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905803 | Transparent ceramics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transparent%20ceramics | Transparent ceramics
that nanocomposite ceramic materials also offer interesting mechanical properties not achievable in other materials, such as superplastic flow and metal-like machinability. It is anticipated that further development will result in high strength, high transparency nanomaterials which are suitable fo... | 18,700 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
Dan Fouts
Daniel Francis Fouts (born June 10, 1951) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). Fouts played his entire professional career with the San Diego Chargers, from 1973 through 1987. He was one of the most prolific passing quarterbacks during the 197... | 18,701 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
NFL games on CBS television and Westwood One radio. Dan is the son of Bay Area Radio Hall of Famer Bob Fouts.
# High school and college career.
Fouts was born in San Francisco, California. He went to Marin Catholic High School, which is located just north of San Francisco in Kentfield, California, for his t... | 18,702 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
college football career concluded, as he set 19 school records, including those for career passing yardage (5,995) and total offense (5,871). He was inducted into the University of Oregon Hall of Fame in 1992.
# Professional career.
Drafted in the third round in 1973, Fouts helped lead the Chargers to the p... | 18,703 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
stretch (1981–83). Fouts was the first NFL player to surpass 4,000 passing yards and would go on to accomplish this in three consecutive seasons (1979–81), led the NFL in passing yards in four consecutive seasons (1979–1982) and six times eclipsed the 20-touchdown mark with a career-high 33 in 1981. His caree... | 18,704 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
in 1979 were the first AFC Western Division champion to run more passing plays (541) than rushing (481). In 1982, a season shortened to 9 games because of a strike, Fouts averaged 320 yards passing per game, an NFL record that stood until Drew Brees averaged 342.25 in 2011. Highlights that season included bac... | 18,705 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
the only kicker to ever win the award. However, AP voted him the league's Offensive MVP, as did Pro Football Weekly.
Fouts garnered All-Pro selections in both 1979 and 1982, while also being named 2nd Team All-Pro in 1980 and 1985. In addition, Fouts was also named 2nd Team All-AFC in 1981 and 1983. However,... | 18,706 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
were known as "Air Coryell" for the deep passing game and the involvement of the tight end as a key receiver. This required a tough, intelligent quarterback with a strong arm. Fouts fit the bill.
Fouts was not a mobile quarterback and the deep passing game led to many hits. Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh, a C... | 18,707 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
Charlie Joiner and tight end Kellen Winslow were the most famous, both now in the Hall of Fame, but John Jefferson and Wes Chandler, among others, were also key. Fouts's passing enabled Winslow to lead the NFL in receptions twice (1980,1981), while Winslow (1982) and Lionel James (1985) led the AFC in recepti... | 18,708 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
record. Both Jefferson (1978, 1980) and Chandler (1982) led the NFL in receiving TDs. In 1980, Winslow, Jefferson and Joiner became the first trio on the same team to have 1,000 yards receiving in a season. When he retired after 1986, Joiner was the NFL's all-time leader in receptions with 750.
Pass protecti... | 18,709 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
also led the league in total yards in offense 1980-1983 and 1985.
Despite going to the playoffs from 1979 through 1982 and playing in two AFC Championship Games, the Chargers never went to the Super Bowl under Fouts (although they went 7 years after his retirement). Usually this is attributed to poor defense... | 18,710 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
time on the field. It also hurt that Fred Dean, an All-Pro sack specialist, was traded away to the San Francisco 49ers in 1981 in a contract dispute, and Dean would win UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year (while playing in only 11 games) that year en route to a Super Bowl victory and help the 49ers to anothe... | 18,711 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
trade "perhaps the biggest blunder in franchise history." Fouts himself would almost be traded in 1983 to the Baltimore Colts in exchange for the rights to John Elway due to a contract dispute, but would come to an agreement on an extension and Elway would be infamously traded to the rival Denver Broncos inst... | 18,712 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
His completions, attempts, and yards in the game were all NFL postseason records at the time. The following week in the AFC championship game in Cincinnati, there was a 92 °F drop in temperature compared to the previous week in Miami, and the Chargers lost 27-7 in what is known as the Freezer Bowl.
The follo... | 18,713 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
the Chargers' all-time leader in passing yard and touchdowns with 43,040 and 254 respectively.
# Honors.
Fouts finished his 15 NFL seasons with 3,297 of 5,604 completions for 43,040 yards and 254 touchdowns, with 242 interceptions. He also rushed for 476 yards and 13 touchdowns
Fouts is one of only ten qua... | 18,714 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
ever to throw for over 4,000 yards in back-to-back seasons.
Fouts's jersey number, 14, is one of only four numbers retired by the San Diego Chargers (the others being Lance Alworth's 19, Junior Seau's 55 and LaDainian Tomlinson's 21).
In 1989, Fouts was also inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into ... | 18,715 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
2009, he was picked by the fans as the "Greatest Charger Of All Time" for the Chargers 50th anniversary year.
In 2010, he received the Davey O'Brien Legends Award during Colt McCoy's award ceremony.
## Chargers Franchise Records.
- Interceptions, career: 242
- Passing yards, season: 4,802 (1981)
- Passin... | 18,716 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
vs. Miami
- Completions, playoff game: 33 (1/2/82 vs. Miami
# Broadcasting.
In 1988 through 1993, Fouts started his career as an analyst on NFL on CBS. He worked with a variety of play-by-play announcers including Dick Stockton, James Brown, Verne Lundquist, Brad Nessler, Jim Nantz, Jack Buck, and Tim Ryan... | 18,717 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
Sandler. Fouts and Musburger appeared late in the film as ABC Sports' broadcast team for the fictitious New Year's Day "Bourbon Bowl" game.
In 2000, Fouts moved into a commentator role on ABC's "Monday Night Football," alongside "MNF" anchor Al Michaels and comedian Dennis Miller.
In 2002, Fouts returned to... | 18,718 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
2008, ESPN announced they weren't re-signing Fouts or his partner Tim Brant.
It was reported in "USA Today" on August 20, 2008, that Fouts was returning to CBS for NFL games with a variety of play-by-play announcers including Don Criqui, Ian Eagle, and Dick Enberg. In 2009, he was moved to partner with Enber... | 18,719 |
905830 | Dan Fouts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan%20Fouts | Dan Fouts
g Super Bowl 50.
He had been the play-by-play voice for Chargers preseason games carried on CBS stations throughout Southern California for many years (2012-2016), alongside fellow Charger alum Billy Ray Smith.
Fouts also did color commentary for the football video game "NFL GameDay 2004". He partnered with... | 18,720 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Anambra State
Anambra is a state in southeastern Nigeria. Its name was inspired by one of its Northern and riverine clans Anam but merged with "branch". The colonialists who travelled from the present day Anambra region to present Northern Nigeria often described where they were coming from as "Anam bran... | 18,721 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
to the west, Imo State and Rivers State to the south, Enugu State to the east, and Kogi State to the north. The name was derived from the Anambra River (Omambala)m which flows through the area and is a tributary of the River Niger.
The indigenous ethnic groups in Anambra state are the Igbo (98% of popula... | 18,722 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
and small towns, giving the area an estimated average density of 1,500–2,000 persons per square kilometre.
# Natural resources.
Anambra is rich in natural gas, crude oil, bauxite, and ceramic. It has an almost 100 percent arable soil.
Anambra state has many other resources in terms of agro-based activi... | 18,723 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
the Federal Government to construct a private refinery with a capacity of .
In 2012, following the efforts of Governor Peter Obi and other stakeholders of Orient Petroleum, Anambra State became an oil-producing state. The indigenous company struck oil in the Anambra River basin.
On 2 August 2015, the ma... | 18,724 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
and gas industry in the state.
# Urbanization and structural planning.
Since the late 1990s, there has been a migration from rural to urban areas in the state, resulting in Anambra becoming a highly urbanized state: 62% of its population lives in urban areas. In October 2015, the APGA-led state governme... | 18,725 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
growth in population. There are problems in environmental sanitation, erosion control, and provision of social services. Major cities have become characterized by inadequate and deteriorated road networks and walkways, unregulated building patterns, poor sanitation, uncontrolled street trading, mountains ... | 18,726 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
for land use, city beautification, road infrastructure, industrial development, housing, waste disposal, water supply and health and educational facilities to turn the cities into successful urban areas that can generate employment and wealth, and provide high living standards for their residents.
Anambr... | 18,727 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
into towns, town into cities and cities into metros. To have ecologically feasible development, planning requires an understanding of the growth dynamics. There is a fear that if too many people leave the villages, only the aged men and women will be left to farm. This pattern has been seen in Amesi, Akpo... | 18,728 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Willie Obiano signed off on construction of three fly-overs between the Amawbia and Arroma end of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, a distance of about three kilometres within the city.
# Culture and tourism.
Agulu Crocodile Lake is located along Awka road in Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of the stat... | 18,729 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
themselves into beautiful ladies and lured the soldiers unawares into the lake, where they disappeared without trace. At noon the crocodiles and the turtles appear at the banks of the lake to take in sunlight.
Ogbunike Caves, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, is one of the most visited tourist s... | 18,730 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
its astonishing metalcrafts; it continues to attract tourists to see its bronze artifacts. First noticed in 1938, the bronzes were later excavated by Thurstan Shaw (an English archaeologist). They have been dated to the 9th century, and are of high value and historic relevance.
Uzu-Oka:
Awka is historic... | 18,731 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
festival is home to the 'Olus' of the Omambala area: But actually originated from Umueri, other towns in includes Anaku, Omor, Nsugbe, Aguleri, Umueri, Awkuzu, Nteje, Ogbunike, Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Umunya, etc. But the origin of Ijele can be traced to Umueri community.
Many towns celebrate the New Yam Festiv... | 18,732 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
masquerade of Ihembosi
- Umueri New-yam festival
- Ozoebunu masquerade of Ozubulu
- Okija New-Yam Festival
- Mmanwu Okija Masquerade Dance
- Ihiala New -Yam Festival
- Igu Aro festival at Mmanoma Umueri
- Nanka New -Yam Festival.
There are a variety of other traditional festivals and masquerades:
... | 18,733 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Masquerade of Owelle -Olumbanasa.
- Afia olu Festival in Nnewi.
- Ufala mmuo festival at Oba
- Ofala Eze of Owelle -Olumbanasa.
- Amanwulu and ozo Festivals at Aguleri, Anaku.
- Olili Obibia Eri (Eri Festival) in Enugwu Aguleri attracts thousands of visitors home and abroad annually.
- Uzoiyi Festiv... | 18,734 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Ayaka masquerade at Umuatuolu Umueri
- Nkwor Festival in Uga, Aguata local government area.
- Uku, an annual masquerade festival in Amanasaa Umuchu, Aguata local government area.
- Mkpluede Festival Isuaniocha
- ito-ogbo -80th birthday celebration by age grades [of obosi, idemili local government]
- ... | 18,735 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
of Ezu and Omabala rivers) at Aguleri
- Isi Ubi stone stream Umu-Opu, Umuatuolu Umueri
- Obu Gad at Enugwu Aguleri.
- Ini ERI (Eri Grave) at Aguleri
- Ini Iguedo (Iguedo Grave) at Nando.
- Odinani Museum at Nri.
- Dabawu ancestral abode of Eri at Ugume Umueri
- Agwuve Trinity Tree at Enugwu Aguleri... | 18,736 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
a College of Medicine situated at Nnewi. The UNIZIK Nnewi runs a modern teaching hospital, with facilities also at Umunya and Ukpo. UNIZIK also has faculty of pharmaceutical sciences at Agulu, a School of Preliminary studies at Mbaukwu, and a College of Agriculture.
The Anambra State University, formerly... | 18,737 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
in the state is comparatively high compared to other states. Primary and secondary school enrollment in the state is one of the highest in the country. Consequently, Anambra state has the highest number of JAMB candidates going after the limited number of spaces in Nigeria's tertiary colleges. Since 2011/... | 18,738 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
1999, Chinwoke Mbadinuju was sworn in as civilian governor of Anambra state, after many years of military rule. His administration was marred by deep problems: the most notable was withholding of teachers' salaries in the school. The teachers finally conducted a ten-month strike in all the government seco... | 18,739 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
On 26 May 2003, Chris Ngige was sworn in as the new governor of the state, but he was removed in March 2006 after Peter Obi of APGA filed charges against him of electoral malpractice. The Court of Appeal in Enugu asserted that Ngige's apparent victory in the 2003 election was fraudulent and ordered him to... | 18,740 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
rigged, the election was widely criticised. On 14 June 2007 the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled that Peter Obi's tenure had not ended; therefore there was no vacancy in the governorship. It removed Andy Uba from office and replaced him with his predecessor Obi.
On 6 February 2010, Peter Obi was re-elected... | 18,741 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
as the winner of the election, having more than 30% votes above the immediate runner-up. Chief Willie Obiano was sworn in on 17 March 2014 after winning 16 November 2013 election. Governor Willie Obiano of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was sworn in for a second term in office on 17 March 2018 aft... | 18,742 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
as pre-colonial urban centres: Awka was the craft industrial centre of the Nri hegemony. Onitsha is a city state on the Niger, having developed as a river port and commercial centre.
Onitsha is a fast-growing commercial city, and has developed to become a huge conurbation extending to Idemili, Oyi and An... | 18,743 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Agukwu, Aguleri, Agulu, Aguluezechukwu, Aguluzigbo, Ajalli, Akpo, Akpu, Akwaeze, Akwaukwu, Alor, Amaetiti, Amansea, Amanuke, Amaokpala, Amawbia, Amesi, Amichi, Amorka, Anaku, Atani, Awa, Otuocha Umueri, Awba-Ofemili, Awgbu, Awka-Etiti, Awkuzu, Azia, Azigbo, Ebenato, Ebenebe, Ekwulobia, Ekwulumili, Enugwu-... | 18,744 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Nneni, Nnobi, Nnokwa, Nnokwa, Nsugbe, Nteje, Nzam, Oba, Obeledu, Obosi, Ogbunike, Ogbunka, Ogidi, Ojoto, Okija, Oko, Okpeze, Omasi, Omogho, Omor, Ora-Eri, Oraifite, Oraukwu, Orsumoghu, Osumenyi, Owellezukala, Owelle-Olumbanasa, Ozubulu, Ubuluisiuzor, Ufuma, Uga, Ugbenne, Ugbenu, Uke, Ukpo, Ukpor, Ukwalla-... | 18,745 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
the ancient Kingdom of Nri. These have revealed a sophisticated divine Kingship administrative system, which held sway in the area of Anambra from c. 948 AD to 1911. In some towns, such as Ogidi and others, local families had hereditary rights to kingship for centuries.
Great Britain recognised some of t... | 18,746 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
the Nigerian/Biafran war (1967-1970), Biafran engineers constructed a relief airstrip in the town of Uli/Amorka (code named "Annabelle"). Extremely dangerous relief flights took off from Sao Tome and other sites loaded with tons of food and medicine for the distressed Biafran population. Uli/Amorka airstr... | 18,747 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
of five Minicoin planes Malmö MFI-9 stationed at the Uga airstrip. He named his tiny but effective airforce "Babies of Biafra" in honour of the babies who died from starvation inside Biafra.
Old Anambra State was created in 1976 from part of East Central State, and its capital was Enugu. In 1991 a re-org... | 18,748 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
South
- Ogbaru
- Onitsha North
- Onitsha South
- Orumba North
- Orumba South
- Oyi
# Notable people.
- Nnamdi Azikiwe Owelle of Onitsha – the first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and historically, the only man whose name appeared in the Constitution of his country (Nigeria's Republic... | 18,749 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo (17 December 1941 – 25 September 2003) – a native of Ogbunike, was President of the Senate of Nigeria.
- Professor Chinua Achebe – a native of Ogidi and best known for the classic, "Things Fall Apart" was the first African writer whose books are standard curricula in schools an... | 18,750 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
/ Oranto Petroleum. He is renowned as one of them richest African's by Ventures magazine and known for his Philanthropic activities.
- Emeka Offor – Chairman of Chrome Group
- Emeka Anyaoku – the first black Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and recipient of South Africa's Order of the Companions of... | 18,751 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) Artillery Brigade in Liberia in 1996 and 1997
- Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu. A Professor of Political Science. Former NEC Chairman. Conducted the freest, fairest and most credible election so far in Nigeria.
- Chi Onwurah, a British Labour Pa... | 18,752 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
of the University of Ibadan and founder of the National Archives.
- Professor Ben Enwonwu – a native of Onitsha was the first Nigerian sculptor of international repute with artwork gracing the United Nations headquarters.
- Pius Okigbo, CON – a world-renowned economist, was the first economic advisor to... | 18,753 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
radio source of Crab Nebula neutron star.
- Chief Jerome Udoji – from Ozubulu, a social reformer was the first African to be made a 'D.O' (District Officer) by the Colonial Administration.
- Amobi Okoye – Youngest American football player to play for the NFL (2004), currently is a free agent.
- Chimama... | 18,754 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
and Businessman and the first minister of agriculture in the Nigerian first republic.
- Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu – a native of Nnewi who was the first Nigerian millionaire and first president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange;
- Cyprian Ekwensi – MFR, a writer of international repute
- Oscar N. Onyema - OON,... | 18,755 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
musician and guitarist.
- Prof Chike Obi – a Mathematician famous for his work on non-differential equations won the 1985 ICTP Price and developed a special solution for Fermat's Last Theorem;
- Osita Osadebe – a popular Nigerian Highlife musician who also holds the Nigerian record for the highest selli... | 18,756 |
905838 | Anambra State | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anambra%20State | Anambra State
03, represented the UK at the Council of Europe In 2009 she was made an MBE.
- Chinedu Okoli (Flavour), a popular singer and songwriter.
- Psquare (Peter and Paul Okoye), identical twins and Afro-R&B giants.
# See also.
- Ebenebe
- Uli, Anambra
- Mgbakwu
# Sources.
- theunion.org
- finddiagnostic... | 18,757 |
905895 | Josiah Begole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josiah%20Begole | Josiah Begole
Josiah Begole
Josiah Williams Begole (January 20, 1815June 5, 1896) was a U.S. Representative and the 19th Governor of Michigan.
# Early life in New York.
Begole was born in Groveland, New York. His ancestors were French Huguenots who emigrated to the United States in the last quarter of the 18th centu... | 18,758 |
905895 | Josiah Begole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josiah%20Begole | Josiah Begole
schools in Mount Morris and Temple Hill Academy in Geneseo, New York.
# Life and Politics in Michigan.
Begole moved to Flint, Michigan in August 1836 and taught school in 1837 and 1838. In the spring of 1839, he married Harriet A. Miles. He engaged in agricultural pursuits from 1839 to 1856 and was scho... | 18,759 |
905895 | Josiah Begole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josiah%20Begole | Josiah Begole
Senate in 1870 and 1871, and a member of the Flint City Council for three years. During that time, he served on the Committees of Finance and Railroads, and was Chairman of the Committee on the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Philadelph... | 18,760 |
905895 | Josiah Begole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josiah%20Begole | Josiah Begole
He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1874 and resumed the lumber business, Begole Fox & Co. He later engaged in the manufacture of wagons founding Flint Wagon Works and also engaged in banking.
# Governor.
In 1882, Begole was gubernatorial candidate of the Greenback and Democratic parties... | 18,761 |
905895 | Josiah Begole | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josiah%20Begole | Josiah Begole
one of the few acts that was approved. He ran for re-election in 1884, but was defeated by Republican Russell Alger, after which he resumed his former business activities.
He was an early activist for women's suffrage, and in 1884 Begole became vice president of the first statewide suffrage organization,... | 18,762 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
Malvina Hoffman
Malvina Cornell Hoffman (June 15, 1885July 10, 1966) was an American sculptor and author, well known for her life-size bronze sculptures of people. She also worked in plaster and marble. Hoffman created portrait busts of working-class people and significant individuals. She was particul... | 18,763 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
and was awarded many prizes and honors, including a membership to the National Sculpture Society. In 1925, she was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1931. Many of her portraits of individuals are among the collection of the New York Histo... | 18,764 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
in New York City, the fourth of six children of the concert pianist and composer, Richard Hoffman, and Fidelia Marshall (Lamson) Hoffman. She was named after a maternal aunt, Malvina Helen (Lamson) Cornell, who would later survive the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Her mother, also a pianist, presided ov... | 18,765 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
and Brearley private schools. While at Brearley, she took evening classes at the Woman's School for Applied Design and the Art Students League of New York.
She studied painting with John White Alexander in 1906, and also with Harper Pennington. Hoffman developed her skill as an artist during her studie... | 18,766 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
was exhibited at the National Academy the following year. Also in 1910, she won an honorable mention for a sculpture of her future husband, Samuel Grimson, at the Paris Salon. Hoffman gravitated towards sculpture due to the artistic freedom she felt when creating a three-dimensional work of art.
After ... | 18,767 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
the nights she studied at Académie Colarossi. She studied with Emanuele Rosales and after five unsuccessful attempts, she eventually was accepted as a student by Auguste Rodin. She caught his attention when she quoted a poem that he attempted to remember by Alfred de Musset. During their lessons, he adv... | 18,768 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
for her sculptures of ballet dancers, such as Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova, who often posed for her. In 1911, she made "Russian Dancers", which was exhibited that year at the National Academy and the following year at the Paris Salon. She made a plaster bust, the last work she made of Pavlova, in 19... | 18,769 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
was the American representative, for the French war charity, "Appui aux Artistes" that assisted needy artists. She also organized the American-Yugoslav relief fund for children. While working for the Red Cross during World War I, Hoffman traveled to Yugoslavia. She made a larger-than-life-sized work of ... | 18,770 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
Hoffman, who may have had a romantic relationship with the colonel, had an interest in "powerful, charismatic" people. She once said, "Hero worship formed a major part of my emotional life." He modeled for her sculpture of him entitled "A Modern Crusader" (1918). His nephew said that it capture that "he... | 18,771 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
needs your help". She based it on the Miloje P. Igrutinović's photo of dead Serbian soldiers, who died of hunger and exhaustion on the Greek island of Vido. She made the solder "alive" on the poster and later, as a sort of an artistic installation, posted soldier's head on the bronze statue of the Saint... | 18,772 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
Hoffman's drawings which she made when she visited Serbia in 1919 were also displayed. She published her impressions about the visit in the chapter "Hunger in the Balkans" of her book "Heads and Tales". The poster "Serbia needs your help" later circulated around the United States, being located in a lib... | 18,773 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
of a 13th-century crusader lay on the lap of a draped woman. It is a memorial to the late Ambassador of France, Robert Bacon, and alumni of Harvard University who lost their lives during the war. After the War Memorial Chapel at Harvard University was completed in 1932, it was installed there.
## Inter... | 18,774 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
consider it? Racial types to be modeled while traveling round the world." Hoffman was commissioned by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois to create anthropologically accurate sculptures of peoples of diverse nationalities and races. She traveled around the world — including distant ... | 18,775 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
the book, "Heads and Tales". It was a popular exhibit at the museum, but some critics considered ia a purely anthropological study. During the 1960s, questions began to circulate about the exhibit. According to "American Historical Review", "the sculptures in the 'Races of Mankind' had perpetuated an ol... | 18,776 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
of Malvina Hoffman."
## World War II.
As she had during World War I, Hoffman served the Red Cross and she raised money for the Red Cross and national defense during the war.
In 1948, Hoffman created relief sculptures for the walls of the "American World War II Memorial" for the Epinal American Cemete... | 18,777 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
Her works were exhibited often at the National Academy. In 1965, she published "Yesterday is Tomorrow".
Among her awards are the gold medal she won in 1924 from the National Academy, the gold medal of honor she won in 1962 for "Mongolian Archer" from the Allied of Artists of America, and the gold medal... | 18,778 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
career as a concert violist ended when his hands were crushed during an accident with a truck during the war. After the war, he collected antique paintings and instruments. He also invented a tube for a color television. He traveled with her during her search for authentic indigenous models for the anth... | 18,779 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
parties and balls in her studio, which were reported in the city's society pages. She often spent the summers in a Hartsdale cottage provided to her by Paul Warburg.
On July 10, 1966, Malvina Cornell Hoffman died of a heart attack in her studio in Manhattan, which had been purchased by the philanthropi... | 18,780 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
"Heads and Tales". Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, NY 1936
- Hoffman, Malvina, "Sculpture Inside and Out", Bonanza Books, NY, NY 1939
- Hoffman, Malvina, "Yesterday Is Tomorrow", Crown Publishers, Inc. NY, NY 1965
- Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, "Hunting Hoffman in the Field Museum", unpublished manuscript
... | 18,781 |
905861 | Malvina Hoffman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malvina%20Hoffman | Malvina Hoffman
Einarsson, "Hunting Hoffman in the Field Museum", unpublished manuscript
- Nishiura, Elizabeth, "American Battle Monuments – A Guide to Military Cemeteries and Monuments Maintained By the American Battle Monuments Commission", Omnigraphics, Inc, Detroit, Michigan 1989
- Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto... | 18,782 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki
Peredvizhniki (), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the "Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions" in 1870.
# History.
In 1863 a group of fo... | 18,783 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
by the Association of Travelling Art Exhibits (Peredvizhniki) to give people from the provinces a chance to follow the achievements of Russian Art, and to teach people to appreciate art. The society maintained independence from state support and brought the art, which illustrated the contemporary life of ... | 18,784 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
both of whom espoused liberal ideas. Belinsky thought that literature and art should attribute a social and moral responsibility. Like most Slavophiles, Chernyshevsky ardently supported the emancipation of serfs, which was finally realized in the reform of 1861. He viewed press censorship, serfdom, and ca... | 18,785 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
idea that Russia had a distinguishable, modest, inner beauty of its own and worked out how to display it on canvas.
# Subjects of the paintings.
Peredvizhniki portrayed the many-sided aspects of social life, often critical of inequities and injustices. But their art showed not only poverty but also the ... | 18,786 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
life, and later used historic art to depict the common people ("The Morning of the Execution of Streltsy" by Vasily Surikov).
During their blossoming (1870–1890), the Peredvizhniki society developed an increasingly wider scope, with more natural and free images. In contrast to the traditional dark palett... | 18,787 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
Vasili Vereshchagin, and Andrei Ryabushkin. The work of the critic and democrat Vladimir Stasov was important for the development of Peredvizhniki's art. Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov showed the work of these artists in his gallery and gave them important material and moral support.
# Landscape as the mos... | 18,788 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
landscape gained importance as a national icon after Peredvizhniki.
Peredvizhniki painted landscapes to explore the beauty of their own country and encourage ordinary people to love and preserve it. Levitan once said, "I imagine such a gracefulness in our Russian land – overflowing rivers bringing everyt... | 18,789 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
from the provinces was increasing during the years, the main audience was the urban elite. Local photographers created the first reproductions of Peredvizhniki's paintings, which helped popularize the works and could be bought at exhibitions. "Niva" magazine also published illustrated articles about the e... | 18,790 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
in textbooks as a visual icon of national identity.
# Decline of creativity.
As the authority and public influence of the society steadily grew, government officials had to stop their efforts to repress the members. Attempts were made to subordinate their activity, and raise the falling value of Academy... | 18,791 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
as their predecessors. Some of the artists began showing socialist ideas, which reflected the development of a working-class movement. Many of the Peredvizhniki entered the Soviet art culture bringing the realistic traditions of the 19th century to socialist realism.
The 48th exhibition of Peredvizhniki ... | 18,792 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
Hūns
- Nikolay Kasatkin
- Alexander Kiselyov
- Ivan Kramskoi
- Arkhip Kuindzhi
- Nikolai Kuznetsov
- Isaac Levitan
- Rafail Levitsky
- Alexander Litovchenko
- Vladimir Makovsky
- Vassily Maximov
- Grigoriy Myasoyedov
- Leonid Pasternak
- Vasily Perov
- Konstantin Pervukhin
- Vasily Polenov
... | 18,793 |
905908 | Peredvizhniki | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peredvizhniki | Peredvizhniki
Letters and Documents. 1869–1899. Vol. 1, 2., Publisher ‘Iskusstvo’, Moscow, 1987. Text in Russian
- Evgeny Steiner. “The Battle for ‘The People’s Cause’ or for the Market Case?” // Cahiers du Monde Russe, 50:4, 2009; pp. 627–646.
- Evgeny Steiner. “Pursuing Independence: Kramskoi and the Itinerants Vs.... | 18,794 |
905909 | Vladimir Platonov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir%20Platonov | Vladimir Platonov
Vladimir Platonov
Vladimir Petrovich Platonov
(born December 1, 1939, Stayki village, Vitebsk Region, Belarusian SSR) is a Soviet, Belarusian and Russian mathematician, expert in algebraic geometry and topology, member of the Russian Academy of Science.
In 1992–2004 he worked at various research ce... | 18,795 |
905909 | Vladimir Platonov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir%20Platonov | Vladimir Platonov
State University. This made him the youngest full professor in the history of Belarus. Since 1972 he has been an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and its President (1987–1993). Academician of the Russian /USSR Academy of Sciences since 1987. He was the Director of the Institu... | 18,796 |
905909 | Vladimir Platonov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir%20Platonov | Vladimir Platonov
arithmetic groups and the rigidity problem for arithmetic subgroups of algebraic groups with radical. Platonov solved also the rationality problem for spinor varieties and the Dieudonne problem on spinor norms.
Platonov was an invited speaker of the International Congresses of Mathematicians in Vanco... | 18,797 |
905909 | Vladimir Platonov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir%20Platonov | Vladimir Platonov
of Scientific Research Institute of System Development (NIISI RAN).
# Assault conviction.
On November 9, 1999, Platonov was to appear in court on a bail hearing on a charge of attempted murder for an attack on his wife. He was convicted of assaulting his wife. The court gave him a conditional senten... | 18,798 |
905909 | Vladimir Platonov | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir%20Platonov | Vladimir Platonov
f System Development (NIISI RAN).
# Assault conviction.
On November 9, 1999, Platonov was to appear in court on a bail hearing on a charge of attempted murder for an attack on his wife. He was convicted of assaulting his wife. The court gave him a conditional sentence of two years.
Later, in Septem... | 18,799 |
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