text:
São Paulo
Brazil
performance artist
Tetine
Bruno Verner
Eliete Mejorado
Teatro Oficina
Bruno Verner
atonalism
industrial
Tetine
Tetine
Alexandre’s Grave
Bexiga
Tetine
Bruno Verner
SESC
Orlan
Karen Finley
Lindy Annis
Teatro Oficina
Tetine
Laura Di Vison
Kazuo Ono
Gerald Thomas
Diamanda Galas
Marianne Faithfull
John Cale
Cibo Matto
Bruno Verner
Queen Mary University
Live Art Development Agency
Sophie Calle
Ian White
Whitechapel Gallery
Taka Limura
Chicks on Speed
Tetine
Marina Abramovic
Chilly Gonzales
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Funk Carioca
Resonance Fm
Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca
M.I.A
Diplo
Funk Carioca
I’m Ugly BuT Trendy
Denise Garcia
Funk Carioca
A Historia Da Garça
Soul Jazz Records
Tetine
Let Your X’s Be Y’s
XRL8R
Rogerio Sganzerla
O Bandido Da Luz Vermelha
Helena Ignez
Tetine
Neville D'Almeida
Rio Babilonia
Stenersen Museum
Bruno Verner
Ricardo Domeneck
Cunt Cunt Chanel
Homepage

categories: 1967 births,Brazilian female singers,Living people,Brazilian film directors

paragraph: Eliete Mejorado

paragraph: Eliete Mejorado (born 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian performance artist, musician, filmmaker and video director, best known for her work as the vocalist and keyboard player of tropical punk duo Tetine which she formed with poet and musician Bruno Verner in São Paulo in 1995.

paragraph: Section::::Early 1980s.

paragraph: Eliete Mejorado started her career in the early 80’s as a performance artist, videomaker and actress in São Paulo working with Luis Otavio Burnier and late choreographer Johnatas Gama. In the 80's she produced a number of experimental video works and solo performances that often involved music, dance, screaming vocals, miming, moustaches, wigs, physical theatre and drag. Some of her early work was performed solo or in groups in venues such as Sesc Pompeia and at legendary São Paulo post punk underground club Madame Sata.

paragraph: From 1988-1992 Eliete Mejorado also studied Performing Arts at UNICAMP.

paragraph: Section::::1990 - 2000.

paragraph: In 1994 Eliete Mejorado was rehearsing for a performance at Teatro Oficina when she met Bruno Verner for the first time. Eliete and Bruno soon found themselves creating a radical blend of atonalism, industrial, punk and noise improvising with a drum machine, an old piano and altered voices. These interludes would often happen during Roberto Zucco's rehearsal breaks. Both artists approach to performance, sound, voice, text and physicality were similar, resulting in the creation of a one-off art project that they later would baptize as Tetine.

paragraph: In 1995 Tetine was officially born with the debut piece "Alexandre’s Grave" - a multi-media performance for voice, piano, electronics and projections shown at an old 70-seat auditorium called Teatro HAU at Bexiga in São Paulo.

paragraph: "Alexandre’s Grave" marked the first of a series of works Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado would perform or exhibit as Tetine.

paragraph: In 1995 her first album with Tetine, "Alexandre’s Grave" was released on High School Records.

paragraph: In 1997 Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner wrote the original soundtrack for the dance piece "CREME" by Adriana Banana, ex Cia de Dança Burra. On "Creme", Eliete sings, play keyboards and produced a number of tracks for the score.

paragraph: In 1997 Eliete Mejorado, Bruno Verner and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes create a project called "BABEL" - curating the entire programme of the now legendary performance festival that took place in an abandoned petrol station in the borough of Pinheiros in São Paulo owned by SESC.

paragraph: BABEL brought to São Paulo a series of performances and art works by international and local artists such as Orlan, Karen Finley, Lindy Annis, Teatro Oficina, Tetine, Laura Di Vison, Kazuo Ono, Gerald Thomas, Cabelo, PUS, Marta Neves, Fernando Cardoso, Carlinhos, Claudio Cretti, Adriana Galinare amongst others. During 15 days the festival occupied a deactivated petrol station in the borough of Pinheiros with unconventional exhibition spaces, an experimental theatre, a small cinema, a stage for bands and an open air catwalk for fashion shows. "BABEL" was for free and received an incredible amount of Brazilian media attention & public visitation during its two weeks of life.

paragraph: In 1998 Eliete Mejorado is invited to curate the music segment of "MUNDAO" at SESC SANTO AMARO bringing for the first time to Brazil, Diamanda Galas, Marianne Faithfull and John Cale for special performances in São Paulo. Other artists include Cibo Matto and a number of local artists.

paragraph: Section::::2000 - 2014.

paragraph: In January 2000, Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner become resident artist at Queen Mary University in London, establishing themselves in the UK. At Queen Mary, University of London, Eliete Mejorado gave workshops on performance, music & sound manipulation to students of the Drama & Performance department and later created "Living Room" - an autobiographical spoken word piece for electronics presented at the university’s Harold Pinter Theatre. "Living Room" also took part of East End Collaborations Platform - a collaboration between the Live Art Development Agency and Queen Mary University showing emerging artists working with Live Art.

paragraph: In 2002 Eliete Mejorado was awarded the full scholarship Bolsa Virtuose from Brazilian government to complete a Masters in Performance at Brighton University, UK.

paragraph: In 2002 she collaborates with French artist Sophie Calle recording, producing and performing in the acclaimed electronic music album Samba De Monalisa - Tetine Vs Sophie Calle. The record was part of the collection Meld - a series of audio works and collaborations between artists released on Robin Rimbauld (Scanner)’s label Sulpher Records. Other titles from Meld include DJ Spook, Scanner, Stephen Vittielo. At the same year Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner co-curate a film programme, slide projection and performance night with Ian White at Whitechapel Gallery entitled The Politics Of Self Indulgence including films by Taka Limura, Chicks on Speed, Tetine, Marina Abramovic, Chilly Gonzales and debuting their Samba de Monalisa performance live at Whitechapel Art Gallery.

paragraph: In 2002 Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner fell in love with a new scene of female MC’s of Funk Carioca (Baile Funk) from Rio de Janeiro and began broadcasting a weekly radio show called Slum Dunk on Resonance Fm, 104.4 entirely dedicated to the genre. That’s the first time Funk Carioca is played in Europe. After hundreds of radio shows spanning different periods of the genre, including a series of live interviews with Djs, MCs and people involved in the scene, in 2004, Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado compiled the pioneering mixtape Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca mixed by Tetine, released on Mr Bongo Records. At the same year they released an original blend of queer funk carioca in an album entitled Bonde Do Tetao on Bizarre Records in São Paulo. Critically acclaimed in Europe and in the USA, Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca influenced an entire new generation of DJs and producers including M.I.A and Diplo - artists who were beginning to experiment with Funk Carioca at more or less the same time. Tetine's Slum Dunk radio show was responsible to bring Funk Carioca – the intense lo-down Miami-bass driven sound from Rio’s favela parties – within London’s cultural radar, giving exposure to a number of Baile Funk artists for the first time in Europe, introducing the British and Americans to a new genre, as well as playing Brazil’s most experimental segments of funk carioca culture including the proibidoes.

paragraph: The Slum Dunk show also covered from obscure electronica to post punk, funk carioca to avant hip hop, experimental mpb to film music and beyond – through hundreds of thematic or free-form radio shows including live performances, interviews with MCs, producers, artists, curators, journalists, beat & party politics conversations, screenings and more. Eliete Mejorado was also responsible for the London premiere of I’m Ugly BuT Trendy - a film by Denise Garcia on the Funk Carioca scene, later also exhibited in Tetine’s show Tropical Punk at Whitechapel Gallery.

paragraph: In 2006 Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner put out A Historia Da Garça - a 12’ release on Soul Jazz Records and the EP L.I.C.K MY FAVELA on Berlin’s label Kute Bash.

paragraph: In 2007 Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner exhibit Tropical Punk - a Brazilian tropical intervention that took place at the Whitehapel Gallery with a programme of films, artist videos, fanzines, T. shirts and performances.

paragraph: In 2008 Soul Jazz Records releases Tetine’s I Go To The Doctor as 12' - a collaboration with MC Deise Tigrona (previously released on Slum Dunk Music & Kute Bash in 2005, 2006 respectively) following Tetine’s acclaimed full album Let Your X’s Be Y’s.

paragraph: In an interview for XRL8R Cameron Macdonald refers to Eliete with the following quote " vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Eliete Mejorado often takes the stage in the scant garb of a Carnaval dancer, and leads the audience through sexually charged, politically provocative songs like the Tone Loc-sampling hip-hop number “L.I.C.K. My Favela.” “It’s fun and political at the same time,” Mejorado says of the band’s ethos. “The world is an ultra-technological place and super-sexualized, but people don’t really know what to do with their bodies.”

paragraph: In 2009 Eliete Mehorado is back in São Paulo for a series of shows, talks, exhibitions and workshops on Tetine’s project Samba de Monalisa. Tetine are invited to perform "Samba de Monalisa" at Sophie Calle’s exhibition Take Care of Yourself as part of Videobrasil. At the same year Samba de Monalisa is also presented at the Bourdeaux Bienalle in France.

paragraph: In 2010 Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner release independently "From A Forest Near You" (Slum Dunk Music) and the 12' EP "Tropical Punk" including "Yr Daughter Lies", a collaboration with LA duo Howardamb.

paragraph: In June 2011 Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner and Brazilian artist Jarbas Lopes are invited to perform a re-enactment of the piece "DEE GRAÇA" in Firenze at the exhibition Tudo É - curated by Andrea Lissoni & Alberto Salvadori. In the same year Tetine play "Tropical Punk" at the International Summer Festival in Hamburg, Germany and then leave for Brazil for a series of exhibitions and performances in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte including a second instalment of "Tetine & Jarbas Lopes Cashboxx / Degraçaaa" at the exhibit Caos & Efeito at Itau Cultural in São Paulo.

paragraph: With Tetine, still in 2011, Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner are commissioned by Sesc Vila Mariana to compose a new soundtrack for Rogerio Sganzerla's cinema marginal classic O Bandido Da Luz Vermelha. The concert is presented at Cine Concerto, SESC Vila Mariana with special guest Helena Ignez on stage with Tetine.

paragraph: In 2012 Tetine are invited to perform at the prestigious Trienalle Di Milano as part Open Arti in Milan - an unusual laboratory programme of music, art & debate curated by Andrea Lissoni and Simone Bertuzzi with artists such as Venus X, legendary Italo disco DJ Daniele Baldelli, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Chief Boima, Miltos Mannetas amongst others. Still in 2012, Tetine is commissioned to create a brand new score for Neville D'Almeida Brazilian new wave classic Rio Babilonia. Later in June the concert is presented at the theatre of Sesc Santo Amaro in São Paulo as part of a big retrospective of the works of Neville D'Almeida entitled "Alem Cinema". In September 2012 Eliete Mejorado perform 3 different pieces in Norway - including a brand new work entitled "I Hope You Enjoy Your Stay" . All the performances happened in Oslo over a weekend respectively at The National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Stenersen Museum & Jaeger club.

paragraph: In 2013 Tetine releases "In Loveland With You" produced by Bruno Verner. The first two videos for Burning Land and Loveland are filmed in London and directed by Eliete Mejorado.

paragraph: Later in the year Bruno Verner, Eliete Mejorado, poet Ricardo Domeneck and German singer songwriter Cunt Cunt Chanel go on a mini tour in Belgium organised by Hugo Lorenzetti.

paragraph: In 2014 Eliete Mejorado directs a new video piece entitled Shake.

paragraph: Section::::Albums (with Tetine).

paragraph: Queer & Mutant Funk Cuts (2000-2005) / Slum Dunk 2016

paragraph: 53 Diamonds / Wet Dance 2016

paragraph: Mother Nature / Wet Dance 2013

paragraph: Black Semiotics / Wet Dance 2013

paragraph: In Loveland With You / Slum Dunk Music 2013

paragraph: Voodoo Dance & Other Stories / Slum Dunk Music 2011

paragraph: Uncorrupted Tropical Wave 1984-2011 / Slum Dunk Music 2011

paragraph: From A Forest Near You / Slum Dunk Music 2010

paragraph: Let Your X's Be Y's / Soul Jazz Records 2008

paragraph: I Go To The Doctor 12 / Soul Jazz Records 2008

paragraph: A Historia da Garça 12 / Soul Jazz Records 2006

paragraph: L.I.C.K. MY FAVELA / Kute Bash Records 2006

paragraph: L.I.C.K MY FAVELA / Slum Dunk 2005

paragraph: The Sexual Life of the Savages / Soul Jazz Records 2005

paragraph: Bonde do Tetão / Bizarre Music 2004

paragraph: Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca / Mr Bongo 2004

paragraph: Men In Uniform / Bizarre Music 2003

paragraph: Tetine Vs Sophie Calle - Samba de Monalisa / Sulphur Records 2002

paragraph: Olha Ela de Novo / High School Records 2001

paragraph: Música De Amor / High School Records 1998

paragraph: Creme / High School Records 1997

paragraph: Alexander's Grave / High School Records 1996

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- XLR8R

paragraph: BULLET::::- METRO

paragraph: BULLET::::- Last FM

paragraph: BULLET::::- Flasher.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Plan B

paragraph: BULLET::::- URB

paragraph: BULLET::::- Music Week

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fat Planet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fuck Mag

paragraph: BULLET::::- Global Hit

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official website Homepage

description: Brazilian singer and film director

wikidata_label: Eliete Mejorado

wikipedia_title: Eliete Mejorado


text:
combined
2014 Winter Olympics
Andreas Žampa
2014
combined

wikipedia_title: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's combined

categories: Slovak male alpine skiers,Olympic alpine skiers of Slovakia,Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics,Universiade medalists in alpine skiing,1990 births,Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics,People from Kežmarok,Universiade silver medalists for Slovakia,Living people

paragraph: Adam Žampa

paragraph: Adam Žampa (born 13 September 1990) is a Slovakian World Cup alpine ski racer. His best result so far is the 5th place in combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics. His brother is Andreas Žampa.

paragraph: Section::::Results.

paragraph: Section::::Results.:Winter Olympics.

paragraph: Žampa appeared at the Olympic Games for the first time in 2014. In his first Olympics, in combined, Žampa just missed a medal by 0.67 seconds and finished 5th, after finishing 21st (or 27th) in downhill ride and winning the slalom ride of the competition.

paragraph: Section::::Results.:World cup top 20 results.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 0 wins

paragraph: BULLET::::- 0 podiums

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- FIS Personal Profile

description: Slovak Alpine skier

wikidata_label: Adam Žampa

wikipedia_title: Adam Žampa


text:
Arab
Sufi
philosopher
Andalus
Islam
Spain
Ceuta
Frederick II
Sicily
Mecca
Gnostic
Michele Amari
Sicilian Questions
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen

categories: Sufi mystics,1271 deaths,Medieval Arab philosophers,Islamic philosophers,1217 births

paragraph: Ibn Sab'in

paragraph: Abu Mohammed Abd el-Hakh Ibn Sab'in () was an Arab Sufi philosopher, the last philosopher of the Andalus in the west land of Islamic world. He was born in 1217 in Spain and lived in Ceuta. He was known for his replies to questions sent to him by Frederick II, ruler of Sicily. He died in 1271 in Mecca. He was also known for his knowledge of religions (Judaism, Christianity but even Hinduism and Zoroastrism) and the "hidden sciences" and has been variously depicted as a Neoplatonic philosopher, a Peripatetic philosopher, a Pythagorean philosopher, a Hermeticist, a Kabbalist, an alchemist, a heterodox Sufi, a crypto-Shi’ite, a plagiarizer, a pantheist and an arrogant seeker of fame.

paragraph: His school is a combination of philosophical and Gnostic thoughts.

paragraph: He was recognized by Michele Amari as the author, among others, of the responses to the famous "Sicilian Questions" of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

description: Muslim philosopher

wikidata_label: Ibn Sab'in

wikipedia_title: Ibn Sab'in


text:
Venezuela
pianist
New York City
Carlos Buhler
Collegium Musicum de Caracas
Alba Quintanilla
Venezuelan music

categories: People from Cúa,Male pianists,Venezuelan classical musicians,1984 deaths,1915 births,20th-century classical musicians,20th-century composers,Venezuelan pianists,Venezuelan composers,Male composers,Central University of Venezuela faculty,20th-century male musicians,20th-century pianists

paragraph: Evencio Castellanos

paragraph: Evencio Castellanos Yumar (May 3, 1915 – March 16, 1984), was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: From 1938 to 1944 Castellanos studied at the "Superior School of Music of Caracas".

paragraph: In 1947 he went to New York City on a two-year scholarship studying piano with Carlos Buhler. He held various teaching positions in Caracas and founded the Collegium Musicum de Caracas, a Venezuelan musical group. Alba Quintanilla was among his pupils.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Venezuelan music

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Venezuela Symphony orchestra Magazine", 25th anniversary, 1955.

description: Venezuelan composer

wikidata_label: Evencio Castellanos

wikipedia_title: Evencio Castellanos


text:
hurdler
United States
1968
1972 Summer Olympics
1971 Pan American Games
Renton High School
University of Southern California
Ramona High School
National Track and Field Hall of Fame

categories: 1950 births,Athletes (track and field) at the 1971 Pan American Games,Sportspeople from San Diego,Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States,Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics,Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field),Track and field athletes from California,American female hurdlers,Olympic track and field athletes of the United States,Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics,Living people

paragraph: Patty Van Wolvelaere

paragraph: Patricia Jean "Patty" Van Wolvelaere (divorced Johnson; born April 15, 1950) is a retired hurdler from the United States who competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics Olympics. Her best finish was the fourth place in the 80 m event in 1968. She won the 100 m hurdles at the 1971 Pan American Games and held four national outdoor titles in this event, in 1971, 1973–74 and 1977. Van Wolvelaere also won the National Indoor Championships in the 60 yard hurdles six times between 1967 and 1974, including four in a row in 1971–74.

paragraph: Van Wolvelaere graduated from Renton High School and competed for the University of Southern California and Angels Track Club. She later worked as a firefighter. More recently, with the married last name of Weirich, she coaches at Ramona High School.

paragraph: In 2017, she was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.

description: American hurdler

wikidata_label: Patty Van Wolvelaere

wikipedia_title: Patty Van Wolvelaere


text: Bristol

text: windsurfer

text: World Sailing Speed Record Council

text: World Sailing Speed Record Council

text: World Sailing Speed Record Council

text: International Speed Windsurfing Class

text: Walvis Bay

text: Sailing.org News Article

text: WSSRC newsletter No 132

text: World Sailing Speed Record Council

text: International Speed Windsurfing Class

text: United Kingdom Windsurfing Association

text: (Zara Davis on National BBC 1 You Tube)

text: Zara Davis's website

categories: English female sailors (sport),1966 births,Sportspeople from Bristol,Living people,English windsurfers

paragraph: Zara Davis

paragraph: Zara Davis (born 13 July 1966 in Bristol, England) is an English windsurfer. She holds the outright World Women’s Nautical Mile speed record for a sailing vessel. The record was achieved in Namibia in 2006 and ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council. She has since improved this record for the Nautical Mile to 37.29 knots at La Plame in the South of France. Ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.

paragraph: She also held the Windsurfing World Women’s 500m record. Set in Luderitz Namibia in November 2012 held it for 3 years and regained it again in 2017 with a speed of 46.49 knots over the 500m course. It has been ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.

paragraph: Zara has won the ISWC European speed championships 6 times and the ISWC Speed World Championship 3 times, she is also ranked No1 in the world by the ISWC International Speed Windsurfing Class.

paragraph: Started windsurfing when she was 13 taught by her father John and started competing at British national level in 1999 - 2001 winning the British UKWA Women's Slalom Title in 2000.

paragraph: She turned her focus to speed windsurfing in 2004. Taking the Women's overall title at Weymouth Speed Week, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. She also holds the ladies Portland harbour record at 32.44 knots.

paragraph: 2005 Finished 6th in the world overall on the Speed World Cup Tour and PWA slalom.

paragraph: Zara is 183 cm (6 ft) tall and weighs 75 kg this is accepted as a great build for a female speed sailor, giving her the strength and leverage to achieve high speeds. She is the 1st person to hold two official speed sailing records. The first was set In October 2006 she established a new women’s speed world record for sailing vessels over a Nautical mile by averaging 34.7 knots at Walvis Bay Namibia, surpassing the previous speed record set in 2005 at the same spot by French sailor Valerie Ghibaudo by over a knot. In October 2012 she went on to set the Women's Windsurfing world record 500m record at 45.83 knots which had stood for over 9 years previously held by Karin Jaggi of Switzerland at 41.25 knots. In 2015 Karin Jaggi broke the record again with 46.31 knots. Zara then went back to Luderitz in 2017 and took her record back, taking the Women's Windsurfing World record to 46.49 knots.

paragraph: All records were acknowledged by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.

paragraph: Zara achieved No 1 status for the 1st time on the official ISWC Women's world ranking in 2010.

paragraph: She also achieved a new Women's Production Board Speed Record in Luderitz Namibia at the same time as her world 500m record as she was using a standard production Simmer Speed Demon 40.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sailing.org News Article

paragraph: BULLET::::- IFCA Article on the history of Speedsailing

paragraph: BULLET::::- WSSRC newsletter No 132

paragraph: BULLET::::- World Sailing Speed Record Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- International Speed Windsurfing Class

paragraph: BULLET::::- United Kingdom Windsurfing Association

paragraph: BULLET::::- (Zara Davis on National BBC 1 You Tube)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zara Davis's website

description: British windsurfer

wikidata_label: Zara Davis

wikipedia_title: Zara Davis


text: Breda

text: cultural psychologist

text: journalist

text: Senate

text: GreenLeft

text: Catholic

text: Amsterdam

text: The Hague

text: atheneum

text: sciences

text: psychology

text: Catholic University Nijmegen

text: bachelor's degree

text: master's degree

text: Psychology of religion

text: communication studies

text: education studies

text: Provo

text: civics

text: science education

text: social science

text: Communist Party of the Netherlands

text: freelancer

text: social work

text: Nijmegen

text: editor in chief

text: De Helling

text: think tank

text: Pacifist Socialist Party

text: Political Party of Radicals

text: GreenLeft

text: public sector

text: De Volkskrant

text: De Groene Amsterdammer

text: Vrij Nederland

text: J/M

text: GreenLeft

text: public housing

text: homeless people

text: 't IJ

text: GreenLeft

text: parliamentary party

text: Senate

text: economic affairs

text: Willem-Alexander

text: Máxima Zorreguieta

text: republic

text: welfare state

text: social work

text: public housing

text: Paul Kuypers

text: privacy

text: bureaucracy

text: transparency

text: foster child

text: Herman Vuijsje

text: josvdlans.nl

text: profile

text: profile

text: profile

text: profile

categories: GroenLinks politicians,1954 births,Living people

paragraph: Jos van der Lans

paragraph: Josephus Johannes Maria (Jos) van der Lans (born 2 April 1954, in Breda) is a cultural psychologist, journalist and writer. Between 1999 and 2007 he was member of the Dutch Senate for GreenLeft

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: Van der Lans has a Catholic background. Between 1960 and 1967 he attended a Catholic primary school in Amsterdam (until 1964) and The Hague. Between 1967 and 1973 he attended a Catholic secondary school in The Hague. He attended the atheneum and specialized in sciences. Between 1973 and 1981 he studied psychology at the Catholic University Nijmegen. In 1977 he received his candidate's exam (roughly equivalent to a bachelor's degree) and in 1981 he received his doctoral exam (roughly equivalent to a master's degree. Van der Lans specialized in cultural psychology and Psychology of religion. He also took additional courses in communication studies and education studies. He wrote his doctoral thesis about "Youth Culture, Provo and the Youth Movement" . Between 1979 and 1981 he attended courses to become a teacher in civics and science education. Between 1977 and 1981 he worked as a student-assistant on the faculty of social sciences at different departments. Between 1977 and 1983 he worked as a journalist for the quarterly magazine "Psychologie & Maatschappij" ("Psychology and Society").

paragraph: As a student Van der Lans was active in the student movement and in university politics. Between 1975 and 1977 he was chair of the Nijmegen Student Union and between 1977 and 1978 he was the student member of the board of the subfaculty of psychology. In 1978 Van der Lans joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands, which he left in 1986 because internal struggles had caused the decline of the party.

paragraph: Section::::Journalist and Writer.

paragraph: Since 1981 Van der Lans started to work as journalist. First as a freelancer for the magazine "Jeugd en Samenleving" ("Youth and Society"). Between 1982 and 1987 he was editor of the magazine "Marge", the monthly journal for social work. Between 1983 and 1984 he was part-time teacher in psychology at the Advanced School in Nijmegen. Between 1987 he was assistant editor in chief and later editor in chief of the "Welzijnseweekblad", the weekly magazine for social work and the Tijdschrift voor de Sociale Sector, another journal on social work. Between 1987 and 1995 he wrote for "De Helling" ("The Slope"), the quarterly of the think tanks of the political parties CPN, the Pacifist Socialist Party and the Political Party of Radicals. These parties merged in 1989 to form GreenLeft, which Van der Lans joined. "De Helling" became the quarterly of the think tank of this party. In this period Van der Lans was also active in civil society. He was a member of the Board of the Catholic Youth Organization, Catholic Service Institute for Life Forming. He also was a member of the board of the "De Helling".

paragraph: Between 1990 and 1991 Van der Lans was full-time freelancer with his own advice bureau, which worked in the (semi-)public sector. Between 1991 and 1994 he worked for De Volkskrant, a major centre-left daily as editor of the opinion & discussion page "Forum". He also worked for the Tijdschrift voor de Sociale Sector and other magazines in the semi-public sector. In 1993 he left De Volkskrant and worked De Groene Amsterdammer, a left wing weekly (between 1993 and 1999) and for Vrij Nederland, another leftwing weekly (between 2001 and 2004). At Vrij Nederland he edited the opinion & discussion page "Burning Issues". He also had a column in the Tijdschrift voor sociale vraagstukken (since 1994) and the weekly magazine for parents J/M (between 1997 and 1999). He continued to be active for de Helling as an editor. Between 1995 and 2000 he also was a member of the board of the GreenLeft think tank.

paragraph: In 2005 Van der Lans wrote "Koning Burger" ("King Citizen") a critical analysis of the relationship between government and citizen. It was followed by "Ontregelen" ("De-regulate") on the position of professionals in the (semi-)public sector. Van der Lans continues to work as a freelancer. He writes several columns: for the magazine of Aedes (the federation of public housing agencies), for DANS (the magazine of the centre for amateur dancing) and the GreenLeft magazine.

paragraph: Furthermore, he is the member of several boards in the semi-public sector, such as organisation advise bureau De Beuk, HVO Querido, a foundation for social work, the Foundation for the interest of homeless people in Amsterdam ("Stichting Belangenbehartiging Amsterdamse Dak- en Thuislozen"), the Foundation Culture at 't IJ and his own foundation EROPAF! (RIGHT AT IT!), an initiative based around his vision on the role of professionals and citizens in the public sector.

paragraph: Section::::Member of the Senate.

paragraph: Between 1999 and 2007 Van der Lans was a member of the GreenLeft parliamentary party in the Dutch Senate. He spoke on a range of issues: transport, public works and water management; housing, spatial planning and the environment; culture and economic affairs. Between 2003 and 2007 he chaired the parliamentary committee on Transport, Public Works and Water Management. He voted against his own parliamentary party on the parliamentary approval of the marriage between Willem-Alexander en Máxima Zorreguieta out of republican sentiments.

paragraph: Section::::Political and social ideas.

paragraph: Van der Lans mainly writes on the welfare state and specifically the role of social work and public housing agencies. He is primarily interested in the relationship between government, citizens and professionals in the public sector.

paragraph: Since 1994 Van der Lans has pled, together with Paul Kuypers in their "Modern Paternalisme" (Modern Paternalisme), against the culture of non-interference in social work. Social workers should intervene actively in the life of their clients without becoming moralist (as in the 1950s) or overly persistent (as in the 1970s). According to Van der Lans this culture of non-intervention is a result of the larger scale of social work and the increased respect for privacy of citizens. Professionals such as teachers, policemen and social workers, should according to Van der Lans be freed from the increased bureaucracy in the public sector. In the eyes of Van der Lans, the increased bureaucracy is a result of the larger demand of the transparency in the civil service from the politics. When professionals free themselves from bureaucracy they can orient themselves to their work on the "front lines of society". They should interfere in the life of their clients with a "right at it"-mentality.

paragraph: Van der Lans is very critical of the role of citizens in the public sector. In his eyes citizens act as "kings": they expect government to solve their problems immediately. The government reacts as servant: politicians claim to want to listen to citizens. According to Van der Lans these relations have changed radically: before the politicians were the "kings" and the citizens servants. Van der Lans denies that there is a problem of representation in politics: never has politics tried to respond so strongly to the demands of citizens. This has shown the weakness of government however, which cannot deal with all the demands of all the citizens in the short term.

paragraph: Section::::Private life.

paragraph: Van der Lans co-habits. He has four children, two of which are foster children.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: This is a selection of Van der Lans' publications

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Giftige bonbons" ("Poisonous Chocolates" stories, 1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Modern Paternalisme" ("Modern Paternalism" manifest, 1994, with Paul Kuypers)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "De onzichtbare samenleving" ("The Unseen Society" essays, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lage landen. Hoge sprongen. Nederland in beweging 1898-1998" ("Low Countries. High Jumps. The Netherlands on the move 1898-1998" 1998 with Herman Vuijsje)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Typisch Nederlands. Vademecum van de Nederlandse identiteit" ("Typically Dutch. Handbook on the Dutch identity" 1999 with Herman Vuijsje)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Het verlangen naar de stad" ("the Desire of the City" 2002 with Herman Vuijsje)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Het woninkrijk der Bloemstraters" ("The small kingdom of those who lived in the Bloemstraat" 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bemoeien werkt" ("Intervention works" 2003 with Nies Medema en Marc Räkers)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Koning burger - Nederland als zelfbedieningszaak" ("King Citizens - the Netherlands as Supermarket" 2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ontregelen - De herovering van de werkvloer" ("De-regulate - The return of the professional" 2008)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- josvdlans.nl personal site

paragraph: BULLET::::- profile on Eerste Kamer.nl

paragraph: BULLET::::- profile op de Balie.nl

paragraph: BULLET::::- profile on GroenLinks.nl

paragraph: BULLET::::- profile op parlement.com

alias:
J.J.M. van der Lans
Josephus Johannes Maria van der Lans

description: Dutch politician

wikidata_label: Jos van der Lans

wikipedia_title: Jos van der Lans


text:
Lord of Bowland
Blackburnshire
Baron of Halton
Sheriff of Yorkshire
Cumberland
John fitz Richard
Robert de Lacy
de Lacy
Blackburnshire
Robert le Constable
Maud
Henry I
Pontefract Castle
Richard I
marks
Third Crusade
Tyre
John of England
Northumberland
William, King of Scotland
Lincoln
John
Chester
Richard the Lionheart
Third Crusade
Siege of Acre
Philip II of France
Château Gaillard
besieged
Pontefract Castle
Earl of Chester
Wales
Rhuddlan Castle
Hugh Lupus, the 1st Earl of Chester
Abbey of St. Werberg
High Sheriff of Cumberland
John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln
Stanlow Abbey

categories: 1211 deaths,De Lacy family,1170 births,High Sheriffs of Cumberland,Christians of the Third Crusade

paragraph: Roger de Lacy (1170–1211)

paragraph: Roger de Lacy (1170–1211), Baron of Pontefract, Lord of Bowland, Lord of Blackburnshire, Baron of Halton, Constable of Chester, Sheriff of Yorkshire and Cumberland, also known as Roger le Constable, was a notable English soldier, crusader and baron in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.

paragraph: Section::::Family and Provenance.

paragraph: Roger de Lacy was also known as Roger FitzJohn (son of John, constable of Chester) and during the time that he was hoping to inherit his grandmother's de Lisours lands as Roger de Lisours. He was the son of John fitz Richard (son of Richard), Baron of Halton, Lord of Bowland, Lord of Flamborough and Constable of Chester. Roger became Baron of Pontefract on the death of his paternal grandmother Albreda de Lisours (-aft.1194) who had inherited the Barony in her own right as 1st-cousin and heir to Robert de Lacy (−1193), Baron of Pontefract. In agreements with his grandmother Roger adopted the name of de Lacy, received the right to inherit the Barony of Pontefract and its lands, and the lands of Bowland, and Blackburnshire. He gave up all claims to his grandmother's de Lisours lands. He also gave his younger brother Robert le Constable the Flamborough lands that he had inherited from his father. He married Maud (or Matilda) de Clere (not of the de Clare family).

paragraph: Roger's great-grandfather, Robert de Lacy, had failed to support King Henry I during his power struggle with his brother and the King had confiscated Pontefract Castle from the family earlier in the 12th century; Roger paid King Richard I 3,000 marks for the Honour of Pontefract, though the King retained possession of the castle itself. Roger accompanied his father and King Richard for the Third Crusade, succeeding to the title when his father died at the siege of Tyre..

paragraph: Section::::Service to Kings Richard and John.:Accession of King John.

paragraph: At the accession of King John of England, Roger was a person of great eminence, for we find him shortly after the coronation of that prince, deputed with the Sheriff of Northumberland, and other great men, to conduct William, King of Scotland, to Lincoln, where the English king had fixed to give him an interview. King John gave de Lacy Pontefract Castle in 1199, the year he ascended the throne.

paragraph: Section::::Military service.

paragraph: Section::::Military service.:Siege of Acre.

paragraph: Roger was the Constable of Chester, and joined Richard the Lionheart for the Third Crusade. Roger assisted at the Siege of Acre, in 1192 and clearly earned the favour and the trust of King Richard as a soldier and loyal subject as judged by his subsequent service.

paragraph: Section::::Military service.:Château Gaillard.

paragraph: King Richard reconquered some castles along his Norman border from Philip II of France in 1196 and de Lacy was likely in his retinue. In 1203, de Lacy was the commander of the Château Gaillard in Normandy, when it was besieged and finally taken by Philip, marking the loss of mainland Normandy by the Plantagenêts. Under de Lacy's command the defence of the castle was lengthy, and it fell only after an eight-month siege on 8 March 1204. After the siege, de Lacy returned to England to begin work reinforcing Pontefract Castle.

paragraph: Section::::Military service.:Siege of Rothelan.

paragraph: In the time of this Roger, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, having entered Wales at the head of some forces, was compelled, by superior numbers, to shut himself up in the castle of Rothelan (Rhuddlan Castle), where, being closely besieged by the Welsh, he sent for aid to the Constable of Chester. Hugh Lupus, the 1st Earl of Chester, in his charter of foundation of the Abbey of St. Werberg, at Chester, had given a privilege to the frequenters of Chester fair, "That they should not be apprehended for theft, or any other offense during the time of the fair, unless the crime was committed therein." This privilege made the fair, of course, the resort of thieves and vagabonds from all parts of the kingdom. Accordingly, the Constable, Roger de Lacy, forthwith marched to his relief, at the head of a concourse of people, then collected at the fair of Chester, consisting of minstrels, and loose characters of all description, forming altogether so numerous a body, that the besiegers, at their approach, mistaking them for soldiers, immediately raised the siege. For this timely service, the Earl of Chester conferred upon De Lacy and his heirs, the patronage of all the minstrels in those parts, which patronage the Constable transferred to his steward; and was enjoyed for many years afterwards.

paragraph: Section::::High Sheriff.

paragraph: He was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland for the years 1204 to 1209.

paragraph: Section::::Death and succession.

paragraph: Roger died in 1211, and was succeeded by his son, John de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln. He was buried at Stanlow Abbey.

description: English Baron

wikidata_label: Roger de Lacy

wikipedia_title: Roger de Lacy (1170–1211)


text: Ohlau

text: Osterode in Ostpreußen

text: Brzeg

text: Legnica

text: Wołów

text: Joachim Frederick

text: Anna Maria

text: Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt

text: John George of Oława

text: Christian of Anhalt

text: dower

text: Charles II of Poděbrady

text: Ziębice

text: Oleśnica

text: Krosno Odrzańskie

text: Emperor Rudolf II

text: Wrocław

text: Strzelin

text: Niemcza

text: Kluczbork

text: Byczyna

text: Złotoryja

text: Grodźca

text: Lubin

text: Prochowice

text: Wińsko

text: Wąsosz

text: Ryczeń

text: Rudna

text: Lutheran

text: Calvinism

text: John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg

text: communion

text: House of Hohenzollern

text: Ferdinand II of Habsburg

text: Bohemia

text: Counter Reformation

text: Absolutism

text: Oleśnica

text: Henry Wenceslaus

text: Karl Frederick of Poděbrady

text: Frederick V, Elector Palatine

text: Wrocław

text: Habsburg

text: Gábor Bethlen

text: Transylvania

text: Battle of White Mountain

text: George William, Elector of Brandenburg

text: Dresden

text: John George I of Saxony

text: guilder

text: Frankfurt

text: Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

text: Thirty Years' War

text: Strzelin

text: Wąsosz

text: Leszno

text: Toruń

text: Wladyslaw IV Vasa

text: Ostróda

text: John George, Elector of Brandenburg

text: taler

text: Legnica

text: Brzeg

text: George III

text: Louis IV

text: Christian

text: Gerhard VII of Dönhoff

text: Ziębice

text: Oleśnica

text: John VI of Sitzsch

text: Bishop of Wrocław

text: Silesia

text: morganatic

text: Regensburg

text: Baron August of Legnica

text: Genealogical database by Herbert Stoyan

categories: People from Oława,1591 births,Dukes of Brzeg,1639 deaths

paragraph: John Christian of Brieg

paragraph: John Christian of Brieg (; ; Ohlau, 28 August 1591 – Osterode in Ostpreußen (today Ostróda), 25 December 1639), was a Duke of Brzeg–Legnica–Wołów (since 1602; with his brother as co-ruler in Legnica and Wołów until 1612; in Oława since 1605).

paragraph: He was the second but eldest surviving son of Joachim Frederick, Duke of Brzeg–Oława–Legnica–Wołów, by his wife Anna Maria, daughter of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt. In his baptism, who was realized two weeks after his birth, on 14 September, he received the names of both uncles: John George of Oława and Christian of Anhalt.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Youth.

paragraph: Joachim Frederick died on 25 March 1602, leaving his two sons as the heirs of his domains. John Christian had eleven-years and his younger brother George Rudolf had only seven, the regency of the Duchies was taken by their mother, the Dowager Duchess Anna Maria (who held Oława as her dower). After Anna Maria's death in 1605, the regency was taken by the paternal aunt of the young Dukes (and only surviving sibling of the late Joachim Frederick), Elisabeth Magdalena of Brieg and her husband, Charles II of Poděbrady, Duke of Ziębice–Oleśnica.

paragraph: During some time, John Christian live in Krosno Odrzańskie (), where he met his first wife, Dorothea Sybille of Brandenburg.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Beginning of Rule.

paragraph: In 1609 John Christian attained his majority and assumed the government. On 7 October of that year he paid homage to the Emperor Rudolf II in Wrocław. In 1612 his younger brother George Rudolf was formally declared an adult. Then, the brothers decided to make the division of their lands: John Christian retained Brzeg, Oława, Strzelin, Niemcza, Kluczbork and Byczyna, and George Rudolf came into possession of Legnica, Wołów, Złotoryja, Grodźca, Lubin, Prochowice, Wińsko, Wąsosz, Ryczeń and Rudna.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Conversion to Calvinism.

paragraph: In 1613 John Christian, then a Lutheran, began to profess openly the Calvinism. With him, his younger brother George Rudolf also changed his religion. The brothers followed the example their second-cousin, John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, who shortly before publicly took communion according to the Calvinist rite, after almost two years of professed in secret. Thanks to this, they could renewed the alliance of the Duchy of Legnica-Brzeg with the House of Hohenzollern.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Thirty Years' War.

paragraph: In 1617 Ferdinand II of Habsburg was elected King of Bohemia. The new ruler, raised by the Jesuits, began immediately the Counter Reformation. The Protestants were totally against his election to the Bohemisn throne, especially when it became clear that Ferdinand II had no intention to give them the tolerance guaranteed by Imperial Decree of the late Emperor Rudolf II. The conflict between the Bohemians and Ferdinand II deepened when the new King shown his aspirations for rule in the Absolutism. In the civil war started between the Bohemians and the Habsburgs, John Christian stood on the Bohemian side. With the insistence of John George of Brandenburg, Duke of Krnov, his brother George Rudolf and his cousins, the Dukes of Oleśnica, Henry Wenceslaus and Karl Frederick of Poděbrady (later his son-in-law) and as "General Prefect" (Governor) of Silesia (a function held from him since 1617 onwards) he formed an army who, under the leadership of John George of Krnov went to Bohemia to help the insurgents. In 1619 the states of Bohemia announced the dethronement of Ferdinand II, and on 26 July was elected as new King of Bohemia Frederick V, Elector Palatine, a strong Calvinism.

paragraph: John Christian was a strong supporter of the new King. After the election of Frederick V, he stood at the forefront of the national government of Silesia. On 27 February 1620 in Wrocław the Silesian states paid tribute to Frederick V, during which the formula of the oath was given by the Duke of Brzeg. John Christian also worked in the diplomatic affairs on behalf of King-Elector. In Poland, he sought to raise more troops to support the civil war against the Habsburgs. Also, he made contacts with the Anti-Habsburg opposition in Hungary, where the King counted with the support of Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania. In Silesia John Christian persuaded several nobles to join to the Anti-Habsburg side, promising military support. However, the cruelty and dictatorial government of Frederick V, the Silesians began to reject the Anti-Habsburg moods and they fading totally on 8 November 1620, when at the Battle of White Mountain were the Habsurg army severely defeated the Bohemian forces. One day after, Prague was occupied by the Habsburgs. Standing all the time faithfully at the side of Frederick V, John Christian urged to the Silesian states to adopt a tax on the continuation of the war. However, the following successful of Ferdinand II between the Princes who support the Elector crasehd all his plans; on 23 December John Christian was finally defeated and fled to the court of George William, Elector of Brandenburg. The Silesian government entered immediately in negotiations with the winners. On 28 February 1621 in Dresden, with the mediation of Elector John George I of Saxony, the agreement was signed. The Silesian states sworn fidelity to the Emperor and break completely all relations with his enemies. In addition, Ferdinand II received the sum of 300,000 guilders for participants in the revolt, with the exception of the chief of the Silesian forced, Duke John George of Krnov.

paragraph: Feared for his life, John Christian went in April 1621 to Frankfurt, in the limits of Brandenburg and granted to him by George William of Brandenburg (who was the nephew of his wife, Dorothea Sybille), where since the end of February the Duke of Brzeg and his family lived. In the meanwhile, the Emperor Ferdinand II give the government of Brzeg to John Christian's brother, George Rudolf. After the subsequent mediation of the Elector of Saxony, on 8 December John Christian could return safely to his Duchy.

paragraph: In the subsequent years, John Christian wasn't involved in the political game. Nevertheless, he was forced to go into exile again. In 1630 King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden began his interference in the Thirty Years' War. At his insistence, the Elector John George I of Saxony, until then a faithful follower of the Hasbsburgs, passed to the revolt side. In 1632 the Saxon army entered in the Silesian states, including the Duchy of Brzeg. In the next year, at the Northwestern, came the Imperial army under the command of Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch, husband of John Christian's sister, Barbara Agnes. His troops entered in Oława and even took Strzelin, but soon they had to withdraw. Nevertheless, the Imperial Army began to gain advantage and already in the autumn of 1633, Silesia was free from the Anti-Habsburg armies. John Christian was accused of allowing the access of the Saxon armies to Brzeg; the Imperial troops invaded his Duchy, and the Duke, his family and court were forced to fled. First, he moved to Wołów, and shortly after he moved to Wąsosz, where, feared of the troops of Schaffgotsch, and together with his brother, George Rudolf, on 12 October 1633 he managed to come to Poland, stopping in Leszno.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Exile in Poland.

paragraph: On 20 October 1633 John Christian arrived to Toruń, where he rented a house, after obtaining the prior consent of the King Wladyslaw IV Vasa to move to Poland.

paragraph: In 1634 John Christian came to Silesia to talk with some Protestant subjects in the duchies and cities. He had the idea to convince the Silesian states to accept the authority of the King of Poland and repudied the overlordship of Ferdinand II; however, this idea was never realized.

paragraph: John Christian never return to his Duchy of Brzeg. In 1635 Ferdinand II entrusted the government of Brzeg to John Christian's oldest son George III as administrator. In January 1635 John Christian returned to Toruń. On 4 October 1636, and after obtaining the consent of George William of Brandenburg, John Christian assumed the direct administration over Ostróda, where he remained with his family until his death.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Death.

paragraph: John Christian died of pneumonia on 25 December 1639 in Ostróda, six months after his second (morganatic) wife, Anna Hedwig of Sitzsch. Four months later, on 19 April 1640, his body was sent to Brzeg, where he arrived on 1 May. However, the formal funeral took place only less than a year after his death, on 12 December 1640. His body was deposited in the Church of St. Hedwig in Brzeg, alongside his first wife, Dorothea Sybille.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and Issue.

paragraph: In Berlin on 12 December 1610 John Christian married firstly with Dorothea Sybille (b. Berlin, 29 October 1590 - d. Brzeg, 19 March 1625), daughter of John George, Elector of Brandenburg by his third wife, Elisabeth of Anhalt, full-sister of John Christian's mother Anna Maria; in consequence, both spouses are first cousins. As a dowry, John Christian received 30,000 talers. On 30 December, the newlyweds came to Legnica, where they lived for a year. On 6 December 1611 the couple moved to Brzeg, where Dorothea Sybille remained until her death, thirteen years later. On 14 May 1625 her body was placed in the Church of St. Hedwig in Brzeg. They had thirteen children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. George III (b. Brzeg, 4 September 1611 - d. Brzeg, 4 July 1664).

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Joachim (b. 20 December 1612 - d. 9 February 1613).

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Henry (b. 3 February 1614 - d. 4 February 1614).

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Ernest (b. 3 February 1614 - d. 4 February 1614), twin of Henry.

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Anna Elisabeth (b. 23 March 1615 - d. 28 March 1616)

paragraph: BULLET::::6. Louis IV (b. Brzeg, 19 April 1616 - d. Legnica, 24 November 1663).

paragraph: BULLET::::7. Rudolf (b. 6 April 1617 - d. 8 February 1633).

paragraph: BULLET::::8. Christian (b. Oława, 9 April 1618 - d. Oława, 28 February 1672).

paragraph: BULLET::::9. August (b. 18 March 1619 - 12 March 1620).

paragraph: BULLET::::10. Sibylle Margareta (b. Brzeg, 20 June 1620 - d. Gdańsk, 26 June 1657), married on 23 October 1637 to Count Gerhard VII of Dönhoff.

paragraph: BULLET::::11. Dorothea (b. 16 August 1622 - d. 26 August 1622).

paragraph: BULLET::::12. Agnes (b. 16 August 1622 - d. 3 September 1622), twin of Dorothea.

paragraph: BULLET::::13. Sophia Magdalena (b. Brzeg, 14 June 1624 - d. Oława, 28 April 1660), married on 2 December 1642 to Charles Frederick I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Ziębice–Oleśnica.

paragraph: In Brzeg on 13 September 1626 John Christian married secondly with Anna Hedwig (b. 13 January 1611 - d. Ostróda, 16 July 1639), daughter of the Marshal Frederick of Sitzsch. The young bride (she had fifteen years) was a relative of John VI of Sitzsch, who during 1600–1608 held the dignity of Bishop of Wrocław and Imperial Governor of Silesia. However, the union was morganatic under the standards of the House of Piast, and for this the marriage was temporary a secret. A successfully arrangement on 24 June 1626 secured financially the eventual offspring of the union, but they were excluded from the succession of the Duchy of Legnica-Brzeg. Eighteen months later, on 7 December 1627, Emperor Ferdinand II gave an Imperial Diploma raised Anna Hedwig to the rank of Baroness (), and two months later, on 18 February 1628, by a similar act in Regensburg the Emperor issued for the oldest son of John Christian and Anna Hedwig, August, the title of "Baron of Legnica" (), and the same title was secured for the future children of the couple. Anna Hedwig died in Ostróda six months before her husband, aged twenty-eight. She was buried there on 5 October. They had seven children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Baron August of Legnica (b. Brzeg, 21 August 1627 - d. Siebenhufen, 14 May 1679), created Count in 1664.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Baroness Dorothea Sybille of Legnica (b. 17 July 1628 - d. 18 June 1629).

paragraph: BULLET::::3. A son (b. and d. 30 June 1629).

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Baron Ernest of Legnica (b. 27 November 1630 - d. 16 March 1631).

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Baron Sigismund of Legnica (b. Brzeg, 31 January 1632 - d. 14 July 1664), married on 1 October 1659 to Baroness Eva Eleonore of Bibran-Modlau (b. December 1644 - d. 6 July 1671). The union was childless.

paragraph: BULLET::::6. Baroness Johanna Elisabeth of Legnica (b. Toruń, 8 June 1634 - d. Swiatnik, 30 October 1673), married on 3 November 1651 to Baron Zdenko Howora Berka von Dub und Leipa.

paragraph: BULLET::::7. Baroness Anna Christina of Legnica (b. Ostróda, 18 October 1636 - d. Brzeg, 5 September 1642).

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Genealogical database by Herbert Stoyan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Morganatic and Unequal Marriages in German Law

description: Duke of Brzeg

wikidata_label: John Christian of Brieg

wikipedia_title: John Christian of Brieg


text:
Givet
Toulon
French
naval officer
politician
Crimean War
Sebastopol
Franco-Prussian War
Toulon
Minister for the Navy and the Colonies

categories: 1821 births,People from Givet,Governors of Cochinchina,French Naval Ministers,French Navy officers,1914 deaths,French military personnel of the Crimean War

paragraph: Jules François Émile Krantz

paragraph: Jules François Émile Krantz (29 December 1821 in Givet – 25 February 1914 near Toulon) was a French naval officer and politician. In Vietnamese royal records, he was referred as "Ca Răng" (哥𪘵).

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He left the École navale in 1837, initially serving off the west African coast and then in the Mediterranean and Brazil. He was professor of navigation on board the "Borda" (1852). He commanded the "Ténare" during the Crimean War, taking part in the attacks on Sebastopol and the Kinbourn peninsula. He was then sent to Vietnam (1858–59) and the China Sea and Japan (1862–64, where he took part in the bombardment of Pei-Ho). He was then commander of the gunnery-school ship "Louis XIV" at Cherbourg (1869).

paragraph: He commanded the naval division on the China Sea in 1873 and became military governor of Cochinchine from 16 March to 30 November 1874. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War, commanding the marines at fort d'Ivry. In 1877 he was promoted to vice admiral, followed by becoming maritime prefect of Toulon in October 1879. He later became chief of staff becoming Minister for the Navy and the Colonies from 5 January 1888 to 22 February 1889, then naval minister from 19 March 1889 to 17 March 1890.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Étienne Taillemite, "Dictionnaire des marins français", éditions Tallandier, 2002, 573 p. ()

description: French officer

wikidata_label: Jules François Émile Krantz

wikipedia_title: Jules François Émile Krantz


text:
American Civil War
Banbury
Samuel Beazley
Bowery b’hoy
Mose Humphrey
Frank Chanfrau
Frank Bellew
Alfred Waud
Albert Richard Smith
Punch Magazine
Thomas Powell (1809-1887)
Charleston, South Carolina
John Bigelow
New York Evening Post
Fort Sumter
Charles Anderson Dana
New-York Tribune
Yorktown
Williamsburg
Sydney Howard Gay
New York Herald
Fitz James O'Brien
James Island
Battle of Secessionville
Fort Pulaski
General Nathaniel Prentice Banks
Port Hudson
Wardington
Pfaff's beer cellar
Missouri History Museum

categories: American magazine illustrators,1904 deaths,Artists from London,1826 births

paragraph: Thomas Butler Gunn

paragraph: Thomas Butler Gunn (15 February 1826 – 7 April 1904) was an English born illustrator and writer who spent fourteen years in America. His diaries of this period provide details of his life amongst the bohemian writers and artist in New York and his work as a newspaper correspondent during the American Civil War.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: The Gunn family had been farming for several generations in the Banbury, Oxfordshire area of England. Gunn’s father, Samuel, (1785-1863) grew up on a farm but left to start a grocery business. In 1809, he married Sarah Arnold, and they had two daughters before Sarah died in 1815. In 1822, the widowed Samuel married Naomi Butler. Their son, Thomas Butler Gunn, born on February 15, 1826, the second of their six children.

paragraph: The family moved to John Street in the St. Pancras area of London in the 1830s. Gunn later recalled attending the sermons of controversial preacher James Harington Evans at the local John Street Baptist Chapel. The family next moved south of the river Thames to 10 Rodney Buildings, New Kent Road.

paragraph: During these early years, Gunn was articled to the architectural practise of Samuel Beazley in Soho Square and contributed illustrations to various publications.

paragraph: Section::::America.

paragraph: In 1849, Gunn traveled to America from London on board the "Bark Wenham" with two cousins, Richard Gunn and George Bolton, arriving in New York on May 5. Initially, Gunn stayed in New Jersey with Bolton while he tried to find work as an illustrator, later moving to Manhattan. His father provided some financial support during these early years, but Gunn became so short on funds that in 1850 he was forced to take a job as a draughtsman at an architect’s practice. He continued to look for freelance work but this was often poorly paid. For example, illustrations he created for Appleton’s, the publishers, took him five weeks to produce and he was only paid $12. He gradually obtained more work from periodicals such as "New York Picayune", "Pick", "Diogenes hys Lanterne" and others. The payments per illustration were still low, but by doing the rounds with his work, he began to establish a network of business and social contacts.

paragraph: In 1850, he drew and designed a graphic novel call "Mose Among the Britishers or The B’hoy in London". It featured the popular character of a Bowery b’hoy, said to be the legendary Mose Humphrey, who was played on the stage by actor Frank Chanfrau.

paragraph: Section::::Return to England.

paragraph: In 1854, Gunn returned to England to see his family and to propose to his childhood friend Hannah Bennett. She accepted but the couple did not marry at this time and kept the arrangement secret from all but a few trusted friends. Gunn returned to New York in 1855 and the couple did not see each other until 1863, although they corresponded.

paragraph: Section::::Return to America.

paragraph: Gunn gradually became more involved with writing and in 1857 published "The Physiology of New York Boarding-houses", based on his personal experiences, with illustrations by his friends Frank Bellew (pen-name Triangle) and Alfred Waud. This concept of analysing normal life in literature began in Paris and had been used in the 1840s by Albert Richard Smith in "Punch Magazine", with works such as "Physiology of the London Medical Student" and "Physiology of London Evening Parties".

paragraph: In 1852, Gunn made acquaintance with Thomas Powell (1809-1887), who had been editing the "Diogenes hys Lanterne" "(Lantern)". Powell was an Englishman who knew many of the famous authors of the period, including Dickens, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. He started to sell autographs and works by these and others, but the authenticity was questioned. To avoid the risk of prosecution for fraud, Powell fled to America where he restarted his career. He had used some of Gunn's drawings while he was editing the "Lantern", but he was always reluctant to pay for them. For this and other reasons, Gunn took a dislike to him, and some years later, wrote a satirical work on the life of Powell called "Paul Gower, a Rationalistic Story of English and American Life".

paragraph: Section::::War correspondent.

paragraph: In 1860, as the country moved towards civil war, Gunn was sent to Charleston, South Carolina as an artist-reporter by John Bigelow, editor of the "New York Evening Post". A subterfuge was required to prevent Gunn being identified as a despised New York newspaperman, which could have resulted in him being tarred and feathered. He obtained a British passport so that he could say he was reporting for a London paper and then agreed with the editor in New York that his reports would be filed under the name of Edgar Bolton. Copies of some of the reports he sent back were pasted into his diaries; in one he predicts the attack on Fort Sumter. Gunn returned to New York on February 16, 1861 and the attack on the Fort started April 12.

paragraph: When the Civil War began, Gunn tried to get a posting as a war correspondent and was eventually engaged by Charles Anderson Dana of the "New-York Tribune". In March 1862, he left New York for Alexandria, Virginia via Washington where he joined General Heintzelman's military camp. He reported on the battles of both Yorktown and Williamsburg. Gunn’s editor Charles Dana had left the "Tribune" by April of that year and was replaced by Sydney Howard Gay. Gunn was submitting his reports late, and because of this, Gay was forced to copy stories out of the "New York Herald", a rival newspaper. He wrote to Gunn explaining the situation and telling him to speed things up. The letter fell into the hands of a "Herald" journalist who promptly published it, much to the anger and embarrassment of the connections at the "Tribune". Gunn finished his assignment in June 1862 and returned to New York. While away he learnt of the death of his friend and fellow writer Fitz James O'Brien, who had died from complication after being injured in a skirmish with Confederate troops.

paragraph: Shortly after his return, Gunn accepted another assignment from the "Tribune", this time to Port Royal, South Carolina. He arrived at Hilton Head and traveled to Beaufort. His intention was to get to James Island where he had heard rumours that the Union forces were due to mount an attack. However, news came through of the defeat and setback for the Northern forces (see article Battle of Secessionville). Gunn visited the island soon after the battle and filed his report with the "Tribune". A two-page copy also was pasted in his diary. Gun returned to New York in September 1862 after visiting Fort Pulaski, St. Augustine, and Key West.

paragraph: Gunn’s last assignment for the "Tribune" as a war correspondent was with the forces of General Nathaniel Prentice Banks, who sailed to New Orleans from New York in December 1862 with 31,000 troops. Banks planned to attack Port Hudson and stationed his troops at New Orleans and Baton Rouge while preparations were made. Gunn, who had received letters from Hannah Bennett in England with news of his father, returned to New York in late March 1863 before the attack on Port Hudson took place.

paragraph: Section::::Return to England.

paragraph: Gunn's father had been ill for many years but the end came in November 1863. By this time, Gunn was home with his family in England, and he also was planning his marriage to Hannah Bennett. They married on December 29, 1863 and lived in a village on the outskirts of Banbury called Wardington. Gunn continued to write for newspapers in New York. He died in a hospital in Birmingham on April 7, 1904 and is buried in the Southam Road Cemetery, Banbury. His wife Hannah died on September 12, 1906 at age 78 and is buried in St Mary Magdalene Church in Wardington.

paragraph: Section::::Bohemians of New York.

paragraph: Thomas Butler Gunn's name is associated with the bohemian set of writers and artist of New York who often frequented Pfaff's beer cellar. In Gunn's diaries, he mentions many of them and describes their lives, often in terms of gossip. His diaries of this period have been transcribed by the Missouri History Museum.

wikidata_label: Thomas Butler Gunn

wikipedia_title: Thomas Butler Gunn


text: Maya Tikal

categories: Rulers of Tikal,4th-century women rulers,4th-century monarchs in North America,4th century in the Maya civilization

paragraph: Unen Bahlam

paragraph: Unen Bahlam (fl. c. 317) was queen of the Maya city-state of Tikal. Although generally assumed to be female, the sex of this ruler is unclear.

description: politician

wikidata_label: Unen Bahlam

wikipedia_title: Unen Bahlam


text:
academic
author
education research
professor
De Montfort University
curricula
Curriculum
education
book
industry
Libertines
drummer
De Montfort University profile

categories: British educational theorists,1942 births,Living people,Writers from London

paragraph: Barry Dufour

paragraph: Barry Dufour is a British academic and author who specializes in the area of education research. He is a visiting professor at De Montfort University, Leicester. In 1973, he co-authored with D. Lawton "The New Social Studies" in which they outlined their concerns that curricula be developed with age-appropriate schemes. He was the editor of the 1990 book "The New Social Curriculum: A Guide to Cross-Curricular Issues" which also focused on issues of curricula.

paragraph: In addition to his work in the field of education, in 1977 he wrote "The World of Pop and Rock", called by "Music in Education", at the time, "probably the best book yet on the pop industry written for teenagers".

paragraph: He is the brother of former Libertines drummer Paul Dufour.

paragraph: Section::::Principal books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lawton, D. and Dufour, B. "The New Social Studies", London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1973 (first edition) and 1976 (second edition)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dufour, B., "The World of Pop and Rock", London: Macdonald, 1977

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dufour, B., (ed), "New Movements in the Social Sciences and Humanities", London: Temple Smith/Gower, 1982

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dufour, B., (ed), "The New Social Curriculum: A Guide to Cross-Curricular Issues", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990

paragraph: BULLET::::- Breslin, T. and Dufour, B., (eds) "Developing Citizens: A Comprehensive Introduction to Effective Citizenship Education in the Secondary School", London: Hodder Murray, 2006

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dufour, B. and Curtis, W., "Studying Education: an Introduction to the Key Disciplines in Education Studies", Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2011

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dufour, B., "Disruptive Behaviour in Schools: A Critical Introduction", London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2016/2017

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- De Montfort University profile

wikidata_label: Barry Dufour

wikipedia_title: Barry Dufour


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text: ajaw Maya Tikal

categories: Rulers of Tikal,4th-century monarchs in North America,4th century in the Maya civilization

paragraph: Kʼinich Muwaan Jol

paragraph: Kʼinich Muwaan Jol, (died 359) was "ajaw" of the Maya city-state of Tikal. He was father of Chak Tok Ichʼaak I and he ruled until 359.

wikidata_label: K'inich Muwaan Jol

wikipedia_title: Kʼinich Muwaan Jol


text: Lyon

text: Paris

text: counter admiral

text: Vichy France

text: École navale

text: First World War

text: Toulon

text: La Marseillaise

text: Allied landings in North Africa

text: Jean de Laborde

text: scuttle themselves

text: German

text: Philippe Pétain

text: German Military Police

text: Sigmaringen

text: Fresnes Prison

text: Haute Cour de Justice

text: indignité nationale

text: Conseil d'État

text: Chief of Staff of the French Navy

categories: French military personnel of World War I,People of Vichy France,1889 births,French Naval Ministers,Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur,French military personnel of World War II,Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)

paragraph: Henri Bléhaut

paragraph: Henri Paul Arsène Bléhaut (22 November 1889, Lyon – 8 December 1962, Paris) was French politician and counter admiral. He was Secretary of State for the Navy and the Colonies from 26 March 1943 to 10 September 1944 in Vichy France.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Early career.

paragraph: In 1908 he entered the École navale. On the outbreak of the First World War he was attached to the torpedo-boat "Commandant-Rivière" on operations against the Austro-Hungarian fleet in the Adriatic, particularly during the evacuation of the Serbian Army. He was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery in battle on the night of 22 December 1916. He commanded four submarines ("Cigogne", "Clorindre", "Joëssel" and "Requin") between 1918 and 1927. He commanded the surface ships "Panthère" and "Lamotte-Picquet" in 1927. In May 1929 he was put in command of the 11th Torpedo Boat Division in the Mediterranean on board the "Alcyon"and reveals himself as "an exceptionally talented officer and a brilliant maneuverer". From 1932 to 1934 he was chief of staff of French naval staff in the Far East on board the "Primauguet". From 1936 to 1938 he commanded "Maillé-Brézé" and a destroyer flotilla. In 1938 he became chief of staff of the maritime prefecture of Toulon.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:World War II.

paragraph: From 1939 to 1941 he became chief of staff to the French naval forces in the Mediterranean fleet then chief of staff of the French naval forces of the south. During this period he was also promoted to counter admiral in 1940. His next post came in 1941, as commander of the 3rd Cruiser Division, flying his flag on "La Marseillaise" at Toulon. It lasted until 1942. On the Allied landings in North Africa on 13 November 1942, he tried in vain to convince Jean de Laborde, commander-in-chief of Vichy France's high seas fleet, to sail his force to Africa. At dawn on 27 November that year, when German forces arrived in the Toulon arsenal, he ordered its cruisers to scuttle themselves.

paragraph: In 1943, he was approached to become Vichy's Secretary of State for the Navy and the Colonies. He hesitated but decided to take it up to avoid the post falling into pro-German hands. From then onwards "he never stopped struggling at all times against the German and Italian armistice commissions, sabotaging any work in the arsenals that would assist the enemy and saving personnel in the naval and colonial ministry from being sent to Germany. Thanks to him, naval security worked to inform the Allies and naval infrastructure was preserved".

paragraph: On 20 August 1944, he and Philippe Pétain were arrested at Vichy by the Gestapo commander in Vichy and the German Military Police. He was taken to Sigmaringen. The new French authorities dismissed him from the navy in September 1944. Bléhaut was part of Pétain's inner circle when Pétain was evacuated from Sigmaringen at the end of April 1945 ahead of the Allied advance. After crossing into Switzerland, Pétain and his circle voluntarily surrendered at the border post at Valborde a few days later. Bléhaut was thus imprisoned at Fresnes Prison in the suburbs of Paris. He was provisionally freed in March 1946, but he decided to flee to Switzerland rather than appear before the Haute Cour de Justice. He was found guilty of crimes against state security and of 'indignité nationale' by that court and condemned in his absence to 10 years' imprisonment and national degradation. He voluntarily returned to France in 1955. The decree revoking him was annulled by the Conseil d'État in May 1956.

paragraph: In 1946, Lieutenant-Commander André Storelli, decorated with the Resistance Medal and who would later be Admiral and Chief of Staff of the French Navy (1970–1972), gave a testimony on the actions of Admiral Bléhaut:

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Legion of Honor – Commander (France)

paragraph: BULLET::::- War Cross 1914–1918 (France)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Medal of Military Values – Silver (Italy)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of the Savior – Officer (Greece)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of the Star of Romania – Officer (Romania)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of the Rising Sun – 4th class (Japan)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Order of Leopold – Commander (Belgium)

wikidata_label: Henri Bléhaut

wikipedia_title: Henri Bléhaut


text: North Central West Virginia

text: West Virginia Public Broadcasting

text: Clarksburg

text: West Virginia

text: Greenbrier Military School

text: West Virginia University

text: Delta Tau Delta

text: Scabbard and Blade

text: Fort Eustis

text: Virginia

text: ready-mix concrete

text: aggregates

text: Bridgeport

text: Mid-Atlantic region

text: quality control

text: Interstate 79

text: Corridor H

text: November 1985

text: Joe Manchin

text: Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)

text: Senate Appropriations Committee

text: FBI

text: Director

text: William Sessions

text: Washington, D.C.

text: J. Edgar Hoover Building

text: Anchor-Hocking

text: Newell Company

text: biomedical

text: Gaston Caperton

text: shoestring

text: Charleston, West Virginia

text: huddle

text: swan song

text: West Virginia Public Broadcasting

text: Consolidated Supply Company

text: St. Albans, West Virginia

text: forms

text: Friends of West Virginia Public Radio

text: West Virginia Route 279

text: Interstate 79

categories: Businesspeople from West Virginia,People from Clarksburg, West Virginia,Harrison County, West Virginia,21st-century American businesspeople,20th-century American businesspeople,2014 deaths,1934 births,Greenbrier Military School alumni,West Virginia University alumni,Military personnel from West Virginia

paragraph: Cappy Burnside

paragraph: Lester Wade Burnside, Jr. (January 30, 1934 – August 30, 2014), better known as "Cappy" Burnside, was an American businessman. He was the driving force behind relocating the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division headquarters to North Central West Virginia and also served on the board of directors of the Friends of West Virginia Public Radio from 1992 to 2006 (now Friends of West Virginia Public Broadcasting) as well as other boards of directors and organizations.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Lester Wade Burnside, Jr. ("Cappy") was born on January 30, 1934, in Clarksburg, West Virginia to Lester W. "Brownie" Burnside, Sr. and Mary Louise Nowery. Cappy married Carolyn Mae Reynolds in 1956. They had two children: Kate Burnside and Mary Wade Burnside Triplett.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Cappy Burnside attended Greenbrier Military School, graduating in 1951. He attended West Virginia University, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and a member of Scabbard and Blade (military honorary). He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce in 1955. He was a lifetime member of the West Virginia University Alumni Association, a member of the Emeritus Club, and frequently contributed to the Old Gold Club.

paragraph: Section::::Military.

paragraph: Cappy Burnside entered the United States Army at the rank of Second Lieutenant and was posted to Fort Eustis, Virginia with his wife Carolyn in 1956, shortly after their marriage. When he and Carolyn moved back to Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1959, he continued in the United States Army Reserve where he achieved the rank of Captain before retiring from the military in the early 1960s.

paragraph: Section::::Consolidated Supply Company.

paragraph: Consolidated Supply Company was established in Clarksburg, West Virginia by Cappy Burnside's father, Lester W. “Brownie” Burnside, Sr. on April 29, 1929, as a West Virginia Domestic C | Corporation. Cappy Burnside began working for his father at Consolidated Supply Company upon his return from Fort Eustis in 1958 as a salesman and was promoted to general manager within five years. In 1974, Brownie Burnside retired and Cappy became president and treasurer of Consolidated Supply Company.

paragraph: Consolidated Supply Company started with a plant in the West End of Clarksburg providing ready-mix concrete, sand, gravel, brick, other aggregates and commercial building supplies. Consolidated Supply Company eventually added industrial doors and locks to its inventory. A second plant opened in Bridgeport in the mid-1960s. The company was known in the Mid-Atlantic region for quality control; each batch of concrete was tested in an onsite lab. As a result, Consolidated Supply Company was asked to provide most of the concrete to the West Virginia Division of Highways during the construction of Interstate 79, Corridor H, major road upgrades, as well as large-scale projects such as commercial buildings and cooling towers. Consolidated Supply Company also sold specialty brick products.

paragraph: Both of Consolidated Supply Company's plants sustained considerable damage in the November 1985 floods that devastated West Virginia and surrounding states. The company recovered but subsequent damage, including a fire, complicated matters. He closed Consolidated Supply Company in 1992.

paragraph: Section::::State and community service.

paragraph: For most of his adult life, Cappy Burnside was actively involved in community and state activities; his involvement included contributions to the economic development of Clarksburg, Harrison County, and West Virginia as well as other activities contributing to the improvement of the community. He served two consecutive terms as president of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce from 1987 to 1989. In 1985, in response to a declining economy in the area, Cappy initiated a blue-ribbon committee of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce in order to unify economic development efforts; this joint committee subsequently incorporated as Harrison 2000 with Cappy Burnside as president. Harrison 2000 would eventually oversee the relocation of the FBI Criminal Justice Identification Services Division to Clarksburg, West Virginia.

paragraph: Section::::State and community service.:Organizations.

paragraph: Boards of Directors:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mountaineer Country Travel Council board of directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- West Virginia Life Science Center board of directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- Association of Industrial Development board of directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- Builders' Supply Association of West Virginia board of directors 1965-1991, president 1969

paragraph: BULLET::::- Black Diamond Girl Scout Council board of directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- Boy Scouts of America, Central West Virginia Council board of directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- North Bend Rails to Trails Foundation Advisory Board

paragraph: BULLET::::- Salvation Army Advisory Board

paragraph: BULLET::::- Friends of West Virginia Public Radio board of directors 1992-2006, chairman 2004-2005, treasurer

paragraph: Other organizations:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mon Valley Tri-State Network

paragraph: BULLET::::- American Society of Highway Engineers, Central West Virginia Chapter, president 1989

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clarksburg Industrial Development Corporation, president 1989-1990

paragraph: BULLET::::- Miss West Virginia Scholarship Pageant, president 1979

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clarksburg Kiwanis Club, president 1969-1970

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clarksburg Planning and Zoning Commission, member 1963-1978

paragraph: Section::::State and community service.:Awards.

paragraph: Cappy was the recipient of awards and recognition during his lifetime. They included:

paragraph: BULLET::::- American Society of Highway Engineers Man of the Year (1988)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Harrison County Chamber of Commerce Award for Outstanding Service to the Community and Special Recognition of FBI Efforts (1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Distinguished Mountaineer Award, by then-Governor Joe Manchin (2010)

paragraph: In 1990, Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), then-chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, inserted language in the fiscal 1990 "dire emergencies" appropriations bill promising the FBI $185 million for a fingerprint center, under the condition that it be located in Byrd's home state of West Virginia.

paragraph: FBI Director William Sessions had written a letter to his friend Senator Byrd on May 8, 1990, declaring that the agency's fingerprint system "is now in danger of immediate collapse." It was necessary to create a new, separate fingerprint center. The existing fingerprint center in Washington, D.C. had grown so large that four floors in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which houses the FBI's main headquarters, had to be reinforced to support the weight of over 187 million fingerprint cards. Technology for computerized identification of fingerprints was available, but there was no room in the Hoover Building for the equipment. At the time, the bureau had a backlog of over 750,000 uncatalogued fingerprint cards and the number was rising. FBI files were becoming obsolete, making it nearly impossible for the FBI to meet the needs of law enforcement to identify fingerprints in a timely manner. In Director Sessions' desperation to solve a problem, Senator Byrd saw a perfect opportunity for a state-of-the-art fingerprint center to be built in his home state of West Virginia. President George H.W. Bush quickly signed the "dire emergencies" appropriations bill and Senator Byrd had succeeded in securing thousands of jobs for West Virginians.

paragraph: The FBI had short-listed Clarksburg as a location for the new Criminal Justice Information Services Division from the beginning; Harrison 2000, the economic development group led by Cappy Burnside, spent long hours undertaking a diligent and arduous effort to ensure the FBI chose Clarksburg. After much consideration and meeting with Harrison 2000 and local leaders, the FBI decided that Clarksburg was the ideal location.

paragraph: Opening in 1995 with over 1,000 employees, the FBI Criminal Justice Information Service Division in Clarksburg has grown to be the largest division of the FBI. Other services located at this site include the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System ("IAFIS"), Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal ("LEEP"), LEO Enterprise Portal ("LEO-EP"), Law Enforcement National Data Exchange ("N-DEx"), National Crime Information Center ("NCIC"), National Instant Criminal Background Check System ("NICS"), Next Generation Identification ("NGI"), and Uniform Crime Reporting ("UCR"). As of 2016, the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services in Clarksburg had over 3500 employees. Increased requests for background checks continue to create growth within the division.

paragraph: Section::::Bringing the FBI to Clarksburg, West Virginia: An Overview.:Background information: Harrison County's rise and fall—the dire need for jobs.

paragraph: During the 1800s and much of the 1900s, Harrison County and its county seat of Clarksburg were profitable centers of business and industry; when the railroad was built through the area in 1856, industry and commerce accelerated. Coal, glass, oil and gas, drilling machinery, lumber, caskets, tin, graphite, pottery, and other industries provided plenty of jobs. During this prosperous time, downtown Clarksburg had streets lined with busy retail stores, grand bank buildings, and elegant hotels.

paragraph: However, by the early to mid-1980's, cheap imports and buyouts by larger corporations that chose to close local factories began an economic downturn. Thousands of jobs were lost. In July 1986 Anchor-Hocking was the area's top employer—albeit being the last remaining glass factory—having just added to its workforce, bringing the total number of employees to 950. However, in 1987, Newell Company purchased Anchor Hocking and decided to shut the plant down three months later. Ultimately, the plant closed leaving nearly 1,000 workers unemployed. Retail stores were struggling or closing because people didn't have money to spend. Downtown Clarksburg had very few open businesses. Harrison County was economically devastated by the closing of its last glass plant and major employer, Anchor-Hocking. Clarksburg as well as Harrison County as a whole needed help. Cappy Burnside had been trying to help as a member of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce and other city and county development groups, and working long hours at Consolidated Supply Company. Once he learned the FBI was considering Clarksburg as a location for its new fingerprint division, he decided it was time to take the helm, put other business aside for the time being, and adopt the mission of bringing the FBI to Harrison County.

paragraph: Section::::Bringing the FBI to Clarksburg, West Virginia: An Overview.:The road to creating Harrison 2000 and consolidating economic development in Harrison County to meet FBI needs.

paragraph: In response to a steady loss of jobs in the area, Cappy Burnside initiated a Blue Ribbon Committee of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce in 1985 in order to unify economic development efforts. Several groups had been working separately with the same goals but he felt they could accomplish more if they worked in unison. Cappy brought them together into one non-profit organization. This evolved into the Joint Committee for Economic Development. For their first project, this non-profit group eventually secured, along with the City of Clarksburg, $2.5 million in government grants; this was to build the West Virginia Life Sciences Center, an industrial park for biomedical companies.

paragraph: The Life Sciences Center was still under construction and tenants were being recruited when Cappy learned that the FBI was considering Clarksburg as a possible site. Another member of the Joint Committee for Economic Development had heard that the State of West Virginia didn't believe that Harrison County was capable of handling a project of this magnitude. Cappy immediately contacted then-Governor Gaston Caperton's office; members of the Joint Committee met with Lysander Dudley, then-director of the Governor's Office of Community and Industrial Development. An agreement was made that Harrison 2000 would be formed to be an umbrella for economic development leadership in Harrison County and the state's confidence problem with Harrison County was resolved. The Joint Committee for Economic Development incorporated as Harrison 2000 in January 1990, with Cappy Burnside as president. Harrison 2000 consisted of two representatives from the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce, the City of Clarksburg, the Association for Industrial Development, and the Harrison County Development Authority. They would soon be overseeing the relocation of the FBI fingerprint center to Clarksburg, West Virginia.

paragraph: Section::::Bringing the FBI to Clarksburg, West Virginia: An Overview.:Senator Byrd secured the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services for West Virginia; Cappy Burnside saw an opportunity for jobs in Harrison County and North Central West Virginia.

paragraph: Once it was agreed that Harrison 2000, with Cappy Burnside as president, would oversee FBI's move to Clarksburg, the real work began. Other members of Harrison 2000 were concerned that Clarksburg didn't have a suitable location for the FBI. They considered the old Anchor-Hocking plant in Clarksburg, but immediately agreed that wouldn't be appropriate. It was too small and not in a secure location. Cappy, being familiar with the area with his experience working with the state, with engineering, and with planning and zoning, thought of a more rural location. Other members didn't think the FBI would be interested; in fact, another member of Harrison 2000 who was present at the meeting where this was discussed said Cappy was nearly "laughed out of the room" for thinking that an old strip mine on the outskirts of Clarksburg would be the location that would ultimately meet the criteria of the FBI.

paragraph: Located adjacent to Interstate 79, of appropriate size and not visible to those outside the land, the former strip mine was approved by the FBI. Cappy had already approached the owner of most of the land and discussed the possibility of selling it if the FBI were willing to purchase it. The FBI had approved of the land because was close to a main highway, close to the local airport, highly secure, and they would have easy access to newly-laid fiber optics. In order to approve that property, the FBI insisted certain conditions be met.

paragraph: First, the FBI demanded a Clarksburg address but the property was just outside the known Clarksburg city limits. Bridgeport mayor Carl Furbee wanted the FBI to be located in Bridgeport because the City of Bridgeport would be able to collect taxes (starting with taxes on the construction) and reap other obvious benefits. But the FBI insisted on Clarksburg—or another location. A battle between the cities took place that was taken to West Virginia Supreme Court. At one point Senator Byrd told them to resolve it or they—perhaps even West Virginia—would lose the FBI. A solution was found: Cappy Burnside used his zoning and engineering skills to find a shoestring approach: he found a highway, abandoned roadway, and creek bed that led to the property. Bridgeport did fight this annexation, but Clarksburg prevailed and the FBI stayed in Harrison County.

paragraph: At that time, there was an agreement between then-Clarksburg Mayor James C. Hunt and then-Bridgeport Mayor Carl Furbee that the Clarksburg line would end outside the FBI property and the rest would be within the Bridgeport city limits, giving Bridgeport the revenue for the multitude of new developments and businesses to come. Much development in the area was anticipated, and is continuing decades later. In August 1991, Hunt and Furbee ceremonially buried a "hatchet" to finally mark the end of the annexation problem between the cities.

paragraph: The next problem was a lack of "direct" access to the proposed FBI property; there was no paved road to the property and no direct exit or interchange to and from Interstate 79. The FBI refused to accept the property until the road situation was solved. FBI agents announced to Cappy and other Harrison 2000 members that, unless an interchange that allowed direct exit from Interstate 79 and a connecting road to the proposed property were constructed, they would seek another site for the fingerprint center. The morning they were given that news, Cappy and two FBI agents drove to Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital. They met with Fred Vankirk, then-head of the West Virginia Department of Highways (now the West Virginia Department of Transportation). Within a few hours, they had planned a road and interchange that the state and FBI both agreed upon. Later that day, they met with then-Governor Gaston Caperton and received final approval for the interchange (now Exit 124 from Interstate 79) and for the road that became State Route 279 and Jerry Dove Drive to the FBI. Cappy and the FBI agents returned that evening with the results: Even more jobs for West Virginians to build the road and interchange, and the FBI deal was saved. The bridge that is the overpass that crosses Interstate 79, part of that interchange, was named after Cappy Burnside, the "driving force" behind the FBI, in 2014 in honor of all of the work he had done to attract the FBI and ensure they remained in Harrison County and even West Virginia.

paragraph: Cappy did a great deal of work for Harrison 2000 and the FBI transition, but he was humble and not one to take credit. When he adopted the mission in 1990 to attract the FBI to Harrison County, he did not do it for himself; he did it because he wanted to bring jobs to Harrison County and make North Central West Virginia a better place. Former Clarksburg Mayor, Clarksburg City Council member, and Harrison 2000 member James C. Hunt said that Cappy was always a real team player, but he was always the "first head in the huddle." Hunt further referred to bringing the FBI to Harrison County as being Cappy Burnside's "swan song." Although he did consulting work after his work with the FBI was complete (he closed his own company in 1992, partially because he spent so much time away from it during the FBI negotiations) and he still had work to do with West Virginia Public Radio, his efforts bringing the FBI to Harrison County and all the development, companies, and jobs that came after it was his last significant accomplishment for the community.

paragraph: Section::::Friends of West Virginia Public Radio Board of Directors.

paragraph: Cappy Burnside was a member of the board of directors of Friends of West Virginia Public Radio (now Friends of West Virginia Public Broadcasting) from 1992 to 2006. He was chairman of the board in 2004-2005 and also held the position of treasurer.

paragraph: Section under construction

paragraph: Section::::After the FBI.

paragraph: After Cappy Burnside had dedicated a great deal of time to attracting the FBI to Harrison County and solving problems to ensure the FBI deal succeeded as president of Harrison 2000, Cappy became a bridge consultant. Cappy's full-time work with Harrison 2000 and time dedicated to FBI matters caused extended absences from his own office and Consolidated Supply Company went into decline. He closed his company in 1992. He eventually went to work with Wolford Contractors Supply of St. Albans, West Virginia. He was able to use his expertise to work with builders, helping them secure "hardware" for bridge construction (forms) and secure scaffolding for bridge construction. He continued this work, often from his home office, until approximately 2012—two years before his death at 80 years of age. Jay Wolford, president of Wolford Contractors Supply, a supplier of bridge forms and other supplies, referred to Cappy as a "bridge deck expert" and said that Cappy was "one of the best [he] had ever seen."

paragraph: During his time on the board of Friends of West Virginia Public Radio, Cappy also spent a great deal of his time being a problem-solver for public broadcasting.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacies.

paragraph: Cappy Burnside died of an extended illness in Bridgeport on August 30, 2014, at the age of 80. He died with the knowledge that the bridge would be named in his honor, but did not live long enough to see its dedication on September 26, 2014, 27 days after his death.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacies.:The Lester W. "Cappy" Burnside Jr. Bridge.

paragraph: The bridge carrying West Virginia Route 279 over Interstate 79 to and from the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division on Jerry Dove Drive was dedicated in Cappy Burnside's honor on September 26, 2014, 27 days after his death. This bridge is part of the interchange that Cappy had received approval in order to keep the FBI in Harrison County.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacies.:The quality of life in North Central West Virginia continues to improve 25 years after FBI CJIS dedication.

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description: The driving force behind bringing the FBI CJIS to North Central West Virginia

wikidata_label: Lester W. “Cappy” Burnside, Jr.

wikipedia_title: Cappy Burnside