text: Darwin

text: Northern Territory

text: tunnel vision

text: 1988 Seoul

text: 1992 Barcelona

text: 1996 Atlanta

text: 2000 Sydney

text: Australian Sports Medal

text: Australian Paralympic Committee

text: Facebook memorial

categories: 1960 births,Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Paralympics,Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics,Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics,Sportspeople from Darwin, Northern Territory,Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal,Sportsmen from the Northern Territory,Paralympic athletes with a vision impairment,Paralympic gold medalists for Australia,Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics,Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Paralympics,Paralympic athletes of Australia,Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics

paragraph: Mark Davies (athlete)

paragraph: Mark Hedley Davies (30 June 1960 – 9 January 2011) was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Darwin, and was the first man to represent the Northern Territory in sport for the blind. He had a degenerative eye condition that caused tunnel vision; he found it more difficult to compete in able-bodied sports as he got older, and by 2000, he had lost all of his sight.

paragraph: He began his athletic career before the establishment of the Northern Territory Institute of Sport, so he had to organise all his training and transport independently. In 1982 he joined the newly formed Northern Territory Blind Sports Association, and went on to win many medals and break Australian records at national blind sporting championships. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, he won gold medals in the Men's Pentathlon B2, where he broke a world record, and the Men's 100 m B2. He also competed in athletics without winning any medals at the 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and 2000 Sydney Games. He worked as an athletics coach, and assisted other blind sportspeople in the Northern Territory. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.

paragraph: He died in Darwin on 9 January 2011, a week after the death of his wife. The Australian Paralympic Committee described him as "a genuine pioneer of the Australian Paralympic movement".

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Facebook memorial

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mark Davies – Athletics Australia Results

description: athlete

wikidata_label: Mark Davies

wikipedia_title: Mark Davies (athlete)


text:
child martyr
Roman Catholic Church
Roman
Saint Epigmenius
Diocletian
Perugia
Saint Euthymius
beheaded
via Salaria
city walls
Middle Ages
translated
Siena
Tortosa
Tuscany
Maestà
Duccio
St. Crescentius
San Crescenzio di Roma
Colonnade Statue in St Peter's Square

categories: Christian child saints,4th-century Christian martyrs,Christian martyrs executed by decapitation,4th-century Romans,303 deaths,Italian children,292 births

paragraph: Crescentius of Rome

paragraph: Saint Crescentius of Rome () is venerated as a child martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. According to tradition, he was born of a noble Roman family and was baptized along with his parents by Saint Epigmenius. During the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian, the family fled to Perugia, where his father Saint Euthymius died. Led back to Rome, Crescentius, who was eleven years old, was beheaded on the via Salaria, outside of the city walls.

paragraph: Section::::Veneration.

paragraph: He was buried in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. His place of burial became a focus of pilgrimage and veneration in the Middle Ages. His body was translated from Rome to Siena around 1058 at the request of Bishop Antifredus. Other relics were translated to Tortosa in 1606.

paragraph: The only biographical source concerning Crescentius was derived from the copy of a manuscript from 1600 and conserved in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana. The "Acta" is not reliable as it was written long after the alleged death of this saint. Dante Balboni believes it was composed at Tuscany around 1058, when the body of Crescentius was translated to Siena. During the Middle Ages, Crescentius was the subject of a popular cult in Siena.

paragraph: He is depicted in the "Maestà" of Duccio.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- St. Crescentius

paragraph: BULLET::::- San Crescenzio di Roma

paragraph: BULLET::::- Colonnade Statue in St Peter's Square

description: 4th-century Christian martyr

wikidata_label: Crescentius of Rome

wikipedia_title: Crescentius of Rome


text: Gozo

text: Malta

text: British

text: cartoonist

text: upper-class

text: Royal Toast

text: St. Moritz

text: British Museum

text: Punch

text: Sutton Forest

text: New South Wales

text: Phil May

text: Victoria and Albert Museum

text: Westminster School of Art

text: Charles van Havenmaet

text: The Tatler

text: Pearson's Weekly

text: Punch

text: Harvey Kurtzman

text: Curridge

text: Newbury, Berkshire

text: Inland Revenue

text: Gozo

text: Malta

text: English Heritage

text: blue plaque

text: Bradshaw, Percy V.

text: H. M. Bateman: the website

text: Bateman's Punch Illustrations

text: Searchabe Archive

categories: Alumni of the Westminster School of Art,People from Chieveley,1970 deaths,People educated at Glenalmond College,London Sketch Club,British cartoonists,1887 births

paragraph: H. M. Bateman

paragraph: Henry Mayo Bateman (15 February 1887 – 11 February 1970, Gozo, Malta) was a British humorous artist and cartoonist.

paragraph: H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as "The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Royal Toast", "The Man Who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz" and "The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum." which appeared in the satirical magazine "Punch".

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: He was born in the small village of Sutton Forest in New South Wales, Australia. His parents were Henry Charles Bateman and Rose Mayo. His father had left England for Australia in 1878 at the age of 21 to seek his fortune, then returned to England briefly in 1885 before going back with an English wife. Soon after Henry was born, his strong-willed mother insisted that they return to London 'and civilisation'. He had one sister, Phyllis, three years younger.

paragraph: Bateman was always drawing from an early age, consistently producing funny drawings that told stories. He was inspired by comics, and he had a keen critical eye, and was enthusiastically drawing at every available moment. At the age of fourteen he had already decided that he would draw for publication. In 1901, the cartoonist Phil May, in response to a letter from Rose, showed interest in his drawings, and that year he was inspired by an exhibition of black-and-white art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. His father had initially decided that his son should follow him into business, but eventually, after many arguments between him and Rose, his father financed his study at the Westminster School of Art which he commenced at the age of sixteen. He did well, but was bored by the lifeless "life" classes and after qualifying at Westminster transferred his study to the New Cross Art School. He also did some practical work at the studio Charles van Havenmaet.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Bateman's first solo exhibition in 1901 was at the Brook Street Gallery, Mayfair. His first contract was in 1904, for ten drawings and two illustrations in a fourpenny monthly magazine called "The Royal". At the age of 17, his style was already that of a mature artist. He then progressed to a contract with "The Tatler" and many other magazines besides, including the "Illustrated Sporting News and Dramatic News", "Pearson's Weekly" and "Punch". Bateman greatly influenced the style of American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: He married Brenda Collison Wier and they had two children, Diana and Monica, both of whom became artists. They lived at Curridge, just north of Newbury, Berkshire.

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

paragraph: In later life, he carried on an increasingly acrimonious battle with the Inland Revenue. His final years were spent on the island of Gozo, Malta. A centenary celebration of his work was exhibited at Festival Hall on London's south bank in 1987. An English Heritage blue plaque, unveiled in 1997, commemorates Bateman at 40 Nightingale Lane in Clapham.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bateman, H. M., intr. A. E. Johnson. "Burlesques". London: Duckworth, 1916.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bateman, H. M. "A Book of Drawings". London: Methuen, 1921.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bateman, H. M. "Colonels". London: Methuen, 1925.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anderson, Anthony, "The Man who was H. M. Bateman", Webb & Bower (Exeter, England, 1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bradshaw, Percy V., "H.M. Bateman and His Work", (London: Issued by the Press Art School, 1919)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- H. M. Bateman: the website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bateman's Punch Illustrations in HeidICON

paragraph: BULLET::::- Searchabe Archive

alias:
Henry Mayo Bateman
Henry Mays Bateman
Mayo Bateman Henry

description: British artist and cartoonist

wikidata_label: H. M. Bateman

wikipedia_title: H. M. Bateman


text:
Minami-ku
Nagoya
Aichi District
Owari Province
Oda Nobuhide
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobuyuki
Siege of Nagashima
Rokkaku clan
Echizen Province
Nagashima
Osaka
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Takeda Shingen
Battle of Mikatagahara
Hirate Hirohide
Battle of Nagashino
Harada Naomasa
Honganji temple
Harada
Oda-clan
Akechi Mitsuhide
Shibata Katsuie
Hashiba Hideyoshi
emperor
Honganji
Mount Koyasan
Yamato Province
Honganji
stalemate
Nobunaga
Sakuma Nobuhide

paragraph: Sakuma Nobumori

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in what is now Minami-ku, Nagoya (situated in contemporary Aichi District, Owari Province) and serving under Oda Nobuhide, Sakuma was entrusted with the care of the young Oda Nobunaga. Unlike other retainers whose support wavered between Nobunaga and Oda Nobuyuki as clan leader, Sakuma remained steadfastly loyal to Nobunaga, and fought for him consistently.

paragraph: He was thus treated as Nobunaga's most important retainer and would come to fight in every important battle under Nobunaga's command such as the 1571 and 1573 Siege of Nagashima.

paragraph: Sakuma was called Noki Sakuma (退き佐久間), which literally means "retreating Sakuma," because of his cautious tactics. He was successful in the campaign against the Rokkaku clan and helped to suppress rebellions caused by Buddhist sects in Echizen Province and at Nagashima in Osaka.

paragraph: In 1572, his 3,000-man unit formed part of the reinforcements dispatched by Nobunaga to aid Tokugawa Ieyasu's approximately 8,000 soldiers against the 30,000 led by Takeda Shingen. In the Battle of Mikatagahara Sakuma retreated after a preliminary engagement. His fellow commander Hirate Hirohide, however, who fought alongside the Tokugawa troops, lost his life, and the conflict ended with a crushing defeat of the Tokugawa-Oda alliance.

paragraph: In 1575 he participated in the Battle of Nagashino.

paragraph: In 1576, after Harada Naomasa's death during the campaign against the heavily fortified and well-supplied Honganji temple in Osaka, Sakuma was chosen as Harada's replacement as commander and given troops from seven provinces placing him in command of the largest Oda-clan army among the Oda retainers. However, unlike his colleagues Akechi Mitsuhide, Shibata Katsuie or Hashiba Hideyoshi who all won battles on the fronts to which they were assigned, Nobumori made no progress against the fearless Buddhist zealots. After ten years of warring, Nobunaga had the emperor mediate a truce to end the war in 1580.

paragraph: That same year, Nobunaga drafted a document containing a fifteen-point accusation against Sakuma's, including past failures with those against the Honganji. Nobunaga banished Sakuma and his son Sakuma Nobuhide to the temple on Mount Koyasan, where they were forced to spend their days in the monk lifestyle. Sakuma died in 1581 at Totsugawa in Yamato Province. He was posthumously named Doumu Keigan (洞無桂巌) and Souyu (宗佑).

paragraph: Nobumori's banishment has widely been regarded as representative of Nobunaga's cold-blooded treatment against even his longest-serving retainers underscoring the clan leader's shortcomings as a military commander. Nobumori, however, had reportedly held frequent tea parties and seemed more interested in these rather than focusing on military affairs. He never devised, after all, any overarching military measures against the Honganji, even though their war had remained in a stalemate. It has also been recorded that since childhood, Nobumori had been openly critical of Nobunaga.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sakuma Nobuhide (): Son

description: Retainer for the Oda clan

wikidata_label: Sakuma Nobumori

wikipedia_title: Sakuma Nobumori


text:
Magdeburg
Potsdam
Margraviate of Brandenburg
Kingdom of Prussia
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
von Röpert
Trollenhagen
Trittau
educationist for girls
Elise Reimarus
literary salon
Matthias Claudius
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Jens Baggesen
Heidelberg
Electorate of Baden
Achim von Arnim
Clemens Brentano
Sophie Mereau
Friedrich Creuzer
Ludwig Tieck
Johann Heinrich Voß
epistolary novel
Johann Heinrich Tobler
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Landsgemeinde
"Rudolphi (Karoline Christiane Louise)"

categories: German salon-holders,18th-century German poets,Women educators,1753 births,German women poets,19th-century German poets,People from the Duchy of Magdeburg,1811 deaths,People from Magdeburg,German women novelists,German educational theorists,19th-century German novelists,19th-century German women writers,Writers from Saxony-Anhalt,18th-century German women writers

paragraph: Caroline Rudolphi

paragraph: Caroline Rudolphi (also "Karoline"; 1753–1811) was a German educationist and poet.

paragraph: Born to a poor family in Magdeburg and growing up in Potsdam (Margraviate of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia), she was discovered by composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who in 1781 set to music and published a number of her poems.

paragraph: From 1778, Rudolphi served as educator to the daughters of the von Röpert family of Trollenhagen.

paragraph: In 1783, she open her own educational institute at Trittau. Over the following years, Rudolphi became a widely known and respected educationist for girls. She became friends with Elise Reimarus and at her institute she established a literary salon, attracting a circle of intellectuals such as Matthias Claudius, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Jens Baggesen.

paragraph: Rudolphi moved her institute to Heidelberg in 1803 (in the newly formed Electorate of Baden), where she became socially involved with the circle of Romanticist intellectuals there (Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, Sophie Mereau, Friedrich Creuzer Ludwig Tieck) and a close friend of the family of classicist Johann Heinrich Voß.

paragraph: Rudolphi published collections of her poems in 1781, 1787 and 1796, and she published her principles on the education of girls in form of an epistolary novel, "Gemälde weiblicher Erziehung" (1807).

paragraph: Her poem "Ode an Gott" ("Ode to God") was set to music by Johann Heinrich Tobler in 1825 and was sung as the unofficial "national anthem" of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden at the Landsgemeinde since 1877.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gedichte von Karoline Christiane Louise Rudolphi. Hg. u. m. einigen Melod. begl. v. Johann Friederich Reichardt". Berlin 1781 (2nd ed. Wolfenbüttel 1787).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gedichte von Karoline Christiane Louise Rudolphi. Zweite Sammlung. Nebst einigen Melodien." ed. Joachim Heinrich Campe. Braunschweig 1787.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Neue Sammlung von Gedichten von Caroline Rudolphi." Leipzig 1796.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Der Karoline Rudolphi sämtliche Gedichte." 1805.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gemälde weiblicher Erziehung" (1807, 2nd ed. 1815, 3rd ed. 1838, 4th ed. 1857), reprinted from the first (anonymous) publication in as "Briefe über weibliche Erziehung." in:"Journal für deutsche Frauen von deutschen Frauen geschrieben." (1805).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ist auch Freundschaft unter den Weibern?" [as "Helena S."]. In: "Journal für deutsche Frauen von deutschen Frauen geschrieben." 1 (1805). [posthumously edited in " Schriftlicher Nachlaß von Caroline Rudolphi." ed. Abraham Voß. Heidelberg 1835. 67-80.]

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Weiblichkeit. Ein Gespräch." [as "Helena S. "] In: "Journal für deutsche Frauen von deutschen Frauen geschrieben." 2 (1806).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Otto Rüdiger, "Caroline Rudolphi. Eine deutsche Dichterin und Erzieherin, Klopstocks Freundin", 1903.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel, "Rudolphi (Karoline Christiane Louise)" in "Die deutschen Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts" vol. 2, Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1825. 228–234.

description: German writer

wikidata_label: Caroline Rudolphi

wikipedia_title: Caroline Rudolphi


text: frontman

text: alternative rock

text: Soul Asylum

text: Minneapolis, Minnesota

text: punk band

text: Karl Mueller

text: Dan Murphy

text: Pat Morley

text: Grant Young

text: metal

text: MTV

text: Runaway Train

text: Black Gold

text: Grave Dancers Union

text: genre

text: Paul Westerberg

text: Jason Karaban

text: Mike Watt

text: The Autumn Defense

text: Victoria Williams

text: Candy from a Stranger

text: Let Your Dim Light Shine

text: Misery

text: Just Like Anyone

text: esophageal cancer

text: The Silver Lining

text: Legacy Recordings

text: Dan Murphy

text: Michael Bland

text: Tommy Stinson

text: Reality Bites

text: Backbeat

text: Kevin Smith

text: Chasing Amy

text: Clerks

text: Clerks II

text: Faces & Names

text: The Hold Steady

text: Boys and Girls in America

text: Winona Ryder

text: MTV Unplugged

text: Bywater

text: New Orleans

text: Faces & Names

text: Whole World Is Watching

text: Within Temptation

text: Hydra

text: Dave Pirner at MinneWiki

text: Band Files

text: Minnesota Historical Society.

categories: Musicians from Minneapolis,1964 births,Singers from Minnesota,American rock drummers,American male singers,20th-century American drummers,Grammy Award winners,American male drummers,Soul Asylum members,Columbia Records artists,Living people

paragraph: Dave Pirner

paragraph: David Anthony Pirner (born April 16, 1964) is an American songwriter, singer, and producer best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the alternative rock band Soul Asylum.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and work.

paragraph: Pirner was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He taught himself how to play the drums. By age 20, Pirner started his career drumming with a punk band called Loud Fast Rules as part of the Minneapolis scene, together with Karl Mueller (bass) and Dan Murphy (guitar). When Pirner switched to singing and playing rhythm guitar, Pat Morley joined on drums. Morley was later replaced by Grant Young, and the band changed their name to Soul Asylum. After touring the United States for a number of years they gathered a cult following of fans, but did not quite reach commercial visibility. Pirner at the time was the band's songwriter and he produced the album, "Coup De Grace," by the Minneapolis metal band the Coup de Grace in 1990.

paragraph: Section::::Commercial success.

paragraph: The band achieved commercial success and visibility on MTV and VH1 with the 1993 single "Runaway Train", followed by another hit song, "Black Gold"; both from their album "Grave Dancers Union". As Soul Asylum grew in popularity, Pirner was seen guesting on albums of differing genres, including artists like Paul Westerberg, Jason Karaban, Mike Watt, The Autumn Defense and Victoria Williams. His disheveled appearance and blonde matted dreadlocks made an unmistakable impression on fans and critics alike, making Pirner easily recognized and associating the band with the grunge scene.

paragraph: By 1999, Soul Asylum went into hiatus after making 1998's "Candy from a Stranger", which sold the fewest copies of the three albums released at that point (after "Grave Dancers Union" and "Let Your Dim Light Shine" (1995), which yielded the big hits "Misery" and "Just Like Anyone"). After four years, Soul Asylum reunited and started writing songs in the studio. Bassist Karl Mueller died on June 17, 2005, at the age of 42 from esophageal cancer. About a year after his death, Soul Asylum released "The Silver Lining" on Legacy Recordings, which was dedicated to Mueller. About half the songs on the album were recorded with the late bassist, such as "Lately", "Slowly Rising" and "Standing Water". The first hit from this album was "Stand Up And Be Strong". Soul Asylum toured with their new line-up, which consisted of Pirner on guitar and vocals, Dan Murphy on lead guitar, Michael Bland on drums and Tommy Stinson on bass (as well as John Fields standing in on bass and piano for Mueller). Soul Asylum's latest effort was released on July 17, 2012, titled Delayed Reaction.

paragraph: Jared Gertzen also quotes Pirner as "One of the best Singer/Songwriters to come out of Minnesota since Prince".

paragraph: Pirner had a small role in the film "Reality Bites" in 1994. He was also part of the all-star band assembled for the soundtrack of the 1994 film "Backbeat". Pirner also contributed to the soundtrack of Kevin Smith's 1997 film "Chasing Amy" with an instrumental song called "Tube Of Wonderful". The song "Can't Even Tell" is featured in Smith's "Clerks", and Smith used "Misery" in the sequel, "Clerks II".

paragraph: In 2002 Pirner released his first solo album entitled "Faces & Names" on Ultimatum Music. He also contributed guest vocals on the song "Chillout Tent" in The Hold Steady's 2006 release, "Boys and Girls in America".

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Pirner started dating actress Winona Ryder after the pair were introduced at Soul Asylum's performance on "MTV Unplugged" in 1993. They broke up three years later.

paragraph: Pirner lived in Bywater, New Orleans, Louisiana for a time and still maintains a residence and recording studio in New Orleans. He also maintains a residence in Minneapolis. He has a son, Eli, with his ex-wife.

paragraph: Section::::Discography (solo).

paragraph: "Faces & Names", (2002), (Ultimatum Music)

paragraph: Section::::Guest vocals.

paragraph: Pirner appears on the track "Whole World Is Watching" by Within Temptation on their 2014 release, "Hydra" as well as provides guest vocals on The Hold Steady’s ‘Chillout Tent”, from the album Boys and Girls in America.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dave Pirner at MinneWiki

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Soul Asylum Band Files are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Career Retrospective Interview from February 2016 with Pods & Sods

wikidata_label: Dave Pirner

wikipedia_title: Dave Pirner


text:
singer
songwriter
guitarist
Nashville, Tennessee
Texas Panhandle
oilfields
trucking
economics
salesman
landscaper
pedal tavern
Bruce Springsteen
Steve Earle
The War on Drugs
Patty Griffin
Hayes Carll
Ashley Monroe
Billy Joe Shaver
Amy Speace

categories: American male singer-songwriters,1980 births,Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee,21st-century American singers,People from Perryton, Texas,Living people,21st-century male singers

paragraph: Ryan Culwell

paragraph: Ryan Culwell is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist based in Nashville, Tennessee. His third full-length album "The Last American" was released by Missing Piece Records on August 24, 2018.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, Culwell's family labored in oilfields and the trucking industry. Hoping for a different life, Culwell went to college to study economics, but eventually left to pursue his musical career while working odd jobs on the side. Through the years Culwell has worked as a roofing salesman, landscaper, tree cutter, and pedal tavern driver. In 2006 he released his debut "Heroes on the Radio," and in 2015 he released his second album "Flatlands."

paragraph: Culwell's music has been compared to that of Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, and The War on Drugs, and he's played shows with Patty Griffin, Hayes Carll, Ashley Monroe, Billy Joe Shaver, and Amy Speace.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Heroes on the Radio" (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flatlands" (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Last American" (2018)

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Ryan Culwell

wikipedia_title: Ryan Culwell


text: Martin Van Buren

text: President of the United States

text: Hannah Hoes Van Buren

text: Continental Army

text: Revolutionary War

text: Kinderhook, New York

text: Martin Van Buren

text: Hannah Hoes

text: United States Military Academy

text: West Point, New York

text: United States Army

text: aide-de-camp

text: Alexander Macomb

text: Commanding General of the US Army

text: 1st Dragoon Regiment

text: president's private secretary

text: White House

text: White House

text: Whig

text: William Henry Harrison

text: Mexican–American War

text: major

text: Lindenwald

text: brevet

text: lieutenant colonel

text: Contreras

text: Churubusco

text: Zachary Taylor

text: Winfield Scott

text: Aztec Club of 1847

text: Dolley Madison

text: James Madison

text: Angelica Singleton

text: White House

text: South Carolina

text: Madame Grelaud's French School

text: Wedgefield, South Carolina

text: Woodlawn Cemetery

text: the Bronx

text: Cullum's Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy

text: All The Presidents' Children

categories: Martin Van Buren,American people of Dutch descent,United States Military Academy alumni,Members of the Aztec Club of 1847,People from Kinderhook, New York,Personal secretaries to the President of the United States,Children of Presidents of the United States,United States Army paymasters,Van Buren family,1873 deaths,1807 births,American planters,Secretaries,American military personnel of the Mexican–American War

paragraph: Abraham Van Buren

paragraph: Abraham Van Buren II (November 27, 1807 – March 15, 1873) was the eldest son of Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States and his wife, Hannah Hoes Van Buren. Van Buren was named in honor of his paternal grandfather who was an officer in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and was a career military man.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Abraham Van Buren was born on November 27, 1807, in Kinderhook, New York, the eldest son of Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) and Hannah Hoes (1783–1819).

paragraph: Van Buren graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1827. He was appointed to West Point when he was 15 years of age.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: After West Point, Van Buren took five years to advance from second lieutenant to first lieutenant in the United States Army. It took him three more years to obtain the rank of captain. According to Wead, it was "a slow promotion rate – particularly given his father's political positions of the time". He served two years on the American frontier and another seven years as aide-de-camp to Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the US Army. In July 1836, Van Buren was promoted to captain of the 1st Dragoon Regiment.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:White House.

paragraph: In 1837, he resigned his commission the day before his father's inauguration to become the president's private secretary in the White House.

paragraph: Van Buren's career in the White House ended when his father was defeated by Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in the presidential campaign of 1840. Van Buren and his wife Angelica left Washington in March 1841 after Harrison's inauguration. Their first visit was with Angelica's family in Sumter, where Angelica gave birth to their first son, Singleton.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Return to Army.

paragraph: In June 1846, at the outbreak of the Mexican–American War, Van Buren was reappointed to the regular army as a paymaster with the rank of major. In spite of his absence while serving in the military, Van Buren still enjoyed close relations with his father. When the former president renovated and expanded his estate Lindenwald, located in Kinderhook, New York, during the years of 1849 to 1851, a corner room on the second floor opposite the master bedroom in the original home that was built in 1797 was reserved for Van Buren and his wife. The couple would enjoy extended stays with the former president along with Van Buren's surviving brothers John, Martin, Jr., and Smith Thompson. Van Buren and his family continued to winter at their plantation in South Carolina.

paragraph: Van Buren served for eighteen years in the army as an officer, but never rose above the rank of major. In August 1847, he was made a brevet lieutenant colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct during the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. Van Buren served in the war despite the fact that his father was opposed to the conflict. During the war, Van Buren also served as an aide to Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott and became an original member of the Aztec Club of 1847.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Later career.

paragraph: In 1848, Van Buren's family moved to New York City. In June 1854, Van Buren retired from the military. After his military career ended, Van Buren spent his remaining years editing and publishing his father's presidential papers and served as the leading apologist for his father's oft-criticized United States Presidential legacy.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In 1838, Dolley Madison, widow of former President James Madison, introduced Van Buren to her cousin, Angelica Singleton (1818–1877), at a White House dinner hosted by his father. Singleton was a daughter of a wealthy South Carolina planter, and a refined lady who had been schooled in the fine arts at Madame Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia. Van Buren fell in love with her and the two were married at Colonel Richard Singleton's Wedgefield, South Carolina, plantation named "Home Place". The President was unable to attend the couple's wedding; however, he was delighted with the match. The two honeymooned in London. Upon returning to the United States, Angelica assumed the duties of "White House Hostess" because her mother-in-law had died after only twelve years of marriage in 1819. Their first-born, Rebecca, was born in March 1840; however, she died in the White House only months later. The couple later had three more children.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rebecca Van Buren (1840–1840), died young

paragraph: BULLET::::- Singleton Van Buren (1841–1885)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martin Van Buren II (1844–1885)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Travis Coles Van Buren (1848–1889)

paragraph: He died March 15, 1873, and is buried alongside his wife in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

paragraph: Section::::Dates of rank.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brevet Second Lieutenant of Infantry – July 1, 1827

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second Lieutenant, 2d Infantry – July 1, 1827

paragraph: BULLET::::- First Lieutenant, 1st Dragoons – March 4, 1833

paragraph: BULLET::::- Captain, 1st Dragoons – July 4, 1836

paragraph: BULLET::::- Resigned – March 3, 1837 (Served as Private Secretary to President Van Buren, March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1841)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paymaster with rank of Major – June 26, 1846

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel – August 20, 1847

paragraph: BULLET::::- Resigned – June 1, 1854

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Heitman, F. (1903), Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, Volume 1. Government Printing Office, Washington.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wead, D. (2003), All The Presidents' Children, Atria Books, New York, .

description: United States Army paymaster

wikidata_label: Abraham Van Buren

wikipedia_title: Abraham Van Buren


text: swimmer

text: Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics

text: freestyle

text: water polo tournament

text: Leicester

text: International Swimming Hall of Fame

categories: Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain,Swimmers at the 1900 Summer Olympics,1935 deaths,Swimmers at the 1906 Intercalated Games,1872 births,English male swimmers,Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games,Water polo players at the 1900 Summer Olympics,Olympic gold medalists in swimming,English Olympic medallists,Sportspeople from Leicester,Olympic swimmers of Great Britain,Male long-distance swimmers,Swimmers at the 1908 Summer Olympics,Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics

paragraph: John Arthur Jarvis

paragraph: John Arthur Jarvis (24 February 1872 – 9 May 1933) was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in three Olympic Games, and was a well-known amateur athlete of the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won two gold medals in the 1000-metre and the 4000-metre freestyle events. He also won a gold medal in the water polo tournament.

paragraph: Jarvis was born in Leicester. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1968.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- small

description: British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist

wikidata_label: John Arthur Jarvis

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paragraph: Dave Cohen (keyboardist)

paragraph: David Ross Cohen is a Canadian-born musician and producer based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Cohen is a keyboardist who has recorded with Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Steven Tyler, and Reba McEntire. Throughout his career, he has accumulated several awards including Academy of Country Music Keyboard Player of the Year 2017 & 2019 and Music Row All-Star Keyboards Player in 2018. Over the course of his tenure in Nashville, Cohen has played on more than twenty #1 songs.

paragraph: Also making a name for himself as a producer, Cohen has worked with the likes of Jake Owen and Chris Lane.

paragraph: Section::::Early Life and Career.

paragraph: Cohen was born August 30, 1985 in Toronto, Ontario and moved to Calgary, Alberta at age 5. It was when he moved to Calgary that he began classical piano lessons. He attended Henry Wise Wood Senior High School in Calgary and later attended Humber College in Toronto where he focused on jazz performance, specifically jazz piano. Cohen began his career in Canada touring with stars Johnny Reid and Amanda Marshall. He was nominated twice for Keyboard Player of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards.

paragraph: Section::::Current career.

paragraph: Cohen moved to Nashville in April 2007 and has since amassed a number of notable credits. He began his time in Nashville touring with the likes of Joe Nichols, Big & Rich, and Wynonna Judd before making the shift to session work as a studio musician in 2012. Cohen has worked in the studio with a wide range of artists from Rascal Flatts to Ed Sheeran. Some of the most prominent country music artists he has worked with include Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Old Dominion, Brett Eldredge, Chris Young, Walker Hayes, Jon Pardi, Cole Swindell, Josh Turner, Reba McEntire, Brooks and Dunn, and Kip Moore. In addition to working with these esteemed artists, Cohen has also collaborated with top notch producers like Joey Moi, Dann Huff, Tony Brown, Byron Gallimore, and Shane McAnally.

paragraph: While making a name for himself as a successful studio musician, Cohen has also recently been working as a producer. Cohen has produced Australian artist Mick Lindsay and teamed up with fellow producer Joey Moi to co-produce Chris Lane's “Laps Around the Sun."

paragraph: Cohen has worked on music from a number of genres including Country, Hip-Hop, Christian, and Rock. Cohen recently worked on Reba McEntire's “Sing it Now: Songs of Faith & Hope,” which won Best Roots Gospel Album at the 2018 GRAMMY Awards.

description: Canadian-born musician

wikidata_label: David Ross Cohen

wikipedia_title: Dave Cohen (keyboardist)


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text: Andrew Kaggwa

text: M.Afr.

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text: James Hannington

text: Charles Lwanga

text: Martyrs of Uganda

text: Joseph Mukasa bio

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paragraph: Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe

paragraph: Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe (1860 – 15 November 1885) was a Ugandan Roman Catholic and the majordomo at the court of Mwanga II of Buganda, recognized as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: A member of the Muganda tribe, in about 1874, when he was fourteen, Balikuddembe was presented to King Mutesa I to be one of his many royal pages. Balikuddembe was a personal attendant on King Mutesa I and Majordomo under King Mwanga II. The Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa came to Uganda in 1879. Balikuddembe was enrolled as a catechumen in the following year and along with Andrew Kaggwa, was baptized by Père Simon Lourdel M.Afr. (Fr. Mapera) on 30 April 1882. Balikuddembe took the baptismal name of "Joseph".

paragraph: From November 1882 to July 1885 the Catholic missionaries, for reasons of security, abandoned the Ugandan mission and re-located temporarily to the southern end of Lake Victoria. In the absence of the missionaries, Balikuddembe became leader of the Christians.

paragraph: King Mutesa was succeeded by his eighteen-year-old son, Danieri Mwanga II. Early in his reign, the new king began to crack down on Christian missionaries and converts in his country, and executed the British Anglican bishop James Hannington and his companions on October 29, 1885, ignoring Balikuddembe's pleas to spare the bishop. Godfrey Muwonge attributes this to the influence of Mwanga's Katikkiro (Prime Minister) Mukasa, who sought to control the spread of Christianity in Buganda by eliminating its teachers.

paragraph: Another reason that Mwanga killed Balikuddembe was because he spoke out against Mwanga's homosexual practices. As catechumens, the recent converts could no longer engage in activities which they saw as unchristian. Mwanga saw this as insubordination.

paragraph: As Mwanga's senior adviser, Balikuddembe spoke against the killing of the bishop. Mwanga viewed this a disrespectful. After a night-long interview the king condemned Balikuddembe to death. Muwonge says that the Katikkiro Musaka saw to it that the order was carried out before the king could change his mind. On 15 November 1885 Balikuddembe was taken to a place near the Nakivubo river where he was beheaded and his body thrown onto a pile of burning firewood. His duties were assumed by the young catechist Charles Lwanga.

paragraph: Section::::Veneration.

paragraph: Balikuddembe is remembered as first of the Martyrs of Uganda and is the patron of politicians and chiefs.

paragraph: St. Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe Parish is located in Kisoga.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph Mukasa bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Uganda Martyrs from the August 2008 issue of "The Word Among Us" magazine

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph Mukasa's profile from UgandaMartyrsShrine.org

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe's profile from Dictionary of African Christian Biography

description: Ugandan Roman Catholic martyr

wikidata_label: Joseph Mukasa

wikipedia_title: Joseph Mukasa Balikuddembe


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categories: Psychedelic musicians,1959 births,English songwriters,People from Hitchin,English male singers,Living people

paragraph: Nick Nicely

paragraph: Nickolas Laurien (born 1959), known professionally as Nick Nicely (stylised nick nicely), is an English singer-songwriter who records psychedelic and electronic music. He is best known for his 1982 single "Hilly Fields (1892)". Nicely released only one other record in the early 1980s, the single "D.C.T. Dreams", before retreating from the music industry. The influence of "Hilly Fields" has been noted on Bevis Frond, Robin Hitchcock, Robert Wyatt, and XTC's psychedelic alter egos the Dukes of Stratosphear, as well as the hypnagogic pop movement of the 2000s.

paragraph: Nicely was born in Greenland during a transatlantic flight layover and grew up in Hitchin, a town near London. In the late 1980s, he became involved with the burgeoning acid house and rave scene in the UK. With collaborator Gavin Mills, the duo produced a number of house tracks in the early 1990s under the names Psychotropic, Freefall and Airtight and enjoyed some chart success. Following years of negotiations, a compilation of Nicely's two singles and unreleased tracks recorded between 1978 and 2004, titled "Psychotropia", was released in 2004. Since then, he has released three LPs of new material: "Lysergia" (2011), "Space of a Second" (2014), and "Sleep Safari" (2017).

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Nickolas Laurien was born in 1959 in Greenland on a stopover during a transatlantic flight by his parents, but he grew up firstly in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, and then later went on to live in Brockley, a Victorian conservation area in south London which has left a profound mark on his musical output. He claimed that his musical alias was created in 1973 "when one mate said 'give us a fag you sod', and another said 'why don't you ask Nick nicely?'" Laurien grew up listening to his parents' classical music collection and to 1960s pop records on the radio, but after hearing the song "Tracy" by the Cuff Links in 1969, he began to move away from pop music and listen to more experimental and psychedelic records. Laurien's first instrument was the harmonica, which he learnt to play at the age of ten, and later on he learnt the guitar.

paragraph: Section::::Early 1980s singles.

paragraph: Section::::Early 1980s singles.:"D.C.T. Dreams".

paragraph: In the mid–1970s Laurien formed the Nick Nicely Band with some friends, playing mostly rock and acoustic numbers. However, the band was never a serious project, and when the other members gave up making music, Laurien was left with their recording equipment and began to write and record his own songs with it. Showcasing his demo tapes to various companies, he was signed by the Heath Levy publishing group who wanted to use some of his songs for other artists. As part of his deal, Laurien was given free time in a recording studio, which he used to record his first single, "D.C.T. Dreams", with the help of a friend, Jeff Leach. Speaking about Leach, Laurien said, "He was a key part of that single. He was a classically-trained keyboardist and it was with him that I started to do this abstract stuff when I returned from a visit to America in early 1980." Leach later became a sought-after session musician, playing keyboards for Barclay James Harvest, Brian May and Russell Watson among others, as well as being involved in the musical bands for the stage shows "We Will Rock You" and "Strictly Come Dancing".

paragraph: The A-side "D.C.T. Dreams" is a blend of equal parts 1980s electronics and 1960s psychedelia, whereas the B-side "Treeline" is more inclined towards psychedelia. The single was originally released on Laurien's own Voxette label (which he set up using the proceeds from the sale of his studio equipment), but after receiving airplay and some favourable reviews, it was picked up by the Hansa label and reissued late in 1980. The single became a minor hit in France and the Netherlands. "D.C.T. Dreams" was originally intended to be included on the "Some Bizzare Album" sampler of bands associated with the Some Bizzare record label's style, but was left off at the last minute when Some Bizzare's boss Stevo realised it had become a minor hit in Europe and was still readily available. However, by the time the single was re-released, interest and airplay support had fallen and the song failed to make the UK charts.

paragraph: Section::::Early 1980s singles.:"Hilly Fields (1892)".

paragraph: Nicely began recording the follow-up, "Hilly Fields (1892)", in December 1980, but the recording process was slow and laborious, and Nicely had to sell his personal possessions to pay for the studio time. Recording of the song took six months to complete, followed by another month of production work before Nicely was happy with the results. Hearing the early demo of the song, Hansa turned down the opportunity to release it, but an A&R man at EMI was more enthusiastic and signed Nicely to the label.

paragraph: "Hilly Fields" was recorded at Heath Levy's own small studio and at Alvic Studios in west London, and again featured Jeff Leach on keyboards, along with Ian Pearce on drums, Rickman Godlee on cello, and "Kate" on additional vocals—for many years the rumour was that "Kate" was actually Kate Bush, but in 2010 Nicely explained that "I was always tied to Kate [Bush] with this rumor that she was on 'Hilly Fields'... Kate Jackson did vocals on 'D.C.T. Dreams'—I didn't know that was her surname, I wasn't sure. So on 'Hilly Fields' I used the same bit of tape of her singing and I just put 'Kate' because I didn't know her name. She's in the credits. And the rumor just got out of hand and I've always denied it but it still carries on a little bit because [Bush] did live around the corner and she was on EMI."

paragraph: The track features a prominent 1960s psychedelic influence, cello playing, the 1980s synth-pop sound, and what is believed to be the first ever example of scratching on a non-hip hop recording, although the "scratching" was actually created by moving two tape spools back and forth, rather than on a turntable. It was named after Hilly Fields park in Brockley, south-east London, close to where Nicely lived. "Hilly Fields" was released in January 1982, and is regarded by many as Nicely's masterpiece. On its release it was made Single of the Week in the "NME" and described as "the best psychedelic record made since the '60s". In spite of, or due to, its obscurity it is considered in some circles to be "legendary".

paragraph: The B-side was originally going to be a song called "6B Obergine", but three days before the single was due to be cut it was replaced by the typically 1960s-psych-inspired "49 Cigars", which was recorded and mixed in just two days. Despite favourable reviews in the music press, the single was not well promoted by EMI (Nicely believed that this was due in part to bad feeling between the label and his manager at the time), and as a result the song had almost no distribution or airplay, and failed to make an impression on the charts.

paragraph: Section::::Early 1980s singles.:"On the Coast".

paragraph: Despite "Hilly Fields" lack of chart success, EMI were keen to release the proposed follow-up single, "On the Coast". "Hilly Fields" had also attracted the attention of Trevor Horn, who approached Nicely with a view to producing his next songs, but Nicely turned him down, saying, "I knew that he would have creative control... also I was intimidated about going into Trevor Horn's studio and doing the singing and working with a guy who was having that sort of success. But I just made 'Hilly Fields' and I really liked the sound of 'Hilly Fields' and I suppose I didn't think I needed the help. But having said that, we had a lot of conversations and he said to me, 'I think you want to control it and you want to do your stuff'. So then they pulled out."

paragraph: As with "Hilly Fields", "On the Coast" was also recorded at Heath Levy and at Alvic. However, the single was never released, due to Nicely's dissatisfaction with the song. In an interview with the "L.A. Record" in 2010 Nicely confirmed that the decision to block the song's release was his, saying "that's my fault. EMI did say to me, 'What do you want to do with this?' And looking back on it, I think probably what went wrong was that the drums were not dancey enough. But I said to EMI, 'No, don't bring it out.' And I stopped it... it was me in the end that stopped that record from coming out and that might have been a mistake."

paragraph: After the failure to release "On the Coast", EMI dropped their interest in Nicely. With no equipment and no money to finance further recordings, and disillusioned with his experience of working with a major record label, Nicely retreated from the music business and faded into obscurity, spending the following two decades working on his songs away from the spotlight. His only appearance on record during the rest of the 1980s was contributing backing vocals to three tracks on the 1987 album "A Cabinet of Curiosities" by English singer-songwriter Paul Roland.

paragraph: In the late 1980s he became involved with the burgeoning acid house and rave scene in the UK, and together with his friend Gavin Mills (aka "DJ Face") the duo produced a number of house tracks in the early 1990s under the names Psychotropic, Freefall and Airtight. The pair also collaborated with Jack Smooth on a single under the group name Citizen Kaned. Nicely recalled his involvement in that period: "we went right through acid house, the parties, '89, the whole scene—and it was a time that I enjoyed my greatest commercial success in the top of the dance charts. So it was definitely something that informs my work and yes, it was a fascinating period to be in the middle of that huge movement, when people really did think that the song had died and it was all going to be the emotions coming off the sound from mainly linear dance records, though a lot of them weren't of course. But yeah, fascinating time." Mills is now part of the DJ and production duo Copyright.

paragraph: Nicely's work has been credited with inspiring several modern-day artists, most notably XTC's psychedelic offshoot band The Dukes of Stratosphear as well as the Bevis Frond, Robyn Hitchcock and Robert Wyatt.

paragraph: Following years of negotiations, a compilation of his two singles and unreleased tracks recorded between 1978 and 2004, titled "Psychotropia", was finally released in 2004 as an LP on Tenth Planet Records. The following year it was re-released by Sanctuary in CD format with six extra tracks, but following the label's demise in 2007 the CD was deleted. It was reissued with new artwork on Grapefruit (a subsidiary of Cherry Red Records) in 2010, containing a further extra track, "Marlon".

paragraph: Several nick nicely songs have appeared on various compilations: "On the Beach (The Ladder Descends)" was included on the German mix album "Permanent Vacation 2" in 2007, "49 Cigars" was featured on the album "" compiled by Amorphous Androgynous in 2008, and the same year "London South" was included on "Terrascope Audio Entertainment – Volume 2", only available from Terrascope Online. Leading UK newspaper "The Guardian" added "Hilly Fields" to their July 2010 playlist of favourite tunes.

paragraph: On 11 October 2008 Nicely played his first ever live show, supporting friends and long-time supporters the Bevis Frond at The Luminaire in London. Since then Nicely has performed a handful of concerts (often under the band name nick nicely's Unlived Lives), including the Green Man Festival in 2009, and, inspired by the surrealists, always wearing a veil. In 2012 Nicely was invited to play two shows by Kasper and Herlinde Raeman, at Meneer Malasch (Amsterdam) and Wastelands Festival (Ghent). This marked the start of Nicely's solo performances. Sharing the bill were John Maus, Maria Minerva and Picture Plane. In Nov 2012 Nicely supported Ariel Pink in Hamburg.

paragraph: In 2010 Nicely announced that he was working on an album of new material, with the working title of "Space of a Second". In June 2011, the album, now titled "Lysergia", was released on cassette (now sold out) by Burger Records.

paragraph: In November 2011 a US record label, Captured Tracks, issued a compilation of Nicely's early recordings on vinyl, titled "Elegant Daze: 1979–1986".

paragraph: To mark the song's 30th anniversary, in June 2012 Fruits de Mer Records released a limited 7" vinyl single (now sold out) of a new version of "Hilly Fields", subtitled "The Mourning", with the original version on the B-side.

paragraph: Nicely has also collaborated with the band Unkle on a track titled "Puppeteers", recorded in 2009 during sessions for Unkle's "Where Did the Night Fall" album. A demo version of the song surfaced on the internet in April 2011 but to date it has not been officially released.

paragraph: In September 2014, Lo Records released Nicely's second full-length album, "Space of a Second". A third Nick Nicely album, "Sleep Safari", emerged September 26th 2017 through Tapete Records.

paragraph: From the start of 2018 Nicely has been working on live performance accompanied by musician, Bug Lover and generating new versions of old tracks and adding visuals . First came secret gigs in Frappant (Feb and April) in Hamburg , then June 14th 2018 Electric Ballroom in London supporting John Maus

paragraph: followed by December show in Moscow and then a US East coast tour again with Maus . At time of writing , next show is at the 17th Dream of Sardonicus psych festival in Cardigan Wales August 2019.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Singles.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "D.C.T. Dreams" (b/w "Treeline") – Originally released on Voxette (VOX 1001, September 1980); reissued on Hansa (UK catalogue number AHA 569, November 1980)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hilly Fields (1892)" (b/w "49 Cigars") – EMI (UK catalogue number EMI 5256, January 1982)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hilly Fields (1892) – The Mourning" (b/w "Hilly Fields (1892)" [original version]) – Limited edition of 800 copies,Vinyl only Fruits de Mer Records (Volume 27, June 2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- League Of Psychedelic Gentlemen EP including Rosemary's Eyes -Vinyl only Fruits De Mer Records 5/12/12

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wrottersley Road EP" (with three remixes) – Emotional Response Records ERS005 (March 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- HeadwindAheadwind single plus Secret Curtain remix -Lo Recordings 14/6/14

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rainbow single with Vuuwerk remix-Lo Recordings Jan 3rd 2015

paragraph: BULLET::::- 49 Cigars EP with Belinda and Lobster Dobbs - Fruits De Mer Records. Vinyl only 10/9/15

paragraph: BULLET::::- London South plus remixes by Grasscut and Abul Mogard -Lo Recordings 10/11/15

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ghostdream(w Boars) Single plus The Otherside 2 -Tapete Records 26/5/17

paragraph: BULLET::::- Solar Wind Single -Tapete Records 29/9/17

paragraph: BULLET::::- All Along The Watchtower/Doors Of Perception Fruits De Mer Records Vinyl only 31/12/18

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Psychotropia"

paragraph: BULLET::::- (2003) – Tenth Planet (vinyl LP only)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (2004) – Sanctuary (CD with six extra tracks)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (2010) – Grapefruit (reissue of CD with one further extra track, "Marlon")

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lysergia" (2011) – Burger Records (cassette only)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Elegant Daze" (2011) - (Captured Tracks ) (vinyl only)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Space of a Second" (2014) - (Lo Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sleep Safari" (2017) - (Tapete Records)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Compilations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Scared To Get Happy – Cherry Red Records – April 2013 (track: 49 Cigars)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The League of Psychedelic Gentlemen (EP with 3 other artists on Fruits de Mer Records 2012) (track: Rosemary's Eyes)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Deptford Days (Deep River Records 2012) (track: Hilly Fields Acoustic)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elegant Daze: 1979–1986 (2011) – Captured Tracks (US release, vinyl LP or MP3 download only) – compilation of nick nicely tracks with slightly different track list from Psychotropia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol 1 (2009) (track: 49 Cigars)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Permanent Vacation 2 (2007, PERMVAC 016-2) (track: On the Beach)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Terrascope POT-35 (2004) (track: Psychotropian Dobbscape)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nicely's official Facebook page

description: British singer

wikidata_label: Nick Nicely

wikipedia_title: Nick Nicely


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categories: 24th-century BC Pharaohs,25th-century BC Pharaohs

paragraph: Menkauhor Kaiu

paragraph: Menkauhor Kaiu (also known as Ikauhor and in Greek as Mencherês, Μεγχερῆς) was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Old Kingdom period. He was the seventh ruler of the Fifth Dynasty at the end of the 25th century BC or early in the 24th century BC ( circa 2399-2390 BC ).

paragraph: Menkauhor ruled for possibly eight or nine years, following king Nyuserre Ini, and was succeeded in turn by Djedkare Isesi. Although Menkauhor is well attested by historical sources, few artifacts from his reign have survived. Consequently, his familial relation to his predecessor and successor is unclear, and no offspring of his have been identified. Khentkaus III may have been Menkauhor's mother, as indicated by evidence discovered in her tomb in 2015.

paragraph: Beyond the construction of monuments, the only known activity dated to Menkauhor's reign is an expedition to the copper and turquoise mines in Sinai. Menkauhor ordered the construction of a sun temple, called the "Akhet-Ra", meaning "The Horizon of Ra". The last ever to be built, this sun temple, known from inscriptions found in the tombs of its priests, is yet to be located. Menkauhor was buried in a small pyramid in Saqqara, which the Ancient Egyptians named "Netjer-Isut Menkauhor", "The Divine Places of Menkauhor". Known today as the Headless Pyramid, the ruin had been lost under shifting sands until its rediscovery in 2008.

paragraph: The figure of Menkauhor was at the centre of a long lasting funerary cult until the end of the Old Kingdom period, with at least seven agricultural domains producing goods for the necessary offerings. The cult of a deified Menkauhor, then known by the titles "Strong Lord of the Two Lands, Menkauhor the Justified" reappeared during the New Kingdom period (c. 1550 – c. 1077 BC), and lasted until at least the Nineteenth Dynasty (c. 1292 – c. 1077 BC), some 1200 years after his death.

paragraph: Section::::Attestations.

paragraph: Section::::Attestations.:Historical.

paragraph: Menkauhor is attested by three hieroglyphic sources, all from the much later New Kingdom period. His name is given on the 31st entry of the Abydos King List, which was inscribed on the walls of a temple during the reign of Seti I (1290–1279 BC). He is also mentioned on the Saqqara Tablet (30th entry) and on the Turin canon (third column, 23rd row), both of which were written during the reign of Ramesses II (1279–1213 BC). The Turin canon credits Menkauhor with a reign of eight years. These sources indicate that Menkauhor succeeded Nyuserre Ini and preceded Djedkare Isesi on the throne, making him the seventh pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty.

paragraph: Menkauhor was likely mentioned in the "Aegyptiaca", a history of Egypt written in the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II (283–246 BC) by the Egyptian priest Manetho, but no copies of the text survive, and it is known only through later writings by Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius. Africanus relates that the "Aegyptiaca" mentioned a pharaoh "Mencherês" reigning for nine years as the seventh king of the Fifth Dynasty. "Mencherês" is believed to be a Hellenized form of "Menkauhor", and Africanus' nine-year figure fits well with the eight years of reign given to Menkauhor on the Turin canon, the latter figure being considered by some Egyptologists, including Hartwig Altenmüller, as more likely than the former.

paragraph: Section::::Attestations.:Contemporaneous.

paragraph: Relatively few attestations dating to Menkauhor's reign have survived compared to the other kings of the Fifth Dynasty. Nonetheless, Menkauhor's name is well attested in the names and titles of priests and officials of the Fifth Dynasty as well as in the names of the agricultural estates associated with his funerary cult. Surviving artefacts contemporaneous with Menkauhor's reign include two stone vessels inscribed with his name from the mortuary temple of Neferefre – possibly gifts from Menkauhor for the funerary cult of Neferefre– as well as a few sealings from the same temple and from an area known as "Djedkare's Family Cemetery" in Abusir. Cylinder seal impressions showing Menkauhor's Horus name or the name of his pyramid have also been unearthed in the mortuary complex of Nyuserre Ini, and in the necropolises of Giza and Gebelein.

paragraph: A gold cylinder seal bearing Menkauhor's cartouche as part of the name of his pyramid together with the serekh of Djedkare Isesi is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The seal, purportedly discovered near the Pactolus river valley in western Anatolia, could attest to wide-ranging trade-contacts during the Fifth Dynasty, but its provenance remains unverifiable.

paragraph: The only secure depiction of the king dating to the Old Kingdom that has survived to this day is a rough, possibly unfinished, alabaster statuette showing Menkauhor enthroned and wearing the tight-fitting ceremonial robe of the "Heb-sed". The statue was discovered in a cachette built during the late New Kingdom beneath the floor of a room to the west of the sacred lake at the temple of Ptah in Memphis. The Egyptologist Jocelyn Berlandini proposed that another statuette, usually attributed to Teti, belongs instead to Menkauhor Kaiu. Berlandini bases her hypothesis on stylistic grounds, noting the resemblance with Menkauhor's seated statue, as well as the location of the second statue, which was uncovered east of Teti's pyramid, in close proximity to Menkauhor's pyramid.

paragraph: Monumental attestations of Menkauhor are limited to a rock inscription at the Wadi Maghareh in Sinai, showing his titulary and a rough stele inscribed with his cartouche from Mastaba 904 at Saqqara.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Section::::Family.:Name.

paragraph: The name of Menkauhor is a departure from those of other kings of the Fifth Dynasty. Menkauhor, whose name means "Eternal are the Kas of Horus", is the first pharaoh in 80 years whose name does not refer to the sun god Ra. The name of Menkauhor instead finds its peers among the princes of the Fifth Dynasty with, for example, prince Khentykauhor "The forces of Horus are at the fore", a son of Nyuserre Ini, and prince Neserkauhor, a son of Djedkare Isesi.

paragraph: Section::::Family.:Filiation.

paragraph: Owing to the paucity of contemporaneous sources for Menkauhor, his relation to his predecessor, Nyuserre Ini, and to his successor, Djedkare Isesi, cannot be ascertained beyond doubt. Menkauhor may have been a son of Nyuserre Ini; indeed Nyuserre Ini is known to have fathered a prince Khentykauhor as shown by a relief mentioning the prince from the mortuary complex of queen Khentkaus II, the mother of Nyuserre Ini. The similarity of Khentykauhor's name to that of Menkauhor led the Egyptologists Miroslav Verner and Vivienne Callender to propose that the two are the same person, with Khentykauhor taking the name "Menkauhor" upon ascending the throne. This hypothesis is possibly contradicted by an inscription discovered in 2008 in the mastaba of Werkaure, the eldest son of an unnamed king. The inscription mentions a "Menkauhor", but does not ascribe any royal attributes to him. The Egyptologists Hana Vymazalová and Filip Coppens suggest this might refer to the future pharaoh Menkauhor Kaiu at a time when he was still a prince. They note that Menkauhor might have offered high-quality stone blocks for the construction of the tomb of his (possible) relative, which would explain the inscription. This contradicts the identification of Menkauhor with Khentykauhor; Vymazalová and Coppens theorize that Khentykauhor and Menkauhor were brothers and sons of Nyuserre Ini.

paragraph: The identity of Menkauhor's mother is equally uncertain. In January 2015 the tomb of the "King's wife" and "King's mother", Khentkaus III, was discovered by a team of Czech archaeologists in the necropolis surrounding the pyramid of Neferefre in Abusir. Mud seals in the tomb indicate that Khentkaus III was buried during Nyuserre Ini's reign. Since Nyuserre Ini's own mother is known to have been Khentkaus II, the discovery suggests that she was Menkauhor Kaiu's mother. The position of her tomb close to the pyramid of Neferefre could indicate that she was this king's consort and thus that Neferefre was Menkauhor's father.

paragraph: Section::::Family.:Consorts.

paragraph: No queen consort of Menkauhor has been identified for certain. The Egyptologist Wilfried Seipel has proposed that Khuit I was a queen of Menkauhor. Based on the dating of the tombs surrounding Khuit's burial, Seipel argues that she lived during the mid-Fifth Dynasty. By the process of elimination, he attributes known queens to each king of the period, which leaves only Menkauhor as a candidate for her king. These arguments are criticized by the Egyptologist Michel Baud, who observes that pharaohs could have had more than one queen.

paragraph: Queen Meresankh IV has also been suggested as a consort for Menkauhor based on the dating and location of her tomb in Saqqara. It is possible however that she was a wife of Djedkare Isesi.

paragraph: Section::::Family.:Descendants.

paragraph: There is no evidence either for or against the hypothesis that Menkauhor's successor Djedkare Isesi was his son. Two sons have been suggested for Menkauhor based on the dating and general location of their tombs in Saqqara: princes Raemka and Kaemtjenent, both believed to be children of Meresankh IV. By the same reasoning, they could instead be sons of Djedkare Isesi.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Duration.

paragraph: Given the scarcity of contemporaneous attestations for Menkauhor, modern Egyptologists consider his reign to have been perhaps eight or nine years long, as indicated by the much later historical sources.

paragraph: The small seated statue of Menkauhor wearing the robe of the Sed festival might suggest a longer reign, since this festival was typically celebrated only after a ruler had spent 30 years on the throne. However, Egyptologist Hartwig Altenmüller deems this hypothesis unlikely.

paragraph: Mere depictions of the festival do not necessarily imply a long reign; for example, a relief showing pharaoh Sahure in the tunic of the Sed festival was found in his mortuary temple, although both historical sources and archaeological evidence suggest Sahure ruled Egypt for less than 14 full years.

paragraph: Section::::Reign.:Activities.

paragraph: Owing to the scarcity of artefacts and inscriptions relating to Menkauhor's reign, few of his activities are known. Menkauhor sent an expedition to Sinai to exploit the mines of turquoise and copper in the Wadi Maghareh. The expedition is evidenced by a damaged rock inscription showing Menkauhor's titulary which is one of the few attestations dating to his lifetime. The mines of Sinai had been exploited since the Third Dynasty (2686 BC–2613 BC), and both Menkauhor's predecessor Nyuserre Ini and successor Djedkare Isesi sent expeditions to the Wadi Maghareh.

paragraph: Section::::Construction activities.

paragraph: Menkauhor Kaiu is known to have ordered the construction of two major monuments during his reign: a sun temple for the veneration of Ra and a pyramid for his burial, known today as the "Headless Pyramid".

paragraph: Section::::Construction activities.:Sun temple.

paragraph: Following a tradition which started with Userkaf, the founder of the Fifth Dynasty, Menkauhor built a temple to the sun god Ra. He was the last pharaoh to do so. His successors, Djedkare Isesi and Unas, abandoned this practice as the cult of Ra declined at the expense of that of Osiris. Given the paucity of documents relating to Menkauhor's sun temple, it probably functioned for only a short time or was never completed.

paragraph: Menkauhor's sun temple was called "Akhet-Ra", which is variously translated as "The Horizon of Ra" or "The Place where Ra Issues Forth". The temple has yet to be located and could be lying under the sands of Saqqara or Abusir. Its existence is known thanks to inscriptions found in the tombs of Fifth and Sixth Dynasties officials who served as priests of Ra in the temple. These include Hemu, buried in Giza, and Neferiretptah and Raemankh, who were both buried in Saqqara-north. In addition to his service in the "Akhet-Ra", Neferiretptah was a priest in Menkauhor's pyramid and held the office of "royal ornament", making him responsible for the precious items in the palace of the king.

paragraph: Besides these inscriptions, a single seal bearing the name of the "Akhet-Ra" is known from the tomb of princess Khamerernebti, located near the mortuary temple of Niuserre in Abusir. The seal was placed on a large vessel indicating that provisions for the tombs of members of the royal family were dispatched from Menkauhor's temple to Niuserre's pyramid complex.

paragraph: Section::::Construction activities.:Pyramid.

paragraph: Menkauhor Kaiu built a pyramid in North-Saqqara, thereby abandoning the royal necropolis of Abusir, where kings of the Fifth Dynasty had been buried since the reign of Sahure, some 80 years earlier. The reason for this choice may be that the Abusir plateau had become overcrowded by the beginning of Menkauhor's reign.

paragraph: Originally named "Netjer-isut-Menkauhor" by the Ancient Egyptians, meaning "The divine places of Menkauhor", the pyramid is known today as Lepsius XXIX after the number given to it by the archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius who discovered the pyramid in 1843. Owing to the ruined state of the structure, it is known in Arabic as the "Headless Pyramid", a name that has been retained. The pyramid was lost under shifting sands in the early 20th century and its attribution to Menkauhor was consequently debated. Instead, it was proposed that the Headless Pyramid was that of Merikare, a structure dating to the First Intermediate Period and which has yet to be found. In 2008, the structure identified by Lepsius was rediscovered by a team of archaeologists under the direction of Zahi Hawass, and excavations at the site quickly established a Fifth Dynasty date as indicated by the construction techniques used in its making. Although the excavations failed to yield the name of the king who built the pyramid, Menkauhor was the last pharaoh of the dynasty whose pyramid remained undiscovered. Thus, proceeding by elimination, archeologists and egyptologists have formally recognized the Headless Pyramid as that of Menkauhor.

paragraph: The pyramid is estimated to have been around at the base, so that the edifice would have stood high at the time of its construction, making it one of the smallest royal pyramids of the Old Kingdom.

paragraph: There is evidence that Menkauhor had the time to complete his pyramid, whose small dimensions are thus consistent with his short eight to nine years of reign.

paragraph: On the north side lies the entrance to the underground chamber system, which was sealed by two granite portcullises indicating that a burial took place. A broken sarcophagus lid of blue-grey basalt was found in the burial chamber by Cecil Mallaby Firth during his brief excavations of the pyramid in 1930.

paragraph: Section::::Funerary cult.

paragraph: Section::::Funerary cult.:Old Kingdom.

paragraph: After his death Menkauhor enjoyed a funerary cult centered on his pyramid complex. The cult lasted at least until the second half of the Sixth Dynasty, nearly 150 years later. Provisions for this cult were produced in dedicated agricultural domains that were established during Menkauhor's lifetime. Products of these domains were delivered to Menkauhor's sun and mortuary temples and distributed to the priests of the cult, who could use them for their sustenance or their own funerary cults. Personified representations of Menkauhor's agricultural domains are depicted bringing offerings on the walls of the mastabas of these priests. Most of the depictions are located in Saqqara North, near the pyramid complex of Djoser. This area comprises the tombs of Neferiretptah, Raemankh, Duare, Iti, Sekhemnefer, Snofrunefer, Akhethotep, Ptahhotep and Qednes, all priests of the funerary cult of Menkauhor. Further tombs of priests of this cult are found to the north, in Abusir South, with the mastaba of Isesiseneb and Rahotep and in Giza.

paragraph: The complete names of at least seven domains of Menkauhor are known: "Ikauhor is perfect in favor" and "the favor of Ikauhor", both mentioned in the tombs of Ptahhotep and Akhethotep; "Ikauhor is perfect of life", from the tomb of Ptahhotep II; "Horus Qemaa causes Ikauhor to live"; "Ikauhor is strong"; "Seshat loves Ikauhor" and "Matyt loves Ikauhor" from the tombs of viziers Senedjemib Inti, Senedjemib Mehi and Hemu in Giza. In addition the "Ḥwt" domain of the king, which comprises the land holdings of the mortuary temple of Menkauhor, was named "Menkauhor is perfect of appearances".

paragraph: Section::::Funerary cult.:New Kingdom.

paragraph: The cult of Menkauhor enjoyed a revival during the New Kingdom period (1550–1077 BC). At this point Menkauhor had been deified as a local god of the Saqqara necropolis acting as a divine intercessor, and qualified of "Strong Lord of the Two Lands, Menkauhor the Justified". This cult is evidenced by reliefs showing Menkauhor in the tombs of the "Chief of the artisans and jewelers" Ameneminet and of the physician Thuthu in Saqqara-North, both of whom lived at the time of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (1550–1292 BC), during the reigns of Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb.

paragraph: An inscribed block dating to the later Ramesside period (1292–1077 BC) and now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, was uncovered by Lepsius in a house in Abusir and shows Menkauhor enthroned beside four other deified kings of the Old Kingdom: the name of the first, partially lost, but probably Sneferu is then followed by Djedefre, Menkaure, Menkauhor and finally Neferkare. The owner of the tomb stands before the kings, in worship. Another relief dating to the same period shows a similar scene. It was inscribed on the lintel of the tomb chapel of Mahy buried in Saqqara North. Four deified kings of the Old Kingdom are shown, all of whom built their pyramids at Saqqara: Djoser, Teti, Userkaf and Menkauhor.

paragraph: The persistence of the cult of Menkauhor during the late Eighteenth to Nineteenth Dynasty possibly results from the location of his pyramid, which stood on the way to the necropolis of the Apis bulls, which later became the Serapeum.

description: pharaoh of Egypt

wikidata_label: Menkauhor Kaiu

wikipedia_title: Menkauhor Kaiu


text:
al-Hashimi
Arabic
Arab
astrologer
astronomer
mathematician
Iraq
Aleppo
Sayf al-Dawla
judicial astrology
Johannes Hispalensis
Melchiorre Sessa
Venice
John of Saxony
arithmetic
Euclid
perfect number
Thābit ibn Qurra
amicable number
Al-Biruni
Haly Abenragel
PDF version

categories: Medieval Iraqi mathematicians,Medieval Arab astronomers,967 deaths,Astronomers of medieval Islam,Year of birth missing,Medieval Syrian mathematicians,Medieval Arab mathematicians,Medieval Syrian astronomers,Mathematicians of medieval Islam,Medieval Arab astrologers,10th-century astronomers,Medieval Iraqi astronomers

paragraph: Al-Qabisi

paragraph: Abu al-Saqr Abd al-Aziz Ibn Uthman Ibn Ali al-Qabisi l-Mawsili al-Hashimi, generally known as Al-Qabisi, (Latinised as Alchabitius or Alcabitius), and sometimes known as "Alchabiz", "Abdelazys", "Abdilaziz" (Arabic:" 'Abd al-Azîz", عبدالعزيز القبيصي), (died 967) was an Arab astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Originally from Iraq, Alchabitius later went to Aleppo where he worked for and lived in the palace of Sayf al-Dawla. He died in 967.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Al-Qabisi is best known for his treatise on judicial astrology, "Introduction to the Art of Judgments of the Stars". This was dedicated to the Emir of Aleppo, Prince Sayf al-Dawla, and survives in at least twenty-five Arabic manuscripts, and over two hundred manuscripts of its Latin translation, with twelve printed editions of the Latin work between 1473 and 1521. The Arabic text has received at least three Latin translations, which attracted several commentaries and were, in turn, translated into other European languages. In the 12th century it was translated by Johannes Hispalensis. In 1512 it was published by Melchiorre Sessa in Venice. The 1473 copy, and others up until 1521, features writing about Al-Qabisi by John of Saxony.

paragraph: Al-Qabisi wrote a modest book on arithmetic, "Risala fi anwâ' al-‘adad" (Treatise on the kinds of numbers), in which he discusses Euclid's perfect numbers and how to form them, and Thābit ibn Qurra's theorem on amicable numbers.

paragraph: Other works inclde:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Risala fi al-ab'âd wa-'l-ajrâm (treatise on distances and bodies)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kitāb fi ithbāt ṣinā’at Aḥkām al-nujūm (On Confirming the Art of Astrology)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hal al-Zîjat (Solving astronomical tables)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Risāla fī imtiḥān al‐munajjimīn (A treatise for the examination of astrologers)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Shukūk al‐Majisṭī (Doubts on the Almagest)

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Al-Biruni

paragraph: BULLET::::- Haly Abenragel

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (PDF version)

alias: Abû al-Saqr al-Qabîsî 'Abd al-'Azîz ibn Uthmân

alias: Abu al-Saqr al-Qabisi 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Uthman

description: 10th century Arabian astrologer

wikidata_label: Alchabitius

wikipedia_title: Al-Qabisi


text: German

text: gymnastics

text: wrestling

text: 1896 Summer Olympics

text: Athens

text: weightlifting

text: horizontal bar

text: parallel bars

text: pommel horse

text: Launceston Elliot

text: Great Britain and Ireland

text: weightlifting

text: Georgios Tsitas

text: Greece

text: weightlifting

text: long jump

text: triple jump

text: shot put

text: clean and jerk

text: Georgios Papasideris

text: Greece

text: Friedhof Heerstraße

categories: Olympic athletes of Germany,German male sport wrestlers,Weightlifters at the 1896 Summer Olympics,German male shot putters,Olympic weightlifters of Germany,Olympic medalists in wrestling,1946 deaths,Olympic gymnasts of Germany,German male artistic gymnasts,19th-century sportsmen,Sportspeople from Münster,Athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics,German male long jumpers,Olympic gold medalists for Germany,Olympic medalists in gymnastics,1869 births,German male triple jumpers,Wrestlers at the 1896 Summer Olympics,German male weightlifters,Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics,Olympic wrestlers of Germany,Germany's Sports Hall of Fame inductees

paragraph: Carl Schuhmann

paragraph: Carl Schuhmann (12 May 1869 – 24 March 1946) was a German athlete who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era. He also competed in weightlifting.

paragraph: Schuhmann, who was a member of the Berliner Turnerschaft, was a member of the successful German gymnastics team that won the team events in the horizontal bar and parallel bars events. Schuhmann added a third title by winning the horse vault event. He also competed in the parallel bars, horizontal bar, pommel horse, and rings events without success. The only extant information about his placing in those events, besides not being a medallist, is that he placed fifth in the rings competition.

paragraph: Schuhmann then entered the wrestling competition, which he also won, even though he was much lighter and smaller than most of the other combatants. In the first round, he faced Launceston Elliot of Great Britain and Ireland, who had won the weightlifting competition. Schuhmann won easily. The semifinals resulted in a bye for the German. In the final, he faced Georgios Tsitas of Greece. The match went for 40 minutes before it was determined that it was too dark to continue and the bout was postponed until a second day. The next morning, Schuhmann quickly finished the bout with a win for a gold medal.

paragraph: He also entered the weightlifting competition, placing fourth.

paragraph: Schuhmann was one of nine athletes to compete in the long jump. The only information known about his placing in the event is that he was not one of the top four. He also placed fifth in the triple jump and in the bottom three of a seven-man field in the shot put.

paragraph: Schuhmann tied for fourth place in the two-handed weightlifting competition now known as the clean and jerk. He and Georgios Papasideris of Greece both lifted 90.0 kilograms.

paragraph: In 1936 he was part of a gymnastics exhibition at the Olympic Stadium.

paragraph: His tombstone at Friedhof Heerstraße is inscribed with the Olympic Rings and the epitaph "first German Olympic winner", "most successful participant Athens 1896".

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography from the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Athens 1896 PostScript Athens 1896 PostScript

description: Gymnast and Olympic wrestler

wikidata_label: Carl Schuhmann

wikipedia_title: Carl Schuhmann