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{"datasets_id": 2760, "wiki_id": "Q6211264", "sp": 38, "sc": 268, "ep": 38, "ec": 395} | 2,760 | Q6211264 | 38 | 268 | 38 | 395 | Joe McKee | International | He was a substitute for the game two days later in Ballerup in another defeat, coming on in the second half for Rory McKenzie. |
{"datasets_id": 2761, "wiki_id": "Q1359670", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 602} | 2,761 | Q1359670 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 602 | Joe Nay | Joe Nay Joe Nay (born May 10, 1934 in Berlin - died December 22, 1990 near Munich) was a German jazz musician, composer and drummer.
After studying guitar at the Berlin Conservatory, Nay studied under Kenny Clarke in Paris in 1959. Together with the pianist Jan Huydts and the bassist Peter Trunk, he founded the house band at the Berlin club Blue Note in the 1960s. This trio accompanied American musicians such as Roland Kirk, Don Byas, Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin.
He also played in the Michael Naura Quintet and, alongside Hartwig Bartz, Ralf Hübner and Klaus Weiss, developed into one |
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{"datasets_id": 2761, "wiki_id": "Q1359670", "sp": 4, "sc": 602, "ep": 4, "ec": 1228} | 2,761 | Q1359670 | 4 | 602 | 4 | 1,228 | Joe Nay | of the most important German jazz drummers.
Later he played with Dusko Goykovich, Randy Brecker, Volker Kriegel, Ruby Braff and Jasper van't Hof. His Northern Lights ensemble, active at the end of the 1970s, included Johannes Faber, Andy Scherrer, Harry Pepl, Christoph Spendel and Adelhard Roidinger. In the 1980s he directed the group Message, in which musicians such as Harry Sokal and Paul Grabowsky played. He has worked on more than 80 LP or CD recordings.
He died from the consequences of an auto accident.
His son, Sebastian Nay, is also jazz drummer who works with the pianist Tine Schneider. |
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{"datasets_id": 2762, "wiki_id": "Q16727915", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 57} | 2,762 | Q16727915 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 57 | Joel Chan (photographer) | Career & Company and affiliations | Joel Chan (photographer) Career Chan's first assignment was with SG Design Fusion, a boutique publishing firm. He also accepted a commission with his alma mater, University of Newcastle, Australia.
Chan was at the same time, providing volunteer photography services with charities Singapore Red Cross and Student Advisory Centre. A notable event was his provision of photography coverage for a 20 kilometre charity swim from Batam Island to Singapore Island.
His client list includes Leica Microsystems, Chanel, Lexus, GAC Marine, GAC Logistics, PSB Academy, Singapore Airshow and A2A Capital Management. Company and affiliations In 2007, Chan started his own company JC Photography, and |
{"datasets_id": 2762, "wiki_id": "Q16727915", "sp": 10, "sc": 57, "ep": 10, "ec": 259} | 2,762 | Q16727915 | 10 | 57 | 10 | 259 | Joel Chan (photographer) | Company and affiliations | shifted to the field of wedding photography. His work has been featured in a MediaCorp production, Style Weddings.
Chan has been a member of Nikon Professional Services (NPS) since 21 July 2008 |
{"datasets_id": 2763, "wiki_id": "Q2272950", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 199} | 2,763 | Q2272950 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 199 | Joel Stransky | Early life & Career | Joel Stransky Early life Stransky was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He is of English and Czech descent and Jewish on his father's side. He was educated at Maritzburg College where he was coached under Skonk Nicholson, a well-known figure in schoolboy rugby. After his military conscription in Pretoria, he returned to Natal to study at the University of Natal. Career In 1990 he was part of the Natal team that beat Northern Transvaal to win the Currie Cup for the first time, before he moved to Italy where he played for L'Aquila during the season 1991–1992 and for |
{"datasets_id": 2763, "wiki_id": "Q2272950", "sp": 10, "sc": 199, "ep": 10, "ec": 748} | 2,763 | Q2272950 | 10 | 199 | 10 | 748 | Joel Stransky | Career | San Donà in the 1992–93. Between 1993 and 1996, he gained 22 caps for his country.
In 1995 he was part of the first South African rugby union team to play in a Rugby World Cup. South Africa had been banned from the previous World Cups because of the Apartheid regime. He played an integral part in the South African team and scored all the points for his team in the World Cup final against New Zealand, including a drop goal in the second period of extra time. This was the first Rugby World Cup final that went into extra time.
In |
{"datasets_id": 2763, "wiki_id": "Q2272950", "sp": 10, "sc": 748, "ep": 10, "ec": 1358} | 2,763 | Q2272950 | 10 | 748 | 10 | 1,358 | Joel Stransky | Career | 1997, he moved to Leicester Tigers, where he would play for a couple of seasons, winning the 1998–99 Allied Dunbar Premiership, and then become backs coach.
In the buildup to the 1999 Rugby World Cup, it was suggested that Stransky could play for England. However, he discovered that he was not qualified to do so. He had also sustained a knee injury which made him an unsuitable candidate at the time.
In 2002, he was engaged by Bristol Rugby as a coach, but the offer was subsequently withdrawn. Stransky took legal action and was compensated.
He later returned to South Africa, and |
{"datasets_id": 2763, "wiki_id": "Q2272950", "sp": 10, "sc": 1358, "ep": 14, "ec": 62} | 2,763 | Q2272950 | 10 | 1,358 | 14 | 62 | Joel Stransky | Career & In film | is a part-time rugby union television commentator.
In January 2007, Joel Stransky joined Altech Netstar (Pty) Ltd. as the Sales & Marketing director. In January 2008, he was appointed managing director, but has subsequently resigned. He was then employed by the Steinhoff Group in a marketing and promotional capacity. Joel founded Pivotal Capital in 2012. In film In the 2009 movie Invictus, he is portrayed by Scott Eastwood. |
{"datasets_id": 2764, "wiki_id": "Q5955392", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 529} | 2,764 | Q5955392 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 529 | Johan Anders Linder | Life | Johan Anders Linder Life Linder was born in Bygdeå församling in 1783. His father died and his mother brought him up to be a minister. He obtained his first position in Umea as a minister in northern Sweden in 1811. Linder and his wife were involved in the social life of the town where they lived and Linder also obtained work as an architect. Linder was also an accomplished artist. Baggböle manor, which he designed in 1846 as residence for the managing director of the water powered sawmill at Baggböle, is a wooden building made to look like a stone |
{"datasets_id": 2764, "wiki_id": "Q5955392", "sp": 6, "sc": 529, "ep": 6, "ec": 1158} | 2,764 | Q5955392 | 6 | 529 | 6 | 1,158 | Johan Anders Linder | Life | mansion.
Linder obtained other commissions in the 1840s and 1850s for more buildings. The mansion he had built in 1846 was made a listed building in 1964. The former manager's "mansion" is now near an arboretum and the house is used for conferences and as a restaurant.
Linder later designed a similar mansion to the one he designed at Baggböle saw mill but at Dalkarlså Folk High School in 1849.
Linder also wrote and a series of essays he wrote entitled "On Swedish Lapp Territories and Their Inhabitants" recorded some important cultural texts for the Sami people. The articles he wrote were published |
{"datasets_id": 2764, "wiki_id": "Q5955392", "sp": 6, "sc": 1158, "ep": 6, "ec": 1564} | 2,764 | Q5955392 | 6 | 1,158 | 6 | 1,564 | Johan Anders Linder | Life | between 1849 and 1854. He quoted from a text titled "Beaivvi bártnit" (the Sun's sons) which had been written by Anders Fjellner, the Sami priest at Sorsele. Linders publication was important and it was quickly re-published in Swedish, English, Finnish and German. None of the original texts belonging to Fjellner survived making Linder's publication important.
Linder died in Umeå parish in 1877. |
{"datasets_id": 2765, "wiki_id": "Q11978732", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 12, "ec": 74} | 2,765 | Q11978732 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 74 | Johan H. Andresen | Personal life & Career | Johan H. Andresen Johan H. Andresen (29 November 1888 – 21 October 1953) was a Norwegian industrialist and politician for the Conservative Party. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as a son of factory owner Nicolai Andresen (1853–1923) and Johanne Marie Heyerdahl (1855–1928). He was a grandson of Johan Henrik Andresen and great-grandson of Nicolai Andresen.
In 1929 he married Eva Klaveness (1900–1965), a daughter of ship-owner Anton Frederik Klaveness. Their son Johan Henrik Andresen (1930–2011), and grandson Johan Henrik Andresen carried on the business legacy. Career He was the owner of the tobacco factory J. L. Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrik, and |
{"datasets_id": 2765, "wiki_id": "Q11978732", "sp": 12, "sc": 74, "ep": 12, "ec": 452} | 2,765 | Q11978732 | 12 | 74 | 12 | 452 | Johan H. Andresen | Career | among the richest persons in Norway. He was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1928 to 1933. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp for a period of four months in 1942.
He was decorated Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog, and Knight of the Swedish Order of Vasa. He died in Sweden in 1953. |
{"datasets_id": 2766, "wiki_id": "Q22958935", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 564} | 2,766 | Q22958935 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 564 | Johan de Beer | Biography | Johan de Beer Biography De Beer, a doubles specialist from Pretoria, was coached by Kobus Botha. He won a total of four Challenger doubles titles during his career.
In 1993 he reached the doubles final of the South African Open, an ATP Tour tournament in Durban, with Marcos Ondruska.
He appeared twice in the main draw of a Grand Slam event. He partnered Cristian Brandi at the 1993 US Open, for a first round exit, to 16th seeds Hendrik-Jan Davids and Piet Norval. At the 1994 Australian Open he made the second round with John-Laffnie de Jager. In the opening round, de |
{"datasets_id": 2766, "wiki_id": "Q22958935", "sp": 6, "sc": 564, "ep": 6, "ec": 1166} | 2,766 | Q22958935 | 6 | 564 | 6 | 1,166 | Johan de Beer | Biography | Beer again faced the 16th seeds, but he and de Jager were victorious in straight sets, over Wayne Ferreira and Javier Sánchez. They lost an all South African second round match to Ellis Ferreira and Christo van Rensburg.
Early in the 1994 season he broke into the world's 100 ranked doubles players. It was also his final year on the circuit, he retired from tennis to complete a Physiotherapy degree at the University of Pretoria.
He was at one time coach of Wayne Ferreira and a trainer for Tim Henman.
Currently he works for the Lawn Tennis Association in England as a coach |
{"datasets_id": 2766, "wiki_id": "Q22958935", "sp": 6, "sc": 1166, "ep": 6, "ec": 1265} | 2,766 | Q22958935 | 6 | 1,166 | 6 | 1,265 | Johan de Beer | Biography | and physiotherapist. He was Andy Murray's physiotherapist when he won the Wimbledon title in 2013. |
{"datasets_id": 2767, "wiki_id": "Q87754", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 534} | 2,767 | Q87754 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 534 | Johann Nepomuk Krieger | Biography | Johann Nepomuk Krieger Biography Krieger was born on 4 February 1865 in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the son of a master brewer. At an early age he gained an interest in astronomy. He only received school education up to the age of 15, when he departed. However he gained an inheritance, and used the money to build an observatory in the suburbs of Munich. He had been inspired by the director of the Cologne Observatory, Hermann Klein, to make the study and observation of the Moon his life's work.
Krieger decided to create a definitive map of the Moon. For this |
{"datasets_id": 2767, "wiki_id": "Q87754", "sp": 6, "sc": 534, "ep": 6, "ec": 1145} | 2,767 | Q87754 | 6 | 534 | 6 | 1,145 | Johann Nepomuk Krieger | Biography | purpose he obtained a series of low-resolution negatives of the lunar surface that had been taken at the Lick and Paris observatories. He enlarged these images and used them to provide positional accuracy for his subsequent drawings. His illustrations of the Moon were made in charcoal, graphite pencil, and ink, and were considered superior to any previously produced lunar maps in their accuracy and level of detail, and continue to be considered works of art.
He lived long enough to see his first 28 plates published as volume 1 of his "Mond Atlas". However his health had suffered, possibly due to |
{"datasets_id": 2767, "wiki_id": "Q87754", "sp": 6, "sc": 1145, "ep": 10, "ec": 282} | 2,767 | Q87754 | 6 | 1,145 | 10 | 282 | Johann Nepomuk Krieger | Biography & Honors | his long nightly labors at his telescope. About 10 years following his death, his remaining drawings and sketches were published in a second volume by the Austrian selenographer Rudolf König. Honors Crater Krieger on the Moon and the nearby feature Rima Krieger are named in his honor. Asteroid 614 Pia is thought to have been named for Krieger's Pia Observatory (German: Pia Sternwarte; Italian: Osservatorio Pia) in Trieste, Italy, which was named by Krieger after his wife, Pia. |
{"datasets_id": 2768, "wiki_id": "Q78580", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 610} | 2,768 | Q78580 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 610 | Johann Radon | Life | Johann Radon Life Radon was born in Tetschen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Děčín, Czech Republic. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna in 1910. He spent the winter semester 1910/11 at the University of Göttingen, then he was an assistant at the German Technical University in Brno, and from 1912 to 1919 at the Technical University of Vienna. In 1913/14, he passed his habilitation at the University of Vienna. Due to his near-sightedness, he was exempt from the draft during wartime.
In 1919, he was called to become Professor extraordinarius at the newly founded University of Hamburg; in 1922, |
{"datasets_id": 2768, "wiki_id": "Q78580", "sp": 6, "sc": 610, "ep": 6, "ec": 1215} | 2,768 | Q78580 | 6 | 610 | 6 | 1,215 | Johann Radon | Life | he became Professor ordinarius at the University of Greifswald, and in 1925 at the University of Erlangen. Then he was Ordinarius at the University of Breslau from 1928 to 1945.
After a short stay at the University of Innsbruck he became Ordinarius at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Vienna on 1 October 1946. In 1954/55, he was rector of the University of Vienna.
In 1939, Radon became corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in 1947, he became a member. From 1952 to 1956, he was Secretary of the Class of Mathematics and Science of this Academy. |
{"datasets_id": 2768, "wiki_id": "Q78580", "sp": 6, "sc": 1215, "ep": 6, "ec": 1854} | 2,768 | Q78580 | 6 | 1,215 | 6 | 1,854 | Johann Radon | Life | From 1948 to 1950, he was president of the Austrian Mathematical Society.
Johann Radon married Maria Rigele, a secondary school teacher, in 1916. They had three sons who died young or very young. Their daughter Brigitte, born in 1924, obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Innsbruck and married the Austrian mathematician Erich Bukovics in 1950. Brigitte lives in Vienna.
Radon, as Curt C. Christian described him in 1987 at the occasion of the unveiling of his brass bust at the University of Vienna, was a friendly, good-natured man, highly esteemed by students and colleagues alike, a noble personality. |
{"datasets_id": 2768, "wiki_id": "Q78580", "sp": 6, "sc": 1854, "ep": 6, "ec": 2302} | 2,768 | Q78580 | 6 | 1,854 | 6 | 2,302 | Johann Radon | Life | He did make the impression of a quiet scholar, but he was also sociable and willing to celebrate. He loved music, and he played music with friends at home, being an excellent violinist himself, and a good singer. His love for classical literature lasted through all his life.
In 2003, the Austrian Academy of Sciences founded an Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics and named it after Johann Radon (see External link below). |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 619} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 619 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Early life | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger Early life Johanna Gezina Bonger was born on 4 October 1862 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was the fifth of seven children, the daughter of Hendrik Christiaan Bonger (1828–1904), an insurance broker, and Hermine Louise Weissman (1831–1905). The family was musical, holding evening performances of quartets, and Johanna became an accomplished piano player. Unlike her elder sisters, who helped out with household duties, Johanna, a "cheerful and lively child", was permitted to further her education by studying English, and earning the equivalent of a college degree. She stayed some months in London, working in the British |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 6, "sc": 619, "ep": 10, "ec": 334} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 6 | 619 | 10 | 334 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Early life & Adulthood | Museum library.
From the age of seventeen she kept a detailed diary, which was to become a source of much information about Vincent van Gogh. At this time she also came under the influence of the non-conformist writer Multatuli. Adulthood At the age of twenty-two she became a teacher of English at a boarding school for girls at Elburg, later teaching at the High School for Girls at Utrecht. About this time while in Amsterdam she was introduced by her brother Andries to Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent. One of the Van Gogh sisters described her as "smart and tender". |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 12, "sc": 0, "ep": 14, "ec": 553} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 12 | 0 | 14 | 553 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | First marriage | First marriage Theo became preoccupied with Johanna, and the following year paid a visit to Amsterdam to declare his love. Surprised and annoyed that a man she hardly knew should wish to marry her, she rejected him. However, she accepted his proposal the following year, and they were married in Amsterdam on 17 April 1889. Their son Vincent Willem, was born on 31 January 1890. Following Theo's death in January 1891, Johanna was left a widow with her infant son to support.
She was left with only an apartment in Paris filled with a few items of furniture |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 14, "sc": 553, "ep": 14, "ec": 1152} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 14 | 553 | 14 | 1,152 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | First marriage | and about 200 then valueless works of her brother-in-law Vincent. Although advised to dispose of the pictures, she instead moved back to the Netherlands, opened a boarding house in Bussum, a village 25 km from Amsterdam, and began to re-establish her artistic contacts. She had not kept her diary during her marriage, but resumed it, intending that her son should read it someday. To earn extra income she translated short stories from French and English into Dutch. In 1905, to the evident disapproval of her family, she was one of the founding members of a women's socialist movement, but did not |
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In 1892, while organizing an exhibition of Vincent's works, she was harshly criticized by artist Richard Roland Holst:
"Mrs Van Gogh is a charming little woman, but it irritates me when someone gushes fanatically on a subject she knows nothing about, and although blinded by sentimentality still thinks she is adopting a strictly critical attitude. It is schoolgirlish twaddle, nothing more. [...] The work that Mrs Van Gogh would like best is the one that was the most bombastic and sentimental, the one that made her shed the most tears; she forgets that |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 14, "sc": 1772, "ep": 22, "ec": 168} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 14 | 1,772 | 22 | 168 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | First marriage & Second marriage & Work and van Gogh letters | her sorrow is turning Vincent into a god." Second marriage In August 1901, she married Johan Cohen Gosschalk (1873–1912), a Dutch painter who was born in Amsterdam. She was widowed again in 1912. In 1914, she moved Theo's body from Utrecht to Auvers-sur-Oise and interred it next to Vincent's grave. A sprig of ivy taken from the garden of Dr Paul Gachet carpets both graves to this day. Work and van Gogh letters After the death of Vincent and her husband, she worked assiduously on editing the brothers' correspondence, producing the first volume in Dutch in 1914. She also played |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 22, "sc": 168, "ep": 22, "ec": 776} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 22 | 168 | 22 | 776 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Work and van Gogh letters | a key role in the growth of Vincent's fame and reputation through her donations of his work to various early retrospective exhibitions. She wrote a Van Gogh family history as well.
Johanna van Gogh stayed in contact with Vincent van Gogh's friend Eugène Boch to whom she offered the painting portrait of Eugene Boch in July 1891. She also stayed in touch with Émile Bernard, who helped her to promote Vincent van Gogh's paintings.
The legacy and renown of Vincent van Gogh the long-suffering artist began to spread in the years after his death; first in the Netherlands, and Germany and then |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 22, "sc": 776, "ep": 22, "ec": 1404} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 22 | 776 | 22 | 1,404 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Work and van Gogh letters | throughout Europe. His friendship with his younger brother Theo was documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh-Bonger published the letters in three volumes in 1914. Johanna initially worked closely with German art dealers and publishers Paul Cassirer and his cousin Bruno to organize exhibitions of Van Gogh's paintings in Berlin and in 1914 to publish the first volume of the Letters to Theo. Publication of the letters helped spread the compelling mystique of Vincent van Gogh, the intense and dedicated painter who suffered for his art and died young, throughout Europe and the rest of |
{"datasets_id": 2769, "wiki_id": "Q2554450", "sp": 22, "sc": 1404, "ep": 26, "ec": 270} | 2,769 | Q2554450 | 22 | 1,404 | 26 | 270 | Johanna van Gogh-Bonger | Work and van Gogh letters & Later life | the world. Later life She lived in New York from 1915 to 1919, returning to Amsterdam. She died on 2 September 1925, at the age of 62, in Laren, Netherlands. At the time of her death, she was still occupied translating Vincent's letters into English. She had one child and four grandchildren. |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 611} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 611 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Johanne Philippine Nathusius Johanne Philippine Nathusius (18 November 1828 – 28 May 1885) was the founder, in 1861, of the "Elisabethstift", set up as an institution for looking after mentally handicapped boys from socially disadvantaged families. As the children grew to adulthood she expanded the remit of the "Elisabethstift" to embrace provision of education, specialist workshops and an auxiliary school for those in her care. Mindful that every individual had his own needs and potential, she took care to ensure that individually suitable employment opportunities were found. She was deeply influenced by her religious beliefs, |
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{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 4, "sc": 611, "ep": 8, "ec": 321} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 4 | 611 | 8 | 321 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Life | and convinced that the sick and handicapped who were obliged to live out their lives on the fringes of society, were all loved by God, and she tried to give meaning to the lives of all those for whom she cared through the provision of appropriated education and work chances. Life Johanne Nathusius was born into a prosperous - some sources apply the adjective "aristocratic" - family, in Althaldensleben, a small town near Magdeburg in central northern Germany. She was the youngest child of the industrialist-entrepreneur Johann Gottlob Nathusius (1760 – 1835), who was also a substantial landowner |
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Aged twelve, Johanne |
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Periostitis for the rest of her life. Till 1860 she lived mainly in Althaldensleben, after which she moved to Neinstedt, some 20 km to the south, in connection with her care projects. However, following the death of her brother's wife Luise in May 1876, she went back to live in Althaldensleben in order to look after Heinrich's younger children. Johanne spent her final years living with her elder sister in Althaldensleben and was still unmarried in 1885 when she |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 8, "sc": 1504, "ep": 12, "ec": 539} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 8 | 1,504 | 12 | 539 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Life & Neinstedt | died aged 56. Neinstedt Philipp von Nathusius and his wife Marie had already opened their Rettungshaus für Knaben "home for orphans and the neglected", in a disused farm house acquired for the purpose at Neinstedt, back in October 1850. There was also an adjacent building, known as the "Lindenhof", which accommodated care staff. Johanne decided to set up her own institution, dedicated to the care of mentally handicapped young boys, in the same little town. After several attempts she acquired a farm house with its own extensive plot of land. This met |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 12, "sc": 539, "ep": 12, "ec": 1180} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 12 | 539 | 12 | 1,180 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Neinstedt | her requirements and she funded the property purchase from her own pocket. Following appropriate reconstruction and refurbishment the new home for mentally handicapped boys was opened on 3 January 1861. Nathusius was particularly keen that the establishment should not become known simply as "das Blödsinnigenanstalt" (loosely, "the Institution for the Half-witted". She was herself a committed royalist. King Frederick William had died the day before her institution had opened, and she now asked king's Bavarian-born widow, Elisabeth Ludovika (1801–1873), who was known to be deeply committed to charitable causes, for permission |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 12, "sc": 1180, "ep": 12, "ec": 1809} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 12 | 1,180 | 12 | 1,809 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Neinstedt | to name it after her. The Queen Dowager agreed to the request, with the result that the institution became known not as the "Blödsinnigenanstalt", but as the "Elisabethstift" (loosely, "Elisabeth Foundation"). During its first year of operation the Elisabethstift provided a home for fifteen children. That still quite small building became the starting point for the work on behalf of the mentally handicapped of today's (subsequently renamed) "Neinstedter Anstalten", a privately funded charitable operation which has become one of the Diakonie's largest institutions for the handicapped in Germany. Over the years the |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 12, "sc": 1809, "ep": 12, "ec": 2448} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 12 | 1,809 | 12 | 2,448 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Neinstedt | original buildings of the Elisabethstift were extensively rebuilt and extended, so that very little of the original half-timbered structure is recognisable today.
Although Johanne's brothers, August, a landowner in Meyendorf, and Philipp, who was already head of the Lindenhof at Neinstedt, were formally identified as the directors of the "Elisabethstift", it was Johanne who through the simple force of her personality controlled and ran it. She also took care of financial administration. After the death of her brother Philipp in 1873 she was appointed a member of the board, even after she relocated the short distance to |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 12, "sc": 2448, "ep": 16, "ec": 475} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 12 | 2,448 | 16 | 475 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Neinstedt & Expansion | Althaldensleben in 1876 to look after Philipp's family, she remained firmly in charge at the Elisabethstift. Expansion In 1863 Johanne Nathusius managed to persuade Adolphine von Bonin (1853 - 1916, a friend of the Queen Dowager)) to let her use the Schloss Detzel (near Haldensleben) in connection for her charitable work. The Schloss, which had been built by Adolphine's late father, Hermann von Bonin, in 1844, was subsequently gifted in full. Johanne Nathusius used it to open another establishment in 1864. Now known as the "Pflegeheim Schloss Detzel" ("Care home ....") it was run in |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 16, "sc": 475, "ep": 16, "ec": 1067} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 16 | 475 | 16 | 1,067 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Expansion | tandem with the Elisabethstift, and used for the care of mentally handicapped young girls. The "Asyl Gottessorge" (loosely, "Care of God asylum") was founded in 1865, and also operated as part of the "Elisabethstift" complex. Further expansion came with the purchase and conversion, in 1877, of a disused sugar factory which became the "Blödsinnigenanstalt Kreuzhilfe" near the local spa resort, Thale. Then in 1884 an institution for male epilepsy sufferers, the "Gnadenthal Home" was opened, also in Thale. By the time of her death, in 1885, Johanne Nathusius had created more than |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 16, "sc": 1067, "ep": 20, "ec": 342} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 16 | 1,067 | 20 | 342 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Expansion & Philosophy and legacy | 400 care places in Various institutional buildings operated together as the "Elisabethstift". The various establishments remained in her ownership till she died, after which they were taken over by a charitable foundation established for the purpose. Philosophy and legacy In the context of the times, Johanne Nathusius was a pioneer. The conventional wisdom held that the mentally handicapped needed to be looked after, but for Nathusius this was a wholly inadequate ambition. Those for whom she cared in her institutions were fully entitled human beings, all loved by God, and care must be given appropriately. |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 20, "sc": 342, "ep": 24, "ec": 270} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 20 | 342 | 24 | 270 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | Philosophy and legacy & The artist | This underpinned her insistence on finding individually fulfilling employment opportunities appropriate to each individual's abilities and disabilities. This went along with her insistence on delivering appropriate education opportunities, which would later be implemented in specialised workshops and a specially organised school for the mentally handicapped. The artist Johanne Nathusius was also a talented artist. As a young women, starting in 1846, she undertook several trips in Germany, Switzerland and to Italy which enabled her to develop her artistic skills. From 1860, over a number of years she produced 28 oil painted panels, |
{"datasets_id": 2770, "wiki_id": "Q103259", "sp": 24, "sc": 270, "ep": 24, "ec": 678} | 2,770 | Q103259 | 24 | 270 | 24 | 678 | Johanne Philippine Nathusius | The artist | concentrating on plants and flowers, and imbued with etymological symbolism. These were then reproduced in 1868 in a book that she had published by "Verlag Arnold" (publishers) of Leipzig. She also designed learning materials for use by Elisabethstift residents, and large format pictures for the chapel at the "Kreuzhilfe" care home in Thale, and for the dining hall at the Elisabethstift in Neinstedt. |
{"datasets_id": 2771, "wiki_id": "Q78699", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 585} | 2,771 | Q78699 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 585 | Johannes Katschthaler | Biography | Johannes Katschthaler Biography Johannes Katschthaler was born in Hippach, in the Austrian Tirol, and studied at the seminary in Salzburg. He was ordained to the priesthood on July 31, 1855, and became vicar of Rossen in 1857. After being made vicar of St. Johann, he began teaching at the Salzburg seminary. Katschthaler furthered his studies at the University of Salzburg, from where he obtained his doctorate in theology, and later joined the Theological Faculty at the same university on May 1, 1862. He began teaching ecclesiastical history at University of Innsbruck in 1874, and became a canon of the cathedral |
{"datasets_id": 2771, "wiki_id": "Q78699", "sp": 6, "sc": 585, "ep": 6, "ec": 1213} | 2,771 | Q78699 | 6 | 585 | 6 | 1,213 | Johannes Katschthaler | Biography | chapter of Salzburg in 1880. He was promoted to rector of seminary of Salzburg in 1882.
On June 4, 1891, Katschthaler was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg and Titular Bishop of Cybistra by Pope Leo XIII, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following July 12 from Archbishop Johann Evangelist Haller. After becoming dean of the metropolitan chapter of Salzburg in 1892, he was later elected the seventy-fourth Archbishop of Salzburg by the cathedral chapter on May 10, 1900, being confirmed by Pope Leo on the following December 17. In virtue of his new position, Katschthaler also held the title of Primas |
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Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of San Tommaso in Parione in the consistory of June 22, 1903. However, as a privilege of his see, Katschthaler was already allowed to wear the scarlet robes traditionally reserved for cardinals even before his elevation to cardinal. During his tenure, he participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which elected Pope Pius X, and promoted the Theological Faculty of Salzburg to form a separate University. In 1911, he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Austrian Order of Sankt Stefan.
He died in Salzburg, at age 81. He is buried in the metropolitan |
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{"datasets_id": 2772, "wiki_id": "Q6217115", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 189} | 2,772 | Q6217115 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 189 | Johannes van den Bosch (chess player) | Personal life | Johannes van den Bosch (chess player) Johannes Hendrik Otto, Count van den Bosch (12 April 1906, The Hague – 15 November 1994, Hilversum) was a Dutch noble, lawyer, banker and chess master. He thrice represented The Netherlands in Chess Olympiads, including the 2nd Chess Olympiad at The Hague in 1928, the 3rd Chess Olympiad at Hamburg in 1930, and the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague in 1931. Personal life Count Van den Bosch was the son of Jeanne Françoise Marie Rijnen and Johannes Hendrik Otto van den Bosch (1869-1940), vice-admiral in the Dutch navy from 1925 to 1939. His great-grandfather |
{"datasets_id": 2772, "wiki_id": "Q6217115", "sp": 8, "sc": 189, "ep": 12, "ec": 329} | 2,772 | Q6217115 | 8 | 189 | 12 | 329 | Johannes van den Bosch (chess player) | Personal life & Chess | was Johannes van den Bosch, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from (1830–33), who was created count in 1839. Johannes Hendrik Otto studied law at the University of Utrecht and eventually became a director of De Nederlandsche Bank. He married Benudina Maria Royaards in 1937. Chess His best achievements were two winnings in The Hague (1928, 1929), joint second place, behind Mir Sultan Khan, at Cambridge 1932, the second place in Dutch Chess Championship at The Hague/Leiden 1933, and winning at Amsterdam 1936. He also took 3rd at Amsterdam 1938 (NED-ch), 3rd at Delft 1940 (Quadrangular), 4th at Baarn 1941, |
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He played in several matches: won against Rudolf Loman (4-2) at The Hague 1927, lost to Willem Fick (1-3) at The Hague 1930, lost to George Salto Fontein (2-3) at The Hague 1930, lost to Salo Flohr (2-6) at The Hague 1932, drew with Rudolf Spielmann (2-2) at Amsterdam 1934, lost to Max Euwe (0-6) at Amsterdam 1934, drew with Salo Landau (5-5) at Amsterdam 1934, and drew with Henry van Oosterom (3-3) at Hilversum 1961/62.
He also participated in friendly matches: The Netherlands – England in 1939, The Netherlands – England in 1947, The Netherlands |
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{"datasets_id": 2773, "wiki_id": "Q16732664", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 174} | 2,773 | Q16732664 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 174 | John A. Mirisch | Early life & Career | John A. Mirisch Early life John A. Mirisch grew up in Beverly Hills. He has a brother, Richard Mirisch, and a half-sister, Amanda Goldberg (daughter of his mother's second husband Leonard Goldberg). His grandfather, Harold Mirisch, alongside his great-uncles Walter Mirisch (born 1921) and Marvin Mirisch (1918–2002), founded the Mirisch Company in 1957. He attended Hawthorne Elementary and Beverly Hills High School. He graduated from Yale University magna cum laude in 1985. Career Mirisch started his career at 20th Century Fox. He later worked as Managing Director of the Austrian office of United International Pictures, following by the Swedish office. |
{"datasets_id": 2773, "wiki_id": "Q16732664", "sp": 10, "sc": 174, "ep": 10, "ec": 802} | 2,773 | Q16732664 | 10 | 174 | 10 | 802 | John A. Mirisch | Career | He served on the Boards of the Austrian and Swedish Film Distributors' Associations and the Swedish Academy Awards Selection Committee. He worked as an executive both at IMAX and at Paramount Pictures.
Mirisch was elected to the Beverly Hills City Council in 2009. As councilor, he opposed plans to annex Holmby Hills, Los Angeles into the city of Beverly Hills. He served as Vice Mayor of Beverly Hills in 2012, and became Mayor for the first time in 2013.
During his tenure as Mayor, Mirisch established the Sunshine Task Force to improve local governmental transparency and public participation. He has also |
{"datasets_id": 2773, "wiki_id": "Q16732664", "sp": 10, "sc": 802, "ep": 14, "ec": 280} | 2,773 | Q16732664 | 10 | 802 | 14 | 280 | John A. Mirisch | Career & Personal life | spearheaded the Beverly Hills Cultural Heritage Commission to honor the City's rich history and architectural legacy. His first term ended in March 2014, when Lili Bosse was sworn in as Mayor.
Mirisch served his second term as mayor from March 2016 to March 2017 and began his third term as mayor in March 2019. Personal life Mirisch has a son, Vin. He is a member of the Geelong Football Club of the Australian Football League. He is a dual Swedish-American citizen, and also a citizen of Canada.
In 2015, during an initiative campaign over a skyscraper development which Mirisch opposed and which |
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The records purported to show that police were summoned to Mirisch's home for reports of domestic disturbances. An unsigned affidavit, not made under |
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In the subsequent election for Beverly Hills City Council on March 5, 2017, Mirisch was re-elected, placing first out of eight candidates. |
{"datasets_id": 2774, "wiki_id": "Q6218204", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 589} | 2,774 | Q6218204 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 589 | John Adams Cummins | Life | John Adams Cummins Life John Adams Kuakini Cummins was born March 17, 1835 in Honolulu.
He was a namesake of island governor John Adams Kuakini (1789–1844), who in turn took the name of John Quincy Adams when Americans first settled on the islands in the 1820s. His father was Thomas Cummins (1802–1885) who was born in Lincoln, England, raised in Massachusetts, and came to the Hawaiian Islands in 1828.
His mother was High Chiefess Kaumakaokane Papaliʻaiʻaina (1810–1849) who was a distant relative of the royal family of Hawaii. As the custom of native Hawaiians, he was raised as an aliʻi nui |
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He married Rebecca Kahalewai (1834–1902) in 1861, also considered a high chiefess, and had five children with her, four daughters and one son. Their son Thomas Puaaliʻi Cummins (1869–1928) was sent to Saint Matthews School in California in 1885 along with three Hawaiian princes.
Daughters were Matilda Kaumakaokane Cummins |
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He might have had another child with one or two "secondary wives".
After his first wife's death, in 1902 he married Elizabeth Kapeka Merseberg (1877–1925), who was a sister of a son-in-law, and adopted a son.
Cummins owned several houses in town, but enjoyed entertaining on his Waimānalo estate in a house known as Mauna Loke (Rose Mont). His guests included royalty starting with Kamehameha V as well as foreign visitors. This included German Princes and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1869. He traded racehorses with |
{"datasets_id": 2774, "wiki_id": "Q6218204", "sp": 6, "sc": 1879, "ep": 10, "ec": 363} | 2,774 | Q6218204 | 6 | 1,879 | 10 | 363 | John Adams Cummins | Life & Politics | Leland Stanford and Pierre Lorillard IV, and operated a railroad and a steamship to the estate. Chants passed down describe the elaborate birthday celebration held in 1883 for Queen Kapiʻolani. This reputation earned him the name "Prince of Entertainers". Politics Cummins was elected to the House of Representatives in the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1874. The kingdom faced a series of political crises, including a need for an election for monarch after Kamehameha V and Lunalilo both died without naming heirs.
King Kalākaua appointed him to the Privy Council on June 18, 1874 shortly after he came to the |
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Even though Cummins voted against former Queen Emma in the election, she asked him to manage a trek around the islands in November 1875. He had staged a similar grand tour the year before for Kalākaua. She was not disappointed. Although many ancient Hawaiian customs had faded (due to influence of conservative Christian missionaries, for example), Cummins staged great revivals of ceremonies such as traditional hula performance.
In the legislature he advocated for the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 with the United States, which helped increase profits in the sugar industry, and his fortunes grew.
He left the sugar business to William G. |
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In 1889 he represented Hawaii at the Paris exposition known as Exposition Universelle. On June 17, 1890 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in Kalākaua's cabinet, and thus was in the House of Nobles of the legislature for the 1890 session.
When Kalākaua died and Queen Liliʻuokalani came to the throne in early 1891, she replaced all her ministers.
Cummins resigned February 25, 1891.
He was replaced by Samuel Parker who was another part-Hawaiian.
He was elected to the 1892 session of the |
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He also organized a group called the Native Sons of Hawaii which supported the monarchy.
After the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in early 1893, Liliʻuokalani asked Cummins to visit the US to lobby for its help in restoration of the monarchy. The commission including Parker and Hermann A. Widemann ended in failure. He served as Honorary President of Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League), a patriotic organization founded to protest the overthrew and the attempt of Hawaiian annexation to the United States, and represented the case of the monarchy |
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{"datasets_id": 2774, "wiki_id": "Q6218204", "sp": 10, "sc": 2975, "ep": 14, "ec": 556} | 2,774 | Q6218204 | 10 | 2,975 | 14 | 556 | John Adams Cummins | Politics & Death and legacy | to testify against the ones actively involved in the arms trading. Death and legacy He died on March 21, 1913 from influenza after a series of strokes and was buried in Oahu Cemetery. Even his political opponents called him "the playmate of princes and the companion and entertainer of kings".
The territorial legislature had tried several times to refund his fine, but it was never approved by the governor.
His funeral was a strange mix of mostly traditional symbols of the Hawaiian religion, with a Christian service in the Hawaiian language, attended by both royalists and planners of the overthrow.
A street was |
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A great-grandson (through his daughter Jane Piikea Merseberg) was mayor Neal Blaisdell.
His youngest daughter May Cummins married distant cousin Joseph Clark and became stepmother to actress Mamo Clark.
After the last child died in 1937, a US federal court case awarded Mamo Clark a share in the still considerable estate. |
{"datasets_id": 2775, "wiki_id": "Q720259", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 565} | 2,775 | Q720259 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 565 | John Adams Dix | Biography | John Adams Dix Biography Dix was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, the son of Timothy Dix and Abigail Wilkins, and brother of composer Marion Dix Sullivan. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, and joined the US Army as an ensign in May 1813, serving under his father until the latter's death a few months later. He attained the rank of captain in August 1825, and resigned from the Army in December 1828.
In 1826, Dix married Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter of Congressman John J. Morgan, who gave Dix a job overseeing his upstate New York land holdings in Cooperstown. |
{"datasets_id": 2775, "wiki_id": "Q720259", "sp": 6, "sc": 565, "ep": 10, "ec": 151} | 2,775 | Q720259 | 6 | 565 | 10 | 151 | John Adams Dix | Biography & U.S. Senator | Dix and his wife moved to Cooperstown in 1828, and he practiced law in addition to overseeing the land holdings. In 1830, he was appointed by Governor Enos T. Throop as Adjutant General of the New York State Militia, and moved to Albany, New York. He was Secretary of State of New York from 1833 to 1839, and a member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co.) in 1842. U.S. Senator Dix was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr., and held office from 1845 |
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In addition to his military and public duties, Dix was the president of the Union Pacific from 1863 to 1868 during construction of |
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{"datasets_id": 2775, "wiki_id": "Q720259", "sp": 22, "sc": 320, "ep": 22, "ec": 942} | 2,775 | Q720259 | 22 | 320 | 22 | 942 | John Adams Dix | Major General | the Union Army as the highest ranking major general of volunteers during the war, effective May 16, 1861; also appointed on that day were Nathaniel P. Banks and Benjamin Franklin Butler, but Dix's name appeared first on the promotion list, meaning that he had seniority over all major generals of volunteers. In the summer of 1861, he commanded the Department of Maryland and the Department of Pennsylvania. His importance at the beginning of the Civil War was in arresting six members of the Maryland General Assembly and thereby preventing the legislature from meeting. This prevented Maryland from seceding, and earned |
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On July 22, 1862, Dix and Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill concluded an agreement for the general exchange of prisoners between the Union and Confederate armies. This agreement became known as the Dix-Hill Cartel. It established a scale of equivalents, where an officer would be exchanged for a fixed number of |
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On October 10, 1862, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles wrote that "a scheme for permits, special favors, Treasury agents, and improper management" existed and was arranged by Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase for General John A. Dix. The motive of Chase appeared to be for political influence |
{"datasets_id": 2775, "wiki_id": "Q720259", "sp": 22, "sc": 2223, "ep": 26, "ec": 120} | 2,775 | Q720259 | 22 | 2,223 | 26 | 120 | John Adams Dix | Major General & Later career | and not for financial gain.
Dix was considered too old for field command. Some believe that his most distinguished contribution to the war was the suppression of the New York City draft riots in July 1863, although the rioting had already subsided by the time he replaced General John E. Wool. He was also active in the defense of Suffolk, which was part of his department. He served as the temporary chairman of the 1866 National Union Convention. Later career He was United States Minister to France from 1866 to 1869
He was Governor of New York from 1873 to 1874, elected |
{"datasets_id": 2775, "wiki_id": "Q720259", "sp": 26, "sc": 120, "ep": 30, "ec": 72} | 2,775 | Q720259 | 26 | 120 | 30 | 72 | John Adams Dix | Later career & Death | on the Republican ticket in November 1872, but defeated for re-election by Samuel J. Tilden in November 1874. He suffered another defeat when he ran for the Mayor of New York City in 1876. Death Dix died in New York City and was buried at the Trinity Church Cemetery. |
{"datasets_id": 2776, "wiki_id": "Q6219189", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 265} | 2,776 | Q6219189 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 265 | John Anthony Derrington | Biography & Affiliations and honours | John Anthony Derrington Biography Derrington was born in London. He held a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and a Diploma of Imperial College.
He was head of the design group at Sir Robert McAlpine and also wrote in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) regarding multi-story concrete construction. Affiliations and honours He was a fellow of the ICE, of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE; 1984-85), and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was elected president of the IStructE for the 1979–80 session, of the ICE for the 1984–85 session and of the Offshore Engineering |
{"datasets_id": 2776, "wiki_id": "Q6219189", "sp": 10, "sc": 265, "ep": 14, "ec": 176} | 2,776 | Q6219189 | 10 | 265 | 14 | 176 | John Anthony Derrington | Affiliations and honours & Death | Society for 1987–88. In the 1986 Birthday Honours, he was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Death Derrington lived in Rottingdean, East Sussex. He died on 9 February 2008 at the age of 86. The ICE held a memorial service for him at Westminster Cathedral on 10 November 2008. |
{"datasets_id": 2777, "wiki_id": "Q6219417", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 658} | 2,777 | Q6219417 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 658 | John Armstrong Drexel | Early life | John Armstrong Drexel Early life Drexel was a son of Anthony Joseph Drexel, Jr. (1864–1934) and Margarita Armstrong (1867-1948). His eldest sister was Margaretta Armstrong Drexel (1885-1952), who married Guy Finch-Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea (1885-1939). in 1910. His brother, Anthony Joseph Drexel III (1887–1946), married Marjorie G. Gould (1890–1955), the eldest daughter of George Jay Gould I. His youngest brother was Louis Clapier Norris Drexel (1896-1962), who married Nancy Doreen Harrington Grayson (1899-1962), daughter of Sir Henry Grayson, 1st Baronet and Dora Harrington, in 1919.
He was a grandson of Anthony Joseph Drexel, millionaire banker and founder of Drexel |
{"datasets_id": 2777, "wiki_id": "Q6219417", "sp": 6, "sc": 658, "ep": 8, "ec": 7} | 2,777 | Q6219417 | 6 | 658 | 8 | 7 | John Armstrong Drexel | Early life & Career | University. Drexel was also a relative of Katharine Drexel, a nun who was later made a Roman Catholic saint. His father began working for his grandfather at Drexel & Co., Drexel, Morgan & Co. of New York, and Drexel, Harjes & Co., and was made a partner on January 1, 1890, shortly before his birth. His father resigned on October 21, 1893, just four months after his grandfather's death, and then lived a life of leisure. Aside from his inheritance from the estate of his father, which he shared with his three siblings, he inherited $1,000,000. Career |
{"datasets_id": 2777, "wiki_id": "Q6219417", "sp": 10, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 624} | 2,777 | Q6219417 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 624 | John Armstrong Drexel | Career | With William McArdle, he founded the New Forest Flying School at East Boldre, the second school for pilots in Great Britain and the fifth in the world.
On June 21, 1910, Drexel was the 10th aviator to receive his British Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate, recognized under the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. He also became only the 8th Aviator to receive an Aero Club of America pilot's licence, taking the test in his Gnôme engined Blériot monoplane.
On August 12, 1910, he set the world altitude record of 6,595 feet in a Blériot monoplane In competition in Lanark, Scotland. In November 1910, |
{"datasets_id": 2777, "wiki_id": "Q6219417", "sp": 10, "sc": 624, "ep": 18, "ec": 166} | 2,777 | Q6219417 | 10 | 624 | 18 | 166 | John Armstrong Drexel | Career & Military service & Later career | in an attempt to fly cross-country, he lost his way and had to land near the Delaware River. Military service During World War I, he served as chauffeur to Field Marshal Sir John French, and later, flew with the French Lafayette Escadrille until 1917. He was subsequently commissioned Major in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, serving until the end of the war in the United States Army Air Service. Later career In 1926, Drexel drove the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh.
In 1934, Drexel served as a partner in the securities firm of William P. Bonbright & |
{"datasets_id": 2777, "wiki_id": "Q6219417", "sp": 18, "sc": 166, "ep": 18, "ec": 288} | 2,777 | Q6219417 | 18 | 166 | 18 | 288 | John Armstrong Drexel | Later career | Co., along with August Belmont IV. He also served on Bonbright's board and on the board of the Anglo-South American Bank. |
{"datasets_id": 2778, "wiki_id": "Q6219791", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 22, "ec": 189} | 2,778 | Q6219791 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 189 | John Avery Jr. | Family & Early life & Family life & Sons of Liberty & Massachusetts Secretary | John Avery Jr. Family Avery's was a direct descendant of Dr. William Avery from Barkham, Berkshire, England. Dr. William Avery immigrated to Dedham, Massachusetts in 1650. Early life Avery was born to John and Mary (Deming) Avery on September 2, 1739. Family life Avery married Mary (Polly) Cushing in April 1769, they had ten children. Sons of Liberty Avery was a member of the Sons of Liberty. Massachusetts Secretary Avery had served as Deputy Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay under Samuel Adams. Avery defeated Adams at the polls to be the first Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. |
{"datasets_id": 2778, "wiki_id": "Q6219791", "sp": 24, "sc": 0, "ep": 26, "ec": 27} | 2,778 | Q6219791 | 24 | 0 | 26 | 27 | John Avery Jr. | Death | Death Avery died on June 7, 1806. |
{"datasets_id": 2779, "wiki_id": "Q6219965", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 657} | 2,779 | Q6219965 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 657 | John B. Guthrie | Biography | John B. Guthrie Biography John Brandon Guthrie was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, the son of shipbuilder James V. Guthrie and Martha Brandon, daughter of Revolutionary War captain John Brandon. When Guthrie was young, his family moved from Armstrong County to Pittsburgh.
Guthrie married Catherine Murray, daughter of Magnus Miller Murray, the lawyer, businessman, and two-time mayor of Pittsburgh. Guthrie served in the Mexican War with the Duquesne Grays. He was appointed "Collector of Customs" for the port of Pittsburgh.
Guthrie served two terms as mayor. During his terms, Guthrie appointed a new police force who ended the lawlessness of 1851 in Pittsburgh. |
{"datasets_id": 2779, "wiki_id": "Q6219965", "sp": 6, "sc": 657, "ep": 6, "ec": 906} | 2,779 | Q6219965 | 6 | 657 | 6 | 906 | John B. Guthrie | Biography | Guthrie was the father of George W. Guthrie, who would also serve as mayor.
Guthrie was a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1872–73.
He died in 1885 in Cresson, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Allegheny Cemetery. |
{"datasets_id": 2780, "wiki_id": "Q6220420", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 211} | 2,780 | Q6220420 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 211 | John Baldock (footballer) | John Baldock (footballer) John Baldock was an association footballer who played for Queens Park Rangers F.C. between 1913 and 1920, including during the First World War. He made 143 appearances as a half back during his time at the club. |
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{"datasets_id": 2781, "wiki_id": "Q10495270", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 453} | 2,781 | Q10495270 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 453 | John Bamber (footballer, born 1912) | Career | John Bamber (footballer, born 1912) Career Bamber was born in Preston and played for his local club, Preston North End. He failed to break into the team at Deepdale and left for non-league Fleetwood Town before signing for Stoke City in 1933. He made a perfect start to his Stoke career scoring on his debut against Leicester City in December. Despite this however, Bamber soon became used as a reserve player and he went on to spend six seasons at the Victoria Ground making just 24 appearances. |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 257} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 257 | John Bernard Flannagan | Early years | John Bernard Flannagan John Bernard Flannagan (April 7, 1895 – January 6, 1942) was an American sculptor. Along with Robert Laurent and William Zorach, he is known as one of the first practitioners of direct carving (also known as taille directe) in the United States. Early years Flannagan was born in Fargo, North Dakota, on April 7, 1895. His father died when he was only five years old, and his mother, unable to support her family, placed him in an orphanage. "Unrelenting poverty . . . was to plague him for the rest of his life." |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 8, "sc": 257, "ep": 12, "ec": 477} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 8 | 257 | 12 | 477 | John Bernard Flannagan | Early years & Education | He also suffered from severe depression and alcoholism, which ultimately led to his suicide. Education In his youth, Flannagan was recognized as possessing artistic talents, and in 1914 he attended the Minneapolis School of Art, now the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he studied painting. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Flannagan quit school and joined the Merchant Marines. He remained a merchant marine until 1922. After his return to civilian life, he was hired by painter Arthur B. Davies to work on Davies' farm in New York State. There |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 12, "sc": 477, "ep": 16, "ec": 96} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 12 | 477 | 16 | 96 | John Bernard Flannagan | Education & Mature years | Davis encouraged the young man to return to painting, which he did, also taking up wood carving. A year later, in 1922, Flannagan appeared in his first exhibition, along with Davies, Walt Kuhn, Charles Sheeler, William Glackens, and Charles and Maurice Prendergast. In 1927 Flannagan gave up painting and wood carving to concentrate on stone carving. In 1928 he produced some of the first American direct carved stone sculptures of note, one of which is entitled "Pelican." Mature years The years between 1930 and 1933 found Flannagan, now married, in Ireland. There he mastered the |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 16, "sc": 96, "ep": 16, "ec": 720} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 16 | 96 | 16 | 720 | John Bernard Flannagan | Mature years | technique of carving stones that he scavenged from the Irish countryside into sculptures, typically small animals. He felt that "there exists an image within every rock." His "aim [was] to produce a sculpture that hardly feels carved, but rather to have always been that way."
Back in the United States by 1934, Flannagan found work with the PWAP, the Depression-era government program that sponsored American artists. He received this position, his only means of support at the time, through the influence of Juliana Force, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Force and Gertrude Vanderbilt |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 16, "sc": 720, "ep": 16, "ec": 1323} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 16 | 720 | 16 | 1,323 | John Bernard Flannagan | Mature years | Whitney had been longtime supporters of the sculptor, recognizing that he was a profoundly troubled man but also an exceptionally talented artist. Flannagan's time with the PWAP did not go smoothly. "The artist's alcoholism was always problematic: he alternated marathon work sessions with drinking bouts. Indeed, Flannagan had put in ninety hours one week and then took the next two weeks off, as was his custom. He worked until he was utterly exhausted and then drank to blot out the fatigue." He lost his job with the PWAP.
His ensuing mental breakdown and seven months' incarceration in |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 16, "sc": 1323, "ep": 24, "ec": 252} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 16 | 1,323 | 24 | 252 | John Bernard Flannagan | Mature years & Last years & Critical reputation | a mental institution, followed by a divorce, did not lessen Flannagan's resolve to produce as much quality sculpture as possible, but, in 1939, after being struck by a car and sustaining a severe closed head injury, it became increasingly difficult for him to function. Last years Destitute, depressed and suffering from ill health, Flannagan committed suicide on January 6, 1942. Critical reputation Even posthumously, Flannagan has not always received the critical attention that other sculptors of his time of equivalent talent have enjoyed. Art historian Sam Hunter provided one judgement in his survey of modern American art:
A controlled |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 24, "sc": 252, "ep": 24, "ec": 940} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 24 | 252 | 24 | 940 | John Bernard Flannagan | Critical reputation | Expressionism was also the basis of the style of one of the most interesting stone carvers who emerged in the 1930s, John B. Flannagan. Flannagan's earlier work had been Gothic images of suffering, attenuated free-standing figures in wood handled like bas-relief with affinities to both German Expressionism and primitive Christian art. In the next decade his style broadened, becoming more ample and rounded; in place of expressionist torment, he substituted an effective and personal motif...his subjects were almost exclusively drawn from the animal and insect kingdom, although he executed a number of sensitive portraits and figure compositions.
Hunter compared Flannagan's |
{"datasets_id": 2782, "wiki_id": "Q6233387", "sp": 24, "sc": 940, "ep": 24, "ec": 1221} | 2,782 | Q6233387 | 24 | 940 | 24 | 1,221 | John Bernard Flannagan | Critical reputation | sensibility to "the visionary, romantic art of Albert Pinkham Ryder and Morris Graves," adding that "the microscopic sensibilities of such American poets as Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore support and confirm the native authenticity of Flannagan's touching, creatural realism." |
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