text:
philosopher
rationalist
Bangladesh
Charbaria Lamchari
Barisal
British India
maqtab
Quran
Islam
maqtab
Bengali
Barisal Public Library
B M College
progressive
Chaitra
Bengali year
Barisal
Sher-e-Bangla Medical College
Pathak Samabesh
Bangla Academy
Humayun Kabir Smriti Puraskar
Barisal
Udichi

categories: People from Barisal District,Bangladeshi male writers,1900 births,Bangladeshi philosophers,1985 deaths,Bangladeshi humanists,Bengali-language writers,Bangladeshi agnostics

paragraph: Aroj Ali Matubbar

paragraph: Aroj Ali Matubbar (; 17 December 190015 March 1985) was a self-taught philosopher and rationalist from Bangladesh.

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

paragraph: He was born in the village of Charbaria Lamchari, about from Barisal town in British India, currently in Bangladesh. His original name was Aroj Ali, and he only acquired the name 'Matubbar' (meaning 'local landlord') later. He was born to a poor farming family. He studied for only a few months at the village maqtab, however this brief dabble in institutional education centered only on the Quran and other Islam studies. He gathered most of his knowledge on varied subjects, including science and philosophy, through his own readings and research.

paragraph: Matubbar lost his father at an early age. When he was 12 years old, his inherited property of of land was auctioned off because, as a minor, he was unable to pay land tax. The landless boy faced an even more critical crisis when a local usurer called him out of his ancestral homestead. Destitute, Matubbar grew up somehow on the charity of others and by working as a farm laborer. Due to his poverty, he could not attend school and had to rely on the free maqtab religious education provided by a local mosque. However he did not accept the rigid methods of learning there, and left it. A kindhearted man helped him finish the Bengali Primers. Persevering as he was, he kept on reading more and more. To satisfy his thirst for knowledge he studied all the Bengali books in Barisal Public Library like a serious student. Philosophy as a subject interested him most, but there were not enough books in the collection there. A teacher of philosophy at the B M College, Kazi Ghulam Quadir, was impressed by his depth of knowledge and understanding, so he helped him borrow books from the college library. This was how his mind was shaped.

paragraph: Section::::Philosophy.

paragraph: Matubbar developed a very progressive approach and wrote against ignorance, superstition, and religious fundamentalism. He came to be considered an iconoclast for writing against established religious ideologies. For example, he questioned Islamic law of inheritance, as he failed to reconcile the suggested mode of sharing of inherited property.

paragraph: Aroj Ali wrote several books, in spite of his lack of formal schooling. His writings reflect his controversial philosophy about life and the world. He also befriended a number of communist politicians and academics of Barisal town, including Professor Kazi Golam Kadir and Professor Muhammad Shamsul Haque. His books were always in danger of being banned by the government, since they contained certain claims that disagreed with the religious beliefs of the majority. Matubbar was arrested and taken into police custody for his book, "Sotyer Shondhaney" (The Quest for Truth). He was, in fact, subjected to harassment and threats throughout his life, due to his writings, as many of them challenged religious statements and claims.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Due to financial constraints, Matubbar could not pursue any academic course or attain a formal institutional degree. He lived mostly on subsistence farming. He learned surveying techniques and began his life as a private land surveyor in his locality. This enabled him to accumulate some capital and he could own some land to start farming.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: He died on 15 March 1985 (1st Chaitra of the Bengali year 1392 ) in Barisal, Bangladesh. He donated his eyes for transplantation after his death. He donated his body which was received by the Anatomy Department of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and used for dissection by the medical students. After his death in 1985, Aroj Ali Matubbar came to be regarded as one of the most prolific thinkers that rural Bangladesh ever produced, and an iconoclast who was not afraid of speaking out against entrenched beliefs and superstitions.

paragraph: Section::::Writings and publications.

paragraph: Matubbar had to take a lot of trouble in order to publish his books. He himself drew the cover of his first book, which was written in 1952 and published twenty one years later in 1973, under the title "Satyer Sandhane". This book gained him a reputation in the locality as a "learned man". In the preface he wrote:

paragraph: “I was thinking of many things, my mind was full of questions, but haphazardly. I then started jotting down questions, not for writing a book, but only to remember these questions later. Those questions were driving my mind towards an endless ocean and I was gradually drifting away from the fold of religion.”

paragraph: He made six propositions in this book, which reflected the nature of his philosophical questions. These are:

paragraph: Proposition 1 : dealt with the soul, containing 8 questionsbr

paragraph: Proposition 2 : dealt with God, containing as many as 11 questionsbr

paragraph: Proposition 3 : dealt with the after-world, containing as many as 7 questionsbr

paragraph: Proposition 4 : dealt with religious matters, containing as many as 22 questionsbr

paragraph: Proposition 5 : dealt with Nature, containing as many as 10 questionsbr

paragraph: Proposition 6 : dealt with remaining matters, containing as many as 9 questions

paragraph: The eight questions he posed in the first proposition exemplify his approach. These are (a) Who am I (self)?, (b) Is Life incorporeal or corporal ? (c) Is mind and his/soul one, and the same? (d) What is the relationship of life with the body and the mind? (e) Can we recognize or identify life? (f) Am I free? (g) Will the soul without body continue to have "knowledge" even after it leaves the body at death? and finally (h) How does life can come into and go out of the body?

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: He was an unusual type of writer. Because of his rural background, it was not possible on his part to remove the darkness covering his society, but with the dim torch he held, he tried to see the truth, wherever he could, without fear or doubt. In Bangladesh, his writings were censored. Following are his writings:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shotter Shondhaney" (The Quest for Truth) (1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sristir Rahasya" (The Mystery of Creation) (1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Anuman" (Estimation) (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Muktaman" (Free Mind) (1988)

paragraph: Several of his unpublished manuscripts were later published posthumously under the title of "Aroj Ali Matubbar Rachanabali". Some of his writings have been translated into English and compiled in a volume published by Pathak Samabesh.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition and awards.

paragraph: Matubbar was little known to the elite educated society of the country during his lifetime. His first book, published in 1973, was rich with secular thought but caught little attention. It is only in the final years of life that he came to be known to the enlightened society of the country. His writings were collected and published. People in general started to take an interest in his books, which, although reflecting an untrained mind, posed a number of intriguing questions. He soon rose to eminence, albeit after his death in 1985.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Life Member of Bangla Academy, inducted in 1985;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Awarded Humayun Kabir Smriti Puraskar (Humayun Kabir Memorial Prize) in 1978 by the Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Award of Honour by the Barisal branch of Udichi Shilpigoshti in 1982.

description: bangladeshi philosopher

wikidata_label: Aroj Ali Matubbar

wikipedia_title: Aroj Ali Matubbar


text: United States Army

text: Medal of Honor

text: Vietnam War

text: Sheffield, Pennsylvania

text: Buffalo, New York

text: Staff Sergeant

text: 327th Infantry Regiment

text: 101st Airborne Division

text: A Shau Valley

text: Republic of Vietnam

text: platoon

text: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

text: platoon

text: reconnoitering

categories: 1969 deaths,1940s births,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,American military personnel killed in the Vietnam War,United States Army soldiers,Recipients of the Silver Star

paragraph: John G. Gertsch

paragraph: John Gary Gertsch (September 29, 1944 or 1945 – July 19, 1969) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: John G. Gertsch went to high school in Sheffield Area Middle/Senior High School (SAMSHS) in Sheffield, Pennsylvania. Gertsch joined the Army from Buffalo, New York in 1965, and by July 15, 1969 was serving as a Staff Sergeant in Company E, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. During a series of engagements on that day and the four following days, in the A Shau Valley of the Republic of Vietnam, Gertsch commanded his platoon after their leader was wounded and repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to rescue wounded soldiers and attack the enemy. Mortally wounded on July 19, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in September 1974.

paragraph: Gertsch, aged 23 or 24 at his death, was buried in North Side Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: Staff Sergeant Gertsch's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: S/Sgt. Gertsch distinguished himself while serving as a platoon sergeant and platoon leader during combat operations in the A Shau Valley. During the initial phase of an operation to seize a strongly defended enemy position, S/Sgt. Gertsch's platoon leader was seriously wounded and lay exposed to intense enemy fire. Forsaking his own safety, without hesitation S/Sgt. Gertsch rushed to aid his fallen leader and dragged him to a sheltered position. He then assumed command of the heavily engaged platoon and led his men in a fierce counterattack that forced the enemy to withdraw. Later, a small element of S/Sgt. Gertsch's unit was reconnoitering when attacked again by the enemy. S/Sgt. Gertsch moved forward to his besieged element and immediately charged, firing as he advanced. His determined assault forced the enemy troops to withdraw in confusion and made possible the recovery of 2 wounded men who had been exposed to heavy enemy fire. Sometime later his platoon came under attack by an enemy force employing automatic weapons, grenade, and rocket fire. S/Sgt. Gertsch was severely wounded during the onslaught but continued to command his platoon despite his painful wound. While moving under fire and encouraging his men he sighted an aidman treating a wounded officer from an adjacent unit. Realizing that both men were in imminent danger of being killed, he rushed forward and positioned himself between them and the enemy nearby. While the wounded officer was being moved to safety S/Sgt. Gertsch was mortally wounded by enemy fire. Without S/Sgt. Gertsch's courage, ability to inspire others, and profound concern for the welfare of his men, the loss of life among his fellow soldiers would have been significantly greater. His conspicuous gallantry, extraordinary heroism, and intrepidity at the cost of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, are in the highest traditions of the U.S. Army and reflect great credit on him and the Armed Forces of his country.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War

wikidata_label: John G. Gertsch

wikipedia_title: John G. Gertsch


text:
County Galway
Ireland
penal laws
Alexis Clairaut
angular momentum
areal velocity
persistence of vision
Academie Royale des Sciences
cholera

categories: 1779 deaths,People from County Galway,Irish physicists,French Army personnel,1725 births,18th-century Irish people

paragraph: Patrick d'Arcy

paragraph: Patrick d'Arcy (27 September 1725 – 18 October 1779) was born in Kiltullagh, County Galway in the west of Ireland. His family, who were Catholics, suffered under the penal laws. In 1739 d'Arcy was sent abroad by his parents to an uncle in Paris. He was tutored in mathematics by Jean-Baptiste Clairaut, and became a friend of Jean-Baptiste's son, Alexis-Claude Clairaut, (Alexis Clairaut), who was a brilliant young mathematician. d'Arcy made original contributions to dynamics. He is best known for his part in the discovery of the principle of angular momentum, in a form which was known as "the principle of areas," which he announced in 1746. See the article on areal velocity. d'Arcy also had an illustrious military career in the French army. He obtained the title of "Count" in the French nobility. He was a generous patron of Irish refugees in France. In addition to his contributions to dynamics, he performed research on artillery and on electricity.

paragraph: An experiment of his, reported in 1765, on visual perception is often referred to: he built a machine in his garden to measure the duration of visual impressions. A burning coal, attached to an arm of a cross rotated by the machine, would be made to spin just fast enough to give the impression of a full fiery circle. With the collaboration of a dedicated observer with better eyesight than D'Arcy, he measured a 0,13 second duration for the visual sensation of the rotating burning coal, as seen in the dark from a circa 50 meter distance. He planned further experiments to measure the suspected differences between individuals, colors, viewing distances and light intensity of objects. The experiment is often mentioned by film scholars in the context of persistence of vision.

paragraph: D'Arcy was elected to the Academie Royale des Sciences in 1749. He died from cholera in Paris in October 1779.

paragraph: There is a copy of a portrait of d'Arcy in Wade (1997), , which was found in Charbonnier (1928).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- C.S. Gillmor, "D'Arcy, Patrick," Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. III, pp. 561–2, Scribner's, New York (1970).

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.iol.ie/~mfinn/kiltullaghho.html

paragraph: BULLET::::- M. le Chevalier D'Arcy, "Principe Géneral de Dynamique,""Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris", 1747, pp. 348–356.

paragraph: BULLET::::- J. Casey, "Areal Velocity and Angular Momentum for Non-Planar Problems in Particle Mechanics," "American Journal of Physics", Vol. 75, pp. 677–685, 2007.

paragraph: BULLET::::- M. le Chevalier D'Arcy, "Sur la Durée de la Sensation de La vue," "Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris", pp. 439–451, 1765.

paragraph: BULLET::::- N.J. Wade, Guest Editorial, "Perception," Vol. 26, 1997, .

paragraph: BULLET::::- P.J. Charbonnier, Essais sur l'Histoire de la Balistique, Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Paris (1928)

description: Irish physicist

wikidata_label: Patrick d'Arcy

wikipedia_title: Patrick d'Arcy


text: naval officer

text: flag of the United States

text: Fort McHenry

text: The Star-Spangled Banner

text: Portland, Maine

text: Edward Preble

text: Navy

text: midshipman

text: frigate

text: Florida war

text: sloop

text: Mexican–American War

text: Alvarado

text: Veracruz

text: Tuxpan

text: master

text: frigate

text: Matthew C. Perry

text: lighthouse inspector

text: Charlestown Navy Yard

text: David Farragut

text: Mississippi River

text: commander

text: Mobile Bay

text: English Navy

text: Fort Morgan

text: Madeira

text: Star-Spangled Banner

text: Boston Navy Yard

text: captain

text: screw steamer

text: commodore

text: Philadelphia Navy Yard

text: rear admiral

text: American Antiquarian Society

text: Boston

categories: Tylden family,American male non-fiction writers,Vexillologists,United States Navy personnel of the Mexican–American War,1885 deaths,United States Navy admirals,Burials at Eastern Cemetery,1816 births,Writers from Portland, Maine,Union Navy officers,American naval historians

paragraph: George Henry Preble

paragraph: George Henry Preble (February 25, 1816 – March 1, 1885) was an American naval officer and writer, notable for his history of the flag of the United States and for taking the first photograph of the Fort McHenry flag that inspired the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".

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

paragraph: He was born in Portland, Maine into a seafaring family; his father was sea captain Enoch Preble, whose brother was the noted Commodore Edward Preble. George entered the Navy as a midshipman on December 10, 1835, serving on the frigate until 1838.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: He was in the Florida war in 1841, and was on the sloop for its circumnavigation of the world in 1843–1845, taking ashore the first American force to land in China. In the Mexican–American War, he participated in the capture of Alvarado, Veracruz, and Tuxpan. He became master on July 15, 1847, and lieutenant on February 5, 1848. While serving on the frigate , he went with Matthew C. Perry to Japan in 1853, during which Preble surveyed various harbors in the Far East.

paragraph: After a period as lighthouse inspector and at Charlestown Navy Yard, he served on , 1859–1861, then took command of the steam-gunboat , serving with David Farragut on the Mississippi River, was promoted to commander on July 16, 1862, and given command of the steam-sloop blockading Mobile Bay.

paragraph: When the Confederate cruiser eluded him, Preble was dismissed from the Navy, but was reinstated after the captain of "Florida" testified that superior speed alone had saved him.

paragraph: Additionally, each of the officers on "Oneida" testified that Preble had done no wrong. According to their accounts, "Florida" appeared at around 5:00 PM on September 4, 1862 bearing the ensign of a ship of the English Navy. Preble was in command of "Oneida" and . Because the other ships were in for repairs, the usual complement of six ships had been reduced to two. "Winona" had been dispatched to chase another blockade runner and was returning from that chase when "Florida" began her run. One of "Oneida"s iron boilers had been shut down for repairs leaving only one in operation. (One of the officers stated that the Navy's choice to use cheaper iron rather than steel was the actual cause of the problem.)

paragraph: When "Florida" began her run, Preble moved to place"Oneida" in front of "Florida". At 6:00 PM, he ordered shots fired across her bow. Believing that the ship was English, two warning shots were fired over her bow and a third shot into her forefoot (The part of a ship at which the prow joins the keel) instead of the customary single warning shot. All three shots were fired within three minutes of her being in range of "Oneida"s guns. When "Florida" did not stop, Preble ordered the fourth shot be sent into the enemy ship. This shot missed, at which time "Florida" lowered her false ensign, and made directly for Fort Morgan. It was not until this point that Preble could be sure that the ship was a Confederate vessel. With one boiler out of commission, "Oneida" was unable to keep pace with "Florida", which escaped into the bay. However, "Oneida" kept up fire on the ship for 29 minutes until it was safely under the protection of Fort Morgan. In addition to the speed issue, the reports state that there were some visibility issues that contributed to poor marksmanship of "Oneida"s gun crew.

paragraph: After being reinstated, Preble commanded the sailing sloop , only to have "Florida" escape him once again, off Madeira.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Writing career.

paragraph: Preble was also known as a writer on naval and historical topics, and as a collector of naval documents. His extensive personal library of books and documents related to the sea are located in The George Henry Preble Collection at the Navy Department Library. He was also active in various learned and genealogical societies of the time. In 1868, he published a genealogical history of the Preble family in North America, which included his biography and portrait, as well as that of his famous uncle, Edward The book also set forth a defense of his actions that led to his dismissal from the Navy, as well as the efforts of himself and others that led to his exoneration and reinstatement. In 1872, he published his "History of the American Flag", which is still cited as a source. He also took care of the original "Star-Spangled Banner" which had flown over Fort McHenry, and had the flag sewn to a piece of sailcloth in order to preserve it.

paragraph: Section::::Later life and death.

paragraph: After the war, Preble commanded the steamer , and rescued 600 passengers from the wrecked steamer "Golden Rule". He was at the Boston Navy Yard from 1865 to 1868, where he was promoted to captain on March 16, 1867, then commanded the screw steamer until 1870. He became commodore on November 2, 1871, commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1873 to 1875, became rear admiral on September 30, 1876 and retired in 1878.

paragraph: He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

paragraph: In 1873 Preble was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society

paragraph: Preble died while living near Boston, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1885. He is buried near his famous uncle in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, Maine.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chase of the Rebel Steamer of War "Oreto"" (Cambridge, 1862)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A genealogical Sketch of the First Three Generations of Prebles in America" (Boston, 1868)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "First Cruise of the United States Frigate "Essex"" (Salem, 1870)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "History of the American Flag" (Albany, 1872)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "History of Steam Navigation" (Philadelphia, 1883)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "History of the Flag of the United States of America" (1880)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Attribution

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Photograph of Rear Admiral George Henry Preble from the Maine Memory Network

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Henry Preble Papers, 1858–1869 MS 381 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy

description: United States Navy Rear Admiral

wikidata_label: George Preble

wikipedia_title: George Henry Preble


text: saint

text: Vendôme

text: cave

text: Saint George

text: dragon

text: Beatus of Lungern

text: fasted

text: Loir

text: Garonne

text: Laon

text: Nantes

text: Chevresson

text: chapel

text: La Légende de Saint Bienheuré

text: Dragons

text: La Légende de Saint Bienheuré

paragraph: Bienheuré

paragraph: Saint Bienheuré (Bié, Beatus) is a semi-legendary saint of Vendôme. Tradition states that he lived in a cave near the town. Like Saint George, he is said to have fought a dragon. His legend was conflated with that of Beatus of Lungern.

paragraph: Section::::Legend.

paragraph: The legend states that Bienheuré fasted and prayed before fighting the dragon. According to the legend, the dragon was so large that when it went to drink from a river at some distance away, its tail still lay in its cave. It was also so large that it drained the Loir when it drank from it. There are three versions of this combat: the first states that the dragon fled at the sight of Saint Bienheuré; the second version states that Saint Bienheuré defeated the dragon with one blow from his staff; the third states that the dragon strangled itself with its chain.

paragraph: Section::::Historicity.

paragraph: Bienheuré is identified with a missionary who traveled and preached in, besides Vendôme, Garonne, Laon, and Nantes. His place of death is considered to have been Chevresson, near Laon.

paragraph: Section::::Veneration.

paragraph: A chapel dating from the fifth century was built on the hillside where he is said to have lived.

paragraph: L'Association du Faubourg Saint Bienheuré organizes an annual festival in honor of the saint on the second Sunday of May.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jean-Jacques Loisel, "Dans les pas de saint Bienheuré de Vendôme", Sté Sc et Lettres L & C (Blois), 1999, pp. 59–87.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- L'Association du Faubourg Saint Bienheuré

paragraph: BULLET::::- La Légende de Saint Bienheuré

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dragons

description: French saint

wikidata_label: Bienheuré

wikipedia_title: Bienheuré


text: Spanish

text: conquistador

text: Francisco Pizarro

text: Inca Empire

text: Bastard

text: Captain

text: colonel

text: infantry

text: Italian campaigns

text: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

text: Navarre

text: Trujillo

text: Francisco

text: Hernándo Pizarro

text: Juan Pizarro

text: Trujillo, Spain

text: conquest of Peru

text: Hernando Pizarro

text: Juan Pizarro

text: New World

text: Atahualpa

text: Battle of Cajamarca

text: Pizarro brothers

text: Cuzco

text: battle

text: Quizquiz

text: regidor

text: Diego de Almagro

text: King Charles I

text: Juan Pizarro

text: Lima

text: dictatorship

text: corruption

text: Manco Inca Yupanqui

text: Cura Ocllo

text: siege

text: Smallpox

text: Lima

text: Battle of Las Salinas

text: Sebastián de Benalcázar

text: El Dorado

text: la Canela

text: Guayaquil

text: Andes

text: Coca

text: Napo

text: Amazon River

text: Crown

text: Cristóbal Vaca de Castro

text: battle of Chupas

text: Diego Almagro El Mozo

text: Charles V

text: Blasco Núñez Vela

text: New Laws

text: Bartolomé de las Casas

text: indigenous peoples

text: Francisco de Carvajal

text: Añaquito

text: Quito

text: Pedro de la Gasca

text: battle of Jaquijahuana

text: Cusco

text: beheaded

text: Andrew Dalby

text: F.A. Kirkpatrick

text: Rafael Varón Gabai

text: Fray Gaspar Carvajal

categories: People executed by New Spain,1502 births,1548 deaths,People from Tierra de Trujillo,Spanish colonization of the Americas,16th-century Spanish people,Colonial Peru,16th-century South American people,Extremaduran conquistadors,Executed Spanish people

paragraph: Gonzalo Pizarro

paragraph: Gonzalo Pizarro y Alonso (; 1510 – April 10, 1548) was a Spanish conquistador and younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Inca Empire. Bastard son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro y Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) (1446–1522) who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, and in Navarre, with some distinction, and María Alonso, from Trujillo. He was the half brother of Francisco and Hernándo Pizarro and the full brother of Juan Pizarro.

paragraph: Section::::Early years in Peru.

paragraph: Born in Trujillo, Spain, Gonzalo Pizarro accompanied his eldest brother, Francisco Pizarro, in his third expedition for the conquest of Peru in 1530. Gonzalo was also the brother of Hernando Pizarro and Juan Pizarro. A lieutenant of his brother Francisco during the conquest, Gonzalo Pizarro was one of the most corrupt, brutal and ruthless conquistadors of the New World, being far less restrained towards the natives and the Inca than his older brothers.

paragraph: After Inca emperor Atahualpa was captured in the Battle of Cajamarca and later executed, the Pizarro brothers and their followers marched towards the Inca capital of Cuzco to complete the conquest, capturing the city on 15 November 1533 after a brief battle with the Inca forces under Quizquiz holding it after previously defeating the central government and massacring the nobility of Cuzco. Gonzalo, and his brother Juan, were made regidores of the city on 24 March 1534.

paragraph: Cusco was split into factions behind Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, but these two signed a new article of agreement on 12 June 1535. Almagro then left Cuzco, having been given the honor by Spanish King Charles I of exploring the southern part of Peru (modern-day Chile)

paragraph: Gonzalo and Juan Pizarro both looked after the settlements in Cuzco, while their eldest brother Francisco explored the west coast of northern Peru and founded the city of Lima in 1535. Gonzalo, Juan and his younger brother Hernándo ruled Cuzco as a dictatorship dominated by greed, corruption and brutality; torturing and executing those who refused to accept Spanish rule. Particularly egregious was the conduct of Juan and Gonzalo Pizarro towards the Inca Emperor, Manco Inca Yupanqui. Manco was angered by the conduct of the Spaniards towards Incan women, especially after Gonzalo raped his queen and sister-wife Cura Ocllo. The Spaniards corrupt rule and disrespectful treatment towards Manco Inca Yupanqui led to large-scale rebellion.

paragraph: The Incas fought the Spaniards in a number of sieges and battles for control of the land and temporarily captured Cuzco on May 6, 1536. The Incas were later defeated by the heavily armed Spanish soldiers led by Gonzalo and Juan. Smallpox was also spread among the natives and many perished.

paragraph: When Almagro returned from Chile disappointed in not finding any gold, he captured and imprisoned Gonzalo and Hernándo on 8 April 1537. Gonzalo managed to escape and re-join Francisco Pizarro, while Almagro was on his way to Lima to negotiate with Francisco on who would control Cuzco. These negotiations led to Hernándo's release. Hernando and Gonzalo then led an army against Almagro, defeating him in the Battle of Las Salinas. Almagro was captured, condemned for treason, and executed on July 8, 1538.

paragraph: Section::::Expeditions with Francisco de Orellana.

paragraph: Francisco Pizarro appointed Gonzalo Governor of Quito in 1541, which had been taken in 1534 by Sebastián de Benalcázar. Gonzalo went to Quito and soon heard rumors of a rich native kingdom to the east: some called it El Dorado and the land was called the Land of Cinnamon - "País de la Canela". Gonzalo arranged an expedition: among those he recruited was Francisco de Orellana, a veteran of the conquest of the Inca and a dependable supporter of the Pizarro brothers. In Quito, Gonzalo was able to recruit 220 Spaniards and 4,000 Native Americans. The second-in-command, Orellana, was sent to Guayaquil to recruit more troops and horses. Gonzalo Pizarro and his followers left Quito on February 1541, a month before Orellana, who was able to bring 23 men and several horses. By March both met at the valley of "Zumaco" and started their march towards crossing the Andes. After following the courses of the Coca and Napo rivers, the expedition started running out of provisions. About 140 of the 220 Spaniards and 3,000 out of 4,000 natives had died. On February 1542, they decided Orellana would continue sailing down the Napo river in search of food along with 50 men.

paragraph: After a brief time, Gonzalo thought the expedition was a whole failure and decided to take a route north back to Quito with 80 of the remaining men, unknowingly relinquishing the success to Orellana, who ended discovering and exploring the entire length of the Amazon River.

paragraph: Upon his return to Quito, Gonzalo learned that the "Almagristas" (as the followers of Almagro were called) had assassinated his brother Francisco Pizarro on June 26, 1541 in retaliation for Almagro's execution. By this time the Crown's representative, Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, had arrived in Peru amidst the confusion after Pizarro's death. Gonzalo Pizarro offered to help capture those responsible for his brother's death, but was refused. The Almagristas were finally defeated in the battle of Chupas on September 16, 1542, and their leader, Diego Almagro El Mozo, was executed.

paragraph: Section::::Gonzalo turns against the Spanish King.

paragraph: Emperor Charles V then appointed Blasco Núñez Vela as Peru's first viceroy in 1544. Núñez introduced the New Laws, which were framed by Bartolomé de las Casas to protect the indigenous peoples. Many of the conquistadors living in Peru were against these laws since they could no longer exploit the natives. This prompted Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Carvajal to organize an army of followers with the intent of suppressing the New Laws. Many conquistadors turned against the Viceroy and joined Gonzalo's side, as his surname provided an effective rallying point. The rebel army defeated Núñez in 1546 at Añaquito near Quito. Although some, such as Carvajal, advised Gonzalo to proclaim himself King of Peru and to disown any further claim by the King of Spain to the land, Gonzalo refused.

paragraph: Over the following months, however, the support for Gonzalo diminished when the King's new representative, Pedro de la Gasca, arrived with the intention of offering pardon and repealing the New Laws. Most of Gonzalo's army deserted him just before the crucial battle of Jaquijahuana near Cusco, that would determine the fate of the conquest. No longer supported with an army against the King's new representative, Gonzalo Pizarro surrendered and was beheaded by the royal forces on the field of battle, being the last of the Pizarro brothers to die a violent death (with Hernando dying of old age in Spain some three or six decades later).

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Andrew Dalby, "Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and the search for cinnamon" in "Gastronomica" (Spring 2001).

paragraph: BULLET::::- F.A. Kirkpatrick, "The Spanish Conquistadores" Third Reprinting 1968.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rafael Varón Gabai, "Francisco Pizarro and his brothers: the illusion of power in sixteenth-century Peru" London 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fray Gaspar Carvajal, "Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande de las Amazonas" (ed. intro. y notas de Jorge Hernández Millares) Mexico 1955.

description: Spanish conquistador, younger paternal half-brother of Francisco Pizarro

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paragraph: Eleazar ben Killir

paragraph: Eleazar ben Killir, also known as Eleazar Kalir, Eleazar Qalir or El'azar HaKalir (c. 570 – c. 640) was a Byzantine Jew and a Hebrew poet whose classical liturgical verses, known as "piyut", have continued to be sung through the centuries during significant religious services, including those on "Tisha B'Av" and on the sabbath after a wedding. He was one of Judaism's earliest and most prolific of the "paytanim", Hebrew liturgical poets. He wrote "piyutim" for all the main Jewish festivals, for special Sabbaths, for weekdays of festive character, and for the fasts. Many of his hymns have found their way into festive prayers of the Ashkenazi Jews' synagogal rite.

paragraph: Section::::Biographical details.

paragraph: Although his poems have had a prominent place in printed ritual and he is known to have lived somewhere in the Near East, documentation regarding details of the life of Eleazar ben Killir has been lost to history, including the exact year and circumstances of his birth and death. He is said to have been the disciple of another 6th-century composer of "piyut", Yannai who, according to a certain legend, grew jealous of Eleazar's superior knowledge and caused his death by inserting into his shoe a scorpion whose sting proved to be fatal. Samuel David Luzzatto, however, dismisses this legend in light of the fact that Yannai's "piyutim" are still said. Luzzatto argues that if Yannai was a murderer then there is no way Yannai's "piyutim" would be so popular. Additionally, argues Luzzatto, Rabbi Gershom ben Judah mentions Yannai and uses honorific terms, something Rabbi Gershom would not have done if the legend is true.

paragraph: In the acrostics of his hymns he usually signs his father's name, "Kalir", but three times he writes "Killir". In some of them, he adds the name of his city, Kirjath-sepher (See ). Eleazar's name, home (Kirjath-sepher), and time have been the subject of many discussions in modern Jewish literature (Italy, Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Palestine have been claimed by different scholars as Killir's native land), and some legends concerning his career have been handed down.

paragraph: The author of the ""Aruk"" (s.v. 3, קלר) derives the name "Kalir" from the Greek κόλλυρα = "a small cake," and reports that the poet obtained his name from a cake, inscribed with Biblical verses, which was given him to eat as a talisman for wisdom when he began to go to school. His scholarship having been attributed later to that talisman, he was called "Eleazar the Cake." While such a custom is known to have existed among the western Syrians and the Jews, others claim that the explanation put forward by the ""Aruk"" is not acceptable, since "Kalir" is not the name of the poet, but that of his father. Another interpretation holds that the name was derived from the poet's or his father's hometown: the Italian city Cagliari in Sardinia, Calais, Cologne, Kallirrhoe in Transjordan (A. Jellinek, S. Cassel), or Edessa in Syria (F. Perles). Others see in it the Latin name "Celer" (J. Derenbourg). The city Kirjath-sepher has been identified with the biblical place in the Land of Israel of the same name (W. Heidenheim), with the Babylonian Sippara (Filosseno Luzzatto), and with Cagliari (Civitas Portus), in Italy.

paragraph: The theory that he lived in Italy is based upon the premise that he wrote double ""Kerobot"" for the festivals (Berliner, ""Geschichte der Juden in Rom"," ii. 15; Einstein, in ""Monatsschrift"," xxxvi. 529) although Tosafot and Rosh assert that he did not write any for the second days.

paragraph: His time has been set at different dates, from the second century, to the tenth or eleventh century. Based on Saadiah's "Sefer ha-galuy", some place him in the 6th century. Older authorities consider him to have been a teacher of the Mishnah and identify him either with Eleazar b. 'Arak or with Eleazar b. Simeon (See where he discusses whether he was the son of Rashbi or another Rabbi Shimon). He has been confounded with another poet by the name of Eleazar b. Jacob; and a book by the title of ""Kebod Adonai"" was ascribed to him by Botarel.

paragraph: The earliest references to Killir seem to be in a responsum of Natronai Gaon (c. 853; Weiss, ""Dor Dor we-Dorshaw"," iv. 118), in the ""Yetzirah"" commentary of Saadia (see Gräber, in ""Oẓar ha-Sifrut"," i., v.) and in his ""Agron"" (Stade's ""Zeitschrift"," 1882, p. 83), as well as in the writings of Al-Kirkisani (Harkavy, in ""Ha-Maggid"," 1879, No. 45, p. 359a).

paragraph: Modern research points to the probability that he and his teacher were Palestinian Jews; and since Yannai is known to have been one of the halakic authorities of Anan ben David, the alleged founder of Karaism, and must therefore have lived a considerable time earlier than he had, Killir's time may be fixed with some probability as the first half of the 7th century. From a linguistic point of view it would seem that Killir lived in the Land of Israel at the end of the sixth century.

paragraph: Killir's hymns became an object of study and of Kabbalistic exegesis, as his personality was a mystery. It was related that heavenly fire surrounded him when he wrote the "Ve'hachayos" in "Kedushah" for Rosh Hashanah; that he himself ascended to heaven and there learned from the angels the secret of writing alphabetical hymns.

paragraph: A peculiar development of the Killir legend is seen in the story that Saadia found in the tomb of Killir a recipe for making ""kame'ot"" in the form of cakes (Goldziher, in ""Festschrift zum 70ten Geburtstag Berliners"," p. 150). On a "piyut" found in the "Mahzor Vitry" and ascribed by Brody (""Ḳonṭres ha Piyyuṭim"," p. 67, Berlin, 1894) to Killir, see Max Weisz in ""Monatsschrift"," xli. 145.

paragraph: Section::::Poetic style.

paragraph: The "Kallir style" had a profound influence on the poets who succeeded him in Eretz Yisra'el and in the Near East. He made radical innovations in diction and style, while employing the full range of post-biblical Hebrew. It may be that the stories of Yannai growing jealous of him are based in fact, for the patterns of rhyme, acrostic, repetition, and refrain in his "piyut" are much more complex than those of his master.

paragraph: His use of neologisms and other oddities has earned him a reputation as an enigmatic writer, to the point where some have criticized him for being obscure, and having a corruptive influence on the Hebrew language. Ben Killir, however, was capable of writing in simple and direct language, as poems like his "Epithalamium" demonstrate.

paragraph: Solomon Delmedigo warns the student against the writings of Killir because "he has cut up the Hebrew language in an arbitrary way" (Geiger, ""Melo Chofnajim"," p. 15).

paragraph: Killir was the first to embellish the entire liturgy with a series of hymns whose essential element was the Aggadah. He drew his material from the Talmud, and from Midrash compilations, some of which latter are now probably lost, thus preserving some otherwise forgotten aggadic traditions. The early "Hekalot Rabbati" of the Merkabah Riders were used by Killir, traces of their mystic ideas and even of their language being found in his poetry (""Monatsschrift"," xxxvii. 71). His language, however, is not that of his sources, but Biblical Hebrew, enriched with daring innovations. His predilection for rare words, allegorical expressions, and aggadic allusions make his writings hard to understand – some describe him as a "Hebrew version of Robert Browning". His linguistic peculiarities were followed by many a succeeding "paytan"; and they influenced to some extent even early prose, especially among the Karaites.

paragraph: With the awakening of linguistic studies among the Jews and with the growing acquaintance of the latter with Arabic, his linguistic peculiarities were severely criticized (e.g., by Abraham ibn Ezra on Eccl. ch 5, v. 1, a criticism which centuries later influenced the "maskilim" in their disparagement of Killir); but the structure of his hymns remained a model which was followed for centuries after him and which received the name "Kaliric", (or "Kalliri").

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: While some of his hymns have been lost, more than 200 of them have been embodied in the "Mahzorim", i.e., prayer-books for the cycle of the festivals. Most of the "kinot" of "Tisha B'Av" have been composed by him too.

paragraph: Although much, perhaps most, of Killir's work remains unpublished, Shulamit Elizur has published three volumes of his poetry, and continues to work on his work.

paragraph: Translations of some of Killir's hymns into German are found in Zunz, ""Synagogale Poesie des Mittelalters"" pp. 75 et al. (Berliner, ""Synagogal-Poesieen"," p. 24; De Lagarde, ""Mittheilungen"," ii. 138), in Sachs's edition of the prayer-book, and in Karpeles' ""Zionsharfe"," pp. 10-17; some have been rendered into English by Nina Davis in ""J. Q. R."" ix. 29, and by Mrs. Lucas in ""Songs of Zion"," p. 60.

paragraph: Some renderings of Killir's poems may be found in the volumes of Davis & Adler's edition of the "German Festival Prayers" entitled "Service of the Synagogue".

paragraph: Section::::Street in Tel Aviv.

paragraph: In the modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv, "Elazar HaKalir" street, near the city council building, is named after him.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Siddur

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Safrai, Shemuel (2006). "The Literature of the Sages" {brief tribute to the accomplishments of Eleazar (Elazar) ben Killir}

paragraph: BULLET::::- KALLIR, ELEAZAR in the Jewish Virtual Library.

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paragraph: Rony Seikaly

paragraph: Ronald Fred Seikaly (, born May 10, 1965) is a Lebanese-born American retired professional basketball player. Seikaly was one of the first internationally-born players to make an impact on American basketball. Considered one of the top college players from the Syracuse basketball program, Seikaly's stellar offense and defense placed him among the school's all-time leaders in rebounds, points and blocks, while earning several nationally recognized awards and honors. His number 4 jersey was retired by Syracuse and raised to the rafters of the Carrier Dome.

paragraph: Drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the Miami Heat with the 9th pick of the 1988 draft and the first ever pick for the Heat, Seikaly ranked among the team's top offensive and defensive contributors–winning NBA player of the week twice–and also amassing many of the team's records (of which some are still standing). Seikaly earned the 1990 NBA Most Improved Player Award and later played for the Golden State Warriors, Orlando Magic and New Jersey Nets and in Spain with FC Barcelona. He was also part of the United States national basketball team during the 1986 FIBA World Championship, winning gold. After his retirement from basketball, Seikaly became a successful real estate developer. He also worked in electronic music as a producer/DJ and hosts a radio, show "Sugar Free Radio", on Sirius/XM.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Seikaly was born in Beirut, Lebanon. As a young child, he moved from Beirut to Greece, where he spent the rest of his youth.

paragraph: He attended and graduated from the American School, also known as ACS Athens. In addition to playing basketball, he also excelled in many different sports including volleyball, soccer, and track & field.

paragraph: After being scouted by Panathinaikos player Takis Koroneos, Seikaly at age 16 was selected to join Panathinaikos' men's senior team, and played with them in a tournament in Cyprus.

paragraph: Section::::College basketball career.

paragraph: In 1984, Seikaly moved from Greece to the United States and began attending Syracuse University in central New York, where he played college basketball. He played center for the Syracuse Orange men's basketball team. He led his Syracuse team to the 1987 NCAA Tournament championship finals against the Indiana Hoosiers during his junior year, after averaging 22 points and 11 rebounds per game throughout the tournament. He was an All-American, and was also named to the John R. Wooden All-American Team. He graduated from Syracuse as the school's all-time leading rebounder, second in school history in blocked shots, and fourth in school history in scoring. At the time, he was only the second player ever to record 1,000 points and rebounds during his tenure at Syracuse. He was named to the Orange's All 20th Century Team, and his number 4 jersey has been retired and raised to the rafters at the Carrier Dome.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Miami Heat (1988–1994).

paragraph: Seikaly was taken by the Miami Heat with the 9th pick in the first round of the 1988 NBA draft. As well as being the franchise's first ever college draft pick, Seikaly became the first player born in Lebanon to compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

paragraph: Before playing in the NBA with the Miami Heat, Seikaly was offered a contract by the Greek Basket League team AEK Athens, but he turned it down, and opted to sign with the Heat instead.

paragraph: The rookie center quickly emerged not only as a pivotal player within the team, but also among the league's top centers. In his second season, he led the Heat in points (16.6), rebounds (10.4) and blocks (1.7) while placing sixth in the league in rebounding. At the conclusion of the season he was awarded with the NBA Most Improved Player Award.

paragraph: In the 1990–91 season, Seikaly increased his rebounding average to 11.1 rebounds per game while maintaining his 16 points per game average and then they acquired other young players to serve as scoring options such as Glen Rice and Steve Smith. In the 1991–92 season, Seikaly again averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds (6th in the league) as the Heat, bolstered by his play and Rice's scoring, led the team to 38 wins and the first playoff berth for the franchise. Despite the breakthrough, Miami was no match for the defending champions, the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, who swept the Heat in three games. For the series against the Bulls, Seikaly averaged 19.1 points with 9.2 rebounds.

paragraph: Seikaly increased his scoring to 17.3 and once again averaged 11.8 rebounds a game (8th in the league) during the 1992–93 season. He managed to win the NBA player of the week after averaging 30 points and 20 Rebounds for the week of March 7. The following season featured increased scoring by Rice and Smith, and Seikaly averaged 15.1 points a game for third on the team while leading the team in rebounds with 10.3 rebounds per game. The Heat won 42 games, good enough to make the playoffs. Facing off against the Atlanta Hawks in the first round.

paragraph: Seikaly's career with Miami saw him setting numerous team records, including blocks (8), rebounds (34) and double–doubles. During his run with the Heat, he had the nickname "The Spin Doctor", due to his trademark low-post spin moves. On November 2, 1994, Seikaly was traded to the Golden State Warriors.

paragraph: His career highs with the Heat are 40 points, 34 rebounds, 8 blocks, 8 assists, and 5 steals.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Golden State Warriors (1994–1996).

paragraph: Seikaly only played in 36 games during the 1994–95 season, but started in all but one of those appearances averaging 12 points and 7 rebounds per game for the Warriors who were decimated by injuries. He would go on to start in 60 of 64 games in the 95–96 season, averaging 12 points and 7.8 rebounds, but the Warriors once again were plagued by injuries and could not reach the playoffs. In November 1996, he was once again traded, this time to the Orlando Magic.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Orlando Magic (1996–1998).

paragraph: The Magic had been a dominant Eastern Conference team, but lost superstar center Shaquille O'Neal, and Seikaly was brought in to fill the void. Despite playing alongside other veteran scorers such as Horace Grant, Nick Anderson and Dennis Scott, Seikaly boosted his scoring to 17.3 points per game for second on the team behind All-Star Penny Hardaway, and led the team in rebounds per game (9.5) and blocks (1.4). The Magic won 45 games and entered the playoffs as the 7th seed in the conference, facing off against Seikaly's old team in Miami, who now featured an All-Star center Alonzo Mourning. Despite taking a 2–0 lead in Miami, the Magic responded with two wins at home to tie the series at 2 games apiece, but injuries forced Seikaly out of the 4th and deciding 5th games in which the Heat won to advance.

paragraph: Seikaly would start in 47 games to start the 1997–98 season, but in February he was traded to the New Jersey Nets. He averaged 16 points and 9.5 rebounds per game in his stint in Orlando.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New Jersey Nets (1998–1999).

paragraph: Following his arrival in New Jersey, Seikaly had a career ending foot injury and only played in 9 games to finish the 1997–98 season, and would only play in 9 games of the lockout shortened 1998–99 season before retiring from the league. He holds NBA career averages of 14.7 points per game, 9.5 rebounds per game, and 1.3 blocks per game.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:FC Barcelona (2000).

paragraph: Seikaly played with the Spanish League club FC Barcelona Basket, during the 2000–01 season. He averaged 15.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game in the Spanish League.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.

paragraph: Seikaly, an avid lover of music, started DJing on and off at the age of 14 while living in Athens. After retiring from basketball, he developed his passion into a musical career as a professional DJ and a music producer. "Sports will always be my love. But music will always be my passion," he said. He also had his own studio in Florida. Seikaly has been producing and working in the genres of house, deep house, tech house and techno. He has played in many major clubs in the world including Ibiza, New York, Toronto, LA and Miami.

paragraph: He has released many EPs including, "House Calls" in 2010 "East West EP" in 2012 and East West EP volume 2 in 2014, "Holdin On" in 2015 "Signs EP" in 2015 and "The Sword EP" in 2016 ". In 2012, he released a full mix album titled "Nervous Nitelife Presents Rony Seikaly" and has singles released on Suara, Yoshitoshi, Nervous, Stereo, Subliminal Records and many more.

paragraph: He ran his own radio show on "Sirius/Xm" satellite radio called SugarFreeRadio which aired 4 days a week.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.:Songs.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010: "Come with Me" (featuring Polina) (Subliminal Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010: "Let You Go" (featuring Polina) (Subliminal Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010: "Let You Go Part Two" (featuring Polina). Remix by Cedric Gervais (Subliminal Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "Take Me Higher" (Subliminal Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "The World Is Beautiful" (Subliminal Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "Personal Stereo" (Swing Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "Crazy Powder" (Nervous Inc)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "MILF" (Juicy Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Funk The Munk" (Juicy Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Mood That I Love" (Nervous Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Desert Nights" (Nervous Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Oh Yeah" (Swing Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Perfect Match" (Swing Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Illusion" (Nervous Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Le Freak" (with Antranig) (Stereo Productions)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Welcome to the Machine" (Nervous Inc.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: "Happy Trees" (Nervous Inc.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013: "You Make Me Feel" (with Jean Claude Ades) (Be Crazy Music)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013: "Thanks for Everything" (Perfect Driver Music)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013: "Can You Hear Me" (Suara Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013: "TATOUS" (Nervous Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014: "Into me" (Be Crazy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014: "Devotion" (Be Crazy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014: "5htp" (Be Crazy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "Groove Box" (Stereo Productions)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "Holdin On" (Yoshitoshi Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "Faces" (Yoshitoshi Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "Don't Do That" (Xima Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "Do You Take Anything" (Xima Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015: "U Turn" (Xima Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: "The Sword" (Yoshitoshi Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: "All of A Sudden" (Yoshitoshi Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016: "Loyalty" (Yoshitoshi Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2017: "Should I Stay" (Yoshitoshi Records)

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.:Featured.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "Fly Away" (In The Screen vs. Rony Seikaly feat. Craig David) (Erick Morillo, Harry Choo Choo Romero & José Nunez Mix)

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Seikaly speaks four languages fluently: English, Greek, Arabic, and French. During his NBA playing career, Seikaly would return to Greece during the off-season, to visit his friends and family members. Seikaly owns a villa in Mykonos, Greece, and he still vacations there. While living in Greece, he was known as Roni Sakalis ().

paragraph: When Magic Johnson returned to the NBA HIV-positive, and there was opposition to his inclusion in the league, because of his health status, Seikaly challenged him to a game of one-on-one, to show everyone that HIV is not contagious by touch.

paragraph: Seikaly owns and runs a multi-million dollar real estate investment company. He is also an investor in the South Beach, Miami, restaurants Quattro, Sosta, Solea, and Club Wall.

paragraph: Seikaly was formerly married to Mexican model Elsa Benítez, the 2001 and 2006 cover girl for the "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issues. They divorced in 2005; they have a daughter, Mila.

paragraph: Since July 2015, Seikaly has been married to Brazilian fashion blogger and model Martha Graeff, to whom he became engaged on the Greek island of Mykonos.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.:Charity.

paragraph: Seikaly is involved in many charities, such as the Miami Heat's Corporate Education and "Shoot for the Stars" programs, and the Make A Wish Foundation. He also founded the Rony Seikaly Golf Tournament to benefit cystic fibrosis research.

paragraph: Revenues from the sale of his 2012 album, "Nervous Nitelife Presents Rony Seikaly", went to the Children's Department at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Foundation in Miami.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of National Basketball Association players with most rebounds in a game

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Basketball

paragraph: BULLET::::- NBA.com Historical Player File

paragraph: BULLET::::- Euroleague.net Profile

paragraph: BULLET::::- Spanish League Profile

paragraph: BULLET::::- Music

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Rony Seikaly Music website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Facebook / iTunes / YouTube

paragraph: BULLET::::- Discogs.com: Rony Seikaly page

alias:
Rony Fred Seikaly
Ron Seikaly
Seik

description: Lebanese-American professional basketball player

wikidata_label: Rony Seikaly

wikipedia_title: Rony Seikaly


text: Dominican

text: theologian

text: Palestine

text: Swabia

text: Dominican

text: Basle

text: Bernhard von Breidenbach

text: Latin

text: 677: Index

text: Jean Meyers

text: CERCAM

text: H. F. M. Prescott

text: H. F. M. Prescott

categories: Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre,Holy Land travellers,Year of birth uncertain,1502 deaths,Swiss Dominicans,1440s births

paragraph: Felix Fabri

paragraph: Felix Fabri (also spelt Faber; 1441 – 1502) was a Swiss Dominican theologian. He left vivid and detailed descriptions of his pilgrimages to Palestine and also in 1489 authored a book on the history of Swabia, entitled "Historia Suevorum".

paragraph: He made his early studies under the Dominicans at Basle and Ulm, where he spent most of his life.

paragraph: "Faber" is the Latin nominative singular form of his surname. He is often referred to as "Fabri," the Latin genitive singular, i.e. the possessive form, because his name appears this way in the title of his book, "Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem."

paragraph: In Jerusalem he met Bernhard von Breidenbach.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fabri, Felix (1848): "Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terrae sanctae, Arabiae et Aegypti peregrinationem: 3 vol." in Latin. Vol 1. The full text, google-books,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fabri, Felix (1849): "Fratris Felicis Fabri Evagatorium in Terræ Sanctæ, Arabiæ et Egypti peregrinationem" in Latin. Vol 3. The full text, google-books,

paragraph: BULLET::::- with p. 677: Index

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jean Meyers, "Félix Fabri. Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Égypte (1480–1483). Tome I : Premier et deuxième traités". Montpellier : Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry et du CERCAM, 2000, 438 p.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Félix Fabri. Les errances de Frère Félix, pélerin en Terre sainte, en Arabie et en Égypte (1480–1483). Tome II : Troisième et quatrième traités". Texte Latin, introduction, traduction et notes sous la direction de Jean Meyers et Nicole Chareyron, Montpellier : Publications de l'Université Paul-Valéry et du CERCAM, 2003, 453 p.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Once to Sinai : Further Pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri (1947), H. F. M. Prescott, The Macmillan Company

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jerusalem Journey: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the Fifteenth Century (1954) H. F. M. Prescott published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pilgrimage Yesterday and Today" (1988) J. G. Davies, SCM Press Ltd.

description: Swiss theologian

wikidata_label: Felix Fabri

wikipedia_title: Felix Fabri


text:
Italian
humanist
poet
Hungary
Matthias Corvinus

categories: Italian male poets,15th-century historians,Italian historians,15th-century Latin writers,Italian chroniclers,Italian Renaissance humanists,Italian poets,1503 deaths,Italian male non-fiction writers,Italian biographers,Male biographers,1427 births

paragraph: Antonio Bonfini

paragraph: Antonio Bonfini (Latin variant: "Antonius Bonfinius") (1434–1503) was an Italian humanist and poet who spent the last years of his career as a court historian in Hungary with King Matthias Corvinus.

paragraph: Bonfini was commissioned by Matthias Corvinus to produce a work chronicling the History of Hungary. The book was named "Historia Pannonica: Sive Hungaricarum Rerum Decades IV".

description: Italian writer and historian

wikidata_label: Antonio Bonfini

wikipedia_title: Antonio Bonfini


text: Chinese

text: Zen

text: Tang Dynasty

text: Hanshan

text: Shide

text: Tiantai

text: Guoqing Temple

text: East China Sea

text: sutra

text: foil

text: Mount Wutai

text: Taoist

text: Chinese Poetry

text: Classical Chinese poetry

text: Hanshan

text: Hanshan Temple

text: Shide

text: Zen

text: Red Pine

categories: Chinese Zen Buddhists,Tang dynasty Buddhist monks,Tang dynasty poets,Zen Buddhist monks and priests

paragraph: Fenggan

paragraph: Fenggan (, Japanese Bukan, fl. 9th century) was a Chinese Zen monk-poet lived in the Tang Dynasty, associated with Hanshan and Shide in the famed "Tiantai Trio" (天台三聖).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Legendarily, Feng appeared one day at Guoqing Temple (located by the East China Sea, in the Tiantai mountain range), a monk with an unshaven head, riding a tiger. From then on, he took up residence in the temple behind the library, where he would hull rice and chant sutras.

paragraph: The few accounts of him record that he became close friends to Hanshan, and was the one who found the orphaned Shide, named him, and brought him to the temple. From these and other anecdotes, it appears that Feng was the oldest of the three.

paragraph: The circumstances of his death are as murky as his life: the stories in which Feng is any more than a name or foil for Hanshan cease after he healed a local prefect. It has been conjectured that Hanshan's Poem 50 refers to his death:

paragraph: Section::::Poetry.

paragraph: Very few of Feng's poems survive, but the ones which do are very revealing; the third of the four confirms Feng's relationships with the other members of the Tientai Trio:

paragraph: The first of the poems appears to confirm the stories of how he was an itinerant monk prior to stopping at Kuoching Temple (and even then he would depart at least once for a pilgrimage to Mount Wutai):

paragraph: The fourth poem is especially important, since it unmistakably references the challenge the Fifth Patriarch of Zen set his would-be successors ~713 C. E. making it impossible for Feng (and by extension Hanshan and Shide) to predate the 720's, thereby eliminating many other dating possibilities:

paragraph: It is difficult to judge Feng's poetic oeuvre with only four works to judge by, and only one really poetic. But it appears that his poetry's formal structures were fairly conventional, and in ideas, from a strictly Buddhist perspective; Hanshan, in contrast, often played with rhymes and tones and structure, and very often dropped in Taoist references, to the point where his actual religious orientation is in some doubt. See for example Feng's second poem, which expresses strictly Buddhist ideas:

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chinese Poetry

paragraph: BULLET::::- Classical Chinese poetry

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hanshan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hanshan Temple

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shide

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zen

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain", Red Pine,

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rouzer, Paul [translator], Nugent, Christopher M. B. [editor] (2017). The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan . "De Gruyter Mouton".

description: Chinese poet and monk

wikidata_label: Fenggan

wikipedia_title: Fenggan


text: bishop

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: Bishop of Honolulu

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Diocese of Honolulu

text: epicopacy

text: vicar general

text: Diocese of Oakland

text: California

text: Roman Catholic

text: community

text: Hawaiian Islands

text: Portuguese

text: ancestry

text: ordinary

text: cathedra

text: Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

text: Kapālama

text: rector

text: chancery

text: island of O'ahu

text: immigrant

text: Azores

text: Saint Anthony Church

text: Kailua

text: San Lorenzo

text: Frank De Lima

text: Bishop O'Dowd High School

text: Oakland

text: Holy Orders

text: Mountain View

text: Bachelor of Arts

text: degree

text: Saint Patrick Seminary

text: Menlo Park

text: Master of Divinity

text: Spanish language

text: Cuernavaca

text: Mexico

text: Pontifical North American College

text: Rome

text: Italy

text: theological

text: Floyd Lawrence Begin

text: Hayward

text: Pittsburg

text: Oakland

text: El Cerrito

text: Fremont

text: Allen Henry Vigneron

text: vicar general

text: Cathedral of Christ the Light

text: Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales

text: Loma Prieta earthquake

text: prelate

text: Neal S. Blaisdell Center

text: Arena

text: William Joseph Levada

text: prefect

text: suffragan

text: Allen Henry Vigneron

text: John Stephen Cummins

text: Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera

text: Apostolic Nuncio to the United States

text: Msgr. Anthony Apuron

text: Hagatna in Guam

text: Msgr. Tod Brown

text: Orange

text: Msgr. Daniel F. Walsh

text: Santa Rosa in California

text: Msgr. Tomas Camacho

text: Chalan Kanoa

text: Msgr. Quinn Weitzel

text: Pago Pago, American Samoa

text: Msgr. Wilfredo D. Manpalaz

text: Msgr. Juan De Dios Pueblo

text: Msgr. William Skurla

text: Eparchy of Van Nuys

text: Phoenix, Arizona

text: Msgr. John C. Wester

text: San Francisco

text: Msgr. George Thomas

text: Bishop of Helena

text: Msgr. Joseph Estabrook

text: Msgr. Richard Garcia

text: Sacramento

text: Msgr. Patricio Alo

text: Msgr. Stephen E. Blaire

text: Stockton

text: Archdiocese of Los Angeles

text: Diocese of Oakland

text: kukui

text: oak

text: olive

text: Malia O Ka Malu

text: Francis Xavier DiLorenzo

text: St. Damien of Moloka'i

text: Blessed Marianne of Moloka'i

text: pilgrimage

text: Kalaupapa

text: island

text: Moloka'i

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Order of the Holy Sepulchre

text: Sovereign Military Order of Malta

text: Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace

text: Royal Order of Kamehameha I

text: Johnathan Hurrell

text: Saint Patrick Church

text: Kaimuki

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

categories: People from Oakland, California,1949 births,Knights of Malta,Roman Catholic bishops of Honolulu,People from Honolulu,American Roman Catholic bishops,Saint Patrick's Seminary and University alumni,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,Members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre,American people of Azorean descent,Living people

paragraph: Clarence Richard Silva

paragraph: Clarence Richard Silva, popularly known as Larry Silva (born August 6, 1949), is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fifth Bishop of Honolulu, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on May 17, 2005, to oversee the Diocese of Honolulu. Previous to his appointment to the epicopacy, he served as a diocesan priest and later vicar general of the Diocese of Oakland in California. He is the first person born in Hawaii to lead the Roman Catholic community of the Hawaiian Islands. He is also the second person of Portuguese ancestry to serve the community as its ordinary.

paragraph: As Bishop of Honolulu, Silva has his liturgical and canonical seat or "cathedra" at the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace; he also has a "cathedra" at the Co-Cathedral of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus in Kapālama. At both of the above cathedral churches, rectors and parochial vicars administer the daily liturgical and pastoral work. The bishop's administrative offices are located in the Bishop Street chancery.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Silva was born on the island of O'ahu to electrician and refrigeration mechanic Richard Silva and homemaker Catherine Alves Silva at Saint Francis Hospital in Liliha. The great grandson of immigrants from the Azores, Silva was baptized at Saint Anthony Church in Kailua but moved to California during his first year of life. He attended Saint John the Baptist School in San Lorenzo and together with Frank De Lima at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland. Convinced of a calling to Holy Orders, Silva spent his undergraduate years at Saint Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree and Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park where he later obtained a Master of Divinity degree. Silva studied the Spanish language in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 1975 and 1978. During his first sabbatical leave, he studied at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy in 1991.

paragraph: Section::::California apostolate.

paragraph: After completing theological studies, Silva was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Oakland on May 2, 1975 by Floyd Lawrence Begin, Bishop of Oakland.

paragraph: Silva served as associate pastor and pastor at nine parish churches throughout the Diocese of Oakland: Saint Bernard Church from 1975 to 1978, Our Lady of the Rosary Church from 1978 to 1979, Saint Bede Church in Hayward from 1983 to 1984, Saint Peter Martyr Church in Pittsburg from 1984 to 1986 and Saint Anthony Church in Oakland from 1986 to 1991. After taking sabbatical leave from January to August 1991, he returned to his home diocese to serve at Saint John the Baptist Church in El Cerrito from 1991 to 1994, Saint Andrew and Saint Joseph Church in Oakland from 1994 to 1999 and Saint Leonard and Saint Paula in Fremont from 2000 to 2003. Employing parish clustering, he served as pastor of two parishes at a time. He oversaw the merger of two parishes into one several times.

paragraph: Silva served under various leadership positions in the Diocese of Oakland. While associate pastor and pastor of various parish churches, Silva also served as diocesan vocations director from 1979 to 1983. He recruited religious brothers and priests for the Diocese of Oakland. In 2003, Allen Henry Vigneron, Bishop of Oakland, appointed Silva his vicar general and moderator of the diocesan curia.

paragraph: As vicar general and moderator of the diocesan curia, Silva was instrumental in the planning for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Light, the replacement of the Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales destroyed in the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17, 1989.

paragraph: Section::::Episcopacy.

paragraph: Section::::Episcopacy.:Bishop of Honolulu.

paragraph: Silva's consecration as bishop and installation as prelate over the Hawaiian Islands occurred on July 21, 2005 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena. It was the first joint consecration and installation ceremony in Hawaii; former bishops had already been consecrated on the mainland prior to their installation. It was also the first such ceremony held at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center since 1982.

paragraph: Silva was consecrated by William Joseph Levada, principal consecrator, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop of the metropolitan archdiocese of San Francisco to which the Diocese of Honolulu is suffragan. The co-consecrators were Allen Henry Vigneron, Oakland ordinary, and his predecessor, John Stephen Cummins, Bishop Emeritus of Oakland. Several other bishops were in attendance: Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States; Msgr. Anthony Apuron, Archbishop of Hagatna in Guam; Msgr. Tod Brown, Bishop of Orange; Msgr. Daniel F. Walsh, Bishop of Santa Rosa in California; Msgr. Tomas Camacho, Bishop of Chalan Kanoa (Saipan); Msgr. Quinn Weitzel, Bishop of Pago Pago, American Samoa; Msgr. Wilfredo D. Manpalaz, Bishop of Tagum, Philippines; Msgr. Juan De Dios Pueblo, Bishop of Butuan, Philippines; Msgr. William Skurla, Eparch of the Eparchy of Van Nuys in Phoenix, Arizona; Msgr. John C. Wester, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco; Msgr. George Thomas, Bishop of Helena; Msgr. Joseph Estabrook of the Military Ordinariate of the United States; Msgr. Richard Garcia, Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento; Msgr. Patricio Alo, Bishop of Mati in the Philippines; and Msgr. Stephen E. Blaire, Bishop of Stockton. Roger Cardinal Mahony, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was expected to attend the event, but was unable to attend due to airplane problems in Los Angeles.

paragraph: The Episcopal coat-of-arms for Bishop Silva was designed by Father Quang Dong and Thanh Dong of the Diocese of Oakland. "Silva" means "forest" in Portuguese. The sinister impalement contains three trees in the "forest"; the kukui ("Aleurites mollucana") on the right, symbolizing Hawai'i, the birthplace of the bishop, his parents and grandparents. The kukui yields an oil with healing properties that also provides light; the oak ("Quercus alba") on the left, symbolizing Oakland ("Quercopolitana") where Bishop Silva grew up and where he served as a priest for 30 years; and the cross - the tree of life - in the center, with olive leaves symbolizing Malia O Ka Malu (Mary, Queen of Peace), patroness of the Diocese of Honolulu (Honolulu is translated from Hawaiian as "peaceful harbor") under whose protection Bishop Silva entrusts his episcopal ministry. Bishop Silva's episcopal motto, ""Witness to Jesus"" derives from Revelation 19:10.

paragraph: Section::::Hawai'i ministry.

paragraph: Silva assumes the episcopacy as successor to Francis Xavier DiLorenzo, fourth Bishop of Honolulu. He was the first Bishop of Honolulu to have originally come from Hawaii.

paragraph: DiLorenzo dealt with priests accused of abusing minors. Issues facing Silva upon assuming the episcopacy include the decline of vocations and consequent difficulites in staffing parishes, and sex abuse scandals.

paragraph: He was a principal promoter for the causes of sainthood for St. Damien of Moloka'i and Blessed Marianne of Moloka'i.

paragraph: One of his first acts as bishop-elect was to travel on pilgrimage to Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka'i on May 19, to pay homage to then-Blessed Damien and then-Blessed Marianne. Marianne had only been beatified and raised to the title of "Blessed" by Pope Benedict XVI a few days earlier on May 14. Speaking of his pilgrimage Silva said, "I will let that empower me in my ministry to the people of Hawai'i. Damien has been my hero since I was a boy." Silva's great grandfather was a patient of the leper colony.

paragraph: After the 2009 Canonisation of Father Damien and the 2012 Canonisation of Mother Marianne, Bishop Silva had the unique distinction of being the only Bishop in American history who had two people from his diocese canonised during his episcopate. (Although the Archdiocese of Philadelphia also has two canonised members, they were during the episcopates of two different archbishops.)

paragraph: Msgr. Silva was inducted into the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in 2005 and holds the rank of Grand Officer. He is also a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

paragraph: In June 2013, a special ceremony was held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, inducting him into the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, where he holds the rank of Knight Companion. He had especially been cited for having "gained the respect and admiration of the High Chiefs, Chief, Officers, Mamo Hawaii and Na Wahine Hui o Kamehameha I for his ecumenical spirit of aloha, kindness sensitivity to our island ways and for his love of the Hawaiian culture and all the cultures for people from around the world who call Hawaii home."

paragraph: Msgr. Silva first ordination was Brother Johnathan Hurrell, SS.CC., to the priesthood on November 25, 2005, at Saint Patrick Church in Kaimuki, Honolulu.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church hierarchy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church in the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu Official Site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Allen Henry Vigneron Statement of Silva Appointment on 17 May 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Statement of Silva Appointment on 17 May 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vatican Statement of Silva Appointment on 17 May 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Honolulu Advertiser Preview of the Ordination and Installation Ceremony on 25 May 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hawaii Catholic Herald, July 15, 2005 - "Special Edition for the Installation and Ordination of Bishop Clarence Silva"

description: American bishop

wikidata_label: Clarence Richard Silva

wikipedia_title: Clarence Richard Silva


text:
Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster
Dean Marley
Lord Edward FitzGerald
United Irishmen
Irish Rebellion of 1798
Frescati House
Dublin
Paris
Charles Lock
Charles George Beauclerk
Topham Beauclerk
Diana Spencer
Ardglass
County Down
Ardglass Castle
Ardglass History

paragraph: William Ogilvie (Ardglass)

paragraph: William Ogilvie (1740–1832) was a Scottish-born scholar and tutor.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: William Ogilvie was hired by Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster to tutor her children after the death of her eldest in London. He was introduced to her by Dean Marley and was described as speaking with a harsh Scots voice, was dour, ungainly, often rude and frequently unshaven. Eccentric in his age this shy, reserved, rather grubby man believed that children were sensible immature people and had an excellent rapport with them.

paragraph: He had a particular fondness for Lord Edward FitzGerald, preparing him for his military career. After leaving the army Lord Edward was appointed commander in chief of the United Irishmen just before the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Ogilvie visited him whilst he was in hiding from the authorities.

paragraph: Ogilvie married Lady Emily, who continued to be known as the Dowager Duchess of Leinster, months after the death of her husband, but their love affair had begun before his death in Frescati House. Ogilvie is known to be the biological father of Lord George Simon FitzGerald. Lady Emily escaped the scathing of the Dublin aristocracy for marrying this uncouth, boorish man by moving to Paris after marriage. It was said she may as well have married her footman!

paragraph: A further three children were born to them after their marriage:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cecilia Margaret Ogilvie (9 July 1775–1824) she married Charles Lock on 12 July 1795. They had three daughters.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charlotte Ogilvie (born and died 1777).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emily Charlotte "Mimie" Ogilvie (May 1778–22 January 1832) she married Charles George Beauclerk (son of Topham Beauclerk and his wife Diana Spencer; briefly an MP) on 29 April 1799. They had thirteen children.

paragraph: Ogilvie purchased the Ardglass estate in County Down from his stepson Rear Admiral Lord Charles FitzGerald and he and Lady Emily lived there for part of their marriage in Ardglass Castle. He spent his latter years rebuilding the town which was once a major trading port. He successfully established a harbour here in 1813 and built public baths making the town one of the most fashionable watering places in the North of Ireland. A firm believer in self-sufficiency, Ardglass had gardens laid out for residents to grow their own produce.

paragraph: He died in 1832 and his remains were interred in the Church of Ireland on Kildare Street in Ardglass. He died fondly remembered as "a man of character, a man of splendid determination, a man absolutely devoid of petty meanesses, and a man of exceptional tenderness".

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ardglass History

description: Scottish scholar and tutor in Ireland

wikidata_label: William Ogilvie

wikipedia_title: William Ogilvie (Ardglass)


text:
American football
punter
Indianapolis Colts
1999 NFL Draft
college football
Notre Dame
Super Bowl ring
Super Bowl XLI
Chicago Bears
Sherman High School
Sherman, Texas
New York Giants
Josh Bidwell
Graham Gano
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Christian
acoustic
Bob and Tom Show
kicker
Mike Vanderjagt
Houston
the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
KSBJ
TobyMac
MercyMe
Zionsville
Super Bowl XLI
Indianapolis Colts bio
Washington Redskins bio

categories: Sherman High School (Texas) alumni,American football punters,American performers of Christian music,People from Zionsville, Indiana,Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players,Washington Redskins players,1977 births,Players of American football from Texas,Indianapolis Colts players,Living people

paragraph: Hunter Smith

paragraph: Hunter Dwight Smith (born August 9, 1977) is a former American football punter. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame.

paragraph: Smith earned a Super Bowl ring with the Colts in Super Bowl XLI as they beat the Chicago Bears.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Smith attended Sherman High School in Sherman, Texas and was a letterman in football, basketball, and track. In football, he saw action as a quarterback, tight end, punter, and kicker, and was a two-time Texas All-State selection.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Smith played in all 45 career games for the University of Notre Dame over the course of his four seasons. He also handled all field goal holding duties. He ranks third on the schools career record list with 174 total punts and second on career yardage with an average of 41.2 yards per punt. Originally recruited as a QB, Smith also handled the emergency quarterback role. In both 1998 and 1999, Smith was Football News All-Independent first-team. Smith also joined the track and field team at Notre Dame as a high jumper. Hunter graduated from Notre Dame in 1999 with degrees in Theology and Sociology.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: During his rookie season in 1999, he was selected to the NFL All-Rookie Team and was named Pro Bowl Alternate 3 times throughout his career.

paragraph: Smith was named AFC special teams player of the week while playing for Indianapolis in 2005.

paragraph: Smith threw a touchdown pass for the Washington Redskins against the Denver Broncos on November 15, 2009. The 35-yard pass went to the fullback, Mike Sellers. Smith was subsequently named the NFC special teams player of the week. He had previously run for an 8-yard touchdown against the New York Giants in the season's first game, making him the first special-teams player in NFL history to run and pass for a TD in the same season. He has scored 3 touchdowns in his NFL career.

paragraph: On October 7, 2010, the Redskins signed Smith after a season-ending injury to Josh Bidwell.

paragraph: On December 14, 2010, the Redskins cut Smith after botching an extra point attempt, a result of him allowing the snap pass through his hands as he held for kicker Graham Gano. At the time, the Redskins trailed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-16 with nine seconds to play in the fourth quarter. The Redskins lost the game.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: Smith, a devout Christian, is a member of the band Connersvine. Connersvine has an acoustic-driven rock sound that communicates through worshipful melodies and passionate vocals. Made up of Chris Wilson and Smith, the acoustic duo sings about their religious faith, both recorded and live, sometimes on their own, and often time with a full band. "The Hunter Smith Band" is the name of the full ensemble.

paragraph: In 2005, he wrote and performed a song on the "Bob and Tom Show", titled "The Most Accurate Holder to Ever Play the Game," referring to his holding duties for former Colts kicker Mike Vanderjagt.

paragraph: In 2007, Connersvine performed in Houston at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion as part of a 25th anniversary celebration for Christian radio station KSBJ. The evening began with their performance followed by TobyMac and MercyMe among other artists. He and his wife, Jennifer, and their four kids, Josiah, Samuel, Lydia, and Beau reside in Zionsville, IN.

paragraph: Recently he helped Zionsville High School student Emma Petts with her song "Take Me to the Rain", which is now on iTunes. He can be seen playing the guitar for her on YouTube.

paragraph: Smith published a book in 2012, "The Jersey Effect: Beyond the World Championship", which is about several Colt players who played in Super Bowl XLI, examining their championship success and battles they faced too. He is now the lead singer in The Hunter Smith Band

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indianapolis Colts bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washington Redskins bio

description: Player of American football

wikidata_label: Hunter Smith

wikipedia_title: Hunter Smith


text:
American football
wide receiver
San Francisco 49ers
2003 NFL Draft
college football
Notre Dame
Pittsburgh Steelers
tight end
Ron Battle
C. E. Byrd High School
All-America
The Sporting News
Chicago Sun-Times
USA Today
quarterback
University of Notre Dame
wide receiver
University of Notre Dame
grade point average
sociology
computer applications
injured reserve
thigh
Arizona Cardinals
Tim Rattay
St. Louis Rams
Brandon Lloyd
Frank Gore
Oakland Raiders
Seattle Seahawks
Monday Night Football
Tim Rattay
Dallas Cowboys
Minnesota Vikings
Shaun Hill
injured reserve
Special Teams
Pittsburgh Steelers
Ron Battle
North Texas
tight end
Los Angeles Rams
Arnaz Battle's official website
San Francisco 49ers biography

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paragraph: Arnaz Battle

paragraph: Arnaz Jerome Battle (born February 22, 1980) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame. Battle also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is the son of former NFL tight end Ron Battle.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: When Arnaz was nine years old, Brandon, his younger brother died in a tragic drowning accident. On his upper left arm appears a tattoo of his late brother's face. He prepped at C. E. Byrd High School, where he finished with 5,137 total yards and rushed for 49 career touchdowns while throwing for 28 more and scored one touchdown on a kickoff return. He was a Parade All-America selection and was rated 39th-best player nationally by The Sporting News and 52nd-best player by Chicago Sun-Times. A USA Today honorable mention All-America and third-team All-South quarterback by Fox Sports South.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Battle played quarterback for the University of Notre Dame in his first two seasons, and was named the starting quarterback in 2000. However, against #1 Nebraska in the second game of the year, Battle suffered a broken wrist on the first play from scrimmage and was forced to sit out the remainder of the season. The following year, he was converted to wide receiver, because of his great speed and running ability. He tallied 53 receptions for 742 yards (14.0 avg.) and five touchdowns, adding 314 yards and one touchdown on 62 carries in career. He was an All-America honorable mention and All-Independent first-team selection by The NFL Draft Report, following his senior season at the University of Notre Dame. He saw time at quarterback and completed 30-of-69 passes for 438 yards and two touchdowns. He added academic honors, while maintaining a 3.2 grade point average and majored in sociology and computer applications.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.

paragraph: In 2003, he saw action in eight games and recorded two carries for 14 yards to go along with eight tackles and two fumble recoveries on special teams before finishing season on injured reserve with left toe injury.

paragraph: In 2004, he saw action in 14 games and registered career-highs in punt returns (31), punt return yards (266), kickoff returns (13), kickoff return yards (257) and special teams tackles (16). He was Inactive for the final two contests of the season with a thigh injury. He returned a career-long 71-yard punt return for a touchdown vs. the Arizona Cardinals.

paragraph: In 2005, he played in 10 games with eight starts and tallied 32 receptions for 363 yards with three touchdowns. He was inactive for six contests due to a knee injury. He led the team in receiving with five receptions for 59 yards and recorded his first career touchdown on a six-yard pass from QB Tim Rattay vs. the St. Louis Rams. He also completed his first career pass on a 24-yard connection to WR Brandon Lloyd followed by his second career completion later in quarter with a three-yard shovel pass to RB Frank Gore.

paragraph: In 2006, he played in 16 games with 15 starts and ranked second on the team with career-highs of 59 receptions and 686 receiving yards. He was the only receiver in the NFL with 40 or more catches and no dropped passes. He caught four passes for 37 yards and two tough, short-yardage touchdowns vs. the Oakland Raiders, marking his first career multi-touchdown receiving game. He also hauled in five receptions for 97 yards against the Seattle Seahawks, and added one carry for a career-long 18 yards.

paragraph: In 2007, he played in 16 games with 15 starts, posting 50 catches for a team-high 600 yards while setting career-highs in touchdown receptions (five) and total touchdowns (six). He was also named as the captain of all of the wide receivers. In the season opener on Monday Night Football against Arizona, he caught a team-high five receptions for 60 yards, while also scoring the go-ahead score on his first career rushing touchdown, a one-yard end around with 22 seconds remaining to give the 49ers a 20-17 victory. He caught a 57-yard touchdown at Arizona, the 49ers’ longest play from scrimmage in 2007. It marked the second longest reception of his career behind a 65-yarder he had from Tim Rattay vs. the Dallas Cowboys. He played, but did not start due to an ankle injury suffered against the Minnesota Vikings and caught two passes for 13 yards with one touchdown. His touchdown catch came in the third quarter on QB Shaun Hill's first career touchdown pass.

paragraph: Battle logged his first 100-yard game with a 120-yard performance during Week 4 of the 2008 season. He was placed on season-ending injured reserve with a foot injury on December 13, 2008. He finished the 2008 season with 24 catches for 318 yards.

paragraph: In 2009 finished with 5 catches for 40 yards and help in Special Teams.

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

paragraph: On March 8, 2010, Battle signed a three-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers worth $3.975 million with $975,000 to sign; He did not have a reception during his first season, but was a standout on special teams. The next year, he was named team captain for special teams. The Steelers released Battle on February 8, 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: His father, Ron Battle, played football at North Texas and then as a tight end for two seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. Arnaz is married to Billye Nelson Battle. They have four children.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arnaz Battle's official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Francisco 49ers biography

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