text: Greek

text: Perdiccas

text: Orestis

text: Alexander the Great

text: India

text: Cynane

text: Eurydice

text: Philip Arrhidaeus

text: Macedon

text: Egypt

text: Eumenes

text: Asia Minor

text: Craterus

text: Ptolemy

text: Attalus

text: Antigonus

text: Pisidia

text: Termessus

text: Smith, William

text: "Alcetas"

text: Boston

categories: Ancient Macedonian generals,Generals of Alexander the Great,Suicides by sharp instrument in Turkey,Male suicides,Ancient Orestians,Military personnel who committed suicide,Year of birth unknown,Ancient Greek generals,320 BC deaths,4th-century BC Greek people,Ancient Macedonians who committed suicide

paragraph: Alcetas

paragraph: Alcetas (Greek Ἀλκέτας; died 320 BC), was the brother of Perdiccas and the son of Orontes from Orestis. He is first mentioned as one of Alexander the Great's generals in his Indian expedition.

paragraph: On the death of Alexander, Alcetas was a strong supporter of his brother Perdiccas. At Perdiccas' orders, in 323 BC Alcetas murdered Cynane, the half-sister of Alexander the Great, as she wished to marry off her daughter Eurydice to Philip Arrhidaeus, the nominal king of Macedon.

paragraph: At the time of Perdiccas' murder by his own troops in Egypt in 321 BC, Alcetas was with Eumenes in Asia Minor engaged against Craterus. The Perdiccas' army revolted from him and joined Ptolemy. They condemned Alcetas and all of Perdiccas' supporters to death.

paragraph: The war against Alcetas, who had now left Eumenes and united his forces with those of Attalus, was waged by Alexander's general Antigonus. Alcetas and Attalus were defeated in Pisidia in 320 BC and Alcetas retreated to Termessus.At this time, Antigonos came and set up camp in front of the city, seeking delivery of his rival. Not wanting their city to be dragged into disaster for the sake of a Macedonian foreigner, the elders of the city decided to hand Alcetas over to Antigonos. However, the youths of Termessos wanted to keep their word and refused to go along with the plan. The elders sent Antigonos an envoy to inform him of their intent to surrender Alcetas. According to a secret plan to continue the fight, the youth of Termessos managed to leave the city. Learning of his imminent capture and preferring death to being handed over to his enemy, Alcetas killed himself. The elders delivered his corpse to Antigonos. After subjecting the corpse to all manner of abuse for three days, Antigonos departed Pisidia leaving the corpse unburied. The youth, greatly resenting what had happened, recovered Alcetas' corpse, buried it with full honours, and erected a beautiful monument to his memory.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Smith, William (editor); "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", "Alcetas", Boston, (1867)

description: general

wikidata_label: Alcetas

wikipedia_title: Alcetas


text: boxer

text: Puerto Rico

text: San Juan

text: Río Piedras

text: Caguas

text: Bairoa Gym

text: Lineal

text: WBA

text: Bantamweight

text: Enrique

text: Featherweight

text: Eusebio Pedroza

text: Rafael

text: knocked out

text: WBC

text: Super featherweight

text: Héctor Camacho

text: Ray Negron

text: Juan Gómez

text: St. Maarten

text: Nivio Nolasco

text: Dominican Republic

text: Leopoldo Frias

text: Julio Soto Solano

text: Julio C. Saba

text: Buenos Aires

text: Edgar Roman

text: Venezuela

text: Jorge Lujan

text: Miami

text: Jeff Chandler

text: Atlantic City, New Jersey

text: Kiko Bejines

text: Los Angeles

text: Chile

text: televised

text: Panama

text: Super bantamweight

text: Bernardo Checa

text: Kenny Mitchell

text: Azumah Nelson

text: Wilfredo Gómez

text: David Campo

text: Mike Ayala

text: San Antonio

text: Texas

text: South Korea

text: Mauricio Stecca

text: Calvin Grove

text: Seung-Hoon Lee

text: Pedro Decima

text: List of lineal boxing world champions

text: List of bantamweight boxing champions

text: List of WBA world champions

text: List of famous Puerto Ricans

text: Julian Solís - CBZ Profile

categories: World boxing champions,1957 births,Bantamweight boxers,World Boxing Association champions,People from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico,Living people,World bantamweight boxing champions

paragraph: Julian Solís

paragraph: Julian Solís (born 7 January 1957) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. He was born in the San Juan area of Río Piedras, but because of the closeness of his birthplace to Caguas, he often trained at the Bairoa Gym in Caguas. His training base, however, was the Caimito Gym.

paragraph: A former Lineal and WBA Bantamweight champion, Solis is the only world champion in a family that produced two other world-class boxers: brother Enrique was outpointed by WBA Featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza in 1978, and brother Rafael was knocked out in five rounds by WBC Super featherweight champion Héctor Camacho in 1983.

paragraph: Section::::Professional boxing career.

paragraph: Solis began his professional boxing career in 1975, outpointing Ray Negron in four on 11 November. He won his first five fights in Puerto Rico, and then had his first international fight in December 1975, when he beat Juan Gómez in St. Maarten by a knockout in round two. On 12 February 1978, he met fringe contender Nivio Nolasco, outpointing him over ten rounds, and travelled to the Dominican Republic, where on 15 March he outpointed Leopoldo Frias also in ten rounds. With a record of 12-0 and 5 knockouts, he returned to the Dominican Republic, where he challenged Julio Soto Solano on 16 October for the "Latin American Bantamweight title", winning the regional belt by outpointing Solano over 12 rounds.

paragraph: Section::::World bantamweight championship.

paragraph: In 1979, he won four fights, including one over Julio C. Saba knocked out in eight rounds in Buenos Aires. Solis continued on his travels in 1980. He retained the Latin American title with a 12th-round knockout of future world title challenger Edgar Roman in Venezuela, won a fight in South Africa, and challenged the Lineal and WBA Bantamweight champion Jorge Lujan in Miami on 29 August, winning on points.

paragraph: For his first defense, Solis returned to Miami, but he lost the belt and his undefeated record to Jeff Chandler on November 14 when he was knocked out in the fourteenth round. After beginning 1981 with a win, he met Chandler again on 25 July, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. This time Chandler did the job in half the time, knocking out Solis in the seventh round. His next fight, with Kiko Bejines (later to die in a boxing related accident) in Los Angeles, also resulted in a seventh-round knockout defeat.

paragraph: Solis started 1982 by winning two fights in San Juan and another one in Chile. By 1983, he was a popular performer in televised fights, often held in small Puerto Rican cities. He won four fights in Puerto Rico that year, and drew in Panama with the Number One ranked Super bantamweight, Bernardo Checa. In 1984, he won three fights, including a ten-round decision over future world champion Kenny Mitchell on the 8 December undercard of the Azumah Nelson - Wilfredo Gómez WBC Featherweight championship bout in San Juan. In 1985, Solis fought only once, outpointing David Campo. He began 1986 by losing on points to Mike Ayala over ten rounds on 2 March in San Antonio. Solis and his handlers felt he had been robbed of a victory by the judges in this fight, feeling that Solis had done enough to win. They filed a complaint with the Texas state athletic commission, but in vain, as the officials reviewed a tape of the fight and decided the result should stand.

paragraph: Solis fought on from this point, but he only won six of his last fifteen bouts before retiring in 1992. True to his globe-trotting style, only two of those bouts were in Puerto Rico, and he visited Italy, South Korea, South Africa once again, Miami and various American states. Among the boxers he faced during the last part of his career were future world Bantamweight champion Mauricio Stecca, former world Bantamweight champion Calvin Grove, Seung-Hoon Lee and Pedro Decima.

paragraph: Solis retired with a record of 41 wins, 13 losses and 1 draw, with 22 knockouts. He remains active as a public figure in Puerto Rico, participating in charity exhibitions here and there.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

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

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of WBA world champions

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of famous Puerto Ricans

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Puerto Rican boxing world champions

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Julian Solís - CBZ Profile

description: Puerto Rican boxer

wikidata_label: Julian Solís

wikipedia_title: Julian Solís


text: steam locomotive

text: London and North Eastern Railway

text: LNER Class A1

text: LNER Class A4

text: Pacific

text: Flying Scotsman

text: Mallard

text: Walschaerts valve gear

text: Gresley conjugated valve gear

text: Netherseal

text: cadet branch

text: Gresley, Derbyshire

text: Sussex

text: Marlborough College

text: Crewe works

text: London and North Western Railway

text: John Aspinall

text: Horwich

text: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

text: Newton Heath

text: Great Northern Railway

text: Henry A. Ivatt

text: 1923 Grouping

text: John G. Robinson

text: DSc

text: Manchester University

text: King Edward VIII

text: IMechE

text: St. Albans

text: Mallard

text: de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre

text: Mosquito

text: Woodhead Line

text: Manchester

text: Sheffield

text: Second World War

text: project

text: St Peter's Church, Netherseal

text: Edward Thompson

text: CBE

text: 1936 Birthday Honours

text: Edinburgh Waverley railway station

text: LNER Class A4 4498 "Sir Nigel Gresley"

text: King's Cross station

text: Hazel Reeves

text: Gresley Conjugated Valve Gear

text: Garratt

text: locomotive that won the war

text: Flying Scotsman

text: Mallard

text: Silver Link

text: LNER Class W1

text: Silver Jubilee train

text: corridor tender

text: GNR 536 Class

text: GNR Class K1

text: GNR Class J2

text: GNR Class O3

text: GNR Class H3

text: GNR Class J51

text: GNR Class H4

text: GNR Class N2

text: GNR Class O2

text: GNR Class J50

text: GNR Class A1

text: LNER Class P1

text: LNER Class U1

text: Garratt

text: LNER Class J38

text: LNER Class J39

text: LNER Class A3

text: LNER Class D49

text: LNER Class B17

text: LNER Class V1

text: LNER Class P2

text: LNER Class A4

text: LNER Class V2

text: LNER Class W1

text: LNER Class K4

text: LNER Class V3

text: LNER Class V4

text: LNER No. 6701

text: electric locomotive

text: Comprehensive biography

categories: English railway mechanical engineers,1941 deaths,People educated at Marlborough College,Locomotive builders and designers,Knights Bachelor,1876 births,British people in rail transport,London and North Eastern Railway people,Commanders of the Order of the British Empire,English mechanical engineers,People from Leicestershire (before 1897),Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) people,Hadley Wood,Burials in Derbyshire

paragraph: Nigel Gresley

paragraph: Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific engines. An A1 Pacific, "Flying Scotsman", was the first steam locomotive officially recorded over 100 mph in passenger service, and an A4, number 4468 "Mallard", still holds the record for being the fastest steam locomotive in the world (126 mph).

paragraph: Gresley's engines were considered elegant, both aesthetically and mechanically. His invention of a three-cylinder design with only two sets of Walschaerts valve gear, the Gresley conjugated valve gear, produced smooth running and power at lower cost than would have been achieved with a more conventional three sets of Walschaerts gear.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Gresley was born in Edinburgh during his mother's visit there to see a gynaecologist, but was raised in Netherseal, Derbyshire, a member of a cadet branch of a family long seated at Gresley, Derbyshire. After attending school in Sussex and at Marlborough College, Gresley served his apprenticeship at the Crewe works of the London and North Western Railway, afterwards becoming a pupil under John Aspinall at Horwich of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). After several minor appointments with the L&YR he was made Outdoor Assistant in the Carriage and Wagon Department in 1901; in 1902 he was appointed Assistant Works Manager at Newton Heath depot, and Works Manager the following year.

paragraph: This rapid rise in his career was maintained, for he became Assistant Superintendent of the Carriage and Wagon Department of the L&YR in 1904. A year later, he moved to the Great Northern Railway (GNR) as Carriage and Wagon Superintendent. He succeeded Henry A. Ivatt as CME of the GNR on 1 October 1911. At the 1923 Grouping, he was appointed CME of the newly formed LNER (the post had originally been offered to the ageing John G. Robinson; Robinson declined and suggested the much younger Gresley). In 1936, Gresley was awarded an honorary DSc by Manchester University and a knighthood by King Edward VIII; also in that year he presided over the IMechE.

paragraph: During the 1930s, Sir Nigel Gresley lived at Salisbury Hall, near St. Albans in Hertfordshire. Gresley developed an interest in breeding wild birds and ducks in the moat; intriguingly, among the species were Mallard ducks. The Hall still exists today as a private residence and is adjacent to the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, with its links to the design of the famous Mosquito aircraft during World War II.

paragraph: In 1936, Gresley designed the 1,500 V DC locomotives for the proposed electrification of the Woodhead Line between Manchester and Sheffield. The Second World War forced the postponement of the project, which was completed in the early 1950s.

paragraph: Gresley died on 5 April 1941, after a short illness, and was buried in St Peter's Church, Netherseal, Derbyshire.

paragraph: He was succeeded as the LNER CME by Edward Thompson.

paragraph: Gresley was awarded the CBE in 1920 and was knighted in the 1936 Birthday Honours.

paragraph: Section::::Memorials.

paragraph: A memorial plaque to Gresley's achievements was unveiled at Edinburgh Waverley railway station in 2001. It was created by the Gresley Society and incorporates line drawings of his "Flying Scotsman" and "Mallard" locomotives.

paragraph: Following the redevelopment of the site previously home to Doncaster College, the square outside the new Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council Offices and Cast Theatre was named Sir Nigel Gresley Square, in honour of the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives built at Doncaster Plant Works following a public poll of Doncaster residents hosted by the "Doncaster Free Press". Sir Nigel Gresley Square was opened to the public as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, by the Mayor of Doncaster Mr. Peter Davies and two of Nigel Gresley's grandsons, in May 2012.

paragraph: LNER Class A4 4498 "Sir Nigel Gresley" is named after its designer.

paragraph: A statue of Gresley was unveiled at King's Cross station in London on 5 April 2016, the 75th anniversary of his death. Sculptor Hazel Reeves originally included a duck alongside Gresley in reference to his hobby of breeding water fowl and his bird-themed locomotive names such as "Mallard", but this was removed from the final design when two of Gresley's grandsons complained it was "demeaning".

paragraph: Section::::Innovations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Derived valve motion for 3-cylinder steam locomotives; Gresley Conjugated Valve Gear.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The largest passenger steam locomotive in the UK, the P2 2-8-2.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The largest steam locomotive in the UK, the U1 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The 'locomotive that won the war', the V2 2-6-2.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The first steam locomotive to officially achieve 100 mph, the A3 'Flying Scotsman' 4-6-2.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The fastest steam locomotive in the world, the A4 'Mallard' 4-6-2 (126.3 mph).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Another A4, 'Silver Link', previously holding the world speed record for steam locomotives (112 mph)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The experimental high-pressure LNER Class W1 'hush-hush' 4-6-4 locomotive

paragraph: BULLET::::- Silver Jubilee train

paragraph: BULLET::::- The articulated railway carriage, first used with some conversions of East Coast Joint Stock (ECJS) carriages in 1907, soon followed by conversions of GNR carriages; new articulated carriages being built for the GNR from 1911.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The corridor tender to allow longer non-stop running

paragraph: Section::::Locomotives designed by Gresley.:GNR.

paragraph: "See: Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway"

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR 536 Class (LNER Class J6) 0-6-0 (1911)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class K1 2-6-0 (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class J2 0-6-0 (1912)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class O3 2-8-0 (1913)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class H3 (LNER Class K2) 2-6-0 (1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class J51 0-6-0T (1915)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class H4 (LNER Class K3) 2-6-0 (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class N2 0-6-2T (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class O2 2-8-0 (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class J50 0-6-0T (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- GNR Class A1 4-6-2 (1922)

paragraph: Section::::Locomotives designed by Gresley.:LNER.

paragraph: "See: Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway"

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class P1 2-8-2 (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class U1 Garratt 2-8-0+0-8-2 (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class J38 0-6-0 (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class J39 0-6-0 (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class A3 4-6-2 (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class D49 4-4-0 (1927)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class B17 4-6-0 (1928)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class V1 2-6-2T (1930)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class P2 2-8-2 (1934)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class A4 4-6-2 (1935)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class V2 2-6-2 (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class W1 4-6-4 (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class K4 2-6-0 (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class V3 2-6-2T (1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER Class V4 2-6-2 (1941)

paragraph: BULLET::::- LNER No. 6701 Bo+Bo electric locomotive (1941)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Comprehensive biography

alias:
H. N. Gresley
Herbert Nigel Gresley
Sir Nigel Gresley

description: British engineer

wikidata_label: Nigel Gresley

wikipedia_title: Nigel Gresley


text:
Russia
ice hockey
HC Sochi
Kontinental Hockey League
HC Dynamo Moscow
2010–11 season
Metallurg Magnitogorsk
HC MVD

categories: HC Sochi players,1986 births,People from Kartalinsky District,HC Dynamo Moscow players,HC MVD players,Metallurg Magnitogorsk players,Russian ice hockey players,Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players,Living people

paragraph: Denis Mosalev

paragraph: Denis Mosalev (born 28 February 1986) is a Russian professional ice hockey player currently playing with HC Sochi in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

paragraph: Mosalev previously played with HC Dynamo Moscow of the KHL from the 2010–11 season. After previously playing at the top level with Metallurg Magnitogorsk and HC MVD.

description: Russian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Denis Mosalev

wikipedia_title: Denis Mosalev


text:
Newberry County, South Carolina
Columbia
Winnsboro, South Carolina
Jackson
Lee
Evening Post
London Standard
Dade County, Florida
Treasury Department

categories: 1829 births,American male journalists,American male writers,1905 deaths

paragraph: James Wood Davidson

paragraph: James Wood Davidson (March 9, 1829 Newberry County, South Carolina – 1905) was a United States author.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Davidson graduated from South Carolina College, Columbia, in 1852, studied languages under private tutors, from 1854 to 1859 was professor of Greek in Mount Zion College, Winnsboro, South Carolina, and in 1859 became principal of Carolina High School, Columbia. From 1862 to 1863, he was adjutant of infantry in Jackson's corps of Lee's army. He left Columbia in 1871, and lived two years in Washington, D.C., and eleven years in New York City, where he was literary editor of the "Evening Post" in 1873, and American correspondent of the "London Standard" from 1873 to 1878. In 1884, he moved to Figulus in Dade County, Florida, where he continued his literary work, and engaged in fruit culture. In 1885, he was a member of the Florida constitutional convention.

paragraph: After 1887, he was employed in the Treasury Department at Washington.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Living Writers of the South" (New York, 1869)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "School History of South Carolina" (Columbia, 1869; new ed., 1886)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Correspondent" (New York, 1886)

paragraph: He edited:

paragraph: BULLET::::- William M. Martin, "Lyrics and Sketches" (1865)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Educational Year-Book" (1872)

description: American journalist

wikidata_label: James Wood Davidson

wikipedia_title: James Wood Davidson


text:
Union Army
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Battle of Cedar Creek
Middletown, Virginia
Major General
Philip Sheridan's
Valley Campaigns of 1864
Shenandoah Valley
Indiana
List of Medal of Honor recipients
Military Times Hall of Valor

categories: People of Alabama in the American Civil War,People of Indiana in the American Civil War,People from Madison County, Alabama,1834 births,Union Army soldiers,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor,1890 deaths

paragraph: Richard Taylor (Medal of Honor)

paragraph: Richard Taylor (1834–1890) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Battle of Cedar Creek fought near Middletown, Virginia on October 19, 1864. The battle was the decisive engagement of Major General Philip Sheridan's Valley Campaigns of 1864 and was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

paragraph: Taylor joined the Army from Indiana in August 1861, and mustered out with his regiment in August 1865.

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

paragraph: "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Richard Taylor, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 19 October 1864, while serving with Company E, 18th Indiana Infantry, in action at Cedar Creek, Virginia, for capture of flag."

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Military Times Hall of Valor

wikidata_label: Richard Taylor

wikipedia_title: Richard Taylor (Medal of Honor)


text:
Union Army
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Battle of Cedar Creek
Middletown, Virginia
Major General
Philip Sheridan's
Valley Campaigns of 1864
Shenandoah Valley
List of Medal of Honor recipients
Military Times Hall of Valor

categories: Irish soldiers in the United States Army,19th-century Irish people,Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923),People from County Tipperary,People of New York (state) in the American Civil War,Union Army soldiers,People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War,People from Tipperary (town),1841 births,American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor,1924 deaths

paragraph: John Walsh (Medal of Honor)

paragraph: John Walsh (December 4, 1841 – May 25, 1924) was an Irish-born Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Battle of Cedar Creek, fought near Middletown, Virginia on October 19, 1864. The battle was the decisive engagement of Major General Philip Sheridan's Valley Campaigns of 1864 and was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

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

paragraph: The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal John Walsh, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 19 October 1864, while serving with Company D, 5th New York Cavalry, in action at Cedar Creek, Virginia. Corporal Walsh recaptured the flag of the 15th New Jersey Infantry.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

description: American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient born in Ireland

wikidata_label: John Walsh

wikipedia_title: John Walsh (Medal of Honor)


text:
Union Army
American Civil War
Medal of Honor
Battle of Cedar Creek
Middletown, Virginia
Major General
Philip Sheridan's
Valley Campaigns of 1864
Shenandoah Valley
Clyde, New York

categories: Bavarian emigrants to the United States,1839 births,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,People of New York (state) in the American Civil War,Union Army soldiers,German-born Medal of Honor recipients,Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Syracuse, New York),American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor,People from Clyde, New York,1911 deaths

paragraph: Martin Wambsgan

paragraph: Martin Wambsgan (August 19, 1839 – January 17, 1911) was a German born Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Battle of Cedar Creek fought near Middletown, Virginia on October 19, 1864. The battle was the decisive engagement of Major General Philip Sheridan's Valley Campaigns of 1864 and was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

paragraph: Wambsgan enlisted in the Union Army at Clyde, New York in October 1861. He re-enlisted in February 1864, and mustered out with his regiment in early 1866.

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

paragraph: "The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Martin Wambsgan, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 19 October 1864, while serving with Company D, 90th New York Infantry, in action at Cedar Creek, Virginia. While the enemy were in close proximity, Private Wambsgan sprang forward and bore off in safety the regimental colors, the Color Bearer having fallen on the field of battle."

description: Recipient of the Medal of Honor

wikidata_label: Martin Wambsgan

wikipedia_title: Martin Wambsgan


text:
Hollywood
California
Paris
Moritz Moszkowski
Elizabeth Jordan Eichelberger
de Sales
London
United States
Los Angeles

categories: 20th-century classical composers,1951 deaths,20th-century American composers,American music educators,20th-century women musicians,American classical composers,1890 births,American female classical composers

paragraph: Kathleen Lockhart Manning

paragraph: Kathleen Lockhart Manning (24 October 1890 – 20 March 1951) was an American composer. She was born on a ranch in Hollywood, California, and studied piano and composition in Paris with Moritz Moszkowski, and later with Elizabeth Jordan Eichelberger and de Sales. She sang during the 1911-1912 season with the Hammerstein Opera Company in London and also performed in the United States. After her husband died in 1938, she suffered from mental illness. She died in Los Angeles.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Lockhart was noted for vocal compositions and wrote her own text. Selected works include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sketches of Paris" song cycle

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sketches of New York", song cycle

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Operetta in Mozartian Style"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "For the Soul of Rafael"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Japanese Ghost Songs"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chinese Impressions"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Sketches of Childhood"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Tale the Garden Told"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Autumn Leaves"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nostalgia"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Truant"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chinois"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Prayer"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Departed"

paragraph: Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "To The Mart Of Dreams: Songs By Kathleen Lockhart Manning, Vol. 1"

description: American composer

wikidata_label: Kathleen Lockhart Manning

wikipedia_title: Kathleen Lockhart Manning


text:
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Lysimachus
Nicaea of Macedon
Agathocles
Eurydice
Agathocles of Pella
Philip II of Macedon
Regent
Antipater
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
pharaoh
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Seleucus I Nicator
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Lysimachus of Egypt
Berenice
Arsinoe II
Ptolemy Keraunos
Coptos
Upper Egypt
Theoxena
Thebaid
stele
cartouche
Phoenician
Lapithos
Cyprus
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Lysimachus
Berenice Phernophorus
Antiochus II Theos

categories: 3rd-century BC Egyptian people,Ancient Thessalians in Macedon,305 BC births,3rd-century BC Macedonians,3rd-century BC Greek people,Queens consort of the Ptolemaic dynasty,3rd-century BC Pharaohs,240s BC deaths,3rd-century BC women

paragraph: Arsinoe I

paragraph: Arsinoe I (, 305 BC – after c. 248 BC) was Queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: She was the second daughter and youngest child born to King Lysimachus and Nicaea of Macedon. Arsinoe I had two older siblings: a brother called Agathocles and a sister called Eurydice.

paragraph: Arsinoe's paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella, a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon who reigned 359-336 BC, while her maternal grandfather was the powerful Regent Antipater. Arsinoe I was named in honor of an unnamed grandmother, who may have been the mother of Lysimachus or the mother of Nicaea whose both names of these women are unknown. Little is known of her life prior to her marriage.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Queen.

paragraph: Between 289/88 and 281 BC, Arsinoe became the first wife of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, who was also her distant maternal cousin. Arsinoe I married Ptolemy II as part of an alliance between her father and Ptolemy II, against Seleucus I Nicator.

paragraph: Arsinoe was, by marriage, Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Arsinoe bore Ptolemy II three children; two sons: Ptolemy III Euergetes, Lysimachus of Egypt and a daughter called Berenice. At an unknown date between after 279-274/3 BC, the sister of Ptolemy II, who is known as Arsinoe II, arrived in Egypt. She was the last wife of Lysimachus and had fled from her half-brother and husband Ptolemy Keraunos. Probably at the instigation of Arsinoe II, charges of conspiring to assassinate Ptolemy II were soon brought against Arsinoe.

paragraph: As a result of the charges, Ptolemy II convicted Arsinoe of plotting against him. He repudiated her then exiled her to Coptos in Upper Egypt. It is chronologically plausible that these events were also connected to the banishment of Ptolemy II’s niece Theoxena, as Theoxena was sent to the Thebaid, perhaps to Coptos as well.

paragraph: Afterwards, Ptolemy II married his sister, Arsinoe II, and after her death, his children with Arsinoe were officially regarded as the children of Arsinoe II.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Later life.

paragraph: Arsinoe I lived in exile for twenty years. During her exile, Arsinoe I lived in great splendour and exercised considerable power, since she was the former wife of a pharaoh. Her first son with Ptolemy II succeeded his father after his death.

paragraph: A surviving stele has been found at Coptos which refers to Arsinoe I. The Stele is of Senu-sher, a steward of Arsinoe I and the Stele is assigned to Arsinoe I’s exile. The stele calls Arsinoe I the "king’s wife", but her name is not enclosed in the royal cartouche as was customary for an Egyptian queen. Another piece of surviving evidence connected to Arsinoe I is a Phoenician inscription found at Lapithos, Cyprus, which is dated in the 11th or 12th year in the reign of Ptolemy II. The inscription refers to a sacrifice instituted by Yatonba’al on behalf of "the legitimate scion and his wife", hence refers to Arsinoe I. As Arsinoe I was disgraced as a traitor, the fact the person who did the sacrifice on her behalf strongly suggests that the news of her disgrace had not yet reached him.

paragraph: Section::::Issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ptolemy III Euergetes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lysimachus

paragraph: BULLET::::- Berenice Phernophorus, married Antiochus II Theos, king of Syria.

description: Egyptian queen consort

wikidata_label: Arsinoe I

wikipedia_title: Arsinoe I


text: Warsaw

text: volcanologist

text: geologist

text: cinematographer

text: lava

text: Cabinet minister

text: Brussels

text: Warsaw

text: Russian Partition

text: Muslim

text: Tatar

text: Polish Jew

text: Natural science

text: Bachelor's degree

text: Political science

text: First world war

text: agronomy

text: Gembloux

text: geology

text: University of Liège

text: Secretary of state

text: National Geographic

text: The Violent Earth

text: Mount Etna

text: Sicily

text: Mount Nyiragongo

text: Democratic Republic of Congo

text: La Verna cave

text: French Pyrenees

text: France

text: Passy Cemetery

text: Le Livre de Poche

text: Pyrenees-Atlantiques

categories: Polish geologists,1998 deaths,Burials at Passy Cemetery,Polish people of Lipka Tatar descent,Ecology Generation politicians,Lipka Tatars,French geologists,Volcanologists,University of Liège alumni,Imperial Russian emigrants to Belgium,People from Warsaw,1914 births,French people of Tatar descent,French people of Polish-Jewish descent

paragraph: Haroun Tazieff

paragraph: Haroun Tazieff (Warsaw, 11 May 1914 – Paris, 2 February 1998) was a Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. He was also a government adviser and Cabinet minister.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: His parents met and married in 1906 while they were both students in Brussels. They later returned to Warsaw, Russian Partition where their first son, Salvator, died at two months and where Haroun was born. His father, Sabir, was a Muslim medical doctor, of Tatar descent and his mother, Zenita née Klupt, was a Polish Jewish chemist and doctor of Natural science and holder of a Bachelor's degree in Political science. His father was conscripted into the Russian Army and died during the First world war, a fact that did not reach the family until 1919. In 1917 Haroun emigrated to Brussels with his widowed mother.

paragraph: Haroun received a degree in agronomy in Gembloux in 1938, and another degree in geology at the University of Liège in 1944. He was later a Secretary of state in France, in charge of protection against major risks.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: The National Geographic film "The Violent Earth" was based on Tazieff's expeditions to the volcanoes, Mount Etna, Sicily in 1971 and Mount Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1972 in which he attempted, unsuccessfully, to descend into the active lava lake in order to collect samples something he had managed to achieve on a previous expedition in 1959.

paragraph: He participated in the first detailed exploration of the "Saint-Martin" La Verna cave system in the French Pyrenees. In 1952, while he was filming Marcel Loubens' ascent of the Pierre-Saint-Martin rock face, the cable of the hoist broke and Loubens fell over 80 meters. Loubens died 36 hours later but his body could only be recovered from the cave in 1954.

paragraph: Haroun Tazieff became famous in France after publishing a book entitled, "Le Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin" in 1952.

paragraph: Tazieff died in 1998 and was buried in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: His publications were translated into English included texts about forecasting volcanic and earthquake events

paragraph: They include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cratères en feu", Édition Arthaud, 1951 (Gallimard jeunesse 1973 und in 4. editions Arthaud 1978)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tore der Hölle. Vulkankunde", Rüschlikon-Zürich, Müller, 1950

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Eau et le Feu", Édition Arthaud, 1954. German edition: "Im Banne der Vulkane. Abenteuer eines Geologen im ostafrikanischen Graben", Brockhaus 1955

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les rendez-vous du diable", Édition Hachette, 1959, 1961

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Geburt eines Vulkans – afrikanisches Abenteuer", Lux 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Der Ätna und seine Nachbarn – Stromboli, Vulcano, Lipari", Lux 1960

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Histoires de volcans", Le Livre de Poche, 1978.

paragraph: BULLET::::- with Clément Borgal and Norbert Casteret "15 aventures sous terre", Éditions Gautier-Languereau, 1970.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'Etna et les volcanologues", Édition Arthaud, 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vingt-cinq ans sur les volcans du globe", 2 volumes, Éditions Nathan, 1974–1975.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L'odeur du soufre: expédition en Afar", Éditions Stock, 1975.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cordillères, séismes et volcans", Laffont, 1975

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Niragongo, ou le volcan interdit", Flammarion, 1975. Deutsche Ausgabe "Niragongo", Rüschlikon-Zürich, Müller 1980

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin", Arthaud, 1952, Neuauflage 1976 Online bei Association de recherches spéléologiques internationales de la Pierre Saint-Martin, pdf

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jouer avec le feu", Seuil 1976

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Soufrière et autres volcans: la volcanologie en danger." Éditions Flammarion 1979

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ouvrez donc les yeux : conversations sur quelques points brûlants d'actualité" (Conversations with Claude Mossé), Laffont 1980.

paragraph: BULLET::::- with Claude Villers "Ça sent le soufre", Éditions Nathan 1981.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les volcans et la dérive des continents", Presses universitaires de France, 1973, 1984, 1991, deutsche Ausgabe "Vulkanismus und Kontinentwanderung", DVA 1974

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sur l´Etna", Flammarion 1984, deutsche Ausgabe "Der Ätna- der Berg, seine Gefahren, seine Zukunft", Busse-Seewald 1988

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quand la terre tremble", 3. edition, Fayard 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La prévision des séismes", Hachette, "Collection questions de science", 1987

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les volcans", Hachette littérature 1987

paragraph: BULLET::::- with Max Derruau "Le volcanisme et sa prévention", Masson 1990

paragraph: BULLET::::- with Bernard Amy, Florence Trystram: "Sur l'Etna", 3. edition, Flammarion, 1991

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les défis et la chance: ma vie", Éditions Stock - L. Pernoud, 2 volumes, 1991–1992 (Autobiography, Vol. 1: De Pétrograd au Niragongo, Vol. 2: Le Vagabond des Volcans)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La terre va-t-elle cesser de tourner?: pollutions réelles, pollutions imaginaires", 2. edition, Éditions Séghers, 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Erebus - Volcan Antarctique", Arthaud 1978 and Collection Babel, Terres d’aventures. Actes Sud. 1994

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Volcans", Éditions Bordas, 1996.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://www.laverna.fr The La Verna Cave system in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques

description: French volcanologist, geologist

wikidata_label: Haroun Tazieff

wikipedia_title: Haroun Tazieff


text:
Persian
Abbasid Caliphate
vizier
amir al-umara
Ibn Ra'iq
calligrapher
Baghdad
Abbasid Caliphate
AH
Fars
vizier
Abu 'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat
al-Muqtadir
Banu'l-Furat
Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah
Banu'l-Jarrah
Mu'nis al-Khadim
diwan
hadjib
al-Qahir
al-Radi
Muhammad ibn Yaqut
Hamdanid
Jazira
Mosul
Wasit
Muhammad ibn Ra'iq
amir al-umara
Bajkam
calligrapher
al-khatt al-mansub
Ibn al-Bawwab
nuqta
alif
Ibn al-Nadim
Iraqi art
Islamic calligraphy
List of Iraqi artists

categories: Calligraphers of Arabic script,940 deaths,880s births,10th-century Iranian people,Prisoners and detainees of the Abbasid Caliphate,Iranian calligraphers,Calligraphers of the Abbasid Caliphate,Viziers of the Abbasid Caliphate,People from Baghdad,9th-century Iranian people

paragraph: Ibn Muqla

paragraph: Abu 'Ali Muhammad Ibn 'Ali ibn Muqla al-Shirazi (885/6 – 20 July 940/1) was a Persian official of the Abbasid Caliphate who rose to high state posts in the early 10th century. His career culminated in his own assumption of the vizierate at Baghdad thrice, in 928–930, 932–933 and 934–936. Unable to successfully challenge the growing power of regional emirs, he lost his position to the first "amir al-umara", Ibn Ra'iq, and died in prison. He was also a noted calligrapher.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

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

paragraph: Ibn Muqla was born in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, in AH 272 (885/886 CE). His career in public service began in Fars, where he served as tax collector. His rise to power in the central government came in 908, under the patronage of the powerful vizier Abu 'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, who appointed him in charge of official dispatches. It was at this time, under the ineffectual rule of Caliph al-Muqtadir (), that the civil bureaucracy reached its apex of power in the Abbasid court, but where the achievements of previous reigns in restoring the Caliphate's fortunes collapsed due to chronic financial shortages. Throughout the period, the political scene in Baghdad was dominated by Ibn al-Furat and his faction (the Banu'l-Furat), his rival Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah and the faction gathered around him (the Banu'l-Jarrah), and the powerful chief of the military, Mu'nis al-Khadim. Despite his close ties to Ibn al-Furat, which were re-affirmed during the latter's second tenure in 917–918, Ibn Muqla eventually turned against him. His next promotion came during the "de facto" 918–928 vizierate of Ali ibn Isa, when he assumed the important department ("diwan") of the public estates.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:First vizierate.

paragraph: By cultivating the friendship of the powerful chamberlain ("hadjib") Nasr, Ibn Muqla managed to secure the post of vizier for himself after Ali's disgrace in 928. His vizierate however was marked by extreme internal instability, including a short-lived coup in 929, instigated by Mu'nis, which deposed al-Muqtadir in favour of his brother al-Qahir. Despite the coup's failure, Mu'nis and his close ally Ali ibn Isa now dominated the government, and led to Ibn Muqla's dismissal in 930.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Second vizierate and the overthrow of al-Qahir.

paragraph: Ibn Muqla was reappointed as vizier by al-Qahir when he succeeded al-Muqtadir after the latter's death in 932. The new caliph's attempts to assert his own authority met with opposition both from Ibn Muqla and from Mu'nis. Mu'nis started conspiring against al-Qahir, but he was arrested and killed before he could act, whereupon, after only six months in office, Ibn Muqla was dismissed. Ibn Muqla then headed another conspiracy, and in 934 al-Qahir was captured, blinded and deposed by the Baghdad troops, with his nephew al-Radi succeeding him.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Third vizierate and downfall.

paragraph: Initially, al-Radi sent for Ali ibn Isa to once more assume the vizierate, but the latter refused on account of his advanced age; Ibn Muqla was then appointed to his third term of office. However, for the first months of the reign, Muhammad ibn Yaqut continued to be the most powerful member of the court until his downfall in April 935; only then did Ibn Muqla truly gain control of the administration.

paragraph: By this time, the greatest threat faced by the Caliphate was the increasing independence of the regional governors, who had taken advantage of the internal quarrels in the Abbasid court to strengthen their own control over their provinces and withheld the taxes due to Baghdad, leaving the central government crippled. Ibn Muqla resolved to reassert his control over the neighbouring provinces by military force, and chose the Hamdanid-controlled Jazira as his first target: in 935 he launched a campaign that took the Hamdanid capital, Mosul, but he was forced to return to Baghdad. Another attempt in 936 to launch a campaign against the rebellious governor of Wasit, Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, failed to even get started. Coupled with his failure to counter the mounting financial crisis, this last disaster led to Ibn Muqla's dismissal and arrest.

paragraph: Ibn Muqla's dismissal marks also the final end of the independence of the Abbasid caliphs, for shortly after Ibn Ra'iq was appointed to the new post of "amir al-umara" ("commander of commanders"), a military-based office that became the "de facto" ruler of what remained of the Caliphate and deprived the Caliph from all real authority. Ibn Ra'iq had the possessions of Ibn Muqla and his son confiscated, and Ibn Muqla in turn began to conspire against the "amir al-umara". Ibn Ra'iq however became aware of this, and had him imprisoned and his right hand cut off. Shortly after, even while the army of the Turkish general Bajkam was approaching Baghdad to depose Ibn Ra'iq, his tongue was cut. Despite Bajkam's success, Ibn Muqla remained in prison, where he died on 20 July 940.

paragraph: Section::::Calligraphy.

paragraph: Ibn Muqla was also famous as a calligrapher.He was revered as 'a prophet in the field of handwriting; it was poured upon his hand, even as it was revealed to the bees to make their honey cells hexagonal'. He or his brothers have been considered the originators of the so-called "al-khatt al-mansub" ("proportioned script") style, perfected by the 11th-century Persian calligrapher Ibn al-Bawwab. "Khatt" refers to the "marking out" of lines, which suggests that calligraphy is a demarcation of space. In the "al-khatt al-mansub" system letter design is related to three measurements: the size of "nuqta"; the height of the "alif"; and the circle with a diameter equal to the height of the "alif".

paragraph: None of Ibn Muqla's authentic work exists today, his work is only known through other sources like Ibn al-Nadim.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Iraqi art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Islamic calligraphy

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Iraqi artists

description: Abbasid vizier and calligrapher

wikidata_label: Ibn Muqla

wikipedia_title: Ibn Muqla


text: United States Senate

text: War of 1812

text: Newark, New Jersey

text: Benin

text: slavery

text: Everett Mills

text: Lawrence, Massachusetts

text: Danvers, Massachusetts

text: abolitionist

text: John Greenleaf Whittier

text: Lynn, Massachusetts

text: James Needham Buffum

text: Underground Railroad

text: William Lloyd Garrison

text: Wendell Phillips

text: US Marshal

text: Charles Devens

text: Boston

text: American Civil War

text: Thomas Alva Edison

text: George Harrington

categories: Underground Railroad people,Deaths from pneumonia,1834 births,American manufacturing businesspeople,1907 deaths,American abolitionists,Thomas Edison,19th-century American inventors

paragraph: Joseph T. Murray

paragraph: Joseph Thomas Murray (12 May 1834 in Salem, Massachusetts – 27 January 1907 in Springfield, Massachusetts) was an American abolitionist, manufacturer, and inventor. He was an early business associate of Thomas Edison.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Joseph Thomas Murray was a son of James Murray (1787-1880), an English immigrant who was a mathematician and a reporter for the United States Senate during the War of 1812. His family moved in 1844 to Newark, New Jersey. At age eleven, he wanted to be sailor and he sailed with his uncle to Africa. Due to the harassment by his uncle, the young Murray jumped ship at the first opportunity and lived for six months among the locals in Benin. There he first witnessed the effects of slavery.

paragraph: After returning to Massachusetts, Murray began his training at the age of 14 at Everett Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he learned the mechanics trade and became a machinist. For two years he worked as postmaster in Danvers, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Section::::Abolitionism.

paragraph: Murray became an abolitionist in 1848 and, working with John Greenleaf Whittier and the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts, James Needham Buffum, became a connection for the Underground Railroad and helped slaves to escape from the South to the North. He also had associations with William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. The US Marshal Charles Devens once arrested Murray as he was smuggling a fugitive slave into Boston. During the American Civil War, Murray served in the 35th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

paragraph: Section::::Association with Thomas Edison.

paragraph: In October 1870, Murray was hired by Thomas Alva Edison and George Harrington to work at American Telegraph Works, which manufactured telegraphic equipment. Together with Edison, he founded in February 1872, the small company J.T. Murray and Company, also producing telegraph equipment. In the third quarter of 1873, they reorganized as Edison and Murray and also assumed the operations of the recently defunct Edison and Unger company. Edison, Murray and the inventor Jarvis B. Edson incorporated the Domestic Telegraph Company in 1874. Although Edison and Murray formally dissolved in their partnership in July 1875, Edison continued to use and improve products manufactured by Murray.

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

paragraph: Murry continued his work as an inventor. At one point, his patents may have been worth $1,500,000 in the currency of the time. However, Murray's finances fluctuated drastically during the rest of his life.

paragraph: In 1907, Joseph T. Murray died of pneumonia at the home of his daughter, May Murray, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

paragraph: Section::::Patents.

paragraph: BULLET::::- - Journal Bearing - 1889-10-15

paragraph: BULLET::::- - Lamp Wick - 1894-05-15

description: American activist and businessman

wikidata_label: Joseph T. Murray

wikipedia_title: Joseph T. Murray


text:
Lyngdal
Johan Fredrik Feyer
Kristian Andvord
Rolf Otto Andvord
Morten Smith-Petersen
Edvard Heiberg Hansteen
Egersund
captain
Østlandske Lloyd
Ganger Rolf
steam ship
Antwerp
Wilson Line
Newcastle
consul
Belgium
Kristiania Port Authority
Oslo East Station
Adrien de Gerlache
Andvord Bay
Graham Land
Antarctica
Belgica
Belgian Antarctic Expedition

categories: 1906 deaths,People from Egersund,Norwegian businesspeople in shipping,1847 births

paragraph: Rolf Andvord (consul)

paragraph: Rolf Thorsteinson Andvord (15 December 1847 – 26 October 1906) was a Norwegian ship-owner.

paragraph: He was born in Lyngdal as a son of vicar Thorstein Rolfsen Andvord (1810–1870) and his wife Sofie Barbara Margrethe Feyer (1824–1869). He was a nephew of Johan Fredrik Feyer, a brother of physician Kristian Andvord, and uncle of ambassador Rolf Otto Andvord.

paragraph: He married Antonette Smith-Petersen, a daughter of ship-owner Morten Smith-Petersen. Their daughter Margrethe married physician Edvard Heiberg Hansteen.

paragraph: He grew up at his uncle's in Egersund, and went to school here. From the age of 14 he worked at sea, advancing to captain. He founded the shipping company Østlandske Lloyd in 1881, and ran the company until early 1906, when it was incorporated into the company Ganger Rolf. He was a driving force in converting to steam ships, bought the vessel SS "Memento" which became well known along the coast in his day. SS "Memento" sailed on Antwerp, and Andvord also broke the Wilson Line's monopoly on steamship traffic between Norway and Newcastle.

paragraph: Andvord was consul for Belgium from 1894, and consul-general from 1905 to his death. He was a member of the Norwegian consulate committee in 1891, board member of Kristiania Port Authority and the Oslo East Station commission. Adrien de Gerlache named Andvord Bay (Graham Land, Antarctica) in recognition of his assistance in the purchase of the Belgica for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition.

paragraph: He died in October 1906 in Kristiania.

description: Norwegian ship-owner

wikidata_label: Rolf Andvord

wikipedia_title: Rolf Andvord (consul)


text: Brandon, Mississippi

text: Guadalcanal

text: Solomon Islands

text: United States Navy

text: Battle of Cape Esperance

text: Guadalcanal

text: Navy Cross

text: Consolidated Steel Corporation

text: Orange, Texas

text: Mississippi

text: christen

text: Champagne

text: Poole

categories: Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States),American naval personnel killed in World War II,People from Brandon, Mississippi,1942 deaths,1920 births,United States Navy sailors

paragraph: Minor Butler Poole

paragraph: Minor Butler Poole (February 2, 1920, in Brandon, Mississippi - October 12, 1942, in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands) enlisted in the United States Navy February 15, 1938.

paragraph: During the Battle of Cape Esperance at Guadalcanal, Poole was in charge of the Forward Magazine Flooding Control Station aboard . He gave up his life in an attempt to reach the flooding panel through overpowering gas fumes on October 12, 1942, and for this "Gunners Mate First Class Poole" posthumously received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism and courageous devotion to duty. 107 "Boise" crewmembers died in that battle.

paragraph: Section::::Namesake.

paragraph: , named in his honor, launched May 8, 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. Minor Herndon Poole, mother of "Minor Butler Poole". Poole's mother used a bottle filled with water from Liberty Creek in Mississippi to christen the ship instead of the traditional Champagne. She used it because her son learned to swim in the waters of the creek.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Poole at the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

description: United States Navy sailor

wikidata_label: Minor Butler Poole

wikipedia_title: Minor Butler Poole


text: United States Army

text: Medal of Honor

text: Vietnam War

text: Fresno, California

text: Staff Sergeant

text: 8th Infantry Regiment

text: 4th Infantry Division

text: Republic of Vietnam

text: squad

text: grenade

text: West Virginia

text: mortar

text: human wave

categories: 1943 births,People from Logan, West Virginia,People from Fresno, California,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,American military personnel killed in the Vietnam War,United States Army soldiers,Hungarian-born Medal of Honor recipients,1967 deaths

paragraph: Ferenc Zoltán Molnár

paragraph: Ferenc "Frankie" Zoltán Molnár (February 14, 1943 – May 20, 1967) was a United States Army soldier of Hungarian descent and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Frankie and Zoli is a nickname of Ferenc and Zoltán.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Molnár joined the Army from Fresno, California in 1962, and by May 20, 1967 was serving as a Staff Sergeant in Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. During an enemy assault on that day, in Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam, Molnár organized his squad's defense and, when a grenade landed among them, smothered the blast with his body at the expense of his life.

paragraph: Molnár, aged 24 at his death, was buried in Highland Memory Gardens, Godby Heights, West Virginia.

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

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

paragraph: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt. Molnár distinguished himself while serving as a squad leader with Company B, during combat operations. Shortly after the battalion's defensive perimeter was established, it was hit by intense mortar fire as the prelude to a massive enemy night attack. S/Sgt. Molnár immediately left his sheltered location to insure the readiness of his squad to meet the attack. As he crawled through the position, he discovered a group of enemy soldiers closing in on his squad area. His accurate rifle fire killed 5 of the enemy and forced the remainder to flee. When the mortar fire stopped, the enemy attacked in a human wave supported by grenades, rockets, automatic weapons, and small-arms fire. After assisting to repel the first enemy assault, S/Sgt. Molnár found that his squad's ammunition and grenade supply was nearly expended. Again leaving the relative safety of his position, he crawled through intense enemy fire to secure additional ammunition and distribute it to his squad. He rejoined his men to beat back the renewed enemy onslaught, and he moved about his area providing medical aid and assisting in the evacuation of the wounded. With the help of several men, he was preparing to move a severely wounded soldier when an enemy hand grenade was thrown into the group. The first to see the grenade, S/Sgt. Molnár threw himself on it and absorbed the deadly blast to save his comrades. His demonstrated selflessness and inspirational leadership on the battlefield were a major factor in the successful defense of the American position and are in keeping with the finest traditions of the U.S. Army. S/Sgt. Molnár's actions reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

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

wikidata_label: Frankie Zoly Molnar

wikipedia_title: Ferenc Zoltán Molnár


text:
Vancouver
British Columbia
American
goaltender
Braehead Clan
Elite Ice Hockey League
New York Rangers
St. Louis Blues
National Hockey League
Dinamo Riga
HC Donbass
Kontinental Hockey League
Orli Znojmo
Austrian Hockey League
2003 NHL Entry Draft
New York Rangers
Hartford Wolf Pack
American Hockey League
Henrik Lundqvist
Kevin Weekes
Billings Bulls
free agent
St. Louis Blues
Chris Mason
Columbus Blue Jackets
2009–10
Ottawa Senators
Binghamton Senators
Elmira Jackals
Kontinental Hockey League
Dinamo Riga
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
2012–13
Idaho
USA
2003 World Junior Championships

categories: Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Ukraine,Peoria Rivermen (AHL) players,1985 births,American ice hockey goaltenders,USA Hockey National Team Development Program players,Ice hockey people from British Columbia,Hartford Wolf Pack players,Sportspeople from Vancouver,Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia,Elmira Jackals (ECHL) players,HC Donbass players,New York Rangers players,Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Latvia,Canadian emigrants to the United States,Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in England,Braehead Clan players,Dinamo Riga players,Binghamton Senators players,Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Scotland,Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players,New York Rangers draft picks,Living people,Alaska Aces (ECHL) players,St. Louis Blues players,Canadian ice hockey goaltenders,Charlotte Checkers (1993–2010) players,Omaha Mavericks men's ice hockey players

paragraph: Chris Holt (ice hockey)

paragraph: Christopher Holt (born June 5, 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born, American former professional hockey goaltender who last played with the Braehead Clan of the Elite Ice Hockey League. He also played for the New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, Dinamo Riga, HC Donbass of the Kontinental Hockey League and Orli Znojmo of the Austrian Hockey League.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Holt was drafted 180th overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers. Holt was first called up from the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) in December 2005 as backup to Henrik Lundqvist while starting goalie Kevin Weekes was injured. He played just over 10 minutes in one game, not allowing a goal becoming the first former Billings Bulls player to play in the NHL. He was sent back down to Hartford but was recalled to the Rangers on February 23, 2006.

paragraph: On October 30, 2008, Holt was signed as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues after playing two games for their affiliate the Peoria Rivermen. On October 31, Holt was called up to the Blues on emergency before returning to Peoria. He was again recalled by the Blues on February 6, 2009. He made his first appearance for the Blues, and only his second appearance in the NHL on February 18, 2009 as a replacement for Chris Mason after Mason started the first two periods against the Columbus Blue Jackets, totaling 19 min., giving up no goals on three shots.

paragraph: In September 2009, prior to the 2009–10 season, he attended the Ottawa Senators training camp. He was demoted to the Binghamton Senators organization which demoted him to the Elmira Jackals on September 30. He was promoted to Binghamton in March 2010. On March 19, 2010, he became the tenth goaltender in AHL history to score a goal, and the sixth to score it by shooting the puck himself. Holt scored on the Rochester Americans while the Americans goalie was pulled for a sixth attacker. In June 2010, it was announced that Holt has signed a two-year deal with the Kontinental Hockey League club Dinamo Riga.

paragraph: On June 29, 2012, Holt signed a free agent deal with fellow KHL club, Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg. After appearing in 27 games for only 4 wins with the cellar-dwelling Avtomobilist, Holt was traded to HC Donbass for their playoff push to end the 2012–13 season on January 10, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::International play.

paragraph: Despite his Canadian birth, Holt is an American citizen due to his mother being a native of Idaho. He has represented the USA at the 2003 World Junior Championships on the US Under-18 National Team.

paragraph: On October 20, 2011, he was selected as one of two goalies on the 21-man roster for the 2011 U.S. Men's Select Team that will compete at the Deutschland Cup from November 11–13 in Munich, Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Outside the ice hockey realm, Holt spends much of his free time with his family and has hobbies of playing music and golf.

description: Canadian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Chris Holt

wikipedia_title: Chris Holt (ice hockey)


text: skandhas

text: Shingon

text: Mount Kōya

text: Vajrayana

text: Zen

text: Vipassana

text: Shinzen Young's blog

text: Expand-Contract YouTube Channel

text: Shinzen Videos YouTube Channel

text: What is Mindfulness?

text: See, Hear, Feel: An introduction

text: An Outline of Practice

categories: Buddhist writers,Buddhists of Jewish descent,Jewish American writers,Theravada Buddhist teachers,Writers from Los Angeles,Living people

paragraph: Shinzen Young

paragraph: He frequently uses concepts from mathematics as a metaphor to illustrate the abstract concepts of meditation. As a result, his teachings tend to be popular among academics and professionals. His interest in integrating meditation with scientific paradigms has led to collaborations with neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Vermont. He is working on various ways to bring a secular mindfulness practice to a wider audience using revamped terminology and techniques as well as automated expert systems.

paragraph: Shinzen has adapted the central Buddhist concept of the five skandhas or aggregates into modern language, grouped them into sensory categories with potential neurological correlates, and developed an extensive system of meditation techniques for working with those categories individually and in combinations.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Shinzen Young was born as Steve Young in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Jewish. While in middle school, he became fascinated with Asian languages and cultures. After graduating from UCLA as an Asian Language major, he enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies. In order to gather materials for his doctoral dissertation, he ordained as a Shingon monk at Mount Kōya, Japan in 1970, after which he trained extensively in each of three additional Buddhist traditions: Vajrayana, Zen, and Vipassana.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Break Through Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Emotional Healing through Mindfulness Meditation: Stories and Meditations for Women Seeking Wholeness" (2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Beginner's Guide to Meditation" (2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works" (2016)

paragraph: Section::::Audio publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Science of Enlightenment" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pain Relief" (2004)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beginner's Mind: 3 Classic Meditation Practices Especially for Beginners" (1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Break Through Difficult Emotions: How to Transform Painful Feelings With Mindfulness Meditation" (1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Break Through Pain: How to Relieve Pain Using Powerful Meditation Techniques" (1997)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meditation in the Zone: How to Turn Your Workout into a High-Quality Meditation" (1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Five Classic Meditations: Mantra, Vipassana, Karma Yoga, Loving Kindness, Kabbalah" (1990) (2004)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shinzen Young's monthly Home Practice Program weekend retreats via conference call

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shinzen Young's Life Practice Program via conference call

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shinzen Young's blog

paragraph: BULLET::::- Expand-Contract YouTube Channel

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shinzen Videos YouTube Channel

paragraph: Section::::External links.:Essays outlining his meditation system.

paragraph: BULLET::::- What is Mindfulness?

paragraph: BULLET::::- An Introduction to ULTRA: Universal Library for Training Attention

paragraph: BULLET::::- See, Hear, Feel: An introduction

paragraph: BULLET::::- An Outline of Practice

paragraph: BULLET::::- Five Ways to Know Yourself: An Introduction to Basic Mindfulness

description: American meditation teacher

wikidata_label: Shinzen Young

wikipedia_title: Shinzen Young


text:
Syriac
physician
Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori
Syriac language
Nestorian Christian
Jundishapur
Baghdad
List of Iranian scientists
Bukhtishu
Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu

categories: 940 births,Physicians of medieval Islam,Members of the Assyrian Church of the East,Medieval Persian physicians,1058 deaths,Iranian Christians,11th-century physicians,Iranian Assyrian people,Medieval Iraqi physicians

paragraph: Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu

paragraph: Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ibn Bakhtyashu (940–1058), also spelled Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa in many texts, was an 11th-century Syriac physician, descendant of Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori. He spoke the Syriac language.

paragraph: He was the last representative of the Bukhtyashu family of Nestorian Christian physicians, who emigrated from Jundishapur to Baghdad in 765. His main works are the "Reminder of the Homestayer," dealing with the philosophical terms used in medicine, and a treatise on lovesickness.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. Brocklmann: Encyclopaedia of Islam (t. 1, 601, 1911).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Iranian scientists

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Bukhtishu family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu

description: Medieval Persian physician

wikidata_label: Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu

wikipedia_title: Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu


text:
politician
California
Donner Party
New York City
Collegiate Institute
Mexican–American War
1st Regiment of New York Volunteers
San Francisco, California
Cape Horn
Santa Barbara
La Paz
Baja California
Monterey, California
mine
gold
California Gold Rush
San Jose
Supreme Court of California
Mayor of San Jose, California
Civil War
lieutenant colonel
Republican
United States Mint
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Donner Party
birth
Eliza Poor Donner
Compton, California
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
San Jose
National Register of Historic Places

categories: Burials at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery,Mayors of San Jose, California,Members of the United States House of Representatives from California,Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives,Union Army officers,1828 births,California Republicans,People of California in the American Civil War,Politicians from New York City,1914 deaths

paragraph: Sherman Otis Houghton

paragraph: Sherman Otis Houghton (April 10, 1828 – August 31, 1914) was an American politician from California. He also married, in succession, two survivors of the Donner Party.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: Houghton was born in New York City, on April 10, 1828. He completed preparatory studies and attended Collegiate Institute in New York.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Career.

paragraph: During the Mexican–American War, Houghton enlisted in the 1st Regiment of New York Volunteers, in June 1846. He arrived in San Francisco, California in 1847 with the rest of his regiment after sailing around Cape Horn. The regiment garrisoned Santa Barbara, before capturing the city of La Paz in Baja California. He was honorably discharged as a lieutenant at Monterey, California, in October 1848.

paragraph: Houghton then proceeded to mine for gold during the California Gold Rush, and after about six months of mining, he moved to San Jose and entered various commercial businesses. He served as the deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of California in 1854, the same year he was elected to the San Jose Common Council. He was elected the fourth Mayor of San Jose, California from 1855 to 1856. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857, and commenced practice in San Jose.

paragraph: During the Civil War he was commissioned as a captain and promoted to lieutenant colonel, and served successively as inspector and ordnance officer. After the war, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875) and was the chairman of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures for the Forty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

paragraph: He was appointed commissioner to investigate the affairs of the United States Mint at San Francisco in 1881, and moved to Los Angeles in 1886 and continued the practice of law.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 1859, he married Mary Martha Donner, a survivor of the Donner Party; she died a year later, most likely from complications related to the birth of their only child, also named Mary. In 1861, he married his late wife's first cousin and fellow Donner Party survivor Eliza Poor Donner, with whom he had an additional seven children.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Sherman Houghton died on August 31, 1914, aged 86, in Compton, California. He is interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: The Donner-Houghton House, an historic building in downtown San Jose, was built by Houghton in 1881. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. A number of proposals have been made to either restore or renovate it. The structure was almost completely destroyed by a fire on the morning of July 9, 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- . Genealogical history of the Donner family.

description: United States Army officer

wikidata_label: Sherman Otis Houghton

wikipedia_title: Sherman Otis Houghton


text: American football

text: quarterback

text: college football

text: MVP

text: 2011 Holiday Bowl

text: Belton High School

text: Belton, Texas

text: Ennis High School

text: South Garland High School

text: recruiting class

text: 2011 season

text: Rice

text: depth chart

text: redshirt

text: Garrett Gilbert

text: BYU Cougars

text: interception

text: BYU

text: UCLA

text: touchdown

text: Iowa State

text: Red River Rivalry

text: Oklahoma

text: Jaxon Shipley

text: offseason

text: preseason

text: Wyoming

text: wide receiver

text: shovel pass

text: Tyrone Swoopes

text: Colt McCoy

text: Major Applewhite

text: James Brown

text: Pro Day

text: The Spring League

text: Kenzel Doe

text: Carolina Panthers

text: mini-camp

text: Anthony Dixon

text: principal

text: Academy Middle School

text: Little River, Texas

text: Christian

text: Fellowship of Christian Athletes

text: Young Life

text: Colt McCoy

text: The University of Texas at Austin

text: Texas Longhorns bio

categories: Texas Longhorns football players,Sportspeople from Houston,American football quarterbacks,1992 births,Belton High School (Belton, Texas) alumni,Players of American football from Texas,Living people

paragraph: David Ash (American football)

paragraph: David Trenton Ash (born July 29, 1992) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He played college football for the University of Texas Longhorns football team. After an impressive start that included being named the offensive MVP in the 2011 Holiday Bowl, he was forced to end his career early in the face of repeated concussions and concussion-related symptoms.

paragraph: On March 16, 2017, however, Ash was medically cleared to play football again, and told reporters he would participate in the Longhorns' 2017 pro day.

paragraph: Section::::High school career.

paragraph: Ash attended Academy High School (in which school system his father was a middle school principal) before transferring to Belton High School in Belton, Texas his sophomore year. He played as both quarterback and punter. In his three seasons, Ash compiled an 18–15 record. Ash made his first start against Ennis High School in 2008, a game Belton lost 43–8. In his junior year in 2009, Ash led the Belton Tigers to the second round of the Class 5A Texas football playoffs before falling to South Garland High School in a 14–24 loss. Ash led the Tigers to a 5–6 record in his senior year with 38 touchdowns and only 10 interceptions. He also set multiple school records, including most career passing yardage, completions, and touchdowns. After his senior year, Ash was named the all-state second team quarterback and all-state first team punter.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2011 season.

paragraph: Ash committed to the Texas Longhorns on February 13, 2010, becoming the fourth player to commit to the football team during the 2010 recruiting class. Headed into the first game of the 2011 season against Rice, Ash was placed as a third-string quarterback on Texas' depth chart, alongside redshirt freshman Connor Wood and behind Case McCoy and Garrett Gilbert, respectively. In the season opener, Ash threw his first pass as a Texas Longhorns player for two yards. In the next game against the BYU Cougars, Ash remained as a backup quarterback, but was put into action after Garrett Gilbert was benched in the second quarter after throwing two interceptions. Ash threw for 35 yards against BYU while rotating at the quarterback position alongside Case McCoy. Ash and McCoy continued into their next game against UCLA as co-starters at the quarterback position, although McCoy would end up seeing more playing time. Ash threw his first touchdown in his collegiate career in the next game against Iowa State on a 48-yard pass to Mike Davis. Ash scored two touchdowns in a 37–14 victory against the Cyclones. In the annual Red River Rivalry against Oklahoma, Ash threw another touchdown but also threw two interceptions. Texas lost, 17–55, their worst loss against the Sooners since 2003. Because of McCoy's uneven performance in that game, Ash was named the starter for the next five games, during which the team went 2–3, and Ash was twice replaced by McCoy. After McCoy nearly sparked a comeback against Kansas State, Ash lost the starting job to him against Texas A&M and Baylor. But a poor performance in the Baylor game, combined with good practices by Ash, led to another change at quarterback and Ash started in the Holiday Bowl against California. In that game he completed 14 of 23 passes for 142 yards and one touchdown while also catching a 4-yard touchdown pass from Jaxon Shipley, and was named the games offensive MVP.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2012 season.

paragraph: During the 2012 Texas spring game, Ash began the game with the Horns team to start the game and flipped between the Horns and Texas team throughout the scrimmage. However, Ash only threw seven passes, of which six were completed for 87 yards, including one touchdown. Ash also ran for only six yards on five attempts. The Texas team won the scrimmage 35–28. After the spring game and throughout the offseason, it was undecided whether Case McCoy or Ash would be the Longhorns' starting quarterback, with both appearing in preseason drills. However, on August 22, 2012, Ash was finally named the starting quarterback for Texas over McCoy.

paragraph: Ash made his first start of the 2012 season against Wyoming on September 1. In the season opener, Ash completed 74.1% of his passes for 156 passing yards. Ash's single touchdown came on a 16-yard strike to wide receiver Jaxon Shipley. The quarterback also ran three times for eight yards, helping the team to a 37–17 victory to begin the 2012 season.

paragraph: Against New Mexico, Ash once again threw no interceptions and completed a 72.7% completion percentage. Ash also threw for two touchdowns, including a 45-yard shovel pass to Daje Johnson in the third quarter, and a personal best of 221 yards. Through the first 10 games, Ash led Texas to 8 wins, including gutsy road wins against #22 Oklahoma State and #20 Texas Tech. In the Oklahoma State game, he led Texas on back-to-back 75 yard drives in the last ten minutes of the game for the win. In a losing effort against TCU he injured his ribs and kept playing, but then was forced to sit out the next week against Kansas State. He led the Horns to an 8–4 regular season which was good for third place in the Big 12 and an appearance in the 2012 Valero Alamo Bowl against Oregon State. Ash threw for 2 touchdowns and rushed for another as the Horns won the Alamo Bowl 31–27 to finish the season ranked #18.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2013 season.

paragraph: Ash's 2013 season got off to a quick start against New Mexico as Ash threw for 343 yards and 4 touchdowns, and also ran 91 yards and a touchdown as #15 Texas defeated New Mexico State 56–7. However, in the next game Ash threw for 251 yards and 2 touchdowns before suffering a concussion late in the 4th quarter against a BYU team that would ultimately upset the Longhorns 40–21. After missing the 3rd game of the year against Ole Miss, Ash returned to game action and threw for 166 yards and 1 touchdown in the first half against Kansas State before re-aggravating his concussion in the 31–21 victory. Ash's concussion turned out to be more severe the 2nd time around as Ash was unable to return to the Longhorns for the remainder of the 2013 season.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:2014 season.

paragraph: Ash was given a medical hardship for the 2013 season, meaning that he entered 2014 with two years of remaining eligibility. At the end of spring training, he suffered a Jones fracture in his foot, an injury that required surgery.

paragraph: In the first game of the 2014 season, Ash threw for 190 yards and a touchdown as Texas beat North Texas by a score of 38–7. He played almost the entire game and reported no concussion symptoms during it, but later that evening, he reported experiencing headaches and dizziness and was brought in for further evaluation. Ash reported believing that the first hit in that game triggered a recurrence of the symptoms that caused him to miss most of the 2013 season. As a result, Tyrone Swoopes was named the starter for the next game against BYU. On September 17, 2014, Ash announced that he would be walking away from football due to multiple concussions in his career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Records.

paragraph: BULLET::::- UT – Touchdown passes by a true freshman (4)

paragraph: BULLET::::- UT – Fastest to 1,000 yards in a single season (4 games), tied with Colt McCoy, Major Applewhite and James Brown

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: In 2017, Ash unretired from football and was medically cleared to play. Per his agent, vestibular migraines were giving off concussion symptoms and have been controlled by medication. He took part in Texas's 2017 Pro Day. He then participated in The Spring League as an opportunity to gain experience among other young professionals and veterans of the NFL, and to create game film by participating in games for the instructional league during its debut year of operation. Among his highlights was a 41-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Kenzel Doe. Following his performance during The Spring League, Ash was invited to the Carolina Panthers rookie mini-camp in May 2017, but was not signed to a contract. Ash played for The Spring League again in July as part of the Showcase game, where he started the game for the California roster and led several scoring drives. He completed 9-of-13 passes for 96 yards and a 4-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Dixon and rushed three times for a total of 10 yards, with his longest for 9 yards. However, Ash's California roster lost to the East roster, 19-23.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Ash is the son of Stephen and Lynn Ash and one of six children. His father, Stephen was a principal at Academy Middle School in Little River, Texas. Ash is also a devout Christian and participates in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Young Life at the University of Texas. Growing up his sports hero was Colt McCoy. He completed undergraduate study to obtain Bachelor of Science in Communications, then furthered his study to confer the Master of Science in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin, May 2016.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Texas Longhorns bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: David Ash

wikipedia_title: David Ash (American football)


text: watercolourist

text: oil painter

text: Bristol School

text: Bristol

text: topographical

text: George Weare Braikenridge

text: drysalter

text: landscapes

text: Society of Painters in Watercolours

text: Francis Danby

text: James Johnson

text: lithography

text: Bristol Institution

text: Bristol Society of Artists

text: West Indies

text: Clifton, Bristol

text: landscape

text: marine painter

text: Samuel Phillips Jackson

text: Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

categories: English watercolourists,1784 births,English male painters,19th-century English painters,Artists from Bristol,19th century in Bristol,1869 deaths

paragraph: Samuel Jackson (artist)

paragraph: Samuel Jackson (31 December 1794 – 8 December 1869) was an English watercolourist and oil painter who has been called the "father" of the Bristol School of artists. He also contributed a number of drawings of scenes from Bristol, England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge. The Braikenridge Collection makes Bristol's early 19th century appearance one of the best documented of any English city.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Jackson was born on 31 December 1794 in Bristol. His father was an accountant and later a drysalter. Jackson became a professional artist by 1822, primarily a watercolourist of landscapes. In 1823 Jackson was elected an associate member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours.

paragraph: Braikenridge commissioned him to produce less than 30 watercolours, but collected many more of Jackson's Bristol scenes. His Bristol watercolours of the mid 1820s were his most highly regarded work, and have been called the most important part of the work of the Bristol School. John Lewis Roget called him "the father of the school".

paragraph: Jackson was a lifelong friend of Francis Danby, whose influence is present in his watercolours. He may have been Danby's pupil. In 1823 he collaborated with Danby and James Johnson in a lithography project.

paragraph: In 1824 Jackson was one of the organisers of the first exhibition by local artists at the new Bristol Institution. He also seems to have participated from 1832–33 in the revival of the Bristol School's sketching meetings.

paragraph: In 1832 he was the most eminent artist in the first exhibition of the Bristol Society of Artists, and later he continued to play a large role in that society's successor, the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts.

paragraph: Jackson may have visited the West Indies in 1827; he exhibited West Indian subjects at the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1828 and 1831. By the 1830s Jackson was also producing scenes of Devon and Wales, and may have visited Switzerland in 1855 and 1858 to produce watercolours of mountain scenery.

paragraph: He died on 8 December 1869 at Clifton, Bristol. His son was the landscape and marine painter Samuel Phillips Jackson (1830–94).

paragraph: The Braikenridge Collection is in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Braikenridge Collection at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

description: English painter

wikidata_label: Samuel Jackson

wikipedia_title: Samuel Jackson (artist)


text:
architectural
draughtsman
watercolourist
oil painter
Bristol School
Bristol
topographical
George Weare Braikenridge
Downend
publican
Royal Academy
Francis Danby
Samuel Jackson
lithography
Bristol Institution
John Eagles
Royal Academy
Bath
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Tate Gallery
Tate Online

categories: English watercolourists,History of Bristol,English male painters,19th-century English painters,1834 deaths,Artists from Bristol,Landscape artists,1803 births

paragraph: James Johnson (artist)

paragraph: James Johnson (1803–34) was an English architectural draughtsman, watercolourist and oil painter who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He contributed nearly 50 drawings of scenes from Bristol, England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge. The Braikenridge Collection makes Bristol's early 19th century appearance one of the best documented of any English city. Johnson was also a painter of poetic landscapes in oil.

paragraph: Johnson was born in 1803 at Downend near Bristol. His father was a publican. By 1819 he was producing drawings, and he exhibited a landscape at the Royal Academy in 1822. In Bristol he participated in the evening sketching meetings of the Bristol School, and in 1823 he collaborated with Francis Danby and Samuel Jackson in a lithography project.

paragraph: In 1824 Johnson was one of the organisers of the exhibition of local artists at the new Bristol Institution. However finding it difficult to sell his work he moved to London in 1825 - "starved out" of Bristol, according to John Eagles, a fellow member of the Bristol School. He exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy again in 1825 and 1826.

paragraph: In 1826 he returned to Bristol and then moved to Bath, Somerset, where he became a teacher of drawing. However he continued to produce Bristol drawings for Braikenridge, including some very fine watercolours of church interiors in 1828. He died in Bath in 1834 after throwing himself from a window.

paragraph: The Braikenridge Collection is in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. The Tate Gallery has one of his romantic landscape oil paintings, "The Tranquil Lake: Sunset Seen through a Ruined Abbey", which has been called one of the finest landscapes of the Bristol School

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tate Online

wikidata_label: James Johnson

wikipedia_title: James Johnson (artist)


text:
oil painter
watercolourist
Bristol School
Clifton Observatory
Clifton Down
Royal Academy
British Institution
optics
Clifton Down
observatory
camera obscura
St Vincent's Cave
Avon Gorge
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Clifton Observatory

categories: English watercolourists,History of Bristol,1861 deaths,English male painters,1801 births,19th-century English painters,Artists from Bristol,English romantic painters,Landscape artists

paragraph: William West (artist)

paragraph: William West (1801–61) was an English oil painter and watercolourist who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He was also the builder of the Clifton Observatory at Clifton Down, Bristol.

paragraph: West arrived in Bristol around 1823. He started exhibiting there in 1823, and from 1824 as well as participating in the sketching activities of the Bristol School he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution. However, after 1826 he did not exhibit at those two institutions again until 1845. From 1847 he concentrated on Norwegian subjects.

paragraph: West developed a great interest in optics and engineering. In 1828 he leased a disused windmill on Clifton Down and installed a large telescope in its tower to turn it into an observatory. In 1829 he replaced the telescope with a camera obscura. From 1835 he extended the windmill to create a new observatory, building a large dome to house a rotating telescope. He filled the observatory with a collection of maps, globes and optical instruments. In 1837 he opened a tunnel 61 m (200 ft) in length which he had excavated from the observatory down to St Vincent's Cave on the cliff-face of the Avon Gorge. In 1834 West exhibited "The Avon Gorge from the summit of the Observatory", an oil painting from the vantage point that he had built.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clifton Observatory

alias:
Norway West
William II West
Waterfall West
W. West

description: English oil painter and watercolourist

wikidata_label: William West

wikipedia_title: William West (artist)


text:
American
realist
William H. Mosby
American Academy of Art
Chicago
John Singer Sargent
James Jeffords
Portrait Society of America
Nancy Guzik
Official Website
Biography section on official site
Biography section on external site

categories: 21st-century American painters,20th-century American painters,American male painters,1934 births,Living people

paragraph: Richard Schmid

paragraph: Richard Schmid (October 5, 1934) is an American realist artist.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Richard Schmid's maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, was an architectural sculptor. Richard's initial studies in landscape painting, figure drawing, and anatomy began at the age of twelve and continued into classical techniques under William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1964 Schmid was the focus of the film The Secret Squint, which was awarded the C.I.N.E. Award. In 1990 Schmid as a finalist for The Hubbard Art Award for Excellence. In 2000, Schmid received the John Singer Sargent Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Society of Portrait Artists; and in 2001, Schmid produced a short documentary film, "An American Portrait: The Senator and the Artist", in which Schmid interviewed then Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, while simultaneously painting his portrait.

paragraph: The retrospective show "Richard Schmid - A Retrospective Exhibition" was held at the Butler Institute of American Art in 2003. In May 2005, Schmid received the gold-medal award from The Portrait Society of America. Additional lifetimes awards Schmid has received include the Medal of Honor from the Salmagundi Club of New York City, the $100,000 National Arts for the Parks award, and the American Watercolor Gold Medal. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate degree from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. Then in 2013 Schmid’s painting, “Abbotsford House: The Home of Sir Walter Scott” was shown at the Royal Opening of Abbotsford’s new Visitors Center in Melrose, Scotland. In 2014 Plein Air magazine, also presented Schmid with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Over his career, his work has been the focus of more than fifty solo exhibitions.

paragraph: Section::::Writing and recording.

paragraph: Schmid is the author of "Alla Prima, Everything I know about Painting", an art instruction book first published in 1998. Richard Schmid and Katie Swatland coauthored a follow up book Alla Prima II

paragraph: Schmid has also videos and DVDs, some of which feature his personal art instruction in the areas of landscape painting and portrait painting.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Schmid currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife, artist Nancy Guzik.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography section on official site

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography section on external site

description: American artist

wikidata_label: Richard Schmid

wikipedia_title: Richard Schmid


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categories: Austrian politicians,1674 births,Bohemian nobility,Czech politicians,1754 deaths,Chotek

paragraph: Count Wenzel Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin

paragraph: Václav Antonín Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín () (February 26, 1674 – May 2, 1754) was a Bohemian nobleman and royal Stadtholder in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

paragraph: Section::::Family background.

paragraph: Václav Antonín Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín was born in Bělušice, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), on February 26, 1674. His title was knight (; ). He was son of Vilém Chotek of Chotkov and Vojnín (1628–1674) and his second wife Johanna Sabina Proy von Gaiselsberg und Findtelstein (1650–1692).

paragraph: He married Maria Theresia Ludmilla Scheidler von Scheidlern (1684–1709) on October 28, 1698 in Prague. Maria Theresia was daughter of Ferdinand Christoph ("Ritter") Scheidler von Scheidlern, captain of the Prague quarter Malá Strana (Lesser Town) and High Chamberlain ("nejvyšší zemský komorník"; "Oberstlandkämmerer") of the Kingdom of Bohemia.

paragraph: He was father of:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wenzel Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1703–1725).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Johann Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1704–1787).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rudolf Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1707–1771).

paragraph: Section::::Biographical data.

paragraph: On February 6, 1702, Václav Antonín Chotek Ritter (Knight) of Chotkov and Vojnín was received into the Bohemian nobility in Vienna. On May 13, 1743, in Laxenburg he was awarded the title of Bohemian Graf (Count) and on October 4, 1745 in Frankfurt am Main he was elevated to the rank of Reichsgraf (Imperial Count) with heraldic augmentation.

paragraph: Owner of the Bělušice estate, Václav Chotek also acquired the Veltrusy estate, where architect František Maxmilián Kaňka erected his new residence, the Veltrusy Mansion in 1716. He later also purchased the Domašín estate, becoming one of the richest landowners in Bohemia.

paragraph: Václav Chotek was head of the Slaný Landkreis (district) and, thereafter, head of the Litoměřice Landkreis. After these assignments, he was appointed Imperial Counsellor. He also held the position of Austrian Stadtholder of the Kingdom of Bohemia from 1735–1738.

paragraph: Václav Chotek died in Prague on May 2, 1754, age 80.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Freiherr von Procházka: "Genealogisches Handbuch erloschener böhmischer Herrenstandsfamilien", Seite 56, Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt (Aisch) 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nachkommerliste des Otto Chotek von Chotkow auf Liblin († nach 1400)"

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