text: United States Navy

text: Medal of Honor

text: Boxer Rebellion

text: Vera Cruz, Mexico

text: United States Navy

text: USS "Columbia"

text: West Indies

text: Spanish–American War

text: USS "Newark" (C-1)

text: Philippines

text: China Relief Expedition

text: Boxer Rebellion

text: boatswain

text: Vera Cruz

text: World War I

text: ensign

text: World War I

text: minesweeper

text: North Sea

text: Navy Cross

text: Legion of Valor

text: USS "Lark" (AM-23)

text: Gloucester, Massachusetts

text: USS "Dobbin" (AD-3)

text: lieutenant commander

text: Naval Order of the United States

text: Veterans of Foreign Wars

text: American Legion

text: Leonia, New Jersey

text: Military Order of the Dragon

text: heart attack

text: Arlington National Cemetery

text: Medal of Honor

text: Navy Cross

text: Sampson Medal

text: Spanish Campaign Medal

text: Philippine Campaign Medal

text: China Relief Expedition Medal

text: Mexican Service Medal

text: World War I Victory Medal

text: Conspicuous Service Cross (New York)

text: Brewsters, N.Y.

text: Brewster, N.Y.

text: United States occupation of Veracruz

text: William R. Rush

text: "Bronstein"-class

text: destroyer escort

text: USPS

text: Adventurers' Club of New York

categories: Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States),Battle of Veracruz (1914) recipients of the Medal of Honor,United States Navy officers,United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients,Boxer Rebellion recipients of the Medal of Honor,People from Leonia, New Jersey,People from Brewster, New York,1876 births,Burials at Arlington National Cemetery,1945 deaths

paragraph: John McCloy (Medal of Honor)

paragraph: Lieutenant Commander John McCloy, USN (January 3, 1876 – May 24, 1945) was an officer in the United States Navy who was one of only 19 individuals to receive the Medal of Honor twice. He received his first Medal of Honor for action in the Boxer Rebellion in June 1900. His second Medal of Honor came in 1915 for action in Vera Cruz, Mexico in April 1914.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: John McCloy jointed the Merchant Marine when he was 15 and enlisted in the United States Navy on March 7, 1898. He served on the cruiser USS "Columbia" in the West Indies during the Spanish–American War.

paragraph: McCloy was then posted to the cruiser USS "Newark" (C-1) which served in the Philippines in 1900 and then participated in the China Relief Expedition during the Boxer Rebellion. He received his first Medal of Honor ""for distinguished conduct in the presence of the enemy in battles of the 13th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd of June 1900, while with the relief expedition of the Allied Forces in China.""

paragraph: He was warranted as a boatswain on July 30, 1903 and was promoted to chief boatswain on July 30, 1909. His second Medal of Honor was awarded to him ""for distinguished conduct in battle and extraordinary heroism; engagement of Vera Cruz, April 22, 1914."" Following the United States' entry into World War I, he was commissioned an ensign on July 1, 1917. He was promoted to temporary lieutenant on July 1, 1918.

paragraph: Immediately after World War I, McCloy served as the first commander of the minesweeper from January 1919 to November 1920. The most significant service of the "Curlew" during McCloy's command was clearing the mines of the North Sea mine barrage. For this work McCloy was decorated with the Navy Cross. He was permanently promoted to lieutenant on August 3, 1920.

paragraph: McCloy served as the National Commander of the Legion of Valor from 1922 to 1923. In November 1923 he was assigned to command the minesweeper USS "Lark" (AM-23), based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and he was later transferred to the destroyer tender USS "Dobbin" (AD-3). He retired from active duty as a lieutenant on October 15, 1928, and was promoted in retirement to lieutenant commander on February 23, 1942.

paragraph: McCloy was a companion of the Naval Order of the United States and was active in both the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. He was a founding member of American Legion Post No. 1 in Leonia, New Jersey, the first American Legion post in the state. He was also a member of the Military Order of the Dragon.

paragraph: McCloy died of an apparent heart attack on May 25, 1945, in his home in Leonia, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medal of Honor (2 awards)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Navy Cross

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sampson Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- Spanish Campaign Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philippine Campaign Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- China Relief Expedition Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mexican Service Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- World War I Victory Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- Conspicuous Service Cross (New York)

paragraph: Section::::Awards.:Medal of Honor citations.:1st Award, Boxer Rebellion.

paragraph: Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: January 3, 1876, Brewsters, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 55, July 19, 1901. Other Navy award: Second Medal of Honor.

paragraph: Citation:

paragraph: "In action with the relief expedition of the Allied forces in China, 13, 20, 21, and 22 June 1900. During this period and in the presence of the enemy, Coxswain McCloy distinguished himself by meritorious conduct."

paragraph: Section::::Awards.:Medal of Honor citations.:2nd Award, Vera Cruz, Mexico.

paragraph: Rank and organization: Chief Boatswain, U.S. Navy. Born: January 3, 1876, Brewster, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 177, December 4, 1915. Other Navy awards: Second Medal of Honor, Navy Cross.

paragraph: On 21 April 1914, at the United States occupation of Veracruz, under orders from Captain William R. Rush, three steam launches led by McCloy sailed from Pier 4 along the waterfront; passing the Fiscal Warf, they veered inshore, bearing towards the Naval Academy, fired a volley to the Academy from their small one-inch guns at their bows, and hastily returned, under heavy fire. Having thus revealed their positions, the Academy's guns were put out of commission by the shooting accuracy of the 3-inch guns from the "USS Prairie".

paragraph: Citation:

paragraph: "For heroism in leading 3 picket launches along Vera Cruz sea front, drawing Mexican fire and enabling cruisers to save our men on shore, April 22 (sic), 1914. Though wounded, he gallantly remained at his post."

paragraph: A more detailed account:

paragraph: On April 21, Chief Boatswain McCloy was in charge of three picket boats unloading men and supplies at a pier when his detachment came under fire from the nearby Mexican Naval Academy. To expose enemy positions, he took his boat [sic: three boats] away from the pier and directed fire at the building. His action drew retaliatory fire that allowed cruisers to locate and shell sniper positions, thus protecting the men on shore. McCloy was shot in the thigh but remained at his post for 48 hours (sic) until the brigade surgeon sent him to a hospital ship. His medal citation credited him with "distinguished conduct in battle and extraordinary heroism."

paragraph: Section::::Awards.:Navy Cross citation.

paragraph: "The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant John McCloy, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service while in command of the U.S.S. Curlew, engaged in the important and hazardous work of clearing the North Sea of mines."

paragraph: Section::::Namesake.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (later changed to "FF-1038"), a "Bronstein"-class destroyer escort, is named in his honor.

paragraph: Section::::Honors.

paragraph: The USPS issued a series of stamps, Distinguished Sailors, to their 2010 stamp collection with McCloy as one of the four famous American sailors of the 20th Century.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adventurers' Club of New York

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients (Veracruz)

wikidata_label: John McCloy

wikipedia_title: John McCloy (Medal of Honor)


text:
Sevilla
Berber
Western Arabic Numerals
calculation
geometry
irrational quadratic numbers
method of false position

categories: Medieval Moorish mathematicians,12th-century Berber people,Berber Moroccans,13th-century Moroccan people,Year of birth unknown,Medieval Moroccan mathematicians,Berber scientists,Moroccan writers,1204 deaths,Berber writers,12th-century Moroccan people,Mathematicians of medieval Islam,12th-century mathematicians,13th-century Berber people

image: 512px-ابن_الياسمين.png

paragraph: Ibn al-Yasamin

paragraph: Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Hajjaj ibn al-Yasmin al-Adrini al-Ishbili (died 1204) more commonly known as ibn al-Yasmin, was Berber mathematician. His place of birth is unknown, but he received his education in Sevilla, Spain. Little is known of his personal life, except that he was born into a Berber family. and according to Ibn Sa'id, he was black like his mother. Since some historians have given him the surname al-Ishbili, he may have been born or grown up in Seville. Beside mathematics, he also became famous in literature, law, and particularly in Andalusian poetry.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: His most important work is "Talqih al-afkar bi rushum huruf al-ghubar" (Fertilization of Thoughts with the Help of Dust Letters (Western Arabic Numerals)). It is a book of two hundred folios about (among other things) the science of calculation and geometry. He also wrote three poems (urzaja), one on algebra, one on irrational quadratic numbers and one on the method of false position.

description: Moroccan mathematician

wikidata_label: Ibn al-Yasamin

wikipedia_title: Ibn al-Yasamin


text:
shot put
2012
2016 Summer Olympics
2014 European Championships

categories: Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics,Olympic athletes of Spain,1984 births,World Championships in Athletics athletes for Spain,Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games,Spanish male shot putters,Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics,Sportspeople from Málaga,Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics,Living people,European Athletics Championships medalists,Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain

paragraph: Borja Vivas

paragraph: Borja Vivas Jiménez (born 26 May 1984) is a Spanish shot putter. He represented his country at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics as well as four outdoor and three indoor World Championships, in addition to multiple regional competitions. His biggest success is the silver medal at the 2014 European Championships.

description: Spanish shot putter

wikidata_label: Borja Vivas

wikipedia_title: Borja Vivas


text:
House of Commons
Welsh history
genealogy
Erddig
Wrexham
Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke
Matthew Hutton
Wanstead
Newcome's School
Hackney
Eton College
Benet College, Cambridge
Lincoln's Inn
called to the bar
Society of Antiquaries
Sir John Cust
1774 British general election
Francis Cockayne-Cust
Helston
1780
Piers Wynne
Llansannan
Reigate
1784
High Sheriff of Denbighshire
Grantham
Simon Yorke
Gentleman's Magazine
C. J. Apperley
Wynnstay Theatre
Walter Davies
Bleddyn ap Cynfyn
Polydore Vergil
Goronwy Owen
Lewis Morris

categories: People educated at Eton College,British MPs 1784–1790,British MPs 1790–1796,1743 births,Welsh antiquarians,People educated at Newcome's School,People from Wrexham County Borough,1804 deaths,British MPs 1774–1780,Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies,Members of Lincoln's Inn,British MPs 1780–1784,Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London

paragraph: Philip Yorke (antiquary)

paragraph: Philip Yorke (30 July 1743 – 19 February 1804) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1775 and 1792 and an antiquary who developed an interest in Welsh history and genealogy relatively late in life. He was the author of "The Royal Tribes of Wales" (1799).

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: The son of Simon Yorke (1696–1767) and Dorothy Hutton (1717–1787), he was born at Erddig, not far from Wrexham (Denbighshire, Wales). He was related to Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke, who was uncle to Simon's father Simon Yorke. His mother, Dorothy, was a daughter of Matthew Hutton of Newnham, Hertfordshire.

paragraph: After receiving his basic education in Wanstead and at Newcome's School in Hackney, he went to Eton College and subsequently in 1762 to Benet College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MA degree in 1765. He proceeded to Lincoln's Inn in 1762 and was 'called to the bar' in 1767. He took delight in classical literature, and became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1768.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and career.

paragraph: Yorke married his first wife, Elizabeth Cust, daughter of Sir John Cust on 2 July 1770 and had two daughters and five sons. At the 1774 British general election, Yorke and his brother-in-law Francis Cockayne-Cust stood as candidates at Helston and were returned on petition on 15 March 1775. Elizabeth died in February 1779. At the general election of 1780 he was again returned at Helston, after a petition, but vacated his seat at the end of the first session of Parliament in June 1781. In 1782, Philip married his second wife DIan Meyrick, widow of Ridgeway Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, Anglesey (died 1805), who was a daughter of Piers Wynne of Dyffryn Aled, Llansannan. They had two daughters and four sons.

paragraph: Hardwicke offered Yorke a Parliamentary seat at Reigate at the 1784, but he declined because he did not want to live regularly in London. He was a country gentleman, honest and independent, but less interested in politics than in agricultural and antiquarian pursuits. He was High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1786–1787. On 17 January 1792 he was returned as MP for Grantham by his brother-in-law, on the united Brownlow and Rutland interest, as a seat-warmer until his son Simon Yorke came of age. The Gentleman's Magazine (1804, p. 280) wrote, "His constitutional diffidence would not allow him to speak in the House of Commons."

paragraph: His second marriage gave him a growing interest in Welsh history and genealogy. He began to study closely the ancestors of his wife, a descendant of Marchudd ap Cynan, lord of Uwch Dulas and said that he had come to "think the race of Cadwallon more glorious than the breed of Gimcrack," as he wrote in his "Tracts of Powys", his first book on Welsh history and genealogy, which was published in 1795. He is remembered above all for a considerably longer work, "The Royal Tribes of Wales", published in 1799 (see below).

paragraph: After suffering with spasms on his chest, Yorke died on 19 February 1804, followed by his wife Diana in 1805. His public performances in high-level politics are said to have been rather restrained and according to C. J. Apperley, he was "one of the worst-dressed men in the country" and an incompetent horseman. He was nevertheless a noted conversationalist and storyteller and achieved a measure of fame for his performances as an amateur actor at the Wynnstay Theatre.

paragraph: Section::::Death and burial.

paragraph: A memorial inscription to him in the Church of St Deiniol and St Marcella in Marchwiel, Denbighshire, Wales, states:

paragraph: poem

paragraph: In memory

paragraph: of PHILIP YORKE of Erthig, Eſqre.

paragraph: whoſe integrity of heart,

paragraph: ſuavity of manners,

paragraph: and intellectual endowments,

paragraph: whilſt they endeared him to ſociety,

paragraph: were to his own breaſt a perpetual ſource

paragraph: of peace, complacency, and ſatisfaction.

paragraph: He died on 19 February 1804,

paragraph: in the 61st year of his age.

paragraph: Go gentle Spirit, and from Heav'n receive

paragraph: That high reward which Heav'n alone can give!

paragraph: With conſciousneſs of years well-Spent depart,

paragraph: Waiting His mercy ... can Search the heart.

paragraph: /poem

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: His first genealogical book, the "Tracts of Powys", was published in 1795, in a run of 70 copies. Dedicated to Thomas Pennant of Downing, it was based on a limited range of printed sources as well as on correspondence with scholars such as Walter Davies. The work details the history of the descendants of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, offers a stern riposte to Polydore Vergil's negative appraisal of the early Britons, and devotes some space to the crown lordships of Powys. The appendix includes letters by Goronwy Owen and Lewis Morris.

paragraph: The "Tracts of Powys" formed the basis for a considerably larger and better known work of his: "The Royal Tribes of Wales", published in 1799. It was written with some help from Walter Davies. It set out to follow the so-called 'Five Royal Tribes of Wales' and the noble pedigrees that sprang from them. Yorke was initially sympathetic to the origin myth of the Welsh people, including the traditions which traced its descent from Trojan forebears, but later rejected such theories.

paragraph: Yorke also worked on a history of "the Fifteen Common Tribes of Wales", but did not live to complete it.

description: Welsh historian of Erddig

wikidata_label: Philip Yorke

wikipedia_title: Philip Yorke (antiquary)


text: Royal Scottish Academy

text: National Portrait Gallery, London

text: Royal Academy

text: London

text: Rattray near Blairgowrie

text: Perthshire

text: University of St. Andrews

text: Edinburgh

text: Robert Scott Lauder

text: John Stuart Blackie

text: Celtic Revival

text: Edinburgh

text: Grange Cemetery

text: William Abbott Herdman

text: FRSE

text: Challenger Expedition

text: National Gallery of Scotland

text: Hampshire

text: Glasgow

text: James David Marwick

text: Glasgow

text: Sir William Collins

text: Lord Provost of Glasgow

text: Glasgow Cathedral

text: Lord Provost

text: Glasgow

text: Lord Provost

text: Glasgow

text: Mary, Queen of Scots

text: Dundee

text: Dundee

text: Lord Provost

text: Dundee

text: Dundee City Council

text: James Falshaw

text: Lord Provost

text: Edinburgh

text: Edinburgh City Chambers

text: Aberdeen

text: Aberdeen

text: Fife

text: Joseph Noel Paton

text: Fife

text: John Campbell Shairp

text: University of St. Andrews

text: John Tulloch

text: University of St. Andrews

text: Perth and Kinross Council

text: Theodore Martin

text: National Portrait Gallery, London

text: Melbourne, Australia

text: Greenock

text: Royal Scottish Academy

categories: Alumni of the University of St Andrews,1829 births,1888 deaths

paragraph: Robert Herdman

paragraph: Robert Inerarity Herdman RSA RSW (17 September 1829 – 10 January 1888) was a Victorian artist specialising in portraiture and historical compositions. He is also remembered for a series of pastoral scenes featuring young girls.

paragraph: He received commissions from most Scottish city councils, and is work is found in many galleries including the Royal Scottish Academy and National Portrait Gallery, London.

paragraph: He was elected an Associate of the RSA in 1861 and became a Fellow in 1863. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in London 1861–1887. He exhibited in Philadelphia in 1876 and Paris in 1878.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Herdman was born in Rattray near Blairgowrie in Perthshire. He is known to have originally studied divinity at the University of St. Andrews but abandoned this and came to Edinburgh in 1847 to train under Robert Scott Lauder as an artist. He was a friend of Professor John Stuart Blackie, who instilled in him a love of the Celtic Revival reflected in his later works.

paragraph: He lived mainly in Edinburgh. In the 1860s he lived at 32 Danube street. In the 1880s he is listed as living at 12 Bruntsfield Crescent

paragraph: He died in Edinburgh and is buried there in the Grange Cemetery on the outer side of the northern slope to the central vaults.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He was married to Emma Abbott. Their son William Abbott Herdman FRSE was an eminent oceanographer who served on the Challenger Expedition.

paragraph: His son Robert Duddingston Herdman (1863–1922) was also an artist.

paragraph: Section::::Public works.

paragraph: This list is derived from multiple sources,

paragraph: BULLET::::- "After the Battle", "A Riverbank at Corrie, Arran", and a portrait of Baroness Shand (1867), National Gallery of Scotland

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley (1794–1888), Hampshire County Council Arts and Museums collection

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”Sleep”, Leeds Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”Morning”, “Evening”, “Pleasures of Hope” and “Lochiel’s Warning”, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir James David Marwick (1826–1908), Town Clerk of Glasgow, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir William Collins (1817–1895), Lord Provost of Glasgow 1877-80, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rev George S. Burns, Minister of Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir James Watson (1801–1889), Lord Provost of Glasgow 1871-4, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Clouston, Lord Provost of Glasgow 1860-3, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots”, Glasgow City Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”A Sprig of Arran Heather”, Dundee Art Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”A Pilot” (river pilot), “Wae’s Me” and “Fern Gatherer”, Dundee City Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Rough, Lord Provost of Dundee, Dundee City Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir James Falshaw, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1874-7, Edinburgh City Chambers

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”The Time of Primroses”, “The Arrochar Gleaner” (1862) and “A Fountain Group, South Italy”, Aberdeen Art Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- Self-Portrait (1883), Aberdeen Art Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alexander Laing LLD, Newburgh, Fife Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Joseph Noel Paton, Fife Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Campbell Shairp, University of St. Andrews

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Tulloch (1823–1886), University of St. Andrews (two paintings)

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”Bonny Bell”, “St. Columba Rescuing a Captive” and “Nary Queen of Scots meeting John Knox at Holyrood Palace”, Perth and Kinross Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Theodore Martin, National Portrait Gallery, London (1876)

paragraph: BULLET::::- ”Gathering Ferns”, Melbourne, Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Who Still Dreams can Hear the Heavenly Harps", Greenock Art Gallery

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Culla" Royal Scottish Academy

paragraph: Section::::Other known portraits.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Rev William Scott-Moncrieff

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jane Amelia Wilson (later Mrs. Balfour-Melville)

description: Scottish artist

wikidata_label: Robert Herdman

wikipedia_title: Robert Herdman


text:
Knight
Sheriff
Anglesey
Constable
Carnarvon
Justice
Chester
Steward
Macclesfield
King of Mann
Sir John Stanley I
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Isle of Man
Henry IV
Macclesfield
Cheshire
Manx Notebook
A. W. Moore
Speaker of the House of Keys
Advowson
Winwick, Cheshire
Nostell Priory
Wakefield
Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley
Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby

categories: Stanley family,1437 deaths,1380s births,Monarchs of the Isle of Man

paragraph: John II Stanley of the Isle of Man

paragraph: Sir John Stanley II (c. 1386–1437) was Knight, Sheriff of Anglesey, Constable of Carnarvon, Justice of Chester, Steward of Macclesfield and titular King of Mann, the second of that name.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His father Sir John Stanley I, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, had been granted the tenure of the Isle of Man, to him and his heirs, by Henry IV, and the younger Sir John succeeded to the Kingdom in 1414.

paragraph: He also held the office of Steward of Macclesfield, Cheshire.

paragraph: He twice visited the Island to put down rebellions (1417 and 1422) and was also responsible for putting the laws of the Island into writing. A brief description is given in Manx Notebook (vol iii p1-4).

paragraph: A. W. Moore, a Manx antiquary and Speaker of the House of Keys, appraised him as follows:

paragraph: He purchased the Advowson of Rectory of Winwick, Cheshire from the Nostell Priory, Wakefield in 1433 - from this time onwards, this church, adjacent to his property, was to have close links with the Stanley family.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He married Elizabeth Harrington, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harrington.

paragraph: One of his sons was Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, and a grandson was Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.

description: Sheriff of Anglesey

wikidata_label: John II Stanley of the Isle of Man

wikipedia_title: Sir John Stanley (died 1437)

wikipedia_title: John II Stanley of the Isle of Man


text:
mountaineer
optician
all Alpine peaks of over 4000 meters
Vienna
Graz
Triglav
Monte Rosa
Dufourspitze
Zumsteinspitze
Weisshorn
Brouillard Ridge
Mont Blanc
Rochefort Ridge
Ludwig Purtscheller
Edward Theodore Compton
Pen-y-Pass
Wales
George Mallory
Aiguille du Jardin
Grande Rocheuse

categories: 1956 deaths,Austrian mountain climbers,People from Vienna,People from Graz,1859 births

paragraph: Karl Blodig

paragraph: Karl Blodig (16 October 1859 – 7 September 1956) was an Austrian mountaineer, optician, and writer. Blodig was the first to successfully climb all Alpine peaks of over 4000 meters, completing his final summit around 1911. He wrote about these climbs in his book "Die Viertausender der Alpen" ("The Four-Thousanders of the Alps"), first published in 1923.

paragraph: Section::::Mountaineering Life.

paragraph: Born in Vienna, Blodig spent his early years in Graz, climbing the Triglav whilst still in his teens. At the age of twenty he climbed the Monte Rosa, guided by Christian Ranggetiner, and by twenty three had made non-guided ascents of the Dufourspitze, Zumsteinspitze and Weisshorn. Between 1890 and 1911 he succeeded in climbing the remaining peaks to achieve all those summits that were at that time listed as being over 4000 metres in height. These achievements included first ascents of the Brouillard Ridge on Mont Blanc as well as the first traverse of the Rochefort Ridge. Amongst his alpine climbing partners were Ludwig Purtscheller and alpine artist, Edward Theodore Compton.

paragraph: Around 1911 Blodig was part of a regular mountaineering meeting at Pen-y-Pass in Wales amongst whom was George Mallory. Blodig observed Mallory expertly tackling a crux pitch of a very difficult ice chimney. Even though all the climbing friends present were impressed by Mallory's skill as a climber, Blodig later observed rather prophetically about Mallory that: "that young man will not be alive for long!".

paragraph: In 1932, and at the age of 73, Blodig undertook solo ascents of the Aiguille du Jardin and the Grande Rocheuse in order to achieve summits which had subsequently been added to the recognised list of 4000 m peaks since his 1911 achievement.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Viertausender der Alpen". Munich: Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, 1923.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bilder aus Vorarlberg und Liechtenstein", no year.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Durch's Montafon. Mit Karte aus Gerster’s Handkarte von Vorarlberg 1:175.000". Bregenz: J. N. Teutsch, no year.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vorarlberg das österreichische Rheinland. Ein Führer durch die Sommerfrischen Wintersportplätze, Berge und Täler des Landes". Bregenz, 1928.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Viertausender der Alpen", 2nd ed., Munich: Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, no year, (with Helmut Dumler).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die Viertausender der Alpen", 5th ed., Munich: Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, 1968 (with Helmut Dumler).

description: Austrian mountain climber

wikidata_label: Karl Blodig

wikipedia_title: Karl Blodig


text: Bolton

text: Lancashire

text: Malham Cove

text: Llanberis

text: North Wales

text: North Stack

text: South Stack

text: Holyhead

text: Meru Peak

text: Indian Himalayan Region

text: Totem Pole

text: sea stack

text: Tasmania

text: hemiplegia

text: Kilimanjaro

text: Tibet

text: Mount Everest

text: Banff Mountain Book Festival

text: Paul Pritchard's Website

categories: English mountain climbers,Boardman Tasker Prize winners,1967 births,People from Bolton,Living people

paragraph: Paul Pritchard

paragraph: Paul Pritchard (born 1967 in Bolton, Lancashire) was one of the leading British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s. He started climbing at 16 in his native Lancashire, and within a year had started to repeat some of the hardest routes in the county, as well as beginning his own additions.

paragraph: Pritchard made many ascents of outstanding problems in the Wilton Quarries, Anglezarke and Hoghton as well as playing a pivotal role in the early development of both Craig y Longridge and Thorn Crag and engaging in extensive exploration of Malham Cove.

paragraph: In 1986 he moved to Llanberis in North Wales, climbing extensively on the slate of the Llanberis quarries and on the sea cliffs at Gogarth, situated between North Stack and South Stack, near Holyhead. He gained a reputation for climbing hard and very poorly protected routes such as Super Calabrese (E8 6b) at Gogarth, still considered one of the most serious routes in the UK. In 1990, he began mountaineering, and subsequently climbed many difficult mountain routes around the world. This also included multiple attempts on the then unclimbed Shark's Fin on Meru Peak, in the Indian Himalayan Region. He won the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for his book "Deep Play".

paragraph: On Friday 13 February 1998, Pritchard's life changed drastically when he was struck in the head by a falling small boulder while attempting a solo ascent of the Totem Pole, a slender sea stack off the coast of Tasmania. He was rendered semiconscious, bleeding, and nearly helpless. Over the next hours a heroic rescue was effected by his female climbing assistant. He was left suffering from hemiplegia, a condition that robbed him of feeling and movement in his right side and which caused his speech and memory to suffer.

paragraph: Pritchard has continued to lead a challenging life even after the catastrophic injury. He has climbed Kilimanjaro, ridden a recumbent trike through Tibet to Mount Everest and took the lead rock climbing again. In 2016 Paul finally climbed the Totem Pole, 18 years after his accident

paragraph: In 2017 Pritchard, and 4 other people with disabilities, accomplished the first journey under human power between Australia’s extremities of altitude. On the Lowest To Highest Expedition the team members cycled from Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre (-15m) to Kosciuszko -Targangil (2228m), a distance of 2152km.

paragraph: Pritchard has written three books:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Deep Play" (1997) is about his early climbing experiences

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Totem Pole" (1999) about his accident and his recovery from it

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Longest Climb" (2005) continues his story of recovery

paragraph: He won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for each of the first two of these. "Totem Pole" was also awarded the 1999 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul Pritchard's Website

description: British mountain climber

wikidata_label: Paul Pritchard

wikipedia_title: Paul Pritchard


text:
Amur river
Russian-Manchu border conflicts
Khabarovsk
Yerofey Pavlovich
Trans-Siberian railroad
Amur Oblast
Veliky Ustyug
Stroganovs
Solvychegodsk
Tobolsk
Mangazeya
Kheta River
Taimyr
Lena River
farming
settlement
saltworks
Kuta
Kirenga
Vassili Poyarkov
Aldan River
Vitim River
Olyokma River
Shilka River
Dauria
Voivode
Alexis
Daur
Emperor of China
Albazin
Khabarovsk
Ninguta
Onufriy Stepanov
Ilimsk
Albazinians
Oros Niru

categories: Russian explorers,Explorers of Asia,1603 births,Russian city founders,17th-century deaths

paragraph: Yerofey Khabarov

paragraph: Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov or Svyatitsky (, ; the first name is often spelled Ярофей (Yarofey) in contemporary accounts; 1603 – after 1671), was a Russian entrepreneur and adventurer, best known for his exploring the Amur river region and his attempts to colonize the area for Russia. For background see Russian-Manchu border conflicts.

paragraph: The major Russian city of Khabarovsk, as well as the small town and railway station Yerofey Pavlovich (located on the Trans-Siberian railroad in Amur Oblast) bear his name.

paragraph: A native of the Veliky Ustyug area in the northern European Russia, Khabarov was a manager for the Stroganovs at the saltworks in Solvychegodsk. In 1625, Khabarov sailed from Tobolsk to Mangazeya. Three years later, he left the town with his expedition and reached the Kheta River (eastern part of Taimyr). In 1630, Khabarov took part in a voyage from Mangazeya to Tobolsk. In 1632—1641, he reached the Lena River and founded a farming settlement with saltworks along the Lena at the mouths of the Kuta and Kirenga Rivers. Now his descendants live in Stavropol.

paragraph: Section::::First Expedition 1649–50.

paragraph: In 1649 he became the second Russian to explore the Amur after Vassili Poyarkov (1643–1646). Poyarkov's route up the Aldan River was too difficult to be practical. At some point Khabarov attempted to reach the Amur via the Vitim River. In 1647 a hunter returned to Yakutsk from the Olyokma River and reported that this might lead to the Amur. In the spring of 1649 Khabarov set off at his own expense up the Olyokma River, then its branch, the Tungur and portaged to the Shilka River. Reaching the upper Amur (Dauria) in early 1650, he found the country nearly deserted, the cossacks' reputation having preceded them. Having pioneered a good route, he returned to Yakutsk in May, 1650 and gave his report. He praised the land, warned of the danger of Chinese intervention and suggested a larger expedition with professional soldiers.

paragraph: Section::::Second Expedition 1650–53.

paragraph: Given the time delays in communicating with Moscow, the Yakutsk Voivode Frantsbekov decided to act on his own and sent Khabarov back south with a larger force. The voivode also gave Khabarov letters from His Majesty Czar Alexis to the Daurian Prince Lavkai of Albazin and "Prince Bogdoi" () asking those potentates to submit to the Russian Czar, and threatening to send a 6,000-strong army if they don't obey.

paragraph: Frantsbekov assumed that this Prince Bogdoy was another Siberian chieftain. He was, in fact, the Emperor of China.

paragraph: Khabarov crossed the mountains in the fall of 1650 and this time was met with armed resistance. He built winter quarters at Albazin at the northernmost point of the Amur. After receiving reinforcements in June 1651 he set off down the Amur. By September they reached the mouth of the Sungari. By 29 September they reached Achansk near present-day Khabarovsk and decided to winter there. On 8 October they were attacked by about 1,000 local people, who, being defeated, appealed to their Manchu overlords. On March 24, 1652, a force of 2,000 Manchus and Koreans armed with artillery arrived from Ninguta and attacked Achansk. Khabarov somehow managed to defeat them. (The Manchu general, Haise, was later executed for his incompetence) Not knowing how many more Chinese were in the area, on 22 April he withdrew up the Amur. At one point he encountered another force of 6,000 Chinese, but was able to slip around them under cover of fog and darkness. Further upstream he met a force of 117 cossacks who had been sent as reinforcements. He learned from a captive that a new Manchu army was being gathered on the Sungari. On August 1 he reached the mouth of the Zeya. Here 136 of his men mutinied leaving only 212 loyal. (Since Khabarov mentions the mutiny immediately after mentioning the question of where to build winter quarters, it may have been connected with the question of whether it was wise to remain on the Zeya and await a possible Manchu attack.) From the Zeya he sent a report to the Yakutsk Voevode matter-of-factly describing the burning of villages, slaughter of natives and the torture of prisoners.

paragraph: From this point the English sources become unclear. They apparently wintered at the Zeya. In the fall of 1653, 150 reinforcements under Dimitry Zinoviev appeared. As a nobleman, Zinoviev demanded full command. When Khabarov refused, he was arrested. Unable to gain the support of Khabarov's men and having no adequate way to deal with the Manchus, Zinoviev and part of the force withdrew from the Amur. Onufriy Stepanov was left in charge of those who remained.

paragraph: Khabarov was deprived of his rank and property and was sent on a fifteen-month journey to Moscow to be tried. After a year's delay he was acquitted. He was given a minor noble rank ("Syn boyarsky" of Ilimsk) on the condition that he return to Siberia. He reappears again in the records in 1658 when the Siberian Office ordered that he be placed in irons if he refused to guide a new expedition to the Amur. After that he disappears from the records.

paragraph: Khabarov charted the Amur river in his ""Draft of the Amur river"" ().

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Albazinians

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oros Niru

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- W Bruce Lincoln, "The Conquest of a Continent", 1994

description: Russian explorer

wikidata_label: Yerofey Khabarov

wikipedia_title: Yerofey Khabarov


text:
KG
Lathom
Ormskirk
Lancashire
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
King of Mann
Earl of Derby
Lathom
Timperley
Forest of Wirral
Lathom
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland
Philip de Courtenay
James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond
Richard II
Alexander de Balscot
Robert Crull
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Roxburgh Castle
Henry IV
House of Lancaster
Steward of the Household
Henry, Prince of Wales
Battle of Shrewsbury
tenure
Isle of Man
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
Knight of the Garter
Ardee
County Louth
Burscough Priory
Ormskirk
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Chester
Macclesfield
Order of the Garter
King Henry IV of England
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Gawain Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Audley-Stanley family
Lathom

categories: Medieval English knights,Knights of the Garter,Monarchs of the Isle of Man,14th-century English monarchs,15th-century English monarchs,1350 births,1414 deaths,Lords Lieutenant of Ireland

paragraph: John I Stanley of the Isle of Man

paragraph: Sir John Stanley I, KG (–1414) of Lathom, near Ormskirk in Lancashire, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and titular King of Mann, the first of that name. The Stanley family later gained the title Earl of Derby and remained prominent in English history into modern times. He married a wealthy heiress Isabel Lathom which, combined with his own great abilities, allowed him to rise above the usual status of a younger son.

paragraph: Section::::Origins.

paragraph: He was the second son of Sir William de Stanley of Stourton (son of John de Stanley and Emma Lathom of Lathom, Lancashire.) by his wife Alice Massey of Timperley, Cheshire. Sir William de Stanley was Master-Forester of the Forest of Wirral and was notorious for his repressive activities.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage & progeny.

paragraph: In 1385 he married Isabel Lathom, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Lathom of Lathom in Lancashire, a great landowner in south-west Lancashire and a great-great-great-grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. The marriage took place despite the opposition of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and gave Stanley great wealth he could never have hoped for as the younger son. By his wife he had four sons and two daughters, including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- John II Stanley of the Isle of Man, eldest son and heir;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Stanley;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas Stanley;

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ralph Stanley

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Declared an outlaw.

paragraph: Both John Stanley and his elder brother, William Stanley (who succeeded their father as Master-Forester), were involved in criminal cases which charged them with a forced entry in 1369 and with the murder of Thomas Clotton in 1376. Conviction for the murder of Clotton resulted in Stanley being declared an outlaw. However, he was already distinguishing himself in military service in the French wars, and he was pardoned in 1378 at the insistence of his commander, Sir Thomas Trivet.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Justiciar of Ireland.

paragraph: The year 1386 saw his first appointment in Ireland as deputy to Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland. This occurred because of the insurrection created by the friction between Sir Philip de Courtenay, the English Lieutenant of Ireland, and his appointed governor James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond. Stanley led an expedition to Ireland on behalf of de Vere and King Richard II to quell it. He was accompanied by Bishop Alexander de Balscot of Meath and Sir Robert Crull. Butler joined them upon their arrival in Ireland. Because of the success of the expedition, Stanley was appointed to the position of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Alexander to Chancellor, Crull to Treasurer, and Butler to his old position as Governor. In 1389 Richard II appointed him Justiciar of Ireland, a post he held until 1391. He was heavily involved in Richard's first expedition to Ireland in 1394–1395.

paragraph: Throughout the 1390s he was involved in placating possible rebellion in Cheshire. Between 1396 and 1398 he served as Captain of Roxburgh Castle. He took part in Richard II's expedition to Ireland in 1399. However, on his return to England, Stanley, who had long proved adept at political manoeuvring, turned his back on Richard and submitted to King Henry IV, the first of the House of Lancaster.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Under the Lancastrians.

paragraph: Stanley's fortunes were equally good under the Lancastrians. He was granted lordships in the Welsh Marches, and served a term as Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1403 he was made Steward of the Household of Henry, Prince of Wales, (later Henry V). Unlike many of the Cheshire gentry, he took the side of the king in the rebellion of the Percys. He was wounded in the throat at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

paragraph: In 1405 he was granted the tenure of the Isle of Man, which had been confiscated from the rebellious Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland. In this period he also became Steward of the Household]] to King Henry IV, and was appointed by him a Knight of the Garter. In 1413 King Henry V of England sent him to serve once more as Lieutenant of Ireland.

paragraph: Section::::Death & burial.

paragraph: In 1414 he died at Ardee, County Louth, Ireland, after being satirised by the O'Higgins' of Meath for despoiling the lands and raiding the cows of Niall O'Higgins. He lasted but five weeks, according to the Four Masters, before succumbing "to the virulence of the lampoons". His body was returned to his home at Lathom and was buried at Burscough Priory near Ormskirk, about 3 miles south-west of Lathom. This was deemed in some quarters the second such "Poet's Miracle" performed by the O'Higgins.

paragraph: Section::::Offices.

paragraph: During his career Stanley held the following offices:-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1386 and 1388.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Justiciary Ireland between 1389 and 1391.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Justice of Chester in 1394

paragraph: BULLET::::- Controller of the Royal Household in 1399

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lieutenant of Ireland between 1399 and 1401

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steward of the Household to the Prince of Wales circa 1403, later King Henry V

paragraph: BULLET::::- Surveyor of the Forests of Macclesfield, Mare and Mondrem, Cheshire in 1403

paragraph: BULLET::::- Governor of the City and County of Cheshire in 1403

paragraph: BULLET::::- He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.) circa 1405

paragraph: BULLET::::- Steward of Macclesfield in 1406

paragraph: He was granted the Isle, Castle, Peel and Lordship of Mann, by King Henry IV of England

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man in 1406

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constable of Windsor Castle in 1409

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (second term) from 1413 until his death in 1414.

paragraph: Section::::Poet.

paragraph: It has been suggested that Stanley was the as-yet unidentified "Gawain Poet". The Garter motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" appears at the end of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the poet exhibits a detailed knowledge of both hunting and armour. Scholars identify the poet's dialect as that of north-west Staffordshire or south-east Cheshire.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Audley-Stanley family for Ancestors and descendants of John I Stanley

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lathom Wikipedia article containing Stanley & Lathom history

wikidata_label: John I Stanley of the Isle of Man

wikipedia_title: Sir John Stanley (died 1414)

wikipedia_title: John I Stanley of the Isle of Man


text: Ukrainian

text: Soviet

text: mineralogist

text: geochemist

text: geochemistry

text: biogeochemistry

text: radiogeology

text: Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

text: Eduard Suess

text: biosphere

text: Stalin Prize

text: Saint Petersburg

text: Russian Empire

text: Kiev

text: Ivan Vernadsky

text: Hanna Konstantynovych

text: Zaporozhian Cossacks

text: political economy

text: Kiev

text: Saint Petersburg State University

text: mineralogist

text: Saint Petersburg State University

text: Vasily Dokuchaev

text: Alexey Pavlov

text: Switzerland

text: Naples

text: crystallographer

text: senile

text: Paul Groth

text: optical

text: thermal

text: elastic

text: magnetic

text: electrical

text: crystal

text: Leonhard Sohncke

text: crystallisation

text: zemstvo

text: 1905 revolution

text: Constitutional Democratic Party

text: Tsar

text: February revolution

text: noosphere

text: biosphere

text: Austria

text: geologist

text: Eduard Suess

text: noosphere

text: geosphere

text: biosphere

text: emergence

text: cognition

text: evolution

text: Charles Darwin

text: natural selection

text: Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

text: Kiev

text: National Library of Ukrainian State

text: Tavrida University

text: Crimea

text: Russian Civil War

text: Eurasianism

text: Soviet atomic bomb project

text: nuclear power

text: uranium

text: nuclear fission

text: Hinduism

text: Rig Veda

text: George Vernadsky

text: National Library of Ukraine

text: Tavrida National University

text: Crimea

text: George Vernadsky

text: Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine

text: Antarctic station

text: Akademik Vernadsky

text: Simferopol

text: Russian Academy of Sciences

text: Vernadsky State Geological Museum

text: Moscow

text: Antarctica

text: Gamburtsev Mountain Range

text: Kiev

text: Kiev

text: Vernadskiy (crater)

text: National Bank of Ukraine

text: hryvnia

text: Naukova dumka

text: Nauka

text: Gaia theory (science)

text: Noosphere

text: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

text: Russian philosophy

text: The grave of Vernadsky

text: Vernadsky's biography

categories: People from Saint Petersburg,Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–25),Russian expatriates in Ukraine,Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences,1945 deaths,Full Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences,Cosmists,Ukrainian geochemists,Russian geochemists,Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,Russian people of Ukrainian descent,Soviet geochemists,Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery,Russian biologists,Ukrainian philosophers,Russian mineralogists,Russian atheists,Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members,Members of the State Council of the Russian Empire,People from Saint Petersburg Governorate,Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class,Stalin Prize winners,Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class,1863 births

paragraph: Vladimir Vernadsky

paragraph: Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (; ;  – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology, and was a founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). He is most noted for his 1926 book "The Biosphere" in which he inadvertently worked to popularize Eduard Suess' 1885 term biosphere, by hypothesizing that life is the geological force that shapes the earth. In 1943 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Vernadsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, on in family of the native Kiev residents Russian-Ukrainian economist Ivan Vernadsky and music instructor Hanna Konstantynovych. According to family legend, his father was a descendent of Zaporozhian Cossacks. He had been a professor of political economy in Kiev before moving to Saint Petersburg. His mother was a Russian noblewoman of Ukrainian Cossack descent.

paragraph: Vernadsky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1885. As the position of mineralogist in Saint Petersburg State University was vacant, and Vasily Dokuchaev, a soil scientist, and Alexey Pavlov, a geologist, had been teaching Mineralogy for a while, Vernadsky chose to enter Mineralogy. He wrote to his wife Natasha on 20 June 1888 from Switzerland:

paragraph: While trying to find a topic for his doctorate, he first went to Naples to study under crystallographer Arcangelo Scacchi, who was senile by that time. Scacchi's condition led Vernadsky to go to Germany to study under Paul Groth. Vernadsky learned to use Groth's modern equipment, which included a machine to study the optical, thermal, elastic, magnetic and electrical properties of crystals. He also gained access to the physics lab of Leonhard Sohncke (Direktor, Physikalisches Institut der Universität Jena, 1883–1886; Professor der Physik an der Technischen Hochschule München 1886 -1897), who was studying crystallisation during that period.

paragraph: Vernadsky participated in the First General Congress of the zemstvos, held in Petersburg on the eve of the 1905 revolution to discuss how best to pressure the government to the needs of the Russian society; became a member of the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (KD); and served in parliament, resigning to protest the Tsar's proroguing of the Duma. He served as professor and later as vice rector of Moscow University, from which he also resigned in 1911 in protest over the government's reactionary policies. After the February revolution of 1917, he served on several commissions of agriculture and education of the provisional government, including as assistant minister of education.

paragraph: Vernadsky first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the idea of the biosphere to the meaning largely recognized by today's scientific community. The word 'biosphere' was invented by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess, whom Vernadsky met in 1911.

paragraph: In Vernadsky's theory of the Earth's development, the noosphere is the third stage in the earth's development, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition will fundamentally transform the biosphere. In this theory, the principles of both life and cognition are essential features of the Earth's evolution, and must have been implicit in the earth all along. This systemic and geological analysis of living systems complements Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, which looks at each individual species, rather than at its relationship to a subsuming principle.

paragraph: Vernadsky's visionary pronouncements were not widely accepted in the West. However, he was one of the first scientists to recognize that the oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere result from biological processes. During the 1920s he published works arguing that living organisms could reshape the planets as surely as any physical force. Vernadsky was an important pioneer of the scientific bases for the environmental sciences.

paragraph: Vernadsky was a member of the Russian and Soviet Academies of Sciences since 1912 and was a founder and first president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, Ukraine (1918). He was a founder of the National Library of Ukrainian State and worked closely with the Tavrida University in Crimea. During the Russian Civil War, he hosted gatherings of the young intellectuals who later founded the émigré Eurasianism movement.

paragraph: In the late 1930s and early 1940s Vernadsky played an early advisory role in the Soviet atomic bomb project, as one of the most forceful voices arguing for the exploitation of nuclear power, the surveying of Soviet uranium sources, and having nuclear fission research conducted at his Radium Institute. He died, however, before a full project was pursued.

paragraph: On religious views, Vernadsky was an atheist. He was interested in Hinduism and Rig Veda

paragraph: Vernadsky's son George Vernadsky (1887–1973) emigrated to the United States where he published numerous books on medieval and modern Russian history.

paragraph: The National Library of Ukraine, the Tavrida National University in Crimea and many streets and avenues in Ukraine and Russia are named in honor of Vladimir Vernadsky.

paragraph: UNESCO sponsored an international scientific conference, "Globalistics-2013", at Moscow State University on 23–25 October 2013, in honor of Vernadsky's 150th birthday.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Father – Ivan Vernadsky, Russian-Ukrainian economist

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mother – Hanna Konstantynovna, music instructor

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wife – Nataliya Yehorivna Starytska (married in 1887)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Son – George Vernadsky, American historian

paragraph: BULLET::::- Daughter – Nina Toll, Doctor-psychiatrist

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the main academic library in Ukraine

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ukrainian Antarctic station Akademik Vernadsky

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University, university in Simferopol

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vernadsky Institute of geochemistry and analytical chemistry, a research institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vernadsky State Geological Museum is the oldest museum in Moscow

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vernadsky Mountain Range is a mountains in Antarctica and is an extension of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bulvar Akademika Vernadskoho (Academician Vernadsky Boulevard) is a street in Kiev

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vulytsia Petra Zaporozhtsia (in 1961–1963 vulytsia Akademika Vernadsky) is a street in Kiev

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vernadskiy (crater), a lunar crater

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2809 Vernadskij, an asteroid

paragraph: On June 25, 2019, the National Bank of Ukraine announced a 1000 hryvnia banknote with V. Vernadskiy’s portrait.

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Geochemistry", published in Russian 1924

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Biosphere", first published in Russian in 1926. English translations:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oracle, AZ, Synergetic Press, 1986, , 86 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- tr. David B. Langmuir, ed. Mark A. S. McMenamin, New York, Copernicus, 1997, , 192 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Essays on Geochemistry & the Biosphere", tr. Olga Barash, Santa Fe, NM, Synergetic Press, , 2006

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.:Diaries.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dnevniki 1917–1921: oktyabr 1917-yanvar 1920" ("Diaries 1917–1921"), Kiev, Naukova dumka, 1994, , 269 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dnevniki. Mart 1921-avgust 1925" ("Diaries 1921–1925"), Moscow, Nauka, 1998, , 213 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dnevniki 1926–1934" ("Diaries 1926–1934"), Moscow, Nauka, 2001, , 455 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh. Kniga 1, 1935–1938" ("Diaries 1935–1941 in two volumes. Volume 1, 1935–1938"), Moscow, Nauka, 2006,444 pp.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dnevniki 1935–1941 v dvukh knigakh. Kniga 2, 1939–1941" ("Diaries 1935–1941. Volume 2, 1939–1941"), Moscow, Nauka, 2006, , 295 pp.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gaia theory (science)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Noosphere

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

paragraph: BULLET::::- Russian philosophy

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Science and Russian Cultures in an Age of Revolutions"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The grave of Vernadsky

paragraph: BULLET::::- Behrends, Thilo, "The Renaissance of V.I. Vernadsky", Newsletter of the Geochemical Society, #125, October 2005, http://www.geochemsoc.org/files/4813/4436/8118/gn125.pdf retrieved 27 April 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vernadsky's biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Electronic archive of writings from and about Vernadsky (Russian) http://vernadsky.lib.ru/

alias:
V. I. Vernadsky
Vernadsky V I
Vladimir Vernadsky

description: Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology

wikidata_label: Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

wikipedia_title: Vladimir Vernadsky


text:
Argentine
Cordoba
Argentina
Celia Bronstein
Buenos Aires
Nadia Boulanger
Paris
Edgardo Canton
Earle Brown
György Ligeti
Germany
ORTF
Groupe de Recherches Musicales
Pierre Schaeffer
Henri Chiarucci
Guy Reibel
Bernard Baschet
Dartmouth College
Website of Beatriz Ferreyra
Beatriz Ferreyra
SoundCloud

categories: 20th-century classical composers,1937 births,Women music educators,Women in electronic music,Music educators,20th-century women musicians,Argentine classical composers,Living people,Female classical composers

paragraph: Beatriz Ferreyra

paragraph: Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer.

paragraph: Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and György Ligeti in Germany.

paragraph: In 1963 she took a position in the research department of the Office de Radiodiffusion Television Francaise (ORTF), working with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She assisted with Henri Chiarucci's and Guy Reibel's "Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d'un son musical", published in 1966 in "Revue Internationale d'Audiologie" and Pierre Schaeffer's "Solfège de l'Objet Sonore". During this time she also lectured at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. She worked with Bernard Baschet and his Structures Sonores in 1970, and served residencies in electronic music with Dartmouth College in 1976 and in 1998.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Ferreyra has composed for music therapy, events, ballets and film soundtracks. Selected works include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mer d’Azov, étude aux itérations" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Médisances" (1968)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L’orviétan" (1970)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Siesta Blanca" (1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Canto del Loco" (1974)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Petit Poucet magazine" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The UFO Forest" (1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Souffle d’un petit Dieu distrait" (1987)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ríos del sueno" (1998–2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Vivencias" (2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cantos de antes" (2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La rivière des oiseaux" (2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dans un point infini" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L’art de l’étude" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La condition captive" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sourire de l’ange" (2006) with Christine Groult

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Marche, quitte et va" (2008) with Christine Groult

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Impasse" (2008) with Inés Wickmann

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les larmes de l’inconnu" (2011)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Petit Poucet Magazine" (CD) Le Chant Du Monde 1998

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Rivière des oiseaux"(CD) Motus 2003

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Website of Beatriz Ferreyra (French)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beatriz Ferreyra on SoundCloud (excerpts of her works)

description: composer

wikidata_label: Beatriz Ferreyra

wikipedia_title: Beatriz Ferreyra


text: Russian

text: ice hockey

text: HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk

text: Kontinental Hockey League

text: Tampa Bay Lightning

text: 2002 NHL Entry Draft

text: Denis

text: Metallurg Magnitogorsk

text: Kontinental Hockey League

text: Ak Bars Kazan

text: 2008–09 KHL season

categories: HC Sochi players,Severstal Cherepovets players,Tampa Bay Lightning draft picks,Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod players,Ak Bars Kazan players,1984 births,HC Lada Togliatti players,HC Dynamo Moscow players,Metallurg Magnitogorsk players,Russian ice hockey players,Living people

paragraph: Dmitri Kazionov

paragraph: Dmitri Aleksandrovich Kazionov (; born May 13, 1984) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward. He currently playing on a tryout for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Kazionov was selected by Tampa Bay Lightning in the 4th round (100th overall) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. He formerly played alongside younger brother and fellow former Tampa Bay draft pick Denis in Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

paragraph: Kazionov made his Kontinental Hockey League debut playing with Ak Bars Kazan during the inaugural 2008–09 KHL season.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dmitri Kazionov Profile at Russian Prospects

description: Russian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Dmitri Kazionov

wikipedia_title: Dmitri Kazionov


text: Mondejar

text: Guadalajara

text: Spain

text: Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones

text: Guadalajara

text: Granada

text: Spain

text: House of Mendoza

text: Charles of Habsburg

text: Revolt of the Comuneros

text: María Pacheco

text: Juan López de Padilla

text: Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera

text: Tendilla

text: Viceroy of Navarre

text: Council of Indies

text: Council of Castile

text: La Herradura naval disaster (1562)

text: Iñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza

categories: 1566 deaths,1489 births,Marquesses of Spain

paragraph: Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco, 2nd Marquis of Mondejar

paragraph: Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco, second Marquis of Mondejar (born 1489 in Mondejar, Guadalajara, Spain; died 19 December 1566) was a Spanish nobleman.

paragraph: He was the son of Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, second Count of Tendilla (born Guadalajara 1440; died Granada, Spain, 15 July 1515).br

paragraph: He was the first member of the House of Mendoza that supported Charles of Habsburg during the Revolt of the Comuneros, despite the fact that his own sister María Pacheco and her husband Juan López de Padilla were amongst the leaders of the revolt.

paragraph: In 1525, he led a failed attempt to reconquer Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

paragraph: He remained loyal to King Charles for his entire life and received many important titles and functions.br

paragraph: He became the third Count of Tendilla; Viceroy of Navarre in 1543–1546; President of the Council of Indies in 1546–1559; and President of the Council of Castile in 1561–1563.

paragraph: He married with Catalina Mendoza y Zúñiga and had

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Mendoza, predeceased his father when he drowned in the La Herradura naval disaster (1562)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francisca Mendoza y Mendoza, married Baltasar Ladron De La Maza

paragraph: BULLET::::- Iñigo López de Mendoza y Mendoza (1511–1580), 3rd Marquis of Mondejar, married Maria Mendoza Y Aragón, daughter of Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España" (1842), vol. XXXV, (1859), pags. 388–401. https://archive.org/details/coleccindedocu35madruoft

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/ciencias/depaz/mendoza/monde2.htm

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://books.google.com/books?id=MBTH_kLwnYAC&pg=PA52

description: Spanish noble

wikidata_label: Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco


text: Brigadier General

text: United States Marine Corps

text: World War II

text: Vietnam War

text: Carmi

text: Illinois

text: Carmi Township High School

text: University of Illinois

text: Sigma Alpha Epsilon

text: United States Naval Academy

text: United States Marine Corps

text: second lieutenant

text: Philadelphia Navy Yard

text: Basic Training

text: San Diego

text: 10th Marine Regiment

text: Iceland

text: World War II

text: attack on Pearl Harbor

text: 12th Marines

text: 3rd Marine Division

text: 1st Battalion, 14th Marines

text: 14th Marines

text: Legion of Merit

text: Bronze Star

text: Roi-Namur

text: Saipan

text: Tinian

text: Iwo Jima

text: Lieutenant Colonel

text: Washington, D.C.

text: Quantico

text: 10th Marines

text: 2nd Marine Division

text: Camp Lejeune

text: North Carolina

text: Tokyo

text: Army War College

text: Headquarters Marine Corps

text: George Washington University

text: brigadier general

text: Okinawa

text: South Vietnam

text: 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade

text: Nam O Beach

text: Lyndon Johnson

text: Legion of Merit

text: Da Nang

text: weather

text: U.S. Marine Corps biography

categories: Recipients of the Legion of Merit,American Marine Corps personnel of the Vietnam War,1917 births,2009 deaths,People from Carmi, Illinois,American Marine Corps personnel of World War II,United States Marine Corps generals

paragraph: Frederick J. Karch

paragraph: Brigadier General Frederick Joseph Karch (August 9, 1917 – May 23, 2009) was United States Marine Corps officer who served during World War II and the Vietnam War, particularly notable in the latter for leading the Marine Corps onto Nam O Beach at the beginning of large-scale US involvement in Vietnam.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life.

paragraph: Karch was born in Carmi in the state of Illinois, son of Carmi Township High School principal Henry J. Karch and his wife Flora Clark Karch. In 1935 he graduated from Carmi Township High School and went on to study at the University of Illinois.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Enlistment and World War II.

paragraph: After one year at the University of Illinois, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Karch transferred to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Upon graduation in June 1940, he was commissioned as a United States Marine Corps second lieutenant. At Philadelphia Navy Yard, Karch completed Basic Training and was sent to San Diego as a battery officer in the 10th Marine Regiment.

paragraph: In 1941, while Karch was stationed in Iceland, America was brought into World War II by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. During the war, Karch rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel in a series of promotions in March 1942, May 1942, May 1943 and May 1945.

paragraph: In July 1942, Karch joined the 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division as a battalion executive officer. From February until September 1943 he served as commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 14th Marines, and served for the remainder of the war as operations officer of the 14th Marines. Karch was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star during the Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima campaigns.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Inter-war period.

paragraph: From January 1946 until July 1947, the now Lieutenant Colonel Karch was the chairman of the Board of Review, Discharges and Dismissals in the Navy Department in Washington, D.C.. He then became an artillery instructor at Quantico's Marine Corps Schools until September 1949, where he became a member of the directing staff at the Canadian Army Staff College.

paragraph: Transferred to the 10th Marines, 2nd Marine Division in December 1951, having left the directing staff in November, he commanded the 4th Battalion. In June 1952, he became regimental executive officer, and from June until December 1953, he served as personnel assistant to the division, whereupon he was sent to the Joint Landing Force Board at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

paragraph: In March 1955, he was sent to Tokyo under the Far East Command as the chief of Intelligence Plans Section, where he was promoted to colonel and awarded the Army Commendation Medal.

paragraph: Karch then completed the Senior Course at the Quantico Marine Corps Schools in June 1958, whereupon he was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division as regimental commander of the 10th Marines as well as the assistant chief of staff until July 1961.

paragraph: Karch graduated from the Army War College in June of the following year and was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps as executive officer and assistant deputy chief of staff. In 1963, he received a master's degree from George Washington University, and in 1964 he was promoted to brigadier general.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Vietnam.

paragraph: Karch was then sent to Okinawa in November 1964 as assistant division commander to the 3rd Division. In February of the following year, he was sent to South Vietnam as commanding general of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, where he directed the Marine landing on Nam O Beach, a very public display of American intentions in Vietnam which was the idea of President Lyndon Johnson. For his efforts, he was awarded a second Legion of Merit.

paragraph: The landing took place on 8 March 1965 on the coastline around the port of Da Nang in South Vietnam. In the few days preceding the landing, Karch commented that the weather was the worst that he had experienced. When inhabitants of the friendly beach greeted the arriving Marines and photographs were taken, Karch was never seen to smile. When this was queried, he replied "... if I had to do it over, that picture would have been the same. When you have a son in Vietnam and he gets killed, you don't want a smiling general with flowers around his neck as leader at that point."

paragraph: December 1965 saw Karch report back to the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, as director, Command and Staff College until June 1967, when he retired from active duty. For his final role at Quantico, he was awarded his third Legion of Merit.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and decorations.

paragraph: Among Karch's military decorations are the following:

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- U.S. Marine Corps biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- THE MARINE WAR: III MAF IN VIETNAM, 1965–1971

description: United States Marine Corps general

wikidata_label: Frederick J. Karch

wikipedia_title: Frederick J. Karch


text:
Medieval Latin
Anglo-Norman
Aesop's Fables
distich
Isaac Nicholas Nevelet
Walter of the Mill
archbishop of Palermo
elegiac couplet
Romulus
Phaedrus
pearl
jasper
Dante
Ovid
John Lydgate
Robert Henryson
Morall Fabillis
mythfolklore.net online texts
Alim online texts
Arlima page

categories: English male poets,12th-century English writers,12th-century English people,12th-century English poets

paragraph: Gualterus Anglicus

paragraph: Gualterus Anglicus (Medieval Latin for Walter the Englishman) was an Anglo-Norman poet and scribe who produced a seminal version of "Aesop's Fables" (in distichs) around the year 1175.

paragraph: Section::::Identification of the author.

paragraph: This author was earlier called the "Anonymus Neveleti", referring to attribution in the seventeenth-century "Mythologia Aesopica" of Isaac Nicholas Nevelet. The name Walter (Latin Gualterus) was produced by , on the basis of manuscript evidence, and he went on to identify the author as Walter of the Mill, archbishop of Palermo from 1168 onwards. Scholars have disputed this second step of identification; it may no longer be supported. The entire attribution is attacked.

paragraph: Section::::The collection and its influence.

paragraph: This collection of 62 fables is more accurately called the verse "Romulus", or elegiac "Romulus" (from its elegiac couplets). Given the uncertainty over the authorship, these terms are used in scholarly works.

paragraph: There is an earlier prose version of "Romulus", also; it has been dated as early as the tenth century, or the sixth century. It is adapted from Phaedrus; the initial fable "The Cock and the Jewel", supposedly the reply of Phaedrus to his critics, marks out fable collections originating from this source. Walter changed the "jewel" from a pearl to jasper.

paragraph: The verse "Romulus" formed the mainstream versions of medieval 'Aesop'. It is thought to be the version used by Dante. It with Ovid influenced the "Doligamus" of .

paragraph: When John Lydgate produced "Isopes Fabules", the first fable collection written in English, the verse "Romulus" was a major source. Particularly sophisticated use of this fable tradition is made later in the 15th century in Robert Henryson's "Morall Fabillis", written in Scots.

paragraph: Early printed editions appeared under the title "Aesopus moralisatus", around 1500.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Julia Bastin (editor) (1929–30), "Recueil général des Isopets" (two volumes)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sandro Boldrini (1994), "Uomini e bestie: le favole dell Aesopus latinus"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Aaron E. Wright (editor) (1997), "The Fables of "Walter of England", Edited from Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Codex Guelferbytanus 185 Helmstadiensis"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paola Busdraghi (editor) (2005), "L'Esopus. attribuito a Gualtiero Anglico"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rebekka Nöcker: "Volkssprachiges Proverbium in der Gelehrtenkultur : ein lateinischer Fabelkommentar des 15. Jahrhunderts mit deutschen Reimpaarepimythien; Untersuchung und Edition", Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2015,

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- mythfolklore.net online texts

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alim online texts

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arlima page

wikidata_label: Gualterus Anglicus

wikipedia_title: Gualterus Anglicus


text:
Irish
sculptor
Callan, County Kilkenny
tombs
Kilcooly Abbey
Tullaroan
Co. Kilkenny
Jerpoint Abbey
St. Mary's Church, Callan

categories: 16th-century sculptors,People from County Kilkenny,Year of birth uncertain,Irish sculptors,Year of death missing

paragraph: Rory O'Tunny

paragraph: Rory O'Tunny ("fl. c." 1520 – 1542; , ; other spellings include "Ruoricus, Otyuny, Otwyne, Otuyne, Otyyne") was an Irish sculptor.

paragraph: Born into a family of sculptors, said to have originated in Callan, County Kilkenny, O'Tunney was primarily a sculptor of tombs. Among his more prominent works are three tombs in Kilcooly Abbey, the resting place of Sir John Grace and his wife, Honora Brenach, at Grace's Chapel, Tullaroan, Co. Kilkenny, and the tombs of Robert Walsh and his wife, Katherine Poer, at Jerpoint Abbey. He also carved the Trinity Stone once housed in St. Mary's Church, Callan.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: RTÉ Report on the O'Tunny sculptures http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0823/nationwide_av.html?2807072,null,228

description: Irish artist

wikidata_label: Rory O'Tunny

wikipedia_title: Rory O'Tunny


text:
Stockholm
Sweden
Swedish
Friherre
official
scientist
Swedish parliament
County Governor
Freiherr
Ture Stensson Bielke
Carl Linnaeus
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
amanuensis
Royal Library
Sweden
Hovrätt
Hovrätt
Court of Appeal
Åbo
Finland
Caps

categories: 18th-century Swedish scientists,1753 deaths,Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,Members of the Riksdag of the Estates,18th-century Swedish politicians,1709 births

paragraph: Sten Carl Bielke

paragraph: Sten Carl Bielke, born 14 March 1709 in Stockholm, Sweden; died 13 July 1753, was a Swedish "Friherre", official, scientist and member of the Swedish parliament ("riksdag"). His father was the County Governor ("landshövding") and "Freiherr" Ture Stensson Bielke, and his mother was Ursula Kristina Törne.

paragraph: Bielke was together with Carl Linnaeus a founding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which was founded in 1739.

paragraph: He received a private education and started his career as an amanuensis at the Royal Library ("Kungliga biblioteket") in Sweden. He eventually became "Hovrättsråd" at the "Hovrätt" (Court of Appeal) in Åbo (present Finland). He was also politically active in the Caps.

description: Swedish politician

wikidata_label: Sten Carl Bielke

wikipedia_title: Sten Carl Bielke


text: American

text: fashion design

text: philanthropist

text: New York City

text: Fifth Avenue

text: premier shopping streets in the world

text: Jewish

text: Vermillionville

text: Louisiana

text: Austria

text: Prussia

text: Lafayette

text: vaudevillian

text: opera

text: Jesuit

text: Grand Coteau, Louisiana

text: millinery

text: Morgan City, Louisiana

text: Greenwich Village

text: French

text: Paris, France

text: West 57th Street

text: Henry Otis Chapman

text: La Rue de la Paix

text: Kings Point

text: Long Island

text: New York

text: Charles Wellford Leavitt

text: Walter Chrysler

text: United States Merchant Marine Academy

text: Vermilion River

text: Stamford, Connecticut

text: Lehman family

text: Park Avenue

text: Manhattan

text: Kensico Cemetery

text: Westchester County, New York

text: Lafayette, Louisiana

categories: Businesspeople from New York City,American fashion designers,People from Kings Point, New York,1936 deaths,Burials at Kensico Cemetery,American retail chief executives,Lehman family,American chief executives of fashion industry companies,1868 births,People from Lafayette, Louisiana

paragraph: Henri Willis Bendel

paragraph: Henri Willis Bendel (January 22, 1868 – March 22, 1936) was an American businessman, fashion designer, and philanthropist who founded an upscale women's fashion company bearing his name in New York City, which more than 100 years later remains in business on Fifth Avenue, one of the premier shopping streets in the world.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born on January 22, 1868 to a Jewish family in Vermillionville, Louisiana, the son of Mary (née Plonsky) and William Louis Bendel. Both his parents were immigrants: his father from Austria and his mother from Prussia. His father died when he was six years old. His mother was an astute businesswoman who owned and operated a retail furniture outlet, a drug store, a dry goods store, and an undertaking parlor. She remarried in 1878 to Benjamin Falk, who would become one of the most successful Lafayette businessmen of his time. They operated a dry goods store above which was Falk's Opera House that provided vaudevillian and opera entertainment. Henri graduated from the Jesuit-run St. Charles College in Grand Coteau, Louisiana and converted to Christianity either as a student or shortly after completing his studies.

paragraph: Section::::Fashion shops.

paragraph: After a fire burned down a millinery shop which Bendel had established in Morgan City, Louisiana, he and his wife Blanche moved to New York City. However, Blanche Bendel soon died childless, and Henri never remarried.

paragraph: Remaining in New York, Henri Bendel was able to use his fashion designing skills to develop a very successful millinery shop on Ninth Street in Greenwich Village, that catered to the city's wealthy. The business expanded into custom-made dresses, and the French-speaking Bendel enhanced his store's reputation for exclusivity by importing fashions from Paris, France. In 1913, he built an eight-story women's store at number 10 West 57th Street, designed by architect Henry Otis Chapman. Other fashion houses soon opened nearby, and West 57th Street became known as "La Rue de la Paix of New York".

paragraph: In 1916, Henri Bendel built a waterfront mansion at Kings Point, Long Island, New York, which was also designed by Henry Otis Chapman, with its landscaping by Charles Wellford Leavitt. Bendel sold it in 1923, to automobile maker Walter Chrysler. Today the property is known as Wiley Hall and serves as an administration building at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. In 1927, Bendel acquired along the Vermilion River in Louisiana. Formerly the Walnut Grove Plantation, he built a house on the property he called Camellia Lodge. Sold and eventually subdivided for housing, it is known today as Bendel Gardens. In addition, in the late 1920s, Bendel built a mansion on a hill overlooking Laurel Lake in Stamford, Connecticut, designed by architect Perry Barker.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 1894, Henri Bendel married Blanche Lehman, a daughter of Aaron Lehman and a member of the Lehman family. whom he had met while she was visiting friends in Morgan City. His wife died in childbirth in July 1895 along with the baby. Bendel never remarried. Henri Bendel died suddenly on March 22, 1936, at his home at 399 Park Avenue in Manhattan. A generous employer, in 1923 he had given his employees a forty-five percent equity in the business, a gift with a book value at the time of $1.8 million. In his will, he made Abraham Beekman Bastedo, his companion for over 30 years, one of the principal benefactors of his estate. Bastedo received $200,000 and a large shareholding in the business, plus the use of his country estate. He is buried with Bendel in Kensico Cemetery, Westchester County, New York.

paragraph: Bendel Road in Lafayette, Louisiana is named in his honor.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Photo of the Bendel Estate at Kings Point (NY).

description: American fashion designer

wikidata_label: Henri Willis Bendel

wikipedia_title: Henri Willis Bendel


text:
Victoria de Durango
Durango
Mexico City
Mexican
French Intervention in Mexico
Mexican Army
Mazatlan
Veracruz
California
Guatemala
Federal District
Porfirio Díaz
Panteón de Dolores

categories: 1893 deaths,Politicians from Durango,Military personnel from Durango,Mexican military personnel,1831 births,People from Durango City

paragraph: José Cevallos Cepeda

paragraph: José Cevallos Cepeda (born 1831 in Victoria de Durango, Durango - died April 19, 1893 in Mexico City) was a Mexican politician and military leader. He participated in the resistance against French Intervention in Mexico. During his service in the Mexican Army, Cevallos was commander of the armed forces of Mazatlan and the state of Veracruz. He lived some time in exile in California and Guatemala. Upon his return to the country he became governor of the Federal District. By order of president Porfirio Díaz his remains were interred at the Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City, in the Rotunda of Illustrious Men on April 22, 1893.

description: Mexican politician and miltary leader

wikidata_label: José Cevallos Cepeda

wikipedia_title: José Cevallos Cepeda


text:
Arizpe
Sonora
Mexico City
Mexican
French Intervention in Mexico
Benito Juárez
Porfirio Díaz
Panteón de Dolores

categories: Mexican military personnel,1876 deaths,1838 births,People from Sonora

paragraph: Diódoro Corella

paragraph: Diódoro Corella (born 1838 in Arizpe, Sonora - died June 15, 1876 in Mexico City) was a Mexican military leader. Corella was a republican and strongly opposed French Intervention in Mexico, reason why he was exiled by the conservative government. He returned to Mexico upon the victory of Benito Juárez and fought against Porfirio Díaz when he tried to rise to power. His remains were interred at the Panteón de Dolores in Mexico City, in the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons on June 17, 1876.

description: Mexican military leader

wikidata_label: Diódoro Corella

wikipedia_title: Diódoro Corella


text: Snarford

text: Lincolnshire

text: Corpus Christi College, Oxford

text: Christopher Wray

text: High Sheriff of Lincolnshire

text: knight of the shire

text: Lincolnshire

text: Member of Parliament

text: Grimsby

text: Snarford

categories: High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire,People from West Lindsey District,St Paul family,English MPs 1589,English MPs 1604–1611,People of the Stuart period,1562 births,Baronets in the Baronetage of England,People of the Tudor period,English MPs 1593,1613 deaths

paragraph: George St Paul

paragraph: Sir George St Paul, 1st Baronet (1562 – 18 October 1613) was an English politician.

paragraph: He was born the son of Thomas St Paul (or Thomas St Poll) of Snarford, Lincolnshire and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. He married Frances, the daughter of Sir Christopher Wray, although they had no children.

paragraph: He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1588 and elected as knight of the shire (MP) for Lincolnshire in 1589 and 1593. He was the Member of Parliament for Grimsby in 1604–1611. He was knighted in 1608, and was created a baronet in 1611.

paragraph: He built Snarford Hall in Snarford, Lincolnshire.

paragraph: When he died in 1613 his estate devolved upon his sister, Faith, Lady Tyrwhitt.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of Parliament-ST POLL, George (1562-1613) of Melwood and Snarford, Lincs

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_509_159/ai_n6153267/pg_2/

alias:
George St Poll
George St. Paul

description: British politician

wikidata_label: George St Paul

wikipedia_title: George St Paul


text: Kiowa

text: ledger art

text: Oklahoma

text: Kiowa

text: Oklahoma

text: calendar keeper

text: Dohasan

text: Peyote religion

text: pictorial calendar

text: Museum of New Mexico

text: Jeri Ah-be-hill

text: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

text: Teri Greeves

text: Stephen Mopope

text: Kiowa Five

text: German silver

text: moccasin

categories: Kiowa people,Native American drawing artists,Native American painters,American male painters,People from Caddo County, Oklahoma,Native American Church,Painters from Oklahoma,1940 deaths,1860 births,19th-century American painters

paragraph: Silver Horn

paragraph: Silver Horn or Haungooah (1860–1940) was a Kiowa ledger artist from Oklahoma.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Silver Horn was born circa 1860 and was a member of the Kiowa Indian tribe of Oklahoma. His Kiowa name, Haungooah, refers to sunlight reflecting off a buffalo horn, making it gleam like a polished, white metal. He was a well-known artist from the early reservation period who was one of the most respected and talented Plains Indian artists in his time.

paragraph: Silver Horn's father was Agiati or "Gathering Feathers," who was a calendar keeper. Agiati was the chosen artistic successor of his uncle Dohasan, who was the primary calendar keeper for the Kiowas throughout the 19th century.

paragraph: Section::::Art work.

paragraph: He was mostly known for his skills in working with different mediums and materials such as graphite, colored pencil, crayon, pen and ink, and water color on hide, muslin and paper. He produced over a thousand illustrations and works of art between 1870 and 1920. He developed and created very keen visuals of Kiowa culture, from traditional images, warfare, and coup counting to depictions of the sun dance, early Peyote religion, and daily life. Silver Horn had witnessed traumatic changes as the Kiowa people went from a nomadic, buffalo-hunting culture to reservation life and forced assimilation into white society. The traumatic changes were depicted in his artwork.

paragraph: The depictions that Silver Horn would render were visionary images that were represented in abstract form on shields and events of the years past as a record in the pictorial calendar. Many tribes of the Plains area used pictorial art to maintain a calendar as means of recording happenings as well as to illustrate stories. Silver Horn developed a complex calendar system with events recorded for summer and winter of each year and most calendars had very simple pictures that helped calendar keepers remember the name of each year. His drawings of warfare depicted events of the past as well as more recent conflicts, while his images of ceremonies included rituals that were beginning at that time. He also created illustrations of myths and other oral traditions such as supernatural figures.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Silver Horn's works are still shown regularly and an extensive collection of them is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of New Mexico (MNM). In 1995, a large traveling exhibit featuring works from the MNM and the private collection of his great-niece, Jeri Ah-be-hill, selected by the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, toured the United States. Ah-be-hill was a noted expert on Native American clothing and both of her daughters, Teri Greeves and Keri Ataumbi are known for their beadwork and jewelry designs. Silver Horn taught his great-nephew, Stephen Mopope how to paint on hides. Mopope went on to become one of the Kiowa Five. Today many of his family members are artists. His grandsons James, Dutch, and Max Silverhorn are all known for their German silver work, beadwork, and featherwork. His great-granddaughter, Katherine Dickerson is a Kiowa beadworker, German silver worker, and moccasin maker. Another grandson, Art "Haungooah" Cody, married into the Santa Clara pueblo in New Mexico and became an award-winning potter. Art's son, Dean Haungooah continues in that tradition.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Department of Anthropology National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

paragraph: BULLET::::- Donnelley, Robert G. "Transforming Images: The Art of Silver Horn and his Successors." Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Greene, Candace S. "Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowas." Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2001. .

alias:
Hawgone
Haungoonpau
Hawgone Silverhorn
John Silverhorn
Silver Horns
Hogoon
Haungooah
Silverhorn

description: Kiowa painter from Indian Territory

wikidata_label: Silver Horn

wikipedia_title: Silver Horn


text: Italian

text: mathematician

text: volume

text: centers of gravity

text: bodies

text: Archimedes

text: Galileo Galilei

text: Accademia dei Lincei

text: Naples

text: Jesuit order

text: philosophy

text: theology

text: Roman College

text: Christopher Clavius

text: rhetoric

text: Greek

text: Collegio Pontifico Greco

text: Sapienza University of Rome

text: Vatican library

text: Roman Catholic church

text: Pisa

text: Accademia dei Lincei

text: Cardinal Robert Bellarmine

text: decree

text: Solar system

text: Copernican system

text: Inquisition

text: Federico Cesi

text: the 1661 edition

categories: Italian mathematicians,17th-century Italian mathematicians,16th-century Italian mathematicians,1552 births,Former Jesuits,Jesuit scientists,Catholic clergy scientists,Italian Jesuits,1618 deaths

paragraph: Luca Valerio

paragraph: Luca Valerio (1553–1618) was an Italian mathematician. He developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies using the methods of Archimedes. He corresponded with Galileo Galilei and was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Luca Valerio was born in Naples in 1553 He entered in the Jesuit order in 1570. He studied philosophy and theology at the Roman College as a student of Christopher Clavius, and left the Jesuits in 1580. He later taught rhetoric and Greek at the Collegio Pontifico Greco and mathematics and ethics at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1611 Valerio obtained a position in the Vatican library in addition to his post at Sapienza giving him close connection with the top people in the Roman Catholic church.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Galileo and Copernicus.

paragraph: Valerio met Galileo on a visit to Pisa in 1584. He corresponded with Galileo from 1609 until 1616 and in 1612 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, a group which also included Galileo as a member. On March 5, 1616 Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, chief theologian of the Roman Catholic Church, issued a decree that the idea of a Sun centered Solar system, the Copernican system, a theory supported by Galileo, was "false and erroneous". The prospect of being called before the Inquisition caused Valerio to end all correspondence with Galileo and resign from the "Accademia dei Lincei". The members of the Academy looked on Valerio's actions as aligning himself with Galileo's opponents and accusing the Academy itself of committing a crime. His resignation was rejected by the Accademia, but they took away his right to participate in Accademia meetings. Federico Cesi, the Accademia dei Lincei's founder, still hoped however that Valerio could re-enter in the ranks of the academics, but the mathematician died in January 1618.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Subtilium indagationum liber primus seu quadratura circuli et aliorum curvilineorum", 1582

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De centro gravitatis solidorum libri tres", Rome 1604—Includes applying general methods to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies.

paragraph: BULLET::::- On line: the 1661 edition

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quadratura parabolae per simplex falsum", Rome 1606

paragraph: Section::::Notes and references.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La matematizzazione dell'universo. Momenti della cultura matematica tra '500 e '600", Assisi 1992

paragraph: BULLET::::- G. Gabrieli, "Luca Valerio linceo, un episodio memorabile della vecchia Accademia", Roma 1934

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pier Daniele Napolitani, "Metodo e statica in Valerio con edizione di due sue opere giovanili", «Bollettino di storia delle scienze matematiche» II (1982), 1, pp. 3–86

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ugo Baldini; Pier Daniele Napolitani, "Per una biografia di Luca Valerio - fonti edite e inedite per una ricostruzione della sua carriera scientifica", «Bollettino di storia delle scienze matematiche», XI (1991), pp. 3–157

paragraph: BULLET::::- P. D. Napolitani; K. Saito, "Royal road or labyrinth? Luca Valerio's De centro gravitatis solidorum and the beginnings of modern mathematics", «Bollettino di storia delle scienze matematiche», XXIV (2004) 2

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Galileo Project - Valerio (Valeri), Luca

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Luca Valerio" - a biography at School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews website

description: Italian mathematician

wikidata_label: Luca Valerio

wikipedia_title: Luca Valerio


text:
Northamptonshire
Scotland
wicket-keeper
first-class
Loughborough UCCE
Northants
Surrey
Netherlands
not out
Niall O'Brien
Niall O'Brien
Leicestershire
Ben Duckett
Adam Rossington
Surrey
The Oval
Scotland
Player Profile: David Murphy

categories: Northamptonshire cricketers,Scotland One Day International cricketers,People from Welwyn Garden City,English cricketers,Scotland Twenty20 International cricketers,Loughborough University cricketers,1989 births,Scottish cricketers,Living people

paragraph: David Murphy (cricketer)

paragraph: David Murphy (born 24 June 1989) is a former English cricketer. who played for Northamptonshire and Scotland and is primarily a wicket-keeper.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Domestic.

paragraph: He made his first-class debut for Loughborough UCCE in April 2009 and made his county debut with Northants against Surrey two months later. His first One Day game came against the Netherlands the following season, Murphy scoring 31 not out, taking two catches and one stumping. Niall O'Brien, Northamptonshire's established wicket-keeper, underwent finger surgery in July 2010; Murphy was chosen to take over as wicketkeeper in O'Brien's absence.

paragraph: In October 2012, Murphy signed a new two-year contract in response to Niall O'Brien's impending move to Leicestershire. It was planned that Murphy would become Northants' first choice keeper from the 2013 season. He played 14 first-class matches in that season, but subsequently found opportunities limited by injuries and the presence of Ben Duckett and Adam Rossington, both of whom can keep wicket.

paragraph: Murphy was on the winning side in the 2013 Twenty20 competition, playing in all of Northants' 13 matches, including the final against Surrey. Hitherto, he has scored just one first-class century, 135* against Surrey at The Oval, in September 2015.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:International.

paragraph: In September 2012, Murphy was selected by Scotland to be part of a tour group to South Africa in October 2012. Although born in Hertfordshire, Murphy qualifies to play for Scotland by having a Scottish parent.

paragraph: He made his Twenty20 international debut on 3 March 2013, against Afghanistan, and his ODI debut three days later against the same opposition. He has played four international T20 matches and 8 ODIs, all of which took place in 2013.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Player Profile: David Murphy from northantscricket.com

description: English cricketer

wikidata_label: David Murphy

wikipedia_title: David Murphy (cricketer)