text: Krishna Janmashtami

text: Uttar Pradesh

text: Krishna Janmashtami

text: Pt. Baidnath Misra

text: the Government of India Act, 1935

text: Advocate General

text: Ajay Prakash

text: Munindra

text: Gayatri Devi died

text: Banaras (Varanasi)

text: Theosophical School

text: Annie Beasant

text: Indian Civil Service

text: Mahatma Gandhi

text: Allahabad High Court

text: Indian freedom struggle

text: Naini Central Jail

text: Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

text: Lal Bahadur Shastri

text: P. D. Tandon

text: Justice B. Malik

text: Chief Minister

text: Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh

text: Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

text: Dr. Sampurnanand

text: Sri C.B. Gupta

text: Smt. Sucheta Kripalani

text: Sri Charan Singh

text: High Courts

text: Supreme Court of India

text: "Maharashtra – Mysore boundary dispute"

text: "Pratap Singh Kairon"

text: "Gorakhnath Case"

text: Congress

text: Indian Congress Party Symbol Case

text: Supreme Court

text: Zamindari Abolition

text: Mrs Indira Gandhi

text: election petition case

text: Allahabad High Court

text: the Emergency

text: Bar Council

text: Harish Chandra Research Institute

text: Prayag Sangeet Samiti

text: Allahabad University

text: Sri Siddhartha Shankar Ray

text: Shanti Bhushan

text: Fali S. Nariman

text: Pt. K.L. Misra, Advocate General U.P.

text: Poem by Pt. K.L. Misra

text: Some Articles by Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra

text: Many Splendoured Man

text: Siddhartha Shankar Ray

text: Allahabad High Court

text: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra

text: Pt. K.L. Misra

categories: 20th-century Indian lawyers,Allahabad High Court,Uttar Pradesh politicians,Senior Advocates in India,Politicians from Allahabad,Indian solicitors,1969 deaths,Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh,University of Allahabad,Indian barristers,Advocate General Uttar Pradesh,Indian legal scholars,Advocates General for Indian states,Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh,1903 births,Indian Senior Counsel,People from Azamgarh,People from Mau,Quit India Movement

paragraph: Kanhaiya Lal Misra

paragraph: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra, ('Punditji'), was born on 31 August 1903 (Krishna Janmashtami) in a Brahmin family of Mariyadpur in district Azamgarh, U.P., India. He was Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh, India from 1952 to 1969.

paragraph: Section::::Birth & Parents.

paragraph: As he was born on Krishna Janmashtami his parents named him Kanhaiya Lal. He was the eldest of four sons and one daughter of Pt. Baidnath Misra, a civil and a criminal lawyer, at the Azamgarh Bar, and a long-serving M.L.C.

paragraph: Section::::Advocate General U.P. (India).

paragraph: Pt. K. L. Misra was the fourth Advocate General of the state of Uttar Pradesh since the creation of the position of Advocate General in 1937, the year that saw the formation of the first responsible representative government in the province by the Indian National Congress, under the Government of India Act, 1935. He held this position for 17 years - 1952 till 1969 - during which period different political parties across the political spectrum were elected and formed the government. This remains a record as of date - October 2015.

paragraph: He resigned as Advocate General U.P. in 1969 - the year his wife expired.

paragraph: Advocate Generals appointed till Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra:

paragraph: BULLET::::- First Advocate General 1937

paragraph: - "Dr. Narain Prasad Asthana"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second Advocate General 1942 and First Advocate General of Pakistan 1947

paragraph: - "Mr. Mohammad Wasim"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Third Advocate General 1947

paragraph: - "Sir Peary Lal Banerji"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fourth Advocate General 1952 till 1969

paragraph: - "Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra"

paragraph: Section::::Marriage & Children.

paragraph: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra married twice.

paragraph: His first marriage was to Savitri Devi who bore two children Shanti (daughter) and Vijay Prakash (son).

paragraph: After the demise of Savitri Devi, he married Gayatri Devi who gave birth to the remaining children: Ravindra Prakash (son), Ajay Prakash (son), Jyoti (daughter), Priti (daughter), Ranjan (son) and Munindra (son).

paragraph: Smt Gayatri Devi died on 29 April 1969.

paragraph: Section::::Timeline.

paragraph: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra studied at Banaras (Varanasi) in the Theosophical School under Dr. Mrs. Annie Beasant.

paragraph: 1925 - Graduated with honours in Economics securing 91% marks in English.

paragraph: 1926 - Sat for the Indian Civil Service Examination and securing 150/150 in the English paper, an unbreakable record. However, due to his student day's speeches of freedom and his influence by Mahatma Gandhi he was not selected.

paragraph: 1927 - Passed his Law Examination and joint the District Bar.

paragraph: 1930 - October, shifted to the Allahabad High Court. He had an exceptional command of the Hindi, English and Urdu language.

paragraph: 1942 - Imprisoned during the Indian freedom struggle in the Naini Central Jail along with Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, P. D. Tandon and others.

paragraph: 1951 - Offered Judgeship but on his request he was reluctantly not appointed. He attained eminence in the legal field with his flare of advocacy, depth of learning, sweet trapping court craft, humility, and a photogenic memory. His simplicity and brilliance was his landmark.

paragraph: 1952 - Appointed Advocate General, U.P. and continued till 9 March 1969 irrespective of the political party which came to power during this period.

paragraph: 1955 - Offered Supreme Court Judgeship (being the first advocate to receive such distinction) without being a judge. He requested through the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court – Justice B. Malik, the then Chief Minister and Home Minister to spare him which again they did reluctantly. His reason was that he wanted to be in public life, serving institutions and the public at large.

paragraph: 1969 - Resigned as Advocate General U.P. - the year his wife expired.

paragraph: As Advocate General U.P. he was closely associated with the Government and the Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dr. Sampurnanand,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sri C.B. Gupta,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Smt. Sucheta Kripalani and

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sri Charan Singh.

paragraph: He attained excellence in the legal profession in the country and appeared in most High Courts and Supreme Court of India. During the time he was Advocate General of U.P. and even thereafter he appeared for several states of the country in important cases, viz. Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal etc.

paragraph: Some famous cases conducted by him were the "Blitz case" in the Bombay High Court, "Maharashtra – Mysore boundary dispute""," case of Sri "Pratap Singh Kairon", for States of West Bengal and Bihar, in-famous "Symbol Case" before the Election Commission, "Gorakhnath Case" in the Supreme Court and in the case against "Murdhra" etc. He had the distinction of appearing against almost all the top advocates of the country.

paragraph: He appeared successfully for the state of Bihar against the Raja of Ramgarh in the Calcutta High court. He commanded the top position on both civil and criminal side and attained the position of a legal luminary and senior advocate.

paragraph: Pt. K.L. Misra conducted on behalf of the ruling Congress, the Indian Congress Party Symbol Case in the Supreme Court, was also responsible for defending the State Government in the State Zamindari Abolition case and defended for some time Mrs Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister, in her election petition case at the Allahabad High Court prior to his falling ill and thereafter the case was handed over to Mr. Sri Satish Chand Khare, Senior Advocate. Mrs Gandhi subsequently lost this case which led to the Emergency being imposed in India

paragraph: Section::::Social Works.

paragraph: He was the Chairman of the Bar Council (17/12/1961 to 09/03/1969), President of the Bar Association of Allahabad, President of the Harish Chandra Research Institute and member of its executive council, President of the Prayag Sangeet Samiti, President of the to name a few. He also had the honour to serve the Allahabad University as its Hon' Treasurer and as a member of its executive council and also judged answer papers of the Law examination way above the L.L.B. degree that he held as his personal educational qualification in Law.

paragraph: A relatively unknown trait of Punditji was his poetry writing capabilities (in Hindi) when emotionally charged - like on demise of his wife, Gayatri Devi.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sri Siddhartha Shankar Ray

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father' "by Munindra Misra"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'Courting Destiny' "by Shanti Bhushan"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography' "by Fali S. Nariman"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pt. K.L. Misra, Advocate General U.P.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Poem by Pt. K.L. Misra

paragraph: BULLET::::- Some Articles by Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra

paragraph: BULLET::::- Many Splendoured Man by Sri Siddhartha Shankar Ray (Allahabad High Court Centenary)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pt. K.L. Misra

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allahabad High Court Centenary Celebration (1866-1966) Vol. 1 & 2 and Post Centenary Silver Jubilee Celebration (1866-1991) Vol. 1 & 2

paragraph: BULLET::::- Keynote Address on the 100th Birth Anniversary of Pt. K.L Misra - Lecture on Spirituality and Law

description: Previous Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh

wikidata_label: Kanhaiya Lal Misra

wikipedia_title: Kanhaiya Lal Misra


text:
bhikkhuni
Lin Daiyu
Dream of the Red Chamber
Buddhist nun
Anshan
Liaoning
Lin Daiyu
CCTV
Buddhist nun
Chin Kung
Dharma name
breast cancer
Shenzhen
Ba Jin

categories: People's Republic of China poets,Chinese Buddhist nuns,People's Republic of China Buddhists,Deaths from breast cancer,Chinese television actresses,Poets from Liaoning,People from Anshan,2007 deaths,Actresses from Liaoning,1965 births,Chinese film actresses,Businesspeople from Liaoning,Deaths from cancer in the People's Republic of China

paragraph: Chen Xiaoxu

paragraph: Chen Xiaoxu (; October 29, 1965 – May 13, 2007), Buddhism Dharma name Miao Zhen () in the period of been a bhikkhuni, was a Chinese actress, famous for her role as Lin Daiyu in 1987 TV series "Dream of the Red Chamber". And since february 23, 2007, she became a bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun) in Baiguoxinglong Temple, Changchun (). She died of breast cancer on May 13, 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Chen Xiaoxu was born in Anshan, Liaoning in 1965. She became famous for her role as Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber", a CCTV series in 1987.

paragraph: However, Chen did not stay in the entertainment industry for long. She decided to begin a career in advertising. At the time, she was the General Manager for Shi Bang Advertisement Co. Ltd. () and Shi Bang Culture Development Co. Ltd. ()

paragraph: In 2007, less than two months before her death, Chen became a Buddhist nun, ordained by Master Chin Kung, and was given the Dharma name Miaozhen ().

paragraph: Chen died of breast cancer in Shenzhen on May 13, 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1984-1987—was cast in the China Central Television series, "Dream of Red Mansions", and played the role of Lin Daiyu

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1988—was cast in the Shanghai TV series, "The Family, Spring and Autumn" (an adaptation of Ba Jin's fictional trilogy), and played the role of Cousin Mei.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998 She became the general manager and director of Beijing Cultural Development Co, Ltd

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 She was named one of "China's "30 outstanding women in advertising" in the competition of "China's Advertising Billboard"

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Before the shooting of "Dream of Red Mansions" was completed, Chen married her boyfriend, whom she had known since childhood, and was her colleague in Anshan Modern Drama troupe. But the marriage did not last and ended in divorce.

paragraph: Chen's second husband was Hao Tong, a student of Beijing Film Academy. Described as handsome and tall, he made her acquaintance due to graduate work. They both eventually turned to Buddhism.

description: Chinese actress

wikidata_label: Chen Xiaoxu

wikipedia_title: Chen Xiaoxu


text:
Sufi
Buner
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
Yusufzai
Pashtuns
Fergana
Uzbekistan
Sayyid
Mughal
Akbar
Bayazid Pir Roshan
Babur's
Daulat Khan
Yusufzai
Pashtun
Buner
Buner District
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Taliban
Pir Baba site

paragraph: Pir Baba

paragraph: Sayyid Ali Tirmizi (), more commonly known as Pir Baba (), was a Sufi who settled in Buner (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) among the Yusufzai Pashtuns. He was probably born in 908 AH (1502 CE), in Fergana (present-day Uzbekistan), of Sayyid descent, died in AH 991 (1583 CE). He was a supporter of the Mughal emperor Akbar, and was an opponent of Bayazid Pir Roshan.

paragraph: It is claimed that Pir Baba was the son of Sayyid Qanbar Ali, who was in emperor Babur's army and had come down to Delhi. His mother was of Uzbek origin. Baba was more inclined towards Islamic studies. Baba supposedly married a sister of Daulat Khan a Yusufzai; a respected Pashtun from Buner.

paragraph: He had 2 sons, Sayyid Habibullāh Shaah and Sayyid Mustafa Shaah.

paragraph: Section::::Shrine (Mazar).

paragraph: Baba's grave and shrine is in Pacha Killay village in the mountainous Buner District of present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

paragraph: The shrine was closed by the Taliban temporarily.

paragraph: Section::::Urs Mubarak.

paragraph: The annual "Urs" or Pilgrimage of Hazrat Pir Baba is celebrated from 24 to 26 Rajab of the Islamic calendar every year in Buner.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pir Baba site

description: Saint,Sufi,Arabic descent

wikidata_label: Syed Ali Shah Tirmizi

wikipedia_title: Pir Baba


text:
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Galmier
French
track
road bicycle racer
time trialist
pursuit
1960 Tour de France
Col de Perjuret
Mont Aigoual
Massif Central
Gastone Nencini
velodrome
Jacques Anquetil
pursuit
Parc des Princes
Paris
Albert Bouvet
Rocourt
Belgium
Raphaël Géminiani
Ercole Baldini
Milan
national service
Joinville
battalion
Leandro Faggin
soigneur
René de Latour
Sporting Cyclist
Henry Anglade
yellow jersey
Lorient
Hans Junkermann
Jean Adriaenssens
Belgium
Gastone Nencini
Italy
Millau
Avignon
Marcel Bidot
Montpellier
Antoine Blondin
Palfium
amphetamine
wheelchair
Velodromo Vigorelli
track
Milan
hour record
Rhone Valley
Gitane
List of doping cases in cycling

categories: French Tour de France stage winners,French Vuelta a España stage winners,Doping cases in cycling,UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men),French male cyclists,Tour de France cyclists,1976 deaths,1936 births,Vuelta a España cyclists,Sportspeople from Saint-Étienne

paragraph: Roger Rivière

paragraph: Roger Rivière (23 February 1936, Saint-Étienne – 1 April 1976, Saint-Galmier) was a French track and road bicycle racer. He raced as a professional from 1957 to 1960.

paragraph: Rivière, a time trialist, all-around talent on the road, and a three-time world pursuit champion on the track, lost his career to injury. He was considered to have a chance of winning the 1960 Tour de France but crashed on the Col de Perjuret descent of Mont Aigoual in the Massif Central while following leader Gastone Nencini. Rivière hit a guard-block on the edge of the road, falling 20 meters into a ravine. He landed in brush, breaking two vertebrae.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Rivière started as a track rider, at the old velodrome in St-Étienne. At 19 he beat Jacques Anquetil for the national pursuit championship at the Parc des Princes in Paris. He turned professional in 1957, when he beat Albert Bouvet to win the world pursuit championship at Rocourt, Belgium.

paragraph: Section::::Hour record.

paragraph: On the advice of his team manager, Raphaël Géminiani, and his agent, Daniel Dousset, Rivière attempted Ercole Baldini's hour record on 18 September 1957 at the Vigorelli track in Milan. He was still in national service in the army at Joinville, near Paris, although in a battalion which allowed the country's top athletes to train at public expense. He rode a 7.28m gear and took the record with 46 km 923m.

paragraph: He won the world pursuit championship again in 1958, at the Parc des Princes, beating Leandro Faggin in the final with 5m 59s, the first time the title had been won in less than six minutes. He said he would attack the hour again, on 23 September. He rode 53×15 (7.48 m), higher than that usually used by sprinters. He punctured but started again and became the first rider to exceed 47 km/h.

paragraph: Pierre Chany wrote:

paragraph: Rivière thought the draught blowing through the stadium too strong and wanted to return to his hotel. At 6pm he agreed with Dousset and his soigneur, Roger Provost, to start the ride.

paragraph: René de Latour wrote in Sporting Cyclist:

paragraph: On finishing, he asked journalists whether he was talking coherently and not still giddy from going round and round the track. His record lasted nine years.

paragraph: Section::::Tour de France crash.

paragraph: Rivière was one of 14 riding for France in 1960. It was his second participation and he had become one of the favourites. But his talent made him careless with training and what he ate. Rivière had a personal war with another French rider, Henry Anglade. Rivière won the opening time trial but Anglade had the yellow jersey of leadership by day six. Rivière took his revenge, even though they were in the same team, by attacking 112 km from the finish at Lorient. He beat Anglade by 14 minutes.

paragraph: Only a German, Hans Junkermann, Jean Adriaenssens of Belgium, and Gastone Nencini of Italy could stay with him. Rivière won the stage and Nencini the overall lead.

paragraph: The Tour took the Perjuret on 10 July 1960 on a stage from Millau to Avignon. It had never previously been that way. Rivière followed Nencini wherever he went. He had only to hold him until the final time-trial and beat him by 1m 38s to win the Tour. On the zig-zags of the col de Perjuret, Nencini passed fourth with Rivière behind him. Nencini was known as the fastest descender in the world, famous for his dangerous and risky trajectories, and Rivière tried to follow him. He hit a low wall soon after the start of the descent and fell over it, rolling down the slope. A team-mate, Louis Rostollan, raised his hand to call the team manager, Marcel Bidot. He, journalists and officials found Rostollan peering into the ravine. Rivière's bike was nearby, its forks pushed back and its frame twisted. Rivière had broken his back. A helicopter took him to hospital in Montpellier.

paragraph: Antoine Blondin wrote:

paragraph: Doctors found pain-killers in Rivière's pockets and more in his body. Rivière nevertheless blamed his mechanic, saying his brakes were faulty. "I pulled them on but they didn't work." The brakes were examined and found to be faultless. He then said there was oil on his rims. He withdrew the accusation in face of criticism. He later sold the story of his drug use to a newspaper, admitting he had taken Palfium during the climb of the Perjuret, a painkiller that could have affected his reflexes and judgment. In 1961, "Miroir du Cyclisme" republished an article originally written for "Libre Santé" by Rivière's friend and dietician, Clarisse Brobecker. She confirmed the theory that Rivière was so numbed by painkillers that he either hadn't attempted to pull on the brakes or had been unable to.

paragraph: Rivière admitted taking amphetamines and solucamphor during his hour record in 1958 – including tablets during the attempt. He said he had an injection of solucamphor and amphetamine before the start and swallowed several amphetamine tablets.

paragraph: Section::::Retirement and death.

paragraph: Rivière never regained full use of his limbs. He lived the rest of his life in a wheelchair, considered an 80 per cent invalid. He opened a restaurant in Saint-Etienne called 'Le Vigorelli', after the Velodromo Vigorelli track in Milan where he twice set the world hour record. It failed and he opened a garage, and finally a holiday camp in the Rhone Valley. Those too failed. "Rivière, who succeeded at the impossible, found the possible more difficult," said the writer, Olivier Dazat.

paragraph: Rivière died of throat cancer at 40.

paragraph: Section::::Major road victories.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1960

paragraph: Section::::Major track victories and records.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1957

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1958

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1959

paragraph: Section::::Signature bicycles.

paragraph: Gitane, Rivière's last sponsor, manufactured a Roger Rivière signature series of bicycles in the 1970s. The production of the Rivière line coincided with the 20th century "bike boom".

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of doping cases in cycling

paragraph: Section::::External links.

description: French racing cyclist

wikidata_label: Roger Rivière

wikipedia_title: Roger Rivière


text: cameraman

text: Palestine Hotel

text: Baghdad, Iraq

text: Complutense University of Madrid

text: EFE

text: Canal Plus

text: Telecinco

text: Macedonia

text: Kosovo War

text: Lascaux

text: incident

text: Perejil Island

text: "Prestige" oil spill

text: Telecinco

text: Palestine Hotel

text: 3rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army

text: Tigris

text: mortar

text: rocket-propelled grenade

text: CENTCOM

text: M1 Abrams

text: Rheinmetall L44

text: Reuters

text: Taras Protsyuk

text: U.S. 3rd Infantry Division

text: Spanish

text: arrest warrant

text: Telecinco

text: M1 Abrams tank

text: Baghdad

text: Hotel Palestine

text: Reuters

text: cameraman

text: Taras Protsyuk

text: Reporters Without Borders

text: Supreme Court of Spain

text: The Pentagon

text: Audiencia Nacional of Spain

text: Supreme Court of Spain

text: prosecutor

text: Julio Anguita Parrado

text: Democracy Now!

text: Trialwatch

categories: Spanish photojournalists,Journalists killed while covering the Iraq War,2003 deaths,War photographers,Complutense University of Madrid alumni,Telecinco,1965 births,Spanish television journalists,People from Ferrol, Galicia

paragraph: José Couso

paragraph: José Couso Permuy (5 October 1965 – 8 April 2003) was a Spanish cameraman who was one of the April 8, 2003 journalist deaths by U.S. fire after a U.S. tank fired at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: José Couso was born in Ferrol in 1965 to a family of military tradition. He graduated with a degree in Communication and Media Studies from Complutense University of Madrid. He worked on assignments for several organizations, including EFE and Canal Plus, and was a cameraman for the Telecinco television network for eight years, covering major news stories such as the kidnapping of his coworker Jon Sistiaga in Macedonia, the 1998 Baghdad bombings, the Kosovo War in 1999, various reports from the "BIO Hespérides" ship in Antarctica in 2001, a report from the French caves of Lascaux, the incident on Perejil Island during the same year, and the "Prestige" oil spill.

paragraph: José Couso was married and had two children.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Gulf War.

paragraph: Couso went to Iraq, along with several coworkers from Telecinco, right before the 2003 invasion. Of the group, only two stayed in Baghdad: Jon Sistiaga as a journalist and José Couso as a camera operator. The other members of the team went back to Spain a few days before the bombings began.

paragraph: On 8 April 2003, José Couso was at the Palestine Hotel, where many foreign reporters were staying. At that time, a company of the 3rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army was fighting on the other side of the river Tigris, where it was fired on by mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. According to the subsequent report issued by CENTCOM, enemy fire was aimed by an observer located on the same side of the Tigris as the Palestine Hotel. After looking for the alleged observer, an M1 Abrams tank fired its 120mm Rheinmetall L44 cannon at the hotel. The round hit the 15th floor, where the Reuters team was staying, causing the immediate death of the Ukrainian journalist Taras Protsyuk. At the time, José Couso was filming on the 14th floor and was seriously injured. Couso was transported to a Baghdad hospital, where he died during an operation.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Military personnel involved.

paragraph: U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (then Sergeant) Shawn Gibson (alt: Timothy, Tom) of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division is one of three US soldiers for whom a Spanish court issued an international arrest warrant citing the murder of Telecinco cameraman José Couso in April 2003.

paragraph: The 38-year-old Gibson was commanding an M1 Abrams tank, when he was ordered to fire on Baghdad's Hotel Palestine after he reported seeing somebody with binoculars on the rooftop. His single shell hit a 15th floor balcony, killing Couso and Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk. He was later quoted as saying "I didn’t fire immediately. I called my chiefs and told them what I’d seen. Ten minutes later they called me and told me to fire and I did." (Tape B, 1:11:45)

paragraph: In August 2003 the US military announced the results of an enquiry into the incident, which concluded that the firing of the shell was legitimate because there was positive evidence they were under observation from attackers. Six months later Reporters Without Borders announced that, while they did not think there was a case against the three ground-level soldiers involved, they wanted to see an investigation launched into their superior officers.

paragraph: In March 2006, the charges against Gibson were dismissed, but the Supreme Court of Spain overruled that decision in January 2007 and Gibson's arrest was reordered.

paragraph: Section::::Reactions to Couso's death.

paragraph: The Pentagon acknowledged the source of the attack, alleging that the soldiers who fired on the hotel, under the command of Sergeant Thomas Gibson, were replying to enemy fire.

paragraph: Following the death of Couso, there were protests in front of the American diplomatic posts in Spain and several civil and judicial actions in order to determine the liability of the people involved. Up to now, there are still concentrations of people demanding justice on the 8th of each month in front of the United States Embassy in Madrid.

paragraph: On 19 October 2005, the Audiencia Nacional of Spain opened a preliminary investigation with an international arrest warrant against three of the involved U.S. military personnel. During the investigation. it called as witnesses the journalists Olga Rodríguez, Jon Sistiaga and Carlos Hernández.

paragraph: The Sala II de lo Penal of the Audiencia Nacional closed the investigation on 10 March 2006, saying that the event was an act of war, a decision which was appealed by the family of the deceased before the Tribunal Supremo. On 5 December 2006 the Supreme Court of Spain () unanimously granted the appeal by Couso's family against the decision by the Audiencia Nacional.

paragraph: Santiago Pedraz, judge of the Audiencia Nacional, reactivated the international arrest warrant against the 3 military personnel on 16 January 2007, after a protracted battle against the state prosecutor. Pedraz accused the soldiers of murder and of a crime against the international community.

paragraph: On 27 April 2007, the judge indicted the three soldiers on the count of murdering Couso. He also accused them of a crime against the international community on the basis of having attacked journalists. The Sala de lo Penal revoked this decision on 13 May 2008, backing the position of the state prosecutor, which asked for the case to be dismissed.

paragraph: On 21 May 2009, Judge Pedraz indicted the 3 U.S. soldiers again.

paragraph: On 29 July 2010, Judge Santiago Pedraz launched a search and arrest warrant against the 3 U.S. soldiers.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- April 8, 2003 journalist deaths by U.S. fire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Julio Anguita Parrado

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leaked Cables Reveal U.S. Pressured Spain to Drop Case of Killed Cameraman – video report by "Democracy Now!"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trialwatch

description: Spanish photojournalist

wikidata_label: José Couso Permuy

wikipedia_title: José Couso


text: generalissimo

text: pharaoh

text: Tutankhamun

text: Eighteenth Dynasty

text: Ancient Egypt

text: scribe

text: ushabti

text: Ay

text: Horemheb

text: Ay

text: Min

text: Isis

text: Egyptian Museum

text: Cairo

text: Viceroy of Kush

text: Paser I

text: Ay

text: persecution even after death

text: stelae

text: Akhmim

text: Tey

text: Mut

text: Second Prophet of Amun

categories: Ancient Egyptian scribes,Officials of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt,Heirs to the ancient Egyptian throne

paragraph: Nakhtmin

paragraph: Nakhtmin (also Minnakht) held the position of generalissimo during the reign of pharaoh Tutankhamun of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. His titles during the reign of Tutankhamun included "the true servant who is beneficial to his lord, the king's scribe," "the servant beloved of his lord," "the Fan-bearer on the Right Side of the King," and "the servant who causes to live the name of his lord." These titles were found on five ushabtis that Nakhtmin offered as funerary presents for pharaoh Tutankhamun.

paragraph: He was the heir to the throne during the reign of the pharaoh Ay though he never became a pharaoh. It is assumed by scholars that he died towards the end of the reign of Ay (when he seemingly vanished from all records) and Horemheb, the designated heir of Tutankhamun, became pharaoh instead.

paragraph: Section::::Crown Prince.

paragraph: The identity of Nakhtmin's father is not known with certainty. Some scholars suggest that he may have been the son of pharaoh Ay, his mother being known from a statue to be the 'Adoratrix of Min, Songstress of Isis' Iuy. Nakhtmin appears to have been the chosen successor to Ay, but died before he could succeed. On a beautiful statue of Nakhtmin and his wife in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Nakhtmin was identified as the "Crown Prince" (jrj-pꜥt) and "King's Son". (zꜣ-nzw) This title could be completed as "King's Son of his own body," which would make him the son of Ay, or it could be completed as the "King's Son of Kush". There is no record of a Viceroy of Kush by the name of Nakhtmin, and it seems that the nobleman Paser I was Viceroy during that time period. This has led to the identification of Nakhtmin as Ay's son, or adopted son.

paragraph: The statue with the inscription has suffered extensive damage. Only two pieces remain, the head and shoulders of Nakhtmin and the upper part of the body and head of his wife. Both statues look as though the eyes, nose and mouth have been deliberately damaged. This has been interpreted as some form of persecution even after death. His stelae—which had been set up at his (and Ay's) native city of Akhmim—were defaced. It is assumed that his tomb, which was never discovered, has been given the same treatment as that of Ay.

paragraph: Another man called Nakhtmin was married to Mutemnub, the sister of Ay's wife Tey. They had a son named Ay, who was High Priest of Mut and Second Prophet of Amun.

description: Ancient Egyptian scribe, general

wikidata_label: Nakhtmin

wikipedia_title: Nakhtmin


text:
Saint
French
Roman Catholic
prelate
Bishop of Saint-Brieuc
Saint-Alban
Saint-Brieuc
minor orders
canon
Tours Cathedral
ordained
priesthood
Bishop of Saint-Brieuc
famine
duke
Peter I
Poitiers
Pope Gregory IX
incorrupt
French Revolution
Pope Innocent IV
Saints SQPN
Catholic Online
Santi e Beati

categories: French Roman Catholic bishops,Venerated Catholics,French Roman Catholic saints,13th-century Roman Catholic bishops,13th-century Roman Catholics,Medieval Breton saints,1175 births,13th-century Christian saints,1234 deaths,People from Côtes-d'Armor,13th-century venerated Christians,13th-century Breton people

paragraph: William Pinchon

paragraph: Saint Guillaume Pinchon (c. 1175 - 29 July 1234) was a French Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Saint-Brieuc from his appointment in 1220 until his death. He was a champion for the poor and defended the rights and privileges of the Church against secular intervention though this was a cause for his exile from his diocese. He returned not long after his exile and set himself on the construction of a new cathedral which was still in construction at the time he died.

paragraph: His canonization was celebrated on 24 March 1247.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Guillaume Pinchon was born circa 1175 in Saint-Alban to the peasants Oliver Pinchon and Jane Fortin.

paragraph: He first studied in Saint-Brieuc where he received the minor orders and he served as an aide to three bishops - later his three immediate predecessors in the diocese. He first served as a canon for the Tours Cathedral after Bishop Josselin ordained him to the priesthood.

paragraph: Pinchon was appointed as the Bishop of Saint-Brieuc in 1220. He was known for his staunch defense of Church rights against secular intervention and was a champion of the poor. In 1225 he sold all his possessions in a famine to aid the poor and homeless. The duke Peter I forced him into a brief exile in 1228 and he spent that time living for a while in Poitiers before he returned to his diocese in 1230 after the duke reconciled with Pope Gregory IX. It was during his exile in Poitiers that he assisted the ill bishop there and helped him in his ecclesial duties.

paragraph: The bishop was noted for his meekness and for his self-mortifications. He slept on bare boards despite the poor making a soft and comfortable one for him and also borrowed corn often to help the poor who starved.

paragraph: He died in 1234 and his remains were later discovered in 1236 to be incorrupt. His relics were burned sometime during the French Revolution.

paragraph: Section::::Sainthood.

paragraph: Pope Innocent IV canonized Pinchon on 24 March 1247.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saints SQPN

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Online

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santi e Beati

description: Bishop of Saint-Brieuc

wikidata_label: William Pinchon

wikipedia_title: William Pinchon


text: ultramontane

text: Berlioz

text: Liszt

text: Journal des débats

text: Le Ménestrel

text: Cavaillon

text: Oratorian

text: Tournon

text: Provence

text: Carmelites

text: Jesuits

text: Bernardin

text: Castil-Blaze

text: Aix-en-Provence

text: Université d'Aix

text: salon

text: Aix Cathedral

text: Apt

text: pamphlet

text: Rossini

text: Felicité de Lamennais

text: Brittany

text: 1830 Revolution

text: Liberal Catholic

text: Sainte-Baume

text: Franz Liszt

text: Hector Berlioz

text: Issy-les-Moulineaux

text: Rue Saint-Lazare

text: Lycée Henri-IV

text: 1851 Great Exhibition

text: Benvenuto Cellini

text: Paris Opera

text: Legion of Honour

text: plain chant

text: liturgical music

text: Louis Niedermeyer

text: Journal des débats

text: Le Ménestrel

text: Armand de Pontmartin

text: Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

text: Montmartre Cemetery

text: Silvestre de Sacy

text: Joseph d'Ortigue

text: Joseph d' Ortigue (1802-1866)

text: Bibliothèque nationale de France

text: "Le balcon de l'opéra"

text: archive.org

text: "Études biographiques: Franz Liszt"

text: "La musique à l'église"

categories: 1802 births,1866 deaths,19th-century French journalists,French music critics,19th-century French musicologists

paragraph: Joseph d'Ortigue

paragraph: Joseph Louis d'Ortigue (22 May 1802 – 20 November 1866) was a French musicologist and critic. A specialist in liturgical music and a conservative Catholic of ultramontane and royalist leanings, he was a close friend of both Berlioz and Liszt. His most influential work was "Dictionnaire liturgique, historique, et theorique de plain-chant et le musique d'église", but he was also wrote for many of the most prominent periodicals of the day, including "Journal des débats" and "Le Ménestrel" where he was the editor-in-chief from 1863 until his sudden death at the age of 64.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: D'Ortigue was born in Cavaillon, the son of Jacques and Marie Marguerite ("née" Gaussen) d'Ortigue. His father was a justice of the peace and former army officer who had been educated at the Oratorian college in Tournon. The d'Ortigue family had lived in Provence for nearly six centuries, serving as magistrates, notaries, and legislators. Many other members had served as Catholic clergy or nuns. Five of the twelve brothers and sisters of d'Ortigue's grandfather, Henri Francois Xavier, had entered religious orders (two Carmelites, two Jesuits and one Bernardin). D'Ortigue received his earliest music education in Cavaillon, studying piano, violin and organ with his mother's cousin Henri Sébastien Blaze and Blaze's son Castil-Blaze. Later, his parents sent him to Aix-en-Provence to be educated in the humanities by the Jesuits, and then, acceding to their wishes, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the Université d'Aix. However, during his time at the university he also continued his study of the violin and took part in concerts at amateur salons and the Aix Cathedral.

paragraph: Section::::First steps as a writer.

paragraph: After finishing his law studies in 1827, d'Ortigue went to Paris to serve his internship. However, he soon became involved in the musical and literary life of the city, and in 1827 the journal "Mémorial Catholique" published his first piece of music criticism. He took up an appointment in Apt as a "juge auditeur" in 1828, but after a few months made the decision to abandon a legal career for a literary one. He returned to Paris in 1829, continued writing for "Mémorial Catholique", and produced his first pamphlet, "De la Guerre des dilettanti". The pamphlet which was critical of Rossini's influence on France's operatic and artistic life in general caused a considerable stir. Long an admirer of the Catholic priest and philosopher Felicité de Lamennais, d'Ortigue sent him a copy of "De la Guerre des dilettanti". Lamennais invited him to work and study at La Chênaie, his house in Brittany. During his six months at La Chênaie d'Ortigue immersed himself in Lamennais's extensive library, became acquainted with the German philosophers, and researched the music of the ancient Greeks and Romans. He would later help Lamennais write the sections on music in his "Esquisse d'une philosophie".

paragraph: D'Ortigue returned to Paris in July 1830 when the city was in the midst of the 1830 Revolution. He became a founding editor of the short-lived journal "L'Avenir" which was established by Lamennais in 1830 to espouse his Liberal Catholic philosophy. D'Ortigue also wrote for several other journals including "Le Correspondant", "Le Courrier de l'Europe", "La Quotidienne", "Gazette musicale de Paris", and "Revue de Paris". In 1833 he published "Le Balcon de l'Opéra", a collection of his music criticism, and the following year a two-volume novel, "La Sainte-Baume". Partially autobiographical, "La Sainte-Baume" recounts the pilgrimage of two artists to Sainte-Baume and expresses many of the philosophical and aesthetic views, especially those concerning music, that would mark d'Ortigue's work. During this time he also established close friendships with Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz and wrote the first serious biographies the composers. His biography of Berlioz was published in "Revue de Paris" in 1832. His biography of Liszt was published in "Gazette musicale de Paris" in 1835. It was d'Ortigue who arranged for Liszt, who shared many of his views on Catholicism and the role of the artist in society, to meet Abbé Lammenais in 1834. Both Liszt and d'Ortigue were also among the earliest champions of Berlioz's music.

paragraph: Section::::Mature years.

paragraph: In February 1835 d'Ortigue married Fanny (Suzanne Françoise) François at Issy-les-Moulineaux where d'Ortigue was living at the time. Two of the couple's three children, Marie and Jacques, were born there. In 1840 they moved to a town house in Paris on the Rue Saint-Lazare where d'Ortigue would live for the rest of his life and where their youngest child, Jeanne, was born in 1843. From the late 1830s d'Ortigue took on a variety of posts in addition to his music journalism. In 1837 he was hired to catalogue the medieval music manuscripts in the Royal Library and in 1839 he was appointed professor of choral singing at the Lycée Henri-IV. During this time he was also involved in organ manufacturing and sales and published articles on the history of the organ. It was an interest he would maintain throughout his life, later advising Berlioz, who was a musical instrument judge at the 1851 Great Exhibition, on the merits of French organs and composing some pieces of organ music himself. His reaction to the treatment of Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" by the Paris Opera, the public, and most music critics led to his publication of a 350-page work, "De l'École musicale italienne et de l'administration de l'Académie royale de musique, à l'occasion de l'opéra de M. H. Berlioz", in which he strongly defended Berlioz. Three years later d'Ortigue was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

paragraph: In 1852 d'Ortigue published the work which cemented his reputation as a musicologist—"Dictionnaire liturgique, historique et théorique de plain-chant et le musique d'église". This dictionary of plain chant and liturgical music was over a thousand pages long and fifteen years in the writing. In 1857 he collaborated with Louis Niedermeyer in the founding of "La Maîtrise", a journal devoted to church music which published many of Niedermeyer's works. They also co-wrote "Traité théorique et pratique de l'accompagnement du Plain-Chant", a treatise on the theory and practice of plain chant accompaniment published in 1856. After the demise of "La Maîtrise", d'Ortigue and founded the "Journal des Maîtrises" in 1862. This periodical was short-lived and reflected d'Ortigue's increasingly conservative principles concerning in sacred music. Throughout this time, he continued writing as a music critic for multiple French periodicals and in 1861 published "La musique à l'église", an anthology of those reviews and articles which pertained to sacred music. The last three years of d'Ortigue's life found his influence and authority on musical matters at their height. In 1863, he took over from Berlioz as the chief music critic of "Journal des débats" and became the editor-in-chief of "Le Ménestrel". He was invited to judge international competitions, sat on various government commissions, and became a member of the music academies of both German and Italy.

paragraph: D'Ortigue died suddenly of a stroke on 20 November 1866. He was 64. Armand de Pontmartin wrote in one the many obituaries lamenting his early death that d'Ortigue had died in the fullness of his intellectual powers and at the climax of his career, surrounded by a brilliant group of younger musicians and critics who looked to him for guidance. After d'Ortigue's funeral at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, he was buried in Montmartre Cemetery. The eulogy at his graveside was given by Auguste Léo, a young editor at the "Journal des débats" who also read out passages from the journal's tribute to d'Ortigue written by Silvestre de Sacy. D'Ortigue's widow, Fanny, died in 1881 at the age of 79.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph d'Ortigue (on the International Music Score Library Project)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph d' Ortigue (1802-1866) (at the Bibliothèque nationale de France)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ortigue, Joseph Louis d' (1833). "Le balcon de l'opéra". Renduel (on archive.org)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ortigue, Joseph Louis d' (14 June 1835). "Études biographiques: Franz Liszt". "Gazette musicale de Paris", 2 Année, N. 24, pp. 197–204 (on archive.org)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ortigue, Joseph Louis d' (1840). "Du théâtre italien et de son influence sur le goût musical françois". Pollet (on archive.org)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ortigue, Joseph Louis d' (1853). "Dictionnaire liturgique, historique et théorique de plain-chant et le musique d'église". J-P Migne (on archive.org)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ortigue, Joseph Louis d' (1861). "La musique à l'église". Didier (on archive.org)

description: French music critic, writer and musicologist

wikidata_label: Joseph Ortigue

wikipedia_title: Joseph d'Ortigue


text:
Spanish
archaeologist
Iberian
Prehistory Museum of Valencia
Consuelo Mata Parreño
Valencian Community
oppida
pottery
Llíria
Puntal dels Llops
Olocau
Villar del Arzobispo
La Bastida de les Alcusses
Moixent
Iberian culture
Prehistory Museum of Valencia
List of works, Dialnet

categories: 1953 births,Spanish writers,Spanish archaeologists

paragraph: Helena Bonet Rosado

paragraph: Helena Bonet Rosado (born 1953, València) is a Spanish archaeologist who specialises in Iberian material culture. She has published two books and over 80 articles or chapters on Iberian archaeology, as well as editing a number of titles. She is currently the Director of the Prehistory Museum of Valencia (appointed in 2004).

paragraph: Section::::Notable work.

paragraph: Bonet, along with Consuelo Mata Parreño and Joan Bernabeu Auban, published early work on the organisation of Iberian polities in the Valencian Community, arguing for hierarchical relationships between oppida in the region.

paragraph: Bonet and Mata also published a typology of Iberian fine (class A) and coarse (class B) pottery, which is widely used by Iberian archaeologists.

paragraph: In 1995, Bonet published the site of ancient Edeta, modern Tossal de Sant Miguel, near the town of Llíria. Bonet argued that Edeta was the capital of a large Iberian polity covering the Camp de Túria, based on its exceptional size (up to 15 hectares), large houses with rich furnishing, specialised ceramic production, appearance in the historical accounts, and the surrounding systems of watchtowers or smaller hillforts and arterial roads.

paragraph: Bonet and Mata led the excavation of Puntal dels Llops, a small Iberian hilltop fort near modern Olocau. Further excavations include the small Iberian sites of La Seña (Villar del Arzobispo) and Castellet de Bernabé (Llíria). Bonet and colleagues have more recently published on the ancient oppidum of La Bastida de les Alcusses, near modern Moixent.

paragraph: Bonet and Mata have also published on the lives of women in Iberian prehistory, the subject also of a 2006 exhibition at the Valencian Museum of Prehistory.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Iberian culture

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prehistory Museum of Valencia

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of works, Dialnet

description: Spanish archaeologist

wikidata_label: Helena Bonet Rosado

wikipedia_title: Helena Bonet Rosado


text: OBE

text: English

text: architect

text: classicist

text: philologist

text: deciphered

text: Linear B

text: Mycenaean Greek

text: John Chadwick

text: Francis Ventris

text: Commander of British Forces in China

text: Gstaad

text: Adolf Erman

text: Stowe School

text: Latin

text: Ancient Greek

text: Berthold Lubetkin

text: Highpoint

text: Highgate

text: depression

text: barbiturate

text: Naum Gabo

text: Russian

text: Royal Air Force

text: Handley Page Halifax

text: No. 76 Squadron RAF

text: RAF Breighton

text: RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor

text: Hampstead

text: OBE

text: Mycenaean

text: paleography

text: Kenyon Medal

text: English Heritage

text: blue plaque

text: archaeologist

text: Arthur Evans

text: Knossos

text: Crete

text: Linear A

text: Linear B

text: Burlington House

text: Royal Academy

text: British School of Archaeology in Athens

text: American Journal of Archaeology

text: Etruscan

text: Alice Kober

text: declensions

text: Latin

text: grids

text: consonant

text: vowel

text: Carl Blegen

text: Pylos

text: Alison Frantz

text: Mycenean Greece

text: Emmett Bennett

text: American Journal of Archaeology

categories: English philologists,1922 births,1956 deaths,Royal Air Force personnel of World War II,People educated at Stowe School,English classical scholars,Scholars of Mycenaean Greek,English architects,Hellenic epigraphers,Road incident deaths in England,20th-century British architects,English people of Polish descent

paragraph: Michael Ventris

paragraph: Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE (; 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956) was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script. A student of languages, Ventris had pursued the decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence. After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in an automobile accident a few weeks before the publication, with John Chadwick, of "Documents in Mycenaean Greek".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Ventris was born into a traditional army family. His grandfather, Francis Ventris, was a major-general and Commander of British Forces in China. His father, Edward Francis Vereker Ventris, was a lieutenant-colonel in the Indian Army, who retired early due to ill health. Edward Ventris married Anna Dorothea Janasz (Dora), who was from a wealthy Jewish Polish paternal background. Michael Ventris was their only child.

paragraph: The family moved to Switzerland for eight years, seeking a healthy environment for Colonel Ventris. Young Michael started school in Gstaad, where classes were taught in French and German. He soon was fluent in both languages and showing proficiency for Swiss German. He was capable of learning a language within a matter of weeks, which allowed him to acquire fluency in a dozen languages. His mother often spoke Polish to him, and he was fluent by the age of eight. At this time, he was reading Adolf Erman's "Die Hieroglyphen" in German.

paragraph: In 1931, the Ventris family returned home. From 1931 to 1935 Ventris was sent to Bickley Hill School in Stowe. His parents divorced in 1935. At this time, he secured a scholarship to Stowe School. At Stowe he learned some Latin and Ancient Greek. He did not do outstanding work there - by then he was spending most of his spare time learning as much as he could about Linear B, some of his study time being spent under the covers at night with a flashlight. When he was not boarding at school, Ventris lived with his mother, before 1935 in coastal hotels, and then in the avant garde Berthold Lubetkin's Highpoint modernist apartments in Highgate. His mother's acquaintances, who frequented the house, included many sculptors, painters, and writers of the day. The money for her sophisticated lifestyle came from Polish estates.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Young adult.

paragraph: Ventris's father died in 1938 and his mother Dora became administrator of the estate. With the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Mrs Ventris lost her private income, and in 1940 Dora's father died. Ventris lost his mother to clinical depression and an overdose of barbiturates. He never spoke of her, assuming instead an ebullient and energetic manner in whatever he decided to do, a trait which won him numerous friends. A friend of the family, Russian sculptor Naum Gabo, took Ventris under his wing. Ventris later said that Gabo was the most family he had ever had. It may have been at Gabo's house that he began the study of Russian. He decided on architecture as a career, and enrolled in the Architectural Association School of Architecture. There he met his wife Lois Knox-Niven. Her social background was similar to what Ventris's had been: her family was well-to-do, she had travelled in Europe, and she was interested in architecture, in addition to which she was popular and was considered very beautiful.

paragraph: Ventris did not complete his architecture studies, being conscripted in 1942. He chose the Royal Air Force (RAF). His preference was for navigator rather than pilot, and he completed the extensive training in the UK and Canada, to qualify early in 1944 and be commissioned. While training, he studied Russian intensively for several weeks, the purpose of which is not clear. He took part in the bombing of Germany, as aircrew on the Handley Page Halifax with No. 76 Squadron RAF, initially at RAF Breighton and then at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor. After the conclusion of the war he served out the rest of his term on the ground in Germany, for which he was chosen because of his knowledge of Russian. His duties are unclear. His friends assumed he was on intelligence duties, interpreting his denials as part of a legal gag. No evidence of such assignments has emerged in the decades since. There is also no evidence that he was ever part of any code-breaking unit, as was Chadwick, even though the public has readily believed this explanation of his genius and success with Linear B.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Architect and palaeographer.

paragraph: After the war he worked briefly in Sweden, learning enough Swedish to communicate with scholars in it. Then he came home to complete his architectural education with honours in 1948 and settled down with Lois working as an architect. He designed schools for the Ministry of Education. He and his wife personally designed their family home, 19 North End, Hampstead. He had two children, a son, Nikki (1942–1984) and a daughter, Tessa (born 1946). Ventris continued with his efforts on Linear B, discovering in 1952 that it was an archaic form of Greek. He was awarded an OBE in 1955 for "services to Mycenaean paleography." In 1959 he was posthumously awarded the British Academy's Kenyon Medal.

paragraph: In 1956 Ventris, who lived in Hampstead, died instantly in a late-night collision with a parked truck while driving home, aged 34. The coroner's verdict was accidental death.

paragraph: An English Heritage blue plaque commemorates Ventris at his home in Hampstead.

paragraph: Section::::Decipherment.

paragraph: At the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologist Arthur Evans began excavating an ancient site at Knossos, on the island of Crete. In doing so he uncovered a great many clay tablets inscribed with two unknown scripts, Linear A and Linear B. Evans attempted to decipher both in the following decades, with little success.

paragraph: In 1936, Evans hosted an exhibition on Cretan archaeology at Burlington House in London, home of the Royal Academy. It was the jubilee anniversary (50 years) of the British School of Archaeology in Athens, contemporaneous owners and managers of the Knossos site. Evans had given the site to them some years previously. Villa Ariadne, Evans's home there, was now part of the school. Boys from Stowe school were in attendance at one lecture and tour conducted by Evans himself at age 85. Ventris, 14 years old, was present and remembered Evans walking with a stick. The stick was undoubtedly the cane named Prodger which Evans carried all his life to assist him with his short-sightedness and night blindness. Evans held up tablets of the unknown scripts for the audience to see. During the interview period following the lecture, Ventris immediately confirmed that Linear B was as yet undeciphered, and determined to decipher it.

paragraph: In 1940, the 18-year-old Ventris had an article "Introducing the Minoan Language" published in the American Journal of Archaeology. Ventris's initial theory was that Etruscan and Linear B were related and that this might provide a key to decipherment. Although this proved incorrect, it was a link he continued to explore until the early 1950s.

paragraph: Shortly after Evans died, Alice Kober noted that certain words in Linear B inscriptions had changing word endings — perhaps declensions in the manner of Latin or Greek. Using this clue, Ventris constructed a series of grids associating the symbols on the tablets with consonants and vowels. While "which" consonants and vowels these were remained mysterious, Ventris learned enough about the structure of the underlying language to begin guessing. Alice Kober was a classics professor at Brooklyn College and had done extensive work on Linear B. Ventris acknowledged her work as having made a significant contribution to his own work.

paragraph: Shortly before World War II, American archaeologist Carl Blegen discovered a further 600 or so tablets of Linear B in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos. Photographs of these tablets by archaeologist Alison Frantz facilitated Ventris's later decipherment of the Linear B script.

paragraph: Comparing the Linear B tablets discovered on the Greek mainland, and noting that certain symbol groups appeared only in the Cretan texts, Ventris made the inspired guess that those were place names on the island. This proved to be correct. Armed with the symbols he could decipher from this, Ventris soon unlocked much text and determined that the underlying language of Linear B was in fact Greek. This overturned Evans's theories of Minoan history by establishing that Cretan civilization, at least in the later periods associated with the Linear B tablets, had been part of Mycenean Greece.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emmett Bennett

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:By Ventris alone or jointly.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ventris, M. G. F. "Introducing the Minoan Language", essay article in "American Journal of Archaeology XLIV/4" October-December 1940.

description: British architect and linguist

wikidata_label: Michael Ventris

wikipedia_title: Michael Ventris


text:
boxer
USSR
Middleweight
Leningrad
Young Pioneer Palace
Rostov on Don
Burevestnik
Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
Order of Lenin
1960 Summer Olympics
Light Heavyweight
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
1955 European Championship
1959 European Championship
Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
Leningrad State University
Candidate
docent
prorector
acute stroke
Saint Petersburg
Ralph Hosack
Giulio Rinaldi
Víctor Zalazar
Ramón Tapia
Ray Cillien
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia
databaseOlympics

categories: Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union,Russian male boxers,1932 births,Burevestnik (sports society) athletes,Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics,Saint Petersburg State University alumni,Olympic medalists in boxing,Soviet male boxers,2009 deaths,Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR,Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics,Olympic boxers of the Soviet Union

paragraph: Gennadiy Shatkov

paragraph: Gennadi Ivanovich Shatkov (, May 27, 1932 – January 14, 2009) was a boxer from the USSR, who competed in the Middleweight division (– 75 kg) during the major part of his career.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Shatkov was born in Leningrad and began boxing at 12 at Zhdanov Young Pioneer Palace in Leningrad, where he was trained by Ivan Pavlovich Osipov. His first success was the 3rd place at the 1949 USSR Youth Championship in Rostov on Don. Shatkov trained at Burevestnik in Leningrad. He became Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1957 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1957. During his career he won 215 fights out of 227. He won the Middleweight (75 kg) gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games. He also competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Light Heavyweight division (– 81 kg) but lost to Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in the quarterfinals. Shatkov won gold medals at 1955 European Championship and 1959 European Championship, became USSR Champion in 1955, 1956 and 1958, and won gold medal in the I Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1956.

paragraph: Along with his sports career Shatkov had a notable scientific one. After graduating from a secondary school he entered Leningrad State University in 1951, received Candidate of Judicial Sciences degree there in 1962, became a docent of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law and was appointed prorector of the university in 1964.

paragraph: Three of his other wins were against illnesses. He had an acute stroke in 1969 and two strokes in 1988. It took him five years to recover from the first one. He managed to restore impellent activity and speech after all three strokes. During years that passed after the first stroke he wrote 40 scientific papers and three books.

paragraph: He died in Saint Petersburg on January 14, 2009, aged 76.

paragraph: Section::::Olympic results.

paragraph: Below are the results of Gennadiy Shatkov, a middleweight boxer from the Soviet Union, who competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Round of 16: Defeated Ralph Hosack (Canada) points

paragraph: BULLET::::- Quarterfinal: Defeated Giulio Rinaldi (Italy) walk-over

paragraph: BULLET::::- Semifinal: Defeated Víctor Zalazar (Argentina) KO 2

paragraph: BULLET::::- Final: Defeated Ramón Tapia (Chile) KO 1 (won gold medal)

paragraph: Below are the results of Gennadiy Shatkov, a light heavyweight boxer from the Soviet Union, who competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Round of 16: Defeated Ray Cillien (LUX) points

paragraph: BULLET::::- Quarterfinal: Lost to Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (USA) points

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia

paragraph: BULLET::::- databaseOlympics

description: boxer

wikidata_label: Gennadiy Shatkov

wikipedia_title: Gennadiy Shatkov


text:
composer
conductor
Lille
Gabriel Fauré
Louis Diémer
André Gedalge
Conservatoire de Paris
Schola Cantorum
Charles Bordes
Gregorian Chant
Renaissance
Opéra Comique
Théâtre des Arts
Albert Roussel
Le Festin de l'araignée
Maurice Ravel
Ma mère l'oye
Opéra de Paris
Ballets Russes
Paris
Gabriel Montoya
Émile Vuillermoz
L'Art d'être grand-père
Victor Hugo
Tristan Klingsor
Henry Bataille
José-Maria de Heredia
Paul Verlaine
Jean Dominique
Camille Saint-Saëns
Paul Fort

categories: 20th-century classical composers,20th-century French composers,French male classical composers,French conductors (music),French ballet composers,20th-century conductors (music),French music critics,1944 deaths,Neoromantic composers,1879 births,French classical pianists,French male pianists,French classical composers,French opera composers,Schola Cantorum de Paris faculty,Male opera composers,French male conductors (music)

paragraph: Gabriel Grovlez

paragraph: Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was an eminent French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Born in Lille, Grovlez studied with Gabriel Fauré, Louis Diémer, and André Gedalge at the Conservatoire de Paris. At the Schola Cantorum, Charles Bordes introduced him to Gregorian Chant and the music of the Renaissance.

paragraph: As a solo pianist and accompanist Grovlez toured through Europe. He was professor of piano at the Schola Cantorum from 1899 to 1909, choir director and deputy conductor of the Opéra Comique (1905–1908), and musical director at the Théâtre des Arts (1911–1913) where he was responsible for the first performances of Albert Roussel's "Le Festin de l'araignée", Maurice Ravel's "Ma mère l'oye", and a number of baroque operas.

paragraph: From 1914, he was for twenty years the director of the Opéra de Paris ("Societé Nationale de l'Opéra"), where, among other productions, he also conducted a season of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. As a guest conductor he worked at opera houses in Monte Carlo, Cairo, Lisbon, New York, and Chicago.

paragraph: As a composer, his compositions were mainly for voice and for the stage, including ballets. Much of his work shows strong neo-classical influences. He also wrote reviews for Paris music journals including "Excelsior" (1916–17) and "L'Art musical" (1937–39).

paragraph: Grovlez died aged 65 in Paris.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stage

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cœur de rubis", Légende féérique (opera) in 3 acts (1906), libretto by Gabriel Montoya

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Maïmouna", fantasy-ballet in 2 scenes (1916), libretto by P. André Gérard

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Vrai arbre de Robinson", ballet in 1 act (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le Marquis de Carabas", "conte lyrique" in 3 acts (1926), libretto by R. Coolus

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Princesse au jardin", ballet in 1 act (1943), libretto by Émile Vuillermoz

paragraph: BULLET::::- Orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dans le jardin" (1907), tone poem for soprano, female choir and orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Vengeance des fleurs" (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le Reposoir des amants" (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chamber music

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sonata for violin and piano (1908)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Divertissement for flute and piano (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concertino for flute or clarinet and piano

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lamento et tarentelle" for clarinet and piano (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romance et scherzo" for flute and piano (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sarabande et allegro" for oboe and piano (1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sicilienne et allegro giocoso" for bassoon and piano (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romance, scherzo et finale" for viola and piano (1932)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sonata for cello and piano (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Romance et scherzo" for flute and viola

paragraph: BULLET::::- Piano

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Au jardin de l'enfance", 6 pieces after "L'Art d'être grand-père" by Victor Hugo (1907). Contains: "La Sieste"; "Chose du soir"; "Chanson de grand-père"; "Chanson d'ancêtre"; "Chanson pour faire danser en rond les petits enfants"; "Pepita".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "3 Improvisations sur Londres" (3 Impressions of London) (1910). Contains: ""Westminster Abbey"; "The Park"; "Soir de dimanche sur les bords de la Tamise"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Almanach aux images", 8 Pieces after poems of Tristan Klingsor (1911). Contains: "Les Marionnettes"; "Berceuse de la poupée"; "La Sarabande"; "Chanson du chasseur"; "Les Ånes"; "Le Pastour"; "Chanson de l'escarpolette"; "Petites litanies de Jésus".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trois Pièces" (1913). Contains: "Évocation"; "Barcarolle"; "Scherzo

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fancies" (1915). Contains: "Sérénade"; "Nocturne"; "Petite valse"; "Berceuse"; "Fileuse"; "Rêverie"; "Cake Walk".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trois Valses romantiques" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Deux Études de difficulté transcendante" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Impressions", 2 pieces (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vocal

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Chambre blanche", 10 Songs on poems of Henry Bataille (1903)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Flûte" for voice and piano (1907); words by José-Maria de Heredia

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sagesse", 5 Poems of Paul Verlaine for high voice and piano (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trois Mélodies sur des poèmes de Jean Dominique" for voice and piano (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Guitares et mandolines" for voice and piano (1913); words by Camille Saint-Saëns

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Mélancolies passionnées", 8 Songs on poems of Charles Guérin (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Trois Ballades françaises" for voice and piano on poems of Paul Fort (1927)

description: eminent French composer and conductor

wikidata_label: Gabriel Grovlez

wikipedia_title: Gabriel Grovlez


text: anarchist

text: Trieste

text: Anna Lauvergnac

text: University of East London

text: Antifaschistische Aktion

text: left-extremist

text: Tinsley House

text: charter flight

text: asylum seeker

text: Kurdistan

text: aggravated trespass

text: conditional discharge

text: deportation

text: Gatwick Airport

text: No Border network

text: Calais Jungle

text: University of Brighton

categories: Italian women activists,Italian anti-fascists,Italian photographers,Italian anarchists,People from Trieste,1961 births,Italian expatriates in Ireland,Italian expatriates in England

paragraph: Chiara Lauvergnac

paragraph: Chiara Lauvergnac (born 1961) is an Italian anarchist resident in London. She describes herself as a "freelance troublemaker" and is a campaigner for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Chiara Lauvergnac was born in Trieste, Italy, in 1961. She is related to the jazz singer, Anna Lauvergnac. She lived in Galway, Ireland, and moved to London in 2006 to study anthropology at the University of East London.

paragraph: Section::::Activism.

paragraph: Lauvergnac is a campaigner for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. She was associated with Antifaschistische Aktion (ANTIFA), a violent far left wing organisation with branches in several European countries that has been criticised as a left-extremist organisation. In 2006, she protested outside the Haslar detention centre in Hampshire. In 2009, she was part of a group that protested at Tinsley House UK Border immigration centre at Gatwick against the use of charter flights to deport failed asylum seekers and others to Kurdistan in Iraq. She was arrested and convicted of aggravated trespass and given a conditional discharge.

paragraph: In 2015, she was again involved in protests against the deportation of refugees from the United Kingdom at Gatwick Airport during which she was arrested and subsequently fined. She is a leading figure in the London No Borders anarchist group, part of the No Border network, for which she has reported from the Calais Jungle. Her photographs of the camp featured in the exhibition "Art, Refuge and Resistance" at the Brighton & Hove Sanctuary on Sea in partnership with the University of Brighton.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chiara Lauvergnac describing conditions in The Jungle, Calais, November to December 2015.

description: anarchist

wikidata_label: Chiara Lauvergnac

wikipedia_title: Chiara Lauvergnac


text: Scouts et Guides de France

text: International Scout Committee

text: civil law

text: 5th arrondissement of Paris

text: Édouard de Macedo

text: Antoine-Louis Cornette

text: Jacques Sevin

text: Chamarande

text: François Bloch-Lainé

text: Michel de Paillerets

text: occupied zone

text: Resistance

text: Gestapo

text: World War II

text: Bronze Wolf

text: Michel Rigal

text: Algerian War

text: Monsignor

text: Marc-Armand Lallier

text: Pierre de Montjamont

text: Henry Dhavernas

text: Michel Menu

text: Jean Rupp

text: Scouts unitaires de France

text: Michel Menu

text: Pierre de Montjamont

text: Henry Dhavernas

text: Scouts unitaires de France

text: complete list

categories: Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award,1902 births,Scouting and Guiding in France,1986 deaths

paragraph: Pierre Delsuc

paragraph: Pierre Delsuc (September 13, 1902 – 1986) served as the General Commissioner of zone Nord from 1941 to 1944, International Commissioner of the Scouts et Guides de France from 1944 to 1946, as well as a member of the International Scout Committee from 1951.

paragraph: Delsuc practiced civil law as a lawyer.

paragraph: Delsuc began Scouting in the 5th arrondissement of Paris "Groupe Saint-Louis". In 1929, he succeeded Édouard de Macedo as leader of this group until 1945, though the group split into two in 1930.

paragraph: Antoine-Louis Cornette asked him to succeed Jacques Sevin at the Chamarande camp school.

paragraph: Mobilized in 1939, then demobilized in 1940, he took the lead of underground Scouting with François Bloch-Lainé and Michel de Paillerets, banned in the occupied zone. He entered the Resistance and was arrested several times by the Gestapo. Sent to prison, he was released for lack of evidence.

paragraph: After World War II, Delsuc became commissioner-general of the Scouts de France until 1946, officially occupying the position that he had occupied unofficially in the North Zone since his demobilization. In 1951, he was awarded the sixth "Bronze Wolf", the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

paragraph: In opposition to Michel Rigal, the Commissioner-General, he resigned from the National Council of the Scouts de France in 1958. Their opposition became public in June 1960 when he denounced Rigal's position in a letter published by "France catholique", a moderate Catholic weekly, over the Algerian War.

paragraph: In March 1964, Monsignor Marc-Armand Lallier, as president of the Episcopal Commission for Youth, was asked by Delsuc, Pierre de Montjamont, Henry Dhavernas and Michel Menu to intervene to mitigate some of the radical changes underway in French Scouting, along with other bishops involved in Scouting, with the exception of Bishop Jean Rupp. Hostile to the pedagogical reform of 1964, he favored the birth of the Scouts unitaires de France and co-authored the booklet "Bases fondamentales du Scoutisme".

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bases fondamentales du scoutisme" (with Michel Menu, Pierre de Montjamont and Henry Dhavernas), 1967, also used by the Scouts unitaires de France

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pour entrer dans le jeu"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Plein Jeu"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Patrouilles en action"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Etapes"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bivouacs"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Rude nuit de Kervizel"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brume sur le Mezenc"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jovanni" (1952)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gaël des Glénans" (1956)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'île de fer - Gaël 2" (1960)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Port Sterval" (1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eux, les Scouts"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'étrille"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tout Ann Héry"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le refuge du bonheur"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- complete list

wikidata_label: Pierre Delsuc

wikipedia_title: Pierre Delsuc


text:
FRAS
Hawaii
1874 transit of Venus
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Royal Naval School
Royal Marine Artillery
H.M.S. Sidon
H.M.S. Prince Consort
Royal Astronomical Society
velocity
meteors
1874 Transit of Venus
George Biddell Airy
Kerguelen Island
Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands expedition
Honolulu
Greenwich
1882 transit of Venus
Burnham
Christchurch
occultation
Royal Astronomical Society

categories: 1922 deaths,People from Boulogne-sur-Mer,British astronomers,Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society,19th-century astronomers,1838 births

paragraph: George Lyon Tupman

paragraph: George Lyon Tupman FRAS (7 September 1838 – 3 November 1922) was the Chief Astronomer for the British astronomical expedition to Hawaii to observe the 1874 transit of Venus.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: George, the eldest son of George Tupman (1785–1847) and Elizabeth Emerson, was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer on 7 September 1838 and was educated for eight and a half years at the Royal Naval School, where he showed an interest in mathematical and scientific subjects.

paragraph: As an officer in the Royal Marine Artillery he served on H.M.S. Sidon at Rio and at the Cape and on H.M.S. Forte at Montevideo, then on H.M.S. Prince Consort in the Mediterranean. He kept an album from the 1850s, which includes his watercolour sketches of ships he sailed on and places he visited, that has been digitised.

paragraph: Tupman was particularly interested in astronomy, and was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 1863. Whilst in the Mediterranean between 1869 and 1871 he observed about 300 meteor trails. He was one of the first people to make estimates of the velocity of meteors.

paragraph: Section::::Role in the 1874 Transit of Venus Expeditions.

paragraph: In 1872, on his return from sea, Tupman was assigned to assist with the British expeditions to observe the 1874 Transit of Venus, soon being appointed as head instructor. The Transit Expedition project was overseen by George Biddell Airy, but historian Jessica Ratcliff notes that Tupman was 'manager, observer and calculator' and that his involvement 'went deeper than Airy's.' Tupman oversaw recruitment and training of the team of observers (including with the use of a clockwork model), and organised the equipment and transport for all five official British expeditions. These were to Egypt, the Sandwich Islands, Rodriguez Island, New Zealand and Kerguelen Island. He went as chief astronomer on the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands expedition and observed the transit of Venus from the main station at Honolulu, as well as making many observations to determine longitude.

paragraph: After returning to Greenwich, via a trans-continental rail journey across the USA, he spent around four years working without pay on the data that had been collected on the five expeditions. Tupman's official journals for his time spend at Greenwich from 1872–1880 and his time at the Honolulu observing station, as well as his private journal for 1875, are available online.

paragraph: Tupman (and his wife Rebecca, who he had married in 1876) observed the 1882 transit of Venus from Burnham near Christchurch, New Zealand.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Tupman maintained his interest in astronomy, and reported numerous occultations between 1885 and 1900. He was on the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society (1873–1880), and was also appointed its Secretary (1884–1889). He also established the Hillfoot Observatory in Harrow, and enjoyed helping visitors to make observations.

paragraph: Tupman's interests later in life included wireless telegraphy. He died at Observatory, College Road, Harrow, on 22 November 1922 at the age of 84, and was buried at Pinner Road Cemetery, Harrow. His wife Rebecca (née Wetherill), known as Beckie, survived him by only a few months.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Tupman published an "Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1874, 8 December: Made Under the Authority of the British Government: and of the Reduction of the Observations" in 1881. He published other astronomical observations regularly in the "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" and elsewhere.

paragraph: As well as a selection of Tupman's official and private papers relating to the Transit of Venus enterprise, the recent digital collection contains "The Life & Adventures of Station B", two albums of caricatures by Lieutenant Evelyn Noble, one of the Honolulu observers. These include many drawings of Tupman and the other observers at work and leisure during their travels and while in Honolulu.

wikidata_label: George Lyon Tupman

wikipedia_title: George Lyon Tupman


text:
American football
center
UMass Minutemen football
college football
New Mexico State University
Lakeview Centennial High School
Garland, Texas
New Mexico State University
United States Air Force Academy
Colorado State University
Tennessee State University
Rimington Trophy
Sun Belt Conference
2015 NFL Draft
undrafted free agent
Atlanta Falcons
Arizona Cardinals
Pittsburgh Steelers
New Mexico State bio
Pittsburgh Steelers bio

categories: Atlanta Falcons players,Igbo sportspeople,American football centers,American people of Nigerian descent,New Mexico State Aggies football players,Players of American football from Texas,People from Garland, Texas,1993 births,American people of Igbo descent,Arizona Cardinals players,Living people

paragraph: Valerian Ume-Ezeoke

paragraph: Valerian Ume-Ezeoke (born February 14, 1993) is a former American football center. He is now a graduate assistant for the UMass Minutemen football program. He played college football at New Mexico State University.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born the son of Anthony and Tina Ume-Ezeoke, Valerian attended Lakeview Centennial High School in Garland, Texas, where he was a member of the Patriots football team. Ume-Ezeoke played both offensive and defensive line for the Patriots, earning an All-State as a sophomore and junior.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Recruiting.

paragraph: Ume-Ezeoke committed to New Mexico State University on September 2, 2010. He choose New Mexico State over football scholarships from the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado State University, and Tennessee State University.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Ume-Ezeoke came in played in 8 games as a true freshman, starting six of those games. As a sophomore, Ume-Ezeoke started all 12 games for the Aggies. Ume-Ezeoke was named to the Rimington Trophy watch list as a junior, again starting all 12 games for the Aggies. As a senior in 2014, Ume-Ezeoke was once again added to the Rimington Tropher watch list and earned All-Sun Belt Conference First Team as an offensive lineman.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Prior to the 2015 NFL Draft, Ume-Ezeoke was projected to be undrafted by NFLDraftScout.com. He was rated as the twentieth-best center in the draft.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Atlanta Falcons.

paragraph: On May 6, 2015, Ume-Ezeoke signed as an undrafted free agent with the Atlanta Falcons. Ume-Ezeoke was cut during the first round of Falcons' cuts on August 30, 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arizona Cardinals.

paragraph: On January 5, 2016, Ume-Ezeoke was signed by the Arizona Cardinals to a future/reserve contract. On May 4, 2016, he was cut by the Cardinals.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Pittsburgh Steelers.

paragraph: On August 1, 2016, Ume-Ezeoke signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers. On August 20, 2016, the Steelers waived/injured Ume-Ezeoke and was placed on injured reserve.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- New Mexico State bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pittsburgh Steelers bio

description: American-football player (1993-)

wikidata_label: Valerian Ume-Ezeoke

wikipedia_title: Valerian Ume-Ezeoke


text: Italian

text: Mannerist

text: printmaker

text: etching

text: Rome

text: Urbino

text: Venice

text: Venice

text: Pitti Palace

text: San Giovanni Decollato

text: Urbino

text: Girolamo Genga

text: Federico Barocci

text: Michelangelo

text: etching

text: Venice

text: Biblioteca Marciana

text: Barbaro

text: Grimani

text: San Francesco della Vigna

text: Artnet biography on painter.

categories: 1561 deaths,Italian etchers,Italian male painters,Italian Renaissance painters,Year of birth unknown,16th-century Italian painters,People from Venice

paragraph: Battista Franco Veneziano

paragraph: Battista Franco Veneziano also known by his correct name of Giovanni Battista Franco (before 1510 – 1561) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker in etching active in Rome, Urbino, and Venice in the mid 16th century. He is also known as "il Semolei" or just "Battista Franco".

paragraph: Native to Venice, he came to Rome in his twenties. He painted an allegory of the "Battle of Montemurlo" now in the Pitti Palace (1537), and a fresco of the "Arrest of John the Baptist" for the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato (1541). From 1545–51 he painted in Urbino. He may have been, along with Girolamo Genga, one of the mentors of Federico Barocci. His painting, in the Mannerist style, was heavily indebted to Michelangelo; but his drawings and etchings have far more verve and originality. He returned to Venice, where he helped fresco the ceiling of the Biblioteca Marciana (library). He painted a series of panels, including a "Baptism of Christ" (Barbaro chapel), for the walls and vault of the Grimani chapel in the church San Francesco della Vigna in Venice. He painted the "Raising of Lazarus" in the Ducal palace.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Artnet biography on painter.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Massimo Firpo, Fabrizio Biferali, ''Battista Franco «pittore viniziano» nella cultura artistica e nella vita religiosa del '500", Pisa, Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2007

alias:
il Semolei
Battista Franco
Giovanni Battista Franco
Bap. Franco
Semolei
Baptista Veneziano Franco
Baptiste Franc
Battista
Battista Di Franchi Franco
Baptista Veneziano
Bapt. Franco
Il Semolei Franco
Il Semolei
Battta Franco
Battista di Franchi
il Semolei Franco
Giambattista Franco
Giovanni Franco
Franco
Tisto Franko
Baptisto Franco
giovanni baptista franco
dit il Semoleo Battista Franco
Jean-Bapt. Franco dit Le Simoleo
Battisto Franco
B. Franco
giov. batt. franco
giovanni battista franco
Baptista Franco
Baptista, detto Il Semoleo Franco
B. France
dit Le Semoleo Jean-Baptiste Franco
giov. battista franco gen. il semolei
g. b. franco

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Battista Franco Veneziano

wikipedia_title: Battista Franco Veneziano


text:
Blessed
Roman Catholic
priest
Order of Friars Minor
Eucharist
Sacred Heart
Pope John Paul II
Saint Peter's Square
Belgium
Tongeren
priesthood
Order of Friars Minor
novitiate
Thielt
ordained
Hasselt
convent
spiritual director
Eucharist
Sacred Heart
Liège
Pope Pius XI
Servant of God
Congregation of Rites
Congregation for the Causes of Saints
Venerable
Pope Paul VI
heroic virtue
Pope John Paul II
Saint Peter's Square
postulator
Hagiography Circle
Saints SQPN
Santi e Beati

categories: 19th-century Roman Catholics,19th-century Belgian people,20th-century Roman Catholics,Franciscans,People from Tongeren,1905 deaths,19th-century venerated Christians,Franciscan beatified people,1828 births,20th-century Belgian people,20th-century venerated Christians,Beatifications by Pope John Paul II,Belgian beatified people,Belgian Roman Catholic priests

paragraph: Johannes Ludovicus Paquay

paragraph: Blessed Johannes Ludovicus Paquay (17 November 1828 - 1 January 1905) - in religious Valentinus - was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor. He was a popular confessor and noted preacher while serving in various leadership positions in the house he was stationed in; he was also known for his popular devotion to the Eucharist and the Sacred Heart and promoted these devotions to the faithful and to his conferees alike.

paragraph: Pope John Paul II beatified him in Saint Peter's Square on 9 November 2003.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Johannes Ludovicus Paquay was born in Belgium on 17 November 1828 as the fifth of eleven children to Hendrik Paquay and Anne Neven.

paragraph: He studied literature at the college in Tongeren - the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine managed it - and commenced his studies for the priesthood at Saint-Trond in 1845. But his father died in an unexpected twist in 1847 and he left school in order to join the Order of Friars Minor and he commenced his novitiate in Thielt on 3 October 1849. He made his perpetual profession on 4 October 1850 in the new religious name of "Valentinus" and made his profession into the hands of Father Ugoline Demont who was the head of that convent. Paquay later resumed his studies after this and was ordained to the priesthood on 10 June 1854. He was at once assigned to the Hasselt convent where he was stationed for the remainder of his life and there served as both sub-prior and prior of that house. Paquay served as the provincial definitor from 1890 until 1899 and soon became a sought after confessor and spiritual director.

paragraph: The priest became noted for his ardent devotion to the Eucharist and he often prompted to his parishioners the importance of the frequent reception of the Eucharist while likewise promoting to the faithful the devotion of the Sacred Heart as well as to his fellow friars.

paragraph: He died in 1905.

paragraph: Section::::Beatification.

paragraph: The beatification process commenced in Liège in an informative process that opened in 1908 and later closed in 1910 while theologians compiled his spiritual writings and approved them to be in line with doctrine on 25 February 1920; the formal introduction to the cause came under Pope Pius XI on 22 November 1922 and he was titled as a Servant of God. An apostolic process was later held from 1925 until 1926 while that and the informative process received the validation of the Congregation of Rites on 19 July 1939. An antepreparatory congregation approved the cause on 8 May 1956 as did a preparatory one on 4 July 1967 which led to a general congregation likewise approving it on 14 July 1967; a session of the newly-established Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved the cause on 8 May 1969.

paragraph: The late priest was named as Venerable on 4 May 1970 after Pope Paul VI approved that the Franciscan friar had led a model life of heroic virtue. The single miracle required for beatification was investigated from 1952 to 1953 and was validated on 20 October 2000 before receiving the approval of a medical board on 18 April 2002. Theologians also approved it on 12 November 2002 as did the C.C.S. on 10 December 2002 before Pope John Paul II granted final approval for it on 20 December 2002. This allowed for the pope to celebrate his beatification on 9 November 2003 in Saint Peter's Square.

paragraph: The current postulator for this cause is Fra Giovangiuseppe Califano.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hagiography Circle

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saints SQPN

paragraph: BULLET::::- Santi e Beati

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Remaclus Moonen, O.F.M., "Het leven van p. Valentinus Paquay", 1912, 12th ed. Hasselt 1991.

description: Friar Minor

wikidata_label: Valentinus Paquay

wikipedia_title: Johannes Ludovicus Paquay


text: Marquess of Montferrat

text: Aleram

text: Anselm

text: Grazzano

text: Montferrat

text: Liguria

text: William II

text: Fruttuaria

text: Spigno

text: William III

categories: 991 deaths,Marquesses of Montferrat,Aleramici,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Otto I, Marquess of Montferrat

paragraph: Otto I (also "Otho" or "Ottone"; died 991) was the second Marquess of Montferrat briefly following his father Aleram on the throne.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Otto was the son of Aleram and his first wife. Notably obscure, he did not appear with his parents and his younger brother Anselm at the foundation of the monastery of Grazzano in 961. On Aleram's death in 967, the large "marca Aleramica" was broken up: Montferrat went to Otto and Liguria to Anselm. Their elder brother William II had already deceased.

paragraph: In his own lifetime, Otto does not appear in any document with the margravial title, but he appears in the documents of later generations cited as such. He appears in a confirmation of the possessions of the abbacy of Fruttuaria with the title in a patronymic. He probably never used the title in life, but his descendents retroactively applied it to him, as he held the same post as they.

paragraph: Otto died in 991, as known by the foundation act of his son for the monastery of Spigno, which Otto himself had planned on building. By his unnamed wife, he left two sons: an eldest named William III, who succeeded him, and younger named Riprando. He also left two daughters, Otta and Waldrada (Gualderada).

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Merlone, Rinaldo. "Prosopografia Aleramica (secolo X e prima metà del XI)".

description: Italian noble

wikidata_label: Otto I, Marquess of Montferrat

wikipedia_title: Otto I, Marquess of Montferrat


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categories: Air Force Falcons football players,1990 births,Living people,American football running backs

paragraph: Asher Clark

paragraph: Asher Clark (born February 11, 1990) is an American former college football running back for the Air Force Academy football program.

paragraph: Clark was born and raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in 1990. In January 2008, he committed to the United States Air Force Academy after receiving a football scholarship. He had been a quarterback in high school and was converted to a tailback at Air Force. He gained 588 rushing yards as a freshman in 2008, 865 yards as a sophomore in 2009, and 1,031 yards as a junior in 2010. During the 2011 season, Clark totaled 1,110 rushing yards on 163 carries for an average of 6.8 yards per carry.

paragraph: By the end of the 2011 season, Clark ranked as the second leading rusher in Air Force Academy history. He was removed from the Air Force Academy in May 2012, less than one week before he was due to graduate.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Air Force Academy biography

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Asher Clark

wikipedia_title: Asher Clark


text: Mashhad

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text: Variety

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text: Crystal Simorgh

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text: Crystal Simorgh

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text: Crystal Simorgh

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text: Isna's Interview With Javad Jalali

text: Javad Jalali at Cinemotions

text: The official Photographers Directory

categories: Iranian cinematographers,Iranian photographers,1977 births,Living people

paragraph: Javad Jalali

paragraph: Javad Jalali () (born 30 May 1977 in Mashhad) is a photographer and a member of the Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds. His photograph of the movie "Farewell Baghdad" is now kept in the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran, Iran. He also holds the record for a photograph sold for the highest amount at a photography expo in Iran (800,000,000 rials).

paragraph: Jalali is known for his photography of refugees and immigrants of Afghanistan and Kurdistan in Iraq (2008, 2011), mysticism in Iranian architecture (2001), traditional Iranian kilns (2004, 2008, 2011), mentally and physically ill patients (2003, 2004), abstract photography of horses and trees and still photography of films. His photographs have been published in "Variety" (2012), "Real Time Arts" (Australia) (2011), "L'Uomo Vogue" (2011), "D Photo Journal" (Australia) (2010, 2011), "Vogue" (Italy) (2010), MyFDB (Italy) (2010), "Paradise Magazine" (2010), "Film International" (2010), "World of Cinema" (2008, 2010), "Cinema Weekly" (2007–2011), "Cinema Industry" (2008–2011), "Film Magazine" (2008, 2009, 2010), "Picture World" (2009, 2010), "Ideal Life" (2009), "Screen Cannes" (France) (2009) and "Cinemotion" (France) (2009).

paragraph: He was the cameraman for the movie "Boghz" which was filmed in Turkey and directed by Reza Darmishian. Touraj Aslani, the movie's cinematographer, explains that he chose Javad Jalali because of his knowledge and understanding of colors, motions and photography. He added that the movie was filmed using two cameras, either narrating its own look and jump cuts of the movie. This form of filming is a new experience in Iranian cinema. He was also nominated for an award at the Fajr Film Festival for the movie and the behind-the-scenes photography of "Aal" and "Endless Dreams". He was recognized by the jury of the 29th Fajr International Film Festival for "Endless Dreams".

paragraph: For the first time in the history of film photography, one of his photos is kept in the National Museum of the Iranian artist's forum. His collection of picture stories from the movie "Farewell Baghdad" went on to be displayed in Melat Multiplex. In this exhibition, photographs of the movie and the behind the scene of "Farewell Baghdad" were shown in photo art format. It was a combination of photographs and the soundtrack of the movie. The photographs alongside the soundtrack were a conceptual event for the audience.

paragraph: At the 25th Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults, he received a Golden Butterfly for the best photograph of the movie. Javad Jalali received the Crystal Simorgh at 30th Fajr International Film Festival for the best photography of the movie "Farewell Baghdad". He received his second Crystal Simorgh at the 32nd Fajr International Film Festival for the best photography of the movie "Berlin Minus Seven".

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crystal Trophy Award, and diploma best short film story for the film highway 2000

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nominated for the Academy of Fine Arts Boston

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nominated for the Academy of Fine Arts France

paragraph: BULLET::::- Actual Photo Expo theater and Iranian 2011

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nominated Crystal Phoenix best scene twenty-ninth Fajr Film Festival for the movie Sleep Comet

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Winner", Crystal Simorgh, Best Photo, 30th Fajr International Film Festival for "Farewell Baghdad"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Winner", Golden Butterfly, Best Photo, 25th Isfahan International Festival of Films for Children & Young Adults

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nominee", Crystal Simorgh, Best Photo the scene, 29th Fajr International Film Festival, for "Aal"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nominee", Crystal Simorgh, Best Photo the scene, 29th Fajr International Film Festival, for "Endless Dreams"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nominee", Crystal Simorgh, Best Photo behind the scene, 29th Fajr International Film Festival, for "Aal"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nominee", Best Photo, 15th Iran Cinema Celebration Awards, for "Farewell Baghdad"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Winner", Crystal Simorgh, Best Photo, 32nd Fajr International Film Festival for "Berlin Minus Seven"

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Iranartists's Interview With Javad Jalali

paragraph: BULLET::::- Caffecinema's Interview With Javad Jalali

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tehran e Emrooz's Interview With Javad Jalali

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isna's Interview With Javad Jalali

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cinemapress's Interview With Javad Jalali

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Javad Jalali at Cinemotions

paragraph: BULLET::::- Javad Jalali's Photos from Farewell Baghdad movie in caffecinema

paragraph: BULLET::::- The official Photographers Directory

paragraph: BULLET::::- Machine Encounter By Javad Jalali in IMDb

description: Iranian photographer

wikidata_label: Javad Jalali

wikipedia_title: Javad Jalali