text: courtesy name

text: Chinese poet

text: courtesan

text: Tang dynasty

text: Tang poetry

text: Yu Xuanji

text: Li Ye

text: Chang'an

text: Chengdu

text: Wei Gao

text: Chengdu

text: Sichuan

text: Yuan Zhen

text: Wu Yuanheng

text: Daoist

text: Hsueh T'ao

text: Venusian crater

text: "Xue Tao"

text: Encyclopedia of China

text: Translation of poetry by Xue Tao

categories: Tang dynasty poets,9th-century women writers,8th-century writers,831 deaths,8th-century women writers,768 births,8th-century Chinese poets,Chinese women poets,Chinese courtesans,9th-century Chinese poets,9th-century writers,Writers from Xi'an

paragraph: Xue Tao

paragraph: Xue Tao (, c770–832), courtesy name Hongdu (洪度/宏度) was a Chinese poet and courtesan of the Tang dynasty. She was one of the most famous women poets of Tang poetry, along with Yu Xuanji and Li Ye.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Xue Tao was the daughter of a minor government official in Chang'an, which was the Chinese capital during the Tang Dynasty. Her father, Xue Yun (薛郧) was transferred to Chengdu, when she was still little, or possibly before her birth. Her father died while she was young, but it's possible that she had some literary education from him; her adult career also offered her the opportunity to learn from practicing poets.

paragraph: Since the girl's mother did not return to Chang'an, it is possible that they were too poor to do so. Xue was registered with the guild of courtesans and entertainers in Chengdu and in time became well known for her wit and her poetic talent.

paragraph: Her poetry attracted the attention of Wei Gao, the military governor of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan) and she was made his official hostess. In this position she met poets like Yuan Zhen, to whom she was said to have become close; at the very least, this story indicates the charisma of both figures. Certainly, she exchanged poems with Yuan and many other well-known writers of the day, and continued as hostess after Wei's death.

paragraph: When Wu Yuanheng became governor in 807, she presented him with two poems. Wu was so impressed that he asked the Emperor to appoint Xue as an editor (jiaoshu) in his office. This was an unusual request as Xue was both a woman and a government courtesan. Although Xue was never given the position, she became known as the "female editor". Later "editor" became a euphemism for a courtesan.

paragraph: In later years, Xue was able to live independently in a site outside the city associated with the great poet of an earlier generation, Du Fu. Some sources record that she supported herself as a maker of artisanal paper used for writing poems. A contemporary wrote that she took on the garments of a Daoist adept, signaling a relatively autonomous status within Tang society.

paragraph: Hsueh T'ao, a Venusian crater is named after her.

paragraph: Section::::Poems.

paragraph: Some 450 poems by Xue were gathered in "The Brocade River Collection" that survived until the 14th century. About 100 of her poems are known nowadays, which is more than of any other Tang dynasty woman. They range widely in tone and topic, giving evidence of a lively intelligence and more than passing acquaintance with the great tradition of earlier Chinese poetry.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Larsen, Jeanne (1983). The Chinese Poet Xue Tao: The Life and Works of a Mid-Tang Woman. (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Larsen, Jeanne, translator (1987). Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao. Princeton University Press. (with introduction and notes)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Larsen, Jeanne, translator (2005). Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China. BOA Editions, Ltd. (contains translations of seven more poems by Xue, with notes)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ma, Maoyuan, "Xue Tao". "Encyclopedia of China" (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Xue Tao" from Other Women's voices, Translations of women's writing before 1700, last accessed June 4, 2007

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Translation of poetry by Xue Tao

alias:
Xue Tao
Nvxiaoshu
Hongdu

description: Tang Dynasty poet

wikidata_label: Xue Tao

wikipedia_title: Xue Tao


text:
Mughal
Muhammad Azam Shah
Mughal emperor
Aurangzeb
Battle of Jajau
Agra
Emperor
Dara Shikoh
Shah Jahan
Muslims
Raja
Amber
Jaipur
Jats
Rajaram
Surat
Miraj
Panhala
Dhanaji Jadhav
Marathas
Ahmednagar
Viceroy
Malwa
Aurangabad
Khandesh
Agra
Kolis
Maratha
Jai Singh II
Amber
Rajput
Bharatpur
Jats
Gujarat
Dhar
Burhanpur
Badnagar
Kashmir
Ratanpur
Surat
Battle of Jajau

categories: 1670 births,Mughal nobility,1707 deaths,People killed in action,People from Agra,Timurid dynasty,Mughal princes

paragraph: Bidar Bakht

paragraph: Muhammad Bidar Bakht (; 4 August 1670 – 8 June 1707) was a Mughal prince and the eldest son of Muhammad Azam Shah, who briefly became Mughal emperor in 1707. He was noted for being a gallant, skilful and successful general and was regarded as the most able Mughal prince of his time. He was the favourite grandson of Emperor Aurangzeb.

paragraph: From the age of 17, Bidar held senior military and administrative positions. One of his first actions involved storming Fort Sinsani, which was carried after fierce fighting and heavy losses. Aged 19, he led a Mughal force which defeated an invading Maratha army and pursued it for ten days. He was appointed viceroy of Aurangabad and then of Malwa alongside it. He constantly had to suppress uprisings and beat off incursions from neighbouring states. In 1707 Emperor Aurangzeb died and Bidar's father succeeded him; Bidar and his father were killed at the Battle of Jajau against Bidar's uncle.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Muhammad Bidar Bakht was born on 4 August 1670 in Agra to Prince Muhammad Azam and his wife, Jahanzeb "Jani" Banu Begum. He was named Bidar Bakht by Emperor Aurangzeb, his paternal grandfather. Bidar's mother was a Mughal princess and the daughter of Crown Prince Dara Shikoh, the deceased eldest son and heir-apparent of the previous emperor, Shah Jahan. Aurangzeb showed marks of exceptional love to Azam and Jahanzeb and to Prince Bidar Bakht, lavishing gifts on all three. Bidar Bakht was his grandfather's favourite grandson.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.:Marriage.

paragraph: At the age of sixteen, Bidar Bakht married Shams-un-Nisa (surnamed Puti Begum), the daughter of Qamr-ud-din (titled Mukhtar Khan) on 3December 1686. She belonged to the Ben-i-Mukhtar family which enjoyed great respect among Muslims. Bidar had always showed affection and favour to Shams-un-Nisa, who seems to have been proud and imperious. Shams-un-Nisa gave birth to Bidar's son, Shahzada Firuz Bakht on 23August 1695.

paragraph: Section::::Military commander.

paragraph: In 1688, the Emperor sent the 17-year-old Prince Bidar Bakht to assume supreme command in the Jat War. Bishan Singh Kachhawa, the new Raja of Amber (Jaipur), was appointed as commandant of Muttra with a special charge to root out the "Jats". Bidar Bakht infused vigour into the Mughal operations. Bidar Bakht managed to conquer many forts including Tarkand, Navalkhand, Khelna, as well as Sinsani. The Prince laid siege to Fort Sinsani where his troops underwent hardships from the scarcity of provisions and water. They fired a mine, stormed the breach and captured the fort after three hours of obstinate fighting, losing 900 men to 1,500 Jat casualties. The Jat leaders went into hiding and the district enjoyed peace for some years.

paragraph: Section::::Military commander.:Defeat of Rajaram.

paragraph: In 1699 the Emperor sent urgent orders to Bidar Bakht to pursue and defeat the hostile force of Chhatrapati Rajaram at Surat, in the imperial territory. Bidar Bakht was west of Miraj, on his way to Panhala; he immediately turned aside and leaving his family and baggage in Miraj, rapidly advanced on the enemy. Bidar Bakht came upon the Marathas beyond the fort of Parenda. Rajaram stopped in safety further east, while he sent back his generals under Dhanaji Jadhav to check the Prince's advance. After a bloody fight the Marathas were broken and driven towards Ahmednagar on 13 or 14 November. Two days later, the Prince was joined by Chin Qalich Khan at Barsi, east of Parenda, and resuming the pursuit of Ausa on 22 or 23 November.

paragraph: Section::::Viceroyalty.

paragraph: Section::::Viceroyalty.:Malwa: 1704–1706.

paragraph: Bidar was appointed Viceroy of Malwa on 3August 1704 by Aurangzeb. The Prince had proved himself a brave and skilful general. He was already the viceroy of Aurangabad and kept that position with his new appointment. He had to shift from Malwa to Khandesh or vice versa as the situation demanded, regarding the tribute which reached Agra from the northern provinces and had to put down the local uprisings of the Bhils and Kolis. These risings were caused by the Maratha invasion of the previous year. The Bhils also caused disturbances on the north-western frontier, building the fort Gagron. After the danger of another invasion by Nima had disappeared, the Prince went to Malwa to escort the tribute. There he fell ill during December 1703 and January 1705. He appointed Jai Singh II of Amber, his trusted assistant, to escort the tribute and to act as his deputy in Malwa. The Emperor objected to this appointment, ordering the Prince to recall Jai Singh. He appointed Khan Alam instead and ordered that no Rajput was to be appointed as a provincial governor or garrison commander. Bidar Bakht was ordered to go to Sansani, a fort near Bharatpur, which had recently been taken by the "Jats" and to recapture it. The Prince intend to comply but due to his illness and other engagements in Malwa, did not. During the 1705 rainy season, the Prince stayed in Malwa. During the closing months of 1705, his responsibilities were lightened. The provinces of Aurangabad and Khandesh were taken from his charge and entrusted to his father, Prince Azam, who was now on his way back from Gujarat.

paragraph: Bidar Bakht continued on active service against the Marathas. He travelled to Malwa in November 1705 to investigate complaints against some of the assistants of Jai Singh. Bidar then went to Dhar to meet his father, angering the Emperor for not having returned to Burhanpur to hunt for the Marathas. The Prince had to move down to Nolai (Badnagar) to meet the Maratha forces sent by Parsu Maratha, to help Gopal Singh Chandrawat once again in his revolt. The province of Gujarat was invaded by the Marathas and the Emperor summarily ordered Bidar Bakht to start for Gujarat immediately. The Prince left Malwa in April 1706.

paragraph: Section::::Viceroyalty.:Gujarat: 1706–1707.

paragraph: On arrival in Gujarat Bidar was put in charge of the province, replacing his father, pending the arrival of the new governor, Ibrahim Khan from Kashmir, who died on the way. Malwa and Khandesh were placed under Khan-i-Alam and Najabat Khan respectively. In 1706 a Maratha incursion into Gujarat was followed by a crushing defeat of the Mughal army at Ratanpur, which encouraged all of the enemies of the empire. Ajit Singh raised an army in rebellion for the third time. Durgadas again fled the Mughal camp and began to act in concert with him, causing uprisings in Therad and other places. Bidar sent a force against Durgadas who fled to the broken Koli country, south of Surat.

paragraph: Section::::Death of Aurangzeb : 1707.

paragraph: On the 3rd of March 1707 emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir passed away at his military camp in Ahmadnagar. Prince Bidar Bakht was informed about the death of the emperor by his father Azam Shah who was proclaimed as the new Mughal emperor. On hearing the news of his grandfathers demise Bidar Bakht was overwhelmed with grief. It was reported that the death of the late emperor dwelt long upon the mind of the prince who would frequently weep recollecting the late emperor whom he dearly loved.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Bidar Bakht was killed on 8June 1707, during the Battle of Jajau, part of the succession struggle on the death of Emperor Aurangzeb. His father, who had become emperor on the death of Aurangzeb on 17March, was also killed during the battle.

description: Eldest son of Muhammad Azam Shah and Jahanzeb Begum

wikidata_label: Bidar Bakht

wikipedia_title: Bidar Bakht


text:
Slovenian
ice hockey
Manchester Monarchs
ECHL
Anže Kopitar
Los Angeles Kings
National Hockey League
Jesenice
Matjaž
HK Acroni Jesenice
Mora IK
Ontario Reign
ECHL
2014–15
Los Angeles Kings
Manchester Monarchs
2017–18
2018–19
Olympic Qualifying Tournament

categories: Des Moines Buccaneers players,Ontario Reign (ECHL) players,Living people,Manchester Monarchs (ECHL) players,Portland Winterhawks players,Mora IK players,1992 births,Sportspeople from Jesenice, Jesenice,Ethnic Slovene people,Slovenian ice hockey players

paragraph: Gašper Kopitar

paragraph: Gašper Kopitar (born 13 August 1992), is a Slovenian former professional ice hockey player who last played with the Manchester Monarchs of the ECHL. He is the younger brother of Anže Kopitar, who currently plays for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Kopitar was born in Jesenice, to Matjaž and Mateja Kopitar. In his youth, Kopitar played for the youth team of his hometown, HK Acroni Jesenice. In 2008, he moved to USA and played the rest of his junior years there. On 25 April 2012, he began his senior career, when he signed a contract in Europe with Swedish club Mora IK of the HockeyAllsvenskan. In December 2013 he contracted with the Ontario Reign of the ECHL. Kopitar scored his first goal with the Reign on 5 January 2014 against the San Francisco Bulls, winning the game 3-2 in overtime.

paragraph: On 1 October 2014, Kopitar agreed to return to the Reign in signing a standard player contract for the 2014–15 season.

paragraph: On 28 July 2015, Kopitar remained within the Los Angeles Kings ECHL affiliation, signing a one-year contract with the Manchester Monarchs.

paragraph: Kopitar remained within the Kings ECHL affiliates through parts of six seasons. Suffering from prolonged injury, which ruled him out of the entire 2017–18 season, Kopitar returned to play in 7 games in the following 2018–19 season before opting to end his professional career and announce his immediate retirement on December 5, 2018.

paragraph: Section::::International play.

paragraph: He played his first senior tournament for his country in 2013, when he participated in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which Slovenia won.

description: Slovenian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Gašper Kopitar

wikipedia_title: Gašper Kopitar


text:
Dutch Golden Age
Haarlem
Jan van der Meer I
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Willem Kalf
Jan Vermeer van Haarlem
Barend van der Meer
Artnet

categories: 1659 births,Members of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke,1700 deaths,Artists from Haarlem,Dutch male painters,Dutch Golden Age painters

paragraph: Barend van der Meer

paragraph: Barend van der Meer (1659–1700) was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.

paragraph: Van der Meer was born and died in Haarlem. According to the RKD he was taught by his father Jan van der Meer I and became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1681. In 1683 he married and moved to Amsterdam. He was a follower of Willem Kalf and is known for still-life paintings and vanitas pieces. He was the brother of the landscape painter Jan Vermeer van Haarlem.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Barend van der Meer on Artnet

alias:
Barend Van Der Meer
Barend Vermeer
Barend Vermeer Meer
Barent van der Meer
Barent Vermeer
Vandermeer
B. Vermeer
Van der Meer
B. Vandermeer
Vandermeere
barend vermeer
Vanderneer
Voermeer

description: Dutch painter

wikidata_label: Barend van der Meer

wikipedia_title: Barend van der Meer


text:
lady-in-waiting
Henry VIII of England
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Catherine Howard
Sir John Paston
Sir Henry Heydon
Thomas Manners, 12th Baron de Ros
Duchess of Suffolk
Anne Boleyn
Marquessate of Pembroke
Henry VIII
Francis I of France
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Catherine Howard
St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford
Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland
Gertrude Manners
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
Rocksavage
Frances Manners
Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Thomas Vavasour, 1st Baronet
Sir John Manners
Haddon Hall
Dorothy Vernon
Sheriff of Essex

categories: Women of the Tudor period,Manners family,1490s births,1551 deaths,English ladies-in-waiting,English countesses

paragraph: Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland

paragraph: Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland (née Paston; c. 1495 – 1551), was lady-in-waiting to four wives of King Henry VIII of England: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.

paragraph: The daughter of Sir William Paston (son of Sir John Paston) and Bridget Heydon (daughter of Sir Henry Heydon), she married Thomas Manners, 12th Baron de Ros, by 1523, and became known as Countess of Rutland when he was elevated to the earldom few years later. The first of the couple's eleven or more children, a daughter named Anne, was born the same year or soon thereafter. Lady Rutland's continuous pregnancies did not hinder her career at court and she continued bearing children until 1539, the last child, a daughter named Katherine, being born weeks after the wedding of another daughter, Gertrude. Katherine was named in honour of the Duchess of Suffolk, whom Lady Rutland admired.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage.:Life at court.

paragraph: Lady Rutland's earliest recorded appearance at court was at the investiture of Anne Boleyn with the Marquessate of Pembroke in 1532. The next month, Lady Rutland and her husband accompanied Henry VIII and Anne to Calais, where the latter was to be introduced to King Francis I of France. Despite their support for Henry's reform, Lord and Lady Rutland remained conservative Catholics. It is likely that she became Anne Boleyn's lady-in-waiting after she married Henry, a position she held under the next three queens - Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. She was a senior lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves, the King's fourth wife, and knew that the marriage was unconsummated. In February 1540, Anne praised the King as a kind husband, saying to Lady Rutland: "When he comes to bed he kisseth me, and he taketh me by the hand, and biddeth me 'Good night, sweetheart'; and in the morning kisseth me and biddeth 'Farewell, darling'." Lady Rutland responded: "Madam, there must be more than this, or it will be long ere we have a duke of York, which all this realm most desireth."

paragraph: Section::::Widowhood.

paragraph: Lady Rutland remained in close contact with her father after her marriage. He comforted her in 1543 when Lord Rutland died and helped her probate and perform his will. Upon her death in 1550, Lady Rutland was buried in St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford.

paragraph: Section::::Issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anne Manners, wife of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gertrude Manners, wife of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roger Manners, unmarried

paragraph: BULLET::::- Elizabeth Manners (c. 1530 – 8 August 1570) married Sir John Savage of Rocksavage

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oliver Manners

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frances Manners, married Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny; grandmother of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir Thomas Manners, grandfather of Thomas Vavasour, 1st Baronet

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sir John Manners of Haddon Hall (c. 1534 – June 4, 1611), husband of Dorothy Vernon

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isabel Manners, died young

paragraph: BULLET::::- Katherine Manners, married Sir Henry Capell, Sheriff of Essex

wikidata_label: Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland

wikipedia_title: Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland


text:
Haarlem
Haarlem
Dutch Golden Age
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Simon de Vlieger
Jan van Goyen
Pieter Mulier II
Frans de Hulst
Pieter Mulier
Artnet

categories: Artists from Haarlem,Dutch male painters,1610 births,Dutch marine artists,1659 deaths,Dutch Golden Age painters

paragraph: Pieter Mulier the Elder

paragraph: Pieter Mulier I (ca.1610, Haarlem – 1659, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: According to the RKD he married in 1635, and became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1638. He is known for Italianate landscapes and seascapes in the manner of Simon de Vlieger and Jan van Goyen. He was the teacher of his son Pieter Mulier II and Frans de Hulst.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pieter Mulier on Artnet

alias:
Pieter (I) Mulier
Pieter Mulier the elder
Pieter, I Molier
Pieter I Molier
Pieter, the elder Mulier
Pieter I Mulier

description: Dutch painter

wikidata_label: Pieter Mulier the Elder

wikipedia_title: Pieter Mulier the Elder


text:
Dutch Golden Age
Haarlem
Pieter Mulier I
Carlo Antonio Tavella
Pietro Cignaroli
Thomas Wijck
Arnold Houbraken
Pieter de Molijn
Rome
Bentvueghels
Isaac de Moucheron
Frans Snyders
Genoa
the French bombarded the city
Parma
painting from Genua period
Christie's
Marcel Roethlisberger
Pieter Mulier
Artnet

categories: Dutch Golden Age painters,Dutch male painters,1701 deaths,Artists from Haarlem,1637 births

paragraph: Pieter Mulier II

paragraph: Cavalier Pietro Tempesta, or Pieter Mulier II (1637 – 29 June 1701) was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Muller was born in Haarlem. He learned to paint from his father, Pieter Mulier I and travelled to Italy, working in Rome (1656–1670), Genoa (1670–1684) and northern Italy until he died in Milan. Among his pupils were Carlo Antonio Tavella and Pietro Cignaroli (active 1716 in Milan). He is known for Italianate landscapes in the manner of Thomas Wijck.

paragraph: Section::::Italy.

paragraph: According to Arnold Houbraken, "Tempeest" was the son of Pieter de Molijn, not Pieter Mulier. He could paint quite well, but he emigrated to Rome at a young age and became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Tempeest". He was thought to be a man of 50 by Isaac de Moucheron when he was in Rome ("Bent" name "Ordenantie") in 1697. He specialized in "wilde zwynenjagten", or hunting scenes, in the manner of Frans Snyders. In Genoa he was imprisoned for 16 years for killing his wife. He was visited in prison by Jan Visser, a painter from the Bentvueghels known as "Slempop". When the French bombarded the city in 1684, he was set free and fled to Parma, where he lived to old age, painting with "two eyeglasses, one in front of the other".

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- painting from Genua period on Christie's website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marcel Roethlisberger, Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and his Time. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1970

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pieter Mulier on Artnet

alias: Pietro (Pieter Mulier the younger) Tempesta

alias: Mulier Pieter d.J. gen. il cavaliere Tempesta

alias: genannt der Ritter Tempesta Mulier Peter

alias: genannt IL CAVALIERE TEMPESTA PIETER MULIER D. J.

alias: genannt der Ritter Tempesta Peter Mulier

alias: Pieter Mulier Der J. gen. Il Cavaliere Tempesta

wikidata_label: Pieter Mulier

wikipedia_title: Pieter Mulier II


text:
Czech
ice hockey
goaltender
HC Olomouc
Czech Extraliga
HC Kometa Brno
HC Havířov
HC Vítkovice
HC Slezan Opava
Lada Togliatti
HC Znojemští Orli

categories: People from Havířov,Orli Znojmo players,HC Kometa Brno players,HC Vítkovice players,Czech ice hockey players,Living people,1974 births

paragraph: Jiří Trvaj

paragraph: Jiří Trvaj (born 13 April 1974) is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays with HC Olomouc in the Czech Extraliga.

paragraph: Trvaj previously played for HC Kometa Brno, HC Havířov, HC Vítkovice, HC Slezan Opava, Lada Togliatti and HC Znojemští Orli.

description: Czech ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Jiří Trvaj

wikipedia_title: Jiří Trvaj


text: Wilmington

text: New Castle County, Delaware

text: Blackbird Hundred

text: Marshallton

text: corporal punishment

text: Charles R. Miller

text: Delaware's Members of Congress

text: Find a Grave

text: The Political Graveyard

text: Delaware Historical Society

text: website

text: University of Delaware

text: Library website

text: Newark Free Library

categories: Delaware lawyers,Burials in Kent County, Delaware,People from Wilmington, Delaware,Washington and Lee University School of Law alumni,Members of the United States House of Representatives from Delaware,Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives,1942 deaths,American Methodists,Delaware Democrats,1865 births

paragraph: Franklin Brockson

paragraph: Franklin Brockson, (August 6, 1865 – March 16, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware.

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

paragraph: Brockson was born in Blackbird Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He graduated from the Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover in 1890.

paragraph: Section::::Professional and political career.

paragraph: Brockson began his career as a teacher and principal in the public schools at Port Penn and Marshallton, Delaware. He studied the law and graduated from the law department of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1896, when he was admitted to the Bar, and commenced practice in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1908 Brockson was elected to the State House for the 1909/10 session.

paragraph: Brockson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1912. During this term, he served in the Democratic majority in the 63rd Congress. He was a supporter during that time of corporal punishment. Seeking reelection in 1914, he lost to Republican Thomas W. Miller, a lawyer from Wilmington, and son of the incumbent Governor Charles R. Miller. Brockson served from March 4, 1913 until March 3, 1915, during the administration of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. He then resumed the practice of law in Clayton and Wilmington.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Brockson died at Clayton on March 16, 1942 and is buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Smyrna, Delaware.

paragraph: Section::::Almanac.

paragraph: Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. Members of the General Assembly take office the second Tuesday of January. State Representatives have a two-year term. U.S. Representatives took office March 4 and also have a two-year term.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Specific

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delaware's Members of Congress

paragraph: BULLET::::- Find a Grave

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Political Graveyard

paragraph: Section::::Places with more information.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965

paragraph: BULLET::::- Newark Free Library; 750 Library Ave., Newark, Delaware; (302) 731-7550

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Franklin Brockson

wikipedia_title: Franklin Brockson


text:
Turkish
architect
Ankara
Turkey
École Spéciale d'Architecture
Paris
Istanbul
Bodrum
New Jersey
New York City
Washington, D.C.
Virginia
Connecticut
Libya
Beirut
Riyadh
Kiev
Istanbul
New York City
Bodrum
Dubai
American Institute of Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects

categories: 1960 births,Selçuk University,People from Ankara,Turkish architects

paragraph: Gökhan Avcıoğlu

paragraph: Celal Gökhan Avcıoğlu is a Turkish architect. He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1960.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Celal Gökhan Avcıoğlu was born in Ankara, Turkey, and completed his education in KSU/BA with a degree in Architecture in 1983. He is the principal and founder of GAD in Istanbul, established in 1994. At GAD (Global Architectural Development), Avcıoğlu has completed a number of different projects of varying function and size.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Avcıoğlu is the founder and has been the principal of Global Architectural Development (GAD) since 1994. Avcıoğlu taught at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. His projects include residences, office and hotel buildings, cultural, public and commercial spaces in Istanbul, Bodrum, New Jersey, New York City, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Connecticut, Libya, Beirut, Riyadh, and Kiev. He has offices in Istanbul, New York City, Bodrum and Dubai.ft.

paragraph: Avcıoğlu is a member American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York Chapter, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Chamber of Architects Turkey (TMMOB).ft.

paragraph: Section::::Notable projects.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Esma Sultan (2000)

paragraph: BULLET::::- KUUM Hotel and Residences (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beşiktaş Fish Market (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Borusan Music and Art House (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- One & Ortaköy (2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rixos Eskişehir Spa and Thermal Hotel (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Serra Gate (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trump Cadde (2014)

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 Turkish Architecture Prize for the design of the Kadikoy Public Park Facilities project in Istanbulft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001 Çimsa Design Prize for outdoor seatingft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003 Bronze Medal for the Borusan Exhibition Center, Miami Biennaleft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2010 European Commercial property awards, AUTOPIA, the architecture award mixed-useft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 World’s Best International Highrise Architecture for NLF Residences, International Property Awardsft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 Best Alternative Investments for the Borusan Music and Art House, ArkiPARCft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 International Architecture Award for the Borusan Music and Art House, Chicago Athenaeum and Europe Architecture Centreft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 International Architecture Award for Besiktas Fishmarket, The Chicago Athenaeumft.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 Green Good Design Awards for One & Ortakoy, The European Centre for Architecture & The Chicago Athenaeum

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 Urban Regeneration and Master Planning Award for GDKP, MIPIM AR Future Project Awards

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 International Property awards Best Architecture Multiple Residence with Relux Suit Office TPST

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 International Property awards Best Architecture Multiple Residence and Mixed-Use Architecture for Russia

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 Green GOOD DESIGN Award with Eskisehir Spa&Thermal Hotel project

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 International Hotel Award, Best International Hotel Award with Maldives GA(D)AKOSHIBE

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 MIPIM Future Projects Awards winner for AUTOPIA

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 Archmarathon Crowd Award with Besiktas Fish Market

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 German Iconic Awards with Trump Cadde

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2014 European Property Awards with Trump Cadde, International Property Awards

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015 Green Good Design with Trump Cadde

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015 Green Good Design with MRTR Istanbul

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015 Green Good Design with Divan Kurucesme

description: Turkish architect

wikidata_label: Gökhan Avcıoğlu

wikipedia_title: Gökhan Avcıoğlu


text: FRS

text: FRCP

text: FMedSci

text: pharmacologist

text: University of Manchester

text: UCL Wolfson Institute

text: University College London

text: nitric oxide

text: Lasker Award

text: Nobel Prize in medicine

text: Tegucigalpa

text: Honduras

text: El Salvador

text: Universidad de El Salvador

text: Royal College of Surgeons

text: Wellcome Research Laboratories

text: Beckenham

text: University College London

text: prostaglandin

text: analgesic

text: antipyretic

text: thromboxane synthase

text: vasodilator

text: prostacyclin

text: myocardial infarction

text: lamotrigine

text: atovaquone

text: malaria

text: zomig

text: lapatinib

text: nitric oxide

text: peripheral

text: central nervous system

text: Panamerican Health Organization

text: National Academy of Sciences

text: Royal College of Physicians

text: University College

text: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

text: University Pierre & Marie Curie

text: University of Edinburgh

text: British Pharmacological Society

text: Prince of Asturias Award

text: American Heart Association

text: Royal Medal

text: Royal Society

text: Gregory Pincus

text: Physiological Society

text: Royal Society of Medicine

text: Le Grand Prix Annuel Lefoulon-Delalande

text: Institut de France

text: Croonian Lecture

text: Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine

text: University of Debrecen

text: Johns Hopkins University

text: Knight Bachelor

text: Ernst Jung Prize

text: biochemistry

text: Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium

text: Leopold III of the Belgians

text: Albert II of the Belgians

categories: Honduran emigrants to El Salvador,British pharmacologists,People from Tegucigalpa,1944 births,Fellows of the Royal Society,Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences,Knights Bachelor,Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians,Salvadoran people of Honduran descent,Living people

paragraph: Salvador Moncada

paragraph: Sir Salvador Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci (born 3 December 1944) is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester.

paragraph: In the past, he was the Research Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratories from 1986 to 1995 and, until recently, the Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute, which he established at University College London in 1996. His research interests include inflammation and vascular biology and he is currently working on the regulation of cell proliferation. He gained notoriety for his discoveries related to nitric oxide function and metabolism, and his exclusion from the 1996 Lasker Award and the 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Moncada was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to Salvador Moncada and Jenny Seidner on 3 December 1944, but moved to El Salvador in 1948. He studied medicine at the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de El Salvador from 1962 to 1970. In 1971 he went to London to work on a PhD with John Vane in the Department of Pharmacology in the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons. After a short period of research in the University of Honduras he moved to the Wellcome Research Laboratories (Beckenham, Kent), where he became Director of Research in 1986. In 1996 he moved to University College London, where he set up the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research in the Cruciform Building, which he directed until 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Research.

paragraph: His scientific career began at the Royal College of Surgeons where he collaborated in the discovery that aspirin-like drugs inhibit prostaglandin biosynthesis. This finding elucidated the mechanism by which these drugs act as analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory agents and also explained the mechanism by which they cause gastric damage. In 1975, at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, he led the team that discovered the enzyme thromboxane synthase and the vasodilator prostacyclin. This work contributed to the understanding of how low doses of aspirin prevent cardiovascular episodes such as myocardial infarction and stroke. As Director of Research at the Wellcome Research Laboratories he presided over the discovery and development of lamotrigine (an anti-epileptic compound), atovaquone (an anti-malarial) and zomig (for treatment of migraine headaches), and initiated the work that resulted in the development of lapatinib for the treatment of breast cancer. He was also responsible for the identification of nitric oxide as a biological mediator and the elucidation of the metabolic pathway leading to its synthesis. A great deal of the early work on the biological significance of nitric oxide in the cardiovascular system came from his laboratory, as well as some fundamental information about the role of nitric oxide in the peripheral and central nervous systems and in cancer. His later work has focused on the areas of mitochondrial biology and cell metabolism. Most recently, his work has led to the finding of the molecular mechanism that coordinates cell proliferation with the provision of metabolic substrates required for this process.

paragraph: Section::::Research.:Publications.

paragraph: Moncada is the author of more than 500 peer-reviewed papers and highly cited reviews, including

paragraph: Section::::Research.:Other interests.

paragraph: Moncada is interested in medical education and in the development of science and technology in Latin America. He has been a consultant of the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO, the regional office of the WHO) and in recent years he founded Honduras Global – an international network of experts involved in supporting the development of Honduras.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honours.

paragraph: Moncada is an elected member of a number of international scientific societies. Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1994); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (1994), and Honorary Fellow of University College, London (1999). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1988.

paragraph: He has received honorary degrees from more than twenty universities, including Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City (1995); Degree of Doctor "Honoris Causa" of the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France (1997) and Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2000).

paragraph: His prizes and distinguished lectures include: The VIII Gaddum Memorial Lecture, British Pharmacological Society (1980); The Prince of Asturias Award (1990); The Ulf von Euler Memorial Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1991); The Paul Dudley White Lecture, American Heart Association, Anaheim, California, USA (1991); The Royal Medal of the Royal Society, UK (1994); The Gregory Pincus Memorial Lecture, the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts, USA (1996); The Louis and Artur Lucian Award (jointly with Prof. R. Furchgott), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1997); The Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture to the Physiological Society, UK (2000); The Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK (2000); Le Grand Prix Annuel Lefoulon-Delalande, from the Institut de France, Paris (2002); the Croonian Lecture at the Royal Society, London, UK (2005), the Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine from the University of Debrecen, Hungary (2011) and The Dohme Lecture, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (2010).

paragraph: In January 2010 he was created a Knight Bachelor for Services to Science. In 2013 he was awarded the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine (Ernst Jung Prize).

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: He was married to Dorys Lemus, a biochemistry teacher at the Medical School in El Salvador. The marriage resulted in two children, Claudia Regina (born 1966 – a G.P. who lives in London) and Salvador Ernesto, (1972–1982). On 5 April 1998, in London, he married Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, daughter of King Leopold III of the Belgians and younger half-sister of King Albert II of the Belgians. They have two children, Alexandra Leopoldine (born in London on 4 August 1998) and Leopoldo Daniel (born in London on 21 May 2001), and two grandchildren currently.

description: British pharmacologist

wikidata_label: Salvador Moncadaf

wikipedia_title: Salvador Moncada


text: Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

text: Syracuse

text: Constantinople

text: feast day

text: East

text: West

text: Bithynia

text: abbot

text: Leo V the Armenian

text: Iconoclast persecution

text: Rome

text: Patriarch Niκephorοs

text: iconodule

text: Iconoclast

text: Michael II

text: Theophilos

text: Theoktistos

text: Theodora

text: regent

text: Michael III

text: icon

text: condemned

text: John VII Grammatikos

text: church of Blachernae

text: Hagia Sophia

text: Great Lent

text: Triumph of Orthodoxy

text: Stoudios

text: Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

text: Methodius I

text: Catholic Encyclopedia

text: Icon

text: Synaxarion

categories: 9th-century patriarchs of Constantinople,Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople,People from Syracuse, Sicily,9th-century Christian saints,Byzantine saints,Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church,Sicilian saints,847 deaths,Byzantine Iconoclasm

paragraph: Methodios I of Constantinople

paragraph: St. Methodios I or Methodius I (), (788/800 – June 14, 847) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from March 4, 843 to June 14, 847. He was born in Syracuse and died in Constantinople. His feast day is celebrated on June 14 in both the East and the West.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Born to wealthy parents, Methodios was sent as a young man to Constantinople to continue his education and hopefully attain an appointment at court. But instead he entered a monastery in Bithynia, eventually becoming abbot.

paragraph: Under Emperor Leo V the Armenian (813–820) the Iconoclast persecution broke out for the second time. In 815 Methodios went to Rome, perhaps as an envoy of the deposed Patriarch Niκephorοs. Upon his return in 821 he was arrested and exiled as an iconodule by the Iconoclast regime of Emperor Michael II. Methodios was released in 829 and assumed a position of importance at the court of the even more fervently iconoclast Emperor Theophilos.

paragraph: Soon after the death of the emperor, in 843, the influential minister Theoktistos convinced the Empress Mother Theodora, as regent for her two-year-old son Michael III, to permit the restoration of icons by arranging that her dead husband would not be condemned. He then deposed the iconoclast Patriarch John VII Grammatikos and secured the appointment of Methodios as his successor, bringing about the end of the iconoclast controversy. A week after his appointment, accompanied by Theodora, Michael, and Theoktistos, Methodios made a triumphal procession from the church of Blachernae to Hagia Sophia on March 11, 843, restoring the icons to the church. This heralded the restoration of Catholic orthodoxy, and became a holiday in the Byzantine Church, celebrated every year on the First Sunday of Great Lent, and known as the "Triumph of Orthodoxy".

paragraph: Throughout his short patriarchate, Methodios tried to pursue a moderate line of accommodation with members of the clergy who were formerly Iconoclasts. This policy was opposed by extremists, primarily the monks of the Stoudios monastery, who demanded that the former Iconoclasts be punished severely as heretics. To rein in the extremists, Methodios was forced to excommunicate and arrest some of the more persevering monks.

paragraph: Methodios was indeed well-educated; engaged in both copying and writing of manuscripts. His individual works included polemica, hagiographical and liturgical works, sermons and poetry.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium", Oxford University Press, 1991.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Methodius I article in the "Catholic Encyclopedia" (1910)

paragraph: BULLET::::- St Methodius the Patriarch of Constantinople Orthodox Icon and Synaxarion

description: Patriarch of Constantinople

wikidata_label: Methodios I of Constantinople

wikipedia_title: Methodios I of Constantinople


text: Chu Chin Chow

text: F R Benson Company

text: Lily Brayton

text: Arthur Wing Pinero

text: West End

text: Broadway

text: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

text: Adelphi Theatre

text: His Majesty's Theatre

text: Edward Knoblock

text: The Maid of the Mountains

text: J C Williamson

text: Geelong

text: Victoria

text: Christiania University

text: Melbourne

text: Sydney

text: Dandenong

text: Melbourne Grammar School

text: jackaroo

text: Bergen

text: Henrik Ibsen

text: Henry Irving

text: Ellen Terry

text: Henry VIII

text: Shakespeare

text: Opera Comique

text: F. R. Benson Company

text: Stratford

text: As You Like It

text: The Taming of the Shrew

text: a financial crisis

text: Thames Embankment

text: cricket

text: Lily Brayton

text: Lyceum Theatre

text: Garrick Theatre

text: Arthur Wing Pinero

text: The Times

text: The Observer

text: Broadway

text: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

text: Much Ado About Nothing

text: Richard II

text: The Taming of the Shrew

text: A Midsummer Night's Dream

text: Measure for Measure

text: manager

text: Adelphi Theatre

text: Measure for Measure

text: F. Norreys Connell

text: Rudolf Besier

text: J. Comyns Carr

text: Adelphi Theatre

text: Matheson Lang

text: His Majesty's Theatre

text: Laurence Binyon

text: As You Like It

text: Othello

text: Edward Knoblock

text: Kismet

text: Antony and Cleopatra

text: H. Rider Haggard

text: Chu Chin Chow

text: Frederic Norton

text: Charley's Aunt

text: Dornford Yates

text: Eastward Ho

text: The Maid of the Mountains

text: Robert Evett

text: George Edwardes

text: coursing

text: Gloucestershire

text: J. C. Williamson Ltd.

text: John Galsworthy

text: The Skin Game

text: Julius Caesar

text: Duchess Theatre

text: Two Hearts in Waltz Time

text: Spirit of Christmas Present

text: Scrooge

text: Seymour Hicks

text: The Private Secretary

text: Bisham

text: Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Collection

text: Performing Arts Collection

text: Arts Centre Melbourne

text: "Oscar Asche"

text: Eastward Ho!

text: National Library of Australia

text: Picture Australia

categories: People from Geelong,Actor-managers,20th-century Australian male writers,1871 births,1936 deaths,Australian male dramatists and playwrights,Australian male film actors,Australian male novelists,Australian film directors,Australian people of Norwegian descent,People educated at Melbourne Grammar School,20th-century Australian novelists,20th-century Australian male actors,20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights,Australian writers

paragraph: Oscar Asche

paragraph: John Stange(r) Heiss Oscar Asche (24 January 1871 – 23 March 1936), better known as Oscar Asche, was an Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical "Chu Chin Chow", both on stage and film, and for acting in, directing, or producing many Shakespeare plays and successful musicals.

paragraph: After studying acting in Norway and London, Asche made his London stage debut in 1893 and soon joined the F R Benson Company, where he remained for eight years, playing more than a hundred roles including important Shakespearean parts. He married the actress Lily Brayton in 1898, and the two were often paired onstage for many years. He played Maldonado in Arthur Wing Pinero's "Iris" in the West End in 1901, his first important part in modern comedy. He repeated the role on Broadway the following year, and then joined Herbert Beerbohm Tree's theatre company in London in 1902, playing more Shakespearean roles over the next few years.

paragraph: Asche and his wife became managers of the Adelphi Theatre in 1904 and His Majesty's Theatre in 1907; he made his first tour of Australia in 1909–10, and was much moved by his reception in his native land. In 1911 Edward Knoblock wrote the play "Kismet" for him; Asche revised and shortened it, and the production enjoyed great success in London and on tour with Asche in the leading role of Hajj.

paragraph: Asche most famously wrote and produced "Chu Chin Chow", starring himself and his wife, which ran for an unprecedented 2,238 performances, from 31 August 1916 to 22 July 1921. During the run, among other projects, he directed the hit London production of "The Maid of the Mountains". From 1922 to 1924 he toured in Australia with the J C Williamson company. As a result of his high-spending lifestyle, he was declared bankrupt in 1926. Though his success as a producer waned, he continued to direct and act, including in several films, until the mid-1930s.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Asche was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. His father, Thomas, born in Norway, studied law at Christiania University; he did not pursue a legal career in Australia because he failed to master the English language. After being a digger, a mounted police officer and a storekeeper, Thomas Asche became a prosperous hotel-keeper and publican in Melbourne and Sydney. Asche's mother, Thomas Asche's second wife, Harriet Emma, "née" Trear, was born in England.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Early life and training.

paragraph: Asche was educated at Laurel Lodge in Dandenong and the Melbourne Grammar School, which he left at 16. He then went on a holiday voyage to China, and after his return to Australia was articled to an architect who died soon afterwards. A few months later, he ran away and lived in the bush for some weeks and then obtained a position as a jackaroo. He returned to his parents and obtained a position in an office, but he had now decided to become an actor and made a beginning by getting up private theatricals at his home. He travelled to Fiji and on his return his father agreed to send him to Norway to study acting.

paragraph: At Bergen, Asche was instructed in deportment, voice production and theatre arts. He found the Norwegian acting technique to be easy and natural. Two months later, he went to Christiania to study acting. There he met Henrik Ibsen, who advised him to go to his own country and work in his own language. Asche then went to London and was so impressed by Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in "Henry VIII", that he saw the performance six times in succession. More study followed in London, where he worked to lose his Australian accent. He was fortunate in having an allowance of £10 a week from his father, but could not obtain work. In December 1892 he went to Norway again to give a Shakespeare recital, which was successful and brought him a little money.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Early stage career.

paragraph: On 25 March 1893 Asche made his first appearance on the stage, at the Opera Comique Theatre, London, as Roberts in "Man and Woman". He then joined the F. R. Benson Company and for eight years gained experience an actor. Among other venues, they played at the summer Stratford festivals. He started with small parts and was eventually cast as Charles the Wrestler in "As You Like It", being well suited because of his excellent physique. His other early roles included Biondello in "The Taming of the Shrew". He was paid a salary of £2 10s. a week, but his father had been involved in a financial crisis and was unable to send him any allowance. At holiday times when he had no salary, Asche sometimes slept on the Thames Embankment and was glad to earn trifling tips for calling cabs. His salary was raised to £4 a week, and he was never in such straits again. Asche played more than a hundred roles with Benson's company including Brutus, Claudius and other important Shakespearian parts. His resonant voice and his dignified, formal bearing are often mentioned in the reviews of his performances. He was a good athlete and a fair cricketer. He said that he owed his place in Benson's company as much to his cricketing as to his acting abilities: the Benson company fielded a cricket team wherever it toured in the summer months.

paragraph: Asche married Lily Brayton, another member of the company, in 1898, and the two were often cast in the same productions for many years. In 1900 Asche appeared with the Benson Company at the Lyceum Theatre in London. Asche's biographer Richard Foulkes writes, "When Benson brought his itinerant troupe to the Lyceum Theatre in the spring of 1900 Asche appeared in six of the eight productions, most notably as Pistol, Claudius, and Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, raising that smallish part to one of sinister grandeur." Asche had another success at the Garrick Theatre in 1901 when he played Maldonado in Arthur Wing Pinero's "Iris", his first important part in modern comedy. Both "The Times" and "The Observer" remarked that Asche had a difficult role but carried it off. He travelled to America to repeat the role on Broadway in 1902. Back in London, he joined Herbert Beerbohm Tree's theatre company in 1902, and in 1903 he played Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing" opposite the Beatrice of Ellen Terry. Other parts were Bolingbroke in "Richard II", Christopher Sly and Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew", Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and Angelo in "Measure for Measure".

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Actor-manager years.

paragraph: In 1904, Asche and his wife became managers of the Adelphi Theatre. Their productions included "The Prayer of the Sword", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Measure for Measure", "Count Hannibal" (which he wrote with F. Norreys Connell) and Rudolf Besier's "The Virgin Goddess". In 1906 he played King Mark in J. Comyns Carr's play "Tristram and Iseult" at the Adelphi Theatre, with Lily Brayton as Iseult and Matheson Lang as Tristram. In 1907 Asche and his wife took over the management of His Majesty's Theatre and produced Laurence Binyon’s "Attila", with Asche in the title role, and innovative productions of Shakespeare plays, such as "As You Like It", with Asche as Jacques, and "Othello", with Asche in the title role. They made their first tour in Australia in 1909–10, with Asche playing Petruchio, Othello and other roles. Asche was much touched by his reception at Melbourne. In his 1929 autobiography he said, "What a home-coming it was! Nothing, nothing can ever deprive me of that."

paragraph: On Asche's return to London in 1911, Edward Knoblock wrote the play "Kismet" for him, with the understanding that Asche could revise it. He shortened and partly re-wrote it and produced it with much success, playing Hajj. The production ran for two years, and a successful tour in Australia followed in 1911–12, with "Kismet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Antony and Cleopatra". Back in London, "Kismet" was revived successfully, but in October 1914 Asche's own play "Mameena" based on H. Rider Haggard's novel, "A Child of the Storm", though at first well received, proved a financial failure, largely on account of the conditions in London at the beginning of World War I.

paragraph: In 1916, Asche produced his play "Chu Chin Chow", music by Frederic Norton, starring himself and his wife, which ran for 2,238 performances, from 31 August 1916 to 22 July 1921. The run easily broke the existing record of 1,466 performances, set by "Charley's Aunt" in the 1890s. The new record stood for decades. The show drew some criticism for the ladies' scanty costumes, which Tree described as "more navel than millinery", but it was just what war-weary audiences wanted. Asche played the part of "Abu Hassan" and confessed that "it got terribly boring going down those stairs night after night to go through the same old lines". But Asche was a perfectionist, and the performance was never allowed to get slack. "Chu Chin Chow" also played in New York City in 1917 and Australia in 1920. Asche collaborated in 1919 with Dornford Yates on a musical adaptation of "Eastward Ho!" Also during the run of "Chu Chin Chow", Asche directed the hit London production of "The Maid of the Mountains" for Robert Evett and the George Edwardes Estate, which had an outstanding run of 1,352 performances. As a director, Asche was an innovator in stage lighting and one of the first to use it as a dramatic factor in productions rather than as mere illumination. He was also known for his use of colour and his sensitivity about the dividing line between opulence and vulgarity.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.:Later years.

paragraph: Though Asche had been making a large income for many years, he also spent largely. He was much interested in coursing, kept many greyhounds, and lost tens of thousands of pounds gambling on them. He bought a farm in Gloucestershire that was a constant expense, and he eventually had to sell it to pay his debts.

paragraph: After the success of "Chu Chin Chow", Asche wrote another musical that opened on Broadway in 1920 under the name "Mecca" and then in London the following year under the name "Cairo". It was not a huge success on either side of the Atlantic; in London it ran for 267 performances at His Majestys's. In 1922, Asche visited Australia again, under contract to J. C. Williamson Ltd., and made successful appearances as Hornblower in John Galsworthy's "The Skin Game", Maldonado in Pinero's "Iris", his usual roles in "Chu Chin Chow" and "Cairo", the title character in "Julius Caesar", and in other Shakespeare plays. His wife declined to join him on this tour. After disagreements with the Williamson company, his contract was abruptly terminated in June 1924. On his return to Britain, as a result of excessive gambling, tax debts and unwise investments, he was declared bankrupt in 1926.

paragraph: Further successes eluded Asche as he tried to mount musicals, including "The Good Old Days of England" (1928), financed by his wife. He continued to direct shows. His 1930 production of "The Intimate Revue" at the Duchess Theatre was a failure. In 1933 Asche made his last stage appearance in "The Beggar’s Bowl" at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Asche also made appearances in seven films between 1932 and 1936, including in "Two Hearts in Waltz Time" (1934), as the Spirit of Christmas Present in the 1935 film "Scrooge", with Seymour Hicks, and in "The Private Secretary" (1935). He also wrote several books, including his autobiography, but these ventures did not solve his financial troubles.

paragraph: In his final years, Asche became obese, poor, argumentative and violent. He and his wife separated, but, at the end, he returned to her and died at the age of 65 in Bisham, Berkshire, of coronary thrombosis. He was buried in the riverside cemetery there. He had no children.

paragraph: Section::::Writings.

paragraph: Asche's autobiography, "Oscar Asche: His Life" (1929), must be read with caution whenever figures are mentioned. He also wrote two novels: the "Saga of Hans Hansen" (1930), an improbable but exciting story, and "The Joss Sticks of Chung" (1931). His play "Chu Chin Chow" was published in 1931, but the other plays of which he was author or part author have not been printed. Among these were "Mameena" (1914), "Cairo" (1921), "The Good Old Days", and "The Spanish Main" (under the name of Varco Marenes).

paragraph: Section::::Notes and references.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Notes

paragraph: BULLET::::- References

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton Collection, in the Performing Arts Collection, at Arts Centre Melbourne.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oscar Asche" biography at the "Australian Variety Theatre Archive"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oscar Asche's profile at the Emory University Shakespeare Project

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of some of Asche's performances in Australia (AusStage)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oscar Asche at the Live Performance Australia Hall of Fame

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eastward Ho!

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography, bibliography, Australian tour information and resource listing for Oscar Asche in the National Library of Australia

paragraph: BULLET::::- Picture Australia records of images of Oscar Asche

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton playing croquet – A postcard from the UBC Library Digital Collections

alias:
Thomas Stange Heiss Oscar Asche
John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche

description: Australian actor and director

wikidata_label: Oscar Asche

wikipedia_title: Oscar Asche


text: Islam

text: Mecca

text: Tābi`u al-Tābiʻīn

text: hadith

text: Qur'an exegesis

text: al-Dhahabī

text: "shaykh al-Islam

text: schools of thought

text: Kufa

text: Iraq

text: "mawlā

text: al-Zuhrī

text: Mecca

text: hadith

text: Tihamah

text: Saudi Arabia

text: Muḥammad Ibn Ismāʼīl al-Bukhārī

text: memorizing ability

text: religious verdicts

text: Sufyān al-Thawrī

text: Qur'an

text: hadith

text: a religious pilgrimage ("Hajj")

text: Mecca

text: Shāfiʻī

text: school of jurisprudence

text: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal

text: Ḥanbalī

text: Al-Nawawī

text: Shāfiʻī

text: jurisprudence

text: Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn

text: six canonical hadith collections

text: religious pilgrimage ("Hajj")

text: Allah

text: Rajab

text: hadith

text: "Muwaṭṭaʼ

text: Mālik ibn Anas

text: Qur'an exegesis

text: Islam

categories: 814 deaths,Salaf,725 births,Hadith scholars,Hadith narrators,8th-century Arabic writers,People from Mecca

paragraph: Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah

paragraph: Abū Muḥammad Sufyān ibn `Uyaynah ibn Maymūn al-Hilālī al-Kūfī ()(725 – ) was a prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca. He was from the third generation of Islam referred to as the Tābi`u al-Tābiʻīn, "the followers of the followers". He specialized in the field of hadith and Qur'an exegesis and was described by al-Dhahabī as "shaykh al-Islam"—a preeminent Islamic authority. Some of his students achieved much renown in their own right, establishing schools of thought that have survived until the present.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Ibn `Uyaynah's father, `Uyaynah ibn Abī ʻImrān, was originally from Kufa in present day Iraq where he was a governor for Khālid ibn ʻAbdillāh al-Qasrī. However, when al-Qasrī was removed from his position his successor sought out his governors causing `Uyaynah to flee to Mecca where he then settled.

paragraph: Ibn `Uyaynah was born in the year 725-6 CE/107 AH. He was the client ("mawlā") of Muḥammad ibn Muzāḥim and began his religious studying while still young. He said of himself that he first sat formally with a religious instructor at 12 when he attended the lessons of ʻAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah. Subsequent teachers include ʻAmr ibn Dīnār, al-Zuhrī, Ziyād ibn ʻAllāqah, Abū Isḥāq, al-Aswad ibn Qays, Zayd ibn Aslam, ʻAbdullāh ibn Dīnār, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʻtamir, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim and many others.

paragraph: By his own account, Ibn `Uyaynah read the entire Qur'an (perhaps meaning that he had memorized it) by the age of four and began writing hadith at age seven. Upon turning 15, his father gave him the following advice which he later said he never turned away from:

paragraph: My son, the meanderings of childhood have now departed you, associate yourself with good and you will be from its people. And, know that none will be content with the religious scholars unless obedient to them so obey them and be content, serve them and grasp some of their knowledge.

paragraph: He lived in Mecca and had nine brothers. Of the brothers, five pursued studies in hadith with Sufyān becoming the most renowned of them. The names of the remaining four are Muḥammad, Ibrāhīm, Ādam and ʻImrām.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Scholastic career.

paragraph: Ibn `Uyaynah was praised by contemporaries for both his knowledge and humility. ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī described him as from the most knowledgeable people of the hadith of the inhabitants of the Tihamah region of what is now Saudi Arabia. He was lauded by Muḥammad Ibn Ismāʼīl al-Bukhārī for his memorizing ability, an essential quality for a hadith narrator. Not just a transmitter of recorded knowledge, his student al-Shāfiʿī said he had not seen anyone more adept at explaining the meaning of hadiths than Ibn `Uyaynah. His humility was also illustrated by al-Shāfiʿī's mention of Ibn `Uyaynah's reluctance to give religious verdicts. Ibn Mahdī preferred him to a contemporary of his, Sufyān al-Thawrī, in their understanding of the Qur'an and hadith.

paragraph: Statements attributed to Ibn `Uyaynah illustrate his respect for religious knowledge, acting upon that knowledge and the sacrifice necessary to obtain it. In one statement he said that whatever increase a person experiences in their intellect is matched by a decrease in material wealth. And, that knowledge that does not benefit an individual is of detriment to them.

paragraph: Ibn `Uyaynah's students were numerous. Many of them would embark on a religious pilgrimage ("Hajj") to Mecca intending to meet him and then crowding him during the days of "Hajj". Some of Ibn `Uyaynah's teachers were also his students, for example, al-ʻAmash, Ibn Jurayj, and Shuʼbah. Both Abū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī the namesake of the Shāfiʻī school of jurisprudence and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥanbal the namesake of the Ḥanbalī school. Al-Nawawī, a prominent Shāfiʻī scholar, cited Ibn `Uyaynah as from "the grandfathers of the Shāfiʻī scholars in their methodology in jurisprudence". Other notable students include ʻAbdullāh ibn al-Mubārak, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī, Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn and Isḥāq ibn Rāhūyah.

paragraph: The hadith Ibn `Uyaynah narrated are found in the six canonical hadith collections.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: Ibn `Uyaynah performed the religious pilgrimage ("Hajj") seventy times, saying that each time he went he supplicated Allah that that not be the last time he visit the places of "Hajj". He said he was shy to ask this again on the seventieth occasion and returned to Mecca and died there within the next year. He died on Saturday February 25, 814 CE, the first day of Rajab, 198 AH, at the age of 91. He was buried in the al-Ḥajūn district of Mecca.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Ibn `Uyaynah compiled one of the early collections of hadith with his "Jāmiʻ" which followed the "Muwaṭṭaʼ" of Mālik ibn Anas. The subject of his book was Prophetic narrations ("sunan") and subsequent narrations ("āthār") and another contained "some" Qur'an exegesis. Al-Ubbī, a latter religious scholar, claimed this work to be one of the first compilations in Islam.

paragraph: In summary, his two known works are:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "al-Jāmiʼ"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "al-Tafsīr"

description: Hadith scholar

wikidata_label: Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah

wikipedia_title: Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah


text: United States Navy

text: Medal of Honor

text: Ireland

text: New York

text: chief

text: machinist's mate

text: oil

text: engine room

text: coal

text: coke

text: boiler

text: boiler explosion

text: Karl Westa

text: August Holtz

text: Patrick Reid

text: Charles C. Roberts

text: Harry Lipscomb

text: Middletown, Rhode Island

text: Home of Heroes

categories: United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients,19th-century Irish people,Irish-born Medal of Honor recipients,1869 births,United States Navy sailors,Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923),1950 deaths,Irish sailors in the United States Navy

paragraph: Thomas Stanton (Medal of Honor)

paragraph: Thomas Stanton (August 11, 1869 – May 7, 1950) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Stanton was born on August 11, 1869, in Ireland and, after immigrating to the United States, he joined the Navy from New York around 1898.

paragraph: On September 8, 1910, Stanton was serving as a chief machinist's mate on the . On that day, while the "North Dakota" was conducting tests using oil as fuel, an explosion occurred, killing three sailors and endangering the ship. In the engine room, pieces of hot coal and coke floated in waist-high hot water, oil was aflame above one of the boilers, and the entire room was filled with smoke, steam, and fumes. Despite these dangers, Stanton and five other men of the ship's engineering department entered the engine room to haul the boiler fires and perform other tasks necessary to prevent a boiler explosion. After ensuring the safety of the ship, they then searched for and removed the bodies of the three sailors killed in the initial explosion.

paragraph: For these actions, Stanton and the five other men were awarded the Medal of Honor a month later, on October 4, 1910. The others were Chief Machinist's Mate Karl Westa, Chief Watertender August Holtz, Chief Watertender Patrick Reid, Machinist's Mate First Class Charles C. Roberts, and Watertender Harry Lipscomb.

paragraph: Stanton died May 7, 1950 at age 80 and was buried at Saint Columba Catholic Cemetery in Middletown, Rhode Island.

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

paragraph: Stanton's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the fire on board the U.S.S. "North Dakota", 8 September 1910.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients in non-combat incidents

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Home of Heroes

paragraph: BULLET::::- USS North Dakota: Eighth Grade Lesson - The Floating Community - Fire and Engine Troubles

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chief Petty Officers earning the Medal of Honor

wikidata_label: Thomas Stanton

wikipedia_title: Thomas Stanton (Medal of Honor)


text: Matthew Parker

text: Archbishop of Canterbury

text: Elizabeth I of England

text: Old English

text: Cambridge University

text: Oxford University

text: British Library

text: High Roding, Essex

text: Queens' College

text: Cambridge

text: Mary I

text: chaplain

text: prebend

text: Hereford

text: Old English

text: Norman Conquest

text: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

text: Robert Cotton

text: Anglo-Saxon

text: Cotton Library

text: William Camden

text: Gildas

text: De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae

text: Corpus Christi College

text: Hollingbourne

text: May McKisack

text: British Library

text: Bodleian Library

categories: Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge,English antiquarians,English historians,16th-century historians,1529 births,1603 deaths,16th-century antiquarians

paragraph: John Joscelyn

paragraph: John Joscelyn or John Joscelin (1529–1603) was an English clergyman and antiquarian as well as secretary to Matthew Parker, an Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Joscelyn was involved in Parker's attempts to secure and publish medieval manuscripts on church history, and was one of the first scholars of the Old English language. He also studied the early law codes of England. His Old English dictionary, although not published during his lifetime, contributed greatly to the study of that language. Many of his manuscripts and papers eventually became part of the collections of Cambridge University, Oxford University, or the British Library.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Joscelyn was born in 1529, and was the son of Sir Thomas Joscelin and Dorothy Gate. John was their third son to survive childhood, and was probably born on his father's estate at High Roding, Essex. He attended Queens' College at Cambridge beginning in 1545, attaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1549. In the school year 1550–1551 he taught Latin at Queens' College, and the following school year he taught Greek. At the end of 1552, he was awarded a Master of Arts. In 1555, during Queen Mary I's reign, Joscelyn subscribed to the required church doctrine, and was once more a teacher of Greek during the school year 1556–1557. However, in 1557 he resigned from his fellowship at Queens' College.

paragraph: Section::::Work for Parker.

paragraph: In 1559, shortly after he was appointed as archbishop, Matthew Parker, the Archbishop of Canterbury, named Joscelyn to a chaplaincy, and also as his Latin language secretary. The following year Parker gave Joscelyn a prebend in Hereford, held until 1577. Unusually for the time, besides Greek and Latin Joscelyn was a scholar of Hebrew. From Parker's interest in the history of early Christianity, and to discover more information about the growth of papal power in the Middle Ages, Joscelyn also began to study Old English (a topic of interest to Parker), and helped the archbishop in his studies of the English pre-Norman Conquest church. Joscelyn helped discover lost manuscripts, obtained them for Parker, and prepared them for publication. Joscelyn also acquired manuscripts for himself, 40 of which were written in Old English.

paragraph: Joseclyn often annotated the manuscripts he or Parker owned, and even inserted some pages of faked script into the D manuscript of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", and probably owned that manuscript prior to Robert Cotton. His glosses are still extant on several dozen manuscripts, usually in Latin, but occasionally in English. He was, however, also concerned that their collections be properly cared for. He had a good understanding of the law codes of the English Anglo-Saxon kings, which he used in the preparation of an Old English-Latin dictionary he worked on, but which was never completed. The dictionary was, however, of great help to later Old English scholars, as it passed into the hands of Robert Cotton, and became part of the Cotton Library as manuscripts Titus A xv and Titus A xvi. Joscelyn's written work on Old English grammar also became part of the Cotton library, but was lost after Cotton loaned the manuscript to William Camden in 1612.

paragraph: Parker published in 1572 a work entitled "De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae & Priuilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, cum Archiepiscopis eiusdem 70", which is the first privately printed work to appear in English. Although Parker claimed in a letter that he was the author, it is likely that at the very least Joscelyn did most of the research, and the manuscript of the work, which is now Vitellius E xiv, is largely in his handwriting. Further, Parker's son, after the archbishop's death, noted beside the bequest notation for Joscelyn's brother Thomas that John Joscelyn was the author of the work.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy and death.

paragraph: Joscelyn also published an edition of Gildas' work "De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae" in 1568, for which he wrote the preface. He also wrote a history of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge that remained unpublished until 1880, 200 years after his death. He contributed extensively to Parker's "A Testimonie of Antiquitie Shewing the Auncient Fayth in the Church of England", the earliest printed book containing portions in Old English. Joscelyn also contributed a large part of Parker's "De Antiquitate Britannicae", published in 1572.

paragraph: In 1577, Parker's successor gave Joscelyn a rectory at Hollingbourne, Kent, replacing the prebend at Hereford. He died on 28 December 1603, probably at High Roding, and was buried in All Saint's Church in High Roding. He never married.

paragraph: Joscelyn's contributions to the study of Old English have been called "a significant contribution to the development of the study of the language". The historian May McKisack called him a "man of great learning and a good servant to his master". Besides his dictionary and grammar, his working notebook also became part of the Cotton library, now manuscript Vitellius D.vii. Other of his manuscripts, either written or acquired by him, were either given to Corpus Christi College by Parker's heirs, or became parts of the British Library or the Bodleian Library.

wikidata_label: John Joscelyn

wikipedia_title: John Joscelyn


text:
Irish
Irish Literary Revival
Strabane
County Tyrone
Artigarvan
Queen's College, Galway
Queen's College, Cork
Charcot
Duchenne
Salpêtrière
Sigmund Freud
Dublin
Maud Gonne
Austin Clarke
Nora Barnacle
Catholic University of Ireland
University College Dublin
Irish
Charles Kickham
John O'Leary
The Nation
Feis Ceoil
Dora
Senate
Irish Free State
Lord Glenavy
Sigerson Cup
Gaelic Football
Sunday Tribune
UCD
Dora Maria
Anna Hester
Cannabiculture
hymn
Ambidexterity
River Foyle
Fare Thee Well Enniskillen

categories: 1836 births,Irish poets,People from County Tyrone,19th-century Irish people,Members of the 1922 Seanad,Irish neurologists,Academics of University College Dublin,Disease-related deaths in Ireland,Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery,1925 deaths

paragraph: George Sigerson

paragraph: George Sigerson (11 January 1836 – 17 February 1925) was an Irish physician, scientist, writer, politician and poet. He was a leading light in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th century in Ireland.

paragraph: Section::::Doctor and scientist.

paragraph: Sigerson was born at Holy Hill, near Strabane in County Tyrone, the son of William and Nancy (née Neilson) Sigerson. He had had three brothers James, John and William, and three sisters, Ellen, Jane and Mary Ann. He attended Letterkenny Academy but was sent by his father, William, who developed the spade mill and who played an active role in the development of Artigarvan, to complete his education in France.

paragraph: He studied medicine at the Queen's College, Galway, and Queen's College, Cork, and took his degree in 1859. He then went to Paris where he spent some time studying under Charcot and Duchenne at the Salpêtrière; a fellow-student was Sigmund Freud. Sigerson published successful translations of Charcot's "Clinical Lectures" in 1877 and 1881.

paragraph: He returned to Ireland and opened a practice in Dublin, specializing as a neurologist. He continued to visit France annually to study under Charcot. His patients included Maud Gonne, Austin Clarke and Nora Barnacle. He lectured on medicine at the Catholic University of Ireland. He was professor of zoology and later botany at the University College Dublin.

paragraph: Section::::Cultural nationalist.

paragraph: While a student he taught himself Irish and made the acquaintance of Charles Kickham and John O'Leary.

paragraph: His first book, "The Poets and Poetry of Munster", appeared in 1860. He was actively involved in political journalism for many years, writing for "The Nation". Sigerson and his wife Hester were by now among the dominant figures of the Gaelic Revival. They frequently held Sunday evening salons at their Dublin home, No. 3 Clare St, to which artists, intellectuals and rebels alike attended, including O'Leary, Yeats, Patrick Pearse, Roger Casement and 1916 signatory Thomas MacDonagh. Sigerson was a co-founder of the Feis Ceoil and President of the National Literary Society from 1893 until his death. His daughter, Dora, was a poet who was also involved in the Irish literary revival.

paragraph: Nominated for a twelve-year term, to the first Senate of the Irish Free State, Sigerson briefly served as the first chairman on 11–12 December 1922 before the election of Lord Glenavy. On 18 February 1925, the day after his death, the Senate paid tribute to him.

paragraph: Section::::GAA supporter.

paragraph: The Sigerson Cup, the top division of third level Gaelic Football competition in Ireland is named in his honour. Sigerson donated the salary from his post at UCD so that a trophy could be purchased for the competition. In 2009, he was named in the "Sunday Tribune"'s list of the "125 Most Influential People In GAA History". The cup was first presented in 1911, with the inaugural winners being UCD.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: George Sigerson died at his home in 3 Clare Street, Dublin, on 17 February 1925, aged 89, after a short illness. He was predeceased by his wife, Hester (née Varian), whom he married at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin, on 1 December 1861. She published poems and short stories in various journals and wrote one novel "A Ruined Race" (1889, Ward & Downey). She died in 1898. The couple had four children. One of these, William, predeceased both parents; two others (George Patrick and the poet and sculptor Dora Maria) would predecease their father. Only one of George and Hester Sigerson's children, Anna Hester, also a writer, like her parents and sister, outlived them both.

paragraph: Section::::Partial bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Poets and Poetry of Munster" (1860)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cannabiculture in Ireland; its profit and possibility" (1866)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Modern Ireland" (1869)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Political prisoners at home and abroad"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "On the need for village hospitals in Ireland"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Celtic influence on the evolution of rimed hymns

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The advantages of Ambidexterity"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Discovery of fish remains in the alluvial clay of the River Foyle

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bards of the Gael and Gall" (1897)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fare Thee Well Enniskillen", trad., adapted by George Sigerson, (1894).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mountains of Pomeroy" by George Sigerson.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- McGilloway, K., "George Sigerson: Poet, Patriot Scientist and Scholar", Ulster Historical Foundation, 2011

description: Irish medical doctor and writer

wikidata_label: George Sigerson

wikipedia_title: George Sigerson


text:
Filipów
Amsterdam
Socinian
Joachim Stegmann
Racovian Catechism
Racovian Academy
Polish Brethren
Bibliotheca fratrum Polonorum
Voltaire
John Locke
Frans Kuyper
Johann Crell
Fausto Sozzini
Racovian Catechism
Thomas Rees
Benedykt Wiszowaty
Pierzchała/Roch
Leibniz
Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum

paragraph: Andrzej Wiszowaty

paragraph: Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. (Latin "Andreas Wissowatius") (Filipów 1608 - Amsterdam, 1678) was a Socinian theologian who worked with Joachim Stegmann (1595–1633) on the Racovian Catechism of 1605, and taught at the Racovian Academy of the Polish Brethren.

paragraph: After the expulsion and exile from Rakow in 1639 Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. is notable as the main mover in the printing of the Bibliotheca fratrum Polonorum which was to influence Voltaire and John Locke. He supervised the printing in Amsterdam by Frans Kuyper, first of the works of Johann Crell (1665) and then, backnumbered as "Volume 1" the works of his grandfather Fausto Sozzini 1668. He was working on a revised edition of the Racovian Catechism when he died in 1678, this was published in Amsterdam in 1680 and became the basis for Thomas Rees' English translation of 1818. His own major work "Religio rationalis" "Rational religion" was published by his son Benedykt Wiszowaty.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Polish nobleman. Coat-of-arms: Pierzchała/Roch

paragraph: married - Aleksandra z Rupniowskich

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: 62 works including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- A dissertation against the Trinity, "De sancta trinitate objectiones quaedam" (1665), that was refuted by Leibniz in his "Defensio Trinitatis contra Wissowatium" (1669).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Narratio compendiosa quomodo in Polonia a Trinitariis Reformatis separati sint Christiani Unitarii" (1678).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Religio rationalis, seu de Rationis judicio in controversiis, etiam theologicis ac religiosis" (posthumously 1685).

paragraph: Publisher in Amsterdam with Kuyper of the "Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum quos Unitarios vocant, instructua operibus omnibus Fausti Socini" (1665, 1668).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hymns and Psalms in Polish

description: Polish theologian

wikidata_label: Andrzej Wiszowaty

wikipedia_title: Andrzej Wiszowaty


text:
Hasmonean
Judea
Parthians
Aristobulus II
Herod
Jews
Judea
Antipater
Pharisees
Parthians
invaded Syria in 40 BCE
allied king
Senate
triumvir
Mark Antony
Judea
siege of Jerusalem
Hasmonean
Josephus
Cassius Dio
Plutarch
East Jerusalem
uncovered
Joe Zias
Israel Antiquities Authority
Wicked Priest
Qumran Scrolls
Pesher Habakkuk
Pesher Nahum
Antigonus

categories: People executed by the Roman Republic,1st-century BC monarchs in the Middle East,Hasmonean dynasty,1st-century BC High Priests of Israel,Executed monarchs,1st-century BC births,1st-century BC Hasmonean monarchs,People of the Parthian Empire,1st-century BCE Jews,Kings of ancient Judah,37 BC deaths,People executed by decapitation

paragraph: Antigonus II Mattathias

paragraph: Antigonus II Mattathias (, Matityahu), also known as Antigonus the Hasmonean (died 37 BCE) was the last Hasmonean king of Judea. A puppet king installed by the Parthians, he was the son of King Aristobulus II of Judea. In 37 BCE Herod handed him over to the Romans for execution, after Antigonus's three-year reign during which he led the Jews' fierce struggle for independence against the Romans.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Antigonus the Hasmonean was the second son of Aristobulus II, and together with his father was carried prisoner to Rome by Pompey in 63 BCE. He escaped and returned to Judea in 57 BCE. Despite an unsuccessful attempt to oppose the Roman forces there, the senate released him, but he refused to surrender his dynastic rights. After the death of his older brother Alexander, Antigonus claimed that his uncle Hyrcanus was a puppet in the hands of the Idumean Antipater and attempted to overthrow him with the help and consent of the Romans. He visited Julius Cæsar, who was in Syria in 47, and complained of the usurpation of Antipater and Hyrcanus. In 42, he attempted to seize the government of Judea by force with the assistance of his brother-in-law, Ptolemy Mennei but was defeated by Herod.

paragraph: The excessive taxation wrung from the people to pay for the extravagances of Antony and Cleopatra had awakened a deep hatred against Rome. Antigonus gained the adherence of both the aristocratic class in Jerusalem and the leaders of the Pharisees. The Parthians, who invaded Syria in 40 BCE, preferred to see an anti-Roman ruler on the throne of Judea. When Antigonus promised them large sums of gold and five hundred female slaves besides, they put a troop of five hundred warriors at his disposal. Hyrcanus was sent to Babylon after suffering the mutilation of his ears, which rendered him unfit for the office of high priest. Herod fled from Jerusalem. In 40 BCE Antigonus was officially proclaimed king and high priest by the Parthians. His three-year reign was a continuous struggle.

paragraph: Just after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Parthians, Herod fled quickly from Masada to Rome, where he - somewhat surprisingly - was nominated in 40 BCE as the new king of Judea (, allied king and friend of the Roman people) through the Senate by the recommendation of the triumvir Mark Antony. On Herod's return from Rome in 39 BCE he opened a campaign against Antigonus and laid siege to Jerusalem. In the spring of 38 BCE, Herod wrested control of the province of Galilee and eventually all of Judea as far as Jerusalem. Due to the approach of winter, Herod postponed his siege of Jerusalem, where Antigonus and the remnants of his army took refuge, until spring. Herod was held off for 3–5 months but the Romans did eventually capture the city; however, the supporters of Antigonus fought until the Romans reached the inner courtyard of the Temple. Antigonus was taken to Antioch and executed, ending Hasmonean rule.

paragraph: Josephus states that Mark Antony beheaded Antigonus (Antiquities, XV 1:2 (8–9). Roman historian Cassius Dio says that he was crucified and records in his "Roman History": "These people [the Jews] Antony entrusted to a certain Herod to govern; but Antigonus he bound to a cross and scourged, a punishment no other king had suffered at the hands of the Romans, and so slew him." In his "Life of Antony", Plutarch claims that Antony had Antigonus beheaded, "the first example of that punishment being inflicted on a king."

paragraph: Section::::Disputed tomb in Jerusalem.

paragraph: In 1971, bulldozers removing earth in East Jerusalem for a construction project uncovered a tomb with an inscription that, according to some opinions, indicates that this was the tomb of King Antigonus, the last Hasmonean king. However, according to anthropologist Joe Zias, former Curator of Archaeology and Anthropology for the Israel Antiquities Authority, this theory is just little more than an urban myth, since the only beheaded skeleton found in 1971 and at the later reexamination of the previously untouched tomb, belonged to an elderly woman. In his view, no other set of remains found there could be associated with King Antigonus II and it is only due to the efforts of the owner of the building located on top of the tomb that the myth is still being promoted (as seen here:).

paragraph: Section::::Qumran Scrolls connection.

paragraph: Biblical scholar Gregory Doudna proposed in 2013 that Antigonus II Mattathias was the figure known as the Wicked Priest in the Qumran Scrolls. According to Doudna, Antigonus was the figure underlying the 'Wicked Priest' of Pesher Habakkuk, and the doomed ruler of Pesher Nahum, the documents found at Qumran.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Antigonus entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith

description: king of Judea

wikidata_label: Antigonus II Mattathias

wikipedia_title: Antigonus II Mattathias


text: featherweight

text: Springfield, Ohio

text: Davey Moore

text: Sugar Ramos

text: bantamweight

text: decision

text: Carlos Morocho Hernández

text: Sugar Ramos

text: Venezuela

text: Kazuo Takayama

text: Madrid

text: Danny Valdez

text: Olli Mäki

text: see below

text: Cuban

text: Mexican

text: Sugar Ramos

text: Dodger Stadium

text: Pope John XXIII

text: White Memorial Hospital

text: Springfield, Ohio

text: Bob Dylan

text: Who Killed Davey Moore

text: Pete Seeger

text: Graeme Allwright

text: Phil Ochs

text: Mexico City

text: Helsinki

text: Finland

text: 2016 Cannes Film Festival

text: List of lineal boxing world champions

text: Lineal championship

categories: Sports deaths in California,American male boxers,1933 births,Olympic boxers of the United States,Sportspeople from Lexington, Kentucky,Boxers from Kentucky,Sportspeople from Springfield, Ohio,1963 deaths,Deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing

paragraph: Davey Moore (boxer, born 1933)

paragraph: David "Davey" S. Moore (November 1, 1933 – March 25, 1963) was an American featherweight world champion boxer who fought professionally 1953–63. A resident of Springfield, Ohio, Moore was one of two champions to share the name in the second half of the 20th century. The second, Davey Moore (born 1959) boxed during the 1980s.

paragraph: Moore died on March 25, 1963, aged 29, as a result of injuries sustained in a match against Sugar Ramos.

paragraph: Section::::Career highlights.

paragraph: Moore first gained wide attention from his performance on the 1952 U.S. Olympic boxing team, as a bantamweight amateur.

paragraph: Moore made his professional debut on May 11, 1953, aged 19, beating Willie Reece by a decision in six rounds. He boxed 8 times in 1953, with a total record that year of 6 wins, 1 loss and 1 no contest.

paragraph: From the beginning of his career through 1956 Moore fought a total of 29 bouts, with a total record of 22–5–1, and 1 no contest. Beginning with his April 10, 1957 fight against Gil Cadilli, Moore had an 18-bout winning streak, ending when he lost to Carlos Morocho Hernández on March 17, 1960 with a TKO. March 14, 1960, won match against Bob Gassey in first round, as a result of the knockout, Gassey lost all but 2 teeth. It was during this period, on March 18, 1959 that Moore won the World Featherweight Title from Hogan "Kid" Bassey. Moore retained the title through the remainder of his career, defending it successfully 5 times, and losing it to Sugar Ramos on March 21, 1963.

paragraph: Section::::1952 Olympic results.

paragraph: Below is the record of Davey Moore, an American bantamweight boxer who competed at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Round of 32: bye

paragraph: BULLET::::- Round of 16: defeated Egon Schidan (West Germany) by decision, 3-0

paragraph: BULLET::::- Quarterfinal: lost to Kang Joon-Ho (South Korea) by decision, 1-2

paragraph: Section::::Boxing record.

paragraph: Moore had a lifetime professional record of 59 wins, seven losses, one draw and one no contest, with 30 wins by knockout.

paragraph: Section::::Boxing record.:1960.

paragraph: In 1960, he had a two-fight tour in Venezuela, winning one by knockout, and then having his winning streak interrupted with a seven-round knockout loss at the hands of Carlos Hernández. He fought three times in Mexico that year, and retained his title in Tokyo, beating Kazuo Takayama by a decision in 15.

paragraph: Section::::Boxing record.:1961.

paragraph: In 1961, he toured Europe for three fights, visiting Paris, Madrid and Rome. He retained his title with a knockout in one round against Danny Valdez and won three more fights in Mexico before returning to Tokyo to beat Takayama, once again by a 15-round decision, to retain the title in their rematch.

paragraph: Section::::Boxing record.:1962.

paragraph: In 1962, he won four bouts, returning to Europe to defend his title versus Olli Mäki, beaten in two rounds in Finland.

paragraph: Section::::Boxing record.:1963.

paragraph: Moore had a record of 1–1 in 1963. Following his defeat, in the second bout, Moore died of brain injuries received during the fight (see below).

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Moore was scheduled to face Cuban-Mexican Sugar Ramos in July 1962 at Dodger Stadium but a torrential typhoon-like rainstorm hit Los Angeles on the night of the fight and the fight was postponed until March 21, 1963. It was shown on national television in front of a crowd of 22,000. In the tenth round Ramos staggered Moore with a left and then continued to pummel him with blows until he fell, striking the base of his neck on the bottom rope and injuring his brain stem.

paragraph: Moore got to his feet for the eight-count and, despite Ramos' continuing attack, managed to finish the round on his feet, but the referee stopped the fight before the eleventh, and Ramos was declared the new World Featherweight Champion. Moore was able to give a clear-headed interview before he left the ring, but in the dressing room fell into a coma from which he never emerged. As Moore fought for life, Pope John XXIII made a statement calling the sport of boxing "barbaric", and "contrary to natural principles". Moore's condition deteriorated, and he died 75 hours after the fight on March 25 at 2:20 a.m. CST in White Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles. His body lay in state at a South Los Angeles funeral home on Tuesday, March 26 for 10 hours; over 10,000 people filed by to pay respects. Moore was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Springfield, Ohio.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Bob Dylan wrote a song about Davey Moore's death, posing the question of responsibility. It is titled "Who Killed Davey Moore?" and was also sung by Pete Seeger and Graeme Allwright (in French).

paragraph: Phil Ochs wrote a song titled "Davey Moore" which told the story of Davey Moore's death and placed the guilt on the managers and the boxing "money men" as well as boxing fans.

paragraph: On September 21, 2013, the 50th anniversary of Moore's final fight, his hometown of Springfield, Ohio dedicated an 8' bronze statue in his honor. Located in a public green space just south of downtown near his old neighborhood, the dedication attendees included Moore's widow Geraldine and Ultiminio "Sugar" Ramos, visiting from Mexico City.

paragraph: A pair of Moore's boxing gloves are on display in a Finnish restaurant "Juttutupa" in Helsinki, Finland (Säästöpankinranta 6). They were found during a renovation of a local boxing gym. Moore, played by John Bosco Jr, is featured as a character in the movie "The Happiest Day in The Life of Olli Mäki" that won the 'Prize Un Certain Regard' in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of lineal boxing world champions

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lineal championship

alias:
David Schultz Moore
David S. Moore
David Moore

description: American boxer (1933–1963)

wikidata_label: Davey Moore

wikipedia_title: Davey Moore (boxer, born 1933)


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Prince-Bishop of Liège
John II of Loon
John of Walenrode
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Bohemian Crusade
Hussite
county of Namur
Philip the Good
Congress of Arras
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
Aachen
Louis de Bourbon
Kuringen
Hasselt

paragraph: John of Heinsberg

paragraph: John of Heinsberg (1397–1459), was Prince-Bishop of Liège from 1419 to 1456.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Heinsberg was the son of John II of Loon by his first wife, Margaret of Gennep. When Prince-Bishop John of Walenrode died suddenly in 1419, Heinsberg, despite his young age, was unanimously elected as his successor within three weeks. He was ordained priest on Christmas Eve 1419, consecrated as bishop in Lent 1420, and was invested with secular power as prince-bishop, on behalf of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, in Frankfurt on 21 June 1420. In 1422 he took part in the Bohemian Crusade against the Hussites. In 1424 he revised the method by which aldermen were elected, issuing regulations that remained in force until 1684.

paragraph: After a period of conflict between the duchy of Brabant and the prince-bishopric over feudal rights in the county of Namur, the duke of Brabant, Philip the Good, in 1431 imposed a treaty on Heinsberg by which all the claims of Liège were relinquished. Heinsberg took part in the Congress of Arras in 1435 as an ally of Philip the Good.

paragraph: In 1442 he was present at the imperial coronation of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, at Aachen (a city in his diocese), with an entourage of 250 noblemen. In 1444 he set off on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but got no further than Venice before returning home.

paragraph: In 1456, under pressure from Philip the Good, Heinsberg resigned in favour of Louis de Bourbon. He died at Kuringen, near Hasselt, on 18 October 1459, leaving a reputation for luxury and magnificence.

paragraph: Section::::Decrees.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Statuta dioecesis Leodensis"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Reformatio cleri Leodiensis"

wikidata_label: John of Heinsberg

wikipedia_title: John of Heinsberg