text: OBE

text: MC

text: barrister

text: Zionist

text: Herbert Bentwich

text: St. Paul's School

text: Trinity College, Cambridge

text: Zionist Congress

text: Attorney-General

text: Michael McDonnell

text: Shaw Commission

text: August riots

text: Mauritius

text: Cyprus

text: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

text: Avraham Stern

text: Ahad Ha'am

text: Brit Shalom

text: Jewish Historical Society of England

text: Lincolns Inn

text: Cairo

text: Palestine

text: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

text: League of Nations

text: United Restitution Organization

categories: English academics,Recipients of the Military Cross,Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge,Attorneys-General of Mandatory Palestine,Jewish historians,British Army personnel of World War I,Members of Lincoln's Inn,People educated at St Paul's School, London,Zionists,Officers of the Order of the British Empire,20th-century English historians,British Army General List officers,English Jews,1971 deaths,1883 births

paragraph: Norman Bentwich

paragraph: Norman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC (28 February 1883 – 8 April 1971) was a British barrister and legal academic. He was the British-appointed attorney-general of Mandatory Palestine and a lifelong Zionist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early Life.

paragraph: Norman Bentwich was the oldest son of British Zionist Herbert Bentwich. He attended St. Paul's School in London and Trinity College, Cambridge.

paragraph: Bentwich was a delegate at the annual Zionist Congresses from 1907 to 1912. He paid his first visit to Palestine in 1908.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Mandatory Palestine administration.

paragraph: During the British military administration of Palestine, Bentwich served as Senior Judicial Officer, which continued in the civil administration after 1920 as Legal Secretary. The title was soon changed to Attorney-General, a post he held until 1931.

paragraph: Bentwich played a major role in the development of Palestinian law. According to Likhovski, he "concentrated his efforts on providing Palestine with a set of modern commercial laws that he believed would facilitate economic development and thus attract more Jewish immigration." Bentwich's perceived Zionist bias made him increasingly unpopular with Palestinian Arabs, who conducted demonstrations and other protests against his presence in the administration. Some British officials, including the Colonial Office and the Chief Justice of Palestine Michael McDonnell, saw him as a liability and agitated for his dismissal. In 1929 he was barred from representing the government at the Shaw Commission into the August riots. In late 1930 he went on leave to England, where he unsuccessfully sought to gain support for his continued role in Palestine. He was offered senior judicial positions in Mauritius and Cyprus, but turned them down. In August 1931 his appointment as Attorney-General was terminated by the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, who cited "the peculiar racial and political conditions of Palestine, and the difficulties with which the Administration has in consequence to bear."

paragraph: In November 1929, Bentwich was shot in the thigh by a 17-year-old Arab employee of the Palestine Police. His assailant was sentenced to 15 years hard labour, despite Bentwich personally advocating for him.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Hebrew University.

paragraph: From 1932 to 1951 Bentwich occupied the Chair of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first lecture, on "Jerusalem, City of Peace", was disrupted by Jewish students who considered him too conciliatory towards the Arabs. Several of the ringleaders, one of them Avraham Stern, were suspended. Bentwich was a disciple of Zionist thinker Ahad Ha'am, and wrote a book about him, "Ahad Ha'am and His Philosophy", in 1927. He was one of the Jewish members of Palestine Administration who in 1929 joined "Brit Shalom", a society founded to find rapprochement between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Later.

paragraph: He was later President of the Jewish Historical Society of England.

paragraph: In his book, Mandate Memories, he stated that "the Balfour Declaration was not an impetuous or sentimental act of the British government, as has been sometimes represented, or a calculated measure of political warfare. It was a deliberate decision of British policy and idealist politics, weighed and reweighed, and adopted only after full consultation with the United States and with other Allied Nations."

paragraph: Section::::Academic and legal career.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Called to the bar (Lincolns Inn), 1908

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ministry of Justice, Cairo, 1912–1915

paragraph: BULLET::::- Major, Camel Transport, 1916–1918

paragraph: BULLET::::- Legal secretary to military administration, Palestine, 1918–22

paragraph: BULLET::::- First attorney-general in mandatory government of Palestine, 1922–30

paragraph: BULLET::::- Recalled to Colonial Office, 1930–31

paragraph: BULLET::::- Professor of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1932 and 1945–1951

paragraph: BULLET::::- Director of League of Nations High Commission for Refugees from Germany, 1933–1935

paragraph: BULLET::::- British Ministry of Information and Air Ministry, 1939–45

paragraph: BULLET::::- Co-editor of the Jewish Review, 1910–1913 and 1932–1934

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lecturer at Hague Academy of International Law, 1929, 1934 and 1955

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vice-President, Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chairman, National Peace Council, 1944–1946

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chairman, United Restitution Organization, 1948–1971

paragraph: BULLET::::- Foreign Office Committee on Restitution in British Zone of Germany, 1951

paragraph: BULLET::::- President, Jewish Historical Society, 1960–1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chairman, Friends of Hebrew University

paragraph: BULLET::::- President of North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, London 1958–71

paragraph: Section::::Published works.

paragraph: Bentwich published a large number of books and articles. Some of his books are listed here.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria", Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1910.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Declaration of London, with an introduction and notes and appendices", E. Wilson, London, 1911.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Students leading cases and statutes on international law", Sweet & Maxwell, London, 1913.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Josephus", Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1914.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hellenism", The Jewish publication society of America, Philadelphia, 1919.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ahad Ha'am and his philosophy", Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund) and the Keren Kayemeth Le-Israel, Jerusalem, 1927.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mandates System", Longmans, London, 1930.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "England in Palestine", Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London, 1932.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Palestine", Benn, London, 1934.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fulfilment in the Promised land, 1917–1937", Soncino Press, London, 1938.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Solomon Schecter: A Biography", Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1938

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wanderer Between Two Worlds – An Autobiography", Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, London, 1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Judaea lives again", V. Gollancz, London, 1943.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Israel", Ernest Bend, 1952.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "For Zion's Sake. A Biography of Judah L. Magnes. First Chancellor and First President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem", Jewish Publication Society, 1954.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Israel And Her Neighbours: A Short Historical Geography", Rider And Company, London, 1955.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Jews in our Times", Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1960.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Israel Resurgent", Ernest Benn, London, 1960.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "My 77 years : an account of my life and times, 1883–1960", Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1961.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mandate Memories" (with Helen Bentwich), The Hogarth Press, London, 1965.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Israel : two fateful years, 1967–69", Elec, London, 1970.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Jewish Youth Comes Home: The Story of the Youth Aliyah, 1933-1943", Hyperion Press, 1976.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Norman Bentwich, The Law of Private Property in War, with a Chapter on Conquest (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1907)] – his Yorke prize essay from 1906.

alias:
Normann Bentwich
Norman De Mattos Bentwich

description: barrister and legal academic

wikidata_label: Norman Bentwich

wikipedia_title: Norman Bentwich


text: Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford

text: Lancastrian

text: high treason

text: Tower Hill

text: Hedingham Castle

text: Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford

text: Cornwall

text: John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford

text: Duke of Exeter

text: Duke of Bedford

text: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk

text: Leicester

text: King Henry VI

text: livery

text: Privy Council

text: East Anglia

text: Justice of the Peace

text: Holy Land

text: retainers

text: Sandwich, Kent

text: Siege of Calais

text: Duke of Burgundy

text: Queen Joan

text: Canterbury

text: Cardinal Henry Beaufort

text: Portsmouth

text: Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York

text: Jack Cade's

text: Justice of the Peace

text: William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk

text: John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

text: Sir John Fastolf

text: Thomas, Lord Scales

text: Duchess of Suffolk

text: Sir Thomas Tuddenham

text: Duke of York

text: Lord Protector

text: Henry VI's

text: Duke of Norfolk

text: Battle of St Albans

text: Margaret of Anjou

text: commissions of array

text: Yorkist

text: Battle of Northampton

text: King Edward IV

text: Sir Thomas Tuddenham

text: Lancastrian

text: Constable of England

text: John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester

text: Tower Hill

text: Austin Friars, London

text: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford

text: Wivenhoe

text: John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford

text: Bishop's Frome

text: Herefordshire

text: John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford

text: Sir Anthony Wingfield

text: Letheringham

text: Suffolk

text: John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer

text: Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor

text: Sir Edmund Knightley

text: Baron Grey of Codnor

text: Barking Abbey

text: Sir William Norreys

categories: People from Castle Hedingham,De Vere family,1408 births,People of the Wars of the Roses,People executed under the Yorkists,People executed under the Plantagenets by decapitation,Executions at the Tower of London,Earls of Oxford,15th-century English people,Executed people from Essex,1462 deaths

paragraph: John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

paragraph: John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford (23 April 1408 – 26 February 1462), was the son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford (1385?–15 February 1417), and his second wife, Alice Sergeaux (1386–1452). A Lancastrian loyalist during the latter part of his life, he was convicted of high treason and beheaded on Tower Hill on 26February 1462.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, born 23April 1408 at Hedingham Castle, was the elder son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford, and his second wife, Alice, the widow of Guy St Aubyn, and daughter of Sir Richard Sergeaux of Colquite, Cornwall, by his second wife, Philippa (d. 13 Sep 1399), the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Arundel. Through their second son, Sir Robert Vere, the 11th Earl and his wife, Philippa, were the great-grandparents of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford.

paragraph: The 12th Earl inherited his title as a minor at his father's death on 15 February 1417. Custody of his person and lands was granted firstly to the Duke of Exeter until his death in 1426, and later to the Duke of Bedford. In 1425, while still underage, Oxford married the heiress Elizabeth Howard (c. 1410–1473/4), the daughter of Sir John Howard, 7th Lord Plaiz (c. 1385/6–1409), a brother of Sir Robert Howard, father of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk. After the death of her grandfather, Sir John Howard of Wiggenhall (c. 1366 – 17 November 1436), Elizabeth inherited lands in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire. Although Oxford claimed the marriage had been contracted on Exeter's advice, it had not been authorized by licence from the King, and Oxford was fined £2000. According to Castor, Oxford had difficulty making payment of this large fine since 'the earldom of Oxford was among the poorest of the comital titles', with Oxford stating in 1437 that his lands were worth only £500 per year.

paragraph: Oxford was knighted at Leicester on 26May 1426, together with 34 others including his brother, Robert, and the four-year-old King Henry VI. On 4 July 1429 he was granted livery of his lands. In 1431 he was appointed to the Privy Council. During the 1430s and 1440s Oxford was involved in local politics in East Anglia, being appointed to various commissions in Essex and serving as a Justice of the Peace in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. In February 1435 he was licensed to travel to the Holy Land, although there is no evidence that he actually did so.

paragraph: In July 1436 Oxford mustered his retainers at Sandwich, Kent for an expedition to relieve the Siege of Calais by the Duke of Burgundy. On 23July 1437 he was summoned to attend the funeral of Queen Joan at Canterbury. In June 1439, with Cardinal Henry Beaufort and other envoys, he was appointed a commissioner to treat of peace with France. On 16May 1441 he sailed from Portsmouth to France with Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, who had been appointed Lieutenant-General and Governor of France and Normandy. In June 1450 Oxford was among the noblemen appointed to act against Jack Cade's Kentish rebels.

paragraph: In the late 1440s Oxford extended his political influence in East Anglia to Norfolk. He was regularly appointed a Justice of the Peace there, and in 1450, after the fall from power of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Oxford, together with John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Sir John Fastolf, challenged the influence of Suffolk's supporters in that county. By the spring of 1451, however, Suffolk's associates had regrouped under the leadership of Thomas, Lord Scales and the widowed Duchess of Suffolk, and by 1452 leading members of Suffolk's affinity such as Sir Thomas Tuddenham and John Heydon were again being appointed to office.

paragraph: As national politics became increasingly divided during the 1450s, Oxford did not immediately take sides, although he was a member of the Council while the Duke of York was Lord Protector in 1453–54 during Henry VI's period of mental breakdown, and on 28May 1454, together with 6 other peers and his brother, Sir Robert Vere, undertook to keep the seas for three years. In May 1455 he and the Duke of Norfolk both arrived a day too late to take part in the Battle of St Albans. It was not until 1459 that Oxford committed himself to Margaret of Anjou against the Duke of York. In December of that year and in April 1460 he was appointed to lead anti-Yorkist commissions of array in Essex, and by May 1460 his eldest son, Sir Aubrey Vere, who had recently married Anne, the daughter of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was reported to be ‘great with the Queen’.

paragraph: After the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Northampton in July 1460, Oxford appears to have suffered from ill health. In November of that year he was exempted, ‘in consideration of his infirmities’, from appearing in person before the King or in Council or Parliament. If he was feigning illness in order to maintain a low profile in the face of the new Yorkist regime under King Edward IV, the ploy was unsuccessful. In February 1462 Oxford was arrested, together with his son Aubrey and Sir Thomas Tuddenham, his former opponent in Norfolk and now a fellow Lancastrian loyalist, and convicted of high treason before the Constable of England, John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester. On 26 February 1462 Oxford was beheaded on Tower Hill. Then he was buried in the church of the Austin Friars, London. His eldest son, Aubrey, had been executed six days earlier, and Oxford was therefore succeeded by his second son, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and issue.

paragraph: Oxford married, between 22 May and 31 August 1425, Elizabeth Howard (c. 1410–1475), the only child and heiress of Sir John Howard, 7th Lord Plaiz (c. 1385/6 – c. 1409), and his wife Joan Walton, the daughter of John Walton of Wivenhoe, Essex and Margery Sutton, by whom he had five sons and three daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Aubrey Vere, who married Anne Stafford, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham

paragraph: BULLET::::- John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (1442–1513).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir George Vere, who married Margaret Stafford, daughter and heiress of Sir William Stafford of Bishop's Frome, Herefordshire, by whom he had two sons, George Vere and John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, and four daughters, Elizabeth, who married Sir Anthony Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk; Margaret; Dorothy, who married John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer; and Ursula, who married firstly George Windsor (d. 1520), eldest son and heir of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor, who predeceased his father, and secondly Sir Edmund Knightley.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Richard Vere, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Percy and widow of Henry, 3rd Baron Grey of Codnor.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Thomas Vere.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mary Vere, a nun at Barking Abbey.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joan (or Jane) Vere, who married Sir William Norreys, and was the maternal grandmother of .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth Vere, who married William Bourchier.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Capital Punishment UK homepage. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2017.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

description: English noble

wikidata_label: John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford

wikipedia_title: John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford


text:
Anglo-Irish
Borrisokane
County Tipperary
Yorkshire
Williamite conquest of Ireland, 1689–91
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
High Sheriff of Durham
Mary Eleanor Bowes
Dowager Countess
Strathmore and Kinghorne
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
duel
The Morning Post
High Sheriff of Durham
Burnopfield
exile
illegitimate children
libel
High Court of Delegates
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Foot, Jesse

categories: Anglo-Irish people,1810 deaths,1747 births

paragraph: Andrew Robinson Stoney

paragraph: Andrew Robinson Stoney, later renamed Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes, (1747–1810) was an Anglo-Irish adventurer of Greyfort House, Borrisokane, County Tipperary in Ireland. His grandfather, Thomas Stoney, had immigrated to Ireland from Yorkshire, England, in the wake of the Williamite conquest of Ireland, 1689–91. While Andrew Stoney-Bowes was a member of parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1780–4) and also High Sheriff of Durham, he is perhaps best remembered for his marriage to Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Dowager Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She became known as "The Unhappy Countess" due to their tempestuous relationship, which ended in scandal. The story of Stoney-Bowes and the Countess of Strathmore was fictionalised by William Makepeace Thackeray in "The Luck of Barry Lyndon". Stanley Kubrick later adapted the novel into the 1975 award-winning film "Barry Lyndon".

paragraph: Section::::Marriage to Mary Eleanor Bowes.

paragraph: Mary Eleanor Bowes, the widowed Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was engaged to her lover, George Gray, in the summer of 1777 when she met the charming and wily Anglo-Irish adventurer, Andrew Robinson Stoney, who manipulated his way into her household and her bed. Calling himself 'Captain' Stoney – although he was in reality a lieutenant in the British Army – he insisted on fighting a duel in Mary's honour with the editor of "The Morning Post" newspaper which had published scurrilous articles about her private life. In fact, he had himself written the articles that criticised her, as well as those defending her; and the duel between Stoney and the newspaper's editor was probably staged. Pretending to be mortally wounded in the duel, Stoney persuaded the countess as his dying wish to marry him. He was carried to the altar on a stretcher for his marriage to the Countess. Staging a miraculous recovery immediately after the marriage, Stoney took his wife's surname (as stipulated by her father's will) and was styled Andrew Robinson Stoney Bowes. He served as High Sheriff of Durham in 1780 and was elected MP for Newcastle upon Tyne later the same year, serving until he lost the next election in 1784.

paragraph: Stoney's first wife, Hannah, was the daughter of William Newton of Burnopfield. It was widely believed that Stoney Bowes caused her death to assume her inheritance. After his marriage to the Countess, he behaved brutally towards her. When he discovered that she had secretly made a pre-nuptial agreement safeguarding the profits of her estate for her own use, he forced her to sign a revocation handing control to him. Among other outrages, he imprisoned her in her own house, and forced her and one of her daughters to go into exile in Paris. They returned after a writ had been served on him. At the same time he raped the maids, invited prostitutes into the home and fathered numerous illegitimate children.

paragraph: Mary Eleanor gave birth in August 1777 to a daughter Mary, probably the child of her prior liaison with Gray. Bowes took the girl as his own child and the birth was registered as such in November 1777, but he later broadcast her illegitimacy. The couple had a son, William Johnstone Bowes, born on 8 May 1782.

paragraph: Finally, in 1785, with the help of loyal maids, the countess managed to escape his custody and filed for divorce through the ecclesiastical courts. Having lost the first round of this courtroom battle, Stoney Bowes abducted Mary with the help of a gang of accomplices, carried her off to the north country, threatened to rape and to kill her, gagged and beat her, and carried her around the countryside on horseback in one of the coldest spells of the coldest winter of the century. The country was alerted, and Stoney Bowes was eventually arrested and the countess rescued.

paragraph: The legal battles continued. Stoney Bowes and his accomplices were found guilty of conspiracy to abduct Mary, and he was sentenced to three years in prison. Meanwhile, he lost the divorce case and the battle to retain the Bowes fortune. The trials were sensational and the talk of London. Although the countess initially won public sympathy, Bowes eventually turned many against her – partly because of the libels he succeeded in putting about (buying shares in a newspaper for the purpose and publishing the 'Confessions' he had earlier forced her to write) – and partly because the general apprehension was that she had behaved badly in attempting to prevent her husband's access to her fortune. There had also been an affair between her and the brother of one of the lawyers, which became public knowledge, and, Stoney Bowes alleged, an affair with her footman, George Walker. Mary finally obtained her divorce at the High Court of Delegates on 2 March 1789 which revealed how Bowes had systematically deprived the countess of her liberty and abused her.

paragraph: Andrew Robinson Stoney-Bowes died on 16 January 1810 in the Rules of the King's Bench Prison, Southwark, London.

paragraph: Many years later, Thackeray learned of Stoney Bowes' life story from the Countess's grandson John Bowes and used it in his novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon".

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arnold, Ralph, "The Unhappy Countess" (1957)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Foot, Jesse, "The Lives of Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq., and the Countess of Strathmore, written from thirty-three years professional attendance, from Letters and other well authenticated documents" (1810)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Parker, Derek, "The Trampled Wife" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Moore, Wendy, Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met his Match (2009)

description: Anglo-Irish adventurer

wikidata_label: Andrew Robinson Stoney

wikipedia_title: Andrew Robinson Stoney


text:
Dalry
North Ayrshire
Scotland
Tórshavn
Faroe Islands
Plymouth Brethren
evangelist
Faroe Islands
Shetland
missionary
Tract Society
Shetland
Orkney
Catholic
Plymouth Brethren
evangelist
Faroe Islands
fishermen
Tórshavn
Faroe Islands
Brethren
Glasgow
GOD'S INDESCRIBABLE GIFT

categories: Converts to evangelical Christianity from Roman Catholicism,Protestant missionaries in the Faroe Islands,Scottish Protestant missionaries,Faroese people of Scottish descent,Protestant missionaries in Scotland,Scottish Plymouth Brethren,Scottish evangelicals,1838 births,People from North Ayrshire,1914 deaths

paragraph: William Gibson Sloan

paragraph: William Gibson Sloan (4 September 1838 in Dalry, North Ayrshire, Scotland – 4 September 1914 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands), was a Plymouth Brethren evangelist to the Faroe Islands and Shetland.

paragraph: His parents were Nathanael and Elisabeth Sloane (Sloan) who lived in Bridgend, Dalry.

paragraph: William became a missionary, sent by the Tract Society of Scotland, to Shetland and Orkney. While in Shetland, Catholic born Sloan came into contact with local Plymouth Brethren and issues like "believers baptism" and the "breaking of bread" came up. Sloan converted and became "baptised by immersion into the water" and thence "broke bread" with the local Shetland Baptists, even though he never considered himself being a Baptist. He believed in the "one Congregation of God". br

paragraph: It was in this belief that he, in 1865 decided to become an evangelist to the Faroe Islands, which he had heard of from Shetland fishermen, who earned their living by fishing in the vicinity of the Faroe Islands.

paragraph: For many years, his work in Faroe had little effect, but eventually a few people started gathering in "Ebenezer Hall" also known as "Sloan's Hall" which was built in Tórshavn in 1879 As the number of congregants was increasing, a new and bigger "Ebenezer" was built in 1905. The congregation eventually grew into the biggest independent congregation in the islands, second only to the established church.br

paragraph: William Sloan died on his 76th birthday, 4 September 1914 in his home in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

paragraph: Approximately 12% of the population in the Faroe Islands now belong to the local Brethren Congregation by Mr. Sloan or "Old Sloan" as he is referred to in the Faroe Islands.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: On 11 October 1881 William Sloan married Elsebeth (Elspa) Isaksen í Geil from Tórshavn, in Glasgow. William and Elspa Sloan had six children: Poul (born 1882), Elisabeth (Betty) (born 1887), Archibald (born 1890), Cathrine (born 1892), Anna Elisabeth (born 1895) and Andrew (born 1896).

paragraph: brElspa remained a widow until she died on 4 June 1939.

paragraph: brThe youngest son Andrew, followed in his fathers footsteps, and became an evangelist in Faroe.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fred Kelling Scotland: "Fisherman of Faroe – William Gibson Sloan", Leirkerið Publications, Gøta Faroe Islands 1993

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tórður Jóansson, PhD: "Brethren in the Faroes - An Evangelical movement, its remarkable growth and lasting impact in a remote island community", Tórshavn 2012,

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In Faroese:" Sigurd Berghamar: "-men Gud gav vøkst – um William Sloan og fyrstu samkomurnar", Forlagið Afturljóð, Tórshavn 1992

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- GOD'S INDESCRIBABLE GIFT at www.alfredplacechurch.org.uk

description: British missionary

wikidata_label: William Gibson Sloan

wikipedia_title: William Gibson Sloan


text:
silent film
Leopold Godowsky
Vilna
Russian Empire
Leopold Godowsky Jr.
Hollywood
A Sainted Devil
Rudolph Valentino
The Story Without a Name
Tyrone Power, Sr.
Louis Wolheim
The Common Law
The Price of a Party
Frank Mayo
Tijuana, Mexico
Anna Luther
Enrico Caruso
Arthur Rubinstein
Jascha Heifetz
Charles Chaplin
Igor Stravinsky
London, England
New York City
Westchester, New York
Leopold Jr
George Gershwin
The Red Lantern
Bonds of Honor
The Kid and the Cowboy
Stronger Than Death
Hitchin' Posts
The Forged Bride
The Path She Chose
The Trap
The Altar Stairs
Red Lights
The Common Law
The Story Without a Name
Meddling Women
A Sainted Devil
Virtuous Liars
Roulette
Greater Than Marriage
Playthings of Desire
The Lost Chord
Camille of the Barbary Coast
The Price of a Party
In Borrowed Plumes
The New York Times
Oakland Tribune
Dagmar Godowsky
Nickolas Muray
photo #1
photo #2
photo #3
photo #4
photo #5

categories: 20th-century American actresses,1897 births,American film actresses,1975 deaths,Actresses from Chicago,American silent film actresses,American people of Polish-Jewish descent

paragraph: Dagmar Godowsky

paragraph: Mercedes Dagmar Godowsky (November 24, 1897 – February 13, 1975) was an American silent film actress.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Mercedes Dagmar Godowsky was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 24, 1897, the daughter of Polish composer Leopold Godowsky and Frederica Saxe, although she later claimed she was born in Vilna, Russian Empire in her autobiography "First Person Plural". She had a younger brother, Leopold Godowsky Jr.. Her Hollywood film career spanned the years from 1919 through 1926. She played in "A Sainted Devil" (1924) with Rudolph Valentino and "The Story Without a Name" (1924). The latter co-starred Tyrone Power, Sr. and Louis Wolheim. Among her other film credits are "Red Lights" (1923), "The Common Law" (1923), "Virtuous Liars" (1924), and "The Price of a Party" (1924).

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Godowsky wed silent screen actor Frank Mayo in Tijuana, Mexico in 1921. She named actress Anna Luther as co-respondent in a suit brought against Mayo in March 1925. The marriage was annulled in August 1928 on the ground that Mayo had another wife.

paragraph: In 1958 Godowsky published a thoroughly candid (disputed; according to the Artur Rubenstein biography by Harvey Sachs, Godowsky's memoirs were "apparently uninhibited but in fact heavily self-censored.") autobiography entitled "First Person Plural". She wrote "I lived only for pleasure and I spoiled my own fun. Where was I running? From whom? Little feet running around the globe. Nothing but circles, and I never once bumped into myself." In the book she named Enrico Caruso, Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Charles Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky, and Valentino among her "great loves". When queried about the number of husbands she had, Godowsky responded, "Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'."

paragraph: In her later years she made frequent appearances in London, England and on television talk shows in New York City.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Godowsky died aged 77 in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on February 13, 1975. It was the anniversary of her father's birth. Her funeral was held at Riverside Chapel on Amsterdam Avenue and 76th Street. She was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester, New York. She was survived by a brother, Leopold Jr. He was married to Frances Gershwin, sister of George Gershwin.

paragraph: Section::::Partial filmography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Red Lantern" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bonds of Honor" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Kid and the Cowboy" (1919)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stronger Than Death" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hitchin' Posts" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Forged Bride" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Path She Chose" (1920)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Trap" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Altar Stairs" (1922)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Red Lights" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Common Law" (1923)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Story Without a Name" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meddling Women" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Sainted Devil" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Virtuous Liars" (1924)

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

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Greater Than Marriage" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Playthings of Desire" (1924)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lost Chord" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Camille of the Barbary Coast" (1925)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Price of a Party" (1926)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In Borrowed Plumes" (1926)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Bibliography

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dagmar Godowsky, 78, Vamp Of the Silent Screen, Is Dead", "The New York Times", February 14, 1975, Page 35.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Frank Mayo Accused By Silent Screen Star", "Oakland Tribune", Wednesday Evening, March 18, 1925, Page 1.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dagmar Godowsky New York Public Library Digital Gallery photo

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nickolas Muray photographic studies of "Dagmar Godowsky"; photo #1, photo #2, photo #3, photo #4, photo #5

description: American actress

wikidata_label: Dagmar Godowsky

wikipedia_title: Dagmar Godowsky


text: Māori

text: Te Arawa

text: Ngāti Tūwharetoa

text: iwi

text: Wimbledon

text: Tikitere

text: Lake Rotoiti

text: Rotorua

text: Rotorua High School

text: Te Puke High School

text: Auckland

text: Auckland Teachers' College

text: Heather Robson

text: Hoani Waititi

text: Sheila Armstrong

text: Betty Pratt

text: Althea Gibson

text: Maria Bueno

text: Montego Bay

text: San Juan

text: Christine Truman

text: Gustavo Palafox

text: Melbourne

text: Federation Cup

text: 1960 New Year Honours

categories: Te Arawa,Ngāti Tūwharetoa,Sportspeople from Rotorua,New Zealand female tennis players,1936 births,New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire,Living people

paragraph: Ruia Morrison

paragraph: Ruia Mereana Morrison-Davy (née Morrison, born 8 May 1936) is a New Zealand tennis player. She is Māori, from the Te Arawa and Ngāti Tūwharetoa iwi (tribes). Morrison was the first New Zealand woman and the first Māori person to play at Wimbledon and reached the quarter-finals in 1957. She also won 13 national New Zealand tennis titles.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Morrison was born in 1936 at Tikitere, a small farming community between Lake Rotoiti and Rotorua in New Zealand's North Island. She was the third of nine children born to Hingawaka (Waki) Morrison and Tanira Kingi.

paragraph: In 1944, the family moved from Tikitere to live in Te Koutu, Rotorua. Shortly afterwards, Hingawaka Morrison, a rugby and tennis player, built two tennis courts in the community. Morrison, aged 8 years old, wanted to play on the courts but as she was so young her father made her a wooden bat and coached her while she practised on the walls of their house instead.

paragraph: Morrison attended Rotokawa and Rotorua Primary Schools, Rotorua High School, and Te Puke High School, before moving to Auckland in 1953 where she enrolled at Queen Victoria School for Maori Girls. After finishing high school, Morrison attended Auckland Teachers' College, where she continued to play tennis and also began a long tennis relationship with Heather Robson.

paragraph: Section::::Adult life.

paragraph: Morrison won the national singles title in 1956 and it became clear that for her to make progress in tennis she would need to compete overseas. Hoani Waititi, a prominent educator and tennis umpire, formed a fundraising campaign to help Morrison travel to England to compete at Wimbledon. The campaign was successful, raising more than enough for the trip, and Morrison and Robson left New Zealand in 1957 for England. At Wimbledon, Morrison reached the fourth round, beating Billy Woodgate, J.L. Debford and Sheila Armstrong but losing to American player Betty Pratt, ranked fourth in the world. Pratt invited Morrison, along with the Wimbledon champions Althea Gibson and Maria Bueno, to the Caribbean the following year for international tennis tournaments at Montego Bay, Jamaica, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

paragraph: In 1958, Morrison reached the third round of Wimbledon. In 1959, she competed at the British Hard Court championships, losing to Christine Truman in the quarter-finals. She won the Guildford Championships by beating South Africa’s Joan Cross, and the mixed-doubles with Mexican Gustavo Palafox as her partner. The same year, Morrison and Pat Nettleton reached the third round of the ladies' doubles at Wimbledon and Morrison made the fourth round of the mixed-doubles with Brian Woolf from New Zealand. In the Wimbledon singles, Morrison reached the fourth round, losing to the eventual champion, Maria Bueno.

paragraph: In later years, Morrison won the New Zealand national singles title an additional five times and the national doubles title several times as well. In 1961, Morrison donated the excess money from the 1956 fundraising campaign to the Maori Education Board, rather than travelling to Wimbledon again. Despite not competing internationally that year, she still won the national singles and doubles titles in 1962.

paragraph: In 1959 and 1960, Morrison entered the W.D. & H.O. Wills tournament in Auckland, winning the women's title in both years; in 1960 she also won the doubles and mixed-doubles. In 1965, Morrison and Elizabeth Terry were selected to travel to Melbourne to compete in the Federation Cup. They beat Argentina but lost to Australia.

paragraph: Section::::Adult life.:Recognition.

paragraph: In the 1960 New Year Honours, Morrison was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services in the field of sport, especially tennis. In 2001, Morrison was awarded life membership of the Aotearoa Māori Tennis Association and in 2003 she was inducted into the Māori Sports Hall of Fame. In 2014, she was made a Tennis New Zealand life member.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: In 2011, Aotearoa Maori Tennis President Dick Garratt began researching Morrison's life in preparation for the publication of a biography, "Tikitere to Wimbledon & the World – Ruia Morrison".

description: New Zealand tennis player

wikidata_label: Ruia Morrison

wikipedia_title: Ruia Morrison


text:
Ceresara
Isabella d'Este
her noted studiolo
Plautus
Aulularia
Aloisio Gonzaga
Castel Goffredo
Federico II Gonzaga
podestà
Mantua

categories: 16th-century Italian poets,1466 births,16th-century astrologers,Italian astrologers,Italian Renaissance humanists,15th-century Italian poets,Italian erotica writers,House of Gonzaga,1532 deaths

paragraph: Paride da Ceresara

paragraph: Paride da Ceresara (10 February 1466 – 1532) was an Italian humanist, poet, alchemist and astrologer.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born in Ceresara and was descended from the Ceresara, a noble family. He was in the service of Isabella d'Este in Mantua and came up with the mythological, allegorical and celebratory themes for at least two of the paintings in her noted studiolo and perhaps the whole cycle. Paride collected and translated classical works such as Plautus' "Aulularia" and also studied Hebrew. He also wrote a number of erotic sonnets, signed with his pseudonyms Patrizio Tricasso and Patrizio Tricasso da Ceresara.

paragraph: He was hosted at the court of Aloisio Gonzaga in Castel Goffredo as an astrologer. He was summoned to Mantua in 1532 by Federico II Gonzaga to become podestà of the city, where Paride built the Palazzo del Diavolo on the corso Predella (now corso Vittorio Emanuele II) as his personal residence. He died in Mantua.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Expositione del Tricasso Mantovano sopra il Cocle", Venezia, published by Vettor q. Piero Ravano, 1535

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Epitoma Chyromantico di Patritio Tricasso da Ceresari mantovano", Venezia, published by Agostino de Bindoni, 1538

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rime", edited by A. Comboni, Olschki, Firenze 2004

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Francesca Romana De Angelis, "Ceresara Paride", in «Dizionario biografico degli Italiani», XXIII, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana 1979

paragraph: BULLET::::- Andrea Comboni, "Eros e Anteros nella poesia italiana del Rinascimento. Appunti per una ricerca", in «Italique», 3, 2001; disponibile online:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giulio Busi, "L'enigma dell'ebraico nel Rinascimento", Editore Aragno, Torino 2007

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saverio Campanini, "A Neglected Source on Asher Lemmlein and Paride da Ceresara: Agostino Giustiniani, in ""European Journal of Jewish Studies" 2 (2008), pp. 89–110.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kenneth Borris, "Sodomizing science: Cocles, Patricio Tricasso and the constitutional morphologies of Renaissance male same-sex lovers", in: Kenneth Borris & George Rousseau (curr.), "The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe", Routledge, London 2007, pp. 137–164.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ceresara-paride-detto-tricasso_(Dizionario_Biografico)/

description: Italian poet and astrologer

wikidata_label: Paride da Ceresara

wikipedia_title: Paride da Ceresara


text: Niagara Falls, Ontario

text: badminton

text: Canada

text: Calgary

text: Bryan Moody

text: Canadian

text: Ardy Wiranata

text: Indonesia

text: Ken Poole

text: Summer Olympics

text: Athens

text: Canadian National Championships

text: Pan American Games

categories: Badminton players at the 2003 Pan American Games,Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada,Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada,Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games,Pan American Games medalists in badminton,Olympic badminton players of Canada,Badminton players at the 1999 Pan American Games,Badminton players at the 2007 Pan American Games,Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics,Sportspeople from Niagara Falls, Ontario,Canadian female badminton players,Living people,1973 births

paragraph: Charmaine Reid

paragraph: Charmaine Reid (born November 3, 1973 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a badminton player from Canada. Her home is in Calgary. Her coaching has been by Bryan Moody (a Canadian champion), Ardy Wiranata (Indonesian working in Canada and former World Champion), and Ken Poole (past president of the Canadian Badminton Coaches' Association). In 2004, she competed at the Summer Olympics in Athens in both singles and doubles. Reid won five Canadian National Championships between 2005 and 2007, two of them in women's singles, and three in women's doubles. She has won one gold and four silver medals at the Pan American Games. In 2016, she was inducted into Niagara Falls Sports Wall of Fame in recognition of her accomplishments and contribution to the sport of badminton around the world.

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.:Pan American Games.

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.:Pan Am Championships.

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.:World Grand Prix.

paragraph: The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.:BWF International Challenge/Series.

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: "Mixed doubles"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Badminton Canada page for Charmaine Reid

description: badminton player

wikidata_label: Charmaine Reid

wikipedia_title: Charmaine Reid


text:
badminton
South Africa
badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Aparna Popat
India
Chantal Botts
Nicole Grether
Juliane Schenk
Germany
badminton at the 2007 All-Africa Games
Chantal Botts
2008
2012
Annari Viljoen

categories: African Games medalists in badminton,African Games bronze medalists for South Africa,Olympic badminton players of South Africa,African Games silver medalists for South Africa,Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics,Living people,Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games,Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games,Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa,Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics,South African female badminton players,Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics,Sportspeople from Durban,African Games gold medalists for South Africa,Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games,South African people of British descent,1974 births

paragraph: Michelle Claire Edwards

paragraph: Michelle Claire Edwards (born 11 July 1974) is a female badminton player from South Africa.

paragraph: Edwards played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Aparna Popat of India in the round of 32 in women's singles. In women's doubles, Edwards and her partner Chantal Botts were defeated by Nicole Grether and Juliane Schenk of Germany in the round of 32.

paragraph: In 2007, she won 3 medals in badminton at the 2007 All-Africa Games, a gold medal in women's doubles with Chantal Botts, a silver medal in women's singles, and a bronze medal in mixed doubles.

paragraph: She also participated in the Summer Olympic Games of 2008 and 2012 in the women's doubles event. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she competed with Chantal Botts, they lost to Taipei in the first round. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, her partner was Annari Viljoen. Together, they reached the quarter finals, where they lost to the Russian pair of Vislova and Sorokina.

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.:All African Games.

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: "Mixed doubles"

paragraph: Section::::Achievements.:African Championships.

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: "Mixed doubles"

paragraph: "Women's singles"

paragraph: "Women's doubles"

paragraph: "Mixed doubles"

description: badminton player

wikidata_label: Michelle Edwards

wikipedia_title: Michelle Claire Edwards


text:
Grandee of Spain
amateur
jockey
Spanish
aristocrat
Alburquerque
Marquis
Cadreita
Cullera
Fuensaldaña
Duke of Alburquerque
Britain
Grand National Steeplechase
vertebra
collarbone
ribs
wrist
thigh
concussion
coma

categories: Marquesses of Alcañices,Counts of Huelma,Dukes of Algete,Marquesses of Cadreita,Grandees of Spain,Marquesses of the Balbases,1918 births,1994 deaths,Counts of Ledesma,Spanish jockeys,Marquesses of Cuellar,Dukes of Alburquerque

paragraph: Beltrán Alfonso Osorio, 18th duke of Alburquerque

paragraph: Beltrán Alfonso Osorio y Díez de Rivera, 18th Duke of Alburquerque (15 December 1918 – 8 February 1994), was a Grandee of Spain and an amateur jockey. As a Spanish aristocrat, he was known as the "Iron Duke" of Alburquerque.

paragraph: He was also Duke of Algete, Marquis of Alcañices, los Balbases, Cadreita, Cuéllar, Cullera, and Montaos, Count of Fuensaldaña, Grajal, Huelma, Ledesma, la Torre, Villanueva de Cañedo, and Villaumbrosa.

paragraph: His son, Juan Miguel Osorio y Bertrán de Lis (b. 1958), is the current Duke of Alburquerque and Duke of Algete.

paragraph: Section::::Jockey career.

paragraph: The duke became obsessed with winning Britain's Grand National Steeplechase horse race after watching a film of the race on his eighth birthday. However, each of his attempts ended in failure.

paragraph: On his first attempt in 1952, he fell from his horse, waking up later in hospital with a cracked vertebra. He tried to win again in 1963, and fell from his horse yet again. (Bookies placed a bet of 66-1 against him finishing still on the horse). He raced again in 1965, but again fell from his horse after it collapsed underneath him, breaking his leg.

paragraph: In 1974, after having sixteen screws removed from a leg he had broken after falling in another race, he also fell while training for the Grand National and broke his collarbone. He then competed in a plaster cast in the race, this time managing to finish, but only in eighth place.

paragraph: In 1976, the duke fell again during the race, this time being trampled by other horses. He suffered seven broken ribs, several broken vertebrae, a broken wrist, a broken thigh, and a severe concussion which left him in a coma for two days.

paragraph: At 57, the Iron Duke still tried to compete, but officials revoked his license for "his own safety". He never won the Grand National, but broke more bones than any other jockey in attempting to do so.

description: 18th duke of Alburquerque

wikidata_label: Beltrán Alfonso Osorio


text:
geologist
Hildesheim
Kingdom of Westphalia
mineralogy
geology
Clausthal
Cretaceous
Jurassic
strata
oolith
Harz Mountains
Clausthal
romerite
"Bergakademie" in Clausthal
Carl Ferdinand von Roemer

categories: 1809 births,People from Hildesheim,German geologists,German botanists,1869 deaths

paragraph: Friedrich Adolph Roemer

paragraph: Friedrich Adolph Roemer (15 April 1809 – 25 November 1869), German geologist, was born at Hildesheim, in the Kingdom of Westphalia.

paragraph: His father was a lawyer and councillor of the high court of justice. In 1845 he became professor of mineralogy and geology at Clausthal, and in 1862 named director of the School of Mines. He first described the Cretaceous and Jurassic strata of Germany in elaborate works entitled "Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Oolith-Gebirges" ("Fossils of the North German oolith formations"; 1836–39), "Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Kreidegebirges" ("Fossils of the North German chalk formations"; 1840–41) and "Die Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges" ("Fossils of the Harz Mountains"; 1843). He died in Clausthal.

paragraph: The mineral romerite commemorates his name, as does "Roemeriana", a publication issued by the Institute of Geology at the "Bergakademie" in Clausthal from 1954 to 1964.

paragraph: His younger brother, Carl Ferdinand von Roemer, was also a geologist.

description: German geologist

wikidata_label: Friedrich Adolph Roemer

wikipedia_title: Friedrich Adolph Roemer


text:
German
Göttingen
geology
University of Berlin
Ph.D.
rocks
fossil
America
Texas
Bonn
Cretaceous
Breslau
privatdocent
palaeontology
mineralogy
University of Breslau
vertebrate
Devonian
H. G. Bronn
geological map
Silesia
Friedrich Adolph Roemer

categories: People from the Kingdom of Hanover,People from Hildesheim,1891 deaths,University of Göttingen alumni,Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences,Humboldt University of Berlin alumni,German geologists,University of Bonn faculty,1818 births

paragraph: Ferdinand von Roemer

paragraph: Carl Ferdinand von Roemer (5 January 1818 – 14 December 1891), German geologist, had originally been educated for the legal profession at Göttingen, but became interested in geology, and abandoning law in 1840, studied science at the University of Berlin, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1842.

paragraph: Two years later he published his first work, "Das Rheinische Ubergangsgebirge" (1844), in which he dealt with the older rocks and fossils. In 1845 he paid a visit to America, and devoted a year and a half to a careful study of the geology of Texas and other Southern states. He published at Bonn in 1849 a general work entitled "Texas", while the results of his investigations of the Cretaceous rocks and fossils were published three years later in a treatise, "Die Kreidebildungen von Texas und ihre organischen Einschlusse" (1852), which also included a general account of the geology, and gained for him the title Father of the geology of Texas.

paragraph: Subsequently, he published at Breslau "Die Silurische Fauna des westlichen Tennessee" (1860). During the preparation of these works he was from 1847 to 1855 privatdocent at Bonn, and was then appointed professor of geology, palaeontology and mineralogy in the University of Breslau, a post which he held with signal success as a teacher until his death.

paragraph: As a palaeontologist he made important contributions to our knowledge especially of the vertebrates of the Devonian and older rocks. He assisted H. G. Bronn with the third edition of the "Lethaea geognostica" (1851–56), and subsequently he labored on an enlarged and revised edition, of which he published one section, "Lethaea palaeozoica" (1876-1883). In 1862 he was called on to superintend the preparation of a geological map of Upper Silesia, and the results of his researches were embodied in his "Geologie von Oberschlesien" (3 vols., 1870). As a mineralogist he was likewise well known, more particularly by his practical teachings and by the collection he formed in the Museum at Breslau. He died at Breslau on 14 December 1891.

paragraph: His brother, Friedrich Adolph Roemer, was also a geologist.

description: German geologist

wikidata_label: Ferdinand von Roemer

wikipedia_title: Ferdinand von Roemer


text: French

text: poet

text: politician

text: Négritude

text: Cayenne

text: French Guiana

text: mulatto

text: Métis

text: Martinique

text: Aimé Césaire

text: Paris

text: Leopold Senghor

text: L'Étudiant Noir

text: Négritude

text: French Army

text: World War II

text: French National Assembly

text: Présence Africaine

text: UNESCO

text: Society of African Culture

text: Washington, D.C.

text: Georgetown University

text: Howard University

text: Christian Filostrat

text: La Poésie de Léon G. Damas.

text: Folkways Records

text: Négritude

text: Biography

text: Folkways

text: Mine de Rien

categories: 1912 births,Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic,French male poets,20th-century French male writers,People from Cayenne,French Guianan people of indigenous peoples descent,French Guianan poets,French Guianan people of European descent,20th-century French poets,French Section of the Workers' International politicians,1978 deaths,Georgetown University faculty,French Guianan writers,French Guianan politicians

paragraph: Léon Damas

paragraph: Léon-Gontran Damas (March 28, 1912 – January 22, 1978) was a French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. He also used the pseudonym Lionel Georges André Cabassou.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Léon Damas was born in Cayenne, French Guiana, to Ernest Damas, a mulatto of European and African descent, and Bathilde Damas, a Métisse of Native American and African ancestry. In 1924, Damas was sent to Martinique to attend the Lycée Victor Schoelcher (a secondary school), where he would meet his lifelong friend and collaborator Aimé Césaire.

paragraph: In 1929, Damas moved to Paris to continue his studies. There, he reunited with Césaire and was introduced to Leopold Senghor. In 1935, the three young men published the first issue of the literary review "L'Étudiant Noir" (The Black Student), which provided the foundation for what is now known as the Négritude Movement, a literary and ideological movement of French-speaking black intellectuals that rejects the political, social and moral domination of the West.

paragraph: In 1937, Damas published his first volume of poetry, "Pigments". He enlisted in the French Army during World War II, and later was elected to the French National Assembly (1948–51) as a deputy from Guiana. In the following years, Damas traveled and lectured widely in Africa, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. He also served as the contributing editor of "Présence Africaine", one of the most respected journals of Black studies, and as senior adviser and UNESCO delegate for the Society of African Culture.

paragraph: In 1970, Damas moved to Washington, D.C., where he taught at Georgetown University and later became a professor at Howard University, where he wrote his last collection of poems, "Mine de Rien". Damas remained at Howard University until his death in January 1978. He was buried in French Guiana.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Poetry.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pigments". Paris: Guy Lévis Mano (1937). Paris: Présence Africaine (1962).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poèmes nègres sur des airs Africains". Paris: Guy Lévis Mano (1948).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Graffiti". Paris: Seghers (1952).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black-Label". Paris: Gallimard (1956).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Névralgies". Paris: Présence Africaine (1966).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mine de Rien". Collection of 36 poems. Washington, DC (1977), quoted in Christian Filostrat, "Negritude Agonistes", Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2008,

paragraph: BULLET::::- La Poésie de Léon G. Damas.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Essays.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Retour de Guyane". Paris: José Corti (1938).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poètes d’expression française". Paris: Seuil (1947).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poèmes Nègres sur des airs africains". Paris: G.L.M. Éditeurs (1948).

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Stories.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Veillées noires, Contes Nègres de Guyane". Paris: Stock, 1943. Montréal: Leméac (1972).

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Recordings.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poésie de la Negritude: Léon Damas Reads Selected Poems from Pigments, Graffiti, Black Label, and Nevralgies" (Folkways Records, 1967)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Négritude"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography, by Rochelle M. Smith, Postcolonial Studies website, English Department, Emory University. 2001.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Poésie de la Negritude" - Album Details on Folkways.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mine de Rien, unpublished poems by Leon Damas.

paragraph: BULLET::::- NOIR, JOURNAL MENSUEL DE L'ASSOCIATION DES ETUDIANTS MARTINIQUAIS EN FRANCE, PREMIERE ANNEE N.3 MAI-JUN 1935,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leon Gontran-Damas recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on November 3, 1972

alias:
Léon-Gontran Damas
Leon Damas
Leon-Gontran Damas

description: French Guiana politician

wikidata_label: Léon Damas

wikipedia_title: Léon Damas


text:
São Paulo
Brazil
South America
Milan
University of Milan
Eugenio Finardi
Patty Pravo
Stormy Six
Fausto Leali
synthpop
Sanremo Music Festival

wikipedia_title:
São Paulo
Brazil
South America
Milan
University of Milan
Eugenio Finardi
Patty Pravo
Stormy Six
Fausto Leali
Synth-pop
Sanremo Music Festival

categories: Musicians from São Paulo,Italian rock singers,Italian Italo disco musicians,1951 births,Italian pop singers,Italian new wave musicians,Singers from Milan,Living people

paragraph: Alberto Camerini

paragraph: Alberto Camerini (born May 16, 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician, who was commercially most active during the late-1970s and early-1980s.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Alberto Camerini was born in São Paulo, Brazil from Italian Jewish parents who had moved to South America a few years earlier. His parents moved back to Milan when Alberto was 11 years old. Camerini enrolled at the University of Milan, where he became friends with Eugenio Finardi, who introduced him to music; together with Eugenio Finardi, Camerini started two bands, "Il Pacco" and "L'Enorme Maria". Camerini became a proficient guitarist and he later did session work for musicians such as Patty Pravo, Stormy Six, Fausto Leali and Eugenio Finardi himself.

paragraph: Camerini started his solo career in 1976, with the single "Pane quotidiano" and three albums that proposed an original mix between rock and Brazilian music. In the eighties Camerini initiated a successful collaboration with lyrics author and record producer Roberto Colombo. Inspired by the Kraut rock movement that was dominant in Europe at the time, Camerini had a significant commercial success with a number of synthpop hits, particularly with the songs "Rock 'n' roll robot" and "Tanz bambolina". In 1984 Camerini participated to the Sanremo Music Festival where he finished 16th. Following the lukewarm reception to his 1986 album "Angeli in Blue Jeans", Camerini took a break from music for about a decade.In 1995 Camerini reprised his career and recorded the album, "Dove l'arcobaleno arriva".

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Selected singles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1976 – Pane quotidiano

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1977 – Gelato metropolitano

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1978 – Sciocka

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980 – Sintonizzati con me

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980 – Serenella

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1981 – Rock 'n' roll robot

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1982 – Tanz bambolina

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1982 – Questo amore

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1983 – Computer capriccio

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1984 – La bottega del caffè

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1986 – Va bene così

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Studio albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1976 – "Cenerentola e il pane quotidiano

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1977 – "Gelato metropolitano

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1978 – "Comici cosmetici

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980 – "Alberto Camerini

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1981 – "Rudy e Rita

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1982 – "Rockmantico

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1986 – "Angeli in blue jeans

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995 – "Dove l'arcobaleno arriva

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001 – "Cyberclown

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 – "Kids Wanna Rock

description: Italian singer-songwriter and musician

wikidata_label: Alberto Camerini

wikipedia_title: Alberto Camerini


text:
Greek
road cyclist
UCI Women's Team
2014 UCI Road World Championships

categories: Greek female cyclists,European Games competitors for Greece,Cyclists at the 2015 European Games,1991 births,Place of birth missing (living people),Living people

paragraph: Varvara Fasoi

paragraph: Varvara Fasoi (born 2 February 1991) is a Greek road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team . She competed at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.

description: cyclist

wikidata_label: Varvara Fasoi

wikipedia_title: Varvara Fasoi


text: The Affair

text: Kerrie Biddell

text: Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds

text: progressive rock

text: Gong

text: expatriate

text: Daevid Allen

text: Pierre Moerlen

text: Strontium 90

text: Sting

text: Stewart Copeland

text: Andy Summers

text: The Police

text: Steve Hillage

text: new wave music

text: A Flock of Seagulls

text: The Alarm

text: China Crisis

text: Martha & the Muffins

text: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

text: Stephen Duffy

text: Gang of Four

text: Comsat Angels

text: Secret Secrets

text: Joan Armatrading

text: the Music Producers Guild

text: University of Glamorgan

text: University of South Wales

text: Pontypridd

text: Wales

text: Thames Valley University

text: Ealing

text: Queensland University of Technology

text: Brisbane

text: Fischer-Z

text: Word Salad

text: Going Deaf for a Living

text: Punishment of Luxury

text: Laughing Academy

text: Martha & The Muffins

text: Metro Music

text: Echo Beach

text: Trance and Dance

text: The Revillos

text: Dindisc

text: The Teardrop Explodes

text: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

text: Messages

text: Enola Gay

text: Souvenir

text: Sniff 'n' the Tears

text: Thompson Twins

text: A Product of ...

text: Any Trouble

text: Stiff

text: Tears for Fears

text: Pale Shelter

text: Gang of Four

text: Songs of the Free

text: Blancmange

text: Happy Families

text: A Flock of Seagulls

text: A Flock of Seagulls

text: Listen

text: The Story of a Young Heart

text: Hunters & Collectors

text: Comsat Angels

text: Land

text: 7 Day Weekend

text: China Crisis

text: John Foxx

text: The Golden Section

text: Berlin

text: Love Life

text: Joan Armatrading

text: The Alarm

text: Strength

text: The Ward Brothers

text: Official website

text: Mike Howlett discography

text: Discogs

categories: People from Lautoka,Strontium 90 (band) members,Queensland University of Technology faculty,Fijian people of British descent,Academics of the University of West London,1950 births,Fijian record producers,Fijian emigrants to Australia,Alumni of the University of Glamorgan,The Police,Fijian musicians,Gong (band) members,Living people

paragraph: Mike Howlett

paragraph: Michael John Gilmour Howlett (born 27 April 1950) is a Fijian musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia.

paragraph: In the late 1960s, Howlett was the bassist in Sydney pop band The Affair, which included vocalist Kerrie Biddell. The group travelled to England after winning a prize in the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds band competition. Howlett settled in London and in 1973 joined renowned British progressive rock group Gong, which had been founded by an Australian expatriate, Daevid Allen. He remained with Gong until 1977, recording several albums with them and co-writing much of their material later in this period with drummer Pierre Moerlen.

paragraph: After leaving Gong, Howlett formed the short-lived band Strontium 90, which consisted of himself, Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers. In addition to being the band's lead bassist and chief songwriter, Howlett performed most of the lead vocals at live performances. The band recorded several demos and played at a Paris Gong reunion concert in May 1977, but disbanded when Summers left to join Copeland and Sting's other project, The Police. An archival collection of Strontium 90 material was released two decades later as "".

paragraph: A few months after the breakup of Strontium 90, Howlett served as bassist for the one-off studio band The Radio Actors, which also included Gong bandmate Steve Hillage on lead guitar and Strontium 90 bandmate Sting (who came to the group by way of Howlett's recommendation) on lead vocals. The band's single, "Nuclear Waste" b/w "Digital Love", was reissued on CD in 1995 with liner notes and three bonus tracks, though none of the bonus tracks involved Howlett.

paragraph: In the 1980s, Howlett became an in-demand producer, with a string of notable credits. He produced many hit singles and albums for leading new wave music acts including A Flock of Seagulls (Grammy winner), The Alarm, China Crisis, Martha & the Muffins, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Stephen Duffy, Gang of Four and Comsat Angels. He also produced the album "Secret Secrets" for Joan Armatrading in 1985.

paragraph: Gong performs occasional reunion gigs around the world, and Howlett usually joins them. In 1993, he launched a record label, Mauve, which released albums by singer-songwriters Rafa Russo, Debbie Cassell and Jay Fisher. From 2005 to 2009, Howlett was chairman of the Music Producers Guild (MPG).

paragraph: Howlett was awarded a PhD on the subject of record production in 2009 and has lectured in music technology at several universities, including the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) (Pontypridd, Wales) and Thames Valley University (Ealing, England). In 2009, he became Head of Music at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. and is an Adjunct Professor for QUT.

paragraph: Howlett is married and has three children and a grandchild. He lives in West London.

paragraph: Section::::Production credits.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fischer-Z

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Word Salad" (1979); "Going Deaf for a Living" (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Punishment of Luxury

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Laughing Academy" (1979)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martha & The Muffins

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Insect Love" (1979); "Metro Music" (1979); "Echo Beach" (1980); "Trance and Dance" (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Revillos

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rev Up" (Snatzo/Dindisc, 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Teardrop Explodes

paragraph: BULLET::::- "When I Dream" (1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Messages" (1980); "Enola Gay" (1980); "Souvenir" (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sniff 'n' the Tears

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love/Action" (1981); "Ride Blue Divide" (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thompson Twins

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Perfect Game" and "Politics" from "A Product of ..." (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Any Trouble

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wheels in Motion" (Stiff, 1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tears for Fears

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pale Shelter" (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gang of Four

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Songs of the Free" (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Blancmange

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Happy Families" (1982); "Living On The Ceiling" (1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- A Flock of Seagulls

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Flock of Seagulls" (1982); "Listen" (1983); "The Story of a Young Heart" (1984)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hunters & Collectors

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hunters & Collectors" (1982); "Payload" (EP, 1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Comsat Angels

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Land" (1983); "7 Day Weekend" (1985, not all songs)

paragraph: BULLET::::- China Crisis

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two" (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- John Foxx

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Twilight's Last Gleaming" from "The Golden Section" (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Berlin

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Love Life" (1984, not all songs)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joan Armatrading

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Secret Secrets" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Alarm

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Strength" (1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Ward Brothers

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Madness of It All" (1986, not all songs)

paragraph: BULLET::::- TV21

paragraph: BULLET::::- "All Join Hands" (1982)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mike Howlett Discography : https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/69817-Mike-Howlett

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 interview on Calyx: the Canterbury website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography on Calyx: the Canterbury website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mike Howlett discography at Discogs

description: Fijian musician

wikidata_label: Mike Howlett

wikipedia_title: Mike Howlett


text: Spanish

text: rock climber

text: grade

text: Switzerland

text: first ascent

text: Fred Nicole

text: sport route

text: Dai Koyamada

text: Redpointed

text: pitch

text: Ordesa Park

text: Naranjo de Bulnes

text: Arco Rock Legends

text: Gold Piton Award

text: Notable first free ascents

text: Profile on Climbandmore

text: Interview on Climbandmore

text: Interview on PlanetMountain

text: Proquest Interview

categories: Sportspeople from Gipuzkoa,1972 births,Female climbers,Spanish rock climbers,Living people

paragraph: Josune Bereziartu

paragraph: Josune Bereziartu, also known as Josune Bereciartu Urruzola (born January 19, 1972) is a Spanish rock climber. She is known for being the first woman to climb , , and routes.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

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

paragraph: Josune Bereziartu, was born on January 19, 1972, at Lazkao, a Basque town of the province of Gipuzkoa, northern Spain. Josune was first inspired to climb after watching a Spanish TV show documenting two girls

paragraph: climbing in the Verdon Gorge. She was immediately inspired to start climbing and started

paragraph: to try a few things but really needed professional help. Her sister's boyfriend helped her out and

paragraph: introduced her to some climbers to get her going the right way, then she started Climbing at 17.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Relationship.

paragraph: Bereziartu wedded her long term climbing partner Rikar Otegui. For their honeymoon they went to London, England. The two own a home in Spain. With the climbing community being so small Josune soon met the best climbers in the Basque Country. Rikar Otegui was one of them with a climbing level of 8b+. Not only were Josune and Rikar dating but he also became her instructor. Rikar showed her the importance of training and better ways to train so she can go further. Josune and Rikar have their own plastic climbing walls for training even though real rock has a much different feel Josune feels it is important to climb real rock before every training session. Rikar helped her set up her first one and they were identical but she soon realized their strengths and weaknesses were different so she started customizing hers to work on her weakness, and then she started to get better and better.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Climbing.

paragraph: She takes annual climbing trips which take place on her vacations, from her day job. She has been climbing since 1989.

paragraph: She is the first female to have climbed the grade 9a/5.14d "Bain de Sang" in 2002 and "Logical Progression". "Bain de Sang" in St Loup, Switzerland, had its first ascent (FA) by Fred Nicole and was the third 9a route in the world. "Logical Progression" is a sport route by Dai Koyamada.

paragraph: In May 2005, she made the second ascent of "Bimbaluna", graded 9a/9a+ (5.14d/5.15a). "Bimbaluna" was originally climbed by Francois Nicole (Fred Nicole's brother) in May 2004. The route is to the right of "Bain de Sang".

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

paragraph: During the week, Bereziartu sells insurance and investments for a Spanish bank, Mapre.

paragraph: Bereziartu designs and creates her own resin holds to sell for indoor climbing walls. When she began her serious climbing career, she was obsessed with being the first woman to complete a route, regardless if men had climbed it before.

paragraph: Bereziartu has consistently pushed the limits of what women have accomplished in sport climbing. Redpointing "Bain de Sang", made her the first woman to climb 5.14d. She has also climbed many other 5.14s.

paragraph: Ha salito 76 vie tra l'8a e il 9a+ di cui 28 a vista.

paragraph: Section::::Rock climbing.

paragraph: Section::::Rock climbing.:Redpointed routes.

paragraph: 9a/9a+ (5.14d/5.15a):

paragraph: Section::::Rock climbing.:Multi-pitch routes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El Castillo de los Sacristanes" - Ordesa Park (ESP) - 2009 - First free ascent with Rikar Otegui

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zaratustra" - Ordesa Park (ESP) - 2008 - Climbed with Rikar Otegui

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El Ojo Critico" - Ordesa Park (ESP) - July 6, 2007 - First free ascent with Rikar Otegui

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Super Weissmuller" - Petit Pic De Ansabere (FRA) - June 2007 - First free ascent with Rikar Otegui

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Divina Comedia" - Ordesa Park (ESP) - July 2006 - First free ascent with Rikar Otegui

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yeah man" - Gran Pfad (SUI) - July 1, 2004 - First free ascent with Rikar Otegui

paragraph: BULLET::::- "El Pilar del Cantabrico" - Naranjo de Bulnes (ESP) - 2002 - Climbed with Iker Pou

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arco Rock Legends - September 2, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- National Geographic Adventurers of the year - 2005

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gold Piton Award - March 2003

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Notable first free ascents

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on Climbandmore

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview on Climbandmore

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview on PlanetMountain

paragraph: BULLET::::- Proquest Interview

description: Spanish rock climber

wikidata_label: Josune Bereziartu

wikipedia_title: Josune Bereziartu


text: American football

text: wide receiver

text: college football

text: Nevada Wolf Pack

text: National Football League

text: Minnesota Vikings

text: 2003 NFL Draft

text: Seattle Seahawks

text: Detroit Lions

text: NFL Network

text: Good Morning Football

text: CBS Sports

text: The NFL Today

text: Calgary, Alberta

text: Al Burleson

text: defensive back

text: Calgary Stampeders

text: Canadian Football League

text: college football

text: University of Washington

text: Huskies

text: Western Illinois University

text: Leathernecks

text: Kevin

text: basketball

text: point guard

text: Charlotte Bobcats

text: National Basketball Association

text: college basketball

text: University of Nevada

text: Wolf Pack

text: Seattle Seahawks

text: Los Angeles Express

text: United States Football League

text: maple leaf

text: Seattle, Washington

text: Associated Grocers

text: Lindbergh High School

text: Renton

text: O'Dea High School

text: Seattle Times

text: track and field

text: 300-meter hurdles

text: 110-meter hurdles

text: University of Washington

text: University of Nevada, Reno

text: Nevada Wolf Pack

text: NCAA

text: All-America

text: American Football Coaches Association

text: Western Athletic Conference

text: The Sporting News

text: CNN/SI

text: 2003 NFL Draft

text: Minnesota Vikings

text: Randy Moss

text: Seattle Seahawks

text: Steve Hutchinson

text: Minnesota

text: running back

text: Shaun Alexander

text: 2006 NFL Draft

text: Detroit Lions

text: Scott Linehan

text: Cleveland Browns

text: NFL Network

text: Detroit Lions

text: color commentator

text: Detroit Lions Television Network

text: Good Morning Football

text: Kay Adams

text: Kyle Brandt

text: Peter Schrager

text: The NFL Today

text: DiGiorno

text: Wizdom

text: Wu Tang Clan

categories: Minnesota Vikings players,Seattle Seahawks players,Detroit Lions players,Cleveland Browns players,1981 births,American football wide receivers,American football return specialists,Canadian players of American football,Canadian people of African-American descent,Nevada Wolf Pack football players,Living people,Sportspeople from Calgary

paragraph: Nate Burleson

paragraph: Nathaniel Eugene Burleson (born August 19, 1981) is an American football commentator and former wide receiver. He played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack and was drafted into the National Football League (NFL) by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Burleson was also a member of the Seattle Seahawks and Detroit Lions. Burleson is now working with NFL Network on Good Morning Football and CBS Sports on The NFL Today.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Burleson was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. At the time his father, Al Burleson, was playing defensive back for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was born into a prolific and tight-knit sporting family. His oldest brother, Alvin Jr., played college football for the University of Washington Huskies and the Western Illinois University Leathernecks. Another older brother, Kevin played professional basketball and was formerly a point guard for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His younger brother Lyndale played college basketball for the University of Nevada Wolf Pack. Kevin and Nate Burleson are one of only two sibling duos in which one brother played in the NBA while the other played in the NFL. As a mark of his father's influence, Nate Burleson's jersey number on the Seattle Seahawks, 81, was his father's high school number.

paragraph: In 1983, when Burleson was an infant, his father signed with the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL), moving the family back to the United States. However, Burleson remains proud of his Canadian heritage, sporting a maple leaf tattoo and expressing interest in playing for Canada in a World Cup of football to the media. After an injury ended Alvin Burleson's playing career, he moved the family to his hometown of Seattle, Washington, U.S., where he worked for Associated Grocers. Nate Burleson attended Rainier View Elementary School in Seattle. He attended Lindbergh High School in the suburb of Renton as a freshman, and then transferred to O'Dea High School in Seattle, where he graduated. As a senior, he was named "Seattle Times" City Athlete of the Year.

paragraph: Burleson was also on the school's track and field team, competing as a sprinter and hurdler. He won the state title in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 38.70 seconds in 1999, and finished eighth in 110-meter hurdles as junior.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Burleson hoped to attend the University of Washington, his father's alma mater, but was not offered a football scholarship. Instead he accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Nevada, Reno and played for the Nevada Wolf Pack. In the 2002 season he made 138 receptions, the second highest in NCAA history. His senior year, he led the NCAA in both receiving yards and in receptions per game. During his time at Nevada he made a total of 248 receptions for a total of 3,293 yards and 22 touchdowns. He was named first-team All-America by the American Football Coaches Association, All-WAC by the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), and team MVP, and was named second-team All-America by "The Sporting News" and CNN/SI. He currently holds the WAC and Nevada all-time records for single game receptions with 19 catches. He graduated with a degree in human development and family studies.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Vikings.

paragraph: Burleson was selected in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings, the 71st overall pick. He showed promise during his rookie season, but did not put up great numbers. In his second season, 2004, Burleson emerged as a threat when fellow receiver Randy Moss injured his hamstring. Burleson was now the go-to-guy for Minnesota. He put up strong numbers and reached 1,000 receiving yards for the first time in his career. Not only a great receiver, but a standout special teams player as well, Burleson is the only player in NFL history to have three punt returns of 90 or more yards.

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

paragraph: On March 24, 2006, Burleson signed a seven-year $49 million offer sheet to play with his hometown Seattle Seahawks. In retribution for the Vikings signing an offer sheet with former Seahawks guard Steve Hutchinson, the Seahawks put clauses in Burleson's offer sheet which made it virtually impossible for Minnesota to match (similar to what the Vikings did with Hutchinson). The offer sheet stated that the entire $49 million would be guaranteed if Burleson played five games, in one season, in the state of Minnesota, or if his average per year exceeded the average of all running backs on the team combined. The Vikings played eight home games a year in Minneapolis, and at the time of the offer sheet, the team spent far less than $7 million per year for its entire running back corps. On the other hand, Seattle was spending over $7 million a year on just one of its running backs (Shaun Alexander). The Vikings had seven days to match the offer sheet but declined to do so. Minnesota received Seattle's third-round pick in the 2006 NFL Draft; Seattle, however, received no compensation for the departure of Hutchinson. On September 7, 2008, Burleson tore a ligament in his knee in Seattle's season opener against the Bills. He was put on injured reserve for the remainder of the season.

paragraph: Burleson owns the Seahawk team record for most punt return yards in a single season (2007) as well as career punt return yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Detroit Lions.

paragraph: During the early hours of the NFL free agency period on March 5, 2010, Burleson agreed to a five-year $25 million contract with the Detroit Lions. Burleson reunited with his former offensive coordinator, Scott Linehan, with whom he had his best season of his career in 2004, when he caught 68 passes for 1,006 yards and nine touchdowns while playing for the Vikings. In 2011, Burleson was named recipient of the Detroit Lions-Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association/Pro Football Writers Association's Media-Friendly "Good Guy Award" for his interactions with the media in Detroit. On September 24, 2013, Burleson fractured his forearm in two places in an early morning, single-car accident. It was reported that Burleson was attempting to save a pizza from falling off a seat in his car and lost control of his vehicle. He was cut from the Lions on February 13, 2014.

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

paragraph: On April 6, 2014, Burleson signed a one-year deal with the Cleveland Browns, but was cut on August 30.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:NFL statistics.

paragraph: Receiving statistics

paragraph: Return stats

paragraph: Section::::Broadcasting career.

paragraph: Burleson attended a Broadcast Boot Camp put on by the NFL in 2012. After his playing career ended in 2014, he began working as an analyst for the NFL Network. In 2015, Burleson was also a member of the Detroit Lions preseason broadcast team as a color commentator for the Detroit Lions Television Network. In 2016, "Good Morning Football" debuted on NFL Network with Burleson, Kay Adams, Kyle Brandt, and Peter Schrager as co-hosts. On May 8, 2017, it was announced that Burleson will join the NFL on CBS team as a studio analyst for The NFL Today, while still serving as co-host of GMFB. During half-time of the Patriots/Chiefs AFC Championship game, Burelson defended the non-call during the Saints/Rams game which gave the win to the Rams.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Burleson and his wife Atoya have two sons and a daughter.

paragraph: After his car accident, DiGiorno gave Burleson a year's supply of free pizza.

paragraph: Burleson rapped on a song by Wizdom featuring the Wu Tang Clan, "Put in Work."

paragraph: Section::::See also.

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

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Nate Burleson

wikipedia_title: Nate Burleson


text: John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

text: William Bourchier, Count of Eu

text: Anne of Gloucester

text: earldom of Surrey

text: Earl Marshal

text: Caister Castle

text: John Paston

text: John Fastolf

text: Knight of the Garter

text: Elizabeth Talbot

text: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

text: Margaret Beauchamp

text: Dukes of Norfolk family tree

categories: Earls Marshal,Knights of the Garter,1476 deaths,Earls of Nottingham,Barons Segrave,1444 births,Earls of Norfolk (1312),Barons Mowbray,Dukes of Norfolk,Earls of Surrey

paragraph: John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk

paragraph: John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, (18 October 144414 January 1476), known as 1st Earl of Surrey between 1451 and 1461, was the only son of John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Eleanor Bourchier. His maternal grandparents were William Bourchier, Count of Eu and Anne of Gloucester.

paragraph: In 1451 the earldom of Surrey was revived for him. Mowbray was descended from a sister of the last earl of the previous creation.

paragraph: In 1461 he succeeded his father as 4th Duke of Norfolk and hereditary Earl Marshal. He continued his father's efforts to possess Caister Castle, finally taking it in September 1469 after a siege. John Paston had inherited Caister from John Fastolf in 1459 and was in charge of defending it. Although Paston had been in Mowbray's service for several years, Mowbray showed a notable ruthlessness in his conduct of the siege, in which one Daubenay, a long-standing Paston servant, was killed. Under pressure from the Church, Norfolk did at least grant the other defenders a safe conduct. In 1476, within a day of Norfolk's death, the Paston family took Caister back again.

paragraph: Norfolk was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1472. He died very suddenly, having apparently been in good health the day before.

paragraph: He married Elizabeth Talbot, daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp. They had only one child, Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, and so the 1397 creation of the dukedom became extinct upon his death. Anne, who was only 3 years old when her father died, inherited the earldom and his extensive lands and wealth.

paragraph: The dukedom would be recreated in 1481 and again in 1483. The 1483 creation survives to the present day, despite two periods of forfeiture.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dukes of Norfolk family tree

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (the fourth duke is discussed at the end of his father's article)

description: English nobleman

wikidata_label: John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk

wikipedia_title: John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk