text:
Apple Valley
California
American
rock
Screaming Trees
Gary Lee Conner
Mark Lanegan
Mark Pickerel
Gardener
Queens of the Stone Age
Mark Lanegan
I'll Take Care of You
alternative metal
Small Stone Records
Northwest
Seattle
Gary Lee Conner
Mark Pickerel
Screaming Trees
Mark Lanegan
Solomon Grundy
Dinosaur Jr
J Mascis
Murph
Dylan Carlson
Screaming Trees
Screaming Trees discography
Steve Fisk
SST
Sub Pop
Solomon Grundy
New Alliance
Solomon Grundy
7"
EP
New Alliance
Man's Ruin
Queens of the Stone Age
Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age
Man's Ruin
Split EP
Man's Ruin
Sub Pop
Up Records
Mark Lanegan
I'll Take Care of You
Sub Pop
Small Stone
Small Stone
Van Conner's Facebook
Screaming Trees page
Van's Label - Strange Earth Records
Official MySpace page
Official VALIS website
Official VALIS MySpace page
Official Solomon Grundy MySpace page

categories: Screaming Trees members,1967 births,American male bass guitarists,People from Apple Valley, California,American rock bass guitarists,20th-century American bass guitarists,Living people

paragraph: Van Conner

paragraph: Van Conner (born March 17, 1967 in Apple Valley, California) is an American rock musician. In 1984 he co-founded the band Screaming Trees with his brother Gary Lee Conner and close friends Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel. On the 25 June 2000 Screaming Trees announced their official breakup. Conner would start a low key band under the name Gardener which released its only album in the 1990s under the name "New Dawning Time". Conner has also had brief appearances as a session musician with other known bands such as Queens of the Stone Age and helping Mark Lanegan on his solo album I'll Take Care of You.

paragraph: Conner is now the lead vocalist/guitarist of the alternative metal-band VALIS.

paragraph: VALIS has announced that their new studio album is getting released under Small Stone Records. VALIS has also announced a US tour which started in June where they are going to play shows at the Northwest US and later on the July 4 they're having a concert in Seattle.

paragraph: Section::::Band/project history.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Explosive Generation (with Gary Lee Conner, Mark Pickerel, Dan Harper, David Frazini)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Screaming Trees

paragraph: BULLET::::- MDL

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sweet Pea Lanterna and the Buttmeatmen (with Sean Hollister, Mark Lanegan, Nate Hill)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Solomon Grundy (with Sean Hollister, Lee McCullough, James King)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dinosaur Jr (with J Mascis, Murph)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Worm Wood (with Dylan Carlson)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gardener (with Aaron Staufer, Adrian Makins, Patrick Conner)

paragraph: BULLET::::- VALIS (with Patrick Conner, Sean Hollister, Adrian Makins)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Musk Ox (with Chovie D, Patrick Conner, Adrian Makins)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.

paragraph: "For his work with Screaming Trees, see Screaming Trees discography".

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1987 - Steve Fisk "448 Deathless Days" - SST

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1988 - "Sub Pop 200" compilation - Sub Pop

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1990 - Solomon Grundy "Stone Soup and Other Stories" - New Alliance

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1992 - Solomon Grundy "Spirit of Radio/I'm Not the Freak" 7" EP - New Alliance

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996 - Gamma Ray EP - Man's Ruin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998 - Queens of the Stone Age "Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age" - Man's Ruin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998 - VALIS/Kitty Kitty Split EP - Man's Ruin

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999 - Gardener "New Dawning Time" - Sub Pop

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999 - The Dark Fantastic - Up Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999 - Mark Lanegan "I'll Take Care of You" - Sub Pop

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002 - VALIS "Vast Active Living Intelligence System" - Lunasound/Abstract

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 - VALIS "Head Full of Pills" - Small Stone

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 - VALIS "Champions of Magic" - Small Stone

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006 - "Sleepless in Seattle - The Birth of Grunge" compilation - High Wire

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009: VALIS -Dark Matter - Now on iTunes - CD Out April 14- Small Stone

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009: Split Single with Kandi Coded - Volcom Entertainment

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009: Northwest Mind Meld - Various Artists - Small Stone - iTunes only

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012: VALIS - Minds Through Space and Time

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Van Conner's Facebook

paragraph: BULLET::::- Screaming Trees page

paragraph: BULLET::::- Van's Label - Strange Earth Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official MySpace page

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official VALIS website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official VALIS MySpace page

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Solomon Grundy MySpace page

description: American musician

wikidata_label: Van Conner

wikipedia_title: Van Conner


text: duke

text: Limburg

text: Henry IV

text: Ermengarde

text: count

text: Berg

text: Great Interregnum

text: Germany

text: Hohenstaufen

text: William II of Holland

text: Henry III of England

text: Richard

text: earl

text: Cornwall

text: Ottokar II of Bohemia

text: Rudolph of Habsburg

text: Jean d'Avesnes

text: John I of Brabant

text: Brabant

text: archbishop

text: Cologne

text: bourgeoisie

text: Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg

text: Ermengarde

paragraph: Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg

paragraph: Waleran IV (or Walram IV) (died 1279) was the duke of Limburg from 1247 to his death. He was the son and successor of Henry IV and Ermengarde, countess of Berg.

paragraph: He played a great part in the politics of the Great Interregnum in Germany. He left the Hohenstaufen fold and supported William II of Holland as king. He was sent in an embassy to Henry III of England and after William's death, supported Henry's brother Richard, earl of Cornwall, as king. In 1272, he was party to the nobles who offered the crown to Ottokar II of Bohemia and then Rudolph of Habsburg.

paragraph: In 1252, he intervened in the War of the Succession of Flanders and Hainault, at the side of Jean d'Avesnes. After 1258, he fell out with John I of Brabant, putting an end to sixty years of good relations with the dukes of Brabant.

paragraph: Waleran frequently intervened in the business of the archbishop of Cologne in his constant fight with the bourgeoisie of the city.

paragraph: Despite being married twice (with Kunigunde, daughter of Otto III, Margrave of Brandenburg, and with Judith of Kleve), he had only one daughter, Ermengarde from his second wife.

description: German noble

wikidata_label: Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg

wikipedia_title: Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg


text:
Roman Emperor
Claudius
AD
Suetonius
adultery
Marcus Plautius Silvanus
consul
Urgulania
Livia Drusilla
Claudius Drusus
Sejanus
Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus
Etruscan
patrician
Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus
consul
I, Claudius
Tiberius

categories: Etruscans,Ancient Roman women,1st-century Roman women,Plautii,1st-century Romans,Claudius

paragraph: Plautia Urgulanilla

paragraph: Plautia Urgulanilla (fl. 1st century) was the first wife of the future Roman Emperor Claudius. They married sometime around the year 9 AD when Claudius was 18 years old. According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced her in 24 on grounds of adultery by Plautia and his suspicions of her involvement in the murder of her sister-in-law Apronia.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Her father was Marcus Plautius Silvanus, a general who was consul for the year 2 BC. He had been honored with a triumph.

paragraph: Urgulanilla was named for her grandmother, Urgulania, a close friend of the Empress Livia Drusilla.

paragraph: She gave birth to a son, Claudius Drusus, whose betrothal to a daughter of Sejanus instilled great expectations in the prefect, which were left unfulfilled when Drusus died in early childhood.

paragraph: Urgulanilla had a daughter, Claudia, who was born five months after her divorce from Claudius. As Claudia was widely known to be the illegitimate daughter of the freedman Boter, Claudius repudiated the child and he had her laid at Urgulanilla's doorstep. Her adopted nephew was Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus.

paragraph: Urgulanilla was Etruscan. A brother of Urgulanilla was made a patrician by Claudius. Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus, the adopted son of another of her brothers, became consul in 45.

paragraph: Section::::In fiction.

paragraph: Urgulanilla appears as a significant character in Robert Graves I, Claudius. Urgulanilla is a tremendous and bulky woman with a resemblance to Tiberius (who may possibly be her father). She utterly despises Claudius but is relatively ignorant and benign to her husband. She also bears a strong affection (implied, through the use of the stereotypes of the time, to be lesbian in nature) for her sister-in-law Numantina, which causes her to kill her brother's second wife. Claudius apathetically divorces Urgulanilla following this suspicion of murder and the revelation that his wife has a child with her slave. While ordered to execute the child Claudius spares it by substituting the baby with a stillborn child to display for repudiation. Urgulanilla later gives Claudius several gifts in her will (before his rise to Emperor) and insists that Claudius is not an idiot. Comparatively Urgulanilla proves to be Claudius' best wife as she leaves Claudius on his own and is not openly cruel or manipulative to him.

description: wife of the Emperor Claudius

wikidata_label: Plautia Urgulanilla

wikipedia_title: Plautia Urgulanilla


text: KG

text: English

text: Tudor

text: John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury

text: Knight

text: Order of the Garter

text: Lord Deputy of Calais

text: Richard Wingfield

text: Henry Tudor

text: Bosworth

text: Grafton estates

text: Sir Humphrey Stafford

text: Stafford and Lovell Rebellion

text: Feckenham Forest

text: Ralph de Greystoke, 5th Baron Greystoke

text: Holy Land

text: Grafton

text: Worcestershire

text: William Paston

text: Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset

text: Littleton/Lyttelton

text: Sir Thomas Astley of Patshull

text: Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley

text: Russell's Hall

text: Landwade

text: Cambridgeshire

text: Sir John Talbot

text: lord of the manor

text: Albrighton

text: Shropshire

text: Grafton

text: Worcestershire

text: Mobberley

text: Chester

text: Wrottesley Hall

text: Staffordshire

categories: Talbot family,1517 deaths,Knights of the Garter,16th-century English people,15th-century English people,English knights,15th-century English military personnel,1518 deaths,1452 births,People of the Tudor period

paragraph: Gilbert Talbot (soldier)

paragraph: Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG (1452 – 16 August 1517 or 19 September 1518), was an English Tudor knight, a younger son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and 2nd Earl of Waterford, and Elizabeth Butler.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was a soldier, Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1495 and Lord Deputy of Calais in 1509, where he continued in a joint appointment with Richard Wingfield.

paragraph: Talbot supported Henry Tudor at Bosworth, where he commanded the right wing. He was given the Grafton estates in Worcestershire after Sir Humphrey Stafford was executed in 1486 for his part in the Stafford and Lovell Rebellion. Talbot was also given the honorary position of keeper of Feckenham Forest in 1492.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.:First marriage.

paragraph: He married firstly Elizabeth Greystoke, daughter of Ralph de Greystoke, 5th Baron Greystoke and widow of Thomas Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Masham, and had three children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Sir Humphrey Talbot, who died in the Holy Land

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, Worcestershire (died 22 October 1542), married Anne Paston, daughter of Sir William Paston (died 1496) and Lady Anne Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and had three daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Elizabeth Talbot, who married Sir John Littleton/Lyttelton, son of Sir William Lyttelton and his second wife, Mary Whittington, daughter of William Whittington, by whom he had seven sons and two daughters.

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Margaret Talbot

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Mary Talbot, who married Sir Thomas Astley of Patshull, and had two sons

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Eleanor Talbot, wife of Geoffrey Dudley, younger son of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley and Cecily Willoughby, ancestors of the Dudleys of Russell's Hall

paragraph: Section::::Marriages and issue.:Second marriage.

paragraph: He married secondly Etheldreda (called Audrey) Cotton, daughter of William Landwade Cotton of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, and had one child:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. Sir John Talbot (c. 1485 - 22 October 1542 or 10 September 1549), lord of the manor of Albrighton, Shropshire and Grafton, Worcestershire. He married firstly Margaret Troutbeck, daughter of Adam Troutbeck of Mobberley, Chester, and had three sons and five daughters; he married secondly Elizabeth Wrottesley (died 10 May 1558), daughter of Walter Wrottesley of Wrottesley Hall, Staffordshire (died 1563), and Elizabeth Harcourt and had four sons and four daughters.

description: English Tudor knight

wikidata_label: Gilbert Talbot

wikipedia_title: Gilbert Talbot (soldier)


text:
jazz
Rome
Nino Rota
Ennio Morricone
Santa Cecilia Conservatory
Richard Galliano
Chet Baker
Enrico Rava
Kenny Wheeler
Peter Erskine
Steve Grossman
Billy Cobham
Pat Metheny
Sanremo Music Festival
Dewey Redman
David di Donatello
Best Score
Ciak d'oro
Nastro d'Argento
the same category
Rocco Papaleo
Basilicata Coast to Coast
Le Chant du Monde
Pony Canyon
Nicolosi
Gianmaria Testa
Dewey Redman
Palmetto
Billy Cobham
Rita Marcotulli
Discogs

categories: Women jazz pianists,1959 births,Italian women pianists,Italian film score composers,Italian jazz pianists,Nastro d'Argento winners,Italian pianists,David di Donatello winners,Living people,Female composers,People from Rome

paragraph: Rita Marcotulli

paragraph: Rita Marcotulli (born 10 March 1959) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Born in Rome, Marcotulli is the daughter of a sound engineer who collaborated with Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, among others. She started playing piano at five years old and graduated in classical music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.

paragraph: Marcotulli began her professional career in the early 1980s and made her first recording in 1984. Thanks to a series of prestigious collaborations, including Richard Galliano, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine, and Steve Grossman, in a few years she established herself as an important figure in the contemporary jazz scene.

paragraph: In 1987 Marcotulli was nominated for the Best Young Talent Award in the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. In 1988 she toured in the U.S. and in Europe with Billy Cobham, also appearing in Cobham 's album "Incoming". In 1996 she duetted with Pat Metheny at the Sanremo Music Festival. She has also had a long-term musical relationship with Dewey Redman.

paragraph: Marcotulli's style largely relies on improvisation, and her influences include Brazilian music, African music and Indian music.

paragraph: Also active as a composer of incidental music and musical scores for films, in 2010 Marcotulli won the David di Donatello for Best Score as well as the Ciak d'oro and the Nastro d'Argento in the same category for the score of Rocco Papaleo's "Basilicata Coast to Coast".

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Woman Next Door" (Label Bleu, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Triboh" (Polo Sud, 2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Koiné" (Le Chant du Monde, 2002)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oslo Party" (Pony Canyon, 2003)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "L' Amico del Vento" (Egea, 2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Light Side of the Moon" (Le Chant du Monde, 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the Edge of a Perfect Moment" (Incipit, 2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zapping" (Egea, 2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Variazioni Su Tema" (S'ARD, 2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Basilicata Coast to Coast" (Alice, 2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La Conversazione" (Abeat, 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Paolo & Rita" (2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "TrioKala" (Nicolosi, 2016)

paragraph: With Gianmaria Testa

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Lampo" (1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Altre Latitudini" (Le Chant du Monde, 2003)

paragraph: With Michael Benita

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Preferences" (Label Bleu, 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Soul" (Label Bleu, 1993)

paragraph: With others

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Nauplia", Maria Pia de Vito (Egea, 1995)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "In London", Dewey Redman (Palmetto, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Incoming", Billy Cobham (1989)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rita Marcotulli at Discogs

description: Italian composer

wikidata_label: Rita Marcotulli

wikipedia_title: Rita Marcotulli


text: Léon de Wailly

text: Conseil d’État

text: civil list

text: Père Lachaise Cemetery

text: pseudonym

text: Léon de Wailly

text: Gioacchino Rossini

text: Jean-François-Alfred Bayard

text: François Ancelot

text: Jules de Wailly

text: Gaston de Wailly

text: Seneca the Younger

text: Virgil

text: Étienne-Augustin De Wailly

text: Légion d'honneur

text: Joseph-Marie Quérard

categories: 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights,French translators,Writers from Paris,Latin–French translators,French Latinists,Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery,1878 deaths,Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur,1804 births

paragraph: Gustave de Wailly

paragraph: Gustave de Wailly, full name Gabriel Gustave de Wailly, (13 June 1804 – 27 April 1878 ) was a 19th-century French playwright and Latinist. Léon de Wailly was his brother.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Brought up in a family of writers and academics, master of requests at the Conseil d’État (1830), he became inspector general of the former civil list and was known for his dramas.

paragraph: He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (20th division).

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Some of his works were published under the pseudonym Mme Marie Senan.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1825: "La Mort dans l'embarras", comédie nouvelle, in 3 acts and in verse, with Léon de Wailly

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1826: "Amour et intrigue", drama in 5 acts and in verss, imitated from Schiller

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1826: "Ivanhoé", opera in 3 acts, music by Gioacchino Rossini

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1827: "La Folle, ou Le testament d'un Anglaise", comedy

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1827: "Anglais et français", comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1827: "L'Oncle Philibert", comedy in 1 act and in prose, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1830: "Ma place et ma femme", comedy in 3 acts and in prose, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1832: "Madame du Chatelet, ou, Point de lendemain", comedy in 1 act, with François Ancelot

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1838: "L'Attente", drama in 1 act (by Mme Marie Senan)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1849: "Elzéar Chalamel ou, Une assurance sur la vie", Comédie envaudeville in 3 acts, with Jules de Wailly

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1850: "Monck ou, Le sauveur de l'Angleterre", historical comedy in 5 acts

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1852: "Les Premières Armes de Blaveau", comédie en vaudeville in 1 act, with Jules de Wailly

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1853: "L'Oncle Tom", drama in 5 acts

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1873: "Œuvres de Alfred, Gustave et Jules de Wailly"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1897: "Promenade d'une famille anglaise à Paris monologue pour enfants", posthumous

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1898: "L'Oreiller qui pleure monologue", posthumous

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Louise", feuilleton

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Parapluies", comedy in 1 act, with Gaston de Wailly

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Deux Devoirs", sea drama 1n 3 acts

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Les Deux Honneurs", military drama in 3 acts

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Translations.

paragraph: He realised many translations among others of Seneca the Younger and Virgil :

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1836: "Œuvres complètes de Sénèque le philosophe", with Alfred de Wailly.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1878: "Odes d'Horace", with Étienne-Augustin De Wailly.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (30 July 1832)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- J.P.R Cuisin, "Dictionnaire des gens de lettres vivants", 1826, (p. 264)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph Fr. Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud, "Biographie universelle", 1843, vol.44, (p. 209)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Joseph-Marie Quérard, Charles Louandre, "La Littérature française contemporaine : XIX", 1857, (p. 591)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gustave Vapereau, "Dictionnaire universel des contemporains", 1865,(p. 1814)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henri Van Hoof, "Dictionnaire universel des traducteurs", 1993

description: French writer and translator

wikidata_label: Gustave de Wailly

wikipedia_title: Gustave de Wailly


text:
botanist
University of New England
Bachelor of Science
Sydney University
PhD
Noel Beadle
New South Wales
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Haemodoraceae
New England National Park
Dorrigo National Park
Nightcap National Park
genera
Eucalyptus
Parsonsia
Fellow
Neoastelia
Boronia boliviensis
Eucalyptus boliviana
Melaleuca williamsii

categories: 2005 deaths,1932 births,Australian botanists

paragraph: John Beaumont Williams

paragraph: John Beaumont Williams (12 February 1932 – 31 July 2005) was an Australian botanist who spent most of his working life, from 1957 until 1992 as a lecturer in taxonomy, anatomy and ecology at the University of New England. He graduated Bachelor of Science from Sydney University in 1953 and commenced a PhD under the supervision of Noel Beadle. When Beadle was appointed Chair of Botany at the University of New England, Williams followed to take up a lecturing position at the same institution and to complete his PhD. For the next few years he concentrated on teaching, fieldwork and producing plant lists for north-eastern New South Wales as well as spending time studying in the Jodrell Laboratory at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew working on the family Haemodoraceae.

paragraph: As well as his work at the University of New England, Williams was member, secretary and chairman of the New England National Park Trust, a member of the New England and Dorrigo National Park Advisory Committee and was a leader in the university's continuing education Ecofest schools. He contributed to an understanding of the botany and ecology of north-eastern New South Wales, to the conservation and protection of rainforest areas such as Terania Creek in the Nightcap National Park and to the genera "Eucalyptus" and "Parsonsia". During the years 1975 to 1990, Williams travelled extensively, collecting herbarium specimens in many parts of Australia and contributed about 11,500 specimens to the N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium at UNE which now holds more than 73,000 plant specimens.

paragraph: In 1993, Williams retired and in the following year was appointed a Fellow of the UNE. He continued to work on botanical projects, including to the 1984 edition of "Rainforest Trees and Shrubs". He is the author of 36 papers on members of the genera "Parsonsia" and "Neoastelia" but also on the rare "Boronia boliviensis", "Eucalyptus boliviana" and others. The species "Melaleuca williamsii" is named in his honour.

description: Australian botanist

wikidata_label: John Beaumont Williams

wikipedia_title: John Beaumont Williams


text:
Swiss
hotelier
Sporthotel Pontresina
Graubünden
bakers and confectioners
Romansh language
Pontresina
Berlin
Prussia
Graubünden
Silvaplana
Café Josty
City Palace
Pontresina
Bakery and confectionery businesses
Graubünden
Pontresina
tourism business
railway boom
Great Britain
Germany
"Hotel Pontresina"
Pontresina
the hotel

categories: Swiss hoteliers,People from Maloja District,1842 births

paragraph: Florian Stoppany

paragraph: Florian Stoppany (6 February 1842 - 26 January 1901) was a Swiss hotelier. His enduring legacy is the Sporthotel Pontresina in Graubünden.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Section::::Life.:Family provenance and early years.

paragraph: Florian Stoppany, the third of his parents' recorded children, came from a family of bakers and confectioners that had been present in Pontresina over many generations. In the local Romansh language the family name was Stupan or Stuppaun, which was changed to Stuppano and Stoppany, respectively, in Italian and French. The family's wealth had been sufficient, as far back as 1742, for them to construct the "Chesa Stuppaun" (today the "Chesa Campbell"), a very substantial family house in the mainstreet of Pontresina.

paragraph: His father, Giachem Bunom Stoppany (1800–1867), had relocated to Berlin in Prussia. There, in partnership with another Graubünden expatriate, Johann Stehely from Silvaplana, he ran the Café Stehely near the city's Gendarmenmarkt (square), where it was fashionable for German poets to assemble. In Berlin, Giachem Stoppany linked up with Carolina Josty (1805–1876), whom he married in 1833. She had a part share in the Café Josty, which at that time was located in the street "" near the City Palace, and which became another favourite meeting place for Germany's nineteenth century literary elite. Florian's two elder sisters, Ursina Henriette and Carolina, were born respectively in 1835 and 1837.

paragraph: After he retired, Giachem Bunom Stoppany returned to Pontresina with his wife and elder daughter, Ursina Henriette in 1862/63. The younger daughter, Carolina, married a French language teacher called Adolphe Goulbier with whom she settled in Berlin. Florian, once he had completed his schooling, worked in a succession of Bakery and confectionery businesses run by Graubünden expatriates in various European cities.

paragraph: In the early 1870s Florian Stoppany returned to Pontresina, hoping to apply the commercial knowledge he had acquired to the tourism business which was by this time expanding rapidly, supported by the railway boom and a surge in middle class incomes, notably in Great Britain and Germany. Florian Stoppany's cousin, Florian Zambail, had opened the Hotel Roseg in Pontresina in 1870. Stoppany became co-owner of this hotel, of which he would remain a director for many years. Their two families were already closely connected: Florian's aunt, Chiatarina Stoppany, had married Barnard Zambail in 1813, as a result of which the two Florians were first cousins. Family connections were reinforced in 1867 when Florian's elder sister, Ursina Henriette Stoppany, married another cousin, Barnard Zambail junior, who was Florian Zambail's brother. It was also in 1867 that the closeness of the two families was confirmed, following the death of Florian Stoppany's father, when their family home, the "Chesa Stuppaun", was sold to the Zambail family.

paragraph: In 1871 Florian Stoppany married Betty Stiffler whose family ran the Hotel Steinbock and the Maison Stiffler, a restaurant with 25 guest beds. The Stifflers were part of the network of hoteliers exploiting the tourism boom in Pontrsina. The marriage produced six recorded children.

paragraph: The death of his mother in 1876 freed up his family inheritance and enabled Florian Stoppany to set up in business on his own. An opportunity presented itself with the unexpected death, on 17 December 1878, of his brother-in-law, aged just 35. Caspar Stiffler's sons were too young to take on their father's business, and by March 1879 Florian Stoppany had taken on the "Maison Stiffler" restaurant with its guest rooms. His wife Betty and her sister Christina Nadig-Stiffler had already been running their brother's establishment for some years as the "Stiffler sisters". In 1881 a major rebuild and expansion took place and the Maison Stiffler was integrated into a neighbouring property, the previously separate photographic shop acquired from a photographer, named Alex Flury. The new building, based on a design drawn up by the architect brothers Ragaz, was relaunched as a larger hotel. The 1880s and 1890s were years of rapid expansion for the tourist trade in Pontresina, and a further major rebuild took the "Hotel Pontresina" to its present size in 1895.

paragraph: His wife, Betty, died on 11 February 1896. Florian Stoppany died on 26 January 1901. Their bodies are buried together, close to other family members, at the graveyard by the in Pontresina. Direction of the hotel passed to his eldest son, Johann Stoppany. In the longer term, many of his children and remoter descendants took leading roles in the hospitality business in Pontresina during the ensuing decades.

description: Swiss hotel manager

wikidata_label: Florian Stoppany

wikipedia_title: Florian Stoppany


text:
2010 Four Nations Cup
Burlington Barracudas
Canadian Women's Hockey League
Brampton Thunder
2012 CWHL Draft
Toronto Furies
2014 Clarkson Cup
PWHL
Toronto Jr. Aeros
2010 Four Nations Cup
Shannon Szabados
2011 IIHF Eight Nations Tournament
2011 4 Nations Cup
Burlington Barracudas
2012 Clarkson Cup
Patty Kazmaier Award

categories: Clarkson Cup champions,1988 births,Ice hockey people from Ontario,Burlington Barracudas players,Canadian women's ice hockey players,Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey players,Living people

paragraph: Christina Kessler

paragraph: Christina Kessler (born May 28, 1988) has competed for the Canadian National women's ice hockey team. Her debut with Team Canada was at the 2010 Four Nations Cup where she was part of the gold medal winning squadron. She played for the Burlington Barracudas in the Canadian Women's Hockey League before being claimed by the Brampton Thunder in the dispersal section of the 2012 CWHL Draft. With the Toronto Furies, she was recognized as the Most Valuable Player of the 2014 Clarkson Cup.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Kessler participated in the PWHL for the Toronto Jr. Aeros. During the 2005-06 season, she led the squad to an undefeated regular season. In addition, she helped the team claim league and provincial titles.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Harvard.

paragraph: Kessler joined the Harvard Crimson in the autumn of 2006 and appeared in 12 games with 11 starts. As a rookie, she logged eight wins, while earning shutouts against the Princeton Tigers (on Nov. 25 and Jan. 5), and against nationally ranked Minnesota Duluth (Dec. 2). The shutouts that she registered on November 25 and December 2 came in her second and third collegiate games of her career. This was part of a period in which she went 150 minutes without allowing a goal. She would only give up one goal during her first three NCAA contests. On December 8, she made a then career high 33 saves in a tie against nationally ranked New Hampshire.

paragraph: During the 2007-08 campaign, Kessler set the NCAA single-season record with 12 shutouts. In addition, she led all NCAA goaltenders with a .952 save percentage (679 of 713) and winning percentage (30-2-0, .938). With Kessler in net, the Crimson set the all-time record for fewest goals allowed in a season. In a January 27, 2008 win versus Dartmouth (a 4-0 shutout), she surpassed Ali Boe for the Crimson single-season shutout record by notching her eighth. Boe set the previous mark with seven shutouts in 2003-04. In the 2008 women's Beanpot, Kessler blocked 41 of 43 shots during the tournament to win the Joe Bertagna Award. On February 1, Kessler earned her first NCAA assist. In a match against Brown, Kessler assisted on a goal logged by Kathryn Farni. A February 23 victory over Cornell (by a 4-2 tally) gave Kessler her 25th victory of the season.

paragraph: Her junior season (2008–09) resulted in her being named to the ECAC Hockey preseason all-league team. Statistically, she ranked first in the ECAC with a 1.55 goals-against average in conference play. In the Beanpot semifinal (from February 3, 2009), she stopped 17 shots against Boston University as the Crimson prevailed. A February 20 win over the St. Lawrence Skating Saints resulted in Kessler's fourth shutout of the season. During the ECAC Quarterfinals (on February 27 and 28), Kessler logged back-to-back shutouts against Cornell (by tallies of 3-0, 4-0), respectively.

paragraph: As a senior (2009–10), Kessler was fifth in the NCAA with a .944 save percentage. She would also rank fifth with a 1.39 goals-against average. In the Crimson's season opening match versus Colgate (contested on October 30, 2009), Kessler registered 29 saves. On November 14, she would set a career high by blocking 37 shots versus Princeton.

paragraph: On December 4 and 5, 2010, Kessler had one of the best performances of her NCAA career. She recorded 24 saves against Minnesota on Dec. 4, as the Crimson prevailed by a 1-0 mark. She followed up her performance with 29 saves to guide Harvard to a 0-0 tie the following day. Entering the weekend, Minnesota had not been shut out since the 2006-07 season.

paragraph: A December 8 victory versus the Connecticut Huskies (in which the Crimson earned a 2-1 win) resulted in Kessler tying Ali Boe for the Harvard career win record of 63. Win number 64 came on January 16, 2010 in a 21 save effort that resulted in a 5-1 victory over the Colgate Raiders. Her career save percentage of .9414 (1,863 of 1,979 shots) is the all-time best in NCAA history.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Hockey Canada.

paragraph: She was in attendance for the first ever IIHF development camp (held in Vierumaki, Finland). Kessler represented the OWHA and Hockey Canada. In 2006, she was selected to Canada's under-22 national team but did not compete due to injury.

paragraph: Kessler was part of the Canadian Under 22 squad that participated in a three-game series versus the US Under 22 team in August 2009. Kessler accumulated 40 saves in two games for Canada's Under-22 Team. In January 2009, she was part of the silver medal winning team at the MLP Cup in January 2009. In two games played, she logged two shutouts and 35 saves. She was the backstop for the Canadian Under-22 Team which won a Gold Medal at 2010 MLP Cup. She would log a shutout with 15 saves in gold-medal game against Switzerland.

paragraph: She made her debut for the Canadian National women's hockey team at the 2010 Four Nations Cup. Kessler won a gold medal as she was one of the backup goaltenders to Shannon Szabados. She travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia to participate in the 2011 IIHF High Performance Women's Camp from July 4–12. In the first game of the 2011 IIHF Eight Nations Tournament, Kessler earned the shutout in a 16-0 victory over Switzerland. On October 3, 2011, she was named to the Team Canada roster that participated in the 2011 4 Nations Cup.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:CWHL.

paragraph: BULLET::::- On November 18, 2011, she was one of several Burlington Barracudas players that competed in the first ever Hockey Helps The Homeless Women's Tournament. Said tournament was held at the Magna Centre in Newmarket, Ontario.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Along with Barracudas teammate Shannon Moulson, she was part of an event at Power Play Sports in Niagara Falls, Ontario on December 20, 2011 to promote the 2012 Clarkson Cup (to be held in Niagara Falls). After the event, they met players from the NFGHA (Niagara Falls Girls' Hockey League) for photographs and autographs.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Awards and honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of November 27, 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- ECAC Goaltender of the Week (Week of December 5. 2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- ECAC Rookie of the Week (Week of January 8, 2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 ECAC Hockey League All-Academic Team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 ECAC Goaltender of the Year

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 Joe Bertagna Award as the best goaltender in the Beanpot

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007-08 RBK Hockey/AHCA All-America Second Team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007-08 First Team All-ECAC

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007-08 First Team All-Ivy League

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007-08 New England Hockey Writers Division I Women's All-Star Team

paragraph: BULLET::::- NCAA single season record, Most Shutouts in one season (12), accomplished in 2007-08

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008 ECAC Tournament Team

paragraph: BULLET::::- ECAC Goaltender of the week (Week of December 1, 2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- ECAC Goaltender of the week (Week of December 8, 2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008-09 All-Ivy League first team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008-09 All-ECAC Hockey second team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2008-09 New England Hockey Writers Division I All-Star Team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009-10 ECAC Hockey preseason all-league team

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009-10 All-Ivy League honorable mention

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009-10 Academic All-Ivy League

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010 nominee for Patty Kazmaier Award

paragraph: BULLET::::- NCAA record holder for career save percentage (1,863 of 1,979, .9414)

description: Canadian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Christina Kessler

wikipedia_title: Christina Kessler


text:
Indian
Hindoo Patriot
Oriental Seminary
British Indian Association
"Hindu Patriot"
Harish Chandra Mukherjee
Rai Bahadur
Hindu Mela
Lord Ripon
Lord Elgin

categories: Vidyasagar College alumni,1839 births,1884 deaths,Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire,Public relations people,Oriental Seminary alumni,Bengali Hindus

paragraph: Kristo Das Pal

paragraph: Kristo Das Pal () (1838 — 24 July 1884), was an Indian journalist, orator and the editor of the "Hindoo Patriot". In spite of being born of the Teli or oil-men's caste, which ranks low in the Hindu social hierarchy, he rose to be one of the important persons of his age.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Son of Ishwar Chandra Pal, he received an English education at the Oriental Seminary and the Hindu Metropolitan College, and at an early age devoted himself to journalism. A student of D. L. Richardson, he acquired an admirable proficiency in English. In 1861, he was appointed assistant secretary (and afterwards secretary) to the British Indian Association, a board of Bengal landlords, which numbered among its members some of the most cultured men of the day. At about the same time he became editor of the "Hindu Patriot", originally started in 1853 and conducted with ability and zeal by Harish Chandra Mukherjee until his death in 1861. This journal having been transferred by a trust deed to some members of the British Indian Association, it henceforth became to some extent an organ of that body. Thus Kristo Das Pal had rare opportunities for proving his abilities and independence during an eventful career of twenty-two years.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: In 1863, he was appointed justice of the peace and municipal commissioner of Calcutta. In 1872, he was made a member of the Bengal legislative council, where his practical good sense and moderation were much appreciated by successive lieutenant governors. His opposition, however, to the Calcutta Municipal Bill of 1876, which first recognized the elective system, was attributed to his prejudice in favour of the classes against the masses. In 1878, he received the decoration of C.I.E. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the viceroys legislative council. In the discussions on, the Rent Bill, which came up for consideration before the council, Kristo Das Pal, as secretary to the British Indian Association, necessarily took the side of the landlords. He was given title of Rai Bahadur in 1877 and was therefore also called as "Rai Kristo Das Pal Bahadur".

paragraph: He was one of the patrons of Hindu Mela

paragraph: He died on 24 July 1884 from diabetes. Speaking after his death, Lord Ripon said: "By this melancholy event we have lost from among us a colleague of distinguished ability, from whom we had on all occasions received assistance, of which I readily acknowledge the value. . . . Mr. Kristo Das Pal owed the honourable position to which he had attained to his own exertions. His intellectual attainments were of a high order, his rhetorical gifts were acknowledged by all who heard him, and were enhanced when addressing this council by his thorough mastery over the English language." A full length statue of him was unveiled by Lord Elgin at Calcutta in 1894.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- See N. N. Ghose, Krislo Das Pal, a Study (Calcutta, 1887).

description: Indian journalist

wikidata_label: Kristo Das Pal

wikipedia_title: Kristo Das Pal


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text: armoured vehicles

text: Royal Air Force

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text: Crumpsall

text: Manchester

text: solicitor

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text: Royal Navy

text: 1901 Census

text: HMS "Victorious"

text: Sub-Lieutenant

text: HMS "Pomone"

text: Persian Gulf

text: Somaliland

text: Lieutenant

text: HMS "Commonwealth"

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text: HMS "Philomel"

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text: Royal Aero Club

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text: Wilfred Parke

text: Arthur Longmore

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text: photo-reconnaissance

text: Landing at Cape Helles

text: HMS Majestic

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text: Mustafa Kemal

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text: Frederick Sykes

text: Isle of Man

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text: Palestine

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text: Faisal

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text: Wedgewood Benn

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text: Aden

text: Colombo

text: Indian Ocean

text: Great Yarmouth

text: North Sea

text: Zeppelin

text: John Cyril Porte

text: lighter

text: Zeppelin L53

text: Military Cross

text: Sopwith Camel

text: Imperial War Museum

text: No. 4 Group

text: Seaplane Experimental Station

text: Royal Air Force

text: Group Captain

text: Malta

text: air commodore

text: RAF Kenley

text: RAF's Middle East Command

text: Vickers Victoria

text: Fairey III

text: Cairo

text: Cape of Good Hope

text: Salisbury, Wiltshire

text: Putney Vale Cemetery

text: Croix de guerre

text: Knight of the Legion of Honour

text: Bar

text: Distinguished Service Order

text: Air Force Cross

text: List of firsts in aviation

text: Eugene Burton Ely

text: Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker

text: A 1915 photograph of Charles Samson

text: 58ft Towing Lighters

categories: Royal Air Force personnel of World War I,Royal Navy officers of World War I,Aviation pioneers,Royal Naval Air Service aviators,Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George,1931 deaths,Royal Navy officers,Companions of the Distinguished Service Order,Royal Air Force officers,1883 births,Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur,Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)

paragraph: Charles Rumney Samson

paragraph: Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson, (8 July 1883 – 5 February 1931) was a British naval aviation pioneer. He was one of the first four officers selected for pilot training by the Royal Navy and was the first person to fly an aircraft from a moving ship. He also commanded the first British armoured vehicles used in combat. Transferring to the Royal Air Force on its creation in 1918, Samson held command of several groups in the immediate post-war period and the 1920s.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Samson was born in Crumpsall, Manchester on 8 July 1883, the son of Charles Leopold Samson, a solicitor, and his wife Margaret Alice (née Rumney).

paragraph: Section::::Early naval career.

paragraph: Samson entered HMS "Britannia" as a cadet in 1896, before becoming a midshipman in the Royal Navy in 1898. In the 1901 Census he is listed as a midshipman aboard the battleship HMS "Victorious". He was promoted Sub-Lieutenant in 1902 and the following year served on HMS "Pomone" in the Persian Gulf and Somaliland. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 September 1904 while serving as an officer on boys' training ships.

paragraph: In 1906 Samson was appointed Officer Commanding of Torpedo Boat No. 81 and in February 1908 he was posted to HMS "Commonwealth". The following year he was appointed First Lieutenant on HMS "Philomel" serving in the Persian Gulf and in the autumn of 1910 he transferred to HMS "Foresight", again serving as the ship's First Lieutenant.

paragraph: Section::::Naval aviation.

paragraph: In 1911 he was selected as one of the first four Royal Navy officers to receive pilot training, and obtained his Royal Aero Club certificate on 25 April 1911 after only 71 minutes flying time at a RAeC meeting that also awarded licenses to the pioneer naval aviators Wilfred Parke and Arthur Longmore. He completed flying training at Eastchurch before being appointed Officer Commanding Naval Air Station Eastchurch in October 1911. In January 1912 he was promoted to acting Commander. The following April he was appointed Officer Commanding the Naval Flying School at Eastchurch.

paragraph: Samson took part in several early naval aviation experiments, including the development of navigation lights and bomb sights. He was the first British pilot to take off from a ship, on 10 January 1912, flying a Short Improved S.27 from a ramp mounted on the foredeck of the battleship HMS "Africa", which was at anchor in the river Medway. On 9 May 1912 he became the first pilot to take off from a moving ship, using the same ramp and aircraft, now fitted to the battleship HMS "Hibernia" during the 1912 Naval Review in Weymouth Bay. He repeated the feat on 4 July 1912, this time from the battleship HMS "London" while "London" was under way.

paragraph: When the Royal Flying Corps was formed in May 1912 Samson took command of its Naval Wing, and led the development of aerial wireless communications, bomb and torpedo-dropping, navigational techniques, and night flying.

paragraph: In 1914 the Royal Navy separated the Naval Wing from the Royal Flying Corps, naming it the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). In July Samson was appointed Officer Commanding the Eastchurch (Mobile) Squadron which was renamed No. 3 Squadron RNAS by September 1914.

paragraph: In 1914, while Samson was in command of the Royal Naval Air Station at Eastchurch, he led a flight in the Naval Review at Spithead. In an effort to increase the popularity of flying in the navy, Samson had his pilots offer rides to anyone who was interested.

paragraph: Section::::First World War.

paragraph: When the First World War broke out, Samson took the Eastchurch RNAS Squadron to France, where it supported Allied ground forces along the French and Belgian frontiers. In the late summer of 1914, with too few aircraft at his disposal, Samson instead had his men patrol the French and Belgian countryside in the privately owned cars some of them had taken to war. The first patrol comprised two cars, nine men, and one machine gun. Inspired by the success of the Belgians' experience of armoured cars, Samson had two RNAS cars, a Mercedes and a Rolls-Royce, armoured. These vehicles had only partial protection, with a single machine gun firing backwards, and were the first British armoured vehicles to see action. Within a month most of Samson's cars had been armed and some armoured. These were joined by further cars which had been armoured in Britain with hardened steel plates at Royal Navy workshops. The force was also equipped with some trucks which had been armoured and equipped with loopholes so that the Royal Marines carried in them could fire their rifles in safety. This was the start of the RNAS Armoured Car Section.

paragraph: Aggressive patrolling by Samson's improvised force in the area between Dunkirk and Antwerp did much to prevent German cavalry divisions from carrying out effective reconnaissance, and with the help of Belgian Post Office employees who used the intact telephone system to report German movements, he was able to probe deeply into German occupied territory. Closer to Dunkirk, Samson's force assisted Allied units in contact with the Germans, and at other times made use of their mobility and machine guns to exploit open flanks, cover retreats, and race German forces to important areas.

paragraph: Samson's aircraft also bombed the Zeppelin sheds at Düsseldorf and Cologne, and by the end of 1914, when mobile warfare on the Western Front ended and trench warfare took its place, his squadron had been awarded four Distinguished Service Orders, among them his own, and he was given a special promotion and the rank of commander. He spent the next few months bombing gun positions, submarine depots, and seaplane sheds on the Belgian coast.

paragraph: In March 1915 Samson was sent to the Dardanelles with No 3 Squadron (later No 3 Wing); it was based on the island of Tenedos and, together with seaplanes from HMS "Ark Royal", initially provided the only Allied air cover. On arrival, it was found that out of 30 aircraft that had been sent in crates, only 5 were serviceable (BE2s and a Nieuport 10). His squadron pioneered the use of radio in directing the fire of battleships and photo-reconnaissance. Samson flew many missions himself and on 25 April at the Landing at Cape Helles, he reported that "the sea was absolutely red with blood to 50 yards out" at "Sed-el-Barr" ("V Beach"). On 27 May, Samson attacked the German submarine "U-21" which had just sunk HMS Majestic; when he ran out of bombs he resorted to firing his rifle at it. In June, a temporary airstrip was constructed at Cape Helles; Samson became well known for waving cheerily to the Allied troops in the trenches below. On one occasion, he bombed a Turkish staff car but only succeeded in breaking the windscreen; one of the occupants was Mustafa Kemal, the charismatic Turkish commander and later founder of the Turkish Republic. In August, Samson's wing was moved to a new airfield at Imbros where it was joined by No 2 Wing under the overall command of Colonel Frederick Sykes. who had been given the naval rank of Wing Captain with three years' seniority. Sykes had previously written a critical report of the Gallipoli air operations, which had caused Samson to lobby against Sykes; however, Samson loyally served under Sykes until he was recalled to London in November.

paragraph: On 14 May 1916, Samson was given command of , a former Isle of Man passenger steamer which had been converted into a seaplane carrier. Based at Port Said, he patrolled the coasts of Palestine and Syria, sending his aircraft on reconnaissance missions and bombing Turkish positions, often flying himself on operations. On 2 June, Samson took his ship through the Suez Canal to Aden, where he personally led a six-day bombing campaign. After silencing Turkish guns at Perim, "Ben My Chree" headed to Jidda where on 15 June, her aircraft operated in support of an attack by Arab forces led by Faisal, son of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca; Samson lost the heel of his boot as well as various pieces of his seaplane to ground fire. The Turks surrendered the next day. Further operations off the coast of Palestine followed; on 26 July, Samson and his observer, Lieutenant Wedgewood Benn destroyed a train carrying 1,600 troops with a 16 lb bomb. In almost continuous action through the rest of 1916, Samson received a signal from the Admiralty asking why "Ben-my-Chree" had used so much ammunition; he replied "that there was unfortunately a war on". In January 1917 he sailed to Castellorizo to carry out joint operations with the French, and in the harbour there the "Ben My Chree" was sunk on 11 January by Turkish gunfire. A subsequent Court-martial acquitted Samson and the crew of all responsibility and commended them for their behaviour. His two escort ships, already equipped to carry a few seaplanes, were fitted out for independent air operations, and from Aden and later Colombo, he patrolled the Indian Ocean for enemy commerce raiders.

paragraph: From November 1917 until the end of the War, Samson was in command of an aircraft group at Great Yarmouth responsible for anti-submarine and anti-Zeppelin operations over the North Sea, during which time his group shot down five Zeppelins. In order to bring fighter aircraft into action near the enemy coasts, he developed with John Cyril Porte an adapted seaplane lighter which could be towed behind naval vessels and used as a take-off platform by fighter aircraft. This system led to the destruction of Zeppelin L53 on 11 August 1918 by Lieutenant S. D. Culley, who was awarded the Military Cross. The Sopwith Camel flown by Culley in the attack can be seen at the Imperial War Museum.

paragraph: In October 1918 the group became 73 Wing of the new No. 4 Group based at the Seaplane Experimental Station, Felixstowe as part of the Royal Air Force. Samson became commanding officer of this group, and in August 1919 gave up his naval commission and received instead a permanent commission in the RAF with the rank of Group Captain.

paragraph: Section::::Postwar.

paragraph: During 1920 Samson served as Chief Staff Officer in the Coastal Area, and in 1921 became Air Officer Commanding for RAF units in the Mediterranean, based at Malta. In 1922 he was promoted to air commodore and given command of 6 Fighter Group at RAF Kenley (S London).

paragraph: In June 1926 he became Chief Staff Officer of the RAF's Middle East Command, in September 1926 he led a flight from Cairo to Aden: the flight left Cairo on 15 September 1926 and was flown by two Vickers Victoria biplanes and returned to Cairo on the 29 September. He later flew an RAF formation of four Fairey III biplanes from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope. He remained with the Middle East command until August 1927.

paragraph: Samson was placed on the retired list on account of ill health in 1929 and died of heart failure at his home near Salisbury, Wiltshire on 5 February 1931. He was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery on 10 February.

paragraph: Section::::Honours and awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 21 October 1914 – Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in recognition for service between 1 September and 5 October 1914 in command of the Aeroplane and Armoured Motor Support of the Royal Naval Air Service at Dunkirk.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1914 – Croix de guerre (France)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1915 – Knight of the Legion of Honour (France)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 14 March 1916 – Mention in Despatches for service in action during the landing and evacuation on the Gallipoli peninsula.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 23 January 1917 – Bar to the Distinguished Service Order for continued gallantry as a Flying Officer.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1 January 1919 – Air Force Cross

paragraph: BULLET::::- 3 June 1919 – Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of distinguished service during the war.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of firsts in aviation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eugene Burton Ely, the first pilot to take off from a ship and land on a ship

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker, the first officer to sink an aircraft carrier

paragraph: BULLET::::- Force Z#Origins.2C Destruction.2C Vindication, on Samson's unheeded warnings

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Commodore C R Samson

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – Samson, Charles Rumney

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- A 1915 photograph of Charles Samson taken at Gallipoli

paragraph: BULLET::::- Felixstowe, Suffolk: Pioneering Sea Plane Base Audio recording of George Edward Brice who recalls Charles Rumney Samson testing a seaplane during the First World War.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 58ft Towing Lighters Information and photographs on seaplane lighters including Samson's test flight and Culley's attack on Zeppellin L53.

description: British aviation pioneer

wikidata_label: Charles Rumney Samson

wikipedia_title: Charles Rumney Samson


text: Union Navy

text: American Civil War

text: Medal of Honor

text: Ireland

text: Lockport, New York

text: Royalton

text: fireman

text: Mississippi River Squadron

text: Steele's Bayou Expedition

text: Yazoo River

text: Mississippi

text: Bayou

text: Confederate

text: William T. Sherman

text: Memphis, Tennessee

text: Niagara County

text: Memphis National Cemetery

text: Department of the Navy

text: List of Medal of Honor recipients

categories: People from Lockport, New York,1864 deaths,United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients,Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients,People of New York (state) in the American Civil War,Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923),1841 births,American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor,Union Navy sailors

paragraph: Michael Huskey

paragraph: Michael A. Huskey (1841 – October 1864) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and family.

paragraph: A native of Ireland, Huskey immigrated to the United States with his family as a child, in 1848 or 1849. The family originally settled in Lockport, New York, and later moved to nearby Royalton. Huskey Cemetery in Royalton is located on the old family farm.

paragraph: Section::::Military career.

paragraph: Huskey joined the U.S. Navy early in the war and worked as a fireman, feeding coal to the boilers aboard steamships. By March 1863, he was serving on the gunboat , part of the Mississippi River Squadron, conducting operations in support of the campaign to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi. During Steele's Bayou Expedition in mid-March, the "Carondelet" was among a group of Union ships which attempted to bypass Vicksburg and reach the Yazoo River from the Mississippi by steaming through Steele's Bayou. The ships became stuck in the bayou's narrow channel and came under fire from Confederate soldiers on shore. In an effort to trap the ships, the Confederates began chopping down trees such that they fell across the channel. During the engagement, the tugboat , which carried the commanding Union admiral, became stuck. Despite the Confederate fire, Huskey volunteered for a rescue party which successfully freed the "Ivy". Union troops led by General William T. Sherman cleared the Confederate soldiers from the area, but the bayou proved impassable and the ships were forced to turn back.

paragraph: For his actions during the expedition, he was approved for the Medal of Honor a year later, on April 16, 1864. Only months later, in October 1864, Huskey died of illness at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He had neither claimed nor received his Medal of Honor before his death; it is unclear whether he was ever aware of the award. Huskey's place of burial is unknown. According to Niagara County historian Catherine Emerson, he was most likely among the "unknowns" buried in Memphis National Cemetery, presumably after authorities lost track of his identity.

paragraph: Section::::Unclaimed medal.

paragraph: Officials from Niagara County in New York submitted a request to the Department of the Navy to receive the unclaimed Medal of Honor for Huskey. The Navy denied the request, stating a lack of security in the building the county wanted to display the medal as well as the cost of creating the medal. The navy did however send county officials an embossed letter regarding his Medal of Honor which they called "an embarrassment". Although county officials were not happy with the outcome, they will display the latter in a display being dedicated in October if the medal is not available.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: Fireman Huskey's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: Carrying out his duties gallantly, Huskey volunteered to aid in the rescue of the tug "Ivy" under the fire of the enemy, and set forth general meritorious conduct during this hazardous mission.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients

wikidata_label: Michael Huskey

wikipedia_title: Michael Huskey


text:
Syngman Rhee
1960 presidential election
Cho Byeong-ok
Cho Byeong-ok
Cho Byeong-ok
Cho Byeong-ok
Cho Byeong-ok

categories: Korean revolutionaries,Korean politicians,Soh Jaipil,Democratic Party (South Korea) politicians,South Korean anti-communists,Korean independence activists,Kim Kyu-sik,Yun Chi-ho,Korean educators,South Korean Roman Catholics,1960 deaths,1894 births

paragraph: Chough Pyung-ok

paragraph: Chough Pyung-ok (also Cho Pyung-ok or Cho Byeong-ok; 1894 – 1960) was a South Korean politician. He ran against incumbent president Syngman Rhee in the 1960 presidential election but died on February 15, one month before the election on March 15. Rhee received 90% of the vote.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: BULLET::::-

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cho Byeong-ok

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cho Byeong-ok

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cho Byeong-ok

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cho Byeong-ok

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cho Byeong-ok

description: South Korean politician

wikidata_label: Chough Pyung-ok

wikipedia_title: Chough Pyung-ok


text:
Louis VI of France
Adélaide de Maurienne
Latin Emperor
Peter II of Courtenay
Palestine
Renaud de Courtenay
House of Courtenay
Exeter Cathedral
Peter II
Alice
Aymer of Angoulême
Erard II of Brienne
William of Champlitte
Robert, Seigneur of Champignelles
Peter of Courtenay, Lord of Conches

categories: Capetian House of Courtenay,Burials at Exeter Cathedral,1126 births,1183 deaths

paragraph: Peter I of Courtenay

paragraph: Peter I of Courtenay (September 1126 – 10 April 1183) was the youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second wife, Adélaide de Maurienne. He was the father of the Latin Emperor Peter II of Courtenay.

paragraph: Peter was born in France and died in Palestine. In about 1150, he married Elizabeth de Courtenay (1127 – September 1205), the daughter of Renaud de Courtenay and Hawise du Donjon, thus starting the Capetian line of the House of Courtenay.

paragraph: Rumor has it that he is buried in a tomb in the floor of Exeter Cathedral, next to Elizabeth, however no physical evidence currently exists and the Historians at the Cathedral can find no documentation to support this rumor. The couple had ten children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Phillip (1153 – before 1186)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter II, Latin Emperor of Constantinople ("c." 1155 to 1218)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Unnamed daughter ("c." 1156 – ?)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Alice (died 12 February 1218), married Count Aymer of Angoulême

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eustachia (1162–1235), married firstly William of Brienne, son of Erard II of Brienne and of Agnès of Montfaucon, secondly William of Champlitte

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clémence (1164 – ?)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Robert, Seigneur of Champignelles (1166–1239), married in 1217 Mathilde of Mehun (d. 1240). Their eldest son was Peter of Courtenay, Lord of Conches.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William, Seigneur of Tanlay (1168 – before 1248)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isabella (1169 – after 1194)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Constance (after 1170–1231)

description: youngest son of Louis VI of France and his second queen consort, Adélaide de Maurienne

wikidata_label: Peter I of Courtenay

wikipedia_title: Peter I of Courtenay


text: martyred

text: Anabaptist

text: Asperen

text: Gelderland

text: baptized

text: infant baptism

text: established

text: Roman Catholic Church

text: burned at the stake

text: Anabaptist

text: Mennonite

text: Amish

text: folk hero

text: Mennonite Heritage Village

text: Steinbach, Manitoba

text: Martyrs Mirror entry

text: Dirk Willemsz (d. 1569)

categories: Dutch escapees,1569 deaths,Dutch Christian pacifists,Dutch Anabaptists,16th-century Protestant martyrs,Year of birth unknown,Executed Dutch people,People executed by the Netherlands by burning,People from Lingewaal

paragraph: Dirk Willems

paragraph: Dirk Willems (died 16 May 1569) (also spelled Durk Willems) was a Dutch martyred Anabaptist who is most famous for escaping from prison and turning back to rescue his pursuer—who had fallen through thin ice while chasing Willems—to then be recaptured, tortured and killed for his faith.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Willems was born in Asperen, Gelderland, Netherlands, and was baptized as a young man, thus rejecting the infant baptism practiced at that time by both Catholics and established Protestants in the Netherlands. This action, plus his continued devotion to his new faith and the baptism of several other people in his home, led to his condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands and subsequent arrest. Willems was held in a residential palace turned into a prison, from which he escaped using a rope made out of knotted rags. Using this, he was able to climb out of the prison onto the frozen moat. A guard noticed his escape and gave chase. Willems was able to traverse the thin ice of a frozen pond, the "Hondegat", because of his lighter weight after subsisting on prison rations. However, the pursuing guard broke through the ice and yelled for help as he struggled in the icy water. Willems turned back to save the life of his pursuer, thus being recaptured and held until he was burned at the stake near his hometown on 16 May 1569.

paragraph: Today, he is one of the most celebrated martyrs among Anabaptists, which includes Mennonites and Amish, as well as becoming a folk hero amongst modern residents of Asperen. A historical drama based on his life—"Dirk's Exodus"—was written in 1989 by James C. Juhnke. In 2018, a statue of Dirk Willems was unveiled at the Mennonite Heritage Village museum in Steinbach, Manitoba.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Martyrs Mirror entry

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dirk Willemsz (d. 1569) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

description: Dutch pacificist

wikidata_label: Dirk Willems

wikipedia_title: Dirk Willems


text:
Greek
Indo-Greek
Paropamisadae
Zoilos I
Nicias
Euthydemus I
Nicias
Bopearachchi
Hellenistic kingdom there
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
Seleucid Empire
Greco-Buddhism
Indo-Scythians
Indo-Parthian Kingdom
Kushan Empire

paragraph: Theophilos (king)

paragraph: Theophilos (Greek: ) was a minor Indo-Greek king who ruled for a short time in the Paropamisadae. He was possibly a relative of Zoilos I and is only known from coins. It is possible that some of Theophilos' coins in fact belong to another ruler, in Greek Bactria, during approximately the same period.

paragraph: Section::::Time of reign.

paragraph: While Bopearachchi suggests c. 90 BCE, R. C. Senior believes that Theophilos ruled in the 130s BCE. Both numismatics do however suggest that the reigns of Theophilos and Nicias were adjacent.

paragraph: Section::::Coins of Theophilos.

paragraph: Just like Zoilos I, Theophilos struck Indian silver coins with Herakles, a common symbol of the house of Euthydemus I, and the epithet Dikaios/Dhramikasa ""The Just/Follower of the Dharma"." The monograms are mostly the same as those of Nicias. The bronzes have similar inscriptions.

paragraph: Bronzes of Theophilos:

paragraph: Section::::A Bactrian king Theophilos?

paragraph: However, there is a wholly different, and very rare, Attic coinage of a king Theophilos. Found in Bactria, these coins feature a reverse with a seated Athena with Nike, a different title Autokrator "Autocrat King" (), and also a separate monogram. Although this is not a very common occurrence on Indo-Greek coins, the coins of Theophilos have generally been accepted as belonging to one unique king. Bopearachchi has supported this proposition by pointing at the similarity between the portraits and the identical treatment of the diadem (one end straight, one end crooked).

paragraph: Against this, Jakobsson argues that the coins issued by the later Indo-Greek kings for export into Bactria were consistently similar to these kings' regular Indian coinage. Consequently, the coins of Theophilos Autokrator were not such export issues, but should belong to a Bactrian ruler. Jakobsson suggests that Theophilos Autokrator was a Bactrian princelet who briefly maintained himself in some part of Bactria, after the Hellenistic kingdom there had been vanquished by nomads, presumably in the 120s BCE.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

paragraph: BULLET::::- Seleucid Empire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Greco-Buddhism

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indo-Scythians

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indo-Parthian Kingdom

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kushan Empire

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Greeks in Bactria and India", W.W. Tarn, Cambridge University Press.

wikidata_label: Theophilos

wikipedia_title: Theophilos (king)


text: Earl Marshal

text: Chief Butler of England

text: Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower

text: Augusta Lyons

text: Lyons family

text: Sir Edmund Lyons

text: Fitzalan Chapel

text: Arundel Castle

text: Whig

text: Arundel

text: British House of Commons

text: Limerick City

text: Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851

text: Dukes of Norfolk family tree

categories: Earls of Norfolk (1644),Barons Maltravers,1815 births,Earls of Arundel,1860 deaths,Earls Marshal,Howard family (English aristocracy),UK MPs 1847–1852,Earls of Surrey,UK MPs 1837–1841,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Limerick constituencies (1801–1922),FitzAlan family,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies,Dukes of Norfolk,UK MPs 1841–1847,English Roman Catholics

paragraph: Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk

paragraph: Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk, (7 November 181525 November 1860) was an English peer and politician. He was hereditary Earl Marshal and Chief Butler of England.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: He was the son of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower.

paragraph: He married Augusta Lyons (1821–1886), of the Lyons family, on 19 June 1839. She was the daughter of Sir Edmund Lyons (later 1st Baron Lyons) and Augusta Louisa Rogers, and was often known by her middle name, "Minna". The Duke had eleven children by Augusta. The Duke and Duchess are both buried in the mausoleum in Fitzalan Chapel on the western grounds of Arundel Castle.

paragraph: Section::::Public life.

paragraph: Howard was returned as a Whig for Arundel in the British House of Commons from 1837 to 1851, and for Limerick City from 1851 to 1852. He was a devoted Roman Catholic, and resigned from his Arundel seat rather than support the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851, but secured the Limerick seat when its incumbent resigned in his favour. He edited the "Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife" (1857 and 1861).

paragraph: Section::::See also.

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

description: English peer and politician


text:
La Jolla, California
David DeCoteau
homoerotic
horror
The Frightening
Leeches!
River Carpenter
One Life to Live

categories: American male soap opera actors,1981 births

paragraph: Matthew Twining

paragraph: Matthew Twining (born September 23, 1981 in La Jolla, California) is an American actor and musician, best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist in the American rock band, Level with Timothy Norris. They released their first album "Simplexity" in 2004. In later years, he played with One Day As A Lion, (Odaal), which he founded, alongside drummer Robby Altschuller and bassist Philip Ellis. He has a brother named Gabe.

paragraph: He got his acting start in two of David DeCoteau's homoerotic horror films. The first was a lead role in the film "The Frightening" (2002) and the second in a supporting role in the film "Leeches!" (2003).

paragraph: Twining's best known acting role came from playing River Carpenter on the daytime soap opera "One Life to Live" from 2003 until 2004.

paragraph: He plays piano and guitar, as well as singing lead vocals in his band, Odaal.

description: American actor

wikidata_label: Matthew Twining

wikipedia_title: Matthew Twining


text:
professional baseball
catcher
University of Texas
College World Series
2004 Major League Baseball Draft
Syracuse Chiefs
Rogers Centre
Toronto
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Rod Barajas
home run
designated for assignment
pitcher
Brian Burres
AAA
Las Vegas 51s
Oakland Athletics
J. B. Cox
Minorleaguebaseball.com
Bluejays.com

categories: Major League Baseball catchers,American expatriate baseball players in Canada,Major League Baseball first basemen,Sportspeople from Dallas,Auburn Doubledays players,Syracuse SkyChiefs players,Baseball players from Texas,Syracuse Chiefs players,Texas Longhorns baseball players,1983 births,Living people,Lansing Lugnuts players

paragraph: Curtis Thigpen

paragraph: Curtis Barnard Thigpen (born April 19, 1983) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He spent his college career at the University of Texas and won the College World Series in 2002 during which he was named to the All-Tournament Team. Thigpen was selected by the Blue Jays in the second round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft with the 57th overall pick, and played parts of 2 seasons with the team.

paragraph: Section::::Minor league career.

paragraph: In 2007, he started the season playing for the Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays.

paragraph: Section::::Major league career.

paragraph: Section::::Major league career.:Toronto Blue Jays.

paragraph: He was called up from the minors on June 5, , and made his major league debut on June 6, 2007, at Rogers Centre in Toronto against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, when he went 1-4 playing first base. After the 2007 season, he finished hitting .238 with 0 home runs, 11 RBIs, a .294 on-base percentage and a .287 slugging percentage over 47 games. During the 2008 season, Thigpen saw less playing time with Rod Barajas coming to Toronto. During the 2008 campaign, Thigpen hit his first home run—in what would turn out to be the final at-bat of his major league career. He finished the season hitting .176 with one home run and one RBI.

paragraph: On February 4, , Thigpen was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot for newly acquired pitcher Brian Burres. On February 6, Thigpen was sent outright to the Blue Jays' AAA affiliate, the Las Vegas 51s.

paragraph: Section::::Major league career.:Oakland Athletics.

paragraph: On March 27, 2009 Thigpen was traded to the Oakland Athletics. He was released in 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Post-playing career.

paragraph: Thigpen and former Longhorns teammate J. B. Cox returned to the Texas Longhorns as volunteer student assistants in 2010. Thigpen then went on to work as a commercial lender at R Bank Texas from September 5, 2012 until January 15, 2014

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Minorleaguebaseball.com

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bluejays.com

description: American baseball player

wikidata_label: Curtis Thigpen

wikipedia_title: Curtis Thigpen


text:
Argentine
DJ
record producer
new wave music
disco music
Rosario
Buenos Aires
house music
acid house
hard house
trance
Latin music
polyrhythm
techno
Fabric
Rosario
Argentina
new wave music
disco
Talking Heads
Blondie
The Clash
The B-52's
Flash and the Pan
Gino Soccio
Rumba
Ibiza
rave
house music
Balearic Beat
Pacha
DJ Alfredo
Es Paradis
Space
Tribal Gathering
The Limelight
Heaven
Covent Garden
Prince
Prince
GQ
UK
"Freedom"
virtual communities
internet forums
electronic dance music
Evening Standard
Pete Tong
Turnmills
Soho
Rumba
Salsa
Cumbia
Plena
Brazilian Music
Mixmag
Alex Celler
X Green
MyDust
Cuba
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Afro-Cuban
Vedado
Havana
Da Lata
David Guetta
Richie Hawtin
Tel-Aviv
Paris
Amsterdam
Buenos Aires
Turnmills
The End
The Haçienda
Manchester
Turnmills
Thump Vice
gentrification
EDM
Michael Woods
Ministry of Sound
MTV
Balearic Beat
Hard House
Strictly Rhythm
Touché Records
UMM Records
Aspro Records
Work Records
George Morel
Todd Terry
DJ HMC
S ‘N’ S
Marmion
Patrick Prins
Silvio Ecomo
Samuel L Sessions
Bear Who
disco
new wave music
hard house
trance
Latin tech house
UK Official Dance Chart
Marmion
Vincent De Moor
Josh Wink
Darude
UK Singles Chart
Israel
Turkey
Australia
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
Central Park
Rio de Janeiro
Ipanema beach
Buenos Aires
Punta del Este
Uruguay
Madonna
Prince
Bon Jovi
Muzik
HIV
Big Issue
Orthopathy
raw foodism
nutrition
Automatic Records
Wax Records
Red and Blue
DTPM Recordings
MyDust
MyDust
Pilot Recordings
A&M Records
UK Singles Chart
Pilot Recordings
Pneumatiq
Automatic Records
UK Singles Chart
London Records
A7 Records
A7 Records
Phoenix G
MyDust
MyDust
MyDust
XL Recordings
Kool World Records
FFRR
FFRR
Serious
Positiva
Neo Records
Data Records
AM PM Records
Nu life
Neo Records
Nu Life
Ariel on YouTube

categories: Club DJs,Argentine record producers,1967 births,Argentine emigrants to England,Living people

paragraph: Ariel (DJ)

paragraph: Ariel Belloso (born 14 September 1967) is an Argentine, UK Based DJ and record producer. He began his career playing new wave music and disco music at clubs in Rosario and Buenos Aires during the early 1980s and moved to London in 1991, after spending 8 months in Ibiza, where he was influenced by the early house music and acid house sounds.

paragraph: While DJing in London and throughout the world during the 1990s, he developed a personal unique style, combining the sounds of hard house and trance, influenced by the rhythms of his Latin music background with main focus on polyrhythm grooves and energy flow. This sound proved to be an integral and vital element for the evolution of London's hard house and trance scene throughout the early 1990s. He was also the first Argentine artist to enter the UK Top 30 Singles Chart with his record “A9”.

paragraph: Since 2001–2002 Ariel had moved on musically. He abandoned the hard house and trance of the 1990s for a new, Latin influenced house and techno sound, which he produced and performed through his 7-year weekly residency at London's cutting edge club, Fabric.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Early years (1983–1991).

paragraph: Ariel was born into a nightclub owning family known as Katanga in the city of Rosario, Argentina. Inspired by his older brother, he followed in his steps and before long had taken up his first residency in ‘Dimension’, Rosario, a 2000 capacity nightclub. More residencies followed, including Mengano, Metro, Lager and Damasco. On New Year's Eve, 1985, Ariel ended his residency at the nightclub Dimension with a set performance of 17 hours.

paragraph: Ariel's early musical influences include early new wave music and the disco sounds of Talking Heads, Blondie, Kat Mandu, The Clash, The B-52's, Flash and the Pan, and Gino Soccio, as well as Latin American Rumba.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Early 1990s (1991–1996).

paragraph: After completing secondary education top of his school Ariel attended Rosario University of Economics, studying for 2 years before making the decision to leave for Europe.

paragraph: He arrived in Europe in the spring of 1991, more specifically in Ibiza. In a short amount of time he discovered the newly established rave scene, house music and the Balearic Beat and met the Pacha resident DJ Alfredo, also from Rosario. Soon after Ariel played his first European set at club Pacha in Ibiza, this was followed by guest spots in Lola, Es Paradis, including one gig at the recently launched terrace at Space.

paragraph: As his reputation grew so did the bookings and during 1993, after basing himself in London, he began his residency at Kudos and Crews Bar in the heart of Covent Garden.

paragraph: Regular sets at Tribal Gathering, The Limelight, Club UK and Heaven together with an arduous touring schedule saw Ariel become a pioneer of the international DJ circuit.

paragraph: During these years Ariel was photographed by art designer ‘Trademark’ making him a pin-up on the London scene and adding to his public profile.

paragraph: While playing at Browns Club in London's Covent Garden in 1994, Ariel met late musician Prince. It's not the first time Ariel DJed for Prince, but on this occasion Prince was the only person on his dancefloor. Prince had the habit of giving Ariel CDs of his own music to play. The story became so widespread that was featured on an issue of GQ magazine in the UK.

paragraph: Section::::History.:Mid 1990s and the "Freedom Era" (1996–2001).

paragraph: In 1996 Ariel decided to try something new, a weekly residency in London where he could play all night instead of two-hour regular guest slots. Very soon he was offered a ten-hour-long set in the second room of London's largest venue, Bagley's Studios in Kings Cross (now renamed Canvas) for the weekly Saturday night named "Freedom". Three months later he moved to the main room, where he performed for 8 hours, from 11pm to 7am playing a fusion of hard house, trance and techno rhythmically inspired by his Latin roots. For that period, Freedom was one of the busiest Saturday nightclubs in London.

paragraph: Over the next 5 years (1996–2001) many music magazines and websites started labeling Ariel's 8 hour sets at Bagley's Studios "legendary".

paragraph: Enhancing the above notion was also a phenomenon observed in many music related virtual communities and internet forums such as Harderfaster.net and Dancemuzik.com which consisted of a sequence of numerous nostalgic posts discussing the night

paragraph: and praising it as "London's Biggest Clubbing Landmark" along with reunion messages by fans and lovers of the Freedom club and Ariel's 8 hours sets. This Freedom "reunion-comeback desire" was ignited a few years after the club ceased in 2002. However, as of May 2007, those attempts were unsuccessful.

paragraph: Keeping in mind London's influence on the musical evolution of the electronic dance music scene, many of the period's crossover tracks exposed on Ariel's dance floor became worldwide hits while being played repeatedly over a long period. Records such as DJ Sandy Vs Housetrap “Overdrive”, Latin Thing “Latin Thing” and Groovezone “Eisbaer” were first heard on Ariel's dance floor.

paragraph: He was at the forefront of the trance and hard house scene of the nineties. In Friday, 21 August 1998, The Evening Standard newspaper in London ran a 2-page article citing Ariel's “Techno set at Bagley’s” as the main responsible cause of Class A drug consumption in the King's Cross area of London.

paragraph: In 1997, BBC's Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong described Ariel as the most underrated DJ in the UK. Ariel toured Australia in 2008, playing venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth.

paragraph: Section::::History.:2000s (2001–2010).

paragraph: Ariel has been a resident DJ at London's Fabric since its opening in 1999; furthermore it was the first place he showcased his new Latin tech house sound, playing many of his own productions and performing with live instrumentation provided by percussionists and various musicians. An example of this sound is featured on his recent compilation for DTPM Recordings "Sydney Vs London"

paragraph: Ariel left Fabric on 8 October 2006 after a 7-year long residency (approximately 400 gigs), the longest in his career.

paragraph: Moreover, Ariel exposed his new style in other London's cutting edge clubs, such as Turnmills. His party “Latinaires” took place once a month, along with the weekly event “The Gallery” for 2 years (2002–2004). In 2004, Ariel launched “Manteca” a weekly Latin music club, at Freedom bar in London's Soho, introducing a wide range of traditional Latin sounds and styles to the London crowds, such as Rumba, Salsa, Cumbia, Plena and Brazilian Music along with live percussionists.

paragraph: In May 2000 A9 was featured as Mixmag’s Big Tune of the Month.

paragraph: In 2005 Ariel began a partnership with young producers Alex Celler and X Green to co-produce further music projects, and in March 2007 he officially launched his digital record label MyDust.

paragraph: Late 2009, Ariel released his album, "Camará". Although he has released a number of mixed compilations, "Camará" was Ariel's debut as an [artist].

paragraph: Cuba was the inspiration for Camará. From an early age the country has fascinated Ariel, who shares his home city of Rosario, Argentina with the revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The sensual rhythms of the Afro-Cuban Rumba can be heard, and felt, throughout Camará, the foundations of which were laid when Ariel visited Cuba for the first time.

paragraph: Armed with his mini-disc recorder and microphone, Ariel spent weeks hanging out with, and recording, the musicians and street life around the Vedado and Centro neighbourhoods of Havana. These unique recordings provide much of Camará's atmosphere, and live instrumentation from Ariel's fellow Latin expats Oli Savill Da Lata, Guillermo Hill (Negrocan) and Silver City (20:20 Vision) add a further organic dimension, while studio whiz kids Alex Celler and X Green maintain the electronic essence of Ariel's trademark Latin Tech sound.

paragraph: The album received support from a wide range of producers and Djs alike, including David Guetta and Richie Hawtin among others.

paragraph: From 2010 onwards DJ Ariel continued to be a feature of many successful London club nights, including residencies at Onyx at Area, and the gay club phenomenon that has become Room Service.

paragraph: Further international appearances in this decade have seen Ariel playing Tel-Aviv, Paris, Amsterdam, and Buenos Aires.

paragraph: Section::::History.:2010s (2010–present).

paragraph: In 2011, Ariel was featured in London Magazine "Out Front" as he reflects on the highlights of living in London.

paragraph: The kentishtowner website published an article, written by journalist Tom Kihl, that went viral in 2014. Top 5 Lost London Nightclubs of the 90s featured former clubs such as Bagley's, Velvet Rooms, The Cross, Turnmills, and The End. The article reflected how beloved these venues still are by people all over London, The UK, and abroad. Ariel's 10 hour set at Bagleys is also mentioned in the article.

paragraph: The website guestlist published an article in 2014 that cited Freedom at Bagley's as one of the five clubs you wish you'd experienced in their heyday. Other clubs include The Haçienda in Manchester and Turnmills in London.

paragraph: The website Thump Vice published an article in 2014, written by journalist Adam Bychawski, where he reflected on London's gentrification, and its effects on some of Britain's biggest clubs. Ariel contributed and it's featured in the article.

paragraph: In 2015, the website djhere published an interview with EDM Dj Producer Michael Woods where he cited DJ Ariel's set at Bagley's as the inspiration that first got him into music production, and his subsequent DJ career.

paragraph: In 2016, the Ministry of Sound website published an article titled “Stars of VHS”, evoking DJ Ariel's 8 hour set at Bagley's. In the article you can see live footage of Ariel's set filmed at Bagley's by MTV Europe.

paragraph: Section::::Music.

paragraph: Section::::Music.:Influences.

paragraph: Ariel's distinctive electronic sound, during both the ‘90s and ‘00s, is formed by his knowledge and understanding of World and African rhythms cultivated into his sets. His percussive, Latin based groove is heavily influenced by the dynamics of Rumba Music and the traditional Cuban roots.

paragraph: Moreover Ariel’s 1990s influences include the Balearic Beat, the early 1990s Hard House sound of labels such as Strictly Rhythm, Touché Records, UMM Records and later on Dutch labels Aspro Records and Work Records. His post-millennium sound is directly influenced by labels such as Mosaic, Camouflage, Mango Boy and Ibadan.

paragraph: Throughout his career Ariel was inspired by artists such as George Morel, Todd Terry, DJ HMC, S ‘N’ S, Marmion, Patrick Prins, Silvio Ecomo, Samuel L Sessions and Bear Who.

paragraph: Section::::Music.:The Ariel sound.

paragraph: Well known for closing the gay/straight clubbing divide, Ariel doesn’t just play records; he creates a unique atmosphere with them, bringing together different styles of music by accentuating the African and Latin polyrhythm’s that are the trademark of his sound.

paragraph: From the beginning Ariel always forged his own path as a DJ. He did not follow any mainstream music current and stayed intact with passing trends. Furthermore, he managed to create his own personal sound by choosing the records he played according to his taste, not with regards to the artist’s or label's popularity and success status.

paragraph: However, Ariel’s sound has progressed through the last 3 decades beginning as disco and new wave music throughout the '80s, hard house and trance in the '90s and Latin tech house in the '00s.

paragraph: Ariel DJ sets and track selection are always performed live, guide solely by instinct and consist of various mood changes and techniques aimed to create energy flow and atmosphere on the dance floor.

paragraph: Section::::Music.:Music productions.

paragraph: Ariel’s debut single “Deep”, released in 1997, was a hardhouse/trance record, released on Wonderboy Records and entered the number 1 spot on the UK Official Dance Chart straight after its release. Following the success of “Deep”, Ariel had multiple commissions for remixes. Some of these remixes include some trance classics as Marmion “Schöneberg”, Vincent De Moor “Flowtation” Dj Sandy Vs Housetrap “Overdrive”, Storm “Time to Burn”, Lil Louis Vs Josh Wink “French Kiss” and Darude “Sandstorm” which became the biggest selling 12” of 2000.

paragraph: Meanwhile, Ariel also released a series of more underground records, including “The End EP” and “Icebreaker/Time”.

paragraph: In 2000 Ariel released “A9” which went on to become the first UK Top 30 hit by an Argentine artist.(UK Singles Chart #28)

paragraph: Lately, in March 2007 Ariel started releasing a large number of tracks on his digital label ‘MyDust’. Some of those tracks were made during recent years but were never released.

paragraph: Section::::Club residences.

paragraph: Throughout his career Ariel's has combined his weekly club residencies with international appearances around the world.

paragraph: Section::::Club residences.:Guest spots.

paragraph: His music has taken him to more than 40 different countries over the last 15 years, including the whole of Europe and main spots in North America and Asia, playing some of the greatest venues and music festivals around the world. Ariel was also one of the first international DJs to play the Middle East and Asia, visiting other places such as Israel, Turkey, Australia and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

paragraph: Ariel headlined the first ever Gay Pride in Africa in 1997 in Johannesburg and was also invited to perform at the Summer Stage in New York City's Central Park the same year. Ariel's 2005/6 Latin American tour saw him play in front of thousands on Rio de Janeiro, Ipanema beach, Buenos Aires and Punta del Este in Uruguay.

paragraph: Lastly, Ariel is regularly asked to perform at the private parties of Madonna, Prince, and Bon Jovi among others celebrities.

paragraph: Section::::Honors/Achievements.

paragraph: He was the first Argentine artist to enter the UK Top 30 Singles Chart with his record “A9”.

paragraph: In November 1999, Muzik magazine listed Ariel in their Top 50 best DJs in the world.

paragraph: He was the first international DJ to be broadcast on Cuban radio, following his 2002 'Dia de la Revolucion' street party in Havana.

paragraph: In 2004 and 2005 Ariel was honoured by playing two exclusive sets at the Argentine Embassy in London's Belgravia.

paragraph: During his career, Ariel performed repeatedly for charity events such as HIV Research and London's "Big Issue".

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: An advocate of Orthopathy and raw foodism, Ariel has taken time off from music since 2008 to study natural health, and has written and published a succession of books on the topics of natural health and nutrition.

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.

paragraph: Some selected discography:

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999: "The Sound of Freedom" (Automatic Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Freedom – 4 Ultimate Years Of Clubbing" (Wax Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003: "Nu Latin Live (Red and Blue)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005: "DTPM - Sydney Vs London" (DTPM Recordings)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2006: "Mandarin (MyDust)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009: "Camará" (MyDust)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Singles/EPs.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "Deep"(Pilot Recordings)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Deep" (I'm Falling Deeper)"(A&M Records)(UK Singles Chart #47)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "The End EP" (Pilot Recordings)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999: "Icebreaker/ Time" (Pneumatiq)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "A9" (Automatic Records)(UK Singles Chart #28)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "A9" "("London Records)"

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Ariel Presents: Tools Volume One" (A7 Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Sampler One - Out Here" (A7 Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003: "Central" (Phoenix G)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007: "Se Miro" (MyDust)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010: "Chevere" (MyDust)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011: "D'ese" (MyDust)

paragraph: Section::::Selected discography.:Remixes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1996: "Vincent De Moor - Flowtation" (XL Recordings)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "Kool World - In-Vader" (Kool World Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997: "The Vinyl Frontier - Vibe to the 7" (Sound Design)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1998: "Marmion - Schöneberg" (FFRR)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Josh Wink & Lil' Louis – French Kiss" (FFRR)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Angelic - It's My Turn" (Serious)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "DJ Sandy vs. Housetrap – Overdrive" (Positiva)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Darude – Sandstorm" (Neo Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "Storm - Time to Burn" (Data Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000: "DJ Jean - The Launch" (AM PM Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001: "Warp Brothers - Phatt Bass"" (Nu life)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001: "Nigel Gee - Hootin' Harry" (Neo Records)

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001: "Joshua Ryan – Pistolwhip" (Nu Life)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ariel on YouTube

description: Argentine record producer

wikidata_label: Ariel

wikipedia_title: Ariel (DJ)


text:
visual artist
singer
songwriter
Red Rocks
Bluebird Theater
Fox Theater
The Widow's Bane
The Widow's Bane
The Widow's Bane
The Widow's Bane

wikipedia_title:
Visual arts
Singing
Songwriter
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Bluebird Theater
Fox Theatre (Boulder, Colorado)
The Widow's Bane
The Widow's Bane
The Widow's Bane
The Widow's Bane

categories: Living people,American songwriters,American artists,American folk musicians,21st-century American singers,Musicians from Colorado,People from Franklin, Tennessee,Musicians from Tennessee,21st-century American guitarists,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Clay Rose

paragraph: Clay Rose (born in Lafayette, Colorado) is a visual artist, singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist. Rose attended high school in Tennessee and moved to Colorado at the age of 22.

paragraph: Rose is the front-man for Gasoline Lollipops. Rose and Gasoline Lollipops were featured in the Westword Music Showcase in 2019. Gasoline Lollipops have played many iconic Colorado venues, including Red Rocks, Bluebird Theater, Aggie Theater (Fort Collins, CO), and Fox Theater.

paragraph: Rose also writes and plays under his secret identity, Governor Mortimer Leech, front-man of The Widow's Bane. The Widow's Bane was voted "Best Secret Identity Band (2016)".

paragraph: Section::::Press.

paragraph: The Widow's Bane Rare Appearancebr

paragraph: Gasoline Lollipops: Through a filter of romancebr

paragraph: Celebrating 25 Years of the Westword Music Showcase: Gasoline Lollipops

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Gasoline Lollipops.

paragraph: Dawn (May 2, 2013)br

paragraph: Death (October 31, 2014)br

paragraph: Resurrection (February 14, 2017)br

paragraph: Soul Mine (December 26, 2017)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:The Widow's Bane.

paragraph: The Widow's Bane (2009)br

paragraph: Don't be Afraid; It's Only Death (June 6, 2013)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Clay Rose.

paragraph: Smoke and Steam (July 7, 2005)br

paragraph: Suck on This! EP (March 17, 2006)

wikidata_label: Clay Rose

wikipedia_title: Clay Rose


text:
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
El Greco
Church of Santo Tomé
Toledo

wikipedia_title:
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
El Greco
Iglesia de Santo Tomé, Toledo
Toledo, Spain

categories: Burials in the Province of Toledo,People from Toledo, Spain,Counts of Spain,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo

paragraph: Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo was a Spanish aristocrat who died in 1323. Best known by the title "Count of Orgaz" (see note), he is the subject of "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz", a painting by El Greco which is widely acknowledged as the artist's masterpiece.

paragraph: He was buried in the Church of Santo Tomé, a building in Toledo which he had rebuilt.

paragraph: The painting was commissioned in the 1580s by a priest, Andrés Núñez. Núñez, who had initiated a project to refurbish the Count's burial chapel, is portrayed in the painting, as are other inhabitants of Toledo and the artist himself.

paragraph: Section::::Access to the church.

paragraph: The church is opened on a daily basis. The building is of architectural interest, but the main attraction for tourists is the painting. An entrance fee is charged.

wikidata_label: Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo

wikipedia_title: Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo