text:
Nayanar
Hindu
Shaivism
Shiva
Tamil
Periya Puranam
Sekkizhar
Thiruvakkur
Nagapattinam district
Tamil Nadu
Chola
Shiva
Brahmin
caste
Vedas
Panchakshara
mantra
yajna
fire sacrifices
vibhuti
Kailash
Telugu
Basava Purana
Palkuriki Somanatha
Sivananda Saraswati
Japa
Yoga
Somasi Mara Nayanar
bhakti
Sundarar
Sri Thanthondreeswarar temple
Kocengannan
Airavatesvara Temple
Darasuram
Rajaraja Chola II
yagnopavita
Tamil month
Karthikai
Pūrva Ashādhā
nakshatra
Anjali mudra

paragraph: Sirappuli Nayanar

paragraph: Sirappuli Nayanar, also known as Sirappuli (also spelled as Cirappuli, Chirappuli), Sirapuli Nayanar, Sirappuliyar (Chirappuliyar), was a Nayanar saint, venerated in the Hindu sect of Shaivism. He is generally counted as the thirty-fifth in the list of 63 Nayanars. Sirappuli Nayanar is described to have served the devotees of the god Shiva and worshipped the god with various ritual practices.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: The life of Sirappuli Nayanar is described in the Tamil "Periya Puranam" by Sekkizhar (12th century), which is a hagiography of the 63 Nayanars. The "Puranam of Sirappuli Nayanar", as his chapter is called in the "Periya Puranam" is composed of 6 stanzas.

paragraph: Sirappuli Nayanar was born in Thiruvakkur (Akkur/Aakkoor), Nagapattinam district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In the times of Sirappuli Nayanar, Thiruvakkur was part of the Chola kingdom. He was a staunch devotee of Shiva, the patron god of Shaivism. Thiruvakkur was famed for its generous Brahmins, members of the priestly caste. Sirappuli was one of them. Sirappuli's family was traditionally associated with memorizing and chanting the Vedas, one of Hinduism's most sacred scriptures. The Nayanar saint used to donate generously. He is praised as a "munificent giver" and called a "nimbus which rained wealth". He welcomed the devotees of Shiva to his home and prostrated before them. Sirappuli Nayanar spoke sweet words to his guests. He used to feed them and presented them with gifts. Sirappuli regularly recited the Panchakshara mantra. dedicated to Shiva. He performed many "yajna"s (ritual sacrifices) - including fire sacrifices - in honour of Shiva. The saint is also described to smear "vibhuti" (sacred ash) on his body. He spent his days serving Shiva and his devotees, and finally attained his divine abode Kailash after death.

paragraph: The 13th-century Telugu "Basava Purana" of Palkuriki Somanatha retells the legend of Sirappuli (called Cirupuli in the account) in brief and with some variation.

paragraph: According to the Hindu spiritual leader Sivananda Saraswati, the legend of Sirappuli Nayanar conveys the greatness of the Panchakshara mantra of Shiva and the glory of "Japa", the practice of repeating the name of God or his mantra. The saint is sometimes described to chant the mantra eternally without stopping. Though calling Japa the simplest form of worship, Sivananda exalts it the "highest Yoga" and preaches that one should always recall the name of God, as the great saint did. Sirappuli Nayanar is compared to another Nayanar, Somasi Mara Nayanar, who also embarked on the similar path of bhakti (devotion), employing Hindu rituals like yajnas as well as the Panchakshara mantra to please Shiva.

paragraph: Section::::Remembrance.

paragraph: One of the most prominent Nayanars, Sundarar (8th century) venerates Sirappuli Nayanar in the "Tiruthonda Thogai", a hymn to Nayanar saints and praising him as generous and famed.

paragraph: Sirappuli Nayanar is associated with the Sri Thanthondreeswarar temple, the Shiva temple in his home town Thiruvakkur. A shrine is dedicated to him, in the temple. A legend tells that the Nayanar had vowed to feed a thousand devotees every day. Once, Shiva himself came as the thousandth devotee in the feast to complete the thousand. Thus, the icon of the temple is called Ayirathil Oruvar ("one in a thousand"). Some versions of the legend replace Sirappuli with the Chola king and Nayanar Kocengannan, who is credited as the builder of the temple.

paragraph: The tale of Sirappuli Nayanar is carved in the Airavatesvara Temple, the 12th-century Shiva temple in Darasuram built by the Chola king Rajaraja Chola II. Sirappuli is depicted as a Brahmin, identified by his "yagnopavita" (sacred thread), giving away gifts to two individuals. An inscription below the scene identifies it as "Sirappuliandar".

paragraph: Sirappuli Nayanar is worshipped in the Tamil month of Karthikai, when the moon enters the Pūrva Ashādhā nakshatra (lunar mansion). He is depicted with folded hands (see Anjali mudra). He receives collective worship as part of the 63 Nayanars. Their icons and brief accounts of his deeds are found in many Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu. Their images are taken out in procession in festivals.

wikidata_label: Sirappuli Nayanar

wikipedia_title: Sirappuli Nayanar


text: United States

text: Hinesburg, Vermont

text: Marblehead, Massachusetts

text: Corcoran Gallery

text: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

text: Paris Salon

text: National Academy of Design

text: List of Orientalist artists

text: Orientalism

text: William Lamb Picknell

categories: People from Hinesburg, Vermont,1897 deaths,Orientalist painters,American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts,American male painters,1853 births,Pont-Aven painters,People from Marblehead, Massachusetts,National Academy of Design associates,19th-century American painters

paragraph: William Lamb Picknell

paragraph: William Lamb Picknell (23 October 1853 – 8 August 1897) was a United States painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style. He was born in Hinesburg, Vermont and died in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Born in Hinesburg, Vermont, William was the son of Ellen Maria Upham and the Reverend William Lamb Picknell, a Baptist minister, both of New England families. In July, 1868, the summer following his father's death, the Picknell family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts.

paragraph: He began his career by working in a Boston frame shop. In 1872, he travelled to Europe where he trained with Jean-Léon Gérôme in Rome (1874–75) and also received some informal training from Robert Wylie in Brittany.

paragraph: Throughout the 1880s, he primarily lived Waltham, Massachusetts, but frequently travelled abroad; spending two winters in England and also visiting other parts of the US, including Florida and California. He was living at Moret-sur-Loing, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, for most of the 1890s, but often spent the winters in the south of France. He returned to Massachusetts in 1897, where he died.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Road to Concarneau" 1880, Corcoran Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lobster Fisherman" 1882

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lande de Kerran, Finistere" 1877

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Morning on the Loing at Moret" ca. 1895, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Banks of the Loing" ca. 1895

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Honorable Mention, Paris Salon, 1880 ("The Road to Concarneau")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Member, Society of American Artists

paragraph: BULLET::::- Associate, National Academy of Design

paragraph: BULLET::::- Member, Society of British Artists

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Orientalist artists

paragraph: BULLET::::- Orientalism

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Lamb Picknell from the Dictionary of American Artists

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Lamb Picknell on the Amico Library

alias:
Lucien Picknell
Picknell
picknell w.l.
W. L. Picknell

description: American artist

wikidata_label: William Lamb Picknell

wikipedia_title: William Lamb Picknell


text:
speed skater
1980 Winter Olympics

categories: Living people,Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics,1950 births,People from Weststellingwerf,Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics,Dutch female speed skaters,Olympic speed skaters of the Netherlands,Sportspeople from Friesland

paragraph: Sijtje van der Lende

paragraph: Sijtje van der Lende (born 31 January 1950) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands and a skating coach. She competed at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics in all distances from 500 to 3000 m. Her best achievement was ninth place in the 3000 m in 1976.

paragraph: She won the national allround title in 1976 and 1977 and finished in third place in 1974, 1975, 1978 and 1980.

paragraph: Personal bests:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 500 m – 43.66 (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1000 m – 1:25.86 (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1500 m – 2:12.59 (1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3000 m – 4:39.15 (1977)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 5000 m – 8:25.3 (1982)

paragraph: After retirement she worked as a skating coach with various teams in the Netherlands, and in 1994 became the first female national coach. Her last professional speedskatingteam was VPZ (2005-2008). From 2008 till the Olympic winter games at Vancouver in 2010 she works with the national team of China. At the moment she's advisor for Topteam North Netherlands, a group of talented young speed skaters in this district.

alias:
Sijtje Tjepkema-van der Lende
Sijtje Lende

description: speed skater

wikidata_label: Sijtje van der Lende

wikipedia_title: Sijtje van der Lende


text:
speed skater
1972 Winter Olympics
European
world allround championships
triathlon
2008 Ironman World Championship
slaughterhouse
Barneveld
avian influenza

categories: World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists,1950 births,Speed skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics,People from Oostzaan,Dutch female speed skaters,Olympic speed skaters of the Netherlands,Living people

paragraph: Trijnie Rep

paragraph: Trijntje "Trijnie" Rep (later Roozendaal; born 4 December 1950) is a Dutch former speed skater from who competed for the Netherlands at the 1972 Winter Olympics in the 500 and 1000 m and finished in 20th and 24th place, respectively. The following year she won a silver medal at the European and a bronze medal at the world allround championships.

paragraph: Personal bests:

paragraph: BULLET::::- 500 m – 44.3 (1971)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1000 m – 1:30.5 (1971)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1500 m – 2:19.50 (1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3000 m – 4:54.27 (1972)

paragraph: After retiring from skating Rep competed in triathlon, in particular in the 2008 Ironman World Championship. She also ran the slaughterhouse "Rep en Rozendaal" in Barneveld, but went bankrupt in 2006 due to the impact of avian influenza.

description: speed skater

wikidata_label: Trijnie Rep

wikipedia_title: Trijnie Rep


text: promoter

text: tour manager

text: Las Vegas

text: Halloween Town

text: The Killers

text: Louis XIV

text: The Shys

text: Don't Shoot Me Santa

text: I Feel It in My Bones

text: Dirt Sledding

text: Rodney H. Pardey

text: Rodney E. Pardey

text: The Diviners

text: Matthew Gray Gubler

text: Baron Vaughn

text: Rutina Wesley

text: UNLV

text: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

text: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas

text: Sam's Town Tour

text: Sawdust

text: web series

text: Las Vegas Weekly

text: Mark Stoermer

text: The Whigs

text: Tokyo Police Club

text: The Silent Comedy

text: San Diego

text: The Shys

text: Bed Rock Studios

text: Echo Park

text: Louis XIV

text: Mandalay Bay Events Center

text: Transfer

text: Neon Reverb

text: vinyl 7"

text: Midwest

text: Highline Ballroom

text: New York City

text: Fremont East

text: Austin, Texas

text: SXSW

text: Haiti

text: devastating earthquake

text: The Palms

text: Matt Gubler

text: Mark Stoermer

text: Dave Keuning

text: Jason Hill

text: Brian Karscig

text: The Red Romance

text: Ambulance LTD

text: CityLife magazine

text: Tony Hsieh

text: Downtown Project

text: Matthew Gray Gubler

text: Dirt Sledding

text: Richard Dreyfuss

text: Don't Shoot Me Santa

categories: American indie rock musicians,People from the Las Vegas Valley,American singer-songwriters,1979 births,Musicians from Nevada,Living people

paragraph: Ryan Pardey

paragraph: Ryan Pardey is a musician, singer, songwriter, promoter, tour manager, actor, left-handed guitar player, and DJ from Las Vegas. He is best known as the singer and songwriter for Halloween Town, which has featured members of The Killers, Louis XIV, and The Shys. Pardey is also well known for portraying Santa Claus on "Don't Shoot Me Santa", a Christmas song released by The Killers in 2007, for which he also appears in the video. Pardey appeared as Santa again for The Killers in the two sequel Christmas singles, "I Feel It in My Bones" (2012) and "Dirt Sledding" (2015). He also appears in the videos and as illustrations in the artwork for both singles.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Ryan's father is professional poker player Rodney H. Pardey. His brother is Rodney E. Pardey, who is also a professional poker player and musician. Pardey attended high school at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts in Las Vegas during the late '90s. In his senior year, he played the lead role of preacher C.C. Showers in a production of the controversial "The Diviners", where he acted on stage beside Matthew Gray Gubler, Baron Vaughn, and Rutina Wesley.

paragraph: After graduation, Pardey soon became the owner and operator of Café Espresso Roma, a coffee shop and music venue located across from UNLV. While helping to jump start his career in event promotion, the café also served as the breeding ground for The Killers.

paragraph: Section::::The Killers.

paragraph: While touring with The Killers as their tour manager, Pardey became known as "The Captain" by members of the band's fan club. During the tour, he also appeared as Santa on stage with The Killers during their performance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, and during their performance in Los Angeles for the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. He continued as tour manager for The Killers until the end of the Sam's Town Tour in Dec 2007. At this time, Pardey began writing the first Halloween Town album.

paragraph: The song "Questions with the Captain" is a secret song that appears on the album "Sawdust", by The Killers, and was written about Pardey's tenure as "The Captain". The song is also used as the theme song for a web series starring Pardey, in which he interviews members of The Killers.

paragraph: Section::::Halloween Town.

paragraph: Section::::Halloween Town.:(2008–2009) 7" release.

paragraph: After returning home from touring with The Killers, Pardey experienced what he refers to as his "darkest most self-destructive period". He tells "Las Vegas Weekly", "Without Mark Stoermer there'd be no Halloween Town...I knew I needed to stabilize my life. Mark helped me bring my ideas to life." With the encouragement of Stoermer, who was Pardey's roommate at the time, Ryan began writing songs for Halloween Town, a name Pardey has said he used to serve as a metaphor for Las Vegas. Stoermer would later play bass for Pardey's band at their first show.

paragraph: In 2008, while writing for the album, Pardey test performed the songs for live audiences, opening for such acts as The Whigs, Tokyo Police Club, and The Silent Comedy. In Feb 2009, San Diego based rock band The Shys joined Pardey as his backing band on stage in Las Vegas, and again later that month at Bed Rock Studios in Echo Park. Ryan continued to utilize The Shys primarily as his live band, while he began recruiting members of Louis XIV as his studio band, along with The Killers bassist Mark Stoermer.

paragraph: In September 2009, Halloween Town opened for The Killers at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The band's live performance featured members of The Shys, Louis XIV, and Transfer. Immediately after the show, Pardey and company appeared at The Aruba Showroom to celebrate the Las Vegas music festival Neon Reverb, where Halloween Town performed for the release of their EP "Summer (The Dreamer From 1997)", which the band released on vinyl 7". Ryan toured the Midwest as a solo artist in December 2009.

paragraph: Section::::Halloween Town.:(2010–2012) "Zafra Ct.".

paragraph: Halloween Town continued to play concerts through 2010, opening for the Killers at a secret Highline Ballroom show in New York City in January. Between shows and traveling, Pardey took up a DJ residency at the Beauty Bar in the Fremont East music district where he also began hosting a karaoke night. In March, Pardey relocated from Las Vegas to Austin, Texas where he would play in the SXSW music festival, after which he continued to perform shows in and around Austin for two months before relocating again to San Diego, where he would begin recording the band's first LP.

paragraph: In June 2010, Pardey returned to Las Vegas to perform new songs from his forthcoming Halloween Town album at a benefit for Arbo De Vivo, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping impoverished people of the world. This specific event focused on support for Haiti after the devastating earthquake that ravaged the nation earlier in the year.

paragraph: In May 2011, Halloween Town began a residency at The Palms hotel in Las Vegas. When asked when the Halloween Town LP would be released, Pardey responded by saying, "I guess some time in July...Since I'm an old man already, I don't need to rush."

paragraph: On September 9, 2011, Halloween Town released their debut LP "Zafra Ct." on Cornstalk Records, a label created by friend Matt Gubler. The album was named after the street Pardey grew up on, and features collaborations and production by a star lineup of musicians, which include Shaun Cornell (Transfer), and Michael Stratton (12 Volt Sex), Mark Stoermer and Dave Keuning of The Killers, Jason Hill and Brian Karscig of Louis XIV, and Matt Dublin of The Red Romance and Ambulance LTD.

paragraph: Zafra Ct. was voted one of 10 best albums of 2011 in Las Vegas by "CityLife magazine". In a 2012 reader poll given by "Vegas Seven magazine", Halloween Town was selected as "Best Unsigned Vegas Band That a Big Label Should Go Ahead and Sign Already".

paragraph: Section::::New work (2015–).

paragraph: In October 2015, Pardey led the second reopening of the Las Vegas venue bar known as The Bunkhouse. The venue was sold to Tony Hsieh's Las Vegas based Downtown Project in June 2013, closed, renovated, and then reopened in August 2014, only to close less than a year after reopening. Pardey was brought on as Entertainment Director when the venue reopened for a second time in late 2015.

paragraph: In November 2015 Pardey appeared in the Matthew Gray Gubler-directed music video for the song "Dirt Sledding" by The Killers. Pardey sings on the song, which features actor Richard Dreyfuss, and he appears in the artwork for the cover of the single.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ryan Pardey as Santa Claus in the music video Don't Shoot Me Santa

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Ryan Pardey

wikipedia_title: Ryan Pardey


text:
Anthony II
Brienne
Ligny
Robert IV of Bouillon
Charles II
Francis
Henry III
Louise

categories: Year of birth unknown,House of Luxembourg,Counts of France,1576 deaths,Counts of Ligny

paragraph: John III, Count of Ligny

paragraph: John III, Count of Ligny (d. 1 July 1576) was the eldest son of Count Anthony II and his wife Margaret of Savoy. He succeeded his father as Count of Brienne and Ligny in 1557.

paragraph: John married Wilhelmina (d. 1592), the daughter of Duke Robert IV of Bouillon. Together, they had the following children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anthony

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charles II (1562-1608), his successor, elevated to "Duke" of Brienne in 1587

paragraph: BULLET::::- Margaret (1562-1566)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francis (1563-1576), succeeded Charles II as Count of Ligny. Father of Henry III, Count of Ligny.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diana (d. 1624), married:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Louis of Plusquelec, Count of Kerman

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Justus of Pontailler, Baron of Pleurs

paragraph: BULLET::::- Louise (1567-1647), married:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Baron George of Casaubon

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Bernard of Béon, Seigneur de Massez

wikidata_label: John III, Count of Ligny

wikipedia_title: John III, Count of Ligny


text:
American football
linebacker
college football
Washburn University
safety
undrafted free agent
Omaha Nighthawks
United Football League
quarterback
high school
2011 NFL Draft
Omaha Nighthawks
2011 UFL season
practice squad
San Francisco 49ers
2012 season
special teams
Super Bowl XLVII
Baltimore Ravens
Eli Manning
Seattle Seahawks
San Francisco 49ers bio
Washburn Ichabods bio
Michael Wilhoite Stats (ESPN)

categories: People from Manhattan, Kansas,San Francisco 49ers players,1986 births,Washburn Ichabods football players,Players of American football from Kansas,American football linebackers,Omaha Nighthawks players,Living people

paragraph: Michael Wilhoite

paragraph: Michael Wilhoite (born December 7, 1986) is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Washburn University where he played six different positions, including linebacker and safety. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League (UFL) in 2011.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Prior to playing in the NFL, Wilhoite's coaches would use him at other positions due to his athleticism, which also included quarterback in high school. He had played six different positions in total during his college career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Omaha Nighthawks.

paragraph: After going unselected in the 2011 NFL Draft, Wilhoite signed with the Omaha Nighthawks and spent the entire 2011 UFL season with them.

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

paragraph: On December 14, 2011, Wilhoite was signed to the practice squad of the San Francisco 49ers.

paragraph: He was waived for final roster cuts before the start of the 2012 season, but was signed back to the practice squad on September 1, 2012. After being on the practice squad for twelve weeks in 2012, he was promoted to the active roster. He finished with 11 tackles and made several key plays on special teams during the 49ers run to Super Bowl XLVII, where they fell 34–31 to the Baltimore Ravens.

paragraph: After the Super Bowl, he remained part of the 49ers active roster the next season.

paragraph: Set to be a restricted free agent, Wilhoite was offered a tender by the 49ers on March 12, 2014. He signed his tender on April 21.

paragraph: On November 16, 2014, against the New York Giants, Wilhoite recorded his first career interception, which came off of Eli Manning.

paragraph: On March 8, 2016, Wilhoite signed a one-year contract extension with the 49ers.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Seattle Seahawks.

paragraph: On March 24, 2017, Wilhoite signed with the Seattle Seahawks.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washburn Ichabods bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michael Wilhoite Stats (ESPN)

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Michael Wilhoite

wikipedia_title: Michael Wilhoite


text: Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca

text: Camil Ressu

text: Academia de Belle-Arte in Bucharest

text: Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts

text: István Szőnyi

text: Kolozsvár

text: University of Art and Design

text: Cluj-Napoca

text: Budapest

text: Székely Land

text: Andor Bajor

text: Kriterion

text: Eliseni

text: Transylvania

text: Hungary

text: Romania

text: Harghita County

text: Camil Ressu

text: Hungarian Electronic Library

text: Miklós Barabás Guild

text: Museum of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca

text: Andor Bajor

text: Abodi Nagy Béla website

text: Abodi Gallery website

text: Abodi a Securitate célkeresztjében

text: Abodi în vizorul Securităţii

categories: People from Harghita County,20th-century Hungarian painters,Székely,Romanian painters,2012 deaths,Hungarian University of Fine Arts alumni,1918 births,Romanian Calvinist and Reformed Christians

paragraph: Béla Nagy Abodi

paragraph: Béla Nagy Abodi (Hungarian: "Abodi Nagy Béla"; 13 July 1918 – 9 December 2012) was Hungarian painter, and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca.

paragraph: He studied in the class of Camil Ressu at the Academia de Belle-Arte in Bucharest, and ended up then at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, as a student of István Szőnyi. He spent five years as a soldier in the Hungarian army, then as prisoner of war in Russia. He was a teacher at the Kolozsvár Academy of Fine Arts, actually University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, Romania, then he worked as the head of the department and a master for generations of artists between 1949 and 1983 . He has been a Kolozsvár resident until 2008, and lives since then in Budapest.

paragraph: Béla Nagy Abodi is one of the most universal representatives of modern Hungarian and Romanian fine arts. He is a typically Hungarian and at the same time, a distinctively Transylvanian artist. He is a highly qualified, conscious artist, but at the same time a sensitive, true colourist, "a painter of the soul". His marvellous artwork bridges over several artistic periods and expressive systems of forms, though it constitutes a distinct entity: Abodi's dominant artistic character can be immediately traced in his diverse and always renewing oeuvre. He is a daring experimentalist, a persistent seeker who never strains after visual artifices or unnatural stylistic unity for his own sake. Abodi is the archetype of a professional and intellectual creator who is in possession of a complete range of professional tools and who is endowed with superior knowledge. His abundant lifework is a mine of deeply sympathizing, socially committed, objective-realist or dramatic and shockingly expressive depictions, at other times pictorial satires deploying the weapons of irony or even dead-on sarcasm, and the master-like composition of absurd and grotesque figurality. His later works are characterised by monumental pictorial architectures, genius "full orchestra" structures, figural-decorative compositions that are inspired by Hungarian folk art, and then geometrical-abstract or abstract-expressionist representations.

paragraph: The pictures he painted at a later age are staggeringly clear artistic and deeply human conclusions: they are the pictures of an age, genius clinical aspects of the period. Abodi is mostly known as an artist who is wrestling with questions of human fate and as a painter of compositions that create master-like systems of pictures.

paragraph: Besides his artistic activity, Abodi is a devoted public personality who has been fighting throughout his life for the survival of the Hungarian population of Transylvania – including their lawful community rights, uniquely rich culture and education at all levels. He did so as a leader of Hungarian social and professional organisations (vice-president of the Association of university and college students of Székely Land – SZEFHE after 1939, honorary president of the Barabás Miklós Céh (Miklós Barabás Guild) after 1990, etc.), as a university student (Bucharest, Budapest), as a university lecturer and leader, as a prestigious artist, and as a master of the written and spoken word.

paragraph: His work of art can be best studied by reading Andor Bajor Bajor Andor's marvellous book, the Abodi monograph that has been published by Kriterion in 1986, as well as by consulting "Who is Who 2011", the thick catalogue of his collection exhibited in the Museum of Transylvanian Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca ( Kolozsvár) (Bánffy Palace) in 2004. Numerous data and visual information may be found about Abodi on the Internet. His portrait film, "The light of the future" has been broadcast several times on Duna Television .

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1918 – On July 13 Bela Nagy Abodi was born in Székelyszenterzsebet, Eliseni, in Transylvania, in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Romania, in Harghita County, where his father, Dr. Nagy Géza - the historian of religion and the future theology professor -, served as a Reformist priest. His mother was Juliska Csoma. His brothers were Géza and István, his sister's name was Julianna.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1924, Fall. – The family moved to Magyarbikal Bicalatu (Kolozs County), Judetul Cluj, Romania. This is where he finished elementary school.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1928 – He finally settled down in Kolozsvár with his parents, where his father – a notable church historian and theologist – became professor of Reformist Theology (Kolozsvári Protestáns Teológiai Intézet).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1928-1936 – Studied at the Reformist Liceum of Kolozsvár. In the meantime, his writings were published in the Ifjú Erdély and Pásztortűz literary magazines.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1936, Fall. – Applied for the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest. He chose Camil Ressu to be his mentor.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1940, Spring. – 24 of his paintings were displayed in a group exhibition in Bucharest.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1940, Fall. – Abodi continued his studies at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, where his master was István Szőnyi. As a vice-president of SZEFHE, he organised the lives and fostered further education of Hungarian students in Transylvania.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1941, Spring. – Műbarát collective art-exhibition in Budapest, with members of the Miklós Barabás Guild. The ministry purchased his self-portrait.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1941 – He graduated from university. In the fall of 1941, won the first prize of a town competition in Kolozsvár. He became a member of the Miklós Barabás Guild.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1941-1942 – He acquired his Master's in Arts at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Spring, 1942 – He married Éva Klára Teutsch, another Szőnyi-student at the college. They had four children in their marriage. Abodi became a teacher in the village of Kolozskovácsi in Transylvania right before he was enlisted in the army. In the fall, he was called to the army.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1943 – he participated in the group exhibition of the Miklós Barabás Guild.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1944, March. – Exhibition of the Milós Barabás Guild in the National Saloon in Budapest. In August he was part of a group exhibition of the Miklós Barabás Guild. In the fall of 1944, he was sent to serve as a wireless officer at the Russian front-lines. In 1945, he became a prisoner of war.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1948 – Returned home to Kolozsvár from Armenia, the Soviet Union and in the very same year, he had another exhibition, and undertook jobs as a graphic artist and book illustrator.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1948-1964 – Illustrated the books of several contemporary writers. Publishers commissioned him to draw portraits of many classical figures of Hungarian literature. Abodi Nagy Béla Hungarian Electronic Library

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1948-1985 – State exhibitions of Hungarian fine arts. Exhibitions abroad: Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, etc.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1951 - 1957 - Head of the painting department of the Ion Andreescu Academy of Fine Arts in Kolozsvár until 1983.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1970 - 1983 – Head of the painting department of the Ion Andreescu Academy of Fine Arts in Kolozsvár until he retired in 1983.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1951 – He became a member of the Association of Fine Arts of the Romanian Socialist Republic at present the Romanian Fine Arts Union.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1954 – Awarded Romania State Award.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1955 – Awarded Romania State Award.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1956 – He made a study trip to Hungary and Bulgaria.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1958 – He participated in the 1st triennial of Socialist countries in Moscow.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1961-1962 – He made his monumental wall paintings/mural in the Student Culture Hall of Cluj-Napoca. In 1966, he made a study trip to Czechoslovakia and Germany.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1970-1978 – Study trips to the Soviet Union.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1972-1983 – Study trips to Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Italy.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1989 - After the Romanian revolution, he played an active part in the cultural and public life of Transylvania. He recreated the Miklós Barabás Guild with several colleagues, and became its honourable president.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1994 – His wife, Éva Klára Teutsch died on April 29, in Kolozsvár (Cluj).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998 - Exhibition with a collection of his paintings in Budapest.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 - A retrospective exhibition organized of his artworks at the Museum of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca (Bánffy Palace).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 - Moves to Budapest with his son, Géza Nagy and his family. Geza Nagy is also a well known fine artist in Hungary.

paragraph: Further details about the bibliography and artworks of Béla Abodi Nagy can be found in contemporary artistic encyclopedia that were published in Hungary and Romania, in publications about the fine arts of Transylvanian Hungarian and Romanian artists, in the Transylvanian Hungarian Who is Who volumes, in the Who is Who Hungary, in the monograph entitled Béla Nagy Abodi by Andor Bajor that was published by Kriterion in Bucharest in 1987, in the album entitled Abodi 2004, on artistic web portals as well as on the www.abodi.hu, www.abodi.org websites.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Művészeti Lexikon (Encyclopedia of Art), Vol. III. L-Q, "Nagy Béla Abodi", Editors: Zádor-Genthon, Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1967, AK 208 k 6770

paragraph: BULLET::::- 111 Contemporary painters: 111 Peintres contemporains, Publisher: Fine Arts Union of the Socialist Republic of Romania (Bucharest), 1980, 2001 LC NUMBER: ND928 .A11 1980

paragraph: BULLET::::- Romániai magyar irodalmi lexikon (Romanian-Hungarian Literary Encyclopedia) Editor: Balogh Edgár. Bukarest: Kriterion. 1981–2010. o.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bajor Andor: Abodi Nagy Béla (monograph), Bukarest, Publisher: Kriterion, 1986. 76 o. ill. 30 t.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kortárs magyar művészeti lexikon I. (A–G). (Contemporary Hungarian Art Lexicon) Főszerk (Editor) Fitz Péter. Budapest: Enciklopédia. 1999. 36. o.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dr. Livia Dragoi : ABODI NAGY BÉLA, Publisher: Muzeul de Artă din Cluj-Napoca (Museum of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca) 2004.

paragraph: Section::::Additional information.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abodi Nagy Béla website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abodi Gallery website

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.whoiswho-verlag.ch/versionnew/ungarn/verlag/63.php?txt_Language=HU&real_str_PersID=49002531&uniqueID=2dac87a0-b26a-42d5-bc82-0bac21c9cc5d

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://web.archive.org/web/20130116153808/http://artportal.hu/lexikon/muveszek/abodi_nagy_bela

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.kieselbach.hu/muvesz/abodi-nagy-bela_2901

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://lexikon.kriterion.ro/szavak/4/

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://web.archive.org/web/20121029092022/http://www.terminartors.com/artistprofile/Abodi_Nagy_Bela

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://udvardy.adatbank.transindex.ro/index.php?action=nevmutato&nevmutato=Abodi%20Nagy%20B%C3%A9la

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abodi Nagy Béla hivatalos Facebook oldala

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abodi in the crosshairs of the Securitate

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abodi a Securitate célkeresztjében

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abodi în vizorul Securităţii

description: Hungarian artist and professor

wikidata_label: Béla Nagy Abodi

wikipedia_title: Béla Nagy Abodi


text: Canadian

text: prelate

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: Bishop of Hamilton

text: Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador

text: Archbishop

text: Paul-André Durocher

text: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gatineau

text: Gatineau, Quebec

text: Oblates of Mary Immaculate

text: Longueuil, Quebec

text: Marathon, Ontario

text: Carleton University

text: Ottawa

text: Bachelor of Arts

text: Bachelor of Theology

text: St. Paul University

text: Oblates of Mary Immaculate

text: Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

text: Labrador City

text: Schefferville

text: Bishop of Hamilton

text: Cathedral of Christ the King

text: Hamilton

categories: 1949 births,Canadian Roman Catholic bishops,Canadian clergy,Newfoundland and Labrador religious figures,Living people

paragraph: Douglas Crosby

paragraph: David Douglas Crosby (born June 28, 1949) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the ninth and current Bishop of Hamilton, having previously served as Bishop of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (2003–2007) and Bishop of Corner Brook and Labrador (2007–2010). On Thursday, September 17, 2015, during the fall 2015 Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Bishop Crosby was elected President-elect of the Conference; he took office at the end of the fall 2015 Plenary Assembly. At that time, Bishop Crosby succeeded the outgoing President, Archbishop Paul-André Durocher, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gatineau, in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Bishop Crosby is a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.), though as a bishop his immediate superior is now the Pope. His two-year term as President of the Conference ended in 2017, with the election of Bishop Lionel Gendron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil in Longueuil, Quebec as President.

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

paragraph: Crosby was born in Marathon, Ontario, the oldest of seven children of Natalie and David Crosby. He graduated from St. Patrick's College at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and French. In 1975 he earned his Bachelor of Theology degree at St. Paul University and his Master of Pastoral Studies (Counselling) degree in 1976.

paragraph: Section::::Priesthood.

paragraph: Ordained in 1975, Crosby's first role was as assistant pastor of the Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Labrador City where he served until 1981. He served as vocation director, coordinator of provincial services, Pastor of St. Joseph’s Parish, and eventually Provincial Superior of St. Peter’s Province of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. While holding this position he was elected President of the Oblate Conference of Canada. Also during this time, Crosby held various position within the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

paragraph: Section::::Priesthood.:Episcopal ministry.

paragraph: In 1997, Crosby was appointed Bishop of Labrador City-Schefferville and, in 2003, was appointed as the Bishop of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2007, the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. George’s Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador became the Roman Catholic Diocese of Corner Brook and Labrador with Crosby as Bishop.

paragraph: Currently, Crosby is the co-treasurer of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

paragraph: On September 24, 2010, Crosby was appointed as the successor to Anthony F. Tonnos as the Bishop of Hamilton. Bishop Crosby took possession of the Diocese during a ceremony at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Hamilton on November 8, 2010.

description: Canadian bishop

wikidata_label: David Douglas Crosby

wikipedia_title: Douglas Crosby


text: fencing master

text: Augsburg

text: Fechtbücher

text: Jörg Breu the Younger

text: burghers

text: embezzlement

text: hanged

text: martial arts of his time

text: German longsword

text: Dussack

text: Staff

text: Pike

text: Halberd

text: scythe

text: sickle

text: wrestling

text: Dagger

text: Spanish rapier

text: Battle axe

text: Joust

text: Tournament

text: Judicial combat

text: Mounted combat

text: plate armour

text: German

text: Saxon

text: Dresden

text: Latin

text: Bavaria

text: München

text: Albert V. of Bavaria

text: fl.

text: De arte athletica Tome I

text: De arte athletica Tome II

text: daten.digitale-sammlungen.de

text: Austria

text: Vienna

text: microfilm scans

text: Jörg Breu

text: Anthon Rast

text: media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de

text: gesellschaft-lichtenawers.eu

text: "Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair"

text: Historical European Martial Arts

text: German school of swordsmanship

text: English translation of Mair's preface

categories: 1579 deaths,16th-century German writers,German civil servants,People executed for theft,People from Augsburg,People executed by Germany by hanging,Executed people from Bavaria,German historical fencers,1517 births

paragraph: Paulus Hector Mair

paragraph: Paulus Hector Mair (1517–1579) was a German civil servant fencing master from Augsburg. He collected Fechtbücher and undertook to compile all knowledge of the art of fencing in a compendium surpassing all earlier books. For this, he engaged the painter Jörg Breu the Younger, as well as two experienced fencers, whom he charged with perfecting the techniques before they were painted. The project was very costly, taking a full four years, and according to Mair, consumed most of his family's income and property. Three versions of his compilation, and one later, less extensive manuscript, have been preserved.

paragraph: Not only did Mair spend huge sums on his collections and on his projects, he also had a very expensive lifestyle, frequently hosting receptions for the more important burghers of Augsburg. His own income was not sufficient for this, and during many years, he misappropriated funds from the city treasury, with the supervision of which he had been entrusted since 1541. His embezzlements were discovered in 1579, and Mair was hanged as a thief at the age of 62.

paragraph: Section::::Martial arts compendium.

paragraph: Mair compiled a voluminous, encyclopedic compendium of the martial arts of his time, collected in 16 books in two volumes. The compendium survives in three manuscript copies. The subject matter treated is:

paragraph: Volume 1:

paragraph: BULLET::::- A. German longsword

paragraph: BULLET::::- B. Dussack (backsword)

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. Staff

paragraph: BULLET::::- D. Pike

paragraph: BULLET::::- E. Halberd

paragraph: BULLET::::- F. Fighting with the scythe

paragraph: BULLET::::- G. Fighting with the sickle

paragraph: BULLET::::- H. Unarmed combat (wrestling)

paragraph: Volume 2:

paragraph: BULLET::::- I. Dagger

paragraph: BULLET::::- K. Spanish rapier

paragraph: BULLET::::- L. Battle axe

paragraph: BULLET::::- M. Joust, mounted combat for sport

paragraph: BULLET::::- N. Tournament history and rules

paragraph: BULLET::::- O. Judicial combat

paragraph: BULLET::::- P. Mounted combat, serious (self-defense)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Q. Fencing in plate armour (shield, spear, longsword)

paragraph: Section::::Manuscripts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- three copies of the compendium, in two volumes each:

paragraph: BULLET::::- German version: Saxon State and University Library, Dresden, "Mscr. Dresd. C 93/94", after 1542, two volumes, 244+328 folia.

paragraph: BULLET::::- online facsimile: Digital Collections of the SLUB Dresden

paragraph: BULLET::::- Latin version: Bavarian state library, München "cod. icon 393", after 1542, two volumes, 309+303 folia. This is the most luxurious production of Mair's, and he sold it to duke Albert V. of Bavaria, allegedly for the enormous sum of 800 fl., in 1567 (

paragraph: BULLET::::- online facsimiles: De arte athletica Tome I, De arte athletica Tome II, daten.digitale-sammlungen.de

paragraph: BULLET::::- bilingual Latin-German version: Austrian national library, Vienna, "Codex Vindobensis 10825/26" after 1542, two volumes, 270+343 folia.

paragraph: BULLET::::- online facsimiles: microfilm scans (thearma.org)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jörg Breu Sketchbook (Cod.I.6.2°.4), Augsburg city archive, "Schätze B2 Reichsstadt", 1553, 110 folia, illustrated by Heinrich Vogtherr, based material acquired from Anthon Rast of Nürnberg (d. 1549).

paragraph: BULLET::::- online facsimile: media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de, gesellschaft-lichtenawers.eu

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Knight, David James and Brian Hunt. "Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair". Paladin Press, 2008. .

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Historical European Martial Arts

paragraph: BULLET::::- German school of swordsmanship

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- transcription of the longsword treatise (Vienna version) (Anton Kohutovič 2009, gesellschaft-lichtenawers.eu)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paulus Hector Mair's entry on wiktenauer.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- English translation of Mair's preface (freywild.ch)

description: German civil servant

wikidata_label: Paulus Hector Mair

wikipedia_title: Paulus Hector Mair


text:
Sunaika
Sharqiyya
al-Azhar University
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalāni
Jalāl al-Dīn al Mahallī
Sharaf al-Din al Munawi
Shāfi’ī
qādī
Qā’it Bey
Qur’an
exegesis
fiqh
mysticism
tasawwuf
al-Sha’rānī
Neo-Sufism
Bukhari
Abhari
Isagoge
al-Jazari

categories: Asharis,Egyptian historians,15th-century historians,16th-century Egyptian people,Islamic mysticism,Medieval Egyptian historians,15th-century jurists,Sufism in Africa,Shafi'is,16th-century historians,15th-century Egyptian people,Mujaddid,1420 births,1520 deaths

image: 512px-زكريا_الأنصاري.png

paragraph: Zakariyya al-Ansari

paragraph: Zakariyyā al-Ansārī was a leading Islamic scholar of the 15th century. He was born in or around 1420 CE, in Sunaika, located in the Egyptian province of Sharqiyya. During his adolescence, al- Ansārī moved to Cairo to study at al-Azhar University. He lived in such poverty there, that he would venture out into the night in search of water faucets and the rinds of watermelon. However, according to al-Ansārī's own account, after a few years at al-Azhar, a mill worker came to his aid. He provided the young al-Ansārī with money for his food, clothing and books. al-Ansārī told of a remarkable encounter with his benefactor told him,

paragraph: Eventually, this foretelling would prove to be accurate. While a student, al- Ansārī studied under al-Qāyāti, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalāni, Jalāl al-Dīn al Mahallī and Sharaf al-Din al Munawi.

paragraph: Zakariyyā al-Ansārī held the office of Shāfi’ī qādī for a twenty-year period during the reign of Qā’it Bey. Over the course of his lifetime, al-Ansārī spent eighty years engaged as a teacher and muftī. One of al-Ansārī students was al-Sha’rānī, who was responsible for much of the information that survives in regards to the life of al-Ansārī. Of his teacher, al-Sha’rānī wrote that al-Ansārī was, "a pillar of the fiqh and the tasawwuf".

paragraph: Al-Ansārī held several teaching positions over the course of his life, which included professorships at the madrasa of the mausoleum of al-Shāfī and the madrasa Jāmaliyya. Fifty-two writings are listed under al-Ansārī's name in Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur. These writings include, but are not limited to, topics of logic, grammar, philosophy, scientific terminology, rhetoric, Qur’anic exegesis, Holy Tradition, the life of Muhammad, jurispridence ("fiqh"), dogma and mysticism. Some of al-Ansārī's most famous works include: Manhaj al-tullab (“The Way of the Students”), Fath al-Wahhab (“The help of the Bountiful”), Tuhfat al-tullāb (“The Gift offered to the Students”), Lubb al-usul (“The Kernel of the Science of the roots”), and his commentary on al-Qushairī's Risāla fī ‘l-tasawwuf.

paragraph: From an early age, Zakariyyā al-Ansārī was attracted to mysticism. So encompassing was his interest, that al-Ansārī claimed no one expected much of anything from him in the way of legal studies. Al-Ansārī studied, and was initiated as a Sufi under Muhammad al-Ghamrī. He wrote several treaties on Sufism, but al-Ansārī is especially well known for his commentary on al-Qushairī’s Risāla fī ‘l-tasawwuf. In this commentary he defines tasawwuf in a number of ways, complete earnestness in the progression towards the King of all kings;… it is the devotion to works of good and the avoidance of defects.""

paragraph: In terms of al-Ansārī's Sufi legacy, his name is also remembered in connection to his student al-Sha’rānī. Al-Sha’rānī established Neo-Sufism, also known as the "middle course". Neo-Sufism combines tasawwuf and fiqh.

paragraph: Al-Ansārī died in 1520, in Cairo, at the age of 100. He was given the honorary title "Shaikh al-Islam" and is known for the legacy of his mystic and legal writings. Al-Ansārī gained fame especially in Indonesia and Malaya due to his frequent mention as a source for Malay writers. His commentaries on the Sahih of Bukhari, Abhari’s adaptation of Isagoge, al-Jazari’s tajwid and his Futuhat al-ilahiyya on mysticism are among Ansārī's most popular texts in Indonesia.

description: Islamic scholar

wikidata_label: Zakariyya al-Ansari

wikipedia_title: Zakariyya al-Ansari


text:
American football
outside linebacker
college football
Missouri
San Francisco 49ers
2011 NFL Draft
Oakland Raiders
Greenwood, Mississippi
Raytown High School
Raytown, Missouri
high school football
tight end
Nebraska
Kansas
Kansas State
Missouri Tigers football
Gary Pinkel
University of Missouri
sacks
Big 12
All-American
2011 NFL Draft
DeMarcus Ware
2011 NFL Draft
San Francisco 49ers
Seattle Seahawks
Philadelphia Eagles
sack
Michael Vick
Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Detroit Lions
Patrick Willis
2007
safety
Pittsburgh Steelers
Charles Haley
Jevon Kearse
Von Miller
Associated Press
NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award
Green Bay Packers
Aaron Rodgers
Detroit Lions
New York Jets
Chicago Bears
New Orleans Saints
Reggie White
St. Louis Rams
Fred Dean
Tom Brady
New England Patriots
Super Bowl XLVII
Baltimore Ravens
NFL Network
NFL Top 100 Players of 2013
J. J. Watt
San Jose, California
Indianapolis Colts
Carolina Panthers
St. Louis Rams
NFL Top 100 Players of 2014
Oakland Raiders
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Chicago Bears
Minnesota Vikings
driving under the influence
Miami Beach, Florida
Los Angeles International Airport
No Contest
treatment facility
tequila
Missouri Tigers bio
San Francisco 49ers bio

categories: Players of American football from Mississippi,Missouri Tigers football players,San Francisco 49ers players,Players of American football from Missouri,Living people,American football defensive ends,1989 births,American football linebackers,Oakland Raiders players,People from Raytown, Missouri,People from Greenwood, Mississippi

paragraph: Aldon Smith

paragraph: Aldon Jacarus Smith (born September 25, 1989) is a former American football outside linebacker. He played college football at Missouri, and was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers seventh overall in the 2011 NFL Draft. Smith also played for the Oakland Raiders.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Smith was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. He attended Raytown High School in Raytown, Missouri, where he played for the Raytown Bluejays high school football team. As a senior, he recorded 60 tackles, 21 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, while adding seven forced fumbles, one blocked punt, and a safety on defense, while on offense, he caught 34 passes for 570 yards and four touchdowns as a tight end.

paragraph: Considered only a three-star recruit by the Rivals.com recruiting network, Smith was considered the No. 5 overall prospect (any position) in the state of Missouri as well as the No. 27 strongside defensive end in the nation. Smith chose Mizzou over Nebraska, Kansas, and Kansas State, among many others.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Smith played for the Missouri Tigers football team under head coach Gary Pinkel while attending the University of Missouri from 2008 to 2010. After being redshirted as a freshman in 2008, he started 11 of 13 games at defensive end in 2009. He finished the season with 60 tackles and 11 sacks. He was named the Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year and a first team freshman All-American. As a sophomore in 2010, he played in nine games, recording 48 tackles and six sacks.

paragraph: After the season, Smith announced that he would forgo his final two years of eligibility and enter the 2011 NFL Draft.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:College awards and honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 First-team Freshman All-American (College Football News, Phil Steele)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Big 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year (Associated Press)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year (Coaches)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Hendricks Award Watch List

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Second-team All-Big 12 (Associated Press)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Honorable mention All-Big 12 (Coaches)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Team Defensive Lineman of the Year Award

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Team Freshman of the Year Award

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:2011 NFL Draft.

paragraph: Playing as a defensive end at Missouri, Smith was considered a "DE/OLB prospect" by most NFL scouts and was considered a strong edge run defender as 4-3 end or 3-4 linebacker. Many scouts had compared him to DeMarcus Ware. Prior to the 2011 NFL Draft, he was projected to be selected in the mid-late first round by mock draft analysis. On the day of the Draft, the San Francisco 49ers decided to draft Smith in the first round with the seventh overall pick.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.:2011 season: Rookie year.

paragraph: Smith did not start, but did make his NFL debut against the Seattle Seahawks. In Week 4, against the Philadelphia Eagles, he recorded his first sack on Michael Vick. In the next two weeks, Smith would win the Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week in victories against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions. After a strong October, Smith became the first 49ers player since linebacker Patrick Willis in 2007 to earn the NFL Rookie of the Month, he recorded 13 tackles, 6.5 sacks including one that forced a safety as he helped the 49ers to a 6-1 record. In Week 15, Smith recorded 2.5 sacks against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He also surpassed Charles Haley for the 49ers record for most sacks by a rookie in a single season with 13.0 sacks. He finished with 37 total tackles, four pass deflections, two forced fumbles, and 14 sacks. Smith was half a sack shy of tying the all-time rookie sack record held by defensive end Jevon Kearse despite not starting a single game in his rookie season. He was named Defensive Rookie of the Year by Pro Football Writers of America, and finished second to Von Miller for the Associated Press NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.:2012 season.

paragraph: After being used only as a situational pass rusher throughout his rookie year, Smith became a full-time starter in the 2012 season. In the season premiere against the Green Bay Packers, Smith sacked quarterback Aaron Rodgers in a 30-22 victory. In the next game at home against the Detroit Lions, Smith recorded 1.5 sacks as the 49ers won by a score of 27-19. During Week 4, Smith had 2 sacks as the 49ers shut out the New York Jets 34-0. In Week 11, he recorded 5.5 sacks in a 32-7 blowout win against the Chicago Bears. The next week, in a game against the New Orleans Saints, he surpassed Reggie White as the fastest player in league history to record his 30th career sack, doing so in 27 games. The next week, against the St. Louis Rams, Smith broke another of White's records by recording 31.5 sacks in his first two seasons. In that same game, he tied Fred Dean's franchise record of 17.5 sacks in one season. On December 16, 2012, Smith recorded his first interception off of Tom Brady in a 41-34 road victory against the New England Patriots.

paragraph: In the 2012 season, Smith recorded 19.5 sacks, 66 tackles, three forced fumbles, a pass deflection, and an interception. The 49ers went on to appear in Super Bowl XLVII. In the game, he had two combined tackles as the 49ers narrowly lost to the Baltimore Ravens by a score of 34–31.

paragraph: On the NFL Network's NFL Top 100 Players of 2013 ranking, the players voted him the seventh best player in the league entering the 2013 season, which made him the second highest ever debut and second highest defensive player on the list, both behind J. J. Watt. He was also voted the San Francisco 49ers MVP in 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.:2013 season.

paragraph: Smith got off to a fast start during the 2013 season getting 4.5 sacks in the first three games. However, on September 20, Smith was involved in a single vehicle accident in San Jose, California. He was subsequently arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana. After the loss to the Indianapolis Colts in the third week of the football season, he voluntarily entered a rehabilitation facility, to be put onto the non-football injury list with an indefinite leave of absence.

paragraph: Smith missed five games while in rehabilitation. He returned to the team in Week 10 against the Carolina Panthers, but in a backup role, and did not start a game until Week 13 against the St. Louis Rams. He ended the season strong, finishing with 34 tackles and 8.5 sacks. Despite his limited playing time, Smith was ranked #33 in the NFL Top 100 Players of 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.:2014 season.

paragraph: Smith served a nine-game suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse and personal conduct policies. He was reinstated in Week 11.

paragraph: On August 7, 2015, following an arrest for his third DUI, Smith was released by the 49ers.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Raiders.:2015 season.

paragraph: On September 11, 2015, Smith signed a one-year contract with the Oakland Raiders. He collected two tackles in his first game with the Raiders in the season-opening loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He got his first start with the Raiders on September 27, against the Cleveland Browns and finished with 2 solo tackles. The following week, he earned his first sack against the Chicago Bears and finished the game with a season-high six tackles. He played his last game of the season on November 15 against the Minnesota Vikings and finished the 14-30 loss with three tackles and a sack. Two days later, the NFL issued Smith a 1-year suspension due to his hit-and-run on August 6, 2015. (See Legal issues) Smith finished his first season with the Raiders with a total of 28 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 7 starts and 9 games.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Oakland Raiders.:2016 and 2017 seasons.

paragraph: On April 4, 2016, Smith re-signed with the Raiders. On October 27, 2016, Smith applied for reinstatement. However, no reinstatement occurred, resulting in Smith sitting out the entire 2016 and 2017 NFL seasons.

paragraph: Following an alleged domestic violence incident, the Raiders released Smith on March 5, 2018.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fastest player in league history to record his 30th career sack (27 games)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Most sacks in a player's first two seasons (33.5)

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:NFL records.:49ers franchise records.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Most sacks by a rookie in a single season (14.0)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Most sacks in a single season (19.5)

paragraph: Section::::Legal issues.

paragraph: On January 28, 2012, Smith was arrested for driving under the influence in Miami Beach, Florida.

paragraph: On June 30, 2012, Smith was believed to have suffered stab wounds when attempting to break up a fight at a party at his Santa Clara county residence. Two other people were shot in the incident. On October 9, 2013, Smith was charged with "three felony counts of illegal possession of an assault weapon" relating to the stabbing incident. The charges were later reduced to misdemeanors.

paragraph: On September 20, 2013, Smith was involved in a single vehicle accident in San Jose, California. He was subsequently arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana. After the loss to the Indianapolis Colts in the third week of the football season, he voluntarily entered a rehabilitation facility, to be put onto the non-football injury list with an indefinite leave of absence.

paragraph: On April 13, 2014, Smith was detained and arrested following an incident at the Los Angeles International Airport in which Smith became belligerent and uncooperative with a TSA agent, who alleged Smith claimed he was carrying a bomb. After interviews revealed that Smith did not clearly state he was carrying a bomb, the Los Angeles City Attorney decided to drop the charges. Smith was suspended for nine games for the 2014 season.

paragraph: On August 6, 2015, Smith was arrested in Santa Clara, California, for an alleged hit and run after driving under the influence, and vandalism charges. He was released by the 49ers the next day as a result.

paragraph: On March 9, 2017, Smith was a passenger with a friend driving to Smith's house at 12:00 AM, when San Francisco police department found out both Smith and the driver were under the influence. Even though Smith was not the driver, both Smith and his friend were detained by San Francisco Police Department for questioning. On March 10, Smith and his friend were released. No arrests were made.

paragraph: On September 23, 2017, it was announced that Smith had agreed to plead No Contest to Hit and Run in the 2015 incident in exchange for the DUI charges being dropped. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail. During his sentence, he was ordered to attend a treatment facility, and undergo anger management classes. After his release, he was disallowed from entering any bars or other establishments where alcohol is the primary commodity being sold.

paragraph: On March 3, 2018, someone called the police from Smith's home and reported that he had consumed multiple bottles of tequila and then bit her wrists. Smith reportedly fled the home before police arrived. San Francisco police did not comment on the specifics, but did state that domestic violence of a "non-lethal" nature had occurred and they were seeking out Smith for questioning about the incident.

paragraph: On March 23, 2018, Smith was arrested for violation of court order, where he was ordered to stay away from a woman he assaulted earlier in the month. The woman was revealed to be Smith's fiancee. This picked up from a previous incident that occurred on March 3, where Smith pleaded not guilty on four misdemeanor counts, including domestic violence, assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, false imprisonment, and vandalism.

paragraph: On April 8, 2018, Smith was arrested for violations in conditions to his bail.

paragraph: On June 10, 2019, Smith was stopped by police in Mission, Kansas for a traffic violation and later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Missouri Tigers bio

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

description: American football player, linebacker

wikidata_label: Aldon Smith

wikipedia_title: Aldon Smith


text: professional boxer

text: featherweight

text: super featherweight

text: knockout

text: stopped

text: "The Ring" magazine

text: Grandmaster Flash

text: Willie Pep

text: lightweight

text: Joe Brown

text: Jimmy Carter

text: Gabriel "Flash" Elorde

text: Larry Boardman

text: George Foreman

text: Ring Magazine

text: International Boxing Hall of Fame

text: Grandmaster Flash

text: List of lineal boxing world champions

text: List of featherweight boxing champions

text: Sandy Saddler - CBZ Profile

categories: Super-featherweight boxers,Sportspeople from Boston,Featherweight boxers,International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees,World boxing champions,2001 deaths,World featherweight boxing champions,Boxers from Massachusetts,1926 births

paragraph: Sandy Saddler

paragraph: Joseph "Sandy" Saddler (June 23, 1926 – September 18, 2001) was an American professional boxer. He was a two-time featherweight world champion, having also held the super featherweight title. Over his twelve-year career (1944–56), Saddler scored 103 knockouts and was stopped only once himself, in his second professional fight, by Jock Leslie. In 2003, Saddler was ranked number five on "The Ring" magazine's list of "100 Greatest Punchers of All Time". His nephew is Grandmaster Flash.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Saddler is best known for his four-bout series with Willie Pep. The two first faced off on October 29, 1948. Pep was the reigning featherweight champion of the world, and coming into the fight boasted a record of 134-1-1 (43 KO). Saddler captured the title by knocking Pep down four times en route to a four-round knockout victory. This was only the second time that Pep was beaten, Sammy Angott beat him in 1943, and first time he was ever stopped in 137 bouts.

paragraph: Pep then recaptured the crown on February 11, 1949, by outpointing Saddler over 15 rounds. Saddler regained the crown on September 8, 1950 by a TKO in the eight round. Pep quit after dislocating his shoulder. The pair fought their last fight on September 26, 1951. In one of the dirtiest championship fights ever fought, Saddler won when the fight was stopped in the tenth round.

paragraph: Saddler fought several other notable opponents during his career. He knocked out future lightweight champion Joe Brown, as well as lightweight champions Lara Salas and Paddy DeMarco. Saddler beat lightweight champion Jimmy Carter, knocked out future junior lightweight champion Gabriel "Flash" Elorde, and lost to Larry Boardman.

paragraph: Section::::After boxing.

paragraph: Saddler retired from boxing in 1956, aged 30, after an eye injury sustained in a traffic accident. He later became a trainer and helped train the young George Foreman in the 1970s, including Foreman's first Heavyweight Championship of the World reign. In 2003, he was ranked #5 on the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.

paragraph: In 1990, Saddler was inducted into the prestigious International Boxing Hall of Fame.

paragraph: He is the Uncle of Joseph Saddler, better known as Grandmaster Flash.

paragraph: Saddler died on September 18, 2001.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of lineal boxing world champions

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of featherweight boxing champions

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of super featherweight boxing champions

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sandy Saddler - CBZ Profile

description: American boxer

wikidata_label: Sandy Saddler

wikipedia_title: Sandy Saddler


text: jazz

text: blues

text: blues rock

text: jazz fusion

text: Ludlow

text: Knighton

text: Radnorshire

text: clarinet

text: alto saxophone

text: York

text: boarding school

text: Gordonstoun

text: grammar school

text: Dartington Hall School

text: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

text: soprano sax

text: Sidney Bechet

text: Lester Young

text: bebop

text: Wardell Gray

text: Sandy Brown

text: Blues Incorporated

text: Alexis Korner

text: R&B from the Marquee

text: The Graham Bond Organisation

text: supergroup

text: Cream

text: Jack Bruce

text: Ginger Baker

text: John Mayall

text: Bluesbreakers

text: Jon Hiseman

text: Tony Reeves

text: Rolling Stones

text: Mick Taylor

text: Bare Wires

text: Colosseum

text: Victor Brox

text: John O'Leary

text: Savoy Brown

text: Julian Bahula

text: Fleetwood Mac

text: Peter Green

text: acute liver failure

text: John Etheridge

text: John Stevens

text: Bronze

text: "Interview with Dick Heckstall-Smith"

text: Dick Heckstall-Smith

categories: 20th-century saxophonists,People educated at Dartington Hall School,English blues musicians,English saxophonists,1934 births,British male saxophonists,Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,British rhythm and blues boom musicians,People educated at Gordonstoun,2004 deaths,Blues Incorporated members,John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers members,British jazz saxophonists,The Graham Bond Organisation members,Colosseum (band) members,British blues musicians,Male jazz musicians,People from Ludlow

paragraph: Dick Heckstall-Smith

paragraph: Richard Malden Heckstall-Smith (26 September 1934 – 17 December 2004) was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most influential English blues rock and jazz fusion bands of the 1960s and 1970s.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Dick Heckstall-Smith was born in the Royal Free Hospital, in Ludlow, England, and was raised in Knighton, Radnorshire, learning to play piano, clarinet and alto saxophone in childhood. He attended a York boarding school but refused a second term there, instead enrolling in Gordonstoun, where his father had accepted a job as headmaster of the local grammar school.

paragraph: Heckstall-Smith completed his education at Dartington Hall School, before reading agriculture – and co-leading the university jazz band – at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 1953. Aged 15, he had taken up the soprano sax while at Dartington, captivated by the sound of Sidney Bechet. Then Lester Young and tenor saxophonist bebop jazzman Wardell Gray proved to be major influences for him.

paragraph: Section::::Musical career.

paragraph: Heckstall-Smith was an active member of the London jazz scene from the late 1950s (including a six-month stint from December 1957 with the band led by clarinettist Sandy Brown). He joined Blues Incorporated, Alexis Korner's groundbreaking blues group, in 1962, recording the album "R&B from the Marquee". The following year, he was a founding member of that band's breakaway unit, The Graham Bond Organisation. (The lineup also included two future members of the blues-rock supergroup Cream: bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker.)

paragraph: In 1967, Heckstall-Smith became a member of guitarist-vocalist John Mayall's blues rock band, Bluesbreakers. That jazz-skewed edition of the band also included drummer Jon Hiseman, bassist Tony Reeves, and future Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor. They released the album "Bare Wires" in 1968.

paragraph: From 1968 to 1971, Heckstall-Smith, Hiseman, and Reeves were members of the pioneering UK jazz-rock band Colosseum. The band afforded Heckstall-Smith an opportunity to showcase his writing and instrumental virtuosity, playing two saxophones simultaneously.

paragraph: When Colosseum broke up in October 1971, Heckstall-Smith recorded solo albums and fronted and played in several other fusion units, including Manchild, Sweet Pain, Big Chief, Tough Tenors, The Famous Bluesblasters, Mainsqueeze, and DHSS. Collaborating musicians common to many of these outfits included Victor Brox, Keith Tillman and harp player John O'Leary, a founder member of Savoy Brown. In the 1980s in his Electric Dream ensemble Heckstall-Smith also worked with the South African percussionist Julian Bahula.

paragraph: Heckstall-Smith participated in a 1990s reunion of the original Colosseum lineup and played in the hard-working Hamburg Blues Band. In 2001 he recorded the all-star project "Blues and Beyond", which reunited him with Mayall, Bruce, Taylor, ex-Mayall and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green.

paragraph: Heckstall-Smith published his witty memoirs, "The Safest Place in the World", in 1984; an expanded version, retitled "Blowing the Blues", was published in 2004. He died aged 70 in 2004, as a result of acute liver failure.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blues and Beyond" (2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Obsession Fees", with John Etheridge group (R&M (Germany), 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Celtic Steppes" (33 Jazz)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the Corner/Mingus in Newcastle" (33 Jazz, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bird in Widnes", with John Stevens (Konnex, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This That", with Jack Bruce and John Stevens (Atonal, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Celtic Steppes" (Twentythree, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Where One Is" (1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Live 1990", with John Etheridge, Rainer Glas, Joe Nay (L+R, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Woza Nasu" (Aura, 1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Story Ended" (Bronze, 1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Solid Bond" with Graham Bond Organisation (Warner Bros, double album, May 1970)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and Blues" (Quartet, 1984, )

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Blowing the Blues: Fifty Years Playing the British Blues", with Pete Grant (Clear Books, 2004, )

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Interview with Dick Heckstall-Smith", Let it Rock, July 2003.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dick Heckstall-Smith Jack Bruce web diary entry and tribute

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dick Heckstall-Smith interviews on the Graham Bond Web site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pete Brown – poet, lyricist – discusses influences with Dick Heckstall-Smith, Morgensterns Diary Service.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dick Heckstall-Smith's Memories of Cyril Davies. "You don't know Dick – Introducing DH-S" – by Pete Grant.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 'Soul Survivor: A Vignette Etude of Saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith', by Stephanie Lynne Thorburn. True Fire. EBook text containing biography,interview and obituary. Retrieved: 26 June 2012.

description: English jazz and blues saxophonist

wikidata_label: Dick Heckstall-Smith

wikipedia_title: Dick Heckstall-Smith


text:
operetta
Gilbert and Sullivan
Cambridge University
golf
flora
St. Andrews
Geneviève de Brabant
Burntisland
Fife
Whig
Lord Brougham
Cambridge University
golf
St. Andrews
flora
Luigi Arditi
Charles Santley
The Morning Post
The Era
Henry Leslie
John Hullah
Jacques Offenbach
George Macfarren
Julius Benedict
Strand Theatre
The Observer
West End theatre
The Times
Geneviève de Brabant
Arthur Sullivan
Gounod
La reine de Saba
Roméo et Juliette
Le violoneux
The Sorcerer
Barbe-bleue
Selina Dolaro
Emily Soldene
Dick Whittington and His Cat
La fille du tambour-major
Madame Favart
The Blind Beggars
Robert Planquette
Les cloches de Corneville
Nell Gwynne
Paul Jones
Edmond Audran
Olivette
La mascotte
The Grand Mogul
Florence St. John
Fred Leslie
Arthur Roberts
Charles Lecocq
La fille de Madame Angot
Richard Genée
Franz von Suppé
Hervé
Chilpéric
Edward Solomon
Thomas German Reed
Balfe
Robert Reece
Folly Theatre
Alfred Cellier
Manchester
Avenue Theatre
Broadway
The Forty Thieves

wikipedia_title: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

categories: 1836 births,Scottish poets,People from Burntisland,1889 deaths,19th-century Scottish poets,Scottish dramatists and playwrights,People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan,Scottish opera librettists

paragraph: Henry Brougham Farnie

paragraph: Henry Brougham Farnie (8 April 1836 – 21 September 1889), often called H. B. Farnie, was a British librettist and adapter of French operettas and an author. Some of his English-language versions of operettas became record-setting hits on the London stage of the 1870s and 1880s, strongly competing with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas being played at the same time.

paragraph: After attending Cambridge University, Farnie returned to his native Scotland, where he was appointed editor of the "Cupar Gazette." In 1857, he wrote "The Golfer's Manual", the first book on golf instruction. In 1860, he wrote books on the flora of St. Andrews and on "The City of St. Rule". His journalism career brought him to London in 1863 as editor of a new musical journal, "The Orchestra". He began to write the lyrics to popular songs, and, in 1867, he began to write plays. During the 1870s and 1880s, Farnie turned out translations and adaptations of dozens of French operas and operettas. Many of the latter had long and successful runs. Among his few enduring lyrics is the "Gendarmes' Duet", adapted from Offenbach's "Geneviève de Brabant".

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Farnie was born in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, one of seven children of James Farnie and the former Margaret Paterson Cairns. He was named after the Whig statesman Lord Brougham, to whom the family claimed to be related. Farnie was educated at St. Andrews University, where he won a prize that took him to Cambridge University. After leaving Cambridge, he returned to Scotland, where he was appointed editor of the "Cupar Gazette." In 1857, Farnie wrote the first book on golf instruction, "The Golfer's Manual: being an historical and descriptive account of the national game of Scotland", under the pseudonym, "A Keen Hand". He also wrote the "Handy book of St. Andrews" about the flora of that area of Scotland, and "The City of St. Rule with calotypes by Thomas Rodger" (1860).

paragraph: In 1863 Farnie moved to London, as editor of a new musical journal, "The Orchestra". In the first edition of the magazine, he printed one of his own verses, "The Last Stirrup Cup", which impressed the composer Luigi Arditi so much that he set it to music. The song was taken up by Charles Santley and became immensely popular. "The Morning Post" stated that it was familiar to "millions of people". "The Era" later wrote, "the success of this casual attempt at song writing determined Farnie's future career." The proprietors of "The Orchestra", the musical publishers Cramer and Co, engaged Farnie as their literary adviser, with a brief to adapt and translate foreign operas. Simultaneously, Farnie found himself in demand as the lyricist for popular songs. Among the songs for which he wrote lyrics were, "The Guards' Song" (music by Dan Godfrey), "Land Ho" (music by Henry Leslie), "The Message from the Battlefield" (music by John Hullah), "The Dove and the Maiden" (music by Jacques Offenbach), "The Fall of the Leaf" (music by George Macfarren), and "Summer is Nigh" (music by Julius Benedict).

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Librettist and adapter of French operettas.

paragraph: In 1867, Farnie's two-act drama "Reverses" was staged at the Strand Theatre. "The Observer", in a favourable review, said of Farnie, "if he has not before this tried his hand at dramatic writing, he has at all events now made a very successful essay in the art." His principal work for the stage, however, was as a librettist. He wrote or adapted libretti for dozens of operettas in the 1870s and 1880s. Although many of Farnie's adaptations were extremely popular and enjoyed long and profitable runs in West End theatres, most of them did not survive beyond his lifetime. One obituary said of them, "few were of very high literary merit. They were furnished chiefly to suit ephemeral public taste, and for the most part ceased to exist with the excitement they created." According to a 1914 article in "The Times", the translations were heavy-handed, and "The spoken dialogue was a kind of Sahara between the oases of song ... the attempts to fit English words to French music usually resulted in absolute nonsense." Even harsher was the judgment of "The Pall Mall Gazette": "He had little or no original talent or literary faculty, but an immense knack of vamping up French "opera bouffes", glozing over licentiousness sufficiently to get it smuggled past the censor, spicing the dialogue with 'topical allusions,' and converting the lyrics into some sort of patter that would go with the music. The dogerel [sic] he used to produce was something appalling." Nevertheless, some of Farnie's lyrics have endured, including the "Gendarmes' Duet" (adapted from Offenbach's "Geneviève de Brabant"), and "Sweet Dreamer" (with Arthur Sullivan).

paragraph: Among Farnie's earliest adaptations were operas by Gounod: "La reine de Saba", (which Farnie renamed "Irene"),"Ulysse" and "The Pet Dove". Farnie later prepared Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" for its first British performance in English, given after his death by the Carl Rosa Opera Company in 1890. Farnie's other adaptations include the English libretti for Offenbach's "Breaking the Spell" ("Le violoneux") (1870; later played on tour as a companion piece with "The Sorcerer"), "Geneviève de Brabant" (1871), "Barbe-bleue" (1872, "Bluebeard"), "Fleur de Lys", with music by Leo Delibes (based on "La cour du roi Pétaud"), starring Selina Dolaro and Emily Soldene (1873), a version of "Dick Whittington and His Cat" with music by Offenbach (1875), "The Rose of Auvergne, or, Spoiling the Broth", "The Barber of Bath", "La fille du tambour-major", the very successful "Madame Favart" (1879), and "The Blind Beggars" (1882); for Robert Planquette's hit debut, "Les cloches de Corneville" (1878) and his "Rip van Winkle" (1882), "Nell Gwynne" (1884), "Les voltigeurs de la 32ème (The Light Infantrymen of the 32nd Regiment)" (1887), and "Paul Jones" (1889); for Edmond Audran's "Olivette" (1880; another hit), "La mascotte" (1881) and "The Grand Mogul" (1884, starring Florence St. John, Fred Leslie and Arthur Roberts); for Charles Lecocq's "La fille de Madame Angot" (1873); for Richard Genée's "The Naval Cadets" (1880); for Franz von Suppé's "Boccaccio" (1882); for Francis Chassaigne's "Falka" (1883); and for Hervé's "Little Faust!" (1870) and "Chilpéric" (1884). With Englishman Edward Solomon, Farnie wrote "Rothomago or The Magic Watch" in 1879. With William Marshall Hutchison, he wrote "Glamour" in 1886.

paragraph: Farnie wrote some original libretti, including "Nemesis"; "The Bride of Song", a one-act opera with music by Julius Benedict; and "The Sleeping Queen" for Thomas German Reed, with music by Balfe. He collaborated with Robert Reece on 15 of his libretti or adaptations, including "Up the River, or the Strict Kew-Tea" (1877), "Stars and Garters" (1878), "Les cloches de Corneville" (1878) and "The Creole", all at the Folly Theatre, London (where Farnie also acted as stage manager), and "Boccaccio". At least one of Farnie's libretti was set by two different composers. His "Nell Gwynne", a three-act opera, was first set by Alfred Cellier and was staged at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester, where it opened on 17 October 1876 for a run of 24 performances. Later, Robert Planquette set Farnie's libretto, and that version was staged at the Avenue Theatre in London on 7 February 1884 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre for a total of 86 performances. The Planquette version also ran for 38 performances at the Casino Theatre in New York in November the same year. Farnie's shows that were performed on Broadway as well as in London include: "Sinbad the Sailor" (1869), "Pluto" (1869), "The Forty Thieves" (1869), "Little Faust" (1870, revived 1871), "Bluebeard" (1872), "Nemesis Not Wisely But Too Well" (1874), "Indiana" (1887), and "Nell Gwynne" (1901).

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Marriages and notable legal action.

paragraph: Farnie married Elizabeth Bebb Davies, of Wales, in 1861, but the couple lived in Scotland. She divorced him for adultery after a few years, and he then married Alethea Emma Harvey, an Englishwoman, in 1865. In 1879, his second wife, also complaining of adultery and cruelty, petitioned the English courts for a declaration that their marriage was null and void. The case made legal history: Harvey's argument was that since the first marriage was solemnised in England, the courts in Scotland did not have the power to end that marriage by divorce, and therefore, Farnie had not been free to marry Harvey. The Lords found that the divorce decree of the Scottish courts should be respected by the English courts.

paragraph: Farnie died suddenly at the age of 53 in Paris. He left his entire estate of £23,072 to his sister, Isabella.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Information about several Farnie and Planquette works from musicaltheatreguide.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Information about several additional Farnie works from musicaltheatreguide.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Information about two Farnie works

paragraph: BULLET::::- Information about a work by Solomon and Farnie

alias:
Henry B. Farnie
H. B. Farnie

description: British writer (1836-1889)

wikidata_label: Henry Brougham Farnie

wikipedia_title: Henry Brougham Farnie


text: tennis

text: Clifton Hill, Victoria

text: Australian Championships

text: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory

text: Wimbledon

wikipedia_title: Tennis performance timeline comparison (women)

categories: 1998 deaths,Sportswomen from Victoria (Australia),Australian Championships (tennis) champions,Tennis people from Victoria (Australia),Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's doubles,1902 births,Australian female tennis players,Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles

paragraph: Louie Bickerton

paragraph: Louie Mildred Bickerton Cozens (11 August 1902 – 6 June 1998) was a female tennis player from Australia. She was born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia and won the women's doubles titles at the 1927, 1929, and 1931 Australian Championships. She won the mixed doubles title at those championships in 1935 and was the runner-up in the 1929 singles and 1935 women's doubles at that tournament.

paragraph: Perhaps Bickerton's biggest singles victory outside of Australia was her first round defeat of 44-year-old and eight time U.S. champion Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the first round of Wimbledon in 1928. The score was 6–3, 4–6, 6–4.

paragraph: Bickerton was friends with Daphne Akhurst Cozens. In 1935 she married Daphne's widower, Royston Stuckey Cozens, to whom she remained married for 63 years until her death at the age of 95.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Performance timelines for all female tennis players who reached at least one Grand Slam final

description: Australian tennis player

wikidata_label: Louie Bickerton

wikipedia_title: Louie Bickerton


text:
Hebrew
Spanish Inquisition
Azulai
Zayyanid dynasty
Jer.
Algeria
Mostaganem
Simeon ben Zemah Duran
Nahmanides
Maimonides
Bodleian Library
Israel Alnaqua
Azulai
Zunz

wikipedia_title:
Hebrew language
Spanish Inquisition
Chaim Yosef David Azulai
Zayyanid dynasty
Book of Jeremiah
French Algeria
Mostaganem
Simeon ben Zemah Duran
Nachmanides
Maimonides
Bodleian Library
Israel Alnaqua
Chaim Yosef David Azulai
Zunz

categories: 15th-century rabbis,1442 deaths,Sephardi rabbis,Date of birth unknown

image: 512px-הרב_אפריים_אנקאווה_נכנס_לעיר_תלמסאן.jpg

paragraph: Ephraim Alnaqua

paragraph: Rabbi Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua (1359-1442) () (also, "Al-Nakawa", "Al-Nakava", "Ankava", "Ankoa", "Enkaoua", "Alnucawi", etc., Hebrew: "נקוה", "אלנאקוה", "אנקווה", "אנקאווא") was a physician, rabbi, theological writer, and founder of the Jewish community at Tlemçen (Algeria), where he died in 1442.

paragraph: According to a legend, Alnaqua escaped from the Spanish Inquisition, which had martyred his father (rabbi Israel Ben Joseph) and mother at the stake, and came to Tlemcen mounted on a lion, using a serpent as a halter. Azulai refers to him as a miracle-worker. Alnaqua succeeded, after all other physicians had failed, in curing the only daughter of a king of the Zayyanid dynasty. Refusing the reward of gold and silver offered him by the king, he begged only that the Jews living near Tlemçen might be united in it. In this way the community was formed. Alnaqua's first care was to establish a large synagogue: this is , and bears his name. Above the rabbi's chair, on which the verse Jer. xvii.12 is engraved, a lamp burns perpetually. Alnaqua's grave, surrounded by those of his family, is in the old cemetery: it is sacred to North African Jews, and by pilgrims from all Algeria.

paragraph: Alnaqua had two sons, Israel and Judah. The latter lived at Oran, Mostaganem, and, later, at Tlemçen, and became the father-in-law of Simeon ben Zemah Duran. Alnaqua wrote for his elder son Israel "Shaar Kevod Adonai" (Entrance to the Glory of God), containing answers to the criticisms of Nahmanides on the "Moreh" of Maimonides. Manuscripts of this work exist in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He wrote, also, some hymns.

paragraph: Section::::Other Family Members.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Israel Alnaqua

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jacky N'Kaoua, "aka" Papi Jacky

paragraph: Section::::Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 599;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Neubauer, Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS. Nos. 939, 2; 1258, 2;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Revue Africaine, 1870, pp. 377–383;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zunz, Z. G. p. 435;

paragraph: BULLET::::- idem, Literaturgesch. p. 524.

description: Physician, rabbi and writer

wikidata_label: Ephraim Alnaqua

wikipedia_title: Ephraim Alnaqua


text:
troubadour
Ferrara
composer
anthologist
autobiographer
florilegium
Occitan
lyric poetry
chansonnier
vida
cansos
retroensa
sirventes
couplet
cobla
tenso
Raimon Guillem
Occitan
trobar clus
moralising
didactic
Da Camino
Treviso
Gherardo III da Camino
Gaia
Dante Alighieri's
Divina Commedia
Uc Faidit
Terramagnino da Pisa
fl.
Italian
Provençal
orthography
Latin
Trogni
oath of fealty
Pope Clement V
San Romano
Padua
Este
Holy See
Lombardy
court culture
champion
Turchi

categories: 14th-century deaths,Italian poets,People from Ferrara,13th-century births,Italian male poets,Troubadours

paragraph: Ferrarino Trogni da Ferrara

paragraph: Ferrari da Ferrara, fully Ferrarino (dei) Trogni da Ferrara, was a troubadour of Ferrara in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. He was a composer, anthologist, and possibly autobiographer. He was one of the last active troubadours in Italy.

paragraph: Section::::Poetry.

paragraph: Section::::Poetry.:Florilegium.

paragraph: Ferrarino is best known as the compiler of a florilegium of Occitan lyric poetry appended to the end of manuscript "D", an Italian chansonnier of 1254. He was also a poet himself. His "vida" was placed atop his florilegium. Both were written in Italy. From this biography we know that he composed no more than two "cansos" and one "retroensa" (or "retroncha"), yet he was also a composer of "sirventes" and couplets, but what this contradiction in the "vida" means is probably that he compiled the best "sirventes" and extracted couplets from them.

paragraph: Of Ferrarino's work we only possess one "cobla" of a "tenso" composed in Italy with Raimon Guillem. It was added to the florilegium, so Ferrarino's "vida" relates, only later by the book's owner, who wished his anthologist to be remembered. From the little of his work which survives, however, it can be gleaned that Ferrarino was an able lyricist in the academic Occitan he had acquired, and his original structures merit his works' inclusion in the corpus of trobar clus. In his lost works, however, he may have abandoned this defining characteristic ("clus"), so unusual of the Italian troubadours.

paragraph: From his choice of excerpts for his florilegium can be derived another characteristic of Ferrarino the poet: a preference for moralising and didactic works. If he was, as his "vida" indicates, already old when he sojourned at the Da Camino court in Treviso, it may be that he composed his short anthology for Gherardo III da Camino ("Giraldo" or "Girardo"), in order to instruct his three children: the celebrated Gaia of Dante Alighieri's "Divina Commedia", Rizzardo, and Guecellone. That there were didactic Occitan poets in Italy is known: Uc Faidit composed his "Donat" there and Terramagnino da Pisa his "Doctrina". On the other hand, Ferrarino's florilegium may have been written without a specific purpose or with a general purpose in mind. Or it may have been intended for a private student, one Tuisio or Tuixio, later a master (fl. 1302). Some of these works may be "Italian" masked in Provençal orthography in order to teach the latter to a young pupil. Ferrarino, who is called "doctor proençalium" and said by his biographer to "sab molt be letras" (know many good letters), could have been a teacher of Occitan and Latin ("letras" means "Latin").

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Identification.

paragraph: A certain "Ferrarino, maestro di grammatica", of the Trogni family of Ferrara, mentioned in 1330, has been identified with the troubadour. This lengthens the poet's life considerably, but there is a reference in a "juramentum fidelitatis praestitum anno 1310 a populo ferrariense Clementi pp. V" (an oath of fealty of the people of Ferrara to Pope Clement V in 1310) to a "Magister Ferrarinus doctor grammatice" ("Master Ferrarino, doctor of grammar") and "Guicardus" (or "Guiçardus") "filius dicti magistri Ferrarini" ("Guizzardo, son of the aforementioned master Ferrarino"). It is generally accepted that this is the same "Maistre Ferari de Feirara" of the florilegium and this pushes his dates back at least to 1310, making the 1330 reference probable. The father and son who took the oath to the pope were said to be "contrata sexti Sancti Romani": proprietors of a sixth of San Romano.

paragraph: Ferrarino is probably also the Ferrarino dei Trogni, son of Bartolomeo, found in Padua in 1317, 1325, and 1330. This Ferrarino had a son, Guizzardo, who appears in an Este document of 1313: "Ego Guiçardus filius magistri Ferarini de Trongnis de Ferraria doctoris gramatice sacri palatij notarius" ("I, Guizzardo, son of the master Ferari de Trogni de Ferraria, doctor of grammar and notary of the sacred palace [i.e. Holy See]"). Thus, the troubadour was Ferrarino Trogni da Ferrara and he lived in Padua as late as 1330. This thus forms an important date in Italian Occitan literature, being one of the last datable events concerning a troubadour.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Vida.

paragraph: In his "vida" is written "qan ven ch'el fo veil … anava a Trevis a meser Guiraut da Chamin et a sos filz" ("when he became old, he did not travel much except to go to Treviso to [see] Milord Giraut de Chamin and his sons"). If thus Ferrarino was old when he came to the Trevisan court, an even that must have occurred before Gherardo's death on 26 March 1307, he must have been very old (probably over eighty) at the time of his death in 1330 or later. Of his last years we know nothing and he was probably living when his biography was composed. He may have even narrated it himself.

paragraph: The "vida" is highly laudatory of Ferrarino's contributions to Occitan poetry. "[H]e understood better how to invent ("trobaire") poems in Provençal [i.e. Occitan] than any other man who was ever in Lombardy," or so his biographer says. He was also reputed for his understanding of the language, for his writing (probably including penmanship), and for his composition of "good and beautiful books". He partook of court culture at the Este court in Ferrara, his hometown, for many years, there becoming something of a champion to whom any other aspiring troubadours would consult him for literary/linguistic advice, calling him their "master".

paragraph: The "vida" also contains the expected reference to a love interest. Ferrarino was said in his youth to have loved a lady Turcla, obviously of the house of Turchi (or Turcli). He performed many good deeds for her. In his later life he moved from the Este court to the Caminesi at Treviso, where he was accepted on account of the friendship between the two families.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bertoni, Giulio. "I Trovatori d'Italia: Biografie, testi, tradizioni, note". Rome: Società Multigrafica Editrice Somu, 1967 [1915].

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Vidas of the Troubadours". Margarita Egan, trans. New York: Garland, 1984. .

description: Italian poet

wikidata_label: Ferrarino Trogni da Ferrara

wikipedia_title: Ferrarino Trogni da Ferrara


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fl.
Catalan
troubadour
Girona
lyric poem
ensenhamen
proverb
James the Conqueror
Peter the Great
pastorela
sirventes
patronage
Hugh IV
Henry II of Rodez
infante
Folquet de Lunel
Dalfinet
Toledo
Riello
Cuenca
solidus
Sordel's
planh
Virgin Mary
Mercedarian Order
Barcelona
Matieu de Caersi
Riquer, Martín de
Cerverí de Girona at NARPAN

categories: 13th-century Catalan people,French male poets,Catalan poets,Troubadours,13th-century Spanish writers,13th-century Spanish poets

paragraph: Cerverí de Girona

paragraph: Cerverí de Girona (; fl. 1259–1285) was a Catalan troubadour born Guillem de Cervera in Girona. He was the most prolific troubadour, leaving behind some 114 lyric poems among other works, including an "ensenhamen" of proverbs for his son, totaling about 130. He was a court poet to James the Conqueror and Peter the Great. He wrote "pastorelas" and "sirventes" and his overriding concern was the complexities of court life. None of his music survives.

paragraph: Cerverí spent some time under the patronage and at the court of Hugh IV and Henry II of Rodez. He was in Spain in 1269, for he is found that year in the entourage of the then-"infante" Peter the Great. With fellow troubadours Folquet de Lunel and Dalfinet he accompanied Peter to Toledo. On 26 April at Riello, near Cuenca, he received one "solidus" for his services. Cerverí's "Cobla en sis lengatges" ("Verse in six languages") copied the metre of either Folquet's "Al bon rey q'es reys de pretz car" or Sordel's "Bel m'es ab motz leugiers a far".

paragraph: Cerverí wrote "Si per tristor, per dol no per cossir", a "planh", on 26 August 1276 for the death of James the Conqueror. It is direct and almost personal. The troubadour asks the Virgin Mary to show as much mercy to James as he showed on earth, referring to his establishing the Mercedarian Order in Barcelona. The poet Matieu de Caersi wrote a very different "planh", "Tant suy marritz que no.m puese alegrar", for James, moralising and religious in tone.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cabré, Miriam. "Cerverí de Girona and his Poetic Traditions". London: Tamesis, 1999. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah. "Appendix I: Major Troubadours" (pp. 279–291). "The Troubadours: An Introduction". Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, edd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Riquer, Martín de. "Los trovadores: historia literaria y textos". 3 vol. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cerverí de Girona at NARPAN

description: Spanish troubadour, poet and author

wikidata_label: Cerverí de Girona

wikipedia_title: Cerverí de Girona