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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Jones%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201909%29
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Christopher Jones (footballer, born 1909)
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Christopher Albert Jones (born 1909) was a Welsh footballer who played as an inside forward for Rochdale,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Matos
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Joseph Matos
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Joseph A. Matos III is a United States Marine Corps brigadier general who serves as the Director of Information, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers of the U.S. Marine Corps. He previously was the Director of Command, Control Communications, Computers, and Cyber of the United States Space Command.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maida
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Joseph Maida
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Joseph Maida is an artist, writer and educator. Best known for his photography, Maida's work is a visual representation of the intersections between identity and culture. Maida's most significant projects include New Natives; Things R Queer; and Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal -Americans. Maida earned an MFA from Yale University in 2001 and currently serves as chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at School of Visual Arts (SVA).
Early life and education
Maida graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 1999 with a BA in architecture and a specialization in art history. In 2001, Maida earned an MFA from Yale University where they/he studied under Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Catherine Opie.
Work
While at Yale, Maida began exploring video for their/his graduate thesis. Soon after graduation from Yale University, Maida began displaying both photo and video work in group and solo exhibits nationally and abroad.
In 2013, New Natives was shown at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York City. The gallery exhibition marked a midpoint in a series of portraits made in Hawaii between 2010-2015 of male-identifying, Hawaiian-born aspiring models. Maida sourced models through social media, thus acknowledging contemporary changes in the relationship between the local and the global. New Natives explored identity, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity within the complexity of Hawaii's unique culture and history. A monograph of New Natives was published by L'Artiere (Bologna, Italy) in 2015. In 2018, Maida's series Things R Queer punctuated the publication of Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, by Susan Bright. Their/his brightly colored still-life photographs of strange dioramas made entirely of food garnered the attention of both modern platforms such as Instagram as well as traditional modes of gallery and print exhibition. That same year, soon after the enactment of Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, known as the Muslim Ban, Maida's book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal -Americans was published. It revisited a book of words and images of the Manzanar Japanese internment camp in California by Ansel Adams. Born Free and Equal was a contemporary perspective of Adam's work that paralleled historical events with that of the current day. Maida continues to work on personal art and writing projects while teaching at a collegiate level.
Exhibitions
Photography
Maida's photographic work has been widely shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Venues include the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunsthalle Wien; Witte de With, Rotterdam; C/O Berlin; Photographers' Gallery, London; Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; and the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York. Interior Portraits, Maida's first solo exhibition at Wallspace NYC in 2002 explored expressions of individuals' interior selves through the interior spaces they occupied. New York Times Art Critic, Ken Johnson wrote, "hanging around the homes of his friends, Mr. Maida captures images of people in relaxed, unposed and unguarded moments." Maida's first international show, Dream Factory was exhibited at the Nikon Salon, first in Tokyo and then in Osaka, Japan in 2010. Dream Factory was the culmination of the time that Maida had spent in Japan as a recipient of the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission Grant, granted in 2007 by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Selected solo and group photo and/or video exhibitions
2002 Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2002 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Wallspace, New York, NY
2004 Museum of Sex, New York, NY
2005 Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
2006 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2007 Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Kyoto International House, Kyoto, Japan
2007 Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
2008 AKTA, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2010 Nikon Salon, Osaka, Japan
2010 Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2015 University of Hawai'i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2016 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2017 403 International Art Center, Wuhan, China
2018 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2018-21 Traveling Exhibition Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK; Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; C/O Berlin; and The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, CA.
Video and film
For their/his MFA thesis at Yale, Maida made the short film Hot Shots. By deconstructing footage taken by their/his brother of two fraternity brothers at a college party, Maida explored how the intimacy of their relationship developed through increased intoxication.
Selected video and film screenings
2003 Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia; St. Petersburg, Russia; Vilnus, Lithuania
2004 Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2016 Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
Teaching
Since 2002, Maida has been a faculty member in Undergraduate Photography at SVA in Manhattan. Between 2006-2011, they/he taught as an instructor in Photography with a focus on Gender Studies at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 2011, they/he returned to Yale as a lecturer until 2013 and then spent a year as a lecturer at SUNY Purchase College in Purchase, New York. In 2015, Maida served as a visiting critic at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu. In 2018, they/he was appointed Chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at SVA.
Publications
2015 New Natives, L'Artiere Edizioni, Bologna, Italy
2017 Feast For the Eyes: The Story of Food Photography, Susan Bright, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2018 Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal -Americans, Convoke, New York, NY
2018 Public, Private, Secret: On Photography & the Configuration of Self, Charlotte Cotton, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2019 Things R Queer, Convoke, New York, NY
Recognition
2004 PDN30: Emerging photographers to Watch Award, Photo District News
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2007 Artist-in-Residency with Thomas Struth, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2007 Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship (AIM), Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx NY
2008 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) / JUSFC Creative Artist Fellowship
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American film directors
Street photographers
Social documentary photographers
Swiss photographers
People from Philadelphia
People from New York (state)
20th-century American photographers
21st-century American photographers
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Born Free, Born Equal project
Convoke NYC, publisher
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Joseph Mazza
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Joseph Michael Mazza Sr. (May 8, 1905 – July 18, 1993) was an American politician who served 12 years in the Vermont House of Representatives. He was succeeded by his son, Richard.
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Joseph Mandrillion
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Joseph Mandrillon (1742–January 1794) was a French banker and writer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1785.
Born in Bourg-en-Bresse, France, Mandrillon began working in finance and established himself in Amsterdam. Sometime before the Revolutionary War, he set out from the Netherlands to explore the United States, recording much of what he encountered on the continent. Years later, he published his musings back home in Amsterdam. His work, Le Spectateur Américain (1784) includes descriptions of his journey, along with a favorable portrait of George Washington. Mandrillon sent a copy to Washington in 1788 as part of a years-long amicable correspondence between the two men.
In 1785, he was Mandrillon was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. His positive reputation, however, was amongst those in post-revolutionary America that did not translate to a warm reception in his country of birth, now in the throes of revolution. Returning to France, he wrote openly about his disillusionment concerning the state of affairs, to which French authorities arrested him for treasonable correspondence. Subsequently, Mandrillon died under the guillotine during the reign of terror.
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Rogatien-Joseph Martin
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Rogatien-Joseph Martin (March 15, 1849-May 27, 1912) was a French clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Taiohae. He was appointed bishop in 1892. He died in 1912.
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On April 5, 2021, Micronesian 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap was killed on Kalākaua Avenue when Honolulu police officer Geoffrey Thom fired 10 rounds at Sykap through the rear window of a stolen car after it had stopped at an intersection following a police pursuit. Thom was charged with second-degree murder for the shooting, and two other Honolulu Police Department officers were charged with attempted second-degree murder. The charges were dismissed in district court on August 18, 2021.
Background
On April 5, 2021, officers from the Honolulu Police Department shot at a stolen Honda Accord with six occupants between the ages of 14 and 22, killing 16-year-old Micronesian teen Iremamber Sykap. The department stated that Sykap had been driving the car, that the car was stolen from Kailua, and that it was linked to multiple crimes including an armed robbery in Moiliili that occurred 20 minutes before the shooting. Hours after the shooting, chief of police Susan Ballard told reporters that officers had fired at the car while it rammed two marked police vehicles and drove through a fence into Kalakaua Canal, attributing the decision to open fire to the officers' knowledge that the occupants of the car had been involved in recent crimes.
Shooting
In May 2021, Hawaii News Now obtained bodycam footage of the shooting from a camera on the officer who shot first. In the footage as described by Hawaii News Now, the officer is a passenger in a squad car, and repeatedly says "stop the vehicle" during the pursuit. The Honda Accord stops, and the officer subsequently gets out of the squad car, drops and then recovers his rifle, moves behind the Honda, and fires ten shots at the back of the driver's seat. The Honda then accelerates through a fence and into the canal.
Legal proceedings
On May 21, 2021, Sykap's mother and grandmother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the involved officers and the City & County of Honolulu. The suit alleged that the Honolulu Police Department had intimidated relatives of Sykap and was withholding information about the shooting. Eric A. Seitz, the attorney representing Sykap's mother and grandmother in the suit, said that witness statements and bodycam video showed that the car was not moving when officers fired into it and that "the shooting was entirely unnecessary and unwarranted". Also in May 2021, the Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest made a public records request for all police bodycam footage to be released, then sued the Honolulu Prosecutor's office after they denied the request on the basis that the investigation was still open and release of the footage could "poison the jury pool". The suit argued that the existence of an open investigation is not a valid reason to block government records from the public.
, the Honolulu Police Department continued to consider the shooting justifiable and had not officially released any bodycam footage. A medical report released by Eric Seitz showed that a shot to the back of the head was the cause of Sykap's death, and that he was also hit by two bullets in the back of his right shoulder and one in the back of his left.
On the afternoon of June 9, 2021, the Honolulu Prosecutor's office released a statement that it had presented evidence to a grand jury, which declined to indict any of the three officers that the office intended to prosecute. Eric Seitz expressed a desire to access transcripts of the jury proceedings, which William S. Richardson School of Law professor Kenneth Lawson said would be the only way for the public to know what evidence was presented.
On June 17, 2021, prosecutors charged Officer Geoffrey H.L. Thom with second-degree murder, and Officers Christopher Fredeluces and Zackary K. Ah Nee with attempted second-degree murder. The trial marked the first time in over 40 years that a Honolulu police officer has been charged in a fatal shooting. On August 18, District Court Judge William Domingo dismissed charges against all three officers, ruling that there was "no probable cause" for murder or attempted murder. Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm expressed disappointment and disagreement with the dismissal of charges, but indicated that his office would appeal the ruling or continue to pursue legal action against the three officers involved.
On September 30, 2021, Hawaii state judge Jeffrey Crabtree ruled that all police bodycam footage connected to the killing must be released. A spokesman for the office of Honolulu County Prosecutor Steve Alm declined to say whether the office would release the footage or appeal the ruling.
Public response
On September 7, 2021, retired Honolulu police training officer John Frierson publicly criticized the actions of the three officers involved in the shooting. Frierson, who was previously called to testify for the prosecution at a preliminary hearing but was barred from doing so because the judge said the defense had not had time to prepare, said that the involved officers did not follow their training.
See also
Killing of Lindani Myeni
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Anti-indigenous racism in Oceania
Deaths by firearm in Hawaii
Filmed killings by law enforcement
Incidents of violence against boys
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Gavin Williams (baseball)
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Gavin Scott Williams (born July 26, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Guardians organization.
Amateur career
Williams attended Cape Fear High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. As a senior in 2017, he threw two consecutive no-hitters after returning to play after undergoing surgery on a torn meniscus. He ended his senior year 6–1 with a 0.35 ERA over 39 innings. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 30th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign, instead enrolling at East Carolina University.
In 2018, as a freshman at East Carolina, Williams missed time due to a forearm strain but still compiled a 1.15 ERA over innings. After the 2018 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. As a sophomore in 2019, he appeared in 21 games (five starts), going 1–4 with a 4.56 ERA over innings. In 2020, he pitched three innings before the college baseball season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was considered a top prospect for the 2020 Major League Baseball draft, but went unselected. Williams moved into the starting rotation for the 2021 season. He missed the beginning of the year with a minor injury but still appeared in 15 games (making 12 starts), going 10–1 with a 1.88 ERA with 130 strikeouts over innings. He was named the American Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year alongside earning 2021 College Baseball All-America Team honors.
Professional career
Williams was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the first round with the 23rd overall selection of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft. He signed for $2.25 million.
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East Carolina Pirates bio
1999 births
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Tommy Leigh (footballer, born 2000)
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Tommy Leigh (born 13 April 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Accrington Stanley.
Career
Tommy Leigh came through the youth ranks at Portsmouth before being released at the age of 16.
Following his release from Portsmouth, Leigh went on to play semi-professionally for Baffins Milton Rovers, where his father, Steve Leigh, was manager and his brother, Ashton Leigh, also played. In his first season with the side, Leigh made 14 appearances, scoring on one occasion. The following season, Leigh made 43 appearances and found the back of the net on 10 occasions.
In 2019, Leigh joined Bognor Regis Town, where his brother Ashton had moved to the previous year. In his first season with Town, Leigh made 36 appearances and scored 9 goals, going on to score 2 goals in 18 appearances the following season.
In July 2021, Leigh joined League One side Accrington Stanley for an undisclosed fee. Leigh made his Football League debut on 14 August 2021, coming off the bench against Cambridge United.
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Accrington Stanley Profile
2000 births
Living people
English footballers
Association football midfielders
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Anup Joseph Manjali
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Lieutenant Colonel Anup Joseph Manjali, KC, is an Indian Army Officer, who was received the Kirti Chakra, India’s second highest peace-time military decoration, in 2013 for eliminating three terrorists. In 2019, he was allegedly beaten by five civilians in a road rage.
Kirti Chakra
Then-Major Anup commanded the 24 Rashtriya Rifles’s 'Sutrun Company' (Bihar Regiment). On September 30, 2012, the team received credible intelligence about militants holed up in Kupwara's jungles.
Manjali led his company column under extreme adverse terrain and weather conditions to hunt down the militants. It was the second day of the operation. At around 3.30 am on October 1, the column observed some suspicious movement Maj Manjali established a close cordon around a Dhok, in which five hardcore foreign terrorist leaders were hiding. At first light, the officer, displaying raw courage, crawled up to the entrance of the Dhok and lobbed a hand grenade to flush out the terrorists, resulting in the elimination of one terrorist on the spot.
In 2013, he was awarded the Kirti Chakra by then-President of India, late Shri Pranab Mukherjee, for this extraordinary act of heroism, a display of raw courage and exemplary leadership.
Assaulted in road rage
Manjali was allegedly beaten by five young men on motorcycles on a footpath in Mumbai's Malad on January 6, 2019. The youths attacked the army officer while he was waiting for his mother on the Malad West walkway. However, after his mother intervened, the trio fled Manjali. He suffered major injuries, including a dislocated shoulder, eye injuries, and forehead and head injuries, after the incident.
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DeAndre Williams
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DeAndre Williams (born October 4, 1996) is an American college basketball player for the Memphis Tigers of the American Athletic Conference (AAC). He previously played for the Evansville Purple Aces.
High school career
Williams played basketball for Klein Forest High School in Klein, Texas. After his junior season, he enrolled at the Sports Association of Texas for Christian Homeschoolers, with whom he completed online courses and improved academically in hopes of qualifying for an NCAA Division I scholarship. He started training under the guidance of former NBA coach John Lucas II. He played a postgraduate season at Nation Wide Academy, a new program in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He averaged 24 points and 11 rebounds per game.
College career
Williams was ruled ineligible by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for his 2018–19 season at Evansville. He was designated as an academic non-qualifier but was allowed to keep his athletic scholarship and practice with the team after Evansville submitted a waiver. On November 12, 2019, in his second career game, he helped his team achieve a 67–64 upset win over No. 1 Kentucky in Rupp Arena. On December 7, he recorded a career-high 37 points and 10 rebounds, shooting 17-of-18 from the field, in a 101–87 win against Miami (Ohio). Williams missed 14 of Evansville's final 17 games with a back injury. As a freshman, he averaged 15.2 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game while shooting 64.8 percent from the floor. Williams was a four-time Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week honoree. After the season, he entered the transfer portal and declared for the 2020 NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility.
For his sophomore season, Williams transferred to Memphis, choosing the Tigers over Kentucky, Arkansas and Baylor. He became eligible about three weeks into the season, after the NCAA approved a blanket waiver for Division I transfers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Williams helped Memphis win the 2021 National Invitation Tournament, posting a season-high 21 points, nine rebounds, six assists and four steals in a 90–67 semifinal win over Colorado State. As a sophomore, he averaged 11.7 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.2 steals per game.
Career statistics
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| 21 || 20 || 26.1 || .497 || .455 || .692 || 5.8 || 3.4 || 2.2 || .5 || 11.7
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| 39 || 35 || 26.5 || .568 || .455 || .741 || 6.3 || 3.1 || 1.6 || .7 || 13.3
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Evansville Purple Aces bio
1996 births
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Basketball players from Houston
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Joseph Mattsson-Boze
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Joseph D. Mattsson-Boze (d. January 1989) was a Oneness Pentecostal minister and pastor of Chicago's Philadelphia Church from 1944-1958. He was publisher and editor of the Herald of Faith magazine, which had wide circulation among Pentecostals in the United States.
Biography
Boze was a native of Sweden who immigrated to the United States. He worked closely with William Branham during the Healing Revival of the mid-20th century, and served as his main source of publicity during the 1960s.
He was deeply involved in the Latter Rain movement. In the 1950s, he was instrumental in working with William Branham to launch and popularize the ministry of Jim Jones. He served as chairman of multiple Christian Fellowship conventions organized and led by Jones. Jones became increasingly influential in the movement as a result of their support.
After 1958, he began working in Christian missions in Africa until his retirement in 1974. Through his mission work, he successfully organized dozens of Pentecostal churches in Africa. He died in January 1989.
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Joseph Margoshes
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Joseph Margoshes (November 16, 1866 – April 10, 1955) was a Galician-born Jewish-American Yiddish journalist.
Life
Margoshes was born on November 16, 1866 in Lemberg, Galicia, the son of Samuel Margoshes and Sarah Rebekah Flecker. His father was descended from Solomon Luria. According to legend, the Margoshes family was descended from Spanish exiles who went to Poland in the late 15th century.
Margoshes studied in a religious elementary school. He later studied with Rabbi Uri-Zev Salat, a Lemberg religious judge, and Rabbi Naftali Goldberg of Tarnów, the author of the religious text Bet Levi (The House of Levi). He initially worked in agriculture for a number of years. In 1898, during a severe economic crisis that heavily impacted agriculture, he immigrated to America. He was unable to adapt to the immigration conditions, so he returned home in 1900. In 1903, he immigrated again and settled for good in New York City. He initially worked as an agent and traveling businessman for the New York Yiddish newspapers. When Dr. Judah Magnes and Dr. Benderly unsuccessfully attempted to established a Jewish community council in New York in 1911-1912, he worked in the Jewish education office and helped prepare the council's yearbook.
Margoshes worked as a writer for the Tageblatt from 1901 to 1914, Der Tog from 1914 to 1921, and the Jewish Morning Journal from 1921 to 1954. When the Tog and the Morning Journal were merged into the Der Tog Morgn Zshurnal, he wrote for that paper as well. From 1927 to 1929, he wrote for YIVO's American division's publication Pinkes (Records). He also wrote for a number of other publications, including Di Tsukunft (The Future). Over the years, he published a large number of a series of articles on historical and folkloric topics. He wrote about old Jewish folktales, explained the origin and reason behind widespread Jewish customs and traditions, and wrote about the history of and development of topics like the ban on excommunication.
He complied the first full bibliography of New York's Yiddish press and published a number of essays on the history of Jewish journalism. During World War I, he was a founder of New York's Jewish writers' union, called the Y. L. Perets Writers’ Association. As the Association's first secretary, he initiated a writers' relief fund that helped alleviate the hardship of Jewish writers in Europe after World War I. He was one of the first to join YIVO's American division. In 1936, he published a memoir, Derinerungen fun mayn Lebn (Experiences from my Life). He owned a large private library, with over 20,000 books on Jewish subjects.
In 1882, Margoshes married Lena Rachel Stieglitz. Their children were Ida, Samuel, Israel, Nathan, Harry, and Henry. Two of the sons, Dr. Samuel Margoshes and Herman Morgenstern, were also well known in Yiddish journalism.
Margoshes died at his home in Brooklyn on April 10, 1955. He was buried in Montefiore Cemetery.
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Journalists from Lviv
Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Austro-Hungarian Jews
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Jewish American journalists
20th-century American journalists
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Andre Williams
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Andre Williams may refer to:
Andre Williams (musician)
Andre Williams (American football)
Andre Williams, British DJ better known as Shy FX
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust%20of%20Breonna%20Taylor
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Bust of Breonna Taylor
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A clay bust of Breonna Taylor by Leo Carson was installed in Oakland, California, in 2020. The artwork was vandalized weeks later.
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Christian Vargas
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Christian Vargas may refer to:
Christian Vargas (Bolivian footballer) (born 1983), Bolivian football right-back
Christian Vargas (Colombian footballer) (born 1989), Colombian football goalkeeper
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Paolo Maria Martinez
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Paolo Maria Martinez (17711833) was a Spanish-Italian military and patron.
Biography
Paolo Martinez was appointed noble guard by Pius VII in 1801.
He became a Priore dei Caporioni in 1819 and Conservatore of Rome in 1829. He was remembered for the bequest of 12,000 scudi made in favor of the San Giacomo degli Incurabili in 1833 by a plaque in the hospital and a monument in Santa Maria del Popolo.
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Spanish nobility
Nobility from Rome
Italian philanthropists
1771 births
1833 deaths
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Joseph Mathews
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Joseph Mathews may refer to:
Joseph William Mathews, English horticulturist and gardener
Joseph Howard Mathews, American physical chemist
See also
Joseph Matthews (disambiguation)
Joe Matthews (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Marie
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Joseph Marie
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Joseph Marie may refer to:
Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, French jurist, philanthropist and philosopher
Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix, French general
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maclay
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Joseph Maclay
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Joseph Maclay may refer to:
Joseph Paton Maclay, 1st Baron Maclay, Scottish businessman and public servant
Joseph Maclay, 2nd Baron Maclay, Scottish banker, shipowner, peer and politician
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Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Selim was a lieutenant general in the Egyptian Armed Forces who served as the first chief of the general staff from 1952 to 1959, minister of Military Production from 1971 to 1972, and the first commander of Military Technical College from 1957 to 1971. He was also the founder of that college.
Biography
Selim was born in 1916 in Cairo, Egypt. He obtained B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1938, M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Alexandria University in 1958, and later he obtained his PhD in the same engineering discipline from Alexandria university in 1962.
Selim participated in the 1947–1949 Palestine war and the 1949–1956 Palestinian exodus. He also provided technical support to the Egyptian Army during the Six-Day War, and later conducted technical researches to develop uncertain equipment for the Egyptian Army.
His other staff appointments included; one of the members of the High Science Council, member of National Education Affairs and in addition to serving as a member of Development of Wired and Wireless Communications Council.
Awards and decorations
Selim was awarded the Order of Merit first class, and Military Prize for Science 1993 by the government of Egypt.
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People from Cairo
Chiefs of the General Staff (Egypt)
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Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University alumni
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Joseph Mayor Asher
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Joseph Mayor Asher (September 23, 1872 – November 9, 1909) was a Jewish English-American rabbi and professor.
Life
Asher was born on September 23, 1872 in Manchester, England, the son of Rabbi Aaron Asher and Betsey Jacobs.
Asher attended Owens College, graduating from there with a B.A. in 1898 and an M.A. in 1901. While attending Owens, he received the University Scholarship in Philosophy in 1898 and had the Langton Fellowship in Philosophy from 1898 to 1900. He was also an Advanced Student of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1900. He was ordained a rabbi in 1893. The descendent of Russian rabbis, he went to study in the Yeshiva of Kovno in 1889. While studying in Cambridge after returning to England, he fell under the influence of Solomon Schechter and again left England to study in the University of Bonn. He returned to Manchester after he was ordained a rabbi, acting as dayan (judicial assessor) in cases involving Jews in Manchester courts and helping organize the Manchester Talmud Torah School system. His rabbinical diploma was granted by Rabbi David Tevel Katzenellenbogen of Suwałki.
In 1901, Asher immigrated to America and became rabbi of B'nai Jeshurun in New York City. He served as rabbi there until 1907, when he became rabbi of Orach Chaim in New York City. He served as rabbi there for the rest of his life. In 1902, he became professor of homiletics of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was put in charge of the Seminary's department of philosophy and ethics. He also contributed an article on Jewish food and health laws to the Encyclopedia Americana and wrote reviews for the International Journal of Ethics and the Critical Review.
Asher died at home from a weakened heart on November 9, 1909. His funeral took place in his synagogue, with Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes officiating the ceremony. He was buried in Beth Olam Cemetery in the Shearith Israel section.
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1872 births
1909 deaths
Rabbis from Manchester
American people of English-Jewish descent
19th-century British rabbis
Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
English people of Russian-Jewish descent
English emigrants to the United States
20th-century American rabbis
Rabbis from New York City
Jewish Theological Seminary of America faculty
20th-century American academics
Jewish American academics
Burials at Beth Olom Cemetery
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