text:
Canadian
ice hockey
Goaltender
unrestricted free agent
San Antonio Rampage
American Hockey League
Florida Panthers
National Hockey League
2010 NHL Entry Draft
Denver Pioneers
NCAA Men's Division I
National Collegiate Hockey Conference
senior
2013–14
San Antonio Rampage

categories: Cincinnati Cyclones (ECHL) players,Manchester Monarchs (ECHL) players,Portland Pirates players,San Antonio Rampage players,Colorado Eagles players,1992 births,Canadian ice hockey goaltenders,Denver Pioneers men's ice hockey players,Canmore Eagles players,Florida Panthers draft picks,Springfield Thunderbirds players,Ice hockey people from Alberta,Living people,Sportspeople from Calgary

paragraph: Sam Brittain

paragraph: Sam Brittain (born May 10, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey Goaltender who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played under contract to the San Antonio Rampage of the American Hockey League (AHL). He most notably played as a prospect within the Florida Panthers organization of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Panthers in the 4th round (92nd overall) of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Brittain played collegiate hockey for the Denver Pioneers in the NCAA Men's Division I National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). In his senior year, Brittain's outstanding play was rewarded with a selection to the inaugural 2013–14 All-NCHC First Team.

paragraph: At the conclusion of his entry-level contract with the Panthers, Brittain was not tendered a qualifying offer and was released to free agency. On August 21, 2017, Brittain signed a one-year AHL contract in a return to the San Antonio Rampage.

paragraph: In the 2018-19 season, Sam is playing in a local Calgary men's league for the team known as the "Shooting Blanks". In 16 appearances he has a record of 15-1 with a GAA of 2.00.

description: Canadian ice hockey goaltender

wikidata_label: Sam Brittain

wikipedia_title: Sam Brittain


text:
Vic
Catalan
Vic
Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona
Fundació Joan Miró
Maeght gallery
South Africa
Singapore
Korea
Barcelona
Vic
Manresa
Reus
El Prat de Llobregat
Girona
Atlanta
Centennial Olympic Park
Barcelona
Cosmocaixa
MACBA
Museo Reina Sofia
Cuenca
Museo de Arte Abstracto Español
Fundación Juan March
Singapore

categories: 1951 births,Living people,Catalan sculptors

paragraph: Enric Pladevall-Vila

paragraph: Enric Pladevall (born 1951 in Vic) is a Catalan sculptor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Pladevall was born in 1951 in Vic, Barcelona and in 1968 he entered Barcelona's Fine Arts school. His prolific career as a sculptor is acknowledged with important scholarships and awards. His artistic accomplishments are well established in both national and international fields. His work has been exhibited at Barcelona's Fundació Joan Miró, the Maeght gallery as well as in Italy, France, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, the United States and Japan. He has got public sculptures in Korea, Barcelona, Vic, Manresa, Reus, El Prat de Llobregat and Girona. Some of his most valued sculptures are "Androgyne Planet" at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, and "L'arbre de la Vida" ("The tree of life"), at Barcelona's Cosmocaixa. Also, Pladevall's sculptures can be found at museums worldwide, such as MACBA, Museo Reina Sofia, Cuenca's Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Fundación Juan March, The Lehigh Art Gallery Museum of Pennsylvania, the Atlanta History Center or the Urban Redevelopment Authority Collection in Singapore.

description: Spanish artist

wikidata_label: Enric Pladevall-Vila

wikipedia_title: Enric Pladevall-Vila


text: choreographer

text: Saint-Rambert-d'Albon

text: Paris Opera

text: principal dancer

text: Andy Degroat

text: Paris Opera

text: Rudolf Nureyev

text: Paris Opera

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Paris Opera

text: Isadora Duncan

text: Madeleine Lytton

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Paris Opera Ballet

text: corps de ballet

text: Danseuse Etoile

text: Conservatoire de Paris

text: Ballet

text: Lioubov Egorova

text: Serge Perrault

text: Serge Peretti

text: Jazz

text: Gene Robinson

text: Mime

text: Georges Wague

text: Piano

text: Marguerite Long

text: Maurice Béjart

text: Principal dancer

text: Harald Lander

text: Paris Opera

text: Rudolf Nureyev

text: Cyril Atanassoff

text: Fernando Bujones

text: Merce Cunningham

text: Lucinda Childs

text: Douglas Dunn

text: Andy Degroat

text: Félix Blaska

text: Dominique Bagouet

text: Daniel Larrieu

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Georges Balanchine

text: Jerome Robbins

text: Serge Lifar

text: Roland Petit

text: Francine Lancelot

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Merce Cunningham

text: Paris Opera

text: Odile Rouquet

text: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

text: Noëlle Simonet

text: Cinémathèque française de la Danse

text: Nice

text: Leuven

text: Montreal

text: Tokyo

text: Osaka

text: Prague

text: Damascus

text: National Order of Merit

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Gérard-Georges Lemaire

text: Jean Guizerix

text: Noëlle Simonet

text: Monique Duquesne

text: Francette Levieux

text: Théophile Gautier

text: Wilfride Piollet

categories: 1943 births,French ballerinas,French choreographers,2015 deaths,Contemporary dance choreographers,People from Drôme,French female dancers

paragraph: Wilfride Piollet

paragraph: Wilfride Piollet (28 April 1943 – 20 January 2015) was a French ballerina and choreographer. She was born in Saint-Rambert-d'Albon. Her philosophy of dance and her research led to the publication of several books. Piollet joined the Paris Opera Ballet company in 1960. She gained the rank "coryphée" in 1963, "sujet" in 1964, soloist in 1966, and was promoted to principal dancer (étoile) in 1969. In 1973, "Nouvelle lune c-à-d" (Andy Degroat) was created for her retirement of the Paris Opera. Invited as a guest by Rudolf Nureyev, she danced at the Paris Opera until 1990, the year when Jean Guizerix left ("Carte Blanche"). At the Paris Opera and worldwide, she performed the classical, neo-classical and contemporary repertory, and from the 1980s, the Baroque and Renaissance ones. She ended her dance career in 2003 with a piece on Isadora Duncan's dances studied with Madeleine Lytton, and performed with Jean Guizerix.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Wilfride Piollet attended the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1955 and was integrated into the "corps de ballet" of the Paris Opera Ballet five years later. By 1969, she was named Danseuse Etoile, and in 1983, she left. She began teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1989. Main teachers were:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ballet : Lioubov Egorova, Marguerite Guillaumin, Vera Volkova, Yves Brieux, Serge Perrault, Serge Peretti

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jazz : Gene Robinson

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mime : Georges Wague

paragraph: BULLET::::- Piano : Marguerite Long

paragraph: Maurice Béjart gave her her first soloist role in "Noces" in 1965. She was promoted to the rank of Principal dancer in Harald Lander's "Etudes" in 1969. She performed at the Paris Opera and throughout the world the leading roles of the classical repertory ("Giselle", "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Coppelia"…) with amongst others, Rudolf Nureyev, Cyril Atanassoff, and Fernando Bujones.

paragraph: Interested in contemporary creations of Merce Cunningham, Lucinda Childs, Douglas Dunn, Andy Degroat, Félix Blaska, Dominique Bagouet and Daniel Larrieu, she formed a duet on stage and in everyday life with her husband Jean Guizerix .

paragraph: She also danced the neoclassical works of Georges Balanchine ("Agon"…), Jerome Robbins ("En sol"…), Serge Lifar ("Suite en Blanc"…) and Roland Petit ("Notre-Dame de Paris"…).

paragraph: From 1977 onwards, she choreographed her own pieces such as "The Wooden Prince", "Eight Hungarian Dances", "Fox", "Lettera amorosa", "Dam'Oisel", "Momerie", "Figurative Ballet", "Penthésilée", and "The Conspiracy".

paragraph: In 1986, she danced in the Baroque creation "Atys" of Francine Lancelot.

paragraph: Between 1986 and 2003 she ran with Jean Guizerix the Piollet-Guizerix company presenting choreographies like "Gondolages", "Giselle échappée", "L'éléphant et les faons", "Tierce galante" ...

paragraph: From 1989 to 2008, she taught her pioneering training method and Ballet repertory at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP).

paragraph: She made a books series for children and their teachers called "Les gestes de Lilou". In 2008, it was uploaded online and published in 2012 by Clef de Sole.

paragraph: From 1990 onwards, she started to recreate some standards of the ballet repertory ("Coppélia" ... ) and to carry on her choreographic practice in different shapes and forms: "Le petit Atelier", "Romance", "L'Amour médecin" (2005) for the Comédie-Française, and "Anonymes" (2006), for the National School of Circus Art ( l'Ecole Nationale des Arts du Cirque) at Rosny-sous-bois. After 2009, she worked with the Strasbourg Conservatoire (conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Strasbourg) (commissioned works, conferences, pedagogy).

paragraph: She married Jean Guizerix.

paragraph: Section::::Research.

paragraph: In 1973, while working with Merce Cunningham for the "Un jour ou deux creation" at the Paris Opera, she realised after a class that her movements were much easier than after a traditional warm-up. From then on, she stopped working at the barre and started straight in the middle of the studio. This would be the beginning of a whole research process which led her to devise a pioneering technique in movement understanding called "Flexible Barres".

paragraph: Working on body memory and the use of imaginary, she entirely rethought dancer training, developing a practice out of any specific aesthetic. She was particularly influenced by the notions of AFCMD ("analyse fonctionnelle du corps dans le mouvement dansé" - body and dance movement functional analysis), drawn from her collaboration with Odile Rouquet and her encounter with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

paragraph: Section::::Pedagogy.

paragraph: Since 1990, she has collaborated with Noëlle Simonet to write in Laban notation the exercises of her method. At the CNSMDP she is supervising the analysis work of Claire Roucolle (2005), Linièle Chane and Kyung-eun Shim (2008) for their final exams in Laban Notation.

paragraph: She takes part in dance related events and gives conferences in France and worldwide, such as "Sur la trace des Dames Blanches", commissioned by the Cinémathèque française de la Danse(Dance videos center).

paragraph: Several university dissertations were inspired by her conception of dance:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bachelors

paragraph: BULLET::::- Élodie Bergerault, 1999, Université Paris VIII - "Wilfride Piollet, une pédagogie, un regard d'élève"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christophe Duveau, 2004, Faculté de Lettres Nice Sophia-Antipolis - "La méthode de Wilfride Piollet" (précédé d'un Mémoire en analyse fonctionnelle du mouvement dansé, en 1997 - "Le rôle du toucher dans les appuis sur le corps")

paragraph: BULLET::::- Masters

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michel de Saint Rapt, 2005, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand - "Wilfride Piollet : Quel corps fait-elle danser?"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thesis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nadège Tardieu, 2006, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand - "Savoirs en construction dans la danse classique de Wilfride Piollet: Anthropologie de la transmission"

paragraph: From 1990, she was frequently invited to present her work in several universities, arts institutes and international training centers, especially in Nice, Leuven, Montreal, Tokyo, Osaka, Prague and Damascus. In 2002-2003, she became a member of the network led by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and La Rochelle University Society, and supported by the Research Ministry and the DMDTS of the Culture and Communication Ministry called: "Le mouvement dansé : recherches pluridisciplinaires et processus de création"(Dancing movement: pluridisciplinary research and creative process). She was also a member of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Pratiques Corporelles (Labracor), at the Blaise Pascal University (Clermont 2) in Clermont-Ferrand.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: Piollet received the distinction of Commander, National Order of Merit in 1989; and in 2008, she joined its board. From 2010, she was the vice president of artistic higher education at Le Pôle supérieur d'enseignement artistique Paris Boulogne-Billancourt (PSPBB).

paragraph: Section::::Selected works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1986 : "Parallèle", Wilfride Piollet and Jean Guizerix, Alain Bordas. Book about their lives as interprets.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999 : "Rendez-vous sur tes barres flexibles", Wilfride Piollet, in collaboration with Gérard-Georges Lemaire and Jean Guizerix and "Barres flexibles" (Scores notated by Noëlle Simonet, Claire Bernard, Monique Duquesne, realisation: Francette Levieux). Oiseau de Feu Editions. The first book deals with movement reading and the second is dedicated to the exercises of her training technique. They were reedited by [Editions Sens et Tonka] and [l'Une et l'Autre Editions] in 2005-2008.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012 : "Wilfride Piollet Jean Guizerix, Giselle" published by [l'Une et l'Autre Editions]. Text by Théophile Gautier for the ballet "Giselle" from the original edition "Les beautés de l'Opéra" published in 1844.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wilfride Piollet at Clefdesole

description: French dancer

wikidata_label: Wilfride Piollet

wikipedia_title: Wilfride Piollet


text: Welsh

text: fashion design

text: Romantic

text: Dowlais

text: Merthyr Tydfil

text: London

text: Wales

text: civil service

text: Strict Baptist

text: Welsh language

text: Croydon

text: World War II

text: Aberdare

text: Women's Royal Naval Service

text: Bernard Ashley

text: Wallington

text: India

text: Gurkhas

text: London

text: Pimlico

text: Women's Institute

text: Victoria & Albert Museum

text: mail order

text: John Lewis

text: City

text: Kent

text: Wales

text: Machynlleth

text: Montgomeryshire

text: Carno

text: Montgomeryshire

text: Château de Remaisnil

text: Picardy

text: Brussels

text: Lyford Cay

text: Bahamas

text: West Midlands

text: Coventry

text: brain haemorrhage

text: Carno

text: cancer

text: Laura Ashley company

text: Macromedia Flash

text: in the FMD

text: National gallery

text: Designer portrait on Rosenthalusa.com

categories: Welsh fashion designers,Accidental deaths from falls,People from Dowlais,Burials in Wales,Welsh women in business,1985 deaths,Accidental deaths in England,1925 births,20th-century Welsh businesspeople,Women company founders,British fashion designers,British textile designers

paragraph: Laura Ashley

paragraph: Laura Ashley (7 September 1925 – 17 September 1985) was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English designs — often with a 19th-century rural feel — and the use of natural fabrics.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, her Welsh parents lived in London, her mother returned home to allow Laura Mountney to be born in Wales at her grandmother's home, 31 Station Terrace, She was raised in a civil service family as a Strict Baptist. The chapel she attended in Dowlais (Hebron) was Welsh language and although she could not understand it, she loved it, especially the singing. Educated at Marshall's School in Merthyr Tydfil until 1932, she was then sent to the Elmwood School, Croydon. She was evacuated back to Wales aged 13, but with so many World War II evacuees there were no school places left and she attended Aberdare Secretarial School.

paragraph: In 1942, at age 16, she left school and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service. During this period she met engineer Bernard Ashley at a youth club in Wallington. After the war, Bernard was posted to India with the Gurkhas, and the pair corresponded by letter. From 1945 to 1952, she worked as a secretary for the National Federation of Women's Institutes in London, marrying Bernard in 1949.

paragraph: Section::::The company.

paragraph: While working as a secretary and raising her first two children, Ashley undertook some development work for the Women's Institute on quilting. Revisiting the craft she had learnt with her grandmother, she began designing headscarves, napkins, table mats and tea-towels which Bernard printed on a machine he had designed in their attic flat at 83 Cambridge Street, Pimlico.

paragraph: The couple had invested £10 in wood for the screen frame, dyes and a few yards of linen. Ashley's inspiration to start producing printed fabric came from a Women's Institute display of traditional handicrafts at the Victoria & Albert Museum. When Ashley looked for small patches carrying Victorian designs to help her make patchworks, she found no such thing existed. Here was an opportunity, and she started to print Victorian style headscarves in 1953.

paragraph: The scarves quickly became successful – retailing both via mail order and at high street chains such as John Lewis – and Bernard left his City job to print fabrics full-time. The company was originally registered as Ashley Mountney (Laura's maiden name), but Bernard changed the name to Laura Ashley because he felt a woman's name was more appropriate for the type of products they were producing. The new company moved to Kent in 1955, but when the third of their four children was born, the family moved to Wales in 1960.

paragraph: Laura Ashley's first shop was opened at 35 Maengwyn Street, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, in 1961. The Laura Ashley association is commemorated by a small plaque. The shop sold locally produced honey, walking sticks as well as the couple's own products. Here Laura worked with a seamstress to introduce their first forays into fashion, producing smock like shirts and gardening smocks. The family lived above the shop until moving to Carno, Montgomeryshire. They first set up in the vacant social club, but moved in 1967 to the local railway station, which had been closed two years earlier.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Laura and Bernard Ashley had four children who were all involved with the business. David (born 1954/55), the eldest son, designed the shops; one of the daughters, Jane, was the company photographer; another daughter, Emma, and their second son, Nick, were part of the company's fashion design team. Bernard was the company chairman and Laura kept a close eye on fabrics. The astonishing success of what proved to be the ultimate cottage industry meant that the Ashleys could afford a yacht, a private plane, the French Château de Remaisnil in Picardy, a town-house in Brussels, and the villa "Contenta" in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas, later purchased for $8.5 million by T. J. Maloney.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.:Death.

paragraph: In 1985, just after her 60th birthday, Laura Ashley fell down the stairs of her daughter's home in the West Midlands and was taken to hospital in Coventry, where she died ten days later of a brain haemorrhage. She is buried in the churchyard of St John the Baptist, in Carno, Wales.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Two months after her death in 1985, Laura Ashley Holdings went public in a flotation that was 34 times oversubscribed. A memorial plaque to Laura Ashley, at the family's former home 83 Cambridge Street, Pimlico was unveiled on 5 July 1994.

paragraph: Sir Bernard Ashley died of cancer on 14 February 2009.

paragraph: Section::::Foundation.

paragraph: The Laura Ashley Foundation was set up in 1987, to help individuals realise their potential and release talent. The Ashley family are actively involved in its day-to-day running.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Laura Ashley company (requires Macromedia Flash)

paragraph: BULLET::::- in the FMD Ashley's entry in the Fashion Model Directory

paragraph: BULLET::::- National gallery portraits

paragraph: BULLET::::- Funding Universe article on Laura Ashley plc

paragraph: BULLET::::- Designer portrait on Rosenthalusa.com

description: Welsh designer of textiles, clothing, and home furnishings

wikidata_label: Laura Ashley

wikipedia_title: Laura Ashley


text:
John Willison
George Dempster of Dunnichen
Rome
Raphael Mengs
Royal Academy
East India Company
Nawab of Arcot
Raja of Tanjore
Valentine Green
James Watson

categories: 1797 deaths,1741 births,18th-century Scottish people,Scottish male painters,18th-century Scottish painters

paragraph: George Willison (artist)

paragraph: George Willison (1741–1797) was a Scottish portrait-painter. He is best known for his works done in India.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was a son of David Willison, an Edinburgh printer and publisher, and grandson of John Willison. His uncle George Dempster of Dunnichen sent him to Rome to study art. There from 1760 to 1767, he worked initially under Raphael Mengs. On his return he settled in London.

paragraph: Willison went to India and painted portraits, including those of some Indian princes and their families. He returned to Edinburgh, having acquired a large fortune in jewels. There he continued to paint, and died in April 1797.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: In 1756 Willison was awarded a prize for a drawing of flowers by the Edinburgh Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and Sciences, and in the two following years his name again figured in the prize-list. Between 1767 and 1777, he exhibited about 25 portraits at the Royal Academy.

paragraph: In India he painted officials of the East India Company. He spent an extended period at the court of the Nawab of Arcot. There he produced a series of portraits that were destined for the British political supporters of the Nawab. He also worked for the Nawab's rival the Raja of Tanjore.

paragraph: A number of Willison's portraits were engraved by Valentine Green and James Watson.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

description: artist

wikidata_label: George Willison

wikipedia_title: George Willison (artist)


text:
Martinengo
Nice, France

categories: 1834 births,Italian inventors,1903 deaths

paragraph: Giuseppe Murnigotti

paragraph: Giuseppe Murnigotti (Martinengo,1834 – 1903) was an Italian inventor of the motorcycle. He died in Nice, France.

paragraph: Over the course of his life, Murnigotti filed patent applications for five inventions. Of these, the third, filed in 1879, described the design of a motorcycle running on gaseous combustion (suggesting the use of hydrogen) and a tricycle with the same engine and the ability to carry two passengers. Murnigotti never built a prototype, but a model can be found in the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

description: inventor from Italy

wikidata_label: Giuseppe Murnigotti

wikipedia_title: Giuseppe Murnigotti


text: russified

text: von

text: Portuguese

text: German

text: physician

text: Russian-American Company

text: Hawaii

text: Russian Empire

text: Schäffer affair

text: Empire of Brazil

text: German Brazilian

text: Münnerstadt

text: Bavaria

text: Franconia

text: distillery

text: Würzburg

text: Juliusspital

text: Napoleon's invasion of Russia

text: Frantz Leppich

text: combat balloon

text: New Archangel

text: Sitka, Alaska

text: Russian-American Company

text: Alexander Baranov

text: Hawaii

text: Kaumualii

text: Kauai

text: Kamehameha

text: Saint Petersburg

text: Native Hawaiians

text: rouble

text: Denmark

text: Emperor

text: Alexander I

text: congress in Aachen

text: Ioannis Kapodistrias

text: preemptive strike

text: Peter Dobell

text: Anders Ljungstedt

text: consulate

text: Liholiho

text: Brazil

text: Bahia

text: Ilhéus

text: Frankfurt

text: major

text: plenipotentiary

text: Pedro I of Brazil

text: German emigration to Brazil

text: São Leopoldo

text: Novo Hamburgo

text: Carlos Oberacker

text: Cossacks

text: marquis

text: Jacarandá

text: Nikolay Bolkhovitinov

text: Istoriya Russkoy Ameriki

text: Alaska: A History of the 49th State

text: Johann Jakob von Tschudi

text: Reisen durch Südamerika, Volumes 3–4

categories: 1836 deaths,German military doctors,1779 births

paragraph: Georg Anton Schäffer

paragraph: Georg Anton Schäffer (rarely russified as "Yegor Nikolayevich" or "Egor Antonovich" "Sheffer"; "von Schaeffer" in Portuguese sources; 27 January 1779 – 1836) was a German physician in the employ of the Russian-American Company who attempted to conquer Hawaii for the Company and, ultimately, the Russian Empire. The bloodless Schäffer affair (1815–1817) or the Hawaiian spectacular, as it was called by contemporary Russians, became a significant financial blunder for the Company.

paragraph: In the 1820s Schäffer became an agent of the Empire of Brazil and recruited thousands of German emigrants, the ancestors of many members of the present-day German Brazilian community, for resettlement in Brazil.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Georg Anton Schäffer was born at Münnerstadt, Bavaria on 27 January 1779 , in the Franconia region , as son of a distillery owner . He studied medicine at Würzburg's Juliusspital College of Medicine. He joined Imperial Russian service as a surgeon, serving in Moscow before 1812. During the Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812) he was involved in Frantz Leppich's ill-fated combat balloon project. In 1813, he was a ship surgeon on board the "Suvorov". Disagreements with the captain prompted Schäffer to disembark the ship in New Archangel (present day Sitka, Alaska). Governor of the Russian-American Company, Alexander Baranov, who also happened to be at odds with "Suvorov"'s captain, hired Schäffer into the Company's service.

paragraph: Section::::Schäffer affair.

paragraph: In 1815 Schäffer sailed to Hawaii to retrieve the Company goods seized by Kaumualii, chief of Kauai island. A simple mission led by an inexperienced but ambitious physician unfolded into a major blunder for the Company. Kaumualii, who sought outside help in his domestic rivalry with king Kamehameha, invited Schäffer to his island and manipulated him into believing that the Russian-American Company could easily take over and colonize Hawaii. Schäffer, "losing all touch with reality", planned a full-blown naval assault of the rest of Hawaiian islands and sought support for his "conquest" in Saint Petersburg. Mounting resistance of Native Hawaiians and American traders forced Schäffer to admit defeat and leave Hawaii in July 1817, before his triumphant reports from Kauai reached the Russian court. The Company recognized a loss of not less than 200,000 roubles but continued entertaining "The Hawaiian project" until 1821. The Company then sued Schäffer for damages, but after an inconclusive legal standoff found it easier to let him go back to Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Return to Europe.

paragraph: In July 1818 Schäffer arrived in Denmark where he learned that Emperor Alexander I left Russia to attend a congress in Aachen. He did not get through to the tsar, instead sending his reports to Nesselrode and Ioannis Kapodistrias. He pleaded the tsar to give a go-ahead for another incursion, taking Hawaii "in one blow, with such a military force that would be sufficient to both guarantee Russian possession and instill respect". Schäffer claimed that "though not of the military profession, I am quite familiar with weaponry and, moreover, I have enough experience and courage..." for the job.

paragraph: The case was delayed until Alexander's return to Russia, and again involved bureaucratic review by various state offices. In March 1819 Schaffer, fearing a final refusal, submitted another proposal. This time he demonized the Americans and their alleged goal of pushing the Russians out of the region, one colony at a time. According to Schäffer, leaving Hawaii to the Americans would spell a loss of all Russian possessions in the region. A preemptive strike at Hawaii, he wrote, was essential to retain the Russian America. The directors of the Company continued raising similar proposals, until Nesselrode voiced his and Alexander's firm aversion against any conflicts in the Pacific.

paragraph: Remnants of the Hawaiian project promoted by Peter Dobell and Anders Ljungstedt circulated inside the Company until 1821. Matvey Myravyov, the Governor of the Russian-American Company in 1820–1825, closed the debate saying that "Schäffer staged a funny comedy and the Company paid dearly for it. I do not think that it can ever be played again. As for merely having a midway harbor and a supply of fresh food — there are no and there will be no obstacles to it anyway."

paragraph: The Company attempted suing Schäffer for damages but he counter-attacked, demanding reimbursement for his alleged business expenses, and in the end the Company found it easier to simply let him go back to Germany. By this time the United States established a permanent consulate in Honolulu; Kaumualii, the only ally of Russians, was subdued by Kamehameha's son and successor Liholiho.

paragraph: Section::::Brazilian adventures.

paragraph: Instead of settling in Europe, in 1821 Schäffer organized a group of 47 Germans aspiring to flee their homeland and took them on a journey across the Atlantic, to Brazil. Schäffer's group was granted lands in Bahia and set up Frankenthal, the first successful German settlement in Brazil (present-day Ilhéus).

paragraph: In September 1822 the Brazilian government dispatched Schäffer to Frankfurt to recruit more European settlers. He arrived in 1823, styling himself as a major and a plenipotentiary of Dom Pedro I of Brazil. This mission effectively launched the German emigration to Brazil. Schäffer was credited with bringing 5,000 Germans over five years (1824–1828). They settled in rural colonies; some of these ultimately failed (e.g. São João das Missões), others (São Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo) exist to date. Schäffer's Germans also formed the core of the first foreign units of the emerging Brazilian Army: all unmarried men landing in Brazil faced compulsory military service, a fact that Schäffer did not advertise in advance (his German recruits had to sign a thorough eight-part contract that did not mention the draft obligations). Carlos Oberacker suggested that militarization of German settlers was Schäffer's own proposal, based on his knowledge of the Russian Cossacks.

paragraph: Schäffer's unorthodox sense of reality backfired in Brazil, twice. In 1827 Schäffer returned to Brazil and applied to the king for a noble style of marquis; Dom Pedro refused, providing only a cash reward. In 1829 Schäffer demanded a different favor, this time of being appointed the Brazilian ambassador to a European court, and was rejected again.

paragraph: Schäffer stayed in Brazil despite these setbacks, until his death at Jacarandá, in 1836.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::References.:Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nikolay Bolkhovitinov (1973). Adventures of Doctor Schäffer in Hawaii, 1815–1819. "Hawaiian Journal of History", 1973 volume 7 pp. 55–78.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nikolay Bolkhovitinov (1997, in Russian). Istoriya Russkoy Ameriki ("История Русской Америки"). . Volume 2, chapter 7, pp. 276–302: "Russians on the Hawaii, 1804–1825". Contains a revised version of the 1973 article on the "Adventures of Doctor Schäffer in Hawaii".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee B Croft (2012). George Anton Schaeffer: Killing Napoleon From the Air. Sphynx Publications. . pp. 14, 53.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee B Croft (2012). George Anton Schaeffer: Arm Wrestling Kamehameha. Sphynx Publications. .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee B Croft (2012). George Anton Schaeffer: Shipping Germans to Brazil. Sphynx Publications. . p. 141.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gavan Daws (1968). Shoal of time: a history of the Hawaiian Islands. University of Hawaii Press. , . pp. 49–53.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lars Degen (2008, in German). Aspekte deutscher Auswanderung nach Lateinamerika: Das Beispiel Brasilien. GRIN Verlag. ,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Angela Maria de Castro Gomes (2002, in Portuguese. Histórias de imigrantes e de imigração no Rio de Janeiro. 7Letras. ,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Neill Macaulay (1986). Dom Pedro: the struggle for liberty in Brazil and Portugal, 1798–1834. Duke University Press. , . p. 188

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter R. Mills (2002). Hawaii's Russian adventure: a new look at old history. University of Hawaii Press. , .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Claus Naske, Herman E. Slotnick (1994). Alaska: A History of the 49th State. Oklahoma University Press. , .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1867, in German). Reisen durch Südamerika, Volumes 3–4. F. A. Brockhaus.

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wikidata_label: Georg Anton Schäffer

wikipedia_title: Georg Anton Schäffer


text: John Joseph Merlin

text: Qianlong Emperor

text: Christie's

text: Admiralty Arch

text: James Boswell

text: Samuel Johnson

text: Frances Burney

text: Evelina

text: Richard Sheridan

text: The Rivals

text: Oliver Cromwell's head

text: Mansion House

text: Lord Mayor

text: John Henry

text: Canton

text: Daniel Beale

text: Thomas

text: State Hermitage Museum

text: Saint Petersburg

text: Silver Swan

text: Merlin

text: Bowes Museum

text: Barnard Castle

text: King Farouk of Egypt

text: Bonhams

text: "The Peacock Clock"

text: "Snuffbox watch"

text: "necessaire, watch"

text: "The Silver Swan"

paragraph: James Cox (inventor)

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Cox's career as a jeweler began as early as 1751, and his automatons were designed by artists like Joseph Nollekens and Johann Zoffany. In the 1760s John Joseph Merlin became his apprentice. Though he proclaimed himself a goldsmith, he employed a number of jewelers and manufacturers who may have done much of the work; that he was never a member of the goldsmith's guild further substantiates the claim that he subcontracted his work. Cox specialized in intricate clockwork curios encrusted with gold, silver, and jewels, referred to as "sing-songs." His primary market was the Far East, especially India and China, and the Chinese Qianlong Emperor possessed one of his automata, in the shape of a chariot. Cox's popularity was important to British trade: the tea trade ensured that British imports far outweighed their exports to China, and Cox helped redress the imbalance. His sing-songs initially reduced British trade deficit, but in the early 1770s Cox was stuck with a large inventory and a flooded eastern market. He liquidated some of his stock at Christie's in 1772, and used the remaining inventory to start his museum.

paragraph: Section::::Cox's Museum.

paragraph: In the 1770s Cox managed a private museum in the Great Room at Spring Gardens, London. He had been exhibiting his wares since at least 1769, though the official museum opened only in February, 1772. The site is near the Admiralty Arch, and would be the among the most popular exhibition halls in London for the next half-century. Cox's Museum was so memorable that it was customary to refer to the room as "formerly Cox's Museum," and during the museum's run from 1772 to 1776 Cox's display eclipsed all other exhibits. His skill at advertising no doubt played a role in building the museum's popularity. Cox produced several catalogues and a collection of verses praising his museum, which had first been published in various London newspapers (some were probably planted by Cox).

paragraph: Cox's Museum was among the most expensive exhibitions in London, and the price was purportedly to limit the number of patrons for security reasons. The museum was popular among London's upper classes and literati: James Boswell visited in 1772, at the recommendation of Samuel Johnson, and Frances Burney stages a debate about the uses of art at Cox's, in her novel "Evelina". Playwright Richard Sheridan pays tribute to Cox's Museum in The Rivals. As proprietor of the museum Cox may have purchased Oliver Cromwell's head as a curiosity.

paragraph: Though he hoped for royal patronage, and displayed, as was common, royal portraits in the museum, Cox never achieved his goal. In 1773 a special Act of Parliament authorised Cox to break up his collection and sell pieces by lottery. The museum was removed from Spring Gardens in 1775, and after being briefly displayed at Mansion House by the Lord Mayor, was dissolved and sold by lottery in May 1775.

paragraph: Section::::Later career.

paragraph: In 1778 Cox went bankrupt for the second time. Cox despatched his son John Henry to Canton, China in 1782 to sell off an accumulated stock. In Canton, both James and John Henry became partners with Daniel Beale and his brother Thomas in the firm of Cox & Beale. Cox remained in business as a retailer, if no longer as an artist or manufacturer, until his death.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Among Cox's best known works are the Peacock Clock, now in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and the Silver Swan, built by Cox in 1773 in conjunction with Merlin, which is now exhibited at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham. The swan, which can raise its neck, turn its head and (seemingly) pick up small fish, still functions, as is demonstrated daily.

paragraph: At the time of the May 1775 lottery, a pair of diamond earrings garnered much attention, with Cox offering to buy them back from the winner for £5000. A musical clock designed by Cox, and previously owned by King Farouk of Egypt, sold on 12 December 2012 at a Bonhams London sale for £385,250 ($577,547).

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yuna Zek, Antonina Balina, Mikhail Guryev, Yuri Semionov: "The Peacock Clock" - photos, history and description of the peacock clock at hermitagemuseum.org

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Snuffbox watch", "necessaire, watch" - pictures of two exhibits of the "Victoria and Albert Museum"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Silver Swan" - web site of the "Bowes Museum"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography of James Cox from Princeton University Rare Books #4848706

description: British jeweller

wikidata_label: James Cox

wikipedia_title: James Cox (inventor)


text:
Welsh
rock
UFO
Lone Star
indestructible qualities
Skid Row
Gary Moore
Melody Maker
Phenomenon
BBC
Lone Star
Michael Schenker
Rush
live album
Strangers in the Night
No Place To Run
Beatles
George Martin
Hammersmith Odeon
The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent
Mechanix
Making Contact
compilation album
Florida
United States
Pete Way
Waysted
The Good the Bad the Waysted
Nazareth
Virgin Steele
Jack Starr
Pete Way
Fin
Robin McAuley
Palm Bay
American
southern rock
Gator Country
Molly Hatchet
Killer Bee
Melbourne, Florida

categories: British rock guitarists,UFO (band) members,Musicians from Cardiff,Welsh rock musicians,British male guitarists,1954 births,Living people

paragraph: Paul Chapman (musician)

paragraph: Paul William "Tonka" Chapman (born 9 June 1954) is a Welsh rock guitarist best known for his work in bands such as UFO and Lone Star. Chapman is well known by his nickname "Tonka", allegedly acquired because of his indestructible qualities.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Chapman’s first notable band was the Welsh outfit Universe. Chapman then joined Skid Row in December 1971 replacing Gary Moore as guitarist. His tenure was fairly short and only lasted until July 1972. His next band was Kimla Taz, with whom he was guitarist from December 1972 to May 1974.

paragraph: Chapman first joined UFO in 1974 as a second guitarist to augment their live sound having answered an advert in UK's music paper, "Melody Maker". He auditioned at the Unity Theatre in London. Although Chapman did not record an album during this period, he did join in time to tour and promote the "Phenomenon" album. However, he can be heard with the band on several tracks on the BBC live sessions album that was released retrospectively. He left UFO in January 1975 due to personal differences with the band, and went on to form Lone Star, where he remained until June 1978.

paragraph: In 1977, he filled in for Michael Schenker in UFO when they were on tour with Rush in the United States during one of the German guitarist's absences.

paragraph: Section::::The UFO years.

paragraph: After resuming with Lone Star following the tour, Chapman later rejoined UFO in December 1978 on a full-time basis after Schenker and UFO parted company. By this time UFO were an international success, and were about to release their live album, "Strangers in the Night" which would increase their profile even further. Chapman is acknowledged on the album.

paragraph: Chapman recorded his first album with UFO – "No Place To Run" - with ex-Beatles producer George Martin; which was released in January 1980. UFO undertook a tour to promote it culminating in a five night sell out at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.

paragraph: Chapman remained in UFO until 1983 and played on another three albums, "The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent" (1981); "Mechanix" (1982); and "Making Contact". In 1983, after numerous line-up changes UFO decided to call it a day and the tour was promoted as a farewell tour (although they subsequently reformed the following year). UFO released a compilation album later that year incorporating songs featuring various of their members in other bands. Chapman was represented by a Lone Star song. The album was completed by several songs recorded live on the farewell tour.

paragraph: Section::::Post UFO.

paragraph: After the tour, Chapman went to Florida, United States to form a new band DOA. He later hooked up with former UFO band member Pete Way in Waysted and recorded the albums "The Good the Bad the Waysted" and "Save your Prayers". After this Chapman founded Ghost in 1993, fronted by another Welshman, Carl Sentance.

paragraph: In 1993, Chapman was lined-up as the guitarist for a reformed UFO, but Michael Schenker was employed instead.

paragraph: Chapman released an album, "Anthology Volume One", on his own Paul Chapman Enterprises label, which covered his career from Lonestar through to Ghost. A solo instrumental track, "The Bells of Berlin" appeared as part of the December 2000 archive Waysted collection "Your Prayers Are Saved".

paragraph: He played on a Nazareth tribute album released in 2001, "Another Hair Of The Dog", on two tracks "This Flight Tonight" and "Let Me Be Your Dog".

paragraph: His next appearance was in late 2002, when he guested with former Virgin Steele guitarist Jack Starr's new band project, Jack Starr and the Guardians of the Flame, for the February 2003 album, "Under A Savage Sky". Following this Chapman and Pete Way reformed Waysted along with original singer Fin. After completing a new album Chapman resigned from the band in November 2004.

paragraph: Nothing was heard from Chapman (he became a music instructor at Florida Discount Music in Melbourne, Florida) until May 2006, when he announced he was planning to re-record classic UFO songs. He enlisted the help of Robin McAuley who sang on versions of "No Place To Run", "Wild, Willing & Innocent" and "The Writer" cut at Garudio Studios in Palm Bay. The project has yet to see the light of day.

paragraph: In July 2006, Chapman joined the American southern rock band Gator Country, a seasoned collection of Molly Hatchet veterans due to the passing of the original Molly Hatchet guitarist Duane Roland.

paragraph: In 2015 Paul went out for a 10-week US Tour with the Swedish/Canadian band Killer Bee and he also recorded on their album Eye In The Sky.

paragraph: Currently, Chapman teaches music one-on-one at his studio in downtown Melbourne, Florida.

description: British musician

wikidata_label: Paul Chapman

wikipedia_title: Paul Chapman (musician)


text:
Benedictine
Echternach Abbey
relic
Willibrord
Walcheren
Frisia
Baldwin of Flanders
Article

categories: Christian hagiographers,Abbots of Echternach,1110 deaths,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Thiofrid of Echternach

paragraph: Thiofrid (died 1110) was the Benedictine abbot of Echternach Abbey, and writer of works in several different areas. He is one of the few medieval writers to discuss the cult of relics, in his "Flores epytaphii sanctorum".

paragraph: He wrote on Willibrord; in connection with the link between Walcheren, where a church was dedicated to Willibrord, and Echternach. Thiofrid travelled to Frisia to mediate between the inhabitants and a son of Baldwin of Flanders.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hans-Joachim Reischmann (editor and translator) (1989), "Willibrord, Apostel der Friesen: Seine Vita nach Alkuin und Thiofrid"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gernot Wieland, "The Hermeneutic Style of Thiofrid of Echternach", pp. 27–45, in Sian Echard and Gernot R. Wieland (editors), "Anglo-Latin and its Heritage: Essays in Honour of A.G. Rigg on his 64th Birthday" (2001)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Michele Ferrari, "Gold und Asche. Reliquie und Reliquiare als Medien in Thiofrid von Echternachs ‘Flores epytaphii sanctorum’", pp. 61–74. in Bruno Reudenbach and Gia Toussaint (editors) "Reliquiare im Mittelalter" (2005)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article

description: Christian hagiographer

wikidata_label: Thiofrid of Echternach

wikipedia_title: Thiofrid of Echternach


text:
Italian
Renaissance humanist
Egyptian hieroglyphs
allegory
Belluno
Urbano Bolzanio
Giorgio Valla
Marcantinio Sabellico
Muses
Leoico Tomeo
Doge
Andrea Gritti
Padua
Venice
Near East
Aldo Manuzio
Verona
War of the League of Cambrai
Egidio di Viterbo
Pope Julius II
Limana
Emperor Maximilian
Pope Leo X
Ippolito de' Medici
papal court
Pope Clement VII
Raphael
Michelangelo
Titian
Pope Adrian VI
protonotary apostolic
Giorgio Vasari
Alessandro Farnese
Ippolito de' Medici
Sack of Rome
Pope Clement VII
cardinal
Giorgio Vasari
Cesare Ripa
Iconologia
Horapollo
Basel
Latin
poetry
pear
concrete poetry
England
Gabriel Harvey

categories: 16th-century Latin-language writers,1558 deaths,People from Belluno,Italian Renaissance humanists,Italian poets,1477 births,Italian male poets

paragraph: Pierio Valeriano Bolzani

paragraph: Pierio Valeriano (1477–1558), born Giovanni Pietro dalle Fosse, was a prominent Italian Renaissance humanist, specializing in the early study of Egyptian hieroglyphs. His most famous works were "On the Ill Fortune of Learned Men (De litteratorum infelicitate)" and "Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris Aegyptiorvm literis commentarii", a study on hieroglyphics and their use in allegory.

paragraph: Section::::Early life (1477-1509).

paragraph: Valeriano was born in Belluno, Italy on 2 February 1477 to a poor family. His father, Lorenzo, was a craftsman who died around 1492, leaving a widow and four children in poverty with a young Valeriano as head of the household.

paragraph: He began his schooling in Belluno at the public school of Giosippo Faustino, a man who Valeriano would later describe as a gifted and talented teacher. Valeriano remembered his schooling fondly, but constantly felt the burden of supporting his family.

paragraph: Around 1493, Valeriano was brought to Venice by his uncle Fra Urbano Bolzanio, a well-connected Franciscan friar and authority on the Greek language. Bolzanio taught the young Valeriano Greek, and made it possible for him to study under some of Venice's finest teachers at the time including Giorgio Valla and Marcantinio Sabellico. It was Sabellico that changed Valeriano's name in honor of the Pierian Muses.

paragraph: Around 1500 he moved to Padua to study under Leoico Tomeo. Here, through the connections of his uncle, Valeriano met and tutored the son of the future Doge of Venice, Andrea Gritti. From 1500 to 1506, Valeriano divided his time between Padua and Venice, making important contacts such as the Ambassador of France, Ianus Lascaris and becoming firmly entrenched in Venice's scholarly circles. This time allowed him to start tuition from his uncle on his travels through the Near East. It is known that he became particularly interested by his uncle's discussions of Egyptian hieroglyphics. It was here that Valeriano also became friends with and employed by Aldo Manuzio.

paragraph: Section::::Time in Rome (1509-1531).

paragraph: In 1506 he moved to Olivé near Verona staying there until 1509 when the War of the League of Cambrai made Valeriano a refugee, forcing him to relocate to Rome. Soon after arriving in Rome, Valeriano made friends with Egidio di Viterbo, who would support his work on hieroglyphics and introduce him to powerful intellectual circles.

paragraph: In October 1509 Pope Julius II named Valeriano parish priest of Limana, a position held by Valeriano's maternal uncle, gaining him a small income. From 1509 to 1513, Valeriano struggled to gain a foothold in Rome after failing to impress both Pope Julius and Emperor Maximilian. Despite this failure, his efforts to gain patronage of the Emperor allowed his work to attain interest from Trans-Alpine humanists.

paragraph: Valeriano's fortunes changed following the election of Giovanni de Medici, a former pupil of his uncle Urbano, as Pope Leo X in 1513. Because of his connection to the new pope, Valeriano was soon invited to tutor his nephews including the young Ippolito de' Medici, raising him to the inner circles of the papal court.

paragraph: Leo X's pontificate (1513-1521) was a time of great popularity and patronage for humanists. Valeriano, with his vast knowledge of hieroglyphics was very popular in scholarly circles, gaining many powerful positions through both his knowledge and connections. One such position that Valeriano held was secretary to the Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, the future Pope Clement VII. During Leo's pontificate, given his new status within the Papal Court, Valeriano was given almost unlimited access to hieroglyphics and antiquities in both public and private collections. This led to notable encounters with some of the Italy's greatest painters of the time including Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian.

paragraph: After Leo X's death in 1521, Valeriano lost his papal patronage with the accession of Pope Adrian VI. The papacy of Adrian VI brought far less patronage of humanists than under Leo X and Julius II before him, causing a mass exodus of humanists from Rome in the winter and spring of 1523 including Valeriano. This did not last, and Valeriano returned to Rome and prosperity upon the accession of his former employer Giulio de' Medici, who in 1523 became Pope Clement VII.

paragraph: Under the Medici popes Valeriano attained a number of positions and titles, including, protonotary apostolic, secret chamberlain, and given a canonry in his home of Belluno. Throughout this period from 1523 to 1527, Valeriano made the most of this relative prosperity and security of income to continue his research of hieroglyphics dividing his time between Florence and Rome. Despite these movements, he continued to teach, his students during this period including Giorgio Vasari, Alessandro Farnese, and Ippolito de' Medici.

paragraph: The Sack of Rome in 1527 again forced him to move, travelling with a party including the Medici princes and others high in the papal court. Following news of the Sack, an uprising in Florence sought to overthrow the Medici rulers of that city, which caused a loss of almost all of Valeriano's possessions in both cities.

paragraph: When Pope Clement VII fell ill and was expected to die in January 1529, he named his nephew (and Valeriano's pupil) Ippolito de' Medici as cardinal. Rewarded for his loyalty, Valeriano was named secretary to the cardinal, a position that offered him relative stability. His stay in Rome did not last, with records of him being based in Padua in 1531 and settling back to Belluno in 1532.

paragraph: Section::::Retirement and legacy.

paragraph: In 1538 Valeriano was ordained as a priest and moved back to Belluno where he spent the last twenty years of his life on his scholarly projects. These included editing "Hieroglyphica", which despite being largely finished in the late 1520s, was only published in 1556, and several books on Greek grammar. Aside from a trip to Rome in 1536-1537, Valeriano would live out the rest of his days between Padua and Belluna, dying in the latter in 1558.

paragraph: Valeriano's work as a teacher inspired many including the famous writer and painter Giorgio Vasari. His largely under-appreciated "Hieroglyphica" acts as a precursor to books such as Cesare Ripa's "Iconologia", and is a guide to much Renaissance iconography.

paragraph: Section::::Notable works.

paragraph: Among his books, "De litteratorum infelicitate" (or "On the Ill Fortune of Learned Men") and "Hieroglyphica sive de sacris Aegyptiorum litteris commentarii" or "Hieroglyphics, or Commentaries on the Sacred Letters of the Egyptians" are those with the greatest legacy.

paragraph: "De litteratorum infelicitate" is a treatise on the misfortunes of learned men, containing anecdotes of their poverty, lives, and deaths. Though some of the stories are of dubious authenticity, the book provides an insight into the lives of Italian humanists in the first half of the sixteenth century.

paragraph: Valeriano's "Hieroglyphica" was written following a frenzy of popularity surrounding the rediscovery of the Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, but was not published until after the initial excitement had subsided. For its day, the "Hieroglyphica" was the most concise Renaissance dictionary of symbols, an area of increasing interest at the time. The book was influenced largely by the Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, Valeriano's lifetime of studying Egyptian antiquities throughout Italy, and by first-hand knowledge passed down by his uncle Fra Urbano. Each entry contains a dedication to various people who supported, or influenced Valeriano in his epic compendium of imagery. The Hieroglyphica was published in Basel in 1556, reprinted seven times over the next 120 years in Latin, translated into French in 1576 and 1615, and Italian in 1602.

paragraph: Valeriano was also a prolific writer of Latin poetry; in particular, a 1549 poem, "Pierus", written in the shape of a pear, is an early example of concrete poetry; it was famous enough to be known in England, where it was attacked by Gabriel Harvey. Little of this has survived and few copies remain outside of library and museum archives.

description: Italian humanist

wikidata_label: Piero Valeriano Bolzani

wikipedia_title: Pierio Valeriano Bolzani


text: London

text: Chelsea

text: Chartered Society of Designers

text: The Queen

text: Buckingham Palace

text: Eric Clapton

text: Beat Hotel

text: Harold Chapman

text: Savile Row

text: Viyella

text: Phillips-Van Heusen

text: International Wool Secretariat

text: ICI

text: John Michael

text: Beatles

text: Jean Machine

text: Royal College of Art

text: Chartered Society of Designers

text: Andrew Logan

text: Alan Flusser

text: The Rolling Stones

text: Mick Jagger

text: Rod Stewart

text: Freddie Mercury

text: Queen

text: Britt Ekland

text: Twiggy

text: Yoko Ono

text: David Bailey

text: Bianca Jagger

text: David Bowie

text: Joan Collins

text: David Niven

text: Mary Quant

text: the Princess of Wales

text: Cliff Richard

text: Cilla Black

text: Ava Gardner

text: Marlon Brando

text: Bryan Ferry

text: Dudley Moore

text: Richard Burton

text: Adam Ant

text: Ossie Clark

text: Julie Christie

text: Jerry Hall

text: Jack Nicholson

text: Ringo Starr

text: Liza Minnelli

text: Zandra Rhodes

text: Cher

text: Ritz Newspaper

text: Bill Wyman

text: Keith Richards

text: Ritz

text: Fred Segal

text: Bloomingdales

text: Rolling Stones

text: Guns N' Roses

text: Fleetwood Mac

text: Madonna

text: Jeff Beck

text: Stray Cats

text: Darryl Hall

text: John Oates

text: Van Halen

text: Gloria Estefan

text: Janet Jackson

text: Steve Miller

text: Jerry Hall

text: Hilary Alexander

text: David Bailey

text: Tamara Beckwith

text: Marquis of Bath

text: Jeff Beck

text: Leo Sayer

text: Noel Gallagher

text: John Hurt

text: 'Whispering' Bob Harris

text: Richard Young

text: harmonica

text: Django Reinhardt

text: Slim Jim Phantom

text: The Stray Cats

text: Sunset Strip

text: Chris Jagger

text: Shuggy Otis

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text: Sally Farmiloe

text: Elizabeth Hurley

text: Jerry Hall

text: Vicount Weymouth

text: Larry Adler

text: Otis Grand

text: Doris Troy

text: Slim Jim Phantom

text: Café De Paris, London

text: Leo Sayer

text: Kid Creole

text: Lynne Franks

text: Zandra Rhodes

text: Hilary Alexander

text: Sir George Martin

text: Ned Sherrin

text: Issy Van Randwyck

text: Larry Adler

text: Arts Centre in Leicester Square, London

text: Chelsea Arts club

text: 100 Club

text: swing

text: Gypsy Jazz

text: Chelsea Arts Club

text: psychedelic

text: Rick Griffin

text: Victor Moscoso

text: Mouse Kelley

text: Hapshash

text: Big Brother and the Holding Company

text: Grateful Dead

text: Quicksilver Messenger Service

text: Moby Grape

text: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

text: Captain Beefheart

text: the Doors

text: the Velvet Underground

text: Jimi Hendrix

text: Tim Buckley

text: the Yardbirds

text: Cream

text: Led Zeppelin

text: Peter Golding Jeanswear

text: Inspirational Times Rock Art Collection

text: Café de Paris (London)

text: Peter Golding Harmonica

categories: Chartered designers,English fashion designers,Year of birth missing (living people)

paragraph: Peter Golding

paragraph: Peter Golding "FCSD" created the first "designer jean" in 1970, opened his clothing store ACE on London's King's Road Chelsea in 1974 and created the world's first stretch denim jean in 1978. He was the first fashion designer to be invited to join what is now known as the Chartered Society of Designers, and in 2004 was invited by The Queen to Buckingham Palace in recognition of his contribution to British design.

paragraph: He has been described by Fashion Weekly as "the Eric Clapton of denim".

paragraph: Section::::Beginnings and the Beat Hotel, Paris.

paragraph: Golding came from an academic family background, and became a clothing industry management trainee and production manager in his teenage years. An early trip to Paris saw him busk in the streets on blues harp and guitar, and take up residence at No. 9 Git le Coeur, later known as the Beat Hotel, a renowned hangout of Anglo-American beat artists and performers. Peter features in books on the beat generation by photographers Harold Chapman and Mike Evans.

paragraph: After leaving Paris, Golding embarked on a 20,000 kilometre excursion with friend Michael Kay. The pair rode Lambretta Scooters and travelled overland to Jerusalem bofore heading on to Athens and then through Turkey and the Middle East, appearing on television in Beirut and on Radio Jordan and working as film extras.

paragraph: Section::::Fashion design and consultancy.

paragraph: On his return Golding worked for the Rael-Brook shirt company as a designer, combining his technical experience with his artistic background, before setting up Peter Golding Associates, one of the first professional fashion design consultancies with offices in Chancery Lane and later, Savile Row. He attracted international clients such as Viyella International, Phillips-Van Heusen (US), The International Institute for Cotton, The International Wool Secretariat, ICI (UK), Fabwerke Hoechst AG (Germany) and Hystron Fibers Inc (US), McGregor-Doniger (US), Barracuta (UK) among others.A series of 'firsts' followed. The introduction of the 'Peter Golding' label was with the first madras cotton shirts from India (sourced while travelling in India and Nepal)and sold through the early London boutiques – Just Men, John Michael and the Westerner and beyond with celebrity customers including the Beatles. The International Wool Secretariat promoted his designs as the first men's unconstructed clothing collection using double knit-wool jersey and also for Project Adam, chaired by Stirling Moss for the advancement of ergonomic clothing.

paragraph: In 1970 with a commission from Falmer Company Ltd he created what can be considered the world's 'first designer jean' 'Peter Golding for Falmer'.This successful line was followed in 1973 with Peter Golding bleached denim jeanswear which was distributed by Jean Machine and Mayfair Fashions in the UK. In that year Golding also exported these jeans and jackets to the United States through the Brittania Company in Seattle thus introducing the first bleached denim jeanswear to America.

paragraph: Golding was a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and was invited to join the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers which today is known as The Chartered Society of Designers of which he is a fellow and previously an assessor for student membership both in the UK and Hong Kong.

paragraph: Section::::Ace.

paragraph: In 1974, Golding opened his flagship store, ACE, in London's King's Road, with sculptures by Andrew Logan and an interior described by European Fashion Guide as "glittering":

paragraph: "This may be the "hottest" store in the world. There is nothing inside here that does not glitter: the jeans, the shirts, the walls and the people. The black walls shine under silver lights, music plays continuously, and there’s no telling what stars may pop in – Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Bianca Jagger or the Rolling Stones’...models,rock stars,movie people and lords and princesses come here for clothes that Golding designs to be both fun and sexy. Famous are the Golding jeans which fit like a second skin.."

paragraph: Alan Flusser – European Fashion Guide US 1977)

paragraph: Clients included The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury, Queen, Britt Ekland, Twiggy, Yoko Ono, David Bailey, Bianca Jagger, David Bowie, Joan Collins, David Niven, Mary Quant, the Princess of Wales, Cliff Richard, Cilla Black, Ava Gardner, Marlon Brando, Bryan Ferry, Dudley Moore, Richard Burton, Adam Ant, Ossie Clark, Julie Christie, Jerry Hall, Jack Nicholson, Ringo Starr, Liza Minnelli, Zandra Rhodes, and Cher.1984 Ritz Newspaper.The store is mentioned in Bill Wyman's "Rolling with the Stones" in an anecdote where Keith Richards attempts to try on Peter Golding stretch jeans, but instead takes several pairs on spec.

paragraph: When the store closed in 1984 an advertisement was taken out in "Ritz" magazine to thank the celebrity clientele – the "Lords and Ladies of the night" which has become known as the "Ace Goodbyes".

paragraph: Section::::Original stretch denim jean.

paragraph: PG's ACE store was the platform from which Golding created and launched the world's First Stretch Denim Jean in 1978 which was soon popular with its British and international star-studded clientele.

paragraph: Design development and early production began in the mid-1970s, as a response to the changing profile of the average jeans wearer. Golding found the solution to the demand for close-fitting jeans in a Japanese stretch indigo denim fabric (96% cotton 4% spandex) and then a sateen stretch fabric in black and plain dyed colours.

paragraph: The original product was launched in the UK through the ACE store and other outlets, but was swiftly marketed in the US with success, stocked by American celebrity retailers including Fred Segal and Bloomingdales, and worn by LA's Hollywood and music fraternity including: The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Jeff Beck, Stray Cats, Darryl Hall, John Oates, Van Halen, Gloria Estefan, Janet Jackson, Steve Miller and many others. His distinctive cuts featured his Rock Fit, Chelsea Cut, Two-way Stretch and The Original Stretch Boot Cut.

paragraph: Production of the stretch jean required an in-depth study of the performance of the fabric – namely shrinkage and stretchability and fit. The Peter Golding brand remained dedicated to the design and technology of stretch denim and other fabrics right through the eighties and nineties into the 2000s,as the brand expanded the range to include numerous jean fits, skirts, and jackets as well as his Ace inspired glamorous T-shirts and tops.

paragraph: In October 2002, Jerry Hall featured in an article by Hilary Alexander for the Daily Telegraph with photographs by David Bailey to celebrate ""The 25th Anniversary of Peter Golding's Stretch Jeans"". British society girl Tamara Beckwith then became the jean's photographic model, being featured in various press articles as well as in Hello and OK celebrity Magazines.

paragraph: Section::::Rock art collection.

paragraph: Peter Golding is also known for his collection of Rock and Roll Art – 'Inspirational Times'. The collection had its beginnings at a “happening” in   in 1967, when Golding picked up a hand-drawn poster from the ground, which grew to be one of the most comprehensive collections of its kind.

paragraph: A selection went to auction under the title 'The Peter Golding Collection of Rock & Roll Art' at Bonhams in New York in May 2008, as a first showing of its kind with a San Francisco and Los Angeles preview in April. The first publicised and curated exhibition for Inspirational Times was held in London in 2003 courtesy of Sotheby's Olympia.

paragraph: A celebrity crowd, including The Marquis of Bath, Jeff Beck, Leo Sayer, Noel Gallagher, John Hurt, 'Whispering' Bob Harris and Richard Young attended the gala opening. The evening and exhibition was extensively featured in the British press. Golding was also a major lender to Tate Liverpool’s 'Summer Of Love' exhibition in 2005, and then at The Whitney Museum New York in 2007.

paragraph: Section::::Music.

paragraph: "Peter" Golding plays the harmonica, guitar and piano. Golding’s influences are blues musicians from the USA and European jazz musicians such as Django Reinhardt. Golding played in "US" clubs and on blues cruises with fellow musicians "including" Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats at his ‘Cat Club’ on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. In 1990 his band The Ace All Stars , including Chris Jagger, Shuggy Otis and April De Silva, was invited to headline a Valentine’s Ball charity event for Mencap at The Royal Alber Hall. The event also featured actresses Sally Farmiloe and Elizabeth Hurley and Jerry Hall. Other guests included Vicount Weymouth and Larry Adler.Golding recorded his 1997 album "Stretching The Blues" with blues musicians, including Otis Grand, Doris Troy and Slim Jim Phantom with its launch as a music and fashion party at the Café De Paris, London. Friends and guests included; Leo Sayer, Kid Creole, The Marquis of Bath, Lynne Franks, Zandra Rhodes and Hilary Alexander.

paragraph: In 2001 the Adler family invited Golding to play the harmonica alongside Sir George Martin, Ned Sherrin and Issy Van Randwyck at the tribute to the late harmonica virtuoso, Larry Adler. The concert took place at the Arts Centre in Leicester Square, London.

paragraph: Golding plays Harmonica in his jump Blues band, “PG & The T-Bones”. The Band’s former residencies include the Chelsea Arts club and the 100 Club; His current band “Café Django”, describe their sound as harmonica-led swing and Gypsy Jazz. and continue to play the Chelsea Arts Club as well as other London venues.

paragraph: Section::::ICA Culture Now 2013.

paragraph: Peter Golding was invited by the Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall SW1, to participate in their 'Culture Now' lunchtime series in February 2013. He was 'in conversation' with Chris Sullivan, journalist, contemporary author and commentator, with a discussion and power point presentation of Golding's fashion and design heritage as well as his music and rock art interests.

paragraph: Section::::Rock Graphics Originals (Book).

paragraph: "Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print ‘55–’88" presents counterculture’s psychedelic poster art from its beat origins to its stadium rock zenith. Portfolios of 30+ poster artists – Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Mouse Kelley and Hapshash among them – are laid bare for all to see. For the first time, the sketchbooks and paste-ups, the printing plates and colour separations are unviled to reveal the layers of process integral to the design of each poster. "Rock Graphic Originals" is packed with more than 750 examples of posters, artworks and logos, created for the bands that epitomise their era, their sound and their scene – in San Francisco and the west coast, Detroit and New York, Swinging London and revolutionary Paris. Rock legends promoted in the posters include Big Brother and the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley, the Yardbirds, Cream, Led Zeppelin and many more.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rodney Bennett-England (1967) "Dress Optional: The Revolution in Menswear" – Publisher, Peter Owen Ltd. London

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Design Council Educational (1986) "Designers Talking: Peter Golding, Fashion Designer" :Plus VHS.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Harold Chapman (1984) "The Beat Hotel" Paris: Editor Banal Gris

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bill Wyman, (2002) "Rolling with the Stones" – Publisher, Dorling Kindersley Ltd. London

paragraph: BULLET::::- Paul Gorman, (2006) "The Look: Adventures in Rock and Pop Fashion" – Publisher, Adelita Ltd. London,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mike Evans (2007) "The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey Through the Beat Generation" – Publisher, Running Press Book Publishers. New York,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gary Italiaander (2014) "Reflections: A Tribute to Larry Adler, Harmonica Genius" – Publisher, Delancy Press. London,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Golding (2018) "Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print '55 -'88. By Peter Golding with Barry Miles, Publishers Thames & Hudson, London"

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Golding Jeanswear

paragraph: BULLET::::- Inspirational Times Rock Art Collection

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Golding – Stretching the Blues Party – Live @ The Café de Paris (London)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Golding Harmonica – PG's Music Site & Café Django – Gypsy Jazz & Hot Harmonica Swing Band.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fashion designer Peter Golding in conversation with author and journalist Chris Sullivan." (ICA, London)

description: British fashion designer

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text:
stock car racing
go-kart
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IRP
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Felix Sabates
Chip Ganassi Racing
South Boston
Myrtle Beach
Frank Cicci Racing
New Hampshire
Nazareth
Charlotte
Davis Motorsports
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Gateway
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MacDonald Motorsports
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O'Reilly 200
Bristol Motor Speedway
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Daytona International Speedway
Joe Denette Motorsports
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Pocono Raceway
FAS Lane Racing
John Wes Townley

categories: NASCAR drivers,Sportspeople from Richmond, Virginia,Living people,1979 births,Racing drivers from Virginia

paragraph: Jason White (racing driver, born 1979)

paragraph: Jason White (born June 5, 1979) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

paragraph: Section::::Beginnings.

paragraph: White began racing go-carts when he was eleven, and has been racing part-time since. Before moving to Busch Series, White dominated the Virginia go-kart circuit. In a five-year stretch, Jason won six Virginia state titles and finished in the World Karting Association top-ten for three different classes of vehicles.

paragraph: Section::::Nationwide Series.

paragraph: White made his first starts in 1999, running the No. 28 for Larry Lockamy. He started 28th and finished 26th in a solid debut at IRP. He was then 43rd after an early crash at Bristol.

paragraph: The runs earned him a spot on Felix Sabates' Chip Ganassi Racing No. 82 Chevrolet in a fill-in role in 2000. He ran the Channellock Chevrolet at South Boston, putting in his career best of 21st position. Then, he was 28th at Myrtle Beach.

paragraph: White next returned in 2002, running a race at Nashville for Frank Cicci Racing. He finished 43rd at Nashville after an early engine problem. Fred Bickford then picked White up for three races, beginning with a 28th-place finish at New Hampshire. His best run came at Nazareth, where he finished 22nd before adding a 37th at Charlotte.

paragraph: White's busiest year was 2003, when he earned 29th in points after a splitting rides at Davis Motorsports and Jay Robinson Racing. He ran mainly for JRR early in the year, finishing a best of 23rd at Gateway. Beginning at Nashville in June, White took over the No. 0 Davis Motorsports Chevrolet full-time. He ran solidly in that race, earning his best career finish of 17th. He would record one other top-20 finish at Pikes Peak, trying to do his best with the low-budget team. White was released following the Memphis race in favor of Kertus Davis.

paragraph: White returned to the series in four races in 2004, all for MacDonald Motorsports. After a pair of 33rds and a 42nd at Richmond, White earned his best run of the year at Milwaukee, finishing 29th. It was also the site of his best qualifying effort of the year: 28th.

paragraph: In 2006, White teamed up with the new Ashton Gray Racing, sponsored by GunBroker.com. Despite being fast in practice, the team broke before qualifying in the spring Nashville race, meaning the team's debut would come at Nashville in June. He was 36th in that race and 30th at Milwaukee. Then at Gateway Jason finished 41st due to engine problems. Next race is the Emerson Radio 250 at Richmond International Raceway. He also made one start in the series in 2007.

paragraph: White returned to the Nationwide Series in 2013, driving for SR² Motorsports. In May, White recorded his best career Nationwide finish, finished 8th in the Aaron's 312, at Talladega.

paragraph: Section::::Camping World Truck Series.

paragraph: White made his first few starts in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2001, racing in seven events. He ran the No. 86 NWTF Ford in six races. His first career start came at Mesa Marin, where he had an impressive sixteenth-place run. He then followed that up with a 13th-place run at Martinsville, which would end up being his best career finish. He had one other top-20 for the team: an 18th at Pikes Peak. Later in the year, White made a one-race start for Troxell Racing. His run in Kansas resulted in a 36th-place finish, the last place truck.

paragraph: White only made two starts in 2002. First, he ran the No. 0 Loni Richardson-owned Chevrolet at Texas, finishing 22nd. Then, he joined the Ware Racing Enterprises team at Kentucky. However, he only managed 34th after electrical problems.

paragraph: White would make two more starts in 2003, running 30th at Dover (running the No. 35 Ford) and 35th at Kansas (running the No. 93 Troxell Racing vehicle). He did not finish either event and would turn to the Busch Series for his attention, as he had not raced in the series since.

paragraph: In 2007 White was scheduled to run two races with MB Motorsports along with sponsor GunBroker.com, but resulted in a one-race deal at Daytona. In April, it was announced that White would run the rest of 2007 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule for the No. 7 Pennington Motorsports Dodge Ram (former Chevrolet Silverado, changed brand mid season 2007) sponsored by Hooters Energy Drink. For 2008, White joined SS-Green Light Racing and brought along GunBroker.com as a sponsor and had a fair, but uneventful season, which placed him in a Toyota for one race. In 2009, White signed up with Gunbroker Racing to drive a full-season in the number 23, Gunbroker.com Dodge Ram. White scored his season best finish at Kansas in May, placing in the top 10. White also led 86 laps at the O'Reilly 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway but finished 14th after a late pit stop. In September White had his career best qualifying effort and career best finish of 3rd at Las Vagas Motor Speedway. For 2010 White and GunBroker moved to SS-Green Light Racing, where they started off the season on a high note by winning the pole for the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway. White had his best season to date, grabbing 3 top fives and 7 top 10s en route to finishing 10th in points. White and GunBroker.com left SS-Green Light Racing at season's end and moved to the upstart Joe Denette Motorsports. However, White and JDM struggled to a 15th-place finish in points, and White and GunBroker left to form their own team for 2012.

paragraph: Section::::Sprint Cup Series.

paragraph: On August 7, 2011, White made his debut in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Pocono Raceway, driving the number 32 for FAS Lane Racing. He returned to drive for the team in the Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono a year later, replacing John Wes Townley.

paragraph: Section::::Motorsports career results.

paragraph: Section::::Motorsports career results.:NASCAR.:Camping World Truck Series.

paragraph: Season still in progressbr

description: American stock car racing driver

wikidata_label: Jason White

wikipedia_title: Jason White (American racing driver)

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text:
record producer
Gloria Estefan
Super Bowl
Lawrence Dermer

categories: Jewish music,American Jews,American record producers,American male songwriters,Year of birth missing (living people),Place of birth missing (living people),Living people,Hazzans

paragraph: Lawrence Dermer

paragraph: Lawrence Dermer is a Grammy nominated and BMI award winning record producer and multi-platinum songwriter.

paragraph: Dermer has worked with various pop stars including Gloria Estefan and produced live shows for two Super Bowls.

paragraph: Dermer is Cantor at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton. Before that, he was Cantorial Soloist at Temple Beth El in Ft. Myers. He and wife Robin have three children: Jaxson, Harrison, and Alliya.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::-  Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lawrence Dermer at Discogs

description: American record producer

wikidata_label: Lawrence Dermer

wikipedia_title: Lawrence Dermer


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Alexander Mogilny
National Hockey League
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Vancouver Canucks
Phoenix Coyotes
Nashville Predators
Eisbären Berlin
Deutsche Eishockey Liga
2010 European Trophy

categories: National Hockey League first round draft picks,Albany River Rats players,New Jersey Devils players,Peoria Rivermen (AHL) players,Living people,Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan,Sportspeople from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,1975 births,Phoenix Coyotes players,Vancouver Canucks players,Prince Albert Raiders players,New Jersey Devils draft picks,Nashville Predators players

paragraph: Denis Pederson

paragraph: Denis Erio Pederson (born September 10, 1975) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. He played a total of 435 games in the National Hockey League and then went on to great success playing for Eisbären Berlin in Germany.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: A native of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Pederson played for the Carlton Park Mustangs and joined his hometown team Prince Albert Raiders when he was 16 years old.

paragraph: He was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the 1993 NHL Draft (first round, 13th overall). He continued playing for the Raiders in the WHL and also spent time with AHL’s Albany River Rats, before making his NHL debut with the Devils during the 1995-96 season.

paragraph: In 2000, he was traded along with Brendan Morrison from the New Jersey Devils to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Alexander Mogilny.

paragraph: Until 2003, he played 435 games in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes and Nashville Predators.

paragraph: From 2003 to 2012, Pederson played for Eisbären Berlin of the German top-flight Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) and won six German championships as well as the 2010 European Trophy with the team. He had his jersey number 20 retired by the Berlin club in December 2015.

paragraph: Pederson was inducted into the Prince Albert Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- https://ca.linkedin.com/in/denis-pederson-bb323598

description: Canadian ice hockey player

wikidata_label: Denis Pederson

wikipedia_title: Denis Pederson


text: United States Secret Service

text: U.S. presidents

text: Dwight D. Eisenhower

text: Gerald Ford

text: John F. Kennedy

text: assassinated

text: Dallas, Texas

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text: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

text: Parkland Memorial Hospital

text: Zapruder film

text: Nellie Connally

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text: Counterintelligence (CI) Special Agent

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text: Dwight D. Eisenhower

text: John F. Kennedy

text: President of the United States

text: First Lady

text: Jacqueline Kennedy

text: Dallas

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text: Dallas Trade Mart

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text: John Connally

text: Nellie Connally

text: William Greer

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text: Washington, D.C.

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text: Dealey Plaza

text: Parkland Memorial Hospital

text: Robert Kennedy

text: funeral of John F. Kennedy

text: 1964 presidential election

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text: Spiro Agnew

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text: Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame

text: Alexandria, Virginia

text: Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award

text: Doug Burgum

text: Governor of North Dakota

text: San Francisco

text: Quantum Leap

text: Sam Beckett

text: Oswald

text: Al

text: Bryce Zabel

text: Leslie Coffelt

text: Harry Truman

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text: David Caves

text: C-SPAN

text: Television interview with Clint Hill

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categories: 1932 births,21st-century American non-fiction writers,United States Secret Service agents,Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) alumni,Military personnel from North Dakota,Writers from North Dakota,American people of Norwegian descent,American memoirists,21st-century American male writers,People from Grand Forks County, North Dakota,American adoptees,Witnesses to the assassination of John F. Kennedy,Living people

paragraph: Clint Hill (Secret Service)

paragraph: Clinton J. Hill (born January 4, 1932) is a former United States Secret Service agent who served under five U.S. presidents; from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gerald Ford. Hill is best known for his notable act of bravery while in the presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

paragraph: During the assassination, Hill ran from the car immediately behind the presidential limousine, leaped onto the back of it and shielded Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the stricken president with his body as the car raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. This action was documented in the Zapruder film. Since the death of Nellie Connally in September 2006, Hill is the last surviving person who was in the presidential limousine that day.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Hill was born in Larimore, North Dakota, to a Norwegian mother, Alma Pettersen. His birth parents homesteaded near Roseglen. At three months of age, he was placed in an orphanage in Fargo, where he was adopted by another Norwegian family Chris and Jennie Hill of Fargo. Originally named "Haugen", the family later changed its name to the English version of the name; "Haugen" means "the hill" in Norwegian. Hill's new family took him to Washburn, where he eventually graduated from Washburn High School. He also attended Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he played football, basketball, and baseball, studied history, and graduated in 1954. After college, Hill joined the Army and became a Counterintelligence (CI) Special Agent where he served until 1957. After the Army, Hill joined the Secret Service and was assigned to the Denver Secret Service office. In 1958, Hill served on the detail for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. After John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States, Hill was assigned to protect the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy.

paragraph: Section::::Assassination of President Kennedy.

paragraph: President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, during a motorcade through the city, en route to a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart. The President and Mrs. Kennedy were riding in an open limousine containing three rows of seats. The Kennedys were in the rear seat of the car, the Governor of Texas, John Connally, and his wife, Nellie Connally, were in the middle row, Secret Service agent William Greer was driving and the president's bodyguard, Roy Kellerman, was also in the front row.

paragraph: Hill was riding on the left front running board of the Secret Service car immediately behind the presidential limousine. As soon as the shooting began, Hill began running to overtake the moving car in front of him. He climbed from the rear bumper, crawling over the trunk to the back seat where the President and First Lady were located. In the moments immediately after the fatal shots Mrs. Kennedy was seen climbing out of the back seat towards the trunk. Hill pushed her back into the car and covered her and the fatally wounded president with his body.

paragraph: Hill, along with Secret Service agents Kellerman, Greer, and Rufus Youngblood, provided testimony to the Warren Commission in Washington, D.C. on March 9, 1964.

paragraph: Hill grabbed a small handrail on the left rear of the trunk, normally used by bodyguards to stabilize themselves while standing on small platforms on the rear bumper. According to the Warren Commission's findings, there were no bodyguards stationed on the bumper that day because

paragraph: ...the President had frequently stated that he did not want agents to ride on these steps during a motorcade except when necessary. He had repeated this wish only a few days before, during his visit to Tampa, Florida.

paragraph: The notion that the President's instructions in Tampa jeopardized his security in Dallas has since been denied by Hill and other agents. Regardless of the Warren Commission's findings, photos taken of the motorcade along earlier segments of the route show Hill riding on the step at the back of the car.

paragraph: As an alternative explanation, fellow agent Gerald Blaine cites the location of the shooting:

paragraph: We were going into a freeway, and that's where you take the speeds up to 60 and 70 miles an hour. So we would not have had any agents there anyway.

paragraph: Hill grabbed the handrail less than two seconds after the fatal shot to the President. The driver then accelerated, causing the car to slip away from Hill, who was in the midst of trying to leap onto it. He succeeded in regaining his footing and jumped onto the back of the quickly accelerating vehicle.

paragraph: As he got on, Mrs. Kennedy, apparently in shock, was crawling onto the flat rear trunk of the moving limousine. Hill later told the Warren Commission that he thought Mrs. Kennedy was reaching for a piece of the President's skull which had been blown off. He crawled to her and guided the First Lady back into her seat. Once back in the car, Hill placed his body above the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Meanwhile, in the folding jump seats directly in front of them, Mrs. Connally had pulled her wounded husband, Governor John Connally, to a prone position on her lap.

paragraph: Agent Kellerman, in the front seat of the car, gave orders over the car's two-way radio to the lead vehicle in the procession "to the nearest hospital, quick!" Hill was shouting as loudly as he could "To the hospital, to the hospital!" En route to the hospital, Hill flashed a "thumbs-down" signal and shook his head from side to side at the agents in the follow-up car, signaling the graveness of the President's condition.

paragraph: The limousine then rapidly exited Dealey Plaza and sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital, only minutes away, followed by other vehicles in the motorcade. As the car moved at high speed to the hospital, Hill maintained his position shielding the couple with his body, and was looking down at the President. Agent Hill later testified:

paragraph: The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.

paragraph: As the hospital staff attended to Kennedy and Connally, Hill received a telephone call from Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the President's brother. Hill declined to tell Robert Kennedy over the phone that his brother was dead, saying in a 2013 interview "I explained to him that both the president and the governor had been shot and that we were in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital. So then he said, "Well, how bad is it?" Well, I didn't want to tell him his brother was dead. I didn't think it was my place. So I said, "It's as bad as it can get."

paragraph: Although the Secret Service was shocked at its failure to protect the life of President Kennedy, virtually everyone agreed that Clint Hill's rapid and brave actions had been without blemish. He was honored at a ceremony in Washington just days after the funeral of John F. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy, despite being in deep mourning, made an appearance at the event to thank him in person.

paragraph: Section::::After the assassination.

paragraph: Hill remained assigned to Mrs. Kennedy and the children until after the 1964 presidential election. He then was assigned to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House. In 1967, when Johnson was still in office, Hill became the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of Presidential protection. When Richard Nixon came into office, Hill moved over to SAIC of protection of Vice President Spiro Agnew. Finally, Hill was assigned to headquarters as the Assistant Director of the Secret Service for all protection. He retired in 1975.

paragraph: In a 1975 interview with Mike Wallace, Hill tearfully surmised that if he had reached the vehicle a second earlier, he would have been able to take the third shot to his own body, and felt a great deal of regret for not having been able to reach there in time.

paragraph: Hill wrote the foreword to Gerald Blaine and Lisa McCubbin's 2010 narrative, "The Kennedy Detail".

paragraph: In a BBC "Today" interview, broadcast in December 2010, Hill recalled the assassination and his first visit to Dallas in 1990 since the events of 1963, during which he surveyed the scene of the shooting. Asked whether he thought that the President's life might have been saved if things had been done differently, Hill replied that "He [Lee Harvey Oswald] had all the advantages that day. We had none. And it was a very easy job to accomplish because of the way everything was laid out."

paragraph: Hill was interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's talkshow "Q&A" in May 2012.

paragraph: In April 2012, the book "Mrs. Kennedy and Me" was published, in which Hill looked back at his career and described his working relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy. The same year, Hill was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame, a signature event of the North Dakota-based organization Norsk Høstfest.

paragraph: In 2012, Hill was reported to have lived in Alexandria, Virginia, for "many years."

paragraph: In November 2013, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the assassination, Hill's book "Five Days in November" was published, giving his view of the events.

paragraph: In 2016, Hill released "Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford," which summarized his entire Secret Service career.

paragraph: On October 5, 2018, Hill received the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award from Doug Burgum, the Governor of North Dakota. The award is North Dakota's award for residents and former residents of North Dakota.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Hill was married to Gwen Hill at the time of Kennedy's assassination. The couple had two sons. In his 2012 interview with Brian Lamb, Hill suggested that he had been divorced or separated from Gwen for many years. As of 2013, Hill lived near San Francisco.

paragraph: Section::::In popular culture.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the two-part "Quantum Leap" episode "Lee Harvey Oswald," Dr. Sam Beckett leapt out of Oswald and into Clint Hill, immediately before the moment of the famous photo was taken of Hill leaping onto the back of the Kennedy limousine. Sam feels great guilt that this did not prevent Kennedy's assassination. However, as Beckett's friend Al points out, in the "original" history, Oswald had also killed Jackie Kennedy, and Sam's true mission all along was to save her life.

paragraph: BULLET::::- In the alternative history novel "Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?" by Bryce Zabel, Hill was killed in the process of saving Kennedy from being shot. In this story he is the second person killed protecting a president. (Leslie Coffelt, a White House policeman, was killed in the line of duty in 1950 protecting President Harry Truman from an assassination attempt.)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hill appears as a character in the 2016 film "Jackie", portrayed by David Caves.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Q&A" interview with Clint Hill and Gerald Blaine, "C-SPAN", November 28, 2010.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Television interview with Clint Hill, from "The Today Show", April 5, 2012.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clint Hill interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1975, from "60 Minutes" Rewind, January 11, 2011.

description: American Secret Service agent

wikidata_label: Clint Hill

wikipedia_title: Clint Hill (Secret Service)


text: American football

text: defensive lineman

text: Port Arthur, Texas

text: Kansas City Chiefs

text: Green Bay Packers

text: alumnus

text: University of Minnesota

text: 1966 American Football League Draft

text: Super Bowl

text: 1969 Chiefs' team

text: the final AFL-NFL World Championship

text: Hank Stram

text: Chuck Hurston

text: Joe Kapp

text: Houston, Texas

text: NFL.com player page

categories: 1943 births,American Football League players,Kansas City Chiefs players,Green Bay Packers players,Minnesota Golden Gophers football players,American football defensive ends,Super Bowl champions,Sportspeople from Port Arthur, Texas,1997 deaths,All-American college football players

paragraph: Aaron Brown (defensive lineman)

paragraph: Aaron Lewis Brown, Jr. (November 16, 1943 – November 15, 1997) was an American football defensive lineman born in Port Arthur, Texas. Brown played for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1966 to 1972 and Green Bay Packers from 1973 to 1974. Brown is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota.

paragraph: Brown was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs with their first round selection in the 1966 American Football League Draft and later that year Brown participated in the first AFL-NFL World Championship game with the team (later known as the Super Bowl). Three years later, Brown was on the 1969 Chiefs' team that won the final AFL-NFL World Championship.

paragraph: Due to his speed of 4.7 in the 40 yard dash, Hank Stram, coach of the Chiefs, decided to try Brown at running back. Brown developed callouses on his thighs, which caused him to miss most of a season. Brown's greatest disappointment was failure to be in the starting lineup for Super Bowl I, when Stram decided to start Chuck Hurston at right end instead. Brown made up for that missed opportunity in Super Bowl IV, where he tackled Minnesota quarterback Joe Kapp, forcing him to leave the game.

paragraph: He died on November 15, 1997, in Houston, Texas, when struck from behind by a motorist after walking home one day before his 54th birthday.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of American Football League players

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- NFL.com player page

description: American football defensive lineman

wikidata_label: Aaron Brown

wikipedia_title: Aaron Brown (defensive lineman)


text:
Parthian Empire
Phriapatius
Mithridates II
Sanatruces

categories: 90 BC deaths,Parthian kings,1st-century BC Iranian monarchs,Year of birth unknown

paragraph: Gotarzes I

paragraph: Gotarzes I ( "Gōtarz", "Gōtarzēs") was the ruler of parts of the Parthian Empire from ca. 91 BC to 87 BC. He was the grandson of Phriapatius and came to power during the troubled times around the end of the reign of Mithridates II. Numismatic evidence suggests that he began his reign in control of the northern and eastern lands of the Parthian Empire. He seems to have regained the southern lands from the usurper, Sanatruces, by 88/87 BC and forced him to flee to the Central Asian steppe, after which he soon died.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Strassmaier, "Zeitschr. für Assyriologie", vi, 216.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mahler in "Wiener Zeitschr. für Kunde des Morgenlands", xv, 63.

wikidata_label: Gotarzes I of Parthia

wikipedia_title: Gotarzes I