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text: Jimmy Carter

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text: National Student Association

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text: Ramparts magazine

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text: Eugene McCarthy

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text: Vietnam Moratorium

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text: Jesse Unruh

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text: Colorado

text: ACTION

text: Jimmy Carter

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text: Richard Nixon

text: Peace Corps

text: Volunteers in Service to America

text: ACTION

text: VISTA

text: VISTA

text: ACTION

text: Rafer Johnson

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text: Jesse Helms

text: Hank Brown

text: Fair Labor Association

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text: Interview with Sam Brown in 1982

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categories: 1943 births,People from Council Bluffs, Iowa,American anti–Vietnam War activists,University of Redlands alumni,Rutgers University alumni,State treasurers of Colorado,American diplomats,Living people

paragraph: Sam Brown (activist)

paragraph: Sam W. Brown Jr. is a former political activist, the head of ACTION under President Jimmy Carter, and ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

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

paragraph: Sam W. Brown Jr. was born July 27, 1943, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs where he was, in his own words, "the outstanding ROTC cadet." In his childhood, he wrote, "it never occurred to me that America could be wrong." Brown attended the University of Redlands in California, where he was first the president of the young Republicans and then the student body president. In 1967 Brown was the chairman of the National Student Association's national supervisory board. In 1967 Brown ran for president of the National Student Association and lost. Brown received a B.A. from the University of Redlands in 1965, an M.A. from Rutgers University in 1966, pursued graduate studies at Harvard University Divinity School from 1966–1968, and was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics, Harvard University, in 1969.

paragraph: Section::::National Student Association spokesman during the CIA National Student Association scandal.

paragraph: In 1967, Ramparts magazine reported that the CIA had been using the U.S. National Student Association (NSA) for intelligence gathering abroad. As revealed by the then president of the organization, Philip Sherburne, in a conversation with the organization's finance director, Michael Wood, the CIA had been funneling money to the organization through various charity fronts in exchange for covert cooperation from students in the NSA's international programs. As spokesman for the national NSA's national supervisory board at the time, Brown was particularly appalled by the predicament of members of the NSA's international programs: "The fantastic pressures these people were under were simply incomprehensible to me ... The agony of these people who were trapped and were unable to break this relationship was awful." Brown said that the supervisory board had no knowledge of the CIA's involvement until it was reported, announced that the NSA would assist in any investigation of the CIA's role, and said "The United States Government owes an unconditional apology to the N.S.A. for using the N.S.A. in this duplicitous manner."

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.:Vietnam Summer.

paragraph: Brown first got involved in organizing during "Vietnam Summer" in 1967 when five hundred paid staffers and twenty-six thousand volunteers organized hundreds of grass roots antiwar projects. Brown was one of the volunteers who gained valuable experience during Vietnam Summer. "I know the first time that I ever went and knocked on somebody's door and waited for them to answer so that could tell them that I wanted to talk to them about the war was not an easy moment," said Brown. Brown said that the volunteers gained valuable organizing skills that he and others would later apply during Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid. "To some extent the McCarthy campaign couldn't have happened without that," said Brown.

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.:Youth Coordinator for McCarthy for President.

paragraph: Brown was the youth coordinator for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy's Presidential campaign. According to Tom Wells in his book "The War Within" Brown would sometimes entertain the notion that McCarthy could win the nomination "sometimes for up to thirty minutes at a stretch." The campaign's main appeal for Brown was that "it gave an opportunity and gave an excuse to walk up to people's doors and say, 'Hi. I'm Sam Brown. I'm here because I'd like to talk to you about the war in Vietnam - and about Gene McCarthy.'" Brown hoped that the McCarthy campaign would show people that protesters were "not some crazy minority."

paragraph: In 2008 Brown's wife, Alison Teal, wrote about Brown's role at the 1968 Democratic Convention. "In 1968, my husband Sam was the liaison between the McCarthy campaign and the protesters and was eventually a defense witness at the Trial of the Chicago Seven," wrote Teal. "Within the leadership of the 1968 convention, there were agents provocateurs from the Chicago police and the FBI."

paragraph: Brown says that hard work is the secret for being a successful organizer. "You have to be willing to work for very long hours for very little remuneration," says Brown. "But there's a great psychic remuneration." "Sam has three great qualities," said a friend in 1969. "He is willing to work every minute of every day. He is calm in the most tense crises. And he is a terribly, terribly nice, sweet person." Brown said in 1969 that organizing is what he does best and that he does not want to become a celebrity. "The worst thing that can happen to an organizer is to become identified as a leader," said Brown. "There s a terrific antileadership bias in the country now."

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.:Coordinator for the Vietnam Moratorium Committee.

paragraph: In April 1969 while Brown was a graduate student in ethics at Harvard Divinity School, Jerome Grossman came to Brown with the idea for a nationwide strike to protest the war in Vietnam. Brown liked the idea but suggested that instead of calling it a strike, that it be called a moratorium. In June 1969 Brown moved to Washington and set up the office of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. David E. Rosembaum wrote in the New York Times in 1969 that Brown "is a young man with a genius for organizing who has been the prime mover behind the Vietnam Moratorium protests."

paragraph: As part of organizing the moratorium, the group ran three full page advertisements in the New York Times for a total cost of $26,328. Brown drew a salary from the moratorium committee of $75 a week. One of Brown's roles in organizing the Moratorium was fund raising which Brown called "the most demeaning thing there is." Nonetheless Brown went on fund raising trips and appeared on television as the moratorium's spokesman. Brown brought his contact lists from the McCarthy campaign with him to work on the Moratorium. "Lists are the guts of organizing," says Brown. Brown's lists included people who had contributed to liberal causes in the past, community organizers, and a list of faculty members who had signed antiwar advertisements.

paragraph: On October 15, 1969 an estimated two million people took part in the moratorium in what may have been the largest US demonstration of all time.

paragraph: On November 15, 1969 a crowd estimated at 250,000 had a massive demonstration at the Washington Monument. After the November 15 demonstration the energy in the movement seemed to dissipate. Observers attributed the apathy to President Nixon's November 3 speech in which he outlined his plan for "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam war. Brown called Nixon's speech "a tremendous political coup by managing to identify himself with the cause of peace." The organizers said that the demonstrations had been at least a partial success and took some credit for Nixon's troop withdrawals and the dismissal of the head of Selective Service, General Lewis B. Hershey. The New York Times reported that the committee was $100,000 in debt. Brown said he hoped to make up the deficit through several "peace concerts."

paragraph: The Moratorium Committee announced on April 19, 1970 that it was disbanding and the organizers said that money had dried up and the "political fad" of large demonstrations had run its course. The four national coordinators including Brown said that they each planned to continue antiwar activities on their own. Brown said that he planned to write a manual on how to organize. "You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to draw up a telephone tree, set up an office, call a press conference," said Brown. "I want to tell them how to do this."

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.:"Storefront Organizing: A Mornin' Glories' Manual".

paragraph: In 1972 Brown published "Storefront Organizing: A Mornin' Glories' Manual". Brown dedicated the book to Jesse Unruh "who taught me the importance of organization" and to Gene McCarthy who showed Brown that "there are some things worth organizing for." The book is a compendium of some of the basics of organizing "to help and encourage people who want to organize." Brown doesn't claim the book s definitive because "imagination and inventiveness are the prime ingredients of organizing." Brown says he wrote the book to be effective regardless of one's ideological point of view. However, Brown states that "the bias is against the status quo, rather than for it" because "the "few" have always been well organized, the "many" have never been organized and have never had a voice. Grassroots organization is the way to change that." Brown's book contains the nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing including discussion of such topics as establishing a storefront, finding support in your community, planning programs, getting out crowds, handling the press, fundraising, planning rallies, and canvasing and getting out the vote.

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.:Post-organizing activities.

paragraph: Brown worked as a consultant for the FUND for Neighborhood Development from 1972-1973. Brown was Vice President of Brown's Better Shoes from 1970 to 1974.

paragraph: Section::::Antiwar organizer.:Election as treasurer of Colorado.

paragraph: Brown was elected state treasurer of Colorado and served in the position from 1975 to 1977.

paragraph: Section::::ACTION director.

paragraph: Brown was appointed Director of ACTION by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Anthony Lake, a member of president Carter's transition committee, recalled "Sam was very good at pushing his point of view with sufficient flexibility so he could make deals and stick with them. He has very deeply held and decent principles, but he is practical enough to move them along." Action Corps had been created in 1971 by President Richard Nixon to administer the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America and other service programs.

paragraph: Section::::ACTION director.:Changes in ACTION mission.

paragraph: Seven months into his tenure as ACTION director, Brown released a blueprint for change, declaring "the mission of Action is to mobilize people for voluntary action at home and abroad to change the conditions that deny fulfillment of human needs by calling on the best and most creative instincts of the human spirit." Brown's outline for the new direction of the organization included:

paragraph: BULLET::::- VISTA volunteers were to reemphasize community organizing and advocacy.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Decision-making in VISTA programs would be controlled by local offices rather than state or regional ones.

paragraph: BULLET::::- There would be a workplace democracy program within ACTION

paragraph: BULLET::::- The peace corps would refocus on "basic human needs."

paragraph: After a five-month search for a new director of the peace corps, in which Brown offered the job to Rafer Johnson, then-representative Ron Dellums of California, Jane Hart – the widow of former Senator Philip Hart – and LaDonna Harris, Brown appointed Carolyn Payton as director of the Peace Corps.

paragraph: Brown clashed with Payton from the start. And after only thirteen months in the position, in November 1979, Brown asked for her resignation. She initially agreed to resign, then withdrew her resignation and issued a statement that implied she would not leave unless asked directly by president Carter, who asked for her resignation shortly thereafter. Payton cited, in part, policy differences between ACTION and the Peace Corps saying "as Director, I could not, because of the peculiar administrative structure under which the Peace Corps operates, do anything about this situation. As an ex-director, I am free to sound the alarm."

paragraph: Future congressman John Lewis, then the associate director of ACTION under Brown, wrote that the conflict between Brown and Payton was entirely over policy: "The resignation of Carolyn Payton stemmed from regrettable – but nonetheless honest and unreconcilable – differences with the administration concerning policy and philosophy.

paragraph: Section::::ACTION director.:Appointment and resignation of Carolyn Payton and surrounding controversy.:Controversy after Payton's resignation.

paragraph: Many of the policy issues between Payton and Brown were revealed after her resignation. Brown for example announced that the Peace Corps would only work in the poorest countries based on GNP and announced that the Peace Corps would pull out of countries that did not meet its criteria for aid. Peace Corps Director Payton responded that "Whether or not we could find satisfactory jobs for volunteers was a better criteria than how much money a country has ... It's offensive to me to tell a host country what their needs are."

paragraph: According to Payton, Brown wanted to "send volunteers for short periods to developing countries and then bring back the skills they had learned to fight poverty in the United States". She also claimed that Brown's policy went against the original goals of the Peace Corps and said that Brown was "trying to turn the corps into an arrogant, elitist political organization intended to meddle in the affairs of foreign governments."

paragraph: In 1994, during the confirmation hearings for Brown's later ambassadorship to the CSCE, Payton's resignation was interpreted in two very different ways by his supporters and opponents. According to the 44 Senators who later rejected the motion for cloture on Brown's appointment as ambassador to the CSCE (the Senators who opposed his nomination), Brown was undiplomatic and unjustified in dismissing Payton. They claimed, that Payton's differences with Brown ended in an argument during a trip to Morocco, when Brown openly berated Dr. Payton before Action Corps officials and Brown's "attacks culminated with a midnight phone-call demanding her resignation, which she refused to give, after which he went to her hotel room and pounded on her door for a full fifteen minutes, demanding to be let in to continue his harassment".

paragraph: According to those 56 Senators in support of the cloture motion (and, presumably, of Brown's nomination):

paragraph: Criticisms of Mr. Brown's performance at this agency are unfounded. In the 1970s, Senator Simon (who was then Representative Simon), held extensive hearings on the operation of the ACTION Agency. A few problems were uncovered, but they were long-standing problems that were eventually corrected by Mr. Brown, and the hearings produced no direct criticism of his performance. The final result of those hearings was that Congress decided he was doing an exemplary job, and it increased the agency's budget by 20 percent.

paragraph: Section::::ACTION director.:Appointment of Richard Celeste as Peace Corps Director and internal restructuring.

paragraph: After Payton's resignation, Richard Celeste was appointed the new Peace Corps Director on April 27, 1979. According to P. David Searles in his book "the Peace Corps Experience": "Under Celeste the agency was given considerable autonomy to direct its own affairs," wrote Searles, "although strictly speaking it remained under the Action umbrella."

paragraph: Section::::Work between the 1981 and 1994.

paragraph: Section::::Work between the 1981 and 1994.:Work in private sector.

paragraph: Brown has been General Partner of Centennial Partners, Limited, a real estate development firm with offices in Colorado and California, since 1981.

paragraph: Section::::Work between the 1981 and 1994.:Support for first Gulf War.

paragraph: The New York Times reported in 1991 that Brown said that force could be necessary to restore stability in the Middle East and keep nuclear weapons from the hands of Saddam Hussein. "It's a real odd thing for an old anti-war person to be thinking, but there are wars and there are wars," said Brown. "Every time I hear a parallel to Vietnam, I blanch. I see the movement people gearing up, the same familiar faces, and I want to say, 'Hold on, hold on.' It's a wholly different situation that needs to be analyzed on its own merits."

paragraph: Section::::Head of delegation to the CSCE and OSCE.

paragraph: Margaret Carlson reported in Time Magazine in 1994 that President Clinton had appointed Brown Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), a 52-nation organization in Vienna that mediates conflicts in the former Soviet republics and promotes human rights, and that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had held hearings on Brown on November 18, 1993 and approved his nomination by a vote of 11 to 9. Before Brown's nomination could come to a Senate vote, Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Hank Brown of Colorado sent Brown a barrage of over 100 questions including why Brown had dropped a requirement that Peace Corps volunteers be instructed in the menace of communism and whether Brown had thrown any objects, "including human feces," at the 1968 Democratic Convention. "No one understands why Hank Brown has decided to make Sam Brown his nemesis," wrote Carlson. "Some think Hank Brown simply wants to zing the President, refight the Vietnam War and triumph over an old rival. (Sam Brown was treasurer of Colorado; Hank Brown was a member of the state legislature.)"

paragraph: Brown's supporters were unable to overcome a Republican-led filibuster against giving ambassadorial rank to Brown and President Clinton went ahead with Brown's appointment without senate approval. Brown served as the Head of Delegation, without the rank of ambassador, to the US Mission to the OSCE in Vienna. On November 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded Brown the personal rank of Ambassador in his capacity as the Head of Delegation to the 1997 OSCE Ministerial Preparatory conferences, an appointment that does not require Senate confirmation.

paragraph: As head of delegation Brown defended the CSCE as an alternative to NATO in shaping European security. "The CSCE is the natural multilateral forum, as the trans-Atlantic institution where Russia has an equal voice, for work on these questions. This is not war and peace in the traditional sense, but instability around Russia's borders. It's very different from what NATO does," said Brown. "The CSCE doesn't have guns and is not going to have. It doesn't have the strength of NATO's unanimity. But NATO isn't equipped to handle some things we do."

paragraph: Brown's tenure at the OSCE was greeted enthusiastically by his fellow representatives. Christos Botzios, the Greek Ambassador to the OSCE, said "He has added enormously to the prestige of the United States, as a country that cares about cooperation ... I think all my colleagues would agree with me."

paragraph: Section::::Later career.

paragraph: Section::::Later career.:Executive director of the Fair Labor Association (FLA).

paragraph: The Fair Labor Association (FLA) named Brown their Executive Director in January 2000. The Fair Labor Association is a non-profit organization designed to complement existing international and national labor laws that was created in 1999 after President Bill Clinton recognized the need for supervision over the apparel industry regarding issues of human rights.

paragraph: Section::::Later career.:Role in 2004 election.

paragraph: Brown worked to raise funds for John Kerry in the 2004 election and was not happy about the debate over Kerry's service in Vietnam. "I'm really upset that we're stuck on Vietnam," he said, "but what really appalls me is that unlike 1968, when there was a real clash of ideas, this year we hear nothing from either candidate - not Bush, not Kerry - about what they propose to do to extract us from this awful mess in Iraq." Thirty-six years after the idealism that produced the McCarthy insurgency, Brown said, "I see nasty, mean-spirited politics on all sides, the equivalent of the kind of scrum you see in the Chicago commodities pits."

paragraph: The Los Angeles Times reported that Brown and his wife Alison Teal raised about $800,000 for the Kerry campaign including about $300,000 in "ideological money" from the East Bay area. Brown and his wife raised funds by hosting house parties for Kerry, seeking donations from strangers on the grocery line, and soliticiting from Teal's online blog.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: He married Alison Valentine Teal, born in 1945 in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the only daughter of Clarence W. Teal and Valentine Moline. Her mother, a 1924 graduate of Smith College, was a novelist, short story writer, publisher of three novels, and also contributed short stories to several magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Child's Life. Both of her parents were long time active volunteers of the Omaha Community Playhouse which was founded by Dodie Brando, mother of actor Marlon Brando. The Clarence Teal Cameo Award, which recognizes exceptional performances in a cameo role, was named for him.

paragraph: She is a 1966 graduate of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. She is a writer/photographer and a frequent political contributor on the Huffington Post as well as her own blog site.

paragraph: Brown met Teal in 1968 while he was a leader of the "Get Clean for Gene" McCarthy student movement, being a youth coordinator for Senator Eugene McCarthy's Presidential campaign in 1968.

paragraph: They are the parents of three children: Nicholas Teal Brown, an aspiring writer, actor, and political activist; Teal Valentine Brown, a UN Foundation researcher, Aspen Ideas Festival coordinator, actor, and public policy student; and Willa Hammitt Brown, a graduate of Oxford and a PhD candidate in American history.

paragraph: Brown lives in modernized log cabin on the shores of silvery Deer Lake 85 miles south of the Canada–US border at International Falls.

paragraph: Brown said in 2004 that he once dreamed of being a senator.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hot Flashes from the Campaign Trail" - a political blog by Alison Teal with occasional postings by Sam Brown

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This is Nick's Website" - website of Nick Brown, the son of Sam Brown and Alison Teal.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview with Sam Brown in 1982 on his involvement in Eugene McCarthy's Presidential campaign and the anti-war movement. WGBH Open Vault.

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text:
Thomas Hardy
Edmonton, London
Enfield
Thornley Stoker
Bram
Dracula
Emma
Max Gate
Dorchester, Dorset
St Andrew's Church, Enfield
T. E. Lawrence
Woking Crematorium
Stinsford
Edward Julius Detmold
Hardy website

categories: People from Edmonton, London,1879 births,1937 deaths,Deaths from cancer in England

paragraph: Florence Dugdale

paragraph: Florence Emily Dugdale (12 January 187917 October 1937) was a writer of children's stories and the second wife of Thomas Hardy. Although Thomas Hardy's biography was published under her name, it was in fact written by Hardy himself in his old age.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Dugdale was born in Edmonton, London, the daughter of school headmaster Edward Dugdale. Florence attended National Infants School in Enfield for two years until 1886, when she went to St Andrew's Girls School. At the age of 20 her parents paid ninepence a week for her to study at the Higher Grades School.

paragraph: From 1895 onwards Florence's life would be centred on her teaching. She began training at St Andrew's Girls School, where she and her sister Ethel received prizes from the Diocesan Board of Education for "Religious Knowledge and a proficiency in secular subjects". In 1897 she became a fully qualified teacher at St Andrew's (her father's school). She was companion to Lady Stoker, wife of Sir Thornley Stoker, brother of Bram, author of "Dracula".

paragraph: Florence first met Thomas Hardy in 1905 aged 26. She became his passionate friend and helper, and eventually stopped teaching in 1908 - both to assist Hardy and begin her writing career. In 1912 she published her first book - "The Book of Baby Birds" - with Hardy's contribution. In the same year, Hardy's wife Emma died, and she moved into Max Gate, Dorchester, Dorset, in 1913. In 1914 they married at St Andrew's Church, Enfield, despite the 39 year age difference.

paragraph: During the marriage Florence found herself increasingly in the shadow of Emma (whom, ironically, Thomas had neglected whilst she was alive). Thomas's frantic and subdued love poetry - obviously written with Emma in mind - was a cause of embarrassment and misery for Florence. Nevertheless, in 1928, when Hardy finally died aged 87, she was so stricken with grief that a doctor was required.

paragraph: The Hardys befriended T. E. Lawrence, and Florence attended his funeral.

paragraph: Florence Hardy died at Max Gate, the home she had shared with Thomas, of cancer, aged 58. She was cremated in Woking Crematorium, and her ashes were buried in Stinsford churchyard, where Hardy's heart and his first wife were interred.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Illustrated by Edward Julius Detmold.

paragraph: Cousin Christine (c. 1919) Illustrated by W.E. Evans, Published by Collins Clear-Type Press

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hardy website

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Bologna
composer
conductor
Sweden
opera
symphonies
grand opera
Thetis och Pelée
Gustavus III
opera singer
Rosa Scarlatti
Sofia Liljegren
ballet dancer
Carlo
double bass player
Adolpho Ludovico Uttini
opera seria
Genoa
Cesena
Ferrara
Hamburg
Copenhagen
Drottningholm
dramma per musica
Adriano in Siria
opéra comique
Stockholm
tragédie lyrique
Thetis och Pelée
grand opera
opéra-ballet
Birger Jarl och Mechtilde
Bertil H. van Boer
New Grove Dictionary of Opera

categories: Italian male classical composers,1795 deaths,Italian expatriates in Sweden,1723 births,Italian opera composers,18th-century classical composers,Italian classical composers,Musicians from Bologna,Male opera composers

paragraph: Francesco Uttini

paragraph: Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini (1723 Bologna – 25 October 1795) was an Italian composer and conductor who was active mostly in Sweden.

paragraph: He is best remembered today as a composer of operas in both the Italian and Swedish languages and for his five symphonies. He provided the music for the first Swedish grand opera, "Thetis och Pelée", which was commissioned by Gustavus III in 1772 and was successfully performed the following year.

paragraph: He was married first to the opera singer Rosa Scarlatti, and then to the opera singer Sofia Liljegren. He was the father of the ballet dancer Carlo and double bass player Adolpho Ludovico Uttini.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1743: "Alessandro nelle Indie", opera seria, Genoa

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1748: "Astianatte", dramma seria, Cesena

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1750: "Demofoonte", opera seria, Ferrara

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1752: "Siroe", opera seria, Hamburg

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1753: "L'olimpiade", opera seria, Copenhagen

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1754: "Zenobia", opera seria, Copenhagen

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1755: "La Galatea", opera seria, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1755: "L'isola disabitata", dramma per musica, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1755: "Il rè pastore", dramma per musica, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1757: "L'eroe cinese", opera seria, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1757: "Adriano in Siria", opera seria, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1762: "Cythère assiégée", opéra comique, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1764: "Il sogno di Scipione", dramatic serenade, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1765: "Soliman II, ou Les trois sultanes", opéra comique, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1766: "Le gui de chène", opéra comique, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1766: "Psyché", tragédie lyrique, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1768: "L'aveugle de Palmyre", opéra comique, Drottningholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1773: "Thetis och Pelée", grand opera, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1774: "Aeglé", opéra-ballet, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1774: "Birger Jarl och Mechtilde", drama with divertissements, Stockholm

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1776: "Aline, drottning uti Golconda", opera, Stockholm

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bertil H. van Boer, Martin Tegen. The "New Grove Dictionary of Opera", edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), and

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wikidata_label: Francesco Uttini

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text: St. John's Seminary

text: ordained

text: diaconate

text: priesthood

text: Humberto Cardinal Medeiros

text: pastoral

text: Hanson

text: Plymouth

text: Needham

text: graduate studies

text: University of Notre Dame

text: Bolivia

text: Society of St. James the Apostle

text: United States

text: pastor

text: East Boston

text: chaplain

text: Logan International Airport

text: Auxiliary Bishop

text: of Boston

text: Titular Bishop

text: episcopal consecration

text: Seán Patrick O'Malley

text: OFM Cap

text: John Boles

text: Emilio Allué

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text: Episcopal Vicar

text: Central Pastoral Region

text: archdiocese

text: motto

text: Magnificat

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

categories: 1952 births,Saint John's Seminary (Massachusetts) alumni,University of Notre Dame alumni,Clergy from Boston,Living people,American titular bishops

paragraph: Robert Francis Hennessey

paragraph: Robert Francis Hennessey (born April 20, 1952) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Robert Hennessey was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, to John and Eileen (née Cahill) Hennessey. The second of five children, he has two brothers, John and Daniel, and two sisters, Deborah and Barbara. Studying at St. John's Seminary, Hennessey was ordained to the diaconate in 1977 and to the priesthood by Humberto Cardinal Medeiros on May 20, 1978.

paragraph: He then did pastoral work in Hanson, Plymouth, and Needham before briefly pursuing his graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame. Hennessey later traveled to Bolivia, where he performed missionary work for eight years with the Society of St. James the Apostle. Following his return to the United States, he was pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Church in East Boston (1994-2006) and chaplain at Logan International Airport (1995-1998).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Auxiliary Bishop of Boston.

paragraph: On October 12, 2006, Hennessey was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of "Tigias". He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 12 from Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley, OFM Cap, with Bishops John Boles and Emilio Allué, SDB, serving as co-consecrators

paragraph: Hennessey also holds the post of Episcopal Vicar for the Central Pastoral Region of the archdiocese. His episcopal motto is ""Magnificat Anima Mea Dominum"" (), meaning, "My soul doth magnify the Lord."

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

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Robert Francis Hennessey

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text: Pacific Coast League

text: All-Star Futures Game

text: Milwaukee Brewers

text: Craig Counsell

text: Tucson Sidewinders

text: Milwaukee Brewers

text: Tony Gwynn, Jr.

text: Tony Gwynn

text: hit for the cycle

text: St. Louis Cardinals

text: Chase Field

text: singled

text: tripled

text: homered

text: starter

text: Joel Piñeiro

text: ground-rule double

text: reliever

text: Kyle McClellan

text: Adrián Beltré

text: Seattle Mariners

text: Michael Bourn

text: inside-the-park home run

text: Jon Garland

text: abdominal pain

text: Detroit Tigers

text: Oakland Athletics

text: Kirk Gibson

text: Oakland Athletics

text: Sean Jamieson

text: Boston Red Sox

text: World Series

text: draft

text: New York Yankees

text: Boston Red Sox

text: Kelly Johnson

text: Tampa Bay Rays

text: Washington Nationals

text: Washington Nationals

text: Christian

text: baseball glove

text: Major League Baseball Draft

text: Washington Nationals

text: Chris Heisey

text: 2016 season

categories: Greenville Drive players,Phoenix Desert Dogs players,Washington Nationals players,Major League Baseball shortstops,New York Yankees players,Mobile BayBears players,Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state),Boston Red Sox players,Camden Riversharks players,Tennessee Smokies players,Florida State Seminoles baseball players,Lancaster JetHawks players,People from Hahira, Georgia,Portland Sea Dogs players,Living people,Reno Aces players,Arizona Diamondbacks players,1983 births,Tucson Sidewinders players,All-Star Futures Game players,Oakland Athletics players,Major League Baseball second basemen

paragraph: Stephen Drew

paragraph: Stephen Oris Drew (born March 16, 1983) is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Washington Nationals. His two brothers, outfielder J.D. and pitcher Tim, also played in MLB.

paragraph: Section::::Amateur career.

paragraph: Drew went to Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia. Following in the footsteps of his brother, J. D., he enrolled at Florida State University and played college baseball for the Florida State Seminoles baseball team.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minor leagues.

paragraph: The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Drew in the first round, with the 15th overall selection, of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. He began the 2006 season with the Lancaster JetHawks of the Class A-Advanced California League, where he batted .389 and hit 10 home runs. He was later promoted to the Tennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League, with whom he hit .218 and hit 4 home runs. He was then promoted to the Tucson Sidewinders of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League.

paragraph: He was selected to the 2006 All-Star Futures Game.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Arizona Diamondbacks.

paragraph: On July 13, 2006, during a game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Craig Counsell injured his ribs, prompting the call-up of Drew from the Diamondbacks' Triple-A affiliate, the Tucson Sidewinders. He made his major league debut on July 15 against the Milwaukee Brewers. Also making his major league debut that day (with the Brewers) was Tony Gwynn, Jr., son of former major leaguer Tony Gwynn. He recorded his first major league hit against the Dodgers and his brother J. D. Drew. He finished the season batting .316, with 5 HR and 23 RBI.

paragraph: In 2007, although the Diamondbacks were division champions, Drew had a disappointing season, hitting only .238 with 12 home runs but a career-high 9 stolen bases.

paragraph: On September 1, 2008, he hit for the cycle against the St. Louis Cardinals, becoming the first player to do so at Chase Field. Batting leadoff, Drew singled in the first inning, tripled in the third and homered in the fifth against Cardinal starter Joel Piñeiro. He added a ground-rule double in the seventh against reliever Kyle McClellan. He was the fourth to hit for the cycle in 2008, and on the same day Adrián Beltré of the Seattle Mariners became the fifth. This was the first time that two players had hit for the cycle on the same day since 1920. He finished the season batting .291, with a career-high 21 home runs.

paragraph: In 2009, he hit .261 with 12 home runs and a career-high 12 triples, tied with Michael Bourn for the second most in the National League that year.

paragraph: On Opening Day, April 5, 2010, he hit an inside-the-park home run against starter Jon Garland, the sixth Diamondback to do so. He finished that year batting .278, with 15 home runs and 61 RBI.

paragraph: In 2011, Drew missed the first four games of the season due to abdominal pain. On July 20, 2011, he slid into home plate, fractured his right ankle and missed the rest of the season, batting .252 for the year with 5 home runs and 45 RBI. He played in only 86 games that season, fewer than in any season after the 59 games of his rookie year.

paragraph: He spent early 2012 on the disabled list for the broken ankle until June 27, when he played for the first time in over 11 months, going one for four. He was linked to various teams at the 2012 trade deadline, including the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics. On July 30, manager Kirk Gibson called Drew into his office for a closed-door meeting; speculation that Drew had been traded ensued. In the 40 games he played with the Diamondbacks that season, Drew batted with just a .193 batting average, 2 home runs, and 12 RBI.

paragraph: Over the course of nearly 7 seasons with the Diamondbacks, Drew would compile a team record 52 triples.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Athletics.

paragraph: On August 20, 2012, Drew was traded to the Oakland Athletics for minor league shortstop Sean Jamieson. Drew finished 2012 hitting .223 in 79 games with 7 HR and 28 RBI. The A's declined their $10 million option on Drew on October 29, making him a free agent. Drew obtained a $1.35 million buyout.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Boston Red Sox.

paragraph: On December 17, 2012, Drew signed a one-year, $9.5 million contract with the Boston Red Sox, which also included $500,000 in performance bonuses. Drew had a .253 batting average, 13 home runs, and 67 RBI in the 2013 regular season. After struggling at the plate for most of the 2013 postseason, Drew homered in the decisive Game 6 of the World Series, helping the Red Sox clinch their third championship in nine years and earning his first career World Series ring.

paragraph: Drew opted to become a free agent after the 2013 season, and turned down Boston's qualifying offer of $14.1 million for the 2014 season. Under the terms of the CBA, teams signing free agents who had declined a qualifying offer would forfeit their top unprotected pick in the following draft. One effect of this was to reduce the market value of free agents who had received a qualifying offer. By the start of the 2014 season Drew remained unsigned, and baseball analysts attributed it partly to few teams needing a veteran starting shortstop and partly to teams not being willing to give up a top draft pick. After having missed spring training and the start of the regular season, on May 20, 2014, Drew signed a one-year, $10 million contract with Boston, a prorated amount of the $14.1 million qualifying offer he previously rejected. In 39 games he played in for the Red Sox that year, Drew hit 4 home runs, 11 RBI, and had a low batting average of just .176.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New York Yankees.

paragraph: On July 31, 2014, Drew was traded to the New York Yankees by the Boston Red Sox for Kelly Johnson. It was the first trade between the teams since 1997. Drew batted .150 with 3 home runs and 15 RBI in 46 games for the Yankees. At the end of the 2014 season, Drew's batting average was just .162 with 7 home runs and 26 RBI in a total of 85 games.

paragraph: Drew became a free agent after the 2014 season, and re-signed with the Yankees on January 6, 2015, agreeing to a one-year, $5 million contract. The deal became official on January 16. On April 17, 2015, Drew hit his 100th career home run in a game against the Tampa Bay Rays. On June 9, 2015, Drew recorded his 1,000th career hit, a home run, against the Washington Nationals. Drew had a .201 batting average, 17 home runs (4 shy of his career high), and 44 RBIs.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Washington Nationals.

paragraph: On January 6, 2016, Drew signed a one-year, $3 million contract with the Washington Nationals. He appeared in 70 games for Washington in 2016, and hit .266 with eight home runs and 21 RBI. Drew signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract with the Nationals on January 26, 2017. On April 12, 2017, the Nationals placed Drew on the 10-Day disabled list due to a right hamstring issue.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Retirement.

paragraph: On April 2, 2018, Drew confirmed his retirement from baseball after twelve seasons.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Drew is a Christian. Drew's father found his first baseball glove in a dumpster. The Drew brothers are the only trio of siblings all selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft.

paragraph: Drew and Washington Nationals teammate Chris Heisey established a close friendship during the 2016 season, becoming the "de facto" leaders of a group of bench players they dubbed the "Wolfpack".

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle

alias:
Stephen Oris Drew
Stephen O. Drew
Stephen Oris Drew,

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Stephen Drew

wikipedia_title: Stephen Drew


text: Dream Center

text: Angelus Temple

text: Echo Park

text: Tommy Barnett

text: Dream City Church

text: megachurch

text: Phoenix, Arizona

text: Aimee Semple McPherson

text: George W. Bush

categories: Pentecostals from California,Christians from Arizona,Religious leaders from Phoenix, Arizona,American Christian religious leaders,Living people,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Matthew Barnett

paragraph: Matthew Barnett is co-founder of the Dream Center and senior pastor of the Angelus Temple, the central house of worship of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California.

paragraph: Section::::Dream Center.

paragraph: Matthew's father, Tommy Barnett, is pastor of the Dream City Church megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona.

paragraph: In September 1994 his church purchased the Queen of Angels Hospital, a Los Angeles landmark in the ramshackle Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

paragraph: The building was converted for use as a soup kitchen, a group home for runaways, prostitutes and gang members, and a shelter for the homeless. It also provided job training and religious services.

paragraph: By 1997 Matthew, then 23, was managing the day-to-day operations of what was to be called The Dream Center.

paragraph: The Dream Center now reaches over 35,000 people each week in 273 ministries and outreaches.

paragraph: The center is open 24/7. An important role is rehabilitating drug addicts, who account for about half its residents, including underage teens.

paragraph: Section::::Angelus Temple.

paragraph: In November 2001 the Angelus Temple, founded in 1923 by Aimee Semple McPherson, merged with The Dream Center and Matthew Barnett became senior pastor of both churches.

paragraph: At the time of the merger, Angelus Temple was a long way from its glory days as one of the largest churches in the nation. Its main sanctuary had not been used on a regular basis in several years. A 1,000-member Hispanic congregation met in a nearby auditorium, while its main congregation had been reduced to only 25 elderly people. At the same time, the Dream Center was holding services in a packed gym. Through an agreement between the Assemblies of God and the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Barnett took over as pastor of Angelus Temple, while retaining his Assemblies of God ordination. The temple's sanctuary was renovated at a cost of $7 million and is now used for Dream Center services.

paragraph: Barnett received the Religious Heritage Award in 1999.

paragraph: U.S. President George W. Bush endorsed his ministry and expressed high regard for his achievements.

description: American pastor

wikidata_label: Matthew Barnett

wikipedia_title: Matthew Barnett


text: Pilton House

text: Westaway House

text: Pilton

text: Barnstaple

text: Watermouth Castle

text: JP

text: Deputy Lieutenant

text: Conservative Party

text: Member of Parliament

text: Barnstaple

text: Devon and Somerset Staghounds

text: Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet

text: MFH

text: RN

text: Heanton Punchardon

text: Orleigh Court

text: Buckland Brewer

text: Bideford

text: Watermouth Castle

text: Berrynarbor

text: Dulverton

text: HMS "Southampton"

text: Crimean War

text: Black Sea

text: Sea of Azof

text: Royal North Devon Yeomanry

text: Devon and Somerset Staghounds

text: College of Arms

text: Watermouth Castle

text: Ferris wheel

text: Wiener Riesenrad

text: Golden Jubilee

text: Franz Josef I

text: tourist attraction

text: CBE

categories: 1908 deaths,Royal Navy personnel of the Crimean War,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,1834 births,UK MPs 1868–1874,Place of birth missing

paragraph: Charles Henry Williams

paragraph: Charles Henry Williams (later known as Charles Henry Basset, from 1880) (16 November 1834 – 1 February 1908) of Pilton House and Westaway House, Pilton, near Barnstaple, and of Watermouth Castle all in North Devon, was a British naval and military officer, JP and Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, and a Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple, 1868–1874. He was master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds between 1887 and 1893.

paragraph: Section::::Origins.

paragraph: He was born Charles Henry Williams, on 16 November 1834, being the fourth surviving son of Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1791–1870), MFH, of Tregullow, Cornwall, by his wife Caroline Eales, younger daughter of Richard Eales of Eastdon, Lieutenant RN.

paragraph: In the 1850s his father had purchased the manor of Heanton Punchardon, near Barnstaple, and lived at Heanton Court. This manor had long been owned by the Basset family which had died out in the male line in 1802 on the death of Francis Basset Esq. The latter appointed as his heir his nephew Joseph Davie (1764–1846), of Orleigh Court, in Buckland Brewer parish near Bideford, the son of his sister Eleanora Basset and her husband John Davie. As a condition of his inheritance Joseph Davie adopted the name and arms of Basset. He sold Orleigh in 1807 to Charles Luxmore and moved to Berrynarbor where he built Watermouth Castle. He married Mary Irwin (1777 - 21 April 1862) of Barnstaple. A mural monument to the couple exists in Berrynarbor Church. His eldest son and heir was Arthur Davie Bassett (1801 - 8 December 1870), who died in a horse-riding accident. He married Harriet Sarah Crawfurth, daughter of Thomas Smith Crawfurth of Dulverton, by whom he had his eldest surviving son Re. Arthur Crawfurth Davie Bassett (1830–1880), who was unmarried and died at Watermouth. His heir was his sister Harriet Mary Bassett, who became on 7 January 1858 the wife of Charles Henry Williams. The Williams family is memorialised by the Williams Arms public house in the parish of Heanton Punchardon.

paragraph: Charles Williams himself, following his marriage to the sole heiress of the Davie-Basset family, in accordance with the terms of the inheritance, adopted by royal licence the surname Basset following his wife's inheritance of the Davie-Basset estates from her brother in 1880.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Aged 13 he entered the Navy as cadet on HMS "Southampton". He rose to lieutenant and served during the Crimean War in the Black Sea, and Sea of Azof. He was a major in the Royal North Devon Yeomanry. He was master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds between 1887 and 1893.

paragraph: Section::::Change of name.

paragraph: As a condition of his wife's inheritance in 1880, he assumed for himself, his wife and their progeny by Royal Licence dated 11 October 1880, the surname of Basset in lieu of his patronymic, with the arms of Basset:

paragraph: "London Gazette, 15 October 1880; Whitehall October 11, 1880br

paragraph: The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Charles Henry Williams of Pilton House, in the parish of Barnstaple, in the county of Devon, Esq., and to Harriet Mary, his wife, elder of the two daughters of Arthur Davie-Basset of Umberleigh, in the parish of Atherington, and Watermouth Castle in the parish of Berrynarbor, both in the county of Devon, and sister and co-heir of Arthur Crawfurth Davie-Basset of Umberleigh and Watermouth Castle aforesaid, a clerk in Holy Orders, all deceased, her Royal Licence and authority that they may take and henceforth use the surname of Bassett only instead of that of Williams, and that he, the said Charles Henry Williams, may bear the arms of Bassett and that such surname and arms may in like manner be taken, borne and used by the issue of their marriage; such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms and recorded in the College of Arms, otherwise the said Royal Licence and permission to be void and of none effect. And to command that the said Royal concession and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty's said College of Arms".

paragraph: Armorial bearings: "Barry wavy of six or and gules in the centre chief point a cross crosslet of the last" Crest: "on a wreath of the colours, a unicorn's head couped argent, the mane, beard, and horn or, on the neck two bars indented gules, and charged for distinction with a cross crosslet also gules". Motto: "Bene agere ac Laetari". His estates were at Pilton House, Barnstaple; Umberleigh House, Atherington; Watermouth Castle, Berrynarbor, all in Devon.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage & progeny.

paragraph: He married on 7 January 1878, Harriet Mary Basset, only daughter of Arthur Davie Basset, Esq., of Watermouth Castle, in the parish of Berrynarbor and of Umberleigh House in the parish of Atherington. Harriet was the sister and co-heiress of Reverend Arthur Crawfurth Davie Basset, (1830–1880) JP and MA, of Watermouth Castle. They had the following progeny:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Walter Basset Bassett (1864–1907), (born Walter Basset Williams), Lieutenant RN, was an engineer who manufactured Ferris wheels. He built the Wiener Riesenrad ("Vienna Giant Wheel") in Vienna in 1897, to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria. Although not the largest at the time of its construction, the demolition of others meant that by 1920 it was the world's tallest extant wheel, a record it held for the next 65 years. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions. He married on 18 November 1890 Ellen Caroline Charlotte Dowell, daughter of Admiral Sir William Montagu Dowell. They had no children.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edith Basset Bassett (1862–1943) (born Edith Basset Williams), married on 18 October 1882 at the Curzon Chapel in Mayfair, London, Captain Ernest Charles Penn Curzon (1856–1938), son of Col. Hon. Ernest George Curzon, son of Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. She was appointed a CBE in 1918. They had one son and two daughters. Following her brother's death in 1907, she inherited from him all the Bassett estates. During World War I she started to sell off the ancient Basset estates, including Umberleigh House and manor in 1917 to her tenant of the adjoining Umberleigh Barton since 1840, the Andrew family. Watermouth Castle had been used as a military hospital during WW I, and in the 1920s she started to sell the Berrynarbor farms and cottages. In 1942 she sold most of the contents of the Castle. In 2012 her portrait still hangs in Manor Hall (the Village Hall), Berrynarbor.

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Charles Henry Williams

wikipedia_title: Charles Henry Williams


text:
Conservative Party
general election in March 1857
Members of Parliament
Leeds
1852
House of Commons
child labour
Richard Oastler
Michael Thomas Sadler
juvenile crime
Sunday school

categories: 1857 deaths,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,1801 births,English lawyers,UK MPs 1857–1859

paragraph: Robert Hall (MP)

paragraph: Robert Hall (1801 – 25 May 1857) was an English lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He was elected at the general election in March 1857 as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Leeds, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1852. However he died in office less than two months after his election to the House of Commons.

paragraph: He became Deputy Recorder of Leeds in 1842, and campaigned on child labour with Richard Oastler and Michael Thomas Sadler, and against juvenile crime, also founding a Sunday school. After his death he was commemorated by a statue.

wikidata_label: Robert Hall

wikipedia_title: Robert Hall (MP)


text:
vaudeville
choreographer
San Francisco
convent
Florence Roberts
Jules Massenet
Sapho
Alcazar Theatre
New York City
Oscar Hammerstein's
Oscar Hammerstein
Victoria Theater
Willie Hammerstein
Ziegfeld’s
Anna Held
Eva Tanguay
Eddie Foy
Ethel Barrymore
Vera Olcott
Lotta Faust
Tiller Girls
Shubert
Winter Garden
Second World War
Armond Fields
Sears Catalog
Baltimore
St. Paul, Minnesota
Norfolk, Virginia
Helen Kane
Los Angeles, California
Lots of Glitter, Girls and Whirls
Library of Congress

categories: 1885 births,People from San Francisco,American choreographers,American female dancers,American impressionists (entertainers),1966 deaths,Dancers from California,Comedians from California

paragraph: Gertrude Hoffmann (dancer)

paragraph: Gertrude Hoffman (1886–1966) was an early 20th-century vaudeville dancer and choreographer.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Catherine “Kitty” Gertrude Hay was born in San Francisco on the 7th of May, 1886, the daughter of John and Catherine (née Brogan) Hay. Her father, who was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1843, came to California sometime before 1873. Catherine Brogan was born in Ireland around 1847 and came to America in the early 1860s. John and Catherine Hay moved to Portland, Oregon, where John died in 1914. Catherine Brogan Hay died in 1926 at the Long Island summer house of her daughter, Gertrude. Gertrude received her early education at a San Francisco area Catholic convent.

paragraph: She had been performing on stage for some time as Kitty Hayes before catching the eye of actress Florence Roberts playing a French dancer in Jules Massenet’s five-act opera Sapho at San Francisco’s Alcazar Theatre. Not long after Robert's encouragement to pursue a career in dance, Gertrude signed on at the age of sixteen as a dancer with the vaudeville comedy team of Matthews and Bulger and began a tour that would eventually take her to New York City and the Paradise Roof Garden atop Oscar Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1903 Gertrude Hoffman was hired as a rehearsal director at Oscar Hammerstein’s Victoria Theater working with the sixty member ""Punch and Judy Co."" shows and other vaudeville routines performing at the venue. Willie Hammerstein persuaded her to appear on the stage. Three years later she replaced an ill performer in Ziegfeld’s ""The Parisian Dancer"" and became a hit imitating Anna Held singing ""I Just Can’t Make My Eyes Behave"". Over her career, Gertrude also did impersonations of various other performers, such as Eva Tanguay, Eddie Foy and Ethel Barrymore.

paragraph: Her choreography and special dance effects brought her high praise and rebuke. Her role as Salome in "Vision of Salome" which she introduced around 1908 caused scandal at many theatre houses around the country. On several occasions her suggestive dance style in scant costumes would lead to her arrest by local police. Eva Tanguay, Vera Olcott and Lotta Faust would also find success with the Salome dance.

paragraph: Later in her career she became manager and choreographer of the Gertrude Hoffman Girls. Reminiscent of the Tiller Girls, her dancers used a type of athletic acrobatic transformation of the chorus girl with kicks, leaps etc. The Gertrude Hoffman Girls performed in the Shubert review "Artists and Models" that ran for the entire 1925-26 season at the Winter Garden and also had long runs over the following two seasons with "A Night in Paris" and "A Night in Spain". In 1933 she resurrected the Hoffman dancers and had some success touring America and Europe prior the outbreak of the Second World War. Not much is known of her later life other than she may have at one time operated a dance studio or club in Southern California.

paragraph: In 2006 the social historian Armond Fields listed Gertrude Hoffman in his book "Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles". The Gertrude Hoffman Glide, a two step or turkey-trot dance named after her in 1913, was recorded by the Victor Military Band and sold through Sears Catalogs.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: Gertrude married Max Hoffman (1873–1963), a composer, song writer and vaudeville orchestra leader, on April 8, 1901 in Baltimore. Her husband’s full name and title was said to “Baron” Adolph Eugene Victor Maximilian Hoffmann. Though born in Poland most likely of German descent, the title "Baron" is dubious since he was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota On most public records and travel documents over the years, their surname was recorded as Hoffmann, rather than Hoffman. Max Hoffman throughout their marriage worked with Gertrude as her music director and manager. Their son, professionally known as Max Hoffman Jr. (1902–1945), was born the year following their marriage at Norfolk, Virginia and would go on to be a musical-comedy performer on Broadway and in films. Max Jr.was for a brief period of time married to the noted “Boop-Boop-a Doop singer Helen Kane.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Gertrude Hoffman died on the 21 October 1966 in Los Angeles, California.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The History of European Photography 1900-1938, FOTOFO., 2011.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lots of Glitter, Girls and Whirls - "The New York Times"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Library of Congress Photographed with lion's head.

description: American dancer

wikidata_label: Gertrude H. Hoffman

wikipedia_title: Gertrude Hoffmann (dancer)


text: Swedish-speaking

text: Finnish

text: Alphonse Aulard

text: French Queen Marie Antoinette

text: Åbo Underrättelser

text: The Blizzard

text: Mauritz Stiller

categories: 1870 births,1949 deaths,Finnish women academics,Finnish historians,Swedish-speaking Finns,Finnish academics,Historians of the French Revolution

paragraph: Alma Söderhjelm

paragraph: Alma Söderhjelm (10 May 1870 – 16 March 1949) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish historian and the first female professor in Finland.

paragraph: Section::::Academic career.

paragraph: After gaining an M.A. in history, Söderhjelm spent 3 years in Paris, preparing her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Alphonse Aulard. This was a study of journalism during the French Revolution and it was published as "Le Régime de la presse pendant la Révolution française".

paragraph: She was awarded a doctorate in 1900.

paragraph: On the basis of this thesis, the university unanimously proposed to award her a lectureship. This appointment was delayed until 1906, because of political concern over her father and her brother. The Emperor was also concerned that if a woman became a lecturer in Finland, the same demand would be made in Russia.

paragraph: In 1906 she finally became the first female lecturer in Finland. She stayed in this position until 1927. At this point, she became chair of General History at Åbo Akademi University, and thus the first female professor in Finland.

paragraph: Her academic work also involved editing the correspondence of the French Queen Marie Antoinette with the Swedish nobleman von Fersen and with some French revolutionaries.

paragraph: Section::::Other activities.

paragraph: Söderhjelm worked as a journalist, writing a column for the newspaper "Åbo Underrättelser". She also wrote novels, poetry, and a five-volume memoir.

paragraph: She co-wrote the screenplay for "The Blizzard" (1923), directed by Mauritz Stiller.

paragraph: Söderhjelm was politically active. She smuggled journals into Finland from Sweden, and helped military volunteers to move from Sweden into Germany.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Alma Söderhjelm in 375 humanists – 27 April 2015. Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki.

description: Finnish historian

wikidata_label: Alma Söderhjelm

wikipedia_title: Alma Söderhjelm


text:
American
boogie-woogie
pianist
Girard, Kansas
Kansas City, Missouri
New York City
piano roll
Aeolian
Duo-Art
ragtime
Broadway
musicals
vaudeville
Ziegfeld Follies
banking
music industry
Orange, California
Dave Jasen
Folkways Records
California
Article
Biography

categories: People from Kansas City, Missouri,1899 births,American women pianists,Musicians from Kansas,Musicians from Missouri,20th-century American pianists,1971 deaths,People from Girard, Kansas

paragraph: Edythe Baker

paragraph: Edythe A. Baker (August 25, 1899 – August 15, 1971) was an American boogie-woogie pianist.

paragraph: Baker was born in poverty in Girard, Kansas to Asa and Sophronia Baker. After her mother died around 1910 she was sent to Kansas City, Missouri to live, and attended a convent. There she was trained in piano fundamentals, eventually working for a music store. After touring with a vaudeville troupe in 1918, Edythe moved to New York City in 1919. There she made piano rolls (for Aeolian and Duo-Art) between 1919 and 1926; these included ragtime and pop pieces. She worked on Broadway in musicals and performed with vaudeville troupes such as the "Ziegfeld Follies".

paragraph: In 1926, Baker relocated to England, and recorded twenty two pieces there between 1927 and 1933. She became a star there after appearing in revues in 1927. She married into the banking family of Gerard d'Erlanger in 1928, and left the music industry after the mid 1930s. Baker returned to the United States in the late 1940s, and little was heard of her until her death in Orange, California in 1971.

paragraph: A selection of Baker's piano rolls, recorded by Dave Jasen, were reissued on an album released by Folkways Records in 1983.

paragraph: Baker died in California in 1971, aged 71.

paragraph: Section::::Confusion.

paragraph: Previously recorded dates of August 3, 1895 to November 22, 1965, were erroneously applied from another Edythe Baker who was born in Michigan and died in New York. This newer listing of 1899 to 1971 constitutes a correction discovered in September 1910. The August 1899 date was on three different passports and passenger lists, and the August 1971 date with a matching birth date was found in California death records.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article from the American Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, 1971

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography Article and research by ragtime historian Bill Edwards, 2010.

description: American boogie-woogie pianist

wikidata_label: Edythe Baker

wikipedia_title: Edythe Baker


text: Dano-Norwegian

text: navigator

text: explorer

text: Christian IV

text: Northwest Passage

text: India

text: Arendal

text: Aust-Agder

text: Erik Munk

text: fief

text: Northern Seven Years' War

text: Dragsholm Castle

text: Oporto

text: Portugal

text: magnate

text: Bahia

text: Brazil

text: Bahia

text: Salvador

text: Copenhagen

text: Danish

text: Henrik Ramel

text: Barents Sea

text: Northeast passage

text: King Christian IV

text: Kalmar War

text: Jørgen Daa

text: Älvsborg

text: Gothenburg

text: Jan Mendoses

text: Kanin Nos

text: White Sea

text: Spitsbergen

text: Christian IV

text: Danish

text: East India

text: Ove Gjedde

text: Christian Friis

text: Northwest Passage

text: King Christian IV

text: Northwest Passage

text: the Indies

text: China

text: Rasmus Jensen

text: Church of Denmark

text: Lutheran

text: Canada

text: Davis Strait

text: Frobisher Bay

text: Hudson Strait

text: Hudson Bay

text: Churchill River

text: Latin

text: scurvy

text: Bergen

text: Thirty years War

text: Weser

text: Wallenstein

text: Fehmarn

text: Kieler Förde

text: Isaac de la Peyrere

text: Copenhagen

text: Christian IV

text: Copenhagen

text: Hakluyt Society

text: Thorkild Hansen

text: Jens Munk Island

text: Baffin Island

text: rose

text: Norway's Forgotten Explorers

categories: 17th-century Danish people,Exploration of the Arctic,Whaling in Denmark,Norwegian Lutherans,Danish polar explorers,Danish sailors,People from Arendal,Danish explorers,1579 births,17th-century explorers

paragraph: Jens Munk

paragraph: Jens Munk (3 June or July 1579 – 28 June 1628) was a Dano-Norwegian navigator and explorer. He entered into the service of King Christian IV of Denmark and is most noted for his attempts to find the Northwest Passage to India.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Jens Munk was born on his father's estate Barbu at Arendal in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. His father, Erik Munk, had received several fiefs for his achievements in the Northern Seven Years' War. However, his father had a reputation for his brutal rule over his estates which led to several trials. In 1585, he was deposed and imprisoned at Dragsholm Castle.

paragraph: In 1591, at the age of twelve, Munk went to Oporto in Portugal where he worked for the shipping magnate Duart Duez. The following year he sailed with a Dutch convoy to Bahia in Brazil. Off the Brazilian coast, the convoy was attacked by French pirates. Munk was among the seven survivors. Munk lived in Bahia (today's Salvador) for six years, where he was in the service of Duart Duez' brother, Miguel. In 1599, under dramatic circumstances, Munk returned to Europe and Copenhagen, where the Danish magnate and Lord Chancellor Henrik Ramel hired him as a ship clerk.

paragraph: In 1609, he set sail with his partner Jens Hvid for the ice-filled Barents Sea. After two unsuccessful attempts to find the Northeast passage in 1609 and 1610, he caught the attention of King Christian IV. In 1612, during the Kalmar War (1611–13), Jens Munk together with the nobleman Jørgen Daa led a successful attack on the Swedish fortress Älvsborg, near today's Gothenburg. In 1614, he led a search for the privateer Jan Mendoses, whom he fought in a battle at Kanin Nos near the entrance of the White Sea. In the spring of 1617, he recruited eighteen Basque whalemen for the first Danish whaling expedition to Spitsbergen.

paragraph: In 1618, King Christian IV appointed him as commander of the first Danish expedition to East India with five vessels and almost 1000 men, but only one month before the departure of the expedition, Munk was relegated and replaced by the much younger nobleman Ove Gjedde. The reason for the relegation is unclear, but was most likely caused by a conflict Munk had with the Lord Chancellor, Christian Friis. Munk’s setback was compounded by the deaths of his brother Niels and good friend Jørgen Då. A few months earlier, Munk had also lost a vast amount of money as a result of an unsuccessful whaling expedition, which caused loss of social prestige. As an attempt to regain his social position, he started the planning of a much more spectacular expedition in 1619, the search for the Northwest Passage.

paragraph: On 9 May 1619, under the auspices of King Christian IV, Munk set out with 65 men and two of His Royal Majesty's ships, the frigate "Enhiörningen" (Unicorn) and the sloop "Lamprenen" (Lamprey). Both were outfitted under his own supervision. His mission was to discover the Northwest Passage to the Indies and China. His crew included Rasmus Jensen, Church of Denmark priest who is now recognized to be the first Lutheran cleric in Canada. Munk penetrated Davis Strait as far north as 69°, found Frobisher Bay, and then spent almost a month fighting his way through Hudson Strait. In September 1619, he found the entrance to Hudson Bay and became the first European to explore the western parts of bay. The expedition spent the winter near the mouth of what is now known as the Churchill River, a place Munk named "Nova Dania" (Latin for "New Denmark"). Cold, famine, and scurvy destroyed so many of his men that only two persons besides himself survived. With these men, he sailed for home with "Lamprey" on 16 July 1620, reaching Bergen, Norway, on 20 September 1620. Later, a party of Indians returned to the shore of Hudson Bay where the expedition had camped. They found a number of unburied bodies of strange appearance and Munk's abandoned stores. Not knowing what gunpowder was, they set it alight and many of them were killed.

paragraph: Munk had planned on a new Northwest journey to take possession of "Nova Dania" (New Denmark) for the Danish crown, but his health was too weak to go on with it. In the subsequent years, Munk served as sea captain in the royal fleet. During the Thirty years War, Munk led a blockade on the River Weser in 1626 and 1627. Munk took part in the attacks on Wallenstein's troops at Fehmarn and in the Kieler Förde in March and April 1628. Munk died on 26 June the same year, probably as a result of being wounded in the battles in the Kieler Förde a couple of months earlier. According to the French scientist Isaac de la Peyrere, who served as a legate at the French embassy in Copenhagen, Munk died as a result of a dispute with King Christian IV, in which the king attacked Munk with his stick and thus caused his death. Munk was buried at St. Nikolai Lutheran Church, Copenhagen, now Nikolaj cultural centre. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunsthallen_Nikolaj

paragraph: Section::::Aftermath.

paragraph: An account of Munk's voyage to Hudson Bay in 1619-20 was published in Copenhagen in 1624 as "Navigatio Septentrionalis"; new editions by Awnsham and John Churchill (1704 [1650]), "An account of a most dangerous voyage peformed by the famous Captain John Monck, in the years 1619, and 1620"; Peter Lauridsen (Copenhagen, 1883), "Efterretning af Navigationen og Reisen til det Nye Danmark af Styrmand Jens Munk"; and by C. C. A. Gosch, "Danish Arctic Expeditions 1605 to 1620", volume ii. Hakluyt Society, No. xcvii (London, 1897).

paragraph: More recently there has been a popular book about him "The Way to Hudson Bay: The Life and Times of Jens Munk" (1969) by Thorkild Hansen. Hansen recovered a few remains of "The Unicorn" in the tidal flats of the river in 1964. A movie was made in 2015.A small scale archaeological excavation in 1964 by two Danes, Thorkild Hansen and Peter Seeborg, at Munk's site on the Churchill River found a few remains of the Unicorn in the tidal flats; they are now in the National Museum of Denmark.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Jens Munk Island, located off the coast of Baffin Island, is named after him as is Munk Harbour at the mouth of Churchill River in Hudson Bay. The Jens Munk rose ("Hybrid Rugosa Rose Jens Munk") was developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and was named in his honour.

paragraph: Section::::Other sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. C. A. Gosch (ed.): ""Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk"", Cambridge University Press (2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Walter Andrew Kenyon: ""The journal of Jens Munk, 1619-1620"", Royal Ontario Museum (1980). Translation.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Birket-Smith, K.: ""Jens Munk's rejse og andre danske ishavsfarter under Christian IV"" (Copenhagen. 1929)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knudsen, Johannes: ""Den danske Ishavsfarer Jens Munk"" (Copenhagen. 1902)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Arctic Coast and Hudson Bay 1610 to 1632 from the Canadian government's Atlas of Canada project

paragraph: BULLET::::- Norway's Forgotten Explorers - 1999 Norway Post article hosted on Yukon College's server

description: Danish explorer

wikidata_label: Jens Munk

wikipedia_title: Jens Munk


text: 1968 Hull triple trawler tragedy

text: Second World War

text: triple trawler tragedy

text: Lillian Bilocca

text: Mary Denness

text: Christine Jensen

text: Fred Peart

text: J. P. W. Mallalieu

text: Board of Trade

text: Hessle

text: Hull Maritime Museum

text: Maxine Peake

paragraph: Yvonne Blenkinsop

paragraph: Yvonne Blenkinsop (born 1938) is a British woman famous for campaigning to improve safety in the offshore fishing industry following the 1968 Hull triple trawler tragedy. She became only the third woman in 130 years to be awarded the freedom of the city of Hull in 2018.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Yvonne Blenkinsop was born in 1938 and was the oldest of six children. Her father died when she was 16, having had a heart attack whilst at sea on board the fishing trawler "Loch Melfort". Blenkinsop subsequently assumed responsibility for looking after the family, her mother being debilitated by a nervous condition caused by the Second World War. Blenkinsop found work as a cabaret singer.

paragraph: Section::::Hull trawler tragedy.

paragraph: The city of Hull was hit by the triple trawler tragedy in early 1968. The fishing trawler "St. Romanus" was thought lost with all 20 hands on 26 January. Shocked by the loss, that same night Blenkinsop – who was then 30 years old – wrote down 27 safety measures that she thought would reduce the level of risk in the industry. Four days later the trawler "Kingston Peridot" was reported lost with all 20 of her crew. Together with a group of local women – Lillian Bilocca, Mary Denness and Christine Jensen – Blenkinsop founded the Hessle Road Women's Committee to co-ordinate a campaign to improve safety on the trawlers. The group organised a public meeting at a community hall on 2 February that was attended by more than 300 women, who were concerned by the safety record of the offshore fishing industry. Blenkinsop spoke on stage at the meeting and just hours later was punched in the face by a man who was angry that she was "interfering in men's business". Three days later the "Ross Cleveland" and 18 of her crew were lost at sea.

paragraph: The women's committee became known as the "headscarf revolutionaries" for their direct-action tactics which included storming the offices of ship owners and preventing ships from leaving the harbour. They demanded that all trawlers should have a radio operator on board when they put to sea; that ships be fully manned; that improved training and safety equipment be provided; that better weather forecasts be sourced; and that a dedicated medical vessel should accompany the fleet at sea. The women organised a "Fishermen's Charter" petition with more than 10,000 signatures of support, collected within 10 days, which was presented to the British government. Blenkinsop attended a meeting with Fred Peart, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and J. P. W. Mallalieu, a minister at the Board of Trade to discuss the matter. Blenkinsop asked Mallalieu, whom she called "petal" (a northern England term of endearment) by mistake, if they would get their safety measures. He replied that they would, and the medical vessel was delivered just weeks later. All of the remaining requests were subsequently granted and the campaign became known as one of the most successful civil actions of the 20th century.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Blenkinsop now lives in Hessle. Her daughter is a care worker and was present during the death of fellow headscarf revolutionary Mary Denness. In May 2015 Blenkinsop, Denness, Bilocca and Jensen were honoured with plaques at the Hull Maritime Museum. Also in 2015 Blenkinsop attended the launch of Brian Lavery's "The Headscarf Revolutionaries", a history of the 1968 safety campaign. Blenkinsop was consulted by Maxine Peake during her research into the story for a 2017 play she wrote about the campaign. In December 2018 Blenkinsop became only the third woman in more than 130 years to be granted the honorary freedom of the city of Hull.

wikidata_label: Yvonne Blenkinsop

wikipedia_title: Yvonne Blenkinsop


text: British

text: Central Saint Martin's

text: Giuseppe Penone

text: The Slade School of Fine Art

text: Camberwell College of Arts

text: Stoke Newington

text: Idris Khan

text: Antoni Tàpies

text: Sophie Dahl

text: Bloomsbury

text: Christopher Bailey

text: Burberry

text: Peter Marino

text: Louis Vuitton

text: The Royal Academy

text: Baku MoMA

text: The New Art Gallery Walsall

text: Tate Gallery

text: The Fine Art Society

categories: 1978 births,English feminists,English women artists,English sculptors,English contemporary artists,20th-century British women artists,Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts,Living people

paragraph: Annie Morris

paragraph: Annie Morris (born 1978) is a British artist based in London.

paragraph: Morris’ work draws inspiration from her own life experience, using painting, drawing and sculpture. She is best known for pieces that combine obsessive drawing and ready-made sculptures.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: She attended Central Saint Martin's and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under the tutelage of sculptor Giuseppe Penone, then The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating from Camberwell College of Arts. She works from a studio in Stoke Newington she shares with her husband, the British artist Idris Khan.

paragraph: Morris’ "'Stack’" sculptures shaped from plaster, sand, and painted with raw pigment, resemble a three-dimensional artist’s palate, originally inspired by the 1988 painting- "Bed with Colour" by Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies. The dry, freshly painted feel of the stack’s form, is Morris’ metaphor to childbirth and fragility. She is also known for her drawings and collaborated with Sophie Dahl's first book "The Man with the Dancing Eyes", 2003, published by Bloomsbury.

paragraph: In 2006 Morris was commissioned by Christopher Bailey, director of fashion label Burberry, to make a dress made out of her painted clothes pegs. Morris was commissioned by American architect Peter Marino to create a work for Louis Vuitton’s flagship store opened in October 2017 at Place Vendôme, Paris.

paragraph: Section::::Selected Exhibitions.

paragraph: Morris has shown work internationally, including those at:

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition, 2012

paragraph: BULLET::::- Baku MoMA, Azerbaijan, Merging Bridges, 2012

paragraph: BULLET::::- The New Art Gallery Walsall, England, The House of Fairytales

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tate Gallery, St. Ives, The House of Fairytales

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Fine Art Society, What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Artist's official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morris at ProjectB Gallery, Milan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Annie Morris at Winston Wachter, New York.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Annie Morris at Winston Wachter, Seattle.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Annie Morris at Louisa Guinness Gallery, London.

wikidata_label: Annie Morris

wikipedia_title: Annie Morris


text:
Dayton, Ohio
American
2013 U.S. F2000 National Championship
WKA
SCCA June Sprints
Spec Racer Ford
SCCA
Formula Mazda
Runoffs
Star Mazda
Road Atlanta
SCCA Spec Racer Ford Pro Series
Sean Rayhall
2011 24 Hours of Daytona
Porsche 911 GT3 997
Grand-Am Road Racing
Watkins Glen
Mazda RX-8
2012 24 Hours of Daytona
Hal Prewitt
2012 U.S. F2000 National Championship
Van Diemen

wikipedia_title:
Dayton, Ohio
Americans
2013 U.S. F2000 National Championship
World Karting Association
June Sprints
Spec Racer Ford
Sports Car Club of America
Formula Mazda
SCCA National Championship Runoffs
Indy Pro 2000 Championship
Road Atlanta
SCCA Spec Racer Ford Pro Series
Sean Rayhall
2011 24 Hours of Daytona
Porsche 911 GT3
Grand-Am Road Racing
Watkins Glen International
Mazda RX-8
2012 24 Hours of Daytona
Hal Prewitt
2012 U.S. F2000 National Championship
Van Diemen

categories: 24 Hours of Daytona drivers,American racing drivers,1984 births,Sportspeople from Dayton, Ohio,Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers,Living people,SCCA National Championship Runoffs winners

paragraph: Scott Rettich

paragraph: Scott Rettich (born September 7, 1984 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American racing driver and competed in the 2013 U.S. F2000 National Championship season in the National class.

paragraph: Section::::Career history.

paragraph: Section::::Career history.:Karting.

paragraph: Scott Rettich started karting in 1996. Between 1998 and 2004 Scott Rettich entered the Ohio Valley Karting Club championship collecting 5 titles in various classes. Throughout his karting career Scott entered the WKA Manufacturer's Cup and Gold Cup. Scott Rettich won 5 championships, 4 in the Gold Cup and 1 in the Manufacturer's Cup. Between 2000 and 2005 Rettich was factory driver for Italian kart manufacturer Energy. And from 2003 until 2005 he also drove for Margay.

paragraph: Section::::Career history.:Auto racing.

paragraph: The first taste of motorsport for Scott Rettich was the 2005 SCCA June Sprints. Scott entered in the Spec Racer Ford class but did not finish the race. For 2006 Scott raced in the SCCA Central Division in the Formula Mazda and Spec Racer Ford class for Kerin Motorsports. He won the championship in the Formula Mazda class winning 5 out of 10 races. He also won the Formula Mazda June Sprints and the Runoffs, thus winning the SCCA Triple Crown. He scored a second place in the Spec Racer Ford championship.

paragraph: Scott Rettich made is pro racing debut in 2007 with Mundill Racing in the Star Mazda championship. Scott started 9 out of 12 races in the season. He scored 3 top 10 finishes and scoring a 16th place in the championship. He was the best scoring driver for Mundill Racing, but also the one with the most entries. For 2008 he stayed with Mundill Racing in the Star Mazda championship, this time for a full season entry. His best finish was now a fifth place at Road Atlanta. In the final ranking Scott finished 11th.

paragraph: 2009 marked a comeback in SCCA club racing for Scott Rettich. He raced in the SCCA Great Lakes Division in the Spec Racer Ford and Formula Enterprises class for Hippi Racing. Scott Rettich won both titles and the Formula Enterprises June Sprints. The next season was extremely successful for Scott. Driving for Hippi Racing Scott won the revived SCCA Spec Racer Ford Pro Series and scored a second place in the SCCA Pro Formula Enterprises (behind Sean Rayhall). He also swept the SCCA Triple Crown winning the Great Lakes championship, June Sprints and Runoffs.

paragraph: Rettich founded Alliance Autosport in 2011. Alliance Autosport made its debut at the 2011 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT class. The Porsche 911 GT3 997 was driven by Scott Rettich and Formula Enterprises rival Matthew Schneider. They start 29th and finished 20th. Scott returned to the Grand-Am Road Racing GT class at Watkins Glen driving for Racers Edge Motorsports in a Mazda RX-8. Alliance Autosport fielded Scott Rettich in the SCCA Pro Formula Enterprises and the SCCA Spec Racer Ford Pro Series. Rettich won the SCCA Pro Formula Enterprises in an impressive way winning 9 out of 10 races, the other race was won by Matthew Schneider.

paragraph: The 2012 season started with the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona Scott Rettich joined Matthew Schneider, Jon Miller, Darryl Shoff and Hal Prewitt at Daytona. Starting 31st the team finished 28th, 41st overall. Rettich ran a partial season in the 2012 U.S. F2000 National Championship National class driving a Van Diemen DP06 Formula Enterprises car. He achieved 4 podiums in 6 races and was placed 8th in the standings. Rettich won the Great Lakes Division Formula Enterprises championship, just like in 2011, 2010 and 2009.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career statistics at DriverDB.com

description: American racing driver

wikidata_label: Scott Rettich

wikipedia_title: Scott Rettich


text:
Korneuburg
Lower Austria
Burgtheater
Henrik Ibsen
Gerhart Hauptmann
Arthur Schnitzler
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Ludwig Anzengruber
Ferdinand Raimund
Adele Sandrock
Otto Treßler
Hedwig Bleibtreu
Josef Kainz
Christian Social Party
Profile
Profile

categories: People from Korneuburg,1912 deaths,1854 births

paragraph: Max Burckhard

paragraph: Max Burckhard (14 July 1854, Korneuburg, Lower Austria - 16 March 1912, Vienna) was director of the Burgtheater, Vienna, from 1890 to 1898.

paragraph: Max Burckhard, a lawyer, was the artistic director of the Burgtheater when it opened as the “Neue Haus am Ring” on 12 May 1890. He remained director until 1898. He introduced Sunday matinees at a reduced cost to widen the theatre's potential audience. He later remarked that the less wealthy audiences were the most "critically acute". As director, he remodeled the auditorium in the spring and summer of 1897, and introduced contemporary drama by Henrik Ibsen, Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal to the Viennese audience as well as Austrian classics of Ludwig Anzengruber and Ferdinand Raimund. He hired such famous actors as Adele Sandrock, Otto Treßler, Hedwig Bleibtreu, and Josef Kainz but was pressured to resign after having "aroused the displeasure of the Christian Social Party".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, oxfordreference.com; accessed 31 August 2016.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile, accessed 31 August 2016.

description: Vienese theatre director

wikidata_label: Max Burckhard

wikipedia_title: Max Burckhard


text:
Leland Stanford
The Horse in Motion
Eadweard Muybridge
Schenectady, New York
California
United States
Bellevue Hospital Center
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Cape Horn
Sacramento River
Mark Hopkins, Jr.
Baltimore
Rhodes Island
Redlands, California

categories: Physicians from New York (state),1888 deaths,1819 births

paragraph: Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

paragraph: Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman (1819–1888) was personal physician to Leland Stanford, the first governor of California.

paragraph: He is credited with counseling Mrs. Stanford sufficiently so that after eighteen years of marriage, she bore a son, Leland Jr., in whose memory Stanford University was established by his father.' The nature of this miraculous counseling is not specified."

paragraph: He and Stanford published "The Horse in Motion", the photographs in which (by Eadweard Muybridge) answered affirmatively the question which had been the basis of a longstanding wager among Stanford and others: whether all four hooves of a galloping horse are ever off the ground simultaneously.

paragraph: Section::::Short biography.

paragraph: Born 1819 in Schenectady, New York Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman, better known as JDB, migrated to California in 1849 and made a name not only as a physian but also as an adventurist, writer and a pioneer in the medical field.

paragraph: Following his graduation in botany and biology in 1843 from the Union University in Schenectady, the third in the United States at the time, JDB worked as a director in a boarding and later as a surgeon at the Bellevue Hospital Center. He was married to Caroline Maxson the same year. During his tenure at the hospital, he set off at age thirty on a 194-day ship journey on the Pacific Ocean for San Francisco via Cape Horn. He narrates the adventure and hardships he faced during the long journey he made along with a bunch of 97 gold hunters--the misery made worse by a ruthless captain of the ship--in his maiden book, “ Seeking the Golden Fleece.” His wanderlust did not stop there. Soon after he landed in San Francisco, he made another trip on a boat across the Sacramento River to the gold mines with his friend Mark Hopkins, Jr. but was back shortly after he fell sick. His book An 1850 Voyage, San Francisco to Baltimore, By Sea and Land, recounts his another epic voyage.

paragraph: After the death of his first wife, JDB remarried Mary Wells of the Rhodes Island and continued his medical practice in New York. After retiring from his profession, JDB moved to Redlands, California, where he bought 200 acre land and started a vineyard. JDB died in Redlands at the age of 69.

description: Physician/writer

wikidata_label: Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman

wikipedia_title: Jacob Davis Babcock Stillman