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{"datasets_id": 2056, "wiki_id": "Q19877473", "sp": 16, "sc": 517, "ep": 16, "ec": 1177} | 2,056 | Q19877473 | 16 | 517 | 16 | 1,177 | George Dorris | Avocation as dance historian | served for ten years as music editor for Ballet Review, and, eventually, as its regular reviewer of musical recordings (1993–present). In 1975, he joined the board of directors of Dance Perspectives Foundation as secretary, serving in that capacity until 1981. In 1977, Dorris and Anderson were the founding editors of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and Related Arts, a journal published by Marcel Dekker that became the acknowledged leader in the field of dance scholarship. They continued to produce several issues a year—four at first, then three—until 2007, when they relinquished their roles to younger scholars.
During these years, Dorris was |
{"datasets_id": 2056, "wiki_id": "Q19877473", "sp": 16, "sc": 1177, "ep": 16, "ec": 1809} | 2,056 | Q19877473 | 16 | 1,177 | 16 | 1,809 | George Dorris | Avocation as dance historian | also active in several professional organizations focused on dance history and criticism. In 1978, he was a founding member of the Society of Dance History Scholars, for which he served on the board of directors (1979-1983, 1990-1993) and on the editorial board (2001-2004). He also served on the board of directors of the Dance Critics Association (1980-1983, 1996-1999) and the World Dance Alliance (1991-2012) and was a longtime member of the Congress on Research in Dance. He had a significant effect on the policies and direction of all these organizations, helping each one to move forward toward its stated goals.
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{"datasets_id": 2056, "wiki_id": "Q19877473", "sp": 16, "sc": 1809, "ep": 16, "ec": 2433} | 2,056 | Q19877473 | 16 | 1,809 | 16 | 2,433 | George Dorris | Avocation as dance historian | 1981, Selma Jeanne Cohen invited Dorris to become an associate editor of the International Encyclopedia of Dance, a major undertaking of the Dance Perspectives Foundation. As the area editor for dance from 1400 to 1800 and for Western music, he worked on the project for many years, until its successful publication in 1998. Soon after, he was invited to become one of a group of principal researchers for Popular Balanchine, a project of the George Balanchine Foundation devoted to documenting Mr. Balanchine's work on Broadway shows and Hollywood films, He completed his research on the operettas Rosalinda (1942) and The |
{"datasets_id": 2056, "wiki_id": "Q19877473", "sp": 16, "sc": 2433, "ep": 20, "ec": 300} | 2,056 | Q19877473 | 16 | 2,433 | 20 | 300 | George Dorris | Avocation as dance historian & Personal life | Merry Widow (1943) in 2002. Soon after, in 2005, he collaborated with Frank Andersen, artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, and Danish dance critic Erik Aschengreen in organizing a symposium held at the international festival in Copenhagen celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of choreographer August Bournonville. Personal life George Dorris and Jack Anderson, longtime companions, have traveled widely over the years and have made friends with dance historians in North America, South America, and Europe. They were married on July 22, 2008 in the Studio Theater on the campus of York University in Toronto, Canada. On February |
{"datasets_id": 2056, "wiki_id": "Q19877473", "sp": 20, "sc": 300, "ep": 20, "ec": 488} | 2,056 | Q19877473 | 20 | 300 | 20 | 488 | George Dorris | Personal life | 12, 2015, in the company of friends and colleagues at their home in Greenwich Village in New York City, they celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their first meeting and lifetime union. |
{"datasets_id": 2057, "wiki_id": "Q23073559", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 12, "ec": 151} | 2,057 | Q23073559 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 151 | George E. Hoyt | Biography & Political career | George E. Hoyt George E. Hoyt was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Biography Hoyt was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin in 1861. In 1892, he graduated from what was then known as the Northwestern University Medical School. He died in 1953. Political career Hoyt was elected to the Assembly in 1908. Later, he represented the 33rd District in the Senate during the 1911 and 1913 sessions. He was a Republican. |
{"datasets_id": 2058, "wiki_id": "Q5539101", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 524} | 2,058 | Q5539101 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 524 | George F. Gunn Jr. | Education and career | George F. Gunn Jr. Education and career Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Gunn was in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. He received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Westminster College in 1950 and a Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 1955. After leaving the Navy, he worked in private practice in St. Louis, Missouri from 1955 to 1971. At the same time, he was an assistant general attorney of the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis from 1956 to 1958, a city attorney of Brentwood, Missouri from 1963 to 1971, and an attorney for the Terminal |
{"datasets_id": 2058, "wiki_id": "Q5539101", "sp": 6, "sc": 524, "ep": 14, "ec": 138} | 2,058 | Q5539101 | 6 | 524 | 14 | 138 | George F. Gunn Jr. | Education and career & State judicial service & Federal judicial service | Railroad Association of St. Louis from 1968 to 1971. State judicial service Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court of Missouri, he was a Municipal Judge for Rock Hill, Missouri, from 1970 to 1971, the St. Louis County Counselor, from 1971 to 1973, and a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals from 1973 to 1982. In 1982, then-Governor Kit Bond appointed Gunn to the Missouri Supreme Court, where he sat until 1985. Federal judicial service Gunn was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on April 17, 1985, to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, |
{"datasets_id": 2058, "wiki_id": "Q5539101", "sp": 14, "sc": 138, "ep": 14, "ec": 426} | 2,058 | Q5539101 | 14 | 138 | 14 | 426 | George F. Gunn Jr. | Federal judicial service | to a new seat authorized by 98 Stat. 333. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 3, 1985, and received commission on May 10, 1985. He assumed senior status on December 1, 1996. His service terminated on May 20, 1998, due to his death in St. Louis of complications of cancer. |
{"datasets_id": 2059, "wiki_id": "Q5539121", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 654} | 2,059 | Q5539121 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 654 | George F. MacDonald | George F. MacDonald George F. MacDonald (born 1938) is a Canadian anthropologist and museum director who pioneered archaeological and ethnohistorical research on the Tsimshian and Gitksan and was the director of the Canadian Museum of Civilization from 1983 to 1998.
MacDonald was born in Cambridge, Ontario. A graduate of the University of Toronto (1961: B.A. (Honours) in Anthropology) and of Yale University (Ph.D. in Anthropology), he is the author of several scholarly publications. He joined what was then called the Canadian Museum of Man in 1960 as Atlantic Provinces Archaeologist.
MacDonald oversaw the transition of the museum to its new facility |
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{"datasets_id": 2059, "wiki_id": "Q5539121", "sp": 4, "sc": 654, "ep": 4, "ec": 968} | 2,059 | Q5539121 | 4 | 654 | 4 | 968 | George F. MacDonald | in Gatineau, Quebec, and its reorientation to a more modern, populist form of exhibit. Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre. |
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{"datasets_id": 2060, "wiki_id": "Q681007", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 131} | 2,060 | Q681007 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 131 | George Gilbert Scott | Life and career & Early work | George Gilbert Scott Life and career Born in Gawcott, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, Scott was the son of a cleric and grandson of the biblical commentator Thomas Scott. He studied architecture as a pupil of James Edmeston and, from 1832 to 1834, worked as an assistant to Henry Roberts. He also worked as an assistant for his friend, Sampson Kempthorne, who specialised in the design of workhouses, a field in which Scott was to begin his independent career. Early work Scott's first work was built in 1833. It was a vicarage for his father, a clergyman, in the village of Wappenham, Northamptonshire. |
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In about 1835, Scott took on William Bonython Moffatt as his assistant and later (1838–1845) as his partner. Over ten years or so, Scott and Moffatt designed more than forty workhouses,during the boom in building such institutions brought about by the Poor Law of 1834. In 1837, they built the Parish Church of St John in Wall, Staffordshire. At Reading, they built the prison (1841–42) in a picturesque, castellated style. Scott's first church, St Nicholas', was built at Lincoln, |
{"datasets_id": 2060, "wiki_id": "Q681007", "sp": 10, "sc": 757, "ep": 14, "ec": 523} | 2,060 | Q681007 | 10 | 757 | 14 | 523 | George Gilbert Scott | Early work & Gothic Revival | after winning a competition in 1838. With Moffat he built the Neo-Norman church of St Peter at Norbiton, Surrey (1841). Gothic Revival Meanwhile, he was inspired by Augustus Pugin to participate in the Gothic revival. While still in partnership with Moffat. he designed the Martyrs' Memorial on St Giles', Oxford (1841), and St Giles' Church, Camberwell (1844), both of which helped establish his reputation within the movement.
Commemorating three Protestants burnt during the reign of Queen Mary, the Martyrs' Memorial was intended as a rebuke to those very high church tendencies which had been instrumental in promoting the new authentic approach |
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In 1844 he received the commission to rebuild the Nikolaikirche in Hamburg (completed 1863), following an international competition. Scott's design had originally been placed third in the |
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In 1854 he remodelled the Camden Chapel in Camberwell, a project in which the critic John Ruskin took a close interest and made many suggestions. He added an apse, in a Byzantine style, integrating it to the existing plain structure by substituting a waggon roof for the existing flat ceiling.
Scott was appointed architect to Westminster Abbey in 1849. In 1853 he built a |
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The choir stalls at Lancing College in Sussex, which Scott designed with Walter Tower, were among many examples of his work that incorporated green men.
Later, Scott went beyond copying mediaeval English gothic for his Victorian Gothic or Gothic Revival |
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Between 1864 and 1876, the Albert Memorial, designed by Scott, was constructed in Hyde Park. It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, Prince Albert.
Scott advocated the use of Gothic architecture for secular buildings, rejecting what he called "the absurd supposition that Gothic architecture is exclusively and intrinsically ecclesiastical." He was the winner of a competition to |
{"datasets_id": 2060, "wiki_id": "Q681007", "sp": 14, "sc": 3157, "ep": 18, "ec": 267} | 2,060 | Q681007 | 14 | 3,157 | 18 | 267 | George Gilbert Scott | Gothic Revival & Honours | design new buildings in Whitehall to house the Foreign Office and War Office. Before work began, however, the administration which had approved his plans went out of office. Palmerston, the new Prime Minister, objected to Scott's use of the Gothic, and the architect, after some resistance drew up new plans in a more acceptable style. Honours Scott was awarded the RIBA's Royal Gold Medal in 1859. He was appointed an Honorary Liveryman of the Turners' Company and in 1872, he was knighted. He died in 1878 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
A London County Council blue plaque marks Scott's residence |
{"datasets_id": 2060, "wiki_id": "Q681007", "sp": 18, "sc": 267, "ep": 26, "ec": 43} | 2,060 | Q681007 | 18 | 267 | 26 | 43 | George Gilbert Scott | Honours & Family & Pupils | at the Admiral's House on Admiral's Walk in Hampstead. Family Scott married Caroline Oldrid of Boston in 1838. Two of his sons George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (founder of Watts & Company] in 1874) and John Oldrid Scott, and his grandson Giles Gilbert Scott, were also prominent architects. His third son, photographer, Albert Henry Scott (1844–65) died at the age of twenty-one. George Gilbert designed his funerary monument in St Peter's Church, Petersham. His fifth and youngest son was the botanist Dukinfield Henry Scott. He was also great-uncle of the architect Elisabeth Scott. Pupils Scott's success attracted a large number of |
{"datasets_id": 2060, "wiki_id": "Q681007", "sp": 26, "sc": 43, "ep": 26, "ec": 765} | 2,060 | Q681007 | 26 | 43 | 26 | 765 | George Gilbert Scott | Pupils | pupils, many would go on to have successful careers of their own, not always as architects. In the following list, the year next to the pupil's name denotes their time in Scott's office, some of the more famous were:
Hubert Austin (1868), Joseph Maltby Bignell (1859–78), George Frederick Bodley (1845–56), Charles Buckeridge (1856–57), Somers Clarke (1865), William Henry Crossland (dates uncertain), C. Hodgson Fowler (1856–60), Thomas Gardner (1856–61), Thomas Graham Jackson (1858–61), John T. Micklethwaite (1862–69), Benjamin Mountfort (1841–46), John Norton (1870–78), George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (1856–63), John Oldrid Scott (1858–78), J. J. Stevenson (1858–60), George Henry Stokes (1843–47), George Edmund |
{"datasets_id": 2060, "wiki_id": "Q681007", "sp": 26, "sc": 765, "ep": 34, "ec": 562} | 2,060 | Q681007 | 26 | 765 | 34 | 562 | George Gilbert Scott | Pupils & Architectural work & Other restoration work | Street (1844–49), William White (1845–47). Architectural work His projects include: Other restoration work Scott restored the Inner Gateway (also known as the Abbey Gateway) of Reading Abbey in 1860 – 1861 after its partial collapse. St Mary's of Charity in Faversham, which was restored (and transformed, with an unusual spire and unexpected interior) by Scott in 1874, and Dundee Parish Church, and designed the chapels of Exeter College, Oxford, St John's College, Cambridge and King's College, London. He also designed St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee.
Lichfield Cathedral's ornate West Front was extensively renovated by Scott from 1855 to 1878. He restored the |
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{"datasets_id": 2061, "wiki_id": "Q54802020", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 602} | 2,061 | Q54802020 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 602 | George Herbert Borts | George Herbert Borts George Herbert Borts (August 29, 1927 – May 2, 2014) was an American economist.
Born in New York City on August 29, 1927, to parents Elias Alexander Borts and his wife Etta Borts, née Silberg, George Herbert Borts earned his bachelor's degree in economics and history from Columbia University. Borts continued graduate study in economics under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago, earning his master's degree in 1949, and his doctorate in 1953. Borts began teaching at Brown University in 1950, and later became the George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics. He was managing |
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Lorillard graduated with a degree in medicine from the Yale Scientific School in 1862. Thoroughbred horse racing George Lorillard, like his brother Pierre, was a prominent racehorse owner in New York, New Jersey and Maryland. At his Long Island estate, he built a large stable |
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George Lorillard's racing stable was handled firstly by trainer Wyndham Walden followed by John Alcock. Notably, Lorillard and Walden won the Preakness Stakes a record five straight years between 1878 and 1882; the Belmont Stakes in 1878, 1880, |
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In 1878, George Lorillard headed a group of investors which included David D. Withers and Gordon Bennett, Jr., who bought Monmouth Park Racetrack. Under Lorillard's management, they built a new racing facility on 660 acres (2.7 km²) of land with the then-largest grandstand in the United States. Opened on July 4, 1890, the track flourished and became known as the "Newmarket of America." Personal life In 1882, George Lorillard was married to Marie Louise La Farge |
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After his death, Lorillard's widow married Count de Ágreda, becoming the Countess de Ágreda. After the Count's death in 1886, she married Leopold Morse (son of Leopold Morse), who changed his name to Leopold Morse de Ágreda. Legacy Lorillard owned a mansion on |
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Lorillard Avenue in The Bronx is named for him and his brother Pierre. |
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He dropped out of school with only a Grade 9 education. The Globe rejected his request to be a junior reporter; instead employing him as a subscription agent in London at age 16. He quickly earned several promotions, moved to Toronto and finally shifted into the editorial department. He was the |
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The Ontario Liberal Party, including Premier Mitchell Hepburn, believed The Globe and Mail would be a strong ally. McCullagh had served as a principal adviser to Hepburn's successful 1934 election bid and, in 1936, Hepburn appointed McCullagh to the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto. Editorials and articles in the first editions were supportive of the provincial government, but within a year, McCullagh became discontented and pushed the Ontario Conservative and Liberal parties to form a coalition government. Hepburn proposed the option to the Conservatives but, after |
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McCullagh launched a series of radio broadcasts in 1939 to promote his nonpartisan vision for Canadian politics. The series led to the creation of the Leadership League, an early concept lobby group for stronger and smaller government and a one party system directed by business interests—a concept criticized as "fascist" by opponents such as the Toronto Star. The league achieved an estimated 101,900 ballots for membership but was underfunded and disorganized. McCullagh folded it within a year.
McCullagh later supported the Ontario Conservative Party and its leader George A. Drew. Toronto Telegram In 1946, at |
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Before joining the Our Gang comedies, "Sonny," as he was called by his family, modeled children's clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread. This established Sonny early on in the local public's eye |
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McFarland's nickname "Spanky" is erroneously said to have arisen from warnings by his mother not to misbehave during one of the initial discussions with Hal Roach in his |
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Upon being discovered at age three, he instantly became a key member of the Our Gang children's comedy movie series and one of Hollywood's stars. His earliest films show him as an outspoken toddler, grumpily going along with the rest of the gang. His scene-stealing abilities brought him more attention, and by 1935 he was the de facto leader of the gang, often paired |
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Spanky McFarland's only starring feature-film role was in the 1936 Hal Roach film General Spanky, an unsuccessful attempt to move the Our Gang series into features. He also appeared as a juvenile performer in many non-Roach feature films, including the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy Kentucky Kernels and two Fritz Lang features of the 1940s.
Following the 1938 Our Gang short Came the Brawn, |
{"datasets_id": 2064, "wiki_id": "Q204042", "sp": 10, "sc": 2439, "ep": 14, "ec": 206} | 2,064 | Q204042 | 10 | 2,439 | 14 | 206 | George McFarland | Our Gang & Later years | McFarland "retired" from Our Gang, beginning a personal appearance tour. In mid-1938, Hal Roach sold the Our Gang unit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who began casting for a new "team leader" character in Spanky's vein and ended up rehiring McFarland himself. He remained in the MGM Our Gang productions until his final appearance in the series Unexpected Riches in 1942, at age fourteen. Later years In 1952, at age 24, McFarland joined the United States Air Force. Upon his return to civilian life, indelibly typecast in the public's mind as "Spanky" from Our Gang, he found himself unable to find work in |
{"datasets_id": 2064, "wiki_id": "Q204042", "sp": 14, "sc": 206, "ep": 14, "ec": 836} | 2,064 | Q204042 | 14 | 206 | 14 | 836 | George McFarland | Later years | show business. He took less glamorous jobs, including work at a soft drink plant, a hamburger stand, and a popsicle factory. In the mid-1950s, when the Our Gang comedies were sweeping the nation on TV, McFarland hosted an afternoon children's show, The Spanky Show, on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The show included a studio audience and appearances by other celebrities such as James Arness, and it ran Little Rascals shorts. Station executives prevented McFarland from developing and expanding the show's format, and by 1960 McFarland had quit the show.
After that stint, he continued at odd jobs: selling wine, |
{"datasets_id": 2064, "wiki_id": "Q204042", "sp": 14, "sc": 836, "ep": 14, "ec": 1528} | 2,064 | Q204042 | 14 | 836 | 14 | 1,528 | George McFarland | Later years | operating a restaurant and night club, and selling appliances, electronics, and furniture. He was selling for Philco-Ford Corporation, where he advanced to national sales training director. During this time, McFarland continued to make personal appearances and cameo roles in films and television, including an appearance on The Mike Douglas Show with Darla Hood and William "Buckwheat" Thomas. As general manager, McFarland helped launch the classic movie channel The Nostalgia Channel in 1985. During the 1990s, after his self-described "semi-retirement," Spanky lent his name and celebrity to help raise money for charities, primarily by participating in golf tournaments. Spanky also had |
{"datasets_id": 2064, "wiki_id": "Q204042", "sp": 14, "sc": 1528, "ep": 18, "ec": 97} | 2,064 | Q204042 | 14 | 1,528 | 18 | 97 | George McFarland | Later years & Death | his own namesake charity golf classic for 16 years, held in Marion, Indiana. He also traveled the country doing speaking engagements and lectures about his movie roles and his days on The Little Rascals. His final television performance was in 1993, playing himself in the cold open of the Cheers episode "Woody Gets An Election".
In January 1994, McFarland posthumously joined fellow alumnus Jackie Cooper to become one of only two Our Gang members to receive a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Death McFarland was in his bedroom in Keller, Texas, getting dressed on June 30, 1993, when he suddenly |
{"datasets_id": 2064, "wiki_id": "Q204042", "sp": 18, "sc": 97, "ep": 18, "ec": 729} | 2,064 | Q204042 | 18 | 97 | 18 | 729 | George McFarland | Death | collapsed. Paramedics tried to revive him for approximately 30 minutes before transporting him to Baylor University Medical Center in Grapevine, Texas. He was pronounced dead within 40 minutes of being admitted, at age 64. It was believed that McFarland had died of "a heart attack or an aneurysm"; his remains were cremated shortly thereafter. A cenotaph for McFarland to be placed at the Texas State Cemetery Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas, has been approved but, according to the cemetery's website, has yet to be installed. The Texas State Cemetery is the final resting place of Governors, Senators, Congressmen, Judges, |
{"datasets_id": 2064, "wiki_id": "Q204042", "sp": 18, "sc": 729, "ep": 22, "ec": 159} | 2,064 | Q204042 | 18 | 729 | 22 | 159 | George McFarland | Death & Namesake | Texas Rangers, Confederate Generals and other Texas legends. Namesake Sixties folk-rock group Spanky and Our Gang named themselves after McFarland's character because singer Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane's surname was similar to his. |
{"datasets_id": 2065, "wiki_id": "Q36623817", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 540} | 2,065 | Q36623817 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 540 | George Newland (mathematician) | George Newland (mathematician) George Newland (c. 1692–1749), of Gatton, Surrey, was a British academic and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1738 to 1749. He was Gresham Professor of Geometry from 1731 to 1749.
Newland was the fourth son of Sir George Newland MP, of Smithfield, London and his wife Rebecca Turgis daughter of Edward Turgis, merchant of London. He matriculated at St John’s College, Oxford on 26 July 1709, aged 17. He was a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1711 to 1720, and a Fellow there from 1720 to 1738. In 1726 he |
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{"datasets_id": 2065, "wiki_id": "Q36623817", "sp": 4, "sc": 540, "ep": 4, "ec": 1097} | 2,065 | Q36623817 | 4 | 540 | 4 | 1,097 | George Newland (mathematician) | was appointed Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford, and was thus responsible for enforcing university discipline and sanctions. In February 1727 when he was 35 years old, he was appointed University Reader in Moral Philosophy, and was awarded DCL in 1729. In 1731 Newland resigned his post as Reader and became Professor of Geometry at Gresham College holding the post for the rest of his life. He was also a governor of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals He succeeded to the estates of his brother William in |
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{"datasets_id": 2065, "wiki_id": "Q36623817", "sp": 4, "sc": 1097, "ep": 4, "ec": 1626} | 2,065 | Q36623817 | 4 | 1,097 | 4 | 1,626 | George Newland (mathematician) | 1738.
Newland was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Gatton in succession to his brother at a by-election on 16 May 1738. He voted consistently with the Opposition. He was returned again unopposed at the 1741 British general election and then at the 1747 British general election, He was described as ‘a strong Jacobite’.
Newland died intestate on 22 October1749. His heirs obtained a private Act in 1751, which allowed them to sell the manor of Gatton to Sir James Colebrooke for £23,000. |
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{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 163} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 163 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Early life & Travels and war service | George Patterson (advertiser) Early life One of four children born to John Alfred Patterson (d.1899) and Frances Julia Rogers, he was educated at Carlton College, Parkville, Victoria. His mother died when he was fifteen and George went out to work help support his sisters. He took a position at Thomas McPherson & Son as an office boy, but within three years had become advertising manager. Travels and war service In 1912 he travelled to London to see how ad agencies operated there, but he was unimpressed with what he saw of English practices and headed for New York where he |
{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 10, "sc": 163, "ep": 14, "ec": 141} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 10 | 163 | 14 | 141 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Travels and war service & Advertising career | worked for a time
His initial attempt to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force at the start of World War I was unsuccessful on medical grounds. He joined the Australian Army Medical Corps serving in Egypt (1915–16) and later with the Australian Army Pay Corps on the Western Front (1916–17). He had the rank of sergeant when was discharged from the army on 3 January 1918 and returned to Melbourne. Advertising career In 1917 he moved to Sydney and set up his own agency. In 1920 he met Norman Catts who was a big name in the fledgling advertising industry in |
{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 14, "sc": 141, "ep": 14, "ec": 821} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 14 | 141 | 14 | 821 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Advertising career | Sydney, being elected president of the Second Advertising Convention of Australia in 1920. The two merged their interests into the Catts-Patterson agency which was Australia's largest agency throughout the 1920s. Clients included Palmolive, Ford and later the Dunlop Rubber, Berlei, the Gillette Safety Razor Co. and Pepsodent Australia.
Catts and Patterson split in 1934. Patterson bought a small business named Griffin, Shave & Russell and formed the George Patterson agency. Patterson was known for an ability to get close to his clients' businesses being a director of clients the Gillette Company, Colgate-Palmolive and later Peek Frean and Hartford Fire Insurance. |
{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 14, "sc": 821, "ep": 14, "ec": 1513} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 14 | 821 | 14 | 1,513 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Advertising career | During the 1930s Patterson researched the latest international trends in radio advertising during his extensive travels.
In 1938 the agency established an innovative radio production outfit – the Colgate-Palmolive Radio Unit – which produced branded content. During World War II it created campaigns for government bonds and troop entertainment programs featuring stars of the day such as Roy Rene, Jack Davey and Bob Dyer.
Patterson worked tirelessly for the Australian Red Cross Society, directing their publicity functions from 1940 onwards. He was a member of the Red Cross's New South Wales divisional council (1940–68), and on the national council (1941–68). He chaired |
{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 14, "sc": 1513, "ep": 18, "ec": 310} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 14 | 1,513 | 18 | 310 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Advertising career & Retirement | the Red Cross's rehabilitation (social service) and was made an honorary life member of the national council in 1961. During World War II Patterson was an air-raid warden at Bellevue Hill his home suburb in Sydney. He maintained a savings plan for agency staff who were away on active duty. Retirement He retired due to ill-health in 1952 and was succeeded as CEO by his stepdaughter's husband Bill Farnsworth. Farnsworth maintained the George Patterson Agency's leadership position and was at its helm until 1971. Like his father-in-law he was a dominant force and a respected leader of the advertising industry |
{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 18, "sc": 310, "ep": 22, "ec": 381} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 18 | 310 | 22 | 381 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Retirement & Personal life | in Australia.
Patterson's autobiography, Life Has Been Wonderful was published by Ure Smith Sydney in 1956. He followed this with two books on trout fishing, Chasing Rainbows (1959) and Angling in the Andes (1961). Personal life Patterson's first wife, whom he married after his service in World War I, was Maud Rigby, née Raybould. Born in 1881, Rigby was eight years older than her husband. A widow, she came to the marriage with a daughter. They had another who died in infancy and then a son.
He married a second time in 1961, wedding 62-year-old widow Florence Mary Stonelake, née Mason. Stonelake |
{"datasets_id": 2066, "wiki_id": "Q5543240", "sp": 22, "sc": 381, "ep": 26, "ec": 119} | 2,066 | Q5543240 | 22 | 381 | 26 | 119 | George Patterson (advertiser) | Personal life & Accolades | had been Patterson's nurse. They remained married until Patterson's death on 19 December 1968. Accolades In 2009 Patterson was included in the inaugural 12 inductees to Ad News Magazine's, Australian Advertising Hall of Fame |
{"datasets_id": 2067, "wiki_id": "Q16886536", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 136} | 2,067 | Q16886536 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 136 | George S. Whitby | Personal | George S. Whitby George Stafford Whitby (1887-1972) was the head of the University of Akron rubber laboratory and for many years was the only person in the United States who taught rubber chemistry. Whitby received the Charles Goodyear Medal in 1954 and in 1972 he was inducted into the International Rubber Science Hall of Fame. In 1986 the Rubber Division established the George Stafford Whitby Award in his honor. Personal Whitby was born in Hull, England on May 23, 1887. He immigrated to the United States in 1942, becoming an American citizen in 1946. He |
{"datasets_id": 2067, "wiki_id": "Q16886536", "sp": 8, "sc": 136, "ep": 16, "ec": 377} | 2,067 | Q16886536 | 8 | 136 | 16 | 377 | George S. Whitby | Personal & Education & Career | died at Delray Beach, Florida on January 10, 1972. Education Whitby received the BS degree in 1907 from the Royal College of Science in London. He obtained MS and PhD degrees from McGill University in 1918 and 1920. Career Upon completing his undergraduate education in 1907, Whitby served as a chemist for the Societe Financiere des Caoutchoucs in Malaysia. After completing his graduate education, he accepted an appointment as a full professor at McGill University in 1923. In 1929, he accepted a position as director of the chemical division of the National Chemical Research Council of Canada. |
{"datasets_id": 2067, "wiki_id": "Q16886536", "sp": 16, "sc": 377, "ep": 16, "ec": 450} | 2,067 | Q16886536 | 16 | 377 | 16 | 450 | George S. Whitby | Career | He joined the University of Akron faculty in 1942, and retired in 1954. |
{"datasets_id": 2068, "wiki_id": "Q5544961", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 179} | 2,068 | Q5544961 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 179 | George Sutherland (author) | Family | George Sutherland (author) Family His siblings included the educator Alexander Sutherland, the painter Jane Sutherland, and the physicist William Sutherland. He was the father of the composer Margaret Sutherland. |
{"datasets_id": 2069, "wiki_id": "Q60768377", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 270} | 2,069 | Q60768377 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 270 | George Washington Carver High School (Dothan, Alabama) | History | George Washington Carver High School (Dothan, Alabama) History In the 1968–1969 school year a few black students transferred from Carver to Dothan under a choice program. In 1969, six weeks before the start of the school year, a federal judge ruled the plan inadequate and ordered all Carver High School to be integrated with Dothan. |
{"datasets_id": 2070, "wiki_id": "Q18399918", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 142} | 2,070 | Q18399918 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 142 | Georges Courtès (astronomer) | Œuvre scientifique | Georges Courtès (astronomer) Georges Courtès, born on 24 April 1925 in Toul (Meurthe-et-Moselle), is a French astronomer and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Œuvre scientifique Georges Courtès, one of the pioneers of space astronomy, has dedicated his work to imaging and spectrography in ground and space astrophysics. |
{"datasets_id": 2071, "wiki_id": "Q5546866", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 140} | 2,071 | Q5546866 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 140 | Georges Panayotis | Early life & Business career | Georges Panayotis Early life Panayotis was born into a family of hoteliers, and left Greece at the age of 18 to study political science. After gaining a management degree at the Paris Dauphine University he began working at Novotel, now part of the Accor Group, eventually becoming International Marketing Director. Having developed specialised marketing and management tools for the hotel industry, he left the group in 1985 to establish MKG Group. Business career Over the past 30 years, Panayotis has led MKG Conseil, now known as the MKG Group. In 2008 the company had over 110 employees across Europe, |
{"datasets_id": 2071, "wiki_id": "Q5546866", "sp": 10, "sc": 140, "ep": 14, "ec": 152} | 2,071 | Q5546866 | 10 | 140 | 14 | 152 | Georges Panayotis | Business career & Public career | the Middle East and Africa, and specialised in four core activities: market surveys, quality control, database management, and industry press. In 2006, the company’s turnover was 12 million euro and was ranked 1st in France, specialising in marketing and the tourism industry, and ranked 20th in the national classification of the top 100 market research institutes by Marketing Magazine.
MKG Group, specialised in the tourism industry, is currently the leader in marketing studies for the worldwide hotel and tourism market. Public career Panayotis helped launch industry publications Hospitality ON Magazine & hospitality-on.com (previously HTR Magazine and Hôtel Restau), and created three |
{"datasets_id": 2071, "wiki_id": "Q5546866", "sp": 14, "sc": 152, "ep": 14, "ec": 864} | 2,071 | Q5546866 | 14 | 152 | 14 | 864 | Georges Panayotis | Public career | major annual events: Worldwide Hospitality Awards, the Global Lodging Forum and the Tourinvest Forum. His published work include Constat et Plan Marketing (Marketing Status and Planning), Marketing Opérationnel des Services (Operational Marketing of Services), and L'hôtellerie française et son évolution (The Hotel Industry in France and its evolution). He holds two Official National Distinctions Medals: Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur (2001) and Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite.
He is also a professor at the Accor Academy in Évry, Essonne, Île-de-France and Lecturer at University of Marne la Vallée, Île-de-France, social sciences, tourism and leisure, and a consultant for |
{"datasets_id": 2071, "wiki_id": "Q5546866", "sp": 14, "sc": 864, "ep": 14, "ec": 1227} | 2,071 | Q5546866 | 14 | 864 | 14 | 1,227 | Georges Panayotis | Public career | several radio (France Inter, RMC) and television stations focussing on the economy, travel and hospitality industry ( BFM, France 24, . He sits on the advisory panel for the Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment (France) &. In 1988 he was a candidate in the 13ème circonscription for the 15th arrondissement of Paris (Saint-Lambert, Javel) elections. |
{"datasets_id": 2072, "wiki_id": "Q2428547", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 571} | 2,072 | Q2428547 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 571 | Georgia State Route 355 | Route description | Georgia State Route 355 Route description SR 355 begins at an intersection with SR 26 northwest of Glen Alta in southwestern Marion County. This intersection is just to the southeast of Fort Benning. It travels to the north, through Glen Alta, and curves to the northwest. It cuts across the southeastern corner of the base, where it travels through a brief portion of the base and Chattahoochee County, and intersects SR 137. The two routes share a brief concurrency, until they leave the base. SR 355 splits off to the northeast and intersects the northern terminus of SR 137 Spur (Old Columbus Road). The route |
{"datasets_id": 2072, "wiki_id": "Q2428547", "sp": 6, "sc": 571, "ep": 10, "ec": 47} | 2,072 | Q2428547 | 6 | 571 | 10 | 47 | Georgia State Route 355 | Route description & History | continues winding its way to the north and intersects the northern terminus of SR 352. Just before entering Talbot County, it intersects the northern terminus of SR 267 and passes through Juniper. In Talbot County, SR 355 passes just to the west of Meadows Lake. Then, it crosses over a Norfolk Southern Railway line. It passes just to the west of Benson Lake and meets its northern terminus, an intersection with US 80/SR 22/SR 540 north of Juniper.
SR 355 is not part of the National Highway System, a system of roadways important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility. History The roadway that would eventually become SR 355 |
{"datasets_id": 2072, "wiki_id": "Q2428547", "sp": 10, "sc": 47, "ep": 10, "ec": 589} | 2,072 | Q2428547 | 10 | 47 | 10 | 589 | Georgia State Route 355 | History | was built between 1949 and 1951. This roadway was part of SR 267 and included all of modern-day SR 355 from the current SR 267 intersection south of Juniper north to SR 355's northern terminus. Between 1957 and 1960, this entire roadway was paved. Between 1960 and 1963, SR 355 was built from its current southern terminus to the current SR 267 intersection. It was also designated along the former part of SR 267 north of there. In addition, SR 355 Loop was established along the Marion–Talbot county line. By 1966, all of SR 355 was paved. |
{"datasets_id": 2073, "wiki_id": "Q16887233", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 255} | 2,073 | Q16887233 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 255 | Gerald B. Zornow | Business | Gerald B. Zornow Gerald B. Zornow graduated from the University of Rochester in 1937, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. He was a three-sport letter winner (football, basketball and baseball) and has been inducted into the University of Rochester Athletic Hall of Fame posthumously in 1992. Business He served as the President of Eastman Kodak Company from 1970 to 1972 and as Chairman of the Board from 1972 to 1977. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford created the President's Commission on Olympic Sports and Zornow served as chairman of the Commission. |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 558} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 558 | Gerald Caplan | Political career | Gerald Caplan Political career Caplan has been a political activist all his life as a member of the CCF and its successor, the NDP. He was campaign manager in a series of election campaigns, both federal and provincial, including those for Ontario leader Donald C. MacDonald and national party leader David Lewis. A lifelong friend of David's son Stephen Lewis, he was also a close advisor and senior strategist to Lewis prior to and during his career as leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1970s. After a period serving as co-ordinator of Toronto's health advocacy unit from |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 6, "sc": 558, "ep": 14, "ec": 3} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 6 | 558 | 14 | 3 | Gerald Caplan | Political career & Political candidate & Broadcasting | 1980 to 1982, Caplan returned to political work. From 1982 to 1984, Caplan was federal secretary of the New Democratic Party, and was national campaign manager for the 1984 general election. Political candidate In 1982, Caplan was a candidate for the federal NDP nomination in Broadview—Greenwood after Bob Rae vacated the seat to move to provincial politics. Caplan was upset in his bid for the nomination by Lynn McDonald, who defeated Caplan on the third ballot by a margin of 309 votes to 248. McDonald went on to keep the seat for the NDP in the ensuing by-election. Broadcasting In |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 14, "sc": 2, "ep": 18, "ec": 368} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 368 | Gerald Caplan | Broadcasting & Media | 1985, Caplan was co-chair of the Task Force on Canadian Broadcasting Policy by then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. For many years he remained vocal in defence of public broadcasting, some of it with the lobby group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting. Media He worked as a political columnist for the Toronto Star from the mid-1980s for a number of years, and was often on television and radio as a political pundit supporting the NDP. He was a member of the long-running Thursday morning Pundits' Panel on CTV Television's morning program, Canada AM. Following the 1988 federal election, he co-authored Election : the issues, |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 18, "sc": 368, "ep": 26, "ec": 48} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 18 | 368 | 26 | 48 | Gerald Caplan | Media & Royal Commission on Learning & Africa | the strategies, the aftermath with Liberal strategiest Michael Kirby and Tory strategist Hugh Segal.
Caplan continues to contribute opinion pieces to various Canadian newspapers including the Star and The Globe and Mail, and has been a regular panelist on CBC News Network's Power & Politics. Royal Commission on Learning From 1993 to 1995, Caplan was co-chair of Ontario's Royal Commission on Learning having been appointed to the position by Ontario Premier Bob Rae. Prior to the 1999 Ontario election he served as the Director of Research for the Ontario NDP caucus. Africa In 1999, with his study of the Rwandan genocide, |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 26, "sc": 48, "ep": 26, "ec": 686} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 26 | 48 | 26 | 686 | Gerald Caplan | Africa | Caplan returned full-time to African matters. After completing the report on the genocide, he founded and became the co-coordinator of Remembering Rwanda, an international movement of volunteers dedicated to commemorating the tenth anniversary of the genocide. He has remained active around issues related to Rwanda and genocide prevention in general, frequently speaking and writing about both.
In 2001, he was named by the United Nation’s Special Coordinator for Africa as a member of the senior experts’ team undertaking an evaluation of the UN’s New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s. He has also acted as a |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 26, "sc": 686, "ep": 30, "ec": 72} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 26 | 686 | 30 | 72 | Gerald Caplan | Africa & Articles | consultant for the Economic Commission for Africa, UNICEF, WHO and the African Union.
He served, as well, as volunteer chair of the International Advisory Board for the University of Toronto Centre for International Health's HIV/AIDS Initiative, and is part of the small team that supports Stephen Lewis in his work as UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Caplan has denounced the Roman Catholic Church on what he says is the notorious role of the institution in setting the stage for, enabling and ultimately participating in the genocide in Rwanda. Articles 'President Obama needs a refresher course on Africa' (2009) Published in |
{"datasets_id": 2074, "wiki_id": "Q5548993", "sp": 30, "sc": 72, "ep": 30, "ec": 439} | 2,074 | Q5548993 | 30 | 72 | 30 | 439 | Gerald Caplan | Articles | Pambazuka News
'Abdelrazik's next challenge' (2009) Published in Pambazuka News
'Another opening, another show' (2009) Published in The Globe and Mail
Obama in Africa: A Major Disappointment (2009) Published in The Nation
'It is, in fact, possible to criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic' (2014) Published in The Globe and Mail |
{"datasets_id": 2075, "wiki_id": "Q60753317", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 353} | 2,075 | Q60753317 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 353 | Gerald Scully | Playing career | Gerald Scully Playing career Scully began his first grade career in 1939 aged 18 with Norths and played in the 1943 NSWRL grand final defeat against Newtown in front of a crowd of 60,922 which was a record attendance for a grand final at the time.
In 1947, Scully played one season with Newtown and his final game in first grade was the semi final defeat against Canterbury. |
{"datasets_id": 2076, "wiki_id": "Q3123661", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 594} | 2,076 | Q3123661 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 594 | Gerald Toto | Music career | Gerald Toto Music career Part of the underground scene in the middle of the 1990s, he chose a new direction by becoming the artistic director and composer of the first album of the well known Faudel (writing songs such as "Tellement je t'aime")
On the heels of the commercial success Gerald Toto released his first album, Les Premiers Jours (Warner, 1998), a mix between cashew music and the music of Daniel Lanois.
Then came Middle Eastern electro with the band Smadj and the vocal improvisations of "Toto Bona Lokua" with Richard Bona and Lokua Kanza (No Format!, 2004).
In 2006 Toto came back |
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His third album, Spring Fruits, with English lyrics, was released in 2011. |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 94} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 94 | Geraldine Heaney | Early life & Toronto Aeros | Geraldine Heaney Early life Heaney was born October 1, 1967, in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Her parents, Mike and Kathleen Heaney, emigrated to Canada when Geraldine was one-year-old, but she retained pride in her Irish birth, often returning to Ulster. Her family settled in North York, Ontario, where she grew up and developed her passion for hockey, often playing goal for her brothers on outdoor rinks. A gifted athlete, Heaney also played Gaelic football, soccer, fastball and in-line hockey. Toronto Aeros Heaney first joined a girls hockey team at age 10, playing against girls up to six years older |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 10, "sc": 94, "ep": 10, "ec": 726} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 10 | 94 | 10 | 726 | Geraldine Heaney | Toronto Aeros | than her. She joined the Toronto Aeros in 1980 at the age of 13. It began a career with the organization in which she played over 1,000 games at the senior level and later the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL). She was a member of six provincial championship winning teams and named the Ontario Women's Hockey Association's top defenceman on three occasions: 1987–88, 1991–92 and 1992–93.
While studying recreation facilities management at Seneca College in Toronto, Heaney was recruited to play volleyball, but immediately switched to hockey upon learning the school operated a women's team. In 1987, she led Seneca to |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 10, "sc": 726, "ep": 10, "ec": 1366} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 10 | 726 | 10 | 1,366 | Geraldine Heaney | Toronto Aeros | an Ontario Colleges Athletic Association championship and was named to both her league and the provincial championship all-star teams.
Heaney was a member of four national championship teams with the Aeros. The only player to appear in the Esso Women's National Hockey Championship every season between 1987 and 2001, Heaney was named the best defender of the tournament in 1993, 1997 and 2001 and was named most valuable player in 1992. Three months pregnant with her first child, Heaney ended her club career in 2004 by scoring the overtime-winning goal to capture the national championship. In recognition of her 27-year playing |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 10, "sc": 1366, "ep": 14, "ec": 529} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 10 | 1,366 | 14 | 529 | Geraldine Heaney | Toronto Aeros & International | career, the Aeros retired her uniform number 91 in 2006. International The first International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) sanctioned Women's World Championship was played in 1990, in Ottawa. Heaney was selected for Team Canada, but as she was a landed immigrant, she had to rush the process of gaining citizenship before she could play. Canada and the United States were the class of the tournament and met in the final. Heaney scored the gold medal winning goal in dramatic fashion as she deked around two American defencemen before sliding the puck into the net as she tripped over the goaltender |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 14, "sc": 529, "ep": 14, "ec": 1149} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 14 | 529 | 14 | 1,149 | Geraldine Heaney | International | and flew through the air in a fashion reminiscent of Bobby Orr's Stanley Cup winning goal in 1969. The goal, coupled with her skills as an offensive defenceman led to Heaney becoming known as the "Bobby Orr of women's hockey".
The 1990 tournament marked the first of seven consecutive gold medal victories for Heaney, and she was the only player to appear in the first seven World Championships for Canada. She received the Directorate Award as the tournament's best defenceman at the 1992 and 1994 tournaments, and was named a tournament all-star in 1992.
Women's hockey was added as a full-medal sport |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 14, "sc": 1149, "ep": 14, "ec": 1747} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 14 | 1,149 | 14 | 1,747 | Geraldine Heaney | International | for the first time at the 1998 Nagano Games, and Heaney was named to the Canadian Olympic team. While Canada had won every World Championship to that point, defeating the United States in the final each time, the Americans had begun to defeat Canada at other tournaments. Heaney scored two goals and added four assists in six games; however Canada lost the final to the United States, 3–1, and settled for the silver medal.
Heaney planned on the 2002 Salt Lake Games being her final tournament. She ended her international career with an Olympic gold medal after Canada defeated the United |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 14, "sc": 1747, "ep": 14, "ec": 2342} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 14 | 1,747 | 14 | 2,342 | Geraldine Heaney | International | States 3–2 in the final. The final was controversial as the American referee called 13 of the final 16 penalties in the game against Canada. Heaney described the feeling of the Canadian players following the game: "We got an unbelievable number of penalties. We never had any idea that could happen. [The officials] tried to give them the game, and we weren't going to let that happen." In addition to celebrations in Canada, Heaney was recognized as a sporting hero in Northern Ireland.
Heaney also played in two World Ball Hockey Championships. She won a gold medal in 1992 and silver |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 14, "sc": 2342, "ep": 18, "ec": 610} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 14 | 2,342 | 18 | 610 | Geraldine Heaney | International & Legacy | in 1994. Legacy An offensive defenceman, Heaney appeared in 125 games with the Canadian National Team, scored 27 goals and recorded 66 assists. In World Championship play, she holds Canadian records for most games (35), goals (8), assists (28) and points (36) for a defenceman. A pioneer of modern women's hockey, Heaney has been recognized by numerous institutions. She has been inducted into the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association and Canadian Ball Hockey Halls of Fame.
In 2008, Heaney joined countrywoman Angela James and American Cammi Granato as the first women inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame. Proud of |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 18, "sc": 610, "ep": 22, "ec": 27} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 18 | 610 | 22 | 27 | Geraldine Heaney | Legacy & Personal | her induction, Heaney saw it as a sign of worldwide recognition of women's hockey, and added: "There are so many young girls playing hockey now, it's amazing. I really feel we need to promote the game worldwide, not just in Canada, and inducting women now should help that." Five years later, Heaney became the third woman (following James and Granato in 2010) to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of its 2013 class. She will be inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as part of its 2014 class. Personal Heaney settled in Ancaster, |
{"datasets_id": 2077, "wiki_id": "Q3501313", "sp": 22, "sc": 27, "ep": 22, "ec": 465} | 2,077 | Q3501313 | 22 | 27 | 22 | 465 | Geraldine Heaney | Personal | Ontario, following her playing career where she and her husband John are raising their two children, Shannon and Patrick. Heaney remains active in hockey; she turned to coaching and spent six seasons as coach of the University of Waterloo Warriors women's hockey team, though the program often struggled as it lacked the resources compared to larger university programs. Heaney left Waterloo in 2012 to coach her daughter's novice team. |
{"datasets_id": 2078, "wiki_id": "Q1027196", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 14, "ec": 48} | 2,078 | Q1027196 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 48 | Gerani, Rethymno | Sights & Daily life, Festivities & Miscellaneous | Gerani, Rethymno Sights The Gerani Cave was discovered in 1968 during the construction of the new national road Rethymno-Chania. The 6 halls of this cave display magnificent stalagmites. Archaeological research within the cave has brought to light a variety of findings dating back to the Neolithic period. Some of this findings are exhibited in the Archeological Museum of Rethymno Furthermore, important material of palaeontological interest was found, dating back to the end of the Pleistocene period. Daily life, Festivities "Parade of the Camel" takes place in the village (Ash Monday) Miscellaneous There is public bus service (KTEL) from Rethymno |
{"datasets_id": 2078, "wiki_id": "Q1027196", "sp": 14, "sc": 48, "ep": 14, "ec": 329} | 2,078 | Q1027196 | 14 | 48 | 14 | 329 | Gerani, Rethymno | Miscellaneous | ( three services, morning and noon on weekdays and not weekends)
Since 28 March 2005 the area of Gerani is included in the Cadastre system and is under the authority of the Cadastral Office of Rethymno (20 Hortatzis Str., ZIP: 74100, Rethymno, Phone n.: 0030-28310-22403) |
{"datasets_id": 2079, "wiki_id": "Q464662", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 497} | 2,079 | Q464662 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 497 | Gerard Mortier | Biography | Gerard Mortier Gerard Alfons August, Baron Mortier (25 November 1943 – 8 March 2014) was a Belgian opera director and administrator of Flemish origin. Biography Born in Ghent, the son of a baker, Mortier attended in youth the Jesuit private school Sint-Barbaracollege, following the death of his mother. He subsequently studied law and journalism at Ghent University.
Mortier pursued apprenticeships in opera administration under Christoph von Dohnányi in Frankfurt and Rolf Liebermann in Paris. He worked for the Flanders Festival from 1968 to 1972. His first major administrative post was as the general director of La Monnaie (De Munt) in Brussels |
{"datasets_id": 2079, "wiki_id": "Q464662", "sp": 8, "sc": 497, "ep": 8, "ec": 1132} | 2,079 | Q464662 | 8 | 497 | 8 | 1,132 | Gerard Mortier | Biography | from 1981 to 1991, where he was credited with artistically rejuvenating the company. He subsequently held the general directorship of the Salzburg Festival from 1991 to 2001.
Mortier was the founding director of the Ruhrtriennale arts festival in Germany, leading it from 2002 to 2004. He was inspired to "a social and artistic experiment: how to attract new audiences to the classics and galvanize a depressed corner of Germany." At the same time, he was able to work his own interests in flouting tradition and attracting new audiences to the Ruhr. He put intimate productions into expansive, renovated industrial spaces. In |
{"datasets_id": 2079, "wiki_id": "Q464662", "sp": 8, "sc": 1132, "ep": 8, "ec": 1797} | 2,079 | Q464662 | 8 | 1,132 | 8 | 1,797 | Gerard Mortier | Biography | 2003, he offered an ambitious season of
23 productions with 129 performances in 15 spaces, along with additional concerts, a fringe festival and what promises to be an astonishing installation of a Bill Viola video spectacle, Five Angels for the Millennium, inside a mighty, gorgeously restored gas tank in Oberhausen.
Planned was a production of Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise in September 2003. Mortier had a "current of spirituality meant to infuse these cathedrals of industry", and emphasized a French subtext in 2003, compared to a German one the year before. He had "faith that audiences will eventually respond to the experimentation by |
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Mortier served as general director of the Opéra National de Paris from 2004 to 2009.
In February 2007, the New York City Opera (NYCO) named him their next general director, effective as of the 2009/2010 season. Mortier assisted with company operations from Paris during the interim period after his appointment was announced. Problems with fund-raising and a smaller-than-expected budget began to develop during the interim period after his appointment. In addition, Mortier was campaigning for a position as co-artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival. In November 2008, Mortier resigned when it became clear that the board would not |
{"datasets_id": 2079, "wiki_id": "Q464662", "sp": 8, "sc": 2475, "ep": 8, "ec": 3095} | 2,079 | Q464662 | 8 | 2,475 | 8 | 3,095 | Gerard Mortier | Biography | give him the money needed to produce a meaningful slate of opera productions.
Also in November 2008, Mortier accepted the position of Artistic Director of the Teatro Real in Madrid. While in New York, he had already commissioned a new opera, Brokeback Mountain, with the American composer Charles Wuorinen and a libretto by Annie Proulx, who wrote the original short story on which it is based. This was one of the projects Mortier took with him to the Teatro Real, and it was completed in 2012.
In September 2013, Mortier disclosed publicly his condition of cancer. During the search for his successor, |
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Mortier died of pancreatic cancer in Brussels on 8 March 2014, aged 70. Survivors include his sister Rita and his longtime companion, conductor Sylvain Cambreling. In April 2014, Mortier was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the International Opera Awards 2014. |
{"datasets_id": 2080, "wiki_id": "Q27110359", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 44} | 2,080 | Q27110359 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 44 | Gerard Noel (editor) | Early life & Career | Gerard Noel (editor) Early life The Honourable Gerard Noel was born on 20 November 1926. His father was Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough and his mother, Alice Mary (née Eyre), Countess of Gainsborough. His older brother Anthony succeeded to the earldom in 1927.
Noel was educated at the Worth School in West Sussex and Georgetown Preparatory School at Washington DC. He read Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1944. While he was at Oxford, he ran for the presidency of the Oxford Union but lost to Tony Benn. Career Noel started his career as a lawyer in 1952. |
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