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Pedro Fróilaz de Traba
medieval
Galicia
tenente
Trastámara
A Coruña
Viseu
Seia
Fernando Pérez de Traba
Monastery de San Xoán de Caaveiro
Urraca of León
Alfonso VII
Kingdom of León
Zamora
Ferdinand I
Portugal
Theresa
Coimbra
Afonso Henriques
Miño River
Nendos
Betanzos
Chronicon Lusitanum
Battle of Valdevez
Sobrado
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pilgrimage
Holy Land
abbot
Benedictine
wedding tokens
Palencia
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Urraca Henriques
Henry, Count of Portugal
Theresa of León
Fernando Bermúdez
Fernando Arias
mayordomo mayor
alférez
Alfonso IX of León
Soeiro Viegas de Riba Douro
Lamego
Egas Moniz, Aio
Sancho I of Portugal

categories: 1168 deaths,11th-century births,Year of birth unknown,Medieval Galician people,12th-century people from León and Castile

paragraph: Bermudo Pérez de Traba

paragraph: Bermudo Pérez de Traba (died 1168), the eldest son of Count Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and his first wife Urraca Fróilaz, was a member of the most important medieval lineage in Galicia. He governed as a "tenente" Trastámara, Faro (A Coruña), Viseu, and Seia, owned vast estates in his native land, and was a generous patron of religious institutions.

paragraph: Section::::Biographical sketch.

paragraph: Bermudo was never honored with the title of count, although he was an important magnate and appears in charters signing as "dominus" (Latin for "lord") and also as "Vermudo Petriz Galleciae" ("Bermudo Pérez of Galicia"). His presence in medieval documentation is first recorded on 1 April 1104 when, with his brother, Count Fernando Pérez de Traba, he made a donation to the Monastery de San Xoán de Caaveiro. He was a vassal of Queen Urraca of León and, with his brothers, swore his loyalty to her son Alfonso VII upon his ascension to the throne of the Kingdom of León in Zamora.

paragraph: On 29 July 1118, Queen Urraca, with the consent of her son Alfonso, returned to Bermudo and to his brother Fernando the territories belonging to the monastery at Sobrado which King Ferdinand I had taken by force in 1050. In gratitude Bermudo and Fernando made a gift of a hound named Ulgar and a hunting spear to Alfonso VII. A few years later, on 25 July 1122, he granted his wife Urraca several properties, including the estates in Las Cascas plus another three villages and two monasteries.

paragraph: Two years later, in 1125, he appears in Portugal confirming a donation made by Countess Theresa, as lord or governor of Viseu while his brother appears as the governor of Coimbra.

paragraph: After the death of Theresa, Countess of Portugal, on 11 November 1130, he participated in the uprising from his castle in Seia, although his brother-in-law, King Afonso Henriques, forced him to desist and Bermudo returned to Galicia, rarely crossing the Miño River thereafter.

paragraph: On 9 October 1138, he rebuilt the Monastery of Genrozo, later known as Nuestra Señora de las Dueñas, and finally as Las Cascas. It was most probably founded by Froila Bermúdez, Bermudo's grandfather. He had inherited half of the monastery from his father, Pedro Fróilaz, and King Alfonso VII, who had been raised with Bermudo since Pedro had been his tutor, returned the other half of the monastery which Pedro Fróilaz had given him, so that Bermudo would have the entire property. He gave the monastery to his daughter Urraca (the elder) who entered the convent as a nun and later became its abbess. On 8 September 1145, Urraca, with the consent of her father, donated it to the Monastery of Sobrado. The monastery, now in ruins with only the church of San Pelayo de Genrozo standing, was situated in the territory of Nendos, in a small village known as Las Cascas, close to the city of Betanzos.

paragraph: According to the "Chronicon Lusitanum", a Portuguese source, Bermudo was one of the nobles taken as a captive after the Battle of Valdevez in 1140.

paragraph: He and his brother Fernando made many donations to the monastery at Sobrado, which had been founded by their ancestors, and owned all its estates over a period of 24 years, from 1118 until 11 January 1142 when they voluntarily handed it over to the Cistercian monks.

paragraph: He went twice on pilgrimages to the Holy Land; the first time in 1147 with his brother Fernando and cousin Menendo Rodríguez returning to Galicia in 1148. He went again on his own in 1153 and was back in Galicia the next year as attested in a document recording the sale made by Adosinda Rodríguez of a property in Sobrado on 24 April 1155 which is dated, "ipso anno presente, quando domnus Vermudis reversus est Hierosalime" (when Don Bermudo was back from Jerusalem).

paragraph: In 1148, he entrusted the abbot at the Benedictine monastery of Toxos Outos with the construction of a convent in Nogueirosa, one of the estates that he had given his wife Urraca as part of her wedding tokens on 25 July 1122. Years later, in 1150, Urraca made a donation of several properties to the newly founded establishment under the condition that she and four female relatives were to be accepted as members of the religious community of this convent which was called Santa María de Nogueirosa. In December 1156 he made his last recorded visit to the royal court at Palencia.

paragraph: On 6 August 1160, Bermudo retired as a Cistercian monk at the Monastery of Sobrado dos Monges. On 21 September 1161, Bermudo settled a dispute he had with the monks of Toxos Outos. In this charter he describes himself as "moved by divine inspiration" ("diuina inspiratione conmotus") to become a monk. He died in 1168 when he was approximately 80 years old and was buried at the abbey. At about the same time as her husband became a monk at Sobrado, Urraca entered the convent founded by her husband in Nogueirosa, a parish near Pontedeume, and died in 1173, receiving burial at the church in the convent.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and issue.

paragraph: He married on more than one occasion, as he himself declares in a document dated 9 October 1138 when he made a donation to his daughter Urraca, a nun and later abbess at the Monastery of Cascas.

paragraph: He had three children from one of his first wives, Teresa Bermúdez:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pedro Bermúdez (died in 1147), in 1147 his father made a donation to the Sobrado for the soul of his son.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Enrique Bermúdez (died after 1151)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mayor Bermúdez (died after 1192), was the wife of the Portuguese noble, Gonçalo Mendes, son of Mem Rodrigues de Tougues and Chamoa Gomes.

paragraph: He was also apparently married to Adosinda González with whom he had two daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ilduara Bermúdez

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jimena Bermúdez

paragraph: He married, around July 1122, Urraca Henriques (Enríquez), daughter of Henry, Count of Portugal and his wife, Theresa of León. The offspring of this marriage were:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fernando Bermúdez (died after 1161), who appears frequently in the Kingdom of Portugal confirming charters of his uncle King Afonso Henriques.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Urraca Bermúdez "the eldest", a nun and abbess at the Monastery of Cascas.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Suero Bermúdez (died in 1169), buried at the Monastery of Sobrado.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Teresa Bermúdez (died c. 1219), buried also at Sobrado, she married the Galician magnate Fernando Arias, Lord of Batisela, with whom she had several children, including Juan Fernández, mayordomo mayor and alférez of King Alfonso IX of León.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sancha Bermúdez (died. c. 1208), in 1152, she married Soeiro Viegas de Riba Douro, governor of Lamego and son of Egas Moniz, Aio. One of her sons, Lourenço Soares was the husband of Urraca Sanches, illegitimate daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Urraca Bermúdez "the younger" (died after 1196), she was still alive in 1196 when she confirmed a charter in the Monastery of Sobrado as "domna Urraca Ueremude filia domni Ueremudi Petri". She married Pedro Beltran.

description: One of the most powerful secular magnates in the Kingdom of Galicia

wikidata_label: Bermudo Perez de Traba

wikipedia_title: Bermudo Pérez de Traba


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Arizona Wildcats
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Portland Trail Blazers
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Al Wadha
Rio Grande Valley Vipers
NBA G League
UCLA bio

categories: American men's basketball players,Iowa Energy players,Memphis Grizzlies players,American expatriate basketball people in Syria,Shooting guards,Sportspeople from Atlanta,African-American basketball players,Memphis Grizzlies draft picks,1994 births,Rio Grande Valley Vipers players,Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state),Living people

paragraph: Jordan Adams

paragraph: Jordan LaVell Adams (born July 8, 1994) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. He was the first UCLA freshman to score 20 or more points in his first four games, and was an all-conference first-team selection in the Pac-12 Conference in his sophomore year. After deciding to forgo his remaining college eligibility and enter the 2014 NBA draft, Adams was selected by Memphis Grizzlies in the first round with the 22nd overall pick. He played two seasons with Memphis before being waived after multiple knee surgeries.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Adams was born in Atlanta to John Adams, a high school nutrition manager, and Sabrina Robinson Johnson, a dental hygienist. His parents never married but remained friends. When Adams was in the fourth grade and his life began to revolve around American football and basketball, he moved from his mother's house to his father's. One of Adams' coaches was usually his father from when he was six until he was 16.

paragraph: Adams attended high school at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, where he was the ninth player in their basketball program's rich history to score 1,000 career points.

paragraph: Considered a four-star recruit by ESPN.com, Adams was listed as the No. 9 small forward and the No. 41 player in the nation in 2012.

paragraph: He also played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball with the Atlanta Celtics. Shortly after Celtics' coach Korey McCray became an assistant coach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Adams accepted an athletic scholarship to play for the UCLA Bruins.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Adams in 2012 joined fellow incoming freshman Shabazz Muhammad, Kyle Anderson and Tony Parker in a UCLA recruiting class considered the best in the nation. The first of the four recruits to sign, Adams was the only one that was not a McDonald's All-American in high school. Despite the competition, he remained committed to UCLA.

paragraph: He began the 2012–13 season with 20 or more points in the first four games, becoming the first UCLA freshman to accomplish that feat; he was the first Bruin in any class to start the season with four straight since Don MacLean (6 straight) in 1990–91. Though he did not start until the seventh game of the season, Adams was second on the team in scoring behind Muhammad. He finished the season starting in 27 of 33 games played, ranked eighth in the Pac-12 Conference in scoring with 15.3 points per game, led the conference with 73 steals, and was fourth with an 84.3 free throw percentage. UCLA coach Ben Howland and Arizona Wildcats coach Sean Miller were surprised that Adams did not make the conference's all-freshman team. Miller further believed that Adams should have been named to the All-Pac-12 team as well as the conference's all-defensive team. In the semifinals of the 2013 Pac-12 Tournament, Adams scored 11 points in the last six minutes in a comeback victory over Arizona. However he broke his right foot on the final play of the game; he had fractured the same foot in high school. Without Adams, the Bruins lost their next two games, including a season-ending loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the opener of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Two days after the season ended, Howland was fired and replaced by Steve Alford. Adams did not play basketball for four months while his foot healed.

paragraph: In his sophomore season in 2013–14, Adams said he enjoyed his role under Alford and his "very open" system, more so than he did with Howland. Coaches gave Adams the nickname Spider-Man, after his ability for steals with his "web on the ball." Early in the season, the "Inland Valley Daily Bulletin" wrote that it could be Adams' last college season given his prospects of playing professionally in the NBA. Adams shot 50% from the field during the Bruins' non-conference schedule, and began Pac-12 play with 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting against the USC Trojans. However, he shot just 36.2% in the next 10 games, before shooting 10-for-14 against Utah for 24 points, his then-career high against a Pac-12 opponent. On February 27, he and Anderson missed one game after being suspended for a violation of team rules. On March 6, Adams scored a career-high 31 as UCLA clinched a No. 2 seed in the upcoming 2014 Pac-12 Tournament with a 91–82 win at Washington. The Bruins won the tournament, with Adams hitting a three-point field goal that broke a tie with 45 seconds remaining in a 75–71 upset over No. 4 ranked Arizona in the championship game. For the season, he led the team in both scoring at almost 18 points per game, shot a team-best 83.6 percent of his free throws, led the conference in steals at 2.8 per game, and broke the school record for steals in a season previously set by Cameron Dollar (82) in 1997. Adams was voted to the All-Pac-12 first team, and was also named UCLA's most outstanding team player.

paragraph: In April 2014, Adams declared early for the NBA draft, foregoing his final two years of college eligibility. Many analysts believed he had a chance to be a first-round pick. He finished his career at UCLA having played 69 games while averaging 16.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists. He made 46.7 percent of his field goals and had a school-record 2.43 steals per game.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Memphis Grizzlies (2014–2016).

paragraph: On June 26, 2014, Adams was selected in the first round with the 22nd overall pick of the 2014 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies. General Manager Chris Wallace said Adams graded high in basketball analytics, and Vice President of Basketball Operations John Hollinger praised his ability to "find ways to score and score without needing the ball [in his hands first]". However, Head Coach Dave Joerger as well as the Grizzlies' fans preferred another shooting guard, Rodney Hood, who was taken next by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd pick. After two Summer League games, Adams signed with the Grizzlies on July 7. He began the 2014–15 season with minimal playing time with the Grizzlies, and received multiple assignments to the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League. While he spent most of the season in the D-League, Adams appeared in 30 games for Memphis, typically when they were behind by a large margin. In limited action, he shot 40 percent from three-point range and his active hands on defense led to a high steal rate.

paragraph: During the offseason, Adams underwent minor surgery to repair the meniscus in his right knee after averaging 16 points in four games to help the Grizzlies win the Orlando Summer League in July. However, he missed most of the 2015–16 exhibition season as he continued to bothered by soreness related to the procedure. Adams appeared in two out of the team's first four games of the regular season before being sidelined by right knee soreness. On January 12, 2016, he underwent right knee surgery and missed the rest of the season. On June 15, Adams underwent cartilage transplant surgery on his right knee, a procedure that generally addresses issues with motion, bone damage and pain. The following month, he watched Grizzlies summer league games holding a crutch in one hand and wearing a knee brace. Following the preseason on October 24, Adams was waived by the Grizzlies after he was expected to miss the season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Recent years.

paragraph: The following year, Adams joined the Portland Trail Blazers to play in the 2017 NBA Summer League. He played with the Sons of Westwood in The Basketball Tournament 2018, and competed with Al Wadha of Syria in the Dubai International Basketball Championship in 2019. In February 2019, Adams was acquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He appeared in two games, averaging 1.5 points, before being waived in March.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- UCLA bio at UCLABruins.com

description: American basketball player

wikidata_label: Jordan Adams

wikipedia_title: Jordan Adams


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1948 Summer Olympics
2 km tandem sprint
Tinus van Gelder
List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

categories: Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands,Dutch male cyclists,Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics,1910 births,Sportspeople from The Hague,1965 deaths

paragraph: Klaas Buchly

paragraph: Nicolaas "Klaas" Buchly (26 January 1910 – 19 May 1965) was a Dutch track cyclist. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 2 km tandem sprint, together with Tinus van Gelder, and finished in fifth place.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

description: Dutch cyclist

wikidata_label: Klaas Buchly

wikipedia_title: Klaas Buchly


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speed skater
2011
2012
2013 World Sprint Championships
Salt Lake City
2014 World Sprint Championships
Nagano
2014 Winter Olympics
Sochi

categories: Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade,Speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games,Universiade medalists in speed skating,Kazakhstani female speed skaters,Universiade bronze medalists for Kazakhstan,Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics,Olympic speed skaters of Kazakhstan,Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics,1991 births,Speed skaters at the 2011 Asian Winter Games,Living people,Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics

paragraph: Yekaterina Aydova

paragraph: Yekaterina Aydova (born 30 July 1991) is a Kazakhstani speed skater. She competed at the 2011, 2012 and 2013 World Sprint Championships in Salt Lake City, the 2014 World Sprint Championships in Nagano, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

description: speed skater from Kazakhstan

wikidata_label: Yekaterina Aydova

wikipedia_title: Yekaterina Aydova


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text: Jay Pierrepont Moffat

text: Jay Pierrepont Moffat Jr.

text: The Abbot Low Moffat Papers

text: University at Albany

categories: 1901 births,Harvard University alumni,People from the Upper East Side,Members of the New York State Assembly,1996 deaths,New York (state) Republicans,Deaths from cancer in New Jersey,People from Princeton, New Jersey,Columbia Law School alumni

paragraph: Abbot Low Moffat

paragraph: Abbot Low Moffat (May 12, 1901 – April 17, 1996) was an American politician from New York.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born on May 12, 1901, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from Harvard University in 1923, and from Columbia Law School in 1926. Then he traveled about Asia and Australia for some time, and got interested in history and geography. He was admitted to the bar in 1927, and practiced in New York City. He also entered politics as a Republican.

paragraph: Moffat was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 15th D.) in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939–40, 1941–42 and 1943. He was Chairman of the Committee on the Affairs of New York City in 1934; and Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1936 to 1943. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1938. He proposed, and then sponsored legislation, to build the New York State Thruway. He resigned his seat on August 16, 1943, to accept a post at the U.S. Department of State. He headed the department's South-East Asia Division from 1944 to 1947; and then served in a variety of diplomatic posts: from 1947 to 1948 in Greece, from 1948 to 1950 in Great Britain, from 1950 to 1952 in Burma, and from 1957 to 1960 in Ghana. From 1954 to 1956, he worked for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

paragraph: In 1961, he retired from the diplomatic service, and removed to Princeton, New Jersey. The same year he published a biography of King Mongkut of Siam.

paragraph: He died on April 17, 1996, in a retirement home in Hightstown, New Jersey, of cancer.

paragraph: Ambassador Jay Pierrepont Moffat (1896–1943) was his brother, and Ambassador Jay Pierrepont Moffat Jr. (born 1932) is his nephew.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Abbot Low Moffat Papers in the M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives of the University at Albany

description: New York politician

wikidata_label: Abbot Low Moffat

wikipedia_title: Abbot Low Moffat


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Colonel
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Teram Kangri
Siachen Glacier
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Bana Singh
List of Mount Everest records of India

categories: Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports,1933 births,Indian summiters of Mount Everest,Indian mountain climbers,Siachen conflict,Indian Army officers,Recipients of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal,Living people

paragraph: Narendra Kumar (mountaineer)

paragraph: Colonel Narendra "Bull" Kumar, PVSM, KC, AVSM, (also spelled "Narinder"; born 8 December 1933) is an Indian soldier-mountaineer. He is known for the mountaineering reconnaissance expedition he undertook in Teram Kangri, Siachen Glacier and Saltoro Range for the Indian Army in 1978 at the age of 45. If he had not undertaken this expedition, all of Siachen Glacier would be Pakistan's. That is an area covering almost , but because of his expedition, India conquered all the entire area. Kumar crossed seven mountain ranges—Pir Panjal Range, Himalayas, Zanskar, Ladakh, Saltoro, Karakoram and Agil—to give India Siachen.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Narendra was born in Rawalpindi, British India in 1933. He has three more brothers who all joined Indian Army. His skirmishes with history began in 1947,when Narinder represented Punjab state at a scouts jamboree in Paris at the age of 13. The team of 50 scouts was returning by ship, when news of Independence broke over them like a tsunami. "All of us, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus, decided to design a flag," he says. "We put the Union Jack in the Centre, India and Pakistan on either side." They wanted to sing a national song, but which one? So in just-broken voices, "we sang… tera sahara." One night, he thought a ship engine had failed. Next morning, he found all Muslims had been asked to disembark in Karachi. Narinder got off in alien Bombay and went to Shimla, where his parents had migrated after partition of India. Narendra's youngest brother Major K.I. Kumar ascended Mount Everest in 1985, but died after falling from 8,500 m.

paragraph: Section::::Army life and mountaineering.

paragraph: Narendra Kumar entered the Indian Army in 1950. He took part in boxing, riding and cycle-polo during his years of training. He was commissioned in Kumaon Rifles in June 1954 and then became interested in winter sports and mountaineering. He earned "Bull" sobriquet at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, during the first boxing match he fought. His rival was a senior cadet, Sunith Francis Rodrigues, who went on to become the Chief of the Army Staff. Kumar lost the bout, but helped earning himself a nickname: "Bull." The nickname "Bull" comes from his tendency to charge relentlessly into whatever he does.

paragraph: The mountain bond was born when Colonel Kumar met Tenzing Norgay, director of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, in Darjeeling.In March 1958, Narendra led the successful Army and Navy expedition to Mt. Trisul(23,360 ft).He also scaled Kabru Dome (21,780 ft) in 1959 and Yellow Needle Peak (22,480 ft) in 1960. He was the first Indian to reach up to 28,700 ft, in his first attempt at climbing the Mount Everest in 1960, before having to turn back due to inclement weather. In 1961, Kumar led a harrowing 5-men expedition to climb Neelkanth (21,644 ft) in the Garhwal Himalayas. While descending from the summit,Kumar lost four of his toes due to frostbite and stopped 200m short of the summit. In 1964,he was first Indian to scale Nanda Devi.In 1965, he was deputy leader of a team that put nine Indian Army climbers at the top of the world's tallest peak. Capt. Mohan Singh Kohli, who led the 1965 Everest expedition, said Kumar's climbing career was "astonishing". He also scaled Mont Blanc (15,782 ft), the highest peak in the Alps in 1968. In 1970 he led the first recognised ascent of 23,997 ft Jomolhari(Chomo Lhari), the highest mountain in Bhutan. Kumar successfully climbed the Kangchenjunga from the toughest north-east spur in 1976.

paragraph: Kumar followed up his 1981 Siachen feats with the challenge, as Antarctica Task Force member, of acclimatising the First Indian Expedition there, led by Dr. S. Z. Qasim in 1982. Training was carried out at Dras, where temperatures touch minus 56 degrees Celsius. In 1983, Kumar conquered Kamet (25,595 ft) and Abi Gamin (24,272 ft). He superannuated on 1 January 1984 but that did not slow him down. Later,Kumar was put in "permanent category C" by the Indian Army, which meant no postings above 7,000 ft. Every time he was in the mountains, he had to give the government a non-liability certificate saying that he absolve them of all responsibilities should anything happen to him. He has entered the oxygen-depleted death zone above 8,000 m, twenty times. He spent 35 years in the Indian Army. Lieutenant General V. R. Raghavan, commanding officer of Operation Meghdoot, called Colonel Kumar 'a mountain of information'. He has shared a lifelong camaraderie with Tenzing Norgay.

paragraph: Section::::Mountaineering expeditions to Siachen in 1978 and 1981.

paragraph: Kumar's involvement with the Siachen dates back to 1977, when he was approached by a German rafter who wanted to undertake the first descent of the Nubra River from its source at the snout of the glacier. The man brought Kumar a map of northeastern Kashmir that had an unusual feature. Beyond NJ9842,the map showed a dotted line connecting NJ9842 with Karakoram Pass.Kumar quickly asserted that it was Cartographic error. In January 1978, he took his findings to Lieutenant General M. L. Chibber, India's director of military operations. Chibber quickly obtained permission for Kumar to mount a reconnaissance expedition to the Siachen. In 1978,Kumar, as commanding officer of the Indian Army's High Altitude Warfare School, joined two German explorers in an attempt to navigate the upper reaches of the Indus river in Ladakh. Two years later, one of his former co-travellers returned to India and asked Kumar to join him in an expedition to the Nubra Valley, which separates Ladakh from the Karakoram ranges. Kumar took one full batch of students(40 climbers and 30 porters) from the High Altitude Warfare School in 1978, saying that he is taking them for practical training. It was the first Indian expedition into the remote glacier. The team started at the snout of the glacier and reached glacier's halfway point, braving temperatures that dipped to −50 degrees Celsius, and navigating tricky crevasses, peaks and passes—bound to each other with thick ropes. From there, a summit team of three completed an ascent of 24,631-foot Teram Kangri II, located on the southern edge of Shaksgam Valley. The Indian Air Force provided valuable support to this expedition through logistic support and supply of fresh rations. The team returned with the trash left behind by Pakistani expeditions as proof of their incursions. Unusually for the normally secretive Indian Army, the news and photographs of this expedition were published in The Illustrated Weekly of India, a widely circulated popular magazine.

paragraph: In April 1981, Kumar went back to Siachen Glacier with 70-member team with blank maps and a meagre budget of , this time covering it from its freezing snout(lowest point) at 11,946 ft to its icy source on the Saltoro Ridge (18,91 ft). He thus became the first person to scale the uncharted Siachen Glacier—the world's third pole and second biggest glacier. In his salty style, Kumar said "Once you get the heights, you're the tiger. We put the tricolour at the farthest end of Siachen." In the process, he summited Sia Kangri I(24,350 ft), India's northernmost point. In eight weeks, they climbed Saltoro Kangri I (25,400 feet) and Sia Kangri I (24,350 ft), hiked to the top of Indira Col at 24,493 ft(the watershed at the north end of the glacier), and skied to the passes on the Saltoro;Bilafond La, Saltoro Pass, Sia La, Turkistan La and Pass Italia.

paragraph: Later that year in 1983, Kumar published an account of his journeys in the newsmagazine Illustrated Weekly of India.The first public acknowledgment of the manoeuvres and the developing conflict situation in the Siachen was an abbreviated article titled "High Politics in the Karakoram" by Joydeep Sircar in "The Telegraph" newspaper of Calcutta in 1982. The full text was re-printed as "Oropolitics" in the Alpine Journal, London, in 1984.

paragraph: Section::::Operation Meghdoot.

paragraph: Three years later, on 13 April 1984, the Indian Army launched its first major offensive attack,known as Operation Meghdoot against the Pakistani army at Siachen Glacier and established bases along the glacier. The detailed maps, plans, photographs and videos made by Kumar and his team,helped Indian Army to conquer the whole of Siachen Glacier and also the area to the west of it,along with the main ridges and passes-Sia La (7,300m), Bilafond La (6,160m), Gyong La (5,640m), Yarma La (6,100m) and Chulung La (5,800m), along the Saltoro Range. The key Bilafond La (Pass of the Butterflies) is on the ancient Silk Route linking undivided India and China.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: He is married to Mridula. They have a daughter Shailaja Kumar(born 1964), India's first woman winter Olympian,who participated in 1988 in Calgary, Canada in Alpine skiing. and a son Akshay Kumar(born 1969), an adventure travel professional who runs Mercury Himalayan Explorations, one of the first rafting companies to navigate the Ganges and Brahmaputra. He now lives in Delhi.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and recognition.

paragraph: On 25 June 2010, Narendra Kumar was honoured with the MacGregor Medal, awarded by the United Service Institution of India for the best military reconnaissance, exploration or survey in remote areas in India.

paragraph: Narendra has been awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.

paragraph: He received Arjuna Award and was also awarded the IMF Gold Medal by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation.

paragraph: Narendra Kumar is only colonel with Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) distinction in all three services,which is generally accorded to generals.

paragraph: He was awarded the United Nation's fellowship for Ski Teaching and was trained in Switzerland and Austria for 4 months. In his efforts to launch river rafting in India, he made the first descent of River Indus in Ladakh and the Teesta in Sikkim.

paragraph: He has also been awarded Kirti Chakra and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (ASVM).

paragraph: There is a Siachen Battalion HQ in Glacier named as "Kumar Base", a key forward logistics post at a height of 4,880 m.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mountain warfare

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oropolitics

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khardung La

paragraph: BULLET::::- Actual Ground Position Line

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bana Singh

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Mount Everest records of India

description: Indian Army officer and mountaineer

wikidata_label: Narendra Kumar

wikipedia_title: Narendra Kumar (mountaineer)


href: Senftenberg Hechingen Johann%20Walter

text:
Senftenberg
Hechingen
Johann Walter

categories: 16th-century composers,1542 births,German Baroque composers,1577 deaths

paragraph: Jakob Meiland

paragraph: Jakob Meiland (Senftenberg, 1542-Hechingen, 31 December 1577) was a German composer. His "St. Matthew Passion" follows the model of Johann Walter's first Lutheran passion "historia" (c. 1530) but has more elaborate choral numbers.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Matthew Passion

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sacrae aliquot cantiones latinae et germanicae, quinqué et quatuor vocum Frankfurt 1575

description: German composer

wikidata_label: Jakob Meiland

wikipedia_title: Jakob Meiland


text:
painter
Lille
France
Street Art
Urban Art
digital art
stencil
Lille
Charleville-Mézières
Rimbaud
Fine Arts
Lille
Sorbonne
ENS of Cachan
spray
pixel
Diane von Fürstenberg
Paul Smith
Art Basel
urban art
augmented reality
www.macquet.net
www.macquet.com
ru.macquet.com

categories: 21st-century French painters,French male painters,Living people

paragraph: Phil. Macquet

paragraph: Phil. Macquet is a French painter born the October 8, 1967 at Lille, France. Inspired by the Street Art movement of the 1980s (Urban Art), he focused on the digital arts and adapted his stencil technique with new technologies to create large format on canvas.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:1. Street Art.

paragraph: The first stencil of Phil.Macquet and his sidekick François Duquenne appeared in the streets of Lille in 1984. The duo became known under the pseudonym Dr. Table and were noticed by Chritoph Maisenbacher, the agent of many European street artists. In 1991, their first stencil artwork was ordered by the museum of Charleville-Mézières to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of French poet Rimbaud's.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:2. Studies.

paragraph: In parallel to his (night) life as a stencil artist, Phil. Macquet began studying at the faculty of Fine Arts of Lille, and then at the Sorbonne in Paris where he mastered in Art and Image technology. During this time he continued his researches at the ENS of Cachan.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:3. From spray to pixel.

paragraph: In the 90s, the development of digital permitted to Phil. Macquet to extend his artwork to a new stencil dimension. He abandons the spray and chose the pixel as his raw material.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:4. From Canvas to augmented painting.

paragraph: It was during the 2000s, that the advent of mobile technology allows the artist to materialize his researches to exceed the limits of his artwork support and develop augmented painting. He experienced his art pieces in a new, animated way through creative applications.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:1. Pixelize me.

paragraph: From the street to the studio, Phil. Macquet creates digital compositions devoted to keeping their urban style be it in the artwork media (large tarps), in the choice of the subject (Rock music, skateboard, underground lifestyle, social utopia…), and in the pictorial references (simplicity of shapes, intensity of colors and use of attractive, powerful and symbolic images).

paragraph: Section::::Works.:2. Collections and public orders.

paragraph: Phil. Macquet is known for his portrait artworks (Diane von Fürstenberg or Paul Smith) and his big size canvas in the heart of the city (Skate, 30 m², 2007, Lille's within the context of « One Two ! One Two Exhibition »).

paragraph: Section::::Works.:3. Street Digital.

paragraph: The « Street Digital » term was born during the exhibition of Phil. Macquet work at Miami international Art Basel art fair in 2013 in which he mixed and blended canvas, stencil and digital apps to interact and form a mix between urban art and augmented reality.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: Official websites:

paragraph: BULLET::::- (fr) www.macquet.net

paragraph: BULLET::::- (uk) www.macquet.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- (ru) ru.macquet.com

description: French painter

wikidata_label: Phil. Macquet

wikipedia_title: Phil. Macquet


text: American football

text: wide receiver

text: Miami Dolphins

text: undrafted free agent

text: college football

text: Hawaii

text: Skyline High School

text: Oakland Raiders

text: Tim Brown

text: scholarship

text: juvenile facility

text: Hawaii

text: school records

text: Miami Dolphins

text: Baltimore Ravens

text: Greg Camarillo

text: St. Louis Rams

text: Chad Pennington

text: Eddie Royal

text: DeSean Jackson

text: Wayne Chrebet

text: Cleveland Browns

text: 2013 NFL Draft

wikipedia_title: Skyline High School (Oakland, California)

wikipedia_title: Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football statistical leaders

categories: American football wide receivers,1985 births,Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football players,Miami Dolphins players,Sportspeople from Hayward, California,Living people,Sportspeople from Oakland, California

paragraph: Davone Bess

paragraph: Davone Atrayo Bess (born September 13, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Hawaii.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Bess attended Skyline High School in Oakland, California and was a student and a letter-man in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was a first team All-Citywide receiver as a junior. As a senior, he led his team to the League Championship and was a second team All-City quarterback. Davone Bess graduated from Skyline High School in 2003.

paragraph: Bess grew up five minutes away from the Oakland Coliseum as an avid Oakland Raiders fan and even played a high school playoff game for Skyline High during his senior year at the Coliseum. His favorite player was Tim Brown.

paragraph: Bess has stated that "sports pretty much kept me busy, kept me out of trouble, kept me off the streets." Largely raised by a single mom, Bess was the first person in his family to attend college. Bess' father did not attend high school, but there are other family members on his dad's side that attended high school and graduated from college. Unfortunately, the distance between Bess and his biological dad made him unaware of the achievements of his dad's family; several have college degrees. Bess said of his father: "My dad pretty much wasn't there. If anyone was there it was my brother's dad, but not really because he was a big time drug dealer. He was in and out of jail himself and going back and forth so he wasn't a reliable source." At the age of 10, Bess witnessed the murder of his uncle at a birthday party.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:Oregon State University.

paragraph: Bess lost his scholarship to Oregon State when he was sentenced to about 21 months in Byron boys ranch juvenile facility after allowing a friend to put stolen items in his car. During his time in the juvenile facility, Bess played in a seven-man flag football team created by the facility. His high school coach contacted a former player who was a Graduate Assistant at the University of Hawaii and passed on video of Bess to coach June Jones who then gave Bess an opportunity.

paragraph: Section::::College career.:University of Hawaii.

paragraph: Davone Bess joined Hawaii in 2005 and quickly gained a starting spot at wide receiver.

paragraph: As a freshman, Bess caught 89 passes for 1,124 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns. Selected WAC first team and WAC Freshman of the Year.

paragraph: As a sophomore, caught 96 passes for 1,220 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns. Named WAC first team.

paragraph: In his junior year, he finished with 108 catches for 1266 yards with 12 TDs.

paragraph: During his time at Hawaii, Bess was named to the Associated Press' 2007 All-America third team; the Sporting News, Football Writers Association of America, and Rivals.com's 2005 Freshman All-American team; and was named to the All-WAC first team in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Bess holds Hawaii's school records in receptions and receiving touchdowns, and is third all-time in receiving yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Miami Dolphins.

paragraph: Despite being undrafted, Bess earned a spot on the Miami Dolphins active roster during the 2008 NFL season. He managed to catch his first NFL touchdown in Week 7 against the Baltimore Ravens. He worked primarily as a slot receiver until starter Greg Camarillo was injured. Bess assumed starting duties beginning in week 13 against the St. Louis Rams, and became a reliable target for quarterback Chad Pennington.

paragraph: Bess finished the regular season third among NFL rookies in receptions (54) behind two second-rounders—Denver's Eddie Royal (91) and Philadelphia's DeSean Jackson (62). His 54-season receptions is the second most in NFL history for an undrafted rookie (behind only Wayne Chrebet, who had 66 catches in 1995).

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

paragraph: Bess was traded to the Cleveland Browns on April 27, 2013, during the 2013 NFL Draft. The Browns traded fourth- and fifth-round selections (#104 and #164 overall) to Miami for Bess and Miami's fourth- and seventh-round picks (#111 and #217 overall).

paragraph: In Bess' first season in Cleveland, he recorded 42 receptions for 362 yards—both career lows—and 2 touchdowns, while being credited with nine dropped passes, the second-highest total in the league. On December 21, 2013, with two games to go in the season, Bess was placed on the reserve/non-football illness list with a "personal matter," ending his 2013 campaign. He was released on March 5, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Personal.

paragraph: Bess was arrested in Florida on January 17, 2014, on charges of assaulting a law enforcement officer at Fort Lauderdale airport. Broward Sheriff’s Office records show Bess was arrested after acting erratically and confronting an officer. The arrest comes one day after Bess posted a photo on his Twitter page of a small package containing what appeared to be marijuana. The photo was later deleted. Following the arrest, on January 18, Bess posted yet another photo on Twitter this time of himself nude standing in front of a mirror, this photo was also later deleted adding to the list of bizarre behavior in this short time frame.

paragraph: On June 20, 2016 in Arizona, Bess was arrested by the Gilbert Police Department for three felony charges of endangerment, felony flight and failure to stop for a police officer. The arrest followed a traffic stop which Bess fled from and then subsequently barricaded himself inside his house. A SWAT team reportedly entered his home after receiving a warrant.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of NCAA major college football yearly receiving leaders

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hawaii Warriors football bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Davone Bess

wikipedia_title: Davone Bess


text:
American football
guard
New York Jets
National Football League
college football
Michigan
New York Jets

wikipedia_title:
American football
Guard (American and Canadian football)
New York Jets
National Football League
College football
Michigan Wolverines football
New York Jets

categories: American football offensive guards,Michigan Wolverines football players,1994 births,People from Rockford, Michigan,New York Jets players,Living people,Players of American football from Michigan

paragraph: Ben Braden

paragraph: Benjamin Alan Braden (born March 9, 1994) is an American football guard for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Michigan.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Braden signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent on May 7, 2017. He was waived on September 2, 2017 and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He signed a reserve/future contract with the Jets on January 1, 2018.

paragraph: Braden made the Jets initial 53-man roster in 2018, but was later waived on September 12, 2018 and was re-signed to the practice squad. He was promoted to the active roster on November 28, 2018.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michigan Wolverines bio

description: American-football player

wikidata_label: Ben Braden

wikipedia_title: Ben Braden


text:
Mrs. Fiske
Holbrook Blinn
Jack Pickford
Gertrude Short
Blanche Sweet
Frances Morris
George Reeves's
John Barleycorn
Tom Sawyer
A Jewel in Pawn
Huck and Tom
The Yellow Dog
The Narrow Path
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Hugon, The Mighty
Fighting Cressy
Old Lady 31
Rich Girl, Poor Girl
Beauty's Worth
Classmates
Wildfire
The Pinch Hitter
Married ?
The Broadway Boob
The Big Shakedown
Wings in the Dark
College Scandal
Redheads on Parade
She Couldn't Take It
The Milky Way
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Moon's Our Home
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Rose Bowl
The Big Show
The Devil is Driving
Exclusive
It's All Yours
Artists & Models
Ebb Tide

wikipedia_title:
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Holbrook Blinn
Jack Pickford
Gertrude Short
Blanche Sweet
Frances Morris (actress)
George Reeves
John Barleycorn (film)
Tom Sawyer (1917 film)
A Jewel in Pawn
Huck and Tom
The Yellow Dog (1918 film)
The Narrow Path (1918 film)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Hugon, The Mighty
Fighting Cressy
Old Lady 31
Rich Girl, Poor Girl
Beauty's Worth
Classmates (1924 film)
Wildfire (1925 film)
The Pinch Hitter (1925 film)
Married ?
The Broadway Boob
The Big Shakedown
Wings in the Dark
College Scandal
Redheads on Parade
She Couldn't Take It
The Milky Way (1936 film)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Moon's Our Home
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Rose Bowl (film)
The Big Show (1936 film)
The Devil Is Driving (1937 film)
Exclusive (film)
It's All Yours
Artists and Models (1937 film)
Ebb Tide (1937 film)

categories: American male silent film actors,1900 births,People from Ohio,Male actors from Cincinnati,1972 deaths,Actors from Ohio

paragraph: Antrim Short

paragraph: Antrim Short (July 11, 1900 - November 24, 1972) was an American stage and film actor, casting director and talent agent. As a juvenile he enjoyed some success on the Broadway stage notably appearing as a boy with Mrs. Fiske and Holbrook Blinn in "Salvation Nell" in 1908. While in his teens he appeared in silent films playing the kind of roles that were made popular by Jack Pickford.

paragraph: Short was born to two actors, Lew Short and Estelle Short. His sisters were silent actresses Florence Short and Gertrude Short. They were cousins of Blanche Sweet. Short was married to Frances Morris who is best remembered by tv fans as George Reeves's planet earth-mother Sarah Kent in "The Adventures of Superman".

paragraph: Short died in Los Angeles November 24, 1972.

paragraph: Section::::Selected filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bobby's Baby" (1913)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Why Rags Left Home" (1913) *short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Fallen Angel" (1913) *short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Village Blacksmith" (1913) *short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "His Brand" (1913)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chivalry Days" (1913)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Kid" (1913)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Buccaneers" (1913)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "John Barleycorn" (1914)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Some Boy" (1914)*short

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tom Sawyer" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Jewel in Pawn" (1917)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Huck and Tom" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Yellow Dog" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Narrow Path" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hugon, The Mighty" (1918)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fighting Cressy" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Old Lady 31" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rich Girl, Poor Girl" (1921)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beauty's Worth" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Classmates" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wildfire" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Pinch Hitter" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Married ?" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Broadway Boob" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jack O'Hearts" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Big Shakedown" (1934)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wings in the Dark" (1935) *(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "College Scandal" (1935)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Redheads on Parade" (1935)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "She Couldn't Take It" (1935)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Milky Way" (1936)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) *(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Moon's Our Home" (1936) *(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Case Against Mrs. Ames" (1936) *(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rose Bowl" (1936) *(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Big Show" (1936)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Devil is Driving" (1937)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Exclusive" (1937)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "It's All Yours" (1937)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Artists & Models" (1937)*(uncredited)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ebb Tide" (1937)*(uncredited)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antrim Short at IMDb.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antrim Short at IBDb.com

wikidata_label: Antrim Short

wikipedia_title: Antrim Short


text: University of São Paulo

text: Central Amazon Project

text: Indiana University

text: James Petersen

text: Brazilian Archaeological Society

text: British Museum Press

text: University of Colorado Press

text: University of Arizona Press

categories: Living people,Indiana University alumni,University of São Paulo faculty,University of São Paulo alumni,Brazilian archaeologists,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Eduardo Góes Neves

paragraph: Eduardo Góes Neves is professor of archaeology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is known for his work directing the Central Amazon Project from 1995 to 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Neves received his PhD from Indiana University.

paragraph: In 2005, his colleague, American archaeologist James Petersen, died after he was shot when the pair were robbed at a restaurant in the Brazilian Amazon.

paragraph: He was Capes visiting professor for 2016-17 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He was president of the Brazilian Archaeological Society.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.:Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Arqueologia da Amazônia". Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil". British Museum Press, London, 2001. (Joint editor)

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.:Articles and chapters.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in Precolonial Central Amazon", in Alf Hornborg; Jonathan Hill. (Ed.). "Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory". Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2010.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Warfare in Pre-Colonial Amazonia: When Carneiro Meets Clastres", in Axel Nilsen; William Walker. (Eds.). "Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice Theory and the Archaeology of Violence". Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-Term History and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain" in Helaine Silvermann; Willliam Isbell. (Eds.) "Handbook of South American Archaeology". New York: Springer, 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Relevance of Curt Nimuendajú´s Archaeological Work", in Per Stenbrog; Stig Rydén. (Eds.) "In Pursuit of a Past Amazon". Götebrog, Sweden: Museum of World Culture, 2004, v. 45, pp. 2-8.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "O Velho e o Novo na Arqueologia Amazônica". Revista USP, Brasil, v. 44, pp. 87-113, 1999.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Twenty Years of Amazonian Archaeology in Brazil" in "Antiquity" , Vol. 72, pp. 625-632, 1998.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Village Fissioning in Amazonia: A Critique of Monocausal Determinism", "Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia", São Paulo, 1995, n. 5.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eduardo_Neves3

description: Brazilian archaeologist

wikidata_label: Eduardo Góes Neves

wikipedia_title: Eduardo Góes Neves


text:
House of Piast
Masovian branch
Duke of Warsaw
Nur
Łomża
Liw
Ciechanów
Wyszogród
Zakroczym
Podlachia
Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia
Nicholas II of Opava
Jan Długosz
Warsaw
Siemowit IV
Louis of Anjou
Jadwiga
Władysław II Jagiełło
homages
Buda
Bochnia
Sigismund of Luxemburg
Mary, Queen of Hungary
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kęstutis
Danutė
Vytautas
Teutonic Knights
Vilnius
Christianization of Lithuania
Mielnik
Bielsk Podlaski
Suraż
Teutonic Order
Złotoryja
komtur
Balga
Ragnit
Malbork Castle
Konrad von Jungingen
Ostróda
Pokarmin
Działdowo
Czerwińsk nad Wisłą
Grunwald
the battle
Nidzica
Ostróda
Olsztyn
Peace of Thorn
Hunger War
Kulm law
Czersk
Ciechanów
Różan
Warsaw New Town
Drohiczyn
Łomża
Grójec
Maków Mazowiecki
Mińsk Mazowiecki
Kolno
Tykocin
Przasnysz
Ostrołęka
Kamieńczyk
Czersk
Warsaw
Collegiate
Danutė
Kęstutis
Vytautas
Algirdas
Petru I of Moldavia
Janusz
Bolesław
Konrad
Bolesław IV
St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw

categories: Dukes of Masovia,People in the Battle of Grunwald,1429 deaths

paragraph: Janusz I of Warsaw

paragraph: Janusz I of Warsaw (pl: "Janusz I warszawski"), also known as Janusz I the Old (pl: "Janusz I Starszy") (c. 1347/52 – 8 December 1429), was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast in the Masovian branch, from 1373/74 Duke of Warsaw and after the division of the paternal inheritance between him and his brother in 1381, ruler over Nur, Łomża, Liw, Ciechanów, Wyszogród and Zakroczym. In addition, he was a vassal of the Polish Kingdom since 1391 for the fief of Podlachia (only during his lifetime).

paragraph: He was the eldest son of Siemowit III, Duke of Masovia and his first wife Euphemia, daughter of Nicholas II of Opava. Due to an error of chronicler Jan Długosz was previously assumed that Janusz I was born c. 1329, and it wasn't until modern time that this date could be corrected until a much later one, c. 1346. Evidence of this fact was that only in 1373/74 he received his own duchy (with its capital in Warsaw).

paragraph: As the result of the partition of Masovia between him and his younger brother Siemowit IV after the death of their father on 16 June 1381, Janusz I finally obtain the totally of his domains: Warsaw, Nur, Łomża, Liw, Ciechanów, Wyszogród and Zakroczym.

paragraph: Section::::Policy with the Kingdom of Poland.

paragraph: In this area, Janusz I faithfully maintained a close cooperation with the successive Polish rulers: Louis of Anjou, Jadwiga and Władysław II Jagiełło. One expression of this were the three homages performed by him in the years 1373, 1383 and 1387. In this way, Janusz I was directly opposed to the policy of his brother Siemowit IV, who tried to take advantage of the difficulties in the Angevin dynasty and wanted to obtain the Polish crown for himself. After the death of King Louis of Poland and Hungary, Janusz I recognized the rights of Jadwiga to the Polish crown. To this end, in 1383 he went to Buda, where he offered support forces, in return for which he received a salary of 24,000 florins per year taken from the salt mines of Bochnia. His pro-Angevin policies soon caused that Janusz would be protected from the army of the future Sigismund of Luxemburg, the future Holy Roman Emperor, in his way to rescue his future wife Mary, Queen of Hungary and Jadwiga's sister.

paragraph: Section::::Policy towards Lithuania and seizure of Podlachia.

paragraph: The preference for the Polish interests in Władysław II Jagiełło in detriment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania caused a civil war between him and his uncle Kęstutis. Janusz I took advantage of this situation in 1382 to capture the towns of Podlachia and Drohiczyn, claiming them as a part of the dowry of his wife Danutė (a daughter of Kęstutis), with he had married around 1371/73. This acquisition, however, wasn't permanent, because later in that year, the Polish King, after finally defeated his uncle, managed to recover this lands. Janusz I, not wanting to further complicated the situation, received with extreme coldness the fugitive Vytautas, despite being his brother-in-law, and after his refusal to accept baptism sent him to the Teutonic Knights.

paragraph: The relations between Władysław II Jagiełło and Janusz I where repaired only in 1387, when the Duke of Warsaw after the election of Władysław II as King of Poland, formally recognized him recognized and then took part in the royal trip to Vilnius, the first step of the Christianization of Lithuania. His good relations with Władysław II where became even more notorious in 1389 during a visit of Vytautas to Masovia, during which Janusz I, in the middle of a feast, declined a golden cup offered to him by Vytautas, which was considered as an insult. On 2 September 1391 Władysław II Jagiełło formally gave Janusz I the previously disputed lands of Podlachia and Drohiczyn in perpetuity, and with them he also received the towns of Mielnik, Bielsk Podlaski and Suraż (""terram nostram Drohiczensen, Melnyk, Surasz, Byelsko ac omnibus villis in eisdem districtubus"").

paragraph: Section::::Policy towards the Teutonic Knights.

paragraph: The friendly relations between Janusz I and Władysław II Jagiełło caused a permanent state of hostility between Masovia from the Teutonic Order. In 1393, and for unknown reasons, Janusz I was captured during a visit to the border castle in Złotoryja near Narwią by the komturs of Balga and Ragnit and imprisoned at Malbork Castle by orders of the Grand Master, Konrad von Jungingen. Probably with this actions they wanted to provoke the Polish for war with the Order. As a result of the intervention of Władysław II Jagiełło, who sent deputies to the Teutonic Knights, Janusz I was released. In 1404 the Knights again captured Janusz I, this time with his wife and sons, and kept them in Saxony. Again, only the intervention of the Polish King could released them.

paragraph: In August 1409 the komturs of Ostróda and Pokarmin invaded Janusz's domains. In retaliation, Janusz I's son Bolesław destroyed Działdowo and 14 surrounding villages.

paragraph: Between 1409-1411 Janusz I continued his support to Władysław II Jagiełło in the great war against the Teutonic Order and fielded a banner of cavalry to aid the Polish King. In the village of Czerwińsk nad Wisłą, Janusz I designated the place of concentration of the united Polish-Lithuanian army. From there him, at the head his army organized their squadrons of knights and went to Grunwald, where on 15 July 1410 took place the battle. Janusz I then participated in the rest of the campaign. Władysław II, as way to recompensate his fidelity, give to him the Teutonic castles of Nidzica, Ostróda and Olsztyn. However, this acquisitions weren't permanent, because seven months later (1 February 1411) after the sign of the Peace of Thorn, he was forced to return the castles to the Teutonic Order.

paragraph: When in 1414 another war broke out with the Teutonic Knights (the called "Hunger War"), Janusz I again decided to support the King. This time, however, probably because of his advanced age, he didn't participated directly in the campaign but send his son Bolesław.

paragraph: Section::::Internal Policy and Reforms.

paragraph: In domestic politics, Janusz I took a thorough reform of the economic policies of the principality given the German Kulm law to 24 cities including Czersk (1383), Ciechanów (1400), Różan (1403), Warsaw New Town (1408), Drohiczyn (1408), Łomża (1418), Grójec (1419), Maków Mazowiecki and Mińsk Mazowiecki (1421), Kolno and Tykocin (1425), Przasnysz and Ostrołęka (1427) and Kamieńczyk (1428). An extremely important step took place in 1406, when he moved his capital from Czersk to newly developing strategic town of Warsaw and actively worked to develop his towns, fortified his castles and strongholds. A clear sign of this develop was the creation of a Collegiate at St. John Church and the build of a castle (who was later known as the oldest part of the future Royal Palace). Among the most notorious castles fortified during this time are the former capital Czersk, Liw and Ciechanów.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and Issue.

paragraph: Around 23 November 1371/73, Janusz I married the Lithuanian princess Danutė (c. 1358 - c. 24 November 1424) -who in baptism took the name "Ana"-, a daughter of Kęstutis and sister of Vytautas, both Dukes of Trakai and Grand Dukes of Lithuania; in consequence, she was a first-cousin of the later King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland (born Jogaila, son of Algirdas, a brother of Kęstutis). The union produced at least four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Daughter (Olga?) (1373/76 - c. 8 December 1401), who married firstly in 1388 to Voivode Petru I of Moldavia and secondly with the Moldavian magnate Wilczę.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Janusz (1376/81 - c. 18 October 1422).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bolesław (1385/86 - c. 4 May 1424).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Konrad (c. 1400 - 9 December 1412/13).

paragraph: Janusz I survived all his children and passed, by testament, his domains to his eldest surviving grandson, Bolesław IV (son of the second son, Bolesław).

paragraph: He died on 8 December 1429 at Czersk, and was buried at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw.

description: Polish noble

wikidata_label: Janusz I of Warsaw

wikipedia_title: Janusz I of Warsaw


text:
commercial photographer
Illinois
kites
balloon
panoramic photography
aviation
Ottawa, Illinois
Kankakee County
Manteno, Illinois
Chicago
Auburn, Illinois
Alton Limited
Chicago & Alton Railway
1900 Exposition Universelle
Paris
France
camera–carrying kites
San Francisco, California
1906 earthquake
panorama
San Francisco Bay
contact print
Juneau
replica
rephotograph
Mark Walsh
British East Africa
St. Louis, Missouri
Manteno, Illinois
Chicago & Alton Railway
Alton Limited
San Francisco
California
San Francisco
California
Yesterday's News blog

categories: Commercial photographers,American photographers,People from Ottawa, Illinois,Aerial photographers,American people of German descent,Artists from Chicago,People from Manteno, Illinois,American Roman Catholics,1868 births,People from Kankakee, Illinois,1938 deaths

paragraph: George R. Lawrence

paragraph: George Raymond Lawrence (February 24, 1868 – December 15, 1938) was a commercial photographer of northern Illinois. After years of experience building kites and balloons for aerial panoramic photography, Lawrence turned to aviation design in 1910.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: The Lawrences are descended from John Philip Lorenz, who had emigrated from Germany in 1748. George was born in Ottawa, Illinois, on February 24, 1868. He was the eldest of six children of Margaret Othelia Tritley and Michael B. Lawrence. Michael was a LaSalle County farmer and a carpenter. Within a few years, the family moved sixty miles east to a Kankakee County farm. George went to school through the eighth-grade in the nearby town of Manteno, Illinois. He also attended St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Manteno.

paragraph: Around 1890, he moved to Chicago and began working at the Abbott Buggy Co. factory in Auburn, Illinois. There, he invented a method of attaching iron rims on wooden wheels. In 1890, Lawrence married Alice Herenden and they had two children: Raymond W. Lawrence and George Lee Lawrence. In 1891, he opened The Lawrence Portrait Studio at the corner of Yale Avenue and 63rd Street, sharing the space and expenses with fellow photographer Irwin W. Powell.

paragraph: In the mid-1890s, Lawrence perfected the use of "flashlight photography", which was the norm until flashbulbs were invented years later. In 1900, he built the world's largest camera to take a photograph of the Alton Limited locomotive, owned by the Chicago & Alton Railway. The camera weighed 1400 pounds (640 kg) and used a 4.5′ × 8′ glass-plate negative. The photograph was taken for the 1900 Exposition Universelle (Paris Exposition of 1900) in Paris, France and won "The Grand Prize of the World". He also made innovations in areas of aerial photography such as ballooning and camera–carrying kites.

paragraph: Section::::San Francisco photo.

paragraph: One of Lawrence's world-renowned photographs is of the ruins of San Francisco, California after the 1906 earthquake. It is a 160-degree panorama from a kite taken 2000 feet (600 m) in the air above the San Francisco Bay that showed the entire city on a single 17-by-48-inch contact print made from a single piece of film. Each print sold for $125 and Lawrence made at least $15,000 (US$ in 2020) in sales from this one photograph. The camera used in this photograph weighed 49 pounds (22 kg) and used a celluloid-film plate.

paragraph: In 2006, Juneau-based photographer Ronald Klein built a working replica of Lawrence's camera and used it to rephotograph San Francisco from about the same location (but from a helicopter, not a kite), 100 years after the earthquake. The rephotograph was actually taken by Mark Walsh, George R. Lawrence's great grandson, who rode in the helicopter, held the camera, and clicked the shutter.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage, remarriage, and death.

paragraph: In 1909, while he was away on an expensive and frustrating adventure attempting to take aerial photographs of wild animals in British East Africa, his wife found that he had been having an affair with one of his secretaries. Upon his return, he fled to California, taking his sons with him. He then turned from photography to aviation, building an aircraft at a factory in Chicago. He would be granted nearly a hundred patents for aviation-related devices.

paragraph: He divorced his first wife, Alice Herendeen, in 1913 (with whom he had had two children, Raymond Welcome Lawrence and George Lee Lawrence), and married Adele Frances "Della" Page in 1916. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and was the daughter of Henry J. Page, an architect. George Lawrence was 48 years old and Della was 22 years old when they married. They had four daughters: Clara Antoinette, Virginia Lee, Ruth Adele, and Martha "Louise" Lawrence.

paragraph: Lawrence's aircraft company folded in 1919. He died in 1938, aged 70, and funeral services were held at St. Gertrude's Roman Catholic Church in Chicago. He was buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Manteno, Illinois.

paragraph: George and Della's four daughters are all deceased, but he is survived by 19 descendants: 8 grandchildren: Vincent Maggio; Michael Maggio, Donna Walsh (Clara's children); Louise Bing (Virginia's child); Thomas L.Phinney; Nan Phinney; Robert Phinney, and Carolyn R. Phinney (Louise's children); 7 great-grandchildren; and 4 great-great-grandchildren.

paragraph: Section::::Timeline.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1900 Photograph Chicago & Alton Railway's Alton Limited locomotive

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1906 San Francisco, California earthquake ruins

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1908 Reconstruction pictures of San Francisco, California

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yesterday's News blog 1901 newspaper account of Lawrence's plan to shoot panoramic photos for the Minneapolis Tribune

description: American photographer

wikidata_label: George R. Lawrence

wikipedia_title: George R. Lawrence


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text: anthropologist

text: ethnologist

text: human rights

text: Lausanne

text: Switzerland

text: Argentina

text: Mendoza

text: Georgia

text: Ecole Nationale des Chartes

text: Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales

text: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

text: Sorbonne

text: Gothenburg's University

text: Marcel Mauss

text: Paul Rivet

text: Erland Nordenskiöld

text: Switzerland

text: University of Tucuman

text: Easter Island

text: Bishop Museum

text: Honolulu

text: Bolivia

text: Guggenheim Fellowship

text: Yale University

text: Guggenheim Fellowship

text: Human Relations Area Files

text: John Dollard

text: Leonard Bloomfield

text: University of California, Berkeley

text: Mexico

text: Colegio de Mexico

text: Santiago, Chile

text: United States Bombing Survey

text: UNESCO

text: Aymara

text: Quechua

text: Curt Nimuendajú

text: Gê

text: Chaco

text: Kayapo

text: Brazil

text: Candomblé

text: Pierre Verger

text: Incas

text: Haitian voodoo

text: The History of the Incas

text: Easter Island

text: barbiturates

text: Rhoda Bubendey Metraux

text: Alfred Métraux Biography

text: Minnesota State University

categories: École pratique des hautes études faculty,Swiss scientists,Swiss anthropologists,Drug-related suicides in France,Ethnographers,Scientists who committed suicide,Guggenheim Fellows,École Nationale des Chartes alumni,1902 births,École pratique des hautes études alumni,1963 deaths,Swiss people of Georgian descent,People from Lausanne

paragraph: Alfred Métraux

paragraph: Alfred Métraux (5 November 1902, in Lausanne – 12 April 1963, in Paris) was a Swiss and Argentine anthropologist, ethnologist and human rights leader.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Metraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well-known surgeon resident in Mendoza. His mother was a Georgian from Tbilisi. He received his secondary and university education in Europe, at the Classical Gymnasium of Lausanne, the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris, the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales (Diplome, 1925). The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Diplome, 1927) and the Sorbonne (Docteur es Lettres, 1928). He also studied in Sweden, in Gothenburg's University and did research at the well-equipped local anthropological museum.

paragraph: Among his teachers were Marcel Mauss, Paul Rivet, and Erland Nordenskiöld. While he was still a student he entered into correspondence with Father John Cooper who introduced him to the American school of cultural anthropology. It is said that Father Cooper did not realize at first that his scholarly correspondent was only 19 and 20 years old. They actually met much later, when Metraux came to the United States; but Father Cooper seems to have had considerable influence on Alfred Metraux's thought. Metraux combined in his work the best of both the European and the American tradition of historical anthropology.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Métraux's professional career was equally cosmopolitan. His interest for anthropology and original languages, began early in his life when his father a medical doctor took an overseas appointment, relocating his family from Laussanne Switzerland to Mendoza Argentina. During his research years in Argentina, his work was centred in the study and interpretation of native languages, allowing him to create an extensive record of Argentine native ethnic groups, including: Calchaquí, Guaraní, Chiriguano, Toba & Wichís, and the Uros-Chipaya. While working on this research, he was invited to collaborate in the writing of the Handbook of South American Indians. Eventually, he founded and became the first director (1928 – 1934) of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Tucuman, in Argentina. In 1934-35, he led a French expedition to Easter Island, and in 1936 –38, he was a Fellow of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. In 1939, he returned to Argentina and Bolivia for field research on a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1940, upon his return to the United States from South America, he was in residence at Yale University with a renewal of his Guggenheim Fellowship. That next year, he worked with the Cross Cultural Survey (now the Human Relations Area Files) on South American data and was associated with such people as John Dollard, Leonard Bloomfield, and others of the Institute of Human Relations.

paragraph: In 1941, he joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. There, from 1941 to 1945, he played an important role in producing the monumental Handbook of South American Indians. Perhaps no other writer contributed as many pages to this work. As the editor, Julian Steward, acknowledges, "The extent of his (Metraux's) contribution is by no means indicated by the large number of articles appearing under his name. With an unsurpassed knowledge of South American ethnology and ever generous of his time, his advice and help to the editor and contributors alike have been a major factor in the successful completion of the work." (Vol. I, p. 9). In addition, Metraux taught briefly at University of California, Berkeley (1938), the Escuela Nacional de Antropología, Mexico (1943), the Colegio de Mexico (1943), and the Faculdad Latino-Americana de Ciencias Sociales, Santiago, Chile (1959–60).

paragraph: Section::::UNESCO.

paragraph: In the early spring of 1945, Métraux went to Europe as a member of the United States Bombing Survey and he saw the physical and moral desolation of Europe. Although he had by then become a citizen of the United States, this experience seems to have reaffirmed, in a way, his traditional ties with Europe. It also strengthened his belief in the necessity for European unity and for the need of a firm basis for international, inter-cultural, and inter-racial understanding. His early view of war devastated Europe was important in his decision in 1946 to take a post on the secretariat of the United Nations. Thus, from 1946 until 1962, he worked for his ideals of international and inter-cultural understanding within the framework of international organization with only occasional excursions into academic life and into anthropological field research. In 1946 and 1947, he was a member of the Department of Social Affairs of the United Nations, but in 1947 he was assigned to UNESCO, and finally, in 1950, he became a permanent member of UNESCO's Department of Social Science. As an international civil servant, he served the world and his profession well. He took part in the Hylean Amazon project in 1947-1948, led the UNESCO Marbial Valley (Haiti) anthropological survey from 1948 to 1950 with personnel from the international Labor Office, and studied the internal migrations of the Aymara and Quechua Indians in Peru and Bolivia (1954). He edited the series of pamphlets on The Race Question and Modern Thought and The Race Question and Modern Science, published by UNESCO since 1950. He also organized the research that led to a series of volumes on race relations in Brazil, such as "As relações raciais entre negros a brancos em São Paulo," edited by Roger Bastide and Florestan Fernandes (São Paulo, 1955), Race and Class in Rural Brazil, edited by Charles Wagley (UNESCO, Paris, 1952), and others. At UNESCO, he was responsible for the participation of anthropologists in many important projects around the world, and he consistently emphasized the anthropological point of view in all of the many programs with which he was associated. Anthropology lost not only a productive scholar, but an effective translator of anthropological theory and knowledge into action.

paragraph: Section::::Ethnography.

paragraph: Métraux valued field ethnography more than theory. He let the facts speak for themselves, and many of his facts modified anthropological theory. Yet, one felt that he was too restless and too eager to be on his way to produce detailed and lengthy field reports such as those of Curt Nimuendajú on the Brazilian Gê. He was a sensitive field worker with many years of experience, and his articles on the Argentine Chaco and his book on Haitian Vodun indicate that he gathered careful and objective data in the field. He liked to think of himself as a field ethnologist. Any evening with him led to stories of nights around a fire with Argentine gauchos, his last stay with the semi-pacified Kayapo of Brazil, his period of residence on Easter Island, a Haitian voodoo ceremony, or a Candomblé ceremony in Bahia which he had attended with his friend Pierre Verger.

paragraph: Section::::Accomplishments.

paragraph: Métraux published landmark studies of South American Indians including the Incas, Haitian voodoo and the ancient cultures of Easter Island. He participated in the framing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later as director of the Dept. of Social Sciences at [UNESCO], he presided over a series of studies which resulted in several publications demonstrating the absence of scientific foundation to theories of racial superiority. The 1951 UNESCO Statement on the Nature of Race and Race Differences enshrined these findings. A dedicated anthropologist and humanitarian, he brought the brilliance of South American Indian cultures to light, solved the mysteries of Easter Island, taught the world about Voodoo, and defined the United Nations' stand against racism. His books include "Voodoo," "The History of the Incas" and "Easter Island".

paragraph: Alfred Métraux took his own life by an overdose of barbiturates. On 20 April 1963 Alfred Metraux's corpse was discovered near the Chateaux de la Madeleine in the Vallee de Chevreuse about 30 km outside of Paris.

paragraph: At the time of his death, he was Professor of South American Anthropology at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Métraux was married three times. Each of his wives was in a different way a scientific collaborator. His first wife, Eva Spiro Metraux, translated anthropological materials from English to French. His second wife, Rhoda Bubendey Metraux did research with him in Mexico, Argentina, and Haiti and was a well known anthropologist. He married Fernande Schulmann who accompanied him to Chile, Peru, and Brazil and who planned to work with him in Paraguay. He was survived also by his brother, Guy Metraux (1919-2000) of Paris, his sister, Vera Conne (1920-2009) of Lausanne, and by two sons: Eric Metraux (1927–92) from his first marriage, and Daniel Alfred Metraux (born 1948), the son of Rhoda Metraux.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alfred Métraux Biography at the Minnesota State University

description: Swiss anthropologist

wikidata_label: Alfred Métraux

wikipedia_title: Alfred Métraux


text: Belgian

text: road bicycle racer

text: Olympic Games

categories: Belgian male cyclists,Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics,Olympic medalists in cycling,People from Vilvoorde,Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium,Sportspeople from Flemish Brabant,Tour de France cyclists,Olympic cyclists of Belgium,Belgian Tour de France stage winners,1939 births,Living people

paragraph: Willy Vanden Berghen

paragraph: Willy Vanden Berghen (born 3 July 1939) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1960 he won two bronze medals in the road race, one at the amateur world championships and the other at the Olympic Games.

paragraph: Section::::Major results.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1958

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1960

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1961

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1963

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Tour de France results for Willy van den Berghen

description: Road bicycle racer

wikidata_label: Willy Vanden Berghen

wikipedia_title: Willy Vanden Berghen


text:
ocarina
Helmholtz resonator
Budrio
Budrio
Bologna
Cesare Vicinelli
Milan
Budrio Ocarina Museum

categories: 1836 births,Ocarina makers,Italian musical instrument makers,Italian inventors,1925 deaths

paragraph: Giuseppe Donati

paragraph: Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was the inventor of the classical ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator.

paragraph: Donati was born in Budrio. Legend has it that he created his first "little goose" ("ocarina" in Italian dialect) in 1853, aged 17, whilst still working as a brickmaker. His first ocarina-making workshop was in his hometown of Budrio. When he moved to larger premises in Bologna in 1878, a fellow musician of the Gruppo Ocarinistico, Cesare Vicinelli, continued the Budrio workshop. Donati died, aged 88, in Milan.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Budrio Ocarina Museum

description: Italian musical instrument maker

wikidata_label: Giuseppe Donati

wikipedia_title: Giuseppe Donati


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text: New Jack City

text: Dangerous Curves

text: Central Park West

text: Rene Sheppard

text: Dr. Cleo Finch

text: ER

text: The 6th Man

text: Ali

text: Dark Blue

text: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

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text: Star

text: The CW

text: Dynasty

text: Dominique Deveraux

text: music video

text: R&B

text: Freddie Jackson

text: Eric Gable

text: Eddie Murphy

text: Harlem Nights

text: Jasmine Guy

text: A Different World

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text: occupational hazard

text: Wesley Snipes

text: New Jack City

text: Mario Van Peebles

text: Marlon Wayans

text: The 6th Man

text: Dangerous Curves

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text: Mädchen Amick

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text: Dominique Deveraux

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text: Bristol-Myers

text: Benjamin Bosse High School

text: basketball

text: TV Guide

text: Complex Magazine

categories: 20th-century American actresses,American television actresses,1966 births,American film actresses,African-American fashion designers,African-American actresses,Actors from Evansville, Indiana,Actresses from Indiana,Living people

paragraph: Michael Michele

paragraph: Michael Michele (born Michael Michele Williams, August 30, 1966) is an American actress and fashion designer. She began her career on stage before appearing opposite Wesley Snipes in the 1991 film "New Jack City".

paragraph: In the 1990s, Michele had leading roles in two CBS television series: crime drama "Dangerous Curves" (1992–93) and prime time soap opera "Central Park West". She later joined the cast of NBC police drama "" (1998–99) playing Det. Rene Sheppard, and from 1999 to 2002 played Dr. Cleo Finch in the NBC medical drama "ER". She also has appeared in the films "The 6th Man" (1997), "Ali" (2001), "Dark Blue" (2002) and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (2003). From 2017 to 2018, Michele starred as Ayanna Floyd in the Fox prime time soap opera "Star", and in 2019 she joined The CW prime time soap opera "Dynasty" as Dominique Deveraux.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Michele has appeared in music videos by R&B singers Freddie Jackson and Eric Gable. In 1989 she sued actor Eddie Murphy in a high-profile Hollywood lawsuit alleging she was fired from the movie "Harlem Nights" for rejecting his romantic advances. "She had the role that's now being played by Jasmine Guy, from "A Different World"," Murphy told "Rolling Stone". "The fact of the matter is, I wanted someone with greater marquee value than Michael Michele. She wasn't working out. As for her claim that I was touching her, realistically speaking, if you're gonna be a sleaze and try to sleep with somebody, you try to sleep with 'em before you give 'em the part… In her lawsuit, she says I tried to touch her, like I was a pervert. I "never" tried to touch this woman. We had, like, four conversations, each time with up to sixty people around us on a sound stage. But the lawsuit itself didn't bother me. Lawsuits for me are an occupational hazard." Michele's suit was later settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

paragraph: In 1991, Michele had a starring role opposite Wesley Snipes in the 1991 film "New Jack City" directed by Mario Van Peebles. Despite the film's success, Michele did not have her next movie role until six years later, starring opposite Marlon Wayans in the comedy film "The 6th Man". In 1992, she went on to star on the CBS late-night crime drama series "Dangerous Curves", which ran for two seasons. In 1993, she played a leading role in the six-part NBC soap opera miniseries "Trade Winds". The following year, she had a major recurring role in the Fox police drama series "New York Undercover". She left the show in early 1995 to play one of the leads in the CBS prime time soap opera "Central Park West" alongside Mädchen Amick, Lauren Hutton and Raquel Welch. The series was not successful and was cancelled after two seasons in 1996.

paragraph: In 1998, Michele joined the cast of NBC police drama "" as Det. Rene Sheppard on the show's final season. She received her first NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series nomination for this role. Michelle reprised her role in a "Law & Order" episode in 1999 and in the television movie "" in 2000. She later joined another NBC series, medical drama "ER" playing Dr. Cleo Finch from 1999 to 2002, for three seasons. She received another NAACP Image Award nomination.

paragraph: In 2001, Michele played Veronica Porché Ali in the biographical drama film "Ali" opposite Will Smith. She later had two more movie roles: crime drama "Dark Blue" (2002) and romantic comedy "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (2003). She returned to television in 2004, with a starring role in the short-lived UPN legal drama series "Kevin Hill" opposite Taye Diggs. In 2007, she guest starred on "" and in two episodes of "House" as a doctor who had previously worked with the CIA. In 2009 Michele starred in the Hallmark Channel film "Relative Stranger" with fellow "ER" cast member Eriq La Salle. In 2011, Michele had a recurring role on the CW teen drama "Gossip Girl". In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Michele also starred in a number of unsold television pilots.

paragraph: In 2017, Michele returned to series regular work playing villainous Ayanna Floyd, president of the record label, in the Fox prime time soap opera "Star". Her character was described as a modern-day black Alexis Carrington. She also was cast in a recurring role in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series "Queen Sugar".

paragraph: On March 22, 2019 it was announced that Michele had been cast as Dominique Deveraux for later in the second season of the "Dynasty" reboot series.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Michele was born Michael Michele Williams in Evansville, Indiana, the elder of two daughters. Her father is white and her mother is black. Her father is a furniture-rental entrepreneur and her mother was employed by Bristol-Myers. She was named for her mother's best friend, Michael Ann. Michele attended Howard Roosa Elementary School (a K-8 school at the time) and Benjamin Bosse High School, where she was active on the basketball team. She has a son, J. Brandon, born December 21, 2004.

paragraph: In 2005, "TV Guide" ranked Michele # 36 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list. In 2012, she was named one of the "50 Hottest Biracial Women" by "Complex Magazine".

paragraph: Section::::Music video appearances.

paragraph: Freddie Jackson:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Have You Ever Loved Somebody" (1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nice and Slow" (1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Don't Want to Lose Your Love" (1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Make Love Easy" (1993)

paragraph: Eric Gable:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Remember the First Time" (1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Can't Wait To Get You Home" (1991)

description: American actress

wikidata_label: Michael Michele

wikipedia_title: Michael Michele


text:
FRS
FRSE
British
botanist
London
George Gilbert Scott
Oxford University
M.A.
Würzburg University
Julius von Sachs
doctorate
University College, London
Royal College of Science
Royal Gardens at Kew
paleobotany
William Crawford Williamson
Royal Microscopical Society
Linnean Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Royal Medal
Linnean Medal
Darwin Medal
Wollaston Medal
Geological Society of London
Basingstoke
Hampshire
Henderina Victoria Klaassen
Harold Wager
Royal Society of London

categories: Fellows of the Linnean Society of London,People from London,1854 births,Wollaston Medal winners,English botanists,Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,1934 deaths,Scott family (architects),Royal Medal winners

paragraph: Dukinfield Henry Scott

paragraph: Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS HFRSE LLD (28 November 1854 – 29 January 1934) was a British botanist.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Scott was born in London on 28 November 1854, the fifth and youngest son of architect Sir George Gilbert Scott and his wife Caroline Oldrid. One consequence was that he was of independent financial means and was not affiliated with an academic institution for much of his life.

paragraph: Scott studied Natural Sciences at Oxford University, graduating with his M.A., and then went on as a postgraduate at Würzburg University in Germany. There, he studied under the famous botanist Julius von Sachs, and earned his doctorate.

paragraph: From 1882 to 1885, he was Assistant to the Professor of Botany at University College, London, and from 1885 to 1892, Assistant Professor in Biology (Botany) at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. In 1892, Scott left the Royal College of Science when he was appointed Honorary Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Gardens at Kew, a position he held for fourteen years. He published many papers on botany in scientific journals. He did important work in paleobotany as the younger colleague of William Crawford Williamson, one of the founders of paleobotany. He made use of the assistance of his wife to provide illustrations and indexes for his publications as well as to catalogue his collection of fossil slides. He supported the education of women and was the first lecturer in botany at University College who allowed women to attend his classes.

paragraph: He was President of the Royal Microscopical Society from 1904 to 1906. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1908 to 1912. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1916 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1894. In 1930 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

paragraph: He was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1906, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society in 1921, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1926 and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1928.

paragraph: He moved with his family to East Oakley House near Basingstoke, in Hampshire in 1906. He continued to research and publish from there until his death.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: In 1887 he married Henderina Victoria Klaassen (d.1929). They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy.

paragraph: One of his most brilliant students was Harold Wager, who became his student in botany in 1886 and went on to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1904.

paragraph: Section::::Selected publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Scott, Dukinfield Henry (1894, 1896.) "An Introduction to Structural Biology". (2 volumes).

description: British botanist

wikidata_label: Dukinfield Henry Scott

wikipedia_title: Dukinfield Henry Scott


text: fiddle

text: bandleader

text: Western Swing

text: blues

text: Texas City, Texas

text: Houston

text: medicine show

text: Milton Brown's

text: Musical Brownies

text: Cecil Brower

text: Decca

text: Bob Dunn

text: steel guitar

text: mandolin

text: Moon Mullican

text: piano

text: Mercury Records

text: When You're Smiling

text: "Truck Drivers' Blues,"

text: Sally Field

text: Places in the Heart

text: Moon Mullican

text: Bob Dunn

text: University of Texas Press

text: The University of Texas at Austin

text: Cliff Bruner Biography,

text: Allmusic

text: Rovi Corporation

categories: 1915 births,20th-century violinists,People from Texas City, Texas,20th-century American musicians,Western swing fiddlers,Musicians from Houston,American fiddlers,2000 deaths

paragraph: Cliff Bruner

paragraph: Clifton Lafayette Bruner (April 25, 1915 – August 25, 2000), known professionally as Cliff Bruner, was a fiddler and bandleader of the Western Swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Bruner's music combined elements of traditional string band music, improvisation, blues, folk, and popular melodies of the times.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Bruner was born in Texas City, Texas, and spent most of his childhood near Houston. He learned to play fiddle, and traveled with medicine shows to begin his musical career. Milton Brown's Musical Brownies drafted Bruner in 1935. Bruner played with the ensemble's classically trained fiddler Cecil Brower to create the memorable double fiddle sound of Milton Brown's group. Bruner recorded with Brown's group on the Decca music label, until Brown was killed in an automobile accident in 1936. This ended Bruner's involvement in the group.

paragraph: That same year (1936), Bruner moved to Houston and formed The Texas Wanderers, a band that included Lee Bell on electric guitar, Bob Dunn on electric steel guitar, Leo Raley on mandolin, J. R. Chatwell on fiddle, Dickie McBride on guitar and vocals, and Moon Mullican on vocals and piano. The Wanderers recorded on the Decca and Mercury Records labels. His songs had a special southern characteristic including songs about truck driving, lost love, the draft, and ill repute.

paragraph: Cliff Bruner is an unsung star of the little-noted Country music charts that appeared in Billboard prior to 1944. His hit "It Makes No Difference Now" spent twenty weeks atop the chart. Other hits in 1939–1942 included "Sorry," "Kelly Swing", "I'll Keep On Loving You", and "When You're Smiling".

paragraph: Perhaps his most famous hit was "Truck Drivers' Blues," the first truck driving song. Many of these recordings featured future singer piano star, Moon Mullican, on vocals. Bruner's big band disbanded in the 1950s, however, he continued to play music, and his trio appeared in the 1984 Sally Field movie "Places in the Heart".

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Bruner died of cancer on August 25, 2000, aged 85.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Moon Mullican

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bob Dunn

paragraph: Section::::References links.

paragraph: General references

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Jazz of the Southwest, An Oral History of Western Swing," by Jean A. Boyd, University of Texas Press, 1998

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Guide to the Delmer Rogers Collection, 1987-1994", Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cliff Bruner Biography," by James Manheim, Allmusic, Rovi Corporation (retrieved March 15, 2013)

paragraph: Inline citations

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Cliff Bruner

wikipedia_title: Cliff Bruner