text: tattooing

text: political cartoons

text: punk rock

text: Maximum Rock and Roll

text: knife fight

text: Shai Hulud

text: Indecision

text: Coalesce

text: Zombie Apocalypse

text: Austin, Texas

text: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

text: Brooklyn, New York

text: Third Dimension podcast

text: Austin-Arts Interview

text: Mil Scifi interview

text: Big Tattoo Planet

text: Official site

text: Needles and Sins interview

text: Philly Side Arts interview

text: Paul Semel interview

text: Red Door Magazine interview

text: Painful pleasures interview

text: Read Horror interview

text: DLSnell interview

text: Anarchy Books interview

text: The Black Seas of Infinity trailer

categories: 1972 births,Living people,American tattoo artists

paragraph: Dan Henk

paragraph: Daniel Jonathan Henk (born December 11, 1972) is an American artist and writer, noted for his work in tattooing and painting. He has produced record-album covers, political cartoons, controversial articles, and a variety of other media.

paragraph: Growing up a disaffected army brat, his early life revolved around a punk rock subculture that included bouts of homelessness and societal rejection.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: His beginning career included a year and a half stint drawing political cartoons for "Madcap Magazine" and illustrating underground projects and fanzines such as Maximum Rock and Roll. In 1997, after struggling through a violent car crash and a knife fight with a crackhead that severed the tendon on his left thumb, he finally managed to attend art school. Receiving some commercial and local gallery acclaim for his artwork, he moved to New York City in an attempt to kick start an art career. Heavily immersing himself in the local hardcore scene, he produced artwork for the bands Shai Hulud, Indecision, Coalesce," Locked in a Vacancy", "Beyond Reason", Zombie Apocalypse and various local record labels and venues.

paragraph: Section::::Commercial success and tragedy.

paragraph: In 2000, he started tattooing, initially working on many musician friends. A year later, in September 2001, he was stricken with brain cancer and underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Refusing to give up, he returned to his art projects with a vengeance.Three months later, he married fellow tattoo artist Monica Castillo. After a brief venture down south, that included owning a short lived tattoo shop that ended in disaster, he returned to Manhattan and applied himself to art with a renewed fervor. A productive period followed, with his work appearing in both a growing number of tattoo magazines and more fine art influenced outlets such as "Aphrodesia", and "The Tarot Project". Tattoo related books such as "No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever" and "Inside the Tattoo Circus: A Journey Through the Modern World of Tattoos" also took notice and included features on the young artist. Tragedy struck again in 2007, as his wife of 6 years, Monica Henk, was killed in a motorcycle accident by a hit and run driver. Despite extensive coverage in the local media and vigorous campaigns by both the tattoo and motorcycle community, the culprit was never found.

paragraph: Section::::A new start.

paragraph: He moved to Austin, Texas for three years, to reevaluate his career, and a heavy spate of activity followed. He started doing a regular comic strip entitled "Rollo & Me" for Tattoo Artist Magazine, as well as illustrations for Black Static Magazine, and This is Horror. His long in the making first novel, The Black Seas of Infinity, was published by Anarchy Books in 2011. A limited edition chapbook entitled "Christmas Is Cancelled" came out courtesy of Splatterpunk in 2013. Relocating yet again, this time to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then two years later back to Brooklyn, New York he's currently writing, illustrating and tattooing.

paragraph: He's also authoring a regular column for Tattoo Revue and Skin Art magazines. A reissue of his debut novel was put out by Permuted Press in April 2015, and a collection of his short stories entitled "Down Highways In The Dark...By Demons Driven" was released by the same publisher in August. He continued his work for independent magazines, doing art for Red Door Magazine, The Horror Zine, Litro Magazine, a slew of books by the imprint Out Of Step, and every issue so far of the British horror zine Splatterpunk. Books started to feature his artwork on their covers. "The Sopaths" by Piers Anthony, "Splatterpunks Not Dead", and "Splatterpunk Fighting Back".

paragraph: His third novel "The End of the World" came out in April 2019 and his seventh book cover debuts later in the year on the novel "Insatiable".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Third Dimension podcast

paragraph: BULLET::::- Austin-Arts Interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mil Scifi interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Big Tattoo Planet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Needles and Sins interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philly Side Arts interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul Semel interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Red Door Magazine interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Painful pleasures interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Read Horror interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- DLSnell interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anarchy Books interview

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Black Seas of Infinity trailer

paragraph: BULLET::::- Down Highways in the Dark...By Demons Driven trailer

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::-

description: American artist and writer

wikidata_label: Dan Henk

wikipedia_title: Dan Henk


text: Brno

text: Vienna

text: Czech Republic

text: Moravia

text: Austria

text: portal

text: Brno

text: pulpit

text: St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna

text: Moravia

text: Vienna

text: Heilbronn

text: chancel

text: Swabia

text: Schwieberdingen

text: Rottweil

text: Renaissance

text: Brno

text: stonemason

text: St Jacob Church

text: Saint Peter Martyr

text: Dominican

text: saint

text: St Stephen's Cathedral

text: Nikolaus Gerhaert

text: Middle Europe

text: Albert Kutal

text: Italian Renaissance

text: Andrea Mantegna

text: Encyclopedia of the City of Brno

text: Anton Pilgram – Moravian Gallery

categories: 1460 births,1516 deaths,Gothic architects

paragraph: Anton Pilgram

paragraph: Anton Pilgram (also Anton Pilchramb) (around 1460, Brno (?) – 1516, Vienna) was a late medieval Austrian (German) architect and sculptor active in the area of today's Czech Republic (Moravia), Austria and western (Germany). Pilgram is known as the sculptor of the portal of Old City Hall in Brno and craftsman of the pulpit in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. He spent a major part of his life in Brno, Moravia.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was probably trained in Vienna, and following that, in 1481, he was invited to Heilbronn. His earliest work was a chancel at the St Kilian Church in Heilbronn. However, research by Kaliopi Chamonikola, 2004, disputes the attribution of the design of the chancel to Pilgram. He created his early architectural works mainly in Swabia, Germany. He participated in the building of the St. George Church in Schwieberdingen and St Lawrence Chapel in Rottweil. During his stay in Swabia, he became familiar with the works of Italian and German Renaissance artists.

paragraph: He came back to Brno around 1495, and he worked there as a sculptor and stonemason at the St Jacob Church and Judentor (Jews' Gate, 1508). Among his most important works are wooden sculptures of Saint Peter Martyr and a Dominican saint, created around 1511, and particularly the portal of the Old City Hall (1512).

paragraph: In 1512 Pilgram became a cathedral builder of the St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. There he concentrated mainly on smaller architectonic forms, such as the cathedral pulpit (built from 1514 to 1515) and various relief sculptures. Pilgram probably died in Vienna around 1516.

paragraph: Section::::Style.

paragraph: Anton Pilgram is considered to be one of the most talented descendants of Nikolaus Gerhaert of Leiden in Middle Europe. His figural sculptures express a high level of individuality, and are not entirely within medieval artistic expression. Czech art historian Albert Kutal indicated also possible influence of north Italian Renaissance sculpture and paintings by Andrea Mantegna.

paragraph: According to preserved historical documents, Pilgram was a self-confident and contentious artist, who often asserted his artistic individuality against the will of guilds and other institutions.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Současné teoretické přístupy k dílu Antona Pilgrama s důrazem na jeho tvorbu ve Vídni, na Moravě a na Slovensku – Thesis by Lucie Valdhansová (abstract)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Artistic Identity of the Architect and Sculptor Anton Pilgram, by Kaliopi Chamonikola "Umeni: Art"; LII, 2004, No. 5 (summary)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Encyclopedia of the City of Brno

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anton Pilgram – Moravian Gallery/a

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anton Pilgram (úvahy k symbolice uměleckého díla)

alias:
Anton II Pilgram
Anton Pilgram II
Anton, II Pilgram
Anton Pilchramb

description: Czech architect and sculptor

wikidata_label: Anton Pilgram

wikipedia_title: Anton Pilgram


text:
Zwolle
Paderborn
Utrecht
Wilbrand I, Count of Loccum-Hallermund
Gerhard of Oldenburg
Osnabrück
Bremen
Holland
Guelders
Stedingers
Hildesheim
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Fifth Crusade
Holy Land
Teutonic Knights
Hermann von Salza
Magdeburg
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Münster
Osnabrück
Engelbert II of Berg
Gregory IX
Bishopric of Utrecht
Otto van Lippe
Battle of Ane
Coevorden
Frisians
Peize
Rudolph II van Coevorden
Hardenberg
breaking wheel
Hardenberg
city rights
Zwolle

categories: 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops,Year of birth unknown,Christians of the Fifth Crusade,1233 deaths,Prince-Bishops of Utrecht

paragraph: Wilbrand van Oldenburg

paragraph: Wilbrand van Oldenburg (before 1180 - Zwolle, 26 July 1233) was a bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Wilbrand was the son of Henry II, Count of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen, and Beatrix of Hallermund, daughter of Wilbrand I, Count of Loccum-Hallermund. His uncle Gerhard of Oldenburg was bishop of Osnabrück from 1192 to 1216 and archbishop of Bremen from 1216 to 1219. Wilbrand was also related to the count of Holland and Guelders.

paragraph: Wilbrand's older brothers Burchard of Wildenbrug and Henry III, Count of Oldenburg were killed in a crusade against the Stedingers. His other brother Engelmar was provost at Munster.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: From 1211 to 1212 Wilbrand was Canon of Hildesheim, where he was ordered by Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor to prepare the Fifth Crusade to the Holy Land. He reported about this in his "Itinerarium terrae sanctae", an important historical source on the crusades and crusader castles. He was supported in this task by the grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights, Hermann von Salza.

paragraph: Afterwards Wilbrand was made provost in Hildesheim and of the St. Nicholas church in Magdeburg. The next years Wilbrand spent a lot of time in Italy as envoy of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.

paragraph: In 1225 Wilbrand was consecrated as bishop of Paderborn, where he successfully pacified the rebellious nobility. In 1226 he was temporarily given governance of the bishoprics of Münster and Osnabrück, after their bishops had been deposed as a result of their complicity in the murder of Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne.

paragraph: In 1227 Wilbrand was moved by pope Gregory IX to the Bishopric of Utrecht because of his military experience, in order to replace bishop Otto van Lippe, who had died at the Battle of Ane.

paragraph: After a failed attempt to gain control of Coevorden with support from the Frisians in the Frisian-Drenths War, Wilbrand defeated the Drenths at Peize. Wilbrand invited the Drenth commander Rudolph II van Coevorden to castle Hardenberg for negotiations. But upon Rudolph's arrival he was taken prisoner, and subsequently executed by means of the breaking wheel. Afterwards his body was impaled on a stake and shown to the crowd.

paragraph: Wilbrand had built the castle of Hardenberg himself to replace the vulnerable town of Nijenstede to serve as protection against the Drenths. In 1230 the bishop gave city rights to Zwolle as a reward for their support in strengthening the castle.

paragraph: Wilbrand was interred in the St. Servaas-abbey in Utrecht.

description: Bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht

wikidata_label: Wilbrand van Oldenburg

wikipedia_title: Wilbrand of Oldenburg

wikipedia_title: Wilbrand van Oldenburg


text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

text: Elizabeth Siddal

text: Arthur Conan Doyle

text: Porto

text: Portugal

text: Portuguese Order of Christ

text: Felice Orsini

text: Napoleon III

text: John Ruskin

text: Edward Burne-Jones

text: William Michael Rossetti

text: Elizabeth Siddal

text: Algernon Swinburne

text: Malebolge

text: Rosa Corder

text: Chelsea

text: public house

text: sovereign

text: half-sovereign

text: pneumonic phthisis

text: Hall Caine

text: Algernon Charles Swinburne

text: Ford Madox Brown

text: Theodore Watts-Dunton

categories: English people of Portuguese descent,Blackmail,1840 births,British art dealers,19th-century deaths from tuberculosis,Murdered criminals,People associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,People from Porto,1890 deaths

paragraph: Charles Augustus Howell

paragraph: Charles Augustus Howell (10 March 1840 – 21 April 1890) was an art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal. His reputation as a blackmailer inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Howell was born in Porto, Portugal to an English father, Alfred William Hervey Howell, and a Portuguese mother. He claimed to have aristocratic Portuguese ancestry, and would wear a red ribbon of the Portuguese Order of Christ, which he proclaimed to be an inherited family order. He moved to Britain in his youth, allegedly after having been caught cheating at cards.

paragraph: In 1858 Howell left Britain shortly before his friend Felice Orsini attempted to assassinate Napoleon III, leading to rumours that he was involved in the plot. He returned in 1864.

paragraph: Howell was the friend and business agent of both Rossetti and John Ruskin. Ruskin employed him as a secretary between 1865 and 1868. Ruskin trusted Howell with "affairs needing delicate handling and a wise discretion". This was usually to manage Ruskin's discreet charitable donations. But Howell sought increasingly to obtain complete control of Ruskin's finances. Eventually Edward Burne-Jones persuaded Ruskin to sever his connection with Howell.

paragraph: According to Rossetti's brother William Michael Rossetti, Howell was a skilful salesman "with his open manner, his winning address, with his exhaustless gift of amusing talk, not innocent of high colouring and actual blague – Howell was unsurpassable". His ability to exploit people's "hobbies and weaknesses" secured Rossetti several commissions. Howell organised the exhumation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife Elizabeth Siddal and the retrieval of the poems he had left in her coffin in 1869. Rossetti insisted that the exhumation be kept absolutely secret.

paragraph: Howell also became a business adviser to Algernon Swinburne, becoming "not only his man of business but also the partner of his amusements and the recipient of his confidences". Some "burlesque and indecent letters" which Swinburne wrote to Howell were somehow acquired by George Redway, a publisher, who used them to blackmail Swinburne into giving up the copyright of one of his poems. Swinburne blamed Howell, and after his death wrote that he hoped he was "in that particular circle of Malebolge where the coating of eternal excrement makes it impossible to see whether the damned dog's head is or is not tonsured".

paragraph: Howell's connection with the Rossetti family is said to have ended when he was alleged to have persuaded his lover Rosa Corder to create fake Rossetti drawings. In 1883 Corder gave birth to Howell's daughter, who was christened Beatrice Ellen Howell.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Howell died in 1890 under strange circumstances. He was found close to a Chelsea public house with his throat slit, with a coin in his mouth – either a sovereign or half-sovereign. The presence of the coin was believed to be a criticism of those guilty of slander. Reports are inconsistent about whether or not he was found already dead or died in the hospital to which he was taken. The embarrassment of an inquest and police investigation was avoided when his death was ruled to have resulted from "pneumonic phthisis", the slit throat having been inflicted perimortem or posthumously. Numerous, carefully filed, letters from high-placed people were found at his home, leading to much speculation.

paragraph: Section::::Reputation.

paragraph: The circumstances of Howell's death and the many rumours about his dishonesty and double dealings led to the accusation that he had used letters in his possession to blackmail prominent persons. His associates in the art world were divided. Edward Burne-Jones described Howell as "a base, treacherous, unscrupulous and malignant fellow". Hall Caine called him a "soldier of fortune" and Algernon Charles Swinburne said he was "the vilest wretch I ever came across". Other artists were more generous. Ford Madox Brown said that though he was "one of the biggest liars in existence" and "half mad", he was essentially "good natured". Whistler said he was a "wonderful man... genius... splendidly flamboyant".

paragraph: 20th century commentators on the Pre-Raphaelites claimed that in his later years Howell used letters to blackmail former friends. In the words of Humphrey Hare, "Fallen on hard days, Howell did not hesitate to blackmail by the threatened sale of letters which contained the customary puerile indecencies". However, his biographer, Helen Rossetti Angeli, could find nothing to support the accusations of blackmail, which possibly arose from extrapolations of the incident involving George Redway.

paragraph: In addition to the Sherlock Holmes story "Charles Augustus Milverton", Howell was the basis of the character De Castro in Theodore Watts-Dunton's novel "Aylwin".

description: Portuguese born and British blackmailer and artist

wikidata_label: Charles Augustus Howell

wikipedia_title: Charles Augustus Howell


text:
British
Roman Catholic
prelate
Bishop of Arundel and Brighton
Vicar General
Archdiocese of Southwark
Bishop of the Forces
Chingola
Northern Rhodesia
Zambia
United Kingdom
The Judd School
Tonbridge
Kent
priesthood
St John's Seminary, Wonersh
ordained
priesthood (Catholic Church)
Clapham Park
Ottawa
Licentiate
Master's in Canon Law
Lewisham
Territorial Army
chaplain
Michael Bowen
Monsignor
John Hine
Auxiliary Bishop
Southwark
Vicar General
Prelate of Honour
Bishop of the Forces
consecrated bishop
Westminster Cathedral
Kevin McDonald
Michael Bowen
Tom Burns
Vincent Nichols
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Keith O'Brien
translated
see
Bishop of Arundel and Brighton
Pope Francis
Bishop-elect Richard Moth
"Charles Phillip" Richard Moth
New Bishop of the Forces
Bishop Richard Moth

categories: British Roman Catholics,Roman Catholic bishops of Arundel and Brighton,1958 births,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,Roman Catholic bishops of the Forces,Living people

paragraph: Richard Moth

paragraph: Charles Phillip Richard Moth (born 8 July 1958) is a British Roman Catholic prelate. Since May 2015, he has served as the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton. Previously, he was Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Southwark from 2001 to 2009, and the Bishop of the Forces from 2009 to 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Charles Phillip Richard Moth was born in 1958 in Chingola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), and immigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of two. He was educated at The Judd School in Tonbridge, Kent. He trained for the priesthood at St John's Seminary, Wonersh.

paragraph: Section::::Ordained ministry.

paragraph: Section::::Ordained ministry.:Priesthood.

paragraph: Moth was ordained to the priesthood (Catholic Church) on 3 July 1982. He served as Curate at St Bede's, Clapham Park and as a judge at the Southwark Metropolitan Tribunal before being sent to do further study in Ottawa, gaining a Licentiate and then a Master's in Canon Law. In 1987 he returned to Southwark and was curate at St Saviour's, Lewisham, during which appointment he was also a Territorial Army chaplain, serving with 217 General Hospital RAMC (V).

paragraph: In 1992, Archbishop Michael Bowen named him as his Private Secretary, serving concurrently as Vocations Director and Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese. Moth was named a Monsignor to the degree of Papal Chaplain in 1998. In 2001, upon the elevation of the Vicar General, Mgr Canon John Hine, to be an Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, Moth was named Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese, with the new post he was promoted to be a Prelate of Honour.

paragraph: Section::::Ordained ministry.:Episcopate.

paragraph: In July 2009, Moth was appointed Bishop of the Forces by Pope Benedict XVI. He stepped down as Vicar General of Southwark and was succeeded by Mgr. Matthew Dickens in September 2009. He was consecrated bishop on 29 September 2009, the Feast of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, in Westminster Cathedral. Archbishop Kevin McDonald was principal consecrator, with Archbishop Michael Bowen and Bishop Tom Burns as principal co-consecrators. Archbishop Vincent Nichols and Cardinals Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and Keith O'Brien were present in choir. His time as Bishop of the Forces ended in 2015 when he was translated to a different see.

paragraph: On 21 March 2015, Moth was announced as the next Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, having been appointed by Pope Francis. He was installed on 28 May 2015.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bishop-elect Richard Moth. "Archdiocese of Southwark". Retrieved on 12 September 2009.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Charles Phillip" Richard Moth. "Catholic Hierarchy". Retrieved on 12 September 2009.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New Bishop of the Forces. "Catholic Church in England and Wales". Retrieved on 12 September 2009.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bishop Richard Moth. "Catholic Church in England and Wales". Retrieved on 12 September 2009.

description: British Roman Catholic prelate

wikidata_label: Richard Moth

wikipedia_title: Richard Moth


text: Germany

text: ceramicist

text: New Jersey State Museum

text: Newark Museum

text: Brooklyn Museum

text: Smithsonian Institution

text: Metropolitan Museum of Art

text: The Westward Journey

text: Indiana Statehouse

text: Columbia High School (New Jersey)

text: Maplewood, New Jersey

text: New Jersey City University

text: New Jersey State House

text: John Scott Award

text: American Encaustic Tiling Company

categories: Artists from Trenton, New Jersey,Porcelain of the United States,1854 births,American potters

paragraph: Herman Carl Mueller

paragraph: Herman Carl Mueller (1854 in Germany – September 22, 1941), noted ceramicist, was the founder of the Mueller Mosaic Company of Trenton.

paragraph: Museums holding his work include the New Jersey State Museum, Newark Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art where his work is on view in gallery 774.

paragraph: The Westward Journey, one of Muellers earlier works, is a collection of limestone sculptures that form part of the Indiana Statehouse.

paragraph: Mueller's tile work can also be found at Columbia High School (New Jersey) in Maplewood, New Jersey, Hepburn Hall at New Jersey City University, New Jersey State House, Trenton and Mercer County War Memorial-Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Building.

paragraph: Mueller received the John Scott Award from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia for "Process of and apparatus for manufacturing mosaics".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Herman Carl Mueller was born in 1854 to Elias and Doretta Mueller, in Rodach Germany, near Saxe-Coburg. After attending the Nuremberg School of Industrial Arts, he studied sculpture at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1878, Muller moved to Cincinnati Ohio where he worked as a sculptor. After a few short business venture, Mueller was commissioned to create nine figures for the Indiana Statehouse. While in the employ of American Encaustic Tiling Company, Mueller met Karl Langenbeck with whom he founded the Mosaic Tile Company.

description: potter

wikidata_label: Herman Carl Mueller

wikipedia_title: Herman Carl Mueller


text:
Poland
Siemowit
Slavic
Stanisław Zakrzewski
Moravia
Leodium
Siemomysł
Polish
Kazimierz Jasiński
Feliks Koneczny
Henryk Łowmiański

categories: 10th-century Polish people,Legendary Polish monarchs,10th-century Polish monarchs,10th-century monarchs in Europe,9th-century births,9th-century Polish monarchs,Slavic pagans,9th-century Slavs,Year of death unknown,9th-century monarchs in Europe,Polish princes,Piast dynasty,Dukes of Poland

paragraph: Lestek

paragraph: Lestek (also Leszek, Lestko) was the second duke of Poland, and son of Siemowit, born c. 870–880. Although proof of his actual existence is unclear, if he did exist, he must have been an influential person, because the tribes that lived in present-day Poland were known as Lestkowici.

paragraph: The origin of his name is not known, it can be derived from the old Polish word "lście" which means "crafty". It is believed this is a diminutive of the Slavic name "Lścimir" or "Lścisław". Lestek's wife (or wives or consorts) is unknown. A theory by Stanisław Zakrzewski claims Lestek (or Lestko) could have been married to a Moravian princess. Another theory (inferred from the descriptions of a Belgian chronicler from the 14th century) is that a Saxon princess could have been Lestek's wife and that they had a son, Ewraker, later the Bishop of Leodium. Lestko's son, Siemomysł, was the next ruler of the early pagan Polish state.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kazimierz Jasiński, "Rodowód pierwszych Piastów", Warszawa-Wrocław (1992).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Feliks Koneczny, "Dzieje Polski za Piastów", Kraków 1902, p. 28.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henryk Łowmiański, "Dynastia Piastów we wczesnym średniowieczu", Początki Państwa Polskiego, Poznań 1962.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henryk Łowmiański, "Początki Polski", b. 5, Warszawa 1973.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jerzy Wyrozumski, "Dzieje Polski piastowskiej (VIII w. - 1370)" (History of Polish Piast (8th Century - 1370)), Kraków 1999, p. 70.

description: legendary duke of Poland

wikidata_label: Lestek

wikipedia_title: Lestek


text:
ruler of Wallachia
byname
Leon Tomşa
Ştefan Tomşa
ruler of Moldavia
Grigore I Ghica
Romanian
Phanariot
Cantacuzino family
Şerban Cantacuzino
Antonie Vodă din Popeşti

categories: Rulers of Wallachia,17th-century rulers in Europe,Year of death unknown,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Radu Leon

paragraph: Radu Leon was ruler of Wallachia from 1664 to 1669. He had the byname Radu the Oyster-seller.

paragraph: Son of Wallachian ruler Leon Tomşa, and putative grandson of Ştefan Tomşa, ruler of Moldavia, Radu Leon replaced the deposed Grigore I Ghica in December 1664.

paragraph: Supposedly barely able to speak Romanian, Radu's authority relied on the support of the Phanariots, and especially the Cantacuzino family. Şerban Cantacuzino, later ruler of Wallachia, served as his chamberlain, and Draghici Cantacuzino commanded Radu's armies.

paragraph: Anti-Greek protests beginning in December 1668 led to Radu's downfall in March 1669 and replacement by Antonie Vodă din Popeşti.

description: Ruler of Wallachia

wikidata_label: Radu Leon

wikipedia_title: Radu Leon


text:
Tây Sơn dynasty
Nguyễn dynasty
Phù Mỹ District
Bình Định Province
Tây Sơn dynasty
Emperor Quang Trung
Nguyễn lord
Emperor Cảnh Thịnh
Nguyễn lord
Gia Long
Imperial City of Huế
Bắc Thành
Nguyễn Huỳnh Đức
Tonkin
posthumous name
Minh Mạng
Tự Đức
Lăng Ông Bà Chiểu
Lê Văn Duyệt
Phan Thanh Giản
Quán Thánh Temple
Residence of the Governor-General
French colonial period
August Revolution

categories: Tây Sơn dynasty generals,Nguyen dynasty generals,Generals of the Nguyễn lords,Mandarins of the Nguyễn lords,1826 deaths

paragraph: Lê Chất

paragraph: Lê Chất (, ?–1826), also known as Lê Văn Chất (黎文質), Lê Tông Chất (黎宗質) or Lê Công Chất (黎公質), was a general of Tây Sơn dynasty. Later he became a general of Nguyễn dynasty.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Lê Chất was born in Phù Mỹ District, Bình Định Province. He was a son-in-law of Lê Trung. He served as "Đại Đô đốc" (大都督, "Grand Chief Controller") in Tây Sơn dynasty. After the death of Emperor Quang Trung, Chất prophesied that the Tây Sơn dynasty would soon decline and tried to persuade Lê Trung to surrender to Nguyễn lord several times. But Trung hesitated.

paragraph: In 1798, Lê Trung was purged by Emperor Cảnh Thịnh. He had to surrender to the Nguyễn lord. He was appointed "hậu quân tướng quân" ("general of the rear army") by Gia Long.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Chất played an important role in the pacification of Tây Sơn dynasty. He was ordered to build Imperial City of Huế together with Phạm Văn Nhân and Nguyễn Văn Khiêm in 1803.

paragraph: In 1810, Chất was appointed Assistant Viceroy of Bắc Thành ("Hiệp tổng trấn Bắc Thành") and became the assistant of Nguyễn Huỳnh Đức.

paragraph: He was elevated to viceroy in 1818. "Bắc Thành dư địa chí", an official geographical record of Tonkin, was compiled during his term..

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: He died in 1826, and was granted the position "thiếu phó" ("Junior Tutor") posthumously, and received the posthumous name "Trung Nghị" (忠毅).

paragraph: Chất was accused by Lê Bá Tú in 1836. Minh Mạng's tomb was desecrated and had a stele with the inscription ""chỗ nầy là nơi Lê Chất phục pháp"" ("Here lies Lê Chất who resisted the law") placed over the ruins. His body was dug out and decapitated. His four sons: Lê Cẩn, Lê Trương, Lê Thường and Lê Kỵ, were beheaded.

paragraph: In 1847, Emperor Tự Đức gave him a royal pardon. He was rehabilitated in 1868. He was worshipped at "Lăng Ông Bà Chiểu" ("Tomb of the Marshal in Ba Chieu") together with Lê Văn Duyệt and Phan Thanh Giản.

paragraph: In 1910, the colonial government dug road from Quán Thánh Temple to Residence of the Governor-General to supply electricity. The workers found the tomb of Lê Chất accidentally. Later, his remains were reburied beside Hanoi Zoo.

paragraph: Hậu Quân Chất Street in Hanoi was named after him during the French colonial period. The street was renamed to Mai Xuân Thưởng Street after th August Revolution.

description: Vietnamese general (d. 1826)

wikidata_label: Lê Chất

wikipedia_title: Lê Chất


text:
New York City
Do Ya
Californication
Bobby Harlow
The Go
Queens of The Stone Age
Kid Rock
The Dead Weather
King Tuff
Detroit Cobras
The Paybacks
The Go
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New City, New York
Cornell University
Theodore Roosevelt High School
the Bronx
Martin Luther King, Jr. High School
Manhattan
power pop
Jonathon Tebeest
Rasputina
Barrett Jones
Foo Fighters
Nirvana
Melvins
Ziggy Stardust
Cantor Fitzgerald
Lower East Side
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Pete Seeger
Bruce Springsteen
Rosario Dawson
Bobby Harlow
The Go
garage rock
Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner
Marah
Jason Molina
Do Ya
All or Nothing
Fur Elise
My Brightest Diamond
Bobby Harlow
Dean Fertita
The Dead Weather
Queens of the Stone Age
Kid Rock
Detroit Cobras
Detroit Cobras
The Go

categories: American male singer-songwriters,Songwriters from New York (state),American rock singers,American alternative country singers,Singers from New York City,American country singer-songwriters,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Neil Nathan

paragraph: Neil Nathan is an American rock/folk/alt country singer songwriter from New York City. Neil is best known for his folky cover of ELO and The Move's "Do Ya," featured on the Californication Season 2 Soundtrack. His debut album, "The Distance Calls," released in Summer 2010, was produced by Bobby Harlow (The Go) and features musicians from Queens of The Stone Age, Kid Rock, The Dead Weather, King Tuff, Detroit Cobras, The Paybacks, and The Go.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Neil Nathan was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in New City, New York. Nathan graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Economics and soon after moved to New York City, where he simultaneously began his careers as a rock singer and world history teacher. Nathan taught in schools that were consistently rated among the city's most dangerous; Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx, and Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan. (While at the latter, Neil directed a nationally renowned arts education program and was featured on the cover of American Teacher Magazine.)

paragraph: Nathan then fronted the power pop rock band, THIS, featuring drummer Jonathon Tebeest (from the band Rasputina). Their final EP was produced by Barrett Jones (who has also worked with the Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Melvins).

paragraph: Nathan then co-produced and starred in the Off-Broadway Rock Opera, Automatic Superstar, written by Bob Weidman. It was described as a "glam punk manifesto like Ziggy Stardust or The Wall" by the Daily News. Barrett Jones mixed the show EP, entitled Matic, after Nathan's mirror ball-masked rock star.

paragraph: Nathan's first solo composition was written after the death of his close high school and college friend, Fred Gabler, who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Neil wrote Freddy's Song to "memorialize his life" and sang it at his funeral a few months later. Nathan also held a fundraiser at the Lower East Side's Living Room where he sold copies of the song to raise money for the Fred Gabler Helping Hand Camp Fund (a charity that sends underprivileged youth to sleepaway camp). Neil continued to raise money for the fund in Christmas 2009, with a darkly comic video for his cover of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. In it, he played a little boy who opened his presents early and was kidnapped by an evil Santa and his Elves. Nathan recorded three EPs from 2007–2008 (Glide, Songsmiths, and the Nearest Future) and one single (Motor City Recordings). His Glide EP, co-produced with David Seitz (who has worked with Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Dar Williams) includes the songs, "The Lucky Ones", and "Glide." These songs were both featured in the film "Descent", starring Rosario Dawson (who was Neil Nathan's roommate in the East Village) and written and directed by Talia Lugacy. Talia directed the video for Neil's song, "3 Seconds," also featured on the Glide EP. Neil's song, Gone (Fly Away), was also featured in the film and on his single Motor City Recordings.

paragraph: Nathan completed 'Motor City Recordings' in Detroit with producer Bobby Harlow, (from The Go), with a more 'garage rock' sound. The two enjoyed working together and planned on doing a full album a year later, which became The Distance Calls. In the meantime, he recorded an EP of covers called 'Songsmiths' that was produced by lap-steel guitarist Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner (who has played in Marah, Jason Molina, and Slo-Mo featuring Mic Wrecka). This 6-song EP featured a cover of Chris Malcarney of The Donuts' country ballad "Mia", ELO and The Move's "Do Ya," Small Faces "All or Nothing", Jesse Hartman's/Laptop's "I'm So Happy You Failed," and Beethoven's "Fur Elise." Vaj Potenza (who did the video for My Brightest Diamond's Freak Out Gold Chains Remix) directed the video for it. The last track on 'Songsmiths,' "Old Man Time," was co-written by Brenner and Nathan for Descent but it was not used in the film. Do Ya was featured on Showtime's Californication Soundtrack.

paragraph: In the spring of 2008, Nathan reconvened with Bobby Harlow and recorded his debut album, 'The Distance Calls,' at Tempermill Studios in Detroit. The album features many prominent rock musicians from Detroit, including Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age), Kenny Tudrick (Kid Rock, Detroit Cobras), Joey Mazzola (Detroit Cobras, Sponge), John Krautner (The Go), and Danny Methric (The Paybacks, The Muggs). It was engineered and mastered by Jim Kissling.

paragraph: In 2010, Pete Sinjin released his Better Angels Radio LP on Nathan's Pirate Vinyl imprint. It peaked at No. 10 on the EuroAmericana Charts. The album was Co-Produced by MIke Davis and Riley McMahon at McMahon's New Warsaw Studios in Brooklyn. Nathan and McMahon then went on to Co-Produce three debut EP's at New Warsaw in 2011: Caren Le Vine's Ride, Susannah Conn's Hidden Treasure, and Active Bird Community (Barsuk Records) lead singer, Tom D'Agustino's debut solo EP, Engines. All were released on the Pirate Vinyl imprint.

paragraph: Neil and Riley loved the band they put together for Engines and used them as the backing band for Neil Nathan Inc.'s raucous power to the people concept LP, Sweep The Nation. Magnet Magazine and The Vinyl District both called the record "Impressive." Huffington Post featured the claymation video for the debut single Jumpstart, calling it "a bizarre good time." The record was released in December 2012.

paragraph: Nathan returned to his mellower, ethereal sound on his Flowers on the Moon LP, released in April 2017. On it, he covers Rodriguez's Sugar Man. Stephen "Sugar" Segerman, author of Sugar Man, The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez, and subject of the Oscar winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," is quoted as loving Neil's trippy version.

paragraph: Neil is currently finishing up his next LP, When You Love Somebody, in Philadelphia with co-producer Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner and recording engineer Peter Rydberg at 1935 studio.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Glide (EP)" (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Motor City Recordings (A/B Side)" (2007)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Nearest Future (EP)" (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Single)" (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Distance Calls (LP)" (2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "To You (A Happy Birthday Song) (A/B Side)" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Earth A.B. (A/B Side)" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Neil Nathan Inc's Sweep The Nation (LP)" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flowers on the Moon (LP)" (2017)

description: American singer

wikidata_label: Neil Nathan

wikipedia_title: Neil Nathan


text: Battle of Mollwitz

text: Order of Saint John

text: Battle of Mollwitz

text: Unter den Linden

text: Berlin

text: Online

text: Online

categories: 1710 births,German military personnel of the Seven Years' War,1741 deaths,Prussian princes,Prussian Army personnel,Margraves of Brandenburg-Schwedt,18th-century German people,House of Hohenzollern

paragraph: Margrave Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt (13 August 1710 – 10 April 1741, fell in the Battle of Mollwitz) was the second son of Margrave Albert Frederick of Brandenburg-Schwedt and his wife Maria Dorothea of Courland (1684-1743).

paragraph: He initially served in the Dutch army, and later as a Colonel of the Royal Prussian Mounted Guards. From 1737, he was a Knight of the Order of Saint John. From 1741, he was commander of the Regiment Margrave Charles. That same year, he fell in the Battle of Mollwitz.

paragraph: His name is mentioned on the equestrian statue of Frederick the Great on the centerline of Unter den Linden in Berlin.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- F. A. W. Dünnemann: "Stammbuch der brandenburgisch-preussischen regenten", p. 111, Online

paragraph: BULLET::::- K. F. Reiche: "Friedrich der Große und seine Zeit: Nach den besten Quellen dargest", p. 446,Online

description: German nobleman and Prussian colonel


text: Canadian

text: ice hockey

text: goaltender

text: Vegas Golden Knights

text: National Hockey League

text: Boston Bruins

text: 2012 NHL Entry Draft

text: Ontario Hockey League

text: Belleville Bulls

text: P. K. Subban

text: Norris Trophy

text: New Jersey Devils

text: Jordan

text: Toronto Maple Leafs

text: Ontario Hockey League

text: Belleville Bulls

text: 2009–10 season

text: next season

text: 2011–12 OHL season

text: 2012 NHL Entry Draft

text: Boston Bruins

text: 2012–13 NHL lock-out

text: 2013–14 season

text: Detroit Red Wings

text: American Hockey League

text: Providence

text: Chad Johnson

text: 2014–15 Boston Bruins season

text: Niklas Svedberg

text: AHL affiliate

text: Tuukka Rask

text: St. Louis Blues

text: Tuukka Rask

text: 2016–17 AHL season

text: GAA

text: Zane McIntyre

text: Vegas Golden Knights

text: Marc-André Fleury

text: St. Louis Blues

text: Maxime Lagacé

text: Los Angeles Kings

text: Winnipeg Jets

text: Team Canada

text: 2013 World Junior Championships

text: Norris Trophy

text: P. K. Subban

text: New Jersey Devils

text: Jordan

text: defenseman

text: Toronto Maple Leafs

text: Vancouver Canucks

text: 2013 NHL Entry Draft

text: Lakehead University

text: York University

text: Ontario University Athletics

text: CHL

text: OHL

categories: National Hockey League first round draft picks,Boston Bruins draft picks,Canadian people of Montserratian descent,1993 births,Living people,Ice hockey people from Ontario,Canadian ice hockey goaltenders,Canadian people of Jamaican descent,Sportspeople from Toronto,Boston Bruins players,Belleville Bulls players,Black Canadian ice hockey players,People from York, Toronto,Providence Bruins players

paragraph: Malcolm Subban

paragraph: Malcolm-Jamaal Justin Subban (born December 21, 1993) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender for the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Subban was selected by the Boston Bruins in the first round (24th overall) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. He played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League with the Belleville Bulls.

paragraph: His older brother, P. K. Subban, is a Norris Trophy winning defenceman with the New Jersey Devils. His younger brother, Jordan, plays in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Junior.

paragraph: Subban made his Ontario Hockey League (OHL) debut with the Belleville Bulls during the 2009–10 season, appearing in a single game with the club. The next season, Subban spent the entire season with the Bulls, appearing in 32 games and recording 10 wins. Heading into the 2011–12 OHL season, Subban was a highly ranked prospect for the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, and finished the season as the number one ranked goaltender in North America. The Boston Bruins made Subban the 24th overall pick of the 2012 draft. He signed a three-year contract with the club just prior to the 2012–13 NHL lock-out. With the NHL shutdown, Subban returned to the Bulls for another season in the OHL, recording 29 wins in 46 games.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Boston Bruins.

paragraph: Subban attended his first NHL training camp with the Boston Bruins ahead of the 2013–14 season. He was cut shortly after appearing in a preseason game where he allowed 8 goals to the Detroit Red Wings, and assigned to Boston's American Hockey League affiliate in Providence. However, during the same preseason schedule, Malcolm had his very first opportunity to face his feisty defenceman brother P. K. Subban on the Habs squad on September 16, 2013, in a preseason match between the Bruins and Canadiens at Montreal's Bell Centre — Malcolm replaced Bruins rookie goaltender Chad Johnson at about 14 minutes into the game's second period, and managed to stop every single shot in the 31:49 he played in-net, en route to a 6–3 defeat of the Canadiens.

paragraph: During the 2014–15 Boston Bruins season, due to the Boston team's backup goaltender Niklas Svedberg needing conditioning play with the parent team's AHL affiliate, Malcolm Subban received his first-ever NHL callup to back up Tuukka Rask on January 30, 2015.

paragraph: On February 20, 2015, Subban made his NHL debut against the St. Louis Blues. He was replaced by Tuukka Rask in the second period after giving up 3 goals on 3 shots, but returned later in the game.

paragraph: On February 6, 2016, he was hospitalized after taking a puck to the throat during pre-game warmups. The organization announced Subban would miss at least 8 weeks due to this injury.

paragraph: After his fractured larynx healed during the 2016 off-season, Subban's play for the Providence Bruins during the 2016–17 AHL season resulted in an 11–14–1 record, with a 2.41 GAA and a 0.917 save percentage. By the 2017 off-season, Subban, along with fellow Providence Bruins goaltender Zane McIntyre, were each re-signed with the Boston Bruins for two years, at $650,000 per year.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Vegas Golden Knights.

paragraph: On October 3, 2017, Subban was claimed off waivers by the Vegas Golden Knights. He won his first NHL game on October 15, 2017, against his former team, the Boston Bruins. Subban started in place of the injured Marc-André Fleury.

paragraph: On October 22, 2017, Subban was placed on injured reserve with a lower body injury. He had been injured the previous day in a game against the St. Louis Blues. On November 17, 2017 Subban was lifted off injured reserve and was the backup for Maxime Lagacé in the following game against the Los Angeles Kings. The first time Malcolm played a regular season game against his brother P. K. was on December 8, 2017, where Subban made a then career-high 41 saves to help the Knights beat the Predators 4–3. In doing so, the Subban brothers became only the 10th set of brothers to play against one another with one a skater and another a goaltender. Subban was again placed on injured reserve, this time with an upper body injury, after being injured during practice on February 10, 2018. He recorded his 1st NHL shutout in a 5-0 victory against the Winnipeg Jets on March 21, 2019.

paragraph: Section::::International play.

paragraph: He was goaltender for Team Canada in the 2013 World Junior Championships in Ufa, Russia. He appeared in six games, with four wins. Canada finished in fourth place at the tournament.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: His older brother, winner of the 2013 Norris Trophy, P. K. Subban, currently plays in the NHL with the New Jersey Devils. Malcolm also has a younger brother, Jordan, who plays as a defenseman with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization and was drafted 115th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. His father, Karl, is the fifth leading scorer in Lakehead University basketball history. An older sister, Natassia, played basketball at York University, ending her university career as the all-time leading scorer in Ontario University Athletics.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010–11 – CHL Goaltender of the Week (week ending December 12)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010–11 – OHL First All-Rookie Team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011–12 – CHL Goaltender of the Week (week ending November 6)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011–12 – CHL Goaltender of the Week (week ending November 27)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012–13 – CHL Goaltender of the Week (week ending February 24)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012–13 – CHL Goaltender of the Week (week ending April 14)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012–13 – OHL Third All-Star Team

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Malcolm Subban (Draft Prospect Card) at NHL.com

description: Ice Hockey player

wikidata_label: Malcolm Subban

wikipedia_title: Malcolm Subban


text:
Cuba
baseball
center fielder
Cuban League
Habana club
Jacksonville Jays
South Atlantic League
Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame

categories: Cuban baseball players,Cuban League players,Punzo players,Club Fé players,1876 births,Jacksonville Jays players,Year of death missing

paragraph: Valentín González (baseball)

paragraph: Valentín "Sirique" González (born 1876 - death date unknown) was a Cuban baseball center fielder in the Cuban League. He played from 1890 to 1912 with several ballclubs, mostly with the Habana club. He also played for the Jacksonville Jays of the South Atlantic League in 1905 and 1906. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

description: Negro League Baseball player

wikidata_label: Valentín González

wikipedia_title: Valentín González (baseball)


text: electric clock

text: power grid

text: Warren Telechron Company

text: General Electric

text: John Price Wetherill Medal

text: Franklin Institute

text: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

text: Warren's talk on modern clocks

categories: 1872 births,1957 deaths,American businesspeople,Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni,American inventors

paragraph: Henry E. Warren

paragraph: Henry Ellis Warren (May 21, 1872 – September 21, 1957) was an American inventor credited with invention of the first synchronous electric clock which kept time from the oscillations of the power grid in 1918 as well as with 134 other inventions.

paragraph: Warren founded Warren Telechron Company in 1912 which later was acquired by General Electric in 1943.

paragraph: Warren was noted as the "father of electric time".

paragraph: Just between 1916 and 1926 the company sold 20 million clocks. The clocks remained popular into the 1950s.

paragraph: In 1940 he also invented the "singing clock" which instead of a pendulum had a vibrating metal string.

paragraph: Section::::Notable awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1935: Lamme Medal from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1935: John Price Wetherill Medal from the Franklin Institute

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Warren was born in Boston and attended the Allen School.

paragraph: Warren graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894 with degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Warren's talk on modern clocks

description: American inventor

wikidata_label: Henry E. Warren

wikipedia_title: Henry E. Warren


text:
John Mayall
John Lee Hooker
Billy Gibbons
ZZ Top
Francine
ZZ Top
Rio Grande Mud
Jaco Pastorious
Jerry Lee Lewis
USA Today
Mark Andes

categories: 1954 births,American rock guitarists,Place of death missing,2017 deaths,American rock songwriters,Place of birth missing,Murdered American musicians,American rock musicians

paragraph: Kenny Cordray

paragraph: Kenneth Cordray (July 21, 1954 – May 21, 2017) was an American instrumental guitarist and songwriter, who shared the stage with notable musicians and performers such as John Mayall, John Lee Hooker and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Cordray became the lead guitarist for The Children under the ATCO label and later on ODE records produced by Lou Adler. He co-wrote the song "Francine", which peaked at 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, with Steve Perron for ZZ Top's album "Rio Grande Mud".

paragraph: Cordray performed and wrote music with Jaco Pastorious and played in Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Rider band at Pastorious' request. While playing with the C.C. Riders, Cordray backed up Jerry Lee Lewis on an episode of the "Midnight Special" and in concert.

paragraph: He moved to New Orleans to play with the former C.C. Riders and Edgar Winter's White Trash band members before forming his own group, Cordray. Members included Clay Hemphill, David Lee Watson, Allyn Robinson and Mark Campbell. Cordray's first national break came on January 6, 1986, in "USA Today".

paragraph: In 1991, Cordray formed The Civilians and recorded a CD entitled "Miracles". In late 1992, Cordray, Dave Foster and Todd Harrison formed a "Texas rockin' blues psychedelic power trio", calling themselves Kenny Cordray and Blue Science.

paragraph: In March 2012, he released his final work, "It Takes Everything". The core rhythm section for the album consists of Mark Andes on bass guitar, Tyson Sheth on drums, Paul English on keyboards and Cordray on guitars. When the album was released, the "Houston Chronicle" called Cordray "one of Houston’s greatest guitarists".

paragraph: Cordray gave guitar lessons to children and adults for many years. He also ran Rock Camp Live, a summer music camp for aspiring 10-18 year-old musicians in the Houston/Galveston Bay Area.

paragraph: Section::::Death/legacy.

paragraph: Cordray was killed by his son on May 21, 2017, in an apparent murder/suicide.

paragraph: He is mentioned in the book, "Boys From Houston: The spirit and image of our music".

description: Instrumental guitarist and song writer

wikidata_label: Kenny Cordray

wikipedia_title: Kenny Cordray


text:
Italian
choirmaster
composer
Bologna
Basilica of San Petronio
sacred
Bühnenwerk Giacobbis

categories: Italian male classical composers,1567 births,Italian opera composers,1620s deaths,Italian Baroque composers,Italian classical composers,17th-century classical composers

paragraph: Girolamo Giacobbi

paragraph: Girolamo Giacobbi (baptized on 10 August 1567 – before 13 February 1629) was an Italian choirmaster, conductor, and composer.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Giocobbi was born in Bologna in 1567. He had been a choir boy at the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna and became the Director of Music there from 1604 to 1628. He founded the "Accademia dei Filomusi" dedicated to the cultivation of music in Bologna.

paragraph: He wrote a significant number of sacred works and was especially active in the field of opera. Giacobbi was a composer of high esteem during his time.

paragraph: Section::::Operas.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Aurora ingannata" - libretto by Ridolfo Campeggi, performed in Bologna in 1605.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Andromeda" - a tragic opera in five acts with a libretto by Campeggi, performed in Bologna in the carnival of 1610.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Proserpina rapita" - libretto by Campeggi performed in Bologna in 1613.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Amor prigioniero" - libretto by Silvestro Branchi, performed in Bologna in 1615.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il Tancredi" - libretto by Campeggi, performed in Bologna in 1615.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il Reno sacrificante" - libretto by Campeggi, performed in Bologna in 1617.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ruggiero liberato" - performed in Bologna in 1620.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La selva dei mirti" - libretto by Bernardino Marescotti, performed in Bologna in 1623.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La montagna fulminata" - libretto by Marescotti, performed in Bologna in 1628 and probably his last work.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bühnenwerk Giacobbis

description: Italian composer

wikidata_label: Girolamo Giacobbi

wikipedia_title: Girolamo Giacobbi


text:
Cornish
saint
Brychan
King Arthur
hermit
St Endellion
Anglicised
Brychan
Brycheiniog
South Wales
Saint Endellion
Cornwall
Welsh
South Wales
Bristol Channel
Lundy
Saint Nectan
Hartland
St Endellion
King Arthur
Church of St Endellion
Reformation
David Cameron
Samantha
Port Quin and St Endellion

categories: 6th-century English people,Medieval Cornish saints,5th-century English people,Children of Brychan,6th-century Christian saints,Year of birth unknown,6th-century English women,English hermits,6th-century deaths

paragraph: Saint Endelienta

paragraph: Saint Endelienta (also Endelient, Edellienta or Endellion) was a Cornish saint of the 5th and 6th century. She is believed to be a daughter of the Welsh King Brychan, and a native of South Wales who travelled to North Cornwall to join her siblings in converting the locals to Christianity. Legend says that she was a goddaughter of King Arthur, and that she lived as a hermit at Trentinney where she subsisted on the milk of a cow. The saint is commemorated in the church and village of St Endellion which bear her name; Endellion being an Anglicised version of her name. Her feast day is 29 April.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Tradition makes her a daughter of King Brychan, of Brycheiniog in South Wales. The village of Saint Endellion in Cornwall, named after her, is from where she is said to have evangelized the local population. Two former wells near the village were named after her.

paragraph: She is called "Cenheidlon" in Welsh records, with "Endelienta" being a Latinised form of the name. Her feast day is 29 April. The saint is believed to have been a native of South Wales who crossed the Bristol Channel to join her siblings in converting the people of North Cornwall to Christianity. During her journey, she initially landed on the island of Lundy, where she is believed to have founded a small chapel, which would later be wrongly rededicated to Saint Helen. She subsequently moved on to the mainland where she stayed with her brother, Saint Nectan, at Hartland, before eventually choosing to settle at Trentinney, south-west of the present day village of St Endellion, although she would return to Lundy from time to time on retreat for meditation.

paragraph: She lived at Trentinney as a hermit, where legend says that she subsisted solely on the milk of a cow, and the water from two nearby wells. Her sister, St Dilic (whose church is at Landulph), settled nearby and the two would often meet along a certain path whose grass would ever afterwards grow greener than elsewhere.

paragraph: The cow was killed by the Lord of Trentinney after straying onto his land. He in turn is said to have been killed by Endelienta's Godfather, reputed to be King Arthur, after Arthur was angered by the deed and sent his men to exact revenge. However, Endelienta was said to be unhappy that Trentinney had been killed in her name, and restored the nobleman back to life.

paragraph: Following a vision of her death, the saint is said to have asked that upon her death, her body should be placed on a sledge or cart drawn by bullocks, and that she should be buried at the place where they stopped. She is thought to have died on 29 April some time in the 6th century, and possibly at the hands of Saxon pirates. She was buried at the top of a hill, and a church built over her grave. The present church at St Endellion stands on that site.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: A chapel dedicated to Saint Endelienta survived on the site of her hermitage at Trenteney until the 16th century, while her shrine at the Church of St Endellion was a site of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages. It was virtually destroyed during the Reformation, but the base survives to the present day and can still be viewed.

paragraph: The St Endellion Music Festivals take place at Easter and in the Summer every year in the St Endellion church.

paragraph: In 2005 a local iconographer was commissioned to produce an icon of Saint Endelienta, even though there were no known images of her on which to base the work.

paragraph: On 25 August 2010 it was announced that British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his wife Samantha had named their newborn daughter Florence Rose Endellion after the village of St Endellion, reflecting the fact she was born while the Cameron family were holidaying in Cornwall.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Port Quin and St Endellion, thisisnorthcornwall.co.uk

description: Cornish saint

wikidata_label: Saint Endelienta

wikipedia_title: Saint Endelienta


text:
Shoshenq I
Egypt
22nd Dynasty
Shoshenq I
Israel
Judah
temple
menat
praenomen
Osorkon II
menat
Shoshenq I
Manetho
Kenneth Kitchen
Takelot I
Shoshenq II
Shoshenq I
Tanis
Meshwesh
Kenneth A. Kitchen
Shoshenq C
Jürgen von Beckerath
royal titulary
ushabti
Manetho
Tutkheperre
Takelot I
Osorkon II
Upper Egypt
Harsiese A
Jürgen von Beckerath
Kenneth Kitchen
Osorkon Dynasty

categories: 887 BC deaths,Year of birth unknown,Pharaohs of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt,10th century BC in Egypt,10th-century BC births,9th-century BC Pharaohs,10th-century BC Pharaohs

paragraph: Osorkon I

paragraph: The son of Shoshenq I and his chief consort, Karomat A, Osorkon I was the second king of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty and ruled around 922 BC – 887 BC. He succeeded his father Shoshenq I who probably died within a year of his successful 923 BC campaign against the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Osorkon I's reign is known for many temple building projects and was a long and prosperous period of Egypt's History. His highest known date is a "Year 33" date found on the bandage of Nakhtefmut's Mummy which held a menat-tab necklace inscribed with Osorkon I's nomen and praenomen: "Osorkon Sekhemkheperre". This date can only belong to Osorkon I since no other early Dynasty 22 king ruled for close to 30 years until the time of Osorkon II. Other mummy linens which belong to his reign include three separate bandages dating to his Regnal Years 11, 12, and 23 on the mummy of Khonsmaakheru in Berlin. The bandages are anonymously dated but definitely belong to his reign because Khonsmaakheru wore leather bands that contained a "menat-tab" naming Osorkon I. Secondly, no other king who ruled around Osorkon I's reign had a 23rd Regnal Year including Shoshenq I who died just before the beginning of his Year 22.

paragraph: While Manetho gives Osorkon I a reign of 15 Years in his "Ægyptiaca", this is most likely an error for 35 Years based on the evidence of the second Heb Sed bandage, as Kenneth Kitchen notes. Osorkon I's throne name, Sekhemkheperre, means "Powerful are the Manifestations of Re".

paragraph: Section::::Osorkon I's successor.

paragraph: Although Osorkon I is thought to have been directly succeeded by his son Takelot I, it is possible that another ruler, Heqakheperre Shoshenq II, intervened briefly between these two kings because Takelot I was a son of Osorkon I through Queen Tashedkhons, a secondary wife of this king. In contrast, Osorkon I's senior wife was Queen Maatkare B, who may have been Shoshenq II's mother. However, Shoshenq II could also have been another son of Shoshenq I since the latter was the only other king to be mentioned in objects from Shoshenq II's intact royal tomb at Tanis aside from Shoshenq II himself. These objects are inscribed with either Shoshenq I's praenomen "Hedjkheperre Shoshenq" (though this is not certain as it requires reading the objects as a massive hieroglyphic text), or "Shoshenq, Great Chief of the Meshwesh", which was Shoshenq I's title before he became king. Since Derry's forensic examination of his mummy reveals him to be a man in his fifties upon his death, Shoshenq II could have lived beyond Osorkon's 35-year reign and Takelot I's 13-year reign to assume the throne for a few years. An argument against this hypothesis is that most kings of the period were commonly named after their grandfathers, and not their fathers.

paragraph: While the British scholar Kenneth A. Kitchen views Shoshenq II to be the high priest of Amun at Thebes Shoshenq C, and a short-lived coregent of Osorkon I who predeceased his father, the German Egyptologist Jürgen von Beckerath in his 1997 book "Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten" maintains that Shoshenq II was rather an independent king of Tanis who ruled the 22nd Dynasty in his own right for about two years. Von Beckerath's hypothesis is supported by Shoshenq II's employment of a complete royal titulary along with a distinct prenomen Heqakheperre and his intact tomb at Tanis was filled with numerous treasures including jeweled pectorals and bracelets, an impressive falcon-headed silver coffin and a gold face mask—items which indicate a genuine king of the 22nd Dynasty. More significantly, however, no mention of Osorkon I's name was preserved on any ushabtis, jars, jewelry or other objects within Shoshenq II's tomb. This situation would be improbable if he was indeed Osorkon I's son, and was buried by his father, as Kitchen's chronology suggests. These facts, taken together, imply that Sheshonq II ruled on his own accord at Tanis and was not a mere coregent.

paragraph: Manetho's Epitome states that "3 Kings for 25 years" separate Osorkon I from a Takelot (Takelothis). This could be an error on Manetho's part or an allusion to Shoshenq II's reign. It may also be a reference to the recently discovered early Dynasty 22 king Tutkheperre, whose existence is now corroborated by an architectural block from the Great Temple of Bubastis, where Osorkon I and Osorkon II are well attested monumentally.

paragraph: Section::::Aftermath.

paragraph: Osorkon I's reign in Egypt was peaceful and uneventful; however, both his son and grandson, Takelot I and Osorkon II respectively, later encountered difficulties controlling Thebes and Upper Egypt within their own reigns since they had to deal with a rival king: Harsiese A. Osorkon I's tomb has never been found.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mostafa El-Alfi, "A Donation Stela from the time of Osorkon I", Discussions in Egyptology 24 (1992), 13-19

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hartwig Altenmüller, "Lederbänder und Lederanhänger von der Mumie des Chonsu-maacheru" and "Die Mumienbinden des Chonsu-maacheru " in Alt-Ägypten 30(2000), pp. 73–76, 88–89, 102–114.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jürgen von Beckerath, Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten or 'Chronology of the Egyptian Pharaohs,'(Mainz: 1997), Philip Zon Zabern

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Clayton, Chronology of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1994

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kenneth Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC) 3rd ed, (Warminster: 1996), Aris & Phillips Limited

paragraph: BULLET::::- Helen K. Jaquet-Gordon, The illusory year 36 of osorkon I, JEA 53 (1967), 63–68

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eva Lange, "Ein Neuer König Schoschenk in Bubastis", GM 203 (2004), pp. 65–71

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eva Lange, "Legitimation und Herrschaft in der Libyerzeit", Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 135 (2008), 131-141

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Osorkon Dynasty at ancientworlds.net

description: Egyptian pharaoh (1000-0889)

wikidata_label: Osorkon I

wikipedia_title: Osorkon I


text: Theuderic III

text: king of the Franks

text: mayor of the palace

text: Pepin of Heristal

text: placita

text: Arnulfing

text: Liber Historiae Francorum

text: Dagobert III

text: Chlothar IV

text: Oise

text: bishop of Avranches

text: Saint Aubert

text: monastery

text: Mont-Saint-Michel

text: Archangel Michael

text: Gaul

text: Burgundy

text: Savaric of Auxerre

text: Aquitaine

text: Odo the Great

text: Provence

text: Antenor

text: St Etienne

text: Loire

text: Choisy-au-Bac

text: Compiègne

categories: 711 deaths,Merovingian kings,7th-century Frankish kings,7th-century births,Frankish kings of Burgundy

paragraph: Childebert III

paragraph: Childebert III (or IV), called the Just () (c.678/679 – 23 April 711), son of Theuderic III and Clotilda (or Doda) and sole king of the Franks (694–711), he was seemingly but a puppet of the mayor of the palace, Pepin of Heristal, though his "placita" show him making judicial decisions of his own will, even against the Arnulfing clan. His nickname has no comprehensible justification except possibly as a result of these judgements, but the "Liber Historiae Francorum" calls him a "famous man" and "the glorious lord of good memory, Childebert, the just king."

paragraph: He had a son named Dagobert, who succeeded him, as Dagobert III but his wife was not Edonne, the invention of later fantasists. It is possible, though not likely, that Chlothar IV was also his son. He spent almost his entire life in a royal villa on the Oise.

paragraph: In 708, during his reign of sixteen years, the bishop of Avranches, Saint Aubert, founded the monastery of Mont-Saint-Michel at the urging of the Archangel Michael (according to legend).

paragraph: Upon his death on 23 April 711, southern Gaul began to grow independent: Burgundy under Bishop Savaric of Auxerre, Aquitaine under Duke Odo the Great, and Provence under Antenor. He died at St Etienne, Loire, France. He was buried in the church of St Stephen at Choisy-au-Bac, near Compiègne.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "From Merovingians to Carolingians: Dynastic Change in Frankia".

description: King of the Franks

wikidata_label: Childebert III

wikipedia_title: Childebert III


text: Latin Empress

text: Baldwin II of Courtenay

text: regent

text: John of Brienne

text: Berenguela of Leon

text: Yolande of Jerusalem

text: Alphonso of Brienne

text: co-ruler

text: Alberic of Trois-Fontaines

text: Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria

text: John III Doukas Vatatzes

text: Empire of Nicaea

text: knight

text: Republic of Venice

text: Geoffrey II of Villehardouin

text: Prince of Achaea

text: John V.A. Fine

text: Second Bulgarian Empire

text: Western Europe

text: Crusading

text: Cumans

text: Tzurulum

text: Thrace

text: Easter

text: Hagia Sophia

text: Philip of Courtenay

text: Kingdom in France

text: Louis IX of France

text: Philip of Toucy

text: Narjot of Toucy

text: Theodore Branas

text: Agnes of France

text: Seventh Crusade

text: hyperper

text: Blanche of Castile

text: Namur

text: Acre

text: Negropont

text: Margaret of Flanders

text: Castle of Namur

text: Castile

text: Alexios Strategopoulos

text: Cumans

text: Bulgarians

text: Selymbria

text: Daphnousia

text: city walls

text: Baldwin II

text: Euboea

text: Athens

text: Apulia

text: de facto

text: de jure

text: Namur

text: Guy of Dampierre

text: Henry V of Luxembourg

text: Kingdom of Thessalonica

text: Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

text: livres tournois

text: Michael VIII Palaiologos

text: William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

text: Treaty of Viterbo

text: Charles I of Sicily

text: Corfu

text: Albania

text: Principality of Achaea

text: Aegean Islands

text: Venice

text: Lesbos

text: Chios

text: Samos

text: Amorgos

text: Naples

text: Assisi

categories: 1275 deaths,Capetian House of Courtenay,Latin Empresses of Constantinople,House of Brienne,1220s births

paragraph: Marie of Brienne

paragraph: Marie of Brienne (c. 1224–1275) was Latin Empress as the wife of Baldwin II of Courtenay. She served as regent during the absence of Baldwin II twice: in 1237–1239, and in 1243–1257.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: She was a daughter of John of Brienne and his third wife Berenguela of Leon. Marie was a younger, paternal half-sister of Yolande of Jerusalem. She was also a sister of Alphonso of Brienne.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: On 19 April 1229, Marie was betrothed to Baldwin II, junior co-ruler of her father in the throne of the Latin Empire. The marriage was intended to establish a dynastic alliance between the two co-rulers. Marie was at most five-years-old at the time of her betrothal, her parents having married in 1224.

paragraph: Their marriage took place in 1234. The bride was about ten-years-old, the groom seventeen. By her marriage Marie became the junior co-empress of the Latin Empire. The senior one being her mother. Their marriage was recorded in the chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines.

paragraph: Section::::Empress.

paragraph: In 1236, Constantinople was besieged by the combined forces of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and John III Doukas Vatatzes of the Empire of Nicaea. The city was only defended by its small garrison of knights, the fleet of the Republic of Venice and a minor force sent by Geoffrey II of Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea to reinforce the defense. The city was only spared conquest because of a quarrel between the two allies over who would receive command of the city in the event of a success. John V.A. Fine has suggested that Ivan Asen realised the greater threat posed to the Second Bulgarian Empire by the expansion of Nicaea rather than the weakened Latin Empire.

paragraph: In any case, John of Brienne had taken command of the defense of Constantinople. Baldwin II undertook another mission, heading to Western Europe in attempt of raising the funds and recruiting the armed forces needed to secure the survival of their Empire. John died on 27 March 1237, Berenguela following him on 12 April. The twelve-year-old Marie was left in nominal command of the city, as the sole representative of the imperial family present in it. Baldwin would not return until July 1239.

paragraph: Baldwin returned at the head of a Crusading force from Western Europe, variously estimated to include as few as thirty thousand men or as many as sixty thousand. This force was joined by a contingent of Cumans, combining to besiege Tzurulum, a Nicaean strongold in Thrace. The city fell in 1240 but this seems to have been the only success of this force. They are not mentioned afterwards. John V.A. Fine presumes that most of them returned to their homes in Western Europe, only a few of them joining the existing garrison of Constantinople. For the moment, the Latin Empire had ensured its continued survival. Marie was approximately fifteen-year-old at the time her husband returned to his capital.

paragraph: On 15 April 1240 (Easter), Baldwin II was crowned emperor in Hagia Sophia. Their only known son, Philip of Courtenay, was born in 1243. However this period of relative peace for the couple was not to last. Baldwin left for the Kingdom in France by the end of 1243, intending to seek support from Louis IX of France. In his absence Marie became regent of the Empire, with Philip of Toucy as her initial co-regent. Philip was a son of Narjot of Toucy and his first wife. His mother was a daughter of Theodore Branas and Agnes of France. Baldwin was absent for several years, first staying in France and then joining Louis IX in the Seventh Crusade. He returned by 8 October 1248, the date of a charter that empowered her to mortgage his western lands in order to pay the huge debt of 24,000 hyperpers.

paragraph: Within a month of Baldwin's arrival, Marie left Constantinople for Western Europe, assuming they followed the instructions of Blanche of Castile, Marie's great-aunt, who had arranged for her visit and had given Baldwin 20,000 livres in exchange for two promises: not to sell his properties at Namur, and to send Marie to visit her within a month after his return to Constantinople. Baldwin is said to have prepared four armed ships to take Marie and her escort abroad. Marie arrived in Cyprus while Louis IX and the Crusaders were there, only to have a strong wind blow her ship free of its anchor, taking it and all its cargo to Acre, leaving Marie with only the clothes on her back and a cloak. The Crusaders there took care of her. Presumably soon after leaving Cyprus, Marie arrived in Negropont 30 January 1249, from where she reached France in May. According to the "Chronique de Flandres", Marie stayed with her great-aunt until Blanche died in 1252, after which, it reports, Marie went to live in her husband's estates at Namur. For the next years Marie contested unsuccessfully with Henry of Luxembourg for control of those properties—which were the source of income for both Emperor and Empress—until her cession of these lands and castles 17 June 1258 to Margaret of Flanders. Despite this, the Castle of Namur refused to surrender to Henry of Luxembourg, the vassal of Margaret of Flanders, until St. Vincent's Day (21 January 1259). After this she had gone to the court of Castile where she successfully raised the money to ransom her son Peter, who was held hostage by bankers in Venice and who was released at some date between June 1258 and 1 May 1261.

paragraph: Section::::Fall of Constantinople.

paragraph: The imperial couple would not hold their capital for long. In July 1261, Alexios Strategopoulos, a general of Nicaea, was sent with a small advance force of 800 soldiers, most of them Cumans, to keep a watch on the Bulgarians and spy out the defences of the Latins. When the Byzantine force reached the village of Selymbria, they learned from independent local farmers ("thelematarioi") that the entire Latin garrison, and the Venetian fleet, were absent conducting a raid against the Nicaean island of Daphnousia. Although initially hesitant, due to both the small size of his force, which might be fatal if the Latin army returned, and because he would exceed his orders, Strategopoulos eventually decided not to lose such a golden opportunity to retake the city.

paragraph: On the night of 25 July 1261, Alexios and his men approached the city walls and hid at a monastery near the "Pege" Gate. Alexios sent a detachment of his men, who, led by some of the "thelematarioi", made their way to the city through a secret passage. They attacked the walls from the inside, surprised the guards and opened the gate, allowing the Byzantine force entry into the city. The Latins were taken completely by surprise, and after some fighting, the Byzantine force gained control of the land walls. Fearing the revenge the Byzantines would exact upon them, the Latin inhabitants, from Emperor Baldwin II downwards, hurriedly rushed to the harbour, hoping to escape by ship. Thanks to the timely arrival of the returning Venetian fleet, they were evacuated, but the city was lost for good. Marie presumably managed to flee with her husband.

paragraph: Section::::Exile.

paragraph: A Venetian ship took Baldwin and Marie to Euboea, from there proceeding to Athens, Apulia and then back to France. In the following years they survived by selling their de facto and de jure rights to various secondary titles and lands.

paragraph: On 26 March 1263, their rights to Namur were bought by Guy of Dampierre. Namur was at the time actually held by Henry V of Luxembourg but Guy would successfully conquer it by 1268. In January 1266, their rights to the Kingdom of Thessalonica were bought by Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy for 13,000 livres tournois. At the time the city was under the control of Michael VIII Palaiologos, the Nicaean emperor who had moved his capital to Constantinople, while the title was also claimed by William VII, Marquess of Montferrat.

paragraph: On 27 May 1267, the Treaty of Viterbo, transferred much of the rights to the Latin Empire fiefs from Baldwin II to Charles I of Sicily. Charles was to be confirmed in possession of Corfu and some cities in Albania. He was also given suzerainty over the Principality of Achaea and sovereignty of the Aegean Islands, excepting those held by Venice and Lesbos, Chios, Samos, and Amorgos.

paragraph: Baldwin and Marie spend the rest of their lives in the court of Charles. In October 1273, Baldwin died in Naples. Marie survived him by about two years. She was buried in Assisi.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The page of the "Late Medieval Balkans" mentioning the siege

description: Latin empress of Constantinople

wikidata_label: Marie of Brienne

wikipedia_title: Marie of Brienne


text:
Monaco
Monégasque
2002
2006
2010 Winter Olympics
Monaco's flag bearer
Bobsleigh World Cup
FIBT World Championships
St. Moritz, Switzerland
2007
Patrice Servelle bio

categories: Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics,Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics,Olympic bobsledders of Monaco,Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Monegasque male bobsledders,Living people,1974 births

paragraph: Patrice Servelle

paragraph: Patrice Servelle (born 20 July 1974 in Monaco) is a Monégasque Olympic bobsledder who has competed in the 2002, 2006, and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Servelle's placed 12th overall at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was Monaco's flag bearer during the Opening Ceremony. He also finished the two-man Bobsleigh World Cup in second place, which was Monaco's first, and only World Cup medal.

paragraph: Servelle's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was tenth in the four-man event at St. Moritz, Switzerland in 2007.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patrice Servelle bio

description: Monegasque bobsledder

wikidata_label: Patrice Servelle

wikipedia_title: Patrice Servelle


text:
Ramsau
Austria
rally
Rally New Zealand
World Rally Championship
European Rally Championship
Audi
Audi Quattro
Volkswagen
1987
Rally New Zealand
Lancia Delta HF 4WD
Rally Australia
Franz Jr.
Official website

categories: 1950 births,Living people,World Rally Championship drivers

paragraph: Franz Wittmann Sr.

paragraph: Franz Wittmann (born 7 April 1950 in Ramsau) is an Austrian rally driver, who won the 1987 Rally New Zealand, a round of the World Rally Championship (WRC).

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Wittmann began rallying in 1970. He competed mainly on a national level during his career, winning the Austrian championship 12 times between 1976 and 2001. He also won 32 rounds of the European Rally Championship, finishing second in the standings in 1978. As a test driver for Audi, he debuted the revolutionary Audi Quattro in 1981. He also competed as a factory Volkswagen driver in 1985 and 1986. In 1987 he won Rally New Zealand in a privately entered Lancia Delta HF 4WD. He competed on his final WRC event at the 1989 Rally Australia.

paragraph: Wittmann's son Franz Jr. also competes in rallying.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

wikidata_label: Franz Wittmann

wikipedia_title: Franz Wittmann Sr.


text: conductor

text: composer

text: pianist

text: organist

text: Maryland

text: Peabody Conservatory of Music

text: Baltimore

text: Paul Callaway

text: Washington National Cathedral

text: St. Alban's Episcopal Church

text: St. Albans School for Boys

text: National Symphony Orchestra

text: Handel

text: "Messiah"

text: Howard Mitchell

text: The Washington Post

text: Leonard Bernstein

text: "MASS"

text: Washington Opera

text: National Endowment for the Arts

text: Ravel

text: Introduction and Allegro

text: Schubert

text: Eugene Fodor

text: White House

text: President Ford

text: Yitzhak Rabin

text: Washington, D.C.

text: Argentina

text: Brazil

text: England

text: France

text: Italy

text: Russia

text: Scott Tucker

text: Choral Arts Society of Baltimore

text: United Methodist Church

text: Supreme Court of the United States

text: Leonard Bernstein

text: "Washingtonian"

text: Virginia Theological Seminary

wikipedia_title: St. Alban's Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.)

categories: 20th-century classical composers,George Washington University faculty,American University faculty and staff,2015 deaths,American male conductors (music),21st-century American conductors (music),Male organists,American male classical composers,Choral conductors,21st-century American composers,American classical organists,20th-century American conductors (music),1936 births,American classical composers,Peabody Institute alumni,Musicians from Washington, D.C.

paragraph: Norman Scribner

paragraph: Norman Orville Scribner (February 25, 1936 – March 22, 2015) was an American conductor, composer, pianist and organist. He was most widely known as the founder of The Choral Arts Society of Washington, and as its artistic director for over 45 years.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Scribner was born on February 25, 1936 in Washington, D.C., the son of a Maryland clergyman appointed the year before he was born. While in high school, he would "rac[e] to the church at 4 a.m. each morning to practice scales," but following his father's death, "financial necessity compelled him to focus on more lucrative forms of music making: church jobs." He attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, graduating with honors in 1961. He studied organ with Paul Callaway and music theory with Walter Spencer Huffman. While still a student at Peabody, he formed the Baltimore Choral Society and "[s]o perfection-oriented was he that he held sectionals for a junior choir and rigorous auditions" for the group.

paragraph: In 1960, after "a stint in the Army," he accepted a position as musical staff assistant for the Washington National Cathedral, choirmaster of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, and chapel organist for the St. Albans School for Boys. (He served at St. Alban's Church until his retirement in 2007.) In 1960 he also joined the faculty at American University, serving there until 1963. He later joined the faculty at George Washington University from 1963–1969, and served on the faculty of the College of Church Musicians of Washington National Cathedral.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Rise to prominence.

paragraph: Scribner first received significant public attention while serving as assistant organist at the Washington National Cathedral. A review of an organ recital in June 1963 observed that "[i]n the last few years a young musician in town has found the right climate to establish himself as one of those to whom musical leadership and responsibility will be given in years to come." That year, Scribner was appointed as staff keyboard artist for the National Symphony Orchestra, a post he would hold until 1967. He conducted and took control of the Symphony's annual production of Handel's "Messiah" in 1963 after conductor Howard Mitchell "was impressed by his ability and intensity." A 1964 profile in "The Washington Post" described him as a "28-year old who looks, despite the glasses which occasionally slip down from his nose and give him the air of a beleaguered English professor, like a football player." It noted that for Scribner, doing music was "the complete life performing as pianist, organist, harpsichordist; directing as choir master at St. Alban's; teaching at George Washington University; conducting."

paragraph: By 1970, Scribner was viewed as "the backbone of choral music in Washington." As a choral director, he received praise for his "exhaustive musical knowledge, his geniality and infectious fervor, and above all, his obsession with excellence." Moreover, local pianists spoke "of his ability at the keyboard in awe," with "his organ playing almost legendary." With funding from several grants received in 1970, the Choral Arts Society was able to retain Scribner on an annual salary for the first time, allowing him to "devote his full time to the post."

paragraph: In 1971, Scribner assembled a professional choir (the "Norman Scribner Choir") for the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's "MASS", commissioned for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He served for a season as chorus master of the Washington Opera, and was a member of the Choral Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1974–1976.

paragraph: In an unusual event on August 25, 1972, Scribner was directing a Kennedy Center performance of Ravel's "Introduction and Allegro" (for flute, harp, clarinet, and string quartet) when one of the harp's pedals broke. After asking the audience "with a fairly straight face ... 'Is there anyone in the house who repairs harps?'", he altered the program order in the hope of finding "another harp downstairs or if this harp has been fixed." However, a harpist from one of the military service bands was in attendance, returned home and retrieved his instrument while a Schubert symphony was performed, and the concert was saved.

paragraph: On September 12, 1974, he accompanied the violinist Eugene Fodor at the White House for a recital at a state dinner given by President Ford for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin .

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:The Choral Arts Society of Washington.

paragraph: Scribner founded The Choral Arts Society of Washington in 1965 and served as its artistic director for 47 years. Since its founding, the Choral Arts Society has grown to become a prominent cultural institution in Washington, D.C., and is one of approximately 32 major choral organizations in the United States with annual budgets exceeding $1 million.

paragraph: As artistic director, Scribner directed the chorus in its regular concerts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other locations in the Washington area. He also regularly prepared the chorus for guest appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra and other national and international orchestras. He led the chorus on seven international tours (as of 2010), visiting Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Italy, and Russia. The Choral Arts Society also produced or performed on at least sixteen commercially released recordings during his tenure.

paragraph: Scribner retired as artistic director of the Choral Arts Society on August 31, 2012, and was succeeded by Scott Tucker. Scribner died March 22, 2015 at the age of 79.

paragraph: Section::::Compositions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Nativity" (1975) – premiered Dec. 20, 1975 by the Choral Arts Society of Baltimore under Theodore Morrison.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love Divine" (1984) – commissioned by the United Methodist Church and premiered at its 1984 General Conference in Baltimore.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Song for St. Cecilia" (1988) – commissioned by the British Institute and performed in concert at the Supreme Court of the United States in 1988

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Scribner received a co-nomination for a Grammy Award in 1973 (with Leonard Bernstein), and the Choral Arts Society received a Grammy Award under his preparation in 1996.

paragraph: He was named a "Washingtonian of the Year" by the "Washingtonian" magazine in 1984. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Virginia Theological Seminary in 2002, and the Peabody Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006. In 1998, Scribner received the District of Columbia Mayor's Arts Award for excellence in an artistic discipline.

description: American conductor

wikidata_label: Norman Scribner

wikipedia_title: Norman Scribner


text: Plassenburg

text: Valencia

text: viceroy

text: Valencia

text: Ferdinand II of Aragon

text: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

text: Order of the Golden Fleece

categories: House of Hohenzollern,1525 deaths,1493 births

paragraph: Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Viceroy of Valencia

paragraph: Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach (9 January 1493 in Plassenburg – 5 July 1525 in Valencia) was the second husband of Germaine de Foix and viceroy of Valencia from 1523 until his death in 1525.

paragraph: He was a son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and his wife Sophia of Poland.

paragraph: He married on 17 June 1519 with Germaine de Foix (1490–1538), second wife and widow of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. In 1523 the couple was appointed Viceroys of Valencia by King Ferdinand's grandson Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

paragraph: The marriage remained childless. After his death Germaine of Foix remarried Ferdinand of Aragón, Duke of Calabria.

paragraph: Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach became in 1516 a knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece.

description: German noble and viceroy of Valencia

wikidata_label: Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach


text: Canadian

text: ice hockey

text: forward

text: unrestricted free agent

text: Manitoba Moose

text: American Hockey League

text: Calgary Flames

text: 2013 NHL Entry Draft

text: Montreal

text: junior hockey

text: Gatineau Olympiques

text: Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

text: 2013 NHL Entry Draft

text: NHL Central Scouting Bureau

text: wing

text: centre

text: Canadian national junior team

text: Calgary Flames

text: plus-minus

text: American Hockey League

text: Abbotsford Heat

text: amateur try-out

text: 2014–15 season

text: Adirondack Flames

text: New York Rangers

text: Mikael Backlund

text: Philadelphia Flyers

text: Winnipeg Jets

wikipedia_title: Canada men's national junior ice hockey team

categories: National Hockey League first round draft picks,Gatineau Olympiques players,French Quebecers,Calgary Flames players,Living people,Abbotsford Heat players,Adirondack Flames players,Canadian ice hockey players,1994 births,Ice hockey people from Quebec,Manitoba Moose players,Sportspeople from Montreal,Calgary Flames draft picks

paragraph: Émile Poirier

paragraph: Émile Poirier (born December 14, 1994) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played with the Manitoba Moose in the American Hockey League (AHL). He was selected by the Calgary Flames in the first round, 22nd overall, at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: A native of Montreal, Poirier began his junior hockey career with the Gatineau Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) in 2011–12. He appeared in 67 games, scoring 15 goals and 40 points. Previously unheralded, Poirier improved to 70 points in 65 games in 2012–13; he was the team's scoring leader, 16 points ahead of his nearest teammate. He established himself as a top-40 prospect for the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. The NHL Central Scouting Bureau placed him 39th in their final pre-draft list, and Poirier moved higher in the projections with a standout performance in the playoffs; he had ten points in ten playoff games, including six "highlight reel" goals.

paragraph: Capable of playing at either the wing or at centre, Poirier is a fast skater, though he says his style is "not pretty". Describing his playing style, Poirier stated: "I love to play hard. I compete, got to the net hard and fight a little bit, too. I want to bring energy." He was invited to attend summer camp for the Canadian national junior team ahead of the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. At the draft, Poirier was selected in the first round by the Calgary Flames, 22nd overall.

paragraph: Returning to Gatineau, Poirier had his best season as a junior in 2013–14. He set career highs and led his team with 43 goals, 44 assists and 87 points to go along with a plus-minus rating of +30. He also signed an entry-level contract with the Flames, and joined Calgary's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Abbotsford Heat on an amateur try-out agreement after Gatineau was eliminated from the QMJHL playoffs. Poirier scored a goal in his first professional game, then added another to go with two assists in his second as the Heat prepared for the AHL playoffs. Following the season, the Flames announced that Poirier had played the year with a bad shoulder that required surgery.

paragraph: Poirier missed the first month of the 2014–15 season while recovering. He was assigned to the AHL's Adirondack Flames when healthy and scored twice in his first game. The 20-year-old forward scored 30 points in his first 42 games with Adirondack and was the youngest player in the AHL All-Star Game. He was recalled to Calgary on February 23, 2015, and made his NHL debut the following night in a 1–0 loss to the New York Rangers. Poirier recorded his first NHL point with an assist on a goal by Mikael Backlund on March 3, 2015, against the Philadelphia Flyers.

paragraph: After his fourth full season within the Flames organization, Poirier was released as a free agent when he was not tendered a qualifying offer as a restricted free agent. Un-signed over the summer, Poirier without an NHL deal, accepted a professional try-out contract to begin the 2018–19 season, with the Manitoba Moose, affiliate to the Winnipeg Jets, on October 4, 2018.

description: Canadian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Émile Poirier

wikipedia_title: Émile Poirier


text:
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Hanbali
school
Islamic law
Fars Province
Syria
Mesopotamia
Al-Dhahabi
Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Barbahari
Dhahabi
Hanbali
Bibliography
Alibris

categories: 923 deaths,Hanbalis,Year of birth unknown,Sunni Muslim scholars,Atharis,9th-century jurists,9th-century Muslim scholars of Islam

image: 512px-أبو_بكر_الخلال.png

paragraph: Abu Bakr al-Khallal

paragraph: Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Harun bin Yazid al-Baghdadi, better known as Abu Bakr al-Khallal, was a Medieval Muslim jurist.

paragraph: Al-Khallal was a student of five of Ahmad ibn Hanbal's direct students, including Ibn Hanbal's son Abdullah. His documentation on Ibn Hanbal's views eventually reached twenty volumes and ultimately lead to the preservation of the Hanbali school of Islamic law. He was considered the principal Hanbalite scholar of his time.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Al-Khallal's exact date of birth is not known. He died in 923 at the age of 78, which means that he must have been born during Ibn Hanbal's twilight years. The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History estimates al-Khallal's year of birth as 848.

paragraph: Aside from his legal efforts, virtually nothing is known of al-Khallal's life. During his efforts to compile the views of Ibn Hanbal, al-Khallal ended up spending periods of time living in Fars Province, Syria and Mesopotamia. According to Muslim historian Al-Dhahabi, there was no such thing as an independent Hanbalite school of law prior to al-Khallal's efforts at compiling Ibn Hanbal's views. Al-Khallal's status within the school was not universally accepted, and he and his students were often in conflict with fellow Hanbalite Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Barbahari and his students.

paragraph: Section::::Reception.

paragraph: The historian Dhahabi stated that, "Before him (al-Khallal) there were no independent school of the imam's; not until he followed up Ahmed's texts, wrote them down and checked there proofs after 300 A.H."

paragraph: The 20th century Hanbali jurisprudent Badran called al-Khallal's collection "the very root of the Hanbali school, from which sprang all later books of Hanbali jurisprudence."

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bibliography at Alibris

wikidata_label: Abu Bakr al-Khallal

wikipedia_title: Abu Bakr al-Khallal