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Confederate States of America
Confederate president
Jefferson Davis
supply chain
American Civil War
Army of Northern Virginia
prisoners-of-war
Andersonville
Charleston, South Carolina
United States Military Academy
West Point
second lieutenant
Florida Territory
Second Seminole War
Indian Territory
War Department
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Secretary of War
captain
secession
colonel
Union Army
total war
railroad network
locomotive
railroad car
inflation
Confederate currency
Bell I. Wiley
ration
scapegoat
Siege of Petersburg
Richmond & Danville
Southside Railroad
Southside Virginia
brigadier general
impeach
John C. Breckinridge
Army of the Potomac
Battle of Five Forks
surrender at Appomattox
Raleigh, North Carolina
Charlottesville, Virginia
Pikesville, Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
Alexandria, Virginia
Abraham Myers
Davis, William C.
David J. Eicher
Freeman, Douglas S.
Warner, Ezra J.

categories: 1894 deaths,Confederate States Army officers,Military personnel from Charleston, South Carolina,People of South Carolina in the American Civil War,United States Military Academy alumni,United States Army officers,Quartermasters,1811 births

paragraph: Lucius B. Northrop

paragraph: Lucius Bellinger Northrop (September 8, 1811 – February 9, 1894), was the Commissary-General of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America. Appointed by Confederate president Jefferson Davis, a personal friend, Northrop was responsible for the logistics and supply chain that transported food, clothing, and forage to the Southern armies of the American Civil War, particularly the Army of Northern Virginia. Northrop was also responsible for supplying the prison camps that housed Federal prisoners-of-war, such as Andersonville.

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

paragraph: Northrop was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy in West Point, Class of 1831. His time there overlapped with a fellow Southerner, Jefferson Davis (Class of 1828). After graduating, Northrop was commissioned as a second lieutenant of dragoons and assigned to a series of posts, including duty in Florida Territory during the Second Seminole War. While on duty in the Indian Territory in October 1839, Northrop suffered a severe wound to his right knee as the result of the discharge of his own pistol. With the exception of a few months of service in the army's subsistence department (from October 1842 to May 1843), he spent the following 8 years on sick leave. With permission from the War Department, he studied at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

paragraph: The connection between Northrop and Davis was significant for Northrop's career. Permanently disabled, Northrop could no longer perform field duties for the United States Army. In January 1848, he was dropped from the army rolls, retiring to civilian life in Charleston and Anne Arundel County, Maryland. However, when Davis was appointed Secretary of War in 1853, the new Cabinet secretary took steps to recall his friend to the Army. The limping Northrop was promoted to the rank of captain.

paragraph: Section::::Civil War service.

paragraph: As a Southerner and friend of Davis, Northrop resigned his United States commission in January 1861 to join the secessionist colors. After Davis's election as Confederate president, the new commander-in-chief promoted Northrop to the rank of colonel; in March 1861, the Confederate War Department appointed him to the post of Commissary-General. In this office, Northrop was responsible for logistical services, including the transport of military necessities (other than arms and ammunition) to the Confederate armies, the movement of Confederate units from point to point along the battlefront, and the supply of necessities to members of the Union Army confined to Southern prisoner-of-war camps. Northrop served in this role from March 1861 until February 1865, when he was removed from office.

paragraph: As the Confederate Commissary-General, Northrop faced almost insurmountable logistical problems. The Southern economy was not organized for total war and did not possess the infrastructure required to generate large quantities of food, shoes, and clothing, nor to transport them for long distances. The Confederacy lacked machinery to maintain its existing railroad network, or to build new locomotives and railroad cars to replace the equipment that was wearing out. In addition, severe inflation wracked the value of the Confederate currency that Northrop's men were authorized to offer to farms, shops, and small factories for goods desperately needed by the armies.

paragraph: Even when allowance is granted for factors beyond Colonel Northrop's control, however, his performance in supplying food, shoes, clothing, and other necessities to the armies of the Confederacy was judged inexcusably inadequate by historians such as Bell I. Wiley. On numerous occasions, Confederate soldiers were forced to make do with scanty or inadequate rations, or to forage amongst their own countrymen for the necessities of life.

paragraph: As the war continued, Confederate soldiers began, in letters home and to their congressmen, to express concerns about the performance of the office of the Commissary-General. Loyal to his friend, and aware of the overall logistical dilemmas facing the Confederacy, President Davis refrained from making Northrop into a scapegoat. However, logistical problems worsened and reached a crescendo in the supply situation facing the Army of Northern Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg in the winter of 1864-1865. Although Robert E. Lee's army had by this time become absolutely vital to the continued existence of the Confederacy, only two railroad lines (the Richmond & Danville and the Southside Railroad) linked the hungry soldiers with the fertile fields of Southside Virginia, and Northrop's commissary corps was pathetically unable to feed Lee's army.

paragraph: Davis appointed Northrop a brigadier general on November 26, 1864, but he did not risk sending the appointment to the Confederate Senate, where it would surely have been rejected.

paragraph: Opponents of Northrop, including members of the Confederate House and Senate who believed that the Northrop supply situation had become a deadly threat to the prospect for eventual Confederate victory, eventually introduced and adopted extraordinary legislative measures to impeach the Commissary-General or remove him from office. When Davis sought to appoint Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge as the Confederate Secretary of War, Breckinridge demanded as a condition of his acceptance that Northrop be removed. General Robert E. Lee did not directly demand Northrop's resignation but made it clear to Davis that he expected change when he was appointed general in chief. He wrote to the Secretary of War, "If some changes not made and the commissary department reorganized, I apprehend dire results. The physical strength of the men, if their courage survives, must fail under this treatment. Davis finally gave in and accepted Colonel Northrop's resignation. However, it was too late. Less than two months later, the well-supplied federal troops of the Army of the Potomac decisively defeated Lee's ill-fed army in the Battle of Five Forks, leading within days to the surrender at Appomattox.

paragraph: Southern historian Bell I. Wiley, who specialized in examination of and research into the day-to-day experience of the combat troops of the American Civil War, grew to despise the tie between Davis and Northrop:

paragraph: Section::::Post-war service.

paragraph: After the war, Col. Northrop was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 30, 1865, by the victorious Federals and confined for four months as an officer who had given aid and comfort to the Confederacy, and for the privations suffered by federal prisoners-of-war during Northrop's service as Commissary-General. After his release in November 1865, he lived in obscurity on a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia.

paragraph: Beset by his continued knee problems and by the challenges of age-related disability, in 1890 he retired to the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pikesville, Maryland, where he died. He is buried in New Cathedral Catholic Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.

paragraph: Section::::Northrop's papers.

paragraph: Collections of Northrop papers are maintained in the city libraries of New York City and Alexandria, Virginia.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abraham Myers, CSA quartermaster-general

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Davis, William C. "Lucius Bellinger Northrop." In "The Confederate General", vol. 4, edited by William C. Davis and Julie Hoffman. Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1991. .

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- Freeman, Douglas S. "R. E. Lee, A Biography". 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934–35. .

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

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

description: Confederate States Army officer

wikidata_label: Lucius B. Northrop

wikipedia_title: Lucius B. Northrop


text: Dover, New Hampshire

text: New Hampshire

text: Massachusetts

text: colonial

text: New Hampshire

text: Royal Council

text: Massachusetts

text: Puritan

text: Cochecho River

text: Massachusetts General Court

text: speaker

text: John Cutt

text: Edward Cranfield

text: Alcester

text: Warwickshire

text: christened

text: land title

text: John Mason

text: Province of New Hampshire

text: Quaker

text: missionaries

text: crown magistrate

text: vagabonds

text: Robert Pike

text: Salisbury

text: Walter Barefoote

text: Maine

text: John Greenleaf Whittier

text: King Philip's War

text: Indians

text: Massachusetts Bay Colony

text: militia

text: Charles Frost

text: Boston

text: slavery

text: Barbados

text: Chief Justice

text: King William's War

text: Cocheco Massacre

text: Pennacook

text: garrison

text: Richard

text: Richard

text: Thomas Westbrook Waldron

text: Royal Council

text: Province of New Hampshire

text: American Revolution

text: John Cutt

text: Richard Waldron

text: Richard

text: George Vaughan

text: Jonathan Belcher

text: Thomas Westbrook

text: Portsmouth

text: Captain John Sherburne

text: Laconia Company

text: Ambrose Gibbins

text: Thomas Westbrook Waldron

text: Charlotte County, New Brunswick

text: Richard Russell Waldron

text: Thomas Westbrook Waldron (consul)

text: Wilkes Expedition

text: Cape

text: Antarctic

text: island

text: San Juan Islands

text: Washington state

text: "Richard Waldron" in: "Brief Notices of Councilors", "Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society", Volume 8 By New Hampshire Historical Society, pp. 332–341 gives a comprehensive biography

categories: People from Dover, New Hampshire,1615 births,Colonial governors of New Hampshire,1689 deaths

paragraph: Richard Waldron

paragraph: Major Richard Waldron (or Richard Waldern, Richard Walderne; 1615–1689) was an English-born merchant, soldier, and government official who rose to prominence in early colonial Dover, New Hampshire. His presence spread to greater New Hampshire and neighboring Massachusetts. He was the second president of the colonial New Hampshire Royal Council after it was first separated from Massachusetts.

paragraph: Described as an "immensely able, forceful and ambitious" member of a well-off Puritan family, he left his English home and moved to what is now Dover, New Hampshire. He first came about 1635. He built mills on the Cochecho River, amassed local land holdings that endured in his family for over 170 years, controlled much of the local native trade, and was prominent in local politics and as deputy to the Massachusetts General Court for twenty five years from 1654. He was speaker several times. When the first president of the colonial New Hampshire council, John Cutt, died suddenly, council member Walderne became the acting president or governor until Edward Cranfield arrived from England. "By the 1670s the portion of Dover known as Cochecho [village] had become something like Waldron's personal fiefdom, and citizens in the other areas of settlement rarely challenged his social authority."

paragraph: Section::::Birth and family.

paragraph: Waldron (or Walderne) was born in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. One of many children of William Walderne and Catherine Raven, he was christened on 6 January 1615. Little is known of his early life. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married second Ann Scammon. He had several children.

paragraph: Section::::Masonian property dispute.

paragraph: Perhaps because he was a prominent landholder, he was singled out for a lawsuit which was part of a plan seeking to overturn all land titles in colonial New Hampshire in favor of the descendants of John Mason, an colonial governor, colonizer, and admiral who was granted a land patent for the Province of New Hampshire by the British crown and planted the first British colonists there.

paragraph: Section::::Quaker persecution.

paragraph: In 1662, three Quaker missionaries, Ann Coleman, Mary Tompkins and Alice Ambrose, arrived in Dover from England. Within weeks, their ministry became the subject of a public petition by the Puritan townsfolk, 'humbly craving relief against the spreading and the wicked errors of the Quakers among them'. Waldron, as the local crown magistrate, ordered them to be punished as vagabonds by being bound behind a cart and being made to walk over eighty miles in a bitter winter through ten neighboring townships. Beginning in Dover, and on arrival in each township, they were to be publicly stripped to the waist and whipped ten times. Major Robert Pike stopped the torture and released them in Salisbury, the third township in which they were mistreated. There, after urgently required medical assistance from Walter Barefoote, the women left for Maine. These three Quaker women are the subject of the poem "How the Women Went from Dover" by the 19th-century American Quaker poet, John Greenleaf Whittier.

paragraph: Section::::Trickery of Native Americans.

paragraph: At the end of King Philip's War, a number of Indians fleeing from the Massachusetts Bay Colony militia took refuge with the Abenaki tribe living around Dover. The Massachusetts militia ordered Waldron to attack these natives and turn any refugee combatants over to them. Waldron believed he could capture the natives without a pitched battle by resorting to subterfuge and so, on September 7, 1676, he invited the natives—about 400 in total, half local and half refugees—to participate in a mock battle against the militia. After the natives had fired their guns, Waldron, aided by Charles Frost, took them prisoner. Waldron then sent both the refugee combatants and those locals who violently objected to this forced breach of hospitality to Boston, where seven or eight were convicted of insurrection and executed. The rest were sold into slavery in "foreign parts", mostly Barbados.

paragraph: The local Indians were released, but never forgave Waldron for the deception, which violated all the rules of honor and hospitality valued by both sides. Richard Waldron would be appointed Chief Justice for New Hampshire in 1683.

paragraph: Section::::Cocheco Massacre.

paragraph: During King William's War natives took revenge on Waldron for his actions during King Philip's War in the Cocheco Massacre of 1689. At the time local Pennacook women were regularly allowed into the garrisoned homes of the Dover settlers when they requested shelter for the night. Some settlers were concerned about the lack of vigilance and possible danger from this practice, but Waldron mocked their fears: "go plant your pumpkins" (i.e. I will protect you) Their concern was justified, as on the night of 27 June 1689, native women seemingly staying peacefully overnight opened garrison house doors to waiting armed warriors. One historian wrote, "In one bloody afternoon, a quarter of the colonists in what is now downtown Dover, NH were gone – 23 killed, 29 captured in a revenge attack by native warriors." The elderly Waldron, once disarmed, was singled out for special torture and mutilation: the Indians cut him across the belly with knives, each saying "I cross out my account," and his house burned. Charles Frost was ambushed by natives in 1697 during King William's War for his collaboration with Waldron during the pair's trickery in King Philip's War.

paragraph: Waldron is buried in the Cochecho Burying Ground, Dover, which is also known as Waldron Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Family legacy.

paragraph: His son Richard, grandson Richard, and great grandson Thomas Westbrook Waldron were successively members of the Royal Council for the Province of New Hampshire. The influence of this branch of the Waldron family in New Hampshire declined after the American Revolution, and though Thomas Westbrook Waldron gave his qualified support to the new United States. This decline came despite the combining of families of influence within the Waldrons: President John Cutt's daughter Hannah married the second Richard Waldron and, after her death, Cutt's grandniece Elinor Vaughan also married the second Richard Waldron. The third Richard counted two more governors among his family connections; an uncle George Vaughan and Vaughan's brother-in-law Jonathan Belcher. Richard III in turn married the only daughter of Colonel Thomas Westbrook, leader of the eastern militia and a one-time councillor, grand daughter of a successful Portsmouth sea merchant, Captain John Sherburne, and great-granddaughter of one of the Laconia Company factors and "assistant governor" Ambrose Gibbins. However, "With the disappearance of an old and illustrious family, the release of a third of our central territory to the uses of a new population and the whirl of machinery, old Dover passed away and new Dover began its life."

paragraph: The family did not entirely disappear after the transfer of the extensive Waldron lands. A Thomas Westbrook Waldron, grandson of Colonel Thomas Westbrook Waldron, moved north to found a Canadian branch of the family in Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Two other grandsons, Richard Russell Waldron and Thomas Westbrook Waldron (consul) became members of the Wilkes Expedition and lent the family name to a Cape in the Antarctic, a landmark in Hawaii, and an island in the San Juan Islands of present-day Washington state. Another was an early Major of US Marines, and yet another a college principal.

paragraph: Section::::Works consulted.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of colonial governors of New Hampshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

alias:
Richard Waldern
Richard Walderne

description: Colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire

wikidata_label: Richard Waldron

wikipedia_title: Richard Waldron


text: kabbalist

text: poet

text: writer

text: Safed

text: Sephardic

text: Land of Israel

text: Spain

text: Rabbi

text: Torah

text: Rabbi

text: Jacob Berab

text: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

text: Yosef Karo

text: Moshe Cordovero

text: Isaac Luria

text: Israel Najara

text: deontology

text: Jerusalem Talmud

text: Piyyut

text: Yedid Nefesh

text: Yedid Nefesh

text: Biography

text: Sefer Hareidim

categories: Early Acharonim,Rabbis in Safed,Jewish poets,16th-century rabbis,Sephardi rabbis,Hebrew-language writers,Kabbalists,1600 deaths,Rabbis in Ottoman Galilee,1533 births

image: 512px-רבי_אלעזר_אזכרי.JPG

paragraph: Elazar ben Moshe Azikri

paragraph: Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri () (1533–1600) was a Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer, born in Safed to a Sephardic family who had settled in the Land of Israel after the expulsion from Spain.

paragraph: Rabbi Elazar studied Torah under Rabbi Yosef Sagis and Rabbi Jacob Berab, and is counted with the greatest Rabbis and intellectuals of his time: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Yosef Karo, Moshe Cordovero, Isaac Luria, Israel Najara, etc.

paragraph: In 1588 Rabbi Elazar founded the "Sukat Shalom" movement who acted to arouse in Jews the devotion to religion.

paragraph: Rabbi Elazar died in 1600 and was buried in Safed.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Rabbi Elazar's Book, the "Sefer Haredim" (ספר חרדים), printed after his death in 1600, is considered as one of the main books of Jewish deontology.

paragraph: He also wrote a commentary on "Tractate Bezah" and Berachot of the Jerusalem Talmud.

paragraph: The "Piyyut" (liturgical poem) "Yedid Nefesh" (ידיד נפש) is commonly attributed to Rabbi Elazar, who first published it in his Sefer Haredim. Recent findings, however, have raised the possibility that "Yedid Nefesh" actually predates Rabbi Elazar by about a century, leaving the true authorship a mystery.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography - from the Orthodox Union

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sefer Hareidim (Venice) – free scanned version in DjVu format

paragraph: BULLET::::- Traditional Sephardi Singing of Yedid Nefesh

description: kabbalist, rabbi

wikidata_label: Elazar ben Moshe Azikri

wikipedia_title: Elazar ben Moshe Azikri


text:
Italian
Mannerist
Baroque
Genoa
Filippo Bertolotto
Lunigiana
Cesare Corte
San Domenico
Nunziata del Vastato
Maria Francesco
Giovanni Battista Mainero
Giovanni Battista Monti
Gioacchino Assereto
Silvestro Chiesa
Lorrain
Pouissin
Louis XIV

categories: 1590 births,Italian male painters,1645 deaths,17th-century Italian painters,People from Genoa,Genoese painters,Italian Baroque painters

paragraph: Luciano Borzone

paragraph: Luciano Borzone (1590 – 12 July 1645) was an Italian painter of a late-Mannerist and early-Baroque styles active mainly in his natal city of Genoa.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: After an apprenticeship with Filippo Bertolotto, his uncle, the Duke Alberigo of Massa Lunigiana patronized his work as a pupil of Cesare Corte. He was a prominent portrait painter. In Genoa, he painted the "Presentation in the Temple" for the church of San Domenico, and the "Baptism of Christ" for the church of Santo Spirito. Supposedly died from a fall from scaffolding while painting a picture of a "Nativity" for ceiling of the Nunziata del Vastato. His three sons, Giovanni Battista and Carlo (both who died of the plague in 1657), and Maria Francesco (1625–1679) were also painters. Additional disciples were Giovanni Battista Mainero, Giovanni Battista Monti, Gioacchino Assereto, and Silvestro Chiesa.

paragraph: He etched some plates from his own compositions: "Portrait of Giustiniani"; "St. Peter delivered from Prison"; "Prometheus devoured by the Vulture"; "Children playing"; and a set of devout subiects. Maria Francesco, the third son, excelled in painting landscapes and sea-pieces in the style of Lorrain and Pouissin, and came to be employed at the court of Louis XIV. He was born in 1625, and died in 1679.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Camillo Manzitti, "Riscoperta di Luciano Borzone", in "Commentari", n. 3, Luglio-Settembre 1969.

paragraph: Camillo Manzitti, "Influenze caravaggesche a Genova e nuovi ritrovamenti su Luciano Borzone", in "Paragone", n. 259, Settembre 1971.

alias:
Lusiano Bersone
Lucian Borzone
Borson di Genova
Borsone
Luciano
lusiano bersone
lucian borzone

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Luciano Borzone

wikipedia_title: Luciano Borzone


text:
Czech
Německý Brod
Bohemia
Lviv
Vienna
Prague Conservatory
Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová
Rudolf Firkušný
Eduard Steuermann
Artur Rodziński
Břetislav Bakala
Pavel Štěpán
Stanislav Heller
František Maxián
Gidéon Klein
Rafael Schächter
Stefania Turkewich
Ilja Hurník
Theodor Leschetizky
Lviv
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Concerto in G minor
Ilona Kurzová
Václav Talich
Rudolf Firkušný
Supraphon
Ivan Moravec
Jiří Bělohlávek
Radoslav Kvapil
Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
František Jílek
Rafael Schächter

categories: 1945 deaths,Czech classical pianists,20th-century classical pianists,1872 births,People from Havlíčkův Brod,Piano pedagogues,Academics of the Prague Conservatory,Czech expatriates in Austria

paragraph: Vilém Kurz

paragraph: Vilém Kurz (23 December 1872 – 25 May 1945) was a Czech pianist and renowned piano teacher.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Kurz was born in Německý Brod, Bohemia in 1872. He became a professor at the State Conservatory in Lviv and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory.

paragraph: His students included his daughter Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, Rudolf Firkušný, Eduard Steuermann, Artur Rodziński, Břetislav Bakala, Pavel Štěpán, Stanislav Heller, František Maxián, Gidéon Klein, Rafael Schächter, Viktorie Švihlíková, Stefania Turkewich, Ilja Hurník, Drahomir Toman, Zdeněk Jílek and Matusja Blum.

paragraph: His teaching methods were largely based on those of Theodor Leschetizky and his pupils he met during the time he taught in Lviv. Later they were further developed by his daughter Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová.

paragraph: He died in Prague in 1945.

paragraph: Section::::Antonin Dvořák's Piano Concerto in G minor.

paragraph: Kurz is known for his reworking of the solo part of Antonín Dvořák's Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33, which was originally composed in 1876. For more than a decade after the concerto's first performance, it suffered from neglect and critical disdain. A common remark for many years was that the piano part was written "as if for two right hands."

paragraph: While he was in his 20s, Kurz undertook a revision of the solo part, and it is this version that he frequently performed. Since that time, the original and the Kurz versions have been printed together in Otakar Šourek's critical edition of the score, one beneath the other, so that the soloist can choose which version to perform. The Kurz version has become a part of the standard piano repertoire. Dvořák's original orchestral material is not affected by the soloist's choice. In 1919 Ilona Kurzová played the first performance of the Kurz version of the concerto, conducted by Václav Talich. This revision was later adopted and recorded by Rudolf Firkušný, who in the 1950s also introduced a few cuts to the first and third movements. In the 1970s he abandoned all revisions in favour of the original version by Dvořák.

paragraph: Supraphon, the Czech recording company, issued a compact disc on which Ivan Moravec plays the Kurz version, with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek, while Radoslav Kvapil plays the composer's original score, with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra under František Jílek.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rafael Schächter

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dr. Zdeňka Böhmová-Zahradníčková: "Vilém Kurz", SNKL n.p. Praha 1954

description: Czech music educator and pianist

wikidata_label: Vilém Kurz

wikipedia_title: Vilém Kurz


text:
dioramas
Staines
Royal College of Art
The Regent Street Polytechnic
University of Westminster
Judith Ackland
Bucks Mills
Windsor's Community Museum
Hogarth Press
Leonard Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Gilbert Murray
Maggs Bros Ltd
Alan Clodd
Enitharmon Press
Thomas Moult
Art, Prose and Poetry
The Contemporary Review
The Living Age
Literary Criticism Teaching
Margaret Willy
Oxford University Press
May Sarton
Enitharmon Press
Nina Hamnett
Coterie
Douglas Jerrold
Countess Barcynska
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Anatole France
Rufus King
G.B. Stern
Peggy Wood
Burton Art Gallery and Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum
the Museum of London
The National Museum of Wales
Abbot Hall Art Gallery

categories: Alumni of the University of Westminster,20th-century women artists,LGBT artists from the United Kingdom,People from Staines-upon-Thames,1893 births,1989 deaths

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards (1893-1989) was an English painter, creator of dioramas and poet.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards was born in Hampstead in 1893, the daughter of Richard Cromwell Edward, an architect. She grew up at 12 Fairfield Avenue, in Staines, Middlesex (now part of Surrey).

paragraph: She studied art at the Royal College of Art and The Regent Street Polytechnic (now part of the University of Westminster) where she met fellow student Judith Ackland. They became life partners and used a tiny Cabin, a former fisherman’s store, dating from the mid-19th century, at Bucks Mills as their studio from 1924 until Judith's death in 1971.

paragraph: Together with Ackland, Edwards produced dioramas, Ackland made all the models (she invented a method called "Jackanda" to make the models), and Edwards painted their backdrops. The town of Windsor commissioned these dioramas to celebrate the town's history, and they are now at the Windsor's Community Museum.

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards was also a poet and published several volumes throughout her life. She published her first book of poetry "Time and Chance" in 1926 with the Hogarth Press of Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf; Gilbert Murray, philologist, wrote the introduction. The London antique dealer Maggs Bros Ltd has a copy Edwards dedicated to Irish publisher and book collector Alan Clodd, who in 1967 published her works with his Enitharmon Press. Individual poems subsequently appeared in Thomas Moult's "The Best Poems of 1930", "Art, Prose and Poetry", "The Contemporary Review" and "The Living Age". She also published poetry between 1962 and 1964 in "Literary Criticism Teaching" edited by Margaret Willy for the Oxford University Press. In 1968 she published "A Truce with Time" and in 1978 "Before and After", with poems in memory of her late partner, Judith Ackland: these poems, according to May Sarton, "express the long-standing affection and solidarity of these two remarkable women and give strength to make unbearable bearable". The volume was published by Enitharmon Press, as did "Years Between" (1982) and "A Further Harvest" (1985) with unpublished poems from the period between 1932 and 1984.

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards also illustrated books, mostly children's books, painted or drew the frontispiece and designed dust covers. Examples include: "The Normal Saturday Fairy Book" (1924), "The Grand Buffalo" (1926), "From Track to Highway. A Book of British Roads" (1935), "Worzel Gummidge Or the Scarecrow of Scatterbrook" (1936), "Miss Milligan Comes Out" (1937), "The Muddle-Headed Postman and Other Stories" (1937), "The Giant Who Made Mistakes" (1938) and "The Dogs at Abbey Lodge" (1937). In addition, she designed - as well as Nina Hamnett, among others - an envelope for the literary journal "Coterie", in which the Sitwells, Huxley, Eliot and others published texts; critics thought the cover was too reminiscent of Beardsley.

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards' book covers from 1922 to 1938 include authors such as Douglas Jerrold, Countess Barcynska, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Anatole France, Rufus King, G.B. Stern, Peggy Wood.

paragraph: After Ackland’s death, Edwards closed The Cabin at Bucks Mill and moved to live with her family in Staines. She died there in 1989.

paragraph: Section::::Exhibitions.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Boston Marriage of Judith Ackland and Mary Stella Edwards: watercolourists and diorama makers, 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference, 15-16 February 2013, Brighton

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Mary Stella Edwards donated a collection of her own and Ackland's work to Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford, dating between 1913 and 1965.

paragraph: Works by Ackland and Edwards can be found at The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of London, The National Museum of Wales and Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, Westmorland.

paragraph: Bucks Mills Cabin, originally managed by the Ackland-Edwards Charitable Trust, passed to The National Trust in 2004. It is a Grade II listed building under the Planning Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest, a time box of life at Bucks Mills in the middle of the 20th century. As agreed with the Ackland-Edwards Charitable Trust, it is currently artist–in–residence summer home and occasionally open to public. Listed in 2017, the Cabin is one of the England's landmarks to be given listed status as part of a "queer histories" project.

wikidata_label: Mary Stella Edwards

wikipedia_title: Mary Stella Edwards


text:
American football
linebacker
Buffalo Bills
National Football League
college football
Virginia Tech
2018 NFL Draft
Dan River High School
Ringgold, Virginia
Virginia Tech
Frank Beamer
Justin Fuente
Butkus Award
2018 NFL Draft
Twitter
2018 NFL Draft
NFL Scouting Combine
Indianapolis
Buffalo Bills
Green Bay Packers
San Francisco 49ers
ESPN
Sports Illustrated
Mike Mayock
Buffalo Bills
2018 NFL Draft
Baltimore Ravens
Amobi Okoye
2007
Terrell
Pittsburgh Steelers
$
contract
signing bonus
Preston Brown
Sean McDermott
Matt Milano
Lorenzo Alexander
Buffalo Bills’
Baltimore Ravens
Joe Flacco
New York Jets
Sam Darnold
Trey
Terrell
Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers
Ferrell Edmunds
NFL Draft
Virginia Tech Hokies bio
Buffalo Bills bio

categories: Players of American football from Virginia,Sportspeople from Danville, Virginia,1998 births,Buffalo Bills players,American football linebackers,Living people

paragraph: Tremaine Edmunds

paragraph: Fe'Zahn Tremaine Edmunds (born May 2, 1998) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Virginia Tech and was drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Edmunds attended Dan River High School in Ringgold, Virginia. He committed to Virginia Tech to play college football.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Edmunds played at Virginia Tech from 2015 to 2017 under head coaches Frank Beamer and Justin Fuente. As a junior season in 2017, he was a finalist for the Butkus Award after recording 108 tackles and 5.5 sacks. After the season, he decided to forgo his senior year and enter the 2018 NFL Draft. He finished his career with 213 tackles, 10 sacks, and 1 interception.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: On January 10, 2018, Edmunds released a statement through Twitter announcing his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2018 NFL Draft. Edmunds attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and completed the majority of drills, but opted to skip the short shuttle, three-cone drill, and vertical jump. Among all linebackers performing at the NFL Combine, Edmunds finished fifth in the 40-yard dash, 12th in the broad jump, and tied for 14th in the bench press.

paragraph: On March 14, 2018, Edmunds participated at Virginia Tech’s pro day, but opted to stand on his combine numbers and only performed positional drills. He attended pre-draft visits with the Buffalo Bills, Green Bay Packers, and San Francisco 49ers. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Edmunds was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. He was ranked as the top outside linebacker prospect in the draft by DraftScout.com and ESPN analyst Jeff Legwold. He was also ranked as the second best stack linebacker by Sports Illustrated and the second best linebacker in the draft by NFL analyst Mike Mayock.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:2018.

paragraph: The Buffalo Bills selected Edmunds in the first round (16th overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft. In order to select Edmunds, the Buffalo Bills traded their first (22nd overall) and third round (65th overall) picks to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for a first round pick (16th overall) and a fifth round pick (154th overall) in the 2018 NFL Draft. Edmunds became the youngest player to be drafted in NFL history at 19 years old and also became only the second teenager to be drafted in the first round since Amobi Okoye was in 2007. Edmunds’ brother, Terrell, went on to be drafted in the first round (28th overall) by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Terrell’s selection earned them the distinction of becoming the first pair of brothers to be drafted in the first round of the same draft in NFL history.

paragraph: On May 12, 2018, the Buffalo Bills signed Edmunds to a fully guaranteed four-year, $12.65 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $7.28 million. He entered training camp slated as the starting middle linebacker after Preston Brown departed in free agency. Head coach Sean McDermott named Edmunds the starting middle linebacker to begin the regular season. He started alongside outside linebackers Matt Milano and Lorenzo Alexander.

paragraph: He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Buffalo Bills’ season-opener at the Baltimore Ravens and recorded seven combined tackles, deflected two passes, and made his first career sack during their 47–3 loss. Edmunds made his first career sack on Ravens’ quarterback Joe Flacco for less than a one-yard loss in the second quarter. Edmunds recorded his first NFL interception against the New York Jets in week 14, picking off Sam Darnold. At age 20, he became the youngest NFL player ever to record an interception. Following a strong month of play, Edmunds was named the NFL defensive rookie of the month in December after recording 43 tackles, 4 passes defended, 1 sack and 2 interceptions. Overall, he recorded 121 total tackles on the year with two sacks, two interceptions, and two forced fumbles.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: His brothers, Trey and Terrell also played college football at Virginia Tech. Trey plays in the NFL on the practice squad for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Terrell was also drafted in the 2018 NFL Draft in the first round by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their father, Ferrell Edmunds, also played in the NFL, appearing in two Pro Bowls. Tremaine and Terrell Edmunds are the first set of brothers to be drafted in the first round of the same NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Virginia Tech Hokies bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Buffalo Bills bio

description: American football player from the United States

wikidata_label: Tremaine Edmunds

wikipedia_title: Tremaine Edmunds


text:
American football
safety
Pittsburgh Steelers
National Football League
college football
Virginia Tech
Dan River High School
Ringgold, Virginia
Virginia Tech
2018 NFL Draft
Tremaine
Twitter
Indianapolis
Mike Mayock
Pittsburgh Steelers
2018 NFL Draft
$
signing bonus
Morgan Burnett
Sean Davis
Mike Tomlin
Pittsburgh Steelers’
Cleveland Browns
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Mike Evans
Denver Broncos
Los Angeles Chargers
2018
Pro Football Focus
Trey
Tremaine
Buffalo Bills
Ferrell Edmunds
tight end
Pro Bowler
Miami Dolphins
NFL Draft
Virginia Tech Hokies bio
Pittsburgh Steelers bio

categories: Players of American football from Virginia,Sportspeople from Danville, Virginia,American football safeties,Virginia Tech Hokies football players,1997 births,Living people

paragraph: Terrell Edmunds

paragraph: FeDerius Terrell Edmunds (born January 20, 1997) is an American football safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Virginia Tech.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Edmunds played at Virginia Tech from 2014 to 2017. After his junior season in 2017, he decided to forgo his senior year and enter the 2018 NFL Draft. He finished his career with 196 tackles, six interceptions, and 1.5 sacks.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: On January 6, 2018, Edmunds announced his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2018 NFL Draft. Edmunds and his brother Tremaine released joint statements on their Twitter accounts regarding their declaration for the draft. He attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, but was unable to perform all of the combine and positional drills due to a pre-existing shoulder injury and after developing cramps.

paragraph: On March 14, 2018, Edmunds participated at Virginia Tech's pro day, but opted to stand on his combine numbers and only performed positional drills. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Edmunds was projected to be a third round pick by the majority of NFL draft experts and scouts. He was also ranked the third best strong safety in the draft by DraftScout.com and was ranked the sixth best safety by NFL analyst Mike Mayock.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:2018.

paragraph: The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Edmunds in the first round (28th overall) of the 2018 NFL Draft. Edmunds was the third safety drafted in 2018.

paragraph: On July 24, 2018, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed Edmunds to a four-year, $10.80 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $6 million. Throughout training camp, Edmunds competed to be a starting safety against veterans Morgan Burnett and Sean Davis. Head coach Mike Tomlin named Edmunds the backup strong safety, behind Morgan Burnett, to begin the regular season.

paragraph: He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season-opener at the Cleveland Browns and broke up one pass attempt during a 21–21 tie. Edmunds started in place of Morgan Burnett in the season-opener and became the permanent starting strong safety in Week 3 after Burnett was inactive for four games (Weeks 3-6) due to a groin injury. On September 24, 2018, Edmunds recorded one tackle, deflected a pass, and made his first career interception during a 30–27 win at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 3. Edmunds intercepted a pass by Buccaneers’ quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, that was intended for wide receiver Mike Evans, and returned it for a 35-yard gain during the second quarter. In Week 12, Edmunds collected a season-high nine solo during a 24–17 loss at the Denver Broncos. On December 2, 2018, he recorded eight combined tackles, deflected a pass, and made his first career sack as the Steelers lost 33–30 against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 13. He finished his rookie season in 2018 with 78 combined tackles (55 solo), four pass deflections, one sack, and one interception in 16 games and 15 starts. He received an overall grade of 63.7 from Pro Football Focus, which ranked 66th among all safeties in 2018.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: His brothers, Trey and Tremaine also played college football at Virginia Tech. Trey and Tremaine also play in the NFL. Trey plays for the Steelers and Tremaine plays for the Buffalo Bills. Their father, Ferrell Edmunds, also played in the NFL as a tight end. Ferrell was a two-time Pro Bowler with the Miami Dolphins as a tight end. Along with Tremaine, he was part of the first set of brothers to be drafted in the first round of the same NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Virginia Tech Hokies bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pittsburgh Steelers bio

description: American football safety

wikidata_label: Terrell Edmunds

wikipedia_title: Terrell Edmunds


text: prelate

text: Catholic Church

text: Diocese of Chur

text: Bishop of Reykjavík

text: Iceland

text: Fiesch

text: Switzerland

text: Pope John Paul II

text: Titular bishop

text: auxiliary bishop

text: Canton of Vaud

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Bishop of Reykjavík

text: Congregation for Oriental Churches

text: Pope Francis

text: Diocese of Chur

text: Roman Catholicism in Iceland

text: Christianity in Iceland

text: Roman Catholic Church in Iceland

categories: Icelandic Roman Catholic bishops,21st-century Roman Catholic bishops,1945 births,Swiss Roman Catholic bishops,Living people

paragraph: Pierre Bürcher

paragraph: Pierre Bürcher (born 20 December 1945) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who is currently serving as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chur. He was Bishop of Reykjavík, Iceland, from 2007 to 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Pierre Bürcher was born on 20 December 1945 in Fiesch, Switzerland. He was ordained a priest on 27 March 1971. After filling a variety of pastoral assignments, he spent the year 1989–90 studying clerical formation and then became rector of the major seminary of the Lausanne Diocese from 1990 to 1994.

paragraph: On 3 February 1994, Pope John Paul II appointed him Titular bishop of Maximiana in Byzacena and auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne, Genève and Fribourg. He received his episcopal consecration on 12 March. His tenure as episcopal vicar for the Canton of Vaud was marked by a longstanding dispute about personnel as the authorities with financial control did not support the staffing his pastoral program required. The bishop of the Diocese eventually relieved him of his responsibilities for the Canton.

paragraph: On 30 October 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Reykjavík. John Paul had made him a member of the Congregation for Oriental Churches in 2004, and Pope Francis confirmed his membership for another five-year term in 2014. In 2010 he participated in the Synod of Bishops on the Church in the Middle East.

paragraph: Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 18 September 2015, at the age of 69, because of health problems linked to volcanic dust. In retirement he lived in Jerusalem and spent part of the year accompanying pilgrimages.

paragraph: On 20 May 2019, Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chur, Switzerland.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholicism in Iceland

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christianity in Iceland

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholic Church in Iceland

description: Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

wikidata_label: Pierre Bürcher

wikipedia_title: Pierre Bürcher


text:
can-can
Moulin Rouge
La Goulue
Françoise Arnoul

categories: Musicians from Paris,1843 births,1907 deaths,French male dancers

paragraph: Valentin le désossé

paragraph: Valentin le Désossé ("Valentin the Boneless"; 26 February 1843 – 4 March 1907) was the stage name of Jacques Renaudin, a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge in the 1890s as the partner of Louise Weber, known as La Goulue (The Glutton).

paragraph: Section::::Star of the Moulin Rouge.

paragraph: Not much is known about the life of Jacques Renaudin. He may have been the son of a notary from Sceaux, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, and it is thought that, as an adult, he worked as a wine merchant by day. It is certain, however, that at night he danced at the Moulin Rouge, the famed cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. There he formed a partnership with La Goulue, dancing the "chahut", a form of the can-can. As a team, they were the toast of "tout le monde" in "fin de siècle" Paris.

paragraph: Renaudin was tall and slender, with an aquiline nose and a prominent chin, which gave him a distinctive profile, and long arms and legs, which gave him an elongated silhouette. He acquired his stage name because of the elasticity of his articulations. With lengthy limbs, he could perform difficult contortions with unusual grace, almost as if he were boneless. Moving from position to position with astonishing fluidity and beauty, usually wearing a black suit and a top hat, he was much admired.

paragraph: According to legend, he danced 39,962 waltzes, 27,220 quadrilles, 14,966 polkas and mazurkas, and 1,000 lancers for a total of 83,112 performances on the stage of the Moulin Rouge. He never accepted pay for his extraordinary performances, as he danced merely for the love of it. He retired from the stage in 1895 and faded into obscurity.

paragraph: Section::::Can-can.

paragraph: The can-can, spelled "cancan" in French and pronounced "kãkã", is an acrobatic form of the quadrille. Popular in French music halls and cabarets throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, it derived from the "chahut", a rowdy dance performed at public ballrooms by students, working girls, and young clerks.

paragraph: Characterized by freedom from propriety and by enthusiastic abandon, it requires great flexibility and remarkable vivacity. With no set steps, it permits wild inventiveness of movement--spectacular leaps, high kicks, cartwheels, and jump splits. The popularity of the dance with young people began to fade in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was taken up, with great success, by performers in cabarets and music halls such as the Casino de Paris and the Moulin Rouge.

paragraph: It usually featured a bevy of female dancers wearing long, flaring skirts, flouncing petticoats, and black stockings, held up by garters. Valentin le Désossé was one of the few men to dance the can-can professionally. He was a popular attraction at the Moulin Rouge in the early 1890s.

paragraph: Section::::Cultural references.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1889/90. Painting. Georges Seurat. "Le Chahut". Oil on canvas. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1891. Poster. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. "Moulin Rouge: La Goulue". Color lithograph. Approximate print run: 3,000 copies.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1934. Ballet. "Bar aux Folies-Bergère". Choreography by Ninette de Valois. Music by Emmanuel Chabrier. Created for Ballet Rambert, London, with Alicia Markova as La Goulue and Frederick Ashton as Valentin le Désossé.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1950. Novel. Pierre La Mure. "Moulin Rouge". Based on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Random House.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1952. Film. "Moulin Rouge". Directed by John Houston. Romulus Films. A biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, with Katherine Kath as La Goulue and Walter Crisham as Valentin le Désossé.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1954. Film. "French Cancan". A fictionalized history of the Moulin Rouge, written and directed by Jean Renois. Franco-London Films. With Françoise Arnoul as La Goulue and Phillipe Clay as Valentin le Désossé, called Nini and Casimir le Serpentin in the film.

description: French dancer

wikidata_label: Valentin le désossé

wikipedia_title: Valentin le désossé


text:
ballet dancer
Sweden
ballet master
Royal Swedish Ballet
France
Opéra-Comique
Paris
Jean-Georges Noverre
Du Londel Troupe
Bollhuset
Stockholm
Drottningholm Palace Theatre
Confidencen
Gustav III of Sweden
Sophie Hagman
Du Londel Troupe
Julie Alix de la Fay
Giovanna Bassi
Antoine de Beaulieu

wikipedia_title:
Ballet dancer
Sweden
Ballet master
Royal Swedish Ballet
France
Opéra-Comique
Paris
Jean-Georges Noverre
Du Londel Troupe
Bollhuset
Stockholm
Drottningholm Palace Theatre
Confidencen
Gustav III of Sweden
Sophie Hagman
Du Londel Troupe
Julie Alix de la Fay
Giovanna Bassi
Antoine de Beaulieu

categories: 18th-century French male actors,Gustavian era people,French male stage actors,People from Valencia,18th-century French ballet dancers,Ballet choreographers,French male ballet dancers,1803 deaths,Male actors from Paris,1730s births,French ballet masters

paragraph: Louis Gallodier

paragraph: Louis Gallodier (c. 1734 – 6 June 1803) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer who spent the majority of his career in Sweden, where he was to have a great importance for the development of the ballet in Sweden as the ballet master of the Royal Swedish Ballet.

paragraph: Section::::Biography and career.

paragraph: Louis Gallodier was born in France circa 1734. He was employed at the opera Opéra-Comique in Paris from 1756. As a dancer, he was a student of Jean-Georges Noverre. In 1758, he was hired as a member of the French Du Londel Troupe, which performed in the theatre of Bollhuset in Stockholm and in the court theatres Drottningholm Palace Theatre and Confidencen.

paragraph: When the French troup was fired in 1771 by Gustav III of Sweden, who wanted to found a national stage with native actors, the dancers of the French theatre were excluded from being fired. When the Swedish Royal Ballet was founded in 1773, several of them, such as the ballerina Ninon Dubois le Clerc, was to be a part of its first troup, and Gallodier was made its first ballet master. Elisabeth Soligny, his colleague from the French troupe, was often paired with him in the Ballets. Gallodier also composed several dances to ballets and operas. One of his pupils and dancers where Sophie Hagman.

paragraph: Louis Gallodier was in 1762-84 married to the Italian opera singer Gasparine Becheroni, active at the Italian opera company in Stockholm; in 1792 to the Swedish ballerina Judith Christina Brelin (1770–1794), and from 1796 with Marie Louise Du Londel (1776–1847), daughter of Louis Du Londel and Marguerite Morel of the Du Londel Troupe.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sylvie, opéra de Pierre Montan Berton (1774)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Neptun och Amphitrite, opéra-ballet (1775)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Æglé, opéra-ballet (1775)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adonis, opéra-ballet de Thomas Christian Walter (1776)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Procris och Cephal, opéra de Lars Lalin (1778)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zemire och Azor, comédie-ballet d'André Grétry (1778)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arsène, féerie-comédie de Monsigny (1779)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Atys, opéra-ballet de Piccinni (1784)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Julie Alix de la Fay

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giovanna Bassi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antoine de Beaulieu

description: French ballet dancer

wikidata_label: Louis Gallodier

wikipedia_title: Louis Gallodier


text:
catcher
Philadelphia Athletics
American Association
Talmadge, Pennsylvania

categories: Major League Baseball catchers,Sportspeople from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,Altoona Mountaineers players,Harrisburg Ponies players,Philadelphia Athletics (AA) players,Baseball players from Pennsylvania,Wilmington Peach Growers players,Lynn Lions players,1907 deaths,19th-century baseball players,Scranton Miners players,Reading Actives players,1868 births,Salem Witches players

paragraph: Whitey Gibson

paragraph: Leighton P. "Whitey" Gibson (October 6, 1868 – October 12, 1907) was a professional baseball catcher in the major leagues in 1888 for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association. He remained active in the minor leagues through 1893.

paragraph: Gibson died in 1907 in Talmadge, Pennsylvania of puerperal mania.

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Whitey Gibson

wikipedia_title: Whitey Gibson


text:
The Seahorses
The Shining
Gang of Four
Mark Howard (producer)
John Squire
Simon Tong
Nick McCabe
The Freelance Hellraiser
The Klaxons
Badly Drawn Boy
Shit Disco
Howie Day
Gail Ann Dorsey
Threshold
Youth
Garret Lee
David Botrill
Andy Gill
De Wolfe
EMI
Sony
Microsoft
Drumscapes.
Jazz
Trip Hop
Drum and Bass
Electronica
Ableton Live
Official Website
Protection racket artist page

categories: Gang of Four (band) members,Musicians from London,English session musicians,English rock drummers,1970 births,Living people

paragraph: Mark Heaney

paragraph: Mark Andrew Heaney (born 1970) is an English drummer and composer, hailing from London.

paragraph: He has worked with The Seahorses (1998–1999), The Shining (2001–2002) and Gang of Four (2006–2013).

paragraph: Heaney's interest in drumming began at the age of 5 when his father bought him his first drum kit and at the age of 10 he started working all over the UK as the feature drummer in his father's band.

paragraph: Heaney has recorded/toured the world extensively including tours of China, Japan, North America, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand with artists and Producers such as Mark Howard (producer) (Bob Dylan, U2, Neil Young), John Squire (The Stone Roses and The Seahorses), Simon Tong, Simon Jones and Nick McCabe (The Verve), The Freelance Hellraiser; The Klaxons, Badly Drawn Boy; Shit Disco; Howie Day, Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie and Gwen Stefani), Threshold, Youth, Garret Lee, David Botrill, Andy Gill and many others.

paragraph: Heaney also composes music for use in Film and TV worldwide, having created soundscapes utilising samples and sounds from all genres of music coupled with his own drumming.

paragraph: He has created bespoke works for many Music Production houses including De Wolfe, EMI, Sony, Microsoft and Wrong Planet music.

paragraph: Heaney has released 5 albums as a solo drumming artist. In 2017 his album Fortunes was in the 14 best drum albums as voted by the readers of Rhythm magazine.

paragraph: In 2018 Heaney released a new studio album called Drumscapes. and in April 2019 he followed it up with Drumscapes Vol 2. The albums featured his live drums against an intricate backdrop of soundscapes fusing music from Jazz, Trip Hop, Drum and Bass and Electronica. Vol 1 was nominated for Drum Album of 2018 by Rhythm magazine. When performing his solo work live, he uses an MPD32 and Ableton Live which enables manipulation of the audio in the moment allowing for improvisation within the framework of the tracks.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Protection racket artist page

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.dwdrums.com/artists/setups.asp

description: English drummer and composer

wikidata_label: Mark Heaney

wikipedia_title: Mark Heaney


text:
courtesy name
Tang dynasty
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Xuancheng
Hejian
Luoyang
Jinshi
Suizhou
Henan
Emperor Dezong of Tang
Guqin history
Huang Ruheng
Ming Dynasty
Quan Tangshi
Chinese Text Project
Book 147
Book 148
Book 149
Book 150
Book 151

categories: 785 deaths,Politicians from Xuancheng,8th-century Chinese poets,Tang dynasty politicians from Anhui,709 births,Poets from Anhui

paragraph: Liu Changqing

paragraph: Liu Changqing (; 709–785) , courtesy name Wenfang (文房) was a Chinese poet and politician during the Tang dynasty. Eleven of his poems were collected in the popular anthology "Three Hundred Tang Poems".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Liu Changqing was born around either 710 or 725. He came from the city of Xuancheng. His ancestral hometown was Hejian. Most of his youth was spent in the city of Luoyang. Liu obtained his Jinshi title around 750s. In 780, he became the governor of Suizhou in Henan province. Because of his term in Suizhou, Liu was often called Liu Suizhou by his contemporaries.

paragraph: He died around 786.

paragraph: Section::::Poetry.

paragraph: Liu's poems did not receive much praise during his lifetime although he was one of the representative poets during the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang. However, he was gradually acknowledged by later generations. Liu was especially skillful on the writing of poems with 5 characters.

paragraph: An example of his poetry can be seen below:

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guqin history (includes one poem with sound track)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Huang Ruheng (a Ming Dynasty calligrapher of Liu Changching)

paragraph: Section::::Works cited.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Watson, Burton (1971). "CHINESE LYRICISM: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century". New York: Columbia University Press.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Books of the "Quan Tangshi" that include collected poems of Liu Changqing at the Chinese Text Project:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Book 147

paragraph: BULLET::::- Book 148

paragraph: BULLET::::- Book 149

paragraph: BULLET::::- Book 150

paragraph: BULLET::::- Book 151

description: poet

wikidata_label: Liu Changqing

wikipedia_title: Liu Changqing


text:
British
Princess Charlotte of Wales
Cley next the Sea
Richard Cosway
Thomas Lawrence
Royal Academy
Prince William
Caroline Lamb
George IV
Princess Charlotte of Wales
George III of England
Sir Lawrence Jones, 2nd Baronet
Royal Collection
National Gallery
Maria Cosway

categories: 1847 deaths,1768 births,Portrait painters

paragraph: Charlotte Jones (painter)

paragraph: Charlotte Jones (1768 – 21 September 1847) was a British Miniature portrait painter. She was appointed 'Miniature Painter to the Princess Charlotte of Wales' from 1808 to the premature death of her patron. Princess Charlotte of Wales died shortly after failing to deliver a Royal heir. Jones' most memorable creation was a triptych that recorded the Princess's life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Jones family lived in Norfolk where her father, William, was a merchant in the small village of Cley next the Sea. Near the turn of the 19th century Jones moved to London after the death of William Jones. There she learnt how to create miniature paintings on ivory from Richard Cosway. Jones was taken into Sir Thomas Lawrence's and Cosway's group and her work is similar in style to her teacher with influence from Lawrence.

paragraph: After ten years of exhibiting at the Royal Academy and having been appointed 'Miniature Painter to the Princess Charlotte of Wales' in 1808, she started her own business in Lower Grovesnor Street in London in 1810. Here, her skills and striking appearance contributed to her success. She was able to attract commissions that included other members of the Royal family and an early portrait was of Prince William. He subjects included Lady Caroline Lamb and the future George IV.

paragraph: Her most well known work was "The Princess Charlotte, from her Cradle to her Grave' which was a triptych that was made up of twelve portraits of her erstwhile patron. Princess Charlotte of Wales died shortly after failing to deliver a Royal heir. This meant that there was no legitimate heir to George III of England and this caused widespread mourning. Jones was able to cover Charlotte's lifespan by drawing on sketches that had been made by Cosway of Charlotte when she was a child. The resulting triptych was initially owned by Sir Lawrence Jones, 2nd Baronet of Norfolk. After the triptych was exhibited it was purchased for the Royal Collection. Another unusual creation was 'The Eye of Princess Charlotte of Wales' which is in the British National Gallery. This is a gold locket which contains a water colour miniature of just the eye of the Princess, painted on ivory, surrounded by a frame of Princess Charlotte's hair.

paragraph: Jones was based in Bath later in life where she created a self-portrait. Richard Cosway's widow, the artist Maria Cosway left her money when she died in 1838 and Jones died in 1847 in London.

description: English miniature painter

wikidata_label: Charlotte Jones

wikipedia_title: Charlotte Jones (painter)


text:
Staffordshire
Mintons
Staffordshire pottery
Stoke-on-Trent
Thomas Minton
Justice of the Peace
Deputy Lieutenant
High Sheriff of Staffordshire
North Staffordshire
North Staffordshire Railway Company
Stretton en le Field

categories: 1885 deaths,1827 births,English justices of the peace,UK MPs 1874–1880,High Sheriffs of Staffordshire,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies,Staffordshire pottery

paragraph: Colin Minton Campbell

paragraph: Colin Minton Campbell, of Woodseat in Staffordshire, was a British businessman and Member of Parliament. On his death of his uncle Herbert Minton in 1858, Colin Minton Campbell took over leadership of the family company Mintons, a leading firm making Staffordshire pottery of many kinds in Stoke-on-Trent.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Campbell was born on 27 August 1827, the son of John Campbell of Liverpool by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Minton of Stoke-upon-Trent. He joined the Mintons partnership in 1849, with a 1/3 share. His uncle Herbert had decreased his involvement in day-to-day management in the years before his death in 1858, and Campbell was probably effectively in charge. Mintons retained its leading position during his period in charge, continuing to innovate.

paragraph: He served as a Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire, as a Deputy Lieutenant, and as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1869. He represented North Staffordshire in Parliament from 1874 to 1880. He was mayor of Stoke from 1880-83, and chairman of the North Staffordshire Railway Company from 1873 until 1883.

paragraph: On 3 August 1853 Campbell married Louisa Wilmot, daughter of the Rev. William A. Cave-Browne-Cave of Stretton en le Field. Their son John Fitzherbert Campbell was born in 1861 and succeeded to Woodseat on his father's death in 1885.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Godden, Geoffrey, "English China", 1985, Barrie & Jenkins,

description: British Justice of the Peace

wikidata_label: Colin Minton Campbell

wikipedia_title: Colin Minton Campbell


text:
American football
cornerback
college football
Louisville
Miami Central High School
Miami, Florida
Rakeem Cato
Tommy Shuler
Durell Eskridge
Devonta Freeman
interception
touchdown
Rivals.com
wide receiver
University of Louisville
redshirted
Teddy Bridgewater
wide receiver
cornerback
American Athletic Conference
2015 NFL Draft
2015 NFL Draft
Jacksonville Jaguars
Louisville Cardinals bio

categories: Cleveland Browns players,Living people,Players of American football from Florida,1992 births,Sportspeople from Miami,American football cornerbacks,Louisville Cardinals football players,Buffalo Bills players

paragraph: Charles Gaines (American football)

paragraph: Charles Gaines, Jr. (born October 3, 1992) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Louisville.

paragraph: Section::::High school.

paragraph: Gaines attended Miami Central High School in Miami, Florida, where he was part of the same graduating class as teammates Rakeem Cato, Tommy Shuler, Durell Eskridge and Devonta Freeman. As a senior, he helped lead his team to a class 6-A state title, recording a second quarter interception which he returned for a touchdown.

paragraph: Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, he was rated as the 43rd best wide receiver prospect of his class. On September 26, 2010, he accepted a scholarship and committed to the University of Louisville.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Gaines redshirted as a true freshman in 2011, after enrolling early in January 2011 with Teddy Bridgewater. In 2012, as a wide receiver, he caught 11 passes for 172 yards and one touchdown, but missed the final five games of the season due to a suspension, his second one that year. He returned to the team in April 2013, where he was moved to cornerback. He played in all 13 games, making 11 starts. He recorded 22 tackles and a team leading five interceptions, and earned first-team All-American Athletic Conference (AAC) honors. In 2014, he started 11 games for the Cardinals, recording 36 tackles with two interceptions.

paragraph: Following the season, he announced he would forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2015 NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cleveland Browns.

paragraph: Gaines drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round, 189th overall, of the 2015 NFL Draft. On May 10, 2015, Gaines signed a four-year, $2.402 million contract with the Browns, which included a $122,137 signing bonus. On September 3, 2016, he was released by the Browns.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Buffalo Bills.

paragraph: On December 7, 2016, Gaines was signed to the Bills' practice squad. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Bills on January 2, 2017. Gaines was waived by the Bills on May 25, 2017.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.

paragraph: On July 31, 2017, Gaines signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was waived/injured on August 20, 2017 and placed on injured reserve. He was released on August 25, 2017.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Louisville Cardinals bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Charles Gaines

wikipedia_title: Charles Gaines (American football)


text:
middle-distance runner
Finland
1928 Summer Olympics

categories: 1984 deaths,Olympic bronze medalists for Finland,Finnish male middle-distance runners,Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics,1900 births,People from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland),Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics,People from Kotka,Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics,Olympic athletes of Finland,Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)

paragraph: Eino Purje

paragraph: Eino Alfred Purje (21 February 1900 – 2 September 1984) was a middle-distance runner from Finland, who won the bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also reached the finals of the 5000 m race in 1928 and 1500 m event in 1932.

alias:
Eino Alfred Purje
Eino Alfred Borg
Eino Borg

description: Finnish athletics competitor

wikidata_label: Eino Purje

wikipedia_title: Eino Purje


text: Manchu

text: Bordered Yellow Banner

text: Qianlong Emperor

text: Han Chinese

text: Booi Aha

text: Minister of Personnel

text: Grand Secretary

text: Wenyuan Library

text: Hongli

text: Yongzheng Emperor

text: Eastern Qing tombs

text: Kangxi Emperor

text: Yongzheng Emperor

text: Qianlong Emperor

text: Jiangshan Weizhong

text: Tan Zhuo

text: Story of Yanxi Palace

text: Tong Yao

text: Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

categories: Qing dynasty imperial consorts,1745 deaths,1711 births

image: 512px-《心写治平》贵妃部分.jpg

paragraph: Imperial Noble Consort Huixian

paragraph: Imperial Noble Consort Huixian (1711 – 25 February 1745), of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Gaogiya clan, was a consort of the Qianlong Emperor.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Family background.

paragraph: Imperial Noble Consort Huixian's personal name was not recorded in history. She was a Han Chinese Booi Aha by birth.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Gao Bin (; 1683–1755), served as the Minister of Personnel from 1745–1747 and a Grand Secretary in the Wenyuan Library from 1747–1748

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paternal grandfather: Yanzhong ()

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paternal grandmother: Lady Li

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother: Lady Chen

paragraph: BULLET::::- One younger brother

paragraph: BULLET::::- Three younger sisters

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Yongzheng era.

paragraph: It is not known when Lady Gao become a lady-in-waiting, and then mistress, of Hongli, the fourth son of the Yongzheng Emperor. On 4 April 1734, she was elevated to his secondary consort.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Qianlong era.

paragraph: The Yongzheng Emperor died on 8 October 1735 and was succeeded by Hongli, who was enthroned as the Qianlong Emperor. Around the time, Gao Bin wrote a memorial to the Yongzheng Emperor, thanking him for a bunch of lychees, but it was too late as the emperor had already died when the memorial reached the palace, so the Qianlong Emperor replied in place of his father:

paragraph: On 23 January 1738, Lady Gao was granted the title "Noble Consort". As she was the only woman in the imperial harem holding the rank of Noble Consort at the time, she did not receive any special title to distinguish her from the emperor's other consorts.

paragraph: On 23 February 1745, when Lady Gao became critically ill, she was elevated to "Imperial Noble Consort" by the Qianlong Emperor. However, she never managed to attend the promotion ceremony because she died two days after the emperor announced his decision. In 1752, she was interred in the Yu Mausoleum of the Eastern Qing tombs.

paragraph: Section::::Titles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661–1722):

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Gao (from 1711)

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1722–1735):

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mistress

paragraph: BULLET::::- Secondary consort (; from 4 April 1734)

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796):

paragraph: BULLET::::- Noble Consort (; from 23 January 1738), third rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- Imperial Noble Consort (; from 23 February 1745), second rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Imperial Noble Consort Huixian" (; from 26 February 1745)

paragraph: Section::::In fiction and popular culture.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Fu Chong in "Jiangshan Weizhong" (2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Tan Zhuo in "Story of Yanxi Palace" (2018)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Tong Yao in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" (2018)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ranks of imperial consorts in China#Qing

paragraph: BULLET::::- Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty

description: Chinese imperial consort

wikidata_label: Imperial Noble Consort Huixian

wikipedia_title: Imperial Noble Consort Huixian


text: Manchu

text: Daoguang Emperor

text: lunar

text: Jiaqing Emperor

text: Gregorian calendar

text: Daoguang Emperor

text: Yicong

text: Yizhu

text: Western Qing tombs

text: Jiaqing Emperor

text: Daoguang Emperor

text: Xianfeng Emperor

text: Tongzhi Emperor

text: Yicong

text: Prince Dun of the Second Rank

text: Kingdom Yuen

text: The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty

text: Charmaine Li

text: Curse of the Royal Harem

text: Ranks of imperial consorts in China#Qing

text: Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty

categories: Qing dynasty imperial consorts,1808 births,1861 deaths,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Consort Xiang

paragraph: Consort Xiang (9 February 1808 – 15 February 1861), of the Manchu Niohuru clan, was a consort of the Daoguang Emperor. She was 26 years his junior and of the same age as his eldest son Prince Yiwei.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Family background.

paragraph: Consort Xiang's personal name was not recorded in history.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father: Jiufu (), served as a fifth rank literary official ()

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Jiaqing era.

paragraph: The future Consort Xiang was born on the 13th day of the first lunar month in the 13th year of the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor, which translates to 9 February 1808 in the Gregorian calendar.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Daoguang era.

paragraph: In 1821, Lady Niohuru entered the Forbidden City and was granted the title "Noble Lady Xiang" by the Daoguang Emperor. On 26 December 1823, she was elevated to "Concubine Xiang". On 2 March 1825, she gave birth to the emperor's second daughter, who would die prematurely on 27 August 1825.

paragraph: On 30 May 1825, Lady Niohuru was elevated to "Consort Xiang". She gave birth on 15 November 1829 to the emperor's fifth daughter, Princess Shouzang of the Second Rank, and on 23 July 1831 to his fifth son, Yicong.

paragraph: Even though Lady Niohuru and the Daoguang Emperor had three children, the emperor did not seem to favour her. In 1837, he demoted her to "Noble Lady Xiang" for reasons unknown. Lady Niohuru's father, Jiufu, was found guilty of corruption just before her demotion, but official records did not seem to point out any connection between her father's indictment and her demotion.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Xianfeng era.

paragraph: The Daoguang Emperor died on 26 February 1850 and was succeeded by his fourth son Yizhu, who was enthroned as the Xianfeng Emperor. The Xianfeng Emperor elevated Lady Niohuru to "Dowager Concubine Xiang". She died on 15 February 1861 and was interred in the Mu Mausoleum of the Western Qing tombs.

paragraph: Section::::Titles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor (r. 1796–1820):

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Niohuru (from 9 February 1808)

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Daoguang Emperor (r. 1820–1850):

paragraph: BULLET::::- Noble Lady Xiang (; from 1821), sixth rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine Xiang (; from 26 December 1823), fifth rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- Consort Xiang (; from 30 May 1825), fourth rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- Noble Lady Xiang (; from 1837), sixth rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor (r. 1850–1861):

paragraph: BULLET::::- Concubine Xiang (; from 16 April 1851), fifth rank consort

paragraph: BULLET::::- During the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875):

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Consort Xiang" (; from 23 November 1861), fourth rank consort

paragraph: Section::::Issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- As Concubine Xiang:

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Daoguang Emperor's second daughter (2 March 1825 – 27 August 1825)

paragraph: BULLET::::- As Consort Xiang:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Princess Shouzang of the Second Rank (; 15 November 1829 – 9 August 1856), the Daoguang Emperor's fifth daughter

paragraph: BULLET::::- Married Enchong (; d. 1864) of the Manchu Namdulu () clan on 3 January 1843

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yicong (; 23 July 1831 – 18 February 1889), the Daoguang Emperor's fifth son, granted the title Prince Dun of the Second Rank in 1838, elevated to Prince Dun of the First Rank in 1860, posthumously honoured as Prince Dunqin of the First Rank

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Kingdom Yuen in "The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty" (1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portrayed by Charmaine Li in "Curse of the Royal Harem" (2011)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

description: Qing Dynasty imperial consort

wikidata_label: Consort Xiang

wikipedia_title: Consort Xiang


text: Sahib

text: Mridha

text: Bengal

text: Natore

text: feudal

text: lord

text: Bengal

text: British Empire

text: Zamindar of Natore

text: House of Singra and Natore

text: Mridha

text: Defense Minister

text: Maharajas of Rajshahi

text: Muhammad Zaheer Shah Mirza

text: Sahib

text: patriarch

text: Singranatore family

text: Mirza Mahal

text: Natore

text: Persian

text: Arabic

text: Hindi

text: Urdu

text: Bengali

text: Rajshahi Collegiate School

text: Pabna Peasant Uprisings

text: Madhyasvatva

text: zamindar

text: Maharaja

text: Natore

text: horse

text: lathial

text: foot soldiers

text: elephant

text: Cholera

text: Natore Sadar

text: British Raj

text: Ruling family of Natore

text: Bengal

text: Maharajas of Burdwan

text: Jalaluddin Mirza

text: Zamindar of Natore

text: The Singranatore family

text: Zamindars of Bengal

paragraph: Mirza Zafar

paragraph: Sahib Muhammad Ja'faar ud-Din Mirza Mridha (born 1876 in Bengal, died 1921 in Natore) was a feudal lord in Bengal, British Empire who served as the second Zamindar of Natore from the House of Singra and Natore and the ""Mridha"" (Defense Minister) under the Maharajas of Rajshahi.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He was born in 1876 as the oldest child and first son of Muhammad Zaheer Shah Mirza Sahib, the patriarch of the aristocratic Singranatore family in Mirza Mahal palace in Natore and educated privately in Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali before attending the Rajshahi Collegiate School. He married twice, firstly Humaira Begum and the Abeeda Sultana and had three sons and a daughter.

paragraph: His father crushed the Pabna Peasant Uprisings in 1871 for which he was given tracts of land with the ownership made hereditary as a "Madhyasvatva". After the death of his father, he ascended to his position and rights as a "zamindar". His father had served under Maharaja Chondronath Roy of Natore and maintained 25 horses for 30 lathial (foot soldiers) and three elephants.

paragraph: Section::::Biography and military affairs (1870-1921).:Death.

paragraph: He died in 1921 of Cholera in Natore Sadar, British Raj.

paragraph: Section::::Biography and military affairs (1870-1921).:Later successors and legacy.

paragraph: The estate which he inherited was extended outwards and was made up of fragmented lands belonging to the declining Ruling family of Natore, which was at one point the second largest estate in all of Bengal after the Maharajas of Burdwan. His son, Jalaluddin Mirza inherited the position after his death in Bengal.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zamindar of Natore

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Singranatore family listed among the Zamindars of Bengal at Genealogical Gleanings of the Indian Princely States

description: Mughel prince

wikidata_label: Mirza Zafar

wikipedia_title: Mirza Zafar


text:
Italian
landscapes
vedutisti
Venice
Forno di Canale
vedute
Marco Ricci
Francesco Zuccarelli
Villa Pisani
Treviso

categories: People from Canale d'Agordo,Italian vedutisti,Italian male painters,1784 deaths,18th-century Italian painters,1709 births

paragraph: Giuseppe Zais

paragraph: Giuseppe Zais (; March 22, 1709 – October 29, 1784) was an Italian painter of landscapes ("vedutisti") who painted mostly in Venice. He was born in Forno di Canale.

paragraph: He was influenced in his vedute by Marco Ricci and later Francesco Zuccarelli, who helped train him. He is best known for frescoes in Villa Pisani in Stra. While he had been a member of the Academy of Painters in Venice from 1774, he died in poverty at Treviso.

alias:
Giuseppe Zaïs
guiseppe zais
g. zais
Zais Giuseppe
Gius. Zais
J. Zais
Zais

description: Italian painter

wikidata_label: Giuseppe Zais

wikipedia_title: Giuseppe Zais


text: house of Arodus

text: king of the Lombards

text: Brescia

text: Arioald

text: Arian

text: Fredegar

text: Genoa

text: Eastern Roman

text: Liguria

text: valley of the Po

text: Oderzo

text: Paul the Deacon

text: Luna

text: Eastern Roman Empire

text: exarch of Ravenna

text: Plato

text: Panaro

text: Modena

text: Grimoald

text: Edictum Rothari

text: Latin

text: gairethinx

text: Roman law

text: Rodoald

text: baptistery

text: Monte Sant'Angelo

categories: 7th-century kings of Italy,7th-century Lombard people,Lombard warriors,Lombard kings,Year of birth unknown,7th-century Arian Christians,7th-century monarchs in Europe,652 deaths

paragraph: Rothari

paragraph: Rothari (or Rothair), ( 606 – 652), of the house of Arodus, was king of the Lombards from 636 to 652; previously he had been duke of Brescia. He succeeded Arioald, who was an Arian like himself, and was one of the most energetic of Lombard kings. Fredegar relates ("Chronicle", 71) that at the beginning of his reign he put to death many insubordinate nobles, and that in his efforts for peace he maintained very strict discipline.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Rothari conquered Genoa in 641 and the rest of Eastern Roman Liguria in 643. He conquered all remaining Eastern Roman territories in the lower valley of the Po, including Oderzo ("Opitergium") in 641. According to Paul the Deacon, "Rothari then captured all the cities of the Romans which were situated upon the shore of the sea from the city of Luna in Tuscany up to the boundaries of the Franks." (IV.xlv)

paragraph: With these quick conquests, he left the Eastern Roman Empire with only the Ravennan marshes in northern Italy. The exarch of Ravenna, Plato, tried to regain some territory, but his invading army was defeated by Rothari on the banks of the Scultenna (the Panaro) near Modena, with the loss of 8,000 men, in 645. However, he recaptured Oderzo at same year. Oderzo finally was razed again by Grimoald in 667.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Rothari's most lasting act was drawing up the eponymous "Edictum Rothari" which was the first written codification of Lombard law (it was written in Latin). He convened a gairethinx to affirm this new and improved collection of old tradition in 642 or 643. The edict only covered his Lombard men and subjects: Romans continued to live under Roman law in Lombard jurisdictions.

paragraph: He was succeeded by his son Rodoald. A baptistery in Monte Sant'Angelo is traditionally known as the "Tomb of Rothari".

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul the Deacon, "Historia Langobardorum" IV.xlii and xlv ( English translation by William Dudley Foulke, 1907)

description: king of the Lombards

wikidata_label: Rothari

wikipedia_title: Rothari


text: Major League Baseball

text: left fielder

text: Minnesota Twins

text: World Series

text: California State University, Fresno

text: San Francisco Giants

text: Minnesota Twins

text: World Series

text: grand slam

text: World Series ring

text: Atlanta Braves

text: 1991 Series

text: Gene Larkin

text: Alejandro Peña

text: Detroit Tigers

text: Yomiuri Giants

text: Japan Series

text: Hideki Matsui

text: Colorado Rockies

text: World Series

text: Randy Bush

text: Greg Gagne

text: Kirby Puckett

text: Al Newman

text: Gene Larkin

text: Kent Hrbek

text: runs

text: RBI

text: stolen bases

text: color commentator

text: WCCO-AM

text: KSTP

text: Frick award

text: Herb Carneal

text: play-by-play

text: John Gordon

text: Harley Davidson

text: Eden Prairie, Minnesota

text: Gary Gaetti

text: Retrosheet

text: Minnesota Twins Broadcasters

text: Pura Pelota

categories: Toledo Mud Hens players,American expatriate baseball players in Japan,1957 births,Shreveport Captains players,Minnesota Twins broadcasters,Fresno State Bulldogs baseball players,San Francisco Giants players,Detroit Tigers players,Baseball players from California,Minnesota Twins players,Major League Baseball broadcasters,Sportspeople from San Jose, California,Colorado Rockies scouts,Phoenix Giants players,California State University, Fresno alumni,Living people,Tigres de Aragua players,Phoenix Firebirds players,Fresno Giants players

paragraph: Dan Gladden

paragraph: Clinton Daniel Gladden III (born July 7, 1957) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current radio broadcaster. He was the starting left fielder with the Minnesota Twins' two World Series Championship teams in 1987 and 1991.

paragraph: Section::::Baseball career.

paragraph: Known as "The Dazzle Man", he attended California State University, Fresno and was signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1979. He made his debut with the Giants in 1983, and in 1984 he batted .351 with 31 stolen bases as the Giants' center fielder.

paragraph: In 1987, Gladden was traded to the Minnesota Twins, and won a World Series championship with them in his first year. In Game 1, he hit the first grand slam in a World Series game in 17 years. He would earn another World Series ring with the Twins in , when they beat the Atlanta Braves in what is sometimes called the greatest World Series ever played. In the intense and memorable Game 7 of the 1991 Series, Gladden stretched a bloop hit into a double before scoring the winning run on Gene Larkin's single off of Atlanta's Alejandro Peña, in the bottom of the 10th inning.

paragraph: After the 1991 season, Gladden signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers, and played with them until 1993. He spent 1994 in Japan playing for the Yomiuri Giants, winning a Japan Series championship. Because of the 1994-95 MLBPA strike, Gladden's championship with the "kyojin" is regarded by some fans as a world championship, and he retired from the game as a player on top as a three-time world champion with the distinction of having won championships in two continents (as does teammate Hideki Matsui, who won the World Series in 2009 with the New York Yankees), and returned to the Twins as a scout (spring training, 1995), then the Colorado Rockies (advance, 1996–1998). He spent 1999 as a roving instructor for the San Francisco Giants.

paragraph: Gladden was one of seven Twins to be part of both the 1987 and 1991 World Series teams. The other six were Randy Bush, Greg Gagne, Kirby Puckett, Al Newman, Gene Larkin, and Kent Hrbek.

paragraph: In an 11-year major league career covering 1,196 games, Gladden hit .270 (1215-for-4501) with 663 runs, 74 home runs, 446 RBI, and 222 stolen bases. In the 1987 and 1991 post-season with the Minnesota Twins, in 24 games he batted .279 (29-for-104), scoring 17 runs, with one home run, 15 RBI and 7 stolen bases.

paragraph: Section::::Broadcasting career.

paragraph: In 2000, Gladden became the color commentator on the Twins' radio network broadcast, most notably on WCCO-AM through 2006 and on the Twins Radio Network and its Metro Affiliate KSTP starting in 2007. He worked alongside Frick award-winning commentator Herb Carneal and the Twins' play-by-play man, John Gordon; Carneal died on April 1, 2007, leaving Gladden to deliver color commentary full-time.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Gladden is an avid owner and rider of Harley Davidson motorcycles and sometimes takes time off to ride and attend famous bike rallies.

paragraph: Gladden currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

paragraph: Gladden's daughter Ashley married the son of his former Twins teammate Gary Gaetti.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: , or Baseball Reference (Minor and Japanese leagues), or Retrosheet, or Minnesota Twins Broadcasters, or Pura Pelota

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Dan Gladden

wikipedia_title: Dan Gladden


text: Russian

text: Circassia

text: military expedition

text: Central Asia

text: Kabarda

text: Peter the Great

text: navigation

text: Russia

text: Ottoman Empire

text: Turkmen

text: Astrakhan

text: Oxus

text: Caspian Sea

text: Khiva

text: Aral Sea

text: Prince Gagarin

text: Khanate of Khiva

text: Oxus

text: St. Petersburg

text: Great Northern War

text: India

text: Mughal Empire

text: Astrakhan

text: Caspian Sea

text: Turkmenistan

text: Krasnovodsk

text: Alexandrovsk

text: Tatars

text: Turkmen

text: Khiva

text: war with Sweden

text: Ottoman Empire

text: Russian Empire

text: Khivan campaign of 1839

text: Khivan campaign of 1873

categories: Russian former Muslims,Russian explorers,Imperial Russian politicians,Circassians,Russian nobility,1717 deaths,Circassian nobility,Russian military leaders,Explorers of Central Asia,Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Islam

paragraph: Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky

paragraph: Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky (), born Devlet-Girei-mırza () (died 1717), was a Russian officer of Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: A Muslim by birth, and the son of one of Kabarda's rulers, Alexander converted to Christianity and joined the Russian service, although the dates and circumstances of these events are not on record. In 1707, he was commissioned by Peter the Great to study navigation in Western Europe, and towards the end of 1711 he was back in Russia. From there, he was sent back to his native Kabarda and persuaded some powerful men there to support the Russian Tsar in his operations against the Ottoman Empire.

paragraph: Section::::Dreaming of Eldorado.

paragraph: Two years later, a Turkmen traveller arrived in Astrakhan and announced to local authorities that the Oxus River, formerly flowing to the Caspian Sea, had been diverted by the Khivans to the Aral Sea in order to extract golden sand from the river waters. Prince Gagarin, who was a local governor at that time, sent his envoys to the Khanate of Khiva in order to verify the fable. They returned with a sack of golden sand, allegedly extracted from the Oxus.

paragraph: The fable was then given credit, and the Turkmen brought to St. Petersburg. Tsar Peter, informed about the fabulous wealth of Khiva, was desperately in need of gold to proceed with the Great Northern War. On 14 February 1716 a contingent of 7,000 troops was placed under the command of Prince Bekovich-Cherkassky as a Muslim by birth and an expert in the art of warfare.

paragraph: Bekovich-Cherkassky was commissioned: 1) to survey the river-bed of the Oxus and to report on the possibility of its diversion to the Caspian; 2) to force the Khivan khan into subservience; 3) to erect a chain of fortifications along the Oxus; 4) to send envoys to India in order to establish direct trade with the Mughal Empire.

paragraph: Section::::Khivan disaster.

paragraph: Bekovich-Cherkassky received these orders in Astrakhan, where he was engaged in the surveying work, preparing the first map of the Caspian Sea. He was promoted captain and commanded a preliminary expedition in Turkmenistan. He left some of the Cossacks on his way in order to set up the forts in Krasnovodsk and Alexandrovsk.

paragraph: Back in Astrakhan by February 1717, Bekovich raised another army and started towards Khiva, together with some engineers and land surveyors. It was many months later that several Tatars returned and brought the appalling news of the catastrophe that befell the Khivan expedition. The newly built forts in Turkmenistan were at once evacuated, and that at considerable loss from inclement weather and Turkmen tribesmen.

paragraph: What exactly happened with Bekovich-Cherkassky remains a matter of some controversy. According to a few surviving members of his contingent, they advanced to within 120 km from Khiva, when the khan attacked them with a 24,000-strong army. After three days of bloody fighting, the Khivans were routed.

paragraph: Seeing that the enemy was very numerous, Bekovich-Cherkassky understood that diplomacy had a better chance of success. The Russian officer, accompanied only by 500 of his men, rode into the enemy's camp to propose terms. The khan pretended to surrender to him, welcomed him warmly, persuading him to divide the Russian army to dwell in five separate towns in order to facilitate foraging. The Khivans then attacked the five towns one by one, slaughtering most Russians, selling the others as slaves, and executed all Russian officers including Prince Cherkassky.

paragraph: Peter the Great did nothing to avenge the defeat since he was still occupied by the war with Sweden, and also by the hostility of the Ottoman Empire. It was more than a century later that the Russian Empire resumed its military expeditions into Central Asia.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khivan campaign of 1839

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khivan campaign of 1873

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Archive of documents pertaining to the Bekovich-Cherkassky Expedition

description: Russian explorer

wikidata_label: Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky

wikipedia_title: Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky


text: count of Ponthieu

text: Abbeville

text: Enguerrand I of Ponthieu

text: Guy

text: bishop of Amiens

text: Bertha of Aumale

text: Countess of Aumale

text: Enguerrand II

text: The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio

text: William of Talou

text: Arques

text: duke William

text: Normandy

categories: 1052 deaths,Counts of Ponthieu,11th-century French people,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu

paragraph: Hugh II of Ponthieu was count of Ponthieu and lord of Abbeville, the son of Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Evidently Hugh II was the half brother of Guy, who became the bishop of Amiens; Fulk, who became the abbot of Forest l'Abbaye; and Robert. However, it is possible that both Robert and Hugh II were the sons of Enguerrand's first wife, and Guy and Fulk the sons of a later wife that Enguerrand I married when he was in his forties.

paragraph: Hugh II was married to Bertha of Aumale, Countess of Aumale. They had at least five children: Enguerrand II who succeeded Hugh II as Count of Ponthieu; Robert; Hugh (whose name is inferred by evidence contained within The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio); Waleran, and a daughter who was married to William of Talou, the count of Arques, and uncle to duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror).

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medieval Lands Project on Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu

description: French count

wikidata_label: Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu

wikipedia_title: Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu


text:
hero
Guanajuato
Mexico
turkey
miner
San Miguel de Allende
export
silver
mineral
Mexican War of Independence
Dolores
Miguel Hidalgo
criollo
priest
Pénjamo
Spanish
grain
warehouse
Alhóndiga de Granaditas
granary
fortress
muskets
tar
torch
insurgents
soldier
funicular
plaza
José Mariano Jiménez
Monument to El Pípila

categories: 1863 deaths,1810 in Mexico,1782 births,People from San Miguel de Allende

paragraph: El Pípila

paragraph: El Pípila () is the nickname of a local hero of the city of Guanajuato in Mexico. His real name was Juan José de los Reyes Martínez Amaro (1782–1863), son of Pedro Martínez and María Rufina Amaro. Word for a hen turkey, it is said his nickname stands for his freckled face (similar to that of a turkey egg) or his laughter resembling the bird's peculiar gargle.

paragraph: "Pípila" was a miner. He came from the nearby town of San Miguel, now San Miguel de Allende, and worked in the Mellado mine. (The Rayas and Mellado mines were the first in Guanajuato, opened in 1558). Miners are of great importance in the state and city of Guanajuato, which was the largest exporter of silver in the world at the end of the 18th century. Silver and other minerals are still mined there today.

paragraph: "Pípila", became famous for an act of heroism near the very beginning of the Mexican War of Independence, on 28 September 1810. The insurrection had begun in the nearby town of Dolores, led by Miguel Hidalgo, a criollo priest born in Pénjamo. He soon moved to the city of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, where the Spanish barricaded themselves–along with plenty of silver and other riches–in a grain warehouse known as the Alhóndiga de Granaditas. The granary was a stone fortress with high stone walls, but its wooden door proved to be a shortcoming.

paragraph: With a long, flat stone tied to his back to protect him from the muskets of the Spanish troops, Pípila carried tar and a torch to the door of the Alhóndiga and set it on fire. The insurgents–who far outnumbered the Spanish in the warehouse–stormed inside and killed all the soldiers and the civil Spanish refugees. Some accounts say that Pípila was not alone but went accompanied by other indigenous miners ready to fight for their freedom from the Spanish, but as the story is told today in Guanajuato, Pípila stood alone to break through the door.

paragraph: Section::::The monument.

paragraph: The stone monument of a muscular man, holding aloft a flaming torch, towers on a hill at the edge of the city. Visitors can ride on a funicular to and from the monument, or they can walk up one of several steep stairways to the top. At the base of the monument, a series of broad stone plazas provides plenty of space for the numerous camera-carrying tourists and young lovers. From the foot of the monument, they have a fantastic view of the whole city of Guanajuato.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- José Mariano Jiménez

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monument to El Pípila

paragraph: El Pípila at the door of the Alhóndiga (Museo del Caracol, Mexico City)

alias:
Juan José de los Reyes Martínez Amaro
El Pipila
Juan Jose de los Reyes Martinez Amaro

description: Mexican miner and freedom fighter

wikidata_label: El Pípila

wikipedia_title: El Pípila