text: American

text: pioneer

text: Wylam

text: England

text: Oregon

text: Republican

text: state legislature

text: Cayuse War

text: Cascade Mountains

text: Salem, Oregon

text: Scotland

text: Saint Joseph, Missouri

text: Oregon Country

text: Nathaniel Ford

text: Cornelius Gilliam

text: The Dalles

text: Willamette Valley

text: Fort Vancouver

text: John McLoughlin

text: Hudson's Bay Company

text: James Douglas

text: Harry Percy

text: Peter H. Burnett

text: Methodist Mission

text: Cayuse War

text: Whitman Massacre

text: California

text: Republican Party

text: Oregon House of Representatives

text: Lord

text: named after him

text: John B. Waldo

text: Oregon Supreme Court

text: Santiam Pass

text: Fort Hoskins

text: Civil War

text: Forest Service

text: Pacific Crest Trail

text: Mount Jefferson Wilderness

text: Salem Pioneer Cemetery

text: Minto-Brown Island Park

text: Marion Lake

categories: Oregon Trail,Oregon Country,Oregon Republicans,Ranchers from Oregon,Members of the Oregon House of Representatives,1822 births,1915 deaths,Oregon pioneers,People from Wylam,Politicians from Salem, Oregon

paragraph: John Minto (Oregon pioneer)

paragraph: John Minto IV (October 10, 1822 – February 25, 1915) was an American pioneer born in Wylam, England. He was a prominent sheep farmer in the U.S. state of Oregon and a four-time Republican representative in the state legislature. Minto also volunteered for the militia during the Cayuse War and years later helped locate Minto and Santiam passes through the Cascade Mountains east of Salem, Oregon.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: His father, John Minto III, was a coal miner and a gunsmith in England, with family roots tracing back to Scotland. His siblings were Margaret, Mary, William, Jane, Annie, Robert, Isabell, and Sarah. The Minto family immigrated to the United States in 1840, sailing on the ship "Rocious" which arrived in New York City on June 26, 1840. In 1848 part of the family immigrated to Iowa, including the father. The father died in 1855 on a ship while traveling to Oregon to meet his son.

paragraph: The younger Minto began working at age eight and until 22 worked in the coal mines. In 1844 Minto left Pittsburgh and moved to Oregon, crossing the plains with the Gilliam company. This was after deciding not to go to Iowa when he reached St. Louis. Instead he went to Saint Joseph, Missouri to head for Oregon Country. On this journey he would meet his future wife, and traveled with future Oregon politician Nathaniel Ford and later general during the Cayuse Wars Cornelius Gilliam in the same party.

paragraph: Section::::Oregon.

paragraph: Minto arrived in Oregon City on October 18, 1844. In early 1845 went to The Dalles to drive the cattle of Captain R.W. Morrison to the Willamette Valley, Morrison being part of the group that Minto had emigrated with. Prior to this journey, Minto had traveled to Fort Vancouver to get assistance from Doctor John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company. However, the doctor was out and they first dealt with James Douglas, McLoughlin’s later replacement as Chief Factor. Douglas put Minto and company up for the night, and the next day McLoughlin gave Minto some provisions for the journey to The Dalles and a boat to use. Once in The Dalles, Minto assisted the other travelers in his party who had been stranded there due to winter, and drove the cattle to the Willamette Valley.

paragraph: He married July 8, 1847 to Miss Martha Ann Morrison, the daughter of Captain Morrison. Martha was born December 17, 1831 in Montgomery County, Missouri. The couple had eight children together: John Wilson, Mary, Robert, William Jasper, Irwin, Douglas, Harry Percy, and May. May died as an infant and only three survived their long-lived father.

paragraph: In Oregon, Minto began working for Peter H. Burnett making cedar rails, before logging for a sawmill. Then in 1845 he purchased the original Methodist Mission claim at Mission Bottom from David Carter, and began farming. He then sold that property and took up a donation land claim four miles (6 km) south of Salem where he set up orchards and began sheep farming. Minto became a prominent sheep farmer and was selected as the secretary for the state agricultural society. He purchased the island property that bears his name (at ) in 1867 and put it to use in agriculture. During the Cayuse War that started after the Whitman Massacre in 1847, Minto joined the volunteer army of pioneers that went east to battle the Native Americans. Then following the discovery of gold in California, he traveled south and spent a season in the gold mines before returning with some gold to use in financing his agricultural enterprise.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: John Minto was a member of the Republican Party. In 1862, he was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives to serve Marion County. He won additional terms in the House in 1868, 1880, and 1890. He later served on the State Board of Horticulture after appointment by Governor Lord.

paragraph: Section::::Later years.

paragraph: In 1873, John Minto was appointed by the county to determine if there was a pass through the Cascades east of Salem as had been rumored by accounts of trappers. Minto located the pass, which was named after him, and supervised the construction of a trail.

paragraph: Then, from information he received from John B. Waldo of the Oregon Supreme Court, Minto surveyed a lower pass seven miles (11 km) further south in 1882, now known as Santiam Pass.

paragraph: Part of the group for this survey was Captain L. S. Scott, who had been in charge of Fort Hoskins during part of the Civil War. The Oregon Pacific Railroad began construction over the pass, but encountered financial difficulties and was never completed. The western approach to Minto Pass is now Forest Service Trail #3471,

paragraph: which connects with the Pacific Crest Trail a east via a difficult trail. The area is now contained in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness.

paragraph: John Minto died in Salem on February 25, 1915, at the age of 92. He was buried at Salem Pioneer Cemetery. Minto-Brown Island Park in Salem is partly on Minto's former farm.

paragraph: Section::::Works authored.

paragraph: BULLET::::- , "Oregon Historical Quarterly" (1900)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marion Lake

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reminiscences of Earliest Salem by John Minto from salemhistory.net

description: American politician

wikidata_label: John Minto IV

wikipedia_title: John Minto (Oregon pioneer)


text: early Christian

text: bishop

text: Magnesia on the Maeander

text: Asia Minor

text: diocese

text: Greek

text: Septimius Severus

text: Proconsul

text: Gospel

text: idol

text: hagiography

text: confessed their faith in Christ

text: beheaded

text: forearm

text: spat

text: Septimius Severus

text: execution

text: skull

text: Monastery of Saint Stephen

text: Meteora

text: relic

text: Greece

text: Greek islands

text: bulls are sacrificed

text: Agia Paraskevi

text: feast day

text: February 10

text: Saturday of Souls

text: Great Lent

text: Clean Monday

text: hagiography

text: iconography

text: Russia

text: icon

text: synaxarion

categories: 3rd-century Christian martyrs,Saints from Roman Anatolia,Wonderworkers,202 deaths,Longevity claims

paragraph: Charalambos

paragraph: Charalambos () (also variously Charalampas, Charalampus, Charalambos, Haralampus, Haralampos, Haralabos or Haralambos) was an early Christian bishop in Magnesia on the Maeander, a region of Asia Minor, in the diocese of the same name. His name means "glowing with joy" in Greek. He lived during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211), when Lucian was Proconsul of Magnesia. It is believed that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Charalambos was 113 years old.

paragraph: Section::::Life and martyrdom.

paragraph: Charalambos was Bishop of Magnesia also in Assyrian Mar Zaia and spread the Gospel in that region for many years. However, when news of his preaching reached the authorities of the area, the proconsul Lucian and military commander Lucius, the saint was arrested and brought to trial, where he confessed his faith in Christ and refused to offer sacrifice to idols.

paragraph: Despite his advanced age, he was tortured mercilessly. They lacerated his body with iron hooks, and scraped all the skin from his body. The saint had only one thing to say to his tormentors: "Thank you, my brethren, for scraping off the old body and renewing my soul for new and eternal life."

paragraph: According to the saint's hagiography, upon witnessing Charalambos' endurance of these tortures, two soldiers, Porphyrius and Baptus, openly confessed their faith in Christ, for which they were immediately beheaded with a sword. Three women who were watching the sufferings of Charalambos also began to glorify Christ, and were quickly martyred as well.

paragraph: The legend continues to say that Lucius, enraged, seized the instruments of torture and began to torture Charalambos himself, but suddenly his forearms were cut off as if by a sword. The governor Lucian then spat in the face of the saint, and immediately Lucian's head was turned around so that he faced backwards. Apparently, Lucian and Lucius both prayed for mercy, and were healed by the saint, and became Christians.

paragraph: More tortures, the legend says, were wrought upon the saint after he was brought to Septimius Severus himself. Condemned to death and led to the place of execution, Charalambos prayed that God grant that the place where his relics would repose would never suffer famine or disease. After praying this, the saint gave up his soul to God even before the executioner had laid his sword to his neck. Tradition says that Severus' daughter Gallina was so moved by his death, that she was converted and buried Charalambos herself.

paragraph: Section::::Veneration.

paragraph: The skull of Saint Charalambos is kept at the Monastery of Saint Stephen at Meteora. Many miracles are traditionally attributed to the fragments of his relics, which are to be found in many places in Greece and elsewhere. The miracles have made this saint, considered the most aged of all the martyrs, especially dear to the people of Greece. On some Greek islands, bulls are sacrificed on his feast day. "This festival is the most important popular activity of the village of Agia Paraskevi and it combines a variety of happenings that regard the ritual of the bull' s sacrifice. [An agricultural group] revived this ancient custom in 1774. It was established as a reverence to St Haralambos, the protector of [the] agricultural group that organises [the] festival".

paragraph: The feast day of Saint Charalambos is normally commemorated on February 10/23, the exception being when this date falls on the Saturday of Souls preceding Great Lent or on Clean Monday (the first day of Lent), in which case the feast is celebrated on 9 February.

paragraph: Section::::Iconography.

paragraph: In Greek hagiography and iconography, Charalambos is regarded as a priest, while Russian sources seem to regard him as a bishop.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Feast of the Holy and Glorious Hieromartyr Haralambos - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hieromartyr Charalampus, Bishop of Magnesia in Asia Minor Orthodox icon and synaxarion

paragraph: BULLET::::- St. Haralambos, The Right Reverend Father Michael D. Jordan

alias:
Charalambos
Saint Charalambos
Haralampus
Haralampos
Haralabos
Haralambos

description: Christian bishop and martyr

wikidata_label: Charalampus

wikipedia_title: Charalambos


text: Värmland

text: Växjö

text: Småland

text: Swedish

text: Greek language

text: Frithjof's Saga

text: Tegnaby

text: Lund University

text: Bishop of Växjö

text: Växjö

text: dithyramb

text: Swedish Academy

text: Stockholm

text: Gothic League

text: Geijer

text: Afzelius

text: Nicander

text: Longfellow

text: Swedish Academy

text: Frithjof's saga

text: canto

text: Goethe

text: Amalie von Imhoff

text: canto

text: Oehlenschläger

text: Scandinavia

text: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

text: asylum

text: Schleswig

text: Schleswig

text: apoplexy

text: Georg Brandes

text: Johan Henrik Thomander

text: Scandinavica

text: Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

text: Locock, C. D.:

text: Frithiofs saga af Esaias Tegnér

text: The Correspondence of Esaias Tegnér

text: Lund University Library

text: The Children of the Lord's Supper

text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

categories: Swedish poets,1782 births,People from Säffle Municipality,Members of the Swedish Academy,Lund University alumni,1846 deaths,Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,Swedish male writers,19th-century Swedish poets,Writers from Värmland,Swedish-language writers,Male poets,Bishops of Växjö

paragraph: Esaias Tegnér

paragraph: Esaias Tegnér (; , Värmland – , Växjö, Småland) was a Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop. He was during the 19th century regarded as the father of modern poetry in Sweden, mainly through the national romantic epic "Frithjof's Saga". He has been called Sweden's first modern man. Much is known about him, and he also wrote openly about himself.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: His father was a pastor, and his grandparents on both sides were peasants. His father, whose name had been Esaias Lucasson, took the surname of Tegnérus—altered by his fifth son, the poet, to Tegnér—from the village of Tegnaby in the province of Småland, where he was born. In 1792 Tegnérus died.

paragraph: In 1799 Esaias Tegnér, hitherto educated in the country, entered Lund University, where he graduated in philosophy in 1802, and continued as tutor until 1810, when he was elected Greek lecturer. In 1806 he married Anna Maria Gustava Myhrman, to whom he had been attached since his earliest youth. In 1812 he was named professor, and continued to work as a lecturer in Lund until 1824, when he was made Bishop of Växjö. He remained in Växjö until his death, twenty-two years later.

paragraph: He was comparatively slow in development. His first great success was a dithyrambic war-song for the army of 1808. In 1811 his patriotic poem "Svea" won the great prize of the Swedish Academy, and made him famous. In the same year was founded in Stockholm the Gothic League ("Götiska förbundet"), a sort of club of young and patriotic men of letters, of whom Tegnér quickly became the chief. The club published a magazine, entitled "Iduna", in which it printed a great deal of excellent poetry, and ventilated its views, particularly as regards the study of Icelandic literature and old Norse history. Tegnér, Geijer, Afzelius, and Nicander became the most famous members of the Gothic League.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Lund poems.

paragraph: The majority of the many poems from Tegnér in Lund are short, but some are in lyrics. They are still shown to visitors as the Tegnér museum. His celebrated "Song to the Sun" dates from 1817. He completed three poems of a more ambitious character, on which his fame chiefly rests. Of these, the romance of "Axel" (1822) and the delicately chiselled idyl of "Nattvardsbarnen" (1820), translated by Longfellow, take a secondary place in comparison with Tegnér's masterpiece of worldwide fame. In 1819 he also became a member of the distinguished Swedish Academy, on seat 8.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Claim to recognition.

paragraph: In 1820 he published in "Iduna" fragments of an epic on which he was working: "Frithjof's saga". In 1822 he published five more cantos, and in 1825 the entire poem. Already before its last canto it was famous throughout Europe; the aged Goethe took up his pen to commend to his countrymen this "alte, kräftige, gigantischbarbarische Dichtart" and desired Amalie von Imhoff to translate it into German. This romantic paraphrase of an ancient saga was composed in twenty-four cantos, all differing in verse form, modeled somewhat, on an earlier Danish masterpiece, "Helge" of Oehlenschläger.

paragraph: "Frithjof's saga" was during the 19th century the best known of all Swedish productions. It is said to have been translated twenty-two times into English, twenty times into German, and once at least into every European language. It is far from satisfying the demands of more recent antiquarian research, but it still is allowed to give the freshest existing impression, in imaginative form, of life in early Scandinavia.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: The period of the publication of "Frithjof's saga" (1825) was the critical epoch of his career. It made him one of the most famous poets in Europe. It transferred him from his study in Lund to the bishop's palace in Växjö; it marked the first breakdown of his health, which had hitherto been excellent; and it witnessed a singular moral crisis in the inner history of the poet, about which much has been written, but of which little is known. Tegnér was at this time passionately in love with a certain beautiful Euphrosyne Palm, the wife of a town councillor in Lund, and this unfortunate passion, while it inspired much of his finest poetry, turned the poet's blood to gall. From this time forward the heartlessness of woman is one of Tegnér's principal themes.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.:Bishop's seat.

paragraph: It is a remarkable sign of the condition of Sweden at that time that a man without a Christian heritage, and with little interest in formal religious matters, should be offered and should accept a bishop's crosier. He did not hesitate in accepting it: it was a great honour; he was poor; and he was anxious to get away from Lund. No sooner, however, had he begun to study for his new duties than he began to regret the step he had taken. It was nevertheless too late to go back, and Tegnér made a respectable bishop as long as his health lasted. In 1835, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. But he became moody and melancholy; as early as 1833 he complained of fiery heats in his brain, and in 1840, during a visit to Stockholm, he suddenly became insane.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.:Mental deterioration.

paragraph: He was sent to an asylum in Schleswig, and early in 1841 he was cured, and able to return to Växjö. In later years Tegnér began, but left unfinished, two important epic poems, "Gerda" and "Kronbruden". It was during his convalescence in Schleswig that he composed "Kronbruden". He wrote no more of importance; in 1843 he had a stroke of apoplexy, and on 2 November 1846 he died in Växjö.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- This work in turn cites:

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. W. Böttiger, "Teckning af Tegnérs Lefnad" (Swedish)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Georg Brandes, "Esaias Tegnér" (1878)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Johan Henrik Thomander, "Tankar och Löjen" (Swedish, 1876)

paragraph: English

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Axel, from the Swedish of Bishop Tegnér," adapted by Magnus Bernhard. Buffalo, N.Y., 1915 F.W. Burow's Sons (revised).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ahlberg, Fred: "Masterpieces of Swedish Poetry". Tujunga, CA., 1952, C.L. Anderson.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bellquist, John Eric. "Tegnér's First Romantic Poem." Scandinavica 31, no. 1 (May 1992).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. "Esaias Tegnér." in "Essays on Scandinavian Literature." Reprint. New York 1911, Charles Scribner's Sons.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gustavsson, Lars: "Forays into Swedish Poetry". Austin 1978, Univ. of Texas Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Locock, C. D.: "Fritiof's Saga". London 1924, G. Allen & Unwin.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frithiofs saga af Esaias Tegnér

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charles XII: on the centenary of his death 1818 The original Swedish text, as well as parallel translations by J.E.D.Bethune (1848) and Charles Harrison-Wallace (1998) and a comment by the latter.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Correspondence of Esaias Tegnér Digitised letters to Tegnér at Lund University Library (in Swedish)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Children of the Lord's Supper Tr. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

description: Swedish poet, professor and bishop

enwikiquote_title: Esaias Tegnér

wikidata_label: Esaias Tegnér

wikipedia_title: Esaias Tegnér


text:
basketball
Phoenix Suns
National Basketball Association
Philadelphia 76ers
New Orleans Hornets
Atlanta Hawks
Los Angeles Clippers
Orlando Magic
2003 NBA draft
Seattle SuperSonics
Philadelphia 76ers
Paccelis Morlende
Cooley High School
University of Detroit Mercy
Seattle SuperSonics
2003 NBA draft
Philadelphia 76ers
Paccelis Morlende
Cleveland Cavaliers
2006–07 season
Toronto Raptors
Rodney Carney
shooting guard
2007–08 NBA season
Jason Smith
Darius Songaila
Craig Brackins
Atlanta Hawks
Los Angeles Clippers
Sofoklis Schortsanitis
Orlando Magic
Cleveland Cavaliers
2017 NBA Finals
Cleveland Cavaliers
2018 NBA Finals
ESPN.com Profile

categories: Basketball players from Michigan,American men's basketball players,New Orleans Hornets players,Seattle SuperSonics draft picks,1981 births,Basketball coaches from Michigan,Detroit Mercy Titans men's basketball players,Shooting guards,African-American basketball players,Phoenix Suns assistant coaches,American men's basketball coaches,Atlanta Hawks players,Orlando Magic players,Los Angeles Clippers players,Philadelphia 76ers players,Golden State Warriors assistant coaches,Living people

paragraph: Willie Green

paragraph: Willie Julius Green (born July 28, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). During his professional career, Green played in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, New Orleans Hornets, Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers and Orlando Magic. He was selected in the second round (41st pick overall) of the 2003 NBA draft by the Seattle SuperSonics and later acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers from Seattle in a draft-night trade for the draft rights to Paccelis Morlende (50th pick overall) and cash considerations.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Philadelphia 76ers (2003–2010).

paragraph: Green was a 1999 graduate of Cooley High School; after a college career at the University of Detroit Mercy, he was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round (41st overall) of the 2003 NBA draft. He was traded the same day to the Philadelphia 76ers for the draft rights to Paccelis Morlende and cash considerations.

paragraph: Green was due to re-sign with the Sixers during the 2005 offseason, but suffered an injury the day of the contract signing, which put it in a temporary state of limbo. On March 23, 2006, he officially re-signed with the Sixers, and on April 4, 2006 he was activated and played 11 minutes, scoring 9 points on 4-for-6 shooting in a loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

paragraph: Green, in the final Sixers game of the 2006–07 season, had a career-high 37 points against the Toronto Raptors on April 4, 2007.

paragraph: Green beat out Rodney Carney for the Sixers starting shooting guard position. During the 2007–08 NBA season, Green had career highs in games played (74, all of them as a starter), minutes played (26.6), field goal percentage (.436), rebounds (2.5), assists (2.0), and points (12.4).

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New Orleans Hornets (2010–2011).

paragraph: Green was traded to New Orleans with forward Jason Smith in exchange for forward Darius Songaila and rookie forward Craig Brackins on September 23, 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Atlanta Hawks (2011–2012).

paragraph: On December 22, 2011, Green signed with the Atlanta Hawks.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Los Angeles Clippers (2012–2014).

paragraph: On July 30, 2012, Green was signed-and-traded to the Los Angeles Clippers for the rights to Sofoklis Schortsanitis.

paragraph: On June 29, 2014, he was waived by the Clippers.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Orlando Magic (2014–2015).

paragraph: On June 30, 2014, Green was claimed off waivers by the Orlando Magic.

paragraph: Section::::Coaching career.

paragraph: On August 9, 2016, Green was hired by Warriors coaching staff as an assistant coach. Green won his first championship when the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games of the 2017 NBA Finals. Green won his second straight championship when the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in four games of the 2018 NBA Finals. On June 26, 2019, Green was hired as an assistant coach for the Phoenix Suns.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Midwestern Collegiate Conference All-Newcomer Team: 2000

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second Team All-Midwestern Collegiate Conference: 2001

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horizon League Scoring Leader: 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horizon League All-Tournament Team: 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- All-Horizon First Team: 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horizon League Player of the Year: 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- Honorable Mention All-America by AP: 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- Portsmouth Invitational All-Tournament Team: 2003

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- ESPN.com Profile

description: American basketball player

wikidata_label: Willie Green

wikipedia_title: Willie Green


text:
Venice
Lucca
Padua
Republic of Venice
Council of Ten
Michele Suriano
Maximilian II
battle of Lepanto
savio di Terraferma
Terraferma
Luigi Contarini
Cardinal Bembo
provveditore
Cadore
savio del consiglio
Brescia
procurator of St Mark's
War of Cyprus
Relazione
Bellarmine
Botero
Apostolo Zeno
C. Monzani

categories: Italian historians,1540 births,1598 deaths,Procurators of St Mark's,Venetian governors,People from Venice,16th-century Venetian people

paragraph: Paolo Paruta

paragraph: Paolo Paruta (14 May 1540 – 6 December 1598) was a Venetian historian and statesman.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born at Venice of a Luccan family. After studying at Padua he served the Republic of Venice in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Ten.

paragraph: In 1562 he accompanied the ambassador Michele Suriano to the Court of Emperor Maximilian II and acted as official historiographer of the Republic; during which office he delivered the funeral oration for those killed at the naval battle of Lepanto (1571). After the change of government he was made "savio di Terraferma" (minister for the administration of the Terraferma), and became a senator.

paragraph: In 1579 he was appointed official historian to the republic, in succession to Luigi Contarini. He took up the narrative from where Cardinal Bembo had left it, in 1513, and brought it down to 1551. He was made "provveditore" to the Chamber of Loans in 1580, Commisario del Cadore (1589), savio del consiglio in 1590, ambassador to the pope in Rome (1592–95) and governor of Brescia (1590–92). In 1596 he was appointed procurator of St Mark's (1596, next in dignity to the doge), and "provveditore delle fortezze" (superintendent of fortifications) in 1597. He died in Venice.

paragraph: Section::::Writings.

paragraph: He was devoted from youth to literature and philosophy, also the composition of poetry. He applied himself especially to history and political science, and was at the end of the sixteenth century what Machiavelli, though in a different way, was at the beginning. He belonged intellectually to the group of recently ennobled men who met at the residence of the Morosini to discuss politics, which party (it may be called the liberal party) came into authority in 1582.

paragraph: His chief works are the "Guerra di Cipro" ("War of Cyprus") and the "Storia Veneziana", a continuation of Bembo's history, embracing the years 1513 to 1551, which was at first written in Latin and subsequently in Italian, published until posthumously in 1599. Both works were composed at the request of the Government, but written with truth and impartiality, showing especially the connection between the current events of Venice and the general history of Europe.

paragraph: His "Despatches" from Rome and the "Relazione" written at the end of his diplomatic mission reveal his great political foresight, by his accurate estimate of men and affairs at Rome, and which are equal to those of the greatest Venetian ambassadors.

paragraph: Of his political writings, the "Della perfezione della vita politica" in dialogue form, written between 1572 and 1579, of somewhat didactic and academic tone, treats principally of the superiority of the active and contemplative life, a problem he decides in favour of the active life on account of its contributing more to the welfare of the Republic. It was supposed, not without reason, to have been written to controvert the ideas contained in Bellarmine's "De officio principis christiani".

paragraph: His "Discorsi politici" were not published till after his death. The first book treats of the greatness and decadence of the Romans; the second of modern governments, especially Venice, being really an apology for the latter's policy. Among his other works may be mentioned a number of political orations.

paragraph: Though Paruta is an independent thinker, Macchiavelli's influence is notable. The policy of Italian equilibrium, which a century later developed into that of European equilibrium, was clearly foreseen by him. In his political views economy is not an important part, and therein he is inferior to his contemporary, the Piedmontese Botero.

paragraph: Section::::Sources and references.

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Apostolo Zeno's edition of Paruta's history (in the series "Degli Istorici delle cose veneziane", Venice, 1718)

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. Monzani's edition of Paruta's political works (Florence, 1852)

description: Italian historian

wikidata_label: Paolo Paruta

wikipedia_title: Paolo Paruta


text: Mohawk

text: War of 1812

text: Anglophone

text: Upper Canada

text: clan

text: Six Nations

text: Indian Reserve

text: matrilineal

text: kinship

text: colony of New York

text: Sir William Johnson

text: American Revolutionary War

text: captured as a girl by the Mohawk

text: George Henry Martin

text: War of 1812

text: George Henry Martin Johnson

text: matrilineal

text: Mohawk

text: Emily Pauline Johnson

text: O'Toole, Fintan

text: "John Smoke Johnson"

categories: 1886 deaths,1792 births,Native American leaders,Canadian Mohawk people,Native American people of the Indian Wars

paragraph: John Smoke Johnson

paragraph: John Smoke Johnson (December 2 or 14, 1792 – August 26, 1886) or Sakayengwaraton (also known as Smoke Johnson), was a Mohawk leader in Canada. After Johnson fought for the British Crown in the War of 1812, he was honoured by his tribal council as a "Pine Tree Chief", a non-hereditary position. He was influential in the Mohawk and Anglophone communities of Upper Canada.

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

paragraph: Smoke Johnson, a full-blood, was born in 1792 in Ontario into the Bear clan of his Mohawk mother at the Six Nations Indian Reserve. In the Mohawk matrilineal kinship system, the mother's clan and eldest brother were most important in her children's life; they took their status from her clan. His father was Jacob "Tekahionwake" Johnson (1758–1843). Smoke was reared in traditional Mohawk culture, but likely learned English as well.

paragraph: His father Tekahionwake was born in Mohawk territory in the colony of New York, in what became the United States. "Tekahionwake" was baptized and took the name Jacob Johnson, adopting his surname from that of Sir William Johnson, the influential British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who acted as his godfather. Jacob passed the Johnson surname down to his children. With the United States victory in the American Revolutionary War, the Mohawk and other Iroquois allies of the British had been forced to cede their large territories in New York. They moved to Canada, where the British Crown granted them land in compensation at the Six Nations and other reserves in what became Ontario.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and family.

paragraph: Smoke Johnson married Helen Martin (1798 – March 27, 1866) of the Wolf clan. She was the daughter of Catherine Rolleston and her husband "Ohyeatea", also known as George Martin. Catherine Rolleston was ethnic Dutch, but she had been captured as a girl by the Mohawk, adopted by a family in the Wolf clan, and became assimilated as Mohawk. The Johnsons had seven children, who were considered to be born into the Wolf clan: Mary, Aaron, Joseph, William, Margret, Susannah and George Henry Martin ("Onwanonsyshon").

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Johnson became a leader in Canada. He fought for the British Crown in the War of 1812 and was honored by his tribal council when chosen as a "Pine Tree Chief", a non-hereditary position. He was influential in the Mohawk and British communities of Ontario, Canada.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: His son George Henry Martin Johnson was selected as a hereditary Mohawk chief of his mother's Wolf clan in the matrilineal society. Fluent in English and Mohawk, he became a leader on the Six Nations reserve and an interpreter for the Canadian government. As an informal diplomat and negotiator, he helped facilitate relations between the Native and British communities.

paragraph: George Johnson married Emily Howells, a native of England whose family had immigrated to the United States in 1832. They had four children, including Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), who became a respected Native American poet.

paragraph: Section::::External links and further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horatio Hale, "Chapter III: The Book of Rites", "The Iroquois Book of Rites" (1883), Gutenberg Website, references to J. S. Johnson and his son George M. Johnson

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"

paragraph: BULLET::::- O'Toole, Fintan, "White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America"; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- "John Smoke Johnson", The Pauline Johnson Archive, McMaster University

description: American politician

wikidata_label: John Smoke Johnson

wikipedia_title: John Smoke Johnson


text: guru

text: Gaudiya Vaishnava

text: Hinduism

text: Mahatma

text: saint

text: diksha

text: Jagadananda Goswami

text: Vrindavan

text: Madhusudana dasa Babaji

text: Bhaktivinoda Thakur

text: Tangail

text: Bangladesh

text: Bhaktivinoda Thakur

text: Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji

text: Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

text: astronomy

text: Vaishnava

text: calendar

text: Vrindavan

text: Navadwip

text: bhajan

text: japa

text: Radha

text: Krishna

text: sadhu

text: Caitanya Mahaprabhu

text: Vaishnava Theology

text: Bhaktivinoda Thakur

text: Parampara

text: Hare Krishna

text: Gouranga

text: Nityananda

text: Six Goswamis of Vrindavan

text: Biography from Salagram.net

text: Biography from adiguru.ru

categories: 1894 deaths,1776 births,Gaudiya religious leaders,Bengali Hindus

paragraph: Jagannatha Dasa Babaji

paragraph: Jagannātha Dāsa Bābājī (1776–1894) was an influential leader (guru) in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and is respected as a "Mahatma" or saint by followers of his lineage. He accepted initiation (diksha) from Jagadananda Goswami of Vrindavan, and later accepted Babaji initiation from Madhusudana dasa Babaji. For the rest of his life, his example as a Gaudiya Vaishnava devotee was an inspiration to many in the community. Bhaktivinoda Thakur is quoted calling him "the commanding chief of the devotees".

paragraph: Jagannatha Dasa Babaji was born in a small village within the modern day Tangail district of Bangladesh. His birth year cannot be pinpointed exactly with accounts from several different Gaudiya Vaishnava groups giving years from 1750 to 1800.

paragraph: Jagannatha Dasa Babaji met Bhaktivinoda Thakur in 1880, and the latter subsequently accepted the former as his instructing guru ("shiksha"), adopting a guru disciple relationship. Jagannatha Dasa Babaji was also the initiating guru of Bhagavat Dasa Babaji and Bhaktivinoda Thakur.Bhaktivinoda Thakur was initiating guru of Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji and Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji became the initiating guru of Bhaktivinoda's son, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. It is told among some Gaudiya Vaishnavas that a young Bhaktisiddhanta, skilled in astronomy, created an ample Vaishnava calendar at Jagannatha Dasa Babaji's request, detailing all holidays, including the appearance and disappearance days of prominent devotees.

paragraph: Jagannatha Dasa Babaji spent his last days in the areas of Vrindavan and Navadwip, where he performed bhajan and japa in worship to Radha and Krishna.. A devotee named Bihari Lal would often assist the elderly sadhu. His devotion to Caitanya Mahaprabhu and instructions on Vaishnava Theology to Bhaktivinoda Thakur and Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji render him an integral part of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Guru Parampara.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hare Krishna

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gouranga

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nityananda

paragraph: BULLET::::- Six Goswamis of Vrindavan

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography from Salagram.net

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography from adiguru.ru

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tirobhav Mahotsav article about Jagannatha dasa Babaji

description: Bengali Hindu guru

wikidata_label: Jagannatha Dasa Babaji

wikipedia_title: Jagannatha Dasa Babaji


text:
American
Democratic
Pike County, Missouri
Lincoln County, Missouri
Missouri Senate
Attorney General
33rd Governor of Missouri
the 1912 election
Eureka, Missouri
Bowling Green, Missouri

categories: 1864 births,Missouri Democrats,1949 deaths,People from St. Louis County, Missouri,Governors of Missouri,Missouri Attorneys General,People from Lincoln County, Missouri,Democratic Party state governors of the United States

paragraph: Elliot Woolfolk Major

paragraph: Elliot Woolfolk Major (October 20, 1864 – July 9, 1949) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pike County, Missouri.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in 1864 in Lincoln County, Missouri, he served in the Missouri Senate, as the state's Attorney General, and was elected the 33rd Governor of Missouri in the 1912 election. He died in 1949 at Eureka, Missouri and is buried at the City Cemetery at Bowling Green, Missouri.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Elliot Woolfolk Major

wikipedia_title: Elliot Woolfolk Major


text: baronet

text: Covenanters

text: Galloway

text: Sir Walter Scott's

text: Redgauntlet

text: Kirkcudbright

text: Mouswald

text: Dumfriesshire

text: Glenorchy

text: Robert the Bruce

text: Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney

text: Kirkcudbright

text: Parliament

text: Dumfriesshire

text: Charles II

text: Presbyterians

text: heritor

text: Episcopalian

text: John Graham of Claverhouse

text: Wigtown Martyrs

text: Margaret Wilson

text: Tongland

text: Twynholm

text: James II and VII

text: Baronetage of Nova Scotia

text: Glorious Revolution

text: William III

text: Jacobite

text: linen

text: Justice of the peace

text: Duke of Queensberry

text: Alexander Peden

text: Old Dunscore Churchyard

text: Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

text: chapbook

text: pestle

categories: 1733 deaths,Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1681–82,Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1678,1655 births,Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia

paragraph: Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet

paragraph: Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet, of Lag (1655/56 – 31 December 1733) was a Scottish baronet.

paragraph: He is best remembered as a notorious persecutor of the Covenanters, particularly among the people of Galloway, and is still referred to as "Cruel Lag". The character of Sir Robert Redgauntlet of "Wandering Willie's tale" in Sir Walter Scott's "Redgauntlet" is based on Grierson.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Robert Grierson was born at the farm of Barquhar, the son of the 1st Tutor of Lag, William Grierson (c. 1626-after 6 December 1665), the Laird of Barquhar, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and his wife, Margaret Douglas (b. c. 1633), the daughter of Sir James Douglas, of Mouswald, Dumfriesshire. The Griersons were an ancient family who claimed descent from Malcolm MacGregor of Glenorchy, supposedly a key ally of Robert the Bruce, and claimed they had been granted the lands of Lag in Dumfriesshire in 1408 by Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney. In 1666, Robert Grierson succeeded his cousin as Laird of Lag and he was for some years Steward of Kirkcudbright. In 1676 he married Henrietta Douglas, the daughter of James, the 2nd Earl of Queensberry; the couple had five children: William, James, John, Gilbert, and Henrietta. Grierson sat as a Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire between 1678 and 1686.

paragraph: Between the 1660s and 1680s the Stuart king Charles II acted to suppress dissent among the militant Presbyterians of Galloway, who refused to conform to the king's authority and in several cases broke out into armed rebellion. The local heritors were charged with enforcing this policy, and Lag, a Stuart loyalist and Episcopalian, proved a particularly energetic supporter. In 1678 he made his own tenants sign a bond in which they agreed not to attend illegal conventicles or to commune with ""vagrant preachers"". He subsequently assisted John Graham of Claverhouse in policing the south-west of the country. As a commissioner for Galloway he was given control of one of the military courts set up to try rebellious Covenanters, and in this capacity was responsible for several executions of those refusing to take the oaths of loyalty to the monarch; he also gained a reputation, at least among subsequent martyrologists, of having a particularly contemptuous attitude towards those before the courts, and of invariably denying his victims' requests for a prayer before punishment. Most traditions make Grierson the presiding officer at the court that condemned the "Wigtown Martyrs", Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLachlan, in May 1685. "A Cloud of Witnesses", the principal martyrology of the time, charged him with command of the troop of dragoons that shot John Bell of Whiteside along with four others in Tongland Parish in February 1685, and David Halliday and George Short in Twynholm later in the year.

paragraph: In 1685, after the accession of King James II and VII, Grierson was created a Baronet, of Lag, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, and awarded a pension.

paragraph: Subsequent to the 1688 Glorious Revolution, Lag was arrested in May 1689 as a supporter of the old Stuart regime. Although he obtained his release on a substantial bail, and continued to receive his pension from William III, he remained under suspicion as a potential Jacobite rebel and was imprisoned again several times during the 1690s. In 1696 he was charged with being involved with the coining of false money at his mansion, Rockhall, but it was eventually discovered that the house was merely being used for experiments in stamping linen with decorative patterns. For much of the remainder of his life Lag's fortunes were seriously impacted by fines, and he took no further part in the politics of the period, though he continued to serve as a Justice of the peace and permitted his sons to become involved in the 1715 Jacobite Rising. However, the family's status never came under real threat as their connections with the influential Duke of Queensberry, both by blood and by marriage, probably served to protect them to some extent. Although Lag lived on unmolested in semi-retirement he remained feared and reviled by Covenanters: the writer Patrick Walker (c.1666-1745) in his "Remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", described him as ""a great persecutor, a great swearer, a great whorer, blasphemer, drunkard, liar and cheat, and yet out of hell"".

paragraph: In 1713 Lag handed over his estates to his eldest son William in return for a life rent. The two subsequently fell out over Lag's request to sell some of the property, though the resulting legal cases had the unintended effect of protecting the estates from forfeiture after William became involved in the 1715 rebellion. It was noted that father and son had been ""thoroughly reunited by the common cause of retrieving their property"", and Lag was eventually able to transfer the estates back to William in 1725.

paragraph: Section::::Death and posthumous legends.

paragraph: Grierson of Lag was a byword for evil among the common Presbyterian folk in Annandale, who gravely asserted that he, like the other persecutors of the Covenanters, had intimate dealings with the devil, and that he was ""partly in hell"" before his death, in evidence of which they told that his saliva burnt holes where it fell, and his feet put into cold water made it boil. Lag died, aged 77, at his town house in Dumfries on 31 December 1733, and was buried two days later in the Grierson family burial plot in Old Dunscore Churchyard, the cost of the funeral being £240 Scots. A story was told that on the night he died a chariot surrounded by thunder clouds swept his soul away to hell. Another described how the horses pulling his hearse to Dunscore churchyard died of exhaustion on the way and a black raven flew down and settled on the coffin, flying away only at the moment of burial. The antiquary Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe claimed that the story regarding the horses was in fact true, and that his grand-uncle Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, a nephew of Lag's, had both attended the funeral and supplied the horses which subsequently died. Whereas the Presbyterian martyrologists had listed the names of those shot at the hands of Lag's men, the tales that grew up after his death became more lurid, and in later years locals pointed out a spot on Halliday Hill, near Lag Tower, where the Laird was said to have rolled Covenanters downhill in a barrel filled with spikes.

paragraph: Such stories may not be the stuff of scholarly history, but they vividly demonstrate the loathing and fear in which this man was held by those who were loyal to the National Covenant (1638) and the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) and who hoped, sometimes schemed and even at times took up arms against the Stuart monarchy to achieve religious freedom. A satirical chapbook poem known as "Lag's Elegy", in which the Devil lamented the death of Lag, his ""champion brave"", was extremely popular in southern Scotland for around fifty years after his death.

paragraph: Grierson eventually entered folk memory, and was the subject of a strange custom recorded in Galloway and Dumfriesshire in the 19th century. Alexander Fergusson, who published a biographical sketch of him in 1886, recalled that as late as the 1840s some families, including Fergusson's own, used to commemorate Lag's deeds yearly in November by getting someone to dress as the "Laird of Lag", a ""beast as hideous as the ingenuity of the performer intrusted with the part could make it"" and which was used to frighten the children of the household. The conventional ""beast"" walked on all fours and had a long snout made from a large wooden kitchen pestle, with which the performer would ""smell out Covenanters under the sideboard and other likely places"": Fergusson said that anything ""more striking, not to say appalling, to young minds can hardly be imagined"".

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Robert Grierson, First Baronet (1655/6 – 1733)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video and narration on Lag Tower and the Griersons

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video and narration of Sir Robert Grierson and Lag Tower

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video and narration of Cruel Lag and the Wigtown Martyrs

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video and narration - Dunscore Churchyard and Sir Robert Grierson

alias:
Robert Grierson
Sir Robert Grierson

description: Scottish baronet

wikidata_label: Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet


text:
OBE
Maltese
prime minister
Vittoriosa
University of Malta
World War I
Royal Medical Corps
Paola
Tarxien
Labour Party
Legislative Assembly
1924
1927
1932
Constitutional
1927 elections
1939
World War II
Cottonera
Paola
Tarxien
Luqa
OBE
1945 elections
November 1947
Prime Minister
Malta Workers' Party
1951
1953
Nationalist Party
Giorgio Borġ Olivier
1955 elections
Christian Workers' Party
primary education
pensions
Prime Minister of Malta
List of Prime Ministers of Malta
Official biography

categories: Prime Ministers of Malta,Labour Party (Malta) politicians,People from Birgu,1962 deaths,Politicians awarded knighthoods,Knights Bachelor,Maltese knights,Officers of the Order of the British Empire,1890 births,Malta Workers Party politicians

paragraph: Paul Boffa

paragraph: Sir Paul Boffa, OBE (30 June 1890 – 6 July 1962) was a Maltese prime minister (1947–50) who took office after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authority following the end of World War II.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Born in Vittoriosa on 30 June 1890, Paul Boffa was educated at the Lyceum and at the University of Malta from where he graduated as a medical doctor in 1912. During World War I, he served with the Royal Medical Corps in Malta, Salonika and on hospital ships. After the war he set up in private practice in Paola. In 1921, he married Genoveffa Cecy and had two sons and two daughters: Salvino (aka Vivi), Hilda, Joseph (aka Profs), Carmelina (aka Melina). He died at his residence in Paola and is buried at the All Souls Cemetery in Tarxien. Former King George V (KGV) Hospital - a memorial to the men of the Merchant Navy who died in World War 1 - was renamed to Sir Paul Boffa Hospital in 1976.

paragraph: Section::::Politics.

paragraph: Paul Boffa entered politics when Malta was granted self-government in 1921 and joined the Labour Party in 1923. He was returned to Legislative Assembly under the Amery-Milner Constitution in 1924, 1927 and 1932 and elected Leader of the Labour Party in 1927. The Labour and the Constitutional Parties formed an electoral agreement (known as the "Compact") for the 1927 elections. Thanks to this the Constitutional Party was able to form a government with the support of Labour although this was not a coalition in the true sense of the word as Labour refused to assume any ministerial portfolios. In 1932 Boffa was the only Labour Party candidate elected to the Legislative Assembly until it was dissolved in 1933. He was nominated as a member of the Executive Council from 1936 to 1939 and was elected, again as the sole Labour representative, to the Council of Government in 1939.

paragraph: During the World War II, Boffa served with distinction as district Commissioner and ARP Medical Officer in the Cottonera, Paola, Tarxien and Luqa areas. He was awarded the OBE in 1941.

paragraph: In the 1945 elections, Boffa was again elected in the Labour Party's interests. He reached the acme of his political career in November 1947, when he became the first Labour Prime Minister leading a majority government of 24 Labour members. In 1949, following the Labour Party's ultimatum to Britain concerning financial help, the Labour Party split up but Boffa continued as Prime Minister. He later founded and led the Malta Workers' Party (MWP). The MWP lost the 1950 Elections.

paragraph: Boffa was re-elected in 1951 and in 1953 and joined a coalition government with the Nationalist Party led by Giorgio Borġ Olivier, assuming the portfolio of Minister of Health and Social Services. The MWP did not contest the 1955 elections and in that year, he resigned for health reasons. He retained an interest in politics and was nominated Honorary President of the Christian Workers' Party (CWP).

paragraph: Boffa was created a Knight Bachelor in the 1956 New Year's Honours List in recognition of distinguished public services. He was also awarded the 1914-18 Star, the General Service Medal, the Victory Medal, the Coronation Medal and the Defence Medal.

paragraph: Boffa was instrumental in obtaining recognition for the Maltese language in the law courts and the introduction of compulsory primary education and old-age pensions as well as the granting of the vote to women.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prime Minister of Malta

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Prime Ministers of Malta

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official biography (Malta Department of Information)

description: Prime Minister of Malta

wikidata_label: Paul Boffa

wikipedia_title: Paul Boffa


text: Cerveteri

text: Riano

text: Vignanello

text: Acquasparta

text: Pope Innocent XIII

text: Bartolomeo Ruspoli

text: Oriolo

text: Rome

text: Pope

text: Castel Rigattini

text: Vignanello

text: Gabrielli

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Rome

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Castelviscardo

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Siena

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Grimaldi

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Pepoli

text: Castiglione

text: Joachim Murat

text: Caroline Bonaparte

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Rome

text: Rome

text: Rome

text: Casteldelfino

text: Sezze

text: dei Principi Ruspoli

text: Ruspoli

categories: 1779 deaths,1708 births,House of Ruspoli

paragraph: Alessandro Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Cerveteri

paragraph: Alessandro, Principe Ruspoli (December 3, 1708 – June 20, 1779) was the 2nd Principe di Cerveteri, 2nd Marchese di Riano and 7th Conte di Vignanello, son of Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri and wife Isabella Cesi dei Duchi di Acquasparta, maternal niece of Pope Innocent XIII. His brother was Bartolomeo Ruspoli.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and children.

paragraph: He married firstly in 1720 as her first husband Virginia Altieri dei Principi di Oriolo (Rome, May 6, 1705 – ?), without issue. The marriage was annulled by the Pope.

paragraph: He married secondly in 1749 his first cousin Prudenza dei Conti Marescotti-Capizucchi, daughter of his uncle Mario, 1st Conte Marescotti-Capizucchi (1681 – December 23, 1758) and wife Cassandra Sacchetti dei Marchesi di Castel Rigattini, and paternal granddaughter of Alessandro Marescotti, 5th Conte di Vignanello and second wife Prudenza Gabrielli (December 17, 1654 – December 13, 1709), by whom he had six children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Donna Marianna dei Principi Ruspoli (ca 1749 – Rome, 1787), unmarried and without issue

paragraph: BULLET::::- Donna Maria Isabella dei Principi Ruspolii (April 6, 1750 – ?), unmarried and without issue

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri

paragraph: BULLET::::- Donna Giacinta dei Principi Ruspoli (July 9, 1753 – ?), married Giuseppe Niccolò Spada-Veralli, ?th Principe di Castelviscardo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Don Bartolomeo dei Principi Ruspoli (1754 – Siena, 1836), unmarried and without issue

paragraph: BULLET::::- Don Lorenzo dei Principi Ruspoli (October 30, 1755 – 1835), married Camilla Curti (1790–1866), and had a son and a daughter:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Donna Agnese dei Principi Ruspoli (November 30, 1810 – ?), married ..., Conte Grimaldi"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Don Ippolito dei Principi Ruspoli (March 13, 1817 – February 17, 1886), married Elisabetta dei Marchesi Pepoli dei Conti di Castiglione (June 14, 1829 – October 18, 1892), maternal granddaughter of Joachim Murat and wife Caroline Bonaparte, and had two daughters:"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Donna Letizia dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, July 13, 1849 – Rome, December 27, 1944), married in Rome, February 6, 1871 Mario Rappini, Marchese di Casteldelfino (Sezze-Delfino, July 29, 1834 – August 19, 1899)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Donna Giacinta Carolina dei Principi Ruspoli (1861–1862)"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alessandro Ruspoli on a genealogical site

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ruspoli

description: Prince of Cerveteri


text:
Suffragan Bishop of Croydon
Bishop of Lichfield
Elizabeth Fry
Thomas Fowell Buxton
Edward Woods
Theodore Woods
Bishop of Winchester
Frank Woods
Archbishop of Melbourne
Marlborough College
Trinity College, Cambridge
priest
Chaplain
Lecturer
Vice Principal
Ridley Hall, Cambridge
wartime service
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Vicar
rural dean
archdeacon
suffragan bishop
Bishop of Lichfield
German air raid
Ann Charteris
Ian Fleming
Lord High Almoner
Freemason
United Grand Lodge of England
Lichfield Cathedral
Jacob Epstein
SPCK

categories: 20th-century Anglican bishops,People educated at Marlborough College,Academics of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge,Presidents of the Girls' Day School Trust,1953 deaths,1877 births,Archdeacons of Croydon,Bishops of Croydon,Bishops of Lichfield

paragraph: Edward Woods (bishop)

paragraph: Edward Sydney Woods (1 November 1877 – 11 January 1953) was an Anglican bishop, the second Suffragan Bishop of Croydon from 1930 until 1937 and, from then until his death, the 94th Bishop of Lichfield.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Bishop Woods' mother Alice Fry was granddaughter of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, and his wife Clemence Barclay was great great-granddaughter of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. Son of Frank Woods (a priest), his grandfather was civil engineer Edward Woods.

paragraph: His brother Theodore Woods was also a cleric, and became Bishop of Winchester.

paragraph: Edward Woods had a son, Frank Woods, who also became an English bishop, and later served as Archbishop of Melbourne.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Woods was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

paragraph: Section::::Church career.

paragraph: He was ordained priest in 1902 and married Clemence Barclay the following year. He was Chaplain, Lecturer then Vice Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge followed by wartime service at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. When peace returned he became Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge. From there he moved to Croydon where he was successively vicar, rural dean, archdeacon and suffragan bishop. In 1937 he became the diocesan Bishop of Lichfield. He had the distinction of being one of two survivors of a German air raid by hiding under a dining table with Ann Charteris, the future wife of Ian Fleming.

paragraph: Woods was Lord High Almoner from 1946 to 1953.

paragraph: Section::::Private life.

paragraph: Woods was an active Freemason under the United Grand Lodge of England. He was initiated on 26 April 1928 in Waddon Lodge No 4162, and whilst Bishop of Croydon he also joined Croydon Chantry Lodge No 5063.

paragraph: Section::::Death and memorials.

paragraph: Woods died in office on 11 January 1953, his wife having died a year earlier. He was commemorated posthumously in a collection of appreciations.

paragraph: He is commemorated in Lichfield Cathedral by a bust, the work of Jacob Epstein (1958).

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: He was a prolific author, his published works including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Forgiveness of Sins", London, SPCK, 1916

paragraph: BULLET::::- (with Very Rev. F. B. Macnutt) "Theodore, Bishop of Winchester", London, SPCK, 1933

paragraph: BULLET::::- "How stands religion?", Cambridge, Lutterworth, 1949

description: British Anglican bishop

wikidata_label: Edward Woods

wikipedia_title: Edward Woods (bishop)


text: model village

text: Bessbrook

text: Newry

text: Northern Ireland

text: Quaker

text: linen

text: Clonmel

text: Lisburn

text: County Antrim

text: Ballitore

text: County Kildare

text: Edmund Burke

text: Frenchay

text: Thomas Grubb

text: Grubb Telescope Company

text: James Nicholson Richardson

text: baronetcy

text: Gilford

text: County Down

text: Derrymore House

text: public house

text: pawn brokers

text: William Inman

text: steerage

text: Crimean War

text: American Line

text: Baronetcy

text: J. Nicholson Richardson

text: Sir Joseph Barcroft

categories: 1891 deaths,Linen industry in Ireland,British Quakers,1813 births

paragraph: John Grubb Richardson

paragraph: John Grubb Richardson (13 November 1813 – 1891) was an Irish linen merchant, industrialist and philanthropist who founded the model village of Bessbrook near Newry in 1845, in what is now Northern Ireland. Five years later he founded a major Atlantic steamship line that significantly improved conditions for immigrant passingers fleeing Ireland after the potato famine. He also founded Richardson Fertilizer Limited that remained in business under its original name until 2002.

paragraph: Richardson was the second of ten children of James Nicholson Richardson (1782–1847), a wealthy Quaker linen merchant, and Anna Grubb, from a large Quaker family in Clonmel. The Richardson family originally came to Ireland from England in 1622 and the Grubb family also came from England in 1656. John Richardson was raised at Glenmore House, outside Lisburn, County Antrim. At the age of eleven, he boarded for three years at Ballitore, County Kildare (the same Quaker school attended by Edmund Burke) before attending another Quaker school at Frenchay, Gloucestershire.

paragraph: In 1844, Richardson married Helena Grubb (27 March 1819 – 7 December 1849) of Cahir Abbey, Co. Tipperaray, who was his second cousin, his mother, Anne Grubb, and her father, Richard Grubb, were first cousins. John and Helena's shared second cousin once removed was Thomas Grubb, founder of the Grubb Telescope Company. John and Helena had a son, James Nicholson Richardson before she died giving birth to a daughter, named Helena. In 1853, Richardson married Jane Marion Wakefield, of Moyallon House, Co. Down. A Quaker, John declined the offer of a baronetcy. With Jane, he had one son, Thomas Wakefield Richardson and seven daughters. He died at Moyallon House, an estate inherited through his second wife's family, near Gilford, County Down. His estate surrounding his Bessbrook home at The Wood House and Derrymore House (now a National Trust property) is a designated historic park.

paragraph: Section::::Business career.

paragraph: In 1830, John Grubb Richardson entered the family linen export firm, JN Richardson Sons and Owden. In 1841, one of his younger brothers, Thomas Richardson was sent to New York as agent for the family's business.

paragraph: In 1845, John, along with his father and older brother Jonathan, decided to manufacture linen products and purchased a burned-out mill in Bessbrook, then a small village. This project coincided with the beginning of the potato famine and farmers needed work to buy food. John, the second eldest son in the firm, was the driving force behind the manufacturing venture. Bessbrook was selected for the new business because of the availability of water power and the large amount of flax grown in the area. John expanded the site with new manufacturing buildings constructed with local Mourne granite and dedicated housing for the workforce built to a high standard for the period. In planning the community, John refused to allow a public house, pawn brokers or a police station. He famously stated that a police station was unnecessary if there were no public houses or pawn brokers. In 1852, the firm became one of the first in Ireland to install steam-powered looms.

paragraph: John also hired a young business partner, William Inman, to operate the linen shipping business. In 1850, Inman persuaded John and his brothers to form the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company and buy an advanced new ship, the . She proved profitable because her iron hull required less repair and her screw propulsion system left more room for passengers and freight. The ship's moderate speed also considerably reduced coal consumption.

paragraph: In 1852, Richardson's steamship line broke new ground by transporting steerage passengers under steam. Richardson was concerned about the poor conditions experienced by immigrants travelling to America after the famine. From the beginning, he provided better steerage quarters and adopted the recommendations of a Parliamentary Committee to provide cooked meals to immigrants. Because of his opposition to war, in 1855 Richardson sold his interest in the firm to Inman after Inman chartered ships to the French during the Crimean War. The Inman line emerged after the war as one of the major steamship firms on the Atlantic and ultimately became a part of the American Line.

paragraph: Richardson was also in the chemical fertiliser business. In 1855, he took over a bone-crushing business in Belfast and converted it to produce chemical fertiliser. By the 1880s, the firm manufactured over 6,000 toms annually. The company was sold after Richardson's death, but retained his name until the company closed in 2002.

paragraph: In 1863, John purchased his brothers' interests in the linen manufacturing business and reorganised the firm as the Bessbrook Spinning Company. At that time, the production of linen was booming because the American Civil War cut off cotton supplies to British manufacturers. In the first two years, the company's annual profits rose from just over 8,000 pounds to over 41,000 pounds. Eventually 3,000 people worked for Richardson in Bessbrook and its satellite factory at Craigmore.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Richardson was a strong advocate for public education. At his insistence, a public school was established in Bessbrook that educated children of all religions together. In 1861, John testified before the Clarendon Commission on this issue which ultimately resulted in the adoption of the Public Schools Act in 1868.

paragraph: John Richardson turned down a Baronetcy, a reward for his good works, due to his belief in equality. His eldest son by Helena Grubb, J. Nicholson Richardson, was Liberal Member of Parliament for Armagh. His great-nephew was Sir Joseph Barcroft, whose family home, The Glen, Newry, was purchased by Richardson for the Barcrofts.

description: Irish businessman

wikidata_label: John Grubb Richardson

wikipedia_title: John Grubb Richardson


text: Chinese

text: Jing County

text: Anhui

text: Suzhou

text: Jiangsu

text: Suzhou

text: Jiangsu

text: Qing dynasty

text: Xu Beihong

text: Nanjing University

text: Belgian

text: Nanjing University

text: postpartum depression

text: Chongqing

text: People's Republic of China

text: China Artists Association

text: China Central Academy of Fine Arts

text: China Artists Association

text: National People's Congress

text: China Central Academy of Fine Arts

text: People's Republic of China

text: giant panda

text: China Democratic League

text: National People's Congress

text: Beijing

categories: Politicians from Suzhou,Presidents of China Central Academy of Fine Arts,1908 births,Republic of China painters,People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu,Painters from Suzhou,1997 deaths,China Central Academy of Fine Arts faculty,Members of the National People's Congress

paragraph: Wu Zuoren

paragraph: Wu Zuoren (; 3 November 1908 – 9 April 1997) was a Chinese painter. A native of Jing County, Anhui, he was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He practiced both traditional Chinese ink painting and European oil painting.

paragraph: Section::::Chronology.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1908: Wu Zuoren is born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Qing dynasty.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1927: Wu Zuoren studies in the department of fine arts at Shanghai Art University where his ability is recognized by Xu Beihong. Later, he transfers to the department of fine arts at Nanguo Academy of Arts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1928: Wu Zuoren follows Xu Beihong to study at the National Central University (renamed Nanjing University in 1949).

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1930 - 1935: Wu Zuoren travels abroad to study in Europe. He returns to China in 1935.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1939: Wu Zuoren's first wife, Lina, a Belgian national, dies at an early age while they are at Nanjing University, due to postpartum depression complicated by the bombardment of Chongqing by Japanese war planes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1949: With the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Wu Zuoren joins the China Artists Association.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1949-1953: Wu Zuoren becomes a professor and the first provost of China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1953: Wu Zuoren is elected vice president of the China Artists Association.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1954: Wu Zuoren becomes a permanent member of the National People's Congress.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1958: Wu Zuoren becomes the principal of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1963: Wu Zuoren sets out to change the face of China when presented with the opportunity to design a three postage stamps for the People's Republic of China. Known for his ink paintings of yaks and camels in western China Wu Zuoren's "Giant Panda" stamps first issued in 1963 establish the giant panda as the emblem of the new China. A second series of six "Giant Panda" stamps by Wu Zouren was issued in 1973, and a more elaborate "Giant Panda" edition based on his ink paintings produced in 1985.

paragraph: For the remainder of his life, Wu Zuoren remains a prominent member of the central committee of the China Democratic League, Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, and a member of the standing committee of the National People's Congress. Wu Zuoren's second wife, Xiao Shufang, was an artist known for her flower paintings. Wu Zuoren founded and endowed the "Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts".

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: Wu Zuoren died in 1997 in Beijing.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website of Wu Zuoren International Foundation of Fine Arts

alias:
Tso-jen
Zhishou Wu
Wou Tso-Jen
Tso-jen Wu
Chih-shou Wu
Tso-Jen Wou
Ren Zuo
Wu Tso-jen
吴作人
吳作人
Zuoren Wu
Zuoren

description: Chinese artist

wikidata_label: Wu Zuoren

wikipedia_title: Wu Zuoren


text:
Danish painter
Helsingør
Zealand
existentialist
Holstebro
Jutland
Copenhagen
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Limfjorden
Venø
Helsingør
Struer
Klovvig
Venø
Thorvaldsen Medal
Frederikshavn
Art of Denmark

categories: 1895 births,Danish architects,People from Holstebro Municipality,Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal,Danish Impressionist painters,1973 deaths,Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni

paragraph: Knud Agger

paragraph: Knud Agger (26 September 1895 – 2 February 1973) was a self-taught Danish painter. After a series of paintings from everyday life, he became ever involved in painting his family, home and garden at Helsingør in the north of the island of Zealand. With time, his work took on a visionary and strongly existentialist character.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Knud Agger was originally from Holstebro in Jutland but moved to Copenhagen to study architecture at the architecture school of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to his native region in 1928 to paint landscapes of Limfjorden and Venø. In 1929, he moved to Helsingør where he remained until his death in 1973.

paragraph: In 1939, he completed three large paintings to be hung in the new state high school at Struer. One of the paintings shows the town of Struer and its harbour, the two others present scenes from Klovvig on the island of Venø. After the war, Agger frequently returned to his summerhouse on Venø where he worked on numerous landscapes and sketches until heart problems put an end to his journeys there in 1965.

paragraph: In his later years, he focused increasingly on using stones he had found on Venø as a basis for his skies. With time, the stones totally dominated his work. One of the paintings earned him the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1971.

paragraph: Knud Agger's final work was an 8m tall stained glass window at Abildgård's Church in Frederikshavn.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Art of Denmark

description: Danish painter

wikidata_label: Knud Agger

wikipedia_title: Knud Agger


text:
Skopje
Macedonian
Macedonian language
"Pesni" (1944-1948)
"Mikioni Džinoi"

categories: Yugoslav poets,Macedonian short story writers,Macedonian poets,Golden Arena winners,1920 births,People from Skopje,2000 deaths,20th-century short story writers,Macedonian comics artists

paragraph: Slavko Janevski

paragraph: Slavko Janevski (January 11, 1920, Skopje - January 20, 2000) was a Macedonian poet, prose and script writer. He was also active as a comics artist. He finished high school in Skopje. From 1945 onwards he was the editor of the first teenage magazine called "Pioneer". Janevski is the author of the first novel to be written in Macedonian language "Seloto zad sedumte jaseni". As script writer he adapted the historical drama "Macedonian bloody wedding" in 1967. Janevski received many awards, among others "AVNOJ" 1968 and "Makedonsko slovo" for the book "Thought" .

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pesni" (1944-1948)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mikioni Džinoi"

description: Macedonian writer

wikidata_label: Slavko Janevski

wikipedia_title: Slavko Janevski


text:
French
coxswain
1936 Summer Olympics
Fernand Vandernotte
Marcel Vandernotte
coxed four competition
July 2012 update on Noël Vandernotte

categories: Olympic rowers of France,Olympic medalists in rowing,Coxswains (rowing),French male rowers,Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Officers of the National Order of Merit (France),Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for France,1923 births,Living people

paragraph: Noël Vandernotte

paragraph: Noël Vandernotte (born 25 December 1923) is a French rowing coxswain who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He is the son of Fernand Vandernotte and the nephew of Marcel Vandernotte. In 1936 he won the bronze medal of the French boat in the coxed pairs event as well as in the coxed four competition. He was the youngest male medalist at the 1936 Games, at 12 years and 233 days, and is also the youngest French Olympic medalist of all-time.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- July 2012 update on Noël Vandernotte

description: French rower

wikidata_label: Noël Vandernotte

wikipedia_title: Noël Vandernotte


text:
French
rower
1932 Summer Olympics
1936 Summer Olympics
Tillières
Marcel Vandernotte
Noël Vandernotte
Marcel
coxed pair event
coxed four competition

categories: Olympic rowers of France,Rowers at the 1932 Summer Olympics,Olympic medalists in rowing,French male rowers,Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics,1990 deaths,1902 births,Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for France

paragraph: Fernand Vandernotte

paragraph: Fernand Auguste Henri Marius Vandernotte (12 July 1902 – 20 January 1990) was a French rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: He was born in Tillières. He was the elder brother of Marcel Vandernotte and the father of Noël Vandernotte. In 1932 he was eliminated with his brother Marcel in the repechage of the coxed pair event. Four years later he won the bronze medal as crew member of the French boat in the coxed four competition.

description: French rower

wikidata_label: Fernand Vandernotte

wikipedia_title: Fernand Vandernotte


text:
French
rower
1932 Summer Olympics
1936 Summer Olympics
Nantes
Fernand Vandernotte
Noël Vandernotte
Fernand
coxed pair event
coxed four competition

categories: Olympic rowers of France,Rowers at the 1932 Summer Olympics,Olympic medalists in rowing,French male rowers,Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics,1993 deaths,1909 births,Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for France

paragraph: Marcel Vandernotte

paragraph: Marcel Henri Vandernotte (29 July 1909 – 15 December 1993) was a French rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: He was born in Nantes. He was the younger brother of Fernand Vandernotte and the uncle of Noël Vandernotte. In 1932 he was eliminated with his brother Fernand in the repechage of the coxed pair event. Four years later he won the bronze medal as crew member of the French boat in the coxed four competition.

description: French rower

wikidata_label: Marcel Vandernotte

wikipedia_title: Marcel Vandernotte


text: French

text: rower

text: 1936 Summer Olympics

text: coxed four competition

text: Notice of Jean Marcel Cosmat's death

categories: Olympic rowers of France,Olympic medalists in rowing,2010 deaths,French male rowers,Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Officers of the National Order of Merit (France),1910 births,Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for France

paragraph: Jean Cosmat

paragraph: Jean Georges Cosmat (3 July 1910 – 29 March 2010) was a French rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: In 1936 he won the bronze medal as crew member of the French boat in the coxed four competition.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jean Marcel Cosmat receives the French National Order of Merit in May 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- Notice of Jean Marcel Cosmat's death

description: French rower

wikidata_label: Marcel Cosmat

wikipedia_title: Jean Cosmat


text:
French
rower
1936 Summer Olympics
coxed four competition

categories: Olympic rowers of France,Olympic medalists in rowing,French male rowers,Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics,1911 births,Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics,Olympic bronze medalists for France,1972 deaths

paragraph: Marcel Chauvigné

paragraph: Marcel Chauvigné (24 September 1911 – 2 July 1972) was a French rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: In 1936 he won the bronze medal as a crew member of the French boat in the coxed four competition.

description: French rower

wikidata_label: Marcel Chauvigné

wikipedia_title: Marcel Chauvigné


text:
professional baseball
center fielder
Texas Rangers
Major League Baseball
Houston Astros
2010 MLB Draft
Delino DeShields
Atlanta
Woodward Academy
Georgia Bulldogs
Ole Miss Rebels
LSU Tigers
Los Angeles Angels
Eric Young Jr.
Ed Wade
Greeneville Astros
Appalachian League
second base
GCL Astros
Lexington Legends
South Atlantic League
Lancaster JetHawks
California League
Corpus Christi Hooks
Texas League
Winter Meetings
Texas Rangers
Rule 5 draft
Opening Day
Dan Otero
Oakland Athletics
American League Rookie of the Month
uniform number
American League Rookie of the Year
Ian Desmond
Round Rock
Kansas City Royals
Texas Rangers
Delino DeShields
Diamond
WNBA
Chicago Sky
driving under the influence

categories: Texas Rangers players,Peoria Javelinas players,Lexington Legends players,Major League Baseball center fielders,Corpus Christi Hooks players,Gulf Coast Astros players,Sportspeople from College Park, Georgia,Lancaster JetHawks players,Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state),1992 births,Round Rock Express players,African-American baseball players,Greeneville Astros players,All-Star Futures Game players,Living people,Nashville Sounds players

paragraph: Delino DeShields Jr.

paragraph: Delino Diaab DeShields (born August 16, 1992) is an American professional baseball center fielder for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

paragraph: On June 7, 2010, he was drafted in the 1st round, with the 8th pick overall, by the Houston Astros in the 2010 MLB Draft, signing on August 5, 2010. Then, on December 11, 2014, he was drafted by the Texas Rangers from the Houston Astros in the 2014 rule 5 draft.

paragraph: He is the son of former MLB player Delino DeShields.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: DeShields, the eldest of his father's five children, was raised in the Atlanta area. He went to Woodward Academy, where he played both baseball and football. In his senior year at Woodward, he hit 9 home runs and batted .415, while stealing 29 bases. He was recruited by the Georgia Bulldogs and Ole Miss Rebels for football before deciding to pursue baseball instead. He was also recruited by the LSU Tigers for baseball, but they only committed a half-scholarship to him due to his desire to play professionally.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: According to his 2010 MLB Draft scouting report, DeShields has "plus-plus speed" on the basepaths. He is good at hitting with "the ability to hit line drives consistently." His power hitting is "marginal." His arm strength is "below-average, but it plays OK in the outfield," with "plus range." His fielding ability is good, with a soft-enough touch to play in the middle infield. His physical stature is compared to Los Angeles Angels outfielder Eric Young Jr. While his speed and pedigree are listed as advantages, his primary disadvantages are his relative lack of power hitting and inconsistent effort. His official MLB Draft profile lists him as a center fielder. Astros general manager Ed Wade stated his intention to send DeShields to the rookie-level Greeneville Astros of the Appalachian League once he was signed, with a transition to second base during the winter.

paragraph: In 2011, DeShields played 16 games for Greeneville and 2 for the GCL Astros. He has also played for the Lexington Legends of the South Atlantic League, the Lancaster JetHawks of the California League, and the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Double-A Texas League. On April 18, 2014, DeShields was hit in the face by a pitch. He suffered a non-displaced maxillary sinus fracture.

paragraph: At the 2014 Winter Meetings, the Texas Rangers selected DeShields from the Astros in the Rule 5 draft. DeShields made the Rangers' Opening Day roster. He recorded his first major league hit in the 8th inning on an infield single against Dan Otero of the Oakland Athletics on April 8. On June 3, 2015, DeShields was named American League Rookie of the Month for May after batting .296 for the month and scoring 22 runs. On August 14, he would hit his first Major League home run against Tampa Bay. After the 2015 season, DeShields changed his uniform number from 7 to 3. After the completion of the 2015 season, DeShields finished in 7th place in the American League Rookie of the Year voting, with one third place vote. He was voted as the Texas Rangers' Rookie of the Year by fellow players and coaches.

paragraph: DeShields would begin the 2016 season as the Rangers' starting center fielder, but would eventually lose his job to Ian Desmond for inconsistency and be demoted to Triple-A Round Rock. DeShields would finish with a .209 batting average, 4 home runs and 13 RBIs with 8 stolen bases in 74 games. Deshields would make the 2017 Opening Day roster. On April 21, 2017, he hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 13th inning in a game against the Kansas City Royals.

paragraph: On March 31, 2018, DeShields experienced pain in his left hand after swinging. He was diagnosed with a broken hamate bone in the left hand, ruling him out for four to six weeks. DeShields ended the season with a .216 batting average with 2 home runs and 20 stolen bases.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: DeShields was given the 2018 Texas Rangers Harold McKinney Good Guy Award by the DFW BBWAA chapter for the 2018 season.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: DeShields is the son of former MLB infielder / outfielder Delino DeShields. His sister Diamond, plays for the WNBA's Chicago Sky. DeShields has a paternal half-brother and two paternal half-sisters.

paragraph: DeShields was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, possession of alcohol by a minor and a traffic violation in Georgia on January 16, 2011. He was released on $2,500 bail and charged with the three misdemeanors.

paragraph: On January 20, 2019 DeShields got baptized at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall,TX. He is a Christian.

alias:
Delino Diaab DeShields, Jr.
Poppa
Delino Diaab DeShields Jr.

wikidata_label: Delino DeShields Jr.

wikipedia_title: Delino DeShields Jr.


text:
Düsseldorf
Afro-German
First World War
Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Langhoff
Gestapo
SS
Deutschmark
Clarence Lusane

categories: German male dancers,German anti-fascists,People from Düsseldorf,German communists,People from North Rhine-Westphalia executed by Nazi Germany,1933 deaths,Tap dancers,1909 births,People from the Rhine Province

paragraph: Hilarius Gilges

paragraph: Hilarius Gilges (IPA German hɪˈleərɪəs gɪl:gɛs), (April 28, 1909, Düsseldorf – June 20, 1933), known as "Lari" Gilges, was an Afro-German actor and communist. He was murdered at the age of 24 by the Nazis.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Hilarius Gilges was one of the few black Germans born in the country before the First World War. His mother Maria Stüttgen was a textile worker in Düsseldorf; the origin of his biological father is not known for certain, but he was probably an African boatman working on a Rhine tugboat. Maria married Franz Peter Gilges in 1915, giving the boy the family name Gilges.

paragraph: Gilges grew up in the working class milieu of Düsseldorf and joined German Communist Youth in about 1925 or 1926. He became an amateur actor with the communist agitprop theatre group "Nordwest ran" directed by Wolfgang Langhoff. His radical politics led in 1931 to his arrest and sentencing to one year in prison. After his release in 1932 he continued as an active communist agitator.

paragraph: Gilges married Katharina Hubertine Laatsch (born Vogels) and fathered two children.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: In early 1933, after the Nazis seized power, he attempted to go into hiding, but his visibility due to his skin color made this difficult. In June 1933, he was kidnapped from his apartment in the city's "Altstadt" district (Old Town) district of Düsseldorf. He was then brutally tortured and killed. The perpetrators are believed to have been six members of the Gestapo and SS, but even after the end of Nazi rule, were not tried in court.

paragraph: His widow and two children survived the Nazi period, probably because they were helped by neighbors in the "Altstadt". In 1949 they were given a lump sum compensation of 12,000 Deutschmark as restitution.

paragraph: Section::::Commemorations.

paragraph: On 23 December 2003 the city of Düsseldorf named a plaza after Hilarius Gilges, in the vicinity of the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. In 1988 a plaque had been already placed at the approximate site of the murder. The plaque was commissioned by the Düsseldorf city museum and designed by the local artist Hannelore Köhler. It shows a relief profile of Gilges.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clarence Lusane: "The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era". Routledge, London 2002, ,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lothar Pützstück: „AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland und schwarze Deutsche – Geschichte und Gegenwart. Beiträge zur gleichnamigen Konferenz vom 13.-15. Juni 2003 im NS-Dokumentationszentrum Köln“. In: Marianne Bechhhaus-Gerst, Reinhard Klein-Arendt (Hrsg.): "Begegnungen. Geschichte und Gegenwart der afriknisch-europäischen Begegnung". LIT Verlag, Münster 2004.

description: tap dancer, actor and communist

wikidata_label: Hilarius Gilges

wikipedia_title: Hilarius Gilges


text: American

text: Roman Catholic

text: Auxiliary bishop

text: Archdiocese of Philadelphia

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: Germantown

text: Philadelphia

text: Pennsylvania

text: Ukrainian Archeparchy

text: Father Judge High School

text: Diocese of Erie

text: Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

text: Suffield

text: Connecticut

text: Bachelor of Arts

text: Washington Theological Union

text: St. Charles Borromeo Seminary

text: Overbrook

text: Master of Divinity

text: ordained

text: priesthood

text: parochial vicar

text: St. Dominic Church

text: St. Mark Church

text: Bristol

text: Archbishop of Philadelphia

text: Anthony Bevilacqua

text: Justin Francis Rigali

text: Chaplain to His Holiness

text: Prelate of Honor

text: chaplain

text: motherhouse

text: Sisters of Mercy

text: Merion

text: auxiliary bishop

text: titular bishop

text: Bononia

text: Pope Benedict XVI

text: episcopal

text: consecration

text: Michael J. Fitzgerald

text: Secretariat for Evangelization

text: Catholic Church hierarchy

text: Catholic Church in the United States

text: Office of Catholic Education

categories: 1963 births,Clergy from Philadelphia,Washington Theological Union alumni,American titular bishops,Living people

paragraph: John J. McIntyre (bishop)

paragraph: John Joseph McIntyre (born August 20, 1963) is an American Roman Catholic Bishop. He was appointed an Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia by Pope Benedict XVI on June 8, 2010 and consecrated on August 6, 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: John McIntyre was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of three sons of Thomas and Blanche (née Ferrero) McIntyre. He received his early education at St. Basil Elementary School of the Ukrainian Archeparchy in Philadelphia. He attended Father Judge High School in Philadelphia for three years before entering St. Mary's High School Seminary in the Diocese of Erie to study for the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists).

paragraph: He then attended St. Alphonsus Seminary in Suffield, Connecticut, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy in 1986. From 1986 to 1987, he continued his studies at the Redemptorist House of Studies and the Washington Theological Union. He taught at St. Benedict Elementary School in Philadelphia for two years before entering St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook in 1989. He earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1991.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Ordination and ministry.

paragraph: McIntyre was ordained to the priesthood on May 16, 1992. His first assignment was as a parochial vicar at St. Dominic Church in Philadelphia, where he remained for three years. He then served at St. Mark Church in Bristol from 1995 to 1999. He also served as a member of the Council of Priests (1996–99) and of the Admissions Board for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary (1997–99). Since 1999, McIntyre has been secretary to the Archbishop of Philadelphia, serving Cardinals Anthony Bevilacqua (1999-2003) and Justin Francis Rigali (2003-10).

paragraph: He was named a Chaplain to His Holiness in 2003, and elevated to the rank of Prelate of Honor in 2005. In addition to his duties as secretary to the archbishop, he served as chaplain at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Mercy in Merion from 1999 to 2003.

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

paragraph: On June 8, 2010, McIntyre was appointed auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia and titular bishop of "Bononia" by Pope Benedict XVI. He received his episcopal consecration on August 6, 2010 from Cardinal Rigali at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. in a joint ceremony during which Michael J. Fitzgerald was also made Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia. As an auxiliary bishop, he serves as archdiocesan director of the Secretariat for Evangelization.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church hierarchy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic Church in the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Catholic bishops of the United States

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Office of Catholic Education

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: John J. McIntyre

wikipedia_title: John J. McIntyre (bishop)


text:
Spanish
actress
director
screenwriter
film producer
Luis Arroyo
Luis Marquina
The Queen's Flower Girl
Raza
A Shadow at the Window
The Princess of the Ursines
Segundo Lopez
Italian Neo-realist
They fired with their lives
Spanish Civil War

categories: 1995 deaths,Spanish film directors,Spanish film producers,Spanish screenwriters,Spanish women film directors,Actresses from Madrid,Spanish film actresses,20th-century Spanish actresses,Expatriate actresses in Argentina,1923 births

paragraph: Ana Mariscal

paragraph: Ana María Arroyo Mariscal (31 July 1923 – 28 March 1995) better known as Ana Mariscal was a classic Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer. She also acted in Argentinean films. She was involved in well over 50 films between 1940 and 1968, frequently starring in films she also wrote and directed. She is iconic to 1940s and 50s Spanish cinema. Her brother Luis Arroyo (1915–1956) was also an actor and film director.

paragraph: Section::::Early Career and Education.

paragraph: Mariscal was born in Madrid in 1923 to a middle-class family. Her father owned a furniture store and a theater that would provide Mariscal much of her early exposure to acting. While occasionally appearing in theater productions with her brother, Mariscal intended to go to university to study mathematics. She decided to pursue acting after being incidentally cast in her first film role.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Ana Mariscal began her career after accompanying her actor brother Luis Arroyo to an audition for "El Ultimo Husar". Almost by chance, she was noticed by the director Luis Marquina and cast in the film. This would start a prolific career in acting and directing.

paragraph: Over the next decade, Mariscal would star in over twenty films, becoming a household name in Spain. A few notable films from this time include "The Queen's Flower Girl", "Raza, A Shadow at the Window," and "The Princess of the Ursines". After a decade of typecast roles, Mariscal would start her own production company called BOSCO and begin writing and directing her own works. She made her directorial debut with "Segundo Lopez," a film she also wrote and starred in. It was a critically well-received comedy with Italian Neo-realist influences. She would later direct her esteemed work "They fired with their lives" that deals with the Spanish Civil War; an event Mariscal herself lived through during her childhood.

paragraph: In her later career she would shift between film, television, and theater pursuits, still using her production company to fund her projects. During this period she would direct or be involved with "Occidente y sabotaje," "El Camino," and "The Other Woman." She would soon begin teaching classes at the IIEC (Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences) while still balancing acting and directing jobs. She would eventually recede from the world of film making and dedicate her time entirely to the study of literature.

paragraph: Just a few months before her death, She would receive the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts in 1995. She is buried in the Cementerio de la Almudena

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Victoria, Fonseca, [2002]. Ana Mariscal : una cineasta pionera. [Madrid]: EGEDA. . OCLC 432886850.

description: Spanish actor and film director

wikidata_label: Ana Mariscal

wikipedia_title: Ana Mariscal