enfield Cricket Club in the Lancashire League. The relationship between Hunte and Enfield was a happy one; unlike most professionals who tended to wander, Hunte stayed at the club for six seasons. In 1959, Hunte set a club record for the most runs scored in a season.

paragraph: When Hunte moved to England, he had advised the selectors of the West Indies team that he was available to tour England in 1957 should he be chosen. While waiting for an invitation for the tour, Hunte considered and rejected attempting to become eligible for selection for Kent County Cricket Club in the English County Championship. When no invitation was forthcoming Hunte signed to play with Enfield. Later Hunte was told that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) had sent him a letter, which failed to reach him in Lancashire. After he signed with Enfield received a note from a WICB board member, urging him to state if he wished to be considered for selection. Hunte replied that he was, provided Enfield would agree to release him from his contract. When the squad for the tour was released, Hunte's name was missing. The West Indies soon regretted overlooking Hunte. The two batsman selected ahead of him—Nyron Asgarali and Andy Ganteaume—did not meet with much success in the Test matches.

paragraph: Sir Hunte was only the second West Indian to carry his bat in a Test innings.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Hunte did make his Test debut the following winter against Pakistan at his home ground of Kensington Oval. He hit the first two balls that he faced, from Fazal Mahmood, for fours and made 142 runs in his first innings. In the third Test of the same series he made 260, including a partnership of 446 with Garfield Sobers which was then the second-highest partnership in history and is the sixth highest — Sobers went on to make a then world-record 365 not out as the West Indies reached 790 for 3 declared. In the fourth Test of the series, Hunte made another century. He finished his debut series with 622 runs at an average of 77.75, and the West Indies won the series 3–1.

paragraph: After this successful start, Hunte was the West Indies' regular opening batsman for the next nine years, and vice captain of the team for eight of them. This was a successful period for the West Indies, in which they won seven of the ten series in which he played.

paragraph: Hunte played a major role in West Indies' series win in England in 1963. He curbed his aggressive instincts as a batsman to build a solid platform for the innings. This was rewarded with two crucial centuries. He scored 182 in the first innings of the summer as West Indies won by 10 wickets. Then in the final Test of the summer, the West Indies needed to avoid losing to win the series. They were set 253 to win in the fourth innings, at that time regarded as a difficult target, with over two days to play. But Hunte scored 108 not out as the West Indies won by eight wickets, and won the series 3–1. Hunte finished the series with a batting average of 58.87, and was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1964.

paragraph: After the tour to England, the captain of the West Indies, Frank Worrell, retired. Hunte expected to be appointed captain in his place, and when Garfield Sobers was chosen instead, he was bitterly disappointed, and for six weeks considered resigning himself. But he chose to continue playing, and in the next series, against Australia in 1965, he scored 550 runs, although without a century: he scored six fifties in ten innings, with a highest score of 89 and an average of 61.11. This was the record for the highest series aggregate without a century until Mike Atherton scored 553 in a six-Test series against Australia in 1993.

paragraph: In total, Hunte played in 44 Tests between 1958 and 1967. Despite having 13 different opening partners in his Test career, he accumulated 3245 runs at an average of 45.06. He scored eight centuries, including at least one against every country he played against.

paragraph: Section::::Life after cricket.

paragraph: Hunte was a committed Christian. The defining experience of his life was when in 1961, on the West Indies' tour of Australia, he saw the film "The Crowning Experience", about the life of the black American educator Mary McLeod Bethune. This film was promoted by Moral Re-Armament (MRA), a multi-faith organisation promoting absolute moral and ethical standards of behaviour, to which Hunte committed the remainder of his life.

paragraph: Hunte made no secret of his beliefs. Some reports suggest that the other members of the West Indies team became tired of his constantly expressing them in the dressing room, and that this contributed to his not being awarded the captaincy in 1963.

paragraph: Hunte retired from cricket in 1967, although he could possibly have continued for some more years, to work full-time for MRA, promoting harmonious race relations. He wrote his autobiography, entitled "Playing to Win", in 1971. After several years in Britain, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to help with the racial situation there. It was there that he met his wife Patricia, a local newscaster, with whom he had three daughters.

paragraph: In 1991, as apartheid was coming to an end in South Africa, Hunte rang the director of the new United Cricket Board of South Africa, Ali Bacher, and offered to help develop cricket in the black townships and promote reconciliation between the races. He worked as National Development Coach, funded by the MCC, for seven years. In 1998 Hunte was conferred the highest honour in Barbados; he was made a Knight of St. Andrew (KA) of the Order of Barbados.

paragraph: In 1999, with encouragement from the government of Barbados, he returned to the island of his birth. He was elected to the presidency of the Barbados Cricket Association, with plans to revive cricket in the country, but he died two months later, while in Australia to speak at a conference of the MRA.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Playing to Win" (1971)

description: Barbadian cricketer

wikidata_label: Conrad Hunte

wikipedia_title: Conrad Hunte


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text: New York Mets

text: Detroit Tigers

text: San Diego Padres

text: New York Yankees

text: Pittsburgh Pirates

text: outfielder

text: Lee Mazzilli

text: Texas Rangers

text: minor league

text: Ron Darling

text: Hall of Famer

text: Ferguson Jenkins

text: Chicago Cubs

text: runs batted in

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text: 1987 American League East pennant

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text: Sigma Alpha Epsilon

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paragraph: Walt Terrell

paragraph: Charles Walter Terrell (born May 11, 1958) is a retired Major League Baseball player. A starting pitcher, Terrell pitched from 1982 to 1992 for the New York Mets (1982–1984), Detroit Tigers (1985–1988), San Diego Padres (1989), New York Yankees (1989), Pittsburgh Pirates (1990), and the Tigers (1990–1992).

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: On April 1, 1982, the Mets traded outfielder Lee Mazzilli to the Texas Rangers for minor league pitchers Ron Darling and Terrell.

paragraph: On August 6, 1983, Terrell hit a two-run home run off future Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins of the Chicago Cubs in the third inning, then another two-run homer the very next inning. Jenkins shut down the rest of the offense, but lost the game 4-1. Later that same month, Terrell had another three hits, including a three-run home run. In five years as a hitter, Terrell logged only three home runs and ten runs batted in but all three home runs and seven of the ten RBI came in a seventeen-day span.

paragraph: Against the California Angels at Tiger Stadium on August 20, 1986, Terrell had a no-hitter broken up with two out in the ninth by a Wally Joyner double. It was the only hit he would allow in a 3-0 Tiger victory. He also surrendered the first of Mark McGwire's 583 home runs on August 25, 1986.

paragraph: Terrell had a career-best 17 wins during the Tigers drive to the 1987 American League East pennant.

paragraph: He was 111-124 in 321 games, with a 4.22 all-time ERA. He struck out 929 in 1,986.2 innings pitched.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Terrell was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and attended Morehead State University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He had several children.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders

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wikidata_label: Walt Terrell

wikipedia_title: Walt Terrell


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paragraph: Carlos Tosca

paragraph: Carlos Tosca (born September 29, 1953 in Pinar del Río, Cuba) is the current Field coach for the GCL Orioles. He is a former Major League and minor league baseball manager. He was the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays from 2002 to 2004. He succeeded Buck Martinez on June 3, 2002, served the entire season, and was replaced by John Gibbons on August 8, 2004, after compiling a 191–191 win-loss record (.500).

paragraph: Tosca is a graduate of the University of South Florida. He did not play professional baseball, but became a coach at the high school level after his graduation. In 1978, he entered pro baseball as a coach in the Short Season-A New York–Penn League.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Tosca managed in the farm systems of the New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, Florida Marlins and Atlanta Braves for 17 seasons between 1980 and 2001. He was the first manager in the history of the Portland Sea Dogs of the Double-A Eastern League, serving as their pilot from 1994 to 1996. He has managed at the highest level of minor league baseball with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights (1997) and Richmond Braves (2001), and was the bench coach on Buck Showalter's staff during the first three MLB seasons (1998–2000) in Arizona Diamondbacks history.

paragraph: Tosca was hired as third base coach of the Blue Jays for the 2002 season by the club's recently appointed general manager, J. P. Ricciardi. When Toronto started poorly (20–33, .377) under Martinez—who had been hired by former GM Gord Ash—Ricciardi replaced the incumbent manager with Tosca. Over the final two-thirds of the campaign, Tosca led the Jays to a 58–51 (.523) mark and a third-place finish in the American League East Division. Tosca then produced another winning record (86–76, .531) and third-place finish in 2003. But in 2004, the Jays won only 47 of their first 111 games (.423) and were in fifth place in their division when Tosca was relieved of command by Ricciardi. The Jays finished the campaign at 67–94 (.416).

paragraph: After returning to the D-Backs in 2005–2006 to coach third base under manager Bob Melvin, Tosca was the bench coach of the Marlins under Fredi González from 2007 to June 22, 2010.

paragraph: When González was hired to replace Bobby Cox as the manager of the Braves following the 2010 season, Tosca was hired to serve as the Braves' new bench coach. He managed the Braves on May 10 and 11, 2013 due to González' daughter's college graduation.

paragraph: On May 17, 2016 both Tosca and González were dismissed from the Atlanta Braves.

paragraph: In February 2019, Tosca was named as the Field Coach for the GCL Orioles.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: Tosca has an identical twin brother named Rick.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Retrosheet

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text: Biographies of Eminent Monks

text: Xingyang

text: Henan

text: Bodhidharma

text: Shaolin Monastery

text: Hebei

text: Yangtze River

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paragraph: Dazu Huike

paragraph: Dazu Huike (487–593; ) is considered the Second Patriarch of Chinese Chán and the twenty-ninth since Gautama Buddha.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Sources.

paragraph: As with most of the early Chán patriarchs, very little firm data is available about his life. The earliest extant biography of the Chán patriarchs is the Biographies of Eminent Monks (519) () and its sequel, Further Biographies of Eminent Monks () (645) by Tao-hsuan (?-667). The following biography is the traditional Chan biography as handed down throughout the centuries, including the "Denkoroku" by Zen Master Keizan Jokin (1268–1325).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Life.

paragraph: The Hsu kao-seng chuan says that Huike was born in Hu-lao (Sishui, modern Xingyang, Henan) and his secular name was Shénguāng (神光, Wade–Giles: Shen-kuang; Japanese: Shinko). A scholar in both Buddhist scriptures and classical Chinese texts, including Taoism, Huike was considered enlightened but criticised for not having a teacher. He met his teacher Bodhidharma at the Shaolin Monastery in 528 when he was about forty years old and studied with Bodhidharma for six years (some sources say four years, five years, or nine years).

paragraph: Huike went to Yedu (Wade–Giles: Yeh-tu) (modern Henan) about 534 and, except for a period of political turmoil and Buddhist persecution in 574, lived in the area of Yedu and Wei (modern Hebei) for the rest of his life. It was during the time of upheaval that Huike sought refuge in the mountains near the Yangtze River and met Sengcan who was to become his successor and the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chan. In 579, Huike returned to Yedu and expounded the dharma, drawing large numbers to listen to his teachings and arousing the hostility of other Buddhist teachers, one of whom, Tao-heng, paid money to have Huike killed but Huike converted the would-be assassin. (ibid)

paragraph: The Wudeng Huiyan ("Compendium of Five Lamps") compiled by Dachuan Lingyin Puji (1179–1253) claims that Huike lived to the age of one hundred seven. He was buried about forty kilometres east northeast of Anyang City in Hebei Province. Later, the Tang Dynasty emperor De Zong gave Huike the honorific name Dazu ("Great Ancestor") Some traditions have it that Huike was executed after complaints about his teachings by influential Buddhist priests. One story says that blood did not flow from his decapitated body, but rather, a white milky substance flowed through his neck.

paragraph: Section::::Bodhidharma legends.

paragraph: Huike figures in several Bodhidharma-legends.

paragraph: Section::::Bodhidharma legends.:Cutting off his arm.

paragraph: Legend has it that Bodhidharma initially refused to teach Huike. Huike stood in the snow outside Bodhidharma's cave all night, until the snow reached his waist. In the morning Bodhidharma asked him why he was there. Huike replied that he wanted a teacher to "open the gate of the elixir of universal compassion to liberate all beings".

paragraph: Bodhidharma refused, saying, "how can you hope for true religion with little virtue, little wisdom, a shallow heart, and an arrogant mind? It would just be a waste of effort."

paragraph: Finally, to prove his resolve, Huike cut off his left arm and presented it to the First Patriarch as a token of his sincerity. Bodhidharma then accepted him as a student, and changed his name from Shenguang to Huike, which means "Wisdom and Capacity".

paragraph: Section::::Bodhidharma legends.:Pacifying the mind.

paragraph: Huike said to Bodhidharma, "My mind is anxious. Please pacify it." br

paragraph: Bodhidharma replied, "Bring me your mind, and I will pacify it." br

paragraph: Huike said, "Although I've sought it, I cannot find it." br

paragraph: "There," Bodhidharma replied, "I have pacified your mind."

paragraph: Section::::Bodhidharma legends.:Awakening.

paragraph: According to the "Denkoroku", when Huike and Bodhidharma were climbing up Few Houses Peak, Bodhidharma asked, "Where are we going?" br

paragraph: Huike replied, "Please go right ahead---that's it." br

paragraph: Bodhidharma retorted, "If you go right ahead, you cannot move a step." br

paragraph: Upon hearing these words, Huike was enlightened.

paragraph: Section::::Bodhidharma legends.:Transmission.:Skin, flesh, bone, marrow.

paragraph: Legend has it that Bodhidharma wished to return to India and called together his disciples and the following exchange took place;

paragraph: Bodhidharma passed on the symbolic robe and bowl of dharma succession to Huike and, some texts claim, a copy of the Lankavatara Sutra. Bodhidharma then either returned to India or died.

paragraph: Section::::Teachings.

paragraph: Section::::Teachings.:Dhyana.

paragraph: There is little doubt that Huike practiced and promoted meditation (as opposed to sutra commentary) as the method to reach understanding of true Buddhism. Tao-hsuan referred to Huike (and others) as dhyana masters (Wade–Giles: ch'an-shih; Japanese: zenji), highlighting the importance of meditation practice in these early years of Chan development. However, what form Huike and Bodhidharma's meditation took (which Tao-hsuan labelled ju shih an-hsin wei pi-kuan ("wall gazing" or "wall contemplation") is unclear.

paragraph: Section::::Teachings.:Sudden awakening.

paragraph: One of the most important characteristics of the early Chán of Bodhidharma and Huike was the sudden approach to enlightenment rather than the Indian yogic meditation which advocated concentration and gradual self-perfection.

paragraph: Huike wrote:

paragraph: Section::::Teachings.:Lankavatara Sutra.

paragraph: There is some evidence that both Huike and Bodhidharma based their teachings on the Lankavatara Sutra, although this cannot be firmly established by modern scholars. Tao-hsuan listed Huike and his circle of disciples as masters of meditation, and the Lankavatara Sutra, in his "Further Biographies of Eminent Monks" (Chinese: 高僧傳 Wade–Giles: Hsu kao-seng chuan; Japanese: Zokuk kosoden)

paragraph: This sutra urges ‘self-enlightenment', the "forgetting of words and thoughts".

paragraph: Section::::Teachings.:Two Entrances.

paragraph: One text that was circulating at the time of Huike was the "Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices" (Wade–Giles: Erh-ju ssu-hsing lun; Pinyin: Erru sixing lun). This text was the purported teachings of Bodhidharma with a preface by T'an Lin (fl. 525-543)

paragraph: The two entrances refers to the entrance of principle and the entrance of practice.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The entrance of principle is that one must have faith in the truth of the teachings and that everyone possesses the same "true nature" which is covered up by "false senses".

paragraph: BULLET::::- The entrance of practice refers to the four practices of the title: be undisturbed by suffering, accept one's circumstances and be unmoved by good or bad fortune, be without attachment or desire and, finally, govern one's actions based on understanding the emptiness or non-substantiality of all things.

paragraph: Section::::Teachings.:Buddha-nature.

paragraph: Attached to the text are some letters, one of which may have been written to Huike and Huike's brief reply. The Bodhidharma text and Huike's letter indicate that the earliest teachings of what was to become Chan emphasized that Buddha Nature was within, and each person must realize this individually through meditation rather than studying the sutras, ceremonies, doing good deeds or worshiping the Buddhas. Meditation should be free of any dualism or attached goal and realization occurs suddenly.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cleary, Thomas (1999) Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master Keizan, North Point Press

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dumoulin, Heinrich (1994,1998) Zen Buddhism: a history, India and China, Macmillan Publishing,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Faure, Bernard, Bodhidharma as Textual and Religious Paradigm in History of Religions, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Feb., 1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ferguson, Andy (2000) Zen's Chinese Heritage: the masters and their teachings, Wisdom Publications,

paragraph: BULLET::::- McRae, John (1986) The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism, University of Hawaii Press,

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen (1991) Shambhala,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yampolsky, Philip (1999) Ch'an, a Historical Sketch in Buddhist Spirituality in Later China, Korea, Japan and the Modern World, Takeuchi Yoshinori (ed); SCM Press p 5

paragraph: Section::::External links.

description: Chan practitioner

wikidata_label: Dazu Huike

wikipedia_title: Dazu Huike


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paragraph: Phyllis Mander-Jones

paragraph: Phyllis Mander-Jones MBE (2 January 1896 – 19 February 1984) was an Australian born librarian and archivist who helped establish the archival profession in Australia.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Phyllis Mander-Jones was born in Homebush, Sydney, Australia, the eldest child of physician George Mander Jones and his wife Margaret Fleming (née Arnott). Both parents had commercial connections: George was the grandson of retailer David Jones; whilst Margaret was the daughter of Australia's leading biscuit manufacturer, William Arnott.

paragraph: The young Mander-Jones family had two stints in England between 1899-1906, before settling in the Sydney suburb of Wahroonga. Phyllis and her sister Mildred were educated at nearby Abbotsleigh an Independent Girls’ School, while her three brothers: Evan, Burnett and Geoffrey went to Shore School.

paragraph: On matriculation Phyllis entered the University of Sydney. Residing at Women's College she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in languages in 1917, awarded honours in German and French. After graduating she was offered a teaching position at Abbotsleigh but chose instead private tutoring after many years of study.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Librarian.

paragraph: Phyllis Mander-Jones was appointed to the staff of the Public Library of NSW (State Library of NSW) in 1925. She began as a library assistant and worked her way through the ranks of the organisation becoming a qualified librarian in 1933 and appointed to the position of Bibliographer in 1941. Her bibliographical work included lecturing on historical bibliography in the library schools of the early 1940s.

paragraph: 1942 saw her appointment to the Mitchell Library. Coinciding with war service her energies were redirected, being employed by the Department of the Army in censorship. Her proficiency in languages was an asset and utilised between 1942-1945. Her bibliographic skills were also called upon under the direction of Mitchell Librarian, Ida Leeson, for the Allied Geographic Section.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Librarian.:Mitchell Librarian 1946-1957.

paragraph: Mander-Jones was appointed Mitchell Librarian in November 1946 and began the work of modernising the library in the wake of the difficult war years.

paragraph: Drawing on her experience in bibliography she established standards in recording collections, created finding aids to assist researchers, and giving due care to the processing of original materials: manuscripts, pictures and maps.

paragraph: She was aware of the need to continue building the Library's collections as well as promoting its valuable resources. To this end she acquired significant original materials such as records of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the second collection of Macarthur papers. She publicised the library's significant holdings via print publications as well as addressing conferences, public forums and community groups.

paragraph: Perhaps her greatest challenge was managing a library that also functioned as the State Archive. From its inception, the Mitchell Library acted as the government record repository (documents no longer required in the administration of government departments being transferred to it). The Library no longer had the resources required to process or store the material and in November 1953 the State Archives became a separate department of the Library. She was to play a key role in what was to become the Archives Office of NSW.

paragraph: Phyllis Mander-Jones' final project as Mitchell Librarian was based in London, working with the records of the London Missionary Society and other papers. Based there from 6 November 1956 – 18 March 1958, she resigned her position as Mitchell Librarian and was then appointed the State Library's Liaison Officer in London.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Archivist.

paragraph: Mander-Jones helped lay the foundations of the archival profession in Australia establishing the archives section of the Library Association of Australia which in 1975 became the Australian Society of Archivists. She co-edited the inaugural issue of the society's journal "Archives and Manuscripts" in 1955, which continues to this day. She attended the first congress of the International Council on Archives in 1948 and the following year reported on the state of NSW archives to a conference of Commonwealth and State authorities.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Australian Joint Copying Project.

paragraph: After her appointment in London as the State Library's Liaison Officer (1958-1960) based at the Office of the Agent-General for NSW she embarked on the major project of her career: the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).

paragraph: Taking up the position of AJCP officer for the Public Library of NSW and the National Library of Australia from July 1960, Mander-Jones continued the work of the project initiated in 1945 for the copying of records of Australian and Pacific interest held in repositories in the United Kingdom.

paragraph: Then, in 1964, she was appointed to direct the project under the joint administration of the Australian National University and the National Library of Australia. This led to the publication of her major life's work: "Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific" (1972).

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: In 1996, the Australian Society of Archivists introduced a suite of awards in her honour. The awards are presented annually at the Society's national conference.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: In retirement Phyllis Mander-Jones returned to Australia and pursued her interest in bibliography contributing most notably to J.C. Beaglehole's "The Life of Captain Cook" (1974) as well as researching the family history of her Arnott ancestors.

paragraph: She spent the final years of her life in South Australia and died at Prospect, Adelaide on 19 February 1984.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Australian Joint Copying Project

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ida Leeson

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jean Fleming Arnot

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

paragraph: BULLET::::- State Library of New South Wales

description: Australian archivist and librarian

wikidata_label: Phyllis Mander-Jones

wikipedia_title: Phyllis Mander-Jones


text:
Théâtre du Palais-Royal
Passy Cemetery
Amédée Donatien Doublemard
Christian Marin
Eugène Labiche
Théâtre du Vaudeville
Eugène Nyon
Michel Delaporte
Charles Varin
Théâtre du Palais-Royal
Eugène Grangé
Lambert-Thiboust
Henri Meilhac
Ludovic Halévy
Corps législatif
William Busnach
Charles Lecocq
La Vie parisienne
Jacques Offenbach
Le château à Toto
opéra bouffe
Edmond Gondinet

categories: 1882 deaths,1822 births,19th-century French male actors,Male actors from Paris

paragraph: Gil-Pérès

paragraph: Gil-Pérès, real name Jules-Charles Pérès Jolin, (9 July 1822 – 30 January 1882) was a 19th-century French stage actor and vaudevilliste, who was a member of the troupe of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in the mid-19th century, and created several roles in Offenbach operettas.

paragraph: He was also noted for his collaboration in the plays of Labiche, often as servants.

paragraph: He was buried in Passy Cemetery, where his epitaph is « le connaître, c’était l’aimer » ("to know him was to love him"); the monument was by Amédée Donatien Doublemard.

paragraph: He is portrayed in the 1977 French television series 'Les Folies Offenbach' by Christian Marin.

paragraph: Section::::Some roles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1852 (8 May): "Les Suites d'un premier lit", one-act comedy mingled with songs by Eugène Labiche, Théâtre du Vaudeville : Piquoiseau

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1854 (9 September) : "Le Baiser à l'étrier", vaudeville in one act by Edouard Brisebarre, Eugène Nyon, Théâtre du Palais-Royal

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1857 (26 January) : "Le Bras d'Ernest", vaudeville, Théâtre du Palais-Royal : title role

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1860 : "Les Trois Fils de Cadet-Roussel" by Michel Delaporte, Charles Varin and Paul Laurencin, Théâtre du Palais-Royal

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1861 : "La Beauté du diable", vaudeville in 3 acts by Eugène Grangé and Lambert-Thiboust, Théâtre du Palais-Royal : La Roussotte

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1863 (9 May): "Le Brésilien", comedy by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1864 (21 December): "Le Photographe", comédie-vaudeville by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1865 : "La Succession Bonnet"; comédie-vaudeville, by the duc de Morny, with a rondeau for Gridou (Gil-Pérès) by Offenbach, Corps législatif

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1866 (2 May) : "Le Myosotis", vaudeville in one act, by William Busnach, music by Charles Lecocq, Théâtre du Palais-Royal : Cornillon

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1866 (31 October): "La Vie parisienne", opéra-bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal: Bobinet

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1868 (6 May): "Le château à Toto", opéra bouffe in three acts, music by Offenbach, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal: Le Baron de Crécy-Crécy

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1874 (2 April) : "Le Homard", vaudeville in one act, by Edmond Gondinet Théâtre du Palais-Royal : Romanèche

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1874 (24 November) : "La Boule", comédie in four acts, by Henry Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal : La Musardière

description: French actor

wikidata_label: Gil-Pérès

wikipedia_title: Gil-Pérès


text:
General
Irish
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Anglo-Irish
India
Rifle Brigade
County Cork
Robert Travers
Battle of Knocknanuss
Addiscombe Military Seminary
Colonel
2nd Bengal Native Infantry
Bengal Army
Indian Mutiny
Order of the Bath
Bengal
Bridge of Allan
Scotland
The Register of the Victoria Cross
Ireland's VCs
Monuments to Courage
Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross

categories: Companions of the Order of the Bath,British Indian Army generals,19th-century Irish people,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,1884 deaths,Irish soldiers in the British East India Company Army,Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross,Alumni of Addiscombe Military Seminary,1820 births,British military personnel of the First Anglo-Afghan War,British East India Company Army officers,People from Cork (city)

paragraph: James Travers

paragraph: General James Travers (6 October 1820 – 1 April 1884) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Military background.

paragraph: James Travers came from a distinguished Anglo-Irish military family, and all seven of his brothers (three of whom were killed in India) served in the armed forces. They were the sons of Major-General Sir Robert Travers (1770–1834) C.B., K.C.M.G., of the 95th Rifle Brigade, who was one of six brothers who again all served in the military, and one of three to be knighted for their services, including Rear-Admiral Sir (1777–1858), who was engaged in battle with the enemy upwards of over one hundred times, and was mentioned in dispatches eight times for gallantry. James Travers grew up in County Cork, where the first of his ancestors to be born there, Sir Robert Travers. was killed at the Battle of Knocknanuss in 1647. James Travers was educated at Addiscombe Military Seminary.

paragraph: Section::::Military career.

paragraph: James Travers was educated at the military college at Addiscombe. He received a commission in the Bengal infantry and arrived in Calcutta in January 1838. He served with the 57th native infantry at Barrackpore and then the 2nd native infantry at Firozpur. He served with this regiment in Afghanistan between 1840 and 1842, being mentioned in despatches in action at Zamin-Dawar, was involved in a cavalry fight at Mukur, was at the capture of Ghazni and the actions at Beni-badain and Maidan. On his return to Firozpur he was awarded three medals and recommended to be Major by brevet on attaining the rank of Captain.

paragraph: He was appointed adjutant to the Bhopal contingent in March 1843 and promoted to Captain and brevet Major in January 1846. He was involved in the battle of Sobraon and mentioned in despatches. He was appointed second in command of the Bhopal contingent in March 1846, promoted to Lt-Colonel on 20 June 1854, and on 15 February 1856 to be commandant. In 1856, he commanded a force in the field against the rebel Sankar Singh.

paragraph: After the outbreak of the mutiny in 1857, he moved from Bhopal to Indur and assumed command of the forces there. Travers was 36 years old, and a Colonel in the 2nd Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed led to his award of the Victoria Cross:

paragraph: He returned to duty with the 2nd and on 8 September 1860 was appointed commandant of the Central India Horse and on 23 July 1865 he was promoted to Major General. He was promoted to Lt General in 1873, General in 1877, placed on the supernumerary list in 1881. Travers was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He married Mary Isabella Macintyre on 19 November 1849 in Bengal, India. Mary was born in 1830 and died at Kilrock, Bridge of Allan in Scotland on 16 June 1933.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Register of the Victoria Cross" (1981, 1988 and 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ireland's VCs" (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Monuments to Courage" (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross" (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: James Travers

wikipedia_title: James Travers


text: VC

text: English

text: Victoria Cross

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: Hull

text: East Riding of Yorkshire

text: sergeant

text: British Army

text: Second Boer War

text: Monuments to Courage

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

text: Victoria Crosses of the Anglo-Boer War

text: Location of grave and VC medal

text: Dover War Memorial Project

text: Angloboerwar.com

categories: British Army personnel of the Second Boer War,Second Boer War recipients of the Victoria Cross,Military personnel from Kingston upon Hull,British recipients of the Victoria Cross,1870 births,1954 deaths,West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers

paragraph: William Traynor

paragraph: William Bernard Traynor VC (31 December 1870 – 20 October 1956) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Traynor was born at 29 Moxon Street, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was 30 years old and a sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army during the Second Boer War when the following act led to the award of the Victoria Cross:

paragraph: Traynor's Cross is held privately.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Victoria Crosses of the Anglo-Boer War (Ian Uys, 2000)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Location of grave and VC medal "(Kent)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dover War Memorial Project

paragraph: BULLET::::- Angloboerwar.com

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: William Bernard Traynor

wikipedia_title: William Traynor


text:
VC
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
private
King's Royal Rifle Corps
British Army
Indian Mutiny
Delhi
India
Monuments to Courage
The Register of the Victoria Cross

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,People from Suffolk Coastal (district),1826 births,1868 deaths,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,King's Royal Rifle Corps soldiers

paragraph: Samuel Turner (VC)

paragraph: Samuel Turner VC (February 1826 – 13 June 1868) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Turner was 31 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, 60th Rifles (later the King's Royal Rifle Corps) of the British Army during the Indian Mutiny, when the following deed on 19 June 1857 at Delhi, India took place for which he was awarded the VC:

paragraph: Section::::References.

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Samuel Turner

wikipedia_title: Samuel Turner (VC)


text: VC

text: Victoria Cross

text: Commonwealth

text: sergeant

text: British Army

text: Ningthoukong

text: India

text: Halifax

text: The Duke of Wellington's Regiment

text: Bankfield Museum

text: Halifax

text: British VCs of World War 2

text: Monuments to Courage

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

categories: British military personnel killed in World War II,British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross,1910 births,1944 deaths,West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers,People from Andover, Hampshire,Duke of Wellington's Regiment soldiers,British Army personnel of World War II

paragraph: Hanson Turner

paragraph: Hanson Victor Turner VC (17 July 1910 – 7 June 1944) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Turner was 33 years old, and an acting sergeant in the 1st Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), British Army during the Second World War. He was awarded the VC for his actions on 6/7 June 1944 at Ningthoukong, India, when he almost "single-handedly" and with "doggedness and spirit of endurance of the highest order" held off Japanese attacks until the morning by running back to replenish his supplies. He was killed while throwing a grenade.

paragraph: Section::::Details.:Citation.

paragraph: The citation refers to Ningthoukong as being in Burma, but it is actually in the state of Manipur in India.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Although Hanson Victor Turner was 'originally' a 'Duke', he was serving with The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) when he was awarded his VC. When his medal was put up for sale, at auction, it was purchased by the Halifax Town Council, as he was a local, Halifax, resident. It is displayed in The Duke of Wellington's Regiment Regimental Museum in Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- British VCs of World War 2 (John Laffin, 1997)

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Hanson Victor Turner

wikipedia_title: Hanson Turner


text: Second Lieutenant

text: VC

text: English

text: Victoria Cross

text: First World War

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: Victor

text: Second World War

text: Reading, Berkshire

text: Charles Turner

text: major

text: Royal Berkshire Regiment

text: Sir Alexander Buller

text: Wellington College

text: commissioned

text: First World War

text: Regular Army

text: 6th Brigade

text: 2nd Division

text: trenches

text: Western Front

text: British Army

text: Vermelles

text: France

text: Chocques

text: Lieutenant Colonel

text: Victor Buller Turner

text: General

text: Sir Redvers Buller

text: Salisbury

text: Wiltshire

text: London Gazette

text: Monuments to Courage

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

categories: British military personnel killed in World War I,Royal Berkshire Regiment officers,People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire,People from Reading, Berkshire,British Army personnel of World War I,British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross,1915 deaths,British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross,1893 births

paragraph: Alexander Buller Turner

paragraph: Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner VC (22 May 1893 – 1 October 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC) during the First World War, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His younger brother, Victor, was a recipient of the VC in the Second World War.

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

paragraph: Turner was born at home in Reading, Berkshire on 22 May 1893 to Charles Turner, later a major in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, and his second wife Jane Elizabeth, only daughter of Admiral Sir Alexander Buller. He was educated at Parkside School, Surrey and Wellington College, Berkshire and commissioned into the Special Reserve of Officers, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, on 11 September 1914, five weeks after the outbreak of the First World War. He was subsequently transferred to the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. The battalion, a Regular Army unit, part of the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division, was serving in trenches of the Western Front.

paragraph: He was 22 years old, and a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), British Army, attached to 1st Battalion during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

paragraph: On 28 September 1915 at Fosse 8, near Vermelles, France, when the regimental bombers could make no headway, Second Lieutenant Turner volunteered to lead a new bombing attack. He made his way down the communication trench practically alone, throwing bombs incessantly with such dash and determination that he drove off the Germans about 150 yards without a check. His action enabled the reserves to advance with very little loss and subsequently covered the flank of his regiment in its retirement, thus probably averting the loss of some hundreds of men. Second Lieutenant Turner died three days later of the wounds received in this action.

paragraph: He was shot in the abdomen at close range during the action for which he was awarded the VC. He was reported to have died at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Chocques on 1 October and he was buried at the Military Cemetery Chocques.

paragraph: His brother was Lieutenant Colonel Victor Buller Turner VC and had a family connection with General Sir Redvers Buller VC.

paragraph: His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (Salisbury) Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

paragraph: The citation for his award, published in the London Gazette on 18 November 1915, reads as follows:

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- VCs of the First World War - The Western Front 1915 (Peter F. Batchelor & Christopher Matson, 1999)

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Alexander Buller Turner

wikipedia_title: Alexander Buller Turner


text:
VC
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Victoria Cross
Fontmell Magna
Dorset
King's College School
London
Delhi
India
lieutenant
Bengal Engineers
Bengal Army
Indian Mutiny
Duncan Charles Home
killed in action
King's College School
Robert Haydon Shebbeare
Monuments to Courage
The Register of the Victoria Cross
The Sapper VCs
Royal Engineers Museum

categories: British recipients of the Victoria Cross,1857 deaths,Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross,People educated at King's College School, London,1830 births,British military personnel killed in the Indian Rebellion of 1857,People from North Dorset District

paragraph: Philip Salkeld

paragraph: Philip Salkeld VC (13 October 1830 – 10 October 1857) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously.

paragraph: He was born at the Rectory in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England, educated at King's College School, London, and is buried in the Old Delhi Military Cemetery, Delhi, India.

paragraph: Section::::Details.

paragraph: Salkeld was 26 years old, and a lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place for which he together with Duncan Charles Home was awarded the VC:

paragraph: He was killed in action at Delhi on 10 October 1857.

paragraph: Salkeld's companion at King's College School, Robert Haydon Shebbeare also received the Victoria Cross on the same day for his action in the fourth column attacking Delhi at the Kabul Gate.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Sapper VCs (Gerald Napier, 1998)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Royal Engineers Museum Sappers VCs

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: Philip Salkeld

wikipedia_title: Philip Salkeld


text: VC

text: Scottish

text: Victoria Cross

text: British

text: Commonwealth

text: Gallipoli Campaign

text: First World War

text: Carnoustie

text: Angus

text: seaman

text: Royal Naval Reserve

text: V Beach

text: Cape Helles

text: George Leslie Drewry

text: Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson

text: William Charles Williams

text: Edward Unwin

text: lighters

text: Maxim

text: white feather

text: petty officer

text: Merchant Navy

text: pneumonia

text: St. George's, Bermuda

text: Imperial War Museum

text: London

text: Aboyne

text: Monuments to Courage

text: The Register of the Victoria Cross

text: Scotland's Forgotten Valour

text: VCs of the First World War - Gallipoli

text: Biography

categories: Royal Navy recipients of the Victoria Cross,Royal Navy personnel of World War I,Deaths from pneumonia,1889 births,Royal Navy sailors,People from Carnoustie,1923 deaths,British Gallipoli Campaign recipients of the Victoria Cross

paragraph: George Samson

paragraph: George McKenzie Samson VC (7 January 1889 – 28 February 1923) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. Samson was from Carnoustie in Angus, 26 years old, and a seaman in the Royal Naval Reserve when he was awarded the VC.

paragraph: On 25 April 1915 during the landing at V Beach on Cape Helles, Seaman Samson, along with three other men (George Leslie Drewry, Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson, and William Charles Williams) was assisting the commander (Edward Unwin) of their ship "", at the work of securing the lighters. He worked all day under very heavy fire, attending wounded and getting out lines. He was eventually dangerously wounded by Maxim fire.

paragraph: While dressed in civilian clothes and on his way to a public reception in his honour, Samson was given a white feather.

paragraph: He later achieved the rank of petty officer and rejoined the Merchant Navy after the war, ultimately dying of pneumonia. He is buried in the St. George's Military Cemetery off Secretary Lane in St. George's, Bermuda. His VC is in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery in the Imperial War Museum in London.

paragraph: Section::::Freemasonry.

paragraph: He was a Scottish Freemason having been Initiated in Lodge Charleston of Aboyne, No.281, (Aboyne, Aberdeenshire) on 17 March, Passed on 2 July and Raised on 19 July 1916. His membership registration reads: 'George McKenzie Samson, V.C., Petty Officer, aged 27.'

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- VCs of the First World War - Gallipoli (Stephen Snelling, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- VCs of the First World War - The Naval VCs (Stephen Snelling, 2002)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography

description: Recipient of the Victoria Cross

wikidata_label: George McKenzie Samson

wikipedia_title: George Samson


text:
Sumiyoshi Taisha
Osaka
Hyūga Province
Minamoto no Yoritomo
Minamoto no Yoritomo
Hiki Yoshikazu
Koremune Hironobu
Hata clan
Shinano province
Shugo
Satsuma province
Honda Sadachika
Mutsu
Ōsumi province

categories: Daimyo,Shimazu clan,1227 deaths,1179 births

paragraph: Shimazu Tadahisa

paragraph: According to a record of his life, he was reportedly born in Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka. He was initially but after being given the territory of Shimazu, Hyūga Province to rule from by Minamoto no Yoritomo, he took the name of Shimazu.

paragraph: Tadahisa was a son of the Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147–1199) by the sister of Hiki Yoshikazu.

paragraph: He married a daughter of Koremune Hironobu, descendant of the Hata clan, whose name Tadahisa at first took.

paragraph: He received the domain of Shioda (Shinano province) in 1186 and was then named "Shugo" of Satsuma province. He sent Honda Sadachika to take possession of the province in his name and accompanied Yoritomo in his expedition to Mutsu in 1189. He went to Satsuma in 1196, subdued Hyūga and Ōsumi provinces, and built a castle in the domain of Shimazu (Hyūga) which name he also adopted. He is buried in Kamakura, near his father's tomb.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sansom, George (1961). "A History of Japan: 1334-1615." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). "The Samurai Sourcebook." London: Cassell & Co.

description: Founder of the Shimazu samurai clan

wikidata_label: Shimazu Tadahisa

wikipedia_title: Shimazu Tadahisa


text:
Shimazu Tadayoshi
daimyō
Sengoku period
Shimazu clan
Shimazu Katsuhisa
Satsuma
Osumi
Hyūga
Shimazu
Shimazu Yoshihisa
Yoshihiro
Toshihisa
Iehisa
Shimazu clan
Kyūshū
Tanegashima
St. Francis Xavier
Christianity
Ryūkyū Kingdom
Kajiki

paragraph: Shimazu Takahisa

paragraph: , the son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a "daimyō" during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan.

paragraph: On 1526, Takahisa was adopted as the successor to Shimazu Katsuhisa and became head of the clan. He launched a series of campaigns to reclaim three provinces: Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyūga. While he made some progress, it would be up to the next generation in the Shimazu family to successfully reclaim them. He nurtured such future leaders like Shimazu Yoshihisa and his brothers Yoshihiro, Toshihisa and Iehisa who would, for a short time, see the Shimazu clan take over the entire island of Kyūshū; he is also said to have a daughter of unknown name.

paragraph: Takahisa actively promoted relationships with foreign people and countries. He was the first daimyo to bring Western firearms into Japan, following the shipwreck of a number of Portuguese on Tanegashima in 1543. In 1549, he welcomed St. Francis Xavier. He granted the Jesuit protection to spread Christianity in his domain, but later retracted his support of Christianity under pressure from local Buddhist monks. Takahisa also held a diplomatic relationship with the Ryūkyū Kingdom.

paragraph: In 1549, he used "Portuguese-derived" firearms to take Kajiki.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frédéric, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia". Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

description: daimyo and fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan

wikidata_label: Shimazu Takahisa

wikipedia_title: Shimazu Takahisa


text:
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
George Abbott
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Robert E. Sherwood
Providence, Rhode Island
Born Yesterday
the 1950 film adaptation
The Diary of Anne Frank
Funny Girl
American Theater Hall of Fame
A Man to Remember
The New York Times
The Great Man Votes
My Favorite Wife
They Knew What They Wanted
Tom, Dick and Harry
The True Glory
Born Yesterday
Ruth Gordon
Spencer Tracy
Katharine Hepburn
Adam's Rib
Pat and Mike
A Double Life
George Cukor
Smash
Thornton Wilder
Frank Capra
Katharine Hepburn
Laurence Olivier
Vivien Leigh
California
Katharine Hepburn
Michael Kanin
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Woman of the Year
Ruth Gordon
Marian Seldes
Manhattan
Jewish
Noël Coward
Moviola
Smash
Born Yesterday
Do Re Mi
A Man to Remember
Next Time I Marry
The Great Man Votes
Bachelor Mother
They Knew What They Wanted
My Favorite Wife
Tom, Dick and Harry
The More the Merrier
The True Glory
From This Day Forward
A Double Life
Adam's Rib
Pat and Mike
The Marrying Kind
It Should Happen to You
The Girl Can't Help It
High Time
The Rat Race
Some Kind of a Nut
Where It's At
Garson Kanin Official Website

categories: 1912 births,American male dramatists and playwrights,20th-century American dramatists and playwrights,American male screenwriters,1999 deaths,American theatre directors,Jewish American screenwriters,American Theater Hall of Fame inductees,Writers from New York City,20th-century American male writers,Novelists from New York (state),American male novelists,20th-century American novelists,Writers from Rochester, New York,Film directors from New York City,Donaldson Award winners

paragraph: Garson Kanin

paragraph: Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films.

paragraph: Section::::Stage career.

paragraph: Garson Kanin began his show business career as a jazz musician, burlesque comedian, and actor. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and made his Broadway debut in "Little Ol' Boy" (1933). In 1935, Kanin was cast in a George Abbott play and soon became Abbott's assistant. Kanin made his Broadway debut as a director in 1936, at the age of twenty-four, with "Hitch Your Wagon".

paragraph: In 1945, Kanin directed Spencer Tracy in Tracy's first play in 15 years. Tracy had been through a dark patch personally—culminating with a stay in hospital—and Katharine Hepburn felt that a play would help restore his focus. Tracy told a journalist in April, "I'm coming back to Broadway to see if I can still act." The play was "The Rugged Path" by Robert E. Sherwood, which first previewed in Providence, Rhode Island, on September 28, to a sold-out crowd and tepid response.

paragraph: "The Rugged Path" was a difficult production, with Kanin later writing, "In the ten days prior to the New York opening all the important relationships had deteriorated. Spencer was tense and unbending, could not, or would not, take direction". Tracy considered leaving the show before it even opened on Broadway, and lasted there just six weeks before announcing his intention to close the show. It closed on January 19, 1946, after 81 performances. Tracy later explained to a friend: "I couldn't say those goddamn lines over and over and over again every night ... At least every day is a new day for me in films ... But this thing—every day, every day, over and over again."

paragraph: Kanin's 1946 play "Born Yesterday", which he also directed, ran for 1,642 performances. Kanin worked, uncredited, on the screenplay of the 1950 film adaptation.

paragraph: His other stage work includes directing "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1955), which ran for 717 performances, and the musical "Funny Girl" (1964), which ran for 1,348 performances.

paragraph: Kanin wrote and directed his last play, "Peccadillo", in 1985, the same year he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

paragraph: Section::::Film career.

paragraph: His first film as a director was "A Man to Remember" (1938), which "The New York Times" considered one of the ten best films of 1938. Kanin was twenty-six at the time. Other directing credits include "The Great Man Votes" (1939), "My Favorite Wife" (1940), "They Knew What They Wanted" (1940) and "Tom, Dick and Harry" (1941).

paragraph: Kanin's Hollywood career was interrupted by the draft. He served in the United States Army from 1941 to 1945. During this time Kanin, with Carol Reed, co-directed General Dwight D. Eisenhower's official record of the Allied Invasion, the Academy-award-winning documentary "The True Glory" (1945). During this time, he began writing what would become his greatest play, "Born Yesterday".

paragraph: Kanin's best-remembered screenplays, however, were written in collaboration with his wife, actress Ruth Gordon, whom he married in 1942. Together, they wrote the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn film comedies "Adam's Rib" (1949) and "Pat and Mike" (1952), as well as "A Double Life" (1947), starring Ronald Colman, all directed by George Cukor.

paragraph: Section::::Television career.

paragraph: In the 1950s through the 1980s, Kanin adapted several of his stories and plays for television, most notably "Mr. Broadway" (1964), and "Moviola" (1980).

paragraph: Kanin's best-selling novel "Smash" (1980), about the pre-Broadway tryout of a musical comedy, has recently been adapted into the television series "Smash".

paragraph: Section::::Acquaintances and memorable sayings.

paragraph: He was a colleague of Thornton Wilder, who mentored him, and an admirer of the work of Frank Capra. Kanin said "I'd rather be Capra than God, if there is a Capra." Kanin and Katharine Hepburn were the only witnesses to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's wedding in California on August 31, 1940. In 1941, he and Katharine Hepburn worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what would become "Woman of the Year" right before Garson enlisted in the army. He is also quoted as saying, "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

paragraph: His most famous quote, from his hit play "Born Yesterday," is on a New York City Public Library plaque on a 41st Street sidewalk: "I want everyone to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."

paragraph: Section::::Preservation.

paragraph: The Academy Film Archive preserved "Ring of Steel" and "Salut a La France" (French language version) by Garson Kanin.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Kanin was married to his frequent collaborator, Academy-award-winning actress Ruth Gordon, from 1942 to her death in 1985.

paragraph: In 1990, Kanin married the celebrated stage actress Marian Seldes (1928-2014). In 1999, Kanin died at age 86 in Manhattan of undisclosed causes.

paragraph: Kanin was Jewish.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Remembering Mr. Maugham", with an introduction by Noël Coward, 1966.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons, Moviemakers, Frauds, Hopefuls, Great Lovers". New York: Viking, 1967.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir". New York: Viking, 1971.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It Takes a Long Time to Become Young". New York: Berkley, 1978

paragraph: Novels

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blow Up a Storm"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Do Re Mi"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Moviola"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Smash"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rat Race"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Where It's At"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Thousand Suns"

paragraph: Plays

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Born Yesterday"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Smile of the World"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rat Race"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Live Wire"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Come on Strong"

paragraph: Musicals

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fledermaus"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Do Re Mi"

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Man to Remember" (1938) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Next Time I Marry" (1938) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Great Man Votes" (1939) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bachelor Mother" (1939) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "They Knew What They Wanted" (1940) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "My Favorite Wife" (1940) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tom, Dick and Harry" (1941) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The More the Merrier" (1942) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The True Glory" (1945) - director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From This Day Forward" (1946) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Double Life" (1947) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Adam's Rib" (1949) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pat and Mike" (1952) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Marrying Kind" (1952) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It Should Happen to You" (1954) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956) - original story

paragraph: BULLET::::- "High Time" (1960) - original story

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Rat Race" (1960) - writer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Some Kind of a Nut" (1968) - writer, director

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Where It's At" (1969) - writer, director

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Garson Kanin Official Website

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