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paragraph: Cilla Black

paragraph: Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author.

paragraph: Championed by her friends in the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963, and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 Top Ten hits on the British charts between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed that her version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was the UK's biggest-selling single by a female artist in the 1960s. "You're My World" was also a modest hit in the US, peaking at No. 26 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.

paragraph: Along with a successful recording career in the 1960s and early 1970s, Black hosted her own variety show, "Cilla", for the BBC between 1968 and 1976. After a brief time as a comedy actress in the mid-1970s, she became a prominent television presenter in the 1980s and 1990s, hosting hit entertainment shows such as "Blind Date" (1985–2003), "The Moment of Truth" (1998–2001), and "Surprise Surprise" (1984–2001).

paragraph: In 2013, Black celebrated 50 years in show business. British television network ITV honoured this milestone with a one-off entertainment special which aired on 16 October 2013. The show, called "The One & Only Cilla Black", featured Black herself and was hosted by Paul O'Grady.

paragraph: Black died on 1 August 2015 after a fall in her villa in Estepona. The day after her funeral, the compilation album "The Very Best of Cilla Black" went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number one album.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Black was born Priscilla Maria Veronica White in Vauxhall, Liverpool, on 27 May 1943. She grew up in the Scotland Road area of Liverpool. Her parents were John Patrick White (1904–1971) and Priscilla Blythen (1911–1996). She had a Welsh maternal grandfather, Joseph Henry Blythen (1883–1966), who was born in Wrexham, and Irish great-grandparents on both her father's and mother's sides of the family. She was raised in a Roman Catholic household, and attended St Anthony's School, situated behind St Anthony's Church in Scotland Road, and Anfield Commercial College, where she learned office skills.

paragraph: Determined to become an entertainer, Black gained a part-time job as a cloakroom attendant at Liverpool's Cavern Club, best known for its connection with the Beatles. Her impromptu performances impressed the Beatles and others. She was encouraged to begin singing by a Liverpool promoter, Sam Leach, who booked her first gig at the Casanova Club, on London Road, where she appeared as "Swinging Cilla". She became a guest singer with the Merseybeat bands Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, and later the Big Three. Meanwhile, she worked as a waitress at the Zodiac coffee lounge, where she later met her future husband Bobby Willis. She was featured in an article in the first edition of the local music newspaper "Mersey Beat" by the paper's publisher, Bill Harry, who mistakenly referred to her as Cilla Black, rather than her real surname, White. She then took the name Black as her stage surname.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:Before August 1967.

paragraph: Black signed her first contract with longtime friend and neighbour, Terry McCann, but this contract was never honoured as it was made when she was underage (the age of majority was then 21) and her father subsequently signed her with Brian Epstein.

paragraph: She was introduced to Epstein by John Lennon, who persuaded him to audition her. Lennon was encouraged by his Aunt Mimi to introduce Black to Epstein. Epstein had a portfolio of local artists but initially showed little interest in her. Her first audition was a failure, partly because of nerves, and partly because the Beatles (who supported her) played the songs in their usual vocal key rather than re-pitching them for Black's voice.

paragraph: In her autobiography "What's It All About?" she wrote:I'd chosen to do "Summertime", but at the very last moment I wished I hadn't. I adored this song, and had sung it when I came to Birkenhead with the Big Three, but I hadn't rehearsed it with the Beatles and it had just occurred to me that they would play it in the wrong key. It was too late for second thoughts, though. With one last wicked wink at me, John set the group off playing. I'd been right to worry. The music was not in my key and any adjustments that the boys were now trying to make were too late to save me. My voice sounded awful. Destroyed—and wanting to die—I struggled on to the end.But after seeing her another day, at the Blue Angel jazz club, Epstein contracted with Black as his only female client on 6 September 1963. Epstein introduced Black to George Martin who signed her to Parlophone Records and produced her début single, "Love of the Loved" (written by Lennon and McCartney), which was released only three weeks after she joined Epstein. Despite an appearance on ABC Television's popular "Thank Your Lucky Stars", the single peaked at a modest No. 35 in the UK, a relative failure compared to the débuts of Epstein's most successful artists (the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas).

paragraph: Black's second single, released at the beginning of 1964, was a cover of the Burt Bacharach–Hal David composition "Anyone Who Had a Heart", which had been written for Dionne Warwick. The single beat Warwick's recording into the UK charts and rose to No. 1 in Britain in February 1964 (spending three weeks there), selling 800,000 UK copies in the process. Her second UK No. 1 success, "You're My World", was an English-language rendition of the Italian popular song "Il Mio Mondo" by composer Umberto Bindi. She also enjoyed chart success with the song in America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa and Canada. Both songs sold over one million copies worldwide, and were awarded gold discs.

paragraph: Black's two No. 1 successes were followed by the release of another Lennon–McCartney composition, "It's for You", as her fourth UK single. Paul McCartney played piano at the recording session and the song proved to be another success for Black, peaking at No. 7 on the UK charts.

paragraph: Black belonged to a generation of British female singers which included Dusty Springfield, Helen Shapiro, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, and Lulu. Other than Clark, these artists were not singer-songwriters but interpreters of 1960s contemporary popular music by songwriters and producers. Black recorded much material during this time, including songs written by Phil Spector, Tim Hardin and Burt Bacharach. All were produced by George Martin at Abbey Road Studios. Randy Newman, writer and composer of "I've Been Wrong Before" which Cilla Black recorded in 1965, was quoted as saying: "Cilla Black's "I've Been Wrong Before" is about the best cover record anyone has ever done of my songs."

paragraph: Black's version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (1965) reached No. 2 on the UK charts, a week later the Righteous Brothers' original version of the same song went to No. 1 while Black's version dropped to No. 5. The single wasn't critically well received, however; the Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham took out an advert in the "Melody Maker" to deride Cilla's efforts compared with the original.

paragraph: Being so closely associated with the Beatles, Black became one of a select group of artists in the 1964–65 period (the others being Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas and Peter and Gordon) to record more than one Lennon–McCartney composition. Black continued to record Lennon–McCartney compositions throughout her time with Parlophone (1963–1973) and her recordings of "Yesterday", "For No One" and "Across the Universe" became radio favourites. McCartney said Black's 1972 interpretation of "The Long and Winding Road" was the definitive version of the song.

paragraph: Black's career in the United States, although enthusiastically supported by Epstein and his PR team, was limited to a few television appearances ("The Ed Sullivan Show" among them), a 1965 cabaret season at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, and success with "You're My World", which made it to No. 26 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song was to be her only American Top 30 chart success, and Elvis Presley had a copy on his personal jukebox at his Graceland home. Black recognised that to achieve popular status in the USA she would need to devote much time to touring there. But she was plagued by homesickness and a sense of loneliness and returned to the UK.

paragraph: During 1966 Black recorded the Bacharach-David song "Alfie", written as the signature song to the 1966 feature film of the same name. While Cher sang "Alfie" on the closing credits of the American release of the film and Black on the UK version, Black was the first and only artist to have a hit with the song in the UK (No. 9). The next year, "Alfie" would become a success for Dionne Warwick in the US. Black's version of "Alfie" was arranged and conducted by Bacharach himself at the recording session at Abbey Road. Bacharach insisted on 31 separate takes, and Black cited the session as one of the most demanding of her recording career. For Bacharach's part, he said "… there weren't too many white singers around, who could convey the emotion that I felt in many of the songs I wrote but that changed with people like Cilla Black".

paragraph: By the end of 1966, Black had been a guest on Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's show "Not Only... But Also", had appeared on "The Eamonn Andrews Show", and in a Ray Galton–Alan Simpson revue in London's West End—"Way Out in Piccadilly"—alongside Frankie Howerd, and had starred in the television special "Cilla at the Savoy", which was one of the most watched music specials of the 1960s.

paragraph: Epstein's attempts to make Black a film actress were less successful. A brief appearance in the "beat" film "Ferry 'Cross the Mersey" (1965) and a leading role alongside David Warner in the psychedelic comedy "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" (1968) were largely ignored by film critics. In a 1997 interview with "Record Collector" magazine, Black revealed she was asked to appear in the film "The Italian Job" (1969), playing the part of Michael Caine's girlfriend, but negotiations fell through between producers and her management over her fee.

paragraph: Epstein died of an accidental drug overdose in August 1967, not long after negotiating a contract with the BBC for Black to appear in a television series of her own. Relations between Epstein and Black had somewhat soured during the year prior to his death, largely because he was not paying her career enough attention and the fact that her singles "A Fool Am I" (UK No. 13, 1966) and "What Good Am I?" (UK No. 24, 1967) were not big successes.

paragraph: In her autobiography, Black said that Epstein had tried to pacify her by negotiating a deal that would see her representing the UK in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. However, Black refused on the basis that Sandie Shaw had won the previous year's contest, and that the chances of another British female artist winning were few.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:After Epstein.

paragraph: Black's boyfriend and songwriter Bobby Willis assumed management responsibilities after Epstein died. After the relatively disappointing performance of "I Only Live to Love You" (UK No. 26, 1967), Black hit a new purple patch in her recording career, starting with "Step Inside Love" in 1968 (UK No. 8), which McCartney wrote especially for her as the theme for her new weekly BBC television variety series. Other successes followed in 1969: "Conversations" (UK No. 7), "Surround Yourself with Sorrow" (written by Bill Martin, Phil Coulter, UK No. 3), "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" (No. 20). Black had a further big hit with "Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight)" (UK No. 3) in 1971.

paragraph: Black's association with the Beatles continued. At the 1971 Cannes Film Festival she joined George Harrison, Ringo Starr and singer Marc Bolan to attend a screening of the John Lennon–Yoko Ono experimental film "Erection". She also holidayed with Harrison and Starr on a trip aboard a yacht chartered by Starr. "Photograph" was written on this trip—originally intended for Black—but Starr decided to record it himself. George Harrison also wrote two songs for Black: "The Light that has Lighted the World" and "I'll Still Love You (When Every Song is Sung)". The latter she recorded during 1974 with her then-producer David Mackay, but it was not heard publicly until 2003 when it was included on a retrospective collection entitled "Cilla: The Best of 1963–78".

paragraph: Writing in 1969, the rock music journalist Nik Cohn wrote:

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:Later music career.

paragraph: In 1993 she released "Through the Years", an album of new material featuring duets with Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richard and Barry Manilow. Ten years later, in 2003, she released the album "Beginnings ... Greatest Hits and New Songs".

paragraph: During 2006–07, Black's 1971 single "Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight)" was used as the soundtrack to a new British advertising campaign for Ferrero Rocher chocolates. During the 2008–09 pantomime season, Black returned to live musical performance in the pantomime "Cinderella", appearing as the Fairy Godmother. Black was part of an all-Scouse cast assembled in this three-hour stage spectacular to mark the end of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture. The show incorporated a number of Black's successes, which she performed live, including "You're My World", "Something Tells Me", "Step Inside Love" and "I Can Sing a Rainbow". Black received rave reviews for her singing and overall performance.

paragraph: On 7 September 2009, a total of 13 original studio albums (the first seven produced by George Martin) recorded by Black between 1963 and 2003 were released for digital download. These albums featured an array of musical genres. Also released by EMI at the same time was a double album and DVD set, "The Definitive Collection (A Life in Music)", featuring rare BBC video footage; a digital download album of specially commissioned re-mixes "Cilla All Mixed Up"; a remixed single on digital download of "Something Tells Me".

paragraph: For the 2010 winter pantomime season, Black appeared in "Cinderella" at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

paragraph: In October 2013, Parlophone (the record label which launched her career in 1963) released the career-spanning CD "The Very Best of Cilla Black"—containing all 19 of her UK Top 40 singles, new club remixes plus a bonus DVD of her 1966 TV music special "Cilla at the Savoy".

paragraph: Black was the best-selling British female recording artist in the UK during the 1960s, releasing a total of 15 studio albums and 37 singles.

paragraph: Section::::Television career.

paragraph: Section::::Television career.:"Cilla" (BBC TV series).

paragraph: Black was offered her own show on the BBC by Bill Cotton, then Assistant Head of Light Entertainment. The show would simply be titled "Cilla" and aired from January 1968 to April 1976. Cotton considered Black to take over from Bruce Forsyth as host of "The Generation Game" in 1978, but after a brief conversation, Cotton learned that Black wanted to maintain her singing career and was not ready to change course so drastically to light entertainment hostess. Cotton believed she would have been "perfect" for the show.

paragraph: Section::::Television career.:Comedy.

paragraph: On 15 January 1975 Black performed as the main entertainer of the first of six half-hour situation comedy plays. The series, broadcast by ITV, was entitled "Cilla's Comedy Six" and was written by Ronnie Taylor. During May 1975 the Writers' Guild of Great Britain named Black as Britain's Top Female Comedy Star. The following year, ATV was commissioned to film six more plays as the initial series had accrued healthy viewing figures and remained constantly among the highest-scoring three shows of the week. During August 1976 Black reprised her role as a comedy actress in "Cilla's World of Comedy" which featured her theme song and new single "Easy in Your Company".

paragraph: Between 2013 and 2014 Black was set to co-star in a new BBC sitcom "Led Astray", alongside Paul O'Grady—the pilot episode was recorded on 31 October 2013. However, the show was shelved when the pair were unable to cope with the long hours of filming.

paragraph: Section::::Television career.:LWT.

paragraph: By the beginning of the 1980s Black was performing mainly in cabaret and concerts; television appearances were rare. According to Christopher Biggins's autobiography she "stormed back into the public consciousness with a barnstorming performance as a guest on "Wogan" in 1983, proving that we can all have second chances" and after her appearance, people were "desperately trying to find her the right comeback vehicle". She presented "Cilla Black's Christmas" (1983), performing a comedy-duet with Frankie Howerd.

paragraph: Black signed a contract with London Weekend Television, becoming the host of two of the most popular and long-running evening entertainment shows of the 1980s and 1990s—"Blind Date" (1985–2003) and "Surprise Surprise" (1984–2001). She also presented the game show "The Moment of Truth" (1998–2001). All programmes were mainstream ratings winners and consolidated her position as the highest-paid female performer on British television.

paragraph: Her TV appearances made her spoken mannerisms ("Lorra lorra laughs", for example) and her habit of referring familiarly to her fellow presenters ("Our Graham") well known.

paragraph: Section::::Television career.:Later television work.

paragraph: Black's most notable television performances after her resignation from LWT included "Parkinson", "So Graham Norton", "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross", "Room 101" twice (once with Paul Merton and once with the current host, Frank Skinner), and a one-off show titled "Cilla Live!" for Living TV. Black was a judge on the first series of the reality TV series "Soapstar Superstar", featured in an episode of the series "Eating with..." and guest-presented editions of "The Paul O'Grady Show" in 2006 and "The Friday Night Project" for Channel 4 in 2007.

paragraph: In 2006, Black took part in the BBC Wales programme "Coming Home" about her Welsh family history, with roots in Wrexham and Holywell.

paragraph: In 2008 Black recorded a pilot for the Sky 1 dating show "Loveland". The show was to be a ten-part "21st-century" dating programme for the following year. Unlike "Blind Date", contestants would not sit in front of a studio audience, but would be 'hidden' behind real-time animations as they dated each other. Each episode would conclude with the contestant picking their preferred animated character before meeting the real-life person. Production costs, however, were too high and the show was pulled.

paragraph: In October 2009 Black guest-anchored "Loose Women" and on 28 November 2009 appeared on Sky 1 to present "TV's Greatest Endings".

paragraph: Between September 2010 and June 2011 she made guest panel list appearances and in 2011 also appeared, as herself, in the first episode of series 4 of ITV's "Benidorm".

paragraph: Section::::Television career.:50 years in showbusiness.

paragraph: ITV honoured Black's 50 years in show business with a one-off entertainment special which aired on 16 October 2013. The show, called "The One and Only Cilla Black", starred Black alongside Paul O'Grady, who hosted the show. The show celebrated Black's career and included a special trip back to her home city of Liverpool, a host of celebrity friends and some surprise music guests. Black paid homage to "Blind Date" with the return of its most popular contestants and saw her star in a special edition of "Coronation Street".

paragraph: Section::::TV biopic.

paragraph: In 2014, Black was the subject of a three-part television drama series, "Cilla", focusing especially on her rise to fame in 1960s Liverpool and her relationship with Bobby Willis. ITV aired the first instalment on 15 September 2014, starring actress Sheridan Smith as Black.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Black was married to her manager, Bobby Willis, for 30 years from 1969 until he died from lung cancer on 23 October 1999. They had three sons: Robert (born 1970, who became her manager), Ben (born 1974) and Jack (born 1980). Their daughter, Ellen (born 1975), was born prematurely and suffered lung complications, living for only two hours.

paragraph: Black was at one time a staunch supporter of the Conservative Party and publicly voiced her admiration for Margaret Thatcher, stating in 1993 that Thatcher had "put the 'great' back into Great Britain" during her 11 years as prime minister from 1979 until 1990—despite the widespread unpopularity of Thatcher and her government in Black's native Liverpool. In April 1992, she appeared on stage at a Conservative Party rally and made prominent calls for the party's re-election under the leadership of Thatcher's successor John Major, who went on to win the election. However, in a 2004 interview with "The Guardian", Black claimed that she was "apolitical". The "Liverpool Echo" also quoted her as saying: "as for the politics thing, I'm not a Conservative."

paragraph: In August 2014, Black was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to "The Guardian" expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Black died at her holiday home near Estepona, Spain, on 1 August 2015, at the age of 72. A spokesperson for the High Court of Justice in Andalusia suggested that an accident may have been a contributing factor in Black's death. Following the results of a post-mortem examination, her sons confirmed that Black had died from a stroke following a fall in her Spanish villa.

paragraph: A ten-page pathologist's report confirmed that Black had suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage after falling backwards and hitting her head, it was thought, on a terrace wall. It was believed she had not been found for at least four hours.

paragraph: In 2014, she had stated that she wanted to die when she reached 75, as her mother, who suffered from progressive osteoporosis, had lived to 84 and her final years were difficult. According to a friend, she had recently said that she was approaching death, complaining of failing eyesight and hearing as well as arthritis. Black had been suffering with rheumatoid arthritis for years and was in "considerable agony" towards the end of her life.

paragraph: In the days following her death, a book of condolence was opened at the Liverpool Town Hall. The then UK Prime Minister David Cameron stated, "Cilla Black was a huge talent who made a significant contribution to public life in Britain. My thoughts are with her family." Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sheridan Smith, Holly Johnson, Cliff Richard and Paul O'Grady were among friends and colleagues in the entertainment industry who expressed their sorrow at Black's death. Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck, who had been a friend for decades, said, "She was the girl next door that everybody loved and would have loved as a daughter, a daughter-in-law." Songwriter Burt Bacharach said, "It will always be a most special memory for me of recording her on Alfie in Abbey Road Studios in 1965." Broadcaster Noel Edmonds said that she "captured the hearts of the British people" because "she was our Cilla—there were no airs and graces".

paragraph: Black's funeral service was held on 20 August 2015 at St Mary's Church, Woolton. Tom Williams, the Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool, led the service; Cliff Richard sang at the service and Paul O'Grady gave a eulogy. Spoken tributes, prayers and readings were made by Black's sons Robert and Ben, Jimmy Tarbuck and Christopher Biggins. The Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road" was played as the coffin left the church. She was buried in a private ceremony at Allerton Cemetery in Allerton on the same day.

paragraph: On 21 August 2015, the day after her funeral, "The Very Best of Cilla Black", a compilation album of her most popular songs in her career, went to number one on the UK Albums Chart. It was Black's first number one album.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cilla" (1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cilla Sings a Rainbow" (1966)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sher-oo!" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Surround Yourself with Cilla" (1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sweet Inspiration" (1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Images" (1971)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Day by Day with Cilla" (1973)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In My Life" (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It Makes Me Feel Good" (1976)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Modern Priscilla" (1978)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Especially For You" (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Surprisingly Cilla" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cilla's World" (1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Through The Years" (1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cilla All Mixed Up" (2009)

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honours.

paragraph: Black was appointed OBE for services to entertainment in the 1997 New Year Honours.

paragraph: In 2014, Black was the recipient of the British Academy Television Awards' Special Award and the first Royal Television Society Legends Award in honour of her 50 years in entertainment.

paragraph: In 2017, a statue of Black commissioned by her sons was unveiled outside the Cavern Club's original entrance.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: Section::::Books.:Autobiographies.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Step Inside" (1985), London: Dent;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "What's It All About?" (2003), London: Ebury Press;

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cilla Black at aveleyman.com

alias:
Priscilla Willis
Priscilla Maria Veronica White

description: English singer, actress and media personality

wikidata_label: Cilla Black

wikipedia_title: Cilla Black


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Peter Sellers
Ken Barnes
Coca-Cola
Lux Toilet Soap
Asteroid
Pearl & Dean
Pearl & Dean
Asteroid
Goldbug
Whole Lotta Love
Ken Barnes
Pearl & Dean

categories: British composers,2013 deaths,1924 births

paragraph: Pete Moore (composer)

paragraph: Pete Moore, born in Essex, England, was a British composer and arranger for a string of famous artistes since the 1950/60s. He died on 1 December 2013 at the age of 89. He studied composition and arranging privately for approximately ten years with three teachers. These were Alfred Nieman (who was on the staff at the Guildhall School of Music, London), Henry Geehl and a certain "Dr. Cook" who was probably another staff member at one of the London music colleges.

paragraph: Beginning in 1958, he worked with such greats as Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine, Connie Francis and Peter Sellers, amongst others, on all manner of broadcasts and recordings. He frequently collaborated with record producer Ken Barnes.

paragraph: As a composer, he wrote themes for many TV commercials including such famous brands as Coca-Cola and Lux Toilet Soap, numerous songs recorded by such artists as Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine and Fred Astaire. But it is his composition “Asteroid” – the famous theme for Pearl & Dean’s cinema advertisements – that remains his most familiar and most successful composition. Apart from being heard every day (for the last 45 years) on cinema screens in the U.K., it is constantly featured around the world in commercials and documentaries. For many people, the very sound of its “pa-papa-pa” fanfare spells “cinema.” It has also been “sampled” by modern-day pop artists and enjoyed chart success on more than one occasion. Pearl & Dean's signature tune is one of the most famous tracks played in British movie houses.

paragraph: The Pearl & Dean anthem "Asteroid" is just 28 seconds long. The original screen titles featured graphics intended to emulate advertising panels flashing past as if the viewer was being sucked into the very screen. By the early 1990s, commercials and trailers were given the full stereo treatment, but the original "Asteroid" was only ever produced purely as a mono track. Remarkably, not only was the original composer/producer tracked down but Moore was also able to locate two of the three original male singers who could still replicate their vocal parts three decades on.

paragraph: In 1995, Goldbug (fronted by ex-Beatmasters man, Richard Walmsley) sampled the Pearl & Dean anthem and made the number two singles slot with their version of "Whole Lotta Love". A new 2mins 10secs digital version was recently recorded at the Abbey Road studios by Moore and a 30-piece orchestra.

paragraph: In retirement, Moore would travel by motorcycle from his home in Ealing to Waterloo each Saturday to assist in directing the famous Morley College Jazz Orchestra. He would bring his own handwritten transcriptions of modern big band repertoire, most often by Rob McConnell.

paragraph: Section::::Quotes.

paragraph: Quote by Pete Moore: "Many people in the UK music profession have accused me of writing music for the future, and well ahead of its time. Having regard to the longevity of this piece I can only thoroughly agree with that sentiment!"

paragraph: — Pete Moore 10 February 2003.

paragraph: Quote by Ken Barnes: "A quiet, soft-spoken and unassuming man, cockney-raised and academy-trained, Pete Moore usually declined to do interviews because he was always “too busy.” In fact, it would seem that he never actively sought work, it just came to him. Which is why he was often referred to as “The Invisible Genius.” As a person and as a musician, he was liked and admired by everyone who knew him. While he may not be a household name, Pete Moore’s music remains alive and well. As it has for the past half-century.”

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pearl & Dean

description: British composer

wikidata_label: Pete Moore

wikipedia_title: Pete Moore (composer)


text:
Russia
ice hockey
Goaltender
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Kontinental Hockey League
2010–11
Metallurg Novokuznetsk

categories: HC Kunlun Red Star players,Sportspeople from Yaroslavl,Metallurg Novokuznetsk players,Russian ice hockey goaltenders,1988 births,Yuzhny Ural Orsk players,Dynamo Balashikha players,Living people,HC Lada Togliatti players,HC Dynamo Moscow players,Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players,Yermak Angarsk players

paragraph: Aleksandr Lazushin

paragraph: Aleksandr Valeryevich Lazushin (; born 9 April 1988) is a Russian professional ice hockey Goaltender who currently plays with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He made his KHL debut in the 2010–11 season, appearing with Lokomotiv and Metallurg Novokuznetsk.

wikipedia_title: Aleksandr Lazushin


text: Tamil

text: Arabic

text: Tamil

text: Sunni Islam

text: India

text: Muslim

text: Nagore

text: Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat

text: Vellore

text: Jumādā al-Ūlā

text: Hijri

text: Madurai

text: Vellore

text: Vellore

text: Vellore

text: Arabic

text: Farsi

text: Vellore

text: Shaʿbān

text: Hijri

text: Hijaz

text: India

text: Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi

text: Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi

text: Hadith

text: Bay'at

text: Hijaz

text: Vellore

text: Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi

text: Darul Uloom Deoband

text: Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat

text: Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi

text: Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi

text: Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi

text: Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi

text: Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi

text: Hyderabad

text: Hyderabad

text: Zameen Attur

text: Vellore

text: Muslim

text: Sharia

text: Bid'ah

text: Muslim

text: Bid'ah

text: Bid'ah

text: Shirk

text: Nagore

text: Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat

text: Tamil Nadu

text: Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat

text: Khanqah

text: Vaniambadi

text: Tariqa

text: Qadiriyya

text: Chishtiya

text: Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi

text: Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi

text: Hijri

text: Muslim

text: Sunnah

text: Bid'ah

text: Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi

text: Izhar ul-Haqq

text: Da'wah

categories: Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam,Muslim reformers,19th-century Indian educational theorists

paragraph: Shah Abdul Wahhab

paragraph: Maulana Shah Abdul Wahhab (9 October 1831 – 1921) (Tamil:அஃலா ஹள்ரத் மவ்லானா ஷாஹ் அப்துல் வஹ்ஹாப்), (Arabic: اعلى حضرت مولانا شاه عبد الوهّاب) born Shah Abdul Wahhab, also known as (A'la Hadrat, A'la Hazrat, Ala Hadrat, Ala Hazrat) (Tamil:அஃலா ஹள்ரத்,அஃலா ஹஜ்ரத்), was a renowned Sunni Islamic scholar and reformer of the late 19th and early 20th Century from the southern part of India. Like Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi he was worried about the state of Muslims of South India, especially those of Nagore and its nearby regions. He founded the Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat in Vellore in the year 1857.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Wahhab was born on 1 Jumādā al-Ūlā of Hijri 1247 (19 October 1831) in Vellore. His father, Maulana Abdul Qadir Sahib, died when he was 4 years old in Madurai, India. He moved into his mother's household in Vellore and his early education was in Vellore.

paragraph: Section::::Early education.

paragraph: In Vellore, after having finished his pre-school education with his mother and uncle, Wahhab did his primary schooling with Hakeem Jainul Abideen, a famous teacher and medical practitioner, who lived in the same street where Wahhab lived. He completed his primary education in Arabic and Farsi languages with him.

paragraph: To complete the necessary education of the time, Wahhab left for Madurai. There he stayed with Al Arifbillah Qutbuz Zaman Syed Abdus Salaam Ibrahim who schooled him for 7 more years with all the necessary arts.

paragraph: Having finished his schooling, Wahhab returned to Vellore. He married and started his family life. He wanted to learn more. So, on the 15th of the Islamic month of Shaʿbān of Hijri 1284, he left for Hijaz while his 3-year-old son and family stayed in India.

paragraph: Section::::Higher education.

paragraph: In Mecca, he learned from Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi, Maulana Haji Imdhadhullah Muhaajir Makki and Maulana Syed Muhammad Hussein Peshawari.

paragraph: According to Historians, Wahhab is believed to have learned some Islamic books and Munazara from Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi. He completed his higher studies in Hadith and Usool ul Hadith (Principles of Hadith) from Maulana Syed Muhammad Hussein Peshawari. He got his Bay'ath from his teacher Maulana Haji Imdhadhullah Muhaajir Makki and started his spiritual journey. While his spiritual journey to Hijaz found these scholars, he found yet another teacher in Maulana Shah Abdul Latheef back home in Vellore.

paragraph: Section::::Strange coincidence.

paragraph: A strange coincidence noteworthy to be mentioned here is that Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, the founder of the Madrasa Darul Uloom Deoband in North India and A'la Hadrat, the founder of the Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat in South India shared a common lineage in their Islamic Studies.

paragraph: The teachers of A'la Hadrat were, Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi, Maulana Syed Muhammad Hussein Peshawari and Maulana Shah Abdul Latheef. And the scholar who taught these three was Maulana Shah Muhammad Is-haaq.

paragraph: The teacher of Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi in his higher studies was Maulana Shah Abdul Ghani. And his teacher was Maulana Shah Muhammad Is-haaq.

paragraph: Maulana Shah Muhammad Is-haaq's teacher was Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz and whose teacher was none other than Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi. And thus this common lineage of Wahhab and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi in Islamic Higher Studies goes as far as Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi.

paragraph: Further, in their spiritual studies and journey, Wahhab and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi are even more closely related. Both their spiritual teacher was none other than Maulana Haji Imdhadhullah Muhaajir Makki.

paragraph: Though these two scholars, Wahhab and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, shared a common lineage in the Islamic Studies and Spiritual path, there is no definite proof that these two Islamic Reformers of the Indian Sub-Continent ever met.

paragraph: Section::::Islamic services.

paragraph: After completing his studies, Wahhab was offered the post of Deputy Collector when he was visiting Hyderabad. But he turned down the offer. Returning from Hyderabad, the first thing he did was to make himself financially stable. He sold off his ancestral land in Zameen Attur and bought land in Vellore. This provided him with an income. After he attended to his personal financial statement, he commenced his Islamic Social Services. He visited villages and towns and called Muslims to live their lives according to Shariah and stressed the need for it. When it came to Bid'ah, he vehemently opposed it and voiced against it publicly.

paragraph: In this course, he stayed in Thittachery for a long period and educated the Muslims about Islam and Bid'ah that had crept into their beliefs again and again. Though the people of Thittachery vowed to stay away from Bid'ahs and Shirk, they did it only for a short period.

paragraph: It is said, at this juncture, the famous Islamic Scholar from Nagore, Arifbillah Maulana Mohamed Ghouse (Gani Thambi Aalim Sahib) advised him to start a Madrasa so that those scholars and reformists who graduated from the Madrasa would aid him in his Islamic Social Reform and carry on the service when he is no more and Wahhab seemed to have taken to this idea.

paragraph: So the Islamic Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat was found by Wahhab in the year 1884 with the intention of realising his Islamic Social Reform in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere.

paragraph: Also, in addition to the Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat, Wahhab started the Khanqahey Baqiyat in the city of Vaniambadi. It served as a centre for Tariqa of Qadiriyya & Chishtiya.

paragraph: Section::::Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat.

paragraph: On the lines of his teacher Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi, Wahhab started a Madrasa in his house without many resources. Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi was founding the Madrasa Sawlatiyya in Mecca around that time. There is no reference to the name of this small Madrasa.

paragraph: This Madrasa founded in a small house grew into the Madrasa Al-Baqiyat As-Salihat with a new Syllabus at its present location in 1884 (Hijri 1301).

paragraph: The Madrasa had three objectives. The First was Islamic Education, the second was emphasise and call Muslims towards the Sunnah and the third was to create Service Minded Islamic Scholars who would be steadfast in their fight against Bid'ah or un-Islamic Innovations in Islam.

paragraph: Following the footsteps of his teacher Maulana Rahmatullah Keeranvi who wrote authored the famous Islamic Works, Izhar ul-Haqq, Izalathush Shukook, Izalathul Awham, A'la Hadrat spearheaded the Islamic Da'wah and answering Christians in South India. It is astonishing to find that there was no other Islamic Scholar of his calibre when it came to Islamic Social Reform during the later part of the 19th century or the earlier part of the 20th century in Tamil Nadu.

description: 19th and 20th-century Islamic scholar

wikidata_label: A'la Hadrat Maulana Shah Abdul Wahab

wikipedia_title: Shah Abdul Wahhab


text:
House of Saud
King Abdullah
Najran Province
Mecca Province
Riyadh
King Abdullah
(al Jarbah)
Shammar
King Saud University
National Guard
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Minister Plenipotentiary
UN General Assembly
Najran Province
Crown Prince Nayef
Mohammed bin Fahd
Faisal bin Khalid
Mecca Province
Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud
King Salman
the king
Ismaili
Mishaal bin Saud
mosque
Najran
Najran
Yemen
Yemen
Yemen
Najran
King Abdullah
Najran Province
Ismaili
Abdul Aziz Khoja
Al-Hilal FC

categories: Governors of provinces in Saudi Arabia,King Saud University alumni,1960s births,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Mishaal bin Abdullah Al Saud

paragraph: Mishaal bin Abdullah () is a member of the House of Saud and the son of the late King Abdullah. He served as the governor of Najran Province (2009–2013) and then as the governor of Mecca Province (2013–2015).

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

paragraph: Mishaal bin Abdullah was born on 25 November 1970 in Riyadh. He is the sixth son of King Abdullah. His mother is Tathi bint Mishan al Faisal al Jarba (al Jarbah), a member of the Iraqi branch of the Shammar tribe. Prince Mishaal received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from King Saud University in 1995. He has a Ph.D. degree in political science.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Mishaal bin Abdullah started his career as the Director of the Computer Department of the National Guard, and served there from 1997 to 2003. Then, he was appointed the Minister Plenipotentiary with a third rank at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs beginning on 22 August 2003. Next, he became Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ranked fourteenth on 12 February 2006. He was also an adviser in the Saudi Royal Court. In November 2006, he led Saudi Arabia's delegation to a meeting of UN General Assembly.

paragraph: Section::::Governorship.

paragraph: Prince Mishaal was appointed the Governor of Najran Province on 1 April 2009. It is reported that the Province witnessed considerable progress following his appointment. He warned public and private agencies on 18 November 2011 that he would monitor service projects that have been carried out in the province and take punitive action against negligent companies and officials. His appointment to Najran Province is commonly regarded as King Abdullah's positive gesture towards the Ismailis residing in the province.

paragraph: Mishaal bin Abdullah was also one of the advisors at the Crown Prince Court. In other words, he was one of the advisors of late Crown Prince Nayef. The other two advisors of the Crown Prince were Mohammed bin Fahd and Faisal bin Khalid.

paragraph: On 22 December 2013, Prince Mishaal was appointed governor of Mecca Province, replacing Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud in the post. He was released from this position by King Salman on 29 January 2015, 6 days after his father's death. Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud replaced Prince Mishaal in the post. The latter was made an advisor to the king on the same date.

paragraph: Section::::Governorship.:Reasons for his appointment as governor of Najran Province.

paragraph: In the Najran Province, the south of Saudi Arabia, the small Saudi Ismaili minority (population approximately 400,000) experienced systematic discrimination after the appointment of the highly conservative Mishaal bin Saud in 1996. During his tenure, Ismailis' religious freedoms were curtailed such as the closure of mosques, the arrest of clerics and restrictions on religious schooling for young Ismailis. As a result, the Ismailis thought that it was under siege and began to arm itself in case of an attack upon its religious leader, Da’i al-Mutlaq (the Absolute Guide), at his home in Najran. Despite the fact that the Ismailis are the majority of the population of Najran, they hold only a tiny minority of all senior government posts. Moreover, the Saudi government pursued a policy of naturalising Yemeni Sunnis from the Hadramawt region of Yemen, providing them with land plots, letting them to carry weapons and allegedly turning a blind eye to attacks upon Ismailis. This policy would appear to be remarkably short-sighted in that many of the tribes invited to live in Najran have been the most fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaeda in Yemen. Due to these negative events, tension between local authorities and the Ismaili population increased, resulting in a confrontation between armed Ismaili demonstrators and police and army units outside the Holiday Inn hotel in Najran city in April 2000.

paragraph: As a result of domestic and international reactions, King Abdullah fired Mishaal bin Saud as governor of Najran Province in late 2008 and appointed his son, Prince Mishaal, in April 2009. Mishaal bin Abdullah who has acquired a reputation for his intellect and diligence in working to reduce poverty in Saudi Arabia began a programme to address the social and economic grievances of the Ismaili community, including the distribution of land to previously dispossessed Ismailis.

paragraph: Section::::Controversy.

paragraph: On 27 March 2012, Mishaal bin Abdullah was reported to ask the ministry of culture and information to investigate the programs of a satellite TV channel which allegedly provoked sectarianism and harmed the national unity due to the fact that the channel aired a program that allegedly aimed to divide the residents of the region along sectarian lines. A speaker on the related TV channel made negative comments against the people of Najran Province along sectarian lines. Upon his request, an investigation was started. Saudi minister of culture and information, Abdul Aziz Khoja, declared that such provocations of sectarianism were against national unity and cannot be tolerated.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Prince Mishaal married Luluwah bint Nawaf bin Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al Saud in January 2009. He secondly got married on 10 May 2012 to Princess Nouf bint Bandar Al Saud, and has two daughters, twins Seeta and Mashael. Prince Mishaal is an honorary member of Al-Hilal FC.

description: Saudi prince; governor of

wikidata_label: Mishaal bin Abdullah Al Saud

wikipedia_title: Mishaal bin Abdullah Al Saud


text:
Caltagirone
Piazza Armerina
Italian
Roman Catholic bishop

categories: Bishops in Sicily,People from Caltagirone,1861 births,1941 deaths

paragraph: Mario Sturzo

paragraph: Mario Sturzo (Caltagirone, November 2, 1861 - Piazza Armerina, November 12, 1941) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Family and early life.

paragraph: He was the second born out of the six children of Felix Sturzo Taranto and Catherine Boscarelli, among his brothers, ten years younger, was Luigi Sturzo. He joined the well known seminary at a very young age where he knew Bishop Blandini known for his social commitment. In 1881 he inscribed in the Law Faculty of Catania. and then continued his legal studies in Rome. In his youth he was the president and the chief promoter of the Catholic Youth Club "St. Thomas Aquinas", whereby lay Catholics gathered.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Priesthood.

paragraph: In 1887, at the age of 26, returned to the seminary in Caltagirone and September 21, 1889, was ordained a priest by Xavier Gerbino, previously the Bishop of Piazza Armerina.

paragraph: He was rector of the seminary of Caltagirone in 1890-1891 and among his pupils was his brother Luigi, whom he helped to reach priesthood. He was later appointed canon of the Cathedral of Caltagirone and then vicar general. In 1894 he coordinated the work of the first diocesan synod. In his priestly activity he collaborated with his brother Louis to promote the Catholic movement Calatino. In 1895 the first interparochial committee of organization of congresses in St. George’s parish, with the youth section “St. Philip Neri”, the workers section, St. Joseph" and the agricultural section, “St. Isidor”. In 1897 he collaborated in the redaction of the Catholic movement Calatino review, “The Cross of Constantine”, in which he published three novels of the popular-moralistic character with the pseudonymEneleo in the appendix. Moreover, he wrote 27 sketches which highlight his initial inclination for Christianity embodied in the story.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Activities as a bishop.

paragraph: In 1903 Pope Leo XIII appointed him Bishop of Piazza Armerina and was consecrated in the cathedral of Catania by Cardinal Francesco Nava July 19, took possession of the diocese on 11 October and made the solemn entry on 15 November 1904.

paragraph: In his first pastoral letter, of November 1903, he maintains, on the wake of the thought of his brother Luigi’s thought, that, for obtaining salvation of souls one cannot ignore so as to pursue interests of the body, through a commitment in the renewal of the society in the light of the social teaching of the church. He realized a general reorganization of the diocesan clergy and erected numerous parishes in almost all the twelve town councils of the diocese. He refounded the diocesan monthly bulletin, changing the title from “Gleaning” to “The Angel of the Family”. His episcopal activities were carried on, in the periodic pastoral visits, in the celebration of meetings of “Catholic Action”, in the Lenten preachings and retreats and in the conference for teachers and professionals. He reformed morally and materially the diocesan seminary, closed temporarily from 1904 to 1907 and from 1920 he started his activity of teaching in the internal school of the seminary. He founded in the diocese the priestly congregation of the Oblates of Mary, on the example required by Carlo Borromeo, for which he laid the constitutions and of which he organized the common life. In the villages of his diocese he favoured the rise of rural banks and other Catholic Social works. Some local officials accused him to the Holy See of modernism and socialism and was sent to the diocese as apostolic visitor, Charles Joseph Cecchini, who wrote to pope Pius X on 19 August 1907 a letter accompanied by a positive report on his reforms. He established in Piazza Armerina a Catholic School named after Prospero Intorcetta. He wrote numerous pastoral letters in which a cross-recurring theme was that of the family and moral education. He also wrote on the theme of psychological intense activity of the conversion and outlined a theology of the laity. For a decade he was also a secretary of the Sicilian Episcopal Conference and spread some collective pastoral letters. In 1937 he addressed at Enna the first Congress of the parish.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Activities as a scholar.

paragraph: He was interested in philosophical studies, attempting to rinnovate the Scholastic Philosophy with the aim of putting the contemporary culture at the service of God and of the church as an apostolate instrument. From 1915 he collaborated with the neo-scholastic review. And critically confronted with some of the main exponents of the Western Philosophy, including Maurice Blondel, Etienne Gilson and Benedetto Croce, opposed to positivism and idealism. In 1927, after making contacts with scholars of the Catholic Institute in Paris and in Milan, with Fr. Agostino Gemelli, he founded in Piazza armerina a Literary-Philosophical Review (Review of Autoformation), that resumed faithfully in format and in the graphic the review, “Critic of Benedetto Croce”. He himself taught literature and philosophy, publishing notes which later on were collected in volumes.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Correspondences in exile and relations with the fascist regime.

paragraph: During the exile of his brother Luigi, former secretary of the Italian Popular Party, he exchanged with him many letters in which they discussed philosophy, theology, literature and mysticism. They loved and respected one another, but they criticized each other and at the same time strengthening one another spiritually. From those letters emerges despite the difference of their personality and of their personal histories, their profounding spirituality- the common anxiety of sanctity, the great intellectual approach and pastoral charity which led them to deepen the cultural and social relevance of the faith lived in the internal of the church. The two brothers do not write about politics just as “special surveillants” of the fascist regime. In the central archive of the State there are over a thousand sheets that refer to Sturzo don Luigi, was Felix, anti fascist. For Mario exist about three hundred sheets in the same archive in two funds. Mons. Mario Sturzo had an uncompromising attitude toward the fascist regime attracting ungenerous slanders and veiled persecutions which he endured with firmness and evangelical patience as ensues from the documentation preserved in the central archive of the state.

paragraph: Section::::Philosophy and neo-syntheticism.

paragraph: The initial aspect from which Sturzo begins his philosophical research is the “thought relation-action. Surely the action will be worthy of admiration only if it will have philosophical foundation and anthropological objective. For Sturzo there will be no true philosophical research if not in the history and at the service of the same, philosophy becomes almost the methodology of history in the sense that it gives method in living and in reading the same. “Sturzo, writes Salvatore Latora in opposition-dialogue with the modern philosophy goes on elaborating its philosophical system- the neo-synthetism, which inspired in a critical manner I. Kant and A. Rosmini , wants to propose a new form of classical realism and christian, supporting the thesis of priority of synthesis on analysis, which has at its centre man” (Latora Salvatore, Sturzo Mario, in "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Thinkers and of Theologians of Sicily, 19th and 20th Centuries", vol. VI, Salvatore Sciascia editor, Caltanisetta- Rome, 2010, 3062). The comparison with the epistemological subjectivism and the historicism of the “neo-Italian idealists” led him to grant a privilege to the role of the subject in the known process in a synthesis between immanence and transcendence, between natural and supernatural.

paragraph: Section::::Call by the Holy See.

paragraph: His life was not of easy paths or foreseen, indeed, his activity of philosophical research, had disapproval of the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the time. In 1931 there was a call of Holy Office of 17 January and came to be published an editorial of Catholic Civilization in which the content and language of Sturzo’s thought were criticized as they seemed to be closer to the neo-idealism of Cross and Gentile which are not to the Scholastic and Thomistic philosophy. They also criticize even his doctrine on knowledge, as also the concepts of philosophy and history. The explicit call of Holy Office put an end to the activity of the “Autoreformation Review” and brought the bishop to the public retraction in cathedral, after the solemn pontifical mass of 8 April 1931. On 19 of the same month the “Osservatore Romano” published the news, leaving his brother Luigi, who was from London in darkness of all stunned. Immediately after this order from the part of the Holy See, Mons. Sturzo suspended the publication of the “Autoreformation Review” because, as he writes to his brother “in it, it is seen not as a service but a struggle”.

description: Italian bishop

wikidata_label: Mario Sturzo

wikipedia_title: Mario Sturzo


text: typographer

text: Johannes Vermeer

text: The Milkmaid

text: Portrait of a Young Woman

text: A Girl Asleep

text: Woman Holding a Balance

text: The Music Lesson

text: Pieter van Ruijven

text: Amsterdam

text: Delft

text: Pieter van Ruijven

text: Gerard Houet

text: A Girl Asleep

text: Officer and Laughing Girl

text: The Little Street

text: Woman Holding a Balance

text: The Milkmaid

text: View of Delft

text: The Lacemaker

text: Woman with a Pearl Necklace

text: A Lady Writing a Letter

text: Lady Standing at a Virginal

text: Lady Seated at a Virginal

text: Diego Duarte

text: The Girl with the Wine Glass

text: Girl Interrupted at her Music

text: The Concert

text: The Guitar Player

text: Mistress and Maid

text: Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

text: The Music Lesson

text: The Art of Painting (Vermeer)

text: Tronie

text: Girl with a Red Hat

text: Girl with a Pearl Earring

text: Jan Porcellis

text: Simon de Vlieger

text: Emanuel de Witte

text: tronie

text: Rembrandt

text: Sale catalogue

categories: 1653 births,1695 deaths,Johannes Vermeer,Dutch printers,Dutch art collectors

paragraph: Jacob Dissius

paragraph: Jacob Abrahamsz. Dissius (1653 - 1695) was a Dutch typographer and printer. He is most notable as an art collector and for his links to Johannes Vermeer - his collection included 21 Vermeer works (including "The Milkmaid", "Portrait of a Young Woman", "A Girl Asleep", "Woman Holding a Balance" and "The Music Lesson") and in 1680 he married Madgdalene, daughter and sole heir of Vermeer's main patron Pieter van Ruijven. Dissius died in 1695 and his collection was auctioned off in Amsterdam the following year.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Jacob Dissius was baptised on 23 November 1653 in Delft as the son of Maria Cloeting and the printer Abraham Dissius. He married Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven, daughter of Pieter van Ruijven, born in 1655. Dissius' father-in-law was one of the wealthier citizens of Delft, and became a patron of Vermeer. She inherited her parent's money and art collection after the death of her mother in 1681. When she died childless in 1682, he inherited her collection of Vermeer paintings and other works of art. He was the owner of the "Golden ABC" ("Het Gulden ABC"), a print shop on the Market Square of Delft.

paragraph: Jacob Dissius died in October 1695 (he was buried on 14 October), and his art collection was sold on 16 May 1696 by art dealer Gerard Houet in Amsterdam.

paragraph: Section::::Art collection.

paragraph: Three documents are crucial in reconstructing the art collection of Jacob Dissius: the inventory of his estate in April 1683, after the death of his parents-in-law and his wife; a document listing the division of this inheritance between Jacob and his father Abraham Dissius, which was united in Jacob's possession after the death of his father in 1694; and the list of the auction of his collection after his death in October 1695.

paragraph: Section::::Art collection.:Jan Vermeer.

paragraph: Of the 21 paintings by Vermeer in the Dissius auction of 1696, 15 are usually matched to currently known paintings, while 6 others are either lost or unidentified.

paragraph: Section::::Art collection.:Jan Vermeer.:Identified works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Girl Asleep"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Officer and Laughing Girl"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Little Street"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Woman Holding a Balance"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Milkmaid"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "View of Delft"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lacemaker"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Woman with a Pearl Necklace"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Lady Writing a Letter"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lady Standing at a Virginal" or "Lady Seated at a Virginal" (the other was owned at the same time by Diego Duarte)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Girl with the Wine Glass"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Girl Interrupted at her Music" or "The Concert"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Guitar Player"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mistress and Maid" or "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Music Lesson"

paragraph: Section::::Art collection.:Jan Vermeer.:Vermeer paintings now considered lost or unidentified.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Portrait of Vermeer with Various Accessories" (sometimes thought to be "The Art of Painting (Vermeer)")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Seigneur Washing his Hands"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A View of a House Standing in Delft"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Tronie in Antique Dress" (sometimes thought to be "Girl with a Red Hat") and two other tronies (perhaps "Portrait of a Young Woman (Vermeer, New York)" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring")

paragraph: Section::::Art collection.:Others.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A seascape by Jan Porcellis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Four landscapes by Simon de Vlieger

paragraph: BULLET::::- Three church paintings by Emanuel de Witte

paragraph: BULLET::::- A tronie by Rembrandt

paragraph: BULLET::::- A portrait of Erasmus

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sale catalogue

description: Dutch art collector

wikidata_label: Jacob Dissius

wikipedia_title: Jacob Dissius


text:
Cirksena
East Frisia
Limburg
Edzard the Great
primogeniture
Enno II of East Frisia
Catholic
Guelders feud
Anna
regent
Edzard II
Maximilian I
Charles V
stadtholder
Duchy of Limburg
Rheiderland

categories: Counts of East Frisia,Knights of the Golden Fleece,1572 deaths,1506 births,16th-century German people

paragraph: Johan I of East Frisia

paragraph: Johan I of East Frisia (1506–1572) was a member of the house of Cirksena and a non-reigning Count of East Frisia and later imperial governor of Limburg. His father, Edzard the Great, had introduced primogeniture in the county of East Frisia, so that his older brother Enno II of East Frisia inherited the county alone and he had to hold back. Despite his ambitions, he always acknowledged his brother's rights and did not dispute the inheritance.

paragraph: Unlike his father and his brother, Johan remained a Catholic. After his father's death, he joined the imperial army. However, he soon returned to East Frisia and began supporting his brother. He had, however, little positive impact on his brother, who ruled unwisely. Johan was unable to distinguish himself, and also took some unwise and ill-advised actions, such as those that lead to the Guelders feud. He may also have encouraged Enno to try to re-introduce Catholicism in East Frisia. This attempt was cut short when Enno died in 1540. Enno's widow, Anna became regent for her son Edzard II. Johan had an endless series of conflicts with Anna.

paragraph: In 1538, Johan married Dorothea of Austria, the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Maximilian I. In 1543, Emperor Charles V reminded Johan of the fact that he was still, technically, in the imperial service. Charles appointed Johan as stadtholder of the Duchy of Limburg, Falkenburg and Dalheim. From that time onwards, Johan was colloquially called "Count Johan of Falkenburg".

paragraph: His descendants lived at Coldeborg Castle in the Rheiderland and were financially supported by the counts of East Frisia.

paragraph: Section::::References and sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tielke, Martin (ed.): "Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland", Ostfriesisches Landschaftliche Verlag- u. Vertriebsgeschäft, Aurich, vol. 1 (1993), vol. 2 (1997), vol. 3 (2001)

description: Governor of Limburg

wikidata_label: Johan I of East Frisia

wikipedia_title: Johan I of East Frisia


text: Duke of Mecklenburg

text: Henry II "the Lion" of Mecklenburg

text: Albert II of Saxe-Wittenberg

text: Holy Roman Emperor

text: Charles IV

text: Albert II

text: Duke

text: False Waldemar

text: Louis V

text: Albert III of Mecklenburg

text: Wartislaw VI

text: Nicholas IV of Werle

text: John II

text: Ulrich I

text: Rudolf

text: Bishop of Skara

text: Bishop of Schwerin

text: Albert I

text: Coadjutor

text: Dorpat

categories: 14th-century German people,House of Mecklenburg,1390s deaths,1326 births,Date of death unknown,Dukes of Mecklenburg-Stargard

paragraph: John I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard

paragraph: John I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard (1326 – 9 August 1392/9 February 1393), Duke of Mecklenburg from 1344 to 1352 and Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard from 1352 to 1392.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He was probably the youngest child from the second marriage of Lord Henry II "the Lion" of Mecklenburg and Anna of Saxe-Wittenberg, a daughter of Duke Albert II of Saxe-Wittenberg.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: John I was probably born in 1326. His father died in 1329, and he remained under guardianship until 1344, when he came of age and began to carry a seal as a participant in the governance of Mecklenburg. On 8 July 1348, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV raised John and his brother Albert II to the rank of Duke in Prague. John, Albert and Charles initially supported the False Waldemar, but in 1350 they reconciled with his supporter Duke Louis V of Bavaria.

paragraph: Upon the division of Mecklenburg on 25 November 1352, John was awarded the Lordships of Stargard, Sternbuerg and Ture. He supported his nephew Albert III of Mecklenburg in his attempts to be recognized as King of Sweden.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.

paragraph: John married three times. His first wife Rixa (background unknown) probably died soon after the wedding and the marriage remained childless.

paragraph: His second wife Anna was a daughter of the count Adolf VII of Pinneberg and Schauenburg. She probably died in 1358. John and Anna had a daughter Anna, who married Wartislaw VI of Pomerania-Wolgast on 4 April 1363.

paragraph: John's third wife Agnes was the daughter of Ulrich II of Lindow-Ruppin and widow of Lord Nicholas IV of Werle. They probably married in 1358 and had five children together:

paragraph: BULLET::::- John II (died between 6 July and 9 October 1416), co-regent, then Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard, from 1408 Lord of Sternberg, Friedland, Fürstenberg and Lychen

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ulrich I (died 8 April 1417), co-regent, then Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard (1392–1417), from 1408 Lord of Neubrandenburg, Stargard, Strelitz and Wesenberg (with Lize)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rudolf (died after 28 July 1415), was initially Bishop of Skara and from 1390 as Rudolf III Bishop of Schwerin

paragraph: BULLET::::- Albert I (died 1397), co-regent of Mecklenburg, from 1396 Coadjutor of Dorpat

paragraph: BULLET::::- Contance (born c. 1373, died 1408)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogical table of the House of Mecklenburg

description: Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard

wikidata_label: John I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard

wikipedia_title: John I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard


text:
Officer of arms
Henry St George
Richmond Herald
Restoration
Thomas
Sir Edward Walker
Garter Principal King of Arms
king of Sweden
Order of the Garter
William Dugdale
Norroy King of Arms
Clarenceux King of Arms
Edward Bysshe
John Dugdale
College of Arms
Great Fire
John Anstis

categories: Garter Principal Kings of Arms,1715 deaths,1625 births,English officers of arms

paragraph: Henry St George, the younger

paragraph: Henry St George, the younger (1625–1715), was an English Officer of arms. He was a younger son of the herald Henry St George.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born in July 1625 in St Andrew's parish, Hertford. Nothing is known of his life before 1660. He was appointed Richmond Herald at the Restoration by patent dated 18 June 1660, some weeks before his elder brother Thomas was appointed a herald, and was consequently senior to him. As deputy to Sir Edward Walker, Garter Principal King of Arms, he went on a mission to Stockholm and on 29 July 1669 invested the king of Sweden with the Order of the Garter. He succeeded William Dugdale as Norroy King of Arms in 1677 and was knighted. He worked closely with Dugdale, for whom he acted as deputy when the latter was in Warwickshire. He was promoted to be Clarenceux King of Arms in 1680, after the death of Edward Bysshe. In the last years of Dugdale's life he was displaced as deputy by John Dugdale, which led him and his brother to quarrel with father and son. He was responsible for the visitation of twelve counties in his province between 1681 and 1700 and gave the profits of six as a contribution towards rebuilding the College of Arms, which had been burnt in the Great Fire. Following his elder brother's death, he was appointed Garter King of Arms in 1703. He died at the College of Arms on 12 August 1715 and was buried in St Benet Paul's Wharf, London, on 18 August. He married at an unknown date Elizabeth Wingfield (d. 1704), but had no children. His large collection of books and manuscripts was dispersed after his death, although a portion has since been acquired by the College of Arms. John Anstis, his successor as Garter, described St George as ‘a timorous animal, governed by every creature, minding only his iron chest and the contents of it’.

description: English Officer of arms

wikidata_label: Henry St George

wikipedia_title: Henry St George, the younger


text: Constantinian dynasty

text: Roman Empire

text: Flavius Dalmatius

text: Constantine I

text: Dalmatius

text: Tolosa

text: Exuperius

text: Constantina

text: nobilissimus

text: Sassanids

text: Rex Regum

text: Pontic throne

text: Ammianus Marcellinus

text: Epitome de Caesaribus

text: Zosimus

categories: 337 deaths,Flavii,Ancient Roman murder victims,4th-century Romans,Year of birth unknown,Constantinian dynasty

paragraph: Hannibalianus

paragraph: Flavius Hannibalianus (also Hanniballianus; died September 337) was a member of the Constantinian dynasty, which ruled over the Roman Empire in the 4th century.

paragraph: Hannibalianus was the son of Flavius Dalmatius, and thus nephew of Constantine I. Hannibalianus and his brother Dalmatius were educated at Tolosa by rhetor Exuperius (who is probably not to be identified with St. Exuperius).

paragraph: In 320s, Constantine called Flavius Dalmatius and his sons to Constantinople. Hannibalianus married Constantine's elder daughter, Constantina, in 335, and was made "nobilissimus".

paragraph: In occasion of the campaign of Constantine against the Sassanids (337), Hannibalianus was made "Rex Regum et Ponticarum Gentium", "King of the Kings and of the Pontic People". Probably it was Constantine's intention to put Hannibalianus on the Pontic throne, after the defeat of the Persians.

paragraph: The Persian campaign did not take place, because Constantine died in May 337. Hannibalianus died, as did his brother, in the purge of the imperial family that followed.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Primary sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ammianus Marcellinus, "Rerum Gestarum XXXI"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Epitome de Caesaribus"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zosimus, "Historia Nova"

paragraph: Section::::References.:Secondary sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- DiMaio, Michael, "Hannibalianus "Rex Regum" (335-337 A.D)", in "DIR"

description: Roman noble

wikidata_label: Hannibalianus

wikipedia_title: Hannibalianus


text:
footballer
forward
Nacional
Montevideo Wanderers
Uruguayan Primera División
Liverpool
2013–14
2014–15
Racing Club
Miramar Misiones
Uruguayan Segunda División
Progreso
Nacional
2016 Uruguayan Primera División
Categoría Primera A
América de Cali
Tigre
Argentine Primera División
Copa Argentina
Guillermo Brown
Uruguayan Primera División
2016

categories: Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Colombia,Uruguayan expatriate footballers,Uruguayan Primera División players,Uruguayan footballers,Categoría Primera A players,Expatriate footballers in Colombia,Club Nacional de Football players,América de Cali footballers,Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina,Expatriate footballers in Argentina,Uruguayan Segunda División players,People from Rivera Department,Association football forwards,1994 births,Argentine Primera División players,Montevideo Wanderers F.C. players,Miramar Misiones players,Living people

paragraph: Kevin Ramírez (footballer, born 1994)

paragraph: Kevin Federik Ramírez Dutra (born 1 April 1994) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Nacional.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Ramírez started his career with Montevideo Wanderers. He made his professional debut on 8 February 2014 during a Uruguayan Primera División fixture with Liverpool, which was one of ten appearances during 2013–14. In 2014–15, Ramírez featured another ten times but also scored his first senior goal; netting the club's second goal of a 2–3 loss to Racing Club. Midway through 2014–15, Ramírez was loaned to Miramar Misiones of the Uruguayan Segunda División. He scored six goals for them, including a double netted over Progreso on 31 March 2015, in nine appearances as Miramar Misiones finished mid-table.

paragraph: On 9 January 2016, Ramírez joined Uruguayan Primera División side Nacional; having spent the previous six months back with Montevideo Wanderers. In his first three seasons with Nacional, Ramírez scored nine goals in sixty-four encounters in all competitions; during which time they won the 2016 Uruguayan Primera División. January 2018 saw Ramírez join Categoría Primera A's América de Cali on loan. Six months later, Tigre of the Argentine Primera División loaned Ramírez. His first appearance came in a Copa Argentina tie with Guillermo Brown in July. Despite joining for a year, he ended his loan in December.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nacional

paragraph: BULLET::::- Uruguayan Primera División: 2016

description: Uruguayan association football player

wikidata_label: Kevin Ramírez

wikipedia_title: Kevin Ramírez (footballer, born 1994)


text:
American
stage
film
actress
dancer
New York City
Westover School
college preparatory
boarding school
Middlebury, Connecticut
Paris
France
Broadway theatre
Maurice Tourneur
silent film
Sporting Life
Cecil Raleigh
Seymour Hicks
John Barrymore
motion pictures star
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Boulevard
lost
London
Second World War
Whitestone, Queens
New York City
The Sporting Life
The Test of Honor
Erstwhile Susan
The Stolen Kiss
39 East
Something Different
The Magic Cup
Such a Little Queen
The Case of Becky
First Love
Midnight
The Sleepwalker
A Bill of Divorcement

wikipedia_title: List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars

categories: Actresses from New York City,1896 births,American film actresses,American stage actresses,American silent film actresses,1989 deaths

paragraph: Constance Binney

paragraph: Constance Binney (June 28, 1896 – November 15, 1989) was an American stage and film actress and dancer.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in New York City, Constance Binney was educated at Westover School, a private college preparatory boarding school for girls in Middlebury, Connecticut and in Paris, France. She made her Broadway theatre debut in 1917 and the following year appeared with her actress sister, Faire Binney (1898–1957), in the Maurice Tourneur silent film, "Sporting Life" based on the play by Cecil Raleigh and Seymour Hicks. In 1919, she starred opposite John Barrymore in "The Test of Honor".

paragraph: Although Constance Binney left the film business in 1923, her contribution to the industry was recognized with a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6301 Hollywood Boulevard. Modern assessment of her career is limited as most of her films are now lost, with only two of her films surviving in a complete form, "Erstwhile Susan" and "The Case of Becky", along with a single reel of "First Love".

paragraph: Binney married Charles Edward Cotting, Jr, an investment banker in Boston in 1926. Their announcement made the first page on the Boston Globe on January 24, 1926. They divorced in 1932. They lived at 410 Beacon Street.

paragraph: Constance Binney last performed on Broadway in 1924. She appeared on stage in London and in 1941, during the Second World War, married the British war hero, Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire who was twenty-one years her junior. However, this marriage was childless and the couple were estranged after the war ended, divorcing in 1951.

paragraph: Constance Binney died in 1989 in Whitestone, Queens, New York City, aged 93.

paragraph: Section::::Filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Sporting Life" (1918) (* with sister Faire Binney)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Test of Honor" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Erstwhile Susan" (1919) (copy ; Museum of Modern Art)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Stolen Kiss" (1920)(print held at ; BFI, London)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "39 East" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Something Different" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Magic Cup" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Such a Little Queen" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Room and Board" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Case of Becky" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "First Love" (1921) (copy; reel one only or fragment, Museum of Modern Art and or Library of Congress)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Midnight" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Sleepwalker" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Bill of Divorcement" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Three O'Clock in the Morning" (1923)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- passport portrait of Constance Binney

paragraph: BULLET::::- portrait gallery (Univ. of Washington, Sayre)

wikidata_label: Constance Binney

wikipedia_title: Constance Binney


text: Greek

text: Amalric I of Jerusalem

text: Isabella I of Jerusalem

text: John Doukas Komnenos

text: Cyprus

text: Bohemund III of Antioch

text: Byzantine Empire

text: Agnes of Courtenay

text: Byzantium

text: Manuel I Komnenos

text: dowry

text: Tyre

text: Isabella I of Jerusalem

text: Nablus

text: dowager queen

text: Balian of Ibelin

text: Jerusalem

text: Saladin

text: Helvis of Ibelin

text: Reginald of Sidon

text: Agnes of Courtenay

text: Guy of Montfort

text: John of Ibelin

text: Lord of Beirut

text: constable of Jerusalem

text: Raymond III of Tripoli

text: Walter III of Caesarea

text: Conrad of Montferrat

text: Baldwin V

text: Guy of Lusignan

text: Richard I of England

text: Alice of Champagne

text: Hugh I of Cyprus

text: Ambroise

text: Steven Runciman

text: Cambridge University Press

categories: 13th-century deaths,13th-century Byzantine women,1150s births,12th-century Byzantine women,Queens consort of Jerusalem,13th-century Byzantine people,12th-century Byzantine people,Christians of the Crusades,Komnenos dynasty

paragraph: Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem

paragraph: Maria Komnene or Comnena (Greek: Μαρία Κομνηνή, c. 1154 – 1208/1217) was the second wife of King Amalric I of Jerusalem and mother of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem.

paragraph: She was the daughter of John Doukas Komnenos, sometime Byzantine "dux" in Cyprus, and Maria Taronitissa, a descendant of the ancient Armenian kings. Her sister Theodora married Prince Bohemund III of Antioch, and her brother Alexios was briefly, in 1185, a pretender to the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: After the annulment of his first marriage to Agnes of Courtenay, Amalric was anxious to forge an alliance with Byzantium and emperor Manuel I Komnenos, so in 1164/65 he sent ambassadors to Constantinople to ask the hand of an imperial princess but received no answer until August 1167, when they landed at Tyre with Maria Komnene, who was the emperor's grandniece and had had bestowed upon her a rich dowry.

paragraph: The marriage of Amalric and Maria was celebrated with much fanfare at Tyre, on 29 August 1167. They had two children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- A daughter, born in 1171 and died shortly after.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isabella I of Jerusalem, born in 1172.

paragraph: On his deathbed, in 1174, Amalric left Nablus to Maria, who became dowager queen upon his death.

paragraph: In 1177, Maria married secondly with Balian of Ibelin, who commanded the defense of Jerusalem against Saladin in 1187. She bore him at least four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Helvis of Ibelin, who married (1) Reginald of Sidon (widower of Agnes of Courtenay), and (2) Guy of Montfort

paragraph: BULLET::::- John of Ibelin, Lord of Beirut and constable of Jerusalem, who married Helvis of Nephin, then Melisende of Arsur

paragraph: BULLET::::- Margaret, who married (1) Hugh of Tiberias (stepson of Raymond III of Tripoli), and (2) Walter III of Caesarea

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philip of Ibelin, "bailli" (regent) of Cyprus, who married Alice of Montbéliard.

paragraph: Maria and Balian supported Conrad of Montferrat (uncle of the late King Baldwin V) in his struggle for the crown against Guy of Lusignan. They arranged for Maria's daughter by Amalric, Isabella, to have her first marriage annulled so that she could marry Conrad, giving him a stronger claim to the throne. In this, Maria and Balian gained the enmity of Richard I of England and his chroniclers. The anonymous author of the "Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi" wrote of them:

paragraph: Steeped in Greek filth from the cradle, she had a husband whose morals matched her own: he was cruel, she was godless; he was fickle, she was pliable; he was faithless, she was fraudulent.

paragraph: As the grandmother of Alice of Champagne (Isabella's daughter by her third husband, Henry II of Champagne), Maria conducted the marriage negotiations with Cyprus in 1208 – Alice was to marry Hugh I of Cyprus. Blanche of Navarre, Regent and Countess of Champagne, widow of Alice's paternal uncle, provided the dowry for Alice. This is the last time Maria is mentioned, and she was certainly dead by 1217.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier", edited by M. L. de Mas Latrie. La Société de l'Histoire de France, 1871.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Continuation de Guillaume de Tyr (1184-1192)", edited by Margaret Ruth Morgan. L'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1982.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ambroise, "The History of the Holy War", translated by Marianne Ailes. Boydell Press, 2003.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chronicle of the Third Crusade, a Translation of "Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi", translated by Helen J. Nicholson. Ashgate, 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter W. Edbury, "The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in Translation". Ashgate, 1996.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edbury, Peter W. "John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem", 1997

paragraph: BULLET::::- Payne, Robert. "The Dream and the Tomb", 1984

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steven Runciman, "A History of the Crusades, vols. II-III. Cambridge University Press, 1952-55.

description: Queen of Jerusalem

wikidata_label: Maria Komnene

wikipedia_title: Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem


text:
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
Army Staff College
battle of Lake Khasan
major general
Hailar
Michitaro Komatsubara
31st Division
Thailand
Burma
Fifteenth Army
U-Go
IV Corps
Allied
Lieutenant General
Renya Mutaguchi
British Raj
Hideki Tojo
Kohima
rail yard
Dimapur
Kodoha
seppuku
court martial
Masakazu Kawabe
Burma Area Army
Sixteenth Army
surrender of Japan
Matsuyama, Ehime

wikipedia_title:
Imperial Japanese Army Academy
Army War College (Japan)
Battle of Lake Khasan
Major general
Hailar District
Michitarō Komatsubara
31st Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
Thailand
Myanmar
Fifteenth Army (Japan)
Operation U-Go
IV Corps (United Kingdom)
Allies of World War II
Lieutenant general
Renya Mutaguchi
British Raj
Hideki Tojo
Kohima
Rail yard
Dimapur
Imperial Way Faction
Seppuku
Court-martial
Masakazu Kawabe
Japanese Burma Area Army
Sixteenth Army (Japan)
Surrender of Japan
Matsuyama

categories: Japanese military personnel of World War II,1893 births,Japanese generals,1959 deaths

paragraph: Kōtoku Satō

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Sato was born in Yamagata prefecture and graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1913 and the Army Staff College in 1921.

paragraph: As a colonel, he commanded the 75th Infantry Regiment at the battle of Lake Khasan in 1938. His regiment ousted the Soviet forces from a disputed hill in a night assault which the Japanese considered to be a model of its tactical type.

paragraph: At the time of the Nomonhan Incident in 1939, after his promotion to major general, Sato was in command of the 2d Sector Unit, 8th Border Garrison Unit (Hailar) under General Michitaro Komatsubara. As a lieutenant general, he was assigned command of the 31st Division from the time of its activation in China in March, 1943. Assigned to construction operations in Thailand, the division was ordered to Burma to join the Fifteenth Army in September, 1943.

paragraph: The Japanese plan to invade India, codenamed U-Go, was originally intended as a spoiling attack against the IV Corps at Imphal, to disrupt the Allied offensive plans for that year. The commander of the Japanese Fifteenth Army, Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi, enlarged the plan to invade India itself and perhaps even overthrow the British Raj. The objections of the staffs of various headquarters were eventually overruled by War Minister Hideki Tojo.

paragraph: Part of the plan involved sending the 31st Division (which was composed of 58th, 124th, and 138th Regiments, and the 31st Mountain Artillery Regiment) to capture Kohima and thus cut off Imphal, and then destroy the rail yard at Dimapur. Divisional commander Sato was unhappy with his role. He had not been involved in the planning of the offensive and seriously doubted the Japanese chances for success; he had already told his staff that they might all starve to death.

paragraph: In common with many senior Japanese officers, Sato considered Mutaguchi to be a "blockhead", although General William Slim considered Sato himself to be He and Mutaguchi had also been on opposite sides during the split between the "Toseiha" and "Kodoha" factions within the Japanese Army during the early 1930s, and Sato believed he had cause to mistrust Mutaguchi's motives.

paragraph: By the middle of May, Sato's troops were starving. He considered that Mutaguchi and the HQ of Japanese Fifteenth Army were taking little notice of his situation, as they had issued several confusing and contradictory orders to him during April. Because the main attack on Imphal faltered around the middle of April, Mutaguchi wished 31st Division or parts of it to join in the attack on Imphal from the north, even while the division was struggling to capture and hold Kohima. Sato considered that his division was being "messed around" without proper planning or consideration for the conditions. Nor did Sato believe that Fifteenth Army headquarters were exerting themselves to move supplies to his division. He began pulling his troops back to conserve their strength, thus allowing the British to secure Kohima Ridge.

paragraph: On 25 May, Sato notified Fifteenth Army HQ that he would withdraw on 1 June unless his division received supplies. Finally on 31 May, he abandoned positions north of the road, in spite of orders from Mutaguchi to hold his positions. (For a divisional commander to retreat without orders or permission from his superior was unheard-of in the Japanese Army.) After ignoring army orders for several weeks, Sato was removed from command of 31st Division on 7 July 1944.

paragraph: Sato refused an invitation to commit seppuku and demanded a court martial to clear his name and publicly expose Mutaguchi's incompetence. At the prompting of Lieutenant General Masakazu Kawabe, commander of Burma Area Army, doctors declared that he had suffered a mental breakdown and was unfit to stand trial on 23 November 1944.

paragraph: Sato was recalled to active duty in late 1944 and assigned to the headquarters of the Sixteenth Army, which became the Northeast Area Army in 1945.

paragraph: After the surrender of Japan, Sato devoted his efforts to assisting surviving members of his former command, and the group of ex-army men he created erected a monument to the fallen of the Imphal Campaign in Matsuyama, Ehime and in Shonai, Yamagata.

alias:
Kotoku Sato
Koutoku Satou

description: Japanese lieutenant general

wikidata_label: Kōtoku Satō

wikipedia_title: Kōtoku Satō