text: field hockey

text: 2010 Commonwealth Games

text: 2012 Summer Olympics

text: Nelson

text: Dutch descent

text: Waimea College

text: Richmond

text: Wellington

text: 2008 Beijing Olympics

text: India

text: 2014 Commonwealth Games

text: Christchurch

text: North Shore

text: Auckland

text: Scott McLaren

categories: New Zealand people of Dutch descent,Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics,1987 births,Living people,People educated at Waimea College,New Zealand female field hockey players,Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand,Sportspeople from Nelson, New Zealand,Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games,Field hockey players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games,Olympic field hockey players of New Zealand,Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand,Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand,Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games,Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics,Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey

paragraph: Anita McLaren

paragraph: Anita McLaren (née Punt; born 2 October 1987) is a New Zealand field hockey player. She has competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team (the "Black Sticks Women") since 2009, including for the team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Born in Nelson to Nicolaas and Adele McLaren, Anita Punt is of Dutch descent through her father and holds dual New Zealand and Dutch citizenship. She attended Waimea College in nearby Richmond, before moving to Wellington at age 18 to focus on her hockey with the Capital National Hockey League team. McLaren was first selected for the Black Sticks Women in June 2009, along with ten other players as the Black Sticks squad was overhauled following its last place finish at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She played her first match for New Zealand on 19 June 2009 against India in hometown Nelson. She helped New Zealand win a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, scoring the first goal in the bronze medal match.

paragraph: McLaren has a reputation for her speed, being touted as one of the fastest female hockey players in the world with a time over ten metres ranking her within the top eight of the Black Sticks Men's squad. In February 2013, McLaren was entered as a wildcard entry into the annual International Track Meet in Christchurch, in which she won the 100 metres in 12.61 seconds (on a grass track and with a strong 2.9 m/s headwind), beating many seasoned New Zealand track athletes. She later won the 100 metres and 200 metres at the Porritt Classic in Hamilton, before competing in the New Zealand Track and Field Championships in March 2013 in Auckland. However, McLaren was off pace and came fifth in the 100 metres, with a time of 12.23 seconds (wind +0.1 m/s).

paragraph: , McLaren resided on the North Shore of Auckland. She is a retail assistant by trade, but is currently studying veterinary nursing.

paragraph: She married decathlete Scott McLaren in March 2016.

description: field hockey player

wikidata_label: Anita McLaren

wikipedia_title: Anita McLaren


text:
jazz
Vienna
Hans Koller
Berlin
Don Byas
Booker Ervin
Art Farmer
Dexter Gordon
Friedrich Gulda
Annie Ross
Vienna Municipal Conservatory
ORF-Big Band
Klaus Weiss
Peter Herbolzheimer
Art Farmer
Gentle Eyes
The Company I Keep
Tom Harrell
The Meaning of Art
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Barry Kernfeld

categories: 1943 births,Musicians from Vienna,Male pianists,2012 deaths,Male jazz composers,Austrian jazz composers,Austrian jazz pianists,20th-century pianists

paragraph: Fritz Pauer

paragraph: Fritz Pauer (October 14, 1943 – July 1, 2012) was an Austrian jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader.

paragraph: Born in Vienna, Pauer began his professional playing career as a teenager, performing with Hans Koller (1960–62) before leading his own ensembles in Berlin. In the 1960s he played with, among others, Don Byas, Booker Ervin, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Friedrich Gulda, and Annie Ross. From 1968-1970 he taught at the Vienna Municipal Conservatory, and following this was a member of the ORF-Big Band. In the 1970s he recorded as a leader as well as with Klaus Weiss and Peter Herbolzheimer.

paragraph: Pauer moved to Peru briefly in the mid-1980s, but moved to Switzerland in 1986. Later in life he became a university professor.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: With Art Farmer

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gentle Eyes" (Mainstream, 1972)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Company I Keep" (Arabesque, 1994) with Tom Harrell as composer and arranger

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Meaning of Art" (Arabesque, 1995) as composer and arranger

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fritz Pauer". "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz", ed. Barry Kernfeld, 1994, p. 964.

description: austrian composer and pianist

wikidata_label: Fritz Pauer

wikipedia_title: Fritz Pauer


text:
Welsh
footballer
midfielder
Grimsby Town
Premier League
Everton
Sunderland
Barnsley
Blundell Park
Leeds United
Burnley
Reading
Premier League
Crystal Palace
Doncaster Rovers
League Two
Barnet
Gateshead
Wales
deep-lying playmaker
Grimsby Town
Danny Butterfield
Matthew Bloomer
Daryl Clare
First Division
Charlton Athletic
Gary Croft
Blackburn Rovers
Everton
Barnsley
Scunthorpe United
Coventry City
Sunderland
Mark Maley
Grimsby Town
Leeds United
Burnley
Reading
Brighton & Hove Albion
substitute
Madejski Stadium
Middlesbrough
Riverside Stadium
Derby County
Crystal Palace
Hereford United
League Cup
Crystal Palace
Doncaster Rovers
Watford
Football League Two
Barnet
Northampton Town
Edgar Davids
Conference Premier
Gateshead
Tamworth
Luton Town
Wales
Robbie Savage
World Cup qualifying
Belgium
John Toshack
Northern Ireland
Mark Hughes
Sunderland
Mark Maley
Leeds United
Jamie McMaster
Christmas
Durham

categories: Crystal Palace F.C. players,Doncaster Rovers F.C. players,Grimsby Town F.C. players,Welsh footballers,Association football wingers,Gateshead F.C. players,English Football League players,Wales under-21 international footballers,Sunderland A.F.C. players,Barnet F.C. players,Everton F.C. players,Burnley F.C. players,1978 births,People from Boston, Lincolnshire,Premier League players,Barnsley F.C. players,Leeds United F.C. players,Reading F.C. players,Living people,Wales international footballers

paragraph: John Oster

paragraph: John Morgan Oster (born 8 December 1978) is an English-born Welsh former professional footballer, who played as a midfielder from 1994 until 2015.

paragraph: Oster was a product of the youth team at Grimsby Town where he was added to the first team squad in 1994, however he didn't make his debut until the 1996–97 season. His performances that season caught the eye of Premier League side Everton who paid £1.5 million for him during the summer of 1997. Two years later he was sold to Sunderland where he remained until 2005. Whilst with The Black Cats he spent time on loan with Barnsley before returning to Grimsby for two separate loan spells during the 2002–03 season, in his time back at Blundell Park he was unable to save the club from relegation. He later moved on loan to Leeds United before joining Burnley permanently. His stay with Burnley was brief and moved to Reading where he helped them earn promotion to the Premier League for the first time, in 2008 he moved to Crystal Palace where he remained for a year before transferring to Doncaster Rovers. He departed Rovers in the summer of 2012 and joined League Two side Barnet, prior to his move to the North London club he had played his entire professional football career inside the top two divisions of English football. He joined Gateshead in September 2013.

paragraph: During his career, Oster represented Wales at international level, where he earned 13 caps between 1997 and 2004. He was renowned for his excellent first touch and wide range of passing. He was often deployed on the wing, but played as a deep-lying playmaker later in his career.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Grimsby Town.

paragraph: Oster started his career at Grimsby Town and had progressed through the youth ranks at the club and was inducted into the first team in the same youth squad as players such as Danny Butterfield, Matthew Bloomer and Daryl Clare. He was promoted to the first team scene in the 1994–95 season when the club were in the old First Division. However, he didn't make his debut until the 1996–97 campaign where he made his debut in a 3–1 win away at Charlton Athletic on 26 November 1996. Following Grimsby's relegation from the First Division, Oster was sold by The Mariners, for a fee of £1.5 million that saw him break the club's record transfer sale that was initially held by Gary Croft following his move to Blackburn Rovers for £1 million a year earlier. He had only played twenty-six times in all competitions, scoring four goals upon his departure.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Everton.

paragraph: The Mariners sold Oster to Everton for £1.5 million in 1997, aged only 18 and having played only 25 matches. It transpired that he had made the wrong move though, as he was rarely utilised in his favoured winger's role, in a 4–4–2 formation. Oster scored three times during his spell at Everton; once in the league against Barnsley, once in the League Cup against Scunthorpe United and once in the FA Cup against Coventry City.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Sunderland.

paragraph: Oster moved to Sunderland for a fee in excess of £1 million, but again failed to find regular form. His low point at the club was when he was involved in an incident that ended the career of reserve player Mark Maley by accidentally shooting him in the eye with an air rifle. While at Sunderland, during the 2002–2003 season, he spent five months back on loan with his former club Grimsby Town. He enjoyed two fruitful and productive spells with the club during that season, but despite this his goals and performances could not save The Mariners from relegation, as the club struggled to stop a slide down the Football League ladder. Oster was released by Sunderland in January 2005, shortly after returning to the Black Cats in disgrace from a loan at Leeds United, where he scored once against Millwall. There was little doubt that Grimsby would have liked Oster back but could not afford him and their financial position and reduced league status made it an unattractive option for the player.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Burnley.

paragraph: Following a short spell at Burnley, where he scored once against Coventry, Oster joined Reading on 2 August 2005.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Reading.

paragraph: Oster made his debut for Reading against Brighton & Hove Albion on 9 August 2005 as a substitute. In January 2007, he extended his contract at the Madejski Stadium until the summer of 2008. He notched his first Premier League goal in nearly 10 years against Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium where the Royals were defeated for the first time in 2007, 2–1. After a couple of years as a squad player with the Royals, including a number of Premier League sub appearances, he was released by Reading following their relegation from the Premier League, on 16 May 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Crystal Palace.

paragraph: Before signing for Crystal Palace, Oster had a trial spell at Championship rivals Derby County. Oster signed an initial six-month contract for Crystal Palace on 11 August 2008, which was extended by a further 18 months. He scored on his debut against Hereford United in the League Cup.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Doncaster Rovers.

paragraph: Oster left Crystal Palace in the summer and joined Doncaster Rovers on a six-month contract. Oster made his Doncaster debut on 8 August 2009, coming on as a second-half substitute against Watford. He extended his contract in January 2010 to keep him at the club until the end of the 2009–10 season. He scored his first goal for Doncaster against Peterborough United on 16 March 2010.

paragraph: Due to his impressive form in the 2009/10 season, Rovers offered Oster the opportunity to renew his contract with the club. Oster agreed and committed to Doncaster for a further two years. Oster has been an ever present for Doncaster in the 2010–11 season after topping the Rovers' appearance chart in mid April with 38 starts. In May 2012, Oster was released by the club after the expiry of his contract.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Barnet.

paragraph: On 7 September 2012, Oster signed for Football League Two club Barnet. On 19 October 2012, he scored his first goal for Barnet, scoring the third goal in a 4–0 win against Northampton Town. Oster was released by manager Edgar Davids at the end of the season following Barnet's relegation from League Two.

paragraph: Section::::Club career.:Gateshead.

paragraph: On 20 September 2013, Oster signed for Conference Premier club Gateshead on non-contract terms, the move being his first into Non-league. He made his debut the following day as a second-half substitute against Tamworth. He scored his first goal for Gateshead on 21 December 2013 in a 2–4 defeat at Luton Town.

paragraph: Section::::International career.

paragraph: Oster made his debut for Wales as an 18-year-old in 1997, coming on as an injury-time substitute for Robbie Savage in a World Cup qualifying defeat in Belgium. Oster played intermittently for the national side between 1997 and 2004, accumulating 13 caps, though only six of these came in competitive games. Oster did not play in any games under John Toshack following his appointment in November 2004, his last cap for Wales being the 2–2 draw with Northern Ireland in 2004 under previous boss Mark Hughes.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In April 2002 whilst at Sunderland, Oster accidentally shot reserve team player Mark Maley with an air-gun. Neither of the pair believed the gun was loaded and Maley had to undergo an eye operation. Whilst on loan at Leeds United in December 2004 Oster and Jamie McMaster were suspended by the club for misbehaving at the club's Christmas party. The incident spelled the end of his Leeds career and his loan was terminated. In 2005 his Sunderland contract was terminated after he was arrested for assault outside a Durham nightclub.

paragraph: Section::::Honours.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Grimsby Town

paragraph: BULLET::::- Supporters Young Player of the Year: 1997

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reading

paragraph: BULLET::::- Football Championship Winner 2005–06

description: British footballer

wikidata_label: John Oster

wikipedia_title: John Oster


text: engineer

text: high fidelity

text: horn loudspeaker

text: phonographs

text: Klipschorn

text: Audio Engineering Society

text: Purdue University

text: West Lafayette, Indiana

text: El Paso High School

text: New Mexico State University

text: electrical engineering

text: New Mexico State University

text: Engineer's degree

text: Stanford University

text: General Electric

text: RCA

text: Chile

text: Stanford

text: geophysicist

text: U.S. Army

text: World War II

text: lieutenant colonel

text: Hope, Arkansas

text: Audio Engineering Society

text: Consumer Electronics Show

text: Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame

text: Doctor of Laws

text: 1980 Interview transcript

text: Audio Engineering Society

categories: People from Hope, Arkansas,American army personnel of World War II,United States Army officers,2002 deaths,20th-century American engineers,People from Elkhart, Indiana,1904 births,American electrical engineers,Acoustical engineers

paragraph: Paul Wilbur Klipsch

paragraph: Paul Wilbur Klipsch (born March 9, 1904 in Elkhart, Indiana – died: May 5, 2002 in Hope, Arkansas) was an American engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer, known for developing a high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Unsatisfied with the sound quality of phonographs and early speaker systems, Klipsch used scientific principles to develop a corner horn speaker that sounded more lifelike than its predecessors.

paragraph: The Klipschorn, which today is still manufactured and sold worldwide, proved popular. The resulting acoustics career of Klipsch spanned from 1946, when he founded one of the first U.S. loudspeaker companies, to 2000 when the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society published one of his papers. He died on May 5, 2002 at the age of 98.

paragraph: Fred Klipsch, former Klipsch owner and chairman and cousin to founder Paul Wilbur Klipsch, said, “Paul was a verifiable genius who could have chosen any number of vocations, but the world sounds a lot better because he chose audio.”

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

paragraph: Klipsch's interest in engineering was influenced by his father, an instructor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Although he was only 12 when his father died, Klipsch's interest in science and engineering endured. He built his first speaker using a mailing tube and a pair of earphones at the age of 15, which was a year before the first public radio broadcast.

paragraph: After graduating from El Paso High School, he enrolled at New Mexico State University (NMSU) where he played cornet in the university band and was an award-winning member of the school rifle team. He credits his four years as a member of the Aggie Band for developing his love and knowledge of music and musical instruments. Klipsch received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University in 1926, an EE (Engineer's degree) in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1934.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Following graduation from NMSU, Klipsch went to work for General Electric designing radios that were then sold to RCA. In 1928, he responded to a notice on the GE bulletin board. This resulted in a new job maintaining electric locomotives in Chile for three years before entering graduate school at Stanford. After receiving his EE Degree, Klipsch worked as a geophysicist for a Texas oil company. He later served in the U.S. Army during World War II, earning the rank of lieutenant colonel.

paragraph: It was during his service at the Southwest Proving Grounds in Hope, Arkansas, that Klipsch refined his corner horn speaker design. Visitors to his officer's quarters were amazed by the lifelike reproduction and encouraged Klipsch to start his own manufacturing business. He received a patent on his loudspeaker design in 1945, registered the name Klipsch & Associates in 1946, and made each loudspeaker himself until he hired his first employee in 1948.

paragraph: During a videotaped interview in 1999, Klipsch claimed that he did not, in fact, name the Klipschorn himself. He said that he made a sales call to a man in New York City during the first years of operating Klipsch & Associates and, surprisingly, the business prospect already knew about the revolutionary new loudspeaker. "We've heard all about your corner horn," the man said. "We call it the Klipschorn."

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: In 1978, Paul W. Klipsch was awarded the Audio Engineering Society's second highest honor, the Silver Medal, for his contributions to speaker design and distortion measurement. In 1997, he was inducted into the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame. In 2004, at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), he was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. Klipsch has an honorary Doctor of Laws from New Mexico State University (NMSU) in 1981. The college of electrical and computer engineering was renamed the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in honor of Paul W. Klipsch in 1995.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.:Eccentricities.

paragraph: Klipsch related that when he was developing a smaller speaker for use between two Klipschorns, an acquaintance declared that he couldn't possibly introduce it to the public because it was in direct violation of Klipsch's own corner horn principles, and amounted to acoustic heresy. "The hell I can't," Klipsch said. "And that's exactly what I'm going to call it!"

paragraph: While the official company motto is “The Ultimate Sound Experience,” the unofficial one is “Bullshit.” Klipsch started using the slogan after reading a competitor’s loudspeaker ad that made claims of supposed “breakthroughs.” After that, he wore a yellow "Bullshit" button behind his lapel and showed it to anyone he felt was making an outlandish claim.

paragraph: Section::::Patents.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stock-and-barrel assembly for firearms. US patent 2205982. Klipsch, P.W., 6/25/1940.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Wave synthesizing network. US patent 2230803. Klipsch, P.W., 2/4/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Electrical prospecting with alternating current. US patent 2231013. Klipsch, P.W., 2/11/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Recording seismic waves. US patent 2232612. Klipsch, P.W., 2/18/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Seismic prospecting. US patent 2232613. Klipsch, P.W., 2/18/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Equalizer. US patent 2238023. Klipsch, P.W., 4/8/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Electrical prospecting. US patent 2243428. Klipsch, P.W., 4/27/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mixing circuit for electrical prospecting. US patent 2251549. Klipsch, P.W., 8/5/1941.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Method of electrical prospecting. US patent 2293024. Klipsch, P.W., 8/11/1942.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Firearm vibration control. US patent 2302699. Klipsch, P.W., 11/14/1942.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Horn for loud-speaker. US patent 2310243. Klipsch, P.W., 2/9/1943.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loudspeaker. US patent 2373692. Klipsch, P.W., 4/17/1945.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rotating band tester. US patent 2450003. Klipsch, P.W., 9/28/1948.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loud-speaker horn. US patent 2537141. Klipsch, P.W., 1/9/1951.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crossover filter network. US patent 2612558. Klipsch, P.W., 9/30/1952.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Loudspeaker (Rebel). US patent 2731101. Klipsch, P.W., 9/30/1952.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Logarithmic converter circuit. US patent 3330966. Klipsch, P.W., 7/11/1967.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Small dimension low frequency folded exponential horn loudspeaker with unitary sound path and loudspeaker system including same. US patent 4138594. Klipsch, P.W., 2/6/1979.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Low frequency folded exponential horn loudspeaker apparatus with bifurcated sound path. US patent 4210223. Gillum, G. C./ Klipsch, P.W., 7/1/1980.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crossover network for optimizing efficiency and improving response of loudspeaker system. US patent 4237340. Klipsch, P.W., 12/2/1980.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anechoic chamber arrangement. US patent 4387786. Klipsch, P.W/Hunter, J. R., 6/14/1983.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Klipsch Audio Technologies website

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980 Interview transcript of Klipsch by Audio Engineering Society, retrieved August 8, 2008

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Horn for Loudspeaker", filed February 1940, issued February 1943

description: American engineer

wikidata_label: Paul Wilbur Klipsch

wikipedia_title: Paul Wilbur Klipsch


text:
Anglo
Swiss
painter
War of the Austrian Succession
Jacobite rising of 1745
Duke of Cumberland
equestrian
Seven Years' War
Fleet prison
Battle of Culloden
Jacobite
Highland charge
Battle of Culloden
4th Regiment of Foot
material culture
grenadier
cavalry
Battle of Hastenbeck
Convention of Klosterzeven
Society of Artists
Fleet Prison
St. James's Church, Clerkenwell

categories: 1770 deaths,1710s births,British painters

paragraph: David Morier

paragraph: David Morier, (1705? – Around 8 January 1770) was an Anglo-Swiss painter of portraits, military subjects and historical scenes around and after the time of the War of the Austrian Succession and the related Jacobite rising of 1745. His most recognisable work is entitled "An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745" but is more commonly known as "The Battle of Culloden".

paragraph: Morier thrived during the 1750s under the patronage of the Duke of Cumberland, the effective commander-in-chief of the British Army. He produced a number of equestrian portraits, of his patron and other senior officers, as well as his greatest series of works, known as the Grenadier Paintings, which document the uniforms and equipment of the Army in the years leading up to the Seven Years' War. After the Duke lost his position due to his inept leadership in this new war, Morier's career went into decline. He was jailed for debt in the Fleet prison in 1769 and died there early the next year.

paragraph: Section::::Coming to Britain.

paragraph: Next to nothing is known of Morier's early life; even his exact year of birth is questionable. He arrived in England in 1743, and by some means obtained the patronage of the Duke during the next two years. He accompanied the Duke's army to Scotland, and while he may or may not have been an eye-witness at the Battle of Culloden, the subject of his famous painting, he did have the opportunity to make sketches of the clothing and arms of the Jacobite prisoners in the aftermath.

paragraph: Morier's most famous painting depicts the Highland charge at the climax of the Battle of Culloden, when the charging Highlanders faced off against Col. Barrell's 4th Regiment of Foot. The painting remains the best contemporary source on the material culture of both the British and the Jacobite forces in this conflict.

paragraph: Section::::The Grenadier Paintings.

paragraph: With the coming of peace in 1748, the Duke wished to have his beloved Army immortalised, and he chose Morier for the job, paying him a salary of 200 pounds sterling per year.

paragraph: Starting probably in 1749, Morier proceeded to create the Grenadier Paintings, large panels depicting the uniforms and the equipment of each of the (at that time) 49 regiments of marching infantry, plus the three regiments of the Guards infantry. On each panel three grenadier privates of three different regiments are portrayed, in numerical order and in a variety of poses, from formal drill to route march order. Once again, Morier's care and attention to detail have provided a very valuable record of the British Army's material culture in this period, which is drawn upon by historians and reenactors to this day.

paragraph: Less well-known, but equally important, Morier also painted depictions of the cavalry regiments of the Army. When he was finished, his patron had a visual record of every regular British regiment that had ever come under his command.

paragraph: Section::::Later years.

paragraph: In 1757, the Duke's military career was ended by his disgrace following his defeat at the Battle of Hastenbeck and his subsequent signing of the Convention of Klosterzeven, and Morier appears to have lost his patronage either then, or at the Duke's death in 1765.

paragraph: Morier exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Artists in 1760, and again in 1762, 1765, and 1768, sending equestrian portraits, and in the last year "An Old Horse and the Farmer". By 1769 Morier was deeply in debt, and was confined to Fleet Prison. He died there in early January, 1770, at the approximate age of 65 years. His colleagues of the Society paid to have him buried at St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, London.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

description: Swiss painter

wikidata_label: David Morier

wikipedia_title: David Morier


text:
rower
1980 Summer Olympics

categories: Sportspeople from Poznań,1958 births,Olympic rowers of Poland,Polish female rowers,Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics,Living people

paragraph: Mariola Abrahamczyk

paragraph: Mariola Teresa Abrahamczyk, née Fronckowiak (born 3 October 1958) is a Polish rower. She competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

description: Polish rower

wikidata_label: Mariola Abrahamczyk

wikipedia_title: Mariola Abrahamczyk


text: Imperial College London

text: geoscience

text: sedimentary basin

text: Widmerpool Gulf

text: East Midlands

text: Noel Baker Community school

text: Geology

text: University of Manchester

text: Norsk Hydro

text: Bergen.

text: Imperial College London

text: Earth Science

text: Statoil

text: University of Texas at Austin

text: University of Namibia

text: Guardian

text: Geological Society of London

text: Geological Society of London

text: open access

text: EarthArxiv

text: preprint

text: Xand Van Tulleken

text: BBC

text: Nyiragongo

text: Nyamulagira

text: Geological Society of America

text: British Sedimentological Research Group

text: Geological Society of London

text: Bigsby Medal

text: University of Texas at Austin

text: Basin Research

text: British Sedimentological Research Group

text: Dulwich International Conker Knockout

categories: British geologists,British volcanologists,Living people,Seismologists

paragraph: Christopher Jackson (geologist)

paragraph: Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson (born 1977) is a professor of geology at Imperial College London. He is known for his work in geoscience, especially in the use of 3D seismic data to understand dynamic processes in sedimentary basins.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Christopher Jackson was born in Widmerpool Gulf, a sedimentary basin in the East Midlands. He attended Wilmorton Primary School and Noel Baker Community school. Jackson completed a BSc in Geology at the University of Manchester in 1998. He stayed on at the same institution to undertake a PhD in the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of sedimentary basins with Rob Gawthorpe, completing in 2002.

paragraph: Section::::Research and career.

paragraph: Jackson's research focuses on geodynamic, structural, and stratigraphic evolution of sedimentary basins. He has been described by the Geological Society of London as the "leading and most productive interpreter of three-dimensional seismic reflection data of his generation". After completing his PhD in 2002, he was an exploration research geologist in the Norsk Hydro research centre, Bergen.

paragraph: In 2004 he joined Imperial College London as a lecturer in Basin Analysis in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, where he was appointed Statoil Professor of Basin Analysis in 2015. In 2014 Jackson joined the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin as a Visiting Scientist. Between 2015 - 2016 he was a Visiting Lecturer in Petroleum Science at the University of Namibia. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Jackson stated that he knew of "no other black, full-time, Earth science academic in the UK - or in fact, Europe or the US". Jackson is on the editorial board of the Journal of Petroleum Geology. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Jackson delivered the closing of the 2015 Geological Society of London lecture series, "Terra Infirma: What has salt tectonics ever done for us?".

paragraph: Section::::Open access.

paragraph: Part of the open access movement within academia, Jackson founded EarthArxiv, a free preprint service for the earth sciences.

paragraph: Section::::"Expedition Volcano".

paragraph: In 2017 Jackson joined a team of scientists and adventurers, including Xand Van Tulleken, to take part in an extraordinary expedition to volcanoes. The two-part BBC documentary "Expedition Volcano" involved the scientists studying Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira, two of the world's most dangerous volcanoes located deep within the African Congo.

paragraph: Section::::Awards.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2016 - Geological Society of America - Thompson Distinguished Lecturer Award

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2015 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists - William E. Pratt Memorial Award for Best Original Article

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013-2016 - Chair - British Sedimentological Research Group

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2013 - Geological Society of London - Bigsby Medal

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012-2013 - Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), University of Texas at Austin - Research Fellowship

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012-2013 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Distinguished Lecturer

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012-2015 - American Association of Petroleum Geologists - Senior Associate Editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2012-2015 - Basin Research - Editor

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 - British Sedimentological Research Group - Roland Goldring Award

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 - Dulwich International Conker Knockout - The R. Kelly Trophy

alias:
Christopher A.-L. Jackson
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categories: 1980 births,English male painters,Pop artists,20th-century English painters,21st-century English painters,Alumni of Bretton Hall College,Living people

paragraph: Stuart Semple

paragraph: Stuart Semple (born 1980) is a contemporary British artist and curator, based in London and Dorset. Known for his large scale canvases incorporating text and found imagery, Semple's practice addresses ideas sparked by immersion in popular culture and combines contemporary figurative painting with pop art. Semple's work has strong links with Richard Hamilton's Pop Art, but has a contemporary emphasis on latent fear and threat rather than Hamilton's consumer culture and glamour.

paragraph: Section::::Life and career.

paragraph: Semple was born in Bournemouth, Dorset. He studied Advanced Art and Design at Bournemouth and Poole College, and Painting and Printmaking at Bretton Hall College in Yorkshire. Semple speaks about the inspiration from his grandfather whose memory inspired a jumper Semple designed. Semple's mother also took him to the National Gallery and he described that moment being the main catalyst in becoming an artist when he saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers aged 7.

paragraph: In 2004, art dealer Anthony d'Offay flew his portfolio to New York and persuaded him to move to London. A 2007 solo exhibition saw $1 million sales within the first five minutes and a recent London exhibition had presales to a Foundation of $1 million.

paragraph: In 2010 Semple disclosed in an interview with "The Evening Standard" he had had a sudden near death experience in 2000 following an allergic reaction. Semple referenced the event in an artwork painted that year; "This is the flatline of my ECG showing where I officially died, my vital signs zeroed completely." Semple identifies the experience as being the catalyst that motivated him to dedicate his life to making art.

paragraph: In 1999 Semple became one of the first artists to utilise the Internet and the potential of digital and created an early online community on eBay who followed drawings he posted up each night. Semple's continual appropriation of digital mediums put him in The Guardian's Ten Best Art Auctions alongside Damien Hirst, Ai Weiwei and Edvard Munch.

paragraph: In 2012 Semple was the first visual artist to release a body of work on iTunes called "EXIT" that was commissioned to be a fully digital experience. His desire to create and distribute this series via iTunes was so that it could be directly accessed affordably in every household worldwide which built on his exploration of the internet and accessibility to contemporary art. The digital artwork "The Effect" which was exhibited during the Suspend Disbelief exhibition is viewable and possible to own on Sedition.

paragraph: Semple is quoted in "The Art Newspaper" "Instagram is such a direct medium" as a way for artists to share their work in an article about how social media can become a new exhibition space. In 2015, Semple created a new series of 5 browser based artworks as websites and offered each site for sale on eBay to create a way for digital art to be simply viewed, bought and sold using hosting.

paragraph: On the eve of the 2010 general election, the BBC spent the day reporting live from Semple's studio and opening night of his "Happy House" exhibition. The narrative in the collection of works was seen as a prediction and warning of how the country could be affected by the financial situation and policies towards culture. The opening of "Anxiety Generation" in London in 2014 was reported by Tatler as "just like being at the Brit Awards in the Nineties".

paragraph: The Art Newspaper reported Semple signed with Next Management in 2013 alongside working with galleries. The Art Newspaper continue debating the traditional gallery model and discuss how dealers and galleries place Semple works in important collections but also the agents and management that handle copyright and licensing.

paragraph: In January 2012 Semple opened the new North Light Centre for Art and Design at Bournemouth & Poole College and judges a yearly competition of the student's works. Semple has spoken at The ICA, The Institute of Ideas, CultureLabel, Amnesty, Jerwood Visual Arts for his digital activity, and for DACS on digital and copyright topics. in 2005, Semple was the youngest member appointed to the Design and Artists Copyright Society creators' council.

paragraph: Semple has featured on the BBC in 2009 for "Blue Peter" and in 2011 and 2014 he presented for the BBC's Art & Design series where he talks about Inspiration Tools & Tips and Idea to Art.

paragraph: In 2013, Semple created Jump for Australia's Federation Square's public art programme, a 10 x 10m bouncy cloud, and in 2014, Semple represented the British Program for The Night at The Museum festival, releasing thousands of HappyClouds over Moscow. This public art performance has so far also been held in London, Italy, Ireland and Australia.

paragraph: In 2013 Semple received a medal at The House Of Lords for the UN's first International Day of Happiness and nominated Marilena Borgna and May Gabriel also as his Happiness Heros and spoke to "The Independent" about the secret to happiness: "My son makes me truly happy... Happiness from real things and from flash things are worlds apart." "My Happy Colouring Flip Book" was published in 2015 as an anti-stress, creative therapy colouring book for adults by Semple and to raise funds for the Mind creative therapies fund.

paragraph: Section::::Philosophy.

paragraph: Semple has sent "Happy Clouds" up into the sky over London initially in direct response to the recession and also in a bid to highlight and spread happiness worldwide, being invited to repeat the artwork in Dublin, Moscow, Australia and Milan. "I know at times like this it's easy to make creativity a low priority, but I want to show on a very human level that an artistic idea might be able to do something important, even for a fleeting moment." "I don't see why we couldn't spread the happy clouds around the world a bit."

paragraph: Large scale positive public artworks around this theme of happiness has included "Jump", where Melbourne's Federation Square was transformed into an open air white cloud-like trampoline that invited adults to join in. In 2016 "Something Amazing", was held in 6 cities in England and Scotland, who found giant coloured helium balloon sculptures dotted through streets at sunrise, and encouraged people to take and share screenprinted balloons which featured artwork of his yet to be born nephew. The work was discussed by Matilda Battersby in "The Independent" in context artists including Frida Kahlo, Tracy Emin and Semple tackling the taboo subject of infertility.

paragraph: Eric Bryant debated Semple and contemporary Pop Art in a seminal ARTnews feature 50 years after Richard Hamilton had defined the movement. "While earlier generations of Pop artists exhibited a similar love-hate relationship with consumer culture and glamour, this group takes on fear and violence." Semple's relationship with current culture, politics and imagery has put him at the forefront of the next generation of debate, where artists now tackle the current climate of fear; "his often disturbing, even sinister works also feature guns, pills, and frequent references to suicide." In being categorised within Pop Art, Aidan Duane debated in The Irish Times how his work brings it up to date.There is a real intelligence at the heart of his art. On the one hand he clearly embraces the throwaway, famous-for-15-minutes soundbite culture of celebrity and distraction. On the other, he stops it in its tracks, recasting its giddy imagery in the slow, fixed medium of paint. He might seem to celebrate it, but he actually doesn't quite trust the world of mass production and communications. His work implies a conviction that there is, or perhaps there better be, something genuine, something real, beyond the glam facade of throwaway culture. In Vogue Italia Stuart Semple discusses his critical relationship with Pop culture in a post Warhol society where it has become a universal language but aims to act removed.

paragraph: Semple discussed in his "Guardian" blog the influence of growing up in the 1980s and how that period is vital for our art, seeing "youth culture was a powerful force, bright, seductive and ultimately a lot less hollow". He comments about the rise of the new advertising class that has been replacing our social connections after Thatcherism by "associating products with personal empowerment" which was brought about by "a time of intense atomisation and individualisation to the detriment of community caused a pop cultural language centered around nurturing the ego."

paragraph: Topics of youth apathy were touched upon in 2014's "Anxiety Generation" exhibition where Semple debated that a risk industry keeps our current generation in a passive state of fear and consumption, not having a war or threat of nuclear destruction that our parents faced, but he feels "There is a misconception that the youth are apathetic, that they sit around playing on their Xboxes and are all connected digitally, not with the rest of the living world. I can't think of anything more active than going out and rioting,"

paragraph: In 2013, Semple talked to Josh Spero about his career and influences as part of The ICA's Culture Now series. In 2007, when interviewed for Trebuchet Magazine, Semple described how his early experience of pop influenced his approach to art "When I was growing up in the 80s these things (cultural icons) were – I don't know if it's quite right to say they were aspirational, but they certainly gave me my first feelings of something larger. But as you get older you get more jaded so now when you look back at these 'nostalgic' things, you have lost something. Here I've tried to look at them again in such as way as to rediscover that sense of feeling"

paragraph: In 2013, the Suspend Disbelief exhibition wanted the public to question their relationship with reality and the way we all, in a multitude of ways, suspend belief to survive; that in order to be fully entertained by a movie or a magic trick or certain kinds of media, you need to pause your belief in it as a fiction; the idea that in order to live at all we need to suspend our disbelief in the fact we are dying.

paragraph: Semple discusses his practice towards making exhibition like that of a musical recording artist on the BBC and also in a conversation with IndechsPainting in a way is like a recording of a moment, a live moment, where you were what you did, how you physically moved your body. A music recording is the same. I can think of a series of paintings that go together like an album, that make thematic sense that sit together, that's useful for me. I can get a little phrase, or a hook or a melody in my mind. It's an image idea though and I live with that and churn it over, I might draw it or just remember, then I'll get in the studio and put it down. Sometimes I make a little study, I guess that's like a musicians demo of a song. Then I work them into bigger finished things. Collaging is the same as musical sampling. Layers in a painting are like layers in a mix.

paragraph: In an interview with Doug McClemont he refers to the mimetic industries of mass-production; which has been a running critique in Semple's work. He discussed the "idea of taking the mechanization out the pop stuff. Because I find a lot of it non-emotive." He also alluded more to his studio practice; "I used to paint alone when I had a tiny studio middle of nowhere. It had mice and was freezing. Now I have assistants who help me paint, because I'm doing massive, massive stuff, right now. It's not the same..." In 2014 he discussed his studio routine with The Irish Times explaining how he preferred to be more solitary but market pressures had dictated him to expand his studio. His studio was documented during BBC filming in 2011 and 2014.

paragraph: In 2014 the solo exhibition "Anxiety Generation" takes a snap shot of contemporary culture and communication. "My generation is the fulcrum for decades of anxiety and we have been made so inert and fearful that we dare not even face it to understand what it is." Reviewed in Trebuchet "Where previous generations contended with the death of god as a surety, Semple's work contends with information and self in the same way... Semple is suggesting that reality and fantasy are undifferentiated in how society sees and acts. The representational world, the virtual world, is as real as it can get for Westerners trying to make sense of a flickering reality that mirrors through generalities and stereotypes.

paragraph: Reviewed in Candid Magazine "Here is an artist concerned with the idea of shaking the population out of lethargy and asking the difficult questions like why does it take a war or other major disaster to get us talking to our neighbours and connecting as a community? A sentiment depicted with unflinching bluntness in Technicolour Hiroshima (2014), his use of Morrissey lyrics "[...] the bomb that will bring us together" literally spelling out our failing as a community. Semple uses snippets, scenes and headlines from all manner of popular culture to relate to the viewer and draw them into the conversation."

paragraph: Section::::Conflict with Anish Kapoor.

paragraph: Semple came into conflict with the artist Anish Kapoor when Kapoor purchased exclusive artistic rights to the 'world's blackest' material, Vantablack, in 2016. Vantablack is made of microscopic stems of colour that are 300 times as tall as they are wide, so that 99.6% of all light gets trapped in the network of stems. The material was being developed for scientific and military use because of its masking ability. It has the potential to hide stealth aircraft and block out all light from entering powerful telescopes, enabling them to see the faintest stars.

paragraph: After purchasing the rights to Vantablack in 2016, Kapoor faced a backlash from the artist community. Artist Christian Furr commented in an interview with the Daily Mail that he had "never heard of an artist monopolising a material. All the best artists have had a thing for pure black – Turner, Manet, Goya … This black is like dynamite in the art world. We should be able to use it. It isn't right that it belongs to one man." Semple positioned himself at the forefront of this backlash when he released PINK – the world's pinkest pink paint – in retaliation. Semple explicitly banned Kapoor from buying the paint, stating that "We all remember kids at school who wouldn't share their colouring pencils, but then they ended up on their own with no friends. It's cool, Anish can have his black. But the rest of us will be playing with the rainbow!"

paragraph: Purchasers of PINK are required to make a legal declaration during the online checkout process, confirming that: "you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this paint will not make its way into that hands of Anish Kapoor." Kapoor managed to acquire the pigment and on his Instagram account posted a picture showing his middle finger dipped in PINK, with the caption "Up yours #pink." Semple responded by describing Kapoor as "some kind of end-of-game super baddie" who "should be old enough to know better" after Kapoor's Instagram post. Roisin O'Connor writing for "The Independent" called it "one of the most spectacular displays of pettiness" ... "these are two grown men fighting over who gets to use the pretty colours."

paragraph: On 3 February 2017 Semple hit back at Kapoor with the release of his own version of Vantablack, dubbed "Better Black". Semple admits that the paint is not perfect, but says it is better because it is affordable and available to everyone. "Better Black" comes as a pigment and an acrylic "super-base" which when combined replicates the light-absorbing technology of Vantablack. Black 2.0 followed on 30 March.

paragraph: Section::::Activism.

paragraph: Semple has supported Amnesty International and has created artworks for the Freedom of Expression Campaign. "There are more artists living in East London than in the whole of Renaissance Italy and we're doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things every day," he pointed out, "but there are other people all over the world who don't have the privilege of being able to say what they think." He also spoke for Amnesty about positive mental health being a Human Right alongside Joe Pantoliano and Colm O'Gorman during Ireland's "First Fortnight" arts festival.

paragraph: In 2010 Semple spoke for the first time about how his life changed after a near death experience a decade earlier. "Up until that day I was a normal kid, I went to art school, I was like everyone else ... Then I had this awful week when I had a huge allergic reaction, my tongue swelled up so big I could hardly breathe and I found myself in a hospital bed, dying."

paragraph: 2011 Semple was made an Ambassador for mental health charity Mind. He initiated the Creative Therapies fund within the organisation which he launched with Stephen Fry and Melvyn Bragg and curated the exhibition & auction "Mindful" that included works from Jake & Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas and Sebastian Horsley.

paragraph: Semple recently created a whole body of work and short film for a solo booth at London's ART13 with all proceeds in aid of the Mind Creative Therapies fund For Mind's Time To Change campaign he designed a series of well wishing e-cards and temporary tattoos

paragraph: "My Happy Place" was a citywide exhibition in Coventry that coincided with 2015 World Mental Health Day and saw live events, film, food, art and sculpture initiated and created by Semple with Coventry's The Pod collective. Semple's Happy Place consisted of a Unicorn shaped spinning disco mirror ball.

paragraph: The Creative Therapies fund has backed projects nationwide since 2012 and has stepped in to save some groups where local government funding had been cut. Semple talks about his understanding in a Mind interview "…Often those suffering find it hard to express their feelings with words, but being creative in a proper therapeutic environment with trained therapists is a very powerful path to healing. The results are phenomenal I meet and hear from so many people who literally tell me creative therapy has changed their lives so I'm on a real mission to help people understand that and to spread it as far as I can".

paragraph: Semple was vocal about the Arts Cuts imposed following the recession making an artwork "The First Cut" which was exhibited in Hong Kong as part of "The British Cut" exhibition, showcasing major contemporary artists latest work and pictured the scene from the demonstration. His 2010 exhibition "Happy House" opened on the eve of the General Election and the opening was broadcast live on the BBC with the works addressing fears of a future where creativity is overlooked. Semple spoke in The Guardian "I believe that society and its institutions should be doing much more to encourage young people to follow their dreams – helping them to avoid a future of missed opportunity and regret" and in The Huffington Post "The creative industries are a massive contributing factor to our economy and across all those fields we desperately need new dreamers." Semple has appeared on BBC art shows mentoring students, talking about his techniques and inviting them to visit his studio.

paragraph: Semple met with Vince Cable to discuss the impact on artists lives with proposed changes to Artists Resale Right so lower priced sales still counted as it make a difference to younger artists, also for the royalty to pass to their children, saying "The art world should be trying to support and nurture subsequent generations of talent." He spoke to the Student Handbook about this "The creative industries count towards a huge proportion of our economy, it's something like 16% which is nearly as much as banking. It's short-sighted of the government to put these cuts in place because as a country we are extremely creative, whether it's advertising, graphic design, film making, fashion; we lead in all these fields".

paragraph: Semple supported exhibition at The Goss-Michael Foundation in 2011 with auction proceeds donated to MTV Staying Alive Foundation which enables inspirational youngsters to fight HIV and AIDS in their local communities. He has also supported the Africa Foundation via Art for Africa with Sotheby's, Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction at Bonhams and the medical foundation Freedom from Torture's art auction where he talks to Claire Hazelton "Art is one of the most powerful things we've got. It does really work, beyond fundraising." In 2011 Semple was featured on postcards for the Anaphylaxis campaign.

paragraph: Semple featured his work "Nimrod" in the AKA Peace exhibition curated by Jake Chapman with The ICA in 2012 for Peace One Day.

paragraph: "Deep House Music" was painted for the Articulate exhibition held at Victoria Miro Gallery in 2013 in direct response to moving children's testimony recorded in South Africa and Rwanda, in aid of children's art charity Dramatic Need.

paragraph: Section::::Early career.

paragraph: Semple spoke to David Hayes about his early years "Growing up in the 1990s in Bournemouth I was into indie style – I wore checked trousers and jumpers that were too baggy and had holes in them. Grungy, but in a naff sort of way. The group Placebo were a big inspiration. Brian Molko was amazing; it was as much about how he looked as what he sang. I used to travel up to Harvey Nichols in London and buy Hard Candy nail varnish...I don't think my style is that outrageous but people beep their car horns at me or shout out of the window." Semple mentions his motivation growing up in a small town devoid of culture with just neighbouring extremes of entrepreneurs or rough neighbourhoods and his self-education over three years reading in Borders every morning.

paragraph: Semple took the persona of "Nancyboy" after his near death experience and produced over 3000 works of art between 1999 and 2003 that were sold via eBay each night at a set time creating an early online community and becoming one of the first artists to utilise the internet in their work.

paragraph: In 2002 he had his first major London solo exhibition at the A&D Gallery. It was called "Stolen Language – the art of Nancyboy". It incorporated fragments and images that he identified with in popular culture and remixed into a personal narrative consisting of large paintings, screen prints, sculptures, T-shirts and panels. 10 final "nancyboys" were created in 2009 and auctioned once again via eBay with all proceeds donated to the UK charity Mind after his grandmother became diagnosed with late onset schizophrenia.

paragraph: The Nancyboy Decade exhibition was organised by the original collectors who exhibited their early drawings and canvases commemorate to the 10 years.

paragraph: Debbie Harry bought her first Semple painting in 2004, he suggested the same price of $200 she had paid for her first Basquiat canvas in memory of this.

paragraph: Semple was commissioned to create a memorial with debris collected from the 2004 Momart warehouse fire. Semple packaged them in 8 plastic boxes under the title "Burn Baby Burn". The boxes were then painted over and had slogans in pink lettering, including "RIP YBA", which referred to the Young British Artists, by whom much of the destroyed work had been created. Semple stated that amongst the debris collected there were fragments of Tracey Emin's artwork, "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995" ("the tent").

paragraph: In 2005 Semple produced an exhibition of his works in an abandoned Docklands warehouse in East London, called "Post Pop Paradise". Also that year he included a painting into the Saatchi Gallery which included the words "British Painting Still Rocks" as reaction to Charles Saatchi's comments that the YBA artists would be nothing more than a footnote in the history of art.

paragraph: In 2006 Semple's exhibition "Epiphany" at Martin Summers Fine Art in London questioned the role of religion in modern life in a series of in-your-face paintings that alluded to popular culture, graphic media, advertising and social issues.

paragraph: Section::::Later works.

paragraph: In 2007 Semple exhibited "Fake Plastic Love", an exhibition of billboard scale paintings housed within a blacked out environment of East London's Truman Brewery. In 2009 He held his first New York solo exhibition "Everlasting Nothing Less" at Anna Kustera Gallery involving large scale paintings and sculpture which also toured London and Milan.

paragraph: Semple's "The Happy House" series of paintings built upon the themes explored in earlier collections of fears about his generation, as well as commentary on the artifice of media obsession, politics and disappointment. For the first time he touched on more personal narratives as well as current cultural and political issues. His self-portrait 'A Pounding Outside Poundland' captured the moment Semple was assaulted. He told "Esquire" "I feel I have been analysing popular culture from outside itself by using its own languages".

paragraph: The solo exhibition "It's Hard To Be A Saint In This City" in Hong Kong heavily featured text in and on sculptures, exploring poetry and song lyrics of adolescent dreaming and isolation.

paragraph: Solo exhibition "Suspend Disbelief" (2013) in London explored ideas of superstition and illusion. Semple created an immersive exploratory environment with film, paintings and sculpture throughout 15 rooms, where magic tricks were performed by holograms, childhood experiences revisited and he questioned the cycle of life and death within a projection dome where hundreds of flowers perpetually bloom in time lapse. "It's like life without any death because they never wilt."

paragraph: "Anxiety Generation" (2014) at Delahunty Gallery on Bruton Street was reviewed in Modern Painters by Jonathan R Jones who likened the series to John Carpenter's film "They Live" and referencing Heidegger and Derrida in context of the erasure of text used by Semple "words in his paintings ("too high, too far, too soon," "cool aid," and "Froot Loops") are frequently crossed out, suggesting their inability to convey meaning", and commends the achievement to cut through our cynicism and give images again the power to disturb with his use paint where horror images have been immortalised out of the faster moving social media image world that can see society numb to continual rolling images of war and disaster.

paragraph: "My Sonic Youth" (2015) held in Fabien Castanier Gallery, Los Angeles, talks about the cultural shift that teenagers have seen in the decades since Kurt Cobain's death. Speaking to Hunger, Semple is quoted: "I hate to be pessimistic but if I'm honest I feel really worried about it. The gap between rich and poor is going to become colossal. Systems of surveillance and control are going to become even more perverse. Physical spaces and virtual ones will continue to become inverted to a point where more life is lived virtually than physically. The level of online surveillance will increase in proportion to the growing level of fear in the population. Initially, this will look like freedom and this fake freedom will cause a shift in the dominant ideologies. Our value system will change until safety is top of our list and our belief in risk and threat will be unwavering. Atomised, individualistic egoism will grow and continue to be temporarily satisfied by shopping. We will become increasingly distanced from history. Counter-cultural voices within the arts will become commodified faster and faster and therefore [be rendered] inert. Our self-identity will become more fluid through use of online avatar and selfie-shaping tools and apps. The result of that will be our true physical selves will become more unloved and we'll feel empty. Profits from anti-depressants will rise."

paragraph: Section::::Curatorial projects.

paragraph: In 2007, Semple co-curated and featured in the 'Black Market' at the Anna Kustera gallery in New York with Just Another Rich Kid. Showcasing their collaborative installation piece 'Team Dream Chaos' depicting a provocative teenage girl's bedroom. Semple has curated exhibitions "Mash Ups, post pop fragments and détournements" at The Kowalsky Gallery in 2008 for the Design and Artists Copyright Society and 'London Loves The Way Things Fall Apart' (2009) and "This Is England" (2011) for Galleria Aus18, Milan.

paragraph: Semple's exploration of British cultural themes have also been seen in the exhibition "This Is England" (2010) initially held at The Aubin Gallery (which he directed in association with Aubin & Wills and Shoreditch House) featuring artists Sarah Maple, Nicky Carvell, David Hancock and Richard Galloway which then toured to Milan.

paragraph: In 2011 Semple curated the Mindful exhibition in 25,000 sqft Old Vic Tunnels featuring artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Mat Collishaw, Sebastian Horsley, Sarah Lucas, Barney Bubbles, Liliane Lijn, Tessa Farmer and Semple. It coincided with a gala dinner at The Imperial War Museum hosted by Stephen Fry and Lord Melvyn Bragg to raise funds for the Mind creative therapies fund and explore the relationship between creativity and mental health.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stuart Semple Website

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paragraph: Susannah Lattin

paragraph: Susannah Lattin (January 7, 1848 – August 27, 1868) was an American woman who died of a postpartum infection at an illegal maternity clinic at 6 Amity Place in New York City, operated by Henry Dyer Grindle. Her death led to an investigation which resulted in regulation of maternity clinics and adoptions in New York City in 1868.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Lattin was born in Farmingdale on Long Island. Around 1867, Lattin moved from Farmingdale to Williamsburg in Brooklyn, where she lived with her cousin Andrew Wood.

paragraph: Section::::Unplanned pregnancy.

paragraph: Lattin became pregnant by George C. Houghton; he was a clerk at Whitehouse's boot and shoe store on Fulton Street, Brooklyn. He paid $50 to Dr. J.C. Harrison to perform an abortion, but Lattin did not go through with it. She was still hoping that Houghton would marry her. Houghton then quit his job and moved to Philadelphia, to escape the situation. Lattin next went to her cousin, George H. Powell who worked as a butcher at the Washington Market to help her. He pretended to be her husband and arranged for her, as "Mrs. Smith", to see Dr. Henry D. Grindle, who ran an unauthorized "lying-in" hospital that allowed pregnant woman to have their children and have them illegally adopted. The doctor wanted her to pay $150, but she could only pay $100 and he accepted it.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Lattin checked into the lying-in hospital on August 5, 1868, then a few weeks later she delivered a healthy baby boy who was adopted anonymously without any record kept of the adoptive parents. Around August 18, 1868, she developed a postpartum infection. The medical student who attended to her realized Susannah was in serious condition and was not likely to survive, and he persuaded her to tell him her real name so he could notify her family. The message got to her parents after she had died. Coroner Aaron B. Rollins investigated the death.

paragraph: From: 6 Amity Place, Manhattan. To: Mr. Henry Lattin. Dear Sir: You daughter is at No. 6 Amity Place, very sick with typhoid fever, and I do not expect her to live twenty-four hours. She inquires about her mother frequently, and wants her to come immediately. Yours truly, E. Daun. P.S. take the Fulton Street cars at the ferry and they will take you to the house. E. Daun.

paragraph: Section::::Inquest verdict.

paragraph: Susannah Lattin came to death by metroperitonitis, the result of child-birth at D.H. Grindle's establishment at No. 6 Amity Place on August 27, 1868. We further censure Dr. Grindle for the irregular method of operating his business, relative to taking in women to confine, and also the method of adopting children so delivered. We further recommend the Legislature to so enact a law whereby all such establishments shall be under the supervision of the Board of Health, or any other recognized authority. We further condemn the practice of any regular medical college recognizing students connected with any such establishments.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brooklyn Eagle", August 31, 1868; "The Long Island Mystery. Investigation by coroner Rollins of [New] York, The Father, Mother, and Brother of the Deceased Girl on the Stand. "

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brooklyn Eagle", September 1, 1868;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brooklyn Eagle", September 2, 1868;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brooklyn Eagle", September 4, 1868, page 02;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times", September 4, 1868, page 02;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Brooklyn Eagle", September 9, 1868, page 3;

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times", September 11, 1868;

alias:
Susanna Lattin
Susannah Lattin (1848-1868)

description: died at an illegal adoption clinic

wikidata_label: Susannah Lattin

wikipedia_title: Susannah Lattin


text:
Isis
Great Royal Wife
Setnakhte
Ramesses III
Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt
stela
Abydos
Abydos
Sacred Texts - Egypt

categories: Queens consort of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt,12th-century BC women

paragraph: Tiy-Merenese

paragraph: Tiy-merenese, Teye-Merenaset, Tiye-Mereniset "(Tiy, Beloved of Isis)" was the Great Royal Wife of pharaoh Setnakhte and mother of Ramesses III of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.

paragraph: She is the only known wife of Setnakhte. She was depicted together with her husband on a stela in Abydos. A priest named Meresyotef is shown adoring Setnakhte and Tiy-Merenese and their son Ramesses III is shown making offerings. Tiye-Merenese also appears on blocks found in Abydos which were reused in other buildings.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sacred Texts - Egypt

description: Ancient Egyptian queen consort

wikidata_label: Tiy-Merenese

wikipedia_title: Tiy-Merenese


text:
American football
center
Arizona Cardinals
Minnesota Vikings
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
starter
Freeport Senior High School
fullback
linebacker
kicker
punter
University of Pittsburgh
Big East
Saxonburg, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Cardinals
Super Bowl XXXVII
Oakland Raiders
medial collateral ligament

categories: Minnesota Vikings players,1969 births,Tampa Bay Buccaneers players,American football centers,Players of American football from Pennsylvania,National Conference Pro Bowl players,Pittsburgh Panthers football players,High school football coaches in the United States,Arizona Cardinals players,Living people

paragraph: Jeff Christy

paragraph: Jeffrey Allen Christy (born February 3, 1969) is a former American football center for the Arizona Cardinals, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Christy was a starter during all four of his years at the Freeport Senior High School, playing as a fullback, linebacker, kicker and punter. During this time, he rushed for 2,842 total yards, made 340 career tackles, and scored 337 points. He also set nine school records, including the most points in a season (208, which was also a state record) and career, most touchdowns in a season (26) and career (45), and most field goals in a season (6).

paragraph: Christy attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he received all-Big East first-team honors as a senior.

paragraph: On September 21, 2007, the Freeport Senior High School retired Jeff Christy's number, 40. It was the first ever number retirement in the school's history.

paragraph: Jeff Christy is now married to Kristen, with two daughters, Nicolette and Kennedy and a son, Mac. He currently resides in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: In 1992, Christy was drafted with the 91st overall pick in the 4th round by the Phoenix Cardinals. He was cut by the team and would miss the entire 1992 season. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings in 1993 and played there until 1999. During this span he selected to both the Pro Bowl and All-Pro teams in 1998 and 1999. Christy signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2000. Jeff Christy was filling a major need for Tampa Bay, who was trying to improve an offensive line that ranked 28th of 31 teams that previous season. That season, he was selected to a third Pro Bowl and started every game, including Super Bowl XXXVII against the Oakland Raiders. Throughout his career, Jeff started 139 out of 148 of his games played. In August 2001, Jeff Christy injured his medial collateral ligament (MCL) and kept him sidelined for three to five weeks. Christy played for the Buccaneers until his retirement in 2003.

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Jeff Christy

wikipedia_title: Jeff Christy


text:
Christian hip hop
Gotee Records
Unlocked
South Africa
Nashville, Tennessee
The Groundwork Theory
Cross Movement
GRITS
GRITS
Factors of the Seven
Grammatical Revolution
The Art of Translation
Out of Eden
More Than You Know
No Turning Back
GRITS
DJ Maj
GRITS
Mat Kearney
BoogiRoot
KJ-52
7th Avenue
Pettidee
Thug Love
GRITS
Pillar
Above
Silage
Proxy
Stitchie
Official Site (Archive.org Backup)
Verbs Artist Profile
Cross Rhythms

categories: Gotee Records artists,American hip hop musicians,American performers of Christian hip hop music,Living people

paragraph: Verbs (rapper)

paragraph: Michael Boyer II, better known by his stage names Knowdaverbs and later Verbs, is a Christian hip hop artist. He has recorded for Gotee Records.

paragraph: Section::::Background.

paragraph: He started rapping at the age of twelve, and spent time dancing with GRITS during the mid-'90s. At first he did not gain much acceptance for singing hip-hop in nearby churches which laughed at him exclaiming "hip-hop's a pit of hell". His debut album, "The Syllabus" (1999), and his second album, "The Action Figure" (2000) were both fairly successful for gospel rap. His first album under the name "Verbs" ("Unlocked") was slightly delayed when he spent six months in South Africa on a mission with his home church in Nashville, Tennessee. His latest album The Groundwork Theory, was released "September 11, 2007".

paragraph: His lyrics take a middle ground approach between the explicit doctrine of the Cross Movement and the poetic musings of the GRITS.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Collaborations on other albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- GRITS - "Factors of the Seven" - "U.S. Open", "Hopes and Dreams" and "Gospel Rap; Parables" along with Jurny Big of LPG. He also appeared in the Music Video - "Hopes and Dreams / What Be Goin' Down".

paragraph: BULLET::::- GRITS - "Grammatical Revolution" - "Strugglin'" and "C2K".

paragraph: BULLET::::- GRITS - "The Art of Translation" - "Video Girl".

paragraph: BULLET::::- GRITS - "Quarantine" - "Different Drum"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Out of Eden - "More Than You Know" - "Get It Right".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Out of Eden - "No Turning Back" - "Lookin for Love" and "No Turning Back" along with GRITS.

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ Maj - "Wax Museum: the Mixtape" - "Equeena (Remix)" and "Set Sail" along with GRITS.

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ Maj - "Full Plates: Mixtape 2" - "Gung Ho" along with Mat Kearney.

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ Maj - "" - "So Excited" along with Shonlock.

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ Maj - "BoogiRoot" - "Rhyme Pocket Interlude".

paragraph: BULLET::::- DJ Maj - "Sabbatical Transit"

paragraph: BULLET::::- KJ-52 - "7th Avenue" - "Keep It Movin'".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Camp Quest - "Camp Quest" - "Sunday Drive".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Verses - "Listening Session" - "Cassette Tapes & Roller Skates"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pettidee - "Thug Love" - "Push" along with GRITS

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pillar - "Above" - "Galactic Groove"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Silage - "Vegas Car Chasers" - "Verb"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Proxy - "Proximus"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Compilation contributions

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sonic Imperial: Sounds of the Prophets - "Call of the Dung Beetle".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Best of Rescue Records 1993-2003/Urban - "Call of the Dung Beetle".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gotee Urban Vol. 2 - "God Is Big" and "Just the Facts".

paragraph: BULLET::::- - "God Is Big".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Raggamuffin Hip Hop - "Giant Slayers" and "If I Were Mayor/Governor" with Stitchie

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Site (Archive.org Backup)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Verbs Artist Profile on Cross Rhythms.

description: Christian hip hop artist

wikidata_label: Verbs

wikipedia_title: Verbs (rapper)


text: CIA

text: Pan Am Flight 103

text: Lockerbie

text: Scotland

text: Arabist

text: Middle East

text: Thomas Twetten

text: Arlington National Cemetery

text: CIA Memorial Wall

text: Biographical information

categories: Pan Am Flight 103 victims,People of the Central Intelligence Agency,Murdered CIA agents,American terrorism victims,Burials at Arlington National Cemetery,1988 deaths,1954 births,People murdered in Scotland,American people murdered abroad

paragraph: Matthew Gannon

paragraph: Matthew Kevin Gannon (August 11, 1954 – December 21, 1988) was a CIA officer killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

paragraph: Gannon was an Arabist who spent much of his career serving in the Middle East. He married Susan Twetten, daughter of Thomas Twetten (later Deputy Director of Operations at CIA). Matthew and Susan met while her father was Matthew's immediate supervisor.

paragraph: He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery and honored with a star on the CIA Memorial Wall.

paragraph: In May 2012, the CIA officially confirmed that Gannon was a CIA officer.

paragraph: Section::::Diplomatic postings.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Yemen 1979

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jordan 1981

paragraph: BULLET::::- Syria 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lebanon 1988

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bainerman, J. The Crimes of a President. 1992 (205-6)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chasey, W. Pan Am 103: The Lockerbie Cover Up. 1995 (350)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Covert Action Information Bulletin 1990-#34 (42)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Geheim Magazine (Germany) 1988-#9 (33)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Goddard, D. Coleman,L. Trail of the Octopus. 1993 (83, 85, 143)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gup, T. The Book of Honor. 2000 (311)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1989-03-29 (1)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1989-07-19 (5)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nair, K. Devil and His Dart. 1986 (119)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Perry, M. Eclipse. 1992 (161-4, 167-70, 176-7)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas, K. Keith,J. The Octopus. 1996 (93)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Time 1992-04-27 (31)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Washington Times 1988-12-26 (A8)

paragraph: BULLET::::- West, N. Games of Intelligence. 1990 (12)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Remembering CIA's Heroes: Matthew Kevin Gannon

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biographical information

description: American CIA officer

wikidata_label: Matthew Gannon

wikipedia_title: Matthew Gannon


text: land developer

text: Southern California

text: Azusa

text: Austin, Nevada

text: Orange County, New York

text: academy

text: Poughkeepsie, New York

text: New York City

text: Austin, Nevada

text: I.W. Hellman

text: Ontario, California

text: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce

text: Southern California

text: Garvanza

text: YMCA

text: Salvation Army

text: Los Angeles Board of Education

text: Hugh Livingstone Macneil

text: in state

text: St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral

text: Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery

text: Slauson Avenue

categories: 1905 deaths,School board members in California,1829 births,History of Los Angeles

paragraph: J. S. Slauson

paragraph: Jonathan Sayre Slauson (1829–1905) was a land developer in 19th Century Southern California who was responsible for establishing the town of Azusa and mayor of Austin, Nevada.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early years.

paragraph: Slauson was born in Orange County, New York, on December 11, 1829. He went to an academy in Poughkeepsie, New York, completed school at the age of sixteen and then studied law, first with a private attorney and then at the New York State Law School, from which he graduated in 1854.

paragraph: Slauson spent nine years as an attorney in New York City, but ill health impelled him to move to Austin, Nevada, in 1864, where he became a miner and was also elected mayor. Later, he resumed his law practice, this time in partnership with Charles E. De Long. Between 1868 and 1874 he lived with his family in San Francisco, California.

paragraph: In the latter year the Slausons moved to Los Angeles, where he founded the Los Angeles County Bank, which he sold to John E. Plater.

paragraph: Slauson purchased about 5,800 acres of land east of Los Angeles and was once called "the father of citrus fruit culture in the foothill region" and "the father of the town of Azusa" because of his holdings in the Azusa region. In 1886, he sold half the acreage to J.D. Bicknell, I.W. Hellman and others and retained 800 acres, which he incorporated as the Azusa Land and Water Company and laid out the design of a town. He also planted "Orange and lemon trees of the choicest budded varieties." He also became a landowner in Ontario, California, and in Los Angeles.

paragraph: Slauson, who was president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Sunset Club, a social organization, contributed to establishing and assisting churches throughout Southern California. His other charities included the Boys' Home at Garvanza, the Los Angeles YMCA, a Los Angeles orphan asylum, the Salvation Army Rescue Home, and he raised a fund for the erection of a monument to Spanish–American War veterans in Central Park, now known as Pershing Square.

paragraph: He was elected to the Los Angeles Board of Education on December 5, 1904 for a two-year term, but he resigned on September 23, 1905.

paragraph: Slauson died December 28, 1905, and was survived by three children, Mrs. Louise Marshall (wife of Hugh Livingstone Macneil), Mrs. Kate Vosburg and James Slauson.

paragraph: Thousands of people attended along the route of the funeral cortege and in the vestibule of the City Hall, where Slauson's body lay in state. The procession to St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral was accompanied by a detachment of militia. After a private service at the family home, 2345 South Figueroa Street, interment was at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Slauson Avenue.

paragraph: The street Slauson Avenue was posthumously named and dedicated to him.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: J. S. Slauson

wikipedia_title: J. S. Slauson


text: KG

text: soldier of fortune

text: Charterhouse

text: Masny

text: Hainault

text: Froissart

text: Masny

text: Valenciennes

text: La Réole

text: Bordeaux

text: William I, Count of Hainault

text: Jean de Beaumont

text: Alice of Hainault

text: page

text: Edward III's

text: Philippa of Hainault

text: Edward III

text: Battle of Dupplin Moor

text: Siege of Berwick

text: John Crabbe

text: Admiral of the Northern Seas

text: Battle of Sluys

text: Brest

text: Breton War of Succession

text: Hennebont

text: Joanna of Flanders

text: Charles of Blois

text: Philip VI of France

text: Saint-Jean-d'Angély

text: Siege of Calais

text: the Burghers of Calais

text: siege of Calais

text: Tunstall, Kent

text: Earl of Derby

text: Guyenne

text: Bergerac

text: Auberoche

text: Knight of the Garter

text: France

text: John II

text: Calais

text: John of Gaunt

text: Charterhouse

text: London

text: Smithfield, London

text: Black Death

text: Bishop of London

text: Michael Northburgh

text: Carthusian

text: convent

text: letters patent

text: bull

text: Urban VI

text: W. F. Grimes

text: bulla

text: Pope Clement VI

text: Margaret

text: Thomas of Brotherton

text: King Edward I

text: John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave

text: Earl Marshal

text: Duchess of Norfolk

text: Thomas Manny

text: Anne, Baroness Manny

text: John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

text: Kervyn de Lettenhove

text: E. Maunde-Thompson

text: Rolls series

text: Philip Bearcroft

categories: Barons in the Peerage of England,English soldiers,Knights of the Garter,1310s births,English admirals,Peers created by Edward III,1372 deaths,County of Hainaut,People of the Hundred Years' War

paragraph: Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny

paragraph: Walter Manny, (or Mauny) [In French: Wauthier de Masny], 1st Baron Manny, KG, was also Lord of Abergavenny and Masny (or Mauny) (c.1310 – 14 or 15 January 1372), soldier of fortune and founder of the Charterhouse, was from Masny in Hainault, from whose counts he claimed descent. He was a patron and friend of Froissart, in whose chronicles his exploits have a conspicuous and probably an exaggerated place.

paragraph: Section::::Ancestry and early life.

paragraph: Born about 1310, Walter Manny was the fourth of five sons of Jean 'le Borgne' de Masny and Jeanne de Jenlain. His father, who was Lord of Masny (situated some twelve miles west of Valenciennes), was slain in 1324 at La Réole near Bordeaux. In 1346 Walter recovered his father's body, and had it sent to Valenciennes for burial in the church of the Cordeliers. Jean le Borgne's epitaph refers to his son Walter as one 'qui fut merveilles en armes aux gueres des Anglois'.

paragraph: Manny entered the service William I, Count of Hainault, and was in attendance on the Count's brother, Jean de Beaumont; it has been conjectured that Manny and his four brothers all likely grew up in Beaumont's household. Both William and Jean were brothers of Alice of Hainault, for whose soul Manny requested prayers in his will.

paragraph: In December 1327 Manny came to England as a page in the household of Edward III's bride, Philippa of Hainault, Count William's daughter. Froissart describes him as the Queen's esquire carver, and Keeper of the Queen's Greyhounds.

paragraph: Section::::Military career.

paragraph: Manny played a distinguished role in the Scottish wars of Edward III, being present at the Battle of Dupplin Moor and the Siege of Berwick. He captured the pirate John Crabbe, whose expertise in fighting at sea would become of great value to the king.

paragraph: In 1337 Manny was appointed Admiral of the Northern Seas, and in the following year accompanied King Edward to the continent, where in the campaigns of the next few years he proved himself one of the boldest and ablest of the English king's military commanders. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Sluys.

paragraph: Manny figured prominently in the defense of Brest during the Breton War of Succession. When Hennebont was besieged during that War, councillors tried to persuade the Montforts, led by Joanna of Flanders, to surrender to Charles of Blois, nephew of Philip VI of France. When she looked out a window, she saw the ships commanded by Manny sailing towards them. With the help of Manny and his small force, she managed to withstand the siege.

paragraph: In 1346, after the Breton War of Succession, Manny was captured, despite having been offered safe conduct, and thrown into prison at Saint-Jean-d'Angély. He quickly broke out of prison and joined the Siege of Calais, where he negotiated with the governor, after Philip VI had abandoned the city. He asked for mercy for the Burghers of Calais, but Edward only granted this request when Queen Philippa added her pleas to his. Manny also took part in the expedition to defend the city once again in 1349, during that year's failed French siege of Calais. According to Froissart, King Edward III and his son fought incognito under Manny's banner.

paragraph: In 1347, he bought the parish of Tunstall, Kent.

paragraph: Manny also took part in the campaigns of the Earl of Derby in Guyenne, being present at the battles of Bergerac and Auberoche. He was summoned to parliament as a baron by writ from 12 November 1347 to 8 January 1371. In 1359 he was made a Knight of the Garter, succeeding John, Lord Grey (d. 1 September 1359), and at various times he received extensive grants of land both in England and in France. He was frequently employed by King Edward in the conduct of diplomatic negotiations as well as in military commands. He was one of those charged with the safe custody of the French king John II when a prisoner at Calais in 1360; in 1369 he was second in command under John of Gaunt in his invasion of France.

paragraph: Section::::Philanthropy.

paragraph: Manny is remembered for his share in the foundation of the Charterhouse in London. In 1349 he bought some acres of land near Smithfield, London, which were consecrated as a burying-place where large numbers of the victims of the Black Death were interred; and here he built a chapel, from which the place obtained the name of "Newchurchhaw." The chapel and ground were bought from Manny by the Bishop of London, Michael Northburgh, who died in 1361 and by his will bequeathed a large sum of money to found there a Carthusian convent. It is not clear whether this direction was ever carried out; for in 1371 Manny obtained letters patent from King Edward III permitting him to found, apparently on the same site, a Carthusian monastery called "La Salutation Mere Dieu", where the monks were to pray for the soul of Northburgh as well as for the soul of Manny himself. The bishop's bequest may have contributed to the building and endowment of the house; or possibly, as seems to be implied by a bull granted by Urban VI, in 1378, there were originally two kindred establishments owing their foundation to Northburgh and Manny respectively. At all events Manny, who died early in 1372, left instructions in his will, dated St Andrew's Day (30 November) 1371, that he was to be buried in the church of the Carthusian monastery founded by himself. During archaeological investigations at Charterhouse in 1947, W. F. Grimes discovered a skeleton in a lead coffin before the high altar of the monastic chapel. It was identified beyond reasonable doubt as Manny's by the presence in the coffin of a lead "bulla" (seal) of Pope Clement VI: in 1351 Clement had granted Manny a licence to select his own deathbed confessor, a document that would have been issued with just such a "bulla" attached.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: At the beginning of 1354 Manny married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas of Brotherton, a younger son of King Edward I, whose first husband had been John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave. This lady, who outlived Manny by many years, was Countess of Norfolk and Earl Marshal in her own right, and in 1397 she was created Duchess of Norfolk. Manny's only son, Thomas Manny, died young. His daughter Anne, Baroness Manny in her own right, married John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and on the death of her only son in 1389 without children, the barony of Manny became extinct.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oeuvres de Froissart, I. Chroniques", edited by Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove (Brussels, 1867–1877)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Globe edition of Froissart's "Chronicles" (Eng. trans., London, 1895)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chronicon Angliae 1323-1388", edited by E. Maunde-Thompson (Rolls series 64, London, 1874)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philip Bearcroft, "An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton and of his Foundation in Charterhouse" (London, 1737)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Attribution

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rickard, J. (29 October 2000), Sir Walter de Mauny

description: English peer and soldier

wikidata_label: Walter de Manny, 1st Baron Manny

wikipedia_title: Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny


text:
American
Thomas B. Jeffery
Thomas B. Jeffery Company
automobile
truck
U.S. Army
World War I
Jeffery Quad
Allied Expeditionary Force
RMS Lusitania
German submarine
Charles Nash
Merion Station, Pennsylvania

categories: American chief executives of manufacturing companies,Chrysler people,Automotive pioneers,American Motors people,1876 births,People in the automobile industry,American inventors

paragraph: Charles T. Jeffery

paragraph: Charles Thomas Jeffery (13 May 1876 – 10 November 1935) was an American businessman.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: He was the son of Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of Thomas B. Jeffery Company, an automobile manufacturer.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: When his father died in 1910, Charles Jeffery assumed control of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company. Under his guidance, the firm continued to prosper. His most significant success was in the large number of heavy-duty trucks he manufactured.

paragraph: The U.S. Army was Jeffery's best customer during the years of World War I. The four-wheel, chain-drive Jeffery Quad eventually became the workhorse of the Allied Expeditionary Force. Jeffery also made impressive advances in sales of his automobile. He dropped the Rambler marque in 1914 in favor of "Jeffery" and produced 10,283 of them.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:RMS "Lusitania".

paragraph: Jeffery was totally committed to the company and its success before he became a passenger on the ill-fated passenger ship "RMS Lusitania" in 1915. It was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast, with a heavy loss of life. Jeffery survived, but he lost interest in the company, or as one author put it, "re-evaluated his priorities". The Jeffery Company was put up for sale, and Charles Nash purchased the Thomas B. Jeffery Company and Charles T. Jeffery's lakeside commercial property at 6221 Third Avenue, Kenosha.

paragraph: Section::::Collections and death.

paragraph: During his lifetime Jeffery collected an extensive library of rare books, maps and autographs which was sold at auction following his death at Merion Station, Pennsylvania.

description: American businessman

wikidata_label: Charles T. Jeffery

wikipedia_title: Charles T. Jeffery