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manager
football
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Kingdom of Yugoslavia
BSK
Czechoslovakia
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Bulgaria
Sofia
Bobek
1928 Olympic Games
Amsterdam
Uruguay
Uruguay
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South America
Tirnanić
BSK
YUS
Brazil
Hugo Meisl
Wunderteam
Hajduk
Split
Poland
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Dinamo Pančevo
Proleter
Osijek
OFK Beograd
AC Torino
Calcio Catania
FK Pobeda Prilep
stroke
See You in Montevideo
Yugoslav Championship
Yugoslav Championship
1932–33
Yugoslav Cup
Yugoslav Cup
1955

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Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Association football
Manager (association football)
Association football
Forward (association football)
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
OFK Beograd
Czechoslovakia
Zagreb
Bulgaria
Sofia
Stjepan Bobek
Football at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Amsterdam
Uruguay
Uruguay
Bolivia national football team
South America
Aleksandar Tirnanić
OFK Beograd
Yugoslav dinar
Brazil national football team
Hugo Meisl
Wunderteam
HNK Hajduk Split
Split, Croatia
Poland
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Fürstenberg/Havel
FK Dinamo Pančevo
NK Osijek
Osijek
OFK Beograd
Torino F.C.
Calcio Catania
FK Pobeda
Stroke
See You in Montevideo
Yugoslav First League
Yugoslav First League
1932–33 Yugoslav Football Championship
Yugoslav Cup
Yugoslav Cup
1955 Yugoslav Cup

categories: 1930 FIFA World Cup players,Serie A managers,FK Dinamo Pančevo players,NK Osijek players,Sportspeople from Belgrade,Serbian footballers,Serbian football managers,Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics,1907 births,Yugoslav football managers,Torino F.C. managers,OFK Beograd players,OFK Beograd managers,Yugoslav footballers,Yugoslav First League players,1984 deaths,Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia,SK Jugoslavija players,Yugoslavia international footballers,Association football forwards,FK Čukarički players

paragraph: Blagoje Marjanović

paragraph: Blagoje "Moša" Marjanović (, ; 9 September 1907 – 1 October 1984) was a Yugoslav football player and manager.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born to merchant father Dimitrije and housewife mother Sofija, young Blagoje grew up on the outskirts of Belgrade in 7 Đakovačka Street.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Playing career.

paragraph: Blagoje Marjanović was one of the best football forward in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He played for BSK (1926–39), with whom he won five league titles (1931st, 1933rd, 1935th, 1936st and 1939th) and three times was the best league goal scorer (1930th, 1935th, 1937). For the national team he debut on 28 June 1926 in a friendly match against Czechoslovakia (2-6) in Zagreb. His first goal he scored on 15 May 1927 against Bulgaria in Sofia when in the last five minutes he scored two goals in the match. During his career, he scored 37 goals in 58 games for the national team (unbroken record, until Bobek came, and scored 38 goals in 63 games, although Marjanović has a better scoring ratio at 0,63 goals per game), and 575 goals in 14 seasons for his club BSK. He participated in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam and the first FIFA World Cup 1930 in Uruguay. He has won a bronze medal in the FIFA World Cup 1930 in Uruguay. He scored one goal in that tournament in the game versus Bolivia.

paragraph: After returning from South America, this excellent striker became (alongside his teammate Tirnanić), first professional footballer in Yugoslavia (although he had a little bit higher salary then Tirnanić). For his services at BSK Marjanović was paid YUS1,800 per month. The exchange rate of dinar against US dollar in December 1930 was $1 = YUS56.39 meaning that his monthly salary was $32 (about $446 in 2014 dollar).He and Tirnanić formed one of the greatest right side partnership in Yugoslavian football history. Although, during the match he understood with Tirnanić very well, he had almost the same understanding with other teammates, from his club and from national team. Marjanović was highly intelligent player, and he was able to realize, how every of his teammates plays. During the game it always seemed that he knew what to do with or without a ball (especially during goalscoring situations in opponent penalty box, when he was highly unpredictable and very clever). He was very accurate shooter, but with average shot power. Moša could score from almost every position (he scored quite a few goals with his back-heel, chests and sometimes even stomach) and he didn't care if the ball came low or high, because he was, also, very good in air game. His main specialty was volley shot. Besides that, he was also one of the best free-kick takers in Yugoslavia. He scored a few times hat-trick for national team, but probably most memorable was against Brazil in 1934, in friendly game in Belgrade (the score was 8:4 for Yugoslavia). Many football experts of that time showed great appreciation for "Moša's" skills, including Hugo Meisl (creator and coach of the Austrian "Wunderteam") who claimed that with Marjanović in the attacking line "Wunderteam" would be perfect.

paragraph: Marjanovic enjoyed great fame. He was a national superstar but also a playboy, up to the moment when his club played against Hajduk, in Split. On the eve of the match, he met a Dalmatian girl who supported Hajduk. They were married in 1938 with great interest of the public and journalists. The last match for the national team was played on 3 April 1938 against Poland in a World Cup qualifier. Marjanović scored the only goal of the match. During German invasion on Yugoslavia, he was captured as truck driver soldier of Yugoslav Army and placed in a prison camp in Fürstenberg, Germany. In the midst of adversity, sometimes they organized football matches between "war prisoners" versus "the guardians". When the war ended, he returned to Yugoslavia and played for Dinamo Pančevo (1945–48). His career ended in Proleter from Osijek (1949).

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Coaching career.

paragraph: During his coaching career, he first led Proleter Osijek then OFK Beograd, with whom he won the national cup in 1955. He was later a coach in the Italian league (one year in AC Torino and one year in Calcio Catania). He returned to Yugoslavia and became a coach for FK Pobeda Prilep. After a match in 1961, Moša suffered a stroke. He never regained his speech and the right side of his body was paralyzed. He died in 1984. In the former Yugoslavia, he was also remembered for his statement: Football is my life.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Film.

paragraph: In the 2014 film "See You in Montevideo", Marjanović was portrayed by actor Petar Strugar. (Movie trailer)

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.:Club.

paragraph: SK Jugoslavija

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yugoslav Championship: 1924

paragraph: BSK Beograd

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yugoslav Championship: 1930–31, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1938–39

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yugoslav Cup: 1934

paragraph: Section::::Honours.:Manager.

paragraph: BSK Beograd

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yugoslav Cup: 1955

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on Serbian national football team website

description: Serbian footballer

wikidata_label: Blagoje Marjanović

wikipedia_title: Blagoje Marjanović


text:
St. Helier
Jersey
Gonville and Caius College
jazz
Maggie Nicols
John Etheridge
Harry Beckett
Dierdre Cartwright
George Russell
Carol Grimes
Simply Red
Andy Sheppard
Ernestine Anderson
Paul McCartney
Standing Stone
Mark Ramsden
Carla Bley
Janette Mason
Grove Jazz

wikipedia_title: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

categories: English male composers,English jazz composers,Jazz keyboardists,People from Saint Helier,Living people,21st-century organists,Male organists,English organists,English jazz musicians,Male jazz composers,Jazz organists,21st-century male musicians

paragraph: Steve Lodder

paragraph: Steve Lodder, born Stephen John Lodder (born St. Helier, Jersey, April 10, 1951), is a British keyboardist, composer, and organist. He played piano as a child and took up organ at age 14. He studied organ at Gonville and Caius College, and after completing his studies he taught music and wrote for film and television.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Lodder became active in jazz music, playing with Maggie Nicols, John Etheridge, Harry Beckett, and Dierdre Cartwright. He toured with George Russell in the 1980s, and in 1989 accompanied Carol Grimes; later that year he toured with Simply Red.

paragraph: Since 1989 Lodder has worked with Andy Sheppard, on several projects (including Soft on the Inside, Co-Motion, Inclassifiable, and 20th century Saxophones). He plays synthesizer on some of Sheppard's work. He has led his own small ensembles since 1992. In 1994 he accompanied Ernestine Anderson and worked with Brazilian ensemble Nois.

paragraph: From 1995 Lodder worked with Paul McCartney on his "Standing Stone" composition, which was premiered and recorded in 1997. In 1996 he recorded on church organ with saxophonist Mark Ramsden. He returned to tour with George Russell from 1997, and was with Carla Bley in 1998 for performances of "Escalator Over the Hill". His first release under his own name was 2001's "Bout Time 2".

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stevie Wonder: A Musical Guide to the Classic Albums" by Steve Lodder (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Totally Interactive Keyboard Bible" by Steve Lodder, Janette Mason (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Classic Hammond Organ: Know the Players, Play the Music" by Steve Lodder (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Hammond Organ Key Master" by Steve Lodder (2008)

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gary W. Kennedy, "Steve Lodder". "Grove Jazz" online.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview with "Jazzwise".

description: Jersey musician

wikidata_label: Steve Lodder

wikipedia_title: Steve Lodder


text:
Aachen
Nuremberg
baritone
Mozart
Verdi
Milan
tenor
Giuseppe Borgatti
Heddle Nash
Nozze di Figaro
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Düsseldorf
Staatstheater Stuttgart
Berlin Staatsoper
Glyndebourne Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Magic Flute
Second World War
mezzo-soprano
Brigitte Fassbaender
Sabine Peters
The Marriage of Figaro
Alain Pâris
Éditions Robert Laffont

categories: German operatic baritones,20th-century opera singers,1897 births,20th-century German musicians,1978 deaths

paragraph: Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender

paragraph: Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (19 February 1897, Aachen - 13 February 1978, Nuremberg) was a German operatic baritone, particularly associated with Mozart and Verdi roles. He is considered to have been one of the best lyric baritones of the inter-war period.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Domgraf-Fassbaender studied first in Berlin with Jacques Stuckgold and Paul Bruns, and later in Milan with the prominent Italian dramatic tenor Giuseppe Borgatti (who also taught the English tenor Heddle Nash). His stage debut occurred in 1922 in his native Aachen, as Almaviva in "Nozze di Figaro".

paragraph: He sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1923 to 1925, at the Düsseldorf opera house from 1925 to 1927, at the Staatstheater Stuttgart from 1927 to 1930 and finally at the Berlin Staatsoper from 1930 until 1948. Domgraf-Fassbaender was invited to sing at the Glyndebourne Festival in England from the festival's foundation in 1934 until 1937, performing Mozart roles. He also appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Austria in 1937, as Papageno in "The Magic Flute". After the Second World War, he performed mostly in Vienna, Munich, Hannover, and Nuremberg, where he was resident producer at the latter city's opera house from 1953 to 1962.

paragraph: In 1954, he began teaching at the Music Conservatory of Nuremberg, where he trained his daughter, the mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender. He was married to the actress Sabine Peters.

paragraph: Domgraf-Fassbaender had a beautiful voice which he used with sensitive musicianship and an excellent technique. He was an accomplished singer-actor as well, appearing in a few musical films. Domgraf-Fassbaender left a sizeable legacy of audio recordings, many of which are available on CD reissues.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Marriage of Figaro" (1949)

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dictionnaire des interprètes", Alain Pâris, (Éditions Robert Laffont, SA, Paris, 1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera" [second edition], (Oxford University Press, London, 1980).

description: German opera singer

wikidata_label: Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender

wikipedia_title: Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender


text: Italian

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text: bishop

text: House of Sforza

text: Parma

text: count

text: Santa Fiora

text: marquis

text: Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora

text: Roberto de' Nobili

text: Alessandro Sforza

text: Pope Paul III

text: Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma

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text: rhetoric

text: mathematics

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text: politics

text: Flanders

text: Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma

text: Costanza Sforza, duchess of Sora

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text: Romagna

text: bandits

text: Pope Clement VIII

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text: first papal conclave of 1605

text: Pope Leo XI

text: second papal conclave of 1605

text: Pope Paul V

text: papal coronation

text: cardinal priest

text: titular church

text: protopriest

text: cardinal bishop

text: Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano

text: consecrated

text: Quirinal Palace

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text: papal conclave of 1621

text: Pope Gregory XV

text: papal conclave of 1623

text: Pope Urban VIII

text: Dean of the College of Cardinals

text: San Bernardo alle Terme

paragraph: Francesco Sforza (cardinal)

paragraph: Francesco Sforza (1562–1624) was an Italian cardinal and bishop.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Background and early career in the military.

paragraph: A member of the House of Sforza, Francesco Sforza was born in Parma on 6 November 1562, the son of Sforza Sforza and his second wife Caterina de' Nobili. He was count of Santa Fiora, marquis of Varci and Castel Acquaro. He was the nephew of Cardinals Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Roberto de' Nobili, and Alessandro Sforza, and the grand-nephew of Pope Paul III.

paragraph: He received a military education under Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma and later at the court of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He also studied Latin, rhetoric, mathematics, philosophy, and politics. He married the sister of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. At age 18, he served in Flanders under his cousin Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma; he commanded Italian troops.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early ecclesiastical career.

paragraph: Following his wife's death, his sister Costanza Sforza, duchess of Sora, who was married to Giacomo Boncompagni, the legitimized son of Pope Gregory XIII, encouraged him to pursue an ecclesiastical career. He became a cleric in Rome and rose quickly in the church, first becoming a canon of the cathedral chapter of San Nicola in Carcere before he had even been ordained as a priest.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Cardinalate.

paragraph: Pope Gregory XIII made him a cardinal deacon in the consistory of 12 December 1583. He received the red hat and the deaconry of San Giorgio in Velabro on 6 January 1584. He participated in the papal conclave of 1585 that elected Pope Sixtus V; in the first papal conclave of 1590 that elected Pope Urban VII; in the second papal conclave of 1590 that elected Pope Gregory XIV; in the papal conclave of 1591 that elected Pope Innocent IX; and in the papal conclave of 1592 that elected Pope Clement VIII.

paragraph: From 20 July 1591 until 1597 he was papal legate in Romagna, where he was charged with ridding the province of bandits, which he accomplished. He represented Pope Clement VIII at the baptism of his nephew Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He accompanied the pope to Ferrara in 1598. He participated in the first papal conclave of 1605 that elected Pope Leo XI and the second papal conclave of 1605 that elected Pope Paul V. He crowned Pope Paul V in the papal coronation held on 29 May 1605.

paragraph: He was ordained as a priest in 1614. On 13 November 1617 he opted for the order of cardinal priests and received the titular church of San Matteo in Via Merulana. He became the protopriest.

paragraph: He opted for the order of cardinal bishops on 5 March 1618, receiving the Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano. He was consecrated as a bishop by Pope Paul V in the apostolic chapel of the Quirinal Palace on 1 May 1618. He opted for the Suburbicarian Diocese of Frascati on 6 April 1620.

paragraph: He participated in the papal conclave of 1621 that elected Pope Gregory XV and in the papal conclave of 1623 that elected Pope Urban VIII.

paragraph: On 27 September 1623 he opted for the Suburbicarian Diocese of Porto-Santa Rufina. He was Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals.

paragraph: He died in Rome on 9 September 1624. He was buried in San Bernardo alle Terme.

description: Italian cardinal

wikidata_label: Francesco Sforza

wikipedia_title: Francesco Sforza (cardinal)


text:
Narciso Yepes
Goyescas
The House of Rain
The Bullfighter's Suit
A Toast for Manolete
Two Paths
As Long as You Live

categories: 20th-century composers,Spanish male composers,Spanish composers,1905 births,1988 deaths

paragraph: José Muñoz Molleda

paragraph: José Muñoz Molleda (1905–1988) was a Spanish composer, journalist, jurist and politician. He was one of the "músicos del '27."

paragraph: Section::::Works, editions and recordings.

paragraph: BULLET::::- José Muñoz Molleda. Obras para orquesta - Circo. Variaciones sobre un tema. Introducción y fuga. Sinfonía en la menor.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Muñoz Molleda: Farruca Narciso Yepes (guitar)

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Goyescas" (1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The House of Rain" (1943)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Bullfighter's Suit" (1947)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Toast for Manolete" (1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Paths" (1954)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "As Long as You Live" (1955)

description: Spanish composer

wikidata_label: José Muñoz Molleda

wikipedia_title: José Muñoz Molleda


text: scholar official

text: Qing Dynasty

text: imperial examination

text: Hanlin Academy

text: Shisan Jing Zhushu

text: Viceroy of Liangguang

text: Guangzhou

text: First Opium War

text: Canton System

text: Guangdong

text: tael

text: Han Learning

text: Liu Fenglu

text: Duke Yansheng

categories: Qing dynasty historians,Viceroys of Yun-Gui,Qing dynasty politicians from Jiangsu,Historians of mathematics,1849 deaths,Historians from Jiangsu,Politicians from Yangzhou,Viceroys of Huguang,Viceroys of Liangguang,Chinese Confucianists,1764 births,Writers from Yangzhou,Historians of astronomy,19th-century Chinese historians

paragraph: Ruan Yuan

paragraph: Ruan Yuan (; 1764–1849) was a Chinese scholar official of the Qing Dynasty who was the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He won the "jinshi" degree in the imperial examinations in 1789 and was subsequently appointed to the Hanlin Academy. He was known for his work "Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians" and for his editing the "Shisan Jing Zhushu" (Commentaries and Notes on the Thirteen Classics) for the Qing emperor.

paragraph: Ruan Yuan was a successful official as well as a scholar. He was the Viceroy of Liangguang, the most important imperial official in Canton (Guangzhou), during the critical years 1817–1826, just before the First Opium War with Britain. It was a crucial time when Chinese trade with the outside world was allowed only through the Canton System, with all foreigners confined to Canton, the capital of Guangdong Province. During his tenure in Canton, Ruan is estimated to have earned more than 195,000 taels of silver.

paragraph: He was widely recognized as an official, scholar, and patron of learning both by his contemporaries and by modern scholars. He was also praised as an honest official and an exemplary man of the ‘Confucian persuasion’. His name is mentioned in almost all works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still reprinted. Ruan Yuan was a follower of the Han Learning tradition and as such, with the encouragement of Liu Fenglu, he edited and organized publication of the compendium of the imperial achievements in "kaozheng" scholarship, the "Huang Qing Jingjie" () published in 1829.

paragraph: Kong Luhua (relative of the Duke Yansheng) was the second wife of Ruan Yuan.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bibliography

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruan Yuan biography from St. Andrews University

alias:
Xiaocanglang
Wenxuanlou
Xiaolanghuanxianguan
伯元
文達
Queliruankongjinglou
I-hsing Lao-jen
Xuehaitang
Chieh-hsing-chai Lao-jen
Liangbo Ruan
bo yuan
Beihu Bosou
Yüan Juan
Yuanxinglaoren
Jiushijiuyanzhai
Jiexinglaoren
Chieh-hsing-chai-lao-jen
Yün-t'ai
Dingxiangting
Jiexingzhai
Langhuanxianguan
Puyanzhai
wen da
Boyuan
yun tai
Po-yüan Juan
Yuan Ruan
Yün-t'ai Juan
Diemengyuan
Jiexingzhailaoren
Beihubosou
Kai-t'ing
雲臺
Ruan Yüan
Wenda Ruan
Liangbo
元 阮
Pei-hu-po-sou
Liang-po Juan
Leitanganzhu
I-hsing-lao-jen
Yixinglaoren
Gaiting
Yixing Laoren
Leitang'anzhu
Jiguzhai
Dingjingtang
Gujingjingshe
Yanjinglaoren
Yuntai
Shimoshulou
Jiexingzhai Laoren
Juan Yüan
Yanjingshi
Wen-ta Juan
良伯
Wenda
liang bo
Baiguishiguan
Pei-hu Po-sou
Lei-t'ang-an-chu
Wanliutang
Yuntai Ruan
芸臺
Hsiao-ts'ang-lang
Boyuan Ruan
Bazhuanyinguan
Yizhengtang
阮元
Qinhuashuangbeizhiguan

description: Appointed to the Hanlin Academy, noted for his work Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians

wikidata_label: Ruan Yuan

wikipedia_title: Ruan Yuan


text:
alpine ski racer
France
Winter Olympics
World Championships
Alpine Skiing World Cup
Val-d'Isère
super-G
2013 World Championships
2014 Winter Olympics
GS
Gauthier de Tessières
French Ski Team
Head Skis

categories: Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Olympic alpine skiers of France,1981 births,Sportspeople from Clermont-Ferrand,French male alpine skiers,Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics

paragraph: Gauthier de Tessières

paragraph: Gauthier de Tessières (born 9 November 1981) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from France, and has competed in two Winter Olympics and five World Championships. He made his breakthrough on the Alpine Skiing World Cup in a giant slalom in Val-d'Isère in December 2008, where after finishing 30th in the first run to narrowly qualify for the second run, he worked his way up to finish third overall, bettering his previous World Cup personal best of 15th. He won the silver medal in the super-G at the 2013 World Championships, after being added to the French team as an injury replacement. De Tessières announced his retirement from competition in January 2014 after he was not selected for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

paragraph: Section::::World Cup results.

paragraph: Section::::World Cup results.:Top ten finishes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1 podium – (1 GS)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 5 top tens

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gauthier de Tessières World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation

paragraph: BULLET::::- French Ski Team – 2013 men's A team – ""

paragraph: BULLET::::- Head Skis – team – athletes – Gauthier de Tessières

description: French alpine skier

wikidata_label: Gauthier de Tessières

wikipedia_title: Gauthier de Tessières


text: Kentucky Rain

text: Elvis Presley

text: Pure Love

text: Ronnie Milsap

text: crossover

text: Suspicions

text: Every Which Way but Loose

text: film of the same title

text: Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)

text: You and I

text: Juice Newton

text: Crystal Gayle

text: Days of Our Lives

text: All My Children

text: Irish

text: immigrants

text: Brooklyn

text: New York

text: East Orange, New Jersey

text: New York City

text: guitar

text: Paterson

text: 20th Century Records

text: Nashville

text: Roy Drusky

text: truck driver

text: soda jerk

text: Hill & Range

text: Elvis Presley

text: Kentucky Rain

text: Cap'n Crunch

text: Pure Love

text: Ronnie Milsap

text: Elektra Records

text: self-named

text: Rocky Mountain Music

text: Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind)

text: Rabbitt

text: Academy of Country Music

text: Kris Kristofferson

text: Knott's Berry Farm

text: Kenny Rogers

text: Dolly Parton

text: Every Which Way But Loose

text: Garth Brooks

text: Good Ride Cowboy

text: Keith Urban

text: Once in a Lifetime

text: R&B

text: Suspicions

text: Loveline

text: NBC

text: Emmylou Harris

text: Jerry Lee Lewis

text: Horizon

text: I Love a Rainy Night

text: Drivin' My Life Away

text: Bob Dylan

text: Subterranean Homesick Blues

text: Bringing It All Back Home

text: Step by Step

text: title track

text: Crystal Gayle

text: You and I

text: Radio Romance

text: soap opera

text: All My Children

text: The Best Year of My Life

text: RCA Records

text: Rabbitt Trax

text: Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)

text: Juice Newton

text: Days of Our Lives

text: I Wanna Dance With You

text: Dion's

text: The Wanderer

text: We Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right

text: That's Why I Fell in Love with You

text: Capitol Records

text: Jersey Boy

text: On Second Thought

text: American Boy

text: Gulf War

text: Bob Dole

text: Ten Rounds

text: Capitol Records

text: Intersound Records

text: lung cancer

text: chemotherapy

text: Beatin' the Odds

text: Songs from Rabbittland

text: echo

text: Billboard Magazine

text: rockabilly

text: Sun Records

text: Bob Dylan

text: Elton John

text: Steely Dan

text: Elvis Presley

text: Willie Nelson

text: San Jose Mercury News

text: hip hop music

text: rap

text: monkey

text: biliary atresia

text: liver transplant

text: Special Olympics

text: Easter Seals

text: Muscular Dystrophy Association

text: United Cerebral Palsy

text: Republican

text: Bob Dole

text: lung cancer

text: Eddie Rabbitt at CMT.com

text: Family Ties - People.com Archives

categories: 1941 births,Songwriters from New York (state),American male singer-songwriters,1998 deaths,Musicians from Brooklyn,American people of Irish descent,Elektra Records artists,RCA Records Nashville artists,Country musicians from New York (state),American country singer-songwriters,Deaths from cancer in Tennessee,20th-century American singers,Deaths from lung cancer

paragraph: Eddie Rabbitt

paragraph: Edward Thomas Rabbitt (November 27, 1941 – May 7, 1998) was an American singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as "Suspicions" and "Every Which Way but Loose" (the theme from the film of the same title). His duets "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" and "You and I", with Juice Newton and Crystal Gayle respectively, later appeared on the soap operas "Days of Our Lives" and "All My Children".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Rabbitt was born to Irish immigrants Mae (née Joyce) and Thomas Michael Rabbitt in Brooklyn, New York, in 1941, and was raised in the nearby community of East Orange, New Jersey. His father was an oil-refinery refrigeration worker, and a skilled fiddle and accordion player, who often entertained in local New York City dance halls. By age twelve Rabbitt was a proficient guitar player, having been taught by his scoutmaster, Bob Scwickrath. During his childhood Rabbitt became a self-proclaimed "walking encyclopedia of country music". After his parents divorced, he dropped out of school at age sixteen. His mother, Mae, explained this action by saying that Eddie "was never one for school [because] his head was too full of music." He later obtained a high school diploma after taking courses at night school.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Early career.

paragraph: Rabbitt was employed as a mental hospital attendant in the late 1950s but, like his father, he fulfilled his love of music by performing at the Six Steps Down club in his hometown. He later won a talent contest and was given an hour of Saturday night radio show time to broadcast a live performance from a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. In 1964, he signed his first record deal with 20th Century Records and released the singles, "Next to the Note" and "Six Nights and Seven Days". Four years later, with $1,000.00 to his name, Rabbitt moved to Nashville where he began his career as a songwriter. During his first night in the town, Rabbitt wrote "Working My Way Up to the Bottom", which Roy Drusky recorded in 1968. To support himself, Rabbitt worked as a truck driver, soda jerk and fruit picker while in Nashville. He was ultimately hired as a staff writer for the Hill & Range Publishing Company and received a salary of $37.50 per week. As a young songwriter, Rabbitt socialized with other aspiring writers at Wally's Clubhouse, a bar in Nashville; he said that he and the other patrons had "no place else to go."

paragraph: Rabbitt became successful as a songwriter in 1969 when Elvis Presley recorded his song "Kentucky Rain". The song went gold and cast Rabbitt as one of Nashville's leading young songwriters. While eating Cap'n Crunch, he penned "Pure Love", which Ronnie Milsap rode to No. 1 in 1974. This song led to a contract offer from Elektra Records.

paragraph: Rabbitt signed with Elektra Records in 1975. His first single under that label, "You Get To Me" made the top 40 that year, and two songs in 1975, "Forgive and Forget" and "I Should Have Married You" nearly made the top 10. These three songs along with a recording of "Pure Love" were included on Rabbitt's self-named debut album in 1975. In 1976 his critically acclaimed "Rocky Mountain Music" album was released, which handed Rabbitt his first No. 1 country hit with the track "Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind)". In 1977 his third album, "Rabbitt" was released, which made the top 5 on Country Albums chart. Also in 1977 the Academy of Country Music named Rabbitt "Top New Male Vocalist of the Year". By that time he had a good reputation in Nashville, and was being compared by critics to singer Kris Kristofferson. In 1977, at Knott's Berry Farm, Eddie Rabbitt appeared at the CMA and sang several of his songs from the album Rocky Mountain Music. He won the award of Top New Male Vocalist of the Year.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Crossover success.

paragraph: While he was still relatively unknown, Rabbitt toured with and opened for crossover star Kenny Rogers, and also opened for Dolly Parton on a number of dates during her 1978 tour, but soon Rabbitt would himself break through on other charts. Following the 1978 release of "Variations", which included two more No. 1 hits, Rabbitt released his first compilation album, "The Best of Eddie Rabbitt". The album produced Rabbitt's first crossover single of his career, "Every Which Way But Loose", which topped Country charts and reached the top 30 on both the "Billboard" Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary, and was featured in a 1978 Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. The song also broke the record for highest chart debut, entering at No. 18. Rabbitt held this record until it was shared with Garth Brooks at the debut of Brooks' 2005 single "Good Ride Cowboy." The record was broken in 2006 upon the No. 17 chart entrance of Keith Urban's "Once in a Lifetime." Rabbitt's next single, the R&B flavored "Suspicions" from his 1979 album "Loveline", was an even greater crossover success, again reaching number one on Country charts and the top 15 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and No. 5 on the Adult Contemporary charts. He was given his own television special on NBC, first airing on July 10, 1980, which included appearances by such performers as Emmylou Harris and Jerry Lee Lewis. By this point in his career Rabbitt had been compared to a "young Elvis Presley."

paragraph: Rabbitt's next album "Horizon", which reached platinum status, contained the biggest crossover hits of his career, "I Love a Rainy Night" and "Drivin' My Life Away." Rabbitt developed "Rainy Night" from a song fragment that he penned during a 1960s thunderstorm. "Driving" recalled Rabbitt's tenure as a truck driver, and was inspired by Bob Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from Dylan's 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home". His popularity was so strong at this point that he was offered his own variety television show, which he went on to respectfully decline stating "It's not worth the gamble."

paragraph: The release of his 1981 "Step by Step" album continued Rabbitt's crossover success as all three singles reached the top 10 on both Country and Adult Contemporary charts. The title track became Rabbitt's third straight single to reach the top 5 on Country, Adult Contemporary and the "Billboard" Hot 100 charts. The album ultimately reached gold status, Rabbitt's final album to do so. He teamed up with another country pop crossover star, Crystal Gayle, to record "You and I", which was included in his 1982 album "Radio Romance". The duet reached No. 1 on the "Billboard" Country chart and eventually became a large pop smash, peaking at No. 7 and No. 2 respectively on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary chart. The song's popularity reached the point where it was used as a love theme for a couple on the soap opera "All My Children". The song "You Put the Beat in My Heart" from Rabbitt's second "Greatest Hits - Volume II" compilation in 1983 was his final crossover hit, reaching No. 15 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Late career.

paragraph: During the 1980s, Rabbitt moved further from crossover-styled music. His 1984 album "The Best Year of My Life" produced one No. 1 country hit and three more top 10 country hits, but none of these met any crossover success. The illness and subsequent death of his son put his career on hold following the 1985 RCA Records release "Rabbitt Trax", which included the No. 1 "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)", a duet with country pop star Juice Newton. Like "You and I," the song was used as the theme for a soap opera, this time for "Days of Our Lives".

paragraph: Rabbitt returned from his hiatus in 1988 with the release of "I Wanna Dance With You", which despite somewhat negative reviews produced two No. 1 songs: a cover of Dion's "The Wanderer" and the album's title track. Additionally, "We Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" entered the top 10, although the album's final single "That's Why I Fell in Love with You" stalled at #66. 1990 saw the release of Rabbitt's positively reviewed Capitol Records album "Jersey Boy" and its hit single "On Second Thought", which held as Rabbitt's final No. 1 of his career. The album also included "American Boy", a patriotic tune popular during the Gulf War and later used in Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign.

paragraph: Rabbitt was among the many country singers who suffered a dramatic decline in chart success beginning in 1991. That year, he released "Ten Rounds", which produced the final charting single of his career, "Hang Up the Phone." Following that release, he left Capitol Records to tour with his band "Hare Trigger."

paragraph: In 1997, Rabbitt signed with Intersound Records but was soon after diagnosed with lung cancer. Following a round of chemotherapy, he released the album "Beatin' the Odds". The next year, he released his final studio album, "Songs from Rabbittland".

paragraph: Section::::Musical styles.

paragraph: Rabbitt used innovative techniques to tie country music themes with light rhythm and blues-influenced tempos. His songs often used echo, as Rabbitt routinely sang his own background vocals. In a process called the "Eddie Rabbitt Chorale," Rabbitt compensated for what "Billboard Magazine" described as a "somewhat thin and reedy voice" by recording songs in three-part harmonies. His music was compared to rockabilly, particularly the album "Horizon", which was noted as having an Elvis-like sound. Rabbitt remarked that he liked "a lot of the old Memphis sounds that came out of Sun Records" during the 1950s, and that he "wanted to catch the magic of a live band." He credited such wide-ranging artists as Bob Dylan, Elton John, Steely Dan, Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson with influencing his works. When putting together an album, Rabbitt tried to make sure he put in "ten potential singles...no fillers, no junk." He remembered listening to albums as a child and hearing "two hits and a bunch of garbage."

paragraph: Rabbitt believed that country music was "Irish music" and that "the minor chords in [his] music gave it that mystical feel." Although he did not strive to produce pop music, his songs helped influence the direction of country music, leading to the Urban Cowboy era during the 1980s. Critic Harry Sumrall of the "San Jose Mercury News" said that Rabbitt was "like a hot corn dog: nothing fancy, nothing frilly. You know what you're getting and you like it...never a country purist, Rabbitt nonetheless makes music that is plain and simple, with all of the virtues that make good country good. [His songs] might be brisk, but they are also warm and familiar, like the breeze that wafts in over the fried artichokes."

paragraph: During the early 1990s, Rabbitt voiced criticism of hip hop music, particularly rap, which he said was sending a negative message to youths. He stated that the music was "inciting a generation" and that it had helped to contribute to the high rates of teenage pregnancy, high school dropouts and rapes during this period.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: When Rabbitt arrived in Nashville during the late 1960s, a friend gave him a pet chicken. Rabbitt noted that he had "an affinity for animals" and kept the bird for a while before ultimately giving it to a farmer. During his Nashville days in the early 1970s, Rabbitt owned a pet monkey named Jojo. Prior to his "Rocky Mountain Music" tour, the monkey bit Rabbitt, leaving his right arm in bandages.

paragraph: In 1976, Rabbitt married Janine Girardi, whom he described as "a little thing about five feet tall, with long, black beautiful hair, and a real pretty face." He had previously written the songs "Pure Love" and "Sweet Janine" for her. They had three children, Demelza, Timmy, and Tommy. Timmy was diagnosed with biliary atresia upon birth. The condition required a liver transplant for survival and he underwent one in 1985, but the attempt failed and he died. Rabbitt temporarily put his career on hiatus, stating that "I didn't want to be out of the music business, but where I was more important." Tommy was born in 1986.

paragraph: Rabbitt felt it was his responsibility as an entertainer to be a good role model and was an advocate for many charitable organizations including the Special Olympics, Easter Seals, and the American Council on Transplantation, of which he served as the honorary chairman. He also worked as a spokesman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and United Cerebral Palsy. Rabbitt was a registered Republican and gave permission to Senator Bob Dole to use his song "American Boy" during Dole's 1996 presidential campaign.

paragraph: Rabbitt was also a fan of "" and paid a visit to the set during the show's in 1991–92.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Rabbitt died on May 7, 1998, in Nashville from lung cancer at the age of 56. He had been diagnosed with the disease in March 1997 and had received radiation treatment and surgery to remove part of one lung. His body was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Nashville following a private burial on May 8, 1998.

paragraph: No media outlets reported the death until after the burial at the family's request. The news came as a surprise to many in Nashville including the performer's agent who "had no idea Eddie was terminal" and had talked to him often, remarking that Rabbitt "was always upbeat and cheerful" in the final months of his life. Although he was widely believed to have been born in 1944 (this year can still be found in older publications and texts), it was revealed at the time of his death that he was born in 1941.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eddie Rabbitt at CMT.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Family Ties - People.com Archives

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eddie Rabbitt Did the 'roadie' Theme for a Reason: He's the Groupies' New Fantasy Figure - People.com Archives

description: American country music singer-songwriter

wikidata_label: Eddie Rabbitt

wikipedia_title: Eddie Rabbitt


text:
Asahikawa, Hokkaido
Tokyo
Osamu Tezuka
Tezuka Productions
Tezuka Award
Weekly Shōnen Jump
Raven Tengu Kabuto
The Fifth Element
Luc Besson
Space Cobra
Buichi Terasawa's website

categories: Manga artists from Hokkaido,Living people,Manga artists,1955 births

paragraph: Buichi Terasawa

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Terasawa was born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Tn the early days of his career, while still unknown, her contributed comics to a magazine that won him a prize, an event that led him deeper into the world of comics.

paragraph: In 1976 he moved to Tokyo and began to study under the famous Japanese manga artist, Osamu Tezuka. During the period he worked with the Manga Department of Tezuka Productions, his illustration work entitled "Mother Earth, Turn Green Again" was awarded the Tezuka Award. In 1977, he began drawing for "Weekly Shōnen Jump", a popular Japanese manga magazine.

paragraph: From around the beginning of the 1980s, he began to see the personal computer as a tool for the creative purposes. In 1985, he kicked off an eight-color comic book series called "BAT". In the ensuing years, in parallel with advances in the personal computer, he created "TAKERU" (1992), the world's first computer graphics comic book series.

paragraph: Next came "Cobra", "Bat" and "Gundragon Sigma" (in this latter series, only the main character is drawn by hand) and several other works.

paragraph: His works include original works, scenarios and works he has directed. Representative works include a CD-ROM format work for use with a PC, "COBRA II: A Man of Legend" and original animation videos such as "GOKU", "GOKU II", "Raven Tengu Kabuto" and others.

paragraph: Buichi Terasawa's works are translated and published in more than ten countries and are featured in comics and animation-related gatherings and exhibitions around the world.

paragraph: Whilst in Japan promoting "The Fifth Element", Luc Besson met with Terasawa to discuss the current state of sci-fi. Besson is reputedly a fan of Terasawa's work, partially due to the enormous popularity of Space Cobra in France.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Buichi Terasawa's website

description: Manga artist

wikidata_label: Buichi Terasawa

wikipedia_title: Buichi Terasawa


text:
Guy I
Duke of Athens
Greek
Herodotus
relieved Neopatras
Battle of Thermopylae
Byzantine Emperor
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Euboea
Thessaly
Gilbert of Verona
Negroponte
Licario
Vatonda
William
Gregorovius, Ferdinand

categories: Christians of the Crusades,De la Roche family,13th-century rulers in Europe,Dukes of Athens,Year of birth unknown,1280 deaths,Lords of Argos and Nauplia

paragraph: John I de la Roche

paragraph: John I de la Roche (died 1280) succeeded his father, Guy I, as Duke of Athens in 1263. He was cultured and chivalrous, spoke fluent Greek, and read Herodotus.

paragraph: In 1275, John, with 300 knights, relieved Neopatras, which had been blockaded by a Byzantine mercenary army. It was at this battle that he said "'Great are their numbers but few among them are true men," quoting Herodotus, who said, of the Battle of Thermopylae, "the Persian are great in their numbers but true men are far and few."

paragraph: The next year (1276), the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus invaded Euboea and Thessaly. John joined Gilbert of Verona to march to the relief of Negroponte, which was under attack by Licario. During a battle six miles to the north, at Vatonda, John was thrown from his horse and captured, along with Gilbert and many other knights.

paragraph: In 1280 he died and was succeeded by his brother William.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gregorovius, Ferdinand. "Geschichte der Stadt Athen im Mittelater". Stuttgart: 1889.

description: Duke of Athens in 1263

wikidata_label: John I de la Roche

wikipedia_title: John I de la Roche


text: speed skater

text: Moscow

text: Collalbo

text: Baselga di Pinè

text: 2006 KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships

text: TVM Speed skating team

text: Jan Bos

text: Calgary

text: 2010 Winter Olympics

text: Vancouver

text: 500 m race

text: 2018 Winter Olympics

text: Pyeongchang

text: 500 m race

categories: 1987 births,People from Raalte,Living people,World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists,Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Dutch male speed skaters,Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands,Olympic speed skaters of the Netherlands,Olympic medalists in speed skating,Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics

paragraph: Jan Smeekens

paragraph: Jan Smeekens (born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch speed skater. He is a 500 m specialist.

paragraph: Smeekens won his first international medal during the 2004 World Junior Single Distance Championships in Moscow where he won the gold medal at the 500 m. At the 2006 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships on 28 October 2005 he made his début among the senior skaters in his country, resulting in claiming a World Cup spot for races in Collalbo and Baselga di Pinè. In the A-group of these World Cup meetings he finished in 6th and 7th position.

paragraph: On 7 January 2006, later during the 2005–06 season he also made his début at the 2006 KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships. At these championships he won the second race over 500 m. In February 2006 Smeekens signed a professional contract with the TVM Speed skating team.

paragraph: His first success in his new team was winning a silver medal on the 500 m at the 2007 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. He won the first race beating all the favourites, while finishing second behind Jan Bos in the final race. Bos claimed and defended his title.

paragraph: In 2006 Smeekens became the Dutch junior record holder in the 500 m with a personal best of 35.16, which he achieved during the 2006 speed skating finals in Calgary.

paragraph: At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Smeekens finished sixth in the 500 m race.

paragraph: He won Silver in the Men's 500 metres Speed Skating event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia; he had thought he won gold in that event, but his time was adjusted.

paragraph: At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Smeekens finished tenth in the 500 m race.

description: Dutch speed skater

wikidata_label: Jan Smeekens

wikipedia_title: Jan Smeekens


text:
pseudonym
Porto
Portuguese
tuberculosis
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
A Morgadinha dos Canaviais

categories: University of Porto alumni,Portuguese male novelists,19th-century Portuguese writers,1839 births,19th-century deaths from tuberculosis,People from Porto,1871 deaths,Portuguese medical writers,Portuguese male writers,19th-century male writers,19th-century Portuguese novelists

paragraph: Júlio Dinis

paragraph: Júlio Dinis, pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho (14 November 1839, in Porto – 12 September 1871, in Porto) was a Portuguese doctor and writer.

paragraph: Júlio Dinis died at the young age of 31 of tuberculosis, and some of its works were published posthumously. As of today, there are no translations of his works available in English.

paragraph: Pseudonym of Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho poet, playwright, and novelist, the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society. His novels, extremely popular in his lifetime and still widely read in Portugal today, are written in a simple and direct style accessible to a large public.

paragraph: His first attacks of tuberculosis forced him to resign as deputy professor at the medical school of Porto. He had already published several tales of country life in the Jornal do Porto. Retiring to the coastal town of Ovar for his health, he wrote the novel for which he is best known, As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1867; “The Pupils of the Dean”), depicting country life and scenery in a simple and appealing style. It was based on his own family situation and described the influence of the English on Portuguese culture. (His mother was English.) Encouraged by its immediate success, he published Uma Família Inglesa (1868; “An English Family”), a novel describing English society in Porto.

paragraph: Dinis' poems and plays were published posthumously, but he is best-remembered for his novels. As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor had gone through 14 editions by 1900.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1867)

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Morgadinha dos Canaviais (1868)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Uma Família Inglesa (1868)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Serões da Província (1870)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca (1871)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Poesias (1873)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inéditos e Dispersos (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Teatro Inédito (1946–1947)

alias:
Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho
Julio Dinis

description: Portuguese writer

wikidata_label: Júlio Dinis

wikipedia_title: Júlio Dinis


text:
American football
running back
drafted
2007 NFL Draft
New York Giants
college football
Marshall
Super Bowl
XLII
XLVI
New England Patriots
Bluefield, Virginia
high school football
Graham High School
cornerback
Rivals.com
junior
senior
track & field
55 metres
100 meters
high jump
Virginia
Charlottesville
Al Groh
underage drinking
Marshall University
Thundering Herd
Georgia
Miami
Western Michigan
Kansas State University
Conference USA
William and Mary
Virginia Tech
University of Texas at El Paso
Southern Miss
East Carolina
Hofstra
University of Central Florida
University of Alabama-Birmingham
New York Giants
2007 NFL Draft
kickoff
Reuben Droughns
Detroit Lions
Brandon Jacobs
Derrick Ward
Reuben Droughns
Minnesota Vikings
Buffalo Bills
2007 season
Brandon Jacobs
NFC Championship game
Super Bowl XLII
New England Patriots
Eli Manning
New England Patriots
running back
Derrick Ward
Brandon Jacobs
Derrick Ward
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Brandon Jacobs
Brandon Jacobs
Buffalo Bills
Super Bowl XLVI
New England Patriots
running out most of the remaining time
field goal
goal line
end zone
David Wilson
Cleveland Browns
David Wilson
Indianapolis Colts
injured reserve
Marshall Faulk
The Spring League
University of Virginia
Virginia Cavaliers
PlayStation
Plaxico Burress
Onion SportsDome
Indianapolis Colts bio

categories: Players of American football from Virginia,African-American players of American football,1986 births,Super Bowl champions,Marshall Thundering Herd football players,People from Bluefield, Virginia,Virginia Cavaliers football players,Indianapolis Colts players,New York Giants players,American football running backs,Living people

paragraph: Ahmad Bradshaw

paragraph: Ahmad Bradshaw (born March 19, 1986) is a former American football running back. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. He played college football at Marshall. He is a two-time Super Bowl champion, winning Super Bowls XLII and XLVI as a member of the New York Giants, defeating the New England Patriots in both Super Bowls. He was the leading rusher in each game, becoming one of eight running backs in NFL history to be the leading rusher in two Super Bowls.

paragraph: Section::::High school career.

paragraph: Ahmad Bradshaw was born in Bluefield, Virginia to Diana Davis and James Bradshaw, and played high school football, basketball and ran track at Graham High School. He was ranked as the #7 player in Virginia and the #28 cornerback prospect in the country by Rivals.com. He rushed for 2,282 yards and 27 touchdowns as a junior and 2,557 rushing yards and 31 touchdowns as a senior, totaling 5,265 yards and 92 touchdowns while averaging nearly ten yards a carry for his high school career. He earned All-Virginia honors and was named VHSL AA Player of the Year.

paragraph: Bradshaw was also on the Graham High track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper. In sprints, he recorded times of 6.75 seconds in the 55 metres and 11.34 seconds in the 100 meters. In jumping events, he got a personal-best leap of 1.80 meters in the high jump.

paragraph: Bradshaw originally signed a letter of intent to Virginia and arrived in Charlottesville for football practice, but was kicked off the team by Al Groh before his first season started, after being arrested for underage drinking and running from police. He then enrolled at Marshall University.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Freshman season (2004).

paragraph: With the Thundering Herd, Bradshaw only had 462 yards and three touchdowns in his freshman season in 2004, but also totaled 187 yards receiving on 14 receptions for two touchdowns. He missed two games that season, the Georgia and Miami games, due to an ankle sprain sustained during a stellar fourth quarter performance at Ohio State. He also recorded nine punt returns for 108 yards and 15 kick returns for 322 yards as a freshman. Bradshaw rushed for a then career-high 145 yards, including a 77-yard touchdown run, in just eight first half carries against Western Michigan. His other signature performance of the season came against Kansas State University, when he took a screen pass 75-yards for a score.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Sophomore season (2005).

paragraph: Bradshaw rushed for 997 yards and totaled 1,382 all-purpose yards en route to becoming a second-team All-Conference USA selection as a sophomore in 2005. He was the team's leading rusher and receiver as well. In the season-opener against William and Mary, Bradshaw rushed for 72 yards and a touchdown with 73 yards and a score receiving. He rushed for 99 yards and a touchdown in the loss to #3 Virginia Tech. He followed it up with a then career-high 133 yards against the University of Texas at El Paso and eclipsed the mark the following week in the Herd's overtime loss to Southern Miss with 150 yards and a score. Bradshaw's best performance came against East Carolina, when he rushed for a season and career-high 187 yards with two touchdowns along with 51 yards on eight receptions. He added a season-long 56-yard run against ECU as well.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Junior season (2006).

paragraph: Bradshaw's best season of his college career came as a junior in 2006, when he totaled 1,523 yards rushing, for 19 touchdowns, and 129 receiving yards for two scores. He was eighth in the nation in rushing yardage and tied for third in rushing touchdowns. In the Herd's second game of the season against Hofstra, Bradshaw ran for 152 yards and four touchdowns. Against the University of Central Florida, he ran for 181 yards and a score. Bradshaw's first out of two 200-yard games of the season came two weeks later against the University of Alabama-Birmingham, when he rushed for 242 yards and two touchdowns. His best game of the season and his career came against UTEP, when he rushed for career-highs of 261 yards and five touchdowns. Bradshaw was in contention for Conference USA Player of the Year and earned first-team All-Conference USA honors.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.:2007.

paragraph: Bradshaw was drafted by the New York Giants in the seventh round with the 250th overall pick of the 2007 NFL Draft. In his first two games, Bradshaw fumbled twice on kickoff returns. He was fourth in the National Football Conference with a 26.0-yard kickoff return average when the Giants replaced him with veteran Reuben Droughns. Bradshaw returned to returning kickoffs for the November 18 game against the Detroit Lions.

paragraph: Injuries to teammates Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward, and the disappointing play of Reuben Droughns, gave Bradshaw his first regular season carries against the Minnesota Vikings. He gained 29 yards on four carries in the game. On December 23, 2007, he scored his first NFL touchdown on an 88-yard run in the fourth quarter against the Buffalo Bills. It was the third longest run in Giants history and the longest run of the 2007 season. He finished the game with a career-high 151 yards on 17 carries.

paragraph: Bradshaw was used more frequently as a change of pace back to Brandon Jacobs during the Giants 2007 playoff run. He had a great performance in the NFC Championship game in Green Bay, including a 52-yard would-be touchdown run in the fourth quarter that was negated by a holding penalty. He contributed greatly to his team's success in Super Bowl XLII against the New England Patriots, gaining 45 yards (the most of all running backs) and even recovering a fumble by quarterback Eli Manning. The Giants went on to win the Super Bowl, defeating the previously undefeated New England Patriots 17−14, and ending their opponent's bid for a perfect 19–0 season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.:2008.

paragraph: Bradshaw averaged 6.7 yards per carry as the third running back for the Giants in 2008. He was reduced to third string running back due to a strong performance by Derrick Ward, who finished the season with more than 1,000 rushing yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.:2009.

paragraph: In 2009, Bradshaw was second string running back behind Brandon Jacobs with Derrick Ward's departure to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He rushed for a then career-high 778 yards and 7 touchdowns on the season. Bradshaw also had a career receiving long play of 55 yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.:2010.

paragraph: Bradshaw was promoted to first-string running back ahead of Brandon Jacobs in 2010, due to Jacobs's disappointing 2009 season. After a two turnover game against the Eagles in Week 9, Bradshaw was demoted to make room for Brandon Jacobs's return. Bradshaw led the league in turnovers (for running backs) for most of the 2010 season.

paragraph: Despite these obstacles, Bradshaw finished the season with career highs in rushing yards (1,235) and rushing touchdowns (8).

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.:2011.

paragraph: In 2011, Bradshaw signed a four-year deal worth $18 million and $9 million guaranteed with a $5 million bonus. In Week 6 against the Buffalo Bills, Bradshaw recorded three touchdowns in a 27−24 Giants win. He was benched for the first half of a game against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14 due to an alleged curfew violation. Bradshaw rushed for nine touchdowns during the season, a career-high mark.

paragraph: Bradshaw scored the go-ahead and eventual game-winning touchdown with a 6-yard run with 57 seconds remaining in Super Bowl XLVI against the New England Patriots. The touchdown was unusual in that the Patriots permitted Bradshaw to score unopposed, to prevent the Giants from running out most of the remaining time before winning the game with a field goal. Bradshaw, aware of the Patriots' strategy, attempted to stop himself from crossing the goal line but fell backward into the end zone. The Patriots failed to score, however, and the Giants thus won 21−17.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Giants.:2012.

paragraph: Although Bradshaw mostly played along rookie David Wilson for the starting role, he had a fairly decent season. Bradshaw only missed two games due to injuries to his knee and foot. Despite having his minutes declining because of Wilson, He played in 14 games, had 221 rushing attempts, 1,015 rushing yards, and 6 touchdowns. It was the second time in his career that Bradshaw had 1,000+ rushing yards (the first being in 2010). On October 7, during a Week 5 game against the Cleveland Browns, Bradshaw carried the ball 30 times for 200 yards, with 1 touchdown, a 4-yard run; he also had 4 receptions for 29 yards, giving him 229 yards of total offense. The Giants would win against the Browns 41−27.

paragraph: Bradshaw was released by the Giants on February 6, 2013, to clear cap space and after the emergence of the rookie David Wilson.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Indianapolis Colts.

paragraph: On June 11, 2013 Bradshaw signed with the Indianapolis Colts. After an injury sustained in Week 3, Bradshaw was put on injured reserve due to needing neck surgery.

paragraph: On March 11, 2014, Bradshaw reached a one-year agreement to re-sign with the Colts. Prior to his injury in Week 6, Bradshaw had a career-high six touchdown receptions, leading all NFL running backs, and was on pace to break Marshall Faulk's record of 9.

paragraph: On October 14, 2015, Bradshaw agreed to terms on a one-year deal with the Colts. On November 30, he was placed on season-ending injured reserve with a wrist injury. Bradshaw participated in The Spring League in April 2017.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Career statistics.:Regular season.

paragraph: "Source:"

paragraph: Section::::Legal troubles.

paragraph: In 2004, Bradshaw was dismissed from the football team at the University of Virginia after an incident with the law. He pleaded guilty to underage drinking and resisting arrest. After police attempted to break up a party, he fled the scene in an effort to avoid police. The results were two misdemeanor convictions and a probationary sentence. Bradshaw never played a down for the Virginia Cavaliers.

paragraph: During his junior year at Marshall University, Bradshaw was sentenced to two years probation for petty larceny. He stole a PlayStation from another student's dormitory room. Two years later in June 2008, he was sentenced to 60-days in Abingdon Regional Jail for violating probation for a sealed juvenile charge. Bradshaw cut a deal in which he was able to serve his time in the off-season. In 2008, he served 29 days and reported to training camp on time. On February 15, 2009, he surrendered himself to Virginia authorities in order to finish the final 31 days of his sentence.

paragraph: Bradshaw happened to be at the party when wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh. Bradshaw was not aware Burress had a gun.

paragraph: On June 22, 2015, Bradshaw was suspended for one game by the NFL for violating the league's policy and program of substance abuse. Bradshaw was charged with possession of marijuana.

paragraph: Section::::Other appearances.

paragraph: Bradshaw appeared on "Onion SportsDome" in 2011.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indianapolis Colts bio

description: American football running back

wikidata_label: Ahmad Bradshaw

wikipedia_title: Ahmad Bradshaw


text: French

text: nobleman

text: Confederates

text: American Civil War

text: Crimea

text: South

text: Red River Campaign

text: Battle of Mansfield

text: Franco-Prussian War

text: Millemont

text: Seine-et-Oise

text: France

text: Yolande de Polastron

text: Marie-Antoinette

text: grandfather

text: duke

text: Jules de Polignac

text: absolutist

text: Charles X of France

text: prince

text: prince consort

text: heiress

text: Grimaldi dynasty

text: Principality of Monaco

text: Crimean War

text: second lieutenant

text: Central America

text: United States

text: P. G. T. Beauregard

text: Braxton Bragg

text: lieutenant colonel

text: Battle of Shiloh

text: Siege of Corinth

text: brigadier general

text: Trans-Mississippi

text: Texas

text: infantry

text: brigade

text: Battle of Mansfield

text: De Soto Parish

text: Louisiana

text: Red River Campaign

text: Alfred Mouton

text: Pleasant Hill

text: Arkansas

text: Napoleon III

text: division

text: Franco-Prussian War

text: Ober-Ingelheim

text: Frankfurt

text: Neauphle-le-Vieux

text: La Palice

text: London

text: Olivet

text: La Roche-Gençay

text: Tamaris

text: Torquay

text: Vienna

text: Limpiville

text: Saint-Adresse

text: Neuilly

text: Monaco

text: Washington

text: Paris

text: France

text: Hauptfriedhof

text: Frankfurt-on-Main

text: Texas Tech University

text: Alwyn Barr

text: Sabine Crossroads

text: David J. Eicher

text: Warner, Ezra J.

text: Winters, John D.

text: "General Camille A.J.M. Polignac" bio

text: Prince Polecat at Mansfield

categories: Confederate States Army major generals,People of Texas in the American Civil War,Princes of Polignac,1832 births,French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War,1913 deaths,Foreign-born Confederates,French military personnel of the Crimean War

paragraph: Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac

paragraph: Prince Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac (February 16, 1832 – November 15, 1913) was a French nobleman who served with the Confederates in the American Civil War, living on to become the last surviving Confederate major-general.

paragraph: After service in the French army in the Crimea, Polignac was travelling in America at the outbreak of war, when he sided with the South. He distinguished himself as a brigadier in the Red River Campaign, notably at the Battle of Mansfield, after which he was promoted divisional commander. Polignac was affectionately known by his troops, unable to decipher how to pronounce his name, as "Prince Polecat". which he apparently found amusing.

paragraph: Returning to France, he commanded a division in the Franco-Prussian War, before devoting himself to the study of mathematics and music.

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

paragraph: Polignac was born in Millemont, Seine-et-Oise, France, into one of the most prominent families of the French nobility. His paternal grandmother, Yolande de Polastron, had been a famous aristocratic beauty and Queen Marie-Antoinette's closest friend. His grandfather traced his male-line back to 1205, and was made a duke in 1780. His father, Jules de Polignac, was the absolutist chief minister of King Charles X of France who was rewarded for his services with the title of prince, which all of his legitimate male-line descendants enjoy (his first cousin twice removed, Prince Pierre de Polignac, Duke of Valentinois, would become prince consort to the heiress of the Grimaldi dynasty in 1920, and his descendants still rule the Principality of Monaco).

paragraph: Polignac studied mathematics and music at St. Stanislas College in the 1840s. In 1853 he joined the French army. He served in the Crimean War from 1854 to 1855, receiving a commission as a second lieutenant. He resigned from the army in 1859 and traveled to Central America to study geography and political economy, as well as the native plant life. He then visited the United States in the early 1860s.

paragraph: Section::::Civil War.

paragraph: With the outbreak of the Civil War, Polignac initially served on the staffs of generals P. G. T. Beauregard and Braxton Bragg as a lieutenant colonel. He served at the Battle of Shiloh and the subsequent Siege of Corinth. In January 1863, he was promoted to brigadier general. Two months later, he was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department and assigned command of a Texas infantry brigade. Polignac is best known for his leadership at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, in De Soto Parish, Louisiana, a Confederate victory in the first major action of the Red River Campaign. Polignac received a battlefield promotion at Mansfield to division command after the death of General Alfred Mouton and then proceeded to fight again at the Pleasant Hill, further south in De Soto Parish.

paragraph: Formally promoted to major general on June 14, 1864, Polignac led the division throughout the remainder of the campaign and during its service in Arkansas in the fall of 1864. In March 1865 he was sent to Napoleon III of France to request intervention on behalf of the Confederacy but arrived too late to accomplish his mission.

paragraph: Section::::Postbellum.

paragraph: After the Civil War, Polignac returned to his large estate in France, and resumed his travels and studies in Central America. He published several articles on his Civil War experiences. He returned to the French army as a brigadier general and commanded a division in the Franco-Prussian War (1870 to 1871).

paragraph: In Ober-Ingelheim on 4 November 1874 he married Marie Adolphine/Adolfine Langenberger (Frankfurt, 7 June 1853 – Paris, 16 January 1876) and had one daughter:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess Marie "Armande" Mathilde (Paris, 8 January 1876 – Neauphle-le-Vieux, 29 April 1962), married in Paris on 12 February 1895 to Count Jean Alfred Octave de Chabannes-La Palice (La Palice, 1871 – Paris, 28 August 1933)

paragraph: In London on 3 May 1883 he married secondly Margaret Elizabeth Knight (Olivet, 22 June 1864 – La Roche-Gençay, 20 August 1940) by whom he also had children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess "Mabel" Constance (London, 29 January 1884 – Tamaris, 28 March 1973), married in Torquay on 12 July 1906 Count Henri Thierry Michel de Pierredon (Paris, 11 September 1883 – La Roche-Gençay, 8 July 1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess Hélène "Agnès" Anne (Vienna, 30 June 1886 – Limpiville, 23 December 1978), married in Torquay on 20 August 1910 Henri Marie Georges Le Compasseur Créqui Montfort, Marquis de Courtrivon (Saint-Adresse, 27 September 1877 – Neuilly, 4 April 1966)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prince "Victor" Mansfield Alfred (London, 17 June 1899 – 4 November 1998), married in Monaco on 27 June 1963 Elizabeth Ashfield Walker (Washington, 11 May 1896 – Monaco, 17 November 1976), without issue

paragraph: Polignac continued to study mathematics and music until his health failed.

paragraph: When he died in Paris, France at the age of 81, Polignac was the last living Confederate major-general. He was buried with his wife's family in Germany in Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt-on-Main.

paragraph: In 1998 the Texas Tech University historian Alwyn Barr released the second edition of his "Polignac's Texas Brigade", a study of Polignac and the Texans who fought in Mansfield and then Sabine Crossroads.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of American Civil War generals (Confederate)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, "Civil War High Commands". Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sifakis, Stewart. "Who Was Who in the Civil War". New York: Facts On File, 1988. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Warner, Ezra J. "Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders". Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Winters, John D. "The Civil War in Louisiana". Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "General Camille A.J.M. Polignac" bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Polignac, Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de", "Handbook of Texas Online"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prince Polecat at Mansfield

alias: Camille Armand Jules Marie, prince de Polignac

description: Confederate Army general

wikidata_label: Camille de Polignac


text:
Dutch
Israel
visual artist
textile designer
painter
art educator
modern
postmodern art
impressionism
abstract expressionism
Amsterdam
Holocaust
textile
designer
Design Academy Eindhoven
free arts
Kees Bol
Jan Gregoor
painting
drawing
Thierry Veltman
Israel
Jaffa
Tel Mond

categories: Holocaust survivors,21st-century Dutch painters,21st-century Israeli painters,20th-century Dutch painters,People from Tel Mond,Dutch women painters,20th-century women artists,Textile designers,20th-century Israeli painters,1936 births,Design Academy Eindhoven alumni,Artists from Amsterdam,Living people,Dutch Impressionist painters,Israeli Jews,Israeli people of Dutch-Jewish descent,Dutch Jews,Art educators,Postmodern artists,Abstract expressionist artists,Israeli women artists,Dutch emigrants to Israel

paragraph: Helen Berman

paragraph: Helen Berman (; born 6 April 1936) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands. She created modern and postmodern art and has engaged in realistic impressionism and lyrical abstract expressionism.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Helen Berman was born in Amsterdam and as a young girl survived the Holocaust. She was trained as a textile designer at the Design Academy Eindhoven. While at the academy, she took extracurricular coursework in the free arts with Kees Bol and Jan Gregoor. After her graduation in 1960, Helen Berman designed textiles for several companies. Some of her designs were awarded prizes and publications in professional magazines.

paragraph: During the seventies, Berman studied painting and drawing with Thierry Veltman, graduating with a teaching degree. In 1978, she immigrated to Israel, where she continued to refine her style. During a decade-long residence in Jaffa, she became part of the local artists' community and a member of the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association. Since 1998, she has been painting and exhibiting from her studio in Tel Mond.

alias:
Hélène Julia Berman-Cohen
Helene Julia Berman-Cohen

description: Dutch-Israeli painter

wikidata_label: Helen Berman

wikipedia_title: Helen Berman


text:
Bulgarian
revolutionary
April uprising
Gabrovo
Bulgaria
Ottoman Empire
Gabrovo School
French
Turkish
Robert College
Istanbul
Bulgarian language
April Uprising
cheta
posse
Batoshevo
Kravenik
Novo Selo
Veliko Tarnovo

categories: People from Gabrovo,Bulgarian revolutionaries,April Uprising,19th-century Bulgarian people,19th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire,Executed revolutionaries,People executed by the Ottoman Empire by hanging,1876 deaths,1844 births,Robert College alumni,Executed Bulgarian people

paragraph: Tsanko Dyustabanov

paragraph: Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov () (May 13, 1844 – June 15, 1876) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.

paragraph: Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He attended the Gabrovo School and was fluent in French and Turkish, he later studied at Robert College in Istanbul in 1872-1873.

paragraph: Though not a supporter of the revolutionary campaign in the struggle for national liberation, Dyustabanov gradually became active in the social and political life of Gabrovo. In 1875, he was elected trustee of the school and member of the District court. As such he organized a petition to the Ottoman government with demands such as the recognition of the Bulgarian language as a second official language in the empire alongside Turkish.

paragraph: Dyustabanov joined the local revolutionary committee and assisted the preparation of the April Uprising of 1876. He led a cheta (detachment) when the uprising broke out and fought with Ottoman posses in the regions of Batoshevo, Kravenik and Novo Selo. He was seriously wounded and arrested. Dyustabanov was sentenced to death and hanged in Veliko Tarnovo June 15, 1876.

description: Bulgarian revolutionary

wikidata_label: Tsanko Dyustabanov

wikipedia_title: Tsanko Dyustabanov


text:
Earl of Crawford
Earl of Lindsay
Earl of Lindsay
Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford
Treasurer of Scotland
President of Parliament
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Battle of Marston Moor
Battle of Kilsyth
Alyth
Charles I
Marquess of Argyll
Battle of Dunbar
Earl of Haddington
William Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Lindsay

categories: Earls of Lindsay,1596 births,Earls of Crawford,1678 deaths,Scottish soldiers

paragraph: John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay

paragraph: John Lindsay (1596–1678), Earl of Crawford and Earl of Lindsay, was a Scottish noble.

paragraph: Previously the 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, he was created Earl of Lindsay in 1633. He also received the earldom of Crawford following the forfeiture of his cousin, Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford.

paragraph: He became Treasurer of Scotland in 1644, and in 1645 President of Parliament. During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms he played a complex role, but his position was basically a moderate Presbyterian "Engager" one. He fought for the army of the Scots Parliament at the Battle of Marston Moor, and against the royalist general Montrose at the Battle of Kilsyth, and was eventually captured by the English at Alyth.

paragraph: He then changed sides, and in 1647 he signed the "engagement" for the release of Charles I, losing all his offices when his enemy, the Marquess of Argyll, obtained the upper hand. After the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, however, Crawford regained his influence in Scottish politics, but from 1651 to 1660 he was a prisoner in England. In 1661 he was restored to his former dignities, but his refusal to abjure the covenant compelled him to resign them two years later.

paragraph: He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the Earl of Haddington and was succeeded by his son William Lindsay, 2nd Earl of Lindsay.

alias: John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford and 1st Earl of Lindsay

description: Scottish politician

wikidata_label: John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford


text: Zoological Society of London

text: London Zoo

text: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

text: Presbyterian

text: Dunfermline

text: MA

text: University of Aberdeen

text: Christ Church, Oxford

text: Saturday Review

text: Philip Lutley Sclater

text: Julian Huxley

text: Whipsnade Park

text: Dunstable Downs

text: Bedfordshire

text: Royal Institution Christmas Lecture

text: Royal Institution

text: Málaga

text: Spanish Civil War

text: Arthur Koestler

text: Koestler

text: Spanish Testament

text: independent

text: London Zoo

text: species

text: worm lizard

text: Amphisbaena mitchelli

text: Thomas Henry Huxley

text: Élie Metchnikoff

text: Ramón J. Sender

text: Henry Scherren

text: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

categories: Fellows of the Zoological Society of London,Scottish zoologists,1864 births,Secretaries of the Zoological Society of London,Fellows of the Royal Society,Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford,Knights Bachelor,Commanders of the Order of the British Empire,Zoo directors,1945 deaths,People from Dunfermline

paragraph: Peter Chalmers Mitchell

paragraph: Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell (23 November 1864 – 2 July 1945) was a Scottish zoologist who was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time, he directed the policy of the London Zoo and created the world's first open zoological park, ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Peter Chalmers Mitchell was the son of the Rev. Alexander Mitchell, a Presbyterian minister in Dunfermline, Scotland, and Marion Chalmers. Mitchell gained an MA at the University of Aberdeen, and moved to Christ Church, Oxford, where he read for natural science, specialising in zoology. After success in the honours examination of 1888, he was appointed University Demonstrator in Zoology.

paragraph: In 1896, he was the anonymous author of an article in the "Saturday Review" entitled "A Biological View of English Foreign Policy" which proposed the inevitability of a final battle between Britain and Germany, in which one would have to be destroyed. Having acknowledged his authorship during World War I, he still declared himself "unrepentant" about it in a letter to "The Times" in May 1939, describing the article as "prophetic".

paragraph: Section::::Zoo.

paragraph: Despite a tenure of 32 years, Mitchell was not the longest-serving Secretary of the Zoological Society. His predecessor, Philip Lutley Sclater, had been in office over forty years, from 1860 to 1902. Mitchell was succeeded by Julian Huxley.

paragraph: Mitchell's brainchild, Whipsnade Park, was opened in 1931 on the Dunstable Downs, in the heart of Bedfordshire. Whipsnade is an open air zoo in the countryside, where animals occupy large enclosures rather than cages. The park is involved in a variety of conservation activities.

paragraph: Section::::Lectures.

paragraph: In 1911, Mitchell delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture on "The Childhood of Animals".

paragraph: In February 1915, Mitchell gave three lectures on the subject of evolution and foreign policy at the Royal Institution that expanded upon his 1896 article. These were combined and published in the form of a book entitled "Evolution and the War" in May 1915.

paragraph: Section::::Málaga.

paragraph: On retiring from the zoo, Mitchell moved to Málaga, staying there during the first six months or so of the Spanish Civil War, until the city was taken on behalf of the rebels by Italian troops. An account of his last days in Málaga – including his arrest along with Arthur Koestler – is included in Koestler's book "Spanish Testament" and in his own memoir, "My House in Málaga", published in 1938.

paragraph: Section::::Politics.

paragraph: Mitchell stood as an independent candidate at the 1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, but took last position, with 13.5% of the votes cast.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Mitchell died on 2 July 1945, aged 80, after being injured in an accident on 29 June outside the London Zoo. After stepping off a bus, he was struck by a taxicab. A jury ruled the death accidental.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: A species of South American worm lizard, "Amphisbaena mitchelli", is named in his honour.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.:As Author.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1900. "Thomas Henry Huxley: a Sketch of his Life and Work". Putnam's, London & N.Y; 2nd ed. Methuen, London 1913.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1911. "Official Guide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London", Zoological Society of London, London.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1912. "The Childhood of Animals". Heinemann; Penguin.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1915. "Evolution and the War". J. Murray, London.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1930. "Materialism and Vitalism in Biology". Oxford.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1931. "A Centenary History of the London Zoo".

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1937. "My Fill of Days". Faber & Faber, London.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1938. "My House in Málaga". Faber & Faber, London. (Republished 2019, The Clapton Press, London).

paragraph: Section::::Publications.:As Translator.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1903. "The Nature of Man: Studies in Optimistic Philosophy", by Élie Metchnikoff, G.P. Putnam's Sons, London. The original title in French was "Études sur la nature humaine", (1903).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1935. "Mr Witt Among the Rebels: The Story of a Reluctant Revolutionist in the Days of Victoria", by Ramón J. Sender, Faber and Faber, London. The original title in Spanish was "Mr. Witt en el cantón", (1935).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1936. "Seven Red Sundays", by Ramón J. Sender, Faber & Faber, London. The original title in Spanish was "Siete domingos rojos", (1932).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1937. "The War in Spain: a personal narrative," by Ramón J. Sender, Faber & Faber, London. The original title in Spanish was "Contraataque" (1937).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1944. "The Forge", by Arturo Barea, Faber and Faber, London. The original title in Spanish was "La Forja" (1941).

paragraph: In addition, like Henry Scherren FZS, Chalmers Mitchell made a number of contributions to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica under the initials "P.C.M.". Chalmers Mitchell was critical of Scherren's history of the ZSL, but was in turn criticised by John Bastin for his work on the same subject.

description: British zoologist

wikidata_label: Peter Chalmers Mitchell

wikipedia_title: Peter Chalmers Mitchell


text:
Valletta
Malta
Paris
Rabat
Francesco Azopardi
Palermo
Giuseppe Amendola
Naples
Nicola Sala
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
Valletta
Order of Saint John
Paris
Rodolphe Kreutzer
pseudonym
opéra comique
"Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique"
mass
motet
cantata
opera
Rouen
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
Palais Garnier
Pierre Beaumarchais
Les rendez-vous bourgeois
Cendrillon
Charles Perrault

categories: Maltese composers,French composers,1818 deaths,Maltese opera composers,Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery,1775 births,People from Valletta,French opera composers,Male opera composers

paragraph: Nicolas Isouard

paragraph: Nicolas Isouard (also known as "Nicolò", "Nicolò Isoiar" or "Nicolò de Malte"; 16 May 1773 in Porto Salvo, Valletta, Malta – 23 March 1818 in Paris) was a French (Maltese born) composer.

paragraph: Isouard studied in Rabat or Mdina with Francesco Azopardi, in Palermo with Giuseppe Amendola, and in Naples with Nicola Sala and Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi. From 1795 he was organist at "St. John de Gerusalemme" in Valletta at the Conventual Church of the Order of Saint John, "San Giovanni di Malta".

paragraph: He moved to Paris, where he worked as a free composer and befriended composer Rodolphe Kreutzer. The pair worked together on several operas, including "Le petit page ou La prison d'état" (1800) and "Flaminius à Corinthe" (1801). Isouard adopted the pseudonym Nicolò (or Nicolò de Malte) and found rapid success in the field of opéra comique with "Michel-Ange "(1802) and "L'intrigue aux fenêtres" (1805). He composed regularly for the "Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique", writing some thirty works for them.

paragraph: He composed masses, motets, cantatas, romances, and duos, along with over 45 operas.

paragraph: Isouard had two daughters, Sophie-Nicole (1809–?), a composer of romances, and Annette-Julie (1814–1876), a pianist and composer. His brother Joseph (1794–1863) had a career as a singer and opera director before being named inspector of historic monuments in Rouen. Nicolas Isouard was buried in Notre-Dame-des-Victoires. A bust of the composer was placed on one of the facades of both the "Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique" and the "Palais Garnier", and one of the main squares in Paris was given his name.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Casaciello, perseguitato da un Mago", Opera buffa - Two-act comedy 1793, Malta

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'avviso a Maritati", Opera, Florence June1794

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Artaserse, re di Persia", Opera seria, Livorno August 1794. Two excerpts only survive. Edited by Richard Divall

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Opera buffa after Pierre Beaumarchais, Malta Teatro Manoel 1796

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rinaldo d'Asti", Dramma giocoso, Malta 1796

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'improvvisata in campagna", Opera buffa, Malta 1796-7

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I due avari", Commedia per musica, Malta 1797

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il bottaio", Opera comique, 1798

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Il barone d'Alba chiara", Commedia per musica, Carnevale, Malta 1798

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ginevra di Scozia", Dramma serio eroico, 1798

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le petit page ou La prison d'état", Opera, Paris, February 1801

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flaminius à Corinthe", Opera, Paris February 1801

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le tonellier' Opera-comique, Paris May 1801

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'impromptu de campagne', Opera-comique, Paris June 1801

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La statue ou La femme avare", Opera comique, 1802

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Michel-Ange", Opera, 1802

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les confidences", Opera, 1803

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le baiser et la quittance ou Une aventure de garnison", Opera comique, 1803

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le médecin turc", Opéra bouffon, 1803

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'intrigue aux fenêtres", Opera, 1805

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La ruse inutile ou Les rivaux par convention", Opera, 1805

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Léonce ou Le fils adoptif", Opera, 1805

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La prise de Passaw", Opera comique, 1806

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le déjeuner de garçons", Comédie mêlée de musique, 1806

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Idala ou La sultane", Opera comique, 1806

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les rendez-vous bourgeois", Opéra bouffon, 1807

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les créanciers ou Le remède à la goutte", Opera comique, 1807

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Un jour à Paris ou La leçon singulière", Opera comique, 1808

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cimarosa", Opera comique, 1808

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zélomir ou L'intrigue au sérail", Opera comique, 1809

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cendrillon", Opéra féerie after Charles Perrault, 1810

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La victime des arts ou La fête de famille", Opera comique, 1811

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La fête de village ou L'heureux militaire", Opera comique, 1811

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le billet de loterie", Opera comique, 1811

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le magicien sans magie", Opera comique, 1811

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lulli et Quinault ou Le déjeuner impossible", Opera comique, 1812

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le prince de Catane ou Alamon", Opera, 1813

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le français à Venise", Opera comique, 1813

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bayard à Mézières ou Le siège de Mézières", Opera comique, 1814

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Joconde ou Les coureurs d'aventures", Opera comique, 1814

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jeannot et Colin", Opera comique, 1814

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les deux maris", Opera comique, 1816

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'une pour l'autre ou L'enlèvement", Opera comique, 1816

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les deux Capitaines de hussards" Opera-coiique, Paris March 1817

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Aladin ou La lampe merveilleuse", Opéra féerie, 1822

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Une nuit de Gustave Wasa", Opera, 1825

paragraph: Sacred Works - all with orchestra and voices (In alphabetical order). Original Manuscripts - Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

paragraph: BULLET::::- Angelus Domini

paragraph: BULLET::::- Credo Leg a 4 Voci 1795

paragraph: BULLET::::- De torrente in A flat major

paragraph: BULLET::::- De torrente in B flat major

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diffusa est Gratia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dixit Dominus a 4

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dixit Dominus Leg

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dominus Deus a Terzetto

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gloria in D

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gratia agimus tibi in E flat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gloria Patri in E flat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kyrie in E flat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kyrie in C minor

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kyrie Messa no 2 in E flat - fragment

paragraph: BULLET::::- Juravit Dominus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lauda Jerusalem

paragraph: BULLET::::- Laetatus sum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Magnificat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Missa a Quattro Voci 1790 ( attr. to another composer) Cospicua Archives

paragraph: BULLET::::- Missa Pro Defunctorum - Jommelli, orchestrated by Isouard (Brussels Conservatoire Library)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nisi Dominus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Panis Angelicus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Qui Tollis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Quoniam Tu Solus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Salve Regina

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sinfonia in C minor

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stabat Mater (5 fragments) Suscepimus Deus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Te Deum 1791

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vexilla Regis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Virgam Virtutis for tenor and bass duet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Virgam Virtutis for solo tenor

paragraph: BULLET::::- Virtute Magna

paragraph: All of the above have been edited by Richard Divall and are available from the University of Divinity, Australia. Richard Divall is currently preparing a publication of a monograph and Complete Thematic Catalogue, and en edition of the opera Cendrillon.

description: Maltese composer

wikidata_label: Nicolas Isouard

wikipedia_title: Nicolas Isouard


text:
lute
Renaissance
Schwäbisch Gmünd
Vienna
University of Vienna
Ronn McFarlane

categories: Musicians from Vienna,Composers for lute,German lutenists,1450s births,German classical composers,15th-century German people,1526 deaths,16th-century Austrian people,German expatriates in Austria,Renaissance composers,People from Schwäbisch Gmünd,16th-century German people,15th-century Austrian people

paragraph: Hans Judenkönig

paragraph: Hans Judenkönig (also "Judenkunig" or "Judenkünig") (c. 1450 – 4 March 1526) was a German lutenist of the Renaissance. He was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd and died in Vienna.

paragraph: He worked as a lutenist in the vicinity of the University of Vienna and was best known for his two lute books written for the self-teaching of a lay audience.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Utilis et compendiaria introductio, qua ut fundamento iacto quam facillime musicum exercitium, instrumentorum et lutine, et quod vulgo Geygen nominant, addiscitur" Vienna ca. 1515/1519

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ain schone kunstliche Underweisung in disem Büechlein, leychtlich zu begreyffen den rechten Grund zu lernen auff der Lautten und Geygen" Vienna 1523

paragraph: Section::::Recording.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1994 - "The Renaissance Lute" - Ronn McFarlane - Dorian DOR-90186 contains five tracks by Judenkönig:

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kurt Dorfmüller: "Studien zur Lautenmusik in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts" (Tutzing, 1967)

paragraph: Transcribed for classical guitar, and recorded by Eric Alan Heil. 16th-century court music.

description: German lutenist

wikidata_label: Hans Judenkönig

wikipedia_title: Hans Judenkönig


text:
Tammany Hall
Brooklyn, New York City
White Plains, New York

categories: 1871 births,1949 deaths,Lawyers from New York City,American prosecutors,People from Brooklyn

paragraph: John Thomas Dooling

paragraph: John Thomas Dooling (February 22, 1871 - November 15, 1949) was the assistant district attorney for New York City and an adviser to Tammany Hall for 40 years.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Dooling was born on February 22, 1871 in Brooklyn, New York City. He died on November 15, 1949 in White Plains, New York.

description: American lawyer

wikidata_label: John Thomas Dooling

wikipedia_title: John Thomas Dooling


text:
Střibrnice
Olomouc
Octabia
archbishop of Olomouc
Josef Karel Matocha
Czechoslovakia
František Vaňák
Holy See
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Vatican
titular bishop
Octabia
Church
Saint Wenceslas Cathedral

categories: Archbishops of Olomouc,1987 deaths,1905 births

paragraph: Josef Vrana

paragraph: Josef Vrana (17 October 1905 in Střibrnice, 30 November 1987 in Olomouc) was the administrator of the archbishopric of Olomouc, as well as titular bishop of Octabia.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: After the death of the interned archbishop of Olomouc, Josef Karel Matocha In 1961, the Czechoslovakian authorities refused to accept a new bishop candidate (František Vaňák) proposed by the Holy See. Finally, Josef Vrana, who was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was appointed an administrator on 19 February 1973.

paragraph: The position of Vrana was controversially discussed. In order to avoid worse controversy, the Vatican accepted his appointment and appointed him at the same time to the titular bishop of Octabia. Nevertheless, the Church had no confidence in him, and avoided mentioning him as a "bishop of Olomouc," as the state authorities have demanded.

paragraph: In the episcopal conference of which he was a member, Vrana was supposed to push through the state's requirements and expectations. Nevertheless, he has also endeavored to fulfill his duties as a bishop. Neither his bishop's colleague nor the faithful who saw him as a traitor trusted him. On the part of the state authorities he was awarded an award, but at the same time he was also mistrustful, For example, his office and his telephone calls were monitored.

paragraph: Vrana was buried in the Fürstenbergkapelle of Saint Wenceslas Cathedral, where an epitaph records him.

description: Czech catholic priest (1905-1987)

wikidata_label: Josef Vrana

wikipedia_title: Josef Vrana