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professional baseball
catcher
coach
Arizona Diamondbacks
1995
Florida Marlins
1997
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1998
Arizona Diamondbacks
batting
catcher
2003 Topps All-Star Rookie Roster
Chad Moeller
Rod Barajas
Matt Kata
Alex Cintrón
Brandon Webb
1
doubles
Randy Johnson's perfect game
Tucson Sidewinders
Pacific Coast League
free agent
spring training
Colorado Rockies
player to be named later
Visalia Rawhide
Mobile BayBears
Tigres del Licey
Dominican Winter League

categories: Major League Baseball catchers,Arizona Diamondbacks coaches,Lethbridge Black Diamonds players,El Paso Diablos players,Gulf Coast Yankees players,Lancaster JetHawks players,Arizona Diamondbacks players,Georgia Perimeter Jaguars baseball players,South Bend Silver Hawks players,1977 births,Georgia Bulldogs baseball players,Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state),High Desert Mavericks players,Norfolk Tides players,Living people,Reno Aces players,Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees players

paragraph: Robby Hammock

paragraph: Robert Wade Hammock (born May 13, 1977) is an American professional baseball catcher and coach. He is currently the quality control and catching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Hammock was drafted three times: in 1995 by the Florida Marlins, in 1997 by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and in 1998 by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He played five seasons at various minor league levels from to . In 2003, he played in 65 games for the major league club, batting .282 and starting 28 games at catcher. His numbers were good enough to earn him a place on the 2003 Topps All-Star Rookie Roster. Robby was the third catcher behind Chad Moeller and Rod Barajas for Arizona in 2003.

paragraph: Along with Matt Kata, Alex Cintrón, Brandon Webb, and others, he was one of the "Baby Backs" who were called up when a surge of injuries hit Diamondbacks veteran players in 2003. The Baby Backs were popular and contributed to a winning season, but ultimately failed to make the playoffs.1

paragraph: In , Hammock made two brief minor league stops before rejoining the Diamondbacks. He played in 62 games, starting 46 at catcher and hit .241 with 16 doubles that season. On May 18, 2004, he caught Randy Johnson's perfect game.

paragraph: Hammock did not appear in a major league game in , and only played in three games for the Triple-A Tucson Sidewinders. He was on the roster for the Sidewinders, in which he played multiple positions. He was called up after the Sidewinders won the Pacific Coast League Championship game, and appeared in only one game.

paragraph: Hammock was non-tendered following the season, and became a free agent. On January 12, , he signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Baltimore Orioles.

paragraph: On February 1, 2010, Hammock signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies. On April 3, 2010, Hammock was traded to the New York Yankees for a player to be named later. Hammock signed a minor league contract with the Diamondbacks for the 2011 season.

paragraph: Before his current coaching position, he was previously in the D-Backs' minor-league system, managing in 2014 for the Visalia Rawhide and 2015 and 2016 for the Mobile BayBears.

paragraph: In November 2016 Hammock was named as quality control/catching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

paragraph: In October 2018, Hammock was named the manager of the Tigres del Licey of the Dominican Winter League.

description: American baseball player and coach

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Blessed
Italian
Roman Catholic
Benedictine
Vallombrosians
cardinal
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Aldobrandini house
Florence
Saint Giovanni Gualberto
Saint Bernardo degli Uberti
Order of Saint Benedict
Vallombrosian
Pope Alexander II
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Pope Gregory VII
papal legate
Bishop of Padua
Emperor Henry IV
Rudolf of Swabia
Salerno
Pope Gregory VII's
France
papal bull
Pope Urban II
episcopal consecration
Pope Victor III
in 1086
in 1088
Catholic Online
Santi e Beati
Catholic Hierarchy

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paragraph: Peter Igneus

paragraph: Blessed Pietro Igneo (died 11 November 1089) was an Italian Roman Catholic Benedictine monk from the Vallombrosians branch. He also served as a cardinal and was named as the Cardinal-Bishop of Albano. He is often referred to as a member of the Aldobrandini house but this familiar denomination is not attested in sources as a fact.

paragraph: Igneo's beatification had been confirmed on 4 March 1673.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Pietro Igneo was born to a noble family in Florence. He was a relative to Saint Giovanni Gualberto, and the uncle of Saint Bernardo degli Uberti. He had at least one sibling.

paragraph: Pietro entered the Order of Saint Benedict in 1018 as a monk.

paragraph: Bishop Pietro Mezzobarbo had been accused of simoniacal acquisition of the episcopal dignities. Mezzobarbo denied these charges to the utmost and had numerous and prominent supporters. This accusation turned into conflict and intense agitation in Florence. The Vallombrosian monks were his chief accusers and upon the insistence of the people for proof the judgment of God - or a trial through fire - was resorted to settle the matter. The abbot (and his relative) Saint John Gualbert designated for the test Pietro who underwent the ordeal on 23 February 1068 (he succeeded) and was hence called "Igneo" which meant "fire-tried". This triumph of the monks led to a confession on the part of the bishop.

paragraph: Igneo soon became the abbot for San Salvatore in Fucecchio and he held that position until 1081. In 1072 he was designated as a cardinal and Pope Alexander II named him Cardinal-Bishop of Albano. Igneo attended the October 1072 consecration of the church of Santi Donato e Nicola in Albano while he himself consecrated the church of San Miniatis in Rubbicana on 7 February 1077.

paragraph: He cooperated with Pope Gregory VII to repress simony and reform church discipline. Gregory VII entrusted him with several important missions: in 1079 he served as a papal legate in the German kingdom with the Bishop of Padua to mediate between the Emperor Henry IV and Rudolf of Swabia. Upon the renewal of the excommunication against the emperor at Salerno in 1084 he was designated - at Pope Gregory VII's behest - as one of the two legates sent to France for the promulgation of the sentence. He is mentioned in the papal bull of Pope Urban II on 8 July 1089 and is attested for the last time in the papal curia in September 1089.

paragraph: Igneo served as a co-consecrator for the episcopal consecration of the new Pope Victor III in 1087. He participated in the conclaves held in 1086 and in 1088.

paragraph: He died on 11 November 1089.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- H.W. Klewitz, "Reformpapsttum und Kardinalkolleg", Darmstadt 1957, p. 116 no. 9.

paragraph: BULLET::::- R. Hüls, "Kardinäle, Klerus und Kirchen Roms: 1049-1130", Tübingen 1977, p. 90-91.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Online

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santi e Beati

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Hierarchy

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Remiremont
Vosges
Paris
art critic
Octave Mirbeau
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
World War I
colonization
World War II
Remiremont
Vosges
Concours général
Lycée Henri-IV
bohemian
art criticism
Octave Mirbeau
The Diary of a Chambermaid
bourgeois
anarchist
First World War
Stalin
Nazi
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
Fall of France
Jura Mountain
Vichy France
Gaullist
Claude Mauriac
Aeropostale
anarchist
Jew
Bolshevik
surrealistic writing style
The Little Prince
New York City
Saint-Amour
Jura
Free French Air Force
Second World War
Gallimard
The Little Prince
Fall of France
Saint-Amour
Jura
Oxford University Press
Auschwitz

categories: 20th-century French novelists,French male novelists,French Jews,1878 births,1955 deaths,Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

paragraph: Léon Werth

paragraph: Léon Werth (17 February 1878, Remiremont, Vosges – 13 December 1955, Paris) was a French writer and art critic, a friend of Octave Mirbeau and a close friend and confidant of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

paragraph: Léon Werth wrote critically and with great precision on French society through World War I, colonization, and on French "collaboration" during World War II.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Werth was born in 1878 in the Remiremont, Vosges, in an assimilated Jewish family. His father, Albert, was a draper and his mother, Sophia, was the sister of the philosopher .

paragraph: He was a brilliant student, a Grand Prize winner in France's "Concours général" and a literary and humanities CPGE philosophy student at Lycée Henri-IV. However, he abandoned his studies to become a columnist in various magazines. Leading a bohemian life, he devoted himself to writing and art criticism.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Werth was a protégé and friend of Octave Mirbeau, the author of "The Diary of a Chambermaid", completing Mirabeau's final novel, "Dingo", for him when the author's health failed. He manifested his anti-clericalism as an independently minded anti-bourgeois anarchist. His first significant novel, "La Maison blanche," which Mirabeau prefaced, was a Prix Goncourt finalist in 1913.

paragraph: At the outbreak of the First World War, despite opposing the war and having already done his military service (which he seems to have detested), he mustered as a private and was assigned to one of the worst sectors of the front, where he served as a radio operator for 15 months before being invalided out by a lung infection. Shortly after, he wrote "Clavel, soldat," a pessimistic and virulently anti-war work which caused a scandal when it was released in 1919 but which was later cited as among the more faithful depictions of trench warfare in Jean Norton Cru's monumental 1929 survey of French World War I literature.

paragraph: Werth was an unclassifiable writer with an acid prose, who wrote of the inter-war period as well as advocating against colonialism ("Cochinchine", 1928). He also wrote against the colonial period splendor of the French empire, and against Stalinism which he denounced as a leftist deception. He also criticized the mounting Nazi movement.

paragraph: In 1931 when he met Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, it was the beginning of a very close friendship. Saint-Exupéry's "Le Petit Prince" ("The Little Prince") would be dedicated to Werth.

paragraph: After the Fall of France, during its occupation, the Werths remained in France despite offers by the Centre americain de secours in Marseille to help them emigrate. In July 1941 Werth was required to register as Jewish, his travel was restricted and his works banned from publication. His wife, Suzanne, was active in the Resistance, crossing the demarcation line clandestinely more than a dozen times and establishing their Paris apartment as a safe house for fugitive Jewish women, downed British and Canadian pilots, secret resistance meetings and storage of false identity papers and illegal radio transmitters. Their son, Claude, continued his studies first in the Jura and then in Paris, later becoming a doctor. Werth lived poorly in the Jura Mountain region, alone, cold and often hungry. "Déposition", his diary, was published in 1946, delivering a damning indictment of Vichy France. He became a Gaullist under the Nazi occupation and after the war contributed to the "Liberté de l'Esprit" intellectual magazine run by Claude Mauriac.

paragraph: Section::::Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

paragraph: Saint-Exupéry met Werth in 1931. Werth soon became Saint-Exupéry's closest friend outside of the flying group of his Aeropostale associates. Werth did not have much in common with Saint-Exupéry; he was an anarchist, his father was a Jew, and a leftist Bolshevik supporter. Being twenty-two years older than Saint-Exupéry, with a surrealistic writing style as well as the author of twelve volumes and many magazine pieces, he was Saint-Exupéry's very opposite. But the younger author admired Werth's writing for having "never deceived," and wrote that Werth's essence was "his search for truth, his observation and the simple utility of his prose." Saint-Exupéry's "Letter to a Hostage" includes a celebration of Werth's journalism, and in her note on the text, Françoise Gerbod, professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Paris, credits Werth with having been Saint-Exupéry's literary mentor.

paragraph: Saint-Exupéry dedicated two books to him, ("Letter to a Hostage" and "The Little Prince"), and referred to Werth in three more of his works. At the beginning of the Second World War, while writing "The Little Prince", Saint-Exupéry lived in his downtown New York City apartment, thinking about his native France and his friends. Léon Werth spent the war unobtrusively in Saint-Amour, his village in the Jura, a mountainous region near Switzerland where he "was alone, cold and hungry", and which had few nice words for French refugees. Saint-Exupéry returned to the conflict by joining the Free French Air Force in early 1943, rationalizing, "I cannot bear to be far from those who are hungry... I am leaving in order to suffer and thereby be united with those who are dear to me."

paragraph: At the end of the Second World War, which Antoine de Saint-Exupéry didn't live to see, Léon Werth said: "Peace, without Tonio [Saint-Exupéry], isn't entirely peace." Leon Werth did not see the text for which he was so responsible until five months after his friend's death, when Saint-Exupéry's French publisher, Gallimard, sent him a special edition. Werth died in Paris on 13 December 1955. His remains and those of his wife, Suzanne, are deposited in the columbarium at Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::"The Little Prince" dedication.

paragraph: Werth is mentioned in the preamble to "The Little Prince", where Saint-Exupéry dedicates the book to him:

paragraph: Saint-Exupéry's aircraft disappeared over the Mediterranean in July 1944. The following month, Werth learned of his friend's disappearance from a radio broadcast. Without having yet heard of "The Little Prince," in November, Werth discovered that Saint-Exupéry had published a fable the previous year in the United States, which he had illustrated himself, and that it was dedicated to Werth.

paragraph: Section::::"33 jours" posthumous publication.

paragraph: "33 jours" ("33 Days") is Werth's memoir of "l'exode" (the exodus) during the Fall of France. The title refers to the period of time he, his wife and their son's former nanny spent on the road during their flight from Paris to their summer home in Saint-Amour in the Jura region. (His son Claude, then 15, and teenage friends covered the distance in less than a day by leaving several hours earlier, thus avoiding the detours mandated by the French army that are described in "33 jours"; the couple had no news of their son until they were all reunited a month later in Saint-Amour.) With poetic economy and journalistic precision, Werth recounts his experiences as one of the estimated eight million civilians who fled the advancing German army's invasion of Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in May–June 1940, possibly using notes set down during the event, as he did in the trenches in World War I (which he used for his novels "Clavel soldat" and "Clavel chez les majors"). Werth gave the manuscript to his friend Saint-Exupéry in October 1940 to smuggle out of France, write a preface for and publish in the U.S. The New York publisher Brentano's bought the rights (for a military parcel of cigarettes, gum, chocolates and water-purification tablets) and publication was planned for 1943, in expectation of which Saint-Exupéry referred to it as ""un grand livre"" (an important book) in his 1942 novel "Pilote de guerre." For reasons unclear it was never published, and the manuscript effectively disappeared.

paragraph: When Saint-Exupéry realized that an English translation of "33 jours" was not forthcoming, he extensively revised the preface (excising Werth's name to protect him) and published it as a stand-alone essay. "Letter to a Hostage" is an affecting meditation on home and exile set during the escape from France via Lisbon to the U.S. (he was on the same vessel as Jean Renoir) that enabled the pilot to continue his struggle against the Germans from abroad.

paragraph: It was not until 1992 that Viviane Hamy found and published the missing manuscript. In 2002 a student edition was produced, and "33 jours" became part of the syllabus in French secondary schools. Hamy led a rediscovery of Werth, republishing many of his works in the 1990s and 2000s. "33 jours" was finally published in English in 2015 as "33 Days" in a new translation by Austin Denis Johnston.

paragraph: Section::::"Deposition" 1940-1944.

paragraph: Three years after 33 Days appeared in English, Oxford University Press published the diary Werth wrote when he reached Saint-Amour after his exodus on the roads, sub-titling it "A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France." It is translated by David Ball. Had it not been “secret,” the authorities would have had two reasons for deporting its author to Auschwitz: not only was he Jewish, he was subversive. "Deposition" is his sharply observed, often ironic, almost daily record of life in the French countryside during the Occupation and, at the end, the insurrection during the liberation of Paris. If he had stayed there, he might have been one of the 50,000 Jews deported from the city and exterminated. Alone in his house, with the habit of writing, no other work, and the obvious impossibility of publishing during the war, he made entries in his diary almost every day: noting what people said, what he saw, and what he heard on the radio and read in the press, often with comments like this:

paragraph: “Monsieur de Gaulle (that’s what the paper calls him) and General Catroux have been stripped of their French nationality.”

paragraph: So has France. (December 12, 1940)

paragraph: The events “after the fall of France” described above are entered in the diary as they happened. When registering as Jewish, for example, Werth says he sang out the word “Jewish” as if he were singing the Marseillaise. He also uses his gifts as a novelist to give us portraits of the peasants, shopkeepers and railroad workers in and around the village of Saint-Amour. We see what they are like and hear, in their own words, what they think of Vichy—not much, though many trust Pétain—and how it affects their lives. The diary in French is 750 pages, far too long to be assigned in classrooms, but the English edition is less than half as long. It is his most important book in English to date.

paragraph: Werth returned to Paris in January 1944 but could only venture out at night until just before the Liberation. He describes the activities of a Resistance cell in their apartment: British aviators hid there until they could be smuggled out of the country. Résistants on the run hid out for a few days in their apartment and then set out for a new mission. In August, he reports the exciting advance of the Allied armies toward Paris and during the last week, he reports the street-fighting he saw in Paris during the liberation of the city. The diary ends with his capture of German prisoners huddled on a tank (he pities them), and the triumphal parade of General de Gaulle down the Champs-Élysées.

paragraph: Section::::Commemorative events.

paragraph: Various events were organized in 2005 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Werth's death.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Puvis de Chavannes" (1909)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La maison blanche" (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cézanne" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meubles Modernes" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Clavel chez les majors" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Clavel soldat" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Voyages avec ma pipe" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yvonne et Pijallet" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les amants invisibles" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vlaminck" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dix-neuf ans" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le monde et la ville" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Un soir de cirque" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Henri Matisse" (1923) - with Élie Fuare, Jules Romains, Charles Vildrac

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bonnard" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quelques Peintres" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dialogue sur la danse" (1924-1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Danse, danseurs, dancings" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cochinchine" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ghislaine" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Marthe et Le perroquet" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pijallet danse" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Une soirée à L'Olympia" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chana Ourloff" (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Claude Monet" (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "K.X. Roussel" (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cour d'assises" (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La peinture et la mode" (1945)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Déposition / Journal 1940 - 1944" (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eloge de Pierre Bonnard" (1946)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eloge de Albert Marquet" (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Saint-Exupéry, tel que je l'ai connu" (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Unser Freund Saint-Exupéry" (1952) - with René Delange

paragraph: BULLET::::- "33 jours" (1992)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Caserne 1900" (1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Impressions d'audience : le procès Pétain" (1995)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gilles Heuré, "L'insoumis: Léon Werth, 1878-1955", Paris: éditions Viviane Hamy, 2006, ,

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wikidata_label: Léon Werth

wikipedia_title: Léon Werth


text: New Jersey Nets

text: NBA Finals

text: Dubach, Louisiana

text: Lincoln Parish

text: Bernice, Louisiana

text: segregated South

text: Lillie, Louisiana

text: Grambling State University

text: historically black college

text: Grambling State Tigers men's basketball

text: points

text: points per game

text: rebounds per game

text: NAIA

text: Southwestern Athletic Conference

text: Phi Beta Sigma

text: New York Knicks

text: 1964 NBA draft

text: Los Angeles Lakers

text: 14.7 rebounds per game

text: NBA Rookie of the Year Award

text: NBA All-Rookie First Team

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text: Wilt Chamberlain

text: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

text: Dick McGuire

text: Red Holzman

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text: Walt Frazier

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text: NBA All-Defensive First Team

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text: Cincinnati Royals

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text: Orlando Woolridge

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text: Rap

text: Kurtis Blow

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text: Beastie Boys

text: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

text: Cris Collinsworth

text: Aaron Rodgers

text: NBC Sunday Night Football

text: Profile

text: Basketball Hall of Fame

text: Summary

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paragraph: Willis Reed

paragraph: After retiring as a player, Reed served as assistant and head coach with several teams for nearly a decade, then was promoted to general manager and vice president of basketball operations (1989 to 1996) for the New Jersey Nets. As senior vice president of basketball operations, he led them to the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003.

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

paragraph: Reed was born on June 25, 1942 in Dubach, Louisiana within Lincoln Parish. He grew up on a farm in nearby Bernice, Louisiana. His parents worked to ensure Reed got an education in the segregated South. Reed showed athletic ability at an early age and played basketball at West Side High School in Lillie, Louisiana.

paragraph: Reed attended Grambling State University, a historically black college. Playing for the Grambling State Tigers men's basketball team, Reed amassed 2,280 career points, averaging 26.6 points per game and 21.3 rebounds per game during his senior year. He led the Tigers to one NAIA title and three Southwestern Athletic Conference championships. Reed also became a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: The New York Knicks selected Reed in the second round, with the eighth overall selection, in the 1964 NBA draft. Reed quickly made a name as a fierce, dominating and physical force on both ends of the floor. In March 1965, he scored 46 points against the Los Angeles Lakers, the second-highest single game total ever by the Knicks' rookie. For the 1964–65 season, he ranked seventh in the NBA in scoring (19.5 points per game) and fifth in rebounding (14.7 rebounds per game). He also began his string of All-Star appearances and won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award while also being named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

paragraph: Reed proved to be a clutch playoff performer throughout his career. He gave an early indication of this in the 1966–67 season when he improved his regular season averages to 20.9 points per game, and scoring 27.5 points per game in the postseason.

paragraph: He played center. Despite his relatively average stature for a basketball player, he made up for his lack of height by playing a physical game, often ending seasons with respectable averages in blocking and rebounding. He stood when contemporaries such as Wilt Chamberlain stood and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was .

paragraph: The team continued to struggle for a few years while adding good players through trades and the draft. Dick McGuire was replaced as coach with Red Holzman, midway through the 1967–68 season. The Knicks had gone 15–22 under McGuire; Holzman steered them to a 28–17 finish. In 1968, New York's record was 43–39, its first winning record since the 1958–59 season.

paragraph: Reed continued to make annual appearances in the NBA All-Star Game. By this time, he was playing power forward, in order to make room for Walt Bellamy. Reed averaged 11.6 rebounds in 1965–66 and 14.6 in 1966–67, both top 10 marks in the league. By the latter season, he had adjusted to the nuances of his new position, averaging 20.9 points to rank eighth in the NBA.

paragraph: In 1968–69, New York held opponents to a league-low 105.2 points per game. With Reed clogging the middle and Walt Frazier pressuring the ball, the Knicks would be the best defensive club in the league for five of the next six seasons.

paragraph: Reed scored 21.1 points per game in 1968–69 and grabbed a franchise record 1,191 rebounds, an average of 14.5 rebounds per game.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:First championship.

paragraph: In the 1969–70 season, the Knicks won a franchise record 60 games and set a then single season NBA record with an 18-game win streak. In 1970, Reed became the first player in NBA history to be named the NBA All-Star Game MVP, the NBA regular season MVP, and the NBA Finals MVP in the same season. That same year, he was named to the All-NBA First Team and NBA All-Defensive First Team, as well as being named as ABC's "Wide World of Sports" Athlete of the Year, and the Sporting News NBA MVP.

paragraph: Reed's most famous performance took place on May 8, 1970, during game seven of the 1970 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers in Madison Square Garden. Due to a severe thigh injury, a torn muscle that had previously kept him out of game six, he was considered unlikely to play in game seven. However, Reed surprised the fans by walking onto the court during warmups, prompting widespread applause. Starting the game, he scored the Knicks' first two field goals on his first two shot attempts, his only points of the game. Following the game in the winner's locker room, a moved Howard Cosell told Reed on national television, "You exemplify the very best that the human spirit can offer."

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Second championship.

paragraph: The Knicks slipped to a 52–30 record in the 1970–71 season, still good enough for first place in the Atlantic Division; and in mid-season, Reed tied Harry Gallatin's all-time club record by grabbing 33 rebounds against the Cincinnati Royals. Once again, Reed started in the All-Star Game. For the season, he averaged 20.9 points and 13.7 rebounds per game, but the Knicks were eliminated by the Baltimore Bullets in the Eastern Conference Finals. In 1971–72, Reed was bothered by tendinitis in his left knee, limiting his mobility. He missed two weeks early in the season and returned, but shortly thereafter the injured knee prohibited him from playing, and he totaled 11 games for the year. Without Reed, the Knicks still managed to make the NBA Finals, but were defeated in five games by the Los Angeles Lakers.

paragraph: The 1972–73 Knicks finished the season with a 57–25 record and went on to win another NBA title. Reed was less of a contributor than he was two seasons earlier. In 69 regular season games, he averaged only 11.0 points. In the playoffs, the Knicks beat the Bullets and upset the Boston Celtics, and again faced the Lakers in the NBA Finals. After losing the first game, the Knicks captured four straight, claiming their second NBA championship with a 102–93 victory in game five. Reed was named NBA Finals MVP.

paragraph: Reed's career was cut short by injuries, and he retired after the 1973–74 season. For his career, Reed averaged 18.7 points and 12.9 rebounds per game, playing 650 games. He played in seven All-Star Games.

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

paragraph: Reed spent several years coaching before moving into general management. He coached the Knicks in 1977–1978, and left the team 14 games into the following season (49–47 record). He was the head coach at Creighton University from 1981 to 1985 and volunteer assistant coach for St. John's University. Reed also served as an assistant coach for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and Sacramento Kings.

paragraph: Reed debuted as head coach of the New Jersey Nets on March 1, 1988, one week after the Nets' star forward and his cousin, Orlando Woolridge, was suspended by the league and was to undergo drug rehabilitation. He compiled a 33–77 record with the Nets. In 1989, he was hired as the Nets' general manager and vice president of basketball operations (1989–1996). During this time, he drafted Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson, acquired Dražen Petrović, and made the Nets a playoff contender throughout the early 1990s. Reed hired Chuck Daly to coach the Nets for the 1992–93 and 1993–94 seasons. In 1996, Reed moved to the position of senior vice president of basketball operations, with the continued goal of building the Nets into a championship contender. The Nets made the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003.

paragraph: Reed next took the position of vice president of basketball operations with the New Orleans Hornets in 2004. He retired from that position in 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1970, Reed was inducted into the NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1982, Reed was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- In 1997, polling for the "NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team", elected Reed one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History"

paragraph: Section::::In popular media.

paragraph: Rap songs have mentioned Reed, recognizing his impressive athleticism and skill. Examples include Kurtis Blow's 1984 hit "Basketball" on his "Ego Trip" album, and the Beastie Boys' "Long Burn The Fire" on their 2011 album "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two".

paragraph: Reed's name has become synonymous with playing through injury, as Cris Collinsworth described an injured Aaron Rodgers as having a "Willis Reed kind of night" on the NBC Sunday Night Football broadcast on September 9, 2018.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Footnotes

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bibliogprahy

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile at Basketball Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- Summary at NBA.com

alias:
Willis Reed, Jr.
Willis Reed Jr.

description: American basketball player and coach

wikidata_label: Willis Reed

wikipedia_title: Willis Reed


text: Manresa

text: L'Hospitalet de Llobregat

text: Catalan

text: Spanish Civil War

text: Republican

text: France

text: Rosselló

text: Maginot Line

text: Mauthausen

text: Nazism

text: K.L. Reich

text: Amical Mauthausen

text: Joaquim Amat-Piniella

text: Catalan

text: English

text: Spanish

categories: 1974 deaths,Catalan-language writers,People from Manresa,Catalan politicians,20th-century Spanish male writers,1913 births,20th-century Spanish writers,Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp survivors

paragraph: Joaquim Amat-Piniella

paragraph: Joaquim Amat-Piniella (November 22, 1913 in Manresa – August 3, 1974 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) was a Catalan writer and politician. He took part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, and moved to France after the war. There, he was first interned at the French concentration camps in Rosselló, later forced to work on the Maginot Line, and finally deported by the Germans to the Mauthausen concentration camp.

paragraph: He survived for five years in the camp, and was then liberated by American troops. He later narrated his experiences and the atrocities of Nazism in the novel "K.L. Reich" (Barcelona: Club Editor i Kapel, 1984 ). Together with other survivors, he founded the "Amical Mauthausen" in 1962.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joaquim Amat-Piniella at the Association of Catalan Language Writers. Webpage in Catalan, with translations in English and Spanish.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joaquim Amat-Piniella website (in catalan)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Webpage devoted to Joaquim Amat-Piniella at LletrA (UOC), Catalan Literature Online) (English)

description: writer and politician

wikidata_label: Joaquim Amat-Piniella

wikipedia_title: Joaquim Amat-Piniella


text: House of Este

text: Ferrara

text: Benvenuto Tisi

text: Bolognese School

text: Lorenzo Costa

text: Raphael

text: Rome

text: Bologna

text: Mannerist

text: Giulio Romano

text: Dosso Dossi

text: Pope Julius III

text: Vatican's

text: belvedere

text: Castello Estense

text: Rovigo

text: Bartolomeo Faccini

text: Ippolito Costa

text: Galleria Borghese

text: Rome

text: San Martino, Bologna

text: Santissimo Salvatore, Bologna

text: Rovigo

text: Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

categories: Italian decorators,Mannerist painters,Italian male painters,1501 births,People from the Province of Modena,16th-century Italian painters,Ferrarese painters,1556 deaths

paragraph: Girolamo da Carpi

paragraph: Girolamo Da Carpi (1501 – 1 August 1556) was an Italian painter and decorator who worked at the Court of the House of Este in Ferrara. He began painting in Ferrara, by report apprenticing to Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo); but by age 20, he had moved to Bologna, and is considered a figure of Early Renaissance painting of the local Bolognese School.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He trained in the studio of a local painter who showed the influence of Lorenzo Costa and Raphael. In the 1520s Girolamo visited Rome and Bologna and was inspired by the Mannerist style of Giulio Romano. Geographically and stylistically he straddles the various influences.

paragraph: He returned to Ferrara and collaborated with Dosso Dossi and Garofalo among others on commissions for the d’Este family. Girolamo became the architect to Pope Julius III in 1550 and supervised the remodeling of the Vatican's belvedere. Returning to Ferrara, he was charged of the enlargements of the Castello Estense.

paragraph: Da Carpi's paintings include a "Descent of the Holy Spirit" in the church of St Francis at Rovigo; a "Madonna"; an "Adoration of the Magi" and a "St. Catharine" at Bologna; and a "St George" and "St Jerome" at Ferrara.

paragraph: Among the pupils of Girolamo da Carpi were Bartolomeo Faccini and Ippolito Costa.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Landscape with Magical Procession", (circa 1525, attr.); Galleria Borghese, Rome)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Adoration of the Magi", (1531; San Martino, Bologna)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Marriage of Saint Catherine", (1532–34; Santissimo Salvatore, Bologna)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "St. Longinus", (1531)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pentecost", (San Francesco, Rovigo)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Opportunity and Remorse", (1541; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works by Girolamo da Carpi at Census of Ferrarese Paintings and Drawings

alias:
Girolamo De Livizzani
Girolamo Carpi
Girolamo da Ferrara
Girolamo Sellari da Carpi
Girolamo Da Carpi
Girolamo
Gironimo da Carpi
Girolamo Da Ferrara
Girolamo Sellari
Girolama da Carpi
Girolamo da Grassi
Girolamo de'Livizzani
Jeronimo da Carpi
Jérome de Carpi
Jerome Da Carpi
Gieronimo da Carpi
Guolamo Carpi
Girolami da Carpi
Girolamino da Carpi
Geronimo da Carpi
Girol.o da Carpi
G. di Carpi
Monogrammist, angeblich Carpi G. C.
J. d'Acarpi
Da Carpi
Carpi
G. da Carpi
J. de Carpi
Jérôme del Carpi

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Girolamo da Carpi

wikipedia_title: Girolamo da Carpi


text:
Black Country
Netherton
Midlands
Dudley
spring-jumping
dumbbell-shaped weights
Kates Hill
Barnsley
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Wednesbury
Bingley Hall
Jem Carney
Brooke Robinson
Canterbury Music Hall
Royal Aquarium
Dan Lowrey's Star Theatre
Netherton Cricket Club's
Empire Theatre
Marie Lloyd
George Bernard Shaw
Blackburn
Failsworth
Cirque d'Hiver
RMS Umbria
St Louis
Cirque d'Été
Dudley Castle Grounds
Manchester Sporting Chronicle
Earl of Dudley
Lord Arthur Somerset
brougham
Bury
King Edward VII
Dudley
Dorothy Round
clogs
pumps
Ray Ewry
Police Gazette
Guinness Book of World Records
Spring-heeled Jack

categories: 1861 births,1937 deaths,British male long jumpers,Sportspeople from the West Midlands (county),Standing high jump,English male long jumpers

paragraph: Joseph Darby (jumper)

paragraph: Joseph Darby (1861–1937) was a renowned jumper from the Black Country village of Netherton. He specialised in spring jumping (jumping starting from a stationary position) often using weights in his hands to help propel him. After taking part in competitive jumping at venues in the Midlands and North of England in the 1880s, he went on to perform at theatres in London and Paris and crossed the Atlantic to exhibit in North America. He entertained crowds by performing trick jumps and earned money in wagers with competitors. Highlights in his career included defeating the American World Champion spring-jumper in 1887 and appearing before the future King Edward VII in Covent Garden, London. After finishing his jumping career, he became a publican in the English town of Dudley.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Joseph Darby was born in Windmill End, Netherton on August 6, 1861. His parents were Abraham Darby, a maker of nails for shoeing horses, and Martha Darby (née Foley).

paragraph: When interviewed in 1889 he said that he had only received ten months' schooling at the most "and only half-time at that." He also said that he started work at the age of seven, making nails. When asked when he started jumping he replied "I was always at it when a bit of a kiddy, jumping against the other lads, and I could always beat them fair and easy."

paragraph: According to an interview he gave whilst on a tour in the U.S., he commenced his working life making nails for horseshoes, before working in a colliery and subsequently unloading boats.

paragraph: Section::::Early sporting career.

paragraph: At the age of 18 he took up athletics, firstly as a professional runner over distances of 100 and 120 yards. He reportedly had success as a runner, competing 22 times and only suffering one defeat. He took up competitive jumping when aged 20 or 21. He specialised in spring-jumping where he launched himself from a standing position. He often used dumbbell-shaped weights in his hands to help propel himself for the spring jumps.

paragraph: In a promotional pamphlet produced by Darby or his agent, the first competitive jump listed is a defeat of T. Hartshorn of Netherton for a £20 wager. This competition took place at the Lea Brook Grounds, Wednesbury on 8 January 1883. The contest involved a sequence of 5 standing jumps and Darby beat Hartshorn by over 2 ft., covering a distance of 20 yards 1in.

paragraph: Darby's next jumping competition took place on 14 May 1883, at the same sporting grounds as for his first competition, and was against W. Hughes of Kates Hill, Dudley. Darby again proved the winner in a contest where he took 15 "rising jumps" against his opponents 15 "rising hops".

paragraph: Darby's third contest was against Kirk of Ilkstone, Derbyshire, again at the Lea Brook Grounds on 24 September 1883. In his third victory, this time for £40 stakes, Darby jumped 35ft. 8in. in a sequence of three spring jumps.

paragraph: Darby now took a break from competition, working as a collier and unloader of canal boats, only returning to jumping in November 1885 when he defeated W. Fillingham of Wigan, Lancashire for £100 at the Queen's Ground, Barnsley.

paragraph: On 7 December 1885, Darby lost a match to Tom Pollitt of Openshaw at the Moorfield Grounds near Manchester. For the contest, involving two forward spring jumps, Pollitt jumped first and was given a 12in start. Darby was unable to reach his opponent's mark after three jumps and so Pollitt won the £20 stake money.

paragraph: On 27 February 1886, Darby took on and beat John Holland of Middleton, the contest taking place at the Moorfield Grounds, Failsworth, near Manchester. For the contest, Darby took 7 forward stand jumps against Holland's "five run hops and a jump". At this time, Darby was being trained by T. Walker of the Windmill Inn. Darby won the contest by 12 inches.

paragraph: Subsequent victories for Darby were recorded. On 26 April 1886, he avenged his previous defeat by Tom Pollitt. The event took place at the Moorfield Grounds, Failworth near Manchester for total stakes of £100. The competition involved 4 standing jumps, with Pollitt being given a yard start.

paragraph: On 19 March 1887, he defeated William Brown of Leeds, Yorkshire, for £50, the jumping completion taking place at the Cardigan Grounds, Leeds. The competition involved Darby taking ten forward spring jumps against Brown's nine hops and a jump, Darby's winning margin being 3in despite Brown being given a 1 yard start.

paragraph: On 30 April 1887, he defeated Bill Brown of Bradford for £50 at the Victoria Grounds, Wolverhampton, the event involving two backward jumps.

paragraph: On 2 July 1887 he defeated Thomas Burrows, of Nelson, Lancashire, for £50 a-side. The competition took place at the Moorfield Grounds, Failsworth and involved Darby taking seven standing forward spring jumps against Burrows' six run hops and a jump. Darby won the contest by 3ft 5¾in.

paragraph: On 29 October 1887, Darby was beaten by Daniel Dearden of Haydock, at the Swan Inn Grounds, St. Helens. For the competition, involving three jumps, Dearden had the advantage of using weights whilst Darby jumped without. However, Darby was given a two feet start.

paragraph: Section::::Early sporting career.:Defeat of the American jumper Hamilton.

paragraph: Between December 1887 and March 1888, he defeated George W. Hamilton, then the World Champion spring-jumper in three competitive matches. Hamilton, born in Frederica, New York on 28 October 1856, had jumped 14 ft 5½in with weights at Rome, Michigan, USA on 3 October 1879. The American had come to England with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, in which he performed under the guise of "Mustang Jack". The first meeting was at the Moorfield Grounds, Manchester on 24 December 1887. The match was for £100 a-side stake money and involved ten forward spring jumps with the use of weights. Darby won the match comfortably in front of around 600 spectators, leaping over 4 ft. 5in. beyond the American's mark. The second of these meetings took place at the Leabrook Grounds, Wednesbury on 21 January 1888. At this match, the jumpers competed for £100 a side, each jumper alternately performing two stand spring forward jumps. It was reported that Darby was trained for the competition by his own brother Abel of the Malt Shovel Inn, Dudley. Darby won this competition by a distance of 2 ft 6in. For the third meeting, which took place on 10 March 1888 at the Moorfield Grounds, Manchester, the American was given a 6-inch start for the contest which involved two stand spring forward jumps but he failed three times to match Darby's distance. Darby's feats led to him being presented with championship belts including one proclaiming him to be champion of the world, which was awarded at the Dudley Fetes in 1889.

paragraph: Two of his championship belts and other memorabilia are on display at Dudley Museum

paragraph: On 21 April 1888, Darby avenged his previous defeat by Daniel Dearden at a competition held at the Larkhill Grounds, Farnsworth. The event, for stakes of £50 a-side, involved three forward spring jumps. Darby jumped 39 ft. 2in. and Dearden was only able to land two inches behind Darby's mark despite being given a 2 ft start.

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.

paragraph: On 6 February 1888, Joseph Darby appeared at Bingley Hall, Birmingham as part of a testimonial benefit evening given in honour of the boxer Jem Carney.

paragraph: On 10 September 1888, Darby appeared in his home village at the Friendly Societies Gala on Netherton Cricket Ground in front of 4,000 people including the local MP, Brooke Robinson. After performing a number of trick jumps, Darby then broke the record for 20 successive spring jumps that had stood at 79yards 6in., although he only required 17 jumps to pass this distance, leaping 81 yards, 1ft 6in in the process.

paragraph: According to an interview he gave in a French newspaper, Darby's first stage appearance before a paying public took place in October 1888, when he jumped at the Canterbury Music Hall in London again as part of a performance given for the benefit of the boxer, Jem Carney. For the performance, which took place on 18 October 1888, in front of over 3,700 spectators, Darby took the stage after several boxing bouts had been completed and reportedly "gave the most marvellous display of jumping feats ever seen on a Metropolitan stage".

paragraph: On 29 October 1888, Darby appeared at the Grand Circus, adjoining the Molineux Grounds, Wolverhampton. Despite losing his jumping clogs on the way to the venue, he still "succeeded in astonishing those present".

paragraph: From 5 November 1888 to 12 January 1889, Joseph Darby performed at the Royal Aquarium, a place of entertainment in London. On his debut, he took to the stage clad in a white singlet and scarlet trousers before starting with a jump over a chair from a brick placed on end without knocking over the brick. As part of his show at the Royal Aquarium, he challenged all-comers to compete with him for a bet of between £50 to £1000. In the newspaper advertisement for his performance, 17 separate trick jumps were listed, including forwards, backwards and sideways jumps over chairs; jumping off and onto bricks placed on end without knocking them down; jumping onto and off a man's face without hurting him; jumping onto and off a seated man's head without hurting him; jumping onto a man's hat and off again without doing any damage and jumping over a horse. In addition he stated that he would break jumping records set by anyone in the world.

paragraph: It was reported that during his performances at the Royal Aquarium, Darby suffered a serious injury whilst jumping over tables, snapping ligaments above and below the knee.

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.:Awarded championship belt.

paragraph: On the 11 and 12 June 1889, Joseph Darby performed at the Dudley Castle Fetes. After his display of jumping, he was awarded a belt by Alderman Walker of Dudley Council. The belt, made of silver and with enamelled pictures on it was stated to be of £70 value and was made by Messrs. Elkington and Co. Limited of Birmingham. The money for the belt was raised by subscription and included an enameled picture of Dudley Castle, crossed dumb-bells on ivy leaves, representations of Darby as a jumper, red cornelians mounted on gilded bosses, and the jumper's monogram.

paragraph: In 1889, he wrote to the editor of the Sporting Life newspaper, challenging the jumper Jose Parker to a contest for stakes between £50 and £200, with the gate money to be used for the benefit of the Guest Hospital, Dudley. The two jumpers competed in May 1890 at Dudley Castle Grounds before a crowd estimated at over 20,000. Darby's jumping pupil Short also competed at the event, which involved a variety of stand jumps. Darby won all of the events.

paragraph: In November 1889, it was reported that he had broken three jumping records at the Ashton-Under-Lyne Skating Rink towards the end of October. In the single stand jump without weights, he achieved 11ft. 8½in., beating the record by 7½in. He also broke the record for two stand jumps and for the high jump by clearing 5ft. 6in.

paragraph: On 30 November 1889, an newspaper advertisement stated that he was playing to packed houses and that he had only one available open date for the rest of the year. His sole agent was stated to be John Taylor of Windmill End, Dudley.

paragraph: In December 1889, Darby was being billed as the "Champion Jumper of the Word", the "Ninth Wonder of the World" and as the "Flying Man".

paragraph: In 1890 it was reported that: "Darby goes through no exceptional training unless for a special contest. He keeps himself trim by a little boxing, careful diatary, and keeping clear of alcohol almost to the extent of teetotalism."

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.:Performs in England, Ireland and Scotland.

paragraph: In early May 1890, Darby was performing at Dan Lowrey's Star Theatre in Dublin. Darby's shoes were kept on display at the theatre bar in order to show they contained no springs.

paragraph: In the middle of May 1890, Darby performed at the Bradford and West Riding Gala held at Peel Park, Bradford.

paragraph: On 28 May 1890, at a competition held in conjunction with the Dudley Castle Fetes, Darby jumped 14ft 2in in a single jump with weights, beating the English record.

paragraph: In June 1890, Darby performed at the annual sports meeting held at the Netherton Cricket Club's ground.

paragraph: In late December of the same year he performed at Mr. Moss' Xmas and New Year Carnival held at Waverley Market, Edinburgh.

paragraph: On 14 June 1891, Darby made a return to competitive jumping, defeating Temple Jones of Bolton at the Belle Vue Gardens, Stockton.

paragraph: In February 1892, Darby was performing at Rowland's Circus, Wolverhampton, where his act included jumping 36 feet in three jumps ending with a jump over a chair placed on a table; jumping over a tank of water, lowering his feet to touch the surface of the water as he passed over the tank and springing over eight chairs placed back to back. It was at this venue where Darby performed one of his most famous trick jumps: that of clearing a full sized billiard table (minus cushions). In fact, an authentic billiard table was not available at the occasion, so a dummy table was erected. Darby was hampered in his attempt by lack of space and could only take two stand spring jumps prior to leaping the table, which he succeeded in doing on his fifth attempt.

paragraph: In October 1892 he performed as part of a variety show at the Empire Theatre, London alongside the celebrated musical-hall performer, Marie Lloyd. George Bernard Shaw attended one of the performances and wrote: "Now is it not odd that at a music-hall to which, perhaps, half the audience have come to hear Marie Lloyd sing Twiggy voo, boys, twiggy voo? or to see Mr Darby jump a ten-barred gate, you get real stage art". According to an American newspaper: "English athletes are just now flocking to the Empire theater, London, to witness the high and broad jumping feats of Joseph Darby, the champion jumper and holder of the championship belt." The same source reported: "one of his favorite tricks is to place six chairs in a row and spring from a brick at one end of the line to a corresponding brick at the other. His flying feats include a leap over a chair placed on a table and over eight chairs in a row, a length of eighteen feet. He goes over a horse seventeen hands high with his ankles tied. Among his phenomenal performances are a backward spring over three

paragraph: chairs and a leap over a tank of water ten feet long, during which he lightly skims the water with his foot. His most unique feat is a jump over a chair, alighting on a man's face and jumping

paragraph: back again without injuring his assistant. As the latter is generally a choice specimen of the London tough the escape of his cheek is not to be wondered at. Darby concludes his sensational performance with a leap over a six-foot hurdle lined at the top with a bristling row of spikes."

paragraph: In November 1892, a newspaper reported that he had won over £30,000 in jumping matches.

paragraph: In January 1893, an Australian newspaper acclaimed Darby with the words: "no athlete can boast of such a brilliant record of achievements in his own particular department as Mr Darby, who for

paragraph: the last eleven years can show an unbroken series of triumphs gained with the utmost ease from those pseudo-champion jumpers of all countries who have considered themselves foemen worthy of his steel." The same source stated: "Mr Darby is a married man, thirty-one years of age, and is living at a small village

paragraph: about two miles from Dudley, in Worcestershire, in the same house in which he was born and brought up."

paragraph: On 22 July 1893, Darby took on another remarkable jumper of the age, John (Jack) Higgins of Blackburn. The competition was held at the Moorfield Ground, Failsworth and involved both athletes performing a "hop, two strides and a jump" for a stake of £100. On the day, Higgins broke the world record for this event and Darby was defeated.

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.:Performs in France, Germany and North America.

paragraph: On 23 September 1893, it was reported that Darby was in his fifth week at an engagement at the "Winter Gardens" in Berlin

paragraph: In October 1893, Darby performed at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris.

paragraph: Later in the same month, he was described as the 'greatest phenomenon in the jumping line in the world' by the "Montreal Daily Witness" as he set out on a tour of the USA. The same source described him as being 5 ft 8¼ in tall with a 40 in chest, weighing 175 lb. In addition, it was stated that 'the muscle of his arm measures 15½ in, and the thick of the leg 28 in but the calf is remarkable for its iron quality rather than anything else'. He reportedly set out for the USA on 21 October 1893. arriving aboard the RMS Umbria at New York on October 30. In November 1893, he issued a challenge to "jump any man either backward or forward with or without weights for from $5,000 to $10,000 a side".

paragraph: In October and November 1893, Darby was performing with a troupe in the play "The Country Circus" at the Grand Opera House, Brooklyn. The opening night was on 30 October 1893. Later the troupe performed the play at other venues: on 26 December 1893, Darby performed at the Olympic, St Louis and in January 1894, the troupe had moved on to Washington, where they performed at Albaugh's.

paragraph: Darby returned to England in February 1894, again taking the steamer "Umbria" for the crossing. After his arrival at Liverpool with his manager, Jack Jones, on 17 February 1894, Darby went on to Dudley where he received an "enthusiastic reception".

paragraph: In April 1894, whilst performing at Ohmy's Grand Circus, Longton, Darby issued a challenge for all comers to compete for between £500 and £1000 a-side with a choice of between 1 and 20 jumps. Darby offered competitors a 5 ft start over 10 jumps and 10 ft start over 20 jumps.

paragraph: In May 1894, Darby was performing at Hengler's Grand Cirque, Rotunda Gardens, Dublin

paragraph: In June and July 1894, Darby was performing in Paris again, this time at the Cirque d'Été.

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.:Second championship belt and sporting retirement.

paragraph: Darby announced his retirement from competitive jumping (although not from exhibitions) on 23 July 1894 after winning a competition held at Dudley Castle Grounds. The Manchester Sporting Chronicle awarded Darby a Championship belt as a result of winning this contest. The belt was presented at the conclusion of the two day sports fête by the Earl of Dudley.

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.:Further performances.

paragraph: In March 1895, he interrupted a tour of France to appear at the Empire Theatre, Coventry, the stage having been specially strengthened for his act.

paragraph: In a newspaper interview given in May 1895, Darby stated that he had performed in "France, Germany, Holland, in fact nearly all over the Continent". He also stated that he had performed in front of royalty in many nations, including the Prince of Wales. According to an obituary article, written much later, a special command performance had been arranged before the Prince of Wales by Lord Arthur Somerset at Evans' Rooms, Covent Garden.

paragraph: In August 1895, Darby gave performances at Tudor's Circus in Cambridge.

paragraph: In December 1897, Darby had a benefit performance at Walsall, taking on local jumper Arthur Boyce. For this match, it was decided that Boyce would jump in a forward direction without weights against Darby jumping backwards with weights. Before the match started, Darby entertained the crowds by leaping over a horse-drawn carriage. A newspaper reported on the event : "on Darby entering the arena he met with a magnificent reception. A covered brougham was brought from the nearest cab stand, and at the second attempt, amid deafening cheers, Darby was over like a bird." Darby went on to win the match.

paragraph: In 1898, he featured in a short film made by Riley Brothers entitled 'Joe Darby in his Various Jumps'. The film showed Darby "leaping the horse - Jumping over a man and just touching his face - Jumping over water and just skimming the surface - Jumping over a large number of chairs placed near together - &c. &c."

paragraph: On 30 August 1898, Darby suffered an injury whilst attempting to jump over a brougham at Scarborough, catching the top of the carriage as he passed over and falling forward onto his head.

paragraph: In September 1898, Darby was back in Paris, performing at the Casino de Paris on a bill including boxers, dancers and cyclists.

paragraph: Section::::Stage performer and sportsman.:Brief return to competitive jumping and final performances.

paragraph: On 12 November 1898, Darby briefly returned to competitive jumping when he took on Thomas Colquitt of St Helens at the Wellington Grounds, Bury, in front of 2000 spectators. The competition involved a sequence of 10 forward spring jumps without weights. Colquitt won the event and the £100 stake.

paragraph: On the plinth of his statue in Netherton, it is recorded that on 19 November 1898 he was summoned for a 'Royal Command Performance' at Covent Garden where he performed in front of the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII.

paragraph: In March 1899, Darby was again performing at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, where his performance included leaping over a horse-drawn carriage.

paragraph: In August 1899, Darby was reported as appearing at the "Milford Flower Show and Sports", where his performance included jumping over a cab and over 14 chairs.

paragraph: In July 1900, Darby performed again at the Milford Flower Show, when it was reported that he was unable to do one of his most popular jumps, leaping over a cab, because the vehicle did not arrive in time. It was also reported that his 9 year old son made his debut at this event.

paragraph: Section::::Career after jumping.

paragraph: Despite Darby's fame, he never lived far from his birthplace in Netherton. In 1900 he was listed by a local trade directory with the profession of "Champion Jumper", living at 23 High Street, Netherton.

paragraph: In later life he became the landlord of the Albion Inn, Stone Street, Dudley. He advertised on 9 June 1900 that he had taken over this pub and he was listed as being a "Licensed Victualler" there from 1901 onwards. In September 1900 it was reported that he had entered a lion's cage set up on Dudley Market Place in order to settle a bet of £10.

paragraph: In 1934, Darby attended the civic reception given to the Dudley-born Wimbledon tennis champion, Dorothy Round.

paragraph: He died in Dudley on the 22nd of December, 1937

paragraph: Section::::Jumps.

paragraph: Joseph Darby performed his jumps at a number of venues including sports grounds, circuses and concert halls. He received money for performing, often from betting on the outcome of competitions with other jumpers. The jumps themselves involved forwards and backwards spring jumps (often multiple jumps) and high jumps. In addition to competitive jumping, Darby developed a repertoire of "trick jumps" for entertainment purposes. Some of these jumps were over obstacles such as chairs at regular spacings. Others required dexterity such as taking off or landing on a brick. He also developed the ability to briefly touch down his feet before his actual landing, which made possible some of his more famous "trick jumps". For one such trick jump, a volunteer would lie on the ground in the path of the jump and Joseph Darby would appear to land on and jump off the person's face. Another such trick jump would involve jumping over a tank of water and briefly touching the surface of the water with his shoes.

paragraph: To achieve jumps of greater distances or heights, Darby would sometimes employ dumb-bell shaped weights held in both hands. These could be used to provide extra momentum. It was reported in 1893 that he was using weights of 9 lb each. It was also reported that he made his jumps wearing steel-tipped clogs, albeit "very thin and beautifully made" ones. However it was reported that when jumping in a backwards direction he wore pumps.

paragraph: Darby's single forward spring-jump of 12 ft 2 ½ in, achieved without weights on October 24, 1889, stands comparison with the best achieved since then. The world (amateur) record for this event when it was still an Olympic sport in the early 20th century was 3.47m (about 11 ft 4 ½ in) achieved on 3 September 1904 by Ray Ewry.

paragraph: Some of his most famous achievements include: jumping over a full sized billiard table, a six-foot high jump performed with ankles tied, and leaping over a horse 13 hands high.

paragraph: Section::::Jumps.:Long and high jumps.

paragraph: Joseph Darby's jumping record can be found in a number of sporting annuals from his era.

paragraph: In the Police Gazette Sporting Annual for 1897, Joseph Darby is listed as holding the following professional jumping records:

paragraph: Standing High Jump — 6 ft, with ankles firmly bound together, achieved on June 13, 1892.

paragraph: Standing High Jump with weights — 6 ft 3 in, at the third stand jump, achieved on November 6, 1891.

paragraph: Standing Back Jump — 12 ft 11 in, achieved on September 14, 1891.

paragraph: Standing Wide Jump (with weights) — 14 ft 9 in, achieved on September 19, 1890;

paragraph: Standing Wide Jump(without weights) 12 ft 2 ½ in, achieved on October 24, 1889.

paragraph: Running High Jump — 6 ft 5 ½ in, achieved on February 5, 1892

paragraph: Longest Flying Jump (third of three stands) — 16 ft 4 in, achieved on November 8, 1888.

paragraph: Two Standing Jumps (with 19 lb weights) — 28 ft, achieved on November 6, 1891.

paragraph: Three Standing Jumps with weights — 42 ft 6 in, achieved on March 4, 1892;

paragraph: Three Standing Jumps (without weights), 35 ft 11 in, achieved on November 6, 1891.

paragraph: Four Forward Spring Jumps (with weights) — 56 ft 2 in, achieved on August 19, 1889.

paragraph: Five Forward Jumps (with weights) — 76 ft 3 in, achieved on August 19, 1889.

paragraph: Five Forward Jumps (without weights) 61 ft 5 ½ in, achieved on May 28, 1890.

paragraph: Seven Standing Jumps (with weights) — 96 ft 4 in, achieved on Julv 2, 1887.

paragraph: Ten Standing Jumps (with weights) — 137 ft 7 in, achieved on August 10, 1889.

paragraph: Six Back Spring Jumps (with weights) — 58 ft, achieved on June 13, 1892.

paragraph: Stand, Two Hops and Jump (with weights)— 36 ft 7 in, achieved on March 14, 1891.

paragraph: Stand, Five Hops and Jump — 71 ft 3 ½ in, achieved on June 11, 1892.

paragraph: Three Backward Jumps — 30 ft 9 in, achieved on October 26, 1894.

paragraph: Section::::Jumps.:Trick Jumps.

paragraph: The Pittsburgh Press in November 1893 listed the following jumps in Darby's repertoire:

paragraph: Jumps over twenty chairs placed ten feet apart.

paragraph: Jumps over six chairs in one jump.

paragraph: Clears two chairs 18 ft apart.

paragraph: Jumps off one brick, end up, over a chair, lands on another brick end up, and backwards without knocking the bricks down.

paragraph: Jumps on to a man's face while lying down and off again without hurting the man.

paragraph: Jumps 36 ft in three successive jumps and in the third jump lands on a man's back, whilst he is lying across the edge of two chairs, and off again without hurting him.

paragraph: Jumps off one brick, end up, over a horse 15 hands high.

paragraph: Darby's leap over a full sized billiard table lengthwise in Wolverhampton was mentioned in several editions of the Guinness Book of World Records. For this jump he took a running start and leapt from a 4 in wooden block, clearing the 12 ft long, 2 ft 10 in high table in one bound. This was achieved on 5 February 1892.

paragraph: In 1893, a Canadian newspaper reported that: "he has thirty-nine feats in his performance or act, the most sensational of which is his great water jump, representing a jump from England to America. In accomplishing this feat he will alight on the water and off again without wetting the upper leather of his boots. This marvellous feat has never been accomplished by any artist in this world." More detail of this jump was given in an Australian publication: "a tank is set in the middle of the stage, and is filled to the brim with water. Mr Darby takes a flying leap, and as he passes over the water be descends slightly. By this downward motion he, as it were, alights on the top of the water, and flies off again without wetting the upper leather of his boots." When asked how he

paragraph: managed this feat, he replied: "I really don't know, it comes naturally to

paragraph: me, though when I think of it myself it seems almost an impossibility."

paragraph: Section::::The'Spring-heeled Jack' Legend.

paragraph: Joseph Darby has been linked to the Spring-heeled Jack legend. In Victorian times, the legendary character known as 'Spring-heeled Jack' was reportedly spotted at a number of locations in Britain, including the Black Country. The creature was often described as having blazing eyes and had the ability to leap great distances. Joseph Darby supposedly started a local 'Spring-heeled Jack' scare when he was spotted practising his jumping by leaping over a local canal at night time, using a miner's lighted helmet to see his way.

paragraph: Section::::Commemoration.

paragraph: Joseph Darby is commemorated by a statue in the centre of his native town of Netherton. The statue shows Darby in a crouched position about to leap holding weights in either hand. It is mounted on a plinth which describes some of his exploits. The statue, designed by Steve Field and fabricated by D.R. Harvey, was installed on 29 November 1991.

paragraph: There is an exhibition of Joe Darby memorabilia in Dudley Museum at the Archives, including his championship belts. Joseph Darby is also commemorated in a bronze plaque set into the pavement of Dudley's marketplace as part of the "Dudley Time Trail" designed by Dudley borough artist, Steve Field.

paragraph: A radio play, entitled, "The Astounding Joseph Darby" written by John Edgar and directed by Nigel Bryant was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4 July 1991.

wikidata_label: Joseph Darby

wikipedia_title: Joseph Darby (jumper)


text:
Ramesses I
Sety I
Valley of the Queens
Lepsius
Ramesses II
Sety I
Mutnedjmet
Horemheb
Two Lands
20th dynasty
26th dynasty
Roman Period
mummies

categories: Valley of the Queens,13th-century BC deaths,Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century BC

paragraph: Tanedjemet

paragraph: Tanejemet of Tanedjemy is a King's daughter and King's Wife from the New Kingdom. She is possibly a daughter of Ramesses I and wife of Sety I.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Queen Tanedjemet's tomb in the Valley of the Queens was described by Lepsius in the "Denkmäler".

paragraph: Her identity has been up for debate. In Porter and Moss (1964) it is even suggested that this queen dates to the 20th dynasty. Troy (1986) suggested Tanedjemet was a daughter-wife of Ramesses II. Later, Leblanc (1999) has suggested that she is a wife of Sety I.

paragraph: Hari (1965) and Thomas (1967) had conjectured that the 'Ta' element of the name should be read as 'Mut', thereby rendering the name of the queen as Mutnedjmet. This reading and the associated suggestion that this was the tomb of Horemheb's wife is no longer accepted.

paragraph: Section::::Tomb QV33.

paragraph: Tomb QV33 in the Valley of the Queens was described by Lepsius. The tomb is listed as tomb number 14. Queen Tanedjemet holds the title King's Daughter and is said to be a Mistress of the Two Lands. She is depicted with the vulture cap usually associated with queens. The tomb is in a bad condition. Not much of the original decoration remains.

paragraph: The tomb was likely robbed at the end of the 20th dynasty, and reused during the 26th dynasty. A large amount of glasswork and other materials dating to this period were found in the tomb. During the Roman Period a large number of mummies was interred in the tomb. These burials are thought to date to the 2nd and 3rd century A.D.

description: ancient Egyptian queen

wikidata_label: Tanedjemet

wikipedia_title: Tanedjemet


text:
Finnish
ice hockey
KooKoo
Liiga
Liiga
KalPa
2013–14

categories: KalPa players,Competitors at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics,1996 births,Finnish ice hockey players,KooKoo players,Living people

paragraph: Miikka Pitkänen

paragraph: Miikka Pitkänen (born 27 April 1996) is a Finnish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with KooKoo in the Finnish Liiga.

paragraph: Pitkänen made his Liiga debut playing with KalPa during the 2013–14 season.

description: Finnish ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Miikka Pitkänen

wikipedia_title: Miikka Pitkänen


text:
psychiatrist
Paris
Naples
Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours
Jean-Martin Charcot
Charles Lasègue
Salpêtrière Hospital
internat
Laureate
Academy of Medicine
Portal
Charcot
doctor of medicine
Valentin Magnan
Jules Bernard Luys
mental diseases
cocaine
Lasègue
French Wikipedia
Obituary of Benjamin Ball, M.D.
British Medical Journal

categories: 1893 deaths,French psychiatrists,History of psychiatry,19th-century French physicians,Burials at Montmartre Cemetery,Physicians from Naples,1833 births,French neurologists,Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur

paragraph: Benjamin Ball (physician)

paragraph: Benjamin Ball (April 20, 1833 – February 23, 1893) was an English-born French psychiatrist, Professor of Mental Medicine in the Paris Faculty.

paragraph: He was born at Naples, his father being an Englishman and his mother a native of Switzerland. He became a naturalised Frenchman in 1849,

paragraph: and spent the whole of his professional life in Paris.

paragraph: He studied medicine under Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours and Jean-Martin Charcot and was an assistant of Charles Lasègue at the Salpêtrière Hospital. During his "internat" he was Laureate of the Academy of Medicine ("Prix Portal", in collaboration with Charcot). He became doctor of medicine in 1862.

paragraph: In 1877 Benjamin Ball was the first to be appointed to the "Clinical Chair of Mental and Cerebral Diseases" in the Paris Faculty, to the detriment of his rival Valentin Magnan.

paragraph: In collaboration with Jules Bernard Luys, he founded in 1881 the journal "L'Encéphale".

paragraph: Ball is the author of numerous works relating to mental diseases such as "On erotic insanity" ("La folie érotique"), and "On persecution deliria" ("Du délire des persécutions", as well as "Lessons on Mental Illnesses" ("Leçon sur les maladies mentales"). In 1885, he published a trail-blazing treatrise "On morphinomania" ("La morphinomanie"), in which he evidenced the toxic effects of cocaine which were not absolutely acknowledged at the time.

paragraph: Section::::Selected written works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Des Embolies pulmonaires" (Paris 1862)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Du rhumatisme viscéral" (Paris 1866)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La médecine mentale à travers les siècles" (Paris 1879)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La morphinomanie" (Paris 1885; 2nd. edition Paris 1888)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La folie érotique" (Paris 1888)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Du délire des persécutions, ou Maladie de Lasègue" (Paris 1890)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Leçons sur les maladies mentales" (Paris 1890)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia."

paragraph: BULLET::::- Obituary of Benjamin Ball, M.D. in the "British Medical Journal."

description: French neurologist

wikidata_label: Benjamin Ball

wikipedia_title: Benjamin Ball (physician)


text:
British
saint
Bonedd y Saint
Usyllt
Teilo
Coel Hen
Wade-Evans
Saint Cadfan
Brittany
Ceredigion
Llangoedmor
Middle Welsh
Taliesin
Gwerthrynion
Maelienydd
Ceredigion
Llangynllo
Nantcwnlle
community
Nantmel
Radnorshire
Powys
Llanbister
Baring-Gould
Catholic on-line:

categories: Southwestern Brythonic saints,6th-century Christian saints

paragraph: Cynllo

paragraph: Saint Cynllo () is a British saint, who lived in the late 5th and early 6th centuries, generally described as a brother of Saint Teilo. Cynllo was known for "...the sanctity of his life and the austerity of his manners."

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Cynllo is variously described in the genealogical "Bonedd y Saint" as the son of Usyllt and brother of Teilo. Later genealogies have him a grandson of Coel Hen. Wade-Evans thought he should be identified with "Kentinlau" who accompanied Saint Cadfan from Brittany to Ceredigion. References to him as "Cynllo Vrenin" (Cynllo the King) suggest that he was in possession of his ancestral dominions before devoting himself to religious life.

paragraph: Cynllo's knee imprints, made as he said his devotions, are said to exist in a rock, near the farm Felin Gynllo, which lies just outside Llangoedmor in Ceredigion. A Middle Welsh poem, "The Consolations of Elffin", attributed to the infant Taliesin includes the line, "Ni bydd coeg gweddi Cynllo", "The prayer of Cynllo will not be in vain."

paragraph: Several churches are dedicated in his honour, but there is no reliable account of him. Churches and chapels were dedicated to him over almost the whole of Gwerthrynion and Maelienydd.

paragraph: There are churches in Ceredigion commemorating Saint Cynllo at Llangynllo (said to stand on the site of his monastic cell) and Nantcwnlle, and also the church of St Cynllo in the community of Nantmel in the historic county of Radnorshire, now part of Powys. The latter was almost totally rebuilt in the late 18th century. Cynllo was so popular that even when the Normans changed the dedication of the church in Rhayader to Saint Clements, locals still held Cynllo’s feastday there.

paragraph: Near St Cynllo's Church, Llanbister was a spring called "Pistyll Cynllo".

paragraph: Section::::Feast day.

paragraph: By the fifteenth century St. Cynllo's feast day had been set as 17 July, although Baring-Gould, quoting the sixteenth century "Haford" MS, shows August 8.

paragraph: Cynllo does not appear on the Roman Catholic National Calendar for Wales, although every parish is encouraged to celebrate its patronal feast. The calendar indicates that "Where no other indication is given the celebration is an optional memorial."

paragraph: A new calendar for the Church in Wales was produced in 2003; Cynllo does not appear in that either although both the Catholic and Anglican calendars have a general commemoration in November for Welsh saints. Those parishes which continue to commemorate Cynllo appear to conform to the 17 July.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Haslam, Richard (1979). "The Buildings of Wales: Powys".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wade-Evans, A. W. (1944). "Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic on-line: St Cynllo

description: British saint

wikidata_label: Cynllo

wikipedia_title: Cynllo


text: English

text: racer

text: road racing

text: motocross

text: Les Archer

text: F.I.M.

text: European Motocross Championship

text: Manx Norton

text: New Imperial

text: 1947 Isle of Man TT

text: International Six Days Trial

text: British Army

text: Eric Cheney

text: Motocross des Nations

text: John Draper

text: Les Archer Jr. biography

categories: Enduro riders,People from Aldershot,1929 births,Motocross riders,Isle of Man TT riders,English motorcycle racers,Living people

paragraph: Les Archer Jr.

paragraph: Les Archer (born 1929) is an English former leading motorcycle racer of the 1950s, competing in long distance speed trials, road racing and scrambles, now known as motocross. He was the son of Les Archer, also a top motorcycle racer from the 1920s. Archer is best known for winning the 1956 F.I.M. 500cc European Motocross Championship on a highly modified Manx Norton.

paragraph: Archer rode for the New Imperial factory at the 1947 Isle of Man TT, and competed in the 1950 International Six Days Trial as a member of the British Army team. He competed alongside his traveling companion Eric Cheney, who went on to become one of the top British motorcycle designers. Archer was also a member of the victorious British teams at the 1952 and 1953 Motocross des Nations events. Archer competed in the FIM European motocross championship with a 10th-place finish in 1954 then, improving to a 5th place in the 1955 championship. In 1956, he succeeded in winning the 500cc European motocross championship over the defending champion and countryman John Draper. Archer further developed the Manx Norton into the 1960s with engine preparation by famed tuner Ray Petty.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Les Archer Jr. biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953 Archer Manx Norton Scrambler at National Motorcycle Museum, England

paragraph: BULLET::::- Les Archer Manx Norton at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Motocross racers: 30 years of legendary dirt bikes", by Ray Ryan, 2003

description: British motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Les Archer, Jr.

wikipedia_title: Les Archer Jr.


text:
character
improvisational comedy
Birmingham University
Newsrevue
Canal Cafe Theatre
Hackney Empire New Act of the Year
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Scotsman
Edinburgh Comedy Awards
Soho Theatre
The Guardian
Dolly Parton
Mike Leigh
BBC Radio 4
Arthur Smith's Balham Bash
Angelos Epithemiou
the Penny Dreadfuls
Wilfredo
music hall
The Independent
Chortle
Courtney Love
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Ambassadors Theatre
BBC Radio Four
BBC Two
Fast and Loose
Newsjack
BBC Radio 7
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Radio 4
The Now Show
Matt Roper
Arthur Smith
Imran Yusuf
Ruth Bratt
Thom Tuck
BBC Three
Sunday Assembly
CBBC
The Dog Ate My Homework
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Official website
Loretta Maine – tour dates

categories: People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School,British satirists,British female guitarists,21st-century women musicians,British women comedians,Women satirists,British atheists,People from Ealing,Living people,1982 births

paragraph: Pippa Evans

paragraph: Pippa Evans (born June 1982) is a British comedian, known for her work in character and improvisational comedy.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Having studied Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, she became a member of Scratch improvisation comedy troupe, and appeared in Newsrevue, a topical comedy show at London's Canal Cafe Theatre. In 2008, she gained second place in the annual Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.

paragraph: Her major breakthrough came as she made her solo debut at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with "Pippa Evans and Other Lonely People", playing a number of different characters at a self-help group meeting. Evans received positive reviews from the press, with "The Scotsman" citing her as "wicked and dark, with few gimmicks". She subsequently gained a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, before performing the show at London's Soho Theatre for a limited season.

paragraph: Evans's best known stage character is Loretta Maine, a disturbed American singer-songwriter described by "The Guardian" newspaper as "Dolly Parton seen through the lens of Mike Leigh". The character of Maine has established Evans as a popular headliner on the London comedy club circuit. In 2009 she performed on the BBC Radio 4 series "Arthur Smith's Balham Bash" as Loretta Maine.

paragraph: She returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009 with another show titled "Pippa Evans: Your Evening's Entertainment", a variety show for an imagined audience of conference delegates where Evans plays all the characters. In an interview with "The Scotsman", Evans revealed "I was brought up with old time music halls and doing pantos in church halls... it was a big part of my background that always appealed to me". The show was again warmly received but it was the character of Loretta Maine which critics highlighted unequivocally. In November 2009 she curated and hosted "Pippa's Old Time New Time Music Hall" at the Canal Cafe Theatre, introducing audiences to her contemporaries Angelos Epithemiou, the Penny Dreadfuls and Wilfredo in a satire on the tradition of music hall.

paragraph: In 2010 she presented an entire show at the Fringe as Maine in "I'm Not Drunk, I Just Need To Talk To You". "The Independent"'s critic observed "Maine belongs to a recognizable stable of bitter songstresses and swigs on a screw-topped bottle of wine, while spewing out her vitriol any which way", while the comedy industry website Chortle noted that "Psycho-intense singer-songwriter Loretta Maine makes Courtney Love look well-balanced. This pill-popping, booze-abusing, bunny-boiling car-crash of a rock star has been the most memorable creation of talented character comic Pippa Evans to date".

paragraph: Evans is a core member of the award-winning improv team behind the stage show "Showstopper! The Improvised Musical". With the cast of "Showstopper", Evans has toured the UK and abroad. In February 2011 the show opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End, coinciding with the broadcast of a series for BBC Radio Four.

paragraph: She was a series regular on the BBC Two television improv show "Fast and Loose" which aired in January 2011.

paragraph: She was also a regular in "Newsjack" in October 2011 on BBC Radio 7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra) and has made guest appearances on the Radio 4 satire series "The Now Show".

paragraph: On 1 December 2012, as Loretta Maine, she released the song Happy Goddamn Christmas (feat. Matt Roper) which peaked at No. 6 on the iTunes UK Comedy Charts. An accompanying video was released on 13 December, featuring cameos by Arthur Smith, Imran Yusuf, Ruth Bratt and Thom Tuck, via BBC Three.

paragraph: In 2013 Evans co-founded The Sunday Assembly, a monthly gathering for the non-religious.

paragraph: In 2015, Evans appeared as a panelist in two episodes of the CBBC panel show, "The Dog Ate My Homework" and in 2016 & 2019 she was a guest panelist on the long-running radio comedy "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loretta Maine – tour dates

description: British comedian

wikidata_label: Pippa Evans

wikipedia_title: Pippa Evans


text:
Dutch Golden Age
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Vincent van der Vinne
Dirck Helmbreeker
Cornelis Bega
Cornelis Vroom
Guillam Dubois
Artnet

categories: 1623 births,Artists from Haarlem,Dutch male painters,1661 deaths,Dutch Golden Age painters,Dutch landscape painters

paragraph: Guillam Dubois

paragraph: Guillam Dubois (1623–1661), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: According to the RKD, he was born in Haarlem and became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1646. During the years 1652-1653 he made a trip through Germany with fellow guild members Vincent van der Vinne, Dirck Helmbreeker, Joost Boelen and Cornelis Bega. In 1652 they stayed a month with Abraham Cuyper in Cologne, and afterwards Helmbreeker returned to Haarlem, while Dubois and the others travelled to Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Darmstadt, and Mannheim before returning to spend the winter with Cuyper. Dubois returned to Haarlem in the Spring of 1653 and the trip influenced his later landscapes, though he was also a follower of Cornelis Vroom.

paragraph: The months that Dubois spent in the company of Van der Vinne were recorded in Van der Vinne's diary. He died in Haarlem in 1661.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guillam Dubois on Artnet

alias:
Guillaume Dubois
Guillam Du Bois
Willem Du Bois
Guillam du Bois
Willem du Bois
Willem Dubois
Guilliam Du Bois
Guiljam du Bois

description: painter from the Northern Netherlands

wikidata_label: Guillam Dubois

wikipedia_title: Guillam Dubois


text:
Tyrese
The Underdogs
Chris Brown
Britney Spears
Justin Bieber
Danja
mixtape
single
Best R&B Performance
56th Annual Grammy Awards
music download
studio album
R&B
Johnny Gill
New Edition
BET
jazz
R&B
cover version
A Song for You
Showtime at the Apollo
Marvin Gaye
Willie Nelson
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
Alabama
St. Augustine High School
OFWGKTA
Frank Ocean
director
choreographer
Los Angeles
California
Luke & Q
R&B
Tyrese Gibson
Danja
pop
R&B
soul
Tank
Chris Brown
Crawl
Graffiti
Justin Bieber
That Should Be Me
Britney Spears
Kill the Lights
Keri Hilson
Beyoncé
Run the World (Girls)
music video
digital download
production
2012 Soul Train Music Awards
Def Jam
iTunes
56th Annual Grammy Awards
Best R&B Performance
Usher
Climax
Mrs. Carter Show World Tour
Best R&B Song
Options
Johnny Gill
The New Edition Story
Elijah Kelley
Lee Daniels
Star
Rift
Black Nativity
Little
Half & Half
Tyrese
The New Edition Story
Johnny Gill
Star
Sean “Puffy” Combs
The Bobby Brown Story
The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour

categories: American soul singers,African-American singer-songwriters,American male singers,Living people,1984 births,American singer-songwriters,African-American songwriters,21st-century American singers,Musicians from New Orleans,Songwriters from Louisiana,Singers from Louisiana

paragraph: Luke James

paragraph: Luke James Boyd (born June 13, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He began his musical career singing background for R&B artist Tyrese , where he met and was soon mentored for several years by Super producers The Underdogs with an acquaintance, Quentin, under Luke & Q. He was signed directly to J Records by Clive Davis himself and later wrote songs for musicians such as Chris Brown, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber. Under the management of record producer Danja, James released his first mixtape, "#Luke", in 2011. The mixtape's critically acclaimed single "I Want You" earned him a Best R&B Performance nomination at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. Like the first project, he released his second mixtape, "Whispers in the Dark", as a free music download in 2012. His self-titled debut studio album was released on September 23, 2014. In 2017, he starred as R&B singer Johnny Gill in the anticipated TV biopic of R&B sextet New Edition in BET's "The New Edition Story". On February 21, 2017, James announced on Twitter the title of his second album would be 'JOY'.

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

paragraph: Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised by a single mother, James was influenced by an eclectic array of music, particularly jazz and R&B. James said his love for music started when he watched a contestant perform a cover version of "A Song for You" on "Showtime at the Apollo". He said "I got chills. And I get that feeling all over again whenever I think about that performance. At the time, I'd never said I wanted to be a singer; I just knew I wanted to entertain. And I'd never heard of Donny. But when my mother found her copy of one of his records, I knew then that I wanted to reach people that way."

paragraph: As a child, James was inspired by several recording artists and musicians such as Marvin Gaye, Willie Nelson, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Alabama, among others. He credits his mother for introducing him to all kinds of music. James attended St. Augustine High School with schoolmate, (and future OFWGKTA member) singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. While in high school, he joined a musical trio named Upskale with Quinten Spears (known as Q) and Tah for a brief period, which introduced him to his longtime manager, director, and choreographer Frank Gatson. After graduating high school, the trio split and James relocated to Los Angeles, California. Q and James later formed a duo called Luke & Q, where James performed under the name Luke The Singer. Shortly after forming the group, the duo was able to be the opening act for R&B artist and actor Tyrese Gibson during one of his concerts. However, after the failure to garner both James and Q much recognition, they decided to both part ways.

paragraph: Section::::2007–present: songwriting and breakthrough.

paragraph: After disbanding, James honed his skills as a songwriter, quickly hooked up with producer Danja, and began to craft hits for those in the pop, R&B and soul genres. He also worked alongside Tank. He then began to co-write hits, such as Chris Brown's "Crawl" for his third album, "Graffiti". In addition to writing for Brown, he also wrote (or co-wrote) hits for pop artists such as Justin Bieber ("That Should Be Me"), Britney Spears ("Kill the Lights") and Keri Hilson ("Do It").

paragraph: In 2005, he appeared in Destiny's Child's Soldier video, with the members of the Upskale music trio. In 2011, he was personally selected by R&B singer Beyoncé to appear as a model/actor in her "Run the World (Girls)" music video. In December 2011, he released his debut extended play (EP) album "#Luke" as a free digital download. His first single, "I Want You", received universal acclaim from critics for its production and for James' vocal performance. The single later earned him a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards. Upon release of his second free digital mixtape, "Whispers in the Dark", in December 2012, James began to garner buzz for his formal self-titled debut album, which is expected to be released from Def Jam in early 2014. On January 8, 2013, the album's first single, "Make Love to Me", was released to iTunes one month after the music video directed by his manager Frank Gatson. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, James was nominated for Best R&B Performance award for his 2012 single "I Want You" (but he lost to Usher's "Climax"). On February 7, 2013, the song "I.O.U." was released as the second single from his anticipated debut album.

paragraph: In 2013, he was personally chosen by Beyoncé to be an opening act for her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour.

paragraph: In August 2013 he released a video for "Oh God" featuring Hit-Boy; the music video was directed by Sarah McColgan.

paragraph: On December 4, 2013, he released another visual for "Strawberry Vapors", also directed by Sarah McColgan, the song was another release off the "Whispers in the Dark" album. On December 5, 2014, James received his second career Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song for "Options (Wolfjames Version)".

paragraph: In 2016, James auditioned for the role of singer Johnny Gill in the BET Biopic Miniseries The New Edition Story, after being considered by long time music associate Elijah Kelley. Both were cast in the biopic (with Kelley in the role of Ricky Bell). In 2017, James joined the main cast of Lee Daniels' Musical Drama, Star on FOX.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Studio albums

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Luke James" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "JOY" (2017–18)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mixtapes

paragraph: BULLET::::- "#Luke" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Whispers in The Dark" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Singles

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.:Films.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rift" (as "Freddy Davis") (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Nativity" (as "Jo Jo") (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Little" (as "Trevor") (2019)

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.:Television.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003 – "Half & Half" (as "Tyrese's background singer")

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017 – "The New Edition Story" (as "Johnny Gill")

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017 – "Star" (as "Noah Brooks")

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018 – "" (as "Sean “Puffy” Combs")

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2018 – "The Bobby Brown Story" (as "Johnny Gill")

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.:Videography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "4 AM" (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Want You" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mo' Better Blues" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Make Love To Me" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love Chile" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I.O.U." (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oh God" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Strawberry Vapors" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Options" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dancing In The Dark" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Exit Wounds" (2014)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Drip" (2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Run the World" (2011)

paragraph: Section::::Tours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- BET Music Matters Tour (with Estelle), (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour , (2013–14)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sweet Talker Tour , (2014–15)

description: American actor and singer

wikidata_label: Luke James

wikipedia_title: Luke James