text: Italian

text: Cardinal

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: cardinalate

text: Frosinone

text: count

text: Antonio Cagiano de Azevedo

text: seminary

text: Grottaferrata

text: ordained

text: priesthood

text: pastoral

text: Rome

text: canon

text: Liberian Basilica

text: protonotary apostolic

text: St. Peter's Basilica

text: Master of the Papal Chamber

text: Pope Leo XIII

text: papal majordomo

text: cardinal

text: episcopal ordination

text: Cardinal Deacon

text: Santi Cosma e Damiano

text: Pope Pius X

text: consistory

text: Apostolic Visitor

text: Hospice

text: Catechumen

text: Pro

text: Prefect

text: Sacred Congregation for Religious

text: Protector

text: Order of the Servants of Mary

text: participated

text: conclave of 1914

text: Pope Benedict XV

text: conclave

text: scrutineer

text: Bartolomeo Bacilieri

text: Rafael Merry del Val

text: Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church

text: Cardinal Priests

text: titular church

text: San Lorenzo in Damaso

text: cardinal electors

text: conclave of 1922

text: Pope Pius XI

text: Order of the Crown of Siam

text: Grand Cross

text: Order of Franz Joseph

text: Austria

text: Order of Isabella the Catholic

text: Civil Order of Tuscany

text: Order of the Red Eagle

text: Prussia

text: Légion d'honneur

text: Anzio

text: tomb

text: Campo Verano

text: Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

text: Catholic-Hierarchy

categories: 1845 births,Recipients of the Order of Franz Joseph,Officiers of the Légion d'honneur,Italian cardinals,1927 deaths,Recipients of the Order of the Red Eagle,Members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

paragraph: Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo

paragraph: Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo (7 November 1845 – 11 July 1927) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious from 1913 to 1915, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1905.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo was born in Frosinone, and held the title of count; he was a nephew of Cardinal Antonio Cagiano de Azevedo. He studied at the seminary in Grottaferrata, and was ordained to the priesthood in September 1868. Cagiano then did pastoral work in Rome until 1874, the same year he was made a canon of the Liberian Basilica on 1 April. He later became an "abreviattore de parco maggiore" on 1 January 1876, protonotary apostolic "ad instar participantium" on 9 April 1880 and canon of St. Peter's Basilica on 3 December 1886.

paragraph: On 31 December 1891 Cagiano was appointed Master of the Papal Chamber by Pope Leo XIII, and later papal majordomo on 29 May 1901. Raised to the rank of cardinal without ever receiving an episcopal ordination, he was created Cardinal Deacon of "Santi Cosma e Damiano" by Pope Pius X in the consistory of 11 December 1905.

paragraph: After becoming Apostolic Visitor of the Hospice of Catechumens on 17 January 1911, Cagiano was named Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious on 12 June 1913, rising to become full Prefect on the following 31 October. He was made Protector of the Order of the Servants of Mary on 10 March 1914 and then participated in the conclave of 1914, which selected Pope Benedict XV. During the conclave, Cagiano supposedly served as a scrutineer on the last day of balloting with Cardinals Bartolomeo Bacilieri and Rafael Merry del Val.

paragraph: On 6 December 1915 he was named Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, remaining in that post until his death. Cagiano, after ten years' standing as a Cardinal Deacon, opted for the order of Cardinal Priests and was assigned the titular church of "San Lorenzo in Damaso" in the consistory of the same date. He was also one of the cardinal electors in the conclave of 1922, which resulted in the election of Pope Pius XI.

paragraph: In addition to being appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Siam, he was appointed a Grand Cross of the Order of Franz Joseph of Austria, of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain, and of the Civil Order of Tuscany. He was also appointed a Commander with Plaque of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia and an Officer of the "Légion d'honneur".

paragraph: Cardinal Cagiano died in Anzio, at age 81. He is buried in the tomb of the Order of the Servants of Mary at the Campo Verano cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic-Hierarchy

description: Catholic cardinal

wikidata_label: Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo

wikipedia_title: Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo


text:
Union Navy
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor
Bedford County, Tennessee
pilot
Cumberland River
Nashville, Tennessee
John Ditzenbach
Elizabethtown, Illinois

categories: Civilian recipients of the Medal of Honor,Union Navy,1829 births,People of Tennessee in the American Civil War,People from Bedford County, Tennessee,1900 deaths

paragraph: John H. Ferrell

paragraph: John H. Ferrell (April 15, 1829 – April 17, 1900) was a civilian employee of the Union Navy during the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He is one of only eight civilians ever to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.

paragraph: Born on April 15, 1829, in Bedford County, Tennessee, Ferrell was living in Illinois when he was hired by the Navy as a pilot. By December 6, 1864, he was serving in the Cumberland River aboard the . On that day, during an engagement with Confederates at Bells Mills near Nashville, Tennessee, he and Quartermaster John Ditzenbach braved heavy fire to re-raise "Neosho"'s flag after it was shot down. For this action, both he and Ditzenbach were awarded the Medal of Honor six months later, on June 22, 1865.

paragraph: Ferrell's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: Served on board the U.S. Monitor "Neosho" during the engagement with enemy batteries at Bells Mills, Cumberland River, near Nashville, Tenn., 6 December 1864. Carrying out his duties courageously during the engagement, Ferrell gallantly left the pilothouse after the flag and signal staffs of that vessel had been shot away and, taking the flag which was drooping over the wheelhouse, make it fast to the stump of the highest mast remaining although the ship was still under a heavy fire from the enemy.

paragraph: Ferrell died April 17, 1900, at age 71 and was buried at Price Cemetery in Elizabethtown, Illinois.

description: Civilian employee of the US Navy, recipient of the Medal of Honor

wikidata_label: John H. Ferrell

wikipedia_title: John H. Ferrell


text:
Atlanta, Georgia
Académie Julian
Accademia di Belle Arti
Municipal Art Society
World Trade Center
Theo van Doesburg
Piet Mondrian
Neoplasticism
Brâncuși
Picasso
Paul Goldberger
Toledo, Ohio
Willem Dafoe
Cortex Athletico
Arts Commission of Greater Toledo

categories: Contemporary painters,1928 births,Abstract art,Living people

paragraph: Pierre Clerk

paragraph: Pierre Clerk (born 1928) is a contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and sculpture.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Clerk was born to Canadian parents in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was an architect. Clerk lived in Canada between 1932 and 1952. He studied fine arts at McGill University, Loyola College, and at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He also trained at the Académie Julian in Paris and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. Clerk moved to New York in 1959. His work has been widely recognized, and he has won grants from a number of institutions, including Canadian Council Awards; Tamarind Fel, Albuquerque, New Mexico; United States Information Service Exhibition Grant; Municipal Art Society Grant; and U.S. Department of State Travel Grant. Currently, he lives and works in Southwest France and in New York City.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Pierre Clerk's abstract, geometrical works are held in many museums and galleries in the United States and Canada, such as: Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Glasgow Art Museum, Scotland; New Mexico University, Albuquerque; Queens College, New York; and State University of New York, Purchase. Several of Clerk's paintings, serigraphs, and tapestries are in the collection of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and have been exhibited at the international arrivals building at John F. Kennedy International Airport and the World Trade Center. In addition, a collection of his papers (covering the years 1956 through 1982) are in the Smithsonian: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

paragraph: Clerk first came to national attention in the U.S. in the spring of 1956, when he was chosen as one of three artists to be featured in the Museum of Modern Art's 9th New Talent Exhibition. The New York Times described the show as "one of the best in this series" and went on to say: "Clerk's boldly colored and decorative non-objective oils are in the general tradition of Matisse and are laid out in deliberate patterns like those in an oriental rug, handsome and clear in their planning." Since the mid-1950s, his work has been included in many group and solo shows. In 2010, the gallery Cortex Athletico in Bordeaux, France, mounted a large show of paintings and smaller sculptures. Called 70/10, the show presented a dialogue between recent works and those of the 1970s. Speaking of his own work, Clerk cites Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Neoplasticism, Brâncuși, and the cubism of Picasso as major influences.

paragraph: Section::::Monumental Sculpture.

paragraph: In addition to painting, Clerk has also created monumental sculptures of note. In 1977, four of Clerk's large sculptures, which the artist crafted specifically for the location, were installed at Waterside Plaza, an apartment complex on Manhattan's East River. Sponsored by the Public Arts Council of the Municipal Art Society, the installation garnered a positive review in the New York Times. Of the large geometric pieces, Paul Goldberger wrote: "The success of the Clerk exhibition, which will remain at Waterside Plaza for an indefinite period, is an obvious reminder of the extent to which sculpture can assist in solving an architectural problem... The sculptures neither give in to the buildings nor fight them; instead they treat them almost playfully, teasing the towers' somber forms, yet never becoming shrill or unkind. It is the sort of balance more urban sculpture should strike."

paragraph: Clerk's two-story City Candy (1983), described as a "commanding presence" by the "Toledo Blade", weighs 25,000 pounds. The red-and-white striped aluminum sculpture, which measures 42 feet by 48 feet by 24 feet and has one base inside a parking garage and the other on the adjacent sidewalk, was named by the winner of a 1984 "name the sculpture" contest. As the first city in Ohio to adopt a one percent for arts program, Toledo, Ohio boasts more than 80 examples of public, outdoor art, which include large sculptures, environmental structures, and murals. These works are organized into a number of tours. The Toledo Blade cites City Candy as being "among our favorites" on the Promenade Park–River Walk tour. But, as almost all public art does, City Candy has drawn its share of criticism, and it "continues to be a controversial sculpture with opinions being voiced strongly on both sides."

paragraph: Section::::Civic Involvement.

paragraph: In 1996, Clerk lead the SoHo Community Council, an ad hoc group of artists and other Soho residents who sued the New York State Liquor Authority for granting a liquor license to a nightclub on Grand Street in Manhattan. Opponents of the club, who included actor Willem Dafoe; Christopher Burge, the chairman of Christie's; along with the Soho Alliance, another community group; and the local community board; charged that the authority had broken a 1993 law which was intended to prevent residential neighborhoods from becoming over-saturated with bars and nightclubs. The case went to the State Supreme Court, where, in 1997 the judge ruled in favor of Clerk and the neighborhood groups. The judge ordered an immediate revocation of the club's liquor license. Clerk told the New York Times that the ruling "sends the message to the S.L.A. that it can not frivolously issue licenses in opposition to what the community wants, especially here in SoHo."

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cortex Athletico

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arts Commission of Greater Toledo

description: American painter

wikidata_label: Pierre Clerk

wikipedia_title: Pierre Clerk


text: Kai Fjell

text: Edvard Munch

text: surrealists

text: National Gallery of Norway

text: Rolf Stenersen

text: Stenersen Museum

categories: People from Stockholm,1980 deaths,1902 births,20th-century Norwegian painters

paragraph: Erik Harry Johannessen

paragraph: Erik Harry Johannessen (6 January 1902 – 25 December 1980) was a Norwegian painter. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1924 to 1925, and was influenced by Kai Fjell and Edvard Munch. He belonged to a group of surrealists in the 1930s, and later painted landscapes, crowd pictures and altarpieces. He is represented at the National Gallery of Norway. Many of his paintings from the 1930s were bought by Rolf Stenersen, and are available at the Stenersen Museum.

description: Norwegian painter

wikidata_label: Erik Harry Johannessen

wikipedia_title: Erik Harry Johannessen


text:
snowboarder
men's big air snowboarding
2018 Winter Olympics
Mount Hood
Winter X Games XV
Aspen
Colorado
Torstein Horgmo
Tignes
France
Mark McMorris
2014 Winter Olympics
Canada's snowboard team
slopestyle final
Sochi
Aspen, Colorado
Innsbruck
Austria
Oslo
Norway
Cardrona
New Zealand
Quebec City
2016–17 FIS Snowboard World Cup
Beijing
Dew Tour
2018 Canadian Olympic team
Pyeongchang
Maxence Parrot

categories: Olympic gold medalists for Canada,Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics,1992 births,People from Lanaudière,Olympic snowboarders of Canada,X Games athletes,Olympic medalists in snowboarding,Canadian male snowboarders,Living people,Sportspeople from Quebec

paragraph: Sébastien Toutant

paragraph: Sébastien Toutant (born November 9, 1992) is a Canadian snowboarder. He is the reigning Olympic gold medalist in men's big air snowboarding from its debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Toutant was twice the gold medal winner in slopestyle at the X Games in 2011 and 2013. He has won an additional two silver medals plus a bronze in slopestyle and big air events at the X Games bringing his total medals in the competition to five.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Starting snowboarding at age nine, Toutant got into the sport when he broke his skis and borrowed his brother's old snowboard. Toutant's skills were first noticed when he won his first professional event at just 13 years of age. He was taken by a film crew to Mount Hood shortly after to shoot video of him on the biggest jumps he had seen at this point in his life. Toutant had missed making his debut the X Games in 2010 because of a broken ankle. The following season though, Toutant won a silver medal in Snowboard Big Air at the 2011 Winter X Games XV in Aspen, Colorado, behind Torstein Horgmo. He also won gold in Snowboard Slopestyle in the same games, it was his first gold at the X Games. The victory in slopestyle at the X Games made Toutant the first male rookie to win gold at the X Games in the event since 2002. During the spring of 2011, he was the third person to land a triple cork (backside 1440).

paragraph: The following season Toutant failed to make any significant podium finishes. In 2013 Toutant returned to the X Games in Tignes, France. There he made it to the top of the podium beating his friend and teammate Mark McMorris who he has known since he was 14. Toutant made his Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics where he was a member of Canada's snowboard team. In the slopestyle final in Sochi he finished in 9th place overall. Following the Olympics Toutant would further his X Games pedigree, winning silver in slopestyle in Aspen, Colorado in 2016. A week later he would win the Air + Style event in Innsbruck, Austria.

paragraph: Building towards his next Olympics Toutant had highly successful season in 2016-17. First he won bronze in the slopestyle event at the X Games Europe in Oslo, Norway. He would then win the slopestyle event at the Cardrona Winter Games in New Zealand and a gold medal in Quebec City in slopestyle at a stop on 2016–17 FIS Snowboard World Cup tour. Toutant would also place second in the Air + Style event in Beijing that year and a second place finished in the US Grand Prix, while finishing his season with a third place finish on the Dew Tour.

paragraph: Though he was named to 2018 Canadian Olympic team in Pyeongchang, Toutant participated in few events in the buildup to the games. It was later revealed that he had been dealing with a compressed disc in his back and was forced to gym only training and practicing while teammates McMorris and Maxence Parrot were training on the slopes. Keeping his injury a secret Toutant hit the slopes at the Olympics, he finished last in the men's slopestyle final. In the big air final Toutant defied his injury and rode to a surprise gold medal, surpassing teammates McMorris and Parrot. He said of his gold medal victory after that "I just love snowboarding so much, and I've been through so much lately. A couple of months ago, I couldn't even snowboard, so it definitely feels great that I'm able to ride at my best and to put the tricks down. To be able to show up and to show the world what I can do is just awesome." The victory made Toutant the first men's big air champion in the Olympics as this was the debut of the event at the games.

paragraph: Section::::Competition history.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3rd place 2015 U.S. Grand Prix - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 Ride Shakedown - Best Trick

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2nd place 2014 Dew Tour - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1st place AST Mile High - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 European Winter X Games Gold - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1st place 2012 TTR Overall Champion

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1st Overall in 2012 Dew Tour Year End Rankings - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1st place 2012 Burton Open: Vermont - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 Winter X Games Bronze - Big Air

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 Winter X Games Gold - Slopestyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 Winter X Games Silver - Big Air

paragraph: BULLET::::- 5-time Ride Shakedown Champion (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018 Winter Olympic Gold Medalist - Big Air

description: Canadian snowboarder

wikidata_label: Sebastien Toutant

wikipedia_title: Sébastien Toutant


text: Patriarch

text: Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem

text: Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem

text: Armenian Apostolic Church

text: Mesrob Nishanian

text: New Julfa

text: Persia

text: Beirut

text: Tiran Nersoyan

text: consecrated

text: Yeghishe Derderian

categories: 1894 births,Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem,20th-century Oriental Orthodox bishops,1949 deaths

paragraph: Guregh Israelian of Jerusalem

paragraph: Patriarch Guregh Israelian () (6 January 1894 – 28 October 1949) was Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem serving the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem as bishop under the authority of the Catholicos of Armenia and of all Armenians of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 1944 to 1949, succeeding Patriarch Mesrob Nishanian who had served from 1939 to 1944.

paragraph: He was born Dikran Israelian in New Julfa, Persia. He died in Beirut shortly after an operation.

paragraph: Upon his death in 1949, the position of Patriarch of Jerusalem remained vacant for more than a decade, i.e. from 1949 to 1957 and from 1958 to 1960, with a very brief period when Tiran Nersoyan was elected as patriarch of Jerusalem (1957–1958), but was never consecrated.

paragraph: Only in 1960 was a new Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem officially elected, namely Patriarch Yeghishe Derderian. Earlier since 1949, Derderian was serving as deputy patriarch.

wikidata_label: Guregh Israelian of Jerusalem

wikipedia_title: Guregh Israelian of Jerusalem


text:
pitcher
Major League Baseball
New York Giants
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
college baseball
college basketball
University of Pennsylvania
Haverford College

categories: Penn Quakers men's basketball players,Haverford Fords men's basketball coaches,Toledo Mud Hens players,1899 births,Sportspeople from Pottsville, Pennsylvania,Chicago Cubs players,Baseball players from Pennsylvania,1981 deaths,New York Giants (NL) players,St. Louis Cardinals players,Major League Baseball pitchers,Penn Quakers baseball players

paragraph: Walt Huntzinger

paragraph: Walter Henry Huntzinger (February 6, 1899 – August 11, 1981) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs. Huntzinger played college baseball and college basketball at the University of Pennsylvania. He coached basketball at Haverford College from 1922 to 1924, compiling a record of 2–24.

description: Major League Baseball pitcher

wikidata_label: Walt Huntzinger

wikipedia_title: Walt Huntzinger


text:
football
defensive back
National Football League
college football
University of Tennessee
All-American
1980 NFL Draft
New England Patriots
Tennessee Volunteers football
Hula
Senior
Bluebonnet
Schaefer Stadium
Baylor University
Sharon, Massachusetts
Somerville, Massachusetts

categories: 1958 births,American football safeties,American football cornerbacks,New England Patriots players,High school football coaches in the United States,Tennessee Volunteers football players,Living people,People from Jamestown, Ohio,All-American college football players

paragraph: Roland James

paragraph: Roland Orlando James (born February 18, 1958) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons during the 1980s and early 1990s. James played college football for the University of Tennessee, and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1980 NFL Draft, and played for the NFL's New England Patriots for his entire professional career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: James attended the University of Tennessee, and played for the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1976 to 1979. As of 2011, James has the fourth longest punt return in the history of the University of Tennessee, an 89-yard return against Vanderbilt in 1979. While at Tennessee, Roland played in three bowl games: the Hula, Senior and Bluebonnet bowls.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: James had the longest punt return in the NFL during the 1980 season. He returned a punt 75 yards for a TD in the Patriots 34-21 win over the New York Jets at Schaefer Stadium on November 2. James recorded five sacks in 1981.

paragraph: He intercepted a pass by David Woodley on the last play of the Patriots 3-0 "Snow Plow" victory over the Miami Dolphins on December 12, 1982.

paragraph: James intercepted three passes by Joe Ferguson in the third quarter of the Patriots 31-0 shutout of the Bills at Rich Stadium on 10-23-83, becoming the first player in club history to record three interceptions in the same quarter.

paragraph: He tackled Frank Middleton for a safety in the Patriots 50-17 rout of the Indianapolis Colts on November 18, 1984.

paragraph: James recovered 10 fumbles during the regular season and recovered a fumble by Freeman McNeil in the Patriots 26-14 AFC Playoff Game win over the NY Jets on December 28, 1985.

paragraph: He had 29 interceptions and 42 punt returns in 145 regular season games for the New England Patriots.

paragraph: James played in five playoff games for the New England Patriots.

paragraph: Section::::Post-playing career.

paragraph: James went on to coach the Sharon High School football team in Massachusetts. His son Roland James Jr. played for Hofstra. His son Roman James played free safety at Baylor University. He currently resides in Sharon, Massachusetts and is working as the Director of Youth Services at the Somerville Community Youth Program in Somerville, Massachusetts, and is active in other charitable work.

description: All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive back, cornerback, safety

wikidata_label: Roland James

wikipedia_title: Roland James


text:
American football
linebacker
defensive coordinator
New York Sentinels
United Football League
New England Patriots
1981 NFL Draft
linebacker
University of Tulsa
Tulsa Golden Hurricane alumni bio

categories: New York Giants coaches,Tulsa Golden Hurricane football players,Cleveland Browns coaches,Atlanta Falcons coaches,American football defensive ends,1958 births,Buffalo Bills coaches,New York Sentinels coaches,American football linebackers,Kansas City Chiefs coaches,New England Patriots coaches,New England Patriots players,Living people

paragraph: Don Blackmon

paragraph: Donald Kirk Blackmon (born March 14, 1958) is an American football coach and former linebacker. Most recently he was the defensive coordinator for the New York Sentinels of the United Football League.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Blackmon was selected by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 1981 NFL Draft. A 6'3". 235 lbs. linebacker from the University of Tulsa, Blackmon played his entire NFL career for the Patriots. He started 72 of 89 games and recorded 541 tackles, 30.5 sacks, and five interceptions before being forced to retire after a neck injury in a game against the Raiders in 1987. He was on the Patriots AFC title team in 1986. Blackmon was a three time all-conference selection at Tulsa and has been named to the school's Hall of Fame.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tulsa Golden Hurricane alumni bio

description: American football player and coach

wikidata_label: Don Blackmon

wikipedia_title: Don Blackmon


text:
University of Arizona
Paris Hilton
Nelly
P. Diddy
Ludacris
Nelly
John Legend
Lady Gaga
Paris Hilton
Golden Globe
John Mayer
BlackBerry
Ne-Yo
South Beach Food and Wine Festival
Aubrey Oday
Miley Cyrus
American Idol
Danica Patrick
South Park
MTV
Real World
Madonna
Kelly Osbourne
Jamie Foxx
NBA
Guy Fieri
Good Morning America
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Last Call with Carson Daly
Comics Unleashed
H.I.R.D Music group
Official website
Download Albums
Artist Direct

paragraph: DJ Cobra

paragraph: Andrew Bagg (born June 8, 1981), better known by his stage name DJ Cobra, is an open format deejay.

paragraph: Section::::Early Life and career.

paragraph: DJ Cobra's career was launched while attending the University of Arizona. DJ Cobra started cold-calling Record Labels and telling them he was the Hip-Hop Music Director at U of A's radio station. This led to free concerts, cultivating relationships with artist's managers and labels and, most importantly, free records. After submitting a mix tape to the Mix Show Director and On-Air Personality at 98.3 (KOHT – iheartradio station in Tucson), Andrew became one of the youngest DJs in the country on Commercial radio. He had the #1 ratings across the board and since the station was BDS affiliated, Record Labels and Promoters were coming to him to get spins for their artists. The labels offered him jobs, but after much thought, DJ Cobra took a different career path. He went on to open for artists, formed a DJ crew back in LA for a period of time (again recognizing an opportunity as bottle service was blowing up and Paris Hilton was the “It” girl), went on his first tour in 2003 opening for Nelly.

paragraph: DJ Cobra holds multiple residencies in Hollywood, San Diego, Chicago and Las Vegas, and spins at clubs throughout the United States. With over 300 performances a year and monthly residences in multiple cities, Cobra appears internationally more than any other open format DJ. Cobra has also toured, opened for or performed with over fifty gold & platinum recording artists including P. Diddy, Prince, Ludacris, Nelly, John Legend and Lady Gaga.

paragraph: In the corporate and private event world, DJ Cobra continues to play events in the United States such as Paris Hilton’s 30th Bday party in Hollywood, The Wesinstein’s Golden Globe Party, Ferrari’s 458 Launch party with John Mayer, MTV BlackBerry VMA Party with Ne-Yo, The South Beach Food and Wine Festival, Aubrey Oday's All About Aubrey Launch Event, Miley Cyrus’s 18th birthday party, AT&T and Fox American Idol official events, Star Magazine’s Young Hollywood Event, Hollywood Life’s Young Hollywood Awards, NASCAR Event with Danica Patrick, South Park’s 200th Anniversary Event MTV’s Real World Cast Party in Las Vegas, Madonna’s Material Girl launch party with Kelly Osbourne, Jamie Foxx’s NBA All Star Weekend party, and others.

paragraph: DJ Cobra toured with culinary great and host of NBC’s “Minute to Win it,” Guy Fieri, in 2010 and is returning to the road with him in 2011, for a second straight tour. Cobra was the featured deejay on Good Morning America’s Oscar Special seen by over 30 million households. He also has made numerous television appearances on shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Call with Carson Daly and Comics Unleashed.

paragraph: When asked about the advice he has for people looking to break into the entertainment world, DJ Cobra's response was simple: “At the end of the day, you must have a strong inner-confidence and goals. Don’t let anyone deter you. There will always be bumps in the road, but believe in yourself enough to keep going.”

paragraph: In 2015 Cobra formed the record label H.I.R.D Music group.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Mixtapes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Iller" (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Illionaire" (2011)

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Comics Unleashed" (2006–2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Best of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jimmy Kimmel appearance with "The Knux"" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Storage Wars" (2013)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Download Albums

paragraph: BULLET::::- Artist Direct

description: American DJ

wikidata_label: DJ COBRA

wikipedia_title: DJ Cobra


text:
Shobrooke
Devon
Shobrooke
West Raddon
Exminster
Holcombe Burnell
William Pole
Tristram Risdon
Richard Carew
Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath
Tawstock Court
George Oliver
Combe Martin

categories: 1637 deaths,English antiquarians,Topographers of Devon,1567 births

paragraph: Thomas Westcote

paragraph: Thomas Westcote (c. 1567 – c. 1637) ("alias" Westcott) of Raddon in the parish of Shobrooke in Devon, was an English historian and topographer of Devon.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was baptised at Shobrooke in Devon on 17 June 1567. He was the third son of Philip Westcote (died 1601) of West Raddon in the parish of Shobrooke, by his wife Katharine Waltham, a daughter of George Waltham of Brenton in the parish of Exminster, Devon. In his youth he was a soldier, traveller, and courtier, but in middle age he retired to a country life, probably living at West Raddon with his eldest brother, Robert. In 1624 he held a lease of Thorn Park in the parish of Holcombe Burnell.

paragraph: Westcote interested himself in local antiquities, encouraged by his friendships with fellow Devonshire historians Sir William Pole (1561–1635) and Tristram Risdon (1580–1640). He aimed at a description of Devon, following the model of the "Survey of Cornwall" by Richard Carew (1555–1620) published in 1602. He was encouraged in his project by Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath, of Tawstock Court, and compiled two collections: "A View of Devonshire", in which, after a general discussion on the history of the county, he gave a topographical account of its condition in about 1630; and the "Pedigrees of most of our Devonshire Families", a compilation of genealogical information, deemed by later commentators as inaccurate and unreliable. The two works were published in Exeter in 1845, under the editorship of George Oliver and Pitman Jones.

paragraph: He married Mary Roberts (died 1666), eldest daughter and coheiress of Richard Roberts of Combe Martin, Devon. By her he had one son and heir, Philip Westcott (1614-1647/8), and five daughters.

paragraph: Westcote was buried at Shobrooke, the date of his death being uncertain, as the register of burials between May 1639 and July 1644 is missing.

paragraph: Section::::References.

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paragraph: Demetrius I of Bactria

paragraph: Demetrius I (Greek: ), also called Dharmamita, was a Hellenistic (Yona in Pali language, "Yavana" in Sanskrit) king (reigned c. 200–180 BC) of Gandhara. He was the son of the Greco-Bactrian ruler Euthydemus I and succeeded him around 200 BC, after which he conquered extensive areas in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan.

paragraph: He was never defeated in battle and was posthumously qualified as the Invincible ("Aniketos") on the pedigree coins of his successor Agathocles. Demetrius I may have been the initiator of the Yavana era, starting in 186–185 BC, which was used for several centuries thereafter.

paragraph: "Demetrius" was the name of at least two and probably three Greek kings of Bactria. The much debated Demetrius II was a possible relative, whereas Demetrius III (), is known only from numismatic evidence.

paragraph: The father of Demetrius, Euthydemus, was attacked by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III around 210 BC. Although he commanded 10,000 horsemen, Euthydemus initially lost a battle on the Arius and had to retreat. He then successfully resisted a three-year siege in the fortified city of Bactra, before Antiochus finally decided to recognize the new ruler.

paragraph: The final negotiations were made between Antiochus III and Demetrius. Antiochus III was reportedly highly impressed by the demeanour of the young prince, and offered him one of his daughters in marriage, around 206 BC:

paragraph: The term used for "young prince" is "neaniskos" (νεανίσκος), suggesting an age around 16, which in turn gives a birth date for Demetrius around 222 BC.

paragraph: Section::::Encounter with Antiochus III.:Kuliab inscription.

paragraph: In an inscription found in the Kuliab area of Tadjikistan, in western Greco-Bactria, and dated to 200-195 BC, a Greek by the name of Heliodotos, dedicating a fire altar to Hestia, mentions Euthydemus as the greatest of all kings, and his son as "Demetrios Kalinikos" "Demetrius the Glorious Conqueror":

paragraph: Section::::Invasion of India.

paragraph: Demetrius started the invasion of northwestern India in 180 BC, following the destruction of the Mauryan dynasty by the general Pushyamitra Shunga, who then founded the new Indian Shunga dynasty (185–78 BC). The Mauryans had diplomatic alliances with the Greeks, and they may have been considered as allies by the Greco-Bactrians. The Greco-Bactrians may also have invaded India in order to protect Greek populations in the subcontinent.

paragraph: Demetrius may have first started to recover the province of Arachosia, an area south of the Hindu Kush already inhabited by many Greeks but ruled by the Mauryas since the annexation of the territory by Chandragupta from Seleucus. In his "Parthian stations", Isidorus of Charax mentions a colony named Demetrias, supposedly founded by Demetrius himself:

paragraph: A Greek dedication inscribed on stone and discovered in Kuliab, a hundred kilometers northeast of Ai-Khanoum, also mentioned the victories of the prince Demetrius during the reign of his father:

paragraph: The Greek campaigns may have gone as far as the capital Pataliputra in eastern India (today Patna):

paragraph: It is generally considered that Demetrius ruled in Taxila (where many of his coins were found in the archaeological site of Sirkap).

paragraph: The Indian records also describes Greek attacks on Saketa, Panchala, Mathura and Pataliputra (Gargi-Samhita, Yuga Purana chapter). However, the campaigns to Pataliputra are generally attested to the later king Menander I and Demetrius I probably only invaded areas in Pakistan. Other kings may have expanded the territory as well. By c. 175 BC, the Indo-Greeks ruled parts of northwestern India, while the Shungas remained in the Gangetic, Central, and Eastern India.

paragraph: The Hathigumpha inscription of the Kalinga king Kharavela mentions that fearing him, a Yavana (Greek) king or general retreated to Mathura with his demoralized army. The name of the Yavana king is not clear, but it contains three letters, and the middle letter can be read as "ma" or "mi". Some historians, such as R. D. Banerji and K.P. Jayaswal reconstructed the name of the Yavana king as "Dimita", and identified him with Demetrius. However, several other historians, such as Ramaprasad Chanda, Sailendra Nath Sen and P.L. Gupta disagree with this interpretation.

paragraph: Section::::Invasion of India.:Indian coinage in Gandhara (after 185 BC).

paragraph: The year 185 BC, with the invasion of the Greco-Bactrians into India, marks an evolution in the design of single-die cast coins in the coinage of Gandhara, as deities and realistic animals were introduced. At the same time coinage technology also evolved, as double-die coins (engraved on both sides, obverse and reverse) started to appear. The archaeological excavations of coins have shown that these coins, as well as the new double die coins, were contemporary with those of the Indo-Greeks. According to Osmund Bopearachchi these coins, and particularly those depicting the goddess Lakshmi, were probably minted by Demetrius I following his invasion of Gandhara.

paragraph: Section::::Aftermath.

paragraph: Demetrius I died of unknown reasons, and the date 180 BC is merely a suggestion aimed to allow suitable regnal periods for subsequent kings, of which there were several. Even if some of them were co-regents, civil wars and temporary divisions of the empire are most likely.

paragraph: The kings Pantaleon, Antimachus, Agathocles and possibly Euthydemus II ruled after Demetrius I, and theories about their origin include all of them being relatives of Demetrius I, or only Antimachus. Eventually, the kingdom of Bactria fell to the able newcomer Eucratides.

paragraph: Demetrius II was a later king, possibly a son or nephew of his namesake, and he ruled in India only. Justin mentions him being defeated by the Bactrian king Eucratides, an event which took place at the end of the latter's reign, possibly around 150 BC.

paragraph: Demetrius II left behind his generals Apollodotus and Menander, who in turn became kings of India and rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom following his death.

paragraph: According to Ptolemy, a Demetriapolis was founded in Arachosia.

paragraph: Demetrius is a legend as well as an enigma. He was mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer ("D, lord of Ind").

paragraph: Section::::Demetrius and Buddhism.

paragraph: Buddhism flourished under the Indo-Greek kings, and it has been suggested by W. W. Tarn that their invasion of India was intended to show their support for the Mauryan empire in reaction to the persecution by the Sungas against Buddhism. However, that persecution in turn is debatable, with contemporary historians such as Romila Thapar suggesting that some of the accounts might be the product of exaggeration from Buddhist missionaries. Thapar attributes purely economic motivations to the Indo-Greek invasion of Southern Asia.

paragraph: Section::::Demetrius and Buddhism.:Coinage and connection with Buddhism.

paragraph: The coins of Demetrius are of five types. One bilingual type with Greek and Kharoshthi legends exists; it is naturally associated with the Indian Demetrius II. A series with the king in diadem are likely to be early issues of Demetrius I.

paragraph: There is also one series representing a Gorgon shield on the obverse and a trident on the reverse.

paragraph: More interesting are the "elephant" coins: The first type shows Demetrius (I) with elephant-crown, a well-known symbol of India, which simply denotes his conquests in India, as Alexander the Great had also done on his coinage before.

paragraph: Section::::Demetrius and Buddhism.:Elephant with Nike.

paragraph: One type represents an elephant with Nike on the other side holding a wreath of victory. This sort of symbolism can be seen on the reverse of the coins of Antialcidas in which Nike (supported by Zeus) directly hands the victory wreath to the elephant on the same coin face.

paragraph: Section::::Demetrius and Buddhism.:Elephant with the caduceus.

paragraph: The other "elephant" type of Demetrius I represents a rejoicing elephant, depicted on the front on the coin and surrounded by the royal bead-and-reel decoration, and therefore treated on the same level as a King. The elephant, one of the symbols of Buddhism and the Gautama Buddha, possibly represents the victory of Buddhism brought about by Demetrius. Alternatively, though, the elephant has been described as a possible symbol of the Indian capital of Taxila (Tarn), or as a symbol of India as a whole.

paragraph: The reverse of the coin depicts the caduceus, symbol of reconciliation between two fighting serpents, which is possibly a representation of peace between the Greeks and the Shungas, and likewise between Buddhism and Hinduism (the caduceus also appears as a symbol of the punch-marked coins of the Maurya Empire in India, in the 3rd-2nd century BC).

paragraph: Unambiguous Buddhist symbols are found on later Greek coins of Menander I or Menander II, but the conquests of Demetrius I did influence the Buddhist religion in India.

paragraph: Section::::Demetrius and Buddhism.:Greco-Buddhist art.

paragraph: There are several parallels between Demetrius and the first representations of the Greek Buddha in human form.

paragraph: Also in another parallel, the characteristic protector deity of Demetrius (Herakles standing with his club over his arm, as seen on the reverse of his coins), was represented in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara as the protector deity of the Buddha.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

paragraph: BULLET::::- Seleucid Empire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Greco-Buddhism

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indo-Scythians

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indo-Parthian Kingdom

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kushan Empire

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Coins of Demetrius

paragraph: BULLET::::- More coins of Demetrius

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catalogue of coins of Demetrius

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paragraph: Tim Pickett

paragraph: Timothy Lenard Pickett (born April 18, 1981) is an American professional basketball player. He played collegiately at Florida State University, and was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2004 NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets.

paragraph: On February 2006 he signed for Coopsette Rimini in the Italian second league, LegADue.

paragraph: After five games he was suspended for doping (cannabis), but on September 2006 returned to Rimini after the disqualification.

paragraph: For the 2007/08 season, he was signed with LegADue team Andrea Costa Imola.

paragraph: Following that Pickett has also played for PBC Lukoil Academic from Bulgaria, Shaanxi Gaitianli Kylins from China and Capitanes de Arecibo from Puerto Rico.

paragraph: On September 14, 2010, Pickett signed with Ironi Ashkelon from Israel.

paragraph: On July 2011, he was signed by the Meralco Bolts. However, he was only able to play a couple of games because of an injury at the 2nd quarter of their game against Talk 'N Text.

paragraph: On January 6, 2012 Picket signed with the Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association, replacing Patrick Mills on the roster. He scored 35 points in his first game with Xinjiang.

paragraph: He has signed with the Hacettepe Üniversitesi B.K. of the Turkish Basketball Association for 2013-2014 season. He scored 11 points(3/9 FG, 1/5 3PT, 2/2 FT) in his first game with Hacettepe. However, he was released by Hacettepe after the first game.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Pickett was arrested in June, 2014 for soliciting a prostitute in Daytona Beach, Florida.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Player profile

description: American basketball player

wikidata_label: Tim Pickett

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paragraph: Jack Burdock

paragraph: John Joseph Burdock (April 1852 – November 27, 1931), nicknamed "Black Jack", was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for several teams over a 20-year playing career. Burdock was known as a skilled fielder, and he recorded the first known out on a major-league hidden ball trick. He was player-manager for the 1883 Boston Beaneaters when they won a league pennant.

paragraph: By the late 1880s, Burdock struggled with injuries and alcoholism, and he was released by Boston during the 1888 season. He was signed by the Brooklyn Bridegrooms for the rest of that year, was out of baseball for the next two seasons, and retired after playing part of the 1891 season with Brooklyn.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Burdock made his professional debut in 1872 with the Brooklyn Atlantics at age 20. He played catcher for the struggling team during its first two seasons in the National Association. He was converted to second base in 1874 with the New York Mutuals, and then spent three years with the Hartford Dark Blues. The Dark Blues joined the National League in 1876, and Burdock stayed with the team through 1877. He signed with the Boston Red Caps the next year.

paragraph: Section::::Boston Red Caps.

paragraph: By the time that Burdock arrived in Boston in 1878, he had become one of the game's premier second basemen. He led NL second basemen in putouts each year between 1876 and 1880, and by 1884, he had led his position in fielding percentage several times. An 1881 horse car accident had nearly derailed Burdock's career; he was rendered unconscious and local newspaper coverage indicated that he was taken home in critical condition. Despite dire predictions, Burdock recovered quickly from the head injury and did not miss significant playing time.

paragraph: Burdock did not hit particularly well, but he stood out offensively in 1883, surging to 88 runs batted in; he did not drive in half that many runs in any other major-league season. That same year, Burdock succeeded first baseman John Morrill as the team's manager. After the team started the season 30-24, the managerial job went back to Morrill and Burdock devoted his full attention to second base. The team captured the National League pennant.

paragraph: Burdock held an unusually close association with baseball's hidden ball trick. In May 1876, Burdock executed what is thought to be the first hidden ball trick in the major leagues, and in August of the same year, he recorded another out with the trick. In the ninth inning of a close game in 1881, Burdock hit a double but was tagged out on a hidden ball trick. As of 2015, he was one of nine MLB players to have been a "victim" and a "perpetrator" of such a play.

paragraph: Section::::After Boston.

paragraph: In the latter part of his career, Burdock suffered injuries and he developed a drinking problem. Because of his intemperance, Boston released him in the middle of the 1888 season. At the time of Burdock's release, baseball teams were phasing out left-handed second basemen, and the Brooklyn Bridegrooms were seeking to replace Bill McClellan. Brooklyn team president Charlie Byrne acknowledged Burdock's damaged reputation, but he agreed to give Burdock a chance with the team. Shortly after Burdock was signed, he faced criminal charges for kissing a woman while he was intoxicated, but he was acquitted at trial.

paragraph: Burdock was out of the major leagues in 1889 and 1890. He retired at age 39 after coming back to play for the Grooms in 1891.

paragraph: Burdock died in Brooklyn at age 79, and he was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball player–managers

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Retrosheet

description: American baseball player, manager

wikidata_label: Jack Burdock

wikipedia_title: Jack Burdock


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paragraph: Edward Thomas Noonan

paragraph: Edward Thomas Noonan (October 23, 1861 - December 19, 1923) was an attorney and politician from Chicago, Illinois. He served in the Illinois Senate and was a member of the United States House of Representatives.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Noonan was born in Macomb, Illinois on October 23, 1861, and raised in Quincy and Chicago. He was educated in Quincy and Chicago, and studied law with Chicago attorney and judge Van H. Higgins. He attended law school at the University of Michigan while studying with Higgins, attained admission to the bar in 1882, and received his LL.B. degree in 1883.

paragraph: In addition to practicing law, Noonan was active in Chicago politics as a Democrat. From 1890 to 1894, he was a member of the Illinois Senate, and from 1893 to 1897 he served on the military staff of Governor John Peter Altgeld with the rank of colonel. Noonan was counsel for the West Chicago Park Commission from 1893 to 1898, and as an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1894 and 1896.

paragraph: Noonan was elected to the U.S. House in 1898, and served in the 56th United States Congress (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901). Noonan was not a candidate for reelection in 1900 and resumed the practice of law in Chicago.

paragraph: Section::::Death and burial.

paragraph: Noonan died in Chicago on December 19, 1923. He was buried at St. Paul's Catholic Cemetery in Macomb.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Noonan and his wife Lillian were the parents of two sons, Laurence (b. 1907) and Cato (b. 1916).

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Edward Thomas Noonan

wikipedia_title: Edward Thomas Noonan


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paragraph: Lawrence Washington (1602–1652)

paragraph: Rev. Lawrence Washington (1602 – 21 January 1652) was an English rector. He was the great-great-grandfather of George Washington.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Washington was born in 1602. He was the fifth son of Lawrence Washington (1565–1616) of Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, son and heir of Robert Washington (1544–1619) esquire, of Sulgrave by his first wife Elizabeth Lyte, daughter and heiress of Walter Lyte of Radway, Warwickshire. His mother was Margaret Butler (d. 16 March 1651), the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Butler, esquire, of Tyes Hall in Cuckfield, Sussex, and Margaret Greeke, the daughter of Thomas Greeke, gentleman, of Palsters, Lancashire.

paragraph: Lawrence Washington had seven brothers, Robert, Sir John, Sir William, Richard, Thomas, Gregory and George, and nine sisters, Elizabeth, Joan, Margaret, Alice, Frances, Amy, Lucy, Barbara and Jane. His elder brother, Sir William Washington, married Anne Villiers, half sister of James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

paragraph: Washington was the great-great grandson of John Washington (1478–1528) and Margaret Kitson, the sister of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Washington was admitted to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1619. He graduated in 1623 with a Bachelor of Arts, and within a few days was elected a Fellow of the College. In 1626 he was awarded a Master of Arts, and in 1627 appointed university lector.

paragraph: On 26 August 1632 the Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud made Washington proctor at Oxford. In alliance with King Charles I, the Supreme Head of the Church of England, Laud sought to rid the university of its Puritan clergy, and Washington was instrumental in carrying out the archbishop's purges. Washington's services to Laud earned him an appointment to the well-compensated rectory of Purleigh in Essex, a position he assumed in 1632. The appointment enabled Washington to marry Amphilis Twigden, a literate, wealthy young widow. Oxford dons were forbidden from marrying, and Washington had risked his post at the university by courting her.

paragraph: During the Civil War more than one hundred priests of the Church of England referred to "as scandalous, malignant priests" were deprived of their livings for alleged treason or immorality by order of the Puritan Parliament. In 1643 Washington was censored on trumped-up charges of being "a common frequenter of ale-houses" who "[encouraged] others in that beastly vice" and lost his benefice.

paragraph: Following his ejection from Purleigh, Washington became rector of the impoverished parish of Little Braxted in Essex. Neither Amphilis nor their children accompanied him there, as they were given shelter by the family of Sir Edwin Sandys, sympathetic relations whose patriarch had served as treasurer in the Virginia Company. Through the Sandys, Lawrence's son John secured an apprenticeship with a London merchant where he learned the tobacco trade.

paragraph: Washington died in poverty, leaving an estate of insufficient value to require the issuance of letters of administration and was buried in the churchyard of All Saints' Church in Maldon, Essex.

paragraph: Three of Washington's children emigrated to Virginia, as did another family member, Sir Samuel Argall, whose widowed mother, Mary (d. 1598), had married Washington's uncle, Lawrence Washington (d. 1619) of Maidstone, Registrar of the Court of Chancery.

paragraph: In 1928 the Washington window, commemorating the Washington family, was given to All Saints' Church, Maldon, by the citizens of Malden, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and issue.

paragraph: In 1630 Washington met Amphilis Twigden on a visit to Pendley Manor in Tring, Hertfordshire. Amphilis, baptized 2 February 1602, was the daughter and co-heiress of John Twigden of Little Creaton, Northamptonshire, and Anne Dicken, daughter of William Dicken. Lawrence and Amphilis married in Tring in December 1633, and had three sons and three daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lt. Col. John Washington was born in 1633/4, shortly after his parents' marriage. He emigrated to Virginia in 1656. He married firstly, on 1 December 1656, Anne Pope (d.1668), the daughter of Nathaniel Pope, gentleman, of Virginia, by whom he had two sons, Lawrence (grandfather of George Washington) and John, and a daughter, Anne. He married secondly Anne Gerard, widow successively of Walter Broadhurst (d.1658), and Henry Brett. He married thirdly Frances Gerard, widow successively of Thomas Speak, Valentine Peyton and John Appleton. He left a will dated 21 September 1675, which was proved 11 January 1677. After his death, his widow, Frances, married William Hardwick.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lawrence Washington, who was baptized at Tring on 18 June 1635. He emigrated to Virginia before May 1659, but returned to England, becoming a merchant in Luton, Bedfordshire. He married firstly Mary Jones, daughter of Edmund Jones, gentleman, of Luton, by whom he had a son, Charles, and a daughter, Mary. He emigrated to Virginia a second time shortly before 27 September 1667. He married secondly, about 1669, Joyce Jones, widow successively of Anthony Hoskins and Alexander Fleming, and daughter of William Jones of Virginia, by whom he had a son, John, and a daughter, Anne. He left a will dated 27 September 1675, which was proved 6 June 1677. After his death his widow, Joyce, married James Yates.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Washington (baptised 14 October 1641).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth Washington (baptised 17 August 1636), who married a husband surnamed Rumbold.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Margaret Washington, who married George Talbot.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martha Washington, who emigrated to Virginia in 1678. She married Samuel Hayward of Virginia, son of the London merchant Nicholas Hayward. There were no issue of the marriage. She left a will dated 6 May 1697, which was proved 8 December 1697.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ancestry of George Washington

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. "George Washington, A Biographical Compendium" Santa Barbara California, ABC-CLIO, 2002, details the portrait of Lawrence Washington with the contemporary phrasing of the charge laid against him and that led to his removal from Purleigh:

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. V. Wedgwood, "The King's Peace 1637–1641" London and Glasgow, Collins Fontana, 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. V. Wedgwood, "The King's War 1641–1647" London and Glasgow, Collins Fontana, 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christopher Hill, "The Century of Revolution 1603–1714" London and New York, Routledge Classics, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- A. L. Rowse, "The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society" London, Penguin Classic History, 2000

paragraph: BULLET::::- A. L. Rowse, "Ralegh and the Throckmortons" (1962) The Reprint Society, London, 1964 (index s.v. Sulgrave, Washington)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wallace Notestein, "The English People on the Eve of Colonization 1603–1630" New York, Harper&Brothers, 1954 in: The New American Nation Series (Steele Commager and Morris ed.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Blair Worden ed., "Stuart England" Oxford, Phaedon 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- Helen Gardner, (introduction, edition) "The Metaphysical Poets" Penguin Books, 1972 (biographical notes pp. 306–323)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Morley, "Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century" London, George Routledge and Sons, 1891 in: The Carisbrooke Library. XIV

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hugh Ross Williamson, "George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham: Study for a Biography" London, Duckworth 1940

paragraph: BULLET::::- Glyn Redworth, "The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match" New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2003 (index s.v. Washington)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Brazen Nose" [the college's magazine], volume 41 (2006–7), page 110, for the story of the unpaid debt left by Lawrence.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Washingtons of Tring" by Murray Neil (Tring, 2013, ) includes information on the time Ahphyllis and her children lived in this small Hertfordshire Town.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Will of Lawrence Washington, Register of His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, proved 10 January 1620, PROB 11/135/14, National Archives Retrieved 30 August 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sources

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washington family, Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire Retrieved 15 July 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sulgrave/Virginia family tree

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lawrence Washington/Sandys connection

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour...

paragraph: BULLET::::- Virginia/Maryland 1649

paragraph: BULLET::::- Purleigh on the map

paragraph: BULLET::::- Little Braxted on the map

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sulgrave Manor Website

description: English rector, and the great-great-grandfather of George Washington

wikidata_label: Lawrence Washington

wikipedia_title: Lawrence Washington (1602–1652)


text:
Oda Masaharu
Oda Castle
Yūki
Satake
renga

paragraph: Oda Ujiharu

paragraph: Ujiharu was the son of Oda Masaharu and held the Oda Castle in Hitachi as a local power. When Ujiharu came to power following the year of 1548, Ujiharu was very hard pressed by the Yūki and Satake along with the state of his clan being in decline. Ujiharu was defeated by the Satake following the year of 1559 and in 1569 lost Oda Castle. He finally surrendered to the Satake following the year of 1583, having to give all of his family as hostages. After the year of 1590, Ujiharu was completely deprived of his remaining holdings. It is known that Ujiharu deeply loved renga.

description: Japanese warlord

wikidata_label: Oda Ujiharu

wikipedia_title: Oda Ujiharu


text:
Vietnam
Trịnh lords
Nguyễn lords
Lê Dynasty
Thăng Long
Hanoi
Vietnam
Trịnh Doanh
Tây Sơn
Nguyễn Phuc Thuan
Trịnh–Nguyễn War
Phú Xuân
Huế
Tonkin
Gia Long
Đặng Thị Huệ
Trịnh Khai
Thế Anh
Đêm hội Long Trì
Tay Son Rebelion - Chronology
Annam and it Minor Currency
List of Vietnamese monarchs
Lê Dynasty

paragraph: Trịnh Sâm

paragraph: Trịnh Sâm (鄭森, 9 February 1739 – 13 September 1782) ruled northern Vietnam from 1767 to 1782 AD. He ruled with the title "Tĩnh Đô Vương", and was one of the last of the powerful Trịnh lords. Trịnh Sâm defeated the ancient enemy of the northern state, the Nguyễn lords in the south. The Trịnh line was separate from the royal Lê Dynasty, and the officially recognized king was Lê Hiển Tông (1740–1786), who continued to occupy the royal throne in Thăng Long (modern-day Hanoi), but without real power.

paragraph: Section::::Early reign.

paragraph: Trịnh Sam was given rule over northern Vietnam by his father Trịnh Doanh in 1767. Five years after he took power, the Tây Sơn rebellion started in the south. During his lifetime, the Tây Sơn rebels focused all their efforts against the Nguyễn Lords, specifically against Nguyễn Phuc Thuan who had gained the throne as a young boy. As the Tây Sơn rebellion gained strength, the Trịnh saw the Nguyễn weakening month by month.

paragraph: Section::::Trịnh–Nguyễn War.

paragraph: Trịnh Sâm mobilized the Royal (Trịnh) army, and on November 15, 1774, it crossed the river into Nguyễn territory, re-igniting the Trịnh–Nguyễn War. With the Nguyễn army divided and weak, the Trịnh army captured Phú Xuân (modern-day Huế) in February 1775. The army continued south capturing more Nguyễn lands and defeating some of the forces of the Tây Sơn. In the summer of 1775, one of the leaders of the Tây Sơn, Nguyễn Nhac, made a formal alliance with Trịnh Sam against the Nguyễn. Trịnh Sam agreed and gave Nguyễn Nhac a formal title as well as "regalia". The Trịnh army then withdrew back to Tonkin, left a small army in Phú Xuân.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: For the remainder of Trịnh Sâm's life, the Trịnh allowed emperor Gia Long (Nguyễn Ánh), the last surviving member of the Nguyễn Lords, to make repeated attempts to re-take the south. The Tây Sơn brothers were too busy fighting with the Nguyễn loyalist rather than worry about the Trịnh in the north. In 1782 as Trịnh Sâm was dying, he tried to leave control over Vietnam to his son (from his favorite concubine, Đặng Thị Huệ), Trịnh Man, but his rightful heir, Trịnh Khai organized an army and fought against his half-brother. Although he was successful, this civil war fatally divided the Trịnh at a critical time when the Tây Sơn (under Nguyễn Huệ) were gaining control over the south.

paragraph: Section::::Modern depiction.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Thế Anh in the 1989 movie "Đêm hội Long Trì".

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Encyclopedia of Asian History", Volume 4. 1988. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tay Son Rebelion - Chronology

paragraph: BULLET::::- Annam and it Minor Currency Chapter 16 (downloaded May 2006)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Vietnamese monarchs

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lê Dynasty

description: Trinh lord

wikidata_label: Trinh Sam

wikipedia_title: Trịnh Sâm


text:
Guigang
Guangxi
Taiping Rebellion
poet
Hakka
Guigang
Guangxi
Feng Yunshan
Hong Xiuquan
Kingdom of Heavenly Peace
Jintian, Guangxi
Guangxi
Nanjing
Hukou
Jiangxi
Xiang marines
Zeng Guofan
Zeng Guofan
Yang Xiuqing
Wei Changhui
Tianjing Incident
Wei Changhui
Qing Dynasty
Sichuan
Jinsha River
Dadu
Chengdu
slow slicing
romantic
heroism
Qing dynasty
Republic of China
Hakka
Zhu De
People's Liberation Army

categories: People executed by the Qing dynasty,People executed by flaying,19th-century executions by China,Executed Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people,Military leaders of the Taiping Rebellion,1820 births,1863 deaths,Executed people from Guangxi,Hakka generals

paragraph: Shi Dakai

paragraph: Shi Dakai (1 March 1831 – 25 June 1863; ), born in Guigang, Guangxi, also known as Wing King () or phonetically translated as Yi-Wang, was one of the most highly acclaimed leaders in the Taiping Rebellion and a poet.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Shi Dakai was a Hakka from Guigang, Guangxi. He headed the family at a young age after being orphaned, and was known in the local community for his hospitality, martial skills and justice in handling local affairs. Shi had studied for the imperial examinations, but had failed in his attempts to pass them.

paragraph: Section::::Taiping Rebellion.

paragraph: In 1849, at the age of 16, Shi was sought out by Feng Yunshan and Hong Xiuquan, and joined them in the leadership of the rebellion. Quickly distinguished by his brilliant tactics, skilled training of the troops and fair administration of the public funds, Shi was made commander of his own army at the age of nineteen.

paragraph: In January 1851, Hong Xiuquan and the five key leaders of the rebellion (among whom Shi was the youngest) formally established the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace in Jintian, Guangxi, with about twenty thousand followers. In May, the Taiping army moved into Guangxi, followed by the Qing army, who launched a fierce attack. At Renyi's watergate, Shi used stealth strategy to win a decisive victory with three hundred men against the enemies' five thousand. In August, after the Taiping conquered the city Yongan, Shi won wide admiration from the populace for his gentle rule and fair administration, people attracted by his reputation coming to join the rebellion in flocks. In October, Hong Xiuquan made the twenty-year-old Shi E-Wang, "Lord of the Holy Lighting". Shi later spearheaded the series of battles that won the city Nanjing for the Taiping, where they established their capital, to be known as Tianjing, or Heavenly Capital (天京). Now legendary and avowed among the Qing army, Shi was also the only Taiping commander who fought through those battles without a single defeat. Both friend and foe noted his kindness in treating civilians, and folk songs that commemorated his victories became popular in the lands the Taiping moved through.

paragraph: While he did notable work fortifying the capital Tianjing, Shi's most famous political accomplishment was his reform of Anqing (安庆易制). In 1854, Shi arrived in Anqing and undertook military and civil affairs. He created compassionate decrees that encouraged agriculture, lightened taxes and stimulated commerce, and insinuated local talent to create an efficient and honest bureaucracy. He restored the badly neglected public security by encouraging civilians to report the misbehaviours of soldiers and handing out fair punishments. In a few months of Shi's administration Anqing became one of the most loyal and well-managed cities of Taiping, as well as one of the best fortified.

paragraph: Shi's battle of Hukou, Jiangxi, in 1855, was the most dramatic of Taiping's military victories. The Xiang marines (湘军水师), led by Zeng Guofan, was considered the elite of Qing forces. Shi arrived on the battlefield in December, receiving command after Taiping had already suffered serious losses. Shi planned the battle meticulously, laying out airtight defenses and using small boats to continuously harass the enemy camps, then trapping the Qing's ships with secretly built dams and chopping the Xiang forces in half. Shi led a series of swift offenses securing decisive victories for Taiping, driving the Qing commander Zeng Guofan to attempt suicide，and later calling Shi "the most cunning and strong amongst the Taiping."

paragraph: Shi's personal life is the most austere of all Taiping leaders. His dwelling was the most modest and he was the only one who refused to tear down civilian homes in its construction. While the Taiping Kingdom's custom required leaders to have multiple wives, Shi was content with his wife Huang and repeatedly declined the beauties offered to him. The only additional wives he took were those commanded upon him by his superiors. These women and the female officers had the freedom of riding in and out of his dwelling, a liberty unheard of in the house of other Kings. In his youth, Shi's original wife Xiong left him when he decided to join the rebellion, carrying their unborn son with her. The child was born into Xiong's second marriage and later claimed back by Shi's aunt. He was Shi's only surviving issue.

paragraph: In 1856, civil war broke out between the East King Yang Xiuqing and the North King Wei Changhui murdering tens of thousands, known as the Tianjing Incident. Hearing of the massacre, Shi returned to Tianjing attempting to mediate, but instead was forced to flee the city, and his entire family were murdered by Wei Changhui. Shi escaped to Anqing and summoned forces against the half-insane Wei Changhui, but upon learning that Qing armies threatened Huannan, he decided to put the Kingdom first and moved the forces to help the defense. This move won him further acclaim. In November, Hong Xiuquan ordered Wei Changhui's execution and requested that Shi return to Tianjing and take over the administration, whereupon he obeyed. He restored order to the city and rebuilt Taiping's broken morale, and the public support for Shi caused Hong Xiuquan to harbor deeper suspicion against him. Hong then handed power to his two brothers and gradually undermined Shi's administration, to the point where Shi realized that he must either leave or risk the eruption of another civil war

paragraph: While Shi left Tianjing, he was not separated from the Taiping command, for he still maintained communication with Hong Xiuquan and sent his forces to assist various Taiping commanders on other battle fronts. He did not completely give up hopes to return until Hong Xiuquan replaced his authority of command, upon which he began the expedition away from Tianjing. Over the course of the expedition, soldiers from various sources came to join Shi. He fought for six years throughout central China against the much larger armies of the Qing Dynasty. To this day, many legends about him are still told affectionately in the provinces that his army travelled through. As they were further and further from Tianjing, some of Shi's officers tried to persuade him to shed the name of Taiping and establish his own rule, which he repeatedly refused. Eventually some of the troops split from him and headed back toward Tianjing.

paragraph: During the course of the expedition, Shi's troops weaved in and out of the geographically harsh Sichuan province. In December 1862, Shi's army crossed the Jinsha River (River of the Golden Sand) under heavy fire from the Qing, using a diversion to mislead the enemy. They set up plans to cross over the banks of the Dadu in order to reach their destination Chengdu. One of Shi's officers led a branch of the army across the river without difficulty, but by the time Shi and his main army arrived, a furious flood suddenly made the river impossible to cross. Several attempts were made with heavy losses, and the army was running out of rations. The Qing army followed a few days behind. On 13 June, Shi Dakai negotiated with the Qing to spare his men's lives if he turned himself in. He entered Qing camps with three followers, dressed in formal Taiping uniform, and spoke to the Qing fearlessly. He was questioned and imprisoned, and on the 25th he was executed by slow slicing in the Anshun Court. His enemies recorded that through the entire torturous execution Shi did not flinch, and never once cried out in pain. He was 32 years old. After his death, 4,000 men among Shi's troops were released, and the remaining 2,000 were executed. Many of Shi's former troops continued to battle the Qing, most notably the forces led by Lai Yuxin and Li Fuyou.

paragraph: While Shi Dakai was an accomplished poet, only three of his authentic works survive, along with two more probables. After his death, many romantic poems of the heroism style were written in his name, borrowing his prestige to encourage more and more Chinese people to overthrow the Qing dynasty, something that eventually led to the creation of the Republic of China in 1912.

paragraph: Shi's heroics as an outstanding general were later to inspire his fellow Hakka clansman Zhu De, who founded the Red Army, later known as the People's Liberation Army.

description: Highly acclaimed leaders in the Taiping Rebellion and a poet

wikidata_label: Shi Dakai

wikipedia_title: Shi Dakai


text: Canada's Parliament

text: Toronto Leader

text: Killeshandra

text: County Cavan

text: Ireland

text: 1st Canadian Parliament

text: Conservative Party

text: 2nd Canadian Parliament

text: Disciples of Christ

text: Toronto Leader

text: George Brown

text: Globe

text: James Beaty (1831-1899)

text: Parkdale

categories: People from County Cavan,Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario,Immigrants to Upper Canada,1798 births,Canadian people of Ulster-Scottish descent,1892 deaths,Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario,Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs,Canadian Disciples of Christ

paragraph: James Beaty Sr.

paragraph: James Beaty (October 2, 1798 – March 5, 1892) was a Member of Canada's Parliament from 1867 to 1874, and published the "Toronto Leader" newspaper.

paragraph: Beaty was born in Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland, emigrating to Canada in 1818. He married Sarah Ann Armstrong (1799–1829) on 26 December 1822. He never remarried after her death.

paragraph: He was elected to the 1st Canadian Parliament on 20 September 1867 under the Conservative Party. He was re-elected in 1872 for the 2nd Canadian Parliament, his final term in federal politics.

paragraph: A member of the Disciples of Christ Christian denomination, he was active in establishing new congregations.

paragraph: In 1852, Beaty established the "Toronto Leader" newspaper. He would also be active in other businesses.

paragraph: Beatty positioned himself as a champion of unions, when the typographers of Toronto went on strike in 1872. This put him in direct opposition to George Brown and the Globe Newspaper.

paragraph: He was sometimes referred to as James Beaty, Sen. (senior). A nephew of the same name, James Beaty (1831-1899), would also serve as a Member of Parliament from 1880 to 1887.

paragraph: Beaty died in Toronto (Parkdale). His funeral was conducted at his residence on Fuller Street.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Island Register: "The Descendants of Robert Beaty and Catherine Crawford"

description: Canadian politician

wikidata_label: James Beaty, Sr.

wikipedia_title: James Beaty Sr.


text:
Malatesta family
condottiero
Verucchio
Guelphs
Romagna
podestà
Rimini
Ghibelline
Parcitati
Montagna
Giovanni Malatesta
Dante's
Inferno
Francesca da Polenta
Malatestino

categories: 1212 births,Condottieri,House of Malatesta,1312 deaths,People from the Province of Rimini

paragraph: Malatesta da Verucchio

paragraph: Malatesta (I) da Verucchio (1212–1312) was the founder of the powerful Italian Malatesta family and a famous "condottiero." He was born in Verucchio. He was the son of Malatesta (I) della Penna (1183-1248).

paragraph: He was originally the leader of the Guelphs in Romagna and became "podestà" (chief magistrate) of Rimini in 1239. In 1295, he made himself complete master of Rimini by killing the chief members of the rival Ghibelline family, the Parcitati, including their leader Montagna.

paragraph: His eldest son was Giovanni Malatesta, famous for the 1285 tragedy, recorded in Dante's "Inferno", in which he killed his wife Francesca da Polenta and his younger brother Paolo, having discovered them in adultery.

paragraph: He was succeeded as seignior of Rimini by his other son Malatestino.

description: Italian condottieri

wikidata_label: Malatesta da Verucchio

wikipedia_title: Malatesta da Verucchio


text:
Bonnard
Chagall
Cocteau
Derain
Matisse
Rouault
Suzanne Valadon
Kolno
Częstochowa
Paris
silent film
Berlin
Stage Door Canteen
pauper's grave
Thomas Mann
Jean Renoir
Garbo
Life Magazine
John Galliano

categories: 1895 births,1954 deaths,People from Kolno

paragraph: Maria Lani

paragraph: Maria Lani (Maria Jeleniewicz; 24 June 1895 – 1954) was an aspiring film actress and artists' model. In the late 1920s she was portrayed in paintings and sculpture by over fifty artists, including Bonnard, Chagall, Cocteau, Derain, Matisse, Rouault, and Suzanne Valadon.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Maria Lani was born in Kolno, Poland and grew up in Częstochowa also in Poland. She went to Paris in the Spring of 1928 and proclaimed herself to be a silent film star who had worked in Berlin. Together with her husband, Maximilian Abramowicz, and her brother, Alexander, the trio claimed to be working on a film which required multiple portraits as part of the plot. She befriended Jean Cocteau who enthusiastically endorsed the project and with his encouragement, fifty-nine artists made portraits of her.

paragraph: A limited edition book about Lani and the portraits was published in 1929 by Éditions des Quatre Chemins, Paris with essays by Cocteau, Mac Ramo, and Waldemar George. It included fifty-one plates of reproductions.

paragraph: The film never materialized, but the portraits were exhibited as a group in Europe and the United States, and Lani and Abramowicz kept them in their possession. In 1941 they moved to New York City, where she worked at the Stage Door Canteen, a recreational center for servicemen. They returned to Paris after the war where she died in 1954 and was buried in a pauper's grave.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the late 1930s, Thomas Mann coauthored a screen play that was inspired by Lani. "Jean Renoir agreed to direct, with Garbo to star."

paragraph: BULLET::::- The 3 December 1945 issue of Life Magazine reproduced fifteen of the portraits.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lani was an inspiration for fashion designer John Galliano's spring/summer collection in 2011 and he referenced the portraits in the outfits of the models.

description: European model

wikidata_label: Maria Lani

wikipedia_title: Maria Lani


text: baseball

text: catcher

text: Chicago Cubs

text: Major League Baseball

text: switch hitter

text: Atlanta Braves

text: 2013 Major League Baseball draft

text: Miami Dade College

text: Danville Braves

text: Rome Braves

text: Chicago Cubs

text: Emilio Bonifacio

text: James Russell

text: Kane County Cougars

text: Myrtle Beach Pelicans

text: Tennessee Smokies

text: Mesa Solar Sox

text: Arizona Fall League

text: Iowa Cubs

text: Class AAA

text: Pacific Coast League

text: 2017 Cubs

text: ERA

text: 2018 National League Wild Card Game

text: pinch hitter

text: Colorado Rockies

text: Willson Contreras

text: New York Mets

categories: Leones de Ponce players,Tennessee Smokies players,Major League Baseball catchers,People from Coamo, Puerto Rico,Miami Dade Sharks baseball players,Chicago Cubs players,Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico,Kane County Cougars players,Mesa Solar Sox players,Danville Braves players,1993 births,Living people,Myrtle Beach Pelicans players,Rome Braves players

paragraph: Víctor Caratini

paragraph: Víctor Manuel Caratini (born August 17, 1993) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at and , he throws right-handed and is a switch hitter.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Caratini was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the second round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft out of Miami Dade College. He made his professional debut that season with the Danville Braves. After primarily playing third base his first season, Caratini played mostly as a catcher in 2014. He started the season with the Rome Braves. On July 31, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs for Emilio Bonifacio and James Russell. The Cubs sent him to the Kane County Cougars, where he finished the season. Caratini spent the 2015 season with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans where he batted .257, with 4 home runs and 53 RBI's. He spent the 2016 season with the Tennessee Smokies, where be batted .291 with 6 homers and 47 RBI's. After the 2016 season, Caratini played for the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League and was added to the Cubs 40-man roster.

paragraph: Caratini began the 2017 season with the Iowa Cubs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. The Cubs promoted Caratini to the major leagues on June 28, 2017. He appeared in 31 games with the 2017 Cubs, batting .254 with one home run and two RBIs. In 2018, Caratini played in 76 MLB games, batting .232 with two home runs and 21 RBIs. He made two pitching appearances during the season, both in late July, pitching a total of two innings while allowing two runs for a 9.00 ERA. He also played in the 2018 National League Wild Card Game, grounding out as a pinch hitter, as the Cubs fell to the Colorado Rockies, 2–1 in 13 innings. Caratini began the 2019 season as one of the Cubs' two catchers, along with Willson Contreras. Caratini made another pitching appearance on June 22, pitching a scoreless ninth inning in a Cubs loss to the New York Mets.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico

alias:
Víctor Manuel Caratini
Víctor M. Caratini
Victor Caratini

description: Puerto Rican professional baseball player

wikidata_label: Víctor Caratini

wikipedia_title: Víctor Caratini


text: Edlingham

text: Northumberland

text: Durham Cathedral grammar school

text: Alnwick

text: King's Road

text: London

text: Gray's Inn

text: called to the bar

text: Queen's Counsel

text: mercantile

text: Mr Justice Blackburn

text: law lord

text: High Court

text: Queen's Bench Division

text: knight

text: "Regina v. Bishop of Oxford"

text: Wennhak v Morgan

text: "Adams v. Coleridge"

text: Bryanston Square

text: Kensal Green cemetery

text: Vanity Fair

text: Berwick-on-Tweed

categories: Queen's Counsel 1801–1900,English Queen's Counsel,Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery,English barristers,Knights Bachelor,1808 births,English judges,English solicitors,1890 deaths

paragraph: Henry Manisty

paragraph: Sir Henry Manisty (13 December 1808 – 31 January 1890) was an English barrister and judge.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Manisty was born at Vicarage House, Edlingham, Northumberland, the second son of James Manisty, BD, vicar of Edlingham, and his wife Eleanor, only daughter of Francis Foster of Seaton Barn Hall, Northumberland. He was educated at Durham Cathedral grammar school, and was articled when still young in the offices of Thorpe & Dickson, attorneys, of Alnwick, Northumberland.

paragraph: Manisty was admitted a solicitor in 1830, and practised for twelve years as a member of the firm of Meggison, Pringle, & Manisty, of 3 King's Road, London. On 20 April 1842 he became a student of Gray's Inn, and he was called to the bar on 23 April 1845. He became a bencher there in 1859, and treasurer in 1861.

paragraph: Joining the Northern circuit, Manisty built a large practice, and was made Queen's Counsel on 7 July 1857; he appeared mainly in mercantile and circuit cases. In 1876, when Mr Justice Blackburn was made a law lord, Manisty was appointed to the High Court (Queen's Bench Division) at the unusually advanced age of 67, and was knighted. Among his decisions were judgments in "Regina v. Bishop of Oxford" (1879), "Belt v. Lawes" (1881), "Wennhak v Morgan" (1888), "Adams v. Coleridge" (1891), and "O'Brien v. Lord Salisbury" (1889).

paragraph: Manisty had a stroke in court on 24 January 1890, and died on 31 January at his home 24a Bryanston Square, London, He was buried on 5 February at Kensal Green cemetery.

paragraph: "Vanity Fair" described him as ""a rather peevish, old-fashioned, careful Judge, who takes laborious notes of his cases; consequently he is slow; but he seldom speaks, and when he does so he generally speaks to the point."

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: In August 1831 Manisty married Constantia, fifth daughter of Patrick Dickson, solicitor of Berwick-on-Tweed; she died on 9 August 1836. In May 1838 he remarried Mary Ann, third daughter of Robert Stevenson, surgeon, of Berwick-on-Tweed, with whom he had four sons and three daughters. His fourth son, Herbert Francis Manisty, was Attorney-General of the County Palatine of Durham from 1915 to 1939.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: Attribution

description: English barrister and judge

wikidata_label: Henry Manisty

wikipedia_title: Henry Manisty


text:
Far East prisoners of war
Thailand-Burma Railway
East Maitland
Second Australian Imperial Force
Colonel Ernest "Weary" Dunlop
Banpong
Tarsau
Philip Toosey
POW
Ashley George Old
Jack Bridger Chalker
Philip Meninsky
State Library of Victoria
Australian War Memorial
The State Library of New South Wales
MLMSS 4234

categories: South-East Asian theatre of World War II,World War II prisoners of war held by Japan,People from New South Wales,Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps,1973 deaths,1902 births,Japanese war crimes,Australian prisoners of war

paragraph: Arthur Moon

paragraph: Major Arthur Moon (17 May 1902 – 28 October 1973) was an Australian army doctor who saved the lives of dozens of Far East prisoners of war as the Thailand-Burma Railway was being constructed during World War II.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Moon was born on 17 May 1902 at East Maitland, New South Wales. By his early twenties he had embarked on a medical career as a gynecologist and obstetrician.

paragraph: Section::::Military service.

paragraph: Moon enlisted in the Second Australian Imperial Force in 1940. Initially, he was a member of 2/4 Field Ambulance, which was in the Middle East and deployed into Syria. There he transferred to the 2/2 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS). In February 1942, Moon along with Colonel Ernest "Weary" Dunlop sailed from Suez and landed in Java to honour a British undertaking to assist the Dutch in the defence of Java. However, on 6 March the Dutch capitulated and the Australians, known as “Black” Force, became prisoners of war.

paragraph: A General Hospital was established at with 23 officers including Arthur Moon as a Medical Officer. In January 1943 a party of around 900 POWs, known as “Dunlop” Force was assembled to move to Thailand under the command of "Wearly" Dunlop.

paragraph: The force arrived at Banpong in Thailand on 24 January and was trucked to Tarsau. From Tarsau the Force moved on foot approx 25 km to their first work area at Konyu where they arrived with 875 POWs.

paragraph: Moon moved to Hintok Mountain Camp early April and was then sent to Tamakan to take up the post of Senior Medical Officer. He took up the post on 1 May 1943 where he took charge of a camp that was not a proper hospital as it remained essentially unchanged from when the bamboo huts served as the quarters for POW workers that preceded them. Here Moon worked under a British Territorial Officer Lt Col Philip Toosey who was well-ordered and disciplined which helped with hygiene and the organisation of Moon’s medical staff, mainly made up of enlisted soldiers.

paragraph: On 3 May the first party of sick men arrived by barge at Tamarkan and after this, about 100 a day came. Many were delivered at night and left in the rice fields where parties had to be sent out to find them.

paragraph: Moon was also at Chungkai and Tamuang at various times.

paragraph: Section::::Record of conditions and atrocities.

paragraph: Moon is credited with causing one of the most comprehensive records of wartime Far East POW camp conditions and atrocities to come into being. He enlisted four prisoners with artistic skill, Ashley George Old, Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Keith Neighbour, to create paintings of the camps, prisoners and injuries. The artists undertook this work in circumstances of extreme difficulty and danger.

paragraph: Many of these paintings were buried in the ground at Moon's final camp, then recovered after the war and archived by the State Library of Victoria.

paragraph: In 1995 an exhibition of the works was held under the title 'The Major Arthur Moon Collection'. The collection catalogue cover shows a painting of a beckoning hand titled 'Bomb wound (air attack)' by Old and is compared in the narrative to Picasso's Guernica as a truly extraordinary image of war.

paragraph: The Australian War Memorial holds photographs of Moon operating in the camps.

paragraph: Arthur Moon Papers, Letters, and Medical Reports, including the diagrams and maps of burial sites of soldiers at the Tamarkan POW camp are held by The State Library of New South Wales, MLMSS 4234.

description: Australian army doctor

wikidata_label: Arthur Moon

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text: Padua

text: Venice

text: Baldassare Longhèna

text: San Moisè

text: Moses

text: Heinrich Meyring

text: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

text: grotesque

text: John Ruskin

text: Palazzo Flangini Fini

text: Venetian Arsenal

text: St. Mark's Square

text: Andrea Cominelli

text: Palazzo Labia

paragraph: Alessandro Tremignon

paragraph: Alessandro Tremignón (or Tremignàn, Tremiglióne; 1635–1711) was an Italian architect from Padua.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Tremignon was active in Venice.

paragraph: He was influenced by Baldassare Longhèna.

paragraph: Tremignon adapted the High Baroque structural style of Longhena into a typically Late Baroque style with pictorial effects exemplified by the facade of the San Moisè church.

paragraph: His most famous work is the facade of the San Moisè with its exuberant sculptural decorations.

paragraph: The name of the church of San Moisè (Saint Moses) treats the old-Testament figure of Moses as a saint in the Byzantine manner.

paragraph: It also honors Moisè Venier, who paid for restoration of the church in the tenth century.

paragraph: The facade was designed by Tremignon and mostly sculpted by Heinrich Meyring (Arrigo Meréngo), one of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's pupils.

paragraph: It features grotesque carvings of camels above the main entrance.

paragraph: The main altarpiece, also the work of Tremignon and Meyring, represents "Mount Sinai with Moses Receiving the Tablets".

paragraph: John Ruskin wrote of San Moisè, "It is notable as one of the basest examples of the basest school of the Renaissance."

paragraph: The Palazzo Flangini Fini is attributed to Tremignon, and was built around 1688.

paragraph: Tremignon built the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal to the east of St. Mark's Square between 1692 and 1694.

paragraph: Around 1700 Tremignon and Andrea Cominelli were the architects of the Palazzo Labia.

paragraph: Tremignon also designed the high altar of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Chioggia), with engraved scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary and the two patron saints.

wikidata_label: Alessandro Tremignon

wikipedia_title: Alessandro Tremignon